1) Choose the incorrect option (6 options of A to F) of Our Casuarina Tree. (a) It is recapturing the tree, and immortalizing the moments of time. The Tree is both tree and symbol, and implicated both time and eternity. (b) The first stanza is an objective description of the tree. (c) The Second relates the tree to Toru’s own impressions of different times. (d) The third links up the tree with Toru’s memories of her lost brother and sister. (e) The Fourth humanizes the tree, for its lament is a human recordation of pain and regret. (f) The fifth is a relation between her life in India and London.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) c
D:) d
E:) e
F:) f
springline- Correct option F:) f
2) The ‘Gitanjali’ songs are mainly in the great Indian tradition poems of _____
A:) Bhakti
B:) note for music
C:) Sly
D:) derivative of enticement
springline- Correct option A:) Bhakti
3) The human body is the temple of the soul, the human soul is the temple of God. The human soul is nought unless it is inhabited or ‘filled’ by the Spirit. Birth and death are but the filling and the emptying of the soul by the Spirit, and the individual -insignificant as he may seem to be -verily partakes of God’s endless life, his immortality. Which of the following work or part of the work is appropriated to this passage?
A:) Gitanjali
B:) Though the Paraclete
C:) The Dance of the Shiva
D:) The Dying Eagle
springline- Correct option A:) Gitanjali
4) Choose the incorrect options of Mukta-Dhara (An English translation entitled ‘The Waterfall’) (a) It an eloquent protest against the onslaught of machinery on the ancient ramparts of man’s individual freedom. (b) Uttarakut and Shivtarai symbolize the exploiter and the exploited, the arrogant in power and brave in spirit. (c) Dhananjaya the ascetic and Abhijit the Prince who becomes the vassal of man’s immortal spirit. (d) The meaning is clear ‘Human values are paramount, and to ignore this truth is to canter towards self-destruction.’ (e) The royal engineer is Dhananjaya, has been working for twenty five years.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) c
D:) d
E:) e
springline- Correct option E:) e
5) Choose the incorrect answer according to ‘Thought the Paraclete’ (a) An attempt to naturalize the Catullan hendecasyllabic in English verse. (b) An attempt to project in terms of poetry the flight of Thought. (c) The central idea of the poem, which is the transformation in the Self brought about as a result of the ascent of consciousness to the supernatural level. (d) The first movement of the poem, describes limited human thought invading the realms of the invisible and being ‘self-lost in the vasts of God’. (e) The second, follows thought’s progress from Mind to higher mind, from higher mind to illumined mind, from illumined mind to intuition, and from intuition or overmind. (f) The third describes thought racing beyond overmind and disappearing in the region of the Supermind. (g) The fourth movement is the realization of the infinite self is now complete, the ego is dead, the self is bare of all the sheaths of the Ignorance. (h) Particularly the poem is with the faculty reason that man tries to grasp the name and nature of reality.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) c
D:) d
E:) e
F:) f
G:) g
H:) h
springline- Correct option H:) h
6) Which of the following is the first collection of poems of Sarojini Naidu, came out in 1905?
A:) The Bird of Time
B:) The Broken Wind
C:) The Golden Threshold
D:) The Lotus
springline- Correct option C:) The Golden Threshold
7) How many letters are comprising by Nehru the ‘Glimpses’ were written between October 1930 and August 1933
A:) 154
B:) 196
C:) 201
D:) 231
springline- Correct option B:) 196
8) Nehru’s ‘Autobiography’ was written in a continuous spell of about 9 months __________.
A:) June 1934 to February 1935
B:) March 1930 to November 1930
C:) April 1927 to December 1927
D:) September 1926 to May 1927
springline- Correct option A:) June 1934 to February 1935
9) Which of the following novel, published in 1936, carries no specific indictment of individuals: the indictment is against society as a whole ?
A:) Coolie
B:) Kantapura
C:) The English Teacher
D:) A Handful of Rice
springline- Correct option A:) Coolie
10) Which of the following river is a person and presence in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura?
A:) Sarayu
B:) Cauvery
C:) Hemavathy
D:) Padma
springline- Correct option C:) Hemavathy
11) Who is the visible avatar in Kanthapura?
A:) Gandhi
B:) Moorthy
C:) Kenchamma
D:) Red-men
springline- Correct option B:) Moorthy
12) Krishna has become the teacher of English Literature in the Albert Mission College, from a room in the hostel he moves to a corner house in __________ street.
A:) Malgudi
B:) Sarayu
C:) AMC
D:) Ananda Bhavan
springline- Correct option B:) Sarayu
13) Who is appointed the East India Company’s Resident and chosen by the Governor General Lord Hardinge?
A:) Ranjit Singh
B:) Dalip Singh
C:) Henry Lawrence
D:) Larins Sahib
springline- Correct option C:) Henry Lawrence
14) In William Congreve’s The Way of the World, Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s
A:) Son
B:) Son-in-law
C:) Nephew
D:) Servant
springline- Correct option B:) Son-in-law
15) The story of My Experiments with Truth, M.K. Gandhi covers the narrative of his life from early childhood through to
A:) 1925
B:) 1929
C:) 1921
D:) 1927
springline- Correct option C:) 1921
16) In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is called
A:) Phoneme
B:) grapheme
C:) morpheme
D:) jargon
springline- Correct option B:) grapheme
17) What would help a reader recognize Keats’s ‘To Autumn’ as a poem from the Romantic period?
A:) Its logical succession of images
B:) Its concise use of couplets
C:) Its lavish natural imagery
D:) its use of iambic pentameter
springline- Correct option C:) Its lavish natural imagery
18) Which of the following is an accurate description of ‘heteroglossia’
A:) Heteroglossia makes the job of the novelist earlier by incorporating diversity into the novelistic structure.
B:) Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated components of a writer’s ideological position.
C:) Heteroglossia creates concrete conceptualizations through language is association with the singular view of the artistic effort resulting in the unified world of the novel
D:) Heteroglossia enters the linguistics universe of the novel to homogenize its multiple differences and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.
springline- Correct option B:) Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated components of a writer’s ideological position.
19) In his poem ‘Australia’ A.D. Hope says that (i) Australia is ‘without songs, architecture, history’. (ii) ‘Her five cities are like five dry rivers’. (iii) The poet turns to her ‘to find / the Arabian desert of the human mind / hoping if still from deserts prophets come’. (iv) ‘She is the first of lands, the warmest.’
A:) I and III
B:) II and III
C:) III and IV
D:) I and IV
springline- Correct option A:) I and III
20) In the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples of deep Christian goodness? (i) the Summoner (ii) the Parson (iii) the Ploughman (iv) the Pardoner
A:) I and II
B:) II and IV
C:) II and III
D:) I and IV
springline- Correct option C:) II and III
21) Identify Falstaff’s first words in Henry IV, Part I:
A:) ‘Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad’
B:) ‘Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad’
C:) ‘Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad’
D:) ‘Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad’
springline- Correct option B:) ‘Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad’
22) In Restoration comedies the following is true Except
A:) the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed
B:) names encapsulate traits
C:) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.
D:) the heroine seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner
springline- Correct option C:) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.
23) Identify the gynocritics in the following list: (i) Alice Jardine (ii) Elaine Showalter (iii) Sandra Gilbert (iv) Kate Millet
A:) I and II
B:) II and IV
C:) II and III
D:) III and IV
springline- Correct option C:) II and III
24) Which among the flowing does not belong to Indo-European language family?
A:) English
B:) German
C:) Scandinavian
D:) Fennish
springline- Correct option D:) Fennish
25) As Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesty which discipline is more useful and praiseworthy – history or poetry?
A:) History ‘being captivated to truth’ is more useful than poetry.
B:) Poetry where man can see ‘virtue exalted and vice punished’ is more useful than history.
C:) History is more useful for poetry is ‘an encouragement to unbridled wickedness’
D:) History and poetry are synonymous, and so both are useful.
springline- Correct option B:) Poetry where man can see ‘virtue exalted and vice punished’ is more useful than history.
26) In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Christian and his friend faithful cause a commotion at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. Which of the following statement is not true of their appearance at the fair?
A:) They are dressed differently than the other fair-goers.
B:) They speak the language of the Bible at the fair.
C:) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
D:) They refuse to look at the merchandise at the fair.
springline- Correct option C:) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
27) What does the title Morte d’Arthur mean?
A:) Arthur mortified
B:) Death of Arthur
C:) Castle of Arthur
D:) Burial of Arthur
springline- Correct option B:) Death of Arthur
28) Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with _____ capitalism.
A:) market
B:) monopoly
C:) imperialist
D:) multinational
springline- Correct option D:) multinational
29) The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its current title in the year:
A:) 1928
B:) 1930
C:) 1933
D:) 1915
springline- Correct option C:) 1933
30) The second part of Pilgrim’s Progress deals with the pilgrimage of Christian’s wife, Christiana. She has a companion and a guide in this journey. Pick out the pair’s names form the following list. (a) patience. (b) Tenderheart. (c) Mercy. (d) Greatheart.
A:) c and d
B:) b and c
C:) a and d
D:) b and d
springline- Correct option A:) c and d
31) Two of the following words were borrowed from French after the Norman Conquest. (a) mutton. (b) pork. (c) sheep. (d) swine.
A:) a and b
B:) a and c
C:) b and d
D:) c and d
springline- Correct option A:) a and b
32) For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about us is related to the category of:
A:) primary imagination
B:) secondary imagination
C:) fancy
D:) intuition
springline- Correct option A:) primary imagination
33) The grammar-translation method of language teaching does not include:
A:) focus on grammar rules
B:) vocabulary memorization
C:) inductive teaching
D:) focus on written language
springline- Correct option C:) inductive teaching
34) Pick out two Austen heroines from the following list who are right-minded but neglected in the beginning but gradually are acknowledged to be correct by characters who have previously looked down on them. (a) Elizabeth Bennet. (ii) Fanny Price. (iii) Emma Woodhouse. (iv) Anna Elliot
A:) a and c
B:) b and d
C:) c and d
D:) a and d
springline- Correct option B:) b and d
35) The variety of English used between non-native speakers who do not share a first language is called:
A:) English for specific purposes
B:) English for basic purposes
C:) English as a lingua Franca
D:) English as a language tool
springline- Correct option C:) English as a lingua Franca
36) ‘When Fred got into debt, it always seemed to him highly probable that something or other – he did not necessarily conceive what would come to pass enabling him to pay in due time’. Why is Fred Vincy is debt in Middle March?
A:) He takes out a large loan to enable him to woo Mary Garth.
B:) He is an inveterate gambler.
C:) He is paying off a blackmailer.
D:) He runs a charity that has got into trouble.
springline- Correct option B:) He is an inveterate gambler.
37) Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stages for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people?
A:) to visit his father who left him long ago.
B:) To find our new sources of minting money
C:) Because of an epidemic of plague.
D:) To make a pilgrimage.
springline- Correct option C:) Because of an epidemic of plague.
38) In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which
A:) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
B:) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
C:) the mind acquired images by its associative power
D:) the mind separates images by its discriminatory power
springline- Correct option B:) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
39) Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?
A:) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.
B:) Learner’s first language plays an important role in learning.
C:) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.
D:) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.
springline- Correct option D:) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.
40) Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of poems:
A:) Native Companions
B:) The Wandering Islands
C:) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
D:) The Cave and the Spring
springline- Correct option B:) The Wandering Islands
41) During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two languages: (i) Celtic. (ii) Latin. (iii) French. (iv) Old Norse.
A:) I and II
B:) II and III
C:) II and IV
D:) III and IV
springline- Correct option B:) II and III
42) Which of the following does not describe some of the practices / beliefs of feminist literary criticism?
A:) Feminist criticism recuperates female writers ignored by the canon.
B:) Feminist literary critics offer a criticism of the construction of gender
C:) Feminist literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified.
D:) Feminist literary critics mostly reject the essentializing of ‘male’ and ‘female’.
springline- Correct option C:) Feminist literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified.
43) At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social, political and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following statements best describes that shift?
A:) England shifted from an aristocratic Catholic monarchy to a parliamentary democracy.
B:) England shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.
C:) England shifted from a parliamentary democracy to an aristocratic Catholic tyranny.
D:) England shifted from an atheistic oligarchy to deistic squirearchy.
springline- Correct option B:) England shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.
44) The Grammar-Translation method in English Language teaching stresses on
A:) Fluency
B:) Accuracy
C:) Appropriateness
D:) Listening Skill
springline- Correct option B:) Accuracy
45) In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer with the phrase ‘he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature’?
A:) Ben Jonson
B:) Edmund Spencer
C:) William Shakespeare
D:) Geoffrey Chaucer
springline- Correct option C:) William Shakespeare
46) Who among the following assures that many animals have all necessary speech organs, at least in the embryo and that had they shown any aptitude to use them in the same way that a primitive man did, they would probably have developed in a similar direction?
A:) Sir Richard Paget
B:) Sir Percy Nunn
C:) Lloyd James
D:) Wilhelm Wundt
springline- Correct option C:) Lloyd James
47) 'Fred, where is north?' 'North? North is there, my love. The brook runs west.' The above given lines were the starting lines of which poem among the following?
A:) The Cambridge Ladies
B:) West-Running Brook
C:) Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
D:) Birches
springline- Correct option B:) West-Running Brook
48) What is the meaning of the hybrid word ‘pandemonium’ rooted from Greek and Latin in Milton’s Paradise Lost?
A:) land of sin
B:) purifying land
C:) land of heaven
D:) devil-land
springline- Correct option D:) devil-land
49) “Of rancid breath of public hide-and-speak.(…) Pushed dumbfounded to beg simplification.” What does the above given lines from ‘Telephone Conversation’ reveals?
A:) public never hides their opinion
B:) white people loves to be indirect with their opinion
C:) white people never reveals their colour
D:) white people hide their racial discrimination in public
springline- Correct option D:) white people hide their racial discrimination in public
50) Where did Heathcliff stayed during the last minutes of Catherine, in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?
A:) Kitchen
B:) Garden
C:) Backyard
D:) Parlour
springline- Correct option B:) Garden
51) From whom did Pip took extra lessons after undergoing the suffering which gave him a new desire for education and social standing, in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations?
A:) Biddy
B:) Pumblechook
C:) Compeyson
D:) Magwitch
springline- Correct option A:) Biddy
52) 'Sicknesses cleave my bones; Consuming agues dwell in ev'ry vein, And tune my breath to groans.' The above given lines are taken from which poem among the following?
A:) The Pulley
B:) Adonais
C:) Affliction
D:) To His Coy Mistress
springline- Correct option C:) Affliction
53) Which character among the following is a wealthy Middlemarch banker, who got married to Walter Vincy's sister, George Eliot’s Middlemarch?
A:) Caleb Garth
B:) Nicholas Bulstrode
C:) Edward Casaubon
D:) Camden Farebrother
springline- Correct option B:) Nicholas Bulstrode
54) Who among the following received a special love from grandmother Field, according to Essays of Elia- Dream Children; A Reverie?
A:) John L
B:) James
C:) Elias
D:) Henry
springline- Correct option A:) John L
55) Who is the English dentist living and working in Mexican town, according to Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory?
A:) Juan
B:) Gringo
C:) Jefe
D:) Tench
springline- Correct option D:) Tench
56) Pick the correct sequences of T.S. Eillot’s The Waste land.(a.) Death by Water, (b.) The Fire Sermon, (c.) A Game of Chess, (d.) The Burial of the Dead.
A:) a, b, c, d
B:) b, c, d, a
C:) c, d, b, a
D:) d, c, b, a
springline- Correct option D:) d, c, b, a
57) Which character among the following often advises Angelo and loyal to Duke in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure?
A:) Lucio
B:) Escalus
C:) Provost
D:) Elbow
springline- Correct option B:) Escalus
58) Which opium consuming poet’s works has become popular ring war time, in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse?
A:) William Bankes
B:) Charles Tansley
C:) Macalister
D:) Augustus Carmichael
springline- Correct option D:) Augustus Carmichael
59) The speaker of Arnold’s The Scholar-Gipsy watches the shepherd and reapers working amongst the field and wants to remain out there until sundown. What is the speaker plan till the sundown? (a,) enjoying the scenery, (b.) studying the towers of Oxford, (c.) he plans to join the Shepard.
A:) a only
B:) c only
C:) a and b only
D:) c and b only
springline- Correct option C:) a and b only
60) Which character in Jane Austen’s Emma, is portrayed as a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family of Mr. Woodhouse, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella’s husband?
A:) Mr. Philip Elton
B:) Robert Martin
C:) Mr. Weston
D:) Mr. Knightley
springline- Correct option D:) Mr. Knightley
61) Which character married the schoolmaster Richard Phillotson, according to Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure?
A:) Susanna
B:) Drusilla
C:) Arabella
D:) Nancy
springline- Correct option A:) Susanna
62) “Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me,” (The Pulley) Who does the ‘me’ in the above given poetic lines indicates?
A:) God
B:) Man
C:) Angel
D:) Speaker
springline- Correct option A:) God
63) “The end of Poetry is to produce excitement in coexistence with an overbalance of pleasure.” The above given line is taken from which work among he following?
A:) Life of Milton
B:) A Defence of Poetry
C:) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
D:) My First Acquaintance with Poets.
springline- Correct option C:) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
64) “I'm not disappointed in Snake, I never suspected the fellow to have virtue enough to be faithful even to his own Villany” According Richard Sheridan’s The School for Scandal –Act I, who among the following is not disappointed in Snake and uttered the above given statement?
A:) Lady Teazle
B:) Lady Sneerwell
C:) Mrs. Candour
D:) Mrs. Clackitt
springline- Correct option B:) Lady Sneerwell
65) 'Bit my pretty ______ in two. I was ten when they buried you.'(Daddy) Pick the appropriate word for the blank in the above given poetic line.
A:) pure heart
B:) white heart
C:) red heart
D:) dark heart
springline- Correct option C:) red heart
66) Words and phrases of which language influxes during Commonwealth followed in 1660 by Restoration?
A:) Anglo-Saxon
B:) Greek
C:) Latin
D:) French
springline- Correct option D:) French
67) “It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.” The above given statement comes under which essay of Bacon?
A:) Of Truth
B:) Of Studies
C:) Of Revenge
D:) Of Adversity
springline- Correct option D:) Of Adversity
68) “Quietly, quietly the evening through,” What literary device used in the above given poetic line?
A:) Symploce
B:) Antanaclasis
C:) Epizeuxis
D:) Antistasis
springline- Correct option C:) Epizeuxis
69) Which writer among the following embodied the ideal perfection of his age in human character, according to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry?
A:) Calderon
B:) Dante
C:) Milton
D:) Homer
springline- Correct option D:) Homer
70) Who among the following is the narrator of Raja Rao’s Kandhapura, who has a vast knowledge of her village and people?
A:) Jayaramachar
B:) Achakka
C:) Venkamma
D:) Rangamma
springline- Correct option B:) Achakka
71) “Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain.” The above given lines belongs to which poem?
A:) Dover Beach
B:) To His Coy Mistress
C:) Byzantium
D:) Ode to the West Wind
springline- Correct option B:) To His Coy Mistress
72) Select the location of ACT III, Scene I William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. (a.) A plain in Syria, (b.) Caesar’s Camp at Alexandria, (c.) Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House, (d.) Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
A:) d only
B:) c only
C:) b only
D:) a only
springline- Correct option D:) a only
73) Who among the following cheated Prabha and left him bankrupt, in Coolie written by Mulk Raj Anand?
A:) Ratan
B:) Ganpat
C:) Nathoo
D:) Prem
springline- Correct option B:) Ganpat
74) Which writer among the following is more equable, sustained, and internal when Coleridge’s manner is more full, animated, and varied, according to Hazlitt’s My First Acquaintance With Poets?
A:) Johnson
B:) Burke
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Godwin
springline- Correct option C:) Wordsworth
75) “O, I come of a royal parentage! my grandfather was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; my godfathers were these, Peter Pickle-herring and Martin Martlemas-beef; O, but my godmother, she was a jolly gentlewoman, and well-beloved in every good town and city; her name was Mistress Margery March-beer. Now, Faustus, thou hast heard all my progeny; wilt thou bid me to supper?” (Dr. Faustus) The above given lines were the words of which seven deadly sins?
A:) Sloth
B:) Wrath
C:) Sloth
D:) Envy
springline- Correct option C:) Sloth
76) “Ah Manoa I refrain, too suddenly To utter what will come at last too soon; Lest evil tidings with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear should pierce too deep.” Who uttered the above given lines in Samson Agonistes?
A:) Messenger
B:) Chorus
C:) Public Officer
D:) Manoa
springline- Correct option A:) Messenger
77) Which character among the following thinks that accountant is greatest and he is the greatest, according to Essays of Elia- The South Sea House?
A:) Henry
B:) Tipp
C:) Clinton
D:) Howe
springline- Correct option B:) Tipp
78) “Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, Vaulted with all thy congregated might” (Ode to the West Wind) What does the word ‘sepulchre,’ meant in the above poetic lines?
A:) hole
B:) tomb
C:) tower
D:) ground
springline- Correct option B:) tomb
79) “That he ought to look on his broken limb as a judgment from heaven on his sins. That it would become him to be daily on his knees, pouring forth thanksgivings that he had broken his arm only, and not his neck; which latter was very probably reserved for some future occasion, and that, perhaps, not very remote. For his part he had often wondered some judgment had not overtaken him before; but it might be perceived by this, that Divine punishments, though slow, are always sure.” According to the above given lines taken from Book V-chapter II of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, which character among the following thinks that the broken arm is a punishment to sins from the God?
A:) Thwacker
B:) Lord Fellamar
C:) Square
D:) Black George
springline- Correct option A:) Thwacker
80) “He will awake no more, oh never more! Within the twilight chamber spreads apace The shadow of white Death, and at the door Invisible _________ waits to trace His extreme way to her dim dwelling-place;” (Adonais) Fill the above given poetic line with appropriate word.
A:) Corruption
B:) Soul
C:) Grief
D:) Pain
springline- Correct option A:) Corruption
81) Among the following what is the term that identifies here a person is from? (a.) social dialect, (b.) regional dialect, (c.) personal dialect, (d.) rural dialect
A:) d only
B:) c only
C:) b only
D:) a only
springline- Correct option C:) b only
82) “Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;” (Ode to Autumn) What does the word ‘wailful choir’ meant in the above given poetic lines?
A:) mournful music
B:) cheerful music
C:) romantic music
D:) religious music
springline- Correct option A:) mournful music
83) Which character among the following enter with pistol in Act III, Scene 3 of Spanish Tragedy with the intention of killing Serberine and hopes for good luck?
A:) Hieronimo
B:) Lorenzo
C:) Balthazar
D:) Pedringano
springline- Correct option D:) Pedringano
84) “Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on,” (The Wreck of the Deutschland) Find the literary technique in the above given poetic lines.
A:) anaphora
B:) allegory
C:) allusion
D:) simile
springline- Correct option A:) anaphora
85) What is the term that defines the total number of speech sounds that occur in a language can be reduced to a smaller number of sound units?
A:) phonology
B:) allophones
C:) morphology
D:) phonemes
springline- Correct option D:) phonemes
86) Which character among the following is a son of Blacksmith in Madras, in Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice?
A:) Ravi
B:) Kannan
C:) Damodar
D:) Ravi
springline- Correct option B:) Kannan
87) Who among the following played a stringed instrument and sang a song about a mountain in a vision, according to Samuel Coleridge’s Kubla Khan?
A:) Mongolian woman
B:) Ethiopian woman
C:) Nigerian woman
D:) Grecian woman
springline- Correct option B:) Ethiopian woman
88) Who among the following posits the existence of an incipient ‘feminine writing or ecriture writing, which has its source in the mother in the stage of the mother child relation before the child acquires the male-centred verbal language?
A:) Simon de Beauvoir
B:) Kate Chopin
C:) Aphra Behn
D:) Helene Cixous
springline- Correct option D:) Helene Cixous
89) “Behold how goodly my faire love does In proud humility; Like unto Maia, when as Jove her tooke, In Tempe, lying on the flowry gras, Twixt sleepe and wake, after she weary was, With bathing in the Acidalian brooke.” ( Epithalamion) Who is Maia in the above mentioned poem lines?
A:) mountain goddess
B:) river goddess
C:) flower goddess
D:) love goddess
springline- Correct option A:) mountain goddess
90) Among the following who sat within the gates of hell in Book IX of Milton’s Paradise Lost? (a.) Sin, (b.) Death, (c.) Beelzebub, (d.) Fury
A:) a and b only
B:) b and c only
C:) c and d only
D:) d and a only
springline- Correct option A:) a and b only
91) “SUB. I'll send her to thee: And but despatch my brace of little John Leydens, And come again my self.”(Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist-Act III, Scene III) To whom did Subtle uttered the above given lines?
A:) Face
B:) Dapper
C:) Kestrel
D:) Ananias
springline- Correct option A:) Face
92) According to Francis Bacon, what is compared choler, which is a humour that makes men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring?
A:) aversion
B:) ambition
C:) contentment
D:) apathy
springline- Correct option B:) ambition
93) Who is the author of Etymological Dictionary, which contains one hundred and eight words in use in our language today which have come from Lain by way of Anglo-Saxon?
A:) Walter Skeat
B:) Henry Bradley
C:) James Murray
D:) Hensleigh Wedgwood
springline- Correct option A:) Walter Skeat
94) The dying eagle is compared with rain-drenched raven on the branch of an oak. In which month does sit on the branch of an oak, in E. J. Pratt’s The Dying Eagle?
A:) January
B:) April
C:) June
D:) November
springline- Correct option D:) November
95) “The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Eremite, sole, daring the bourneless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed below.” (Thought the Paraclete) What does the word ‘eremite’ means in the above given poetic line?
A:) precocial
B:) recluse
C:) consociational
D:) gregarious
springline- Correct option B:) recluse
96) The speaker in John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn addresses the images of trees on the urn and calls their boughs happy because they never have to say goodbye to which season among the following?
A:) summer
B:) autumn
C:) spring
D:) winter
springline- Correct option C:) spring
97) “But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe. Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an hauntShe passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt.” ( Prologue to the Canterbury Tales) The above given line describes which character among the following?
A:) Prioress
B:) Nun’s Priest
C:) Second Nun
D:) Wife of Bath
springline- Correct option D:) Wife of Bath
98) Which character among the following defends modern writers by saying that they really sick to the rules of ancient writers better than ancient wrier themselves, in Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
A:) Crites
B:) Neander
C:) Lisidius
D:) Eugenius
springline- Correct option D:) Eugenius
99) Among the following what is the gift handed by Stanley for Blanche’s birthday in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams?
A:) jewel
B:) letter
C:) car
D:) one way ticket
springline- Correct option D:) one way ticket
100) In which act does Octavia entered in Dryden’s All For Love, and uered the belove given statement? “Thus long I have attended for my welcome; Which, as a stranger, sure I might expect. Who am I?”
A:) Act I, Scene II
B:) Act II, Scene III
C:) Act III, Scene I
D:) Act IV, Scene I
springline- Correct option C:) Act III, Scene I
101) Which character among the following lived in a manor under L’s paternal roof, according to Essays of Elia- Christ's Hospital?
A:) steward
B:) master
C:) governor
D:) messenger
springline- Correct option C:) governor
102) “Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?” (Canonisation) What is the literary device used in the above given poem lines?
A:) Epizeuxis
B:) Epimone
C:) Chiasmus
D:) Antimetabole
springline- Correct option A:) Epizeuxis
103) Who among the following had a hair-ball as big as fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it, in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
A:) Cain
B:) Jim
C:) Pip
D:) Tom
springline- Correct option B:) Jim
104) “And great Elisa's glorious name may ring Through all the world, filled with thy wide alarms, Which some brave Muse may sing” ( Prothalamion) Who is Elisa in the above mentioned lines?
A:) bride
B:) one of the nymphs
C:) lady love
D:) queen
springline- Correct option D:) queen
105) In Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Ishmael quitted the good city of old Manhatto and duly arrived at which place?
A:) Cape-Horner
B:) New Bedford
C:) Cape-Horn
D:) Cape of Blanco
springline- Correct option B:) New Bedford
106) Who is in love with the green earth, the unspeakable rural solitude and the sweet security of streets, according to Essays of Elia- New Year's Eve?
A:) Elia
B:) Henry
C:) B
D:) L
springline- Correct option A:) Elia
107) Who among the following applies the term ‘readerly’ to those realist texts which present linear narratives that claim to represent a finite or complete reality?
A:) Barthes
B:) Derrida
C:) Kristeva
D:) Irving
springline- Correct option A:) Barthes
108) “Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy Cave of Spleen.”(The Rape of the Lock) Who among the following searched the gloomy cave of spleen?
A:) Umbriel
B:) Ariel
C:) Brillante
D:) Momentilla
springline- Correct option A:) Umbriel
109) The speaker in Arnold’s Dover Beach looks out upon a calm sea, observing the fullness of tide and moon and it’s reflection. Speaker observed reflection on what?
A:) ladylove’s face
B:) mirror
C:) in the eyes of ladylove
D:) water
springline- Correct option D:) water
110) To whom did Young Marlow appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue, according to Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer- Act III?
A:) Jeremy
B:) Lumpkin
C:) Hastings
D:) Hardcastle
springline- Correct option D:) Hardcastle
111) Which school of Philosophy would favour the statement, ‘Since both pain and pleasure are the wealth of man, they are his good teachers?’
A:) Existentialism
B:) Naturalism
C:) Idealism
D:) Pragmatism
springline- Correct option A:) Existentialism
112) As a new discipline ‘Educational Psychology’ has developed owing mainly to the interactive relationship of the following?
A:) Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education and Educational processes.
B:) Behaviour Sciences, Educational processes and various methods of inquiry in psychology
C:) Psychology, anthropology and Experimental methods
D:) Psychology, Sociology and Experimental methods
springline- Correct option B:) Behaviour Sciences, Educational processes and various methods of inquiry in psychology
113) According to Piaget, in which stages of development the child shows attainment of concept of reversibility as a cognitive capacity?
A:) Sensory motor stage
B:) Preoperational stage
C:) Concrete operational stage
D:) Formal operational stage
springline- Correct option C:) Concrete operational stage
114) Which of the following types of intelligence reaches an optimal development ceiling?
A:) Emotional intelligence
B:) Social intelligence
C:) Cognitive intelligence
D:) Spiritual intelligence
springline- Correct option C:) Cognitive intelligence
115) Which of the following laws/principles of learning of Thorndike anticipated the classical conditioning paradigm of Pavlov?
A:) Law of exercise
B:) Law of effect
C:) Principle of prepotency of elements
D:) Principle of associative writing
springline- Correct option D:) Principle of associative writing
116) ‘Synectics’ is the method used for catering to which categories of children?
A:) Gifted children
B:) Backward children
C:) Retarded children
D:) Creative children
springline- Correct option D:) Creative children
117) The school level education enforces the policy of free and compulsory education for girls and socially disadvantaged section of society. This represents the drive for:
A:) Promoting talents
B:) Equity and equality
C:) Ensuring security
D:) Addressing diverse needs
springline- Correct option B:) Equity and equality
118) Free uniform and book-aids to disadvantaged segments of society is a move towards providing?
A:) Relief to the society in general
B:) Incentives to children for compulsory attendance
C:) Check on drop outs from school
D:) Handicaps to compensate economic deprivation
springline- Correct option D:) Handicaps to compensate economic deprivation
119) The study of role conflict, collaboration and competition in classroom will belong to the concerns of
A:) Professional and moral ethics
B:) Peace education
C:) Sociology of education
D:) Educational psychology
springline- Correct option C:) Sociology of education
120) ‘Formal operational stage’ of cognitive development in Piaget’s view will correspond to which stage of education in India?
A:) Primary education
B:) Elementary education
C:) Secondary education
D:) Higher education
springline- Correct option C:) Secondary education
121) Which of the following is a subordinate law in Thorndike’s system of learning?
A:) Response by Analogy
B:) Law of Exercise
C:) Law of Readiness
D:) Law of Effect
springline- Correct option A:) Response by Analogy
122) What is the ‘gestalt word’ for transfer of learning?
A:) Stimulus discrimination
B:) Transposition of understanding
C:) Stimulus generalization
D:) Response generalization
springline- Correct option B:) Transposition of understanding
123) In Gagne’s learning hierarchy which of the following is the highest type of learning?
A:) Creative learning
B:) Problem solving learning
C:) Concept learning
D:) Chain learning
springline- Correct option B:) Problem solving learning
124) Who among the following cognitive learning promoters developed the concept of meaningful learning?
A:) Jean Piaget
B:) David Ausubel
C:) Jerome S. Bruner
D:) Ference Merton
springline- Correct option B:) David Ausubel
125) Who among the following was the first to use the word ‘mental measurement’?
A:) Terman
B:) Binet
C:) Thurstone
D:) Galton
springline- Correct option D:) Galton
126) In which of the following counties the local authorities have the highest say in matters of curriculum development?
A:) Russia
B:) U.K
C:) India
D:) U.S.A
springline- Correct option D:) U.S.A
127) The concept of distance education implies
A:) Imparting education from a distance.
B:) Using mass media and computer in class
C:) Imparting quality education through mitigating the negative effects of distance in education
D:) Employing nonconventional methods of teaching learning except face to face teaching methods
springline- Correct option C:) Imparting quality education through mitigating the negative effects of distance in education
128) Which of the following models of curriculum has minimum scope for democratic decision making?
A:) Demonstration Model
B:) Grassroot Model
C:) System Analysis Model
D:) Administrative Model
springline- Correct option D:) Administrative Model
129) For promoting effective leadership which of the following theories has a greater potential?
A:) Great man Theory
B:) Trait Theory
C:) Transactional Theory
D:) Transformational Theory
springline- Correct option D:) Transformational Theory
130) A test conducted by a classroom teacher for the purpose of identifying the strengths and weakness of students in a specific content area is technically called:
A:) Aptitude Test
B:) Prognostic Test
C:) Diagnostic Test
D:) Placement Test
springline- Correct option C:) Diagnostic Test
131) Educational communication has the limitation of:
A:) Social marketing
B:) Extended interactivity
C:) Cost-effectiveness
D:) Attention span of receivers
springline- Correct option D:) Attention span of receivers
132) Epilepsy is a kind of:
A:) Muscular disorder
B:) Communication disorder
C:) Neurological Impairment
D:) Psychiatric disorder
springline- Correct option C:) Neurological Impairment
133) Muscular dystrophy is a:
A:) Neural tube defect
B:) Neuromuscular disease and involves weakening of muscles
C:) An acquired injury to brain caused by external physical force
D:) Abnormal discharge of electric impulses in the brain
springline- Correct option B:) Neuromuscular disease and involves weakening of muscles
134) Which of the following statement is not true in the context of Gifted Children?
A:) Analytical understanding
B:) Synthetic insights
C:) Creative reproduction
D:) Practical Application Skills
springline- Correct option C:) Creative reproduction
135) Which of the following constitutional values gets endorsed through reservation policy in education?
A:) Liberty
B:) Equality
C:) Fraternity
D:) Humanity
springline- Correct option B:) Equality
136) The main purpose of education should be the integrated development of the person. Who has offered a model in this regard?
A:) Aurobindo
B:) Tagore
C:) Gandhi
D:) Vivekananda
springline- Correct option A:) Aurobindo
137) Education is considered as a sub-system of a social system because:
A:) It provides essential service that society has to provide to the people.
B:) It has a complex structure.
C:) It has well defined objectives and functions to promote adaptations.
D:) It has various interacting components determining social goals.
springline- Correct option C:) It has well defined objectives and functions to promote adaptations.
138) In the context of social development which of the following stages is characterized by ‘Intense Self Awareness’
A:) Infancy
B:) Childhood
C:) Adolescence
D:) Adulthood
springline- Correct option C:) Adolescence
139) In Skinner’s view secondary reinforces are derived when associated with
A:) Neutral stimulus
B:) Positive stimulus
C:) Negative stimulus
D:) Either positive or negative stimulus
springline- Correct option D:) Either positive or negative stimulus
140) Brainstorming procedures are helpful specially for which category of children?
A:) Gifted children
B:) Backward children
C:) Creative children
D:) Mentally retarded children
springline- Correct option C:) Creative children
141) Which of the following poet called as ‘Gandhiyakavinar’?
A:) Namakkal Kavinar Ramalinganar
B:) Udumalai Narayana Kavi
C:) Mu. Varatharasanar
D:) Suratha
springline- Correct option A:) Namakkal Kavinar Ramalinganar
142) ‘Thenmazhai’ is written by _______
A:) Namakkal Kavinar Ramalinganar
B:) Udumalai Narayana Kavi
C:) Rajamarthandan
D:) Suratha
springline- Correct option D:) Suratha
143) ‘Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary’ was established in 1965, located in the state ______
A:) Maharastra
B:) West Bengal
C:) Gujarat
D:) Uttarakhand
springline- Correct option C:) Gujarat
144) Who is an environmental activist and forestry worker from Majuli, popularly known as the ‘Forest Man of India’?
A:) Jadav Payeng
B:) Binita
C:) Shdhir Kumar Sopory
D:) Aarti Shrivastava
springline- Correct option A:) Jadav Payeng
145) Valliyappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai (V.O.C) is popularly known by his initials, V.O.C. and is also known as Kappalottiya Tamizhan or ‘the Tamil Helmsman’ born on _______.
A:) 5 September 1872
B:) 6 January 1896
C:) 14 November 1889
D:) 2 October 1869
springline- Correct option A:) 5 September 1872
146) Who is considered the father of Tamil linguistic purism and the founder of Tani Tamil Iyakkam (Pure Tamil Movement)?
A:) C.W. Damotharanar
B:) U.V. Swaminathar
C:) Maraimalai Adigal
D:) Dr. C. Natesanar
springline- Correct option C:) Maraimalai Adigal
147) Chose the incorrect timeline.
A:) 1916- Home Rule League
B:) 1930- First Round Table Conference
C:) 1940- August Offer
D:) 1941 – Quit India Movement
springline- Correct option D:) 1941 – Quit India Movement
148) Abbreviation for IST
A:) International Sewage Tree-Plan
B:) Indian Statistical Time
C:) India Stanford-Greenwich Time
D:) Indian Standard Time
springline- Correct option D:) Indian Standard Time
149) The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award, was was established in April 1957. Ramon Magsaysay served as the president of _______
A:) Philippines
B:) India
C:) England
D:) Poland
springline- Correct option A:) Philippines
150) Annual Budget of the Central Government is presented before the Lok Sabha by the Union Finance Minister only with the permission of _________.
A:) the President
B:) the Prime Minister
C:) the Chief justice of India
D:) Speaker of Lok Sabha
springline- Correct option A:) the President