E.V. Lucas’s “Bores” I UG MCQs

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

Course Code: U19EG102

E.V. Lucas’s “Bores”

1. E.V. Lucas was commissioned to write a biography of ________ the Quaker poet.

a)     Bernard Barton,  b) G.B. Shaw                   c)  Charles Lamb          d) Mary Lamb

2. In 1889 Lucas joined the staff of the__________.

a)     Wessex Daily News b)Sussex Daily News  c) Punch                       d) Methuen & Co

3. In 1924 Lucas was appointed as the chairman of __________ Company.

a)     Sussex Daily News b) London Magazine     c) Methuen & Co       d) Punch

4. Lucas first volume of poetry is ____________

a)     The face on the wall b) Song of the Bat       c) Willow and Leather  d) A Spark from a Flint

5. Who declared Lucas's essays "among the most agreeable of our age"

a)     Frank Swinnerton  b) Charles lamb          c) Henry Herbert             d) Bernard Batron

6. Lucas play The Visit of the King was produced at the ________ in 1912,

a)     Globe Theatre b)  Palace Theatre             c)  Black Friar theatre     d) Lotus Theatre

7. E.V. Lucas study of Highways and Byways in Sussex continues to influence postmodern explorations of the _____.

a)       Royal                       b) Kings                   c)  Local                           d) Middle class

8. From 1933 until his death he was a member of the _________ Advisory Committee

a)       Kings Lands            b)  Queens Lands      c) Swards Lands              d) Crown Lands

9. Before the First World War Lucas was for a while interested in the ­­­________ .

a)     Theatre                    b)  Prose                    c) Poetry                          d) Fiction

10. At the age of seventy Lucas died in a nursing home in _________ London

a)     Eltham                      b) Marylebone           c) Sussex                         d) Statford

11. “It requires a sense of superiority, assurance and ___________ to write about bores at all

a)     Selflessness           b)self Motive                c) self confidence           d) selfishness

12. _________ is a bore’s foundation stone

a)     Socialism              b) Humour                   c) Idealism                       d) Egotism

13. Bores come out successful in life because they find a number of ready ________.

a)     Listeners               b) Speakers                 c) Preachers                     d) lecturer

14. No one is courageous enough to tell the bores that their company is _________.

a)     Friendly               b) tedious                     c) familiar                        d) gifted

15. Buttonholing bore is ‘the man who spreads ________ all over you’.

a)      Rejoices            b)  Sticky                       c)  birdlime                      d) Aroma

16. Lucas father used to say “__________”.

a)      Do or die          b) fair is foul                  c)  to be or not to be         d) Live and let live

17. The only way to get rid of a bore is to tell him frankly that he is a _________.

a)     Nuisance           b) Good companion       c) Fellow traveler            d) Savior

18. ________ cannot be shaken off just by gestures or indirect hints

a)     Preacher            b)  Bores                        c) Lucas                           d) A fellow traveler

19. Unless these weekly papers stop publication, bores are bound to___________.

a)     Fade                 b)  demolish                    c) flourish                       d) cherish

20. Few men are strong enough to say, ‘For Heaven’s sake, go away, you _________ me.’

a)      Cheat              b)   love                           c)    trust                          d) weary

21. Bores thrive because of people’s ____________.

a. astuteness      b. eccentricity       c. cunningness           d. cowardice

22. E.V.Lucas often contributed articles to a journal called ____________.

a. Tatler               b. Spectator               c. Punch        d. The Hindu

23. The essay “Bores” is taken from the collection titled _____________.

a. Listener’s Lure     b. Cricket all his Life      c. Events and Embroideries       d. all the above

24. Bores are always known for their _______________.

a. cowardice            b. indolence         c. egotism             d. ingeniousness

25. The one who has a fixed idea to impart is called a ___________.

a. flatterer          b. philanthropic          c. idiosyncratic    d. bore

26. A true bore is one who is always unconscious of his _________________

a. foolishness                           b. borishness        c. prudishness                          d. none of the above

27. According to Lucas, _____________ people are seldom bores.

a. busy                                   b. simple                    c.kind                         d. poor

28. The saying ‘live and let live’ is attributed to the writer _____________.

a. Schiller             b. Immanuel Kant             c. William Henley            d. Father Newman

29. The most repellent specimen of all the bores is called a ___________ bore

a. blissful         b. eccentric            c. buttonholing               d. notorious

30. Bores thrive because of people’s ____________.

a.      astuteness      b. eccentricity       c. cunningness           d. cowardice

31. A true bore is one who is always unconscious of his _________________

a. foolishness                           b. borishness        c.prudishness                           d. silliness

32._______a word used by the Gileadites as atest to detect the fleeing Ephraimites.                                

a. Bores  b. Shibboleth  c. button-holding  d. stigma

33. The word “axle-tree” means _______

a. rod  b. stick  c. coat  d. carriage