I PUC ENGLISH MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQs)
MONEY MADNESS
D. H. Lawrence
I. Answer the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each as required:
1. In the poem “Money Madness”, what does the individual carry around with him?
a) his own grain of insanity b) others insanity
c) his own mentality
Ans: a) his own grain of insanity
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2. How does a man often feel when he hands out a one pound note?
a) a bang b) a pang c) a dang
Ans: b) a pang
3. What does a person experience if he hands out a ten pound note?
a) feel very happy b) feel a real tremor
c) feel more joyful
Ans: b) feel a real tremor
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4. We grovel before _______________ in strange terror.
a) love b) job c) money
Ans: c) money
5. We _________ before money in strange terror.
a) quail b) dance c) laugh
Ans: a) quail
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6. What is it that makes us quail as revealed in the poem “Money Madness”?
a) love b) job c) money
Ans: c) money
7. What are we really so terrified of?
a) Collective money-madness of mankind b) Collective experience
c) Collective energy of everyone
Ans: a) Collective money-madness of mankind
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8. Who asks with one voice ‘how much is he worth?’ in the poem “Money Madness”?
a) Alien b) Mankind c) Animals
Ans: b) Mankind
9. What would happen to an individual if he has no money?
a) disdain b) regard c) stare
Ans: a) disdain
10. The poet says that if he has no money they would give him ______so that he doesn’t die.
a) a little honey b) a little bread c) a little cream
Ans: b) a little bread
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11. What is the poet frightened of being forced to do if he has no money?
a) to eat bread b) to eat rice c) to eat dirt
Ans: c) to eat dirt
12. The fear of having no money and being forced to eat dirt can become a ______
a) delirium b) clear c) obvious
Ans: a) delirium
13. In the poem ‘Money Madness’, What can become a delirium?
a) fear to eat bread b) fear to eat rice
c) fear to eat dirt
Ans: c) fear to eat dirt
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14. The poet says that we must have some money to______
a) eat dirt. b) avoid eating dirt c) none of these
Ans: b) avoid eating dirt
15. In the poem ‘Money Madness’ what should be free for everyone?
a) food, shelter, fire b) school, college, education
c) BMW, Audi, Rolex
Ans: a) food, shelter, fire
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16. What would happen if we do not regain our sanity about money?
a) kill ourselves b) kill each other
c) kill no one
Ans: b) kill each other
17. When the poet says “It’s one thing or the other”, he means______
a) regaining sanity b)killing one another
c) regaining sanity or killing one another
Ans: a) regaining sanity
18. The fear that the poet speaks of, in the poem “Money Madness” is ____
a) Money has a cruel fearful power among men.
b) The collective money madness of mankind.
c) Having to eat dirt if he has no money.
d) All the above.
Ans: d) All the above
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19. Who is poet of the poem “Money Madness”?
a) William Blake b) D H Lawrence c) Ruskin Bond
Ans: b) D H lawarence
20. Money is our madness, our………………………
a) vast collective madness b) vast collective stupidity
c) vast collective achievement d) vast collective celebration
Ans: a) vast collective madness
21. The individual carries his own grain of…………………around with him.
a) sanity b) insanity c) sensitivity d) insensitivity
Ans: b) insanity
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22. D H Lawrence doubts if any man living hands out…………without a Pang.
a) a dollar b) a ten-pound note c) a pound note d) a ten dollar
Ans: c) a pound note
23. D H Lawrence doubts feels there is going to be a real tremor, if a person hands out a………………………
a) a dollar b) a ten-pound note c) a pound note d) a ten dollar
Ans: b) a ten-pound note
24. Money makes us………………………
a) frail b) trail c) wail d) quail
Ans: d) quail
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25. If a person has no money, they will give him………………so he does not die.
a) a little food b) a little bread c) little money d) little sympathy
Ans: b) a little bread
26. If a person has no money, they will give him a little bread so he does not die, but they will make him………………………with it.
a) feel embarrassed b) feel good c) drink wine d) eat dirt
Ans: d) eat dirt
27. We must regain our sanity about money before we start…………………one another about it.
a) disliking b) loving c) hating d) killing
Ans: d) killing
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28. In the poem “Money Madness” a person experiences a ______ if he hands out a ten pound note.
a) feel very happy b) feel a real tremor
c) feel more joyful
Ans: b) feel a real tremor
29. What would they give an individual if he has no money?
a) to eat bread b) to eat rice c) to eat dirt
Ans: c) to eat dirt
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30. The individual carries his own grain of…………………around with him.
a) sanity b) insanity c) sensitivity d) insensitivity
Ans: b) insanity
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