UPESSC Assistant Professor English Exam paper 2021
UPESSC/ UPHESC Assistant Professor English Exam paper 2021with answers
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1. Which districts of UP form boundary with Rajasthan? (A) Agra and Aligarh (B) Mathura and Hathras (C) Agra and Lucknow (D) Agra and Mathura
2. Dudhwa Tiger Reserve is located in? (A) Bahraich (B) Pilibhit (C) Balrampur (D) Lakhimpur Kheri
3. Oldest museum of UP is located at? (A) Kanpur (B) Mathura (C) Varanasi (D) Lucknow
4. UP Higher Education Services Commission was established in? (A) 1980 (B) 1985 (C) 1987 (D) 1982
5. As per Census 2011 literacy rate of UP is? (A) 69.72% (B) 65.72% (C) 74.04% (D) 67.68%
6. NEP 2020 recommends GER in higher education to be raised to what % by 2035? (A) 30% (B) 40% (C) 60% (D) 50%
7. Who was first Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University? (A) Lord Chelmsford (B) Agha Khan (C) Lord Minto (D) Sultan Jahan Begum
8. Which article deals with reservation of seats for SC/ST in House of People? (A) Article 332 (B) Article 334 (C) Article 335 (D) Article 330
9. Chandrayaan-3 was launched in? (A) July 2022 (B) Aug 2023 (C) June 2023 (D) July 2023
10. Which UP city is known as City of Leather? (A) Agra (B) Lucknow (C) Meerut (D) Kanpur
11. Headquarters of UP State Higher Education Council is at? (A) Prayagraj (B) Varanasi (C) Kanpur (D) Lucknow
12. Who wrote ‘Anand Math’? (A) Rabindranath Tagore (B) Sarat Chandra (C) Premchand (D) Bankim Chandra
13. Which river is known as Sorrow of Bihar? (A) Gandak (B) Bagmati (C) Mahananda (D) Kosi
14. GST was implemented in India from? (A) 1 July 2016 (B) 1 April 2017 (C) 1 Jan 2018 (D) 1 July 2017
15. First Central University in UP is? (A) AMU (B) BHU (C) BB Ambedkar University (D) Allahabad University
16. Which scheme is related to higher education financing? (A) RUSA (B) PMSSS (C) SAMAGRA (D) All of these
17. Kumbh Mela in UP is held at? (A) Haridwar (B) Ujjain (C) Nashik (D) Prayagraj
18. Who is called Father of Green Revolution in India? (A) Norman Borlaug (B) Verghese Kurien (C) Hargobind Khorana (D) M.S. Swaminathan
19. First woman Governor of UP was? (A) Sucheta Kriplani (B) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (C) Annie Besant (D) Sarojini Naidu
20. Largest Lok Sabha constituency in UP by area? (A) Ghaziabad (B) Baghpat (C) Kanpur (D) Lakhimpur Kheri
21. 86th Constitutional Amendment is related to? (A) Reservation (B) Anti-defection (C) Panchayati Raj (D) Right to Education
22. State bird of UP is? (A) Peacock (B) Parrot (C) Koel (D) Sarus Crane
23. Headquarters of ISRO is at? (A) Sriharikota (B) Ahmedabad (C) Delhi (D) Bengaluru
24. Founder of Arya Samaj? (A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (B) Swami Vivekananda (C) Keshav Chandra Sen (D) Dayanand Saraswati
25. NITI Aayog replaced Planning Commission in? (A) 2014 (B) 2016 (C) 2017 (D) 2015
26. Which city of UP is famous for Chikankari? (A) Varanasi (B) Agra (C) Bareilly (D) Lucknow
27. First University of UP is? (A) Lucknow University 1920 (B) BHU 1916 (C) AMU 1920 (D) Allahabad University 1887
28. Who wrote ‘Discovery of India’? (A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) S. Radhakrishnan (C) Maulana Azad (D) Jawaharlal Nehru
29. Which is UNESCO World Heritage site in UP? (A) Taj Mahal (B) Fatehpur Sikri (C) Agra Fort (D) All of these
30. Term ‘Fourth Estate’ refers to? (A) Judiciary (B) Executive (C) Legislature (D) Press
31. How many pilgrims in Canterbury Tales including Chaucer? (A) 29 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 30
32. “Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote” is opening line of? (A) Pardoner’s Tale (B) Knight’s Tale (C) Wife of Bath’s Tale (D) Prologue to Canterbury Tales
33. University Wits does NOT include? (A) Marlowe (B) Greene (C) Nashe (D) Shakespeare
34. “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships” is from? (A) Tamburlaine (B) Jew of Malta (C) Edward II (D) Doctor Faustus
35. Shakespeare’s Sonnets are addressed to? (A) Anne Hathaway (B) Earl of Southampton only (C) Queen Elizabeth (D) W.H. and Dark Lady
36. “The course of true love never did run smooth” appears in? (A) Romeo and Juliet (B) Twelfth Night (C) Much Ado About Nothing (D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
37. Which Shakespeare tragedy is based on Cinthio’s Hecatommithi? (A) King Lear (B) Hamlet (C) Macbeth (D) Othello
38. Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in? (A) 1660 (B) 1658 (C) 1674 (D) 1667
39. “What is man, if his chief good be but to sleep and feed?” spoken by? (A) Claudius (B) Horatio (C) Laertes (D) Hamlet
40. John Donne belongs to? (A) Cavalier Poets (B) Both (C) None (D) Metaphysical Poets
41. Who called Spenser “the poet’s poet”? (A) Milton (B) Wordsworth (C) Keats (D) Charles Lamb
42. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel” is a? (A) Religious Poem (B) Pastoral (C) Elegy (D) Political Satire
43. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” is from Keats’s? (A) Hyperion (B) Lamia (C) Isabella (D) Endymion
44. Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads was published in? (A) 1800 (B) 1802 (C) 1799 (D) 1798
45. Concept of “Negative Capability” was given by Keats in letter to? (A) Fanny Brawne (B) Reynolds (C) Bailey (D) George and Tom Keats
46. “In Memoriam” by Tennyson mourns death of? (A) Edward King (B) John Keats (C) Henry Hallam (D) Arthur Henry Hallam
47. Author of “The Second Coming”? (A) T.S. Eliot (B) W.H. Auden (C) Ted Hughes (D) W.B. Yeats
48. “April is the cruellest month” is opening of? (A) The Hollow Men (B) Prufrock (C) Gerontion (D) The Waste Land
49. Term “Stream of Consciousness” was first coined by? (A) James Joyce (B) Virginia Woolf (C) May Sinclair (D) William James
50. Author of “A Room of One’s Own”? (A) Mary Wollstonecraft (B) Simone de Beauvoir (C) George Eliot (D) Virginia Woolf
51. “Things Fall Apart” is written by? (A) Wole Soyinka (B) Ngugi wa Thiong’o (C) Derek Walcott (D) Chinua Achebe
52. Who wrote “Kanthsapura”? (A) R.K. Narayan (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Anita Desai (D) Raja Rao
53. “The God of Small Things” won Booker Prize in? (A) 1998 (B) 1996 (C) 1999 (D) 1997
54. Term “Negritude” was coined by? (A) Wole Soyinka (B) Derek Walcott (C) Edward Braithwaite (D) Aime Cesaire and Senghor
55. Who wrote “Orientalism” (1978)? (A) Homi Bhabha (B) Gayatri Spivak (C) Frantz Fanon (D) Edward Said
56. “Langue” and “Parole” are concepts given by? (A) Noam Chomsky (B) Derrida (C) Barthes (D) Ferdinand de Saussure
57. “Competence” and “Performance” are concepts of? (A) Saussure (B) Bloomfield (C) Halliday (D) Chomsky
58. IPA symbol for initial sound in ‘ship’ is? (A) /ʒ/ (B) /tʃ/ (C) /s/ (D) /ʃ/
59. How many pure vowels (monophthongs) in English RP? (A) 20 (B) 8 (C) 24 (D) 12
60. Plural morpheme {-s} in ‘cats’,’dogs’,’buses’ is example of? (A) Allophone (B) Morpheme (C) Phoneme (D) Allomorph
61. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is example of? (A) Synecdoche (B) Metaphor (C) Personification (D) Metonymy
62. Sonnet with rhyme abba abba cde cde is? (A) Shakespearean (B) Spenserian (C) Miltonic (D) Petrarchan
63. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” ends with line? (A) A thing of beauty is a joy for ever (B) Heard melodies are sweet (C) Thou still unravish’d bride (D) Beauty is truth, truth beauty
64. Who is known as “Father of English Novel”? (A) Henry Fielding (B) Richardson (C) Both debated (D) Daniel Defoe
65. Novel “Great Expectations” was published in? (A) 1859 (B) 1864 (C) 1850 (D) 1860-61
66. “The Return of the Native” is set in? (A) Egdon Heath (B) Wessex (C) Casterbridge (D) Both Egdon Heath in Wessex
67. Who wrote “The Preface to Shakespeare”? (A) John Dryden (B) Alexander Pope (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Samuel Johnson
68. “Biographia Literaria” was published in? (A) 1815 (B) 1816 (C) 1800 (D) 1817
69. Matthew Arnold’s “Touchstone Method” appears in? (A) Function of Criticism (B) Culture and Anarchy (C) Essays in Criticism (D) Study of Poetry
70. “Intentional Fallacy” and “Affective Fallacy” are concepts of? (A) Russian Formalism (B) Structuralism (C) Deconstruction (D) New Criticism – Wimsatt & Beardsley
71. Term “Gynocriticism” was coined by? (A) Virginia Woolf (B) Simone de Beauvoir (C) Kate Millett (D) Elaine Showalter
72. “The Death of the Author” was written by? (A) Jacques Derrida (B) Michel Foucault (C) Stanley Fish (D) Roland Barthes
73. Which play by Beckett has only two characters Vladimir and Estragon? (A) Endgame (B) Krapp’s Last Tape (C) Happy Days (D) Waiting for Godot
74. Subtitle of Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is? (A) A Serious Comedy for Trivial People (B) Lady Windermere’s Fan (C) A Woman of No Importance (D) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
75. “The Alchemist” by Ben Jonson is a? (A) Comedy of Manners (B) Revenge Tragedy (C) Romantic Comedy (D) Comedy of Humours
76. First folio of Shakespeare was published in? (A) 1620 (B) 1625 (C) 1616 (D) 1623
77. Line “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” is from? (A) Kubla Khan (B) Dejection: An Ode (C) Christabel (D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
78. Who wrote “The Bluest Eye”? (A) Alice Walker (B) Maya Angelou (C) Zora Neale Hurston (D) Toni Morrison
79. Author of “Midnight’s Children”? (A) Amitav Ghosh (B) Vikram Seth (C) Khushwant Singh (D) Salman Rushdie
80. “The Road Not Taken” is written by? (A) Walt Whitman (B) Emily Dickinson (C) Edgar Allan Poe (D) Robert Frost
81. Verse form with 8 lines is called? (A) Sestet (B) Quatrain (C) Spenserian stanza (D) Octave
82. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” was written by? (A) William Collins (B) Oliver Goldsmith (C) James Thomson (D) Thomas Gray
83. Phrase “Dissociation of Sensibility” was used by? (A) F.R. Leavis (B) I.A. Richards (C) William Empson (D) T.S. Eliot
84. Who wrote “The Wasteland” – how many sections? (A) 4 sections (B) 3 sections (C) 6 sections (D) 5 sections
85. Protagonist of “Animal Farm”? (A) Snowball (B) Boxer (C) No single protagonist (D) Napoleon
86. Which is NOT a work of Jane Austen? (A) Emma (B) Persuasion (C) Mansfield Park (D) Wuthering Heights
87. Term “Cultural Materialism” is associated with? (A) Stephen Greenblatt (B) Edward Said (C) Althusser (D) Raymond Williams & Dollimore
88. How many consonant sounds in English RP as per IPA? (A) 20 (B) 12 (C) 44 (D) 24
89. Word “unhappiness” has how many morphemes? (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 1 (D) 3 – un-happy-ness
90. “To be or not to be” is example of? (A) Monologue (B) Aside (C) Dialogue (D) Dilemma / Soliloquy
91. First English Dictionary was compiled by? (A) Samuel Johnson 1755 (B) Henry Cockeram (C) Both (D) Robert Cawdrey 1604
92. “The Faerie Queene” is dedicated to? (A) Queen Victoria (B) Queen Anne (C) Mary Queen of Scots (D) Queen Elizabeth I
93. Which literary movement is T.S. Eliot associated with? (A) Postmodernism (B) Romanticism (C) Naturalism (D) Modernism
94. Term “Objective Correlative” was first used by? (A) I.A. Richards (B) Ezra Pound (C) T.E. Hulme (D) T.S. Eliot
95. Author of “Pride and Prejudice” published it in? (A) 1811 (B) 1815 (C) 1816 (D) 1813
96. “A Passage to India” ends with line? (A) Only connect (B) …the sky… (C) The Marabar Caves (D) No, not yet… No, not there
97. Which figure of speech in “O my love is like a red, red rose”? (A) Metaphor (B) Personification (C) Alliteration (D) Simile
98. Poem “Dover Beach” was written by? (A) Tennyson (B) Browning (C) Swinburne (D) Matthew Arnold
99. Concept of “Hegemony” is given by? (A) Louis Althusser (B) Karl Marx (C) Raymond Williams (D) Antonio Gramsci
100. First Indian English novel is considered to be? (A) Travels of Dean Mahomet 1794 (B) Both debated (C) None (D) Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim 1864
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