Sample questions 3, Part-B & C (TNPSC English)

1.Acquiring knowledge is one's primary duty - not ony for one's success in the examination but also for one's life.
What is one's primary duty
a) Playing well
b) Succeeding in the examination
c) Working earnestly
d) Acquiring knowledge

2. Which one of the following options is not a famous tragedy of William Shakespeare
a) Hamlet
b) King Lear
c) Othello
d) A Midsummer Night's Dream

3. Match the following poems under Column A with the poets under Column B and select the correct code :
1) A psalm of life - Khalil Gibran
2) The Man He Killed - Douglas Malloch
3) Be the Best - Thomas Hardy
4) Earth - H.W.Longfellow
a) 2 1 3 4
b) 3 4 1 2
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 2 4 3 1

4. In which poem do the following lines occur
"We extract your elements to make
Cannons and bombs out of
our elements you create lines and roses"
a) Shilpi
b) With a Friend
c) The Flying Wonder
d) Earth

5."Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert
sand of dead habit".
These lines are taken from the poem
a) A Psalm life
b) Be The Best
c) Where the Mind is Without Fear
d) The Solitary Reaper

6.Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream".
These lines are from the poem
a) A Psalm of life
b) The Solitary Reaper
c) Sonnet No. 116
d) Where the Mind is Without Fear

7."Good Heavens! I gave him a sovereign!". Identify the speaker
a) Alan trevor
b) Hughie
c) Shelley
d) Diane

8."I Come to bury Caesar, not to praise him" Whose words are these
a) Marcus Brutus
b) Mark Antony
c) Casca
d) Diane

9.The man who posed as a beggar in the story "The model Millionaire" was
a) Austin Ronaldo
b) Bebeto
c) Thomas Kaka
d) Baron Hausberg

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Sample questions 3, Part-B & C (TNPSC English)