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Prose - Sir Isaac Newton – The Ingenious Scientist – Nathaniel Hawthorne TNPSC Group 2 2A Questions
TNPSC Group 2 2A SYLLABUS
General English - Unit VII: Literary Works - Figures of Speech, Appreciation and Analysis of Poetry, Lines of Significance (15 Q)
Poem - I Dream of Spices – Raj Arumugam
Poem - The Crocodile – Lewis Carroll
Poem - Teamwork – Edger Albert Guest
Poem - From a Railway Carriage – Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Poem - A Tragic Story – William Makepeace Thackeray
Poem - Sea Fever – John Masefield
Poem - Courage – Edger Albert Guest
Poem - The Age of Chivalry – George Krokos
Poem - Wandering Singers – Sarojini Naidu
Poem - The Listeners – Walter de la Mare
Poem - Your Space – David Bates
Poem - Special Hero – Christine M. Kerschan
Poem - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
Poem - Leisure – William Henry Davies
Poem - A Poison Tree – William Blake
Poem - The Power of a Smile – Tupac Shakur
Poem - On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel
Poem - Advice from a Tree – Ilan Shamir
Poem - The Spider and The Fly – Mary Howitt
Poem - Never Trust a Mirror – Erin Hanson
Poem - The River – Ilan Shamir
Poem - Nature the Gentlest Mother – Emily Dickinson
Poem - The Comet – Norman Littleford
Poem - The Star – Jane Taylor
Poem - The Stick-Together Families – Edgar Albert Guest
Poem - Memories of My Dad – Rebecca D. Cook
Poem - Life – Henry Van Dyke
Poem - The Grumble Family – L.M. Montgomery
Poem - The Secret of the Machines – Rudyard Kipling
Poem - The House on Elm Street – Naida Bush
Prose - His First Flight – Liam O’Flaherty
Prose - The Night the Ghost Got In – James Grover Thurber
Prose - Empowered Women Navigating the World
Prose - The Attic – Satyajit Ray
Prose - Tech Bloomers
Prose - The Last Lesson – Alphonse Daudet
Prose - The Dying Detective – Arthur Conan Doyle
Prose - Learning The Game – Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Prose - I Can’t Climb Trees Anymore – Ruskin Bond
Prose - Old Man River – Dorothy Deming (Drama)
Prose - Seventeen Oranges – Bill Naughton
Prose - Water – The Elixir of Life – Sir C.V. Raman
Prose - From Zero to Infinity – Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Prose - A Birthday Letter – Jawaharlal Nehru
Prose - The Nose Jewel – C. Rajagopalachari
Prose - Hobby Turns A Successful Career
Prose - Sir Isaac Newton – The Ingenious Scientist – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Prose - My Reminiscence – Rabindranath Tagore
Prose - Sea Turtles – Shekar Dattatri
Prose - When the Trees Walked – Ruskin Bond
Prose - A Visitor from Distant Lands
Prose - Sports Stars – Mithali Dorai Raj
Prose - The Last Stone Carver – Sigrun Srivastav
Prose - Eidgah – Munshi Premchand
Prose - The Wind on Haunted Hill – Ruskin Bond
Prose - A Prayer to the Teacher – Subroto Bagchi
Prose - The Tempest – Tales From Shakespeare
Prose - A Hunter Turned Naturalist – Jim Corbett
Prose - The Cat and the Painkiller – Mark Twain
Prose - Sir Isaac Newton – The Ingenious Scientist – Nathaniel Hawthorne MCQ Questions
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13.
What material were the sails of Isaac's model windmill made of?
A.
Paper
B.
Wood
C.
Linen
D.
Metal
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C. Linen
14.
What did Isaac’s playmates think of his model windmill?
A.
They thought it was the most wonderful thing they had ever seen
B.
They found it boring
C.
They suggested improvements
D.
They ignored it
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A. They thought it was the most wonderful thing they had ever seen
15.
What animal did Isaac appoint as the miller for his windmill?
A.
A bird
B.
A mouse
C.
A squirrel
D.
A rabbit
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B. A mouse
16.
Why was the mouse not considered an honest miller?
A.
It didn’t do any work
B.
It often ran away
C.
It ate some of the grain it was supposed to grind
D.
It broke the mill's machinery
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C. It ate some of the grain it was supposed to grind
17.
What did Isaac become increasingly interested in as he grew older?
A.
Cooking
B.
Mathematics and natural philosophy
C.
Politics
D.
Music
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B. Mathematics and natural philosophy
18.
What did Isaac's mother want him to do when he was 14?
A.
Become a teacher
B.
Help manage the family farm
C.
Work as a clockmaker
D.
Study at a university
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B. Help manage the family farm
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