EXAMINATION PAPER OF 2011

Q.1) “With this key (sonnet) Shakespeare unlocked his heart.” The words are from

[1] Coleridge

[2] Byron

[3] Hazlitt

[4] Wordsworth

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.2) The rhyming of vowel sounds without the rhyming of consonants is known as

[1] Rhythm

[2] Consonance

[3] Assonance

[4] Alliteration

Answer: Assonance

Q.3) The figure of speech in “He is too fond of red-tape” is

[1] Simile

[2] Metonymy

[3] Personification

[4] Oxymoron

Answer: Metonymy

Q.4) The figure of speech in, ‘Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow’ is

[1] Simile

[2] Metaphor

[3] Oxymoron

[4] Hyperbole

Answer: Hyperbole

Q.5) The figure of speech in ‘The holy time is quiet as a nun is

[1] Metaphor

[2] Hyperbole

[3] Personification

[4] Simile

Answer: Simile

Q.6) The word ‘Terrain’ means

[1] Train

[2] Terrace

[3] Tract of land

[4] Torrential rain

Answer: Tract of land

Q.7) ‘Crass casualty’ and ‘dicing time’ are the phrases hardy uses in

[1] Revulsion

[2] Hap

[3] The impercipient

[4] A meeting with despair

Answer: Hap

Q.8) Who is the author of summer in Calcutta?

[1] Nissim Ezekiel

[2] A.K. Ramanujan

[3] Kamala das

[4] Toru Dutt

Answer: Kamala das

Q.9) Spot the errors by identifying the numbered position:

[1] Unemployment is

[2] A

[3] Very

[4] Actual problem

Answer: Actual problem

Q.10) Mark the part which contains an error in the following sentence. If there is no error in it; mark ‘d’ as your choice:

[1] I would request you

[2] To see my cousin sister who

[3] Has just returned from Germany

[4] No error

Answer: To see my cousin sister who

Q.11) Count greffi is a character in Hemmingway’s

[1] Old man and the sea

[2] For whom the bell tolls

[3] A farewell to arms

[4] The sun also rises

Answer: A farewell to arms

Q.12) “Aside”

[1] Is a short dramatic monologue

[2] Means “by the side of”

[3] Is a poem consisting to irregular lines

[4] Is a short speech not supposed to be heard by other character on the stage or the audience

Answer: Is a short speech not supposed to be heard by other character on the stage or the audience

Q.13) ‘Lingua’ franca means

[1] Common language of all

[2] Arranged for a special purpose

[3] In the meantime

[4] Men of letters

Answer: Common language of all

Q.14) Transform the following sentence using ‘no sooner’ for ‘as soon as’ : As soon as she came home, she wanted to know the whatabouts of her servants.

[1] No sooner did she came home than she wanted to know the whereabouts of her servants.

[2] No sooner did she come home than she wanted to know the whatabouts of her servants.

[3] No sooner she came home than she wanted to know the whatabouts of her servants.

[4] No sooner did she come home when she wanted to know the whatabouts of her servants.

Answer: No sooner did she come home than she wanted to know the whatabouts of her servants.

Q.15) Free verse is poetry

[1] Written in praise of freedom

[2] Conforming to no regular metre

[3] Having neither depth nor commitment

[4] Written in blank verse

Answer: Conforming to no regular metre

Q.16) Which of the following were the opinions of the townsmen about th mountains before the 18th century?

[1] They were wild

[2] They were dangerous places

[3] Both of these

[4] None of these

Answer: Both of these

Q.17) Which natural objects made lake district a popular place for a holiday?

[1] Mountains

[2] Lakes

[3] Both of these

[4] None of these

Answer: Both of these

Q.18) How is mountain climbing described?

[1] Popular

[2] Enormously attractive

[3] Both of these

[4] None of these

Answer: Both of these

Q.19) How does one feel after climbing the mountain?

[1] Nobler

[2] Purer

[3] Both of these

[4] None of these

Answer: Both of these

Q.20) In changing the following direct speech into indirect speech, what changes is required in the verb ‘eat’?

“I never eat fish,” he explained.

[1] Ate

[2] Eats

[3] Have eaten

[4] No change is required

Answer: Ate

Q.21) Pick out the correct form of indirect narration of

“I have bought a house,” he said

[1] He said that he had bought a house

[2] He said that he has bought a house

[3] He said that he bought a house

[4] He said that he would buy a house

Answer: He said that he had bought a house

Q.22) The antonym of ‘indiscretion’ is

[1] Circumspection

[2] Magnitude

[3] Inclination

[4] Ambition

Answer: Inclination

Q.23) The synonym for ‘inexorable’ is

[1] Angry

[2] Relentless

[3] Liable

[4] Inexcusable

Answer: Inexcusable

Q.24) The feminine from of ‘colt’ is

[1] Mare

[2] Bitch

[3] Filly

[4] Ewe

Answer: Filly

Q.25) A person who lives by himself is

[1] Selfish

[2] Lonely

[3] Unsocial

[4] Recluse

Answer: Recluse

Q.26) Which one is the correct passive form of ‘novels interest me’?

[1] Novels are interested by me

[2] I have interest in novels

[3] I am interested in novels

[4] I have been interested in novels

Answer: I am interested in novels

Q.27) The plural of ‘bureau’ is

[1] Bureaus

[2] Bureaues

[3] Bureaux

[4] Bureauos

Answer: Bureaus

Q.28) Spot the correct form of the modal to fill in the blanks:
Walk fast lest you……miss the train

[1] Shall

[2] Will

[3] May

[4] Should

Answer: Should

Q.29) A lunatic is confined to

[1] S jail

[2] A hole

[3] A monastery

[4] An asylum

Answer: An asylum

Q.30) The verb form of ‘necessity’ is

[1] Necessary

[2] Need

[3] Necessite

[4] Necessitate

Answer: Necessitate

Q.31) “Is there no life, but these alone?
Madman or slave, must man be one?”
The above lines are from

[1] The buried life

[2] Forsaken merman

[3] A summer night

[3] Destiny

Answer: A summer night

Q.32) In the family reunion by T.S. Eliot, harry is mentally disturbed because he

[1] Has failed in his profession

[2] Thinks he has killed his wife

[3] Not having good relation with his mother

[4] Is keeping a poor health

Answer: Thinks he has killed his wife

Q.33) “Yes why not let the natives run their own show? It is their country and we have really no right to it”? Who speaks these words in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel two leaves and a bud?

[1] Reggie hunt

[2] Croft-Cooke

[3] Dr. John de la Havre

[4] Barbara

Answer: Dr. John de la Havre

Q.34) Substitute the correct idiom for the underlined portion of the following sentence:
The mixture of religion with politics in India has made a worse state of disorder.

[1] Confusion worse confounded

[2] Helter skelter

[3] A windfall

[4] Toil and moil

Answer: Confusion worse confounded

Q.35) Choose the one that does not match:

[1] Touchstone__As you like it

[2] Goneril__King lear

[3] Cinna__Julius Caesar

[4] Gobbo__Twelfth night

Answer: Gobbo__Twelfth night

Q.36) “His creation, triumphing over all defect and shortcoming, draws from it a unique broadness of view, vitality of force and sky-wide atmosphere of greatness. “The comment on Whitman’s poetry is by

[1] Vivekananda

[2] Rabindranath Tagore

[3] Emerson

[4] Sri Aurobindo

Answer: Sri Aurobindo

Q.37) “Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.” The lines occur in

[1] Venus and adonts

[2] Paradise lost

[3] Tintern abbey

[4] Christabel

Answer: Paradise lost

Q.38) Fill in the blank with suitable conjunction: Something certainly fell in:… I heard a splash

[1] But

[2] And

[3] For

[4] None of these

Answer: For

Q.39) Choose the correct antonym of the word ‘Philanthropist’:

[1] Misogamist

[2] Misogynist

[3] Misanthropist

[4] None of these

Answer: Misanthropist

Q.40) Complete the sentence with the suitable noun clause: The police must know…

[1] Where he is living

[2] Where he was living

[3] Where he has been living

[4] None of these

Answer: Where he is living

Q.41) What is the literary name of the age of Shakespeare?

[1] Victorian age

[2] Romantic age

[3] Elizabethan age

[4] None of these

Answer: Elizabethan age

Q.42) When was kamala das born?

[1] 1934

[2] 1937

[3] 1947

[4] 1941

Answer: 1934

Q.43) Which one is a novel by Faulkner among the following?

[1] Old man and the sea

[2] The sun also rises

[3] The sound and the fury

[4] Of mice and men

Answer: The sound and the fury

Q.44) In which of the following novels action takes place both in Paris and London?

[1] A tale of two cities

[2] Oliver twist

[3] Great expectations

[4] David Copperfield

Answer: A tale of two cities

Q.45) Gangu occurs in Mulk Raj Anand’s

[1] Coolie

[2] Two leaves and a bud

[3] Private life of an Indian prince

[4] Untouchable

Answer: Two leaves and a bud

Q.46) ‘In India’ by Nissim Ezekiel depicts the relationship between.

[1] Literature and sex

[2] Literature and environment

[3] Literature and science

[4] Literature and war

Answer: Literature and environment

Q.47) Who has been regarded as ‘prince among English essayists?

[1] Bacon

[2] Lynd

[3] Lamb

[4] Huxley

Answer:

Q.48) Thomas hardy was

[1] An optimist

[2] A pessimist

[3] An existentialist

[4] None of these

Answer: A pessimist

Q.49) Which play of Shakespeare describe the ‘seven ages of man”?

[1] Macbeth

[2] King Lear

[3] Hamlet

[4] None of these

Answer: None of these

Q.50) Venus and Adonis is a poem by

[1] John Milton

[2] P.B. Shelley

[3] Matthew Arnold

[4] William Shakespeare

Answer: William Shakespeare

Q.51) Who said that “Keats was a Greek”?

[1] Shelley

[2] Wordsworth

[3] Byron

[4] Lamb

Answer: Shelley

Q.52) Who wrote the autobiographical poem The prelude?

[1] Shakespeare

[2] Arnold

[3] Wordsworth

[4] Tennyson

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.53) In which poem do the following lines occur? “Man for the field and women for the hearth, Man for the sword and for the needle she,”

[1] The princess

[2] Ulysses

[3] In memoriam

[4] Maud

Answer: The princess

Q.54) Who is the author of the volume of poems The descendants?

[1] Nissim Ezekiel

[2] A.K. Ramanujan

[3] Kamala das

[4] None of these

Answer: Kamala das

Q.55) Who is the author of the volume of poem Leaves of grass?

[1] Robert frost

[2] Walt Whitman

[3] Kamala das

[4] Ezekiel

Answer: Walt Whitman

Q.56) “There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds.”

These lines occur in

[1] Idylls of the king

[2] Morte d’Arthur

[3] Ulysses

[4] In memoriam

Answer: In memoriam

Q.57) In which of the following Shelley supports bigamy?

[1] Adonais

[2] Alastor

[3] Epipsychidion

[4] Prometheus unbound

Answer: Epipsychidion

Q.58) “The old order changeth, yielding place to new’, occurs in Tennyson’s

[1] In memoriam

[2] Locksley hall

[3] The passing of Arthur

[4] Morte d’Arthur

Answer: Morte d’Arthur

Q.59) “Others abide our question. Hou art free.” Thou stands for

[1] Tennyson

[2] Shakespeare

[3] Byron

[4] Wordsworth

Answer: Shakespeare

Q.60) Who among the following later embraced Islam?

[1] Kamala Markandaya

[2] Kamala das

[3] Nissim Ezekiel

[4] Mulk Raj Anand

Answer: Kamala das

Q.61) In memoriam is an expression of sorrow of Tennyson at the death of

[1] Arthur Hallam

[2] John Keats

[3] Edward king

[4] Arthur Hugh clough

Answer: Arthur Hallam

Q.62) The theme of…. Dominates the poetry of kamala das

[1] Death

[2] Patriotism

[3] Love

[4] Disease

Answer: Love

Q.63) Wordsworth was a

[1] Romantic poet

[2] Classical poet

[3] Confessional poet

[4] Satirical poet

Answer: Romantic poet

Q.64) John Keats was a

[1] Classical poet

[2] Sentimental poet

[3] Didactic poet

[4] Hellenistic poet

Answer: Hellenistic poet

Q.65) Who has written the following line? Open thine eyes and see thy god is not before thee!

[1] Nissim Ezekiel

[2] Kamala das

[3] Rabindranath Tagore

[4] Thomas hardy

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

Q.66) What does ‘to call off’ mean?

[1] Cancel something not yet started

[2] Abandon something already in progress

[3] Both of these

[4] None of these

Answer: Both of these

Q.67) What are desserts?

[1] Large waterless areas

[2] Puddings

[3] Both of these

[4] None of these

Answer: Puddings

Q.68) What does ‘Pandora’s box’ mean?

[1] A process that once begun creates many complicated problems

[2] A speech or text in pratise of someone

[3] Button for summoning help in an emergency

[4] A musical instrument

Answer: A process that once begun creates many complicated problems

Q.69) When was untouchable first published?

[1] 1935

[2] 1936

[3] 1940

[4] 1947

Answer: 1935

Q.70) Who wrote the celebrated book Shakespearean tragedy?

[1] A.C. Bradley

[2] Edward Bradley

[3] F.H. Bradley

[4] Dr. Henry Bradley

Answer: A.C. Bradley

Q.71) “This sea that bares her bosom to the moon.” The figure of speech here is

[1] Simile

[2] Metaphor

[3] Personification

[4] Oxymoron

Answer: Personification

Q.72) Who among the following introduced sonnet in English poetry?

[1] Milton

[2] Wordsworth

[3] Wyatt

[4] Shakespeare

Answer: Wyatt

Q.73) Spot the correct spelling:

[1] Chauffeur

[2] Chauffeur

[3] Chaufeura

[4] Chauffere

Answer: Chauffeur

Q.74) ‘To have an edge on’ means

[1] To cut with a knife

[2] To threaten to wound

[3] To be slightly better than

[4] To be in a dangerous situation

Answer: To be slightly better than

Q.75) ‘Bonhomie’ means

[1] Good nature

[2] Homely

[3] Social

[4] Manly

Answer: Good nature

Q.76) ‘Which sentence is correct?

[1] I only eat when I am hungry

[2] I eat only when I am hungry

[3] I eat when I am only hungry

[4] Only I eat when I am hungry

Answer: I eat only when I am hungry

Q.77) Which of the following sentences is correct?

[1] Unless it will rain the crops will be poor.

[2] Unless he does not cut his expenses, he will be bankrupt.

[3] Unless he exercises regularly, he will be weak.

[4] None of these

Answer: Unless he exercises regularly, he will be weak.

Q.78) Choose the best from order the four options in the following jumbled up sentences:

Of their passions1. / is a knowledge2./ knowledge 3./Of mankind 4.

[1] 3,2,4,1

[2] 3,4,2,1

[3] 1,3,2,4

[4] 4.3,2,1

Answer: 3,4,2,1

Q.79) Fill in the blank with correct preposition: She said that she was feeling sick…heart.

[1] Of

[2] In

[3] At

[4] To

Answer: At

Q.80) Miss Havisham remained a spinster throughout her life in great expectations because.

[1] She was poor

[2] She did not like her groom

[3] She was betrayed by the bridegroom

[4] She was arrogant

Answer: She was arrogant

Q.81) “Aphorism”

[1] Means a living being’s ability to survive both on land and in water

[2] Is a statement condensing much wisdom in a few words

[3] Is the quality of being poisonous

[4] Is an expression of anxiety

Answer: Is a statement condensing much wisdom in a few words

Q.82) The correctly punctuated version is

[1] Perhaps cried he there may be such monsters as you describe

[2] “Perhaps” cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe.”

[3] “Perhaps cried he”, there may be such monsters as you describe.

[4] “Perhaps”, cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe!”

Answer: “Perhaps”, cried he, “there may be such monsters as you describe!”

Q.83) The specific word for the cry of ‘Pigeons’ is

[1] Crow

[2] Coo

[3] Chirp

[4] Croak

Answer: Coo

Q.84) The young one of ‘swan’ is

[1] Kitten

[2] Chicken

[3] Cygnet

[4] Fawn

Answer: Cygnet

Q.85) Change the following into an indirect statement and indicate the correct one.

He said, “I came here yesterday.”

[1] He said that he went there the previous day

[2] He said that he had come there the previous day

[3] He said that he came there yesterday

[4] He inquired that he had come there the previous day

Answer: He said that he had come there the previous day

Q.86) Fill in the blank with appropriate word: It is a month since the holidays…

[1] Began

[2] Have begun

[3] May begin

[4] Will begin

Answer: Began

Q.87) Fill in the blank by making an appropriate choice: The commission has recommended an addition of twenty per cent of the basic…a minimum of rupees fifty for fixing the pay.

[1] Subjected to

[2] Subject to

[3] Subjecting to

[4] None of these

Answer: Subject to

Q.88) Supply the right form of the verb in the blank space: He has…. awake in bed for hours.

[1] Laid

[2] Lain

[3] Lay

[4] Laying

Answer: Lain

Q.89) Fill in the blank with suitable alternative: He has finished reading…..books that he had.

[1] A few

[2] The few

[3] Few

[4] None of these

Answer: The few

Q.90) What is the suitable prefix for the word ‘polite’?

[1] Un

[2] In

[3] Im

[4] Non

Answer: Im

Q.91) The adjective form of ‘boast’ is

[1] Boasty

[2] Boastful

[3] Boastly

[4] Boastile

Answer: Boastful

Q.92) The adjective ‘coward’ has the noun form

[1] Cowardly

[2] Cowardom

[3] Cowardsome

[4] Cowardice

Answer: Cowardice

Q.93) The word ‘abound ‘has the noun form

[1] Aboundment

[2] Aboundance

[3] Abundance

[4] Abundant

Answer: Abundance

Q.94) Which of the following sentence has a transitive verb?

[1] A dog runs very fast

[2] No one can speak French like the natives

[3] He has been shouting for an hour

[4] The boys jumped up and down the stairs

Answer: No one can speak French like the natives

Q.95) Give the right suffix for the word ‘just’ to make it an abstract noun:

[1] __Ly

[2] __Ify

[3] __Ice

[4] __Ing

Answer: __Ice

Q.96) The collective noun for ‘constable’ is

[1] Bunch

[2] Group

[3] Posse

[4] Batch

Answer: Posse

Q.97) Matthew Arnold was not a/an

[1] Poet

[2] Critic

[3] Essayist

[4] Novelist

Answer: Novelist

Q.98) In the old Persian stories turan the land of darkness is opposed to Iran the land of light
The correctly punctuated version is

[1] In the old Persian stories turan, the land of darkness, is opposed in Iran, the land of light.

[2] In the old Persian stories turan, the land of darkness, is opposed to Iran, the land of light.

[3] In the old Persian stories, turan, the land of darkness, is opposed to Iran, the land of light.

[4] In the old Persian stories turan, the land of darkness, is opposed to Iran, the land of light.

Answer: In the old Persian stories turan, the land of darkness, is opposed to Iran, the land of light.

Q.99) “If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live
The fewer men, the greater share of honour,” who says this?

[1] Westmoreland

[2] King henry

[3] Bedford

[4] Salisbury

Answer: King henry

Q.100) ‘Caesura’ is a

[1] Six feet line

[2] Rhymed word

[3] Stressed syllable

[4] Break in a line

Answer: Break in a line

Q.101) T.S. Eliot got the Nobel prize in

[1] 1950

[2] 1948

[3] 1957

[4] 1965

Answer: 1948

Q.102) Which one of the following plays is by Shelley?

[1] The borderers

[2] The Cenci

[3] The house of aspen

[4] Manfr’ed

Answer: The Cenci

Q.103) “All the world a stage” occurs in Shakespeare

[1] Twelfth night

[2] Merchant of Venice

[3] As you like it

[4] Hamlet

Answer: As you like it

Q.104) Sir toby belch is a character in Shakespeare’s

[1] Hamlet

[2] Twelfth night

[3] Macbeth

[4] Othello

Answer: Twelfth night

Q.105) Which play of Shakespeare opens with the line___ when shall we three meet again. In thunder, lightning or in rain?

[1] Macbeth

[2] Hamlet

[3] King lear

[4] Othello

Answer: Macbeth

Q.106) Who has written the novel pickwick papers?

[1] Thomas hardy

[2] Mulk raj Anand

[3] Charles dickens

[4] None of them

Answer: Charles dickens

Q.107) Charles dickens was a

[1] Victorian poet

[2] Novelist

[3] Critic

[4] Scientist

Answer: Novelist

Q.108) Charles lamb adopted the name ‘Elia’ which was that of

[1] An English banker

[2] His old school master

[3] His brother

[4] An Italian clerk at the south sea house

Answer: An Italian clerk at the south sea house

Q.109) What is the meaning of the expression ‘Avant Garde’?

[1] Rude expression

[2] Ridiculous

[3] Tragic

[4] Innovative

Answer: Innovative

Q.110) An epic is

[1] Autobiographical

[2] Objective

[3] Comic

[4] Elegiac

Answer: Objective

Q.111) The name of the priest who makes improper suggestions to sohini in Mulk raj Anand’s untouchable is

[1] Kalidas

[2] Kaliprasad

[3] Kalinath

[4] Kalipada

Answer: Kalinath

Q.112) The elegy Adonais has been written to mourn the death of

[1] John Keats

[2] Wordsworth

[3] Byron

[4] Milton

Answer: John Keats

Q.113) Who wrote the long poem The revolt of Islam?

[1] Coleridge

[2] Tennyson

[3] Browning

[4] Shelley

Answer: Shelley

Q.114) Who has a love of mystifying and putting his readers on a false scent?

[1] Lamb

[2] Addison

[3] Hazlitt

[4] Lynd

Answer: Lamb

Q.115) Who wrote the poem endymion?

[1] P.B Shelley

[2] John Keats

[3] Lord Byron

[4] William Wordsworth

Answer: John Keats

Q.116) The charge of the light brigade by Tennyson commemorates the battle of

[1] Balaclava, Crimea

[2] Agincourt

[3] Napoleonic wars

[4] Boers war

Answer: Balaclava, Crimea

Q.117) Rugby chapel by Matthew Arnold is written in the memory of

[1] Tennyson

[2] Shakespeare

[3] Thomas Arnold

[4] Keats

Answer: Thomas Arnold

Q.118) “He laid us as we lay at birth on the cool flowery lap of earth.” In the above lines ‘He’ stands for

[1] Shelley

[2] Goethe

[3] Wordsworth

[4] Keats

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.119) Dickens’ works have

[1] Humour and pathos

[2] Neither humour nor pathos

[3] Humour but no pathos

[4] Pathos but no humour

Answer: Humour and pathos

Q.120) Of the following Tennyson wrote

[1] The cup

[2] Strafford

[3] The sisters

[4] Bothwell

Answer: The cup

Q.121) The line, ‘good fences make good neighbors’ occurs in Robert frost’s poem

[1] Design

[2] Mending wall

[3] After Apple-picking

[4] The death of the hired man

Answer: Mending wall

Q.122) “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. but to be young was very heaven!”

What was the great event Wordsworth had in mind while writing the above lines?

[1] His marriage

[2] Publication of the lyrical ballads

[3] His friendship with Coleridge

[4] The French revolution

Answer: The French revolution

Q.123) The old playhouse and other poems was written by

[1] T.S. Eliot

[2] Kamala das

[3] Mulk raj Anand

[4] Nissim Ezekiel

Answer: Kamala das

Q.124) Which of the following does not match?

[1] Sunset and evening star. __Tennyson
And one clear call for me

[2] Coldly, sadly descends__Arnold
The autumn-evening

[3] It is some dream that on the deck. ___Whitman
You’ve fallen cold and dead

[4] O sweet fancy! Let her loose: ___Shelley
Summer’s joys are spoilt by use

Answer: O sweet fancy! Let her loose: ___Shelley
Summer’s joys are spoilt by use

Q.125) Walt Whitman is known as a poet of

[1] Democracy

[2] Socialism

[3] Capitalism

[4] Sex

Answer: Democracy