Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin ?

Related Mcqs:

1. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

2. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition— for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?

   A. Unity of effect
   B. Ratiocinactive effect
   C. Cataleptic effect
   D. Didactic effect

3. Which of Uncle Tom’s personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ?

   A. His gentle and soft-spoken nature
   B. His honesty and deep devotion to God
   C. His overwhelming fear of violence
   D. His ability to hide his rebellious nature.

4. The words denoting the colour ‘red’ and the past__tense of the verb ‘read’ ; ‘right’ and’ ‘write’; and ‘site’ and sight’ are examples for________________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

5. The present__tense form of the verb ‘read’ and its past__tense which is pronounced as ‘red’ is an example of _____________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

6. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?

   A. the expurgation of indelicate language
   B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
   C. the insertion of bawdy songs
   D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\

7. Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene ?

   A. Tudor
   B. Stuart
   C. Anjou
   D. Plantagenet

8. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

   A. New Criticism
   B. Critical Inquiry
   C. Scientific Bibliology
   D. Higher Criticism

9. Certain morphemes have more than one meaning and can be understood in more than one way. They are called ______________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

10. One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages ?

    A. Formalist
    B. Historical
    C. Feminist
    D. Mimetic