MCQS of English Communication skills 1st semester September 2021

 MCQS  of  English  Communication

1^st  Stemester         

Part A

Q 1.  When did Dr. C.V. Raman received Nobel Prize?

A. 1927

B. 1929

C. 1930

D. 1932

 

Q 2 On which date Dr. C.V. Raman was born and at which place?

A. 7 November 1888, Trichinopoly

B. 10 July 1885, Bangalore

C. 22 November, 1888, Madras

D. 13 December, 1886, Kerala

 

Q 3. For which discovery, Dr. C.V. Raman won Nobel Prize?

A. Vibrations of Sound

B. Scattering of Light

C. Both A and B

D. Neither A nor B

 

 

 Q4 When National Science Day is observed in India?

A. 20 November

B. 7 November

C. 29 January

D. 28 February

 

Q5. Who established the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1934?

A. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

B. Dr. C.V. Raman

C. Homi J. Bhabha

D. Srinivasa Ramanujan

 

Q 6. When the Government of India instituted the Raman Chair?

A. 1970

B. 1972

C. 1975

D. 1976

 

Q 7. Which of the following are the applications of the Raman Effect?

A. Medicine

B. Fingerprint of the substance

C. Chemistry

D. All the above

 

Q 8.  When did Dr. C.V. Raman died?

 

A. 20 March, 1970

B. 21 November, 1970

Ç. 24 July, 1972

D. 21 December, 1972

 

Q9. When Dr. C.V. Raman was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India?

 

A. 1950

B. 1954

C. 1964

D. 1968

 

Q10.  What was the name of Dr. C.V. Raman's father?

 

A. Chandra Shekhara Aiyer

B. Saletore

C. Balachandran

D. Brahma Chellaney

 

Q 11.  In “The Wood-Pile,” the woodpile in question “warms the frozen swamp” with “the slow smokeless burning of...

 

dry moss.”

 decay.”

 a greenhouse.”

 neglect.”

 

Q 12. According to the speaker in “Mowing,” what is “the sweetest dream that labor knows”?

 

The fact

 Beauty

 Rest

 The truth

 

Q 13 What does the wife see through the window at the beginning of “Home Burial”?

 

Horsemen approaching

 The coroner’s wagon

 Her child’s grave

 Her husband returning

 

Q 14. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is written in what meter?

 

Iambic tetrameter

 Iambic pentameter

 Varied meter

 Gas meter

 

Q 15.. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost writes that the speaker imagines his horse to think him strange. What might be the significance of this?

 

a.     Frost is implying that the speaker is insane

b.     The opinion of the horse could represent the opinion of society; the speaker recognizes that, in the eyes of his peers, his actions are unusual

c.      Frost is trying to imbue his otherwise somber poem with a bit of humor

d.     The talking horse suggests that animals, as representatives of the natural world, are wise and have important things to say to us

 

Q 16. Complete the following line: “Something there is that doesn’t love a

 

a.     duck

b.     shirt.

c.      fence

d.      wall

Q17. What does the neighbor say in “Mending Wall”?

 

a.     “There goes the neighborhood.”

b.     “Won’t you be my neighbor?”

c.       “Good fences make good neighbors.”

d.      “How’s the wife and kids?”

 

Q 18. At one point in “Mending Wall,” the speaker describes his neighbor as:

 

a.     “an old-stone savage.”

b.     “a tough old bird.”

c.      “an ornamental frog.”

d.     “a peg-legged manure man.”

Q 19. What does the speaker describe as “just another outdoor game” in the poem. “Mending Wall”?

 

a.. Badminton

b. .  Fixing the stone wall that marks the boundary between his and his neighbor’s properties

. c.  Rugby

d.Hide-and-seek

 

Q 20. . In “Fire and Ice,” the speaker contemplates whether the world will end in fire or ice; which wins out in his conclusion?

 

a.     Fire

b.     Ice

c.      Both

d.     none

Q 21.. In the second part of “Fire and Ice,” the speaker contemplates whether it would be preferable to die by fire, or by ice. Which does he conclude is the better death?

 

 a. Fire

b.  Ice

Q 22. Robert Frost, the quintessential New England poet, spent his first eleven years in what place?

 

a. Derry, Massachusetts

 b. Londonderry, New Hampshire

c.  London, England

d.  San Francisco, California

Q 23. From which poem is the following line extracted? “Earth’s the right place for love.”

 

a.     “Mowing”

b.     “Birches”

c.       “The Earth and other Places for Love”

d.     “Desert Places”

 Q 24. Finish this line from “Mowing”: “Anything more than the truth would have seemed too...

a.     silly

b.      false

c.       perverse

d.      weak

 

Q 25. “The Tuft of Flowers” is written in:

a.     heroic couplets

b.     fantastic doublets

c.      courageous triplets

d.     intrepid septets

 

Q 26. How would you characterize the line lengths in “After Apple-Picking”?

 

a.     They follow a strict pattern

b.     They are the same throughout

c.      They vary considerably

     d. They are irrelevant to the poem

27. In New England, when do people generally pick apples?

 

a.     Winter

b.     Spring

c.      Summer

     d. Fall

28. What, according to the poem, is apple cider made from?

a. Bad apples

b.  Fallen apples

c.  Lead

 d. Very small rocks

Q 29. The speaker in this poem is most likely-

a.     W. H. Auden

b.     The unknown citizen

c.      A friend of the deceased

d.     A government agent

Q30. Which best describes the tone of the narrator?

a.     Inspiring

b.     Critical

c.      Efficient

d.     Academic

Q 31. What does the author use capitalization to emphasize the most?

a.     The amount of friends the unknown citizen had

b.     Important locations where the unknown citizen traveled

c.      The numerous ways the government collected data

d.     Different companies the unknown citizen worked for

 

Q 32. Which best describes the author's message?

 

a.     The Unknown Citizen had no real freedom because his life was micromanaged by the government.

b.     It's pointless to ask if people are "happy" or "free" because those types of questions can't be answered.

c.      If people were allowed to do what they wanted without the government intervening, it would be disastrous.

d.     People have evolved significantly since the era of phonographs and frigidaires.

 

Q 33. Both Winston Smith and the Unknown Citizen--

a.     Desire to rebel against the government

b.     Are expected to live in a certain manner

c.      Have strained relationships with their family

d.     Take time to reflect on their situation

Q  34. The speaker and the author would agree that the unknown citizen was free.

a.     True

b.     False

 

Q 35. Based on the evidence, the unknown citizen followed the rules his entire life.

answer choices

a.     True

b.     False

Q 36. All of the following are expectations in this society except--

a.     To fight in war

b.     To buy the newspaper

c.      To have a certain number of children

d.     To lead a life of sobriety

Q 37. What was strange about the old book?

 

a.     It was a computer.

b.     It was very long.

c.      The words didn't move

d.     It was white.

 

Q 38. How old was Margie?

a.     11

b.     12

c.      13

d.     14

 

Q39. What was the book about?

a.     televisions

b.     geography

c.      school

d.     all of these

Q 40. What type of teacher did Margie have?

a.     Smart

b.     Ugly

c.      Mechanical

d.     Intimidating

Q 41. How does Asimov describe the County Inspector?

a.     Round, little man, red face

b.     Strong, tall man, with a mustache

    C. Round, little woman, red hair

    d. Strong, tall woman, with purple clothes

Q 42. How long ago were the old schools around?

a.     Centuries ago

b.     Fifty years ago

c.      Thousands of years ago

d.     10 years ago

Q 43. Did Margie like her current classroom, teacher, and education

Yes

No

Q 44. Margie wanted to go back in time to be a student when they all learned the same things at the same age and sat in one room together with other students and one human teacher.

 

a.     True

b.     False

Q 45. What could have most likely happened to make the education system change so drastically?

a.    a  Mistrust in human intellect and trust in artificial intelligence.

b.     Teachers were too bored teaching the same things over and over again.

c.      A nuclear war obliterated the majority of the population.

d.     Children no longer were taught to be respectful and obey orders from humans.

 

Q 46. What year is this story set in?

a. 3042

b. 2028

c. 1999

 

Q 47. What does the poem imply about humanity?

a. Humans are destined to live on Mars

b. Nature doesn't care if humans kill each other

c. Humans are better than animals

d. Humans should appreciate the beauty of nature

 

Q 48. At what time of day does the story begin?

 

a. Morning

b. Midday

c. Evening

d. Midnight

 

Q 49. What is burned into the side of the house?

 

a. Martian hieroglyphs

b. The names of the family that lives there

c. The words "KEEP OUT"

d. The silhouettes of the family that lived there

 

 

Q 50. As the house is being destroyed, it tries to do all of the following EXCEPT;

 

a. warn the family

b. call the fire department

c. save itself

d. All

 

Q 51. What is the weather like at the beginning of the story?

 

a. It is clear and sunny

b. It is raining

c. It is windy

d. A sandstorm

 

Q 52 What city is the house located in?

 

a. Amargosa, California

b. Anselm, Massachusetts

c. Allendale, California

d. Alta Vista, California

 

 

Q 53. How is the house destroyed?

 

a. by a tornado

b. by a flood

c. by fire

d. by an atomic bomb

 

 

Q 54. The tiny cleaning robots are referred to as

 

a. fairies

b. scooters

c. mice

d. sweepers

 

Question with Answer

Q 55.   Neme the writer of ‘How wealth accumulates…..decay’

Ans; G B Shaw

 

Q  56.  GB shaw  was born in……

Ans; Ireland

 

Q  57.  who wrote ‘ when ever I learn I learn in the forest’

Ans ;  Vandana shiva

 

Q 58.  Vandana shiva was born in

Ans: Dehradun india

 

Q 58.  Ustad mangu  was resident of

Ans; india

 

Q 59. The nationality of  S Hussain  Manto  was

Ans. Indian

 

Q 60. Garden party was written by

Ans ,     Katherine Mansfield

 

 

Q  61 Garden partywas published in

Ans;   1922

 

Q 63. Garden party is a

Ans,  short story

 

Q 64.  Mending wall was written by

Ans ; Robert frost

 

Q 65. Mending wall was published in

Ans ;  1914

 

Q 66. The Unknown citizen was written by

Ans; w h auden in 1939

 

Q 67  ‘There will come soft rains , who is the writer

Ans;  Ray Bradbury

 

Q 68,  there will come soft rains is a

Ans; science fiction

 

Q 68 Which fear is expressed in ‘ there will come soft Rains’

Ans; fear of nuclear war

Q 69. Give the name of one character in  ‘ the garden party’

Ans; Lura

 

Q 70  ‘Catharsis’   word means

Ans; emotional purification

 

Q 71.  The poem   Ecology was written  by

Ans; A K Ramanujan

 

Q 72. Migrane means

Ans;  headache

 

 

Q 73 Ecology’ poem depicts the blind faith of an Indian…….

Ans; woman

 

Q 74.  The poets mother has great love  and respect for …….

Ans;  the champak tree

 

Q 75. The poets mother  never looks at the negative side of the tree even though it has caused severe……to her.

Ans;   illness

Q 76. …… is the study of the interaction of living organisms with their environment.

Ans; Ecology

 

Q 77. The last question was written by

Ans; Issac  Asimov

Q 78 Iss Asimov was

Ans; an American writer

 

Q 79.   Give the publication date of  ‘The last question’

Ans; 1956

 

Q 80. The story deals with the development of  a series of computers called…..and their relationship with……

Ans;       Multivac   

               Humanity

 

Q 81. Multivac’s ultimate descendant that exists in hyperspace beyond the bounds of ………..or……

Ans; Gravity    

       Time

 

Q 82. …………. Is the name of functional supercomputer ( the last question)

Ans; Multivac

 

Q 83.  Issac Asimov was born in

   Ans; 1920

 

Q 84. Issac Asimov was a professor of…….

Ans;  Biochemistry

 

Q 85  He wrote  science fiction……

Ans;  ‘The last question’