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Name of the Organisation : Aliah University
Exam : Aliah University Admission Test AUAT-2016
Subject : English
Year : 2016
Document Type : Previous Years’ Question Papers

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Part- I

1. I ……….. learning English for a long time. Fill in the blank with the correct alternative:
A. Was
B. Am
C. Have been
D. Have had

2. Have we got time …… a coffee? Fill in the blank with the correct alternative:
A. Of
B. For
C. Above
D. Beside

3. I’ve met him on several ………….
Choose the word with correct spelling to complete the above sentence:
A. Occasions
B. Ocassions
C. Occations
D. Occesions

4. A person engaged in the scientific study of birds is called ………….
A. Biologist
B. Ornithologist
C. Palaeontologist
D. Game warden

5. Ann was all at sea when she began her new job. Choose the correct meaning of the italicized idiom:
A. Happy
B. Sad
C. Confused
D. Triumphant

6. Tom and Jerry have made ……….. their quarrel. Fill in the blank with the correct word:
A. Out
B. Up
C. Over
D. Aside

7. Jane is a garrulous girl. Choose the expression nearest in meaning to the italicized word:
A. Talks a lot
B. Giggles all the time
C. Laughs all the time
D. Repeats gossip.

8. Amal had an inquisitive mind. Choose the best antonym for the italicized word:
A. Scientific
B. Greedy
C. Sensuous
D. Uninterested

9. Winter has ……… early this year. Complete the sentence with the correct phrasal verb:
A. Set down
B. Set in
C. Set up
D. Set back

10. Nicco Park is an excellent ………….. for picnic. Choose the appropriate word to fill in the blank:
A. Sight
B. Cite
C. Site
D. Side

11. The name of Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) grandfather is ………
A. Abdullah
B. Abdul Muttalib
C. Abu Bakkar
D. Abu Sufian

12. Hizrah as the commencement of the Muslim Era was fixed by …….
A. Umar (RA)
B. Al-Khwarizmi
C. Al-Idrisi
D. Harun al-Rashid

13. The first woman to accept Islam was ………..
A. Fatimah (RA)
B. Khadiza (RA)
C. Ayesha (RA)
D. Aminah (RA)

14. The fourth Caliph of Islam was ……………
A. Usman (RA)
B. Hasan (RA)
C. Muwabiah (RA)
D. Ali (RA)

15. The namaz offered immediately after the sunset is called …………
A. Fazr
B. Maghrib
C. Asar
D. Johar

16. Alif Laila wa Laila (The Thousand and One Nights) was written by …………
A. Firdousi
B. Sadi
C. Jalal ud-Din Rumi
D. None of the above

17. Apart from being a poet, Omar Khayyam was a great ………….
A. Mathematician
B. Emperor
C. Geographer
D. Cartographer

18. Aliah Madrasah was established in ………
A. 1791
B. 1817
C. 1836
D. 1780

19. Muhammad Iqbal composed his poetry in …………
A. Urdu
B. Persian
C. Both Urdu and Persian
D. Both Urdu and Hindi

20. The book The Spirit of Islam was written by ………
A. Syed Ahmad Khan
B. Syed Ameer Ali
C. Nawab Abdul Latif
D. Delawar Hossain Ahmed Mirza

21. The Player of the Tournament in the World Cup 2015 in One Day Cricket was
A. Michael Clarke
B. Brendon McCullum
C. Mitchell Starc
D. James Faulkner

22. Light year is a unit of
A. Time
B. Distance
C. Light
D. Sound

23. The film, Taare Zameen Par, is about a child suffering from
A. Dyscalculia
B. Hydrophobia
C. Xenophobia
D. Dyslexia

24. Population Census is conducted in India every
A. 5 years
B. 10 years
C. 11 years
D. 12 years

25. Shakespeare’s play Othello is a
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Tragi-comedy
D. Farce

Part- II

26. The central religious text of Islam which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God is
A. Hadith
B. The Quran
C. The Maqamat of Badi
D. The Masnavi

27. The Faerie Queene is the famous work of …….
A. Geoffre Chaucer
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Ben Johnson

28. Petarch the Italian poet is famous for composing ……..
A. Lyric
B. Ballad
C. Sonnet
D. Drama.

29. The villainous character in Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ is
A. Iago
B. Cassio
C. Othello
D. Duke

30. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is authored by ……
A. Jane Austen
B. Charles Dickens
C. Walther Scott
D. Oscar Wilde

31. ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is a famous poem of ………
A. Lord Byron
B. P.B. Shelley
C. John Keats
D. William Blake

32. Find the odd man out
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Mathew Arnold
C. Robert Browning
D. G.B. Shaw

33. Who among the following is not a Nobel Laureate?
A. R.N. Tagore
B. Octavio Paz
C. Robert Frost
D. G.B. Shaw

34. Sonnet is a poem that generally consists of ……… stanza / stanzas
A. a single
B. two
C. three
D. many

35. Find the odd man out
A. As you like it
B. Twelfth Night
C. Macbeth
D. Much Ado About Nothing

36. ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a collection of poems written by William Wordsworth and ……..
A. William Blake
B. S.T. Coleridge
C. John Keats
D. William Shakespeare.

37. Robert Browning is famous for his ……
A. Beautiful lyrics
B. Damatic monologues
C. Immortal Essays
D. One-act plays

38. ‘Betty Botter bought some butter’ Identify the figure of speech
A. Metaphor
B. Imagery
C. alliteration
D. Innuendo

39. ‘The Ocean heaved a sigh’ is an example of ……
A. Personification
B. Simile C. Pun
D. transferred epithet

40. Which one does not fit the list?
A. As you like it
B. Othello
C. Macbeth
D. The Jew of Malta