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All Grammar of ABTA  2025 -2026

PROSE

Choose the appropriate answer for each question:

1. How many times does the narrator meet the girl at Deoli station?

(a) Once

(b) Twice

(c) Three times

(d) Multiple times throughout the story

Ans:(b) Twice

2. What does the narrator buy from the girl during his second meeting?

(a) A basket

(b) A fruit

(c) A book

(d) A flower

Correct Q. What does the narrator buy from the girl during his first meeting?

`(a) A basket

3. How long does the train stop at Deoli?

(a) 10 seconds

(b) 10 minutes

(c) 30 minutes

(d) It does not stop regularly

4. What did the girl in The Night Train at Deoli wear in her feet?

(a) Tennis shoes

(b) Slippers

(c) Nothing

(d) Shoes and socks

5. One of the forebears of Kalam’s mother was awarded by the British the title of –

(a) Bahadur

(b) Rai Bahadur

(c) Padmashree

(d) Bharat Ratna

6. Abdul Kalam’s ancestral house was built in –

(a) Late 19th century

(b) Early 20th century

(c) Early 19th century

(d) Mid 19th century

7. The Shiva Temple was about ___ minutes’ walk from Kalam’s house.

(a) Ten

(b) Five

(c) Twenty

(d) Fifteen

8. During the first year of imprisonment the lawyer in The Bet –

(a) Suffered terribly  & (d) Listened to music

(b) Enjoyed happily

(c) Ate heavily

(d) Listened to music

9. The lawyer was a young man about –

(a) Twenty-one

(b) Twenty-five

(c) Twenty-seven

(d) Thirty

10. How many books did the lawyer read in four years?

(a) Three hundred

(b) Four hundred

(c) Five hundred

(d) Six hundred

VERSE

Choose the appropriate answer for each question:

11. What phrase does Ulysses use to describe his people in Ithaca?

(a) “Savage race”

(b) “Noble race”

(c) “Faithful followers”

(d) “Adventurous souls”

12. Who does Ulysses plan to leave the responsibilities of ruling Ithaca to?

(a) His wife, Penelope

(b) His son, Telemachus

(c) His sailors

(d) A council of elders

13. Ulysses’ famous declaration “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” reflects –

(a) His resignation to old age

(b) His determination to live life fully despite challenges

(c) His belief in the power of fate

(d) His desire to return to Ithaca

14. What does Ulysses consider the “noblest toil” in life?

(a) Ruling his people

(b) Facing challenges and seeking adventure

(c) Honouring his family legacy

(d) Living peacefully in old age

15. What does the “Happy Isles” symbolize in the poem?

(a) The afterlife or paradise

(b) Ithaca’s neighbouring islands

(c) A place of rest for sailors

(d) The Greek islands of myth

16. What does the casuarina tree symbolize in the poem?

(a) Strength and permanence

(b) Love and nostalgia

(c) Both A and B

(d) The beauty of nature

17. Which season is vividly described in Our Casuarina Tree?

(a) Summer

(b) Autumn

(c) Winter

(d) Spring

18. What does the casuarina tree remind the poet of?

(a) Her lost siblings and their shared childhood

(b) The hardships of life

(c) The beauty of Indian flora

(d) The cultural importance of nature

19. What does the poet compare the casuarina tree to?

(a) A watchtower

(b) A giant sentinel

(c) A wise old sage

(d) A sheltering roof

20. What does the poet mean by “leafy dome”?

(a) The tree’s ability to protect those beneath it

(b) The tree’s widespread foliage

(c) The tree’s divine or spiritual significance

(d) The tree’s crown of leaves resembling a dome

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DRAMA

Choose the appropriate answer for each question:

21. How many days does it take to walk to Donegal?

(a) Five

(b) Ten

(c) Seven

(d) Six

22. Who does Maurya see riding the grey pony?

(a) Shaemus

(b) Bartley

(c) Her husband

(d) Michael

23. Who does the priest give articles of clothing to for identification?

(a) Cathleen

(b) Maurya

(c) Nora

(d) Bartley

24. Where is Bartley planning to go?

(a) To work

(b) To Galway Fair

(c) To Donegal

(d) To Inishmaan Island

25. What animal was chewing on the rope?

(a) A dog

(b) A pig

(c) A sheep

(d) A cat

All Grammar of ABTA  2025 -2026

READING COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)

Read the passage given below and choose the appropriate answer:

A pupil of an Anglo-vermacular school in Allahabad was once asked to deine a river. The clever litle fellow gave a perfectly correct definition.When he was asked what river he had seen, his unfortunate mite, living at the coniuence of the Ganges and Jamung, replied that he had not seen any. He dimly had an idea that his familiar world (which so easily came to him through the medium of his own direct consciousness)could never be the great learned world of geography. In later life, he must have got the information that even his own country had its place in geography and actually had its rivers. But suppose this news did not reach him at all, till some foreign traveller told him one day that his was a great big country, that the Himalayas were great big mountains, that the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra were great big rivers the shock of it could not but upset his mental balance, and in the reaction against the self-contempt he had nursed so long, he would lose no time in making himself absurdly hoarse by shouting that other countries were merely countries, but his was heaven itself! His previous understanding of the world was wrong due to his ignorance. His subsequent understanding of the world was worse; it was ludicrously false with the falsehood of sophisticated foolishness.

The same thing happens in the case of our Indian culture. Because of the want of opportunity in our course of study, we take it for granted that India had no culture, or next to none, Then, when we hear from foreign pundits some echo of the praises of India's culture, we can contain ourselves no longer and rend the sky with the shout that all other cultures are merely human, but ours is divine, a special creation of Brahma!! And his leads us to that moral dipsomania, which is the hankering afier the continual stimulation of self-flattery.

Questions

31.

(a) The student in the passage has not seen any river.

(b) The student in the passage is ashamed of his knowledge.

(A) a is true

(B) b is true

(C) Both a and b are true

(D) Both a and b are false

32. Which river is not mentioned in the passage?

(a) Indus

(b) Ganges

(c) Brahmaputra

(d) Ajay

33. Echo of praises of India’s culture first comes from –

(a) Indians

(b) Foreign pundits

(c) All over the world

(d) Indian pundits

34. The writer of the above passage –

(a) Praises

(b) Criticizes

(c) Flatters

(d) Mocks

the attitude of Indians to their own culture.

35. “His previous understanding of the world was wrong.” What was the ‘previous understanding’?

(a) Other countries were merely countries, but his was heaven itself

(b) His own country had its place in geography

(c) His country could never be the great learned world of geography

(d) He had a great country

36. Why do we take it for granted that India had no culture, or next to none?

(a) We lack the opportunity in our course of study

(b) We are self-contented enough

(c) It easily came to us through direct consciousness

(d) Actually India had no culture at all

37. The nearest meaning of the word dipsomania is –

(a) Intoxication

(b) Abstinence

(c) Teetotalism

(d) Sobriety

38. The opposite meaning of the word Dimly is –

(a) Lightly

(b) Darkened

(c) Obscure

(d) Radiant

39. The nearest meaning of the word Hoarse is –

(a) Gruff

(b) Gentle

(c) Soothing

(d) Tender

40. The opposite meaning of the word Ludicrously is –

(a) Hilariously

(b) Humorously

(c) Amusingly

(d) Seriously

 

31. 
(C) Both a and b are true 

32. 
(d) Ajay  

33. 
(b) Foreign pundits 

34. 
(b) Criticizes 

35. 
(c) His country could never be the great learned world of geography 

36. 
(a) We lack the opportunity in our course of study  

37. 
(a) Intoxication 

Dipsomania means a compulsive craving for alcohol — metaphorically here, it's used for craving self-flattery. 

 

38. 
(d) Radiant 

 

39. 
(a) Gruff 

Hoarse means a rough or grating voice; gruff is the closest in meaning. 

40. 
(d) Seriously 

Ludicrously means ridiculously or absurdly; the opposite is seriously

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