Select the appropriate alternative which best expresses the meaning of the following phrase.

To beat the air

• To make frantic effort

• To make effort that are useless or vain

• To act foolishly

• To make every possible effort

What form of poetry is 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'?

• Lyric

• Ballad

• Sonnet

• Ode

Who plays the part of the fool in the 'Merchant of Venice'?

• Tubal

• Launcelot Gobbo

• Lorenzo

• Gratiano

Write the name of the writer of the lesson

'A Fellow-Traveller'

• Ruskin Bond

• C E M Joad

• A G Gardine

• James Allen

The line 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' has been written by which of the following?

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Robert Frost

• PB Shelley

'Shylock' is a character in which play?

• Othello

• The Monkeys Paw

• The Merchant of Venice

• Romeo and Julie

Which of the following combination is found in the structure of the English language?

• Subject-object-verb

• Verb-object-subject

• Subject-verb-object

• Object-verb-subject

'The Light of Asia' was divided into ________ cantos.

• four

• six

• seven

• eight

Who wrote 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested'?

• EV Lucas

• VS Naipaul

• Francis Bacon

• EM Forster

'Arms and the Man' was written by which playwright?

• John Osborne

• William Shakespeare

• George Bernard Shaw

• Eugene O'Neill