1. A speech made without any previous thought, preparation or practice is called a/an
a)
free speech
b)
extempore speech
c)
maiden speech
d)
rousing speech
Answer:
extempore speech
2. Which one has the identical singular and plural form?
a)
Memorandum
b)
Stimulus
c)
Dice
d)
Oasis
Answer:
Dice
3. Select the sentence in which 'fast' is an adverb:
a)
Don't drive so fast
b)
Technology is expanding at a fast pace
c)
Muslims fast during Ramadan
d)
Ushashi went on a 24-hour fast to detox
Answer:
Don't drive so fast
4. It was a cowardly attack on a defenceless man. Here 'cowardly' is a/an
a)
adverb
b)
noun
c)
adjective
d)
conjunction
Answer:
adjective
5. The river flows past the village. Here 'past' is a/an-
a)
noun
b)
adverb
c)
verb
d)
preposition
Answer:
preposition
6. Ihana sleeps only for four hours a night. In this sentence the verb 'sleeps' is -
a)
causative
b)
intransittive
c)
transitive
d)
factitive
Answer:
intransittive
7. He started teaching Hamlet. Here 'teaching' is a/an-
a)
participle
b)
infinitive
c)
verbal noun
d)
gerund
Answer:
gerund
8. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition: 'She was married --- a rich man.
a)
with
b)
to
c)
off
d)
of
Answer:
to
9. Which gender is the word 'sibling'?
a)
Masculine
b)
Feminine
c)
Neuter
d)
Common
Answer:
Common
10. Find out the correctly spelt word:
a)
reminiscene
b)
reminicense
c)
reminescence
d)
reminicence
Answer:
reminiscene
11. The idiom 'smell a rat' means to-
a)
detect bad smell
b)
be in a bad mood
c)
suspect something wrong
d)
see hidden meaning
Answer:
suspect something wrong
12. Select the synonym for 'inclement':
a)
affable
b)
mild
c)
rough
d)
genial
Answer:
rough
13. Tell me frankly 'why you did this'. the selected part is a/an-
a)
adjective clause
b)
noun clause
c)
adverbial phrase
d)
adverbial clause
Answer:
noun clause
14. The prefix 'non' can be added to-
a)
office
b)
partisan
c)
regular
d)
obey
Answer:
partisan
15. Identify the correct passive form: 'I heard her sing.'
a)
She was heard sing by me.
b)
She was heard to be sung by me.
c)
She was heard sung by me.
d)
She was heard to sing by me.
Answer:
She was heard to sing by me.
16. Which sentence is correct?
a)
One of my sisters are a nurse.
b)
One of my sister is a nurse.
c)
One of my sisters is a nurse.
d)
One of my sister's are a nurse.
Answer:
One of my sisters is a nurse.
17. Select the right determiner: 'She works as --- FBI analyst.
a)
a
b)
the
c)
an
d)
none of the above
Answer:
an
18. We met Medha carrying a bouquet of red roses. Here 'carrying' is a/an-
a)
gerund
b)
infinitive
c)
verbal noun
d)
participle
Answer:
participle
19. Five years have passed since his father dies. Identify the correct simple form of the sentence from the following potions:
a)
His father has died five years ago.
b)
His father died five years ago.
c)
His father has died for five years.
d)
His father died since five years.
Answer:
His father died five years ago.
20. Choose the antonym of 'controversy':
a)
contention
b)
unanimity
c)
bickering
d)
dispute
Answer:
unanimity
21. For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. This line is taken from the poem-
a)
To His Coy Mistress
b)
The Canonization
c)
The Definition of Love
d)
The Sun Rising
Answer:
The Canonization
22. The one-act play 'Riders to the Sea' was written by-
a)
G. B. Shaw
b)
J. M. Synge
c)
Oscar Wilde
d)
John Galsworthy
Answer:
J. M. Synge
23. 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend.' This extract is taken from Shakespeare's play-
a)
Macbeth
b)
King Lear
c)
Measure for Measure
d)
Hamlet
Answer:
Hamlet
24. Who composed the elegiac poem 'Thyrsis'?
a)
Thomas Gray
b)
Matthew Arnold
c)
John Milton
d)
P. B. Shelley
Answer:
Matthew Arnold
25. Who is the writer of the famous essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'?
a)
George Orwell
b)
Aldous Leonard Huxley
c)
T. S. Eliot
d)
Francis Bacon
Answer:
T. S. Eliot
26. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. This oft-quoted line occurs in Shelle's notable poem
a)
To a Skylark
b)
Ode to the West Wind
c)
Adonais
d)
The Cloud
Answer:
To a Skylark
27. Who authored the futuristic novel 'Brave New World'?
a)
E. M. Forster
b)
Virginia Woolf
c)
Aldous Leonard Huxley
d)
Graham Greene
Answer:
Aldous Leonard Huxley
28. Good fences make good neighbors. The line was written by---
a)
Robert Graves
b)
Ezra Pound
c)
Robert Frost
d)
Carl Sandourg
Answer:
Robert Frost
29. Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once'. In which play of Shakespeare do you find this quote?
a)
Julius Caesar
b)
The Tempest
c)
Romeo and Juliet
d)
Twellfth Night
Answer:
Julius Caesar
30. 'Knowledge comes, but wisdom linger.' This quote is extracted from Tennyson's poem titled-
a)
Morte d'Arthur
b)
The Lotos-Eaters
c)
Tithonus
d)
Locksley Hall
Answer:
Locksley Hall
31. The tragedy 'Samson Agonistes' was penned by--
a)
Christopher Marlowe
b)
Henrick Ibsen
c)
John Milton
d)
Arthur Miller
Answer:
John Milton
32. Who is the playwright of the absurd drama 'Waiting for Godot'?
a)
Jean Genet
b)
Harold Pinter
c)
Samuel Beckett
d)
Tom Stoppard
Answer:
Samuel Beckett
33. 'It's strange but true; for truth is always strange: Stranger than fiction.' This quote is taken from a poem of-
a)
Mark Twain
b)
Robert Herrick
c)
Lord Byron
d)
Franz Kafka
Answer:
Lord Byron
34. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
a)
Joseph Conrad
b)
Doris Lessing
c)
John Osborne
d)
Thomas Hardy
Answer:
Joseph Conrad
35. Who was the writer of the autobiographical as well as political essay 'Shooting an Elephant'?
a)
Francis Bacon
b)
George Orwell
c)
Joseph Addison
d)
Charles Lamb
Answer:
George Orwell