Thursday, September 15, 2022

MCQs for I MA English ML 1 2022

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

BISHOP HEBER COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

SEMESTER – I

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

Objective Type Questions                                               Course Code: P22EG201  

Unit I

1.      In 1348 between one third and one half of the English population died within 18 months because of _____________

a. Plague                                 b. Cholera                    c. Cancer                     d. Smallpox

2.      Chaucer born in the reign of King _______________

a. Edward II               b. Edward III             c. Richard II                d. Henry IV

3.      Chaucer lived through the reign of King ____________

a. Edward II               b. Edward III              c. Richard II              d. Henry IV

4.      Chaucer died after King ___________ ascended the throne.

a. Edward II               b. Edward III              c. Richard II                d. Henry IV 

5.      Chaucer was the Member of the Parliament of ___________

a. Kent                                    b. London                   c. Italy                         d. Canterbury

6.      Chaucer was appointed as controller of wool customs in the port of _________

a. Kent                        b. London                   c. Italy                         d. Canterbury

7.      Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales influenced by Giovanni Boccaccio, a great writer from ________

a. Kent                        b. London                   c. Italy                         d. Canterbury

8.      _______________ is 80 miles from London

a. Kent                        b. London                   c. Italy                         d. Canterbury

9.      ___________ is the father of English Literature

a. Chaucer                  b. Spenser                    c. Shakespeare             d. Wyatt

10.  Thomas Becket was killed in Canterbury Cathedral in _______

a. 1330                        b. 1170                        c. 1190                        d. 1070

11.  Becket was a trusted adviser and friend of King _________

a. Edward II               b. Richard III              c. Henry II                  d. Charles II

12.  The narrator meets ____________ pilgrims at an inn

a. 30                            b. 28                            c. 31                            d. 29

13.  Canterbury Tales is considered as a/an “____________ satire”

a. estates                     b. Juvenalian               c. Horatian                  d. Old English

14.  Chaucer completed _______ stories and 2 fragments.

a. 21                            b. 22                            c. 23                            d. 24

15.  ___________ served the king well in the Crusades.

a. The Squire               b. The Friar                  c. The Knight             d. The Parson

16.  ____________ was a “lover and a cadet”.

a. The Parson               b. The Friar                  c. The Knight              d. The Squire

17.  _________ wears a bracelet “Love conquers all”.

a. The Prioress           b. The Wife of Bath    c. The Host                  d. The Friar

18.  ___________’s head was bald and shone like glass.

a. The Squire               b. The Monk              c. The Knight              d. The Parson

19.  The hot summer had burned the face of _________ all brown.

a. The Knight              b. The Friar                  c. Shipman                 d. The Parson

20.  _______ was a perfect example of the true Christian priest.

a. Shipman                  b. The Friar                  c. The Knight              d. The Parson

21.  Next to the Knight, ____________ is one of the most admired people on the pilgrimage.

a. The Oxford Cleric b. The Squire               c. The Knight              d. Shipman

22.  _________ was considered the bishop’s sheriff.

a. The Pardoner           b. The Summoner      c. The Parson               d. The Monk

23.  ________ was “intimate” with city dames

a. The Prioress             b. The Wife of Bath    c. The Friar                d. The Host

24.  __________ made a point of being first at the altar or offering in church

a. The Prioress             b. The Host                 c. The Friar      d. The Wife of Bath

25.  _______ rode last among the group

a. The Reeve              b. The Wife of Bath    c. The Friar                  d. The Host

 

Unit II

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 a “dross” by Donne?

a. soul                          b. body                        c. spirit                                    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

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. A trained gardener b. An 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

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. football                    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. 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

95. Richard Lovelace imagines that fine wine flowing with such unabashed abundance inside the prison. Even the ____ are ignorant of such liberty.

a. fish              b. angels                      c.  linnets                     d. winds

96. According to Richard Lovelace singing his king’s praises affords Lovelace greater liberty than the ____ .

a. fish              b. angels                      c.  linnets                     d. winds

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. The main theme of Richard Lovelace’s “To Althea from Prison” is True liberty resides_____.

a. in love for Althea                                        b. in the mind

c. in love for the King                                     d. in 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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