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TNPSC GR - IV
1.
Identify
the
incorrect
sentence
from
the
following:
6.
a) his friends palace
a) Apples are not so sweet as Mangoes
b) his son’s home
b) Mangoes are sweeter then Apples
c) to the neighbouring village
c) Japanese are the industrious people in the
d) the paradise
world
d) Gold is costlier than silver
2.
7.
laurels”
Laurels mean
b) One of the bicycles is defective
a) failures
c) One of the bicycle are defective
b) rewards
d) One of the bicycles were defective
c) wealth
d) criticisms
Find out the correct sentence:
“She goes to school by van”
a) is she?
8.
that ends in a cold and menacing snout with icy
c) are they?
waters flowing below”,
d) doesn’t she?
In the given passage the word menacing means
Which of the following sentences is wrong?
a) Threatening
b) pacifying
a) Dad Polished his shoes yesterday
c) attracting
d) repelling
b) Subhash has cut the vegetable just now
c) The police have catch the motorcyclist for
9.
speeding
In which poem do these lines occur?
a) The Cry of the Children
“If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail,
b) Migrant Bird
If you can’t be the Sun, be a star;
c) Shilpi
It is not the size that you win or you fail
Be the Best of whatever you are!....”
The Rhyme Scheme in the above given lines is..
a) aa
b) a b a b
c) a b c
d) a a b
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“Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron
In the factories, round and round”
d) The ripe fruit has fallen from the tree
5.
“To my immediate right the Nanda Pal glacier
slopes down supply______ofcourse for the fact
b) aren’t they?
4.
“The attainment of a developed status by 2020
does not mean that we can then rest on our
Find out the correct sentence:
a) One of the bicycle is defective
3.
The Giant’s final journey was to
d) Going for water
10.
Which of the following is not a poem?
a) The power of Laughter
b) No Men are Foreign
c) A Tiger in the Zoo
d) My Grandmother’s House
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11.
“I won’t look down. No I will not
a) The Farmer
with speed of wings I hasten Past”.
b) The Merchant of Venice
c) Buds to Blossoms
In whose poem do the following lines occur?
d) Hiroshima
a) Famida Y. Basheer
b) Kamala Surrayya
18.
c) Archibald Lampman
12.
against the British was
d) Rudyard Kipling
a) Lakshmibai
b) Bhagirathibai
The poem ‘Laugh and be Merry’ is written by
c) Nana Sahib
d) Durgadevi
a) H.W. Longfellow
19.
b) Robert Frost
a) Mahasweta Devi
d) John Masefield
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Walt Whitman wrote the poem “O Captain! My
d) Sunil Gangopadhyay
Captain!” as a dirge for the death of
14.
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Andrew Jackson
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Abraham Lincoln
20.
sentence:
“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains”.
below:
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
But actually it
c) BertonBraley
means the opposite is known as
a) Paradox
b) Irony
c) Apostrophe
d) Litotes
d) Jean Jacques Rousseau
21.
b) Of childish days in upon me, my manhood is
In which of the poem the following line occurs?
“And You O my soul where you stand”
a) Be the Best
b) A noiseless patient spider
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Sam
2.
Rex Coker
c)
A man who had
3.
Tammy Ruggles
4.
R.K. Narayan
A
Close
Encounter
d) Is waiting its time to share?
Which of the following is a drama?
Mackinlay Kantor
b)
d)
c) But once within the wood, we paused
17.
1.
no eyes
cast
d) Migrant Bird
Swami and the
Sum
a) With sixty seconds “worth of distance run”
c) Going for water
Match the short stories with the authors:
a)
Which of the following lines belongs to “Robert
Frost”?
16.
Identify the author who uttered the following
Select the correct answer from the options given
A statement tells something.
15.
Who amoung the following is a Bengali poet and
has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
13.
During the Sepoy Mutiny, the queen who fought
22.
A
B
C
D
a)
b)
c)
4
1
4
1
3
3
3
4
1
2
2
2
d)
1
3
2
4
Which of the following is adapted from a short
story written by Oscar Wilde?
a) A Close Encounter
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b) Caught Sneezing
27.
c) The Summer Flight
Find the odd ONE from the following sentences:
a) The sky was darker and the cold was more
d) Swept Away
23.
intense
b) He sat down under a tree and wept bitterly
Which one of the following pairs is matched
c) Inspite of being hot, we managed to work.
correctly?
d) Miriam married and left her father.
a) Manliness by D.H. Lawrence
b) The Piano by Rudyard Kipling
24.
28.
c) Going for Water by William Blake
given below:
d) Beautiful Inside by Paul Holmes
a) They came immediately
b) The rain had stopped
Match the folk arts under Column A with their
c) Rajesh entered the school
states under Column B:
Column A
25.
Identify the past perfect tense from the options
d) We called them back
Column B
29.
Blend the following words and select the correct
a)
Bihu
1.
Tamil Nadu
b)
Dandya Das
2.
Maharashtra
codes given below:
c)
Kolattam
3.
Assam
a)
Handy
1.
Pen
d)
Tamasha
4.
Gujarat
b)
Fountain
2.
Music
c)
Kilo
3.
Cam
d)
Pop
4.
Gram
A
B
C
D
a)
4
3
2
1
b)
3
4
1
2
c)
2
1
3
4
d)
1
2
3
4
From the given options, choose the poet who
has written “Don’t Quit”
a) John Masefield
b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
30.
A
B
C
D
a)
1
4
2
3
b)
4
3
2
1
c)
3
1
4
2
d)
1
2
3
4
Match the following suffixes with the rootward
and mark the codes given below:
c) Robert Frost
d) Edgar A. Guest
26.
Which of the following sentences are in active
voice?
I. They sing songs in the assembly
II. A notice was sent by the manager.
III. You gave him your pen
IV. He has built a house in his native place.
a) Only, I, III and IV are correct
b) Only II, III and IV are correct
Column A
Column B
a)
Migrate
1.
Ment
b)
Notice
2.
Ern
c)
North
3.
Ion
d)
Excite
4.
able
A
B
C
D
a)
1
4
2
3
b)
3
4
2
1
c)
3
1
4
2
d)
2
4
3
1
c) I, II and III are correct
d) All are correct
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31.
Fluttering and twittering are the admirable
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Rajaji
actions of birds. Here twittering means
c) Nelson Mandela
d) Emerson
a) Chirping
38.
b) Picking
YaanaiMalai
Identify the character who is not portrayed in
“The Merchant of Venice’.
39.
a) Portia
a) Northeast
b) Southeast
c) Northwest
d) Southwest
d) Brutus
a)
Read the passage and select the correct answer
b)
Column B
Solitary
1.
Khalil Gibran
2.
D.H. Lawrence
Reaper
from the options given below:
Is Life but a
Dream?
The selfish giant in the short story of Oscar
c)
The Earth
3.
Lewis Carroll
Wilde, finally longs for
d)
Snake
4.
William
a) food
Wordsworth
b) love
c) power
d) wealth
_______said, “Don’t let anyone tell you ‘You
can’t do it!’”
a) Rakesh Sharma
b) Sunita Williams
c) KalpanaChawla
d) Buzz Aldrin
40.
“The duty to Yourself is two fold”, said
b) ViswanathanAnand
c) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
41.
The above are the words of
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a)
3
4
2
1
b)
4
3
1
2
c)
3
1
2
4
e)
4
2
3
1
David Herbert Lawrence occupies a unique
a) Modernist writers
b) Classical writers
c) Victorian writers
d) Neo-classical writers
The
theme
portrayed
in
Elizabeth
Barret
c) Patriotism
d) Child Labour
b) The Helping Hand
“Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide”
D
b) Women’s Liberation
a) The Road to success
37.
C
a) Socialism
Which of the following is a poem?
d) O Captain! My Captain!
B
Browning’s poem “The Cry of the Children” is
d) Subash Chandra Bose
c) Vision for the Nation
A
position among the leading_____of England.
a) Rabindranath Tagore
36.
an
Match the poems in Column A with the poets in
Column A
c) Shylock
35.
like
Column B:
b) Bassanio
34.
looks
direction
d) Dropping
33.
Monolith,
elephant only when it is viewed from this
c) Dancing
32.
The
42.
What is the theme of the poem, ‘A Psalm of
life’?
a) Optimism
b) Pessimism
c) Patriotism
d) Friendship
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43.
Fill in the blank from the options given below:
a) King Lear
ZIP codes are a system of Postal code used
b) Othello
c) Julius Caesar
by_____ postal service.
44.
a) the Australian
b) the Indian
c) the United States
d) the Japan
d) The Merchant of Venice
50.
a) Lebanon
Which of the following is not a poem?
b) India
a) The Piano
c) Pakistan
b) The Cry of the Children
d) Iran
c) The model Millionaire
d) Shilpi
45.
51.
correct answer from the options given below:
Column A
The bird was
a) Peacock
b) Linnet
d) Parrot
a) Sonnets of Sorrow
b) Voice of America
c) Quartet for the End of Time
d) Brahms Requiem
Whitman belong?
52.
b)
Reenataught
c)
Rani ate ice cream
3.
Verb
d)
Radha is a doctor
4.
Compliment
A
B
C
D
a)
3
1
2
4
b)
1
2
3
4
c)
4
1
2
3
e)
2
1
4
3
Choose correct prepositions from the options
b) behind, near, into
c) into, near, behind
England?
d) near, behind, into
a) D.H. Lawrence
The line, “It blesseth him that gives and him that
Object
a) into, behind, near
Who among the poets given below, is not from
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2.
been kept.
d) France
c) Robert Frost
Subject
is a narrow gap,_____which a few charts have
c) The U.S.A
b) Rudyard Kipling
him
1.
_______the cupboard, very______the wall, there
b) Canada
49.
He walks quickly
given:
a) Africa
48.
a)
Olivier Messiaen composed the
To which nationality does the poet Walt
Column B
Hindi
c) Cuckoo
47.
Match the underlined words in Column A with
their parts of speech in Column B and select the
One morning the giant was lying awake in bed
and he heard some lovely music of a bird.
46.
Khalil Gibran is from
53.
Identify the sentence pattern:
One of the boys had been singing well.
a) SVC
b) S V O C
c) S V A
d) S V IO DO
takes”. Occurs in the play
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54.
55.
Which of the following phrasal verbs suits the
59.
given sentence?
with their American English equivalents under
_______your bad habits.
Column B and choose the correct code.
a) get back
b) give in
c) give up
d) get on
Column A
Choose the correct ‘synonym’ of the underlined
word
from
the
SivasubramaniaIyer’s
given
wife
options
was
very
conservative.
56.
a) traditional
b) ideal
c) liberal
d) formal
What is “Possessive Adjectives”?
a) They answer the question which
b) They answer to the question whose
60.
d) They answer the question How much
Match the following identifying the phrase to
complete the sentence and mark the correct
61.
a)
The
1.
Harder and harder
new
2.
More expensive
The
c)
The
new
3.
58.
It is getting
b)
Dustbin
2.
Jelly
c)
Jam
3.
Guy
d)
Fellow
4.
French fries
A
B
C
D
a)
1
4
3
2
b)
3
4
1
2
c)
2
4
3
1
d)
4
1
2
3
The American English equivalent of the word
a) zee
b) wash room
c) wash tank
d) sink
The first step in the road to success, according
d) start devoting time and energy
Gopala Krishna Gokhale was
a) a freedom fighter
So costly
b) a thespian
waiters are
d)
Garbage can
c) set yourself clear goals
62.
sweets are
1.
b) steer clear of pitfalls
Cake is
b)
Chips
a) believe that success is not a bed of roses
Column B
cream
a)
to Edwin C Bliss, is to
code:
Column A
Column B
‘washbasin’ is
c) They answer the question How many
57.
Match the British English words under Column A
4.
c) the first President of India
better
A
B
C
D
a)
1
3
4
2
b)
3
2
1
4
c)
2
3
4
1
d)
4
2
1
3
Find out the sentence where gerund is used:
a) Sujatha is wealthy but she is not generous
d) the first Prime Minister of India
63.
what is the theme observed in the story “The
mark of Vishnu”?
a) Upholding patriotism
b) Quest for freedom
c) Abolition of communism
d) Riddance of superstition
b) We sat on the floor
c) Writing is always better than to read
d) She is a teacher and a singer
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64.
65.
Which of the following is a poem?
68.
a) Wings of Fire
the life of a migrant bird with that of the
b) Gaia tells her tale
a) weapons
c) To India – My Native Land
b) human beings
d) The Golden Path
c) animals
d) enemies
Match the names of the poets under column A
with the names of the poems, under column B
69.
and choose the correct code.
Column A
a)
b)
Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth
1.
2.
b) A Psalm of Life
My Grandmother’s
c) The Solitary Reaper
house
d) Laugh and be Merry
Piano
70.
D.H. Lawrence
3.
b) The Mark of Vishnu
The Cry of the
c) Snake
Children
d)
Which of the following in not a prose?
a) A Dictionary of the English Language
Browning
c)
Which of the following works is not a poem?
a) To the Land of Snow
Column B
Barrett
Kamala
4.
d) Vision for the Nation
The Man He Killed
Surayya
66.
In the poem “Migrant Bird” the poet contrasts
71.
Which of the following literary works exhibits the
A
B
C
D
theme of optimism?
a)
1
2
3
4
a) Laugh and be Merry
b)
1
4
3
2
b) Sonnet No: 116
c)
4
3
1
2
c) The Solitary Reaper
d)
4
3
2
1
d) The Man he Killed
“A note as from a single place,
72. Match the characters under Column ‘B’ with the
relevant story titles under Column ‘A’.
A slender tinkling fall that made”
Column A
These above lines occur in the poem
67.
Column B
a) Going for water
a)
The Necklace
1.
Behrman
b) Beautiful Inside
b)
Lottery Ticket
2.
Morissot
c) The cry of the Children
c)
The Last Leaf
3.
Matilda
d) Migrant Bird
d)
Two friends
4.
Masha
Identify the figure of speech used in the
following poetic line.
In the world’s broad field of battle
a) Personification
b) Simile
c) Metaphor
d) Oxymoron
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73.
A
B
C
D
a)
b)
4
3
1
4
3
1
2
2
c)
d)
3
2
1
3
2
1
4
4
Identify the nationality of the author, of the story
“The Lottery Ticket”.
a) China
b)
Russia
c) The U.S.A
d)
England
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74.
Whose autobiography is named “Wings of Fire”?
79.
a) Dr. Samuel Johnson
b) Rabindranath Tagore
B and select the correct answer from the options
given :
c) Gandhiji
d) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Column A
a)
75. Match the characters under Column ‘A’ with the
b)
correct option from those given below :
c)
a)
Vera
1.
Holiday
b)
Johnsy
2.
The Last Leaf
c)
PhatikChakrabarthi
3.
The Selfish Giant
d)
The Cornish Ogre
4.
Open Window
B
C
D
a)
4
2
1
3
b)
c)
3
1
4
3
2
4
1
2
d)
2
1
3
4
d)
80.
2.
Active Voice
The mountain is
3.
Complex
Sentence
Though he is old,
4.
Passive Voice
A
B
C
D
a)
2
4
1
3
b)
c)
4
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
d)
3
1
2
4
Identify thee gerund form from the options given
below :
a) Keeping left is always safe
day before
b) To find fault with others is easy
b) He asked Rehim that when did I intended
paying him back
c) David wants to study Biology
c) He exclaimed with joy that they had won the
match
d) He asked me where I had get his interesting
d) He likes to read science fiction
81.
a) I promised that I will do my best
Fill in the blanks with suitable articles :
__________
Woodcock
Himalayas
to
flies
__________
from
b) I promised to do my best
________
c) I will do my best and I promised it
Nilgiriswithout
d) I promised so that I will do my best
_______ pause.
a) a, the, a, the
b) the, the, a, the
c) a, the, the, the
d) the, the, the, a
correct
antonyms
Identify the simple sentences from the given
option :
novel from
the
A book was written
cannot climb it
a) He told Sheela that if she were in town the
Choose
Compound
he walks quickly
proper Reported Speech form
78.
1.
very steep and I
76. Find the sentence from options given, which is in
77.
I lost my purse
by Meera
Column B
A
Column B
Sentences
stories given under Column ‘B’ and select the
Column A
Match the sentences in Column A with Column
for
82.
the
Which of the following plural forms is correct?
a) Passers-by
b) Brother-in-laws
c) Runner ups
d) Commander-in-chiefs
underlinded word.
Knowledge is an exacting mistress.
a) Contented
b) Demanding
c) Insecure
d) Surplussing
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83.
Match the following phrases/idioms given under
Column A with their meanings under Column B
and select the correct answer from the codes
given below :
Column A
a)
89.
1.
2.
A chance in a
3.
million
b) Earth
A very slim
c) A sonnet for my incomparable mother
d)
A penny for youth
85.
86.
87.
Very well
A
B
C
D
a)
3
4
2
1
b)
c)
3
4
1
1
4
2
2
3
d)
2
4
3
1
Identify the odd pair
a)
Swept Away

Susannah Hickling
b)
The lottery ticket

Oscar wilde
c)
No men are

James Kirkup

Leo Tolstoy
foreign
d)
91.
The wooden Bowl
What is the name of the British born poetess
who wrote “Women’s Rights” ?
When GangadharRao married the Rani of
Jhonsi, she was only _____________ years old.
a) Elizabeth Barret Browning
a) 15
b) 20
b) Emily Dickinson
c) 18
d) 22
Hugh Erskine got ________ pounds as his
weddings present from Baron Hausberg.
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Annie Lousia Walker
92.
Read the line and select the correct answer
c) 10,000
b) 20,000
from the options given below.
c) 30,000
d) 40,000
“How often I think of going
“The reddest flower would look as pale snow for,
there, to peer though …………”
all day, we drag out burden tiring”.
Where does Kamala Surayya think of going?
a)
Metaphor
b) Simile
c)
Oxymoron
d) Personification
a) To her uncle’s house
b) To temple
c) To her grandma’s house
Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow …. “She”
refers to
88.
90.
behaved
thoughts
84.
4.
d) Sonnet No. 116
To take
advantage
Identify the poem in which the following lines
a) Be the Best
chance
c)
d) Mumbai
You gave me strength and sweet security’
about
As good as gold
c) Agra
‘You loved me with a neverfailing love
Tells me what
you are thinking
b)
b) Calcutta
occur
Column B
To cash in on
a) Delhi
a) the poet’s mother
b) the poet’s sister
c) the poet’s daughter
d) the solitary reaper
d) To her daughter’s house
93.
“I was not born for one corner, the whole world
is my native land”.
Who said this ?
The speech in response to the student’s
a) Portia
b) Kesavan Nair
address was rendered by Gokhale at the
c) KalpanaChawla
d) Mrs. Hendorson
Victoria Hall in
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94.
Complete the sentence choosing the correct
answer :
Mr. Parsons is the character found in the lesson
c)
1
2
3
4
d)
4
1
3
2
100. “Empoli is a town in central _____________”.
a) The Helping Hand
a) Italy
b) India\
b) The Mark of Vishnu
b) Indiana
d) Indonesia
c) Gaia Tells Her Tale
d) A Man who had no Eyes
95.
Choose the best answer and completethe
sentence :
“Girl Star” a UNICEF project is a series of _____
96.
97.
a) dramas
b) short stories
c) films
d) prose
How old is the Brihadeeswarar Temple?
a) 2000
b) 1000
c) 1200
d) 2100
Rabindranath Tagore won the __________ for
his ‘Gitanjali’.
a) Washington Prize
b) Man Booker International Prize
c) Nobel Prize
d) American Book Award
98.
Robert Frost who wrote the poem”Going For
Water” is from
a) The United States of America
b) England
c) India
d) France
99.
Match the following phrasal verbs with their
meanings :
Column A
Column B
a)
Look after
1.
Wear
b)
Put on
2.
Take care of
c)
Keep on
3.
Cancelled
d)
Called off
4.
Continue
a)
b)
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