CUET PG 2022 English Question Paper PDF

## राष्ट्रीय परीक्षा एजेंसी **National Testing Agency** Excellence in Assessment **Test Date**: 01 Sep 2022 **Subject**: PGQP05-English **Test Slot**: Slot 1 ### Sl. No.1 **QBID:1007001** Choose the correct sentence. 1. It is high time he will start earning 2. It is high time he started earning 3....

## राष्ट्रीय परीक्षा एजेंसी **National Testing Agency** Excellence in Assessment **Test Date**: 01 Sep 2022 **Subject**: PGQP05-English **Test Slot**: Slot 1 ### Sl. No.1 **QBID:1007001** Choose the correct sentence. 1. It is high time he will start earning 2. It is high time he started earning 3. It is high time he starts earning 4. It is high time he has started earning निम्नलिखित में से कौन सा वर्ष युग्म अल्प प्राण है? 1. प, द, क 2. ख, छ, त 3. क, द, ख 4. थ, च, फ ### Sl. No. 2 **QBID:1007002** From among the four options given, choose the correct sequence of the four phrases given below, to make a meaningful sentence: (A) I am rediscovering (B) On the rising COVID numbers (C) Nervously, with one eye (D) The joy of travel, albeit 1. (D), (B), (A), (C) 2. (C), (A), (B), (D) 3. (B), (C), (D), (A) 4. (A), (D), (C), (B) ### Sl. No.3 **QBID:1007003** Which of the following is a one-word substitute for 'a soldier who fights for the sake of money'? 1. Hireling 2. Mercenary 3. Assasin 4. Hitman ### Sl. No.4 **QBID:1007004** Identify the correct form of indirect speech of the following sentence. The policeman said to us, "Where are you going?" 1. The policeman asked us about our destination. 2. The policeman requested where are you going. 3. The policeman ordered us to go where he wanted 4. The policeman enquired where we were going. ### Sl. No. 5 **QBID:1007005** In the sentence below a part is italicised. Which of the choices as a replacement will improve the sentence? I hate as you can sing so well and I can't. 1. hate 2. hate it that 3. hate that 4. hate it ### Sl. No. 6 **QBID:1007006** From among the four options given, choose the preposition that will be the best fit for both the blanks in the sentence given below: When you bring home a pet, it soon becomes a member ______ the family and its loss is ______ devastating as the death of any loved one. 1. off 2. in 3. of 4. with ### Sl. No. 7 **QBID:1007007** Match List I with List II | List I (word) | List II (linked word) | |---|---| | (A) letters | (I) time | | (B) papers | (II) printed | | (C) cards | (III) friends | | (D) clock | (IV) basket | Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III) 2. (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III) 3. (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I) 4. (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II) ### Sl. No. 8 **QBID:1007008** Choose the correctly spelt word. 1. Wharewhithal 2. Wherewithal 3. Wherewital 4. Where whital ### Sl. No. 9 **QBID:1007009** Choose the correct option to make a meaningful sentence. The paragraph should not ____ five hundred words. 1. Accede 2. Exceed 3. Access 4. Excess ### Sl. No. 10 **QBID:1007010** Match List I with List II | List I (word) | List II (विलोम) | |---|---| | (A) शयन | (I) प्राच्य | | (B) मिलन | (II) जागरण | | (C) पाश्चात्य | (III) दूरस्थ | | (D) घनिष्ठ | (IV) विरह | Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV) 2. (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III) 3. (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I) 4. (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II) ### Sl. No. 11 **QBID:1007011** Choose the correct passive voice form of the following sentence: People are destroying large areas of forest every day. 1. Large areas of forest was being destroyed every day. 2. A large areas of forests were destroyed every day by the people. 3. Large areas of forest are being destroyed every day. 4. Every day people have destroyed large areas of forest. ### Sl. No. 12 **QBID:1007012** Who has been elected as the new President of South Korea to replace incumbent President Moon Jae-in? 1. Lee Jae-mung 2. Ban ki-Moon 3. Hong Joon-pyo 4. Yoon Suk-yeol ### Sl. No. 13 **QBID:1007013** Who has become the first engineer to become the chief of army staff? 1. Lieutenant General Manoj Pande 2. Lieutenant General B.S. Raju 3. Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Narvane 4. Commander-in-chief Upendra Dwivedi ### Sl. No. 14 **QBID:1007014** Who has won the 2022 Laureus Breakthrough of the Year prize? 1. Valtentino Rossi 2. Emma Raducanu 3. Tom Brady 4. Neeraj Chopra ### Sl. No. 15 **QBID:1007015** Which of the following has launched the world's first index family focused exclusively on tracking the price of carbon removal? 1. NIFTY 2. SENSEX 3. NASDAQ 4. NABARD ### Sl. No. 16 **QBID:1007016** Find the next number 19, 31, 45, 61, ____ 1. 81 2. 79 3. 90 4. 84 ### Sl. No. 17 **QBID:1007017** If MONKEY is coded as OPNZFL, How will PIGEON be coded? 1. RKIGQP 2. HJQFPM 3. GJOPFR 4. RKIPQG ### Sl. No. 18 **QBID:1007018** Choose the pair the best represents a similar relationship to the one expressed in the original pair of words. Cobbler: Shoe 1. Carpenter: Wood 2. Mason: Brick 3. Contractor: Building 4. Potter: Mud ### Sl. No. 19 **QBID:1007019** Sham left his home and walked 12 Km towards South East. Then he turned right and walked another 8 Km. Again he turned right and ran for 15 Km. Then he turned 45^o in clockwise direction and continued walking. In which direction he is walking now with respect to starting point. 1. North-East 2. North 3. South 4. North-West ### Sl. No. 20 **QBID:1007020** Ram said to Ashok that the woman standing in front of him has a grand daughter who is the only daughter of my brother. How is woman related to Ram? 1. Aunt 2. Mother 3. Wife 4. Grand mother ### Sl. No. 21 **QBID:1007021** A family consists of a mother, a father, and some children. The average age of the members of the family is 20, the father is 48 years old, and the average age of the mother and children is 16. How many children are in the family? 1. 8 2. 7 3. 9 4. 6 ### Sl. No. 22 **QBID:1007022** What is the value of K, for which one root of the quadratic equation Kx^2-14x+8=0 is six times the other? 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 ### Sl. No. 23 **QBID:1007023** A dealer sold a bicycle at a profit of 10%. Had he bought the bicycle at 10% less price and sold it at a price ₹60 more, he would have gained 25%. The cost price of the bicycle was: 1. ₹2,600 2. ₹2,000 3. ₹2,200 4. ₹2,400 ### Sl. No. 24 **QBID:1007024** In a business, 'B' is a sleeping partner and 'A' is a working partner. 'A' invests ₹5,000 and 'B' invests ₹6,000. 'A' receives 12 1/2% of profit for managing the business and the remaining profit is divided in proportion to their capitals. A's share of profit in a total profit of 880 is: 1. ₹350 2. ₹400 3. ₹420 4. 460 ### Sl. No. 25 **QBID:1007025** A train 800 metres long is running at a speed of 78 Km per hour. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 minute, then the length of the tunnel (in metres) is: 1. 130 2. 360 3. 500 4. 540 ### Sl. No. 26 **QBID:1011001** Who wrote "Archetypal Criticism"? 1. Fredric Jameson 2. Terry Eagleton 3. Northrop Frye 4. Stuart Hall ### Sl. No. 27 **QBID:1011002** What was the pen-name of Samuel Clemens ? 1. Joyce Carol 2. Mark Twain 3. Thomas Hardy 4. Eric Blair ### Sl. No. 28 **QBID:1011003** “Give me the extension and motion and I will construct the universe”. Who said this? 1. Galileo 2. William Harvey 3. René Descartes 4. Francis Bacon ### Sl. No. 29 **QBID:1011004** Which Shakespearean play has a character called Prospero ? 1. Othello 2. Tempest 3. Merchant of Venice 4. King Lear ### Sl. No. 30 **QBID:1011005** Which of the following text does not come under Science Fiction? 1. The War of the Worlds 2. The Lord of the Rings 3. Journey of the Center to the Earth 4. Hard Times. ### Sl. No. 31 **QBID:1011006** Who amongst the following is the first Indian English playwright to have received the Sahitya Akademi Award? 1. Vijay Tendulkar 2. Mahesh Dattani 3. Girish Karnad 4. Rabindranath Tagore ### Sl. No. 32 **QBID:1011007** What following text cannot be classified under Magic Realism ? 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude 2. Midnight's Children 3. The Tin Drum 4. A Fine Balance. ### Sl. No. 33 **QBID:1011008** G.C. Spivak translated Of Grammatology into English. Who wrote it? 1. Jacques Derrida 2. Noam Chomsky 3. Sigmund Freud 4. Saussure ### Sl. No. 34 **QBID:1011009** The first Novel of Indian English literature is: 1. Rajmohan's Wife 2. Satyameva Jayate 3. Kanthapura 4. Coolie ### Sl. No. 35 **QBID:1011010** A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written by: 1. Simone de Beauvoir 2. Hélène Cixous 3. Mary Wollstonecraft 4. Elaine Showalter ### Sl. No. 36 **QBID:1011011** “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs in: 1. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 2. "Endymion" 3. "Ode to Autumn" 4. "Ode to Melancholy" ### Sl. No. 37 **QBID:1011012** The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury has been derived from a play by: 1. William Shakespeare 2. Christopher Marlowe 3. Ben Johnson 4. Samuel Beckett ### Sl. No. 38 **QBID:1011013** ______ in translation is being faithful and accurate to the source language text. 1. Distortion 2. Target Language 3. Fidelity 4. None of the above ### Sl. No. 39 **QBID:1011014** Which book begins with "of man's first disobedience"? 1. Tintern Abbey 2. Paradise regained 3. Paradise Lost 4. The Waste Land ### Sl. No. 40 **QBID:1011015** The dramatic term 'Anagnorisis' signifies: 1. Discovery 2. Resolution 3. Climax 4. Complication ### Sl. No. 41 **QBID:1011016** Who wrote the famous work Orientalism (1978)? 1. Michel Foucault 2. Edward Said 3. G.C. Spivak 4. Homi Bhabha ### Sl. No. 42 **QBID:1011017** "The language of the age is never the language of poetry". Who said this? 1. Thomas Gray 2. James Thomson 3. Philip Sidney 4. Alexander Pope ### Sl. No. 43 **QBID:1011018** Which among the following novels in not by D.H. Lawrence? 1. Sons and Lovers 2. Dubliners 3. The Rainbow 4. Lady Chatterley's Lover ### Sl. No. 44 **QBID:1011019** Who among the following was not an Imagist? 1. Ezra Pound 2. T.E. Hulme 3. Dylan Thomas 4. Hilda Doolittle ### Sl. No. 45 **QBID:1011020** Martin Esslin introduced the concept of ______. 1. Alienation effect 2. Theatre of the Absurd 3. Affective Fallacy 4. Authoritarianism ### Sl. No. 46 **QBID:1011021** The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) was written by: 1. Albert Camus 2. Martin Esslin 3. J.P. Sartre 4. M. Heidegger ### Sl. No. 47 **QBID:1011022** The following are Components of Sigmund Freud's theory of mind except: 1. Id 2. Ego 3. Super Ego 4. Super Id ### Sl. No. 48 **QBID:1011023** Who wrote the Pickwick Papers? 1. Thomas Hardy 2. Franz Kafka 3. Charles Dickens 4. Henry James ### Sl. No. 49 **QBID:1011024** Goblin Market was written by: 1. Stephen Spender 2. Kathleen Raine 3. Christina Rossetti 4. Ezra Pound ### Sl. No. 50 **QBID:1011025** “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot' is written by: 1. Alexander Pope 2. Jonathan Swift 3. R.B. Sheridan 4. John Dryden ### Sl. No. 51 **QBID:1011026** Who amongst the following is the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature? 1. Alice Walker 2. Maya Angelou 3. Toni Morrison 4. Zora Neale Hurston ### Sl. No. 52 **QBID:1011027** Whom did John Keats regard as the prime example of 'negative capability'? 1. John Donne 2. John Milton 3. William Shakespeare 4. William Wordsworth ### Sl. No. 53 **QBID:1011028** Who among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative dictionary of English language? 1. Bishop Berkley 2. Horace Walpole 3. Edmund Burke 4. Samuel Johnson ### Sl. No. 54 **QBID:1011029** What is the name of Belinda’s lapdog in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock? 1. L**u**ck 2. M**u**ck 3. P**l**uck 4. Sh**o**ck ### Sl. No. 55 **QBID:1011030** Which of the following plays was not written by Christopher Marlowe? 1. Tamburlaine 2. Dr. Faustus 3. Henry II 4. The Jew of Malta ### Sl. No. 56 **QBID:1011031** During which of the following periods did the Puritans, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds? 1. 1603-1625 2. 1625-1640 3. 1640-1660 4. 1649-1660 ### Sl. No. 57 **QBID:1011032** Arrange the following in correct chronological sequence: A. William Tyndale’s New Testament B. The Norman Conquest C. **D**eath of Geoffrey Chaucer D. The Birth of William Shakespeare 1. BCAD 2. CBDA 3. BCDA 4. ABDC ### Sl. No. 58 **QBID:1011033** Who among the following was not a practitioner of ‘New Criticism’? 1. I.A. Richards 2. John Crowe Ransom 3. T.S. Eliot 4. M.H. Abrams ### Sl. No. 59 **QBID:1011034** Which of the following is not a partition novel? 1. Tamas 2. Train to Pakistan 3. The Shadow Lines 4. The God of Small Things ### Sl. No. 60 **QBID:1011035** ‘Euphemism’ stands for: 1. Depiction of a situation as it is 2. Depiction of a situation in a complex way 3. Depiction of a distasteful situation in an alternative way 4. None of these ### Sl. No. 61 **QBID:1011036** Caliban in The Tempest is an anagram of: 1. Canibal 2. Cannible 3. Both (1) and (2) 4. None of the above ### Sl. No. 62 **QBID:1011037** “Turning and Turning in the widening gyre The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” These lines have been taken from which of the following poems written by W.B. Yeats? 1. A Prayer for my Daughter 2. The Second Coming 3. Among School Children 4. Sailing to Byzantium ### Sl. No. 63 **QBID:1011038** Who introduced the “Touchstone Method” in poetry? 1. Robert Browning 2. Matthew Arnold 3. William Wordsworth 4. John Keats ### Sl. No. 64 **QBID:1011039** Salman Rushdie won the Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993 for: 1. Grimus 2. The Satanic Verses 3. Midnight’s Children 4. Shalimar The Clown ### Sl. No. 65 **QBID:1011040** Match the following: | List I | List II | |---|---| | A. The Jungle | I. Leo Tolstoy | | B. The Grapes of Wrath | II. Upton Sinclair | | C. War and Peace | III. Charles Dickens | | D. A Tale of Two Cities | IV. John Steinbeck | Choose the correct answer from the options given below : 1. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV 2. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I 3. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III 4. A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV ### Sl. No. 66 **QBID:1011041** Coleridge's Biographia Literaria came out in: 1. 1815 2. 1816 3. 1817 4. 1818 ### Sl. No. 67 **QBID:1011042** In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the Ancients? 1. Lisideius 2. Neander 3. Eugenius 4. Crites ### Sl. No. 68 **QBID:1011043** "All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority". Who said this? 1. Ralph Ellison 2. Ezra Pound 3. E.M. Forster 4. Lewis Carroll ### Sl. No. 69 **QBID:1011044** Waiting for Godot, the famous play was written by: 1. Harold Pinter 2. Edward Albee 3. Samuel Beckett 4. None of the above ### Sl. No. 70 **QBID:1011045** Who is the poet of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? 1. S.T. Coleridge 2. William Wordsworth 3. P.B. Shelley 4. Lord Byron ### Sl. No. 71 **QBID:1011046** “Tradition and the Individual Talent” was written by: 1. Gayatri Spivak 2. Hélène Cixous 3. T.S. Eliot 4. Ezra Pound ### Sl. No. 72 **QBID:1011047** Hind Swaraj was written by: 1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 3. Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 4. M.K.Gandhi ### Sl. No. 73 **QBID:1011048** 'The pen is mightier than the sword' - this is an example of: 1. Pathetic fallacy 2. Synedoche 3. Transferred Epithet 4. Metonymy ### Sl. No. 74 **QBID:1011049** Who has authored Godan? 1. Amrita Pritam 2. Munshi Premchand 3. Indira Goswami 4. Rahi Masoom Raza ### Sl. No. 75 **QBID:1011050** Match List I with List II | List I | List II | |---|---| | A. Toru Dutt | I. “The Old Playhouse” | | B. Sarojini Naidu | II. “Without Place” | | C. Kamala Das | III. “A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields” | | D. Meena Alexander | IV. “An Anthem of Love” | Choose the correct answer form the options given below : 1. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I 2. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II 3. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II 4. A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II ### Sl. No. 76 **QBID:1011051** Who is the author of the play, Final Solutions? 1. Vijay Tendulkar 2. Mohan Rakesh 3. Mahesh Dattani 4. Girish Karnad ### Sl. No. 77 **QBID:1011052** "O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind." What figure of speech is used? 1. Metaphor 2. Rhetorical Question 3. Pun 4. Paralipsis ### Sl. No. 78 **QBID:1011053** Who among the following is a primary exponent of Gothic Romance? 1. Anne Bronté 2. Horace Walpole 3. Charles Dickens 4. Thomas Hardy ### Sl. No. 79 **QBID:1011054** “Daffodils” is a poem written by: 1. William Blake 2. William Wordsworth 3. John Keats 4. William Shakespeare ### Sl. No. 80 **QBID:1011055** Which of the following plays was written by Harold Pinter? 1. The Birthday Party 2. A Doll’s House 3. Volpone 4. Arms and Men ### Sl. No. 81 **QBID:1011056** D.H. Lawrence uses the expression “one bright book of life” to describe: 1. The novel 2. The dramatic monologue 3. The Bible 4. None of the above ### Sl. No. 82 **QBID:1011057** Which of the following has not been awarded with the Booker Prize twice? 1. Margaret Atwood 2. J.M. Coetzee 3. Peter Carey 4. V.S. Naipaul ### Sl. No. 83 **QBID:1011058** “To be, or not to be” is a statement from which of the following plays of William Shakespeare ? 1. Othello 2. King Lear 3. Hamlet 4. Macbeth ### Sl. No. 84 **QBID:1011059** Who is the author of Sexual Politics? 1. Kate Millett 2. Sandra Gilbert 3. Margaret Atwood 4. Hélène Cixous ### Sl. No. 85 **QBID:1011060** “O my love’s like a red, red rose” is an example of: 1. Metaphor 2. Hyperbole 3. Simile 4. None of the above ### Sl. No. 86 **QBID:1011061** "Peripetia" means: 1. Recognition of error 2. Tragic flaw 3. Reversal of fortune 4. Purgation of emotion ### Sl. No. 87 **QBID:1011062** Who defended poetry against Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse? 1. John Dryden 2. Alexander Pope 3. Philip Sydney 4. P.B. Shelley ### Sl. No. 88 **QBID:1011063** Which one among the following is regarded as the first English Comedy? 1. Ralph Roister Doister 2. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 3. Gorbuduc 4. Love’s Labour’s Lost ### Sl. No. 89 **QBID:1011064** Who wrote the famous work Sherlock Holmes? 1. P.D. James 2. Edgar Allan Poe 3. Arthur Conan Doyle 4. Agatha Christie ### Sl. No. 90 **QBID:1011065** Heathcliff is a character in: 1. Middlemarch 2. Wuthering Heights 3. The Return of the Native 4. Bleak House ### Sl. No. 91 **QBID:1011066** Find the odd one out. 1. Horace Walpole 2. Mrs. Radcliffe 3. Mathew Lewis 4. James Boswell ### Sl. No. 92 **QBID:1011067** The Norman Conquest took place in ____. 1. 1022 2. 1106 3. 1066 4. 1016 ### Sl. No. 93 **QBID:1011068** “But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.” These lines have been taken from a poem, written by ____. 1. John Donne 2. Abraham Cowley 3. Henry Vaughan 4. Andrew Marvell ### Sl. No. 94 **QBID:1011069** The word "Catharsis" signifies: 1. Personification 2. Purgation 3. Pontification 4. None of the above ### Sl. No. 95 **QBID:1011070** The term "Metaphysical Poets" was first used by: 1. Ben Johnson 2. Samuel Johnson 3. John Dryden 4. John Lyly ### Sl. No. 96 **QBID:1011071** Negative Capability is a term coined by: 1. William Wordsworth 2. John Keats 3. W. Blake 4. P.B. Shelley ### Sl. No. 97 **QBID:1011072** Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is written by: 1. William Hazlitt 2. S.T. Coleridge 3. Thomas De Quincey 4. Leigh Hunt ### Sl. No. 98 **QBID:1011073** Find the odd one out. 1. Socrates 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Horace ### Sl. No. 99 **QBID:1011074** The Enlightenment was characterised by: 1. An undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will 2. The Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life 3. A belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation 4. Accelerated industrial production and general well-being of the public ### Sl. No. 100 **QBID:1011075** The famous play 'Dr. Faustus' is written by ____. 1. William Shakespeare 2. T.S. Eliot 3. Christopher Marlove 4. George Bernard Shaw