DSSSB PGT English Female 2021 Paper-2 Shift-1

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Fill in the blank with the appropriate option. _____Himalayas are prone to the landslides.

A. A
B. The
C. An
D. This

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Fill in the blank I have read ____Bible many times.

A. The
B. Those
C. An
D. A

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Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb. The sun ___in the west direction. (set)

A. sets
B. setted
C. settled
D. set

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Fill in the blank with appropriate option. I ____(buy) a car last month.

A. buying
B. will buy
C. bought
D. have bought

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How many types of clauses are there?

A. 5
B. 8
C. 6
D. 2

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Select the most appropriate option. 'I do' is an example of ____ tense.

A. Past Perfect
B. Present Indefinite
C. Present Perfect
D. Present Continuous

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Select the most appropriate option. ____indicates an action that hasn't happened yet and will happen.

A. Past Tense
B. Future Tense
C. Present Tense
D. Present Continuous

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Which of the following is an example of Quantitative Determiner?

A. This
B. Those
C. An
D. Some

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Present Progressive Tense is also called____.

A. Present Continuous
B. Past Perfect
C. Present Perfect
D. Present Indefinite

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They serve God well who serve His children. Identify the type of clause.

A. Noun Clause
B. Adjective Clause
C. Adverb Clause
D. Coordinates Clause

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I did play basketball is an example of ____tense.

A. Past Perfect Tense
B. Simple Past Tense
C. Future Tense
D. Past Continuous

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The dog followed the boy wherever he went. Identify the type of clause.

A. Adjective Clause
B. Adverb Clause
C. Noun Clause
D. Coordinate Clause

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Which one of the following options falls under the category of the definite article?

A. A
B. An
C. The
D. Some

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Which tense is used to describe the Universal Truth or Habitual Action?

A. Present Perfect
B. Present Continuous
C. Present Perfect Continuous
D. Present Indefinite

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Whatever we study increases our knowledge. Identify the type of clause.

A. Adjective Clause
B. Co-ordinate Clause
C. Noun Clause
D. Adverb Clause

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Determiners are the words that are known to modify the ____.

A. Adjective
B. Verbs
C. Adverbs
D. Nouns

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Select the quantifier determiner in the given sentence. I have some money in my purse.

A. some
B. money
C. have
D. purse

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Pick up the possessive determiner from the given list.

A. An
B. this
C. that
D. their

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I expect that I shall get a prize. Which clause is there in this sentence?

A. Noun Clause
B. Relative Clause
C. Adverbial Clause
D. Co-ordinate Clause

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Which clause is there in the sentence. 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'

A. Adverbial clause
B. Noun Clause
C. Coordinate Clause
D. Relative Clause

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Which form of verb is used in changing active voice to passive voice?

A. 4th Form
B. 1st Form
C. 2nd Form
D. 3rd Form

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What is the name of the host and owner of Tabard Inn?

A. Harry Bailey
B. Hurbert Bailey
C. Alison Bailey
D. John Bailey

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You _____fall ill if you eat all of that.

A. should
B. would
C. will
D. but

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____ is the past tense of will.

A. Could
B. Must
C. Should
D. Would

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Fill in the blanks. A clause is group of words having a ___and _of its own, but if forms part of a sentence.

A. verb : adverb
B. adjective : verb
C. verb : adjective
D. subject : verb

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Chaucer was the first to use Ottava Rima in English. What is the rhyme scheme of Ottava Rima?

A. ABABBCBC
B. ABBAABBA
C. AABBAABB
D. ABABABCC

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In which month did Chaucer and his pilgrims go to Canterbury?

A. January
B. May
C. April
D. March

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Fill in the blank with appropriate modal. He ___come today. (Possibility)

A. may
B. because
C. as
D. but

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What will be the passive form of 'I write a book?'

A. A book is written by me.
B. A book will be written by me
C. A book was written by me
D. I wrote a book.

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The modal' ____'expresses the ability to do something.

A. Have to
B. Must
C. Need not
D. Can

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In which poem did Chaucer use the heroic couplet for the first time?

A. The Legend of Good Women
B. The House of Fame
C. Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Book of the Duchess

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How many types of voices are there in English?

A. 3
B. 2
C. 5
D. 4

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What would be the passive form of 'Shut the Window?'

A. Let the window be shut
B. Window was shut
C. I will shut the window.
D. Shut the window.

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"My leg aches" is an example of ___.

A. Future Tense
B. Active Voice
C. Past Tense
D. Passive Voice

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Select the most appropriate option. _____expresses pure future.

A. Can
B. Will
C. Could
D. Must

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Change the following into Passive voice. Somebody has eaten the last piece of cake.

A. The last piece of cake was eaten.
B. The last piece of cake has been eaten
C. The last piece of cake will be eaten.
D. The last piece of cake had been eaten.

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The modal ____expresses an invitation or request.

A. must
B. will
C. but
D. because

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What would be the active form of 'The bicycle was ridden by the kids.'

A. The kids rode the bicycle.
B. The kids will ride the bicycle.
C. The kids would ride the bicycle.
D. The kids have rideen the bicycle

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Which modal from the following is used for seeking permission?

A. Should
B. Will
C. Can
D. Must

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______is used to express less possibility of anything.

A. Might
B. Shall
C. Must Not
D. Will

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How many legends are there in Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women?

A. 9
B. 10
C. 11
D. 8

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Amoretti is an Italian word which means____.

A. Colin Clout Come Home Again
B. Sonnets from Italy
C. Little Love Secrets
D. Little love poems

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Who had quoted about Chaucer's characters "Here is god's plenty?"

A. John Dryden
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. William Lagland

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The Miller's Tale is about a carpenter. What is the name of the carpenter?

A. John
B. Roger
C. Robin
D. Alison

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Chaucer's life can be categorized into three periods. Which one does he not belong to?

A. Italian
B. English
C. French
D. Spanish

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Who is the author of the line, 'I find no peace and all my war is done; I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice?

A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. Earl of Surrey
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Edmund Spenser

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What is the name of the most leading figure of Christian Humanism in Europe?

A. Thomas More
B. Erasmus
C. John Lydgate
D. John Wycliffe

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It is widely known that Spenser's Fairie Queene was addressed to Queen Elizabeth. What is her name in the text?

A. Britomart
B. Una
C. Eliza
D. Gloriana

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The Progress of the Soul is authored by ____.

A. John Donne
B. John Bunyan
C. John Milton
D. John Lyly

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Who regarded Edmund Spenser as 'Poet's Poet?

A. William Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Charles Lamb
D. William Shakespeare

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Which of the following poets is not associated with Metaphysical poetry?

A. Henry Vaughan
B. George Herbert
C. Philip Sidney
D. Andrew Marvell

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Name the poetic device used in the given line from Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales "Nor that a Monk, when he is cloisterless, is like unto a fish that's waterless."

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Litotes
D. Personification

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Which royal dynasty has been celebrated in Spenser's Fairie Queene?

A. Anjou
B. Tudor
C. Plantagenet
D. Stuart

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What is the rhyme scheme of Spenserian Stanza?

A. ABBAABBCD
B. ABABBCBCC
C. ABCABCDCD
D. ABDABCDAB

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Whose court does the Wife of Bath talk about in her tale?

A. King Charles
B. King David
C. King Solomon
D. King Arthur

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Which of the following works is not written by Spenser?

A. Astrophel
B. The Lady of May
C. Prothalamion
D. The Tears of the Muses

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The Peasant's Revolt also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion started in the year____.

A. 1380
B. 1382
C. 1383
D. 1381

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How many eclogues are there in Shepheardes Calendar?

A. 12
B. 10
C. 6
D. 11

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Ad Fontes' was the rallying cry during the Renaissance. What does this phrase mean?

A. Back to foundation
B. Back to fundamentals
C. to the origin
D. Back to the sources

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Renaissance is a word which means.

A. French, rebirth
B. Dutch, recuperate
C. German, rejuvenate
D. Spanish, Reduce

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Which game does Belinda play in the, 'Hampton Court'?

A. Ombre
B. Chess
C. Golf
D. Carrom

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Samuel Butler's famous satire is known as ____.

A. The Dunciad
B. Absalom and Achitophel
C. MacFlecknoe
D. Hudibras

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Name the poetic device used in the given line from Andrew Marvell's, poem, 'To His Coy Mistress': "And you should, if you please, refuse."

A. Repetition
B. Assonance
C. Simile
D. Metaphor

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What is the name of John Milton's heavenly muse?

A. Raphael
B. Urania
C. Umbriel
D. Gloriana

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What form is Milton's epic poem paradise Lost written in ?

A. Blank Verse
B. Heroic Couplets
C. Rhyme Royal
D. Ottava Rima

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In the Essay of Dramatick Poesie, Dryden is represented by Neander. What does Neander mean?

A. New hope
B. New man
C. New ideas
D. New logic

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Which meter does the blank verse use?

A. lambic pentameter
B. lambic Hexameter
C. Trohaic Tetrameter
D. Dactyllic Hexameter

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Who authored, 'The Essay on Man: Epistle I'

A. Alexander Pope
B. John Milton
C. John Dryden
D. Ben Jonson

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Who quoted about John Milton "Milton was on the devil's party without knowing it."

A. William Blake
B. John Dryden
C. Alexander Pope
D. William Wordsworth

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What is the name of Belinda's maid in the mock-epic 'The Rape of the Lock?'

A. Arabella
B. Betty
C. Dennis
D. Bush

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Who quotes the following : The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven?

A. Satan
B. God
C. Adam
D. Moloch

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What is the name of the pastoral elegy written by John Milton on the death of Edward king?

A. Paradise Regained
B. Samson Agonistes
C. Lycidas
D. The Pilgrim's Progress

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Complete the line teken from T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock'. I have measured my life out with ___.

A. Scale
B. Coffee Spoons
C. Evenings
D. Mornings

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What is the full title of Milton's masque Comus written in 1634?

A. Lovers Made Men
B. The Msque of Beauty
C. A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
D. The Masque of Blackness

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In Absalom and Achitophel, King Charles II is allegorical representation of ____.

A. King Josiah
B. King David
C. King Solomon
D. King Amon

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Who guards the gates of Eden in Milton's Paradise lost?

A. Uriel
B. Raphael
C. Gabriel
D. Ariel

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Which poem was written by Dryden on the restoration of King Charles II?

A. Astraea Redux
B. The Hind and the Panther
C. Absalom and Achitophel
D. Religio Laici

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Who quoted the following statement? "We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us."

A. Lord Byron
B. P.B.Shelley
C. John Keats
D. William Wordworth

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The Great Fire of London broke out in the year _____.

A. 1666
B. 1662
C. 1665
D. 1660

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What is the subtitle of 'Alexander's Feast' by John Dryden?

A. The Power of Music
B. The Power of the Soul
C. The Power of Food
D. The Power of Song

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What is the study of meaning, reference, and truth called?

A. syntax
B. Vocabulary
C. Lexicon
D. Semantics

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Who is the narrator of the novel Moby Dick?

A. Captain Boomer
B. Starbuck
C. Captain Ahab
D. Ishmael

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What do you mean by phonology?

A. A branch of liguistics that deals with sentence structure.
B. A branch of liguistics that deals with the systems of sounds.
C. A branch of liguistics that deals with words and their origin.
D. A branch of liguistics that deals with language.

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Doctor Faustus was well-known ____scholar.

A. German
B. English
C. Spanish
D. French

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Keat's 'Hyperion' is ____.

A. Free Verse
B. Black Verse
C. Sonnet
D. Haiku

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An Imaginary Life tells the story of Roman poet_____.

A. Aristotle
B. socrates
C. Ovid
D. Horace

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_____is Mohun Biswas's wife in A House for Mr. Biswas

A. Tulsi
B. Padma
C. Tara
D. Shama

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The setting of Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes' is ____.

A. Elizabethan
B. Victorian
C. Medieval
D. Modern

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Which of the following novels is not authored by R.K. Narayan?

A. My Days
B. The Guide
C. Malgudi Days
D. The God of Small Things

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The phrase 'Ut Pictura Poesis' appears in ___.

A. Ars Peotica
B. The Republic
C. Defence of Poetry
D. Arcadia

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What is the name of Okonkwo's son in Things Fall Apart?

A. Nwoye
B. Mr. Brown
C. Ezeudu
D. Unoka

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Who is associated with the Imagist Poetry from the following poets?

A. Robert Browning
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Ezra Pound
D. Elizabeth Barret Browing

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Who tells Hamlet about his father's demise?

A. The Ghost
B. His Mother
C. His Lover
D. His Uncle

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Who amongst the following is not a Bennet sister?

A. Elizabeth
B. Jane
C. Sophie
D. Mary

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Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' was published in the collection of poems, named.....

A. Poetry and Prose
B. The Romantic Poets
C. Poetical Works
D. Prometheus Unbound

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"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought" is a famous line from........

A. Shelley's To a Skylark'
B. Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'
C. Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'
D. Coleridge's 'Christabel'

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What is the name of Hester Prynne's husband in 'The Scarlet Letter'?

A. Arthur Dimmesdale
B. Governor Bellingham
C. Mister Hibbins
D. Roger Chillingworth

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Why was Shelley expelled from the Oxford University?

A. He refused to deny authorship of a pamphlet called 'The Necessity of Atheism'.
B. He openly rebelled against the University Chancellor's decision to segregate classes based on race.
C. He married Mary Wollstonecraft.
D. He indulged in the same sex relationship

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Tridib is a protagonist in Amitav Ghosh's ____.

A. The hungry Tide
B. The Shadow Lines
C. Gun Island
D. Sea Poppies

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Peter Philip Carey is a/n ____novelist.

A. American
B. French
C. Indian
D. Australian

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Which romantic poet has the following epitaph inscribed on his tombstone, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"?

A. ST. Coleridge
B. P.B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats

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Who is the speaker in the following lines? : "I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me."

A. Ann Whitefield from 'Man and Superman'
B. Raina from 'Arms and the Man'
C. Eliza in 'Pygmalion'
D. Miss Proserpine Garnett from 'Candida'

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Which city does Faustus visit extensively in Scene 7 of Christopher Marlowe's 'Dr. Faustus'?

A. Jerusalem
B. Paris
C. London
D. Rome

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Which of the following is not a poetry collection by Thomas Hardy?

A. Moments of Vision
B. Poems of the Past and Present
C. Wessex Poems
D. The Hollow Men

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Who amongst the following was not a 'trench poet'?

A. Seigfried Sasson
B. Isaac Rosenberg
C. Ezra Pund
D. Wilfred Owen

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What was the profession of Philip Larkin before he became a full time writer?

A. Doctor
B. School teacher
C. Stage actor
D. Librarian

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In G.B. Shaw's 'Pygmalion', Colonel Pickering returned to London, after travelling to a foreign country, to meet Professor Higgins. Which foreign country was that?

A. Ireland
B. Italy
C. France
D. India

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Which of the following Jane Austen's novels has a character named Wickham?

A. Emma'
B. Persuasion'
C. Pride and Prejudice'
D. Mansfield Park'

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Which of the following is not one of the parts of 'The Waste Land'?

A. The Burial of the Dead'
B. The Fire Sermon'
C. The Holy Grail'
D. A Game of Chess'

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In his 'Prayer for My Daughter' Yeats does not want his daughter to be like one particular person. Who is that person?

A. Maud Gonne
B. Florence Farr
C. Olivia Shakespeare
D. Lady Gregory

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"Frailty, thy name is woman!/ A little month, or ere those shoes were old/With which she follow'd my poor father's body. "These lines appear in Shakespear's "Hamet______.

A. Act 1, Scene II
B. Act 2, Scene I
C. Act 2, Scene II
D. Act 1, Scene I

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Which poem by Keats deals with the enigma of 'truth' and 'beauty'?

A. Eve of St. Agnes'
B. Fall of Hyperion'
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn;
D. To a Nightingale'

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What happens to Faustus at the end of the play, Dr. Faustus?

A. A serpent bit him.
B. He was carried off to Hell.
C. He killed himself
D. He returned to study theology and medicine

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Which of the following is not true of 'Hamlet's "Grave digging" scene?

A. It foreshadows the final tragedy.
B. It provides criticism of the organized religion.
C. It serves as comic relief.
D. There were three grave diggers in the scene.

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Who symbolises 'pride' and 'prejudice' in Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?

A. Mrs. Bennet & Mr. Bennet
B. Lydia Bennet & Charles Bingley
C. Darcy & Elizabeth Bennet
D. Jane Bennet & George Wickham

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Which of the following are the founders of Imagism, an early Modernist school of poetry?

A. T.S. Eliot & W.B. Yeats
B. Wallace Stevens & Ezra Pound
C. Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and W.B. Yeats
D. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle & Richard Allington

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"When the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table". These lines are taken from ____.

A. Seamus Heaney's Digging
B. W.B. Yeats's 'Byzantium'
C. Philip Larkin's Whitsun Weddings
D. T.S. Eliot's 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

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Which Socio-political event is referred to in Eliot's play, 'Murder in the Cathedral'?

A. Assassination of Charles II of Spain
B. Murder of Queen Mary
C. Assassination of Henry VIII
D. Assassination of Archbishop, Thomas Becket

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Which rhyme scheme did Shelley use in his famous ode 'Ode to the West Wind'?

A. Rhyme Royal
B. Ottava Rima
C. Enclosed Rhyme
D. Terza Rima

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Which of the following is not a character in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'?

A. Ghost
B. Horatio
C. Polonius
D. Orlando

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Which of the following is not a correct match?

A. William Wordsworth: 'An Essay of Man'
B. T.S. Eliot : 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'
C. S.T. Coleridge : 'Biographia Literaria'
D. Mathew Arnold : 'The Study of Poetry'

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In 'Heart of Darkness', when Marlow said that Kurtz "had kicked himself loose of the earth", what does he imply there?

A. That Kurtz is nothing more than dirt.
B. That Kurtz has dug the earth by kicking with his legs.
C. That now Kurtz has no human passion left for anyone.
D. That Kurtz is free from all the restraints of the basic morality of what is wrong and right.

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_______is the author of the book' S/Z,' which attempts a structural analysis of Balazac's thirty-page story Sarrasine'?

A. Terence Hawkes
B. Jonathan Culler
C. Roland Barthes
D. Frank Kermode

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Which of the following novels by Charles Dickens was first published in an episodic form?

A. Hard Times'
B. Great Expectations'
C. The Pickwick Papers'
D. David Copperfield'

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Which literary theory/age are we referring to if we talk about the art movements like Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism?

A. Post-Modernism
B. Post-Structuralism
C. Modernism
D. Structuralism

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...." Which novel begins with these lines?

A. Hard Times'
B. The Heart of the Matter'
C. A Tale of Two Cities'
D. A Passage to India'

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"I am an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and writer of an anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Who Am I?

A. Edward Sapir
B. Roman Jakobson
C. Avram Noam Chomsky
D. Ferdinand de Saussure

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Which of the following finds out how a certain set of people use a language at a given time?

A. Synchronic Linguistics
B. Sociological Linguistics
C. Cultural Linguistics
D. Diachronic Linguistics

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Ethnolinguistics is the study of language relating to _____.

A. Geograhical factors
B. Historical factor
C. Topographical factors
D. Ethnic types and behaviour

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Which two cities are mentioned in Charles Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities'?

A. Paris & Rome
B. London & New York
C. Paris & New York
D. London & Paris

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Shantih Shantih Shantih is the last line of T.S. Eliot's ____.

A. The Waste Land
B. Four Quartets
C. The Hollow Men
D. Ash Wednesday

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Who among the following liguistics?

A. R.H. Robins
B. Panini
C. Victor Yngve
D. Robert A Hall

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_____ is the study of word derivation and word inflection in terms of constituent morphemes.

A. Phonology
B. Lexicology
C. Semantics
D. Morphology

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Stanley Fish's in his book, 'Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities' writes that _____.

A. It is interpretive communities, rather than either the text or reader, that produce meanings.
B. all interpretations are myth.
C. the text has a fixed meaning.
D. an author plays very important role in the interpretation of the text.

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From which language does the word 'Linguistics' derive its meaning from?

A. Sanskrit
B. Greek
C. Latin
D. French

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What are the three sections which the novel, 'The passage to India' is divided into?

A. 'Mosque', 'Church', and 'Temple'
B. 'Mosque', 'Cave', and 'Church'
C. 'Mosque', Cave', and 'Temple'
D. 'Mosque', 'Clube', and 'Temple'

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The special features which affect speech sounds such as pitch, intonation, stress and junction are called____.

A. Prosody
B. Suprasegmental
C. Ellipsis
D. Phonology

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Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

A. Oliver Twis't : Artful Dodger
B. David Copperfield: Thomas Grandgrind
C. Great Expectations': Miss Havisham
D. Hard Times': Stephen Blackpool

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Which of the following is not one of the themes of, 'A Passage to India'?

A. Religious Unity
B. Colonialism & Imperialism
C. Safe travel to India
D. Race & Culture

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Read both the sentences carefully and choose the current option. (A) Structuralism derives ultimately from linguistics. (B) Post-Structuralism derives ultimately from philosophy.

A. Both A & B are true
B. Both A & B are false
C. A is True & B is false
D. A is false & B is true

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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life," are the words of _____.

A. Aristotle
B. Dante
C. Sophocles
D. Plato

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Which of the given options is not correct of Tennessee Williams' plays?

A. The Glass Menagerie': Amanda Wingfield
B. The Street Car Named Desire': Blanche DuBois
C. Cat on the Hot Tin Roof': Big Daddy
D. The Night of the Iguana': Jim O'Connor

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Which work of R.K. Narayan has received Sahitya Academy Award for Literature?

A. Bachelor of Arts"
B. Vendor of Sweets"
C. The Guide'
D. Malgudi Days'

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In the years from 1958 to 1966, Chinua Achebe published four novels in which he traced the history of Nigeria from pre-colonial to postcolonial times. These novels are 'Things Fall Apart', 'No Longer at Ease', 'Arrow of God' and ____.

A. Morning Yet on Creation Day'
B. A Man of the People'
C. Nervous Conditions'
D. Beware, Soul-Brother'

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"I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits." These are the words of the first published American woman poet. Who is she?

A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Mary Hutchinson
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Mary Wollstonecraft

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Who is the author of the famous existentialist play, 'The Hairy Ape'?

A. Tennessee Williams
B. Eugene O'Neill
C. William Faulkner
D. Arthur Miller

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Which famous novel of Toni Morrison begins with the following line: " 124 is spiteful"?

A. The Bluest Eyes'
B. Tar Baby'
C. Beloved'
D. Sula'

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The Purloined Letter' is a ____.

A. famous novel by Henry Melville
B. prose piece of Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. narrative poem by Walt Whitman
D. detective short story by Edger Allan Poe

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'My Story' is an autobiographical work of ___.

A. Shobhaa De
B. Kamala Markandaya
C. Anita Desai
D. Kamala Das

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Which of the following is not a part of New Literatures in English?

A. Post-Colonial Literature
B. Commonwealth Literature
C. British English Literature
D. Third World Literature

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Nissim Ezekiel's Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.' satirizes_____.

A. the school politics involved in farewell parties
B. the way Indians are fond of partying
C. the way Indians use the English Language
D. the humour of a woman named Pushpa T.S.

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Who drafted the document, "The Declaration of Independence"?

A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. John Adams
D. H.D. Thoreau

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Who among the following has not won a Noble Prize in Literature?

A. Walt Whitman
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. William Faulkner
D. Toni Morrison

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V.S. Naipaul's Indian Travel Trilogy consists of 'An Area of Darkness', 'India: A Wounded Civilization' and _____.

A. A House of Mr. Biswas'
B. India A Million Mutinies Now'
C. The Enigma of Arrival'
D. A Bend in the River'

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Which of the following sequences is correct about Anita Desai's novels, arranged according to the year they were published?

A. Fire on the Mountain', 'In Custody', 'Clear Light of Day', 'Jorney to Ithaca'
B. Clear Light of Day', 'Fire on the Mountain', 'In Custody', 'Journey to Ithaca'
C. Fire on the Mountain', 'Clear Light of Day', 'In Custody', 'Journey to Ithaca'.
D. Fire on the Mountain', 'Journey to Ithaca', 'Clear Light of Day', 'In Custody'

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The play 'Tughlaq' is an allegory on ____.

A. the Mughal dynasty
B. the Hindu - Muslim relationship
C. the Nehruvian era
D. the role of an Emperor in governing the state.

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Which of the following poems by Robert Frost, became an inspirational poem for former Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru?

A. The Road Not Taken'
B. 'Mending Wall'
C. After Apple Picking'
D. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening'

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Which of the following thinkers introduced the 'Theory of Mimesis'?

A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Sophocles
D. Dante

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Evolution', a powerful poem by a Native American poet, Sherman Alexie illustrates

A. the systematic degradation of the Native American people and their culture
B. the sci-fi narration of evolution of another new world
C. how American writers have evolved the technique of writing poetry
D. the theory of evolution of the human race

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Most of Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction deals with the theme of _____.

A. poverty and squalor of Indian cities
B. Diasporic Indians' dilemma and search for rootedness.
C. Indian politics
D. marriage and its failure most Indian household displays

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Which of the following real life persons influenced the character of Johann Ulrich Voss, in Patrick White's novel 'Voss'?

A. Ludwig Leichhardt
B. Ferdinand Magellan
C. Christopher Columbus
D. Marco Polo

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Which of the following is not true of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'?

A. It is a dystopian novel
B. The Testament' is its sequel novel
C. It is set in an imaginary state known as Gilead.
D. It is an utopian novel

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What is the nationality of the author of the famous Booker Prize Winner novel, the 'Life of Pi'?

A. Canadian
B. Australian
C. British
D. Indian

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Name a South African Nobel Laureate whose most of the works document South African apartheid.

A. Pauline Smith
B. Dorris Lessing
C. Bessie Head
D. Nadine Gordimer

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In which genre of literature does 'The Getting of Wisdom' by Henry Handel Richardson fall?

A. Gothic Fiction
B. Autobiography
C. Detective Fiction
D. Children's Literature

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Who among the following is regarded as the first Aboriginal writer in Australian Literature?

A. David Unaipon
B. Sally Morgan
C. Noel Pearson
D. Marcia Langton

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At Shagger's Funeral' is a peom by ____.

A. Bruce Dawe
B. Les Murray
C. Gwen Harwood
D. Chris Wallace

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Who is the protagonist of Michael Ondantjee's 'English Patient'?

A. Kip
B. Almasy
C. Hana
D. Katharine Clifton

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Which novel by Sidhwa served as the basis for Deepa Mehta's movie, 'Earth'?

A. Ice Candy Man'
B. The Bride'
C. City of Sin and Splendour : Writings on Lahore'
D. Water : A Novel'

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"The creature or spirit in him had spoken up, having all along had the words in there that would betray him and which, when they came hooting out of his mouth, so astonished him: Do not shoot. I am a B-b-British object." are famous lines from _____.

A. Remembering Babylon' by David Malouf
B. Voss' by Patrick White
C. The Removalists' by David Williamson
D. 'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey

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Find a word from the passage which means same as 'alleviation'.

A. description
B. Mitigation
C. Predominance
D. transmission

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Find a word from the passage which is the antonym of 'disproof'.

A. Evidence
B. Assessment
C. Predominance
D. Focus

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What, according to Jimenez, is expected from WHO and other public health organisations?

A. To guide people to wear masks.
B. To find scientific ways to reduce the airborne transmission
C. To find the scientific evidence of their description of SARS-Cov-2 to reduce its transmission.
D. To find a scientific cure for permanent extinction of the virus.

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Which of the following statements is not true about the transmission of SARS-CoV-2?

A. It is transmitted via close contact or touching shared surfaces or objects.
B. It could be transmitted through Asymptomatic patients to a healthy person.
C. It is transmitted much higher outdoors than indoors.
D. It is transmitted through air.

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What did six experts from the UK, the US and Canada analyse about SARS-CoV-2 virus?

A. The virus cannot be transmitted though air.
B. The public health measures fail to treat the virus as people do not use protection.
C. The virus spreads fast as it is airborne.
D. The virus spread is uncontrollable and cannot be treated now.

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What is the rhyme scheme of the above poem?

A. ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
B. AABB AABB AABB CC
C. ABAB BCBC CDCD EF
D. ABBA ABBA CDDCEE

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What message is conveyed in the final couplet?

A. There is life after death
B. Love is immortal
C. Life after death promises fulfillment of love.
D. Everyone must die one day.

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"Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey". What do these lines symbolise?

A. That time will destroy all man-made things
B. That the lover is tired of writing his beloved's name on the shore.
C. That the poet wrote the name of his beloved with his left hand.
D. That the tide takes pleasure in erasing the name.

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Find a word from the passage which is the opposite of 'successful'.

A. Subdue
B. Devise
C. Eternize
D. Vain

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How will the beloved be immortalised?

A. By praying to God.
B. By her name written on the shore.
C. By the verse of the poet lover
D. By dying as an old woman

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