Monday, 16 February 2026

KTET & HSST English – 50 MCQs with Answers

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.

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KTET & HSST English – 50 MCQs with Answers

Language Pedagogy & ELT (1–10) 1. Language acquisition is:   a) Conscious learning of grammar   b) Subconscious natural process   c) Mem...