UP PGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2003
In this question paper there are 85 objective/MCQs and fill in the blanks questions with their answers of the UP Post Graduate Teacher Recruitment examination conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (ALLAHABAD ) in the year 2003.
- Give the correct term for the statement given: ‘Set of facts systematically arranged in rows and columns.’
(1) Training task. .(2) Sequence
(3) Table (4) Key
Ans- (3) - “Fees will not be received after 3 p.m.”The underlined expression is:
(1) Passive sentence. (2) Model passive
(3) Phrasal verb. (4) Intransitive verb
Ans- (2) - Which is a ‘sound’ word?
(1) dreamlike. (2) Peered
(3) sparkled (4) chuckle
Ans- (4) - A Homonym is:
(1) Opposite word
(2) Similar words in meaning and spelling
(3) Similar in sound but different in meaning
(4) different in sound, but similar in meaning
Ans- (3) - Replace the underlined words with a phrasal verb.
Choose the correct one from the following:
“Did you refuse the offer?”
(1) Turn down. (2) breakdown
(3) set off (4) put off
Ans- (1) - What will be the suitable prefix for the word ‘decent’
(1) un. (2) non. (3) not. .(4) in
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7.Find out the correct the direct speech of the following indirect narration:
He enquired whether his name was not Ashok.
(1) He said to him, “Is your name Ashok?”
(2) He said to him, “Is yourname Ashok not?”
(3) He said to him, “Is not your name Ashok ?”
(4) None of the above
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UP PGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2004
- Which of the following sentences has a transitive verb?
(1) He knows English very well.
(2) The river is flowing fast.
(3) She dances very beautifully.
(4) My sister is going to her training centre
Ans- (1) - Which of the following sentences is in future imperfect tense?
(1) He has stolen my pen.
(2) She came late today.
(3) I shall kill him.
(4) Mrs. Das will soon be visiting us.
Ans- (4) - Find out the correct indirect narration of the following direct speech:
He shouted, “Let me go.”
(1) He shouted that let him go.
(2) He shouted to them to let him go.
(3) He shouted to go.
(4) None of the above
Ans- (2) - “I ran into an old relative yesterday.”
(1) met by chance. (2) collided
(3) moved fast. (4) hit and ran
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12.” How are you getting along with your students?”Getting along can be replaced by:
(1) recovering. (2) behaving
(3) progressing. (4) continuing
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- “There ………….. in the Apple.”
Given below are jumbled words. Arrange the letter in proper order and fill in the blank.
(1) Morsw. (2) storf. (3) angit. (4) epitor
Ans- (1) - Choose the correct spelling:
(1) arguement (2) argument
(3) argeument. (4) arggument
Ans- (2)
15.Choose the correct explanation of the idiom: “Do not always pick holes.”
(1) Dig holes (2) Pick up a quarrel
(3) criticize (4) keep quiet
Ans- (3)
- Choose the correct idiom for the explanation given:
“Please keep quiet.”
(1) keep in mind.
(2) be over with
(3) Catch the Bull by the tail.
(4) hold your tongue
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17.Replace the clause underlined in the sentence below with a suitable phrase beginning with the words in bracket given below:
“When Prabha lost her sight she had to stop attending school.”
(1) [At the loss]. (2) [On losing]
(3) [when the lost]. (4) [The loss]
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- Choose the correct name of the punctuation mark of the sentence given below in brackets.
“God made the country [:] men the town.
(1) colon. (2) semi-colon
(3) comma. (4) inverted comma
Ans- (2) - Which one of the following sentence is correct?
(1) What a boring task this is:
(2) What a boring task this is?
(3) What a boring task this is.
(4) What a boring task this is!
Ans- (4) - What do you mean by “differentiate”?
(1) Recognize or show the difference between two things.
(2) See or understand the difference between two things.
(3) Distinctive or characteristic aspect of something.
(4) Fact or idea that suggests a possible answer to a problem.
Ans- (1) - R.K.Narayan wrote:
(1) 20 novels (2) 12 novels
(3) 11 novels (4) 19 novels
Ans- (2) - 1914-First World War begins, and Robert Frost publishes his work.which one is it?
(1) North of Boston. (2) Three Soldiers
(3) Age of Innocence.(4) This side of Paradise
Ans- (1) - Faulkner Sound and the Fury was published in:
(1) 1927. (2) 1929. (3) 1931. (4) 1933
Ans- (2) - Hamlet was written by Shakespeare, The Hamlet was written by:
(1) Melville (2) Galsworthy
(3) Pope. (4) Faulkner
Ans- (4) - In which of his poem did Nissim Ezekiel talk about love and sex:
(1) Sixty Poems. (2) The Exact Name
(3) Hymns In Darkness. (4) Passion Poems
Ans- (1)
26.” His poetry comes out of his reactions to his environment, and he juxtaposes old and new by selling peasant superstition against modern scepticism.” This is a comment on Ezekiel and one of this particular poem. Which one is it?
(1) Mamaji. (2) The untouchable
(3) The Hill of Devi. (4) Night of the Scorpion
Ans- (4)
- What of these is not a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?
(1) Coolie.
(2) Heat and dust
(3) Across the black waters
(4) The Untouchable
Ans- (2) - What does Mulk Raj Anand satirise in Coolie ?
(1) Indian imitating English Society and its consequences.
(2) Nationalism.
(3) Industrialization
(4) Exploitation of the poor people
Ans- (3) - Which one is the correct sentence?
(1) Why did they withdraw from the match?
(2) Why did they withdrew from the match?
(3) Why do they withdrew from the match?
(4) Why does they withdraw from the match?
Ans- (1) - Fill in the blank with the most appropriate preposition :
“Please don’t stop. Go………with your work.”
(1) out. (2) in (3) on (4) off
Ans- (3) - Which of the following plays by G.B. Shaw has been made into a film staring Audrey Hepburn:
(1) Saint Joan (2) Pygmalion
(3) Candida. (4) Major Barbura
Ans- (4) - Which of the following Eliots characters is different from the rest?
(1) Macavity (2) J. Alfred Prufrock
(3) Sweeney. (4) Bleistein
Ans- (2) - Catherine Barkley is a character from Ernest Hemingway’s famous Novel. Which one is it?
(1) Old man and the sea
(2) From Whom the Bell tolls
(3) Farewell to Arms.
(4) In our time
Ans- (3) - Which one of these is not a poem by Walt Whitman?
(1) When Lilacs last in Dooryard Bloom’d
(2) Distant Likeness
(3) Song of Myself
(4) Leaves of Grass
Ans- (2) - The author of ‘A Reed Shaken by the Wind’ is:
(1) W.B. Yeats. (2) Thomas May
(3) Walt Whitman (4) G.Maxwell
Ans- (1)
36.”I heard a woman call you the winged victory
In Sluggish Venice
You turn your head towards your tail, and smile”
What is the title of the poem by D.H. Lawrence?
(1) Mosquito. (2) Miss Gee
(3) The bees (4) The Tiger
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- Which of D.H. Lawrence’s novel is said to be strikingly autobiographical?
(1) Rainbow.
(2) Women in Love
(3) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(4) Sons and Lovers
Ans- (4) - Which of the poem Expressess Frost’s statement that ‘a poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom’
(1) An Old Man’s Winter night.
(2) Home Burial
(3) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy evening
(4) The Hill Wife
Ans- (3) - I am every Woman who seeks love……..
These lines are from the poem by :
(1) Amita Desai (2) Sarojini Naidu
(3) Kamala Das. (4) Toru Dutt
Ans- (3) - R.K. Narayan wrote many wonderful novels which of these is not his :
(1) Coolie (2) Malgudi Days
(2) The Guide (4) The English Teacher
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41.A Paronym is:
(1) The use of a word in a scene in that does not properly belong to it.
(2) A clause or phrase wedged into a sentence in passing.
(3) A word that is spelt and pronounced in the same way as another but means different context.
(4) A word not spelt as another but pronounced exactly as the other.
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- Strange friend, past, present and to be loved deeplier understood. -Tennyson
What special features of construction do you find in the lines above?
(1) Formation of comparative adverbs.
(2) The use of archaic words.
(3) Ommission of a part of speech.
(4) The use of the imperative
Ans- (3) - “I am asked to write my reminiscences of a famous novelist………. About whom does the author Somerset
Maugham say this in context of his Novel ‘Cakes and Ales’
(1) Donald Praeter (2) Thomas Hardy
(3) W.M Thackeray (4) Charles Dickens
Ans- (2) - In the year 1872 a week or two before Thomas Hardy 32nd birthday, one of his books was published which confirmed Hard in his profession as a writer which book was it?
(1) Desperate Remedies
(2) Under the Green Wood Tree
(3) The Trumpet Major
(4) Jude the Obscure
Ans- (2) - Ernest Hemingway visited Spain during the civil war and utilised his experiences in the book:
(1) For Whom the Bell tolls
(2) In our time
(3) A Moveable Feast.
(4) Column
Ans- (1) - Walt Whitman’s poem ‘O Captain my captain’ is a sad poem mourning the death of a great man. Who was he?
(1) Washington Irving
(2) Abraham Lincoln
(3) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(4) Thomas Alva Edison
Ans- (2) - When did Yeats receive his Nobel Prize ?
(1) 1920. (2) 1924. (3) 1923. (4) 1929
Ans- (3) - “I deal with all periods, but I never study any period but the present” Who said this?
(1) Joseph Conrad (2) H.G. Wells
(3) George Bernard Shaw (4) Matthew Arnold
Ans- (3) - “Criticism must always profess an end in view, ….. its function is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of literature.”? Who said this?
(1) Matthew Arnold (2) Dr Johnson
(3) T.S. Eliot. (4) John Keats
Ans- (3) - In which book of Charles Dickens we find the character called ‘Miss Pross’ ?
(1) Oliver Twist.
(2) Great Expectations
(3) A Tale of Two Cities.
(4) Little Dorrit
Ans- (3) - The last book that Dickens wrote was:
(1) the uncommercial traveller
(2) Bleak House
(3) Great Expectations.
(4) A Christmas carol
Ans- (3) - A well known English writer wrote for the Morning Chronicle under the pseudonym of ‘Boz’. Who was he?
(1) Joyce Cary (2) Charles Dickens
(3) Henry James. (4) Thomas Grey
Ans- (2)
53 Matthew Arnold “Sohrab and Rustum” is taken from a story from:
(1) Arabian Nights
(2) Akbar Namah
(3) Shah Namah.
(4) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Ans- (3)
- Which book of Hardy is not Pessimistic:
(1) Jude the Obsecure
(2) The return of The native
(3) A pair of Blue Eyes.
(4) Tess of the Durbervilles
Ans- (3) - Thomas Hardy’s novel Under the Green Wood Tree is also known by another name. Which of the four below is it?
(1) The Woodlanders. (2) The Mellstock Quite
(3) The Dynasts (4) Life Little Ironies
Ans- (2) - Which of these is not a poem by Matthew Arnold.?
(1) The forsaken merman
(2) The Dover Beach
(3) Tristram and Iseult.
(4) The King’s Tragedy
Ans- (4) - “An allegory is a series of metaphors or symbols continued throughout an entire story so as to represent or describe one series of facts by another series that is analogous to it in its main features.” Nesfield. Following this, which of the books mentioned below is an allegory?
(1) Pilgrim’s Progress
(2) The crucification of Christ
(3) Gulliver’s Travels.
(4) Robinson Crusoe
Ans- (1) - “He resembles the animal that brows on thistles”
The above is an example:
(1) Tautology. (2) Periphrases
(3) Onomatopoeia. (4) Litotes
Ans- (2) - Which of These travel poems belong to William Wordsworth?
(1) Descriptive sketches
(2) Sketches of the natural civil and political state of Switzerland
(3) Sketches of Nature
(4) A Vivid sketch and picture of our time
Ans- (1) - Lyrical Ballads appeared with:
(1) Six Poems by Coleridge and 15 by Wordsworth
(2) Ten poems by Coleridge and ten by Wordsworth
(3) Four Poems by Coleridge and fifteen by Wordsworth
(4) Four poems by Coleridge and nineteen by Wordsworth.
Ans- (4) - ‘Emotion recollected in Tranquility, the profound philosophy of Wordsworth’s was rejected by:
(1) William hazlitt. (2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Ezra Pound. (4) Roland Barthes
Ans- (2) - The question of women’s rights and her sphere had been agitating the minds of men for a long time. Tennyson expressed his views on it in:
(1) The princess (3) Tears, Idle Tears
(2) Maud (4) Sweat and Low
Ans- (1) - What is known today as the Idylls of the King began in 1842 with the poem ‘Morte D Author’. Which is the last poem of the Idylls?
(1) Eaid (2) Balin. (3) Vivien. (4) Elaine
Ans- (2) - Queen Victoria found great Solace in her grief from one of Tennyson’s poem what is the title of the poem?
(1) In Memoriam(2) Crossing the bar
(3) The Brook. (4) The Passing of the Arthur
Ans- (1) - When did the last poem of the Idylls dappear?
(1) 1885 (2) 1844. (3) 1853. (4) 1890
Ans- (1) - Which of his own books did Charles Dickens considered to be his best work?
(1) David Copperfield (2) Pickwick Papers
(3) Oliver Twist. (4) Nicholas Nickleby
Ans- (1) - Charles Dickens marriage was not very successful. When Dickens was middle aged, his name was linked with an actress, a girl twenty five years younger than him. What was her name?
(1) Mary Hogarth. (2) Maria Beadnell
(3) Georegina Hogarth. (4) Ellen Ternan
Ans- (4) - Which of these is not a work by John Keats?
(1) Ode to Autumn. (2) To Night
(3) Isabella. (4) The Pot of Basil
Ans- (2) - F.Scott Fitzgerald was a great admirer of the poetry of John Keats so much so that he named one of his novels with a line from one of the poems of the Keats which poem was it?
(1) Ode to a Nightingale
(2) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(3) Ode to Autumn.
(4) Ode to psyche
Ans- (1) - Which is John Keats first poem?
(1) Meg Merrilies.
(2) On Looking at Chapman’s Homer
(3) Endymion.
(4) When I have Fears
Ans- (2) - Endymion by Keats is the story of a young Shepherd, loved by the moon Goddess, Keats took the story from:
(1) Greek mythology.
(2) Highland Lore
(3) Kentish Tales.
(4) Roman myths
Ans- (1) - Which romantic novel is by Charles Lamb?
(1) Kloster Leim. (2) Rosamund Grey
(3) Absentee. (4) Cranford
Ans- (2) - “Mrs Battle’s opinion on Whist” is an essay that has delighted generation of readers. We find it in:
(1) Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
(2) Confession by De quincey
(3) Imaginary Conversation by W.S. Lander
(4) Essays by hazlitt
Ans- (1) - Lamb’s “Essays of Elia’ were written in (1820-23) when were the “Last Essays of Elia”written?
(1) 1827. (2) 1829. (3) 1833. (4) 1835
Ans- (3) - Apart from Tales from Shakespeare, Lamb’s work for children only includes;
(1) Specimen of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare
(2) Dream Children
(3) Child Harold
(4) The Adventure of Ulysses
Ans- (4) - Wordsworth Prelude was completed in:
(1) 1800. (2) 1805. (3) 1822. (4)1825
Ans- (2) - In which play of Shakespeare do we find these lines. “There needs no ghost, my Lord,
come from to the grave, to tell in this”
(1) King Lear (2) Macbeth
(3) Hamlet (4) Henry IV
Ans- (3) - Which of Shakespeare’s tragedies is called the ‘ tragedy of reflection’
(1) King Lear (2) Hamlet
(3) Macbeth (4) Othello
Ans- (2) - The early plays of Shakespeare were written between :
(1) 1597-1625 (2 )1598-1614
(3) 1590-1595. (4) 1600-1607
Ans- (3) - It is said that Shakespeare based his Julius Caesar on certain incidents of his Era. Which of these, is it, said to be?
(1) The Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh
(2) The Formation of trade relation with the East
(3) The rebellion of the Duke of Essex
(4) The Supremacy of Spain on land and sea
Ans- (3) - Which of these Poems by Shelley is written in Blank Verse?
(1) The witch of Atlas (2) Hellas
(3) The Triumph of life. (4) The Cency
Ans- (1) - Which of these was written by Shelley?
(1) The Four Ages of Poetry.
(2) Defence of poesy
(3) Defence of Poetry.
(4) Poetry and Anarchy
Ans- (3) - Prometheus Unbound is a :
(1) Poetic Drama. (2) Lyrical Drama
(3) Verse Play. (4) Dramatic Satire
Ans- (2) - Shellely’s ‘Adonais’ is a threnody bewailing the death of:
(1) Harriet Shelley. (2) John Keats
(3) Robert Burns. (4) William Wordsworth
Ans- (2) - To some of his contemporaries, he appeared as a member of ” the cockney school of poetry “who is “he”?
(1) Shelley. (2) Keats. (3) Byron (4) Sout
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