1. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

'I am never neglecting my responsibility, / I am discharging it properly, / I am doing my duty, / But who is appreciating / Nobody, I am telling you. / My desk is too small, / the fan is not repaired for two months, / three months. / I am living far off in Borivali, / My children are neglecting studies, / How long this can go on?' -- From Nissam Ezekial's poem, 'The Railroad Clerk'

2. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

BIRLING: What I did want to say was - that Sheila's a lucky girl - and I think you're a pretty fortunate young man too, Gerald.
GERALD: I know I am - this once anyhow.
BIRLING: (raising his glass) So here's wishing the pair of you - the very best that life can bring. Gerald and Sheila.
-- From J.B. Priestley's play, An Inspector Calls.

3. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

'Here is the ancient floor / Footworn and hollowed and thin, / Here was the former door / Where the dead feet walked in. / She sat here in her chair, / Smiling into the fire; / He who played stood there, / Bowing it higher and higher.' -- From Thomas Hardy's poem, 'The Self-Unseeing'.

4. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

''Thought I heard something,' he said. 'Stop a minute.'
We stopped.
'Hear anything?' he asked.
'No.'
We had not gone five paces before he made me stop again.
'Jem, are you tryin' to scare me? You know I'm too old --'
'Be quiet,' he said, and I knew he was not joking.'
-- From Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird

5. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

BIRLING: What I did want to say was - that Sheila's a lucky girl - and I think you're a pretty fortunate young man too, Gerald.
GERALD: I know I am - this once anyhow.
BIRLING: (raising his glass) So here's wishing the pair of you - the very best that life can bring. Gerald and Sheila.
-- From J.B. Priestley's play, An Inspector Calls.

6. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

MRS. BIRLING: (agitated) I don't believe it. I won't believe it...
SHEILA: Mother - I begged you and begged you to stop -
INSPECTOR holds up a hand. We hear the front door. They wait, looking towards door. ERIC enters, looking extremely pale and distressed. He meets their inquiring stares. Curtain falls quickly.
-- From J.B. Priestley's play,An Inspector Calls

7. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

'The evening had caught cold; / Its eyes were blurred. / It had a dripping nose / And its tongue was furred.' - From Vernon Scannell's poem, 'November Story'.

8. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

''Thought I heard something,' he said. 'Stop a minute.'
We stopped.
'Hear anything?' he asked.
'No.'
We had not gone five paces before he made me stop again.
'Jem, are you tryin' to scare me? You know I'm too old --'
'Be quiet,' he said, and I knew he was not joking.'
-- From Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird

9. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

'The evening had caught cold; / Its eyes were blurred. / It had a dripping nose / And its tongue was furred.' - From Vernon Scannell's poem, 'November Story'.

10. Choose the word which most nearly captures the mood of the quotation.

'I am never neglecting my responsibility, / I am discharging it properly, / I am doing my duty, / But who is appreciating / Nobody, I am telling you. / My desk is too small, / the fan is not repaired for two months, / three months. / I am living far off in Borivali, / My children are neglecting studies, / How long this can go on?' -- From Nissam Ezekial's poem, 'The Railroad Clerk'