TGT English : MCQ with Answer

 

     UPPSC LT Grade Exam-2025

              Sub: English

  Practice Set -1

1–20: English Literature (Poetry, Drama, Novel, Criticism)

1. Who is known as the "Father of English Poetry"?

A) Dryden 

b) Milton 

c) Spenser 

d) Chaucer
Ans: d) Chaucer

2. "Paradise Lost" was written by—
a) Byron 

      b) Keats 

c) Pope 

d) Milton
Ans: d

3. Hamlet is a—
a) Masque 

b) Pastoral 

c) Tragedy 

d) Comedy
Ans: c

4. "The Rape of the Lock" is a—
a) Elegy 

b) Lyric 

c) Mock-epic 

d) Pastoral
Ans: c

5. "The Waste Land" was published in—
a) 1928

b) 1930 

c) 1915 

d) 1922
Ans: d

6. Who wrote "Biographia Literaria"?
a) Eliot 

b) Arnold 

c) Coleridge 

d) Wordsworth
Ans: c

7. "Pride and Prejudice" was written by—
a) Emily Brontë 

b) Hardy 

c) Austen 

d) Dickens
Ans: c

 

8. "My Last Duchess" is a poem by—
a) Keats 

b) Tennyson 

c) Browning 

d) Wordsworth
Ans: c

9. "Waiting for Godot" belongs to—
a) Romantic Drama 

b) Comedy of Manners 

c) Absurd Drama 

d) Epic Theatre
Ans: b

 

10. "Kubla Khan" was composed by—
a) Blake 

b) Shelley 

c) Coleridge 

d) Keats
Ans: c

 

11. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" is a poem by—
a) Yeats 

b) Arnold 

c) Blake 

d) Wordsworth
Ans: d

12. "The Old Man and the Sea" was written by—
a) Whitman 

b) Frost 

c) Faulkner 

d) Hemingway
Ans: d

 

13. "Arms and the Man" is written by—
a) Ibsen 

b) Goldsmith 

c) Shaw 

d) Wilde
Ans: c

 

14. "In Memoriam" is an elegy written on the death of—
a) Shelley's wife 

b) A.H. Hallam 

c) Wordsworth 

d) Keats
Ans: b

15. "The Second Coming" was written by—

a) Eliot 

b) Yeats 

c) Ted Hughes 

d) Sylvia Plath
Ans: b

 

16. "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of—
a) Sonnets 

b) Stories in verse 

c) Essays 

d) Ballads
Ans: b

 

17. "A Passage to India" was written by—
a) Maugham 

b) Conrad 

c) E.M. Forster 

d) Kipling
Ans: c

18. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is written by—

a) Arnold 

b) Swinburne 

c) Tennyson 

d) Browning
Ans: c

19. "Ulysses" (novel) was written by—

a) Golding 

b) Hardy 

c) Lawrence 

d) James Joyce
Ans: d

20. Who among the following is a Metaphysical Poet?

a) Chaucer 

b) Pope 

c) Donne 

d) Dryden
Ans:

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21–35: Grammar, Language, Vocabulary

21. Identify the correct indirect speech:
He said, "I am busy."
a) He said he has been busy.
b) He said he is busy.
c) He said that he was busy.
d) He said that I was busy.
Ans: c

22. Find the correctly spelled word:

d) Accommadation

c) Acomodation 

b) Accommodation 

a) Accomodation
Ans: c

 

23. Choose the synonym of "Fragile":

a) Solid 

b) Hard 

c) Strong 

d) Weak
Ans: a

24. Antonym of "Scarcity":
a) Poverty 

b) Shortage 

c) Lack 

d) Abundance
Ans: d

 

25. Choose the correct article:

He is ___ honest man.

a) no article 

b) the 

c) an 

d) a
Ans: c

26. Identify the figure of speech:
"The world is a stage."

a) Irony 

b) Personification 

c) Simile 

d) Metaphor
Ans: d

 

27. Choose the correct passive:
They will help you.
a) You will helped by them.
b) You will be help by them.
c) You will be helped by them.
d) You will being helped by them.
Ans: c

 

28. Identify the correct preposition:
He is afraid ___ dogs.
a) to 

b) with 

c) of 

d) from
Ans: c

 

29. One word for: A person who writes dictionaries
a) Editor 

b) Historian 

c) Lexicographer 

d) Biographer
Ans: c

30. Choose the correct tense:
I ___ him yesterday.
a) have met 

b) meeting 

c) met 

d) meet
Ans: c

 

31. Correct form of the verb:
Neither he nor I ___ going.
a) be 

b) am 

c) are 

d) is
Ans: b

32. Change into comparative:
She is the most beautiful girl.
a) She is more beautiful than any other girl.
b) She is beautiful than others.
c) She is more beautiful.
d) She is beautifulest.
Ans: a

 

33. Plural of "Crisis"—
a) Crysis 

b) Crises 

c) Crisis 

d) Crisises
Ans: b

34. Opposite gender of "Duke":
a) Dame 

b) Lady 

c) Queen 

d) Duchess
Ans: d

 

35. Identify the correct idiom meaning of "A wild goose chase":
a) A useless effort
b) A happy event
c) A dangerous journey
d) A long queue
Ans: a

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36–50: Pedagogy + Teaching Aptitude + Language Teaching

36. The main focus of Communicative Language Teaching is—
a) Dictation 

b) Translation 

c) Communication 

d) Grammar
Ans: c

37. Audio-Lingual Method heavily uses—
a) Repetition and drills
b) Translation
c) Literature
d) Silent reading
Ans: a

38. The term “Scaffolding” in pedagogy means—
a) Punishment
b) Giving temporary support
c) Memorizing
d) Making notes
Ans: b

39. Extensive Reading helps in—
a) Fast reading skills
b) Writing grammar
c) Dictation
d) Rote learning
Ans: a

40. Teaching of prose aims at—
a) Memorization
b) Silent reading comprehension
c) Translation alone
d) Grammar only
Ans: b

41. Which is NOT a skill of language learning?
a) Calculating 

b) Reading 

c) Speaking 

d) Listening
Ans: a

 

42. Remedial teaching aims at—
a) Punishing children
b) Removing learning difficulties
c) Giving homework
d) Finishing syllabus
Ans: b

43. “Mother Tongue Interference” occurs in—
a) L1 learning
b) L2 learning
c) Both L1 and L2
d) None
Ans: b

44. Reading aloud improves—
a) Pronunciation
b) Handwriting
c) Grammar memory
d) Spelling only
Ans: a

45. Teaching Poetry focuses on—
a) Rhythm, music, imagination
b) Only grammar
c) Silent reading
d) Translation
Ans: a

46. Diagnostic test helps to find—
a) Learning difficulties
b) Holidays
c) Exam dates
d) Moral values
Ans: a

47. The Direct Method avoids—
a) Speaking
b) Listening
c) Reading
d) Translation
Ans: d

48. Lesson plan is prepared by a teacher for—
a) Daily teaching
b) Annual report
c) Sports
d) Picnic
Ans: a

49. Formative assessment takes place—
a) During teaching
b) After course completion
c) During exams only
d) Once a year
Ans: a

50. Language laboratory is useful for—
a) Pronunciation practice
b) Sports
c) Mathematics
d) Drawing
Ans: a