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Semester – II 19^th Century British Literature – I CIA

Unit I: Ode to Dejection by Coleridge

Unit II: “Ode to West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats

“The Prisoner of Chillon” (Lines 1 – 109, 300 – 392) by Byron

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 II

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats

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. Greece b. India c.USA d. England

4. What is Arcady?

a. A haunt of Pan b. A place of love c. A haunt of Buddha d. A place for sinners

5. What is a citadel?

a. A Fort b. A sacrificial cow c. A sacrificial lamb d. A city by the riverside

6. Which one will remain “in midst other owe”?

a. Urn b. poem c. West wind d. passion

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. viewed by others b. trees c. Urn d. Lady love

10. Whom does Keats address as “Cold pastoral”?

a. Urn b. pastoral land c. cold breeze d. plants

11. What animal is sacrificed in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

a. Calf b. dog c. lamb d. pig

12. Who will not “fade” in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

a. Lady love b. trees c. branches d. flowers

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. Calf b. lady love c. urn d. bull

16. Who can never say “adieu” to Spring?

a. Tees on the urn b. singer on the urn c. lovers on the urn d. Keats

17. Which is “Forever warm and still to be enjoyed”?

a. Love d. song c. trees d. melody

Ode to West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 is 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

7. “A new birth” will be caused by______
a) the quivering within the wave’s intenser day b ) the incantation of verse c. new Mother d) the sapless foliage of the ocean

“The Prisoner of Chillon” by Byron

185. The prisoner is locked up in the _______

a. Castle of Chillon b. Castle of Otranto c. Bedford castle d. Carisbrooke Castle

186. _______is a famous work by Byron.

a. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage b. Lyrical Ballads c. In Memoriam 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. Gothic b. English c. French d. Victorian

189. There --------- are pillars in the dungeon.

a. 7 b.5 c. 8 d. 4

190. The prisoner is the__________son in the family