13/06/2023
Sample Questions from LET BOARD EXAM MARCH 2023
1. "When we arrived, they gave us badges.ā Which of the following questions should be asked to. Find the direct object?
A.What did we do?
B.When did we arrive?
C.What did they give us?
D.Who gave us badges?
Rationalization:
*Direct Object answers the question "What?" or "Whom?" after an action verb.
2. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and adog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper somethingto me, and I couldnāt make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
-TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The authorās use of language in this passage helps to demonstrate the speakerās ____?
A.lack of intelligence
B.good-heartedness
C.lack of education
D. confusion
RATIO:Huck is uneducated.
3. Which of the following works of literature was originally written in Modern English?
A. The Decameron
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. War and Peace
D. Paradise Lost
Rationalization: Miltonās Paradise Lost which was published in 1667 in Modern English through elimination.
4. Why do most fathers prefer a son _____ a daughter for his first-born child?
A.to B. than C. from D. over
Rationalization:āPrefer toā means to like or want somebody or something more than somebody or something else.
5. The following words: edit from editor, and beg from beggar are formed through _____?
A. blending B. back formation C. derivation D. clipping
RATIO:Back-formation is the process of forming a new word (a neologism) by extracting actualor supposed affixes from another word.
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(1) The themes of liberty and freedom are central to much of American literature,particularly the literature produced during the American Renaissance. (2) As the issues ofwomenās rights and abolition came to the forefront of the American consciousness, writersdelved deep into an exploration of the meaning of freedom for the country and for individuals.(3) Three such writers from this time period who focus on issues of freedom are Margaret Fuller,Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs. (4) Each of these writers develop an answer to thequestion posed by Stowe in Uncle Tomās Cabin: āLiberty! ā electric world! What is it?ā
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