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QN1: “Ulysses” is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in — and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry

a. 1833

b. 1844

c. 1855

d. 1822

Answer

Answer: a. 1833

QN2: Blank verse is —written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters.

a. Poem

b. Poetry

c. Prose

d. Literature

Answer

Answer: b. Poetry

QN3: Ulysses has returned to his kingdom, —, having had a long, eventful journey home after fighting in the Trojan War.

a. Rome

b. Ithaca

c. Paris

d. England

Answer

Answer: b. Ithaca

QN4: In which line Ulysses expresses his lack of contentment, including his indifference toward the “savage race” ,that he governs?

a. Line 5

b. Line 4

c. Line 6

d. Line 7

Answer

Answer: b. Line 4

QN5: There is often a marked contrast between the sentiment of Ulysses’ —and the sounds that express them.

a. Words

b. Sentiments

c. Commitment

d. Sentences

Answer

Answer: a. Words

QN6: Which university did Tennyson attend as an undergraduate?

a. Oxford

b. Cambridge

c. Harvard

d. Yale

Answer

Answer: b. Cambridge

QN7: All of the following poems mention bells EXCEPT

a. “The Epic”

b. “Ulysses”

c. “In Memoriam”

d. “Crossing the Bar”

Answer

Answer: b. “Ulysses”

QN8: Which Romantic poet was still alive when Tennyson published his 1842 collection?

a. William Wordsworth

b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

c. John Keats

d. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer

Answer: a. William Wordsworth

QN9: The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following except ___.

a. the Trojan War

b. Homer

c. quest

d. Christ

Answer

Answer: d. Christ

QN10: ___ is the most representative Victorian poet whose poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.

a. Robert Browning

b. Alfred Tennyson

c. George

d. Thomas Hardy

Answer

Answer: b. Alfred Tennyson

QN11: “Dover Beach” is a long lyric —by the English poet Matthew Arnold.

a. Poem

b. Prose

c. Literature

d. Poetry

Answer

Answer: a. Poem

QN12: In Stefan Collini’s opinion, “Dover Beach” is a —poem to analyze

a. Easy

b. Difficult

c. More difficult

d. More easy

Answer

Answer: b. Difficult

QN13: In which year “Dover Beach” was first published in the collection New Poems?

a. 1869

b. 1867

c. 1868

d. 1860

Answer

Answer: b. 1867

QN14: After how many years of composition of “Dover Beach” was published in 1867.

a. Almost 160 years

b. Almost 150 years

c. Almost 170 years

d. Almost 180 years

?

Answer

Answer: b. Almost 150 years

QN15: Sophocles, a — BC Greek playwright who wrote tragedies on fate and the will of the gods?

a. 6th-century

b. 7th-century

c. 5th-century

d. 8th-century

Answer

Answer: c. 5th-century

QN16: The —stanza begins with an appeal to love, then moves on to the famous ending metaphor.

a. Second

b. First

c. Final

d. Nine

Answer

Answer: b. First

QN17: Which line gives us two simple, basic facts?

a. First

b. Second

c. Third

d. Fourth

Answer

Answer: a. First

QN18: Who was one of the great Greek authors of tragic plays?

a. Sophocles

b. Aristotle

c. Keats

d. Shelly

Answer

Answer: a. Sophocles

QN19: According to Tinker and Lowry, “a draft of the first twenty-eight lines of the poem” was written in —.

a. Pen

b. Color

c. Pencil

d. Ink

Answer

Answer: c. Pencil

QN20: Ian McEwan quotes part of the poem in his novel—?

a. Saturday (2005)

b. Saturday (2006)

c. Saturday (2007)

d. Saturday (2008)

Answer

Answer: a. Saturday (2005)

QN21: “She Walks in Beauty” is a poem written in 1813 by—.

a. Milton

b. Thomas Wyatt

c. Dante

d. Lord Byron

Answer

Answer: d. Lord Byron

QN22: In which the poet describes a woman who “walks in beauty, like the night/of cloudless climes and starry skies”.

a. Lines 2-3

b. Lines 1-2

c. Lines 4-5

d. Lines 6-7

Answer

Answer: b. Lines 1-2

QN23: The —verses are cited in the novel The Philadelphian by Richard P. Powell.

a. First two

b. First three

c. First four

d. First five

Answer

Answer: a. First two

QN24: Byron continued to produce poetry until the end of his life in—.

a. 1824

b. 1822

c. 1823

d. 1825

Answer

Answer: a. 1824

QN25: At which age Byron died?

a. 34

b. 37

c. 36

d. 38

Answer

Answer: c. 36

QN26: “She Walks in Beauty” is an —poem, much shorter than Byron’s famous narrative poems.

a. Nineteen-line

b. Eighteen-line

c. Sixteen-line

d. Seventeen-line

Answer

Answer: b. Eighteen-line

QN27: The contrast between light and dark that was first brought up by the “starry skies” in line 2 is repeated and developed—.

a. In line 4

b. In line 3

c. In line 5

d. In line 6

Answer

Answer: b. In line 3

QN28: When was “She Walks in Beauty” – poem written?

a. 1814

b. 1815

c. 1813

d. 1818

Answer

Answer: a. 1814

QN29: “My Last Duchess” is a poem by —

a. Robert Browning

b. Shelly

c. Tennyson

d. PremChand

Answer

Answer: a. Robert Browning

QN30: “The Last Ride Together” comprises of — stanzas.

a. Eleven

b. Twelve

c. Ten

d. Six

Answer

Answer: c. Ten

QN31: Browning published “My Last Duchess” in — in a book of poems titled Dramatic Lyrics.

a. 1842

b. 1845

c. 1846

d. 1847

Answer

Answer: a. 1842

QN32: “My Last Duchess” comprises rhyming —lines.

a. Hexameter

b. Pentameter

c. Heptameter

d. All of the above

Answer

Answer: b. Pentameter

QN33: In which year “The Last Right Together” was published.

a. 1855

b. 1856

c. 1858

d. 1857

Answer

Answer: a. 1855

QN34: After how many years later “The Last Right Together” was again published and included in Dramatic Romances.

a. 90 years

b. 70 years

c. 60 years

d. 80 years

Answer

Answer: d. 80 years

QN35: The ride begins in which stanza.

a. First

b. Second

c. Fifth

d. Fourth

Answer

Answer: d. Fourth

QN36: Ode to a Nightingale” is a poem by John Keats written in —.

a. May 1819

b. May 1820

c. May 1821

d. May 1822

Answer

Answer: a. May 1819

QN37: In which year “To Autumn” -a poem was composed by English Romantic poet John Keats.

a. 20 September 1819

b. 21 September 1819

c. 19 September 1819

d. 23 September 1819

Answer

Answer: c. 19 September 1819

QN38: “Hemlock” is the poison that the Greek philosopher— took when he was put to death for corrupting the youth.

a. Aristotle

b. Keats

c. Shelly

d. Socrates

Answer

Answer: d. Socrates

QN39: Hippocrene is the “fountain of the Muses,” a group of — women Service.

a. Eight

b. Nine

c. Ten

d. Six

Answer

Answer: a. Eight

QN40: The rhyme of “To Autumn” follows a pattern of starting each stanza with an —

a. pattern.

b. ASRW

c. AHAH

d. ACAC

e. ABAB

Answer

Answer: e. ABAB