UP PGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2013
This question paper has 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 2013.
1. Fill in the blank with suitable conjunction:
Look ______you leap.
(A) before
(B) after
(C) and.
(D) if
Ans- (A)
2. The Essential Shakespeare is a work by
(A) J. Dover Wilson.
(B) Middleton Murry
(C) A. C. Bradley.
(D) G. Wilson Knight
Ans- (A)
3. 'Night of the Scorpion' is a poem by
(A) Kamla Das.
(B) Nissim Ezekiel
(C) Dom Moraes.
(D) A. K. Ramanujan
Ans- (B)
4. Kamala Das died in the year
(A) 2009
(B) 2008.
(C) 2004.
(D) 2005
Ans- (A)
5. Charles Dickens is a novelist of the
(A) Elizabethan age
(B) Jacobean age
(C) Augustan age.
(D) Victorian age
Ans- (D)
6. The birthplace of the Sonnet is
(A) England
(B) Italy.
(C) France.
(D) Greece
Ans- (B)
7. Which of the follwoing is not a Hemingway's work
(A) The Sun also Rises.
(B) Moby Dick
(C) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(D) A Farewell to Arms
Ans- (B)
8. The line, "Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird!" occurs in
(A) To skylark
(B) The Nightingale
(C) Ode to a nightingale
(D) Darkling thrush
Ans- (C)
9. The masculine form of 'duck' is
(A) drone
(B) gander.
(C) gouse.
(D) drake
Ans- (D)
10. What does 'to carry something out' mean?
(A) to do something
(B) to bear something
(C) to continue doing something
(D) to delay something
Ans- (C)
11. Identify the part which contains an error in the following sentence:
Hari is (1)/ good at studies (2) /does not he? (3)
(A) 1.
(B) 2.
(C) 3.
(D) no error
Ans- (C)
12. The odes of Keats are
(A) regular.
(B) irregular
(C) both regular and irregular
(D) neither regular nor irregular
Ans- (B)
13.The line, "Earth's the right place for love" is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Robert Frost.
(D) Alfred Tennyson
Ans- (C)
14. Kamala Das's poetry can be best described as
(A) social.
(B) political
(C) religious.
(D) confessional
Ans- (D)
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15.Complete the sentence with suitable adverb clause:
I used to play cricket______
(A) when I had been young
(B) when I was being young
(C) when I am young
(D) when I was young
Ans- (D)
16. Which of the following sentences is correct?
(A) Tell me where do you live?
(B) Tell me where you live?
(C) Tell me you live where?
(D)Tell me where you live.
Ans- (D)
17. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words is
(A) alliteration.
(B) assonance
(C) half-rhyme.
(D) rhythm
Ans- (A)
18. The plural of 'alumnus' is
(A) alumnuses.
(B) alumna
(C) alumnae.
(D) alumni
Ans- (D)
19. The figure of speech in "O my love is like a red, red rose" is
(A) simile.
(B) metaphor
(C) personification.
(D) hyperbole
Ans- (A)
20. An lambus consists of
(A) one unaccented syllable followed by an accented one
(B) one accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
(C) two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one
(D) two accented syllables followed by an unaccented one
Ans- (A)
21. Spot the correct spelling
(A) pussilanimous.
(B) pusilannimous
(C) pusillanimous.
(D) pusilanimous
Ans- (C)
22. Walt Whitman is a poet of the
(A) 19th century.
(B) 20th century
(C) 17th century.
(D) 18th century
Ans- (A)
23. The noun form of the adjective 'rare' is
(A) rareness.
(B) rarement
(C) rarely
(D) rarity
Ans- (D)
24. Tennyson was appointed poet Laureate in
(A) 1850
(B) 1854.
(C) 1849.
(D) 1860
Ans- (A)
25. Blank verse is
(A) rhymed iambic pentameter
(B) unrhymed iambic pentameter
(C) ductylic tetrameter
(D) anapaestic hexameter
Ans- (B)
26. Identify the part which contains an error in the following sentence:
Ten miles are not a long distance.
(A) ten miles.
(B) are not
(C) a long distance.
(D) no error
Ans- (B)
27. Charles Dickens's father was a
(A) businessman.
(B) peasant
(C) writer.
(D) clerk
Ans- (D)
28. Who is known as the poet of the Lakes?
(A) Byron.
(B) Coleridge
(C) Wordsworth.
(D) Keats
Ans- (B)(C)
29. Matthew Arnold studied at University.
(A) Cambridge.
(B) Oxford
(C) London.
[D) Glasgow
Ans- (B)
30. Fill in the blank with a suitable adverb:
My hat blew_____
(A) on.
(B) off.
(C) away
(D) over
Ans- (B)
31. The year ______was the culminating point in Keats's carrer.
(A) 1817
(B) 1818
(C) 1819.
(D) 1821
Ans- (C)
32. Which of the following poets wrote his finest poetry in the form of drama- tic monologue?
(A) Shelley.
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) Hopkins
Ans- (B)
33. The correctly punctuated version is:
(A) He asked me, "whether I had written my exercise".
(B) He asked me, "whether I had written my exercise"?
(C) He asked me, whether I had written my exercise?
(D) He asked me whether I had written my exercise.
Ans- (D)
34 .An Alexandrine is the last line of the
(A) ottava rima.
(B) spenserian stanza
(C) rhyme royal.
(D) terza rima
Ans- (B)
35. The Terza Rima is a stanza of
(A) 4 lines
(B) 5 lines
(C) 3 lines
(D) 2 lines
Ans- (C)
36. Who considered Wordsworth as a "high priest of nature"
(A) De Quincey.
(B) Coleridge
(C) Shelley.
(D) Matthew Arnold
Ans (A)
37. 'Song of Myself' is a poem by
(A) Shelley.
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Whitman
(D) Tennyson
Ans- (C)
38. The father of the English essay is
(A) Montaigne.
(B) Bacon
(C) Charles Lamb.
(D) Richard Steele
Ans- (B)
39. The best poems of Matthew Arnold are
(A) Lyrics
(B) Odes.
(C) Elegies.
(D) Sonnets
Ans- (C)
40. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a
(A) Roman play.
(B) Comedy
(C) Farce.
(D) Melodrama
Ans- (A)
41.Who called Shakespeare an "upstart crowe"?
(A) Ben Jonson.
(B) Christopher Marlowe
(C) Robert Green
(D) Thomas Lodge
Ans- (C)
42. 'Black Sheep' means
(A) a bad character.
(B) sheep of black colour
(C) a humble person
(D) a natural creature
Ans- (A)
43. Absalom! Absalom! is a work by
(A) John Dryden.
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Walt Whitman.
(D) William Faulkner
Ans-(D)
44. Keats's poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is
(A) a ballad
(B) a sonnet
(C) an ode.
(D) an elegy
Ans- (A)
45. Spot the correct Spelling
(A) Denouement.
(B) Dinouement
(C) Denument.
(D) Dinoument
Ans- (A)
46. Choose the correctly punctuated version:
(A) He will succeed you, never
(B) He will succeed, you never
(C) He will succeed; you, never
(D) He will succeed: you, never
Ans- (C)
47 .'Red-letter day' means
(A) a dangerous day.
(B) a rosy day
(C) an important day.
(D) a bloody day
Ans- (C)
48. The number of paragraphs in Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is
(A) 111
(B) 121.
(C)125.
(D)131
Ans- (D)
49 .'To deal in something' means
(A) to distribute something
(B) to trade in something
(C) to be about something
(D) to handle something
Ans- ((B)
50. The central theme of Murderin Cathedral is
(A) martyrdom
(B) civil strife
(C) crisis.
(D) family feud
Ans- (A)
51. Which of the following works is not
authored by Shelley?
(A) Queen Mab.
(B) Hyperion
(C) Alastor.
(D) The Cenci
Ans- (B)
52. The Novels of Thomas Hardy are set in
(A) Wessex.
(B) Sussex
(C) The Lakes.
(D) Waverley
Ans- (A)
53. Tennyson's friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, died at
(A) Rome
(B) Vienna.
(C) Paris
(D) London
Ans- (B)
54. John Keats died of
(A) Cholera
(B) Consumption
(C) Typhoid.
(D) Renal failure
Ans- (B)
55. Spot the correct model to fill in the blank:
________ you live happily and long !
(A) will
(B) shall.
(C) may.
(D) can
Ans- (C)
56. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by
(A) Ernest Hemingway.
(B) William Faulkner
(C) Mark Twain.
(D) Mulk Raj Anand
Ans- (A)
57. T. S. Eliot was born in
(A) The United States.
(B) England
(C) France.
(D) Germany
Ans- (A)
58. The noun form of the verb 'experience' is
(A) expirience.
(B) expereince
(C) experience.
(D) expireince
Ans- (C)
59. Give the right suffix for the word 'king' to make it an abstract noun.
(A) ly. (B) dom (C) ness (D) ance
Ans- (B)
60. specific word for the loud noise made by an elephant is
(A) roar
(B) trumpet.
(C) bray.
(D) neigh
Ans- (B)
61..Shakespeare's The Tempest is a
(A) tragedy.
(B) comedy
(C) Tragy-comedy.
(D) history play
Ans- (C)
62. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land was published in
(A) 1920.
(B) 1921.
(C) 1922
(D) 1923
Ans- (C)
63.Which of the following Indian English poets was professor of English at Bombay University?
(A) Jayant Mahapatra.
(B) A. K. Ramanujan
(C) Nissim Ezekiel.
(D) Keki N. Daruwalla
Ans- (C)
64. Matthew Arnold as a poet was most influenced by
(A) Wordsworth (B) Shelley.
(C) Keats. (D) Byron
Ans- (A)
65. The young one of a cat is
(A) puppy.
(B) kid.
(C) kitten
(D) calf
Ans- (C)
66.In which magazine did Lamb's essays first time appear?
(A) Blackwood's Magazine.
(B) London Magazine
(C) Quarterly Review.
(D) Ariel
Ans- (B)
67.Which of the following will be the correct indirect speech if the state ment given below is changed into it?
He said, "I shall leave these papers here"
(A) He said that he would leave those papers there.
(B) He said that he should leave those papers there.
(C) He said that he would leave these papers there.
(D) He said that he would leave those papers here.
Ans- (A)
68. Robert Frost's favourite figure of speech was
(A) simile.
(B) metonymy
(C) oxymoron.
(D) synecdoche
Ans- (D)
69. An 'El Dorado' is a
(A) place of abundance.
(B) place of scarcity
(C) place of misery.
(D) place of suffering
Ans- (A)
70. The scientific study of the development of
language is known as
(A) Morphology.
(B) Bibliography
(C) Paleontology.
(D) Philology
Ans- (D)
71. The synonym for 'innate' is
(A) unfeeling.
(B) yearly
(C) clever.
(D) inborn
Ans- (D)
72. A person who believes that the world can be made better by human effort is known as
(A) an optimist.
(B) a philanthropist
(C) a meliorist.
(D) a visionary
Ans-(C)
73. 'Alma Mater' is the place where one
(A) studied
(B) married.
(C) died.
(D) was born
Ans- (A)
74. Who describes the ideal 'Commonwealth' in The Tempest?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Prospero
(C) Miranda.
(D) Gonzalo
Ans- (D)
75. The proper word for a 'group' of elephants is
(A) herd.
(B) cattle.
(C) flock.
(D) bunch
Ans- (A)
76. Who called Hamlet "an artistic failure"?
(A) I. A. Richards.
(B) F. R. Leavis
(C) T. S. Eliot.
(D) Charles Lamb
Ans- (C)
77. The figure of speech in "Death lays his icy hands on kings" is
(A) simile.
(B) metaphor
(C) personification.
(D) hyperbole
Ans-(C)
78.The line "And miles to go before I sleep", occurs in Robert Frost's poem
(A) The Road not Taken
(B) Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
(C) The Onset
(D) Once by the Pacific
Ans- (B)
79. Mulk Raj Anand's father was a clerk in
(A) a post office.
(B) a bank.
(C) the army.
(D) the navy
Ans-(C)
80. Which of the following was charles Lamb's very good friend?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge.
(C) Shelley.
(D) Keats
Ans- (B)
81.Thomas hardy started his literary career as a
(A) novelist.
(B) short-story writer
(C) poet.
(D) dramatist
Ans- (C)
82. The mother tongue of Kamala Das was
(A) Konkani. (B) Bengali.
(C) Malayalam (D) Tamil
Ans- (C)
83.What change is required in the verb 'rotates' if the following sentence is converted into indirect speech?
The teacher said, "The earth rotates on its own axis".
(A) rotated.
(B) rotate
(C) rotating.
(D) no change is required
Ans- (D)
84 Shelley's poem, 'Adonais' is
(A) a ballad.
(B) an ode
(C) an idyll
(D) an elegy
Ans- (D)
85. Spot the correct passive form of the following sentence: They asked me my name.
(A) My name was asked me by them
(B) I was asked my name
(C) Me was asked by them
(D) My name was asked from me by them
Ans- (B)
86. Fill in the blank with correct preposition:
I bought this pen_____ five rupees
(A) in.
(B) with.
(C) for.
(D) from
Ans- (C)
87. The 'gaoler' is a person in charge of a
(A) hospital.
(B) prison.
(C) school.
(D) football-field
Ans- (B)
88. The principal object of Satire is
(A) to mourn.
(B) to arouse pity
(C) to praise.
(D) to ridicule folly or vice
Ans- (D)
89. Charles Lamb started his literary career as
(A) a poet.
(B) a critic
(C) an essayist.
(D) a dramatist
Ans- (A)
90. Fill in the blank with a suitable alternative:
The dinner smells_____
(A) well
(B) good
(C) better.
(D) best
Ans- (B)
91. The figure of speech in "all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" is
(A) simile.
(B) metaphor
(C) personification.
(D) hyperbole
Ans- (D)
92. The word "invade" has the noun form
(A) invadion
(B) invation
(C) invasion
(D) invadement
Ans- (C)
93. Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lynical Ballads in
(A) 1788
(B) 1798
(C) 1805
(D) 1819
Ans-(B)
94. Which of the following sentences is correct?
(A) I have had no news of him since he left for Mumbai.
(B) I have had no news of him since he has left for Mumbai.
(C) I have had no news of him since he had left for Mumbai.
(D) I had no news of him since he left for Mumbai.
Ans- (A)
95. Choose the correct antonym of the word,'inferior'
(A) low.
(B) superb
(C) good
(D) superior
Ans- (D)
96.What is the suitable prefix for the word, "bitter"?
(A) im. (B) in. (C) un. (D) em
Ans- (D)
97. The Spenserian Stanza has
(A) 4 lines
(B) 6 lines.
(C) 8 lines.
(D) 9 lines
Ans- (D)
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions 98-102 that follow it:
"As a term in English literary history, Augustanism refers to the dominant condition prevailing in the area of cultural production in the first half of the eighteenth century. Politically, Augustanism refers to the parallels drawn between the emerging structures of English society and those existing in the period of Emperor Augustus (63BC-14AD) in ancient Rome. In fact, the process of finding similarities between the Augustan period in ancient Rome and English society began in the early seventeenth century, when writers like Ben Jonson alluded to the possibility. The immediate similarity was seen in the 'restoration' of political order by both Augustus and Charles II after periods of political turmoil. The concept of Pax Britannica was developed to encompass the process of peaceful political and social order in line with the more famous idea of Pax Romana".
98. The term "Augustanism" is used to describe
(A) cultural production
(B) political situation
(C) both of these.
(D) none of these
Ans- (A)
99.Augustus was emperor of
(A) England.
(B) France.
(C) Germany
(D) Rome
Ans- (D)
100. Augustus lived for______years.
(A) 63 (B) 77 (C) 14. (D) 59
Ans- (B)
101. Ben Jonson died in
(A) the first half of the 17th century
(B) the second half of the 17th century
(C) the first half of the 18th century
(D) the second half of the 18th century
Ans- (A)
102 Pax in Roman mythology is the goddess of
(A) politics
(B) peace.
(C) social order
(D) none of these
Ans- (B)
103 The English novel acquired its modern form in the
(A)14th century. .
(B) 16th century
(C) 17th century.
(D) 18th century
Ans- (D)
104 In the novel, Untouchable, Bakha's sister is
(A) Mohini (B) Sohini.
(C) Sajani. (D) Gulabo
Ans- (B)
105. Which of the following poets was of the opinion that art, like trees and shrubs, had a natural growth?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Shelley
(C) Frost.
(D) Whitman
Ans- (D)
106. The sub-title of Tess of the D'Urbervilles is
(A) A novel of Experiment
(B) A pure Woman
(C) The story of a woman of character
(D) The story of a Man of character
Ans- (B)
107. Fill in the blank with the suitable preposition: Some trains are run_____ electricity
(A) from.
(B) on.
(C) with
(D) by
Ans-(B)
108...........said about Shelley "He was alone the perfect singing God"
(A) Swinburne.
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Tennyson.
(D) Charles Lamb
Ans- (A)
109. Shakespeare's history plays altogether deal with a period of
(A) 1000 years
(B) 700 years.
(C) 450 years.
(D) 350 years
Ans- (D)
110. The central theme of Nissim Ezekiel's work is
(A) Social reform.
(B) Patriotism
(C) nostalgia.
(D) alienation
Ans- (D)
111. Choose the option to make the following jumbled up words into a meaningful sentence:
and she does (1) / my work (2)/ hers (3)/ I do (4)
(A) 1234
(B) 4213
(C) 4312
(D) 1342
Ans- (B)
112. Faulkner's works deal with the history and legends of the
(A) American North
(B) American South
(C) American East.
(D) American West
Ans- (B)
113 Who wrote 'The Necessity of Atheism"?
(A) Christopher Marlowe.
(B) Oscar Wilde
(C) Byron.
(D) Shelley
Ans- (D)
114. Faulkner was awarded Nobel prize in
(A) 1946.
(B) 1947.
(C) 1948.
(D) 1949
Ans- (D)
115 The protagonist of Great expectations is
(A) Boz.
(B) Pip.
(C) David
(D) Oliver
Ans- (B)
116. The word 'camaraderie' means a
(A) feeling of envy.
(B) feeling of anger
(C) feeling of friendship.
(D) feeling of enmity
Ans- (C)
117. The Epic is usually divided into ____books.
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 10. (D) 15
Ans-(A)
118.The synonym for 'Bona fide' is
(A) honourable.
(B) genuine
(C) Well -made.
(D) reumunerative
Ans- B
119. The figure of speech in "Life is a dream" is
(A) personification.
(B) simile
(C) metaphor.
(D) metonymy
Ans- (C)
120. The protagonist of Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie is
(A) Munoo
(B) Gangu.
(C) Ratan
(D) Ramcharan
Ans- (A)
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions 121-125 that follow it.
"The Suffragette movement in the early twentieth century in Britain aimed at securing voting rights for women. The leader of the movement was Emmeline Pankhurst, whose aggressive leadership led the "Daily Mail" to give the title 'suffragette to distinguish this group from other moderate feminists. In order to draw attention of the media as well as the public, the suffragettes disrupted public meetings and threw stones at shop windows. The movement reached crisis point in 1913 when Emily Davison died a painful death by throwing herself in front of the king's horse during the Derby".
121. The aim of Suffragette movement was to get for women.
(A) freedom
(B) education.
(C) property.
(D) franchise
Ans- (D
122. The suffragette movement was most active in the
(A) early 20th century
(B) mid 20th century
(C) late 20th century.
(D) none of these
Ans- (A)
123. The leader of the suffragette movement was:
(A) Emmeline Pankurst.
(B) Emmelline Pankhurst
(C) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(D) Emmeline Pankhrust
Ans- (C)
124.This year was very bad for the suffragettes
(A) 1912
(B) 1913.
(C) 1911.
(D) 1914
Ans- (B)
125. Derby is the name of a
(A) fair.
(B) festival
(C) horse race.
(D) cricket match
Ans- (C)
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