1. Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B. Shelley?
[1] The Triumph of Life
[2] “Ode to the west-wind”
{3] “Queen Mab”
[4] “The daemon of the world”
Answer:A
2. Which two writers have written essays on the defence of poetry?
(a) Sir Philip Sidney
(b) P. B. Shelley
(C) Mathew Arnold
(d) T. S. Eliot
Choose the correct option :
l. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Answer: 4
3.Which one of the following of Plato’s beliefs/acts was Shelley
countering by saying that ‘poets are the acknowledged legislators of
mankind”?
1. Banishment of poets from the republic
2. Distrust of value of poetry for mankind
3. Preference for legislators over poets
4. Description of poets as mad men
Answer: 3
4. Match the character with the author :
List – I
I. Madeline
II. Prometheus
III. Urizen
IV. Childe Harold
List – II
A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Shelley
D. Keats
I II III IV
(1) B C A D
(2) C D A B
(3) D C A B
(4) C D B A
Answer: 3
5. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by :
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Keats
(D) Byron
Answer: A
6. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :
(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats
Answer: D
7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley
Answer: C
8.Which of the following poems uses terza rima?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Answer: (B)
9.Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
Answer: (B)
10. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the
composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Answer: 3
11. Match the work with author :
I. “The Excursion”
II. “Christabel”
III. Milton
IV. Queen Mab
A. S.T. Coleridge
B. P.B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake
I II III IV
(1) C A B D
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D
Answer: 2
12. Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem in four cantos and the short lyric,
“The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy”?
1. S.T. Coleridge
2. Lord Byron
3. Thomas Gray
4. P.B. Shelley
Answer: 4
13. What is common to the following poems ?
Wordsworth’s ‘The Recluse’
Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’
Byron’s ‘Don Juan’
Keats’ ‘Hyperion’
(A) They are all elegies
(B) They are all unfinished poems
(C) They are all divided into cantos
(D) They are women-centred poems
Answer: B
14.The pamphlet on the Irish condition, “An Address to the Irish People”
was composed by
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) G.B. Shaw
Answer: B
15. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West
Wind”)
(A) winter, spring
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains
(D) spring, winter
Answer: (A)
16.Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of
Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
(C) “Adonais”
(D) Alastor
Answer: (D)
17. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage
motif?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor
Answer: (D)
18.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” expresses a pathetic cry of a
wounded heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley. The poem consists
of
(A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
(B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift action
(C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(D) An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
Answer: (A)
19.“In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth and
liberty, – / Deserting
these, thou leavest me to grieve” are lines from “To Wordsworth”. Who is
the poet?
(1) Coleridge
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Keats
Answer: 2
20. Match the following :
Poet Bird
I. John Keats
II. P.B. Shelley
III. G.H. Hopkins
IV. Ted Hughes
1. Hawk
2. Falcon
3. Skylark
4. Nightingale
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: A Match the following :
Poet Bird
I. John Keats
II. P.B. Shelley
III. G.H. Hopkins
IV. Ted Hughes
1. Hawk
2. Falcon
3. Skylark
4. Nightingale
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: A