UPESSC Assistant Professor English Previous Paper 2025
UPESSC/ UPHESC Assistant Professor English Exam paper 2025 with answers
- When was first solar mission of India ‘Aditya L1’ launched?
(A) September 2023 (B) October 2024 (C) June 2023 (D) November 2023
Ans: (A) September 2023 - In which city Para Asian Games, 2023 were held?
(A) Beijing (B) Guangzhou (C) Hangzhou (D) Shanghai
Ans: (C) Hangzhou - Who was appointed as the Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in 2024?
(A) Ajay Tyagi (B) Madhabi Puri Buch (C) U. K. Sinha (D) D. R. Mehta
Ans: (B) Madhabi Puri Buch - Who launched ‘Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’, a new political party in Tamil Nadu?
(A) Kamal Hasan (B) Rajnikant (C) Ajith Kumar (D) Joseph Vijay Chandrashekhar
Ans: (D) Joseph Vijay Chandrashekhar - Where was 19th G-20 Summit held?
(A) New Delhi, India (B) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (C) Jakarta, Indonesia (D) Moscow, Russia
Ans: (B) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - When Swachha Bharat Mission was started?
(A) 2 October, 2014 (B) 21 August, 2014 (C) 22 January, 2015 (D) 28 August, 2014
Ans: (A) 2 October, 2014 - Who was the first to apply the sociometric test?
(A) J. A. Davis (B) A. J. Reiss (C) J. L. Moreno (D) A. M. Edwards
Ans: (C) J. L. Moreno - Arrange the following in a sequence: I. Raw Data II. Data Processing III. Analysis of Data IV. Presentation of Data
(A) I, II, IV, III (B) I, IV, III, II (C) II, III, IV, I (D) I, III, II, IV
Ans: (A) - Which one of the following is a primary ethical consideration when conducting research involving human participants?
(A) Ensuring statistical significance (B) Achieving a large sample size (C) Utilizing advanced research methodology (D) Maintaining participant anonymity
Ans: (D) - Who introduced discovery learning method of inquiry based education?
(A) William James (B) Jerome Bruner (C) John Dewey (D) Jean Piaget
Ans: (B) Jerome Bruner - Which initiative of UGC aims to address the challenges of “Digital Learning” in higher education?
(A) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (B) National Digital Library of India (NDLI) (C) Digital India Programme (D) IGNOU
Ans: (B) NDLI - What is the binary representation of decimal number 10?
(A) 0110 (B) 1001 (C) 1010 (D) 1100
Ans: (C) 1010 - The term gigabyte refers to
(A) 1024 bytes (B) 1024 kilobytes (C) 1024 megabytes (D) 1024 gigabytes
Ans: (C) 1024 megabytes - Which tool is used among the following for data calculation?
(A) MS Access (B) MS Excel (C) Google Docs (D) MS PowerPoint
Ans: (B) MS Excel - Which of the following is an ‘input device’?
(A) Bar code reader (B) Monitor (C) Projector (D) Braille reader
Ans: (A) Bar code reader - The timing of seasonal activities of plants in relation to change in environmental conditions is referred to as
(A) Ecology (B) Phenology (C) Climatology (D) Forestry
Ans: (B) Phenology - ‘Cartagena Protocol’ is related to which one of the following?
(A) Heritage sites (B) Wetlands (C) Living modified organisms (D) Ozone layer conservation
Ans: (C) Living modified organisms - Which one among the following is a market based system where companies can buy and sell emission permits?
(A) Carbon Space (B) Carbon Sequestration (C) Carbon Sink (D) Carbon Trading
Ans: (D) Carbon Trading - Arrange the following atmospheric gases in order of their volume percentages in descending order. I. Carbon dioxide II. Nitrogen III. Oxygen IV. Argon
(A) I, II, IV, III (B) I, IV, III, II (C) II, III, IV, I (D) I, III, II, IV
Ans: (C) II, III, IV, I - Arrange the following planets in descending order according to their orbital period. 1. Saturn 2. Mars 3. Jupiter 4. Uranus
(A) 4, 3, 2, 1 (B) 4, 1, 3, 2 (C) 3, 2, 1, 4 (D) 3, 4, 2, 1
Ans: (B) 4, 1, 3, 2 - Assertion (A): When a ship leaves a river and enters the ocean it rises a little. Reason (R): The density of sea water is more than that of river water.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A) (B) Both true but (R) not correct explanation (C) (A) true, (R) false (D) (A) false, (R) true
Ans: (A) - On which date Gandhiji asked Congressmen to accept the Partition of India at the All India Congress Committee Meeting?
(A) 14 June, 1947 (B) 12 June, 1947 (C) 04 June, 1947 (D) 03 June, 1947
Ans: (A) 14 June, 1947 - Which one of the following subjects is not in the concurrent list?
(A) Education (B) Administration of justice (C) Weights and measures (D) Public health
Ans: (D) Public health - In whose court did Megasthenes come as an ambassador?
(A) Bindusar (B) Ashok (C) Chandragupta Maurya (D) Brihadratha
Ans: (C) Chandragupta Maurya - In which year Dyarchy was started in the provinces?
(A) 1909 (B) 1919 (C) 1935 (D) 1937
Ans: (B) 1919 - Under which Article of Indian Constitution is the Right to Education guaranteed as Fundamental Right?
(A) Article 21(A) (B) Article 45 (C) Article 19 (D) Article 32
Ans: (A) Article 21(A) - By which Constitutional Amendment, the Co-operative Societies were given Constitutional status?
(A) 96th (B) 97th (C) 99th (D) 101st
Ans: (B) 97th - Select the order of worst affected sectors in the context of Indian Economy during Covid Pandemic (2020-21).
(A) Agriculture, Service, Industry (B) Service, Agriculture, Industry (C) Service, Industry, Agriculture (D) Industry, Service, Agriculture
Ans: (C) Service, Industry, Agriculture - A type of unemployment in which the presence or absence of a person in a job does not make a difference, is called
(A) Under employment (B) Formal unemployment (C) Seasonal unemployment (D) Disguised unemployment
Ans: (D) Disguised unemployment - Under the Union Budget (2025-26), first time Social Security Scheme for Welfare has been proposed for
(A) Manufacturing workers (B) Agricultural workers (C) Online platform workers (D) Women workers
Ans: (C) Online platform workers - Which of the following would best describe the relationship among the Knight, the Squire and the Yeoman in the General Prologue?
(A) Son, father, attendant (B) Attendant, father, son (C) Father, attendant, son (D) Father, son, attendant
Ans: (D) Father, son, attendant - The other name of The Tragedy of Gorboduc is
(A) Senecan Tragedy (B) Ferrex and Porrex (C) Fall Down (D) Tragedy of Two Brothers
Ans: (B) Ferrex and Porrex - Which play by Christopher Marlowe features the line ‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships’?
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (B) Doctor Faustus (C) Dido, Queen of Carthage (D) Edward II
Ans: (B) Doctor Faustus - What is the name of Tess’s ill-begotten child?
(A) Happiness (B) Sorrow (C) Repentance (D) Buddy
Ans: (B) Sorrow - Match List – I with List – II:
List – I:
a. Surely some revelation is at hand;
b. Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
c. If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
d. I will show you fear in a handful of dust;
List – II:
i. Ode to a Grecian Urn
ii. Ode to the West Wind
iii. The Second Coming
iv. The Waste Land
Options: (A) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv (B) a-ii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv (C) a-ii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv (D) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv
Ans: (A) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv - What is the title of the last volume of A. K. Ramanujan’s collection of poems?
(A) The Striders (B) Relations (C) The Black Hen (D) The Second Sight
Ans: (D) The Second Sight - A metrical unit with two stressed syllables is called
(A) Spondee (B) Anapest (C) Trochee (D) Dactyl
Ans: (A) Spondee - Who among the following wrote the book A Map of Misreading?
(A) Geoffrey Hartman (B) Harold Bloom (C) John Drakakis (D) Frank Kermode
Ans: (B) Harold Bloom - Who among the following said ‘We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indians…’?
(A) R. K. Narayan (B) Mulk Raj Anand (C) Raja Rao (D) Arun Joshi
Ans: (C) Raja Rao - Match List – I with List – II:
List – I:
a. They know not well the subtle ways I keep…
b. A worship new I sing, you captains, voyagers…
c. To comprehend a tatter requires sorest need.
d. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder…
List – II:
i. Success is Counted Sweetest
ii. Passage to India
iii. Brahma
iv. Mending Wall
Options: (A) a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv (B) a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv (C) a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii (D) a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv
Ans: (A) a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv - Which of the following is an example of a bilabial consonant?
(A) /t/ (B) /p/ (C) /d/ (D) /l/
Ans: (B) /p/ - In which essay of T. S. Eliot we find the discussion of dissociation of sensibility?
(A) The Perfect Critic (B) Hamlet and his Problems (C) The Metaphysical Poets (D) The Function of Criticism
Ans: (C) The Metaphysical Poets - Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry was published in the year
(A) 1756 (B) 1759 (C) 1765 (D) 1769
Ans: (C) 1765 - Who has uttered the following lines in the play Saint Joan? ‘The old Greek tragedy is rising among us…’
(A) Joan (B) Charles (C) Bluebard (D) The Archbishop
Ans: (D) The Archbishop - Which chapter signifies the final stage of Paul Morel’s emotional journey in Sons and Lovers?
(A) The Release (B) Derelict (C) The Death of William (D) The Triumph of Clara
Ans: (B) Derelict - Arrange the following works in chronological order: I. Culture and Anarchy II. Biographia Literaria III. The Study of Poetry IV. Lyrical Ballads
(A) IV, I, II, III (B) II, IV, I, III (C) IV, II, III, I (D) II, IV, III, I
Ans: (A) IV, II, I, III - Name the colour and the deity of Shant Rasa.
(A) White – Indra (B) Blue – Krishna (C) White – Vishnu (D) Red – Brahma
Ans: (C) White – Vishnu - Identify the critic who said ‘the two pillars upon which a theory of criticism must rest are an account of value and an account of communication’.
(A) F. R. Leavis (B) I. A. Richards (C) T. S. Eliot (D) Matthew Arnold
Ans: (B) I. A. Richards - Who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful?
(A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (B) Samuel Butler (C) Edmund Burke (D) William Hazlitt
Ans: (C) Edmund Burke - Which of the following characters of Shakespeare has an anagram for a name?
(A) Mercutio (B) Falstaff (C) Caliban (D) Hamlet
Ans: (C) Caliban - Who said ‘Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important…?’
(A) Friedrich Nietzsche (B) Victor Shklovsky (C) Jacques Derrida (D) Mikhail Bakhtin
Ans: (B) Victor Shklovsky - Which of the following never hung on Santiago’s wall?
(A) Picture of sacred heart of Jesus (B) Tinted photograph of his wife (C) Picture of Fidel Castro (D) Picture of the Virgin Cobre
Ans: (C) Picture of Fidel Castro - The sentence ‘Flying planes are dangerous’ is an example of
(A) Surface structure (B) Deep structure (C) Ostensive proposition (D) Noun phrase
Ans: (A) Surface structure - Arrange in sequence of publication: I. Death of a Salesman II. The Scarlet Letter III. The Old Man and the Sea IV. Moby Dick
(A) I, II, IV, III (B) II, IV, I, III (C) II, III, IV, I (D) I, III, II, IV
Ans: (B) II, IV, I, III - Match List – I with List – II:
List – I:
a. Chitra Kavya
b. Bhayanakam
c. Affective Stylistics
d. Racial Memories
List – II:
i. Bharat Muni
ii. Carl Jung
iii. Anandavardhana
iv. Stanley Fish
Options: (A) a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii (B) a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii (C) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv (D) a-i, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv
Ans: (A) a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii - Where is the grammarian buried in ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’?
(A) On a high mount (B) In a sacred bush (C) In a sacred cave (D) In a school ground
Ans: (A) On a high mount - Arrange chronologically: I. Corn Laws passed II. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published III. Jane Austen’s Emma published IV. David Ricardo’s Principles published
(A) I, IV, III, II (B) I, III, IV, II (C) II, III, IV, I (D) IV, II, III, I
Ans: (B) I, III, IV, II - Which game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party?
(A) A game of chess (B) Blindman’s buff (C) A game of cards (D) Musical chairs
Ans: (B) Blindman’s buff - ‘For masterpieces are not single and solitary births…’ The lines occur in an essay by
(A) Thomas Carlyle (B) William Hazlitt (C) Virginia Woolf (D) George Orwell
Ans: (C) Virginia Woolf - What is the source of the epigraph of The Waste Land?
(A) Dante’s Inferno (B) Petronius’s Satyricon (C) Homer’s Odyssey (D) Virgil’s Aeneid
Ans: (B) Petronius’s Satyricon - In John Dryden’s ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’, who speaks for the ‘moderns’?
(A) Crites (B) Eugenius (C) Lisideius (D) Neander
Ans: (D) Neander - Who wished to be called a Synecdocist?
(A) R.W. Emerson (B) Robert Frost (C) Walt Whitman (D) Emily Dickinson
Ans: (B) Robert Frost - In The Lion and the Jewel, for whom the metaphor of fox is used?
(A) Sidi (B) Barako (C) Lekunle (D) Sadiku
Ans: (B) Baroka - Which branch of Linguistics examines language use, its variation, its development, change and standardization?
(A) Psycholinguistics (B) Applied linguistics (C) Sociolinguistics (D) Stylistics
Ans: (C) Sociolinguistics - ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ In which play of Shakespeare does the above line appear?
(A) Romeo and Juliet (B) All’s Well That Ends Well (C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (D) Twelfth Night
Ans: (C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Jane Austen borrowed the title Pride and Prejudice from a novel written by
(A) Samuel Richardson (B) Frances Burney (C) Aphra Behn (D) Sir Walter Scott
Ans: (B) Frances Burney - What is the name of captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick?
(A) The Pequod (B) The Essex (C) The Rachel (D) The Endeavor
Ans: (A) The Pequod - Which of the following is not used in the falling tone?
(A) Statements made without emotional implications (B) Wh questions asked neutrally (C) Polite requests (D) Commands
Ans: (C) Polite requests - The pair ‘too/two’ is an example of
(A) Homography (B) Homophony (C) Polysemy (D) Collocation
Ans: (B) Homophony - Which of the following poems contains the expression ‘disjecta membra’?
(A) Africa (B) Ruins of a Great House (C) Tuzic (D) Judas
Ans: (B) Ruins of a Great House - Who among the following coined the term ‘Negritude’?
(A) Edward Brathwait (B) Derek Walcott (C) Wilson Harris (D) Aime Cesaire
Ans: (D) Aime Cesaire - Statement I: Gitanjali is a collection of poems. Tagore received Nobel Prize in 1916 for its English translation. Statement II: Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj in English and later translated to Gujarati.
(A) Both true (B) Both false (C) I true II false (D) I false II true
Ans: (C) - The vocal tract includes the Cavities inside
(A) The lungs and the mouth (B) The mouth and the nose (C) The mouth, nose and lungs (D) Fossae, larynx and trachea
Ans: (B) - Who was put on trial in 1786 in the British history?
(A) Robert Burns (B) Edmund Burke (C) Warren Hastings (D) Dr. Samuel Johnson
Ans: (C) Warren Hastings - The expression ‘Nobody comes, nobody goes’ is a refrain in the play
(A) The Way of the World (B) Candida (C) Look Back in Anger (D) Waiting for Godot
Ans: (D) Waiting for Godot - Statement I: McCann is a female character in The Birthday Party. Statement II: The Birthday Party has been described as a ‘Comedy of menace’.
(A) Both true (B) Both false (C) I true II false (D) I false II true
Ans: (D) - What is the original Greek title of Longinus’s ‘On the Sublime’?
(A) Peri Hypsous (B) Poetica Hypsous (C) Tractatus Sublimis (D) De Sublimitate
Ans: (A) Peri Hypsous - Name the structuralist critic who gave the idea of vestimentary code of dressing sense.
(A) Roland Barthes (B) Ferdinand de Saussure (C) Gerard Genette (D) Levi Strauss
Ans: (A) Roland Barthes - Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems was published under the title
(A) The Golden Threshold (B) The Broken Wing (C) The Sceptred Flute (D) The Feather of the Dawn
Ans: (A) The Golden Threshold - When people speak different forms of a language in different social situations, the phenomenon is referred to as
(A) Diglossia (B) Bilingualism (C) Multilingualism (D) Ethnicism
Ans: (A) Diglossia - In Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, vera is associated with
(A) Roo (B) Pearl (C) Emma (D) Bubba
Ans: (A) Roo - ‘My manners are tearing off heads.’ The line is from the poem
(A) Crow (B) Hawk Roosting (C) Jaguar (D) Snowdrop
Ans: (B) Hawk Roosting - In which magazine was ‘Culture and Anarchy’ first published?
(A) Christian Observer (B) The London Review (C) Harper’s Weekly (D) Cornhill Magazine
Ans: (D) Cornhill Magazine - When was the Libel Act that restricted the freedom of the press, passed in the British Parliament?
(A) 1789 (B) 1792 (C) 1798 (D) 1805
Ans: (B) 1792 - Under the Net is the first published novel of
(A) Graham Greene (B) William Golding (C) Iris Murdoch (D) George Orwell
Ans: (C) Iris Murdoch - What, according to Aristotle, is the difference between poetry and history?
(A) Poetry is fictional while history is factual (B) Poetry deals with universal truths while history is specific (C) Poetry is rhythmic; history is prosaic (D) Poetry appeals to emotions while history appeals to reason
Ans: (B) - The terms, ‘Repressive State Apparatuses (RSAs)’ and ‘Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs)’ are associated with
(A) Karl Marx (B) Antonio Gramsci (C) Raymond Williams (D) Louis Althusser
Ans: (D) Louis Althusser - ‘What do the kids at school say? Anything, Italian, Greek, Indian. Tell them you’re Indian.’ These lines occur in
(A) Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (B) The Bear on the Delhi Road (C) My Place (D) The Mystic Drum
Ans: (C) My Place - How many times has Margaret Atwood bagged the Booker Prize?
(A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) None of these
Ans: (B) Two - Whose philosophical ideas influenced G.B. Shaw as expressed in his play Man and Superman?
(A) Henri Bergson (B) Immanuel Kant (C) Friedrich Nietzsche (D) Edmond Spencer
Ans: (C) Friedrich Nietzsche - The expression ‘Cymini Sectors’ in ‘Of Studies’ means
(A) The area in London where chimines were placed (B) The industrialists (C) Hair splitters (D) Colleges
Ans: (C) Hair splitters - Identify the figure of speech in: ‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.’
(A) Metonymy (B) Personification (C) Transferred epithet (D) Metaphor
Ans: (D) Metaphor - How many consonants are possible in a final consonant cluster in English?
(A) Two (B) Three (C) Four (D) Five
Ans: (C) Four - ‘I am not an American. I am the American.’ Who gave this statement?
(A) Mark Twain (B) R.W. Emerson (C) Walt Whitman (D) Arthur Miller
Ans: (C) Walt Whitman - A syllable on which there is a pitch change, is said to have a
(A) Static tone (B) Move (C) Consonant cluster (D) Kinetic tone
Ans: (D) Kinetic tone - ‘See, see where christ’s blood streams in the firmament…’ The underlying theme is related to
(A) Damnation (B) Blessing (C) Redemption (D) Decadence
Ans: (A) Damnation - Match List – I with List – II:
List – I:
a. ‘Desire itself is movement’
b. ‘Consume my heart away; sick with desire’
c. ‘Now I hold creation in my foot’
d. ‘Ah, love, let us be true to one another’
List – II:
i. ‘Dover Beach’
ii. ‘Hawk Roosting’
iii. ‘Burnt Norton’
iv. ‘Sailing to Byzantium’
Options: (A) a-I, b-II, c-III, d-IV (B) a-II, b-III, c-IV, d-I (C) a-III, b-IV, c-II, d-I (D) a-IV, b-I, c-III, d-II
Ans: (C) a-III, b-IV, c-II, d-I - Which Victorian author wrote the essay ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’?
(A) Eliza Lynn (B) Henry Wood (C) George Eliot (D) Charles Dickens
Ans: (C) George Eliot - In Charles Lamb’s ‘Dream Children’, ‘the faithful Bridget’ refers to
(A) Lamb’s Early Love Ann Simmons (B) Lamb’s Sister Mary (C) Mr. Bartrum (D) John Lamb
Ans: (B) Lamb’s Sister Mary - Who proposed the term ‘tricontinentalism’ for post colonialism to show the commonality among Asia, Africa and South America with regard to colonialism?
(A) Frantz Fanon (B) Robert Young (C) Homi Bhabha (D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
*Ans: (B) Robert Young.