Online Test: The Only Story
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1. ______ is a novel by Julian Barnes. It is his thirteenth novel, and was published on 1 February 2018.
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2. Which novel by Julian Barnes won Booker Prize in 2011?
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3. Match the beginnings with the novels
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Facts alone are wanted in life.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.
Hard Times
The Only Story
Pride and Prejudice
The Tale of Two Cities
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4. What is the name of Joan's dog?
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5. Among these friends of Paul, who was the closest to him?
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6. "Everyone drove cautiously, except for nineteen-year-old ____ of the Red Bull team. He overtook his way from almost last place to third, making moves his elders and supposed betters declined to dare. But if he was showing youthful fearlessness rather than true courage, did the same age disclaimer apply in reverse: to cowardice?" Identify the person about whom this is said.
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7. Who is the narrator of the novel?
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8. Name daughters of Susan & Gordon Macleod
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9. Identify the character: An old woman around 55. Drinks and smokes. Keeps pet dogs/yappers. Good tennis player in younger days. Lived as 'kept' or 'mistress' of a rich married man.
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10. Identify the character:  I used to go and stay with him and Aunt Florence. After my mother died, so I would have been eleven, twelve. My aunt would put me to bed and tuck me in and kiss me and put out the light. And just as I would be getting off to sleep, there was a sudden weight on the side of the bed and it would be he, stinking of brandy and cigars and saying he wanted a goodnight kiss too. And then one time he said, “Do you know what a ‘party kiss’ is?” and before I could reply he rammed his tongue into my mouth and thrashed it around like a live fish. I wish I’d bitten it off. Every summer he did it, till I was about sixteen. Oh, it wasn’t as bad as for some, I know, but maybe that’s what made me frigid.’
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11. Our narrator, Paul, is an unreliable narrator. Identify the lines which provides textual evidence for the same.
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12. Who said these: "Point One. I’m not a go-between. Whatever you say stays in this room and it doesn’t get leaked back. Point Two. I’m not a shrink, I’m not some kind of advice centre, I don’t even much like listening to other people’s woes. I tend to think they should get on with it, stop moaning, roll up their sleeves and all of that. Point Three. I’m just an old soak whose life hasn’t worked out and who lives alone with her dogs."
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13. Identify the people between whom this conversation is going on: "You invite her for coffee one morning, then start having sandwich lunches in the nearby public gardens. One evening you take her to the cinema and kiss her goodnight. You exchange phone numbers. A few days later, she asks, ‘Who’s that madwoman who lives in your house?’‘I’m sorry?’ Already there is a chill spreading through you.‘I rang you up last night. A woman answered the phone.’‘That would have been my landlady.’‘She sounded as mad as a hatter.’You take a breath. ‘She’s a little eccentric,’ you say. You want this conversation to stop, immediately. ...You wish she had never phoned the number you gave her. .. ‘I asked when you’d be back, and she said, “Oh, he’s very much the dirtystop-out, that young man, you can’t rely on him from one moment to the next.”And then she came over all genteel and said something like, “If you will excuse me while I fetch a pencil, I shall pass on any message you may choose to leave.”Well, I put the phone down before she came back.’ . . . And that, unsurprisingly, is the end of your relationship with her. And you realize that such a pattern is likely to repeat itself with other girls."
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14. Identify the people between whom this conversation is going on: "‘Look,’ I said. ‘We talked about … all this when we first got together.’Somehow, I couldn’t say Susan’s name at that moment.‘You talked. I listened. I didn’t necessarily agree.’‘Then you misled me.’‘No, Paul, you didn’t explain the full extent of it to me. Maybe in future when I get out my diary to write in a dinner date or a play or a weekend away, I should always add a note saying: subject to the extent of Susan Macleod’s alcoholic intake.’‘That’s very unfair.’‘It may be unfair but it also happens to be true.’We paused. It was a question of whether either of us wanted to take it further. She did.‘And while we’re about it, Paul, I may as well say that Susan Macleod … is not really my kind of woman.’‘I see.’ ‘I mean, I shall always try to be kind to her for your sake.’‘Yes, well, that’s very generous of you. And while we’re about it, I may as well say that I once promised her there would always be room in my life for her, even if it was just an attic.’‘Paul, I don’t want an attic in my life.’ And then she said it. ‘Especially not with a madwoman in it.’I let that last remark fill the silence that was growing between us. Eventually, no doubt sounding prim, I said, ‘I’m sorry you think she’s mad.’
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15. Identify the people in this conversation: "‘Do you think Susan would leave Mr Macleod?’‘My, my,’ she said quietly. ‘You are aiming high, young man. . . Talk about one step at a time.’I grinned inanely at what I took to be a compliment.‘So have you asked her?’‘Gosh, no.’                     ‘And, to start at the beginning, what would you do for money?’‘I don’t care about money,’ I replied.‘That’s because you’ve never had to.’                        This was true; but not in the sense that I was rich. My state education had been free, I received a council grant to attend university, I lived at home in the holidays.             But it was also true that I didn’t care about money – indeed, in my world view, to care about money meant deliberately to turn your eyes away from the most important things in life.                                                                ‘If you’re going to be a grown-up,’ said she, ‘you’ve got to start thinking about grown-up things. And number one is money.’
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16. Which of the following metaphors are used to talk about 'Two Ways to Look at Life'?
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17. How does the novel look at 'Marriage Institution'? Which of the following line supports it?
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18. Identify the people in this conversation
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19. Identify the people in this conversation:
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20. Read the image in Q.19. Who is Jack?
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21. Read the last line in the image in Q.19. "The point of the story is 'safe and capable'." - What does it mean?' [You shall read your answer during classroom discussion.] *
The marks for this will be given in the class to those students who will explain their answer. Remind me to add this is G Class.
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22. Identify the people in conversation:
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23. Read this : "One day, you return to find her with cuts and bruises to her face, and her arms held defensively against her.‘I fell over that step in the garden,’ she says, as if it were a known hazard you had previously discussed. ‘ . . .  You realize two things. First, that you lie automatically to protect Susan –even if the truth might have helped her more . . . .  ‘She … does some volunteer work for the Samaritans.’ This isn’t true either." What can be inferred from this?
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24. Read this paragraph and pick the correct option for - 'Who is saying this to whom?' - and - 'What does it signify?'
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25. Julian Barnes makes a very succinct critique of English society (including culture & religion). Which aspect of society is criticized in the paragraph given in Q. 24?
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26. Which of the following postmodernist characteristics are found in 'The Only Story'?
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27. Match the sport/game played by the characters in the novel
If more than one game is played by the character, select multiple options. [Key words: overs of off-spin, goalkeeper - search in eText]
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Paul
Susan
Joan
Gordon
Golf
Tennis
Crossword
Football
Cricket
28. Paul said about 'crosswords' -  "I regarded this traditional British activity with some snootiness." Which of the following lines are used by him to make a critique of this popular time-pass activity?
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29. Which of the following points are important while considering 'The Only Story' as a Memory Novel?
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30. Who is asking this to whom: "Why do you cheat at crosswords?" *
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31. Explain with reference to the context: "Why do you cheat at crosswords?" *
Write who is the speaker and to whom is this question asked. What answer is given by the respondent? Is this reference of 'cheating at crosswords' repeated in the novel? What inferences can be drawn from it? [The marks to this will be given in the class to those students who will explain their answer in class / write proper answer in worksheet. Remind me to add this is G Class, if not added in your total.]
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32. What is the last scene of the novel? How does the novel end?
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