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GENERAL ENGLISH
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 GENERAL ENGLISH MODEL TEST-1
IMPORTANT LINES FROM POEM-ANSWER KEY

Question 1
“The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more”. These lines are taken from
the poem …………
A The Solitary Reaper
B The man he killed
C Be the best
D Women’s right
Question 2
To which poem these lines belong? “O listen! for the vale profound Is overflowering with the
sound”
A The Solitary Reaper
B Beautiful Inside
C A Psalm of Life
D The Apology
Question 3
Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tirecess striving stretches its arms
towards perfection” In which poem do these lines occur?
A No men are foreign
B Where the mind is without fear
C The cry of the children
D Going for water
Question 4
“Love’s not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks”. In which poem this line is taken
from…………..
A Solitary Reaper
B Be the Best
C A Psalm of Life
D Sonnet No.116
Question 5
Who wrote this line? “Life is but an empty dream!”
A William Wordsworth
B H.W. Longfellow
C Robert Frost
D William Shakespeare
Question 6
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass
come; In which poem do these lines occur?
A Is life, But a Dream?
B Be The Best
C O Captain! My Captain!
D Sonnet No. 116
Question 7
In which poem do the following lines occur? There’s something for all of us here. There’s
big work to do and there’s lesser to do
A Travel Plant
B Be The Best
C No Men Are Foreign
D Manliness
Question 8
Match the lines under Column A with poets under Column B and select the correct option
from the codes given below
Column A Column B
(a) In a wonderland they lie 1. H.W. Longfellow
(b) There’s something for all of us here 2. Thomas Hardy
(c) Yes quaint and curious war is 3. Douglas Malloch
(d) Not enjoyment and not sorrow 4. Lewis Carroll
A 4312
B 3412
C 4321
D 2413

Question 9
Match the lines under Column A with the poets under Column B
Column A Column B
(a) For learning how to rule the air 1. Lewis Carroll
(b) Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream 2. Stephen Vincent Benet
(c) If you can’t be a sun, be a star 3. Walt Whitman
(d) But I, with mournful tread 4. Douglas Malloch
A 4213
B 3214
C 2413
D 2143
Question 10
Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Who is the author of these poetic
lines?
A H.W. Longfellow
B Robert Frost
C Rudyard Kipling
D Walt Whitman
Question 11

“Be a hero in the strife” – In whose poem this line comes?

A Shakespeare
B Walt Whitman ·
C Wordsworth
D H.W. Longfellow

Question 12

In whose poem the following lines occur: “It isn’t by size that you’ win or you fail Be the
best of whatever you are”
A Douglas Malloch
B William Wordsworth
C Walt Whitman
D William Shakespeare
Question 13
Which of the following lines belongs to “William Shakespeare”?
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks But bears it out even to the edge of the
A
doom
B But O heart ! heart ! heart O the bleeding drops O red !
C For I’m off to outer space tomorrow morning·
D The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more
Question 14
In whose poem the following lines occur: “No Nightingale did ever Chaunt More welcome
notes to Weary bands”.
A Robert Frost
B John Keats
C William Wordsworth
D Robert Bridges
Question 15
In whose poem the following line occurs? “We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew”.
A Walt Whitman
B Doughlas Malloch
C Hope Spencer
D Rudyard Kipling
Question 16
“O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken” These lines are
from the poem
A Shilpi
B Is Life But a Dream
C The Man He Killed
D Sonnet No. 116
Question 17
Find out from which poem the following line is taken? “Where tireless striving stretches its
arms towards perfection”.
A Prayer of a sporta man
B Nine gold medals
C Out in the fields with God
D Where the mind is without fear
Question 18
The following lines are taken from the poem ——- “O Listen to the vale profound Is
overflowing with the sound”
A English words
B Sonnet – 112
C The Solitary Reaper
D 0 Captain my Captain
Question 19
Pick out the line which occurs in the poem “Sonnet No – 116”.
A This arm beneath your head! ·
B Or bends with the remover to remove.
C Will no one tell me what she sings?
D Be the best of whatever you are!
Question 20
Name the poet in whose poem the following line occurs. ‘We can’t all be captains, we’ve got
to be crew’.
A William Shakespeare
B Thomas Hardy
C Annie Louisa Walker
D Douglas Malloch
Question 21
“Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit” These words occur in the poem of
A Shakespeare
B V.K. Gokak
C Kamala Das
D Rabindranath Tagore
Question 22
Reaping and Singing by herself stop here, or gently pass! – Wrote the above poetic lines.
A Norman Nicholson
B William Shakespeare
William
C
Wordsworth
D Douglas Malloch
Question 23
“If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail” The poetic line is from the poem
A You can’t be that, no you can’t be that
B Where the mind is without fear
C Be the best
D The Solitary Reaper
Question 24
Complete the following poetic line choosing from the option given below. “There won’t be
any calendar, there won’t be
A last look
B telephone book
C any clock
D plastic hook

Question 25

Identify the poet who wrote the following lines : “If this be error and upon me prov’d I never
writ, nor no man ever lov’d.”
A Walt Whitman
B William Wordsworth
C William Shakespeare
D H.W. Longfellow
Question 26
Mention the poem in which the following lines appear : “Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And
the grave is not its goal;” Find out the correct option from the following :
A Where the mind is without fear
B English words
C A Tiger in the zoo
D Psalm of life
Question 27
In which of the poems does the following line occur? Stop here, or gently pass ! Pick out the
correct answer from the options given below ·
A Laugh and Be Merry
B The Solitary Reaper
C Sonnet No. 116
D The Cry of the Children
Question 28
Mention the poem in which the following lines appear “Love’s not time’s fool, though Rosy
lips and cheeks Within his bending Sickle’s Compass come” Choose the answer from the
options given below :
A Be the Best
B Sonnet No. 116
C The Solitary Reaper
D Is life but a dream
Question 29
The well-known poet who has written the following lines are : “I saw her singing at her work
And over the sickle bending” Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A William Wordsworth
B Robert Frost
C H. W. Longfellow
D Thomas Hardy
Question 30
In which poem do these following lines occur: “O! no it is an ever fixed mark That looks on
Tempest and is never shaken”
A Sonnet No: 116
B A Psalm of Life
C Manliness
D Be the Best

Question 31

Name the poet in whose poem the following line occurs: ‘Life is real ! Life is earnest !’
A V.K Gokak
B Douglas Malloch
C H.W. Longfellow
D Rabindranath Tagore
Question 32
‘It isn’t by size that you win or you fail’ – The given lines are taken from the poem
A A Psalm of Life
B Where the Mind is Without Fear
C Be the best
D Sonnet No : 116
Question 33
….. ‘Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds’ Who said this?
A Rabindranath Tagore
B William Wordsworth
C H.W. Longfellow
D William Shakespeare
Question 34
Identify the poet who wrote the following line: “If you can’t be the sun, be a star”.
A Douglas Malloch
B Tennyson
C William Wordsworth
D Robert Frost
Question 35
In which of the following poems, does the following line occur? “We can’t all be Captains,
we’ve got to be crew, There’s something for all of us here”.
A 0 Captain! My Captain!
B The Solitary Reaper
C Mercy and Justice
D Be the best
Question 36
Identify the poet who wrote the following lines : “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave
is not its goal”
A Ralph Waldo Emerson
B H.W. Longfellow
C V.K Gokak
D D.H. Lawrence
Question 37
Name the poem in which the following lines appear: No nightingale did ever chaunt More
welcome notes to weary bands..
A A Psalm of life
B Going for water
C Ode to a nightingale
D The Solitary Reaper
Question 38
Which of the following lines belong to H.W. Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”?
A And you 0 my soul where you stand
B All human roads are dark and dry
C Your minstrel has no wreath to weave for you
D Art is long and time is fleeting
Question 39
Choose the option containing the author of the following lines “No Nightingale did ever
chant More welcome notes to weary bands”.
A Hopkins in ‘Laugh and be Merry’
B Khalil Gibran in ‘Earth’
C Wordsworth in “The Solitary Reaper
D Kamala Das in “Punishment in the Kindergarten”
Question 40
The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more” These lines appear in——
A Be the best
B Tables turned
C A Psalm of Life
D The Solitary Reaper
Question 41
The following lines are taken from the poem ‘The music in my heart I bore Long after it was
heard no more’.
A ‘A Psalm of Life’
B Sonnet No. 116’
C ‘Be The Best’
D ‘The Solitary Reaper’
Question 42
Identify the poet in whose work do the following lines occur? ‘Love is not love Which alters
when it alteration finds’.
A William Wordsworth
B H.W. Longfellow
C William Blake
D William Shakespeare
Question 43
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream’. These lines are from the
poem
A A Psalm of Life’
B The Solitary Reaper’
C Sonnet No. 116’
D Where the Mind is Without Fear’
Question 44
‘Where the mind is without fear And the head is held high’ The given lines are written by
A Rudyard Kipling
B Rabindranath Tagore
C Robert Frost
D Robert Browning
Question 45
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead
habit” These lines are taken from the poem
A A Psalm of Life
B Be The Best
C Where the Mind is Without Fear
D The Solitary Reaper
Question 46
Identify the poet who wrote the following lines : “It isn’t by size that you win or you fail- Be
the best of whatever you are!”
A William Wordsworth
B Norman Nicholson
C V.K. Gokak
D Douglas Malloch
Question 47
In which of the poem does the following occur? We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be
crew
A Be the Best
B Snake
C Gitanjali
D Women’s Rights

Question 48

The following poetic lines are from If this be error and upon me prov’d, I never write, nor no
man ever lov’d.
A William Wordsworth
B William Shakespeare
C D.H. Lawrence
D Walt Whitman
Question 49
Complete the following poetic line choosing from the options given If you can’t be the sun,
—–
A be a hero
B be a star
C be a leader
D be a player

Question 50

Life is but an empty dream! This line is an extract from the poem.
A Hopes and Dreams
B Is life, but a dream
C A Psalm of life
D Laugh and be merry
Question 51
Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides These lines belong to the
poem—-. In which poem do the following lines occur?
A The Blind Boy
B Give me the Strength
C The Solitary Reaper
D Travel Plans
Question 52
We can’t all be captains, We’ve got to be crew, Who is the poet of this line?
A Douglas Malloch
B Lewis Caroll
C Randall Jarell
D Brian Paltern

Question 53

If this be error and upon me prov’d, I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d. Who is the poet?
A Keats
B Wordsworth
C Robert Frost
D Shakespeare

Question 54

Match the following poetics lines under column A with their poems under column B and
select the answer from the codes given below.
Column A Column B
1. Sonnet No :
(a) It isn’t by size that you win or fail
116
(b) If this be error and upon be proved I never writ, nor no man ever 2. A Pslam of
lov’d life
(c) But once within the wood, we paused Like gnomes that hid us
3. Be the best
from the moon
4. going for
(d) Let the dead past bury its head
water
A 4231
B 3142
C 1324
D 2413

Question 55
We can’t all be captain, we’ve got to be crew There is something for all of us here” These
lines are from the poem
A O captain, my captain
B Be the Best
C A Psalm of life
D Our local team
Question 56
Which of the following lines does not belong to Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet no 116’?
A O ! no it is an ever fixed mark
B It is the star to every wandering bark
C Echoes fade and memories die
D Love’s not time’s fool
Question 57
Which of the following lines do not belong to Shakespeare’s Sonnet no : 116?
A O’, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
B It is the star to every wandering bark
C Echoes fade and memories die…
D Love’s not Time’s fool
Question 58
“Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls” Name
the poet who dreamt of a world with equality and harmony.
A Ruskin Bond
B Robert Frost
C Rabindranath Tagore
D Walt Whitman
Question 59
In which of the poem the following line occurs? If you can’t be the Sun, be a Star
A Be the Best
B Going for water
C A noiseless patient spider
D Migrant Bird
Question 60
‘Love alters not with his brier hours and weeks’ Mention the poem in which these lines
occur.
A sonnet No: 116
B The Solitary Reaper
C Be the Best
D Going for water
Question 61
Identify the personality who uttered the following. ‘Where tireless striving stretches its arms
towards perfection’
A Rudyard Kipling
B Berton Braley
C Rabindranath Tagore
D Ruskin Bond
Question 62
In which poem do you find the following line? “It isn’t by size that you win or you Fail”
A O Captain! My Captain
B The Solitary Reaper
C Sonnet No – 116
D Be the Best
Question 63
‘Love’s not ‘Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks’ Choose the poem where you find the
above lines :
A A Sonnet for my Incomparable Mother
B My Grand-Mother’s House
C Sonnet No – 116
D Nine Gold Medals
Question 64
Match the titles of the poem ‘A’ with lines of the poem ‘B’ :
Column A Column B
(a) Art is long and time is fleeting 1. English words
(b) Love’s not time’s fool 2. A Psalm of life
(c) Pinning for new agony 3. The man he killed
(d) Right many a nipper kin 4. Sonnet-116
A 4231
B 3241
C 2413
D 4132