Important MCQ on Of Travel" by Francis Bacon MCQs from "Of Travel" by Francis Bacon, Bankura university AEC English

 Important MCQ on  Of Travel" by Francis Bacon

MCQs from "Of Travel" by Francis Bacon

1. According to Bacon, travel for young people is a part of —

A) Luxury

B) Education

C) Business

D) Wealth

Ans: B) Education

2. For elderly people, travel is a part of —

A) Habit

B) Experience

C) Leisure

D) Amusement

Ans: B) Experience

3. Travelling without knowing a country's language is like —

A) Going to a fair

B) Going to school

C) Going to a party

D) Going to war

Ans: B) Going to school

4. Bacon recommends young men to travel with —

A) Friends

B) Tutor or grave servant

C) Soldiers

D) Traders

Ans: B) Tutor or grave servant

5. The tutor or servant should know —

A) Many foreign languages

B) The country and its language

C) Cooking and riding

D) Politics only

Ans: B) The country and its language

6. The guide should inform travellers about —

A) Weather conditions only

 

8. Without proper guidance, young men shall —

A) See everything clearly

B) Go hooded and look abroad little

C) Become more talkative

D) Travel faster

Ans: B) Go hooded and look abroad little

9. Bacon finds it strange that in sea voyages men write —

A) Diaries

B) Letters

C) Poems

D) Maps

Ans: A) Diaries

10. In sea voyages, there is nothing to see except —

A) Ships and ports

B) Sky and sea

C) Animals and forests

D) Cities and markets

Ans: B) Sky and sea

11. In land travel, people often —

A) Write more diaries

B) Omit diary writing

C) Take photographs

D) Sleep more

Ans: B) Omit diary writing

12. Bacon suggests that —

A) Diaries should be avoided

B) Diaries should be brought in use

C) Diaries are useless

D) Only letters should be kept

Ans: B) Diaries should be brought in use

13. Which should be observed in travel?

A) Courts of princes

B) Empty lands

C) Seashores only

D) Villages only

Ans: A) Courts of princes

14. Courts of princes should be visited especially when they —

A) Celebrate festivals

B) Give audience to ambassadors

C) Go hunting

D) Fight battles

Ans: B) Give audience to ambassadors

15. Courts of justice should be observed when they —

A) Are closed

B) Sit and hear causes

C) Play games

D) Decorate halls

Ans: B) Sit and hear causes

16. Ecclesiastical consistories are —

A) Markets

B) Religious councils

C) Military camps

D) Libraries

Ans: B) Religious councils

17. Churches and monasteries should be observed with their —

A) Walls

B) Monuments

C) Rivers

D) People only

Ans: B) Monuments

18. Fortifications to be observed include —

A) City walls

B) Towers

C) Harbors

D) All of these

Ans: D) All of these

19. Antiquities and ruins are part of —

A) Modern technology

B) Ancient heritage

C) Food culture

D) Science labs

Ans: B) Ancient heritage

20. Which academic places should travellers visit?

A) Colleges and libraries

B) Schools only

C) Playgrounds only

D) Shops only

Ans: A) Colleges and libraries

21. Travellers should attend —

A) Public lectures and disputations

B) Marriage ceremonies only

C) Private meetings only

D) Sports games only

Ans: A) Public lectures and disputations

22. Shipping and navies belong to —

A) Agriculture

B) Sea affairs

C) Land trade

D) Education

Ans: B) Sea affairs

23. Houses and gardens of state are usually found —

A) Near villages

B) Near great cities

C) Inside forests

D) Near rivers only

Ans: B) Near great cities

24. Armories, arsenals, and magazines are related to —

A) Weapons and military stores

B) Food supply

C) Textile production

D) Animal care

Ans: A) Weapons and military stores

25. Exchanges, burses, and warehouses deal with —

A) Trade and commerce

B) Education

C) Religion

D) Farming

Ans: A) Trade and commerce

26. Exercises like horsemanship and fencing are meant for —

A) Entertainment only

B) Military skill and training

C) Religious duties

D) Medical purposes

Ans: B) Military skill and training

27. Comedies should be such that —

A) Only children enjoy

B) The better sort of persons resort to

C) Contain no humour

D) Are acted by amateurs only

Ans: B) The better sort of persons resort to

28. Treasuries of jewels and robes are places of —

A) Education

B) Luxury and wealth

C) Medical treatment

D) Agricultural tools

Ans: B) Luxury and wealth

29. Cabinets and rarities refer to —

A) Common household goods

B) Rare and valuable collections

C) Public food stalls

D) Government offices

Ans: B) Rare and valuable collections

30. According to Bacon, all memorable things in places visited —

A) Should be neglected

B) Should be observed

C) Are useless

D) Must be avoided

Ans: B) Should be observed

31. After visiting places, tutors or servants should —

A) Write a book

B) Make diligent inquiry

C) Rest and relax

D) Avoid discussions

Ans: B) Make diligent inquiry

32. Triumphs, masks, feasts, weddings, funerals, and executions —

A) Need not be reminded but should not be neglected

B) Should be ignored completely

C) Are of no use

D) Are too dangerous to attend

Ans: A) Need not be reminded but should not be neglected

33. To gather much in a short time, a traveller must —

A) Spend more money

B) Have language knowledge and a good guide

C) Travel slowly

D) Visit only one place

Ans: B) Have language knowledge and a good guide

34. Travellers should carry —

A) Food and clothes only

B) A card or book describing the country

C) Gifts for everyone

D) Cameras

Ans: B) A card or book describing the country

35. A card or book describing the country acts as —

A) A key to inquiry

B) A souvenir

C) A diary

D) A decoration

Ans: A) A key to inquiry

36. Keeping a diary helps in —

A) Forgetting places

B) Recording observations

C) Wasting time

D) Avoiding work

Ans: B) Recording observations

37. Travellers should not stay —

A) Too long in one city or town

B) In villages

C) Near rivers

D) With locals

Ans: A) Too long in one city or town

38. While staying in a city, a traveller should —

A) Change lodging from one part to another

B) Stay at the same hotel

C) Avoid movement

D) Never meet strangers

Ans: A) Change lodging from one part to another

39. Changing lodging helps in —

A) Saving money

B) Making acquaintance

C) Learning language faster

D) Eating local food

Ans: B) Making acquaintance

40. Travellers should sequester themselves from —

A) Foreigners

B) Their countrymen

C) Locals

D) Merchants

Ans: B) Their countrymen

41. While travelling, one should dine —

A) Alone in the room

B) In places with good company of the nation visited

C) Only in luxury hotels

D) With countrymen only

Ans: B) In places with good company of the nation visited

42. When moving from one place to another, a traveller should procure —

A) Local souvenirs

B) Recommendation to a person of quality

C) Travel insurance

D) Guidebooks only

Ans: B) Recommendation to a person of quality

43. The recommendation helps the traveller to —

A) Save money on travel

B) Gain favour in seeing or knowing things

C) Get discounts in hotels

D) Avoid all local customs

Ans: B) Gain favour in seeing or knowing things

44. Bacon says acquaintance most profitable in travel is with —

A) Shopkeepers

B) Local artists

C) Secretaries and employed men of ambassadors

D) School teachers

Ans: C) Secretaries and employed men of ambassadors

45. Such acquaintance is useful because —

A) It gives political power

B) In one country, you get experience of many

C) It is a source of free gifts

D) It avoids all expenses

Ans: B) In one country, you get experience of many

46. Travellers should visit eminent persons —

A) Only in politics

B) In all kinds and of great name abroad

C) Only in sports

D) Only in art

Ans: B) In all kinds and of great name abroad

47. Visiting eminent persons helps to know —

A) How their life agrees with their fame

B) How they earn money

C) Their secret hobbies

D) Their political views

Ans: A) How their life agrees with their fame

48. Quarrels in travel are often for —

A) Money

B) Mistresses, healths, place, and words

C) Local customs

D) Transport fares

Ans: B) Mistresses, healths, place, and words

49. Travellers should avoid company of —

A) Rich people

B) Choleric and quarrelsome persons

C) Artists and writers

D) Politicians

Ans: B) Choleric and quarrelsome persons

50. Such people may —

A) Help in emergencies

B) Engage the traveller into their quarrels

C) Teach the local language

D) Show hidden places

Ans: B) Engage the traveller into their quarrels

51. On returning home, travellers should —

A) Forget foreign countries

B) Maintain correspondence by letters

C) Destroy all notes

D) Sell their diaries

Ans: B) Maintain correspondence by letters

52. Correspondence helps in —

A) Losing touch

B) Keeping foreign connections alive

C) Increasing travel cost

D) Avoiding people

Ans: B) Keeping foreign connections alive

53. Travel should appear more in a man’s —

A) Apparel

B) Discourse

C) Gestures

D) Wealth

Ans: B) Discourse

54. In discourse, a traveller should be —

A) Forward to tell stories

B) Advised in his answers

C) Silent always

D) Talkative about himself

Ans: B) Advised in his answers

55. A traveller should not change —

A) His name

B) His country manners

C) His clothing

D) His language

Ans: B) His country manners

56. He should only —

A) Completely adopt foreign customs

B) Prick in some flowers learned abroad into his own customs

C) Copy foreign fashion blindly

D) Ignore all foreign knowledge

Ans: B) Prick in some flowers learned abroad into his own customs

57. In sea voyages, diaries are made even though —

A) There is much to see

B) There is little to see except sky and sea

C) Ships have libraries

D) People enjoy writing

Ans: B) There is little to see except sky and sea

58. In land travel, where much is to be observed, travellers —

A) Often omit diaries

B) Write daily without fail

C) Hire writers

D) Record only accidents

Ans: A) Often omit diaries

59. This omission suggests people think —

A) Observation is better than chance

B) Chance is fitter to be registered than observation

C) Diaries are fashionable

D) Writing is boring

Ans: B) Chance is fitter to be registered than observation

60. The places to be observed first are —

A) Shops and markets

B) Courts of princes

C) Playgrounds

D) Hotels

Ans: B) Courts of princes

61. In courts of justice, travellers should see —

A) Decoration

B) Judges resting

C) Causes being heard

D) Public celebrations

Ans: C) Causes being heard

62. In ecclesiastical consistories, travellers should watch —

A) Religious debates

B) Military training

C) Music performances

D) Sports

Ans: A) Religious debates

63. Observing antiquities and ruins teaches —

A) Modern fashion

B) Historical knowledge

C) Market skills

D) Farming

Ans: B) Historical knowledge

64. Armories and arsenals are connected to —

A) Agriculture

B) Defence

C) Education

D) Medicine

Ans: B) Defence

65. Exchanges and burses are centres of —

A) Military planning

B) Trade

C) Political campaigns

D) Medical treatment

Ans: B) Trade

66. Exercises of horsemanship and fencing display —

A) Entertainment only

B) Military discipline

C) Laziness

D) Agricultural skill

Ans: B) Military discipline

67. Comedies are worth attending if —

A) Performed by children

B) Attended by the better sort of persons

C) Performed without music

D) Cheap tickets are available

Ans: B) Attended by the better sort of persons

68. Treasuries store —

A) Food

B) Jewels and robes

C) Medicines

D) Letters

Ans: B) Jewels and robes

69. Cabinets and rarities contain —

A) Ordinary goods

B) Special collections

C) Common utensils

D) Weapons only

Ans: B) Special collections

70. Triumphs and masks are examples of —

A) Public shows

B) Private study

C) Legal trials

D) Religious texts

Ans: A) Public shows

71. Staying too long in one place is discouraged because —

A) It causes homesickness

B) It reduces the variety of experience

C) It is expensive

D) It is tiring

Ans: B) It reduces the variety of experience

72. Changing lodging helps to —

A) Meet more people

B) Learn cooking

C) Save money

D) Avoid danger

Ans: A) Meet more people

73. Sequestering from countrymen helps to —

A) Avoid quarrels

B) Learn local customs better

C) Travel faster

D) Save expenses

Ans: B) Learn local customs better

74. Recommendation letters help in —

A) Entering restricted places

B) Avoiding taxes

C) Gaining employment

D) Selling goods

Ans: A) Entering restricted places

75. Best acquaintances for travellers are those —

A) With political leaders

B) With ambassador’s staff

C) With street vendors

D) With soldiers only

Ans: B) With ambassador’s staff

76. Quarrels should be avoided because they —

A) Waste time and cause trouble

B) Are fun sometimes

C) Make travel cheaper

D) Help make friends

Ans: A) Waste time and cause trouble

77. Choleric persons are —

A) Calm

B) Hot-tempered

C) Lazy

D) Joyful

Ans: B) Hot-tempered

78. Maintaining correspondence keeps —

A) Memories alive

B) Expenses low

C) Diaries safe

D) Passports valid

Ans: A) Memories alive

79. Travel experience should be shown in —

A) Dress style

B) Conversation

C) Walking style

D) Eating habits

Ans: B) Conversation

80. Being forward to tell stories may make one seem —

A) Modest

B) Boastful

C) Wise

D) Quiet

Ans: B) Boastful

81. Country manners should be kept because —

A) They are outdated

B) They reflect identity

C) They make travel harder

D) They are fashionable abroad

Ans: B) They reflect identity

82. Pricking in flowers from abroad means —

A) Decorating clothes

B) Adding good customs learned abroad into one’s own

C) Buying gifts

D) Writing poems

Ans: B) Adding good customs learned abroad into one’s own

83. Observing courts of princes helps in —

A) Understanding politics and culture

B) Learning cooking

C) Gaining wealth

D) Making friends only

Ans: A) Understanding politics and culture

84. Observing courts of justice teaches —

A) Law and order

B) Gardening

C) Music

D) Farming

Ans: A) Law and order

85. Visiting armories and arsenals shows —

A) Fashion trends

B) Military strength

C) Religious rituals

D) Education level

Ans: B) Military strength

86. Colleges and libraries are sources of —

A) Political news

B) Knowledge

C) Business deals

D) Food recipes

Ans: B) Knowledge

87. The better sort of persons refers to —

A) Poor travellers

B) Educated and refined people

C) Merchants only

D) Soldiers

Ans: B) Educated and refined people

88. Antiquities provide —

A) Historical insight

B) Cheap goods

C) Military training

D) Agricultural tips

Ans: A) Historical insight

89. Funerals are —

A) Part of local culture to observe

B) Not worth attending

C) Dangerous events

D) Expensive to join

Ans: A) Part of local culture to observe

90. Diaries in travel are important for —

A) Recording daily expenses only

B) Preserving detailed observations

C) Showing off

D) Writing stories later

Ans: B) Preserving detailed observations

91. Staying long in one city may cause —

A) More expenses only

B) Less variety in experience

C) More health issues

D) More quarrels

Ans: B) Less variety in experience

92. Lodging change is called a great —

A) Waste of time

B) Adamant of acquaintance

C) Expense

D) Mistake

Ans: B) Adamant of acquaintance

93. A card or book of the country is useful as a —

A) Souvenir

B) Key to inquiry

C) Map only

D) Gift

Ans: B) Key to inquiry

94. Travellers must avoid —

A) Observing monuments

B) Spending too much on gifts

C) Quarrels and disputes

D) Learning languages

Ans: C) Quarrels and disputes

95. Language knowledge before travel is —

A) Optional

B) Essential

C) Waste of time

D) Only for scholars

Ans: B) Essential

96. The role of a good tutor is to —

A) Manage expenses

B) Direct the traveller to worthy sights and acquaintances

C) Cook food

D) Arrange transport only

Ans: B) Direct the traveller to worthy sights and acquaintances

97. To “abridge travel with much profit” means —

A) Make travel short but useful

B) Avoid foreign countries

C) Travel without money

D) Only visit friends

Ans: A) Make travel short but useful

98. Experience from ambassadors’ staff is valuable because —

A) They are rich

B) They know experiences from many countries

C) They speak multiple languages

D) They arrange feasts

Ans: B) They know experiences from many countries

99. Travel manners should —

A) Be completely changed abroad

B) Blend home customs with foreign knowledge

C) Follow foreign style fully

D) Ignore all customs

Ans: B) Blend home customs with foreign knowledge

100. Bacon’s essay “Of Travel” mainly gives —

A) Political advice

B) Guidelines for profitable travelling

C) Religious sermons

D) Business plans

Ans: B) Guidelines for profitable travelling