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_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from________________?

   A. A fairy tale
   B. An autobiography
   C. A detective story
   D. A Gothic tale

2. 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

3. The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does “extirpation” mean ?

   A. Execution
   B. Going to extremes
   C. Extermination
   D. Expatriating

4. Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s well-tunéd law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean ?

   A. Born to be free
   B. Inflicted with the disease Porphyria
   C. Of royal birth
   D. Wearing purple robes

5. 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_____________?

   A. A letter
   B. His clouded eye
   C. His pact with the devil
   D. His loud heart beat

6. 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

7. “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

8. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

9. In the play, “Twelfth Night,” what does Viola refer to herself as when she disguises herself as a man ?

   A. Orsino
   B. Sir Toby
   C. Antonio
   D. Cesario

10. In Saul Bellow’s novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a________________?

    A. Christian
    B. Hindu
    C. Jew
    D. Afro-American