Question 1

The Prairie States

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,

Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,

With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,

By all the world contributed – freedom’s and law’s and thrift’s society,

The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time’s accumulations,

To justify the past.

Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion of the prairie states?

Options :

A : They are rich and prosperous

B : They are full of industry and agriculture.

C : They are faint copies of a lost paradise.

D : They are sustained by the institution of slavery.

E : They represent America’s diversity, union, and strength.

Answer: A

Question 2

For I have known them all already, known them all: –

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

I know the voices dying with a dying fall

Beneath the music from a farther room.

So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all –

The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,

Then how should I begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

And how should I presume?

The imagery of lines 57-58 is borrowed from what hobby?

Options :

A : Sewing

B : Insect collecting

C : Wrestling

D : Pennant collecting

E : Flower arranging

Answer: B

Question 3

Leighton Rees, a factory worker who became the world’s first professional darts champion, died at age 63.

Begin with “Leighton Rees was a factory worker”.

Options :

A : who then died

B : will have died

C : then did die

D : and he died

E : and then dying

Answer: D

Question 4

Which author associated manhood and maturity with nonconformity?

Options :

A : Henry David Longfellow

B : Willa Cather

C : Mark Twain

D : Carl Sandburg

E : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer: A

Question 5

In his work Fire Next Time, James Baldwin argues for

Options :

A : an end to separation between the races

B : the right of workers to organize

C : reform of the American educational system

D : peace in Southeast Asia

E : an end to political corruption in Washington

Answer: A