Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
Bacon’s “Of Studies”
1. According to Bacon,
the chief use of study is:
(a) Ability
(b) Ornament (c) Delight (d) Adornment
2. To Bacon to spend too
much time in studies is:
(a) Affection (b)
Affectation (c) Studious
(d) Sloth
3. For abilities which are natural is like
natural plants that need _________
(a) pruning
by study (b) sunlight (c) air (d) water
4. According to Bacon,
who condemns studies?
a. crafty men
b. simple men c. wise men
d. ready men
5. ___________ maketh a full man
(a)
speaking (b) reading (c) writing (d) listening
6. History makes men wise; poets witty;
mathematics subtle and natural philosophy _____
(a)
shallow (b) deep (c) intense (d) low
7. The exercise bowling is good for ______ and
reins
(a) rock
(b) sand (c) stone
(d) none of the above
8.A man who studies a lot is temperamentally
___________
(a)active (b) inactive (c) smart (d) lazy
9.Studies develop the man’s natural ____________
(a) ability (b) inability (c) value (d) none of the above
10.Different kinds of ________ have different
effects upon the reader.
(a) books
(b) compact discs (c) equipments (d) none of the above
11.Experience is essential to add to the value
of __________
(a)land (b) gold (c) building (d) studies
12. The study of logic and rhetoric develop a
man’s
(a) muscles (b) intelligence (c) debating
power (d) none of the above
13.
Planning and Management of affairs are expected only from persons
(a) who seldom reads (b)
who debate often (c) who reads a lot
(d) none of the above
14. Some
Books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
(a)
spitted (b) vomited (c) digested (d) none of the above
15. One should not read books merely to
contradict others but to
(a) judge the cost of the book (b) judge the number of pages in the book
(c) judge the value of the material the book contains (d)
judge the time taken to make us sleepy
16.
Simple men admire studies and wise men ______ them
(a) use (b) misuse (c) lecture (d) none of the above
17. Bacon’s style is
known for:
(a) pathos (b) humour
(c) paradox (d) aphorisms
18. According to Bacon
what maketh an exact man?
(a) sleeping (b) eating
(c) chatting (d) reading
19. Bacon suggests that
if a man’s wit be wandering let him study:
(a) Mathematics (b) History
(c) Philosophy (d) Logic
20. According to Bacon
what makes men wise?
(A) Physics (B) Mathematics
(C) Philosophy (D) History
21. According to Bacon
gentle walking is good for
(a) eyes (b) stomach
(c) brain (d) lungs
22. According to Bacon
philosophy makes men:
(a) wise (b) witty(c) subtle
(d) grave
23. Bacon suggests that
the general counsels come best from those that are :
a. Experienced b.
Professionals c. Learned d.
Businessmen
24. To use studies too
much for Ornament is _______
a. affection b. affectation c.
adornment d. none
25. To Bacon one must
read to :
a. weigh and
consider b. contradict and confute c.
talk and discourse d. take for granted
Charles Lamb’s “Oxford
in the Vacation”
1. Who is Elia?
a) Charles
Lamb b)
George Dyer c) Mary
Lamb d) Clerk
2. Who
was the child of London?
a) George Dyer b) Charles
Lamb c) Dr. Johnson d) E.V. Lucas
3. He
spent __________ years working as a clerk in the East India House
a) 43 b) 23 c) 33 d) 13
4. Lamb was renowned for his warm sense of
________ and legendary social gatherings
a) Tragedy b) Wits c) irony d) humour
5. In 1807, Charles Lamb and Mary Anne Lamb was
published ____________
a) Tale
from Shakespeare b) Tale from The Bible c) Tale
of Two Cities d) Tale of Canterbury.
6. Charles died in______.
a) 1833 b) 1834 c) 1835 d) 1836
7. Essays of Elia was published in ____.
a) 1803 b) 1813 c) 1823 d) 1823
8. Oxford in the Vacation was first published in
the London Magazine on _______.
a) Jul 1860 b) Aug 1860 c) Sep. 1860 d) Oct. 1860
9. Oxford in the vacation is written by one who
never was at _______ as a student.
a) Oxford b) Cambridge c) Kingston d) New college
10. Lamb used to spend his annual holidays in
the ______ and other part of the Oxford
a) Ground b) library
c) Dining hall d) Campus
11. Lamb use to write under the pen-name of
______.
a) Charles b) Anne c) Elia d) Dyer
12. He tried to amuse the reader with an account
of a clerks working in the_____.
a) East Sea House b) North Sea House c) South
Sea House d) West Sea House
13. He used to look forward for holidays to
spend times in ________ at Oxford libraries.
a) Sleeping b) Chatting c) Surfing net d) reading books
14. _______ feels as if he inhaling learning
while in them
a) Lamb b) Dyer c) Some Menials d) Mary
15. Dyer was busy with ______ manuscript at
Oriel
a) ancient b) modern c) postmodern d) new
16. Who himself look like an old book badly
needing a new cover?
a) Charles Lamb b) George
Dyer c) George Eliot d) G.B. Shaw
17. Dyer doing research concerning the past
_________ of the two universities.
a) Civil b) geography
c) history
d) record
18. Lamb cares more for Oxford and Cambridge
than he does for fashionable resorts as_____
a) New York b)
Northampton c)
Sussex d) Bath
19. Who hung in his
uneasy posture in the old Baskett prayer book?
a) St.
Peter b) St. Thomas c) St. Mathew d) St.Paul
20. Where “it seems as
though all the souls of all the writers”
a) In
oxford b) In old library c) In new library d) In Oxford
J.B.
Priestley’s “Lectures”
1. According to Priestley what is more foolish
than going to hear a lecture?
a) learning
from a lecture b) giving a lecture
c) preparing a lecture d) not
giving a lecture
2. To Priestley there is no glory, no fun and
no money in _____
a) writing b) giving a lecture
c) acting d) giving
money
3. Priestley is greatly in demand as a
lecturer.
a) true b) false
c) not much d) may
be
4. Priestley is basically a good ________
a) singer b) lecturer
c) writer d) dancer
5. If Priestley is given
a pile of sheets, a fountain-pen or a type writer he will do his __________
(a) worst (b) best
(c) will not care (d) rest
6. According to
Priestley to-er-is human, to
________ divine
(a) refuse (b) forgive
(c) forget (d) reuse
7. According to Priestley a successful lecturer
takes a delight in his ________
(a) voice (b) audience
(c) mannerisms (d) dress
8. When he gives a lecture, Priestley ______
the town, the hall, the audience and himself.
(a) adores (b) loves
(c) despises (d) likes
9. What does Priestley say about his audience?
(a) dreary people (b) malicious
people
(c) snarling pedants (d) all the above
10. If Priestley went on an American tour there
would be men waiting with_____ outside the hall.
(a) garlands (b) cash
prize
(c) guns (d) books
11. When Priestley
writes, he feels that he is addressing a company of ____________ persons
(a) bored persons (b) pleasant
persons
(c) pedants (d) rouges
12. Priestley has
probably ______________ a hundred readers every time he gives a lecture
(a) gained (b) lost
(c) added (d) spoke to
13. Just as the young
____________ falls into an ecstasy at the sound of flagons, the successful
lecturer thrills with the pleasure of his voice
(a) Margantua (b) Targantua
(c) Gargantua (d) fish
14. According to Priestley what is more foolish
than going to hear a lecture?
(a) learning from a lecture (b) giving a lecture
(c) preparing a lecture (d) not
giving a lecture
15.
Priestley is _________ writer
(a) an American (b) an African (c) a
British (d) an Indian
16.
Priestley is _________ about lectures
(a)
senseless (b) sensible (c) eager (d) none of the above
17.What
does Priestley say about authors who give lectures?
(a) fools (b)idiots (c) successful men (d) none of the above
18.
How does Priestley state his own performance as a lecturer?
(a) make proud of himself an hour (b) make fool of himself an hour (c) make
glory of himself an hour (d) none of the above
19.
What are Priestley’s thoughts about the audience he faces?
(a) Malicious
people (b) very pleasant and
sensible people (c) dear and gentle
audience (d) none of the above
20.
How does Priestley contrast the successful lecturer from the bad one? The successful lecturer ___________
(a) bliss with happiness (b) thrills
with pleasure (c) harmony in delight
(d) none of the above
21.
What does Priestley imagine when the lecture he has promised to give seems
nearer?
(a) He
looks bright at nothing and his style wobbles (b) he is confident to take
the audience at straight (c) he mesmerizes them with his voice and his style
dictates. (d) none of the above
22.
Gargantua refers to a
(a) princess (b) small monster (c) gigantic monster (d) plucky girl
23.
Priestley feels as __________ if people
are not interested in his lecture.
(a) happy as he can (b) a success (c) an insult (d) none of the above
24.
Priestley has probably lost a _________ readers in a lecture and gained a
twenty.
(a) hundred (b) dozen (c) handful of (d) none of the
above
25.
Priestley never wished to give an impression as a demanding______________
(a) reader (b) writer (c) lecturer
(d) none of the above
26.How
does Priestley conclude his essay?
(a) to err is human, to forgive is divine
(b) to err is human, to refuse –divine
(c) to err is lecturer, to forgive- audience (d) none of the above
27.
Priestley ___________ to give lectures
(a)
usually refuse (b) usually
fervent (c) usually entreat (d) none of the above
28.A
bad lecturer communicates his ____________ for the business.
(a) taste
(b) distaste (c) folly
(d) none of the above
29.
J B Priestley fully refers as
(a) Jack Burke Priestley (b) James Boynton Priestley (c) John Boynton Priestley (d) Jefferson
Babington Priestley
30.
‘The Times’ is
(a) one of the American leading
newspapers (b) one of the Indian leading newspapers (c) one
of the leading British newspapers (c) favourite T.V show
31.
A heavy shower of letters came for the mistakes made by famous
(a) poets (b) novelist (c) prose writers (d) actors
32.The
poet confess that before writing an article consults ___________ to make sure on the errors.
(a) encyclopaedia
(b) dictionary (c) facebook (d) wiki
