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1. Transform the following sentence into exclamatory 8. Complete the sentence.

sentence. Galsworthy’s play strife deals with the subject of
He leads a most unhappy life. ……… .
(a) What an unhappy life he leads! (a) labour disputes (b) justice
(b) What an unhappily life he leads! (c) war (d) class distinction
(c) What an unhappy life he was leading! 9. People have tried their best to provoke the
(d) Why he leads a most unhappy life! flood victims.
Find out the correct antonym of the italicised word.
2. Choose the correct alternative,
(a) Gratify (b) Convince x
You………him since his childhood. (c) Pacify (d) attract
(a) have known (b) know 10. Where was Wordsworth born?
(c) knew (d) am knowing (a) Cockerpate (b) Cockermouth
3. ‘‘Take, O take those lips away, (c) Cocker Hill (d) Cockervalley
The above line occurs in……… . 11. Put the following in indirect speech.
(a) Midsummer Night’s Dream ‘‘How smart you are’’ she said.
(b) Twelfth Night (a) She exclaimed that I am smart
(c) Antony and Cleopatra (b) She exclaimed that he was very smart
(d) Measure For Measure (c) She exclaimed that she is smart.
(d) She exclaimed she was smart.
4. Change the following sentence into complex
12. Which of the following flowers does the Mad
sentence. Ophelia not give away?
He had to sign, or be executed. (a) Violets (b) Pansies
(a) If he did not signed, he had not executed. (c) Rosemary (d) Columbines
(b) If he had not signed, he would have been 13. In which Shakespearean play does the following
executed. occur?
(c) If he had signed, he would not executed. ‘The bright day is done’
(d) If he was signed, he did not executed. And we are for the dark
(a) Antony and Cleopatra
5. Change the sentence into passive voice. (b) Hamlet
Do you not understand my meaning? (c) King Lear
(a) I am not understood your meaning. (d) Measure for Measure
(b) I do not understand meaning. 14. Complete the sentence.
(c) Is your meaning understood Justice shows problems of
(d) Is my meaning understood (a) British Society
6. Find out the mistake in the sentence given below. (b) English legal system
(a) The driver was put (b) in the prison (c) American legal system
(d) Scottish Society
(c) for exceeding (d) the speed limit
15. Who has written Jocelyn among the following
7. Who wrote Metafiction ? writers?
(a) Roland Barthes (b) Derrida (a) Milton (b) Shakespeare
(c) Patricia Waugh (d) Spivak (c) Galsworthy (d) Wordsworth
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16. What could be the ‘tragic flaw’ in Hamlet? 27. Complete the sentence.
(a) Noble (b) Oedipus Complex The term Novel was taken from the Italian Word,
(c) Vaulting ambition (d) None of these (a) novella (b) novelle
17. Fill in the gap. (c) novelette (d) noval
I will sit………my desk to do my lesson. 28. Who is the writer of Descriptive Sketches?
(a) at (b) with (a) John Milton (b) Shakespeare
(c) for (d) in (c) Galsworthy (d) Wordsworth
18. In which year, Milton‘s lycidas was written 29. Fill in the gap.
(a) 1638 (b) 1632 King Lear had………daughters.
(c) 1637 (d) 1636 (a) two (b) three
19. When was John Galsworthy awarded the Noble (c) four (d) five
Prize for Literature? 30. Complete the sentence.
(a) 1927 (b) 1929
(c) 1932 (d) 1935 The error of Judgement in Tragedy is known
as ………
20. What is the full name of Mr. W.H. in Shakespeare‘s (a) hamartia (b) tragedy of blood
Sonnets? (c) catastrophe (d) catharsis
(a) William Herbert (b) William Henry
(c) William Hartley (d) William Harry 31. Find out which part of sentence has an error.
(a) The two students walked
21. What is Aside? (b) besides each other
(a) Addressed in words that the other actors are (c) in silence
not supposed to hear. (d) No error
(b) addressed in words that the other actors are
supposed to hear. 32. Elsinore in Denmark is the scence of a
(c) looking behind when one speaks. Shakespearean play. Which?
(d) not paying attention. (a) King Lear
(b) Coriolanus
22. Find out which part of the sentence has an error? (c) Hamlet
(a) If I am you (d) Titus Andtronicus
(b) I would have seen to it
(c) that I won the prize. 33. Who is the writer of History of Britain?
(d) No error (a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Milton
23. Complete the sentence. (c) William Wordsworth
Ottava Rima is a………stanza in Iambic (d) John Galsworthy
Pentametres. 34. Complete the sentence.
(a) four-lined (b) six-lined
The Globe Theatre was burned down in ……… .
(c) eight-lined (d) ten-lined
(a) 1617 (b) 1619
24. Fill in the gap with an appropriate auxiliary. (c) 1613 (d) 1609
He was so tired that he ……… scacrely stand. 35. ‘Others abide our question thou art free’. Who has
(a) could (b) did said this about Shakespeare?
(c) should do (d) had (a) Wordsworth
25. Rearrange the sentence with correct order labeled (b) Milton
as PQRS. Choose the proper sequence. (c) Matthew Arnold
P. Only time will tell (d) Ben Johnson
Q. You credit the nation with 36. Milton‘s Paradise Lost consists of……… .
R. Whether the great future books.
S. Will turn out to be true. (a) twelve (b) ten
(a) QPRS (b) PRQS (c) six (d) eight
(c) QRSP (d) RSQP 37. In which year, ‘Milton‘s Paradise Lost’ was
26. Who is the writer of Recluse? published?
(a) Shahespeare (b) Milton (a) 1668 (b) 1670
(c) Galsworthy (d) Wordsworth (c) 1667 (d) 1665
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38. Complete the sentence. (a) with (b) of

Simplicity, sweet music and melody are (c) to (d) for
remarkable features of: 49. Who has written ‘Cymbeline’?
(a) epic (b) ballad (a) Milton (b) Wordsworth
(c) ode (d) satire (c) Shakespeare (d) Galsworthy
39. Who wrote ‘Lilies that faster smell far worse than 50. Fill in th gap.
weeds’? The title of the play ‘Justice is’……….
(a) Wordsworth (b) Milton (a) satirical (b) vague
(c) Galsworthy (d) Shakespeare (c) inappropriate (d) ironical
40. Find out the mistake in the sentence given below Directions (Q. 51 to 55) : By human obligations I mean
the ability to behave in a reasonable way, to observe
(a) She has told me
restraint so that restraints do not have to be imposed to
(b) that she saw my uncle
be able to think clearly and objectively so that false
(c) at the fare
doctrines can not gain ground. I believe that it also
(d) on last Friday means the ability to see through non-sense political,
41. What is the synonym of ‘wisdom’? econmic, scientific and so on and the feeling feeling that
(a) swell (b) sagacity it is a duty to resist it,
(c) foolishness (d) surrender Choose the right option from the given unseen above.
42. ‘Come thou mortal wretch’ With they sharp teeth 51. Human obligations do not include.
knot intrinsicate. (a) behaving in a disciplined manner
In which book do the above lines occur? (b) acquiring knowledge.
(a) Cleopatra (c) making others feel that you are always right
(b) Twelfth Night (d) thinking clearly
(c) Hamlet 52. If one does not observe restraint:
(d) Midsummer Night‘s Dream (a) people around one will grow hostile
43. Wordsworth has expressed his views on (b) one’s friends will ignore one.
transmigration of the soul in his poem. (c) one’s life will be miserable.
(a) The Prelude (d) people will see to it that one behaves
(b) Ode to Duty responsibly.
(c) Ecclesiastical Sketches 53. When one does not think clearly and objectively,
(d) Ode on the Intimations of Immorality (a) one fails to achieve success.
44. In which Shakespearean play does Curan appear? (b) one tends to believe in the wrong things.
(a) Macbeth (b) Othello (c) one is considered a fool.
(c) King Lear (d) Hamlet (d) one tends to make mistakes in day-to-day life.
45. Name the figure of speech in the following line. 54. It is one‘s duty to resist:
‘The more haste the less speed.’ (a) all political propaganda
(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (b) religious practices
(c) Irony (d) Epigram (c) unsatisfactory plans and programmes
(d) irrational ideas
46. Complete the sentence.
55. In the passage, the author is primarily concerned
Dirge means……….
with:
(a) a song fo wedding (a) moral conduct
(b) a song of pleasure (b) a humane approach to our problems
(c) a song of grief (c) the scientific point of view
(d) a song of unfulfilled desire (d) the acquistion of specialized knowledge.
47. Change the direct sentence into indirect. 56. In which country is the story of Othello set?
Mohan said, ‘‘Alas! I am undone. (a) Venice (b) Denmark
(a) Mohan exclaimed sadly that he was undone. (c) England (d) Scotland
(b) Mohan exclaimed that he was undone. 57. Choose the correct verb.
(c) Mohan exclaimed that he was not done. This paper………twice weekly.
(d) Mohan exclaimed that he is undone. (a) is appearing
48. Fill in the blank with correct option given below. (b) appearing
His wish is tantamount………a command. (c) appears
(d) have had appeared
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58. Select the correct option. 67. Complete the sentence.

There was………. Milton become blind at the age of……….
(a) a fly in milk (b) fly in the milk (a) 46 (b) 47
(c) fly in milk (d) a fly in the milk (c) 44 (d) 48
59. Fill in the gap with an appropriate preposition. 68. Fill in the gap.
They were statesmen accustomed………the Galsworthy‘s famous play ‘The silver Box deals
management ……… great affairs.
with………
(a) of, to (b) in, to
(a) the inequality of power
(c) to, of (d) with, in
(b) the inequality of justice
60. What is true of the form of Shakespeare‘s sonnet? (c) the inequality of labour
(a) it has an octave. (d) the inequality of money division
(b) It has an integrated form with no such
divisions. 69. Complete the sentence.
(c) it has three quatrains and a couplet. The Island Pharisees has been written by……….
(d) it has the endings of alternate lines rhyming (a) Wordsworth (b) Galsworthy
with each other (c) Milton (d) Shakespeare
61. Who has written Ruth? 70. Fill in the gap with an appropriate conjuction.
(a) Milton ………you wish it, it shall be done.
(b) Shakespeare (a) since (b) having
(c) Galsworthy (c) for (d) with
(d) Wordsworth
71. Change the voice.
62. Find out which part of sentence has an error.
(a) Even though the shirt is rather expensive Why did he defraud you of your earnings by him?
(b) but I wish to (a) Why was he defrauded of his earnings?
(c) purchase it with my own money (b) Why was he defrauded of his earnings?
(d) No error. (c) Why did he defraud you for his earnings?
(d) Why were you defrauded fo your earnings by
63. Transform the following exclamatory sentence into
him?
assertion.
72. In which year, Galsworthy refused the offer of a
If only I had come one hour earlier!
Knighthood?
(a) I wish I come one hour earlier!
(a) 1917 (b) 1918
(b) I Wish I have come one hour earlier!
(c) 1919 (d) 1920
(c) I wish I had cone one hour earlier!
(d) I wish I could come one hour earlier! 73. Complete the sentence with correct options given
64. What is soliloquy? below.
(a) An actor‘s secret thought uttered aloud. She gave him………he wanted.
(b) Secret speech (a) what (b) that
(c) An actor‘s speech not be heard by audience. (c) that which (d) that what
(d) An actor‘s speech meant for other characters 74. Fill in the gap with an appropriate preposition.
also
Volpone fell a victim………his own greed.
65. Choose the correct option. (a) to (b) of
‘One impulse from a vernal wood’ (c) about (d) for
The above line has been quoted from 75. What is the meaning of Plagiarism?
(a) The Tables Turned (a) poetic bankruptcy
(b) Tintern Abbey (b) literary theft
(c) The World is too Much With Us (c) writing crisis
(d) Ode to Duty (d) reading problem
66. Who has written ‘Peter Bell’ among the following? 76. Who is Harold Cleaver in Galsworthy‘s Justice?
(a) William Wordsworth (a) Government Counsel
(b) Shakespeare (b) Defence Counsel
(c) John Galsworthy (c) Judge
(d) John Milton (d) Managing Clerk
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77. Complete the sentence. (c) a short poem in which the poet expresses
Aesthetic means………. his/her intense personal feelings.
(a) sorrow (b) despair (d) a triumphal songs.
(c) beauty (d) pleasure 89. Find out the correct spelling of the word.
78. When was the first complete collection of (a) Elixir (b) Eleesser
Shakespeare‘s plays known as the first folio, (c) Eleseir (d) Elixer
Published? 90. Who revised king Lear so that Cordelia could
(a) 1623 (b) 1613 marry Edgar at the end?
(c) 1616 (d) 1632 (a) Nahum Tate (b) Johnson
79. Name the figure of speech in the following line. (c) Richard Bentley (d) Rymer
Boys will be boys. 91. Choose the correct option.
(a) epigram (b) personification ‘little we see in Nature that is ours.
(c) litotes (d) metonymy The above line has been quoted from
80. Find out the mis-spelt word. (a) Tintern Abbey
(a) disparage (b) licentious (b) The World is too Much With Us
(c) malleable (d) dillema (c) Ode on Intimations of Immortality
81. Fill in the gap. (d) Lucy Gray
The public are cautioned………pick pockets. 92. How many parts are there in The prelude?
(a) to (b) for (a) Twelve
(c) with (d) against (b) Thirteen
82. Choose the correct meaning of the given word. (c) Fourteen
(d) Eleven
Craven
(a) dishonest (b) cowardly 93. In which play of Shakespeare does Adam appear?
(c) dark (d) slavish (a) Merry Wives of Windsor
(b) As You Like It
83. Complete the sentence.
(c) Twelfth Night
The reversal of fortune of a tragic hero is (d) Tempest
called……….
94. Who has written Hamlet and His Problems?
(a) catharsis (b) peripeteia
(a) Shelley (b) Eliot
(c) epistle (d) poesis
(c) Shakespeare (d) Bacon
84. What is Euphony?
(a) pleasant sound 95. What kind of work is ‘Samson Agonistes’?
(b) serious sound (a) verse-play (b) epic
(c) bitter sound (c) lyrical drama (d) short story
(d) mixed sound 96. What is meaning of the phrase, ‘To count upon’?
85. Complete the sentence with correct option. (a) to be grateful
(b) to relax
Farilty, thy name is woman this remark is made by
(c) to clean a thing
(a) Macbeth (b) King Lear
(d) to depend upon
(c) Othello (d) Hamlet
97. Life of Milton has been written by Choose the right
86. Which of the following sentence is in passive voice?
option from the given alternatives.
(a) Always reach the school at time.
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) Please bring me a glass of water.
(b) Ben Johnson
(c) Let him read a book
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Let the salary be given to these clerks.
(d) John Dryden
87. Who invented and popularised the phrase, Poetic
Justice? 98. Pick out the correct antonym among the following
(a) Dryden (b) Johnson words.
(c) Rhymer (d) Shakespeare Extreme poverty had reduced them to a state of
88. A Lyric is……… apathy.
(a) a long poem written in the form of an address. (a) Cooperation (b) Friendship
(b) a poem written in praise of God. (c) Inspiration (d) Enthusiasm
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99. In which year was Justice Published? 110. Fill in the gap with an appropriate word.
(a) 1905 (b) 1908 I am badly in need………money.
(c) 1912 (d) 1910 (a) with (b) of
100. What does the idiom smell a rat means? (c) for (d) on
(a) To have reason to respect 111. In which play, Shakespeare has presented a royal
(b) To talk boastfully criminal?
(c) To talk unfairly (a) King Lear (b) Henry IV
(d) To discourage (c) Richard III (d) Henry VIII
101. In which year ‘The prelude’ was published? 112. How many sonnets are addressed to ‘Dark Lady’ by
(a) 1805 (b) 1850 Shakespeare?
(c) 1855 (d) 1837 (a) 27 (b) 28
102. Change the sentence into passive voice. (c) 29 (d) 26
I saw him opening the box. 113. How many sonnets are addressed to W.H. by
(a) He was seen open the box Shakespeare?
(b) He was seen opening the box (a) 125 (b) 124
(c) He opened the box. (c) 122 (d) 126
(d) He was seen opened the box.
114. Who asked ‘How many children had Lady
103. Who is Hamlet’s beloved in ‘Hamlet’? Macbeth’?
(a) Olivia (b) Portia (a) L.C. Knights (b) A.C. Bradley
(c) Ophelia (d) Cordelia (c) Rymer (d) Wilson
104. Complete the sentence.
115. Who considered romanticism, ‘liberalism in
Shakespeare has written………historical plays literature’?
(a) 4 (b) 6 (a) Wordsworth
(c) 7 (d) 8 (b) Plato
105. Find out the correct option. (c) Thedore Watts Dunton
A sonnet consists. (d) Pater
(a) 14 lines (b) 18 lines 116. Who is known as the Fourth Witch in
(c) 20 lines (d) 12 lines Shakespeare‘s women characters?
106. Complete the sentence. (a) Lady Macbeth
Comus is………. (b) Gertrude
(a) a masque (c) Cordelia
(b) a pastoral allegory (d) Desdemona
(c) poetic line
117. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition.
(d) a farce
She is ignorant………what she pretends to know.
107. Find out the correct sentence.
(a) in (b) of
(a) He was astonished at his success.
(b) He was astonished in his success. (c) with (d) for
(c) He was astonished on his success. 118. Complete the sentence.
(d) He was astonished for his success. Milton‘s poetic style is generally regarded as…….
108. Complete the sentence. (a) plain (b) classical
Milton‘s ‘Areopagitica’ concerns with………. (c) grand (d) ornamental
(a) liberty of human rights 119. Turn the following into indirect speech.
(b) liberty of press
‘Do you write a good hand’ he said.
(c) freedom of humanity
(a) He asked whether I wrote a good hand.
(d) freedom of politics
(b) He asked whether they wrote a good hand.
109. Complete the sentence. (c) He asked whether I written a good hand.
Epiphany means………. (d) He asked whether I was written good hand.
(a) manifestation of God‘s presence
120. What is ‘Baroque’?
(b) manifestation of Satan's presence
(a) Jail (b) Style
(c) fanciful world
(d) supernatural power (c) Culture (d) Book
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121. Correct the following sentence. (a) Platetude

It was bitter cold. (b) Pllatitude
(a) It was cold bitterly (c) Pllattitude
(b) It was awful coldly. (d) Platitude
(c) It was cold bitter. 124. Find out the correct proverb.
(d) It was bitterly cold. (a) Diamond cuts iron
122. Find out which part of the sentence has an error? (b) Diamond cuts gold
(a) Are you (c) Diamond cuts silver
(b) lived alone (d) Diamond cuts diamond
(c) or married 125. Choose the name of the Roman General Who
(d) No error. conquered England in 43 B.C.?
123. Pick out the correct spelling of the word among the (a) Julius Caesar (b) Claudius
following words. (c) Antony (d) None of these

Answers
1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (b)
11. (b) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (c) 16. (d) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (a)
21. (a) 22. (a) 23. (c) 24. (a) 25. (b) 26. (d) 27. (c) 28. (d) 29. (b) 30. (a)
31. (b) 32. (c) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (c) 36. (b) 37. (c) 38. (c) 39. (d) 40. (c)
41. (b) 42. (a) 43. (d) 44. (c) 45. (c) 46. (c) 47. (a) 48. (c) 49. (*) 50. (*)
51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (a) 54. (d) 55. (b) 56. (a) 57. (c) 58. (a) 59. (c) 60. (c)
61. (a) 62. (b) 63. (c) 64. (a) 65. (a) 66. (a) 67. (c) 68. (c) 69. (b) 70. (a)
71. (d) 72. (a) 73. (a) 74. (a) 75. (b) 76. (b) 77. (c) 78. (a) 79. (d) 80. (d)
81. (d) 82. (b) 83. (b) 84. (a) 85. (b) 86. (d) 87. (c) 88. (c) 89. (a) 90. (a)
91. (b) 92. (c) 93. (b) 94. (b) 95. (c) 96. (d) 97. (a) 98. (a) 99. (d) 100. (a)
101. (b) 102. (b) 103. (c) 104. (d) 105. (a) 106. (b) 107. (a) 108. (b) 109. (a) 110. (b)
111. (c) 112. (b) 113. (d) 114. (b) 115. (c) 116. (a) 117. (b) 118. (a) 119. (a) 120. (b)
121. (d) 122. (b) 123. (d) 124. (d) 125. (b)

121. (d) 122. (b) 123. (d) 124. (d) 125. (b)