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 The Jew of Mafta was written by : 6. The Bohemlan was the career of :

(A) L/y (A) Lyly

(B) Marlowe (B) Peele
(C) Shakespeare (C) Green
(D) Ben Jonson
(D) ChristopherMarlowe
2. The Renaissance in England took
place:
7. Gaveston is a character in one of the
plays written by :
(A) Before the MiddleAge
(B) (A) Ben Jonson
ln the Elizabethan Period

(C) Afterthe MiddleAge (B) Shakespeare

(D) ln the 17th Century (C) ChristopherMarlowe
3. The Spanish Tragedy is a:
(D) Webster

(A) RevengeTragedy 8. lnwhichplaydoyoufindthecharacter

(B) RomanticTradgedy of Mortimer ?
(C) Tragi-comedy (A) Tempest
(D) GreekTragedy (B) Edward ll
4. Renaissance means: (C) Ihe Spanish Tradegy ..
(A) Progressiveness (D) Every Man in Hishlurrtdur
(B) Re-awakening
(C) Alliterative Revival of theAnglo-
9. While tragedy was making rapid
advances in the hands of Marlowe
Saxon Verse
and Kyd, comedy during the early
(D) Modemism
Renaissance period was being
5. Ralph Roiste r Doisfer, written about
raised to a higher level by :

1550, was written by :

(A) Shakespeare
(A) Seneca
(B) Nicholas Udall
(B) Spencer
,.
!.rri _i..,,_.;-' ,t, l-.-. i
(
,-,1 1".1-,i.,f,,^. l' '

(C) Marlowe (C) Thomas Moore

(D) Kyd (D) John Lyly

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10. The Chronicle of Edward / was Which twain have brought herto.
written by:
Where do these lines you find ?
(A) Kyd
(A) Allfor Lwe
(B) Peele
(B) Kng Lear
(C) Marlowe
(C) Macbeth
(D) Greene
(D) Othetlo
11. Shakespeare died in :

15 Who coined the phrase'Motiveless

(A) 1615
Malignity'?
(B) 1616

(c) 1620
(A) Wordsworth
(D) 1516 (B) Coleidge
12; How many Sonnets did Shakespeare
(C) Dr. Johnson

write ? .(D) Shetley

(A) 154 16. The Alchemist is a tragedy.
(B) 156 (A) True
(c) 17a. (B) False
(C) Both of thesq
13. . The Shepherd's Calender is a poem
(D) Nlone of theqe
wriften by:-

(A) Wyatt 17 . Webster is regarded by many as the

greatest tragic dramatist in England

(B) Edmund Spencer
after Shakespeare.
(C) Chaucer
(A) True
(D) Shakespeare
(B) False
14. Though hastonedaughtqr
l .
.lr(\,r,(
(c) Both of these
Who redeems nature from the
generalcurse (D) None of these

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18. Where do you find this following 22. Whowrotethe Poem The Retreat?
line ? (A) Miton
"Better to reign in Hell.than to serve (B) Vaughan
. in Heaven."
. (C) Richard Crashaw
(A) Milton (D) Abraham Cowley
(B) Thomas Hardy
23. Lycidas is a elegy
(c) Shakespeare
(A) Personal
(D) John Donne
(B) Pastoral
19 Who wrote Rgligio Medici? (C) Epic :'r
"A''
(A) SirThomas Browne (D) Pure

(B) Milton 24. Milton's Paradise Losf is an Epic of

(C) Dryden GroMh.
(D) Robert Burton ((A) True

20 The 18th Century is a prose of (B) False

reason. (C) Both of these
(A) True (D) None of these ,..-r)
. ,1,,,
(B) False 25. Who wrote Samson Agonistes ?
(C) Both of these (A) Dryden
(D) None of these (B) Milton
21. "For God's sake hold your tongue, (C) Ben Jonson

and let me love." Who has writteri this (D) Webster

line ?
26. Who wrote All For Love ?
(A) Dryden (A) Shakespeare
(B) Andrew Marvell (B) Dryden ...-..r.... -i ,.1,
'.1;( il;t rl,r. ,-rt, (,-1

(C) William Wychedey

(D) Vaughan \ (D) William Congreve

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27. Romanticism istheveryantithesisof 31. ln which poem does'the following
allthat is expressed bythe ctassical line occur ?
idea.
Who knows but the world may end
(A) True'
tonight ?
(B) Fatse
(A) The Last Ride Together
(C) Both of these

(D) 'None of these

(B) My Last Duchess
(C) Porphyia's Lover
28. Romantic lmaglnation is subjective
and intuitive
(D) None of these

(A) True 32. G. B. Shaw was the greatest of the

(B) False Engtish lbsenians.
(C) Both of these (A) Truq
(D) None of these (B) False
29. Who wrote Don Juan ? (C) Both of these
(A) Sheltey (D) None of these
33. The Heart of Darkness is the last
(C) Coleridge
Victorian novel.
(D) Byron
(A) True .
30. ln which poem dothefollowing lines
occur?
(B) False
The desire of the moth forthe star,
(C) Both of these
Of the nightforthe morow (D) Noneofthese
The devotion to something afar, 34. What is the first lndian novel in
From the sphere of oursorow. English ?
(A) One Word is loo Often (A) Rajmohan's Wife
Profaned
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(B) To Autumn
(C) Kanthapura
(c) pde td Duty
(D) To A Skylark (D) Shadowfrom Ladakh

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35. Whowrotethefollowing lines ? (B) A shortstorywriter

For loneliness and thought this is the

(C) A novelist
' hour.....
(D) A poet
Swift as the dark eyes'glance, or

falcon's flight. 39. The'Go/den Thresholdwas the first

Thought comes on thought, awakened collection of poems, came out in
bythe night....
1905by:
(A) Derozio
(A) Toru Dutt
(B) Toru Dutt
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) SarojiniNaidu

(D) Jayanta Mahapatra

(C) Manmohan Ghose

36. Who wrote The Slave Girl? (D) SriAurobindo Ghose

(A) Romesh Dutt 40. Who wrote the play, Tiger PIay
(B) Subramanya Bharati in 1967 ?
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(A) Lakhan Deb
(D) Manmohan Ghose
(B) B. S. Mbrdh'ek;i-
)

37. LikeAurobindo, Manmohan did not

(C) Dilip Kuman Roy
seem to have been attracted to
politics, much less politics of the (D) D. L. Roy
extremevarie$.
41. l.n Letters from a Father to a
.(A) True
Daughterwas written by
(B) False
(A) JawaharlalNehru
(C) Both of these

(D) None of these

(B) M. K. Gandhi

(C) Raja Ramnrohan Roy

38. Whowas SarojiniNaidu ?

(A) Adrariratist (D) Keshab Sen

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42. Untouchable waswritten by : (B) False
(A) R. K. Narayan (C) Both of these
(B) Raja Rao (D) None of these
(C) Mulk RajAnand 47 . Who wrote the following lines ?
(D) BhabaniBhattacharya Perception inApril

43. Coblie written by Mulk RajAnand is Of my condition

a Dalit literature. Secretfaults concealed no more.

(A) True (A) Nissim Ezekiel
' (B) False (B) Jayanta Mahapatra
(C) Both of these (C) Kamala Das
(D) None ofthese (D) Rajendra Padhi
44. Thevillage in Kanthapura represents 48. Hindu Marriage is one of the
the whole of lndia. dominant themes of Ramanujan's
(A) True poems.

(B) False (A) True

(C) Both of these '' (B) False
',i,t,^,^r'.',-rn,' 'l '.
(D) None of these (C) Both of these
45. The Vendor of Sweefs, written by
(D) None of these
R. K. Narayan introduces the 49. Jayanta Mahapatra's poetry is not
character of Jagan. redolent of Odisha scene, and the
(A) True Jagannath Temple at Puri does not

(B) False figure quite often in it.

(C) Both of these (A) True

(D) None of these (B) False
46. Nectar ina Sieye is a short story.
(C) Both of the."
,
(A) True
(D) None of these

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50. Kamala Das has not written the (C) Joad family
poetry of protest. (D) ColonialisminAfrica
(A) TruP
55. The Scartef Lefferis written by :

(B) False
(A) Mark Twain
(C) Both of these
(B) Virginia Woolf
(D) None of these
(C) Charles Dickens
51. Who wrote the famous American
(D) NathahielHawthorne
drama The lceman Cometh ?
(A) John Osbome 56, The House of Mirth wag.nntten by:

(B) Eugene O'Neil (A) Edith Wharton

(C) Eamest Hemingwair (B) EdgerAllan Poe
(D) WaltWhitnan (C) Ezra Pound
(D) Mark Twain
52. Who wrote the Leaves of Grass, one
of the classics of world poetry ? 57. Transcendentalism is a
(A) WattWhitman movementthatdeveloped in the late
(B) Robert Frost 1820s and 1830s in the United
(C) T. S. Eliot States ofAmerica. -
(D) Emily Dickinson (A) Maxist ,_,i-l

(B) Romantic
53. Which of the following poems is
written by Robert Frost ? (C) Philosophicalandliterary
(A) .Calamus (D) Oxford
(B) Btuebenies 58. An American poet is hailed as the
(C) A LightExisfs in Sping representative poet of Amerian
(D) Modey Ase Man democracy. Who is he ?

54. Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath

(A) Robert Frost

is the story of : (B) R. W.FIT.SE?,?,.,, i ir r

(A) Quentinfamily (C) Walt\A/hitman

(B) The Negro communitY (D) EdgarAllan Poe

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59. Who defined democracy as a 64. "Lives of great men allremind us
'Government of the people, by the We can make our life sublime,
people, for the people' ?
And, departing, leave behind us
(A) GeorgeWashington Foot-prints on the stands of time."
(B) Abraham Lincoln .
Where do these lines occur ?
(C) WaltWhitman
(A) Longfellow's A Psalam of Life
(D) Theodore Roosevelt
,
(B) Emerson's Brahma
60. When was the American Civil War (C) Whitman's Song of Mysetf
fought ?
(D) None of these
(A) 1830-1840
(B) 1815-1820
65. MarkTwainwasonlya pseudonym.
Whatwas the author's narne ?
(c) 1861-1865
(D) 1825-1865
(A) SamuelRichards
(B) SamuelClemens
61. The heroof Melville's Moby-Dickis:
(C) SamuelCleveland
(A) Moby Dick ..t
(D) SamuelHerford
(B) Ahab
(C) lshmaet 66. Who was the first American
r"' ''"lui playwright who received the Nobel
(D) Pip "
Prize for Literature ?
62. Who discoveredAmerica ?
(A) Arthur Miller
(A) Vascoda Gama
(B) Eugene O'Neill
(B) Captain Cook
(C) TennesseeWilliams
(C) .ChristopherColumbus
(D) (D) EdwardAlbee
Cabot

63 Who wrote The Scarlet Lefter?

67 . Who wrote Oientalism ?

(A) NathanielHawthrone (A) HomiK. Bhabha

(B) An'ri6bUitb,i "
,'' (..
(B) Edward Said
(c) Melville (C) GayatriChakraborty
(D) HenryJames (D) Chomsky
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68. "Post-colonial literature often (B) False
addresses the problems and (C) Both of these
conseq uences'of the decolon ization (D) None of these
of a.country."
72. Coolie is a post-colonialtext.
(A) True
(A) True
(B) False
(B) False
(C) Both of these
(C) Both of these.
(D) None of these
(D) None-gf.,thqqq ,.,.-, ..)
69. Post-coloniatism in literature does
73. Kanthapura is a post-modernist
not'include the study of theory and
. narrative.
literature as it relates tothe colonizer-
(A) True
colonized experience'.
(B) False
(A) True
(C) Both of these
(B) False (D) None of these
(C) Both of theSe
74. Feininism is one of the interfaces of :

(D) None of these

(A) Deconstru"tiSfi'o'''L')
70. The Heaft of Darkness is a post- (B) Post-truth era
colonialNovel.
(C) Post-modernism
(A) True (D) Post-colonialism
(B) False
75. Om Prakash Valm iki's Joothan
(C) Both of these
tsa:
(D) None ofthese (A) Dalittext

71. Eliot's TheWaste Landisnota Post- (B) Brahminicaltext

colonialpoem.

(A) True (D) Religiousnovel

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76. "Literature in the 19th Century, (B) False

especially the dissemination of the (C) Both of these

novel, reflgcts the profound social,
(D) None of these
economic, and political changes that

were taking place throughout E0. Balzacwas a Russian novelist.

Europe." (A) True

(A) True (B) False

(B) False (C) Both of these

(C) Both of these (D) None of these

(D) None of these 81. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a Russian

77. By the late 19th Century the long poet'

advance of European modemitywas (A) True

acclerated by developments in (B) False
technology and capital driven
(C) Both of these
lmperialism.
(D) None of these
(A) True

(B) False 82. Who was Garcia Lorca ?

(c) Both of these (A) An Essayist

(D) None of these (B) ANovelist

78. War and Peace is written by :

(C) A Philosopher
(A) Tolstoy
(D) A Poetand Playwright\
(B) Maxim Gorky 83. Goethe was a French writer.
(C) Dostoyevsky (A) True

(D) Alexander Pushkin (B) False

79. Victor Hugo was a German writer. (C) Both of these

(A) True (D) None of these

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84, Romanticism arrived later in 88. Who wrote Hundred Years of
France than it did in Germany and Solitude ?
England.
(A) GabrielGarciaMarquez
(A) True
(B) Ole Soyinka
(B) False
(C) Earnest Hemmingway
(C) Both of these
(D) Thomas Hardy
(D) None of these
89. Who was the French best known
85. Who is the key figure in the
practitioner of the litemry scfrool of
ph ilosophy of existentialism ?
naturalism ?
(A) Sartre

(B) Max (A) Henrik lbsen

(C) Goethe (B) G. B. Shaw

{D) Stalin (C) Zola

Emile
:

(D) Walter Peter /

86. Whowrote Crime and Punishment?

(A) Tolstoy 90. Who was Rainer Maria Ritke ?

(B) Dostoevsky (A) A Frenchpoet

(C) Maxim Gorky (B) An English poet

(D) MikhailBakhtin (C) AGerman language poet

87 Who was Ole Soyinka ?

I (D) AnAustralian poet
(A) A painter
91. Who wrote Dr. Zhivago ?
(B) A Nigerian poet, playwrightand
(A) Boris Pasternak
essayist
(B) FranzKafka
(C) A Latin American poet,
playwright (C) Anton ehektrw

(D) AnAfricanphilosopher (D) Bertolt Brecht

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92. Whose beauty is referred to in the (B) An Odia Poet, novelist,
given line ? dramatist and short story writer
"Age cannot wither her. Nor custom (C) A noted Ceylonese poet,
stale her infinite variety." novelist and drarnatist
(A) Helen of Troy (D) An American poet of lndian
(B) Diana,theGoddessofMoon, origin
(C) Keat's Fanny Brawne
97. Rabindranath wrote his Gitanjali
(D) Cleopatra of Egypt
originally in Bengali. Who translated
93. WhowroteThe CherryOrchard ? it into English ?
(A) Anton Chekhov (A) GogonendranathTagore
(B) Henrik lbsen (B) Rabindranathhimself
(C) LadyGregory
(C) W. B. Veats
(D) Harley-GranvilleBarker
(D) Romain Rolland
94. WhowasJudithWright?
98. My Feudal Lord was written by
(A) ACanadian poet
ZulfikarAli Bhutto.
(B) ApoetofNewZealand
(A) True
(C) AnAustralian Poet
(B) False
(D) A British Poet
(C) Both of these
95. Whowrote Waiting forGodot?
(D) None of these
(A) SamuelBeckett
(B) Brecht
99. Henrik lbsen was an English
dramatist.
(C) SamuelJohnson
(D) Somerset Maugham (A) True

(B) False
96. Whowas KalindiCharan Panigrahi?
(A) A Bengali poet, a novelist, (C) Both of these
dramatist and short story writer (D) None.of these

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100. Who wrote the novel, Blasphemy ? (C) Constancy inthefortuneofthe

(A) R. K. Narayan hero

(B) Graham Greene (D) Fluctuations occurring in the

fortune of the hero
(C) Tehmina Durrani
(D) MeenaAlexander 104. What is the meaning of the term
lAnagnorisis' as used by Aristotle in
101. Who is the author of The Prince? hisTheory of Tragedy ?

(A) Ben Jonson (A) The hero's recognition of his

(B) Plutarch tragicflaws

(C) Herodotus (B) The hero's ignorance about his

tragicflaw
(D) Machiavelli
(C) The hero's recognition of his
102. What is the meaning of the term adversary
'Hamartia'as used byAristotle in his
(D) The hero's recognition of his
Theory ofTragedy ? tragic end
(A) Tragic end of the tragedy
105. Whatis'denouement' ?
(B) Working of fate against the (A) The ending of a tagedy
hero
(B) The ending of a comedy
(C) A weak trait in the character of
(C) The climax in a tragedy
the hero
(D) The climax in a comedy
(D) A strong quality in the character
1ffi. Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical
of the hero
. Balladsis considered the Romantic
103. What is the meaning of the term Manifesto. ln which Year was it
'Peripeteia'as used byAristotle in his published ?

Theory ofTragedy ? (A) 17s8

(A) Change in the fortune of the (B) 17ee
hero from bad to good (c) 18OO

(B) Change in the fortune of the (D) 1882

hero from bad to good

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107 "Poetry is emotion recollected in . (B)' Biology
tranquility." Who has defined poetry (C) VisualArt
in this term ?
(D) History
(A) Shelley
111. According toAristotle,'lmagination',
(B) Wordsworth
'symbol' and 'Paradox' are the
(C) Coleridge
characteristics of :

(D) MatthewArnold
(A) Tragedy
108 There is neither is, nor can be, any
(B) Comedy
essential difference between the
(C) Poetry
language of prose and metrical
compostion. Who hold this view ?
(D) Art

(A) Hazlitt 1'12. Which of the following was defined

(B) Lamb by Coleridge as'a mode of Memory

(C) Shelley Emancipated from the orderof time

(D) Wordsworth and space'?

(A) Fancy
109. ln which of his works Wordsworth
made'th'e famous statement, "All (B) Primary imagination

good poetry is spontaneous overflow (C) Secondaryimagination

of powerful feelings" ? (D) Cornic relief
(A) Advertisement
113. Who said that, "No man was ever
(B) The Prelude yet a great poet without being
(C) Preface to Lyrical Ballads at the same time a profound
(D) Ode to Duty philosopher" ?

110. ln Poetics, Aristotle argued that (A) Wordsworth

poetry is more philosophic and more
(B) Coleridge
serious than :
(C) T. S. Eliot
(A) Metaphysics
(D) None of them
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114. "For a literary masterpiece two (B) The highest point aesthetic
powers mustconcur, the powerof the pleasure

mari, and the powerof the moment, (C) Thesimultaneousconsciousness

and the man is notenoughwithoutthe of beauty in so manythings

moment." Who has been quoted in (D) The Objective Correlative

these lines ? 118. Post-modernism celebrates the

(A) Bacon fragmentatiorr grand narratives.

(B) Johnson (A) True.

(C) Coleridge (B) False
(D) MatthewArnold
(C) Both of these
(D) None of these
115. Who wrote the famous ciriticalwork,
119. But in the orderof thought, in art, the
Seven Types of Ambiguity ?
glory, the eternal honour is the
(A) RobertGraves
charlatanism shallfind no entrance,
(B) l.A. Richards -
where does this line occur ?
(C) Empson (A) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
(D) MatthewArnold (B) The Study of Poetry
116. Who wrote Culture and Anarchy ?
(C) A Defence of ftetry
(A) Shelley
(D) Tha Sacred Wood

(B) MatthewArnold 120. "The Poet's mind is in fact a

receptacle of seizing and storing up
(C) T. S. Eliot
. numberless fellings, phrases,
(D) Wordsworth irnages, which remain there ." Who

117. What did l. A. Richards mean by said this ?

synaesthesis ? (A) Hazlitt

(A) The peculiarorganization of our (B) Wordsworth _l't,t,'a"t t

impulses in a manner that (c) T.S. Eliot

harmonizesthem (D) MatthewArnold

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121. Who 'wrote the Essay, The (B) Poetry has a life of its own
Metaphysical Poets ? independent of poet's
(A) John Donne ' personality
.q

(B) C. D. Lewis (C) The line between the poet's life

and the life of his poetry is thin
(C) T. S. Eliot
and ha4y
(DI John Dryden
(D) Poetry is the anithesis of the
122. "To our praise, therefore, of course, poet's personality
of Chaucer as a poet there must be
125. Who worte A Defence of Poetry ?
this limitation, he lacks the high
seriousness of the great classics,
(A) Shelley
and therewith an important part of (B) MafthewArnold
their virtue." Where do you find this (C) Roman Jacobson
. comment ? (DI T. S. Eliot
(A) Hyperion
126. "More and more mankind will
(B) Tradition and the. lndividual discoverthatwe havetumed to poetry
Talent to interpret life for us, to console us,
(C) BiographiaLiteraria to sustain'us." Who said this ?

(D) Thg Etudy o! Poetry (A) Wordsworth

123. Whose name dowe rememberfirst
(B) Coleridge
in connection with Practical Criticism ? (C) MatthewArnold
(A) l.A. Richards (D) OscarWildd
(B) T. S. Eliot 127. For Poetry and Drama, Eliot opined

(C) Roman Jacobson that:

(D) Terry Eagleton (A) All poetryhasnaturaldrama

(B) Poetry and Drama must be

124. Which of the following is true
kept separate
regarding Eliot's opinion on poetry ?
' (A) Poetry is an extension of the (C) Drama in verse is the ideal
poet's personality
(D) Drama inrrerse is rarelyexciting

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128. "Post-colonialism in literature often
addresses the problems and
conseq uences of the decolonization
of a country especially questions
relating to the politial and cultural
independence of formerly subjugated
people, and themes such as
racialism, feminism, subaltern
studies, colonialism, gender studies",
etc.
131 Catharsis is the purificaiton or
purgation of the emotions (especially
pity and fear) primarily through art in
criticism. Catharsis is a metaphor
used by Aristotle ifr Poetics to
describe the effects of true tragedy
on the spectator.
(A) True
(B) False

(A) True . (C) Both of these

.

(B) False (D) None of these

(C) Both of these 132 Who is often listed as the founder of
(D) None of these Structuralism ?

129. Who was the founder of (A) Wilhelm Wundt

Deconstruction ? (B) Noam Chomsky

(A) Jacques Derrida (C) Ferdinand de Saussure

(B) Chomsky (D) Edward Sapir

(C) Saussure 133. Ecocriticism is not the result of the

(D) GayatriChakraborty new consciousness : That very soon,

130. Open-endedness is one of the there will be nothing beautiful or safe

characteristic features of Post- in nature to discourse about, unless

colonialism. we are unaware of it.

(A) True (A) True

(B) False (B) False

(C) Both of these (C) Both of these

(D) Noneofthese (D) None of these

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134. Who first distinguished between (C) Onlyan adverb '

"Langue" and Parole ?

(D) Onlya preposition
(A) Ferdinandde'Saussure
138. Prescriptive grammar is an objective
(B) Noam Chomsky
delineation of the intemal mechanism
(C) Leonard Bloomfield
of a particular language.
(D) Benjamin Lee Whorf
(A) True
1 35. Three children were chaned to death
in the fire.
(B) False
Which error do you find in the (C) Both of these

sentence written ?bove ? (D) None of these

(A) Errorof Syntax
139. Words are divided into different
(B) Grammaticalerror
kinds of classes, called parts of
(C) Spelling mistake
speech, according to their use, that
(D) Collocation error
is according to the work they do in a
1 36. Dear production needs to be sentence. The parts of speech are
enhanced by lndians
ten in number.
(A) True
(A) True
(B) False
(B) False
(C) Both of these

(D) None of these

(C) Both of these

(D) Noneofthese
137. What is a Noun phrase in an English
sentence ? 1a0. Sbmantics deals with the study of
(A) Only a single naming word meaning.
(B) A single naming word, a group (A) True
of words including article, an '(B) False
adverb, an intensifier and an
adjective, a clause or even a (C) Both of these ,

sentence (D) None of these

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141. What are the tenses of can, could, 145. When an interrogative sentence is
may and might ?
formed outof a declarative sentence,
(A) PresentTense' the first verbal element is shifted to
(B) PastTense thefrontof thesubject. '
(C) FutureTense
(A) True
(D) Modats
(B) False
142. How many Tenses do you find in
(C) Both of these
English language ?
(D) None of these
(A) One
(B) Two 146. The FullStop (.) indicates the close

(C) Three of a complete sentence.

(D) Four (A) True

143. You are going to Bombay ? Whattpe (B) False

of sentence isthis ? (C) Both of these
(A) Adeclarativesentence (D) None of these
(B) As far as meaning is
concerned it is an intenogative
147 Phrasal verbs are- ihidses" that

sentence indicate no action. They are not

(C) Asimple sentence generally spoken English and

(D) An assertive sentence informal texts. Examples of'such

verbs include : turn down, come
144. Most nou.ns can form plurals by
across, run down, etc.
taking - s (or its equivalent).

(A) True (A) True

(B) False (B) False

(C) Both of these (C) Both of these
(D) None of these (D) None of these

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148. The three verbals gerunds; 151, An'English sentence with an
-
infinitives and particles are formed intransitive verb can be converted
from verbs, but never used alone as into d passive one.

action words in sentence lnstead, (A) True

verbals fu nction as nouns, adjectives, (B) False
or adverbs. (C) Both of these
(A) True (D) None of these
(B) False 152. The noun or noun phrase in English
(C) Both of these sentence can bethe subjectonly.
(D) None of these .(A) True

149. None of us are doing this job. (B) False

(A) True (C) Both of these
r '
(B) False (D) None of these
(C) Both of these 153. By using Noun Clause, choose a

(D) None of these simple sentence from the Sentences

written below.
150. fhe.--, passive sentence in English
6' i r r l

is a grammaticat 'voice'. The noun

- (A) Sarama has passed in the first
division but unfortunately Latika
or noun phrase that would be the
did not like it.
gbject of a corresponding active
(B) Sarama had passed in the first
sentence appears as the subject of
division and Latika did not
a sentence or clause in the passive
like it.
vorce.
(C) Sarama had passed in the first
(A) True
first division which Latika did
(B) False - not like it. \
(c) Both of these (D) The Sarama pass6d in the first
(D) None of these division was not liked by Latika.
t

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154. Some common linking verbs in (B) No

English include be, am, are, is, was,
(C) Both of these
were, seem, look, feel, sound and
. taste. (D) None of these
(A) True 158 lmperatives in English 1jenerally and
(B) False explicity do not have any subject ?
(C) Both of these
(A) Yes
(D) None of these
(B) No
155. Subject verb agreement simply
means the subject and verb must
(C) Both of these

agree in number. This means both (D) None of these

need to be singular or both need to
'159 And, but, either'..... or, neither..... nor
be plural.
etc., are conjunctions which conjoins
(A) True
two sentences and therefore they are
(B) False
(C) Both of these called coordinating conju nctions.

(D) None of these (A) Yes

156. Do you find subject verb 'agreement' (B) No

in the given sentence ? . (C) Both of these
Who are the best student in this class ?
(D) None of these
(A) Yes

(B) No 160. A Classifier preceding a noun or a

(C) Both of these noun phrase functions as a :

, (D) None of these (A) Noun

1 57. ls tre given sentence a direct speech ? (B) Adjective
He requested them not to say (C) Adverb
anything.
(A) Yes
(D) Pronoun

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161. What are the different types of (C) An objective delineation of the
conditionalsentences in English ? mechanism of a language
(A) One (D) A delineation of the written form
(B) Two of a language
(C) Three
164. English Tense system is a form and
(D) Four
grammatical not related to time
162. Conditional sentences are
reference.
stiatements discussing known factors

or hypothetical situations and their (A) True

consequen@s. (B) False

(A) True (C) Both of these

(B) False
(D) None of these
(C) Both of these
165. Written form of a language is
(D) None of these
superiorto its spoken form.
163. What is grammar of a language ?
(A) True
(A) An individualperception about
(B) False
the mechanism of a language
(B) A prescription of the (c) Both of these
I

mechanism of a language (D) None of these

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