Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
Robert Lynd’s “In Praise of Mistakes”
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 enjoyment 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 information ____________ 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
(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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