English Prose (Multiple Choice Questions)

Paper XII B: English Prose

Section A: Multiple choice:

Choose the correct one from the following

1. Who said “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”?

a) John Milton ( )

b) Francis Bacon ( )

c) L.A Hill ( )

d) Seathl ( )

2. Expert men can____

a) Execute ( )

b) Confute ( )

c) Studies ( )

d) Judge ( )

3. They ____nature and are perfected by nature.

a) Studies ( )

b) Perfect ( )

c) Plants ( )

d) Bounded ( )

4. Who condemn studies?

a) Simple men ( )

b) Crafty men ( )

c) Swallowed men ( )

d) Common men ( )

e) Counsels ( )

5. Who admire studies ?

a) Crafty men ( )

b) Common men ( )

c) Wise men ( )

d) Simple men ( )

6. Who utilise studies?

a) Wise men ( )

b) Judge ( )

c) Marshalling ( )

d) Scholar ( )

7. What according to Bacon is right studies?

a) To weigh and consider ( )

b) To take measure ( )

c) To contradict and make decision ( )

d) To teach and consider ( )

8. What types of books are to be taste?

a) Some books ( )

b) Good books ( )

c) Few books ( )

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d) Other books ( )

9. What kind of books can be read with diligence and attention?

a) Some few ( )

b) Some books ( )

c) Good books ( )

d) Common books ( )

10. One function of reading according Bacon is

a) Teach ( )

b) A full man ( )

c) Exact man ( )

d) Ability ( )

11. Francis Bacon was born in

a) 1561 ( )

b) 1562 ( )

c) 1563 ( )

d) 1564 ( )

12. One important function of history according to Bacon is to make

a) Man wise ( )

b) Moral grave ( )

c) Man wit ( )

d) Wisdom ( )

13. One important result of bowling according Bacon is

a) For the stone and reins ( )

b) For the brain and legs ( )

c) For the stomach and lungs ( )

d) For improving knowledge ( )

14. Abeuntstudia in mores means

a) Studies help to form character ( )

b) Men can live without studies ( )

c) Studies make man wise ( )

d) Studies with great attention ( )

15. Cymini sector means

1) Different people ( )

2) Hair splitters ( )

3) A ready men ( )

4) Special receipt ( )

16. ‘If a man write little, he has need have a great

a) Mind ( )

b) Memory ( )

c) Thought ( )

d) Studies ( )

17. One important function of poet is

a) Witty ( )

b) Knowledge ( )

c) Subtle ( )

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d) Grave

18. If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study

a) Poetry ( )

b) Mathematics ( )

c) Philosophy ( )

d) Law ( )

19. Full name of LA Hill was

a) Louise Alexander Hill ( )

b) Lisa Adam Hill ( )

c) Leslie Alexander Hill ( )

d) Leslie Adam Hill ( )

20. LA Hill was born in in the year

a) 1918 ( )

b) 1919 ( )

c) 1920 ( )

d) 1921 ( )

21. According to LA Hill, the first thing to write clearly and logically is

a) Think clearly and logically ( )

b) Think systematically and properly ( )

c) Think spontaneously ( )

d) Apply fresh ideas ( )

22. What according to LA Hill is limited to what is possible?

a) Problem ( )

b) Possible ( )

c) Freedom ( )

d) Difficulties ( )

23. In order to increase vocabulary and improve powers of expression, one should read

a) Some section of books ( )

b) Widely and carefully ( )

c) The whole book ( )

d) All the books ( )

24. Two essential thing if we are to learn to write well are

a) Regular and frequent practice ( )

b) Use of book and material ( )

c) Presentation and regular reading ( )

d) Use of dictionary and note book ( )

25. One rare thing among the most famous writer is

a) Use of words ( )

b) Regularity ( )

c) Note books ( )

d) Inspiration ( )

26. How many per cent of inspiration in writing?

a) One ( )

b) Two ( )

c) Three ( )

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d) Four ( )

27. Sources of ideas for articles, essays or short stories according to LA Hill

a) Human joy and human tragedy ( )

b) Careful reading and magazine ( )

c) Personal experience and information ( )

d) Making preparation and inspiration ( )

28. To put down things that you notice, or ideas that come to you when you are out walking.

a) Keep a note book ( )

b) Keep a newspaper ( )

c) Carry books all the time ( )

d) Remember those things ( )

29. Unless they get write these ideas at once, they often

a) Partial in knowledge ( )

b) Not familiar ( )

c) Forget ( )

d) Confuse ( )

30. To be a successful writer, you must write

a) Interestingly ( )

b) Carefully ( )

c) Thoroughly ( )

d) Systematically ( )

31. According to LA Hill, most people are interest in the

a) Past ( )

b) Present ( )

c) Future ( )

d) Suffering of people ( )

32. As much as possible, choose the subject of which you have

a) Personal experience ( )

b) Other experience ( )

c) Suffering of other ( )

d) Put down things ( )

33. What is important in good writing?

a) Interested ( )

b) Presentation ( )

c) Understanding ( )

d) Argument ( )

34. Last paragraph of writing according to LA Hill should bring

a) Satisfying end ( )

b) Happy ending ( )

c) Arousing pity ( )

d) Good result ( )

35. To write interestingly, you must yourself be intensely interested in what

a) People are doing ( )

b) You are writing ( )

c) They are writing ( )

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d) You feel strong ( )

36. ‘People are very interested in problems which they too face or which they may easily have to

face in the near future’

a) False ( )

b) True ( )

c) For material ( )

d) None above ( )

37. Forget about yourself, think only of the reader and write naturally, avoiding

a) Consciousness ( )

b) Self-consciousness ( )

c) Prognosis of other ( )

d) None above ( )

38. Who said this “clean, plain English is the fashion these days and elaborate, decorated style is

quite out of date”

a) Bacon ( )

b) LA Hill ( )

c) Shakespeare ( )

d) Dryden ( )

e) Goldsmith ( )

39. It is best to write simply and in a

a) Conventional tone ( )

b) Vivid manner ( )

c) Traditional tone ( )

d) Systematic manner ( )

40. Use of good dictionary to help you with the exact

a) The exact meanings and uses of words ( )

b) The exact meanings ( )

c) The exact meaning and aspect of words ( )

d) None above ( )

41. Cult of Cosiness means

a) Pretence that everything is all right when it is not ( )

b) Simple and conventional ( )

c) Great importance ( )

d) Prefer the concrete ( )

42. Euphemism for torture and murder of the most savage kinds was

a) Napoleon ( )

b) Hitler ( )

c) Khomeini ( )

d) Adam ( )

43. David Copperfield was written by ( )

a) Charles Dicken ( )

b) Malala ( )

c) Hitler ( )

d) GB Shaw ( )

44. GB Shaw was born in the year

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a) 1853 ( )

b) 1854 ( )

c) 1855 ( )

d) 1856 ( )

45. Who said ‘You should write about Christmas when people are making preparations for this

festival and about summer holidays when the summer is approaching’

a) Bacon ( )

b) LA Hill ( )

c) Goldsmith ( )

d) Seathl ( )

46. The essay ‘Miseries of the rich’ is taken out from the book

a) Too to be Good ( )

b) Too to be friend ( )

c) Friend of the people ( )

d) Good citizens ( )

47. Why GB Shaw didnot buy any of the luxuries in the London shops?

a) He had no money ( )

b) He had no intention to buy ( )

c) He never think about luxuries ( )

d) He made a single purchase ( )

48. Lancashire factory and Blackpool appeared in the essay

a) Principle of Good writing ( )

b) Of studies ( )

c) Miseries of the rich ( )

d) Shakespeare and others ( )

49. Who said ‘You may say I am an exceptional man’

a) GB Shaw ( )

b) Francis bacon ( )

c) Robert Lynd ( )

d) William Slim ( )

50. Where did Florence Nightingale fled from London?

a) South Pole ( )

b) South Alps ( )

c) Crimean Hospital ( )

d) Wales Hospital ( )

51. But, the new thing is riches detached from the real

a) Property ( )

b) Thing ( )

c) Tradition ( )

d) Society ( )

52. Who coined the term “Liberty: thou choicest treasure”

a) Francis bacon ( )

b) Robert Lynd ( )

c) GB Shaw ( )

d) William Slim ( )

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53. Blackpool means

a) Swimming pool ( )

b) Name of street ( )

c) Seaside resort and town ( )

d) Pool without decoration ( )

54. “if you indulge in such a luxury as a clerical spiritual adviser, it is his duty to tell you that the

matter with you is that you are an idle useless glutton and drunkard and that you are going to

hell”. Who authored these lines?

a) Francis bacon ( )

b) Robert Lynd ( )

c) GB Shaw ( )

d) William Slim ( )

55. Who wrote “The Simple Philosophy” ?

a) Seathl ( )

b) Robert Lynd ( )

c) GB Shaw ( )

d) William Slim ( )

56. Identify the wrong statement with regard toA simple philosophy

a) The Great Chief in Washington sends a word that he wishes to buy our land ( )

b) The Great Chief also sends us words of friendship and good will. ( )

c) How can you buy or sell the sky-the warmth of the land? ( )

d) There is quite place in the white man’s cities. ( )

57. When did Red Indian Chief of Seathl sent a letter to the President of America?

a) 1852 ( )

b) 1853 ( )

c) 1854 ( )

d) 1855 ( )

58. Name of the President of America when Chief Seathl sent a letter

a) Franklin Pierce ( )

b) Millard Fillmore ( )

c) Abraham Lincoln ( )

d) James Buchanan ( )

59. Who said “My words are like the stars, they do not set”

a) Chief Seathl ( )

b) Millard Fillmore ( )

c) Abraham Lincoln ( )

d) James Buchanan ( )

60. Which of the word is correct regarding the white man does not understand the problem of red

Indian?

a) Ways ( )

b) Idea ( )

c) Address ( )

d) Belongings ( )

61. Who said “He kidnaps the earth from his children, He does not care”?

a) Chief Seathl ( )

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b) Millard Fillmore ( )

c) Abraham Lincoln ( )

d) James Buchanan ( )

62. Identify incorrect statement from the following

a) The air is precious to the redman ( )

b) The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes ( )

c) Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the smell ( )

d) The white man must not trust the beasts of this land as his brother ( )

63. One thing we know which the white man may discover one day

a) Our God is the same God ( )

b) Our God may not be same ( )

c) Our God is kind to all ( )

d) Our God is refuge ( )

64. And to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its

a) Mother ( )

b) Father ( )

c) Creator ( )

d) Abode ( )

65. Choose correct sentence from the following

a) The white man’s dream are hidden from us ( )

b) Care for it as we have not cared for it ( )

c) Our warrior have not felt shame ( )

d) Our children have not seen their father humbled in defeat ( )

66. Who said this “I am a savage and do not understand any other way”

a) Red Indian ( )

b) White man ( )

c) Seathl ( )

d) President ( )

67. What would happen if all the beasts were gone?

a) Men would die from great loneliness of spirit ( )

b) Men would no more ( )

c) Men would be there and will not happy at all ( )

d) Thing would be changed dramatically ( )

68. The impact of befalls the earth will be

a) Be falls the sons of the earth ( )

b) Be falls the earth of people ( )

c) Be falls the people ( )

d) Red man did not understand ( )

69. The result of to harm the earth is

a) To abuse the creator ( )

b) To heap contempt of its Creator ( )

c) To crush the earth ( )

d) To neglect the creator ( )

70. What according to Seathl will be the result of contaminate your bed?

a) You will one night suffocate in your own waste ( )

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b) You will be no more in the bed ( )

c) You will not happy any more ( )

d) You will change your bed ( )

71. Where is the white man dream?

a) It was vanished ( )

b) Hidden from us ( )

c) They never have dream ( )

d) Dream of great land ( )

72. What will be the memory when the last redman has vanished from the earth?

a) Only a shadow of a clouds moving across the prairie ( )

b) They will be no more in the world ( )

c) They will remember the earth ( )

d) The earth is precious to them ( )

73. What is the wish of the Chief Seathl to the white man for caring the land?

a) Care it the land ( )

b) Care it nicely ( )

c) Care for it as we have cared for it ( )

d) The land is precious for us ( )

74. ‘Simple philosophy’ talks about

a) Value of nature ( )

b) Philosophy of universe ( )

c) Animal ( )

d) Global village ( )

75. ‘Shakespeare and other’ is written by ( )

a) CEMJoad ( )

b) John Dryden ( )

c) GB Shaw ( )

d) Mathew Arnold ( )

76. Who was the man of all modern and ancient poet, the largest and most comprehensive soul?

a) Mathew Arnold ( )

b) Plato ( )

c) Aristotle ( )

d) William Shakespeare ( )

77. To whom all the images of nature were presented?

a) John Dryden ( )

b) William Shakespeare ( )

c) Ben Johnson ( )

d) Milton ( )

78. Who, according to Dryden will be the man who is always great, when some great occasion is

presented to him?

a) Plato ( )

b) William Shakespeare ( )

c) Seathl ( )

d) Virgil ( )

79. Who wrote ‘Every man in his humour?

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a) Fletcher ( )

b) Shakespeare ( )

c) Ben Johnson ( )

d) Beaumont ( )

80. One important specialization of Ben Johnson was

a) Humour ( )

b) Lucidity ( )

c) Clarity ( )

d) Cynicism ( )

81. Choose correct sentence from the essay ‘Shakespeare and others;

a) Shakespeare language is likewise a little obsolete ( )

b) Shakespeare language is the greatest ( )

c) Stress was given on the people ( )

d) His wit never appear ( )

82. ‘Dramatic Poesie’ was the product of

a) Shakespeare ( )

b) Plato ( )

c) Dryden ( )

d) Ben Johson ( )

83. Mr. Hales of Eton was

a) Virgil ( )

b) John Hales ( )

c) Abraham Hales ( )

d) John Hales ( )

84. Who was the Homer?

a) Shakespeare ( )

b) Plato ( )

c) Ben Johnson ( )

d) Sejanus ( )

85. Who was the Virgil ?

a) Shakespeare ( )

b) Ben Johnson ( )

c) Catiline ( )

d) Sejanus ( )

86. Who according to Dryden has given us the more correct play?

a) Aristotle ( )

b) Shakespeare ( )

c) Ben Johnson ( )

d) Catiline ( )

87. Eighteen wet week end in London between the beginning of

a) January and the end of May ( )

b) January and the end of June ( )

c) January and the end of July ( )

d) January and the end of August ( )

88. The Weather: An Explanation was written by

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