Quiz : English – Questions
Question 1 – Example of oxymoron
a. Minor Catastrophe
b. Good grief
c. Terribly pleased
d. All of the above
Question 2 – The idiom ‘A penny for your thoughts’ mean
a. To present a counter argument
b. Avoiding the main topic
c. A way of asking what someone is thinking
d. Feeling slightly ill
Question 3 – BTW, OMG, POV are examples of
a. Acronyms
b. Idioms
c. Synonyms
d. Antonyms
Question 4 – English language divided into historical periods. Shakespeare’s works belongs to which
a. Old English
b. Middle English
c. Modern English
d. All of the above
Question 5 – Name the first English Dictionary
a. Oxford Dictionary
b. Merriam-Webster Dictionary
c. Table Alphabetical
d. None of the Above
Question 6 – The shortest grammatically correct sentence is
a. Up!
b. Go!
c. To:
d. On:
Question 7 – Which of the following is not a country idiom
a. Indian Summer
b. It’s Greek to me
c. Go Dutch
d. Best of Both Worlds
Question 8 – The first printed English book is by
a. William Shakespeare
b. Oscar Wilde
c. William Caxton
d. None of the above
Question 9 – Who among the following is a poet
a. William Wordsworth
b. Alfred Tennyson
c. T. S. Elliot
d. All of the above
Question 10 – The famous poem “where mind is without fear” was originally composed in
a. Hindi
b. Bengali
c. Marathi
d. Tamil
Question 11 – Which of the following is a literary award
a. Sahitya Akademi Award
b. Academy Award
c. Tansen Award
d. All of the Above
Question 12 – Which is the highest literary prize in the world
a. Nobel Prize
b. Booker Prize
c. Pulitzer Prize
d. Writers’ Prize
Question 13 – Sonnet is a style of
a. Prose
b. Poetry
c. Novels
d. All of the above
Question 14 – Which of the following can be poetry
a. Ballad
b. Ode
c. Limerick
d. All of the Above
Question 15 – Fictional prose are
a. Short stories
b. Novels
c. Novellas
d. All of the Above
Question 16 – Non-fictional prose include
a. Biographies
b. Essays
c. Journals
d. All of the above
Question 17 – Autobiography is an account of an individual written by
a. Another Individual
b. The same individual
c. A group
d. The individual’s teacher
Question 18 – Which would describe a precis’ best
a. Summary
b. Essay
c. Note
d. Summary with word limit
Question 19 – Who wrote “War and Peace”
a. Winston Churchill
b. Leo Tolstoy
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. None of the above
Question 20 – The longest word in English Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
a. Is the name of a mineral
b. Is the name of a disease
c. Is the name of an machine
d. Is the name of a style of writing
Note for Mentors only: Please refer to the Answers in Learning Materials