UP PGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2021
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 2021.
Point out the parts of speech of underlined words in the following sentences.
(Q. No. 1 to 3)
1. He always respects his elders.
(A) Verb
(B) Adverb
(C) Adjective.
(D) Conjunction
Ans- (B)
2. He is like my father.
(A) Adjective.
(B) Preposition
(C) Noun.
(D) Adverb
Ans- (B)
3. Each of the questions carries one mark.
(A) Noun.
(B) Adjective..
(C) Adverb.
(D) Pronoun
Ans- (D)
4. Which of the following dramas does not belong to the last phase of Shakespeare's literary career?
(A) The Tempest.
(B) Cymbeline
(C) Winter's Tale.
(D) As You Like It
Ans- (D)
5. In which novel of Dickens do the characters-Grandgrind, Bounder and Cissy Jupe appear?
(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Hard Times
(D) Our Mutual Friend
Ans- (C)
6. "One of four children born at the same time to the same mother" is called
(A) quaff.
(B) quadruple
(C) quadruplet.
(D) quadrillion
Ans- (C)
7.Arabella Donn is a character in-
(A) Return of the Native.
(B) The Well Beloved
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) The Trumpet Major
Ans- (C)
8. Which of the following works is written by Robert Frost?
(A) Two Tramps in Mud Time
(B) The Death of The Hired Man
(C) The Hill Wife
(D) Green Hills of Africa.
Ans- (D)
9. which work did E.M. Forster remark while criticizing Mulk Raj Anand: "Avoiding the rhetoric and circumlocution, it has gone straight to the heart of its subject and purified it".
(A) Two Leaves and a Bud
(B) The Sword and the Sickle
(C) Coolie
(D) Untouchable
Ans- (D)
10.Thomas Sutpan, the progenitor of "Sutpan's Hundred" appears in
(A) Absalom, Absalom!
(B) Light in August
(C) A Moveable Feast
(D) Men Without Women
Ans- (A)
11. Among these following pairs find out incorrect pair of Shakespeare's comedy and their characters
(A) Loves Labour Lost - Biron and Rosaline
(B) A Midsummer Night's Dream - Benedick and Beatrice
(C) The Merchant of Venice- Bassanio - Portia
(D) As You Like it -Orlando and Rosalind
Ans- (B)
12. "The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon
climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices"
The above mentioned lines appear in
(A) 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'
(B) 'Crossing the Bar".
(C) 'Ulysses'
(D) 'The Road not Taken"
Ans- (C)
13. Memoranda During the War is written by
(A) Ernest Hemingway.
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) William Faulkner.
(D) Robert Frost
Ans- (F)
14. Which of the following is the correct definition of alliteration?
(A) It is the use of a vague or equivocal expression.
(B) It is a contrast or opposition in meaning.
(C) It is the repetition of speech sounds In a sequence of nearby words..
(D) It is the use of words and expressions that have become obsolete in common speech.
Ans- (C)
15. Which of the literary periods does the most prolific novelist Charles Dickens belong to ?
(A) Neo-Classical Period
(B) Romantic Period
(C) Victorian Period
(D) Early Twentieth Century
Ans- (C)
16. Thyrsis' was written to commemorate
(A) Thomas Arnold. (B) Keats
(C) Tennyson.
(D) Arthur Hugh Clough.
Ans- (D)
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2. MCQS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
17. In which of the following poems get the references of 'Dryad', 'Flora' and 'Ruth'? add
(A) 'Ode to the West Wind'
(B) 'True Love'
(C) 'Ode On A Grecian Urn'
(D) 'Ode to A Nightingale'
Ans- (D)
18. "Thou lovest; but n' er knew- Love's sad satiety"
The above line is taken from
(A) The Lost Love
(B) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(C) Ode on A Grecian Urn.
(D) To A Skylark
Ans- (D)
19. Faulkner's satire of the philistine deceptions of the rootless southerner who seized wealth and power in the Chaotic civil war prolong can be referred as
(A) Yoknapatacopha
(B) Snopes
(C) Snopesism.
(D) Global South
Ans- (C)
20. "I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; their birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like death. our death".
The above mentioned lines are taken from
(A) The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock'
(B) The Hollow Men'
(C) Journey of the Magi"
(D) The Waste Land
Ans- (C)
21. "What is the course of the life of mortal men of the earth.
........
Nothing; and then they die- Perish; and no one asks."
The above cited lines appear in
(A) Crossing the Bar
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) Rugby Chapel
(D) Mending Wall
Ans- (C)
Directions (Q. 22 to 26): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
To many people, Switzerland is the country of the Alps, though not all of it is mountainous. Northern Switzerland,like neighbouring regions of Eastern France and South-West Germany, is a land of hills and woods but also of cities and industries. Basel is world famous for pharmaceuticals and Zurich and its suburbs for electrical engineering and machinery. It is non-Alpine Switzerland that produces the cheese, the chocolates, the clocks and the watches for which the country is renowned.
The Alps occupy the southern half of the country. They form two main east-west chains, divided by the straight line of the upper valleys of the Rhone and Rhine. The northern chain wholly in Switzerland contains Eiger and Jungfran peaks.
The Alps also influences swiss lives through their impact on its climate They divide the mediterranean world
from the central European.
There are many regional variations in climate. But generally the mountain air is clear and clean- a factor that has resulted in Switzerland attracting the ailing from all over the world to its hospitals and clinics.
22. Switzerland's climate which attracts the ailing from all over the world can be described as
(A) Salacious
(B) Salubrious'
(C) Felicitous.
(D) Boisterous
Ans- (B)
23. Replace the word, "Impact" in the passage without changing the meaning of the sentence using one of the following.
(A) Change.
(B) Alteration
(C) Influence.
(D) Evolution
Ans- (C)
24. According to the passage which region has a major share of mountains to the exclusion of other land forms?
(A) Southern Switzerland
(B) Eastern France
(C) South-West Germany
(D) Northern Switzerland
Ans- (D)
25. In the first sentence the word "it" in the phrase "not all of it is mountainous" refers to
(A) Mountains
(B) Neighbouring countries
(C) Switzerland-
(D) Alps
Ans- (C)
26. Cheese, chocolates, clocks etc. are produced
(A) All over Switzerland
(B) Only in two cities in Switzerland.
(C) In the mountainous regions of Switzerland.
(D)In the non-mountainous regions of Switzerland.
Ans- (D)
27. Which form of comedy deals with the relations and intrigues of gentlemen and ladies living in a polished society?
(A) Romantic comedy
(B) Comedy of humours
(C) Comedy of manners
(D) Satiric comedy
Ans- (C)
28.Which of the following works does not belong to Romantic poetry?
(A) Hyperion.
(B) Lyrical Ballads
(C) Christabel.
(D) The wasteland
Ans- (D)
29. According to Wordsworth poet is a 'man speaking to ------: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively-------- more --------and tenderness'.
Fill in the blanks with suitable words given below.
(A)Nature Imagination, truthfulness
(B) Men, sensibility, enthusiasm.
(C) Society, capacity, softness
(D) State, responsibility, efficiency
Ans- (B)
30. About whom did Arnold write in his poem, 'Memorial Verses'-He laid us as we lay at birth/on the cool flowery lap of birth....?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Tennyson
(D) John Keats
Ans- (A)
31. The knock about scenes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor are the examples of
(A) Vulgar comedy
(B) Comedy of humours
(C) Farce
(D) The science of buffoonery
Ans-(C)
32. Jake Barnes is the narrator in
(A) In Our Times
(B) Men Without Women
(C) A Moveable Feast
(D) The Sun Also Rises
Ans- (D)
33. Which of the following statements is not correct about the poetry of Robert Frost?
(A) Following his stay in England between 1912 and 1915, Frost's poetry acquired influences of the British Georgian school of poetry.
(B) Frost's poetry has often been described as an intersection of self and place.
(C) Across the River and into the Trees offers a true representation of Frost as a Emersonian ian poet natured.
(D) Frost's relationship with nature is characterized by his notion of "emblemism"
Ans- (C)
34. "Marriage by its best title is a monopoly, and not of the least invidious sort"
The above mentioned statement. appears in:
(A) 'True Love'
(B) Culture and Anarchy.
(C) Tess of the D' Urbervilles
(D)'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.
Ans- (D)
35.Wordsworth's first poem, 'An Evening Walk' shows the influence of poets- Rosset, Roucher and Delite on him.
(A) Italian
(B) French.
(C) Greek.
(D) Roman
Ans- (B)
36. Which poem of Tennyson does start with the heroic line, "Courage ! he said and pointed towards the land"?
(A) Morte D'Arthur
(B) Ulysses.
(C) Break, Break, Break
(D) The Lotus Eaters
Ans- (D)
37. Which of the following is not held. to be one of the four primary fluids to determine a person's physical condition and type of character (Ref. comedy of humours)
(A) Blood
(B) Sanguis
(C) Choler (Yellow bile)
(D) Melancholy (black bile)
Ans- (B)
38."Of life immense in passion, pulse and power cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine.The modern man I sing"
The above mentioned lines appear in-
(A) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
(B) One's self I sing
(C) I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing
(D) Mending Wall
Ans- (B)
39.The references of "Hinkseys, Sibylla and Ilsley Downs" appear in
(A) 'Crossing the Bar' -
(B) 'Dover Beach'
(C) 'Ulysses'
(D) 'Thyrsis'
Ans- (D)
40. In which of the following poems, do we get the reference of Proteus and Old Triton
(A) Ode to The West Wind
(B) Ode to A Nightingale
(C) The World is Too Much with Us
(D) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ans- (C)
41.The lines, "1who have lost/my way and beg now at strangers' doors to/Receive love, at least in small change?" appear in
(A) The Freaks.
(B) My Grandmother's House
(C) A Hot Noon in Malabar
(D) The Invitation
Ans- (B)
42. From which of the following poems, the given lines are taken?
"Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear."
(A) The Solitary Reaper
(B) Dover Beach
(C) Thyrsis
(D) The Hollow Men -
Ans- (D)
Note : Narration of the sentences has to be changed in the following questions. Choose the correct option from the choices given below the sentence. (Q. No. 43 to 45)
43."Will you stop talking", he said.
(A) He asked them why didn't they stop talking.
(B) He told them to stop talking.
(C) He asked them not to talk.
(D) He advised them not to talk.
Ans- (B)
44. "Ask the teacher", my father suggested.
(A) My father suggested that we should ask the teacher.
(B) My father suggested to ask the teacher.
(C) My father suggested that let the
teacher be asked.
(D) My father suggested that the teacher be asked.
Ans- (A)
45. He said, "You needn't wait".
(A) He told that you should not wait.
(B) He advised me not to wait..
(C) He told that I should not wait.
(D) He said that I needn't wait.
Ans-(D)
46. Which of the following statements is not true about a soliloquy ?
(A)A soliloquy is a speech in which a character, alone on the stage, expresses his thoughts and feelings.
(B)It enables a dramatist to convey directly to an audience important information about a particular audience.
(C) In a soliloquy, one imaginary speaker addresses an imaginary audience.
(D) Soliloquy was extensively used by the playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
Ans-(F)
47.Shakespeare's sonnets have the following features. Find out correct statements.
1.Shakespeare has written 154 sonnets.
2.Sonnets from 1 to 126 are
addressed to Dark Lady.
3.He dedicated his some sonnets to
his Patron Earl of Southampton.
4. The rhyme scheme of his sonnets are generally ab ab, cd cd, ef ef, gg.
(A) 1, 2, 3, and 4.
(B) Both 1 and 4
(C) 1, 3 and 4
(D) only 4
Ans- (C)
48. Fill in the blanks with correct articles given below in the line.
I therefore welcome this publication
which is ------------humble tribute to his memory by------------Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of ---------------------Government of India.
(A) an, the, the.
(B) a, the, the
(C) the, the, the.
(D) a, a, the
Ans- (B)
49. Which poem of John Keats given below is based on Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy '
(A) Ode to Autumn.
(B) Hyperion
(C) Lamia.
(D) The Eve of St. Agnes
Ans- (C)
50. Which kind of plays were dramatized. allegories of the life of man, his temptation and sinning and his quest for salvation?
(A) Morality plays.
(B) Thesis plays
(C) Miracle plays.
(D) Interludes
Ans- (A)
51. Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit' is an attack upon
(A) The economic education in Universities
(B) The social practices and their effects
(C) The school system
(D) Marshal sea the debtor's prison and the system that is responsible for its existence.
Ans- (D)
52. In which of the following novels, Jo Christmas attempts to recover the origins of his mulatto identity?
(A) Absalom, Absalom!
(B) Light in August
(C) The Sound and the Fury
(D) Go Down Moses.
Ans- (B)
53. Poems on Various Subjects is written by
(A) Robert Frost.(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Charles Lamb.(D) Kamla Das
Ans- (C)
54.Who has said that, "Poetry should
please by a fine excess." ?
(A) Matthew Arnold (B) John Keats
(C) P.B. Shelley.
(D) Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ans- (B)
55. Choose the option having correct form of tense.
(A) He has come back last night
(B) He came back last night
(C) He is coming back last night
(D) He was coming back last night
Ans- (B)
56. Sensationalism and extravagant emotional appeal are the characteristics of which of the following dramatic form?
(A) Melodrama.
(B) Theatre of the absurd
(C) Problem plays
(D) Expressionist drama.
Ans-( A)
57.The term 'Utopia' designates the class of fictional writings that
(A) Represent the elite class and highly educated society.
(B) Show the intelligent and rational way of life.
(C) Represent an ideal but nonexistent political and social way of life.
(D) Is full of ideal and imaginative romanticism.
Ans-(C)
Read the passage given below and choose correct answers to the questions.
(Q. No. 58 to 60)
The function of discovery is sometimes attributed to imagination. Through the exercise of imagination we hit upon hypotheses which help us to combine the discrete data into synthetic wholes. Hypothesis is the principle of growth in knowledge. In framing a hypothesis we seam to contemplate a situation which does not necessarily exist.We contemplate the non-existent and review a number of alternatives. Such an attitude of mind where the activity of assertion is suspended, and possible alternative situations are supposed seems to be obviously one of imagination.Croce identifies the activity responsible for hypothesis with artistic imagination. But an illuminating hypothesis is not the work of more uncontrolled imagination Imagination unverified by intuition, imagination which is day dreaming,fancy, revere or guess work, will not help us to light upon the truth except by accident. There is a difference between a more guess which is the work of imagination and integral knowing or intuition. Those who attribute the framing of hypothesis to imagination assign it, not to the analytical intellect but to the appreciative part of our mind.
58. It is not appropriate to attribute the framing of hypothesis to a mere uncontrolled imagination because
(A) Imagination does not light upon the truth.
(B) Hypothesis is a mere guess work.
(C) Imagination is only a day dreaming or a fancy.
(D) Imagination supported by intuition can be helpful in framing of hypothesis.
Ans- (D)
59. In what manner do hypotheses help in the function of discovery?
(A) They help us to combine discrete data into synthetic wholes.
(B)We are able to contemplate a non- existent situation.
(C) We are able to review a number of alternatives
(D) Hypothesis induces imagination.
Ans- (A)
60. What according to the author, is the role of imagination?
(A) Imagination is the source of
discovery.
(B) Imagination is the source of hypothesis.
(C) Imagination plays role in combining
discrete data.
(D) None of the above.
Ans- (B)
Note: Read the passage above and choose the closest meaning of the words from the choices given. (Q. No. 61 to 65)
61. Hypothesis
(A) a well-established fact.
(B) an idea which is yet not proved to be true.
(C) a popular belief.
(D) a scientific discovery.
Ans-(B)
62.Reverie
(A) guesswork.
(B) day dream
(C) imagination.
(D) whim
Ans- (B)
63.Discrete
(A) Careful in speech
(B) Individually separate
(C) Extremely vital.
(D) Indispensable
Ans- (B)
64. Intuition
(A) state of applying wisdom
(B) ability to know through strong feelings
(C) ability to do something skillfully
(D) commonsense
Ans- (B)
65. Integral
(A) having all the essential parts
(B) important
(C) that which cannot be dispensed with
(D) that which cannot be ignored
Ans- (A)
66.What among the following may be the most appropriate title of the above passage ?
(A) Artistic imagination
(B) Growth of knowledge
(C) Intuition and discovery
(D) Role of fancy
Ans- (C)
67. Complete the sentence below after a careful reading of the passage.
We contemplate the non-existent in order to
(A) enrich our imagination
(B) frame a hypothesis
(C)imagine something unrealistic
(D) build up an argument
Ans- (B)
Note: In the following questions four options of meanings are given for the idioms and phrases given in the beginning.
Choose the option that gives correct meaning- (Q. No. 68 to 70)
68. pull strings
(A) use one's influence to get something
done
(B) abort one's plans
(C) reprimand for poor performance
(D) discourage
Ans- (A)
69. drop in
(A) withdraw
(B) disappear
(C) pay a short unannounced visit
(D) enter into an agreement
Ans-(C)
70. break into
(A) terminate
(B) enter by force
(C) collapse.
(D) detach
Ans- (B)
71. In a tragedy, the term 'catharsis' can be broadly interpreted as
(A) error of judgment in the character of a hero which leads him from happiness to misery.
(B) purgation of excessive emotion of pity and fear.
(C) a catastrophe in which there occurs a sudden reversal of hero's fortune from happiness to disaster.
(D) an act of revenge acted out on stage to satisfy the audience's appetite.
Ans- (B)
72. Choose the incorrect use of idioms with pair of words.
(A) Kashmir is rack and ruin of India.
(B) My mother loves her kith and kin.
(C) Hitler carried fire and sword wherever he went.
(D) Let us work heart and soul,
Ans- (A)
73. Who has spoken following lines in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth':
Me-thought, heard a voice cry, "sleep
no more I Macbeth does murder
sleep," the innocent sleep;
add
(A) Lady Macbeth.
(B) Banquo
(C) Macduff.
(D) Macbeth
Ans- (D)
74. Equivoque is
(A) A form of metaphor
(B) A form of metonymy
(C) A special type of pun
(D) An alliteration
Ans- (C)
Directions (Q. 75 to 79): In the questions below the given sentences have been transformed as per directions given in the brackets. Choose the correct option.
75. Pay that bill at once. (Passive)
(A) You should pay that bill at once.
(B) That bill should be paid at once
(C) Let that bill be paid at once.
(D) You are advised to pay that bill at once.
Ans- (C)
76. Hard-working students always get success. (Complex)
(A) The students who get success are hard-working
(B) The students who get success always work hard
(C) The students who work hard always get success
(D) The students who do not work hard do not get success.
Ans- (C)
77. Does anyone like paying taxes ? (Assertive)
(A) All like paying taxes.
(B) Nobody likes paying taxes.
(C) Anyone can pay taxes.
(D) Everyone does not like paying taxes.
Ans- (B)
78.No sooner did the sun rise than the dew disappeared. (Affirmative)
(A) As the sun rose, the dew disappeared.
(B) As soon as the sun rose, the dew disappeared.
(C) Hardly had the sun risen than the dew disappeared.
(D) As soon as the sun had risen, the dew had disappeared.
Ans-(B)
79. She is not taller than I am. (Without a negative)
(A) I am taller than her.
(B) She is as tall as I am.
(C) I am as tall as she is.
(D) None of the above.
Ans- (A)
80. The meaning of the idiom, "to cool one's heels" is
(A) to be kept waiting for sometime
(B) to rest for sometime
(C) to remain in a comfortable position
(D) to give no importance to someone
Ans- (A)
81. "Thunder crashes from rock
To rock, the cataracts replay:
Lightnings dazzle our eyes;
Raring torrents have breach'd"
The above mentioned lines are taken from
(A) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock'
(B) The Hollow Men'
(C) 'Rugby Chapel'
(D) 'Ulysses'
Ans- (C)
82. In which of the following poems, does the poet express
"What'er the theme?... song could have no ending?"
(A) Ode to the West Wind
(B) To A Skylark
(C) The Solitary Reaper
(D) Ode to A Nightingale
Ans- (C)
83. Which of the following works is inspired by Shelley's disgust at the so-called 'Peterloo' massacre ?
(A) The Revolt of Islam
(B) The Mask of Anarchy
(C) Ode to the West Wind
(D) Prometheus Unbound
Ans- (B)
84. In reference with Hardy's life and his works some statements are given. Find the incorrect option.
1. Thomas Hardy was born in 1842.
2. He is known for his regional novels.
3. The character Gabriel Oak appears in his novel - Far From Madding Crowd.
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was published in 1880 and regarded as his masterpiece.
(A) 1 and 4.
(B) Only 1
(C) 2, 3 and 4.
(D) Only 4
Ans- (A)
85."She is more sinned against than sinning" is a remark made in favour of one of the famous heroines of Thomas Hardy. Which of the following novels she belongs to ?
(A) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(B) Return of the Native.
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) Mayor of Casterbridge.
Ans- (A)
86. Which is not true statement for Shelley's works ?
(A) Shelley's Ode to the West Wind has been written in terza rima.
(B) Adonais is well-known elegy on the death of William Godwin."
(C) Hellas is a lyric drama inspired by the possibilities of Greek revolt.
(D) Shelley's The Triumph of life is a dream poem and unfinished work.
Ans- (B)
87. Whitman's poem 'Children of Adam' has the theme
(A) Love as an animal passion
(B) Democracy
(C) Mystery of life
(D) Natural beauty
Ans- (A)
88. Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost ?
(A) A Moveable Feast
(B) Home Burial
(C) Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
(D) A Boy's Will
Ans- (A)
89. Gabriel Oak is a character in
(A) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(B) Return of the Native
(C) Life's Little Ironies
(D)Far from the Madding Crowd
Ans- (D)
90. Which of the following works is a product of the later phase of Wordsworth's career?
(A) The Borderers
(B) The Descriptive Sketches
(C) An Evening Walk
(D) The Thorn
Ans- (A)
91. The burly landlord in "The Barber's Trade Union" is named.
(A) Bijay Chandrika Bahadur
(B) Param Chand
(C) Poorna Chand
(D) Bijay Chand
Ans- (D)
92. In which of the following poetic dramas, the petty delusions and ambitions of human kind are watched over by choric forces who, from their extended perspectives undercut any assumption of heroic action?
(A) Murder in the Cathedral
(B) The Dynasts
(C) The Cocktail Party
(D) The Confidential Clerk
Ans- (B)
93. Find out odd pair of works of John Keats and their publication year.
(A) Endymion-1818
(B) The Pot of Basil - 1820
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes - 1820
(D) Queen Mab-1813
Ans- (D)
Note: In the following set of questions you will have to complete sentences by filling the correct prepositions from the choices given.
Q. No. 94 to 97)
94. We were------- time for the train.
(A) on.
(B) at
(C) in.
(D) during
Ans- (F)
95. It is not wise to have a meal and bathe immediately------------.
(A) after.
(B) afterwards
(C) since.
(D) during
Ans- (B)
96. He has done nothing------------he arrived
(A) for.
(B) since.
(C) from
(D) after
Ans- (B)
97. He was ill------------a week and-------- that week he ate nothing.
(A) for, during.
(B) for, In
(C) from, till.
(D) since, for
Ans- (A)
98. Who among the following has defined tragedy as "an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ..." ?
(A) Plato.
(B) Aristotle
(C) Homer.
(D) Sir Philip Sidney
Ans- (B)
99.P.B. Shelley, has been labelled as "an ineffectual angel beating in void his luminous wings in vain". Who, among the following, made such a remark?
(A) T.S. Eliot.
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) F.R. Leavis.
(D) I.A. Richards
Ans- (B)
100.There are some statements given below in reference with the term 'prosody'. Find out incorrect statements.
1.It is systematic study of versification in poetry.
2.It deals with principles and practice of meter, rhyme and stanza forms.
3. It also studies figure of speech.
4. It does not include study of speech sound patterns and effects..
(A) 1 and 2.
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 3 and 4.
(D) Only 4
Ans- (C)
101. Among the following which work has not been written by Charles Lamb?
(A) Essays of Elia
(B) Last Essays of Elia
(C) Tales from Shakespeare
(D) The Great Adventures of Ulysses
Ans- (D)
102. Which of the following figures of speech involves a play upon words?
(A) Antithesis.
(B) Alliteration
(C) Pun.
(D) Zeugma
Ans- (C)
103.In which of the following plays, the middle class provincial life has been depicted, by Shakespeare
(A) Timon of Athens
(B) The Merry Wives
(C) Coriolanus.
(D) The Winter's Tale
Ans- (B)
104.Catherine Barkley is a character in
(A) A Farewell to Arms
(B) Men without Women
(C) The Sun Also Rises
(D) Absalom, Absalom!
Ans- (A)
105.From which of the following poems the given lines have been taken?
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes."
(A) The Princess
(B) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom'd
(C) Thyrsis
(D) Dover Beach
Ans- (A)
106. Which of the following texts is "a rarely imaginative version of a tale from Boccaccio"?
(A) Prometheus Unbound.
(B) 'True Love
(C) 'Isabella'
(D) The Borderers
Ans- (C)
107. Which of the following works was
originally titled as "Laon and Cythia"?
(A) Ode to the West Wind
(B) The Mask of Anarchy
(C) Prometheus Unbound
(D) The Revolt of Islam
Ans- (D)
108. Young Nick Adams is a character of Hemingway's novel
(A) A Farewell to Arms
(B) In Our Times
(C) The Sun Also Rise
(D) To Have or Have Not
Ans- (B)
109. The famous characters - Grace Melbury and Giles Winterbourne appear in Hardy's novel
(A) The of the Native
(B) The Woodlanders
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) Under the Greenwood Tree
Ans- (B)
Out of four choices given in the following questions only one word is spelt correctly. The meaning of correctly spelt word is given in the beginning. (Q. No. 110 to 113)
110.Intended to cheat someone
(A) Fraudulent
(B) Fradulant
(C) Fraedulant.
(D) Fraudulant
Ans- (A)
111. A slaughter house
(A) Abbatoir.
(B) Abatoir
(C) Abatteur.
(D) Abattoir
Ans- (D)
112. The scientific study of the earth's atmosphere
(A) Meterology.
(B) Meteorology
(C) Metrology.
(D) Matrology
Ans- (B)
113. Extremely unpleasant
(A) Abnoxious.
(B) Obnoxous
(C) Obnoxious.
(D) Obnaxious
Ans- (C)
114. Which of the following ages 'witnessed epic form of poetry at its
peak?
(A) Classical age
(B) Renaissance period
(C) Neoclassical age
(D) Modern age
Ans- (A)
115.Which of the following figures of speech is used in the sentence:
"I have read all of Milton"
(A) Metaphor.
(B) Allegory
(C) Personification.
(D) Metonymy
''Ans- (D)
116. Change the sentence from direct narration to indirect narration correctly.
Ram told Shyam, "Please take your seat. I am very glad to see you. Where had you been so long?"
(A) Ram requested Shyam to take his
seat He told him that he was glad to
see him and asked him where he had been so long.
(B) Ram told Shyam he should take his
seat and he was glad to see him. He asked him where he had been so long.
(C) Ram requested Shyam to take his
seat, glad to see him and where he was so long.'
(D) None of these
Ans- (A)
117.Who regarded Shakespeare's greatest plays 'as books to be read rather than as plays to be acted'?
(A) William Wordsworth.
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Matthew Arnold.
(D) Charles Lamb
Ans- (D)
118. Which of the following works by William Shakespeare is a pastoral romance ?
(A) As You Like It.
(B) Twelfth Night
(C) The Tempest.
(D) Othello
Ans- (A)
119. Humbug Casby in Little Dorrit is
(A) a funny character a philosopher of oriental thoughts
(C) a police officer from Tudor stock
(D) an officer in British Navy
Ans - (F)
120. In The Sun Also Rises, having flittered through several sexual liaisons, Lady Brett Ashley, finally chooses.
(A) Romeo, a young Spanish Matador
(B) Clemenzo, a Parisian Chef
(C) Nick Adams
(D) Lieutenant Frederic Henry
Ans-( F)
121. Which of the following poets has written the lines as given below: Blow bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying. "Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying. dying, dying."
(A) John Keats.
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) Alfred Lord Tennyson.
(D) Robert Frost
Ans- (C)
122.Which of the following works is not written by Charles Lamb?
(A) The Old Familiar Faces
(B) John Woodvill
(C) 'An Essay on the Principles of
Human Action'
(D) of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the time of Shakespeare
Ans- (C)
123"Portrait of a Lady" is a dramatic monologue written by
(A) P.B. Shelley.
(B) Tennyson
(C) T.S. Eliot.
(D) None of them
Ans- (C)
124.Among the given below pairs in respect not of Faulkner's novels which is correct pair?
(A) Mosquitoes New Orleans - a satiric novel on
(B) The Sound and the Fury-the story of decline of the compson family
(C) The Hamlet the story of King Hamlet and his son
(D) A Fable-an allegory about man's search for peace
Ans- (C)
125. "No nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands ellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands..."
Which of the following poems by William Wordsworth contain the above mentioned lines?
(A) Tintern Abbey
(B) Daffodils
(C) Solitary Reaper
(D) Three years she crew in sun and shower
Ans-(C)
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