ENGLISH – NCBTS Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Rabindranath Tagore - ✔✔The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Confucianism - ✔✔Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.
giri - ✔✔3. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which
explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.
The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life. - ✔✔What insight is
suggested by this haiku from Basho?
P o v e r t y's c h I l d - He s t a r t s to grind the rice And g a z e s at the moon.
Leopold Senghor - ✔✔5. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.
Linear - ✔✔The plot development of the Ramayana.
Nadine Gordimer - ✔✔The South African novelist and short story writer whose major
themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
record of a Journey to the West - ✔✔This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the
Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts.
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
,T'ang - ✔✔Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as
the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
racial discrimination - ✔✔This excerpt from Soyinka's Telephone Conversation
indicates the universal issue of _________. "ARE YOU D A R K? OR VERY LIGHT?"
Revelation came. "You mean- like p l a i n or milk c h o c o l a te?" Her a s s e n t was c l
Iin ical, crushing its light I m p ersonality. Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, "West
African sepia." - and as an afterthought, "Down in my passport."
maya - ✔✔The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.
Pride and Prejudice - ✔✔In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife."
The Mayor of Casterbridge - ✔✔Which novel by Thomas Hardy begins with the hero
selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?
Hamlet - ✔✔In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear? What a piece of
work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving,
how express and admirable!
Frankenstein - ✔✔What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Tale of Horror'?
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
, Sonnet - ✔✔Identify the poem from which the lines are taken: "I L O V E THEE WITH A
LOVE I S E E M E D TO LOSE WITH MY LOST S A I N T S- I LOVE THEE WITH THE
B R E A T H, SMILES, T E A R S, OF ALL MY LIFE! - AND, IF GOD C H O O S E, I
SHALL BUT LOVE THEE B E T T E R AFTER DEATH."
Alliteration - ✔✔What sound device is exemplified in the first two lines of Poe's 'The
Raven'? Deep into that d a r k n e s s p e e r i ng, long I stood there w o n d e r ing, f e a r
ing, D o u b t ing, d re a m ing dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the sil
e nce was u n b r o ken, and the s t ill n e s s gave no token, And the only word there
spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered and an echo murmured
back the word, Lenore!" Merely this and nothing more. From The Raven Edgar Allan
Poe
Longing - ✔✔What atmosphere do the images create?
Apostrophe - ✔✔What figure of speech is exemplified in the following lines from
Shakespeare's 'As You like It'? Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou are not so unkind as
man's ingratitude
Harriet Beecher Stowe - ✔✔Who did Abraham Lincoln call "the little woman who
started the Civil War"?
Parental sacrifice for children - ✔✔In the following dialogue, what Filipino value is
affirmed by Mario's statement? Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you lost a
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 3
Answers 100% Pass
Rabindranath Tagore - ✔✔The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Confucianism - ✔✔Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.
giri - ✔✔3. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which
explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.
The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life. - ✔✔What insight is
suggested by this haiku from Basho?
P o v e r t y's c h I l d - He s t a r t s to grind the rice And g a z e s at the moon.
Leopold Senghor - ✔✔5. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.
Linear - ✔✔The plot development of the Ramayana.
Nadine Gordimer - ✔✔The South African novelist and short story writer whose major
themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
record of a Journey to the West - ✔✔This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the
Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts.
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
,T'ang - ✔✔Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as
the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
racial discrimination - ✔✔This excerpt from Soyinka's Telephone Conversation
indicates the universal issue of _________. "ARE YOU D A R K? OR VERY LIGHT?"
Revelation came. "You mean- like p l a i n or milk c h o c o l a te?" Her a s s e n t was c l
Iin ical, crushing its light I m p ersonality. Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, "West
African sepia." - and as an afterthought, "Down in my passport."
maya - ✔✔The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.
Pride and Prejudice - ✔✔In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife."
The Mayor of Casterbridge - ✔✔Which novel by Thomas Hardy begins with the hero
selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?
Hamlet - ✔✔In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear? What a piece of
work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving,
how express and admirable!
Frankenstein - ✔✔What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Tale of Horror'?
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
, Sonnet - ✔✔Identify the poem from which the lines are taken: "I L O V E THEE WITH A
LOVE I S E E M E D TO LOSE WITH MY LOST S A I N T S- I LOVE THEE WITH THE
B R E A T H, SMILES, T E A R S, OF ALL MY LIFE! - AND, IF GOD C H O O S E, I
SHALL BUT LOVE THEE B E T T E R AFTER DEATH."
Alliteration - ✔✔What sound device is exemplified in the first two lines of Poe's 'The
Raven'? Deep into that d a r k n e s s p e e r i ng, long I stood there w o n d e r ing, f e a r
ing, D o u b t ing, d re a m ing dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the sil
e nce was u n b r o ken, and the s t ill n e s s gave no token, And the only word there
spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered and an echo murmured
back the word, Lenore!" Merely this and nothing more. From The Raven Edgar Allan
Poe
Longing - ✔✔What atmosphere do the images create?
Apostrophe - ✔✔What figure of speech is exemplified in the following lines from
Shakespeare's 'As You like It'? Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou are not so unkind as
man's ingratitude
Harriet Beecher Stowe - ✔✔Who did Abraham Lincoln call "the little woman who
started the Civil War"?
Parental sacrifice for children - ✔✔In the following dialogue, what Filipino value is
affirmed by Mario's statement? Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you lost a
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 3
