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2014 - TNPSC
GROUP-2/VAO GENERAL ENGLISH
04-05-2014
1) Pick out the odd pair from those given below.
15) Birds migrate from the southern regions to the northern
A) O captain my captain – Walt Whitman
B) The apology – Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Nine gold medals – David Roth
D) Manliness – Robert forst
2) According to Greeks _____and ________were two
sides of the same win.
A) music and literature
B) music and dance
C) culture and music
D) music and astronomy
3) When Trevor came to know that Hughie gave a
soverign to the model, he
A) shed tears
B) slapped him
C) yelled at him
D) burst into laughter
4) Identify the figure of speech.
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed
and done
A) Apostrophe
B) Personification
C) Simile
D) None
5) “Breaking the silence of the seas among the farthest
Hebrides”
A) a group of villages
B) a group of islands
C) a group of slums
D) a group of tribal area
6) Identify the poem.
More welcome notes to weary bands.
A) Sonet No.116
B) Solitary Reaper
C) Where the mind is without fear
D) None of these
7) Identify the poem “like gnomes that hid us from the
moon”.
A) Going for water B) Be the best
C) The Apology
D) A psalm of life
8) Identify the figure of speech.
Then you and every soul on earth can go and blow your
top.
A) Repitition
B) Idiom
C) Anaphora
D) None
9) Dr. Salim Ali was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in
the year______
A) 1975
B) 1958
C) 1976
D) 1957
10) Laura’s father was a
A) Retired major
B) Retired Professor
C) Retired colonel
D) None of these
11) Find out the American equivalent for the word “jug”
A) can
B) bottle
C) pitcher
D) jar
12) In the poem “The piano” the poet had spent his
Sundays________
A) playing games
B) singing hymns
C) sleeping
D) weeping
13) Identify the figure of speech.
O tongues of fires! You came devouring.
A) Personification
B) Antithesis
C) Apostrophe
D) Epigram
14) Rearrange the sequence of the following sentences.
P) The pressure of the water was so strong and
Celine’s hand so slippery that serge could not hold on
Q) Serge quickly splashed over to help her up
R) Her hand disappeared from views.
R) Her hand disappeared from view.
S) He grabbed it and pulled with all his mighty
T) But all he saw was a hand reaching up out of the
water.
A) QTSPR B) QTSRP
C) QTRSP
D) TQSPR
ones during____
A) Autumn B) Early winter
C) Spring and early summer
D) Autumn and early winter
16) Find the odd man out.
Which one of these is not a work of Dr. Abdul Kalam
A) Guiding souls
B) The luminous spark
C) Indomitable spirit
D) Matters of discretion
17) Find the American equivalent for the word “Podridge”
A) Soup
B) Oat meal
C) Sausage
D) None
18) You’d treat if met where any bar is with half a crown. A
crown is worth_______
A) 5 shillings
B) 25 pence
C) both ‘a’ and ‘b’
D) 1o shillings
19) Identify the figure of speech.
You are telling me a fairy tale.
A) Hyperbole
B) Euphemism
C) Metaphor
D) Simile
20) Identify the poem. From the given line. Within his
bending sickle’s compass come.
A) Going for water
B) Solitary reeper
C) where the mind is without fear
D) None of these
21) Match the characters. With their association.
1) Bassanio
a) Shylock’s daughter
2) Antonio
b) lover of wealthy lady in Belmart
3) Jessica
c) Merchant of venice
4) Lorenzo
d) Shylock’s son-inlaw
A) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d
B) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a
C) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d
D) 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a
22) The prince of Aragon chooses the
A) gold casket
B) silver casket
c) lead casket
D) copper casket
23) Identify the figure of speech.
The soul was like a star, and dwelt a apart.
A) Metaphor
B) Oxymoron C) Hyperbole D) None
24) Identify the author of the given lines.
Let us, then, be up and doing with a heart for any fate.
A) William Shakespeare
B) H.W.Longellow
C) Robert Frost
D) Douglas Malloch
25) Identify the speaker.
One drop of Christian blood, Thy lands and goods.
A) Shylock B) Portia C) Antonio D) Duke
26) But bears it out even to the edge of doom. What is
meant by “edge of doom”
A) day of last judgment
B) end of a landscape
C) end of the world
D) all the above
27) Match the characters with their roles.
a) Calphurnia
1) Eloqunce of speech
b) Decius brutus
2) Caesars wife
c) Marcus brutus
3) one of the conspirators
d) Mark Antony
4) Beloved friend
A) a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
B) a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
C) a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
D) a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
28) What is a poem of 3 stanza of seven or eight lines
called as______
A) eclogue B) ballade C) aubade D) lyric
29) He was a strange rough fellow with a freckled face and
a led ragged beard. He refers to
A) Hughie
B) Baron
C) Trevor
D) Merton
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30) The gaint returned from Cornish ogre after ____years.
49) According to Gokale, ________education must be free
A) 5
B) 7
C) 3
D) 10
31) Identify the figure of speech.
Success is failure turned inside out
A) alliteration
B) Simile
C) oxymoron
D) apostrophe
32) Birds migrate_______
A) when surrounding get polluted
B) only when in danger
C) 3 times a year
D) regularly and reasonally
33) American equivalent for “maize”
A) Zowar B) corn
C) millets
D) barley
34) Identify the poem from the given lines.
The barren boughs without the leaves, without the
birds, without the breeze
A) The psalm of life B) Be the best
C) Solitary reaper D) Going for water
35) In Merchant of Venice Nerrissa went to venice
disguised as________
A) lawyer B) doctor
C) clerk D) merchant
36) How much was the model paid for an hour
A) A pound B) A soverign
C) A shilling
D) A dollar
37) In selfish Gaint, ____ceased and spring came at last.
A) South wind
B) North wind
C) Trade wind
D) Western lies
38) Brihadeeswara temple is also known as.
A) Siruvudaiyar kovil
B) Peruvudaiyar kovil
C) Aavudaiyar kovil
D) Podhu Aavudaiyar kovil
39) Annaimali located in the ___outskirts of Madurai.
A) South eastern
B) South western
C) North eastern
D) North western
40) A yettram well is made up of what?
A) long casuarinas poles
B) a rope
C) a large bucket
D) all the above
41) Identify the figure of speech.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this Blood clean
from my hand? No this my hand will rather the
multitudinous seas incarnadise making the green one
red.
A) oxymoron
B) allusion
C) hyperbole
D) None
42) A long lyrical poem is called as______
A) lay
B) ode C) lyric D) epic
43) Where the gaint had seen the most wonderful sight?
A) In his terrace
B) In the hall
C) Friends house
D) Outside the window
44) Paulnack has served as music division director of the
______conservatory since 2002.
A) Denver
B) Newyork
C) Boston
D) New Jessay
45) How many tons of granite used to built the
Brihadeshwara temple
A) 1,40,000
B) 1,25,000
C) 1,30,000
D) 1,38,000
46) Who uttered these words.
O noble judge! O excellent young man.
A) Shylock
B) Antony
C) Brutus
D) Antonio
47) How many shillings makes a pound
A) 25
B) 20
C) 10
D) 5
48) What is the height of the Vimana in Brihadeshwara
A) 216 ft
B) 288 ft
C) 316 ft
D) 388 ft
throughout the nation.
A) Secondary
B) elementary
C) College
D) Primary
50) Gokale is hailed as political guru of______
A) S.C.Bose
B) M.G. Tilak
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) J.L.Nehru
51) Paulnack has served as music division director of
Boston conservatory once.
A) 2001
B) 2002
C) 2003
D) 2004
52) Adagio for strings is a beautiful piece of_______
A) Zubin Mehta
B) Johannes Brahms
C) Charles Tindley
D) Samuel Barber
53) British equivalent for the word “cracker”
A) cookies B) biscuits
C) cakes
D) none
54) In merchant of Venice, Antonio signed the bond to
repay the money within________
A) 1 year B) 3 months
C) 6 months
D) 1 month
55) In which coaching department Paulnack co-chaired the
hightly acclaimed accompaining
A) university of Borton
B) university of Harvard
C) University of Minnesota D) University of solarado
56) Zubin Mehta was awarded the Padna Bhushan in the
year________
A) 2009
B) 2010
C) 2011
D) 2013
57) Two sides of same coin would mean
A) Similar in every way
B) Similar in approach but different in aim
C) Opposite in every way
D) None of these
58) Identify the figure of speech.
I find no peace and all my war is done
I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice
I flee above the wind, yet can I nor arise
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Oxymoron
D) None of these
59) Find out British equivalent for the word “trailer”
A) truck
B) caravan C) lorry D) goods train
60) Identify the speaker
My deeds upon my head / I crave the law.
A) Bassanio B) Antonio C) Portia D) Shylock
61) Whose words are these “such as they words are such
will thine affections be esteemed, and such as thine
affections, will be thy deeds and such as they deeds will
be thy life.
A) Brian pattens
B) Lewis Carol
C) Socrates
D) Shakespeare
62) I do beseech the court.
What does the word beseech mean.
A) order
B) implore
C) persuade
D) ask
63) A short and pastoral poem is called as.
A) eclogue B) dizain
C) idyll D) haiku
64) Dr. Salim Ali was trained by_________in Berlin
A) Dr. Elvin Strassman
B) Dr. S. Dillon Ripley
C) Bush Johnston
D) Colonel Zachary Taylor
65) In 1910, Hermann Kallenbach, white farmer donated his
farm near Johannesburg to Gandhi where he
established an ashram. What was the name of the
ashram.
A) Phoenix farm
B) Tolstoy farm
C) Natal farm
D) None of these
66) How did Marcus brutus die?
A) killed in the war B) hanged by the apponents
C) feer to Greece D) killed himself
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67) Identify the poem from the given lines
85) The standing testimony of chola’s opulence and vision
There’s something for all of us here
There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do
A) Don’t quit
B) Be the best
C) The apology
D) None of these
68) Gandhiji’s autobiography “The story of my experiments
with truth” was originally written in gujarati. Who
translated into English?
A) Raj kumar Shukla
B) John Ruskin
C) Mahadev Desai
D) Leo Tolstoy
69) The Roman god Pan, is god of____
A) rain
B) trees
C) fire D) Shepherds
70) Who uttered these words?
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
A) Antonio B) Antony
C) Caesar
D) Brutus
71) Who is known as desh nayak?
A) Gandhiji
B) Gokale
C) S.C.Bose
D) J.L.Nehru
72) Find out the British equivalent for the word “Dog house”
A) Pet house
B) out house
C) Kennel
D) None of these
73) Identify the speaker.
Most heartily. I do beseech the court
A) Portia
B) Antonio
C) Shylock
D) Bassanio
74) What is the name of the building that served as
Gandhi’s residence in Mumbai from 1917-1934?
A) Sabarmati Bhavan
B) Mani Bhavan
C) Gandhi Bhavan
D) Kamala Bhavan
75) Whose words are these
No real change in history has ever been achieved by
discussions.
A) J.L.Nehru
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Nelson Mandela D) S.C.Bose
76) Who is pompey?
A) Roman generals
B) Caesais friend
C) Person who stabbed Caesar
D) all the above
77) Find out the British equivalent for the word “porch”
A) purse
B) bag
C) Veranda D) Travel bag
78) Who is the political guru of S.C.Bose?
A) A.C.Majumdar
B) Anand Mohan Bose
C) Chita Ranjan Das
D) Khudiram Bose
79) Identify the speaker.
If any speak, for him have I offended.
Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
A) Antony B) Brustus
C) Antonio
D) Casca
80) What is the name of the newspaper started by Nehru?
A) Desh peen
B) Indian opinion
C) Angrezi dushman
D) National herald
81) What was the illness that caused Helen Keller to
become bind and deaf?
A) Measles B) Mumps
C) Scarlet fever
D) Tuberculosis
82) Identify the poem from the given line.
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit.
A) Solitary Reaper B) where the mind is without fear
C) Going for water D) None of these
83) Identify the speaker.
For I have neither writ, not words, nor worth Action, nor
utterance, nor the power of speech to stir men’s blood.
A) Brutus B) Antony
C) Caesar
D) Antonio
84) Nehru was given Bharat Ratna in the year?
A) 1964
B) 1965
C) 1955
D) 1956
is________
A) 13 storeyed vimana
B) huge shiva linga
C) Walled fortless
D) Nandhi etatue
86) American equivalent for the word bonnet (clothing).
A) boot
B) hat
C) cap
D) trousers
87) What is written on the vimana?
A) life of people of that period
B) method of building the temple
C) Name of the builders
D) Chola’s gifts to the temple
88) To the land of snow was written by
A) Brian Patten
B) Kamala Das
C) Edwin Bliss
D) Atushi Despande
89) “Envy is ignorances and imitation is suicide” was said
by__________
A) Edwin Bliss
B) Emerson
C) Dell carnagie
D) None
90) Whose work is “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
A) Dell Carnagie
B) Carl Correns
C) Oliver turist
D) Samuel T. Coleridge
91) American equivalent for the word wallet.
A) Wallet
B) billfold
C) both ‘A’ and ‘B’
D) None of these
92) If you can’t be a ‘muskie’ – what does muskie mean
A) an edible fish
B) an edible fruit
C) type of rose
D) type of cereals
93) Identify the figure of speech.
Lauch, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a
span.
A) Apostrophe
B) Personification
C) allusion
D) Eclipse
94) Nelson Mandela died due to prolonged respiratory
infection on_____
A) December 3, 2013
B) December 4, 2013
C) December 5, 2013
D) December 8, 2013
95) In the poem “The cry of the children”, the children cry
for
A) wages B) silence
C) food D) toys
96) Harmonic cacophony to oblivious ears.
What does the word ‘eacophony’ mean?
A) Short detached sound
B) series of sounds
C) strong sound
D) haesh mixture of sounds
97) Kalpana chawla was assigned to the crew of
_____scheduled for launch in 2003.
A) STS-107 B) STS-87 C) STS-99 D) None
98) What is the name of Rani Laxmi Bhais adoped son?
A) Gangadar Roa
B) Ashok Roa
C) Shivaji Roa
D) Damodar Roa
99) For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but
to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom
of others was said by_____
A) Gandhiji B) Nethaji C) Nehruji D) Mandela
100)
Mention the poem in which the following lines
occur.
Your eagle pinion is chained down at last and gravelling
in the lowly dust are you.
A) laugh and be merry
B) The Apology
C) To India-My native land
D) No men are foreigner
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