English - 37th BCS Preliminary Questions

"Gerontion” is a poem by –

a)      TS Eliot

b)      W.B. Yeats

c)      Matthew Arnold

d)      Robert Browning

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

‘______’ is Shakespear’s last play.

a)      As you like it

b)      Macbeth

c)      Tempest

d)      Othello

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

Who has written the poem “Elegy Written in a country Churchyard”?

a)      Thomas Gray

b)      P.B. Shelley

c)      Robert Frost

d)      W.B. Yeats

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

Who has written the play ‘Volpone’?

a)      John Webster

b)      Ben Johnson

c)      Christopher Marlowe

d)      William Shakespeare

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what short of verse?

a)      Alliterative words

b)      Sonnet form

c)      Lambic pentameter

d)      Dactylic Hexameter

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as –

a)      Personification

b)      Onomatopoeia

c)      Alliteration

d)      Rhyme

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

a)      The Epic

b)      The Comic

c)      The Occult

d)      The Tragic

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

What is a funny poem of five lines called?

a)      Quartet

b)      Limerick

c)      Sixtet

d)      Haiku

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?

a)      Lord Byron

b)      P.B. Shelley

c)      S.T. Coleridge

d)      Charles Lamp

Ans. c

Robert Browning was a _____ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word-

a)      Romantic

b)      Victorian

c)      Modern

d)      Elizabethan

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

Othello gave Desdemona _____as a token of love.

a)      Ring

b)      Handkerchief

c)      Pendant

d)      Bangles

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

P.B. Shelley’s Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of _____

a)      John Milton

b)      S.T. Coleridge

c)      John Keats

d)      Lord Byron

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as is known to be_____

a)      Metaphor

b)      Simile

c)      Alliteration

d)      Personification

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

“Restoration period” in English literature refers to_____ 

a)      1560

b)      1660

c)      1760

d)      1866

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

‘The sun Also Rises’ is a novel written by______

a)      Charles Dickens

b)      Hermanne Melville

c)      Ernest Hemingway

d)      Thomas Hardy

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

Which one of the following words is in singular form?

a)      Agenda

b)      Oases

c)      Radius

d)      Formulae

Ans. c  [37^th BCS]

Use the appropriate article: I saw _____ one-eyed man when I was walking on the road.

a)      a

b)      an

c)      the

d)      no article is needed

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

The mother sat vigilantly beside the sick baby. Here ‘vigilantly’ is-

a)      a noun

b)      an adverb

c)      an adjective

d)      none of the three

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

Frailty, the name is woman. Here ‘Frailty’ is-

a)      a noun

b)      an adjective

c)      an adverb

d)      a verb

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

Education is enlightening. Here ‘enlightening’ is-

a)      A gerund

b)      A participle

c)      An infinite

d)      A finite verb

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

Choose the appropriate preposition: The family doesn’t feel _____ going outing this season.

a)      in

b)      on

c)      like

d)      of

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

This is the book I lost. Here ‘I lost’ is-

a)      noun clause

b)      an adverbial clause

c)      an adjective clause

d)      none of the three

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

Fill in the blank: I couldn’t mend the computer myself, so I _____ at a shop.

a)      had it mended

b)      had it mend

c)      did it mend

d)      had mended

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

Choose the correct sentence:

a)      All of it depend on you

b)      All of it are depending on you

c)      All of it depends on you

d)      All of it are depended on you

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

“A rolling stone gathers no moss” The complex form of the sentence is-

a)      Since a stone is rolling, it gathers no moss.

b)      Though a stone rolls, it gathers no moss.

c)      A stone what rolls gathers no moss.

d)      A stone that rolls gathers no moss.

Ans. d [37^th BCS]

Complete the following sentence: It’s raining cats and dogs, so-

a)      Watch out for falling animals.

b)      Make sure you take an umbrella.

c)      Keep your pets inside.

d)      Keep the windows open.

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

Cassandra is a night owl, so she doesn’t usually get up until about-

a)      11 a.m

b)      11 p.m

c)      7 a.m

d)      7 p.m

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

“Who planted this tree here?” The correct passive voice of this sentence is-

a)      By whom the tree was planted here?

b)      The tree was planted here by whom?

c)      The tree was planted here by whom?

d)      By whom had the tree been planted here?

Ans. No answer here. Correct answer will be “By whom was this tree planted here?” [37^th BCS]

The phrase ‘Achilles heel’ means-

a)      a strong point

b)      a weak point

c)      a permanent solution

d)       a serious idea

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

He worked with all sincerity. The underlined phrase is-

a)       A noun phrase

b)       An adjective phrase

c)      An infinitive phrase

d)      An adverbial phrase

Ans. d [37^th BCS]

A chart was appended to the report. Here ‘appended’ means-

a)      changed

b)       removed

c)      Joined

d)      shortened

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

The new offer of job was alluring. Here “alluring” means-

a)      unexpected

b)      tempting

c)      disappointing

d)      ordinary

Ans. b [37^th BCS]

The word ‘omnivorous’ means-

a)      eating all types of food

b)      eating only fruits

c)      eating only meat

d)      eating grass and plants only

Ans. a [37^th BCS]

Which do you think is the nearest in meaning to ’proviso’-

a)      sanction

b)      substitute

c)      stipulation

d)      directive

Ans. c [37^th BCS]

Select the word that is the most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized word: DELETERIOUS

a)      toxic

b)      spurious

c)      harmless

d)      lethal

Ans. c [37^th BCS]