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  1. "My Relations" was written by —
    1. Joseph Addison
    2. Charles Lamb
    3. William Hazlitt
    4. Thomas De Quincey
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    Answer: (B) Charles Lamb

    It is one of Charles Lamb’s Elia essays.

  2. Lamb wrote his essays under the pen name —
    1. Elia
    2. The Spectator
    3. Isaac Bickerstaff
    4. Rambler
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    Answer: (A) Elia

    Elia was borrowed from an Italian clerk he had worked beside.

  3. In the essay, James Elia stands for Lamb’s —
    1. father
    2. elder brother
    3. cousin
    4. employer
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    Answer: (B) elder brother

    James Elia is drawn from his elder brother John Lamb.

  4. Bridget Elia stands for Lamb’s —
    1. mother
    2. sister Mary
    3. wife
    4. aunt
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    Answer: (B) sister Mary

    Mary Lamb, his lifelong companion.

  5. Which is NOT a quality of James Elia as Lamb describes him?
    1. Robust health
    2. Dogmatic opinions
    3. Love of pictures
    4. A gloomy, brooding temper
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    Answer: (D) A gloomy, brooding temper

    James is cheerful and self-satisfied, not gloomy. He avoids gloom altogether.

  6. James Elia cannot bear to hear of —
    1. money matters
    2. suffering and death
    3. politics
    4. his own childhood
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    Answer: (B) suffering and death

    He turns the conversation away from anything painful — out of tenderness, not hardness.

  7. Lamb’s essays were collected as —
    1. The Spectator Papers
    2. Essays of Elia
    3. Table Talk
    4. Imaginary Conversations
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    Answer: (B) Essays of Elia

    Essays of Elia (1823) and The Last Essays of Elia (1833).

  8. The essay "My Relations" is best described as —
    1. an argument
    2. a reminiscent character sketch
    3. a travel narrative
    4. a political satire
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    Answer: (B) a reminiscent character sketch

    It recalls and describes people; it does not argue or tell a story.

  9. Lamb worked for most of his life as a clerk at —
    1. the Bank of England
    2. the East India House
    3. the Admiralty
    4. the London Magazine
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    Answer: (B) the East India House

    He spent thirty-three years at the East India House.

  10. Charles and Mary Lamb together wrote —
    1. Essays of Elia
    2. Tales from Shakespeare
    3. Lyrical Ballads
    4. The Spectator
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    Answer: (B) Tales from Shakespeare

    Tales from Shakespeare retold the plays for children.

  11. Lamb’s prose style is best described as —
    1. terse and impersonal
    2. personal, digressive and whimsical
    3. plain and scientific
    4. grand and oratorical
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    Answer: (B) personal, digressive and whimsical

    The opposite of Bacon — long, winding, intimate sentences.

  12. Why does Lamb use invented names for his family?
    1. Because he had forgotten their real names
    2. So he could write truthfully about people he loved
    3. Because the magazine demanded it
    4. To avoid a lawsuit
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    Answer: (B) So he could write truthfully about people he loved

    The mask of Elia gives him freedom to be honest without wounding anyone.

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