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1. She insisted on ––– leaving the house.

a.      he

b.     him

c.      himself

d.      his

2. The phrase “Achilles’ heel” means––

a.      a strong point

b.     a strong solution

c.      a weak point

d.      a permanent solution

3. He does not adhere ––– any principle.

a.      by

b.     in

c.      at

d.     to

4. Millennium is a period of–––

a.      100 year

b.     1000 year

c.      1 million year

d.      1 million year

5. Identify the passive form of the following sentence : Who has broken this jug?

a.      By whom has this jug been broken?

b.     By whom has this jug broken?

c.      By whom this jug has been broken?

d.     Whom has this gug been broken?

6. Who is not a Victorian poet?

a.      Alfred Tennyson

b.     Robert Browning

c.      William Wordsworth

d.      Matthew Arnold

7. Which of the following novels was written by George Orwell?

a.      1984

b.     Brave New World

c.      A clockwork Orange

d.      For Whom the Bell Tolls

8. Identify the correct sentence:

a.      She speaks English like English

b.     She speaks the English like English

c.      She speaks the English like the English

d.      She speaks English like the English

9. When one makes a promise, one must not go ––– on it.

a.      forward

b.     back

c.      by

d.      around

10.  I can′t put up with― him any more. Here “put up with” means:

a.      To protect

b.     To terminate

c.      To tolerate

d.      To prevent

11.  The poem “To his Coy Mistress” Was written by:

a.      Andrew Marvell

b.     John Donne

c.      George Herbert

d.      Henry Vaughan

12.  The synonyms of ‘altitude’ is–––

a.      height

b.     width

c.      length

d.      depth

13.  The character, Elizabeth Bennett, appears in the novel––

a.      Pride and Prejudice

b.     Tess of the D′llrberville

c.      Wuthering Heights

d.      Jane Eyre

14.  This could have worked if I ____ been more far- sighted.

a.      have

b.     had

c.      might

d.      would

15.  What may be considered courteous in one culture may be arrogant in another. Here the underlined word “arrogant” means–––

a.      rude

b.     gracious

c.      coarse

d.      pretentious

16.  Don Juan was composed by–––

a.      W B Yeats

b.     E.B. Browning

c.      George Gordon Byron

d.      Alexander Pope

17.  Identify the imperative sentence:

a.      Shut up!

b.     Shahin is playing football.

c.      I shall cook dinner now.

d.     What is your name?

18.  “Black Death” is the name of a ––

a.      fever

b.     black fever

c.      plague pandemic

d.     death of black people

19.  ‘Ulysses is a poem written by––

a.      Robert Browning

b.     Wordsworth

c.      S.T. Coleridge

d.      Alfred Tennyson

20.  Who wrote the poem ‘Ozymandias’?

a.      Thomas Hardy

b.     Robert Frost

c.      P.B Shelley

d.      Edmund Spenser

21.  Clym Yeobringht is the protagonist of the novel––

a.      David Copperfield

b.     Adam Bede

c.      A passage of India

d.     The Return of the Native

22.  The train is running ––– forty miles an hour.

a.      on

b.     to

c.      at

d.   for  

23.  He divided the money ––– the two children.

a.      between

b.     over

c.      among

d.     in between

24.  No one can ––– that he is clever.

a.      defy

b.     deny

c.      admire

d.     denounce

25.  Choose the right form of verb: The boy (to lie) on the floor yesterday.

a.      lies

b.     lied

c.      lay

d.      layed

26.  She played on the flute. Passive form is –––

a.      The flute was played by ger.

b.     The flute was played on by her.

c.      The flute was played to her.

d.      The flute was being played by her.

27.  Antonym for Adieu–––

a.      Farewell

b.     Good bye

c.      Hello

d.     Valediction

28.  ‘Walk fast lest you should miss the train’. This is a––

a.      Simple sentence

b.     Compound sentence

c.      Complex sentence

d.      Interrogative sentence

29.  A number of singers in a church is called––

a.      Choir

b.     Cast

c.      Claque

d.     Clump

30.  Put the right word in the blank. “He reached the ––– of his literary carrer.”

a.      abattoir

b.     acme

c.      admonish

d.      abdicate

31.  Anger may be compared ––– fire.

a.      to

b.     within

c.      against

d.      into

32.  Choose the correct sentence:

a.      He discussed the matter.

b.     He discussed about the mater.

c.      He discussed on the matter.

d.       None of the above.

33.  Identify the correct spelt word.

a.      Horroscope

b.     Pneumonia

c.      Occasion

d.      Embarass

34.  Desdemona is a character in the following Shakespearean play:

a.      Macbeth

b.     Othello

c.      Hamlet

d.      King Lear

35.  Meteorology is related to––

a.      concrete slabs

b.     motor vehicles

c.      weather forecasting

d.      motor neurone disease

36.  ‘By and large’ means-

a.    everywhere

b.     very large

c.    mostly

d.    far away

37.  Francis Bacon is an illustrious-

a. essayist

b. dramatist

c. novelist

d.            journalist

38.  ‘He could not win but learnt a lot’ Which part of speech is the word ‘but’?

a.    an adverb

b.    a verb

c.    an adjective

d.    a conjunction

39.  Select the appropriate preposition: ‘Are you doing’ anything special ____ the weekend?’

a.    at

b.    with

c.    on

d.    for

40.  What is the plural form of ‘sheep’?

a.    sheeps

b.    sheep

c.    shepes

d.    sheepses

41.  ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ is quoted from shakespear’s-

a.    Julias Caesar

b.    Macbeth

c.    Comedy of Errors

d.   As you Like it

42.  ‘To get along with’ means-

a.    to adjust

b.    to interest

c.    to accompany

d.    to walk

43.  The synonym for ‘panoramic’ is-

a.    scenic

b.    narrow

c.    limited

d.    restricted

44.  The antonym for ‘slothful’ is-

a.    playful

b.    sluggish

c.    energetic

d.    quarrelsome

45.  Alexander Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ is a-

a.    novel

b.    treatise

c.    short story

d.    poem

46.  What is the verb form of the word ‘ability’?

a.    capable

b.    inability

c.    enable

d.    unable

47.  The word ‘equivocation’ refers to-

a.    stating like an author

b.    two contradictory things in the same statement

c.    free expression of opinions

d.   a true statement

48.  “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more.” These memorable lines in Shakespearen tragedy are spoken by-

a.    Lady Macbeth

b.    Banquo

c.    Duncan

d.    Macbeth

49.  Which of the following words is spelt correctly?

a.    authoratative

b.    autheritative

c.    authoritative

d.    authoratative

50.  Find out the active form of the sentence: ‘By whom can our country be saved?’

a.    Who can save our country?

b.    Our country has been saved by who?

c.    Who save our country?

d.    Who will save our country?

51.  “All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” This extract is taken from W.B. Yeats poem titled-

a.    No second Troy

b.    Easter 1916

c.    The Second Coming

d.    The Wild Swans at Coole

52.  Identify the correct passive form: ‘Do not close the door.’

a.    Let not the door close.

b.    Let not the door be closed.

c.    Let not the door close.

d.    Let not door closed.

53.  The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written by-

a.    Harold Pinter

b.    G.B. Shaw

c.    T.S. Eliot

d.    Samuel Beckett

54.  ‘All for Love’ is a drama written by-

a.    John Dryden

b.    William Congreve

c.    John Bunyan

d.    Francis Bacon

55.   Sitting happily―, the chicken laid eggs. The underlined part is a/an-

a.    noun clause

b.    subordinate clause

c.    independent clause

d.    coordinate clause

56.  Caliban is an important character from Shakespear’s-

a.    The Tempest

b.    Hamlet

c.    Macbeth

d.    Othello

57.  What kind of noun is ‘river’?

a.    Material

b.    Collective

c.    Proper

d.   Common

58.  ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is-

a.    a tragedy by William Shakespeare

b.    a poem by Lord Byron

c.    a play by Bernard Shaw

d.    a novel by S.T. Coleridge

59.  Identify the right tense: ‘My father ___ before I came’.

a. would be leaving

b. had been leaving

c. had left

d.             will leave

60.  Which of the following words is spelt incorrectly?

a. reminescence

b. glycerin

c. idiosyncrasy

d. lexicography

61.  Who wrote the picaresque novel titled ‘Tom Jones’?

a.    Samuel Richardson

b.    Horace Walpole

c.    Henry Fielding

d.    Laurence Sterne

62.  The story of ‘Moby Dick’ centres on-

a.    a mermaid

b.    a whale

c.    a crocodile

d.   a shark

63.  ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best.’ Who said it?

a.    John Milton

b.    John Donne

c.    Lord Byron

d.    S.T. Coleridge

64.  The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as-

a.    content modulator

b.    terminator

c.    thesis statement

d.    topic sentence

65.  Choose the correct comparative form of the sentence: ‘Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman.’

a.    Zaman is one of the most industrious boys.

b.    Zaman is more industrious than most other boys.

c.    Zaman is really industrious like other boys.

d.   Zaman is as industrious as other boys.

66.  Identify the appropriate preposition: Your opinion is identical ____ mine.

a.    for

b.    in

c.    with

d.    by

67.  ‘Paradise Lost’ attempted to-

a.    justify the ways of man to God.

b.    show that Satan and God have equal power.

c.    justify the ways of God to man.

d.   explain why both good and evil are necessary.

68.  “Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” The extract is taken from P.B. Shelley’s poem-

a.    The Cloud

b.    To a Skylark

c.    Ode to the West Wind

d.    Adonais

69.  Who wrote the short story ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’?

a.    Guy de Maupassant

b.    W. Somerest Maugham

c.    J.K. Rawlings

d.   O’Henry

70.  The Word ‘vital’ is a/an-

a.    noun

b.    adverb

c.    adjective

d.    verb

71. Who is not an Irish writer?

• Oscar Wilde

• James Joyce

• Jonathan Swift

• D. H. Lawrence

72. The phrase ‘dog days’ means-

• hot weather

• cold shower

• rain-soaked streets

• ice storm

73. Which gender is the word ‘orphan’?

• neuter

• feminine

• common

• masculine

74. What is the noun form of the word ‘laugh’?

• laughing

• laughable

• laughter

• laughingly

75. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly:

• fluctuation

• remission

• ocassion

• decision

76. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?

• Charlotte Bronte

• Emily Bronte

• Jane Austen

• Mary Shelley

77. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?

• A Passage to India

• Sons and Lovers

• Once Hundred Years of Solitude

• Pride and Prejudice

78. A speech full of too many words is-

• a big speech

• maiden speech

• a verbose speech

• an unimportant speech

79. Change the voice: ‘Nobody trusts a traitor.’

• A traitor is trusted.

• A traitor should not be trusted.

• Everybody hates a traitor.

• A traitor is not trusted by anybody.

80. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?

• William Shakespeare

• William Congreve

• Ben Jonson

• Oscar Wilde

81. ‘A herd― of cattle is passing’ The underlined word is a/an-

• adverb

• adjective

• collective noun

• abstract noun

82. What is the antonym for the word ‘deformation’?

• distortion

• contortion

• wholeness

• disfigurement

83. Words inscribed on a tomb is an-

• epitome

• epithet

• episode

• epitaph

84. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” Who wrote this?

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Christopher Marlowe

• John Milton

• P. B. Shelley

85. Who is not a modern poet?

• AW. B. Yeats

• BW. H. Auden

• CJohn Keats

• DT. S. Eliot

86. O’Henry was from-

• Canada

• America

• England

• Ireland

87. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?

• England

• Italy

• France

• Denmark

88. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?

• Apopulous

• Bpopular

• Cpopularity

• Dpopularize

89. ‘He contemplated marrying his cousin.’ Here ‘marrying’ is a/an-

• present participle

• gerund

• verb

• infinitive

90. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-

• short story

• novel

• poem

• drama

91. The word ‘to genuflect’ means-

• to be genuine

• to reflect

• to bend the knee

• to be flexible

92. Who is the author of the novel ‘The God of Small Things’?

• Thomas Hardy

• Jhumpa Lahiri

• R. K. Narayan

• Arundhati Roy

93. ‘Moby Dick’ a novel, was written by-

• Herman Melville

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Mark Twain

• William Faulkner

94. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Who wrote this?

• William Blake

• S. T. Coleridge

• Lord Byron

• P. B. Shelley

95. Fill in the blank : ‘She went to New Market ––’

• on foot

• on feet

• by foot

• by walking

96. Fill in the gap: Birds fly ____ in the sky.

• random

• at large

• at a stitch

• are long

97. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Ozymandias’?

• P. B. Shelley

• William Wordsworth

• S. T. Coleridge

• John Keats

98. The most famous romantic poet of English Literature is-

• John Dryden

• Alexander Pope

• William Wordsworth

• T. S. Eliot

99. Identify the correct synonym for the word ‘magnanimous’.

• unkind

• generous

• revengeful

• friendly

100. Choose the right form of verb: It is high time we (act) on the matter.

• are acting

• acted

• have acted

• could act

101. ___ was both a poet and a painter.

• John Keats

• Spenser

• William Blake

• John Donne

102. Identify the correct sentence:

• The girl burst out tears.

• The girl burst into tears.

• The girl burst with tears.

• The girl bursted out tears.

103. The phrase ‘sine die’ means-

• half-heartedly

• doubtfully

• fixed

• uncertain

104. What kind of play is ‘Julius Ceasar’?

• romantic

• anti-romantic

• comedy

• historical

105. Do you have any money ___ you? Fill in the blank with appropriate preposition:

• to

• over

• in

• on