Quiz 1
1. It was during the ……….period that England came to be called 'The Nest of Singing Birds'.
a) Elizabethan
b) Neoclassical
c) Pre-Romantic
d) Romantic
2. Two great Elizabethan poets were ………………
a) Donne and Herbert
b) Pope and Dryden
c) Wordsworth and Coleridge
d) Sidney and Spenser
3. In his Apology for Poetry, …….. defends poetry on the ground of its unique power to teach.
a) Sidney
b) Spenser
c) Shakespeare
d) Milton
4. With The Faerie Queene, …….. achieved the central poem of the
Elizabethan period.
a) Ben Jonson b) Spenser
c) Sidney
d) Donne
5.The sonnet flourished greatly in the……………..period.
a) Elizabethan
b) Neoclassical
c) Pre-Romantic
d) Romantic
6. The earliest sonnets are attributed to an Italian poet called …………
a) Spenser
a) Shakespeare
b) Sidney
c) Petrarch
8. The ……….period was characterized by an extreme spirit of adventure, aestheticism and materialism
a) Elizabethan
b) Neoclassical
c) Pre-Romantic
d) Romantic
QUIZ 2
9. ‘I Find No Peace’ is a poem written by……. a) William Shakespeare
b) George Herbert.
c) Robert Herrick.
d) Sir Thomas Wyatt
10. The main theme of ‘I Find No Peace’ is…………..
a) suffering in love.
b) death.
c) friendship.
d) happiness.
11. ‘I Find No Peace’is a poem which is mainly built on the use……
a) simile.
b) personification.
c) paradox.
d) hyperbole.
12. In ‘I ... freeze like ice', from ' I Find No Peace,’ there is an example of……..
a) personification.
b) metaphor.
c) pun.
d) simile. 13. In 'Nor letteth me live nor die at my device', from ‘I
Find No Peace', the consonant /l/ comes at the beginning of the words 'letteth' and 'live' giving an example of ……….
a) stress.
b) assonance.
c) consonance.
d) alliteration.
14. In 'And my delight is causer of this strife ', from ‘I Find
No Peace', the vowel /ai/ is repeated in the words 'my',
'delight' and 'strife', giving an example of ……….
a) assonance.
b) consonance
c) alliteration.
d) repetition.
QUIZ 3
15. ‘On My First Son’ is an example of …….poetry.
a) satirical b) elegiac c) pastoral d) descriptive. 16. ………is the main theme of ‘On My First Son’. a) The sense of loss and sorrow b) Loyalty c) Love d) The sense of delight and happiness
17. 'On My First Son' is an address from……….
a) a son to a father b) a father to a mother c) a father to a daughter d) a father to a son 18. In ‘Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy’, from 'On My First Son', the image is…….
a) simile b) apostrophe c) personification d) paradox. 19. ‘On My First Son’ is a poem written by……
a) Edmund Spenser.
b) Ben Jonson
c) William Wordsworth
d) Christopher Marlowe
20. In 'Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy:', from 'On My First Son', the underlined words show an example of:
a) assonance b) consonance
c) alliteration
d) stress
21. In 'To have so soone scap'd worlds, and fleshes rage'
', from 'On My First Son', the /s/ sound is repeated in the initial position of more than one word, and this technical device is called……………..
a) assonance
b) consonance
c) alliteration
d) stress
QUIZ 4
22. ' How like a winter hath my absence been ' is a poem written by………..
a) William Shakespeare
b) Ben Jonson
c) Sir Thomas Wyatt
d) Robert Herrick 23. 'How like a winter hath my absence been' is a poem in which the writer compares the separation from his beloved to…………. a) summer.
b) winter.
c) spring.
d) autumn.
24. The main theme of ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ is……. a) summer.
b) winter.
c) separation from the beloved
d) autumn
25. ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’, is a poem which is mainly built on a….
a) metaphor
b) paradox
c) personification
d) simile
26. ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ is a sonnet of 14 lines divided into……
a) an octave and a sestet.
b) three quatrains and a concluding couplet. c) a sestet and two quatrains.
d) two sestets and a concluding couplets.
27. In 'Like widow’d wombs after their lords’ decease', from‘How like a winter hath my absence been’, there is an example of……..
a) pun
b) hyberbole
c) simile
d) metaphor
QUIZ 5
28. ' one day I wrote her nam ' is a poem written by………..
a) Sir Philip Sidney b) John Milton c) John Donne d) Edmund Spenser 29. The image in '… but you shall live by fame, from ‘One
Day I Wrote Her
Name…’, is…………...
a) apostrophe. b) simile. c) personification. d) metaphor. 30. In ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name….’, the main theme is………..
a) the mortality of love
b) the end of love
c) the loss of love
d) the immortality of love
31. In ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name….’ the poet tells us that he has tried many times to write the name of his beloved in the sand, but the waves……….it.
a) keep
b) show
c) clarify
d) remove
32. In 'Our love shall live, and later life renew', from ‘One
Day I Wrote Her Name….’, the repetition of the sound /l/ in the initial position of more than one word gives an example of…………….
a) assonance
b) alliteration
c) consonance
d) stress QUIZ 6
33. The term 'metaphysical' refers to a style of ...poetry.
a) 15th Century
b) 16th Century
c) 17th Century
d) 18th Century.
34. …… was the most influential metaphysical poet.
a) John Donne
b) William Shakespeare
c) Edmund Spenser
d) Sir Philip Sidney
35.… poetry is described as the 'poetry of strong lines'.
a) Elizabethan
b) Neoclassical
c) Metaphysical
d) Romantic
36. Donne dedicated his Holy Sonnets to….…….
a) Henry Vaughn
b) Andrew Marvel
c) George Herbert d) His wife.
37. Metaphysical poets were fond of using……..….in their poems.
a) similes b) apostrophes. c) personifications d) conceits 38. Metaphysical poets reacted against the smooth and sweet tones of
much ……………. verse.
a) fourteenth b) fifteenth c) sixteenth d) seventeenth 39. A metaphysical poem often has …………….opening:
a) a common b) a conventional c) an unusual d) an ordinary
QUIZ 7
40. 'The Broken Heart' is a poem written by…………..
a) John Donne
b) William Shakespeare
c) Edmund Spenser d) Sir Thomas Wyatt.
41. In 'The Broken Heart', the speaker declares that any man who claims he has been in love for an hour is ……..
a) Wise.
b) clever.
c) sane.
d) mad.
42. In 'He swallows us and never chaws', from 'The
Broken Heart', the poet gives us an example of………….
a) simile b) personification c) paradox d) irony 43. The main idea of 'The Broken Heart' is that……. a) love surprises the heart. b) love satisfies the heart. c) love destroys the heart. d) love gives pleasure to the heart. 44. In 'If 'twere not so, what did become / Of my heart when I first saw thee?', from 'The Broken Heart', the image is…………. a) Apostrophe b) personification c) paradox d) metaphor QUIZ 8
45. Neo-Classicism appeared in the beginning of the…..century.
a) 18th
b) 17th
c) 16th
d) 15th
46. During the Neo-classical period, there was a belief in the power
of………...
a) feeling
b) sentiment
c) emotion
d) reason
47. ……… were the greatest poets of the neo-classical period.
a) Marlowe and Shakespeare
b) Pope and Dryden
c) Wordsworth and Coleridge
d) Donne and Herber
48. The neo-classical poets reacted against the tradition of the….……. a) Metaphysicals
b) Romans
c) Greecks
d) French
49. Pope and Dryden established a new school of poetry known as the
……….School of English poetry poems.
a) Elizabethan
b) Pre-Romantic
c) Romantic
d) Neoclassical
50. During the Neoclassical period, it was believed that human nature is
……………………
a) changing
b) unchanging
c) varying
d) different
51. It was important for neoclassical authors to focus on
………… a) generalities.
b) specifics.
c) details.
d) particulars.
52. The Neoclassical poets looked to the ………..writers for guidance and inspiration.
a) Italian
b) English
c) African
d) Greek and Roman
53. An Essay on Criticism was written by…………..
a) Pope
b) Dryden
c) Milton
d) Shakespeare
QUIZ 9
54. The Rape of the Lock is written by…………..
a) John Drydon
b) William Blake
c) John Milton d) Alexander Pope
55. ………is the main theme of The Rape of the Lock
a) Satire
b) Love
c) War
d) Friendship
56. The main figure of speech in The Rape of the Lock is
……….
a) apostrophe. b) hyperbole c) Personification d) simile 57. The Rape of the lock is…………..
a) a mock-epic b) a lyrical poem c) an elegy d) a war poem
58. One of Pope's…….persuaded him to write The Rape of the lock. a) sudents b) teachers c) brothers d) friends
QUIZ 10 59. Towards the end of the ……, poetry began to move away from the strict ideals of the neoclassical period to focus on sentiment and feelings.
a) 18th century b) 17th century c) 16th century d) 15th century.
60. Towards the end of the 18 th century, poetry began to move away from the strict ideals of the………….…period.
a) Elizabethan b) Metaphysical c) Neoclassical d) Pre-Romantic
61. Pre-Romantic poetry focused on………...
a) reason b) rules c) ancient classical models d) sentiment and feelings 62. The Pre-Romantic trend can be clearly seen in the handling of …………
a) nature b) old models c) experimental science d) reason and intellect 63. Night Thoughts is a poem written by….…….
a) Thomas Gray b) Edward Young c) James Thomson d) James Macpherson 64. …………….wrote four long poems on the seasons,
Winter, Summer, Spring, and Autumn, which were collected in a single volume in 1730.
a) Edward Young b) Thomas Gray c) James Thomson d) James Macpherson
65. ………….., the author of Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard, was one of the most learned men in Europe in his day.
a) James Macpherson b) Thomas Gray c) James Thomson d) Edward Young 66. The Pre-Romantic poets looked to ……………..for inspiration. a) the ideals of order b) the Romans c) the Greeks d) nature
QUIZ 11
67. ' , from ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ poem written by……….. a. Edmund Spenser b. Sir Thomas Wyatt c. Thomas Gray d. John Milton.
68. An elegy is a poem which laments ……. a) the dead. b) the poor c) the rich d) the past. 69. The main theme of ‘Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard’ is…… a) love. b) betrayal. c) war. d) death.
70. The figure of speech in “'The Curfew tolls the knell of
parting day'”, from ‘Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard’, is a) Simile b) Personification c) Paradox d) Hyperbole
71. The repetition of the two consonants /p/ and /w/ in '
The plowman homeward plods his weary way' , from
‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, gives an
example of ………. a) alliteration b) assonance c) stress d) intonation 72. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is a poem
written in…………. a) couplets b) tercets c) quatrains d) sestets.
73. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ has a
very………tone. a) happy b) sad c) merry d) nice
QUIZ 12
74. ‘The Little Black Boy’ is a poem written by……… a) William Blake. b) George Herbert. c) John Donne. d) Sir Philip Sidney.
75. The main theme of ‘The Little Black Boy’ is ………. a) The discrimination of human beings
b) The separation of human beings
c) The differentiation of human beings
d) The equality of human beings
76. In 'That we may learn to bear the beams of love;'’’,
from ‘The Little Black Boy’, the image is……
a) metaphor.
b) simile.
c) allusion.
d) irony.
77. In ‘White as an angel is the English child', from, ‘The Little
Black Boy’, the poet gives us an example of……..
a) simile.
b) pun
c) apostrophe
d) metaphor
78. In ‘The Little Black Boy’, the speaker is an……..child
a) English
b) European
c) African
d) American