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Group 4 Previous Year Questions Topic Syllabus Wise - 2016

General English (general_english)

Question 1

Match the underlined words in Column A with their parts of speech in Column B and select the correct answer from the options given below :
Column A Column B
(a) He walks quickly 1. Subject
(b) Reena taught him Hindi 2. Object
(c) Rani ate ice cream 3. Verb
(d) Radha is a doctor 4. Compliment

Choices:

  • a) 3 1 2 4
  • b) 1 2 3 4
  • c) 4 1 2 3
  • d) 2 1 4 3
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Answer: 3 1 2 4

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Question 2

Choose correct prepositions from the options given :
________ the cupboard, very ________ the wall, there is a narrow gap, ________ which a few charts have been kept.

Choices:

  • a) into, behind, near
  • b) behind, near, into
  • c) into, near, behind
  • d) near, behind, into
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Answer: behind, near, into

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Question 3

Identify the sentence pattern:
One of the boys had been singing well.

Choices:

  • a) SVC
  • b) SVOC
  • c) SVA
  • d) SVIO DO
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Answer: SVA

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Question 4

Which of the following phrasal verbs suits the given sentence?
________ your bad habits.

Choices:

  • a) get back
  • b) give in
  • c) give up
  • d) get on
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Answer: give up

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Question 5

Identify the incorrect sentence from the following:

Choices:

  • a) Apples are not so sweet as Mangoes
  • b) Mangoes are sweeter than Apples
  • c) Japanese are the industrious people in the world
  • d) Gold is costlier than silver
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Answer: Japanese are the industrious people in the world

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Question 6

Find out the correct sentence:

Choices:

  • a) One of the bicycle is defective
  • b) One of the bicycles is defective
  • c) One of the bicycle are defective
  • d) One of the bicycles were defective
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Answer: One of the bicycles is defective

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Question 7

Find out the correct question tag :
"She goes to school by van"

Choices:

  • a) is she?
  • b) aren't they?
  • c) are they?
  • d) doesn't she?
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Answer: doesn't she?

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Question 8

Which of the following sentences is wrong?

Choices:

  • a) Dad polished his shoes yesterday
  • b) Subhash has cut the vegetables just now
  • c) The police have catch the motorcyclist for speeding.
  • d) The ripe fruit has fallen from the tree
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Answer: The police have catch the motorcyclist for speeding.

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Question 9

Choose the correct 'Synonym' of the underlined word from the given options.
Sivasubramania Iyer's wife was very conservative.

Choices:

  • a) traditional
  • b) ideal
  • c) liberal
  • d) formal
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Answer: traditional

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Question 10

What is "Possessive Adjectives"?

Choices:

  • a) They answer the question which
  • b) They answer to the question whose
  • c) They answer the question How many
  • d) They answer the question How much
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Answer: They answer to the question whose

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Question 11

Match the following identifying the phrase to complete the sentence and mark the correct code:
Column A Column B
(a) The cream Cake is 1. harder and harder
(b) The new sweets are 2. more expensive
(c) The new waiters are 3. so costly
(d) It is getting 4. better

Choices:

  • a) 1 3 4 2
  • b) 3 2 1 4
  • c) 2 3 4 1
  • d) 4 2 1 3
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Answer: 2 3 4 1

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Question 12

Find out the sentence where gerund is used :

Choices:

  • a) Sujatha is wealthy but she is not generous
  • b) We sat on the floor
  • c) Writing is always better than to read
  • d) She is a teacher and a singer
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Answer: Writing is always better than to read

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Question 13

"If you can't be a highway, just be a trail,
If you can't be the Sun, be a Star;
It is not the size that you win or you fail
Be the Best of whatever you are !....."
The Rhyme Scheme in the above given lines is

Choices:

  • a) aa
  • b) abab
  • c) abc
  • d) aab
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Answer: abab

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Question 14

The Giant's final journey was to

Choices:

  • a) his friends palace
  • b) his son's home
  • c) to the neighbouring village
  • d) the paradise
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Answer: the paradise

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Question 15

"The attainment of a developed status by 2020 does not mean that we can then rest on our laurels"
Laurels mean

Choices:

  • a) failures
  • b) rewards
  • c) wealth
  • d) criticisms
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Answer: rewards

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Question 16

"To my immediate right the Nanda Pal glacier slopes down sharply ofcourse for the fact that ends in a cold and menacing snout with icy waters flowing below".
In the given passage the word menacing means

Choices:

  • a) threatening
  • b) pacifying
  • c) attracting
  • d) repelling
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Answer: threatening

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Question 17

Match the British English words under Column A with their American English equivalents under Column B and choose the correct code.
Column A Column B
(a) chips 1. garbage can
(b) dustbin 2. jelly
(c) jam 3. guy
(d) fellow 4. french fries

Choices:

  • a) 1 4 3 2
  • b) 3 4 1 2
  • c) 2 4 3 1
  • d) 4 1 2 3
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Answer: 4 1 2 3

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Question 18

The American English equivalent of the word 'washbasin' is

Choices:

  • a) zee
  • b) wash room
  • c) wash tank
  • d) sink
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Answer: sink

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Question 19

The first step in the road to success, according to Edwin C Bliss, is to

Choices:

  • a) believe that success is not a bed of roses
  • b) steer clear of pitfalls
  • c) set yourself clear goals
  • d) start devoting time and energy
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Answer: set yourself clear goals

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Question 20

Gopala Krishna Gokhale was

Choices:

  • a) a freedom fighter
  • b) a thespian
  • c) the first President of India
  • d) the first Prime Minister of India
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Answer: a freedom fighter

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Question 21

"Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron
In the factories, round and round"
In which poem do these lines occur?

Choices:

  • a) The Cry of the Children
  • b) Migrant Bird
  • c) Shilpi
  • d) Going for water
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Answer: The Cry of the Children

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Question 22

Which of the following is not a poem?

Choices:

  • a) The power of Laughter
  • b) No Men are Foreign
  • c) A Tiger in the Zoo
  • d) My Grandmother's House
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Answer: The power of Laughter

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Question 23

"I won't look down. No I will not
With speed of wings I hasten past".
In whose poem do the following lines occur?

Choices:

  • a) Famida Y. Basheer
  • b) Kamala Surrayya
  • c) Archibald Lampman
  • d) Rudyard Kipling
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Answer: Famida Y. Basheer

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Question 24

The Poem 'Laugh and be Merry' is written by

Choices:

  • a) H.W. Longfellow
  • b) Robert Frost
  • c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • d) John Masefield
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Answer: John Masefield

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Question 25

What is the theme observed in the story "The mark of Vishnu"?

Choices:

  • a) Upholding patriotism
  • b) Quest for freedom
  • c) Abolition of communism
  • d) Riddance of superstition
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Answer: Riddance of superstition

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Question 26

Which of the following is a poem?
Choose the right answer from the options given below.

Choices:

  • a) Wings of Fire
  • b) Gaia tells her tale
  • c) To India - My Native Land
  • d) The Golden Path
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Answer: To India - My Native Land

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Question 27

Match the names of the poets under column A with the names of the poems, under column B and choose the correct code.
Column A Column B
(a) Thomas Hardy 1. My Grandmother's house
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2. Piano
(c) D.H. Lawrence 3. The Cry of the Children
(d) Kamala Surayya 4. The Man He Killed

Choices:

  • a) 1 2 3 4
  • b) 1 4 3 2
  • c) 4 3 1 2
  • d) 4 3 2 1
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Answer: 4 3 2 1

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Question 28

"A note as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made"
These above lines occur in the poem

Choices:

  • a) Going for Water
  • b) Beautiful Inside
  • c) The Cry of the Children
  • d) Migrant Bird
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Answer: Going for Water

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Question 29

Identify the figure of speech used in the following poetic line.
In the world's broad field of battle

Choices:

  • a) Personification
  • b) Simile
  • c) Metaphor
  • d) Oxymoron
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Answer: Metaphor

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Question 30

Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" as a dirge for the death of

Choices:

  • a) John F. Kennedy
  • b) Andrew Jackson
  • c) Woodrow Wilson
  • d) Abraham Lincoln
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Answer: Abraham Lincoln

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Question 31

Select the correct answer from the options given below :
A statement tells something. But actually it means the opposite is known as

Choices:

  • a) Paradox
  • b) Irony
  • c) Apostrophe
  • d) Litotes
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Answer: Irony

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Question 32

Which of the following lines belongs to "Robert Frost"?

Choices:

  • a) With sixty seconds "worth of distance run"
  • b) Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
  • c) But once within the wood, we paused
  • d) Is waiting its time to share?
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Answer: But once within the wood, we paused

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Question 33

In which of the poem the following line occurs?
"And You O my soul where you stand"

Choices:

  • a) Be the Best
  • b) A noiseless patient spider
  • c) Going for water
  • d) Migrant Bird
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Answer: A noiseless patient spider

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Question 34

Which of the following is a drama?

Choices:

  • a) The Farmer
  • b) The Merchant of Venice
  • c) Buds to Blossoms
  • d) Hiroshima
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Answer: The Merchant of Venice

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Question 35

In the poem "Migrant Bird" the poet contrasts the life of a migrant bird with that of the

Choices:

  • a) weapons
  • b) human beings
  • c) animals
  • d) enemies
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Answer: human beings

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Question 36

Which of the following works is not a poem?

Choices:

  • a) To The Land of Snow
  • b) A Psalm of Life
  • c) The Solitary Reaper
  • d) Laugh and be Merry
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Answer: To The Land of Snow

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Question 37

Which of the following is not a Prose?

Choices:

  • a) A Dictionary of the English Language
  • b) The Mark of Vishnu
  • c) Snake
  • d) Vision for the Nation
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Answer: Snake

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Question 38

Which of the following literary works exhibits the theme of optimism?.

Choices:

  • a) Laugh and be Merry
  • b) Sonnet No: 116
  • c) The Solitary Reaper
  • d) The Man he Killed
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Answer: Laugh and be Merry

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Question 39

During the Sepoy Mutiny, the queen who fought against the British was

Choices:

  • a) Lakshmibai
  • b) Bhagirathibai
  • c) Nana Sahib
  • d) Durga devi
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Answer: Lakshmibai

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Question 40

Who among the following is a Bengali poet and has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?

Choices:

  • a) Mahasweta Devi
  • b) Rabindranath Tagore
  • c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  • d) Sunil Gangopadhyay
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Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

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Question 41

Identify the author who uttered the following sentence:
"Man is born free but is everywhere in chains".

Choices:

  • a) Rabindranath Tagore
  • b) Jawaharlal Nehru
  • c) Berton Braley
  • d) Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Question 42

Match the short stories with the authors:
(a) Swami and the Sam 1. Mackinlay Kantor
(b) Sam 2. Rex Coker
(c) A man who had no eyes 3. Tammy Ruggles
(d) A Close Encounter 4. R.K. Narayan

Choices:

  • a) 4 1 3 2
  • b) 1 3 4 2
  • c) 4 3 1 2
  • d) 1 3 2 4
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Answer: 4 3 1 2

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Question 43

Match the characters under Column 'B' with the relevant story titles under Column 'A'.
Column A Column B
(a) The Necklace 1. Behrman
(b) Lottery Ticket 2. Morissot
(c) The Last Leaf 3. Matilda
(d) Two friends 4. Masha

Choices:

  • a) 4 1 3 2
  • b) 3 4 1 2
  • c) 3 1 2 4
  • d) 2 3 1 4
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Answer: 3 4 1 2

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Question 44

Identify the nationality of the author, of the story "The Lottery Ticket".

Choices:

  • a) China
  • b) Russia
  • c) The U.S.A.
  • d) England
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Answer: Russia

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Question 45

Whose autobiography is named "Wings of Fire"?

Choices:

  • a) Dr. Samuel Johnson
  • b) Rabindranath Tagore'
  • c) Gandhiji
  • d) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Answer: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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Question 46

Match the characters given under Column 'A' with the stories given under Column 'B' and select the correct option from those given below :
Column A Column B
(a) Vera 1. Holiday
(b) Johnsy 2. The Last Leaf
(c) Phatik Chakrabarthi 3. The Selfish Giant
(d) The Cornish Ogre 4. Open Window

Choices:

  • a) 4 2 1 3
  • b) 3 4 2 1
  • c) 1 3 4 2
  • d) 2 1 3 4
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Answer: 4 2 1 3

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Question 47

Which of the following is adapted from a short story written by Oscar Wilde?

Choices:

  • a) A Close Encounter
  • b) Caught Sneezing
  • c) The Summer Flight
  • d) Swept Away
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Answer: Swept Away

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Question 48

Which one of the following pairs is matched correctly?

Choices:

  • a) Manliness by D.H. Lawrence
  • b) The Piano by Rudyard Kipling
  • c) Going for Water by William Blake
  • d) Beautiful Inside by Paul Holmes
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Answer: Beautiful Inside by Paul Holmes

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Question 49

Match the folk arts under Column A with their states under Column B:
Column A Column B
(a) Bihu 1. Tamil Nadu
(b) Dandya Das 2. Maharashtra
(c) Kolattam 3. Assam
(d) Tamasha 4. Gujarat

Choices:

  • a) 4 3 2 1
  • b) 3 4 1 2
  • c) 2 1 3 4
  • d) 1 2 3 4
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Answer: 3 4 1 2

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Question 50

From the given options, choose the poet who has written "Don't Quit"

Choices:

  • a) John Masefield
  • b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • c) Robert Frost
  • d) Edgar A. Guest
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Answer: Edgar A. Guest

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Question 51

Find the sentence from options given, which is in proper Reported Speech form

Choices:

  • a) He told Sheela that if she were in town the day before
  • b) He asked Rehim that when did I intended paying him back
  • c) He exclaimed with joy that they had won the match
  • d) He asked me where I had get this interesting novel from
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Answer: He exclaimed with joy that they had won the match

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Question 52

Fill in the blanks with suitable articles :
________ Woodcock flies from ________ Himalayas to ________ Nilgiris without ________ pause.

Choices:

  • a) a, the, a, the
  • b) the, the, a, the
  • c) a, the, the, the
  • d) the, the, the, a
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Answer: the, the, the, a

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Question 53

Choose the correct antonyms for the underlined word.
Knowledge is an exacting mistress.

Choices:

  • a) Contented
  • b) Demanding
  • c) Insecure
  • d) Surplussing
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Answer: Contented

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Question 54

Match the sentences in Column A with Column B and select the correct answer from the options given :
Column A Column B
(a) I lost my purse 1. Compound Sentence
(b) A book was written by Meera 2. Active Voice
(c) The mountain is very steep and 3. Complex Sentence
I cannot climb it
(d) Though he is old, he walks quickly 4. Passive Voice

Choices:

  • a) 2 4 1 3
  • b) 4 1 2 3
  • c) 1 2 3 4
  • d) 3 1 2 4
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Answer: 2 4 1 3

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Question 55

Which of the following sentences are in active voice?
I. They sing songs in the assembly.
II. A notice was sent by the manager.
III. You gave him your pen.
IV. He has built a house in his native place.

Choices:

  • a) Only I, III and IV are correct
  • b) Only II, III and IV are correct
  • c) I, II and III are correct
  • d) All are correct
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Answer: Only I, III and IV are correct

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Question 56

Find the odd ONE from the following sentences:

Choices:

  • a) The sky was darker and the cold was more intense.
  • b) He sat down under a tree and wept bitterly.
  • c) Inspite of being hot, we managed to work.
  • d) Miriam married and left her father.
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Answer: Inspite of being hot, we managed to work.

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Question 57

Identify the past perfect tense from the options given below :

Choices:

  • a) They came immediately
  • b) The rain had stopped
  • c) Rajesh entered the school
  • d) We called them back
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Answer: The rain had stopped

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Question 58

Blend the following words and select the correct codes given below :
(a) handy 1. pen
(b) fountain 2. music
(c) kilo 3. cam
(d) pop 4. gram

Choices:

  • a) 1 4 2 3
  • b) 4 3 2 1
  • c) 3 1 4 2
  • d) 1 2 3 4
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Answer: 3 1 4 2

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Question 59

Identify the gerund form from the options given below :

Choices:

  • a) Keeping left is always safe
  • b) To find fault with others is easy
  • c) David wants to study Biology
  • d) He likes to read science fiction
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Answer: Keeping left is always safe

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Question 60

Identify the simple sentence from the given options :

Choices:

  • a) I promised that I will do my best
  • b) I promised to do my best
  • c) I will do my best and I promised it
  • d) I promised so that I will do my best
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Answer: I promised to do my best

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Question 61

Which of the following plural forms is correct?

Choices:

  • a) Passers-by
  • b) Brother-in-laws
  • c) Runner ups
  • d) Commander-in-chiefs
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Answer: Passers-by

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Question 62

Match the following phrases/idioms given under Column A with their meanings under Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Column A Column B
(a) to cash in on 1. tell me what you are thinking about
(b) as good as gold 2. a very slim chance
(c) a chance in a million 3. to take advantage
(d) a penny for your thoughts 4. very well behaved

Choices:

  • a) 3 4 2 1
  • b) 3 1 4 2
  • c) 4 1 2 3
  • d) 2 4 3 1
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Answer: 3 4 2 1

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Question 63

Match the following suffixes with the rootward and mark the codes given below :
Column A Column B
(a) migrate 1. ment
(b) notice 2. ern
(c) north 3. ion
(d) excite 4. able

Choices:

  • a) 1 4 2 3
  • b) 3 4 2 1
  • c) 3 1 4 2
  • d) 2 4 3 1
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Answer: 3 4 2 1

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Question 64

Fluttering and twittering are the admirable actions of birds. Here twittering means

Choices:

  • a) Chirping
  • b) Picking
  • c) Dancing
  • d) Dropping
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Answer: Chirping

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Question 65

Identify the character who is not portrayed in 'The Merchant of Venice'.

Choices:

  • a) Portia
  • b) Bassanio
  • c) Shylock
  • d) Brutus
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Answer: Brutus

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Question 66

Read the passage and select the correct answer from the options given below :
The selfish giant in the short story of Oscar Wilde, finally longs for

Choices:

  • a) food
  • b) love
  • c) power
  • d) wealth
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Answer: love

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Question 67

When Gangadhar Rao married the Rani of Jhonsi, she was only ________ years old.

Choices:

  • a) 15
  • b) 20
  • c) 18
  • d) 22
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Answer: 15

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Question 68

Hugh Erskine got ✓ pounds as his wedding present from Baron Hausberg.

Choices:

  • a) 10,000
  • b) 20,000
  • c) 30,000
  • d) 40,000
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Answer: 10,000

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Question 69

"The reddest flower would look as pale as snow for, all day, we drag our burden tiring".
Mention the figure of speech employed in the above lines.

Choices:

  • a) Metaphor
  • b) Simile
  • c) Oxymoron
  • d) Personification
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Answer: Simile

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Question 70

Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow "She" refers to

Choices:

  • a) the poet's mother
  • b) the poet's sister
  • c) the poet's daughter
  • d) the solitary reaper
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Answer: the solitary reaper

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Question 71

The speech in response to the student's address was rendered by Gokhale at the Victoria Hall in

Choices:

  • a) Delhi
  • b) Calcutta
  • c) Agra
  • d) Mumbai
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Answer: Calcutta

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Question 72

________ said, "Don't let anyone tell you 'You can't do it!' "

Choices:

  • a) Rakesh Sharma
  • b) Sunita Williams
  • c) Kalpana Chawla
  • d) Buzz Aldrin
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Answer: Sunita Williams

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Question 73

"The duty to Yourself is two fold", said

Choices:

  • a) Rabindranath Tagore
  • b) Viswanathan Anand
  • c) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
  • d) Subash Chandra Bose
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Answer: Gopala Krishna Gokhale

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Question 74

Which of the following is a poem?

Choices:

  • a) The Road to success
  • b) The Helping Hand
  • c) Vision for the Nation
  • d) O Captain! My Captain!
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Answer: O Captain! My Captain!

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Question 75

"Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide"
The above are the words of

Choices:

  • a) Abraham Lincoln
  • b) Rajaji
  • c) Nelson Mandela
  • d) Emerson
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Answer: Emerson

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Question 76

The Monolith, Yaanai Malai looks like an elephant only when it is viewed from this direction

Choices:

  • a) Northeast
  • b) Southeast
  • c) Northwest
  • d) Southwest
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Answer: Southwest

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Question 77

Identify the poem in which the following lines occur
You loved me with a never- failing love
You gave me strength and sweet security'

Choices:

  • a) Be the Best
  • b) Earth
  • c) A sonnet for my incomparable mother
  • d) Sonnet No. 116
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Answer: A sonnet for my incomparable mother

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Question 78

Identify the odd pair

Choices:

  • a) Swept Away Susannah Hickling
  • b) The lottery ticket Oscar wilde
  • c) No men are foreign James Kirkup
  • d) The wooden Bowl Leo Tolstoy
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Answer: The lottery ticket Oscar wilde

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Question 79

What is the name of the British born poetess who wrote "Women's Rights"?

Choices:

  • a) Elizabeth Barret Browning
  • b) Emily Dickinson
  • c) Sarojini Naidu
  • d) Annie Lousia Walker
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Answer: Annie Lousia Walker

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Question 80

Read the lines and select the correct answer from the options given below
"How often I think of going
there, to peer through.......
Where does Kamala Surayya think of going?

Choices:

  • a) to her uncle's house
  • b) to temple
  • c) to her grandma's house
  • d) to her daughter's house
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Answer: to her grandma's house

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Question 81

Match the poems in Column A with the poets in Column B:
Column A Column B
(a) Solitary Reaper 1. Khalil Gibran
(b) Is Life but a Dream? 2. D.H. Lawrence
(c) The Earth 3. Lewis Carroll
(d) Snake 4. William Wordsworth

Choices:

  • a) 3 4 2 1
  • b) 4 3 1 2
  • c) 3 1 2 4
  • d) 4 2 3 1
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Answer: 4 3 1 2

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Question 82

David Herbert Lawrence occupies a unique position among the leading ___________ of England.

Choices:

  • a) Modernist writers
  • b) Classical writers
  • c) Victorian writers
  • d) Neo-classical writers
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Answer: Modernist writers

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Question 83

The theme portrayed in Elizabeth Barret Browning's poem "The Cry of the Children" is

Choices:

  • a) Socialism
  • b) Women's Liberation
  • c) Patriotism
  • d) Child Labour
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Answer: Child Labour

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Question 84

What is the theme of the poem, 'A Psalm of Life'?

Choices:

  • a) Optimism
  • b) Pessimism
  • c) Patriotism
  • d) Friendship
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Answer: Optimism

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Question 85

"I was not born for one corner, the whole world is my native land".
Who said this?

Choices:

  • a) Portia
  • b) Kesavan Nair
  • c) Kalpana Chawla
  • d) Mrs. Hendorson
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Answer: Kalpana Chawla

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Question 86

Complete the sentence choosing the correct answer:
Mr. Parsons is the character found in the lesson

Choices:

  • a) The Helping Hand
  • b) The Mark of Vishnu
  • c) Gaia Tells Her Tale
  • d) A Man who had no Eyes
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Answer: A Man who had no Eyes

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Question 87

Choose the best answer and complete the sentence:
"Girl Star" a UNICEF project is a series of ___________

Choices:

  • a) dramas
  • b) short stories
  • c) films
  • d) prose
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Answer: films

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Question 88

How old is the Brihadeesvarar Temple?

Choices:

  • a) 2000
  • b) 1000
  • c) 1200
  • d) 2100
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Answer: 1000

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Question 89

Fill in the blank from the options given below :
ZIP codes are a system of Postal code used by ___________ postal service.

Choices:

  • a) the Australian
  • b) the Indian
  • c) the United States
  • d) the Japan
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Answer: the United States

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Question 90

Which of the following is not a poem?

Choices:

  • a) The Piano
  • b) The Cry of the Children
  • c) The Model Millionaire
  • d) Shilpi
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Answer: The Model Millionaire

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Question 91

One morning the giant was lying awake in bed and he heard some lovely music of a bird.
The bird was

Choices:

  • a) Peacock
  • b) Linnet
  • c) Cuckoo
  • d) Parrot
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Answer: Linnet

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Question 92

Olivier Messiaen composed the

Choices:

  • a) Sonnets of Sorrow
  • b) Voice of America
  • c) Quartet for the End of Time
  • d) Brahms Requiem
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Answer: Quartet for the End of Time

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Question 93

Rabindranath Tagore won the ___________ for his 'Gitanjali'.

Choices:

  • a) Washington Prize
  • b) Man Booker International Prize
  • c) Nobel Prize
  • d) American Book Award
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Answer: Nobel Prize

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Question 94

Robert Frost who wrote the poem "Going For Water" is from

Choices:

  • a) The United States of America
  • b) England
  • c) India
  • d) France
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Answer: The United States of America

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Question 95

Match the following phrasal verbs with their meanings :
Column A Column B
(a) Look after 1. Wear
(b) Put on 2. Take care of
(c) Keep on 3. Cancelled
(d) Called off 4. Continue

Choices:

  • a) 2 1 4 3
  • b) 2 1 3 4
  • c) 1 2 3 4
  • d) 4 1 3 2
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Answer: 2 1 4 3

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Question 96

"Empoli is a town in central ___________".

Choices:

  • a) Italy
  • b) India
  • c) Indiana
  • d) Indonesia
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Answer: Italy

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Question 97

To which nationality does the poet Walt Whitman belong?

Choices:

  • a) Africa
  • b) Canada
  • c) The U.S.A.
  • d) France
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Answer: The U.S.A.

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Question 98

Who among the poets given below, is not from England?

Choices:

  • a) D.H. Lawrence
  • b) Rudyard Kipling
  • c) Robert Frost
  • d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Answer: Robert Frost

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Question 99

The line, "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes". Occurs in the play

Choices:

  • a) King Lear
  • b) Othello
  • c) Julius Caesar
  • d) The Merchant of Venice
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Answer: The Merchant of Venice

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Question 100

Khalil Gibran is from

Choices:

  • a) Lebanon
  • b) India
  • c) Pakistan
  • d) Iran
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Answer: Lebanon

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