English Exam Helper (MCQ): November 2018

1.     The ultimate origins of the English language lie in which language family?
a.  Indo-European
              b. Latin
  c. North American
2.     What is another name for Old English?
a.  Middle English
              b. Anglo-Saxon
  c. Celtic
3.     What is the ideational function of language?
a. To express identity
  b. To communicate meaning
  c. To make jokes
d. To perform magic
  e. To express emotions

4.     The study of Structures of Language is called :
a. Semantics
              b. Syntax
  c. Phonetics
              d. Discourse

5.     Which of the following novels has been described as a study in Oedipus Complex?
a. The Rainbow
  b. The Plumed Serpent
  c. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  d. Sons and Lovers

6.     What is the total number of sounds in English Language?
a. 12
  b. 8
                        c. 20
              d. 44

7.     Which of the following has /:i/ sound?
a. car
  b. seat
              c. fit
              d. books

8.     The word “Doctor” has :
a. Two syllables with stress on none
  b. Two syllables with stress on both
c. Two syllables with stress on first
  d. Two syllables with stress on second

9.     The rise and fall of pitch in voice is called :
a. Fluency
              b. Pause
  c. Intonation
  d. Stress

10. Peripeteia, according to Aristotle, stands for :
a. Error of judgment
  b. ‘Reversal’ in hero’s fortunes
              c. Recognition
d. Roundabout speech

11. Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can still combine the words in different ways to say thousands of different things. This aspect of language is referred to as :
a. Syntax
  b. Phonology
  c. Morphology
  d. Infinite generativity

12. Code-switching is a kind of :
a. Grammatical system
b. Linguistic performance
c. Linguistic competence
d. Meaningless babbling

13. The notion of “Input Hypothesis” is attributed to :
a. Krashen
              b. M.A.K. Halliday
  c. M.L.Tickoo
  d. Noam Chomskey

14. Who wrote ‘An Introduction to Functional Grammar’?
a. Bloomfield
  b. Harris
  c. Chomskey
  d. Halliday

15. ‘Neander’ in Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesie speaks for :
a. Classical drama
b. Modern drama
c. French Neo-classical drama
d. British drama

16. Which of the four is a nasal sound?
a. /m/
              b. /p/
  c. /d/
              d. /f/

17. ‘TESOL’ stands for :

a. Teaching English as a Second Language

b. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language

c. Teaching English Speakers of Other Language

d. Teaching English Speaking Only for Language

18. The study of “Transformational Generative Grammar” began with :
a. Leonard Bloomfield
  b. Roman Jackson
  c. Noam Chomsky
  d. C.K.Ogden

19. The medial pause in a poetic line is known as :
a. Caesura
  b. Stress
  c. Semi-colon
              d. Refrain

20. “It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to create ……….” In this statement ‘It’ stands for :
a. Magic
  b. Fancy
  c. Primary imagination
  d. Secondary imagination

21. What is the name of the branch of linguistics that studies the process of word formation?
a. Syntax
  b. Phonology
  c. Semantics
  d. Morphology

22. Two or more words with very closely related meanings are called -----------
a. Synonyms
  b. Antonyms
  c. Hyponyms
  d. Homophones

23. ------------- is the study of the history of words, their origins and their changes of form and meaning.
a. Etymology
  b. Philology
  c. Pragmatics
  d. Semantics

24. A morpheme that can also stand alone as a word is called a ----------
a. Allophone
  b. Bound morpheme
  c. Allomorph
  d. Free morpheme

25. ‘Defence of Poesie’ belongs to the genre of :
a. Drama
              b. Poetry
  c. Criticism
  d. Fiction

26. The relation between the English word ‘friend’ and the German word ‘freund’ would make the two words -------
a. Cognates
  b. Synonyms
  c. Homonyms
  d. Approximants

27. ---------- is the study of sound systems and the processes affecting pronunciation of a particular language.
a. Morphology
  b. Phonology
  c. Lexicology
  d. Sociolinguistics

28. The sounds [p, b, m] are referred to as ----------
a. Alveolars
  b. Dentals
  c. Bilabials
  d. Affricates

29. A vowel that consists of two components as in [ai] and [au] is called a ---------
a. Tense vowel
  b. Lax vowel
  c. Monophthong
  d. Diphthong

30. With whom is the phrase ‘Negative Capability’ associated?
a. Keats
              b. Blake
  c. Byron
  d. Shelley

31. Which of the following is a minimal pair?
a. Raise/Rice
  b. I/Eye
  c. Last/Lot
  d. Pit/Bit

32. Allophones are variants of the same --------
a. Morpheme
  b. Syllable
  c. Phoneme
  d. Word

33. A grammar should have, in addition to the lexical and syntactic components, a ------------ component.
a. Prosodic
  b. Phonological
  c. Discursive
  d. Syllabic

34. “Juggernaut” is a loan word from ----------
a. Sanskrit
  b. German
  c. French
  d. Persian

35. The terms ‘texuality of history’ and ‘historicity of text’ are associated with :
a. The Textual Approach
  b. Historicism
  c. New Historicism
  d. A Historicism

36. How many allomorphs are there for the English plural noun morpheme [s]?
a. 1
  b. 2
  c. 3
  d. 4

37. The idiom ‘to cut a long story short’ means -----------
a. To cut short a story
b. To cut up a story
c. To write a short story
d. To tell only the main points and not the finer details

38. His new house costs ‘a small fortune’. Here ‘small fortune’ means ---------
a. Not very expensive
  b. A huge amount of money
  c. Very little money
  d. Hardly any money

39. “Without my glasses I am as blind as a bat”. The underlined phrase is a ---------
   a. Simile
  b. Metaphor
  c. Allegory
  d. Metonymy

40. The statement “It is real hard work doing nothing” is an example of :
a. Irony
  b. Conceit
  c. Antithesis
  d. Paradox

41. Which of the following sentences has a grammatical mistake?
a. The show is on tomorrow night.
b. The show was on yesterday.
c. Is the show on tomorrow night?
d. The show is on 7 PM.

42. Choose the best meaning of ‘own up’ from the options given :

a. To say that something belongs to you.

b. To admit that you are responsible for something that has happened.

c. To feel pleased about something that has happened.

d. To say that you are the owner of something.

43. If you fail this examination, you’ll be ----------- the whole family down.
a. letting
  b. cutting
  c. turning
  d. moving

44. Choose the most appropriate antonym of the word ‘persuade’ :
a. compel
  b. dissent
  c. dissuade
  d. refuse

45. “Whoever loved who loved not at first sight?” is an example of :
a. a rhetorical question
  b. an inverted question
  c. an ironical question
              d. paradox

46. ---------- would help the students get over the initial stages of difficulties in language learning due to mother tongue interference.
a. contrastive grammar
b. descriptive grammar
c. Traditional grammar
d. TG grammar

47. Which of the following is also known as the ‘Classical Method’ of teaching English as a foreign language?
a. Direct method
  b. Grammar-Translation method
  c. Audio-lingual method
d. Structural method

48. Direct method of teaching a foreign language is called so because -----------

a. Language is taught directly by the native speaker of the foreign language.

b. Language is taught directly by lessons beamed from abroad.

c. Language is taught directly from textbooks prepared abroad.

d. Language is taught directly without the help of the mother tongue.

49. Which of the following approaches has communicative competence as the goal of language teaching?
a. Grammar Translation Method
  b. Structural Method
c. Communicative Language Teaching
  d. None of the above

50. ‘The vanity of human wishes’ is by :
a. Thackeray
  b. Fielding
  c. Johnson
  d. Goldsmith

51. To be able to use English as a library language implies the ability to ---------
a. Speak the language
  b. Read and write in the language
c. To attend conferences on the language
  d. None of the above

52. In ---------- method the importance of ear training in developing speaking proficiency receives particular emphasis.
a. audio-visual
  b. situational
  c. audio-lingual
  d. none of these

53. ‘Idiolect’ is language variety that indicates the specificities of -----------
a. The individual speaker
  b. A community of speakers
  c. A region
  d. Abnormal people

54. The term ‘Sociolect’ refers to a variety of language spoken :
a. In a geographical region
  b. By a social class
  c. In a society of intellectuals
d. By sociolinguists

55. “Poetry is a criticism of life”, says :
a. Philip Sidney
  b. Matthew Arnold
  c. William Wordsworth
  d. S.T.Colleridge

56. The International Phonetic Alphabet was invented by :
a. The International Phonetic Association
b. Danial Jones
c. Danial Jones and A.C.Gimson
d. The International Phonological Association

57. The words “happy” and “nappy” are an example of a ……….. pair.
a. Homophonic
  b. minimum
  c. polyphonic
  d. minimal

58. The definition “Language of a highly colloquial type, below the level of standard educated speech” applies to :
a. Register
  b. Jargon
  c. Ideolect
  d. Slang

59. C.J. Dodson is associated with :
a. The New Method
  b. The Bilingual Method
  c. The Grammar Translation Method
d. The Structural method

60. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria is a reply to :
a. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
b. Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare
c. Wordsworth’s Preface to The Lyrical Ballads
d. Johnson’s Preface to Sakespeare

61. Which of the following is NOT a component of communicative competence?
a. Linguistic competence
b. Sociolinguistic competence
c. Stylistic competence
d. Discourse competence

62. “Phone” for telephone and “ad” for advertisement are examples of :
a. Abbreviation
  b. Blending
              c. Conversion
  d. Clipping

63. The basic units of study in syntax are :
a. Words and phrases
b. Words, phrases and clauses
c. Phrases, clauses and sentences
d. Words, clauses and sentences

64. ------------ is a portmanteau word.
a. Brunch
  b. Pastime
  c. Semblance
  d. Fogey

65. Which of the following belongs to the school of New Criticism?
a. Cleanth Brooks
  b. John Dryden
  c. Murray Krieger
  d. W.H.Auden

66. ‘Impracticable’ contains ------------
a. Bound morpheme + free morpheme
              b. Free+ bound+ free morpheme
c. Bound + free+ bound morpheme
  d. Free +bound+ bound morpheme

67. The letter ‘p’ is silent in ---------
a. plausible
  b. receipt
  c. adept
  d. impact

68. Complete the sentence: John has been -------- all week collecting data but the report has not been completed.
a. getting the axe
b. blowing his own trumpet
c. chasing his tail
d. letting the cat out of the bag

69. ‘Cite’ and ‘site’ are examples of ----------
a. Neologism
  b. Homonym
  c. Homophone
  d. Homograph

70. Structuralism owes its origin to :
a. Jacques Lacan
  b. Noam Chomsky
  c. Ferdinand de Saussure
  d. Homi Bhabha

71. The principles of CLT were formulated by -----------
a. B.F.Skinner
  b. David Nunan
  c. Ivan Pavlov
  d. Bloomfield

72. Constructivism is associated with :
a. Sapir
  b. Gardner
  c. Watson
  d. Piaget

73. ‘Childhood’ contains a --------
a. derivational suffix
  b. inflectional suffix
  c. derivational prefix
  d. inflectional prefix

74. The policeman’s attempt to catch the criminal seemed like ---------
a. a wild goose chase
  b. jack of all trades
  c. in the good books
  d. tooth and nail

75. ------------ is one of the authors of the book titled The Empire Writes Back.
a. Gayathri Spivak
  b. Homi K Bhabha
  c. Edward Said
  d. Bill Ashcroft

76. Give one word for: ‘speaking in an irreverent way about God or sacred things’ :
  a. bigamy
  b. dilettante
  c. dipsomania
  d. blasphemy

77. The diphthong ɪə is in -------
a. cure
  b. fear
  c. pure
  d. wear

78. Identify the vowel in the word ‘pack’ :
a. e
  b. a:
  c. ʌ
  d. æ

79. The word ‘journalism’ contains ---------- syllables.
a. 2
  b. 3
  c. 4
  d. 5

80. Who wrote Postcolonialism and English Studies in India?
a. Gauri Viswanathan
  b. Gayathri Spivak
  c. Edward Said
  d. Leela Gandhi

81. --------- is the antonym of ‘pragmatic’.
a. practical
  b. idealistic
  c. figurative
  d. duplicate

82. -------- was composed during the Old English Period.
a. The Canterbury Tales
  b. Gorbuduc
  c. Beowulf
  d. Roget’s Thesaurus

83. --------- contributed to the formation of new words during the Middle English Period.
a. Celtic and Old Norse
b. Latin and French
c. Urdu and Iroquoian
d. Latin and German

84. The Modern English equivalent of ‘heofonum’ is -------
a. History
  b. Historian
  c. Heaven
  d. Fuctional

85. LAD means ---------
a. Language Acquisition Device
              b. Learning Ability Device
c. Learning Activity Design
  d. Language Acquisition Design

86. --------- was not a poet during the Middle English Period.
a. Thomas Malory
  b. Philip Sidney
  c. William Langland
d. Geoffrey Chaucer

87. In language teaching ESP means ----------
a. English for Social Purpose
  b. English for Scientific Programme
c. English for Specific Purposes
              d. English for Specific Programme

88. ‘The Silent Way Method’ was created by -----------
a. Stephen Krashen
  b. Caleb Gattegno
  c. Christopher Brumfit
  d. Dell Hymes

89. TPR refers to ---------
a. Teaching Physical Response
b. Total Potential Response
c. Teaching Potential Response
d. Total Physical Response

90. --------- is associated with Social Constructivist Theory.
a. Vygotsky
  b. Piaget
  c. Chomsky
  d. Watson

91. I notified………….. I had changed my address.
a. with the police that
  b. in the police that
  c. the police that
  d. to the police that

92. The printing press was introduced in England by Caxton in ----------
a. 1473
  b. 1474
  c. 1475
  d. 1476

93. ‘Quack’ and ‘meow’ are ------- words.
a. blending
  b. acronym
  c. onomatopoeia
              d. ellipses

94. In 1066 at the Battle of Hastings the ---------- defeated the English and established their rule over England.
a. Normans
              b. Germans
  c. Italians
              d. Romans

95. The Greek word for ‘arrogance/ pride’ is :
a. Catharsis
  b. Hubris
  c. Denouement
              d. Anagnorsis

96. ----------- is associated with Narratology.
a. Gerard Genette
  b. Matthew Arnold
  c. T.S.Eliot
              d. Jacques Derrida

97. Suggestopedia was developed by ----------
a. Noam Chomsky
  b. Georgi Lazanov
  c. David Nunan
      d. Christopher Candlin

98. Audio-lingual Method was also known as ----------
a. Grammar Translation Method
  b. Direct Method
  c. Army Method
  d. Bilingual Method

99. --------- is least emphasized in Communicative Language Teaching.
a. Information Gap
  b. Role Play
  c. Structure of Language
  d. Communicative competence

100. Formalist critics were against ----------
a. Pathetic Fallacy
  b. Poetic Fallacy
  c. Personal Fallacy
      d. Intentional Fallacy

101. Match the following:

i. Phonology - (a) the study of the internal structure of words

ii. Phonetics - (b) the study of the patterns of sounds in a language

iii. Morphology - (c) the study and classification of speech sound

iv. Pragmatics - (d) the study of how words are used

a. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c

b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

102. “light grey” is an example of :
a. intrusion
  b. assimilation
  c. catenation
              d. elision

103. Which among the following is NOT a homograph?
a. absent
  b. lead
  c. read
  d. finish

104. A morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but shows evidence of being phonologically bound to another word is called :
a. Lexeme
  b. Clitic
  c. Paradigm
            d. Phoneme

105. ----------- proposed all female characters in 3 stages: the feminine, female, feminist.
a. Mary Wollstonecraft
b. Elaine Showalter
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Simon de Beauvoir

106. Match the following :

i. Metaphor - (a) Use of word to mean something existing in close physical proximity

ii. Simile - (b) comparison using a word to mean something similar to its literal meaning

iii. Metonymy - (c) direct comparison using like or as

iv. Synecdoche - (d) Using a part to describe a whole

a. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c

b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

107. Which among the following is an Old English Literature?
a. Beowulf
b. The Canterbury Tales
c. Wycliffe’s Bible
d. Ormulum

108. The first person to introduce printing press in England is :
a. John Gower
b. William Caxton
c. Robert Henryson
d. William Dunbar

109. Wycliffe’s Bible belongs to :
a. Old English
  b. Middle English
  c. Early Modern
  d. Modern

110. ---------- viewed that the unconscious and perception of oneself are shaped in the “symbolic” order of language.
a. Freud
  b. Jung
  c. Lacan
  d. Foucault

111. English in Africa is a ‘Cultural Bomb’. Whose opinion is this?
a. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
              b. Salman Rushdie
  c. Ben Okri
  d. Eric Anchimbe

112. Who among the following is considered as the ‘Father of Modern Education in India’?
  a. Charles Grant
  b. Stevick
  c. John Miller
  d. John Webbe

113. Which among the following is true?

a. Pedagogy is essentially based on instructions.

b. Andragogy provides a process model in which the learners discovers knowledge at a pace to suit him/herself.

c. Constructivism is a theory of learning to help the learners to construct something based on their own understanding by assimilating prior knowledge and new ones.

d. All of them.

114. Which among the following is true :

a. The Kothari Commission in 1966 agreed to the ‘Three Language Formula’.

b. The Kothari Commission suggested that English should continue as a library language and medium of instruction in universities and a good level of English language proficiency is required for awarding degrees.

c. It was the Kothari Commission which recommended special units for teaching English language skills instead of focusing more on literature.

d. All of them.

115. Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth deals with the ---------
a. Syrian Struggle
  b. Afro-American Struggle
c. Algerian Struggle
  d. Alaskan Struggle

116. Biographia Literaria published in 1817 was originally conceived in 1814 as a preface to ------.
a. Lyrical Ballads
b. Table Talk
c. Philosophical View of Reform
d. Sibylline Leaves

117. Which among the following is true about Grammar-Translation Method?

a. The grammar–translation method originated from the practice of teaching Latin.

b. Grammar–translation classes are usually conducted in the students' native language.

c. The mainstay of classroom materials for the grammar–translation method is the textbook.

d. All of them.

118. Which among the following is true about Oral-Situational Method of language teaching?

a. Situational Language Teaching syllabus is designed upon a word list and structural activities.

b. In this method all language points were to be presented in "situations".

c. In Situational Language Teaching, a lesson starts with stress and intonation practice followed by a revision and a presentation of new material.

d. All of them

119. The term Web 2.0 is coined by :
a. Darcy DiNucci
b. Graham Paul
c. Steve Jobs
d. Karp Scott

120. An alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context is called :
a. Concordance
b. Cross-reference
c. Text mining
d. Code-switching

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