Model Paper | SET – 1 | By Amar Sir
1. Benjy’s hens were producing an average of.
(A) 300 eggs
(B) 200 eggs
(C) 100 eggs
(D) 400 eggs
2. How many day’s leave had been taken by Malgaonkar ?
(A) Three days
(B) two days
(C) four days
(D) five days
3. Ratiram was the son of……
(A) Sohanlal Ratiram
(B) Mohanlal Ratiram
(C) Devanlal Ratiram
(D) Herolal Ratiram
4……. was the role model of Dr. Zakir Hussain.
(A) Dr. Radha Krishnan.
(B) Dr. Rajendra Pd.
(C) Indira Gandhi .
(D) Sardar Patel
5. Dr Zakir Hussain took the Oath as the ……..
(A) President
(B) Governor
(C) Minister
(D) Mayor
6……. is ever present in India.
(A) Religion
(B) Fear
(C) Hatred
(D) Jealousy
7. “I Have a Dream” is written by….
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(C) Martin Luther King Jr.
(D) H. E. Bates
8. “Ideas That Have Helped Mankind” is written by…..
(A) Bertrand Russell
(B) Shiga Naoya
(C) Germaine Geer
(D) Pearl S Buck
9. “You are an idiot.”- Who said this to Seibei?
(A) his mother
(C) his father
(B) his aunt
(D) his teacher
10. The porter sold the gourd of Seibei for…… yen.
(A) 40
(B) 50
(C) 60
(D) 10
11. Seibei’s mother was……. with him.
(A) angry
(B) happy
(C) terrified
(D) sad
12. In Bangladesh …..is a kind of fairy tales.
(A) Rupthoka
(B) Supthoka
(C) Tupthoka
(D) Jupthoka
13. How free is the press is__
(A) an essay
(B) a short
(C) a drama
(D) a story fiction
14. India was a part of the background of.__
(A) The doctor’s life
(B) The wife’s life
(C) The Kashmiri man’s life
(D) Pearl S. Buck’s life
15. Benjy bought the land from……
(A) Peter
(B) Sanders
(C) George
(D) John
16. The Earth is written by___
(A) Pearl S Buck
(B) HE Bates
(C) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
17. Pearl S Buck blames the…..for the ills and misfortunes of India.
(A) zamindars
(B) industrialists
(C) Britishers
(D) Indians
18. Natalia is the daughter of___
(A) Choobookov
(B) Chekhov
(C) Ivan
(D) Vassilievich
19. That there’s some corner of a foreign field’ – is from:
(A) An Epitaph
(B) The Soldier
(C) Macavity
(D) Song of Myself
20. The first…… lines are called octave.
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 9
(D) 5
21. T.S.Eliot is a …… poct.
(A) Twentieth Century
(B) Eighteenth Century
(C) Seventeenth Century
(D) Sixteenth Century
22. Macavity is an ……………
(A) outlaw
(B) criminals
(C) Looter
(D) diplomat
23. R. K. Narayan has written……
(A) Pinch of Snuff
(B) The Guide
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) Savitri
24. Let not thy divining heart; Forthinke me
any ill- is from:
(A) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
(B) The Soldier
(C) Song of Myself
(D) Fire-Hymn
25. Who was forced to leave Oxford
University without a degree?
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) John Donne
(D) None of these
26. I harbour for good or bad, I permit to
speak at every hazard”- is from:
(A) Snake
(B) Song of Myself
(C) An Epitaph
(D) The Soldier
27. Who composed Song of Myself ?
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Walter de la Mare
(C) Rupert Brooke
(D) John Donne
28. And the nightingale is dumb’ – is from:
(A) Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast
(B) Snake
(C) Fire-Hymn
(D) To Autumn
29. The redness of the fire appears…………..to the poet.
(A) nice
(B) cruel
(C) comfortable
(D)acceptable
30. John Keats is a …… poet.
(A) Romantic
(B) War
(C) Metaphysical
(D) Melancholic
31. …….. was a Poet of Nature.
(A) DH Lawrence
(B) TS Eliot
(C) John Keats
(D) None of these
32. Who has written a number of poems
for children?
(A) Walter De la Mare
(B) TS Eliot
(C) DH Lawrence
(D) None of these
33. Ravindra Nath Tagore wrote………..
(A) Geetanjali
(B) Savitri
(C) Macbeth
(D) The cup
34. The………… of a few women raised in warning cannot be heard over the humming and throbbing of our machines.
(A) singing
(B) crying
(C) voices
(D) sleeping
35. K. N. Daruwala is an …… poet.
(A) British
(B) American
(C) African
(D) Indo-Anglian
36. Snake is written by ……
(A) John Donne
(B) Kamala Das
(C) DH Lawrence
(D) Walt Whitman
37. DH Lawrence belonged to ………
(A) Britain
(B) France
(C) America
(D) None of these
38. My Grand Mother’s House is written by ……
(A) Kamala Das
(B) DH Lawrence
(C) Keki N Daruwala
(D) John Donne
39. Mac Fleckone’ is written by ……
(A) John Dryden
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Lord Byron
(D) John Keats
40. Benjy showed no sign of ….. while driving away his parents.
(A) normal emotion
(B) sadness
(C) anxiety
(D) fear
Model Paper | SET – 2 | By Amar Sir
1. A Pinch of Snuff” is …….
(A) a short story.
(B) an essay
(C) a drama
(D) a speech.
2. Dr. Zakir Hussain became the President of India in …….
(A) 1969
(B) 1967
(C) 1966
(D) 1965
3. Bharat is my home is written by ……
(A) Anton P Chekhov
(B) Pearl S Buck
(C) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
4. Indian Civilization is_____
(A) Godless
(B) based on partiality
(C) based on matter
(D) based on belief in God
5. Who dominated Indian politics from 1915 to 1948?
(A) J.L. Nehru
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) M. Gandhi
(D) S.C. Bose
6. Which language is not our native language?
(A) English
(B) Hindi
(C) Tamil
(D) Malayalam
7. A Pinch of Snuff is written by
(A) Manohar Malgaonkar
(B) Germaine Greer
(C) Dorothy L Sayers
(D) HE Bates
8. Martin Luther King Jr. belonged to…..
(A) The USA
(B) Britain
(C) Germany
(D) France
9. Who was influenced by Gandhiji ?
(A) Martin Luther King Jr.
(B) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(C) Bertrand Russell
(D) H.E. Bates
10. If America becomes a great nation, it mustn’t overlook the problems of____
(A) Farmers
(B) Labourers
(C) Negroes
(D) Unemployeds
11. Who was a philosopher, historian and a mathematician?
(A) M. Gandhi
(B). Dr. Zakir Hussain
(C) Bertrand Russell
(D) H.E. Bates
12. Shiga Naoya belonged to which century?
(A) 17th century
(B) 18 century
(C) 19″ century
(D) 20″ century
13. Shiga Naoya is a ……… writer
(A) Japanese
(B) Chinese
(C) Indian
(D) Bhutanese
14. A Child is Born is written by
(A) Germaine Greer
(B) H. E. Betes
(C) Anton P Chekhov
(D) Shiga Naoya
15. Dorothy L. Sayers says that press is free
(A) everywhere
(B) somewhere at most places
(C) nowhere
(D) at more places
16. How Free is the Press is written by.
(A) HE Bates
(B) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(C) Dorothy L. Sayers
(D) Bertrand Russell
17. According to Pearl S Buck, the Indian people are deeply_____
(A) honest
(B) content
(C) religious
(D) devoted
18. Mahatma Gandhi was not…………. of material progress of the West.
(A) enamoured
(B) critical
(C) pleased
(D) contemptuous
19. Who was Lomov?
(A) a businessman
(B) a gardener
(C) a landowner
(D) a grocer
20. Lomov wants to marry………
(A) Jessica
(B) Natalia
(C) Susan
(D) Florence
21. John Donne is a…… poet.
(A) war
(B) romantic
(C) metaphysical
(D) modern
22. Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe is written by ……
(A) John Donne
(B) Kamala Das
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) Walt Whitman
23.Walt Whitman is…… years old.
(A) 35
(B) 36
(C) 37
(D) 38
24. The line “And the prams go rolling on’ if from……….
(A) Snake
(B) To Autumn
(C) Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast
(D) Fire Hymn
25. The leaves are falling……
(A) fast
(B) slow
(C) good
(D) soon
26. “Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.’ – is from:
(A) An Autumn
(B) Fire-Hymn
(C) Ode to Autumn
(D) The Soldier
27. …… was a great lover of Nature.
(A) John Keats
(B) WH Auden
(C) Rupert Brooke
(D) John Donne
28. The line, I think she was the most beautiful lady’is from-
(A) Snake
(B) Fire Hymn
(C) To Autumn
(D) An Epitaph
29.The teacher who caught Seibei playing with ground.
(A) appreciated him
(B) depreciated him
(C) awarded him
(D) punished him
30. How many ‘war sonnets’ did Brooke write?
(A) five
(B) six
(C) seven
(D) eight
31. The poet in The Soldier is depicting the miseries of..
(A) war
(B) nature
(C) relation
(D) love
32. ‘He’s broken every human law’ is from:
(A) Snake
(B) Song of Myself
(C) Macavity- The Mystery Cat
(D) Ode to Autumn
333. The poet compares Macavity to
(A) Samudragupta
(B) Bismarck
(C) Napolean
(D) Charles
34. In Bangladesh, children are looked after by the ………..
(A) father only
(B) mother only
(C) whole family
(D) maids
35. Fire Hymn is written by ….
(A) Rupert Brooke
(B) TS Eliot
(C) Kamala Das
(D) Keki N Daruwala
36. The poet is filled with protest because
(A) he fears the snake
(B) he doesn’t want the snake to go
(C) he wants to kill the snake
(D) he doesn’t want to kill it
37. Who decided to hit the snake?
(A) DH Lawrence
(B) TS Eliot
(C) Keki N Daruwala
(D) None of these
38. “That woman died, the house withdrew into silence’- is from:
(A) My Grandmother’s House
(B) Ode to Autumn
(C) Snake
(D) Fire-Hymn
39. The editorial policy of a popular daily is controlled by factors.
(A) three
(B) two
(C) four
(D) five
40. Who are known as the international Indian English writers ?
(A) Salman Rushdie and V S Naipul
(B) R.K. Narayan & Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Anita Desai and Anita Ghosh
(D) Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy
Model Paper | SET – 3 | By Amar Sir
1. “Nurse” in the poem ” Now the leaves are falling Fast” stands for
(A) a plant
(B) a fruit
(C) a tree
(D) a bird
2. ___was a spiritual leader than a politician.
(A) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
3. Dr. Zakir Hussain delivered his speech in___
(A) 1966
(B) 1965
(C) 1967
(D) 1968
4. Who has taken the oath of loyalty to the constitution of India?
(A) Shiga Naoya
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(D) Bertrand Russell
5. European civilization will mean___for India
(A) want
(B) living
(C) real
(D) ruin
6. Martin Luther King Jr. dislike___discrimnation
(A) caste
(B) sex
(C) religion
(D) racial
7. Who got Nobel Prize in literature in 1950 ?
(A) Bertrand Russell
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(D) H. E. Bates
8. The curio-dealer sold the gourd to a wealthy collector for___yen.
(A) 500
(B) 600
(C) 300
(D) 400
9. Seibei was a ___Japanese boy.
(A) ten years old
(B) twelve years old
(C) thirteen years old
(D) eleven years old
10. “An Epitaph” deals with a beautiful___
(A) girl
(B) lady
(C) baby
(D) puppy
11. ___is an extract from sex and Destiny:The Politics of Human Fertility.
(A) A Child is Born
(B) The Artish
(C) A Pinch of Snuff
(D) The Earth
12. Proprietor of the newspaper has___
(A) interest of the people
(B) national interest
(C) social interest
(D) personal interest
13. Benjy’s parents are known as the___
(A) Johnsons
(B) Jacksons
(C) Smiths
(D) Leohorns
14. “Ode to Autumn” exhibits the principle of ___in nature.
(A) joy
(B) contentment
(C) sorrow
(D) beauty
15. “India Through a Traveller’s Eye” is written by___
(A) Pearl S. Buck
(B) Anton Chekhov
(C) H. E. Bates
(D) Shiga Naoya
16. ___is the daughter of Choobookov
(A) Matalia
(B) Natalia
(C) Ratalia
(D) Satalia
17. “The Soldier” is_____
(A) an ode
(B) a sonnet
(C) an epic
(D) an elegy
18. “I knew how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act” is from:
(A) Ode to Autumn
(B) My Grandmother’s House
(C) Snake
(D) The Soldier
19. The poet had gone to the water trough to drink__
(A) water
(B) tea
(C) coffee
(D) cigarette
20. Macavity is a ___cat
(A) miserable
(B) mystery
(C) appealing
(D) respectable
21. Kamala Das is an___poetess.
(A) American
(B) African
(C) Indian
(D) Nigerian
22. The year AD 1066 is taken to be the end of the ___period.
(A) Middle English
(B) Old English
(C) Modern English
(D) None of these
23. Which language functions as a link language between to south and north India?
(A) Hindi
(B) Tamil
(C) Maratha
(D) English
24. What is the period of the Middle English Period in the history of English
(A) 1100 AD to 1450 AD
(B) 1150 AD to 1500 AD
(C) 1650 AD to 2000 AD
(D) 1000 AD to 1350 AD
25. The name “Augustan” was given to the early__century.
(A) 17th
(B) 18th
(C) 19th
(D) 20th
26. Which period’s known as the childhood period of the English language?
(A) Old English Period
(B) Middle English Period
(C) Modern English Period
(D) None of these
27. “Leaves of Grass” was published in__
(A) 1892
(B) 1855
(C) 1860
(D) 1872
28. The term “Zoroastrian” in “Fire-Hymn” stand for___
(A) Hindu
(B) Muslim
(C) Christian
(D) Parsi
29. “Now the leaves are falling fast” is written by___
(A) John Keats
(B) W. H. Auden
(C) Rupert Brooke
(D) John Donne
30. Autumn is a season of___
(A) no leaves
(B) fruitfulness
(C) no fire
(D) no rain
31. To Autumn is written by___
(A) Jhon Keats
(B) Walter De La Mare
(C) John Donne
(D) K. N. Daruwala
32. “However, rare-rare it be” is from
(A) Ode to Autumn
(B) Snake
(C) An Epitaph
(D) Song of Myself
33. ‘When I crumble, who will remember’ is from _____
(A) An Epitaph
(B) To Autumn
(C) Snake
(D) Fire- Hymn
34. The Soldier is written by______
(A) Rupert Brooke
(B) Kamala Das
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) John Donne
35. ‘His brow is deeply lined with thoughts’ is from ____
(A) Macavity : The Mystery Cat
(B) The Soldier
(C) My Grandmother’s House
(D) Snake
36. Macavity : The Mystery Cat is written by ____
(A) Rupert Brooke
(B) T.S . Eliot
(C) Kamala Das
(D) John Donne
37. _____lears to save fire from the sin of forgetfulness
(A) K.N.Daruwala
(B) Kamala Das
(C) W.B. Yeats
(D) John Keats
38. A Pinch of Snuff ‘ is written by ______
(A) Manohar Malgaonkar
(B) Germaine Greer
(C) Dorthy. L Sayers
(D) H. E. Bates
39. ‘ A king in exile ‘ in the poem “Snake” stand for _____
(A) the rat
(B) the elephant
(C) the snake
(D) the lion
Model Paper | SET – 4 | By Amar Sir
1. The Sentence, ‘The distinguishing characteristics of modern civilization is our indefinte multiplicity of want’s is from
(A) Indian Civilization and Culture
(B) I Have a Dream
(C) A Child is Born
(D) The Earth
2. The Speaker of ‘My Grandmother’s House’ is proud of ____
(A) her parent’s house
(B) her grandmother’s house
(C) her uncle’s house
(D) her aunt’s house
3. Who was overwhelmed by the trust his people have placed in him ?
(A) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Bertrand Russel
(D) Shiga Naoya
4. Dr. Zakir Hussain was a great _____
(A) politician
(B) leader
(C) nationalist
(D) thinker
5. When Nanukaka is unable to express in English or Hindi, he starts speaking in _____
(A) Gujarati
(B) Bengali
(C) Punjabi
(D) Marathi
6. The Poet had gone to the water trough on a ____ day.
(A) hot
(B) stuffy
(C) cold
(D) pleasant
7. Nineteen _____is not an end, but a beginning.
(A) sixty three
(B) sixty two
(C) sixty one
(D) sixty
8. What was more important than the domestication of animals ?
(A) Agriculture
(B) Machinery
(C) Fire
(D) Vehicles
9. Macavity is the bafflement of _______
(A) Lower yard
(B) Buscot yard
(C) Dcot yard
(D) Scotland yard
10. The old woman asked ______sen for the gourd.
(A) ten
(B) five
(C) fifteen
(D) tweleve
11. Seibei was a twelve years _____boy.
(A) Indian
(B) Chinese
(C) Korean
(D) Japanese
12. _______woman visit her mother’s house during pregnancy.
(A) An Indian
(B) A Sylheti
(C) An African
(D) A Canadian
13. Who was an essayist, playwright, poet?
(A) Shiga Naoya
(B) Dorothy L Sayers
(C) H. E. Bates
(D) Anton Chekov
14. Dorothy L. Sayers is _____
(A) a novelist
(B) an essayist
(C) an doctor
(D) a singer
15. The theme of the poem “An Epitaph is _____
(A) patriotic
(B) melancholic
(C) romantic
(D) mysterious
16. The bank will give interest on it and then one day, when you (Benjy) are _____
(A) 20
(B) 21
(C) 19
(D) 22
17. According to Pearl S. Buck the main quality of a leader is ___
(A) selflessness
(B) selfishness
(C) communalism
(D) dishonesty
18. Pearl S. Buck came to know about Indian through _____
(A) Buddhism
(B) Hinduism
(C) Islam
(D) Christianity
19. According to W.H. Auden, the _____ has become dumb to see the leafless tree.
(A) hen
(B) sparrow
(C) nightingale
(D) peacock
20. Choobookov is a _____
(A) farmer
(B) doctor
(C) landowner
(D) teacher
21. John Donne is going to ____ leaving his wife behind.
(A) Germany
(B) France
(C) England
(D) Italy
22. Who says, “Every atom of blood is the same in all human beings”?
(A) Rupert Brooke
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) T.S. Eiliot
(D) None of these
23. ” Starving through the leafless wood ‘ is from :
(A) Snake
(B) The Soldier
(C) Now the leaves are falling fast
(D) An Epitaph
24. Who wrote ” The Scholar Gipsy”?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) W.B. Yeats
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Thomas Hardly
25. ” And gathering swallows twitter in the skies” is taken from
(A) Snake
(B) The Soldier
(C) Ode to Autumn
(D) An Epitaph
26. Walter de la Mare Knew a ____ who is now dead.
(A) lady
(B) girl
(C) boy
(D) lord
27. Who has made An Epitaph for the beautiful lady?
(A) John Donne
(B) Walter de la mare
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D) None of these
28. How many times does the poet use the word ” England” ?
(A) 9
(B) 7
(C) 6
(D) 5
29. Who wrote “Endymion”?
(A) Willian Wordsworth
(B) John Keats
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) S.T. Coleridge
30. Macavity is called ______
(A) The Hidden Paw
(B) The Exposed paw
(C) Teh Naughty paw
(D) The Mysterious Paw
31. Macavity is a _____
(A) dog
(B) lion
(C) cat
(D) rat
32. Consigning his new born son to flames took place ____ year ago.
(A) 15
(B) 16
(C) 20
(D) 18
33. The 18th century is known as the ____
(A) Cavalier Age
(B) Jacobean Age
(C) Augustan Age
(D) Romantic Age
34. Kamala Das remembers the happy days spent in the sweet company of her ______
(A) mother
(B) father
(C) grandmother
(D) grandfather
35. The poetess in the Grandmother’s House ‘begs at ____ doors.
(A) friend’s
(B) family’s
(C) stranger’s
(D) enemy’s
36. Which languages has become a passport to jobs in India and abroad?
(A) French
(B) Chinese
(C) German
(D) English
37. Manohar Malgaonkar belonged to ______
(A) India
(B) Britain
(C) China
(D) Bhutan
38. In which century did the Indian English poetry begin to be written ?
(A) 18th century
(B) 19th century
(C) 20th century
(D) 17th century
39. Which language is the second language of India ?
(A) English
(B) Hindi
(C) Sanskrit
(D) Bhojpuri
40. The new variety of English that developed in America is called _____
(A) British English
(B) American English
(C) Indian English
(D) Russian English
Model Paper | SET – 5 | By Amar Sir
1. Who used to live with her grandmother?
(A) Kamal das
(B) Mahadevi Verma
(C) Indira Gandhi
(D) None of these
2. Indian glory is that it is__
(A) movable
(B) immovable
(C) ignorant
(D) uncivilised
3. Dr. Zakir Hussain entered the office in a sprit of ____ humility.
(A) special
(B) prayerful
(C) long
(D) new
4. Which nation has been called the young state of an ancient people ?
(A) India
(B) Pakistan
(C) China
(D) Iran
5. Which animal had Nanukaka brought with him on his visit to the narrator’s place ?
(A) kitten
(B) puppy
(C) mouse
(D) cub
6. Nanukaka managed to travel in 2nd Class on a ticket of _
(A) 1st Class
(B) 3rd Class
(C) General Class
(D) Sleeper Class
7. Goldsmith and Sheridan made contribution to the _____
(A) Novel
(B) Non-fiction writing
(C) Poetry
(D) English stage
8. Martin Luther King Jr. had _____children.
(A) four
(B) three
(C) two
(D) one
9. Who was one of the greatest orators in American history?
(A) Martin Luther King Jr.
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(D) H. E. Bates
10. Bertrand Russell was a philosopher and a _____
(A) Geologist
(B) Chemist
(C) Botanist
(D) Mathematician
11. Robins peck an elderly _____ to death .
(A) owl
(B) peacock
(C) robin
(D) pigeon
12. Seibei reads at ______school.
(A) Primary
(B) High
(C) Middle
(D) +2 School
13. The Artist is written by _____
(A) Germaine Greer
(B) Shiga Naoya
(C) Anton Chekhov
(D) H. E. Bates
14. A major linguistic change in English is ______
(A) The Great Vowel Shift
(B) Received Pronunciation
(C) Language Change
(D) Vocabulary Shift
15. Dorothy L Sayers graduated from ______
(A) Cambridge
(B) Oxford
(C) Stanford
(D) Harvard
16. Benjy left school at the age of _____
(A) twelve
(B) thirteen
(C) fourteen
(D) fifteen
17. India through a Traveller’s Eye is an inspiring _____
(A) essay
(B) story
(C) novel
(D) drama
18. Kashmir was invaded by _____ barbarian invaders.
(A) white
(B) black
(C) blue
(D) green
19. Choobookov called Natalia _______
(A) an ugly woman
(B) a bad woman
(C) a love- sick cat
(D) a foolish woman
20. What is the area of the Ox – Meadows ?
(A) forty acres
(B) thirty acres
(C) twenty acres
(D) fifty acres
21. The Old English Period is Characterized by _____
(A) vocabulary
(B) mood
(C) inflection
(D) gender
22. The line ‘ Nor in the hope, the world can show A fitter love for me; is from ______
(A) Fire Hymn
(B) To Autumn
(C) Snake
(D) Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe
23. ‘My life’s blood doth decay’ is from _____
(A) Fire- Hymn
(B) Snake
(C) To Autumn
(D) Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe
24. Who wrote ‘Huckleberry Finn’ ?
(A) Herman Melville
(B) Henry James
(C) Earnest Hemingway
(D) Mark Twain
25. John Donne Died of tuberculosis at the age of ____
(A) 26
(B) 30
(C) 60
(D) 90
26. Where does the lady lie ?
(A) hotel
(B) park
(C) market
(D) graveyard
27. The _____ helped in simplifying English.
(A) Bible
(B) Quran
(C) Mahabharata
(D) Ramayana
28. The last _____lines are known as sestet.
(A) 6
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 7
29. The Poet compares Macavity to ____
(A) Samudragupta
(B) Bismarck
(C) Napolean
(D) Charles
30. Macavity is the pet cat of____
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) D. H. lawrence
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) None of these
31. Who wrote Macbeth and ‘Julius Caesar’?
(A) Johnson
(B) Goldsmith
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Sheridan
32. ‘In deep, strange- scented shade of the great dark carob tree’- is from :
(A) Snake
(B) Song of Myself
(C) The Soldier
(D) My Grandmother’s House
33. The Snake ‘easing his shoulder’ means ____
(A) loosening its shoulders
(B) moving slowly
(C) moving fast
(D) slipping with majestic grace
34. The word ‘drama’ comes from a _____ word.
(A) Latin
(B) Indian
(C) Scandinavian
(D) Greek
35. ‘ Darkness to bring it here to lie’ is from _____
(A) Snake
(B) The Soldier
(C) My Grandmother’s House
(D) Fire- Hymn
36. Which thing has enriched the vocabulary of English ?
(A) Giving
(B) Borrowing
(C) Withdrawing
(D) Depositing
37. “Colour” word is related to ______
(A) American English
(B) British English
(C) Indian English
(D) French English
38. Who wrote ‘Tughlaq’?
(A) Girish Karnad
(B) R.N. Tagore
(C) Toru Dutt
(D) Aurobindo
39. “The Bachelor of Arts’ and ” The English Teacher’ are written by ______
(A) R. K Narayan
(B) M.R. Anand
(C) B. C. Chattopadhyay
(D) S.C. Chatterjee
40. What is the main languages of the United Nations?
(A) French
(B) German
(C) English
(D) Chinese
Model Paper | SET – 6 | By Amar Sir
1. Man’s power is____
(A) strong
(B) weak
(C) waste
(D) good
2. Nanukaka was related to the narrator, as he was his__
(A) father
(B) nephew
(C) waste
(D) maternal uncle
3. In the era of__English has been found suitable as the language of international communication.
(A) modern world
(B) communication
(C) globalisation
(D) enrichment
4. Nanukaka managed to impress the Sikka Auto Dealer by demonstration of___
(A) his coat
(B) his gold
(C) his wealth
(D) his politics
5. Dr. Zakir Hussain was one of our greatest freedom fighter as well as an eminent___
(A) businessman
(B) educationist
(C) poet
(D) artist
6. Nanukaka’s snuff box was of ____
(A) gold
(B) sliver
(C) brass
(D) glass
7. Dr. Zakir Hussain said,’Bharat is my home’, in the context of his___
(A) governor’s speech
(B) presidential speech
(C) one of the essays
(D) speech to public
8. The new role Nanukaka gave the narrator/under secretary, was of ___
(A) crook
(B) driver
(C) professor
(D) minister
9. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the serious and urgent call of the______
(A) hour
(B) second
(C) moment
(D) minute
10. Indian people be recongized as belonging to the race of__
(A) Capoid
(B) Caucasian
(C) Apartheid
(D) Hegemonic
11. Macavity can defy or challenge___
(A) Anyone
(B) The food
(C) The law
(D) The dog
12. Long infancy was a biological advantage to___
(A) animals
(B) birds
(C) mankind
(D) fishes
13. Who is the master of the state ?
(A) government
(B) pressed
(C) courteous
(D) people
14. The poet observes____ in summer
(A) sunny grass
(B) bird playing
(C) spike of grass
(D) yellow flowers
15. Walter De La Mare is famous as a___
(A) War Poet
(B) Children’s Poet
(C) Nature Poet
(D) Romantic Poet
16. The poem ” Fire- Hymn ” is about a___
(A) Human society
(B) violence
(C) burning ghat
(D) man
17. The colour of the snake is____
(A) Yellow
(B) Green
(C) Black
(D) Blue
18. English language is much _____ than Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin etc –
(A) Older
(B) Much older
(C) Higher
(D) Younger
19. The hospital refused to believe that the pregnant woman was in___
(A) first stage labour
(B) second stage labour
(C) third stage labour
(D) fourth stage labour
20. A free and fair press is the the watchdog of___
(A) state
(B) family
(C) court
(D) democracy
21. Diseases make human life _____
(A) miser
(B) mouser
(C) miserable
(D) wealthier
22. Benjy had left school at the age of__
(A) fourteen
(B) ten
(C) twelve
(D) eight
23. Whom the poet loves so intensely that he wants to come back soon ?
(A) son
(B) daughter
(C) beloved
(D) mother
24. The snake looked at the speaker___
(A) sharply
(B) vaguely
(C) calmly
(D) fiercely
25. Nanukaka wrote a cheque for a _____ rupee.
(A) thousand
(B) hundred
(C) five hundred
(D) ten thousand
26. The line “Hoping to cease not till death” is taken from ____
(A) Song of Myself
(B) The Soldier
(C) Fire Hymn
(D) None of these
27. The hope is the ___that every valley should be exalted
(A) stream
(B) dream
(C) valley
(D) state
28. The poet express his indebtedness to____
(A) India
(B) America
(C) England
(D) Spain
29. Which type of gourd did Seibei like?
(A) folded
(B) hardred
(C) soft
(D) even and summetrical
30. The press can make or break___
(A) statue
(B) people
(C) garbling
(D) reputation
31. Benjy had understood thet the hens exists for the purpose of_____
(A) paying
(B) laying eggs
(C) eating
(D) selling
32. Travellers will be blessed with____
(A) river
(B) waterfall
(C) pond
(D) lake
33. Sahitya Akademi Award was given to Keki N. Daruwala in –
(A) 1968
(B) 1974
(C) 1984
(D) 1978
34. In Sicily, There is a volcano____
(A) Etna
(B) Italy
(C) Philthy
(D) Rockies
35. In Sicily, black snakes are considered___
(A) Innocent
(B) Venomous
(C) Playful
(D) Food
36. In Sicily, yellow snakes are considered___
(A) Innocent
(B) Venomous
(C) Playful
(D) Food
37. The father of John Donne was a___
(A) trader
(B) merchant
(C) house master
(D) teacher
38. Who was the Maharaj of Ninnore___
(A) Sutkata
(B) Shiva Jee
(C) Chhatrashal
(D) Ratnasen
39. Benjy knew about the hens through the___
(A) television
(B) newspaper
(C) radio
(D) social media
40. When Benjy left the school he had___hens
(A) 40 to 50 hens
(B) 30 to 40 hens
(C) 50 to 60 hens
(D) 100 to 200 hens
Model Paper | SET – 7 | By Amar Sir
1. “A Child is born” is an extract from____
(A) Piers and Plowman
(B) Sex and Destiny
(C) My Several Worlds
(D) Come, My Beloved
2. “Macvity: The Mystery Cat” is an extract from____
(A) Piers and Plowman
(B) Old Possuem Cat
(C) My Several Worlds
(D) Come, My Beloved
3. “India Through a Traveller’s Eye” is an extract from____
(A) Piers and Plowman
(B) Sex and Destiny
(C) My Several Worlds
(D) Come, My Beloved
4. “The nearest Tower of___was a thousand miles.
(A) London
(B) Victory
(C) Paris
(D) Silence
5. “A poem of ____lines is a sonnet.
(A) 12
(B) 14
(C) 16
(D) 18
6. “The “Romantic Revival” is often associated with___
(A) J. Dryden
(B) A. Pope
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) J. Milton
7. Choobookov called Natalia____
(A) La stupid girl
(B) an ugly girl
(C) an angry woman
(D) a love-sick cat
8. “Who hath not seen thee aft amid thy store?”
(A) Ode to Autumn
(B) Snake
(C) Song of Myself
(D) Fire-Hymn
9. “The snake drank water with its_____
(A) lips
(B) gums
(C) jaw
(D) teeth
10. “The snake drank water with its_____mouth
(A) straight
(B) curved
(C) forward
(D) backward
11. “The___are praiseworthy for their work of spreading Christianity
(A) missionaries
(B) zamindars
(C) priests
(D) saints
12. “Natalia was___to know about Lomov’s proposal.
(A) hateful
(B) happy
(C) angry
(D) distrustful
13. ___is known for her travelogue and memories.
(A) Pearl S. Buck
(B) Martin Luther King
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Manohar Malgaonker
14. ___was called to kill a dangerous snake
(A) elder brother
(B) younger brother
(C) little brother
(D) tallest brother
15. The host of Pearl S. Buck served food on fresh banana leaves instead of _________
(A) plates
(B) bowls
(C) pan
(D) thali
16. Which book was written by Pearl S. Buck after returning form India?
(A) Come, My Beloved
(B) The God’s Earth
(C) My Several Worlds
(D) India Through a Traveller’s Eyes
17. “The philosophy believed in by the National Socialist German Workers Party reorganised on military lines by Hitler is called_
(A) Idealism
(B) Colonisation
(C) Nazism
(D) Prophecy
18. “The most indubitable respect in which ideas have helped mankind is ____
(A) Idealism
(B) number
(C) Nazism
(D) Prophecy
19. “Our earliest form of writing was ____
(A) Idealism
(B) numeral
(C) pictorial
(D) alphabetical
20. “Garlands of turmeric and garlic are worn to ward off___ is ____
(A) evil spirits
(B) thieves
(C) jealous women
(D) barren women
21. Intellectual and moral qualities distinguish us from the__
(A) brutes
(B) birds
(C) teachers
(D) doctors
22. It would be fatal for the nation to underestimate the____of the Negro.
(A) strength
(B) climbing skills
(C) education
(D) determination
23. Nanukaka draped a__round his shoulders.
(A) red angochha
(B) white angochha
(C) blue angochha
(D) black angochha
24. “work on one’s self is to follow the urge towards moral development as a free person” is a line from”
(A) Bharat is My Home
(B) How Free is the Press
(C) India Through a Traveller’s Eye
(D) The Earth
25. They saw that our real happiness and health consisted in a proper use of our hands and feet” is line from__
(A) Bharat is My Home
(B) How Free is the Press
(C) Indian Civilization & Culture
(D) The Earth
26. “The most indubitable respect in which ideas have helped mankind is ____
(A) Idealism
(B) number
(C) Nazism
(D) Prophecy
27. “Martin Luther King, Jr asks the black people to continue working with__
(A) love
(B) hatred
(C) faith
(D) jealousy
28. Who travelled free with Nanukaka ?
(A) Dog
(B) Rabbit
(C) Hen
(D)Kitten
29. “The people have chosen to make me the head of this family for a certain time Who says this ?
(A) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(B) Kamala Das
(C) Pearl S. Buck
(D) Manohar Malgaonkar
30. “Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty” is from
(A) Indian Civilization and Culture
(B) A Child is Born
(C) A Marriage Proposal
(D) Bharat is my Home
31. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself ____” is from
(A) Snake
(B) Ode to Autumn
(C) Song of myself
(D) Now the leaves are falling fast
32. “Donne studied law and read___
(A) theology
(B) drama
(C) philosophy
(D) novels
33. “A Marriage Proposal” is a___
(A) tragedy
(B) satire
(C) tragi- comedy
(D) comedy
34. When we speak of the freedom of the press” we usually mean freedom in a ____ sense
(A) broad
(B) legal
(C) technical
(D) social
35. Bertrand Russell was also a___
(A) Painter
(B) Dramatist
(C) Mathematician
(D) Geologist
36. Emancipation Proclamation gave the Negro_____
(A) Slavery
(B) Freedom from Slavery
(C) Captivity
(D) Despair
37. India was a part of the background of
(A) the doctor’s life
(B) the wife’s life
(C) the kashmiri man’s life
(D) Pearl S Buck’s life
38. “Some of the immediate and brilliant results of modern invention are too maddening to resist” is from
(A) Bharat is My Home
(B) A Pinch of Snuff
(C) Indian Civilization and Culture
(D) Ideas that have helped mankind
39. D.H. Lawrence exalts the values of primitive life in
(A) Snake
(B) Fire- Hymn
(C) Song of Myself
(D) My Grandmother’s House
40. Who finds Macavity lazy and half asleep ?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) D. H Lawrence
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) William Blake
Model Paper | SET – 8 | By Amar Sir
1. Who finds Macavity lazy and half asleep ?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) D. H Lawrence
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) William Blake
2. The Middle English had___dialects ?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) D. H Lawrence
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) William Blake
3. Who wrote ” A Train to Pakistan ” ?
(A) Khushwant Singh
(B) D. H Lawrence
(C) T. S. Eliot
(D) William Blake
4. Who has been personified in “Ode to Autumn” ?
(A) Spring
(B) Winter
(C) Autumn
(D) Summer
5. The speaker in the poem “Snake” threw______at the snake ?
(A) a stick
(B) a rod
(C) a log
(D) a bat
6. K. N. Daruwala’s poetry is___ ?
(A) impressionistic
(B) idealistic
(C) symbolistic
(D) mysterious
7. Racial discrimination is against___ ?
(A) power
(B) capitalism
(C) secularism
(D) human rights
8. The Slum area densely populatied by an isolated community is marked by_?
(A) safe place
(B)fallen
(C) ghetto
(D) oasis
9. One day Seibei was caught red handed by his ___ teacher ?
(A) English
(B) Hindi
(C) Ethics
(D) Maths
10. Seibei made the hole to extract ___ ?
(A) Water
(B) Flash
(C) Seeds
(D) Smell
11. Seibei could walk from one end of the town to another in ___ ?
(A) ten minutes
(B) twenty minutes
(C) thirteen minutes
(D) forty minutes
12. Benjy left his ___ on the pavement ?
(A) brother
(B) parents
(C) sister
(D) wife
13. Benjy told his parents to eat in the ___ ?
(A) drawing room
(B) bathroom
(C) bedroom
(D) kitchen
14. Benjy’s father valued ___
(A) sweat
(B) fate
(C) both
(D) none of these
15. Ode to Autumn is written in ___
(A) October 1819
(B) September 1819
(C) November 1819
(D) December 1819
16. The poet compares the snake to a ___ bird, albatross.
(A) river
(B) pond
(C) sea
(D) well
17. The poet compares the snake to a ___ bird, albatross.
(A) river
(B) pond
(C) sea
(D) well
18. “Ode to Autumn” has been published in____ .
(A) 2021
(B) 2020
(C) 1922
(D) 1920
19. A book written by Pearl S. Buck____.
(A) river
(B) pond
(C) sea
(D) well
20. The people of Europe are inspired by___and Roman writers.
(A) Greek
(B) British
(C) Indian
(D) German
21. Dr. Zakir Hussain was born in.
(A) 1969
(B) 1897
(C) 1967
(D) 1896
22. Who does not see people for weeks or months.
(A) teachers
(B) businessman
(C) ministers
(D) engineers
23. “My Grandmother’s House” is _____.
(A) sonnet
(B) ode
(C) ballad
(D) lyric
24. Mungojerrie and Griddlebone are also____.
(A) dogs
(B) monkeys
(C) birds
(D) cats
25. Macavity is outwardly_____.
(A) miserable
(B) healthy
(C) appealing
(D) respectalbe
26. Macavity is the___of Scotland Yard.
(A) despair
(B) bafflement
(C) frustration
(D) amazement
27. The snake seemed like a ___in exile.
(A) king
(B) saint
(C) queen
(D) fakir
