Language Pedagogy & ELT (1–10)
1. Language acquisition is:
a) Conscious learning of grammar
b) Subconscious natural process
c) Memorization of vocabulary
d) Translation-based learning
Ans: b
Exp: Acquisition is subconscious, unlike formal learning.
2. Grammar Translation Method emphasizes:
a) Communication
b) Translation & grammar rules
c) Activity-based learning
d) Fluency
Ans: b
Exp: Focuses on grammar and translation.
3. Direct Method avoids:
a) Use of mother tongue
b) Oral practice
c) Vocabulary building
d) Listening skills
Ans: a
Exp: Direct Method stresses target language only.
4. Communicative Approach focuses on:
a) Grammar drills
b) Real-life communication
c) Translation
d) Memorization
Ans: b
Exp: Fluency and communication are central.
5. Suggestopedia uses:
a) Music and relaxation
b) Translation
c) Grammar rules
d) Memorization
Ans: a
Exp: Suggestopedia uses music to reduce anxiety.
6. CCE stands for:
a) Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
b) Continuous Classroom Examination
c) Comprehensive Curriculum Evaluation
d) Continuous Child Education
Ans: a
Exp: CCE assesses all-round development.
7. Learner autonomy means:
a) Teacher-centered learning
b) Learners taking responsibility
c) Memorization of rules
d) Passive listening
Ans: b
Exp: Learners manage their own learning.
8. Activity-based learning develops:
a) Rote memory
b) Language skills through tasks
c) Translation skills
d) Grammar drills
Ans: b
Exp: Focuses on tasks and activities.
9. Bilingual Method uses:
a) Only English
b) Only mother tongue
c) Both English and mother tongue
d) Translation only
Ans: c
Exp: Combines both languages.
10. Humanistic approaches emphasize:
a) Teacher authority
b) Learner feelings and self-expression
c) Grammar rules
d) Translation
Ans: b
Exp: Focus on learner-centered growth.
Phonetics, Grammar & Linguistics (11–20)
11. Phonetics studies:
a) Sound systems
b) Physical sounds
c) Word formation
d) Sentence structure
Ans: b
Exp: Phonetics = physical sounds.
12. Phonology studies:
a) Sound systems in language
b) Physical articulation
c) Vocabulary
d) Syntax
Ans: a
Exp: Phonology = sound patterns.
13. Morphology studies:
a) Sentence structure
b) Word formation
c) Sound articulation
d) Semantics
Ans: b
Exp: Morphology = word forms.
14. Syntax deals with:
a) Word meaning
b) Sentence structure
c) Sound articulation
d) Vocabulary
Ans: b
Exp: Syntax = arrangement of words.
15. Semantics studies:
a) Word meaning
b) Sound systems
c) Sentence structure
d) Grammar rules
Ans: a
Exp: Semantics = meaning.
16. Passive voice of She is writing a letter:
a) A letter was written by her
b) A letter is written by her
c) A letter is being written by her
d) A letter has been written by her
Ans: c
Exp: Present continuous passive.
17. Concord means:
a) Agreement between subject and verb
b) Word formation
c) Sound articulation
d) Sentence transformation
Ans: a
Exp: Subject-verb agreement.
18. IPA stands for:
a) International Phonetic Alphabet
b) Indian Phonetic Analysis
c) International Phonology Association
d) Indian Phonetic Alphabet
Ans: a
Exp: IPA = standard phonetic symbols.
19. Stress in English refers to:
a) Sentence meaning
b) Emphasis on syllables
c) Grammar rules
d) Vocabulary
Ans: b
Exp: Stress = emphasis on syllables.
20. Intonation refers to:
a) Word formation
b) Rise and fall of pitch
c) Sentence structure
d) Vocabulary
Ans: b
Exp: Intonation = pitch variation.
Literary History & Authors (21–35)
21. Father of English poetry:
Ans: Geoffrey Chaucer
Exp: KTET & HSST both include Chaucer.
22. Paradise Lost author:
Ans: John Milton
Exp: HSST Module 1, KTET Renaissance.
23. Mac Flecknoe author:
Ans: John Dryden
Exp: Restoration satire.
24. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
Ans: Thomas Gray
Exp: Pre-Romantic poetry.
25. Hamlet author:
Ans: William Shakespeare
Exp: Elizabethan drama.
26. Rape of the Lock:
Ans: Alexander Pope
Exp: Augustan mock-epic.
27. Doctor Faustus:
Ans: Christopher Marlowe
Exp: Renaissance tragedy.
28. Ode to a Nightingale:
Ans: John Keats
Exp: Romantic poetry.
29. Ode to the West Wind:
Ans: P.B. Shelley
Exp: Romantic poetry.
30. Ulysses:
Ans: Alfred Tennyson
Exp: Victorian poetry.
31. Dover Beach:
Ans: Matthew Arnold
Exp: Victorian poetry.
32. Andrea del Sarto:
Ans: Robert Browning
Exp: Victorian dramatic monologue.
33. The Importance of Being Earnest:
Ans: Oscar Wilde
Exp: Victorian comedy.
34. The Second Coming:
Ans: W.B. Yeats
Exp: Modernist poetry.
35. The Wasteland:
Ans: T.S. Eliot
Exp: Modernist landmark.
Indian & American Literature (36–45)
36. Gitanjali:
Ans: Rabindranath Tagore
Exp: Nobel-winning poetry.
37. My Grandmother’s House:
Ans: Kamala Das
Exp: Indian English poetry.
38. Background, Casually:
Ans: Nissim Ezekiel
Exp: Indian English poetry.
39. A River:
Ans: A.K. Ramanujan
Exp: Indian English poetry.
40. Nagamandala:
Ans: Girish Karnad
Exp: Indian drama.
41. Harvest:
Ans: Manjula Padmanabhan
Exp: Indian drama.
42. Dance Like a Man:
Ans: Mahesh Dattani
Exp: Indian drama.
43. Phenomenal Woman:
Ans: Maya Angelou
Exp: American poetry.
44. The Raven:
Ans: Edgar Allan Poe
Exp: American poetry.
45. The Glass Menagerie:
Ans: Tennessee Williams
Exp: American drama.
Criticism, Culture & Misc (46–50)
46. Poetics:
Ans: Aristotle
Exp: Classical criticism.
47. An Apologie for Poetry:
Ans: Philip Sidney
Exp: Renaissance criticism.
48. Biographia Literaria:
Ans: Samuel Coleridge
Exp: Romantic criticism.
49. A Room of One’s Own:
Ans: Virginia Woolf
Exp: Feminist criticism.
50. Orientalism:
Ans: Edward Said
Exp: Postcolonial criticism.
