PGT Post Graduate Teacher Exam

English
Solved Paper 2016
1. Which poem of William Wordsworth is considered 10. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm?
his greatest autobiographical epic? (a) Hopkins (b) Tennyson
(a) Guilt and Sorrow (b) The Prelude (c) Browning (d) Wordsworth
(c) The Excursion (d) Peter Bell 11. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an
2. In which poem does Wordsworth write ‘‘Come forth epilogue?
into the light of things, Let Nature be your (a) The Tempest (b) Henry IV, Pt I
Teacher’’? (c) Hamlet (d) Twelfth Night
(a) ‘‘The Tables Turned’’ 12. Oedipus Complex is
(b) ‘‘The world is too much with us’’ (a) a kind of physical ailment
(c) ‘‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’’ (b) a father’s attraction towards his daughter
(d) ‘‘The Solitary Reaper’’ (c) a brother’s attraction towards his sister
3. A hymn is (d) a son’s attraction towards his mother
(a) A poem of joy (b) A poem of lament 13. Who called Shelley ‘‘a beautiful and ineffectual
(c) A poem of praise (d) A church song angel beating in the void his luminous wings in
vain?
4. What, according to P.B. Shelley, is ‘‘intellectual
(a) Walter Rater
beauty’’?
(b) A.C. Swinburne
(a) The human mind dreaming.
(c) Matthew Arnold
(b) Reason pushing away emotions (d) T.S. Eliot
(c) The human mind at work
14. Who said that ‘‘Shakespeare in his comedies has
(d) The human mind solving political problems
only heroines and no heroes?’’
5. For which profession John Keats had licence but (a) Ben Jonson (b) John Ruskin
never practised it? (c) Thomas Carlyle (d) William Hazlitt
(a) Pharmacist (b) Architech
15. The line ‘‘These’s a special providence in the fall of
(c) Engineer (d) Lawyer
a sparrow’’ occurs in
6. Which of the following books was translated by (a) Hamlet (b) Henry IV, Pt I
John Keats? (c) The Tempest (d) Twelfth Night
(a) Aeneid (b) Iliad 16. ‘‘The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
(c) Odyssey (d) Vulgate ‘‘This line occurs in Shakespeare’s
7. What caused John Keats’ death? (a) Hamlet
(a) Malaria (b) Tuberculosis (b) King Lear
(c) Pneumonia (d) Typhoid (c) The Tempest
8. Who called ‘‘The Waste Land’’ a music of ideas? (d) The Merchant of Venice
(a) Allen Tate (b) J.C. Ransom 17. Who said ‘‘Keats was a Greek’’?
(c) I.A. Richards (d) F.R. Leavis (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge
9. What meter is a sonnet written in? (c) Lamb (d) Shelley
(a) Spondaic Tetrameter 18. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous
(b) Iambic Pentameter poem ‘‘Ode to the West Wind’’?
(c) Iambic Tetrameter (a) Rime royal
(d) Iambic Trimeter (b) Ottava rima
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(c) Terza rima 29. Which of the following poets does not belong to the
(d) Spenserian Stanza ‘Lake School?
19. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is (a) Keats (b) Coleridge
(a) Satire (b) Sensuality (c) Southey (d) Wordsworth
(c) Sensuousness (d) Social reform 30. Tennyson’s poem ‘‘In Memoriam’’ was written in
20. Which Augustan writer’s epitaph reads : ‘‘one who memory of ?
strove with all his might to champion liberty’’? (a) A.H. Hallam
(a) Alexander pope (b) Jonathan Swift (b) Edward King
(c) Henry fielding (d) Daniel Defoe (c) Wellington
(d) P.B. Shelley
21. The term ‘‘metaphysical poets’’ was first used by
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Dr. Johnson 31. For which newspaper Charles Dickens reported
(c) Helen rardner (d) John Dryden Parliamentary debates
(a) Guardian
22. ‘‘Anagnorisis’’ is a term used by Aristotle for
(b) Mirror of Parliament
describing
(c) The Independent
(a) The moment of discovery by the protagonist
(d) The Times
(b) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist
(c) the happy resolution of the plot 32. Which was Charles Dickens’ first novel?
(d) the convergence of the main plot and the sub (a) David Copperfield
plot (b) Nicholas Nickleby
(c) The Pickwick Papers
23. ‘‘The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’’ is
(d) Oliver Twist
(a) a poem by William Blake
(b) an elegy by William Wordsworth 33. Which revolution dominates A Tale of Two Cities?
(c) an essay by Charles Lamb (a) Russian (b) French
(d) an essay by William Hazlitt (c) Italian (d) German
24. Who, among the following, made the statement 34. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with
‘‘Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions eleven syllables, is known as
fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth (a) Spenserian Stanza (b) Ballad
and poetic beauty’’? (c) Ottava Rima (d) Rhyme Royal
(a) Dr. Johnson (b) Sidney 35. Mary Shelley’s father was William Godwin, a
(c) Matthew Arnold (d) Wordsworth famous
25. Who is known as the master of Dramtc Monologue? (a) Physician (b) spiritual leader
(a) William Shakespeare (c) poet and satirist (d) philosopher
(b) Wallace Stevens 36. What is the name of Tess’s Illegitimate child in
(c) Robert Frost Hardy’s novel?
(d) Robert Browning (a) Sorrow (b) Abraham
26. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night? (c) Pity (d) Mourning
(a) Or, What is you will 37. What motivates Tess to speak to Angel about her
(b) Or, What you will past?
(c) Or, What you Like It (a) Tess realises that Angle has not read the letter
(d) Or, What you Think she has written him.
27. Tennyson succeeded whom as poet laureate of (b) Joan Durbeyfield advises Tess to tell him.
England? (c) Angel admits his sins to Tess.
(a) Arthur Cunningham (d) A man from Trantridge recognises her.
(b) William Wordsworth 38. Lyrical Ballads comprises poems by Wordsworth
(c) S.T. Coleridge and
(d) Shakespeare (a) Keats (b) Shelley
28. Keats’s ‘‘Endymion’’ is dedicated to? (c) Coleridge (d) Byron
(a) Leigh Hunt 39. The town mentioned in the poem ‘‘Lady of Shalott’’
(b) Milton by Tennyson is
(c) Shakespeare (a) London (b) York
(d) Thomas Chatterton (c) Camelot (d) Oxford
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40. What by definition is serious, complete and of a (a) A Farewell to Arms

significant magnitude? (b) The Old Man and the Sea
(a) comedy (b) Epic (c) Across the River and into the Seas
(c) Tragedy (d) Drama (d) The Green Hills of Africa
41. The author of the essay ‘‘Tradition and Individual 52. Name the author of the essay ‘‘Naipaul’s India and
Talent’’ is Mine.’’
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) T.S. Eliot (a) Dom Moraes (b) Nissim Ezekiel
(c) A.C. Bradley (d) George Saintsbury (c) Salman Rushdie (d) Vikram Seth
42. The Shakespearean play termed as ‘‘artistic 53. Nissim Ezekiel belonged to the………community
failure’’ by T.S. Eliot is (a) Christian (b) Parsee
(a) King Lear (b) Othello (c) Jewish (d) Muslim
(c) Hamlet (d) As You Like It 54. Which of the following is not a poem by Kamala
43. The middle name of Robert Frost is Das?
(a) Charles (b) Lee (a) ‘‘Summer in Calcutta’’
(c) John (d) Augustus (b) ‘‘The Dance of the Eunuchs’’
(c) ‘‘Night of the Scorpion’’
44. Which American President invited Robert Frost to
(d) ‘‘Krisna’’
recite at his Inauguration ceremony?
(a) Johnson (b) Nixon 55. When did Ernest Hemingway get the Nobel Prize
(c) Roosevelt (d) Kennedy for Literature?
(a) 1931 (b) 1937
45. According to Robert Frost what is ‘‘the right place
(c) 1945 (d) 1954
for love’’?
(a) Heaven (b) Earth 56. What is the major symbol in Whitman’s
(c) Eden (d) Paradise ‘‘Song’s of Myself’’?
(a) The ocean (b) A bird
46. The ship in Whitman’s O Captain, My Captain’’
(c) A tombstone (d) The grass
refers to
(a) Democracy (b) Aristocracy 57. Which American Writer was a great influence on
(c) Autocracy (d) Dictatorship Whitman?
(a) Thoreau (b) Cooper
47. Which famous novel of William Faulkner was (c) Hawthorne (d) Emerson
published in 1929?
(a) The Sound and the Fury 58. The author of My Story is
(b) Mosquitoes (a) Ruskin (b) Kamala Das
(c) Solider’s Pay (c) Amitav Ghosh (d) V.S. Naipaul
(d) The white Rose of Memphis 59. The author of Essays of Elia is
(a) Francis Bacon (b) William Hazlitt
48. When did William Faulkner get the Nobel Prize for
(c) Charles Lamb (d) H.G. Wells
Literature?
(a) 1941 (b) 1949 60. Mulk Raj Anand died in the year
(c) 1945 (d) 1938 (a) 2005 (b) 2003
(c) 2004 (d) 2002
49. Whose death does ‘‘When Lilacs last in the
Dooryard Bloom’ d’’ commemorate? 61. Which of the following is not a work by Mulk Raj
(a) Lincoln’s Anand
(b) John Brown’s (a) The Private Life of an Indian Prince
(c) Stonewall Jackson’s (b) Coolie
(d) The poet’s mother’s (c) Kanthapura
(d) Two Leaves and a Bud
50. What was Ernest Hemingway’s role in Word War
I? 62. Who wrote the Foreword to Anand’s novel
(a) Corporal Untouchable?
(b) Marine (a) E.M. Forster (b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) Flight Lieutenant (c) R.K. Narayan (d) Graham Greene
(d) Ambulance driver 63. The idea that the good are rewarded and the evil
51. Which novel got Ernest Hemingway the Pulitzer punished is termed
prize? (a) Divine Justice (b) Jurisprudence
(c) Poetic Justice (d) None of the above
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64. An extended speech in which a character alone (c) all pollution-prone trees should be destroyed.
expresses his thoughts onstage is called (d) it is not possible to grow trees that remain
(a) Dramatic aside unaffected by pollution.
(b) Soliloquy 69. The writer’s approach toward the problem of forest
(c) Dramatic Monologue devastation is one of
(d) Interlude (a) tolerance.
65. A dactyl is a metrical foot consisting of (b) indifference.
(a) two syllables (b) three syllables (c) well thought-out strategy
(c) five syllables (d) four syllables (d) despondency.
Directions (66-70) : Read the following passage and 70. ‘‘Immune’’ means
answer the questions that follow : (a) affected by a given influence.
In Asia and much of the Third World, trees are (b) not affected by a given influence.
still destroyed in the old-fashioned way : they are (c) absorbed by a given influence.
cut down for fuel and cropland. In Europe, there (d) None of the above.
is new and potentially more deadly culprit. The
71. A statement which may contain two or more
Germans call it ‘Waldsterben’, the dying forest
meanings is an example of
syndrome. But the disease is far more than a
(a) Anecdote (b) Epigraph
German phenomenon. Since it was first observed
(c) Ambiguity (d) Foil
by German scientists in the autumn of 1980, the
mysterious malady has raced across Europe, 72. A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made
blighting woods in countries as far apart as between two unlike, quantities without the use fo
Sweden and Italy. Explanation for the epidemic the words ‘‘like’’ or as’’ is termed
range from a cyclic change in the environment to (a) Analogy. (b) Simile.
a baffling form of tree cancer. But the most (c) Soliloquy. (d) Metaphor.
convincing evidence points to air pollution. 73. A play on words wherein a word is used to convey
Indeed, saving the rapidly deteriorating forests of two meanings at the same time is called
Europe will probably require a two-pronged (a) Pun. (b) Satire.
strategy : an offensive campaign that includes the (c) Hyperbole. (d) Paradox.
breeding of pollution-immune trees and a
74. A work that makes fun of another work by
defensive scheme that calls for reductions in toxic
emission. But both will require more money than imitating some aspect of the writer’s style is called
is currently being spent on such measures, as (a) Satire. (b) Farce.
well as total commitment to protecting the (c) Parody. (d) Fable.
environment. 75. A scene that interrupts the normal chronological
66. According to this passage, which one of the sequence of events in a story to depict something
following statements is correct’’? that happened at an earlier time
(a) There is less damage in Asia than in Europe. (a) Flashback (b) Prologue.
(b) More forests are dying in Germany than (c) Epilogue (d) Flashforward.
anywhere else in Europe. Directions (76-80) : Choose the option which can be
(c) A cyclic change in the environments is substituted for the given sentences :
responsible for deforestation. 76. The study of ancient societies
(d) Air pollution is the main culprit of destroying (a) Anthropology (b) Archeology
European forests. (c) History (d) Ethnology.
67. The dying forest syndrome is a disease that 77. A State in which the few govern the many
(a) is peculiar to the forests of Asia.
(a) Monarchy (b) Oligarchy.
(b) has spread rapidly over the forests of Europe.
(c) Autocracy. (d) Plutocracy
(c) is confined to the forests of Germany.
(d) has affected forests all over the world 78. Medical study of skin and its diseases
(a) Endocrinology (b) Orthopaedics
68. The writer suggests that
(a) it is no longer possible to grow trees in (c) Dermatology. (d) Opthalmology.
industrialized areas. 79. Murder of a brother
(b) pollution immune trees will absorb toxic (a) Patricide. (b) Regicide.
emissions. (c) Homicide. (d) Fratricide.
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80. A light sailing boat built specially for racing Direction (91-95) : In the following sentences identify
(a) Canoe. (b) Yacht. the one underlined words or phrase that must be
(c) Frigate. (d) Submarine. changed in order for the sentence to be correct :
Directions (81-85) : Fill in the blank with the correct 91. After Newton has observed/(a) an apple fall/(b) to
option. the ground, he formulated the/(c) law of
81. ………the moon has no water, its solid crust does gravity./(d)
respond to the gravitational force of the earth 92. In 1740, John Newbery was the/(a) first publisher
(a) Although. (b) However. to produce(b)/ books which/(c) children really
(c) Therefore. (d) Except. wanted read/(d)
82. ………, 70 percent alcohol is more effective than 93. The name Albert Einstein has become/(a)
100 percent alcohol. synonymous with his theory of relative in/(b) the
(a) An antiseptic used. minds/(c) of most scientists and laymen/(d)
(b) When used as an antiseptic. 94. The most important method saving/(a) by
(c) Therefore an antiseptic individuals in recent years has been/(b) real estate
(d) Except an antiseptic. investment, particularly in/(c) private
83. Hydrocarbons,………by engine exhausts, react dwellings./(d)
with nitrogen oxides to form complex toxic gases. 95. The most important cause of tides/(a) is the
(a) are given off (b) given off gravitation/(b) attraction of/(c) the moon./(d)
(c) given off (d) they are given off Directions (96-100) : Choose the correct reported
84. Ozone………extremely active chemically and speech version in each of the following statements :
succeeds in damaging any vegetation it comes in 96. Mohan said, ‘‘I want to visit my friends this
contact with. weekend.’’
(a) is (b) being (a) Mohan said he wants to visit his friends that
(c) which is (d) by being weekend.
85. Temperature inversions often occur when………in (b) Mohan said he wanted to visit his friends that
the late afternoon. weekend.
(a) the earth’s surface is cooled (c) Mohan said he wants to visit his friends this
(b) earth’s surface is cooled weekend.
(c) also the earth’s surface is cooled (d) Mohan said he wants to visit his friends this
(d) that the earth’s surface is cooled weekend.
Direction (86-90) : Fill in the blank with most 97. Jerry said, ‘‘Im studying English a lot at the
appropriate choice available : moment.
(a) Jerry said he was studying English a lot at that
86. Jonathan insisted on………out.
moment.
(a) go (b) going
(b) Jerry said he was studying English a lot at this
(c) gone (d) went
moment.
87. This is the diamond ring which the thief…… (c) Jerry said I was studying English a lot at that
(a) stolen (b) steal moment.
(c) stole (d) stealing (d) Jerry said he would be studying English a lot at
88. All the pupils are………to the beach. that moment.
(a) going (b) will go 98. They said, ‘‘We’ ve lived here for a long time,’’
(c) gone (d) go (a) They said they have lived there for a long time.
89. ………prevent people from driving off the road, (b) They said they lived here for a long time.
they put up more street lamps. (c) They said they had lived there for a long time.
(a) in order to (d) They said they have lived there for a long time.
(b) in order from 99. He asked me, ‘‘Have you finished reading the
(c) in order of newspaper’’?
(d) in order on (a) He asked me if had I finished reading the
90. I ate a………of chocolate cake. newspaper.
(a) peace (b) piece (b) He asked me if I had finished reading the
(c) pieces (d) spices newspaper.
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(c) He asked me if I would be finishing reading the 112. Which of the following shows an example of an
newspaper. idiomatic expression?
(d) He asked me if I would be finishing reading the (a) His investments failed, and he lost the family
newspaper. nest egg.
100. ‘‘I get up every morning at seven o’ clock,’’ Peter said. (b) He didn’t invest wisely and lost a lot of money.
(a) Peter said he got up every morning at seven o’ (c) He shouldn’t have invested so much in that
clock. risky project.
(b) Peter said I got up every morning at seven o’ (d) He shouldn’t have invested so little in that
clock. risky project.
(c) Peter said he had got up every morning at 113. Choose the example of a sentence written in Active
seven o’ clock. voice.
(d) Peter said he get up every morning at seven o’
(a) The new dishes had been washed, dried, and
clock.
put away.
Directions (101-104) : Fill in the blank with the (b) She washed, dried, and put away the new
appropriate option : dishes.
101. He and his brother………to the same school. (c) The new dishes had been washed, dried, and
(a) go (b) goes put away by the maid.
(c) have going (d) are gone (d) None of the above.
102. Don’t get off the train till it……. 114. Choose the example of a sentence written in
(a) stops (b) stopped Passive voice.
(c) will stop (d) would stop (a) The researcher noted an increase in bacteria.
103. I……English for six years now. (b) The researcher noted how much the bacteria
(a) studied increased.
(b) have studied (c) The increase in bacteria was noted by the
(c) would study researcher.
(d) have been studying (d) All of the above.
104. I……him for years. 115. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
(a) know (b) have know (a) The twins exchanged looks, and Tess said
(c) would know (d) have been know
quietly, ‘‘If only we had known before……’’
Directions (105-110) : Identify the correctly spelt word (b) The twins exchanged looks, and Tess said
in each of the following sentence : quietly, ‘‘If only we had known before……?
105. (a) Efficient (b) Beterment (c) The twins exchanged looks, and Tess said
(c) Treatmeant (d) Employd quietly, ‘‘If only we had known before……?
106. (a) Conspicuous (b) Contegious (d) The twins, exchanged looks, and Tess, said
(c) Concious (d) Contenuous quietly, ‘‘If only we had known before……’’?
107. (a) Gaurantee (b) Guarantee 116. Choose the sentence correct in punctuation.
(c) Garuntee (d) Guaruntee (a) Why do fairy tales always end with the
108. (a) Pessenger (b) Passenger sentence ‘‘And they lived happily ever after.’’?
(c) Pasanger (d) Pessanger (b) Why do fairy tales always end with the
109. (a) Treachrous (b) Trecherous sentence, ‘‘And they lived happily ever after.’’?
(c) Trechearous (d) Treacherous (c) Why do fairy tales always end with the
sentence, ‘‘And they lived happily ever after.’’?
110. (a) Klaptomania (b) Klepptomania
(c) Kleptemania (d) Kleptomania (d) Why do fairy tales : always end with the
sentence ‘‘And they lived happily, ever after.’’?
111. An idiom is
(a) a common expression meant to sound sarcastic 117. She truly enjoyed growing her own organic
and implausible to the listener or reader. vegetable. The underlined word in the sentence
(b) an idiotic expression repeatedly used by a above is……
cultural or language group. (a) a gerund.
(c) a commonly used phrase or expression with a (b) an infinitive phrase.
meaning different from a literal translation. (c) a participial phrase.
(d) None of the above. (d) None of the above.
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118. Which group shows only superlatives.’’? 121. Pure alcohol coagulates on contact.
(a) rounder, more tall, faster, most nice, worst (a) solidifies (b) sets
(b) heaviest, most rugged, swiftest, cutest, best (c) thickens (d) hardens
(c) straightest, much higher, longest, nicest, 122. The uses of computer-based technology in offices
farther are extensive
(d) fittest, bravest, taller, highest (a) spacious (b) progressive
119. Choose the correct sentence (c) plentiful (d) widespread
(a) The comedian at the comedy club was the most 123. The Greeks believed that the heart was the seat of
funniest man we had ever seen. intelligence.
(b) The comedian at the comedy club was the (a) spot (b) chair
funniest man we had ever seen. (c) centre (d) purpose
(c) The comedian at the comedy club was the
124. The liver is the most versatile of the organs in the
funnier man we had ever seen.
body.
(d) The comedian at the comedy club was the more
(a) gifted (b) accomplished
funniest man we had ever seen.
(c) ingenious (d) resourceful
Direction (120-125) : Choose the option that most
125. Before the 18 th century, epidemics from
closely resembles the meaning of underlined word or
unsanitary conditions used to wipe out entire
phrase in each of the following sentence :
towns.
120. The age of a tree can be determined accurately by (a) plunder (b) terminate
counting the number of tree rings it has developed. (c) destroy (d) contaminate
(a) decided (b) achieved
(c) measured (d) resolved

Answers
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (c) 9. (b) 10. (a)
11. (a) 12. (d) 13. (c) 14. (b) 15. (a) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (a)
21. (b) 22. (a) 23. (c) 24. (c) 25. (d) 26. (b) 27. (b) 28. (d) 29. (a) 30. (a)
31. (b) 32. (c) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (d) 36. (a) 37. (c) 38. (c) 39. (c) 40. (c)
41. (b) 42. (c) 43. (b) 44. (d) 45. (b) 46. (a) 47. (a) 48. (b) 49. (a) 50. (d)
51. (b) 52. (b) 53. (c) 54. (c) 55. (d) 56. (d) 57. (d) 58. (b) 59. (c) 60. (c)
61. (c) 62. (a) 63. (c) 64. (b) 65. (b) 66. (a) 67. (b) 68. (d) 69. (c) 70. (b)
71. (c) 72. (d) 73. (a) 74. (c) 75. (a) 76. (d) 77. (b) 78. (c) 79. (d) 80. (b)
81. (a) 82. (b) 83. (b) 84. (a) 85. (a) 86. (b) 87. (c) 88. (a) 89. (a) 90. (b)
91. (b) 92. (d) 93. (c) 94. (a) 95. (c) 96. (b) 97. (b) 98. (c) 99. (b) 100. (a)
101. (a) 102. (a) 103. (d) 104. (d) 105. (a) 106. (a) 107. (b) 108. (b) 109. (d) 110. (d)
111. (c) 112. (a) 113. (b) 114. (c) 115. (c) 116. (c) 117. (a) 118. (b) 119. (b) 120. (c)
121. (c) 122. (d) 123. (c) 124. (d) 125. (b)