Multiple Choice Questions

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Extensive reading is

  • reading to know the meaning of every word

  • reading to extrapolate and critique

  • reading for information

  • reading the text for pleasure


D.

reading the text for pleasure


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Pre-reading activity is meant for

  • connecting the whole class with one another

  • giving information about the writer of the text

  • teaching the grammatical items given in the text

  • connecting previous knowledge and taking the learner into the text


While teaching a prose text, which one of the following activities a teacher must undertake?

  • Creating a sub-text

  • Consulting a dictionary

  • Paraphrasing the text

  • Transcription


Which one of the following is not a language component?

  • Grammar

  • Speech

  • Sound system

  • Manuscript


Read the extract and answer the following question.

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep (7)

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day. (12)

The speaker is standing in front of a/an

  • dark road

  • empty house

  • graveyard

  • open field


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Read the extract and answer the following question.

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep (7)

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day. (12)

The poet is waiting for someone to hold his

  • arm

  • heart

  • body

  • hand


Read the extract and answer the following questions

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep (7)

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day. (12)

The poet is standing in the 'unlovely street'

  • to meet his friend

  • to experience the drizzling rain

  • to get rid of his fear

  • to overcome his loneliness


Read the extract and answer the following questions

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep (7)

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day. (12)

The phrase 'noise of life' signifies

  • the poet's friend while talking

  • nature's sympathy for the poet

  • the daily routine of life

  • the sound of drizzling rain


Read the extract and answer the following questions

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep (7)

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day. (12)

The poetic device used in line 7 is

  • a metaphor

  • a simile

  • a hyperbole

  • onomatopoeia


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Read the extract and answer the following questions

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep (7)

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day. (12)

In line 12, the poetic device used is

  • an irony

  • a simile

  • a metaphor

  • alliteration