English I Quiz 1: 23 February 2025 (January 2025 term)

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Select true or false for the following statement.
The narrator was unpopular throughout his school days because he picked up fights with his classmates.

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Choose the correct option from the following
The narrator had the lonely child’s habits of ____________.

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Choose the correct option from the following.
How did the narrator feel about abandoning the idea of becoming a writer during their late teens and early twenties?

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Choose the correct option from the following.
In the context of the passage, which one of the following is an antonym for the word ‘facility’?

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

From the following options, identify the antonym for the word ‘ghastly’.

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Choose true or false for the following statement:
The narrator’s first poem contained the phrase ‘chair-like teeth.’

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Choose the correct answer from the following.
What is the synonym of the word ‘plagiarism’?

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

Select true or false for the following statement.
The narrator wrote bad and usually unfinished 'nature poems' in the Victorian style during his teenage years.

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

In the context of the passage, what is the meaning of the expression ‘set down’?

Read the following passage and answer the given subquestions.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my school days. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious – i.e. seriously intended – writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had ‘chair-like teeth’ – a good enough phrase, but I fancy the poem was a plagiarism of Blake’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a patriotic poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished ‘nature poems’ in the Georgian style. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure. That was the total of the would- be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
Source: George Orwell’s Why I Write.

At the age of eleven, the narrator wrote a patriotic poem which was never published.

Look at the word given below and study the sound that is underlined in it. Choose the option which has the same sound.
Zoo

Pick the odd one out based on the initial sound: pare, bare, mare, stare.

Which semi-vowel occurs in the transition between the words “he” and “advised” in the sentence “he advised me to carry an umbrella”?

Which among the following is a word without a diphthong?

Which semi-vowel does the word “huge” contain?

Choose the word with the “ii” sound from the following.

Find the vowel sound that is the same as that which is underlined in the word given below: Tongue

Identify the sequence of consonant and vowel sounds in the word succeed.

Which among the following is not a collective noun?

Choose the correct past form of the verb ‘Choose’:

Identify the adverb:
"She sang beautifully at the concert"

"She spoke very quietly"
Which word modifies the adverb?

"The happy dog wagged its tail excitedly"
Identify the adjective and adverb:

She's allergic _____ dust.
Choose the correct preposition

Identify the interjection expressing relief:

Choose the correct option.
When referring to a specific day of the month numerically, which article is used?

Select the most appropriate idiom of the given meaning.
To exaggerate a minor difficulty.

Choose the correct option.
The phrase ‘it takes two to tango’ means ___________.

In primary school, the older kids would often ______________the younger ones during the lunch break.

“Bring up” is an example of a separable phrasal verb.

Fill in the blanks in List A with the most contextually appropriate modal verbs in List B.

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

“You don’t suppose he _____ give us one, do you?”
Hint: To express someone’s willingness to do something.

Fill in the blanks in List A with the most contextually appropriate modal verbs in List B.

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

“You _____ know that you cannot walk barefoot in the snow.”
Hint: To indicate what is ideally expected of someone.

Fill in the blanks in List A with the most contextually appropriate modal verbs in List B.

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

“You _____ join the music club.”
Hint: To make a suggestion.

Fill in the blanks in List A with the most contextually appropriate modal verbs in List B.

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

“You _____ leave.”
Hint: To formally give permission.

Fill in the blanks in List A with the most contextually appropriate modal verbs in List B.

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

“They _____ suspect an innocent man.”
Hint: To advise or instruct what is correctly required of someone.

Complete the telephonic conversation given below with most polite and correct responses. Sharanya: Hello, is this Golden Dragon restaurant?
Host: Yes, ma’am. (1)____________________________
Sharanya: Hello, I’d like to make a reservation for two.
Host: (2) ______________________For which date and time?
Customer: This Saturday at 7 PM.
Host: Ma’am, (3)___________________________ I will check for the availability.
Customer: Sure.
[A few moments later]
Host: Ma’am, we have a table available. (4) _________________________
Sharanya: Sure, it’s Sharanya Kumar.
Host: (5) ______________________________
Customer: Great, thanks a lot.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Complete blank (1) with an appropriate response.

Complete the telephonic conversation given below with most polite and correct responses. Sharanya: Hello, is this Golden Dragon restaurant?
Host: Yes, ma’am. (1)____________________________
Sharanya: Hello, I’d like to make a reservation for two.
Host: (2) ______________________For which date and time?
Customer: This Saturday at 7 PM.
Host: Ma’am, (3)___________________________ I will check for the availability.
Customer: Sure.
[A few moments later]
Host: Ma’am, we have a table available. (4) _________________________
Sharanya: Sure, it’s Sharanya Kumar.
Host: (5) ______________________________
Customer: Great, thanks a lot.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Complete blank (2) with an appropriate response.

Complete the telephonic conversation given below with most polite and correct responses. Sharanya: Hello, is this Golden Dragon restaurant?
Host: Yes, ma’am. (1)____________________________
Sharanya: Hello, I’d like to make a reservation for two.
Host: (2) ______________________For which date and time?
Customer: This Saturday at 7 PM.
Host: Ma’am, (3)___________________________ I will check for the availability.
Customer: Sure.
[A few moments later]
Host: Ma’am, we have a table available. (4) _________________________
Sharanya: Sure, it’s Sharanya Kumar.
Host: (5) ______________________________
Customer: Great, thanks a lot.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Complete blank (3) with an appropriate response.

Complete the telephonic conversation given below with most polite and correct responses. Sharanya: Hello, is this Golden Dragon restaurant?
Host: Yes, ma’am. (1)____________________________
Sharanya: Hello, I’d like to make a reservation for two.
Host: (2) ______________________For which date and time?
Customer: This Saturday at 7 PM.
Host: Ma’am, (3)___________________________ I will check for the availability.
Customer: Sure.
[A few moments later]
Host: Ma’am, we have a table available. (4) _________________________
Sharanya: Sure, it’s Sharanya Kumar.
Host: (5) ______________________________
Customer: Great, thanks a lot.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Complete blank (4) with an appropriate response.

Complete the telephonic conversation given below with most polite and correct responses. Sharanya: Hello, is this Golden Dragon restaurant?
Host: Yes, ma’am. (1)____________________________
Sharanya: Hello, I’d like to make a reservation for two.
Host: (2) ______________________For which date and time?
Customer: This Saturday at 7 PM.
Host: Ma’am, (3)___________________________ I will check for the availability.
Customer: Sure.
[A few moments later]
Host: Ma’am, we have a table available. (4) _________________________
Sharanya: Sure, it’s Sharanya Kumar.
Host: (5) ______________________________
Customer: Great, thanks a lot.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Complete blank (5) with an appropriate response.