Education Exams (Educ English) – Page 2

#20. During the Titanomachy, Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. As a result, the brothers and sisters gave Zeus the honor of being their leader, thus, earning the right to rule over the sky. What does this show about the Greeks?
A The Greeks value heroism
B The Greeks value respect.
C The Greeks value honor.
D All of the above.
Answer: All of the above.
#21. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A Rabindranath Tagore
B Po Chu-I
C Wole Soyinka
D Yasunari Kawabata
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
#22. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.
A Hinduism
B Taoism
C Confucianism
D Buddhism
Answer: Confucianism
#23. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.
A seppuku
B on
C Kami
D giri
Answer: giri
#24. What insight is suggested by this haiku from Basho?

Poverty’s child –

He starts to grind the rice

And gazes at the moon.

A Child labor is a reality in many Asian nations
B Life is never-ending routine of work and leisure.
C The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life.
D Nature has a soothing effect on the human spirit.
Answer: The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life.
#25. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.
A Leopold Senghor
B Dennis Brutus
C Wole Soyinka
D David Diop
Answer: Leopold Senghor
#26. The plot development of the Ramayana.
A Pyramid
B En medias res
C Circular
D Linear
Answer: Linear
#27. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A Bessie Head
B Barbara Kimenye
C Ousmane Sembene
D Nadine Gordimer
Answer: Nadine Gordimer
#28. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts.
A The Tale of Genji
B Dream of the red Chamber
C On Learning to be an Indian
D Record of a Journey to the West
Answer: Record of a Journey to the West
#29. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
A Ch’in
B T’ang
C Shang
D Han
Answer: T’ang
#30. This excerpt from Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation indicates the universal issue of _________.

“ARE YOU DARK?OR VERY LIGHT?” Revelation came.

“You mean- like plain or milk chocolate?” Her assent was clinical, crushing its light Impersonality. Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, “West African sepia.” – and as an afterthought, “Down in my passport.

A colonial mentality
B human rights violation
C racial discrimination
D gender discrimination
Answer: racial discrimination
#31. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.
A kama
B artha
C maya
D dharma
Answer: maya
#32. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

A Mansfield Park
B Pride and Prejudice
C Sense and Sensibility
D Northanger Abbey
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
#33. Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?
A Under the Greenwood Tree
B The Mayor of Casterbridge
C Tess of d’Urberville
D Return to the Native
Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge
#34. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear?

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

A A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B Hamlet
C Romeo and Juliet
D King Henry IV
Answer: Hamlet
#35. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ‘Tale of Horror’?
A Frankenstein
B Heart of Darkness
C Tale Tale heart
D Bleak House
Answer: Frankenstein
#36. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:

“I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS- I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! – AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH.”

A Sonnet 53
B Sonnet 14
C Sonnet 15
D Sonnet 43
Answer: Sonnet 43
#37. What sound device is exemplified in the first two lines of Poe’s ‘The Raven’?

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” This I whispered and an echo murmured back the word, Lenore!” Merely this and nothing more. - From The Raven; Edgar Allan Poe

A Assonance
B Alliteration
C Onomatopoeia
D Anaphora
Answer: Alliteration
#38. What atmosphere do the images create?
A Solitude
B Longing
C Confusion
D Contentment
Answer: Solitude
#39. Who did Abraham Lincoln call “the little woman who started the Civil War”?
A Rosa parks
B Sojourner Truth
C Harriet Beecher Stowe
D Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe