Practice Test -English Language & Comprehension SSC-CGL

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1. Choose the correct spellings

Berrister
barrister
barisster
berister

2. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?

Ferdinand
Ariel
Caliban
Prospero

3. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?

Jack
Simon
Roger
Ralph

4. In relation to Spenser’s Faerie Queene which of the following character virtue link is rightly matched?

Justice-Artegall; Courtsey- Guyan; Temperance-Calidore
Chasity-Britomart; Justice- Guyan; Temperance-Talus
Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- Guyon; Justice-Artegall
Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- Artegall; Justice-Britomart

5. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled

All for Love
The State of Innocence
Annus Mirabilis
Religio Medici

6. The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by

Vandana Shiva
Laurence Buell
Paulo Freire
Alfred Crosby

7. “...... Every other stone is god or cousin there is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year.” This extract is from:

Jayanta Mahapatra’s “Konarak”
Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
P. Lal’s “Being Very Simple, God”
R. Parthasarathy’s “Under another Sky”

What is Johnson’s opinion regarding the “Violation” of the three unities in the plays of Shakespeare ?

I. Shakespeare should have followed the Unities.

II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity of Action satisfactorily.

III. Shakespeare’s plays suffered because they did not follow the Unities.

IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false assumptions.

The correct combination according to the code is

I and II are correct.
II and IV are correct.
III and IV are correct.
I and III are correct

9. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist?

Bathsheba
Lucetta
Sue
Tess

10. A.S. Byatt in her famous award winning novel of 1990 contrasts past and present involving a search for a Victorian poet’s past illuminating a contemporary university researcher’s life and times. Which is the novel?

The Virgin in the Garden
Possession
Babel Tower
Still Life

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