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Romeo and Juliet

1. Match the following comparisons, with respect to the extracts from 'Romeo and Juliet':
A. Romeo - iii. A snowy dove
B. Juliet - ii. New snow on a raven’s back
C. Juliet’s fellow dancers - i. Crows
Answer: a. A-iii, B-ii, C-i

2. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Romeo thinks that Juliet is like _______.

Answer: a. Sun

3. In the poem ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ________ is like ‘a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear’.
Answer: a. Juliet

4. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, whose beauty is too rich for use and for earth too dear?
Answer: c. Juliet’s

5. Identify the mismatched combination among the following, with respect to 'Romeo and
Juliet':
Answer: d. Face of heaven – Dance Floor

6. In 'Romeo and Juliet', _______ is described as, “gentle”, “loving, black-browed”.

Answer: b. The night

7. In 'Romeo and Juliet', _______ had never seen true beauty till that night.
Answer: a. Romeo

8. According to Juliet, after her death, Romeo should be _______.

Answer: c. Cut out into little stars

9. According to Juliet, the world will be in love with night, because ____________.
Answer: c. Romeo cut out in little stars, makes the face of heaven beautiful

10. According to the poet of 'Romeo and Juliet', evaluate the following:
Statement: The world will not pay worship to the sun.
Reason: Juliet's true beauty has made the face of heaven so fine.
Answer: b. Both statement and reason are true.

11. In 'Romeo and Juliet' the word "garish" is used to describe _______.
Answer: a. Sun

12. Complete the analogy with reference to ‘Romeo and Juliet’:

Romeo: New snow on a raven’s back :: Juliet : ______________
Answer: c. A rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear

"Too Dear!"

1. The population of Monaco in ‘Too Dear!’ is __________.

Answer: c. About 7000

2. According to the story, ‘Too Dear!’, which of the following is false?

Answer: d. The criminal received 600 francs as his pension before leaving the kingdom of
Monaco.

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3. The special tax mentioned in the story ‘Too Dear!’ was on ___________.
Answer: d. Gaming house

4. Which of the following statements is not correct about the army of Monaco?
Answer: d. Only one soldier said he would cut the criminal’s head in a rough and homely
fashion.

5. The people of ______ forbade their rulers to make money from gaming houses, in ‘Too
Dear!’
Answer: b. France

6. Everyone who wants to gamble goes to ______, in ‘Too Dear!’

Answer: d. Monaco

7. The proverb, ‘You can’t earn stone palaces by honest labour’ is used in ‘Too Dear!’ to justify
__________.
Answer: a. The gaming houses in Monaco

8. The new item of expenditure, the king of Monaco noticed was for _________, in ’Too Dear!’
Answer: d. The keep of the criminal

9. Choose the right sequence of incidents as they take place in ‘Too Dear!’
Answer: b. Death punishment was changed to life imprisonment – expenditure came to
600 francs – the guard was dismissed – the criminal did not run away

10. Match the particulars in column A with the amount in column B with reference to the lesson
‘Too Dear!’ and choose the correct option.
Answer: b. A-ii, B-iii, C-i

11. The kingdom of Monaco had ________, in ’Too Dear!’

Answer: d. A gaming house where roulette was played

12. Choose the odd combination out with reference to ‘Too Dear!’
Answer: c. The soldiers – Ready to cut off criminal’s head in a rough and homely fashion

13. The king of which country is called ‘a brother monarch’ in the story ‘Too Dear’?
Answer: a. Italy

14. Which one of the following is not the reason stated by the criminal for not going away from
prison in ‘Too Dear!’?
Answer: a. He liked to fetch food from palace kitchen and stay in prison

15. The criminal in ‘Too Dear!’ received __________ as advance of his pension before leaving the
king’s dominions.
Answer: c. One-third of his annuity

16. In ‘Too Dear!’ the criminal started _______ for livelihood after leaving the king’s dominions.
Answer: c. Market-gardening

3. On Children

1. Match column A with column B with reference to the poem ‘On Children’:
A. Living arrows - ii. The children

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B. Bows - i. The parents

C. Archer - iii. God
Answer: c. A-ii, B-i, C-iii

2. According to the prophet, parents should not seek to make children like them because:
Answer: b. They live in the house of tomorrow

3. Choose the false statement with reference to ‘On Children’:

Answer: b. Parents may house the souls of children

4. The parents can give their ______ to their children, according to Gibran:
Answer: a. Love

5. The souls of the children dwell in ________, according to Kahlil Gibran:

Answer: b. The path of the infinite

6. Statement: Parents may give their love but not their thoughts to their children.
Reason: Children have their own thoughts.
Answer: d. Both statement and reason are correct

7. Complete the analogy:

Arrows: Fly :: Bows: ______
Answer: d. Stable

4. Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

1. One of the dramatic Chipko actions took place in Adwani in the year:
Answer: b. 1973

2. Vandana Shiva’s father was a:

Answer: b. Forest conservator

3. The women of Adwani village held up lighted lanterns in broad daylight to:
Answer: a. Mock the ignorance of forest officials

4. Vandana Shiva started the:

Answer: d. Navdanya movement

5. Complete the analogy:

Terra Nullius: Empty Land :: Terra Madre: ______
Answer: a. Mother Earth

6. Match the following:

A. Cormac Cullinan - iii. South African environmentalist
B. Francis Bacon - i. Father of modern science
C. Carolyn Merchant - ii. Philosopher and historian
Answer: b. A-iii, B-i, C-ii

7. According to Vandana Shiva, _______ is a shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism:

Answer: a. Earth Democracy

8. The country that recognized the rights of nature in its constitution:

Answer: c. Ecuador

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9. Match the following:

A. Tapovan - iii. An essay by Rabindranath Tagore
B. Monocultures of the Mind - ii. A book by Vandana Shiva
C. Gandhi and Globalization - i. A course at Earth University
Answer: d. A-iii, B-ii, C-i

10. Choose the right sequence of incidents in Vandana Shiva's life:

Answer: b. Her ecological journey started in the Himalayas – She took part in Chipko
Movement – Started Navdanya Movement – Started Navdanya Farm

11. Tagore’s essay _______ speaks of the role of forests in Indian civilization:
Answer: b. Tapovan

12. According to Vandana Shiva, unity in diversity is the basis of both ecological sustainability
and:
Answer: a. Democracy

13. The only answer to food and nutrition crisis, according to Vandana Shiva:
Answer: a. Conservation of biodiversity

5. A Sunny Morning

1. The action in ‘A Sunny Morning’ takes place in a retired corner of a park in:
Answer: c. Seville

2. Match the following:

A. The Silver Maiden - ii. Laura
B. The Gallant Young Man - i. Gonzalo
C. The Old Man’s Servant - iii. Juanito
Answer: c. A-ii, B-i, C-iii

3. Dona Laura brings breadcrumbs to the park regularly for:

Answer: c. Birds

4. The words ‘spryest’, ‘gluttons’, ‘least timid’, and ‘philosopher’ in the play refer to:
Answer: a. The pigeons

5. Choose the incorrect statement with respect to ‘A Sunny Morning’:

Answer: d. Petra and Juanito occupy Dona Laura’s regular bench

6. Choose the correct sequence of incidents in the play:

Answer: a. Don Gonzalo scares away the birds – Dona Laura arrives – Gonzalo and Laura
talk about poems – A pinch of snuff makes peace

7. Don Gonzalo goes to _______ for hunting:

Answer: b. Aravaca

8. Choose the true statement regarding ‘A Sunny Morning’:

Answer: c. Don Gonzalo ran off to Paris with a ballet dancer

9. “All love is sad, but sad as it is, it is the best thing that we know.” These lines were written by:
Answer: c. Campoamor

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10. In ‘A Sunny Morning’, _______ had sent violets for Dona Laura:
Answer: a. Don Gonzalo

6. When You Are Old

1. Complete the analogy:

Other lovers: Moments of glad grace :: _______: Sorrows of changing face
Answer: a. One man

2. Which of the following features does not describe the lady in 'When You Are Old'?
Answer: a. Face amid stars

3. According to the poem, _______ paced upon the mountains and hid his face amid a crowd of
stars.
Answer: b. Love

4. What did the speaker love in his beloved?

Answer: c. Pilgrim soul

7. The Gardener

1. In the story 'The Gardener', ________ is described as a laborer, overseer, and philosopher.
Answer: d. The old man

2. The old man had a spade in one hand and __________ tucked under his arm.
Answer: b. Coconut

3. Choose the correct order of incidents in the story:

Answer: b. The old man arrived at the farm – The owner’s lifestyle changed – The owner’s
wife got worried – The old man narrated his story

4. In the story, ________ found it hard to decide whether the old man’s arrival was for better or
worse.
Answer: a. The owner’s wife

5. The rivalry between Tammanna and Basavaiah started moving from the visible to the
abstract domain when Tammanna thought of:
Answer: a. Composing his experiences as ballads and singing them

6. In ‘The Gardener’, ________ bedecked himself with gold, built a mansion, and invited
scholars to his house.
Answer: b. Basavaiah

7. ________ had one thousand acres of land, composed ballads, gave up everything, and left
his village.
Answer: a. Tammanna

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8. Statement: A few days after Tammanna left his village, Basavaiah passed away.
Reason: Basavaiah had no more reason to live.
Answer: a. Both statement and reason are correct

8. To The Foot From Its Child

1. The foot likes to be an apple or a __________.

Answer: b. Butterfly

2. What is the correct order of happenings to the foot in the poem?

Answer: a. i-ii-iii-iv

o i. The foot likes to be an apple or a butterfly

o ii. The foot is descended underground

o iii. The foot is defeated in the battle of life

o iv. Living in a shoe, the foot feels out life like a blind man

3. In which of the following places does the foot NOT walk, according to the poem?
Answer: c. Mines

4. The petaled toes gradually take the shape of a ____, after getting defeated in the poem by
Neruda.
Answer: c. Eyeless reptile

5. The defeated foot is a prisoner and condemned to live in ____.

Answer: a. A shoe

9. I Believe That Books Will Never Disappear

1. The first literary reading of Borges was:

Answer: d. Grimm's 'Fairy Tales'

2. Match the following:

A. Dona Leonor - iii. His mother
B. Blindness - i. Way of life
C. Educated by - ii. His father's Library
Answer: a. A-iii, B-i, C-ii

3. Complete the analogy:

Flowers: Women :: Life: _______
Answer: c. River

4. Match the following:

A. Hands - i. Sword
B. Sight - iii. Telescope
C. Memory - ii. Book
Answer: b. A-i, B-iii, C-ii

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5. Borges was mostly educated by:

Answer: a. His father’s library

6. According to Borges, who had already tried writing a book on the history of books?
Answer: c. Spengler

7. Identify the wrong combination of essential metaphors:

Answer: c. Life and death

8. Borges believes that the 'poetic act' happens when:

Answer: c. Both i (poet writes) and ii (reader reads) are correct

9. Borges calls ______ the most astounding invention of man.

Answer: a. Books

10. Borges says poetry is not:

Answer: d. Unexplainable

11. Emily Dickinson’s words "This quiet dust was gentlemen and Ladies" exemplify the usage of:
Answer: d. Precise words

12. Borges does not make this statement about books:

Answer: b. Modern developments would replace books with more dynamic things

13. Match the following works with their authors:

A. Fairy Tales - i. Grimm
B. The Odyssey - iii. Homer
C. Decline of the West - ii. Spengler
Answer: a. A-i, B-iii, C-ii

14. "Every book worth being re-read has been written by the spirit" are words of:
Answer: a. Goethe

15. According to Borges, which segment in Emily Dickinson’s poem uses precise words that elicit
emotion?
Answer: b. Quiet dust

16. Borges dreamed of the burning of a great library. He believed that it might be:
Answer: a. Library of Alexandria

17. According to Borges, his blindness is:

Answer: a. Way of life

18. According to Borges, ______ is an extension of our imagination and memory.

Answer: b. Book

10. Heaven, If You Are Not Here On Earth

1. Which statement is true with respect to the poem?

Answer: a. Heaven is here on earth only

2. Which of the following does not make this earth heaven?

Answer: c. Heavenly Nymphs

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3. The poet creates heaven on earth by:

Answer: a. Imbibing and spilling the song of nectar

4. According to Kuvempu, ______ creates heaven on earth.

Answer: c. Poet

5. The tender sunshine falls on:

Answer: c. Verdant gardens

11. Japan and Brazil Through a Traveler’s Eye

1. Which country does Mikes call a ‘hopelessly overcrowded island’?

Answer: a. Japan

2. What is an alternative to privacy in Japan, according to Mikes?

Answer: d. Courtesy

3. Mikes describes ______ as "quainter, more formal, and more oriental, and it is also
infectious" in Japan.
Answer: c. Bowing

4. According to Mikes, ______ has more dangers than anything else in Japan.
Answer: c. Crossing the road

5. The author meets a deer that courteously bows to him at:

Answer: d. Nara

6. Complete the analogy:

Beautiful pavements: Copacabana :: Worst place of traffic: ______
Answer: a. Avenida Presidente Vargas

7. In Japan, making fearful noise while eating soup signifies:

Answer: c. Appreciation

8. The life of ______ is becoming more hazardous every day in Brazil.

Answer: b. Pedestrians

9. The mania, which the writer notices in Japan, is for:

Answer: a. Bowing

10. Which attitude of the Japanese has a double function?

Answer: b. Courtesy

11. Complete the analogy:

Driver: Hunter :: Pedestrian: ______
Answer: b. Prey

12. The Voter

1. Complete the analogy:

Marcus Ibe: Mission school teacher :: ______: Bicycle repairer’s apprentice
Answer: c. Rufus Okeke

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2. Choose the correct sequence of events:

Answer: d. Elders agreed to vote for Marcus by taking four shillings - Roof thinks of
returning five pounds - People vote Marcus without taking any money - POP Campaign
Leader gives five pounds to Roof

3. Match the following:

A. Umuro - i. Highlife Band
B. Roof's Training - iii. Port Harcourt
C. Mbanta - ii. Iyi
Answer: a. A-i, B-iii, C-ii

4. Identify the correct sequence of happenings:

Answer: a. POP Campaign Leader visited Roof - Placed five pounds on the floor - Demands
to vote for Maduka - Makes Roof swear on iyi

5. Identify the false statement:

Answer: a. Roof totally offered four shillings to vote for Marcus Ibe

6. "Why Walk when you can ride…" are the words of:
Answer: b. Highlife Band

7. Match the proverbs with their meaning:

A. Leaving ozo feast and going to a ritual meal - iii. Not choosing the best option
B. Take down firewood from iroko tree - ii. Trying to do impossible things
C. Fly trying to move dunghill - i. Take all the advantages possible
Answer: c. A-iii, B-ii, C-i

8. Match the following:

A. Motor car - ii. PAP
B. Clay pot with feathers - iii. Iyi
C. Man’s Head - i. POP
Answer: c. A-ii, B-iii, C-i

9. Identify the wrong suggestion of the given statements:

Answer: c. Both statements are related to PAP

10. Identify the correct statement:

Answer: c. Rufus Okeke tore the ballot paper into two pieces and put one half in each box.