Group 2 Previous Year Questions Topic Syllabus Wise - 2015
General English (general_english)
Match the words in column A with the suffixes in Column B
Column A
(a) astonish
(b) potential
(c) ferocious
(d) success
Column B
1. - ful
2. - ment
3. - ness
4. - ity
Choices:
- a) 1 4 3 2
- b) 3 4 2 1
- c) 2 4 3 1
- d) 2 4 1 3
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Answer: 2 4 3 1
Exam: Group 2 2015
Pick out the sentence with the wrong usage of articles :
Choices:
- a) The cow is a useful animal
- b) The rose is the sweetest of all flowers
- c) Let's go to the park
- d) The banyan is a kind of a fig tree
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Answer: The banyan is a kind of a fig tree
Exam: Group 2 2015
Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions :
The most popular therapy getting rid hiccups is to have someone to scare you when you least expect it.
Choices:
- a) to, away
- b) on, to
- c) off, for
- d) for, of
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Answer: for, of
Exam: Group 2 2015
Fill in the blank with a suitable question tag:
Let's go for a walk, ?
Choices:
- a) should we?
- b) shall we?
- c) can we?
- d) could we?
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Answer: shall we?
Exam: Group 2 2015
Choose the correct form of the verb to fill in the blank:
They the bridge for several months.
Choices:
- a) have been building
- b) are building
- c) will be building
- d) had been building
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Answer: have been building
Exam: Group 2 2015
Pick out the correct words from the options given below:
He gave me notes.
Choices:
- a) a ten five rupee
- b) ten five rupees
- c) a ten five rupee's
- d) ten five rupee
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Answer: ten five rupee
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which one of the following word is incorrect?
Choices:
- a) means
- b) scissors
- c) luggages
- d) premises
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Answer: luggages
Exam: Group 2 2015
Passage:
Even researchers are finding that introverts make better leaders than extroverts for the simple reason that they are more likely to listen and pay attention to what other people are saying. By taking a backseat, introverted leaders encourage others to suggest ideas, contribute actively and take initiative, thus increasing morale and motivation.
Introverts make better leaders because they are
Choices:
- a) interested
- b) attentive
- c) attention-seeking
- d) alluring
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Answer: attentive
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which one of the following sentence is incorrect?
Choices:
- a) The flowers smell sweet.
- b) Of Mumbai and Chennai, the former is the wealthiest.
- c) Six miles is a long distance.
- d) As a novelist, Jane Austen is superior to Mrs. Henry Wood.
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Answer: Of Mumbai and Chennai, the former is the wealthiest.
Exam: Group 2 2015
Identify the sentence which is in the positive degree
Choices:
- a) His age is a matter of minor importance.
- b) This is the most perfect specimen I have seen.
- c) The last time I saw him, he was in high spirits.
- d) The longest lane has a turning.
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Answer: His age is a matter of minor importance.
Exam: Group 2 2015
Identify the sentence which is in the positive degree :
Choices:
- a) This is a major issue.
- b) The latter chapters are lacking in interest.
- c) Rama's intelligence is superior to Hari's.
- d) He is junior to all his colleagues.
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Answer: This is a major issue.
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which one of the following words is an example of a compound word consisting of an adverb + participle?
Choices:
- a) pale blue
- b) well defined
- c) seafood
- d) outsourcing
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Answer: outsourcing
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which figure of speech does the expression, "the hissing noise of the snake" contain?
Choices:
- a) logopoeia
- b) anaphora
- c) diaspora
- d) onomatopoeia
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Answer: onomatopoeia
Exam: Group 2 2015
"The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done"
The figure of speech used by Walt Whitman in these lines is
Choices:
- a) Oxymoron
- b) Personification
- c) Simile
- d) Metaphor
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Answer: Metaphor
Exam: Group 2 2015
"Imagine if your precious nose were sandwiched in between your toes"
What does the word "Sandwiched" mean here?
Choices:
- a) Become like a food item
- b) Trapped
- c) Replaced
- d) Pressed between two things
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Answer: Pressed between two things
Exam: Group 2 2015
H.W. Longfellow's poem "The Psalm of Life" is a piece of
Choices:
- a) Prayer
- b) Encomium
- c) Appeal
- d) Advice
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Answer: Advice
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who do you think is these lines addressed to :
You cannot rob us of the rights we cherish,
Nor turn our thoughts away
From the bright picture of a 'women's mission'
Our hearts portray
Choices:
- a) An individual reader
- b) The poet's companion
- c) Society at large
- d) A particular misogynist group
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Answer: Society at large
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which of the following lines belong to H.W. Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"?
Choices:
- a) And you O my soul where you stand
- b) All human roads are dark and dry
- c) Your minstrel has no wreath to weave for you
- d) Art is long and time is fleeting
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Answer: Art is long and time is fleeting
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who told the following statement?
"Tolerance is the highest result of education".
Choices:
- a) Dr. Abdul Kalam
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Helen Keller
- d) Subash Chandra Bose
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Answer: Helen Keller
Exam: Group 2 2015
"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; It is man's injustice to woman".
Who said these words about Women?
Choices:
- a) Jawaharlal Nehru
- b) Swami Vivekananda
- c) Rabindranath Tagore
- d) Mahatma Gandhi
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Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Exam: Group 2 2015
Rani of Jhansi was associated with
Choices:
- a) Battle of Plassey
- b) Sepoy Mutiny
- c) British Government
- d) Indian National Congress
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Answer: Sepoy Mutiny
Exam: Group 2 2015
"The story of My Experiments with Truth" is an autobiographical work written by
Choices:
- a) Jawaharlal Nehru
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Abraham Lincoln
- d) Subash Chandra Bose
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Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant' the spring season did not come to the giant's garden because
Choices:
- a) he built a huge wall around his garden.
- b) he was very unkind to the spring season.
- c) he did not allow the children inside the garden
- d) he liked winter season
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Answer: he did not allow the children inside the garden
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Oscar Wilde's "The Model Millionaire" Hughie is humane and handsome but
Choices:
- a) ineffable
- b) a man of no means
- c) heartless
- d) a paranoid
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Answer: a man of no means
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Oscar Wilde's 'The Selfish Giant', the giant's heart melted when he saw
Choices:
- a) the spring season
- b) the children playing in the garden
- c) the children singing and dancing
- d) a little child unable to climb a tree
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Answer: a little child unable to climb a tree
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Oscar Wilde's 'The Model Millionaire' what did Hughie do in Alan Trevor's absence?
Choices:
- a) Hughie spoke to the beggar
- b) Hughie gave the heggar some money
- c) Hughie enjoyed a smoke
- d) Hughie was dreaming
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Answer: Hughie gave the heggar some money
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Oscar Wilde's 'The Selfish Giant' only one little boy did not run away on seeing the giant because
Choices:
- a) he was blind
- b) he was lame
- c) he was afraid
- d) he did not see the giant coming
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Answer: he did not see the giant coming
Exam: Group 2 2015
"The habit of co-operation once required will continue with you all your life"
Which among the options best conveys the meaning of the above passage?
Choices:
- a) The author insists on hard work
- b) The author states the importance of team work
- c) The author insists on friendship
- d) The author reiterates the importance of good behaviour
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Answer: The author states the importance of team work
Exam: Group 2 2015
"No matter what happened, I always insisted on their being themselves".
What does the writer mean by this statement? Choose the right option from the following.
Choices:
- a) the writer wants human beings to be day dreamers
- b) the writer wants human beings to be in their own world
- c) the writer wants human beings to be calm.
- d) the writer wants human beings to be individuals and not to imitate others
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Answer: the writer wants human beings to be individuals and not to imitate others
Exam: Group 2 2015
What is a refrain?
Choices:
- a) The first line of a poem that is repeated in all stanzas
- b) The repetition of a line or lines within a poem, at given intervals
- c) The first line and the last line are one and the same in the last stanza
- d) The last two lines of the first stanza and the last two lines of the last stanza are one and the same
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Answer: The repetition of a line or lines within a poem, at given intervals
Exam: Group 2 2015
What is the height of Shiva linga in the sanctum sanctorum of the Brihadeeswarar Temple?
Choices:
- a) 8.7 metres
- b) 8.5 metres
- c) 8.8 metres
- d) 8.9 metres
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Answer: 8.7 metres
Exam: Group 2 2015
The author who wrote the lesson Yaanai Malai' suffered from the disease?
Choices:
- a) Chronic Glaucoma
- b) Retinitis Pigmentosa
- c) Astigmatism
- d) Myopic Vision
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Answer: Retinitis Pigmentosa
Exam: Group 2 2015
Where is Yaanai Malai located?
Choices:
- a) In the South Eastern outskirts of Madurai
- b) In the North Eastern outskirts of Madurai
- c) In the North Western outskirts of Madurai
- d) In the South Western outskirts of Madurai
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Answer: In the North Eastern outskirts of Madurai
Exam: Group 2 2015
Identify the pair of British English and American English expressions with incorrect spelling:
Choices:
- a) plough - plow
- b) cheque - check
- c) theatre - theater
- d) skilful - skilfull
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Answer: skilful - skilfull
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the British English words with their American equivalents :
British English American English
(a) Jam 1. Fall
(b) nappy 2. Antenna
(c) Aerial 3. Jelly
(d) Autumn 4. Diaper
Choices:
- a) 3 2 4 1
- b) 2 4 3 1
- c) 3 4 2 1
- d) 1 2 4 3
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Answer: 3 4 2 1
Exam: Group 2 2015
warns Caesar about the "Ides of March".
Choices:
- a) A Soothsayer
- b) Calpurnia
- c) Pompey
- d) Mark Antony
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Answer: A Soothsayer
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match Column A with Column B. Select the correct code given below.
Column A Column B
(a) The Ant and the Grasshopper 1. Oscar Wilde
(b) The Cop and the Anthem 2. Somerset Maugham
(c) The Happy Prince 3. Bonnie Chamberlain
(d) The Face of Judas Iscariot 4. O'Henry
Choices:
- a) 2 4 1 3
- b) 1 2 3 1
- c) 1 3 4 2
- d) 1 2 3
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Answer: 2 4 1 3
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match Column A with Column B. Select the correct code given below :
Column A Column B
(a) My country my life 1. Sachin
(b) My story 2. Nehru
(c) Play It My Way 3. Kamala Das
(d) Toward Freedom 4. L.K. Advani
Choices:
- a) 2 4 3 1
- b) 3 2 1 4
- c) 4 3 1 2
- d) 2 3 1 4
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Answer: 4 3 1 2
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which one of the following statement is correct?
Choices:
- a) V.K. Gokak is a Telugu poet and novelist
- b) V.K. Gokak is a Kannada poet and novelist
- c) V.K. Gokak is a Marathi poet and novelist
- d) V.K. Gokak is a Gujarathi poet and novelist
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Answer: V.K. Gokak is a Kannada poet and novelist
Exam: Group 2 2015
Saruli figures in
Choices:
- a) Farmer
- b) The Sun Bean
- c) After the Storm
- d) Kari, the Elephant
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Answer: After the Storm
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Julius Caesar, Antony says,
"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault".
What is referred to a 'grievous fault' here?
Choices:
- a) Brutus' nobility
- b) Being ambitious
- c) Cunningness
- d) Caesar's balour
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Answer: Being ambitious
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the following:
(a) Takazhi Sivasankaran Pillai 1. Sonnet 116
(b) William Shakespeare 2. Kuttichovan
(c) Douglas Malloch 3. Is Life but a dream?
(d) Lewis Carroll 4. Be the Best
Choices:
- a) 2 1 4 3
- b) 1 2 4 3
- c) 2 1 3 4
- d) 4 1 2 3
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Answer: 2 1 4 3
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the following:
Author Title
(a) Norman Nicholson 1. The road to success
(b) Dale Carnegie 2. O Captain! My Captain!
(c) Walt Whitman 3. The Solitary Reaper
(d) William Wordsworth 4. Off to outer space tomorrow morning
Choices:
- a) 4 1 3 2
- b) 4 1 2 3
- c) 1 4 2 3
- d) 3 1 2 4
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Answer: 4 1 2 3
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Julius Caesar, Antony says, 'He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill".
'Ransoms' in this line means
Choices:
- a) payment for the release of refugees
- b) payment for the release of criminals
- c) payment for the release of prisoners
- d) payment for the release of leaders
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Answer: payment for the release of prisoners
Exam: Group 2 2015
"Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide".
These are the words of
Choices:
- a) Robert Frost
- b) Khalil Gibran
- c) F. Joanna
- d) Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exam: Group 2 2015
Annie Louisa Walker is a well-known poet.
Choices:
- a) Canadian born
- b) American - born
- c) British born
- d) Australian – born
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Answer: British born
Exam: Group 2 2015
is not a Nobel Prize winner.
Choices:
- a) Rudyard Kipling
- b) William Golding
- c) Oscar Wilde
- d) Pearl S. Buck
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Answer: Oscar Wilde
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the poems under Column 'A' with the poets under Column 'B' and select the correct code:
Column A Column B
(a) The Apology 1. Jack Prelutsky
(b) Be Glad your nose is on your face 2. Emerson
(c) Where the mind is without fear 3. David Roth
(d) Nine Gold Medals 4. Tagore
Choices:
- a) 2 1 3 4
- b) 1 4 3 2
- c) 2 1 4 3
- d) 1 2 3 4
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Answer: 2 1 4 3
Exam: Group 2 2015
The ozone gas that acts like a canopy, protecting you from the harmful ultra violet rays of the Sun is depleting.
Identify the option closest in meaning to the underlined word:
Choices:
- a) a preventive medicine
- b) a damage-control system
- c) an overhanging shelter
- d) a storehouse of gases
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Answer: an overhanging shelter
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the following idiomatic expressions under column A with their core meaning under Column B
Choose the right code:
Column A Column B
(a) I can ride a motor cycle 1. Asking for permission
(b) No one can be right all the time 2. Theoretical possibility
(c) Can I use your mobile phone, please? 3. Ability
(d) Anyone can make inistakes 4. Possibility
Choices:
- a) 3 4 1 2
- b) 1 3 2 4
- c) 4 3 1 2
- d) 2 1 4 3
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Answer: 3 4 1 2
Exam: Group 2 2015
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
-Find out the synonym for the underlined word from the options given
Choices:
- a) muscle.
- b) blood
- c) strength
- d) weakness
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Answer: muscle.
Exam: Group 2 2015
Choose the correct synonym for the underlined word from the options given :
He made himself indispensable to his institution.
Choices:
- a) major
- b) short
- c) essential
- d) negligible
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Answer: essential
Exam: Group 2 2015
Some people argue that computerisation will aggravate the unemployment problem.
Find out the antonym for the underlined word.
Choices:
- a) wipe out
- b) consolidate
- c) alleviate
- d) remove
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Answer: alleviate
Exam: Group 2 2015
Choose the appropriate stem-word with which the prefix 'mal' can combine.
Choices:
- a) directional
- b) theism
- c) colon
- d) nourished
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Answer: nourished
Exam: Group 2 2015
Complete the following sentence with suitable articles:
On day of tea party, Apsara took her mother to Mrs. Rose's room.
Choices:
- a) the, the
- b) an, the
- c) a an
- d) the a
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Answer: the, the
Exam: Group 2 2015
Complete the following sentence using a suitable form of the passive voice:
In primitive times, stone implements to kill animals.
Choices:
- a) was employed
- b) were employed
- c) will be employed
- d) had been employed
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Answer: were employed
Exam: Group 2 2015
Fill out the blank with the most appropriate option given below :
Alexander's hope the whole of India was not materialised due to his ill health.
Choices:
- a) to conquer
- b) of conquer
- c) of conquering
- d) conquered
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Answer: of conquering
Exam: Group 2 2015
Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the options:
We will have to find sources of energy in the future.
Choices:
- a) alternate
- b) altered
- c) alternative
- d) adulterated
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Answer: alternative
Exam: Group 2 2015
Identify the odd word among the options
Choices:
- a) delicious
- b) expensive
- c) industrious
- d) jubilantly
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Answer: jubilantly
Exam: Group 2 2015
Find out the odd word among the following
Choices:
- a) sojourn
- b) countenance
- c) species
- d) recreate
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Answer: recreate
Exam: Group 2 2015
They failed to add an appendix to the book. Which of the following is the right plural form for the underlined word?
Choices:
- a) appendices
- b) indices
- c) appendixes
- d) annexures
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Answer: appendices
Exam: Group 2 2015
Choose the simple sentence out of the sentences given below :
Choices:
- a) He finished his exercise and put away the books.
- b) The man endured all the horrors of the campaign without any one of them making complaint.
- c) We must eat, or we cannot live.
- d) Not only did his father give him money, but his mother too.
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Answer: The man endured all the horrors of the campaign without any one of them making complaint.
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which among the following is an example for onamatopoeic words?
Choices:
- a) clip-clopped
- b) tongue - twister
- c) ambitious
- d) entertainment
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Answer: clip-clopped
Exam: Group 2 2015
An implied simile is a
Choices:
- a) metathesis
- b) metaphor
- c) metanymy
- d) metamorphosis
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Answer: metaphor
Exam: Group 2 2015
In the poem "Going for Water", why did the children have to go to the brook?
Choices:
- a) To relish the sylvan atmosphere in the dense woods
- b) Because the well was dry beside the door
- c) To enjoy the natural beauty of the brook
- d) To find whether there is water in the brook
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Answer: Because the well was dry beside the door
Exam: Group 2 2015
"Laugh till the game is played" What is the game referred to here?
Choices:
- a) Hockey
- b) Exam
- c) Dice
- d) Life
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Answer: Life
Exam: Group 2 2015
Only bloodshot eyes betray
Deep pride, then reverence,
Lo! God in man's image.
Who is referred to as "God in man's image" in the above lines?
Choices:
- a) Goldsmith
- b) Divine Artist
- c) Sculptor
- d) Blacksmith
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Answer: Sculptor
Exam: Group 2 2015
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
The underlined word in the above lines of "The Solitary Reaper" refers to
Choices:
- a) England
- b) America
- c) Scotland
- d) Ireland
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Answer: Scotland
Exam: Group 2 2015
Find out the meaning of the underlined word in the following lines from Sonnet No. 116:
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit Impediments
Choices:
- a) Obstacles
- b) Victory
- c) Success
- d) Happiness
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Answer: Obstacles
Exam: Group 2 2015
Choose the option containing the author of the following lines
"No Nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands".
Choices:
- a) Hopkins in 'Laugh and be Merry'
- b) Khalil Gibran in 'Earth'
- c) Wordsworth in "The Solitary Reaper"
- d) Kamala Das in "Punishment in the Kindergarten"
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Answer: Wordsworth in "The Solitary Reaper"
Exam: Group 2 2015
"The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more"
These lines appear in
Choices:
- a) Be the best
- b) Tables turned
- c) A Psalm of Life
- d) The Solitary Reaper
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Answer: The Solitary Reaper
Exam: Group 2 2015
"She left India as a student, but she would see the nation of her birth, all of it, from hundreds of miles above'-
George W. Bush spoke these lines about whom?
Choices:
- a) Kalpana Chawla
- b) Sunita Williams
- c) Meena Alexander
- d) Chitra Diwakaruni
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Answer: Kalpana Chawla
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who among the following is not a character in Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice?
Choices:
- a) Calpurnia
- b) Bassanio
- c) Portia
- d) Nerissa
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Answer: Calpurnia
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who speaks the following lines in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice".
The quality of mercy is not strained
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath".
Choices:
- a) Antonio
- b) Shylock
- c) Portia
- d) Duke
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Answer: Portia
Exam: Group 2 2015
The following line is from the play Julius Caesar.
"O judg'ment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts"
The figure of speech employed in the above line is
Choices:
- a) Antithesis
- b) Personification
- c) Metaphor
- d) Oxymoron
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Answer: Personification
Exam: Group 2 2015
In Julius Caesar, Antony says,
"For Brutus is an honourable man".
Here the tone of Antony is one of
Choices:
- a) Admiration
- b) Irony
- c) Friendship
- d) Hero worship
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Answer: Irony
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who was the first senator to stab Caesar?
Choices:
- a) Carsius
- b) Lepidus
- c) Casca
- d) Brutus
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Answer: Casca
Exam: Group 2 2015
Paulnack was the director of the music division at
Choices:
- a) The Boston Conservatory
- b) The Philharmonic Royal
- c) The France School of Arts
- d) The Manhattan Academy
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Answer: The Boston Conservatory
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which one of the following statements is not related to the lesson "Music The Hope Raiser"?
Choices:
- a) Music is a basic need of human survival
- b) Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives.
- c) Music is a luxury and lavish thing
- d) Music is not an extravaganza or a hobby
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Answer: Music is a luxury and lavish thing
Exam: Group 2 2015
composed the German Requiem.
Choices:
- a) Messiaen
- b) Johannes Brahms
- c) Charles Tindley
- d) Karl Paulnack
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Answer: Johannes Brahms
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who wrote the following motivational poem, "You can't be that, No, You can't be that"?
Choices:
- a) Hope Spencer
- b) Dale Carnegi
- c) Brian Patten
- d) Rupert Brooke
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Answer: Brian Patten
Exam: Group 2 2015
"Good luck is round the corner": What does this line suggest in the poem "Keep your spirits High"?
Choices:
- a) Do anticipate luck
- b) Do think that luck would favour you
- c) Be positive and optimistic in all your attitudes
- d) Do have the frame of mind that you are fortune's minion
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Answer: Be positive and optimistic in all your attitudes
Exam: Group 2 2015
What is the name of the porter who accompanied Ahtushi Deshpande?
Choices:
- a) Laxmi
- b) Kundu
- c) Bamon
- d) Raman Singh
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Answer: Laxmi
Exam: Group 2 2015
"A dominant landmark of the north-eastern outskirts of Madurai is Yaanai Malai"
Choose the inappropriate statement from the following
Choices:
- a) Yaanai malai is a solid rocky hill
- b) Yaanai malai is in the north-east direction of Madurai
- c) Madurai is the landmark of Yaanai malai
- d) Yaanai malai is otherwise called elephant hill
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Answer: Madurai is the landmark of Yaanai malai
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the following British/American expressions in Column A with Column B and select the correct answer from the options given below
Column A Column B
(a) trash 1. faucet
(b) cookie 2. candy
(c) sweets 3. rubbish
(d) tap 4. biscuit
Choices:
- a) 3 4 2 1
- b) 4 2 3 1
- c) 3 2 4 1
- d) 1 3 2 4
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Answer: 3 4 2 1
Exam: Group 2 2015
'Car park' in British English is in American English.
Choices:
- a) Parking space
- b) Parking fees
- c) Parking plot
- d) Parking lot
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Answer: Parking lot
Exam: Group 2 2015
Find out the British English equivalent of "fall"
Choices:
- a) Winter
- b) Summer
- c) Spring
- d) Autumn
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Answer: Autumn
Exam: Group 2 2015
"The present seems all dreary
The future very grim.
The underlined words mean and respectively.
Choices:
- a) confusing and dark
- b) dear and lovely
- c) boring and sad
- d) damp and weak
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Answer: boring and sad
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the poems under Column 'A' with the authors under Column B and select the correct code.
Column A Column B
(a) A Psalm of Life 1. Lewis Carroll
(b) Is Life But a Dream 2. H.W, Longfellow
(c) Going for water 3. Kamala Das
(d) Punishment in Kindergarten 4. Robert Frost
Choices:
- a) 2 3 1 4
- b) 2 3 4 1
- c) 4 2 3 1
- d) 2 1 4 3
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Answer: 2 1 4 3
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which of the following is not a poem?
Choices:
- a) Shilpi
- b) Be the Best
- c) Off to Outerspace Tomorrow Morning
- d) Flying with the moon on their wings
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Answer: Flying with the moon on their wings
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which of the following is a short story?
Choices:
- a) Be the Best
- b) The Tears of the Desert
- c) The Flying Wonder
- d) The Man He Killed
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Answer: The Tears of the Desert
Exam: Group 2 2015
Pangolin figures in
Choices:
- a) The Anteater and the Dassie
- b) The Neem Tree
- c) Reflowering
- d) The Necklace Holiday
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Answer: The Anteater and the Dassie
Exam: Group 2 2015
Who uttered the line "I craved the law" in "The Merchant of Venice"?
Choices:
- a) Portia
- b) Shylock
- c) Antonio
- d) Bassanio
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Answer: Shylock
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the following:
(a) Randall Jarell 1. The Neem Tree
(b) Indira Anandakrishnan 2. Nobel Prize
(c) Tagore 3. Bombay
(d) Rudyard Kipling 4. Bat
Choices:
- a) 4 1 2 3
- b) 1 4 2 3
- c) 4 1 3 2
- d) 1 3 4' 2
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Answer: 4 1 2 3
Exam: Group 2 2015
Mohiniyattam is a classical dance form from
Choices:
- a) Kerala
- b) Bihar
- c) Kashmir
- d) Tamilnadu
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Answer: Kerala
Exam: Group 2 2015
Which of the following works is not a poem?
Choices:
- a) Be the Best
- b) Manliness
- c) Swept Away
- d) The Man He Killed
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Answer: Swept Away
Exam: Group 2 2015
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
"There was never mystery
But 'tis figured in the flowers,
Was never secret history
But birds tell it in the bowers",
These lines are taken from the poem
Choices:
- a) My Native Land
- b) The Apology
- c) To India
- d) Laugh and be Merry
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Answer: The Apology
Exam: Group 2 2015
Mr. Pneumonia figures in
Choices:
- a) The Last Leaf
- b) The Selfish Giant
- c) The Lottery Ticket
- d) The Open Window
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Answer: The Last Leaf
Exam: Group 2 2015
What is the title of H.W. Longfellow's volume of poems which included "A Psalm of Life"?
Choices:
- a) Hiawatha
- b) Tales of a Wayside-Inn
- c) Evangeline
- d) Voices of the Night
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Answer: Voices of the Night
Exam: Group 2 2015
Match the following:
Quote/Line Author/Character
(a) "I was born a farmer" 1. Kamala Surayya
(b) "Nations are built by the imagination and untiring enthusiastic efforts of generations" 2. Kesavan Nair
(c) ..... You cannot believe darling, can you that I lived in such a house 3. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(d) "Into that heaven of freedom, My Father let my country awake" 4. Rabindranath Tagore
Choices:
- a) 2 1 4 3
- b) 2 3 1 4
- c) 2 4 1 3
- d) 2 3 4 1
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Answer: 2 3 1 4
Exam: Group 2 2015