Quiz 1

1. It was during the ……….period that England

came to be called 'The Nest of Singing Birds'.

a) Elizabethan

b) Neoclassical

c) Pre-Romantic

d) Romantic

2. Two great Elizabethan poets were ………………

a) Donne and Herbert

b) Pope and Dryden

c) Wordsworth and Coleridge

d) Sidney and Spenser

3. In his Apology for Poetry, …….. defends poetry

on the ground of its unique power to teach.

a) Sidney

b) Spenser

c) Shakespeare

d) Milton

4. With The Faerie Queene, …….. achieved the

central poem of the

Elizabethan period.

a) Ben Jonson

b) Spenser

c) Sidney

d) Donne

5.The sonnet flourished greatly in

the……………..period.

a) Elizabethan

b) Neoclassical

c) Pre-Romantic

d) Romantic

6. The earliest sonnets are attributed to an Italian

poet called …………

a) Spenser

a) Shakespeare

b) Sidney

c) Petrarch

8. The ……….period was characterized by an

extreme spirit of adventure, aestheticism and

materialism

a) Elizabethan

b) Neoclassical

c) Pre-Romantic

d) Romantic

QUIZ 2

9. ‘I Find No Peace’ is a poem written by…….

a) William Shakespeare

b) George Herbert.

c) Robert Herrick.

d) Sir Thomas Wyatt

10. The main theme of ‘I Find No Peace’

is…………..

a) suffering in love.

b) death.

c) friendship.

d) happiness.

11. ‘I Find No Peace’is a poem which is mainly

built on the use……

a) simile.

b) personification.

c) paradox.

d) hyperbole.

12. In ‘I ... freeze like ice', from ' I Find No Peace,’

there is an example of……..

a) personification.

b) metaphor.

c) pun.

d) simile.

13. In 'Nor letteth me live nor die at my device',

from ‘I Find No Peace', the consonant /l/ comes at

the beginning of the words 'letteth' and 'live' giving

an example of ……….

a) stress.

b) assonance.

c) consonance.

d) alliteration.

14. In 'And my delight is causer of this strife ',

from ‘I Find No Peace', the vowel /ai/ is repeated in

the words 'my', 'delight' and 'strife', giving an

example of ……….

a) assonance.

b) consonance

c) alliteration.

d) repetition.

QUIZ 3

15. ‘On My First Son’ is an example of …….poetry.

a) satiricalb) elegiacc) pastorald) descriptive.

16. ………is the main theme of ‘On My First Son’.a) The sense of loss and sorrowb) Loyaltyc) Loved) The sense of delight and happiness

17. 'On My First Son' is an address from……….

a) a son to a fatherb) a father to a motherc) a father to a daughterd) a father to a son

18. In ‘Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and

joy’, from 'On My First Son', the image is…….

a) simileb) apostrophec) personificationd) paradox.

19. ‘On My First Son’ is a poem written by……

a) Edmund Spenser.

b) Ben Jonson

c) William Wordsworth

d) Christopher Marlowe

20. In 'Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and

joy:', from 'On My First Son', the underlined words

show an example of:

a) assonance

b) consonance

c) alliteration

d) stress

21. In 'To have so soone scap'd worlds, and

fleshes rage' ', from 'On My First Son', the /s/ sound

is repeated in the initial position of more than one

word, and this technical device is called……………..

a) assonance

b) consonance

c) alliteration

d) stress

QUIZ 4

22. ' How like a winter hath my absence been ' is a

poem written by………..

a) William Shakespeare

b) Ben Jonson

c) Sir Thomas Wyatt

d) Robert Herrick

23. 'How like a winter hath my absence been' is a poem in which the writer compares the separation from his beloved to………….

a) summer.

b) winter.

c) spring.

d) autumn.

24. The main theme of ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ is…….

a) summer.

b) winter.

c) separation from the beloved

d) autumn

25. ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’, is a

poem which is mainly built on a….

a) metaphor

b) paradox

c) personification

d) simile

26. ‘How like a winter hath my absence been’ is a

sonnet of 14 lines divided into……

a) an octave and a sestet.

b) three quatrains and a concluding

couplet.

c) a sestet and two quatrains.

d) two sestets and a concluding couplets.

27. In 'Like widow’d wombs after their lords’

decease', from‘How like a winter hath my absence

been’, there is an example of……..

a) pun

b) hyberbole

c) simile

d) metaphor

QUIZ 5

28. ' one day I wrote her nam ' is a poem written

by………..

a) Sir Philip Sidneyb) John Miltonc) John Donned) Edmund Spenser

29. The image in '… but you shall live by fame, from

‘One Day I Wrote Her

Name…’, is…………...

a) apostrophe.b) simile.c) personification.d) metaphor.

30. In ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name….’, the main

theme is………..

a) the mortality of love

b) the end of love

c) the loss of love

d) the immortality of love

31. In ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name….’ the poet

tells us that he has tried many times to write the

name of his beloved in the sand, but the

waves……….it.

a) keep

b) show

c) clarify

d) remove

32. In 'Our love shall live, and later life renew',

from ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name….’, the repetition

of the sound /l/ in the initial position of more than

one word gives an example of…………….

a) assonance

b) alliteration

c) consonance

d) stress

QUIZ 6

33. The term 'metaphysical' refers to a style

of ...poetry.

a) 15th Century

b) 16th Century

c) 17th Century

d) 18th Century.

34. …… was the most influential metaphysical

poet.

a) John Donne

b) William Shakespeare

c) Edmund Spenser

d) Sir Philip Sidney

35.… poetry is described as the 'poetry of strong

lines'.

a) Elizabethan

b) Neoclassical

c) Metaphysical

d) Romantic

36. Donne dedicated his Holy Sonnets to….…….

a) Henry Vaughn

b) Andrew Marvel

c) George Herbert

d) His wife.

37. Metaphysical poets were fond of using……..

….in their poems.

a) similes b) apostrophes.c) personificationsd) conceits

38. Metaphysical poets reacted against the

smooth and sweet tones of

much ……………. verse.

a) fourteenthb) fifteenthc) sixteenthd) seventeenth

39. A metaphysical poem often has

…………….opening:

a) a commonb) a conventionalc) an unusual

d) an ordinary

QUIZ 7

40. 'The Broken Heart' is a poem written

by…………..

a) John Donne

b) William Shakespeare

c) Edmund Spenser

d) Sir Thomas Wyatt.

41. In 'The Broken Heart', the speaker declares

that any man who claims he has been in love for an

hour is ……..

a) Wise.

b) clever.

c) sane.

d) mad.

42. In 'He swallows us and never chaws', from 'The

Broken Heart', the poet gives us an example

of………….

a) simileb) personificationc) paradoxd) irony

43. The main idea of 'The Broken Heart' is that…….

a) love surprises the heart.b) love satisfies the heart.c) love destroys the heart.d) love gives pleasure to the heart.

44. In 'If 'twere not so, what did become / Of my heart when I first saw thee?', from 'The Broken Heart', the image is………….a) Apostrophe

b) personificationc) paradoxd) metaphor

QUIZ 8

45. Neo-Classicism appeared in the beginning of

the…..century.

a) 18th

b) 17th

c) 16th

d) 15th

46. During the Neo-classical period, there was a

belief in the power

of………...

a) feeling

b) sentiment

c) emotion

d) reason

47. ……… were the greatest poets of the neo-

classical period.

a) Marlowe and Shakespeare

b) Pope and Dryden

c) Wordsworth and Coleridge

d) Donne and Herber

48. The neo-classical poets reacted against the

tradition of the….…….

a) Metaphysicals

b) Romans

c) Greecks

d) French

49. Pope and Dryden established a new school of

poetry known as the

……….School of English poetry poems.

a) Elizabethan

b) Pre-Romantic

c) Romantic

d) Neoclassical

50. During the Neoclassical period, it was believed

that human nature is

……………………

a) changing

b) unchanging

c) varying

d) different

51. It was important for neoclassical authors to

focus on …………

a) generalities.

b) specifics.

c) details.

d) particulars.

52. The Neoclassical poets looked to the

………..writers for guidance and inspiration.

a) Italian

b) English

c) African

d) Greek and Roman

53. An Essay on Criticism was written by…………..

a) Pope

b) Dryden

c) Milton

d) Shakespeare

QUIZ 9

54. The Rape of the Lock is written by…………..

a) John Drydon

b) William Blake

c) John Milton

d) Alexander Pope

55. ………is the main theme of The Rape of the

Lock

a) Satire

b) Love

c) War

d) Friendship

56. The main figure of speech in The Rape of the

Lock is ……….

a) apostrophe.b) hyperbolec) Personificationd) simile

57. The Rape of the lock is…………..

a) a mock-epicb) a lyrical poemc) an elegyd) a war poem

58. One of Pope's…….persuaded him to write The Rape of the lock.

a) sudentsb) teachersc) brothersd) friends

QUIZ 10

59. Towards the end of the ……, poetry began to

move away from the strict ideals of the neoclassical

period to focus on sentiment and feelings.

a) 18th century b) 17th century c) 16th century d) 15th century.

60. Towards the end of the 18 th century, poetry

began to move away from the strict ideals of

the………….…period.

a) Elizabethan b) Metaphysical c) Neoclassical

d) Pre-Romantic

61. Pre-Romantic poetry focused on………...

a) reasonb) rulesc) ancient classical modelsd) sentiment and feelings

62. The Pre-Romantic trend can be clearly seen

in the handling of …………

a) natureb) old modelsc) experimental science d) reason and intellect

63. Night Thoughts is a poem written by….…….

a) Thomas Grayb) Edward Youngc) James Thomson d) James Macpherson

64. …………….wrote four long poems on the

seasons, Winter, Summer, Spring, and Autumn,

which were collected in a single volume in 1730.

a) Edward Youngb) Thomas Grayc) James Thomson d) James Macpherson

65. ………….., the author of Elegy Written in a

Country Churchyard, was one of the most learned

men in Europe in his day.

a) James Macphersonb) Thomas Grayc) James Thomsond) Edward Young

66. The Pre-Romantic poets looked to

……………..for inspiration.

a) the ideals of order b) the Romansc) the Greeksd) nature

QUIZ 11

67. ' , from ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

poem written by………..

a. Edmund Spenser

b. Sir Thomas Wyatt

c. Thomas Gray

d. John Milton.

68. An elegy is a poem which laments …….

a) the dead.

b) the poor

c) the rich

d) the past.

69. The main theme of ‘Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard’ is……

a) love.

b) betrayal.

c) war.

d) death.

70. The figure of speech in “'The Curfew tolls the

knell of parting day'”, from ‘Elegy Written in a

Country Churchyard’, is

a) Simile

b) Personification

c) Paradox

d) Hyperbole

71. The repetition of the two consonants /p/

and /w/ in ' The plowman homeward plods his

weary way' , from ‘Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard’, gives an example of ……….

a) alliteration

b) assonance

c) stress

d) intonation

72. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is a

poem written in………….

a) couplets

b) tercets

c) quatrains

d) sestets.

73. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ has a

very………tone.

a) happy

b) sad

c) merry

d) nice

QUIZ 12

74. ‘The Little Black Boy’ is a poem written

by………

a) William Blake.

b) George Herbert.

c) John Donne.

d) Sir Philip Sidney.

75. The main theme of ‘The Little Black Boy’ is

……….

a) The discrimination of human beings

b) The separation of human beings

c) The differentiation of human beings

d) The equality of human beings

76. In 'That we may learn to bear the beams of

love;'’’, from ‘The Little Black Boy’, the image is……

a) metaphor.

b) simile.

c) allusion.

d) irony.

77. In ‘White as an angel is the English child', from,

‘The Little Black Boy’, the poet gives us an example

of……..

a) simile.

b) pun

c) apostrophe

d) metaphor

78. In ‘The Little Black Boy’, the speaker is

an……..child

a) English

b) European

c) African

d) American