MY ACADEMIC ENDEAVOUR...!: I BA English - Prose - I Multiple Choice Questions I Bacon’s “Of Studies”, Charles Lamb’s “Oxford in the Vacation” and J.B. Priestley’s “Lectures” 2022

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Bacon’s “Of Studies”

1. According to Bacon, the chief use of study is:

(a) Ability (b) Ornament (c) Delight (d) Adornment

2. To Bacon to spend too much time in studies is:

(a) Affection (b) Affectation (c) Studious (d) Sloth

3. For abilities which are natural is like natural plants that need _________

(a) pruning by study (b) sunlight (c) air (d) water

4. According to Bacon, who condemns studies?

a. crafty men b. simple men c. wise men d. ready men

5. ___________ maketh a full man

(a) speaking (b) reading (c) writing (d) listening

6. History makes men wise; poets witty; mathematics subtle and natural philosophy _____

(a) shallow (b) deep (c) intense (d) low

7. The exercise bowling is good for ______ and reins

(a) rock (b) sand (c) stone (d) none of the above

8.A man who studies a lot is temperamentally ___________

(a)active (b) inactive (c) smart (d) lazy

9.Studies develop the man’s natural ____________

(a) ability (b) inability (c) value (d) none of the above

10.Different kinds of ________ have different effects upon the reader.

(a) books (b) compact discs (c) equipments (d) none of the above

11.Experience is essential to add to the value of __________

(a)land (b) gold (c) building (d) studies

12. The study of logic and rhetoric develop a man’s

(a) muscles (b) intelligence (c) debating power (d) none of the above

13. Planning and Management of affairs are expected only from persons

(a) who seldom reads (b) who debate often (c) who reads a lot (d) none of the above

14. Some Books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and

(a) spitted (b) vomited (c) digested (d) none of the above

15. One should not read books merely to contradict others but to

(a) judge the cost of the book (b) judge the number of pages in the book (c) judge the value of the material the book contains (d) judge the time taken to make us sleepy

16. Simple men admire studies and wise men ______ them

(a) use (b) misuse (c) lecture (d) none of the above

17. Bacon’s style is known for:

(a) pathos (b) humour

18. According to Bacon what maketh an exact man?

(a) sleeping (b) eating

19. Bacon suggests that if a man’s wit be wandering let him study:

(a) Mathematics (b) History

20. According to Bacon what makes men wise?

(A) Physics (B) Mathematics

21. According to Bacon gentle walking is good for

(a) eyes (b) stomach

22. According to Bacon philosophy makes men:

(a) wise (b) witty(c) subtle (d) grave

23. Bacon suggests that the general counsels come best from those that are :

a. Experienced b. Professionals c. Learned d. Businessmen

24. To use studies too much for Ornament is _______

a. affection b. affectation c. adornment d. none

25. To Bacon one must read to :

a. weigh and consider b. contradict and confute c. talk and discourse d. take for granted

Charles Lamb’s “Oxford in the Vacation”

1. Who is Elia?

a) Charles Lamb b) George Dyer c) 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. He spent __________ years working as a clerk in the East India House

a) 43 b) 23 c) 33 d) 13

4. Lamb was 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 was published ____________

a) Tale from Shakespeare b) Tale from The Bible c) Tale of Two Cities d) Tale of Canterbury.

6. Charles 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. He tried to amuse the reader 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. He 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 inhaling learning while in them

a) Lamb b) Dyer c) Some Menials d) Mary

15. Dyer was busy with ______ manuscript at Oriel

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. Who hung in his uneasy posture in the old Baskett prayer book?

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 oxford b) In old library c) In new library d) In Oxford

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) giving money

3. Priestley is greatly in demand as a lecturer.

a) true b) false

c) not much d) may be

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

6. According to Priestley to-er-is human, to ________ divine

(a) refuse (b) forgive

7. According to Priestley a successful lecturer takes a delight in his ________

(a) voice (b) audience

8. When he gives a lecture, Priestley ______ the town, the hall, the audience and himself.

(a) adores (b) loves

9. What does Priestley say about his audience?

(a) dreary people (b) malicious people

10. If Priestley went on an American tour there would be men waiting with_____ outside the hall.

(a) garlands (b) cash prize

11. When Priestley writes, he feels that he is addressing a company of ____________ persons

(a) bored persons (b) pleasant persons

12. Priestley has probably ______________ a hundred readers every time he gives a lecture

(a) gained (b) lost

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

14. According to Priestley what is more foolish than going to hear a lecture?

(a) learning from a lecture (b) 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