UG TET – COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION UNIT – II BRITISH LITERATURE – I Milton’s Paradise Lost Book IX (lines: 795-833)-objective questions and answers
UG TET – COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
UNIT – II
BRITISH LITERATURE – I
Milton’s Paradise Lost Book IX (lines: 795-833)
**1. What is the speaker's attitude towards the Tree of Knowledge in these lines?**
- A) Reverence and admiration
- B) Indifference and neglect
- C) Fear and avoidance
- D) Hostility and disdain
**Answer: A) Reverence and admiration**
**2. How does the speaker plan to express gratitude to the Tree of Knowledge in the future?**
- A) Through silence and contemplation
- B) By offering sacrifices
- C) Through morning songs and praise
- D) By avoiding its presence
**Answer: C) Through morning songs and praise**
**3. What does the speaker promise to do to alleviate the burden of the Tree's full branches?**
- A) Prune the branches
- B) Share the fruit with others
- C) Ignore the burden
- D) Offer sacrifices to the tree
**Answer: B) Share the fruit with others**
**4. How does the speaker describe their growth in knowledge through the Tree of Knowledge?**
- A) Rapid and uncontrollable
- B) Gradual and disciplined
- C) Forbidden and cursed
- D) Secret and mysterious
**Answer: B) Gradual and disciplined**
**5. What is the speaker's view on those who envy the knowledge they have gained?**
- A) Sympathy and understanding
- B) Contempt and disdain
- C) Indifference and apathy
- D) Gratitude and generosity
**Answer: B) Contempt and disdain**
**6. According to the speaker, what role does experience play in their acquisition of knowledge?**
- A) It is irrelevant
- B) It is secondary to divine guidance
- C) It is the best guide
- D) It is a hindrance
**Answer: C) It is the best guide**
**7. How does the speaker characterize Heaven in relation to Earth in these lines?**
- A) Close and easily observable
- B) Distant and difficult to perceive
- C) Indifferent to earthly affairs
- D) Secretive and mysterious
**Answer: B) Distant and difficult to perceive**
**8. What internal conflict does the speaker express regarding their relationship with Adam?**
- A) Fear of rejection
- B) Desire for superiority
- C) Concern about divine punishment
- D) Doubt about sharing knowledge
**Answer: B) Desire for superiority**
**9. What dilemma does the speaker face in deciding whether to reveal their change to Adam?**
- A) Fear of divine retribution
- B) Fear of Adam's rejection
- C) Fear of Death
- D) Fear of losing knowledge
**Answer: C) Fear of Death**
**10. What final resolution does the speaker make regarding sharing bliss or woe with Adam?**
- A) They decide to keep their knowledge a secret
- B) They choose to share both joy and sorrow with Adam
- C) They decide to abandon Adam
- D) They remain undecided
**Answer: B) They choose to share both joy and sorrow with Adam**
**11. How does the speaker express their love for Adam in these lines?**
- A) By distancing themselves from him
- B) By expressing superiority
- C) By resolving to share bliss or woe with him
- D) By avoiding any mention of love
**Answer: C) By resolving to share bliss or woe with him**
**12. According to the speaker, what does their love for Adam make them willing to endure?**
- A) Isolation and loneliness
- B) All forms of suffering, including death
- C) Deception and betrayal
- D) Ignorance and bliss
**Answer: B) All forms of suffering, including death**
**13. What does the speaker fear regarding the possibility of Adam marrying another Eve?**
- A) Divine punishment
- B) Eternal loneliness
- C) The continuation of life without them
- D) The loss of knowledge
**Answer: C) The continuation of life without them**
**14. How does the speaker feel about the idea of Adam living with another Eve while they are extinct?**
- A) Indifferent
- B) Content
- C) Enraged
- D) Deeply saddened
**Answer: D) Deeply saddened**
**15. What word best describes the speaker's commitment to sharing bliss or woe with Adam?**
- A) Indecisive
- B) Resolute
- C) Apathetic
- D) Deceptive
**Answer: B) Resolute**
**16. In the context of the lines, what is the significance of the speaker's reference to dieting by the Tree of Knowledge?**
- A) Physical nourishment
- B) Intellectual growth and maturity
- C) Spiritual enlightenment
- D) Avoidance of temptation
**Answer: B) Intellectual growth and maturity**
**17. How does the speaker view the act of giving Adam knowledge without a copartner?**
- A) As a form of betrayal
- B) As a means of asserting power
- C) As an act of kindness
- D) As a necessary evil
**Answer: B) As a means of asserting power**
**18. What does the speaker find "not undesirable" in considering the possibility of being superior to Adam?**
- A) Deception
- B) Loneliness
- C) Equality
- D) Superiority
**Answer: D) Superiority**
**19. What does the speaker consider as the best guide, second only to the Tree of Knowledge?**
- A) Divine intervention
- B) Divine punishment
- C) Experience
- D) Ignorance
**Answer: C) Experience**
**20. How does the speaker view the concept of secret knowledge in relation to wisdom?**
- A) As a hindrance to wisdom
- B) As an essential aspect of wisdom
- C) As irrelevant to wisdom
- D) As a deceptive quality
**Answer: B) As an essential aspect of wisdom**
**21. How does the speaker view the act of dieting by the Tree of Knowledge in relation to their own maturity?**
- A) As a source of physical strength
- B) As a way to assert dominance
- C) As a means to intellectual maturity
- D) As an unnecessary burden
**Answer: C) As a means to intellectual maturity**
**22. What does the speaker plan to do each morning to express their gratitude to the Tree of Knowledge?**
- A) Offer sacrifices
- B) Sing songs and offer praise
- C) Prune its branches
- D) Ignore its presence
**Answer: B) Sing songs and offer praise**
**23. According to the speaker, what would have happened if the gift of knowledge had been owned by others?**
- A) It would have grown elsewhere
- B) It would not have grown in the same way
- C) It would have remained hidden
- D) It would not have existed
**Answer: B) It would not have grown in the same way**
**24. How does the speaker characterize their relationship with Heaven in these lines?**
- A) As close and accessible
- B) As distant and remote
- C) As indifferent to earthly affairs
- D) As directly involved in their decisions
**Answer: B) As distant and remote**
**25. What does the speaker imply about the watchful nature of Heaven and its "great Forbidder"?**
- A) Heaven is indifferent to earthly actions
- B) The "great Forbidder" is always vigilant
- C) Other concerns may distract Heaven's attention
- D) Heaven has spies to monitor earthly affairs
**Answer: C) Other concerns may distract Heaven's attention**
**26. How does the speaker express the dilemma of appearing to Adam after their change?**
- A) As a cause for celebration
- B) As a source of fear and uncertainty
- C) As an opportunity for deception
- D) As a chance for revenge
**Answer: B) As a source of fear and uncertainty**
**27. What internal conflict does the speaker express in considering whether to share full happiness with Adam?**
- A) Fear of divine punishment
- B) Fear of Adam's rejection
- C) Fear of eternal loneliness
- D) Fear of losing knowledge
**Answer: D) Fear of losing knowledge**
**28. How does the speaker characterize Adam's potential reaction to their change?**
- A) Indifferent
- B) Angry and resentful
- C) Happy and accepting
- D) Fearful and surprised
**Answer: B) Angry and resentful**
**29. What does the speaker fear regarding their own existence if they do not share bliss or woe with Adam?**
- A) Eternal loneliness
- B) Divine punishment
- C) Loss of knowledge
- D) Death
**Answer: A) Eternal loneliness**
**30. In these lines, what does the speaker prioritize over their own existence?**
- A) Knowledge
- B) Bliss or woe shared with Adam
- C) Secrecy and deception
- D) Revenge against Adam
**Answer: B) Bliss or woe shared with Adam**
**31. How does the speaker characterize the Tree of Knowledge in relation to its operation on Sapience?**
- A) As cursed and infamed
- B) As blessed and obscure
- C) As indifferent and unimportant
- D) As forbidden and deceptive
**Answer: B) As blessed and obscure**
**32. What is the speaker's plan for the Tree's fair fruit from now on?**
- A) To ignore its existence
- B) To share it freely with all
- C) To hoard it for personal use
- D) To offer sacrifices to it
**Answer: B) To share it freely with all**
**33. How does the speaker describe their early care for the Tree of Knowledge?**
- A) As neglectful
- B) As without song or praise
- C) As careful and attentive
- D) As indifferent and careless
**Answer: C) As careful and attentive**
**34. According to the speaker, what will tending to the Tree's branches achieve?**
- A) It will prevent the burden
- B) It will make the burden heavier
- C) It will make the Tree stronger
- D) It will ease the burden for all
**Answer: D) It will ease the burden for all**
**35. How does the speaker characterize the Gods in comparison to their own growth in knowledge?**
- A) Gods are ignorant
- B) Gods know all things
- C) Gods envy the speaker's knowledge
- D) Gods have no relevance to knowledge
**Answer: B) Gods know all things**
**36. How does the speaker describe Wisdom in relation to the Tree of Knowledge?**
- A) As a deceptive force
- B) As a secret entity
- C) As open and accessible
- D) As a force that retires
**Answer: D) As a force that retires**
**37. How does the speaker view their own secrecy in comparison to the secret nature of Wisdom?**
- A) As transparent and open
- B) As equally mysterious
- C) As irrelevant to wisdom
- D) As a necessary concealment
**Answer: D) As a necessary concealment**
**38. What does the speaker fear regarding their own secrecy and Heaven being high and remote?**
- A) Divine punishment
- B) Heaven's indifference
- C) Loss of knowledge
- D) Adam's rejection
**Answer: B) Heaven's indifference**
**39. What alternative care does the speaker propose may have diverted the "great Forbidder" from watching?**
- A) Divine intervention
- B) Secret knowledge
- C) Other concerns and cares
- D) A pact with nature
**Answer: C) Other concerns and cares**
**40. In contemplating the presentation of their change to Adam, what does the speaker express doubt about?**
- A) The authenticity of their change
- B) Adam's ability to understand
- C) The outcome of their revelation
- D) The need to share the change
**Answer: C) The outcome of their revelation**
**41. How does the speaker view the potential act of sharing full happiness with Adam?**
- A) As an act of generosity
- B) As a source of joy
- C) As an equal partnership
- D) As a cause for uncertainty
**Answer: D) As a cause for uncertainty**
**42. According to the speaker, what does sharing bliss or woe with Adam potentially make them?**
- A) Equal
- B) Inferior
- C) Superior
- D) Indifferent
**Answer: A) Equal**
**43. How does the speaker describe the concept of being "Superior" at times in relation to Adam?**
- A) As an undesirable quality
- B) As a potential advantage
- C) As a deceptive illusion
- D) As an unattainable goal
**Answer: B) As a potential advantage**
**44. What does the speaker suggest about the potential gift of knowledge to others?**
- A) It would have flourished in a different manner
- B) It would have remained dormant
- C) It would have been undesired
- D) It would not have existed at all
**Answer: A) It would have flourished in a different manner**
**45. According to the speaker, what role does experience play in their acquisition of knowledge?**
- A) It is irrelevant
- B) It is secondary to divine guidance
- C) It is the best guide
- D) It is a hindrance
**Answer: C) It is the best guide**
**46. What is the speaker's attitude toward those who envy the knowledge they possess?**
- A) Sympathy and understanding
- B) Contempt and disdain
- C) Indifference and apathy
- D) Gratitude and generosity
**Answer: B) Contempt and disdain**
**47. How does the speaker view Heaven in relation to Earth?**
- A) Close and easily observable
- B) Distant and difficult to perceive
- C) Indifferent to earthly affairs
- D) Secretive and mysterious
**Answer: B) Distant and difficult to perceive**
**48. What does the speaker suggest about the potential distraction of the "great Forbidder"?**
- A) It is always vigilant
- B) It may have other concerns
- C) It is indifferent to earthly affairs
- D) It does not exist
**Answer: B) It may have other concerns**
**49. In contemplating the presentation of their change to Adam, what internal conflict does the speaker express?**
- A) Fear of divine retribution
- B) Desire for secrecy
- C) Concern about Adam's reaction
- D) Doubt about the truth of their change
**Answer: C) Concern about Adam's reaction**
**50. What does the speaker ultimately prioritize over their own existence in these lines?**
- A) Knowledge
- B) Bliss or woe shared with Adam
- C) Secrecy and deception
- D) Revenge against Adam
**Answer: B) Bliss or woe shared with Adam**
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