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TNPSC General English Study Materials - Part C -3

Part C

1. Match the Poems with Poets:

1. A psalm of Life - H W Longfellow
2. Be the Best - Douglas Malloch
3. The cry of the children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. The Piano – D. H. Lawrence
5. Snake - D.H. Lawrence
6. Manliness - Rudyard Kipling
7. Going for water – Robert Frost
8. Earth -Kalil Gibran
9. The Apology - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Be Glad your Nose is on your face - Jack Prelutsky
11. The Flying Wonder -Stephen Vincent Benet
12. Is Life But a Dream - Lewis Carroll
13. O captain My Captain - Walt Whitman [Remember it as Captain White]
14. Punishment in Kindergarten - Kamala Das
15. Where the Mind is Without feaR - Rabindranath Tagore
16. The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
17. Nine Gold MeDals - David Roth

2. Identify Nationality the story belongs to:

1. The selfish Giant - Irish - Oscar Wilde
2. The Lottery Ticket - Russian - Anton Chekhov
3. The Last Leaf - American - O’Henry
4. How the Camel got its Hump - British - Rudyard Kipling
5. Two Friends – French - Guy de Maupassant
6. Refugee - Chinese - Pearl S Buck
7. The Open Window - Myanmar - Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

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3. Identify the Author with the short story:

1. The selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde
2. The Lottery Ticket - Anton Chekhov
3. The Last Leaf - O’Henry
4. How the Camel got its Hump -Rudyard Kipling
5. Two Friends - Guy de Maupassant
6. Refugee - Pearl S Buck
7. The Open Window - Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
8. A Man who Had no Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor
9. The Tears of the Desert – Paulo Coelho
10. Sam - Tammy Ruggles
11. The Piano - D. H. Lawrence
12. The face of Judas Iscariot - Bonnie Chamberlain
13. Swept Away - Susannah Hickling
14. A close encounter - Rex Coker
15. Caught Sneezing - Oscar Wilde
16. The Wooden Bowl - Leo Tolstoy
17. Swami and the sum - R.K. Narayan

4. Which Nationality the Poet belongs to:

1. Kamala Das – Indian
2. V.K. Gokak - Indian
3. Famida Y. Basheer - Indian
4. Annie Louisa walker -British
5. D.H. Lawrence - British
6. Rudyard Kipling - British
7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning - British
8. William Shakespeare - British
9. William Wordsworth - British
10. Thomas Hardy - British
11. Robert Frost - American
12. Edgar A. Guest - American
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson - American

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14. Jack Prelutsky - American

15. Stephen Vincent Benet - American
16. H.W. Long Fellow - American
17. Walt Whitman - American
18. Archibald Lampman - Canadian
19. Khalil Gibran - Lebanese
20. F. Joanna - American

5. Matching the Poets and Poems

1. Discovery – Gayatri Pahlojani
2. Biking – Judith Nicholls
3. Inclusion - Dipti Bhatia
4. Granny, Granny, please comb My Hair – Grace Nichols
5. With a Friend - Vivian Gould
6. To cook and Eat – Emma Richards
7. Bat - Randell Jarell
8. To India – My Native Land - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
9. A tiger in the Zoo - Leslie Norris
10. No men are foreign - James kirkup
11. Laugh and be Merry – John Masefield
12. Earth – Kalil Gibran
13. The Apology - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Flying Wonder - Stephen Vincent Benet
15. Off to outer space tomorrow morning - Norman Nicholson
16. Be the best - Douglas Malloch
17. Is life, but a dream - Lewis Carroll
18. Women’s rights - Annie Louisa Walker
19. The Nation united - Walt Whitman
20. English words – V K Gokak
21. Snake – D.H. Lawrence
22. The man he Killed - Thomas Hardy

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