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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 JUNIOR' And exam conducted in the year 2015. And Question paper code was '030/2015/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.
Question46:-The title of Charles Lamb's essay "Dream Children" refers to
A:-Ideal children
B:-Children who dream
C:-Children from a family called "Dream'
D:-Children the author saw in a dream
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question47:-The heroine of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Ernest was named
A:-Jane
B:-Gwendolen
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D:-Elizabeth
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question48:-Where was Oliver Twist the protagonist of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist born?
A:-In an orphanage
B:-In a prison
C:-In a workhouse
D:-In a hospital
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question49:-Wuthering Heights is a novel by
A:-Charlotte Bronte
B:-Branwell Bronte
C:-Charlotte Bronte
D:-Emily Bronte
Correct Answer:- Option-D
Question50:-The Mayor of Casterbridge like many of Hardy's novels and stories is set in
A:-The market town of Dorchester
B:-Stratford
C:-The Lake District
D:-The Scottish Highlands
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question51:-Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" refers to
A:-The poet's experiences on Easter, 1916 which he spent in Scotland.
B:-The agreement signed between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland on Easter, 1916.
C:-The uprising of Irish freedom fighters on Easter, 1916.
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-C
Question52:-Why is the poet sure that the unknown citizen in the poem "The Unknown Citizen" lived a happy life?
A:-Because he lived in a welfare state
B:-Because we would have known if there had been anything wrong
C:-Because he had written in his diary that he was happy with his life
D:-Because he was honoured by the Government
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question53:-What does Phillip Larkin mean by the expression ‘Another church’ in the poem "Church Going"?
A:-A church like any other
B:-One among the many churches he visited
C:-Another kind of church
D:-None of the above
Correct Answer:- Option-A
Question54:-What according to the poet are the praying women in "In Santa Maria Del Popolo" incapable of?
A:-Abandoning their faith
B:-The grand gesture of the solitary man
:-Sympathy for the suffering
D:-Sacrifice for their faith
Correct Answer:- Option-B
Question55:-Virginia Woolf considered the fiction of her contemporaries
A:-Superior to that of their predecessors
B:-Inferior to that of their predecessors
C:-Only different from that of their predecessors
D:-None of the above