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1) Which of the following statement is correct ? a. Shakespeare’s first child Susanna was born in 1583. b. In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith. c. both a and b d. None of above.
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2) How many languages did chaucer know ? a. 2 b. 4 c. 1 d. 5
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3) in which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written ? a. French b. Latin c. Middle english d. English
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4) Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ? a. Elliot b. Kipling c. Cummings d. Brooke
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5) Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953 ? a. Owner convicted of fraud b. Fall in Sales c. Rise in taxation on magazines d. Shortage of paper
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6) In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ’Under Milk Wood’ first become known ? a. Book of poetry b. A radio play c. A stage play d. a short film
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7) Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess ? a. Carolyn Kizer b. Mary Oliver c. Sylvia Plath d. Marianne Moore
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8) Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ? a. Light verse b. Romantic c. Political satire d. War poems
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9) What is a funny poem of five lines called _________________ ? a. Quartet b. Limerick c. Sextet d. Palindrome
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10) What is the title of the poem that begins thus – ’What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare’ ? a. Comfort b. Leisure c. Relaxation d. Tranquility
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11) Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________? a. Impediments b. Inconveniences c. Worries d. Troubles
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12) There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ? a. Metaphor b. Synecdoche c. Euphemism d. Irony
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13) What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-? a. Prosody b. Allegory c. Scansion d. Assonance
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14) Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ? a. H. W. Longfellow b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Dylan Thomas d. William Wordsworth
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15) Which is an example of a proverb ? a. Get a “stake” in our business. b. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too c. The snow was white as cotton. d. You’re driving me crazy.
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16) The theme is_____________? a. a plot. b. an character c. an address d. the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
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17) What is the word for a “play on words” ? a. pun b. simile c. haiku d. metaphor
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18) Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’ a. George Bernard Shaw b. John Dryden c. Christopher Marlowe d. William Shakespeare
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19) William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________? a. 1564 b. 1544 c. 1578 d. 1582
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20) Which of the following writers wrote historical novels ? a. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte b. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth c. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge d. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
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21) Who wrote Canterbury Tales ? a. Geoffrey Chaucer b. Dick Whittington c. Thomas Lancaster d. King Richard II
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22) Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature ? a. Skeptical b. Authoritative c. Impressionistic d. Both a & c
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23) ’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when ? a. The 1900’s b. The 1960’s c. The 1920’s d. The 1930’s
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24) What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ? a. Alliterative b. Epic c. Acrostic d. Haiku
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25) From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date ? a. The 12th b. The 14th c. The 17th d. The 19th
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26) Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ? a. William Carlos Williams b. Emily Dickinson c. Gerard Manly Hopkins d. Robert Frost
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27) What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called ? a. Prosody b. Potology c. Rheumatology d. Scansion
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28) In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’? a. Glory b. Ruin c. Disaster d. victory
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29) Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ? a. Emily Dickinson b. Paul Dunbar c. John Greenleaf Whittier d. Walt Whitman
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30) Sylvia Plath married which English poet ? a. Masefield b. Causley c. Hughes d. Larkin
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31) Which American writer published ’A brave and startling truth’ in 1996 ? a. Robert Hass b. Jessica Hagdorn c. Maya Angelou d. Micheal Palmer
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32) Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict? a. Boer War b. Second World War c. Korean War d. First World War
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33) Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’ ? a. e. e. Cummings b. T. S. Elliot c. John Greenleaf Whittier d. Walt Whitman
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34) Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ? a. Nature b. Epics c. Sonnets d. Nonsense
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35) Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee better after death’ ? a. How do I love thee b. Ode to a Grecian urn c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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36) Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books ? a. The Poor Man and the Lady b. The Return of Native c. Chollttee d. None of the above
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37) What is the earliest surviving European poem ? a. The Homeric epic b. The Gilgamesh epic c. The Deluge epic d. The Hesiodic ode
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38) Where did chaucer bury ? a. westminster abbey b. kent church c. chapel at windsor d. none of the above
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39) Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ? a. Victor Hugo b. Alexander Pope c. John Milton d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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40) Which of the following is not a poet ? a. William Shakespeare b. Terry Saylor c. Browning d. Emily Dickinson
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