TS JL English Model Paper

1. Okonkwo is a character from.....

A) A Room of ones own

B) Untouchable
C) Things Fall Apart
D) Edible Woman.

2. In the novel Untouchable the son of a leather-worker, and one of

Bakhas best friends is.....

A) Lakh
B) Chota
C) Sohini
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3. An Essay of Dramatic Poesie is written by....

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4. The prime theme of Tony MorrisonsBeloved is.........

A) feminism
B) dehumanisation of slaves
C) colonialism
D) all the above

5. The term metaphysical poets was coined by :

A) Andrew Marvell
B) John Donne
C) Samuel Johnson
D) Abraham Cowley

6. The reign of Queen Elizabeth was spread over the period :

A) 1554 1616
B) 1588 1603
C) 1558 1603
D) 1564 1616

7. Who defined poetry as the criticism of life ?

A) John Dryden
B) I.A. Richards
C) F.R. Leavis
D) Matthew Arnold

8. Charles Dickenss novel David Copperfield is.............in character.

A) Autobiographical
B) Picaresque
C) Pastoral
D) Historical

9. For Aristotle, tragedy is an imitation of action which is serious,

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10. An act of speaking ones thoughts aloud by a character in a play

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is known as...

A) Soliloquy
B) Dramatic monologue
C) Elegy
D) Lyric

11. The expression cold fire is an example of.....

A) Metaphor
B) Metonymy
C) Hyperbole
D) Oxymoron

12. The strophe, the anti-strophe and the epode constitute the
three parts of.....
A) The Lesbian Ode
B) The Horatian Ode
C) The Homeric Ode
D) The Pindaric Ode

13. Which one of the following pairs is correct ?

List-I List-II
I) Parable A) a word or object that stands for another
II) Persona. B) a narrator or a storyteller of a literary work created by
the author
III) Personification C) a brief narrative with a moral or religious
lesson
IV) Symbol. D) a device where ideas or objects are given human
characteristics
A) I-C, II-B, III-D, IV-A
B) I-B, II-A, III-C, IV-D
C) I-A, II-D, III-B, IV-C
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14. In which of the following essays does T.S. Eliot use the term
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C) Metaphysical Poets
D) Hamlet and His Problems

15. The Augustan Age of English literature is also known as the.....

A) Neoclassical period
B) Restoration
C) Jacobean period
D) Classical age

16. The first English comedy written in the imitation of Plantus

comedy in the renaissance was.....

A) Ralph Roister Doister

B) Taming of the Shrew
C) Damon and Pythias
D) The two Gentlemen of Verona

17. The title of Achebes famous novel Things Fall Apart is taken
from...

A) The Second Coming

B) The Waste Land
C) Prelude
D) Byzantium

18. The significant feature of Shakespeares The Tempest is the

playwrights use of :

A) Magic and supernaturalism

B) Satire
C) Gender-switching
D) Violence on stage
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19. A key text in post-structuralism is Derridas book is.....

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20. Hamlet is a.....

A) Tragedy
B) Comedy
C) Farce
D) Novel

21. Who coined the word Gynocriticism?

A) Shakespeare
B) Elaine Showalter
C) Virginia Wolf
D) Toril Moi

22. Which of the following has no contribution in making Doctor

Faustus a tragedy play?
A) Faustus dies in the end.
B) Faustus is a 16th century, Renaissance man.
C) Faustus extreme pride is the reason for his downfall.
D) Being very learned and knowledgeable, Faustus enjoys a high
status in the society.

23. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden

Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, ........... are
the opening lines in the literary work......

A) Hamlet
B) Tempest
C) Paradise Lost.
C) Doctor Faustus

24. How many times does Milton invoke a muse?

A) One
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25. Which is the non-fictional work of Virginia Woolf ?

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C) Modern Fiction
D) Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

26. The touchstone method meant comparing a work of art with

acknowledged great works of art and the concept was developed
by :

A) Keats
B) Mathew Arnold
C) S.T. Coleridge
D) T.S. Eliot

27. How does the speaker in the poem TINTERN ABBEY react to
nature?

A) The speaker hates nature. B) The speaker loves it as a child, but

grows fearful of it as an adult.
C) The speaker was in awe of it as a child, but finds deeper meaning
in it as an adult.
D) The speaker is in awe of nature.

28. TS Eliot borrowed the epigraph of The Waste Land from........

A) Virgil
B) Petronius
C) Seneca
D) Homer

29. Hamlets famous speech To be,or not to be; that is the question
occurs in?

A) Act II, Scene I

B) Act III, Scene III
C) Act IV, Scene III
D) Act III, Scene I
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30. Which of the following is Goldings first novel?

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31. The phrase Dearest friend in the poem dearest friend refers
to........

A) Nature
B) Dorothy
C) Coleridge
D) Wye

32. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford
Movement ?

A) Robert Browning
B) John Keble
C) E. B. Pusey
D) J. H. Newman

33. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. is a line from the poem.......
a) Immortality Ode
b) Tintern Abbey
c) The Second Coming
d) Leda and the Swan

34. Wordsworth calls himself a Worshipper of Nature in his

poem.....

a) Immortality Ode
b) Tintern Abbey
c) The Prelude
d) The Solitary Reaper

35. What type of poem is My last duchess?

A) Dramatic monologue
B) Ode
C) Sonnet
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36. The name of the first section in GoldingsLord of the Flies is......
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37. Where are the boys in Lord of the Flies from originally?

A) Ireland
B) France.
C) England
D) The United States

38. The central themes in Lord of the Flies is ....

A) Civility versus savagery.

B) Political corruption.
C) Beauty versus ugliness.
D) The betrayal of the mother

39. In the play Saint Joan, Which of the following served as the
basis for the fictional character of Bluebeard?
A) La Hire
B) Philip the Good
C) Gilles de Rais
D) The Earl of Navy Facial Hair.

40. In the GB Shaws play, Saint Joan, Joan of Arc dies as.......

A) She drowned
B) She was beheaded.
C) She was burned at the stake
D) She was drawn and quartered

41. The theme(s) of Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own

is/are........

A) creating a legacy of women writers.

B) financial and intellectual freedom for women.
C) significance of independence to women.
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42. In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Whitman claims that identity is

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D) ones family.

43. In the poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd the poet
commemorates the death of........

A) Edward King
B) Lincoln
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Human Values

44. In the beginning of the play Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman,

which city did Willy reach before turning back?

A) Johannesburg
B) Washington
C) New York
D)Yonkers
45. When Sethe first sees Beloved, she is.........

A) reading In near the steps of 124

B) sleeping near the steps of 124
C) walking home from the carnival with Denver
D) swimming in a stream

46. The first ever Poet Laureate is......

A) Ben Jonson
B) Alexander Pope
C) John Dryden
D) Wordsworth

47. The nationality of the notable writer Tony Morrison is.....

A) English
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48. The main character in Milk Raj Anands Untouchable is.......

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D) Ram Charan

49. Hardy added a subtitle to his novel Tess of the DUrbervilles as

his personal statement. What is it ?

A) A Maids Tragedy
B) A Plaything of Fate
C) A Pure Woman
D) A Tragedy of the Innocent

50. Who wrote the poem An Old Playhouse?

A) Chinua Achebe
B) Kamala Das
C) TS Eliot
D) Margaret Atwood
51. The main plot it Karnads Hayavadana is......

A) Kapila and Devadatta try to kill themselves at the Kali Temple

B) The story of Kapila and Devadatta and Padmini.
C) man with the face of a horse.
D) all the above.

52. Hayavadana was published in......

A) 1972
B) 1982
C) 1952
D) 1962

53. In Salman Rushdies Midnight Children, the name of the estate

Saleem is raised on is.....

A) Bombay Palace ప్స్

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54. The writer of Satanic Verses is.......

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C) TS Eliot
D) Margaret Atwood

55. In what country does Things Fall Apart take place?

A) Zimbabwe
B) Nigeria
C) West Indies
D) South Africa

56. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times are the
opening words in one of Dickens novels. Identify it.

A) Oliver Twist
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Hard Times
D) Great Expectations
57. One of the greatest Indian English writers Mulk Raj Anand died
in the year....

A) 2002
B) 2003
C) 2004
D) 2005

58. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotions, but an escape from

emotion; it is not an expression of personality, it is an escape from
personality. Whose opinion of poetry is this?

A) Mathew Arnold
B)Coleridge
C) TS Eliot
D) I A Richards

59. Who is the painter of the portrait of the Duchess in My test

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A) St.Catherine
B) St. Margaret
C) St.Raphel
D) St.Michael

61. How did Okonkwo die?

A) He was killed in a wrestling match

B) He was killed by Ikemefunas tribe for killing Ikemefuna.
C) He was killed by the White Government for raising a revolt
against it.
D) He hangs himself to escape trial.

62. . . . I have my doubts about this theory. I believe -------in fact I

may go as far as to say l firmly believe that its this sort of
sentimentality which has been the bane of our literature and
national life. It has kept us from accepting Reality and encouraged
escapism. Still, if you say so, I wont argue. Which character in the
play Hayavadana gives this pronouncement?

A)Padmini
B) Bhagavatha
C) Kapila
D) Hayavadana

63. Which writers pen name is Elia?

A) William Hazlitt
B)Fanny Burney
C) Charles Lamb
D) Walter Scott

64. George Eliot is the pen name of......

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romantic poet. Who is the poet?

A) Lord Byron
B) John Keats
C) P B Shelly
D) Robert Southey

66. The aim of an argumentative essay is:

A) to inform the data

B) to convince the reader that the position you have taken on a
subject is right.
C) to describe a person you know
D) to describe the features of an old man.

67. A teacher is designing activities in such a way that the students

learn on their own, take part in learning situations and share
knowledge with others. In this situation the teacher is playing the
role of

A) a facilitator
B) a producer
C) a motivator
D) a leader

68. Identify the wrong statement.

A) Silent reading enhances the learners comprehension.

B) reading helps learners to improve their speed of reading.
C) Silent reading helps learners to readwith concentration.
D) Silent reading helps learners to improve their pronunciation.

69. Identify the false statement.

A) Child should be involved in pleasurable activities and learning

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class and plan the activities accordingly.

70. Choose the word with the sound / ei /.

A) pew
B) pea
C) pay
D) pie

71. Identify the statement that is not a feature of good English

language textbooks.

A) They should contain all the lessons in the same genre of

literature.
B) should match the cognitive levels and socio-cultural background
of children.
C) Lessons in the textbooks should be based on a wide variety of
discourses like songs, stories, poems etc.
D) They should reflect local arts customs and local culture.

72. In the word water, /w/ is

A) a voiced, bilabial and nasal sound.

B) an unvoiced, bilabial and nasal sound.
C) a voiced, bilabial and semi-vowel sound.
D) an unvoiced, bilabial and plosive sound.

73. All the choices or options provided under each stem other than
the key are called........

A) designs
B) tools
C) questions
D) distractors
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A. Frequency, coverage, simplicity

B. Frequency, range, usefulness
C. Coverage, beauty, difficulty level
D. Learnability, availability, interest

76. An approach deals with..

A. How to teach?
B. How languages are learnt?
C. How a thing is done in the classroom?
D. Classroom procedures

77. Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language

teaching
A. learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations
B. learners first language plays an important role in learning
C. language teaching should have a focus in communicative
activities
D. language teaching should give importance to writing rather than
speech

78. Reading the illustrations and pictures to tell what the story is
about is called.....strategy of reading.

A) Organic
B) Scanning
C) Intensive
D) Skimming

79. When two independent judges assessed a paper, the scores

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A) Phonology
B) Morphology
C) Semantics
D) Syntax

81. The restricted use of Mother tongue is the principle of..

A) Grammar Translation Method

B) Direct Method
C) Reading Method
D) Bilingual Method

82. Which of the following is a Minimal Pair?

A) Sit, sweet
B) Make, week
C) Fight, sight
D) Same, famous

83. Reading skills can be developed best by

A) writing answers to questions on the text

B) focusing on the use of words from context in the text
C) doing vocabulary exercises
D) doing quizzes and playing word games

84. Interactive listening is

A) listening and responding

B) listening for mood and tone
C) listening for word stress and emphasis
D) listening for finding out speakers attitude

85. Which of the following is incorrect about Three Language ప్స్

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86. Reading is an active process which involves.

A) physical faculties
B) mental faculties
C) psychological faculties
D) all the above.

87. Language proficiency refers to.

A) FLUENCY
B) ACCURACY
C) APPROPRIATENESS
D) EFFICIENCY

Which of the above are true?

A) A, B and C
B) B, C and D
C) A, B and D
D) A, C and D

88. When children are introduced to English as a second language:

A) they should read first

B) they should begin letters of the alphabet
C) they should be exposed to language orally
D) they should begin writing first.

89. Language labs play an important role in..

A) Structural approach
B) Situational approach
C) Communicative approach
D) Audio-lingual approach
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91. ...is the form or variety of a spoken language peculiar to a

region, community, social group etc.

/font> A) dialect
B) style
C) jargon
D) slang

92. Which of the following is NOT true about First Language?

A) it is acquired naturally.
B) it requires formal instruction.
C) it is very rapid
D)it is an instinct.

93. ...is a language which is taught at school not as a language of

communication within a country.
A) First Languge
B) Second Languge
C) Mother Tongue
D) Third Language

94 Identify the incorrect statement about Mother Tongue.

A) It is an effective medium of expression

B) it is a source of original ideas
C) It brings about intellectual and emotional development
D) it obstructs learning a foreign language.

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