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General English | Set 1

1. William Shakespeare was born in the year:

Correct : B. 1564

2. Sonnet 116 shares the poet’s reflections on the nature of:

Correct : A. ideal love

3. Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______

Correct : C. finds

4. Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks

Correct : A. hours

5. “Death be not Proud” first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in 1633.

Correct : B. Holy Sonnet X

6. From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be

Correct : C. pictures

7. And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul’s delivery

Correct : A. bones

8. One short sleep past, we wake ___________

Correct : A. eternally

9. Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is

Correct : C. A sonnet

10. The remover who comes with his bending sickle is

Correct : A. Time

11. Love is not love if it alters

Correct : B. For any reason

12. Love does not alter with brief hours and

Correct : B. Weeks

13. John Donne is

Correct : B. Challenging death

14. According to Donne, death is a slave to

Correct : B. Chance

15. According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is

Correct : C. Poppy

16. Rest of their bones refers to

Correct : C. The bones of our best men

17. “Sonnet 116” is a record of the poet’s reflections on the nature of

Correct : D. ideal love

18. “Death, be not proud” first appeared as ‘Holy Sonnet X’ in Songs and Sonnets, a collection of 19 sonnets published in

Correct : B. 1633

19. Shakespeare’s notion of ideal love in “Sonnet 116” is juxtaposed with the problems of

Correct : D. flux and change

20. According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more

Correct : D. Death

21. Shakespeare compares true love to-

Correct : B. the guiding star

22. What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare?

Correct : B. True love remains steady

23. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not _________.

Correct : A. love

24. In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented ‘death’ as a –

Correct : A. powerless figure

25. Donne considers death an immense pleasure similar to –

Correct : C. sleep and rest

26. The poet of, ‘Death be not proud,’ is

Correct : B. John Donne

27. ‘Death be not proud,’ is a poem of

Correct : B. 14 lines

28. _________ are the pictures of Death

Correct : B. Rest and sleep

29. And soonest our __________ with thee do go

Correct : C. Best men

30. The poem, ‘Death be not proud,’ is

Correct : C. A sonnet

31. Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.

Correct : D. Alters

32. Sonnet 116 is composed by

Correct : B. William Shakespeare

33. In Sonnet 116, True love is

Correct : A. Constant

34. According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the

Correct : B. edge of doom

35. True love does not change with

Correct : A. time

36. True love is

Correct : A. Immortal

37. In ‘Death be not proud’ the poet argues about the

Correct : B. powerlessness of death

38. Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and

Correct : D. desperate men

39. Love's not Time's

Correct : D. Fool

40. Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____

Correct : C. Desperate Men

41. Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.

Correct : B. serenity

42. Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor

Correct : D. granary

43. John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:

Correct : A. 26

44. Yeats wrote “A Prayer for My Daughter” after the birth of his daughter Anne in:

Correct : B. 1919

45. May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger’s eye _______

Correct : C. distraught

46. Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will

Correct : B. Heaven’s

47. How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?

Correct : A. innocence

48. Autumn is the season of mists and

Correct : B. Mellow fruitfulness

49. The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir

Correct : A. Among the river sallows

50. Autumn is called the bosom friend of the

Correct : C. Maturing sun

51. The reaper felt sleepy with the

Correct : B. fume of poppies

52. “The Great Queen” that rose out of the spray is

Correct : C. Aphrodite

53. Ceremony is a name for

Correct : A. A rich horn

54. The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is

Correct : C. Maud Gonne

55. A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to

Correct : A. Maud Gonne

56. The poem “A Prayer for My Daughter” was written after the birth of Yeats’ daughter. His daughter’s name is

Correct : A. Anne

57. Accordingly, Keats’ poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader’s

Correct : C. Imagination

58. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is

Correct : A. Autumn

59. Once more the storm is howling and

Correct : B. half buried

60. Keats was a poet of

Correct : C. Perceptions

61. William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in

Correct : A. 1923

62. What are the two ‘close bosom-friends’ mentioned in Ode to Autumn?

Correct : B. The sun and the autumn season

63. Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?

Correct : C. songs

64. Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?

Correct : C. A gardener

65. W.B. Yeats’ A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly after Yeats daughter, Anne’s birth.

Correct : B. 1919

66. May she be granted ___________ and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught.

Correct : B. virtue

67. May she become a flourishing hidden -

Correct : B. flower

68. The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is

Correct : D. Metaphor

69. The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he

Correct : A. Is tired of reaping

70. The red ___________ whistles from a garden croft

Correct : A. apples

71. The gleaner walks carefully across

Correct : C. The winnowing wind

72. Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?

Correct : A. Cider- presser

73. Who bleated from the hilly bourn?

Correct : D. Full grown crickets

74. What was howling outside Yeats’ house?

Correct : A. Wolves

75. According to Yeats, what is under the ‘cradle hood and coverlid’?

Correct : A. A baby

76. For whom is the poet praying in ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’?

Correct : A. The people of Ireland

77. In Yeats’ poem, who rose out of the spray?

Correct : B. Helen

78. Kunwar Singh was of the _______ caste

Correct : D. Thakur

79. How old was Jim Corbett when he was given his first gun?

Correct : B. Eight years old

80. Kunwar Singh was the headman of Chandni Chauk and the best shikari in:

Correct : A. Kaladhungi

81. The name of Jim Corbett’s elder brother is:

Correct : C. Tom

82. In the Hindu tradition, a dying man is made to hold the tail of a cow, preferably a:

Correct : B. black heifer

83. One day, in the month of April, Kunwar Singh went hunting with

Correct : C. Har Singh

84. As fees for the doctor at Kaladhungi hospital, Kunwar Singh offered

Correct : B. 2 rupees

85. Among the many things that Corbett learned from Kunwar Singh, one was

Correct : D. Making mental maps

86. Kunwar Singh was the headman of

Correct : C. Chandni Chauk

87. Kunwar Singh had not eaten anything for

Correct : D. 16 days

88. After his recovery from his sickness, Kunwar Singh lived for another

Correct : C. 4 years

89. From which book is the account of Kunwar Singh extracted from?

Correct : A. My India

90. How much did Aladia receive as pay per month as the postmaster from the government?

Correct : D. 5 rupees

91. What did Jim Corbett order Kunwar Singh’s son to bring as he treated the dying man?

Correct : D. Two seers of warm milk

92. By what force was the landmark tree marked by the tiger’s scratch destroyed?

Correct : A. Forest fire

93. Who said this to whom? “Did you see that, you, who boasted that your sahib would teach mine to shoot?”

Correct : C. Kunwar Singh to Budhoo

94. Kunwar Singh was the _________ of Chandni Chauk.

Correct : D. headman

95. After Jim Corbett left school, he started to work in -

Correct : B. Bengal

96. Kunwar Singh had fallen a victim to –

Correct : B. opium

97. According to Kunwar Singh, it was necessary for a hunter to know how to –

Correct : C. climb trees

98. Jim Corbett also learnt how to make ___________ from Kunwar Singh.

Correct : D. mental maps

99. The mass from Har Singh’s stomach was

Correct : C. put back into his stomach

100. The post master of Kaladhungi was

Correct : B. Aladia