LOTUS VIDYALAYA TRB ENGLISH COACHING ACADEMY
MADURAI- 10, MOBILE: 9789513730
TRB PG-ENGLISH
UNIT-I-NOVELS- Test – 24-ANSWERS
- A) The struggle of mankind against nature
- A. Four times
- A. Grace under pressure
- A. 1953
- B. Hemingway
- C. A cuban fisherman
- D. 84 days
- A. Manolin
- A. The great Di Maggio
- A. El Campeon
- C. A fish
- A. Life
- A. 1953
- C. A triumph
- A. Great Wall
- C. Santiago
- C. Tuna
- A. Santiago to fish
- C. Warbler, a Bird
- A. Virgin de Cobra
- A. The 87th day
- C. Santiago
- A) The struggle of mankind against nature
- A. Four times
- A. Grace under pressure
- A. Restaurant
- C. Ernest Hemingway
- A. A Cuban
- D) The Old Man and the Sea
- A) Man’s adventurous spirit
- D) The Old Man and the Sea
- A. Gulf Stream
- B) Cuba
- C) This novel won the pulitzer award in 1952 and the most coveted Nobel prize for literature in 1954
- B. Hemingway
- B. Hemingway
- C. A cuban fisherman
- D. 84 days
- A. Manolin
- A. The great Di Maggio
- A. El Campeon
- C. A fish
- A. Life
- A. 1953
- C. A triumph
- A. Great Wall
- C. Santiago
- C. Tuna
- A) all day and all night
- D) The Champion
- A) 2
- B) bone spur
- B) Cienfuegos
- A) Ties two oars together across the stern
- B) 84 days
- D) “The worst form of unlucky”
- D) They are the color of the sea
- B) Most of the fishermen mock him
- B) Joe DiMaggio
- D) Pictures
- C) Lions on the beach
- B) He believes it is imprecise, and he strives always to be exact
- A) A tuna
- C) He pulls and pulls on the line and nothing happens
- D) He wishes that the boy, Manolin, were with him
- C) 1952
- C) tuna
- D) 100 fathoms
- C) Havana
- D) it will fill its air sacks and not be able to dive deep
- C) it cramps
- B) He considers that he and the marlin are brothers, joined by the fact that they both ventured far out beyond all people and dangers in the water.
- The predatory hawks that await the bird’s arrival near land
- C) His hand cramps
- B) He decides to recite ten Hail Marys and ten Our Fathers
- A) A bone spur
- C) Arm wrestling
- D) The people who will eat the meat are unworthy
- B) Flying fish
- A) He harpoons it through the heart
- B) One hour
- D) Everything in the world kills everything else in some way
- A) Manolin promises to sail with him
- D) Swam alongside the boat as though in mourning
- D) Cuba
- D) 84
- C) his eyes
- C) His parents have told him to fish with others
- D) Picture of Fidel Castro
- D) Joe DiMaggio
- B) September
- B) Lions
- D) Canary Islands
- C) La mar
- D) Sardines
- A) Portuguese man-of-war
- D) Turtling
- A) a flock of ducks