11th English Unit 4 Online Test – New Book

• “The talk was running on the critical situations in which we had found ourselves”
• In the short story “Tight Corners” who narrates some of the critical situation happened to a man?

• “as though tight corners were always physical affairs”
• In the short story “Tight Corners”, who narrates that tight corners is a physical affair?

• “Surely they can be tighter when they are mental.”
• In the above line from the short story “Tight Corners”, ______ van be tighter when they are in mental pressure?

• “The tightest comer I was ever in was at Christie’s.”
• In the above line from the short story “Tight Corners” who was struck in the tightest corner?

• “The tightest comer I was ever in was at Christie’s”
• What is Christie’s?

• “The tightest comer I was ever in was at Christie’s”
• Where is Christie’s?

• “The tightest comer I was ever in was at Christie’s”
• Who is the tightest comer in the auction house?

• “Yes. I had been lunching rather well at a club in St. James’s Street with an old friend from abroad”
• Who had a lunch with his old friend in club?

• “Yes. I had been lunching rather well at a club in St. James’s Street with an old friend from abroad, and passing along King Street afterwards”
• In which city St. James’s Street and King Street?

• “I found myself bidding too just for fun.”
• In the short story “Tight Corners” who is bidding in the auction house just for fun?

• “I was nodding away to the auctioneer like a bloatocrat”
• What do you mean by bloatocrat?

• “I was nodding away to the auctioneer like a bloatocrat”
• In the above sentence bloatocrat describes?

• “I was nodding away to the auctioneer like a bloatocrat”
• Bloatocrat- is a word coined by?

• Whose voice is referred in the above line?

• “Four thousand and fifty guineas. Any advance on four thousand and fifty guineas? — and the hammer fell”
• The advance amount given by the author is?

• “Four thousand and fifty guineas. Any advance on four thousand and fifty guineas?”
• Who is the speaker of the above line?

• The above sentence clearly explains whose situation.

• “I saw none of them. I was running over the names of uncles and other persons”
• What the names of his relatives’ running over the mind of author?

“he rammed his handkerchief in his mouth and again disappeared” Who disappeared once again leaving the author alone

• “I believe I should have welcomed a firing party.”
• Why the author believed that he is going to have a firing party?

• “I realized that a career of rectitude sometimes has rewards beyond the mere consciousness of virtue.”
• In the short story “Tight Corners” who realized that good behaviour and honesty are rewarded?

•  “Beg pardon. Sir, but was you the gent that bought the big Daubigny?”
• In the short story “Tight Corners”, who had brought the big Daubigny?

• The narrator heard his own voice saying, ‘and fifty’.
• Who is the narrator of the short story “Tight Corners”?

• “Well, the gent who offered four thousand guineas wants to know if you’ll take fifty guineas for your bid.”
• The fifty guineas were offered to whose bid?

• “If ever a messenger of the high gods wore a green baize apron and spoke in husky Cockney tones this was he”
• Whose voice was heard represented as the voice of God’s messenger?

• “Would I take fifty guineas. Why, I would have taken fifty farthings”
• To whom the above reply was given by the author?

• “Don’t forget that if it hadn’t been for me, you wouldn’t have come into Christie’s at all.”
• Identify the speaker of the above line

• “And I got it.” Here ‘it’ refers to the_____________________.

• “I want my photograph taken,”
• In the short story “With The photographer” the author wants whose photograph to be taken

• The above line describe the appearance of

• The author did an illegal thing in breaking the privacy of

• “I knew that he was praying and I kept still”
• In the short story “With the photographer”, who is praying?

• “The face is quite wrong”
• Whose face was mentioned in the above line of the short story?

• The above line is the suggestion of photographer, on whose face

• “I thought he meant to kiss me, and I closed my eyes.
• But I was wrong”
• According to author who was about to kiss him?

• “The ears are bad,”
• Whose ears were bad?

• “droop them a little more. Thank you. Now the eyes. Roll them in under the lids.”
• The photographer instructs the author to bend his

• “I still don’t quite like the face, it’s just a trifle too full, but–”
• In the short story “with the photographer” the photographer hates whose face?

• “I know it’s out of drawing”
• Which is not suitable for drawing?

•  “I thought he seemed quieter and graver than before.”
• Who seemed to quieter than before?

• “I think, too, there was a certain pride in his manner”
• The author noticed certain pride in whose manner

• “Yours is too low. I found I couldn’t use it.”
• The photographer found he cannot use the author’s

• “I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death,”
• The author wants his friends to keep ______ after his death

• “Coat it with an inch of gloss, shade it, emboss it, gild it, till even you acknowledge that it is finished”
• The author assigns the photographer to do the above work on

• Stephen Leacock, the author of the short story “With the photographer” wants the photographer to keep his

• “To me it is but a worthless bauble.”
• In the short story “with the photographer” which is the worthless stuff

• “I broke into tears and left”
• In the short story “with the photographer, at last who broke into tears and left the photo studio

• Find the meaning of the underlined word or phrase

• It is indelibly branded in letters of fire on my heart.
• Find the meaning of the underlined word or phrase

• Fill in the blanks with suitable phrasal verbs
• Your statements will not ______ as proof in the court of law

• Fill in the blanks with suitable phrasal verbs
• My father always______truth and honesty.

• Fill in the blank with the suitable question tag
• Lawrence saw the snake sliding into the crack of the earth,________.

• Fill in the blank with the suitable question tag
• Jordan attends the class regularly, ________.

• The window panes with a hooked stick, apparently frantic for light and air.
• Find the meaning of the underlined word/phrase

• Coat it with an inch of gloss, shade it, emboss it
• Find the meaning of the underlined word/phrase

• Having lost all money in gambling he found himself _________.
• Fill in the blanks with suitable idioms.

• To me it is but a worthless bauble
• Find the meaning of the underlined word/phrase

• The little girl has _________ and she hesitates to go out all alone.
• Fill in the blanks with suitable idioms.

• Fill in the blank with suitable question tag
• Madhan doesn’t speak Telugu, ________

• If you stand in the rain, you _____wet.
• Fill in the blank with suitable option

• If it rains, we_____ the trip.
• Fill in the blank with suitable option

• If you had studied, you______ passed the exam.
• Fill in the blank with suitable option

• If I hadn’t been sick, I ______ gone to your party.
• Fill in the blanks with suitable option.

• I realized that a career of rectitude sometimes has rewards.
• Find the meaning of the underlined word/phrase

• The policeman has __________________ in this election.
• Fill in the blanks with suitable idioms.

• The lorry ______ the beggar.
• Fill the blank with the suitable phrasal verb

• He _____ from the home when he was ten years old
• Fill the blank with the suitable phrasal verb

• alarm bells ringing
• Find the meaning of the given idiom

• back to the wall
• Find the meaning of the given idiom

• Find the suitable question tag?

• Cities are increasingly becoming urbanised,______
• Fill in the blank with suitable question tag

• These should not be thought of as luxury but as necessity, _______?
• Fill the blank with suitable question tag

• But how near the surface and ready, even in the best of us, is worldly guile!
• Find the meaning of the underlined word or phrase.

• The aim should be to reduce congestion,______?
• Fill in the blank with suitable question tag

• “For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law”
• In the poem Macavity –The Mystery cat who is the master criminal?

• “For when they reach the scene of crime — Macavity’s not there!”
• In the above ‘they’ refer to whom?

• “His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare”
• In the above line –fakir refers whom?

• “His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare”
• Who is having the power to rise and float in air?

• “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air”
• In the above line –you refer to whom?

• “But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!”
• In the above line –I refer to whom?

• “Macavity’s a ginger cat”
• In the above line ginger means?

• “You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in”
• In the above line the author refers whom?

• “He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;”
• Find the figure of speech

• “His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;”
• Whose brow is deeply lined with thoughts?

• “And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard’s”
• Whose footprints are not in the file of Scotland Yard?

• “I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone” In the above line Mungojerrie and Griddlebone are the fictional characters from which book?

• “He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard”
• What do you mean by bafflement?

• “He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard”
• In the above line –Scotland Yard refers to

• “or another Peke’s been stifled,”
• What is peke?

• “He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity”
• The figure of speech employed in the above line is

• “For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.”
• The figure of speech employed in the above line is

• Thomas Stearns Eliot studied in Milton Academy.
• Where is Milton Academy?

• “He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;”
• In the above line the comparison is made between snake and

• The evidence are useless to investigate the

• “And when the larder’s looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,”
• What do you mean by larder?

• Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw
• For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
• He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
• For when they reach the scene of crime — Macavity’s not there!
• Write down the rhyme scheme for the above stanza

• “Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,”
• What do you mean by Admiralty?

•  “They say he cheats at cards.”
• In the above line from the poem Macavity-The mystery cat who cheat at cards?