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
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