#59 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 581 TO 890

Chin is an important element in any face. A double chin or a wrinkled chin may show old age of the person. Shaven chin may improve cosmetic appearance. Sunken chins may show a deprived condition. Hence writers and poets use their best diction to describe 'chins' in faces.

LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE A 'CHIN'
More phrases will be added to this list from time to time.

Blunt chin, bony chin (J. Farnol), bristling chin (Howard Pyle) brown chin

Cheeks hollowed by suffering, Clearcut chin

Dimpled chin

Entrancing chin

Indomitable chin

Little chin

Mutilated chin

Out-thrust chin (Rudyard Kipling), oval chin

Pinched chin, projecting chin (G. McDonald), prominent chin (Katherine M.H. Blackford), protruding chin (F.B. Tarbell)

Receding chin (K.D. Wiggin), royal chin

Shattered chin, shaven chin, silhouetted chin (Thomas Dixon)

Tremulous chin

Unhairy chin (B.E. Stevenson)

Vigorous chin (M.R. Piper)

Warm chin (Margery Williams), weak chin

1. Names in brackets are those of the authors who used the phrases.
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3. Your answers need not agree with the key. Choosing the right words is, always, a question of individual preference.

PHRASES USED IN THIS TEST

Chiselled chin
Cleft chin
Double chin
Emphasized chin
Noble chin
Pointed chin
Rounded chin
Rusty chin
Sloping chin
Square chin

581. "A good-looking chap," he said over his shoulder. "Face clean cut, fine mouth, a frontal bone that must have brain behind it, ______ chin--" He broke off to ask: "What do you suppose happened to him?" [James Oliver Curwood in his novel 'Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police'].

582. After the craftsmen, the religious orders marched past, from the
Dominicans to the Carthusians, from the Carmelites to the Capuchins. They advanced slowly, their eyes cast down, their step austere, their hands on their hearts; some faces were rubicund and shining, with large cheek-hones and _______ chins, herculean heads upon bullnecks; some, thin and livid, with cheeks hollowed by suffering and penitence, and with the look of living ghosts; in short, here were the two sides of monastic life. [Alexander Dumas in his 'Nisida'].

583. She turned her head away from them and fell into deep thought, with
her _____ chin resting on her white hand, half clenched.
[Charles Reade in his book 'The Cloister and the Hearth'].

584. The Dummy uttered one of his abortive sounds, much like that of an angry puma, contorted his face, and put his hand above his head, so that I had
a very vivid suggestion of the lady, her _______ chin and her hat,
at which all Papeete laughed. [Fredrick O'Brien in his 'Mystic Isles of the South Seas].

585. "You see that old Turk with the ______ chin?"[Robert Hichens 'In the Wilderness'].

586. The moonlight charitably softened the ravages of drink; and his aquiline, well-shaped nose and small, square _____ chin almost gave distinction to his looks. [O. Henry in his novel 'Heart of the West']

587. The shadowy eyes under the untidy mass of red-brown hair, in which the curls and tendrils stood out as if endowed with a magnetic life of their own; the sensitive lips; the little _______ chin; and, in the eyes and on the lips, that gently mocking, alluring smile. [Rosa Praed in her 'Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land'].

588. The lips were full, and the mouth was drawn in such exquisite lines that it needed the clear-cut and __________ chin to give firmness to its beauty. The broad forehead, with arching eyebrows, gave an intellectual cast to a face the special stamp of which was purity. [Charles Dudley Warner in his 'The Golden House'].

589. A shambling and disconsolate youth, clad in a three-days' growth of beard, a checked jumper and khaki trousers, this person lounged negligently in the doorway of the waiting-room and, caressing his _____ chin with nicotine-dyed fingers, regarded the stranger in Nokomis with an air of subtle yet vaguely melancholy superiority. [ Louis Joseph Vance in his 'The Bronze Bell'].

590. Imagine a bald head, the brow full and prominent and falling with deep projection over a little flattened nose turned up at the end like the noses of Rabelais and Socrates; a laughing, wrinkled mouth; a short boldly _________ chin and garnished with a gray beard cut into a point; sea-green eyes, faded perhaps by age, but whose pupils, contrasting with the pearl-white balls on which they floated, cast at times magnetic glances of anger or enthusiasm. [Honore de Balzac in his 'The Hidden Masterpiece'].

#60 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 591 TO 600

LIPS and CHEEKS have great significance in the external cosmetic appearance of humans. Any author/poet describing faces cannot avoid describing the lips, using the best adjectives available in his kit. Lips such as quivering lips, trembling lips, express emotional states of individuals. The adage 'Face is the index of mind' includes the part played by the lips.

Multiple Choice Questions 591 to 600 deal with the adjectives which describe lips.

1. Names in brackets are those of the authors who used the phrases.
2. Phrases shown in italics have been used in the Quiz questions. Pl. fill the blanks with the italicised phrases.
3. If you chose, you can compare your answers with the key, Click.
4. Your answers need not agree with the key. Choosing the right words is, always, a question of individual preference.

LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE 'LIPS'
Angelic lips (H. Kendall), Alien lips (W.E. Russel), Ardent lips (J.C. Powys), Astonished lips (Victor Hugo)

Bashful lips (W.M. Thackeray), bearded lips, beloved lips (H. Rider Haggard), bewitching lips, Bitten lips and bated breath (Herman Melville), black lips (Wordsworth and Coleridge), blackened lips, bloodhound lips (George Bernard Shaw in his Caesar and Cleopatra), blubber lips, brazen lips (Francis Thompson), bright lips, broad lips, buckled lips (Emily Dickinson)

Carmined lips (Fannie Hurst), chapped lips, cherry lips, cleft lips, cold lips, compressed lips (M.F. Gibbon), coral lips (W.S. Gilbert), coward lips (Shakespeare), cracked lips, credulous lips (Arthur Weir)
Dainty lips, delicate lips, dewy lips, DRY LIPS half opened and panting (Charlotte M Young), DYING lips (Elizabeth Robins).
Eager lips
Fair lips, fevered lips, fresh lips, frozen lips
Garrulous lips (Walt Whitman), ghostly lips, gulping lips
Half-opened lips, half-shut lips (Sir Walter Scot), healing lips (William Congreve)
Joined lips
Iced lips (Jack London)
Lily lips (Shakespeare), living lips, Locked lips, lovely lips
Maddening lips of wine (Margeret Sprague Carhart), Moist lips, mortal lips (Emily Dickinson), moving lips
Nether lip
Parched lips (Erasmus Darwin), parted lips, passionate lips (Goethe), peaceful lips, perfumed lips, pouting lips (Gilbert and Sullivan), pretty lips, pure lips, undefiled lips
Quivering lips
Rebel lips (Ralph Chaplin), red lips, ripe lips (Shakespeare), rosebud lips (Ella Rodman), rosy lips
Sad lips, sensitive lips, sensual lips, shaggy lips (William Hayley), SKINNIE lips (Shakespeare), sighing lips (Thomas Moore), sleeping lips (B.E. Stevenson), smiling lips, soft lips, SOFT UNDER lip, Sore lips, split lips, still lips, sugary lips, sunken lips, sweet lips, swelling lips

Tender lips (G. Hamilton), thick lips, thickish lips, thin lips, timid lips (W.M. Thackeray), trembling lips

Undiscoverable lips (William Watson), Unembittered lips (Sara Teasdale)
Voiceless lips (D.A. Mackenzie)

Warm lips, white lips

591. _______ lips can be treated with beeswax and petrolatum (Vaseline).

592. A child may get _____ lips genetically. The congenital defect arises when the child is born with a separated upper lip.

593. Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue
Bright as thy mother's in their hue;
Those ____ lips, whose dimples play
And smile to steal the heart away,
Recall a scene of former joy,
And touch thy father's heart, my Boy!
[Lord Byron in his poem 'To my son'].

594.You smile, with faintly ________ lips,
You loose your thoughts like birds,
Brushing our dreams with soft and shadowy words . .
We know your words are foolish, yet sit here bound
In tremulous webs of sound.
[Conrad Aiken in his poem 'The House of Dust'].

595. Lucius: Stand all aloof;--but, uncle, draw you near,
To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.--
O, take this warm kiss on thy pale ____ lips.
[William Shakespeare in his play 'The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus'].

596. In appearance, the Hopi and Havasupai are more alike than either are like to the Navaho. As a rule, the Hopi is well built and stalwart, with the unmistakable Indian face, but with less coarse and _______ lips, higher and more intellectual brow, more alert and kindly eye, and stronger chin than the Havasupai. [George Wharton James in his book 'The Grand Canyon of Arizona'].

597. "Poems?" she repeated, just a trifle blankly; then, seeing the hurt in his face, about the sensitive and ________ lips, she put out a quick, penitent hand. "Let me see them--at once!" [Katharine Newlin Burt in her book 'Hidden Creek'].

598.Such a turn
Kind fortune never do me. Shall I kiss
To life these ______ lips?--No!--of her plight
'Twere base to take advantage.
[James Sheridan Knowles in his play 'The Love-Chase'].

599.Too well those ______ lips disclose
The triumphs of the opening Rose;
O fair! O graceful! bid them prove
As passive to the breath of Love.
[S.T. Coleridge in his poem 'The Kiss'].

600. Whether his sophistries satisfied him or not, they satisfied her. She clung to his breast, and whispered, with closed eyes and quivering lips: "Yes, yes, yes!" [William Dean Howells in his 'Between The Dark And The Daylight'].

#61 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 601 TO 610

Cheeks form an important part of the cosmetic appearance of face. In describing the cheeks, poets and authors never lagged behind.

Here is a list of some of the adjectives used by writers for describing 'cheeks'. The phrases used in question Nos. 601 to 610 are shown in italics. Pl. fill in the blanks using the adjectives, noting down on a piece of paper. After finishing, if you consider necessary, you can consult the key. Your answers and the answers in the key need not tally because, choice of adjectives is always a question of preferences.
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LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DESCRIBING 'CHEEKS'
Blushing cheeks
Cold cheeks,curved cheeks
Dimpled cheeks, disturbed cheeks
Glorious cheeks, glowing cheeks
Hairless cheeks, hollow cheeks, honey cheeks
Leather-colored cheeks, livid cheeks, loathsome cheeks
Pale cheeks, pallid cheeks, pink cheeks, plump cheeks
Radiant cheeks, reddened cheeks, rosy cheeks, rounded cheeks, ruddy cheeks
Shining cheeks, smooth cheeks, Soft cheeks, sun-bronzed cheeks, sunburnt cheeks, sunken cheeks, sun-tanned cheeks
Tanned cheeks, tearful cheeks
Undewed cheeks
White cheeks, the whitest cheeks

601.With _______ cheeks and rapid eyes
We sit where none espies;
Till a harsh change comes edging in
As no such scene were there,
But winter, and I were bent and thin,
And cinder-gray my hair.
[Thomas Hardy in his poem 'The dreams is-which'].

602. Like apple-blossoms, white and red;
Like hues of dawn, which fly too soon;
Like bloom of peach, so softly spread;
Like thorn of May and rose of June -
Oh, sweet! oh, fair! beyond compare,
Are Daphne's cheeks,
Are Daphne's ________ cheeks, I swear.
[Burton Egbert Stevenson in his poem 'To Daphine'].

603. I might perceive his eye in her eye lost,
His ear to drink her sweet tongue's utterance,
And changing passion, like inconstant clouds
That rack upon the carriage of the winds,
Increase and die in his _________ cheeks. [William Shakespeare in his play 'King Edward III, Act 2, Scene 1'].

604. There she stood, frozen to the ground, gazing with staring eyes, and _____ cheeks, and every feature fixed and ghastly, upon the man he had encountered in the dark last night. [Charles Dickens in his 'Barnabe Rudge'].

605. E'en as a dog, that yelling bays for food
His keeper, when the morsel comes, lets fall
His fury, bent alone with eager haste
To swallow it; so dropp'd the _________ cheeks
Of demon Cerberus, who thund'ring stuns
The spirits, that they for deafness wish in vain.
[Dante Alighierie in 'The Vision of Hell, Part 3'].

606. Nostromo turned to his affianced wife with a greeting, and was
amazed at her sunken eyes, at her ______ cheeks, at the air of illness and anguish in her face. [Joseph Conrad in his book 'Nostromo: A tale of the Sea Board'].

607. "He is the tall hard-faced man in yellow silk, he with the
_______ cheeks and the split lip. He is little older than
yourself, and his father was a cobbler in Chester, yet he has
already won the golden spurs. [Arthur Conan Doyle in his book 'Sir Nigel'].

608."As he looks in my face where no longer the rose
In my once _______ cheeks in its loveliness grows,
And marks the white locks mingling faster each day
With the brown that old Time is fast stealing away.
[Mary D. Brine in her poem 'Grandma's memories'].

609."...Josephine will appear before you, with all her fascinations. She will explain matters. You will forgive all, and tranquillity will be restored." "Never!" exclaimed Napoleon, with ______ cheek and trembling lip, striding nervously too and fro, through the room, "never! I forgive! ever!" [John S.C. Abbott in his book 'Napoleon Bonaparte'].

610. All, our prime mother lost, avail'd to save
My _______ cheeks from blur of soiling tears.
"Dante, weep not, that Virgil leaves thee: nay,
Weep thou not yet: behooves thee feel the edge
Of other sword, and thou shalt weep for that."
[Dante in his 'Divine Comedy : Purgatory'].

#62 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS FROM 611 TO 620

Hair is like a crown to a person's head. Youthful hair adds beauty to the head and protects it from heat and water. While describing the appearance of a person, we give prominent place to the hair.

Well-kempt hair adds respectability to a person's appearance.

The questions 611 to 620 deal with adjectives which describe hair and hair styles. Pl. fill in the blanks with the adjectival phrases marked in italics. You can note down the answers on a piece of paper. If you feel necessary compare them with the key available at: Click. Your answers and the key need not tally. It is only a matter of choice of words.

LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE HAIR AND HAIR STYLES
Blond hair, braided hair
Choppy hair, chunky hair, cinder-gray hair (Thomas Hardy), clipped hair, Crewcut hair, Crimped hair, Curled hair
Dry hair
Facial hair, feathered hair, fluffy hair
Helmet hair style, Hockey hair
Kinky hair
Mullet hair, mullety hair
Nappy hair
Oily hair
Rat-tail hair, rumpled hair
Shaggy hair, shimmering hair, shining hair, silken hair, silver hair, sleek hair, Straight hair
Terminal hair, textured hair
Unkempt hair
Vellus hair
Wavy hair, well-kempt hair, wooly hair

611. Straightening #62, ANSWERS TO ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 611 TO ______ hair is a multi million dollar business. Curling straight hair cannot lag behind. Nothing is unfit to make moolah.

612. Can't Britney Spears be perceived beautiful without _______ hair?

613. ______ Hair and rat-tail hair styles leave very little hair on the front side of head, and these styles were frequent in Star War films.

614. _______hair styles have a tendency to block foreheads. Even Mrs. Bush seems to have sported it for sometime.

615. Does Adam Brody look better with his _______HAIR flowing free?

616. ______ hair style might have been a fashion in 1950s. In 90's, the actress Ms. Halle Berry sported a rough short hair. Click to see.

617. His _____ hair under the brim of the tall hat had a sheen like the hat itself; his cheeks, pale and flat, the line of his clean-shaven lips, his firm chin with its greyish shaven tinge, and the buttoned strictness of his black cut-away coat, conveyed an appearance of reserve and secrecy, of imperturbable, enforced composure; but his eyes, cold,--grey, strained--looking, with a line in the brow between them, examined him wistfully, as if they knew of a secret weakness. [John Galsworthy in his novel 'Man of Property'].

618. She's a sturdy little walker and she braves all kinds of weather,
And when the rain or fog or mist drive rival crimps a-wreck, Her ______ hair goes curling like a kinked-up ostrich feather Around her ears and forehead and the white nape of her neck. [Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the poem 'The Summer Girl'].

619. He liked the girl who sported a _____ hair style, with her hair cut short, layered along the neckline, longer layers extending to the nape of the neck. He too sported the same hair style.

620. The sun's rays, striking across the river, played hide-and-seek in her __________ hair, warming it to gold and touching the rose of her cheeks to a clear radiance. Her eyes were scintillant with changing, flashing lights. [Harriet Stark in the novel 'The Bacillus of Beauty'].

#63 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 621 TO 630

Teeth have great significance in human anatomy. They have considerable cosmetic value because a person with unnatural or protruding teeth or spaced teeth may suffer in some communities and societies.

Teeth such as clenched teeth and clinched teeth influence our speech and may present us unlikable guys. Even the President of US is not exempt to this.

Decayed teeth cause several systemic ailments.

Here is a list of adjectives which describe teeth. The questions 621 to 630 have been set using the phrases shown in Italics. Pl. fill in the blanks with appropriate adjectives by noting on a slip of paper. If you consider necessary, you can compare your answers with the key, clicking: Click here to see the key. Your answers need not tally with the key because usages vary from country to country, century to century and writer to writer.

LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEETH IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
Artificial teeth
Canine teeth, clenched teeth, clinched tooth
Decayed teeth, deciduous teeth
Extracted tooth
False teeth, filed teeth, fluoridated tooth, fractured tooth, fore tooth, front tooth
Glistening teeth, Gold teeth
Incisor tooth, isolated tooth
Molar teeth
Offending tooth
Painful tooth, perfect teeth, pretty teeth, primary teeth, protruding truth
Sharp teeth, Sore tooth, spaced teeth, Sweet tooth
Tender teeth, Tiny teeth
Ugly teeth, unrelenting tooth, upper tooth
Venerable teeth
Wisdom teeth

621. Thus the Cyprian goddess weeping,
Mourned Adonis, darling youth:
Him the boar, in silence creeping,
Gored with ___________ tooth.
[Carolyn Wells in her poem 'Line by a person of Quality'].

622. _____ tooth is not a matter of Nationality. Everybody loves confectionary.

623. Not in cries, laughter, defiancies, thrown from me when alone far in
the wilds,
Not in husky pantings through ________ teeth,
Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,
Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
[Walt Whitman in his poem 'Not heaving from my ribbed breast only'].

624. I recall him pounding the table and exclaiming through ________ teeth, “You can't kill bicycles with B-52's!” More napkins were filled with diagrams of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Hanoi harbor and bombed-out railroads that were being repaired over-night. [From Whitehouse.Gov, a speech of President Lyndon Johnson].

625. Strangers meeting may freely ask each other their names, provinces, and even prospects; it is not so usual as is generally supposed to inquire a person's age. It is always a compliment to an old man, who is justly proud of his years, and takes the curious form of "your _________ teeth?" but middle-aged men do not as a rule care about the question and their answers can rarely be depended upon. [Herbert A Giles in his 'Chinese Sketches'].

626. ______ teeth come late in life. They are genetically programed to arrive late. Humans inherited them from Neanderthal man.

627. About 20% of children have one or more _______ teeth missing owing to tooth-decay.

628. ____ teeth and plastic witch baskets, sold as children's toys may contain dangerous levels of lead.

629. Widely ______ teeth can be a temporary as well as a permanent condition. It will be a temporary condition when it is a part of normal growth and the development of adult teeth.

630. _________ teeth are also called baby teeth, milk teeth, primary teeth, temporary teeth.

#64 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 631 TO 640

Ears connect us to the world of sounds. A person with a hearing disability can, sometimes, become mute. Real hearing takes place inside the ear. What we see outside are ear lobes. Authors do not get occasions in their literary works to describe what is inside. They describe the ear lobes, as the ears. While describing beauty, 'ears' may not rank as prominently as 'eyes' and 'nose' because they are located on the sides. Humans use gold and diamond ear rings to draw attention of the onlookers. The ear rings, sometimes, lend a sort of symmetry to the face and make it more presentable. The ear lobes have the problem of being hidden by untrimmed hair and obstruct hearing.

Below, is a list of adjectives which are often used to describe the ears (i.e. ear lobes). The list is not exhaustive. It is just a sample. More adjectival phrases will be added, as and when they are noticed.

The phrases marked in Italics have been used in the Multiple Choice Test Questions 631 to 640. Pl. fill in the blanks, noting down answers on a piece of papers. If you prefer, you can compare your answers to those used by the Classic Writers. But they need not tally, because no two styles can coincide cent per cent.
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LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES, WHICH DESCRIBE EARS (EAR LOBES!)
Amazed ears
Big ears
Careless ears, critical ears
Deaf ears, deafened ears, dulled ears
Eager ears
flopped-out ears
Gentle ears, golden ears, good ears
Happy ears, huge ears
Incredulous ears
Keen ears
Long ears
Mortal ears
PInk ears, pointed earsPrincely ears
Quick ears
Ravished ears
Red ears
sharp ears, shell-like ears, slitted ears, sweet ears, sympathetic ears
Unheeding ears
Watchful years
Yearning ears, yellow ears

631. Oh, list while we a love confess
Oh, list while we/they a love confess
That words imperfectly express.
Those __________ ears, ah, do not close
That words imperfectly express.
To blighted love's distracting woes!
[William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in their Play 'Let the Merry cymbols sound'].

632. Johnny had just gone into one of the cattle sheds to see what was there, when a little boy, with ___________ ears and a Cow Brand Soda cap on, stealthily closed the gate. [Nellie McClung in his 'The Black Creek Stopping-House'].

633. It was probably meant to cure the younger Piso of that passion for writing verse which had, as we have seen, spread like a plague among the Romans, and which made a visit to the public baths a penance to ________ ears,--for there the poetasters were always sure of an audience,--and added new terrors to the already sufficiently formidable horrors of the Roman banquet.[Theodore Martin in his 'Horace'].

634. Before we could catch our breaths a swarm of black Tannese was alongside and aboard--grinning, apelike creatures, with kinky hair and troubled eyes, wearing safety-pins and clay-pipes in their _______ ears: and as for the rest, wearing nothing behind and less than that before. [Jack London in his 'The Cruise of the Snark'].

635. "Take it easy, old boy," whispered Barney into the slim, _______ ears that moved ceaselessly backward and forward, "you'll get your chance when we strike the highway, never fear." [Edgard Rice Burrows in his 'The Mad King'.]

636. Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden,
And wail life's discords into ________ ears?
[James Thomson in his poem 'The City of Dreadful Night'].

637. Did the music fall upon _________ ears
Of the Indian hunters as they slumbering lay?
Rather in their dreams those forest natives heard
Echoes of the warrior's triumphant song
In that hunting-ground where sings the deathless bird.
[Virginia Carter Castleman in the poem 'Pocahontas'].

638. They know that poor Cosmo's time will come, and they are glad to be alone, for they have much to say that is for no other ______ ears. [J.M. Barrie in 'Alice Sit by the Fire'].

639. His mind refused to deal with so impossible a situation; he could not accept it as a fact that such words had actually been uttered in such a presence. And yet it was the truth; his ___________ ears still sizzled. `She yust laid egg!' His entire skin became flushed; his averted eyes glazed themselves with shame.
[Booth Tarkington in his novel 'Seventeen'.]

640. Whispered love and muttered fears,
How their echoes fly about!
None escape his ________ ears,
Every sigh might be a shout.
[Robert Ranke Graves in his 'Fairies and Fusiliers'].

#65 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 641 TO 650

Tongue, though a key organ in the face, it rarely gets a cosmetic description, because it is locked up inside the mouth. Even while speaking or singing, only a small part of the tongue is seen.

Most writers have used adjectives for the word 'tongue' in its figurative meaning i.e. language. A tongue may be described-- its color, coating, smell, swollen etc. only in homoeopathic or medical journals and case sheets. Rarely do these find use in literary works.

Some adjectives for the 'tongue' have been found in recipe and cookery books to describe a preparation made from the tongue of an animal.

Here is a box which lists out some adjectival phrases which describe the 'tongue'
in different meanings. The phrases used in setting the multiple choice questions test are marked in Italics.. Pl. try to fill in the blanks in question Nos. 641 to 650 using the adjectives and note them down on a small paper slip. Thereafter, you can compare them with the key: Click

LIST OF ADJECTIVES USED IN DESCRIBING 'TONGUE'
Barbarous tongue, base tongue (John Dryden), boiled tongue, bleeding tongue, brownish tongue
Deviled tongue
Earthly tongue (William Shakespeare)
Faltering tongue, forgotten tongue, foul tongue, free tongue, fresh tongue (cookery)
Gentle tongue, Godlike tongue, good tongue, great tongue
Hearty tongue, humble tongue
Iron tongue
Little tongue, long tongue, loose tongue, loving tongue
Mother tongue, musculous tongue
National tongue, native tongue
Oriental tongue
Pink tongue, poisoned tongue, pompous tongue, primitive tongue (Andrew Dickson White)
Red tongue, respectful tongue
Serpant's tongue, scolding tongue, servile tongue, Shepherd's tongue (William Shakespeare), shrewd tongue, spitefullest tongue, strange tongue
Threatening tongue
Unbriddled tongue, uncouth tongue, unknown tongue
Vernacular tongue (Tobias Smollett), Vulgar tongue
Wagging tongue

641. She is not old, she is not young,
The woman with the _________ Tongue,
The haggard cheek, the hungering eye,
The poisoned words that wildly fly,
The famished face, the fevered hand, ...
[Burton Egbert Stevenson in his poem 'The woman with the '_______'s Tongue'].

642. You have enough, go pretty Maid, stand close,
And use that ______ tongue, with a little more temper.
[Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in their poem 'The humorous lieutinent'].

643. Retire; you must not yet see Antony.
He who began this mischief,
'Tis just he tempt the danger; let him clear you:
And, since he offered you his _______ tongue,
To gain a poor precarious life from Caesar,
Let him expose that fawning eloquence,
[John Dryden, in his poem 'All for Love'].

644. But if my tongue is not to wag, whatever shall I
do to earn my dinner? Why, that you shall quite easily, if with your _______ tongue you do not try to utter things unutterable.
[Xenophon in his play 'The Symposium'].

645. This, said Bacbuc, comes of not considering with ourselves, or
understanding the motions of the _________ tongue, when the drink glides on it in its way to the stomach. Tell me, noble strangers, are your throats
lined, paved, or enamelled, as formerly was that of Pithyllus, nicknamed
Theutes, that you can have missed the taste, relish, and flavour of this
divine liquor? [Francois Rabelais in his 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'].

646. Katte is greatly flattered by the Prince's confidence; even brags of it in society, with his foolish _____ tongue. Poor youth, he is of dissolute ways; has plenty of it unwise intellect," little of the "wise" kind; and is still under the years of discretion. [Thomas Carlyle in his 'History of Friedrich II of Prussia'].

647. SOCRATES: To say that names which we do not understand are of foreign origin; and this is very likely the right answer, and something of this
kind may be true of them; but also the original forms of words may have been lost in the lapse of ages; names have been so twisted in all manner of ways, that I should not be surprised if the old language when compared with that now in use would appear to us to be a _________ tongue. [B. Jowett in his translation of 'Cratylus by Plato'].

648. And flint-tipped arrow each with ________ tongue,--
Thus does the Red man stalk to death his foe,
And sighting him strings silently his bow,
Takes his unerring aim, and straight and true
[E. Pauline Johnson in his poem 'Flint and Feather'].

649. Here, in this death of St. Livinius, the executioner is shown in the act of presenting to a dog with pincers the ________ tongue that he has just cut out of the mouth of the dying priest. [Joseph E. Morris in his book 'Beautiful Europe - Belgium'].

650. Plucking at his bloody lips
With his trembling finger-tips;
Choking in a dreadful way
As if he would something say
In that _______ tongue of his. . . .
Oh, how horrible Death is!
[Robert W. Service in his 'Rhymes of a Red Cross man'.

#66 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 651 TO 660

The most conspicuous organ in face may be the 'nose'. When authors describe the faces of their characters, the authors cannot avoid describing the nose. A stock of good adjectives will help authors in describing faces impressively.

The following box contains some adjectival phrases which describe 'NOSES'. The phrases marked in italics have been used in preparing the ten multiple choice questions from 651 to 660. PL. try to fill in the blanks found in the quotes of the Classic Writers and note down your selections on a piece of paper. If necessary, you can compare them with the answers by clicking: Click: mcquestansyb.blogspot.com/search/label/#2366.

LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DESCRIBING 'NOSES' (More will be added)
aquiline nose (eagle like, curved like the nose of an eagle), arched nose
beaky nose (Punch Magazine), black nose
corpulent nose
curved nose
false nose, fat nose, flat nose, flattened nose (Honore de Balzac)
gigantic nose
hooked nose, holy nose
itchy nose
luminous nose
noble nose [William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan]
oblique nose
Pendulous nose, pert nose, pierced nose, pink nose, pointed nose, perforated nose
precious nose, pretty nose, pronounced nose, protracted nose, purplish nose (Cleveland Moffett)
red nose, reddened nose, rubican nose
sharp nose, snubby nose [Author: Laura Rountree Smith], splendid nose
square nose, straight nose, stubby nose, sunburnt nose
tame nose, tapered nose, truncated nose
velvet nose
Well-shaped nose, wondrous nose, wrinkled nose

651. "Withal it is an exceeding _________ nose, thus, and so, all in one place, at the end," proceeded Yi Chin Ho. "Your excellency would seek far and wide and many a day for that nose and find it not." "An unusual nose," admitted the Governor. [Jack London in his stories]

652. His countenance was of a dark snuff-color, and he had a long ______ nose, pea eyes, a wide mouth, and an excellent set of teeth, which latter he seemed anxious of displaying, as he was grinning from ear to ear. [Edgar Allan Poe in his 'The Devil in the Belfry'.]

653. And he wove him a ________ Nose,--
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
Of vast proportions and painted red,
And tied with cords to the back of his head. [Edward Lear in his lyric 'The Dong with a luminous nose']

654. God A is represented as a figure with an exposed, bony spine, _________ nose and grinning teeth.[10-1] It is plainly to be seen that the head of
this god represents a skull and that the spine is that of a skeleton. [Paul Schellhas in his 'Representation of deities in Maya Manuscripts'>.

655. Miss Agnes Brendon gave a little upward lift to her small ____ nose as she exclaimed: "Tilly Morris, you don't mean to say that you don't know who the Pelhams are?" [Nora Perry in her 'A Flock of Girls and Boys'].

656. The dead body of a man, with a thin grizzled beard, an ________ nose, and big eyes with the eyelids closed, was lying on the floor. [Leo Tolstoy in his story 'The YOung Tsar'].

657. All went smoothly until the prophetess happened to see the Professor's ________ nose, fiery red from the four days' run in wind and rain, and said warningly,-- "You are too fond of good eating and drinking; you drink too much, and unless you are more temperate you will die in twenty years." That was too much for the Professor, whose occasional glass of beer--a habit left over from his student days--would not discolor the nose of a humming-bird. [Arthur Jerome Eddy in his novel 'Two thousand miles of an automobile'.]

658. The younger Bunner sister, who was a little taller than her
elder, had a more __________ nose, but a weaker slope of mouth and
chin. She still permitted herself the frivolity of waving her pale
hair, and its tight little ridges, stiff as the tresses of an
Assyrian statue, were flattened under a dotted veil which ended at
the tip of her cold-reddened nose.[Edith Wharton in his 'Bunner Sisters'.]

659. And he was white-skinned with fine, silky hair that had darkened from fair, and a slightly ______ nose of an old country family. They were a beautiful couple. [D.H. Lawrence in his 'ngland, My England'.]

660. A very learned man was Father Hogan, especially in casting out
devils, and a portly, good-looking man too, only he had a large
_______ nose, which people said he got by making over free with
the cratur in sacret.[George Borrow in his 'Wild Wales'.]

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NO OTHER AUTHOR USED THIS ADJECTIVE TO DESCRIBE A NOSE.

#67 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 661 TO 670

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TEST IN 'ADJECTIVES' DESCRIBING EYES
In Sanskrit language, there is a proverb "Sarveendriyaanaam Nayanam Pradhaanam" which means that among all the organs of the body, eyes are the most important.

Writers all over the world face the task of describing people in different ways. In describing the face and appears, eyes form an important element of the author's work. Even if we are not authors, in our daily life, we often come across situations where we have to describe the eyes of someone whom we have seen, or even the eyes of ourselves when we see a doctor.

Different writers have described "eyes" in different ways, using numerous adjectives which range from very simple to very complex and obscure. Sometimes, the descriptions may depict beauty of the eyes and at some other times they may present a morbid condition of the eyes.

OBJECT OF THIS TEST: 1. Strengthen our ability to describe eyes. 2. Examine our present capabilities in fairly describing the 'eyes'.

LIST OF IMPORTANT ADJECTIVAL PHRAZES WHICH DESCRIBE 'EYES'
(Names in the brackets are the names of authors who have used the phrase). For commonly used phrases, I am not giving author names.
More phrases will be added, as and when phrases are found.

Phrases used in this multiple choice questions test are marked in italics. Pl. fill in the blanks in question Nos. 661 to 670 with the words given in italics.

accusing eyes
beady-black eyes
big eyes
black eyes
blue eyes
bodily eyes
bright eyes
brown eyes
curious eye(s)
downcast eyes
faithless eyes
golden eyes
green eyes
hungry eyes
half-closed eyes
large eyes
levelled eyes
lowered eyes
pea eyes (Edgar Allan Poe)
Satisfied eyes, sightless eyes, sparkling eyes, staring eyes, steadfast eyes, stony eyes, stormy eyes, sunny eyes
tender eyes
triumphant eyes
true eyes
unwinking eyes
violet eyes
watching eyes
weary eyes

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661."Yes"--rose to her lips, but was checked by a glance at the group upon the floor, where her husband was stretched out, and two little urchins
with _________ eyes and glowing cheeks, were climbing and tumbling over
him, as if they found in this play the very essence of fun. [Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps in her 'The Angel Over the Right Shoulder'.]

662. Till his hands forgot to havoc and his weapons lost their lusting,
Till his ______ eyes allured her from the land of Totem Poles,
Till she followed where he called her, followed with a woman's trusting,
To the canyon where the Capilano rolls. [E. Pauline Johnson in his 'Flint and Feather']

663. All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their _____ eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
[William Wordsworth & S T Coleridge in their 'Lyrical Ballads - Ancient Mariner'].

664. In the little patch of light we saw a ghastly black-bearded man, dripping with water, regarding us with _________ eyes, which glowed red in the light of the lamp. [W.W. Jacob in his poem 'Over the Side']

665. But seeing her now apparently so overwhelmed, and having something soft and warm down beneath her granitic face and ______ eyes, she touched her on the back. [John Galsworthy in his 'Fraternity'].

666. The black slave was sitting cross-legged just outside the curtain, and when these slow, long drawn-out words came from the other side a light gleamed in her shrewd, ___________ eyes. [Victoria Cross in her novel 'Six Women'].

667. "Slowly she raised her head and lifted the ________ eyes. Those telltale traitors no longer hid her secret. With a glad cry Alfred caught her in his arms. She tried to hide her face ..." [Zane Grey in 'Betty Zane'].

668. Two white arms had met the poor paroled prisoner, on his return to Eagle's Nest--a pair of ______ eyes had filled with happy tears--and the red lips, smiling with exquisite emotion, murmured "All is well, since you have come back to me!". [John Esten Cooke in his 'Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee'].

669. It is not through my ______ eyes that this sensation comes, but through some window of the mind, from before which a curtain has been drawn. [H. de. Vere Stacpoole in his 'The Blue Lagoon: A Romance'].

670. For in thy clear and _________ eyes
Thine own self wonder deepest lies,
Nor any words that lips can teach
Are sweeter than their wonder speech. [ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY in his 'Songs of Two'.]

#68 , ADJECTIVES TEST QUESTIONS 671 TO 680

Adjectives and adverbs help us to make our sentences complete and more meaningful. Simultaneously, they help us to embellish our style. A Right adjective used at a right place takes us a long way in building a readable script.

Here is a Multiple Choice test in adjectives which can be used for describing a face. Though this list has many adjectives, for the purpose of setting questions, I have selected only ten adjectives, which are shown in Italics.

Pl. fill in the blanks with the best adjective you chose and compare with the adjective used by the Classic Writer in his Work. Thereafter, if you feel need, pl. check the answers at: mcquesansyb.blogspot.com/search/label/#2368.

LIST OF ADJECTIVES WHICH CAN BE USED IN DESCRIBING FACES
Baby face, bold face
Cleancut face, contorted face
Dead face, dissipated face, downcast face
expressionless face
fair face
familiar face
fierce face
fighting face
flat face
freightened face
granitic face
hideous face
honest face
hot face
indifferent face
iron face
little face
mortal face
furrowed face
blood-stained face
pale face
poker face
pretty face
purple-colored face
radiant face
rough face
ruddy face
sallow face
smiling face
square face
stained face
swollen face
trim-chiseled face
weatherbeaten face
wry face
yellow face

671. His was a long lean ______ face,
He sat with half-shut eyes,
Like an old sailor in a ship
Becalmed 'neath tropic skies.
[Walter de La Mare in his poem 'The Keys of Morning.]

672. His youth drank in the lessons of his race,
Which stamp'd their impress on his _______ face.
[James Fairfax McLaughlin in his poem 'The American Cyclops']

673. "No, he seems to be a common sailor; he is working, and is dressed in
old clothes--all dirty. And such a __________ face, too. He seems to
have fallen--so low." [Morgan Robertson in his 'The Wreck of the Titan'].

674. His _____ face was paler, his hair thin and ragged as though chunks had been torn out from time to time. [Alan Edward Nourse in his book 'Problem'].

675. O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips.
These sorrowful drops upon thy _____________ face,
The last true duties of thy noble son! [William Shakespeare in his 'The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus'.]

676. Even as the sun with _______________ face
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,
Rose-cheek'd Adonis tried him to the chase;
[William Shakespeare in his 'Venus and Adonis'].

677. "...Mr. Gray was thirty-eight, and tall and slender and handsome, a little bald in front, alert, quick in his movements, business-like, prompt, decided, unsentimental, and with that kind of _____________ face that just seems to glint and sparkle with frosty intellectuality!" [Mark Twain in his novel 'A Dog's tale'].

678. Grumpy Weasel made a ___ face, as if he did not care to have anybody speak of Mr. Meadow Mouse as a friend of his. And he did not quit the stone wall until he had seen Mr. Meadow Mouse venture forth in safety. [Arthur Scot Bailey in his book 'The Tale of Grumpy Weasel']

679. The man approached the conference table in the center of the room with measured pace and gravely ______________ face. The rose-tinted machine on his left did a couple of impulsive pirouettes on the way and twittered a greeting to Meg and Roger.
[Fritz Reuter Leiber in his 'Bread Overhead'].

680 "...And when at last, with sad, ___________ face,
I walk in narrow pathways patiently;
Forgetful of thy beauty, and thy truth,
Thy ringing laughter, thy rebellious grace..."
[Olive Custance in his poem 'In praise of youth'.]

#69 , LITERALLY STUNNING VERBS, QUESTIONS 681 TO 700

When we see a cobra, we get stunned i.e. become stone-like.

By the phrase "LITERALLY STUNNING VERBS" I mean, the verbs which carry a meaning of a person getting stunned for various reasons.

Here is a set of ten such literally stunning verbs. The following questions No. 681 to 690 have blanks. Fill in the blanks, with a verb which is appropriate for the sentence. Wherever quotations from Classic writers are given, pl. try to identify the word used by the original writer (this may not always be possile, yet pl. try).

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LIST OF TEN SELECTED LITERALLY STUNNING VERBS1. astonish,
2. astound,
3. daze,
4. flabbergast,
5. paralyze,
6. petrify,
7. strike dumb,
8. stupefy,
9. benumb,
10. freeze.

IMPORTANT: Your usage and my usage may not agree. Hence please do not be dumbfound, when your answers and my answers do not tally. Just, pl. ponder over whether there is a general similarity in our selection of words or not.

681.

Some hazardous substances _______ the Central Nervous system of humans and induce intoxication and elation in them.

682.

Frogs, above the Arctic Circle, ________ us.

683.

If Obama is elected, how many will be ___________ and how many will be unmoved?

684.

The rate of interest of 1000% charged in the transaction would ___________ even the most avaricious loan shark.

685.

"James Reid, the Juggler Extraordinaire is back to perform more juggling tricks that will amaze and _______ you - juggling five balls aboard a rola-bola, five juggling clubs, and the fantastic combination of a real bowling ball, tennis racquet and baseball bat!..." [A PIMA County Public Library Calendar].

686.

Anybody seeing a ghost peeping through windows will ______ to death.

687.

The people who came in to donate were stunned and _____. They could not believe such an act of terrorism could happen in Oklahoma City. (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov).

688.

People with constitutional timidity may be ________ when they see the ghastly destruction at the World Trade Center.

689.

The STAR WARS can _______ the bravest of battle-tested warriors who know only conventional air rides.

690.

Sudden onset of terror can ________ a city and benumb its nerve centers.

#70 , ONOMATOPOEIA WORDS QUESTIONS 691 TO 700

#70 QUESTIONS 691 TO 700
BASED ON ONOMATOPOEIA WORDS. Here is a box of ten such words. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
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LIST OF TEN ONOMATOPOEIA WORDS

BASH
CLANG
GUSH
HISS
SIZZLE
SLURP
SPLASH
SQUEEK
TINKLE
WHIRR
BANG

691.

The prevailing theory about the origin and evolution of our Universe is the Big ____ Theory.

692.

Hubble Telescope celebrated its birthday ____ with eleven candles and a million pictures.

693.

No, they came in a body, they came with a _____ and a rush, they came like a volley from a battery; came with heads low down, plumes streaming out behind, lances advanced at a level. [MARK TWAIN in his "A Connecticut Yankee by Twain"].

694.

The Illinois State Museum contains some exhibits of brass ________ cones from a village of Michigan.

695.

____ in oil prices may exert a modest impact on US economy.

696.

The Sun is a ________ ball of seething hot gas.

697.

_________ doors are to be lubricated periodically.

698.

Accurate models are not available about the _________ of ships with spray.

699.

Bio-________ is useful in controlling groundwater pollution.

700.

Cats ____ to tell each other to stay away.

#71 , PLOTS AND THEMES OF CHARLES DICKENS, QUESTIONS 701 TO 710

Here is a list of selected ten novels of Charles Dickens.

Question Nos. 711 to 720 contain the "Plot Overviews" of the novels.

Identify the names of the novels by reading the Plot Overviews, writing down on a piece of paper.

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LIST OF THE SELECTED TEN NOVELS
of CHARLES DICKENS

1. Bleak House
2. David Copperfield
3. Hard Times
4. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
5. The Old Curiosity Shop
6. Oliver Twist
7. Nicholas Nickleby.
8. A Tale of Two Cities
9. Great Expectations
10. The Battle of Life.

PLOT OVERVIEWS

701.

Protagonists: sisters Grace and Marion. Alfred = Grace's childhood sweet heart, but engaged to Marion. Michael Warden = a squire. Conflict creation: Marion going to her aunt's house. Creating an impression that she ran away with Warden. Grace and Alfred coming together. Conflict resolution: Return of Warden. Return of Marion. Denouement: Likelihood of Marion marrying Warden.

702.

FProtagonists: Ms. Esther, Ms. Ada Clare. MProtagonists: Mr. Richard Carstone, Allan WoodCourt. Theme: 1. Mingling of love 2. Perils of law suits. Antagonist: Mr. Tulkinghorn, lawyer. Sub-plot: Love story of Lady Dedlock, mother of Ms. Esther. Action: Blackmailing behavior of Tulkinghorn. Murder of Tulkingborn. Esther and Woodcourt love, but Esther agrees to marry Mr. Jarndyce, her guardian. Esther catches small pox and gets defaced. Jarndyce releases Esther. Richard wins the law suit, but becomes insolvent, legal expenses knocking him down. Richard marries Ada. Esther comes to know that Lady Dedlock was her mother. Dedlock leaves home, in ignominy and remorse and dies. Her body is found near the place of burial of her first lover Hawdon. Richard dies. Ada gets a child. Esther married Woodcourt. They get two children. Woodcourt find Esther's face beautiful, despite scars.

703.

Believed to be an autobiographical work of Charles Dickens. Protagonist: David, a fatherless boy. Fprotagonist 1: Dora Spenlow. Fprotagonist 2: Agne Wickfield, childhood friend of David. Clara: David's mother. Antagonist: Murdstone, step father of David. Benevolent Fcharacters: Betsey trotwood, aunt. Benevolent Mcharacters: Mr. Micawber, who takes David as border when he was working in bottle factory. Action: David resists illtreatment by Murdstone. Mother dies. Murdstone takes him out from the school and sends to work in a bottle factory. Mr. Micawber treats him with some gentleness. David goes to his aunt, when Micawber was sent to a debtor's prison. With her financial help, he becomes a lawyer. Marries Dora. Dora fails in running home, owing to her frailness. Micawber returns and saves the 2nd Fprotagonist Agne Wickfield from the clutches of a blackmailer. Dora dies. David proceeds to Switzerland. His writing career picks up. Meets his stepfather Murdstone and faces him courageously. Vows to publish the cruel tale of his step father. Returns to England. Marries Agnes. Happy end.

704.

Plot: A love triangle. Mprotagonist: Pip, an orphan, living with his abusive sister. Fprotagonist1: Estella, adopted daughter of Ms. Havisham, a crippled elderly woman. Fprotagonist2: Biddy, friend at night school. Benevolent character: Miss. Havisham, living still in wedding gown. Action: Pip's uncle sends him to Ms. Havisham's house to play with Estella. Estella and Miss Havisham treat Pip shabbily, but Pip endures it. Pip wins a kiss from Estella, when he beats a toady relative of hers. After long gap, Ms. Havisham pays for a blacksmithy apprenticeship of Pip with Joe. Pip's sister becomes near-mad. Biddy helps him. Pip loves her. Turning Point: A London Lawyer brings a news that Ms. Havisham sends him a windfall, in return for his marrying Estella. Pip gets new suits. Learns money changes lives. Pip calls Biddy jealous. Pip leaves for London to become a gentleman. Happy end.

705.

Theme: Evils of industrialisation. Fprotagonist: Louisia. No Mprotagonist. Tom: Brother of Louisia. Antagonist: James Harthouse, a young sophisticate from London. Action: Louisia's father suffers from obsolete ideas. Marries her off to a 30 years elder banker and industrialist Josiah Bounderby. Tom works in Bounderby's bank. Harthouse tries to seduce Louisia. Louisia escapes and returns to her father. Tom robs his brother-in-law's bank, but the brother-in-law suspects a factory hand. The brother-in-law falls in a coal shaft and dies. Tom escapes to England. Tom dies, a changed man. Louisia does not remarry. Philosophy under test: Self-interest and rationalism.

706.

Theme: Lover saving the life of his beloved and her husband, by himself going to the guillotine. 1. Sacrifice 2. Love triangle. Protagonist1: Sydney Carton. P2: Charles Darney. Heroine: Lucie Manette, a 17 year-old girl. Period: French Revolution. The P2 faces charges as a spy for the France and US and is under trial. P1, Sydney Carton is an attorney assisting Mr. Stryver who is defending the P2. Carton has a resemblance of P2 Darney. In the court room scene, he dresses himself as Darney and convinces the court about double identification of Darney. Saves the life of Darney for the first time. Later, Lucie reciprocates Darney's love and marrries him. Carton loves Lucie but does not propose to her, because he considers himself 'unlovable' in view of his drunken and apathetic ways (Unrequieted love). Darney falls into the custody of French revolutionaries and faces trial. Carton goes to guillotine to save Darney and Lucie. Saves Darney's life for the second time.

707.

Unfinished novel. Love Triangle. MProtagonist: Edwin Drood. FProtagonist: Miss Rosa Budd. Antagonist1: Neville. Antagonist2: John Japser, uncle of Drood. Action: Drood and Neville fight for Rosa. Drood and Rosa run off. Neville and Jasper follow them. Drood and Rosa feel unhappy, though they are getting ready to marry. Some drinks served by Jasper. Drood disappears in the stormy nights. Dick Datchery, commences a private investigation.

708.

Theme: Death of an innocent girl, chased by pursuers. Protagonist1: Little Nell, a beautiful, virtuous and young girl. P2: Kit, a young lad, whom Nell teaches reading and writing.Antagonist1: Quilp, a dwarf, and wicked money lender. Antagonist2: Frederick, an idler brother of Nell. Antagonist3: Richard Swiveller, an accomplice of Frederick. Flawed, benevolent character: Nell's grandfather. ACTION: The grandfather gambles away whatever little he has. Nell + grandfather move into midlands of Britain, to live as beggars. Frederick believes that Nell inherits a fortune. Frederick and Swiveller enter into a conspiracy that after tracing out Nell, Swiveller can marry Nell and her inheritance can be shared by Frederick and Swiveller. With the help of Quilp they shadow Nell and her grandfather. Quilp frames Kit as a theif. Kit receives a sentence of transportation. Swiveller rescues Kit. Kit too joins the search for Nell. Under chase Nell and her g/f suffer hardships, but finally reach a safe place. In the process, Nell's health suffers irretrievably. Nell dies.

709.

Child protagonist-the title character, an orphan. Suffers the pangs of child labor of hunger. Antagonist1: Fagin, leader of a criminal gang. Antagonist2: Beadle of an orphanage-cum-workhouse. Antagonist3: Noah, fellow apprentice of the protagonist. Antagonist4: Monks, a half-brother of the protagonist. Benefactors: Brownlow. ACTION: In the orphanage, the protagonist asks for another portion of gruel. The Orphanage Managers sell him to an undertaker, who uses him as a mute (mourner). The protagonist suffers hunger in the hands of the undertaker's wife. Suffers in the hands of fellow apprentice, who insults his late mother. The protagonist repels the apprentice forcefully. The undertaker, his wife, the apprentice and beadle (a minor parish official, in charge of the orphanage) beat the protagonist. The protagonist runs away, reaches LOndon and falls into the hands of a pick pocketing gang. While others were on the job, the protagonist was caught by police and tried. In the absence of evidence, the judge had to acquit him. Now, the protagonist falls into the hands of a benevolent character Mr. Brownlow. The criminal gang kidnaps him again and inducts him into burglaries. While on the job of a burglary, the protagonist was shot inside a house by the occupants. But they (Rose Maylie) pity the boy, and nurse him.
The protagonist inherits a small fortune. Shares it with Monks, at the instance of Brownlow. Police arrest the antagonist (Fagis) and send him to gallows. Rose Maylie turns out to be the maternal aunt of the protagonist. The protagonist lives with his savior i.e. Mr. Brownlow. Happy end.

710.

The third novel of Charles Dickens. Huge number of characters. Protagonist: a youngman to support his mother and sister after the death of his father. Heroine: Madeline Bray, a beautiful girl. Antagonist1: Ralph, malevolent uncle. A2: Wackford Squeers. A3: Sir Mulberry Hawks. Kate: Protagonist's sister. Smike: S/o Ralph, Antagonist1.
ACTION: The Protagonist works as teacher in Dotheyboyshall, Yorkshire. Kate works as a seamstress. Squeers, the school headmaster beats children mercylessly. One day, he beats Smike, a boy. The Protagonist beats his Headmaster and flees along with Smike. Both join a Theater Company as actors. Antagonist1 (Ralph -Uncle) tries to use Kate as a plaything to his business associates. Kate does not cooperate. A1 and A2 accuse the protagonist of theft. The protagonist comes out safely from the charge. The protagonist leaves the theatrical job. At London, he finds A1 and his men insulting his sister Kate. He fights them and stops it. The protagonist lands in a good job with Cheerybles. He rescues the heroine Madeline from a forced marriage and keeps her in the custody of his mother and sister (Kate). A1 kidnaps the boy Smike. The protagonist gets him back. But the boy dies of TB. CLIMAX REVELATION:A1 comes to know that the dead Smike was his son. A1 commits suicide. Happy End: The protagonist marries the heroine Madeline. His sister Kate marries a neview of Cheeryble. Murder of A2 and A3. Closure of the Dotheyboys Hall.

#72 , SHAKESPEARE'S PLOTS AND THEMES, QUESTIONS 711 TO 720

Shakespeare wrote 38 plays.

Here is the list of the 38 plays written by Shakespeare.

The ten questions 711 to 720 list out brief ideas about the plots and themes in ten of his dramas. Just identify the drama in which the plot/theme in the given question was used.

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LIST OF SHAKESPEARE'S 38 PLAYS
1. All's Well That Ends Well
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Anthony and Cleopatra
4. As You Like It;
5. Coriolanus
6. Cymbeline
7. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
8. Julius Caesar
9. King Henry IV, part I
10. King Henry IV, part II
11. King Henry V
12. King Henry VI, part I
13. King Henry VI, part II
14. King Henry VI, part III
15. King Henry VIII
16. King John
17. King Lear
18. King Richard II
19. King Richard III
20. Love's Labours Lost
21. Macbeth
22. Measure for Measure
23. Much Ado About Nothing
24. Othello, Moor of Venice
25. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
26. Richard III
27. Romeo and Juliet
28. Taming of the Shrew
29. The Comedy of Errors
30. The Merchant of Venice
31. The Merry Wives of Windsor
32. The Tempest
33. Timon of Athens
34. Titus Andronicus
35. Troilus and Cressida
36. Twelfth Night (What you will)
37. Two Gentlemen of Verona
38. Winter's Tale

711.

Brothers loving sisters. Protagonist disguising as man. Antagonists repenting. Brothers marrying the sisters at the happy end.

712.

Protagonist's impoverishment by generosity. Ingratitude of courtiers and friends. Retiring to forests, unable to pay debts. Sending a small army to punish wrong doers, paying from gold mine found in the forest. Protagonist living a naked life. Faithful servant visiting master. Wrong doers approaching the protagonist for rescue. Protagonist refusing and cursing.

713.

Protagonist, brave. But suffers from jealousy. Elopes with his beloved and marries her. Later suspects his faithful wife, at the instance of the wicked antagonist. Murders his beloved. Commits suicide.

714.

Protagonist, a Prince. Hurt by the amorous behavior of his mother, who gets her husband killed by his brother (antagonist); mother living with his uncle. Protagonist urged by the ghost of his father to take revenge. The protagonist delays decesion, pretending to be a mad person. His beloved becomes insane and dies. Mother and friend die. In the end, he kills the antagonist. The protagonist also dies, hurt in the fencing match.

715.

Protagonist and his associate, both Lords. They love two cousins. Interruption of the marriages by the plans of the antagonist. The protagonist doubting the integrity of his beloved. Feigned death of the female protagonist just before marriage. A police constable smelling the rat, catching the antagonist and exposing the villainy. Clearance of misunderstandings. Happy marriages.

716.

Banishment of a rightful, studious Duke together with his little daughter to the mercies of Sea, by his cruel brother (Antagonist). The little daughter grows up into the female protagonist. The Duke with magic spells takes control of a fairy spirit and a deformed monster. The young protagonist's father was the King. Gales sweeping the antagonist, the King, his son the protagonist all to the same island in which the banished Duke was living. The protagonist and his beloved coming together. The Duke using the fairy spirits to teach a lesson to his wrong doers. Forgiving them afteer their repentance. Happy marriage and back to the Dukedom.

717.

Lendor asking for his pound of flesh. The female protagonist saving the protagonist (her lover) from the wicked plot of the lendor, turning the tables against him in the Court room scenes. Happy end.

718.

Two daughters of a king treacherous. One daughter modest and unpretentious. Daughters mislead the king to believe their love as genuine. King banishing his third daughter. The King of France marrying the banished daughter. Betrayal of the father's trust by the two daughter. The third daughter coming to the rescue of the king. Happy end.

719.

Protagonist a king leaves his country appointing a regent, to save himself from antagonist. Swept by Sea waves to a new country, marries the Princess of that country. Sailing to his own country with his wife, hearing that his enemies were dead. Wife giving birth to a daughter. Believing his wife to be dead, dropping her body into the Sea locked in a box. Sea taking the box to a new country. Rescuing of the queen by the Governor of that country, opening the box. Wife becoming a Priestess of Goddess Diana. Distressed protagonist against venturing into the Sea leaving the custody of his daughter to a Governor. Governor's wicked wife selling the daughter as slave. The protagonist getting deeply distressed, not finding his daughter, and again venturing into the Sea, in a depressed State. The grown up daughter revives him by her dirges. The protagonist meeting his wife also at the end.

720.

A Duke in love with a Countess, who does not reciprocate. Sends his courtier as an emissary to the Countess, to win her hand. The Countess falls in love with the emissary. The emissary turns out to be a lady in a man's dress. The emissary's brother also looks exactly like her. Some confusion about "who is who". End: The Countess marries the emissary's brother. The emissary marries her master, the Duke. Happy end.

#73 , VOCABULARY TEST QUESTIONS 721 TO 730

Multiple Choice Questions in Diction
721 to 730
using three letter VERBS starting with "V"

vac to clean with a vacuum cleaner,
van to go or send in a van,
vat to put or treat in a vat,
veg to laze about, engage in mindless activity,
vet to examine closely,
vex to distress. annoy,
vie to contend in rivalry,
vor to warn,
vow to make vow, promise solemnly,
vum to vow, express surprise by vowing.

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721.

"Here on my knee I ___ to God above". [William Shakespeare in his play 'King Henry VI'].

722.

I clean the kitchen, ___ the house, and wash clothes on Sundays.

723.

"Look for the order forms, which are ______ or mailed to all of the public libraries in early January." [A US Government announcement]

724.

"Chivas 18 is triple blended means" that selected malt whiskies are ______ together and selected grain whiskies are ______ together." [A Government of Vermont, Department of Liquor Control description].

725.

It is not uncommon __________ after a long day at the office or after chasing the toddlers around a playground a few hours. [A Georgia State Government Community Health Note).

726.

"Twelve finalists ______ for 'Teacher of the Year' award." [A Pennsylvania State Government Announcement].

727.

"Private prosecutions often originate from private quarrels; are intended ______ and harass an opponent." [A New Hampshire State Government observation.

728.

Stakeholder groups _______and refine each proposed change.

729.

"I heve them right with me, I ___ and I vow,
And if you don't object I shall deliver them now." [Irving Bacheller (1859) in his 'Eben Holden'.]

730. Usage example is not available for the verb '___', meaning to warn.

#74 , VOCABULARY TEST QUESTIONS 731 TO 740

Multiple Choice Questions in Diction
731 to 740
using three letter words starting with "Y"

yak (To talk profusely),
yap (To bark sharply, shrillly),
yaw (To deviate, deflect),
yen (To yearn),
yex (To hiccup, belch),
yip (To give a short, sudden cry, in high pitch)
yok (To laugh boisterously),
yow (To howl),
yuk (To joke/laugh exuberantly).

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731.

The shrill "___! Yip!" of the range rose above the thunder of hoofs as twenty ponies jumped to a run. [H.H. Knibbs in his 'Jim Waring of Sonora Town'>

732.

The film director ______ about his forthcoming films for three hours.

733.

Nowadays, students ___ ceaselessly in class rooms.

734.

It is common in Indian villages, to hear street dogs _______.

(Classic Writers who used this word: George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle et al).

735.

Just in time I blow my horn, and your boat she ___ a little. Then I see you come all down. Eh, wha-at? [Rudyard Kipling (1836) in his 'Captains-Courageous'].

736.

The dogs which ___ may not bite.

737.

She ______ to become a doctor, she became an actor.

738.

The child ______ when it saw a giraffe.

739.

People ___ when they consume pungent food.

740.

People may ___ when they see a cobra in the bed room.

#75 , VOCABULARY TEST QUESTIONS 741 TO 750

Vocabulary Test No. #75 (Questions 741 to 750).

Here is a set of ten four letter verbs starting with "Wa". Fill these verbs in the blanks, as used in the quotes of the Classic Writers.

Pl. write the answers on a piece of paper and compare with the standard answers provided at Click (mcquestansyb.blogspot.com/search/label/#2375)

FOUR LETTER WORDS - verbs STARTING WITH 'WA'
You have to just fill in only two letters.

wade; waft; wage; wail; wake;
wane; ward; ware; warp; wave.

741.

Those breezes ____ the orphan's cries,
They tremble to parental sighs,
And drink a tear for keener anguish shed,
The tear of faithful love when hope is fled
(Helen Maria Williams in her 'An Ode on the Peace')

742.

Thou little think'st and less dost know
The cause of this thy mother's moan;
Thou want'st the wit to ____ her woe,
And I myself am all alone:
Why dost thou weep? why dost thou wail?
And know'st not yet what thou dost ail.
(Burton Egbert Stevenson in his poem 'Cradle Song')

743.

The joy that custom stains not
Shall still with him remain,
The loveliness that wanes not,
The Love that ne'er can ____.
(B.E. Stevenson in his poem 'Lost Love').

744.

"What a river!" I said to my companion, thinking of all the way we had traveled from the source in the Black Forest, and how he had often been obliged to ____ and push in the upper shallows at the beginning of June. (Algernon Blackwood in his 'The Willows').

745.

"You are tired, and yon white bed, with the high mudguards on it, looks mighty good to you; but you feel that you must go on deck to ____ a fond farewell to the land you love and the friends you are leaving behind." (Irvin S. Cobb [1876] in his book 'Europe Revised').

746.

He never had a tinge of pessimism in his make-up, his beliefs never tended to ____ his nature, he accepted his fatalism gladly because he saw in it supreme truth.
[Archibald Henderson (1837) in his book 'Mark Twain'].

747.

Give over, we have laughed enough;
Oh dearest and most foolish friend,
Why do you ____ a war with love
To lose your battle in the end?
[Sara Teasdale (1884) in her 'Rivers to the Sea - Spring'].

748.

A freshe chaplet on his haires bright;
And cloakes white of fine velvet they ____.
[Geoffrey Chaucer (1343) in The Canterbury Tales 'Flower and the Leaf']

749.

Thy heart - thy heart! - I ____ and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day Of truth
that gold can never buy
[Edgar Allen Poe (1809) in his 'Poems']

750.

I have actually heard this barbarous aversion to innovation carried still further, and a sensible woman stigmatized as an unnatural mother, who has thus been wisely solicitous to preserve the health of her children, when in the midst of her care she has lost one by some of the casualties of infancy which no prudence can ____ off. [Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin-1759) in her 'Vindication of the Rights of Women'].

#76 , VOCABULARY TEST "FIVE LETTER WORDS STARTING WITH 'ST'" QUESTIONS 751 TO 760

The FIVE LETTER WORDS STARTING WITH 'ST' Here is a Multiple Choice Questions Test on their usage. Given below is a list of the words. Pl. try to fill the blanks in the quotes of the Classic Writers. Simultaneously, assess whether you will use the same word or some other word, if you were to write the Classic.

Answers can be seen at: Click.

FIVE LETTER WORDS STARTING WITH 'ST'

stein, stram, stalk, stall, stool, stove, straw, stoat, stout, strew, stash, stint, stiff, stuff, staff, stile, style, stele, stoop, stamp, stomp, stick, stark, stork, stoke, still, stole, stale, stand, strum, storm, steel, steal, steam, stray, staid, steer, steak, stake, sting, state, stave .

751.

Experience whispered to him that the finger of trouble would be busy among the chattering ______ at Dutch Mike's that night. (O Henry in his book "Strictly Business").

752. "Landlord," said I, "tell him to _____ his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed
with me. It's dangerous. Besides, I ain't insured."(Herman Melville, in his "Moby Dick")

753. "We'll sculpture the marble, we'll measure the lay;
Here Vanity ______ on her idiot lyre;
There keen Indignation shall dart on his prey,
Which spurning Contempt shall redeem from his ire." (Robert Burn in his 'A Vision').

754. "They were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were _____ men who were beginning to put youth behind them." (Somerset Maugham in his 'Of Human Bondage'.)

755. "The rabbit's natural enemy in England is the poacher, in Bluff its natural enemy is the _____, the weasel, the ferret, the cat, and the mongoose." (Mark Twain in his 'Following the Equator').

756. "The gale that now hammers at us to _____ us, we can turn it into a fair wind that will drive us towards home." (Herman Melville in his 'Moby Dick')

757. "Because you have shown yourself both brave and wise, with this gold I give you the title of Councillor and King's Companion, and the right
to inscribe the same upon your funeral _____. Let it be noted. Retire, Scribe Ana, Councillor and King's Companion!" (H Rider Haggard in his 'Moon of Israel').

758. "But their silence did not seem awkward. They found it was pleasant to walk side by side and felt no need of words. Suddenly at a _____ in the hedgerow they heard a low murmur of voices, and in the darkness they saw
the outline of two people." (Somerset Maugham in 'Of Human Bondage').

759. "Where is the land with milk and honey flowing,
The promise of our God, our fancy's theme?
Here over shattered walls dank weeds are growing,
And blood and fire have run in mingled stream;
Like oaks and cedars all around
The giant corses _____ the ground."
(Rev. John Keble in his 'First Sunday after Trinity').

760. "Since his death, I have been obliged to _____ to
dissimulation to avoid oppression. In an hour of levity, I was ready to give up my fortune to secure my choice." (Oliver Goldsmith in his play 'She stoops to Conquer').