PG TRB ENGLISH (2014 - 2015) QUESTION PAPER WITH ANSWERS

TENTATIVE ANSWER KEYS FOR TRB PG ASSISTANTS
EXAM HELD ON 10.01.2015
ENGLISH
1. Aeolus is the Greek God of
A) Thunder B) Sea C) Wind D) Wine
2. The action of the play Death of Salesman takes place in _________ house.
A) Uncle Ben’s B) Willy Loman’s C) Miss. Forsythe’s D) Howard Wagner’s
3. Earth is the right place for love
I do not know where it is likely to go better’ – These lines occur in
A) Birches B) Mending Wall
C) The Road Not Taken D) West Running Brook
4. Emerson asserts the ________ of the truly creative scholarship
A) Sincerity B) Originality C) Creativity D) Loyalty
5. ‘Take me away! Oh! the filthy beast’ – ‘Beast’ here refers to
A) Yank B) Lang C) Paddy D) Doughlass
6. The carriage in which Dickinson travelled held the poetess, death and
A) Immortality B) Mortality C) Fear D) Immorality
7. Sylvia Plath describes her father as a Nazi Officer and associates him with a
A) Cross B) Holy Grail C) Sun Cross D) Swastika
8. “The Cambridge Ladies who live in furnished souls”
In the above lines the The Camridge Ladies, the phrase “furnished souls” refers to the souls
fashioned by the
A) Spirit of culture B) Sprit of the place C) Spirit of patriotism D) Spirit of fervor
9. Ishmael prefers to go to the sea simply as a
A) Captain B) Tar C) Tourist D) Sailor
10. ________taught huckleberry firm about Moses and Bulrushers.
A) Widow Douglas B) Miss. Watson C) Judge Thatcher D) Torn
11. In which of the following year was Tagore awarded the Nobel prize for Literature?
A) 1923 B) 1912 C) 1915 D) 1913
12. What sort of a character of the father described in Nizzim Ezekiel’s “Night of the Scorpion”?
A) Spiritual B) Suspicious C) Sceptical D) Superstitious
13. The women of Kanthapura gathered under the leadership of
A) Narasamma B) Rangamma C) Nanjamma D) Satamma
14. In “Tughlaq” Sultan Mohammad shifted the capital from
A) Daulatabad to Kaziabad B) Kaziabad to Delhi
C) Delhi to Daulatabad D) Daulatabad to Delhi

15. The title of kamala Markandaya’s “A Handful of Rice” is suggestive of
A) Poverty B) Agriculture C) Prosperity D) None of these
16. __________ decides the fate of its characters in a tragedy.
A) Climax B) Exposition C) Complication D) Catastrophe
17. Who described the novel as a “Pocket Theatre”?
A) Marion Crawford B) Baccaccio C) Meridith D) W.H.Hudson
18. Which movement prepared the ground for modern poetry?
A) Imagism B) Symbolism C) Decadence D) Aestheticism
19. Who wrote English like a dead language according to T.S. Eliot?
A) Dryden B) Pope C) Wordsworth D) John Milton
20. The word “hermeneutics” means
A) To consolidate B) To compose C) To correlate D) To explain
21. ________ had no ‘silent syllables’ and the spelling was phonetic because the letters
represented the sounds fairly closely.
A) Middle English B) Old English C) Modern English D) Latin
22. Using “honor, color” without “u”, employing one consonant instead of two in “traveler,
Wagon”, using “er” instead of “re”, preferring “s” in words like “defense, offense” are all
examples of
A) International spelling B) British spelling C) American spelling D) Indian spelling
23. The word ‘anthology’ now used to designate a collection of poems, is literally the Greek term
for a bunch of flowers. It has changed its meaning owing to
A) Extension or transference B) Polarisation or colouring
C) Metaphorical application D) Specialisation
24. God created Adam and “whatever Adam called every living creature, that was the name
thereof” supports the view that language originated from
A) The natural –sound source B) The oral gesture source
C) The divine source D) Glossogenetics
25. “Mongoose, bungalow, shampoo, juggernaut” have been borrowed from
A) Rome B) France C) Scandinavia D) India
26. According to Tate, metaphorical meaning is called
A) Contention B) Intention C) Extension D) Tension
27. According to Cleanth Brooks, ________ are important in poetry.
A) Canotations B) Denotations C) Metres D) Rhymes
28. Frye’s criticism is not ________ based.
A) Content B) Meaning C) Moral D) Text
29. Dryden’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesie is cast in the form of
A) Poem B) Address C) Play D) Dialogue
30. According to Frye, the pastoral name ‘Lycidas’ is the equivalent of
A) Apollo B) Adonis C) St. Peter D) David
31. “Oats, Wheat”:- ‘s’ in oats and its absence in wheat shows that
A) Wheat does not take plural – s B) Oats is grammatically plural
C) Wheat is grammatically singular
D) Grammatical distinctions are not semantic and there cannot be a one-to-one
correspondence between the two


32. Two or more different (written) forms like ‘flour-flower’, ‘pale-pail’ that have the same
pronunciation are called
A) Homophones B) Homonyms C) Polysemy D) Metonymy
33. Words that derive their meaning based on emotional rather than rational attitudes are the
result of
A) Assocation B) Collocation C) Connotation D) Denotation
34. Dialect is ‘a variety of language distinguished according to user’. What is ‘a variety of
language distinguished according to use’ called?
A) Idiolect B) Register C) Tone D) Pitch
35. Who among the following writers was a member of the royal society which was founded in
1662 to fix English spelling?
A) Beckett B) James Boswell C) Skinner D) Dryden
36. Sounds that are articulated with a stricture of complete oral closure are called
A) Plosives B) Nasals C) Fricatives D) Affricates
37. What is the largest unit to which we can assign a grammatical structure?
A) Clause B) Phrase C) Sentence D) Paragraph
38. Subordination of one sentence so that it functions as part of the other sentence is called
A) Kernel B) Complementation C) Prediction D) Embedding
39. Segmentation of a sentence until the smallest units, morphemes are reached is
A) Phrase structure B) TG grammar C) IC analysis D) Latinate fallacy
40. Language has a finite set of rules and infinite number of sentences. So, repeating the same
linguistic device again and again to form the longest sentence is
A) Embedding B) Recursion C) Constituent D) Ambiguity
41. According to Ferdinand Sassure “Langue” refers to
A) Meaning of Language B) Structure of Language
C) Origin of Language D) Function of Language
42. Communicative approach emphasizes
A) The rules of Language B) History of Language
C) The meaning of Language D) Function of Language
43. Suggestopedia is the pedagogic application of suggestion; advocated by Lozanov.
He was a
A) Linguist B) Essayist C) Psychiatrist D) ELT specialist
44. British language teaching specialist Michael West examined the role of English in India in the
A) 1920s B) 1930s C) 1960s D) 1970s
45. Who coined the term ‘Post Modernism’?
A) Roman Jakobson B) Lesile Fiedler C) Leslie Mallarme D) Stanley Fish
46. Which of the following consonants are syllabic?
A) |p b t d| B) |m n l r| C) |f v s z| D) |k g m n|
47. Identify the English Bible translators.
A) Tyndale and Coverdale B) Tyndale and Dr. Johnson
C) Coverdale and Boswell D) Boswell and Dr. Johnson
48. Jakob Grimm referred to verbs that show change in tense by change of vowel as
A) Weak verbs B) Secondary verbs C) Derivatives D) Strong verbs

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