2501. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ?
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A. Create seperation

B. Separate from church of England

C. Start their own beliefs

D. They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England
2502. The Weary Blues______________?
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A. William Faulkner

B. Sherwood anderson

C. Carl Sandburg

D. Langston Hues
2503. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to______________?
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A. the yellow metal

B. the pot of luck

C. paycheck or money

D. materialism

2506. The form dog is a __________morphemE?
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A. Free variation

B. None of these

C. Bound morpheme

D. A free morpheme
2509. Which among the following pairs are Alveolar plosives ?
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A. /t/ &/d/

B. /p/ & /b/

C. /m/ & /v/

D. /k/ & /g/

2510. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop ?
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A. American myths

B. City upon a hill

C. non separating puritan

D. All are correct
2512. The classification of vowels into high vowels and low vowels is based on ____________?
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A. The height to which the tongue is raised

B. The part of the tongue that is raised

C. The position of the lips

D. All the abovE.

2514. How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haleys presence outside the inn ?
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A. Throws a rock

B. Bucks his horse

C. Shouts about his hat

D. Sneezes loudly

2516. Words such as edit and house__keep are instances of ____________?
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A. Portmanteau

B. Derivation

C. Compounding

D. Backformation
2517. Words such as smog and motel are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding

B. Portmanteau

C. Backformation

D. Derivation

2518. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in listing the items ?
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A. The rising

B. The fall__rise

C. None of the above

D. The falling
2519. How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed ?
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A. Innumerable

B. Two

C. None of the above

D. Only one

2521. The pronunciation of English practised by the educated people at the public schools came to be called____________?
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A. Standard pronunciation

B. Recognized pronunciation

C. Standard English

D. Received Pronunciation
2523. How old is Emmeline ?
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A. Ten

B. Seventeen

C. Fifteen

D. Thirteen

2525. Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
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A. Political thinking

B. Philosophical movment

C. Age of reason

D. Celebration of individual

2526. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin ?
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A. Mentor to other writers

B. Rewrote the autobiography

C. Self-made and

D. Both B and C
2527. The /t/ in little is an instance of __________________?
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A. Alveolar plosion

B. Lateral plosion

C. Nasal plosion

D. Incomplete plosion.

2529. Which of Upton Sinclairs books is about the meat-packing industry ?
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A. The Jungle

B. Main Street

C. Arrowsmith

D. Elmer Gantry

2530. Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
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A. Imperialism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Socialism

D. Naturalism

2531. learn by going where I have to go. The poet learns of______________?
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A. going back to the state of depression

B. the final destination where he has to reach

C. his errors and starts correcting them

D. Going back to his hometown

2533. Where does Tom first meet Eva ?
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A. On a river boat

B. In New Orleans

C. On a ferry

D. In Memphis

2534. The classification of vowels into close vowels and open vowels is based on ________________?
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A. The part of the tongue that is raised

B. The position of the lips

C. All the above.

D. The height to which the tongue is raised
2535. This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?
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A. Slave narrative

B. Sermon

C. Trancendentalism

D. Indian autobiography

2536. The Cycle of American Literature was written by ?
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A. Gustave Falubert

B. Robert E. Spiller

C. Thoruau

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

2538. Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the Father of American Literature ?
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A. Mentor to other writers

B. Literary Maverick

C. First native american to publish life writing

D. None of the above

2539. The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are__________________?
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A. Leonard Bloomfield & Noam Chomsky

B. Edward Sapir & Ferdinand de Saussure

C. Max__Muller & Herman Gundert

D. Leonard Bloomfield & Max__Muller

2540. Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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A. To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language

B. To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

C. All the above.

D. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language

2541. Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
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A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

B. Mark Twain.

C. Herman Melville.

D. Walt Whitman.

2542. In this technological world the child should build up_____________?
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A. inner strength

B. a will not to depend on others

C. his own life

D. a vision for himself

2545. Native Son (1940) is written by_____________?
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A. Ralph Ellison

B. Richard Wright

C. Jean Toomer

D. Stephen Crane

2548. In A Defense of Poetry, Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to ____________________?
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A. Resist understanding poetry

B. Reproduce rhythm and order

C. Write stories

D. Strive to express love

2550. ______________ is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols and letters devised by the International Phonetic Association?
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A. The intelligible phonetic script.

B. The international phonemic script

C. The international phonetic alphabet

D. The international phonetic script