A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-American writer and Nobel Prize-winning author known for his Yiddish-language stories that explore Jewish life, folklore, and themes of spirituality, identity, and morality. His works often delve into the complexities of human nature, blending realism with mysticism. In his story, “A Wedding in Brownsville,” Singer tells the tale of a man named Dr. Margolin, who returns to Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood for a wedding after many years. As he reconnects with familiar faces, he is haunted by memories of his past, including lost love and the horrors of the Holocaust. The story explores themes of memory, guilt, and the enduring impact of trauma on personal identity and relationships. Q: Who were the Senciminers? Ans. Sencimineers were Jewish villagers from the town of Sencimin, where Dr. Margolin once lived. They are now dispersed due to the devastation of WW II, and some of them attend th...
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The Way it Was and Is by Bill Cosby

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The Way It Was and Is MCQs

1. I wanted to get out of the house without having my father to use his _________ to damage my brain.
(a) radio (b) music (c) Philco (d) songs
2. My mission was to ___________ past that living room before he caught me.
(a) sneak (b) go (c) reach (d) move
3. For a while, I considered putting a ________ against my window.
(a) bar (b) curtain (c) ladder (d) wall
4. The greatest _________ of top volume was that I couldn’t hear the grownups.
(a) setback (b) advantage (c) disadvantage (d) benefit
5. Duke Ellington, Count Basle and Jimmie Lunceford was favourite musicians of ___________.
(a) Cosby (b) Cosby’s father (c) Cosby’s daughter (d) None of these
6. I couldn’t ___________ a music appreciation lesson on my father’s old timey music.
(a) afford (b) bear (c) accept (d) stand
7. What is the full name of Bill Cosby. _____________________________________
8. I couldn’t hear him, but I didn’t have to, for he was ____________ an ancient message.
(a) conveying (b) sending (c) forwarding (d) transferring
9. Music has changed so ___________ since the days when I first heard the wonders of John Coltrane and Bud Powell.
(a) drastically (b) radically (c) completely (d) entirely
10. Armageddon is the name of _______________.
(a) judgement day (b) a city (c) a song (d) a music group
11. This teenager will merely see the ___________ and will probably think that they are a part of a publicity campaign.
(a) explosions (b) posters (c) advertisements (d) commercials
12. No matter how he talks, a father cannot sound __________ to his children.
(a) trendy (b) hip (c) hipper (d) stylish
13. He can give high fives until his palms ________.
(a) ache (b) pain (c) break (d) bleed
14. A father will still be a man who lost all his hipness at the age of ____________.
(a) 23 (b) 24 (c) 26 (d) 22
15. The volume of that noise is my own __________.
(a) choice (b) mistake (c) error (d) fault
16. No one made me buy that ______ stereo system for my decibel-hungry darling.
(a) loud (b) noisy (c) complex (d) composite
17. I even failed to notice the ______ in my daughter’s eyes.
(a) gleam (b) beam (c) shine (d) tears of happiness
18. I had been busy falling into the great American ______.
(a) dream (b) snare (c) trap (d) catch
19. I must confess, however, that all this permissiveness was not entirely_________.
(a) selfless (b) altruistic (c) unselfish (d) without personal gain
20. Surrealistic means ___________.
(a) inappropriate (b) appropriate (c) suitable (d) right
21. Pride and Prejudice is the name of a __________.
(a) Instruction book (b) novel (c) drama (d) poem
22. She put on a record that sounded like a train __________.
(a) Whistle (b) blowing (c) derailment (d) engine
23. I wanted to _________ to her generation, to understand that there might be more to music.
(a) help out (b) extend out (c) stretch out (d) reach out
24. I believed I heard one of them say that I was the _________ father since Abraham.
(a) greatest (b) sweetest (c) hardest (d) toughest
25. Moments later, things began to move that ordinarily had no ___________.
(a) movement (b) legs (c) motion (d) locomotion
26. While the glasses, plates and utensils danced, my wife listened ______to a deep rhythmic thumping.
(a) intently (b) closely (c) carefully (d) cautiously
27. Permissiveness means __________.
(a) cruelty (b) unkindness (c) leniency (d) mercy
28. You can see that I married above my ________.
(a) status (b) intelligence (c) intelligence quotient (d) level



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