Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
Course Code: U22EG102
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 traveller d)
Saviour
18. ________ cannot be shaken
off just by gestures or indirect hints
a) Preacher b) Bores c)
Lucas d) A fellow traveller
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
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