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UP PGT 2021 — English (Series A)

17 or 18 August 2021125 questions+3.4 for a correct answer, −0 for a wrong one

Questions from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s paper of 17 or 18 August 2021. Each question’s answer is under it, hidden until you open it, and the full answer key is at the end. Take the paper as a timed practice test to be scored.

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English

1. Change the narration of the sentence and choose the correct option. “Will you stop talking”, he said.
- (a) He asked them why didn’t they stop talking.
- (b) He told them to stop talking.
- (c) He asked them not to talk.
- (d) He advised them not to talk.
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Answer: (b)
2. Change the narration of the sentence and choose the correct option. “Ask the teacher”, my father suggested.
- (a) My father suggested that we should ask the teacher.
- (b) My father suggested to ask the teacher.
- (c) My father suggested that let the teacher be asked.
- (d) My father suggested that the teacher be asked.
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Answer: (a)
3. Change the narration of the sentence and choose the correct option. He said, “You needn’t wait”.
- (a) He told that you should not wait.
- (b) He advised me not to wait.
- (c) He told that I should not wait.
- (d) He said that I needn’t wait.
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Answer: (d)
4. Which of the following statements is not true about a soliloquy ?
- (a) A soliloquy is a speech in which a character, alone on the stage, expresses his thoughts and feelings.
- (b) It enables a dramatist to convey directly to an audience important information about a particular audience.
- (c) In a soliloquy, one imaginary speaker addresses an imaginary audience.
- (d) Soliloquy was extensively used by the playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
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5. Fill in the blanks with correct articles given below in the line. I therefore welcome this publication which is _______ humble tribute to his memory by _______ Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of _______ Government of India.
- (a) an, the, the
- (b) a, the, the
- (c) the, the, the
- (d) a, a, the
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Answer: (b)
6. Shakespeare’s sonnets have the following features. Find out correct statements. 1. Shakespeare has written 154 sonnets. 2. Sonnets from 1 to 126 are addressed to Dark Lady. 3. He dedicated his some sonnets to his Patron Earl of Southampton. 4. The rhyme scheme of his sonnets are generally ab ab, cd cd, ef ef, gg.
- (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
- (b) Both 1 and 4
- (c) 1, 3 and 4
- (d) Only 4
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Answer: (c)
7. Which poem of John Keats given below is based on Burton’s ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ ?
- (a) Ode to Autumn
- (b) Hyperion
- (c) Lamia
- (d) The Eve of St. Agnes
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Answer: (c)
8. Which kind of plays were dramatized allegories of the life of man, his temptation and sinning and his quest for salvation ?
- (a) Morality plays
- (b) Thesis plays
- (c) Miracle plays
- (d) Interludes
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Answer: (a)
9. Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit is an attack upon
- (a) The economic education in Universities
- (b) The social practices and their effects
- (c) The school system
- (d) Marshalsea the debtor’s prison and the system that is responsible for its existence
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Answer: (d)
10. In which of the following novels, Joe Christmas attempts to recover the origins of his mulatto identity ?
- (a) Absalom, Absalom !
- (b) Light in August
- (c) The Sound and the Fury
- (d) Go Down Moses
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Answer: (b)
11. Poems on Various Subjects is written by
- (a) Robert Frost
- (b) Matthew Arnold
- (c) Charles Lamb
- (d) Kamala Das
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Answer: (c)
12. Who has said that, “Poetry should please by a fine excess.” ?
- (a) Matthew Arnold
- (b) John Keats
- (c) P.B. Shelley
- (d) Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Answer: (b)
13. Choose the option having correct form of tense.
- (a) He has come back last night
- (b) He came back last night
- (c) He is coming back last night
- (d) He was coming back last night
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Answer: (b)
14. Sensationalism and extravagant emotional appeal are the characteristics of which of the following dramatic form ?
- (a) Melodrama
- (b) Theatre of the absurd
- (c) Problem plays
- (d) Expressionist drama
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Answer: (a)
15. The term ‘Utopia’ designates the class of fictional writings that
- (a) Represent the elite class and highly educated society
- (b) Show the intelligent and rational way of life
- (c) Represent an ideal but nonexistent political and social way of life
- (d) Is full of ideal and imaginative romanticism
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Answer: (c)
16. Which is not true statement for Shelley’s works ?
- (a) Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind has been written in terza rima.
- (b) Adonais is well-known elegy on the death of William Godwin.
- (c) Hellas is a lyric drama inspired by the possibilities of Greek revolt.
- (d) Shelley’s The Triumph of life is a dream poem and unfinished work.
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Answer: (b)
17. Whitman’s poem ‘Children of Adam’ has the theme
- (a) Love as an animal passion
- (b) Democracy
- (c) Mystery of life
- (d) Natural beauty
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Answer: (a)
18. Gabriel Oak is a character in
- (a) A Pair of Blue Eyes
- (b) Return of the Native
- (c) Life’s Little Ironies
- (d) Far from the Madding Crowd
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Answer: (d)
19. Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost ?
- (a) A Moveable Feast
- (b) Home Burial
- (c) Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
- (d) A Boy’s Will
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Answer: (a)
20. Which of the following works is a product of the later phase of Wordsworth’s career ?
- (a) The Borderers
- (b) The Descriptive Sketches
- (c) An Evening Walk
- (d) The Thorn
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Answer: (a)
21. The burly landlord in “The Barber’s Trade Union” is named
- (a) Bijay Chandrika Bahadur
- (b) Param Chand
- (c) Poorna Chand
- (d) Bijay Chand
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Answer: (d)
22. In which of the following poetic dramas, the petty delusions and ambitions of human kind are watched over by choric forces who, from their extended perspectives undercut any assumption of heroic action ?
- (a) Murder in the Cathedral
- (b) The Dynasts
- (c) The Cocktail Party
- (d) The Confidential Clerk
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Answer: (b)
23. Find out odd pair of works of John Keats and their publication year.
- (a) Endymion — 1818
- (b) The Pot of Basil — 1820
- (c) The Eve of St. Agnes — 1820
- (d) Queen Mab — 1813
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Answer: (d)
24. The sentence has been transformed as directed in the brackets. Choose the correct option. Pay that bill at once. (Passive)
- (a) You should pay that bill at once
- (b) That bill should be paid at once
- (c) Let that bill be paid at once
- (d) You are advised to pay that bill at once
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Answer: (c)
25. The sentence has been transformed as directed in the brackets. Choose the correct option. Hard-working students always get success. (Complex)
- (a) The students who get success are hard-working
- (b) The students who get success always work hard
- (c) The students who work hard always get success
- (d) The students who do not work hard do not get success
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Answer: (c)
26. The sentence has been transformed as directed in the brackets. Choose the correct option. Does anyone like paying taxes ? (Assertive)
- (a) All like paying taxes
- (b) Nobody likes paying taxes
- (c) Anyone can pay taxes
- (d) Everyone does not like paying taxes
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Answer: (b)
27. The sentence has been transformed as directed in the brackets. Choose the correct option. No sooner did the sun rise than the dew disappeared. (Affirmative)
- (a) As the sun rose, the dew disappeared
- (b) As soon as the sun rose, the dew disappeared
- (c) Hardly had the sun risen than the dew disappeared
- (d) As soon as the sun had risen, the dew had disappeared
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Answer: (b)
28. The sentence has been transformed as directed in the brackets. Choose the correct option. She is not taller than I am. (Without a negative)
- (a) I am taller than her
- (b) She is as tall as I am
- (c) I am as tall as she is
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (a)
29. The meaning of the idiom, “to cool one’s heels” is
- (a) to be kept waiting for sometime
- (b) to rest for sometime
- (c) to remain in a comfortable position
- (d) to give no importance to someone
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Answer: (a)
30. “Thunder crashes from rock To rock, the cataracts replay : Lightnings dazzle our eyes; Raring torrents have breach’d” The above mentioned lines are taken from
- (a) ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prupock’
- (b) ‘The Hollow Men’
- (c) ‘Rugby Chapel’
- (d) ‘Ulysses’
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Answer: (c)
31. In which of the following poems, does the poet express “What’er the theme ? ... song could have no ending ?”
- (a) Ode to the West Wind
- (b) To A Skylark
- (c) The Solitary Reaper
- (d) Ode to A Nightingale
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Answer: (c)
32. Which of the following works is inspired by Shelley’s disgust at the so-called ‘Peterloo’ massacre ?
- (a) The Revolt of Islam
- (b) The Mask of Anarchy
- (c) Ode to the West Wind
- (d) Prometheus Unbound
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Answer: (b)
33. In reference with Hardy’s life and his works some statements are given. Find the incorrect option. 1. Thomas Hardy was born in 1842. 2. He is known for his regional novels. 3. The character Gabriel Oak appears in his novel — Far From Madding Crowd. 4. Tess of the D’Urbervilles was published in 1880 and regarded as his masterpiece.
- (a) 1 and 4
- (b) Only 1
- (c) 2, 3 and 4
- (d) Only 4
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Answer: (a)
34. “She is more sinned against than sinning” is a remark made in favour of one of the famous heroines of Thomas Hardy. Which of the following novels she belongs to ?
- (a) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- (b) Return of the Native
- (c) Jude the Obscure
- (d) Mayor of Casterbridge
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Answer: (a)
35. Choose the option that gives the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase. pull strings
- (a) use one’s influence to get something done
- (b) abort one’s plans
- (c) reprimand for poor performance
- (d) discourage
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Answer: (a)
36. Choose the option that gives the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase. drop in
- (a) withdraw
- (b) disappear
- (c) pay a short unannounced visit
- (d) enter into an agreement
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Answer: (c)
37. Choose the option that gives the correct meaning of the idiom or phrase. break into
- (a) terminate
- (b) enter by force
- (c) collapse
- (d) detach
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Answer: (b)
38. In a tragedy, the term ‘catharsis’ can be broadly interpreted as
- (a) error of judgment in the character of a hero which leads him from happiness to misery.
- (b) purgation of excessive emotion of pity and fear.
- (c) a catastrophe in which there occurs a sudden reversal of hero’s fortune from happiness to disaster.
- (d) an act of revenge acted out on stage to satisfy the audience’s appetite.
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Answer: (b)
39. Choose the incorrect use of idioms with pair of words.
- (a) Kashmir is rack and ruin of India.
- (b) My mother loves her kith and kin.
- (c) Hitler carried fire and sword wherever he went.
- (d) Let us work heart and soul.
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Answer: (a)
40. From which of the following poems, the given lines are taken ? “Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear.”
- (a) The Solitary Reaper
- (b) Dover Beach
- (c) Thyrsis
- (d) The Hollow Men
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Answer: (d)
41. Equivoque is
- (a) A form of metaphor
- (b) A form of metonymy
- (c) A special type of pun
- (d) An alliteration
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Answer: (c)
42. Who has spoken following lines in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ : Me-thought, I heard a voice cry, “sleep no more ! Macbeth does murther sleep,” — the innocent sleep;
- (a) Lady Macbeth
- (b) Banquo
- (c) Macduff
- (d) Macbeth
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Answer: (d)
43. Complete the sentence by filling the correct preposition from the choices given. We were _______ time for the train.
- (a) on
- (b) at
- (c) in
- (d) during
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Answer: —
44. Complete the sentence by filling the correct preposition from the choices given. It is not wise to have a meal and bathe immediately _______.
- (a) after
- (b) afterwards
- (c) since
- (d) during
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Answer: (b)
45. Complete the sentence by filling the correct preposition from the choices given. He has done nothing _______ he arrived.
- (a) for
- (b) since
- (c) from
- (d) after
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Answer: (b)
46. Complete the sentence by filling the correct prepositions from the choices given. He was ill _______ a week and _______ that week he ate nothing.
- (a) for, during
- (b) for, in
- (c) from, till
- (d) since, for
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Answer: (a)
47. Who among the following has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ...” ?
- (a) Plato
- (b) Aristotle
- (c) Homer
- (d) Sir Philip Sidney
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Answer: (b)
48. P.B. Shelley, has been labelled as “an ineffectual angel beating in void his luminous wings in vain”. Who, among the following, made such a remark ?
- (a) T.S. Eliot
- (b) Matthew Arnold
- (c) F.R. Leavis
- (d) I.A. Richards
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Answer: (b)
49. There are some statements given below in reference with the term ‘prosody’. Find out incorrect statements. 1. It is systematic study of versification in poetry. 2. It deals with principles and practice of meter, rhyme and stanza forms. 3. It also studies figure of speech. 4. It does not include study of speech sound patterns and effects.
- (a) 1 and 2
- (b) 2 and 3
- (c) 3 and 4
- (d) Only 4
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Answer: (c)
50. Among the following which work has not been written by Charles Lamb ?
- (a) Essays of Elia
- (b) Last Essays of Elia
- (c) Tales from Shakespeare
- (d) The Great Adventures of Ulysses
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Answer: (d)
51. Which of the following figures of speech involves a play upon words ?
- (a) Antithesis
- (b) Alliteration
- (c) Pun
- (d) Zeugma
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Answer: (c)
52. In which of the following plays, the middle class provincial life has been depicted, by Shakespeare ?
- (a) Timon of Athens
- (b) The Merry Wives
- (c) Coriolanus
- (d) The Winter’s Tale
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Answer: (b)
53. Catherine Barkley is a character in
- (a) A Farewell to Arms
- (b) Men without Women
- (c) The Sun Also Rises
- (d) Absalom, Absalom !
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Answer: (a)
54. From which of the following poems the given lines have been taken ? “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.”
- (a) The Princess
- (b) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- (c) Thyrsis
- (d) Dover Beach
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Answer: (a)
55. Which of the following texts is “a rarely imaginative version of a tale from Boccaccio” ?
- (a) Prometheus Unbound
- (b) ‘True Love’
- (c) ‘Isabella’
- (d) The Borderers
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Answer: (c)
56. Which of the following works was originally titled as, “Laon and Cythna” ?
- (a) Ode to the West Wind
- (b) The Mask of Anarchy
- (c) Prometheus Unbound
- (d) The Revolt of Islam
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Answer: (d)
57. Young Nick Adams is a character of Hemingway’s novel
- (a) A Farwell to Arms
- (b) In Our Times
- (c) The Sun Also Rises
- (d) To Have or Have Not
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Answer: (b)
58. The famous characters — Grace Melbury and Giles Winterbourne appear in Hardy’s novel
- (a) The Return of the Native
- (b) The Woodlanders
- (c) Jude the Obscure
- (d) Under the Greenwood Tree
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Answer: (b)
59. Point out the part of speech of the underlined word in the following sentence. He always respects his elders.
- (a) Verb
- (b) Adverb
- (c) Adjective
- (d) Conjunction
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Answer: (b)
60. Point out the part of speech of the underlined word in the following sentence. He is like my father.
- (a) Adjective
- (b) Preposition
- (c) Noun
- (d) Adverb
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Answer: (b)
61. Point out the part of speech of the underlined word in the following sentence. Each of the questions carries one mark.
- (a) Noun
- (b) Adjective
- (c) Adverb
- (d) Pronoun
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Answer: (d)
62. Which of the following dramas does not belong to the last phase of Shakespeare’s literary career ?
- (a) The Tempest
- (b) Cymbeline
- (c) Winter’s Tale
- (d) As You Like It
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Answer: (d)
63. In which novel of Dickens do the characters — Grandgrind, Bounderby and Cissy Jupe appear ?
- (a) Little Dorrit
- (b) Great Expectations
- (c) Hard Times
- (d) Our Mutual Friend
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Answer: (c)
64. “One of four children born at the same time to the same mother” is called
- (a) quaff
- (b) quadruple
- (c) quadruplet
- (d) quadrillion
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Answer: (c)
65. Arabella Donn is a character in
- (a) Return of the Native
- (b) The Well Beloved
- (c) Jude the Obscure
- (d) The Trumpet Major
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Answer: (c)
66. Which of the following works is not written by Robert Frost ?
- (a) Two Tramps in Mud Time
- (b) The Death of The Hired Man
- (c) The Hill Wife
- (d) Green Hills of Africa
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Answer: (d)
67. For which work did E.M. Forster remark while criticising Mulk Raj Anand : “Avoiding the rhetoric and circumlocution, it has gone straight to the heart of its subject and purified it” ?
- (a) Two Leaves and a Bud
- (b) The Sword and the Sickle
- (c) Coolie
- (d) Untouchable
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Answer: (d)
68. Thomas Sutpan, the progenitor of “Sutpan’s Hundred” appears in
- (a) Absalom, Absalom !
- (b) Light in August
- (c) A Moveable Feast
- (d) Men Without Women
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Answer: (a)
69. Among these following pairs find out incorrect pair of Shakespeare’s comedy and their characters
- (a) Loves Labour Lost — Biron and Rosaline
- (b) A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Benedick and Beatrice
- (c) The Merchant of Venice — Bassanio — Portia
- (d) As You Like it — Orlando and Rosalind
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Answer: (b)
70. “The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices” The above mentioned lines appear in
- (a) ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’
- (b) ‘Crossing the Bar’
- (c) ‘Ulysses’
- (d) ‘The Road not Taken’
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Answer: (c)
71. Memogranda During the War is written by
- (a) Ernest Hemingway
- (b) Walt Whitman
- (c) William Faulkner
- (d) Robert Frost
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72. Which of the following is the correct definition of alliteration ?
- (a) It is the use of a vague or equivocal expression.
- (b) It is a contrast or opposition in meaning.
- (c) It is the repetition of speech sounds in a sequence of nearby words.
- (d) It is the use of words and expressions that have become obsolete in common speech.
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Answer: (c)
73. Which of the literary periods does the most prolific novelist Charles Dickens belong to ?
- (a) Neo-Classical Period
- (b) Romantic Period
- (c) Victorian Period
- (d) Early Twentieth Century
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Answer: (c)
74. ‘Thyrsis’ was written to commemorate
- (a) Thomas Arnold
- (b) Keats
- (c) Tennyson
- (d) Arthur Hugh Clough
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Answer: (d)
75. In which of the following poems do we get the references of ‘Dryad’, ‘Flora’ and ‘Ruth’ ?
- (a) ‘Ode to the West Wind’
- (b) ‘True Love’
- (c) ‘Ode On A Grecian Urn’
- (d) ‘Ode to A Nightingale’
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Answer: (d)
76. “Thou lovest; but n’ er knew – Love’s sad satiety” The above line is taken from
- (a) The Lost Love
- (b) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- (c) Ode on A Grecian Urn
- (d) To A Skylark
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Answer: (d)
77. Faulkner’s satire of the philistine deceptions of the rootless southerner who seized wealth and power in the Chaotic civil war period can be referred as
- (a) Yoknapatacopha
- (b) Snopes
- (c) Snopesism
- (d) Global South
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Answer: (c)
78. “I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; their birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like death, our death”. The above mentioned lines are taken from
- (a) ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prupock’
- (b) ‘The Hollow Men’
- (c) ‘Journey of the Magi’
- (d) The Waste Land
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79. “What is the course of the life of mortal men of the earth .... Nothing; and then they die – Perish; and no one asks.” The above cited lines appear in
- (a) Crossing the Bar
- (b) Ode to a Nightingale
- (c) Rugby Chapel
- (d) Mending Wall
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 80–84
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
To many people, Switzerland is the country of the Alps, though not all of it is mountainous. Northern Switzerland, like neighbouring regions of Eastern France and South-West Germany, is a land of hills and woods but also of cities and industries. Basel is world famous for pharmaceuticals and Zurich and its suburbs for electrical engineering and machinery. It is non-Alpine Switzerland that produces the cheese, the chocolates, the clocks and the watches for which the country is renowned.
The Alps occupy the southern half of the country. They form two main east-west chains, divided by the straight line of the upper valleys of the Rhone and Rhine. The northern chain wholly in Switzerland contains Eiger and Jungfran peaks.
The Alps also influences swiss lives through their impact on its climate. They divide the mediterranean world from the central European. There are many regional variations in climate. But generally the mountain air is clear and clean — a factor that has resulted in Switzerland attracting the ailing from all over the world to its hospitals and clinics.
80. Switzerland’s climate which attracts the ailing from all over the world can be described as
- (a) Salacious
- (b) Salubrious
- (c) Felicitous
- (d) Boisterous
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Answer: (b)
81. Replace the word, “impact” in the passage without changing the meaning of the sentence using one of the following.
- (a) Change
- (b) Alteration
- (c) Influence
- (d) Evolution
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Answer: (c)
82. According to the passage which region has a major share of mountains to the exclusion of other land forms ?
- (a) Southern Switzerland
- (b) Eastern France
- (c) South-West Germany
- (d) Northern Switzerland
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Answer: (d)
83. In the first sentence the word “it” in the phrase “not all of it is mountainous” refers to
- (a) Mountains
- (b) Neighbouring countries
- (c) Switzerland
- (d) Alps
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Answer: (c)
84. Cheese, chocolates, clocks etc. are produced
- (a) All over Switzerland
- (b) Only in two cities in Switzerland
- (c) In the mountainous regions of Switzerland
- (d) In the non-mountainous regions of Switzerland
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Answer: (d)
85. Only one of the four words is spelt correctly. Its meaning is given first. Meaning: Intended to cheat someone
- (a) Fraudulent
- (b) Fradulant
- (c) Fraedulant
- (d) Fraudulant
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Answer: (a)
86. Only one of the four words is spelt correctly. Its meaning is given first. Meaning: A slaughter house
- (a) Abbatoir
- (b) Abatoir
- (c) Abatteur
- (d) Abattoir
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Answer: (d)
87. Only one of the four words is spelt correctly. Its meaning is given first. Meaning: The scientific study of the earth’s atmosphere
- (a) Meterology
- (b) Meteorology
- (c) Metrology
- (d) Matrology
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Answer: (b)
88. Only one of the four words is spelt correctly. Its meaning is given first. Meaning: Extremely unpleasant
- (a) Abnoxious
- (b) Obnoxous
- (c) Obnoxious
- (d) Obnaxious
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Answer: (c)
89. Which of the following ages witnessed epic form of poetry at its peak ?
- (a) Classical age
- (b) Renaissance period
- (c) Neoclassical age
- (d) Modern age
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Answer: (a)
90. Which of the following figures of speech is used in the sentence : “I have read all of Milton”.
- (a) Metaphor
- (b) Allegory
- (c) Personification
- (d) Metonymy
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Answer: (d)
91. Change the sentence from direct narration to indirect narration correctly. Ram told Shyam, “Please take your seat. I am very glad to see you. Where had you been so long ?”
- (a) Ram requested Shyam to take his seat. He told him that he was glad to see him and asked him where he had been so long.
- (b) Ram told Shyam he should take his seat and he was glad to see him. He asked him where he had been so long.
- (c) Ram requested Shyam to take his seat, glad to see him and where he was so long.
- (d) None of these
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Answer: (a)
92. Who regarded Shakespeare’s greatest plays ‘as books to be read rather than as plays to be acted’ ?
- (a) William Wordsworth
- (b) T.S. Eliot
- (c) Matthew Arnold
- (d) Charles Lamb
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93. Which of the following works by William Shakespeare is a pastoral romance ?
- (a) As You Like It
- (b) Twelfth Night
- (c) The Tempest
- (d) Othello
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Answer: (a)
94. Humbug Casby in Little Dorrit is
- (a) a funny character
- (b) a philosopher of oriental thoughts
- (c) a police officer from Tudor stock
- (d) an officer in British Navy
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Answer: —
95. In The Sun Also Rises, having flittered through several sexual liaisons, Lady Brett Ashley, finally chooses
- (a) Romeo, a young Spanish Matador
- (b) Clemenzo, a Parisian Chef
- (c) Nick Adams
- (d) Lieutenant Frederic Henry
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Answer: —
96. Which of the following poets has written the lines as given below : Blow bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, “Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”
- (a) John Keats
- (b) P.B. Shelley
- (c) Alfred Lord Tennyson
- (d) Robert Frost
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Answer: (c)
97. Which of the following works is not written by Charles Lamb ?
- (a) The Old Familiar Faces
- (b) John Woodvil
- (c) ‘An Essay on the Principles of Human Action’
- (d) Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the time of Shakespeare
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Answer: (c)
98. “Portrait of a Lady” is a dramatic monologue written by
- (a) P.B. Shelley
- (b) Tennyson
- (c) T.S. Eliot
- (d) None of them
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Answer: (c)
99. Among the given below pairs in respect of Faulkner’s novels which is not correct pair ?
- (a) Mosquitoes — a satiric novel on New Orleans
- (b) The Sound and the Fury — the story of decline of the compson family
- (c) The Hamlet — the story of King Hamlet and his son
- (d) A Fable — an allegory about man’s search for peace
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Answer: (c)
100. “No nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands ...” Which of the following poems by William Wordsworth contain the above mentioned lines ?
- (a) Tintern Abbey
- (b) Daffodils
- (c) Solitary Reaper
- (d) Three years she crew in sun and shower
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 101–110
Read the passage given below and choose correct answers to the questions.
The function of discovery is sometimes attributed to imagination. Through the exercise of imagination we hit upon hypotheses which help us to combine the discrete data into synthetic wholes. Hypothesis is the principle of growth in knowledge. In framing a hypothesis we seam to contemplate a situation which does not necessarily exist. We contemplate the non-existent and review a number of alternatives. Such an attitude of mind where the activity of assertion is suspended, and possible alternative situations are supposed seems to be obviously one of imagination. Croce identifies the activity responsible for hypothesis with artistic imagination. But an illuminating hypothesis is not the work of mere uncontrolled imagination. Imagination unvivified by intuition, imagination which is day dreaming, fancy, reverie or guess work will not help us to light upon the truth except by accident. There is a difference between a mere guess which is the work of imagination and integral knowing or intuition. Those who attribute the framing of hypothesis to imagination assign it, not to the analytical intellect but to the appreciative part of our mind.
101. It is not appropriate to attribute the framing of hypothesis to a mere uncontrolled imagination because
- (a) Imagination does not light upon the truth
- (b) Hypothesis is a mere guess work
- (c) Imagination is only a day dreaming or a fancy
- (d) Imagination supported by intuition can be helpful in framing of hypothesis
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Answer: (d)
102. In what manner do hypotheses help in the function of discovery ?
- (a) They help us to combine discrete data into synthetic wholes
- (b) We are able to contemplate a non-existent situation
- (c) We are able to review a number of alternatives
- (d) Hypothesis induces imagination
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Answer: (a)
103. What according to the author, is the role of imagination ?
- (a) Imagination is the source of discovery
- (b) Imagination is the source of hypothesis
- (c) Imagination plays role in combining discrete data
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (b)
104. Choose the closest meaning of the word from the choices given. Hypothesis
- (a) a well-established fact
- (b) an idea which is yet not proved to be true
- (c) a popular belief
- (d) a scientific discovery
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Answer: (b)
105. Choose the closest meaning of the word from the choices given. Reverie
- (a) guesswork
- (b) day dream
- (c) imagination
- (d) whim
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Answer: (b)
106. Choose the closest meaning of the word from the choices given. Discrete
- (a) Careful in speech
- (b) Individually separate
- (c) Extremely vital
- (d) Indispensable
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Answer: (b)
107. Choose the closest meaning of the word from the choices given. Intuition
- (a) state of applying wisdom
- (b) ability to know through strong feelings
- (c) ability to do something skillfully
- (d) commonsense
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Answer: (b)
108. Choose the closest meaning of the word from the choices given. Integral
- (a) having all the essential parts
- (b) important
- (c) that which cannot be dispensed with
- (d) that which cannot be ignored
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Answer: (a)
109. What among the following may be the most appropriate title of the above passage ?
- (a) Artistic imagination
- (b) Growth of knowledge
- (c) Intuition and discovery
- (d) Role of fancy
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Answer: (c)
110. Complete the sentence below after a careful reading of the passage. We contemplate the non-existent in order to
- (a) enrich our imagination
- (b) frame a hypothesis
- (c) imagine something unrealistic
- (d) build up an argument
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Answer: (b)
111. Which form of comedy deals with the relations and intrigues of gentlemen and ladies living in a polished society ?
- (a) Romantic comedy
- (b) Comedy of humours
- (c) Comedy of manners
- (d) Satiric comedy
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Answer: (c)
112. Which of the following works does not belong to Romantic poetry ?
- (a) Hyperion
- (b) Lyrical Ballads
- (c) Christabel
- (d) The wasteland
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Answer: (d)
113. According to Wordsworth poet is a ‘man speaking to _______ : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively _______, more _______ and tenderness’. Fill in the blanks with suitable words given below.
- (a) Nature, imagination, truthfullness
- (b) Men, sensibility, enthusiasm
- (c) Society, capacity, softness
- (d) State, responsibility, efficiency
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Answer: (b)
114. About whom did Arnold write in his poem, ‘Memorial Verses’ – ‘He laid us as we lay at birth/on the cool flowery lap of birth ....’ ?
- (a) William Wordsworth
- (b) William Shakespeare
- (c) Tennyson
- (d) John Keats
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Answer: (a)
115. The knockabout scenes in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor are the examples of
- (a) Vulgar comedy
- (b) Comedy of humours
- (c) Farce
- (d) The science of buffoonery
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Answer: (c)
116. Jake Barnes is the narrator in
- (a) In Our Times
- (b) Men Without Women
- (c) A Moveable Feast
- (d) The Sun Also Rises
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Answer: (d)
117. Which of the following statements is not correct about the poetry of Robert Frost ?
- (a) Following his stay in England between 1912 and 1915, Frost’s poetry acquired influences of the British Georgian school of poetry
- (b) Frost’s poetry has often been described as an intersection of self and place
- (c) Across the River and into the Trees offers a true representation of Frost as an Emersonian poet
- (d) Frost’s relationship with nature is characterized by his notion of “emblemism”
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Answer: (c)
118. “Marriage by its best title is a monopoly, and not of the least invidious sort” The above mentioned statement appears in :
- (a) ‘True Love’
- (b) Culture and Anarchy
- (c) Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
- (d) ‘A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People’
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Answer: (d)
119. Wordsworth’s first poem, ‘An Evening Walk’ shows the influence of _______ poets-Rosset, Roucher and Delile on him.
- (a) Italian
- (b) French
- (c) Greek
- (d) Roman
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Answer: (b)
120. Which poem of Tennyson does start with the heroic line, “Courage ! he said and pointed towards the land” ?
- (a) Morte D’Arthur
- (b) Ulysses
- (c) Break, Break, Break
- (d) The Lotus Eaters
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Answer: (d)
121. Which of the following is not held to be one of the four primary fluids to determine a person’s physical condition and type of character (Ref. comedy of humours)
- (a) Blood
- (b) Sanguis
- (c) Choler (Yellow bile)
- (d) Melancholy (black bile)
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Answer: (b)
122. “Of life immense in passion, pulse and power cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine The modern man I sing” The above mentioned lines appear in
- (a) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- (b) One’s self I sing
- (c) I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing
- (d) Mending Wall
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Answer: (b)
123. The references of “Hinkseys, Sibylla and Ilsley Downs” appear in
- (a) ‘Crossing the Bar’
- (b) ‘Dover Beach’
- (c) ‘Ulysses’
- (d) ‘Thyrsis’
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Answer: (d)
124. In which of the following poems, do we get the reference of Proteus and Old Triton
- (a) Ode to The West Wind
- (b) Ode to A Nightingale
- (c) The World is Too Much with Us
- (d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Answer: (c)
125. The lines, “I who have lost/my way and beg now at strangers’ doors to/Receive love, at least in small change ?” appear in
- (a) The Freaks
- (b) My Grandmother’s House
- (c) A Hot Noon in Malabar
- (d) The Invitation
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Answer: (b)

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Answer key

Answer key from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s official answer key for this sitting. “—” means the key gave none: the question was deleted.

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