kset.uni-mysore.ac.in English Model Question Paper : Karnataka State Eligibility Test

University : University of Mysore
Exam : Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) Center for Lecturership
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : English
Year : 2015

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English Model Question Paper :

Paper : II
Subject : ENGLISH
Time : 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Maximum Marks : 100

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Instructions for the Candidates :
1. Write your roll number in the space provided on the top of this page.
2. This paper consists of fifty multiple-choice type of questions.

3. At the commencement of examination, the question booklet will be given to you. In the first 5 minutes, you are requested to open the booklet and compulsorily examine it as below :
(i) To have access to the Question Booklet, tear off the paper seal on the edge of the cover page. Do not accept a booklet without sticker seal or open booklet.

(ii) Tally the number of pages and number of questions in the booklet with the information printed on the cover page. Faulty booklets due to pages/questions missing or duplicate or not in serial order or any other discrepancy should be got replaced immediately by a correct booklet from the invigilator within the period of 5 minutes. Afterwards, neither the Question Booklet will be replaced nor any extra time will be given.

4. Each item has four alternative responses marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). You have to darken the oval as indicated below on the correct response against each item.
Example : A B C D where (C) is the correct response.

5. Your responses to the questions are to be indicated in the OMR Sheet kept inside the Paper I Booklet only. If you mark at any place other than in the ovals in the Answer Sheet, it will not be evaluated.

6. Read the instructions given in OMR carefully.
7. Rough Work is to be done in the end of this booklet.

8. If you write your name or put any mark on any part of the OMR Answer Sheet, except for the space allotted for the relevant entries, which may disclose your identity, you will render yourself liable to disqualification.

9. You have to return the test OMR Answer Sheet to the invigilators at the end of the examination compulsorily and must NOT carry it with you outside the Examination Hall.
10. You can take away question booklet and carbon copy of OMR Answer Sheet soon after the examination.

11. Use only Blue/Black Ball point pen.
12. Use of any calculator or log table etc., is prohibited.
13. There is no negative marks for incorrect answers.
14. In case of any discrepancy found in the Kannada translation of a question booklet the question in English version shall be taken as final.

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions. Each question carries two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.
1. Which novelist did not belong to the eighteenth century ?
(A) Laurence Sterne
(B) Tobias Smollett
(C) William Thackeray
(D) Samuel Richardson

2. Which statement is not true about the authorised version of the Bible ?
(A) It took nine years to complete
(B) It was commissioned by King Henry VIII
(C) It was proposed by the Hampton Court Conference of 1604
(D) The translation was carried out by 47 different scholars

3. Match the following :
List – I List – II
(a) Stella (i) William Wordsworth
(b) Lucy (ii) Robert Herrick
(c) Julia (iii) Jonathan Swift
(d) Mand (iv) Alfred Tennyson

4. Which of the following works by Samuel Beckett is not a drama ?
(A) Krapp’s Last Tape
(B) Malone Dies
(C) Waiting for Godot
(D) Endgame

5. Which of the following statements about Salman Rushdie is not true ?
(A) He was born in 1947 in Bombay
(B) His Midnight’s Children won the Booker
(C) The Moor’s Last Sigh is set in North Africa
(D) The Satanic Verses was banned in India

6. To which genre does Milton’s Comus belong ?
(A) Epic
(B) Tragedy
(C) Sonnet
(D) Masque

7. Who of the following did not win the Nobel Prize for literature ?
(A) Derek Walcott
(B) V. S. Naipaul
(C) James Joyce
(D) Winston Churchill

8. Which of the following is not a character in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales ?
(A) The Miller
(B) The Shipman
(C) The Mercer
(D) The Pardoner

9. Which novelist was born, lived in and wrote about the industrial north of England ?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) George Eliot
(C) Elizabeth Gaskell
(D) William Thackeray

10. The poet whose name is associated with fascism in the 1930s is
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) W. H. Auden
(C) Ezra Pound
(D) Robert Lowell

11. Match the following :
List – I List – II
(a) Elizabeth (i) Ted Hughes Barrett
(b) Sylvia Plath (ii) George Lewes
(c) George Eliot (iii) Robert Browning
(d) Dorothy (iv) William Temple Osborne

12. What do the following writers have in common ?
Thomas Kyd
Cyril Tourneur
John Webster
Thomas Middleton
(A) They were all authors of Restoration Comedy
(B) They were all University wits.
(C) They all wrote revenge tragedies
(D) They were all followers of Ben Jonson

13. Which of the following is an example of Euphemism ?
(A) Dost sometimes counsel take and sometimes tea
(B) The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
(C) And in this flea our two bloods mingled be
(D) The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopp’d

14. In the opening of Dicken’s Bleak House, what weather phenomenon is used to symbolise the bleakness of the situation ?
(A) Rain
(B) Wind
(C) Fog
(D) Hailstones

15. Which of the following statements about George Bernard Shaw is not true ?
(A) He was a Fabian Socialist
(B) He was a Roman Catholic
(C) He was a Vegetarian
(D) He was a proponent of Monarchy