psc high school assistant - english - nca - direct - education

Date of Test : 22.07.2015

Medium of Questions: English

Question Paper Code: 137/2015

Exam Name: High School Assistant - English - NCA - Direct - Education

PSC High School Assistant - English - NCA - Direct - Education

Examination Previous Year Question Paper

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Maximum : 100 marks

3.

L. The person to whom Gopalakrishna

(A) W.C. Banerji(C) RavindranathTagore

(A) Germany

(C) Italy

(A) Bombay

(C) Nagpur

(A) Maulana Abdulkalam Azad

(C) JayaprakashNarayanan

Time : t hour and 15 minutes

Gokhale acknowledged as his spiritual and political

(B) Justice Ranade

(D) S.N. Banerjr

(B) Galileo

(D) Petrarch

(B) Heroism and leadership

@) Truth and Non-violence

(B) Spain

(D) England

(B) Meerut(D) Banarres

(B) Bhagath Singh

(D) C.R. Das

The Act which provided separate communal Electorate for the Muslims :

(A) The Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909

(B) Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919

(O The Act of 1892

(D) The Act of 1935

The Italian who reearded as the 'Father of Humanism' :

(A) Martin Luther(C) John Knox

4. The two Pillars of Gandhian philosophy are :

(A). Bravery and sympathy(C) Fasting and praying

5. The homeland of Renaissance movement in Europe :

The historic 'Quit India Resolution' was passed on 8* August 1942 at:.

'7 The Nationalist who took a leading role in the formation of Congress Socialist Party (CSP) as

a protest against compromising politics of Gandhi :

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8 The parliament passed the 'Right to Information Act' in :

9. The French Economist who won the Nobel Prize in 2O74 :.

(A) Jan Fisher(C) Amarthya Sen

(A) 2007

(c) 2006

(A) Volley ball(C) Hockey

(A) German(C) Arabic

(A) 1921

(c) 1911

(A) Subash Chandra Bose

(C) Captain Lakshmi

(A) Boccassio

(C) Cervantes

(A) White board(C) Chart

(B) 2005

(D) 2008

(B) Zhang T RoIl(D) George Pawandro

(B) Basket ball(D) Cricket

(B) English(D) Spanish

(B) 1s22

(D) rer2

(B) BalagangadharaTilak.(D) Nehru

(B) Edmund Spencer

(D) Anderson

(B) Ptolomy(D) Rebelais

(B) Globe

(D) Text book

10. The 2014 Arjuna Award Winner Tom Joseph is associated with the game :

11. The majority people of Latin America speak the language .:

12. The capital of British India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi :

13. The Indian leader to whom the British called 'The Father of Indian Unrest, :

14, The classical work 'Don Quixote' is composed by the famous Spanish writer :

15. The distinguished German astronomer who proved the elliptical movement of planets around.the sun :

(A) Hohannes Kepler(C) Alexander Fleming

16. Which among the following learning material is related to ICT?

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17. The word'grading'is derived from the word 'gradus' belongs to :

18. Who is the author of the book'Basic principles of curriculum and instruction'?

(A) Greek(C) Roman

(A) Hilda Taba

(C) Vygotsky

(A) Dialoging(C) Writing

(A) Metonymy(C) Metaphor

(A) Telemachus

(C) Paris

(B) Latin(D) German

(B) Noamchomsky

(D) Ralph Tyler

(B) experimentalresearch(D) historicalresearch

(B) Questioning(D) Clarifying

(B) Raymond Sheppard

(D) Gregorio Fuentes

(B) Simile(D) Transferredepithet

(B) Achilles(D) Prometheus

(B) Sophocles

(D) Euripides

19. The research method used for solving a real problem in one's own working field is called :

(A) case study(C) action research

20. Which of the following is not related to 'Reciprocal teaching'?

21. The American Baseball player who is Santiago's favourite :

(A) Maxwell Perkins(C) Joe Dimaggio

22. Identify the frgure of speech in the line ftom Gray's Elegy :

The ploughman homeward plodsl;rie weary way

23. Son of Ulysses to whom he bestowed the charge of his country Ithaca :

24. The Greek playwright who is referred to in Douer Beach ;

(A) Aeschylus

(C) Aristophanes

25. Name the poetic collection in which.4 &oyer for My Daughler was published in 1921 :

(A) Michael Robartes and the Dancer @) The Winding Stair and other

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26. 'fhe theme of Ezekicl's Nieht of the Scorpion :

(A) God

(C) Luck

27. Select the appropiiate word :

I was shocked to see the(A) extant(C) exact

(B) Superstition(D) Life

of the damage caused by the storm.(B) extinct(D) extent

(B) Dramatic Lyric(D) Melodrama

(B) T.S. Eliot(D) I.A. Richards

28. In form. Home Burial by Robert Frost is a:(A) Dramatic Monologue(C) Dramatic irony

29. -------- if the word great means anything in poetry, this poem is one of the greatest inthe English Language-which critic opined this about Emily Dickens's Because I-CouId, NotStop For Death.

(A) Cleanth Brooks(C) Allan Tate

30. The year in which Wole Soyinka won Nobel Prize in Literature :

31. She is my(A) confidant(C) confide

(B) 1e86

(D) 1e78

(select the right word) :

@) confident(D) confidal

(A) 1985

(c) 1e87

32. What does the light stand for in fhe photograph, in Atwood,s poem?(A) Life of the Speaker (B) Future ofthe Speaker(C) Dream of the Women (D) Creativity of the Women

What is the dream shared by David Diop at the end of )lfrica?33.

(A) A Dark Africa(C) A Colonial Africa

34. Who is Macbeth at the beginning of the play?(A) Thane of Clamis(C) Thane of Cawdor

(B) A Free Africa(D) None of these

(B) Thane of Fife(D) Thane of Venice

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35. The term stands for speaking by Saugsure:

(A) Langue (B) Parole(C) Sign (D) Signified

36, Wlo talks about how "tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-ma-kers" in School for Sca,ndal?

(A) Mrs. Candour (B) Lady Teazle

(C) Lady dneerwell (D) Sir Peter Teazle

37. The subtitle of. The Importance of Being Eo.rnest ;

(A) A Comedy in Two Acts (B) A Tragedy in Two Acts(C) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (D) A Tragic Comedy for Serious People

38. Name the dance practiced and performed by Nora in A Doll's House:(A) Tarantella (B) May Dance

(C) Waltz (D) Opera

39. The frlm version of Shaw's fugmalion :

(A) My Black Lady (B) My Fair Lady(C) Lady of the Sonnets (D) Pygmalion

40. Setting ofthe play Riders to the Sea:(A) Greenland Islands (B) Aran islands(C) Norwegian islands (D) Italian Islands

41. Who is Bernard in Death of a Salesman?

(A) A business man (B) A Banker(C) A Lawyer @) A Doctor

42. A play that deals with the narcissism of the self-involved hero, who undergoes a test, put tohim by the wife in order to survive :

(A) Death of a Sales Man (B) The Glass Menagerie

(C) Nagarnandala (D) School For Scand.al

43, According to Francis Baccin, using studies too much form ornament is :

(A) affectation (B) pleasure' (C) humor (D) sloth

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44, Who has the liberty of stirring the fire at the club?(A) Major Matchlock (B) Sir Jeoffrey Notch(C) Dick Reptile (D) Jack OgIe

45. What seems to be the foundation for iiberty according to A.G. Gardiner?(A) Simplicity (B) Character(C) Hard work ) Sacrifice

46. Identify the poem that begins with these lines:Fiue years haue past; fiu?sunrmers, ;ith the lengthOf fiue long wintersl

(A) On His Blindness (B) Tintern Abbey(C) An Introduction (D) Aboriginal Australia

47. Sounds that are articulated with a stricture of close approxi.riior, ,

(A) Plosives (B) Affricates(C) Fricatives (D) Laterals

48, The only sound foundation for a civilization as per Forster's bpinion :

(A) Sound state of mind (B) Goodwill of people(C) Sound state of health (D) Good climate

45. Source and origin of Wuthering Heights :

(A) Ballantyne's Coral Island (B) Purchase's Hlgritnage(C) German tale by Hoffman (D) Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

50. Which method in ELT is governed by the maxim 'proceed from known to unknown'?(A) Direct Method @) Bilingual Method(C) Grammar Translation Method (D) Audio Lingual Method

51. George Orwell's Animal Farm is an example of :

(A) Qystopian Fiction @) Utopian Fiction(C) Magic Realism (D) Realism

52. Who symbolizes the burden of the unconscious expectations that a society places upon awoman in Sools and Shadnws?

(A) Kiran(C) James

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53. John Donne belongs to the group ofpoets namely:(A) Romantics (B) Movement

. (C) Metaphysical @) Pre Raphaelites

54. Who was arrested for Sophie's death in God. of Small Things?(A) Chako (B) Rahel(C) Velutha @) Baby Kochamma

55, The setting of The Blu*t Eye ; .

(A) Lorain (B) Wessex

(D) Dublin(C) Milan

66. The ancient book on dramatic theory by Bharatha Muni that tleals with Rasa :

(A) Rig Vreda (B) Brihadaranika Upanishat' (C) Natya Sastra (D) Sama Veda

5?. Transcrib e Chain:(A) icheinl(C) /tJain/

(B) ltleinl(D) /t"fin/

68. Reversal of fortune according to Poetice:

(A) anagnorisis (B) peripeteia

(C) pathos (D) dianoia

, 69. "Aristotle, I have been tol4 has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writings" -idetltifu the speaker :

(A) Eliot (B) Coleridge(C) Saugsure (D) Wordgworth

60. Coleridge atates li Biagaphi,a Literaria, "Good senge is the body of poetic genius, FANCY iteDRAPERY, MOTION its LIFE and IMAGINATION the (Complete thequotation)

(A) MrND (B) SOUL(C) HEART (D) BODY

61. Who introduced the concept of ?o uchstone in literary criticisb?

- (A) Matthew Arnold (B) T.S. Eliot(C) Arietotle (D) William Wordsworth

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62. Who opined that the business of the poet is not to find new emotions,ones?

but to use the ordinary

(A) Cleanth Brooks(C) T.S. Eliot

(B) I.A. Richards(D) Allan Tate

other people's secrets. (Complete with preposition)

(B) on(D) by

(B) Ross

(D) Seyton

(B) An African

@) An Indian

(B) Boris Eichenbaum

@) Jan Mukarovsky

@) Imaginary stage

(D) Symbolic stage

63. Don't pry

67. In Lacanian literary criticism, the stage after acquisition oflanguage is called:

64. The armor bearer to Macbeth :

(A) Siward(C) Angus

65. The father figure in the poem Dad.d,y is :

(A) A Jew(C) A Nazi

66. Who authored tranguage in Literature?(A) Victor Shklovsky(C) Roman Jakobson

(A) Mirror stage

(C) Emotional stage

(A) Morpheme(C) Syllable

69, The identity of Godot in Becket's waiting for God,ot :

(A) A Merchant(C) A Slave

70. A morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of aanother word or phrase :

(A) with(C) into

(A) Clitic(C) Phoneme

68. one ofa set of multiple possible spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme :

(B) Allophone(D) Sonorants

(B)

(D)A Farmer

No identity

word, but depends phonologically

A-IIomorph

Lexicon

(B)' (D)

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Whose ideas inspired Transformational-Generative Grammar?

(A) Saussure

(C) Carl Jung

[p] is an examPle for :

(A) voiceless palatal plogive

(C) voiced retroflex plosive

73. Mark the stress in the word another :

(A) 'another .

(C) a'nother

7 4. The nickname of Laura lVingfield :

(A) Blue Bells(C) White Bells

75. Transcribe the word rnobile:

. (A) /mobaiV

(C) /meubeiV

(A) he was accused by murder(C) he was accused of muriler

78. Antonym of zenith :

(A) Neo

(C) Nadir

(A) Oracle

(C) Opponent

@) Empson

@) Noam Chomsky

(B) voiceless bilabial plosive

voiced velar plosive

ano'ther

anoth'er

(B)

(D)

(B) Blue Roses .

@; white Roses

?6. :American equivalent of the British word Alsolioz :

(A) Spaniel

(C) German Shepherd

(B) /mobei-l/

(D) /meubaiV

(B) Hound(D) Dobdrman

77. He was abcused with rnurd,er - correct the sentence if necessary :

(B) he was accused with the murder

(D) he wag accused on murder

(B) Clirna:<

(D) Nun

Give one word substitution -Person, anirnal or object considered likely to bring good fortune :

(B) Mascot

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80. Use ofAudio Visual aids can :

(A) Provide speed for the teacher @) Make the students lethargic(C) Stimulate greatest number of senses (D) Give more work to the students

81. One of the thirty boys ofthe class

(A) is

(C) am

(A) a big vehicle

(C) a loose robe

84. One who can use both the hands equally well:(A) ambigenous(C) ambivalent

85. Use the article :

The teacher drew a tree on

absent today. (Pick the right option)

@) are(D) be

82 Select the sentence with proper word order :

(A) Girl wanted to telephone of nice manners..and appearance(B) Girl of nice manners and appearance wanted to telephone(C) Girl to telephone wanted of nice manners and appearance(D) Girl of nice manners and appearance telephone wanted to

63. Synonym of chador:(B) a mortal disease

(D) a toy for kids

(B) ambiguous(D) ambidextrous

(A) the(c) a

E6. Use suitable preposition:The Minister expressed his concern

(A) for(C) on

black board.

(Dan(D) no article

the people affected by the floods.

(D over

(D) to

87. The branch of linguistics that deals with the study of meaning, changes in meaning, and theprinciples that govern the relationship between sentences or words and their mearungs :

(A) Semantics (B) Phonology(C) Morphology (D) Syntax

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88. Complete with a suitable clause :

If he had asked me,

(A) I will help him (B) I would help him(C) I would have helped him (D) I had helped him

89. Use appropriate tense :

It

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(rain) heavily for a week. The wells are overflowing.

(A) rain (B) was raining

(C) had rained (D) has been raining

90. Use Phrasal verb :

. The plane

-

after repairs

(A) Took off(C) Took with

(B) Took over

(D) Took by

91. I have never eaten

-

nice mangoes as this. (Use conjunction)

(A) for (B) such

(C) that @) both

92. The doctor asked the patient, "Did you eat anything this morning?" (Report) .

(A) The doctor asked the patient whether he ate anything this morning

(B) The doctor asked the patient that he had eaten anything this morning

(C) The doctor asked the patient whether he had eaten anything that morning

@) None of these

93. Is Malayalam spoken by them? (Change the voice)

(A) Did they speak Malayalam?

(B) Did Malayalam they speak?

(C) Are they speak Malayalam?

@) Do they speak Malayalam?

94. It rained yesterday (Frame a question tag) :

(A) Didn't it? (B) Wasn't it?

(C) Was it? @) Isn't it?

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95. His eyes caught a heap of letters. They were lying on the table. (Combine using a RelativeCIause)

(A) His eyes caught a heap ofletters and were lying on the table

(B) His eyes caught a heap of letters which were lying on the table

(C) His eyes caught a heap of letters but were lying on the table

(D) His eygs caught a heap of letters so that were lying on the table

96. . What are Podcasts?

(A) Devices used to keep class room clean

(B) Audio (sometimes video) progEams on the Web

(C) Technique of syllabus framing

@) Equjpment instead of Blackboard

97. Discourse Method is suitable to teach

" (A) Poetry (B) Prose

(C) Grammar (D) None of these

98. The painter of the portrait of last Duchess :

(A) Van Gogh (B) Da Vinci

(C) FraPandolf (D) Claus of Innsbruck

99. What is the main feature of Objective Testing?

(A) It requires jrldgment on the part of the scorer

(B) It doesn't require judgment on the part of the scorer

(C) . It may lead to partiality while evaluating

(D) It demands descriptive anawers

100. Who wrote The Wretched of the Earth?

(A) Edward Said (B) Frantz Fahnon

(C) Homi Bhabha (D) Derek Walcott

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