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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