TNPSC General Tamil Important Questions with Answers Download as PDF

91. Match the stories under Column 'A' with the authors under Column 'B' and select the correct code given below :

    Column A                      Column B

(a) Swept Away                1. Leo Tolst.oy

(b) A Close Encounter     2. Oscar Wilde

(c) Caught Sneezing        3. Susannah Hickling

(d) The Wooden Bowl     4. Rex Coker

     (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2   4   3   1

(B) 2   3   4   1

(C) 3   4   2   1

(D) 2   4   1   3

Answer: C

92. Who wrote the autobiography "I Dare"?

(A) Mrs. Indira Gandhi

(C) Kalpana Chawla

(B) Arunthathi Roy

(D) Kiran Bedi 

Answer: D

93. Match the following:

(a) Etna             1. A volcanic mountain

(b) Russia         2. Patient spider

(c) Whitman     3. The ghost village

(d) Bilju           4. Stalin

     (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1   4   3   2

(B) 4   1   3   2

(C) 1   4   2   3

(D) 3   1   2   4

Answer: C

94. Match the following:

(a) Shakespeare         1. The lonely reaper

(b) Wordsworth         2. Shylock

(c) Douglas Malloch 3. Vision

(d) Abdul Kalam        4. Be the best

      (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2   1   4   3

(B) 2   4   1   3

(C) 2   3   1   4

(D) 1   2   3   4

Answer: A

95. To which of the following places does the trekking take place in 'To the land of snow'?

(A) Munsiyari 

(B) Milam

(C) Burfu 

(D) Bilju

Answer: B

96. "A man who had no eyes" is a story written by

(A) Leo Tolstoy

(B) Mackinlay Kantor

(C) Bonnie Chamberlain

(D) Ruskin Bond 

Answer: B

97. Identify the wrong pair from the options given below :

(A) Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali

(B) H. W. Longfellow Snake

(C) Annie Louisa Walker Women's Rights

(D) William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: B

98. In the story "The Mark of Vishnu" by Kushwant Singh a Phannyar is a ______

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) a lady-bird

(B) frog

(C) centipede

(D) snake

Answer: D

99. Match the characters with relevant story title:

(a) Djinn                 1. The Lottery Ticket

(b) I van Dmitritch 2. The open window

(c) Sue                    3. How the camel got its hump

(d) Mrs. Sappleton  4. The last leaf

      (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3   1   4   2

(B) 1   3   4   2

(C) 2   1   4   3

(D) 4   2   3   1

Answer: A

100. Who made this famous statement? "Owning things is human, sharing them is divine"

(A) Douglas Malloch

(B) Oscar Wilde

(C) Ruskin Bond

(D) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 

Answer: B