Tnpsc General English Online Model Test 5
General English Online Model Test 5
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Question 1 |
Identify the figure of speech used in the given lines. “He steps back, surveys with close scrutiny, than sharp critical galare”
Metaphor | |
Oxymoran | |
Alliteration | |
Simile |
Question 2 |
A close friend remembers that Chawla often space about travelling to ____
Venus | |
Mars | |
Jupiter | |
Saturn |
Question 3 |
Identify the famous quotation + who said? “The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flights”
H.W. Longfellow | |
Gandhi | |
Kalpana Chawla | |
Neil Armstrong |
Question 4 |
World’s __________ November 3, 1957 artificial space satellite + sputnik+2 on
First | |
Second | |
Third | |
Fourth |
Question 5 |
The first Indian Cosmonaut (Rakeshsharma) became the _______man into space
135th | |
136th | |
137th | |
138th |
Question 6 |
Rakesh Sharma was launched along with Two other soviet cosmonauts aboard_________ on 2nd April, 1984
Soyuz+11 | |
Soyuz+B11 | |
Soyuz T+11 | |
Soyuz T+17 |
Question 7 |
And hymns in the casy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide”
The figure of speech employed here is
Metaphor | |
onomatoepia | |
oxymoran | |
Anaphora |
Question 8 |
O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done
The fearful trip refers to________
Journey of war | |
The end of civil war | |
An adventurous voyage | |
The death of the captain |
Question 9 |
‘It’ in the following lines stand for________
“O, no! it is an ever fined mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken
love | |
light | |
Time | |
storm |
Question 10 |
The reddest flower would looks as pale as snow.
The poet compares the flowers to
pale | |
red | |
children | |
snow |
Question 11 |
In spite of my self, the indices mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
In which poem do these lines occur?
Migrant bird | |
Manliness | |
My grandmother’s house | |
piano |
Question 12 |
Choose the correct passive voice of the following
sentence: post this letter
The letter has no post | |
let this letter be posted | |
this letter will be posted | |
you should post this letter |
Question 13 |
Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition
Everyone laughed________ him
on | |
at | |
about | |
by |
Question 14 |
The nationality of the author of The lottery ticket is
Russian | |
Scandinavian | |
American | |
German |
Question 15 |
“spring has forgetten this” They cried
The word “they” in Oscar wilde’s “The selfish giant”
refers to_______
The snow & the frost | |
Frost and hail | |
the children | |
the birds & the flowers |
Question 16 |
If this be error and upon me prov’d
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d - who is the poet?
Keats | |
Wordsworth | |
Robert Frost | |
Shakespeare |
Question 17 |
Choose the correct active sentence given below
He awarded a price by the government
The government will award him a prize | |
The government will be awarding him a prize | |
The government have to award him prize | |
The government awarded him a prize |
Question 18 |
Identify the complex sentence
I didn’t get up early so I missed the bus | |
It is rains the match will be postponed | |
This mango is too sour to eat | |
Balu goes to school but his sister stays at home |
Question 19 |
The hunger and the mortal strife for bread old age and youth alike mistaught.
The word strife means
flight | |
struggle | |
quarrel | |
riot |
Question 20 |
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna Smoking, what is ‘Etna’?
an earth quake | |
a tsunami effect | |
a tempest | |
a volcanic mountain |
Question 21 |
“I mark’d” where on a little promontory it stood is isolated
‘It’ here stands for
The poet | |
The web | |
The spider | |
a raised land |
Question 22 |
In which poem, does the following line occur?
“Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him”?
The nation united | |
The man he killed | |
snake | |
Migrant bird |
Question 23 |
Form a new word by blending the words splash + spatter
Splutter | |
Splatter | |
platter | |
none |
Question 24 |
Identify the “figure of speech” employed in the given lines
Have you noticed how some people, may seem plain as
plain can be?
Metaphor | |
personification | |
simile | |
none of these |
Question 25 |
Select the plural form of “Alumna”
alumnae | |
alumnea | |
alumini | |
aluminis |
Question 26 |
Name the poem in which the following lines appear
And let the guerdon of my labour be
My fallen country! One kind wish from you
To India my native land | |
No men are foreign | |
You can’t be that, no you can’t be that | |
foot mints |
Question 27 |
The mechanic tried to fin the broken____only in____
wane and vain | |
wane and vane | |
vane and wain | |
vane and vain |
Question 28 |
“A new discovered TreasureH..”
The fig of speech employed in this lines is_______
smile | |
oxymoron | |
personification | |
transferred epithet |
Question 29 |
In which poem does the following line occur
I’ll be full of rooks, crannies, valley and fountains
My grandmother’s house | |
No men are foreign | |
You can’t be that, no you can’t be that | |
Don’t quit |
Question 30 |
Identify the poetic line that differs in figure speech from the other lines
speech that came like lech craft | |
still like muffled drums are beating | |
life is but an empty dream | |
As humble plants by country hedge gross growing |
Question 31 |
Exult, o shores! And ring, o bells!
These lines are taken from the poem
O captain! My captain | |
Be the best | |
Is life but a dream | |
Solitary Reaper |
Question 32 |
You’ve fallen cold and dead
O captain! My captain | |
Be the best | |
Is life but a dream | |
Solitary Reaper |
Question 33 |
Be’ a scrub in the valley
O captain! My captain | |
Be the best | |
Is life but a dream | |
Solitary Reaper |
Question 34 |
There is something for all of us here
O captain! My captain | |
Be the best | |
Is life but a dream | |
Solitary Reaper |
Question 35 |
Never seen by waking eyes
O captain! My captain | |
Be the best | |
Is life but a dream | |
Solitary Reaper |
Question 36 |
Stop here, or gently pass!
O captain! My captain | |
Be the best | |
Is life but a dream | |
Solitary Reaper |
Question 37 |
Holiday is written by_______
Rabindranath Tagore | |
O. Henry | |
Guy de Maupassant | |
Oscar wilde |
Question 38 |
Every living thing is written by__________
Pudumaippittan | |
James Herriot | |
Sundara Ramaswamy | |
Jack Preltsky |
Question 39 |
Who has four sons in the farmer lesson
Kuttichovan | |
Kutty mapila | |
Outhakutty | |
Kesavan Nair |
Question 40 |
Bushel is a unit of measuring grain equal to_______
8 kg | |
6 gallons | |
6 kg | |
8 gallons |
Question 41 |
Thakazhi Sivasankaran pillai wrote over_______novals
35 | |
25 | |
20 | |
30 |
Question 42 |
Parched means____
flood | |
winter | |
dry | |
summer |
Question 43 |
The helping hand is written by
K.V. Renganathan | |
S. Muthukrishnan | |
E.M. Forster | |
Nirmala Jairaj |
Question 44 |
The road to success is extracted from_____
India 2020 | |
Dale Carnegie | |
If | |
Merchant of venice |
Question 45 |
Which is 1st vision
Freedom of India | |
Developed India | |
Beyond 2020 | |
Women empowerment |
Question 46 |
Vision for the nation is edited by________
K.V. Renganathan | |
S. Muthukrishnan | |
Nirmala Jairaj | |
S. Kumaresan |
Question 47 |
The farmer is edited by____
K.V. Renganathan | |
S. Muthukrishnan | |
Nirmala Jairaj | |
V.K. Gokak |
Question 48 |
The author of reflowering
Sundara Ramaswamy | |
Pudumaipittan | |
Nirmala Jairaj | |
S. Muthukrishnan |
Question 49 |
Enhanced means
increased | |
most favour | |
soul | |
determined |
Question 50 |
“Why don’t we cut open breaches on the bunds at night and divert the water back to the other fields?” is said by
Kesavan Nair | |
Kuttychovan | |
Kutty Mapila | |
Othakutty |
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