Practice Set 28

1. The Citizen of the World by Oliver Goldsmith is primarily written in which literary form?

A. Epistolary satire
B. Allegorical romance
C. Dramatic monologue
D. Mock-epic

Ans: A. Epistolary satire

 

2. Who first famously referred to Geoffrey Chaucer as the “father of English poetry”?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Dryden
C. William Hazlitt
D. Alexander Pope

Ans: B. John Dryden

 

3. Blank verse was introduced into English poetry by Henry Howard through his translation of:

A. Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Aeneid
D. Metamorphoses

Ans: C. Aeneid

 

4. Which feature is essential to a heroic couplet?

A. Trochaic tetrameter
B. Rhymed iambic pentameter
C. Blank verse structure
D. Free verse

Ans: B. Rhymed iambic pentameter

 

5. The heroic couplet achieved its most polished Augustan form under:

A. Chaucer & Spenser
B. Milton & Marvell
C. Dryden & Pope
D. Wordsworth & Coleridge

Ans: C. Dryden & Pope

 

6. Which Chaucerian work is not primarily written in heroic couplets?

A. Troilus and Criseyde
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. The House of Fame
D. The Legend of Good Women

Ans: C. The House of Fame

 

7. In Pope’s translation of The Odyssey, which collaborator translated the largest share after Pope?

A. Elijah Fenton
B. William Broome
C. Thomas Tickell
D. Joseph Addison

Ans: B. William Broome

 

8. Who became the first woman to translate the Odyssey directly into English?

A. Anne Dacier
B. Emily Wilson
C. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
D. Edith Hamilton

Ans: B. Emily Wilson

 

9. The nickname “Wasp of Twickenham” refers to:

A. Dryden
B. Swift
C. Pope
D. Gay

Ans: C. Alexander Pope

 

10. John Dryden became Poet Laureate during the reign of:

A. James II
B. William III
C. Charles II
D. George I

Ans: C. Charles II

 

11. Dryden lost the Laureateship because he:

A. Retired voluntarily
B. Was accused of plagiarism
C. Refused allegiance after the Glorious Revolution
D. Converted to Protestantism

Ans: C. Refused allegiance after the Glorious Revolution

 

12. Poet Laureate from 1813–1843:

A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Southey
D. Byron

Ans: C. Robert Southey

 

13. Who succeeded Southey as Poet Laureate?

A. Tennyson
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. Campbell

Ans: B. William Wordsworth

 

14. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy primarily discusses:

A. Epic conventions
B. Dramatic theory
C. Satirical technique
D. Lyric subjectivity

Ans: B. Dramatic theory

 

15. The term “Lake Poets” originally carried what tone?

A. Celebratory
B. Neutral
C. Derogatory
D. Academic

Ans: C. Derogatory

 

16. Which critic coined “Lake Poets”?

A. Hazlitt
B. Francis Jeffrey
C. Coleridge
D. De Quincey

Ans: B. Francis Jeffrey

 

17. Which poet mocked the Lake Poets as “Lakers”?

A. Shelley
B. Keats
C. Byron
D. Pope

Ans: C. Lord Byron

 

18. Which poem best exemplifies Donne’s metaphysical love conceit?

A. The Pulley
B. The Flea
C. To His Coy Mistress
D. Epithalamion

Ans: B. John Donne – The Flea

 

19. Donne’s love poetry is distinguished by:

A. Pastoral simplicity
B. Classical restraint
C. Metaphysical conceits
D. Romantic melancholy

Ans: C. Metaphysical conceits

 

20. Which pairing is incorrect?

A. Pope — The Dunciad
B. Dryden — Fables, Ancient and Modern
C. Goldsmith — The Deserted Village
D. Southey — Lyrical Ballads

Ans: D. Southey — Lyrical Ballads (belongs to Wordsworth & Coleridge)

 

21. Which earlier work influenced Goldsmith’s use of the “outsider observing society” technique?

A. Gulliver’s Travels
B. Persian Letters
C. Utopia
D. The Spectator

Ans: B. Persian Letters

 

22. Which poem reflects Donne’s idea of spiritualized love?

A. The Canonization
B. Lycidas
C. Kubla Khan
D. Adonais

Ans: A. The Canonization

 

23. Blank verse later became the dominant medium of Elizabethan drama mainly due to:

A. Ben Jonson
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Lyly
D. Thomas Kyd

Ans: B. Christopher Marlowe

 

24. Which work is a landmark example of blank verse epic?

A. The Faerie Queene
B. Paradise Lost
C. The Prelude
D. Don Juan

Ans: B. Paradise Lost

 

25. The heroic couplet is MOST associated with which literary age?

A. Romantic Age
B. Victorian Age
C. Augustan Age
D. Modern Age

Ans: C. Augustan Age

 

 

26. Which Shakespearean character delivers the “Seven Ages of Man” speech?

A. Hamlet
B. Jaques
C. Prospero
D. Lear

Ans: B. Jaques (As You Like It)

 

27. Which play is classified as a “problem play”?

A. Hamlet
B. Measure for Measure
C. The Tempest
D. Macbeth

Ans: B. Measure for Measure

 

28. The term Sonetto etymologically implies:

A. Sacred hymn
B. Little sound/song
C. Short narrative
D. Love lament

Ans: B. Little sound/song

 

29. The structural division of a Petrarchan sonnet is:

A. Quatrain + couplet
B. Octave + sestet
C. Three tercets
D. Continuous 14 lines without break

Ans: B. Octave + sestet

 

30. Which theme is MOST characteristic of Petrarchan poetry?

A. Satirical mockery
B. Spiritual anguish of love
C. Heroic warfare
D. Pastoral simplicity

Ans: B. Spiritual anguish of love

 

31. John Bunyan wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress" while imprisoned in:

A. Newgate Prison
B. Tower of London
C. Bedford Gaol
D. Fleet Prison

Ans: C. Bedford Gaol

 

32. Bunyan’s "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" is best described as:

A. Political satire
B. Spiritual autobiography
C. Allegorical romance
D. Dramatic tragedy

Ans: B. Spiritual autobiography

 

33. "The Medall" (1681) by John Dryden was written in response to:

A. Popish Plot
B. Rye House Plot medal
C. Exclusion Bill
D. Restoration of monarchy

Ans: B. Rye House Plot medal

 

34. In "Mac Flecknoe", Flecknoe symbolizes:

A. Political tyranny
B. Legacy of dullness
C. Religious hypocrisy
D. Classical discipline

Ans: B. Legacy of dullness

 

35. The phrase “Unreal City” in The Waste Land primarily refers to:

A. Paris
B. London
C. Vienna
D. Rome

Ans: B. London

 

36. “I admire him, but I love Shakespeare” — Dryden refers to:

A. Marlowe
B. Jonson
C. Milton
D. Fletcher

Ans: B. Ben Jonson

 

37. "The Preface to Shakespeare" was written by:

A. Dryden
B. Coleridge
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Hazlitt

Ans: C. Samuel Johnson

 

38. Which criticism did Johnson make of Shakespeare?

A. Lack of imagination
B. Excessive morality
C. Neglect of poetic justice
D. Overuse of rhyme

Ans: C. Neglect of poetic justice

 

39. In Paradise Lost, Sin is:

A. Daughter of Death
B. Daughter of Satan
C. Consort of Adam
D. Angelic rebel

Ans: B. Daughter of Satan

 

40. The Petrarchan sonnet’s rhetorical “volta” MOST typically occurs:

A. Line 6
B. Line 8
C. Line 10
D. Line 12

Ans: B. Line 8

 

41. Which critic termed Paradise Regained a “brief epic”?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. Barbara K. Lewalski
C. T. S. Eliot
D. William Empson

Ans: B. Barbara K. Lewalski

 

42. Which event MOST contributed to the rise of national pride in the Elizabethan Age?

A. The English Civil War
B. Defeat of the Spanish Armada
C. The Glorious Revolution
D. The Restoration

Ans: B. Defeat of the Spanish Armada

 

43. “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink / Life to the lees.”

The metaphor “drink life to the lees” suggests:
A. Weariness
B. Desire for total experience
C. Fear of death
D. Political exile

Ans: B. Desire for total experience

 

44. Which pairing is incorrect?

A. Milton — Areopagitica
B. Dryden — Absalom and Achitophel
C. Lovelace — To Althea, from Prison
D. Pound — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Ans: D. Pound — Prufrock (by Eliot)

 

45. Lovelace belongs to which poetic group?

A. Metaphysical poets
B. Cavalier poets
C. Lake poets
D. Symbolists

Ans: B. Cavalier poets

 

46. Which phrase is strongly associated with T. S. Eliot?

A. Negative capability
B. Objective correlative
C. Pathetic fallacy
D. Will to power

Ans: B. Objective correlative

 

47. Chaucer is called the “father of modern poetry” primarily because he:

A. Introduced blank verse
B. Perfected heroic tragedy
C. Established Middle English literary prestige
D. Invented the sonnet

Ans: C. Established Middle English literary prestige

 

48. The first word of The Odyssey (Greek) is:

A. Muse
B. Andra
C. Sing
D. Hero

Ans: B. Andra

 

49. In Absalom and Achitophel, Zimri represents:

A. Duke of Monmouth
B. George Villiers
C. Shaftesbury
D. Charles II

Ans: B. George Villiers

 

50. Zimri is a satirical portrait in Dryden’s:

A. Mac Flecknoe
B. The Medall
C. Absalom and Achitophel
D. Religio Laici

Ans: C. Absalom and Achitophel