Tuesday, May 16, 2023

MCQ on Prayer Before Birth By Louis MacNeice. LCC 2. Kalyani University


1. The writer of this poem is:

a. William Wordsworth

b. William Shakespeare

c. Louis MacNeice

d. John Milton


2. This poem was written during:

a. World War I

b. World War II

c. Cold War

d. Ind-Pak War


3. This poem was published in:

a. Poem Collection

b. Collected Poems

c. Best of MacNeice

d. Springboard


4. This poem was published in: 

a. 1944.

b. 1945

c. 1900

d. 1901


5. Here in this poem, the speaker is:

a. an unborn child

b. the poet

c. reader

d. no one


6. The unborn child prays to:

a. Poet

b. Readers

c. God

d. Poem


7. The unborn child wants to stay away from:

a. bloodsucking bat

b. rat

c. stoat

d. above all


8. The unborn child fears that human race may:

a. kill him

b. separate him with wall (caste system)

c. kill his parents

d. suck his blood


9. Human race may dope/ control the child with:

a. lies

b. strong drugs.

c. food

d. blood


10. The people will lure the child after his birth with:

a. lies.

b. strong drugs

c. food

d. blood


11. Human beings will bath the child after his birth with:

a. blood

b. water

c. wet mud

d. air


12. The child wants trees to:

a. Dandle

b. Talk.

c. Sing

d. Play


13. The child wants the sky and birds to:

a. Dandle

b. Talk

c. Sing.

d. Play


14. The Child wants a white light to:

a. Enlighten his back of mind to guide him.

b. Talk

c. Sing

d. Play


15. The unborn child asks for advance forgiveness for:

a. the crime he will have to do by the force of world

b. his taking birth

c. his father

d. his mother


16. Traitors will force him to do:

a. murder

b. offence

c. stealing

d. treason/ treachery.


17. The unborn child wants to rehearse him for:

a. his act of murder

b. his lecture

c. his act he will play after taking birth.

d. his lies


18. The unborn child knows that after his birth, the old men will :

a. lecture him.

b. hector him

c. kill him

d. beat him


19. The unborn child knows that after his birth, the bureaucrats will :

a. lecture him

b. hector him.

c. kill him

d. beat him


20. The unborn child knows that after his birth, the mountain will :

a. lecture him

b. hector him

c. kill him

d. frown at him.


21. The unborn child knows that after his birth, the lover will :

a. laugh at him.

b. hector him

c. kill him

d. beat him


22. The unborn child knows that after his birth, white waves will call him to :

a. folly.

b. be treacherous

c. kill men

d. hate men


23. The unborn child knows that after his birth, desert will call him to :

a. folly

b. be treacherous

c. doom.

d. hate men


24. The unborn child knows that after his birth, the beggar will :

a. refuse his help.

b. scold him

c. curse him

d. hate him


25. The unborn child knows that after his birth, his children will :

a. refuse his help

b. scold him

c. curse him.

d. hate him


26. The unborn child wants the man who thinks himself God:

a. to keep away.

b. to keep near

c. to worship him

d. none of above


27. The unborn child wants to fill himself with:

a. fear

b. love 

c. strength.

d. happiness


28. The unborn child wants strength against men who will:

a. take him to war

b. hate him

c. help him

d. none of above


29. Machine with one face refers to:

a. car

b. gun

c. robot

d. generator


30. Warmongers will blow his entirety like:

a. bomb

b. water held in hands

c. thistledown

d. both a & b.


31. The last wish of the unborn child was not to:

a. make him stone

b. spill him

c. if above of the two, kill him

d. above all.


32. If the wish of the unborn child is not fulfilled, he wants himself :

a. to be killed

b. to move another world

c. to exile 

d. none of above



ANSWER KEY

1

b

12

b

23

a

2

d

13

a

24

a

3

c

14

a

25

a

4

c

15

a

 

 

5

d

16

c

 

 

6

d

17

d

 

 

7

a

18

a

 

 

8

a

19

b

 

 

9

c

20

d

 

 

10

d

21

a

 

 

11

b

22

d

 

 

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