List of top English Questions on Miscellaneous

Do you think the prediction made by the state astrologer “was indisputably disproved”? Give reasons in support of your answer.

Did Umberto Eco like to be identified as a novelist? Give reasons in support of your answer.

How was there a great deal of national integration in the make-up department?

Bring out the contrast between Jansie and Sophie in the story ‘Going Places’.

Explain the sentence “an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon.”

What was the ‘thunderclap’ the narrator received as M. Hamel began the lesson?

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I		List - II
(A)	Cortege	(I)	a poem of lamentation on the death of someone loved and admired.
(B)	Elegy	(II)	A funeral procession comprising a number of mourning.
(C)	Obituary	(III)	an account in the newspaper about the funeral of a deceased.
(D)	Epitaph	(IV)	words inscribed on the grave/tomb in the memory of the one buried.

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Choose the word that denotes one that is in a war - like mood :

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I		List - II
(A)	Ad interim	(I)	Meanwhile
(B)	Carte blanche	(II)	According to law
(C)	De jure	(III)	Mixture
(D)	Pot Pourri	(IV)	Full freedom of action

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