UNIT III J.B.Priestley : Lectures
UNIT IV E.V. Lucas : Bores
Robert Lynd : In Praise of Mistakes
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
E.V. Lucas’s “Bores”
1. E.V. Lucas was commissioned to write a biography of ________ the
Quaker poet.
a)
Bernard Barton, b) G.B. Shaw c) Charles Lamb d) Mary Lamb
2. In 1889 Lucas joined the staff of the__________.
a)
Wessex Daily News b) Sussex Daily News c) Punch d) Methuen & Co
3. In 1924 Lucas was appointed as the chairman of __________
Company.
a)
Sussex Daily News b) London Magazine c) Methuen
& Co d) Punch
4. Lucas first volume of poetry is ____________
a)
The face on the wall b) Song of the Bat c) Willow and Leather d) A
Spark from a Flint
5. Who declared Lucas's essays "among the most agreeable of
our age"
a)
Frank Swinnerton b) Charles lamb c) Henry Herbert d) Bernard Batron
6. Lucas play The Visit of the King was produced at the
________ in 1912,
a)
Globe Theatre b) Palace Theatre c)
Black Friar theatre d) Lotus
Theatre
7. E.V. Lucas study of Highways and Byways in Sussex continues
to influence postmodern explorations of the _____.
a)
Royal b) Kings c) Local d) Middle class
8. From 1933 until his death he was a member of the _________
Advisory Committee
a)
Kings Lands b)
Queens Lands c) Swards
Lands d) Crown Lands
9. Before the First World War Lucas was for a while interested in
the ________ .
a)
Theatre b) Prose c) Poetry d) Fiction
10. At the age of seventy Lucas died in a nursing home in _________
London
a)
Eltham b) Marylebone c)
Sussex d) Stratford
11. “It requires a sense of superiority, assurance and ___________
to write about bores at all
a)Selflessness b)self-Motive c) self-confidence d)
selfishness
12. _________ is a bore’s foundation stone
a)
Socialism b)
Humour c) Idealism d) Egotism
13. Bores come out successful in life because they find a number of
ready ________.
a)
Listeners b) Speakers c) Preachers d) lecturer
14. No one is courageous enough to tell the bores that their
company is _________.
a)
Friendly b) tedious c) familiar d) gifted
15. Buttonholing bore is ‘the man who spreads ________ all over
you’.
a)
Rejoices b)
Sticky
c) birdlime
d) Aroma
16. Lucas father used to say “__________”.
a)
Do or die b) fair is foul c) to be or not to be d) Live and let live
17. The only way to get rid of a bore is to tell him frankly that
he is a _________.
a)
Nuisance b) Good companion c) Fellow traveler d) Savior
18. ________ cannot be shaken off just by gestures or indirect
hints
a)
Preacher b) Bores c) Lucas d) A fellow traveler
19. Unless these weekly papers stop publication, bores are bound
to___________.
a)
Fade b) demolish c) flourish
d) cherish
20. Few men are strong enough to say, ‘For Heaven’s sake, go away,
you _________ me.’
a)
Cheat b) love c) trust
d) weary
21. Bores thrive because of people’s ____________.
a. astuteness b.
eccentricity c. cunningness d. cowardice
22. E.V.Lucas often contributed articles to a journal called
____________.
a. Tatler b.
Spectator c. Punch d. The Hindu
23. The essay “Bores” is taken from the collection titled
_____________.
a. Listener’s Lure b. Cricket
all his Life c. Events and Embroideries d. all
the above
24. Bores are always known for their _______________.
a. cowardice
b. indolence c. egotism
d. ingeniousness
25. The one who has a fixed idea to impart is called a ___________.
a. flatterer b. philanthropic c. idiosyncratic d. bore
26. A true bore is one who is always unconscious of his
_________________
a. foolishness b. borishness c. prudishness d. none of the above
27. According to Lucas, _____________ people are seldom bores.
a. busy b.
simple c.kind d.
poor
28. The saying ‘live and let live’ is attributed to the writer
_____________.
a. Schiller b. Immanuel Kant c. William Henley d. Father Newman
29. The most repellent specimen of all the bores is called a
___________ bore
a. blissful b.
eccentric c. buttonholing d. notorious
30. Bores thrive because of people’s ____________.
a.
astuteness b. eccentricity c. cunningness d. cowardice
31. A true bore is one who is always unconscious of his
_________________
a. foolishness b. borishness c.prudishness d. silliness
32. _______ is a word used by the Gileadites as atest to detect the fleeing Ephraimites.
a. Bores b. Shibboleth c. button-holding d. stigma
33. The word
“axle-tree” means _______
a. rod b. stick c. coat
d. carriage
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
8. Why does Lynd awakes out of dream at night and breaks into a
sweat of fear?
(a)
bad dreams (b) is
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) un interesting
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)an irritation (b) an ignorance (c) a
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
