HS English Online Mock Test, Prosnodekho.com
1. Complete each of the sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided : 1 × 12 = 12
PROSE
(i) The train drew to the station –
(a) slowly (b) rhythmically (c) silently
(d) quietly
Ans : (a) slowly
(ii) APJ Abdul Kalam was by birth a –
(a) Telugu (b) Tamil (c) Kannad
(d) Malayali
Ans : (b) Tamil
(iii) The Word ‘proclaimed’ means –
(a) decided (b) evaded (c) thought
(d) announced
Ans : (d) announced
(iv) The woman shook the boy until his teeth –
(a) fell (b) ached (c) rattled
(d) broke
Ans : (c) rattled
POETRY
(v) ‘Leprous hide’ is the tree’s –
(a) root (b) bark (c) leaves
(d) flowers
Ans : (b) bark
(vi) In the expression “they fill the hollow….”, ‘hollow’ means the:
(a) hills (b) glade (c) stream
(d) valley
Ans : (d) valley
(vii) “But thy eternal summer….” The word opposite in meaning to ‘eternal’ is –
(a) universal (b) momentary
(c) temporal (d) decayed
Ans : (c) temporal
(viii) According to Keats, the music of earth ceases
(a) in summer
(b) in winter
(c) at no point of time
(d) in autumn
Ans : (c) at no point of time
DRAMA
(ix) “Why talk rot ?” – The speaker is
(a) Lomov (b) Natalya
(c) Chubukov (d) Mironov.
Ans : (b) Natalya
(x) Chubukov had the bad habit of adding to every word, the phrase
(a) etcetra (b) that is (c) so glad
(d) so on
Ans : (d) so on
(xi) The word ‘pettifogger’ is used for
(a) Mironov (b) Chubukov
(c) Lomov (d) Guess
Ans : (c) Lomov
(xii) Chubukov comments that Lomov’s family has had a history of
(a) autocracy (b) hypocrisy
(c) democracy (d) lunacy
Ans : (d) lunacy