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HSST -English-Junior-Higher Secondary Education question paper 2015

Date of test
28-04-2015
Question paper code
8/2015/OL
Category No.
71/2012
Questions
100
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Provisional Answer Key
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  1. 1.
    Who introduced Printing Press in Kerala?
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    The Portuguese
    The Portuguese introduced the first printing press in Kerala at Vaipicotta Seminary in 1577.
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  2. 2.
    The book 'Vrithamanjari' was written by
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    A.R. Raja Raja Varma
    Vrithamanjari is a seminal work on Malayalam prosody written by A.R. Raja Raja Varma.
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  3. 3.
    The 'Samyukta Rastriya Samathi' ( Joint Political Congress ), the organisation, was in connection with
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    Abstention Movement
    The Samyukta Rastriya Samathi was formed to lead the Abstention Movement (Nivarthana Prakshobham) in Travancore.
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  4. 4.
    'Sabdikkunna Kalappa' a short story written by
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    Ponkunnam Varky
    Sabdikkunna Kalappa is a famous short story by Ponkunnam Varky.
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  5. 5.
    Who organised an All Religions Conference in Alwaye Advaita Ashram
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    Sree Narayana Guru
    Sree Narayana Guru organized the All Religions Conference at the Advaita Ashram in Aluva in 1924.
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  6. 6.
    Who was the director of the film 'Perariyathavar'
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    Dr Biju
    Dr. Biju directed the film 'Perariyathavar' (Names Unknown).
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  7. 7.
    Who was the recipient of 'Vyasa Samman' of 2013 ?
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    Viswanath Tripathi
    Viswanath Tripathi received the Vyasa Samman in 2013 for his memoir 'Vyomkesh Darvesh'.
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  8. 8.
    Which team was the first champion of the 'Hero Indian Super League'?
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    Atletico De Kolkata
    Atletico de Kolkata won the inaugural season of the Indian Super League in 2014.
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  9. 9.
    The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India, is known as?
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    Brahmaputra
    The Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet is known as the Brahmaputra when it enters India.
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  10. 10.
    The minimum age to qualify for election to the Loksabha is
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    25 years
    According to Article 84 of the Indian Constitution, the minimum age for a Lok Sabha candidate is 25 years.
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  11. 11.
    To cater to the needs of slow learners in the class, a teacher should give
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    remedial teaching
    Remedial teaching is specifically designed to help slow learners overcome their learning difficulties.
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  12. 12.
    Inductive reasoning is
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    bottom up process
    Inductive reasoning moves from specific observations to broader generalizations, operating as a bottom-up process.
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  13. 13.
    If the students on the back bench are talking while teaching in the class, the teacher should
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    ask them to sit on front benches
    Asking students to sit on the front benches is an effective and constructive way to monitor and engage distracted students.
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  14. 14.
    'Learning readiness' involves
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    all of the above
    Learning readiness encompasses a learner's psychological disposition, cognitive maturity, and prior knowledge base.
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  15. 15.
    Why are additional exercises and activities included in the syllabus?
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    to make the learner understand the topic well
    Additional exercises and activities reinforce concepts, ensuring that the learner understands the topic comprehensively.
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  16. 16.
    What is NOT possible to achieve in the case of field experiments?
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    control of extraneous variables
    Due to the natural and uncontrolled setting of field experiments, complete control of extraneous variables is difficult to achieve.
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  17. 17.
    'Men are superior to women in their health status after 40 years' is an example of
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    directional hypothesis
    A directional hypothesis specifies the exact direction of the relationship or difference between variables (in this case, stating superiority of one group over another).
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  18. 18.
    The ethical principle displayed while sharing data, results, ideas or tools of one's research is
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    openness
    Openness involves sharing data, results, ideas, and tools with other researchers to foster collaboration and transparency.
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  19. 19.
    What is one tailed test of significance?
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    testing directional hypothesis
    A one-tailed test of significance is used when testing a directional hypothesis where the alternative hypothesis specifies a particular direction.
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  20. 20.
    A representative sample is
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    a sample that accurately reflects the entire population
    A representative sample is a subset of a population that accurately mirrors the characteristics of the entire population.
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  21. 21.
    Which Amendment Act has created the 9th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
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    The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951
    The 9th Schedule was added to the Constitution by the First Amendment Act of 1951 to protect land reform laws from judicial review.
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  22. 22.
    Who decides the nature of a Bill in Indian Union?
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    The Speaker of Lok Sabha
    Under Article 110(3) of the Indian Constitution, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha has the final authority to decide whether a Bill is a Money Bill.
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  23. 23.
    According to the Indian Constitution, the 'Residuary Power of Legislation' belongs to
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    The Parliament
    Under Article 248 of the Indian Constitution, the Parliament has exclusive power to make any law with respect to any matter not enumerated in the Concurrent List or State List.
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  24. 24.
    Impeachment proceedings against the President of India can be initiated against the charge of -----------?
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    Violation of the Indian Constitution
    Article 61 of the Indian Constitution states that the President can be impeached only for 'Violation of the Constitution'.
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  25. 25.
    The constitutional provisions described as the 'heart and soul of the Constitution' by Dr. B R Ambedkar is .....................?
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    Article 32
    Dr. B.R. Ambedkar referred to Article 32 (Right to Constitutional Remedies) as the very heart and soul of the Indian Constitution.
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  26. 26.
    Who was the first Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission?
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    Justice Ranganath Misra.
    Justice Ranganath Misra was the first Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India.
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  27. 27.
    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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    The National Green Tribunal Act,2010.
    The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 established the NGT for effective and expeditious disposal of environmental cases.
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  28. 28.
    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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    48 hours.
    Section 7(1) of the RTI Act, 2005 mandates that information concerning the life or liberty of a person shall be provided within 48 hours of receipt of the request.
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  29. 29.
    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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    PMJDY
    Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is India's national mission for financial inclusion.
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  30. 30.
    The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 deals with ......................................
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    All of the above.
    The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 deals with juveniles in conflict with law as well as children in need of care and protection.
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  31. 31.
    What is the relationship between the Squire and the Knight in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales?
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    Son and father
    In Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to The Canterbury Tales, the Squire is the son of the Knight.
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  32. 32.
    Shakespeare's Sonnet number 129 is addressed to
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    A Dark Lady
    Shakespeare's Sonnet 129 ('The expense of spirit in a waste of shame') is part of the sequence addressed or related to the Dark Lady.
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  33. 33.
    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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    Man has usurped his place
    Satan feels resentful that man, a creature formed of earth, is created to occupy the place in heaven vacated by the fallen angels.
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  34. 34.
    How many years Faustus has before the Devil comes to claim him his own?
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    24
    In Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Faustus sells his soul to Lucifer in exchange for 24 years of absolute power.
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  35. 35.
    Which one of the following is NOT a character in the 'Tempest' ?
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    Coriolanus
    Coriolanus is the title character of another Shakespearean play, not 'The Tempest'.
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  36. 36.
    To which Scene in 'The Hamlet' the line "To be or not to be, that is the question" belong?
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    Act III Scene 1
    Hamlet's famous soliloquy beginning with 'To be or not to be' occurs in Act III, Scene 1.
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  37. 37.
    "Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song" is extracted from:
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    Prothalamion
    This famous refrain is the recurring burden of Edmund Spenser's marriage poem 'Prothalamion'.
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  38. 38.
    Whom did the Dutchess of Malfi secretly marry?
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    Antonio Bologna
    In John Webster's play 'The Duchess of Malfi', the Duchess secretly marries her steward, Antonio Bologna.
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  39. 39.
    Which of the following characters is the villain in 'Tom Jones' ?
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    Blifil
    Blifil is the hypocritical main antagonist and villain in Henry Fielding's novel 'Tom Jones'.
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  40. 40.
    "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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    Aphoristic style
    Francis Bacon's essays are renowned for their concise, pithy, and aphoristic style.
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  41. 41.
    "Did he who made the Lamb make thee"? here "thee" refers to?
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    The Tiger
    In William Blake's poem 'The Tiger', 'thee' refers to the fearful and magnificent tiger.
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  42. 42.
    To whom "Dejection: An Ode" was originally addressed?
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    Sara Hutchinson
    Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' was originally addressed to Sara Hutchinson (referred to as 'Edmund' in the earlier verse letter version).
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  43. 43.
    What does Wordsworth's line "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" reflect?
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    Memories of the joyous things in nature
    These concluding lines of the 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' reflect profound meditative memories and emotional depth associated with nature.
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  44. 44.
    Which of the following is NOT an essential theme of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ?
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    Materialism
    Materialism is not a theme of Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', which instead explores art, eternity, and transience.
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  45. 45.
    Which of the following is the prominent idea in the "Dover Beach" ?
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    Loss of faith
    Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' famously laments the retreat of the 'Sea of Faith' in the modern scientific era.
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  46. 46.
    Which English society is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' ?
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    The upper class
    Oscar Wilde's play satirizes the manners, hypocrisy, and trivialities of the Victorian upper class (aristocracy).
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  47. 47.
    What was the initial/original title of the "Pride and Prejudice" ?
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    First Impressions
    Jane Austen originally wrote 'Pride and Prejudice' under the working title 'First Impressions'.
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  48. 48.
    What is the pen name of 'Mary Ann Evans' ?
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    George Eliot
    Mary Ann Evans wrote under the male pseudonym George Eliot to ensure her works were taken seriously.
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  49. 49.
    Why did Heath Cliff slip away? Because:
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    Catherine refused to marry him
    Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights after overhearing Catherine say it would 'degrade' her to marry him.
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  50. 50.
    Who according to Charles Lamb (in the Dream Children) was the best dancer during her youth?
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    Mrs. Field
    In 'Dream Children: A Reverie', Charles Lamb describes his grandmother, Mrs. Field, as having been the best dancer of her day.
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  51. 51.
    Who is Lil's husband in the poem The Waste Land ?
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    Albert
    In Part II ('A Game of Chess') of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Lil's husband is Albert, who has just been demobilized from the army.
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  52. 52.
    "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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    Thirtieth
    This is the opening stanza of Dylan Thomas's poem 'Fern Hill', beginning with 'It was my thirtieth year to heaven'.
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  53. 53.
    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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    Virginia Woolf
    This critical observation on the art of fiction comes from Virginia Woolf's essay 'Modern Fiction'.
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  54. 54.
    Who acts as chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
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    Canterbury Women
    In T.S. Eliot's play 'Murder in the Cathedral', the Chorus is composed of the poor women of Canterbury.
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  55. 55.
    Pygmalion fell in love with -------
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    A statue carved by him
    In Greek mythology, Pygmalion sculpted a statue of an ivory woman and fell deeply in love with it.
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  56. 56.
    The clothes that the priest brings to Maurya's house are from the body of ------
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    Michael
    In J.M. Synge's 'Riders to the Sea', the young priest brings clothes recovered from a drowned body in Donegal, identified as belonging to Michael.
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  57. 57.
    "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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    baby tuckoo
    This is the famous opening line of James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', featuring 'baby tuckoo'.
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  58. 58.
    Who is the owner of the factory where Paul Morel works?
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    Thomas Jordan
    In D.H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers', Paul Morel works at Thomas Jordan's surgical appliance factory.
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  59. 59.
    The twins in the Lord of the Flies are together known as
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    Samneric
    In William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies', the twin boys Sam and Eric are so inseparable that the other boys refer to them as a single entity, 'Samneric'.
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  60. 60.
    Which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
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    2007
    Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
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  61. 61.
    The key textbook of the emotional theory of Rasa.
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    Natyashastra
    Bharata Muni's 'Natyashastra' is the foundational treatise outlining the theory of Rasa (aesthetic experience).
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  62. 62.
    According to Aristotle, Hamartia is ______.
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    a personal error in a protagonist's personality that brings about his tragic downfall
    Hamartia refers to a tragic flaw or fatal error in judgment committed by a tragic hero leading to their downfall.
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  63. 63.
    "Lyrical Ballads" was published with a preface in the year ______.
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    1800
    While 'Lyrical Ballads' was first published anonymously in 1798, the famous manifesto-like Preface was added by Wordsworth in the 1800 edition.
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  64. 64.
    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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    a chemical reaction
    T.S. Eliot famously uses the analogy of a catalyst (platinum) in a chemical reaction to describe the mind of the poet during creation.
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  65. 65.
    "Archetype" means ______.
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    an original idea or model on which something is patterned
    An archetype is a recurrent universal symbol, character type, or motif in literature representing an original pattern.
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  66. 66.
    Jacques Derrida's lecture "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" heralded the beginning of ______.
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    Post-structuralism
    Derrida's 1966 lecture critiqued structuralism and heralded the advent of post-structuralism / deconstruction.
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  67. 67.
    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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    The Feminist phase
    Showalter outlines three phases of women's writing: Feminine (1840-1880), Feminist (1880-1920), and Female (1920-present).
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  68. 68.
    Michael Foucault's essay discussing the notion of the 'author'.
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    What Is an Author?
    Michel Foucault's influential essay 'What Is an Author?' questions the traditional concept and function of the author.
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  69. 69.
    Lacan's concept of the "mirror stage" is related to ______.
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    a critical stage in the development of individuality during a child's growth
    Jacques Lacan's mirror stage is a formative developmental phase where an infant recognizes its reflection, shaping its ego and sense of self.
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  70. 70.
    The author of the book "Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature".
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    Sharankumar Limbala
    'Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature' is a pioneering critical work authored by Sharankumar Limbale.
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  71. 71.
    English language is derived from ______.
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    West Germanic
    English belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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  72. 72.
    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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    Ablaut
    Ablaut refers to vowel gradation within roots indicating grammatical or semantic changes (e.g., sing, sang, sung).
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  73. 73.
    The author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
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    Bede
    The Venerable Bede wrote 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People', a crucial historical source for early England.
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  74. 74.
    The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by ______ in 1066.
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    William the Conqueror
    William, Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror), invaded England and won the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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  75. 75.
    King James' Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year ______.
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    1611
    The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible was first published in 1611.
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  76. 76.
    The basic theoretical unit of distinctive sound in the description of speech.
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    phoneme
    A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish meaning.
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  77. 77.
    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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    syntax
    Syntax is the subfield of linguistics that studies sentence structure and how words combine into phrases and clauses.
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  78. 78.
    A seminal linguistic work of twentieth century by Ferdinand de Saussure published posthumously in 1916.
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    Course in General Linguistics
    Saussure's 'Course in General Linguistics' (Cours de linguistique générale) was compiled and published by his students in 1916.
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  79. 79.
    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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    deep structure
    In Chomskyan Transformational-Generative grammar, deep structure represents the core semantic relations and syntactic information of a sentence.
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  80. 80.
    A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
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    register
    A register is a stylistic or social variety of a language determined by the topic, context, or communicative purpose.
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  81. 81.
    Why did the poet in the poem "Casurina Tree" look upon the casurina tree with love and longing?
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    Because she used to play under the casurina tree with her friends in childhood
    Toru Dutt's poem 'Our Casuarina Tree' evokes sweet childhood memories of playing under the tree with her companions.
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  82. 82.
    In the poem "Introduction" by Kamala Das, the speaker ________
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    Asks people to leave her alone
    In 'Introduction', Kamala Das asserts her identity and demands freedom, urging critics and society to leave her alone.
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  83. 83.
    What was the speaker as a nascent poet translating in Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
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    The song of the bird
    The speaker translates the mournful song of the solitary mockingbird, which awakens his poetic calling.
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  84. 84.
    Who does the speaker in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" imagine her father to be?
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    A Nazi
    Sylvia Plath's poem 'Daddy' famously uses Holocaust imagery, portraying her father as a Nazi and herself as a Jew.
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  85. 85.
    According to B R Ambedkar the caste system _________
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    Does not promote an egalitarian society
    In 'Annihilation of Caste', Ambedkar argues that the caste system is anti-democratic, hierarchical, and impedes an egalitarian society.
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  86. 86.
    Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in ______
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    1981
    Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his landmark novel 'Midnight's Children'.
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  87. 87.
    The protagonist of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones is ____
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    A usurper of power in a Caribbean island
    Brutus Jones, the protagonist of 'The Emperor Jones', is an African American former Pullman porter who sets himself up as emperor of a Caribbean island.
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  88. 88.
    Ralph Ellison, author of "Invisible Man" was associated with _________
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    The Harlem Renaissance
    Ralph Ellison was a prominent figure associated with the Harlem Renaissance and mid-20th-century African American literature.
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  89. 89.
    Lalithambika Antharjanam was a contemporary of ______
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    Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
    Lalithambika Antharjanam, renowned feminist writer of Kerala, was a contemporary of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.
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  90. 90.
    The following is the protagonist of Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye:
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    Pecola
    Pecola Breedlove is the young tragic protagonist of Toni Morrison's debut novel 'The Bluest Eye'.
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  91. 91.
    Who is the author of 'The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism' ?
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    Walter Benn Michaels
    'The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism' is a major work of New Historicism written by Walter Benn Michaels.
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  92. 92.
    The 'New Historicists' attempt to situate and interpret 'Texts' in relation to:
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    The cultural system in which they were produced
    New Historicism examines literary texts through the lens of their historical and cultural circulation and the systems in which they were produced.
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  93. 93.
    Which of the following is a prominent feature of 'New Feminisms' ?
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    Its ideologies predominantly 'Gynocentric'
    New Feminism / Gynocriticism focuses on female experience and gynocentric perspectives rather than merely reacting against male models.
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  94. 94.
    Who founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) ?
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    Richard Hoggart
    Richard Hoggart founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1964, later directed by Stuart Hall.
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  95. 95.
    What does 'Diaspora' (in the Biblical context) denote?
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    Mass exodus of the Jews
    Historically and biblically, diaspora originally denoted the dispersion or mass exodus of the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland.
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  96. 96.
    Who among the following is a 'Queer' critic?
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    Carol Vance
    Carol Vance is a prominent scholar and critic associated with feminist and queer theory.
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  97. 97.
    What is the most prominent feature of post-colonial literature?
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    A pre-occupation with the colonial experience from a Non-European point of view
    Post-colonial literature primarily centers on dismantling Eurocentric narratives and exploring the impacts of colonization from indigenous and non-European viewpoints.
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  98. 98.
    Which of the following is NOT a feature of the literature of the 'Diaspora' ?
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    Pre occupation with the superior European life
    Diaspora literature typically focuses on displacement, identity crisis, and nostalgia, not a pre-occupation with praising superior European life.
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  99. 99.
    What is the UK equivalent of the term 'Eco-criticism' ?
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    Green studies
    'Green studies' is commonly used in the UK as the British equivalent for the American term 'Eco-criticism'.
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  100. 100.
    What is denoted by the term 'Hyper-reality' in post-modernism?
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    Inability of consciousness to differentiate between reality and its simulation
    Popularized by Jean Baudrillard, hyperreality is a condition in which reality and simulation are seamlessly blended so that consciousness cannot distinguish between them.
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