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UP PGT English Practice Test- 2
1. Thou lovest; but never knew - Love's sad satiety
The above line is taken from
(A) The Lost Love
(B) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(C) Ode on A Grecian
(D) To A Skylark
(Q. 2 to 6) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
To many people, Switzerland is the country of the Alps, though not all of it is mountainous. Northern Switzerland, like neighbouring regions of Eastern France and South-West Germany, is a land of hills and woods but also cities and industries.
Basel is world-famous for pharmaceuticals and Zurich and its suburbs for electrical engineering and machinery. It is non-Alpine Switzerland that produces the cheese, the chocolates, the clocks and the watches for which the country is renowned.
The Alps occupy the southern half of the country. They form two main east-west chains, divided by the straight line of the upper valleys of the Rhone and Rhine. The northern chain wholly in Switzerland contains Eiger and Jungfrau peaks.
The Alps also influences Swiss lives through their impact on its climate. They divide the Mediterranean world from the central South-West Germany Europe. There are many regional variations in climate. But generally, the mountain air is the clear and clean-a factor that has resulted in Switzerland attracting the ailing from all over the world to its hospitals and clinics.
2. Switzerland's climate which attracts the ailing from all over the world can be described as referring to
(A) Salacious
(B) Salubrious
(C) Felicitous
(D) Boisterous
3. Replace the word, "impact" in the passage without changing the meaning of the sentence by using one of the following.
(A) Change
(B) Alteration
(C) Influence
(D) Evolution
4. According to the passage, which region has a major share of mountains to the exclusion of other landforms?
(A) Southern Switzerland
(B) Eastern France
© South-West Germany
(D) Northern Switzerland
5. In the first sentence the word "it" in the all of it is mountainous" refers to
(A) Mountains
(B) Neighbouring countries
( C ) Switzerland
(D) the Alps
6. Cheese, chocolates, clocks etc. are produced
(A) All over Switzerland
(B) Only in two cities in Switzerland
(C) In the mountainous regions of Switzerland
(D) In the non-mountainous regions of Switzerland
7. According to Wordsworth poet is a ' man speaking to ………….: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively ………….., more …………….. and tenderness.'
Fill in the blanks with suitable words given below.
(A) Nature, imagination, truthfulness
(B) Men, sensibility, enthusiasm
(C) Society, capacity, softness
(D) State, responsibility, efficiency
8. Which form of comedy deals with the relations and intrigues of gentlemen and ladies living in a polished society?
(A) Romantic comedy
(B) Comedy of humour
(C) Comedy of manners
(D) Satiric comedy
9. Which of the following works doesn't belong to romantic poetry?
(A) Hyperion
(B) Lyrical Ballads
(C) Christabel
( D ) The wasteland
10. About whom did Arnold write in his poem, 'Memorial Verses'- ' He laid us as we lay at birth/on the cool flowery lap of birth. ?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Tennyson
(D) John Keats
11. The knockabout scenes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor example of Romantic poetry?
(A) Vulgar Comedy
(B) Comedy of humour
( C ) Farce
(D) The science of buffoonery
12. Wordsworth's first poem, 'An Evening Walk ' shows the influence of………… poets- Rosset, Roucher and Delile on him.
(A) Italian
(B) French
(C) Greek
(D) Roman
13. Jake Barnes is the narrator in
(A) In Our Times
(B) Men Without Women
(C) A Moveable Feast
(D) The Sun Also Rises
14. Which of the following statements is not correct about the poetry of Robert Frost?
(A) Following his stay in England between 1912 and 1915, Frost's poetry acquired influences of the British Georgian school of poetry
(B) Frost's poetry has often been described as an intersection of self and place
( C ) Across the river and into the trees offers a true representation of Frost as an Emersonian poet
( D ) Forst's relationship with nature is characterized by his nation of " emblems "
(B) Ulysses
(C) Break, Break, Break
(D) The Lotus Eaters
16. Marriage by its best title is a monopoly, and not of the least invidious sort The above-mentioned statement appears in:
(A) True Love
(B) Culture and Anarchy
(C) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(D) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
17. Which of the following is not held to be one of the four primary fluids to determine a person's physical condition and type of character (Ret comedy of humour)
(A) Blood
(B) Sanguis
(C) Choler (Yellow bile)
(D) Melancholy (black bile)
18. The lines, I Who Have lost / my /way and beg now at strangers' doors to/Receive love, change? appear in
(A) The Freaks
(B) My Grandmother's House
(C) A Hot Noon in Malabar
(D) The Invitation
19. From which of the following poems, Growing the given lines are taken?
"Here we go round the prickly pear
(A) The Solitary Reaper
(B) Dover Beach
(C) Thyrsis
(D) The Hollow Men
20. The references of "Hinkseys, Sibylla and Ilsley Downs" appear in
(A) Crossing the Bar
(B) "Dover Beach
(C) Ulysses
(D) Thyrsis
The Alps occupy the southern half of the country. They form two main east-west chains, divided by the straight line of the upper valleys of the Rhone and Rhine. The northern chain wholly in Switzerland contains Eiger and Jungfrau peaks.
The Alps also influences Swiss lives through their impact on its climate. They divide the Mediterranean world from the central South-West Germany Europe. There are many regional variations in climate. But generally, the mountain air is the clear and clean-a factor that has resulted in Switzerland attracting the ailing from all over the world to its hospitals and clinics.
2. Switzerland's climate which attracts the ailing from all over the world can be described as referring to
(A) Salacious
(B) Salubrious
(C) Felicitous
(D) Boisterous
3. Replace the word, "impact" in the passage without changing the meaning of the sentence by using one of the following.
(A) Change
(B) Alteration
(C) Influence
(D) Evolution
4. According to the passage, which region has a major share of mountains to the exclusion of other landforms?
(A) Southern Switzerland
(B) Eastern France
© South-West Germany
(D) Northern Switzerland
5. In the first sentence the word "it" in the all of it is mountainous" refers to
(A) Mountains
(B) Neighbouring countries
( C ) Switzerland
(D) the Alps
6. Cheese, chocolates, clocks etc. are produced
(A) All over Switzerland
(B) Only in two cities in Switzerland
(C) In the mountainous regions of Switzerland
(D) In the non-mountainous regions of Switzerland
7. According to Wordsworth poet is a ' man speaking to ………….: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively ………….., more …………….. and tenderness.'
Fill in the blanks with suitable words given below.
(A) Nature, imagination, truthfulness
(B) Men, sensibility, enthusiasm
(C) Society, capacity, softness
(D) State, responsibility, efficiency
8. Which form of comedy deals with the relations and intrigues of gentlemen and ladies living in a polished society?
(A) Romantic comedy
(B) Comedy of humour
(C) Comedy of manners
(D) Satiric comedy
9. Which of the following works doesn't belong to romantic poetry?
(A) Hyperion
(B) Lyrical Ballads
(C) Christabel
( D ) The wasteland
10. About whom did Arnold write in his poem, 'Memorial Verses'- ' He laid us as we lay at birth/on the cool flowery lap of birth. ?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Tennyson
(D) John Keats
11. The knockabout scenes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor example of Romantic poetry?
(A) Vulgar Comedy
(B) Comedy of humour
( C ) Farce
(D) The science of buffoonery
12. Wordsworth's first poem, 'An Evening Walk ' shows the influence of………… poets- Rosset, Roucher and Delile on him.
(A) Italian
(B) French
(C) Greek
(D) Roman
13. Jake Barnes is the narrator in
(A) In Our Times
(B) Men Without Women
(C) A Moveable Feast
(D) The Sun Also Rises
14. Which of the following statements is not correct about the poetry of Robert Frost?
(A) Following his stay in England between 1912 and 1915, Frost's poetry acquired influences of the British Georgian school of poetry
(B) Frost's poetry has often been described as an intersection of self and place
( C ) Across the river and into the trees offers a true representation of Frost as an Emersonian poet
( D ) Forst's relationship with nature is characterized by his nation of " emblems "
15. Which poem of Tennyson does start with the heroic line, "Courage ! he said and pointed towards the land"?
(A) Morte D'Arthur(B) Ulysses
(C) Break, Break, Break
(D) The Lotus Eaters
16. Marriage by its best title is a monopoly, and not of the least invidious sort The above-mentioned statement appears in:
(A) True Love
(B) Culture and Anarchy
(C) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(D) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
17. Which of the following is not held to be one of the four primary fluids to determine a person's physical condition and type of character (Ret comedy of humour)
(A) Blood
(B) Sanguis
(C) Choler (Yellow bile)
(D) Melancholy (black bile)
18. The lines, I Who Have lost / my /way and beg now at strangers' doors to/Receive love, change? appear in
(A) The Freaks
(B) My Grandmother's House
(C) A Hot Noon in Malabar
(D) The Invitation
19. From which of the following poems, Growing the given lines are taken?
"Here we go round the prickly pear
(A) The Solitary Reaper
(B) Dover Beach
(C) Thyrsis
(D) The Hollow Men
20. The references of "Hinkseys, Sibylla and Ilsley Downs" appear in
(A) Crossing the Bar
(B) "Dover Beach
(C) Ulysses
(D) Thyrsis
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