Educationwell March 23, 2022

Important Questions of Master Cadre Exam 

1.   Which of the following in NOT a book by Khushwant Singh ?

  1.  The Sunset Club
  2.  'Truth, Love and a little Malice
  3.  Train to Pakistan
  4. Bend in the Forest

2. Besides Literature, Tagore Contributed to

  1. ·      Architecture
  2. ·      Music
  3. ·      Archeology
  4. ·      Occult Science

3. Who made a film on Tagore's "The Home and the World'?

  1. ·      Mrinal Sen
  2. ·      Ritwik Ghatak
  3. ·      Satyajit Ray
  4. ·      Tapan Sen

4. ‘The Shadow Lines' is a novel by

  1. ·      Satyajit Roy
  2. ·      Vijay Tendulker
  3. ·      Amitav Ghosh
  4. ·      Khushwant Singh

5. On which issue is Amitav Ghosh's 'The Great Derangement written?

  1. ·      Emigration
  2. ·      Globalization
  3. ·      Cultural Degradaton
  4. ·      climate change

6. Besides writing in English, A. K. Ramanujan also wrote in

  1. ·      Tamil
  2. ·      Talugu
  3. ·      Kannada
  4. ·      Malayalam

7. Velutha is a character in

  1. ·      The God of Small Things'
  2. ·      "Ministry of utmost Happiness
  3. ·      'Sea of Poppies
  4. ·      The Great Indian Novel

8. Which award was bestowed upon the novel Ministry of Utmost Happiness'?

  1. ·      Booker Prize
  2. ·      Sahitya Akademi Award
  3. ·      Gian Peeth Award
  4. ·      None of the above

9. "Listening to Grasshoppers is a collection of essays by

  1. ·      Amitav Ghosh
  2. ·      A.K. Ramanujan
  3. ·      Khushwant Singh
  4. ·       Arundhati Roy

10. Sign, according to Saussure, is made up of

  1. ·      one aspect only
  2. ·      Two aspect
  3. ·      three aspects
  4. ·      none of the above

11. The smallest unit of a language is

  1. ·      Phoneme
  2. ·      Morpheme
  3. ·      word
  4. ·      phonetics

12. Which type of consonant sound is /ʃ/

  1. ·      plosive
  2. ·      stop
  3. ·      fricative
  4. ·      affricate

13. Syntagmatic relations are

  1. ·      arbitrary
  2. ·      vertical
  3. ·      horizontal
  4. ·      diagonal

14. In the word "friendly "ly' is

  1. ·      free morpheme
  2. ·      allomorph
  3. ·      bound morpheme
  4. ·      none of the above

15. The descriptive term "labio-dental' refers to

  1. ·      vowel sound
  2. ·      phonology
  3. ·      form of articulation
  4. ·      place of articulation

16. Dialect of a language is peculiar to

  1. ·      a region
  2. ·      a social group
  3. ·      both (a) and (b)
  4. ·      an idiolect

17. If the word 'Conduct' is used as a noun, then the accent falls on

  1. ·      first syllable
  2. ·       second syllable
  3. ·       none of the syllables
  4. ·      all the syllables

18. Allophones in English are

  1. ·      distinctive
  2. ·      contrastive
  3. ·      in complementary distribution
  4. ·       none of the above

19.  Individual differences in language articulation

  1. ·      are dialectal
  2. ·      pertain to different registers
  3. ·      pertain to idiolect
  4. ·      are regional

20. “The Faerie Queene' is a poem by

  1. ·      Chaucer
  2. ·      John Milton
  3. ·      Edmund Spencer
  4. ·      John Dryden

21. Dramatic monologue is considered the forte of

  1.     Elizabeth Gaskel
  2.       Shakespeare
  3.       Donne
  4.       Robert Browning

22. "Where Engels Fear to Tread' is a novel by

  1.       Virginia Woolf
  2.       E.M. Forster
  3.       H.G. Wells
  4.       Henry James

23. Descriptive linguistics is in opposition to

  1.       historical linguistics
  2.       comparative linguistics
  3.       grammar-based linguistics
  4.       prescriptive linguistics

24. Pip is the protagonist of

  1.       "Great Expectations!
  2.       "Dombey and son
  3.       Pickwick Papers
  4.       'Tale of Two Cities

25. Bloomsbury group was founded by

  1.       James Joyce
  2.       Virginia Woolf
  3.       Marlowe
  4.       Swinburne

26. Sir Roger de coverley was a character created by

  1.       Jonathan Swift
  2.       Charles Dickens
  3.       Joseph Addison
  4.       George Eliot

27. "The Scholar Gipsy' is a long poem by

  1.       Tennyson
  2.       Walter Scott
  3.       Leigh Hunt
  4.       Matthew Arnold

28. Chistopher Marlowe belonged to a group known as

  1.       University scholars
  2.        University wits
  3.       University dons
  4.       University students

29. After breaking free of medieval science and divinity, Faustus of Marlowe's 'Dr Faustus begins to consider knowledge as

  1.       a satisfying experience
  2.       power
  3.       service
  4.       something neutral

30. In which play of Shakespeare the beginning is dominated by a ghost ?

  1.       "Hamlet
  2.       'Macbeth
  3.        'King Lear
  4.       "Twelfth Night

31. Donne's poetry is replete with what is in the critical jargon known as

  1.       a metaphysical conceits
  2.        metaphysical metaphors
  3.        metaphysical ideas
  4.        metaphysical spirit

32. In which book did Noam Chomsky develop theory of generative grammar?

  1.       Syntactive structures
  2.       Grammatical structures
  3.        Syntactic rules
  4.        Grammar

33. In transformational grammar, the base structures created by phrase structure rules

  1.       remain unchanged
  2.       are altered
  3.        are deviated
  4.        are reversed

34.  What is the name of the book by Saussure?

  1.       Course in General Linguistics
  2.       Course in Linguistics
  3.        Course in Descriptive linguistics
  4.        Course for linguistics

35. In which of the following plays of Shakespeare there is a scene known as the gravedigger's scene

  1.       Henry IV
  2.       Hamlet
  3.       King Richard the Second
  4.       "Macbeth

36. 'Absalom and Achitophel' is a poem by

  1.       Alexander Pope
  2.       Marlowe
  3.       Dryden
  4.      Spencer

37. To which century does Samuel Richardson belong to?

  1.       19th
  2.       20th
  3.       18th
  4.       16th

38. "Holy Sonnets' are attributed to

  1.       Andrews
  2.       Wordsworth
  3.       Mary Shelley
  4.       Donne

39. Which of the following poems by S.T. Coleridge was written by him immediately after waking from á profound sleep, at least of the external senses?

  1.       'Kubla Khan
  2.       Ancient Mariner"
  3.       "Ode to France
  4.       "The Eolien Harp

40. What is the full title of Henry Fielding's famous novel "Tom Jones'?

  1.       The History of Tom Jones
  2.       The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  3.       The History of Tom Jones, an Orphan
  4.       The History of Tom Jones, An Aristocrat

 41. In his poems John Donne

  1.       Strikes a balance between opposites
  2.       Forges unities out of oppositions
  3.       Cancels out opposites.
  4.       Keeps the opposites apart.

42.  Victorian age was an age of

  1.       Scientific confidence and spiritual pessimism
  2.       search for the past
  3.       revivalism
  4.       degraded moralism

43. 'The Fall of Hyperion is a poem by

  1.       Mary Shelley
  2.       Marlowe
  3.       Spencer
  4.       Keats

44. A Hymn to God the Father' is a poem by

  1.       John Dryden
  2.       John Milton
  3.       Elizabeth Gaskel
  4.       John Donne

45.  The author of ‘Finnegans Wake’ is

  1.       Virginia Woolf
  2.       Mary Wollstonecraft
  3.       James Joyce
  4.       Stevie Smith
  5. Answer key:- 1-d, 2-b, 3-c, 4-c, 5-d, 6-c, 7-a, 8-d, 9-d, 10-b, 11-b, 12-c, 13-b, 14-b, 15-d,16-c, 17-a, 18-c, 19-c, 20-b, 21-d, 22-b, 23-d, 24-a, 25-c, 26-c, 27-d, 28-b, 29-b, 30-a, 31-a, 32-a, 33-b, 34-a, 35-c, 36-c, 37-c, 38-c, 39-a, 40-b, 41-b, 42-a, 43-d, 44-d, 45-c.


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