McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: English (CBCS) .
Chapters
| 1. |
William Shakespeare was born in the year: |
| A. | 1588 |
| B. | 1564 |
| C. | 1616 |
| D. | 1600 |
| Answer» B. 1564 | |
| 2. |
Sonnet 116 shares the poet’s reflections on the nature of: |
| A. | ideal love |
| B. | ideal companionship |
| C. | ideal moments |
| D. | ideal friendship |
| Answer» A. ideal love | |
| 3. |
Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______ |
| A. | seen |
| B. | sees |
| C. | finds |
| D. | meets |
| Answer» C. finds | |
| 4. |
Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks |
| A. | hours |
| B. | minutes |
| C. | honours |
| D. | times |
| Answer» A. hours | |
| 5. |
“Death be not Proud” first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in 1633. |
| A. | Holy Sonnet IX |
| B. | Holy Sonnet X |
| C. | Holy Sonnet III |
| D. | Holy Sonnet XI |
| Answer» B. Holy Sonnet X | |
| 6. |
From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be |
| A. | melancholy |
| B. | statements |
| C. | pictures |
| D. | remembrances |
| Answer» C. pictures | |
| 7. |
And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul’s delivery |
| A. | bones |
| B. | bodies |
| C. | leaps |
| D. | souls |
| Answer» A. bones | |
| 8. |
One short sleep past, we wake ___________ |
| A. | eternally |
| B. | immortally |
| C. | extraordinarily |
| D. | inevitably |
| Answer» A. eternally | |
| 9. |
Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is |
| A. | An allegory |
| B. | An epic |
| C. | A sonnet |
| D. | A metaphysical poem |
| Answer» C. A sonnet | |
| 10. |
The remover who comes with his bending sickle is |
| A. | Time |
| B. | Distance |
| C. | Society |
| D. | Hardships |
| Answer» A. Time | |
| 11. |
Love is not love if it alters |
| A. | With every season |
| B. | For any reason |
| C. | With time |
| D. | When beauty fades |
| Answer» B. For any reason | |
| 12. |
Love does not alter with brief hours and |
| A. | Minutes |
| B. | Weeks |
| C. | Days |
| D. | Seconds |
| Answer» B. Weeks | |
| 13. |
John Donne is |
| A. | Afraid of death |
| B. | Challenging death |
| C. | Submitting to death |
| D. | Resisting death |
| Answer» B. Challenging death | |
| 14. |
According to Donne, death is a slave to |
| A. | Poison |
| B. | Chance |
| C. | Sleep |
| D. | Fate |
| Answer» B. Chance | |
| 15. |
According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is |
| A. | Sleep |
| B. | Poison |
| C. | Poppy |
| D. | Dreams |
| Answer» C. Poppy | |
| 16. |
Rest of their bones refers to |
| A. | The bones of everyone |
| B. | The bones of poets |
| C. | The bones of our best men |
| D. | The bones of rich men |
| Answer» C. The bones of our best men | |
| 17. |
“Sonnet 116” is a record of the poet’s reflections on the nature of |
| A. | classical love |
| B. | friendship love |
| C. | romantic love |
| D. | ideal love |
| Answer» D. ideal love | |
| 18. |
“Death, be not proud” first appeared as ‘Holy Sonnet X’ in Songs and Sonnets, a collection of 19 sonnets published in |
| A. | 1632 |
| B. | 1633 |
| C. | 1639 |
| D. | 1640 |
| Answer» B. 1633 | |
| 19. |
Shakespeare’s notion of ideal love in “Sonnet 116” is juxtaposed with the problems of |
| A. | Instability |
| B. | Unsteadiness |
| C. | Unfaithfulness |
| D. | flux and change |
| Answer» D. flux and change | |
| 20. |
According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more |
| A. | Pain |
| B. | Hunger |
| C. | Grief |
| D. | Death |
| Answer» D. Death | |
| 21. |
Shakespeare compares true love to- |
| A. | a sun |
| B. | the guiding star |
| C. | the moon |
| D. | a compass |
| Answer» B. the guiding star | |
| 22. |
What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare? |
| A. | Even the strongest love is temporary |
| B. | True love remains steady |
| C. | Age and time alter love |
| D. | Love changes as life changes |
| Answer» B. True love remains steady | |
| 23. |
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not _________. |
| A. | love |
| B. | true |
| C. | alter |
| D. | steady |
| Answer» A. love | |
| 24. |
In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented ‘death’ as a – |
| A. | powerless figure |
| B. | powerful figure |
| C. | murderer |
| D. | ruler over his soul |
| Answer» A. powerless figure | |
| 25. |
Donne considers death an immense pleasure similar to – |
| A. | sleep and fun |
| B. | fun and game |
| C. | sleep and rest |
| D. | rest and game |
| Answer» C. sleep and rest | |
| 26. |
The poet of, ‘Death be not proud,’ is |
| A. | John Keats |
| B. | John Donne |
| C. | John Dryden |
| D. | John Milton |
| Answer» B. John Donne | |
| 27. |
‘Death be not proud,’ is a poem of |
| A. | 10 lines |
| B. | 14 lines |
| C. | 12 lines |
| D. | 16 lines |
| Answer» B. 14 lines | |
| 28. |
_________ are the pictures of Death |
| A. | War and sickness |
| B. | Rest and sleep |
| C. | Mighty and dreadful |
| D. | Chance and fate |
| Answer» B. Rest and sleep | |
| 29. |
And soonest our __________ with thee do go |
| A. | Best kings |
| B. | Best charms |
| C. | Best men |
| D. | Desperate men |
| Answer» C. Best men | |
| 30. |
The poem, ‘Death be not proud,’ is |
| A. | An elegy |
| B. | A ballad |
| C. | A sonnet |
| D. | An epic |
| Answer» C. A sonnet | |
| 31. |
Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds. |
| A. | Changes |
| B. | Shifts |
| C. | Moves |
| D. | Alters |
| Answer» D. Alters | |
| 32. |
Sonnet 116 is composed by |
| A. | William Shakespeer |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | William Shakepeare |
| D. | William Shakespear |
| Answer» B. William Shakespeare | |
| 33. |
In Sonnet 116, True love is |
| A. | Constant |
| B. | Consistent |
| C. | Continuous |
| D. | Consuming |
| Answer» A. Constant | |
| 34. |
According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the |
| A. | endpoint |
| B. | edge of doom |
| C. | antemeridian |
| D. | postmeridian |
| Answer» B. edge of doom | |
| 35. |
True love does not change with |
| A. | time |
| B. | backward |
| C. | fall |
| D. | conclusion |
| Answer» A. time | |
| 36. |
True love is |
| A. | Immortal |
| B. | Mortal |
| C. | Dishonest |
| D. | corrupt |
| Answer» A. Immortal | |
| 37. |
In ‘Death be not proud’ the poet argues about the |
| A. | mightiness of death |
| B. | powerlessness of death |
| C. | foulness of death |
| D. | vileness of death |
| Answer» B. powerlessness of death | |
| 38. |
Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and |
| A. | queens |
| B. | luck |
| C. | charms |
| D. | desperate men |
| Answer» D. desperate men | |
| 39. |
Love's not Time's |
| A. | Friend |
| B. | Foe |
| C. | Fiend |
| D. | Fool |
| Answer» D. Fool | |
| 40. |
Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____ |
| A. | Poor Men |
| B. | Rich Men |
| C. | Desperate Men |
| D. | Honest Men |
| Answer» C. Desperate Men | |
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