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English Literature Test Questions

English Literature Test Questions

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS in ENGLISH LITERATURE

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English

1. The epigraph of The Waste Land

is borrowed from-

(A) Virgil (B) Petronius

(C) Seneca (D) HomerAnswer:D

2. Who called The Waste Land a

music of ideas ?

(A) Allen Tate(B) ]. C. Ransom

(C) l.A.Richa1:ds

(D) F, R. LeavisAnswer:A

3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term

Unreal City in first and third

sections from

(A) Baudelaire(B) Irving Babbit

(C) Dante

(D) LaforgueAnswer:C

4. Which of the following myths

does not figure in The Waste

Land ?

(A) Oedipus

(B) Grail Legend 0f Fisher King(C) Philomela

(D) SysyphusAnswer:D

5. Joe Gargery is Pips-


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(A) brother

(B) brother-in-law(C) guardian

(D) cousin

Answer:C

6. Estella is the daughter of-

(A) ]oe Gargery(B) Abel Magwitch

(C) Miss Havisham

(D) Bentley DrummleAnswer:A

7. Which book of Iohn Ruskin

influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?

(A) Sesame and Lilies A

(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture(C) Unto This Last

(D) Fors Clavigera

Answer:C

8. Graham Greenes novels are

marked by-

(A) Catholicism

(B) Protestantism(C) Paganism

(D) BuddiusmAnswer:A

9 One important feature of janeAustens style is-

(A) boisterous humour

(B) humour and pathos

(C) subtlety of irony(D) stream of consciousness

Answer:B

10. The title of the poem The Second

Coming is taken from-

(A) The Bible

(B) The Irish mythology

(C) The German mythology


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(D) The Greek mythology

Answer:A

ll. The main character in Paradise

Lost Book l and Book Il is-

(A) God (B) Satan

(C) Adam (D) Eve

Answer:B

12. ln Sons and Lovers, Paul Morels

m0thers name is-

(A) Susan (B) jane

(C) Gertrude (D) EmilyAnswer:C

13. The twins in Lord of the Flies

are-

(A) Ralph and jack

(B) Simon and Eric(C) Ralph and Eric

(D) Simon and Jack

Answer:A

14. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a-

(A) lawyer

(B) postrnan(C) judge(D) schoolteacher

Answer:A

15. What does I stand for in the

following line ?

To Carthage then I came(A) Buddha

(B) Tiresias

(C) Smyrna Merchant(D) Augustine

Answer:D

16. The following lines are an

example of ,.. image.The river sweats

Oil and tar .. .


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(A) visual (B) kinetic

(C) erotic (D) sensualAnswer:C

17. Which of the following novels

has the subtitle A Novel With

out a Hero ?

(A) Vanity Fair(B) Middlermarch

(C) Wuthering Heights(D) Oliver Twist

Answer:A

18. In Leda and the Swan, who

wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?

(A) Mars (B) Hercules(C) Zeus (D) Bacchus

Answer:D

19. Who invented the term Sprung

rhythm ?

(A) Hopkins

(B) Tennyson

(C) Browning

(D) WordsworthAnswer:A

20. Who wrote the poem Defence ofLucknow ?

(A) Browning (B) Tennyson(C) Swinburne (D) Rossetti

Answer:C

21. Which of the following plays of

Shakespeare has an epilogue ?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Henry IV, Pt I(C) Hamlet

(D) Twelfth NightAnswer:A

22. Hamlets famous speech T0 be,

or not to be; that is the question

occurs in-


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(A) Act II, Scene I

(B) Act III, Scene III(C) Act IV, Scene III

(D) Act III, Scene I

Answer:D

23. Identify the character in TheTempest who is referred to as

an honest old councellor

(A) Alonso (B) Ariel(C) Gonzalo (D) Stephano

Answer:C

24. What is the sub-title of the play

Twelfth Night ?(A) Or, What is you Will

(B) Or, What you Will

(C) Or, What you Like It

(D) Or, What you ThinkAnswer:B

25. Which of the following plays of

Shakespeare, according to T. S.Eliot, is artistic failure ?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Hamlet

(C) Henry IV, Ptl(D) Twelfth Night

Answer:B

26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry

IV, Pt I ?

(A) Earl of Northumberland(B) Earl of March

(C) Earl of Douglas

(D) Earl of WorcesterAnswer:A

27. Paradise Lost was originallywritten in

(A) ten books(B) eleven books

(C) nine books

(D) eight books

Answer:D


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28, In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia

elopes with-

(A) Darcy

(B) Wickham

(C) William Collins

(D) Charles BingleyAnswer:B

29. Who coined the phrase Egotistical Sublime?

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) P. B. Shelley(C) S. T. Coleridge

(D) John Keats

Answer:C

30. Who is commonly known asPip in Great Expectations ?

(A) Philip Pirrip

(B) Filip Pirip

(C) Philip Pip(D) Philips Pirip

Answer:C

31. The novel The Power and the

Glory is set in-

(A) Mexico (B) Italy

(C) France (D) GermanyAnswer:A

32. Which of the following isGoldings first novel ?

(A) The inheritors

(B) Lord of the Flies

(C) Pincher Martin(D) Pyramid

Answer:B

33. Identify the character who is a

supporter of Womens Rights inSons and Lovers ?

(A) Mrs. Morel

(B) Annie

(C) Miriam


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(D) Clara Dawes

Answer:A

34. Vanity Fair is a novel by-

(A) Jane Austen

(B) Charles Dickens

(C) W, M. Thackeray

(D) Thomas HardyAnswer:C

35. Shelleys Adunais is an elegy on

the death of

(A) Milton (B) Coleridge(C) Keats (D) Johnson

Answer:C

36. Which of the following is the first

novel of D. H. Lawrence ?(A) The White Peacock

(B) The Trespasser

(C) Sons and Lovers(D) Women in Love

Answer:A

37. In the poem Tintern Abbey,

dearest friend refers to-

(A) Nature (B) Dorothy

(C) Coleridge (D) WyeAnswer:B

38. Who, among the following, is notthe second generation of British

Romantics ?

(A) Keats

(B) Wordsworth(C) Shelley

(D) Byron

Answer:B

39. Which of the following poems ofColeridge is a ballad ?

(A) Work Without Hope

(B) Frost at Midnight

(C) The Rime of the Ancient


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Mariner

(D) Youth and AgeAnswer:C

40. Identify the writer who was

expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamph1et~

(A) P. B. Shelley

(B) Charles Lamb(C) Hazlitt

(D) ColeridgeAnswer:A

41. Keatss Endymiou is dedicated

to

(A) Leigh Hunt

(B) Milton(C) Shakespeare

(D) Thomas ChattertonAnswer:A

42. The second series of Essays ofElia by Charles Lamb was

published in-

(A) 1823 (B) 1826

(C) 1834 (D) 1833Answer:D

43, Which of the following poetsdoes not belong to the LakeSchool ?

(A) Keats

(B) Coleridge

(C) Southey(D) Wordsworth

Answer:A

44. Who, among the following

writers, was not educated atChrists Hospital School,

London?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) WilliamWordsworth(C) Leighliunt


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(D) S. T. Coleridge

Answer:A

45. VVh0 derided Hazlitt as one of

the members of the Cockney

School of Poetry ?

(A) Tennyson

(B) Charles Lamb(C) Lockhart

(D) T. S. EliotAnswer:D

46. Tennys0ns poem ln Memoriam

was written in memory of~

(A) A. H. Hallam

(B) Edward King(C) Wellington

(D) P. B. ShelleyAnswer:A

47. Who, among the following, is notconnected with the Oxford

Movement?

(A) Robert Browning(B) John Keble

(C) E. B. Pusey

(D) ]. H. NewmanAnswer:A

48. Identify the work by Swinburne

which begins when the hounds

of spring are on winterstraces.,.-

(A) Chastelard

(B) ASongofItaly

(C) Atalantain Calydon(D) Songs before Sunrise

Answer:C

49. Carlyles work On Heroes, Hero-

Worship and the Heroic inHistory is a course of-

(A) six lectures

(B) five lectures

(C) four lectures


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(D) seven lectures

Answer:B

50. Who is praised as a hero by

Carlyle in his lecture on the

I-lero as King ?

(A) ]ohnson

(B) Cromwell(C) Shakespeare

(D) LutherAnswer:B

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Objective solve questions of the english literature quiz

1. Brevity is the soul of wit is a quotation from?(A) Milton(B) William Shakespeare

(C) T. S. Eliot

(D) Ruskin

Ans : B

2. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night?

(A) Duke Orsino

(B) Malvolio(C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek

(D) Sir Toby Belch

Ans : D

3. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Miltons?(A) Sense of injured merit

(B) Hatred of tyranny

(C) Spirit of revolt

(D) All these

Ans : C

4. Who calls poetry the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge?

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Shelley(C) Keats

(D) Coleridge


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Ans : A

5. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?(A)Viola

(B) Duke

(C)Olivia

(D) Malvolio

Ans : B

6. What was the cause of Williams death in Sons and Lovers?

(A) An accident

(B) An overdose of morphia(C) Suicide

(D) Pneumonia

Ans : D

7. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?

(A) Kubla Khan(B) Christabel

(C) The Ancient Mariner

(D) Ode on the Departing Year

Ans : A

8. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem Ode to theWest Wind?

(A) Rime royal

(B) Ottava rima(C) Terza rima

(D) Spenserian Stanza

Ans :C

9. The phrase Pathetic fallacy is coined by?

(A) Milton(B) Coleridge

(C) Carlyle

(D) John Ruskin

Ans : D

10. Tracts for the Times relates to?

(A) The Oxford Movement

(B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement(C) The Romantic Movement

(D) The Symbolist Movement

Ans : A


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11. The Chartist Movement sought?

(A) Protection of the political rights of the working class(B) Recognition of chartered trading companies

(C) Political rights for women

(D) Protection of the political rights of the middle class

Ans : A

12. Who wrote Biographia Literaria?(A)Byron

(B) Shelley(C) Coleridge

(D) Lamb

Ans : C

13. Who was Fortinbras?

(A) Claudiuss son(B) Son to the king of Norway

(C) Ophelias lover(D) Hamlets Mend

Ans : B

14. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?

A) Nine

(C) Five

(B) Seven(D) Three

Ans : C

15. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. The

above lines have been taken from?(A) The Waste Land

(B) Tintern Abbey

(C) The Second Coming(D) Prayer for My Daughter

Ans : C

16 William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after?(A) Lawrences father

(B) Lawrences brother(C) Lawrence himself

(D) None of these

Ans : D


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17. The most notable characteristic of Keats poetry is?

(A) Satire(B) Sensuality

(C) Sensuousness

(D) Social reform

Ans : C

18. The key-note of Brownings philosophy of life is?(A) agnosticism

(B) optimism(C) pessimism

(D) skepticism

Ans : B

19. The title of Carlyles Sartor Resartus means?

(A) Religious Scripture(B) Seaside Resort

(C) Tailor Repatched(D) None of these

Ans : C

20. Epipsychidion is composed by?

(A) Coleridge

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Keats(D) Shlley

Ans : D

21. The better part of valour is discretion occurs in Shakespeares?

(A) Hamlet(B) Twelfth Night

(C) The Tempest

(D) Henry IV, Pt I

Ans : D

22. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton?

(A) Paradise Lost(B) Sonnets

(C) Lycidas(D) Areopagitica

Ans : A


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23. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his

early work?(A) Charles Dickens

(B) W. M. Thackeray

(C) Graham Greene(D) D. H. Lawrence

Ans : C

24. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?

(A)Last Impressions(B)False Impressions

(C)First Impressions

(D)True Impressions

Ans :C

25. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures(A) Great Expectations

(B) The Power and the Glory(C) Lord of the Flies(D) Pride and Prejudice

Ans : D

26; Theres a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

The line given above occurs in

(A) Hamlet(B) Henry IV, Pt I

(C) The Tempest

(D) Twelfth Night

Ans :A

27. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) John Ruskin(C) Thomas Carlyle

(D) William Hazlitt

Ans :B

28. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeares greatest?

(A) comic figures(B) historical figures

(C) romantic figures

(D) tragic figures

Ans : A


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29. That Milton was of the Devils party without knowing it, was

said by?(A)Blake

(B) Eliot

(C)Johnson(D) Shelley

Ans :A

30. Who called Shelley a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous

wings in vain?(A) Walter Pater

(B) A. C. Swinburne

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) T. S. Eliot

Ans :C

31. Essays of Ella are?

(A) full of didactic sermonising(B) practically autobiographical fragments(C) remarkable for their aphoristic style

(D) satirical and critical

Ans : B

32. The theme of Tennysons Poem The Princess is?

(A) Queen Victorias coronation(B) Industrial Revolution

(C) Womens Education and Rights

(D) Rise of Democracy

Ans : C

33. Thackerays Esmond is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of?

(A) the Medieval age

(B) the Elizabethan age(C) the age of Queen Anne

(D) the Victorian age

Ans :A

34. Oedipus Complex is?

(A) a kind of physical ailment(B) a kind of vitamin

(C)a brothers attraction towards his sister

(D) a sons attraction towards his mother

Ans : D


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35. My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the

intellect. Who wrote this?(A)Graham Greene

(B)D. H. Lawrence

(C)Charles Dickens(D) Jane Austen

Ans :B

36 .Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?

(A) Twelfth Night(B) Hamlet

(C) The Tempest

(D) Henry IV,Pt I

Ans :A

37. The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance. This line occurs in?(A) Hamlet

(B) Henry IV,Pt I(C) The Tempest(D) Twelfth Night

Ans :C

38. Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice is a?

(A) Picaresque novel

(B) Gothic novel(C) Domestic novel

(D) Historical novel

Ans : C

39. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. This line occurs in the poem?(A) Immortality Ode

(B) Tintern Abbey

(C) The Second Coming(D) Leda and the Swan

Ans :A

40. Wordsworth calls himself a Worshipper of Nature in hispoem

(A) Immortality Ode(B) Tintern Abbey

(C) The Prelude

(D) The Solitary Reaper

Ans : B


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41. When Wordsworths Immortality Ode was first published in

1802, it had only?(A) Stanzas I to IV

(B) Stanzas I toV

(C) Stanzas I to VI(D) Stanzas I to VII

Ans B

42. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel Great

Expectations?(A) Direct or epic method

(B) Documentary method

(C) Stream of Consciousness technique

(D) Autobiographical method

Ans A

43. Who said Keats was a Greek?

(A) Wordsworth(B) Coleridge(C) Lamb

(D) Shelley

Ans B

44. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary

descendant of?(A) Keats

(B) Byron

(C) Shelley(D) Wordsworth

Ans A

45. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply?

The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.(A) Claudius

(B) Hamlet

(C) Polonius

(D) Rosencrantz

Ans : B

46. Brownings famous poem Rabbi Ben Ezra is included in?

(A) Dramatis Personae

(B) Dramatic Idyls(C) Asolando

(D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country


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Ans : A

47. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?(A) The Royal Society of Edinburgh

(B) The Royal Society ofLondon

(C) Royal Society of Arts

(D) Royal Society of Literature

Ans : D

48. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

(A) Sense and Sensibility

(B) Mansfield Park(C) Sandition

(D) Persuasion

Ans : C

49.Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in Great

Expectations?(A) She was poor

(B) She was arrogant

(C) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom(D) She was unwilling to marry

Ans : B

50. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year?

(A)1938(B) 1925

(C)1932(D) 1923

Ans : D

51. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influencedby the?

(A) French Revolution

(B) Glorious Revolution of1688(C) Reformation

(D) Oxford Movement

Ans : A

52. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the?(A) Puritan movement

(B) Romantic revival

(C) Neo-classical age

(D) Metaphysical school


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Ans : B

53. O, you are sick of self-love Who is referred to in thesewords in Twelfth Night?

(A)Orsino

(B) Sir Andrew

(C)Sir Toby(D) Malvolio

Ans : D

54. Hamlet is?

(A) an intellectual(B) a man of action

(C) a passionate lover

(D) an over ambitious man

Ans : C

55. Which of Shakespeares characters exclaims; Brave, new, world!?(A) Ferdinand

(B) Antonio

(C) Miranda(D) Prospero

Ans : C

56. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?

(A) Paganism(B) Pre-Christian theology

(C) Christianity and the Renaissance(D) Greek nihilism

Ans : C

57. The style of Paradise Lost is?(A) more Latin than most poems

(B) more spontaneous than thought out

(C) more satirical than spontaneous(D) more dramatic than lyrical

Ans : A

58. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?

(A) Mr. Bennet(B) Wickham

(C)Bingley

(D) Darcy


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Ans : D

59. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?(A)Gertrude

(B) Polonius

(C)Horatio

(D) Hamlet

Ans : B

60. Shakespeares Henry IV, Pt I contains his?

(A) senecan attitude

(B) patriotism(C) love of nature

(D) platonic ideals

Ans : B

English Literature Online Test Free

multiple choice questions on english literatureenglish literature practice quiz

English Literature

1. The speech was too long a talk

to hold the interest of the listeners.

(A) Complex sentence

(B) Simple sentence

(C) Interrogative sentence

(D) Comparative sentence

Answer.B

2. My deeds upon my head ! crave

the law, The penalty and forfeit

of my bonds

(A) Shylock speaks these lines tothe Duke

(B) Portia appeals to Shylock

(C) Antonio pleads to the Duke(D) Shylock speaks these lines as

an argument to Portia

Answer.D

3. Complacently means-


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(A) Self-satisfied

(B) Confident(C) Devoted

(D) Devout

Answer.A

4. The poem Once upon a Time is

a poem by-

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Leigh Hunt

(C) Gabriel Okara(D) W.B. Yeats

Answer.B

5. The antonym of Banish is-

(A) Deport(B) Accept(C) Expel

(D) Exile

Answer.C

6. The Women in ancient India

were-

(A) Ill-treated and uneducated

(B) Confined in the interiors ofthe house

(C) Were literate poets, administrators and scholars(D) Hated education

Answer.A

7. Gandhiji decided to teach all the

children together because-

(A) He gave first place to the

culture of the heart and believedthat moral training could be

given to all children together(B) They had all been brought

up in different conditions and

environment(C) They belonged to different

religions


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(D) Nation and culture of each

child was different

Answer.A

8. Words are like leaves]

The figure of speech used in this

sentence is-

(A) Metonymy(B) Antithesis

(C) Personification

(D) Simile

Answer.D

9. The synonym of yield is-

(A) Submit

(B) Dumb(C) Aggravate(D) Reckless

Answer.A

10. Revenge is a kind of wild justice}

The figure of speech in thissentence is-

(A) Metaphor

(B) Oxymoron(C) Epigram(D) Personification

Answer.C

11.. Why man, if the river were dry)

I am able to fill it with tears}

The figure of speech in thissentence is

(A) Epigram(B) Oxymoron

(C) Antithesis(D) Hyperbole

Answer.D


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12. Choose the odd answer :

The accountant of the villageHosahalli-

(A) Was a rigid and outdated

man

(B) Was an enlightened manwho sent his son to Bangalore for

studies(C) Was courageous and literatefellow

(D) Was a son called Ranga

Answer.A

13. Calumnies means-

(A) Statements(B) Slanderous statements

(C) Callousness(D) Cadence

Answer.B

14. He is strong enough to push the

trunk

(A) Superlative sentence

(B) Simple sentence(C) Complex sentence

(D) Negative sentence

Answer.D

15. Gandhiji decided to teach the

children in the Tolstoy farmbecause the prime factor dominating his mind was

(A) He did not have much funds

(B) Qualified teachers were notavailable

(C) Teachers were not ready totravel long distances

(D) He did not believe in theexisting system of education and

wanted to devise a new one by

experiment and experience

Answer.B


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16. The main cause of Gandhijis

success as a teacher was-

(A) His simplicty and devotion

(B) His audacity

(C) Because he never disguised

his ignorance and was alwayswilling to learn

(D) The handbooks he hadacquired during his voyage andin jail

Answer.A

17. The camel is the ship of the

desert!The figure of speech in this

sentence is-

(A) Euphernism(B) Metaphor(C) Hyperbole

(D) Simile

Answer.B

18. He had to sign or be executed.

(A) Complex sentence(B) Simple sentence

(C) Imperative sentence _,(D) Compound sentence

Answer.D

Directi0ns(Q. 69-73) Read thefollowing extract carefully and ans-

wer the questions that follow by

choosing correct answer 1I would like to address a few

words in particular to our young men

and women. If they are to be effectivein the service of the nation, it is

essential that they must fit themselves

in every way for this task. Thebuilding up of a vast and pulsating

democratic nation is no mean under-

taking, and a mere desire to be in the

service of the nation is not enough 2 it


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must be accompanied by the ability to

do so effectively.There are several distinct dimen-

sions in which our youth must equip

themselves. The first is the physical.Building a great democracy and

defending it from predatory aggres-

sors requires a young generation that

is physically strong, with muscles ofiron and nerves of steel, and for this

it must equipitself by undertaking

physical training and developingphysical fitness to the maximum

extent possible. Despite technological

advances and mechanisation, defenceis still to a large extent, a matter of

dogged physical endurance and

courage as our Officers and Iawanshave so magnificently proved on the

battle-field and they emerged victo-rious against superior and more

sophisticated war equipment. In thiscontext the National Cadet Corps, the

Physical Fitness Scheme, and other

similar organisations play valuablerole in building up the strength of

our youth, and these opportunities

must be fully availed of. Along withphysical fitness the qualities of

discipline and teamsmanship are

essential, particularly for those plan-to join the proud ranks of our

defence forces, because what is

required is not only individual

achievement but corporate progress.

19. The mere desire to be in the

service of the nation is useless,

unless-

(A) Because building up a vast

democratic nation is not an easytask

(B) All forces of the youth aremobilized in the correct direction

(C) Youth are highly educated

(D) Mere desire without energy

is inactive involvement anduseless


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Answer.B

20. Physical fitness is very muchrequired because-

(A) Illness would hamper pros-

perity .

(B) More hospitals would be

required(C) It is needed to defend the

nation from any threat or aggres-sion

(D) Finance of the nation would

be drained for medical purposes

Answer.C

21. Technological advances andmechanisation are not in them

selves sufficient because-

(A) Defence of the nation should

be strong(B) Defence is more important

(C) Major youth potential would

go in defence(D) Without power to defend

the nation, peace is not possible

and thus technological advancesimpossible

Answer.D

22. In the battle-fields our armies

have-

(A) Never won due to lack ofphysical fitness

(B) Sometimes won and some-

times lost

(C) Proved their ability by win-

ning over more sophisticatedarmies

(D) Shown lack of physical fit-ness

Answer.C


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23. For those joining the defence

forces-

(A) Physical fitness is required

(B) Besides physical fitness,

discipline and teamsmanship are

required and very necessary(C) Facilities of NCC are of

prime importance(D) just a willingness to joindefence forces is needed

Answer.B

24. She is weaker than she should

be.

(A) interrogative sentence(B) Imperative sentence

(C) Simple sentence(D) Complex sentence

Answer.D

25. The fault is in ourselves, not in

the stars means-

(A) Do not blame stars for your

destiny and deeds(B) Never leave everything to

the tate(C) Stars are stronger and decideeverything

(D) Stars cannot decide our fate

Answer.A

26. The Tale of the Melon City is

named thus because-

(A) It is die tale of a land where

melons grew in abundance(B) A melon was crowned the

King of the city(C) The King of the city was

fond of melons

(D) Melons are delicious and thepoet is fond of them


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Answer.B

27. Dubiously means-

(A) Two-sided(B) Hesitantly

(C) Confused

(D) Cheating

Answer.D

28. Mr. Berrie, the jailor regarded

hixnselt the emperor because-

(A) The prisoners in jail were

lifetime convicts, and he was meonly person to whom they could

appeal

(B) He was the wholesole master

there(C) The convicts regarded him

their God

(D) He was a Britisher

Answer.A

29. I wish that I shall get a medal-

(A) Noun phrase

(B) Noun clause

(C) Adjective clause(D) Adverb clause

Answer.B

30. The budding twigs spread out

its fan} Fan is a-

(A) Metaphor(B) Simile

(C) Hyperbole

(D) Okymoron

Answer.A

31. Spiritual training was given to

the children through-


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(A) Religious books

(B) Religious scriptures(C) Developing the spirit and

enabling one to work towards

the knowledge of God andtowards self-realization

(D) Teaching them superstitions

Answer.C

32, Variety is the spice of life.The figure of speech used in this

sentence is

(A) Oxymoron

(B) Metaphor(C) Epigram

(D) Personification

Answer.B

33. The antonym of Benevolence

is

(A) Malevolence

(B) Beneficence

(C) Bounty

(D) Charity `

Answer.A

34. Man proposes, God disposes.

The figure of speech in this

sentence is

(A) Euphonism(B) Epigram

(C) Hyperbole

(D) Antithesis

Answer.D

35. Give every man thy ear, but few

thy voice.

The figure of speech used in thissentence is-

(A) Epigram

(B) Antithesis


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(C) Apostrophe

(D) Metaphor

Answer.B

36. Ranga did not want to get

married in the village because-

(A) He did not find any suitablematch in the village(B) He wanted to get married to

a mature girl

(C) He wanted to get married tothe girl, whom he was in love

with

(D) He thought that a manshould marry a girl whom he

admires

Answer.A

37. Maggie was under the impres-

sion that all Indians are vege-tarians because

(A) Only Britishers are non-

vegetarians

(B) She had heard that mostlyIndians do not eat meat and

India is a land ot yogis

(C) The author himself lookedlike a yogi

(D) Author had expressed his

dislike for non-vegetarian food

Answer.B

38, Mr. Baldwin is persuaded by his

family to say, he does not

remember anything, because

(A) He has forgotten everything(B) He will get a very huge

amount in return for saying this,

from Mr. Gresham(C) Mr. Baldwins own son is

also named John

(D) He needed to refresh his

memory for accuracy


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Answer.B

39. While teaching the childrenGandhiji found that the children

easily remembered-

(A) Things that they learnt from

books

(B) What was taught to themindependently and verbally

(C) Whatever was written on theblackboard

(D) When they were scolded for

studies

Answer.B

40. The incident of beating theboy taught Gandhiji a better

way of correcting the studentsbecause-

(A) He found that though theyoungsters thus punished forgot

it, but they never showed any

improvement -(B) He learnt that students

should be dealt with firmly

(C) Cases of misconduct becomeless frequent

(D) Students cannot improvewithout corporal punishment

Answer.B

41. The Assyrians came down like awolf on the fold}

The figure of speech in this

sentence is-

(A) Siinile

(B) Metaphor(C) Oxymoron

(D) Epigrarn

Answer.A

42. Mourad defended his act of

stealing the horse by saying


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(A) Someone had given it to him

(B) It would not become steal-ing unless he offered to sell the

horse

(C) He had borrowed it(D) lt was his friends horse

Answer.B

43. The Hour of Truth reflects the-

(A) Political situation of those

days(B) Psychology of present man

(C) Social evils of the society

(D) Ethical background

Answer.B

44. The study of mythology assumeda new character because-

(A) Light has been thrown on it

by ancient Vedic mythology ofIndia

(B) It has become a fashion to

study mythology

(C) Even the fables of India arefull of mythology

(D) Buddhism has been its

principal source

Answer.A

45. Choose the incorrect answer :

Hosahalli is

(A) A small village in Mysore

(B) To Mysore what the filling isto Karigadabu

(C) Its people are like a flock of

sheep(D) The Sahibs of England have

praised it in their writings

Answer.D


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46. Brain Bhowmik, today a celebrity,

was trying to avoid the glance ofhis fellow passenger because-

(A) He appeared to be an

unfriendly fellow

(B) His glance was very piercing(C) He recognized that he was

the same man whose clock hehad stolen years ago(D) They had met in bitter

circumstances

Answer.C

47. Barin consoled himself with thethought that the man failed to

recognize him because-

(A) He had a bad memory(B) Barins physical appearancehad changed

(C) He was like Animesh-da

(D) He had forgiven Barin

Answer.B

48. Genius is an infinite capacity fortaking pains, means-

(A) Very intelligent person(B) Excellent capacity to memo-rize

(C) Exceptional capacity is the

result of inexhaustable willing-

ness to work and take greatUouble

(D) Excellent understanding

power

Answer.C

49, Turn a deaf ear means-

(A) Ignore

(B) Turn away from somebody

(C) Refuse to listen to some-thing or somebody

(D) Refuse to go with


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Answer.C

50. The king became angry because-

(A) The arch was built too low(B) The arch was not built artistically

(C) The arch was built at the

wrong place

(D) The crowd disapproved ofthe arch

Answer.A

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