Free online English Test Paper

Free online English Test Paper

English Objective Test

Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the most suitable “one

word” for the given expressions.

1. One who is well-versed in any subject a critical judge of any art, particularly fine arts?

(a) Veteran

(b) Philistine

(c) Dilettante

(d) Connoisseur

ANSWER: (d)

2. A person who is against the standards of ordinary society especially in dressing

(a) Joker

(b) Hippy

(c) Scapegoat

(d) Butt

ANSWER: (b)

3. Mania for stealing articles

(a) Logo mania

(b) Nymphomania

(c) Kleptomania

(d) Hypomania

ANSWER: (c)

4. One who loves all and sundry

(a) Optimist

(b) Humanist

(c) Altruist

(d) Philanthropist

ANSWER: (d)

5. A person living permanently in a certain place

(a) Native

(b) Resident

(c) Domicile

(d) Subject

ANSWER: (c)

6. Acutely affected by external impressions

(a) Ingenious

(b) Impressionable

(c) Credulous

(d) Sensitive

ANSWER: (d)

7. An assembly of hearers

(a) Audience

(b) Crowd

(c) Congregation

(d) Assemblage

ANSWER: (a)

8. One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by entreaties

(a) Inexorable

(b) Infallible

(c) Impregnable

(d) Inexplicable

ANSWER: (a)

9. Person who claims to have great love for and understanding of what is beautiful

in nature, art etc.

(a) Critic

(b) Aesthete

(c) Connoisseur

(d) Artist

ANSWER: (b)

10. An animal story with a moral

(a) Fable

(b) Tale

(c) Anecdote

(d) Parable

ANSWER: (a)

11. Person who believes that God is everything and everything is God

(a) Agnostic

(b) Theist

(c) Pantheist

(d) Pantechnicon

ANSWER: (c)

12. Witty, clever retort

(a) Sarcasm

(b) Repartee

(c) Platitude

(d) Invective

ANSWER: (b)

13. Simplest and smallest form of plant life, present in air, Water and soil; essential to

Life but may cause disease

(a) Virus

(b) Amoeba

(c) Bacteria

(d) Toxin

ANSWER: (c)

14. A person who regards the whole world as his country

(a) Patriot

(b) Nationalist

(C) Cosmopolitan

(d) Metropolitan

ANSWER: (c)

15. A story in which ideas are symbolized as people

(a) Allegory

(b) Fable

(c) Legend

(d) Parable

ANSWER: (a)

16. A person who makes love without serious intentions

(a) Consort

(b) Philanderer

(c) Romeo

(d) Goon

ANSWER: (b)

17. Having no beginning or end to its existence

(a) Eternal

(b) Obscure

(c) Universal

(d) Immeasurable

ANSWER: (a)

18. Walking in sleep.

(a) Somniloquism

(b) Somnambulism

(c) Obsession

(d) Hallucination

ANSWER: (b)

19. A formal written charge against a person for some crime or offence

(a) Accusation

(b) Indictment

(c) Allegation

(d) Acrimony

ANSWER: (b)

20. Belief or opinion contrary to what is generally accepted

(a) Unbelief

(b) Superstition

(c) Non conformity

(d) Heresy

ANSWER: (d)

21. A child of unusual or remarkable talent

(a) Scholar

(b) Diligent

(c) Freak

(d) Prodigy

ANSWER: (d)

22. A disease which ends in death

(a) Contagious

(b) Lethal

(c) Fatal

(d) Deadly

ANSWER: (c)

23. A person who kills somebody especially for political reasons.

(a) Criminal

(b) Murderer

(c) Assassin

(d) Hangman

ANSWER: (c)

24. One who loves mankind

(a) Anthropologist

(b) Philanthropist

(c) Seismologist

(d) Optometrist

ANSWER: (b)

25. A small piece of potato

(a) Chunk

(b) Chip

(c) Scrap

(d) Bit

ANSWER: (b)

26. A common place remark

(a) Dialogue

(b) Platitude

(c) Epigram

(d) Statement

ANSWER: (b)

27. A person who rules without consulting the opinion of others

(a) Democrat

(b) Bureaucrat

(c) Autocrat

(d) Fanatic

ANSWER: (c)