BA Sem – 5 - Core English – 305 (EA) - MCQ

[A] Choose the correct option from given below:

[1] Who one of the following kings of England commissioned an official English
Language Bible?

a) Henry VIII b) Henry V c) Richard III d) John

[2] The official English Language Bible commissioned by King of England Henry
VIII is known as___________

a) Tyndale Bible b) The Great Bible c) The Bishop’s Bible d) Geneva Bible

[3] ‘The Great Bible’ commissioned by the king of England Henry VIII is also
Known as

a) New English Bible b) Hebrew Bible c) The King James Bible

d) Tyndale Bible

[4] _______is the most printed books in history.

a) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy b) Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist

c) The King James Bible d) Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung

[5] Which one of the common idiomatic phrases belongs to The King James
Bible?

a) A Penny for your thoughts b) Action speaks louder than word

c) Salt of the earth, d) Blessing in disguise

[6] The King James Bible was first published in_______

a) 1600 b) 1604 c) 1620 d) 1611

[7] The Bible which was supposed to be set as a model for the King James’ Bible
was__________

a) Geneva Bible b) The Bishop’s Bible of 1568 c) New English Bible

d) Tyndale Bible

[8] The King James Bible was first printed by________

a) Robert Bridges b) Robert Watson c) Robert Parkar d) Robert Barker

[9] The special contribution of The King James Bible was that it ____________

a) standardized English spellings and pronunciations

b) helped Britain to expand imperial power

c) gave a unity to form and expression to the language of religion and faith.

d) helped to unite Welsh, Ireland, Scotland and England

[10] In which year the universities of Cambridge and Oxford gained permission
from the Crown to produce revised editions of King James Bible?

a) 1625 b) 1629 c) 1627 d) 1632

[11] Which writer of the followings has attracted disciplined scholarship or

provoked so much debate and interpretation in the world of literature?

a) Homer b) Shakespeare c) Kalidas d) Virgil

[12] The beauty of Shakespearean language lies in its__________

a) use of archaic words b) use of obsolete words and expressions

c) adoption of new forms of poetic and linguistic expression d) use of Latin and
Greek words

[13] ________ is poetry written in a form known as Iambic pentameter and/or to a

decasyllable structure.

a) Heroic Verse b) Free Verse c) Rigid Verse d) Blank Verse.

[14] Who one of the following writers refined the Blank Verse after Christopher
Marlow?

a) Shakespeare b) Shelley c) Philip Larkin d) John Donne

[15] Decasyllable structures are lines of poetry or prose composed of words with a
total number of ____syllables.

a) 08 b) 10 c) 06 d) 04

[16] Shakespeare’s early work________was composed in Blank Verse.

a) The Tempest b) The Winter’s tale c) Titus Andronicus d) Cymbeline

[17] In which way Elizabethan theater promoted the development of the English
Language?

a) By writing unconventional plays b) By popularizing stories from historical

sources and creating engaging comedies, tragedies and romances c) By imitating
Greek and Latin literature d) By copying French comedies, tragedies and
romances.

[18] The Oxford Dictionary cites over ____________words found in

Shakespeare’s poetry and plays, which were not written down elsewhere before the
late sixteenth century.

a) two thousand b) three hundred c) twenty thousand d) one thousand

[19] Which one of the following phrases is not from Shakespeare?

a) ‘Give the devil his due’ b) ‘Vanish into thin air’

c) ‘More in sorrow than in anger’ d) ‘A thing of beauty is joy forever’

[20] The phrase ‘I will wear my heart upon my sleeve’ is from Shakespeare’s
__________

a) King Lear b) Macbeth c) Othello d) Hamlet

[21] The phrase ‘Give the devil his due’ is from Shakespeare’s

a) Merry Wives of Windsor b) The Tempest c) Richard III d) Henry V

[22] The phrase ‘More sinned against than sinning’ is from

Shakespeare’s___________

a) Othello b) King Lear c) Hamlet d) Othello

[23] Which one of the following phrases is from Macbeth?

a) ‘Milk of human kindness’ b) ‘Vanish into thin air’

c) ‘A laughing stock’ d) ‘Parting is such sweet sorrow’

[24] Which one of the following phrases is from The Tempest?

a) ‘More in sorrow than in anger’ b) ‘Vanish into thin air’

c) ‘Parting is such sweet sorrow’ d) ‘A laughing stock’

[25] The purpose of highly stylized and mannered method of writing speech in
Shakespearean plays was to__________

a) use language of common people b) entertain the people of the court

c) draw a distinction between the speech and the actions of the actors and the
audience. d) adopt a simple speech.

[26] Shakespeare is regarded as___________ in terms of enriching English

language.

a) a prolific wordsmith b) a user of highly Latinized English

c) a user of Frenchified vocabulary d) an imitator of classical plays

[27] John Milton is best known for his ___________

a) Comus b) Areopagitica c) On Shakespeare d) Paradise Lost

[28] Milton’s support for______ led him to being appointed as Minister for
foreign Tongues

a) Charles II b) Charles III c) Oliver Cromwell d) Richard III

[29] The highly-stylized form of blank verse in Paradise Lost is known as_______

a) Miltonic prose b) Miltonic metre c) Miltonic verse libre d) Miltonic verse

[B] Choose the correct option and fill in the blanks:

1. There are _______ main groups of Indo-European family of languages.

(a) Five (b) Four (c) Nine (d) Eight

2. The _________ group is also a part of Indo-European family.

(a) French (b) Albanian (c) Germanic (d) Armenian

3. The Eastern group of languages in Indo-European family is called _________

languages.

(a) Foreign (b) Satem (c) Local (d) Centum

4. Greek and Latin belong to the _________ group.

(a) Eastern (b) Southern (c) Western (d) Northern

5. Phonetics is the science of ________

(a) writing (b) speech sounds (c) reading (d) symbol

6. The other name of the wind pipe is __________.

(a) pharynx (b) alveolar ridge (c) teeth ridge (d) trachea

7. The smallest distinctive sound unit is called __________ .

(a) allophone (b) phoneme (c) uvula (d) larynx

8. The opening between the vocal cords is called _________ .

(a) trachea (b) tongue (c) pharynx (d) glottis

9. The vocal cords are located in the__________.

(a) pharynx (b) larynx (c) windpipe (d) lungs

10. In the production of the nasal sounds the soft palate is__________.

(a) raised (b) central (c) lowered (d) neutral

11. When the vocal cords vibrate a________ sound is produced.

(a) voiced (b) silent (c) voiceless (d) loud

12. /p / and /b/ are _______ sounds.

(a) labio-dental (b) alveolar (c) bi-labial (d) velar

13. The soft palate is ________ to produce the sound /n/.

(a) opened (b) lowered (c) closed (d) raised

14. Language is a system of ___________ .

(a) sounds (b) alphabet (c) signs (d) communication

15. The variants of phonemes are called ___________.

(a) allophones (b) velar sound (c) alveolar sounds (d) glottal sound

16. When the soft palate is lowered the air escapes through the _________.

(a) mouth (b) nose (c) lungs (d) throat

17. When the vocal cords vibrate ________ sounds are produced.

(a) voiceless (b) plosive (c) voiced (d) nasal

18. All English vowels are ___________.

(a) voiceless (b) silent (c) voiced (d) oral

19. The teeth ridge is also called the ___________.

(a) alveolar ridge (b) nasal ridge (c) palatal ridge (d) oral ridge

20. Pure vowels are also called___________.

(a) plosives (b) monophthongs (c) bi-labial (d) allophones

21. There are ________ pure vowels in English RP.

(a) 15 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 8

22. There are _______vowel glides or diphthongs in English RP.

(a) 20 (b) 15 (c) 6 (d) 8

23. Vowels that do not change their quality are called ____________.

(a) pure vowels (b) phonemes (c) vowel glides (d) nasalized vowels
24. Vowels that change their quality are called___________.

(a) glottal (b) dipbthongs (c) neutral (d) monophthongs

25. The soft palate is raised for _______ vowels.

(a) clear (b) silent (c) oral (d) voiced

26. The part above the larynx is called the___________.

(a) voicebox (b) nasal cavity (c) mouth (d) pharynx

27. /t,d,s,z,n,l/ are __________sounds.

(a) plosive (b) labio-dental (c) alveolar (d) velar

28. The soft palate is also called___________.

(a) uvula (b) velum (c) teeth ridge (d) tongue

29. In the production of ________ sounds, lips and teeth are used.

(a) labio-dental (b) alveolar (c) bi-labial (d) fricative

30. A vowel glide with a consonantal function is called a__________.

(a) fricative (b) semi-vowel (c) full vowel (d) half-vowel

31. /m, n/ are ______ sounds.

(a) palatal (b) velar (c) affricate (d) nasal

32. /j / and /w/ are _________.

(a) semi-vowels (b) diphthongal glides (c) plosives (d) nasalized sounds

33. The roof of the mouth is divided into _________ parts.

(a) five (b) six (c) three (d) nine

34. The sounds produced by raising the back of the tongue against the soft palate
are called ___sounds.

(a) Velar (b) Retroflex (c) Palatal (d) Dental

35. English has a relatively ________ word order.

(a) Free (b) Fixed (c) Varied (d) Mixed

36. The origin of language seems to be bound up with ______.

(a) Human feelings (b) Human behavior (c) Human thought (d) None of the above

37. In order to describe the production of a speech sounds we have to indicate

____________.

(a) The nature of the air stream (b) The position of the tongue and lips

(c) The position of the soft palate (d) All of the above

38. The air stream set in motion by the lungs is called ___________.

(a) Kinetic (b) Synthetic (c) Pulmonic (d) Tectonic

39. | t, d, s, z, n, l / are ___________ consonants.

(a) Palato-alveolar (b) Alveolar (c) Retroflex (d) Glottal

40. When there is complete closure of the air passage and the air is released with
explosion _________ sound is produced.

(a) Plosive (b) Nasal (c) Lateral (d) Affricate

Answers : [a] 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. B

11. B 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. B 16. C 17. B 18. A 19. D 20. C

21. D 22. B 23. A 24. B 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. D

[B] 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. B 10. C 11. A 12. C

13. B 14. D 15. A 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. A 20. B 21. C 22. D

23. A 24. B 25. C 26. D 27. C 28. B 29. A 30. B 31. D 32. A

33. C 34. A 35. A 36. C 37. D 38. C 39. B 40. A