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190+ General English Solved MCQs

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Chapter: Sonnet 116 and Death be not proud
1.

William Shakespeare was born in the year:

A. 1588
B. 1564
C. 1616
D. 1600
Answer» B. 1564
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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
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3.

Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______

A. seen
B. sees
C. finds
D. meets
Answer» C. finds
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4.

Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks

A. hours
B. minutes
C. honours
D. times
Answer» A. hours
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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
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6.

From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be

A. melancholy
B. statements
C. pictures
D. remembrances
Answer» C. pictures
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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
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8.

One short sleep past, we wake ___________

A. eternally
B. immortally
C. extraordinarily
D. inevitably
Answer» A. eternally
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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
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10.

The remover who comes with his bending sickle is

A. Time
B. Distance
C. Society
D. Hardships
Answer» A. Time
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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
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12.

Love does not alter with brief hours and

A. Minutes
B. Weeks
C. Days
D. Seconds
Answer» B. Weeks
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13.

John Donne is

A. Afraid of death
B. Challenging death
C. Submitting to death
D. Resisting death
Answer» B. Challenging death
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14.

According to Donne, death is a slave to

A. Poison
B. Chance
C. Sleep
D. Fate
Answer» B. Chance
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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21.

Shakespeare compares true love to-

A. a sun
B. the guiding star
C. the moon
D. a compass
Answer» B. the guiding star
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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29.

And soonest our __________ with thee do go

A. Best kings
B. Best charms
C. Best men
D. Desperate men
Answer» C. Best men
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30.

The poem, ‘Death be not proud,’ is

A. An elegy
B. A ballad
C. A sonnet
D. An epic
Answer» C. A sonnet
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31.

Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.

A. Changes
B. Shifts
C. Moves
D. Alters
Answer» D. Alters
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32.

Sonnet 116 is composed by

A. William Shakespeer
B. William Shakespeare
C. William Shakepeare
D. William Shakespear
Answer» B. William Shakespeare
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33.

In Sonnet 116, True love is

A. Constant
B. Consistent
C. Continuous
D. Consuming
Answer» A. Constant
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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
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35.

True love does not change with

A. time
B. backward
C. fall
D. conclusion
Answer» A. time
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36.

True love is

A. Immortal
B. Mortal
C. Dishonest
D. corrupt
Answer» A. Immortal
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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
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38.

Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and

A. queens
B. luck
C. charms
D. desperate men
Answer» D. desperate men
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39.

Love's not Time's

A. Friend
B. Foe
C. Fiend
D. Fool
Answer» D. Fool
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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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Chapter: ODE to Autumn and Prayer for my Daughter
41.

Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.

A. hopefulness
B. serenity
C. calmness
D. conspiracy
Answer» B. serenity
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42.

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor

A. marble
B. wooden
C. half-reaped
D. granary
Answer» D. granary
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43.

John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:

A. 26
B. 39
C. 45
D. 23
Answer» A. 26
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44.

Yeats wrote “A Prayer for My Daughter” after the birth of his daughter Anne in:

A. 1865
B. 1919
C. 1939
D. 1914
Answer» B. 1919
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45.

May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger’s eye _______

A. captivated
B. distracted
C. distraught
D. wander
Answer» C. distraught
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46.

Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will

A. God’s
B. Heaven’s
C. her
D. thine
Answer» B. Heaven’s
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47.

How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?

A. innocence
B. truth
C. nature
D. grace
Answer» A. innocence
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48.

Autumn is the season of mists and

A. Ripe fruitfulness
B. Mellow fruitfulness
C. Soft fruitfulness
D. Juicy fruitfulness
Answer» B. Mellow fruitfulness
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49.

The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir

A. Among the river sallows
B. Among the river bushes
C. Among the river willows
D. Among the river plants
Answer» A. Among the river sallows
discuss
50.

Autumn is called the bosom friend of the

A. Blazing sun
B. Bright sun
C. Maturing sun
D. Gigantic sun
Answer» C. Maturing sun
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