UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2001
This question paper has 85 questions with their answers. It is related to the old Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) Recruitment Examination Question paper 2001 conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (ALLAHABAD)
- Who is Wordsworth referring to in “Brother, Englishman and Friend”?
(a) Sidney. (b) Bacon
(c) Spenser. (d) Hopkins
Ans .(c)
2.”Milton, thou shouldst be living at
this hour. “This statement is given by :
(a) Wordsworth (b) Dryden
(c) Pope. (d) Gray
Ans. (a)
- The character ‘Fool’ in ‘Twelfth Night’ serves the purpose of:
(a) Reality of life. (b) Humour
(c)Inter linking the main and subplots
(d) All these three
Ans. (d) - Don Adriano is a character in :
(a) King Lear. (b) Hamlet
(c) Tempest. (d) Love Labour Lost
Ans. (d) - The view better to resign in Hell than serve in Heaven’s has been expressed in ‘Paradise Lost’
by:
(a) Satan (b) Christ
(c) Adam (d) Milton
Ans. (a) - ‘Others abide our question, thou art free: Who has said about Shakespeare?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Milton
(c) Mathew Arnold. (d) Ben Jonson
Ans. (c)
7.As regards Philosophy, the Romantic writers were influenced by the ideal Philosophy of………. and……..of German.
(a) Kant and Hegel
(b) Hegel and Marx
(c) Both Kant and Hegel
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
- Who has called Bacon the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind?
(a) Alexander Pope (b) Coleridge
(c) Dr. Johnson (d) None of them
Ans. (a)
9.Who is Hamlet beloved in ‘Hamlet’?
(a) Ophelia. (b) Cordelia
(c) Olivia (d) Porting
Ans. (A)
READ THE FOLLOWING ALSO-
- Bernard Shaw drew his ideas for his play ‘Man and Superman’ from the Philosophical doctrine of:
(a) Bergson. (b) Spenser
(c) Nietzche. (d) Bradley
Ans. (c)
11.’Love Among the Artists’ is a……….by Bernard Shaw.
(a) Play. (b) Novel
(c) Lecture (d) Short story
Ans.(b)
- Who was the first recipient of Sahitya Academy award for English:
(a) Raja Rao. (b) Mulk Raj Anand (c) R.K. Narayan
(d) Bhabani Bhattacharya
Ans. (c) - …….of Shakespeare are examples for the comedy of manners:
(a) Love’s Labour Lost
(b) Much Ando About Nothing
(c) Both ‘a’ and.”b”
(d) Twelfth Night
Ans. (b) - Hardy who created ‘Wessex’ in known as a :
(a) National novelist
(b) Regional novelist
(c) Religious novelist
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)
15.”Fraility, the name is women “are from which famous Shakespeare play?
(a) Hamlet (b) Tempest
(c) As you like it. (d) King Lear
Ans. (a)
- Who wrote these famous lines? “A heavy weight of hours had chained and bowed.
One too thee: tame less and swift and proud.”
(a) Shelley. (b) Chaucer
(c) Arnold (d) Wordsworth
Ans. (a)
17.Who define poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty:
(a) Hazlitt (b) Pope
(c) Carlyle. (d) Hudson
Ans. (b)
18.Like the Eighteenth century writers, very few romantics were supported by the marking of their books. Identify them:
(a) Wordsworth (b) Scott
(c) Byron. (d) Both ‘b’ and ‘c’
Ans. (d)
19.In which of Shakespeare plays do these lines figure? “The Lunatic, the lover and the poet. Are of Imagination all compact”
(a) Twelfth Night (b) The Tempest
(c) Midsummer Night’s Dream
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
- Shaw’s play ‘Arms and the man’ contain a satire on love and :
(a) War (b) Sex (c) Family (d) Peace
Ans. (a) - ‘Rape of the Lock’ is based on:
(a) Romance
(b) A small matter of the court which led to great quarrel between two families.
(c) Greek Tragedy
(d) French Folklore
Ans. (b) - Pope was a :
(a) Priest (b) Govt. employee
(c)Teacher(d) Devoteee of literature
Ans. (d) - Who said:
“There is no essential difference between the language of prose and that of the metrical composition”?
(a) Wordswoth (b) Arnold
(c) Eliot. (d) Keats
Ans. (a)
24.Who was it that defined Romanticism as addition of strangeness to beauty’?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Walter Peter
(c) Pope. (d) Bacon
Ans. (b)
- What kind of poem in Milton’s Lycidas?
(a) Elegy (b) Epic (c) Lyric (d) Ode
Ans. (a) - Which of these is not a play by Bernard Shaw?
(a) Canadian (b) Arms and the Man
(c) The Skin Game
(d) The Philanderer
Ans. (c) - The Age of Pope is also called :
(a)The Restoration
(b) The Augustan Age
(c) Classical Age
(d) Age of Sensibility
Ans. (b)
28.The romantic comedy “The Spanish Gipsy “by Thomas Middleton bears some similarities with Shakespeare’s:
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) As You Like It
(c) All’s Well that Ends Well
(d) A Mid Summer Night’s Dream
Ans. (b)
29.Who was it that compared Dickens to Most Shakespeare who can “with a phrase make a character as real as flesh and blood”?
(a) Mathew Arnold
(b) Raymond Williams
(c) I.A. Richards (d) T.S. Eliot
Ans. (d)
READ THE FOLLOWING ALSO-
UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 1999
- “Dear son of a memory, great heir of fame.”
This has been said by Milton about :
(a) Spenser. (b) Shakespeare
(c) Chaucer. (d) None of these
Ans. (b)
- What could be the tragic flaw in Hamlet?
(a) Noble Inaction
(b) Oedipus Complex
(c) Vaulting ambitions
(d) None of these
Ans. (a) - Wordsworth’s view, “something for more deeply interfused “suggests the Romantic spirit of:
(a) Something more than what is derived from everyday observation.
(b)Something more than the sanction of the majority view.
(c) Ideas against the material and
“commonsense” views that dominated in the preceding period.
(d) All these three
Ans. (d) - “Marlowe simply prepared the way for the master who was to follow. Who is the master referred to in this remark?
(a) Shakespeare (b) John Webster
(c) Thomas Middleton
(d) Ben Jonson
Ans. (a) - “He passed the flaming founds of place and time” this has been said about Milton by:
(a) Gray. (b) Blake
(c) Ben Jonson (d) Pope
Ans.(a) - “I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of imagination.”
Feeling and imagination were elevated by the Romantics to the level of apprehending and communicating truth, as the above lines indicate, who wrote these lines:
(a) Wordsworth (b) Byron
(c) Shelley. (d) Keats
Ans. (c)
36.When was “The Recluse” by Wordsworth published?
(a) 1807. (b) 1803 (c) 1810
(d) It was never published
Ans. (d)
37.The poet is called an ‘Ode’ when:
(a) It is a song of lament and mourn-ing.
(b) It is full of music and emotions. (c) Its style is lofty and dignified.?
(d) It has 14 lines only.
Ans. (c)
- Who wrote ‘Daffodils’?
(a) Keats (b) Pope
(c) Gray (d) Wordsworth
Ans. (d) - When was the first book printed in England?
(a) 1384 (b) 1476 (c) 1475 (d) 1477
Ans. (b) - Who said “The proper study of Mankind is man”?
(a) Dryden (b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Shakespeare (d) Pope
Ans. (d) - “Man is born free but he is every where in chains. “Who said this?
(a) Rousseau. (b) Hagel
(c) Plato (d) Karl Marx
Ans. (a)
42.The Lyrical Ballads was written by:
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(d) Pope
Ans. (c)
- The statement namely, “They were swifter than eagles and stronger than lions” Contains figure of speech called:
(a) Oxymoron (b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Hyperbole (d) Personification
Ans. (c)
44.Synonym of ‘Fugitive is:
(a) Escaping (b) Enduring
(c) Weak. (d) Vain
Ans. (a)
- Choose the correct spelled word from the following:
(a) Psychopatic. (b) Sycopatic
(c) Psychopathic (d) Psychopetic
Ans. (c) - Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition : I am always very well pleased……….a country Sunday.
(a) with. (b) at (c) by (d) over
Ans. (a)
47.Complete the following sentence with suitable word: His arguments amount………nothing.
(a) for (b) in (c) at (d) to
Ans. (d)
- Find the correctly spell word:
(a) Apprihend (b) Apprehend
(c) Aprihende (d) Aprehend
Ans. (b) - Choose the right form of the given sentence:
I was appointed….this post.
(a) I was appointed for this post.
(b) I was appointed to this post.
(c) was appointed from this post.
(d) I was appointed on this post.
Ans. (b) - Which is antonym of ‘Hopeful’.
(a) Hopeless (b) Non-hopeful
(c) Unhopeful. (d) Dishopeful
Ans. (a) - Complete the given sentence by using correct idiom. Hitler was proud of the…….running in his veins.
(a) Yellow Blood (b) Orange Blood (c) Red Blood (d) Blue Blood
Ans. (d) - The meaning of phrase ‘At one’s wit end’ is:
(a) Completely confused
(b) To be very witty
(c) To have no sense of humour
(d) To confuse others
Ans. (a)
53.The antonym of Transmutation’ is:
(a) Perpetuation (b) Immortality
(c) Morality. (d) Change
Ans. (a)
54.Which sentence is in Passive Voice:
(a) Tell him to leave the room.
(b) Music has interested her.
(c) Your health worries me.
(d) A reply had to be sent by me.
Ans. (d)
55.Punctuation of the following lines: ‘the old soldier who had been an object of interest for all of us now began to tell his story full of adventures’ is given in following sentences, find out the correct one:
(a) the old soldier who had been an object of interest for all of us now began to tell his story full of adventures?
(b) the old soldier who had been an object of interest, for all of us now began to tell, his story full of adventures.
(c) The old soldier, who had been an object of interest for all of us, now began to tell his story full of adventures.
(d) The old soldier? Who had been an object of interest, for all of us, now began to tell his story full of adventures.
Ans. (c)
- The figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are put together is:
(a) Oxymoron. (b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
Ans.(a) - Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
This news is not…………
(a) Credulous (b) Credible
(c) Creditable. (d) Credit
Ans. (b)
58.Choose the meaning of ‘Philanthropist’ from the following: (a) A lover of beautiful women
(b) A lover of animals
(c) A lover of mankind
(d) A lover of nature
Ans. (c)
59.What do you mean from ‘Red letter day?
(a) A day of great joy or importance
(b) Ripe time (c) In perfect order
(d) A miserable day
Ans. (a)
- Complete the sentence to select correct choice given below: That you saw a ghost was your ………
(a) Illusion (b) Dillusion
(c) Allusion. (d) Fusion
Ans. (a) - Choose the correct proverb:
(a) Diamond cuts iron
(b) Diamond cuts diamond
(c) Diamond cuts silver
(d) Diamond cuts gold
Ans. (b)
62.What is the synonym of ‘Menial’?
(a) Chaos (b) Humble
(c) Artful. (d) Innate
Ans. (b)
63.Choose the meaning of ‘Regicide’ from the following:
(a) The murderer of King.
(b) The murderer of his father.
(c) The murderer of Prime Minister.
(d) The murderer of saint.
Ans. (a)
64.Find out the correct direct narration of the following indirect speech :
The girl confessed with sorrow that she had wasted her time all those months,
(a) The girl said, “I am wasting my time.””
(b) The girl told, “I am wasting my time all these months.”
(c) The girl said, “Alas! I am wasted my time all these months”
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
65.Which of the following sentences is in passive voice?
(a) Please sit down.
(b) Shall we purchase a book.
(c) Mohan was reading a book.
(d) Good news is expected by us.
Ans. (d)
66.Pick out the correct word to complete the given proverbs:
Kill not the goose that lays the ….. …eggs.
(a) Silver (b) Bronze
(c) Golden. (d) Iron
Ans. (c)
67.Which of the following words means ‘Words inscribed on a tomb’?
(a) Alibi (b) Writ
(c) Monument (d) Epitaph
Ans. (d)
68.Pick out the correct sentence from the following:
(a) Please attend of what I say.
(b) Please attend to what I say.
(c) Please attend for what I say.
(d) Please attend with what I say.
Ans. (b)
69.Which is the best alternative to complete the sentence: His father is very anxious…………
(a) on his son’s health.
(b) about his son’s health.
(c) with his son’s health.
(d) for his son’s health.
Ans. (b)
70.Choose the response, which gives the correct spelling of the word :
(a) Compenctios. (b) Compunctus
(c) Companctious(d) Compunctious
Ans. (d)
- The antonym of ‘Melody is’
(a) Well-being (b) Disease
(c) Retain (d) Fallacious
Ans. (d)
72.Find out the correct indirect narration of the following direct speech:
John looked at the Taj and said, “How magnificent!”
(a) John looked at the Taj and told that how magnificent it is.
(b) John looked at the Taj and asked that how magnificent.
(c) John looked at the Taj and exclaimed with surprise that it was very magnificent.
(d) None of them
Ans. (c)
- The meaning of ‘Barbarian’ is :
(a) Foreigner. (b) Nature
(c) Civilised (d) Uncivilised
Ans. (d) - Which of the following word is mis-spelt?
(a) Mannerism (b) Normal
(c) Accumulate (d) Continous
Ans. (d) - Fill in the blank with a suitable word : He was excluded…….the team.
(a) on (b) by (c) for. (d) from
Ans. (d)
76.What does the idiom ‘In black and white’ means?
(a) In writing (b) To be bold
(c) To quarrel (d) In detail
Ans. (a)
77.What is the antonym of ‘Insolvent’?
(a) Intuition. (b) Translate
(c) Wealthy (d) Bankrupt
Ans. (c)
78.What figure of speech has been used in the following remark
“Even thus last night and two night more, I lay and could win thee, sleep ! by any stealth.”
(a) Onomatopoeia (b) Oxymoron
(c) Apostrophe (d) Personification
Ans. (c)
79.Which of the following sentences has the figure of speech called ‘Implied Simile’?
(a) O No! It is an over fixed mark. (b) We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
(c)The thirsty earth soaks up the rain.
(d) The cooing of doves.
Ans. (a)
80.Find out the correct indirect narration of the following direct speech : “Let the gate be left open”, said the commander.
(a) The commander said to left open the gate.
(b) The commander told to left open the gate.
(c) The commander ordered that the gate should be left open.
(d) The commander told to left open the gate
Ans. (c)
81.What is the meaning of ‘Raw deal’?
(a) Unripe fruits. (b) Hostility
(c)Harsh treatment (d)Opportunities
Ans. (c)
82.What is the synonym of ‘Wisdom’ ?
(a) Swell. (b) Surrender
(c) Follishness (d) Sagacity
Ans.(d)
83.Fill in the blank with a suitable word.
Can a woman live….. soul is dead?
(a) whose (b) which
(c) whom. (d) where
Ans. (a)
84.Which of the following sentences is not in Passive Voice?
(a) He is known to everybody.
(b) I am interested to see the movie.
(c) I am alarmed at your behaviour. (d) Your health worries me.
Ans. (d)
- Pick out the correct proverb:
(a) Cut your coat according to your cloth.
(b) Cut your coat according to your colour.
(c) Cut your coat according to your pocket.
(d) Cut your coat according to your status.
Ans. (a)
