John Donne
1. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
Answer: A
2. Identify the author of the following lines : Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
(A) Shakespeare
(B) George Herbert
(C) John Donne
(D) Henry Vaughan
Answer: C
3. In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Wings” ________ exploits _______.
(A) John Donne, alliteration
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
(D) George Herbert, typographic space
Answer: (D)
4. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand grenade ?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
Answer: B
5.If you cannot understand an argument and remark, “It’s Greek to me”, you are quoting ……………
(1) John Milton
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) John Donne
Answer: 3
6. The title of Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances was taken from
1. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
2. John Donne’s “Death’s Duell”
3. Rudyard Kipling’s “A Death-Bed”
4. T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
Answer: 2
7. Read the passage given below Ah, what a tries is a heart, If once into love’s hands it come! All other griefs, allow a part To other griefs, and ask themselves but some; They come to us, but us love draws; He swallows us and never chaws; By him, as by chain’d shot, whole ranks do die; He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry. – John Donne, 1633 Which sentence best paraphrases line of the passage above?
1. Love tends to grab us and never let go.
2. Distress comes in many forms, but none lasts as long as heartache.
3. Unbidden pain aits us, but we are lured by love.
4. Emotions can damage us, but none as severely as love.
Answer: 3
8.Who of the following is a Cavalier poet?
(1) George Herbert
(2) John Donne
(3) Robert Herrick
(4) Andrew Marvell
Answer: 3
9. The author of Of The Progress of the Soul is :
(A) John Bunyan
(B) John Donne
(C) Henry Vaughan
(D) Richard Crashaw
Answer: B
10.Who among the following poets compared human tears to “love’s wine” ?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) John Donne
(3) Andrew Marvell
(4) John Suckling
Answer: 2
11. Who among the following is the author of Steps to the Temple ?
(1) John Donne
(2) Richard Crashaw
(3) George Herbert
(4) Henry Vaughan
Answer: 2
12. Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines on his death : “Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought t/The universal monarch of wit”?
(1) George Herbert
(2) Henry King
(3) Thomas Carew
(4) Henry Crashaw
Answer: 3
13.In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell
(2) John Webster and John Donne
(3) Seneca and Homer
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan
Answer: 2
14.Match the following :
(I) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, George Crabbe
(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Donne
(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves.
(IV) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke
(a) Metaphysical poets
(b) Transitional Poets
(c) War Poets
(d) Georgians
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b)
Answer: C
15.“In the seventeenth century,” writes T. S. Eliot in “The Metaphysical Poets,” “a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, ___________and __________ .
(1)Ben Jonson and Abraham Cowley
(2)George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
(3)John Donne and Andrew Marvell
(4)John Milton and John Dryden
Answer: 3
16. Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife, who died in 1617 ?
(1) “Death, be not proud”
(2) “Thou hast made me”
(3) “Holy Sonnet 17”
(4) “At the round earth’s imagined corners”
Answer: 3
17. Complete the following lines by John Donne: “We’ll build ______________ in pretty rooms;/ As well a well wrough urn becomes/The greatest as he..”
a.Sonnets
b.Poems
c.clouds
d.fancy
Answer: A
18.An Ode for Ben Johnson was written by
a.Andrew Marvell
b.Robert Herrick
c.John Suckling
d.John donne
A. Andrew Marwell
19.Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets?
1. John Dryden, George Herbert, and Alexander Pope
2. Henry Vaughan, John Dryden, and John Donne
3. John Donne, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell
4. Samuel Johnson, T.S. Eliot and Herbert Grierson
Answer: 3
20.Match List I with List II
List I List II
Poet Poem
A.John Donne ( i ) ” The Retreat “
B. Andrew Marvell ( ii) ” A Valediction of Weeping
C. George Herbert ( iii ) The Garden
D. Henry Vaugham ( iv ) ” The Collar “
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
A B C D
a. iv iii ii i
b. iv I ii iii
c. ii iv I iii
d. ii iii iv i
Answer: d
21.Which of the following poems contains John Donne’s famous conceit bringing a parallel between lovers and the hands of a compass?
A. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
B. “A Valediction: Of Weeping”
C. “Lovers Infiniteness”
D. “Negative Love”
Answer: A