Kerala PSC Collegiate Screening Test 2014 April (Solved)

1.       ‘Dissociation of sensibility’ is connected with:

a)      Romantic poetry

b)      Modern poetry

c)       Metaphysical poetry

d)      Post-colonial poetry

2.       Who wrote “The paths of glory lead, but to the grave”?

a)      Wordsworth

b)      Gray

c)       Shelley

d)      Coleridge

3.       Who was “Atticus”?

a)      A knight

b)      A poet

c)       Cicero’s friend

d)      Pope’s family friend

4.       Who printed a collection of 154 sonnets of Shakespeare in 1609?

a)      Burns

b)      Lowel

c)       Thomas Thorpe

d)      Pike

5.       The phrase “Dull sublunary lovers’ love” is from the poem by:

a)      Donne

b)      Chaucer

c)       Milton

d)      Keats

6.       The character in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”:

a)      Mariana

b)      Helena

c)       Isabella

d)      Malvolio

7.       Thomas Shadwell is associated with:

a)      The Canonization

b)      Mac Flecknoe

c)       Elegy by Gray

d)      Prothalamion

8.       The line “Cover her face; mine face dazzle; she died young….” Is from:

a)      Macbeth

b)      Hamlet

c)       The Duchess of Malfi

d)      As You Like It

9.       Who called Milton “God gifted organ voice of England?”

a)      Eliot

b)      Tennyson

c)       Thompson

d)      Arnold

10.   The year of publication of “Duchess of Malfi”:

a)      1600

b)      1604

c)       1608

d)      1614

11.   “And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies clash by night.” The above lines from a Victorian poet allude to:

a)      Trojan war

b)      Boer war

c)       Peloponnesian war

d)      None of the above

12.   The model of the character Alice Winterton in the essay “Dream Children: A Reverie” is:

a)      Anne Simmons

b)      Anne Radcliffe

c)       Mary Lamb

d)      Alice Simmons

13.   Bunbury is an imaginary character in the play:

a)      The Rivals

b)      Salone

c)       Importance of Being Earnest

d)      The Apple-Cart

14.   The poem, The Windhover is dedicated to    __________ by  Hopkins.

a)      My Lamb

b)      My Chevalier

c)       God’s Grandeur

d)      Christ Our Lord

15.   Currel Bell is the pseudonym of the famous novelist:

a)      Charlotte Bronte

b)      Emily Bronte

c)       Mary Evans

d)      Virginia Woolf

16.   The statement ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ appears in the ____________ stanza of Keats’ poem.

a)      First

b)      Last

c)       Second

d)      Third

17.   Wessex is an imaginary county in the novels of:

a)      Thomas Hardy

b)      Charles Dickens

c)       George Eliot

d)      Samuel Butler

18.   Author of the book ‘Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ is:

a)      J.S. Mill

b)      Blake

c)       Shelley

d)      None of the above

19.   The poem :Dejection: An Ode” is addressed to:

a)      Dorothy Wordsworth

b)      Sara Fricker

c)       Mary Hutchinson

d)      Sara Hutchinson

20.   The poem “Ode to the West Wind” concludes with a note of:

a)      Scepticism

b)      Optimism

c)       Narcissism

d)      Pessimism

21.   Whose favourite theme is ‘war and the pity of war’?

a)      Wilfred Owen

b)      E.E. Cummings

c)       T.S. Eliot

d)      W.B. Yeats

22.   Whose poetic collection is ‘Whitsun Weddings’?

a)      Philip Larkin

b)      Thom Gunn

c)       Ted Hughes

d)      Donald Davie

23.   Lear is a play written by:

a)      Shakespeare

b)      Bernard Shaw

c)       Edward Bond

d)      Harold Pinter

24.   Who is the heroine in the novel The Golden Note Book?

a)      Anna Woolf

b)      Anne Sexton

c)       Ann Hathaway

d)      Virginia Woolf

25.   Stephan Daedalus is the hero in the novel:

a)      Ulysses

b)      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

c)       The Sound and the Fury

d)      Anna Karenina

26.   Miriam is a character in :

a)      Lady Chatterley’s Lover

b)      Sons and Lovers

c)       Pride and Prejudice

d)      Heart of Midlothian

27.   ____________ is the professor in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

a)      Professor Higgins

b)      Professor Wasserkopf

c)       Professor Bolt

d)      Professor James Reeney

28.   In which play the following line does occur?

“Action is suffering and suffering action.”

a)      Murder in the Cathedral

b)      Waiting for Godot

c)       Cocktail Party

d)      Riders to the Sea

29.   Easter 1916 was published in:

a)      1915

b)      1916

c)       1917

d)      1918

30.   How many parts does The Waste Land have?

a)      IV

b)      V

c)       VI

d)      VII

31.   When dealing with the ancient poets, our judgement and our language are likely to be affected by the _______________ estimate.

a)      Ancestral

b)      Realistic

c)       Personal

d)      Historic

32.   Longinus approves of the greatness of Greek masterpieces on account of their:

a)      Authenticity

b)      Sublimity

c)       Antiquity

d)      Relativity

33.   The trust in the combination of presence and language is what Jacques Derrida calls:

a)      Logocentrism

b)      Transference

c)       Illusion

d)      Competence

34.   _______________ arose as an alternative to phallocentric criticism.

a)      New Criticism

b)      Marxism

c)       Feminism

d)      Gynocriticism

35.   The Russian Formalist who coined the term ‘defamiliarizaiton’ was:

a)      Roman Jakobson

b)      Victor Shklovsky

c)       Vladimir Propp

d)      Boris Eichenbaum

36.   In Sanskrit literary criticism _______________ is considered as “the ultimate end of all literature, the highest aesthetic value which is an end in itself.”

a)      Aucitya

b)      Vyanjana

c)       Rasa

d)      Dhvani

37.   The emotions that are delineated in literature as more abiding and lasting are called:

a)      Sthayibhavas

b)      Vibhavas

c)       Alambana

d)      Uddipana

38.   Artistically devised sound patterns like anuprasa, yamaka and slesa are examples of:

a)      Arthalamkara

b)      Sabdalamkara

c)       Guna

d)      Aucitya

39.   The discovery or recognition that happens towards the end of a tragedy is:

a)      Peripeteia

b)      Denouement

c)       Anagnorsis

d)      Hamartia

40.   Eliot describes the progress of an artist as an outcome of the process of:

a)      Impersonation

b)      Depersonalisation

c)       Tradition

d)      Transformation

41.   _____________ period was characterised by radical change in grammar and vocabulary of English language.

a)      Old English

b)      Middle English

c)       Romantic

d)      Victorian

42.   Dialects based on social stratification is called:

a)      Regional dialect

b)      Sociolect

c)       Idiolect

d)      Prestige dialect

43.   Positional variants of phonemes are known as:

a)      Phones

b)      Consonants

c)       Allophones

d)      Vowels

44.   Identify the suprasegmental feature:

a)      Vowels

b)      Diphthongs

c)       Consonants

d)      Intonation

45.   Which of the following is an example of ‘compounding’?

a)      Receive

b)      Truth

c)       Aircraft

d)      Include

46.   IC Analysis was introduced by:

a)      Sapir

b)      Saussure

c)       Bloomfield

d)      Chomsky

47.   Aspects of the Theory of Syntax was written by:

a)      Bloomfield

b)      Gleason

c)       Hockett

d)      Chomskey

48.   Language variety showing features typical of an occupation is referred to as:

a)      Register

b)      Syntax

c)       Allophone

d)      Idiolect

49.   English belongs to the _____________ branch of the Indo-European family of languages.

a)      East Germanic

b)      West Germanic

c)       Hellenic

d)      Balto-slavic

50.   The most important work written in the Anglo-Saxon language was:

A)     Beowulf

B)      Piers Plowman

C)      Morte d’ Arthur

D)     Pearl

51.   “If the word great means anything in poetry, this poem is one of the greatest in the English language”. About which poem did Allen Tate make this comment?

a)      Ode to a Nightingale

b)      Journey of the Magi

c)       Because I could not Stop for Death

d)      Raven

52.   Which of the following statements is not true of the play, The Emperor Jones?

a)      It was published in 1921

b)      It was originally called The Silver Bullet

c)       It was Oneill’s first foray into expressionistic writing

d)      There are only ten scenes in the play.

53.   “Men themselves have wondered

What they see in me

They try so much

But they can’t touch

My inner mystery.”

These lines are taken from the poem:

a)      Finale

b)      Daddy

c)       Phenomenal Woman

d)      Introduction

54.   “He has violated in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.” This comment on Roger Chillingworth is made by:

a)      Arthur Dimmensdale

b)      Hester Prynne

c)       The Narrator

d)      Pearl

55.   According to Emerson “Nothing can bring peace, but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but……….”

a)      The infinitude of the private man

b)      The triumph of principles

c)       A beholding and jubilant soul

d)      The nonchalance of a little child

56.   The plot of the play The Glass Managerie is based on Tennessee Williams’ own short story:

a)      Portrait of a Girl in Glass

b)      Blue Roses

c)       The Pretty Trap

d)      The Gentleman Caller

57.   Name the critic who regarded Robert Frost as a “Terrifying Poet”

a)      E.M.W. Tillyard

b)      Lionel Trilling

c)       George Santayana

d)      Allen Tate

58.   What does Lula in Amiri Baraka’s play The Dutchman eat while flirting with Clay on the subway train?

a)      Apple

b)      Cherry

c)       Apricot

d)      Orange

59.   Nissim Ezekiel’s poem “Poet, Lover, Bird watcher” is included in the volume:

a)      The Exact Name

b)      A Time to Change

c)       The Unfinished Man

d)      Hymns in Darkness

60.   Who called Walt Whitman a “a homespun eccentric”?

a)      T.S. Eliot

b)      F.R. Leavis

c)       Stephan Spender

d)      Robert Graves

61.   Who among the following is associated with Marxist Environmentalism?

a)      Ramachandra Guha   

b)      Paul Ehrlich

c)       David Pepper

d)      Lawrence Buell

62.   Which of the following names is not associated with the Negritude Movement?

a)      Leopold Senghor

b)      Aime Cesaire

c)       Leon Damas

d)      Wole Soyinka

63.   The idea of ‘lesbian continuum’ is associated with:

a)      Judith Butler

b)      Adrienne Rich

c)       Annamarie Jagose

d)      None of these

64.   ‘The New Feminism’, an influential feminist book is authored by :

a)      Natasha Walter

b)      Betty Friedan

c)       Marian Lockwood Carden

d)      Susan Cain

65.   ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’ is authored by :

a)      Robin Cohen

b)      Depesh Chakrabarty

c)       Vijay Mishra

d)      Arjun Appadurai

66.   The work by Borges borrowed by Baudrillard to explain hyper-reality is :

a)      On Exactitude in Science

b)      Library of Babel

c)       Faith in Fakes

d)      None of these

67.   Which of the following is a seminal work in culture studies authored by Richard Hoggart?

a)      Culture and Society

b)      Use of Literacy

c)       Beyond Culture

d)      Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

68.   ‘Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma’ was written by :

a)      Dori Laub

b)      Geoffrey Hartman

c)       Kali Tal

d)      Soshana Felman

69.   The discipline of New Historicism has been influenced by :

a)      Althusserian concept of ideology

b)      New critical concept of autotelic text

c)       Derridean concept of structure

d)      Barthes’ concept of myth

70.   ____________ defines the Public Sphere as “a society engaged in critical public debate.”

a)      Habermas

b)      Gerard Hauser

c)       John Thompson

d)      Oskar Negt