Friday, June 19, 2020

19th Century British Literature Question Bank


19th Century British Literature Question Bank

Unit I:            Ode to Dejection by Coleridge                                          
Unit III:         Ulysses by Tennyson                                              
Andrea Del Sarto by Browning                                          
The Scholar Gypsy by Matthew Arnold                :          
Unit V:           Silas Marner by George Eliot

Unit I: Ode to Dejection by Coleridge
26. The original title of “Dejection: An Ode” is -----------
a. “A Letter to [Asra]”                       b. A Letter to Sara Fricker  
c. A Letter to Sara Hutchinson         d. A Letter to Wordsworth
27. The first four lines of “Dejection: An Ode” are borrowed from -----------
 a. Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence b. Lochinvar     
c. Beowulf        d. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
28. When was Dejection: An Ode, its present form published?
a. Apr 4, 1802   b. June 15, 1802          c. Aug 22,1802                        d. Oct 4, 1802
 29. “I see, not feel, how beautiful they are” – “I” refers
   a. Coleridge          b. Wordsworth          c. Sara Fricker           d. Sara Hutchinson
30. To Coleridge “Joy” means -------- between one’s inner life and the life of nature.
   a. harmony                        b. hegemony              c. symphony              d. acrimony
31. What has nature given Coleridge at his birth?
   a. imagination                  b. ratiocination         c. speculation            d. adaptation
32.  “Thou Actor” refers to --------
  a. the wind             b. the poet     c. the Aeolian lute    d. the virtuous lady
33. Who is Otway?
  a. a dramatist                    b. a poet         c. a novelist               d. an essayist
34. Ode is a form of ------ poem.
  a. objective              b. subjective             c. relative                   d. correlative
35. “Dejection” means sad over a/an --------- loss.
  a. Irrecoverable    b. recoverable           c. physical                  d. fiscal
36. ------- was a popular figure of speech used by the Romantic poets.
  a. apostrophe                    b. aside           c. allegory                  d. aphorism
37. Which Romantic poet was called the “sage of Highgate”?
  a. Coleridge           b. Wordsworth          c. Keats                                  d. Shelley
38. By “genius” Coleridge means -------   ----------.
  a. guiding spirit      b. smothering weight   c. phantom light   d. winter bright
39. “Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud” – “her” refers to -------.
  a. Nature     b. the Moon               c. the Sun                   d. the Stars
40. “Joy . . . wedding Nature to us gives in dower / A new --- and a new -------.
  a. Earth, Heaven   b. Earth, Hell             c. Hell, Heaven         d. Heaven, Earth
41. “This was my sole resource” – “my” refers --------.
  a. Coleridge           b. Browning               c. Matthew Arnold   d. Wordsworth
42. “I turn from you: - “you” refers to ------.
  a. viper thoughts  b. Aeolian lute          c. blasted tree           d. peeping flowers
43. “. . . devils’ Yule” means ------ celebrated by devils.
  a. Christmas                       b. New Year               c. Easter                     d. Michealmas
44. Aeolus is the God of ----.
  a. winds       b. fire              c. water          d. music
45. “. . . may my friend such vigils keep” – who is “my friend”?
  a. sleep                    b. lute             c. imagination                       d. wind
46. “Dear Lady” stands for --------.
  a. Sara Hutchinson           b. Sara Fricker                       c. Dorathy      d. Mary Lamb
47. Coleridge hailed ------- as “the best poet of the age”.
  a. Wordsworth                  b. Keats                      c. Shelley                    d. Byron
48. Lyrical Ballads opens with Coleridge’s ---------.
  a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner   b. Christabel   c. Dejection: An Ode d. Kubla Khan
49. Whom did Wordsworth declare ---- “ the most wonderful man that I have ever known”?
  a. Coleridge                       b. Blake                      c. Shelley                                d. Keats
50. Who are “ the two great seminal minds of England” according to John Stuart Mill?
  a. Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge  b. Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge      c. Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge          d. Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
Unit III:         Ulysses by Tennyson                                            
Andrea Del Sarto by Browning                                     
The Scholar Gypsy by Matthew Arnold
 “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
101. “Ulysses” is written in the form of _____________
a. dramatic monologue b. Haiku c. sonnet d. ode
102. “Ulysses” deals with the desire to reach beyond the limits of one’s field of ______
a. war b. vision c. life d. dream
103. Who is Penelope?
a. Wife of Ulysses b. wife of Hallam c. d. An admirer of Ulysses A stock character  in “ The Perils of Pauline”.
104. Who is Telemachus?
a. Son of Ulysses b. son of Arthur Hallam c. king of Ithaca d. enemy of Ulysses 
105. Ulysses was the king of _________
a. Ithaca b. Rome c. Oshakkaekya d. Brobdingnag
106. Who is referred to here: “by slow prudence”  and “through soft degrees”?
a. Telemachus b. King Solomon c. Penelope d. Ulysses
107.  Who says this: “a part of all that I have met”?
a. Ulysses b. Telemachus c. Penelope d. Synge
108. Ulysses thinks ________ will be an adequate king.
a. Telemachus b. Diego Costa c. Alexandros d. Penelope
109. Who is “Matched with an aged wife”?
a. Ulysses b. Tagore c. Telemachus d. Tennyson
110Tennyson’s conception of the hero Ulysses is closer to________
a. Dante’s The Inferno b. Shakespeare’s Coriolanus c. Seneca’s Phaedra d. Seneca’s Oedipus
111. Who was the closest and dearest friend of Tennyson?
a. Arthur Henry Hallam b. Henry Vaughan c. Arthur  Miller d. Clifford Hallam
112. How does Ulysses feel about his homeland?
a. He finds the people savage and his wife old
b. He does not want Telemachus to rule
c. He wants to stay there forever
d. He is happy about his people.
113. Ulysses feels annoyed with _______
a. His people b. His wife c.His son d. With himself
114.  “All times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly..”. This quote is an example of ________
a. Parallel syntax b. Imagery c. Tone d. symbol
115. What is a prominent subtext of the poem?
a. Greek Gods b. Jesus Christ c. Peter d. John
116. The poetic form of the dramatic monologue is characterized by which of the following?
a. A single speaker b. Allusions to classical mythology c. A character from classical Drama d. Dynamic action worthy of the stage
117. Which university did Tennyson attend as an undergraduate?
a. Cambridge b. Oxford c. Harvard d. Trinity
“Andrea Del Sarto” by Browning
 118. Andrea del Sarto is a dramatic ----------.
  a. monologue                    b. soliloquy   c. dialogue     d. mime
119. The other title of Andrea del Sarto is ------------.
  a. The faultless Painter  b. The Renaissance Painter  c. The Modern Painter
 d. The Lost Painter
120. The source of Browning’s Andrea del Sarto is
  a. Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Painters b. Browning’s Dramatic Lyrics
  b. Browning’s Dramatis personae             d. Wordsworth’s The Prelude
121. Where did Andrea live and work?
  a. Florence b. Rome          c. Paris                        d. Fiesole
122. Who is Andrea’s wife?
  a. Lucrezia  b. Ophelia      c. Calpurnia   d. Lenore
123. What colour predominates Andrea’s paintings?
    a. silver gray                     b. coal black  c. golden yellow        d. snow white
124. “Agnolo” refers to --------.
  a. Michael Angelo            b. Andrea       c. Raphael      d. Leonardo da vinci
125.  “Get you the thirteen scudi for the ruff” – scudi means ------- coins.
  a. Italian      b. American   c. Sri Lankan  d. Indian
126. We encounter certain recurrent ---------- assumptions in Browning’s poems.
  a. religious b. agnostic     c. scientific    d. philosophic
127. What separates Browning’s poetry from the Victorian age?
  a. Its style    b. Its verse     c. Its rhyme    d.Its content
128. “Let us but love each other” refers to --------.
  a. Andrea and Lucrezia               b. Angelo and Lucrezia                    c. Her cousin and Lucrezia    d. Raphael and Lucrezia
129. The theme of Andrea del Sarto is about an artist   ---------.
  a. comparing his work with that of great masters  b. working for the king
  c. working to make money for his wife   d. satisfying his inner urge to create a masterpiece       
130. Who is the society’s true ornament?
  a. women models of their sex               b. virtuous men    c. the lover         d. his lady love
131. With whom did the lovers spend their youth?
  a. virtuous men and beautiful women                       b. modern men and fashionable women 
  c, modest men and garrulous women                 d. vacuous men and sly women
132. “. . . the Institute!” – “the institute” refers to -----.
  a. Wedding                         b. Technical   c. Management                     d. Educational
133. Guizot is a French ---------.
  a. historian b. anthropologist      c. linguist       d.  physician
134. What is Montalembert?
  a. a hotel     b. a hospital  c. a hill                       d.  a hospice
“The Scholar Gypsy”
135. Whom does the poet address at the outset in the poem The Scholar Gypsy?
            a. sculptor      b. painter      c. shepherd  d. farmer
136. Which poem tells the story of a 19th century student who left Oxford?
            a. The Scholar Gypsy               b. Dover Beach      c. To a friend        d. Thyrsis
137. Which work by Joseph Glanville inspired Arnold to write The Scholar Gypsy?
            a. Vanity of Dogmatising b. Vanity of Preaching                    
             c. Vanity of Theorising              d. Vanity of Teaching
138. Which year was The Scholar Gypsy published?
            a. 1853             b.1852            c.1851               d.1850
139. Who are ‘Boors’ in the line – ‘On the warm ingle-bench, the smock-frocked boors’?
            a. rustics        b. civilized men       c. barbarians              d. cannibals
140. Fill in the blank:‘ Go ,shepherd and untie the _________
            a. waffled cotes                    b. perfumed showers                     
             c. earthen cruse                    d. moon-blanched green
141. Which is a companion poem to The Scholar Gypsy?
            a. Empedocles on Etna          b. Dover Beach           c. To a friend        d. Thyrsis
142. Why did the scholar leave the University of Oxford? Due to
            a. poverty      b. lack of interest     c. likes the gypsies   d. his misconduct
143. Who is Sophocles?
            a. Greek dramatist             b. English novelist    c. American poet      d. Roman philosopher
144.  Fill in the blank: ‘The sea is calm tonight The _______ is full, the moon lies fair’
            a. earth           b. tide                      c. sun          d. star
145. In which collection was Dover Beach published?
a. New poems          b. Old poems                         c. Mediocre poems             d. Sombre poems
146. In what does the poet take refuge?
a. God                        b. Science          c. Philistinism        d. Love
147. What kind of poem is Dover Beach?
a. lyric                        b. elegy           c. ode              d. sonnet
148. Standing on the shore of which sea did Sophocles hear ‘the eternal note of sadness’?
a. Arabian sea            b. Adriatic sea                 c. Aegean sea    d. Caspian Sea
149. To which school does Matthew Arnold belong?
a. art for art’s sake                  b. art for life’s sake        
 c. art for men’s sake                   d. art for literature’s sake
150. Which phrase is used to refer to the writings of Matthew Arnold?
a. grand style            b. high style           c. high seriousness           d. grand seriousness

Unit V: Silas Marner by George Eliot
214 Why do people suspect the weavers objects during Silas’s days?
a. They are seen as doing womanly work b. They are rootless and have specialized knowledge c. They wear only linen clothing d. They have bad eyesight
215. How does Silas know about herbal medicine?
a. His mother taught him b. It was part of the training from his religious sect in Lantern Yard b. He has read up on the topic d. He doesn’t, he only pretends to
216. To whom does everyone in town suspect the mysterious tinder-box belongs?
a. Silas b. Jem Rodney c. The peddler d. Mr. Lammeter
217. Why doesn’t Silas protest his innocence when he is framed for theft?
a. He is not allowed to speak b. He is having a cataleptic fit at the time
 c. He believes God will clear him d. He believes he actually did steal the money while having a cataleptic fit
218. During the period in his life when all he does is work and hoard money, Silas is likened to:
 a. A spider b. A narrow, nearly dried-up rivulet  c. A handle or crooked tube d. All of the above
219. From where does Godfrey obtain the one hundred pounds that he lends Dunsey?
 a. The sale of Godfrey’s horse, Wildfire b. The rent paid by one of the Squire’s tenants c. Money that Godfrey had set aside to give his wife, Molly d. Godfrey’s winnings at cards
220. Where does Silas go when he finds his gold missing?
 a. The church b. Dolly Winthrop’s house c. The Rainbow  d. The Red House
221. Why does Nancy refuse for so long to adopt Eppie?
 a. She dislikes children b. She thinks Godfrey will love Eppie more than he loves her c. She thinks it is wrong for Godfrey and her to have something that fate has denied them d. She suspects that Eppie is Godfrey’s child and wants him to be punished
222. What prompts Godfrey to confess his secret?
 a. He finds out that he is terminally ill b. Dunsey’s remains are discovered in the drained stone-pit c. He gets drunk d. All of the above
223. Why does Silas decide to return to Lantern Yard for a visit?
 a. He is looking for work b. He wants to find out if he was ever cleared of theft, and to ask his old minister about the drawing of the lots c. He wants Eppie to see where he grew up d. He wants to show his former sect that he has succeeded in spite of his excommunication
224. What is Silas’s first thought when he notices that the mass of gold on his hearth is in fact a baby girl?
 a. That he should lock his door b. That he will adopt the little girl  c. That the little girl’s mother can’t be far away  d. That the little girl is his dead sister, coming back to him in a dream
225. Why does Molly Farren come to the New Year’s dance?
 a. She wants to announce her and Godfrey’s marriage to everyone there b. She thinks she can win Godfrey’s love by dancing with him c. She wants to apologize to Godfrey for something she has said d. She wants her daughter to be adopted by Godfrey and Nancy
226. Why does Godfrey put up with Dunsey’s bullying?
 a. Dunsey can beat him up b.  Dunsey has threatened to expose Godfrey’s secret marriage c. Godfrey is trying to set an example of good Christian forbearance d. Godfrey loves his brother

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