UPPSC LT Grade English subject exam paper 29 July 2018 (Answer key)

51. Identify the most suitable salutation for a business letter.
(a) Dear sirs
(b) Dear Friends
(c) Dear sir
(d) My Dear sir
Show AnswerAnswer -C

52. The opening lines of Paradise Lost are a good example of
(a) heroic couplet
(b) Miltonic inversion
(c) sprung rhythm
(d) hyperbole
Show AnswerAnswer – b

53. What was the leading principle in the age of the pope?
(a) Good sense
(b) Romantic thought
(c) Loose morals
(d) All of the above
Show AnswerAnswer – a

54. What is real name of Belinda in pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
(a) Cynthia Fermor
(b) Lucy Fermor
(c) Arabella Fermor
(d) Maria Fermor
Show AnswerAnswer -C

55. Who said, “poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows  which futurity cast upon the present”?
(a) P. B. Shelley
(b) Robert Browning
(c) W. H. Auden

(d) Lord Tennyson
Show AnswerAnswer -A

56. What term does keats use for the Grecian urn?
(a) Doctor
(b) Sociologist
(c) Artist
(d) Historian
Show AnswerAnswer -D

57. Who narrates the poem, My Last Duchess?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) An omniscient speaker
(c) The Duke
(d) The Visitor
Show AnswerAnswer -A

58. Which of the following characteristics describes the tone of Dover Beach best?
(a) Enthusiastic
(b) Hopeful
(c) pessimistic
(d) Tranquil
Show AnswerAnswer – c

59. The name of Ulysses’ son is
(a) Timothy
(b) Tithonus
(c) Telemachus
(d) Andronicus
Show AnswerAnswer -C

60. Complete the following line of  W. B. Yeats :
Turning and turning in the widening ____.
(a) gyre
(b) grey
(c) circle
(d) street
Show AnswerAnswer -A

61. W. B. Yeats used ‘Byzantium’ as a symbol of
(a) romantic decadence
(b) physical well-being
(c) material progress
(d) artistic perfection
Show AnswerAnswer – d

62. In which poem does the title of Achebe’s novel, Things Full Apart occur?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Dover Beach
(c) Wants
(d) the second Coming

Show AnswerAnswer -D

63. Point out the Active Voice of the following sentence :
I would like him to be assisted.
(a) I would like that he may be assisted.
(b) I would wish that you should assist him.
(c) I would wish he should be assisted.
(d) I would like you to assist him.
Show AnswerAnswer -B

64. ‘A Game of Chess’. the second section in the Waste Land, is also the title of a play to which T. S. Eliot refers in his ‘Notes’. That play was written by
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Marlowe
(c) Thomas kyd
(d) Thomas Middleton
Show AnswerAnswer -D

65. Which Upanishad does T. S. Eliot allude to in him monumental work, The Waste Land?
(a) mundaka
(b) Brihadaranyada
(c) Taittiriya
(d) Chhandogya
Show AnswerAnswer -B

66. The Waste Land concludes with a/an ____ word.
(a) English
(b) French
(c) Sanskrit
(d) German
Show AnswerAnswer -C

67. Imagism as a literary movement is associated with
(a) T. S. Eliot
(b) D. H. Lawrence
(c) E. E. Cummings
(d) T. E. Hulme
Show AnswerAnswer -D

68. Change the following sentence into passive Voice :
Somebody had cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
(a) My shoes were cleaned and my suit brushed.
(b) My shoes are cleaned and my suit brushed by somebody.
(c)  my shoes have been cleaned and my suit brushed by somebody.
(d) my shoes has been cleaned and my suit brushed.
Show AnswerAnswer -D

69. Robert Frost was
(a) a British poet settled in America

(b) an American poet settled in England
(c) a Canadian poet settled in America
(d) an American poet settled in new England
Show AnswerAnswer -D

70. Stanley webber in The Birthday party pretends to be a one-time
(a) Flute player
(b) guitarist
(c) drummer
(d) pianist
Show AnswerAnswer -B

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