Wednesday, October 28, 2020

For my I BA English students Prose 1 (2020) Unit test

 

UNIT III  J.B.Priestley : Lectures         

UNIT IV E.V. Lucas : Bores

Robert Lynd : In Praise of Mistakes

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

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)  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)  rest

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. WhenPriestley writes, he feels that 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

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

 

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) Stratford

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. _______ is 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

 

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

24. Ornithologist 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