Reading Prose Set 8

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This set of Reading Prose Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Reading Prose Set 8

Q1 | Our virtue, we put almost entirely into our ----------
  • faith
  • ability
  • resolutions
  • life
Answer: resolutions
Q2 | What hinders human beings from accommodating rapid changes?
  • life
  • nature
  • creativity
  • ignorance
Answer: nature
Q3 | Mediocre ------- are said to be a pair of twins contemptible
  • promise and faith
  • promise and performance
  • love and life
  • habits
Answer: promise and performance
Q4 | ---------are morality at its dawn
  • life
  • Good resolutions
  • values
  • performances
Answer: Good resolutions
Q5 | Good resolutions are ----- of the day’s work
  • Golden anticipations
  • true guide
  • followers
  • none of the above
Answer: Golden anticipations
Q6 | There would be very little------to be got out of a single sitting face to face with a German grammer.
  • desire
  • love
  • intoxication
  • reality.
Answer: intoxication
Q7 | The essay On Good Resolutions was published in the year--------
  • 1915
  • 1939
  • 1945
  • 1950
Answer: 1915
Q8 | Which of these is an essay by Robert Lynd.
  • The Herring Fleet
  • Of Studies
  • Dalits’ Life
  • none of these
Answer: The Herring Fleet
Q9 | Who compares virtue to a flower in his tribute to the Prince Consort ?
  • Tennyson
  • Browning
  • Robert Lynd
  • Dickens
Answer: Tennyson
Q10 | Name the author of ‘Religion and Civilization
  • Satyajith Ray
  • Mushirul Hasan
  • C.J.Thomas
  • Francis Bacon
Answer: Mushirul Hasan
Q11 | Islam’s -------principles offered the converts a hope of a better future
  • egalitarian
  • Orthodox
  • difficult
  • none of the above
Answer: egalitarian
Q12 | Politics in the pre-independent period was structured around---------
  • religious categories
  • interest groups
  • Majority
  • none of the above
Answer: religious categories
Q13 | The spirit of a --------Indian nation runs contrary to the values of a secular policy and society.
  • developed
  • Spiritualist
  • underdeveloped
  • third world
Answer: Spiritualist
Q14 | Religious and cultural anxieties in India were mainly due to the arrival of------
  • the blacks
  • the missionaries
  • the political parties
  • none of the above
Answer: the missionaries
Q15 | The Indian Nationalist leaders tried to evolve an --------ideology.
  • inclusive
  • exclusive
  • separatist
  • none of the above.
Answer: inclusive
Q16 | The Author of ‘Legacy of a Divided Nation’ is--------
  • Sylvia Nasar
  • Mushirul Hasan
  • Intizar Husain
  • Sylvia plath
Answer: Mushirul Hasan
Q17 | The Mughal Empire weakend due to the breakdown of ------among the ruling elites.
  • Economic treaties
  • consensus
  • patriotism
  • none of these
Answer: consensus
Q18 | Who referred to the unified Hindu religion as ‘Syndicated Semitised Hinduism’?
  • Romila Thaper
  • Mushirul Hasan
  • K.P.S.Menon
  • Jinnah
Answer: Romila Thaper
Q19 | The Indian Constitution followed a policy of --------
  • Monotheism
  • fanaticism
  • Secularism
  • none of these.
Answer: Secularism
Q20 | Name the first novel of James Baldwin
  • My life
  • Go tell it on the Mountain
  • Fire
  • Love song
Answer: Go tell it on the Mountain
Q21 | My Dungeon Shook is taken from
  • Fire Next Time
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • none of these.
Answer: Fire Next Time
Q22 | The crime mentioned in the letter is --------
  • toughness of the Whites
  • toughness of the blacks
  • innocence of the Whites
  • mask of the Blacks
Answer: innocence of the Whites
Q23 | In the letter ‘My Dungeon Shook’ , Baldwin asks for
  • brotherhood of all
  • rivalry
  • destruction
  • hard work
Answer: brotherhood of all
Q24 | ’My Dungeon Shook’ is in the form of a --------
  • short story
  • novel
  • speech
  • personal letter
Answer: personal letter
Q25 | Baldwin addresses his letter to his ------
  • son
  • publisher
  • nephew
  • friend
Answer: nephew
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