Here is the practice question paper for DSC School Assistants Recruitment in Andhra Pradesh. The following 10 questions are from the subject of English Content. Key is also given at the end of the questions.
1. The Poem ‘Bangle Sellers’ was written by –
1) Toru Dutt 2) Aurobindo 3) Rabindranath Tagore 4) Sarojini Naidu
2. The narrator of the poem ‘Bangle Sellers’ –
1) Sarojini Naidu 2) the people at the temple fair 3) the bangles themselves 4) the bangle sellers
3. The bangles which the bangle sellers bear are compared to —
1) vibrant goods 2) shining loads 3) shining Goods 4) vibrant Loads
4. The bangle sellers are leaving for —
1) a temple fair 2) a religious fair 3) a trade fair 4) a business fair
5. The multi-colours of bangles are compared to-
1) bloom 2) rainbow 3) stream 4) buds
6. Who will buy these delicate bright rainbow tinted circles of light? Identify the figure of speech used in the above lines.
1) Similie 2) personification 3) metaphor 4) pun
7. The bright bangles are tokens of —
1) rainbow life 2) heart’s desire 3) radiant life 4) marriage fire
8. Match the following
Colour of the bangles – Stages of a woman
1) silver and blue – a) bride
2) fields of Sun-lit corn – b) middle aged woman
3) gold Flecked grey – c) maiden
4) flame of the marriage fire – d) bride on her bridal morning
1) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d 2) 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a
3) 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a 4) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d
9. In the word ‘leaves’ ‘s’ is pronounced as–
1) S 2) SS 3) Z 4) IZ
10. Some are meet for a maiden’s wrist Silver and blue as the mountain-mist (2004) The figure of speech used in the above lines –
1) irony 2) transferred epithet 3) personification 4) similie
KEY: 1-4, 2-4, 3-2, 4-1, 5-2, 6-3, 7-3, 8-2, 9-3, 10-4.