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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) , Bachelor of Commerce (B Com) , Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 101. |
Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in upkeep as a -------------- |
| A. | Rolls- Royce |
| B. | Linea |
| C. | Limousine |
| D. | Chevorlet |
| Answer» A. Rolls- Royce | |
| 102. |
What are the reasons for the growth and expansion of beauty industry? |
| A. | Wealth |
| B. | Freedom of women |
| C. | Awareness to express their rights |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 103. |
For real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the ------------ self. |
| A. | Outer |
| B. | Physical |
| C. | Environmental |
| D. | Spiritual |
| Answer» A. Outer | |
| 104. |
Psychological ugliness according to Huxley is --------------- |
| A. | Stupidity |
| B. | Unawareness |
| C. | Greed |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 105. |
What do we find on the faces of those who are trying to have a continuous “good time”? |
| A. | Beauty |
| B. | A bored sullenness |
| C. | Ugliness |
| D. | Determination |
| Answer» B. A bored sullenness | |
| 106. |
What is the result of over-painting? |
| A. | Disharmony |
| B. | Ugliness |
| C. | Sullenness |
| D. | Cease to look human |
| Answer» D. Cease to look human | |
| 107. |
“One Day I Wrote Her Name” is a -------------- |
| A. | Elegy |
| B. | Sonnet |
| C. | Narrative |
| D. | Ballad |
| Answer» B. Sonnet | |
| 108. |
“The Faerie Queene” is a famous work by ----------- |
| A. | H. W. Longfellow |
| B. | Sylvia Plath |
| C. | Edmund Spenser |
| D. | Shakespeare |
| Answer» C. Edmund Spenser | |
| 109. |
Spenser married ------------------ |
| A. | Elizabeth Barret Browing |
| B. | Elizabeth Boyle |
| C. | Eliza Doolittle |
| D. | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Answer» B. Elizabeth Boyle | |
| 110. |
--------------- celebrates courtship of Spenser and Elizabeth Boyle |
| A. | The Shephearde’s Calender |
| B. | The Faerie Queen |
| C. | The Epithalamion |
| D. | Amoretti |
| Answer» D. Amoretti | |
| 111. |
“The Epithalamion” celebrates Spenser’s ------------------- |
| A. | Marriage |
| B. | Birth |
| C. | Love affair |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Marriage | |
| 112. |
What is a quatrain? |
| A. | 6 line |
| B. | 8 lines |
| C. | 4 lines |
| D. | 12 lines |
| Answer» C. 4 lines | |
| 113. |
What did the waves do when the lover wrote his beloved’s name upon the strand? |
| A. | The waves rose high |
| B. | The waves washed the words away |
| C. | The waves receded |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. The waves washed the words away | |
| 114. |
Who is called the ‘vain man’? |
| A. | The shepherd |
| B. | Amoretti |
| C. | Spenser/ lover |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Spenser/ lover | |
| 115. |
Where, when as death shall all the world subdue Our love shall live, and later life renew” Whose lines are these? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Keats |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | Spenser |
| Answer» D. Spenser | |
| 116. |
The technical name for comparison of one item to the other using words of comparison like then, like etc. is- |
| A. | Metaphor |
| B. | Simile |
| C. | Symbol |
| D. | Imagery |
| Answer» B. Simile | |
| 117. |
“The song of Hiawatha” is written by - |
| A. | William Wordsworth |
| B. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| C. | William Shakespeare |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| 118. |
‘The slave’s Dream’ describes- |
| A. | The happy life of a slave |
| B. | The end of slavery |
| C. | The dying moment of a black slave |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. The dying moment of a black slave | |
| 119. |
Through the poem ‘The Slave’s Dream’, the poet celebrates ---------------- |
| A. | Slavery |
| B. | The plight of slaves |
| C. | Death of a slave |
| D. | Liberty and dignity |
| Answer» D. Liberty and dignity | |
| 120. |
“Beneath the palm trees on the plain Once more a king he strode”. Who is the king here? |
| A. | The land owner |
| B. | The poet |
| C. | The slave |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. The slave | |
| 121. |
What does the slave dream of? |
| A. | His family |
| B. | His homeland |
| C. | The river Niger |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 122. |
“And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums, Through the triumph of his dream”. What is the triumph? |
| A. | His dream of homeland |
| B. | His dream of flamingoes |
| C. | His dream of family |
| D. | His dream of liberty |
| Answer» D. His dream of liberty | |
| 123. |
“He did not feel the drivers whip”. Why? |
| A. | He was asleep |
| B. | He was unconscious |
| C. | He was dreaming |
| D. | He was dead |
| Answer» D. He was dead | |
| 124. |
What had illumined the land of sleep? |
| A. | The dream |
| B. | Death |
| C. | The whipping |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Death | |
| 125. |
‘The Walrus and the Carpenter” is a poem recited by ----------------- |
| A. | Walru |
| B. | Carpenter |
| C. | Alice |
| D. | Tweedledum andTweedledee |
| Answer» D. Tweedledum andTweedledee | |
| 126. |
Stories in which animals are characters who speak like human beings are called ---------- |
| A. | Folk tale |
| B. | Ballad |
| C. | Fable |
| D. | Legend |
| Answer» C. Fable | |
| 127. |
A fat animal with tusks found in the sea is --------------- |
| A. | Elephant |
| B. | Sea-horse |
| C. | Oysters |
| D. | Walrus |
| Answer» D. Walrus | |
| 128. |
Where do the Walrus and the Carpenter go for a walk? |
| A. | Garden |
| B. | Briny Beach |
| C. | Hillside |
| D. | Park |
| Answer» B. Briny Beach | |
| 129. |
Why was it odd that the sun was shining with all his might? |
| A. | It was midnight |
| B. | It was twilight |
| C. | It was morning |
| D. | It was noon |
| Answer» A. It was midnight | |
| 130. |
Why did the Walrus and the Carpenter cry? |
| A. | The sea was wet |
| B. | The sand was dry |
| C. | To see such quantities of sand |
| D. | The moon was sulking |
| Answer» C. To see such quantities of sand | |
| 131. |
How many maids were to be employed to clear the sand? |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 7 |
| C. | 9 |
| D. | 11 |
| Answer» B. 7 | |
| 132. |
Who was easily attracted by the words of the Walrus and the Carpenter? |
| A. | The old oyster |
| B. | Alice |
| C. | The young oysters |
| D. | Tweedledom and tweedledee |
| Answer» C. The young oysters | |
| 133. |
What were the topics to be discussed amongst the Walrus, Carpenter and Oysters? |
| A. | Of shoe |
| B. | Of ships |
| C. | Sealing wax |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 134. |
“But not on us!” Whose cry is it? |
| A. | The Walru |
| B. | The oysters |
| C. | The Carpenters |
| D. | Alice |
| Answer» B. The oysters | |
| 135. |
“Shall we be trotting home again? But answer came there none.” Why? |
| A. | The oysters had gone home |
| B. | The oysters did not leave their bed |
| C. | The oysters were all eaten up |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. The oysters were all eaten up | |
| 136. |
“I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions”. Whose words are these? |
| A. | Sylvia Plath |
| B. | The mother |
| C. | The young woman |
| D. | The mirror |
| Answer» D. The mirror | |
| 137. |
“In me she has drowned a young girl and in me an old woman rises towards her”. What does this suggest? |
| A. | Youth |
| B. | Coming of old age |
| C. | Death |
| D. | Birth |
| Answer» B. Coming of old age | |
| 138. |
The poet calls the moon and the candles ------------ |
| A. | Good angle |
| B. | Illuminators |
| C. | Liars |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Liars | |
| 139. |
Who is like a word dropped from a long sentence? |
| A. | Dilip Chitre |
| B. | The father |
| C. | Tukaram |
| D. | Grandchildren |
| Answer» B. The father | |
| 140. |
Weak tea, stale chappathi etc. represent ------------- |
| A. | Youthfulnes |
| B. | Selfishness |
| C. | Plight of old age |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Plight of old age | |
| 141. |
What does the father contemplate? |
| A. | About the train |
| B. | About his children |
| C. | About music |
| D. | About man’s estrangement |
| Answer» D. About man’s estrangement | |
| 142. |
What does the father’s dream suggest? |
| A. | Happy day |
| B. | Ancient grandeur |
| C. | Rootlessness of modern man |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Rootlessness of modern man | |
| 143. |
Dilip Chitre portrays Father in a -------------- way |
| A. | Seriou |
| B. | Comic |
| C. | Tragic |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 144. |
Who is the speaker in the poem Poor Girl? |
| A. | An old woman |
| B. | A poor woman |
| C. | A young girl |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. A poor woman | |
| 145. |
Which line is the refrain in Maya Angelou’s poem? |
| A. | Poor Girl/ Just like me |
| B. | Then she’ll begin/ to sing this song |
| C. | You’ve got another love/ and I know it |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Poor Girl/ Just like me | |
| 146. |
What is the significance of the word ‘poor’ in Angelou’s poem? |
| A. | It means the girl has no money |
| B. | It tells us about her background |
| C. | She is going to be cheated and she does not know that |
| D. | She does not know her future |
| Answer» C. She is going to be cheated and she does not know that | |
| 147. |
The theme of the poem ‘Poor Girl’ is ----------- |
| A. | Being deceived in love |
| B. | Disillusionment |
| C. | Repeated experience of girls |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 148. |
“--------------- is what I call happiness”. |
| A. | Affection |
| B. | Prayer mats |
| C. | Aloneness |
| D. | Music of sparrows |
| Answer» C. Aloneness | |
| 149. |
What is freedom according to Assadi? |
| A. | Being in a cage |
| B. | Picking flowers |
| C. | Short walk in the garden of memories |
| D. | Roads |
| Answer» C. Short walk in the garden of memories | |
| 150. |
How does Mina Assadi realize her smallness? |
| A. | Comparing herself to the sea |
| B. | Thinking of being in a cage |
| C. | Wearing a ring |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Comparing herself to the sea | |
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