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UP GIC LECTURER ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2009

  1. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from-
    (A) Virgil (B) Petronius
    (C) Seneca (D) Homer
    Ans- (D)
  2. Who called The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas?
    (A) Allen Tate. (B) J. C. Ransom
    (C) I. A. Richards. (D) F. R. Leavis
    Ans- (A)
  3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in first and third sections from-
    (A) Baudelaire (B) Irving Babbit
    (C) Dante. (D) Laforgue
    Ans- (C)
  4. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?
    (A) Oedipus
    (B) Grail Legend of Fisher King
    (C) Philomela.
    (D) Sysyphus
    Ans- (D)
  5. Joe Gargery is Pip’s-
    (A) brother. (B) brother-in-law
    (C) guardian. (D) cousin
    Ans- (C)
  6. Estella is the daughter of-
    (A) Joe Gargery (B) Abel Magwitch
    (C) Miss Havisham. (D) Bentley Drummle
    Ans- (A)
  7. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
    (A) Sesame and Lilies
    (B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
    (C) Unto This Last
    (D) Fors Clavigera
    Ans- (C)
  8. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by-
    (A) Catholicis (B) Protestantism.
    (C) Paganism (D) Buddhism
    Ans- (A)
  9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is-
    (A) boisterous humour.
    (B) humour and pathos
    (C) subtlety of irony.
    (D) stream of consciousness
    Ans- (B)
  10. The title of the poem “The Second Coming’ is taken from-
    (A) The Bible.
    (B) The Irish mythology
    (C) The German mythology
    (D) The Greek mythology
    Ans- (A)
  11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is-
    (A) God. (B) Satan. (C) Adam (D) Eve
    Ans- (B)
  12. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is-
    (A) Susan. (B) Jane.
    (C) Gertrude. (D) Emily
    Ans- (C)
  13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are-
    (A) Ralph and Jack. (B) Simon and Eric
    (C) Ralph and Eric (D) Simon and Jack
    Ans- (A)
  14. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a-
    (A) lawyer (B) postman
    (C) judge (D) school teacher
    Ans- (A)
  15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
    ‘To Carthage then I came’
    (A) Buddha. (B) Tiresias
    (C) Smyma Merchant. (D) Augustine
    Ans- (D)
  16. The following lines are an example of image…..
    “The river sweats
    Oil and tar’……..
    (A) visual. (B) kinetic. (C) erotic (D) sensual
    Ans-(C)
  17. Which of the following novels has the sub- title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’ ?
    (A) Vanity Fair. (B) Middlemarch
    (C) Wuthering Heights (D) Oliver Twist
    Ans- (A)
  18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
    (A) Mars (B) Hercules
    (C) Zeus (D) Bacchus
    Ans- (D)
  19. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
    (A) Hopkins (B) Tennyson
    (C) Browning (D) Wordsworth
    Ans- (A)
  20. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’ ?
    (A) Browning (B) Tennyson
    (C) Swinburne. (D) Rossetti
    Ans- (B)
  21. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
    (A) The Tempest (B) Henry IV, Pt I.
    (C) Hamlet (D) Twelfth Night
    Ans- (A)
  22. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be, or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in-
    (A) Act II, Scene I. (B) Act III, Scene III
    (C) Act IV, Scene III (D) Act III, Scene I
    Ans- (D)
  23. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as ‘an honest old councellor’-
    (A) Alonso (B) Ariel
    (C) Gonzalo (D) Stephano
    Ans- (C)
  24. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
    (A) Or, What is you Will.
    (B) Or, What you Will
    (C) Or, What you Like It.
    (D) Or, What you Think
    Ans- (B)
  25. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S. Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
    (A) The Tempest (B) Hamlet
    (C) Henry IV, PtI (D) Twelfth Night
    Ans- (B)
  26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
    (A) Earl of Northumberland.
    (B) Earl of March
    (C) Earl of Douglas.
    (D) Earl of Worcester in
    Ans- (A)
  27. Paradise Lost was originally written
    (A) ten books (B) eleven books
    (C) nine books (D) eight books
    Ans- (A)
  28. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with-
    (A) Darcy. (B) Wickham
    (C) William Collins (D) Charles Bingley
    Ans- (B)
  29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime”?
    (A) William Wordsworth. (B) P. B. Shelley
    (C) S. T. Coleridge. (D) John Keats
    Ans- (C)
  30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
    (A) Philip Pirrip (B) Filip Pirip
    (C) Philip Pip. (D) Philips Pirip
    Ans- (C)
  31. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in-
    (A) Mexico (B) Italy.
    (C) France (D) Germany
    Ans- (A)
  32. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
    (A) The Inheritors. (B) Lord of the Flies
    (C) Pincher Martin. (D) Pyramid
    Ans- (B)
  33. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
    (A) Mrs. Morel (B) Annie
    (C) Miriam (D) Clara Dawes
    Ans- (A)
  34. Vanity Fair is a novel by-
    (A) Jane Austen. (B) Charles Dickens
    (C) W. M. Thackeray (D) Thomas Hardy
    Ans- (C)
  35. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of-
    (A) Milton (B) Coleridge
    (C) Keats (D) Johnson
    Ans- (C)
  36. Which of the following is the first novel of D.H. Lawrence?
    (A) The White Peacock (B) The Trespasser
    (C) Sons and Lovers. (D) Women in Love
    Ans- (A)
  37. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to-
    (A) Nature (B) Dorothy.
    (C) Coleridge (D) Wye
    Ans- (B)
  38. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ?
    (A) Keats (B) Wordsworth
    (C) Shelley. (D) Byron
    Ans- (B)
  39. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
    (A) Work Without Hope
    (B) Frost at Midnight
    (C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    (D) Youth and Age
    Ans- (C)
  40. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet-
    (A) P. B. Shelley. (B) Charles Lamb
    (C) Hazlitt. (D) Coleridge
    Ans- (A)

41.Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to-
(A) Leigh Hunt (B) Milton
(C) Shakespeare (D) Thomas Chatterton
Ans- (D)

  1. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in-
    (A) 1823. (B) 1826 (C) 1834. (D) 1833
    Ans- (D)
  2. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’ ?
    (A) Keats (B) Coleridge
    (C) Southey (D) Wordsworth
    Ans- (A)
  3. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School. London?
    (A) Charles Lamb. (B) William Wordsworth
    (C) Leigh Hunt. (D) S. T. Coleridge
    Ans- (A)
  4. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’ ?
    (A) Tennyson (B) Charles Lamb
    (C) Lockhart. (D) T. S. Eliot
    Ans- (D)
  5. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’ was written in memory of-
    (A) A. H. Hallam (B) Edward King
    (C) Wellington (D) P. B. Shelley
    Ans- (A)
  6. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
    (A) Robert Browning. (B) John Keble
    (C) E. B. Pusey (D) J. H. Newman
    Ans- (A)
  7. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces…
    (A) Chastelard.
    (B) A Song of Italy
    (C) Atalanta in Calydon
    (D) Songs before Sunrise
    Ans- (C)
  8. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of-
    (A) six lectures (B) five lectures
    (C) four lectures (D) seven lectures
    Ans- (B)
  9. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
    (A) Johnson B) Cromwell (C) Shakespeare (D) Luther
    Ans- (B)
  10. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner-
    (A) The Stones of Venice.
    (B) The Two Paths
    (C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
    (D) Modern Painters
    Ans- (D)
  11. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of-
    (A) Charles Dickens (B) Anthony Trollope
    (C) W. H. White (D) B. Disraeli
    Ans- (D)
  12. Identify the poet whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’-
    (A) Tennyson. (B) Browning
    (C) Swinburne (D) D. G. Rossetti
    Ans-(D)
  13. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as-
    (A) Spenserian Stanza. (B) Ballad
    (C) Ottava Rima. (D) Rhyme Royal
    Ans- (C)
  14. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry-
    (A) Sir Thomas Wyatt.
    (B) William Shakespeare
    (C) Earl of Surrey.
    (D) Milton
    Ans- (C)
  15. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by-
    (A) The Pre-Raphaelites (B) Ruskin
    (C) Pater. (D) Matthew Arnold
    Ans- (D)
  16. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson:
    “Faith un- faithful kept him falsely true.”
    (A) Oxymoron (B) Metaphor
    (C) Simile (D) Synecdoche
    Ans- (A)
  17. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem-
    (A) Sailing to Byzantium.
    (B) Byzantium
    (C) The Second Coming.
    (D) Leda and the Swan
    Ans- (A)
  18. Who is Pip’s friend in London ?
    (A) Pumblechook (B) Herbert Pocket
    (C) Bentley Drumnile. (D) Jaggers
    Ans- (D)
  19. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
    (A) A teacher (B) A clerk
    (C) A thief (D) A dentist
    Ans- (C)
  20. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled-
    (A) Last Impressions’
    (B) ‘False Impressions’
    (C) ‘First Impressions’.
    (D) ‘True Impressions’
    Ans- (C)
  21. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures-
    (A) Great Expectations
    (B) The Power and the Glory
    (C) Lord of the Flies
    (D) Pride and Prejudice
    Ans- (D)
  22. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
    The line given above occurs in
    (A) Hamlet. (B) Henry IV, Pt I
    (C) The Tempest (D) Twelfth Night
    Ans- (A)
  23. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?
    (A) Ben Jonson. (B) John Ruskin
    (C) Thomas Carlyle (D) William Hazlitt
    Ans- (B)
  24. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest-
    (A) comic figures. (B) historical figures
    (C) romantic figures. (D) tragic figures
    Ans- (A)
  25. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by-
    (A) Blake (B) Eliot (C) Johnson (D) Shelley
    Ans- (A)
  26. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’?
    (A) Walter Pater. (B) A. C. Swinburne
    (C) Matthew Arnold (D) T. S. Eliot
    Ans- (C)
  27. Essays of Elia are-
    (A) full of didactic sermonising
    (B) practically autobiographical fragments
    (C) remarkable for their aphoristic style
    (D) satirical and critical to
    Ans- (B)
  28. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is-
    (A) Queen Victoria’s coronation.
    (B) Industrial Revolution
    (C) Women’s Education and Rights
    (D) Rise of Democracy
    Ans- (C)
  29. Thackeray’s Esmond is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of-
    (A) the Medieval age.
    (B) the Elizabethan age
    (C) the age of Queen Anne.
    (D) the Victorian age
    Ans- (A)
  30. Oedipus Complex is-
    (A) a kind of physical ailment
    (B) a kind of vitamin
    (C) a brother’s attraction towards his sister
    (D) a son’s attraction towards his mother
    Ans- (D)
  31. ‘My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.” Who wrote this?
    (A) Graham Greene (B) D. H. Lawrence
    (C) Charles Dickens (D) Jane Austen
    Ans- (B)
  32. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play-
    (A) Twelfth Night (B) Hamlet
    (C) The Tempest (D) Henry IV, PLI
    Ans- (A)
  33. The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance. This line occurs in-
    (A) Hamlet (B) Henry IV, Pt!
    (C) The Tempest (D) Twelfth Night
    Ans- (C)
  34. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a-
    (A) Picaresque novel. (B) Gothic novel
    (C) Domestic novel (D) Historical novel
    Ans- (C)
  35. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem-
    (A) Immortality Ode
    (B) Tintern Abbey
    (C) The Second Coming
    (D) Leda and the Swan
    Ans- (A)
  36. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his poem-
    (A) Immortality Ode. (B) Tintern Abbey
    (C) The Prelude. (D) The Solitary Reaper
    Ans- (B)
  37. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only-
    (A) Stanzas I to IV. (B) Stanzas I to V
    (C) Stanzas I to VI (D) Stanzas I to VII
    Ans- (B)
  38. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel Great Expectations?
    (A) Direct or epic method.
    (B) Documentary method
    (C) Stream of Consciousness technique
    (D) Autobiographical method
    Ans-( A)
  39. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’ ?
    (A) Wordsworth (B) Coleridge
    (C) Lamb (D) Shelley
    Ans- (D)
  40. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of-
    (A) Keats (B) Byron
    (C) Shelley (D) Wordsworth
    Ans- (A)
  41. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply?
    “The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.”
    (A) Claudius. (B) Hamlet
    (C) Polonius (D) Rosencrantz
    Ans- (B)
  42. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from-
    (A) Milton. (B) William Shakespeare
    (C) T. S. Eliot. (D) Ruskin
    Ans- (B)

84 ‘Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale’. Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night?
(A) Duke Orsino.
(B) Malvolio
(C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
(D) Sir Toby Belch
Ans-(D)

  1. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s-
    (A) Sense of injured merit.
    (B) Hatred of tyranny
    (C) Spirit of revolt.
    (D) All these
    Ans- (C)
  2. Who calls poetry ‘the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge’?
    (A) Wordsworth (B) Shelley
    (C) Keats (D) Coleridge
    Ans- (A)
  3. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of-
    (A) Viola (B) Duke.
    (C) Olivia. (D) Malvolio
    Ans- (B)
  4. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?
    (A) An accident.
    (B) An overdose of morphia
    (C) Suicide.
    (D) Pneumonia
    Ans- (D)
  5. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
    (A) Kubla Khan
    (B) Christabel
    (C) The Ancient Mariner
    (D) Ode on the Departing Year
    Ans- (A)
  6. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?
    (A) Rime royal. (B) Outava rima
    (C) Terza rima (D) Spenserian Stanza
    Ans- (C)
  7. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by-
    (A) Milton (B) Coleridge
    (C) Carlyle (D) John Ruskin
    Ans- (D)
  8. Tracts for the Times relates to-
    (A) The Oxford Movement
    (B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
    (C) The Romantic Movement
    (D) The Symbolist Movement
    Ans- (A)
  9. The Chartist Movement sought-
    (A) Protection of the political rights of the working class
    (B) Recognition of chartered trading companies
    (C) Political rights for women
    (D) Protection of the political rights of the middle class
    Ans- (A)
  10. Who wrote Biographia Literaria?
    (A) Byron (B) Shelley
    (C) Coleridge (D) Lamb
    Ans- (C)
  11. Who was Fortinbras ?
    (A) Claudius’s son.
    (B) Son to the king of Norway
    (C) Ophelia’s lover.
    (D) Hamlet’s friend
    Ans- (B)
  12. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?
    (A) Nine (B) Seven (C) Five (D) Three
    Ans- (C)
  13. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
    The above lines have been taken from-
    (A) The Waste Land
    (B) Tintern Abbey
    (C) The Second Coming
    (D) Prayer for My Daughter
    Ans- (C)
    98.William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after-
    (A) Lawrence’s father.
    (B) Lawrence’s brother
    (C) Lawrence himself
    (D) None of these
    Ans- (D)
  14. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is-
    (A) Satire. (B) Sensuality
    (C) Sensuousness (D) Social reform
    Ans- (C)
  15. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life is-
    (A) agnosticism. (B) optimism
    (C) pessimism (D) scepticism
    Ans- (B)
  16. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means-.
    (A) Religious Scripture. (B) Seaside Resort
    (C) Tailor Repatched. (D) None of these
    Ans- (C)
  17. Epipsychidion is composed by-
    (A) Coleridge (B) Wordsworth
    (C) Keats (D) Shelley
    Ans- (D)
  18. The better part of valour is discretion’ occurs in Shakespeare’s-
    (A) Hamlet. (B) Twelfth Night
    (C) The Tempest. (D) Henry IV, Pt I
    Ans- (D)
  19. Epic similes are found in which work John Milton?
    (A) Paradise Lost. (B) Sonnets
    (C) Lycidas (D) Areopagitica
    Ans- (A)
  20. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work-
    (A) Charles Dickens. (B) W. M. Thackeray
    (C) Graham Greene. (D) D. H. Lawrence
    Ans- (C)
  21. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in-
    (A) Dramatis Personae.
    (B) Dramatic Idyls
    (C) Asolando.
    (D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
    Ans- (A)
  22. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of-
    (A) The Royal Society of Edinburgh
    (B) The Royal Society of London
    (C) Royal Society of Arts
    (D) Royal Society of Literature
    Ans- (D)
  23. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
    (A) Sense and Sensibility. (B) Mansfield Park
    (C) Sandition. (D) Persuasion
    Ans- (C)
  24. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in Great Expectations?
    (A) She was poor
    (B) She was arrogant
    (C) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom
    (D) She was unwilling to marry
    Ans- (B)
  25. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year-
    (A) 1938. (B) 1925 (C) 1932 (D) 1923
    Ans- (D)
  26. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the-
    (A) French Revolution.
    (B) Glorious Revolution of 1688
    (C) Reformation.
    (D) Oxford Movement
    Ans- (A)
  27. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the-
    (A) Puritan movement.
    (B) Romantic revival
    (C) Neo-classical age
    (D) Metaphysical school
    Ans- (B)
  28. O, you are sick of self-love.’ Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night?
    (A) Orsino (B) Sir Andrew
    (C) Sir Toby (D) Malvolio
    Ans- (D)
  29. Hamlet is-
    (A) an intellectual
    (B) a man of action
    (C) a passionate lover.
    (D) an over ambitious man
    Ans- (C)
  30. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’ ?
    (A) Ferdinand (B) Antonio
    (C) Miranda (D) Prospero
    Ans- (C)
  31. Paradise Lost shows an influence of-
    (A) Paganism
    (B) Pre-Christian theology
    (C) Christianity and the Renaissance
    (D) Greek nihilism
    Ans- (C)
  32. The style of Paradise Lost is-
    (A) more Latin than most poems
    (B) more spontaneous than thought out
    (C) more satirical than spontaneous
    (D) more dramatic than lyrical
    Ans- (A)
  33. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like-
    (A) Mr. Bennet (B) Wickham
    (C) Bingley (D) Darcy
    Ans- (D)
  34. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?
    (A) Gertrude (B) Polonius
    (C) Horatio. (D) Hamlet
    Ans- (B)
  35. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his-
    (A) senccan attitude. (B) patriotism
    (C) love of nature. (D) platonic ideals
    Ans- (B)
  1. ‘Arihant’ is-
    (A) A missile, recently launched from Sriharikota
    (B) India’s indigenously built tank
    (C) India’s first indigenously built pilotless plane
    (D) India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine
    Ans- (B)
  2. Who of the following has been recently appointed as the Chair-person of the Children Film Society of India?
    (A) Asha Parikh. (B) Nandita Das
    (C) Sharmila Tagore (D) Waheeda Rahman
    Ans- (B)
  3. Kandhamal, which recently came into news for communal unrest, is located in-
    (A) Jharkhand (B) Chhattisgarh
    (C) Orissa. (D) Bihar
    Ans- (C)
  4. Liberhan Commission report relates to-
    (A) Administrative reforms
    (B) Demolition of Babri Mosque
    (C) Godhra incident in Gujarat in 2002
    (D) Tax reforms
    Ans- (B)
  5. Whom did Serena Williams beat in the finals to win Wimbledon, 2009 (Women’s Singles) title?
    (A) Dinara Safina. (B) Elena Dementieva
    (C) Venus Williams (D) Vera Zuenareva
    Ans- (C)
  6. Somdev Devbarman, who was in the news recently, is associated with-
    (A) Hockey. (B) Football
    (C) Lawn Tennis (D) Cricket
    Ans- (C)
  7. ‘Vande Matram’ song was much in news recently. It is related to-
    (A) Arvind Ghosh
    (B) Bankim Chandra
    (C) Rabindra Nath Tagore.
    (D) Sharat Chandra
    Ans- (B)
  8. Consider the following statements about Barack Obama-
  9. Barrack Obama is the 44th President of America.
  10. He is the second non-white President of America.
  11. He is of African origin. Select the correct answer from the code given below:
    Code:
    (A) 1 only. (B) 2 only.
    (C) 3 only. (D) 1 and 3
    Ans- (D)
  12. Who among the following rulers are reported to have performed Asvamedha sacrifice?
  13. Pushyamitra 2. Pravarasena I
  14. Pulakesin I. 4. Samudra Gupta
    Indicate the correct answer from the codes given below:
    Codes:
    (A) 1 and 2 (B) 3 and 4
    (C) 1 and 4 (D) 1,2,3 and 4
    Ans- (C)
  15. What was the amount of ‘Sardeshmukhi’ charged by Shivaji?
    (A) One-third (B) One-fifth
    (C) One-eighth. (D) One-tenth
    Ans- (D)
  16. Which of the following Union Territories have a State assembly?
  17. Chandigarh 2. Delhi
  18. Pondicherry 4. Lakshdweep
    Select the correct answer from the Codes given below: Codes:
    (A) 1 and 2. (B) 2 and 3.
    (C) 1,2 and 3. (D) 2, 3 and 4
    Ans- (B)
  19. ‘Economic and Social Planning’ is a subject in the-
    (A) Union list. (B) State list
    (C) Concurrent list. (D) None of the above
    Ans- (C)
  20. The Vice-President is elected by-
    (A) The people
    (B) The electoral college which elects the President
    (C) The members of both Houses of Parliament
    (D) Also by the members of the State Legislatures
    Ans- (C)
  21. The minimum age for election as a member of the hosue of people must be-
    (A) 23 years (B) 25 years
    (C) 27 years (D) 30 years
    Ans-(B)
  22. Night blindness is caused by the deficiency of-
    (A) Vitamin E. (B) Vitamin C
    (C)Vitamin A (D) Vitamin B,
    Ans- (C)

136.India’s largest ship breaking yard is located in Gujarat at-
(A) Alang (B) Kandla
(C) Okha (D) Porbander
Ans-(A)

  1. Who amongst the following was the first recipient of Bharat Ratna ?
    (A) C. Rajagopalachari.
    (B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
    (C) Rajendra Prasad.
    (D) S. Radhakrishnan
    Ans- (A)
  2. Which of the following gurus founded the ‘Khalsa’?
    (A) Nanak. (B) Har Kishan
    (C) Teg Bahadur (D) Govind Singh
    Ans- (D)
  3. Who of the following got the Moti Masjid, Agra constructed during his reign?
    (A) Akbar (C) Jahangir
    (B) Aurangzeb (D) Shahjahan
    Ans- (D)
  4. ‘Lucknow Pact’ was signed between the Congress and the Muslim League in the year-
    (A) 1913. (B) 1914. (C) 1915 (D) 1916
    Ans- (D)
  5. Buddhist, Hindu and Jain rock-cut caves exist at-
    (A) Ajanta (B) Elephanta
    (C) Ellora (D) Nasik
    Ans- (C)
  6. Palk Strait makes maritime boundary between India and-
    (A) Bangladesh. (B) Maldives
    (C) Pakistan. (D) Sri Lanka
    Ans- (D)
  7. Trans-border trade through Nathu La is done between India and-
    (A) Bangladesh (B) Bhutan.
    (C) China (D) Nepal
    Ans- (C)
  8. Which one of the following is not a Siva temple?
    (A) Kedarnath temple
    (B) Jagannath temple
    (C) Mahakaleswar temple
    (D) Viswanath temple
    Ans- (B)
  9. Light from the Sun reaches Earth in about
    (A) 2 minutes
    (B) 4 minutes
    (C) 8 minutes
    (D) 16 minutes
    Ans- (C)
  10. In which of the following crops, Uttar Pradesh is the largest producer in the country?
    (A) Barley
    (B) Maize.
    (C) Potato
    (D) Rice
    Ans- (C)
  11. The number of members nominated by the President to the Council of States is-
    (A) 6 (B) 8.
    (C) 10 (D) 12
    Ans- (D)
  12. Light year is a unit of-
    (A) Light
    (B) Time
    (C) Distance
    (D) Intensity of light
    Ans- (C)
  13. The three primary colours arc-
    (A) Violet, Black, Bluc.
    (B) Yellow, Orange, Red
    (C) Blue, Yellow, Red
    (D) Blue, Green, Red
    Ans- (D)
  14. The ‘Man of the Series’ in ICC T-20 World Cup, 2009 was-
    (A) Chris Gayle.
    (B) Sanath Jayasurya
    (C) Shahid Afridi.
    (D) Tillakaratne Dilshan
    Ans- (D)

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