Semester – II 19th
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
IV: Biographia
Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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. Michaelmas
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 prophecy?
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 the 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
a) eldest b) elder c)
younger d) youngest
191. The youngest brother is like a________
a) bird b)
deer c) lion d) snake
192. The middle brother is a skilled______
a) hunter b) singer c)dancer
d) football player
193. The family is imprisoned because of__________
a) standing firm in their faith
b)murder c) blasphemy d) theft
194. How did the father die?
a) at the stake b) due to
sickness c) at the battle d) in hunting
195. The central idea of The Prisoner of Chillon is_________
a) freedom b) battle
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) Lake Leman b) Rhine
c) Nile d) Thames
198. Who visits the prisoner in the dungeon?
a) A mice b) A
relative 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) Switzerland b) France c)
Ireland d) Africa
Unit IV
Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 the 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. profile b. biography c. meditative autobiography
d. memoir
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