Question 1.“The Pace for Living” is written by …………….
(A) Aung San Suu Kyi
(B) Toni Morrison
(C) R.C. Hutchinson
(D) Satyajit Ray
Answer:-(C) R.C. Hutchinson
Question 2.Where did the writer of ‘The Pace for Living’ watch the play?
(A) Dubai
(B) Dublin
(C) Delhi
(D) London
Answer:-(B) Dublin
Question 3.R.C. Hutchinson was…………….
(A) American Novelist
(B) British Novelist
(C) French Novelist
(D) Italian Novelist
Answer:-(B) British Novelist
Question 4.The main character in “Pace for Living”, which the author saw was a/an …………….corn merchant.
(A) elderly
(B) handicapped
(C) young
(D) diabetic
Answer:-(A) elderly
Question 5.The author admits that quick travel does not give the traveler the real of travel.
(A) pains
(B) pleasure
(C) living
(D) holiday
Answer:-(B) pleasure
Question 6.In “The Pace for Living”, the writer captures the agony of …………….man.
(A) modem
(B) ancient
(C) future
(D) uncivilized
Answer:-(A) modem
Question 7.Where the author saw a play in which a corn-merchant was the chief character?
(A) Budapest
(B) Milan
(C) Dublin
(D) Canterbury
Answer:-(C) Dublin
Question 8.Who had the fantastic notion of spending £ 10 on a holiday?
(A) Son of corn-merchant
(B) Daughter of corn-merchant
(C) Father of corn-merchant
(D) Wife of corn-merchant
Answer:-(D) Wife of corn-merchant
Question 9.Who was cheating the corn-merchant?
(A) His Son
(B) His Nephew
(C) His Daughter
(D) His Wife
Answer:-(B) His Nephew
Question 10.Who likes fast traveling?
(A) The Corn-merchant
(B) The wife of Corn-merchant
(C) The Author
(D) None of these
Answer:-(C) The Author
Question 11.Who didn’t dislike the rapid movement of life?
(A) Corn-merchant
(B) Nephew of Corn-merchant
(C) The Author
(D) Wife of Corn-merchant
Answer:-(C) The Author
Question 12.Which word in the passage stands for worship?
(A) Adore
(B) Esprit
(C) Despair
(D) Escapiert
Answer:-(A) Adore
Question 13.Which tribe did the author belong to?
(A) Fast thinkers
(B) Slow thinkers
(C) Steady thinkers
(D) None of these
Answer:-(B) Slow thinkers
Question 14.How many girls were in the film?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
Answer:-(B) Three
Question 15.The main character in the play which the author saw was a/an …………….corn-merchant.
(A) elderly
(B) handicapped
(C) young
(D) diabetic
Answer:-(A) elderly
Question 16.Slow thinkers have a disadvantage when it comes to earning a…………….
(A) car
(B) factory
(C) living
(D) holiday
Answer:-(C) living
Question 17.Who was a man of many anxieties and had a dicky heart?
(A) R.C. Hutchinson
(B) Com-merchant
(C) The nephew of the Com-merchant
(D) The wife of the Com-merchant
Answer:-(B) Com-merchant
Question 18.Who exhibits an exceptional flair for touching the sensitive issues of contemporary society?
(A) William Cowper
(B) Joan Lexau
(C) Walter dela Mare
(D) R.C. Hutchinson
Answer:-(D) R.C. Hutchinson
Question 19.What was the most enchanting line in the play?
(A) Now that’s too much
(B) Now that’s too fast
(C) Is this the same girl as the one we saw at the beginning?
(D) I’esprit de l’ escalier
Answer:-(B) Now that’s too fast
Question 20.The man’s complaint was so gloriously irrelevant to his.
(A) Own character
(B) Own mind
(C) Own situation
(D) Own country
Answer:-(C) Own situation
Question 21.The speaker goes in a car at…………….
(A) nineteen miles an hour
(B) fourteen miles an hour
(C) sixteen miles an hour
(D) ninety miles an hour
Answer:-(D) ninety miles an hour
Question 22.The elderly corn-merchant was a man of…………….
(A) wealth
(B) property
(C) anxieties
(D) dicky
Answer:-(C) anxieties
Question 23.The Irish get a subtle truth by the most unlikely…………….
(A) approaches
(B) reproaches
(C) illustration
(D) comic
Answer:-(A) approaches
Question 24.To dine in London and ……………. in New York next day seems to me most satisfactory experiences.
(A) dinner
(B) breakfast
(C) toast
(D) lunch
Answer:-(D) lunch
Question 25.Slow thinkers are terribly….. in the business of getting a living.
(A) capped
(B) handicapped
(C) disabled
(D) tortured
Answer:-(B) handicapped
Question 26.All the tests, today are designed to measure…………….
(A) the speed of a bus
(B) the speed of a train
(C) the speed of mind
(D) none of these
Answer:-(C) the speed of mind
Question 27.The chief character of the play was
(A) Dublin
(B) An elderly Com-merchant
(C) An old woman
(D) Narrator
Answer:-(B) An elderly Com-merchant
(B) An elderly Com-merchant
Question 28.Altogether the pace of life was getting too much for
(A) The narrator
(B) Dublin
(C) Com merchant
(D) The girls
Answer:-(C) Com merchant
Question 29.The agony of modern man is captured by
(A) Dublin
(B) Joan Lexau
(C) R. C. Hutchinson
(D) The Com-merchant
Answer:-(C) R. C. Hutchinson
Question 30.The speaker adores the machines the hurl one about at
(A) Dublin
(B) Rapid movement
(C) Now York
(D) Battersea
Answer:-(D) Battersea
Question 31.The elderly Corn-merchant lived in
(A) Dublin
(B) A small Irish country town
(C) England
(D) A big Irish country town
Answer:-(B) A small Irish country town
Question 32.Who was a man of many anxieties?
(A) The narrator himself
(B) The elderly Com-merchant
(C) The Corn-merchant’s nephew
(D) The Corn-merchant’s wife
Answer:-(B) The elderly Com-merchant
Question 33.To dine in London and lunch in New York next day seems to the narrator.
(A) too fast
(B) a superficial sense of drama
(C) too slow
(D) a most satisfactory experience
Answer:-(D) a most satisfactory experience
Question 34.Those who do not think fast in the High street nowadays may not get another chance in this world to
(A) think slow
(B) think fast
(C) think very fast
(D) think at all
Answer:-(D) think at all
Question 35.‘Weak-hearted’ means same as
(A) Quicky
(B) Freaky
(C) Dicky
(D) Despair
Answer:-(D) Despair
Question 36.He is going to fail in love with girls ……………. in that Order.
(A) A, B, C
(B) B, A, C
(C) C, B, A
(D) B. C, A
Answer:-(D) B. C, A
Question 37.When the narrator goes to cinema, he finds himself in
(A) a peculiar seat
(B) great trouble
(C) a hopeless fog
(D) a cheerful mood
Answer:-(C) a hopeless fog
Question 38.Illustration means same as
(A) painting
(B) drawing
(C) example
(D) fanciful
Answer:-(C) example
Question 39.The correct meaning of ‘anxieties’ is
(A) happiness
(B) worries
(C) anger
(D) sadness
Answer:-(B) worries
Question 40.The antonym of ‘rapid’ is
(A) fast
(B) slow
(C) hurl
(D) superficial
Answer:-(B) slow