KERALA SET ENGLISH JULY 2021 (Held on 14.08.2021) (2025)

(Paper Code: 21207A)

1. A poem translated from the French by Chaucer:

A) Mignonne Allons Voir Si la Rose

B) Roman de la Rose

C) La Chanson de Roland

D) Demain des L’Aube

2. The ‘vulgar man’ in Chaucer who could outwit ‘a crowd of learned men’:

A) The Merchant

B) The Miller

C) The Manciple

D) The Franklin

3. The rhyme scheme of the English sonnet:

A) abab bcbc cdcd ee

B) abba abba cde cde

C) abba abba cde dce

D) abab cdcd efef gg

4. The term ‘problem plays’ was first used in connection with Shakespeare by:

A) Henrik Ibsen

B) Auguste Strindberg

C) F.S. Boas

D) Edmond Malone

5. The author of ‘The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland’:

A) Edward Hall

B) Raphael Holinshed

C) Sir Thomas North

D) John Hall

6. The English general who was named ‘Lord Protector’ of the commonwealth after the overthrow of the Stuart monarchy:

A) Oliver Cromwell

B) Thomas Cromwell

C) Robert Devereaux

D) Sir Thomas Fairfax

7. Whose address to parliament, calling for the ‘liberty of unlicenc’d printing’ is now part of the literature of human rights?

A) Edmund Burke

B) John Milton

C) Winston Churchill

D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

8. ‘The Old Bachelour’ and ‘The Double-Dealer’ are plays by:

A) William Congreve

B) Oliver Goldsmith

C) John Dryden

D) John Dennis

9. The ‘Voyage to Laputa’ is made by:

A) Robinson Crusoe

B) Lemuel Gulliver

C) Alexander Selkirk

D) Isaac Bickerstaff

10. In form, ‘The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker’ is ----------------:

A) Epistolary

B) Picaresque

C) Satirical

D) Heroic

11. Wordsworth believed that human passions are ‘incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature’ in:

A) Early childhood

B) Rustic life

C) Poetic imagination

D) Tranquil recollection

12. A poem narrated to a reluctant but enthralled wedding guest:

A) ‘She Walks in Beauty’

B) ‘Variation on the Word Sleep’

C) ‘The Privileged Lovers’

D) ‘The Ancient Mariner’

13. Jane Austen’s unfinished satire on invalidism and health resorts:

A) Edwin Drood

B) Sanditon

C) Sense and Sensibility

D) Northanger Abbey

14. His school, described by Charles Lamb in his essays:

A) East India House

B) Christ’s Hospital

C) Millwoods Home

D) The Edmonton Workhouse

15. The work that earned for its author the title of ‘gloomy egoist’:

A) The Raven

B) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

C) Bartleby the Scrivener

D) The Waste Land

16. Who claimed that ‘the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies’?

A) Keats

B) Coleridge

C) De Quincey

D) Lamb

17. The work, published in 1792, which denounced the educational system of the times for setting out to train women to be ‘frivolous and incapable’:

A) The Declaration of the Rights of Woman

B) The Female Citizen

C) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

D) On the Equality of the Sexes

18. The poet who declared that criticism is ‘a disinterested endeavour…to learn and propagate the best…and…to establish a current of fresh and true ideas’:

A) Dryden

B) Coleridge

C) Arnold

D) Auden

19. The eminent critic who edited the first 26 volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, and was knighted to honour this service:

A) James Fitzjames

B) Leslie Stephen

C) Edmund Gosse

D) Herbert Spencer

20. The term ‘lingua franca’ derives from:

A) Italian

B) French

C) German

D) English

21. The official languages of the United Nations:

A) English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic

B) English, French, German, Russian Chinese, Arabic

C) English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Hindi

D) English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian

22. A human source of data for linguistic analysis (usually a native speaker) is called a/an:

A) Factor

B) Informer

C) Informant

D) Agent

23. Plosives are also known as:

A) Laterals

B) Literals

C) Gutturals

D) Stops

24. Falling intonation is used in ending:

A) Polite requests

B) Questions that require the answers ‘Yes/no’

C) Direct commands

D) Open-ended statements implying some doubt

25. Technical English, Scientific English and Business English fall under:

A) ESL

B) EFL

C) ESP

D) ELL

26. Tok Pisin, which emerged in the context of extensive multilingualism and developed into an urban vernacular, is best termed a/an:

A) Pidgin

B) Creole

C) Expanded Pidgin

D) Lingua franca

27. Assignments and projects are considered part of:

A) Summative, formal evaluation

B) Formative, informal evaluation

C) Summative, informal evaluation

D) Formative, formal evaluation

28. The Sign-Gestalt-Expectations set was posited by the behaviourist:

A) Edward C. Tolman

B) John B. Watson

C) B.F. Skinner

D) J.A McGeoch

29. LSRW in the context of language refers to:

A) Language, Sign, Referent, Word

B) Learning Speaking, Reading and Writing

C) Learning to Speak, the Right Way

D) Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

30. The term ‘minimal free form’ to indicate the smallest linguistic form that can stand on its own in an utterance was introduced by:

A) Bolinger

B) Bloomfield

C) Lyons

D) Clark

31. The author/s of The Meaning of Meaning:

A) Christopher Caudwell

B) I.A. Richards

C) I.A. Richards and C.K. Ogden

D) Christopher Caudwell and Helena Sheehan

32. ‘Eros and Civilization’ is a ‘philosophical inquiry into……’.

A) Marx

B) Darwin

C) Freud

D) Capital

33. Examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK are provided by the British Library on its website----------.

A) Sounds Familiar?

B) Sounds Unfamiliar?

C) Sounds Funny?

D) Unfunny Sounds

34. Karl Verner, the linguist who proposed ‘Verner’s Law’ was:

A) British

B) German

C) Swiss

D) Danish

35. The only one of the ‘Pink Poets’ to be named Poet Laureate:

A) Stephen Spender

B) Cecil Day-Lewis

C) Andrew Motion

D) John Masefield

36. The current ‘Poet Laureate’ of the United Kingdom:

A) Sir John Betjeman

B) Benjamin Zephaniah

C) Simon Armitage

D) Carol Ann Duffy

37. Barthes considered novels such as those by George Eliot and Arnold Bennett--------, and those by Joyce of Faulkner to be---------.

A) Lisible, scriptable

B) Risible, scriptible

C) Reasonable, surreal

D) Respectable, soporific

38. An erstwhile cadre of the Hitler Youth, this thinker foretold the possibility of a ‘left fascism’:

A) Wittgenstein

B) Lukacs

C) Habermas

D) Husserl

39. ‘Prison Notebooks’ and ‘Letters From Prison’ are works by:

A) Thoreau

B) Mandela

C) Gramsci

D) Genet

40. Sarvepalli Gopal has called the English-educated minority that existed at the time of Independence a new linguistic:

A) caste

B) state

C) community

D) conspiracy

41. The statement that England and America are two countries separated by a common language is credibly attributed to:

A) Oscar Wilde

B) Winston Churchill

C) George B. Shaw

D) George C. Scott

42. The shift in meaning of the word ‘nice’ since its first appearance in Middle English is an instance of:

A) Amelioration

B) Deterioration

C) Pejoration

D) Denotation

43. Hybridity, ambivalence, mimicry are terms explored by:

A) William Empson

B) Homi K. Bhabha

C) Terry Eagleton

D) V.S. Naipaul

44. The first Imagist manifesto was drawn up by:

A) Stephan Mallarme

B) Stephen Dedalus

C) T.E. Hulme

D) Ezra Pound

45. The character that could with greatest justice be called Ibsen’s personal spokesman appears in:

A) Ghosts

B) A Doll’s House

C) The Master Builder

D) An Enemy of the People

46. Hester Prynne’s husband:

A) Roger Chillingworth

B) Michael Henchard

C) Arthur Dimmesdale

D) Roderick Usher

47. Azaro’s quest for identity is the concern of:

A) The Freedom Artist

B) The Famished Road

C) The Age of Magic

D) A Way of being Free

48. Mariners, Renegades and Castaways is an analysis of:

A) Moby Dick

B) Treasure Island

C) The Pathfinder

D) Nostromo

49. The poet who argued in “Esthetique du Mal” that beauty is entwined with evil:

A) Charles Baudelaire

B) William Golding

C) Wallace Stevens

D) Edgar Allan Poe

50. The poet who was also librarian at the university of Nigeria:

A) Philip Larkin

B) Christopher Okigbo

C) Okelo Okuli

D) Niyi Osundare

51. The Nobel Prize winning author of ‘Cup of Gold’ who also worked for a while as manual labourer and marine biologist:

A) Irving Babbitt

B) Stephen Crane

C) John Steinbeck

D) Ernest Hemingway

52. The Sense of Movement is a work by:

A) Philip Larkin

B) Ted Hughes

C) D J. Enright

D) Thom Gunn

53. ‘The Redress of Poetry’ is a collection of Oxford lectures by:

A) Seamus Heaney

B) Christopher Ricks

C) W.H. Auden

D) Paul Muldoon

54. The love of Miriam for Paul in Sons and Lovers parallels the love of --------for Lawrence:

A) Jessie Chambers

B) Louie Burrows

C) Frieda Weekley

D) Lydia Beardsall

55. The British writer who served on the Indian Imperial Police force:

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) George Orwell

C) John Masters

D) Paul Scott

56. The middle play in Wesker’s Trilogy is:

A) Roots

B) The Kitchen

C) Chicken Soup with Barley

D) I’m Talking about Jerusalem

57. A novel in the stream-of consciousness style which details a day in the life of a fictional female character:

A) Finnegan’s Wake

B) Ulysses

C) Mrs Dalloway

D) To The Lighthouse

58. The French version of ‘Waiting for Godot’ is titled:

A) En attente de Godot

B) En attende Godot

C) En attendant Godot

D) En attende M. Godot

59. Klara in Ishiguro’s 2021 novel is an AF, or:

A) Artificial Friend

B) Alternate Future

C) Android Function

D) Algebraic Formula

60. ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County And Other Sketches’ was the first published book of:

A) Washington Irving

B) Joseph Heller

C) Mark Twain

D) F. Scott Fitzgerald

61. ‘Like a huge Python, winding round and round/The rugged trunk…’ These are the opening lines of:

A) The Darkling Thrush

B) Still Falls the Rain

C) Our Casuarina Tree

D) Skunk Hour

62. ‘Ancient Indian wisdom is 100% correct,

I should say even 200% correct…’

writes--------in --------.

A) Nissim Ezekiel, ‘The Patriot’

B) Gieve Patel, ‘Old Man’s Death’

C) Dom Moreas, ‘Absences’

D) Arun Kolatkar, ‘An Old Woman’

63. The conversation between the writer and the eponymous protagonist Indrajit occurs in the play by:

A) Girish Karnad B) Badal Sircar

C) Asif Currimbhoy D) Mahesh Dattani

64. Foucault’s monograph on the modern prison system is titled--------:The Birth of the Prison:

A) Discipline and Punish

B) Dread and Power

C) Distrust and Punish

D) Dungeon and Dudgeon

65. It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement is a work published in 1976 by:

A) Naomi Klein

B) Betty Friedan

C) Gloria Steinem

D) Simone de Beauvoir

66. The short title of a founding text of queer theory:

A) Gender Bender

B) Gender Games

C) Gender Trouble

D) Gender Mender

67. Name of the man in the poem who refuses to acknowledge Beowulf’s courage?

A) Unferth

B) Clovis

C) Heathobard

D) Sigemund

68. --------, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, was killed at the Battle of Hastings.

A) Ethelred

B) Egbert

C) Harold

D) Walter

69. Whose critical observation is, “Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men.”

A) Coleridge

B) Dr. Johnson

C) Ben Johnson

D) John Dryden

70. Which character in Shakespeare is not of woman born?

A) Macbeth

B) Miranda

C) Macduff

D) Malcolm

71. Which among the following novels is not written by Margaret Atwood?

A) Surfacing

B) The Blind Assassin

C) The Handmaid’s Tale

D) The Stone Angel

72. With whom does Viola in Twelfth Night falls in love?

A) Duke Orsino

B) Feste

C) Malvolio

D) Antony

73. Who bragged about the power of his satire in these two lines: “Yes, I am proud: I must be proud to see / Men not afraid of God afraid of me.”

A) John Dryden

B) Jonathan Swift

C) Alexander Pope

D) Samuel Johnson

74. Whose contribution is the first serious attempt at a comprehensive English Dictionary?

A) Edmund Burke

B) Jonathan Swift

C) Dr. Samuel Johnson

D) John Dryden

75. Which poet calls the imagination “the real man” and claims it “is not a state, it is human existence itself.”

A) Wordsworth

B) Blake

C) Coleridge

D) Thomas de Quincey

76. Whose insightful quote on ‘vision’ is: “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”

A) Samuel Pepys

B) Joseph Addison

C) Alexander Pope

D) Jonathan Swift

77. Who is credited as the founding father of ‘Dalit Literature?’

A) Arun Kamble

B) Daya Pawar

C) Annabhau Sathe

D) Laxman Mane

78. ‘Joothan’ which encapsulates the pain, humiliation and poverty of a community is the autobiography of ------.

A) Omprakash Valmiki

B) Narendra Jadhav

C) Parth Polke

D) Sarankumar Limbale

79. In drama, an ‘aside’ is addressed:

A) to an audience by an actor, the words supposedly are not meant to be heard by other actors on stage.

B) to other actors on stage; the words supposedly not meant to be heard by the audience.

C) by the playwright to the audience.

D) by the protagonist to the antagonist.

80. Which of the following is in correct sequence?

A) Keats, Byron, Shelley

B) Byron, Shelley, Keats

C) Keats, Shelley, Byron

D) Shelley, Byron, Keats

81. Which is the story poem written by Keats, of a young Shepherd beloved by a Moon

Goddess?

A) Isabella

B) The Eve of St. Agnes

C) Endymion

D) La Bella Dans Sans Merci

82. Which of the following statements about ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is true?

A) It was composed in 1800.

B) The speaker begins with a declaration of his headache.

C) The speaker realises that the nightingale is mortal.

D) In the poem, the song of the nightingale is a symbol of art that outlasts mortal life.

83. What is Frankenstein a metaphor for?

A) Prometheus B) Humanity C) Nature D) Society

84. Whom did Keats’s regard as the best example of negative capability?

A) William Wordsworth

B) John Milton

C) Christopher Marlowe

D) William Shakespeare

85. Walter Scott is known as the father of the------.

A) Biographical Novel

B) Gothic Novel

C) Realistic Novel

D) Historical Novel

86. Who wrote the biography of Charles Lamb?

A) Edward V. Lucas

B) Joan Maugham

C) Leigh Hunt

D) Thomas Dequincy

87. Who coined the term Victorian Compromise?

A) David Cecil

B) Tennyson

C) William Morris

D) Lawrence Friedman

88. Who is the father of dramatic monologue?

A) Cardinal Newman

B) Robert Browning

C) Mathew Arnold

D) John Ruskin

89. Which great essayist opposed Bentham’s laissez-faire economic doctrines as morally debilitating?

A) Oscar Wilde

B) Walter Pater

C) John Ruskin

D) Thomas Carlyle

90. Virginia Woolf’s inspiration for Mr. Ramsay in her novel To the Lighthouse comes from her father, ------.

A) Lytton Strachey

B) Leslie Stephen

C) Henry Taylor

D) James Sowell

91. In which work of Hardy does he challenge societal moves with its sympathetic portrayals of the hardships of working-class people?

A) The Return of the Native

B) The Dynastis

C) Tess of the d’Urbervilles

D) David Copperfield

92. R.L. Stevenson wrote the novel ------, as he was driven by the need to explore the different polarities that existed within human beings.

A) Kidnapped

B) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

C) Weir of Hermiston

D) The Wrong Box

93. Who wrote two popular shipwreck poems replete with spiritual instruction for those in doubt and danger?

A) Matthew Arnold

B) G.M. Hopkins

C) Cardinal Newman

D) John Ruskin

94. Which of the following is Chronologically correct?

A) Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Graham Greene

B) Graham Greene, Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Harold Pinter

C) John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Graham Greene, Samuel Beckett

D) Harold Pinter, John Osborne, Graham Greene, Samuel Beckett

95. Only in sparation-marriage and birth/ and death and thoughts of these for whom was built, this special shell”? In the above lines of “Church Going” by Philip Larkin, what does “shell” mean?

A) Inner Coffin

B) Mind’s eye

C) Church

D) Mysticism

96. Assertion (A): Dylan Thomas was a difficult poet. He is the poet of the learned like T.S. Eliot.

Reason (R): His poetry is full of metaphors, symbolic imagery, Biblical, Freudian or folk image.

A) A is true, but R is false

B) A is false, but R is true

C) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A

D) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A

97. Identify the correctly matched group:

List I List II

a. Where Angels Fear to Tread 1. Malay

b. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2. Italy

c. The Plumed Serpent 3. Mexico

d. An Outcast of the Islands 4. Dublin

A) a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1

B) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

C) a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

D) a-4, b-2, c-3, d-1

98. The formalist critic ------ mocked the character-based criticism of ------by posing a famous question, “How many children had Lady Macbeth?

A) F.R. Leavis, E.K. Chambers

B) Cleanth Brooks, F.L. Lucas

C) Monroe Beardsley, Kennth Burke

D) L.C. Knights, A.C. Bradley

99. Which of the following statements are true?

1. Jean Baudrillard tells us that postmodern societies are marked by Simulacra

2. By Simulacra he means non-representations of reality

3. Simulacra artificially produce a mediated world masquerading as authenticity

4. It was not Jean Baudrillard but his interpreters who coined the term “simulacra”

A) 1, 3 & 4 only

B) 1 & 3 only

C) 3 & 4 only

D) 2 & 3 only

100. “Yet it is the masculine values that prevail” observed a famous writer “Speaking cruelly” she continued “football and sport are ‘important’ the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes ‘trivial’”.

A) Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of women.”

B) Audre Lorde “Age, Race, Class...”

C) Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”

D) Jean Rhys, “After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.”

101. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through-------.

A) a system of structured differences in language.

B) a system of random differences in language.

C) a system of structured references in language.

D) a system of random references in language.

102. Direct Method of Language Teaching involves:

1. the use of Target Language

2. repetition of exercises

3. linguistic correctness

4. problem of solving exercises

A) 3 & 4 only

B) 1, 2 & 4 only

C) 1, 2 & 3 only

D) 1, 2, 3 & 4

103. Assertion(A): The world does not become reckless or will not become unracialized by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in literary discourse is itself a racial act.

Reason (R): Pouring rhetorical acid on the fingers of a black hand may indeed destroy the prints, but not the hand. Besides, what happens, in that violent, self-serving act of erasure, to the hands, the fingers, the finger prints of the one who does the pouring? Do they remain acid-free? The literature itself suggests otherwise.

A) A makes complete sense in the light of R

B) A makes complete sense regardless of R

C) Neither A nor R makes complete sense

D) R Challenges the view advanced in A

104. What was the name of the experimental theatre group founded in 1915 by Susan Glasspell, Eugene O’ Neill and other dramatists in order to challenge Broadway’s control over American drama?

A) The Wall Street Theatre

B) The Washington Square Players

C) The Actor’s studio

D) The Provincetown Players

105. Match the following:

List I List II

a. Bharata 1. Vakrokti

b. Kuntaka 2. Riti

c. Bhamaha 3. Dhvani

d. Anandavardhana 4. Rasa

A) a-1, b-4, c-2, d-3

B) a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4

C) a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3

D) a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

106. Match List-I with List-II

List I List II

a. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore

b. A Passage of India 2. Molly Bloom

c. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich

d. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe

A) a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4

B) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

C) a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

D) a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4

107. Blended learning is a mode of instruction/learning in which:

A) The learner’s mother tongue and the target language are blended.

B) Learning is accessed through the mother tongue.

C) A variety of instructional modes are integrated.

D) Learning of a language is mediated by humanistic approaches.

108. A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on the principle of joy and easiness is called

A) Suggestopaedia

B) Total physical response

C) The Indirect Method

D) The audio-lingual method

109. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language?

A) Sigmund Freud

B) Jacques Lacan

C) Streat Hall

D) Paul de Man

110. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem:

1. The Fire Sermon

2. Death by Water

3. A Game of Chess

4. What the Thunder Said

5. The Burial of the Dead

A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4

B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4

C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4

D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4

111. In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of ‘consciousness raising’?

A) Waiting for the Mahatma

B) The Serpent and the Rope

C) A Bend in the Ganges

D) Kanthapura

112. In the word rapidly ‘ly’ is an adverbial suffix indicating manner while rapid is a ------, ly is a ------.

A) Word, Worling

B) Morpheme, Morpheme bit

C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme

D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme

113. Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself.” Who is the critic?

A) Stephen Spender

B) Malcolm Bradbury

C) Lionel Trilling

D) Joseph Frank

114. According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following characteristics except:

A) a liberation from the prevailing truth and established order

B) a harking back to the past

C) emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body

D) the suspension of all hierarchial rank, principles, norms and prohibitions

115. “Every demon carries within him unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self-destruction and goes up in thin air at the most unexpected moment.” To which of R.K. Narayan’s characters the above statement applies?

A) Raju - The Guide

B) Jagan - The Sweet Vendor

C) Vasu - Man Eater of Malgudi

D) Margayya - The Financial Expert

116. Who coined the term “ecological imperialism”?

A) Vandana Shiva

B) Paulo Fieire

C) Laurence Buell

D) Alfred Crosby

117. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the following characters has “a face like a frog”?

A) Nazeen

B) Chanu

C) Hasina

D) Karim

118. “There is nothing outside the text”, is a statement by:

A) Victor Shklovsky

B) Jacques Derrida

C) Roland Barthes

D) Harold Bloom

119. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci:

A) hegemony is synonymous with domination.

B) hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.

C) hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political entity.

D) hegemony is synonymous with subjugation.

120. Which of the following is not a Partition novel?

A) A Train to Pakistan?

B) Sunlight on a broken column

C) The Shadow Lines

D) In Custody

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STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST - July - 2021
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Published on 16/08/2021

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