General English - Match the poems and Poets
Exam Duration: 60 Mins Total Questions : 30
The poem 'Biking' is written by
- (a)
Gayathri Phalajam
- (b)
Suraj
- (c)
Judith Micholl's
- (d)
Oscar Wilde
'Inclusion' has been written by
- (a)
Carefully designed
- (b)
action
- (c)
very old
- (d)
tells a story
Match:
a) Miracle | 1.greed |
b) Obscure | 2.hateful |
c) Ripe | 3.Magical happening |
d) Avarice | unclear |
e) disgusting | fully grown |
- (a)
a b c d e 3 4 5 1 2 - (b)
a b c d e 1 2 3 4 5 - (c)
a b c d e 2 3 4 5 1 - (d)
a b c d e 4 5 1 2 3
'The Bat' is written by
- (a)
Randall Jarell
- (b)
Swaminathan
- (c)
Antonyms
- (d)
W.J. Carney
'giggled' means
- (a)
roared
- (b)
break up to leave
- (c)
very small
- (d)
laughed in a silly way
Match:
a) To cook and eat | 1.Grace Nicholas |
b) The bat | 2.Emma Richards |
c) The selfish giant | 3.Randall Jarrell |
d)Jarrellanny please comb my hair |
4.Oscar Wilde |
- (a)
a b c d 2 3 4 1 - (b)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (c)
a b c d 3 4 1 2 - (d)
a b c d 4 1 2 3
Which year the American Civil War held between the Northern and Southern States of U.S.A?
- (a)
1859
- (b)
1858
- (c)
1819
- (d)
1860
"The wooden bowl" story is adapted from story written by
- (a)
William Smith
- (b)
Leo Tolstoy
- (c)
William Wordsworth
- (d)
Shakespeare
Match:
a) Where the mind is without fear |
1.James Kirkup |
b) Keep your spirits | 2.Douglas Malloch |
c) Be the best | 3. Hope Spencer |
d) No men are foreign | 4.Tagore |
- (a)
a b c d 4 3 2 1 - (b)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (c)
a b c d 2 4 1 3 - (d)
a b c d 3 1 4 2
How much percentage of civilians died in the IInd World War?
- (a)
50%
- (b)
30%
- (c)
40%
- (d)
60%
Match the poets and poems:
a) Land of our birth, we pledge to the |
1.Ruskin Bond |
b) A Tiger in the zoo | 2.Emma Richards |
c) To Cook and eat | 3.Leslie Norris |
d) Gur Local Team | 4.Rudyard Kipling |
- (a)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (b)
a b c d 4 3 2 1 - (c)
a b c d 2 1 4 3 - (d)
a b c d 3 4 1 2
Match the following:
Poems | Poets |
a) Granny | 1.Dipit Bhatia |
b) With a friend | 2.Grace Nichols |
c)Inclusion | 3.Vivian Gould |
d)Hopes and dreams | 4.Audrey Heller |
- (a)
a b c d 3 4 1 2 - (b)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (c)
a b c d 3 1 4 2 - (d)
a b c d 2 4 1 3
"You always take your time you always take such care"... These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Inclusion
- (b)
Night
- (c)
With a friend
- (d)
Granny please comb my hair
"Not knowing, not caring"... These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
With a friend
- (b)
To cook and eat
- (c)
Inclusion
- (d)
Night
Match the following:
Poem | Poet |
a) Hopes and Dreams | 1.Emma Richards |
b) To Cook and eat | 2. Henry Charles Beeching |
c) Going downhill on a Bicycle |
3.William Blake |
d) Night | 4.Audrey Heller |
- (a)
a b c d 3 4 1 2 - (b)
a b c d 4 1 2 3 - (c)
a b c d 3 1 4 2 - (d)
a b c d 2 4 1 3
Which period Williams Shakespeare belongs
- (a)
1770-1850
- (b)
1564-1616
- (c)
1836-1907
- (d)
1898-1943
Which period Walt Whitman belongs to
- (a)
1819-1892
- (b)
1836-1907
- (c)
1909-1992
- (d)
1770-1850
Which period William words worth belongs to
- (a)
1803-1882
- (b)
1940-till today
- (c)
1770-1850
- (d)
1909-1992
Which period Robert Lee Frost belongs to
- (a)
1806-1861
- (b)
1881-1959
- (c)
1874-1963
- (d)
1861-1899
Which period Thomas Hardy belongs to
- (a)
1819-1892
- (b)
1807-1882
- (c)
1898-1943
- (d)
1840-1928
"God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of His mirth
The splendid joy of the stars the joy of the earth these lines occur in"
- (a)
Earth
- (b)
laugh and be Merry
- (c)
The flying Wonder
- (d)
My Native Land
"We take it for granted
not knowing,
not caring,
that other
may not have this thing
these lines occur in"
- (a)
Laugh and be merry
- (b)
The flying wonder
- (c)
To cook and eat
- (d)
No men are foreign
Glad till the dancing stops,
and the lilt of the music ends
Laugh till the game is played;
and you be merry, my friends"-
these lines occur in
- (a)
Laugh and be merry
- (b)
The flying wonder
- (c)
With a friend
- (d)
A tiger in the zoo
John Masefield belongs to
- (a)
Washington
- (b)
Ledbury
- (c)
Lebanon
- (d)
Brooklyn
Jack Prelutsky belongs to
- (a)
England
- (b)
Russia
- (c)
America
- (d)
Rome
D.H.Lawrence belongs to
- (a)
U.S.A
- (b)
Italy
- (c)
France
- (d)
U.K
Edger A.Guest belongs to
- (a)
U.S.A
- (b)
France
- (c)
Italy
- (d)
India
H.W.Long Fellow belongs to
- (a)
France
- (b)
Germany
- (c)
U.S.A
- (d)
Canada
"You have all the time in the world
And when you've finished"
these lines occur in
- (a)
To India-My Native land
- (b)
The flying wonder
- (c)
Granny please comb my hair
- (d)
With a friend
'Intricate' means
- (a)
Carefully designed
- (b)
action
- (c)
very old
- (d)
tells a story