Unit-V Part-VIII

1.      Which of the following has /e:/ sound?
                        a.  but                  
                        b. arm               
                        c. about              
                        d. aunt

2.      The example of consonant cluster is :
                        a.  sea                       
                        b. guard              
                        c. guilty                   
                        d. play

3.      The following does NOT belong to the basic components of speech :
                        a.  stress                    
                        b. rhythm              
                        c. poem                  
                        d. intonation

4.      "The degree of force with which sound or syllable of a word is uttered" is called :
                        a.  intonation              
                        b. stress                   
                        c. rhythm                  
                        d. pause

5.      The hamartia, the anagnorisis and the peripeteia are the three key elements in :
                        a. A plot               
                        b. An ode                    
                        c. A lyric                   
                        d. An epic

6.      "The smallest unit of words" is called :
                        a. Phoneme                
                        b. Allophone              
                        c. Juncture             
                        d. Morpheme

7.      The teacher does not tell or interpret whether the answer is correct or not in the :
                        a.  Testing activity     
                        b. Teaching activity      
                        c. Language game activity        
                        d. Demonstration activity

8.      Our respiratory system consists of :
                        a. Lungs                     
                        b. Air Pipe               
                        c. Nostrils                  
                        d. All of them

9.      _______ refers to word formation.
                        a.  Phonology               
                        b. Morphology           
                        c. Syntax                      
                        d. Semantics

10.   Who proposed the ‘Touchstone’ method for literary evaluation?
                        a.  Matthew Arnold         
                        b. T.S. Eliot                 
                        c. I.A. Richards             
                        d. F.R. Leavis

11.   Jenni, who is 3 years old, asks, "What Bobby is doing?" She then modifies her question and asks again, "What is Bobby doing?" Jenni is correcting the _______ of her question?
                        a.  Syntax                     
                        b. Semantics              
                        c. Pragmatics            
                        d. Morphology

12.   Chomsky's theory of language development emphasized :
                        a.  Learning and conditioning principles                
                        b. Innate structure and biological mechanisms
                        c.  Children’s cognitive abilities       
                        d. The language support system provided by parents

13.   Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, poked fun at the politics of his day and is considered an outstanding example of :
                        a.  Satire                  
                        b. Metaphor              
                        c. Analogy                 
                        d. Parsimony

14.   The optimal time for learning a second language is :
                        a.  early to middle childhood        
                        b. late childhood          
                        c. adolescence         
                        d. adulthood

15.   A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy was written by :
                        a.  Philip Sidney          
                        b. John Milton              
                        c. John Dryden                
                        d. Samuel Butler

16.   What does semantics study?
                        a.  use                         
                        b. meaning                
                        c. grammar               
                        d. speech

17.   Which of these is a gradable opposite?
                        a.  Husband – Wife          
                        b. Hot – Cold               
                        c. Male – Female          
                        d. Buy - Sell

18.   What does cherology study?
                        a.  Facial expression        
                        b. Body movement        
                        c. The structure of deaf signing       
                        d. Discourse

19.   When was the Old English period in the history of English?
                        a.  500-100 BC               
                        b. 100-350 AD            
                        c. 650-1150 AD           
                        d. 1150-1400 AD

20.   I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called :
                        a.  Practical criticism   
                        b. Descriptive analysis    
                        c. Historical criticism   
                        d. Interpretive evaluation

21.   Which of these letter distinctions was missing from the English alphabet in the 14th century?
                        a.  u / v                     
                        b. a / e                  
                        c. y / z                    
                        d. p / q

22.   Which feature of language is referred to by the term ‘accent’?
                        a.  Syntax                      
                        b. Pronunciation           
                        c. Vocabulary            
                        d. Pragmatics         

23.   What do we call a discourse produced by a single speaker?
                        a.  Dialogue                
                        b. Conversation          
                        c. Monologue                 
                        d. Monograph

24.   Which fictitious character talked about becoming a ‘master’ of language?
                        a.  Harry Potter              
                        b. Darth Vader         
                        c. Humpty Dumpty        
                        d. James Bond

25.   William Empson, in his celebrated book, identified ------------- types of ambiguity in literary style.
                        a.  5                            
                        b. 6                          
                        c. 7                            
                        d. 9

26.   In the direct method of language teaching the medium of communication is :
                        a.  Mother tongue mixed with second language             
                        b. The foreign / second language
                        c.  Vernacular mixed with second / foreign language
                        d. Any language depending upon the classroom requirement

27.   Seminars and library work help the students in :
                        a.  Independent work / interactive learning                        
                        b. Creative thinking
                        c.  Critical study                                                      
                        d. Mechanical / rote learning

28.   Socio-linguistics helps evolve materials for language teaching more in respect of :
                        a.  Disadvantaged groups     
                        b. Elites        
                        c. Non-native learners            
                        d. Bilingual learners

29.   What is meant by eclectic method of language teaching?

a. A combination of grammar translation and direct methods.

b. A combination of audiovisual and structural methods.

c.  A combination of functional and communicative approaches.

d. A common sense blending of the situation required-methods.

30.   Identify the scholarly journal founded and edited by F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis :
                        a.  Scrutiny                 
                        b. Criterion               
                        c. Lyceum         
                        d. Athenum

31.   Communicative approach to language teaching / learning is basically :
                        a.  Classroom centered     
                        b. Learner centered   
                        c. Teacher centered      
                        d. Textbook centered

32.   Spot out the right idiomatic usage: The guide asked the tourist --------
                        a.  to board into the train immediately.                       
                        b. to board on the train immediately.
                        c.  to board in the train immediately.                          
                        d. to board the train immediately.

33.   When was the first edition of Daniel Jones’ English Pronouncing Dictionary published?
                        a.  1917                  
                        b. 1919                    
                        c. 1920                   
                        d. 1921

34.   When a superior officer in the army gives an order to his subordinate, the appropriate intonation should be :
                        a.  falling intonation         
                        b. rising intonation     
                        c. fall / rise intonation  
                        d. rise / fall intonation

35.   Who is the author of the essay ‘Is There a Text in This Class’?
                        a.  Stanley Fish             
                        b. Gayatri Spivak       
                        c. Derrida                 
                        d. Said

36.   Give the antonym of ‘postpone’ :
                        a.  advance            
                        b. progress              
                        c. prepone                
                        d. forward

37.   Philology is the study of :
                        a.  Phonemes                 
                        b. Languages            
                        c. Phones                 
                        d. Photons

38.   Grimm’s Law is concerned with changes in :
                        a.  Consonants           
                        b. Vowels                  
                        c. Diphthongs         
                        d. Semi vowels

39.   English differs from other European languages, mainly, by adopting :
                        a.  Neutral gender           
                        b. Natural gender        
                        c. Grammatical gender         
                        d. None of the above

40.   ‘There is nothing outside the text’ is the most frequently quoted line from :
                        a.  Derrida                    
                        b. Spivak                
                        c. Neitzsche         
                        d. Heidegger

41.   Choose the wrongly spelt word(s) : 
       1. Drunkenness          2. Mischievous          3. Seperate          4. Questionnaire
                        a.  3 only                   
                        b. 1 & 2 only           
                        c. 2 & 4 only              
                        d. 4 only

42.   The Norman Conquest is attributed to the year :
                        a.  1266                       
                        b. 1166                 
                        c. 1066                  
                        d. 1236

43.   Semantics is the study of :
                        a.  Change in words                         
                        b. Change in the meaning of words
                        c.  Change in the order of words            
                        d. Change in immediate constituents

44.   Locate the velar sounds :
                        a.  /p/b/                     
                        b. /k/g/                   
                        c. /s/z/                 
                        d. /f/v/

45.   The book which can be said to inaugurate post-colonial criticism is :
                        a.  Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth               
                        b. Edward Said’s Orientalism
                        c.  Gayatri Spivak’s In Other Worlds                     
                        d. Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture

46.   T.G.Grammar was enunciated by :
                        a.  Hockett               
                        b. Chomsky          
                        c. Nida             
                        d. Sweet

47.   Did he reach by bus or by walk?

   1            2            3             4           
In which portion is the sentence wrong?

                  a.  1                     

                  b. 2                     

                  c. 3                    

                  d. 4

48.   Identify the meaning of the idiom ‘Tooth and nail’ :
                        a.  With full force          
                        b. Difficult work        
                        c. To go into details      
                        d. Occasionally

49.   Identify the meaning of the expression “Lion’s share’ :
                        a.  Prey                  
                        b. Small portion 
                        c. Major portion         
                        d. Difficult task

50.   The male contribution to the tradition of feminist writing is found in John Stuart Mill’s :
                        a.  The Subjection of Woman                       
                        b. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
                        c.  Women and Labour                           
                        d. The Origin of the Family

51.   International destruction of racial groups is known as :
                        a.  Genocide            
                        b. Patricide              
                        c. Regicide               
                        d. Homicide

52.   Choose the word referring to ‘confinement to one place to avoid spread of infection’ :
                        a.  Isolation                 
                        b. Quarantine          
                        c. Seclusion             
                        d. Reclamation

53.   What is meant by morpheme?
                        a.  Smallest meaningful unit                     
                        b. Smallest nominal unit
                        c.  Smallest notional unit                    
                        d. Smallest prenominal unit

54.   Identify the glottal sound :
                        a.  /f/                   
                        b. /v/                    
                        c. /n/                    
                        d. /h/

55.   The New Critics attempted to show in a work of art :
                        a.  The internal contradictions                    
                        b. The disunity which underlies its apparent unity
                        c.  The unity beneath apparent disunity              
                        d. None of these

56.   Locate the meaning for the word ‘serendipity’ :
                        a.  Finding unpleasant things by chance               
                        b. Finding pleasant things by chance
                        c.  Finding offensive things by chance               
                        d. Finding non offensive things by chance

57.   ‘Lycidas’ could be listed under the genre :
                        a.  Novelette               
                        b. Epic                 
                        c. Ode                    
                        d. Elegy

58.   The idiom ‘To have your feet on the ground’ means :
                        a.  To remain inflexible        
                        b. To stick to the ground        
                        c. To be sensible      
                        d. To be firm

59.   In the word ‘manufacture’, the stress falls on the :
                        a.  First syllable          
                        b. Second syllable       
                        c. Third syllable         
                        d. Fourth syllable

60.   Structuralism, an intellectual movement in France, is first seen in the work of the anthropologist :
                        a.  Ronald Barthes           
                        b. Claude Levi-Strauss    
                        c. Frantz Kafka            
                        d. Jacques Lacan

61.   How many syllables are there in the word ‘Queue’?
                        a.   2                         
                        b. 1                     
                        c. 3                       
                        d. 4

62.   Etymology is study of :
                        a.  Vowels                  
                        b. Diphthongs           
                        c. Semi-vowels            
                        d. None of the above

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

64.   In the sentence’ Park your car inside’, the word ‘park’ is a :
                        a.  Noun                 
                        b. Verb                 
                        c. Adjective               
                        d. Subject complement

65.   The concept of signifier versus signified was the contribution of the Swiss linguist :
                        a.  Bloomfield                
                        b. Edward Sapir         
                        c. Roman Jakobson       
                        d. Ferdinand de Saussure

66.   Identify the error in the following sentence :

Because by migration to the cities the population of many villages in Kerala declined.     
   a                                       b                                                c                                          d

67.   --------------- the circumference of a circle, the longer its radius.
                        a.  Larger than               
                        b. The larger          
                        c. Larger                
                        d. The largest

68.   Audio visual method is used in teaching for :
                        a.  Attracting the students                       
                        b. Effective teaching       
                        c.  Involving all the students                           
                        d. Exhibiting modern gadgets 

69.   A polyglot is one who knows :
                        a.  Many languages      
                        b. Many nations         
                        c. Many axioms          
                        d. Many graphics

70.   The concept of ‘Pity and fear’ was advanced by :
                        a.  Aristotle                    
                        b. Plato                 
                        c. Ariosto         
                        d. Horace

71.   In English there are ------------ distinctive consonants (RP).
                        a.  21                     
                        b. 22                     
                        c. 23                     
                        d. 24

72.   ‘Caesura’ is :
                        a.  A mixture of sounds       
                        b. An image   
                        c. A form of pastoral poem     
                        d. A pause in a line of poetry

73.   The expression ‘cold fire’ is an example of :
                        a.  Metaphor              
                        b. Metonymy          
                        c. Hyperbole             
                        d. Oxymoron

74.   A couplet covers ……… thought written in two lines with rhyming ends.
                        a.  complete                
                        b. partial                  
                        c. rare                     
                        d. popular

75.   ‘The Seven types of Ambiguity’ was written by :
                        a.  Abrams         
                        b. Empson               
                        c. Frye                
                        d. Longinus

76.   Two of the following words were borrowed from French after the Norman Conquest :

                    i.     Mutton                          ii. Pork                                 iii. Sheep                             iv. Swine

                  a.  (i) & (ii) only          

                  b. (i) & (iii) only        

                  c. (ii) & (iv) only            

                  d. (iii) & (iv) only

77.   After Independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was accorded the status of an :
                        a.  Additional language     
                        b. Ancillary language   
                        c. Associate language   
                        d. Administrative language

78.   The grammar-translation method of language teaching does NOT include :
                        a.  Focus on grammar rules                  
                        b. Vocabulary memorization
                        c.  Inductive teaching                           
                        d. Focus on written language

79.   The variety of English used between non-native speakers who do not share a first language is called :
                        a.  English for specific purpose                 
                        b. English for basic purpose
                        c.  English as lingua franca                    
                        d. English as a language tool

80.   “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotions, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality” – who said this?
                        a.  W.B.Yeats              
                        b. Robert Frost          
                        c. T.S. Eliot               
                        d. Edgar Allan Poe

81.   Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?

a. Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.

b. Learner’s first language plays an important role in learning.

c.  Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.

d. Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.

82.   During the Middle English Period, many words were borrowed from two languages :

                    i.     Celtic                             ii. Latin                                iii. French                            iv. Old Norse

                  a.  (i) & (ii)                   

                  b. (ii) & (iii)                   

                  c. (ii) & (iv)                             

                  d. (iii) & (iv)

83.   The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on :
                        a. Fluency                
                        b. Accuracy                
                        c. Appropriateness                
                        d. Listening Skill

84.   “[They] then heaved out

Away with a will in their wood-wretched ship.” This line describing Beowulf’s departure from Geatland, is typical of the poem’s form and Old English poetic technique because :

                    i.     It features alliteration              ii. It rhymes         iii. It features onomatopoeia        iv. It has four strong stresses

                  a.  (i) & (ii)            

                  b. (ii) & (iii)                

                  c. (i) & (iv)               

                  d. (ii) & (iv)

85.   ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a poem by :
                        a.  Ezra Pound                
                        b. Eliot                   
                        c. Walter Pater         
                        d. Coleridge

86.   Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is opposition to :
                        a.  Structural Approach                                   
                        b. Comprehensive Approach
                        c.  Translation and Grammar Method                          
                        d. Functional Approach

87.   What three Germanic tribes invaded Briton in the 5^th century AD bringing with them the roots of Modern English?
                        a.  The Danes, Saxons and Celts                       
                        b. The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
                        c.  The Saxons, Danes and Angles                      
                        d. The Jutes, Angles and Saxons

88.   Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was :

a. Nathaniel Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

b. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language

c.  Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical

d. Thomas Blount’s Glossographia

89.   The figure of speech employed in the phrase ‘America is a melting pot’ is :
                        a.  Simile                   
                        b. Metaphor             
                        c. Metonymy          
                        d. Hyperbole

90.   A critic must avoid the historical estimate and personal estimate. Identify the Critic who opined this :
                        a.  Dryden                  
                        b. Dr. Johnson           
                        c. Matthew Arnold        
                        d. C.S. Lewis

91.   The line, ‘Rare and radiant maiden’ is a good example of :
                        a.  Rhyme                 
                        b. Onomatopoeia         
                        c. Alliteration               
                        d. Parallelism

92.   A prearranged place of meeting :
                        a.  Multifarious              
                        b. Rendezvous            
                        c. Necessitate              
                        d. Insurrection

93.   A giving characterized by liberality or generosity :
                        a.  Munificence           
                        b. Nebulous             
                        c. Promoter             
                        d. Squander

94.   I don’t know what made him spill the beans about the plans to his friends. Express the meaning of the idiom :
                        a.  waste time               
                        b. complete the work    
                        c. disclose secretly          
                        d. use time properly

95.   The essay ‘The Four Kinds of Meaning’ was written by :
                        a.  T.S.Eliot           
                        b. I.A. Richards          
                        c. Wimsatt and Books     
                        d. M.H. Abrams

96.   Her indifferent attitude towards her classmates added insult to injury. Express the meaning of the idiom :
                        a.  deeply hurt             
                        b. solved all the problems         
                        c. satisfying   
                        d. broke the silence

97.   When does the convocation come off? Express the meaning of the idiom :
                        a.  get cancelled         
                        b. happen                
                        c. amount to            
                        d. carried off

98.   The phrase ‘Wings are clipped’ indicates :
                        a.  restricted freedom        
                        b. enrich beauty 
                        c. fly better                  
                        d. enable singing

99.   It has been observed that after learning irregular forms like went and saw, some students begin to learn regular past tense forms and produce goed and seed. This is called ………. interference.
                        a.  Retrograde                   
                        b. Retroactive              
                        c. Regressive              
                        d. Reductionist

100.  Who wrote the book ‘The Second Sex’?
             a.  Julia-Kriestva          
             b. Kate Millet           
             c. Simone de Beauvoir  
             d. Betty Friedman

101.  The smallest unit of sound in a language is :
             a.  Word                      
             b. Syllable                  
             c. Phoneme          
             d. Allophone

102.  Match the following :

                 i.          Homographs                             -              (a)The rise and fall in vocal pitch

                ii.          Polysemes                                 -              (b) words that sound the same but are spelled differently

               iii.          Homophones                            -              (c) words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning

               iv.          Intonation                                 -              (d) words that at one time described an activity but later acquired other                                                                            meanings

                  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

103.  A neurological condition characterized by the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody is called :
              a. Aprosodia                
              b. Aphasia               
              c. Anomia                  
              d. Apraxia

104.  Which among the following is true :

a. According to Bloomfield, the morpheme was the minimal form with meaning, but did not have meaning itself.

b. According to Hockett, morphemes are "meaning elements", not "form elements".

c. Single morpheme hypothesis was introduced by Baudoin

d. All of them

105.  With whom did I.A. Richards co-author the Foundation of Aesthetics?
              a.  James Wood and F.R. Leavis                           
              b. C.K. Ogden and C.S. Lewis
              c.  C.K. Ogden and James Wood                      
              d. C.K. Ogden and F.R. Leavis

106.  ‘He has 5 mouths to feed’ – Identify the figure of speech :
              a.  Metaphor               
              b. Simile                 
              c. Metonymy            
              d. Synecdoche

107.  English belongs to which of the following branch?
              a.  North Germanic       
              b. East Germanic       
              c. West Germanic        
              d. Celtic

108.  ‘Katherine Group’ belongs to which category of literature?
              a.  Religious                 
              b. Courtly love        
              c. Arthurian                
              d. None of these

109.  Match the following Greek phrases with their meanings :

                 i.          An Achilles’ heel                       -              (a)expressions of sorrow that are insincere

                ii.          The Midas touch                       -              (b)a person’s weak point

               iii.          Crocodile tears                          -              (c)the situation might be better off left alone

               iv.          Pandora’s box                           -              (d)good fortune

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

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

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

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

110.  Name the author of New Bearings in English Poetry :
             a.  F.R. Leavis                 
             b. Edmund Gosse       
             c. John F. Danby         
             d. F.W. Bateson

111.  'Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature' is written by :
             a.  Ngugi wa Thiong’o                    
             b. Salman Rushdie        
             c. Ben Okri                    
             d. Eric Anchimbe

112.  Who among the following is associated with constructivism?
             a.  Jean Piaget                        
             b. Lev Vygotsky           
             c. Jerome Bruner        
             d. All of them

113.  CLT is one of the most acceptable language teaching method for ELT professionals. CLT is :

a. Communicative Language Teaching

b. Common Language Teaching

c.  Compulsory Language Teaching

d. Curriculum based Language Teaching

114.  Who among the following wrote the book ‘Experience and Education’?
              a.  John Devey               
              b. Erikson                
              c. Jean Piaget                    
              d. Vygotsky

115.  Who called Shelley, “ a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”?
             a. Walter Pater             
             b. A.C. Swinburne              
             c. Matthew Arnold                  
             d. W.B. Yeats

116.  Who, among the following, made the statement, “Poetry is the Criticism of Life” ?
             a.  Dr. Johnson            
             b. Sidney
             c. Matthew Arnold               
             d. Wordsworth

117.  Which among the following is NOT true about Grammar-Translation Method?

a. Students learn grammar rules by rote, and then practice the rules by doing grammar drills and translating sentences to and from the target language.

b. More attention is paid to the form of the sentences being translated than to their content.

c.  High attention is placed on pronunciation or communicative aspects of the language.

d. Tests often consist of the translation of classical texts.

118.  The Silent Way Method of language teaching was founded by :
              a.  Caleb Gattegno                
              b. Carl Roger              
              c. Noam Chomsky                   
              d. Bloomfiled

119.  Which among the following is NOT a Modern Teaching Aid?
              a.  Abacus                 
              b. Educational CDs and DVDs           
              c. Projectors        
              d. Smart Boards

120.  Which of the following indicates evaluation?

a. Ram got 45 marks out of 200.

b. Mohan got 38 marks in English.

c.  Sham got First Class in final examination.

d. All of them