DELHI POLICE HEAD CONSTABLE ENGLISH QUIZ

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Question 1:

In the question given below an idiom or a phrase is given then followed by options. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase most appropriately in context of the given sentence.
She chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her.
(I) spoiled the chance
(II) Got the chance
(III) gave helping hand

Question 2:

Directions : In each of the questions given below, a sentence is given with one blank. Five options are provided. Select the most appropriate option, that can coherently fit into the given sentence.


We have missed the chance to have ____________ a clear protocol on balancing the business interests of social media platforms and their intersection with global public life in critical situations.

Question 3:

The question given below an idiom or a phrase is given then followed by options. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase most appropriately in context of the given sentence.
She got the sack for always being late.
(I) Got fired
(II)highly paid
(III) Criticised

Question 4:

Direction: A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives.


Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.


Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung's research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague's doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung's analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis.


Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual's conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion.


Jung was also an artist, craftsman, builder and a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication.


Paul Jung, Carl's father, was the youngest son of a noted Basel professor of Medicine and Protestant convert of German descent, also called Karl Gustav Jung (1794–1864). Paul's hopes of achieving a fortune never materialised, and he did not progress beyond the status of an impoverished rural pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church. Emilie Preiswerk, Carl's mother, had also grown up in a large family, whose Swiss roots went back five centuries. Emilie was the youngest child of a distinguished Basel churchman and academic, Samuel Preiswerk (1799–1871), and his second wife. Samuel Preiswerk, was antistes, the title given to the head of the Reformed clergy in the city, as well as a Hebraist, author, and editor, who taught Paul Jung as his professor of Hebrew at Basel University.


Jung was a solitary and introverted child. From childhood, he believed that like his mother, he had two personalities—a modern Swiss citizen and a personality more suited to the 18th century. "Personality Number 1", as he termed it, was a typical schoolboy living in the era of the time. "Personality Number 2" was a dignified, authoritative, and influential man from the past. Although Jung was close to both parents, he was disappointed by his father's academic approach to faith. Some childhood memories made lifelong impressions on him.

Who taught Paul Jung as his professor of Hebrew at Basel University?

Direction: A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives.

Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.

Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung's research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague's doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung's analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis.

Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual's conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion.

Jung was also an artist, craftsman, builder and a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication.

Paul Jung, Carl's father, was the youngest son of a noted Basel professor of Medicine and Protestant convert of German descent, also called Karl Gustav Jung (1794–1864). Paul's hopes of achieving a fortune never materialised, and he did not progress beyond the status of an impoverished rural pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church. Emilie Preiswerk, Carl's mother, had also grown up in a large family, whose Swiss roots went back five centuries. Emilie was the youngest child of a distinguished Basel churchman and academic, Samuel Preiswerk (1799–1871), and his second wife. Samuel Preiswerk, was antistes, the title given to the head of the Reformed clergy in the city, as well as a Hebraist, author, and editor, who taught Paul Jung as his professor of Hebrew at Basel University.

Jung was a solitary and introverted child. From childhood, he believed that like his mother, he had two personalities—a modern Swiss citizen and a personality more suited to the 18th century. "Personality Number 1", as he termed it, was a typical schoolboy living in the era of the time. "Personality Number 2" was a dignified, authoritative, and influential man from the past. Although Jung was close to both parents, he was disappointed by his father's academic approach to faith. Some childhood memories made lifelong impressions on him.

Question 5:

The question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One these words printed in bold might either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word that is inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of the word is your answer. If the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark 'All Correct', as your answer.


The Bench, taking into account the fact that the admision (A) process cannot be further delayed, has chosen (B) to allow the admission to proceed based on the norms (C) spelt out in the July notification (D).

Question 6:

Direction: The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Select the most logical order of the sentences from the given options.

(A) He was killed recently while on assignment in Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, after coming under fire by Taliban militiamen.

(B) Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Choudhary Anil Kumar has written to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

(C) Demanding a Rs 1 crore financial honorarium for the family of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who is from the capital.

(D) Kumar has also demanded that Siddiqui should be posthumously given the highest civilian award of Delhi government.

Question 7:

Select the correct option to fill in the given blank space.
I hope this project will not interfere _________ our other plans.

Question 8:

Direction: Improve the bracketed/underlined part of the given sentence.

The police are aware of the problem and they are (looking forward to) it.

Question 9:

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
To put a spoke in one’s wheel

Question 10:

Direction : In each of the questions given below, a sentence is given with one blank. Five options are provided. Select the most appropriate option, that can coherently fit into the given sentence.
The BJP victory in all these States owes a great __________ to the Modi Government rather than to State­level incumbents.