Story of English: Objectives Bihar Board Class 12th 2021

Story of English: Objectives

1. The English language is much younger than ...............

• Latin
• Greek
• Persian
• All of these

Answer:- All of these

2. The Anglo-Saxons invaded England in the ..............

• fifth century
• sixth century
• seventh century
• None of these

Answer:- fifth century

3. The English language of today reflects ................ centuries of political and social developments.

• fourth
• fifth
• sixth
• seventh

Answer:- fifth

4. Who were called together the Anglo-Saxons?

• Angles
• Saxons
• Jute
• All of these

Answer:- All of these

5. ................ gave England its name and language.

• Indians
• Anglo-Saxons
• Romans
• None of these

Answer:- Anglo-Saxons

6. Old English covers ..............

• AD449-AD1066
• AD1067-AD1099
• AD1100-AD1149
• AD1150-AD1500

Answer:-  AD449-AD1066

7. Middle English covers ...............

• AD1150-AD1500
• AD1100-AD1149
• AD1067-AD1099
• AD449-AD1066

Answer:- AD1150-AD1500

8. English used since AD 1500 till now is called ...............[2019]

• Old
• Middle
• Modern
• None of these

Answer:- Modern

9. The history of the English language is just about ................. years old.

• 1500
• 1600
• 1700
• None of these

Answer:- 1500

10. In England, the printing press was invented in ................

• 1475
• 1476
• 1477
• 1478

Answer:- 1476

11. In the old English period, the two major influences were .................

• Latin and French
• Latin and Greek
• Latin and Scandinavian
• Latin and Indian

Answer:- Latin and Scandinavian

12. The gold period of old English literature was the era of ................

• King Alfred
• King Richard - II
• Queen Elizabeth
• None of these

Answer:- King Alfred

13. The year AD 1066 is taken to be the end of the ................. period.[2018]

• Middle English
• Old English
• Modern English
• None of these

Answer:- Old English

14. About ................. Christianity began to spread in England.

• AD400
• AD500
• AD600
• AD700

Answer:- AD600 

15. The first phase of Middle English literature covers the period ................

• AD950-AD1350
• AD1050-AD1215
• AD1150-AD1215
• None of these

Answer:- AD1150-AD1215

The Artist -Shiga Naoya

16. The second phase of Middle English literature covers the period .................

• AD950-AD1350
• AD1050-AD1215
• AD1150-AD1350
• AD1250-AD1350

Answer:- AD 1250-AD1350

17. Chancer, Gower, Langland, and Wyclif are important writers of the ................. period.

• Old English
• Middle English
• Modern English
• None of these

Answer:- Middle English

18. Modern English begins from ................

• AD1300
• AD1400
• AD1500
• AD1600

Answer:- AD1500

19. The printing technology was introduced in England in ................

• 1466
• 1476
• 1486
• 1496

Answer:- 1476

20. The name 'Augustan' was given to the early ............... century.[2018]

• 17th
• 18th
• 19th
• 20th

Answer:- 18th

21. ............... was also known as the Augustan age.

• 16th century
• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century

Answer:- 18th century

22. The British Grammar was written by J. Buchanan in ..................

• 1760
• 1762
• 1764
• 1766

Answer:- 1762

23. The English from the 15th century till now is called ................... English.

• Modern
• Middle
• Old
• None of these

Answer:- Modern

24. ............... has the largest number of native speakers.

• Hindi
• Urdu
• English
• Chinese

Answer:- English

25. .................. has the largest number of native speakers.

• English
• Chinese
• Hindi
• Urdu

Answer:- Chinese

26. In the UK, the USA, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Newzealand, and South Africa, English is spoken as a ...............

• foreign language
• second language
• mother-tongue
• None of these

Answer:- mother-tongue

27. In India, Singapore, Malaysia, Nigeria, Namibia, Botswana, etc. English is spoken as a ...............

• second language
• mother-tongue
• foreign language
• None of these

Answer:- second language

28. English is also used as a .................. by the Anglo Indian community of India.

• foreign language
• mother-tongue
• second language
• None of these

Answer:- mother-tongue

29. In China, Japan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Eritrea, France, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, etc., English is spoken as a ................

• mother-tongue
• second language
• foreign language
• None of these

Answer:- foreign language

30. English developed from the speech of the ..............

• Anglo-Indian
• Anglo-Saxon
• Anglo-American
• None of these

Answer:- Anglo-Saxon

Indian Civilization and Culture -Mahatma Gandhi

31. Standard British speech is known as ..................

• RP
• AP
• IP
• None of these

Answer:- RP

32. American English differs from British English in the sphere of .................

• spelling
• vocabulary
• grammar
• All of these

Answer:- All of these

33. About ............... years ago, Latin was a world language.

• 600
• 700
• 800
• 900

Answer:- 800

34. In the last few decades of the ................ century, the English language has been rapid changes.

• 17th
• 18th
• 19th
• 20th

Answer:- 20th

35. During the ................ century, an intellectual movement swept in Europe.

• 14th
• 15th
• 16th
• 17th

Answer:- 15th

36. In his poetic words, a chancer did not use the .................

• the old English
• the Middle English
• Modern English
• None of these

Answer:- the old English

37. 'The Canterbury Tales' was written by ................

• Langland
• Chancer
• Yeats
• None of these

Answer:- Chancer

38.  'Paradise Regained' was written by ................

• Shakespeare
• Keats
• Milton
• None of these

Answer:- Milton

39. 'Paradise Lost' was written by ...............

• Milton
• Spenser
• Dickens
• None of these

Answer:- Milton

40. 'The Rope of the Lock' was written by ................

• Shelly
• Alexander Pope
• Keats
• None of these

Answer:- Alexander Pope

41. 'Hydibras' was written by ................

• Dryden
• Butler
• George Herbert
• None of these

Answer:- Butler

42. 'Fairy queen' was written by ................

• Tennyson
• Spenser
• Arnold
• None of these

Answer:- Spenser

43. 'Mac Flecknoe' was written by .................

• Dryden
• John Donne
• George Herbert
• None of these

Answer:- Dryden

44. 'Dr. Faustus' was written by ................

• Shakespeare
• Keats
• Christopher Marlowe
• None of these

Answer:- Christopher Marlowe

45. 'Edward-II' was written by .................

• Marlowe
• Spenser
• Milton
• None of these

Answer:- Marlowe

A Child is Born -Germaine Greer

46. 'Venus and Adonis' was written by ..................

• Keats
• Shakespeare
• Milton
• None of these

Answer:- Shakespeare

47. Wordsworth was a .................

• novelist
• dramatist
• poet
• None of these

Answer:- poet

48. 'Hamlet' is a ................

• tragedy
• comedy
• poet
• None of these

Answer:- tragedy

49. 'Kind Lear' is a ..................

• comedy
• drama
• poetry
• None of these

Answer:- drama

50. 'Piers the Plowman' is written by .................

• Spenser
• Milton
• Langland
• Congreve

Answer:- Langland

51. 'Othello', 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth', and 'King Lear' were written by ...............

• Langland
• Marlowe
• Shakespeare
• Spenser

Answer:- Shakespeare

52. 'Vision of Judgement' was written by ...............

• Shelly
• John Keats
• Lord Byron
• None of these

Answer:- Lord Byron

53. 'Revolt of Islam' was written by ..................

• Lord Byron
• Shelly
• John Keats
• None of these

Answer:- Shelly

54. 'The Scholar Gipsy' has been written by ..............[2018]

• Matthew Arnold
• W.B. Yeats
• Robert Bridges
• J.M. Synge

Answer:- Matthew Arnold

55. 'Sohrab and Rustan' has been written by ...............

• W.B. Yeats
• Robert Bridge
• J.M. Synge
• Matthew Arnold

Answer:- Matthew Arnold

56. 'The Gitanjali' has been written by ................

• Sarojini Naidu
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Aurobindo Ghosh
• None of these

Answer:- Rabindranath Tagore

57. 'The Savitri' has been written by .................[2019]

• Aurobindo Ghosh
• Sarojini Naidu
• Rabindranath Tagore
• None of these

Answer:- Aurobindo Ghosh

58. The word drama comes from a ............... word.[2018]

• Latin
• Scandinavian
• Greek
• American

Answer:- Greek

59. The tragedy ends with .................

• happiness
• sorrow
• both
• None of these

Answer:- sorrow

60. Comedy eds with ..................

• sorrow
• happiness
• both
• None of these

Answer:- happiness

A Marriage Proposal - Anton Chekhov

61. For a drama exposition is .................

• evil
• futile
• essential
• None of these

Answer:- essential

62. Morality plays developed in .................

• Ancient days
• Middle ages
• Modern ages
• None of these

Answer:- Middle ages

63. The first English tragedy was ...................

• Dr. Faustus
• Julius Caesar
• Gorboduc
• King Lear

Answer:- Gorboduc

64. 'Othello' is a ................

• comedy
• tragedy
• novel
• story

Answer:- tragedy

65. 'Murder in the cathedral' was written by ................

• T.S. Eliot
• Shakespeare
• Marlowe
• None of these

Answer:- T.S. Eliot

66. ................. is called the father of the modern novel.[2018]

• Richardson
• Fielding
• Johnson
• Dryden

Answer:- Richardson

67. 'Pamela' was written by ................

• Defoe
• Richardson
• Jane Austen
• None of these

Answer:- Richardson

68. 'Pride and Prejudice' was written by .................

• Goldsmith
• Fielding
• Jane Austen
• None of these

Answer:- Jane Austen

69. 'David Copperfield' was written by .................

• Fielding
• George Eliot
• Dickens
• None of these

Answer:- Dickens

70. 'Pick Wick papers were written by ................

• Scott
• Dickens
• Thackeray
• None of these

Answer:- Dickens

71. 'Untouchable' and 'Coolie' was written by ...............[2019]

• Kiran Desai
• Anita Desai
• Raja Rao
• Mulk Raj Anand

Answer:- Mulk Raj Anand

72. 'Serpent and the Rope' was written by .................

• Mulk Raj Anand
• Kamala Das
• Raja Rao
• R. Narayan

Answer:- Raja Rao

73. 'The God of small things' is written by ................[2018]

• Anita Desai
• Kamala Das
• Joru Dutt
• Arundhati Roy

Answer:- Arundhati Roy

74. 'Train to Pakistan' is written by.................

• Mabohar Malgaonka
• Khushwant Singh
• Anita Desai
• R.K. Narayan

Answer:- Khushwant Singh

75. 'A Bend in the Ganga' is written by .................

• Khushwant Singh
• Anita Desai
• Manohar Malgaonkar
• Joru Dutt

Answer:- Manohar Malgaonkar

The Soldier -Rupert Brooke

76. 'Arms and the man' is written by ...............

• Shakespeare
• G.B. Shaw
• Dickens
• T.S. Eliot

Answer:- G.B. Shaw

77. The development of ................ was helped by the introduction of printing technology.[2019]

• Middle English
• Modern English
• Old English
• None of these

Answer:- Modern English

78. 'Tughlaq' is written by .................[2019]

• Girish Karnad
• R.N. Tagore
• B.C. Chattopadhyay
• S.C. Chatterjee

Answer:- Girish Karnad

79. The major linguistic change is known as ................[2019]

• Modern English
• Old English
• The Great Vowel Shift
• Printing technology

Answer:- The Great Vowel Shift

80. The word 'drama' comes from a ................. word.[2019]

• Latin
• India
• Scandinavian
• Greek

Answer:- Greek

81. The 'Romantic Revival' is often associated with:[2019]

• John Dryden
• Alexander Pope
• William Wordsworth
• John Milton

Answer:- William Wordsworth

82. The English language is ................... than Sanskrit and Persian.[2019]

• older
• younger
• classical
• None of these

Answer:- younger

83. 'Macbeth' and 'Julius Caesar' are written by ................[2019]

• Johnson
• Goldsmith
• Shakespeare
• Sheridan

Answer:- Middle English

84. New varieties of English that have emerged in different parts of the world is called ................[2019]

• second language
• New English
• American English
• None of these

Answer:- New English

85. The Great Vowel Shift took place during ..................[2019]

• Modern English
• Middle English
• Old English
• British English

Answer:- Middle English

86. English is used in China as a ................ language.[2018]

• second
• first
• foreign
• third

Answer:- foreign

87. mark Twain and Henry James are ............... novelists.[2018]

• Indian
• British
• Australian
• American

Answer:- American

88. Middle English had ................ dialects.[2018]

• two
• six
• five
• three

Answer:- five

89. .................. helped in simplifying English.[2018]

• Bible
• Quran
• Mahabharata
• Ramayana

Answer:- Bible