PAPER OF 2009

Q.1) The given passage speaks about

[1] The sign of a good manager

[2] The workers doing their job

[3] Ways in which to produce a higher quality product

[4] The need to be open to new ideas.

Answer: The sign of a good manager

Q.2) We understand from the passage that a good manager is one

[1] Who has a department where everybody is busy at work

[2] Who offers a cash bonus, time off or a gift to his workers

[3] Who is open minded and receptive to new ideas

[4] Who is too quick, too eager to show off his experience and knowledge.

Answer: Who is open minded and receptive to new ideas

Q.3) People merely ‘doing their job’ in the passage means

[1] That people busy at work do not perform their assigned tasks

[2] That such people produce a higher quality product

[3] That such people are working at about half quality potential

[4] That such people are innovative

Answer: That such people are working at about half quality potential

Q.4) In a truly productive department

[1] People are busy at work on their assigned tasks

[2] People are busy at work to produce a large quantity of product

[3] People always think of evolving better and more efficient methods of working

[4] People always make a show of their experience and knowledge.

Answer: People always think of evolving better and more efficient methods of working

Q.5) The word ‘motivation’ in the passage means

[1] To impute a motive to an action

[2] The act of inspiring others

[3] To put a thing into action

[4] None of the these

Answer: The act of inspiring others

Q.6) ‘To be receptive to new ideas’ in the passage suggests

[1] Readiness to receive new ideas

[2] To be cautions and careful about the new ideas

[3] To share with your people the new ideas

[4] To think of better and more efficient methods of working.

Answer: To share with your people the new ideas

Q.7) The word ‘incentive’ in the context of the passage suggests

[1] To produce higher quality product, in less time

[2] To produce higher quality product, at lower cost

[3] An additional payment or additional facilities to employees to increase production

[4] Employee’s faith that management does listen to his suggestions and ideas.

Answer: An additional payment or additional facilities to employees to increase production

Q.8) A truly productive employee, according to the writer, is always

[1] Busy at work on his assigned tasks

[2] Actively thinking of better and more efficient methods of working

[3] Has an eye on a cash bonus, time off, or a gift

[4] Suggesting but never busy at work.

Answer: Actively thinking of better and more efficient methods of working

Q.9) The innovative suggestions or new ideas from your employee can be obtained when

[1] You offer a cash bonus to him

[2] You make him feel that management does listen to him or her and puts his ideas to work

[3] You distrust his experience and knowledge

[4] You pressurize him to tender new ideas or face the consequences.

Answer: You make him feel that management does listen to him or her and puts his ideas to work

Q.10) A good manager should

[1] Be open-minded and receptive to new ideas

[2] Quickly shoot down innovative suggestions from an employee to assert supremacy of his experience and knowledge

[3] Discard innovative ideas dubbing them unworkable

[4] Be content with the normal functioning of the department

Answer: Be open-minded and receptive to new ideas

Q.11) A………. soldier fights for the sake of money.

[1] Materialistic

[2] Pioneer

[3] Veteran

[4] Mercenary

Answer: Mercenary

Q.12) The road to hell is……. with good intentions

[1] Decorated

[2] Engraved

[3] Paved

[4] Crowded

Answer: Paved

Q.13) Laws grind the……….and rich man rule the law.

[1] Criminals

[2] Poor

[3] Innocents

[4] Destitutes

Answer: Poor

Q.14) It is not possible for everyone to………….an elephant.

[1] Keep up

[2] Keep up with

[3] Keep in

[4] Keep on

Answer: Keep up

Q.15) Our college building has a good…………

[1] Sight

[2] Site

[3] Cite

[4] Side

Answer: Site

Q.16) Shakespeare is indebted to one of the following sources for the subject matter of his some plays. Choose the right one from the following:

[1] The Arabian nights

[2] Holinshed’s chronicle

[3] Bewoulf

[4] The arthurain legends

Answer: Holinshed’s chronicle

Q.17) One of the following poets was nicknamed ‘The lady of christ’s’ by his fellow undergraduates. Spot the correct name of the poet.

[1] Milton

[2] Spenser

[3] Shakespeare

[4] Marlowe.

Answer: Milton

Q.18) ‘When the assault was intended to the city’ is a sonnet written by

[1] Milton

[2] Wordsworth

[3] Shakespeare

[4] Spenser.

Answer: Milton

Q.19) Which play of Shakespeare portrays the character of Malvolio?

[1] Love’s labour lost

[2] Twelfth night

[3] Hamlet

[4] As you like it

Answer: Twelfth night

Q.20) ‘On the morning of Christ’s nativity’ is a

[1] Sonnet

[2] Ode

[3] Masque

[4] Pastoral elegy.

Answer: Ode

Q.21) Which of the following, is a work of Milton?

[1] Novum organum

[2] De doctrina christana

[3] Endymion

[4] Prothalmion

Answer: De doctrina christana

Q.22) What figure of speech has been used in the following line?
‘Rascals and rogues ran a race round and round the rugged rock’

[1] Hyperbole

[2] Alliteration

[3] Onomatopoeia

[4] Apostrophe.

Answer: Alliteration

Q.23) Choose the correct word to complete the given proverb:
Barking dogs………. bite.

[1] Sometimes

[2] Seldom

[3] Always

[4] Never.

Answer: Seldom

Q.24) What is the antonym of ‘manly’?

[1] Feminine

[2] Effeminate

[3] Masculine

[4] Strong.

Answer: Effeminate

Q.25) What figure of speech has been used in the following line? ‘Frailty, thy name is women!’

[1] Metaphor

[2] Personification

[3] Apostrophe

[4] Simile.

Answer: Apostrophe

Q.26) ‘Venus and Adonis’ is a poetic composition of a poet who was a dramatist also:

[1] Shakespeare

[2] Milton

[3] Marlowe

[4] Dryden.

Answer: Shakespeare

Q.27) ‘For a handful of silver, he left us.’ This line of browning has a reference to

[1] Shakespeare

[2] Wordsworth

[3] Tennyson

[4] Dryden

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.28) A bend in the Ganges is a work of

[1] Anita Desai

[2] Amitav Ghosh

[3] Manohar Malgonkar

[4] M.R. Anand.

Answer: Manohar Malgonkar

Q.29) Pick out the right option which expresses the meaning of word ‘Invaluable’.

[1] Valueless

[2] Priceless

[3] Useless

[4] Cheap

Answer: Priceless

Q.30) The following sentence has a blank space and four words given after the sentence. Select whichever word you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

‘The doctor said that a small daily………. of the new drug would soon cure him’

[1] Tablet

[2] Pill

[3] Dose

[4] Quantity

Answer: Dose

Q.31) Correct form of the sentence,’I have often found him negligent……..his work.’ Is

[1] I have often found him negligent in his work

[2] I have often found him negligent of his work

[3] I have often found him negligent to his work

[4] I have often found him negligent with his work

Answer: I have often found him negligent in his work

Q.32) During his visit to France, Wordsworth fell in love with a girl named

[1] Catherine

[2] Mary Hutchinson

[3] Annette Vallon

[4] Simon lee.

Answer: Annette Vallon

Q.33) “The fall of………in 1453 marks the beginning of renaissance in Europe.” Choose the correct alternative to fill in the blank in the above sentence:

[1] Bastille

[2] The roman empire

[3] The Spanish armada

[4] Constantinople.

Answer: Constantinople

Q.34) Who wrote the following about Shakespeare? ‘others abide our question, thou art free.’

[1] T.S. Eliot

[2] Arnold

[3] Blake

[4] Wordsworth.

Answer: Arnold

Q.35) The figure of speech in which the sound suggests the sense or meaning is known as

[1] Alliteration

[2] Onomatopoeia

[3] Oxymoron

[4] Transferred epithet.

Answer: Onomatopoeia

Q.36) Punctuate the following sentence. ‘She called out angrily so you have been hitting Makhan again phatik answered indignantly no I have not who told you that’ Find out the correct option__

[1] She called out angrily, so you have been hitting Makhan again, phatik answered indignantly, ‘no, I have not, who told you that.’

[2] She called out angrily, ‘so you have been hitting Makhan again.’ Phatik answered indignantly, ‘no, I haven’t, who told you that.’

[3] She called out angrily, ‘so you have been hitting Makhan again?’ phatik answered indignantly. ‘no, I haven’t; who told you that?’

[4] She called out angrily, ‘so you have been hitting Makhan?’ again phatik answered indignantly. ‘no, I haven’t. who told you that?’

Answer: She called out angrily, ‘so you have been hitting Makhan again?’ phatik answered indignantly. ‘no, I haven’t; who told you that?’

Q.37) Select the word with its correct spelling:

[1] Vaccum

[2] Vaccume

[3] Vaccuum

[4] Vacuum.

Answer: Vacuum

Q.38) Who calls Milton ‘god-gifted organ-voice of England’?

[1] Arnold

[2] Wordsworth

[3] Gray

[4] Tennyson

Answer:

Q.39) Name the critic who remarks “justice (1910) is a commentary upon the prison administration of that period.”

[1] Coats

[2] A.C. Ward

[3] A. Nicoll

[4] Skemp.

Answer: A.C. Ward

Q.40) What does the idiom (the) pros and cons mean?

[1] Changes of life

[2] The arguments urged for and against a thing

[3] Irregularly

[4] Repeatedly

Answer: The arguments urged for and against a thing

Q.41) Select from the following the correct meaning of the word ‘Nostalgia’

[1] A fatal disease

[2] Longing for things that are past

[3] An allegorical story

[4] A state of excessive fear and anxiety.

Answer: Longing for things that are past

Q.42) Choose the correct animal cry to complete the sentence: ‘Dogs bark, lions roar but frogs……

[1] Coo

[2] Bleat

[3] Croak

[4] Cluck

Answer: Croak

Q.43) A figure of speech in which a qualifying adjective is sometimes transferred from a person to a thing or from one word to another, to which it does not strictly belong, is called

[1] Metonymy

[2] Transferred epithet

[3] Apostrophe

[4] Personifiction

Answer: Transferred epithet

Q.44) Find out the mis-spelt word.

[1] Accompaniment

[2] Explaination

[3] Superstitious

[4] Miscellaneous.

Answer: Explaination

Q.45) Choose the correct spelling of the word.

[1] Restaurant

[2] Restaurant

[3] Resteurant

[4] Restorant

Answer: Restaurant

Q.46) Which, of the following words, means ‘a place where the birds of kept’?

[1] Aquarium

[2] Zoo

[3] Amnesty

[4] Aviary

Answer: Aviary

Q.47) Which of the following plays, is not written by Galsworthy?

[1] The silver box

[2] Joy

[3] Weavers

[4] A doll’s house

Answer: A doll’s house

Q.48) ‘Every great poet is a teacher’ are the words of

[1] Shelley

[2] Keats

[3] Byron

[4] Wordsworth

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.49) The restoration period was influenced by

[1] French dramatists

[2] The dramatists of England

[3] Italian dramatists

[4] Greek dramatists

Answer: French dramatists

Q.50) Punctuate the following lines:

‘As Caeser loved me, I weep for him as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it as he was valiant, I honour him but as he was ambitious, I slew him’

[1] As Caeser loved me, I weep for him, as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it, as he was valiant, I honour him but as he was ambitious, I slew him.

[2] As Caeser loved me, I weep for him as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it as he was valiant, I honour him but as he was ambitious, I slew him.

[3] As Caeser loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at is; as he was valiant, I honour him but—as he was ambitious, I slew him

[4] As Caeser loved me I weep for him; as he was fortunate I rejoice at is; as he was valiant I honour him but as he was ambitious I slew him.

Answer: As Caeser loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at is; as he was valiant, I honour him but—as he was ambitious, I slew him

Q.51) Find out the figure of speech in the following lines: ‘Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burned the topless towers of lilium?’

[1] Personification

[2] Hyperbole

[3] Metaphor

[4] Oxymoron.

Answer: Hyperbole

Q.52) The first Indian author to win the prestigious Pulitzer prize in the U.S.A was

[1] Anita Desai

[2] Jhumpa Lahiri

[3] Vikram Seth

[4] Khushwant Singh

Answer: Jhumpa Lahiri

Q.53) What is the antonym of ‘consent’?

[1] Descent

[2] Dissent

[3] Decent

[4] Assent

Answer: Dissent

Q.54) Select the right meaning of the word ‘Aristocracy’ from the following:

[1] Government by the rich

[2] Government by the nobles

[3] Government by the officials

[4] Rule by mob.

Answer: Government by the nobles

Q.55) Select, from the following, the name of the author on whose grave the words he chose himself are carved: ‘Here is one whose name is writ in watter.’

[1] Keats

[2] Byron

[3] Milton

[4] Swineburne

Answer: Keats

Q.56) The father

[1] As well as

[2] The sons were

[3] Involved in the number

[4] No error

Answer: The sons were

Q.57) He could

[1] Not give cattle

[2] Green fodder today because

[3] He has broken his right hand a week ago

[4] No error

Answer: He has broken his right hand a week ago

Q.58) What to

[1] Talk of charity

[2] You do not practice

[3] Even ordinary humanity

[4] No error

Answer: Talk of charity

Q.59) I am

[1] Very thirsty

[2] Give me little water

[3] To drink

[4] No error

Answer: Give me little water

Q.60) You and

[1] Your wife

[2] Appear to have seen

[3] Much more happier days

[4] No error

Answer: Much more happier days

Q.61) Nobody was

[1] Prepared

[2] To give up their seat

[3] To the old man bending on a stick

[4] No error

Answer: To give up their seat

Q.62) The price

[1] Of this car

[2] Is higher than

[3] Your new car

[4] No error

Answer: Your new car

Q.63) No sooner

[1] The bell rang

[2] Than all students ran out

[3] Of their classes helter-skelter

[4] No error

Answer: The bell rang

Q.64) The principal,

[1] Along with teachers

[2] Were invited

[3] On the occasion

[4] No error

Answer: Were invited

Q.65) Suresh asked

[1] Akbar

[2] When could he

[3] Reach Kanpur

[4] No error

Answer: When could he

Q.66) ‘Docile’ means

[1] Vague

[2] Gentle

[3] Stupid

[4] Stubborn.

Answer: Gentle

Q.67) ‘Enigmatic’ is

[1] Displeased

[2] Puzzling

[3] Learned

[4] Short-sighted.

Answer: Puzzling

Q.68) ‘Alleviation’ is the antonym of

[1] Lessening

[2] Magnification

[3] Aggravation

[4] Exaggeration

Answer:

Q.69) ‘Deviate’ is the antonym of

[1] Obliviate

[2] Break

[3] Concentrate

[4] Follow

Answer: Concentrate

Q.70) ‘Inevitable’ bears the opposite meaning of

[1] Unavoidable

[2] Eatable

[3] Uncertain

[4] Mutilated.

Answer: Uncertain

Q.71) A good judge never jumps…..the conclusion.

[1] At

[2] For

[3] To

[4] On

Answer: At

Q.72) Such remarks are certainly derogatory……your reputation.

[1] For

[2] To

[3] With

[4] Of

Answer: To

Q.73) Minority aspirations cannot forever be kept in check……the gun.

[1] By

[2] Through

[3] With

[4] From

Answer: With

Q.74) The sarpanch turned………. the proposal without thinking properly.

[1] In

[2] Out

[3] Up

[4] Down

Answer: Down

Q.75) His story seems to be devoid………truth.

[1] From

[2] Of

[3] To

[4] In

Answer: Of

Q.76) Tick the correct sentence.

[1] Neither ram or Shyam has done it.

[2] Either ram nor Shyam has done it.

[3] Both ram and Shyam has done it.

[4] Neither ram nor Shyam has done it.

Answer: Neither ram nor Shyam has done it

Q.77) Find out the correctly spelt word

[1] Consumpshion

[2] Conjuption

[3] Consumption

[4] Conjumpshan

Answer: Consumption

Q.78) Find out the correctly spelt word.

[1] Aeroplane

[2] Aroplain

[3] Aeroplain

[4] Aeroplane

Answer: Aeroplane

Q.79) The sonnet is a poem of

[1] Ten lines

[2] Twelve lines

[3] Fourteen lines

[4] Sixteen lines

Answer: Fourteen lines

Q.80) Classical tragedy was a form of

[1] Drama

[2] Novel

[3] Prose

[4] Poetry

Answer: Drama

Q.81) Elegy began to be so called because

[1] It was written in the elegiac measure

[2] It was a poem of sorrow

[3] It was written by writers of elegies

[4] Some expert crities named it so

Answer: It was a poem of sorrow

Q.82) The novel is

[1] One of the earliest forms of writing

[2] One of the latest forms of writing

[3] One of the discarded forms of writing

[4] None of these

Answer: One of the latest forms of writing

Q.83) In which play do the following lines occur? “Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend. And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

[1] Macbeth

[2] The merchant of Venice

[3] Hamlet

[4] King Lear

Answer: Hamlet

Q.84) Choose the correct name of the play (from those given) from which the following lines have been taken:

“We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

[1] The tempest

[2] Othello

[3] Macbeth

[4] Cariolanus

Answer: The tempest

Q.85) Who has said it? “One impulse from a vernal wood may teach us more of man, of moral evil and of good than all the sages can.”

[1] Shakespeare

[2] Milton

[3] Galsworthy

[4] Wordsworth

Answer: Wordsworth

Q.86) From which book has it been taken? “To be weak is miserable doing or suffering?”

[1] The tempest

[2] Paradise regained

[3] The prelude

[4] Paradise lost

Answer: Paradise lost

Q.87) One of the following works of Milton is a prose work. Mention that:

[1] Lycidas

[2] Paradise regained

[3] Paradise lost

[4] Areopagitica

Answer: Areopagitica

Q.88) Shakespeare

[1] Was a great scholar of Latin

[2] Knew a lot in Greek

[3] Had a great command over English

[4] Knew little Latin and less Greek.

Answer: Knew little Latin and less Greek

Q.89) The first play by john Galsworthy was

[1] Justice

[2] Loyalties

[3] The skin game

[4] The silver box

Answer: The silver box

Q.90) Which of the following plays does not belong to the group of four great tragedies of Shakespeare?

[1] King Lear

[2] Hamlet

[3] Othello

[4] Twelfth night

Answer: Twelfth night

Q.91) Shakespeare’s play hamlet is influenced by

[1] Marlowe

[2] Kyd

[3] Peele

[4] Nashe

Answer: Kyd

Q.92) The name of Prospero’s daughter in the tempest is

[1] Desdemona

[2] Cordelia

[3] Miranda

[4] Olivia

Answer: Miranda

Q.93) The dominating passion of Macbeth is

[1] Jealousy

[2] Greed

[3] Revenge

[4] Ambition

Answer: Ambition

Q.94) In twelfth night Olivia is over head and ears in love with

[1] Malvolio

[2] Duke Orsino

[3] The clown

[4] Viola disguised as Cesario

Answer: Viola disguised as Cesario

Q.95) Shylock is a character in

[1] As you like it

[2] The merchant of Venice

[3] Twelfth night

[4] Measure for measure

Answer: The merchant of Venice

Q.96) Milton’s paradise lost

[1] Has no trace of personal element

[2] Is notable for its autobiographical passages

[3] Is quite objective

[4] Has none of the above qualities

Answer: Is notable for its autobiographical passages

Q.97) Who is the hero of paradise lost?

[1] God

[2] Satan

[3] Adam

[4] None of them

Answer: Adam

Q.98) The statement, “Others abide our question, thou art free” refers to

[1] John Milton

[2] Edmund Spenser

[3] Christopher

[4] Shakespeare

Answer: Shakespeare

Q.99) Everyman is

[1] An interlude

[2] A comedy

[3] A tragic-comedy

[4] A morality play

Answer: A morality play

Q.100) A dramatic monologue is

[1] A short play

[2] A poem

[3] A novel

[4] A prose story

Answer: A poem

Q.101) What do we call a piece of writing that is an imitation of an action that is serious and complete?

[1] A comedy

[2] A tragic-comedy

[3] A tragedy

[4] None of these

Answer: A tragedy

Q.102) Shakespeare has mostly used in his plays

[1] Heroic couplet

[2] Blank verse

[3] Free verse

[4] Spenserian stanza

Answer: Blank verse

Q.103) “They also serve who only stand and wait.” This line occurs in

[1] Lycidas

[2] Comus

[3] Paradise lost

[4] On his blindness

Answer: On his blindness

Q.104) Name the poem from which the following words have been quoted: The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult of the soul.

[1] The world is too much with us

[2] The tables turned

[3] Ode to duty

[4] Laodamia.

Answer: Laodamia

Q.105) In which play of Galsworthy do we have William falder?

[1] Loyalties

[2] Silver box

[3] Justice

[4] Strife

Answer: Justice

Q.106) Shakespeare is

[1] A renaissance playwright

[2] A restoration playwright

[3] A twentieth century playwright

[4] A classical playwright

Answer: A renaissance playwright

Q.107) Galsworthy belonged to

[1] The sixteenth century

[2] The seventieth century

[3] The twentieth century

[4] The nineteenth century

Answer: The twentieth century

Q.108) Who said it? How poor are they that have not patience, What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

[1] Othello

[2] Cassio

[3] Lago

[4] Desdemona

Answer: Lago

Q.109) Shakespeare wrote

[1] 154 sonnets

[2] 145 sonnets

[3] 451 sonnets

[4] 26 sonnets

Answer: 154 sonnets

Q.110) Milton’s paradise lost has been praised for its

[1] Lightness of touch

[2] Grand style

[3] Its satirical tone

[4] None of these

Answer: Grand style

Q.111) Paradise lost has been divided into………..books

[1] Ten

[2] Nine

[3] Eleven

[4] Twelve

Answer: Twelve

Q.112 Cordelia came to help her father because

[1] He had given her the lion’s share of his kingdom

[2] He had deprived her of her share in his kingdom

[3] Out of her genuine love for him

[4] She hated her elder sisters

Answer: Out of her genuine love for him

Q.113) Allusion is

[1] A synonym of reference

[2] A synonym of poetry

[3] An indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work

[4] None of these.

Answer: An indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work

Q.114) A ballad

[1] Is a short epic

[2] Is a song sung by ballet dancers

[3] Is a folk song or orally transmitted poem dealing with a popular story

[4] Is a short novel.

Answer: Is a folk song or orally transmitted poem dealing with a popular story

Q.115) Denouement is related to

[1] An essay

[2] A play

[3] A lyric

[4] An elegy

Answer: A play

Q.116) An eclogue is

[1] A long poem

[2] A short poem

[3] A pastoral poem

[4] A short dialogue

Answer: A pastoral poem

Q.117) Galsworthy’s tragedies are called

[1] Tragic-comedies

[2] Heroic-tragedies

[3] Social-tragedies

[4] Classical-tragedies

Answer: Social-tragedies

Q.118) Samson agonistes by Milton

[1] Is a play

[2] Is a long poem

[3] Is a masque

[4] A long treatise

Answer: Is a play

Q.119) Ben Jonson’s name is associated with

[1] Sentimental comedy

[2] Romantic comedy

[3] Comedy of manners

[4] Comedy of humours

Answer: Comedy of humours

Q.120) Congreve tried his hand at

[1] Romantic comedies

[2] Comedies of humours

[3] Comedies of manners

[4] Farces

Answer: Comedies of manners

Q.121) Who has been termed as a motiveless malignity?

[1] Macbeth

[2] Othello

[3] Lago

[4] Polonius

Answer: Lago

Q.122) Caliban

[1] Is the hero of the play the tempest

[2] Married Prospero’s daughter in the tempest

[3] Killed Prospero in the tempest

[4] Is the villain in the tempest

Answer: Is the villain in the tempest

Q.123) Ophelia is the beloved of

[1] Macbeth

[2] Hamlet

[3] Othello

[4] Romeo

Answer: Hamlet

Q.124) Simile is

[1] A part of speech

[2] A figure of speech

[3] A technical device used by old poets

[4] A sister of Emily Dickinson

Answer: A figure of speech

Q.125) John Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in

[1] 1912

[2] 1922

[3] 1932

[4] 1942

Answer: 1932