1) According to William Empson’s The Seventh Type of Ambiguity, words used as epithet is a words used to analyse a direct statement, whereas what is considered as the synthesis of several units of observation into one commanding image?
A:) telescoping
B:) metaphor
C:) anecdote
D:) aphorism
springline- Correct option:B:) metaphor
2) What stands awkwardly across the road with fear in The Meaning of Africa written by Abioseh Nicol?
A:) lumber
B:) oak
C:) elm
D:) cedar
springline- Correct option:A:) lumber
3) “For aught I woot, he was of Dertemouthe. He rood upon a rouncy, as he kouthe, In a gowne of faldyng to the knee.” ( Prologue to the Canterbury Tales) The above given line describes which character among the following?
A:) shipman
B:) weaver
C:) carpenter
D:) tapestry
springline- Correct option:A:) shipman
4) Which writer formed the popular phrase ‘objective correlative’ and expressed his dissatisfaction about the term?
A:) Johnson
B:) Dryden
C:) T.S. Eliot
D:) Aristotle
springline- Correct option:C:) T.S. Eliot
5) Who is the old suitor of Blanche for whom she compose a telegram with the hope of getting help from him to escape, in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams?
A:) Steve
B:) Shep Huntleigh
C:) Pablo
D:) Allan Grey
springline- Correct option:B:) Shep Huntleigh
6) “It fortuned out of the thickest wood A ramping Lyon rushed suddainly, Hunting full greedy after salvage blood; Soone as the royall virgin he did spy, With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, To have attonce devourd her tender corse: But to the pray when as he drew more ny, His bloody rage asswaged with remorse, And with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse.”( The Faerie Queene) According to the above given lines who rushed suddenly with thoughts of hunting?
A:) Knight
B:) Soliders
C:) dragon
D:) lion
springline- Correct option:D:) lion
7) Among the following what is he reason behind Nick marrying Honey, in Edward Albee’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A:) he was forced by their parents
B:) he thought that she was pregnant
C:) he married her for money
D:) he married her to start a new life
springline- Correct option:B:) he thought that she was pregnant
8) “Most musical of mourners, weep again! Lament anew, Urania!—He died Who was the sire of an immortal strain,” (Adonais) Who is Urania in the above given poetic line?
A:) lady love
B:) angel of death
C:) member of heaven
D:) one of the nine muses
springline- Correct option:D:) one of the nine muses
9) Which character among the following is the daughter of millionaire who produces half of the steel in the world?
A:) Bridged
B:) Nancy
C:) Mildred
D:) Lily
springline- Correct option:C:) Mildred
10) What is the name of the gentleman, who had then resided some time at Mr Allworthy's house, according to Book III-chapter III of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones?
A:) Mr. Square
B:) Mr. Western
C:) Mr. Locke
D:) Mr. Thwackum
springline- Correct option:A:) Mr. Square
11) “I really don’t mind staying here when Germaine is here- just we two but I think I would be terrified if I were alone” (The Owl in the Attic) Who is Germaine in the above mentioned line?
A:) maid
B:) house owner
C:) chef
D:) host
springline- Correct option:A:) maid
12) Who never mounted the box of a stage coach in his life or leaned against the rails of a balcony, according to Essays of Elia- The South Sea House?
A:) Tipp
B:) Henry
C:) Clinton
D:) Howe
springline- Correct option:A:) Tipp
13) “Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain’ dead—you ain’ drownded—you’s back agin? It’s too good for true, honey, it’s too good for true. Lemme look at you chile, lemme feel o’ you. No, you ain’ dead! you’s back agin, ’live en soun’, jis de same ole Huck—de same ole Huck, thanks to goodness!” Who uttered the above given statement in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Chapter XIV?
A:) Pip
B:) Jim
C:) Tom
D:) Buck
springline- Correct option:B:) Jim
14) “When did my colds a forward spring remove? When did the heats which my veins fill” (Canonisation) What is the literary device used in the above given poem lines?
A:) anaphora
B:) anecdote
C:) aphorism
D:) analogy
springline- Correct option:A:) anaphora
15) Which character among the following argue in favour of French neo-classical drama of seventeenth century in Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy?
A:) Crites
B:) Neander
C:) Lisidius
D:) Eugenius
springline- Correct option:C:) Lisidius
16) Which character among the following was George Washington cannibalistically developed, in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?
A:) Bildad
B:) Queequeg
C:) Peter
D:) Hosea Hussey
springline- Correct option:B:) Queequeg
17) “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.” The above given line is often repeated in the above given line in Edmund Spenser’s Prothalamion. What is the literary term for the repetition of a part in a poem?
A:) refrain
B:) anaphora
C:) epistrophe
D:) antanaclasis
springline- Correct option:A:) refrain
18) What attracted sharks when the old man was hunting marlin in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
A:) sound
B:) shadow
C:) current created by the fish
D:) blood
springline- Correct option:D:) blood
19) What is he punishment given by Hindley, when Heathcliff and Catherine disappear from the house without his notice, in Wuthering Heights?
A:) he stricken them with the stick
B:) he bolted the door and didn’t want to let them in
C:) he bolted them inside a room
D:) he refused to give hem food
springline- Correct option:B:) he bolted the door and didn’t want to let them in
20) What lied cold and low like a corpse within its grave in Ode to the West Wind written by P.B.Shelly?
A:) winged seeds
B:) petals
C:) leaves
D:) twigs
springline- Correct option:A:) winged seeds
21) “The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their bodies at those seasons when the sap is up, and made into great flakes, with pressure of weighty timber, when they are green.... The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.... Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad.... I have often lodged in their wigwams, and found them as warm as the best English houses.” Who said he above given statement according to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden?
A:) Raleigh
B:) Darwin
C:) Evelyn
D:) Gookin
springline- Correct option:D:) Gookin
22) Aristotle’s Poetics is a short treatise of twenty six chapters. It is a compilation of lectures delivered to which students among the following?
A:) Athenian
B:) Grecian
C:) Italian
D:) Venetian
springline- Correct option:A:) Athenian
23) The poem The Ecstasy written by John Donne which means ‘to stand out’. The word Ecstasy is derived from which Greek word among the following?
A:) Ecstasis
B:) Ekstasy
C:) Ekstasis
D:) Ecstasie
springline- Correct option:C:) Ekstasis
24) What are the best type of the influence of the past, according to Emerson's The American Scholar?
A:) memory
B:) travel
C:) books
D:) friends
springline- Correct option:C:) books
25) Which character among the following has recorded the repugnance of the school to gags or the fat of fresh beef boiled and sets it down to some superstition, according to Essays of Elia- Christ's Hospital?
A:) H
B:) L
C:) Hathaway
D:) Tipp
springline- Correct option:B:) L
26) Which characters among the following joined Caliban in another part of the island in The Tempest -Act III, Scene II? (a.) Stephano, (b.) Trinculo, (c.) Gonzalo, (d.) Alonso
A:) a and b only
B:) b and c only
C:) c and d only
D:) d and a only
springline- Correct option:A:) a and b only
27) “The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground –“ (Because I could not stop for Death) What is the reason for the roof to be scarcely visible according to the above given poet line?
A:) because roof reaches the sky
B:) because she has low vision
C:) because ceiling was in the ground
D:) because the ceiling is covered with leaves
springline- Correct option:C:) because ceiling was in the ground
28) Who among the following was certainly correct when he maintained that the discovery of speech marked the beginning of man?
A:) Lloyd James
B:) Sir Richard Paget
C:) Sir Percy Nunn
D:) Sir G. Elliot Smith
springline- Correct option:D:) Sir G. Elliot Smith
29) “And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack I may be a bit of a Jew.”(Daddy) In the above given poetic line ‘Taroc’ refers to_________.
A:) people
B:) cattle
C:) things
D:) cards
springline- Correct option:D:) cards
30) Which character in Jane Austen’s Emma, was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners?
A:) Mr. John Knightley
B:) Robert Martin
C:) Mr. Weston
D:) Mr. Philip Elton
springline- Correct option:C:) Mr. Weston
31) Among the following what fruits will not get across the wall, according to Robert Frost’s Mending wall?
A:) fig
B:) orange
C:) apple
D:) mango
springline- Correct option:C:) apple
32) “Saw Satan fall like Lightning down from Heav’n, Prince of the Aire; then rising from his Grave” According to the above given lines taken from Book IX of Milton’s Paradise Lost, who saw Satan’s fall?
A:) Adam
B:) Jesus
C:) Zeus
D:) Apollo
springline- Correct option:B:) Jesus
33) “O Sleepless as ______ the under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime _________, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God.” (The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge) Identify he appropriate word to fill he blank in the above given poetic lines.
A:) sea, orbit
B:) ocean, range
C:) river, sweep
D:) canal, scope
springline- Correct option:C:) river, sweep
34) What is almost problematic in a genial august noon beneath the sweltering sky, according to Essays of Elia- New Year's Eve?
A:) nature
B:) season
C:) being late
D:) death
springline- Correct option:D:) death
35) “When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” The above given lines were the starting lines of which poem among the following?
A:) Mildred
B:) Marian
C:) Birches
D:) Evelyn
springline- Correct option:C:) Birches
36) “Loe where she comes along with portly pace Lyke Phoebe from her chamber of the East, Arysing forth to run her mighty race, Clad all in white, that seemes a virgin best.” ( Epithalamion) Who is Phoebe in the above mentioned poem lines?
A:) goddess of the moon
B:) goddess of the sun
C:) goddess of the love
D:) goddess of the beauty
springline- Correct option:A:) goddess of the moon
37) “If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man;” Who said the above given line according to Francis Bacon’s Of Truth?
A:) Solomon
B:) Montaigne
C:) Seneca
D:) Tacitus
springline- Correct option:B:) Montaigne
38) Sleep walking scene of Lady Macbeth in Dunsinane, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth takes place in which scene among the following?
A:) in Act IV, Scene I
B:) in Act V, Scene I
C:) in Act IV, Scene II
D:) in Act V, Scene II
springline- Correct option:B:) in Act V, Scene I
39) Who among the following assigned himself to guard ‘Shock’ in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
A:) Brillante
B:) Momentilla
C:) Crispissa
D:) Ariel
springline- Correct option:D:) Ariel
40) Among the following what are desirous the party should know when it comes, in the view of Francis Bacon?
A:) truth
B:) revenge
C:) adversity
D:) wisdom
springline- Correct option:B:) revenge
41) Which writer has contrived to render the plainest common sense interesting, and even frequently to invest it with the appearance of passion by the power of verse alone, according to Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?
A:) Dryden
B:) Pope
C:) Johnson
D:) Milton
springline- Correct option:B:) Pope
42) According to Francis Bacon, what is the blessing of the New, which carries the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God’s favour?
A:) prosperity
B:) affluence
C:) opulence
D:) adversity
springline- Correct option:D:) adversity
43) “Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown.”(The Affliction) What does the word gown in the above given line stands for?
A:) priestly life
B:) upper class life
C:) luxuries life
D:) factual life
springline- Correct option:A:) priestly life
44) Who among the following uses the term symbolic and semiotic to designate two different aspects of language?
A:) Julia Kristeva
B:) Elaine Showalter
C:) Mary Wollstonecraft
D:) Simone de Beauvoir
springline- Correct option:A:) Julia Kristeva
45) Among the following what is the warning given by Faustus to Horse-courser while selling the horse?
A:) not to ride the horse in the edge of road
B:) not to ride the horse into bushes
C:) not to ride the horse into water
D:) not to ride the horse into fire
springline- Correct option:C:) not to ride the horse into water
46) Among the following which form of dialect is supported by institutions, which may include government recognition or designation?
A:) standard dialect
B:) non-standard dialect
C:) topolect
D:) ethnolect
springline- Correct option:A:) standard dialect
47) Which character among the following confronts the truth behind the two robbers attacked Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 1?
A:) Walter Blunt
B:) Richard
C:) Poins
D:) Harry
springline- Correct option:D:) Harry
48) “Ventidius fixed his eyes upon my passage Severely, as he meant to frown me back, And sullenly gave place: I told my message, Just as you gave it, broken and disordered; I numbered in it all your sighs and tears, And while I moved your pitiful request, That you but only begged a last farewell, He fetched an inward groan; and every time I named you, sighed, as if his heart were breaking But, shunned my eyes, and guiltily looked down: He seemed not now that awful Antony, Who shook and armed assembly with his nod; But, making show as he would rub his eyes, Disguised and blotted out a falling tear.” Who among the following delivered the above given message in Dryden’s All For Love?
A:) Charmion
B:) Dolabella
C:) Alexas
D:) Serapion
springline- Correct option:A:) Charmion
49) 'Literature will take care of itself,' Who among the following uttered the above given statement, in Thomas Carlyle’s The Hero as Man of Letters?
A:) Burns
B:) Mr. Pitt
C:) Mr. Southey
D:) Johnson
springline- Correct option:B:) Mr. Pitt
50) Who among the following lost her brother and was rejected by Angelo for losing her dowry in a shipwreck, in Measure for Measure?
A:) Isabella
B:) Mariana
C:) Overdone
D:) Juliet
springline- Correct option:B:) Mariana
51) According to Essays of Elia- Dream Children; A Reverie, children if Alice called which character as their father?
A:) John
B:) Barturm
C:) Elia
D:) James
springline- Correct option:B:) Barturm
52) Who among the following states that a personal experience and emotions of a poet doesn’t make him/her notable?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) Brooke
C:) Dryden
D:) Johnson
springline- Correct option:A:) T.S. Eliot
53) Which character among the following reveals the fear in him about that both the role of his and the prince in Horatio's murder in Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy- Act III, scene iv?
A:) Lorenzo
B:) Hieronimo
C:) Balthazar
D:) Serberine
springline- Correct option:A:) Lorenzo
54) In R. Parthasarathy : from Trial from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, what alone helps to achieve a lucid exclusiveness?
A:) peace
B:) night
C:) thought
D:) time
springline- Correct option:B:) night
55) Select the location of ACT V, Scene I William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. (a.) A plain in Syria, (b.) Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria, (c.) Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House, (d.) Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
A:) d only
B:) c only
C:) b only
D:) a only
springline- Correct option:C:) b only
56) ““Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature; So both should losers be.” (The Pulley) Who among the following are the losers according to the above given poetic lines?
A:) Speaker and God
B:) God and Human
C:) Human and God
D:) Speaker and Human
springline- Correct option:B:) God and Human
57) Among the following which term defines a formation of new word with the combination of a part of one word with a part of another word?
A:) portmanteau words
B:) telescoping
C:) syncopation
D:) abbreviation
springline- Correct option:A:) portmanteau words
58) The term ‘post-modernism’ first made its appearance in which country among the following?
A:) South Africa
B:) United States
C:) England
D:) France
springline- Correct option:B:) United States
59) Who enquired Maria about her view on society in Richard Sheridan’s The School for Scandal by mentioning the below quoted line? “Maria I see you have no satisfaction in this society.”
A:) Moses
B:) Rowley
C:) Surface
D:) Peter
springline- Correct option:C:) Surface
60) “When someone talked too loudly, or Knocked at the door like the _______.”(Nissim Ezekiel : Background Casually from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets) Fill the above given poetic line with the appropriate word.
A:) hell
B:) devil
C:) brusque
D:) piqued
springline- Correct option:B:) devil
61) Speaker in Arnold’s Dover Beach thinks about which ancient Greek playwright and imagines him hearing the same sadness in the Aegean Sea just like the speaker on the English coast?
A:) Euripides
B:) Homer
C:) Sophocles
D:) Aristophanes
springline- Correct option:C:) Sophocles
62) “For I do mean To have a list of wives and concubines, Equal with Solomon, who had the stone Alike with me; and I will make me a back With the elixir, that shall be as tough As Hercules, to encounter fifty a night.— Thou'rt sure thou saw'st it blood?” Who among the following uttered the above given lines in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist-Act II, Scene II?
A:) Subtle
B:) Abel
C:) Mammon
D:) Surly
springline- Correct option:C:) Mammon
63) Among the following what deals with words and the way in which words can be divided into smaller units?
A:) phonology
B:) phonetics
C:) morphology
D:) idiolect
springline- Correct option:C:) morphology
64) Which genre of literature is enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food, according to Shelley?
A:) prose
B:) play
C:) poem
D:) novel
springline- Correct option:C:) poem
65) Among the following what serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability, according to Francis Bacon?
A:) reading
B:) writing
C:) studies
D:) working
springline- Correct option:C:) studies
66) Among the following which late eighteenth century dramatist gave the character Mrs. Grundy?
A:) Thomas More
B:) Edmund Burke
C:) Thomas Morton
D:) Benjamin Disraeli
springline- Correct option:C:) Thomas Morton
67) Which character travelled to Sue's school at Shaston to find an empty schoolroom and plays a tune on the piano, in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure?
A:) Richard
B:) Thomason
C:) Jude
D:) Raphael
springline- Correct option:C:) Jude
68) Who among the following talked to Hazlitt very familiarly, but agreeably, and glanced over a variety of subjects, according to Hazlitt’s My First Acquaintance With Poets?
A:) Coleridge
B:) Wordsworth
C:) Godwin
D:) Burke
springline- Correct option:A:) Coleridge
69) Who marries Paul Rayley according to the wish of Mrs. Ramsay, in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse?
A:) Rose
B:) Minta
C:) Prue
D:) Nancy
springline- Correct option:B:) Minta
70) “The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon peeped out (Another hid his eyes behind his wing)” The above given lines belongs to T.S. Eillot’s The Waste land and I comes under which title among the following?
A:) A Game of Chess
B:) The Fire Sermon
C:) Death by Water
D:) The Burial of the Dead
springline- Correct option:A:) A Game of Chess
71) “But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;” (To His Coy Mistress) Pick the correct explanation for the above given poetic lines?
A:) Speaker is aware of the fleeing time
B:) Speaker thinks about the death
C:) Speaker talks about the waiting chariot
D:) Speaker travels in the winged chariot
springline- Correct option:A:) Speaker is aware of the fleeing time
72) Who is the illegitimate daughter of the Priest, with whom he had an overwhelming need to protect her, in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory?
A:) Maria
B:) Brigida
C:) Melissa
D:) Evelyn
springline- Correct option:B:) Brigida
73) Pick he appropriate word for the blank in the below given poem lines. “His mates, had arts to rule as they desired The workings of men's ______, And they can bind them to what thoughts they will.’
A:) thoughts
B:) imagination
C:) art
D:) brains
springline- Correct option:D:) brains
74) Among the following what is the term used to describe the process of combining two words into one?
A:) By Telescoping
B:) By Metanalysis
C:) By Syncopation
D:) By Imitation
springline- Correct option:A:) By Telescoping
75) Who among the following brought a horse with Featherstone's gift, hoping to sell the horse for profit to pay off his debt, in George Eliot’s Middlemarch?
A:) Dagley
B:) Fred
C:) Wrench
D:) Walter
springline- Correct option:B:) Fred
76) Song of which season is considered as a typical music in the poetic lines of Ode to Autumn written by John Keats?
A:) Song of autumn
B:) Song of winter
C:) Song of summer
D:) Song of spring
springline- Correct option:D:) Song of spring
77) Who leaves for London in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, with full of regret for behaving snobbishly to the people who love him most?
A:) Pumblechook
B:) Pip
C:) Orlick
D:) Herbert
springline- Correct option:B:) Pip
78) According to Fainall, who is an odd mixture of bashfulness and obstinacy, yet when he’s drunk, he’s as loving as the monster in The Tempest, and much after the same manner, in William Congreve’s The Way of the World,-Act I, Scene V?
A:) Millamant
B:) Waitwell
C:) Sir Wilfull
D:) Sir Rowland
springline- Correct option:C:) Sir Wilfull
79) Who wants Willy to manage a timberland he has purchased in Alaska, which made Linda to be worried, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman?
A:) Howard
B:) Charley
C:) Ben
D:) Stanley
springline- Correct option:C:) Ben
80) Among the following who is the Sylvan historian in John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn?
A:) god
B:) speaker
C:) man
D:) urn
springline- Correct option:D:) urn
81) “The price seemed reasonable, location Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived Off premises. Nothing remained But self-confession. ‘Madam,’ I warned, ‘I hate a wasted journey—I am African.” (Telephone Conversation) What does the author means by the line ‘I hate a wasted journey—I am African’?
A:) he doesn’t want to waste money by travelling.
B:) he makes sure whether the landowner ready to rent the room for a black man.
C:) he is an African who doesn’t want to spend money on a travel.
D:) he hates using money for travel because he is an African.
springline- Correct option:B:) he makes sure whether the landowner ready to rent the room for a black man.
82) Who gave the word ‘congregation’ in its modern sense, preferring it to the more orthodox church as a translation of the Greek ecclesia?
A:) Tyndale
B:) Wycliffe
C:) Luther
D:) knox
springline- Correct option:A:) Tyndale
83) “Self was left, lone, limitless, nude, immune.” What literary device is used in the above given poeic line?
A:) simile
B:) metaphor
C:) alliteration
D:) personification
springline- Correct option:C:) alliteration
84) Robert Browning’s Andrea del Sarto, who called Lucrezia, when Andrea del Sarto begs her to back with him?
A:) husband
B:) cousin
C:) neighbour
D:) friend
springline- Correct option:B:) cousin
85) Among the following whom did first Samson choose to get married with and got betrayed by her in Samson Agonistes?
A:) Timna
B:) Sisera
C:) Manoa
D:) Dalila
springline- Correct option:A:) Timna
86) “He wrote the largest number of lyrics ever attended by any poet.” Who commented the above given line about Rabindranath Tagore?
A:) KRS Iyengar
B:) Suthin Ghosh
C:) Ananthanarayanan
D:) Srikantaiah
springline- Correct option:A:) KRS Iyengar
87) What is he name of the village’s patron deity, who fought a demon on the hill, according to Raja Rao’s Kandhapura?
A:) Ahakka
B:) Kenchamma
C:) Lakshmi
D:) Linga
springline- Correct option:B:) Kenchamma
88) According to Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer- Act I, who is the first husband of Mrs. Hardcastle?
A:) Lumpkin
B:) Neville
C:) Marlow
D:) Jeremy
springline- Correct option:A:) Lumpkin
89) What is the name of the society of Indians in Cambridge, they discussed political problems there often but in somewhat unreal debates, in An Autobiography written by Nehru?
A:) Beasant
B:) Maroie
C:) Magpie
D:) Majlis
springline- Correct option:D:) Majlis
90) Which character among the following is a wrestler and a member of the worker‘s union, who fights his masters, in Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie?
A:) Prabha
B:) Nathoo
C:) Ratan
D:) Prem Chand
springline- Correct option:C:) Ratan
91) Which wrier among the following uses –es for the most part, though he still has a fair number of plurals in –en, but as time went on they diminished, so that to-day the only survival is Oxen?
A:) Chaucer
B:) Johnson
C:) Dryden
D:) Tyndale
springline- Correct option:A:) Chaucer
92) What has never been so highly organized, but in so far as it was organized, its disintegration has proceeded much further than is yet the case in India, in The Dance of Shiva?
A:) Eastern society
B:) Western society
C:) Hindu society
D:) Asian society
springline- Correct option:B:) Western society
93) Which character among the following is the Crown Prince of Uttarakut, in Tagore’s Muktha Dhara?
A:) Viswajit
B:) Abhijit
C:) Bibhuti
D:) Ranajit
springline- Correct option:B:) Abhijit
94) “Surely no man could have fancied that he read “------” with pleasure had he not known its author.” The above line is a comment given by Johnson on which poem of Milton?
A:) L’Allegro
B:) Il Penseroso
C:) Lycidas
D:) Paradise Regained
springline- Correct option:C:) Lycidas
95) Among the following what is compared with speaker stamping on shallow earth, in the poem Fire at the Murdering Hut by Judith Wright?
A:) pain
B:) lover’s ghost
C:) red-bird
D:) whisperer
springline- Correct option:C:) red-bird
96) What is the other names of Samuel Coleridge’s Kubla Khan written with an opium-influenced dream in 1797? (a.) A Fragment, (b.) A Vision, (c.) A Vision In A Dream
A:) a and b only
B:) b and c only
C:) c and a only
D:) a, b, and c
springline- Correct option:C:) c and a only
97) What is considered as the empire of Eagle bounded by forest and sky and the flowing horizons, in E. J. Pratt’s The Dying Eagle?
A:) Space
B:) Earth
C:) Cave
D:) Grave
springline- Correct option:A:) Space
98) Who broke out into a grievous rage and said the below given lines, in The Pilgrim’s Progress?' I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate His person, His laws, and people. I am come out on purpose to withstand thee.
A:) Apollyon
B:) Christian
C:) Obstinate
D:) Wiseman
springline- Correct option:A:) Apollyon
99) “They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of _______, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry.” (Australia) Pick the appropriate word for the blank in the above given poetic line.
A:) life
B:) mind
C:) thought
D:) image
springline- Correct option:A:) life
100) “My genial spirits fail; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast?” (Dejection: An Ode) What does the ‘My genial spirits fail’ means in the above given poetic line?
A:) his low spirit failed him
B:) his cheerfulness failed him
C:) his aloofness failed him
D:) his lethal failed him
springline- Correct option:B:) his cheerfulness failed him
101) Whose picture is appeared very small and next to the latrines in the magazine which contains the picture of Sidi, in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel?
A:) Lakunle
B:) Baroka
C:) Sadiku
D:) Ailatu
springline- Correct option:B:) Baroka
102) Who poisoned Najib, who is portrayed as an advisor and trustworthy person of Tughlaq in Girish Karnad ‘s Tughlaq?
A:) Ratansingh
B:) Step-mother
C:) Sihabuddin
D:) Aziz
springline- Correct option:B:) Step-mother
103) What is considered as a glorious birth, according to the poetic lines of Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode?
A:) sunset
B:) sunrise
C:) light
D:) season
springline- Correct option:B:) sunrise
104) Which character slipped an envelope contains a check for a thousand pounds for the boys’ club in the hands of John Harrison, according to Alan Paten’s Cry, the Beloved Country?
A:) Harrison
B:) Jarvis
C:) Carmichael
D:) Tomlinson
springline- Correct option:B:) Jarvis
105) Which character among the following is professionally engaged with gambling, liquor, smuggling and other trades with underworld in Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice?
A:) Ravi
B:) Kannan
C:) Damodar
D:) Ravi
springline- Correct option:C:) Damodar
106) All the dialects of Wessex has become most important. What is the reason behind the dialects of Wessex has become most important? (a.) Wessex dialects was used by Cambridge and Oxford, (b.) King and queen used Wessex dialect, (c.) attained to any kind of political unity with a fairly ordered system of government, (d.) literatures were written in the dialect of Wessex.
A:) a and b only
B:) b and c only
C:) c and d only
D:) d and a only
springline- Correct option:C:) c and d only
107) Which character among the following believes in one god named Chukwu, who created the whole world and other gods, according to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart?
A:) Uchendu
B:) Okonkwo
C:) Ezinma
D:) Akunna
springline- Correct option:D:) Akunna
108) According to the letter received by Lawrance, who is temporarily take the charge at Lahore until a suitable successor of Lawrance is appointed, in Gurucharan Das’ Larins Sahib?
A:) Mr. Currie
B:) Mr. Henry
C:) Mr. Edward
D:) Mr. John
springline- Correct option:A:) Mr. Currie
109) Among the following William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey comes under which genre of literature?
A:) Soliloquy
B:) idle
C:) lyric
D:) monologue
springline- Correct option:D:) monologue
110) Which readers where they exist at all are only interested in reading textbooks, according to Chinua Achebe’s The Novelist as Teacher?
A:) Students
B:) Professional
C:) African
D:) American
springline- Correct option:C:) African
1) The four ‘D’ model of dream, discover, design and deliver will be the best fit with which of the following models of teacher education?
A:) Concept attainment model
B:) Competency based model
C:) Inquiry oriented teacher educational model
D:) Jurisprudence model
springline- Correct option:B:) Competency based model
2) Provision of in-service training of specified short period and its linkage with career promotion is recommended by ____________.
A:) Secondary Education Commission (1952-53)
B:) Education Commission (1964-66)
C:) National Commission of Teacher – I (1980)
D:) High-powered Commission on Teacher Education (2012)
springline- Correct option:C:) National Commission of Teacher – I (1980)
3) In school set up, emphasis is laid on giving a message that teacher alone is the knowledge resource. This is called:
A:) an explicit curriculum
B:) hidden curriculum
C:) teacher-directed curriculum
D:) learner-centered curriculum
springline- Correct option:B:) hidden curriculum
4) Who defined democracy as a form of government of the people, for the people and by the people?
A:) Mahatma Gandhi
B:) Abraham Lincoln
C:) John F. Kennedy
D:) George Washington
springline- Correct option:B:) Abraham Lincoln
5) Which of the following explains the meaning of digital culture?
A:) The way computer and mobile are used
B:) The way people live, work, play, and learn with ICT
C:) The way people interact with smart technology
D:) The way students learn from technology
springline- Correct option:B:) The way people live, work, play, and learn with ICT
6) In terms of personality dynamic, which of the following statements best explain the nature and character of one’s personality? (a) Human behavior does not occur randomly; (b) Human personality represents an integration of traits; (c) Personality is that which permits a prediction of what a person will do; (d) Man’s behavior is conditioned by his individual racial history and aspiration; (e) In personality formation, creative self of a person gives meaning to life;
A:) a, d and e
B:) b, c and d
C:) a, b and c
D:) c, d and e
springline- Correct option:A:) a, d and e
7) Who among the following thinkers propagated the idea of education of the most talented?
A:) Emmanuel Kant
B:) John Paul Sartre
C:) Aristotle
D:) Plato
springline- Correct option:D:) Plato
8) Which of the following is directly related to quality enhancement of teacher education program?
A:) Excursions, tours and trips
B:) Study of ICT by the pupil teacher
C:) Emphasis on internship session within built feedback
D:) Specialized talks on various topics
springline- Correct option:C:) Emphasis on internship session within built feedback
9) Which of the following does not represent ICT integrated strategy?
A:) Flipped teaching-learning
B:) Blended teaching-learning
C:) Edusat-based teaching learning
D:) Collaborative teaching-learning
springline- Correct option:D:) Collaborative teaching-learning
10) Which of the following is the main objective of assessment?
A:) Collect information systematically to judge students’ characteristics
B:) To find out the weakness of teaching learning system
C:) To relate various collected information about students
D:) To obtain data about learning difficulties
springline- Correct option:A:) Collect information systematically to judge students’ characteristics
11) Which of the following factors does not affect curriculum change?
A:) Socio-cultural context
B:) Political concerns
C:) National priorities
D:) Stakeholder’s needs and aspirations
springline- Correct option:B:) Political concerns
12) As per the principle of span of control, how many teachers can eb effectively supervised by a teacher-supervisor?
A:) any number of teachers
B:) 4-6 teachers
C:) 6-10 teachers
D:) maximum 15 teachers
springline- Correct option:B:) 4-6 teachers
13) Which of the following statement is not the best explain for the concept of curriculum?
A:) Curriculum is a handbook for setting question paper
B:) Curriculum means a relevant set of learning experiences
C:) Curriculum has to be in consonance with the objectives of education
D:) Curriculum implies transactional as well as evolution strategies.
springline- Correct option:A:) Curriculum is a handbook for setting question paper
14) A teacher presents information by accessing from E-learning portals while displaying confidence in the domain of concerned knowledge. This may involve which of the following?
A:) Non-observance of ethicality
B:) Inappropriate information coverage
C:) Lack of harmony and relevance
D:) Lack of technical skill
springline- Correct option:A:) Non-observance of ethicality
15) In which of the following areas is the contribution of Savitribai Phule highly acclaimed?
A:) Upliftment of Scheduled Castes
B:) Resettlement of poor people
C:) Education of women
D:) Education of the slum children
springline- Correct option:C:) Education of women
16) Who among the following Indian thinkers has contributed towards the concept of integral education?
A:) Gijubhai Bhadhera
B:) Swami Vivekananda
C:) Mahatma Gandhi
D:) Sri Aurobindo
springline- Correct option:D:) Sri Aurobindo
17) Which of the following set of traits is most appropriate for effective leadership?
A:) Knowledge, Vision and Relationship
B:) Achievement drive, self-confidence and charisma
C:) Cognitive ability, emotional maturity and flexibility
D:) Creativity, honesty and knowledge of the task
springline- Correct option:B:) Achievement drive, self-confidence and charisma
18) The purpose of ICT integration is for:
A:) optimizing learning outcomes
B:) enhancing student’s involvement in learning
C:) promotion concerns for economy in use of resources
D:) reducing workload of teachers in terms of translational hours
springline- Correct option:A:) optimizing learning outcomes
19) A teacher is faced with the problem of choosing the appropriate teaching method for the transaction of a course content. Which branch of philosophy will most appropriately describe his/her predicament?
A:) Metaphysics
B:) Epistemology
C:) Axiology
D:) Logic
springline- Correct option:B:) Epistemology
20) Which of the following agents responsible for the role ‘provides opportunity for understanding democratic process’?
A:) Family
B:) School
C:) Peer group
D:) Mass Media
springline- Correct option:B:) School
21) “Secondary education typically takes place after _____ years of primary education and is followed by higher education, vocational education or employment. ... In most countries secondary education is compulsory, at least until the age of 16. Children typically enter the lower secondary phase around age 11.
A:) 3
B:) 4
C:) 5
D:) 6
springline- Correct option:D:) 6
22) “School uniforms are believed to be a practice which dates to the 16th century in the United Kingdom. It is believed that the Christ's Hospital School in England in _______ was the first school to use a school uniform.
A:) 1879
B:) 1752
C:) 1652
D:) 1552
springline- Correct option:D:) 1552
23) The programme aims to provide education that will enable young as well as mature adults to improve or supplement their knowledge and skills within general subjects. It also aims to enhance adults' ability to improve their future job and educational possibilities.
A:) Adult Education
B:) College
C:) Primary Education
D:) none
springline- Correct option:A:) Adult Education
24) The award is honoured for outstanding coaches in sports and games in India.
A:) The Dronacharya Award
B:) Arjuan Award
C:) Dhyan Chand Award
D:) The Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar
springline- Correct option:A:) The Dronacharya Award
25) __________is defined as “the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected.
A:) Water pollution
B:) Soil pollution
C:) Environmental pollution
D:) Air pollution
springline- Correct option:C:) Environmental pollution
26) This is the type of education wherein a parent is teaching a child things that are beyond academics like preparing a meal or riding a bicycle.
A:) Formal Education
B:) Distance education
C:) Tertiary education
D:) Informal Education
springline- Correct option:D:) Informal Education
27) Using a ________approach to make use of more parts of your students’ brains for learning. Giving your students an Advance Organiser to help them see the big-picture of your topic as you teach the detail. Linking Abstract ideas to Concrete Examples to enable students to understand the more difficult ideas you teach.
A:) Multi-Sensory
B:) Bi-lingual
C:) Tertiary education
D:) Mono lingual
springline- Correct option:A:) Multi-Sensory
28) These are methods which give the student the opportunity to develop long-term memories by revisiting the new material over time. The evidence, both from the classroom and from __________, is that spaced repetitions are vital to create long term memories.
A:) Neuroscience
B:) Verbal science
C:) Dramatic science
D:) Simple science
springline- Correct option:A:) Neuroscience
29) Which of the following is / are the basic paradigms in classroom teaching?
A:) Learning paradigm
B:) instructional paradigm
C:) Both (a) and (b)
D:) There is no requirement of any such paradigm
springline- Correct option:C:) Both (a) and (b)
30) The determinant of teaching skill training is
A:) Components
B:) Pupil-teacher
C:) Supervisor
D:) Headmaster
springline- Correct option:A:) Components
31) Teaching can be defined as
A:) Bipolar process
B:) Tripolar process
C:) Quadrilateral process
D:) All of the above
springline- Correct option:D:) All of the above
32) Educational TV was first introduced in India during
A:) 1961
B:) 1959
C:) 1968
D:) 1961
springline- Correct option:B:) 1959
33) SITE stands for
A:) System for International Technology and Engineering
B:) Satellite Instructional Television Experiment
C:) South Indian Trade Estate
D:) Non of the above
springline- Correct option:B:) Satellite Instructional Television Experiment
34) The major source of energy in a food chain originates from
A:) Plants
B:) Sea
C:) Sun
D:) All of the above
springline- Correct option:C:) Sun
35) Which of the following metals is responsible for Minamata disease?
A:) Mercury
B:) Cadmium
C:) Chromium
D:) Iron
springline- Correct option:A:) Mercury
36) The pollutant responsible for ozone holes is
A:) SO2
B:) CO
C:) CFC
D:) CO2
springline- Correct option:C:) CFC
37) Fundamental duties were incorporated in the Indian Constitution by the
A:) 32nd Amendment
B:) 42nd Amendment
C:) 44th Amendment
D:) 76th Amendment
springline- Correct option:B:) 42nd Amendment
38) The first language to have been assigned the status of classical language in 2004
A:) Tamil
B:) Sanskrit
C:) Kannada
D:) Malayalam
springline- Correct option:A:) Tamil
39) Which of the following is not considered a green house gas?
A:) Methane
B:) Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
C:) Hydrogen
D:) Ozone
springline- Correct option:C:) Hydrogen
40) Which of the following is not an example of natural disaster?
A:) Tsunami
B:) Heat Waves
C:) Nuclear accident
D:) Epidemic
springline- Correct option:C:) Nuclear accident