Bihar
Board 12th Exam 2021
English 100 Marks
Test
1.
Dr. Zakir Hussain entered the office in a spirit of……….humility.
a)special
b)real
c)ruin
d)prayerful
2. In the poem, Now the Leaves are falling
fast ‘whispering neighbor’ stands for……...
a)agents of life
b)agents of Sahara
c)agents of SBI
d)Agents of death
3.
“Civilization, in the real
sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication.” is a line taken from……….
a)Bharat is My Home
b)Song of Myself
c)Indian Civilization and Culture
d)An Epitaph
4.
Dr. Zakir Husain became the president of India in…………
a)1965
b)1966
c)1967
d)1968
5.
Indian civilization is……….
a)godless
b)based on partiality
c)based on belief in God
d)based on matter
6.
The word ‘school’ stands
for……..in Song of Myself.
a)academy
b)system of thought
c)teaching
d)none of these
7.
Happiness is largely a………..
a)mental condition
b)physical condition
c)disease
d)imagination
8.
John Donne wants to go away because he is not tired of his………….
a)mother
b)father
c)sister
d)beloved
9.
Leaves of Grass (written by Walt Whitman) is known for its free rhythms
and lack of…….
a)song
b)lyric
c)rhyme
d)none of these
10. ‘I loafe and
invite my soul’ is written by………….
a)John Keats
b)John Donne
c)D.H. Lawrence
d)Walt Whitman
11. The mind is
a restless bird which always remains……….
a)hungry
b)unsatisfied
c)thirsty
d)sick
12. Mahatma
Gandhi was more a………
a)politician
b)economist
c)social reformer
d)spiritual leader
13. ‘The prams are……..
a)running
b)standing
c)sitting
d)rolling
14. Earlier Dr.
Zakir Hussain served as……….
a)the Governor of Bihar
b)the Chief minister of Bihar
c)the Governor of Punjab
d)the Governor of Bengal
15. John Donne
thinks that………..is certain.
a)death
b)work
c)life
d)none of these
16. Dr. Zakir
Hussain took the oath as the………
a)president
b)governor
c)minister
d)none of these
17. John Donne
was the pioneer of…….
a)Elizabethan poetry
b)Metaphysical poetry
c)Neo-Classical poetry
d)none of these
18. Bharat is My
Home is written by…..
a)Mahatma Gandhi
b)Dr. Zakir Hussain
c)Pearl S. Buck
d)John Donne
19. ‘I harbor
for good or bad’ is written by……..
a)John Keats
b)John Donne
c)D.H. Lawrence
d)Walt Whitman
20. ………….waterfall could bless the travelers
passing through that way.
a)white
b)yellow
c)red
d)black
21. Sweetest
Love I Do Not Goe has been addressed to…….
a)Donne’s sister
b)Donne’s mother
c)Donne’s friend
d)Donne’s wife
22. W.H Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in…
a)1950
b)1947
c)1960
d)1948
23. ‘Trolls’ mentioned in the poem, ‘Now the
Leaves are Falling Fast’ are………..mythological creatures.
a)Scandinavian
b)Indian
c)Russian
d)None of these
24. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’………..the
frustration inherent in human life.
a)reacts
b)enacts
c)accepts
d)protests
25. Song of
Myself is written by
a)John Donne
b)John Keats
c)W.H Auden
d)John Weats
Answer- Walt Whitman
