HTET (Haryana Teacher's Eligibility Test) PGT ENGLISH- LEVEL-3 QS. 91 to...

Preparation for HTET 2017 : PGT English, Level III: 60 Marks

101. Swimming is a good habit. The underlined word in the sentence is a/an……

1.    bare infinitive

2.    Gerund

3.    Present Participle

4.    Dangling Participle

102. Which of the following work is not done by Geoffrey Chaucer?

1.    The Book of the Duchess

2.    The Duchess of Malfi

1.    3, The Canterbury Tales

2.    The House of Fame

103. Who is the author of ‘The Sword and the Sickle’?

1.     R. K. Narayana

2.     Anita Desai

3.     Mulk Raj Anand

4.     Bhambani Bhattacharya

104. At which place had the people gathered to read from the bulletin board?

1.     the library

2.     Town hall

3.     School

4.     Office of the Commanding Officer

105. All these synonyms ‘relinquish, abandon, give up, abjure’ are for the word…..

1.    Abdicate

2.    Rejuvinate

3.    Complicate

4.    Ameliorate

106. When a person is under excessive urge to steal things without any need of them is called

1.    Dispomania

2.    Plutomania

3.    Clinimania

4.    Kleptomania

107.  Neo-classical poetry had all the following characteristics except  one ….

1.    Emphasis on Reason

2.    Use of Imagination

3.    Didactic in Nature

4.    Emphasis on Decorum in Style

108. “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

       Who wrote the above line?

1.    John Keats

2.    William Shakespeare

3.    Thomas Hardy

4.    Robert Browning

109. You must have read the story of Hare and Tortoise. Which of the following technical terms describes it best?

1.    Epigram

2.    Allegory

3.    Hyperbole

4.    Haiku

110. Identify the figure of speech in “Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool…”

1.  Assonance

2.  Oxymoron

3.  Alliteration

4.  Paradox
Answers: 101- 2-Gerund    102-2 The Duchess of Malfi   103- 3 Mulk Raj Anand 104-2 Town Hall 105- 1 Abdicate   106-1 Dispomania 107-2 Imagination   108-3 Thomas Hardy 109 -3 Allegory  110-3 Alliteration

Part IV English, Level III: 60 Marks

Part IV English, Level III: 60 Marks  

91. Which of the following books is not written by R K Narayana?

1. Grandmother of Tales

2. My Dateless Diary

3. The God of Small Things 

4. The Ramayana

92. Pick up the name of the poet who wrote the following lines in a poem:  “Thousands at his bidding speed/ And post o're Land and Ocean without rest:/ They also serve who only stand and wait.” 1. Robert Browning 2. Dryden 3. W. B. Yeast 4. John Milton 93. We are not going to visit Chandigarh tomorrow. Select the right question tag from the following options:   1.    Aren’t we? 2.    Are we? 3.    Have we? 4.    Haven’t we? 94.  I will ………………….you this morning and after discussing my problem will go back to Mumbai by the evening flight. 1. Call on 2. Call off 3. Call after 4. Call up 95. Which of the following sentences is incorrect? 1. Why not to discuss the matter right now? 2. He made his friend weep. 3. The boy who is standing there is Rajat. 4. None of them was absent from the class yesterday. 96.  Which is not the right synonym of the word: interlocutor 1. moderator 2. emissary 3.middle-man 4. plotter 97. Which was Fielding’s picaresueque novel? 1.  Joseph Andrews 2. Shamela 3. Amelia 4. Tom Jones 98. Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence:  The traveler said the stranger, “Can you tell me the name of any nearest inn?” 1.    The traveller said the stranger if he can tell me the name of any nearest inn. 2.    The traveller asked the stranger if could he tell me the name of any nearest inn. 3.    The traveller said the stranger if can he tell him the name of  any nearest inn. 4.    The traveller asked the stranger if he could tell him the name of  any nearest inn.

99. Identify the clause in the given sentence.

 My mother, who is of more than sixty-six years, is coming to meet me.

1.    Noun Clause

2.    Adverb Clause

3.    Non-defining Adjectival Clause

4.    Defining Adjectival Clause

100.  ‘Excessive love or attachment towards one’s mother’ is expressed by the term……..

1.    stream of consciousness

2.    ‘to be or not to be’

3.    Oedipus Complex

4.    dangling participle

    Answers: 91: 3 (The God of Small Wonders) 92: 4 John Milton 93: 2: Are You? 94: 1  95-1    96- 4   97-1  98- 4    99 3    100- 3