UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2010 | UPSESSB OLD /PREVIOUS / PAPER OF TRAINED GRADUATE TEACHER RECRUITMENT EXAM SUBJECT ENGLISH

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This question paper has 125 questions with their answers. It is related to the old Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) Recruitment Examination Question paper 2010 conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (Allahabad)

  1. The beginning of the modern realistic drama in England took place with the writing of Caste, a play written by-
    (A) Pinero (B) Arthur Jones
    (C) Robertson (D) Ibsen
    Ans (C)
  2. In which Charles Dickens’ novel
    we come across a character called Mr. Micawber?
    (A) A Tale of Two Cities
    (B) David Copperfield
    (C) Great Expectations
    (D) Oliver Twist
    Ans- (B)
  3. To use another person’s thoughts, writings as one’s own is called-
    (A) Plagiarism (B) Pantheism
    (C) Syllogism (D) Parody
    Ans- (A)
  4. ‘Willing suspension of disbelief’ is a phrase coined by-
    (A) Dryden (B) Coleridge
    (C) T. S. Eliot (D) Arnold
    Ans- (B)
  5. The Chaucerian Stanza or Rhyme Royal comprises-
    (A) 7 lines. (B) 8 lines
    (C) 9 lines (D) 4 lines
    Ans- (A)
  6. ‘The Little Man’ written by Gals-worthy is a/an
    (A) Poem (B) Novel
    (C) Play (D) One Act Play
    Ans- (D)
  7. ‘A sudden and ridiculous descent from the exalted to the common-place and ordinary, especially when a writer, striving for the noble or pathetic, achieves, the ludicrous’ is best expressed by the term-
    (A) The comic relief (B) Bathos
    (C) Melodrama. (D) Paradox
    Ans- (B)
  8. Who, among the following was the first poet laureate officially appointed by the British sovereign? (A) Ben Jonson.(B) Robert Southey
    (C) Dryden (D) Wordsworth
    Ans- (C)
  9. The phrase ‘objective co-relative’ has been coined by
    (A) Ezra Pound. (B) Walt Whitman
    (C) T.S. Eliot (D) I. A. Richards
    Ans-(C)
  10. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘too’ : He was so excited that he could not think.
    (A) He was too excited and so he could not think.
    (B) He was very too excited to think.
    (C) He was too excited to think.
    (D) He was much too excited to think.
    Ans- (C)
  11. Tick the correctly punctuated sentence –
    (A) they invoked Gods who blessed them.
    (B) They invoked Gods who blessed them.
    (C) They invoked gods who blessed them.
    (D) They invoked gods who blessed them?
    Ans- (C)
  12. Tick the correctly punctuated sentence:
    (A) the ganga rises from the himalayas.
    (B) The Ganga rises from the Himalayas.
    (C) The ganga rises from the Himalayas.
    (D) The Ganga rises from the himalayas.
    Ans- (B)
  13. Othello killed Desdemona out of-
    (A) anger (B) hatred
    (C) love. (D) ignorance
    Ans- (C)
  14. Shakespeare wrote-
    (A) romantic comedies
    (B) comedies of humour:
    (C) comedies of errors
    (D) sentimental comedies
    Ans-(A)
  15. ‘The wisest, the brightest and the meanest is said of
    (A) Lefoe. (B) Bacon
    (C) Milton. (D) Dryden
    Ans-(B)
  16. Complete the following sentence by selecting the correct option:
    Shakespeare was born at ……
    (A) Statford-at-Avon
    (B) Stratford-upon-Avon
    (C) Startford-in-Avon
    (D) Startford-on-Avon
    Ans- (D)
  17. ‘Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners’
    The above words from the speech of-
    (A) Hamlet. (B) lago
    (C) Viola (D) Brutus
  18. Roberts Southey was succeeded by……… as the poet Laureate of England.
    (A) Tennyson (B) Arnold
    (C) Wordsworth (D) Shelley
    Ans- (C)
  19. ‘Let us go then, you and I,
    When the evening is spreadout against the sky-
    Like a patient etherized upon a table,
    The above lines have been written in-
    (A) Unrhymed verse
    (B) Blank verse
    (C) Free verse
    (D) lambic meter
    Ans- (C)

Question Nos. 20 to 23: Each of the following sentences is divided into three parts 1, 2 &3. Some of the sentences have errors in one part and some have none. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. If there is no error, mark (D).

  1. Both Ram and Shyam/(A) were not present/ (B) in the classroom./ (C) No error (D)
    Ans-(A)
  2. It is really strange/ (A) that he has not/ (B) replied my letter./ (C) No error (D)
    Ans- (D)
  3. Many things/ (A) have happened since/ (B) I have left the school./(C) No error (D)
    Ans- (C)
  4. He told me/ (A) that he is not/(B) interested in games and sports./ (C) No error (D)
    Ans- (B)

Question Non. 24 to 28: In questions 24 to 28 you have a passage. Read the passage carefully, and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Though fond of many acquaintances, I desire an intimacy only with a few. The Man in Black, whom I have often mentioned, in one whose friendship I could wish to acquire, because he possesses my esteem. His manners, it is true, are tinctured with some strange inconsistencies; and he may be justly termed a humorist in a nation of humorists. Through he is generous even to profusion, he effects to be thought a prodigy of parsimony and prudence; through his conversation be replete with the most sordid and selfish maxims, his heart is dilated with them most unbounded love. I have known him profess himself a man-hater, while his cheek was glowing with compassion; and while his looks were softened into pity, I have heard him use the language of the most ill-bounded ill-nature. Some affect humanity and tenderness, others boats of having such dispositions from nature; but he is the only man I ever knew who seemed ashamed of his natural benevolence. He takes as much pains to hide his feelings, as any hypocrite would to conceal his indifference; but on every unguarded moment the mask drops off, and reveals him to the most superficial observer.

  1. ‘Because he possesses my esteem’ means-
    (A) I hate him
    (B) I have great regard for him
    (C) He occupies my room unlawfully
    (D) He does not like me.
    Ans- (B)
  2. ‘Humorist’ has been used for
    (A) one who loves creating humor
    (B) one who writes comedies of humours
    (C) one who is capricious
    (D) one who loves humorous people
    Ans- (A)
  3. ‘Parsimony’ refers to
    (A) the money that Parsees use for donation
    (B) avoidance of excess
    (C) the quality of being a spendthrift
    (D) the money that does not belong to the use
    Ans- (B)
  4. ‘Glowing with compassion’ implies
    (A) full of pity (B) red with anger
    (C) blushing. (D) shamefacedly
    Ans- (A)
  5. ‘Reveals him’ means
    (A) exposes his shameful
    Conconduct
    (B) evidences his irritability
    (C) makes his latent good evident) manifests his attempt to hide his shameful conduct
    Ans- (D)
  6. The kidnappers said, “If you do not pay the ransom. ‘we’ll kill the boy.”
    (A) The kidnappers threatened to kill the boy if they did not pay the ransom.
    (B) The kidnappers said that if they paid not the ransom, they will kill the boy.
    (C) The kidnappers said to them that if you do not pay the ransom, we shall kill the boy.
    (D) The kidnappers threatened that if the parents of the boy did not pay the ransom the boy will be killed
    Ans-(A)
  7. ‘Ugh! There’s a slug in my lettuce. Waiter! “he cried.
    (A) He said ugh that there was a slug in lettuce and asked the waiter to come.
    (B) He exclaimed with disgust that there was a slug in his lettuce and called the waiter.
    (C) He said to the waiter that ugh there was a slug in his lettuce.
    (D) He asked the waiter that there was a slug in his lettuce.
    Ans- (B)
  8. “I hope you’ll have a good journey,” I said. 1 also said. “Good bye”.
    (A) I bade him good bye and hoped that he would have a good journey. (B) I said that I hoped with good bye that he will have a good journey.
    (C) I was hopeful that he will have a good, journey and bade him good bye.
    (D) I said him good bye and wished him a good journey.
    Ans- (A)
  9. “You used to be good at Grammar, “said I. “Why have you neglected it?”
    (A) I said that he used to be good at Grammar and said why he had neglected it.
    (B) I said to him that he had been good at grammar and wanted to know why he had neglected it.
    (C) I reminded him that he used to be good at grammar and asked when he had neglected it.
    (D) I asked him that why had he neglected grammar when he used to be good at it.
    Ans-(C)
  10. I invited Rama to come for a drive the following day.
    (A) I said to Rama, “Will you come for a drive the following day?”
    (B) I said to Rama, “Will you come for a drive the next day?”
    (C) I put a question to Rama, “Will you come for a drive the day following?”
    (D) I said, “Rama, would you like to come for a drive tomorrow?”
    Ans- (D)
  11. “Allusion”
    (A) is another spelling of illusion (B) is a grammatical device
    (C) is an indirect or passing reference to an event, person place or artistic work
    (D) is a dramatic device
    Ans- (C)
  12. Who is known as “the poet’s poet?”
    (A) John Milton (B) John Dryden
    (C) Edmund Spenser (D) T.S. Eliot
    Ans-(C)

Question Nos. 36 to 41: Fill in the blanks with correct prepositions from those given after every sentence:

  1. I don’t understand; what you are getting……….
    (A) on (B) in (C) at (D) with
    Ans- (A)
  2. He shook me……. the hand and helped me off with my coat.
    (A) on (B) by (C) at (D) with
    Ans- (B)
  3. She is going to have another blouse made to go with her costume, as her old one is quite worn…….
    (A) to (B) of (C) out (D) within
    Ans- (C)
  4. We set…….. … as soon as the old man pointed out the way to us.
    (A) of (B) off (C) towards (D) for
    Ans- (B)
  5. You must account to the manager…… the money you used.
    (A) of (B) with (C) about (D) for
    Ans- (D)
  6. The police accused the young man….. murder.
    (A) of (B) about (C) for (D) amid
    Ans- (A)
  7. Portia is the heroine of the play
    (A) Hamlet
    (B) The merry wives of Windsor
    (C) The Tempest
    (D) The Merchant of Venice
    Ans-(D)
  8. The lines, “Age cannot whether her, nor custom stale
    Her infinite variety,”occur in-
    (A) All for love.
    (B) Hamlet
    (C) Antony and Cleopatra
    (D) As you like it
    Ans- (C)
  9. The lines
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a have’n of hell, a hell of heaven “occur in-
    (A) Lycidas (B) Paradise Regained
    (C) Comus. (D) Paradise Lost
    Ans-(D)
  10. The lines
    “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven” occur in the poem of
    (A) William Wordsworth
    (B) William Shakespeare
    (C) John Milton
    (D) Christopher Marlowe
    Ans- (A)
  11. “Loyalties criss-cross each other “is a dialogue in a play by
    (A) Shakespeare (B) Galsworthy
    (C) Milton (D) Shaw
    Ans- (B)
  12. The author of “Samson Agonistes ”was-
    (A) John Fletcher (B) John Webster
    (C) John Milton (D) Ben Jonson
    Ans- (C)
  13. Who of the following poets belong to the Fleshly School of Poetry?
    (A) Edmund Spenser
    (B) John Keats
    (C) J.S. Eliot
    (D) D.G. Rossetti
    Ans- (A)
  14. E.M. Forster belonged
    (A) The Fleshly School of Poetry
    (B) The Georgians.
    (C) The Bloomsbury Group
    (D) The Age of Interrogation
    Ans –(C)
  15. Beat writers
    (A) wrote in the 1950’s
    (B) wrote in the 1940’s
    (C) wrote in the 1960’s
    (D) wrote in the 1980’s
    Ans- (A)
  16. ‘Bucolic’ refers to
    (A) the poets who wrote in praise of wine
    (B) the poets who wrote pastoral poetry
    (C) the poets who imitated pope
    (D) the poets who imitated Wordsworth
    Ans- (B)
  17. Who wrote the following lines?
    Fresh spring and summer and winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief.
    (A) Keats (B) Shelley
    (C) Southey. (D) Coleridge
    Ans- (B)
  18. The author of ‘Nightingales’ is
    (A) Robert Frost (B) Rupert Brooks
    (C) Robert Bridges (D) John Keats
    Ans- (C)
  19. Of which poem is the following line a part?
    For them no more the blazing heart shall burn.
    (A) Lycidas (B) The Scholar Gipsy
    (C) Gray’s Elegy (D) In Memoriam
    Ans- (C)
  20. “The Alchemist”is a
    (A) novel (B) comedy
    (C) book on chemistry (D) tragedy
    Ans- (D)
  21. An alexandrine is a verse line in
    (A) an iambic hexameter
    (B) an iambic pentameter
    (C) a dactylic tetrameter
    (D) a trochaic hexameter
    Ans-(A)
  22. W.H. Auden belonged to the
    (A) present century
    (B) nineteenth century
    (C) eighteenth century
    (D) twentieth century
    Ans- (B)
  23. For the last thirty years of his life Thomas Hardy did not write
    (A) short stories (B) novels
    (C) poems (D) plays
    Ans-(B)
  24. Robert Browing’s poetry is
    (A) optimistic (B) pessimistic
    (C) melioristic
    (D) neither optimistic nor pessimistic
    Ans- (A)
  25. Milton was-
    (A) an Elizabethan poet
    (B) a belated Elizabethan poet
    (C) a Jacobean poet
    (D) a classical poet
    Ans- (B)
  26. Dryden as a critic was
    (A) a blind supporter of Aristotle
    (B) an opponent of the critical theories of Aristotle
    (C) unaware of the critical theories of Aristotle
    (D) a rational follower of the critical theories of Aristotle
    Ans- (B)

Question No. 62 to 67: Read each of the following sentences to trace the parts which are incorrect grammatically. The alphabet of the part is to be mentioned as the answer :

  1. The director/(A) failed in films after films/(B) which he directed.-/(C) No error. (D)
    Ans- (B)
  2. No sooner had/(A) the doctor enter the hospital/(B) than it began to rain /(C) No error. (D)
    Ans-(A)
  3. Had he reached the station/ (A) a few minutes earlier/(B) he had caught the train./(C) No error. (D)
    Ans- (C)
  4. He committed suicide twice/(A) before he died/(B) and left the members of his family crying./(C) No error. (D)
    Ans-(A)
  5. We congratulated him/(A) for winning scholarship/(B) and being awarded the Governor’s medal/(C) No error.(D)
    Ans- (B)
  6. The furnitures purchased by me /(A) is substandard/(B) and not fit for my drawing room./ (C) No error. (D)
    Ans- (A)

Questions no. 68 to 69: Choose the correct expressions:

  1. (A) I am fed with you.
    (B) I am fed up with you.
    (C) I am fed of you.
    (D) I am fed of with you.
    Ans- (B)
  2. (A) Look before you do.
    (B) Look before you work.
    (C) Look before you leap.
    (D) Look first an then leap.
    Ans- (C)
  3. ‘Sartor-Resartus’ is a thought provoking work of
    (A) Carlyle (B) William Morris
    (C) Ruskin (D) Ibsen
    Ans- (A)
  4. In the year 1637 Milton confided to his friend that he had fixed his mind upon writing some monumental poetical work.
    Select among the following, the name of his friend to whom this information was given:
    (A) Richard Powell
    (B) Edward King
    (C) Henry Lawes
    (D) Diodati
    Ans- (B)
  5. ‘As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, They kill us for sport’
    The above lines by Shakespeare occur in the play-
    (A) Julius Caesar (B) Macbeth
    (C) Hamlet (D) King Lear
    Ans-(D)
  6. The woman character Delilah appears in-
    (A)Dr. Faustus
    (B) Samson Agonistes
    (C) Twelfth Night
    (D) Macbeth
    Ans-(B)
  7. Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
    (A) 1931 (B) 1929
    (C) 1930 (D) 1932
    Ans- (D)
  8. ‘Will no one tell me what she sings,
    Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow,
    And battles long ago.
    The above lines occurs in
    (A) The Solitary Reaper
    (B) Three Years She Grew
    (C) Michael
    (D) An Evening Walk
    Ans- (A)
  9. ‘Death of a Salesman’ is written by
    (A) Faulkner (B) Arthur Miller
    (C) O’Neill . (D) Hemingway
    Ans-(B)
  10. Who made the following remark about Milton?
    “Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it”
    (A) Tilliard (B) Coleridge
    (C) Blake (D) Christopher Hill
    Ans- (C)
  11. The sounding cataract
    Haunted me like passion’ Those lines occur in the poem
    (A) Resolution and Independence
    (B) The Tables Turned
    (C) The River Dudden
    (D) Tintern Abbey
    Ans-(D)
  12. Find out the figure of speech in the following line:
    “The waves thundered on the shore”
    (A) Personification
    (B) Onomatopoeia
    (C) Hyperbole
    (D) Metaphor
    Ans-(A)

Question no. 80 to 89: in questions 80 to 89 you have a passage. Read the passage carefully, and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
He is a very skilled man. Sometimes he sends his drill more than a mile into the earth. There is a lot of luck in drilling for oil. The drill may just miss the oil although it is near; on the other hand, it may strike oil at a fairly high level. When the drill goes down, it brings up soil. The samplers of soils from various depths are examined for traces of oil. When we buy a few gallons of petrol for our cars, we pay not only the cost of the petrol, but also part of the cost of the search that is always going.

  1. Whales are
    (A) the largest animals ever existing in the world.
    (B) the largest animals living on land at present.
    (C) the largest animals now living in the world.
    (D) the largest animals living in the Caspian Sea.
    Ans- (D)
  2. Vegetable oil
    (A) was not known to people in ancient time.
    (B) was well known to people long ago.
    (C) was known only to old people. (D) is known only to old people.
    Ans- (A)

82.The term ‘mineral oil’ refers here to
(A) the oil from which petrol is made
(B) petrol only
(C) diesel only
(D) any oil that burns brightly
Ans- (A)

  1. Oil-burning lamps
    (A) are in use in more and more homes these days
    (B) are not very much in use now (C) burn more brightly than any other type of lamps
    (D) are used by a large number of people, although not so many as previously.
    Ans- (B)
  2. The purpose of lubrication is
    (A) production of heat
    (B) reduction of heat and friction
    (C) to reach all parts of a machine
    (D) production of the oil having the right thickness
    Ans-(B)
  3. Mineral oil became very important only when
    (A) engineers invented the internal
    combustion engine
    (B) scientists in Pennsylvania developed oil wells
    (C) lubricating oils were made from it
    (D) American Indians promoted its use
    Ans- (C)
  4. Scientists are of the opinion
    (A) coal was formed shale lying under the surface of the earth
    (B) large deposits of mud on the sea bed went to form oil
    (C) the sea creatures caught between layers of rock went to form oil
    (D) oil was formed from sea water when it was added by the process of chemistry, pressure and temperature
    Ans- (D)
  5. The author opines that where there is shale, there is likely to be oil because
    (A) oil was first formed under the sea
    (B) shale is a sedimentary rock
    (C) oil was made from shale
    (D) shale is a sort of oil
    Ans-(B)
  6. The oil drill
    (A) should invariably go at least a mile into the earth
    (B) cannot go more than a mile into the earth
    (C) often goes about a mile into the earth
    (D) occasionally goes more than a mile into the earth
    Ans- (D)
  7. The cost of unsuccessful drilling
    (A) is borne by the driller
    (B) is borne by the refineries
    (C) is borne by the government
    (D) is borne by the consumer of petrol or other petroleum products
    Ans- (D)

Question no. 90 to 94: In questions 90 to 94 you have a passage. Read the passage carefully, and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Truth and non-violence are our goals. Non-violence is the supreme dharma, there is no discovery of greater import than this. So long as we engage in mundane actions, so long as soul and body are together, some violence will continue to occur through our agency. But we must renounce at least the violence that it is possible for us to renounce. We should understand that the less violence a religion permits, the more is the truth. contained in it. If we can ensure the deliverance of India, it is only though truth and non-violence. Many people have the habit of hiding their own sentiments when in the presence of an important person and suiting their talk to his pleasure, They do not realize how cruelly they deceive themselves and harm the truth. One must say what one feels. It is impertinence to go against one’s reason. One must not hesitate the least to tell what one feels to anyone, be he a Minister of the Government or even a more exalted person. Deal with all with truth and non-violence.

  1. ‘Import’ here means
    (A) to bring from abroad
    (B) that which is brought from abroad
    (C) importance
    (D) to be of consequence to
    Ans- (C)
  2. ‘So long as soul and body are together means
    (A) so long as we are alive
    (B) so long as we are able to meet our expenses
    (C) so long as we keep ourselves away from religious disputes
    (D) so long as we do not support the fight for freedom
    Ans- (A)
  3. Deliverance implies
    (A) the release of the soul from the body
    (B) freedom from the British domination
    (C) the author’s release from the jail
    (D) authoritative opinion
    Ans- (B)
  4. People hide their own sentiments before an important person
    (A) because they are afraid of him
    (B) because they do not want to let him know the real position
    (C) because they are secretive by nature
    (D) because they want to flatter and please him.
    Ans-(D)
  5. Which is the most truthful dharma?
    (A) That which encourages violence
    (B) That which discourages violence
    (C) That which has nothing to do with non-violence
    (D) That which is amoral
    Ans- (B)

Question no. 95 to 98: Select the correctly punctuated sentences.

  1. speak clearly if you would be understood
    (A) Speak clearly if you would be understood.
    (B) Speak clearly, if you would be understood.
    (C) Speak clearly, if you would be understood.
    (D) Speak clearly, if you would be understood.
    Ans- (A)
  2. wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought
    (A) Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
    (B) Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
    (C) Wealth may seek us. But wisdom must be sought.
    (D) Wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought.
    Ans- (D)
  3. perhaps cried he there may be such monsters
    that you describe
    (A) “Perhaps”cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe.”
    (B)”Perhaps”cried he. “There may
    be such monsters as you described.”
    (C)”Perhaps”cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe!”
    (D) “Perhaps”cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe.”
    Ans- (C)
  4. there is a slavery that no legislation can abolish the slavery of caste
    (A) there is a slavery that no legislation can abolish: The slavery of caste.
    (B) There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish: the slavery of caste.
    (C) There is a slavery, that no legislation can abolish, the slavery of caste
    (D) There is a slavery that no legislations, The Slavery of Caste.
    Ans-(B)

Questions no. 99 to 104: are related to change in the voice. Select the correct alternatives from those given :

  1. They are pulling down the old theatre.
    (A) The old theatres is being pulled down.
    (B) The old theatre is being pulled down.
    (C) The old theatre is pulling down.
    (D) The old theatre has been pulling down.
    Ans- (B)
  2. The organizers will exhibit the painting till the end of the month.
    (A) The paintings will be exhibiting by the organizers till the end of the month.
    (B) The paintings will be presented in an exhibition till the end of the month.
    (C) An exhibition of the paintings will be held till the end of the month. (D) The paintings will be exhibited by the organizers till the end of the month.
    Ans- (D)
  3. He expected us to offer him the job.
    (A) A job was expected by us to be offered him.
    (B) He expected to be offered a job. (C) An offer of a job by us was expected by him.
    (D) An offer of a job was being expected by him.
    Ans- (C)
  4. The P.M. was to have opened the dry dock.
    (A) The dry dock was to have been opened by the P.M.
    (B) It was expected that the P.M. would open the dry dock.
    (C) The opening of the dry clock was to be done by the P.M.
    (D) The P.M. was scheduled to open the dry dock.
    Ans- (A)
  5. An uneasy silence succeeded the shot.
    (A) The shot was successful after an uneasy silence.
    (B) The shot was succeeded by an uneasy silence.
    (C) The shot was succeeded by an uneasy silence among them.
    (D) There was an uneasy silence after the shot had been fired.
    Ans- (B)
  6. He was made to surrender his passport..
    (A) I made him to surrender his passport.
    (B) The authorities made him to surrender his passport.
    (C) They made him surrender his passport.
    (D) We made him to surrender his passport.
    Ans-(B)
  7. ‘Cambridge School’ refers to
    (A) a group of early twentieth century poets
    (B) a group of early twentieth century novelists
    (C) a group of early twentieth century dramatists
    (D) a group of early twentieth century critics
    Ans-(B)
  8. ‘Catharsis’
    (A) is related to tragedy
    (B) is related to comedy
    (C) is related to sonneteering
    (D) is related to farce
    Ans- (A)
  9. ‘Chorus’
    (A) is a brand of writing inks
    (B) is a group of singers in cinema
    (C) is a group of beautiful actresses (D) is a group of D.J. dancers
    Ans- (B)
  10. ‘Comic Relief implies
    (A) the interval in a play or film
    (B) a hilarious comedy
    (C) a short humorous episode interrupting a tragedy
    (D) the effect of Catharsis
    Ans- (C)
  11. Morality plays were
    (A) produced in the 15th and 16th centuries.
    (B) produced in the 17th century
    (C) produced in the 18th century
    (D) produced in the 19th century
    Ans- (A)
  12. Name the figure of speech in the following line:
    Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate.
    (A) Metaphor (B) Simile
    (C)Apostrophe (D) Oxymoron
    Ans- (D)
  13. ‘Parable’ is
    (A) a poem in paragraphs
    (B) a book in an epic
    (C) a brief tale illustrating some moral
    (D) a cure of paralysis
    Ans- (C)

112.Vindictive’ means
(A) windy (B) stormy
(C) revengeful (D) peace loving
Ans- (C)

325 MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE | MCQS AND SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FOR TGT PGT | LT | KVS | PRT| UGC NET|JRF EXAMINATION.

  1. Tumultuous’ means
    (A) causing disturbance
    (B) causing fear
    (C) causing illness
    (D) causing grief
    Ans- (A)
  2. ‘Reticent’ means
    (A) outspoken (B) reserved
    (C) quarrelsome. (D) benevolent
    Ans- (B)
  3. ‘Nauseous’ means
    (A) gaseous (B) venomous
    (C) sickening (D) generous
    Ans- (C)
  4. ‘Hypothetical’ means
    (A) practical. (B) philosophical
    (C) sensitive. (D) supposed
    Ans- (D)
  5. The murmurers haunt of flies on summer eaves.
    The figure of speech is
    (A) Simile. (B) Metaphor
    (C) Onomatopoeia (D) Hyperbole
    Ans- (C)
  6. Oh Fame!-if I e’er took delight in the Praises.
    The figure of speech is
    (A) Personification.(B) Apostrophe
    (C) Onomatopoeia. (D) Metaphor
    Ans- (B)
  7. Which of the following plays in not by Shakespeare?
    (A) Much Ado About Nothing
    (B) Edward II
    (C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    (D) King Henry IV
    Ans-(B)

Questions no. 120 to 125: Select the correctly spelt words:
120.
(A) appelant (B) apellant
(C) Appellant (D) appellnt
Ans- (C)
121.
(A) Beelzebub. (B) Beilzebub
(B) Bilzebub. (D) Bielzebub
Ans- (A)
122.
(A) Exaseration (B) exaggeration
(C) exageration (D) exazeration
Ans- (B)
123.
(A) hidrocortizone
(B) hydrocortizone
(C) hydrocortisone
(D) hidrocortisone
Ans- (C)
124.
(A) sulfragette (B) suffragete
(C) sufragette D) surfagete
Ans- (C)
125.
(A) narcissus (B) narcissious
(C) naaricussus (D) naarcissous
Ans-(A)

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