Question

(A)Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing from the given alternatives.
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
(a)What is that ‘yet survives’?
(i)the lifeless statue
(ii)the heart that fed
(iii)the passions
(iv)none of the above
(b)Which is the hand that mocked them?
(i)the sculptor’s
(ii)the hand of fate
(iii)the king’s
(iv)the traveller’s
(c)What does the word, ‘stamped’ in this context mean?
(i)stick a postage stamp
(ii)sculpted
(iii)mysterious
(iv)a stampede
OR
And so, I missed my change with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate
A pettiness
(a) The poet misses the chance to ……………..
(i)kill the snake
(ii)honour it
(iii)to domesticate the snake
(iv)throw a log at it
(b) The ‘pettiness’ the poet refers to here is …………
(i)the snake drinking water from the water-trough
(ii)the day being very hot and sunny
(iii)his act of throwing a log at the snake
(iv)his going to the trough wearing pyjamas.
(c) The word ‘expiate’ means ………….
(i)expire
(ii)make amends
(iii)make solutions
(iv)explain
(B)Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
O,pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
ThatI am meek and gentle with these butchers!
(a)What is the ‘bleeding piece of earth’ referred to here?
(b)Why was Antony ‘meek and gentle’?
(c)Who are the butchers mentioned here?

Answer 1

(a)- the lifeless statues
(b)-the hand of fate
(c)-sculpted