British Poetry mcq with answer

Q1. —- is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.
Answer: Assonance

Q2. Assonance is a common substitution of —- in the popular ballad.
Answer: End-Rhyme

Q3. Ballad is a form of —- .
Answer: Verse

Q4. European ballads have been generally classified into —- major groups.
Answer: Three

Q5. —- is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Answer: Blank verse

Q1. Romanticism was more widespread both in its origins and influence.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q2. The english poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who lived in the 17th century was part of the origin of the concept
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q3. Conceit is a pair of lines of meter in poetry.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q4. Couplet consist of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q5. The epic began as an ancient Greek metrical form.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q1. A —- is a traditional form for english poetry.
Answer: Heroic couplet

Q2. The heroic couplet was first pioneered by —- .
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Q3. —- is commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama.
Answer: Iambic pentameter

Q4. —- rhythms come relatively naturally in english.
Answer: Iambic

Q5. —- is a figure of speech used in rhetoric.
Answer: Metonymy

Q1. Synecdoche is closely related to metonymy.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q2. In poetry meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q3. A rhymed pair of lines of iambic pentameter make a sonnet.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q4. Eight feet making up the line was either a dactyl or spondee.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q5. An ode is typically a lyrical verse written in praise of.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q6. ABBACDECDE is the most common rhyme of english ode.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q7. Repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs are called rhyme.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q8. Milton was the most famous writer of heroic couplets.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q9. Pastoral is a mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q10. Metonymy and synecdoche may be considered as sub-species of metaphor.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q1. Negative capability describes the resistance to a set of institutional arrangements.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q2. The term negative capability was first used by the Romantic poet John Milton.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q3. Renaissance was a neoclassical movement that spanned roughly the 14th to 17th century.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q4. The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q5. Hellenism is a cultural movement distinct from other Roman
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q6. Mary Robinson were deeply involved in retelling the myths of classical Greece.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q7. The Supernatural force regulates both man and nature.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q1. The Victorian period revolves around the political career of —- .
Answer: Queen Victoria

Q2. The Victorian period was bound to be a —- time.
Answer: Volatile

Q3. The word Victorian has come to be used to describe a set of —- and —- values.
Answer: Moral and Sexual

Q4. The British decadent writers were much influenced by the —- professor Walter Pater.
Answer: Oxford

Q5. —- was a movement in early 20th century Anglo-American poetry.
Answer: Imagism

Q1. A war poet is a poet writing in the time of and on the subject of war.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q2. Many poems by British war poets were published in magazine.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q3. Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov volunteered for the military at the out break of world war I.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q4. The term movement was coined by J.D. Scott in 1954.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q5. Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1950 and 1990.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q1. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) John Milton
(d) John Keats
Answer: (a) Geoffrey Chaucer

Q2. Chaucer drew from a rich variety of literature sources to create the.
(a) Stories
(b) Articles
(c) Tales
(d) Nobel
Answer: (c) Tales

Q3. The name of Geoffrey Chaucer is
(a) William Chaucer
(b) Duke Chaucer
(c) Philippa Chaucer
(d) John Chaucer
Answer: (d) John Chaucer

Q4. Chaucer first appears in public records in 1357 as a member of the house of
(a) Edward
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Parliament
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Elizabeth

Q5. Chaucer first published work was
(a) The book of the country
(b) Courtly love
(c) The book of the Duchess
Answer: (c) The book of the Duchess

Q1. William Shakespeare was the author of the poem, Paradise Lost.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q2. The poem concerns the Christian story of the fall of woman.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q3. Milton was politically active during the time of the English civil war
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q4. Grotius would be the epic poet of the English nation
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q5. John Milton was born on December 7, 1608.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q6. Milton was met many of the great Renaissance minds including Galileo and Grotius during his tour in 1638-39
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q7. Paradise Lost was published in 1667
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (a) True

Q8. The Iliad and the Aeneid are the great epic poems of Greek and Latin.
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) True

Q1. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub?
(a) Michale
(b) Uriel
(c) Raphael
(d) Abdiel
Answer: (b) Uriel

Q2. Which of the following forms does Satan not take?
(a) Angel
(b) Toad
(c) Cormorant
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

Q3. In which book of the Bible does the story of Adam and Eve occur?
(a) Leviticus
(b) Exodus
(c) Genesis
(d) Deuteronomy
Answer: (c) Genesis

Q4. Which devil advocates a renewal of all-out war against God?
(a) Belial
(b) Moloch
(c) Mammon
(d) Beelzebub
Answer: (b) Moloch

Q5. Which angel wields a large sword in the battle and wounds Satan?
(a) Michael
(b) Abdiel
(c) Uriel
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) Michael

Q6. Which of the following is not found in Hell?
(a) Gems
(b) Gold
(c) Oil
(d) Minerals
Answer: (c) Oil

Q7. Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium?
(a) Mulciber
(b) Mammon
(c) Moloch
(d) Belial
Answer: (a) Mulciber

Q8. How many times does Milton invoke a muse?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
Answer: (c) Three

Q9. Who leads Adam and Eve out of paradise?
(a) God
(b) The son
(c) Michael
(d) Raphael
Answer: (c) Michael

Q10. Which of the following poets does Milton emulate?
(a) Virgil
(b) Homer
(c) Both Virgil and Homer
(d) None of these.
Answer: (c) Both Virgil and Homer

Q1. Which of the angels in considered a hero arguing against Satan?
(a) Abdiel
(b) Uriel
(c) Michael
(d) Raphael
Answer: (a) Abdiel

Q2. In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what do the rebel angels make?
(a) A Fortress
(b) A Catapult
(c) A Large sword
(d) A Cannon
Answer: (d) A Cannon

Q3. According to Paradise Lost, which of the following does not created by God?
(a) The son
(b) Adam and Eve
(c) Computers
(d) He creates everything
Answer: (d) He creates everything

Q4. Who does Milton name as his heavenly muse?
(a) Titania
(b) Urania
(c) Virgil
(d) Michael
Answer: (b) Urania

Q5. What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious?
(a) Go in search of her mate
(b) Talk to the animals
(c) Look at her reflection in a stream
(d) Eat of the Tree of knowledge
Answer: (c) Look at her reflection in a stream

Q1. In what book does the fall take place?
(a) Book VIII
(b) Book X
(c) Book IX
(d) Book XII
Answer: (c) Book IX

Q2. What is Milton’s stated purpose in Paradise Lost?
(a) To assert his superiority to other poets
(b) To argue against the doctrine of predestination
(c) To justify the ways of God to men
(d) To make his story hard to understand
Answer: (c) To justify the ways of God to men

Q3. Which of the following is not a character in Paradise Lost?
(a) Night
(b) Agony
(c) Discord
(d) Death
Answer: (b) Agony

Q4. When Satan leaps over the fence into Paradise, what does Milton liken him to?
(a) A snake slithering up a tree
(b) A germ infecting a body
(c) A wolf leaping into a sheep’s pen
(d) A fish leaping out of water
Answer: (c) A wolf leaping into a sheep’s pen

Q5. Which angel tells Adam about the future in Books XI and XII?
(a) Uriel
(b) Raphael
(c) Michael
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Michael

Q6. Which statement about the Earth is asserted as true in Paradise Lost?
(a) It was created before God the son
(b) Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain
(c) The Earth is a Lotus flower
(d) The Earth revolves around the sun
Answer: (b) Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain

Q7. What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost?
(a) The fight between good and evil
(b) Heaven’s battle and Satan’s tragic fall
(c) The creation of the universe
(d) Adam and Eve’s disobedience
Answer: (d) Adam and Eve’s disobedience

Q8. Which devil in Satan’s second-in-command?
(a) Mammon
(b) Sin
(c) Moloch
(d) Beezelbub
Answer: (d) Beezelbub

Q9. Who discusses cosmology and the battle of Heaven with Adam?
(a) God
(b) Eve
(c) Raphael
(d) Michael
Answer: (c) Raphael

Q10. Which scene happens first chronologically?
(a) Satan and the devils rise up from the lake in Hell
(b) The son is chosen as God’s second-in-command
(c) God and the son create the universe
(d) The angels battle in Heaven
Answer: (b) The son is chosen as God’s second-in-command

Q1. Sixteenth century love sonnets typically follow all but which of the following conventions?
(a) A fair young lady is deeply in love with a man who’s hesitant to court her
(b) Exaggerated language expresses the lover‘s adoration
(c) The speaker is a male lover
(d) The female object of attention and affection is beautiful and pure.
Answer: (a) A fair young lady is deeply in love with a man who’s hesitant to court her

Q2. The fair young man to whom the poet speaks in sonnets 1-126 demonstrates which of the following characteristics?
(a) Allegiance to lower class society
(b) An inner beauty that matches his physical appearance
(c) Good looks leaning toward the female persuasion
(d) A sense of inferiority
Answer: (c) Good looks leaning toward the female persuasion

Q3. Who was not among the candidates for the identity of the Dark Lady sonnet 127-152?
(a) Shakespeare’s wife, Ann Boleyn
(b) Mary Fitton
(c) A Negro prostitute
(d) Lady Penelope Rich
Answer: (a) Shakespeare’s wife, Ann Boleyn

Q4. In sonnet 76-86, Shakespeare refers to his Rival poet as
(a) a finer spirit
(b) the affable familiar ghost
(c) a worthier pen
(d) so great a sum of sums
Answer: (c) a worthier pen

Q5. The major theme that Shakespeare sets forth in the first 17 of his sonnets is that
(a) Poetry has the power to conquer time
(b) Love is the only faithful from immortality
(c) Beauty and youth can be continued by producing progency
(d) Everyone‘s lot in life is to suffer
Answer: (c) Beauty and youth can be continued by producing progency

Q6. The sonnets in which Shakespeare says that the fair young man more than make up for the poet‘s failures in life are often referred to as the
(a) Compensation quatrains
(b) Despair sonnets
(c) Odes to immortality
(d) Passion poems
Answer: (b) Despair sonnets

Q7. How many of Shakespeare’s sonnets dwell on a religious theme?
(a) 126
(b) The first 17 and last 17
(c) Just 1
(d) All of them
Answer: (c) Just 1

Q8. Which of the following colours are not mentioned in sonnet 12, 73 or 99?
(a) Sable
(b) Ashem
(c) Berry blue
(d) Sunset
Answer: (c) Berry blue

Q1. Who is Shock?
(a) Belinda’s horse
(b) Belinda’s lapdog
(c) The Baron’s horse
(d) The poet’s muse
Answer: (b) Belinda’s lapdog

Q2. At what time do “sleepless lovers” awake in this poem?
(a) Dawn
(b) Noon
(c) Tea-time
(d) Midnight
Answer: (b) Noon

Q3. Who inspires Belinda’s dream in the first canto?
(a) The muse
(b) The Baron
(c) Ariel
(d) Umbriel
Answer: (c) Ariel

Q4. To what are Belinda’s eyes repeatedly compared?
(a) The sun
(b) Stars
(c) Flames
(d) Gems
Answer: (a) The sun

Q5. To what do the four types of supernatural beings correspond?
(a) Spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds
(b) Ace, king, queen, and jack
(c) Earth, air, fire, and water
(d) North, south, east, and west
Answer: (c) Earth, air, fire, and water

Q6. What does Belinda wear around her neck?
(a) A cross
(b) A locket
(c) A ribbon
(d) A ruby
Answer: (a) A cross

Q7. Where is the party held?
(a) Cheapside
(b) St. James Park
(c) The Tower of London
(d) Hampton Court Palace
Answer: (d) Hampton Court Palace

Q8. Who wins the hand of ombre?
(a) Belinda
(b) The Baron
(c) Ariel
(d) The Queen
Answer: (a) Belinda

Q9. What beverage is served after the card game ends?
(a) Tea
(b) Coffee
(c) Wine
(d) Brandy
Answer: (b) Coffee

Q10. Who arms the Baron with a pair of scissors?
(a) Belinda
(b) Sir plume
(c) Lord Petre
(d) Clarissa
Answer: (d) Clarissa

Q11. Who gets accidentally cut by the scissors?
(a) The Baron
(b) Clarissa
(c) One of the Sylphs
(d) Shock
Answer: (c) One of the Sylphs

Q12. Whither does Umbriel journey?
(a) Hades
(b) The Cave of Spleen
(c) The Cave of Despair
(d) The Cave of Envy
Answer: (b) The Cave of Spleen

Q13. What does Thalestris think the Baron will do with the lock?
(a) Show it off to all their friends
(b) Have it set into a ring
(c) Neither of the above
(d) Both of the above
Answer: (d) Both of the above

Q14. What effect does Sir Plume’s speech have on the Baron?
(a) It convinces him to return the lock
(b) It makes him feel guilty for what he has done
(c) It encourages him to propose to Belinda
(d) It has no effect
Answer: (d) It has no effect

Q15. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of the poem?
(a) It is returned to its rightful owner
(b) It is set into a ring
(c) It is offered to the poet as a token of gratitude
(d) It is turned into a constellation
Answer: (d) It is turned into a constellation

Q1. When was Thomas Gray born?
(a) 3 June 1688
(b) 1 January 1701
(c) 21 July 1714
(d) 26 December 1716
Answer: (d) 26 December 1716

Q2. Where was Thomas Gray born?
(a) Bristol
(b) Cardiff
(c) Liverpool
(d) London
Answer: (d) London

Q3. Where did Thomas Gray have his education in 1725-1734?
(a) Queen Mary School
(b) Kilkenny Grammar School
(c) Eton College
(d) Holy Family School
Answer: () Eton College

Q4. Which of the following subjects did Thomas Gray dislike?
(a) French
(b) Greek
(c) Latin
(d) Mathematics
Answer: (d) Mathematics

Q5. Which poem of Thomas Gray has the words, “where ignorance is bliss,/’ Tis folly to be wise”?
(a) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
(b) Ode on the Spring
(c) Ode to Adversity
(d) A Long Story
Answer: (a) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Q6. Who was with Thomas Gray during European tour 1739—1741 and quarrelled and separated in Italy?
(a) Richard West
(b) Horace Walpole
(c) Horace Mann
(d) Thomas Ashton
Answer: (b) Horace Walpole

Q7. When was Elegy Written in a country Churchyard published?
(a) 1751
(b) 1702
(c) 1738
(d) 1712
Answer: (a) 1751

Q8. In whose praise did Thomas Gray compose Installation Ode?
(a) King of England
(b) Archbishop of Canterbury
(c) Duke of Grafton
(d) Prince of Wales
Answer: (c) Duke of Grafton

Q9. When did Thomas Gray die?
(a) 9 March 1780
(b) 5 June 1778
(c) 30 July 1771
(d) 21 October 1775
Answer: (c) 30 July 1771

Q10. What caused Thomas Gray’s death?
(a) Gout
(b) Drowning
(c) Malaria
(d) Pneumonia
Answer: (a) Gout

Q1. Which of the following is not one of Blake’s major prophetic books?
(a) The Four Zoas
(b) Songs of Innocence
(c) Milton
(d) Jerusalem
Answer: (b) Songs of Innocence

Q2. Which of these poems is probably about sexually transmitted disease?
(a) The Garden of Love
(b) The Sick Rose
(c) Little Girl Lost
(d) The Chimney Sweep
Answer: (b) The Sick Rose

Q3. William Blake received formal education in only one subject. Which?
(a) Art
(b) Greek
(c) Literature
(d) Blacksmithing
Answer: (a) Art

Q4. Which book is subtitled “Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”?
(a) Songs of Innocence and Experience
(b) Poetical Sketches
(c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(d) Jerusalem
Answer: (a) Songs of Innocence and Experience

Q5. Whose mother died when he “was very young,” and who was sold before his “tongue/Could scarcely cry”?
(a) The Little Black Boy
(b) The Chimney Sweeper
(c) The Little Boy Lost
(d) The School-Boy
Answer: (b) The Chimney Sweeper

Q6. Did Blake teach his wife to read?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Answer: (a) Yes

Q7. Who says, “And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair,/And be like him, and he will then love me”?
(a) The Little Black Boy
(b) The Little Boy Found
(c) The Little Girl Lost
(d) The Chimney Sweeper
Answer: (a) The Little Black Boy

Q8. Blake once pushed a soldier out of his garden and all the way to a nearby inn, where the soldier was quartered. The soldier then charged Blake with what?
(a) Blasphemy
(b) Assault
(c) Sedition
(d) Battery
Answer: (c) Sedition

Q9. Complete this line from “The Tyger”: “Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the —- make thee?”
(a) Lamb
(b) Heart
(c) World
(d) Brain
Answer: (a) Lamb

Q10. Blake was a rousing success not only as a poet but also as a painter, with his one-man show drawing enormous crowds. Is this statement true or false?
(a) True
(b) False
Answer: (b) False

Q11. Which work contains a title page depicting a naked man throwing himself upon a scantily clad woman, while another woman looks on?
(a) The Four Zoas
(b) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(c) The Book of Thel
(d) Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Answer: (c) The Book of Thel

Q12. When he died, Blake had been working on illustrations for the writing of which author?
(a) Byron
(b) Boccacio
(c) Shelley
(d) Dante
Answer: (d) Dante

Q13. Whose sigh “runs in blood down Palace walls”?
(a) The Happless Soldier’s
(b) The Little Vagabond’s
(c) The Little Black Boy’s
(d) The Chimney Sweep’s
Answer: (a) The Happless Soldier’s

Q14. Which of the following books, according to Blake, contained all he knew?
(a) The Bible
(b) The Talmud
(c) The Inferno
(d) The Canterbury Tales
Answer: (a) The Bible

Q15. Who was “binding with briars” the poet’s “joys and desires” in “The Garden of Love”?
(a) His Wife
(b) Priests
(c) The Constable
(d) Christ
Answer: (b) Priests

Q1. Composed at Grasmere, in the —-, between 1802 and 1804, “Intimations of Immortality” was first published in poems in two volumes (1807).
(a) High street
(b) Blencathra
(c) Lake district
(d) Scafell pike
Answer: (c) Lake district

Q2. —- taught pre-existence, meaning that the soul dwelled in an ideal alternate state prior to its present occupation of the body, and the soul will return to that ideal previous state after the body’s death.
(a) Plato
(b) Immanuel
(c) Aristotle
(d) Bertrand Russell
Answer: (a) Plato

Q3. —- cantata Intimations of Immortality was premiered in 1950, when it was conducted by Herbert Sumsion in Gloucester Cathedral at the Three Choirs Festival.
(a) Edward Elgar’s
(b) Ralph Vaughan Williams
(c) Gerald Finzi’s
(d) Gustav Holst
Answer: (c) Gerald Finzi’s

Q4. The poem was read by actor Timothy West at the —- .
(a) Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
(b) Prince Harry of Wales
(c) Prince William of Wales
(d) Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles
Answer: (d) Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles

Q5. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of early childhood is a long ode in eleven sections by the english Romantic poet —- .
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) George Gordon Byron
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Romantic poetry
Answer: (a) William Wordsworth

Q1. In 1999, —- claimed that the poem “Tells a story that cannot be developed.
(a) Harry Patch
(b) Andrew Motion
(c) Carol Ann Duffy
(d) England
Answer: (b) Andrew Motion

Q2. This posed a problem for the —-, who were prone to closely reading a poem’s text.
(a) Literary criticism
(b) New historicism
(c) New criticism
(d) Literary theory
Answer: (c) New criticism

Q3. It is one of his “Great odes of 1819”, which include —-, ode on Melancholy, ode to a Nightingale and ode to Psyche.
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b) Romantic poetry
(c) Negative capability
(d) Ode on Indolence
Answer: (d) Ode on Indolence

Q4. The technique of the poem is —-, the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words.
(a) Aristotle
(b) Ekphrasis
(c) Poetry
(d) Homer
Answer: (b) Ekphrasis

Q5. There is a hint of a —- in that indulgence causes someone to be filled with desire and that music without a sound is desired by the soul.
(a) Aristotle
(b) Paradox
(c) Bertrand Russell
(d) Ambiguity
Answer: (b) Paradox

Q6. The nightingale experiences a sort of death and even the God —- experiences death, but his death reveals his own divine state.
(a) Artemis
(b) Apollo
(c) Greek mythology
(d) Hera
Answer: (b) Apollo

Q7. Of keats mix major odes of 1819, —- was probably written first and “To Autumn” written last
(a) Ode to Psyche
(b) John keats
(c) Cupid and Psyche
(d) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Answer: (a) Ode to Psyche

Q8. There is also an emphasis on words beginning with —-, especially those that begin with “b”, “p” or “v”.
(a) Palatal consonant
(b) Consonant
(c) Alveolar consonant
(d) Velar consonant
Answer: (b) Consonant

Q9. Furthermore, keats began to reduce the amount of —- based words and syntax that he relied on in his poetry, which in turn shortened the length of the words that dominate the poem.
(a) Vulgar latin
(b) Roman empire
(c) Old latin
(d) Latin
Answer: (d) Latin

Q10. According to Keats’s friend, —-, a nightingale had built its nest near his home in the spring of 1819
(a) John Keats
(b) Charles Armitage Brown
(c) London
(d) Charles Brown
Answer: (b) Charles Armitage Brown

Q11. He devoted his free time to studying work such as Robert Burton’s —- to further his own ideas
(a) Aristotle
(b) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(c) Medicine
(d) Major depressive disorder
Answer: (b) The Anatomy of Melancholy

Q12. His —- lacks hiatus and there is only a single instance medical inversion of an accent within the poem.
(a) Syntax
(b) Grammar
(c) Morphology
(d) Generative grammar
Answer: (a) Syntax

Q13. To Autumn is a poem written by English Romantic poet —- .
(a) George Gordon Byron
(b) Romantic poetry
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
(d) John Keats
Answer: (d) John Keats

Q14. The —- follows a pattern of starting with a Shakespearian ABAB pattern which is followed by CDEDCCE rhyme scheme.
(a) English poetry
(b) French poetry
(c) Poetry
(d) Rhyme
Answer: (d) Rhyme

Q15. The poem also defends art’s role in helping society in a manner similar to Keats’s —- and ode to Psyche.
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b) Ode to Nightingale
(c) Ode on Indolence
(d) John Keats
Answer: (c) Ode on Indolence

Q1. What is the Duke arranging in “My Last Duchess”?
(a) The Duchess’s funeral
(b) The painting of the Duchess’s portrait
(c) A new marriage for himself
(d) The sale of his art collection
Answer: (c) A new marriage for himself

Q2. What is the rhyme scheme of “My Last Duchess”?
(a) Enjambed blank verse
(b) Enjambed rhyming couplets
(c) End-stopped rhyming couplets
(d) End-stopped blank verse
Answer: (b) Enjambed rhyming couplets

Q3. Who was the author of “My Last Duchess”?
(a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(b) Lord Tennyson
(c) Arthur Hugh Clough
(d) Robert Browning
Answer: (d) Robert Browning

Q4. Who is presumed speaker of “My Last Duchess”?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara
(c) The Duchess of Ferrara
(d) Fra Pandolf
Answer: (b) Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara

Q5. What is the object of the Duke’s discussion at the beginning of the poem?
(a) The Duchess, who is standing by the wall
(b) A painting of the Duke
(c) Neptune
(d) A painting of the Duchess
Answer: (b) A painting of the Duke

Q6. How old does the Duke say his name is?
(a) 900
(b) 600
(c) 300
(d) 100
Answer: (a) 900

Q7. What is the current object of the Duke’s desire (as he sees it)?
(a) A painting
(b) A Neptune sculpture
(c) The duchess
(d) The count’s daughter
Answer: (d) The count’s daughter

Q8. Who was the sculptor of Neptune in the poem?
(a) Carlo crivelli
(b) Giotto di Bandone
(c) Claus of Innsbruck
(d) Lorenzo Ghiberti
Answer: (c) Claus of Innsbruck

Q9. What does the Duke say that he will never do?
(a) Love
(b) Hate
(c) Fear
(d) Stoop
Answer: (d) Stoop

Q10. What does the Duke say was one of the faults of the Duchess?
(a) She hated him
(b) She smiled too much
(c) She was never impressed
(d) She was a snob
Answer: (b) She smiled too much

Q1. Libba Bray’s book A Great and Terrible Beauty has a section of the poem as an introduction, as does Meg Cabot’s —- .
(a) Merlin
(b) King Arthur
(c) Avalon High
(d) Guinevere
Answer: (c) Avalon High

Q2. In the novel the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by —-, the title character recites the poem to her class (this is also done in the stage and film adaptations).
(a) Zimbabwe
(b) A.S. Byatt
(c) Muriel Spark
(d) Graham Greene
Answer: (c) Muriel Spark

Q3. —- painted three episodes from the poem.
(a) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(b) Royal Academy
(c) John Everett Millais
(d) John William Waterhouse
Answer: (d) John William Waterhouse

Q4. Who haunts Stephen throughout Ulysses?
(a) His father
(b) His mother
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Ulysses
Answer: (b) His mother

Q5. What does Stephen perceive Buck to be?
(a) Lover
(b) Muse
(c) Savior
(d) Usurper
Answer: (d) Usurper

Q6. “Dover Beach” is written in:
(a) iambic pentameter.
(b) unrhymed free verse.
(c) free verse with occasional rhymes.
(d) fully rhymed free verse.
Answer: (d) fully rhymed free verse.

Q7. The poem is set:
(a) on the English coast on a calm, moonlit night.
(b) on the French coast on a calm, moonlit night.
(c) on a darkling plain.
(d) on the English coast on a stormy night.
Answer: (a) on the English coast on a calm, moonlit night.

Q8. The roar of pebbles flung by the waves makes the speaker think of
(a) the steady march of human progress
(b) the unconquerable spirit of the generations of humanity.
(c) the eternal note of sadness.
(d) the beauty and strength of nature.
Answer: (c) the eternal note of sadness.

Q9. The reference to Sophocles is intended to suggest
(a) the irrelevance of the long-ago past to present-day issues.
(b) the ability of great art to heal the spirit.
(c) the uselessness of culture in dealing with the real world.
(d) the universality of the tragic in human experience.
Answer: (d) the universality of the tragic in human experience.

Q10. The image in the poem’s last three lines is an example of
(a) metaphor.
(b) simile.
(c) allusion.
Answer: (b) simile.

Q1. Who of the following did Ted Hughes influence?
(a) Processing (programming language)
(b) Sylvia Plath
(c) Dewi Zephaniah Phillips
(d) William Butler Yeats
Answer: (b) Sylvia Plath

Q2. Hughes studied English, anthropology and archaeology at —- .
(a) Trinity College, Cambridge
(b) Peterhouse, Cambridge
(c) Queens’ College, Cambridge
(d) Pembroke College, Cambridge
Answer: (d) Pembroke College, Cambridge

Q3. Which of the following titles did Ted Hughes have?
(a) Brain-Dead Poets Society
(b) Poet Laureate of Freemasonry
(c) British Poet Laureate
(d) The Distrest Poet
Answer: (c) British Poet Laureate

Q4. What proceeded Ted Hughes?
(a) Andrew Motion
(b) Ted Hughes
(c) England
(d) World War I
Answer: (a) Andrew Motion

Q5. When did Ted Hughes die?
(a) 1998-08-23
(b) 1998-11-23
(c) 1998-10-28
(d) 1998-08-16
Answer: (c) 1998-10-28

Q6. Which month is the “Cruellest”?
(a) September
(b) December
(c) April
(d) May
Answer: (c) April

Q7. Where is the Starnbergersee?
(a) Just outside London
(b) In Michigan
(c) In Paris
(d) Near Munich
Answer: (d) Near Munich

Q8. “The river sweats —-
(a) oil and tar.”
(b) fumes and fire.”
(c) saffron and lilac.”
(d) water.”
Answer: (a) oil and tar.”

Q9. Who is demobbed?
(a) Madame Sosostris
(b) Sweeney
(c) Prufrock
(d) Lil’s husband
Answer: (d) Lil’s husband

Q10. “Demobbed” means:
(a) “killed”
(b) “lynched”
(c) “awarded with a medal of honor”
(d) “released from the army”
Answer: (d) “released from the army”

Q11. What battle did Stetson supposedly participate in?
(a) the Battle of Britain
(b) the Battle of the Bulge
(c) Mylae
(d) Waterloo
Answer: (c) Mylae

Q12. Which of the following cities is mentioned in “The Waste Land”?
(a) Vienna
(b) Marseilles
(c) Novgorod
(d) Timbuktu
Answer: (a) Vienna

Q13. The opening section of “The Waste Land” is entitled:
(a) “The Burial of the Dead”
(b) “Death by Water”
(c) “The Fire Sermon”
(d) “Shantih”
Answer: (a) “The Burial of the Dead”

Q14. Who visits the typist?
(a) Mrs. Porter
(b) Prufrock
(c) The young man carbuncular
(d) A fradford Millionaire
Answer: (c) The young man carbuncular

Q15. Who witnesses the visit?
(a) Ezra Pound
(b) Madame Sosostris
(c) Tiresias
(d) Vivienne
Answer: (c) Tiresias

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