Wednesday, October 19, 2016

I BA English - Prose - I Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions - Prepared by Dr.GP

Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

Course Code: U16EG102
GP
1. Steele’s fruitful collaboration with _______ left its indelible mark on English literature.

a. Swift      b. Pope       c. Dr.Johnson           d. Addison
2. A self-contradictory statement is called a _______________.
a. satire                   b. paradox                 c. oxymoron   d. none of these
3. Who among the following writers was knighted in the year 1715?
a. Swift      b. Pope       c. Addison           d. Steele
4. The poem on speed was written by the poet called ________.
a. Keats                 b. Byron                     c. Henley                    d. None of the above
5. ___________ is called the ‘prince of paradox.’
a. G.K.Chesterton           b. E.V.Lucas   c. Max Beerbohm        d. None of the above
6. Mr. Carnegie is a _______________.
a. Philosopher                     b. Philanthropist         c. Journalist         d. Writer
7. The essay “Speed” is taken from the collection titled _____________.
a. Listener’s Lure     b. Cricket all his Life      c. Mainly on the Air       d. all the above
8. The fictional detective created by Chesterton in his stories was ______________.
a. Roger      b. Morgan        c. Father Brown          d. None of the above
9. In the __________ form of flattery, falsehood itself appeared more true.
a. Old                       b. New                    c. Old and new              d. None of above
10. Words like ‘quiet’, ‘modest’ and ‘simple’ were used for _________ the wealthy.
a. eulogizing          b. glorifying    c. flattering     d. All the above
11.  Whose company does Altangi desire the most?
         a. the magistrate           b. the maimed sailor          c. the Man in Black       d. the ragged woman
12. The Man in Black professes himself to be a ________________.
a. braggard         b. eccentric            c. man-hater               d. philanthropist
13. The saying ‘live and let live’ is attributed to the writer _____________.
a. Schiller             b. Immanuel Kant             c. William Henley            d. Father Newman
14. The credit of designing St. Paul’s Cathedral in twenty-five minutes goes to ___________.
a. Edward Gibbon  b. Rudyard Kipling   c. Christopher Wren       d. Oscar Wilde
15. The _____________ was, for Henley, a glorious revelation.
a. Aeroplane         b. Mercedes          c. Marathon          d. Black Bess
16. The Man in Black uses the language of ________________
a. flatterer          b. science          c. bombast    d. ill-nature
17. Max Beerbohm, in his essay brings out the modern man’s craze for ___________.
a. Money             b. Flattery                c. Speed                  d. all the above
18. Beerbohm says that in this age of speed, we are constantly told by the press to be _____ conscious.   
a. noise        b. traffic       c. prayer         d. money
19. According to Beerbohm ______ has become mankind’s fetish.
a. speed       b. glory          c. romance          d. none of these
20. Flattery in the modern age becomes intolerable when it is applied to a person’s ________.
a. birth            b. death            c. wealth             d. life
21. Richard Steele was born in __________.
       a.London                          b. New York                c. Dublin                    d. Scotland
22. The Chinese letters were written by a fictitious Chinese Philosopher by name -----
a. Fum Hoam                    B. Altangi                    c. Man in Black          d. Goldsmith
23. The Trumpet club originally consisted of ---- members
a. 30                                  b. 45                             c. 15                           d. 50
24. The character of the Man in Black is full of -----
a. Pretensions                    b. Inconsistencies        c. Affectations                        d. All the above
25. Richard Steele’s conversation with the members of the club is a kind of preparative for -----
a. Play                                b. work                       c. Sleep                        d. talk
26. The first beggar who meets the Man in Black is ------
a. a maimed sailor  b. a ragged old man             c. a woman with a child  
d. a parishioner
27. Jeoffrey Notch calls every thriving man an -----
a. idler                                b. upstart                   c. impostor                   d. idiot
28.  ------ is the only man who seemed ashamed of his natural benevolence
a.  Altangi              b. Roger                     c. Bencher       d. The Man in Black
29. The foreman of the Trumpet club is ________________.
a. Honest old Dick Reptile           b. Major Matchlock     c. Jeoffrey Notch      
d. Bencher
30. The Man in Black gave _____________to the sailor or the clips of wood.
a. a penny                          b. a pound                   c. a shilling      d. None of the above
31. Bencher was closely associated with __________________.
a. Fun Hoam                      b. Jack Ogle              c. Nestor          d. Belial
32. Major Matchlock served in the _____________________.
a. Spanish War                  b. World  War                         c. Civil war     d. None of the above
33. The narrator of “The Trumpet Club” compares the conversation of the old to the wise words of ______________________.
a. Achilles              b. Nestor                     c. Hector                    d. Milton
34. The Man in Black rails against the _______________.
a. Kings                 b. Magistrates               c. Beggars                  d. all the above
35. The greatest wit of the Trumpet club was -----
a. Bencher              b. Major Matchlock          c. Richard Steele              d. Jeoffrey Notch
36. Honest Old Dick Reptile is described as an ______________ man.
a. Philosophical                 b. Intelligent                c. Indolent      d. all the above
37. Steele adopted the pseudonym -------------- in the early issues of the Tatler.
a. Roger                  b. Spectator                 c. Isaac Bickerstaff              d. None of the above
38. The story of the old Gantlett is recounted by ___________________.
a. Jeoffrey Notch             b. Bencher        c. Major Matchlock                d. Jack Ogle
39. The first beggar said that he was forced to beg to support ______________.
a. his fellow beggars         b. his countrymen        c. his dying wife and five children
d. all the above
40. According to the narrator Steele, the conversation of the old people is filled with__________.
a. Trifles                 b. Frivolities               c. Wisdom       d. All the above
41. Major Matchlock  recounts  the battle of ___________ .
a. Edgehill             b. Naseby                    c.Marston Moor                      d. all the above
42. The greatest wit of the members of the trumpet club was ________
a. Major Matchlock           b. Jeoffrey Notch        d. Richard Steele       d. Bencher
43. The only man of the trumpet club who has the liberty of stirring the fire was ___________
a. Jeoffrey Notch b. Major Matchlock     c. Jack Ogle     d. Samuel Hudibras
44.  Steele calls the members at the club ___________________ companions
a. arbitrary       b. shining        c. reckless        d. devious
45. Honest Old Dick Reptile brought his nephew to the club in order to show him _____________
a. good company         b. a taste of the world             c. Both a&b    d. none of these
46. Altangi says that he desires the friendship of ____________
a. Beau Tibbs             b. The Man in Black                          c. Mrs. Tibbs            d. None of these
47. The Man in Black pretends  to be _____________
a. a prodigy of parsimony       b. man-hater    c. man of prudence     d. all the above
48.The old man with tattered finery  felt shameful about his profession of _____________
a. Begging      b. Fighting       d. Stealing       d. none of the above
49. The Man in Black, in reality was full of _____________
a. egotism                    b. indolence                 c. compassion             d. self-pity
50. The Man in Black gave the first beggar _____________
a. a piece of silver      b. a piece of gold        c. a piece of advice     d. all the above
51. Chesterton says that the modern method of flattery is ______________
a. ingenious                 b. subtle           b. harmful                    d. all the above
52. A true bore is one who is always unconscious of his _________________
a. foolishness                  b. borishness                     c.prudishness                    d. none of the above
53. According to Lucas, _____________ people are seldom bores.
a. busy                                    b. simple                      c.kind                          d. poor
54.  The modern flatterer adopts a new method of flattery which deals with the use of __________
a. negatives                 b. aphorisms                c. poetry                      d.satire
55. According to Chesterton, ________________________ are rare and royal virtues, not to be lightly talked about.
a. pride and pomp       b. simplicity and modesty     c. compassion and love           d. none of the above
56. The term transcendental pantheism is associated with ____________.
a. Immanuel Kant     b. Bertrand Russell     c. John Locke              d. Descartes
57.  Chesterton says that the journalists who write about Mr. Pierpont Morgan do not say that he is as beautiful as _____________________
a. Midas                      b. Apollo                     c. Solomon                  d. Mars
58. The word ______________  is said to be employed by the Japanese before any word that occurs in a polite sentence.
a. simple                      b. modest                    c. honourable             d. quiet
59. The book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by __________________.
a. Charles Dickens      b. Rudyard Kipling     c. Edward Gibbon    d. William Henley
60. Beerbohm feels that reducing the speed-limit of the motorists will save ___________
a. energy consumption            b. national income       c. vast number of human lives                     d. none of the above

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