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English Solution (Set: 2):

1. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope is a / an ---
    Ans: c) mock-heroic poem
2. Which of the following is not an American poet?
    Ans: b) W. B Yeats
3. William Shakeaeare was born in ----
    Ans: c) 1564
4. Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is an elegy on the death of -----
    Ans: c) Arthur Henry Hallam
5. Change the Voice: ‘Who is calling me?’
        Ans: c) By whom am I being called?
6. ‘You look terrific in that dress!’
    Ans: a) excellent
7. Someone who is capricious-----
    Ans: d) known for sudden changes in attitude or behavior
8. Which of the following  words is masculine?
    Ans: b) lad
9. A man whose wife has died is called a ----
    Ans: b) widower
10. Which word is similar to ‘appal’
    Ans: c) dismay
11. Which word means the opposite of ‘death’?
    Ans: b) abundance
12. Identify the word which remains the same in its plural
    Ans: a) aircraft
13. Identify the determiner in the following sentence:
    ‘I have no news for you.’
    Ans: c) no
14. ‘A lost opportunity never returns.’ Here ‘lost’ is a ----
    Ans: d) participle
15. The saying ‘enough is enough’ is used when you want ----
    Ans: b) something to stop
16. He ran with great speed.
   Ans: b) Adverbial clause
17. ‘We must not be late, else we will miss the train.’
    Ans: a) compound sentence
18. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly.
     Ans: a) Consciencious
19. An extra message added at the end of a letter after it is signed is called -----
     Ans: b) postscript
20. ‘Sweet Helen’ make me immortal with a kiss.’
The sentence has been taken from the play----
   Ans: c) Doctor Fautus
21. ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ –Who said this?
Ans: a) Juliet
22. ‘Mans’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. Tis woman’s whole exixtance.’ --- This is taken from the poem of ----
    Ans: b) Lord Byron
23. Who translated the ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into Englihs?
    Ans: b) Edwarde Fitzgerald
24. ‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by ---
   Ans: d) James Joyce
25. The short story ‘The Diamond Necklace’ was written by ---
    Ans: a) Guy  de Maupassant
26. ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.’ --- Who said this?
   Ans: b) Lady Macbeth
27. ‘Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.’ --- Who wrote this?
    Ans: c) John Keats
28. Who is the central character of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte?
    Ans: c) Heathcliff
29. ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new.’ This line is extracted from Tennyson’s poem ----
   Ans: d) Morte d’ Arthur
30. Who wrote the poem ‘The Good-Morrow’?
    Ans: c) John Donne
31. ‘Please write to me at the above address.’
    Ans: b) adjective
32. In which sentence is the word ‘past’ used as a preposition?
    Ans: d) Tania was a wonderful singer, but she’s past her past.
33. The word ‘siblings’ means ---
     Ans: c) a brother or sister
34. As she was talking, he suddenly broke ---- , saying, ‘That’s a lie!
     Ans: b) in
35. You may go for a walk if you feel ----- it.
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