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Q:1) who wrote the novel ‘Surfacing’ ?
A:) Margaret Atwood
B:) Jane Austen
C:) George Eliot
D:) Alice Walker
Correct: A
Q:2) I can’t believe I’m on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is spreading up from the south, and I notice they now have sea – planes for hire. This is the opening sentence of Atwood’s Surfacing. Here ‘I’ mentioned ________
A:) Joe
B:) David
C:) Anna
D:) Unnamed narrator
Correct: D
Q:3) who among the following character knows to read palm of hands and pointed the narrator ‘you had a good childhood’?
A:) Joe
B:) David
C:) Anna
D:) Claude
Correct: C
Q:4) what was the song sung by Anna when they were in the car?
A:) House of the rising sun
B:) How Should I Your True Love Know
C:) Full Fathom Five
D:) Where the Bee Sucks
Correct: A
Q:5) Anne, trying to make her voice go throaty and deep, was singing , House of the Rising Sun and ___________, both of them several times.
A:) Full Fathom Five
B:) Lili Marlene
C:) Beasts of England
D:) It was a Lover and His Lass
Correct: B
Q:6) David says ‘the true ________ strong and free’
A:) East
B:) West
C:) South
D:) North
Correct: D
Q:7) How many moose did David pointed to Joe and Anna on a platform near the pumps, when they reached gas station?
A:) one
B:) two
C:) three
D:) four
Correct: C
Q:7) which of the following moose is in a print dress and flowered hat?
A:) father moose
B:) mother moose
C:) boy moose
D:) little girl moose
Correct: B
Q:8) what are the slogans painted and painted over, some faded and defaced when they reached nearly to the village?
A:) BROOCE, REVERSE
B:) VOTEZ GODET, VOTEZ OBRIEN
C:) WELCOME TO NEW CLIFF
D:) VOLUS, MOON CALUS
Correct: B
Q:9) They reached near to the village, and notices the election slogans, which are painted over, some faded and defaced, others freshly yellow and white, VOTEZ GODET, VOTEZ OBRIEN, along with hearts and initials and words and advertisements, THE SALDA, BLUE MOON COTTAGES ½ MILE, ___________, BUVEZ COCO COLA GLACE, JESUS SAVES. Complete the sentence.
A:) QUEBEC LIBRE
B:) CANADA
C:) MONTREAL
D:) SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER
Correct: A
Q:10) what did the narrator search in the shore to find his dad when the narrator noticed more boats in the shore, the narrator tried to decide which of the vehicle is father’s one?
A:) train
B:) boat
C:) car
D:) ship
Correct: C
Q:11) whose house is the original, yellow with maroon trim, squat farmhouse pattern in ‘Surfacing’ ?
A:) Paul
B:) Joe
C:) Anna
D:) David
Correct: A
Q:12) Tow whom did Paul built a house which is yellow with maroon trim, squat farmhouse pattern?
A:) for his son
B:) for his daughter
C:) for his father
D:) for his Mother
Correct: A
Q:13) In the clearing behind the house two ______s cars are resting, a pink one and a red one, raised on wooden blocks, no wheels; scattered around them are the rusting remains of older cars: like my father, Paul saves everything useful.
A:) 1950
B:) 1960
C:) 1970
D:) 1980
Correct: A
Q:14) The narrator, at the fence, says to Paul, ‘Bonjour Monsieur’, when Paul is gardening in his house. Here the ‘Bonjour Monsieur’ is ________ word.
A:) Latin
B:) Greek
C:) French
D:) English
Correct: C
Q:15) ‘Bonjour Monsieur’ is a French word which means in English _________.
A:) May I come in sir?
B:) How are you?
C:) Thankyou sir
D:) Hello Sir
Correct: D
Q:16) In Paul’s house, The Narrator has been given the store cushion by Madame , which has an embroidered view of _________.
A:) Niagara Falls
B:) Amazon forest
C:) The Saint Lawrence River
D:) Quebec City
Correct: A
Q:17) ‘I lift my cup, they are watching me anxiously: it’s imperative that I mention the tea. ‘Tres bon,’ I manage to get out in the direction of Madame.’ Here the French word ‘Tres bon’ means ______.
A:) nice to meet you
B:) very good or great
C:) Bye Bye or see you later
D:) Thanks
Correct: B
Q:18) What did Paul and the narrator’s father exchange themselves once before, that exchange of ______ was purely ritual.
A:) Handkerchiefs
B:) Pens
C:) Vegetables
D:) God’s portrait
Correct: C
Q:19) which of the following character maintain the Diary for every year, the diary is filled with a record of the weather and the work done on that day. The diary has no reflections, no emotions.
A:) Narrator’s mother
B:) Narrator’s brother
C:) Narrator’s father
D:) The Narrator itself
Correct: A
Q:20) The narrator noticed two men near the lake, they are still Elvis Presley haircuts. Who is or what is Elvis Presley?
A:) American Singer
B:) Classic hero in Canadian mythology
C:) A gangster in Quebec
D:) A gravity toy
Correct: A
Q:21) who owns the Blue Moon Cabins in ‘Surfacing’?
A:) Madame – Paul’s Wife
B:) Claude
C:) Evans
D:) Bill Malmstrom
Correct: C
Q:22) Who is a bulky laconic American among the characters below ? When Jow, David, Anna and Narrator found him in the cabin market office, he was in checked shirt and peaked cap and a thick knitted jacket with an eagle on the back.
A:) Paul
B:) Claude
C:) Evans
D:) Bill Malmstrom
Correct: C
Q:23) The narrator said, camouflage was one of my father’s policies. Choose the right option for the word camouflage?
A:) providing food to the poor
B:) leaving the fishes into the water
C:) throw the stones into sea with pleasure
D:) coloration, or illumination for concealment
Correct: D
Q:24) The narrator narrated about a character ‘face bloodless and shrunken’, who among correct one from the following options?
A:) Paul
B:) Narrator’s father
C:) Narrator’s mother
D:) Anna
Correct: C
Q:25) which of the following book is not in narrator’s father home, which books he used as reference and reading books?
A:) Edible plants and shoots
B:) Exploring Your Camera
C:) A Field Guide to the Birds
D:) Animals in the Boat
Correct: D
Q:26) Which book did the narrator’s father enjoy for its literary quality ?
A:) King James Bible
B:) Thompson’s Seasons
C:) The Common Mushrooms
D:) Trying the Dry Fly
Correct: A
Q:27) Who says, ‘this country is founded on the bodies of dead animals’ ?
A:) David
B:) Joe
C:) Anna
D:) Evans
Correct: A
Q:28) ‘His beard is dark brown, almost black, it continues around his neck and merges under the sheet with the hair on his back’. In this line, the narrator signifies a character. Who is he?
A:) David
B:) Joe
C:) Paul
D:) Narrator’s father
Correct: B
Q:29) Mr. Percival is __________ in the novel Surfacing.
A:) the doctor
B:) the captain
C:) the publisher
D:) boat seller
Correct: C
Q:30) Where does the narrator go, after church every time when she was in schooling days?
A:) railway terminal to watch the trains
B:) hill side to watch birds
C:) Museum which is inside the church
D:) Seashore to watch ships
Correct: A
Q:31) Which of the following Canadian magazine was read by the narrator and her companion in their free time?
A:) Maclean’s
B:) Canadian Business
C:) Canadian Living
D:) The Walrus
Correct: A
Q:32) Who sent the narrator, a huge wad of vegetables, a bouquet of swiss chard, a quart basket of green beans, a bundle of carrots, a brain sized cauliflower.
A:) Claude
B:) Evans
C:) Paul
D:) Mr. Percival
Correct: C
Q:33) Who is trimmed grey hair and an executive moustache like the shirt ads, the vodka ads; his clothes were woodsy, semi-worn, verging on the authentic. Slung around his neck was a pair of binoculars in a suede case.
A:) Claude
B:) Bill Malmstrom
C:) Mr. Percival
D:) George Billman
Correct: B
Q:34) Bill Malmstrom is from _________.
A:) Quebec
B:) Washington
C:) Mexico
D:) Michigan
Correct: D
Q:35) Which of the following character is a member of the Detroit branch of the Wildlife Protection Association of America?
A:) Claude
B:) Bill Malmstrom
C:) Mr. Percival
D:) David
Correct: B
Q:36) Who doubted Bill Masmstrom, a secret agent for CIA?
A:) Anna
B:) David
C:) Joe
D:) The Narrator
Correct: B
Q:37) Who asked the narrator to sell her father’s property ?
A:) Claude
B:) Bill Malmstrom
C:) Mr. Percival
D:) David
Correct: B
Q:38) Which of the following is the only clue to the narrator has that her father is alive?
A:) His Lunatic Drawings
B:) A script note with recent signature
C:) His travelling map
D:) A diary which has his future trip
Correct: A
Q:39) what did the narrator get surprisingly when she was looking drawings, and turning the pages?
A:) A typed letter
B:) A red mark on fish drawings
C:) Canoes
D:) Address of a place
Correct: A
Q:40) The letter had an illegible signature and a university crest. Paper clipped to it were half a dozen Xeroxed sheets: Rock Paintings of the Central Shield by____________
A:) Mr. Kelvin Brooke
B:) Dr. Fitzet Ahap
C:) Dr. Robin M. Grove
D:) Mr. Charles Paul
Correct: C
Q:41) What was the subtitle for three short paragraphs in article which was paper clipped with Xeroxed sheets
A:) A route map for Golden Land
B:) A strange news
C:) Aware! Aware! Aware!
D:) Aesthetic Qualities and Possible Significance
Correct: D
Q:42) Aesthetic Qualities and Possible Significance is the subtitle for three short paragraphs. The subject matter falls into Hands, Abstracts symbols, Humans, Animals and Mythological. The last line in the first paragraph is ‘The static rigidity is in marked contrast to the rock paintings of other cultures, most notable ___________________’
A:) The European cave paintings
B:) The Indian cave paintings
C:) The Asian cave paintings
D:) Ajanta Cave paintings
Correct: A
Q:43) While string down the drawings, the narrator spotted the key, and she recognized a name of the lake where they went fishing once, and the lake was connected to the main lake by a portage. Name of the lake is _______.
A:) Brome Lake
B:) Meech Lake
C:) Baskatong Reservoir
D:) White Birch Lake
Correct: D