1) A heavy weight of ________ has chain'd and bow'd.
A:) wind
B:) summer
C:) hours
D:) maturing sun
springline- Correct option: C:) hours
2) Who is the author of the novel ‘The Sense of the Past’?
A:) Lionel Trilling
B:) Henry James
C:) Allen Tate
D:) James Joyce
springline- Correct option: B:) Henry James
3) Which of the following was not the one of sixteen essays in the work ‘The Liberal Imagination’ by American literary critic Lionel Trilling.
A:) Immortality Ode
B:) The Sense of the Past
C:) Art and Fortune
D:) Doctrine In Poetry
springline- Correct option: D:) Doctrine In Poetry
4) Choose the incorrect option about Anglo-Saxon:
(1) The name Anglo-Saxon denotes two of the two Germanic tribes – Angles and Saxons.
(2) The old Saxon word angul or ongul means a hook in the sense of fishing.
(3) The Angles were the most numerous of the conquering tribes.
(4) More than five hundred years after landing of these tribes, they called themselves Englishmen.
A:) 4 only
B:) 3 only
C:) 2 and 4 only
D:) 1 only
springline- Correct option: D:) 1 only
5) Choose the correct options:
(I) In the Canterbury Tales Chaucer has given a picture of contemporary English life.
(II) The Tabard Inn in the Southwark is located in North England.
(III) The Southwark was the point of departure of all traveler, especially of those mediaeval pilgrimages to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
(IV) Chaucer alights at the Tabard Inn, and finds it occupied by a various company of people bent on a pilgrimage.
(V) The company which includes all classes of English society, from the Oxford scholar to the drunken miller.
A:) I, II, III and IV correct
B:) II, III, IV and V correct
C:) I, III, IV and V correct
D:) all are correct
springline- Correct option: C:) I, III, IV and V correct
6) Morte d’Arthur, a collection of the Arthurian romances told in simple and vivid prose. The author in his introduction says that he was a knight, and completed his work in 1470. Who is the author of Morte d’ Arthur?
A:) Alfred Tennyson
B:) Thomas Wyatt
C:) Thomas Malory
D:) Thomas More
springline- Correct option: C:) Thomas Malory
7) The Faery Queen is the great work upon which Spenser’s fame chiefly rests. Spenser completed only six books, celebrating _____, ______, ______, ______, ______, and _______.
Choose the correct option.
a) Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, and Constancy;
b) Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Adventure, Justice, and Courtesy;
c) Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Journey, and Constancy;
d) Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, and Courtesy.
A:) a
B:) b
C:) c
D:) d
springline- Correct option: D:) d
8) The Apologie for Poetrie (_____), generally called the Defence of Poesie, appeared in answer to a pamphlet by Stephen Gosson called The School of Abuse (_____).
A:) 1595, 1579
B:) 1579, 1595
C:) 1554, 1554
D:) 1586, 1624
springline- Correct option: A:) 1595, 1579
9) Dr. Faustus is the story of a scholar who longs for infinite knowledge, and who turns from Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, and Law, the four sciences of the time, to the study of _______.
A:) magic
B:) nostalgic
C:) lust
D:) mnemonics
springline- Correct option: A:) magic
10) An English ship disappeared, and all on board were given up for lost. They had been wrecked on the unknown Bermudas, terrified by mysterious noises which they thought came from spirits and devils. Shakespeare took this story which caused as much as popular interest and wove it into ________.
A:) Macbeth
B:) Antony and Cleopatra
C:) The Tempest
D:) Henry IV
springline- Correct option: C:) The Tempest
11) Shakespeare’s sonnets are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings. His plays are the most impersonal. His sonnets are numbered in _______.
A:) 144
B:) 152
C:) 154
D:) 156
springline- Correct option: C:) 154
12) The Alchemist is founded on the mediaeval ideal of the philosopher’s stone and applies as well to the patent medicines and get-rich quick schemes to the peculiar forms of quackery. So, the Alchemist a study of quackery on one side and another one of ________.
A:) gullibility
B:) horror of noise
C:) tragedy
D:) blood and thundery
springline- Correct option: A:) gullibility
13) Bacon’s _______ essays, published in 1597, were brief notebook jottings of his observations.
A:) first ten
B:) second thirty-eight
C:) third ten
D:) fifty-eight
springline- Correct option: A:) first ten
14) The name _________ or Cavalier poets brings to mind the careless temper of the Royalists who followed King Charles.
A:) Separatists
B:) Caroline
C:) Calvinists
D:) Covenanters
springline- Correct option: B:) Caroline
15) Which of the following metaphysical poet is in some respects the forerunner of William Wordsworth.
A:) Henry Vaughan
B:) Abraham Cowley
C:) John Donne
D:) Thomas Middleton
springline- Correct option: A:) Henry Vaughan
16) ‘The Pulley’ which generally appears, however, under the name ‘Rest’ or ‘__________.’
A:) Repose
B:) Restless Nature
C:) God to Humankind
D:) The Gifts of God
springline- Correct option: D:) The Gifts of God
17) Who asked John Milton, after reading the manuscript of Paradise Lost, ‘But what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?’ Paradise Regained was in response to this suggestion that Milton wrote the second great epic.
A:) Barbara K. Lewalski
B:) Thomas Elwood
C:) John Bunyan
D:) Robert Burton
springline- Correct option: B:) Thomas Elwood
18) Who has two objects to get rid of his burden, which holds the sins and fears of life, and to make his way to the Holy City.
A:) Prudence
B:) Christian
C:) Christiana
D:) Red Cross Knight
springline- Correct option: B:) Christian
19) Choose the incorrect pair.
(1) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is a journey in ten stages, which is a vivid picture of the difficulties and triumphs of the Christian life.
(2) Evangelist points Christian to a wicket gate on a hill far away.
(3) Mr. Worldly Wiseman – a self- satisfied and dogmatic kind of man.
(4) This great allegory Pilgrim’s Progress is that it has been translated into seventy-five languages.
(5) Next to the bible, the book most widely read in England is the Pilgrim’s Progress.
(6) Protestantism is the salvation by grace. Pilgrim’s Progress is not exclusively a protestant study.
A:) 1 and 6
B:) 4 and 5
C:) 2 and 3
D:) None of the these
springline- Correct option: D:) None of the these
20) The plays of Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, are popular in ________ period.
A:) Elizabethan Period
B:) Puritan Period
C:) Restoration Period
D:) Augustan Period
springline- Correct option: C:) Restoration Period
21) In Restoration Period, ______ and ________ made the couplet the prevailing literary fashion, and in their hands the couplet becomes closed.
A:) John Dryden and Edmund Waller
B:) John Donne and William Congreve
C:) William Congreve and John Dryden
D:) Henry Howard and Chaucer
springline- Correct option: A:) John Dryden and Edmund Waller
22) What is / are the new element(s) which John Dryden brough into literature.
(1) The establishment of the heroic couplet as the fashion for satiric, didactic, and descriptive poetry.
(2) Dryden’s development of a direct, serviceable prose.
(3) The development of the art of literary criticism in his essays.
A:) 1 only
B:) 2 only
C:) 1 and 3 only
D:) all the three
springline- Correct option: D:) all the three
23) Rape of the Lock - __________. Match the correct options to this work.
(1) first edition consisting of three cantos.
(2) First edition was published in 1715.
(3) Perfect burlesque of an epic poem.
(4) Mock heroic theme.
A:) 1 and 2
B:) 2 and 3
C:) 3 and 4
D:) 2,3 and 4
springline- Correct option: C:) 3 and 4
24) Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London. Original title of this novel is _______.
A:) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
B:) The Adventures of Tom Jones
C:) The picaresque journey of Tome Jones
D:) The Adventures of Tom Jones and Miss Sophia
springline- Correct option: A:) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
25) Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81) is a work by Samuel. Most of them lived during the eighteenth century. Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of _____.
A:) 52 prose writers
B:) 54 poets and novelists
C:) 52 poets
D:) 54 poets
springline- Correct option: C:) 52 poets
26) The period is considering beings in the latter half of the reign of George III and ends with the accession of Victoria.
A:) Restoration Period
B:) Georgian Period
C:) Romantic Period
D:) Victorian Period
springline- Correct option: C:) Romantic Period
27) Which records the impressions made upon Wordsworth’s mind from his earliest recollection until his full manhood, in 1805, when the poem was completed.
A:) Lyrical Ballads
B:) The Prelude
C:) Immortality Ode
D:) None
springline- Correct option: B:) The Prelude
28) Which of the following poem came to the author one morning when he had fallen asleep over Purchas, and upon awakening he began to write hastily.
A:) Ode to Dejection
B:) Kubla Khan
C:) ode on a Grecian Urn
D:) Tintern Abbey
springline- Correct option: B:) Kubla Khan
29) Choose the right option:
(1) The poem Adonais was composed in the spring of 1821.
(2) It is a song of grief.
(3) It is written by Mary Shelley, over the death of the poet John Keats.
(4) it is a threnody.
A:) 1 and 3 incorrect
B:) 3 only incorrect
C:) 1 only incorrect
D:) 4 and 3 incorrect
springline- Correct option: B:) 3 only incorrect
30) Which of the following was not the odes of John Keats.
A:) Ode on a Grecian Urn
B:) To a Nightingale
C:) To Autumn
D:) Ode to the West Wind
springline- Correct option: D:) Ode to the West Wind
31) Whose letters are as much an indication of the man as is his poetry, with human sympathy, eager interest in social life and problems.
A:) William Faulkner
B:) John Keats
C:) Thomas Carlyle
D:) E.J. Pratt
springline- Correct option: B:) John Keats
32) ‘Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions’ is an alternative or subtitle or considering as the full title along with this work. It was published in 1817. The work is _______.
A:) Biographia Literaria
B:) The Prelude
C:) Letters by Keats
D:) Essays of Elia
springline- Correct option: A:) Biographia Literaria
33) It was written by Jawaharlal Nehru during his incarceration in 1942–1945 at Ahmednagar fort in present day Indian state of Maharashtra by British colonial authorities before the independence of India. The book was written in 1944 but published in 1946.
A:) Letters from a Father to his Daughter
B:) An Autobiography
C:) The Discovery of India
D:) The Story of My Experiments with Truth
springline- Correct option: C:) The Discovery of India
34) Which character among the following has spent sixteen years Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma?
A:) Miss Bates
B:) Miss Jane Fairfax
C:) Miss Taylor
D:) Miss Augusta Hawkins
springline- Correct option: C:) Miss Taylor
35) According to Chinua Achebe, who is in revolt against society, which in turn lookson him with suspicion if not hostility?
A:) socialist
B:) revolutionist
C:) teacher
D:) novelist
springline- Correct option: D:) novelist
36) Which writer among the following has remarked that a poem might happen to survive which later critics called the best poem the age produced, according to William Empson’s The Seventh Type of Ambiguity?
A:) James Smith
B:) Robert Graves
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Dante
springline- Correct option: B:) Robert Graves
37) Who among the following were believed to be dead by the ladies, according to E. E. Cummings’ The Cambridge Ladies?
A:) Christ and Chapman
B:) Longfellow and Johnson
C:) Longfellow and Christ
D:) Chapman and Johnson
springline- Correct option: C:) Longfellow and Christ
38) Which character’s name first appears in the novel after his murder, in Alan Paten’s Cry, the Beloved Country?
A:) Absalom Kumalo
B:) Arthur Jarvis
C:) James Jarvis
D:) Gertrude Kumalo
springline- Correct option: B:) Arthur Jarvis
39) Who among the following had perverted Eve to taste the fatall fruit, according to Milton’s Paradise Lost- Book IX?
A:) Satan
B:) Mephistophilis
C:) Beelzebub
D:) Serpent
springline- Correct option: D:) Serpent
40) What certainly had been pleased to endow John Tipp with a sufficient measure of the principle of self-preservation in Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia?
A:) Creativity
B:) Imagination
C:) Writing
D:) Nature
springline- Correct option: D:) Nature
41) Which character in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, intends to marry Sidi refuses to pay the bride price by thinking this custom as barbaric?
A:) Lakunle
B:) Baroka
C:) Ailatu
D:) The Stranger
springline- Correct option: A:) Lakunle
42) 'And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrailed curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket,” ( Prothalamion) Who among the following carried a wicker basket woven from twigs as mentioned in the above given lines?
A:) Brides
B:) Nymphs
C:) Swans
D:) Cynthia
springline- Correct option: B:) Nymphs
43) 'You never loved anyone. You don‘t deserve anyone‘s friendship you‘re incapable of giving. You turned into a hypocrite when you saw how powerful you‘d become. You imagined that you had become Ranjit Singh.” Who uttered the above given statement in Gurucharan Das’ Larins Sahib?
A:) Dalip Singh
B:) Tej Singh
C:) Sher Singh
D:) Lawrence
springline- Correct option: C:) Sher Singh
44) At the end of the poem The Meaning of Africa written by Abioseh Nicol ends with a small bird singing on which tree among the following?
A:) oak
B:) elm
C:) mango
D:) banyan
springline- Correct option: C:) mango
45) Which character among the following is wise- old Irishman who works as a fireman aboard the Ocean Liner?
A:) Pip
B:) Long
C:) Paddy
D:) Tom
springline- Correct option: C:) Paddy
46) Which character among the following had nickname as Hotspur because of his hastiness and fierceness in battle, in Henry IV, Part 1?
A:) Walter Blunt
B:) Prince Harry Blunt
C:) Henry Percy
D:) Thomas Percy
springline- Correct option: C:) Henry Percy
47) Among the following which character hopes to marry Maria and spreads the gossips about the people he knows in the society, according to Richard Sheridan’s The School for Scandal?
A:) Snake
B:) Sir Benjamin Backbite
C:) Careless
D:) Mr. Crabtree
springline- Correct option: B:) Sir Benjamin Backbite
48) Which character among the following in Measure for Measure, was engaged to a girl by a common-law agreement and impregnate her before the legal marriage?
A:) Angelo
B:) Claudio
C:) Lucio
D:) Escalus
springline- Correct option: B:) Claudio
49) Which character among the following has become masculine in attitude with the influence of Ikemefuna, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart?
A:) Nwoye
B:) Okonkwo
C:) Uchendu
D:) Unoka
springline- Correct option: A:) Nwoye
50) According to Mrs. Monroe in James Thurcer’s The Owl in the Attic, who left his pistol behind?
A:) Mr. Farrington
B:) Mr. Fawley
C:) Mr. Phillotson
D:) Mr. Wemmick
springline- Correct option: A:) Mr. Farrington
51) Who had a brief but extremely significant affair with the priest and helped him to escape from the capture of police, in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory?
A:) Maria
B:) Nancy
C:) Lily
D:) Brigida
springline- Correct option: A:) Maria
52) Which character among the following had scarce returned to give an account of his disappointment when the round-faced man in black entered, and dissipated all doubts on the subject by beginning to talk, in Hazlitt’s My First Acquaintance With Poets?
A:) Mr. Wedgwood
B:) Mr. Rowe
C:) Mr. Coleridge
D:) Mr. Wordsworth
springline- Correct option: B:) Mr. Rowe
53) Who among the following hates his father and wants him to leave him alone with his mother, in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse?
A:) James
B:) Andrew
C:) William
D:) Paul
springline- Correct option: A:) James
54) What is the place chosen by Catherine and Heathcliff, who are capable of escaping Hindley’s notice and free the responsibilities to go off to play together, in Wuthering Heights?
A:) park
B:) pond
C:) forest
D:) moors
springline- Correct option: D:) moors
55) Who among the following said that Emmeline Grangerfordcould rattle off poetry like nothing, in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
A:) Bob
B:) Tom
C:) Buck
D:) Jim
springline- Correct option: C:) Buck
56) Who is the schoolmaster, left about twenty miles away from the village to the town of Christminster, in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure?
A:) Fawley
B:) Richard Phillotson
C:) Joseph
D:) Ganville
springline- Correct option: B:) Richard Phillotson
57) Who among the following was essentially a poet, according to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry?
A:) Plato
B:) Dante
C:) Bacon
D:) Shelley
springline- Correct option: A:) Plato
58) According to Bacon, what may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that shows best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that shows best in varied lights?
A:) lie
B:) Cowardice
C:) wickedness
D:) Truth
springline- Correct option: D:) Truth
59) Who among the following is the son of High Chief, a King native of Rokovoko and his uncle a High Priest, in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?
A:) Starbuck
B:) Ahab
C:) Queequeg
D:) Peleg
springline- Correct option: C:) Queequeg
60) “It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.” Who said the above given line according to Francis Bacon’s Of Revenge?
A:) Solomon
B:) Montaigne
C:) Seneca
D:) Tacitus
springline- Correct option: A:) Solomon
61) In which work does Barthes strikes a distinction between the classic ‘lisible’ and scriptible’?
A:) Intertextuality
B:) S/Z
C:) The Archetypal Patterns
D:) Le Degre Zero De L’ Ericture
springline- Correct option: B:) S/Z
62) “I am indebted to your friend, or your wife’s friend, Mrs. Marwood” According to William Congreve’s The Way of the World,-Act I, Scene I, who is indebted to Mrs. Marwood?
A:) Mirabell
B:) Marwood
C:) Foible
D:) Fainall
springline- Correct option: A:) Mirabell
63) Who nursed Santiago and decides to get back with old man to accompany him in the sea, in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
A:) Manolin
B:) Diaggo
C:) Patrachio
D:) Thomson
springline- Correct option: A:) Manolin
64) In Arnold’s Dover Beach, the speaker looks across the English channel and views the lights of which coast that fades away?
A:) English
B:) French
C:) German
D:) Vietnam
springline- Correct option: B:) French
65) Who among the following created the character Mrs. Malaprop, which leads to get the term malapropism?
A:) Thomas Morton
B:) Edmund Burke
C:) Sheridan
D:) Spenser
springline- Correct option: C:) Sheridan
66) “the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.” Who said the above given line according to Francis Bacon’s Of Truth?
A:) Solomon
B:) Montaigne
C:) Seneca
D:) Tacitus
springline- Correct option: C:) Seneca
67) T.S. Eillot’s The Waste land, begins with which month among the following which is considered as the cruellest month?
A:) January
B:) June
C:) April
D:) December
springline- Correct option: C:) April
68) “We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility –“(Because I could not stop for Death) Who is ‘him’ in the above given line refers to?
A:) lover
B:) fate
C:) nature
D:) death
springline- Correct option: D:) death
69) Among the following where does the divine idea of the World lies, according to Thomas Carlyle’s The Hero as Man of Letters?
A:) at the bottom of all goodness
B:) at the bottom of all character
C:) at the bottom of all actions
D:) at the bottom of all appearance
springline- Correct option: D:) at the bottom of all appearance
70) The speaker of Arnold’s The Scholar Gypsy, says that near him on the grass lies book which contains famous story. Who is the author the book?
A:) Thomas Glanvill
B:) Joseph Glanvill
C:) Richard Glanvill
D:) George Glanvill
springline- Correct option: B:) Joseph Glanvill
71) “And I love it. I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand), you’ll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.” Who uttered the above given line in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer?
A:) Lumpkin
B:) Hardcastle
C:) Jeremy
D:) Marlow
springline- Correct option: B:) Hardcastle
72) According to T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent, who among the following has a historical sense?
A:) traditional dramatist
B:) traditional essayist
C:) traditional poet
D:) traditional critic
springline- Correct option: C:) traditional poet
73) Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue. To whom did the is Renaissance painter narrated the poem?
A:) wife
B:) Ladylove
C:) friend
D:) women of his dream
springline- Correct option: A:) wife
74) What is the term that describes the combination of part of one word with part of another word, carrying with it the ideas behind both the original terms?
A:) slang terms
B:) conscious and deliberate coinage
C:) portmanteau words
D:) freak formation
springline- Correct option: C:) portmanteau words
75) In R. Parthasarathy : from Trial from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, what is compared with a pretty kettle of fish?
A:) school
B:) workspace
C:) college
D:) family
springline- Correct option: A:) school
76) Among the following in which year does Mulk Raj Anand’s famous novel Coolie was first published?
A:) 1934
B:) 1935
C:) 1936
D:) 1937
springline- Correct option: C:) 1936
77) “the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman prætors have decided how often you may go into your neighbor’s land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor.” Who said he above given statement according to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden?
A:) Raleigh
B:) Darwin
C:) Evelyn
D:) Gookin
springline- Correct option: C:) Evelyn
78) What is the component of linguistics which deals with the way in which the sounds function in a language?
A:) phonetics
B:) phonology
C:) phoneme
D:) phonic
springline- Correct option: B:) phonology
79) Among the following whose house is stockpiled with spinning-wheels and books on nonviolent resistance, Raja Rao’s Kandhapura?
A:) Nanjamma
B:) Moorthy
C:) Narsamma
D:) Rangamma
springline- Correct option: D:) Rangamma
80) “And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.” (To His Coy Mistress). Pick the correct explanation for the above given poetic lines?
A:) Speaker denotes that their future is an unending desert
B:) Speaker his love for the lady love is like an unending desert
C:) Speaker thinks about the love that lies like a desert without life
D:) Speaker refers his love life as a desert
springline- Correct option: A:) Speaker denotes that their future is an unending desert
81) What is the term that recommends both non-standard and standard dialects should be encouraged in the educational process?
A:) dialect
B:) idiolect
C:) bidialectism
D:) personal dialect
springline- Correct option: C:) bidialectism
82) Which chapter among the following, is/are devoted to characterization in Aristotle’s Poetics? (a.) chapter 13-14, (b.) chapter 15, (c.) chapter 19, (d.) chapter 16
A:) d only
B:) c only
C:) b only
D:) a only
springline- Correct option: C:) b only
83) “Catapulting from the ledge, He flew at first with rapid beat, Level, direct: then with his grasp” (The Dying Eagle). What does the word ‘Catapulting’ means in the above given poetic line?
A:) hurl
B:) plod
C:) creep
D:) cease
springline- Correct option: A:) hurl
84) Various English translation of Bible is the important outcome of the Renaissance. Authorised Version of Bible is published in which year?
A:) 1610
B:) 1611
C:) 1613
D:) 1615
springline- Correct option: B:) 1611
85) Who among the following coined the term ‘pandemonium’ that refers to the conference hall of all the devils?
A:) Johnson
B:) Milton
C:) Dryden
D:) Pope
springline- Correct option: B:) Milton
86) According to Ode to Autumn written by John Keats, which season brought so many flowers?
A:) Summer
B:) Spring
C:) Autumn
D:) Rainy
springline- Correct option: A:) Summer
87) What is compared with speaker’s dance on grave in the poem Fire at the Murdering Hut by Judith Wright?
A:) merciless day
B:) cruelty
C:) white rose
D:) lover’s ghost
springline- Correct option: A:) merciless day
88) In Samson Agonistes, Samson was made Captive, Blind, and laboured in a common work-house. In which Prison does Samson was kept as a prisoner?
A:) Philistine
B:) Gaza
C:) Harappa
D:) Israel
springline- Correct option: B:) Gaza
89) According to Goodbye party for Miss Pushpa : Nissim Ezekiel from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, which relative of Miss Pushpa was renowned advocate in Bulsar or Surat?
A:) Father
B:) Brother
C:) Cousin
D:) Grandfather
springline- Correct option: A:) Father
90) “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter;” Which musical instrument is played by the man in as described in the above given poetic lines taken from the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn?
A:) pipe
B:) violin
C:) drum
D:) flute
springline- Correct option: A:) pipe
91) What is the term used for a criticism which concerns itself with developing a specifically female framework for dealing with works written by female?
A:) andricriticism
B:) gynocriticism
C:) ecriture feminine
D:) feministic criticism
springline- Correct option: B:) gynocriticism
92) Which Royal Engineer among the following, has been working at the machine for the last twenty-five years, in Tagore’s Muktha Dhara?
A:) Suman
B:) Bibhuti
C:) Gobru
D:) Ranajit
springline- Correct option: B:) Bibhuti
93) Which dialect attained to the position of a kind of ‘standard’ so gradually came to occupy a similar position in Middle English, namely that of the East Midlands?
A:) Sussex
B:) Wessex
C:) Essex
D:) Northumbrian
springline- Correct option: B:) Wessex
94) “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god:” The above given statement is quoted in which essay of Bacon?
A:) Of Adversity
B:) Of Friendship
C:) Of Truth
D:) Of Ambition
springline- Correct option: B:) Of Friendship
95) At the beginning of William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, speaker talks about the past summer and winter. How many years have passed according to the first line of the poem?
A:) ten years
B:) seven years
C:) five years
D:) three years
springline- Correct option: C:) five years
96) Among the following who sang the song 'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?' for the one last time, in Edward Albee’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A:) George
B:) Nick
C:) Martha
D:) Honey
springline- Correct option: A:) George
97) Who among the following disguised as Vishnu Prasad, a Hindu Brahmin and files a case against the king’s men in Girish Karnad ‘s Tughlaq?
A:) Aziz
B:) Aazam
C:) Sayyid
D:) Ratan
springline- Correct option: A:) Aziz
98) According to Samuel Johnson, Milton was at eminently skilled in the which tongue at the time of 1624, aged fifteen?
A:) Latin
B:) Greek
C:) French
D:) English
springline- Correct option: A:) Latin
99) Blanche handed the estate documents meanwhile Stanley snatched second set of paper Blanche grabbed those papers back. What is the content of the second set of papers, according to A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams?
A:) documents related to the name transaction of the estate
B:) her new brought house documents
C:) will of her father
D:) old letters and love poems she has saved from her husband
springline- Correct option: D:) old letters and love poems she has saved from her husband
100) Among the following what is higher than intellect, according to Emerson's The American Scholar?
A:) thoughts
B:) image
C:) character
D:) honesty
springline- Correct option: C:) character
101) Which character among the following is a successful lawyer, who treats Willy’s sons dearly, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman?
A:) Bernard
B:) Charley
C:) Ben
D:) Biff
springline- Correct option: A:) Bernard
102) Pick the appropriate word in the blank of below given poetic lines. “Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of _______ Bore the gold-red seeking of feet that trod Space and Time’s mute vanishing ends.” (Thought the Paraclete).
A:) colour
B:) tide
C:) wind
D:) birds
springline- Correct option: C:) wind
103) “As ‘twixt two equal armies fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls (which to advance their state Were gone out) hung ‘twixt her and me.”( The Ecstasy). According to the above given poem lines, who might hold the victory in balance?
A:) armies
B:) life
C:) soul
D:) fate
springline- Correct option: D:) fate
104) Which character among the following is known for the traditional and ethical values which is a source to bind her husband to her despite few movements, in Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice?
A:) Rani
B:) Nalini
C:) Manu
D:) Manju
springline- Correct option: B:) Nalini
105) Among the following what is the form of the tongue of the earliest inhabitants of the islands, who were known as Britons?
A:) Wessex
B:) Celtic
C:) Norman French
D:) Anglo Saxon
springline- Correct option: B:) Celtic
106) Rabindranath Tagore’s Song Offerings is a collection of how many poems in his own translation in English?
A:) 105
B:) 104
C:) 103
D:) 101
springline- Correct option: C:) 103
107) “Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made the grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade” (Dejection: An Ode). What does the word ‘tranquil’ in the above given poetic lines means?
A:) frightening
B:) calm
C:) violent
D:) turbulent
springline- Correct option: B:) calm
108) Which character is depicted as Lisidus in Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy? (a.) Dryden, (b.) Charles Sackville, (c.) Sir Charles Sedley, (d.) Crites
A:) d only
B:) a only
C:) c only
D:) b only
springline- Correct option: C:) c only
109) Which theory among the following is usually associated with the name of the eminent German scholar and philologist, Max Mullar, though others have also adopted it?
A:) The bow-wow theory
B:) The ding-dong theory
C:) The pooh-pooh theory
D:) The gesture theory
springline- Correct option: B:) The ding-dong theory
110) According to The Dance of Shiva, what is equal to the gospel of Jesus and of Blake, Lao Tze, and Rumi — but nowhere else has it been made the essen- tial basis of sociology and education?
A:) thoughts
B:) tradition
C:) philosophy
D:) culture
springline- Correct option: C:) philosophy
111) Which of the following is the correct order human needs as formulated in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? (a) Safety Needs (b) Love and Belonging needs (c) Physiological needs (d) Self-actualization needs (e) Esteem needs. Choose the most appropriate answer form the options given below:
A:) (a), (c), (b), (d) and (e) only
B:) (c), (a), (b), (e) and (d) only
C:) (b), (a), (c), (d) and (e) only
D:) (c), (b), (a), (e) and (d) only
springline- Correct option: B:) (c), (a), (b), (e) and (d) only
112) One of the concepts of education which will be assented to by Vedant Philosophy
A:) Vocationalization of education
B:) Awakening of intelligence with all the three Q’s – IQ, EQ and SQ
C:) Reptilian leadership model
D:) None
springline- Correct option: B:) Awakening of intelligence with all the three Q’s – IQ, EQ and SQ
113) Choose the incorrect pair.
A:) Dyslexia – Difficulty in development of literacy and language related skills
B:) Dyspraxia – Difficulty in motor coordination resulting in poor or out of order movements
C:) Dysgraphia – Difficulty in writing associated with usage of wrong word during communication
D:) ADHD – Difficulty in visualizing associated with educational technology
springline- Correct option: D:) ADHD – Difficulty in visualizing associated with educational technology
114) The author of ‘Baratman Bharat’ is _________
A:) Mahatma Gandhi
B:) Rabindranath Tagore
C:) Sri Aurobindo
D:) Swami Vivekananda
springline- Correct option: D:) Swami Vivekananda
115) What describes a Virtual Classroom?
A:) Learners using technology in a classroom environment led by a tutor
B:) A training course done using you-tube tutorials
C:) online learning environment accessed through the webinars
D:) online live learning course
springline- Correct option: C:) online learning environment accessed through the webinars
116) Which of the following has the high potential for empirical validation in using Educational Technology?
A:) Textbook
B:) Printed lectures of Distance Education
C:) Modular reading materials
D:) Programmed Instructional material
springline- Correct option: D:) Programmed Instructional material
117) Assimilation, accommodation and adoption based cognitive approach -
A:) Jean Piaget
B:) Gerome Bruner
C:) David Ausubel
D:) Lev Vygotsky
springline- Correct option: A:) Jean Piaget
118) The correct sequence in the development of educational technology in India is reflected by which of the following:
A:) Audio aids, Video aids, Audio-Visual aids, ICT supported aids
B:) ICT aids, Audio aids, Audio-Visual aids, Video aids
C:) Video aids, Audio-Visual aids, Audio aids, ICT aids
D:) Audio-Visual aids, Video aids, Audio aids, ICT aids
springline- Correct option: A:) Audio aids, Video aids, Audio-Visual aids, ICT supported aids
119) Keeping in view the continuous cycle of process improvement, which of the following is in proper sequence?
A:) Do-Check-Act-Plan
B:) Check-Do-Act-Plan
C:) Plan-Do-Check-Act
D:) Act-Check-Do- Plan
springline- Correct option: C:) Plan-Do-Check-Act
120) Stayin in the course towards desired goal - _________
A:) Self-Awareness
B:) Empathy
C:) Self-Motivation
D:) Social Skills
springline- Correct option: C:) Self-Motivation
121) The Pre-primary is also called the Kindergarten in India; the term was first introduced by Mr. Friedrich Frobel in _______, which literally means children's garden.
A:) 1837
B:) 1920
C:) 1919
D:) 1939
springline- Correct option: A:) 1837
122) Kallanai was a dyke, built with stones. It was constructed across the _____________ to divert water throughout the delta region for irrigation.
A:) River Kaveri
B:) River Krishna
C:) River Godaveri
D:) River Brahmaputra
springline- Correct option: A:) River Kaveri
123) The People of Mullai is called as _________
A:) Maravar/Marathiyar
B:) Parathavar/ nulathiyar
C:) Uzhavan/uzhathiyar
D:) Aayar/aaichiyar
springline- Correct option: D:) Aayar/aaichiyar
124) A candidate who wishes to contest in either of the Parliamentary, State Assembly but does not have an association with the other parties, may contest the election as a/an ____________ candidate.
A:) dependent
B:) parliament
C:) State
D:) Independent
springline- Correct option: D:) Independent
125) The _______ pollution is defined as the physical pollution of living organisms and their environment as a result of release of radioactive substances into the environment during nuclear explosions and testing of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon production and decommissioning, mining of radioactive ores, handling.
A:) Water
B:) Air
C:) Radioactive
D:) Land
springline- Correct option: C:) Radioactive
126) The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana is deemed as Skill India's flagship skill development scheme. Its objective is to enable youth to take up training to secure a better livelihood. Assessment and training fees under this scheme are covered by the ______, and individuals with prior experience can get certified.
A:) Central government
B:) State Government
C:) Individual
D:) none
springline- Correct option: A:) Central government
127) An open university is a university with an open-door academic policy, with minimal or no entry requirements. Open universities may employ specific teaching methods, such as open supported learning or _____ education.
A:) primary
B:) secondary
C:) tertiary
D:) distance
springline- Correct option: D:) distance
128) The emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country is called as ________
A:) expats brain
B:) Brain drain
C:) Export brain
D:) Import edu
springline- Correct option: B:) Brain drain
129) _______is said to be an unavoidable part of learning for each infant as these are the first steps towards a whole world of knowledge.
A:) Secondary Education
B:) Pre-Primary Education
C:) Higher secondary education
D:) Distance education
springline- Correct option: B:) Pre-Primary Education
130) The National Committee on the educational structure (10+2+3) also wanted the Government of India to delink degrees from jobs. This view was also expressed in ______ by the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration.
A:) 1982
B:) 1998
C:) 1880
D:) 1867
springline- Correct option: A:) 1982
131) _______is the awareness of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country. It means that though the individuals belong to different communities, castes, religions, cultures and regions and speak different languages, all of them recognize the fact that they are one.
A:) Combined
B:) difference
C:) Isolation
D:) National integration
springline- Correct option: D:) National integration
132) 100 calories per serving is considered moderate, while _____ or more calories per serving is considered high in calories.
A:) 500
B:) 400
C:) 300
D:) 200
springline- Correct option: B:) 400
133) The current system of education, was introduced and funded by the British in the 19th century, following recommendations by ____________.
A:) Thomas Babington Macaulay
B:) Dalhousie
C:) Mount Batten
D:) William Petre
springline- Correct option: A:) Thomas Babington Macaulay
134) The Ministry of Education, formerly the Ministry of _______________, is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education.
A:) National ministry development
B:) Human Resource Development
C:) Edu Resource Development
D:) None
springline- Correct option: B:) Human Resource Development
135) The Reserve Bank of India was formally set up in _______ and was empowered to issue Government of India notes. It shows great growth in economic as well as in Education.
A:) 1978
B:) 1956
C:) 1935
D:) 1966
springline- Correct option: C:) 1935
136) The ___________(NDA) is the joint defense service training institute of the Indian Armed Forces.
A:) National Defence Academy
B:) National Defence Air Force
C:) National Defence Association
D:) National Difference Academy
springline- Correct option: A:) National Defence Academy
137) ___________ lies at the core of the culture of Tamil Nadu. Among the most famous of the state's temples, which number in the tens of thousands, are the 7th- and 8th-century structures at Mamallapura, which were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
A:) Hinduism
B:) Buddhism
C:) Jainism
D:) Islam
springline- Correct option: A:) Hinduism
138) Tamil Nadu shines as one of the leading textile manufacturing states in India. In _________ Saree of silk, Cotton Dhoti and more such fabrics are produced.
A:) Madurai
B:) Salem
C:) Ooty
D:) Kanchipuram
springline- Correct option: D:) Kanchipuram
139) ___________ education is instruction that is specially designed to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability. This means education that is individually developed to address a specific child's needs that result from his or her disability.
A:) Primary
B:) Special
C:) Secondary
D:) Tertiary
springline- Correct option: B:) Special
140) The four core learning styles include visual, auditory, reading and writing, and___________.
A:) kinesthetic
B:) Gymnastics
C:) Physical training
D:) Meditation
springline- Correct option: A:) kinesthetic
141) Which of the following Open Educational Resource (OER) comes under the ambit of Indian Initiatives?
A:) Coursera
B:) Edse
C:) E-Gyan Kosh
D:) Open Stax
springline- Correct option: C:) E-Gyan Kosh
142) An inquiry-oriented activity in which the information comes from resources on the internet, optimally supplemented with video conferencing is called
A:) Digital Technology
B:) Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
C:) Virtual Learning
D:) Web Quest
springline- Correct option: D:) Web Quest
143) WBL stands for
A:) Wide Based Learning
B:) Web Based Learning
C:) Web Biased Learning
D:) Web Biased Listening
springline- Correct option: B:) Web Based Learning
144) For a group of Adult Learners a trainer provides information to enable them to understand the information for indicating acceptability or non-acceptability of their responses this will be technically called providing
A:) Prompts for emission of correct behavior
B:) Feedback of the given response.
C:) Judging the value of information.
D:) Information linkage device.
springline- Correct option: B:) Feedback of the given response.
145) Which of the following is best suited for assessment of social skills?
A:) Checklist
B:) Rating Scale
C:) Numerical Scale
D:) Rubrics
springline- Correct option: D:) Rubrics
146) During the course of teaching a teacher very often uses probing questions to clarify student’s ideas and concepts. This may be linked with which of the following assessment procedures?
A:) Diagnostic Assessment
B:) Predictive Assessment
C:) Formative Assessment
D:) Summative Assessment
springline- Correct option: C:) Formative Assessment
147) Who of the following developed the concept of Behavior shaping through the use of principle of successive approximation?
A:) Thorndike
B:) Watson
C:) Skinner
D:) Piaget
springline- Correct option: C:) Skinner
148) The right to free and compulsory education at primary education level is ensured by the constitution of India through
A:) Article 45 of directive principles
B:) Article 21B, 2002
C:) Article 21A, 2009
D:) Article 21A, 2002
springline- Correct option: D:) Article 21A, 2002
149) Establishment of DIETs was result of one of the recommendations of ________.
A:) Education Commission -1966
B:) University Education Commission 1948-49
C:) Secondary Education Commission 1952- 53
D:) National Policy of Education 1986
springline- Correct option: D:) National Policy of Education 1986
150) Who among the following contributed the book entitled ‘Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol’
A:) Mahatma Gandhi
B:) Savithribai Phule
C:) Sri Aurobindo
D:) Swami Vivekananda
springline- Correct option: C:) Sri Aurobindo