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Rowther was promoted as ———— in "Reflowering".
1. Assistant
2. Personal Assistant
3. Clerk
4. Manager✓
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Match the synonyms with their meanings

(a) Coarse 1. Push Roughly in a crowd
(b) Invidious 2. Unjust
(c) Exodus 3. Rough
(d) Jostle 4. Mass movement from one place
1. (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-4 (d)-1✓
2. (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-4
3. (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-1
4. (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-1
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What is meant by 'Shilpi'?
1. Writer
2. Sculptor✓
3. Painter
4. Constructor
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"Great Leaders have something in them which inspires a whole people and makes them do great deeds". Who quotes this?
1. Dr. C.N. Annadurai
2. Gandhi
3. Jawaharlal Nehru✓
4. Abraham Lincoln
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For simple sheep; and such are Daffodils ...
With the green world they live in;
and clear rills ...
The above lines were written by ____________.
1. W.B. Yeats
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. John Keats✓
4. William Wordsworth
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Tantia Tope, a childhood friend helped to fight against the British for which of the following celebrities.
1. Helen Keller
2. Rani of Jhansi✓
3. Subash Chandra Bose
4. Nelson Mandela
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Which of the following statements are true about the play 'The Tempest'?
- (i) 'The Tempest' was written in 1500.
- (ii) It is considered to be one of the last plays of William Shakespeare.
- (iii) It is believed that the play 'The Tempest' was based on an actual wreck of a ship.
1. (ii) only
2. (i) and (ii) only
3. (ii) and (iii) only✓
4. (i) and (iii) only
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Which one of the following has the correct infinitive?
1. Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast✓
2. Music hath charms to soothing the savage beast
3. Music hath charms to having soothe the savage beast
4. Music hath charms to having soothing the savage beast
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Find out the figures of speech in the following lines :
"Laugh till the game is played"
1. Simile
2. Metaphor✓
3. Allusion
4. Oxymoron
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Match the poems with their poets :

(a) English Words 1. D.H. Lawrence
(b) Snake 2. V.K. Gokak
(c) The Man he killed 3. Elizabeth Barret Browning
(d) The cry of the children 4. Thomas Hardy
1. (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-4 (d)-3✓
2. (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1
3. (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-1
4. (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-2
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And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life.
And I have something to expiate;
A Pettiness
These lines appear in
1. A Noiseless Patient Spider
2. Snake✓
3. A Panoramic View
4. The Man he Killed
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Choose the correct antonym for the underlined word from the options given.
He is a sturdy young man.
1. Dynamic
2. Strong
3. Weak✓
4. Ambitious
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Pangolin figures in
1. The Anteater and the Dassie✓
2. The Neem Tree
3. Reflowering
4. The Necklace Holiday
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Then my computer caught a virus, and fell very sick,
So I had to call in a doctor, double quick.
Why did the poet call the doctor?
1. as the computer fall very sick✓
2. as the computer fall down
3. as the computer got hurt
4. as the computer fall asleep
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What is the nationality of Robert Frost?
1. British
2. Canadian
3. American✓
4. French
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Identify the Incorrect Statements.
- 1. Mithali Dorai Raj is the first to score seven consecutive centuries.
- 2. The mother tongue of Mithali is Tamil.
- 3. Mithali is honoured with Padma Bhushan award.
- 4. Mithali is nicknamed as "Tendulkar of Indian Women's Cricket".
- 5. Mithali is not encouraged to play cricket by her family members.
1. 1, 2 and 5 are incorrect
2. 1, 3 and 5 are incorrect✓
3. 2, 4 and 5 are incorrect
4. 2, 3, 4 are incorrect
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Cull out the word formed by combining adjective and verb from the following options :
1. school boy
2. dry clean✓
3. outrun
4. radioactive
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Match the following British/American expressions in Column A with Column B and select the correct answer from the options given below
Column A

(a) trash 1. faucet
(b) cookie 2. candy
(c) sweets 3. rubbish
(d) tap 4. biscuit
Column B
1. (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1✓
2. (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-1
3. (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-4 (d)-1
4. (a)-1 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-4
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Identify the right meaning of the idiom.
His Partner threw coldwater on his scheme.
1. encouraged
2. discouraged✓
3. appreciated
4. disagreed
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Who is the author of the autobiography 'Wings of Fire'?
1. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam✓
2. R.K. Narayan
3. Vikram Seth
4. Ruskin Bond
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Select the correct voice.
Which of the following options has a sentence with the verb in the active voice?
1. The exhibition was opened by the Governor
2. The dog chased the sheep✓
3. Nothing will be gained by hurry
4. The thief was caught
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In Julius Caesar, Antony says,
“The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault”.
What is referred to a 'grievous fault' here?
1. Brutus' nobility
2. Cunningness
3. Being ambitious✓
4. Caesar's balour
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Identify the correct sentence for the pattern SVCA
1. I gave him a pen last week
2. He became a doctor at last✓
3. He made his views clear at the outset
4. You will understand the truth one day
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From which play these lines occur
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath".
1. Julius Caesar
2. Antony and Cleopatra
3. The Merchant of Venice✓
4. King Lear
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"We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,
We were melted in the furnace and the pit -
We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,
We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit".
What is the poetic device used here?
1. Oxymoron
2. Paradox
3. Assonance
4. Anaphora✓
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மொழியைத் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கவும் Select your language

(a)	Coarse	1.	Push Roughly in a crowd
(b)	Invidious	2.	Unjust
(c)	Exodus	3.	Rough
(d)	Jostle	4.	Mass movement from one place

(a)	English Words	1.	D.H. Lawrence
(b)	Snake	2.	V.K. Gokak
(c)	The Man he killed	3.	Elizabeth Barret Browning
(d)	The cry of the children	4.	Thomas Hardy

(a)	trash	1.	faucet
(b)	cookie	2.	candy
(c)	sweets	3.	rubbish
(d)	tap	4.	biscuit

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