Sem -2 English (Core/Elective) – 112 MCQs (2021-22)

Multiple Choice Questions:

Unit - 1
1 The span of years covered by the Age of Milton is:
a) 1625-1660
b) 1550- 1630
c) 1600- 1660
2 The Civil -war started in the year ___
a) 1640
b) 1642
c) 1660
3 Which king was executed in the year 1649?
a) Charles I
b) Charles II
c) James I
4 The entire period of Puritan is covered by the dominance of ____ war
a) I World
b) Civil
c) II World
5 Age of Milton saw decline from the _____ standards.
a) Elizabethan
b) Victorian
c) Classical
6 There is a marked decay in ___ writing during this age.
a) Poetry
b) Prose
c) Drama
7 Age of Milton saw remarkable increase in ____ .
a) Poetry
b) Drama
c) Prose
8 All Metaphysical poets were_____.
a) Didactic
b) Religious
c) Cynical
9 Milton wrote most of his prose during his___ years of life.
a) middle
b) early
c) last
10 Milton wrote ____ number of Pamphlets.
a) 22
b) 25
c) 24

11 Milton wrote ___ number of pamphlets on his bitter experience in marriage.

a) 2
b) 1
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 c) 3
12 Milton’s ___ is based on his plea for the liberty of Press.
a) Of Education
b) Areopagitica
c) Defence of the execution.
13 Milton composed ___ during his stay in Horton.
a) L'Allegro
b) Of Education
c) Paradise Lost
14 ____ is one of the longish poems in octosyllabic couplet of Milton.
a) Il Penseroso
b) Areopagitica
c) Lycidas
15 ___ is a masque containing beautiful blank verses.
a) Paradise Lost
b) Comus
c) On Shakespeare
16 ___ is one of the best sonnet of Milton.
a) L'Allegro
b) Comus
c) On his Blindness
17 ___was divided into ten books and then into twelve.
a) Lycidas
b) Samson Agonsites
c) Paradise Lost
18 Lycidas is an elegy on the death of his friend____.
a) Cromwell I
b) Edward King
c) King Arthur
19 The form of Lycidas is___.
a) descriptive
b) pastoral
c) romantic
20 In the year ___ Milton's eye sight started failing.
a) 1660
b) 1662
c) 1661
21 Milton died in ___.
a) 1670
b) 1672
c) 1674
22 Milton was appointed___ for Foreign Tongues.
a) President
b) Secretary
c) Vice- president
23 Donne's parents were____.
a) Roman Catholic
b) Anglican
c) Protestant
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24 Donne's works were published___.
a) after his death
b) during his early years
c) after his marriage
25 Donne had a ___.
a) arranged marriage
b) runaway marriage
c) church marriage
26 In____ after a severe personal struggle, Donne entered Anglican Church.
a) 1615
b) 1610
c) 1614
27 In 1621 he became ___ of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
a) President
b) Dean
c) Member
28 ___was the first Anglican Preacher.
a) Donne
b) Herbert
c) Marvell
29 Donne revolted against the conventions of the followers of ____.
a) Drayton
b) Spenser
c) Chaucer
30 Donne's greatest religious poem is ___.
a) The Extasie
b) Holy Sonnets
c) Of the Progress of the Soule
31 ‘A Hymn to GOD THE FATHER' is Donne's tribute to his ___.
a) mother
b) father
c) wife
32 Who said this for Donne 'He affects the metaphysics'.
a) Jonson
b) Dryden
c) Milton
33 The most distinctive feature of the metaphysical poets is their ____.
a) lyric
b) imagery
c) philosophy
34 Donne's ___ is a satire upon Ignatius Loyala and the Jesuits.
a) Devotions
b) Ignatius His Conclave
c) The Pseudo-Martyr
35 Donne wrote ____ number of sermons.
a) 160
b) 170
c) 165
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36 Death's Duell is one of the best ___ of Donne.
a) Sermon
b) Prose
c) Poem
37 The term 'metaphysical' was first used for the poets Cowley and Donne by ___.
a) Pope
b) Dryden
c) Dr. Johnson
38 Metaphysical poetry depends largely on the use of ___.
a) Recitations
b) Conceits
c) Imagery
39 All Metaphysical poets were to greater extent___.
a) Humourists
b) Religious
c) Romantic
40 ____ was known as the saint of the metaphysical school of poets.
a) George Herbert
b) Andrew Marvell
c) Donne
41 George Herbert was appointed fellow and reader in ___.
a) 1629
b) 1620
c) 1630
42 George Herbert’s ___ shows his zeal for the church of England and concern with practical
theology.
a) To his Coy Mistress
b) The Collar
c) The Temple
43 Andrew Marvell was a tutor to the daughter of ___.
a) Lord John
b) Lord Foxfair
c) Lord Fairfox
44 ____ assisted Milton in his duties as secretary for Foreign Tongues.
a) George Herbert
b) Andrew Marvell
c) Donne
45 ____ loved Nature and the freshness of gardens in his work.
a) Milton
b) George Herbert
c) Andrew Marvell
46 To his Coy Mistress is written by ____.
a) George Herbert
b) Andrew Marvell
c) Donne

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 MCQs on the Poem – ‘On His Blindness’ by John Milton
1. The sonnet laments the ____of Milton.
(a) blindness
(b) power
(c) poverty
2. Milton’s _____replies when foolish thoughts come into his mind.
(a) passion
(b) patience
(c) talent
3. “They also serve who only stand and wait”. Is a line from
(a) ‘I did But Prompt the Age’
(b) ‘On Shakespeare’
(c) ‘On His Blindness’

4.The poet compares the angels with those who have the talent and use it to serve God.
(a) True
(b) False
5. ‘To serve therewith my maker’ – who as maker refers to in ‘On His Blindness’?
(a) His teacher
(b) His father
(c) God

MCQs on the Poem – ‘On Shakespeare, 1630’ by John Milton

1. Shakespeare’s legacy extends far beyond the ________.
(a) physical
(b) spiritual
(c) religious
2. Milton refers Shakespeare as the dear son of __________.
(a) power
(b) memory
(c) spirit
3. “…and that each heart hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book”. are the lines from
(a) ‘I did But Prompt the Age’
(b) ‘On Shakespeare’
(c) ‘On His Blindness’
4.According to Milton, Shakespeare’s works and his memory have come to live within his readers.
(a) True
(b) False
5. ‘Milton references Shakespeare’s “Delphic lines”, an allusion to the Greek God of ______, Apollo.
(a) Love
(b) Fire
(c) Poetry

MCQs on the Poem – ‘Virtue’ by George Herbert

1. George Herbert was essentially a ___ metaphysical poet.
(a) devotional
(b) sensual
(c) pastoral
2. In the poem ‘Virtue’, Herbert expresses his _____ towards God.
(a) anger
(b) reverence
(c) suspicion
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 3. ‘Virtue’ was published in Herbert’s volume entitled ______.
(a) ‘Musings’
(b) ‘Reflections’
(c) Affliction'
4. In the poem ‘Virtue’, the poet initially felt ____ by his priestly life.
(a) happy
(b) disillusioned
(c) contented
5. Herbert compares his faith in God to a ____.
(a) seasoned timber
(b) incense stick
(c) lamp

MCQs on the Poem – ‘The Garden’ by Andrew Marvell

1. In ‘The Garden’, the poet seems to be a _______of nature.

(a) priest
(b) critic
(c) enemy
2. The poem ‘The Garden’ is a spiritual contemplation on the grace of the garden.
(a) True
(b) False
3. “Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear” are the lines from
(a) ‘Virtue’
(b) ‘Holy Sonnet 14’
(c) ‘The Garden'
4. Marvell, in ‘The Garden’, criticises the _______who show cruelty by craving the names with
knives on the barks of trees .
(a) husbands
(b) lovers
(c) blacksmiths
5. The poet compares his state of happiness with _______in the Garden of Eden.
(a) Adam
(b) Eve
(c) A tree