৩২. In Gulliver's Travels, which of these traits Swift does not show in his depiction of the land of the Lilliput?
- A) pride
- B) lies
- C) peace & wisdom
- D) silly rules
✓ Answer: C) peace & wisdom
Explanation: The Lilliputians are depicted as petty and proud; they completely lack peace and wisdom.
৩৩. 'To have a shot' means-
- A) to open fire
- B) to take a photograph
- C) to make a try
- D) to test a gun
✓ Answer: C) to make a try
Explanation: The idiom 'to have a shot' means to attempt to do something or to make a try.
৩৪. The killing of albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was indicative of-
- A) a trigger-happy Mariner
- B) the essential irrationality of man
- C) a superstitious Mariner
- D) the Mariner as a skillful fowler
✓ Answer: B) the essential irrationality of man
Explanation: The act of killing the albatross symbolizes humanity's innate capacity for irrational and thoughtless destruction.
৩৫. In William Shakespeare's play As you Like It, the Seven Ages of Man speech was delivered by.
- A) Oliver
- B) Orlando
- C) Jaques
- D) Rosalind
✓ Answer: C) Jaques
Explanation: The famous monologue 'All the world's a stage' is delivered by the melancholy character Jaques.
৩৬. The book that she recommended turned out to be very helpful. Here the underlined clause is a-
- A) relative clause
- B) noun clause
- C) adverbial clause
- D) independent clause
✓ Answer: A) relative clause
Explanation: The clause 'that she recommended' modifies the noun 'book', making it a relative (adjective) clause.
৩৭. Candidates are required to get the centre before 09:00 AM.
- A) at
- B) to
- C) in
- D) into
✓ Answer: B) to
Explanation: The phrase 'get to' is commonly used in English to indicate arriving at or reaching a destination.
৩৮. Identify the compound sentence-
- A) Either you do it or you will be fined
- B) Unless you do it, you will be fined
- C) Do it or I shall fine you
- D) You have to do it, otherwise I will fine you
✓ Answer: C) Do it or I shall fine you
Explanation: A compound sentence connects two independent clauses ('Do it' and 'I shall fine you') with a coordinating conjunction ('or').
৩৯. Which novel chronicles intense, destructive love fueling multigenerational cruelty & obsession?
- A) Jane Eyre
- B) Emma
- C) Wuthering Heights
- D) Persuasion
✓ Answer: C) Wuthering Heights
Explanation: Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' explores the dark, intense, and destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine.
৪০. Identify the incorrect spelling-
- A) diletante
- B) homonym
- C) cromulent
- D) accubation
✓ Answer: A) diletante
Explanation: The incorrect spelling is 'diletante'; the correct spelling requires a double 't' as 'dilettante'.
৪১. 'You will need a variety of skills, including leadership, endurance etc.' In this sentence the word 'including' is a-
- A) conjunction
- B) gerund
- C) participle
- D) preposition
✓ Answer: D) preposition
Explanation: In this context, 'including' functions as a preposition introducing the objects that are part of the group.
৪২. Themes like racial prejudice, oppressive power dynamics, unbridgeable gulf between Eastern & Western cultures, etc. are best exemplified in-
- A) Shadow of the Moon by MM Kaye
- B) Bhowani Junction by John Masters
- C) Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- D) A Passage to India by EM Forster
✓ Answer: D) A Passage to India by EM Forster
Explanation: E.M. Forster's 'A Passage to India' masterfully explores the tensions and cultural divide between the British colonizers and native Indians.
৪৩. 'Helena said I took the laptop home with me.' Its indirect form is-
- A) Helena said that she took the laptop home with her
- B) Helena said that she had taken the laptop home with her
- C) Helena confirmed that she has taken the laptop home with her
- D) Helena told that she had the laptop taken home with her
✓ Answer: B) Helena said that she had taken the laptop home with her
Explanation: In indirect speech, the past tense reporting verb changes the past indefinite ('took') to past perfect ('had taken').
৪৪. Which of these works contains a defence of the right of freedom of speech and expression?
- A) Holy Living and Holy Dying
- B) Areopagitica
- C) Religio Medici
- D) A Free Man's Worship
✓ Answer: B) Areopagitica
Explanation: John Milton's 'Areopagitica' is one of history's most passionate defences of the right to freedom of speech and expression.
৪৫. Identify the sentence where 'up' functions as a noun-
- A) He turned the volume up.
- B) Business confidence is on the up.
- C) We live just up the road.
- D) Our system should be up by afternoon.
✓ Answer: B) Business confidence is on the up.
Explanation: In the phrase 'on the up', 'up' functions as a noun meaning an upward trend.
৪৬. Which of these is not characteristic of English Romantic Poetry?
- A) Ordinary life
- B) Everyday language
- C) Expression of feelings rather than action or plot
- D) Inane and gaudy phraseology
✓ Answer: D) Inane and gaudy phraseology
Explanation: Romantic poetry specifically rejected 'inane and gaudy phraseology' in favor of ordinary life and everyday language.
৪৭. A synonym of the word 'crepuscular' is-
- A) nocturnal
- B) diurnal
- C) cathemeral
- D) twilit
✓ Answer: D) twilit
Explanation: 'Crepuscular' relates to twilight, making 'twilit' its closest synonym.
৪৮. 'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility' is a statement ascribed to-
- A) Coleridge
- B) William Wordsworth
- C) TS Eliot
- D) IA Richards
✓ Answer: B) William Wordsworth
Explanation: This is William Wordsworth's famous definition of poetry from his 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads'.
৪৯. 'It is no good falling in love at first sight'. Here the word "falling" is a/an-
- A) participle
- B) infinitive
- C) gerund
- D) verbal noun
✓ Answer: C) gerund
Explanation: The word 'falling' is a verb+ing form acting as a noun, which makes it a gerund.
৫০. Which one is a coordinating conjunction?
- A) since
- B) lest
- C) as
- D) so
✓ Answer: D) so
Explanation: In the acronym FANBOYS, 'so' is a coordinating conjunction that connects equal clauses.
৫১. An element required in a paragraph for smooth flow of ideas is called a-
- A) transition sentence
- B) topic sentence
- C) supporting sentence
- D) concluding sentence
✓ Answer: A) transition sentence
Explanation: Transition sentences act as bridges between ideas to ensure the writing flows smoothly.
৫২. What gender is the word 'monarch'?
- A) masculine
- B) feminine
- C) neuter
- D) common
✓ Answer: D) common
Explanation: A 'monarch' can be either a King (male) or a Queen (female), so it belongs to the common gender.
৫৩. In which of these poems did Matthew Arnold express a pessimistic worldview, reflecting on a world full of conflicts and lacking in joy...
- A) Scholar Gipsy
- B) Dover Beach
- C) Rugby Chapel
- D) Immortality
✓ Answer: B) Dover Beach
Explanation: In 'Dover Beach', Matthew Arnold expresses a pessimistic view of the Victorian world losing its faith.
৫৪. A very large building in which aircraft are housed is called a/an-
- A) terminal
- B) aerodrome
- C) hanger
- D) hangar
✓ Answer: D) hangar
Explanation: A 'hangar' is a large building structure used to house and store aircraft.
৫৫. The lines 'A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou/Beside me singing in the Wilderness....' are taken from a famous translation work by-
- A) Scott Fitzgerald
- B) Edward Fitzgerald
- C) William Fitzgerald
- D) Gerald Fitzgerald
✓ Answer: B) Edward Fitzgerald
Explanation: These lines are from 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám', translated by Edward FitzGerald.
৫৬. 'The villagers believed that he was an honest leader.' Passive form of this sentence is-
- A) He was believed to be an honest leader
- B) He was believed to have been an honest leader
- C) He has been believed to be an honest leader
- D) He was believed he was an honest leader
✓ Answer: A) He was believed to be an honest leader
Explanation: Sentences with a 'that clause' can form the passive using the subject of the clause followed by the passive reporting verb and an infinitive.
৫৭. The saying 'Every cloud has its silver lining' means-
- A) bad weather is often replaced by good weather
- B) clouds often have shining surroundings
- C) every difficult situation has a more hopeful aspect though not apparent at the beginning
- D) clouds and sunshine go hand in hand
✓ Answer: C) every difficult situation has a more hopeful aspect...
Explanation: This proverb conveys optimism, meaning that even dark times have a positive or hopeful aspect.
৫৮. What is the antonym of 'percipience'?
- A) shrewdness
- B) dullness
- C) discerning
- D) astuteness
✓ Answer: B) dullness
Explanation: 'Percipience' means sharp perception, so its direct opposite is 'dullness'.
৫৯. Which functions both as a transitive and an intransitive verb?
- A) sleep
- B) arrive
- C) break
- D) die
✓ Answer: C) break
Explanation: The verb 'break' can be transitive ('He broke it') and intransitive ('It broke').
৬০. 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments; love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds'. Lines taken from a sonnet by-
- A) Spencer
- B) Petrarch
- C) Shakespeare
- D) Donne
✓ Answer: C) Shakespeare
Explanation: These are the opening lines of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 about true love.
৬১. Which play is filled with nonsensical conversations, meaningless dialogues, and characters who often become forgetful?
- A) Pygmalion
- B) The Skin Game
- C) Waiting for Godot
- D) Candida
✓ Answer: C) Waiting for Godot
Explanation: Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' is a cornerstone of the 'Theatre of the Absurd'.