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Reading Literature in English | Set 2

1. Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in upkeep as a --------------

Correct : A. Rolls- Royce

2. What are the reasons for the growth and expansion of beauty industry?

Correct : D. All of these

3. For real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the ------------ self.

Correct : A. Outer

4. Psychological ugliness according to Huxley is ---------------

Correct : D. All of these

5. What do we find on the faces of those who are trying to have a continuous “good time”?

Correct : B. A bored sullenness

6. What is the result of over-painting?

Correct : D. Cease to look human

7. “One Day I Wrote Her Name” is a --------------

Correct : B. Sonnet

8. “The Faerie Queene” is a famous work by -----------

Correct : C. Edmund Spenser

9. Spenser married ------------------

Correct : B. Elizabeth Boyle

10. --------------- celebrates courtship of Spenser and Elizabeth Boyle

Correct : D. Amoretti

11. “The Epithalamion” celebrates Spenser’s -------------------

Correct : A. Marriage

12. What is a quatrain?

Correct : C. 4 lines

13. What did the waves do when the lover wrote his beloved’s name upon the strand?

Correct : B. The waves washed the words away

14. Who is called the ‘vain man’?

Correct : C. Spenser/ lover

15. Where, when as death shall all the world subdue Our love shall live, and later life renew” Whose lines are these?

Correct : D. Spenser

16. The technical name for comparison of one item to the other using words of comparison like then, like etc. is-

Correct : B. Simile

17. “The song of Hiawatha” is written by -

Correct : B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

18. ‘The slave’s Dream’ describes-

Correct : C. The dying moment of a black slave

19. Through the poem ‘The Slave’s Dream’, the poet celebrates ----------------

Correct : D. Liberty and dignity

20. “Beneath the palm trees on the plain Once more a king he strode”. Who is the king here?

Correct : C. The slave

21. What does the slave dream of?

Correct : D. All of these

22. “And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums, Through the triumph of his dream”. What is the triumph?

Correct : D. His dream of liberty

23. “He did not feel the drivers whip”. Why?

Correct : D. He was dead

24. What had illumined the land of sleep?

Correct : B. Death

25. ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter” is a poem recited by -----------------

Correct : D. Tweedledum andTweedledee

26. Stories in which animals are characters who speak like human beings are called ----------

Correct : C. Fable

27. A fat animal with tusks found in the sea is ---------------

Correct : D. Walrus

28. Where do the Walrus and the Carpenter go for a walk?

Correct : B. Briny Beach

29. Why was it odd that the sun was shining with all his might?

Correct : A. It was midnight

30. Why did the Walrus and the Carpenter cry?

Correct : C. To see such quantities of sand

31. How many maids were to be employed to clear the sand?

Correct : B. 7

32. Who was easily attracted by the words of the Walrus and the Carpenter?

Correct : C. The young oysters

33. What were the topics to be discussed amongst the Walrus, Carpenter and Oysters?

Correct : D. All of the above

34. “But not on us!” Whose cry is it?

Correct : B. The oysters

35. “Shall we be trotting home again? But answer came there none.” Why?

Correct : C. The oysters were all eaten up

36. “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions”. Whose words are these?

Correct : D. The mirror

37. “In me she has drowned a young girl and in me an old woman rises towards her”. What does this suggest?

Correct : B. Coming of old age

38. The poet calls the moon and the candles ------------

Correct : C. Liars

39. Who is like a word dropped from a long sentence?

Correct : B. The father

40. Weak tea, stale chappathi etc. represent -------------

Correct : C. Plight of old age

41. What does the father contemplate?

Correct : D. About man’s estrangement

42. What does the father’s dream suggest?

Correct : C. Rootlessness of modern man

43. Dilip Chitre portrays Father in a -------------- way

Correct : D. All of the above

44. Who is the speaker in the poem Poor Girl?

Correct : B. A poor woman

45. Which line is the refrain in Maya Angelou’s poem?

Correct : A. Poor Girl/ Just like me

46. What is the significance of the word ‘poor’ in Angelou’s poem?

Correct : C. She is going to be cheated and she does not know that

47. The theme of the poem ‘Poor Girl’ is -----------

Correct : D. All of the above

48. “--------------- is what I call happiness”.

Correct : C. Aloneness

49. What is freedom according to Assadi?

Correct : C. Short walk in the garden of memories

50. How does Mina Assadi realize her smallness?

Correct : A. Comparing herself to the sea

51. To me a ring is ---------------

Correct : D. Bondage

52. Who is a Gaoler according to Mina Assadi?

Correct : B. One who has a cage

53. “Mother” is a novel written by ------------

Correct : D. Gorky

54. What is “Farthing”?

Correct : B. A coin of small denomination

55. Which is the locale of “One Autumn Night”?

Correct : B. Yste

56. “-----and the sky flowed with undryable tears.” What does it mean?

Correct : C. The continuous autumn rain

57. What good idea hit Natasha’s head?

Correct : D. To break open the crate

58. What is dithyramb?

Correct : A. Song of praise

59. Where did the narrator and Natasha go after getting bread from the crate?

Correct : C. Under a canoe

60. Bessie Head was a ------------- writer

Correct : A. South-African

61. The themes discussed by Bessie Head are -----------

Correct : B. Societal displacement, identity conflict and discrimination

62. ‘Heaven is not Closed’ is a short story by -----------

Correct : C. Bessie Cemery Head

63. Why was Galethebege held in esteem by a whole village?

Correct : D. She was so much devoted to God

64. At what age did Galethebege die?

Correct : C. 90

65. Who was Raloke?

Correct : D. A farmer

66. What did the missionaries from the West ask the black people to do?

Correct : B. To embrace Christianity

67. Why should the Blacks get converted?

Correct : C. To become civilized

68. Raloke rejected all things ----------

Correct : C. Foreign

69. The marriage of Raloke and Galethebege was solemnized according to -----------

Correct : C. Indian tradition

70. Why did the church expel Galethebege?

Correct : A. She married a non- believer

71. Natsume Soseki, makes fun of the pretence in ----------, through his story.

Correct : A. Academic world

72. I am a ----------- but as yet I have no name

Correct : B. Cat

73. This was probably the first time I had “a good look at a so-called ------------------“

Correct : D. Human being

74. Meaning of the word ‘muster up’ is -----------

Correct : C. Gather

75. Who is Osan?

Correct : A. Maid

76. “I am a Cat” is -------------

Correct : D. All of these

77. A. A Milne wrote comic essays for the ---------

Correct : A. Punch

78. “The Boy Comes Home” was written in ----------

Correct : D. 1918

79. Who is the hero in “The boy Comes Home”?

Correct : C. Philip

80. Uncle James’ house was furnished in ------------------

Correct : B. Mid-Victorian style

81. “If I were to be reborn as a man, I would, without doubt, become a -----------“

Correct : C. Teacher

82. Where does the cat sleep on fine days?

Correct : D. Veranda

83. Who told the cat that humans were inconsiderate?

Correct : B. Shiro

84. What is the master’s nickname?

Correct : C. Mr Mensroom

85. Why did Philip ring the bell?

Correct : C. He wanted breakfast

86. Who is the cook in Uncle James’ house?

Correct : B. Mrs. Higgins

87. Who is the guardian of young Philip?

Correct : C. Uncle James

88. What was Uncle James so particular about?

Correct : D. Punctuality

89. “I will not have impertinence”. Whose words are these?

Correct : C. Uncle James

90. What business did James propose for Philip?

Correct : C. Jam business

91. How many Germans were killed by Philips’ revolver?

Correct : D. Twenty

92. Who is the author of the play “Refund”?

Correct : B. Fritz Karinthy

93. A light dramatic composition of a satirical or humorous cast is called -----------

Correct : A. Farce

94. Wasserkopf in Germen means ----------

Correct : C. Water-head

95. To get the refund, Wasserkopf was to take ---------- examination.

Correct : A. An oral

96. What is the climax of the play “Refund”?

Correct : B. Oral test

97. What did the teachers decide to give Wasserkopf?

Correct : C. An ‘Excellent’ for all subjects

98. Why did the teachers give excellent in physical education?

Correct : B. He refused to sit

99. Who motivated Wasserkopf to go to school and ask for refund?

Correct : C. Leaderer

100. Who is Leaderer?

Correct : A. Wasserkopf’s friend