2. Dimensions of Creativity – Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER OUT OF THE GIVEN OPTIONS.

1. Science and technology can change the pattern of life.

a. system              b. life             c. plan

2. There has been a remarkable growth in agriculture.

a. computer          b. agriculture             c. business

3. Farnbraun built SaturnV.

a. plane designer            b. fabric designer            c. rocket designer

4. Moon Mission was successfully completed in 1961.

a. 1951               b.1961               c.1971

5. Faranbraun is a famous rocket designer.

a. plane designer                  b. fabric designer                  c. rocket designer

6. Ptolemaic astronomy  is a system in calculating the dynamics of various stars and planets.

a. Arybhatta’s astronomy        b. Kepler’s astronomy             c. Ptolemaic astronomy

7. India stood top on the list of wheat  production.

a. rice                b. sesame                        c. Wheat

8. Dr. M.S.Swaminathan is known as father of Green Revolution.

a. C.Subramanian              b. Dr.M.S.Swaminathan               c. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai

9. Indian IT entrepreneurs make export revenue of 15million dollars.

a. 15 dollars                     b. 20 million dollars                     c. 25 million dolars

10. Chandrasekar subramanian  discovered Chandrasekar limited.

a. Sir C.V. Raman                      b. Chandrasekar-Subramanian             c. Chandrasekar  Venkatraman.

1. WOMEN NOT THE WEAKER SEX – Mahatma Gandhi

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER OUT OF THE GIVEN OPTIONS.

1. According to Gandhi, the proper scent of women should come out of her heart.

a. physical charms             b. mind               c. heart

2. Sita never wasted time on pleasing Rama  by physical charms.

a. Rama             b. Ravana               c. Lakshmana

3. Men treated women brutally.

a. kindly         b. brutally       c. lovingly

4. women  are better half of men.

a. Women            b. Human Beings            c. All Creatures

5. Women had tremendous advantage  over men.

a. merit          b. disadvantage               c. advantage

6. Women are not the weaker sex.

a. stronger           b. weaker             c. meek

7. Women are less brute than men.

a. brute           b. crude            c. shrewed

8. Women have  moral  power.

a. mortal               b. moral              c. immortal

9. If  non-violence  is the law of our being. the future is with women.

a. Violence            b. non-violence  c. Dharma

10. Women should be treated equally  according to Gandhi.

a. educated                        b. treated equally               c. punished

3. Enterprise – Nissim Ezekiel

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER OUT OF THE GIVEN OPTIONS.

1. The pilgrims stand for people who undertake a great enterprise. 

a. enterprise           b. pilgrimage            c.business

2. The villagers are see engaged in buying and selling.

a. tilling the soil       b. buying and selling           c. gossiping

3. The pilgrims see serpents  in villages.

a. frogs              b. wind-mills                 c. serpents

4. The serpents stand for evil people.

a. evil people               b. experts              c. enterprising people

5. In cities the pilgrims see sages.

a. cheats                 b. sages                  c. serpents.

6. Differences arise among pilgrims when they cross a desert.

a. river                 b. city                c. desert

7. A stylish speaker leaves the group of pilgrims.

a. stylish                b. dull              c. crude

8. At the end, the pilgrims become stragglers.

a. beggars                 b. stragglers                        c. strugglers

9. At the end the pilgrims complain that they do not get even soap.

a. soap            b. good food                c. good clothes.

10. At the end, the pilgrims are disenchanted

a. exalted               b. disenchanted         c. happy

11. In the beginning, the pilgrims were exalted.

a. disenchanted               b. happy          c. exalted

12. At the end the pilgrims think that home is the place where we have to gather grace. 

a. grace             b. money                c. food

 

2. A Prayer For My Daughter – William Butter Yeats

A Prayer For My Daughter – William Butter Yeats

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER OUT OF THE GIVEN OPTIONS.

1. Helen was responsible for the destruction of Troy.

a. London            b. Ireland             c. Troy

2. ‘Helen had much trouble form a fool’. The fool referred to here is Paris.

a. W.B.Yeats            b. Paris                   c. Hephaestus

3. W.B.Yeats wants his daughter to be like a linnet.

a. a swan              b. a star               c. a linnet

4. W.B.Yeats wants his daughter to grow ‘in one dear place’ like a green laurel.

a. a green laurel             b. a linnet                      c. an elm

5. by removing hatred from the mind, we can recover radical innocence.

a. radical ignorance                b. revolutionary fervour              c. radical innovence

6. Yeats is an Irish poet.

a. an Irish poet           b. an American poet                     c. an Indian poet

7. Yeats prays that his daoughter should be gifted with knowledge.

a. beauty           c. riches              c. knowledge

8. Maud Gonne married Mac Bride.

a. Yeats         b. Mac Bride                    c.Wisdom

9. Courtesy   is an aristocratic virtue which Yeats valued very highly.

a. Proud          b. Cruel                     C. Courtesy

10. What is the tree mentioned by Yeats in this poems? Laurel

a. oak          b. birch            c. laurel

1. STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING – Robert Frost

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING – Robert Frost

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER OUT OF THE GIVEN OPTIONS.

1. The poet stops to enjoy the beauty of snowing.

a. to enjoy the beauty of snowing           b. to rest                 c. to rest the horse

2. The owner of the woods is in the village. 

a. the woods                 b. the village                 c. the city

3. the Village is unwilling to face the cold snow.

a. ill           b. old            c. unwilling to face the cold snow

4. the horse is impatient to go .

a. patient            b. impatient to go               c. sturdy

5. to show its impatience, the horse shakes its harness bells.

a. stumbles             b. kicks the poet            c. shakes its harness bells

6. the lake is frozen.

a. frozen            b. dirty              c. deep and impassable

7. the poet has ‘miles to go’.  This line symbolizes the poet’s laziness and fear of the future.

a. house far-off           b. many obligations to those around him        c. laziness and fear of the future.

8. Before I ‘sleep’. ‘Sleep’ symbolizes death.

a. rest                    b. cessation of work                     c. death

9. The many duties refer to those that the poet has to perform before death.

a. going on the tour          b. going to the native place            c. death

10. Nehru liked the last two lines of the poem.

a. Gandhi        B. Nehru                 C. Tagore.