UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2013
This question paper has 125 questions with their answers. It is related to the old Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) Recruitment Examination Question paper 2013 conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (Allahabad)
1. Complete the sentence.
Justice shows problem of………..
(A) British Society
(B) English Legal System
(C) American Legal System
(D) Scottish Society
Ans. (B)
2. Complete the sentence.
‘The Island Phrisees’ has been written by…………….
(A)Wordsworth. (B) Galsworthy
(C) Milton (D) Shakespeare
Ans. (B)
3. Fill in the gap.
I will sit…..my desk to do my lesson.
(A) at (B) with (C) for (D) in
Ans. (A)
4. Find out the mistake in the sentence given below.
The driver was put/ in the prison/
(A). (B)
for exceeding / the speed limit.
(C). (D)
Ans. (B)
5. Fill in the gap with an appropriate word.
I am badly in need…………money.
(A) with. (B) of (C) for (D) on
Ans. (B)
6. Complete the sentence.
Simplicity, sweet music and melody
are remarkable features of …………
(A) epic (B) ballad (C) ode D. satire
Ans. (B)
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7. Choose the correct alternative.
You………… him since his childhood.
(A) have known (B) know
(C) knew (D) am knowing
Ans. (A)
8. Elsinore in Denmark is the scene of a Shakespearean play. Which?
(A) King Lear (B) Coriolanus
(C) Hamlet. (D) Titus Andronicus
Ans. (C)
9. When was John Galsworthy awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?
(A)1927 (B) 1929
(C) 1932. (D) 1935
Ans. (C)
10. How many sonnets are addressed to ‘W.H.’by Shakespeare?
(A)125 (B)124 (C) 122 (D) 126
Ans. (D)
11. In which country is the story of Othello set?
(A) Venice (B) Denmark
(C) England (D) Scotland
Ans. (A)
12. Complete the sentence.
The Globe Theatre was burnt down in……………
(A) 1617 (B) 1619
(C) 1613 (D) 1609
Ans. (C)
13. Find out the mistake in the sentence given below.
She has told me/ that she saw my
(A). (B)
uncle/ at the fare /on last Friday.
(C). (D)
Ans. (False)
14. Fill in the gap with an appropriate preposition.
They were statesmen accustomed …… the management…….. great affairs.
(A) of, to (B) in, to
(C) to, of. (D) with, in
Ans. (C)
15. Choose the name of the Roman General who conquered England in
43 B.C.
(A) Julius Caesar (B) Claudius
(C) Antony (D) None of these
Ans. (D)
16. In which year, Milton’s Lycidas was written?
(A) 1638 (B) 1632
(C) 1637. (D) 1636
Ans. (C)
17. How many parts are there in The Prelude?
(A) Twelve. (B) Thirteen
(C) Fourteen (D) Eleven
Ans. (C)
18. In which year was Justice published?
(A) 1905. (B) 1908
(C) 1912 (D) 1910
Ans. (D)
19. Change the following sentence into complex sentence.
He had to sign, or be executed.
(A) If he did not signed. he had not executed.
(B) If he had not signed, he would have been executed.
(C) If he had signed, he would not executed.
(D) If he was signed, he did not executed.
Ans. (B)
20. What is ‘Euphony’?
(A)pleasant sound (B) serious sound
(C) bitter sound (D) mixed sound
Ans. (A)
21. In which year, Milton’s Paradise Lost was published ?
(A) 1668. (B) 1670
(C) 1667 (D) 1665
Ans. (C)
22. Which of the following sentence is in passive voice?
(A) Always reach the school at time.
(B) Please bring me a glass of water. (C) Let him read a book.
(D) Let the salary be given to these clerks.
Ans. (D)
23. Others abide our question, thou art free.” Who has said this about Shakespeare?
(A) Wordsworth (B) Milton
(C) Matthew Arnold (D) Ben Jonson
Ans. (C)
24. Fill in the gap with an appropriate auxiliary.
He was so tired that he……..scarcely stand.
(A) could (B) did
(C) should do (D) had
Ans. (A)
25. Change the voice.
Why did he defraud you of your earnings?
(A) Why were you defrauded to your earnings by him.
(B) Why was he defrauded of his earnings?
(C) Why did he defraud you for his earnings.
(D) Why were you defrauded of your earnings by him?
Ans. (D)
26. Pick out the correct spelling of the word among the following words.
(A) platetude (B) pllatitude
(C) pilattitude (D) platitude
Ans. (D)
27. Transform the following sentence into exclamatory sentence.
He leads a most unhappy life.
(A) What an unhappy life he leads!
(B) What an unhappily life he leads!
(C) What an unhappy life he was leading!
(D) Why he leads a most unhappy life?
Ans. (A)
28. Who is Harold Cleaver in Galsworthy’s ‘Justice’?
(A) Government Counsel
(B) Defense Counsel
(C) Judge
(D) Managing Clerk
Ans. (A)
29. Fill in the gap with an appropriate conjunction.
…….. you wish it, it shall be done.
(A) Since (B) Having
(C) For (D) With
Ans. (A)
30. What kind of work is Samson Agonistes?
(A) verse-play (B) epic
(C) lyrical drama (D) short story
Ans. (A)
31. Complete the sentence.
Shakespeare has written ……. historical plays.
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8
Ans. (False)
32. ‘Life of Milton’ has been written by…..,..
(A) Samuel Johnson (B) Ben Jonson
(C) Charles Lamb (D) John Dryden
Ans. (A)
33. Wordsworth has expressed his views on transmigration of the soul in his poem.
(A) The Prelude
(B) Ode to Duty
(C) Ecclesiastical Sketches
(D) Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
Ans. (D)
34. Find out which part of sentence has an error.
The two students walked/ besides
(A) (B)
each other/ in silence/ No error
(C). (D)
Ans. (B)
35. In which play of Shakespeare does Adam appear?
(A) Merry Wives of Windsor
(B) As You Like It.
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) Tempest
Ans. (B)
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36. What could be the ‘tragic-flaw’ in Hamlet?
(A) Noble Inaction
(B) Oedipus Complex
(C) Vaulting Ambition
(D) None of these
Ans. (A)
37. Fill in the gap.
Galsworthy’s famous play, ‘The Silver Box’ deals with……………
(A) the inequality of power
(B) the inequality of justice
(C) the inequality of labour
(D) the inequality of money and
division
Ans. (B)
38. What is soliloquy?
(A) an actor’s secret thought uttered aloud.
(B) secret speech
(C) an actor’s speech not to be heard by audience
(D) an actor’s speech meant for other characters also.
Ans. (A)
39. Put the following in indirect speech.
“How smart you are! “she said.
(A) She exclaimed that I am smart.
(B)She exclaimed that he was very smart.
(C) She exclaimed that she is smart,
(D) She exclaimed she was smart.
Ans. (B)
40. In which year, The Prelude was published?
(A) 1805 (B) 1850
(C) 1855 (D) 1837
Ans. (B)
41. Name the figure of speech in the following line.
“The more haste, the less speed”.
(A) Simile (B) Metaphor
(C) Irony (D) Epigram
Ans. (D)
42. Who asked, “How many children had Lady Macbeth”?
(A) L.C. Knights (B) A.C. Bradley
(C) Rymer (D) Wilson
Ans. (A)
43. Complete the sentence with correct option.
“Frailty, thy name is woman”; this remark is made by……………
(A) Macbeth (B) King Lear
(C) Othello (D) Hamlet
Ans. (D)
44. Complete the sentence.
Dirge means …………..
(A) a song of wedding,
(B) a song of pleasure
(C) a song of grief
(D) a song of unfulfilled desire
Ans. (C)
45. Pick out the correct antonym among the following words.
Extreme poverty had reduced them to a state of apathy.
(A) cooperation (B) friendship
(C) inspiration. (D) enthusiasm
Ans. (D)
46. Correct the following sentence.
It was bitter cold.
(A) It was cold bitterly
(B) It was awful coldly.
(C) It was cold bitter.
(D) It was bitterly cold.
Ans. (D)
47. A lyric is……………….
Find out the correct option.
(A) A long poem written in the form of an address.
(B) A poem written in praise of God.
(C) A short poem in which the poet expresses his/her intense personal feelings.
(D) A triumphal song.
Ans. (C)
48. Complete the sentence. ‘Aesthetic’ means…………..
(A) sorrow (B) despair
(C) beauty (D) pleasure
Ans. (C)
49. Find out which part of the sentence has an error.
Are you/ lived alone/ or married/ No
(A) (B) (C)
No error
(D)
Ans. (B)
50. Complete the sentence. Galsworthy’s play Strife deals with the subject of……………..
(A) labour disputes (B) justice
(D) class distinction (C) wars
Ans. (A)
51. Change the direct sentence into indirect.
Mohan said, “Alas! I am undone.”
(A) Mohan exclaimed sadly that he was undone.
(B) Mohan exclaimed that he was undone.
(C) Mohan exclaimed that he was not done.
(D) Mohan exclaimed that he is undone.
Ans. (A)
52. What is true of the form of Shakespeare’s sonnet?
(A) it has an octave
(B) it has an integrated form with no such divisions
(C) it has three quatrains and a couplet
(D) it has the endings of alternate lines rhyming with each other
Ans. (C)
53. Complete the sentence.
The error of judgement in Tragedy is known as…………………
(A) Hamartia (B) tragedy of blood
(C) catastrophe (D) catharsis
Ans. (A)
54. “Come, thou mortal wretch,
With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate”
In which book do the above lines occur?
(A) Antony and Cleopatra
(B) Twelfth Night
(C) Hamlet
(D) Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Ans. (A)
55. Who wrote Metafiction?
(A) Roland Barthes
(B) Derrida
(C) Patricia Waugh
(D) Spivak
Ans. (C)
56. Choose the correct option.
“Little we see in Nature that is ours. The above line has been quoted from:
(A) Tintern Abbey
(B) The World is too Much With Us
(C) Ode on Intimations of Immortality
(D) Lucy Gray
Ans. (B)
57. Select the correct option.
There was ……………..
(A) a fly in milk (B) fly in the milk
(C) fly in milk (D) a fly in the milk
Ans. (D)
58. Who has written ‘Cymbeline”?
(A) Milton (B) Wordsworth
(C) Shakespeare (D) Galsworthy
Ans. (C)
59. Who is the writer of Descriptive Sketches?
(A) John Milton (B) Shakespeare
(C) Galsworthy (D) Wordsworth
Ans. (D)
60. What is the full name of Mr. W.H. in Shakespeare’s Sonnets?
(A) William Herbert
(B) William Henry
(C) William Hartley
(D) William Harry
Ans. (A)
61. Rearrange the sentence with correct order labeled as PQRS. Choose the proper sequence. (P) only time will tell (Q) you credit the nation with (R) whether the great future (S) will turn out to be true
(A) OPRS. (B) PROS
(C) QRSP (D) RSQP
Ans. (B)
62. Fill in the gap.
The title of the play, ‘Justice’ is……….
(A) satirical (B) vague
(C) inappropriate (D) ironical
Ans. (D)
63. Fill in the gap.
The public are cautioned ………..
pickpockets.
(A) to (B) for (C) with (D) against
Ans. (D)
64. Who wrote, “Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds”?
(A) Wordsworth (B) Milton
(C) Galsworthy (D) Shakespeare
Ans. (D)
65. Who has written Peter Bell among the followings?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Shakespeare
(C) John Galsworthy
(D) John Milton
Ans. (A)
66. Who revised King Lear so that Cordelia could marry Edgar at the end (happy ending)?
(A) Nahum Tate (B) Johnson
(C) Richard Bentley (D) Rymer
Ans. (A)
67. In which Shakespearean play does Curan appear?
(A) Macbeth (B) Othello
(C) King Lear (D) Hamlet
Ans. (C)
68. Who invented and popularized the phrase, ‘Poetic Justice’?
(A) Dryden (B) Johnson
(C) Rymer (D) Shakespeare
Ans. (C)
69. Who is known as the Fourth Witch in Shakespeare’s women characters?
(A) Lady Macbeth (B) Gertrude
(C) Cordelia. (D) Desdemona
Ans. (A)
70. In which year, Galsworthy refused the offer of a Knighthood?
(A) 1917 (B) 1918
(C) 1919 (D) 1920
Ans. (B)
Q. 71 to 75
By human obligations I mean the ability to behave in a reasonable way, to observe restraint so that restraints do not have to be imposed, to be able to think clearly and objectively so that false doctrines cannot gain ground. I believe that it also means the ability to see through nonsense, political, economic, scientific, and so on, and the feeling that it is duty to resist it.
Choose the right option from the given unseen above.
71. Human obligations do not include:
(A) behaving in a disciplined manner
(B) acquiring knowledge
(C) making others feel that you are always right
(D) thinking clearly
Ans. (B)
72. If one does not observe restraint:
A. people around one will grow hostile.
(B) one’s friends will ignore one
(C) one’s life will be miserable
(D) people will see to it that one behaves responsibly
Ans. (A)
73. When one does not think clearly and objectively:
(A) one fails to achieve success.
(B) one tends to believe in the wrong things.
(C) one is considered a fool.
(D) one tends to make mistakes in day-to-day life.
Ans. (B)
74. It is one’s duty to resist:
(A) all political propaganda
(B) religious practices
(C) unsatisfactory plans and programmes
(D) irrational ideas
Ans. (D)
75. In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with:
(A) moral conduct
(B) a humane approach to our problems
(C) the scientific point of view
(D) the acquisition of specialized knowledge
Ans. (C)
76. What does the idiom, ‘smell a rat’ means?
(A) to have reason to suspect
(B) to talk boastfully
(C) to talk unfairly
(D) to discourage
Ans. (A)
77.What is the synonym of ‘wisdom”?
(A) swell (B) sagacity
(C) foolishness (D) surrender
Ans. (B)
78. Choose the correct meaning of the given word.
‘Craven’
(A) dishonest (B) cowardly
(C) dark (D) slavish
Ans. (B)
79. Find out the correct spelling of the word.
(A) elixir. (B) elesser
(C) eleseir. (D) elixire
Ans. (A)
80. Find out which part of sentence has an error.
Even though the shirt is rather
(A)
expensive / but I wish to /
(B)
purchase it with my own money/
(C)
No error
(D)
Ans. (B)
81. Where was Wordsworth born?
(A) Cockerpate (B) Cockermouth
(C) Cocker Hill (D) Cockervalley
Ans. (B)
82. Which of the following flowers does the Mad Ophelia not give away?
(A) violets. (B) pansies
(C) rosemary. (D) columbines
Ans. (A)
83. What is ‘Baroque’?
(A) Jail (B) style
(C) culture (D) book
Ans. (B)
84. Who considered romanticism,
“liberalism in literature”?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Plato
(C) Theodore Watts-Dunton
(D) Pater
Ans. (False)
85. Complete the sentence.
Milton’s Areopagitica concerns with
(A) liberty of human rights
(B) liberty of press
(C) freedom of humanity
(D) freedom of politics
Ans. (B)
86. Fill in the blank with correct option given below.
His wish is tantamount …………..a command.
(A) with. (B) of (C) to (D) for
Ans. (C)
87. Find out the correct option.
A sonnet consists:
(A) 14 lines (B) 18 lines
(C) 20 lines (D) 12 lines
Ans. (A)
88. “Take, O take those lips away,”
The above line occurs in……..
(A) Midsummer Night’s Dream
(B) Twelfth Night
(C) Antony and Cleopatra
(D) Measure For Measure
Ans. (D)
89. Complete the sentence.
Epiphany means……………
(A) manifestation of God’s presence
(B) manifestation of Satan’s presence
(C) fanciful world
(D) supernatural power
Ans (A)
90. Find out which part of the sentence has an error.
I am you/ I would have seen to it/
(A) (B)
that I won the prize/ No error
(C) (D)
Ans. (A)
91. Who has written ‘Hamlet and His Problems”?
(A) Shelley. (B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Shakespeare (D) Bacon
Ans. (B)
92. Fill in the gap with an appropriate preposition.
Valpone fell a victim ……… his own
greed.
(A) to (B) of (C) about (D) for
Ans. (A)
93. What is meaning of the phrase, “To count upon’?
(A) to be grateful.
(B) to relax
(C) to clean a thing
(D) to depend upon
Ans. (D)
94. Complete the sentence.
Ottava Rima is a……….stanza in lambic Pentameters.
(A) four-lined (B) six-lined
(C) eight-lined (D) ten-lined
Ans. (C)
95. Who is Hamlet’s beloved in
Hamlet?
(A) Olivia (B) Portia
(C) Ophelia (D) Cordelia
Ans. (C)
96.What is the meaning of ‘Plagiarism”?
(A) poetic bankruptcy
(B) literary theft
(C) writing crisis
(D) reading problem
Ans. (B)
97. Complete the sentence.
Milton became blind at the age of……
(A) 46 (B) 47 (C) 44 (D) 48.
Ans. (C)
98. In which Shakespearean play does the following occur?
“The bright day is done,
And we are for the dark.”
(A) Antony and Cleopatra
(B) Hamlet
(C) King Lear
(D). Measure for Measure
Ans. (A)
99. Find out the mis-spelt word.
(A) disparage. (B) licentious
(C) malleable (D) dillema
Ans. (D)
100. Who has written ‘Ruth”?
(A) Milton (B) Shakespeare
(C) Galsworthy (D) Wordsworth
Ans. (D)
101. Name the figure of speech’ in the following line.
‘Boys will be boys”.
(A) epigram (B) personification
(C) litotes (D) metonymy
Ans. (A)
102. Who is the writer of ‘Recluse”?
(A) Shakespeare (B) Milton
(C) Galsworthy (D) Wordsworth
Ans. (D)
103. Find out the correct proverb.
(A) diamond cuts iron
(B) diamond cuts gold.
(C) diamond cuts silver.
(D) diamond cuts diamond
Ans. (D)
104. Change the sentence into passive voice.
I saw him opening the box.
(A) He was seen open the box.
(B) He was seen opening the box.
(C) He opened the box
(D) He was seen opened the box.
Ans. (B)
105. Choose the correct verb.
This paper…………..twice weekly.
(A) is appearing.
(B) appearing
(C) appears.
(D) have had appeared.
Ans. (C)
106. Complete the sentence.
Comus is ……………
(A) a masque
(B) a pastoral allegory
(C) poetic line
(D) a farce
Ans. (A)
107. Fill in the gap.
King Lear had …………. daughters.
(A) two (B) three (C) four (D) five
Ans. (B)
108. Who is the writer of ‘History of Britain’?
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) John Milton
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) John Galsworthy
Ans. (B)
109. Find out the correct sentence.
(A) He was astonished at his success.
(B) He was astonished in his success.
(C) He was astonished on his success.
(D) He was astonished for his success
Ans. (A)
110. Transform the following exclamatory sentence into assertion.
If only I had come one hour earlier!
(A) I wish I come one hour earlier.
(B) I wish I have come one hour earlier.
(C) I wish I had come one hour earlier.
(D) I wish I could come one hour earlier.
Ans. (C)
111. Who has written, Jocelyn among the following writers?
(A) Milton. (B) Shakespeare
(C) Galsworthy. (D) Wordsworth
Ans. (C)
112. In which play, Shakespeare has presented at ‘royal criminal”?
(A) King Lear (B) Henry IV
(C) Richard III (D) Henry VIII
Ans. (C)
113. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition
She is ignorant………. what she pretends to know.
(A) in (B) of (C) with (D) for
Ans. (B)
114. Turn the following into indirect speech.
“Do you write a good hand?”he said.
(A) He asked whether I wrote a good hand.
(B) He asked whether they wrote a good hand
(C) He asked whether I written a good hand.
(D) He asked whether I was written a good hand.
Ans. (A)
115. How many sonnets are addressed to ‘Dark Lady’ by Shakespeare?
(A) 27 (B) 28 (C) 29 (D) 26
Ans (B)
116. Complete the sentence.
The reversal of fortune of a tragic hero is called
(A) catharsis. (B) peripeteia
(C) epistle (D) poesis
Ans. (B)
117. Milton’s Paradise Lost consists of …………books.
(A) twelve (B) ten (C) six (D) eight
Ans. (A)
118. Complete the sentence with correct options given below.
She gave him ……..he wanted.
(A) what (B) that
(C) that which (D) that what
Ans. (A)
119. What is ‘Aside”?
(A) addressed in words that the other actors are not supposed to hear.
(B) addressed in words that the other actors are supposed to hear.
(C) looking behind when one speaks.
(D) not paying attention.
Ans. (A)
120. Complete the sentence
Milton’s poetic style is generally regarded as…………
(A) plain (B) classical
(C) grand. (D) ornamental
Ans. (C)
121. People have tried their best to provoke the flood victims.
Find out the correct antonym of the italicized word.
(A) gratify (B) convince
(C) pacify (D) attract
Ans. (C)
122. Choose the correct option.
‘One impulse from a vernal wood”
The above line has been quoted from:
(A) The Tables Turned
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The World is too Much With Us
(D) Ode to Duty
Ans. (A)
123. When was the first complete collection of Shakespeare’s plays, known as the First Folio, published ?
(A) 1623. (B) 1613
(C) 1616 (D) 1632
Ans. (A)
124. Change the sentence into passive voice. Do you not understand my meaning?
(A) I am not understood your meaning.
(B) I do not understand meaning.
(C) Is your meaning understood?
(D) Is my meaning understood?
Ans. (D)
125. Complete the sentence.
The term ‘Novel’ was taken from the Italian word:
(A) novella. (B) novelle
(C) novelette. (D) novel
Ans. (A)
