English literature

Time: 12 Minutes
Marks: 20
Serial Question
1 Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) John Keats
d) P.B Shelly
Ans: 2
2 Why are The Daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as a Cloud dancing ?
a) The Poet was day dreaming
b) The flowers had cheerful company
c) The sea waves beside them had gone wild
d) There was a strong wind
Ans: 4
3 Who said Beauty is truth, truth beauty?
a) William Wordsworth
b) W.B Yeats
c) John Keats
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 3
4 Most important feature of a romantic poetry is-
a) Beauty
b) Nature
c) Subjectivity
d) None of them
Ans: 3
5 Who wrote the play The Borderers?
a) John Keats
b) William Wordsworth
c) T.S Eliot
d) W.B Yeats
Ans: 2
6 Who has written - He prayeth best, who loveth best All things great and small-
a) John Keats
b) T.S Elliot
c) P.B Shelley
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 4
7 Poet of sensuousness-
a) P.B Shelly
b) John Keats
c) S.T Coleridge
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 2
8 T.S Eliot is an English poet who is famous for the senuousness. What do T.S stand for -
a) Thomas Stearns
b) Thomas Stearnas
c) Thomas Stearnas
d) Thomas Streans
Ans: 1
9 Who wrote the famous poem The Second Coming ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) T.S Eliot
d) W.B Yeats
Ans: 4
10 Identify the poet of the verse Our sweetest songs are those hat tell of saddest thought-
a) John Keats
b) P.B Shelly
c) W.B Yeats
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 2
11 What is the life span of William Wordsworth?
a) 1760-1840
b) 1770-1850
c) 1780-1860
d) 1785-1865
Ans: 2
12 Who wrote Ode to a Nightngale?
a) P.B Shelly
b) John Keats
c) William Wordsworth
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 2
13 Ten thousand saw I at a glance - Who said this?
a) S.T Coleridge
b) P.B Shelly
c) T.S Eliot
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 4
14 The literary work Kubla Khan is -
a) a history
b) a dram
c) a verse
d) a short story
Ans: 3
15 Wordsworth is a ----poet
a) classical
b) modern
c) romantic
d) Greek
Ans: 3
16 When did T.S Eliot get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1994
b) 1958
c) 1948
d) 1944
Ans: 3
17 Wordsworth became a Poet Laureate in-
a) 1842
b) 1843
c) 1848
d) 1852
Ans: 2
18 One of the four mentioned below is not P.B Shelly's poem- Which on ?
a) Ozymandias
b) When Soft Voices Die `
c) Ode to Fancy
d) Ode to Skylark
Ans: 3
19 Famous poem Rainbow was written by -
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T Coleridge
c) P.B Shelley
d) T.S Elliot
Ans: 1
20 The Cocktail Party was written by -
a) W.B Yeats
b) P.B Shelly
c) John Keats
d) T.S Elliot
Ans: 4