KNOWLEDGE JUNCTION

Mock Test for Medium level (II) 1

1. ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, the opening line of the famous poem Daffodils by
Wordsworth. The line consists of………..
a. Iambic pentameter
b. Iambic tetrameter
c. Trochaic hexameter
d. Trochaic pentameter
2. Which of the following statements is not correct about W.B. Yeats?
a. Yeats and Lady Gregory collaborated on Abbey Theatre
b. He was a co-founder of Rhymer’s Club
c. He considers literature as personal account
d. He became an advocate of Art For Life Sake Movement
3. In which work of Tennyson do we come across Queen Guinevere?
a. Ulysses
b. Passing of Arthur
c. Crossing the Bar
d. Maud
4. In which work did T.S. Eliot use the term Dissociation of sensibility’?
a. Hamlet and his Problem
b. Ash Wednesday
c. The Waste Land
d. The Metaphysical Poets
5. Appropriate meaning the idiom- A white elephant
a. a rare species of elephant
b. an expensive gift
c. a costly but useless possession
d. a worthless thing
6. Who gave the description of ‘the aristocracy’, ‘the middle class’ and ‘the lower class’
as ‘barbarians’, ‘philistines’ and populace’ respectively?
a. Matthew Arnold
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Stephen Spender
d. Lord Tennyson
7. ‘Forever wilt thou love, and she is fair’ is the last line of which poem?
a. The Princes
b. Solitary Reaper
 c. The Second Coming
d. Ode on a Grecian Urn
8. An experimental vaccine (a)/ has brought (b)/ glimmer of hope for the malarial research
(c)/ no error
9. The ebb and flow of the tides (a)/ are (b)/ now understood (c)/ no error
10. The green paint on the wall (a)/ provides a suitable contrast (b)/ with the yellow doors
(c)/ no error
11. He was the co-founder of the magazine Horizon with Cyril Connolly and editor of the
Encounter magazine. Identify.
a. Stephen spender
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Bertrand Russell
d. Charles Lamb
12. Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry. Which of the following books was
the first to make it possible?
a. A Further Range
b. New Hampshire
c. A Witness Tree
d. Collected Poems
13. The appropriate meaning of the idiom- Ins and out
a. entry and exit points
b. tactical moves
c. full details
d. complexity of character
14. He said that he goes for a walk every morning
a. he said, ‘I went for a walk every morning
b. he said ‘I go for a walk every morning
c. he said ‘I will go for a walk every morning
d. he said ‘he goes for a walk every morning
15. Which of the following writers won the Kaisar-i-Hind medal for working during the
plague epidemic in India?
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. M.K. Gandhi
c. A.K. Ramanujan
d. Nissim Ezekiel
16. A.K Ramanujan translated Samskara in 1976 which was originally written by….
a. R. Parthasarthy
b. P. Lal
c. David Shulman
d. U.R. Ananthamurthy
17. The appropriate meaning of the phrase- He is not in the good books of his boss
a. a lover of good books
b. in favour with
c. not of the same opinion as
 d. as good as
18. Which of the following writers considers poetry is ‘The April sun squeezed like an
orange juice’?
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c. Kamala Das
d. Nissim Ezekiel
19. Wordsworth described one of his poem as ‘stern daughter of the voice of God’. Identify.
a. The Prelude
b. Lyrical Ballads
c. The Excursion
d. Ode to Duty
20. I reiterated, ‘I don’t care about the job’
a. I reiterated I didn’t care about the job
b. I said again and again I didn’t care about the job
c. I reiterated that I did not care about the job
d. I repeatedly said that I cared about the job
21. ‘A liar is a man who is brave towards God but is coward towards men’ is related to
which of the following writers?
a. Bacon
b. Shakespeare
c. Charles Lamb
d. Bertrand Russell
22. George Meredith advised not to publish the novel ‘The Poor Man and the Lady’. Who
was the writer?
a. G.B. Shaw
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Thomas Hardy
d. E.M. Forster
23. He said to the judge, ‘I did not commit this crime’
a. he told the judge that he did not commit the crime
b. he told the judge that he had not committed the crime
c. he told the judge that he had not committed that crime
d. he told the judge that he had not committed this crime
24. Who has written the work Night and Day?
a. D.H. Lawrence
b. Virginia Woolf
c. E.M. Forster
d. W.M. Thackeray
25. The Phrase Only Connect is related to which work of E.M. Forster?
a. A Passage to India
b. A Room with a View
c. Where Angels Fear to Tread
d. Howard’s End
26. George Orwell wrote review for which work of Mulk Raj Anand?
a. The Sword and the Sickle
b. Untouchable
c. Two Leaves and a Bud
d. Coolie
27. Who has written the work Waiting for Mahatma?
a. Mulk Raj Anand
b. Raja Rao
c. R.K. Narayan
d. Nissim Ezekiel
28. Which one is not correct in respect to Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope?
a. The serpent in the title refers to illusion and the rope to reality
b. It won Sahitya Akademi Award in 1962
c. It deals with self-knowledge, self-transcendence or self-fulfilment
d. Written in an autobiographical style focusing on the concepts of existence
29. Amitav Gosh wrote a trilogy titled as Ibis Trilogy which includes Sea of Poppies, River
of Smoke and………….
a. The Hungry Tide
b. The Glass Palace
c. The Circle of Reason
d. Flood of Fire
30. One Word Substitution: Placing a thing beside another
a. Impose
b. Repose
c. Juxtapose
d. Expose
31. Balram Halwai is the narrator and protagonist of……………
a. The Sword and the Sickle
b. The White Tiger
c. The Shadow Lines
d. The Bachelor of Arts
32. In which writer’s collection did Charles Lamb publish his first sonnets?
a. Coleridge’s Poems on Various Subjects
b. Wordsworth’s Poems, in Two Volume
c. Southey’s The Fall of Robespierre
d. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
33. One word Substitution: Wild and noisy disorder
a. Agitation
b. Revolution
c. Pandemonium
d. Stir
34. Who wrote the work titled as On the Principles of Human Action?
a. Bertrand Russell
b. Charles Lamb
 c. William Hazlitt
d. Mary Lamb
35. Who said ‘I would achieve a Hegelian synthesis in an encyclopaedic work dealing
equally with theory and practice.’
a. Bertrand Russell
b. Charles Lamb
c. T.S. Eliot
d. William Blake
36. Who has written the collection of essays titled as Many Furrows?
a. G.K. Chesterton
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Charles Dickens
d. A.G. Gardiner
37. Antonym: Insolent
a. Arrogant
b. Ashamed
c. Thorough
d. Customary
38. Who has written the work based food, logging the results and tweaking his eating
choices titled as The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism?
a. A.G. Gardiner
b. Sarojini Naidu
c. R.K. Narayan
d. M.K. Gandhi
39. Who was the founder or chief editor of the magazine ‘Yojana’, a monthly journal
devoted to the socio-economic issues?
a. Khuswant Singh
b. Sarojini Naidu
c. Nissim Ezekiel
d. Toru Dutt
40. Antonym: Cursory
a. Final
b. Impulsive
c. Humble
d. Ignorant
41. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wrote this work in collaboration with Arun Tiwari. Identify.
a. Ignited Minds
b. India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium
c. Wings of Fire
d. Naa Jeevana Gamanam
42. Who said about Shakespeare that ‘Whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line’?
a. Philip Sidney
b. Ben Jonson
c. Matthew Arnold
 d. T.S. Eliot
43. Which Romantic poet used to keep a sculpture of Shakespeare near his desk?
a. Coleridge
b. Shelley
c. Wordsworth
d. Keats
44. Synonym: Perilous
a. dangerous
b. Monstrous
c. Cautious
d. Dubious
45. Whom did Shakespeare dedicate his poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of
Lucrece?
a. Henry Wriothesley
b. Walter Raleigh
c. Queen Elizabeth
d. W.H.
46. Synonym: Affluence
a. Influence
b. Difficulty
c. Richness
d. Awkwardness
47. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ is related to Shakespeare’s……….
a. Sonnet 16
b. Sonnet 116
c. Sonnet 26
d. Sonnet 18
48. ‘Damnable waste of human life that ever invented, clerking is the worst’ is said
by……….
a. G.B. Shaw
b. Thomas Hardy
c. E.M. Forster
d. T.S. Eliot
49. Who has written the work titled as Tale Danda?
a. R.N. Tagore
b. Mahesh Dattani
c. Vijay Tendulkar
d. Girish Karnad
50. Harold Pinter’s A Slight Ache is a………..
a. Drama
b. Prose narrative
c. Radio play
d. critical essay