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Perspective on Literature | Set 1

1. According to Martin Luther King Jr. what is the highest expression of non-injury?

Correct : B. love

2. ‘The Philosophy of Non-Violence’ states that the focus of the non-violent resister is on ________

Correct : A. the evil system

3. Martin Luther King Jr. considers publicity for a non-violent resister as________

Correct : B. a pitfall

4. The essay ‘On the Rule of the Road’ by A. G. Gardiner is about the judicial use of ___________

Correct : C. liberty

5. The fat old lady, in the beginning of the essay ‘On the Rule of the Road’, is walking down a busy road in ___________

Correct : D. petrograd

6. A. G. Gardiner says that people are liberty-drunk these days. What does the author mean by ‘liberty-drunk’?

Correct : A. people are over-using individual liberty.

7. The essay ‘On the Rule of the Road’ argues that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberties of everyone must be ___________

Correct : D. curtailed

8. What is the pen-name of A. G. Gardiner under which he wrote his essays?

Correct : C. alpha of the plough

9. What would be the result if liberty enabled everyone to do whatever they wanted whenever they wanted to?

Correct : B. universal chaos

10. Vanka was apprenticed to Alaykhin to become ___________

Correct : B. a shoe-maker

11. What time of the year is the story ‘Vanka’ set?

Correct : C. on christmas eve

12. Konstantin Makarich, Vanka’s grandfather, works as _____________

Correct : C. a night-watchman

13. What do the other apprentices make Vanka steal?

Correct : D. master’s cucumbers

14. What did Vanka’s diet consist of at the master’s?

Correct : A. bread and gruel

15. Who taught Vanka to read and write?

Correct : D. olga

16. Why was Vanka beaten by the master the previous day?

Correct : B. for falling asleep while rocking their brat

17. What was Schatz’s initial symptom?

Correct : B. headache

18. When the doctor examined Schatz, his temperature was___________

Correct : B. 102 degree farenheit

19. What was Schatz’s real disease?

Correct : C. influenza

20. What did the father in A Day’s Wait do in order to cheer the boy up?

Correct : C. read to him

21. In which season did the story A Day’s Wait take place?

Correct : B. winter

22. What did the father in A Day’s Wait catch when he went out hunting?

Correct : B. quail

23. What kind of a hero is Schatz?

Correct : D. fatalistic hero

24. What is the central theme of the story ‘Marriage is a Private Affair’?

Correct : D. clash of cultures

25. Name the tribe to which Nene belonged.

Correct : B. ibibo

26. Where do Nene and Nnaemeka live their married life?

Correct : A. in lagos

27. What was the suggestion of the villagers when they heard of Nnaemeka’s plan to marry from another tribe?

Correct : C. to treat him with herbs

28. Whose picture was cut out of the wedding photo by Okeke?

Correct : B. nene

29. Compared to other playwrights of the time what was different about Shaw’s stage directions?

Correct : D. lengthy stage directions

30. What did Raina call Captain Bluntschli?

Correct : B. chocolate-cream soldier

31. The interior of Raina’s room is a mixture of Bulgarian and __________ furniture.

Correct : A. viennese

32. What is Catherine Petkoff’s preferred clothing?

Correct : C. fashionable tea gowns

33. Through what did Captain Bluntschli make his first entrance?

Correct : D. the window

34. What is the military rank of Raina’s father?

Correct : C. major

35. Name the famous literary character to whom Sergius Saranoff is compared by Captain Bluntschli while describing the cavalry charge to Raina?

Correct : B. don quixote

36. In which season does Act II of ‘Arms and the Man’ take place?

Correct : A. spring

37. What is Saranoff’s military rank?

Correct : C. major

38. What did Bluntschli do after running away from home?

Correct : B. joined the army

39. What had Raina put into the pocket of the old coat in which she and her mother had sent off captain Bluntschli?

Correct : C. a signed portrait

40. Where was the old coat of Major Petkoff found at last?

Correct : C. in the blue closet

41. ‘Arms and the Man’ takes its title from_____________

Correct : D. aeineid

42. Captain Bluntschli is a professional soldier in the Serbian Army. What is his nationality?

Correct : C. swiss

43. In Bluntschli’s famous dialogue to Raina he calls nine out of ten soldiers to be __________

Correct : C. fools

44. Who calls Nicola ‘the ablest man in Bulgaria’?

Correct : C. capt. bluntschli

45. Bluntschli mistook Raina’s age and called her a ‘school girl of 17’. What was her real age?

Correct : B. 23

46. Louka accuses Nicola of having the soul of a servant. Who accuses Louka of having the same?

Correct : C. sergius saranoff

47. How old is Bluntschli?

Correct : B. 34