Wednesday, October 2, 2024

I BA English / Prose 1 /Charles Lamb’s "Oxford in the Vacation"

 

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

 

Charles Lamb’s "Oxford in the Vacation"

1. Who is Elia?

a)      Pen name of Charles Lamb                b) Pen name of George Dyer             

c) Pen name of 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.  Lamb has spent __________ years working as a clerk in the East India House

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

4. Lamb is 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 have published ____________

a)      Tales from Shakespeare          b)   Tales from Bible 

c) Tale of Two cities                           d) Tale of Canterbury.

6. Charles Lamb 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. Elia tried to amuse the readers 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. Elia 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 is inhaling learning while in them

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

15. Dyer was busy with ______ manuscript at Oriel College.

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. Whose picture was hung in his uneasy posture?

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 the garden            b) In old library       c) In new library          d) In Oxford campus

21. What is “quis sculpsit”?

a) Who was the engraver? a) Who was the painter? a) Who was the singer? a) Who was the writer?

22. Who is Bartholomew?

a) Apostles of Jesus b) Scholar in Oxford c) Professor in Oxford d) Elia

23. Who is Spagnoletti?

a) Spanish artist b) Elia c) A famous cook d) Apollo

24. Who is Marsyas?

a) Musician b) Lamb c) Player d) A student from Oxford.

25. Who challenged Apollo to a contest of music?

a) Simper b) Marsyas c) Timeous d) David

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