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
