Question Paper for Lecturer and Coach (School Edu. Dept.) - Comp. Exam-2025 (English)

Q41.Match the words in Column ‘A’ with their antonyms in Column ‘B’ — Column A: (A) Frugal, (B) Ephemeral, (C) Revere, (D) Perilous. Column B: (i) Perpetual, (ii) Non-hazardous, (iii) Extravagant, (iv) Disrespect.

Q42.Identify the pattern of the given sentence and choose the correct option — She’s made the job a success.

Q43.Identify the sentence pattern of the given sentence — I shaved myself with my own razor.

Q44.The bank won’t accept the guarantee of a man of straw. Choose the nearest meaning of the underlined idiom —

Q45.Transform into indirect speech — He said, “Be quiet and listen to my words.”

Q46.Find the word from the passage which means ‘the quality of being open and honest’ —

Q47.Find antonym of the word from the passage which means ‘Goodwill’ —

Q48.Which one of the following statements is not correct about the description of a gentleman as given in the passage?

Q49.Name two objects of comforts or conveniences with which a gentleman is compared to —

Q50.Find the word from the passage which means ‘An expression of a general truth’ —

Q51.In the novel That Long Silence Vanitamami’s comment, “a husband is like a sheltering tree” expresses her —

Q52.Which figure of speech has been employed in the quote given below from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice? “Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match, And on the wager lay two earthly women, And Portia one, there must be something else Pawn’d with the other, for the poor rude world Hath not her fellow.”

Q53.Which among the following statement(s) is/are true regarding William Shakespeare’s As you Like It? (i) It is a quintessential Elizabethan pastoral comedy. (ii) It’s subtitle is ‘What You Will’. (iii) It explores the themes of love, disguise and gender roles. (iv) It is influenced by Thomas Lodge’s Romance ‘Rosalynde’.

Q54.Which one of the following is not primarily associated with existentialism?

Q55.Identify the literary term in the following lines — “The wolf with its belly, stitched full of big pebbles; Nibelung wolves barbed like black pine forest. Against a red sky, over blue snow...”

Q56.Fill in the blank in the following extract from Gandhi’s “What is Swaraj” chapter 4 from Hind Swaraj — When a ______ changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Q57.Which one of the following concepts of Eliot about ‘tradition’ and ‘poetry’ is not correct?

Q58.The novelists Richardson, Trollope, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster are primarily : identified with which literary tradition?

Q59.Stevenson wrote his essay “Walking Tours” in response to -

Q60.In the third stanza of the poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, the carriage passes ‘the School where Children strove / At Recess - in the Ring’. What does the specific image of the ‘Ring’ symbolize in the context of the life cycle?