Thursday, March 17, 2016

19th Century British Literature Question Bank Biographia Literaria 13 and Silas Marner by George Eliot

19th Century British Literature Question Bank
Dr. ER/ SF
85.  With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic Movement in English Literature? 
a. Shelley b. Lord Byron c. William Wordsworth d. John Keats
86.Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief'’ in ----------
a. Biographia Literaria b. Kubla Khan c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner d. Christabel
87.-----------------------is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Coleridge.
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson b. Ernest Holmes c. John Locke d. John Locke
88. Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner b. Biographia Literaria c. Kubla Khan d. Christabel
89.With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ's Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School? a. Shelley b. William Wordsworth c. John Keats d. Charles Lamb
90. Coleridge talks about ----------------- in chapter 13 of Biographia Literaria.
 a. esemplastic power     b. the supernatural              c. biography               d. occult
91. Who is the venerable sage of Koenigsberg?
       a. Schelling         b. Wordsworth c. Milton d. Immanuel Kant
92. Primary Imagination means--------------------
       a. poetic imagination b. power of perception c. creative imagination d. pure imagination
93.Secondary Imagination refers to------------------
        a. poetic imagination b. power of perception c. creative imagination d. pure imagination
94. Fancy is-------------------
a. premeditative  b. unpredictable  c. associative  d. meditative
95. ----------------- is a result of esemplastic power.
  a. imagination b. fancy c. poetry d.unity in diversity
96. Coleridge contends with-------------ideas of poetry.
    a. Wordsworth b. Shelley c. Aristotle d. Lamb
97.Coleridge asserts that mind is active in ----------------
   a. imagination b. writing c.perception d. association
98. Coleridge refers to the philosophy of -------------------
     a. Schelling b. Wordsworth c. Spinoza d. Machiavelli
99. Esemplastic power means ---------------------
     a. Synthesising power b. imaginative power c. poetic power d. Spiritual power
100.Biographia Literaria is a
       a. Autobiography b. biography c. meditative autobiography d.memoir

Silas Marner by George Eliot

214 Why are weavers objects of suspicion in Silas’s day?
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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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Refugee Mother and Child (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

Refugee Mother and Child (A Poem) 
by Chinua Achebe


No Madonna and Child could touch
that picture of a mother’s tenderness
for a son she soon would have to forget.

The air was heavy with odours
of diarrhoea of unwashed children
with washed-out ribs and dried-up
bottoms struggling in laboured
steps behind blown empty bellies.

Most mothers there had long cease
to care but not this one; she held
a ghost smile between her teeth
and in her eyes the ghost of a mother’s
pride as she combed the rust-coloured
hair left on his skull and then –
singing in her eyes – began carefully
to part it… In another life this
would have been a little daily
act of no consequence before his
breakfast and school; now she
did it like putting flowers
on a tiny grave. 
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

19th Century British Literature I MA English Question Bank for Bishop Heber College





19th Century British Literature
I MA English Question Bank
for Bishop Heber College


"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
1. What does the speaker refer the urn to?
a.  “An unravished bride of quietness” b.    “bold lover”  c. “leaf-fring’ d legend” d.  “sweet pipes”
2. Why does Keats address the urn as a “cold pastoral”?
 a.   Lifeless        b.  very old           c. Full of green plants                   d. No one can touch it.
3.    Where is Tempe?
a.   India              b.     Greece          c.USA       d. England
4. What is Arcady?
    a.   A place of love             b.   A haunt of Pan   c.         A haunt of Buddha d. A place for sinners
5. What is a citadel?
  a.   A city by the riverside  b.   A sacrificial cow      c. A sacrificial lamb   d. A Fort
6. Which one will remain “in midst other owe”?
   a.   passion         b.               poem                  c.       West wind d. Urn
7. What is “Attic shape”?
a.   A genuine relic from Greece  b.    Top floor in a house       c. Fit d. A fine shape
8. Why does Keats consider Urn as a “foster child of Silence and slow time”.
a. preserved like its mother  b. heated by others c. Loves foster mothers d. Loves foster children
9. Whose  “Fair attitude” is referred to by Keats ?
a. trees b. viewed by others c. Urn d. Lady love
10. Whom does Keats address as “Cold pastoral”?
a. pastoral land b. Urn c. cold breeze d. plants
11. What animal is sacrificed in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
a. pig b. dog c. lamb d. Calf
12. Who will not “fade” in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
a. flowers b. trees c. branches d. Lady love
13. Who is the “unwearied” person in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
a. Happy melodist b.mob c. bold lover d. lady love
14. When will a person get “parching tongue”?
a. High fever b. studies a lot c. sleeps a lot d. dead
15. Whose “silken flanks” are dressed with garlands?
a. lady love b. Calf  c. urn d. bull
16. Who can never say “adieu” to Spring?
a. singer on the urn b. Tees on the urn c. lovers on the urn d. Keats
17. Which is “Forever warm and still to be enjoyed”?
a. song d. Love c. trees d. melody


West Wind
18. What is a lyre?
a. stringed instrument  b. a land c. a humble lay d. sun
19. Who is a Maenad?
a. female followers of Bacchus b. Bacchus c. boy d. Name of a country
20. Why is the West wind a trumpet of prophesy?
a.   It brings rain   b. It brings the promise of spring   c. It blows over all regions d. It promises the second coming of Jesus
21. The writing of which pamphlet caused Percy Bysshe Shelley’s expulsion?
a.   Common Sense b. The Necessity of Atheism c.A Declaration of Rights d.   Pride and Prejudice                                                                                                                                 
22. In “Ode to the West Wind”, the speaker suggests that the west wind ______         
a.   protects flowers b.   protects roots  c.          preserves lands d. preserves seeds
23. In “Ode to the West Wind”, what are the “Pestilence-stricken multitudes”?
a.  trees  b. Cricketers             c. stars      d. leaves
24.  Shelley says that as a young man he too was like the West wind, because he also was _____
   a.   wild, swift and proud b.    tame, swift and happy c. quiet, quick and dangerous d. soft, red and alert
25.  Who is the “azure sister” of the west wind?
   a.   sky   b.   east wind         c. west glee       d. moon
26.  Who wants to “pant” beneath the power of west wind?
  a.   loose clouds          b.   the poet        c. dead leaves              d. swift waves
26. “A new birth” will be caused by______
a) the quivering within the wave’s intenser day b ) the incantation of the verse. c. new Mother  d) the sapless foliage of the ocean
27. Winter and Spring in “Ode to the West Wind” stand for_________
a)brightness b) the seasons. c. anger and ambition d. death and revival
28. The trumpet of prophecy will be blown by__________
a. the musician. b. God c. poet’s lips. d. the West Wind.
29. The “dead leaves” are compared to_______
a. dead thoughts b. dead bodies c. dead animals c. dry leaves
30. Shelley in “Ode to the West Wind” uses metaphors from ________
a. nature b. war c. The Bible d. Songs
31. In “Ode to the West Wind”, what are the symbolic representation of “Pestilence-stricken multitudes”?
a. leaves b. the entire human society c. branches d. animals
32. In the second stanza, Shelley refers ________
a. leaves b. clouds c. branches d. waves
33. The howling of the wind is imagined by Shelley to be the dirge for _______
a. the dead leaves b. the dead thoughts c. the morning song d. the closing year
34. Shelley bids ______to uplift his moral stands.
a. the spring season b. the maenads c. harp d.the west wind

Ulysses
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. An admirer of Ulysses b. wife of Hallam c.wife of Ulysses d. A stock character  in “ The Perils of Pauline”.
104. Who is Telemachus?
a. enemy of Ulysses b. son of Arthur Hallam c. king of Ithaca d. Son 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. King Solomon b. Telemachus c. Penelope d. Ulysses
107.  Who says this: “a part of all that I have met”?
a. Penelope b. Telemachus c. Ulysses d. Synge
108. Ulysses thinks ________ will be an adequate king.
a. Penelope b. Diego Costa c. Alexandros d. Telemachus
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. Shakespeare’s Coriolanus b. Dante’s The Inferno c. Seneca’s Phaedra d. Seneca’s Oedipus
111. Who was the closest and dearest friend of Tennyson?
a. Arthur  Miller b. Henry Vaughan c. Arthur Henry Hallam d. Clifford Hallam
112. How does Ulysses feel about his homeland?
a. He is happy about his people.
b. He does not want Telemachus to rule
c. He wants to stay there forever
d. He finds the people savage and his wife old

“Ring Out”
113. Who is dying in the night? Answer with reference to “Ring Out”?
a. The year is dying in the night.
b. An old man is dying in the night.
c. A beloved person is dying in the night.
d. Hallam is dying in the night.
114. __________ emphasises on the popular phrase, “Old order changeth, giving place to new”.
a. Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
b. Lord Tennyson’s “Ring Out”
c. Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto”
d. Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Ode to the West Wind”
115. What does Tennyson mean by “Slowly dying cause”?
a. useful reasons.
b. problems which are now futile.
c. customs or reasons which are now futile.
d. efforts which are now futile.
116. What does Tennyson mean by “Ring in the Christ that is to be”.
a. Tennyson is a good person.
b. Jesus is Christ
c. beautiful bells are in Christian churches.
d. the ultimate redemption lies in God.
117. Where did Tennyson find his inspiration for “Ring Out”?
a. Death of his friend, Hallam.
b. New year day.
c. Birth of Jesus (Christmas)
d. Bogi festival



Byron
185. The prisoner is locked up in the -------------
a. Castle of Otranto           b. Castle of Chillon     c. Bedford castle  d. Carisbrooke  Castle
186.  ---------------------- is a famous work by Byron.
      a. In Memoriam b. Lyrical Ballads  c. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage d. Biographia  Literaria   
187.  The character of the prisoner was inspired by ---------------
       a. Francois Bonivard b. John Bunyan c. Nelson Mandela d. St.Paul
188. The castle is built in------------------style
       a.French b. English c.Gothic d. Victorian
189. There --------- are pillars in the dungeon.
       a. 4 b.5 c. 8 d.7
190. The prisoner is the ------------ son in the family
     a) eldest b) elder c) youger d) youngest
191. The youngest brother is like a----------------
      a) deer  b) bird   c) lion d) snake
192. The middle brother is a skilled
       a) warrior b) soldier c) hunter d) archer
193. The family is imprisoned because of----------------
        a) theft b)murder c) blasphemy d) standing firm in their faith
194. How did the father die?
       a) at the battle b) due to sickness c) at the stake d) in hunting
195. The central idea of The Prisoner of Chillon is------------------
       a) battle b) freedom c) religion d) love
196. Lord Byron was a good friend of ---------------
        a) Shelley b) Wordsworth c) Coleridge d) Tennyson
197. --------------------lies near the walls of Chillon.
         a) Thames b) Rhine c) Nile d) Lake Leman
198. Who visits the prisoner in the dungeon?
         a) A relative b) A bird c) A friend d) A soldier
199. The dungeon has become a----------------- to the prisoner.
        a) hermitage b) home c) temple d) palace
200. The castle of Chillon is located in
        a) France b) Switzerland c) Ireland d) Africa

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