Miscellaneous Easy Questions and Answers

Miscellaneous

While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer gave the writers in the oncecolonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives around them as worthy of being “told”. The writer of this passage is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students because________.

1. None of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys
1. Some of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys
1. None of the students had written stories set in India
1. Some of the students had written stories set in foreign places

Ms. X will be in Bagdogra from 01/05/2014 to 20/05/2014 and from 22/05/2014to 31/05/2014. On the morning of 21/05/2014, she will reach Kochi via Mumbai. Which one of the statement below is logically valid and can be inferred from the above sentences?

1. Ms. X will be in Kochi for one day, only in May.
1. Ms. X will be in Kochi for only one day in May.
1. Ms. X will be only in Kochi for one day in May.
1. Only Ms. X will be in Kochi for one day in May.

Choose the most suitable one word substitute for the following expression. Connotation of a road or way

Fill in the blank with the correct idiom/phrase. That boy from the town was a ______ in the sleepy village.

1. dog out of herd
1. sheep from the heap
1. fish out of water
1. bird from the flock