Prose -
I CIA I
“Of
Studies” by Francis Bacon, “Lectures” by J.B. Priestley and “In Praise of
Mistakes” by Robert Lynd
Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
Unit
I
Question
Bank for “Of Studies” by Francis Bacon
1. According to Bacon
the chief use of study is:
(a) Ability (b) Ornament
(c) Delight (d) Adornent
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,othersswallowed,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
Question
Bank for “Lectures” by J.B. Priestley
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) none
3. Priestley is greatly in demand as a
lecturer.
a) true b) false
c) not much d) none
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) none
6. According to
Priestley to-er-is human, to
________ divine
(a) refuse (b) forgive
(c) forget (d) none
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) none
11. Priestley when he
writes he feels he is addressing a company of ____________ persons
(a) bored persons (b) pleasant
persons
(c) pedants (d) none
12. Priestley has
probably ______________ a hundred readers every time he gives a lecture
(a) gained (b) lost
(c) added (d) none
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) None
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
18.
Priestley is _________ writer
(a) an American (b) an African (c) a
British (d) an Indian
19.
Priestley is _________ about lectures
(a)
senseless (b) sensible (c) eager (d) none of the above
20.What
does Priestley say about authors who give lectures?
(a) fools (b)idiots (c) successful men (d) none of the above
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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
25.
Gargantua refers to a
(a) princess (b) miniature monster (c) gigantic monster (d) plucky girl
26.
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
27.
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
28.
Priestley never wished to give an impression as a demanding______________
(a) reader (b) writer (c) lecturer
(d) none of the above
29.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
30.
Priestley ___________ to give lectures
(a)
usually refuse (b) usually
fervent (c) usually entreat (d) none of the above
31.A
bad lecturer communicates his ____________ for the business.
(a) taste
(b) distaste (c) folly
(d) none of the above
32.
J B Priestley fully refers as
(a) Jack Burke Priestley (b) James Boynton Priestley (c) John Boynton Priestley (d) Jefferson
Babington Priestley
33.
‘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
34.
A heavy shower of letters came for the mistakes made by famous
(a) poets (b) novelist (c) prose writers (d) actors
35.The
poet confess that before writing an article consults ___________ to make sure on the errors.
(a) encyclopaedia
(b) dictionary (c) facebook (d) whattsapp
Unit
IV
Question
Bank for “In Praise of Mistakes” by Robert Lynd
1. To Lynd, the only fatal error in a writer is
to be________
(a) accurate (b) uninteresting
(c) interesting (d) none
2.Dr.Johnson endeared himself to posterity by
his _________ in his dictionary.
(a) blunders (b) accurate
definitions
(c) interesting details (d) none
3. To Lynd, all comedy arises from other
people’s _________
(a) jokes (b) mistakes
(c) foolishness (d) none
4. The inaccuracies of the historian ________
have been laughed at.
(a) Dryden (b) Aristotle
(c) Froude
(d) Plato
5. According to Lynd, the poet uses the word
“chrysoberyl” for the _________
(a) sense` (b) sound
(c) precious stone (d) none
6. What according to Lynd is the chief value of
error?
(a) makes the
reader superior (b) confuses
the readers
(c) makes the reader laugh (d) none
7. According to Lynd,
there has been a heavy shower of letters in _______ about the mistakes made by
famous novelists:
(a) The Times (b) The Morning Star
(c) The Saturday
Review (d) None
8. Why does Lynd awakes
out of dream at night and breaks into a sweat of fear?
(a)
bad dreams (b) is
anxious if he had made a mistake
(c) suffers from
sleeplessness (d) none
9. ____________
blundered in Chronology and geography
(a) Hazlitt (b) Milton
(c) Shakespeare (d) Scot
10. The true error-hunter
is a man who searches for error as men search for______
(a) Iron (b) Gold
(c) Diamond (d) Copper
11. According to Lynd,
in the history of the world the man who makes mistakes has never been ________
(a) rewarded (b) censured
(c) appreciated (d) none
12.
Robert Lynd remarks as one grows older no doubt, one cares less for the rarer
kind of
jewellery in ____________
(a) article (b) prose (c) drama (d) poetry
13.Robert
Lynd remarks as one grows older no doubt, one cares less for the rarer kind
of
jewellery in
(a) article (b) prose (c) drama (d) poetry
14.
The truth is, the only fatal error in a writer is to be ____________
(a) careless (b) truth less (c) fiction less (d) un interesting
15.
All ________ probably arises from our enjoyement of other people’s mistakes
(a) tragedy (b) praise (c) comedy (d) none of the above
16.
Novelists need not be __________ by being accused of blundering.
(a) perturbed
(b) relaxed (c) praised (d) none of the above
17.
Robert Lynd points out that the newspapers are full of accurate articles and
correct informations ____________ give pleasure.
(a) seldom(b)
occasionally (c) obviously (d) none of the above
18.
To err not only makes human but also_________
(a)
clever (b) intelligent (c) wise (d) silly
19.
A true error- hunter is a man who searches for error as men search for
(a) pearls (b) honey hive (c) gold
(d) oil
20.
Robert Lynd also gratifies his readers
(a) by misquoting the poets
(b) confusing Darius to Xerxes
(
c) mentioning towns in wrong countries
(d) all
the above
21.The
Journalist quotes the beginning of an article by a punch :
(a) ‘all is well that ends well’
(b) ‘the Journey of a thousand miles
starts in a single step’
(c) ‘the
sting of the serpent is in its tail’
(d) all the above
22.
A great many words that mean nothing to ordinary reader and yet reads with
(a)an irritation (b) an ignorance (c) a
pleasure (d) disinterest
23.Robert
Lynd proclaims that every writer concede
a margin of error but the reader is more particular on the information of the
___________
(a) character (b) author (c) facts (d) all the above
24.Orthinologist
is a person who studies
(a) birds (b) skin (c) brain
(d) insects
25.Robert
Lynd was born in
(a) Britain (b) Scotland (c)
Ireland (d) Europe
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