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This section includes 1535 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Current Affairs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
301. |
Anne Frank was a victim of - |
A. | Mussolini’s despotism |
B. | Anti-Jewish laws of Nazi Germany |
C. | Second World War |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Second World War | |
302. |
According to the poet, Kamala Das, children wear a stern face in order to show thatthey are ____________ and_____________. |
A. | Sincere and faithful |
B. | Matured and serious |
C. | Happy and jovial |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» C. Happy and jovial | |
303. |
A. A Milne wrote comic essays for the --------- |
A. | Punch |
B. | Myojo |
C. | The week |
D. | Outlook |
Answer» B. Myojo | |
304. |
Bessie Head was a ------------- writer |
A. | South-African |
B. | Australian |
C. | Indian |
D. | American |
Answer» B. Australian | |
305. |
A musical instrument mentioned in “One Autumn Night” is- |
A. | Bonbon |
B. | Banjo |
C. | Skiff |
D. | Dithyramb |
Answer» C. Skiff | |
306. |
A sonnet is a ____________ line verse form. |
A. | Eighteen |
B. | Fourteen |
C. | Sixteen |
D. | Twelve |
Answer» C. Sixteen | |
307. |
Beside self-esteem there is another source of error. What is it? |
A. | Fear |
B. | Imitation |
C. | Hypocrisy |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Imitation | |
308. |
Anton Chekov is a prominent figure in __________ literature. |
A. | Russian |
B. | American |
C. | Indian English |
D. | Irish |
Answer» B. American | |
309. |
Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year________. |
A. | 1960 |
B. | 1940 |
C. | 1950 |
D. | 1970 |
Answer» D. 1970 | |
310. |
Mary Lamb was Charles Lamb’s _______________. |
A. | Mother |
B. | Sister-in-law |
C. | Sister |
D. | Daughter |
Answer» D. Daughter | |
311. |
Natsume Soseki, makes fun of the pretence in ----------, through his story. |
A. | Academic world |
B. | Home |
C. | Neighbourhood |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Home | |
312. |
‘The Walrus and the Carpenter” is a poem recited by ----------------- |
A. | Walru |
B. | Carpenter |
C. | Alice |
D. | Tweedledum andTweedledee |
Answer» E. | |
313. |
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared in a phrase using thewords ‘like’ or ‘as’ is called ______________. |
A. | A Strophe |
B. | Simile |
C. | Metaphor |
D. | None of the above. |
Answer» C. Metaphor | |
314. |
Bessie Head’s first novel- |
A. | The Collector of Treasure |
B. | When Rain Clouds Gather |
C. | The Lower Depths |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. The Lower Depths | |
315. |
Meaning of the word ‘muster up’ is ----------- |
A. | Dissolve |
B. | Distribute |
C. | Gather |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
316. |
‘Heaven of Freedom’ is taken from _____________a collection of 103 English poemsof Tagore translated by himself from Bengali. |
A. | Gitanjali |
B. | Kheya |
C. | Naivedya |
D. | Gitimalya |
Answer» B. Kheya | |
317. |
William Blake is known as a _______ Poet. |
A. | People’ |
B. | Pleasant |
C. | Prophetic |
D. | None of the above. |
Answer» D. None of the above. | |
318. |
I am a ----------- but as yet I have no name |
A. | Man |
B. | Cat |
C. | Teacher |
D. | Painter |
Answer» C. Teacher | |
319. |
Humanities Vs Science is a plea for ------------ |
A. | Study of science |
B. | Study of Humanities |
C. | Integrated study of applied sciences and Humanities |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
320. |
What does the father contemplate? |
A. | About the train |
B. | About his children |
C. | About music |
D. | About man’s estrangement |
Answer» E. | |
321. |
Why should the Blacks get converted? |
A. | To go to heaven |
B. | To please God |
C. | To become civilized |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
322. |
Fritz Karinthy is described as a ---------- |
A. | Lyricist |
B. | Absurdist |
C. | Pseudo-humorist |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
323. |
Anne Frank wrote her diary in- |
A. | English |
B. | German |
C. | Dutch |
D. | Spanish |
Answer» D. Spanish | |
324. |
--------------- celebrates courtship of Spenser and Elizabeth Boyle |
A. | The Shephearde’s Calender |
B. | The Faerie Queen |
C. | The Epithalamion |
D. | Amoretti |
Answer» E. | |
325. |
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» E. | |
326. |
“The song of Hiawatha” is written by - |
A. | William Wordsworth |
B. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
C. | William Shakespeare |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. William Shakespeare | |
327. |
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» D. She does not know her future | |
328. |
According to Bertrand Russell Knowledge without wisdom can be ____________. |
A. | Beautiful |
B. | Harmful. |
C. | Enchanting |
D. | Ugly |
Answer» C. Enchanting | |
329. |
The structure and form of Sonnet 116 are a typical example of the _____________. |
A. | Ballad |
B. | Lyric |
C. | Petrarchan sonnet |
D. | Shakespearean sonnet |
Answer» E. | |
330. |
Who came back to school for refund? |
A. | Leaderer |
B. | Uncle James |
C. | Philip |
D. | Wasserkopf |
Answer» E. | |
331. |
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» E. | |
332. |
‘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» D. None of these | |
333. |
Who is the hero in “The boy Comes Home”? |
A. | Jame |
B. | Bill |
C. | Philip |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
334. |
“Everything lives, for something better to come”. These are the words of- |
A. | Tolstoy |
B. | Mahatma Gandhi |
C. | Martin Luther King |
D. | Maxim Gorky |
Answer» E. | |
335. |
What are the three great obstacles that hinder India’s development? |
A. | Intellectual rubbish, beauty & lack of awareness |
B. | Poverty, disease & ignorance |
C. | Five year plans, lack of infrastructure &lack of money |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Five year plans, lack of infrastructure &lack of money | |
336. |
What is the climax of the play “Refund”? |
A. | Written test |
B. | Oral test |
C. | Geography question |
D. | Physics question |
Answer» C. Geography question | |
337. |
The poet calls the moon and the candles ------------ |
A. | Good angle |
B. | Illuminators |
C. | Liars |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
338. |
“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» E. | |
339. |
Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in upkeep as a -------------- |
A. | Rolls- Royce |
B. | Linea |
C. | Limousine |
D. | Chevorlet |
Answer» B. Linea | |
340. |
The astrologer advices the man to go back to his home town and never travel___________again. |
A. | Southward |
B. | Northwards |
C. | Eastwards |
D. | Westwards |
Answer» B. Northwards | |
341. |
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year _________. |
A. | 1930 |
B. | 1918 |
C. | 1913 |
D. | 1980 |
Answer» D. 1980 | |
342. |
Johnsy wanted to paint ______________ as her masterpiece. |
A. | The Bay of Bengal |
B. | The Mexican Coast |
C. | The Bay of Naples |
D. | None of the above. |
Answer» D. None of the above. | |
343. |
In the poem ‘Middle Age’, the poet discusses the life of a______________. |
A. | Daughter |
B. | Father |
C. | Sister |
D. | Mother. |
Answer» E. | |
344. |
Brave New World (1932) was written by- |
A. | S. Radhakrishnan |
B. | Aldous Huxley |
C. | Bertrand Russell |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Bertrand Russell | |
345. |
Uncle James’ house was furnished in ------------------ |
A. | Greek style |
B. | Mid-Victorian style |
C. | Modern style |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Modern style | |
346. |
What is the good way for getting rid of dogmatism? |
A. | Reading |
B. | Discussion |
C. | Watching T V |
D. | Become aware of other people’s opinion |
Answer» E. | |
347. |
What did the missionaries from the West ask the black people to do? |
A. | To believe in their own custom |
B. | To embrace Christianity |
C. | To pray to God |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. To pray to God | |
348. |
Colossus is the first book of poems by ---------. |
A. | Mina Assadi |
B. | Dilip Chitre |
C. | Sylvia Plath |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
349. |
Her poems are mostly ____________ in nature. |
A. | Confessional |
B. | Confidential |
C. | Contradictory |
D. | None of the above. |
Answer» B. Confidential | |
350. |
Stories in which animals are characters who speak like human beings are called ---------- |
A. | Folk tale |
B. | Ballad |
C. | Fable |
D. | Legend |
Answer» D. Legend | |