Reading Literature in English | Set 3
1. Charles Lamb is best known for his ________.
2. What was Charles Lamb’s grandmother’s name?
3. In the essay Dream Children, grandmother Field died of________.
4. What is the name of the river the children had to cross in order to be born again?
5. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the ________ President of India.
6. According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam till the age of 15 every student can take their
__________ and ____________ as their role models.
7. Give us a Role Model is taken from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s book named _________.
8. Which of the books given below belong to J.B. Priestley’s collection of essays?
9. ‘On Travel by Train’ is a humorous account of the English ___________.
10. According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam it is the _____________ who generates creativity in the child.
11. In the stories in the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, the battle took place between______________and ________________.
12. The _____________ is one of the four books that have influenced him A.P.J. in his
life.
13. According to the boy A.P.J. Abdul Kalam met at Ananad , Gujarat; our greatest enemy is___________.
14. The most offensive traveller in J. B. Priestley’s ‘On Travel by Train’ is ___________.
15. Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year________.
16. According to Bertrand Russell Knowledge without wisdom can be ____________.
17. Men who have knowledge and have no feelings lack _________.
18. According to Russell, wisdom is needed in personal life to avoid _____________ for another.
19. ________________ can be taught as a goal of education says Russell.
20. Let me not to the marriage of true minds is Sonnet___________.
21. The structure and form of Sonnet 116 are a typical example of the _____________.
22. A sonnet is a ____________ line verse form.
23. Sonnet was introduced by the Italian poet named______________.
24. William Blake is known as a _______ Poet.
25. William Blake has written Songs of Innocence and ____________.
26. In the poem ‘A Poison Tree’, the poison tree is a metaphor of
27. The original title of the poem ‘A Poison Tree’ was____________.
28. In the poem ‘A Poison Tree’, the enemy slowly entered into the garden of the speaker and _____________ the apple.
29. The Lyrical Ballads was published in the year__________.
30. Lucy Gray’s parents traced the trail of her foot steps to the middle of a little________.
31. Lucy Gray is written imitating the 18th Century ___________ form.
32. The poem Lucy Gray narrates the sad incident of Lucy Gray’s____________.
33. Robert Frost is a well known _______ poet.
34. The 'Yellow wood' shows that it is the season of __________.
35. The traveller in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ chose the path that was_______________.
36. ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’s is a poem written by_________
37. Oppresses, like the weight of cathedral tunes; what is the figure of speech used here in
the poem ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’?
38. In the line ‘On the look of death’ from the poem ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’, death is ____________.
39. A figure of speech in which human traits like qualities, feeling or characteristics are
given to non-living objects is __________.
40. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared in a phrase using the
words ‘like’ or ‘as’ is called ______________.
41. The first Nobel Laureate of Asia in Literature was
42. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year _________.
43. ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is taken from _____________a collection of 103 English poems
of Tagore translated by himself from Bengali.
44. The poem ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is like an_____________, a prayer where the poet
prays for a country which is a heaven of freedom.
45. Indians had lost their freedom in all spheres under the __________rule.
46. The poet, in the poem ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is referring to a nation where the people
can hold their head high with dignity and ____________.
47. In the heaven of freedom imagined by Rabindranath Tagore people belonging to any
section of the society will have __________to education.
48. In the poem, ‘Heaven of Freedom’, Tagore addresses _________as the Father of the
Universe.
49. ________________composed the national anthem of our country.
50. Kamala Das is a prominent Indian English writer who was later known by the name
51. Kamala Das wrote under the name ___________.
52. Her poems are mostly ____________ in nature.
53. _____________ was Kamala Das’s Major work.
54. ______________ is a poem written by Kamala Das
55. In the poem ‘Middle Age’, the poet discusses the life of a______________.
56. According to the poet, Kamala Das, children wear a stern face in order to show that
they are ____________ and_____________.
57. ‘The Astrologer’s Day’ is a short story written by______________.
58. R.K.Narayan’s famous work ___________was awarded the Sahithya Academy
Award in 1958.
59. Swami and friends, The Financial Expert and The Guide are works written by
60. R. K. Narayan’s stories uphold the _____________ culture.
61. Under what tree is the Astrologer sitting in the story, ‘The Astrologer’s Day’?
62. How much money had the stranger promised to give the astrologer if he gave right
answers?
63. How much money did the astrologer have to pay if his answers went wrong?
64. For how much money did the astrologer finally agree to speak?
65. What was the name of the stranger who sat before the astrologer?
66. The astrologer advices the man to go back to his home town and never travel
___________again.
67. The vendor who called his product by different names each day sold_____________.
68. The astrologer tells the stranger that the man he is looking for is ____________.
69. The stranger had come in search of the man who tried to kill him in order to _________.
70. Did the stranger identify the astrologer?
71. O. Henry is the pen name of_____________.
72. The Last Leaf is a Short story written by
73. What is the name of the old artist who helped the two girls in the story, ‘The Last
Leaf’?
74. What is the disease mentioned in the story, ‘The Last Leaf’?
75. Who was ill with pneumonia?
76. ‘The Last Leaf’ is a story of ____________ done by an old man.
77. Johnsy had associated her life with falling of the leaves from a ___________.
78. The last leaf ___________ on the night of the storm.
79. Johnsy wanted to paint ______________ as her masterpiece.
80. Behrman died of ______________.
81. ‘The Rising of The Moon’ is a play written by______________.
82. Lady Gregory was the co- founder of the ___________theatre.
83. ‘The Rising of The Moon’ is a __________ .
84. The play begins with a sergeant and two policemen __________a notice or a placard with physical details of the escaped prisoner.
85. The escaped prisoner in ‘The Rising of The Moon’ was an important _____________.
86. What is the amount the authorities put as prize money for the head of the escaped prisoner?
87. Who was the person who came along when the policeman was alone guarding the harbour?
88. The Rising of the Moon is a symbol of _______________.
89. Lady Gregory is ____________ playwright .
90. The play ‘The Bear’ is written by________________.
91. Anton Chekov is a prominent figure in __________ literature.
92. The main Character in this play is
93. Smirnov tells Madame Popova that her late husband owes him a sum
of_________ roubles.
94. What does Popova call Smirnov when they argue?
95. Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov was a ______________
96. Popova was mourning the death of her_____________.
97. Charles Lamb worked as a clerk at _____________.
98. Mary Lamb was Charles Lamb’s _______________.
99. Mary Lamb was insane and ____________Lamb’s mother.
100. ‘ Give us a Role Model’ begins with a quotation by _____________.