Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
Course Code: U22EG102
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
of the Above
8. Why does Lynd wake out of dream at
night and breaks into a sweat of fear?
(a) bad
dreams (b)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) uninteresting
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)
irritation (b) ignorance (c) 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
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