Tuesday, December 29, 2020

I MA Unit Test 1 MCQ Core I: MODERN LITERATURE I [Chaucer to the Jacobeans]

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

BISHOP HEBER COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

SEMESTER – I

Core I:  MODERN LITERATURE I [Chaucer to the Jacobeans]

Objective Type Questions

 

UNIT II

Donne : 1. “Canonization”,

               2. “Extasie”

Marvell : 1. “To His Coy Mistress”

                 2. “The Garden”

Herbert : 1. “Affliction”,

                 2. “The Pulley”

Richard Lovelace : “To Althea, from Prison”

 

John Donne:    1.“Canonization”,  2. “Extasie”

 

51. Who coined the term “metaphysical poetry”?

a. Andrew Marvell     b. John Donne            c. Samuel Johnson   d. Henry Vaughan

52. What is the “stamped face” referred to by Donne in “Canonization”?

a. face in a stamp       b. holy face                 c. Coin                        d. real face

53. Fill in the blank: “For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me ________”.

a. love                                    b. live                          c. tell                           d. give

54. Fill in the blank: “Call her one, me another _______”. 

a. taper                       b. moth                       c. candle                     d. fly

55. What is a phoenix?

a. Mall                         b. Bike             c. Mythological plant             d. Mythological bird

56. According to Donne, why should a person “take a course”?

a. To get a job  b For running        c. For higher studies             d. To begin family life

57. “We’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms”. What is the meaning of “room” here?

a. a place in a house b. stanza in a poem            c. room in a mansion            d. veranda

58. What is canonization?

a. accepter of a canon           b. Having a gun          c. to make saint of   d. a priest

59. According to Donne, what do soldiers find?

a. Army                       b. House                     c. Country                   d. War

60. According to Donne, what do lawyers get?

 a. Litigious men      b. Car                          c. Dress                       d. Robe

61.What is meant by ek stasis?

a. Stand outside       b. experience of joy c. experience of love             d. to stand

62. Who is the “Great Prince in prison”?

a. Body                       b. The soul                c. Earth                       d. Donne

63. After the “concoction”, who will depart as a “purer” person?

a. Man                         b. Onlooker               c. Lover                      d. Lady Love

64. A “metaphysical _____” is a particular type of poetic metaphor of the sort developed by the “metaphysical poets”.

a. simile                      b. conceit                  c. poem                       d. song

65. “This ecstasy doth unperplex”. What does “unperplex” mean?

a. resolve                   b. complex                  c. confuse                   d. compound

66. “We owe them thanks”, who are “them” according to Donne?

a. Bodies                    b. souls                       c. faces                        d. gods

67. “Yielded their senses’ force to us,/ Nor are dross to us, but allay”. Which is referred to as an “allay” by Donne?

a. soul                                     b. body                       c. sprit                                     d. sense

68. Who are “weak men” according to Donne?

 a. Physically weak                                        b. Those who cannot write poetry

c. Those who look for manifestation                  d. Dull-headed

69. Which are “firmly cemented / With a fast balm”?

a. Sick person’s legs b. a house                   c. a window                d. Lovers’ hands

70. Fill in the blank: “A single violet _______,/ The strength, the colour, and the            size,/…Redoubles still, and multiplies”.

a. plant                        b. sapling                    c. bud                          d. Transplant

 

 

Andrew Marvell: 1. “To His Coy Mistress”,  2. “The Garden”

 

71. Who stopped the sun on its course?

a. Joshua                    b. Jesus Christ            c. Andrew Marvell     d. John Donne

72. “Time’s winged chariot” is an allusion to:

a. Helios                     b. Ares                        c. Zeus                        d. Hermes

73. What is the “Humber”?

a. The Indian Ocean b. a river in England           c. Lake Victoria  d. The English Channel

74. What is the structure of the poem, “To His Coy Mistress”?

a. novelistic                b. syllogism                c. free verse              d. ode

75. What is the key theme of the poem, “To His Coy Mistress”?

 a. carpe diem                       b. Carpe Jugulum       c.  carpimus noctem   d. Toccata

76. Why does Marvell refer to “Indian Ganges”?

a. exotic element     b. likes India               c. Likes the Ganges    d. Wants rubies

77. Where is the Humber river?

a. Calcutta                   b. Hull                         c. Hollywood              d. London

78. Fill up the blank: “...the youthful ____ /Sits on thy skin like morning dew”.

a. skin                         b. age                                      c. hue                                     d. pink

79. Fill up the blank: “The _____ is a fine and private place...”.

a. room                       b. house                      c. garden                    d. grave

80. What are “amorous birds” in “To his Coy Mistress:?

a. Birds of prey          b. Angry birds            c. Fighting birds         d. Love birds

81. Marvell sees____________ as superior to the white and red hues that commonly signify passionate love.

a. violet                       b. blue                         c. yellow                     d. green

82. Apollo metamorphosed Daphne into a _______.

a. girl                           b. bird                                     c. laurel                     d. nymph

83. Pan metamorphosed ______ into a reed.

a. Cinderella               b. Pandora                 c. Joshua                     d. Syrinx

84. Who is the “skilful gardener” referred to by Marvell in “The Garden?

a. Trained gardener b. Experienced gardener      c. Devil            d. God

85. Who are crowned with palm leaves?

a. Singers                    b. Kings                       c. Victors in games d. Poets

86. Who is given the oak leaves?

a. Animal                    b. Sports person        c. Ruler of a country           d. Hockey player

87. What are “bays”?

 a. sea                          b. land                         c. flowers                    d. laurels

88. Which is the “garden state” referred to by Marvell in “The Garden”?

a. Heaven       b. Vasantham garden            c. Hades                      d. Garden of Eden

89. What does George Herbert mean by “furniture” in “Affliction”?

a. humans                   b. house                      c. college                     d. nature

 

George Herbert : 1. “Affliction”, 2. “The Pulley”

 

90. What does George Herbert refer to as a “lingring book”?

a. A collection of poems       b. Drama        c. The Bible   d. Poems of Herbert

91 From which game has the metaphor “cross-bias” been taken?

a. cricket                     b. foot ball                  c. Dart-board                         d. bowling

92. Who is the “some other master” referred to by Herbert?

a. Jesus                       b. Jehovah                  c. devil                       d. Little Master

93. What is the “way that takes the town”?

a. Spiritual life            b. worldly life           c. God-fearing life      d. Religious life

94. What is the only positive thing in the Pandora ’s Box? 

a. Wealth                    b. Hope                      c. Beauty                     d. Sorrow     

95. What is the “jewel” referred to by Herbert in “Pulley”?

a. rest                                     b. gold                         c. ring                          d. beauty

 

Richard Lovelace: “To Althea, from Prison”

 

96. With whom did Richard Lovelace side during a power struggle in England?

a. The Church  b. The Parliament    c. King Charles I       d. The Prince of Persia

97. Why cannot the walls and iron bars that surround Lovelace imprison him?

a. protected by God                                      b. Physically free      

c. protected by a strong person                  d. Free in mind

98. What are the “Committed linnets”?

a. caged birds            b. cunning birds       c. dead birds d. those committed to work

99.What is the main theme of Richard Lovelace’s “To Althea from Prison”?

a. Love for Althea                                          b. No one can imprison the human mind       

c. Love for the King                                       d. Prison life

100. What is a “Hermitage” according to Lovelace?

a. hut               b. a place where hermits live           c. mind          d. sages live

 

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