Questions
141. Which gender is the word ‘orphan’?
neuter
feminine
common
masculine
142. Change the voice: ‘Nobody trusts a traitor.’
A traitor is trusted.
A traitor should not be trusted.
Everybody hates a traitor.
A traitor is not trusted by anybody.
143. ”He contemplated marrying his cousin.’ Here ‘marrying ‘is an/a-
present participle
gerund
verb
infinitive
144. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
145. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
146. Words inscribed on a tomb is an-
epitome
epithet
episode
epitaph
147. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
148. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
149. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
150. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly?
fluctuation
remission
ocassion
decision
151. ‘A herd of cattle is passing’. The underlined word ‘herd’ is an/a-
adverb
adjective
collective noun
abstract noun
152. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?
populous
popular
popularity
popularize
153. What is the antonym for the word ‘deformation’?
distortion
contortion
wholeness
disfigurement
154. The word ‘to genuflect’ means-
to be genuine
to reflect
to bend the knee
to be flexible
155. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama
156. The phrase ‘dog days’ means –
hot weather
cold shower
rain-soaked streets
ice storm
157. What is the noun form of the word ‘laugh’?
laughing
laughable
laughter
laughingly
158. O Henry was from –
Canada
America
England
Ireland
159. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot
160. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
P. B Shelley