But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of_____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?

   A. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
   B. Auditory city
   C. Authority
   D. Insanity or dementia

2. When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man’s heart. This is______________?

   A. Historical fiction
   B. A fairy tale
   C. An autobiography
   D. A detective story

3. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

4. Yes, when the stars glisten’d, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ?

   A. An edgy platform
   B. Other side
   C. A pointed, projected part of something
   D. An adumbration

5. The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. “Oho,” quoth he, “the old earth is frolicsome to-night!” This is_______________?

   A. An autobiography
   B. A fairy tale
   C. Gothic fiction
   D. A novel

6. “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear ?

   A. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
   B. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
   C. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
   D. None of these

7. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

8. “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”- Who told it ?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Chaucer
   C. Spenser
   D. Bacon

9. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

10. The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an instance of __________assimilation?

    A. Progressive
    B. Regressive
    C. Reciprocal
    D. None of the above