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UP PGT 2016 — English (Series A)

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01Which of the following expressions does not appear in the Introduction to Tennyson’s In Memoriam ?

Let knowledge grow from more to moreStrong son of God, immortal loveOur wills are ours, to make them thineThy roots are wraft about the bones

02“There was a Birth, certainly, we had evidence and no doubt ..” These lines are taken from

Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’Milton’s Paradise RegainedMilton’s Paradise LostT. S. Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’

03Which of the following lines is written by Walt Whitman ?

If anything is sacred, human body is sacredUntil we hardly see, we feel that it is thereTo symphony with hopes and fears it heeded notNone of the above

04As an editor, Nissim Ezekiel was not associated with which of the following periodicals ?

QuestImprintPoetry IndiaOpinion

05The following lines occur in which of the poem mentioned below ? “To evil, no important triumph won more than if life had never been begun.”

Mending WallOne’s – self I singDesignThe Onset

06The meaning of the idiom – “to throw up the sponge” is

To oppose resolutelyTo undoTo go to destructionNone of the above

07A collection of small, coloured flags is called

TroupeVoluptuaryBuntingNone of the above

08Which of the following rules is incorrect with reference to changing direct speech into Indirect ?

If the introducing verb is in the past tense, the verbs in the sentence will not change their tenses in Indirect speechVerbs in the infinitive mood never changeA pronoun in the indirect sentence, which refers to the person speaking the sentence, will be put in the first personIn a direct question, the auxiliary part of the verb follows the subject

09“In black and white” means

In shortUselessIn writingIn full swing

10The “touch stone method” is given by

William WordsworthMatthew ArnoldT. S. EliotRobert Frost

11Nissim Ezekiel was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry collection

Time to ChangeThe Exact NameHymns in DarknessLatter – Day Psalms

12Find out the grammatically incorrect sentence.

Each of them followed his planNeither of the experts were paid forI have ordered the coffeeI fear he will fail

13The correct spelling is

chlorophilchlorophyllchlolorophyllchllorophil

PassageFor questions 14–16

Directions : (Q. 14 to 16) – Choose the word which is closest in meaning to the word given in CAPITALS :

14APHORISM

Ample use of simile and metaphorIndirect way of saying something embarrassing or unpleasantA speech or writing glorifying something or someoneShort phrase that says something true or wise

15ANIMOSITY

Strong feeling of hatredDivergent opinionIndifferenceApathy

16UTILITARIANISM

Doctrine of treating all human beings equalBelief that endorses greater happiness of the greatest number of peopleAct of using everything for one’s own benefitAct of seeking pleasure in material attainment

17If in a ballad, a line or stanza is repeated, but with an addition that advances the story, it is called

Referential repetitionIncremental repetitionJust repetitionNone of the above

18Which of the following statements is not correct with reference to ‘Ode’ ?

Pindar’s odes are encomiasticIn contrast to the passion, visionary boldness and formal language of Pindar’s ode, many Horatian Odes are calm, meditative and colloquialThe irregular ode was introduced by Thomas GrayPindar’s Odes were written to praise and glorify someone

19Which work of Wordsworth has been called, “the fine flower of eighteenth century meditative poetry” ?

Lyrical BalladsImmortality OdeThe RecluseTintern Abbey

20What is the name of Greek tragedy written by Matthew Arnold ?

MycerinusSohrab and RustomMeropeThyrsis

21The famous characters – Grace Melbury and Giles Winterbourne appear in Hardy’s novel

The Return of the NativeThe WoodlandersJude the ObscureUnder the Greenwood Tree

22The protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist ?

BathshebaLucettaSueTess

23Four alternatives of converting the direct speech into indirect speech are suggested for the following sentence. Find out the correct one : “Need I finish my breakfast ?” asked the boy.

The boy asked whether he needed to finish the breakfastThe boy proposed that he should finish his breakfastThe boy asked if he had to finish his breakfastThe boy asked why he should finish his breakfast

24A fourteen line poem in ‘iambic pentametres’ consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet is known as

BalladShakespearean SonnetElegyLyric

25John Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’ is an example of

Horatian OdePindaric OdeIrregular OdeNone of the above

26Which of the following works of John Keats is a version of a tale from Boccaccio ?

On first looking into Chapman’s HomerIsabella or ‘The Pot of Basil’EndymionNone of the above

27Lamb’s essays are a sort of fragmentary autobiography. Out of the following pairs find out which is mismatched ?

Christ’s Hospital : Lamb’s Old School DaysBlakesmoor : Lamb’s BoyhoodLovel of ‘Old Bencher’ : Lamb’s BrotherOld China : Mary Lamb

28Find out the figure of speech in – “He received a mortal wound.”

SynecdocheTransferred epithetMetonymyLitotes

29Which of the following spelling rules is incorrect ?

If the accent does fall on the last syllable, the consonant is doubledIf the final consonant is “l”, it is always doubled with only one exceptionShort monosyllables never double their final consonantWhen followed by “ing”, the “e” is always dropped except when the final “e” is preceded by a vowel with which it forms one sound

30“To take the bull by horns” means

Face a difficulty with less confidenceRun away from difficultyPull the bull’s hornsFace a difficulty boldly

31The Waste Land was published in the year

1920192219241926

32Which American poet/poetess won the pulitzer prize for poetry four times in his/her life ?

Robert FrostWalt WhitmanEmily DickinsonKamala Das

PassageFor questions 33–37

Directions (Q. 33 to 37) – Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : The other day we heard someone smilingly refer to poets as dreamers. Now it is accurate to refer to poets as dreamers, but it is not discerning to infer, as this person did, that the dreams of poets have no practical value beyond the realm of literary diversion ; the truth is that poets are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes ; and just as close to reality and truth, where they differ from the logician and the scientist is in the temporal sense alone ; they are ahead of their time, whereas logicians and scientists are abreast of their time. We must not be so superficial that we fail to discern the practicableness of dreams. Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes in any field of life, is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination. Robert Fulton did not discover his steamboat with full steam up, straining at a hawser at some Hudson River dock ; first he dreamed the steamboat, he and other dreamers, and then scientific wisdom converted a picture in the mind into a reality of steel and wood. The automobile and afterward, long afterward, the practical minded engineer’s caught up with what had been created by winging fantasy. He who looks deeply and with a seeing eye into the poetry of yesterday finds there all the cold scientific magic of today and much which we shall not enjoy until some tomorrow. If the poet does not dream so clearly that blueprints of this vision can immediately be drawn and the practical conversions immediately effected ; he must not for that reason be smiled upon as merely the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like the engineer, is a specialist. His being, turned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today. To the scientist, he says, “Here, I give you a flash of the future”. The wise scientist thanks him, and takes that flash of the future and makes it over into a fibre of today.

33Who are abreast of their time ?

Scientists and poetsLogicians and scientistsLogicians and poetsPoets, logicians, soothsayers and scientists

34If the poet did not dream, what would happen ?

There would perhaps be squint flashesThere would be no futureThere would perhaps be no advancement in any fieldNone of the above

35Are the poets dreamers ?

Yes, but upto the level of self esteemYes, poets are dreamersYes, they build rationality and dreamNone of the above

36In what way is the poet a specialist ?

He is a dreamer and the dreams are taken up as agendaHe is a soothsayer of the tricks and these are used by scientist to make overHe gives the scientist a flash of the future which the scientist takes and makes over into fibre of todayHe overcomes the melancholy of the scientist

37According to the author, dreams are useful to the world because

it is a psychological theoryit is a cultural factthe artist enables us to see the beauty of the worldEvery forward step in any field of life is first taken along the dreamy path of imagination

38The correct spelling is

PharmaceuticalPharamaseuticalPharmaceticalPhermaceutical

PassageFor questions 39–44

Directions : (Q. 39 to 44) – Pick out the most appropriate word from the given words to fill in the blanks so as to make the sentence complete :

39I will take ______ . It doesn’t matter which.

neithereitherthe bestnone of the above

40The man denied ______ in the house.

having beenhave beento bebeing

41This one is ______ of the two.

goodbestbetterthe better

42He got ______ home late.

totheto thenone of the above

43If you tried again you ______ succeed.

willshallwouldcan

44I am looking forward to ______ you.

seeseeinghave seennone of the above

45Hagiographics are written on

The lives of marginalsThe lives of subalternsThe stylized lives of christian saintsNone of the above

46Which is/are incorrect statements for ‘understatement’ figure of speech ? i. For ‘understatement’, the Greek term is ‘meiosis’. ii. It does not represent something as very much less in magnitude than it really is. iii. The Wordsworthian line – ‘And never lifted up a single stone’, is example of it. iv. It is also used to assert an affirmative by negating its contrary.

(ii) and (iv)only (ii)only (iv)(i), (ii) and (iii)

47Who was described, “poets poet” of nineteenth century ?

P. B. ShelleyJohn KeatsWilliam WordsworthS. T. Coleridge

48About whom did Arnold write in his poem ‘Memorial verses’ – ‘He laid us as we lay at birth/on the cool flowery lap of birth ...’ ?

William WordsworthWilliam ShakespeareTennysonJohn Keats

49Which novelist created a fictional Mississippi County, ‘Yoknapatawpha County’ in his novels ?

HemingwayFaulknerToni MorrisonAlice Walker

50T. S. Eliot’s critical notions – “dissociation of sensibility” and “objective correlative” were derived from

Italian poetsGerman criticsFrench writersNone

51Four alternatives of converting the direct speech into indirect speech are suggested for the following sentence. Find out the correct one “Let’s sell the house”, said Mohan. “Let’s not”, said Priya.

Mohan told that the house should be sold. Priya suggested that it shouldn’t be done.Mohan proposed the house to be sold. Priya suggested not to do so.Mohan suggested selling the house but Priya was against it.Mohan asked whether the house can be sold but Priya replied in negation.

52Which of the following does not constitute ‘Three Unities’, a popular component of a drama ?

Unity of eventsUnity of placeUnity of timeUnity of action

53Which of the following is mismatched ?

William Wordsworth : The Green LinnetWilliam Wordsworth : To The CuckooWilliam Wordsworth : To The SkylarkWilliam Wordsworth : To A Skylark

54Which of the following pairs is mismatched ?

Prometheus Unbound : 1820Hellas : 1822Adonais : 1823Alastor : 1816

55Which of the following references does not appear in ‘Dream Children’ ?

The children in the woodRobin RedbreastsThe twelve caesarsPhoebe

56Which of the following references does not appear in Tennyson’s Ulysses ?

HydesDim seaOld yewHappy isles

57In which of the following texts, the petty delusions and ambitions of human kind are watched over by choric forces ?

The DynastsThe TempestA Doll’s HouseNone of the above

58The expression – “I do not love, I cannot love, it is not / in my nature of love.” appears in :

‘The Sunshine Cat’‘A Hot Noon in Malabar’‘Philosophy’‘Enterprise’

59In ‘Night of the Scorpion’, the narrator’s father is mentioned not as someone

ScepticRationalistTrying every curse and blessingAnalysing Karma explicitly

60In Hemingway’s short story ‘The capital of the world’, Paco is diminutive of

PicaccoPicachaeuFranciscoPatrick

61The meaning of “to mince matters” is

To speak indirectlyTo speak loudlyTo gloss overNone of the above

62Find out the figure of speech in the following statement : “I see you coming out of a light blue car tomorrow.”

LitotesPunPathetic fallacyInnuendo

63The correct spelling is

AccumulateAccummulateAcummulateAccumullate

64“To buckle down” means

Work seriouslyTake it easyDrop a subjectGo for a vacation

65Mulk Raj Anand is the recipient of

Padma BhushanPadma ShreeYash BhartiPadma Vibhushan

66Which of the following is an exact extract from William Faulkner’s Nobel prize citation ?

“an authentic contribution to post war novel”“powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel”“globalizing American novel”“powerful and authentic output in American short fiction”

PassageFor questions 67–71

Directions : (Q. 67 to 71) – Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it : Our chief element of poetry is its revealing power. It opens our eyes to sensuous beauties and spiritual meanings in the worlds of human experience and of nature to which otherwise we should remain blind. There are few of us who have not some endowment of poetic insight and feeling, some measure of “The vision and the faculty divine”. But in the large majority of cases such poetic capacity as we possess, slight as it probably is at the best, is cramped by the ordinary conditions of existence, crippled by the mere material interests which fill so vast a place in our daily routine, and sometimes, even consciously or unconsciously repressed. The true poet, whatever his range and quality, is one in whom the power of seeing and feeling the sensuous beauty and spiritual meaning of things exists in a pre-eminent degree, and to whom, moreover, another special power has been granted – the power of so expressing and interpreting what he sees and feels as to quicken our own imaginations and sympathies, and to make us see and feel with him.

67What does the author mean by ‘revealing power’ of poetry ?

Poetry helps us attain knowledgePoetry allows us to see and know-what has been unknownPoetry gives us power to communicatePoetry has the power to awaken us

68In the sentence – “There are few of us who have not some endowment...”, what does ‘few of us’ mean ?

Many of usNone of usHardly any of usMost of us

69Which of the following statements is not TRUE ?

The true poet can compose poems of greater variety.He has the power of seeing and feeling pre-eminently.He has a special power of expression and interpretation.He can quicken our own imaginations and sympathies.

70Which of the following statements is not TRUE ?

Poetry enlightens us by means of sensuous beauties and spiritual meaningsPoetry teaches us worldly wisdomPoetry unveils the secrets of natureThe poet has a special power of expression and interpretation

71Which of the following factors is not responsible for suppression of poetic capacity in the large majority of cases ?

Lack of awarenessOrdinary conditions of existenceMaterial interestsCertain conscious and unconscious repressions

72Torpor means

a great fervourextreme mental and physical sluggishnessspotlessbrisk and cheerful readiness

PassageFor questions 73–76

Directions : (Q. 73 to 76) – Given below are the sentences which have been changed either from indirect to direct or from direct to indirect narration. Choose the correct option.

73I asked him if he would lend me his book. (Direct narration)

I said to him, “Kindly lend me your book.”I said to him, “You should lend me your book.”I asked him, “Will you lend me your book ?”I told him, “Would he lend me his book to me ?”

74He said, “Good-bye, my friends !” (indirect narration)

He said to his friends good-byeHe bade good-bye to his friendsHe addressed his friends to bid good-byeNone of the above

75She asked us if we had anything to say. (Direct narration)

She asked us, “What did we have to say ?”She said to us, “Have you anything to say ?”She asked us, “What have we to say ?”She said to us, “Do you have anything to say ?”

76He said to me, “You are lucky and I am unlucky”. (Indirect narration)

He told me that I was lucky and he was unluckyHe said to me that I am lucky and he is unluckyHe told me if I am lucky and he was unluckyNone of the above

77Which of the following is not a closet drama ?

All for LovePrometheus UnboundThe DynastsSamson Agonistes

78Among the following, which does not consist of lines of Iambic Pentameter without rhyming ?

Free verseBlank verseHeroic coupletTerza Rhyma

79There are some statements in reference with John Keats and his life. Find the correct option given below : i. John Keats is romantic in his relish of sensation, his feelings, his middle ages and Hellenism. ii. He has been associated with “the Cockney school of poetry”. iii. In his powerful lyric “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, he develops tribal theme. iv. ‘Ode to Autumn’ is not written by Keats.

i and iiiii and ivonly ionly ii

80“Thyrsis” was written by Arnold to commemorate his friend Arthur Hugh Clough who had died in 1861 at the age of

43404244

81“His story requires Romans and Kings, but he thinks only on men.” Who remarked it for William Shakespeare ?

Ben JonsonDrydenDr. Samuel JohnsonMatthew Arnold

82Who called Shakespeare, “The largest and most comprehensive soul” ?

Dr. JohnsonDrydenT. S. EliotI. A. Richards

83Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy ?

HamletThe Duchess of MalfiVolponeGorboduc

84Which of the following terms is applied to a dramatic representation of serious and important actions ?

ComedyTragi-comedySatireTragedy

85Which of the following statements is not correct about William Wordsworth ?

Wordsworth records that his earliest verses were a tame imitation of Pope’s versification.Throughout his life, he never wavered in his faith in himself and his immortality as a poet.Lyrical Ballads was published at Cocurmouth.The Prelude was completed in 1805.

86Which of the following statements is not correct with reference to P. B. Shelley ?

The unfinished work The Triumph of Life derived metrically and thematically from Dante and Petrarch.The subtitle of Adonais is The Spirit of Solitude.Hellas inspired by the Greek rebellion against the Ottoman rulers, prophesies ‘upon the curtain of futurity’.In Alastor, Shelley had presented an account of the quest of a young poet.

87Which of the following characters does not appear in David Copperfield ?

HamTommy TraddlesDoctor StrongDoctor Rank

88Which of the following rules is incorrect with reference to grammar ?

Two main clauses separated only by a comma cannot stand in EnglishWhen ‘and’ is added to a pronoun governed by a preposition, the latter governs and precedes the relative pronoun also‘Should’ with the second and third persons means ‘ought to’‘would’ with the subject in the first person gives the meaning of ‘ought to’

89The Prelude consists of ______ books.

10121416

90Which character of Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up” ?

BarkisMicawberUria HeepMiss Havisham

91Which of the following authors wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” ?

Kamala DasA. K. RamanujanRohintan MistryNissim Ezekiel

92Which of the following pairs is mismatched in a series of singular to plural ?

Criteria – CriterionBureau – BureauxMedium – MediaRadius – Radii

PassageFor questions 93–97

Directions : (Q. 93 to 97) – Read each sentence carefully to find out error in it. Error lies in any one part of the sentence numbered as (A), (B), (C), (D). You have to identify :

93This car is superior and more costly than the one I have.

This caris superiorand more costlythan the one I have.

94You will either have to improve your work or I shall have to dismiss you from school.

You will either haveto improve your workor I shall have todismiss you from school.

95He had been to school but he has learnt nothing there.

He had beento schoolbut he haslearnt nothing there.

96His failing to answer the question made the police suspect him.

His failingto answer the questionmade the policesuspect him.

97There is always danger of panic when a fire breaks up in a crowded city.

There is alwaysdanger of panicwhen a fire breaks upin a crowded city.

98The opposite of supercilious is

snobbishmeek and humblearrogantsuperficial

99Which of the following is written incorrectly ?

percentsome timeall rightatleast

100Which of the following is mismatched ?

Trueman Capote’s The Cold Blood : Non fictional NovelE. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime : Documentary FictionS. W. Scott’s Ivanhoe : Historical NovelV. Sinclair’s The Jungle : Kunstlerroman

101Which is not correct statement for ‘Metonymy’ figure of speech ?

The Greek Language ‘Metonymy’ denotes “a change of name”“Metonymy” occurs where one thing is applied to another with which it has become closely associatedIn “Metonymy” a part of something is used to signify the whole‘The Scepter’ can be used to stand for a king in “Metonymy”

102The character ‘Fog’ appears in Dickens’ novel

Oliver TwistOld Curiosity ShopPickwick PapersBarnaby Budge

103Which poem of Tennyson does start with the heroic line, “Courage ! he said and pointed towards the land” ?

Morte D’ ArthurUlyssesBreak, Break, BreakThe Lotus Eaters

104Tennyson was appointed the poet laureate in the year

1846185018541858

PassageFor questions 105–108

Directions : (Q. 105 – 108) Pick out the most appropriate word from the words given below the sentence and fill in the blanks :

105It rained all Monday and stopped raining ______ that night.

induringfromat

106You ______ have watered the flowers, for it is going to rain.

shouldmustcouldn’tneedn’t

107He was angry, ______ he listened to me patiently.

thoughbutsotherefore

108There are ______ any flowers in the garden.

fewa fewscarcelyat all

109John Dryden’s All for Love is an example of

Romantic ComedyHeroic TragedyHistory PlayComedy of Humours

110Who among the following said, “The child is father of the Man” ?

P. B. ShelleyTennysonJohn KeatsWilliam Wordsworth

111Which of the following periodicals brutally assailed Keats’ second volume of verse published in 1818 ?

The Quarterly ReviewThe BeeThe RamblerThe Guardian

112Which of the following is written by Charles Lamb ?

Liber AmorisEssays on Men and MannersCharacters of ShakespeareRosamond Gray

113Which of the following statements is not correct about Charles Dickens ?

Melodramatic element is chiefly noticeable in his early works – Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.The illustration of Harley street appears in Little Dorrit.The strength and weakness of Dickens’ humour and pathos lie in the hypersensitive imagination.The term ‘new gate novel’ is inspired by Dickens’ novel New Gate.

114The reference of “faithful shepherd” appears in which of the following poems ?

Crossing the BarDover BeachRugby ChapelNone of the above

115Which of the following periodicals was started by Walt Whitman ?

The Long IslanderThe MirrorThe OutlookNone of the above

116The lines – “I am forced by the five senses to fear the five senses.” are taken from

UlyssesHymns in DarknessThe VisitorThe Looking Glass

117‘The Gift of Outright’ is a poem by

Walt WhitmanRobert FrostWilliam FaulknerNone of the above

118Who is a burly landlord in “The Barber’s Trade Union” ?

Bijay ChandParam ChandThanu ChandSardar Singh

119Which of the following is mismatched in view of word and meaning ?

Horde : EnthusiasticGaol : PrisonCession : Act of Giving upAssay : to test

120“.... for the world which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams.” is taken from a poem by

Matthew ArnoldA. L. TennysonJohn KeatsP. B. Shelley

121Which of the following works by Thomas Hardy appeared anonymously in 1871 ?

Satires of CircumstancesUnder the Greenwood TreeDesperate RemediesNone of the above

122Which of the following works is not written by Kamala Das ?

The DescendantsThe Old Playhouse and Other PoemsSummer in CalcuttaThe Unfinished Man

123A Boy’s Will is written by

Robert FrostWalt WhitmanWilliam FaulknerNone of the above

124Which of the following works is written by Ernest Hemingway ?

A FableAcross the Black waterFiestaNone of the above

125The meaning of “to give a wide berth” is

To keep one at a distanceTo take undue advantageTo know the real feelingNone of the above

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Source: U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board, Lecturer (PGT) Examination (Advt. 02/2016), English, booklet code PG-03, Series A — the Board’s question booklet for this sitting, with its official answer key. Question booklets on the Commission’s site (upessc.up.gov.in) . The answer key was matched to the questions automatically and has not yet been checked by a person. The official booklet is a scan with no text, so ExamBharo typed this paper from it by hand. A typing slip is possible; report one through the contact page. The board deleted questions 8, 23, 47, 75 and 99 in its final answer key: shown here, with no answer, and not counted in the score.