Lecturer English Solved Mcqs Past Papers

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Posted by staff on 6 February 2015, 4:30 am
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25) Ruskin belonged to:

(a) Romantic age (b) Modern age (c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age (e) None of these
26) Wordsworth lived from:
(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859 (c) 1770 – 1850
(d) 1770 – 1802 (e) None of these
27) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:
(a) Mill (b) Carlyle (c) Macaulay
(d) Coleridge (e) None of these
28) “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is from:
(a) Ode to autumn (b) To a Highland girl (c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (e) None of these
29) “Great Expectations” was written by:
(a) George Eliot (b) Thackeray (c) Hardy
(d) Dickens (e) None of these
30) “Lotus Eaters” is written by:
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Mathew Arnold
Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
(a) Shaw (b) Beckett (c) Pinter
(d) Eliot (e) None of these
2) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Hemingway
(d) Forster (e) None of these
3) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius (b) Claudius (c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia (e) None of these
4) “Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Hardy
5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these
6) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost (b) Browning (c) Yeats
7) “Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) Philip Larkin (c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these
8) “Major Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett (b) Pinter (c) Eliot
(d) Shaw (e) None of these
9) Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea (e) None of these
10) “Fire and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Frost
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(d) Auden (e) None of these

11) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period (b) Restoration (c) Romantic period
12) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow (e) None of these
13) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser (e) None of these
14) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton (b) Byron (c) Keats
(d) Blake (e) None of these
15) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Yeats (c) Eliot
16) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children (b) Byzentium (c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming (e) None of these
17) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation (b) Mending (c) Pasture
(d) Birches (e) None of these
18) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland (b) The Hollow men (c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock (e) None of these
19) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner (b) Hemmingway (c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these
20) “A passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forester (b) Conrad (c) Lawrence
(d) Hardy (e) None of these
21) “Ode to West Wind was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron
22) Keats was born in:
(a) 1770 (b) 1779 (c) 1795
(d) 1790 (e) None of these
23. Dream Children was written by:
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb (c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin (e) None of these
24) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:
(a) Oscar Wild (b) Dickens (c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot (e) None of these

31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:
(a) Poets (b) Dramatists (c) Essayists
(d) Novelists (e) None of these
32) “My Last Duchess” was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Tennyson
(d) Browning (e) None of these
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33) Emity Bronte is the writer of:

(a) Wuthering Heights (b) Emma (c) Under the greenwood Tree
(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these
34) “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry by:
(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley
35) “Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” is a line from:
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Ode to a nightingale (c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn (e) None of these
36) “Waverley” was written by:
(a) Scott (b) Hardy (c) Jane Austen
(37) “We are Seven” is written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelly (c) Byron
38) “Past and present” is written by:
(a) Mill (b) Lamb (c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle (e) None of these
39) “Modern Painters” is written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill
(d) Macaulay (e) None of these
40)
46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1951
47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925 (b) 1929 (c) 1930
48 ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden (e) None of these
49) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot (e) None of these
50) ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:
(a) Hemingway (b) Virginia Woolf (c) E.M. Forster
(d) D.H. Lawrence (e) None of these
“Byron is the” writer of:
(a) Don Jaun (b) Prometheus Unbound (c) Adonias
(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these
41 In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a
remark by:
(a) Nicoll (b) Goddord (c) Bradley
42 “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet (b) Laertes (c) Polonius
(d) Claudius (e) None of these
43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:
(a) David Cecil (b) Walter Allen (c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster (e) None of these
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44) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

(a) Browning (b) Tennyson (c) Yeats
(d) Frost (e) None of these
45) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Yeats
(d) Larkin (e) None of these
English Literature Mcqs Test

Posted by staff on 2 January 2015, 12:43 am
English Literature Mcqs Test
1. Which poem ends ‘I shall but love thee better after death’?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?

a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
4. In coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the Ancient Mariner’where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races
5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
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7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
8. Which Poet Laureatewrote about a church mouse?

a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
9. Which American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’ in 1996

a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
10. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?

a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
rhyme scheme
meter
alliteration
2. The repetition of similar ending sounds
alliteration
onomatopoiea
rhyme
3. Applying human qualities to non-human things
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
4. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration
5. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
6. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
7. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
alliteration
simile
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onomatopoeia
8. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
imagery
personification
metaphor
9. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
lyric
free verse
narrative
10. A poem with no meter or rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
11. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
English Mcqs Practice Test

Posted by staff on 13 October 2014, 2:33 am
The amount of people who have registered for this course is very high.
A. amount B. registered
C. for D. is
I thought that the books were their’s but I see now that I was mistaken.
A. were B. their’s
C. but I D. that I
You drunk too much liquor before you drove home last night.
A. drunk B. too much
C. before D. drove
The most exciting part of the novel was when Mathilda rejected Count Vladimir.
A. exciting B. part
C. was when D. rejected
You didn’t leave none for the other workers.

A. didn’t leave B. none
C. for the D. other workers
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You are liable to be selected to be the next chairperson of the department.

A. liable B. to be selected
C. chairperson D. department
With little work to occupy them the soldiers suffered from low moral.
A. little B. occupy them
C. suffered from D. low moral
For he to be re-elected, it is not essential that his policies work.

A. he B. re-elected
C. that D. work
The meeting went well, so I believe I have a reasonable good chance of success.
A. well B. so I
C. reasonable D. of success
You should not exceed to their unreasonable demands this time.

A. should B. exceed
C. unreasonable D. this time
There were at least three new innovations that the chairman suggested.
A. were B. new
C. innovations D. chairman
One should dress neatly, be prompt, and displaying interest in the job.
A. one B. dress
C. be prompt D. displaying
Illiteracy affects million of people worldwide.

A. Illiteracy B. affects
C. million D. worldwide
. The union insisted on an increase in their members’ starting pay.

A. the union B. insisted on
C. their D. members’
If the game went into extra innings, the relief pitcher would have won it.
A. went B. into
C. relief pitcher D. it
Hardly no one is able to compete in professional sports after the age of forty.
A. hardly no one B. to compete
C. professional sports D. age of forty
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A person may study diligently, but without adequate sleep you con’t succeed.
A. diligently B. but without
C. you D. succeed.
English Synonyms Mcqs Test

Posted by staff on 13 September 2014, 4:39 am
Ebb
recede
swell
propound
exculpate
Foment
provoke
extirpate
isolation
abrasion
Gag
silence
animate
avoke
superb
Havoc
devastation
knowledge
prosperity
fact
Idolize
adore
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execrate
loathe
fickle
Huddle
confuse
arrange
neutral
genuine
Illusion
hallucination
reality
fact
purge
Imbecile
idiotic
pure
shrewd
innate
Jocund
gay
barren
mourning
puzzle
Kernel
nucleus
broad
stranger
kind
Limpid
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clear
muddy
resembling
strict
Melancholy
sadness
dissolbe
joy
petty
Nullify
slanting
horizontal
bore
disregard
Purulent
corrupt
peaceable
healthy
prudish
Prosalc
dull
dashing
litigious
petulant
Quack
imposter
gull
amount
defy
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Stupendous
marvelous
ordinary
weak
abandon
Tacit
silent
formal
fear
celestial
Vindicate
justify
accustiom
perverse
pungent
Abhor
detest
crave
reconcile
rude
Abnegation
rejection
complete
indulgence
final
Bellicose
pugnacious
agile
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peaceful
stupefy
Capricious
uncertain
constant
brave
pause
Desuetude
obsoleteness
custom
argue
dissent
Ebullient
exuberant
deight
still
obscure
English Sentence Correction Mcqs Practice

Test
English Sentence Correction Mcqs Practice Test
Choose the correct sentence out of four

sentences given below.
Aslam called Ali fool
Aslam called Ali foolsh
Aslam called Ali as fool
Aslam called the Ali foolsh
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Jahngir keeps away from bad boys
Jahngir keeps himself away from bad boys
Jahngir keeps ownself away from bad boys
Jahngir keeps himself away from bad boys

I regard Fareed as my brother
I regards Fareed as my brother
I regard Fareed my brother
I does not regard Fareed as my brother

There is a little milk in the jug
There is little milk in the jug
There is a few milk in the jug
There is a small milk in the jug

I have read the few books which I bought last year
I has read the few books which I bought last year
I have read few books which I bought last year
I have read the few books those I bought last year

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The poor are hated everywhere

Poor are hated everywhere
The poors are hated everywhere
The poor is hated everywhere

She resembles her mohter
She resembles with her mohter
She resembles to her mohter
She resemble with her mohter

This book is the most interesting of three
This book is the more interesting of three
This book is most the interesting of three
This book is moer interesting the of three

Aslam succeeded in passing the examination
Aslam succeeded to passing the examination
Aslam succeeded in pass the examination
Aslam succeeded of passing the examination

He is as tall as I
He is so tall as I
He is as tall as all to us
He is as so tall as I am
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He is as tall as all of us
He is ss tall as all of us
He is as tall as all to us
He is as tall as us

He had hardly gone out when it began to rain
He had to hardly gone out when it began to rain
He had hardly to go out when it began to rain
He had hardly gone out when it is began to rain

He not only reads but also writes
He is not only reads but also writes
He not only read but also writes
He is only not reads but also writes


Work hard lest you should fail
Work hard might you should not fail
Work hard lest you could fail
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Work hard lest you should not fail

Everyone of these girls is learning her lession
Everyone of these girls are learning her lession
Everyone of these girls is learning their lession
Every of these girls is learning her lession

She replied in the negative
She replied in negative
She replied into negative
She replied into the negative

Either he or I am responsible for the loss
Either he nor I am responsible for the loss
Either he or I is responsible for the loss
Neither he or I am responsible for the loss

The more we get, the more we want
More we get, the more we want
The more we get, more we want
More we get, more we want
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She is the tallest girl in the class
She is the most tallest girl in the class
She is the taller girl in the class
She is the tallest girl in class

The earth revolves round the sun
Earth revolves round the sun
The earth revolve round the sun
The earth revolves round sun

He cried as though he had seen a snake
He cried as though if he had seen a snake
He cried as though he had saw a snake
He cried as though he had to seen a snake

When he comes I will entertain him
When he come I will entertain him
When he comes I entertain him
When he does comes I will entertain him

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He could not come due to illness

He could not come by illness
He could not come from illness
He could not come because of this illness

She is ill due to cold
She is ill from cold
She is ill from to cold
She is ill with cold
English Spell Correction Mcqs Practice Test

English Spell Correction Mcqs Practice Test
Pick the correct word:

Coordination
Corridination
Coordination
coardination

Conference
Confarence
Conferance
conferense

Association
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Assocation
Assosiation
Asociation

Petroleum
Patroleum
Petroollem
Petrouleum

Headquarter
Headqueter
Headkuarter
Headquarar

Executive
Exacutive
Execative
Axxecutive

Commerece
Comerace
Commerace
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Commerse

Vivacious
Vevacious
Vivaceous
Vivasious

Testimoney
Testtimoney
Testimoney
Testimaeny

Subsistence
Subsicetence
Subsistance
Subsistense

Ratification
Rattification
Ratiffication
Ratifecation
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Illegtimacy
Illegetimacy
Ellegitimacy
Illegitimasy

Obsolete
Obsoolete
Obsoulte
Obsolet

Straightforward
Straghforward
Straightforwar

Misapprehension
Misaprehension
Misapprehsion
Missaprehension

Heinous
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Heineous
Henous
Heneous

Habitual
Habitueal
Habbitual`Habittual

Grotesque
Grottesque
Grostescuee
Ghirotesque

Circumlocution
Circanlocution
Circumlooction
Sircumiotion

Facititous
Factiteous
Facqitius
Facittius
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Aristocracy
Aristokracy
Eristoucracy
Aricetocracy

Antibody
Anttibody
Antibodi
Antebody

Antiseptic
Anticeptic
Antiseaptic
Antisepttic

Colloquial
Colloquial
Colloquiail
Collqoquiall

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Inaudible
Enaudible
Anaudible
Inaddible
English Mcqs Paper for Public Service

Commission Exam
Posted by administrator on 24 May 2014, 5:41 am
English Mcqs Paper For Public Service

Commission Exam
English Mcqs Paper for Public Service Commission Exam
 301. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A God
(B) Satan
(C) Adam
(D) Eve
 302. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
(A)Susan
(B)Jane
(C)Gertrude
(D) Emily
 303. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A)Ralph and Jack
(B) Simon and Eric
(C) Ralph and Eric
(D) Simon and Jack
 304.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A) lawyer
(B) postman
(C)Judge
(D) School teacher
 305. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
(A) Buddha
(B) Tiresias
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(C) Smyrna Merchant

(D) Augustine
 306. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’
(A) visual
(B) kinetic
(C) erotic
(D) sensual
 307. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A) Vanity Fair
(B) Middlemarch
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Oliver Twist
 308. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
(A) Mars
(B) Hercules
(C) Zeus
(D) Bacchus
 309. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A)Hopkins
(B)Tennyson
(C)Browning
(D)Wordsworth
 310.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A) Browning
(B) Tennyson
(C) Swinburne
(D) Rossetti
 311.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night
 312. Hamlet’s 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
313. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
(A) Alonso
(B) Ariel
(C) Gonzalo
(D) Stephano
 314. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
(A) Or, What is you Will
(B) Or, What you Will
(C) Or, What you Like It
(D) Or, What you Think
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 315. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.

Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Hamlet
(C) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Twelfth Night
 316. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A) Earl of Northumberland
(B) Earl of March
(C) Earl of Douglas
(D) Earl of Worcester
 317. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
(A) ten books
(B) eleven books
(C) nine books
(D) eight books
318. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

(A) Darcy
(B) Wickham
(C) William Collins
(D) Charles Bingley
 319. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) P.B.Shelley
(C) S. T. Coleridge
(D) John Keats
 320. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A) Philip Pirrip
(B) Filip Pirip
(C)Philip Pip
(D) Philips Pirip
 321. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany
 323. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
(B) Lord of the Flies
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid
 324.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes
 325. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Charles Dickens
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(C) W. M. Thackeray
(D) Thomas Hardy
 326. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Johnson
 327. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A) The White Peacock
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love
 328. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
(A) Nature
(B) Dorothy
(C) Coleridge
(D) Wye
 329. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British
Romantics?
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Shelley
(D) Byron
 330. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
(A) Work Without Hope
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(D) Youth and Age
 331. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
 332. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Milton
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Thomas Chatterton
 333. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A) 1823
(B) 1826
(C) 1834
(D) 1833
 334. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
 (A) Keats
 (B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
(D) Wordsworth
 335.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,
London?
(A) Charles Lamb
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(B) William Wordsworth

(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) S. T. Coleridge
 336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
(D) T. S. Eliot
337. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?

(A) A. H. Hallam
(B) Edward King
(C) Wellington
(D) P. B. Shelley
 338. 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
 339. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s
traces..”?
(A) Chastelard
(B) A Song of Italy
(C) Atalanta in Calydon
(D) Songs before Sunrise
 340. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
(A) six lectures
(B) five lectures
(C) four lectures
(D) seven lectures
 341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(A) Johnson
(B) Cromwell
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Luther
 342. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist
especially Turner?
(A) The Stones of Venice
(B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modem Painters
343. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
(D) B. Disraeli
344. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
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(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti
345. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) Ottava Rima
(D) Rhyme Royal
 346. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey
(D) Milton
 347. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Ruskin
(C) Pater
(D) Matthew Arnold
 348. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him
falsely true.”
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche
 349. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
 350. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
(A) Pumblechook
(B) Herbert Pocket
(C) Bentley Drummle
(D) Jaggers
 351. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A) A teacher
(B) A clerk
(C) A thief
(D) A dentist
English Grammar Mcqs Practice Test for

Improving English Skills
Posted by administrator on 30 April 2014, 3:22 am
English Grammar Mcqs Practice Test For

Improving English Skills
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English Grammar Mcqs Practice Test for Improving English Skills
1. THE SCENERY OF SWAT ______ LOVELY

2.
3. CATTLE ______ EATING GRASS.
4.
5. POLITICS ______ A GAME.
6.
7. HE ENJOYED HIMSELF _______ THE CLASS.
8.
9. ARSLAN & ASLAM _____ THIEVES.
10.
11. AHMED KEEP AWAY _____ SMOKING.
12.
13. EVERY BOY IS DOING ______ DUTY.
14.
15. MR ASLAM GROWS A VARIETY _____ FRUITS.
16.
17. ONE OF THE GIRLS _____ WISE.
18.
19. WE ARE THE CANDIDATES _____ THIS POST.
20.
21. I AM CAPABLE ______ SOLVING THIS PROBLEM.
22.
23. SAIRA WAS CERTAIN _____ HER SUCCESS.
24.
25. AHMED IS NOT CONSISTENT _____ WHAT HE SAYS.
26.
27. DO HE BELIEVE _____ GOD.
28.
29. MY BOOK IS COMPOSED _____ LETTERS.
30.
31. RESEARCH OF INSPECTOR IS BASED _____ FACTS.
32.
33. THE BEGGAR WAS BEGGING _____ BREAD.
34.
35. SHE IS ANXIOUS _____ HER SON’S HEALTH.
36.
37. ASLAM ASSURE ME _____ HIS COOPERATION.
38.
39. SHE TURNED _____ THE LIGHT.
40.
41. PLEASE WRITE _____ HIS PHONE NUMBER.
42.
43. HER MOTHER PASSED _____ HER SKILLS TO HER.
44.
45. GOVERNMENT WANTS TO ROOT _____ CORRUPTION.
46.
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47. SAM RAN OFF _____ THE MONEY.

48.
49. SHUT ______ THE COMPUTER PROPERLY.
50.
51. IT IS BELOW YOUR DIGNITY _____ DISOBEY YOUR TEACHER.
52.
53. HIS BETTER HALF ______ A GOOD HOUSE KEEPER.
54.
55. THEY _____ BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
56.
57. WE WILL DEFEND OUR COUNTRY _____ ANY COST.
58.
59. MY SON IS THE APPLE _____ MY EYES.
60. PMS Exam English Subject

Important Idioms Mcqs
61. Posted by administrator on 29 April 2014, 6:38 am
62. PMS Exam English Subject

Important Idioms Mcqs
63. PMS Exam English Subject Important Idioms Mcqs
64. A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush:
65. Having something that is certain is much better than taking a risk for more, because
66. chances are you might lose everything.
67. A Blessing In Disguise:
68. Something good that isn’t recognized at first.
69. A Chip On Your Shoulder:
70. Being upset for something that happened in the past.
71. A Dime A Dozen:
72. Anything that is common and easy to get.
73. A Doubting Thomas:
74. A skeptic who needs physical or personal evidence in order to believe something.
75. A Drop in the Bucket:
76. A very small part of something big or whole.
77. A Fool And His Money Are Easily Parted:
78. It’s easy for a foolish person to lose his/her money.
79. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand:
80. Everyone involved must unify and function together or it will not work out.
81. A Leopard Can’t Change His Spots:
82. You cannot change who you are.
83. A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned:
84. By not spending money, you are saving money (little by little).
85. A Picture Paints a Thousand Words:
86. A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.
87. A Piece of Cake:
88. A task that can be accomplished very easily.
89. A Slap on the Wrist:
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90. A very mild punishment.

91. A Taste Of Your Own Medicine:
92. When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.
93. A Toss-Up:
94. A result that is still unclear and can go either way.
95.
96. Actions Speak Louder Than Words:
97. It’s better to actually do something than just talk about it.
98. Add Fuel To The Fire:
99. Whenever something is done to make a bad situation even worse than it is.
100. Against The Clock:
101. Rushed and short on time.
102. All Bark And No Bite:
103. When someone is threatening and/or aggressive but not willing to engage in a fight.
104. All Greek to me:
105. Meaningless and incomprehensible like someone who cannot read, speak, or
106. understand any of the Greek language would be.
107. All In The Same Boat:
108. When everyone is facing the same challenges.
109. An Arm And A Leg:
110. Very expensive. A large amount of money.
111. An Axe To Grind:
112. To have a dispute with someone.
113. Apple of My Eye:
114. Someone who is cherished above all others.
115. As High As A Kite:
116. Anything that is high up in the sky.
117. At The Drop Of A Hat:
118. Willing to do something immediately.
119. B
120. Back Seat Driver:
121. People who criticize from the sidelines, much like someone giving unwanted advice
122. from the back seat of a vehicle to the driver.
123. Back To Square One:
124. Having to start all over again.
125. Back To The Drawing Board:
126. When an attempt fails and it’s time to start all over.
127. Baker’s Dozen:
128. Barking Up The Wrong Tree:
129. A mistake made in something you are trying to achieve.
130. Beat A Dead Horse:
131. To force an issue that has already ended.
132. Beating Around The Bush:
133. Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.
134. Bend Over Backwards:
135. Do whatever it takes to help. Willing to do anything.
136. Between A Rock And A Hard Place:
137. Stuck between two very bad options.
138. Bite Off More Than You Can Chew:
139. To take on a task that is way to big.
140. Bite Your Tongue:
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141. To avoid talking.

142. Blood Is Thicker Than Water:
143. The family bond is closer than anything else.
144. Blue Moon:
145. A rare event or occurance.
146. Break A Leg:
147. A superstitious way to say ‘good luck’ without saying ‘good luck’, but rather the
148. opposite.
149. Buy A Lemon:
150. To purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems or stops running after you drive
151. it away.
152. Can’t Cut The Mustard :
153. Someone who isn’t adequate enough to compete or participate.
154. Cast Iron Stomach:
155. Someone who has no problems, complications or ill effects with eating anything or
156. drinking anything.
157. Charley Horse:
158. Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp.
159. Chew someone out:
160. Verbally scold someone.
161. Chip on his Shoulder:
162. Angry today about something that occured in the past.
163. Chow Down:
164. To eat.
165. Close but no Cigar:
166. To be very near and almost accomplish a goal, but fall short.
167. Cock and Bull Story:
168. An unbelievable tale.
169. Come Hell Or High Water:
170. Any difficult situation or obstacle.
171. Crack Someone Up:
172. To make someone laugh.
173. Cross Your Fingers:
174. To hope that something happens the way you want it to.
175. Cry Over Spilt Milk:
176. When you complain about a loss from the past.
177. Cry Wolf:
178. Intentionally raise a false alarm.
179. Cup Of Joe:
180. A cup of coffee.
181. Curiosity Killed The Cat:
182. Being Inquisitive can lead you into a dangerous situation.
183. Cut to the Chase:
184. Leave out all the unnecessary details and just get to the point.
185. English Synonyms for Public Service

Commission Exams
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187. English Synonyms For Public Service

Commission Exams
188. English Synonyms for Public Service Commission Exams
Words Synonyms
Gigantic Huge, Massive

Glow Shine, Glisten
Grief Sorrow, Sadness
Grievous Painful, Hurtful
Hamper Impede, Hinder
Happiness Joy, Delight, Mirth
Hate Despise, Detest, Scorn
Healthy Hearty, Wholesome, Strong
Heaven Paradise
Help Aid, Assistance
Hide Conceal
High Elevated, Lofty, Exalted
Honour Prestige
Humility Modesty, Humbleness
Illegal Unlawful
Imagine Fancy, Think
Imperial Kingly, Royal
Industrious Hardworking, Diligent
Inherit Inborn, Natural
Injure Harm, Wound
Intend Propose, Mean
Journey Travel, Tour, Trip
Jubilant Exultant, Joyful
Just Right, Proper
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Knave Villain
Knowledge Information, Awareness
Lenient Mild, Liberal
Lethal Deadly, Fatal
Lethargy Sluggishness, Laziness
Liberty Freedom, Independence
Light Ignite, Inflame
Likeness Resemblance, Similarity
Loyal Devoted, Faithful
Lucky Fortunate
Manifest Clear, Evident
Words Synonyms
Abnormal Unusual, Irregular

Abolish Eradicate, Remove
Abound Flourish, Overflow
Academical Educational, Scholarly
Accede Consent, Agree
Accumulate Collect, Gather
Accurate Correct, Exact
Acquaintance Awareness, Familiarity
Acquire Obtain, Procure
Active Alert, Lively, Energetic
Adequate Sufficient, Suitable
Admire Appreciate, Praise
Admit Confess
Aid Help, Assistance
Aim Goal, Purpose, Objective
Alien Foreigner, Stranger
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Allow Permit, Admit

Ancient Old
Anger Fury Wrath
Anguish Agony, Pain
Arrogant Haughty, Proud
Attack Aggression, Assault
Authentic Genuine, Acceptable
Battle Fight, Encounter, Conflict
Begin Start, Commence
Blame Accuse, Censure
Bleak Dismal, Hopeless
Bliss Joy, Pleasure
Blunder Big Mistake, Error
Bold Fearless, Courageous
Brave Gallant, Courageous
Brief Concise
Brutal Sawage, Cruel
Build Construct
Calculation Count
Catch Grab, Grasp
Change Shift, Exchange, Alter
Charming Attractive, Bewitching
Clever Skillful, Ingenious
Coarse Rough
Collision Clash, Conflict, Impact
Compromise Settlement, Adjustment
Conscious Aware, Assured, Certain
Convey Communicate, Shift, Transport
Costly Precious, Expensive
English Mcqs Paper for Pcs Exam

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English Mcqs Paper For Pcs Exam

English Mcqs Paper for Pcs Exam
1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?

Assonance
2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?
Keats
3)Withering heights written by ?
Hardy
4)The poem “Byzantium” is written about ?
Imaginary city
5)Carl sad burg born at ?
Illinois
6)T.S Eliot was ?
Irish poet
7)Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?
Ezra Pound
8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?
Ben Johnson
9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?
England
10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?
Two
11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ?
I chose “diphthongs” but later I came to know right option was other,don’t remember right now.
12)Semantics meaning ?
Study of meanings
13)Word language consists of two_____ words
Latin
14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels
Golding
15)”Everyman in his humor” written by ?
Ben johnson
16) Caretaker written by ?
Pinter
17)Waiting for Godot’s original language ?
French
18) Stream of consciousness ?
Virginia Woolf
19) “Sejanus” is satirical tragedy by ?
Ben johnson
20)Unified sensibility ?
Donne
21)Winding Stair is poem by ?
W.B.Yeats
22) Synaethesia
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Unification of senses
23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?
H.G Wells
24)The egoist written by ?
George Meredith
25) Hardy’s own classification of novels?
Three
26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ?
I wrote 20 but it was 40
27)Age of George Eliot ?
Victorian
28) Chaucer was ?
sarcastic poet
29)Renaissance period ?
1550-1660
30)King Lear written in ?
1603 to 1606
31)17th century’s historical event ?
Famine or Civil war
32)Paradise lost was written in ?
1667
33)1660 – 1790 is rise of ?
34)Literature became secular towards end of ?
35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?
Reconciliation play
36)Type of literature,art or music is called ?
Genre
37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?
None (Because it led to Hellenism, romantism)
38)Prospero was protagonist of ?
Pata nae
39)Age of Pope is called?
Augusten
40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?
T.S Eliot
41) Treatise on liberty written by ?
42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?
Rhetoric
43) Adonis written for ?
Keats
44)Songs of innocence and experience belong to ?
William Blake
45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice
First Impressions
46)Shelley’s first work?
Queen Mab
47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?
48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?
Mountain Interval
49)Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak.Who said this ?
50)Swift’s irony fused into ?
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humor
51)Nothing is beneath science,nor above science.who said ?
Russell
52)Bird in “Ancient mariner” ?
Albatross
53) Milton got blind in age of ?
43
54)Hemingway’s nick in later age ?
Papa
55)Donne’s faith ?
Protestant
56)John Keats gave up career of ____ to become a poet
farming or medicine
57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ?
pata nae
58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?
14th
59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?
Medievalism
60)Marlow’s primitive tragedy ?
Dr.Faustus
61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?
62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?
Mediterranean
63) Shakespeare’s heroines have ?
Feminine traits
64)Who emerged as philosopher in “Merchant of Venice” ?
65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ?
66)Sir Gwain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age
67)Process of introducing new words ?
68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?
69)Norman conquest in ?
70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?
Lecturer English MCQs Past Paper

Lecturer English MCQs Past Paper
1) Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
(a) Shaw (b) Beckett (c) Pinter
2) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Hemingway
3) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius (b) Claudius (c) Hamlet
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(d) Ophelia (e) None of these

4) “Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Hardy
5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these
6) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost (b) Browning (c) Yeats
7) “Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) Philip Larkin (c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these
8) “Major Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett (b) Pinter (c) Eliot
(d) Shaw (e) None of these
9) Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea (e) None of these
10) “Fire and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Frost
11) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period (b) Restoration (c) Romantic period
12) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow (e) None of these
13) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser (e) None of these
14) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton (b) Byron (c) Keats
15) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Yeats (c) Eliot
16) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children (b) Byzentium (c) Sailing to Byzentium
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(d) The Second coming (e) None of these

17) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation (b) Mending (c) Pasture
(d) Birches (e) None of these
18) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland (b) The Hollow men (c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock (e) None of these
19) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner (b) Hemmingway (c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these
20) “A passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forester (b) Conrad (c) Lawrence
21) “Ode to West Wind was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron
22) Keats was born in:
(a) 1770 (b) 1779 (c) 1795
23. Dream Children was written by:
(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb (c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin (e) None of these
24) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:
(a) Oscar Wild (b) Dickens (c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot (e) None of these
25) Ruskin belonged to:
(a) Romantic age (b) Modern age (c) Victorian age
26) Wordsworth lived from:
(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859 (c) 1770 – 1850
(d) 1770 – 1802 (e) None of these
27) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:
(a) Mill (b) Carlyle (c) Macaulay
28) “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is from:
(a) Ode to autumn (b) To a Highland girl (c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (e) None of these
29) “Great Expectations” was written by:
(a) George Eliot (b) Thackeray (c) Hardy
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30) “Lotus Eaters” is written by:
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Mathew Arnold
31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:
(a) Poets (b) Dramatists (c) Essayists
(d) Novelists (e) None of these
32) “My Last Duchess” was written by:
(a) Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Tennyson
(d) Browning (e) None of these
33) Emity Bronte is the writer of:
(a) Wuthering Heights (b) Emma (c) Under the greenwood Tree
(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these
34) “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry by:
(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley
35) “Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” is a line from:
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Ode to a nightingale (c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn (e) None of these
36) “Waverley” was written by:
(a) Scott (b) Hardy (c) Jane Austen
(37) “We are Seven” is written by:
(a) Keats (b) Shelly (c) Byron
38) “Past and present” is written by:
(a) Mill (b) Lamb (c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle (e) None of these
39) “Modern Painters” is written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill
(d) Macaulay (e) None of these
40) “Byron is the” writer of:
(a) Don Jaun (b) Prometheus Unbound (c) Adonias
(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these
41 In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a
remark by:
(a) Nicoll (b) Goddord (c) Bradley
42 “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
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Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:

(a) Hamlet (b) Laertes (c) Polonius
(d) Claudius (e) None of these
43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:
(a) David Cecil (b) Walter Allen (c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster (e) None of these
44) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:
(a) Browning (b) Tennyson (c) Yeats
(d) Frost (e) None of these
45) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Yeats
(d) Larkin (e) None of these
46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1951
47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925 (b) 1929 (c) 1930
48 ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden (e) None of these
49) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot (e) None of these


Abandon
vacate
foil
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lose
gain
Abdicate
give ukp
imperious
rude
dissent
Blasphemy
impiety
reverence
divide
fuse
Cajole
lure
warm
suggest
doubtful
Dubious
unreliable
recede
prokpound
exculpate
Ebb
recede
swell
propound
exculpate
Foment
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provoke
extirpate
isolation
abrasion
Gag
silence
animate
avoke
superb
Havoc
devastation
knowledge
prosperity
fact
Idolize
adore
execrate
loathe
fickle
Huddle
confuse
arrange
neutral
genuine
Illusion
hallucination
reality
fact
purge
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Imbecile
idiotic
pure
shrewd
innate
Jocund
gay
barren
mourning
puzzle
Kernel
nucleus
broad
stranger
kind
Limpid
clear
muddy
resembling
strict
Melancholy
sadness
dissolbe
joy
petty
Nullify
slanting
horizontal
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bore
disregard
Purulent
corrupt
peaceable
healthy
prudish
Prosalc
dull
dashing
litigious
petulant
Quack
imposter
gull
amount
defy
Stupendous
marvelous
ordinary
weak
abandon
Tacit
silent
formal
fear
celestial
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Vindicate
justify
accustiom
perverse
pungent
Abhor
detest
crave
reconcile
rude
Abnegation
rejection
complete
indulgence
final
Bellicose
pugnacious
agile
peaceful
stupefy
Capricious
uncertain
constant
brave
pause
Desuetude
obsoleteness
custom
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argue
dissent
Ebullient
exuberant
deight
still
obscure
Fulminate
clamour
barren
misfire
prodigal
Grugal
thrifty
prolific
clamour
efficacious
Garb
dress
rage
trivial
distort
Hypocrite
pretender
tumult
noise
genuine
Impeccable
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perfect
trivial
penniless
spare
Impair
Injure
better
saucy
plite
Juvenile
youthful
akin
mature
related
Kindle
light
burn
extingusih
dark
Lucid
clear
broad
lovely
fidelity
Mendacity
deception
beggary
candour
promise
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English Preposition Mcqs For Lecturer Test

English Preposition Mcqs for Lecturer Test
Akhtar was broken________from his old

friends.
away
with
of
in
I was amazed ________ his misbehavior

at
in
for
with
Saleem amused us ______ jokes.

with
in
for
of
Arifa has been fully cured _______ the

chronic pain in her legs
of
in
from
with
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I was astonished _____ his failure.

at
in
on
for
The rains have set _______.

in
of
on
out
He is capable ______ doing anything

of
in
about
for
He is fully contented _____ his life.

with
of
ro
in
Aslam is not known ______ my brother.

to
for
with
about
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You should not jest ______ his poverty

at
in
for
with
There was no heir ______ the throne.

to
in
on
over
He got ______ his illness in two weeks

over
on
by
with
The shopkeeper has charged me ten rupees

_______ this book
for
on
in
of
We can compare life _______ a drama

to
in
for
from
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He is not living _______ his means.

within
for
in
from
I am aware _______ my short-comings

of
at
over
with
He is lax _______ morals

in
on
with
of
He part _______ all his possessions happily

with
on
for
from
Piety makes _______ happiness

for
on
with
from
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You should refrain _______ hurting her

feelings
from
to
of
over
I had the privilege _______ knowing him

inimately
of
in
for
with
She provoked him _______ anger

to
for
on
after
This course of action will be prejudicial

_______ the interests of our country
in
of
after
with
Amer has been blessed _______ a soon

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of
with
for
upon
He is always boasting _______ his wealth

of
for
with
upon
Our neighbor died _______ over work

from
to
in
for
Alia parted _______ her parents in tears

from
of
with
by
I took strong objection _______ the

prokkposal
to
with
against
on
She was mistaken _______ a switch

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for
with
over
from
I am badly in need _______ money

of
for
on
with
Aslim was married _______ Amina

to
by
with
for
He has disposed _______ his house

of
in
at
from
He was never entitled _______ this high post

to
of
for
over
Razia is fit _______ joining her duty

for
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to
in
from
We have full faith _______ our leaders

in
of
from
with
He has servants to attend _______ him

upon
in
over
to
He is averse _______ hard work

to
on
upon
with
He has recently taken _______ drinking

to
from
on
for
I prefer death _______ dishonor

to
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than
from
in
His father prevailed _______ him to join the

government service
upon
on
in
from
He was excluded _______ the team

from
on
by
for
There is an exception _______ every rule

to
in
for
with
He is very grateful _______ me

to
for
from
with
He has copied this letter word _______ word
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from
with
in
by
The water supply at last gave _______

out
of
off
about
English MCQs for Public Service Commission Lecturers’ Test
English MCQs for Public Service Commission Lecturers’ Test

“Soldier’s pay” is the work of
2. “War and Peace” is written by
3. Metaphysical Poets belong to
4. “Adventures of the Wonder Land” is the work of
5. Off-spring of a horse is called
6. Sound of elephants is called
7. What is the basic difference between Simile and Metaphor?
8. Analogy. Hacked:Original
9. Antonym of Brawl is
10. Synonym of the word Caesarian is
11.Originally English Language is taken from
12. Synonym of the word “Promiscuous” is
13.originator of historical novel?
14.Synonymn of abate
15. emendation
16. syn:grandeur
17…………………..change in circumstances.
18.who is called mother of poor?
19. interested about
20. Absalum and abysilence
21.hottest planet
22.distance b/w sun and earth
23.shape of planets and satellites of sun
24.Commander in of infidels in battle badr
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25.second kalima
26.last sonnet of keats
27.play on-words
28.natural beauty and imagination
29.English is family of …….language.
30.The position of earth from pnumbra
31.Crime and Punishment is wrtten by
32. Cogito ergo sum
33.what was the name of the first fort that Brits built in India?
34.what’s the date of Mairaj?
35.when was the capital changed from Calcutta to Delhi?
36.when is the prayer of Kasuf offered?
37. whats the old word for storehouse?
38. whats the word for the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named?
39. he left his father’s roof is a____?
40. headlights of the car____?
41. what was keats last poem?
42.whose title was Mother of the poor?
43.Hindu Muslims came in reflectionEnglish MCQs for Public Service Commission Lecturers’ Test
English MCQs Lecturers’ Test
1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?
Assonance
2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?
Keats
3)Wuthering heights written by ?
Emily Brontë
4)The poem “Byzantium” is written about ?
Imaginary city
5)Carl sadburg born at ?
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Illinois
6)T.S Eliot was ?
American by birth; British from 1927
7)Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?
Ezra Pound
8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?
Ben johnson
9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?
England
10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?
Two
11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ?
consonant
12)Semantics meaning ?
“Study of meanings”
13)Word language consists of two_____ words
Latin
14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels
Golding
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15)”Everyman in his humour” written by ?
Ben johnson
16) Caretaker written by ?
Pinter
17)Waiting for Godot’s originol language ?
French
18) Stream of consciousness ?
Virginia woolf
19) “Sejanus” is satirical tragedy by ?
Ben johnson
20)Unified sensibility ?
Donne
21)Winding Stair is poem by ?
W.B.Yeats
22) Synaethesia
Unification of senses
23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?
H.G Wells
24)The egoist written by ?
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George Meredith
25) Hardy’s own classification of novels?
Three
26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ?
40
27)Age of George Eliot ?
Victorian
28) Chaucer was ?
sarcastic poet
29)Renaissance period ?
1550-1660
30)King Lear written in ?
1603 to 1606
31)17th century’s historical event ?
Civil war
32)Paradise lost was written in ?
1667
33)1660 – 1790 is rise of ?
I chose “Drama” but it’s not confirm.Kindly confirm it
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34)Literature became secular towards end of ?
18th century
35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?
Reconciliation play
36)Type of literature,art or music is called ?
Genre
37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?
None (Because it led to hellenism,romantism)
38)Prospero was protagonist of ?
The Tempest
39)Age of Pope is called?
Augusten
40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?
T.S Eliot
41) Treatise on liberty written by ?
Martin Luther
42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?
Rhetoric
43) Adonis written for ?
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Keats
44)Songs of innocence and experience belong to ?
William Blake
45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice
First Impressions
46)Shelley’s first work?
Queen Mab
47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?
I chose Thackeray.Kindly confirm it.
48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?
Mountain Interval
49)Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak.Who said this ?
50)Swift’s irony fused into ?
humour
51)Nothing is beneath science,nor above science.who said ?
I chose Russell
52)Bird in “Ancient mariner” ?
Albatross
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53) Milton got blind in age of ?
43
54)Hemingway’s nick in later age ?
Papa
55)Donne’s faith ?
Protestant
56)John Keats gave up career of ____ to become a poet
medicine
57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ?
ST Colerdige
58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?
14th
59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?
Medievalism
60)Marlow’s primitive tragedy ?
Tamberlaine
61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?
Ben Jonson
62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?
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Mediterranean
63) Shakespeare’s heroines have ?
Feminine traits
64)Who emerged as philosopher in “Merchant of Venice” ?
Portia
65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ?
66)Sir Gwain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age
67)Process of introducing new words ?
Coinage
68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?
Jude of the Obscure
69)Norman conquest in ?
1066
70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?

1. Robert Stuart 2. Robert…. 3. James Stuart
71)University wits estimated literary period is little more than …….. years.
10 years, 8 years, 7 years, 6 years
72)Brazen
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“Shy”
73)Capricious
“Recollect”
74)Extrinsic
===========
75)fluster
==================
76) Obdurate
submissive
Synonyms
77)Truncate
shorten
78)Impetuous
“irrational”
79)nincompoop
Foolish
80)Elocution
————–
81)Ulysses poem was written by?
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Tennyson
82)Far fetched metaphor ?
Conceit
83)Because I couldnot stop for death written by ?
Emily Dickinson
84)Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were?
Husband and wife
85. People do not exist in _______but in functioning______
Isolation,communities
86. The military censors______passages in letters that they thought might_____ security.
=========
87. Only a ____person could be ______to the suffering of people
88. Volcanic rock very often looks shiny because it had been _____
Igneous
89. Fire station had been gone on______ at once

To
90) antonym of callous is
English Word Meaning For PCS,PMS & CSS Exams
Abbreviation A shortened form of a word or phrase

Abolish Do away with wholly
Accelerate To increase the speed; to hasten the progress of
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Accountable Liable to be called to account

Actuary One who calculates premium
Adolescence The period between childhood and adulthood
Aggravate To increase the gravity of an offence or the intensity of a disease
Aggressor A person who attacks first
Agnostic One who doubts the existence of god
Alienate To turn friends in enemies
Altruist A person who loves every body
Amateur One who does something not professionally but for pleasure
Ambidextrous Of a person who can use both hands equally well
Ambiguous A sentence whose meaning is unclear
Ambivalent Having opposing feelings
Amnesty General pardon
Amphibian A land animal that breeds in water
Anarchist One who is out to subvert a government
Anarchy Absence of government
Anonymous A book written by an unknown author
Answerable A person liable to be called to account for his action
Antedate To date before the true time
Anthropology A study of man
Antidote A medicine to counteract the effect of another medicine
Antiseptic A medicine that prevents decomposing
Antonym A word opposite in meaning to another
Appreciate To rise in value
Arbitrator A person appointed by parties to settle the disputes between them
Archaeology A study of ancient things
Aristocracy A Government by the Nobles
Arsenal A place where weapons and ammunitions are stored
Atheist One who does not believe in the existence of God
Audience An assembly of hearers at a lecture or concert
Auditor One who makes an official examination of accounts
Autobiography A life history written by oneself
Autocracy A Government by one
Avaricious Of a person extremely desirous of money
Behead Cut off the head
Bibliophile A great lover of books
Bigamy Practice of having two wives or husbands
Bigot One who has narrow and prejudiced religious views
Bilingual A person who speaks two languages
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Biography A life history written by somebody else

Biology The science which treats with life
Botany The branch of biology dealing with plant life
Brittle Hard but liable to be easily broken
Bureaucracy A Government by the officials
Callous A man devoid of kind feeling and sympathy
Cannibal Of a man or animal that feeds on its own species
Carnivorous A flesh eating animal
Catalogue A list of books
Celibacy Abstinence from sex
Celibate One who is unmarried
Centenarian A person who is above hundred years
Centenary Celebration of a hundredth year, once –a-century
Colleague A co-worker or a fellow-worker in the same institution
Congenital Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth
Contemporaries People living at the same time
Contemporary Belonging to the same period of time
Convalescent One who is recovering from illness
Cosmology Science of origin of universe
Cosmopolitan One who can make himself at home in all countries
Cosmopolite A citizen of the world
Credulous A person who readily believes whatever is told to him/her.
Cynic One who questions everything
Delegate To give one
Democracy Government of the people, for the people, by the people
Depreciate To go down in value
Deteriorate To go from bad to worse
Disenfranchisement To take away some one
Draw A game in which neither party wins
Drawn/ Tie A game or batter in which neither party wins
Word Meaning
Eccentric One who has strange habits
Ecology Study of environment
Edible A thing that is fit to be eaten
Effeminate Of a man showing feminine attributes
Egotist A person who always thinks of himself ; somebody who is selfish or self-centered
Eligible One who is qualifies for election
Elucidate To explain something mysterious or difficult
Embezzlement Misappropriation of money
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Emphasize To lay special stress on

Epicure Somebody who has refined taste for food; somebody who loves sensual pleasure and luxury
Epidemic A contagious disease which spreads over a huge area
Epitaph Inscription on a tombstone
Equestrian A person who rides on horse-back
Equilibrium A state of perfect balance
Eradicate Destroy or get rid of something completely; root out an evil or bad practice
Ethnology A study of races
Etiquette Established rules of conduct; rules of acceptable behavior
Etymology A study of derivation of words
Exonerate Free somebody from blame or guilt
Extempore A speech delivered without any previous preparation
Facsimile An exact copy
Fanatic A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion
Fastidious A person difficult to please
Fatal Anything that leads to death
Fatalist A person who believes in fate
Feminist One who thinks only of welfare of women
Foregone Something that has been determined beforehand
Fratricide The murder or murderer of one
Germicide A medicine that kills germs
Glutton One who eats too much
Gratis Without payment
Gregarious Of animals living in flocks
Gullible One who is easily deceived
Herbivorous A grass eating animal
Homicide Murder of a human being
Honorary A position for which no salary is paid
Hostility Intense aggression or anger state of antagonism
Humanitarian One who feels sympathetic towards human beings
Hung Assembly or parliament in which no party has got clear majority
Hypocrite One who pretends to be what he is not
Idiosyncrasy A person’s peculiar habit
Idolatry Worship of idols
Illegal That which is against law
Illegible A handwriting that cannot be read
Illicit That is prohibited by law
Illiterate A person who cannot read or write
Immigrant One who lives in a foreign country
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Imperceptible That which cannot be noticed

Impervious A person who remains unmoved and unaffected by other people’s opinions, suggestions
Impracticable That which cannot be practiced
Impregnable Incapable of being seized by attack
Improbable That which is not likely to happen
Inanimate Without life
Inaudible A sound that cannot be heard
Incomprehensible A statement which cannot be understood
Incorrigible One who cannot be corrected
Incredible That which cannot be believed
Incurable That which cannot be cured
Indefatigable One incapable of being tired
Indefensible That which cannot be defended
Indescribable That which cannot be described
Indispensable Something that is essential and cannot be dispensed with
Inevitable That which cannot be avoided
Inexplicable That which cannot be explained
Infallible A remedy which never fails
Infanticide The act of killing an infant
Inflammable Something that is quickly and easily set on fire and burned
Inimitable A method that cannot be imitated
Insatiable That which cannot be satisfied
Insoluble Incapable of being dissolved in a liquid
Insolvent One who is unable to pay his debts
Intestate One who dies without a Will
Introspection The action of looking back on past time
Invincible That which cannot be conquered
Invisible A thing that cannot be seen with human eyes
Invulnerable That which cannot be hurt
Irrelevant Not applicable
Irreparable A loss of damage that cannot be compensated
Irrevocable That cannot be altered or withdrawn
Irritable A man who is easily irritated
Jurisdiction The area over which an official has control
Word Meaning
Legal That which is lawful
Maiden The first speech made by a person
Manuscript Handwritten book
Matinee A cinema show which is held in the afternoon
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Matricide Killing of one’s own mother; killer of one’s own mother

Medieval Belonging to the Middle Ages
Mercenary One who can do anything for money
Misanthrope One who hates mankind
Misanthropist Hater of mankind
Misogamist A person who does not believe in the institution of marriage
Misogynist A person who hates women
Mobocracy Rule by the mob
Monarchy A Government by a king or queen
Monogamy Practice of having one wife or husband
Namesake Somebody or something with the same name as somebody or something else
Neophyte One who is a newcomer
Notorious A person with an evil reputation
Novice One who is new to a trade or profession
Numismatics Science of coins or medals
Obsolete A thing no longer in use
Oligarchy A Government by the few
Omnipotent All-powerful; possessing complete power and authority
Omnipresent One who is present everywhere
Omniscient A person who knows everything
Omnivorous An animal or a human being that eats any kind of food
Opaque That through which light cannot pass
Optimist One who looks at the bright side of things; somebody positive
Ornithology A study of birds
Orphanage A place where orphans live
Panacea A supposed cure for all diseases or problems
Parasite A person supported by another and giving him/her nothing in return
Patricide Killing of one’s own father; killer of one’s own father
Pauper One who has no money
Pedestrian One who goes on foot
Pessimist One who looks on the dark side of things
Philanthropist Lover of mankind
Philistine One who does not care for art, literature etc
Physiology A study of the body
Plagiarist One who copies from other writers
Plutocracy A Government by the rich
Polyandry Practice of having several husbands
Polygamy Practice of having several wives
Polyglot One who knows many languages
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Posthumous A book published after the death of its author

Postmortem Medical examination of a dead body
Postscript A short message added on to the end of a letter after the signature
Potable Water fit for drinking
Predator An animal who preys on other animals
Psephology Systematic study of election trends
Pseudonym To write under a different name
Regicide Murder of the king
Reticent One who speaks less
Sacrilege Violating the sanctity of a church
Samaritan One who helps others Good
Sinecure An office with high salary but no work
Smuggler A person who imports or exports goods into or from a country secretly because they are illegal or in
order to avoid paying duty on them
Soporific A drug or other substance that induces sleep
Stoic One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
Suicide Murder of self
Synonyms Words which have the same meaning
Theist One who believes in God
Translucent That through which light can partly pass
Transparent That through which light can pass
Turncoat One who changes sides
Valetudinarian One who always thinks himself to be ill
Vandal One who damages public property
Vegetarian Somebody who doesn’t eat meat or fish
Venial A pardonable offense
Ventriloquist One who can throw his voice
Veteran Somebody who is considerably experienced in something
Volunteer One who works for free
Zoology A study of animals
Zoology The branch of biology dealing with the study of animals

WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD TORSION
straightening
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talk
turn
emotion
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK
of all others on History
of any other on History
of all on History
of any other in History
WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD INIQUITY

cruelty
injustice
equitable
intensity

NO SOONER DID THE THIEF SEE THE POLICEMAN
he ran away
he had run away
when he ran away
than he ran away
WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD STUBBORN

suborn
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obstinate
ductile
stub

HE IS A
fine, young, tall energetic man
young, fine, tall & energetic man
tall, young, energetic & fine man
fine, tall, young & energetic man
WHAT IS SYNONYMS OF WORD FORAY

fire
brightness
lineage
dump-founded

IF I WERE NOT BUSY, I
shall go with you
will go with you
would have gone with you
would go with you

WHAT DO YOU
say to a cup of tea
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tell a cup of tea
utter to a cup of tea
narrate a cup of tea

I DONT AGREE WITH YOU; I THINK
it is fairly good film
it is rather a good film
it is rather fairly good film
it is fairly rather good film

IT IS TIME THAT
the children go to bed
the children went to bed
the children go to their bed
the children went to their bed

HARDLY
he reached the college, it began to rain
we reached college, then it began to rain
we reached college, when it began to rain
had we reached the college, when it began to rain
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PICK THE CORRECT RESPONSE FROM FOLLOWING SENTENCE

I ALWAYS PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MERITS, BUT HE ALWAYS TURNS …………. YOU
POINTING OUT YOUR DEMERITS
at
to
on
for
WHAT IS ANTONYMS OF WORD RESTORATION

lexicon
balm
hoarding
depredation
WHAT IS SYNONYMS OF WORD NIGHTMARE

story
journey
incubus
owl
Regard,
Xhweet Kashu
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25) Ruskin belonged to:

(d) Auden (e) None of these

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

33) Emity Bronte is the writer of:

44) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

English Literature Mcqs Test

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

8. Which Poet Laureatewrote about a church mouse?

9. Which American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’ in 1996

10. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?

English Mcqs Practice Test

You didn’t leave none for the other workers.

You are liable to be selected to be the next chairperson of the department.

For he to be re-elected, it is not essential that his policies work.

You should not exceed to their unreasonable demands this time.

Illiteracy affects million of people worldwide.

. The union insisted on an increase in their members’ starting pay.

English Synonyms Mcqs Test

English Sentence Correction Mcqs Practice

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The poor are hated everywhere

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Work hard lest you should not fail

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He could not come due to illness

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English Spell Correction Mcqs Practice Test

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