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Literature — 352 previous-year questions — page 8 of 15
Every Literature question TNPSC has asked in the papers we hold, under English, with the correct answer marked in Tamil and English. Explanations are free with an account.ஆங்கிலம் பாடத்தின் கீழ், எங்களிடம் உள்ள வினாத்தாள்களில் TNPSC கேட்ட அனைத்து வினாக்களும், சரியான விடை குறிக்கப்பட்டு. விளக்கங்கள் இலவசக் கணக்கில் கிடைக்கும்.
- 352questionsவினாக்கள்
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Who was Helen Keller?
- Paraolympian sports star
- Mentally challenged
- A reformer
- Weak flesh and willing spirit✓
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How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
- Eight lines
- Eleven lines
- Fourteen lines✓
- Sixteen lines
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Assertion [A] : At Bangkok Conference A34 point resolution was passed.
Reason [R] : Indian National Army was made subordinate to the Indian Independence League.
- [A] True, [R] False
- [A] True, [R] True, but [R] is not the correct explanation for [A]
- [A] True, [R] True and [R] is the correct explanation for [A]✓
- [A] False, [R] False
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Choose the correct answer from the options given below : 'Who is here so base that would be a bondman?' These words are spoken by
- Brutus✓
- Antonio
- Portia
- Antony
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What is the implied theme of the poem, “The Cry of the Children”?
- Child – Rights
- Child – Marriage
- Child – Labour✓
- Child – Care
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Which one of the following statement is correct?
- V.K. Gokak is a Telugu poet and novelist
- V.K. Gokak is a Kannada poet and novelist✓
- V.K. Gokak is a Marathi poet and novelist
- V.K. Gokak is a Gujarathi poet and novelist
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"I could then see my reflection in the window and in the retina of my eye the whole earth and sky could be seen reflected"
Who is the speaker?- Helen Keller
- Sunita Williams
- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Kalpana Chawla✓
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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more". The above lines are spoken by
- Caesar
- Brutus✓
- Calpurnia
- Antony
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"Though our smoke may hide the
Heavens from your eyes,
It will vanish and the stars will shine again,
Because, for all our power and weight and size,
We are nothing more than children of your brain!"
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?- a a b b
- a b a b✓
- a b a a
- a b c d
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———— was the star student of Perkins school for the visually impaired children in America
- Anne Sullivan✓
- Helen Keller
- Louis Braille
- Alexander Graham Bell
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Who makes the following statement in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar :
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more".- Brutus✓
- Antony
- First citizen
- Octavius
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What is the theme observed in the literary work mentioned here in the bracket (snake)?
- cruelty to animals
- hospitality to animals✓
- superstition belief
- superstitious belief
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'The man He Killed' is a poem written by
- Thomas Hardy✓
- H.W. Longfellow
- D.H. Lawrence
- Walt Whitman
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"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel ; It is man's injustice to woman".
Who said these words about Women?- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Swami Vivekananda
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Mahatma Gandhi✓
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"The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more"
These lines appear in ----------.- Be the best
- Tables turned
- A Psalm of Life
- The Solitary Reaper✓
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Prospero's daughter name was
- Portia
- Desdemona
- Juliet
- Miranda✓
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Courage isn't a brilliant dash,
A daring deed in a moment's flush;
It isn't an instantaneous thing
Born of despair with a sudden spring
Write the Rhyme scheme of the poem.- ABAB
- ABBA
- AABB✓
- AAAB
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In whose biography do you find this statement?
I would sweep them out of existence if I had the power.- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Nelson Mandela
- Mahatma Gandhi✓
- Abraham Lincoln
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Which of the following is a poem by Thomas Hardy?
- English Words
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Snake
- The Man He Killed✓
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William Wordsworth is the poet of ————
- America
- England✓
- Australia
- Japan
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Which of the following lines belong to H.W. Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"?
- And you O my soul where you stand
- All human roads are dark and dry
- Your minstrel has no wreath to weave for you
- Art is long and time is fleeting✓
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Identify the speaker :
"________ not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more".- Mark Antony
- Casca
- Calphurnia
- Brutus✓
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Autumn is English
in red, yellow and brown
Autumn is Indian
Whenever leaves fall down
Who wrote the above poem?- Nisha Dyrene✓
- William Wordsworth
- D.H. Lawrence
- Mary Botham Howitt
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Match the following
Column A(a) The cry of the children 1. Rudyar Kipling (b) Manliness 2. Elizabeth Browning (c) Women's Rights 3. Annie Louisa Walker (d) A Psalm of Life 4. H.W. Longfellow Column B
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-4
- (a)-2 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-4✓
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-1
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-3 (d)-2
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Name the poem in which the following lines appear.
"O winging words! Like homing bees you borrow
Grown murmurous, the honey of delight"- A Psalm of Life
- Snake
- With a friend
- English words✓
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