Subject: ENGLISH Class: B.A. Part 1 English Hons., Paper-2 Topic: QUIZ 2 ON JOHN KEATS Lecture No:91

By: Prof. Sunita Sinha Head, Department of English Women’s College Samastipur L.N.M.U., Darbhanga Email: [email protected] Website: www.sunitasinha.com Mob No: 9934917117

“QUIZ 2 ON JOHN KEATS”

1. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are sometimes called the Big Six English Romantic poets. Who was the youngest?

Lord Byron William Wordsworth John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley

2. Charles Cowden Clarke described 5th May, 1816 as the red-letter day in the life of his friend, John Keats. Why?

Keats's first poem was published Keats received an apothecary's license Keats first met Fanny Brown Keats' first volume of poems was published

3. John Keats was condemned as a member of "The Cockney School" of poets. Who coined that derogatory phrase?

John Wilson Croker Leigh Hunt P. B. Shelley John Gibson Lockhart

4. 'Bright Star' was a famous love sonnet by Keats. To whom was the poem addressed?

Lady Jennings Fanny Brown Queen Elizabeth Isabella

5. John Keats is renowned today as a writer of odes. How many odes did he write?

6 56 28 108

6. "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty" is considered to summarise Keatsian aesthetics. In which poem did John Keats write the line?

Ode to Autumn Ode to a Nightingale Bright Star Ode on a Grecian Urn

7. 'Ode to Psyche' is believed to be the first ode written by John Keats. Who is Psyche?

A Hindu goddess A Babylonian goddess An Egyptian goddess A character in 'The Golden Ass' by Apuleius

8. 'Here lies one, whose name was writ in water' is the epitaph of John Keats. He asked his friends to inscribe these words in his tomb. From where did he get the inspiration for this inimitable sentence?

Shakespeare's 'King Lear' Spenser's 'The Fairie Queene' Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' 'Philaster or Love Lies A-Bleeding' by Beaumont and Fletcher

9. John Keats died of tuberculosis. It was called the most 'Romantic disease' at that time. What was another name for tuberculosis?

Cancer Typhoid AIDS White Death

10. After the untimely death of Keats, Shelley wrote an elegy on him. What was the title of that famous elegy?

Adonais Immortality Ode Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard He did not write any elegy

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