McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Master of Arts in English (MA English) , English (CBCS) .
Chapters
| 1. |
only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___ |
| A. | duty |
| B. | job |
| C. | task |
| D. | systems |
| Answer» C. task | |
| 2. |
according to Arnold, poetry interprets life in ____ ways. |
| A. | one |
| B. | two |
| C. | three |
| D. | four |
| Answer» B. two | |
| 3. |
the first great principle of criticism emancipated by Arnold is __________ |
| A. | Disinterestedness |
| B. | Detachment |
| C. | Discernment |
| D. | Disaffectation |
| Answer» A. Disinterestedness | |
| 4. |
Poetry according to Arnold, attaches its emotion to the |
| A. | theme |
| B. | style |
| C. | idea |
| D. | diction |
| Answer» D. diction | |
| 5. |
According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is |
| A. | Gray |
| B. | Pope |
| C. | Burns |
| D. | Milton |
| Answer» A. Gray | |
| 6. |
Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason |
| A. | Milton |
| B. | Gray |
| C. | Dryden |
| D. | Pope |
| Answer» D. Pope | |
| 7. |
In the study of poetry Arnold writes that we have to turn to poetry to |
| A. | understand life and to sustain us |
| B. | interpret life and to control us |
| C. | interpret life and to console and sustain us |
| D. | understand life and to strengthen us |
| Answer» C. interpret life and to console and sustain us | |
| 8. |
What confuses the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound, true and untrue or only half-true in poetry? |
| A. | Charlatanism |
| B. | Philistinism |
| C. | Estimates |
| D. | High seriousness |
| Answer» A. Charlatanism | |
| 9. |
The definition of poetry as enunciated by Matthew Arnold in 'The Study of Poetry" is |
| A. | A spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings |
| B. | A criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty |
| C. | A just and lively image of human nature, to delight and instruct mankind |
| D. | An imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of certain magnitude |
| Answer» B. A criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty | |
| 10. |
What has the power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can? |
| A. | Excellent prose |
| B. | Criticism |
| C. | The best poetry |
| D. | Drama |
| Answer» C. The best poetry | |
| 11. |
According to Matthew Arnold, Chaucer is not one of the great classics because |
| A. | His poetry does not transcend and efface the poetry of Catholic Christendom |
| B. | His verse lacks liquidness and fluidity. |
| C. | his poetry lacks virtue of manner and movement |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 12. |
According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is – |
| A. | a criticism of life |
| B. | spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings |
| C. | an escape from personality |
| D. | the sensuous way of expression |
| Answer» A. a criticism of life | |
| 13. |
Who, according to Arnold is the father of English poetry? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Wordsworth |
| C. | Chaucer |
| D. | Dryden |
| Answer» B. Wordsworth | |
| 14. |
In The Study of Poetry, Arnold puts stress on _______________ in poetry. |
| A. | bright humour |
| B. | high seriousness |
| C. | sensuousness |
| D. | want of seriousness |
| Answer» B. high seriousness | |
| 15. |
The ‘touchstone method’ was propagated by – |
| A. | Matthew Arnold |
| B. | T.S. Eliot |
| C. | F.R. Leavis |
| D. | William Wordsworth |
| Answer» A. Matthew Arnold | |
| 16. |
Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English __________. |
| A. | fiction |
| B. | poetry |
| C. | prose |
| D. | morals |
| Answer» C. prose | |
| 17. |
“The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can” was said by – |
| A. | William Wordsworth |
| B. | Matthew Arnold |
| C. | John Dryden |
| D. | Alexander Pope |
| Answer» B. Matthew Arnold | |
| 18. |
Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of – |
| A. | Matthew Arnold |
| B. | F.R. Leavis |
| C. | T.S. Eliot |
| D. | Samuel Johnson |
| Answer» C. T.S. Eliot | |
| 19. |
What attaches its emotion to facts according to Arnold? |
| A. | Poetry |
| B. | Prose |
| C. | Religion |
| D. | Tradition |
| Answer» C. Religion | |
| 20. |
How should we conceive poetry as advocated by Arnold? |
| A. | Worthily and Highly |
| B. | Highly and Mightily |
| C. | Worthily and Prayerful |
| D. | Mighty and Powerful |
| Answer» A. Worthily and Highly | |
| 21. |
What did Arnold say will appear incomplete if not for poetry? |
| A. | Religion |
| B. | Philosophy |
| C. | Science |
| D. | Knowledge |
| Answer» C. Science | |
| 22. |
Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between |
| A. | Excellent and inferior |
| B. | Sound and unsound |
| C. | True and untrue |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» A. Excellent and inferior | |
| 23. |
In poetry, as a criticism of life, the spirit of our race will find its _____________ |
| A. | Consolation |
| B. | Beauty |
| C. | Truth |
| D. | Sanctity |
| Answer» A. Consolation | |
| 24. |
Mathew Arnold said that the best poetry will be found to have a power of |
| A. | Informing, observing and delighting |
| B. | Guiding, reforming and appreciating |
| C. | Binding, combining and structuring |
| D. | Forming, sustaining and delighting |
| Answer» D. Forming, sustaining and delighting | |
| 25. |
The different kinds of estimations propounded by Arnold were |
| A. | Historical, Personal and Real |
| B. | Didactic, Prosaic and Autotelic |
| C. | Personal, Historical, Complete |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Historical, Personal and Real | |
| 26. |
Arnold was of the view that Chaucer’s superiority is found in his______ |
| A. | Diction and subject |
| B. | Manner and style |
| C. | Style and substance |
| D. | Form and subject |
| Answer» C. Style and substance | |
| 27. |
Which quality is not needful for a fit prose according to Arnold? |
| A. | Regularity |
| B. | Precision |
| C. | Balance |
| D. | Exclusivity |
| Answer» D. Exclusivity | |
| 28. |
Poetry is a criticism of life under the ______ fixed for such a criticism |
| A. | Laws |
| B. | Ideals |
| C. | Morals. |
| D. | Conditions |
| Answer» D. Conditions | |
| 29. |
Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______ |
| A. | Prose |
| B. | Morals |
| C. | Fiction |
| D. | Poetry |
| Answer» A. Prose | |
| 30. |
In the age of Pope and Dryden, Arnold regards _________ as a unique poet. |
| A. | Milton |
| B. | Keats |
| C. | Pope |
| D. | Gray |
| Answer» D. Gray | |
| 31. |
Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________ |
| A. | Milton |
| B. | Wordsworth |
| C. | Shakespeare |
| D. | Shelley |
| Answer» C. Shakespeare | |
| 32. |
Arnold states, “But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of |
| A. | godlike illusion” |
| B. | human illusion” |
| C. | divine illusion” |
| D. | wonderful illusion” |
| Answer» C. divine illusion” | |
| 33. |
“Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea: the idea is the |
| A. | fact” |
| B. | knowledge” |
| C. | history” |
| D. | theory” |
| Answer» A. fact” | |
| 34. |
Arnold states, “The strongest part of our religion is its |
| A. | unconscious verses” |
| B. | unconscious poetry” |
| C. | unconscious lyrics” |
| D. | unconscious history” |
| Answer» B. unconscious poetry” | |
| 35. |
Arnold believes that without poetry, “Science will appear |
| A. | complete” |
| B. | incomplete” |
| C. | immature |
| D. | undefined” |
| Answer» B. incomplete” | |
| 36. |
Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the |
| A. | ideal estimate |
| B. | principal estimate |
| C. | critical estimate |
| D. | real estimate |
| Answer» D. real estimate | |
| 37. |
To Arnold, the superiority of best poetry is marked by the superior character of |
| A. | truth and seriousness |
| B. | truth and ideas |
| C. | seriousness and knowledge |
| D. | knowledge and truth |
| Answer» A. truth and seriousness | |
| 38. |
Arnold defines poetry as |
| A. | ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’. |
| B. | ‘The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge’. |
| C. | ‘Not an expression of emotion, but as escape from emotion’. |
| D. | ‘A speaking picture with its end, to teach and delight’. |
| Answer» A. ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’. | |
| 39. |
The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of |
| A. | Disinterestedness or detachment |
| B. | Response to rhythm and metre |
| C. | Speculation and theorisation |
| D. | Measurement of knowledge |
| Answer» A. Disinterestedness or detachment | |
| 40. |
Which poet does Arnold say lack ‘the high seriousness of the great classics’? |
| A. | Chaucer |
| B. | Dryden |
| C. | Pope |
| D. | Burns |
| Answer» A. Chaucer | |
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