Choose the correct options:

1. Children tend to go astray if ____________

(A) they have no protection of the government
(B) they have no protection of a father
(C) they have no protection of a friend
(D) they have no protection of an uncle as a guardian

2. Ranis husband had died due to

(A) typhoid
(C) heart ailment

(B) brain ailment

(D) stomach ailment

3. During a downpour the langurs shelter in _________.

(A) the staircase of the house
(C) canopied corners of the house

(B) the kitchen

(D) the Balcones

4. A pair of _______ had cuddled up over the switch board in the verandah.
(A) bulbuls
(C) eagles

(B) sparrows
(D) pigeons

5. Mrs. Fitzgerald decided to become Mrs. Pearson in order to teach her

family to ____.
(A) respect and adore her
(B) take revenge for insulting her
(C) learn to respect the lady as a wife and mother (D) deal with people

6. Doris wanted her mother to ________ .

(A) have tea with her
(C) iron her yellow silk dress

(B) wash her clothes

(D) come with her for movie

7. The pioneering work in plastic recycling done by James Garthe was

introduced by __
(A) Good Indian News
(C) Good News India

(B) Indians Good news

(D) New Herald Times

8. Before anyone comes the poetess wants to return as the daybreak, as

(A) a garland of dewdrops
(C) canvas

(B) bird
(D) river

9. The poetess wants to be a river

(A) to provide water to world
(C) to fill ponds & lake

(B) to water the plants on the world

(D) quench the thirst of the world

10.Heart not averse to being beguiled. - identify figure of speech.

(A) Synecdoche
(C) Apostrophe

(B) Tautology
(D) Antithesis

11.The poet wants October to beguile him because he wants the month to
(A) Prolong and postpone
(C) to excuse it

(B) to come early

(D) to prep one

12.Such epithets like pepper they zest to what you write. (Identify figure of
Speech)
(A) smilie
(C) Tautology

(B) Metoromy
(D) Anti theirs

13.According to Lewis Carroll which one of the following is not the

characteristic of a good poem?
(A) Spasmodic
(C) Simplicity

(B) mental squint

(D) ambiguity

14.A sonnet is _________ line poem.

(A) ten
(C) fourteen

(B) twelve
(D) twenty

15.The sonnets of Shakespeare are addressed to

(A) his beloved
(C) the youths

(B) a dark lady and a young gentlemen

(D) his wife