1.Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against poetry?
[A] The poet is an imitator.
[B] The poet is incapable of bravery.
[C] The poet, by fuelling passions and emotions, weakens the reasoning capacity of the citizens.
[D] The poet is less responsible
[E] The poet has no knowledge of the world.
Answer: A, C, and E
2.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
3.Why did Plato banish the poet from his ideal state?
1. Poetry makes an artificial distinction between form and content
2. Poetry deals with form, to the neglect of content.
3. the poet can never produce a completely accurate replica of the reality it seeks to represent, and (moreover) the purpose of art is not to describe reality but to change it.
4. In representing the sensual aspects of reality, the poet fails to discern the transcendent reality behind mere appearance.
Answer: 4
4.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
5.The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by
(A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato
(C) Descartes
(D) Sartre
Answer: C
6.Plato censured poetry because he believed it
(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.
Answer: B
7.More’s Utopia displays strong influence of
I. The Arthurian legends
II. Plato’s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci’s account of the travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer: (B)
8.The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato’s :
(A) Ion
(B) Republic Book III
(C) Republic Book X
(D) Phaedrus
Answer 😀
9.In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitation of life. To argue his case he gives the example of a :
(1) cloud
(2) chair
(3) tree
(4) river
Answer: 2
10. In his views on the death of Cordelia in King Lear, which is the ground NOT specially cited by Samuel Johnson ?
(1) It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice.
(2) It is contrary to Neoplatonism idea of decorum.
(3) It is contrary to the hope of the reader.
(4) It is contrary to the faith of chronicles.
Answer: 2
11.Which philosophers do Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell? Code:
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer: (B)
12.What does Socrates mean when in Plato’s Ion, he says “Poets are nothing but the interpreters of gods”?
1. The Poets are the markers of their poems
2. The Poets are acutely aware of gods in composing their poems
3. The Poets are divinely possessed when they compose their poems
4. The Poets first hear what gods say then put than into words
Answer: 3
13.From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?
1. Sophocles
2. Euripides
3. Plato
4. More
Answer: 2
14.Following Plato, which two of the following statements about ‘Phantasm and Semblance’ are correct?
1. ‘Phantasm’ is an image, while ‘Semblance is the real object’.
2. ‘Phantasm’ is the real object while ‘Semblance is only a resemblance’.
3. ‘Phantasm’ unlike semblance has the same proportional as the object.
4. Semblance is unreal’ but looks ‘real’ as compared to phantasm.
Choose the correct option:
1. (b) and (c)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (d) and (a)
Answer: 2
15.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
16.Which two of the following poets defended poetry against Plato’s denigration of Poetry ?
(A) John Dryden
(B) PB Shelley
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) Philip Sidney
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
a. ( B ) and ( D ) Only
b. (A) and (B) Only
c. (B) and (C) Only
d. (C) and ( A ) Only
Answer: a
17.The two broad divisions of reality in Plato’s theory of reality are :
a. visible and assumable
b. intelligible and openable
c. visible and intelligible
d. intelligible and shadows
Answer: c
18.Who among the following refutes Plato’s charge that poets are liars , by arguing that the poet ” nothing affirms , and therefore never lieth ” ?
a. John Dryden
b. Philip Sidney
c. George Puttenham
d. Richard looker
Answer :b
19.In the above , passage poetry is described as one of Plato’s two higher forms of ” divine madness . Which is the other one ? Choose the correct option?
a. Beloved
b. Love
c. Jealously
d. Lover
Answer: b