UP PGT ENGLISH PRACTICE SET- 3 |
UP PGT English Question-Answer
1 . In which of the following poems, do we get the reference of Proteus and Old Triton(A) Ode to The West Wind
(B) Ode to A Nightingale
(C) The World is Too Much with Us
(D) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Note: The narration of the sentences has to be changed in the following questions. Choose the correct option from the choices given below the sentence. ( Q. No. 43 to 45 )
2. "Will you stop talking?", he said.
(A) He asked them why didn't they stop talking-
(B) He told them to stop talking.
(C) He asked them not to talk.
(D) He advised them not to talk.
3. Shakespeare's sonnets have the following features. Find out the correct statement.
- Shakespeare has written 154 sonnets.
- Sonnets from 1 to 126 are addressed to Dark Lady.
- He dedicated his some sonnets to his Patron Earl of Southampton.
- The rhyme scheme of his sonnets are generally ab ab, cd cd, ef ef, gg.
(B) Both 1 and 4
(C) 1, 3 and 4
(D) Only 4
4. " Ask the teacher ", my father suggested.
( A ) My father suggested that we should ask the teacher.
(B) My father suggested to ask the teacher.
(C) My father suggested that let the teacher be asked
(D) My father suggested that the teacher be asked.
5. He said, "You needn't wait".
(A) He told that you should not wait.
(B) He advised me not to wait.
(C) He told that I should not wait.
(D) He said that I needn't wait.
6. Which of the following statements is not true about a soliloquy?
(A) A soliloquy is a speech in which a character, alone on the stage, expresses his thoughts and feelings
(B) that enables a dramatist to convey directly to an audience important information about a particular audience.
(C) In a soliloquy, one imaginary speaker addresses an imaginary audience.
(D) Soliloquy was extensively used by the playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
7. Fill in the blanks with the correct articles given below in the line.
I, therefore, welcome this publication which ……….. is a humble tribute to his memory by ……... Ministry of information and Broadcasting of …………. Government of India.
(A ) an, the, the
( B ) a the, the
(C) the, the, the
(D) a, a the
8. Which poem of John Keats given below is based on Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy?
(A) Ode to Autumn
(B) Hyperion
( C ) Lamia
(D) The Eve of St. Agnes
9. In which of the following novels, Joe Christmas attempts to recover the origins of his mulatto identity?
(A) Absalom, Absalom!
( B) Light in August
(C) The Sound and the Fury
(D) Go Down Moses
10. Which kind of plays were dramatized allegories of the life of man, his temptation and sinning and his quest for salvation?
(A) Morality plays
(B) Thesis plays
(C) Miracle plays
(D) Interludes
11. In which of the following novels, Joe Christmas attempts to recover the origins of his mulatto identity?
(A) Absalom, Absalom!
( B) Light in August
(C) The Sound and the Fury
(D) Go Down Moses
12. Poems on Various Subjects is written by
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Matthew Arnold
(B) Charles Lamb
(D) Kamala Das
13. Who has said that "Poetry should please by a fine excess."?
(A) Matthew Amold choose
(B) John Keats
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) Alfred Lord Tennyson
14. Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit is an attack upon
(A) The economic education in universities
(B) The social practices and their
(C) The school system
(D) Marshalsea the debtor's prison and the system that is responsible for its existence
15. Choose the option having the correct form of tense.
(A) He has come back last night
(B) He came back last night
(C) He is coming back last night
(D) He was coming back last night
16. Sensationalism Nagant Emotional appeal are the characteristics of which of the following dramatic form?
(A) Melodrama
(B) Theatre of the absurd
(C) Problem plays
(D) Expressionist drama
17. The term Utopia' designates the class of fictional writing that
(A) Represent the elite class and highly educated society
(B) Show the intelligent and rational way of life
(C) Represent an ideal but nonexistent political and social way of Life
(D) Is full of ideal and imaginative romanticism
18. In a tragedy, the term 'catharsis' can be broadly interpreted as
(A) an error of judgment in the character of a hero which leads him from happiness to misery.
(B) purgation of excessive emotion of pity and fear
(C) a catastrophe in which there occurs a sudden reversal of the hero's fortune from happiness to disaster.
(D) an act of revenge acted out on stage to satisfy the audience's appetite.
19. Choose the incorrect use of idioms with pair of words.
(A) Kashmir is rack and ruin of India.
(B) My mother loves her kith and kin
(C) Hitler carried fire and sword wherever he went.
(D) Let us work heart and soul.
20. Who has spoken the following lines in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth: Me-thought, I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep,- the innocent sleep.
(A) Lady Macbeth
(B) Banquo
(C) Macduff
(D) Macbeth
