Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 4
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1. Who kills Desdemona ?
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2. In King Lear, whose heart has Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly" ?
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3. In Macbeth, what is the name of Macbeth's wife ?
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4. What is the theme of Proletarian novel?
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5. A character which remains almost unchanged throughout the story is called: (TGT-01)
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6. What is closet drama?
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7 .The correct term for "A person of a material outlook and indifferent to culture is: (TGT-03)
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8. Autobiography means: (TGT-03)
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9. Abraham Cowley is known for inventing the metrical form of-
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10. A report of something such as a political situation or system, or a person's work or ideas, that examines it and provides a judgment, especially a negative one. Such a report/article is called-
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11. The choice and use (arrangement) of words and phrases in speech or writing is called:
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12. A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something:
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13. A vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of two vowels:
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14. Which of the following words is onomatopoeic? (P-2000)
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15. The statement, namely, Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain', contains the figure of speech called: (PGT-2000)
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16. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon, but what county is the town in? (PGT-02)
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17. Shakespeare's parents were-
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18. What was the business of John Shakespeare?
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19. Shakespeare was probably educated at-
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20. Who wrote that Paradise Lost shows off "(Milton's) peculiar power to astonish" and that "(Milton) seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful."
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21. "Paradise Lost is, among other things, a poem about civil war. Satan raises 'impious war in Heav'n' by leading a third of the angels in revolt against God." Who said?
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22. John Donne was also made Dean of (1621-1631).
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23. In which play of Shakespeare, the following monologue appear ? "All is lost, this foul Egyptian hath betrayed me."
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24. Who is the speaker of the above monologue ?
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25. In Twelfth Night, who disguises her- self as a youth, Cesario ?
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26 . Which one is not a character in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar?
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27. Senecan plays were rendered into English by-
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28. The Hundred's Years war began in the year-
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29. The period l066-1500 is known as-
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30. Which poem of Pope is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man", a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justify the ways of God to men"?
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31. Which poem of Pope is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man, as man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the Great Chain of Being and must accept that "Whatever IS, is RIGHT"?
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32. Which poem of Pope was appreciated by Voltaire in the words: "the most beautiful, the most useful, the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language"?
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33. In the poem, the poet advises ambitious people not to ridicule farmers for their following activities. Which of the following does he not mention in his poem?
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34, According to the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', whatever earthly achievements a person might have got, he is still moving towards his
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35. According to poet as delineated by him in the poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", the rich should not blame sons and friends of these peasants:
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36. Whom does Wordsworth refer to in these lines? "Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart."
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37. The first version of the poem 'Resolution and independence (1802) was written under the title-
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38. In which poem Burns and Chatterton are mentioned?
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39. The line "Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour" is taken from
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40. Shelley's wrote Defence of Poetry in response to-
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41. The cause of Shelley's death was:
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42. The odes of Keats are: (PGT-13)
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43. The year Keats's career. (PGT-13)was the culminating point in
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44. To which of the following poetic genres does "In Memoriam" belong?
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45. When did Robert Browning's mother die;
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46. Browning did his schooling:
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47. Arnold selects some passages from Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Milton to prove his-
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48. Who said, "Chancer lacks high seriousness"?
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49. Touchstone method was given by -
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50. In which category will you play Arnold as a critic?
