Wednesday, November 9, 2022

I BA English MCQs - Robert Lynd’s “In Praise of Mistakes”

 

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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