1. Who described metaphysical poetry as “a kind of discordia concors”?
A. Dryden
B. Johnson
C. Eliot
D. Coleridge
2. Which poet wrote "Four Quartets?"
A. Auden
B. Eliot
C. Yeats
D. Pound
3. Which work uses stream of consciousness?
A. Middlemarch
B. Mrs Dalloway
C. Hard Times
D. Tess
4. Who among the following was influenced most by French Symbolism?
A. Eliot
B. Yeats
C. Pound
D. Auden
5. Which age is known as the "Age of Prose and Reason?"
A. Romantic
B. Augustan
C. Victorian
D. Modern
6. Which poet connects 'Jacobean metaphysical poetry with Restoration wit?'
A. Donne
B. Marvell
C. Herbert
D. Carew
7. Which movement emphasized fragmentation and disillusionment?
A. Romanticism
B. Victorianism
C. Modernism
D. Georgian
8. Which literary period immediately follows the Commonwealth?
A. Augustan
B. Romantic
C. Restoration
D. Victorian
9. Which poem is an elegy?
A. Lycidas
B. Epithalamion
C. The Rape of the Lock
D. Kubla Khan
10. Who translated "The Iliad into heroic couplets?"
A. Dryden
B. Alexander Pope
C. Johnson
D. Chapman
11. "In Memoriam" is written in:
A. Blank verse
B. Heroic couplets
C. Quatrains (ABBA)
D. Free verse
12. Which of the following is a 'confessional poet?'
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Ted Hughes
D. Philip Larkin
13. Who wrote "An Apology for Poetry?"
A. Ben Jonson
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Dryden
D. Johnson
14. Which critic emphasized the 'impersonality of poetry?'
A. Coleridge
B. Arnold
C. Eliot
D. Richards
15. Who among the following is a War Poet?
A. Rupert Brooke
B. Wilfred Owen
C. Siegfried Sassoon
D. All of the above
16. The line “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” is from:
A. The Waste Land
B. The Second Coming
C. Easter 1916
D. Sailing to Byzantium
17. "Dover Beach” reflects the loss of:
A. Political stability
B. Romantic love
C. Religious faith
D. National identity
18. Which Victorian poet questioned religious faith most intensely?
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Arnold
D. Rossetti
19. Which of the following is an 'epic simile–rich poem?'
A. Paradise Lost
B. The Prelude
C. In Memoriam
D. The Waste Land
20. Who called Shakespeare “not of an age, but for all time”?
A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Ben Jonson
D. Johnson
21. Which of the following poems belongs to the Caroline period?
A. The Canonization
B. To His Coy Mistress
C. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
D. Lycidas
22. The Spenserian stanza contains:
A. Eight iambic pentameter lines
B. Nine lines with the last in alexandrine
C. Ten syllables in each line
D. Free verse
23. Who introduced the heroic couplet as a dominant poetic form?
A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Waller
D. Chaucer
24. Which work is NOT by John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Samson Agonistes
C. Areopagitica
D. The Faerie Queene
***"The Faerie Queene" is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published in two installments (Books I–III in 1590, Books IV–VI in 1596)***
25. Imagism flourished mainly between:
A. 1890–1900
B. 1900–1910
C. 1910–1917
D. 1920–1930
26. The Victorian age ends in:
A. 1890
B. 1901
C. 1914
D. 1920
***The Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901***
27. The term “Modern Poetry” usually begins around:
A. 1850
B. 1880
C. 1900
D. 1930
28. Which poet comes immediately after John Milton chronologically?
A. John Dryden
B. Alexander Pope
C. Thomas Gray
D. William Wordsworth
29. Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate from:
A. 1975–1985
B. 1984–1998
C. 1990–2000
D. 2000–2010
30. W. H. Auden belongs to the:
A. Georgian poets
B. Movement poets
C. 1930s poets
D. Romantic poets
31. "Strange Meeting” by Wilfred Owen deals with:
A. Romantic love
B. Mythology
C. The futility of war
D. Nature worship
32. The Second Generation Romantic poets include all EXCEPT:
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Coleridge
33. Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was published in:
A. 1720
B. 1740
C. 1751
D. 1765
34. John Dryden is associated mainly with:
A. Romantic poetry
B. Metaphysical poetry
C. Neo-classical poetry
D. Victorian poetry
35. The Restoration marks the return of:
A. Parliament
B. Charles II
C. Puritan rule
D. Commonwealth
36. The Cavalier poets were loyal to:
A. Parliament
B. Puritans
C. The Crown
D. The Church
37. Which work marks the rise of the English sonnet sequence?
A. Amoretti
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. Shakespeare’s Sonnets
D. Epithalamion
38. The English sonnet was introduced by:
A. Chaucer
B. Sir Thomas Wyatt
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Shakespeare
39. Which poet is associated with Old English religious poetry?
A. Caedmon
B. Chaucer
C. Langland
D. Gower
40. The earliest surviving English epic Beowulf belongs to the:
A. Middle English period
B. Anglo-Saxon period
C. Renaissance
D. Restoration
41. Which Jacobean poet wrote masques?
A. Donne
B. Ben Jonson
C. Herbert
D. Vaughan
42. Which poet used paradox extensively?
A. Herrick
B. Donne
C. Carew
D. Jonson
43. How many sonnets are there in "Astrophel and Stella?"
A. 104
B. 106
C. 108
D. 110
44. The beloved Stella in "Astrophel and Stella" refers to:
A. Queen Elizabeth I
B. Penelope Devereux
C. Lady Mary Sidney
D. Anne Hathaway
45. Philip Sidney died at the age of:
A. 30
B. 31
C. 34
D. 36
46. Which 20th-century poet broke the tradition of lifetime appointment for Poet Laureate by serving a fixed term?
A. John Betjeman
B. Ted Hughes
C. Carol Ann Duffy
D. Andrew Motion
47. Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published in:
A. 1598
B. 1600
C. 1609
D. 1616
48. Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed mainly to:
A. The Dark Lady
B. The Fair Youth
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. His wife
49. Sonnet 18 begins with the line:
A. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
B. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
C. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
D. “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”
50. "Come live with me and be my love” is from:
A. Lycidas
B. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
C. Epithalamion
D. The Nymph’s Reply