1.“Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”. Who, among the following, made the above statement ?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Sidney
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Wordsworth
Answer: C
2.‘Rugby Chapel’ is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his :
(A) mother
(B) brother
(C) father
(D) sister
Answer: C
3.“All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life” – this statement is attributed to
(A) Thomas Carlyle
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) J.S. Mill
(D) John Ruskin
Answer: B
4.In his essay “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864) Matthew Arnold contended that
1. Creative and critical powers should be ranked equally
2. Creative and critical powers are not comparable in any way
3. Critical power should be ranked higher than creative power
4. Creative power should be ranked higher than critical power
Answer: 4
5.In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?
1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth
2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton
3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth
4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron
Answer: 4
6.Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians carries biographical sketches of writers and public figures. Identify the list below that correctly mentions those Eminent Victorians.
1.Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon.
2.A.E.W. Mason, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Matthew Arnold, Robert Bridges.
3.E.F. Benson, Cardinal Manning, Lord Tennyson, Beatrice Webb.
4.George Harding, General Gordon, Robert Browning, Mrs Humphrey Ward.
Answer: 1
7.Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Hard Times – George Eliot
(B) Heroes and Hero Worship – Walter Patar
(C) Sourab and Rustom – Matthew Arnold
(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay
Answer: C
8.The famous line “……. where ignorant armies clash by night” is taken from a poem by
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Siegfried Sassoon
(D) Matthew Arnold
Answer: D
9.The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart
Answer: B
10.Matthew Arnold’s “touchstones” were “short passages, even single lines” of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. Tn his “Study of Poetry” Arnold cited “touchstones” from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call “not one of the great classics” in the list below?
(1) Chaucer
(2) Sidney
(3) Spenser
(4) Donne
Answer: 1
11.Match the following:
List – I
(a) “The Function of Criticism”
(b) “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
(c) The Function of Criticism : From ‘The Spectator’ to Poststructuralism
(d) “The Function of English at the Present Time”
List – II
(1) Terry Eagleton
(ii) Richard Ohmann
(iii) Matthew Arnold
(iv) T. S. Eliot
The right matching according to the code is:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Answer: 1
12.According to Matthew Arnold, ‘touchstones’ help us test truth and seriousness that constitute the best poetry. What are the ‘touchstones’?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
Answer: (C)
13.In “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?
A- affirmation
B- cohesiveness
C- disinterestedness
D- judiciousness ,
Answer: C