Department of English
Bishop Heber College,
Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple
Choice Questions
A.G. Gardiner’s “A Fellow
Traveller”
136. “Alpha of the Plough”
is the pseudonym of ________
(a) Robert
Lynd (b) Francis
Bacon
(c) A.G Gardiner (d) J.B
Priestley
137. A.G Gardiner’s
fellow-traveller was a ________
(a) bird (b) man
(c) dog (d) mosquito
138. A.G Gardiner accused
his fellow- traveller as _________
(a) a
vagrant (b) a
public nuisance
(c) travelling
without a ticket (d) all the above
139. A.G Gardiner travelled
in a ______
(a) bicycle (b) train
(c) bus (d) none
140. A.G Gardiner and his
fellow- traveller knew about each other’s journey.
(a) true (b) false
(c) to
some extent (d) none
141. Name the writers who
continually misquoted the poets they loved.
(a) Pope
and Dryden (b) Bacon
and Lamb
(c) Hazlitt
and Swift (d) Lamb and Hazlitt
142. A.G Gardiner’s
fellow-traveller was a ________
(a) bird (b) man
(c) dog (d) mosquito
143. According to Priestley to-er-is
human, to ________ divine
(a) refuse (b) forgive
(c) forget (d) none
144. Gardiner feels
that he has interested in his fellow traveller and in return he has _________
him.
(a) insulted (b) pleased (c) entertained (d) worried
145. How does
Gardiner describe his sense of freedom?
(a) pleasant (b) uneasy (c) boring (d) none
of the above
146. How does
Gardiner describe his sense of freedom?
(a) pleasant (b) uneasy (c) boring (d) none
of the above
147. When one is
alone in the carriage what can he do?
(a) sing and dance (b) open and close
window (c) play golf and even stand on head
(d) all the above
148. How did the
author responded to the behaviour of his fellow traveller?
(a) kissed him (b) flicked
him off (c) prayed with him (d) danced and sung with him
149.How many times
the author warns his fellow traveller?
(a) dozen of times (b) a score of
time (c) twice (d) often
150. Gardiner refers
his fellow traveller as a __________
(a) genius (b) almighty (c) vagrant (d) all the above
151. After attacking
his fellow traveller with a blow what did the author do?
(a) lunged him (b) jumped on the seat
(c) adopted tactics of feline cunning (d) all
the above
152. According to
A.G. Gardiner what are the noblest
attributes of man?
(a) pride and prejudice (b) anger and rage (c)
magnanimity and mercy (d) fear and dilemma
153. Gardiner feels
that __________ has made them fellow travelers
(a) misfortune (b) fortune
(c) fate (d) all the above
154. Gardiner feels
that he cannot kill his fellow traveller but ____________ him.
(a) reprieve (b) discharge (c) dismantle (d) none of the above
155. Gardiner was
feeling ______________ to his fellow creature
(a) equal (b) inferior (c) superior (d) guilty
156. Gardiner refers
whom to have called the non-human beings a as brother?
(a) St.
Francis (b) St. Augustus (c) St. Thomas (d) none of the above
157. Gardiner feels
that he has interested in his fellow traveller and in return he has _________
him.
(a) insulted (b) pleased (c) entertained (d) worried
158. Gardiner heard
a friendly voice in the window who is it?
(a) Station master (b) engine driver (c)
guard (d) friendly porter
159. A G Gardiner fully refers as
(a) Alwin Godwin
Gardiner (b) Abel Gonsalvez Gardiner (c)
Alfred George Gardiner (d) none of
the above
150. How did the
fellow traveller behave with the author?
(a) Made a menace (b) Spoke well and behaved gently (c) Ignored the
author (d) Sang and slept
