This multiple choice section consists of 10 items.Each item in this test has four suggested answers.
Read each item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.
Please read the instructions for each section carefully.
INSTRUCTIONS: ITEMS 1-10
Each sentence in this section has ONE underlined word. Choose from the four options, the word which is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word.
Question 1
1.
After the accident, my sister was apprehensive about driving in the city again.
Question 2
2.
The directions on the prescription were so explicit that no one could make a mistake.
Question 3
3.
The stranger’s uncouth manners turned off the villagers and left him friendless.
Question 4
4.
It is so naïve to think that very advertisement is truthful.
Question 5
5.
With a furtive movement of his eyes, the visitor saw the company of friends on the lawn.
Question 6
6.
Honest persons are averse to cheating, lying and gossiping.
Question 7
7.
From the ominous flashes in the sky, we knew that a storm was approaching.
Question 8
8.
The priest visited the sick parishioner and offered a fervent prayer for his recovery.
Question 9
9.
A candid parent will never be reluctant to tell his children about their mistakes.
Question 10
10.
Since the weather was fine, it was an opportune time for me to go to cycling in the countryside.
Read the poem that follows and answer ALL the questions that follow in the spaces provided.
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Question 11
11.
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1
1
1
clear
simple
concise
blind
sensitive
The poet was also bullied when at school.
True
False
Question 12
12.
The poet's parents warned him not to mix with these "rough boys" but he envied certain aspects of their lives although he was also afraid of their rough, bullying ways.
Question 13
13.
Question 14
14.
(Choose the option which does not fit.) The "rough boys" in the poem...
Question 15
15.
Why did the "rough" boys hate Stephen?
The poet/the boy in the poem came from the middle class. Choose the option which did not apply to this social class.
The middle class did not do manual work.
The middle class owned shops and little factories.
The middle class sent their children to private school and never to public schools.
The middle class demanded that a person be well-dressed.
The middle class were the professional people like lawyers.
They were poor and lived in slums
They wore torn clothing.
Although their parents were poor they did not neglect them.
