Charles Lamb’s "Oxford in the Vacation"
1. Who is Elia?
a) Pen name of Charles Lamb
b) Pen name of George
Dyer
c) Pen name of Mary
Lamb d) Clerk
2. Who was the child of London?
a) George
Dyer b) Charles Lamb
c) Dr
Johnson
d) E.V. Lucas
3. Lamb has spent __________ years working as a clerk in the East
India House
a) 43
b) 23
c) 33
d) 13
4. Lamb is renowned for his warm sense of ________ and legendary social
gatherings
a) Tragedy
b)
Wits
c) irony
d) humour
5. In 1807, Charles Lamb and Mary Anne Lamb have published ____________
a) Tales from Shakespeare b) Tales from Bible
c) Tale of Two cities d) Tale of Canterbury.
6. Charles Lamb died in______.
a) 1833
b) 1834 c)
1835
d) 1836
7. Essays of Elia was published
in ____.
a)
1803
b) 1813
c) 1823
d) 1823
8. “Oxford in the Vacation” was first published in the London Magazine on
_______.
a) Jul
1860
b) Aug
1860
c) Sep.
1860
d) Oct. 1860
9. Oxford in the vacation is written by one who never was at _______ as
a student.
a) Oxford
b)
Cambridge
c)
Kingston
d) New college
10. Lamb used to spend his annual holidays in the ______ and other part of
the Oxford
a)
Ground
b) library
c) Dining
hall d) Campus
11. Lamb use to write under the pen-name of ______.
a)
Charles
b)
Anne
c) Elia d)
Dyer
12. Elia tried to amuse the readers with an account of a clerks working in
the_____.
a) East Sea House b) North Sea
House c) South Sea House d)
West Sea House
13. Elia used to look forward for holidays to spend times in ________ at
Oxford libraries.
a)
Sleeping
b)
Chatting
c) Surfing net d) reading
books
14. _______ feels as if he is inhaling learning while in them
a) Lamb
b)
Dyer
c) Some
Menials
d) Mary
15. Dyer was busy with ______ manuscript at Oriel College.
a) ancient
b)
modern
c) postmodern
d) new
16. Who himself look like an old book badly needing a new cover?
a) Charles Lamb b) George Dyer
c) George
Eliot
d) G.B. Shaw
17. Dyer doing research concerning the past _________ of the two
universities.
a) Civil
b) geography
c) history d)
record
18. Lamb cares more for Oxford and Cambridge than he does for fashionable
resorts as_____
a) New York b) Northampton
c)
Sussex
d) Bath
19. Whose picture was hung in his uneasy posture?
a) St. Peter
b) St.
Thomas
c) St. Mathew
d) St.Paul
20. Where “it seems as though all the souls of all the writers”?
a) In the garden
b) In old library c) In new
library d) In Oxford
campus
21. What is “quis sculpsit”?
a) Who was the engraver? a) Who was the painter? a) Who
was the singer? a) Who was the writer?
22. Who is Bartholomew?
a) Apostles of Jesus b) Scholar in Oxford c)
Professor in Oxford d) Elia
23. Who is Spagnoletti?
a) Spanish artist b) Elia c) A famous cook d)
Apollo
24. Who is Marsyas?
a) Musician b) Lamb c) Player d) A student from Oxford.
25. Who challenged Apollo to a contest of music?
a) Simper b) Marsyas c) Timeous d) David
