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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Master of Arts in English (MA English) .
| 51. |
Who was the greatest nature poet of England? |
| A. | william wordsworth |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | robert browning |
| D. | tennyson |
| Answer» A. william wordsworth | |
| 52. |
Lectures on Shakespeare is the work of………….. |
| A. | thomas hardy |
| B. | mathew arnold |
| C. | william thackeray |
| D. | coleridge |
| Answer» D. coleridge | |
| 53. |
William Blake’s political radicalism intensified during the years leading up to the….. |
| A. | communist movement |
| B. | french revolution |
| C. | romantic movement |
| D. | industrial revolution |
| Answer» B. french revolution | |
| 54. |
The poem ‘The Tyger’ was published in……. |
| A. | 1794 |
| B. | 1788 |
| C. | 1780 |
| D. | 1789 |
| Answer» A. 1794 | |
| 55. |
The poem ‘The Tyger’ is taken from |
| A. | songs of innocence |
| B. | songs of experience |
| C. | the four zoas |
| D. | the marriage of heaven and hell |
| Answer» B. songs of experience | |
| 56. |
Which of these poems uses dramatic monologue as a poetic form? |
| A. | wordsworth’s the prelude |
| B. | robert browning’s my last duchess |
| C. | tennyson’s in memoriam |
| D. | shelly’s adonais |
| Answer» B. robert browning’s my last duchess | |
| 57. |
……………..is regarded as the poet, who has spoken the strongest word of faith to an age of doubt |
| A. | browning |
| B. | tennyson |
| C. | blake |
| D. | scott |
| Answer» A. browning | |
| 58. |
An immense poem, twice as long as ‘Paradise Lost’, longer by some two thousand lines than the Iliad by Browning |
| A. | pippa passes |
| B. | the ring and the book |
| C. | saul |
| D. | cleon |
| Answer» B. the ring and the book | |
| 59. |
………………by Browning is an exquisite tribute to his dead wife. |
| A. | my star |
| B. | prospice |
| C. | one word more |
| D. | meeting at night |
| Answer» C. one word more | |
| 60. |
For ……………poem Tennyson got Chancellor’s Medal |
| A. | lyrical ballad |
| B. | timbuctoo |
| C. | merlin and the glean |
| D. | the princess |
| Answer» B. timbuctoo | |
| 61. |
……………wrote the song “ Tears, Idle Tears” |
| A. | browning |
| B. | tennyson |
| C. | blake |
| D. | keats |
| Answer» B. tennyson | |
| 62. |
……… poem of Tennyson was a long poem of over three thousand lines of blank verse. |
| A. | wages |
| B. | the princess |
| C. | the higher pantheism |
| D. | maud |
| Answer» D. maud | |
| 63. |
Browning’s ‘Pauline’ came in |
| A. | 1834 |
| B. | 1897 |
| C. | 1833 |
| D. | 1901 |
| Answer» C. 1833 | |
| 64. |
Wordsworth believes in the concept of ………… |
| A. | hellenism |
| B. | pantheism |
| C. | negative capability |
| D. | willing suspension of disbelief |
| Answer» B. pantheism | |
| 65. |
The concept of Pantheism believes in |
| A. | objectivity |
| B. | healing power of nature |
| C. | confession |
| D. | natural calamity |
| Answer» B. healing power of nature | |
| 66. |
Who brought the concept of negative capability? |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | keats |
| D. | shelly |
| Answer» C. keats | |
| 67. |
Whose epitaph contains “here lies one whose name was written in water” |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | blake |
| C. | john keats |
| D. | william wordsworth |
| Answer» C. john keats | |
| 68. |
Which is the high watermark f poetry in the 19th century? |
| A. | tintern abbey |
| B. | intimations of immortality |
| C. | stepping westward |
| D. | solitary reaper |
| Answer» B. intimations of immortality | |
| 69. |
In which of the followings spiritual appeal of nature is expressed in almost every line? |
| A. | to a highland girl |
| B. | stepping westward |
| C. | tintern abbey |
| D. | solitary reaper |
| Answer» C. tintern abbey | |
| 70. |
Who wrote Lucy poems |
| A. | scott |
| B. | donne |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | dryden |
| Answer» C. wordsworth | |
| 71. |
Who said that the poet was a ‘mere babbler’? |
| A. | scott |
| B. | byron |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | gibson |
| Answer» B. byron | |
| 72. |
Who wrote the “Witch of Atlas”? |
| A. | scott |
| B. | wordsworth |
| C. | blake |
| D. | shelley |
| Answer» D. shelley | |
| 73. |
Which character was the only one of Shelly’s character, who seems to be entirely human? |
| A. | prometheus |
| B. | hellas |
| C. | emilia |
| D. | beatrice |
| Answer» D. beatrice | |
| 74. |
Who wrote ‘Confession of an Opium Eater’? |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | de- quincey |
| D. | browne |
| Answer» C. de- quincey | |
| 75. |
Who wrote the critical essay ‘Literary Reminiscences’? |
| A. | shelley |
| B. | de quincey |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | burton |
| Answer» B. de quincey | |
| 76. |
Which of the following was not written by De Quincey? |
| A. | joan of arc |
| B. | the revlt of the tartars |
| C. | endymion |
| D. | the english mail- coach |
| Answer» C. endymion | |
| 77. |
In which out of the following we see the creations of Lamb’s humour and pathos? |
| A. | old china |
| B. | dissertation on roast rig |
| C. | a chapter on ears |
| D. | imperfect sympathies |
| Answer» B. dissertation on roast rig | |
| 78. |
Heath Cliff is the main character in the novel |
| A. | 1 and 2 |
| B. | 1 and 4 |
| C. | 3 and 4 |
| D. | 3 and 2 |
| Answer» A. 1 and 2 | |
| 79. |
“ I will show you a heroine as plain and small as myself” |
| A. | this is emily bronte in wuthering heights |
| B. | this is charlotte bronte in jane eyre |
| C. | this is george eliot in romola |
| D. | this is anne bronte in agnes grey |
| Answer» B. this is charlotte bronte in jane eyre | |
| 80. |
Here is the list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels. Pick the odd one out |
| A. | fanny robin |
| B. | tess d’urberville |
| C. | marty south |
| D. | bathsheba everdene |
| Answer» D. bathsheba everdene | |
| 81. |
A noble and inspiring books f love poems by Miss Barret |
| A. | the cry of the children |
| B. | sonnets from the portuguese |
| C. | lady geraldine’s courtship |
| D. | casa guidi windows |
| Answer» C. lady geraldine’s courtship | |
| 82. |
………………..was the leader in the Pre- Raphaelite Movement |
| A. | tennyson |
| B. | browning |
| C. | rossetti |
| D. | blake |
| Answer» C. rossetti | |
| 83. |
“ The sea is calm tonight The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits, on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone, the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay Come to the window, sweet is the night air” |
| A. | this is dg rossetti in ‘house of life’ |
| B. | this is christina rossetti in ‘goblin market and other poems’ |
| C. | this is swinburne in ‘songs of italy’ |
| D. | this is mathew arnold in ‘dover beach’ |
| Answer» D. this is mathew arnold in ‘dover beach’ | |
| 84. |
Which of the following is in the chronological order? |
| A. | morte d’ arthur, in memoriam, vanity fair |
| B. | vanity fair, in memoriam, morte d’ arthur |
| C. | morte d’ arthur, vanity fair, in memoriam |
| D. | in memoriam, vanity fair, morte d’ arthur |
| Answer» C. morte d’ arthur, vanity fair, in memoriam | |
| 85. |
Oscar Wild’s time period is from |
| A. | 1834 to 1896 |
| B. | 1839 to 1894 |
| C. | 1840 to 1948 |
| D. | 1856 to 1900 |
| Answer» D. 1856 to 1900 | |
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