TGT English Mock Test 5

1. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) is known as:

a. Omission

b. Elision

C. Silent sound

d. None of these

2. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

a. Elision

b. Repression

C. Ellipsis

d. None of these

3. A correction by emending a correction resulting from critical editing

a. Improvement

b. Emendation

c. Recommendation

d. Editing

4. Who among the following earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and statistics from Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad (K41. W.H. Auden studied English at -

A. Christmas School

B. Christ Church, Oxford

C. Christ School, Cambridge

D. None of these

5. Larkin began his education at Oxford University in-

A. October 1940

B. November 1941

C. December, 1941

D. December, 1942

6. Who was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper?

A. Whitman

B. Frost

C. Faulkner

D. Hemingway

7. Dickinson was by nature.

(A) Unmannered

(B) Shy

(C) Rude

(D) Sensitive

8. Dickinson enjoyed the company of -

(A) Benjamin

(B) Sister Carry

(C) Hamilton

(D) None of them

9. How many times Robert Frost got Pulitzer Prize for fiction? (PGT-2016)

A. Two

B. Three

C. Four

D. Five

10. Who said, "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom", and "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession"?

A. Hemingway

B. Robert Frost

C. Faulkner

D. Walt Whitman

11. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems as Gitanjali was published on -

A. August 14, 1910

B. August 20, 1910

C. August 25, 1910

D. August 21, 1910

12. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of English prose poems.

A. 102

B. 103

C. 104

D. 105

13. Nissim Ezekiel wrote his autobiography and called

A. A thousand failures

B. A Great Success

C. My Experiments of Life

D. My failures

14. Who wrote Hymns in Darkness?

A. Kamala Das

B. Nissim Ezekiel

C. Toru Dutt

D. Jhumpa Lahari

15. Who narrates the story in the poem "Obituary"?

A. The son

B. The dead person

C. the dead person's wife

D. the poet

16. How did the father of the young boy died?

A. cancer

B. heart failure

C. fever

D. typhoid

17. What does the porter say that drinking causes?

A. Heart disease, liver disease, and kidney problems

B. A red nose, sleep, urination, and impotence

C. Snoring, bad breath, and constipation

D. A lot of knocking on the door

18. Who kills the servants who look guilty of the murder?

A. Macduff and Lennox

B. Lady Macbeth

C. Macbeth

D. Banquo

19. How does Lady Macbeth publicly react to the news of the murder?

A. She begins to wail uncontrollably.

B. She says it is horrible and pretends to faint.

C. She laughs gleefully and rubs her hands.

D. She beats her chest and exclaims that she bears responsibility since it happened in her home.

20. Why do Malcom and Donalbain run away from the court?

A. They too were plotting Duncan's murder and are spooked that someone else got to him first.

B. They are guilty and afraid of being caught.

C. They know Macbeth did it and are scared.

D. They fear that they are next to be murdered.

21. Why is Macbeth named king instead of Duncan's son and heir, Malcom?

A. Because Malcom's flight makes him look guilty

B. Because Duncan renounced Malcom and named Macbeth his heir

C. Because Macbeth and Malcom are actually the same person

D. Because Malcom makes a deal with Macbeth to forfeit the throne in exchange for not being murdered

22. Who is Stephen?

A. Edward Knowell's son

B. Edward Knowell's teacher

C. Edward Knowell's brother

D. Edward Knowell's friend

23. Whose letter did young Knowell receive?

(A) Well-bred

(B) Stephen

(C) Mathew

(D) Cob

24. The use of uncommon words and phrases in poetry is known as-

(A) exaggeration

(B) poetic diction

(C) empathy

(D) oxymoron

25. Which term is used for the attraction of a male child towards his mother ?

(A) Oedipus complex

(B) Electra complex

(C) Pathetic fallacy

(D) Emotional outlet

26. 'Allusion' is a reference to a person, place or event or to another literary work-

(A) with explicit identification

(B) without explicit identification

(C) with vague identification

(D) none of the above

27. The term 'Broken rhyme' denotes-

(A) the splitting of the rhyme

(B) the splitting of the word at the end of a verse line

(C) a rhyme on the final syllable

(D) none of the above

28. Which form of novel contains an exchange of letters between charac-ters?

(A) Epistolary

(B) Picaresque

(C) Stream of consciousness

(D) None of the above

29. In Italy, Futurism' gave birth to ....... literature.

(A) expressionistic

(B) surrealistic

(C) socialist

(D) fascist

30. Two consecutive lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme aa, bb is known as-

(A) quatrain

(B) heroic couplet

(C) rhyme-royal

(D) terza-rima

31. Edward Knowell was laughing after reading a letter at whose cost was it?

(A) Stephen

(B) Old Knowell

(C) Mathew

(D) Well-bred

32. Who is Master Mathew?

(A) a town gull

(B) a servant

(C) a cook

(D) a gardener

33. Whom did Master Mathew welcome?

(A) Cashier

(B) Water-carrier

(C) Friend

(D) Father

34. Who admired Dryden's Fables, Ancient and Modern, 1700, and imitated them in his poem Lamia?

A. W.H. Auden

B. S.T. Coleridge

C. John Keats

D. William Wordsworth

35. Who wrote about Dryden that he was "the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century"?

A. W.H. Auden

B.S.T. Coleridge

C. John Keats

D. T. S. Eliot

36. The phrase "blaze of glory" is believed to have originated in Dryden's 1686 poem_ , referring to the throne of God as a "blaze of glory that forbids the sight".

A. Religio Laici (1682)

B. Annus Mirabilis

C. The Hind and the Panther, (1687)

D. The Hind and the Panther

37. Bluntschli asks Raina to let him do what, when he is in her room?

A. Sleep

B. Eat dinner in the kitchen

C. Look for ammunition

D. Look for rope not be described as of which novel of Galsworthy was-

38. The play might subgenre?

A. Marriage comedy

B. Social satire

C. Melodrama

D. Comedy of manners

39. The first successful

A. The Man of property

B. fraternity

C. Silver Box

D. Strife

40. Which novel of Galsworthy is considered to be his masterpiece- (TGT-01)

A. American poet

B. Canadian author

C. British playwright

D. Indian writer of A Forsyte

41. Harold Pinter was a director and actor. (TGT-01)

A. The Pigeon

B. Flowering Wilderness

C. Island Pharisees

D. Indian Summer of A Forsyte

42. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of

A. The Room in 1957

B. No Man's Land (1975)

C. Betrayal (1978)

D. None of these

43. Where was Yank born?

A. Minnesota

B. Boston

C. New York

D. Philly

44. What kinds of stores do the men notice on 5th Avenue (in Hairy Ape)?

A. Badal Sarkar

B. Vijay Tendulkar

C. Mohan Rakesh

D. Girish Karnad

45. Who among the following went to England and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (1960-63), earning his Master of Arts degree in philosophy, political science and economics?

A. Badal Sarkar

B. Vijay Tendulkar

C. Mohan Rakesh

D. Girish Karnad

46. Which work of Francis Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind?

A. New Atlantis

B. De augmentis scientiarum

C. The Advancement and Proficience of Learning Divine and Human

D. None of these

47. How many essays of Francis Bacon were published in 1st edition of essays (1597)?

A. 8

B.9

C. 10

D. 11

48. The character of Will Wimble has been identified with

A. Mr. Thomas Morecraft

B. Mr. Thomas More

C. Mr. Thomas Mann

D. None of these

49. What a Country-Fellow brought Sir Roger-

A. a huge Fish

B. a big gun

C. a cake

D. a huge flower

50. Which play of Shakespeare a North's Version of Plutarch's 'Life of Caius Martius Coriolanus' as its source ?

(A) Othello

(B) Titus Andronicus

(C) Antory and Cleopatra

(D) Coriolanus

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