ENGILSH
1 The year was the culminating point in Keats's career
(A) 1817
(B) 1818
(C) 1819
(D) 1821
2 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
3 The Novels of Thomas Hardy are set in
(A) Wessex
(B) Sussex
(C) the Lakes
(D) Waverley
4 The central theme of Murderin Cathedral is
(A) martyrdom
(B) civil
strife
(C) political
crisis
(D) family
feud
5 Which of the follwoing is not a Hemingway's work
(A) The Sun
also Rises
(B) Moby Dick (Moby-Dick or The Whale (1851) is a novel by
Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American
Renaissance.)
(C) For Whom
the Bell Tolls
(D) A Farewell
to Arms
6 Charles Dickens is a novelist of the
(A) Elizabethan
age
(B) Jacobean
age
(C) Augustan
age
(D) Victorian age
(generally
considered the greatest of the Victorian period.)
7 ........... said
about Shelley "He was alone the perfect singing God"
(A) Swinburne
(B) Matthew
Arnold
(C) Tennyson
(D) Charles
Lamb
8 Fill in the blank with suitable conjunction: Look you leap.
(A) before
(B) after
(C) and
(D) if
9 The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by
(A) Ernest Hemingway
(B) William
Faulkner
(C) Mark Twain
(D) Mulk Raj
Anand
10 Who is known as the poet of the Lakes?
(A) Byron
(B) Coleridge
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Keats
11 Blank verse is
(A) rhymed
iambic pentameter
(B) unrhymed iambic
pentameter
(C) dactylic
tetrameter
(D) anapestic
hexameter
12 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
(meliorism : The belief that the human condition can be improved through concerted effort.)
(D) a
visionary
13 The best poems of Matthew Arnold are
(A) Lyrics (His best poems are probably his lyrics, such poems as
"Dover Beach," "To Marguerite—Continued," and "The
Buried Life.")
(B) Odes
(C) Elegies
(D) Sonnets
14 The central theme of Nissim Ezekiel's work is
(A) Social
reform
(B) Patriotism
(C) nostalgia
(D) alienation
15 'Song of Myself' is a poem by
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Whitman
(D) Tennyson
16 Which of the following will be the correct indirect speech
if the statement 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.
17 'Black Sheep' means
(A) a bad character (someone who is thought to be a bad person by the rest of his family)
(B) sheep of
black colour
(C) a humble
person
(D) a natural
creature
18 The number of paragraphs in Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is
(A) 111
(B) 121
(C) 125
(D) 131 (CXXXI)
19 Which of the following poets wrote his finest poetry in
the form of the Dramatic Monologue?
(A) Shelley
(B) Browning [My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning (who is often
considered the master of this type of poetry)]
(C) Swinburne
(D) Hopkins
20 In the novel, Untouchable, Bakha's sister is
(A) Mohini
(B) Sohini
(C) Sajani
(D) Gulabo
21 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.
22 Mulk Raj Anand's father was a clerk in
(A) a post
office
(B) a bank
(C) the army (head clerk in
the British Indian Army)
(D) the navy
23 What does to carry something out' mean?
(A) to do something
(B) to bear
something
(C) to continue doing
something
(D) to delay
something
24 Keats's poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is
(A) a ballad
(B) a sonnet
(C) an ode
(D) an elegy
25 Shakespeare's history plays altogether deal with a period
of
(A) 1000 years
(B) 700 years
(C) 450 years
(D) 350 years
(The
history plays cover much of the time period between 1199-1547, and
include King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Part I
and II, Henry V, Henry VI, Part I, II and
III, Richard III, and Henry VIII.)
26 Robert Frost's favorite figure of speech was
(A) simile
(B) metonymy
(C) oxymoron
(D) synecdoche (Synecdoche A figure of
speech which mentions a part of something to suggest the whole. As in,
"All hands on deck," meaning all sailors to report for duty. Hands =
sailors. Frost said, "I started calling myself a Synecdochist when other
called themselves Imagists or Vorticists.") (Examples:
Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening: The little journey in the poem represents life's
journey.
The Gift
Outright: The gift represents the history of the United States.
I Will Sing
You One-O: Two clock towers striking One o'clock represent extensions of
earthly and heavenly time.
Kitty Hawk:
Man's first flight represents man's yearning for God or heaven.
Fire and Ice:
The heat of love and the cold of hate are seen as having cataclysmic power.)
27 The synonym for Innate' is
(A) unfeeling
(B) yearly
(C) clever
(D) inborn
Read the passage carefuly and answer the questions 28-32
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 – 14
AD) 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".
28 The term "Augustanism" is used to describe
(A) cultural
production
(B) political
situation
(C) both of these
(D) none of
these
29 Augustus was emperor of
(A) England
(B) France
(C) Germany
(D) Rome
30 Augustus lived for years
(A) 63
(B) 77
(C) 14
(D) 59
31 Ben Janson died in
(A) the first half of
the 17th century (Died: August 6, 1637, Westminster, United
Kingdom)
(B) the second
half of the 17th century
(C) the first
half of the 18'h century
(D) the second
half of the 18'h century
32 Pax in Roman mythology is the goddess of
(A) politics
(B) peace (Pax)
(C) social
order
(D) none of
these
33 Tennyson’s friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, died at
(A) Rome
(C) Paris
(D) London
34 Walt
Whitman is a poet of the { Born: May 31, 1819, West Hills, New York, United States
Died: March
26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey, United States }
(A) 19th century
(B) 20th century
(C) 17th
century
(D) 18th
century
35 Who considered
Wordsworth as a "high priest of nature"?
(A) De Quincey
(B) Coleridge
(C) Shelley
(D) Matthew Arnold,
36 The figure of speech in "O my love is like a red,
red rose" is
(A) simile
(B) metaphor
(C) personification
(D) hyperbole
37 The young one of a cat is
(A) puppy
(B) kid
(C) kitten
(D) calf
38 Kamala Das died in the year
(A) 2009
(B) 2008
(C) 2004
(D) 2005
39 Charles Dickens's father was a
(A) businessman
(B) peasant
(C) writer
(D) clerk
40 Thomas hardy started his literary career as a
(A) novelist
(B) short-story
writer
(C) poet
(D) dramatist
41 The correctly punctuated version is :
(A) He asked
me, "whether I had written my exercise".
(B) He asked
me, "whether! had written my exercise"?
(C) He asked
me, whether I had written my exercise?
(D) He asked me whether
I had written my exercise.
42 An Alexandrine is the last line of the
(A) ottava rima
(B) spenserian
stanza
(C) rhyme
royal
(D) terza rima
43 The protagonist of Great expectations is
(A) Boz
(B) Pip (Philip Pirrip)
(C) David
(D) Oliver
44 The birthplace of the Sonnet is
(A) England
(B) Italy (It
derives its name from the Italian
Sonnetto)
(C) France
(D) Greece
45 The Spenserian Stanza has
(A) 4 lines
(B) 6 lines
(C) 8 lines
(D) 9 lines
46 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.
47 Fill in the blank with a suitable adverb: My hat blew
(A) on
(B) off
(C) away
(D) over
48 Shelley's poem, Adonais' is
(A) a ballad
(B) an ode
(C) an idyll
(D) an elegy
(Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats)
49 The Synonym for bona fide is
(A) honorable
(B) Genuine
(C) well made
(D) Remunerative
50 Which of the following was Charles Lamb's very good
friend?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Shelley
(D) Keats
51 'To deal in something' means
(A) to
distribute something
(B) to trade in
something
(C) to be
about something
(D) to handle
something
52 The mother tongue of Kamala Das was
(A) Konkani
(B) Bengali
(C) Malayalam
(D) Tamil
53 The scientific study of the development of language is
known as
(A) Morphology
(B) Bibliography
(C) Paleontology
(D) Philology
54 Spot the correct Spelling
(A) Denouement
(B) Dinouement
(C) Denument
(D) Dinoument
55 The plural of 'alumnus' is
(A) alumnuses
(B) alumna
(C) alumnae
(D) alumni
56 The principal object of Satire is
(A) to mourn
(B) to arouse
pity
(C) to praise
(D) to ridicule folly
or vice
57 The specific word for the loud noise made by an elephant
is
(A) roar
(B) trumpet
(C) bray
(D) neigh
58 'Alma Mater' is the place where one
(A) studied
(B) married
(C) died
(D) was born
59 Who describes the ideal 'Commonwealth' in The Tempest?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Prospero
(C) Miranda
(D) Gonzalo
60 Identify the part which contains an error in the
following sentence:
Hari is good
at studies, does not he?
1 2 3
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) no error
61 What is the suitable prefix for the word,
"bitter"?
(A) im
(B) in
(C) un
(D) em
62 Spot the correct modal to fill in the blank:
You live happily and long!
(A) will
(B) shall
(C) may
(D) can
63 T. S. Eliot was born in
(A) The United States (September
26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri,
United States)
(B) England
(C) France
(D) Germany
64 The figure of
speech in "Life is a dream" is
(A) personification
(B) simile
(C) metaphor
(D) metonymy
65 The father of the English essay is
(A) Montaigne
(B) Bacon
(C) Charles
Lamb
(D) Richard
Steele
66 The word "invade" has the noun form
(A) invadion
(B) invation
(C) invasion
(D)
invadement
67 Charles Lamb started his literary career as
(A) a poet
(B) a critic
(C) an
essayist
(D) a
dramatist
68 The noun form of the verb 'experience' is
(A) expirience
(B) expereince
(C) experience
(D) expireince
69 'Red-letter day' means
(A) a
dangerous day
(B) a rosy day
(C) an important day
(D) a bloody
day
70 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
71 Shakespeare's The Tempest is a
(A) tragedy
(B) comedy
(C) tragi -
comedy
(D) history
play
72 The 'gaoler' is a person in charge of a
(A) hospital
(B) prison
(C) school
(D) football-field
73 Matthew Arnold studied at University.
(A) Cambridge
(B) Oxford
(C) London
(D) Glasgow
74 Who wrote 'The Necessity of Atheism'?
(A) Christopher
Marlowe
(B) Oscar
Wilde
(C) Byron
(D) Shelley
75 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
76 The masculine form of 'duck' is
(A) drone
(B) gander
(C) goose
(D) drake
77 Faulkner's works deal with the history and legends of the
(A) American
North
(B) American South
(C) American
East
(D) American
West
78 The protagonist of Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie is
(A) Munoo
(B) Gangu
(C) Ratan
(D) Ramcharan
79 Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is a
(A) Roman play
(B) Comedy
(C) Farce
(D) Melodrama
80 Who called Hamlet an artistic failure"?
(A) I. A.
Richards
(B) F. R.
Leavis
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Charles
Lamb
81 Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize in
(A) 1946
(B) 1947
(C) 1948
(D) 1949
82 Complete the sentence with the 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
83 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
84 The Terza Rima is a stanza of
(A) 4 lines
(B) 5 lines
(C) 3 lines
(D) 2 lines
85 The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the
beginning of adjacent words is
(A) alliteration
(B) assonance
(C) half-rhyme
(D) rhythm
86 Absalom! Absalom! is a work by
(A) John
Dryden
(B) Robert
Frost
(C) Walt
Whitman
(D) William Faulkner
87 The word 'camaraderie means a
(A) feeling of
envy
(B) feeling of
anger
(C) feeling of
friendship
(D) feeling of
enmity
88 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
89 Choose the correct antonym of the word, 'inferior'
(A) low
(B) superb
(C) good
(D) superior
90 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 my name by them
(D) My name
was asked from me by them
91 Give the right suffix for the word 'king' to make it an
abstract noun
(A) ly
(B) dom
(C) ness
(D) ance
92 An Iambus 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
93 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
94 Matthew Arnold as a poet was most influenced by
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Shelley
(C) Keats
(D) Byron
95 Which of the following works is not authored by Shelley?
(A) Queen Mab
(B) Hyperion
(C) Alastor
(D) The Cenci
96 In which magazine did Lamb's essays first time appear?
(A) Blackwood's
Magazine
(B) London Magazine
(C) Quarterly
Review
(D) Ariel
97 Who called Shakespeare an "upstart crowe"?
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Christopher
Marlowe
(C) Robert Green
(D) Thomas
Lodge
98 An 'El Dorado' is a
(A) place of abundance
(B) place of
scarcity
(C) place of
misery
(D) place of
suffering
99 Tennyson was appointed poet Laureate in
(A) 1850
(B) 1854
(C) 1849
(D) 1860
100 John Keats died of
(A) cholera
(B) consumption
(C) typhoid
(D) renal
failure
101 The odes of Keats are
(A) regular
(B) irregular
(C) both
regular and irregular
(D) neither
regular nor irregular
102 Choose the option to make the following jumbled up words
into a meaningful sentence:
and she
does my work hers
I do
1 2 3 4
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 2 1 3
(C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 1 3 4 2
103 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
104 The Essential Shakespeare is a work by
(A) J. Dover Wilson
(B) Middleton
Murry
(C) A. C.
Bradley
(D) G. Wilson
Knight
105 'Night of the Scorpion' is a poem by
(A) Kamala Das
(B) Nissim Ezekiel
(C) Dom Moraes
(D) A. K.
Ramanujan
106 The line, "Earth's the right place for love"
is written by
(A) William
Wordsworth
(B) Walt
Whitman
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Alfred
Tennyson
107 Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads in
(A) 1788
(B) 1798
(C) 1805
(D) 1819,
108 The figure of speech in "Death lays his icy hands
on kings" is
(A) simile
(B) metaphor
(C) personification
(D) hyperbole
109 The English novel acquired its modern form in the
(A) 14th
century
(B) 16th
century
(C) 17th
century
(D) 18th century
110 Kamala Das's poetry can be best described as
(A) social
(B) political
(C) religious
(D) confessional
111 Spot the correct spelling
(A) pussilanimous
(B) pusilannimous
(C) pusillanimous
(D) pusilanimous
112 Fill in the blank with a suitable alternative: The
dinner smells
(A) well
(B) good
(C) better
(D) best
113 Fill in the blank with correct preposition:
I bought this pen five
rupees
(A) in
(B) with
(C) for
(D) from
114 Read the passage carefully and answer the questions
114-118 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".
114 The aim of Suffragette movement was to get for women
(A) freedom
(B) education
(C) property
(D) franchise (the
right to vote in public elections.)
115 The suffragette movement was most active in the
(A) early 20th
century
(B) mid 20th
century
(C) late 20th
century
(D) none of
these
116 The leader of the suffragette movement was
(A) Emmeline
Pankurst
(B) Emmelline
Pankhurst
(C) Emmeline Pankhurst
(D) Emmeline
Pankhrust
117 This year was very bad for the suffragettes
(A) 1912
(B) 1913
(C) 1911
(D) 1914
118 Derby is the name of a
(A) fair
(B) festival
(C) horse race
(D) cricket
match
119 The Epic is usually divided into books
(A) 12
(B) 24
(C) 10
(D) 15
120 The proper word for a 'group of elephants is
(A) herd
(B) cattle
(C) flock
(D) bunch
121 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
122 The noun form of the adjective 'rare' is
(A) rareness
(B) rarement
(C) rarely
(D) rarity
123 T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land was published in
(A) 1920
(B) 1921
(C) 1922
(D) 1923
124 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
125 Fill in the blank with the suitable preposition:
Some trains are run electricity
(A) from
(B) on
(C) with
(D) by
