KPSC Mock Test: HSST -English-Junior-Higher Secondary Education
Official Kerala Public Service Commission ONLINE Exam Question Paper & Answer Key. • Name of Post: HSST -English-Junior-Higher Secondary Education • Question Paper Code: 8/2015/OL • Category Number: 71/2012 • Date of Test: 28-04-2015 • Answer Key: Provisional Answer Key Question Paper PDF: https://www.keralapsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/2018-08/pk-8-2015-ol.pdf Answer Key PDF: https://www.keralapsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/2018-08/pk-8-15-ol.pdf
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Who introduced Printing Press in Kerala?
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The book 'Vrithamanjari' was written by
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The 'Samyukta Rastriya Samathi' ( Joint Political Congress ), the organisation, was in connection with
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'Sabdikkunna Kalappa' a short story written by
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Who organised an All Religions Conference in Alwaye Advaita Ashram
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Who was the director of the film 'Perariyathavar'
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Who was the recipient of 'Vyasa Samman' of 2013 ?
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Which team was the first champion of the 'Hero Indian Super League'?
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The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India, is known as?
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The minimum age to qualify for election to the Loksabha is
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To cater to the needs of slow learners in the class, a teacher should give
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Inductive reasoning is
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If the students on the back bench are talking while teaching in the class, the teacher should
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'Learning readiness' involves
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Why are additional exercises and activities included in the syllabus?
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What is NOT possible to achieve in the case of field experiments?
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'Men are superior to women in their health status after 40 years' is an example of
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The ethical principle displayed while sharing data, results, ideas or tools of one's research is
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What is one tailed test of significance?
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"What is the truth? Said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" (Of Truth)
The line is an example for:
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A representative sample is
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Which Amendment Act has created the 9th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
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Who decides the nature of a Bill in Indian Union?
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According to the Indian Constitution, the 'Residuary Power of Legislation' belongs to
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Impeachment proceedings against the President of India can be initiated against the charge of -----------?
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The constitutional provisions described as the 'heart and soul of the Constitution' by Dr. B R Ambedkar is .....................?
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Who was the first Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission?
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Which one of the following statutes provides for the establishment of a National Tribunal for the effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources?
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If information sought under The Right to Information Act,2005 concerns the life or liberty of a person, it shall be supplied within .......................
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Which one of the following is a National mission on financial inclusion for ensuring access to various financial services to all households in the country?
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The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 deals with ......................................
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What is the relationship between the Squire and the Knight in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales?
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Shakespeare's Sonnet number 129 is addressed to
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What is the predominant feeling of Satan as reflected in (The Paradise Lost) the quoted lines?
"Determined to advance into our room
A creature formed of earth,..."
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How many years Faustus has before the Devil comes to claim him his own?
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Which one of the following is NOT a character in the 'Tempest' ?
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To which Scene in 'The Hamlet' the line "To be or not to be, that is the question" belong?
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"Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song" is extracted from:
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Whom did the Dutchess of Malfi secretly marry?
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Which of the following characters is the villain in 'Tom Jones' ?
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"Did he who made the Lamb make thee"? here "thee" refers to?
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To whom "Dejection: An Ode" was originally addressed?
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What does Wordsworth's line "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" reflect?
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Which of the following is NOT an essential theme of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ?
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Which of the following is the prominent idea in the "Dover Beach" ?
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Which English society is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' ?
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What was the initial/original title of the "Pride and Prejudice" ?
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What is the pen name of 'Mary Ann Evans' ?
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Why did Heath Cliff slip away? Because:
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Who according to Charles Lamb (in the Dream Children) was the best dancer during her youth?
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Who is Lil's husband in the poem The Waste Land ?
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"It was my ---------- year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore ."
Fill the blank .
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Identify the writer of the following :
"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assu..."
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Who acts as chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
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Pygmalion fell in love with -------
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The clothes that the priest brings to Maurya's house are from the body of ------
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"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named ------"
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Who is the owner of the factory where Paul Morel works?
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The twins in the Lord of the Flies are together known as
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Which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
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The key textbook of the emotional theory of Rasa.
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According to Aristotle, Hamartia is ______.
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"Lyrical Ballads" was published with a preface in the year ______.
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In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Eliot describes the process of poetic creation in terms of an analogy of ______.
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"Archetype" means ______.
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Jacques Derrida's lecture "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" heralded the beginning of ______.
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The second phase in the history of women's literature as discussed by Elaine Showalter in her essay "Towards a Feminist Poetics."
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Michael Foucault's essay discussing the notion of the 'author'.
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Lacan's concept of the "mirror stage" is related to ______.
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The author of the book "Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature".
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English language is derived from ______.
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A systematic variation of vowels in the same root or in related roots or affixes in the Indo-European languages that is usually paralleled by differences in use or meaning.
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The author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
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The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by ______ in 1066.
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King James' Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year ______.
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The basic theoretical unit of distinctive sound in the description of speech.
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The linguistic term for the study of the ways in which words combine into such units as phrase, clause, and sentence.
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A seminal linguistic work of twentieth century by Ferdinand de Saussure published posthumously in 1916.
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In T.G. Grammar an abstract underlying structure that incorporates all the syntactic information required for the interpretation of a given sentence.
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A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
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Why did the poet in the poem "Casurina Tree" look upon the casurina tree with love and longing?
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In the poem "Introduction" by Kamala Das, the speaker ________
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What was the speaker as a nascent poet translating in Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
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Who does the speaker in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" imagine her father to be?
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According to B R Ambedkar the caste system _________
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in ______
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The protagonist of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones is ____
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Ralph Ellison, author of "Invisible Man" was associated with _________
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Lalithambika Antharjanam was a contemporary of ______
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The following is the protagonist of Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye:
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Who is the author of 'The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism' ?
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The 'New Historicists' attempt to situate and interpret 'Texts' in relation to:
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Which of the following is a prominent feature of 'New Feminisms' ?
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Who founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) ?
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What does 'Diaspora' (in the Biblical context) denote?
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Who among the following is a 'Queer' critic?
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What is the most prominent feature of post-colonial literature?
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of the literature of the 'Diaspora' ?
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What is the UK equivalent of the term 'Eco-criticism' ?
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What is denoted by the term 'Hyper-reality' in post-modernism?
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