Department of English
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
I BA English - Prose - I
Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
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) none
3. Priestley is greatly in demand as a lecturer.
a) true b) false
c) not
much d) none
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
(c) will
not
care (d) rest
6. According to Priestley To-er-is
human, to ________ divine
(a) refuse (b) forgive
(c) forget (d) none
7. According to Priestley a successful lecturer takes a delight in
his ________
(a) voice (b) audience
(c) mannerisms (d) dress
8. When he gives a lecture, Priestley ______ the town, the hall,
the audience and himself.
(a) adores (b) loves
(c) despises (d) likes
9. What does Priestley say about his audience?
(a) dreary
people (b) malicious
people
(c) snarling
pedants (d) all
the above
10. If Priestley went on an American tour there would be men
waiting with_____ outside the hall.
(a) garlands (b) cash
prize
(c) guns (d) none
11. WhenPriestley writes, he feels that he is addressing a company of
____________ persons
(a) bored
persons (b) pleasant
persons
(c) pedants (d) none
12. Priestley has probably ______________ a hundred readers every time
he gives a lecture
(a) gained (b) lost
(c) added (d) none
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
(c) Gargantua (d) None
14. 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
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
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