UP PGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2004
In this question paper there are 125 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 2004.
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Directions (No. I to 5) A brief passage with five questions based on it is given below. Read the passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to each question:
Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propa- ganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or to feel doubt. The propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no greys in his picture of the world. Everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or if they become too much of nuisance, liquidated.
- Philosophy teaches us–
(A) To feel certain only about those things which seem self-evident
(B) To feel certain only about those things which do not seem self-evident
(C) To feel uncertain about even those things which are supported by acceptable evidence
(D) None of the above
Ans- (C) - Propaganda teaches us-
(A) To feel doubt about matters that are self- evident
(B) To accept without question even those matters which are not self-evident.
(C) To accept as reasonable those matters which are self-evident
(D) None of the above
Ans- (B) - Black, white and grey are mentioned as representing-
(A) Bad, good and doubtful matters
(B) The basic colours in the world around us Bat
(C) Propagandists, philosophers and the common people
(D) None of the above
Ans- (A) - A philosopher-
(A) Never admits that he might be wrong
(B) Never admits that the propagandist might be right
(C) Is willing to admit that he might be wrong
(D) None of the above
Ans- (C) - The author is of the view that an opponent should be-
(A) Attacked (B) Shouted down
(C) Liquidated (D) Argued with
Ans- (D)
Directions (No. 6 to 10) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
Just as some men like to play football or cricket, so some men like to climb mountains. This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just bill hills. Paths are usually very steep. Some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet. There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured. Men talk about conquering a mountain. It is a wonderful feeling to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days. You look down and see the whole country below you. You feel god-like. Two Italian prisoners of war escaped from a prison camp in Kenya during the war. They did not try to get back to their country, for they knew that was impossible. Instead, they climbed to the top of Mount Kenya, and then they came down and gave themselves up. They had wanted to get that feeling of freedom that one has after climbing a difficult mountain.
- Some men like to climb a mountain, because-
(A) They like to play football or cricket
(B) They know the trick of climbing
(C) They want to have a wonderful feeling
(D) They like to face danger
Ans- (C) - To climb mountains is often difficult, because-
(A) Mountains are bill hills
(B) It consumes less time
(C) Prisoners often escape from camps and settle there
(D) Paths are steep and uneven
Ans- (D) - “It is a wonderful feeling.” “It’ refers to-
(A) The steep path. (B) The prisoner
(C) Climbing a mountain. (D) Mountianeering
Ans- (C) - Why did two Italian prisoners escape from the camp and climb to the top of Mount Kenya ?
(A) To escape to Italy.
(B) To come down and give up
(C) To get the feeling of freedom
(D) To gain fame as mountaineers
Ans- (C) - Mountaineering is not, a very popular sport like football or cricket, because-
(A) There are no spectators in this sport
(B) It may not take many hours or even days
(C) Many people are prepared to risk their lives
(D) People don’t want to enjoy a god-like feeling
Ans- (B) - Complete the sentence with the appropriate word from the choices given below:
All of his efforts were in—-
(A) Wane. (B) Vain (C) Vein (D) Van
Ans- (B) - Choose the word that is closest in meaning to ‘connive’
(A) Instigate. (B) Disregard
(C) Shield (D) Threaten
Ans- (B) - Complete the sentence with the appropriate word from the choices given below:
Which is the shortest……to Delhi?
(A) Root. (B) Rout. (C) Route. (D) Roots
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- Choose the word that is closest in meaning to ‘immunity-
(A) Freedom (B) Tolerance
(C) Disinclination (D) Apathy
Ans- (A) - Find out the mis-spelt word-
(A) Supplementary (B) Surfiet
(C) Suppurate (D) Surgery
Ans- (B) - Which one of the following is the correct Spelling?
(A) Limousine. (B) Limuosine
(C) Limousane (D) Limozene
Ans- (A) - Choose from the following the word which is correctly spelt-
(A) Begining (B) Explaination
(C) Garage (D) Maintainance
Ans- (C) - Choose the mis-spelt word from the following-
(A) Believe. (B) Receive.
(C) Conceive (D) Bereive
Ans- (D) - Fill in the blank with the appropriate preposition-
This book consists……ten chapters.
(A) In. (B) Of (C) Off (D) With
Ans- (B) - Which of the following sentences has a transitive verb?
(A) He runs very fast
(B) He speaks French very fluently
(C) The dog has been barking for an hour
(D) The boys jumped up and down in excitement
Ans- (B) - Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate choice:
But, I……the tickets by four o’clock tomorrow.
(A) Will have bought. (B) Have bought
(C) Bought. (D) Shall buying
Ans- (A) - Complete the following sentence by most appropriate choice-
If the patient…….enough money, she could have gone to consult a specialist.
(A) Had. (B) Had Had
(C) Would have. (D) Was having
Ans- (A) - Which of the following sentences is gram- matically correct?
(A) Unless he will study regularly, he will not pass
(B) Unless he does not study regularly, he will not pass
(C) Unless he studies regularly, he will not pass
(D) None of the above
Ans- (C) - Choose the correct antonym of the word. ‘parsimonious’-
(A) Economical (B) Frugal
(C) Niggardly (D) Prodigal
Ans- (D) - Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate choice:
My parents were away visiting relatives, so I……to cut classes.
(A) Decided (B) Had decided
(C) Have decided (D) Decide
Ans- (A) - Choose the correct antonym of the word ‘feed’ from the following-
(A) Nourish. (B) Foster
(C) Sustain (D) Starve
Ans- (D) - Choose the word that is most opposite in meaning to ‘shrill’
(A) Weak (B) Muffled
(C) Inaudible (D) Blunted
Ans- (B) - What is the correct term for the statement given below?
“A place that provides refuge”
(A) Sanatorium (B) Shelter
(C) Orphanage (D) Asylum
Ans- (D) - A Turncoat is-
(A) A man of principles
(B) A poor man
(C) A man who changes his opinions
(D) A man who does not change his opinions
Ans- (C) - Give the correct term for the statement given below:
“The part of a government which is concerned with making of rules”-
(A) Court (B) Tribunal
(C) Barbid (D) Legislature
Ans- (D) - Replace the underlined portion in the following sentence with one word:
Putting off for tomorrow what can be done today is the surest way to failure.
(A) Proclamation (B) Procrastination
(C) Profanation. (D) Proliferation
Ans- (B) - The practice of marrying more than one wife at a time is called-
(A) Monogamy. (B) Bigamy
(C) Polygamy (D) Polyandry
Ans- (C) - ‘Bad blood’ means-
(A) A disease (B) Unfriendliness
(C) Unwelcome relatives (D) Impure blood
Ans- (B) - What is the meaning of the phrase?
‘Dispense with the books’
(A) Distribute the books.
(B) Do away with the books
(C) Protect the books
(D) Investigate through the books
Ans- (B) - Select the correct meaning of the idiom:
‘To make both ends meet’
(A) To move between two opposite poles
(B) To meet the needs of the body and the soul
(C) To live within one’s income
(D) To do something impossible
Ans- (C) - To tread on someone’s toes’ means to-
(A) Flatter someone. (B) Follow someone
(C) Upset someone. (D) Satisfy someone
Ans- (C) - Choose the correct explanation of the idiom:
‘Hand in hand’
(A) Very intimate (B) Mutual adjustment
(C) Close fight (D) Close together
Ans- (A) - Change the following into an indirect. statement and indicate the correct one:
“I have bought a house,” he said.
(A) He said that he had bought a house
(B) He said that he has bought a house
(C) He said that he bought a house
(D) He said that he would buy a house
Ans- (A) - He said to them all, “Goodbye my friends.”
The correct indirect narration of the above direct speech is
(A) He bade goodbye to all his friends
(B) He said to his friends ‘goodbye’
(C) He told his friends to goodbye
(D) He suggested goodbye to all his friends
Ans- (A) - Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition:
He knows how to play…..words.
(A) Into (B) On. (C) Up. (D) Over
Ans- (B) - Fill in the blank with an article:
India today needs………Gandhi.
(A) The (B) A. (C) An. (D) None of these
Ans- (B) - Fill in the blank with an appropriate noun:
He saw a………of fish.
(A) Shoal (B) Pack (C) School. (D) Bunch
Ans- (A) - Fill in the blank with a correct preposition :
He is junior………me.
(A) than (B) Over (C) To. (D) None of these
Ans- (C) - Which pronoun should be used in the sentence?
When you have seen the photos, please return……to me.
(A) Those (B) Them
(C) The same. (D) These
Ans- (B) - Which of he following is correct?
(A) The poet and the novelist is dead
(B) The poet and novelist is dead
(C) The poet and novelist are dead
(D) The novelist with the poet are dead
Ans- (B) - What is the suitable prefix for the word ‘polite’?
(A) Un (B) Non (C) In (D) Im
Ans- (D) - Fill in the blank with the correct prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
“Let our actions be………our thoughts and speech.”
(A) By way of
(B) In accordance with
(C) In connection with.
(D) In front of
Ans- (B) - The word ‘terrain’ means-
(A) Torrential rain. (B) Trainman
(C) Terrace (D) Tract of land
Ans- (D) - Choose the correct word to fill in the blank in the sentence given below:
Our jawans lay……to the town of the enemy.
(A) Cease. (B) Seize (C) Siege. (D) Sieve
Ans- (C) - Choose the correct meaning of the word ‘disport’-
(A) To amuse. (B) To brag.
(C) To spoil. (D) To waste
Ans- (A) - Find out the correctly punctuated version of the following passage:
what a large melon I think I must buy it what do you ask for it my boy said he
(A) What a large melon ? I think I must buy it. What do you ask for it? My boy! said he
(B) “What a large melon ? I think I must buy it. What do you ask for it, my boy said he.
(C) “What a large melon ! I think I must buy it ?What do you ask for it, my boy?” said he.
(D) “What a large melon! think I must buy it. What do you ask for it, my boy?”said he.
Ans- (D) - Read the given sentence to find out if there is an error in the bold part:
The evening came to a climax of violence
(A)
when Mohan produced a box of fire-works
(B)
that my cousin had sent him from Delhi and
unwisely repeated a remark that Rani made
(C). (D)
earlier in the day.
Ans- (D) - In the following question, there is a sentence in which some parts have been jumbled. Rearrange the parts, which are denoted as P.
Q, R, S, so that the reordered sentence makes a coherent sequence: - History says
P. when he was given the cup of hemlock
Q. who were standing around him
R. continued to talk to his friends
S. that Socrates - as he drank it,
(A) SPRQ (B) SRQP
(C) SQPR (D) SQRP
Ans- (B) - In the given question the first and the last parts of the sentence are numbered as 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and find out which of the four combinations is correct:
- I met a poor woman, all in tears,
P. and that his eight children must now starve
Q. her husband had been arrested for a debt
R. who told me that
S. he was not able to pay - bereaved as they were of his industry.
(A) RSPQ. (B) RSQP
(C) RQSP. (D) RP SQ
Ans- (C) - That which cannot be changed is-
(A) Irrevocable (B) Irrelevant
(C) Impregnable (D) Irreparable
Ans- (A) - The first eight lines of a sonnet are called-
(A) Sestet.. (B) Octave.
(C) Caesura. (D) Volta
Ans- (B) - A verse of two lines of equal length rhyming with each other at the end is called-
(A) Quatrain (B) Terza rima
(C) Couplet (D) Ottava rima
Ans- (C) - Which figure of speech is used in the following lines?
Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone, on a wide wide sea!
(A) Personification (B) Apostrophe
(C) Alliteration. (D) Pun
Ans- (C) - What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?
“Authority forgets a dying king.”
(A) Personification (B) Apostrophe
(C) Hyperbole. (D) Metaphor
Ans- (A) - What is the meaning of the expression ‘Avantgarde’?
(A) Unintentional expression
(B) Ridiculing attitude
(C) Tragic conclusion
(D) New writing that is innovative
Ans- (D) - What is ‘stream of consciousness’ technique?
(A) Technique which depicts the inner thoughts and feelings
(B) A study of relation between words and things
(C) A theatrical device
(D) A particular kind of knowledge
Ans- (A) - Which one of these is a ‘secondary epic’ ?
(A) Iliad (B) Paradise Lost
(C) Odyssey (D) Aeneid
Ans- (B) - The rhyming of vowel sounds without the rhyming of consonants is known as-
(A) Alliteration. (B) Rhythm.
(C) Melody (D) Assonance
Ans- (D) - Who introduced the sonnet in English poetry?
(A) Milton (B) Shakespeare
(C) Spenser (D) Wyatt
Ans- (D) - Another name for ‘vers libre’ is-
(A) Free verse. (B) Blank verse
(C) Courtly verse. (D) None of the above
Ans- (A) - Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate choice:
A caesura is a……in a line.
(A) Pause (B) Syllable.(C) Strain.(D) Accent
Ans- (A) - Which of the following plays has been described by T. S. Eliot as ‘an artistic failure’?
(A) Hamlet (B) The Merchant of Venice
(C) Julius Caesar. (D) None of the above
Ans- (A) - Which of the following poets was influenced by Godwin?
(A) Shakespeare. (B) Wordsworth
(C) Shelley. (D) Tennyson
Ans- (C) - In which of the following novels does the action take place in Paris and London?
(A) Old Curiosity Shop.
(B) David Copperfield
(C) A Tale of Two Cities
(D) Oliver Twist
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- The solution of the evil practice of untouchability suggested by Mulk Raj Anand in Untouchable is-
(A) Conversion.
(B) Use of machines
(C) Refusal to do dirty work
(D) Social reform
Ans- (B) - Who is bitten by the scorpion in Night of the Scorpion?
(A) The poet. (B) The narrator
(C) The mother (D) The father
Ans- (C) - Who of the following has written:
‘Earth’s the right place for love’ ?
(A) Watt Whitman. (B) Robert Frost
(C) Hemingway (D) Faulkner
Ans- (B) - Venus and Adonis is a poem written by-
(A) John Keats. (B) P. B. Shelley
(C) William Shakespeare (D) Matthew Arnold
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- “To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” Who said it?
(A) John Keats. (B) Alfred Tennyson
(C) P. B. Shelley (D) None of the above
Ans- (D) - Who said about Keats-
“He is; he is with Shakespeare”?
(A) P. B. Shelley. (B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Walter Pater (D) Matthew Arnold
Ans- (D) - Who is called ‘the prince of English essayists’?
(A) Francis Bacon. (B) Joseph Addison
(C) Charles Lamb (D) R. L. Stevenson
Ans- (C) - Which character in Dickens keeps on waiting for ‘something to turn up’ ?
(A) Mr. Micawber. (B) Sydney Carton
(C) Oliver Twist (D) Miss Havisham
Ans- (A) - In Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy the term ‘Philistines’ is used for-
(A) The English working class
(B) The English middle class
(C) The English aristocratic class
(D) The people of Palestine
Ans- (B) - Who wrote the poem Lucknow ?
(A) Alfred Tennyson. (B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Rudyard Kipling. (D) E. M. Forster
Ans- (A) - Who wrote the line, “God’s not in his heaven; all’s wrong with the world”?
(A) Robert Browning. (B) Thomas Hardy
(C) G. B. Shaw (D) P. B. Shelley
Ans- (B) - Which of the following statements is correct?
(A) Ernest Hemingway committed suicide
(B) Ernest Hemingway was killed in a battle
(C) Ernest Hemingway was murdered in a street brawl
(D) None of the above
Ans- (A) - In the poem O Captain ! My Captain! the captain is-
(A) George Washington.
(B) Abraham Lincoln
(C) J. F. Kennedy.
(D) L. B. Johnson
Ans- (B) - Mulk Raj Anand passed away in the year-
(A) 1998 (B)2000. (C) 2002 (D) 2004
Ans- (D) - William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a-
(A) Tragedy. (B) Comedy
(C) History play. (D) Tragi-comedy
Ans- (B) - The original title of Mulk Raj Anand’s Gauri was-
(A) The Woman and the Cow.
(B) The Village
(C) Across the Black Waters.
(D) Untouchable
Ans- (A) - Which one of these is not one of the five sections of T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland?
(A) The Burial of the Dead’
(B) ‘A Game of Chess’
(C) ‘The Hollow Men’.
(D) ‘The Fire Sermon’
Ans- (C) - The Dynasts is Thomas Hardy’s-
(A) Novel (B) Autobiography
(C) Lyric (D) Verse Drama
Ans- (D) - Tennyson’s elegy In Memoriam is in
(A) Queen Victoria (B) Arthur Hallam
(C) William Wordsworth (D) Charles Darwin
Ans- (B) - The title of Shelley’s incomplete dream- allegory is-
(A) Mont Blanc. (B) Revolt of Islam
(C) Hellas. (D) The Triumph of Life
Ans- (D) - The title of Wordsworth’s first poetical volume is-
(A) Descriptive Sketches (B) Lyrical Ballads
(C) Intimations of Immortality (D) Prelude
Ans- (A) - William Shakespeare was born in-
(A) 1575. (B) 1564 (C) 1512. (D) 1616
Ans- (B) - Shelley’s Adonais is-
(A) A tragedy. (B) An epic poem
(C) A pastoral elegy. (D) A poem in blank verse
Ans- (C) - Who said, “My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains”?
(A) Shelley. (B) Tennyson
(C) Keats (D) Wordsworth
Ans- (C) - When was Charles Dickens born?
(A) 1820 (B) 1888 (C)1812 (D) 1825
Ans- (C) - Who, among these, is called a ‘home-spun philosopher’?
(A) Arnold (B) Robert Frost
(C) Raja Rao (D) Walt Whitman
Ans- (B) - Who is the heroine in Shakespeare’s The Tempest?
(A) Viola (B) Portia
(C) Miranda. (D) Beatrice
Ans- (C) - The term ‘negative capability’ is given by-
(A) Wordsworth. (B) John Keats
(C) Byron (D) P. B. Shelley
Ans- (B) - When was Mulk Raj Anand’s novel, Untouchable, published?
(A) 1934 (B)1935 . (C) 1936. (D) 1937
Ans- (B) - Arnold mourns whose untimely death in his elegy entitled, Thyrsis?
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough. (B) Arthur Hallam
(C) Mr. W. H. Auden (D) None of these
Ans- (A) - From which play of Shakespeare is the following line taken?
“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…”
(A) Hamlet. (B) The Tempest
(C) Mecbeth. (D) Romeo and Juliet
Ans- (C) - In which country is the story of Othello set?
(A) Denmark (B) Venice
(C) Greece (D) England
Ans- (B) - Biographia Literaria was written by-
(A) Hazlitt (B) Keats
(C) Wordsworth (D) Coleridge
Ans- (D) - When did W.B. Yeats receive Nobel Prize for literature?
(A) 1920. (B) 1921. (C) 1922 (D) 1923
Ans- (D) - What is the name of the hero of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
(A) Tom Sawyer (B) Santiago
(C) Henry. (D) None of these
Ans- (B) - Which play of Shakespeare is regarded as the tragedy of overleaping ambition?
(A) King Lear. (B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet (D) Othello
Ans- (B) - The number of sonnets authored by Shakespeare is-
(A) 154 (B) 156. (C) 148. (D) 160
Ans- (A) - In which year did Wordsworth add his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?
(A) 1798 (B) 1800. (C) 1802. (D) 1803
Ans- (B) - Who wrote Tales from Shakespeare?
(A) Charles Lamb.(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Leigh Hunt (D) Charles and Mary Lamb
Ans- (A) - In which poem of Keats does the following line occur?
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”
(A) Endymion (B) Hyperion
(C) Lamia. (D) Sleep and Beauty
Ans- (A) - In which poem of Shelley do the following lines occur?
“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
(A) Adonais (B) To a Skylark
(C) Ode to the West Wind. (D) Lament
Ans- (C) - Which among the following is the novel by William Faulkner ?
(A) The Grapes of Wrath
(B) The English Teacher
(C) The Dark Holds No Terrors
(D) The Sound and the Fury
Ans- (D) - Which among the following is the author of The Barber’s Trade Union?
(A) R. K. Narayan. (B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Shashi Deshpande. (D) Raja Rao
Ans- (B) - “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”
In which poem of Robert Frost do the above lines occur?
(A) Mending the Wall.
(B) Birches
(C) Stopping by Woods.
(D) The Road Not Taken
Ans- (C) - Who wrote the poem’The Lady of Shalott ?
(A) Keats (B) Tennyson
(C) Shelley (D) None of these
Ans- (B) - Hardy is called a-
(A) Classical novelist (B) Ideal novelist
(C) Regional novelist.
(D) Experimental novelist
Ans- (C) - Who is called the representative Victorian poet ?
(A) Wordsworth (B) Alfred Tennyson
(C) Robert Browning. (D) John Keats
Ans- (B) - The concept of ‘objective co-relative’ was propounded by
(A) John Dryden (B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Matthew Arnold. (D) T. S. Eliot
Ans- (D) - Charles Dickens’ novels deal largely
(A) War affairs.
(B) Divine matters
(C) Contemporary social conditions
(D) Business matters
Ans- (C) - Which among the following is the hero of Coolie?
(A) Munoo (B) Oliver (C) Raju (D) Shankar
Ans- (A) - The poetry of Romantic Revival is a revolt against-
(A) Ways of country life
(B) Bondage of classical rules of poetic diction
(C) Gravity of governmental actions
(D) Beauty of verbal and written English
Ans- (B)
121-Which movement of Victorian age has influenced the novels of Charles Dickens?
(A) Liberalism.
(B) Pre Raphaelite Movement
(C) Oxford Movement
(D) Aesthetic Movement
Ans- (A)
122-What is the figures of speech used in the following sentence?
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
(A) Simile. (B) Apostrophe
(C) Hyperbole. (D) Metaphor
Ans- (D)
123-Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’is set in-
(A) Italy (B) Switzerland
(C) USA (D) England
Ans- (A)
124-‘Lucy Poems’ why William Wordsworth refer to-
(A) Wordsworth’s early poems
(B) A group of 5 lyrics by Wordsworth
(C) Poems by Wordsworth in collaboration with Coleridge
(D) Wordsworth’s humorous poems
Ans- (B)
125-The the substitution of part for the whole is-
(A) Synecdoche (R) Imagery
(C) Metanhor (D) Symbol
Ans- (A)