John Milton’s Paradise Regained

1. Which century is variously called the Age of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility,
The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason?
a) Sixteenth century
b) Seventeenth century
c) Eighteenth century
d) Nineteenth century

2. The Augustan Age is called so because

a) King Augustus ruled over England during this period
b) The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period
c) The English King was born in the month of August
d) This was an age of sensibility

3. The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its

a) Excessive wit and humour
b) Bitter satire and cynicism
c) Indecency and permissiveness
d) Superficial reflection of society

4. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth
century?
a) Advancement of Learning
b) Gulliver’s Travels
c) The Spectator
d) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

5. What was the position held by John Milton in the reign of Oliver Cromwell?
a) Latin Secretary
b) Italian Secretary
c) Greek Secretary
d) Indian Secretary

6. Who pays glowing tributes to Milton in the following words: “Thy soul was like a
star and dwelt apart:/ Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea - / Pure as
the naked heavens, majestic and free”?
a) Dr. Johnson in his Lives of Poets
b) Wordsworth in his Sonnet on Milton
c) Mathew Arnold in his Essay on Criticism
d) None of the above
7. Who uttered these words in praise of Milton: “Milton is the God-gifted organ voice
of England”?
a) Tennyson
b) Paine
c) Boyle
d) Fuller

8. After withdrawal from the university in 1632, Milton gave himself up for six years
to solitary reading and history. This period is known as:
a) Harvard period
b) Boston period
c) Horton period
d) Houston period

9. Milton’s first work was

a) The sonnet On His Blindness
b) The ode On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
c) A pastoral elegy Lycidas
d) None of the above

10. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic couplets?
a) Il Penseroso
b) On His Blindness
c) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
d) Lycidas

11. What is L’Allegro’s companion piece of poem called:

a) Lamia
b) Hyperion
c) Il Penseroso
d) Thyrsis

12. Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy?

a) Lycidas
b) L’Allegro
c) Camus
d) Paradise Lost

13. Which is said to be Milton’s most perfect poem?

a) Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
b) L’Allegro
c) The Masque of Camus
d) Lycidas

14. Milton’s only prose work is:

a) An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot b) Areopagitica
15. Which of the following works of Milton was/ were written when he was blind and
suffering?
a) Paradise Lost
b) Paradise Regained
c) Samson Agonistes
d) All the above

16. Samson Agonistes tells us of Samson’s death as prisoner of the _________________?

a) Philistines
b) Phoenicians
c) Arameans
d) Assyrians

17. Identify the correctly matched group:

List – 1 List – II
i. L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso 1. Pastoral elegy
ii. Lycidas 2. Masque
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet
iv. On His Blindness 4. Prose tract
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion poems

Code:
i ii iii iv v
a) 1 2 3 4 5
b) 5 1 2 3 4
c) 1 3 2 4 5
d) 5 1 2 4 3

18. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
a) John Milton
b) Thomas Browne
c) Andrew Marvell
d) Abraham Cowley

19. The ascension of King James I in _____________ inaugurated the Jacobean Age.
a) 1600
b) 1601
c) 1603
d) 1609

20. Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy?

a) Lycidas
b) In Memorium
c) Thyrsis
d) Adonais
21. The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When I consider how my light is
spent…” ends with _____________
a) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh
b) They also serve who only stand and wait
c) And which is more- you’ll be a Man, my son!
d) And bless him for the sake of him. That’s gone.

22. In response to whose suggestion did Milton write the second part of the great epic
known as Paradise Regained?
a) Thomas Ellwood
b) Edward Albert
c) Oliver Cromwell
d) W. J. Long

23. Into how many books is Paradise Regained divided?

a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5

24. In which great epic the person of Christ withstands the temper and is established
once more in the divine favour?
a) Masque of Comus
b) Arcadia
c) L’Allegro
d) Paradise Regained

25. Paradise Regained deals primarily with the temptation of Christ as recounted in the
_______________________.
a) The Book of Mark
b) The Gospel of Luke
c) The Book of Job
d) None of the above

26. Who is an embodiment of Milton’s religious philosophy and ideals?

a) John the Baptist
b) Jesus of Nazareth
c) God the Father
d) Mary

27. After getting baptized by John, Jesus went into the desert and fasted for __________
days and nights.
a) 21
b) 30
c) 40
d) 48
28. Who is the tempter and great dictator of Hell?
a) Belial
b) Gabriel
c) Satan
d) None of the above

29. What kind of Satan’s temptations was/ were meant to debase Jesus’ mind, soul and
heart?
a) Lust of eyes
b) Lust of body
c) Pride of life
d) All the above

30. Who said “Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it”?
a) Donne
b) Gray
c) Collins
d) Blake

31. Who overcomes the machinations of Satan and redeems humankind from its fallen
state caused when Adam and Eve succumbed to temptation?
a) Belial
b) Jesus of Nazareth
c) Gabriel
d) Urial
Dryden’s All for Love

32. “He found it (English) brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on
another. Who were they?
a) Milton on Shakespeare
b) Dryden on Milton
c) Johnson on Dryden
d) Jonson on Shakespeare

33. Dryden’s All for Love is an adaptation of:

a) Philaster
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) Antony and Cleopatra
d) Edward II

34. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare’s
a) Troilus and Cressida
b) The Merchant of Venice
c) Antony and Cleopatra
d) Measure for Measure

35. Who first used the term ‘Metaphysics’?

a) John Donne
b) Dryden
c) Milton
d) T. S. Eliot

36. Dryden’s “An Essay on Dramatic Poesy” is cast in the form of __________________.
a) Poem
b) Address
c) Play
d) Dialogue

37. Dryden admires ___________ but he loves Shakespeare.

a) Pope
b) Virgil
c) Milton
d) Jonson

38. Restoration enthroned ________________.

a) James I
b) Charles I
c) Charles II
d) James II
39. What is the other name given to the play “All for Love” by John Dryden?
a) As You Like It
b) World Well Lost
c) All is Well
d) Life for Love

40. John Dryden was an excellent practitioner in ________________.

a) Blank Verse
b) Heroic Couplet
c) Epic Style
d) Dramatic Monologue

41. The theatres were closed in England in the year ________________.

a) 1600
b) 1654
c) 1660
d) 1642

42. The Great Fire of London occurred in the year ____________.

a) 1664
b) 1665
c) 1666
d) 1667

43. The Age of Dryden is called _______________.

a) The Romantic Age
b) The Elizabethan Age
c) The Victorian Age
d) The Augustan Age

44. Restoration period marks the restoration of:

a) Women’s rights
b) Democracy
c) Monarchy
d) Human rights

45. Who else of the following is called the Father of English Criticism?
a) Dr. Johnson
b) John Dryden
c) Longinus
d) Mathew Arnold
46. To whom did Dryden dedicate his All for Love?
a) Earl of York
b) Earl of Danby
c) Charles II
d) His wife

47. In which battle did Cleopatra abandon Antony?

a) Phillipi
b) Actium
c) Athens
d) Alexandria

48. Whom did Antony ask to stab him to death?

a) Dollabella
b) Ventidius
c) Octavius Caesar
d) Lepidus

49. Who suggested the sub title for All for Love?
a) Congreve
b) Eliot
c) Cassandra
d) Castlemaine

50. Which of the following is defined as a heroic tragedy in blank verse?

a) Samson Agonistes
b) All for Love
c) Tom Jones
d) Macbeth

51. Who says, “No lovers so great, or died so well”?

a) Myris
b) Dolabella
c) Serapion
d) Antony

52. Who says to whom: “But I have lost my reason, have disgraced”?
a) Ventidius to Antony
b) Antony to Ventidius
c) Alexas to Serapion
d) Cleopatra to Alexas
Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

53. In Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
a) Luck
b) Shock
c) Pluck
d) Mucke

54. In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to

a) The sun
b) The moon
c) The north star
d) The rose

55. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of:

a) Lord Petrie
b) Theobald
c) Lord Bolingbroke
d) Lord Harvey

56. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good
John, fatigued I said”:
a) An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
b) Dunciad
c) Epistles
d) Rape of the Lock

57. The main idea of Pope’s The Dunciad was taken from:
a) Absalom and Achotophel
b) Mac Fleknoe
c) The Medal
d) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

58. Pope’s Essay on Man can best be read as a poem of:

a) Classical understanding of nature
b) Anti-romantic view of life
c) Sociological estimate of man
d) Philosophical apprehension of life

59. Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the question
with the help of the Code given below:
i) The Duncial
ii) The Rape of the Lock
iii) An Essay on Man
iv) An Essay on Criticism
Code:
a) ii, iii, i, iv
b) i, ii, iii, iv
c) iv, ii, i, iii
d) ii, i, iv, iii

60. Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism:

i. Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age.
ii. Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work
iii. is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous
thing.”
iv. Appeared in 1701
Code:
a) iii and iv are correct
b) i and ii are correct
c) i to iv are correct
d) Only i and iv are correct

61. What is a mock-heroic poem?

a) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and critics
b) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in all epics
c) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and affectations
d) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes and hero-worship

62. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock?
a) A mock-heroic poem
b) Written in heroic couplets
c) Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
d) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 3 cantos

63. In The Rape of the Lock Belinda’s guardian sylph is unable to prevent the Baron’s
fatal mischief because
a) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in Belinda’s heart
b) He is disturbed by Clarissa’s speech
c) The view is blocked by the imposing figure of Sir Plume
d) He is yet to return from a visit to the Cave of Spleen

64. Which of the following statements is not a correct description of Pope’s The
Dunciad?
a) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad writing
b) It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of the time.
c) It is about the coronation of Theobald
d) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
65. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the
poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
a) Belinda
b) Clarissa
c) Betty
d) Thelestris

66. The Augustan Age is also known as the ______________ age.

a) Romantic
b) Classical
c) Neo-classical
d) Middle

67. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” is a satire on the ___________ of men and women of
London.
a) Fashion
b) Morality
c) Spirituality
d) Education

68. The Rape of the Lock is based on an amorous prank played by _____________ upon
Arabella Fermor.
a) Lord Richard
b) Lord James
c) Lord Petre
d) Lord Douglas

69. Clubs and coffee-houses became centres of social life during the reign of
__________________.
a) Queen Anne
b) Queen Elizabeth
c) Queen Elizabeth II
d) Henry VIII

70. The Rape of the Lock is _________________________.

a) An epic
b) An ode
c) A mock-epic
d) A satire

71. “The proper study of mankind is man” Whose statement is this?

a) Alexander Pope
b) John Dryden
c) Ruskin
d) T. S. Eliot
72. Who said “If Pope be not a poet, where poetry to be found?
a) John Dryden
b) S. T. Coleridge
c) T. S. Eliot
d) Dr Samuel Johnson

73. The Age of ____________ is called the classical Age of England?

a) Augustus
b) Queen Elizabeth
c) Queen Anne
d) Louis XIV

74. The eighteenth century is the age of _________________.

a) Heroic drama
b) Prose and reason
c) Classical influence
d) Dramatic Monologue

75. Who among the following was not a member of the Scriblerus Club?
a) Thomas Parenll
b) Alexandr Pope
c) Joseph Addison
d) John Gay

76. The Age of Pope is called ______________________.

a) The Elizabethan Age
b) Victorian Age
c) Augustan Age
d) Georgian Age

77. Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry?

a) Fantastic comparisons
b) Use of the rhyming couplet
c) Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology
d) An effort to represent human nature

78. In how many cantos was The Rape of the Lock published?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
79. What are gnomes?
a) Good spirits
b) Fallen angels
c) Mischievous spirits
d) Greek goddesses

80. Who are the two comforters of Belinda?

a) Clarrisa and Umbriel
b) Clarissa and Sir Plume
c) Thalestries and Sir Plume
d) Thalestries and Umbriel

81. What is the speciality of Arabella?

a) Two beautiful eyes
b) Two beautiful curls
c) Two beautiful ears
d) Too beautiful

82. Who is the young lover in The Rape of the Lock?

a) Baron
b) Dunciad
c) Sir Plume
d) Pope

83. Who travels to the Cave of Spleen and returns with bundles of sighs and tears to
aggravate Belinda’s vexation?
a) Goddess
b) Shock
c) Ariel
d) Umbriel

84. To whom was The Rape of the Lock dedicated?

a) Queen Anne
b) Elizabeth
c) Arabella Fermor
d) Mary Fermor
Andrew Marvell’s The Garden

85. As a metaphysical poet, Andrew Marvell is associated with

a) John Donne
b) George Herbert
c) Henry Vaughan
d) All the above

86. He worked as a tutor for

a) Lady Mary Fairfax
b) William Durand
c) John Milton
d) None of the above

87. Who helped Milton in writing when he became blind?

a) Andrew Marvell
b) Henry Vaughan
c) John Donne
d) None of the above

88. He used his political clout to free _______________ imprisoned during the
Restoration.
a) John Dryden
b) Alexander Pope
c) John Milton
d) None of the above

89. His most famous poem is ________________________.

a) On a Drop of Dew
b) To His Coy Mistress
c) The Definition of Love
d) On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost

90. Who wrote: “But at my back I always hear/ Time’s Winged Chariot hurrying
near”?
a) Donne
b) Shakespeare
c) Marvell
d) Milton

91. Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” uses the theme of ‘carpe diem’. It means:
a) Read before you die
b) Do before you die
c) Enjoy oneself while one is still young
d) None of the above
92. In which Marvell’s poem do we get the following lines: “Fair Quiet, have I found
thee here,/ And Innocence, thy sister dear!/ Mistaken long. I sought you then in busy
companies of men”?
a) To His Coy Mistress
b) The Garden
c) The Definition of Love
d) None of the above

93. What is being sought in the following lines: “Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that
She might Laurel grow./ And Pan did after Syrinx speed,/ Not as a Nymph, but for a
Reed” and “When we have run our passions’ heat/ Love hither makes his best
retreat”?
a) Human love
b) Divine love
c) Solace in nature
d) None of the above

94. Where do we get the following famous lines: “Annihilating all that’s made/ To a
green thought in a green shade”?
a) Under the Greenwood Tree
b) Far from the Madding Crowd
c) The Garden
d) None of the above

95. In how many stanzas is Marvell’s The Garden composed?

a) 7
b) 8
c) 9
d) 10

96. What is the Garden compared to in the final stanza of the poem “The Garden”?
a) The Virgin Mary
b) The ocean
c) A sundial
d) A candy shop
Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in the Country Churchyard” (1751)

97. Who among the following is considered a precursor of the Romantic Movement?
a) John Dryden
b) Andrew Marvell
c) Thomas Gray
d) Alexander Pope

98. Who is known as the graveyard poet of the late 18th century?
a) Thomas Gray
b) William Cowper
c) Oliver Goldsmith
d) All the above

99. Thomas Gray formed a Quadruple Alliance with Horace Walpole, Richard West
and ________________________________.
a) Thomas Parnell
b) Robert Blair
c) Thomas Ashton
d) Edward Young

100. In which Thomas Gray’s poem do we get the following famous line: “Where
ignorance is bliss, it’s a folly to be wise”?
a) Ode on the Spring
b) Hymn to Adversity
c) An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
d) Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

101. Thomas Gray’s poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” created a

literary sensation when it was published in 1751 by ______________________.
a) Robert Dodsley
b) Richard West
c) Samuel Johnson
d) Horace Walpole

102. The poem invokes the classical idea of mememto mori, a Latin phrase which
states plainly to all mankind that
a) Life is impermanent
b) Remember that you must die
c) We go to the heaven after death
d) None of the above
103. Which poem begins with the line “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”?
a) Collins’ “Ode to Evening”
b) Collins’ “Ode on the Passions”
c) Gray’s Elegy “Written in a Country Churchyard”
d) Gray’s “On the Death of a Favourite Cat”

104. What is the first line of the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?
a) Full many a gem of the purest ray serene
b) The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
c) Say I am weary, say I’m sad
d) I wandered lonely as a cloud

105. Thomas Gray in his Elegy says: “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”
because of the impermanence of ______________________.
a) The boast of heraldry
b) The pomp of power
c) All the beauty
d) All of these

106. Which of these is the best paraphrase of the line “The paths of glory lead but
to the grave”?
a) Those who seek glory often die in its pursuit
b) Everyone dies even the famous and glorious
c) The pursuit of glory is but futile
d) The pursuit of glory is dangerous

107. “Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast/ The little tyrants of his
fields withstood,/ Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest/ Some Cromwell
guiltless of his country’s blood” Here Hampden refers to:
a) A poet who is popular for his verse
b) A dictator who is popular for dethroning the king
c) A member of the Parliament who stood for people’s right
d) A king who was cruel

108. Whom does Gray celebrate in his elegy?

a) The humble unknown dead
b) His friend
c) The king
d) The Duke

109. Gray’s elegy is an example of ____________________.

a) Pastoral poetry
b) Romantic poetry
c) Descriptive poetry
d) Graveyard poetry
110. Which of the following phrase is not found in Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard’?
a) Far from the madding crowd
b) A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown
c) All nature is but art, unknown to thee
d) Full many a flower is born to blush unseen

111. What is the last line of the poem that formed part of the Epitaph section?
a) Ev’n in our ashes live their wonted fires
b) The bosom of his Father and his God
c) The paths of glory lead but to the grave
d) Or Flatt’ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death.

112. The poet was grief-stricken by the deaths of his friend Richard West, his
aunt Mary and an attack by highwaymen on his friend Horace Walpole, all of which
led him to meditate deeply on death. What was the poem’s original title?
a) Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
b) A Summer Evening Churchyard
c) The Old Vicarage Grantchester
d) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

113. In which magazine was the poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
first published?
a) Blackwood’s Magazine
b) Magazine of Magazines
c) The Gentleman’s Magazine
d) The Quarterly Review

114. Name the neo-classical poet who wrote on profound themes such as death,
but who had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold
fishes.
a) Thomas Gray
b) Ben Jonson
c) William Collins
d) Alexander Pope

115. Who was the English poet who translated part of ‘Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard’ into Latin?
a) S. T. Coleridge
b) P. B. Shelley
c) W. B. Yeats
d) Walt Whitman
116. What was used as the title of a book by Thomas Hardy from the poem “Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard”?
a) Far from the Madding Crowd
b) Kindred Spirit
c) The Power and the Glory
d) Celestial Fire

117. Who are the three famous figures mentioned in the poem to illustrate the
power and the glory that fade?
a) Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh
b) Hampden, Milton and Cromwell
c) Dickens, Thackeray and Emily Bronte
d) Wordsworth, Southey and Shelley
Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village”

118. Who said: “Goldsmith wrote like an angel but talked like a poor pal”?
a) Horace Walpole
b) David Garrick
c) Samuel Johnson
d) Sheridan

119. Which of the following statements is not true of Oliver Goldsmith?

a) He is known as one of the graveyard poets
b) He is one of the precursors of the Romantic poets
c) He was one of the members of the ‘Literary Club’
d) He died on April 4, 1775 in London

120. “A poet, naturalist and historian, who left scarcely any style of writing
untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn” Whom is Samuel Johnson
referring to here?
a) William Cowper
b) Christopher Smart
c) Oliver Goldsmith
d) Thomas Parnell

121. Which is a philosophical poem that expresses the conventional ideas of

Goldsmith’s age as the pride of human wishes and despair in the search for
happiness?
a) The Deserted Village
b) The Traveller
c) The Hermit
d) The Vanity of Human Wishes

122. Which of the following is Oliver Goldsmith’s poem?

a) The Deserted Village
b) The Traveller
c) The Hermit
d) Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

123. Which of the following was not written by Oliver Goldsmith?

a) The Citizen of the World
b) The Vicar of Wakefield
c) The School of Lovers
d) The Good Natured Man
124. Which is a pastoral poem which expresses the conversion of land from
productive agriculture to ornamental landscape gardens that would ruin the
peasantry?
a) The Deserted Village
b) The Traveller
c) The Hermit
d) London

125. What is the name of Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’?

a) Akenfield
b) Adelstrop
c) Auburn
d) Grantchester

126. The poem “The Deserted Village” was written in __________________.

a) Terza Rhyma
b) Heroic couplet
c) Rhyme Royal
d) Spenserian Stanza

127. Which poem of Goldsmith idealizes a rural way of life that was being
destroyed by the displacement of agrarian villagers, the greed of landlords, and
economic and political change?
a) The Traveller
b) The Deserted Village
c) The Hermit
d) The Good-Natur’d Man

128. The poem ‘The Deserted Village’ was dedicated to the artist _____________.
a) Rossetti
b) James Boswell
c) Sir Joshua Reynolds
d) William Congreve

129. “Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain;

Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed.”
These lines are from _______.
a) The Traveller
b) The Deserted Village
c) The Hermit
d) The Good-Natur’d Man
130. Goldsmith’s strong infusion of personal feeling suggests that Auburn is
identified as ___________________________.
a) Lissoy village in Ireland
b) Debelt village in Bulgaria
c) Telemark in Norway
d) Adrani in Serbia

131. The poem ‘The Deserted Village’ mentions _____________ a river in

Georgian to receive paupers and criminals from Britain.
a) Elbe
b) Rhine
c) Altama
d) Danube

132. When the rustic labourers were compelled to leave their native land, the
village looked _____________________________.
a) cheerful and happy
b) dull and lazy
c) joyless
d) barren and deserted
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

133. Match the poems of Samuel Daniel in Column A with their literary forms in
Column B:
Column A Column B
Delia Romance
The Civil Wars Masque
The Complaynt of Rosamond Historical poem
Hymen’s Triumph Sonnet

Answer: 1 D, 2 C, 3 A, 4 B

134. In which piece of criticism did Samuel Daniel reply to the futility of the
objections made to rhyme by Campion’s Observations in the Art of English Poetry?
a) The Complaynt of Rosamond
b) The Queenes Wake
c) Defence of Ryme
d) Delia

135. In Samuel Daniel’s literary criticism “Defence of Ryme”, he claims that

a) English poets should be governed by the practice of the classics
b) Each literature is entitled to its own ways.
c) English poets should try to be modern.
d) None of the above.

136. Which of the following works was not written by Samuel Daniel?
a) A Defence of Ryme
b) The Civil Wars
c) Sonnets to Delia
d) The Garden of Cyrus
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) and The Garden of Cyrus

137. Who is considered to be the representative of the best prose-writers of the

age of Milton?
a) Fuller
b) Walter
c) Sir Thomas Browne
d) Taylor

138. Which literary figure studied as well as practiced medicine?

a) Sherlock Holmes
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Sir Thomas Browne
d) None of the above

139. Which of the following was not written by Sir Thomas Browne?
a) Hymen’s Triumph
b) Religio Medici
c) Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors
d) Hydriotaphia: Urne burial

140. Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus is said to be a dissertation on

‘quincunxes’. What does the term mean?
a) The arrangement of objects in sets of two
b) The arrangement of objects in sets of three
c) The arrangement of objects in sets of four
d) The arrangement of objects in sets of five

141. What is the alternate title of Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus?
a) Religio Medici
b) The Quincuncial Lozenge
c) Pseudodoxia Epidemica
d) Hydriotaphia

142. ‘The Garden of Cyrus’ was published along with its diptych companion
__________________________.
a) Urn-Burial
b) Religio Medici
c) Pseudodoxia Epidemica
d) Christian Morals

143. Sir Thomas Browne dedicated his Preface to his patron __________________.
a) Nicolus Bacon
b) Francis Bacon
c) Charles II
d) Oliver Cromwell
144. Sir Thomas Browne’s writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural
world influenced by the scientific revolution of ____________________________.
a) Baconian theory
b) Chaucerian theory
c) Spenserian theory
d) Shakespearian theory

145. ________________________ supplies its reader with proof of the higher

geometry of nature via the closely related symbols of the number five, the
Quincunux pattern, the figure X and the network lozenge shape in art and nature.
a) Religio Medici
b) The Garden of Cyrus
c) Complaynt of Rosamond
d) Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

146. Which of the following was NOT written by William Blake?

a) Songs of Innocence
b) Songs of Experience
c) Oriental Eclogues
d) Poetical Sketches

147. Who engraved all his poems into beautiful water-colour illustrations?
a) William Collins
b) William Blake
c) Lord Byron
d) G. M. Hopkins

148. The major event in Europe during Blake’s life was:

a) World War I
b) The Protestant Reformation
c) The French Revolution
d) World War II

149. What was Blake’s first published volume of poetry?

a) Songs of Innocence
b) Songs of Experience
c) Poetical Sketches
d) Lyrical Ballads

150. Which book is subtitled “Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human
Soul”?
a) Songs of Innocence and Experience
b) Poetical Sketches
c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
d) Jerusalem

151. William Blake’s ‘The Tiger’ represents God’s ______________________.

a) mild nature
b) fearful nature
c) immortal nature
d) None of the above

152. ‘Fearful symmetry’ appears in the poem:

a) Introduction
b) Chimney Sweeper
c) The Tiger
d) London
153. The poem ‘A Poison Tree’ is the best example of William Blake’s
___________.
a) Use of blankverse
b) Acute psychological insight
c) Prophetic poem
d) Satirical work

154. In Blake’s poem ‘A Poison Tree’ the speaker’s anger grows and becomes
_____________.
a) a cherry
b) an apple
c) an orange
d) a rose

155. William Blake’s famous poems such as ‘London’, ‘The Sick Rose’, and ‘The
Tiger’ appear in _________________________.
a) Songs of Innocence
b) Songs of Experience
c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
d) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

156. Where are the following lines from: “I was angry with my friend,/ I told my
wrath, my wrath did end./ I was angry with my foe:/ I told it not, my wrath did
grow”?
a) The Lamb
b) The Tiger
c) A Poison Tree
d) The Anger

157. “And I sunned it with smiles, and with soft deceitful wiles." This is from
_______.
a) A Poison Tree
b) The Tiger
c) The Sick Rose
d) The Lamb

158. Blake’s ‘Tiger’ is a companion to which other poem?

a) The Lamb
b) The Shepherd
c) A Poison Tree
d) The Little Black Boy
159. The poem ‘The Tiger’ is a symbol of ____________________________.
a) man's loss of innocence and evil destructive ways
b) original state of human society
c) innocence, purity and humanity
d) mild and humble aspects of human mind

160. “What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?” Whose
immortal hands are referred to here?
a) child
b) lamb
c) God
d) Tiger
Henry Vaughan’s Regeneration

Henry Vaughan (vawn, also von), whose religious poetry reflects the influence of John Donne and
George Herbert, published translations of several religious and medical treatises.

Henry Vaughan is usually grouped with the Metaphysical poets, anthologized particularly with Donne,
Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell.

“Lord,” then said I, “on me one breath,

And let me die before my death!”

Cant. Chap. 5. ver.17

Arise O North, and come thou South-wind and blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out

161. Who among the following was NOT a metaphysical poet?

a) Abraham Cowley
b) George Herbert
c) John Dryden
d) Henry Vaughan

162. “I saw Eternity the other night; Like a Great Ring of pure and endless light.”
Who said these?
a) George Herbert
b) Henry Vaughan
c) John Donne
d) John Dryden

163. “Lord,” then said I, “on me one breath,/ And let me die before my death!”
These words are the concluding lines of _______________________.
a) The Morning Watch
b) The Retreat
c) Solitary Devotions
d) Regeneration

164. Henry Vaughan’s Regeneration is a _______________________.

a) spiritual autobiography
b) reformation of monasteries
c) revival of Celtic literature
d) rebirth of Gothic literature

165. __________________ refers dying to the old life and being reborn into a
spiritual one.
a) Reformation
b) Renaissance
c) Restoration