Q.1
"And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman." Which of the following words presents anger as a natural phenomenon?
  • Sudden
  • Broke
  • Flame
  • Brandishing
Q.2
Which of the following lines juxtaposes imagery drawn from both urban and rural environments?
  • "As he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures"
  • "He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city"
  • "Then of the figure of a man walking swiftly"
  • "Then of a child running from the doctor's"
Q.3
"Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house." What is meant here by "unsunned"?
  • The bottle of wine has been kept for a while on a sunny windowsill
  • The bottle of wine is from a country which does not receive much sunshine
  • The bottle of wine is made from grapes grown in the dark
  • The bottle of wine has been stored in the dark
Q.4
"And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were as wild as harpies." What is the effect of the language in this sentence?
  • It reinforces the view held by Dr Jekyll, that of the dual nature of humanity
  • It reminds the reader that London was an orderly, civilized place in the late nineteenth century
  • It hints that the novella will be a mystery
  • It hints that the novella will be about science
Q.5
"'This is a very strange tale, Poole; this is rather a wild tale, my man,' said Mr Utterson, biting his finger. 'Suppose it were as you suppose, supposing Dr Jekyll to have been — well, murdered, what could induce the murderer to stay? That won't hold water; it doesn't commend itself to reason.'" Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
  • The reference to "reason" hints that Mr Utterson is clinging to his usual way of understanding the world, even as he begins to doubt that he is dealing with the explicable
  • The repetition of variations on the word "suppose" refers to Mr Utterson's profession as a lawyer, where a fact might be temporarily supposed to be true in order to test a point
  • Mr Utterson's appeal to reason emphasizes the novella's presentation of reason as paramount, with every event entirely explicable by science
  • Mr Utterson's behavior, in biting his finger, demonstrates his unease with the very words he says
Q.6
"And yet, when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance." Which of the following descriptions applies to Dr Jekyll's perception of his own appearance?
  • "Ugly idol in the glass"
  • "It bore a livelier image of the spirit"
  • "It seemed more express and single"
  • "The imperfect and divided countenance"
Q.7
"The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind." Which of the following types of imagery are present in this sentence?
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Onomatopoeia
  • All of the above
Q.8
"I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of those elements." What is implied by the use of the word "elements" here?
  • Dr Jekyll views his very being as a compound, made up of different elements
  • Dr Jekyll has no other language besides that of chemistry
  • Dr Jekyll is referring to the chemical elements of which his physical body is made
  • All of the above
Q.9
"Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in." Which of the following statements is correct?
  • The sparkling reflections of the fire contrast with its bright glow
  • The sparkling reflections and the cozy glow of the fire contrast sharply here with the shocked faces of Poole and Utterson
  • The reflections of the mirror hold the answer to the mystery
  • The rosy glow of the fire corresponds to the excited expressions on the faces of Poole and Utterson
Q.10
"Up went the ax again, and again the panels crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst in sunder and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet." Which language choices create a sense of violent movement in this sentence?
  • Up, crashed, bounded
  • Blow, fell, burst
  • Sunder, wreck, fell
  • All of the above
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