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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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University wits a brief introduction

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University Wits The term University wits refers to a group of late 16 th century English writers who were educated at the universities i.e. the Oxford or the Cambridge University. They were popular secular writers of that time. The most prominent members of this group were: Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge) Robert Greene (Cambridge) Thomas Nashe (Cambridge) John Lyly (Oxford) Thomas Lodge (Oxford) George Peele (Oxford) Thomas Kyd Coinage of Terms The term University Wits was not used in their life time. It was later coined by George Saintsbury who was a 19 th century journalist and author. He writes, “The rising sap of dramatic creativity in the 1580’s showed itself in two separate branches of the national tree.” In the first place, we have group of University Wits. They had university education and were men of letters. In the second, we have the players (by players here we mean actors) and other people who felt themselves forced into literacy and pr...
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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...
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The Blanket by Floyd Dell

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The Blanket MCQs 1. Peter’s father was sending granddad _________. (a) to an old home (b) to another city (c) to hospital (d) away 2. A _______ and _______ blanket was lying on the table. (a) red and white (b) red and black (c) red and white (d) black and green 3. He did not feel the cool __________ breeze blow into the kitchen. (a) November(b) September (c) March (d) April 4. Peter was _______years old. (a) eleven (b) twelve (c) thirteen (d) nine 5. Dad was marrying a girl a lot ________ than him. (a) prettier (b) younger (c) older (d) cuter 6. Peter sat and looked out over the __________. (a) valley (b) moon (c) yard (d) lawn 7. The girl walked up to the granddad and said ___________. (a) harshly (b) sweetly (c) prettily (d) charmingly 8. The granddad was praising the blanket in order to ___________. (a) please dad (b) please peter (c) divert attention (d) look grateful 9. Peter had not really _________ dad would send granddad to an old home. (...
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It's Country for me by Patricia Demuth

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It’s country for me    By Patricia Demuth 1. Joel is the youngest among Ed and Betty Holland’s ___________children. (a)  Eight (b) Five (c) six (d) Four 2. What is the name of Joel’s sister? ____________ (a) Stacey (b) Marty (c) Martha (d) Kathy 3. This year Kevin, twenty-two, will graduate from college in ____________. (a) Illinois (b) Chicago (c) New York (d) California 4. Joel’s sister is a ___________ nun. (a) Protestant (b) Catholic (c) Roman Catholic (d) Conservative 5. According to _________ farming is a good independent life. (a) Kevin (b) Kathy (c) Bill (d) Terry 6. F.D.R. stands for ___________. (a) Franklin Delano Robert (b) Frank D Roosevelt (c) Freddy De Roosevelt (d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 7. The only time Joel minds doing farm work is during ______________. (a) Early Spring (b) Winter (c) Rainy season (d) Summer 8. If Joel had to live in the city for a year, he would mostly miss, _______________. (a)The Farm (b)...
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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 ...
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To Be or Not to Be

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Hamlet’s 4 th soliloquy To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of   takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sw...
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Hamlet’s 4 th soliloquy To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of   takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sw...
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