Compulsory English UGB, Part-ll MCQ
MCQ, ENGLISH COMPULSORY, MARKS- 50
_________________SYLLABUS_______________
Poetry:
(i) Wole Soyinka - "Telephone Conversation
(ii) Rudyard Kipling - IF
(iii) W. H. Auden - "The Unknown Citizen'
(iv) R. N. Tagore - 'Where the Mind is Without Fear'
Prose:
(1) Anton Chekhov - 'The Bet'
(ii) O. Henry - 'After Twenty Years'
(i) Mark Twain - 'How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
(iv) L.A. Hill - 'Principles of Good Writing'
Drama:
(i) St. John Ervine - Progress
(ii) Percival Wilde - Refund : A Play in one Act
Grammar and Vocabulary:
(i) Use of Words
(ii) Common Errors
(iii) Use of Tenses
(iv) Subject-Verb Agreement
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COMPULSORY ENGLISH MCQ 2019
[For Arts (General) Candidate
New Syllabus. Full Marks : 50
Time : One Hour
Choose the correct answer
Each question carries 1 mark
1) That the unknown citizen is devoid of any complaint on consumption is revealed by-
(A) The Bureau of state
(B) Civil servant
(C) Govt. Office
(D) The Bureau of Statistic
2. Even when others hate us, we should
(A) not love
(B) love
(C) not hate
(D) consider
3. The poet prays to God to Lead our minds-
(A) to Go
(B) to though
(C) to action
(D) into ever widening thought and action
4. 'Telephone Conversation' is a conversation between
(A) Two American
(B) A Negro and a White Lad
(C) An Indian and a European
(D) Two African
5. The unknown citizen was
(A) in favour of peace
(B) against peace
(C) in favour of war
(D) none of the above
6. The function of the Knaves is to deliberately-
(A) oppose truth
(B) distort truth
(C) fight against the truth
(D) blame others
7. Where does the poem, "Where the Mind is Without Fear'. Occur?
(A) English version of 'Gitanjali
(B) Bengali version of 'Radha Krishna'
(C) English version of Swadesh
(D) Bengali version of 'Swadhinata
8. Telephone Conversation' has often been described as a powerful and Senior agent to- -
(A) Social change
(B) Political change
(C) Economic change
(D) Religious change
9. A would be written should choose subjects of -
(A) Historical interest
(B) Geographical interest
(C) Topical interest
(D) Social interest
10. The warning L.A. Hill suggests is -
(A) The mixture of different styles
(B) The acceptance of dialect
(C) The avoidance of difficult works
(D) None of these
11. The author did not take_
(A) Permanent Editorship
(B) Temporary Editorship
(C) Yearly Editorship only
(D) Half-yearly Editorship
12. "How I Edited an Agriculture Paper" was by
(A) Mark Twain
(B) L. A. Hill
(C) A. G. Gardiner
(D) J. K. Jerome
13. Dinner was taken by the man and his friend at a restaurent 'Big Joe' Brady's-
(A) 10 years back
(B) 11 years back
(C) 20 years back
(D) 5 years back
14. The Scarfpin of the man from the east was a large -
(A) diamond
(B) platinum
(C) gold
(D) Maxture of all of three
15. "I would certainly choose the second - Here the second refers to-
(A) death penalty
(B) hanging
(C) life-long imprisonment
(D) jail
16. The young man might have during imprisonment
(A) books
(B) music
(C) wine
(D) all the three, if demanded
17. The scene of the play The Progress took place in the year
(A) 1915
(B) 1917
(C) 1919
(D) 1921
18. Prof. Henry Corrie is seen -
(A) reading newspaper
(B) involving in experiment
(C) watching T.V.
(D) Busy with experiment
19. Prof. Henry Corrie is aged between
(A) forty and fifty
(B) fifty and sixty
(C) sixty and seventy
(D) seventy and eighty
20. The only son of Mrs. Meldon was -
(A) Tom
(B) Eddie
(C) Corrie
(D) None
21. "Refund' is written by -
(A) St. John Ervine
(B) G. B. Shaw
(C) Percival Wilde
(D) Thomas Hardy
22. The name of the school in which Wasserkopf studied is -
(A) St. Xaviers School
(B) Metropolitan School
(C) Moon Educational Trust
(D) Sun Rise Institute
23. The Principal receives parents only -
(A) during tiffin hours
(B) during office hours
(C) after 2 p.m.
(D) between 2 p.m. and 3 p.
24. Wasserkopf was a student
(A) 14 years ago
(B) 16 years ago
(C) 18 years ago
(D) 20 years ago
25. We generally avoid a letter if telephone is available.
(A) write
(B) wrote
(C) written
(D) writing
26. The temperature of the earth is rising -
(A) gradual
(B) gradually
(C) gradualised
(D) none
Who addresses whom in ‘If’ ?
(A) An orator address his listners
(B) A father addresses his son
(C) A political leader addresses his followers (D) A teacher addresses his students
2. According to the ‘If’ poet what should one do if one is exhausted in life’s battle ?
(A) one must rely on one’s presence of mind
(B) one must rely on one’s material resources
(C) one must rely on one’s will power
(D) one must rely on one’s friends
3. Which company did the unknown citizen work for ?
(A) Fudge Motors Inc.
(B) Power Gen plc.
(C) Metal Storm Ltd.
(D) Goldcorp, Inc.
4. Which of the following was considered as a necessary possession for a modern man in The Unknown Citizen ?
(A) coffee machine
(B) computer
(C) phonograph
(D) stethoscope
Choose the correct answer. Each question carries 1 mark.
1. To succeed in life, as advised by Kipling, we should cultivate the qualities of —
(A) Morality
(B) Religion
(C) Impatience
(D) Doubtfulness
2. In the poem ‘If’, the poet advises us to be —
(A) Patient
(B) Truthful
(C) Self-confident
(D) All of the above
3. Which company did the unknown citizen work for?
(A) Fudge Motors Inc.
(B) Blackstone Group
(C) Producers Research and High Grade
(D) Rockwell Automation
4. “Was he free? Was he happy?” The extract is taken from —
(A) If
(B) Telephonic Conversation
(C) Where the Mind is Without Fear
(D) The Unknown Citizen
5.The number inscribed on the Marble Monument of the Unknown Citizen is—
(A)JS/08/M 378
(B)JS/08/F 378
(C)JS/07/M 378
(D)JS/07/F 378
6. “Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake” - The ‘country’referred to here is —
(A)India
(B)Australia
(C)England
(D)America
7.According to the poet, a nation is broken up into pieces by narrow —
(A)Desert walls
(B)Domestic walls
(C)Private walls
(D)Boundary walls
8.“Where the Mind is Without Fear” is the __ th poem from Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali.
(A)34
(B)35
(C)36
(D)37
9. Wole Soyinka, the writer of the poem “Telephone Conversation” is a/an —
(A) Indian
(B) American
(C) Australian
(D) Nigerian
10. “Telephone Conversation” is a conversation between —
(A) An Indian and a European
(B) A coloured male and a White Lady
(C) A Chinese lady and an Australian Man
(D) None of the above
11. According to L. A. Hill, different kinds of people have —
(A) Same interests
(B) Different interests
(C) Similar interests
(D) None of these
12. According to L. A. Hill, writing is all about —
(A) 99 percent inspiration and 1 percent hard work
(B) 99 percent hard work and 1 percent inspiration
(C) 50 percent hard work and 50 percent inspiration
(D) 100 percent hard work and no inspiration
13. Who were the persons involved in the betting in Chekhov’s ‘The Bet’?
(A) A banker and a manager
(B) A lawyer and a banker
(C) A rich and a young man
(D) A lawyer and a manager
14. What was the amount of the bet agreed upon?
(A) Two million rubles
B) Three million rubles
(C) Four million rubles
(D) Five million rubles
15. “How I Edited An Agricultural Paper” is written by —
(A) A. G. Gardiner
(B) Mark Twain
(C) L. A. Hill
(D) R. K. Narayan
16. The regular editor of the paper was going off for —
(A) Retirement
(B) Holiday
(C) Medical Treatment
(D) Urgent Meeting
17. Which of the following is not a theme of O’ Henry’s “After Twenty Years” ?
(A) Friendship
(B) Loyalty
(C) Trust
(D) Betrayal
18. Who outwitted Wasserkopf by laying a trap?
(A) The language Teacher
(B) The History Teacher
(C) The Mathematics Teacher
(D) The Physics Teacher
19. Percival Wilde’s play “Refund” is —
(A) A Play in One Act
(B) A Play in Two Acts
(C) A Play in Three Acts
(D) A Play in Four Acts
20. The Mathematics teacher alludes to which theory in order to prove correctness of Wasserkopf's answer?
(A) The Theory of Relativity
(B) The Theory of Gravitation
(C) The Theory of Motion
(D) The Theory of Evolution
21. The phrase “an organized butchery of boys” occurs in —
(A) Progress
(B) Refund
(C) The Bet
(D) The Unknown Citizen
22. St. John Ervine’s “Progress” is a —
(A) Short Story
(B) Novella
(C) One-act-play
(D) Poetic Drama
23. In “Progress,” the name of Mrs. Maldon’s son was —
(A) Pit
(B) Eddie
(C) Bob
(D) Robin
24. What is the invention of Henry Corrie?
(A) A dangerous bomb
(B) A war plane
(C) A gun
(D) A submarine
25. ‘Pugnacious’ means —
(A) Eager to argue, quarrel or fight
(B) Eager to make understanding
(C) Eager to change the circumstances
(D) Eager to destroy everything
26. It is raining _____ three days.
(A) for
(B) since
(C) of
(D) about
27. I prefer tea ___ coffee.
(A) than
(B) to
(C) of
(D) for
28. None of the news ____ useful.
(A) was
(B) were
(C) are
(D) do
29. The Principal and the President ____ present.
(A) was
(B) were
(C) is
(D) have
30. The patient __ before the doctor came.
(A) has died
(B) had died
(C) have died
(D) are dead
31. It’s raining ______________.
(A) cat and Dog
(B) cats and dog
(C) cat and dogs
(D) cats and dogs
32. I ______________ from abdomen pain for a month.
(A) have been suffering
(B) was suffering
(C) has been suffering
(D) am suffering
33. Beware _________ pickpockets.
(A) of
(B) from
(C) about
(D) against
34. He resigned ________________ the party.
(A) of
(B) for
(C) to
(D) from
35. No sooner _______________ than the burglars fled.
(A) had the police reached
(B) the police had reached
(C) has the police reached
(D) the police has reached
36. The cattle __________ grazing in the field.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) was
(D) has been
37. Time and tide ____ for no man.
(A) wait
(B) waits
(C) are waiting
(D) is waiting
38. Two and two __________________ four.
(A) makes
(B) are
(C) make
(D) making
39. Don’t throw stones on a _______________ dog.
(A) bleating
(B) barking
(C) growling
(D) howling
40. He ______________ a lie.
(A) tells never
(B) never tells
(C) tell never
(D) never tell
1. The poem ‘If’ is written by —
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Rudyard Kipling
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) W.H. Auden
2. ‘Triumph’ and ____ are addressed as Imposters in the poem ‘If’.
(A) Catastrophe
(B) Friendship
(C) Disaster
(D) Hatred
3. According to the poet of ‘Where the Mind is without Fear’, in which direction does tireless striving stretch its arms?
(A) Towards perfection
(B) Towards hatred
(C) Towards dead habits
(D) None of the above
4. “Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls...” - The missing word is :
(A) Wide
(B) Straight
(C) Long
(D) Narrow
5. According to the speaker of “Telephone Conversation”, the price of the house seemed —
(A) Reasonable
(B) Unreasonable
(C) Affordable
(D) Unrealistic
6. The speaker in “Telephone Conversation” claimed that peroxide blonde was the colour of the —
(A) Palm of his hand
(B) Soles of his feet
(C) Both (a) and (b)
(D) None of the above
7. Which of the following did the ‘The Unknown Citizen’ not have?
(A) Phonograph
(B) Mobile phone
(C) Radio
(D) Car
8. Who found out that the ‘Unknown’ Citizen in Auden’s poem was popular with his friends and liked to socialize ?
(A) Bureau of Statistics
(B) Union Reports
(C) Producers Research
(D) Social Psychology workers
9. L. A. Hill claims that to write well, one has to write clearly and —
(A) Logically
(B) Illogically
(C) Intelligently
(D) Humorously
10. While citing examples of the sort of things to be avoided for good writing, which of the following novels by Dickens does L.A. Hill mention ?
(A) Nicholas Nickleby
(B) Oliver Twist
(C) David Copperfield
(D) A Tale of Two Cities
11. The “fine bird” referred to in “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper” is —
(A) A Sparrow
(B) A Guano
(C) A Parrot
(D) A Crow
12. The narrator of “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper” had to edit the paper because —
(A) The regular editor was on a holiday
(B) He was not getting any job
(C) He wanted money
(D) He wanted to be a writer
13. Jimmy and Bob were separated when Bob was eighteen and Jimmy was —
(A) Sixteen
(B) Fifteen
(C) Twenty
(D) Twenty-two
14. What was the time when Jimmy and Bob separated twenty years ago?
(A) Barely ten o’clock
(B) Almost ten o’clock
(C) Exactly ten o’clock
(D) None of the above
15. In “The Bet,” during the second year of his confinement, the prisoner asked for —
(A) Classics
(B) Language
(C) Philosophy
(D) History
16. In Chekhov’s “The Bet,” the bet is between —
(A) A lawyer and a banker
(B) A doctor and a banker
(C) A lawyer and a doctor
(D) A lawyer and a teacher
17. Professor Henry Corrie was aged —
(A) Between forty and fifty
(B) About sixty years
(C) About seventy years
(D) Between seventy and eighty
18. Mrs. Meldon is —
(A) Eddie’s sister
(B) Eddie’s aunt
(C) Eddie’s daughter
(D) Eddie’s mother
19. Number of acts in the play ‘Progress’ is —
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
20. How does Prof. Corrie die in Progress?
(A) Mrs. Meldon shoots him
(B) Mrs. Meldon stabs him
(C) Prof. Corrie commits suicide
(D) Mrs. Meldon poisons Prof. Corrie
21. Wasserkopf was a student of the school —
(A) Fifteen years ago
(B) Sixteen years ago
(C) Seventeen years ago
(D) Eighteen years ago
22. Wasserkopf wanted the Principal to refund his —
(A) Admission fees
(B) Hostel fees
(C) Tuition fees
(D) Miscellaneous fees
23. For how many years in all did Wasserkopf attend school?
(A) Five years
(B) Six years
(C) Seven years
(D) Eight years
24. Whom did Wasserkopf address as a cannibal?
(A) The Physics Master
(B) The Geography Master
(C) The Mathematics Master
(D) The Principal
25. A __ of bees.
(A) Choir
(B) Herd
(C) Flock
(D) Swarm
26. ‘Doe’ is a female ___.
(A) Deer
(B) Lion
(C) Tiger
(D) Horse
27. A bird lives in a __.
(A) Stable
(B) Hive
(C) Pen
(D) Nest
28. A duck ____.
(A) Growls
(B) Barks
(C) Quacks
(D) Bleats
29. He . . believe in ghosts.
(A) Do not
(B) Doesn't
(C) Have not
(D) Has not
30. He gave the beggar __ one rupee coin.
(A) A
(B) An
(C) The
(D) None of the above
31. Everyone the hazards of air pollution.
(A) Know
(B) Have known
(C) Known
(D) Knows
32. The jury consists __seven judges.
(A) In
(B) From
(C) Of
(D) With
33. I prefer web-series __films.
(A) Than
(B) To
(C) After
(D) Of
34. Mathematics __his favourite subject.
(A) Is
(B) Are
(C) Has
(D) Have
35. The ship, with its crew __ lost.
(A) Were
(B) Was
(C) Does
(D) Cannot
36. The adverb form of the word “slow” is — (A) Slower
(B) Slowed
(C) Slowly
(D) None of these
37. She ___ since four’o clock.
(A) Studied
(B) Has been studying
(C) Had studied
(D) Will be studying
38. All that ___ is not gold.
(A) Glitter
(B) Glittering
(C) Has been glittering
(D) Glitters
39. The antonym of ‘expensive’ is —
(A) Empty
(B) Vacant
(C) Easy
(D) Cheap
40. Her performance was ___.
(A) Critical
(B) Critically
(C) Critic
(D) Criticised
