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UP TGT 2021 — English (Series A)

7 or 8 August 2021125 questions+4 for a correct answer, −0 for a wrong one

Questions from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s paper of 7 or 8 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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The board deleted question 85 in its final answer key: shown here, with no answer, and not counted in the score.

English

1. Transform direct narration into indirect narration : Ram said, “How lovely this flower is !”
- (a) Ram said how lovely this flower was with joy
- (b) Ram exclaimed with joy that was a lovely flower
- (c) Ram exclaimed with joy that a lovely flower was
- (d) Ram said with joy that was a lovely flower
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Answer: (b)
2. The line ‘They also serve who only stand and wait’ occurs in which of the following poems ?
- (a) ‘True Love’ by Shakespeare
- (b) ‘On His Blindness’ by Milton
- (c) ‘Daffodils’ by Milton
- (d) ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats
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Answer: (b)
3. Who refers William Wordsworth as an “ever enduring man” ?
- (a) Dr. Johnson
- (b) John Keats
- (c) De Quincey
- (d) S.T. Coleridge
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Answer: (d)
4. Mark the part with the error. (Read the four options as the parts of the given sentence.)
- (a) It was Meera who
- (b) suggested that you be at the entrance
- (c) to welcome each delegate
- (d) on their arrival
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Answer: (d)
5. What is rhyme scheme of Petrarchan sonnet ?
- (a) abba, abba, cde, cde
- (b) abab, cde, abab, cde
- (c) cde, cde, abba, abba
- (d) abab, abab, cde, cde
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Answer: (a)
6. What is the grammatical status of the underlined word in the following sentence ? Everybody joins hands and dances round.
- (a) noun
- (b) adverb
- (c) adjective
- (d) verb
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Answer: (b)
7. Which of the following statements about ‘lyric’ form of poetry is not True ?
- (a) A lyric contains 14 lines
- (b) It usually expresses the feelings and thoughts of a single speaker
- (c) The Greeks identified the lyric as a song rendered to the accompaniment of a lyre
- (d) A lyric poem may be a brief expression of a mood
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Answer: (a)
8. The term ‘Carpe Diem’ means
- (a) Hail the day
- (b) Seize the day
- (c) Goodbye the bright day
- (d) Sees the day
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Answer: (b)
9. Which of the following statements is not correct about ‘Biography’ ?
- (a) It is the history of particular men’s lives
- (b) The name biography now connotes a relatively full account of a particular person’s life
- (c) It involves the attempt to set forth character, temperament and milieu as well as subject’s activities and experiences
- (d) Biography is a later day genre and we find biographies in 20th century only
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Answer: (d)
10. Which of the following statements is not correct with reference to essay ?
- (a) The essay differs from a “treatise” or “dissertation” in its lack of pretension to be a systemic and complete exposition
- (b) An essay primarily discusses its subject in non-technical fashion
- (c) The essay discusses its subject with a liberal use of such devices as anecdotes, striking illustrations and humour to augment its appeal
- (d) The formal essay is relatively personal
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Answer: (d)
11. “Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,” The above lines are written for
- (a) John Galsworthy
- (b) William Shakespeare
- (c) John Milton
- (d) William Wordsworth
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Answer: (c)
12. Choose one word from the options which describes the phrase most accurately. Murder of a brother
- (a) Homicide
- (b) Infanticide
- (c) Fratricide
- (d) Sororicide
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Answer: (c)
13. The correct spelling is
- (a) consonantal
- (b) consconental
- (c) conscenental
- (d) consonental
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Answer: (a)
14. The correct spelling is
- (a) Ginocologist
- (b) Gaenecologist
- (c) Gaynecologist
- (d) Gynaecologist
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Answer: (d)
15. Which of the following is not a major characteristic of a ballad ?
- (a) It tells a story often with a musical accompaniment
- (b) It usually deals with a single episode
- (c) It is comic in nature
- (d) The story is told through dialogue and action
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Answer: (c)
16. Transform the following sentence into ‘Exclamatory’ sentence : This story is very beautifully told.
- (a) This story is narrated beautifully !
- (b) This story is communicated so gracefully !
- (c) How graceful the writer is in telling this story !
- (d) How beautifully this story is told !
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Answer: (d)
17. Jack Barthwick is a character in
- (a) The Man of Property
- (b) Jocelyn
- (c) The Island Pharisees
- (d) The Silver Box
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Answer: (d)
18. Which of the following statements is correct about Autobiography ?
- (a) It is written by a great author on the life of fellow author
- (b) It is written by a scholar on the life of a fellow scholar
- (c) It is a memoir
- (d) The first fully developed autobiography is also the most influential : The Confessions of St. Augustine, written in fourth century
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Answer: (d)
19. Find out correct sentence.
- (a) He gave me much too pain
- (b) I shall go just now
- (c) He always gets success since he hardly works
- (d) I shall be only too glad to see you
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Answer: (d)
20. Who called Shakespeare a ‘Johannes Factotum’, a Jack-of-all Trades ?
- (a) Christophere Marlowe
- (b) Samuel Johnson
- (c) Robert Greene
- (d) William Wordsworth
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Answer: (c)
21. The great artistic movement ‘Renaissance’ had its full impact on English literature in
- (a) Fifteenth century
- (b) Sixteenth century
- (c) Eighteenth century
- (d) Nineteenth century
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Answer: (b)
22. Which of the following works is a novelette written by John Galsworthy ?
- (a) The Freelands
- (b) Jacolyn
- (c) The Forsyte Saga
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (d)
23. What is the grammatical status of the underlined word in the following sentence ? There was a great round of applause.
- (a) noun
- (b) adjective
- (c) adverb
- (d) verb
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Answer: (a)
24.
- (a) a single speaker talking to himself
- (b) several speakers talking on one subject
- (c) one imaginary speaker talking to an imaginary audience
- (d) a single dialogue in the poem
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Answer: (c)
25. Which of the following is a ‘pastoral elegy’ ?
- (a) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- (b) In Memoriam
- (c) Lycidas
- (d) Duino Elegy
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Answer: (c)
26. “A factual account of a person’s life, examing all available information and texts relevant to the subject”, is called
- (a) Biography
- (b) Autobiography
- (c) Memoir and Ode
- (d) Elegy
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Answer: (a)
27. Choose one word from the options which describes the phrase most accurately. Gradual recovery from illness
- (a) Panacea
- (b) Convalescence
- (c) Putrefaction
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (b)
28. The correct spelling is
- (a) Diferential
- (b) Differensial
- (c) Differencial
- (d) Differential
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Answer: (d)
29. Find out incorrect sentence.
- (a) But one thing, however, has not changed
- (b) You should act like me
- (c) If you do not work hard, you can not succeed
- (d) I will wait here untill you come back
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Answer: (a)
30.
- (a) parable
- (b) apologue
- (c) proverb
- (d) exemplum
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Answer: (b)
31. Shakespeare’s play ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ is a good example of
- (a) The Comedy of Ideas
- (b) The Comedy of Manners
- (c) Problem Play
- (d) Romantic Comedy
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Answer: (b)
32. Who among the following writers is known for his epigrammatic prose style ?
- (a) Thomas Browne
- (b) Bacon
- (c) Dr. Johnson
- (d) Addison
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Answer: (b)
33. As a dramatist John Galsworthy belongs to the
- (a) romantic tradition
- (b) psychological tradition/school
- (c) realist tradition of Jones and Pinero
- (d) tradition of Edward Bond
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Answer: (c)
34. What is the grammatical status of the underlined word, in the following sentence ? Vasco da Gama was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope.
- (a) noun
- (b) adjective
- (c) adverb
- (d) verb
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Answer: (d)
35. Which of the following statements is true about a ‘closet drama’ ?
- (a) It is a drama full of treachery and intrigues
- (b) A closet drama essentially has double plots
- (c) A closet drama is intended to be read rather than to be staged in a theatre
- (d) It deals with gentlemen and ladies living in a polished society
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Answer: (c)
36. The prose ‘Gothic novel’ denotes
- (a) the medieval type of architectural work
- (b) a type of prose fiction which has been set in the middle ages, often sufficed with gloomy castle
- (c) a novel full with mysteries in modern age
- (d) a type of fiction with exotic setting
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Answer: (b)
37. “Any short composition in prose that undertakes to discuss a matter, express a point of view persuades us to accept a thesis on any subject, or simply entertain”, is
- (a) Biography
- (b) Essay
- (c) Autobiography
- (d) Ode
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Answer: (b)
38. Find out the most suitable preposition from the given options. Malti is fed up _______ the weather.
- (a) from
- (b) with
- (c) over
- (d) about
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Answer: (b)
39. Mark the part with the error. (Read the four options as the parts of one sentence that is given)
- (a) These kind of apparel
- (b) seems to be expensive
- (c) but it is relatively
- (d) affordable to maintain
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Answer: (a)
40. The correct spelling is
- (a) Dicsernmant
- (b) Diccernement
- (c) Discernment
- (d) Dicsernment
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Answer: (c)
41. Which of the following works is not written by John Galsworthy ?
- (a) Swan Song
- (b) The Thorn
- (c) Saint’s Progress
- (d) Flowering Wilderness
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Answer: (b)
42. “Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout.” The above lines appear in
- (a) IL Penseroso
- (b) Lycidas
- (c) Song From Arcades
- (d) L’ Allegro
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Answer: (d)
43. Lysander is a character in
- (a) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- (b) King Lear
- (c) Comedy of Errors
- (d) Romeo and Juliet
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Answer: (a)
44. Which figure of speech do we see in the following expression ? ‘Ten thousand saw I at a glance’.
- (a) Oxymoron
- (b) Hyperbole
- (c) Pun
- (d) Transferred Epithet
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Answer: (b)
45. Which of the following is not True ? The term ‘novel’ refers to
- (a) prose fiction
- (b) a prose narrative having characters and a plot
- (c) a treatise on current social problem
- (d) a literary form that is derived from Italian ‘novella’
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Answer: (c)
PassageFor questions 46–52
Directions (Q.46 to 52) : In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, four words are suggested one of which is the right answer. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Buildings do not make _____ (46) university. It is the teachers and _____ (47) and their pursuit of knowledge which _____ (48) the soul of a university. The university is the sanctuary of the _____ (49) life of a country. The healthy roots of national life are to be found in the people. _____ (50) are the well springs of national awakening. They are the spirit behind revolutionary _____ (51) of society. When we give education, we start a ferment of debate and discussion of first _____ (52).
46. Blank (46)
- (a) an
- (b) a
- (c) the
- (d) one
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Answer: (b)
47. Blank (47)
- (a) employees
- (b) officers
- (c) pupils
- (d) the Vice Chancellor
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Answer: (c)
48. Blank (48)
- (a) make
- (b) forms
- (c) creates
- (d) makes
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Answer: (a)
49. Blank (49)
- (a) social
- (b) human
- (c) national
- (d) intellectual
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Answer: (d)
50. Blank (50)
- (a) They
- (b) You
- (c) We
- (d) Who
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Answer: (a)
51. Blank (51)
- (a) moments
- (b) movements
- (c) achievements
- (d) people
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Answer: (b)
52. Blank (52)
- (a) principals
- (b) principles
- (c) issues
- (d) questions
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Answer: (b)
53. In The Forsyte Saga, the Forsytes belong to
- (a) a country side family
- (b) a typical city family
- (c) the family of imaginary Islanders
- (d) none of the above
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Answer: (b)
54. Pick out the correct preposition from the options given below each of the sentences so as to complete them. We didn’t get home _______ 2 a.m.
- (a) at
- (b) after
- (c) till
- (d) to
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Answer: (c)
55. My views may be different _______ yours but you should not be indifferent _______ your interest. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions.
- (a) from, from
- (b) from, to
- (c) to, from
- (d) to, to
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Answer: (b)
56. Choose the appropriate preposition from the options given. We divided the property _______ several parts.
- (a) into
- (b) with
- (c) among
- (d) of
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Answer: (a)
57. Choose the appropriate preposition from the options given. I have not seen him _______ last month.
- (a) for
- (b) from
- (c) since
- (d) till
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Answer: (c)
58. Choose the appropriate preposition from the options given. Your behaviour does not admit _______ any excuses.
- (a) in
- (b) of
- (c) for
- (d) to
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Answer: (b)
59. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is not classified as a Roman play ?
- (a) Antony and Cleopatra
- (b) Julius Caesar
- (c) Hamlet
- (d) Coriolanus
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Answer: (c)
60. Which figure of speech do we see in the following expression ? He was a good teacher but a poor student
- (a) Irony
- (b) Anticlimax
- (c) Bathos
- (d) Antithesis
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Answer: (d)
61. Which of the following statements is correct about memoir ?
- (a) In memoir, the emphasis is not on the author’s developing self but on the people and events that the author has known
- (b) Memoir is another name for ‘Autobiography’
- (c) Memoire is another name for ‘Biography’
- (d) Memoir is always episodic and appears in ballad form only
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Answer: (a)
62. Which of the following works is not written by John Milton ?
- (a) ‘Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’
- (b) ‘On the Late Massacre in Piemont’
- (c) ‘The Inner Vision’
- (d) ‘On Arriving at the Age of Twenty Three’
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Answer: (c)
63. Identify the error part in the following sentence. (Consider the four options comprising the complete sentence)
- (a) Rajeev was happy
- (b) that Sanjay and his sister was going
- (c) on the same train
- (d) next day
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Answer: (b)
64. The correct spelling is
- (a) Encrypt
- (b) Encript
- (c) Enkript
- (d) Enckript
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Answer: (a)
65. Mark the part with the error. (Read the four options as the parts of the given sentence.)
- (a) Each cigarette which
- (b) a person smokes does
- (c) some harm and eventually you may get
- (d) a serious disease from its effect
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Answer: (c)
66. Find out the most suitable preposition from the given options. These boxes are very heavy. They are full _______ books.
- (a) with
- (b) of
- (c) in
- (d) from
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Answer: (b)
67. “Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbness flow.” The above mentioned lines appear in
- (a) True Love
- (b) The Unchangeable
- (c) The Solitary Reaper
- (d) Lucy Gray
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Answer: (c)
68. What is the meaning of the word ‘mercenary’ ?
- (a) The motive to earn money
- (b) An office without pay
- (c) A business of machinery
- (d) All of these
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Answer: (a)
69. Among the following which is not example of pastoral elegy ?
- (a) Astrophel
- (b) Lycidas
- (c) Thyrsis
- (d) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Answer: (d)
70. The first folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays was edited by
- (a) Heminge and Thomas Sackville
- (b) Nicholas Udall and Thomas Nortan
- (c) Nicholas Udall and Condell
- (d) Heminge and Condell
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Answer: (d)
71. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare does not belong to the last phase of his career ?
- (a) Much Ado about Nothing
- (b) The Tempest
- (c) Cymbeline
- (d) The Winter’s Tale
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Answer: (a)
72. Falder is a character in which of the following plays by John Galsworthy ?
- (a) Silver Box
- (b) Justice
- (c) Strife
- (d) Loyalties
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Answer: (b)
73. Which figure of speech do we see in the following expression ? “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea”
- (a) assonance
- (b) alliteration
- (c) metonymy
- (d) pun
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Answer: (b)
74. Which of the following works of John Galsworthy puts forward John Galsworthy’s ideas on the drama ?
- (a) Jocelyn
- (b) The Island Pharisees
- (c) The Inn of Tranquility
- (d) England to Free Men
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Answer: (c)
75. Choose one word from the options which describes the phrase most accurately. Incapable of being redeemed from evil, i.e. beyond correction
- (a) Impregnable
- (b) Ineffaceable
- (c) Indelible
- (d) Incorrigible
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Answer: (d)
76. Find out the most suitable preposition from the given options. It was very generous _______ you to offer to help me.
- (a) about
- (b) from
- (c) of
- (d) for
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Answer: (c)
77. Among following sentences which is not correctly punctuated ?
- (a) Ram, the son of Dashrath, killed Ravan.
- (b) “Man” he said “is a political animal.
- (c) I told him that I would help him.
- (d) He is an honest person; even his enemies say so.
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Answer: (b)
78. The characters-Beatrice and Benedick appear in Shakespeare’s play
- (a) Love’s Labour’s Lost
- (b) The Comedy of Errors
- (c) Much Ado about Nothing
- (d) As You Like It
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Answer: (c)
79.
- (a) Satire
- (b) Irony
- (c) Allegory
- (d) Fable
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Answer: (c)
80. Which of the following works of William Shakespeare is written in six-line stanza, and shows decided signs of immaturity ?
- (a) The Passionate Pilgrim
- (b) The Rape of Lucrece
- (c) Venus and Adonis
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (c)
81. Cokeson is a character in
- (a) Justice
- (b) Macbeth
- (c) Areopagitica
- (d) As You Like It
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Answer: (a)
82. Which of the following is not a form of ‘Ode’ ?
- (a) Pindaric
- (b) Horatian
- (c) Jacobean
- (d) Irregular
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Answer: (c)
83. Which of the following authors has written the lines : “For fear of which, here, this, thou age unbed – Ere you were born, was beauty’s summer dead.”
- (a) John Galsworthy
- (b) John Milton
- (c) William Shakespeare
- (d) William Wordsworth
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Answer: (c)
84. Identify the error part in the following sentence. (Consider four options comprising the complete sentence)
- (a) Fifteen miles
- (b) are
- (c) long way
- (d) to walk
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Answer: (b)
85. Which of the following is mismatched ?
- (a) William Shakespeare : “True Love”
- (b) William Shakespeare : “Carpe Diem”
- (c) William Wordsworth : “Revolution”
- (d) William Wordsworth : “Written in Early Spring”
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Answer: —
86. Which work has been called by Shakespeare as, ‘the first heir of my invention’ ?
- (a) Hero and Leander
- (b) The Rape of Lucrece
- (c) Venus and Adonis
- (d) The Comedy of Errors
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Answer: (c)
87. The characters-Ophelia and Gastrude appear in Shakespeare’s play
- (a) King Lear
- (b) Hamlet
- (c) Othello
- (d) Macbeth
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Answer: (b)
88. Find out antonym of the word ‘ample’.
- (a) enough
- (b) sufficient
- (c) meagre
- (d) scarcity
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Answer: (c)
89. Find out appropriate transformed exclamatory sentence of the following assertive sentence. We had a very merry time of it last night.
- (a) What merry time they had this night !
- (b) What a merry time we have this night !
- (c) What a merry time we had of it last night !
- (d) What a merry time they have of it last night !
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90. In the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s dramas which play was omitted ?
- (a) Macbeth
- (b) Pericles
- (c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- (d) Titus Andronicus
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Answer: (b)
91. In each question below, four options (A), (B), (C), (D) are given. Find out the word which is correctly spelt.
- (a) invertibrate
- (b) invertebrate
- (c) invertibrat
- (d) invertiberate
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Answer: (b)
92. In each question below, four options (A), (B), (C), (D) are given. Find out the word which is correctly spelt.
- (a) ommelette
- (b) omelette
- (c) omellette
- (d) omelett
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Answer: (b)
93. In each question below, four options (A), (B), (C), (D) are given. Find out the word which is correctly spelt.
- (a) ciusine
- (b) cuisin
- (c) cusine
- (d) cuisine
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Answer: (d)
94. In each question below, four options (A), (B), (C), (D) are given. Find out the word which is correctly spelt.
- (a) diarrhoea
- (b) diarhoea
- (c) dirrhea
- (d) diarhoia
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Answer: (a)
95. Out of the given alternatives, fill in the gaps in the following sentence. “_______” is a connected narrative of the author’s life with some stress on introspection.
- (a) Biography
- (b) Autobiography
- (c) Travelogue
- (d) Memoir
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Answer: (b)
96. Identify the error part in the following sentence. (Consider the four options comprising the complete sentence)
- (a) The number of people
- (b) applying were so large
- (c) that the college had to
- (d) stop issuing application forms
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Answer: (b)
97. Choose one word from the options which describes the phrase most accurately. To banish from one’s country
- (a) Repatriate
- (b) Immigrate
- (c) Emigrate
- (d) Expatriate
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Answer: (d)
98. Identify the correct form of verb/phrase out of given choices so as to complete following sentences : I (be) there, situation (be) different.
- (a) I (had been) there, situation (was) different
- (b) I (was) there, situation (was) different
- (c) (Had) I (been) there, situation (would have been) different
- (d) (Had) I (been) there, situation (had been) different
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Answer: (c)
99. Identify the correct form of verb/phrase out of given choices so as to complete following sentences : The boss wanted to know _______ done the job.
- (a) how I had
- (b) that how had I
- (c) how would I have
- (d) how had I
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Answer: (a)
100. Which is correctly spelt word ?
- (a) Comprehansible
- (b) Contemptible
- (c) Carporeal
- (d) None of these
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Answer: (b)
101.
- (a) heroic couplet
- (b) tercet
- (c) rime royal
- (d) terza rima
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Answer: (c)
102. Which of the following works is not written by John Milton ?
- (a) Of Education
- (b) Areopagitica
- (c) On Shakespeare
- (d) Alma or the Progress of the Mind
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Answer: (d)
103. Wordsworth’s The Borderers comes under the category of
- (a) prose tragedy
- (b) epic
- (c) verse tragedy
- (d) ode
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Answer: (c)
104. Which of the following authors has written the lines – “Tuwhit ! tuwhoo ! A merry note ! While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.” ?
- (a) John Galsworthy
- (b) John Milton
- (c) William Wordsworth
- (d) William Shakespeare
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105. Which of the following poems is not written by John Galsworthy ?
- (a) “Devon to Me”
- (b) “Russia – America”
- (c) “Past”
- (d) “Admonition to a Traveller”
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Answer: (d)
106. Choose one word from the options which describes the phrase most accurately. The art of making fireworks
- (a) Pyrotechnics
- (b) Numismatics
- (c) Fireomatics
- (d) Cicatrics
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Answer: (a)
107. Mark the part with the error. (Read the four options as the parts of the given sentence.)
- (a) One must grab advantage of
- (b) opportunities to talk with native speakers
- (c) if you want to improve
- (d) one’s English
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Answer: (c)
108. The meaning of the word ‘indignation’ is
- (a) dignity
- (b) disgust
- (c) diversion
- (d) anger with surprise
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Answer: (d)
109. The correct spelling is
- (a) Fluffy
- (b) Fluppy
- (c) Flufpy
- (d) Fluffie
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Answer: (a)
110. Find out the most suitable preposition from the given options. I broke this glass _______ accident.
- (a) at
- (b) by
- (c) in
- (d) of
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Answer: (b)
111. The line, “Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart” appears in
- (a) London, 1802
- (b) The Dynasts
- (c) The Unchangeable
- (d) A Consolation
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Answer: (a)
112. What is the correct meaning of the word ‘apposite’ ?
- (a) contrary
- (b) different
- (c) right
- (d) suitable
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Answer: (d)
113. Some statements have been given here for tragedy. Find out correct statements. 1. It is representation of serious actions leading a joyous conclusion for tragic hero. 2. The tragic hero will evoke both our pity and terror. 3. The hamartia becomes the reason of his demise. 4. The anagnorisis in tragedy is reversal in his fortune from happiness to disaster.
- (a) 1 and 2
- (b) 1 and 4
- (c) 2 and 3
- (d) 3 and 4
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Answer: (c)
114. Which of the following plays is not written by John Galsworthy ?
- (a) Justice
- (b) Silver Box
- (c) The Apple Cart
- (d) Strife
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Answer: (c)
115. In William Wordsworth’s ‘The Solitary Reaper’, ‘The Solitary Highland Lass’ is
- (a) a girl from Ireland
- (b) a girl from Scotland
- (c) a girl from Arabian Sands
- (d) none of the above
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Answer: (b)
116. Following sentences have been transformed as per directions given in their brackets. Choose the correct sentence from the choices given. The apple was too sour to eat. (Remove ‘too’)
- (a) The apple was very sour
- (b) The apple was extremely sour to eat
- (c) The apple was so sour that it cannot be eaten
- (d) The apple was so sour that it could not be eaten
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Answer: (d)
117. Following sentences have been transformed as per directions given in their brackets. Choose the correct sentence from the choices given. The President appointed him Governor. (Passive)
- (a) The Governor was appointed by the President
- (b) He was appointed by the President
- (c) He was appointed Governor by the President
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (c)
118. Following sentences have been transformed as per directions given in their brackets. Choose the correct sentence from the choices given. Who would not love his country ? (Assertive)
- (a) Everyone would love his country
- (b) Everyone should love his country
- (c) Hardly anyone would love his country
- (d) Some people may not love his country
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Answer: (a)
119. Following sentences have been transformed as per directions given in their brackets. Choose the correct sentence from the choices given. Why should they be blamed by you ? (Active)
- (a) Why should you blame them ?
- (b) Let you not blame them.
- (c) Why you should not blame them ?
- (d) None of the above
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Answer: (a)
120. In which poem of Wordsworth does the line, ‘Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting’ occur ?
- (a) Tintern Abbey
- (b) The Recluse
- (c) The Prelude
- (d) Immortality Ode
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Answer: (d)
121. In the classification of Shakespeare’s plays, in which category does The Two Gentlemen of Verona, come ?
- (a) The Early Comedies
- (b) The Mature Comedies
- (c) The Sombre Plays
- (d) The Last Plays
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Answer: (a)
122. Which of the following statements is not correct about Autobiography ?
- (a) An autobiography can never be a connected narrative
- (b) An autobiography is the story of a person’s life as written by that person
- (c) Memoirs deal at least in part with public events and noted personages other than the author, an autobiography is a record of author’s life
- (d) Simulated autobiography is a device often used in the novel
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Answer: (a)
123. Milton’s ‘On Shakespeare’ was published in
- (a) 1630
- (b) 1687
- (c) 1629
- (d) 1632
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Answer: (a)
124. Identify the error part in the following sentence. (Consider the four options comprising the complete sentence)
- (a) Neither my brother
- (b) nor my brother-in-law
- (c) were able to help me
- (d) in the work
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Answer: (c)
125. Find out the most suitable preposition from the given options. The new medicine prevents the virus _______ growing.
- (a) to
- (b) from
- (c) in
- (d) for
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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.

English

Q 1: (b)
Q 2: (b)
Q 3: (d)
Q 4: (d)
Q 5: (a)
Q 6: (b)
Q 7: (a)
Q 8: (b)
Q 9: (d)
Q 10: (d)
Q 11: (c)
Q 12: (c)
Q 13: (a)
Q 14: (d)
Q 15: (c)
Q 16: (d)
Q 17: (d)
Q 18: (d)
Q 19: (d)
Q 20: (c)
Q 21: (b)
Q 22: (d)
Q 23: (a)
Q 24: (c)
Q 25: (c)
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Q 27: (b)
Q 28: (d)
Q 29: (a)
Q 30: (b)
Q 31: (b)
Q 32: (b)
Q 33: (c)
Q 34: (d)
Q 35: (c)
Q 36: (b)
Q 37: (b)
Q 38: (b)
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Q 40: (c)
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Q 42: (d)
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Q 49: (d)
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Q 86: (c)
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Q 93: (d)
Q 94: (a)
Q 95: (b)
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Q 97: (d)
Q 98: (c)
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Q 100: (b)
Q 101: (c)
Q 102: (d)
Q 103: (c)
Q 104: (d)
Q 105: (d)
Q 106: (a)
Q 107: (c)
Q 108: (d)
Q 109: (a)
Q 110: (b)
Q 111: (a)
Q 112: (d)
Q 113: (c)
Q 114: (c)
Q 115: (b)
Q 116: (d)
Q 117: (c)
Q 118: (a)
Q 119: (a)
Q 120: (d)
Q 121: (a)
Q 122: (a)
Q 123: (a)
Q 124: (c)
Q 125: (b)