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Ways with Words | Set 1

1. Alexander of Abonutichus lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor ________.

Correct : A. Marcus Aureliu

2. The serpent of Alexander of Abonutichus was bought from ________.

Correct : B. Macedonia

3. Who wrote the book Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.

Correct : C. Charles Markay

4. One of the most striking apparent instances of extrasensory perception is the _______.

Correct : A. precognitive experience

5. Universal spiritualist association, an association of spiritualist churches and clergy founded in 1956 by ____________.

Correct : A. Clifford Bia

6. The preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Correct : C. prejudice

7. scientists are, of course, ___________

Correct : B. human

8. Who wrote Worlds in collision

Correct : B. Immanuel Velikovsky

9. The rising or lifting of a person or thing in the air by supernatural means is called ____________

Correct : A. Levitation

10. SETI means

Correct : B. search for extra - terrestrial intelligence

11. Cosmos :A personal voyage is written by __________

Correct : D. Carl Sagan

12. Harry Houdini was an American ______________

Correct : D. Magician

13. Dilip Chitre, bilingual writer, who wrote in ____________

Correct : A. Marathi and english

14. Dilip Chitre 's most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi Bhakti poet ____________

Correct : D. Guru Nanak

15. Who left the elderly infant to explore the rooms of age in the poem "The house of my childhood "

Correct : C. season

16. The figurines of grandmother's gods are made up with_______

Correct : C. Brass

17. Whose voice shivers on a bare branch in the poem " The house of my childhood "?

Correct : B. Grandmother's

18. Who toddled around the empty house in the poem "The house of my childhood "?

Correct : A. Poet

19. ________ distribute their silence Among intricately clustered glyphs

Correct : D. words

20. Find the figure of speech in the expression 'colourless cracks '?

Correct : B. Alliteration

21. Who was the first black woman poet to read her poem at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton?

Correct : C. Maya Angelou

22. The poem "Still I Rise" is written by _____________

Correct : C. Maya Angelou

23. How many autobiographies were written by Maya Angelou?

Correct : A. Seven

24. Which of the poem was read by Maya Angelou on the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993?

Correct : D. On the Pulse of Morning

25. Maya Angelou's most famous autobiography, _____________.

Correct : C. I know why the caged birds sing

26. Old folks laugh is compared to which musical instrument?

Correct : D. Tambourine

27. The laps of the Old folks are filled with _______

Correct : A. Memorie

28. What glistens in the corners of the Old folk’s mouth?

Correct : B. Saliva

29. When Old folks laugh, what are they actually doing?

Correct : A. They free the world

30. The poem "old folks laugh” is in___________

Correct : B. free verse

31. In the poem "Old folks laugh" Large parts of the poem are written in short lines using __________.

Correct : A. enjambment

32. Which landscape did Robert frost frequently employ as setting of his poems?

Correct : D. New England

33. Which among the following is Frost's volume of poetry?

Correct : C. Mountain Interval

34. The figure of speech in which we use a part for the whole is termed..

Correct : D. synecdoche

35. Whose poems "begin in delight and end in wisdom"

Correct : A. Robert Frost

36. ' The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead'.The figure of speech employed here is

Correct : B. transferred epithet

37. The voice of the farmer in A Roadside Stand is rendered in which form

Correct : D. dramatic monologue

38. Which among the following is the first published work of Roald Dahl?

Correct : D. A Piece of Cake

39. Lamb to the Slaughter means

Correct : B. in an unconcerned manner

40. Lamb to the Slaughter was published in

Correct : D. Harper's magazine

41. Who is Charlie?

Correct : D. Policeman

42. What favour did Mrs. Maloney ask the policemen?

Correct : A. Eating the lamb

43. Who killed Mr. Maloney?

Correct : C. Mary Maloney

44. The day mentioned in the chapter Lamb to the Slaughter is

Correct : D. Thursday

45. The weapon used for killing Mr.Maloney was

Correct : B. the frozen leg of the lamb

46. Who supported the view that Mrs.Maloney was not at home when Mr.Maloney was killed

Correct : C. The grocer

47. Which among the following is an autobiographical work of Roald Dahl?

Correct : C. Going Solo

48. Who discovered a small patch of congealed blood on the dead man's head?

Correct : C. Jack Noonan

49. The contrast between what is said and meant,thought and known and what happens in contrast to what is expected is known as

Correct : D. irony

50. E.V Lucas was associated with the humour magazine called

Correct : B. Punch

51. E.V Lucas is recognized as the editor and biographer of which writer

Correct : C. Charles Lamb

52. The style of E.V Lucas is described as

Correct : B. witty

53. The most repellant specimen of all the bores is

Correct : A. buttonholing bore

54. A true bore is unconscious of his

Correct : C. borishness

55. E.v lucas was commissioned to write the biography of

Correct : C. Bernard Barton

56. 'A Wanderer in Venice' is one of the notable woks of E.V Lucas. It belongs to the category of

Correct : C. travelogue

57. What does the poet mean the waters around you have grown?

Correct : B. growing injustice

58. To whom does he say ‘keep your eyes wide’

Correct : D. writers and critic

59. What is meant by ‘the wheel’s still in spin’

Correct : A. Time is not constant

60. “the times they are a changing was first performed in the year ______

Correct : A. 1964

61. Bob Dylan wrote the song as an attempt to bring a ______.

Correct : D. both a & c

62. What is Bob Dylan’s nationality?

Correct : A. American

63. Bob Dylan got his inspiration to write the song from ______

Correct : D. all of the above.

64. Who is the author of the story ‘It Used to be Green Once’.

Correct : C. Patricia Grace

65. Patricia Grace is a _______writer in English.

Correct : D. Maori

66. Pakeha is the Maori term for ___________

Correct : C. European white settler

67. The story is about _______.

Correct : C. Mum’s Car

68. The colour of the car which Uncle Raz gave to Dad was_______.

Correct : A. Red

69. What was the peculiarity of Mum’s Car?

Correct : D. All of the above

70. Mum’s new car was a _________

Correct : B. Chevrolet

71. Dad won a lottery of ________

Correct : B. fifty thousand dollars

72. The only accident that Mum’s car met was

Correct : C. Uncle Peta was knocked down when shew threw a mutton side.

73. What were some of the posh lunches children used to carry?

Correct : C. sandwiches cut in triangle and yellow bananas

74. Who is Mr.Hadley?

Correct : A. the European teacher

75. John Keats was an ______________ before he turned to writing.

Correct : D. apothecary

76. Keats belong to the ___________period in English Literature.

Correct : A. romantic

77. One of the common themes found in Keats’ poems are

Correct : A. art versus life

78. Why do the bees “ think warm days will never cease”.

Correct : C. the flowers are blooming even in autumn

79. Autumn is compared to a

Correct : D. All of the above

80. In the third stanza of “Ode to Autumn” the poet is being nostalgic about

Correct : C. spring

81. What is rosy hue?

Correct : A. the autumnal sun casts its light on the clouds turning it rosy.

82. Who said “as close to perfect as any shorter poem in the English Language” about ‘ Ode to Autumn’

Correct : B. Harold Bloom

83. “ripeness to the core” shows

Correct : D. both a and b

84. Who is the ‘bosom friend of the maturing sun’

Correct : C. Spring

85. ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written on

Correct : A. 19 September 1819

86. Who is the author of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

Correct : B. Tennessee Williams

87. How many years did Grace work for Miss Cornelia?

Correct : C. 15 years

88. What gift does Cornelia present to her secretary?

Correct : B. roses

89. The gifting of roses in ‘Something Unspoken’ indicates Cornelia’s attempt to

Correct : A. break the wall of silence

90. What is the name of the society club in ‘Something Unspoken’

Correct : B. Daughters of the Confederation

91. What is Miss Grace Scott’s profession

Correct : D. Secretary

92. Miss Cornelia wants to become the ______of the Society Club

Correct : A. Regent

93. “They shake their hands without ………..”

Correct : B. Hearts

94. Which of the following is a work by Okara?

Correct : C. The Fisherman’s Invocation

95. “ I want to unlearn all those ………… things”

Correct : B. Muting

96. Which of the following is not a tragedy by Shakespeare?

Correct : D. Merchant of Venice

97. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Correct : B. 154

98. “Outcaste state” is a reference to which fellow playwright?

Correct : A. Robert Greene

99. Who is called the Nigerian Negritudist?

Correct : C. Okara