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Below are the scanned copy of Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Question Paper with answer keys of Exam Name 'HSST - ENGLISH (JR)' And exam conducted in the year 2015. And Question paper code was '008/2015/OL'. Medium of question paper was in Malayalam or English . Booklet Alphacode was 'A'. Answer keys are given at the bottom, but we suggest you to try answering the questions yourself and compare the key along wih to check your performance. Because we would like you to do and practice by yourself.
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B:-Diacritic
CeAblaut
D:-Umlaut
Correct Answer:- Option-C
(Question73:The author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
Av Alfred.
B:-Caedmon
CBoethius
D:-Bede
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question74The Norman conquest of England began with the invasion of England by
AvKing Canute
King Haokon VI
C:William the Conqueror
D:-Prince Carl
Correct Answer:- Option-C
(Question75:King James’ Authorized version of the Bible was published in the year
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೫:-1611
கிரம
21811.
Correct Answer:- Option-B
‘Question76:"The basic theoretical unit of distinctive sound in the description of speech.
Avphoneme
B:-morpheme
Cevowel
D:-consonant
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question? 7="The linguistic term for the study of the ways in which words combine into such units as phrase, clause, and sentence.
Avmorphology
‘syntax
C:phonemics
De-orthography
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question78:A seminal linguistic work of twentieth century by Ferdinand de Saussure published posthumously in 1916.
ArLanguage
B:-Language and Mind
C:Course in General Linguistics
D:-Syntactic Structures
Correct Answer:- Option-C
in 1066.
ರ T.G. Grammar an abstract underlying structure that incorporates all the syntactic information required for the interpretation of a given sentence.
Axdeep structure
surface structure
Cecontext-free grammar
D:-generative semantics
Correct Answer:- Option-A
‘Question80:A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
Arstyle
Brdialect
Cridiolect
D:-register
Correct Answer:- Option-D
‘Question 1-Why did the poet in the poem *Casurina Tree" look upon the casurina tree with love and longing?
AxBecause she used to play under the casurina tree with her friends in childhood
Because she often saw her children playing under it.
CeBecause her father had a casurina tree in the yard cut down against her wishes,
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question8 2-In the poem "Introduction" by Kamala Das, the speaker
Av Expresses her wish to write in English
Explains that she does not like to be a woman
C-Asks people to leave her alone
D:-Confesses her secret love for a man
Correct Answer:-Question Cancelled
Question 3:-What was the speaker as a nascent poet translating in Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
اتيم roar of the sea
B:-The beams of the moon
CeThe howl of a dog
D:-The song of the bird
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question 4:Who does the speaker in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" imagine her father to be?
‘AvAn American soldier
Be-A Nazi
CA cruel parent
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-B
‘Question 5-According to B R Ambedkar the caste system
Ars a systematic division of people according to their professions
Recognizes the dignity of labour
C:Prevents unemployment
D:-Does not promote an egalitarian society
Correct Answer:- Option-D
‘Question86:Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in
۸86
B:-1976
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Correct Answer:- Option-C
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