Chapter 5 On Destroying Books

1. Many people are reluctant to throw away anything that looks like a book.
(a) Glad (b) Worried (c) Elated (c) Hesitant
2. It was a tramp, who had other things to think about.
(a) Addict (b) Thief (c) Beggar (d)Wanderer/ vagabond
3. The policeman looked suspicious.
(a) Obnoxious (b) Doubtful (c) Certain (d)Clear
4. I was faced with the alternative of either evicting the books
(a) using (b) wasting (c) keeping (d) expelling
5. The writer was living in a heaven-kissing flat.
(a) Lowly (b) Attic (c) Miserable (d)Funeral
6. The writer looked into the luminous swirl of the river.
(a) Misty (b) Murky (c) Dim (d) Bright
7. In my agony of the decision, I left the embankment.
(a) Pane (b) Pain (c) Sane (d)Help
8. So far, I do not know how long I strayed up and down.
(a) tried (b) run (c)roamed (d)examined
9. The policeman acquitted the writer.
(a) Fettered (b)Detained (c) Arrested (d)Let go
10. The lamps through their gleams across the road.
(a)Smell (b)Oil (c)Rays (d)Stink
11. It was cold and foggy.
(a)Dry (b)Open (c) Misty (d)Pleasant
12. I fervently hoped and year of rumination and unconcern.
(a) meditation (b)remuneration (c)pride (d) morning
13. It is absurd to keep the printed rubbish.
(a) Wise (b) Silly (c)Happy (d)Agreeable
14. Perhaps he suspects I have swag in this sack.
(a) Food (b)Stolen goods (c) Books (d)Stock things
15. The writer leaned it against the parapet.
(a)Plot (b)Parrot (c)Ground (d)Edge
16. The writer could not consume the books one by one in small study fire.
(a) Deck (b)Decorate (c) Eat (d)burn up
17. I improvised sack and stuffed the books into it.
(a) Bought (b) Arranged (c) Picked (d)Threw
18. I was not seriously disturbed as I knew that I could bear investigation.
(a) Theft (b)Change (c) Blame (d)Enquiry
19. There were few solitary travelers on the way.
(a)Lonely (b)Young (c) Educated (d)Old
20. It is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is printed.
(a) Waste (b)Preciousness (c)Praise (d)Exaltation
21. The books for lying forlornly on the ooze at the bottom of the river.
(a) Happy (b) Lonely (c)Delighted (d)Hopeful
22. The books of poetry accumulated in the flat of the writer.
(a) Catered (b)Scattered (c)Gathered (d)Floated
23. It is sometimes difficult to find scaffold for them.
(a)Store (b)Rope (c)Place (d)Gallows
24.All the implications of my acts revealed themselves.
(a)mysterious (b)preparation (c)effects (d)confusion
25. I could almost hear his gruff sneering laugh.
(a) low (b) pleasant (c) admiring (d) mocking