Uttar Pradesh Lecturer Recruitment Exam.

English 

1. Which poem of Keats has the following lines ?
Heard Melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter : therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) Ode on Melancholy
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

2. When was Lamb born ?
(A) 1775
(B) 1834
(C) 1744
(D) 1829
Ans : (A)

3. Which pseudonym was adopted by Lamb for his essays ?
(A) Elia
(B) Charles
(C) Lamb
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

4. Which of the following is not a work by Lamb ?
(A) John Woodvil
(B) The Old Familiar Faces
(C) Hester
(D) Lalla Rookh
Ans : (D)

5. How many acts are there in Shelley’s lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound ?
(A) One
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
Ans : (C)


6. Who was the father of Matthew Arnold ?
(A) Edwin Arnold
(B) Thomas Arnold
(C) A. H. Clough
(D) None of them
Ans : (B)

7. Whose death was commemorated by Arnold in Thyrsis ?
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough
(B) Tennyson
(C) Edwin Arnold
(D) None of them
Ans : (A)

8. Arnold’s celebrated poem ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ is based on an old legend, narrated by Glanvil in—
(A) The Schoolmaster
(B) Palmerin of England
(C) The Vanity of Dogmatizing
(D) The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
Ans : (C)

9. In whose memory was ‘In Memoriam’ written ?
(A) Arthur H. Hallam
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Robert Browning
(D) None of them
Ans : (A)

10. Which poem of Tennyson contains the following lines ?
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
(A) Crossing the Bar
(B) Ulysses
(C) Tears, Idle Tears
(D) The Lotos-Eaters
Ans : (B)

11. Which is the first section of Eliot’s The Waste Land ?
(A) The Burial of the Dead
(B) A Game of Chess
(C) The Fire Sermon
(D) Death By Water
Ans : (A)

12. In which critical essay did Eliot make the following statement ?
“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”
(A) Tradition and the Individual Talent
(B) The Metaphysical Poets
(C) Both of these
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

13. What is the title of Kamala Das’ autobiography ?
(A) Summer in Calcutta
(B) The Descendants
(C) My Story
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

14. Which poem of Kamala Das has the following expression ?
“Why not leave Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins,
Every one of you ? Why not let me speak in Any Language I like ?”
(A) The Maggots
(B) The Doubt
(C) An Introduction
(D) Luminol
Ans : (C)

15. When was Robert Frost born ?
(A) 1874
(B) 1963
(C) 1706
(D) 1790
Ans : (A)

16. Which one of the following is not a pastoral elegy ?
(A) Milton’s Lycidas
(B) Shelley’s Adonais
(C) Arnold’s Thyrsis
(D) Pope’s the Rape of the Lock
Ans : (D)

17. Which of the following is correctly matched ?
(A) Hyperbole—A figure of speech in which emphasis is achieved by deliberate exaggeration.
(B) Oxymoron—A figure of speech consisting generally of two apparently contradictory terms that express a startling paradox
(C) Metaphor—A figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared by identification or by the substitution of one for the other.
(D) All of three options are matched correctly
Ans : (D)

18. When was Shakespeare born ?
(A) 1564
(B) 1616
(C) 1671
(D) 1713
Ans : (A)

19. Who has spoken the following words in Shakespeare’s Macbeth ?
The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
(A) First witch
(B) Second witch
(C) Third witch
(D) None of them
Ans : (D)

20. Which of the following is a poem by Wordsworth ?
(A) Daffodils
(B) On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
(C) The Forsaken Merman
(D) The Last Ride Together
Ans : (A)

21. Keats dropped the first stanza of one of his ‘Odes’. It was from—
(A) Ode to Psyche
(B) Ode to Melancholy
(C) Ode to Apollo
(D) Ode on Indolence
Ans : (C)

22. ‘The Old Playhouse’ by Kamala Das is a poem of—
(A) Surrender to male domination
(B) Protest against male domination
(C) Harmony between husband and wife
(D) Jealousy
Ans : (B)

23. Who among the Indian politicians was inspired by the following lines ?
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
(A) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(C) M. K. Gandhi
(D) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Ans : (A)

24. Point out the figure of speech in the following line—
Like a patient etherised upon a table.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Climax
(C) Simile
(D) Personification
Ans : (D)

25. Which of the following novel is not by Mulk Raj Anand ?
(A) Untouchable
(B) Coolie
(C) Two Leaves and a Bud
(D) The Second Wife
Ans : (D)

26. Choose the correctly spelt word—
(A) Farenheit
(B) Ferenheit
(C) Fahrenheit
(D) Fahrenheight
Ans : (C)

27. ‘Archaic’ means—
(A) Decent
(B) Clumsy
(C) Modern
(D) Primitive
Ans : (D)

28. The antonym of BELLIGERENT is—
(A) Cooperative
(B) Peaceful
(C) Revolutionary
(D) Uninterested
Ans : (B)

29. Choose the most appropriate preposition—
A good judge never jumps …… the conclusion.
(A) to
(B) into
(C) on
(D) for
Ans : (A)

30. Mark the part which contains an error in the following sentence. If there is no error in it, mark (D) as your choice—
Although (A) there are some similarities in the qualifications of the two candidates, (B) the differences among (C) them are quite pronounced. No error (D)
Ans : (C)

31. Choose the most appropriate preposition—
The patient was disappointed ……… not finding the doctor in his seat.
(A) at
(B) on
(C) from
(D) in
Ans : (B)

32. The synonym of VANGUARD is—
(A) Watchmen
(B) Protectors
(C) Security men
(D) Forefront
Ans : (D)

33. The antonym of UNIMPEACHABLE is—
(A) Corruptible
(B) Blameworthy
(C) Calculating
(D) Mysterious
Ans : (B)

34. Choose the most appropriate preposition—
Your conduct smacks ……… recklessness.
(A) in
(B) from
(C) with
(D) of
Ans : (D)

35. Choose the correctly spelt word—
(A) Souvenir
(B) Suvenire
(C) Suvenir
(D) Souvenire
Ans : (A)

36. ‘Abysmal’ means—
(A) Vigour
(B) Explosion
(C) Horrifying
(D) Mixed
Ans : (C)

37. ‘Harangue’ implies—
(A) Lecture
(B) Quarrel
(C) Beautify
(D) Run
Ans : (B)

38. ‘Goulash’ stands for—
(A) Top
(B) Stew
(C) Shoe
(D) Play
Ans : (B)

39. ‘Impromptu’ means—
(A) Unimportant
(B) Unreal
(C) Offhand
(D) Effective
Ans : (C)

40. The synonym of PONTIFICAL is—
(A) Boastful
(B) Wordy
(C) Splendid
(D) Advisory
Ans : (C)

41. A teetotaller is—
(A) One who totally abstains from wine
(B) One who does not take any intoxicating drinks
(C) One who is very fond of sensuous enjoyments
(D) One who has irresistible desire for alcohol
Ans : (B)

42. Replace the italicized portion in the following sentence with one phrase—
In the present times, the real sufferers are the people belonging to the middle classes of society.
(A) Bourgeoisie
(B) Elite
(C) Inter alia
(D) Proletarian
Ans : (A)

43. What is the correct meaning of the idiom “To meet one’s Waterloo” ?
(A) To meet a new person
(B) To visit a new place
(C) To meet one’s final defeat
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

44. What do you mean by the idiom “Yeoman’s Service” ?
(A) Private work
(B) Govt. work
(C) Meanest work
(D) Excellent work
Ans : (D)

45. Fill in the blank with correct article—
Ganga is ……… sacred river.
(A) the
(B) a
(C) an
(D) none
Ans : (B)

46. Fill in the blank with most appropriate choice—
The sun ………, the fog disappeared.
(A) is rising
(B) have risen
(C) having risen
(D) rises
Ans : (C)

47. Which kind of sentence is the following ?
He confessed that he had committed the crime.
(A) Complex
(B) Compound
(C) Simple
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

48. What is the meaning of the word ‘Demagogue’ ?
(A) An unprincipled popular leader
(B) A leader who changes political parties
(C) A leader who is committed to the nation
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

49. ‘Menagerie’ is the place for—
(A) Fish and water plants
(B) Wild animals and birds
(C) Ammunition and weapons
(D) Invalids to enjoy good health
Ans : (B)

50. Choose the correct antonym of the word ‘Prodigality’—
(A) Parsimony
(B) Frugal
(C) Economical
(D) Spendthrift
Ans : (C)

51. Who was ‘Machiavelli’ ?
(A) A Florentine Statesman
(B) An American Statesman
(C) An Italian Statesman
(D) A French Statesman
Ans : (C)

52. For whom Keats used the term ‘Egotistical Sublime’ ?
(A) Coleridge
(B) Shelley
(C) Byron
(D) Wordsworth
Ans : (D)

53. Who was the father of ‘Eassais’ ?
(A) Montaigne
(B) Rousseau
(C) Wyatt
(D) Dowden
Ans : (A)

54. The essay ‘South Sea House’ has been written by—
(A) Bacon
(B) Lamb
(C) Stevenson
(D) Addison
Ans : (B)

55. Who used the epithet ‘gentle hearted Charles’, for Charles Lamb ?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Keats
(C) Browning
(D) Coleridge
Ans : (D)

56. In which poem do the following lines occurs ?
“They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.”
(A) The Education of Nature
(B) Daffodils
(C) The World is Too Much with Us
(D) Tintern Abbey
Ans : (B)

57. ‘Sir Bedivere’ figures in the poem—
(A) Morte D’Arthur
(B) The Princess
(C) Locksley Hall
(D) Jean, Idle Jean
Ans : (A)

58. Who is the author of the poem ‘Shakespeare’ ?
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Wordsworth
Ans : (C)

59. Who has been regarded as a representative Victorian novelist ?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Charles Reade
(C) Charles Kinsley
(D) Thackeray
Ans : (A)

60. ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is a novel by—
(A) Thomas Hardy
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) Thackeray
(D) George Eliot
Ans : (A)

61. Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel prize for the novel—
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B) The Old Man and the Sea
(C) A Farewell to Arms
(D) The Sun also Rises
Ans : (B)

62. The character ‘Robert Jordan’ figures in—
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B) The Old Man and the Sea
(C) In Our Times
(D) A Farewell to Arms
Ans : (D)

63. From which poem of Whitman are the following lines taken ?
O powerful western fallen star !
O shades of night-O moody, tearful night !
(A) O Captain ! My Captain !
(B) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
(C) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
(D) None of these
Ans : (D)

64. From which poem of Robert Frost are the following lines taken ?
“They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many coloured ….”
(A) Birches
(B) After Apple Picking
(C) Mending Wall
(D) The Road Not Taken
Ans : (B)

65. Which play of Shakespeare opens with the line
“If music be the food of love, play on :” ?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Twelfth Night
(C) Macbeth
(D) Romeo and Juliet
Ans : (B)

66. When did the first edition of Lyrical Ballads appear ?
(A) 1698
(B) 1798
(C) 1898
(D) 1794
Ans : (B)

67. To whom is Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude addressed ?
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Coleridge
(C) Pope
(D) Dr. Johnson
Ans : (B)

68. In ‘Three Years She Grew’, the litle girl will be sportive as—
(A) The Lawn
(B) The Fawn
(C) Stars
(D) Rivulets
Ans : (B)

69. Which work was described by Keats as ‘a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished’ ?
(A) Endymion
(B) Hyperion
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes
(D) None of these
Ans : (D)

70. When did Keats die ?
(A) 1795
(B) 1789
(C) 1821
(D) 1777
Ans : (C)

71. Shelley’s ‘Alastor’ is also called—
(A) The Spirit of Solitude
(B) Queen Mab
(C) Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

72. Whose death is mourned by Shelley in Adonais ?
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) None of them
Ans : (A)

73. Which of the following is not correctly matched ?
(A) When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot — When the Lamp is Shattered
(B) Nothing beside remains Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away — Ozymandias
(C) Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! — Ode to the West Wind
(D) A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud —Adonais
Ans : (D)

74. Which of the following is not by Dickens ?
(A) The Cricket on the Hearth
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) Barnaby Rudge
(D) Old Fortunatus
Ans : (A)

75. Which of the following is not correctly matched ?
(A) Thomas Gradgrind—Hard Times
(B) Richard Carstone—Bleak House
(C) Ada Clare—Bleak House
(D) Abel Magwitch—Oliver Twist
Ans : (D)

76. Which is / are the novel / novels by Hardy ?
(A) The Trumpet Major
(B) Desperate Remedies
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) All of these
Ans : (D)

77. What is the title of Hardy’s epic drama ?
(A) The Dynasts
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

78. Which one of the following is not a drama by Eliot ?
(A) Ash Wednesday
(B) Murder in the Cathedral
(C) The Family Reunion
(D) The Cocktail Party
Ans : (A)

79. Who has written the book The Art of T. S. Eliot ?
(A) Elizabeth Drew
(B) Helen Gardner
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) Grover Smith
Ans : (B)

80. When was T. S. Eliot born ?
(A) 1888
(B) 1905
(C) 1906
(D) 1907
Ans : (A)

81. One of the characters of Shakespeare has been called the fourth witch. She is—
(A) Ophelia
(B) Lady Macbeth
(C) Emilia
(D) Juliet
Ans : (B)

82. Point out the figure of speech in the following line—
O World ! O Life ! O Time !
(A) Apostrophe
(B) Climax
(C) Pun
(D) Personification
Ans : (A)

83. Who is the author of ‘Tintern Abbey’ ?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) Coleridge
Ans : (C)

84. Michael Henchard began his life as a—
(A) Driver
(B) Carpenter
(C) Weaver
(D) Hay-trusser
Ans : (D)

85. Who has composed the following line ?
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
(A) John Keats
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Robert Southey
(D) P. B. Shelley
Ans : (D)

86. Hemingway, the novelist was—
(A) An American
(B) A British
(C) A Canadian
(D) A South African
Ans : (A)

87. T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ was published in—
(A) 1910
(B) 1918
(C) 1930
(D) 1922
Ans : (D)

88. Point out the figure of speech in the following line—
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes.
(A) Pun
(B) Personification
(C) Simile
(D) Oxymoron
Ans : (B)

89. Who has penned the following lines ?
I am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed.
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Nissim Ezekiel
(C) Kamala Das
(D) Sarojini Naidu
Ans : (C)

90. The idiom ‘hush money’ means—
(A) The money spent at midnight
(B) The bribe paid to keep some matter secret
(C) The money received in a dark room
(D) The money received in paper currency
Ans : (B)

91. Mark the part which contains an error in the following sentence. If there is no error in it, mark (D) as your choice—
One should (A) take advantage of opportunities to talk with native orators if one wants (B) to improve his (C) English. No error (D)
Ans : (C)

92. Mark the part which contains an error in the following sentence. If there is no error in it, mark (D) as your choice—
The great poet and dramatist, the Kalidas, is regarded (A) as the (B) Shakespeare (C) of India. No error (D)
Ans : (A)

93. The antonym of ALACRITY is—
(A) Inaptitude
(B) Hesitation
(C) Uncertainty
(D) Inability
Ans : (B)

94. The synonym of AVIARY is—
(A) Prison
(B) Reformatory
(C) Large cage for birds
(D) Zoo officer
Ans : (C)

95. What is the meaning of the idiom ‘a flying visit’ ?
(A) A very short visit
(B) A visit to the space
(C) A visit by an aeroplane
(D) A visit on a gas-filled balloon
Ans : (A)

96. Choose the most appropriate preposition—
The Indian magpie indulges …… a long flight.
(A) with
(B) in
(C) at
(D) on
Ans : (B)

97. ‘Seethe’ suggests—
(A) spill
(B) catch
(C) dry
(D) boil
Ans : (D)

98. The synonym of SARDONIC is—
(A) Miserable
(B) Cruel
(C) Scornful
(D) Noisy
Ans : (C)

99. The antonym of ESOTERIC is—
(A) Clear
(B) Transparent
(C) Simple
(D) Apparent
Ans : (C)

100. The meaning of the idiom “a brain wave” is—
(A) A wave passing through one’s brain
(B) Sudden inspiration
(C) A big fuss
(D) An invention
Ans : (B)

101. Choose the most appropriate preposition—
The doctor advised him to abstain……all alcoholic drinks.
(A) at
(B) from
(C) by
(D) in
Ans : (B)

102. A person who hates the institution of marriage is called—
(A) Misogamist
(B) Pacifist
(C) Philogynist
(D) Pessimist
Ans : (A)

103. A speech which is delivered without any previous preparation is called—
(A) Maiden
(B) Extempore
(C) Meticulous
(D) Matin
Ans : (B)

104. One who eats everything is called—
(A) Herbivorous
(B) Gregarious
(C) Credulous
(D) Omnivorous
Ans : (D)

105. An imaginary name assumed by an author for disguise is called—
(A) Pseudonym
(B) Neologism
(C) Loquacious
(D) Veteran
Ans : (A)

106. Fill in the blank with suitable conjunction—
Though he is suffering much pain, ……… he does not complain.
(A) yet
(B) but
(C) else
(D) as
Ans : (A)

107. Which of the following sentences is correct ?
(A) He entered into the room
(B) He entered the room
(C) He entered in the room
(D) He entered to the room
Ans : (B)

108. Which of the following sentences is correct ?
(A) The meeting was adjourned owing to the want of quorum
(B) The meeting was adjourned due to want of quorum
(C) The meeting was adjourned for want of quorum
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

109. Fill in the blank with correct pronoun—
Our soldiers are better than ……… of the enemies.
(A) those
(B) these
(C) that
(D) themselves
Ans : (A)

110. Fill in the blank with suitable adjective—
The book contains many ……… quotations.
(A) Martial
(B) Ambitious
(C) Biblical
(D) Ulterior
Ans : (C)

111. Choose the correct figure of speech in the following sentence—
“The camel is the ship of desert.”
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Hyperbole
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

112. Choose the correct figure of speech in the following sentence—
“The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.”
(A) Metaphor
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Synecdoche
(D) Simile
Ans : (D)

113. Change the following into an indirect statement and indicate the correct one—
He said to me, “What are you doing ?”
(A) He said to me that what he was doing
(B) He said to me that what I was doing
(C) He asked me what I was doing
(D) He asked me what he was doing
Ans : (C)

114. Which one of the following is the correct spelling ?
(A) Haemorrhage
(B) Haemorhage
(C) Heamorrhage
(D) Heamorhage
Ans : (A)

115. Which one of the following is the correct spelling ?
(A) Ceasarean
(B) Caesaraen
(C) Caesarean
(D) Ceasaraen
Ans : (C)

116. In which Magazine were published the first series of ‘The Essays of Elia’ ?
(A) British Magazine
(B) Swiss Magazine
(C) American Magazine
(D) London Magazine
Ans : (D)

117. French revolution broke out in the year—
(A) 1789
(B) 1798
(C) 1880
(D) 1785
Ans : (A)

118. In which poem of Shelley do the following lines occur ?
“Alas ! I have no hope nor health Nor peace within nor calm around ……….”
(A) Ode to West Wind
(B) Stanzas Written in Dejection
(C) To a Skylark
(D) Adonais
Ans : (B)

119. By whom Shelley has been called as ‘perfect singing God’ ?
(A) Rossettee
(B) Arnold
(C) Swinburne
(D) Morris
Ans : (B)

120. Who wrote the following line for Shelley ?
“… he is a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.”
(A) Compton Rickett
(B) Walter Pater
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Matthew Arnold
Ans : (D)

121. What is the real name of the poetess Kamla Das ?
(A) Madhavi Kutty
(B) Ratnavalli
(C) Kalluri Devi
(D) None of them
Ans : (D)

122. Nissim Ezekiel is a born—
(A) British
(B) American
(C) Swiss
(D) Jew
Ans : (B)

123. Who is the author of the poem ‘Enterprise’?
(A) Kamla Das
(B) Ezekiel
(C) Ramanujan
(D) None of them
Ans : (B)

124. The theme of alienation is central to the poetry of—
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(B) Kamla Das
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Walt Whitman
Ans : (A)

125. Whitman’s poem ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ contains—
(A) Nine sections
(B) Eleven sections
(C) Thirteen sections
(D) None of these
Ans : (D)