Eveline By James Joyce

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                                                                                            Eveline By James Joyce     James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Known for his innovative narrative techniques and complex use of language, Joyce’s works, such as “Dubliners,” “A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man,” “Ulysses,” and “Finnegans Wake,” revolutionized modernist literature. His writing often explores themes of identity, consciousness, and the struggles of ordinary life in early 20th-century Dublin. Joyce’s work has had a profound impact on both literary theory and the development of the modern novel. “Eveline” is a part of his collection “Dubliners” (1914). The story centers around a young woman named Eveline who is torn between her sense of duty to her family in Dublin and her desire for a new life with her lover, Frank, in Argentina. As she contemplates leavi
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Tears of Nature and September, the First Day of School (Objective Type)

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September, the First Day of School and Tear of Nature (Objective Type)


1. Each fall the children must _______together.
(a) Play (b) Endure (c) Suffer (d) Tolerate
2. Even our tears belong to ___________.
(a) Ritual (b) Ceremony (c) Sacramental (d) Occasion
3. Integers mean ___________.
(a) Numbers (b) Alphabets (c) Roles (d) Facts
4. The _______ bowed down and then the stars bowed down before the dreaming of a little boy.
(a) Bundles (b) Sheaf (c) Sheaves (d) Corns
5. Howard Nemerov was born in New York City in ______.
(a) 1930 (b) 1920 (c) 1922 (d) 1910
6. Howard Nemerov won the _________ in 1977.
(a) Noble Prize (b) Booker Prize (c) Hugo award (d) Pulitzer Prize
7. Headlines: One more species set to die
     Keep it quiet……use _________,
 (a) Diplomacy (b) Autocracy (c) Bureaucracy (d) Plutocracy
8. How can _________ start with me?
(a) Demolition (b) Preservation (c) Conservation (d) Protection
9. You’d think that we’d ___________ as time goes speeding by.
(a) Act (b) Protest (c) Learn (d) Study
10. They tell us there’s a big _________ in the sky,
(a) Orbit (b) Hole (c) Space (d) Shack
11. The poem ‘Tears of Nature’ is written by ___________.
(a) Wordsworth (b) Graeme King (c) John Keats (d) Shelley
12. ‘Tears of Nature’ is written by an ___________ poet.
(a) British (b) Dutch (c) Irish (d) Australian






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