UPPSC GDC Assistant Professor (English) Exam - English

Copper tools from which age were found in Meerut and Saharanpur?

Which of the following centres of Uttar Pradesh is not related to Indus valley Civilization?
1. Kalibanga                              2.Lothal
3. Alamgirpur                           4.Hulas     

Which site was discovered by Bharat Sevak Samaj on the bank of river Hindon?

Kosala (Ayodhya) mentioned Rama story' was related to which of the following dynasties?

Which of the following Buddhist Literatures mentions the Mahajanapadas?

Mahajanapadas are contained in which of the Jain Literature?

How many Mahajanapadas are related to Uttar Pradesh ?

During the period of Mahajanapadas, Mathura was the capital of

The capital of Shurasena Mahajanpada was?

During the Mahajanapadas period, the capital city of Kosala was

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘CLEANLINESS’ each of the which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?

Team A has scored more goals than Team B
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C .
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the second, the third, the sixth and the eight letters of the word FRAGMENT using each only once, which of the following will be the third letter of that word ? If no such word can be formed, give ‘X’ as the answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give ‘Y’ as the answer.

How many such letters are there in the word ORIENTAL each of which is as far away from the beginning of the word as when they are arranged alphabetically?

How many such pairs of letters in the word CREDIT each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?

Temperature can be expressed as derived quantity in terms of

Electron volt is a unit of

Dimensions of impulse are

Which of the following is not a synthetic fibre:

Which one of the following is not contained in Portland cement ?

What is the reson for white cement to be white ?

Which of the following contain enzymes for cellular respiration ?

Which one among the following nutrients is a strctural

Which one among the following nutrients is a structural component of the cell wall of plants ?

Which of the following groups is present in animal cells ?

What major defence-related development was highlighted on 1 May 2026 involving India and Italy?

Which satellite was launched by ISRO around early May 2026?

What is Prerna 2.0, launched/introduced in the news on 1 May 2026?

UAE announced its exit from OPEC, with the decision taking effect from:

A tragic road accident in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh on or around 1 May 2026 resulted in how many deaths?

------  the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self which word ?

In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" ---------------------  exploits ----------------- .

 No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours ! For what wears out the life of moral men?'  Tis that repeated shocks, again and numb the elastic powers.............. Who does the poet address here?

The roman a clef ( French for "novel with a key") uses contemporary historical figures as its chief character. They are of course given fictional names. One explain is Aldous Hixley's point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on  ---------------------- .

She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche - dore she hadde fyve, In the  'Prologue' Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as :
I.   crude and Vulgar
II.   outspoken and boastfully licentious
III.   a witness to masculine oppression
IV.   bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code :

The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half - wit, the lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel?

Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?

--------------  is a theological term brought into literary criticism by ----------------.

----------------- the Almighty Power Hurled heading flaming from th' Ethereal Sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. (Paradise Lost, 1.44-49. Choose the appropriate word :

Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?

Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative?

The novel has a scene where African - American  students are made to compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket . Identify the novel.

Match  List  - I  with  List  - II according to the code given below :
List  -  I                         List  -  II
( Authors)                    ( Poems)
a .  Ted Hughes         1. " The Otter "
b.   Seamus Heaney  2. " Snake"
c.  W. H. Auden          3. " Ghost Crabs "
d.  D. H. Lawrence     4. " Prevent the  Dog  from Barking with a Juicy Bone. "

His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot '.Cool was his kitchen, through his  brains were hot. Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb?

" The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I  never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread ".This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in

Identify the correctly matched set below :

Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is

" Late capitalism", by which is meant accelerated  technological development and the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by ------------  .

Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

Along the shore of silver steaming Thames :Whose ruthy bank, the which his river herms, Was painted all with variable flowers,............. Fit to deck maidens,  bowers And crow their paramous Against their bridal day, which is not long : Sweet Thames!  run softly till end my song. ( Spenser's Prothalamion) Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in :

The tramp in Pinter's first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is

Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out :

Where does Act I Scene I  of William Congreve's Way of the World open?

While " a well - boiled icicle " for " a well - oiled bicycle " is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying " Congenital food " for ' Continental food ' is an example of  ------------- .

 It is unimaginable that all the following events happened  in one year :
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization : his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.
(2)  Sir Arthur Quiller - Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
(3)  Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare 'd  Oray, Paris.
(4)  Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
(5)  Hugo de Vries identified what would later come  to be called genes.
(6)  Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
(7)   Coca-Cola  arrived in Britain. Identify the year :

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. This is the epigraph to

Robert Graves's " In Broken Images" ends thus : He in a new confusion of his understanding : I in a new understanding of my confusion. The figure of speech here is ------------ .

The phrase " leaves dancing " is an example of  ------------- .

At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes: " They were careless people ". Who were they?

William Wordsworth 's statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrases. ( Complete the phrase correctly). " to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, -----------------."

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains :

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

Thomas Hardy's last major novel was...........   .

The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse is a satire on :

Match the  columns :
   Terms                                   Theorists
I. Apollonian - Dionysian         1. Matthew Arnold 
II.  Fancy - Imagination           2. Friedrich Nietzsche
III.  Hellenism - Hebraism        3. G. H. Hopkins
IV. Inscape - Instress              4. S. T. Coleridge

In King Lear,  who among the following speaker in the voice of Poor Tom?

 In Wordsworth 's Prelude,  the Boy o Winander is affected by :

Which of the following is NOT mentioned a as part of the London local in The Waste Land?

Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys?

The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was...........

 Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines?
  "  Born to no pride. inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife Stranger to civil and religious rege, The good man walked innoxious through his age. "

The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to --------------------  .

Which character in William Golding 's Lord of the Flies maintains, "Life is scientific"?

Match the authors under List - I with the titles under List - II :
              List - I                               List  - II
I.  Claude Levi-Strauss      1. Of Grammatology
II. Jacques Derrida            2. The Archaeology  of Knowledge
III. Northrop  Frye             3. Structural Anthropology
IV. Michel Foucault           4. Anatomy of  Criticism 
                                                 

How did Chaucer 's Pardoner make his living?

From among the following identify Coleridge 's companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river?

Which of the following novels by H. G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire?

Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is :

Listed below are some English plays across several centuries :
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit. What is common to them,?

Who among the following wrote a poem  comparing a lover's heart to a hand grenade?

The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to :

" Jabberwocky " is a creation in  ---------------- .

Who are Didi and Gogo?

Who among the following theorists talks about " The circulation of social energy "?

How many  legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women?

The Round Table is a collection of essays  jointly written by ------------------- .

Dylan Thomas is associated with the group  --------------------- .

Which of the following writers writes from Canada?

" The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour The paths of glory lead but to the grave. " What is the subject of awaits?

 " Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd " Identify the text in which the above quote occurs :

A Young Lady's Entrance into the World is the sub-title of  ------------------- .

" The old order changeth, yielding place to new " is from  ------------------- 

Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction?

Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with  ------------- .

Which  of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser?

William Blake developed the ideas of" Prolifics " and  " Devourers " in

Surrealism is associated with :

" And miles to go before I sleep " is a line  from a poem by :

What common link do you find among " The Disquieting Muses " by Sylvia Plath  , " The Starry Night " by Anne Sexton," Mourning Picture " by Adrienne Rich, and " Musee Des Beaux Arts " by w. H. Auden?

" All Rising to Great Place is by a -------------- staire. " ( Francis Bacon)

 In Jeremy Collier's  1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target?

Charles Dickens's visit to the United States produced ------------------- .

Who among the following is a working - class  poet?

New Science is a work associated with ----------------- .

Identify Petrarch's sonnet sequence from among the following :

The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats's :

The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by  ---------------- .

Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

" My lute,  be as thou wert when thou didst grow
 With they green mother in some shady groove " ------  William Drummond The above quite is an example of  ------------------- .

This work was a satire in Ottava rima ,attacking George III and Robert Southey. Identify the poem :

Here's a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze:
' Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?  ' To the curious incident of the dog in the night - time.'  The dog did nothing in the night - time. 'What was Sherlock Holmes ' response?

" The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells, And bugles calling for them from sad shires. " These lines are from Wilfred Owen's :

In Aphra Behn's Oronooko, how does the titular character die?

The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, present - tense account of a woman with a death - wish who plots the circumstances of her own violent murder Identify the novel.

The library where the " Battle of Books " takes Place is ------------------- .

In Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex the first scene finds Oedipus :

Who among Shakespeare's contemporaries did not write tragedies?

The Kite Runner a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of ----------------.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, the write of the infamous Minute of 1835 , finds a mention in Salman Rushdie 's :

The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato 's :