Quiznetik
General English | Set 1
1. William Shakespeare was born in the year:
A. 1588
B. 1564
C. 1616
D. 1600
Correct : B. 1564
2. Sonnet 116 shares the poet’s reflections on the nature of:
A. ideal love
B. ideal companionship
C. ideal moments
D. ideal friendship
Correct : A. ideal love
3. Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______
A. seen
B. sees
C. finds
D. meets
Correct : C. finds
4. Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks
A. hours
B. minutes
C. honours
D. times
Correct : A. hours
5. “Death be not Proud” first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in 1633.
A. Holy Sonnet IX
B. Holy Sonnet X
C. Holy Sonnet III
D. Holy Sonnet XI
Correct : B. Holy Sonnet X
6. From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be
A. melancholy
B. statements
C. pictures
D. remembrances
Correct : C. pictures
7. And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul’s delivery
A. bones
B. bodies
C. leaps
D. souls
Correct : A. bones
8. One short sleep past, we wake ___________
A. eternally
B. immortally
C. extraordinarily
D. inevitably
Correct : A. eternally
9. Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is
A. An allegory
B. An epic
C. A sonnet
D. A metaphysical poem
Correct : C. A sonnet
10. The remover who comes with his bending sickle is
A. Time
B. Distance
C. Society
D. Hardships
Correct : A. Time
11. Love is not love if it alters
A. With every season
B. For any reason
C. With time
D. When beauty fades
Correct : B. For any reason
12. Love does not alter with brief hours and
A. Minutes
B. Weeks
C. Days
D. Seconds
Correct : B. Weeks
13. John Donne is
A. Afraid of death
B. Challenging death
C. Submitting to death
D. Resisting death
Correct : B. Challenging death
14. According to Donne, death is a slave to
A. Poison
B. Chance
C. Sleep
D. Fate
Correct : B. Chance
15. According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is
A. Sleep
B. Poison
C. Poppy
D. Dreams
Correct : C. Poppy
16. Rest of their bones refers to
A. The bones of everyone
B. The bones of poets
C. The bones of our best men
D. The bones of rich men
Correct : C. The bones of our best men
17. “Sonnet 116” is a record of the poet’s reflections on the nature of
A. classical love
B. friendship love
C. romantic love
D. ideal love
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
A. 1632
B. 1633
C. 1639
D. 1640
Correct : B. 1633
19. Shakespeare’s notion of ideal love in “Sonnet 116” is juxtaposed with the problems of
A. Instability
B. Unsteadiness
C. Unfaithfulness
D. flux and change
Correct : D. flux and change
20. According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more
A. Pain
B. Hunger
C. Grief
D. Death
Correct : D. Death
21. Shakespeare compares true love to-
A. a sun
B. the guiding star
C. the moon
D. a compass
Correct : B. the guiding star
22. What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare?
A. Even the strongest love is temporary
B. True love remains steady
C. Age and time alter love
D. Love changes as life changes
Correct : B. True love remains steady
23. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not _________.
A. love
B. true
C. alter
D. steady
Correct : A. love
24. In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented ‘death’ as a –
A. powerless figure
B. powerful figure
C. murderer
D. ruler over his soul
Correct : A. powerless figure
25. Donne considers death an immense pleasure similar to –
A. sleep and fun
B. fun and game
C. sleep and rest
D. rest and game
Correct : C. sleep and rest
26. The poet of, ‘Death be not proud,’ is
A. John Keats
B. John Donne
C. John Dryden
D. John Milton
Correct : B. John Donne
27. ‘Death be not proud,’ is a poem of
A. 10 lines
B. 14 lines
C. 12 lines
D. 16 lines
Correct : B. 14 lines
28. _________ are the pictures of Death
A. War and sickness
B. Rest and sleep
C. Mighty and dreadful
D. Chance and fate
Correct : B. Rest and sleep
29. And soonest our __________ with thee do go
A. Best kings
B. Best charms
C. Best men
D. Desperate men
Correct : C. Best men
30. The poem, ‘Death be not proud,’ is
A. An elegy
B. A ballad
C. A sonnet
D. An epic
Correct : C. A sonnet
31. Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.
A. Changes
B. Shifts
C. Moves
D. Alters
Correct : D. Alters
32. Sonnet 116 is composed by
A. William Shakespeer
B. William Shakespeare
C. William Shakepeare
D. William Shakespear
Correct : B. William Shakespeare
33. In Sonnet 116, True love is
A. Constant
B. Consistent
C. Continuous
D. Consuming
Correct : A. Constant
34. According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the
A. endpoint
B. edge of doom
C. antemeridian
D. postmeridian
Correct : B. edge of doom
35. True love does not change with
A. time
B. backward
C. fall
D. conclusion
Correct : A. time
36. True love is
A. Immortal
B. Mortal
C. Dishonest
D. corrupt
Correct : A. Immortal
37. In ‘Death be not proud’ the poet argues about the
A. mightiness of death
B. powerlessness of death
C. foulness of death
D. vileness of death
Correct : B. powerlessness of death
38. Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and
A. queens
B. luck
C. charms
D. desperate men
Correct : D. desperate men
39. Love's not Time's
A. Friend
B. Foe
C. Fiend
D. Fool
Correct : D. Fool
40. Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____
A. Poor Men
B. Rich Men
C. Desperate Men
D. Honest Men
Correct : C. Desperate Men
41. Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.
A. hopefulness
B. serenity
C. calmness
D. conspiracy
Correct : B. serenity
42. Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor
A. marble
B. wooden
C. half-reaped
D. granary
Correct : D. granary
43. John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:
A. 26
B. 39
C. 45
D. 23
Correct : A. 26
44. Yeats wrote “A Prayer for My Daughter” after the birth of his daughter Anne in:
A. 1865
B. 1919
C. 1939
D. 1914
Correct : B. 1919
45. May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger’s eye _______
A. captivated
B. distracted
C. distraught
D. wander
Correct : C. distraught
46. Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will
A. God’s
B. Heaven’s
C. her
D. thine
Correct : B. Heaven’s
47. How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?
A. innocence
B. truth
C. nature
D. grace
Correct : A. innocence
48. Autumn is the season of mists and
A. Ripe fruitfulness
B. Mellow fruitfulness
C. Soft fruitfulness
D. Juicy fruitfulness
Correct : B. Mellow fruitfulness
49. The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir
A. Among the river sallows
B. Among the river bushes
C. Among the river willows
D. Among the river plants
Correct : A. Among the river sallows
50. Autumn is called the bosom friend of the
A. Blazing sun
B. Bright sun
C. Maturing sun
D. Gigantic sun
Correct : C. Maturing sun
51. The reaper felt sleepy with the
A. fume of daisies
B. fume of poppies
C. fume of roses
D. fume of hyacinths
Correct : B. fume of poppies
52. “The Great Queen” that rose out of the spray is
A. Maud Gonne
B. Venus
C. Aphrodite
D. Yeats’ daughter
Correct : C. Aphrodite
53. Ceremony is a name for
A. A rich horn
B. A spreading laurel tree
C. Innocence and beauty born
D. Wealth and glory
Correct : A. A rich horn
54. The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is
A. His daughter
B. Lady Gregory
C. Maud Gonne
D. Helen of Troy
Correct : C. Maud Gonne
55. A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to
A. Maud Gonne
B. Anna Yeats
C. Aphrodite
D. Helen of Troy
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
A. Anne
B. Lily
C. Elizabeth
D. Amy
Correct : A. Anne
57. Accordingly, Keats’ poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader’s
A. Interpretation
B. Understanding
C. Imagination
D. perspective
Correct : C. Imagination
58. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is
A. Autumn
B. Winter
C. Summer
D. spring
Correct : A. Autumn
59. Once more the storm is howling and
A. half hid
B. half buried
C. half revealed
D. half shown
Correct : B. half buried
60. Keats was a poet of
A. Feelings
B. Senses
C. Perceptions
D. thoughts
Correct : C. Perceptions
61. William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
A. 1923
B. 1927
C. 1928
D. 1929
Correct : A. 1923
62. What are the two ‘close bosom-friends’ mentioned in Ode to Autumn?
A. The bees and the flowers
B. The sun and the autumn season
C. The autumn season and the bees
D. The trees and the sun
Correct : B. The sun and the autumn season
63. Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?
A. sounds
B. signs
C. songs
D. sorrows
Correct : C. songs
64. Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?
A. A gleaner
B. An old man
C. A gardener
D. An apple picker
Correct : C. A gardener
65. W.B. Yeats’ A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly after Yeats daughter, Anne’s birth.
A. 1918
B. 1919
C. 1920
D. 1922
Correct : B. 1919
66. May she be granted ___________ and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught.
A. poise
B. virtue
C. beauty
D. fair
Correct : B. virtue
67. May she become a flourishing hidden -
A. plant
B. flower
C. tree
D. star
Correct : B. flower
68. The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is
A. Rhymes
B. Personification
C. Simile
D. Metaphor
Correct : D. Metaphor
69. The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he
A. Is tired of reaping
B. Is drowsed with the fume of poppies
C. Wants to rest
D. Wants to relax
Correct : A. Is tired of reaping
70. The red ___________ whistles from a garden croft
A. apples
B. breast
C. flowers
D. grapes
Correct : A. apples
71. The gleaner walks carefully across
A. Granary
B. Half reaped furrow
C. The winnowing wind
D. A brook
Correct : C. The winnowing wind
72. Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?
A. Cider- presser
B. Cider- maker
C. Cider-brewer
D. Cider owner
Correct : A. Cider- presser
73. Who bleated from the hilly bourn?
A. Full grown lambs
B. Full grown sheep
C. Full grown bees
D. Full grown crickets
Correct : D. Full grown crickets
74. What was howling outside Yeats’ house?
A. Wolves
B. Foxes
C. Storm
D. A woman
Correct : A. Wolves
75. According to Yeats, what is under the ‘cradle hood and coverlid’?
A. A baby
B. A rabbit
C. Feeding bottle
D. Milk
Correct : A. A baby
76. For whom is the poet praying in ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’?
A. The people of Ireland
B. The queen
C. Helen
D. For his baby
Correct : A. The people of Ireland
77. In Yeats’ poem, who rose out of the spray?
A. The great queen
B. Helen
C. A serpent
D. A monster
Correct : B. Helen
78. Kunwar Singh was of the _______ caste
A. Dalit
B. Kshatriya
C. Chandni
D. Thakur
Correct : D. Thakur
79. How old was Jim Corbett when he was given his first gun?
A. Ten years old
B. Eight years old
C. Eighteen years old
D. twelve years old
Correct : B. Eight years old
80. Kunwar Singh was the headman of Chandni Chauk and the best shikari in:
A. Kaladhungi
B. Kamalanagar
C. Kasurat
D. West Bengal
Correct : A. Kaladhungi
81. The name of Jim Corbett’s elder brother is:
A. Jason
B. Samuel
C. Tom
D. Jimmy
Correct : C. Tom
82. In the Hindu tradition, a dying man is made to hold the tail of a cow, preferably a:
A. black buck
B. black heifer
C. black buffalo
D. black cat
Correct : B. black heifer
83. One day, in the month of April, Kunwar Singh went hunting with
A. His eldest son
B. Jim Corbett
C. Har Singh
D. The village chief
Correct : C. Har Singh
84. As fees for the doctor at Kaladhungi hospital, Kunwar Singh offered
A. 1 rupee
B. 2 rupees
C. 3 rupees
D. 4 rupees
Correct : B. 2 rupees
85. Among the many things that Corbett learned from Kunwar Singh, one was
A. Climbing trees
B. Hunting tigers
C. Belief in superstitions
D. Making mental maps
Correct : D. Making mental maps
86. Kunwar Singh was the headman of
A. Garuppu
B. Kaladhhungi
C. Chandni Chauk
D. Lailapur
Correct : C. Chandni Chauk
87. Kunwar Singh had not eaten anything for
A. 6 days
B. 8 days
C. 14 days
D. 16 days
Correct : D. 16 days
88. After his recovery from his sickness, Kunwar Singh lived for another
A. 2 years
B. 3 years
C. 4 years
D. 5 years
Correct : C. 4 years
89. From which book is the account of Kunwar Singh extracted from?
A. My India
B. Man-Eaters of Kumaon
C. The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
D. The Temple Tigers
Correct : A. My India
90. How much did Aladia receive as pay per month as the postmaster from the government?
A. 5 paise
B. 10 paise
C. 10 rupees
D. 5 rupees
Correct : D. 5 rupees
91. What did Jim Corbett order Kunwar Singh’s son to bring as he treated the dying man?
A. Two vessels of fresh water
B. Two buckets of river water
C. Two bowls of fresh fruits
D. Two seers of warm milk
Correct : D. Two seers of warm milk
92. By what force was the landmark tree marked by the tiger’s scratch destroyed?
A. Forest fire
B. Poachers
C. Flood
D. Lightning
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?”
A. Kunwar Singh to Jim Corbett
B. Tom to Ellis
C. Kunwar Singh to Budhoo
D. Tom to Budhoo
Correct : C. Kunwar Singh to Budhoo
94. Kunwar Singh was the _________ of Chandni Chauk.
A. king
B. ruler
C. priest
D. headman
Correct : D. headman
95. After Jim Corbett left school, he started to work in -
A. Haryana
B. Bengal
C. Kashmir
D. Bihar
Correct : B. Bengal
96. Kunwar Singh had fallen a victim to –
A. malaria
B. opium
C. career
D. love
Correct : B. opium
97. According to Kunwar Singh, it was necessary for a hunter to know how to –
A. set a trap
B. shoot a gun
C. climb trees
D. tackle wild animals
Correct : C. climb trees
98. Jim Corbett also learnt how to make ___________ from Kunwar Singh.
A. guns
B. friends
C. right decision
D. mental maps
Correct : D. mental maps
99. The mass from Har Singh’s stomach was
A. left as it was
B. eaten up by the tiger
C. put back into his stomach
D. cut off and thrown
Correct : C. put back into his stomach
100. The post master of Kaladhungi was
A. Obeda
B. Aladia
C. Babu Saheb
D. Har Singh
Correct : B. Aladia