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1. The Restoration period was influenced by-”
2. The following sentence has a blank space and four words given after the sentence. Select whichever word you consider most appropriate for the blank space ? -˜The doctor said that a small daily -¦-¦ of the new drug would soon cure him.'
3. -˜For a handful of silver - he left us.' This line of Browning has a reference to-”
4. Cordelia came to help her father because-”
5. Shakespeare has mostly used in his plays-”
6. Milton's Paradise Lost has been praised for its-”
7. The first Indian author to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in the U.S.A. was-”
8. Which - of the following words - means -˜a place where the birds are kept' ?
9. -˜Every great poet is a teacher' are the words of-”
10. Select - from the following - the name of the author on whose grave the words he chose himself are carved-” -˜Here is one whose name is writ in water.'
11. Milton's Paradise Lost-”
12. 'Enigmatic' is-”
13. Choose the correct name of the play (from those given) from which the following lines have been taken-” -œWe are such stuff As dreams are made on - and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.-
14. A -¦-¦ soldier fights for the sake of money.
15. What figure of speech has been used in the following line ? -˜Frailty - thy name is woman !'
16. Find out the mis-spelt word-”
17. Allusion is-”
18. A ballad-”
19. From which book has it been taken ? -œTo be weak is miserable Doing or suffering ?-
20. The statement - -œOthers abide our question - thou art free- refers to-”
21. The name of Prospero's daughter in The Tempest is-”
22. What does the idiom (the) pros and cons mean ?
23. Shakespeare's play Hamlet is influenced by-”
24. What do we call a piece of writing that is an imitation of an action that is serious and complete ?
25. One of the following poets was nicknamed -˜The Lady of Christ's' by his fellow undergraduates. Spot the correct name of the poet-”