GENERAL ENGLISH GROUP II PRELIMS TEST

GENERAL ENGLISH GROUP II PRELIMS TEST

1.     Let me but live my life from year to year,

With forward face and unreluctant soul;

Whom does the word ‘me’ refer to?

a)     Receiver

b)     People

c)     Poet

d)     God

Ans: c

2.     Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;

Not mourning for the things that disappear

What is the figure of speech mentioned in these lines.

a)     Simile

b)     Metaphor

c)     Personification

d)     Anaphora

Ans: d

3.     Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;

Not mourning for the things that disappear

What should one not mourn for?

a)     Goal

b)     Things

c)     Past

d)     Last

Ans: b

4.     In the dim past, nor holding back in fear

What does the poet mean by the phrase ‘in the dim past’?

a)     Dull past life

b)     Happy past life

c)     Dull present life

d)     Happy present life

Ans: a

5.     So let the way wind up the hill or down,

O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy:

 Still seeking what I sought when but a boy,

New friendship, high adventure, and a crown

 

What is rhyme scheme of this stanza

a)     AA BB

b)     AB AB

c)     AB BA

d)     AA BA

Ans: C

6.     In the dim past, nor holding back in fear

From what the future veils; but with a whole

And happy heart, that pays its toll

To Youth and Age, and travels on with cheer.

 

Identify the rhyming words of the given lines.

a)     Fear-whole

b)     Whole-toll

c)     Toll-cheer

d)     From-future

Ans: b

 

 

 

 

 

7.     She's a lioness; don't mess with her.

She'll not spare you if you're a prankster.

 

What is the figure of speech mentioned here?

a)     Metaphor

b)     Onomatopoeia

c)     Simile

d)     Repetition

Ans: a

8.     She puts her life at stake,

She's real, she's not fake!

Pick out alliteration words from the lines

a)     Stake-fake

b)     She-stake

c)     Real-she

d)     She’s-not

Ans: b

9.     Despite the sighs and groans and moans,

She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief!

Pick out the words that show her grit.

a)     Sighs groans

b)     Groans moans

c)     She sighs

d)     Faith firm

Ans: d

 

10.The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.

She says, "Spring will come again, my dear

Let me care for the ones who're near.

What does she mean by “spring will come again”?

a)     Good times will come

b)     Bad times will come

c)     Present is never change ever

d)     None of the above

Ans: a

11.Strong is she in her faith and belief.

“Persistence is the key to everything,” says she.

What is the key to everything?

a)     Strong

b)     Belief

c)     Persistence

d)     Beauty

Ans:c

12.A woman is beauty innate,

A symbol of power and strength.

She puts her life at stake,

She's real, she's not fake!

Pick out the rhyming words from the above lines.

a)     Innate-strength

b)     Stake-fake

c)     Strength-stake

d)     No rhyme

Ans: b

13.If not, he must die of starvation and sorrow.

Says the ant to the cricket, “I’m your servant and friend,

Who is the speaker here?

a)     Poet

b)     Cricket

c)     Ant

d)     Listener

Ans: c

 

 

14.My heart was so light

That I sang day and night,

For all nature looked gay.”

 “For all nature looked gay”.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem lines?

a)     AA BB

b)     BB AA

c)     AA AA

d)     BB BB

Ans: a

15. Says the ant to the cricket, “I’m your servant and friend,

Who is the lazy character mentioned here?

a)     Ant

b)     Poet

c)     Cricket

d)     Servant

Ans: c

16.A silly young cricket accustomed to sing

Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring.

What was the routine of the cricket?

a)     Sleep

b)     Sing

c)     Saving

d)     Lavishing

Ans: b

17.Began to complain when he found that,

at home, His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

Who does he refer to?

a)     Poet

b)     Ant

c)     Cricket

d)     Listener

Ans: c

18.He wished only to borrow;

He’d repay it tomorrow;

Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines.

a)     Wished-only

b)     Repay-it

c)     He-he’d

d)     Borrow-tomorrow

Ans: d

19.We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,

We were melted in the furnace and the pit

Who is the author of this poem?

a)     Henry van dyke

b)     Robert frost

c)     Rudyard kipling

d)     William wordsworth

Ans: c

20.It will vanish and the stars will shine again,

What is the meaning for word ‘vanish ‘?

a)     Appear

b)     Disappear

c)     Shine

d)     Vein

Ans: b

21.We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,

We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit.

Who does ‘we’ refer to in first line?

a)     Human beings

b)     Machines

c)     God and goddess

d)     Animals

Ans: b

22.We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive

What is the figure of speech here?

a)     Metaphor

b)     Personification

c)     Simile

d)     Assonance

Ans: b

23.Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes,

What is the figure of speech here?

a)     Metaphor

b)     Personification

c)     connotation

d)     Assonance

Ans: c

24.We can print and plough and weave and heat and light,

Pick out the alliteration words here.

a)     We-can

b)     Print-plough

c)     Heat-light

d)     Weave-and

Ans: b

25.Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes

Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon

Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

What is found beneath all uniforms?

a)     Star

b)     Person

c)     Earth

d)     Sun

Ans: b

26.They, too, aware of sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.

Mention the season referred here?

a)     Summer

b)     Autumn

c)     Spring

d)     Winter

Ans: d

27.They, too, aware of sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.

What is the figure of speech here?

a)     Hyperbole

b)     Epithet

c)     Transferred epithet

d)     Metaphor

Ans: c

28.A labour not different from our own.

Remember they have eyes like ours that wake

Or sleep, and strength that can be won

By love. In every land is common life

What is the rhyme scheme of the lines?

a)     AB AC

b)     AB AB

c)     AA BB

d)     BB AD

Ans: a

29.They, too, aware of sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.

How are we fed?

a)     Sun

b)     Winter

c)     Harvest

d)     Water

Ans: c

30.Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence

Of air that is everywhere our own,

Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

Who are not foreign?

a)     Birds

b)     Fish

c)     No men

d)     Children

Ans: c