1. What was the occasion on which Baldwin wrote the letter ?
Correct : A. 100th anniversary of Emancipation
2. What does Baldwin see in his nephew’s face ?
Correct : D. all of these
3. “Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves” These are the words of -----
Correct : B. Langston Hughes
4. According to Baldwin the Americans are trapped in a --------that they don’t understand.
Correct : B. history
5. The condition of the Blacks in the American Society is no different from that of England
described in the works of-------
Correct : B. Charles Dickens
6. Baldwin advises his nephew to trust only in---------
Correct : C. his own experiences
7. E.F Schumacher is the author of ------
Correct : C. Small is beautiful
8. According to Schumacher, the modern pursuit of profit and progress has resulted in ------
Correct : D. all of these
9. The alternative proposed by Schumacher for modern super technology is--------
Correct : A. Intermediate technology
10. The principles of ----had a great impact on Schumacher.
Correct : D. all of these
11. “Technology with a human face “ is an example of -----
Correct : A. Scientific essay
12. The modern world, according to Schumacher, has been shaped by its ------
Correct : C. Metaphysics
13. Which of the following is not an attribute of nature ?
Correct : B. self- destroying
14. The limitation of modern technology is that it does not recognize any ------
Correct : C. self-limit
15. In the subtle system of nature, modern super – technology acts like a -------
Correct : A. foreign body
16. The success brought in recent years by industrialization is, in Schumacher’s view, -----
Correct : B. illusory
17. What kind of work is reduced by modern technology?
Correct : D. skillful productive work
18. A great part of the neurosis of advanced industrial society is due to the lack of --------
Correct : D. skillful productive work
19. . How much of the total social time in modern society is spent on actual productive work in
Schumacher ‘s view?
Correct : A. 3.5%
20. ------- recommended production by the masses instead of mass production to help the poor
countries.
Correct : C. Gandhi
21. Name the author of Emotional Intelligence
Correct : A. Daniel Goleman
22. The Times magazine lists -----as one of the ideas changing the world right now.
Correct : D. Ecological intelligence.
23. -----has offered one of the best assessments of the emotional mind.
Correct : B. Paul Ekman
24. The reactions of the emotional mind is ----- than that of the rational mind. (a)slower (b) quicker (c)cleverer (d)happier
134. Actions that spring from the emotional mind carry a strong sense of -------
Correct : B. clarity
25. The rapid mode of perception used by the emotional mind sacrifices accuracy for ------
Correct : A. speed
26. The ------ can be our radar for danger.
Correct : C. emotional mind
27. Ekman tracks the ----- that flit across the face from subtle changes in facial expressions.
Correct : C. micro emotions
28. In the slower emotional response, thought ------feeling.
Correct : B. precedes
29. Terry Dobson studied the martial art of -----------in Japan
Correct : A. Aikido
30. The story of the old man and the drunk illustrates---------
Correct : D. emotional brilliance
31. A prose narrative work dealing with imaginary events is called…….
Correct : B. fiction
32. Non-fiction usually deals with…..
Correct : A. Facts
33. The word ‘fiction’ means………..
Correct : A. To make
34. Novel emerged as the most important form of prose fiction in ………century.
Correct : A. 18th
35. Novels developed from …….
Correct : A. Epics
36. Fiction dealing with events or people, although untrue, could actually happen, is
called………..
Correct : A. Faction
37. Alice in Wonderland is a…..
Correct : C. non-realistic
38. The logical interaction of the various thematic elements of a text leading to a change of
the original situation is called………….
Correct : A. Plot
39. ……………..can be considered as the foundational text in travel literature.
Correct : A. Voyage
40. Voyages was written by
Correct : B. Richard Hakluyt
41. The term ‘travelogue’ was coined by
Correct : A. Burton Holmes
42. Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the road’ is a…………
Correct : B. Fictional travelogue
43. News paper articles are written in……style
Correct : A. inverted pyramid
44. Inverted pyramid style gives
Correct : A. the most important details first
45. Articles produced in the form of audio recordings are called
Correct : B. podcasts
46. Listicles are
Correct : A. Articles containing lists
47. Text at the top of a news paper article is called
Correct : A. headline
48. The name and the position of the writer of an article is given in
Correct : B. byline
49. The sentence that sums up the focus of a story in an article is called
Correct : C. lead
50. An individual work recording one’s travel experiences is called
Correct : C. travelogue
51. A continuous narrative of a person’s life’s major or interesting events written by himself
for publication is
Correct : C. autobiography
52. Autobiographies are by nature…..
Correct : A. subjective
53. A prose composition with a focused subject of discussion is
Correct : A. essay
54. The word ‘essay’ is derived from
Correct : A. essayer
55. The writer who first defined his works as essays was
Correct : B. Montaigne
56. The first work in English that described itself as essays was published by
Correct : A. Bacon
57. Sensory details are used in
Correct : B. Descriptive essays
58. …….form of essay is usually used in philosophy
Correct : D. dialectic essays
59. The art of public speaking was first developed by…………..
Correct : A. Greeks
60. The common fear of public speaking is called
Correct : B. Glossophobia
61. The written history of a person’s life written by someone else is called
Correct : A. Biography
62. Q written history of a person’s life composed by himself in which the emphasis is on
one particular phase or on the people and events is
Correct : A. Memoir
63. A journal is
Correct : A. Day-to-day record of a person’s life
64. Autobiographies were entitled as …… in antiquity
Correct : A. Apologia
65. ‘Apologia Pro Vista Sua’ is the autobiography of………
Correct : A. John Henry Newman
66. Which of the following can be considered as the first fully developed autobiography
Correct : A. Confessions
67. Confessions is the autobiography of………….
Correct : A. St. Augustine
68. Confessions is a……… autobiography
Correct : A. Spiritual
69. According to Benevento Cellini, one should write his autobiography after he is…….years
old
Correct : B. 40
70. A written history of a person’s life in which he presents a crisis and its resolution in his
discovery of his identity as an artist or as a writer is
Correct : A. Secular autobiography
71. Wordsworth’s autobiography in verse is called
Correct : A. Prelude
72. Ralph Ellison’s autobiography is titled ……………
Correct : A. The Invisible Man
73. Daniel Defoe’s ‘Moll Flanders’ can be considered as a
Correct : D. fictional autobiography
74. An in-depth form of biographical coverage is called…………..
Correct : C. Legacy writing
75. Who defined biography as ‘the history of particular men’s lives’
Correct : D. Dryden
76. Biography written with the permission, cooperation, and, at times, participation of a
subject or a subject's heirs is called
Correct : D. Authorized biography
77. ‘Parallel Lives’ was written by
Correct : A. Plutarch
78. ……………is the source of Shakespeare’s Roman plays
Correct : A. Parallel Lives
79. The record of the lives of Christian saints based on legends rather than on facts is called
Correct : C. hagiographoies
80. ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ was written by
Correct : D. Thomas Malory
81. Isaac Walton wrote the short biographies of Donne and Herbert in his
Correct : A. Lives
82. Who is referred to as ‘the father of English essays’
Correct : A. Bacon
83. The presentation of the initial situation of a fiction is called....
Correct : A. exposition
84. The technique used to provide clues regarding what might occur later in the story is.....
Correct : A. foreshadowing
85. Flash back is also known as......
Correct : A. foreshadowing
86. The technique that takes the narrative back in time is called......
Correct : A. flash back
87. ………..reveals events that will occur in the future
Correct : B. flash forward
88. A flash back to an earlier point in the narrative is called..........
Correct : C. Internal Analepsis
89. External analepsis is a …... to before the narrative started.
Correct : A. flash back
90. ….....in a fiction leads to climax
Correct : A. rising action
91. …..... is a phase of a fiction, where the story is about to settle down.
Correct : A. falling action
92. A typical character is referred to as.......
Correct : A. Flat
93. An individualised character is referred to as …...
Correct : B. round character
94. A character whose behaviour illuminates the personality of the protagonist is.......
Correct : A. Foil
95. When a text is narrated through an external narrator, it is referred to as.....
Correct : A. omniscient point of view
96. In first person narrative the events are narrated by.......
Correct : A. participating figure
97. A context beyond the immediate surroundings of the story in the fiction is called.....
Correct : A. Milieu
98. …..... is a concise form of prose fiction.
Correct : A. short story
99. …..... can be considered as a precursor of short story.
Correct : A. fairy tales
100. A narrative frame within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell a series of
short narratives is called....