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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.
351. |
The Lyrical Ballads was published in the year__________. |
A. | 1798 |
B. | 1764 |
C. | 1789 |
D. | 1770 |
Answer» B. 1764 | |
352. |
H. W. Longfellow was an ----------- poet. |
A. | American |
B. | English |
C. | German |
D. | Indian |
Answer» B. English | |
353. |
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» D. Tweedledom and tweedledee | |
354. |
Who is the character placed in contrast to Uncle James in “The Boy Comes Home”? |
A. | Marie |
B. | Emily |
C. | Alice |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Alice | |
355. |
Who sent the currant cake with the words “Happy Whitsun” to Anne’s Family in hiding? |
A. | Van Daan |
B. | Meip |
C. | Mr. Goudsmit |
D. | Harry |
Answer» C. Mr. Goudsmit | |
356. |
Gorky’s stories are about the lives of ---------- |
A. | The wealthy |
B. | The bourgeois |
C. | The poor and the uncared for |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
357. |
The great crimes against civilization are committed by ------------- |
A. | So-called civilized people |
B. | Uneducated people |
C. | Primitive people |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Uneducated people | |
358. |
The abuse of science is the fault of -------------- |
A. | Scientist |
B. | Technicians |
C. | Spiritualists |
D. | Man |
Answer» E. | |
359. |
Kamala Das wrote under the name ___________. |
A. | Madhava Menon |
B. | Madhavi Menon |
C. | Madhavi Amma |
D. | Madhavi Kutty. |
Answer» E. | |
360. |
Under what tree is the Astrologer sitting in the story, ‘The Astrologer’s Day’? |
A. | Oak tree |
B. | Tamarind tree |
C. | Banyan tree |
D. | Bodhi tree |
Answer» C. Banyan tree | |
361. |
Who was Van Daan? |
A. | Anne’s friend |
B. | Mother’s friend |
C. | Anne’s Father’s friend |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
362. |
The main Character in this play is |
A. | Madame Leobev |
B. | Madame Vanya |
C. | Madame Popova |
D. | Madame Curie |
Answer» D. Madame Curie | |
363. |
The Last Leaf is a Short story written by |
A. | H.H. Munro |
B. | W.H. Longfellow |
C. | O. Henry |
D. | J.K.Rowling |
Answer» D. J.K.Rowling | |
364. |
The escaped prisoner in ‘The Rising of The Moon’ was an important _____________. |
A. | Cinema actor |
B. | Political Leader |
C. | Gang leader |
D. | None of the above. |
Answer» C. Gang leader | |
365. |
“The tree of life is sustained by art, the tree of death by science.” Who said this? |
A. | William Wordsworth |
B. | William Harvey |
C. | William Blake |
D. | S. Radhakrishnan |
Answer» D. S. Radhakrishnan | |
366. |
What is the master’s nickname? |
A. | Shiro |
B. | Myojo |
C. | Mr Mensroom |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
367. |
How many maids were to be employed to clear the sand? |
A. | 5 |
B. | 7 |
C. | 9 |
D. | 11 |
Answer» C. 9 | |
368. |
Charles Lamb worked as a clerk at _____________. |
A. | East coast company |
B. | East India House |
C. | East Forte Company |
D. | None of the above. |
Answer» C. East Forte Company | |
369. |
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» C. Ugliness | |
370. |
Who tells the story of Galethebege? |
A. | Raloke |
B. | Modise |
C. | The Christian Missionary |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. The Christian Missionary | |
371. |
---------- was born in the Mazandaran province of Iran. |
A. | Dilip Chitre |
B. | Mina Assadi |
C. | Maya Angelou |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Maya Angelou | |
372. |
Raloke believed in- |
A. | Christainity |
B. | Setswana Custom |
C. | Hinduism |
D. | Islam |
Answer» C. Hinduism | |
373. |
The seventh Sunday after Easter- |
A. | Good Friday |
B. | Christmas |
C. | Whitsun |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
374. |
What was Uncle James so particular about? |
A. | War |
B. | Happiness |
C. | Relaxation |
D. | Punctuality |
Answer» E. | |
375. |
How much money did the astrologer have to pay if his answers went wrong? |
A. | 17anna |
B. | 18annas |
C. | 20annas |
D. | 16annas |
Answer» E. | |
376. |
The marriage of Raloke and Galethebege was solemnized according to ----------- |
A. | Christian tradition |
B. | Setswana custom |
C. | Indian tradition |
D. | Islamic tradition |
Answer» D. Islamic tradition | |
377. |
“But not on us!” Whose cry is it? |
A. | The Walru |
B. | The oysters |
C. | The Carpenters |
D. | Alice |
Answer» C. The Carpenters | |
378. |
Sonnet was introduced by the Italian poet named______________. |
A. | Peter |
B. | Petrarch |
C. | Penguin |
D. | Punich |
Answer» C. Penguin | |
379. |
The young soldier, the hero of A A Milne’s play has come home after- |
A. | The II World War |
B. | The Trojan War |
C. | The I World War |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
380. |
William Blake has written Songs of Innocence and ____________. |
A. | Songs of Experience |
B. | Songs of Expression |
C. | Songs of Experiments |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» B. Songs of Expression | |
381. |
Who is like a word dropped from a long sentence? |
A. | Dilip Chitre |
B. | The father |
C. | Tukaram |
D. | Grandchildren |
Answer» C. Tukaram | |
382. |
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» E. | |
383. |
‘On Travel by Train’ is a humorous account of the English ___________. |
A. | Capabilities. |
B. | Eccentricities. |
C. | Realities. |
D. | Employability skills. |
Answer» C. Realities. | |
384. |
R.K.Narayan’s famous work ___________was awarded the Sahithya AcademyAward in 1958. |
A. | Swami and Friend |
B. | The Guide |
C. | The Financial Expert |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» C. The Financial Expert | |
385. |
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» D. Roads | |
386. |
“Mother” is a novel written by ------------ |
A. | Alexander Pushkin |
B. | Anton Chekov |
C. | Tolstoy |
D. | Gorky |
Answer» E. | |
387. |
Weak tea, stale chappathi etc. represent ------------- |
A. | Youthfulnes |
B. | Selfishness |
C. | Plight of old age |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
388. |
Crome Yellow is written by |
A. | Huxley |
B. | Gorky |
C. | Radhakrishnan |
D. | Bessie Head |
Answer» B. Gorky | |
389. |
“The Boy Comes Home” was written in ---------- |
A. | 1920 |
B. | 1930 |
C. | 1945 |
D. | 1918 |
Answer» E. | |
390. |
O. Henry is the pen name of_____________. |
A. | William Words worth |
B. | William Henry |
C. | William Shakespeare |
D. | William Sydney Porter |
Answer» E. | |
391. |
Who is the narrator of the story “I Am a Cat”? |
A. | The boy |
B. | Osan |
C. | The cat |
D. | Mike |
Answer» D. Mike | |
392. |
Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in |
A. | 1903 |
B. | 1910 |
C. | 1917 |
D. | 1923 |
Answer» E. | |
393. |
Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men? |
A. | alan sillitoe |
B. | john wain |
C. | colin wilson |
D. | john osborne |
Answer» E. | |
394. |
Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” occurs in his |
A. | ariel poems |
B. | poems (1920) |
C. | the wasteland |
D. | four quartets |
Answer» B. poems (1920) | |
395. |
Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent critic and scholar. Whowas he? |
A. | matthew arnold |
B. | carlyle |
C. | john ruskin |
D. | leslie stephen |
Answer» E. | |
396. |
Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of |
A. | 18 c |
B. | 16c |
C. | 17c |
D. | 20c |
Answer» E. | |
397. |
“Dubliners” was first published in the year |
A. | 1912 |
B. | 1914 |
C. | 1918 |
D. | 1921 |
Answer» C. 1918 | |
398. |
Who among the following is a Movement poet? |
A. | elizabeth jennings |
B. | ted hughes |
C. | t.s eliot |
D. | w.h auden |
Answer» B. ted hughes | |
399. |
--------------- is the only play published by James Joyce |
A. | exiles |
B. | the dead |
C. | the black sun |
D. | chamber music |
Answer» D. chamber music | |
400. |
The early stories in Joyce’s “Dubliners” have -------- as protagonists |
A. | women |
B. | irish peasants |
C. | children |
D. | mythical characters |
Answer» B. irish peasants | |