Organizer: SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF BA ENGLISH (SHIFT II ),Guru Nanak College (Autonomous), Re-accredited at ‘A’ Grade by NAAC & Affiliated to the University of Madras, Guru Nanak Salai, Velachery, Chennai 600042
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- Link is active till 31.10.2022
- Free and Open to all
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The participants will gain insights on book reading and will be presented with an e-certificate at the end of the quiz
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Regards
Dr. V. Jagadeeswari
Asst Prof.& Head, Dept. of BA English (Shift II)
Dr. N.C. Rajashree
Vice Principal (Shift II )
Dr.M.G.Ragunathan
Principal, Guru Nanak College (Autonomous) Chennai-42
1. According to Cicero——— is acutest of all senses.
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Eyes
Skin
Tongue
2. The act of reading establishes an intimate physical relationship.
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True
False
3. The e-Tablet which we use has evolved from the ———-
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Medicine
Clay tablet
Tab.
4. ———— assisted the progress of silent reading.
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Punctuations
Monks
Poor Readers.
5. Reading aloud was justified saying that spoken words had
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Wings
Life
Lifeless
6. Saint Isaac and Theologian Isidore patronized
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Silent reading
Reading aloud
Reading
7. The American Psychologists has put forth, that the bicameral brain is a ———— development in the evolution of mankind.
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Early
Medieval
Late
8. The —— became the reader’s own possession for silent readers.
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Mind
Imagination
Text
9. “Books were aids to memory and knowledge but true scholars were to do without them.” Was said by————————–
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Aristotle
Socrates
De Fournival
10. Reading is writing’s ———————-
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Hypothesis
Thesis
Apotheosis
11. Aristotle’s collection of books finally reached Ptolemy II for ————————
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Alexander
Theophrastus
Alexandria
12. Ships arriving at Alexandria were ordered to ————
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Surrender
Read aloud
Exchanged
13. We owe the cataloging device to ————–
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Aristotle
Ptolemy II
Callimachus
14. Callimachus made the library an ——————– place.
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1 point
Referring
Studying
Organised
15. Women and slaves were excluded from reading
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True
False
Not specified.
16. Dictators have known, an —————–crowd is easiest to rule.
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Illiterate
literate
Neutral
17. Books of Homer, Virgil and Livy were burnt by
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Augustus
Caligula
Protagoras
18. —————————-, a slave who later became a well-known missionary preacher in England.
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Samuel Johnson
Thomas Johnson
Dr. Johnson.
19. ————- said “… awakened my curiosity in respect to this mystery of reading, and roused in me the desire to learn.”
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Johnson Douglass
Fredrick Douglass
Mark Douglass.
20. Reader’s extraordinary relief were the ————————
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Books
Library
Spectacles.
21. Invention of the printing press and the relative popularization of books———— the demand for eyeglasses.
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Decreased
Increased
Neutralised
22. Possession of books implies social standing and ————————-
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Affluence
Intellectual richness
Knowledge richness.
23. —————— is the National Book Month celebrated in India.
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1 point
September
October
November
24. A History of Reading is a book written by —————-
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Alberto Manguel
Albert Manguel
Albert Minguel
25. Writing required a reader
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Yes
No
Not Mentioned.