MCQ
5001. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
5002. O Henry was from –
Canada
America
England
Ireland
5003. What is the antonym for the word ‘deformation’?
distortion
contortion
wholeness
disfigurement
5004. 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.
5005. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
5006. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
5007. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
P. B Shelley
5008. Who is not an Irish writer?
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
D.W. Lawrence
5009. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot
5010. Which gender is the word ‘orphan’?
neuter
feminine
common
masculine
5011. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?
populous
popular
popularity
popularize
5012. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
5013. ”He contemplated marrying his cousin.’ Here ‘marrying ‘is an/a-
present participle
gerund
verb
infinitive
5014. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly?
fluctuation
remission
ocassion
decision
5015. Words inscribed on a tomb is an-
epitome
epithet
episode
epitaph
5016. What is the noun form of the word ‘laugh’?
laughing
laughable
laughter
laughingly
5017. The phrase ‘dog days’ means –
hot weather
cold shower
rain-soaked streets
ice storm
5018. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
5019. ‘A herd of cattle is passing’. The underlined word ‘herd’ is an/a-
adverb
adjective
collective noun
abstract noun
5020. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama