English Model Past Paper 2023 PDF
Part – 1 English
The Antonym of Alien is?
Answer: Native
Change the voice: Let us play together.
Answer: It is suggested that we should play together.
Idiom: “donkey years” means ______?
Answer: Very long period
I have been staying in this hotel _____ three days.
Answer: For
The Synonym of Harmony is?
Answer: Both A and B (Consistency and Symmetry)
Several ducks had dark green heads. Here ‘Several’ is an example of ______?
Answer: Adjective
____ of locusts attacked the crops.
Answer: Swarm
The Plural of Goose is?
Answer: Geese
Running fast they caught the last bus. Here ‘Running fast’ is an example of ______?
Answer: Adjective phrase
Change the narration: Shahid’s brother said to him, “Please wait for me.”
Answer: Shahid’s brother requested him to wait for him.
The Antonym of Denounce is?
Answer: Both A and B (Defend and Commend)
Choose the correct spelling:
Answer: Exercise
Select the correctly spelled word:
Answer: Accumulate
The Synonym of Artificial is?
Answer: Both A and B (Man Made and Unreal)
Vanity is often noticeable in a great leader. Here synonym of Noticeable is?
Answer: Both A and B (Visible and Prominent)
God helps those who help ________?
Answer: Themselves
Look at the picture _____ the wall.
Answer: On
Change the narration: He said to me, “I was ill”.
Answer: He told me that he had been ill.
The hero of the novel “The Prisoner of Zenda” is ______?
Answer: Rudolf Rassendyl
Choose the correct spelling:
Answer: Riddle
The fire alarm rang ________ yesterday’s meeting.
Answer: During
The Antonym of Hypocritical is?
Answer: Sincere
The Antonym of Accept is?
Answer: Both B and C (Reject and Refuse)
The poem “The Solitary Reaper” is composed by _____?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Part-I: Teaching Methodology
What is the process of putting information into the memory?
Answer: Encoding
Which system involves the teacher, student, and environment as a 3D process?
Answer: Social Education System
Which group technique is used to create many new ideas to solve a problem?
Answer: Brainstorming
What term refers to changes in the way a person thinks?
Answer: Cognition
Which organization controls and regulates universities in Pakistan?
Answer: Higher Education Commission (HEC)
Which strategy is used to make students more active in class?
Answer: Creating active classroom
Who introduced the “Laws of Learning”?
Answer: Edward Thorndike
What is the first step in developing a curriculum?
Answer: Identifying issues/problems (Need analysis)
What kind of tests are GRE, SAT, and IELTS?
Answer: Standardized tests
Which objectives translate big goals into specific actions?
Answer: Tactical Objectives
What do we call a group of individuals living together as a distinct group?
Answer: Organization
Who is known as the father of activity-based curriculum?
Answer: John Dewey
What is the process of changing existing mental ideas (schemas) called?
Answer: Accommodation
What is the main job of a school counselor?
Answer: Creating a positive environment
What type of reinforcement happens in a previously conditioned organism?
Answer: Negative reinforcement
What is the process of giving numbers to a performance called?
Answer: Measurement
Which concept gives a purpose to teaching and helps discuss success or failure?
Answer: Aims
Besides research, what else is essential for improving a curriculum?
Answer: Periodic evaluation
What is it called when you collect feedback to see if a course was successful?
Answer: Course Evaluation
What is the nature of an assessment?
Answer: Qualitative
What is an assessment done before teaching to set a baseline called?
Answer: Pre-assessment
Which approach asks groups of students to solve unstructured, hard problems?
Answer: Problem-Based Learning
Which conditioning sees behavior as a result of external triggers?
Answer: Operant and Classical Conditioning
Which method ensures every student gets equal guidance opportunities?
Answer: Group guidance
If a teacher comments on a certain criterion while assessing students, the test is called…?
Answer: Formative test
Part – II English Literature
Q. Who wrote the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Sophocles
Q. In which century was Don Quixote published?
Answer: 17th century
Q. What is the first name of Dr. Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Answer: Henry
Q. Which Charles Dickens novel begins with the line: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
Answer: A Tale of Two Cities
Q. Who is the narrator of Moby-Dick?
Answer: Ishmael
Q. Which novel features the character Heathcliff?
Answer: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Q. What is the name of the epic poem written by John Milton?
Answer: Paradise Lost
Q. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
Answer: The Modern Prometheus
Q. Who wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Tennessee Williams
Q. In what language was Don Quixote originally written?
Answer: Spanish
Q. In Jane Eyre, who is the mysterious employer of Jane?
Answer: Mr. Rochester
Q. What is the full title of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Q. Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Answer: Dante Alighieri
Q. In which novel does Elizabeth Bennet appear?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
Q. What is the title of the second novel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Answer: The Two Towers
Q. Who is the author of The Scarlet Letter?
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q. Who is the author of the 18th-century satirical work Candide?
Answer: Voltaire
Q. What is the setting for Wuthering Heights?
Answer: The Yorkshire moors
Q. Which Russian novel begins with the line: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
Answer: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Q. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, what is the name of the guide who leads Dante through Hell?
Answer: Virgil
Q. What is the name of the ship in Treasure Island?
Answer: The Hispaniola
Q. What is the central conflict in The Iliad?
Answer: The Trojan War
Q. What animal is central to Orwell’s allegorical novella Animal Farm?
Answer: Pigs
Q. Which novel tells the story of Jean Valjean?
Answer: Les Misérables
Q. What is the real name of the author known as Mark Twain?
Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Q. Who is the author of The Odyssey?
Answer: Homer
Q. In The Scarlet Letter, what does the letter “A” on Hester Prynne’s dress symbolize?
Answer: Adultery
Q. Who is the tragic hero in Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Oedipus
Q. What is the genre of Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Answer: Gothic fiction
Q. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
Answer: A Christmas Carol
Q. Which book begins with “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby-Dick
Q. Who wrote Anna Karenina?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Q. What is the primary setting of Great Expectations?
Answer: England
Q. Who is the author of Madame Bovary?
Answer: Gustave Flaubert
Q. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
Q. In which play does the line “To be, or not to be” appear?
Answer: Hamlet
Q. Who is the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q. What is the name of the monster in Beowulf?
Answer: Grendel
Q. Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans, set during the French and Indian War?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
Q. What is the theme of A Tale of Two Cities?
Answer: Sacrifice and resurrection
Q. Who is the author of Gulliver’s Travels?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Q. Which novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: War and Peace
Q. Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
Q. Which Shakespearean play features the character Shylock?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
Q. What is the setting of The Grapes of Wrath?
Answer: Dust Bowl-era America
Q. Which American poet wrote Leaves of Grass?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Q. Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
Answer: Joseph Conrad
Q. What is the central theme of The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer: Struggle and perseverance
Q. Who is the protagonist in Dracula?
Answer: Jonathan Harker
Q. What is the main conflict in Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Feuding families
What is the name of the literary award given annually by the Swedish Academy?
Answer: The Nobel Prize in Literature
Which prestigious award is given for fiction, drama, and poetry in the United States?
Answer: The Pulitzer Prize
Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901?
Answer: Sully Prudhomme
Which British literary award is given annually for the best original novel written in English?
Answer: The Booker Prize
Who won the Booker Prize in 2022 for the novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”?
Answer: Shehan Karunatilaka
What is the name of the American award for science fiction and fantasy works?
Answer: The Hugo Award
Which poet won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for their collection “The Tradition”?
Answer: Jericho Brown
Which award is given to the best original French-language novel of the year?
Answer: Prix Goncourt
Who was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Toni Morrison
Which novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2023?
Answer: Demon Copperhead and Trust (Joint winners)
What is the name of the award given by the British Crime Writers’ Association?
Answer: The Gold Dagger Award
Which author won the Booker Prize twice, for “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies”?
Answer: Hilary Mantel
What is the name of the literary award given for children’s books in the United States?
Answer: The Newbery Medal
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021?
Answer: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Which award is presented annually by PEN America for literary excellence?
Answer: The PEN/Faulkner Award
Which author won the 2020 Booker Prize for the novel “Shuggie Bain”?
Answer: Douglas Stuart
What is the name of the literary prize awarded to works written in Spanish?
Answer: The Miguel de Cervantes Prize
Which award is given annually for the best debut novel by a British, Irish, or Commonwealth author?
Answer: The Dylan Thomas Prize
Who won the Hugo Award in 2019 for “The Calculating Stars”?
Answer: Mary Robinette Kowal
Which American literary prize is awarded for achievements in literature for young adults?
Answer: The Printz Award
Who was the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970?
Answer: Bernice Rubens
Which Japanese author has been nominated multiple times but has not won the Nobel Prize yet?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
What is the name of the literary award for excellence in Canadian literature?
Answer: The Governor General’s Literary Awards
Which writer won the Nobel Prize in 2016 for contributions to music and songwriting?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Who won the International Booker Prize in 2023 for the novel “Time Shelter”?
Answer: Georgi Gospodinov
Who is the author of “The Midnight Library”?
Answer: Matt Haig
Which author wrote the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series?
Answer: Sarah J. Maas
Who is the author of the novel “It Ends With Us”?
Answer: Colleen Hoover
Which bestselling thriller author wrote “The Silent Patient”?
Answer: Alex Michaelides
Which famous author wrote “Les Misérables”?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Which Japanese author is known for “Norwegian Wood”?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
Who is the author of the “Bridgerton” series?
Answer: Julia Quinn
Who is the author of “The Chronicles of Narnia”?
Answer: C.S. Lewis
Who wrote “Lessons in Chemistry”?
Answer: Bonnie Garmus
Which author created the world of Middle-earth in “The Lord of the Rings”?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
Who is the author of the “Shadow and Bone” trilogy?
Answer: Leigh Bardugo
Which author wrote “Daisy Jones & The Six”?
Answer: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Who is the author of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”?
Answer: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Which thriller author wrote the “Jack Reacher” series?
Answer: Lee Child
Who wrote “Shatter Me”, a bestselling YA dystopian series?
Answer: Tahereh Mafi
Which American author wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Which author wrote “Verity”, a dark thriller novel?
Answer: Colleen Hoover
Who is the author of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”?
Answer: Gabrielle Zevin
Which South Korean author wrote “The Vegetarian”?
Answer: Han Kang
Which author wrote the “Song of Achilles”?
Answer: Madeline Miller
Who is the author of “The Paris Library”?
Answer: Janet Skeslien Charles
Who wrote “Crime and Punishment”?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who wrote “A Man Called Ove”?
Answer: Fredrik Backman
Which American author is known for “The Color Purple”?
Answer: Alice Walker
