Like apples of gold in settings of silver Is a word spoken in right circumstances -- Proverbs 25/11
This Multiple Choice Question Quiz contains 10 questions relating to English Literature and VOCABULARY. Pl. try to answer them by noting answers on a piece of paper. Then compare your answers to standard answers and explanations by clicking the following link.
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Here is a list of ten words which are near synonyms dealing with 'affection and love'. The sentences below are quotes of great writers. Select the word originally used by the writer and fill in the blanks. If you have time, ponder over whether you will use the same word in a similar setting, when you are engaged in your own creative writing.
WORDS LIST
1. Affection 2. Love 3. Fondness 4. Affinity 5. Adoration 6. Passion 7. Attraction 8. Warmth 9. Fervor 10. Yearning.
801.
'What black melancholy is tormenting you? Either you are wasting with _______, or some star is casting an evil spell over you. Saturn's star has often been baleful to shepherds, and his slant leaden shaft has pierced your inmost breast.' (John Milton: Damon's Epitaph)
802.
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the ______ of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me. (Isaiah: 63/15)
803.
This queen will live: nature awakes; a ______
Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced
Above five hours: see how she grins to blow
Into life's flower again! (Shakespeare: Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
804.
Now Conscience chills her, and now _____ burns;
And Atheism and Religion take their turns;
A very heathen in the carnal part,
Yet still a sad, good Christian at her heart. (Alexander Pope: Essay on Man)
805.
Indeed, his passionate _______
of the Emperor was even stronger: he wished to sacrifice something--everything, even himself--to prove his complete devotion. (Leo Tolstoy: Father Sergius.)
806.
All observers were struck by the intense _______ of the frontiersmen for the woods and for a restless, lonely life. (Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the West).
807.
The sun's a thief, and with his great ______ robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun. (Shakespeare: Timon of Athens)
808.
"... Who shall say there is not _______ enough between (at least the bundle of sticks that produced) many of these pieces, or granulations, and those blue berries?" (Walt Whitman: Complete Works of Prose, Volume 5)
809.
"... he had drawn forth
A passionate light such for his spirit was fit--
And yet that spirit knew--not in the hour
Of its own _______ --what had o'er it power." (Edgar Allan Poe: In Youth I have known one)
810.
"... Whatever earthly _______ he abandoned or grasped, the great Admiral was always, before all, beyond all, a lover of Fame. He loved her jealously, with an inextinguishable ardour and an insatiable desire--he loved her with a masterful devotion and an infinite trustfulness. ..." (Joseph Conrad: The Mirror of the Sea. [The Great Admiral here referred-to was: Lord Nelson])
