- In ‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’, Nature says that grace will be endowed on Lucy by the:
a) Fawn
b) Storm
c) Rivulets
d) Willow - The speaker in ‘A Slumber did my Spirit Seal’ had:
a) no mortal fears
b) no earthly fears
c) no needless fears
d) no human fears - In ‘The World is too much with us,’ ‘sordid boon’ refers to:
a) Material progress
b) Crowded cities
c) Decadent lifestyle
d) Blessing in disguise - ‘Myself will to my darling be…’ Myself refers to:
a) Nature
b) Lucy
c) The poet
d) The lover - ‘Chorus Hymeneal’ means:
a) A marriage hymn
b) A dirge
c) A choric song
d) A lullaby - ‘… tameless, and swift, and proud’ refers to:
a) the West wind
b) the Skylark
c) some fierce Maenad
d) the Mediterranean - ‘Until they think warm days will never cease.’ Who are ‘they’ ?
a) the bees
b) the reapers
c) the crickets
d) the swallows - In ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, Keats longs for a beaker full of:
a) Blushful Hippocrene
b) Hemlock
c) Opium
d) Wine - By ‘Scudding Hyades’, Tennyson means:
a) Stormy weather
b) Ocean currents
c) A constellation
d) An island - The beloved’s eyes in ‘The Last Ride Together’ are:
a) Dark
b) Light
c) Kind
d) Blue - In ‘The Darkling Thrush’, the villagers had:
a) gone home
b) gone to work
c) been busy in friendly banter
d) been tilling their fields - Yeats describes the swans at Coole Park on:
a) a twilit evening
b) a beautiful morning
c) a scorching summer day
d) a dusky evening - That ‘sullen hall’ in ‘Strange Meeting’ refers to:
a) Hell
b) A silent hall
c) A hall full of sullen men
d) A dark hall - In ‘The Listeners’, how many times does the stranger knock at the door?
a) Thrice
b) Once
c) Twice
d) Five times - The sub-title of Shaw’s Arms & the Man is:
a) An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts
b) A Romance in Three Acts
c) A Pleasant Play in Three Acts
d) A Comedy in Three Acts - These ‘ideas’ refer to:
a) Sergius’s military exploits and heroic ideals
b) Bluntschli’s military adventures
c) Major Petkoff’s glorious military achievements
d) Bluntschli’s parental property in Switzerland - Nicola wants to open a shop in:
a) Sophia
b) Serbia
c) Switzerland
d) Austria - ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ is an example of:
a) An Anti-Sentimental Comedy
b) A Comedy of Humours
c) A Dark Comedy
d) A Tragi-Comedy - ‘Catherine Wheel’ is:
a) A kind of firework
b) A wheelchair
c) A horse-drawn carriage
d) Catherine’s carriage - Who says, ‘I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home!’?
a) Mr. Hardcastle
b) Sir Charles Marlow
c) Mrs. Hardcastle
d) Tony Lumpkin - Galsworthy’s Justice is a critique of:
a) Contemporary English legal and penal systems
b) Contemporary condition of English prisons
c) Contemporary English men and women
d) Contemporary English literary tastes - ‘I like to be open and jolly together’ is an assertion made by:
a) Robert Cokeson
b) Walter How
c) Detective Wister
d) Cowley - When Falder says, ‘I’ve changed my digs’, he means:
a) He has changed his lodging
b) He has changed his style of digging
c) He has changed his dress
d) He has changed his hairstyle - ‘Busy-idle’ in ‘I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions’ is an example of:
a) Oxymoron
b) Transferred epithet
c) Hyperbaton
d) Zeugma - In ‘Dream-Children’, Alice and John are:
a) children Charles Lamb wished to have but could not
b) children of Charles Lamb’s brother
c) the Norfolk house children
d) friends of Charles Lamb’s beloved - The platinum fob chain that Della buys for Jim costs:
a) Twenty-one dollars
b) Sixteen dollars
c) Twenty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents
d) Twenty-two dollars - In ‘She hugged them to her bosom’, ‘them’ refers to:
a) The fob chain and the combs
b) The combs
c) The fob chain and the gold watch
d) The combs and the watch - Mr. Thurlow was held at the __ police station.
a) Metford
b) Hereford
c) Masefield
d) Chelmsbury - Mrs. Thurlow’s brother was a __ by profession.
a) Carpenter
b) Butcher
c) Painter
d) Iron monger - To write well, one has to write:
a) clearly and interestingly
b) clearly and logically
c) minutely and distinctly
d) beautifully and coherently - Diamelen was:
a) Arsat’s beloved
b) the White man’s beloved
c) the ruler’s mistress
d) Arsat’s brother’s beloved - In ‘The Lagoon’, which bird is noticed in the sky when Diamelen dies?
a) An Eagle
b) A Kite
c) A Vulture
d) A Hawk - ‘The Lotus Eater’ is a reference to an indigenous tribe, as narrated in:
a) Homer’s Odyssey
b) Homer’s Iliad
c) Virgil’s Aeneid
d) Milton’s Paradise Lost - The author in The Lotus Eater re-visited Capri after:
a) Thirteen years
b) Twelve years
c) Twenty years
d) Sixteen years - Rearrange the following words/phrases to form a meaningful sentence: disappointment(p) / lead to(q) / broken promises(r) / and sorrow:(s)
a) rqps
b) pqrs
c) pqsr
d) rqps - Fill in with the correct option: The importance of caring for road-safety has been __ again and again.
a) stressed
b) traced
c) strained
d) striked - Choose the correct preposition: The old man kept dreaming __ the past.
a) of
b) in
c) at
d) to - Choose the correct verb form to fill in the blank: Some people __ a peculiar habit of walking in sleep.
a) have
b) has
c) had
d) have been - The word opposite to ‘duck’ in gender is:
a) Drake
b) He-duck
c) Gander
d) Boar - ‘I drew a blank in the examination’ implies:
a) I failed in the examination
b) I drew a big circle in the examination
c) I kept looking blankly in the examination
d) I failed to draw a blank figure in the examination - To replace the underlined phrase, the correct alternative will be: On hearing the sad news, he fainted.
a) When he heard
b) Just before he heard
c) When he had heard
d) No sooner he heard - Which section of the following sentence has an error, if any? ‘A swarm of locust(p)/ has seriously damaged(q)/ our crops.(r)/ No error(s)’
a) p
b) q
c) r
d) s - Replace the underlined words with a suitable clause: We need a teacher with two years’ teaching experience.
a) who has two years’ teaching experience
b) with two years of teaching experience
c) whom we can provide two years’ teaching experience
d) which has two years’ teaching experience - Replace the underlined word with a phrase: Everybody respects an honourable man.
a) of honour
b) with many honours
c) able of honouring
d) having honour - The correct option on changing the given sentence to indirect speech will be: I said to my friend, ‘Please help me in checking the accounts’.
a) I requested my friend to help me in checking the accounts
b) I ordered my friend to help me in checking the accounts
c) I said to my friend that please help me in checking the accounts
d) I pleased my friend so that he helped me in checking the accounts - Choose the correct verb form: As I was tired, I __ down for a while.
a) lay
b) lie
c) laid
d) lied - Choose the correct option to turn the given sentence to passive voice: Let us forget the past.
a) Let the past be forgotten
b) Let the past and us be forgotten
c) Let not the past be forgotten
d) We must let to forget the past - Fill in with appropriate preposition: He came to meet me __ Esplanade.
a) on
b) in
c) at
d) by - Choose the correct alternative to join the two sentences: The burglar saw a policeman. He took to his heels.
a) Seeing a policeman, the burglar took to his heels
b) The burglar on seeing his heels, took a policeman with him
c) Seeing a policeman, the burglar picked up his heels and took off
d) When the burglar see the policeman, he take to his heels - Choose the correct alternative in changing from passive to active voice: My cup had been broken by you.
a) You had broken my cup
b) You have broken my cup
c) By you was my cup broken
d) You had taken my broken cup - The correct option in changing the mood of the given sentence to imperative mood will be: Reena waters the plants.
a) Reena, water the plants.
b) Does Reena water the plants?
c) If Reena waters the plants, they will prosper.
d) Reena should not water the plants. - The following sentence is incorrect. Pick the correct form of the sentence among the given options: He can speak the English fluently like English.
a) He can speak English fluently like the English
b) He can speak the English fluently like English
c) He can talk English fluently like the English
d) He can speak English fluently like English - Change the voice of the given sentence and select the correct option: He loves himself.
a) He is loved by himself
b) Himself was loved by him
c) He has been loved by himself
d) He had loved by himself - Choose the correct pair of alternatives: I _ who _ my watch.
a) wonder-stole
b) wonders-stole
c) wander-stole
d) wondered-steal - Choose the correct option if the given sentence is changed to the subjunctive mood: Reena, read your books thoroughly.
a) If Reena reads her books thoroughly, she will score well in the examination.
b) Reena should read her books thoroughly
c) Reena reads her books thoroughly
d) Reena, why are you not reading your books thoroughly?
