Q1. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition.
When we reached the woods we camped _ a lake.
(1) besides
(2) beside ✅
(3) among
(4) with
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “Beside” means “next to” or “at the side of,” which suits the context of camping near a lake.
Q2. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate preposition.
She determined to avenge herself _ the killer.
(1) on ✅
(2) for
(3) from
(4) with
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: The correct preposition used with “avenge oneself” is “on.” One avenges oneself on someone.
Q3. He called because he _ to talk.
(1) need
(2) is needing
(3) needed ✅
(4) has needed
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The past tense “called” requires past tense “needed” to maintain tense consistency.
Q4. Fill in the blank with the correct sequence of tenses.
She _ to see you since 2 O’clock.
(1) had been waited
(2) may waiting
(3) will have be waiting
(4) has been waiting ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: “Has been waiting” is the correct present perfect continuous tense, matching the time reference “since 2 O’clock.”
Q5. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb.
There she _
(1) goes ✅
(2) go
(3) going
(4) gone
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: The correct simple present form for third person singular is “goes.” This structure is used for dramatic narration.
Q6. Fill in the blank with the correct tense form:
I wonder what he’ll _ at this time tomorrow?
(1) had done
(2) be doing ✅
(3) would do
(4) have doing
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “Will be doing” is future continuous tense, used for actions in progress at a specific time in the future.
Q7. There is a Krishna temple _ two kilometres of my house.
(1) into
(2) within ✅
(3) by
(4) on
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “Within” expresses a distance that is not more than a specified limit—here, two kilometres.
Q8. Fill in the blank with the correct tense form:
We _ a lot of rain lately.
(1) had been
(2) haved
(3) have been having ✅
(4) could be have
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Have been having” is present perfect continuous tense, indicating an ongoing action in recent time.
Q9. Choose the correct option to find out the correct meaning of the given idiom.
Scrape the barrel
(1) To prepare the guns for battle.
(2) To use one’s last and weakest resource. ✅
(3) To sell off the un-useful weapons.
(4) To discharge the battalion after war.
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “Scrape the barrel” means to use whatever is left, even if it’s of poor quality.
Q10. Choose the correct option to find out the correct meaning of the given idiom.
White elephant
(1) Vulnerable and unwanted
(2) Unreal
(3) Corrupt official
(4) Very costly and useless ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: A “white elephant” is something that costs a lot but serves little or no useful purpose.
Q11. From the given options choose the most appropriate meaning of the idiomatic expression –
“Stop short of” (doing something)
(1) amount of money deducted from salary.
(2) receive breathtaking applause from audience.
(3) be unwilling to go beyond a certain limit. ✅
(4) close by plugging an obstruction.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Stop short of” means to decide not to do something, although you almost do it.
Q12. Fill in the blank with the correct tense form.
This time yesterday I _ in a half marathon.
(1) run
(2) had ran
(3) have been run
(4) was running ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: “This time yesterday” indicates past continuous tense → “was running.”
Q13. Choose the correct option to find out the correct meaning of the given idiom.
Turn the tide
(1) to live in distress
(2) to exaggerate
(3) to reverse the general course of events ✅
(4) to oppose with full force
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Turn the tide” refers to changing the direction of events or circumstances, especially in a positive way.
Q14. Choose the correct idiomatic expression.
His resignation came as a surprise to everyone, right _
(1) in the bush
(2) out of the blue ✅
(3) as a blunder
(4) like a blunt
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “Out of the blue” means unexpectedly or suddenly.
Q15. He denied her nothing.
The basic sentence pattern of the above sentence is:
(1) SOA
(2) SVOC
(3) SVC
(4) SVOO ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: “He” (S) “denied” (V) “her” (indirect O) “nothing” (direct O) → SVOO pattern.
Q16. The basic sentence pattern of the sentence
“The question is unimportant” is:
(1) SVO
(2) SVC ✅
(3) SVA
(4) SV
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “The question” (S), “is” (V), “unimportant” (C) → linking verb + complement.
Q17. We proved him wrong.
The basic sentence pattern of the above sentence is:
(1) SVC
(2) SOC ✅
(3) SVO
(4) SV
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “We” (S) “proved” (V) “him” (O) “wrong” (C) → Subject-Object-Complement.
Q18. Fill in the blank with an appropriate idiomatic expression choosing from the options given:
Whatever is done, is done and we can’t change it now –
(1) for a blessing in disguise.
(2) for the cost of an arm or leg.
(3) for the best of both worlds.
(4) for better or worse. ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: “For better or worse” means accepting something no matter the outcome.
Q19. Choose the correct option for the pattern.
S + V + O + A
(1) She gave her a ring.
(2) She wrote a poem in Sindhi. ✅
(3) She slept in the balcony yesterday.
(4) Birds fly in the sky all day.
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “She” (S) “wrote” (V) “a poem” (O) “in Sindhi” (A = adverbial of manner).
Q20. I painted the old table red.
The basic sentence pattern is:
(1) S + V + O + C ✅
(2) S + V + O + A
(3) S + V + O + O
(4) S + V + C
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: “I” (S) “painted” (V) “the old table” (O) “red” (C) → object complement pattern.
Q21. Choose an appropriate conjunction that meaningfully completes the sentence.
He stole, not because he wanted the money _ because he liked stealing.
(1) for
(2) so
(3) but ✅
(4) as
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The contrast clause “not because… but because…” shows the correct use of “but.”
Q22. I don’t think I can travel abroad, I am very busy _ my passport is out of date.
Choose an appropriate conjunction to complete the sentence.
(1) yet
(2) beside
(3) besides ✅
(4) still
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “Besides” means ‘in addition to that’ or ‘also,’ which fits well here.
Q23. The basic sentence pattern of the following sentence is:
An idea struck me.
(1) SV
(2) SVO ✅
(3) SVOO
(4) SVOA
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “An idea” (S) “struck” (V) “me” (O) → Subject-Verb-Object pattern.
Q24. Combine the following sentences into a complex sentence:
She is guilty. I know this.
(1) I know this and she is guilty.
(2) I know that she is guilty. ✅
(3) She is guilty but I know this.
(4) She is neither guilty nor I know this.
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: This is a complex sentence with a noun clause: “that she is guilty.”
Q25. Choose the appropriate conjunction to meaningfully complete the sentence.
Some people waste food _ others haven’t enough.
(1) as
(2) unless
(3) since
(4) while ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: “While” shows contrast between two simultaneous conditions or facts.
Q26. The days were short, _ it was now December.
Choose an appropriate conjunction to complete the sentence.
(1) when
(2) for ✅
(3) though
(4) besides
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: “For” is used as a conjunction meaning ‘because’ or ‘since.’
Q27. The active transformation of the following passive sentence is:
You’ll be met at the station.
(1) The station is the place you’ll meet at.
(2) Someone be there at the station to meet you.
(3) Someone will meet you at the station. ✅
(4) At the station you will be met.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Active form = “Someone will meet you at the station.”
Q28. Choose the passive transformation of the following:
The company is going to increase overtime rates from next month.
(1) Overtime rates will increase from next month by the company.
(2) Overtime company will be rated increased from next month.
(3) Overtime rates are going to be increased from next month by the company. ✅
(4) Next month increased rates by the overtime company.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Correct passive form of “is going to increase” = “are going to be increased.”
Q29. Change the following sentence into passive voice and choose the correct option:
Who wrote this letter?
(1) Whom was this letter written to?
(2) By whom was this letter written by?
(3) Who was this letter written to?
(4) By whom was this letter written? ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Correct passive interrogative: “By whom was this letter written?”
Q30. The passive transformation of the following sentence is:
They let us go.
(1) We were let go. ✅
(2) We were gone.
(3) We were letted to go.
(4) We let go them.
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: “Let” is causative and remains “let” in passive: “We were let go.”
Q31. Change the given sentence into passive voice and choose the correct option:
Kindly grant me a week’s leave.
(1) A week’s leave may kindly granted to him.
(2) You are requested to grant him a week’s leave.
(3) I may kindly be granted a week’s leave. ✅
(4) A week’s leave must be granted to me.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The correct polite passive construction for a request is: “I may kindly be granted…”
Q32. Change the following sentence into passive voice and choose the correct option:
Who wrote this letter?
(1) Whom was this letter written to?
(2) By whom was this letter written? ✅
(3) Who was this letter written to?
(4) By whom this letter is written?
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Passive interrogative form uses: “By whom + was + object + past participle?”
Q33. Change the given sentence into passive and choose the correct option:
People believe that dreams come true.
(1) People are believed that dreams come true.
(2) It is believed that dreams came true.
(3) It is believed that dreams come true. ✅
(4) It was believed that dreams came true.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: “People believe…” changes into impersonal passive: “It is believed that…”
Q34. Choose the direct speech transformation of the following sentence:
He advised me not to drive so fast if my brakes were bad.
(1) He told to me, “If my brakes are bad don’t drive so fast.”
(2) He said that, “when brakes are bad driving must be slow”
(3) He said, “If your brakes are bad don’t drive so fast.” ✅
(4) He advised to me, “Don’t drive fast as brakes are bad.”
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Reported speech into direct: correct structure = “He said, ‘If your brakes are bad…’”
Q35. The direct speech transformation of the following sentence is:
He called me a liar.
(1) He said, “Lie down!”
(2) He told, “you lie!”
(3) He called out me, “Liar!”
(4) He said, “Liar!” ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Direct speech should mirror original statement: “He said, ‘Liar!’”
Q36. Change the given sentence into indirect speech and choose the correct option:
She said to the children, “Do as I did.”
(1) She asked the children that they do as she did.
(2) She asked the children to do as she did. ✅
(3) She asked the children if they do as she did.
(4) She asked the children to do as I did.
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Imperative → Indirect: use of “to + base verb”; “I” changes to “she”.
Q37. Change the given sentence into indirect speech and choose the correct option:
He said, “My wife leaves for Delhi tomorrow.”
(1) He said that his wife left for Delhi the next day.
(2) He said that his wife had left for Delhi the next day.
(3) He said that his wife will leave for Delhi the next day.
(4) He said that his wife would leave for Delhi the next day. ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: “Leaves” → “would leave”; “tomorrow” → “the next day” in indirect speech.
Q38. “Will you stand still?” he shouted.
The indirect speech transformation of the above sentence is:
(1) He shouted would he stand still.
(2) He shouted to me for standing still.
(3) He shouted at me to stand still. ✅
(4) He shouted to me would I not stand still.
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Imperative → indirect: “He shouted at me to…” + base verb.
Q39. Choose the option with the correct question tag:
You seldom work on Saturdays, _?
(1) do you? ✅
(2) don’t you?
(3) will you?
(4) won’t you?
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: For sentences with negative adverbs like “seldom,” we use positive question tags.
Q40. Change into negative:
All students are talented.
(1) Nobody is perfected.
(2) Not all students untalented.
(3) None student is untalentable.
(4) No student is without talent. ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: This is a logical negative form of “All students are talented.”
Q41. Choose the indirect speech transformation of the following sentence:
“I have just received a letter”, he said, “I must go home”
(1) He said that he had just received a letter and (he) would have to go home.
(2) He said that having received a letter he would has to go home.
(3) He said that he had just received a letter and would had to go home.
(4) He said that he had just received a letter and would have to go home. ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Present perfect (“have received”) changes to past perfect (“had received”); “must” changes to “would have to”.
Q42. Transform the following sentence into Interrogative:
He was a villain to do such a deed.
(1) Was he a villain to do such a deed?
(2) Was he a villain for such a deed?
(3) Was he not a villain to do such a deed? ✅
(4) Was it the deed of a villain?
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Negative interrogative format is being used for emphasis or disbelief.
Q43. Transform the following sentence into negative:
I was doubtful whether it was you.
(1) I was not doubtful whether it was you.
(2) I was not sure that it was you. ✅
(3) I was never doubtful that it was you.
(4) I was sure that it was not you.
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Opposite of “doubtful whether it was you” is “not sure it was you”.
Q44. Change the following into a negative question:
Did you have a good time yesterday?
(1) Did you had not a good time yesterday?
(2) Did not you have not good time yesterday?
(3) Didn’t you have a good time yesterday? ✅
(4) Didn’t you have not a not good time yesterday?
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Correct negative question form = “Didn’t you + base verb…?”
Q45. ‘Peri Hypsous’ is the Greek treatise which is supposed to be written by Longinus. What is the English translation of ‘Peri Hypsous’?
(1) Philological Discourses
(2) On the Sublime ✅
(3) Poetic Hyperboles
(4) From the Beginning
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: ‘Peri Hypsous’ translates to “On the Sublime” in English.
Q46. Fill in the blank with the correct question tag:
Mohan doesn’t work hard _ ?
(1) can he?
(2) must he?
(3) does he? ✅
(4) would he?
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Negative sentence (“doesn’t”) requires a positive tag: “does he?”
Q47. ‘Kumarasambhava’ is an epic poem by Kalidasa which deals with the theme of:
(1) Courting of Arjun – Subhadra and birth of Abhimanyu
(2) Courting of Shiva – Parvati and birth of Skanda or Kartikeya ✅
(3) Courting of Shri Krishna – Rukmini and birth of Pradyumna
(4) Courting of Pururava – Urvashi and birth of Ayus
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Kalidasa’s Kumarasambhava tells the story of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son Kartikeya.
Q48. Bharata’s commentator Abhinavagupta explains Bharata’s imitation as representation of men and women in different:
(1) ways of seeing
(2) states of feeling ✅
(3) kinds of actions
(4) types of thinking
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Abhinavagupta interprets imitation as emotional states (bhavas) and their expression.
Q49. The concept of Auchitya (appropriateness) was developed by in Indian poetics:
(1) Abhinavagupta
(2) Anandavardhana
(3) Kshemendra ✅
(4) Kuntaka
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Kshemendra elaborated the idea of Auchitya (propriety/appropriateness) in literature.
Q50. The critical doctrine represented by Poetics and Ars Poetica was given the name classicism during the:
(1) Renaissance
(2) Neo-classical period ✅
(3) Victorian compromise
(4) Roman Wars
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Classical literary theories of Aristotle and Horace gained prominence during the Neo-classical period.
Q51. Horace’s ‘Ars Poetica’ was written for –
(1) Archilochus and his sons
(2) Alcaeus and his sons
(3) Piso and his sons ✅
(4) Plautus and his sons
Answer:- (3) Piso and his sons ✅
Explanation: Horace’s Ars Poetica was addressed to the Piso family — likely the father and his sons — offering advice on the art of poetry.
Q52. Piers Gavestone is a character from the play –
(1) Morte d’Arthur
(2) The Jew of Malta
(3) Tumberlain
(4) Edward II ✅
Answer:- (4) Edward II ✅
Explanation: Gavestone is a favourite of King Edward II in Marlowe’s tragedy Edward II and symbolizes political favouritism and personal obsession.
Q53. The credit of Elizabethan poets being introduced to Italianate forms goes to –
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) Wyatt and Surrey ✅
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) Virgil
Answer:- (2) Wyatt and Surrey ✅
Explanation: Wyatt and Surrey introduced the sonnet, ottava rima, and terza rima to English poetry, drawing inspiration from Italian Renaissance verse.
Q54. Who among the following was NOT a ‘University Wit’?
(1) Thomas Kyd
(2) Christopher Marlowe
(3) Robert Greene
(4) William Shakespeare ✅
Answer:- (4) William Shakespeare ✅
Explanation: Shakespeare was not university-educated, whereas the others (Marlowe, Greene, Kyd) were associated with Oxford or Cambridge.
Q55. Which of the following poems is not by John Skelton?
(1) Phyllyp Sparowe
(2) Collyn Clout
(3) The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge
(4) Confessio Amantis ✅
Answer:- (4) Confessio Amantis ✅
Explanation: Confessio Amantis is a long poem by John Gower, not by Skelton.
Q56. “Pierce Penniless: His Supplication to the Devil” revolves around –
(1) Seven deadly sins ✅
(2) Loitering of a vagabond
(3) Treasure hunt
(4) Travel to Hades
Answer:- (1) Seven deadly sins ✅
Explanation: This prose satire by Thomas Nashe critiques the seven deadly sins prevalent in Elizabethan society.
Q57. ‘Confessio Amantis’ was written by –
(1) William Langland
(2) Wycliff
(3) John Gower ✅
(4) William Dunbar
Answer:- (3) John Gower ✅
Explanation: John Gower authored Confessio Amantis, a major Middle English poem.
Q58. Who said Milton was “of the Devil’s party without knowing it”?
(1) Dr. Johnson
(2) William Blake ✅
(3) William Hazlitt
(4) Lord Byron
Answer:- (2) William Blake ✅
Explanation: Blake admired Satan’s grandeur in Paradise Lost and famously remarked this about Milton.
Q59. Who is Pan in the Marvell extract?
(1) a pasturer
(2) a prince
(3) a fertility deity ✅
(4) a nymph
Answer:- (3) a fertility deity ✅
Explanation: Pan is the Greek god of nature, wildness, and fertility — often depicted chasing nymphs like Syrinx.
Q60. Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia were written by –
(1) Thomas Nashe
(2) Sir Thomas Browne ✅
(3) Sir Philip Sidney
(4) John Lyly
Answer:- (2) Sir Thomas Browne ✅
Explanation: These are meditative prose works by Sir Thomas Browne blending science, religion, and philosophy.
Q61. “Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as diverse poets have done” — What role does Sir Philip Sidney ascribe to the poet?
(1) A crusader in war
(2) A creator of imaginaries ✅
(3) A satirist of men and manners
(4) An imitator of nature
Answer:- (2) A creator of imaginaries ✅
Explanation: In The Defence of Poesy, Sidney asserts that poets surpass nature by creating ideal forms—making them creators of imaginings greater than nature itself.
Q62. Who among the following is NOT a ‘Cavalier’ of Caroline poets?
(1) Thomas Carew
(2) Thomas Love Peacock ✅
(3) Richard Lovelace
(4) Sir John Suckling
Answer:- (2) Thomas Love Peacock ✅
Explanation: Peacock was a satirical novelist of the 19th century, not a Cavalier poet. The other three were active during Charles I’s reign and supported monarchy.
Q63. “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” occurs in which work?
(1) Rape of the Lock
(2) Duchess of Malfi
(3) Troilus and Criseyde
(4) Dr. Faustus ✅
Answer:- (4) Dr. Faustus ✅
Explanation: In Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, these famous lines are spoken as Faustus conjures Helen of Troy, whose beauty started the Trojan War.
Q64. “But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and talk too much” — These lines are from:
(1) Absalom and Achitophel
(2) Mac Flecknoe
(3) Rape of the Lock
(4) Essay on Criticism ✅
Answer:- (4) Essay on Criticism ✅
Explanation: These satirical lines are from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism, criticizing shallow thinkers.
Q65. Who said: “Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country”?
(1) J.S. Mill
(2) John Dryden
(3) Samuel Johnson ✅
(4) Bertrand Russell
Answer:- (3) Samuel Johnson ✅
Explanation: Johnson often reflected on loyalty, rebellion, and nationalism in nuanced ways. This quote captures his balanced political thought.
Q66. Who among the following characters is portrayed by Richard Steele in The Spectator Club?
(1) Roland D’Boys
(2) Sir William Temple
(3) Arthur Hallam
(4) Will Honeycomb ✅
Answer:- (4) Will Honeycomb ✅
Explanation: Will Honeycomb is one of the fictional members of The Spectator Club, known for his gallantry and fashion sense.
Q67. “Oh Happy Age! Oh times like those alone / By Fate reserved for great Augustus’ Throne!” — Here John Dryden praises:
(1) Shaftesbury in Absalom and Achitophel
(2) David in Mac Flecknoe
(3) Charles II in Astraea Redux ✅
(4) Shadwell in The Medal
Answer:- (3) Charles II in Astraea Redux ✅
Explanation: In Astraea Redux, Dryden welcomes Charles II’s restoration and compares it to the Augustan age of Rome.
Q68. Who out of the following is NOT a Neoclassical critic?
(1) Samuel Johnson
(2) Alexander Pope
(3) John Dryden
(4) Thomas Carlyle ✅
Answer:- (4) Thomas Carlyle ✅
Explanation: Carlyle was a Victorian essayist and historian. The others are associated with the Neoclassical period’s emphasis on reason and order.
Q69. In which critique of his did Lord Byron lampoon Wordsworth and Coleridge as the “scribbling crew”?
(1) Don Juan
(2) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ✅
(3) Vision of Judgement
(4) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Answer:- (2) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ✅
Explanation: Byron’s early satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers mocks contemporary poets, particularly the Lake Poets.
Q70. Which among the following books was written by Edmund Burke?
(1) The Scottish Chiefs
(2) Melincourt
(3) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(4) Reflections on the Revolution in France ✅
Answer:- (4) Reflections on the Revolution in France ✅
Explanation: Burke’s 1790 work criticized the French Revolution and became foundational for conservative political philosophy.
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Q71. “Pity would be no more / If we did not make somebody poor.” — In which of the following works do these lines appear?
(1) William Blake’s The Human Abstract ✅
(2) Shelley’s Triumph of Life
(3) Wordsworth’s Ode to Duty
(4) Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: These lines are from William Blake’s The Human Abstract, where he explores how abstract virtues like pity arise from human-created conditions such as poverty.
Q72. Anticipating the Romantic emphasis on poetic imagination, which poet wrote: “To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower…”?
(1) Thomas Gray
(2) Robert Burns
(3) William Blake ✅
(4) William Cowper
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: These famous lines from Blake’s Auguries of Innocence reflect his visionary imagination and are often quoted in discussions of Romanticism.
Q73. Establishing Dr. Johnson’s reputation for posterity, who called his mind “a vast amphitheatre”?
(1) James Boswell ✅
(2) Edmund Burke
(3) Oliver Goldsmith
(4) Jonathan Swift
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Boswell, Johnson’s biographer, described his intellect as “a vast amphitheatre” in his famous biography Life of Johnson.
Q74. “O Latest born and Loveliest vision far / Of all Olympus’ faded hierarchy!” — Who is referred to here by John Keats?
(1) Helen
(2) St. Agnes
(3) Dryad
(4) Psyche ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: These lines are from Keats’s Ode to Psyche, where he reveres Psyche as the newest and most beautiful of the Greek goddesses.
Q75. Lewis Carroll’s play with language is called –
(1) Houyhnhnm
(2) Malapropism
(3) Jabberwocky ✅
(4) Spoonerism
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, famous for its creative and invented language, found in Through the Looking-Glass.
Q76. Alfred Tennyson’s short-lived journal of prose, poetry, and essays was called –
(1) The House of Life
(2) The Earthly Paradise
(3) The Germ ✅
(4) News from Nowhere
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: The Germ was published by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Tennyson was associated with the movement) and contained poetry, essays, and prose promoting their ideals.
Q77. T.S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral is a poetic drama in two parts with a ___ interlude:
(1) Choric song
(2) Deus ex machina
(3) Visionary poem
(4) Prose sermon ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Murder in the Cathedral includes a prose sermon delivered by Thomas Becket between the two poetic parts of the play.
Q78. Which Tennyson poem incorporates the Arthurian legend and the Holy Grail myth?
(1) Idylls of the King ✅
(2) The Lotus Eaters
(3) Ulysses
(4) Mariana
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Idylls of the King is Tennyson’s epic retelling of the Arthurian legends, including the search for the Holy Grail.
Q79. Which of the following novels is not written by H.G. Wells?
(1) Ann Veronica
(2) The Shape of Things to Come
(3) The War of the Worlds
(4) The Longest Journey ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: The Longest Journey is a novel by E.M. Forster, not H.G. Wells. The other three are by Wells.
Q80. The title of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd was inspired by –
(1) Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
(2) Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey
(3) Shakespeare’s As You Like It
(4) Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: The title comes from Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife…”
Q81. Who is the Romantic critic who asserted that “Poets… are not only the authors of language and music… they are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society…”?
(1) William Wordsworth
(2) S.T. Coleridge
(3) John Keats
(4) P.B. Shelley ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: In his essay A Defence of Poetry, Shelley describes poets as unacknowledged legislators of the world, emphasizing their role in shaping civilization.
Q82. The Celtic Twilight is an essay written by –
(1) W.B. Yeats ✅
(2) G. Wilson Knight
(3) Cleanth Brooks
(4) T.S. Eliot
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of essays and stories by W.B. Yeats, focused on Irish folklore, myth, and spiritualism.
Q83. Which one of the following is a Lytton Strachey text?
(1) A Room of One’s Own
(2) Eminent Victorians ✅
(3) Vision and Design
(4) Remembrance of Things Past
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918) is a critical biography of four Victorian figures, marking the modern biographical tradition.
Q84. “My youth, my hope, my art, being all toned down / To yonder sober pleasant Fiesole.” – In this line from Andrea del Sarto, “Fiesole” is –
(1) a Church
(2) a town ✅
(3) an art museum
(4) a Citadel
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Fiesole is a hillside town near Florence, Italy. In Browning’s poem Andrea del Sarto, it represents calmness and resignation.
Q85. Which among the following is a journal co-edited by F.R. Leavis?
(1) Revaluations
(2) Scrutiny ✅
(3) The Common Pursuit
(4) The Living Principle
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Scrutiny was a literary journal co-edited by F.R. Leavis that influenced mid-20th-century literary criticism, promoting serious evaluation of literary texts.
Q86. Who is the pioneer of the decontextualized approach to literature which became the norm as practical criticism?
(1) William Empson
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) I.A. Richards ✅
(4) Allen Tate
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: I.A. Richards pioneered practical criticism, emphasizing close reading of texts without external context, a cornerstone of New Criticism.
Q87. Who among the New Critics identified seven different types of verbal difficulty in poetry?
(1) Rene Wellek
(2) William Empson ✅
(3) Northrop Frye
(4) L.C. Knights
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity explores complex meanings in poetry, contributing significantly to the New Criticism movement.
Q88. Jacques Derrida’s 1960s essay that marked the beginning of post-structuralism is –
(1) For What Tomorrow: A Dialogue
(2) Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences ✅
(3) Force of Law
(4) Signature Event Context
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Derrida’s 1966 lecture Structure, Sign and Play… challenged structuralism and introduced key ideas of post-structuralist thought.
Q89. “He would give students poems with titles and authors removed…” – Which critic advanced close reading through this method?
(1) I.A. Richards ✅
(2) Northrop Frye
(3) William Empson
(4) John Crowe Ransom
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Richards’ method of anonymous poem analysis helped students focus solely on the text, laying the groundwork for practical criticism.
Q90. “We too had many pretty toys when young…” — These lines appear in which poem by W.B. Yeats?
(1) The Second Coming
(2) Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen ✅
(3) Sailing to Byzantium
(4) September 1913
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: This is from Yeats’s poem Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, which laments the loss of innocence and the impact of war and politics on Ireland.
Q91. “There is nothing outside of the text” — In which work does Jacques Derrida make this bold statement?
(1) Of Grammatology ✅
(2) Speech and Phenomena
(3) Writing and Difference
(4) Aporias
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Derrida’s famous assertion appears in Of Grammatology (1967), emphasizing that meaning is generated within the text and not outside of it.
Q92. “The Signifier should be set free of the signified” — Who gave this dictum?
(1) Derrida
(2) Lacan ✅
(3) Harold Bloom
(4) Hillis Miller
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Jacques Lacan, a psychoanalyst, introduced this idea in linguistic terms to emphasize how the signifier can function independently from fixed meanings.
Q93. “Uncertainty or the overlap of meanings in the use of a word could be an enrichment of poetry rather than a fault.” — This thesis is propounded in:
(1) Seven Types of Ambiguity ✅
(2) Practical Criticism
(3) Principles of Literary Criticism
(4) The Meaning of Meaning
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity presents ambiguity as a literary strength, deepening poetic meaning.
Q94. Who among the following is NOT a deconstructionist?
(1) Paul de Man
(2) Hillis Miller
(3) Harold Bloom
(4) John Goode ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: John Goode is more associated with Marxist criticism. The others (De Man, Miller, Bloom) contributed to deconstruction, although Bloom later diverged from it.
Q95. A seminal structuralist text by Roland Barthes is titled —
(1) Structuralism and Semiotics
(2) Structuralist Poetics
(3) S/Z ✅
(4) Structuralism in Literature
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: S/Z (1970) by Roland Barthes is a key structuralist and post-structuralist text, offering a detailed semiotic analysis of Balzac’s Sarrasine.
Q96. Choose the odd one out for the traits of Post-modernism —
(1) Fragmentary sensations
(2) Eclectic nostalgia
(3) Promiscuous superficiality
(4) Coherence and originality ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Postmodernism embraces fragmentation and pastiche; coherence and originality are more characteristic of modernist ideals.
Q97. The preface of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by —
(1) Jean Paul Sartre ✅
(2) James Fenton
(3) Julian Barnes
(4) Salman Rushdie
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Sartre’s preface to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth strongly critiques colonialism and justifies anti-colonial violence.
Q98. Who is believed to have founded the ‘Imagism’ movement?
(1) T.S. Eliot
(2) W.H. Auden
(3) Ezra Pound ✅
(4) W.B. Yeats
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Ezra Pound was a key founder of Imagism, advocating for clarity, precision, and economy of language in poetry.
Q99. Which of the following is NOT one of the aspects of Modernist literature?
(1) Theatre of the Absurd
(2) Stream of Consciousness
(3) Surrealism
(4) Naturalism ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Naturalism belongs to 19th-century realism. Modernism moved toward fragmentation, inner consciousness, and abstract forms.
Q100. Jean Baudrillard, a prominent theorist of Postmodernism, introduces the term _ to show the process of how a sign gets deconstructed.
(1) surveillance
(2) simulacrum ✅
(3) aporia
(4) panopticon
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Baudrillard’s concept of simulacrum refers to a copy without an original — a key idea in postmodernism’s critique of representation.
Q101. “A little formalism turns one away from history, but ___ a lot brings one back.” The above extract is taken from —
(1) C. Levi Strauss’s Structural Anthropology
(2) Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics
(3) Pierre Macherey’s A Theory of Literary Production
(4) Roland Barthes’ Mythologies ✅
Answer:- (4) Option ✅
Explanation: Roland Barthes, in Mythologies, critiques cultural signs and explains that deep formal analysis (a lot of formalism) ultimately returns to socio-historical contexts.
Q102. Which of the following statements about Post-modernism is correct?
(1) For all its emphasis on difference, post-modern theory has ignored: the work of Black writers and intellectuals ✅
(2) the work of feminist writers and intellectuals
(3) the work of Marxist writers and intellectuals
(4) the work of psychoanalytic writers and intellectuals
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: One criticism of early post-modern theory is its marginalization of Black writers and thinkers despite celebrating difference and plurality.
Q103. The preface of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth which deals with psychosocial repercussions of colonialism was written by —
(1) Jean Paul Sartre ✅
(2) James Fenton
(3) Julian Barnes
(4) Salman Rushdie
Answer:- (1) Option ✅
Explanation: Sartre wrote a powerful and controversial preface to Fanon’s revolutionary text, emphasizing the violence inherent in decolonization.
Q104. “Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction between the Orient and the Occident.” Who has defined Orientalism in these words?
(1) Gayatri Spivak
(2) Homi K. Bhabha
(3) Edward Said ✅
(4) Aijaz Ahmad
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Edward Said, in his foundational text Orientalism (1978), defined the term as a Western construct that creates a binary between East and West.
Q105. Which one of the following books was elemental in the emergence of Postcolonial criticism?
(1) In Other Worlds
(2) The Empire Writes Back
(3) Against Interpretation ✅
(4) Nation and Narration
Answer:- (3) Option ✅
Explanation: Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag is a foundational work of critical theory that shaped postcolonial and cultural critique through its emphasis on form and meaning.
Q106. The two distinctive features that characterize Post-structuralism are —
(1) Symmetry and patterning
(2) Pastiche and parody ✅
(3) Balances and repetitions
(4) Reflections and repetitions
Answer:- (2) Option ✅
Explanation: Post-structuralism often expresses itself through pastiche (imitation without satire) and parody, which mock or deconstruct established structures.
Q107. Who has written Naipaul’s India and Mine in response to Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness?
(1) Amitav Ghosh
(2) Bipin Chandra
(3) Nissim Ezekiel ✅
(4) Salman Rushdie
Answer:- (3) Nissim Ezekiel ✅
Explanation: Nissim Ezekiel’s essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” was a critical response to V.S. Naipaul’s controversial portrayal of India in An Area of Darkness.
Q108. Who among the following is NOT a Diaspora critic?
(1) Robert Cohen
(2) Sudesh Mishra
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Toril Moi ✅
Answer:- (4) Toril Moi ✅
Explanation: Toril Moi is a feminist critic, primarily associated with feminist literary theory, not diaspora criticism.
Q109. Arrange the following feminist texts chronologically:
- Elaine Showalter: A Literature of Their Own
- John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
(1) ABCD
(2) CBAD
(3) CBDA ✅
(4) DABC
Answer:- (3) CBDA ✅
Explanation: Chronologically:
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
- John Stuart Mill (1869)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
- Elaine Showalter (1977)
Q110. Match the following key Postcolonial Texts (A) with their Authors (B):
(i) The Wretched of the Earth
(ii) Orientalism
(iii) The Location of Culture
(iv) Return to My Native Land
(a) Aime Cesaire
(b) Homi Bhabha
(c) Edward Said
(d) Frantz Fanon
Codes:
(i) – (d)
(ii) – (c)
(iii) – (b)
(iv) – (a) ✅
Answer:- (1) (i)–(d), (ii)–(c), (iii)–(b), (iv)–(a) ✅
Explanation:
- The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
- Orientalism – Edward Said
- The Location of Culture – Homi Bhabha
- Return to My Native Land – Aime Cesaire
Q111. Which of the landmark victories of second-wave feminists does not include in the following options?
(1) Women’s right to vote
(2) Equal Pay Act
(3) Title IX
(4) Legalization of abortion ✅
Answer:- (4) Legalization of abortion ✅
Explanation: Women’s right to vote was part of the first-wave feminism. Equal Pay Act and Title IX were part of second-wave feminism, but legalization of abortion is typically associated with later legal and health rights movements that followed.
Q112. Who propounded the idea of ecofeminism?
(1) Frank Raymond Leavis
(2) Helen Cixous
(3) Annete Jaime
(4) Francoise d’Eaubonne ✅
Answer:- (4) Francoise d’Eaubonne ✅
Explanation: French feminist Francoise d’Eaubonne coined the term “ecofeminism” in her 1974 book Le féminisme ou la mort, linking environmental concerns with feminist theory.
Q113. In which of her books did Kate Millett present the otherwise general and her disclosure that she was a lesbian in particular?
(1) The Basement
(2) Flying ✅
(3) Sexual Politics
(4) Going to Iran
Answer:- (2) Flying ✅
Explanation: In her autobiographical work Flying (1974), Kate Millett discusses her sexuality, particularly her coming out as a lesbian, in addition to her feminist perspectives.
Q114. Elaine Showalter divides women’s writing into three phases: Feminine phase, Feminist phase, and the ___ phase.
(1) female ✅
(2) gyno
(3) womanly
(4) womanish
Answer:- (1) female ✅
Explanation: Elaine Showalter categorized the evolution of women’s writing into three phases: Feminine, Feminist, and Female. The Female phase emphasized the uniqueness of female experience and literary voice.
Q115. Who coined the term Women’s Writing (écriture féminine) and where?
(1) Simone de Beauvoir – Must We Burn Sade?
(2) Hélène Cixous – The Laugh of the Medusa ✅
(3) Elaine Showalter – Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
(4) Judith Butler – Variations on Sex and Gender in Beauvoir
Answer:- (2) Hélène Cixous – The Laugh of the Medusa ✅
Explanation: French feminist Hélène Cixous introduced the concept of écriture féminine (“women’s writing”) in her essay The Laugh of the Medusa (1975), advocating for a new female-centered language in literature.
Q116. Who is the founder of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
(1) Thomas Armstrong
(2) Howard Gardner ✅
(3) Noam Chomsky
(4) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer:- (2) Howard Gardner ✅
Explanation: Howard Gardner, a psychologist and professor at Harvard, proposed the theory of Multiple Intelligences in 1983, identifying different kinds of intelligences such as linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, etc.
Q117. Lacan considered the human psyche to be framed within three orders: The Imaginary, The ___, and The Real.
(1) Semiotic
(2) Symbolic ✅
(3) Significant
(4) Suggestive
Answer:- (2) Symbolic ✅
Explanation: According to Jacques Lacan, the human psyche is structured in three orders: The Imaginary, The Symbolic, and The Real.
Q118. According to Jacques Lacan, which one is not one of the fundamental principles of psychoanalysis?
(1) The unconscious
(2) The transference
(3) The ego ✅
(4) The drive
Answer:- (3) The ego ✅
Explanation: The ego is a concept from Freudian theory. While Lacan reinterprets Freud, he focuses more on the unconscious, the symbolic, and the imaginary, and does not treat the ego as a fundamental principle in his version of psychoanalysis.
Q119. Which Shakespearean character does Freud use to develop his theory in The Interpretation of Dreams?
(1) King Lear
(2) Romeo
(3) Hamlet ✅
(4) Antony
Answer:- (3) Hamlet ✅
Explanation: Freud used the character of Hamlet to explore the Oedipus complex and illustrate his ideas about repressed desires and the unconscious mind.
Q120. Match the Authors (A) with the Concepts (B) they proposed in Critical Theory:
(i) T.S. Eliot → (c) Objective Correlative
(ii) Elaine Showalter → (a) Gynocriticism
(iii) Michael Foucault → (b) Panopticon
(iv) Jacques Derrida → (d) Aporia
(1) (i)–(c), (ii)–(a), (iii)–(b), (iv)–(d) ✅
Answer:- (1) (i)–(c), (ii)–(a), (iii)–(b), (iv)–(d) ✅
Explanation:
- S. Eliot – Objective Correlative
- Elaine Showalter – Gynocriticism
- Michel Foucault – Panopticon
- Jacques Derrida – Aporia
Q121. One major difference between old and new historicism is:
(1) The old historicism is a historicist movement.
(2) The new historicists treat history as event.
(3) The old historicism is a parallel reading of the old and new.
(4) Giving equal weightage to literary and the non-literary material ✅
Answer:- (4) Giving equal weightage to literary and the non-literary material ✅
Explanation: New Historicism, unlike the old, reads both literary and non-literary texts as cultural artifacts, giving them equal interpretive value.
Q122. New historicists DO NOT:
(1) Juxtapose literary and non-literary texts.
(2) Try to ‘defamiliarise’ the canonical literary texts.
(3) Read history as a historical movement ✅
(4) Make use of Derrida’s notion that every facet of reality is textualised.
Answer:- (3) Read history as a historical movement ✅
Explanation: New Historicists see history not as a linear movement but as a web of texts and discourses influenced by power structures.
Q123. Who defines New Historicism as “the textuality of history and the historicity of texts”?
(1) Stephen Greenblatt
(2) Louis Montrose ✅
(3) Aram Veeser
(4) Richard Wilson
Answer:- (2) Louis Montrose ✅
Explanation: Louis Montrose is credited with this famous definition of New Historicism, highlighting the mutual textual construction of literature and history.
Q124. “… nothing means naturally, eternally or universally: rather, meaning emerges from languages, beliefs, practices, institutions and desires of particular historically located cultures.”
The above text imparts the basic idea of:
(1) Historicism ✅
(2) Modernism
(3) Post-structuralism
(4) Structuralism
Answer:- (1) Historicism ✅
Explanation: This statement reflects the Historicism approach, where meaning is context-dependent and culturally constructed, not fixed.
Q125. Which one of the following is NOT a Freudian concept?
(1) Oedipus complex
(2) Mirror stage ✅
(3) Superego
(4) Id
Answer:- (2) Mirror stage ✅
Explanation: The Mirror stage is a Lacanian (Jacques Lacan) concept, not Freudian. The Oedipus complex, Id, and Superego are Freudian concepts.
Q126. The phrase “threw away the road” in stanza 2 means:
(1) The road was uprooted.
(2) The road was scarcely visible ✅
(3) The road was washed away by the rain.
(4) The road cracked under the load of leaves.
Answer:- (2) The road was scarcely visible ✅
Explanation: The dust obscuring the road makes it barely visible — the metaphor “threw away the road” expresses this.
Q127. Which of the following elements is not being personified in stanza 1 and 2?
(1) abroad ✅
(2) leaves
(3) dust
(4) wind
Answer:- (1) abroad ✅
Explanation: “Abroad” is not a personified noun; it refers to movement. The other elements are given human-like actions (e.g., dust scooping like hands).
Q128. According to the writer, which of the following was not affected by the wind in the first stanza?
(1) the grass
(2) the sky
(3) the trees ✅
(4) the earth
Answer:- (3) the trees ✅
Explanation: The first stanza mentions wind affecting grass, sky, and earth, but not trees — they appear in the next stanza.
Q129. ‘Unhooked’ in line 5, stanza 2 means:
(1) lost control
(2) became dead-like
(3) moved apart ✅
(4) scooped up
Answer:- (3) moved apart ✅
Explanation: “Unhooked” means detached or separated. The leaves “unhooked themselves” and scattered, i.e., moved apart.
Q130. “Put up the bars” in stanza 4 means?
(1) bolted (the doors) ✅
(2) let go (abandoned)
(3) flew in all directions
(4) escaped
Answer:- (1) bolted (the doors) ✅
Explanation: “Put up the bars” means the birds secured their nests, just like closing or barring doors before a storm.
Q131. Who took shelter before the falling of “one drop of giant rain”?
(1) the people on the street
(2) the leaves in the trees
(3) the birds and the cattle ✅
(4) the grass bent low
Answer:- (3) the birds and the cattle ✅
Explanation: The birds “put up the bars to nests” and the cattle “fled to barns” — both took shelter before the rain.
Q132. What damage was done to the house of the poet’s father?
(1) it was flooded
(2) it was wrecked by the sky
(3) it became unhooked
(4) only a tree was quartered ✅
Answer:- (4) only a tree was quartered ✅
Explanation: The storm wrecked the sky, but the poet says it “overlooked my father’s house,” only damaging a tree.
Q133. The above poem is in the form of:
(1) elegy
(2) sonnet
(3) free verse ✅
(4) villanelle
Answer:- (3) free verse ✅
Explanation: The poem has no fixed meter or rhyme scheme, which is characteristic of free verse.
Q134. The chronology of events narrated during the onslaught of the storm is:
(1) strong winds, uprooting of trees, thunder, rain
(2) strong winds, thunder, lightning, rain ✅
(3) rain, thunder, lightning, winds
(4) winds, rain, lightning, thunder
Answer:- (2) strong winds, thunder, lightning, rain ✅
Explanation: The poem mentions wind first, followed by thunder, then lightning, and finally rain.
Q135. What is the poet comparing the lightning to in stanza 3?
(1) a maddened maniac
(2) a frenzied menace
(3) an unhooked savage
(4) a bird of prey ✅
Answer:- (4) a bird of prey ✅
Explanation: The lightning is described as having “a yellow beak and then a livid claw” — imagery that resembles a bird of prey.
Q136. Choose the correct determiner to fill in the blank:
___ of my friends offered to help me in my hour of need.
(1) None ✅
(2) Fewer
(3) Much
(4) Any
Answer:- (1) None ✅
Explanation: The correct determiner here is “None,” meaning no one from the group of friends helped.
Q137. She lives in ___ big green house.
(1) a
(2) an
(3) the ✅
(4) zero article
Answer:- (3) the ✅
Explanation: Use “the” before a specific noun — “the big green house” refers to a particular house known to the speaker and listener.
Q138. ___ hyena is in danger of becoming extinct.
(1) The ✅
(2) An
(3) A
(4) Zero article
Answer:- (1) The ✅
Explanation: When referring to a species generally, we use “The + singular noun” — here, “The hyena.”
Q139. She can write with ___ hand.
(1) every
(2) each ✅
(3) two
(4) none
Answer:- (2) each ✅
Explanation: “Each” hand suggests both hands individually, implying ambidexterity.
Q140. Shakespeare knew ___ Latin and less Greek.
(1) few
(2) fewer
(3) the few
(4) little ✅
Answer:- (4) little ✅
Explanation: Use “little” with uncountable nouns like “Latin” and “Greek.” “Less Greek” shows a comparison.
Q141. Choose the correct modal to fill in the blank:
I ___ be twenty-five on my next birthday.
(1) can
(2) shall
(3) ought to
(4) will ✅
Answer:- (4) will ✅
Explanation: “Will” is used to express a future certainty — the speaker is certain about their age on the next birthday.
Q142. Choose the correct modal to fill in the blank:
I ___ swim across the river when I was young.
(1) can
(2) could ✅
(3) shall
(4) will
Answer:- (2) could ✅
Explanation: “Could” is the past tense of “can,” correctly used here to describe a past ability.
Q143. Fill in the blank with the correct article:
___ old need special care and attention.
(1) An
(2) Zero article
(3) That
(4) The ✅
Answer:- (4) The ✅
Explanation: “The old” is a noun phrase used to refer to old people as a group.
Q144. Fill in the blank with a correct modal auxiliary:
Since you insist, I ___ reconsider the matter.
(1) will ✅
(2) need
(3) ought
(4) mayn’t
Answer:- (1) will ✅
Explanation: “Will” shows willingness or decision influenced by insistence.
Q145. Fill in the blank with appropriate modal:
I think you ___ have told her you were sorry.
(1) need
(2) will
(3) should ✅
(4) ought
Answer:- (3) should ✅
Explanation: “Should” expresses advice or moral obligation in past situations.
Q146. Fill in the blank with a correct modal:
Come this way; ___ you?
(1) shall
(2) will ✅
(3) ought
(4) need
Answer:- (2) will ✅
Explanation: “Will you?” is a polite form used to give directions or make polite requests.
Q147. Choose the correct option which is closest in meaning to the phrasal verb “Fall out”:
(1) withdraw a plan
(2) spread a sheet
(3) disagree with someone ✅
(4) disclose
Answer:- (3) disagree with someone ✅
Explanation: “Fall out” means to have a disagreement or quarrel with someone.
Q148. Choose the correct option to find out the closest meaning of the phrasal verb “Come by”:
(1) depart
(2) obtain something ✅
(3) visit
(4) win
Answer:- (2) obtain something ✅
Explanation: “Come by” often means to obtain something, especially with difficulty.
Q149. Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrasal verb:
Everywhere elegant old buildings are being ___ and mediocre modern erections are being put up.
(1) pulled down ✅
(2) pulled into
(3) pulled up
(4) pulled through
Answer:- (1) pulled down ✅
Explanation: “Pulled down” is the phrasal verb for demolition or destruction of buildings.
Q150. Fill in the blank with the correct modal:
The author is a well-known expert, ___ to be reliable.
(1) will
(2) must
(3) shall
(4) ought ✅
Answer:- (4) ought ✅
Explanation: “Ought to be” expresses moral expectation or probability regarding the author’s reliability.