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English TGT 2013

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English TGT 2013

By human obligations I mean the 5. In the passage, the author is


ability to behave in a reasonable way, primarily concerned with
to observe restraint so that restraints (a) moral conduct
do not have to be imposed, to be (b) a humane approach to our
able to think clearly and objectively problems
so that false doctrines cannot gain (c) the scintific point of view
ground. I believe that it also means (d) the acquisition of specialized
the ability to see through nonsens, knowledge [c]
political, economic, scientific, and so 6. Complete the sentence
on, and the feeling that it is a duty to Milton's Areopagitica concerns
resist it. with....
Choose the right option from the (a) liberty of human rights
given unseen above. (b) liberty of press
1. Human obligations do not include (c) freedom of humanity
(a) behaving in a disciplined manner (d) freedom of politics [b]
(b) acquiring knowledge 7. Change the following sentence
(c) Making others feel that you are into complex sentence.
always right He had to sign, or be executed.
(d) thinking clearly [b] (a) If he did not signed, he had not
2. If one does not observe restraint executed.
(a) people around one will grow (b) If he had not signed, he would
hostile have been executed.
(b) one's friends will ignore one (c) If he had signed, he would not
(c) one's life will be miserable executed.
(d) People will see to it that one (d) If he was signed, he did not
behaves responsibly [d] executed. [b]
3. When one does not think clearly 8. Find out the mis-spelt word.
and objectively (a) disparage
(a) one fails to achieve success (b) licentious
(b) one tends to believe in the wrong (c) Malleable
things (d) dillema [d]
(c) one is considered a fool 9. Who has written 'Cymbeline'?
(d) one tends to make mistakes in (a) Milton
day-to day life [b] (b) Wordsworth
4. It is one's duty to resist (c) Shakespeare
(a) all political propaganda (d) Galsworthy [c]
(b) religious practices 10. What is 'Euphony' ?
(c) unsatisfactory plans and (a) Pleasant sound
programmes (b) serious sound
(d) irrational ideas [d] (c) bitter sound
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(d) mixed sound [a] 17. Choose the correct meaning of the
11. Change the sentence into passive given word.
voice. Craven.
I saw him opening the box. (a) dishonest
(a) He was seen open the box (b) cowardly
(b) He was seen opening the box (c) dark
(c) He opened the box (d) slavish [b]
(d). He was seen opened the box [b] 18. Who has written, Jocelyn among
12. Elsinore in Denmark is the scene is the following writers?
a Shakespearean play Which? (a) Milton
(a) King Lear (b) Shakespeare
(b) Coriolanus (c) Galsworthy
(c) Hamlet (d) Wordsworth [c]
(d) Titus Andtronicus [c] Exp.:-Galsworthy's famous plays
13. Find out the correct option Island Pharisees (1904), The Pigen
A sonnet consists (1922) Escape (1926), Justice (1910).
(a) 14 lines The Silver Box (1909), Loyalties
(b) 18 lines (1922).
(c) 20 lines 19. Name the 'figure of speech' in the
(d) 12 lines [a] following line.
14. Which of the following sentence is 'Boys will be boys.'
in passive voice? (a) epigram
(a) Always reach the school at time. (b) personification
(b) Please bring me a glass of water (c) litotes
(C) Let him read a book. (d) metonymy [a]
(d) Let the salary be given to these 20. Complete the sentence.
clerks. [d] Comus is……..
15. How many parts are there in The (a) a masque
Prelude ? (b) a pastoral allegory
(a) twelve (c) poetic line
(b) thirteen (d) a farce [a]
(c) fourteen 21. Turn the following into indirect
(d) eleven [c] speech.
16. Complete the sentence "Do you write a good hand ?" he
Galsworthy's play Strife deals with said.
the subject of…………. (a) He asked whether I wrote a good
(a) labour disputes hand
(b) Justice (b) He asked whether they wrote a
(c) wars good hand
(d) class distinction [a]
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(c) He asked whether I written a I will sit……….my desk to do my
good hand. lesson.
(d) He asked whether I was written a (a) at
good hand [a] (b) with
22. Fill in the gap with an appropriate (c) for
word. (d) in [a]
I am badly in need …………….. 28. Fill in the gap with an appropriate
money. preposition.
(a) with Volpone fell a victim………his own
(b) of greed
(c) for (a) to
(d) on [b] (b) of
23. Complete the sentence. (c) about
Milton became blind at the age (d) for [a]
of…. 29. Find out which part of sentence
(a) 46 has an error.
(b) 47 (a) Even though the shirt is rather
(c) 44 expensive
(d) 48 [c] (b) but I wish to
24. Find out which part of the (c) purchase it with my own money
sentence has an error. (d) No error
(a) Are you 30. Complete the sentence.
(b) lived alone Dirge means……..
(c) or married (a) a song of wedding
(d) No error [b] (b) a song of pleasure
25. In which play of Shakespeare does (c) a song of grief
Adam appear? (d) a song of unfulfilled desire [c]
(a) Merry Wives of Windsor. 31. Choose the correct option.
(b) As You Like It 'One impulse from a vernal wood'
(c) Twelfth Night The above line has been quoted
(d) Tempest [b] from
26. Complete the sentence with (a) The Tables Turned
correct options given below. (b) Tintern Abbey
She gave him.........he wanted. (c) The World is too Much With Us
(a) what (d) Ode to Duty [a]
(b) that 32. People have tried their best to
(c) that which provoke the flood victims.
(d) that what [a] Find out the correct antonym of
27. Fill in the gap. the italicised word.
(a) gratify
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(b) convince (c) England
(c) pacify (d) Scotland [a]
(d) attract [c] 39. Find out the correct proverb.
33. Milton's Paradise Lost consists of (a) diamond cuts iron
………..books. (b) diamond cuts gold
(a) twelve (c) diamond cuts silver
(b) ten (d) diamond cuts diamond [d]
(c) six 40. Find out which part of the
(d) eight [c] sentence has an error.
34. Select the correct option (a) If I am you
There was……….. (b) I would have seen to it
(a) a fly in milk (c) that I won the prize
(b) fly in the milk (d) No error. [a]
(c) fly in milk Exp.:-It is a part of imagination. I
(d) a fly in the milk [d] takes were in place of am.
35. Put the following in indirect 41. What does the idiom, 'smell a rat'
speech. means ?
"How smart your are!" she said. (a) to have reason to respect
(a) She exclaimed that I am smart. (b) to talk boastfully
(b) She exclaimed that he was very (c) to talk unfairly.
smart. (d) to discourage [*]
(c) She exclaimed that she is smart. Exp.:- 'Smell a rat- means to suspect
(d) She exclaimed she was smart. [b] that Sth is wrong about a situation
36. Complete the sentence. 42. In which Shakespearean play does
Ottava Rima is a……………..stanza in the following occur?
Iambion Pentametres. 'The bright day is done
(a) four-lined And we are for the dark’
(b) six lined (a) Antony and Cleopatra
(c) eight-lined (b) Hamlet
(d) ten-lined [c] (c) King Lear
37. Who is the writer of 'History of (d) Measure for Measure [a]
Britain'? 43. Correct the following sentence.
(a) William Shakespeare It was bitter cold.
(b) John Milton (a) It was cold bitterly.
(c) William Wordsworth (b) It was awful coldly.
(d) John Galsworthy [c] (c) It was cold bitter.
38. In which country is the story of (d)" It was bitterly cold. [d]
Othello set ? 44. Choose the name of the Roman
(a) Venice General who conquered England in
(b) Denmark 43 B.C. ?
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(a) Julius Caesar 50. In which year was Justice
(b) Claudius published ?
(c) Antony (a) 1905
(d) None of these [d] (b) 1908
45. Pick out the correct spelling of the (c) 1912
word among the following words. (d) 1910 [d]
(a) platetude 51. Who is Harold Cleaver in
(b) pllatitude Galsworthy's 'Justice'?
(c) pllattitude (a) Government Counsel
(d) platitude [d] (b) Defence Counsel
46. Find out the mistake in the (c) Judge
sentence given below. (d) Managing Clerk [a]
(a) The driver was put 52. In which year, Galsworthy refused
(b) in the prison the offer of a Knighthood ?
(c) for exceeding (a) 1917
(d) the speed limit. [b] (b) 1918
47. Change the sentence into passive (c) 1919
voice. (d) 1920 [a]
Do you not understand my 53. Who wrote, "Lilies that fester smell
meaning. far worse than weeds'?
(a) I am not understood your (a) Wordsworth
meaning (b) Milton
(b) I do not understand meaning (c) Galsworthy
(c) Is your meaning understood ? (d) Shakespeare [d]
(d) Is my meaning understood ? [d] 54. "Life of Milton' has been written
48. Find out the correct sentence. by Choose the right option from
(a) He was astonished at his success. the given alternatives.
(b) He was astonished in his success. (a) Samuel Johnson
(c) He was astonished on his success. (b) Ben Jonson
(d) He was astonished for his (c) Charles Lamb
success. [a] (d) John Dryden [a]
49. Pick out the corrcet antonym 55. What is true of the form of
among the following words. Shakespeare's sonnet?
Extreme poverty had reduced (a) it has an octave
them to a state of apathy. (b) it has an integrated form with no
(a) cooperation such divisions
(b) friendship (c) it has three quatrains and couplet
(c) inspiration (d) it has the endings of alternate
(d) enthusiasm [d] lines rhyming with each other. [c]

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56. Fill in the gap with an appropriate Epiphany me
auxiliary. (a) manifestation of God's presence
He was so tired that he…….scarcely (b) manifestation of Satan's presence
stand. (c) fanciful world
(a) could (d) supernatural power [a]
(b) did 62. Who has written 'Hamlet and His
(c) should do Problems' ?
(d) had [a] (a) Shelley
57. Change the voice (b) Eliot
Why did he defraud you of your (c) Shakespeare
earnings? (d) Bacon [b]
(a) Why were you defrauded to your 63. Complete the sentence.
earnings by him. The Globe Theatre was burned
(b) Why was he defrauded of his down in……..
earnings. (a) 1617
(c) Why did he defraud you for his (b) 1619
earnings. (c) 1613
(d) Why were you defrauded of your (d) 1609 [c]
earnings by him. [d] 64. Complete the sentence.
58. In which play, Shakespeare has The error of Judgement in Tragedy
presented 'a royal criminal'? is known as……
(a) King Lear (a) hamartia
(b) Henry IV (b) tragedy of blood
(c) Richard III (c) catastrophe
(d) Henry VIII [c] (d) catharsis [a]
59. Name the figure of speech in the 65. In which year, Milton's Paradise
following line. Lost was published?
"The more haste, the less speed'. (a) 1668
(a) Simile (b) 1670
(b) Metaphor (c) 1667
(c) Irony (d) 1665 [c]
(d) Epigram [d] 66. Complete the sentence
60. When was John Galsworthy The reversal of fortune of a tragic
awarded the Noble hero is called………
Prize for literature ? (a) catharsis
(a) 1927 (b) peripetia
(b) 1929 (c) epistle
(c) 1932 (d) poesis [b]
(d) 1935 [c] 67. What is the full name of Mr. W. H.
61. Complete the sentence. in Shakespeare's Sonnets ?
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(a) William Herbert 73. Fill in the gap.
(b) William Henry The title of the play, 'Justice'is…..
(c) William Hartley (a) satirical
(d) William Harry [a] (b) vague
68. Find out which part of sentence (c) inappropriate
has an error. (d) ironical [*]
(a) The two students walked 74. How many sonnets are addressed
(b) besides each other to 'Dark Lady' by Shakespeare ?
(c) in silence (a) 27
(d) No error [b] (b) 28
69. Which of the following flowers (c) 29
does the Mad Ophelia not give (d) 26 [b]
away? 75. How many sonnets are addressed
(a) violets to 'W.H.' by Shakespeare ?
(b) Pansies (a) 125
(c) rosemry (b) 124
(d) columbines [a] (c) 122
70. Choose the correct alternative. (d) 126 [d]
You-----------him since his 76. What is the meaning of
childhood. 'Plagiarism' ?
(a) have known (a) poetic bankruptcy
(b) know (b) literary theft
(c) knew (c) writing crisis
(d) am knowing [a] (d) reading problem [b]
71. Who wrote Metafiction? 77. Complete the sentence.
(a) Roland Barthes Milton's poetic style is generally
(b) Derrida regarded as ………………
(c) Patricia Waugh (a) plain
(d) Spivak [c] (b) classical
72. "Come, thou mortal wretch, (c) grand
With thy sharp teeth this knot (d) ornamental [c]
intrinsicate" 78. In which year, Milton's Lycidas was
In which book do the above lines written ?
occur ? (a) 1638
(a) Cleopatra (b) 1632
(b) Twelfth Night (c) 1637
(c) Hamlet (d) 1636 [c]
(d) Midsummer Night's Dream 79. Who invented and popularised the
[*] phrase, 'Poetic Justice'?
(a) Dryden
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(b) Johnson (c) eleseir
(c) Rymer (d) elixer [a]
(d) Shakespeare [c] 86. Complete the sentence.
80. Complete the sentence. Justice shows problems of
Shakespeare has written (a) British Society
……historical plays. (b) English legal system
(a) 4 (c) American legal system
(b) 6 (d) Scottish Society [b]
(c) 7 87. Fill in the gap with an appropriate
(d) 8 [*] preposition.
81. What is the synonym of 'wisdom! ? They were statesmen accustomed
(a) swell …………..the management ………
(b) sagacity great affairs.
(c) foolishness (a) of, to
(d) surrender [b] (b) in, to
82. What is 'Baroque"? (c) to, of
(a) jail (d) with, in [c]
(b) style 88. Who is known as the Fourth Witch
(c) culture in Shakespeare's women
(d) book [b] characters ?
83. A Lyric is -------- (a) Lady Macbeth
Find out the correct option. (b) Gertrude
(a) A long poem written in the form (c) Cordelia
of an address. (d) Desdemona [a]
(b) A poem written in praise of God. 89. Change the direct sentence into
(c) A short poem in which the poet indirect.
express his/her intense personal Mohan said, "Alas! I am undone."
feelings. (a) Mohan exclaimed sadly that he
(d) A triumphal song. [c] was undone.
84. Complete the sentence. (b) Mohan exclaimed that he was
The Island Pharisees has been undone
written by…… (c) Mohan exclaimed that he was not
(a) Wordsworth undone
(b) Galsworthy (d) Mohan exclaimed that he is
(c) Milton undone [a]
(d) Shakespeare [b] 90. Rearrange the sentence with
85. Find out the correct spelling of the correct order labeled as PQRS.
word Choose the proper sequence.
(a) elixir (P) only time will tell (Q) you credit
(b) elesser the nation with (R) whether the
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great future (S) will turn out to be (b) I wish I have come one hour
true earlier.
(a) QPRS (c) I wish I had come one hour
(b) PROS earlier.
(c) QRSP (d) I wish I could come one hour
(d) RSQP [b] earlier. [c]
91. Fill in the gap with an appropriate 96. Who is the writer of 'Recluse'?
conjunction. (a) Shakespeare
……….you wish it, it shall be done. (b) Milton
(a) since (c) Galsworthy
(b) having (d) Wordsworth [d]
(c) for 97. Complete the sentence.
(d) with [a] 'Aesthetic' means……….
92. What is meaning of phrase, 'To (a) sorrow
count upon' ? (b) despair
(a) to be grateful (c) beauty
(b) To relax (d) pleasure [c]
(c) to clean a thing 98. Where was Wordsworth born ?
(d) to depend upon [d] (a) Cockerpate
93. Complete the sentence with (b) Cockermouth
correct option. (c) Cocker Hill
'Frailty, thy name is woman'; this (d) Cockervalley [b]
remark is made by 99. Who is the writer of Descriptive
(a) Macbeth Sketches ?
(b) King Lear (a) John Milton
(c) Othello (b) Shakespeare
(d) Hamlet [d] (c) Galsworthy
94. Choose the correct option. (d) Wordsworth [d]
'Little we see in Nature that is 100. Fill in the gap.
ours.' The above line has been King Lear had…….daughters.
quoted from (a) two
(a) Tintern Abbey (b) three
(b) The World is too Much With Us (c) four
(c) Ode on Intimations of Imortality (d) five [b]
(d) Lucy Grays. [b] 101. When was the first complete
95. Transform the following collection of shakespeare's plays.
exclamatory sentence into known as the First Folio,
assertion. If only I had come one published?
hour earlier ! (a) 1623
(a) I wish I come one hour earlier. (b) 1613
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(c) 1616 (c) novelette
(d) 1632 [a] (d) noval [a]
102. "Take O take those lips away," 108.Wordsworth has expressed his
The above line occurs in..……. views on transmigration of the
(a) Midsummer Night's Dream soul in his poem
(b) Twelfth Night (a) The Prelude
(c) Antony and Cleopatra (b) Ode to Duty
(d) Measure For Measure [d] (c) Ecclesiastical Sketches
103. Fill in the gap. (d) Ode on the intimations of
The public are cautioned Immortality [d]
……pickpockets. 109. Fill in the gap.
(a) to Galsworthy's famous play, The
(b) for Silver Box deals with………..
(c) with (a) the inequality of power
(d) against [a] (b) the inequality of justice
104. What is 'Aside'? (c) the inequality of labour
(a) Addressed in words that the other (d) the inequality of money division
actors are not supposed to hear. [a]
(b) Addressed in words that the other 110. Who considered romanticism,
actors are not supposed to hear. "liberalism in literature"?
(c) looking behind when one speaks. (a) Wordsworth
(d) not paying attention. [a] (b) Plato
105. Who is Hamlet's beloved in (c) Theodore Watts-Dunton
Hamlet? (d) Pater [*]
(a) Olivia Exp.:-Note - According to chyan
(b) Portia Board Rewise Ans is F)
(c) Ophelia 111. What is soliloquy ?
(d) Cordelia [c] (a) an actor's secret thought uttered
Fortinbras, prince of Norway aloud.
106. Who has written Peter Bell among (b) secret speech
the followings? (c) an actor's speech not to be heard
(a) William Wordsworth by audience.
(b) Shakespeare (d) an actor's speech meant for other
(c) John Galsworthy characters also. [a]
(d) John Milton [a] 112. What could be the 'tragic flaw' in
107. Complete the sentence Hamlet ?
The term 'Novel' was taken from (a) Noble
the Italian word (b) Oedipus Complex
(a) novella (c) Vaulting ambition
(b) novelle (d) None of these [d] –
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113. Fill in the blank with an (d) have had appeared [c]
appropriate preposition. 119. 'Others abide our question, thou
She is ignorant……….what she art free.'
pretends to know. Who has said this about
(a) in Shakespeare?
(b) of (a) Wordsworth
(c) with (b) Milton
(d) for [b] (c) Matthew Arnold
114. Who asked, 'How many children (d) Bed Johnson [c]
had Lady Macbeth'? 120. In which Shakespearean play does
(a) L.C. Knights Curan appear?
(b) A.C. Bradley (a) Macbeth
(c) Rymer (b) Othello
(d) Wilson [a] (c) King Lear
115. Who has written 'Ruth'? (d) Hamlet [c]
(a) Milton 121. Find out the mistake in the
(b) Shakespere sentence given below.
(c) Galsworthy (a) She has told me
(d) Wordsworth [d] (b) that she saw my uncle
116. Transform the following sentence (c) at the fare
into exclamatory sentence. (d) on last Friday [d]
He leads a most unhappy life. 122. What kind the work is Samson
(a) What an unhappy life he leads ! Agonistes ?
(b) What an unhapply life he leads ! (a) verse-play
(c) What an unhappy life he was (b) epic
leading ! (c) lyrical drama
(d) Why he leads a most unhappy (d) short story [a]
life? [a] 123. Complete the sentence.
117. Who revised King Lear so that Simplicity, sweet music and
Cordelia could marry Edgar at the melody are remarkable features of
end ? (a) epic
(a) Nahum Tate (b) ballad
(b) Johnson (c) ode
(c) Richard Bentley (d) satire [b]
(d) Rymer [a] 124. Fill in the blank with correct option
118. Choose the correct verb. given below.
This paper………..twice weekly. His wish is tantamount………a
(a) is appearing command.
(b) appearing (a) with
(c) appears (b) of
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(c) to
(d) for [c]
125. In which year. The Prelude was
published
(a) 1805
(b) 1850
(c) 1855
(d) 1837 [b]

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