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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 14 of 15
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- 352questionsவினாக்கள்
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Saruli figures in
- Farmer
- The Sun Beam
- After the Storm✓
- Kari, the Elephant
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Match the poems with the poets
(a) A Noiseless patient spider 1. Annie Lousia Walker (b) A Tiger in the Zoo 2. James Kirkup (c) No men are foreign 3. Leslie Norris (d) Women's Rights 4. Walt Whitman - (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-1✓
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-1
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-3
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-4
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Match Column A with Column B
Column A(a) Aunt Polly 1. Eyeing the Teaspoon Greedily (b) Peter 2. Stopped coming to school (c) Tom 3. Water treatment (d) Becky Thatcher 4. Incurable experimenter Column B
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-2✓
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-2 (d)-1
- (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-4
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A mirror of his changing moods
Mention the figure of speech employed in this line- Simple
- Allusion
- Anaphora
- Metaphor✓
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Who among the following is not a character in Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice'?
- Calpurnia✓
- Bassanio
- Portia
- Nerissa
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Choose the correct answer :
William Temple Hornaday was an American ————- Zoologist
- Conservationist
- Taxidermist
- All the above✓
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"I'm not a mere ball of mud, water and minerals. I too possess a body and mind, a heart and soul-just like you "
Whose words are these?- The Mountain
- The River
- The Ocean
- The Earth✓
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Match Column A with Column B. Select the correct code given below.
Column A Column B(a) The Ant and the Grasshopper 1. Oscar Wilde (b) The Cop and the Anthem 2. Somerset Maugham (c) The Happy Prince 3. Bonnie Chamberlain (d) The Face of Judas Iscariot 4. O'Henry - (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-3✓
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-1 (b)-3 (c)-4 (d)-2
- (a)-1 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-3
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"Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide".
It is a message from- Abdul Kalam
- Emerson✓
- Harold Abbot
- Dale Carnegie
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'I have many beautiful flowers he said, but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all'
In which story does the following line occur?- The last leaf
- Open Window
- The selfish giant✓
- Two friends
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Pick out the correct option : In the story "The Open Window" the hunting party went for ——— shooting.
- Spaniel
- Snipe✓
- Deer
- Tiger
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Which of the following poem is written by David Roth?
- Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
- Nine Gold Medals✓
- Manliness
- Is Life But a Dream?
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What did the "Last man in" in the story "Our Local Team" do and what was the umpire's reaction?
- The Last man hit a sixer and the umpired raised his indicating finger
- The Last man hit a boundary and the umpire levelled his hands on both sides
- The Last man hit a boundary with his pad and was given L.B.W.
- The Last man hit a boundary with his pad but the umpire maintained telling 'Not Out'✓
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The lesson "His First Flight" is about a
- Pilot
- Seagull✓
- Parrot
- Pigeon
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Dr. Salim Ali was introduced to the serious study of birds by
- W.S. Millard✓
- EHA
- Norman Boyd Kinnear
- Amiruddin
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———— was educated at free Stratford Grammar School.
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Shakespeare✓
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Match the following :
Author Title(a) Norman Nicholson 1. The road to success (b) Dale Carnegie 2. O Captain! My Captain! (c) Walt Whitman 3. The Solitary Reaper (d) William Wordsworth 4. Off to outer space tomorrow morning - (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-2
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-3✓
- (a)-1 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-3
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-4
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"You must prepare your bosom for his knife"
Here 'you' refers to ———- Antonio✓
- Bassanio
- Portia
- Shylock
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Match Column A with Column B. Select the correct code given below :
Column A Column B(a) My country my life 1. Sachin (b) My story 2. Nehru (c) Play It My Way 3. Kamala Das (d) Toward Freedom 4. L.K. Advani - (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-3 (d)-1
- (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-2✓
- (a)-2 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-4
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Choose the option containing the author of the following lines
"No Nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands".- Hopkins in 'Laugh and be Merry'
- Khalil Gibran in 'Earth'
- Wordsworth in "The Solitary Reaper"✓
- Kamala Das in "Punishment in the Kindergarten"
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Yaanai Mahi appears to have a ———— shape to view from Madurai.
- rectangular
- spherical
- cylindrical
- pyramidal✓
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" ...... My man hood is cast in the flood of remembrance"
The figure of speech in this line is ————.- Metaphor✓
- Simile
- Personification
- Oxymoron
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Which of the following is not a poem?
- The Piano
- Migrant Bird
- Hiroshima✓
- Shilpi
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Which of the following is not a poem?
- Shilpi
- Be the Best
- Off to Outerspace Tomorrow Morning
- Flying with the moon on their wings✓
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Who among the Indian writers was credited to have established an educational institution which is now called by the name Viswabharati University?
- Madan Mohan Malaviya
- R.K. Narayan
- Rabindranath Tagore✓
- Swami Vivekananda
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