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