RPSC वरिष्ठ अध्यापक (माध्यमिक शिक्षा) पेपर II अंग्रेज़ी 2022

Q.121

‘Stream of Consciousness’ gives you -

• (A)

  Each thought is orderly and logical

• (B)

  A narration devoted to an external occurrence

• (C)

  A flow of thought not having coherent structure or cohesion

• (D)

  Easy to read literature

Q.122

The two World Wars influenced the literature of which age?

• (A)

  Post-modern age

• (B)

  Victorian age

• (C)

  Modern age

• (D)

  Elizabethan age

Q.123

Who, in ‘The God of Small Things’ discovered that the ‘secret of the great stories is that they have no secrets’?

• (A)

  Velutha

• (B)

  Baby Kochamma

• (C)

  Chacko

• (D)

  Kathakali dancer

Q.124

Which among the following is not true about ‘Jungle Nama’ written by Amitav Ghosh?

• (A)

  It is a graphic verse novel

• (B)

  Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Jungle Nama

• (C)

  It is adaptation of the medieval Bengali tale about the Sunderbans Forest Goddess, Bon Bibi

• (D)

  The story of Jungle Nama explores themes of greed and ecological misadventure

Q.125

Match the following authors vis-a-vis the movement they represented –

• (A)

  (i)-(e), (ii)-(d), (iii)-(a), (iv)-(c), (v)-(b)

• (B)

  (i)-(d), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(e), (iv)-(b), (v)-(a)

• (C)

  (i)-(b), (ii)-(d), (iii)-(e), (iv)-(a), (v)-(c)

• (D)

  (i)-(c), (ii)-(d), (iii)-(a), (iv)-(e), (v)-(b)

Q.126

Which among the following works does not employ the ‘Stream of Consciousness’ technique?

• (A)

  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• (B)

  As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

• (C)

  Beloved by Toni Morrison

• (D)

  Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Q.127

The Oxford English Dictionary describes the word as ‘perplexity/difficulty’ and Jacques Derrida as ‘a text’s most doubtful or contradictory moment’. The word in post-modernist criticism is -

• (A)

  Pastiche

• (B)

  Hypertextuality

• (C)

  Simulacrum

• (D)

  Aporia

Q.128

Gothic movement focused on

• (A)

  politics and history

• (B)

  love and happiness

• (C)

  reason and rationality

• (D)

  horror, paranormal and supernatural

Q.129

‘The Boatride’ was written by -

• (A)

  Toru Dutt

• (B)

  Nissim Ezekiel

• (C)

  Sarojini Naidu

• (D)

  Arun Kolatkar

Q.130

‘The strophe’, ‘The antistrophe’ and ‘The epode’ are parts of which classical literary device?

• (A)

  Sonnet

• (B)

  Epic

• (C)

  Elegy

• (D)

  Ode

Q.131

Which of the following is not applicable to teaching of poetry?

• (A)

  The poem should be taught as a poem and not in its prose version

• (B)

  Poem should be taught in a manner that students enjoy it

• (C)

  The peculiar language features used in the poem should be discussed at length

• (D)

  The poem should be recited aloud and recited again and again

Q.132

Given below are the major steps of teaching a prose passage intensively –
(i) Silent reading by the students
(ii) Model reading by the teacher
(iii) Comprehension questions
(iv) Explanation of new words, phrases and structures
Arrange these steps in the correct order -

• (A)

  (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)

• (B)

  (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)

• (C)

  (i), (ii), (iv), (iii)

• (D)

  (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)

Q.133

Which of these is not a function of formative assessment?

• (A)

  Providing ongoing feedback

• (B)

  Providing reinforcement

• (C)

  Certify mastery of objectives

• (D)

  Determining learning progress

Q.134

Arrange the following major steps of teaching prose for extensive reading in their correct order -

• (A)

  Reading, Questions, Reproduction, Survey, Review

• (B)

  Survey, Questions, Reading, Review, Reproduction

• (C)

  Review, Questions, Survey, Reading, Reproduction

• (D)

  Survey, Reading, Questions, Review, Reproduction

Q.135

Picture composition is an example of -

• (A)

  controlled writing

• (B)

  guided writing

• (C)

  creative writing

• (D)

  free writing

Q.136

Following two sentences relate to the use of ‘substitution tables’ in English Language Teaching –
(A) The aim of substitution tables is to condition students to use correct forms of language.
(B) The aim of substitution tables is to reinforce use of correct patterns.
Which of the above two statement/s is/are correct?

• (A)

  Only (A)

• (B)

  Only (B)

• (C)

  Both (A) and (B)

• (D)

  Neither (A) nor (B)

Q.137

Which characteristic of language tests is correctly matched with its description?

• (A)

  Objectivity – Test consists of objective type test items

• (B)

  Validity – Tests yields consistent results

• (C)

  Comprehensiveness – Test covers a wide range of content as well as skill

• (D)

  Reliability – Test measures what it is supposed to measure

Q.138

A teacher tell the class, the rules of subject-verb agreement in simple present tense and then asks the student to frame sentences in simple present tense keeping in mind those rules. He/she is using -

• (A)

  Inductive Method

• (B)

  Deductive Method

• (C)

  Functional Grammar Method

• (D)

  Prescriptive Method

Q.139

Gradation of language material involves -

• (A)

  only sequencing of the items

• (B)

  selection and grouping of the items

• (C)

  selection, grouping and sequencing of the items

• (D)

  grouping and sequencing of the items

Q.140

In a class, the teacher presents certain examples of grammatical items and helps students to arrive at rules through the analysis of examples. Which method of teaching grammar is the teacher using?

• (A)

  Functional Teaching method

• (B)

  Prescriptive method

• (C)

  Deductive method

• (D)

  Inductive method