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Which of the following differs from the rest? (A) “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (B) “Don Juan” (C) “The Age of Bronze” (D) “Song to the Men of England”
Answer : D (D is written by P.B. Shelley; the rest – by G.G. Byron.)...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Which of the following is different from the rest? (A) “The Forsyte Saga” (B) “A Modern Comedy” (C) “End of the Chapter” (D) “The Man of Property”
Answer : D (A, B, C are trilogies by J. Galsworthy; D is the first novel of the trilogy “The Forsyte Saga”.)...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Joan Rowling wrote __________ books about Harry Potter. (A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8
Answer : (C) 7 ...

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 __________ wrote, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” (A) George Orwell (B) Alan Sillitoe (C) Dylan Thomas (D) Oscar Wilde
Answer : (A) George Orwell ...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Which of the following dramatists wrote in the style of the Theatre of the Absurd? (A) G.B. Shaw (B) Sean O’Casey (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Samuel Beckett
Answer : (D) Samuel Beckett...

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Which of the following authors is an Irish writer? (A) Oscar Wilde (B) Arthur Conan Doyle (C) William Golding (D) Walter Scott
Answer : (A) Oscar Wilde ...

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__________ is a Scottish writer. (A) Archibald Cronin (B) Jonathan Swift (C) Bram Stoker (D) Joseph Conrad
Answer : (A) Archibald Cronin ...

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Which of the following writers did not belong to the Angry Young Men? (A) John Braine (B) Kinsley Amis (C) John Wain (D) John Osborne
Answer : (A) John Braine ...

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 __________ is not a Lake Poet. (A) Samuel Coleridge (B) William Wordsworth (C) Thomas Moore (D) Robert Southey
Answer : (C) Thomas Moore ...

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 __________ is considered “the father of the English poetry”. (A) Robert Burns (B) George Gordon Byron (C) Percy Bysshe Shelley (D) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer : (D) Geoffrey Chaucer ...

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George Berkeley, Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith were __________ (A) British philosophers. (B) British inventors. (C) British composers. (D) British painters.
Answer : (A) British philosophers. ...

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Which of the following names is not appropriate for the list? (A) James Maxwell (B) Henry Cavendish (C) Charles Darwin (D) Thomas Moore
Answer : D (D is a poet; the rest are scientists.)...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Which of the names is different from the rest? (A) Christopher Wren (B) Joshua Reynolds (C) Thomas Gainsborough (D) John Constable
Answer : A (A is an architect; the rest are painters.)...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Which of the names differs from the rest? (A) Walter Scott (B) Arthur Conan Doyle (C) Robert Stevenson (D) George Bernard Shaw
Answer : D (D is an Irish dramatist; the rest are Scottish writers.)...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Which name is inappropriate for the list? (A) Jonathan Swift (B) Oscar Wilde (C) Benjamin Britten (D) Daniel Defoe
Answer : C (C is a composer; the rest are writers.) ...

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Which of the names does not fit the list? (A) William Blake (B) William Wordsworth (C) William Shakespeare (D) William Byrd
Answer : (D) William Byrd ...

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Who were King Arthur’s companions? (A) Merry men (B) The Knights of the Round Table (C) Legendary heroes (D) Common warriors
Answer : (B) The Knights of the Round Table ...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Which of the following holidays is not a bank holiday in the UK? (A) Christmas Day (B) St. Patrick’s Day (C) Easter Monday (D) Boxing Day
Answer : (B) St. Patrick’s Day ...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Englishmen eat their dinner at __________ (A) 12 a.m. (B) 2 p.m. (C) 6 p.m. (D) 8 p.m
Answer : (C) 6 p.m. ...

by anonymous asked Apr 17, 2021 0 views

Guy Fawkes is __________ (A) a famous historian. (B) a national hero of Britain. (C) an English poet. (D) the man who wanted to set fire to the British Parliament.
Answer : (D) the man who wanted to set fire to the British Parliament....