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SUBJECT / TOPICS : 2003 - 2004

TIME : 90 MINS MARKS : 150

1. Who is the author of “The Way of World”?

A) Dryden B) Congreve C) Sheriddan D) Goldsmith

2. In “Thought The Paraclete” Aurobindo uses

A) Colour symbolism B) Organic metaphor C) Epic simile D) Alliteration

3. Sir Epicure Mammon appears in

A) Spanish Tragedy B) Alchemist C) Rape of the Lock D) Dr. Faustus

4. “Muktadhara” means

A) Free Life B) Freedom from Slavery C) Free Current D) Arrogance

5. The Hairy ape uses the technique of

A) Symbolism B) Expressionism C) Absurd D) Angry Theatre

6. The man considered as a foil to Mr.Knightley in „Emma‟ is

A) Frank Churchill B) Elton C) Martin D) Mr.Weston

7. The lady deserted on the bridal morning in Dickens‟ “Great Expectations” is

A) Biddy B) Estella C) Miss Havisham D) Mrs. Joe Gregory

8. Girish Karnad is the author of

A) Lorine Sahib B) Tughlaq C) Chitra D) The Lion and the Jewel

9. Which among the following inspired Emerson to write the poem “Brahma”?

A) Kathopanishad B) Bible C) Quran D) Greek Mythology

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10. The author of „Ars Poetica‟ is

A) Plato B) Longinus C) Aristotle D) Horace

11. Larins Sahib is observed with

A) Maharaja Ranjit Singh B) Gobind Singh C) Rani Jindan D) Rana Pratap

12. Sylphs are the spirits of

A) earth B) fire C) air D) water

13. „Negative Capability‟ was coined by

A) Byron B) Arnold C) Keats D) T.S.Eliot

14. The hero of Bunyan‟s “The Pilgrim‟s Progress” is

A) Christian B) Edward C) Robert D) Mathew

15. Which of the following terms is not nautical?

A) Deck B) Buoy C) Cruiser D) Landscape

16. “Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” – this line occurs in

A) Ode on a Grecian Urn B) Ode to Psyche

C) Adonais D) Eve of St.Agnes

17. An example of Onomatopoeia is

A) Giggle B) Take C) Boot D) Limit

18. The character „Falstaff‟ appears in the play

A) The Tempest B) The Merchant of Venice C) Henry IV D) Twelfth Night

19. The dominant character in the novel „Coolie‟ is

A) DayaRam B) Munoo C) Dr. Premchand D) Mr.W.P.England

20. “The ways of God are inscrutable” – This theme runs through the novel

A) To the Lighthouse B) Jude the Obscure

C) Great Expectations D) The power and the Glory

21. “George Eliot” was the penname adopted by

A) Virginia Woolf B) Mary Ann Evans C) Greene D) T.S.Eliot

22. Touchstone method was applied by

A) T.S.Eliot B) Leavis C) Carlyle D) Mathew Arnold

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23. John Keats wrote love letters to

A) Margaret B) Fanny Brawne C) Emilia D) none of them

24. Who made the famous remark “Shakespeare has no heroes but only heroines”?

A) Ruskin B) Carlyle C) Johnson D) Dryden

25. Distinctive sound unit is called

A) Diphthong B) Structure C) Mor D) Phoneme

26. “Good fences make good neighbours” – who wrote this line?

A) Robinson B) Emily Dickinson C) Robert Frost D) Walt Whitman

27. Which of the following in Shakespeare‟s “Farewell Play”?

A) A Winter‟s Tale B) Cymbeline C) As you Like It D) The Tempest

28. The Bird‟s song which awakened the boy to the meaning of love is in

A) West Running Brook B) To Brooklyn Bridge

C) Quit of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking D) Daddy

29. Who wmong the following was not connected with Scientific Studies?

A) Linnaeus B) Davy C) MacDonald D) Cuvier

30. The title of the Novel “Things Fall Apart” is derived from a poem by

A) W.B.Yeats B) T.S.Eliot C) W.H.Auden D) Siegfried Sasson

31. Shakespeare did not write one of the following plays, Identify it.

A) Antony and Cleopatra B) Julius Caesar C) Henry V D) Caesar and Cleopatra

32. Which of the following poems ends with a moving address to the poet‟s sister Dorothy?

A) Tintern Abbey Lines B) Prelude

C) Ode on Intimations of Immortality D) Michael

33. Which of the following words is not of native origin?

A) Spring B) Summer C) Autumn D) Winter

34. Who among the following is a metaphysical Poet?

A) Pope B) Marvell C) Gray D) Collins

35. Who among the following is a metaphysical Poet?

A) Apollyon B) Judge Hategood C) Talkative D) Flatterer

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36. “The rarer action is virtue than in vengeance” – These words were spoken by which Shakespearean
character?

A) Adrian B) Miranda C) Ariel D) Prospero

37. The poem Andrea Del Sarto is an example of

A) Dramatic Monologue B) Ode C) Elegy D) Ballad

38. Wife of Bath is a character in

A) The Prologue to Canterbury Tales B) The Shepherd‟s Calendar

C) The Spanish Tragedy D) Hero and Leander

39. Who is the father of English Novel?

A) Bunyan B) Fielding C) Defoe D) Richardson

40. “Geetanjali” is a / an

A) Prose Poem B) Ballad C) Novel D) Ode

41. The Jewel of „The Lion and the Jewel‟ is

A) Baroka B) Lakurle C) Sidi D) Sadiku

42. Shelley‟s Defence of Poetry‟ was written in reply to

A) The Peacock‟s Essays B) Wordsworth‟s Preface to Lyrical Ballads

C) Johnson‟s Essay D) Stephen Gosson‟s Article

43. „The Book of Job‟ deals with

A) Human sufferings B) Social problems C) Political problems D) Ethnic problems

44. Among the following words which is not a compound of adverb and verb?

A) Overcome B) Inlay C) Whitewash D) Outline

45. Who is the narrator of „Kanthapura‟?

A) Moorthy B) Narasimha C) Achaka D) Badekar

46. “The telescoping of images” – a phrase used by T.S.Elliot refers to the poetry of

A) John Donne B) Milton C) Cowley D) Bishop King

47. The translator of the first English Bible was

A) King James B) Tyndale C) Milton D) Thomas More

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48. The tragic protagonist in “The Hairy Ape” is

A) Yank B) Paddy C) Long D) The second engineer

49. “She Stoops to Conquer” is described as a

A) Genteel comedy B) Sentimental comedy

C) Tragic comedy D) Realistic comedy of manners

50. What does „a dancing song‟ etymologically mean?

A) Epic B) Ballad C) Sonnet D) Lyric

51. In which one of the following plays does the Supernatural intensify human action

A) Antony and Cleopatra B) Hamlet C) Measure for Measure D) Macbeth

52. The author of the poem „In Memory of W.B.Yeats‟ is

A) Stephen Spender B) Wilfred Owen C) W.H.Auden D) Hopkins

53. The principle in „Dejection An Ode‟ is

A) Realism B) Transcendentalism C) Naturalism D) Romanticism

54. Who is the author of „Dream Children‟?

A) Charles Lamb B) Goldsmith C) Bacon D) Hazlitt

55. „Epithalamion‟ is a / an

A) Elegy B) Marriage Hymn C) Ballad D) Epic

56. „A donais‟ is a pastoral elegy mourning the death of

A) Wordsworth B) Byron C) Keats D) Charles Lamb

57. “Stream of Consciousness” is appropriate to one the following: Name it

A) Jude the Obscure B) The Power and the Glory C) Middle March D) To the Lighthouse

58. The scholar in the right state according to Emerson is

A) Mute thinker B) Victim of society

C) Man thinking D) Parrot of other‟s thinking

59. Santiago in Hemingway‟s “The Oldman and the Sea” stands for

A) Man‟s adventurous spirit B) Tendency to accept defeat

C) Dreaming without action D) Man‟s destructive nature

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60. Coleridge calls secondary imagination as

A) Fancy B) Magical power C) Synthetic power D) Spiritual power

61. “A Daniel has come to judgement‟ is a line from

A) Shakespeare B) Dryden C) T.S.Eliot D) Ben Johnson

62. The Printing Press was invented by

A) William Caxton B) Marvel C) Stephenson D) Jennings

63. Who wrote the play „Alchemist‟?

A) Thomas Kyd B) Marlowe C) BenJohnson D) Robert Greene

64. „Dry light is ever the best‟ – these lines occur in

A) Of Revenge B) Of Friendship C) Of Studies D) Of Adversity

65. The narrator of Wuthering Heights is

A) Catherine B) Lockwood C) Heathcliff D) Hindley

66. „Moby Dick‟ is a novel about

A) sea life B) encounter between Captain Ahab and a fierce whale

C) sinking of a ship D) catching a fierce whale

67. “Honour is the standard by which the characters continuously judge each other”. This statement is
applicable to

A) Julius Caesar B) Midsummer Night‟s Dream

C) The Tempest D) Henry IV Part I

68. The sonnet is a short poem with

A) 8 lines B) 12 lines C) 14 lines D) 16 lines

69. The car that Blanche Du Bois takes to travel is named

A) Love B) Greed C) Lust D) Desire

70. Faerie Queene is a / an

A) allegory B) Code C) sonnet D) elegy

71. “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships….? Here „the face‟ refers to the face of

A) Rosalind B) Helen of Troy C) Venus D) Duchess of Vanholt

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72. Canonization is

A) a love poem B) a poem on divine mind C) fear of death D) a poem on hero worship

73. “Willing suspension of disbelief” is a phrase coined by

A) Coleridge B) Keats C) Shelley D) Byron

74. Which of the following words is not of Latin origin?

A) Copper B) Mint C) Wine D) Dry

75. Who wrote the following line? “ When winter comes can spring be far behind?”

A) Shelley B) Keats C) Wordworth D) Byron

76. The Periodic Table shows

A) all the known elements B) train arrivals and departures

C) frequency of monsoons D) pulse rate of human beings

77. ICHR refers to

A) Indian Council for Horticultural Research

B) Indian Council for Development of Human Resources
C) International Convention on Human Rights
D) Indian Council of Historical Research

78. Arteries are blood vessels which transport blood

A) from the lungs to other parts of the body B) from tissues to the heart
C) from the kidneys to the lungs D) from the heart to the tissues

79. „The Headquaarters of the Indian Space Research Organisation is located at

A) Bangalore B) Sriharikota C) Ahmedabad D) Thiruvananthapuram

80. Genetics is the study of

A) Seed germination in plants B) reproduction of mammals

C) transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring D) skin diseases

81. The boundary line demarcating India and Pakistan is known as

A) Macmahon line B) Durand line C) Maginot line D) Radcliffe line

82. The book „India Wins Freedom‟ was written by

A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad B) M.O.Mathai C) K.R.S.Menon D) Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

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83. Decibel is a unit that measures

A) direction of sound waves B) intensity of sound

C) frequency of sound D) speed of sound

84. The Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces of India is

A) The Prime Minister B) The Chief of Army Staff

C) The President D) The Defence Minister

85. Sunder ban Tiger Sanctuary is situated in the State of

A) Rajasthan B) Jharkhand C) Madhya Pradesh D) West Bengal

86. The committee which recommended to the Government providing Pre-Primary Education in India was

A) Stanley‟s Despatch B) Woods Dispatch C) Sergeant Report D) Kothari Commission Report

87. The Mother Teresa Women‟s University was started in Tamil Nadu in the year

A) 1978 B) 1980 C) 1984 D) 1985

88. The main objective of DPEP is to promote

A) higher education B) secondary education

C) primary education D) pre-primary education

89. In Tamil Nadu the most recently established University is

A) Manonmaniuam Sundaranar B) Periyar C) Valluvar D) Alagappa

90. Self activity creativeness and social participation are the characteristics of

A) Kindergarden education B) Montessori education

C) Science education D) Social education

91. a teaching approach that permits a child to prepare at his own pace under the guidance of a teacher is
called

A) Individually Guided Education B) Individually Prescribed Instruction

C) Programme Learning D) Individualised Instruction

92. The concept of floating university was introduced in

A) U.K. B) Canada C) U.S.A. D) France

93. The concept of school complex was put forward by

A) Kothari Commission B) A.L.Mudaliar Commission

C) Tara Chand Committee D) Education Commission (1964-66)

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94. Span of attention can be measured by the instrument called

A) Chronoscope B) Perimeter C) Tachistoscope D) Ergograph

95. The number of approaches in Functional Literacy Programme is

A) four B) two C) three D) five

96. Rousseau was a (an)

A) Naturalist B) Pragmatist C) Idealist D) Educationist

97. The book „Democracy and Education‟ was written by

A) Rousseau B) Madame Montessori C) John Dewey D) J.Krishnamoorthy

98. A.s.Neil‟s Summer Hill School was established as a school for

A) gifted children B) orphans C) problem children D) handicapped children

99. „Deschooling‟ the society is a philosophical idea mooted by

A) Lan Lister B) Everest Reimur C) Ivan Illich D) Jishn Hot

100. The Activity Oriented approach to learning and instruction is called

A) Problem solving method B) Discovery method

C) Inductive method D) Project method

101. National Policy on Education was recommended in the year

A) 1966 B) 1986 C) 1996 D) 1956

102. Non-formal Education is known as

A) Primary Education B) Social Education C) Adult Education D) Special Education

103. Gandhian System of Education refers to

A) Informal education B) Non-formal education C) Basic education D) Distance education

104. The group which recommended socially useful productive work to be introduced in the school
curriculum as a compulsory subject was

A) Tara Chand Committee B) A.L.Mudaliar Commission

C) Kothari Commission D) Easwarbhai Patel Education Review Committee

105. The „Ashram School‟ was introduced by

A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Gaddhiji C) Aurobindo D) J.Krishnamoorthy

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106. The main objective to Navodaya Schools is

A) to educate slow learners B) to educate delinquents

C) to educate gifted children D) to educate handicapped children

107. The term „intelligence‟ was first introduced by

A) Malin B) Wechsler C) Binet D) Raven

108. Operation Blackboard is a scheme to improve

A) Mobile schools B) Primary schools C) Anganwadi schools D) Sainik schools

109. The main objective of Indian Education is

A) Fraternity B) Liberty C) Equality D) Sociability

110. The Non-test technique is meant for

A) aptitude B) intelligence C) interview D) intere

111. English does not have ___________ gender.

A) neutral B) feminine C) masculine D) grammatical

112. “the Dying Eagle” is compared with

A) an ocean liner B) an Indian chief C) an aeroplane D) another bird

113. Monophthongs are otherwise called

A) vowel glides B) pure vowels C) diphthongs D) syllables

114. The poem „Australia‟ was written by

A) Judith Wright B) A.D.Hope C) Kath Walker D) Les Murray

115. The word „Strem‟ has the syllable structure

A) C.C.C.V.C. B) C.V.C. C) C.V. D) C.C.V.C.C.

116. The major symbol in „Fire at Murdering Hud‟ is

A) water B) rose C) stone D) fire

117. Wole Soyinka is a / an

A) West Indian B) Nigerian C) African – American D) Ghanaian

118. Job‟s friend are

A) Jacob, Labar, Isaac B) Abraham, Jacob, Lot

C) Zophar, Eliphaz, Bildad D) Bildad, Isaac, Jacob

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119. The ancestor of modern literary English is

A) The East Midland dialect B) South Western dialect

C) Southern dialect D) The Northern dialect

120. “Introduction” is the poetic autobiography of one of the following writers, Identify the writer.

A) Toru Dutt B) Kamala Das C) Sujatha Bhatt D) Nissim Ezekiel

121. One of the Themes in Middlemarch is

A) frustration of lofty aspirations B) realisation of lofty aspirations

C) romantic love D) resignation to fate

122. “For solitude sometimes is best society” – These words were spoken by

A) Satan B) Eve C) Raphael D) Adam

123. “Astrophel and Stella” was written by

A) Spenser B) Sidney C) Drayton D) Wyatt

124. “To fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline” was the poet‟s invention
when he wrote

A) The Faerie Queene B) The Canterbury Tales C) Songs and Sonnets D) Doctor Faustus

125. Musaeus was a

A) Legendary Greek poet B) Aristotle‟s student C) Italian poet D) Roman historian

126. The organization which has played a greater role in the field of Education and Technology is

A) F.A.O. B) U.N.O. C) U.N.E.S.C.O D) U.N.I.C.E.F.

127. Instrumental condition in learning was put forth by

A) Pavlov B) Tolman C) Skinner D) Hull

128. Creativity among children can be encouraged by

A) convergent thinking B) reasoning C) divergent thinking D) imagination

129. Enrichment Programmes are introduced for

A) average children B) below average children C) gifted children D) handicapped children

130. One of the Projective Techniques is

A) DAT B) WISC C) TAT D) MMPI

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131. „A Passage to India‟ is

A) an elegy B) a panegyric C) a lyric D) an ode

132. Noam Chomsky is associated with

A) Morphology B) Phonology
C) Spelling Reform D) Transformative Generative Grammar

133. Norman conquest occurred in the year

A) 1066 A.D. B) 1066 B.C, C) 1660 A.D. D) 1150 A.D.

134. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads was written by

A) Lamb B) Wordsworth C) Coleridge D) Hazlitt

135. The future of poetry is immense – Tins line is from

A) Tradition and the Individual Talent B) The Scholar Gypsy

C) The Hero as a Man of Letters D) The Study of Poetry

136. „Christ Hospital Five and Thirty years Ago‟ is about

A) a school B) a hospital C) an office D) a home

137. Among the following who is not a romantic poet?

A) Wordsworth B) Keats C) Pope D) Shelley

138. Willy Loman appears in the play

A) The Crucible B) The Prize C) Death of a Salesman D) All My Sons

139. „Because I Could Not Stop for Death‟ was written by

A) Emily Dickinson B) Robert Frost C) E.E. Cummings D) Garl Sandburgh

140. The Shavian alphabet consisted of

A) 48 letters B) 60 letters C) 26 letters D) 30 letters

141. What is the real name of „Elia‟?

A) Goldsmith B) Charles Lamb C) Hazlitt D) Bacon

142. Who wrote the poem “Affliction”?

A) Herrick B) Herbert C) Vaughan D) Marvel

143. Which of the following words may not refer to a thing other than the material?

A) Glass B) Gold C) Copper D) Iron

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144. Who is the father of Modern drama?

A) Arthur Miller B) Tenesee Williams C) Henrik Ibsen D) Eugene O‟Neil

145. Who is the author of „Cry the Beloved Country?

A) Wole Soyinka B) Douglas Steward C) Alan Paten D) Chinua Achebe

146. The character of Shakespeare that sleepwalks is

A) Antony B) Hamlet C) Lady Macbeth D) Miranda

147. One of the following words is not formed from a noun, Identify it.

A) Bluish B) Blackish C) Childish D) Rubbish

148. The author of „Who‟s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is

A) Eugene O‟Neil B) Mark Twain C) Emerson D) Edward Albee

149. The poem „Byzantium‟ was written by

A) W.B.Yeats B) Browning C) T.S.Eliot D) Hopkins

150. The Sanskrit word „Dayatmam‟ quoted in “The Waste Land” means

A) sympathise B) give C) control D) take

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Answer Key:

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B A B A D C D C C A
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D A C B D D A A B A
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C A A C C A B A D D
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D C B A B C D C A A
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A A C B B B A C D A
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A A A D A A D D A C
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D A B C D C C C C A
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C C A C C A C A C D
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B C C C C C C B C C
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D B B B D A B C A D
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A D B A A C C C C C
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B D B B D A C C A A
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B B D C C C D D A A

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