Previous year questionsமுந்தைய ஆண்டு வினாக்கள்
English — 898 previous-year questions — page 11 of 36ஆங்கிலம் — 898 முந்தைய ஆண்டு வினாக்கள் — page 11 of 36
English questions taken from the real TNPSC papers, each with its correct answer in Tamil and English.உண்மையான TNPSC வினாத்தாள்களிலிருந்து எடுக்கப்பட்ட வினாக்கள், ஒவ்வொன்றிலும் சரியான விடையுடன்.
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"My Reminiscences" was written by ————.
- Kamala Markandaya
- Ernest Hemingway
- Toru Dutt
- Rabindranath Tagore✓
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Fill in the blank with the correct verb form of the noun 'writer'
Don't ---------- on the wall.- written
- write✓
- write-up
- writing
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Which of the following options has a sentence with the verb in the active voice?
- Many students attended this workshop.✓
- Many students were questioned.
- Many students have been screened.
- Many students had been given a warning.
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The giant knocked down the wall with
- a big axe✓
- spade
- crowbar
- rod
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Harmonic cacophony to oblivions ears.
Identify the figure of speech.- Metaphor
- Oxymoron✓
- Personification
- Simile
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In whose poem the following lines occur :
"It isn't by size that you win or you fail
Be the best of whatever you are"- Douglas Malloch✓
- William Wordsworth
- Walt Whitman
- William Shakespeare
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Abraham Lincoln Proclaimed the abolition of slavery on
- May 1, 1863
- January 1, 1863✓
- January 1, 1864
- May 1, 1864
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Identify the sentence pattern
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.- SVO
- SVOA
- SVIODO✓
- SVOC
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'A forlorn and shipwrecked brother'
The word "forlorn" Here means- Happy and merry
- Solemn and serious
- Melancholic and gloomy
- Lonely and sad✓
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Fill in the blank with the suitable preposition.
He was born ——— 1960.- In✓
- On
- At
- Since
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"This Bengal sky-full of light,
This South Breeze- This flow of the river..."
Which river is mentioned here in Tagore's reminiscence?- Brahmaputra
- Damodar
- Cauveri
- Ganges✓
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Who was the first senator to stab Caesar?
- Carsius
- Lepidus
- Casca✓
- Brutus
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Find out the answer and fill up the blank :
You want to see him? ____________.- Beyond all question
- Over head and ears
- Out of the question!✓
- The ins and outs
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"But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too,
It is so absent-minded, that I don't know what to do".
Mention the figure of speech used in the above lines.- Simile
- Personification✓
- Metaphor
- Repetition
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The long poem by Shakespeare is
- Venus and Adonis✓
- Anxiety
- After many days
- The Appeal
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If you can meet with triumph and disaster;
And treat those two impostors just the same:-
Find out the word nearest opposite in meaning to 'Impostor' from the options.- Pretender
- Quack
- Expert✓
- Sham
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Which among the responses best explains the following line : "Day light will be on the switch and winter under rock".
- Daylight will restrict the damaging impact of winter
- Winter's chillness will be under the lock of the daylight's heat
- Daylight will be turned on when winter is kept under lock
- There will be a continuous switching over from day to night, and there will not be any changing seasons✓
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Match the following poems in Column A with the correct poets in Column B and select the correct code :
Column A(a) The Cry of the Children 1. Thomas Hardy (b) No Men are Foreign 2. William Wordsworth (c) The Solitary Reaper 3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d) The Man He killed 4. James Kirkup Column B
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-4 (d)-3
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-1
- (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-2
- (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1✓
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was ———— writer.
- A Turkish
- An English
- An Irish
- An American✓
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Match the following characters in Column A with their roles in Column B and select the correct code :
(a) Portia 1. A Jewish Money Lender (b) Jessica 2. A Merchant of Venice (c) Shylock 3. Shylock's daughter (d) Antonio 4. A Wealthy Lady in Belmont - (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-3
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-2✓
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-3 (d)-1
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Identify the incorrect sentence/sentences, according to the given statement.
Alfred Nobel was considered as -- 1. Europe's richest Vagabond.
- 2. A chemist, engineer and an aspiring poet.
- 3. A man who felt guilty for having invented highly destructive things.
- 4. Felt guilty for having earned so much money.
- 3 and 4
- 1 and 3
- 4 only✓
- 2 only
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Scenario : You are a volunteer for a local charity and need to know the specific items the charity currently needed for donations. Write an email to the charity's coordinator asking for an updated donation list :
Type of Query :- (a) Charity Support Inquiry
- (b) Material Request
- (c) Donation Item Request
- (d) Volunteer co-ordination
- Only (a)
- Only (c)✓
- Only (b)
- (a), (b), (c)
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Match the following : Story (a) Two Friends (b) The Open Window (c) The Last Leaf (d) The Lottery Ticket Character 1. Mr. Nuttel 2. Colonel Dumoulin 3. Ivan Dmitritch 4. Behrman
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-1
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-3✓
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-4
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The line "A slender tinkling fall that made" contains —
- Allusion
- Onomatopoeia✓
- Ellipsis
- Repetition
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Select the correct meaningful sentence from the following.
- My Sister and friend have come.
- Her cousins as well as her friends has received prizes.
- The whole class are attentive.
- News never comes too late.✓
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