200 MCQs from Literary Criticism

(From: Professor Afzal Janjua)

1. Plato is the disciple of…..

A. Crito
B. Heraclitus
C. Socrates
D. Democritus

2. Which of the following pre- Socratic philosopher influenced Plato?

A. Heraclitus
B. Democritus
C. Protagoras
D. Crito

3. Which philosopher said that “everything in the universe is in a state of

flux”?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. Heraclitus

4. Who propounded the dialectical method of pursuing truth?

A. Plato
B. Socrates
C. Aristotle
D. Heraclitus

5. In which form did Plato present his philosophy?

A. Written
B. Oral
C. Dialogue
D. Pictorial

6. Which among the following is Not a dialogue by Plato?

A. Ion
B. Apology
C. Symposium
D. Poetics

7. Plato expounded his theory of Forms in …… and …..

A. Ion and Apology
B. Phaedo and The Republic
C. Lysis and Gorgias
D. Meno and The Republic
8. According Plato reality exists in ……
A. The External world
B. The Realm of pure forms
C. The world of reason
D. World of Imagination.

9. Who is a rhapsode?
A. Dancer
B. Spectator
C. Interpreter who explains ideas
D. Medium through which God speaks

10. Which according to Plato is a divorce from reason?

A. Philosophy
B. Rhetoric
C. Poetry
D. Logic

11. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of poetry?

A. It uses language
B. It uses rhythm
C. It is written in verse
D. It uses harmony
12. Which of the following contains a mix of direct and indirect
narrative?
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Homeric epic
D. Dithyrambic poetry

13. Which of the following is not "art" in the Greek sense of the word?
A. Tragedy
B. A spear
C. A table
D. A peacock's feather

14. Which of the following is NOT a reason for why we like imitations?
A. We learn from imitations
B. Imitations exercise our reason
C. We are not repelled by imitations of things we would normally
find repellent
D. There is a sense of safety in not having to deal with reality

15. Which of the following was the last to evolve?

A. Tragedy
B. Dithyramb
C. Epic poetry
D. Invective
16. Which of the following is not one of the "three unities"?
A. Unity of action
B. Unity of character
C. Unity of place
D. Unity of time

17. Which is the only unity that Aristotle insists upon?

A. Unity of action
B. Unity of character
C. Unity of place
D. Unity of time

18. Which of the following is the most important?

A. Character
B. Diction
C. Plot
D. Harmony

19. Which of the following is the least important?

A. Character
B. Plot
C. Thought
D. Spectacle

20. Which of the following is NOT a part of Aristotle's definition of

tragedy?
A. It arouses pity and fear
 B. It has an unhappy ending
C. It involves mimesis
D. It is performed rather than narrated

21. What did Aristotle call metaphysics?

a) Cosmology
b) First philosophy
c) Psychology
d) Geology

22. According to Aristotle, which of the following is not one of the six
elements of the tragedy?
a) Plot
b) Reversal
c) Character
d) Spectacle

23. What was the favorite example that Aristotle returned to repeatedly
in the Poetics?
a) Oedipus
b) Antigone
c) Odyssey
d) Gorgias
24. Who assumed leadership of the Academy after Plato's death?
a) Hermeias
b) Xenocrates
c) Eudemus
d) Speusippus

25. According to Aristotle, which pair of words is analogous to

matter::form?
a) Essence::being
b) Substance::Substrate
c) Potentiality::actuality
d) Cause::Effect

26. What was Aristotle's attitude toward slavery?

a) He disapproved strongly
b) He disapproved reluctantly
c) He considered it to be against nature
d) He considered it to be natural

27. Where was Aristotle born?

a) Stagira
b) Athens
c) Thebes
d) Macedonia

28. Which state ruled Greece for most of Aristotle's adult life?
a) Athens
b) Thebes
c) Macedonia
d) Sparta

29. Which book contains Aristotle’s research in zoology and marine

biology?
a) The History of Animals
b) The Animal Kingdom
c) The Dawn of Zoology
d) The Nature of Animal Light

30. Where did Aristotle die?

a) Pella
b) Ephesus
c) Assus
d) Chalcis

31. According to Aristotle, happiness is:

a) a state of mind.
b) a feeling or sensation.
c) a craft.
d) activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

32. Aristotle claims that:

a) virtue is in our power, and so is vice.
b) virtue is in our power, but vice is not.
c) vice is in our power, but virtue is not.
d) neither virtue nor vice is in our power.

33. Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in _______________?

a) Art Poetique
b) Poetics
c) Rhetoric
d) Ars Poetica

34. In Book XII of the Metaphysics, how many kinds of substances are
there?
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four
35. What are the two imperishable entities?
a) Motion and space
b) Space and time
c) Motion and time
d) Fire and water

36. In Book XII of the Metaphysics, how many kinds of substances are
there?
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four

37. How many categories of Metaphysics are there?

a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four

38. What is the term for an argument used in rhetoric that could be
reduced logically to a syllogism?
a) Metonymy
b) Synecdoche
c) Enthymeme
d) Heuristic

39. The Poetics deals primarily with what genre?

a) Epic
b) Comedy
c) Tragedy
d) Lyric Poetry

40. Which book is often criticized for being disorganized?

a) Politics
b) Ethics
c) Poetics
d) Rhetoric

41- To whom did T.S Eliot delicate his The Waste Land?

A-Ezra Pound

B-Rudyard Kipling

C-Bernard Shaw

D-John Ruskin
42-In which verse-form is T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land written?

A-Free Verse

B-Blank Verse

C-Sprung Rhythm

D-Prose-verse

43-T.S Eliot’s The Sacred Wood is

A-A collection of Critical articles

B-A collection of poems

C-A poetic play

D-A Classical drama

44-The phrase ”dissociation of sensibility” was used by Eliot in

A-The Metaphysical Poets

B-Baudelaire

C- Dante

D-None
45-T.S Eliot uses the term ”objective correlative in

A-Hamlet and his problems

B-The function of criticism

C-The Frontiers of Criticism

D-None

46-On what basis does Eliot call Hamlet an artistic failure?

A-Because Hamlet lacks in objective correclative

B-Because the plot of Hamlet is disjointed

C-Because Hamlet feigns madness

D-None

47-T.S Eliot has not written a critical article on one of the following
Locate him

A-Shelley

B-Swinburne

C-Dante

D-Blake
48-What is according to T.S Eliot the most powerful tool in the hands of
a critic?

A-Comparison and analysis

B-Language and style of the author under review

C-Evaluation

D-None

49-T.S Eliot calls Arnold” a propagandist of literature and an over-

worked school inspector”

A-In The Perfect Critic

B-Cymbeline

C-The Tempest

D-Romeo and Juliet

50-T.S Eliot says, ”No poets no artist of any art has his complete
meaning alone why?

A-Because he is connected with a tradition from which he cannot

break aay

B-Because a work of art music be universal

C-Because no man is complete in himself

D-None

51-In what kind of verse-form is the play The Family Reunion was
written?

A-Prose Verse

B-Free Verse

C-Blank Verse

D-Sprung Rhythm

52-What is Eliot’s The Confidential Clerk?

A-A Play

B-A Novel

C-A long Narrative

D-None

53-When was T.S Eliot born?

A-1888

B-1856

C-1899
D-1898

54-T.S Eliot The Waste Land concludes with a

A-A Sanskrit word

B- A French Word

C- A German Word

D-None

 55-Who wrote the play The Elder Statement?

A- T.S Eliot

B- Virginia Woolf

C-Marlowe

D-Shakespeare

 56-Who said ”Next to of course God America I love you”

A-T.S Elliot

B-Shakespeare

C-Wordsworth

D-None

57-Who wrote Journey of the Magi?

A-T.S Eliot
B-Macbeth

C-Wordsworth

D-None

 58-What is Eliot’s The Cocktail Party?

A-A Drama

B-A Critical Work

C-A collection of essays

D-None

59-T.S Eliot says, ”No poets no artist of any art has his complete
meaning alone why?

A-Because he is connected with a tradition from which he cannot

break aay

B-Because a work of art music be universal

C-Because no man is complete in himself

D-None

60-T.S Eliot says ”Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape
from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from
personality”

A-In Tradition and Individual Talent

B-In The Perfect Critic

C-In Imperfect Critic

D-None

61. In which year does E.M Foster present his lecture series, aspect of
novel?
a) 1932
b) 1923
c) 1972
d) 1927

62. Foster gives his series of lecture on the aspects of the novel at Trinity
college
a) Princeton university
b) Cambridge university
c) oxford university
d) Harvard university

63. In fosters opinion, what is the key falling of English fiction

a) provincialism
b) plot
c) value
d) character

64. considering lectures on the basis of time period is act of the

a) un-educated
b) scholar
c) pseudo-scholar
 d) expert

65. How many years separate the writing of henry James and Samuel
Richardson?
a) 75
b) 160
c) 150
d) 200

66. What subject do the expert of H.G Wells and Charles dickens that
foster compares in the intro. both describe?
a) Christmas
b) wedding
c) funeral
d) love

67. Forster third set of excerpts in the introduction are form virginal
wool f and
a) heavy James
b) sir Walter Scott
c) Samuel Richardson
d) Laurence Sterne

68. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the
authors what?
a) past
b) meaning
c) structure
d) notes
69. What Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length
a) The egoist
b) beau champ’s career
c) the bishops’ tales
d) Bombay’s crossing

70. Birth and death are what of the five facts of human life
a) strongest
b) silliest
c) surest
d) strangest

71. What is the thing a novelist should never aim for, but fails if this is
not achieved?
a) wisdom
b) beauty
c) genius
d) kindness

72. Forster quotes George Meredith as, saying we must live by the – or
block
a) pen
b) future
c) sword
d) promise

73. What does Forster say is one of the lowest of human faculties?
a) curiosity
b) greed
 c) shame
d) envy

74. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the

a) authors imagination
b) literature
c) secret life
d) after life

75. Author of Ulysses

a) henry James
b) E.M Forster
c) Hamer
d) James Jaylee

76. When was E.M Forster born?

a) 1 Jan 1879
b) 7 May 1870
c) 20 September 1876
d) 21 dec 1882

78. Where did Edward. m Forster spend 3 years during World War 1
a) Paris
b) berlin
c) Alexandria
d) deli

79. Which novel of E.M Forster was published in 1924

a) A passage to India
 b) hazards end
c) a room with a view
d) the longest journey

80. where did E.M Forster die

a) play mouth
b) Bristol
c) Athens
d) Coventry

80. Who is the author of Moby dick

a) Dostoevsky
b) Joyce
c) brane
d) Herman Melville

81. Aesthetics deals with objects that are_____.

a) essential to our existence
 b) unimportant to most people
c) not essential to our existence
d) rarely viewed
82. Aesthetics addresses questions that interest _____.
a) only philosophers
b) only critics
c) no one
d) philosophers and non-philosophers
83. Traditionally art has been defined as _____.
a) wealth
b) utility
 c) representation
d) well being
84. The view that art is defined by its form is known as _____.
a) informalism
b) expressionism
c) formalism
d) structuralism
85. An important formal characteristic of art is_____.
a) social meaning
b) faithful representation
c) its power to evoke strong emotions
d) coherence
86. Who was the first literary critic who said that ”Art is twice removed
from reality”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Longinus
d) None
87. Aristotle’s critical work is entitled
a) Poetics
b) Arte Poetica
c) Art Poetique
d) Ars Poetica
88. Who is the author of the Symposium?
a) Plato
b) Longinus
c) Dante
d) Aristotle
89. What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his
Theory of Tragedy?
a) A weak trait in the character of the hero
b) Working of fate against the hero
c) Tragic end of the tragedy
d) None
90. What is the meaning of the term Peripeteia are used by Aristotle in
his Theory of Tragedy?
a) Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
b) Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
c) Constancy in the fortune of the hero
d) None
91. What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in
his Theory of Tragedy?
a) The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
b) The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
c) The hero’s recognition of his adversary
d) The hero’s recognition of his tragic end
92. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the
Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published.
a) 1800
b) 1789
c) 1879
d) 1875
93. In whose opinion ”Poetry is the most highly organized form of
intellectual activity?
a) T.S Eliot
b) D.H Lawerence
c) G.B Shaw
 d) W.B Yeats
94. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art?
a) To connect human beings with a higher ideal
b) To entertain those who enjoy it
c) To criticize society through satire
d) To bring to light social oppressions
95. Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of
a) Lake District
b) Lancashire Region
c) Wessex Region
d) None
 96. Wordsworth was the poet of ——
a) Nature
b) Love
c) Romance
d) Sad
97. Poetic diction in related to
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) Coleridge
d) None
98. Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or
suggestive expression?
a) alamkara
b) dhwani
c) kavya
d) aswad
99. Which aspect helps the sahrdaya or the aesthetically sensible person
to see the characters presented in a literary work in a generalised
manner?
a) denotation
b) imagination
c) inference
d) connotation
100. Who mentions: “God is not the author of all things, but of good
only”
a) plato
b) glaucon

c) socrates  

d) adeimantus

101: Philosophy comes from Greek word philosophia, which means:

a) lover of philosophy
b) Love of wisdom
c) Lover of soapboxes
d) Lover of question
102: philosophy is different from poetry because
a) It’s a mode of expression
b) Mode of inquiry
c) It contains joy
d) Mode of entertainment
103: philosophy of history deal with?
a) Discipline of history
b) Historical figures only
c) Historical process and their development
 d) Poetry of history
104: who is the father of philosophy if history?
a) Socrates
b) Karl max
c) Wordsworth
d) Hegel
105: whats the main focus of philosophy?
a) Study of reasons
b) Study of truths
c) Study of ideas and principles of history
d) Study of mind
106: how many main branches of philosophy?
a) 5
b) 8
c) 4
d) 6
107: what poetry allows us in contrast to philosophy?
a) Share joy and pain with world
b) Limitation of subject
c) Limitation of language
d) Informative stuff
108: what is poetry?
a) Lyrical style
b) Mode of expression
c) A lifestyle
d) Critic’s view
109: how did W.H Auden describes poetry?
a) An auful way to earn a living
b) A game of knowledge
c) The soul exposed
d) Explosion of language
110: history is the study of?
a) Past in all its form
b) Logics
c) Ideas
d) Expressions
111: history only relates to
a)What may happened
b)Life
c)What has happened
d)Critics
112: philosophy of history deals with?
a)Critics of history
b)Philosophers of history
c)Philosophical study of history and its discipline
d)Events of history
113: who is the father of modern history?
a)Bishop William stubbs
b)Herodutus
c)Hegel
d)Socrates
114: what is one line poem called?
a)Ballad
b)Monostitch
c)Cinquain
d)Verse
115: In Sidney’s view poetry is superior to philosophy and history as it
a)Contains limitation of expressions
b)Teaches virtue and urgue human to live virtuously
c)Only talk about a certain perspective
d)Don’t care about emotions
116: “ an apology for poetry” is written by?
a)Yeats
b)Hegel
c)Philip Sydney
d)W.H Auden
117: Plato disapproves poetry because according to him its:
a)Unethical
b)Is immortal based on falsehood
c)Don’t care about reader
d)Contains no reality
118: who said : ‘poetry is the mother of lies”
a)Socrates
b)W.B Yeats
c)Plato
d)Hegel
119: most understandable form of knowledge for common man is
a)Philosophy
b)Poetry
c)History
d)None
120: Wordsworth established the superiority of poetry over philosophy
and history by saying:
a)Both studied through intellect and murders the dissect
b)Both cares about human feelings
c)Both Gives a lesson for human life
d)All three of them share same perspective
121. Wordsworth’s theory of poetry appears in_____?
A. Excursion
B. Tintern Abbey Lines
C. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
D. Immortality Ode

122. Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined

poetry in these words ?
A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
 D. Matthew Arnold

123. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful?

A. Feelings
B. Emotions
C. Tranquility
D. Imaginations

124. Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date

from:
A. Publication of "Intimations of Immortality"
B. The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign
C. The Reform Bill of 1832
D. Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface

125. “Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge: it is the
impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.”
Wordsworth define this in?
A. Preface to lyrical ballads
B. Some observations on eighteenth century poetry
C. The decline and fall of romantic ideal
D. Preface to the second edition of lyrical ballads

126._____ influence whole romantic era?

A. John keats
B. P.B Shelly
C. William wordsworth
D. William blake
127. Wordsworth advised the students of chemistry to lay aside his
books and turn to ___ for true learning.
A. Reading
B. Poetry
C. Literature
D. Mysticism

128. Definition of poetry in lyrical ballads was____given to the already

decandent poetry of neoclassicism?
A. Chaotic tendency
B. Coup de grace
C. Magna carta
D. Both B and C

129.____inspired a generation of poets to write romantic poetry, and

consequently, the glorification of nature, emotions, human relationships,
and spirituality.
A. Prelude
B. Lyrical ballads
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge

130. Influence of Wordsworth's works, is heavily found in the works of

____of the romantic era.
A. William Blake
B. Other poets
C. S.T coleridge
D. All of the above
131. Wordsworth was called the “Poet of nature” by?
A. P.B Shelley
B. S.T coleridge
C. John keats
D. Byron

132. All romantic poetry and poets were Influenced by French

thinker(s)?
A. Eugène Delacroix
B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C. Louis de Fontanes
D. All of the above

133. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic
form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is
contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as "the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?
A. the lyric poem written in the first person
B. the sonnet
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the ode

134. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus

demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary
thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic
imagination?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

135. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing
rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not
only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but also as the
major subject and medium for poetry in general?

A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
D. William Wordsworth

136. Wordsworth described all good poetry as

A. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age
D. the divine gift of grace

137. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?

A. the figment
B. the fragment
C. the aubade
D. the comedy of manners

138. When were the Lyrical Ballads published?

A. 1797
B. 1798
C. 1800
D. 1801

139. William Wordsworth was born in

 A. 1770
B. 1771
C. 1768
D. 1769

140. What was Wordsworth’s professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads?

A. Purge poetry of all conceit
B. Simplicity of diction
C. Make it intelligible to common people
D. All of the above
141- Who was the first literary critic who said that ”Art is twice
removed from reality”?
A-Plato
B- Aristotle
C-Longinus
D-Horace

142-Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal

Republic?
A- Plato
B- Aristotle
C- Longinus
D-Horace

143-Aristotle’s critical work is entitled

A- Poetics
B-D Arte Poetica
C- Art Poetique
D-Ars Poetica

144-ho is the author of Ars Poetica?

A- Horace
B-Plato
C-Aristotle
D-Dante

145-Who is the author of the Symposium?

A- Plato
B-Longinus
C-Dante
D-Aristotle

146-Horace was a
A- Roman Critic
B- French Critic
C- Greek Critic
D-German Critic

147-Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in

A-Poetics
B- Rhetoric
C-Ars Poetica
D-Art Poetique

148-How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to

Longinus?
A-Five
B-Six
C-Four
D-None

149-What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in

his Theory of Tragedy?
A- A weak trait in the character of the hero
B- Working of fate against the hero
C-Tragic end of the tragedy
D-None

150-What is the meaning of the term Peripeteia are used by Aristotle in

his Theory of Tragedy?
A- Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
B- Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
C- Constancy in the fortune of the hero
D- None
151-What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in
his Theory of Tragedy?
A-The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
B- The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
c- The hero’s recognition of his adversary
D- The hero’s recognition of his tragic end

152-What is denouncement?
A-The ending of a comedy
B- The ending of a tragedy
C- The climax in a tragedy
D- The climax in a comedy

153- Who is the originator of the Theory of Imitation in literature?

A-Plato
B-Longinus
C-Aristotle
D-None

154-Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates?

A- Plato
B-Plautus
C-Sophocles
D-Citrus

155- From where has the term Oedipus Complex Originated?

A- Oedipus the Rex
B-Antigone
C-Oedipus at Cons
D-None

156-The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled

Electra. ho is the author of this tragedy
A- Sophocles
B-Euripides
C-Seneca
D-Aeschylus

157-In which of the following works Plato discusses his Theory of

Poetry?
A- The Republic
B-Ion
C-Apology
D-None

158-Who is the author of a notorious book entitled The School of

Abuse?
A-Stephen Gosson
B-John Skelton
C-Stephen Hawes
D-Roger Ascham

159-Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry is a defense of poetry against

the charges bought against it by
A- Stephen Gosson
B- John Skelton
C-Roger Ascham
D-Henry Howard

160-It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a
long worn maketh an advocate whose view is this?
A- Sidney
B-Marlow
C-Spenser
D-Shakespeare

1. Who coined the term “dissociation of sensibility”

a) T.S Eliot
b) John Donn
c) John Milton
d) Words worth
2. “Dissociation of sensibility” is a phrase introduce in essay.
a) An introduction to literature
b) Metaphysical poets
c) Hamlet and his problems
d) Tradition and individual talent

3. Dissociation of sensibility refers to why or which there is a

separation b/w…
a) Thoughts and intellect
b) Thought and feeling
c) Intellect and experience
d) Both b & c

4. Two poets according to Eliot responsible for “dissociation of

sensibility “are...
a) Milton and Donne
b) Donne and Andrew Marvell
c) Pop and Coleridge
d) Milton and Dryden

5. Separation of thought from experience in poetry results in which

century
a) 16th
b) Early 17th
c) Late 17th
d) Both b & c

6. Name some of metaphysical poets.

a) Milton and Dryden
b) Donne and Andrew
c) Andrew and Milton
d) None

7. Features of poetry written by metaphysical poets.

a) Immature and imbalanced
b) Mature and sensible
c) Balanced and experienced based
d) Both b & c

8. Which results in decline of poetic quality in 17th century.

a) Objective correlation
b) Unification of thoughts
c) Dissociation of sensibility
d) None

9. Best poetry according to Eliot occurred by;

a) Fusion of thought and feeling
b) Separation of thought and diction
c) Fusion of nature and feeling
d) Separation of appearance and intellect

170 There is lack of _______ in Tennyson’s poetry

a) Feeling
b) Thought
c) Contemplation
d) All
10. In phrase “separation of thought and feeling” thought means
a) Nature
b) Diction
c) Meter
d) Both b & c

11. Pop stress on what in his poetry

a) Feeling
b) Intellect
c) Nature
d) Experience

12. Poets of modern age and metaphysical both shared

a) Dissociation of sensibility
b) Unification of thought
c) Objective correlation
d) Both

13. Regarding “dissociation of sensibility” Eliot attack on

a) Classical poets
b) Romantic poets
c) Victorian poets
d) All of above

14. Eliot wrote about which poet “thought was an experience” it

modified hid sensibility
a) Milton
b) Donne
c) Andrew
d) Coleridge

15. Which poem the feeling expressed is crude and unsatisfying.

a) Coy Mistress
b) Wast land
c) Four quarters
d) Country Churched

16. According to Eliot dissociation of sensibility might cause by

factors of
a) Civil war
b) Loss of feeling
c) Thought
d) None

17. More refined language is present in poem;

a) Rape of the Lock
b) Coy Mistress
c) The Lion
d) London

18. Some dissociation of sensibility was seen in poem

a) The Hollow Men
b) The Waste Land
c) Four Quarter
d) All of above

180. Dissociation of sensibility by Eliot given in

 a) 1917
b) 1918
c) 1919
d) 1921

181.Wordsworth’s concept actually revolts against the glorification of a

poet as somebody and different from other human being

a)18th century

b)16th century

c) 17th century

d) 19th century

182.Poet is different from others just in

a) Kind

b)Degree

c)Gender

d) Height

183.Poetry is a overflow of powerful feelings

a)Non spontaneous

b)Spontaneous

c)Imagination
d)irrelevant

184.Spontaneous poetry is originated from_______ recollected in

tranquility

a)Imagination

b)Reality

c)Emotion

d)intelligence

185.There are ______ stages in the process of poetic creation in

Wordsworth’s view

a)Five

b)Four

c)Three

d) Two

186.William Wordsworth’s aim was to makes poetry more simple and

___but Eliot wanted to depict

a)City, clarity

b)Natural, complexity

c)Urban, simplicity

d)None of them
187.According to Wordsworth, there is no essential difference between

a)Language of poetry and prose

b)Language of poetry and drama

c)Language of prose and drama

d)Language of essay anddrama

188.Wordsworth revolted against the poetic diction of

a)16th century

b)17th century

c)18th century

d)19th century

189.According to Wordsworth, a poet is endowed with more lively–

a)Knowledge

b)Ideas

c)Sensibility

d)Intelligence

190.Wordsworth mentions that in his poems he has used the language of

a)Humble and Urban people

b)Humble and poor people

c)Humble and rustic people

d)Rustic and poor people

191.All good poetry is a spontaneous overflow of

a)Powerful knowledge

b)Powerful Idea

c)Powerful feelings

d)Powerful Intelligence

192.Poetry is not a turning loose emotion but escape from emotion. It is

not the expression of Personality but escape from personality. Who says
this?

a)Robert Burns

b)Coleridge

c)Eliot

d)Wordsworth

193.Impersonality can be achieved only when the poet himself ___to the
work to be done.

a)Write

b)Surrender

c)Enjoyed
d)Critic

194.When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ?

A. 1847

B. 1861

C. 1839

D. 1843

195.Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English
literature ?

A. The Excursion

B. The Prelude

C. Lyrical Ballads

D. Poems, in Two Volumes

196.When was William Wordsworth born ?

A. 7 April 1770

B. 7 July 1767

C. 20 March 1773

D. 10 September 1772
197.In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth
made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ?

A. The European Magazine

B. New Poetry

C. The Tatler

D. The Rambler

198.Which college did William Wordsworth attend ?

A. St. John’s College

B. Trinity College

C. Christ College

D. King’s College

199.In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published ?

A. 1778

B. 1769

C. 1798

D. 1792

200.Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be

his magnum opus ?

A. Laodamia
B. The Prelude

C. Guide to the Lakes

D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Thank You.