Horace
1.The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A) Plato
(B) Horace
(C) Virgil
(D) Aristotle
Answer: B
2.Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer: (B)
3.In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefitted from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your piece nine years’” – which enjoins on writer’s patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose “counsel” is Pope referring to?
(1) Longinus’s in On the Sublime
(2) Horace’s in Ars Poetica
(3) Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
(4) Aristotle’s Poetics
Answer: 2
4.Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight ?
1. Longinus
2. Plotinus
3. Aristotle
4. Horace
Answer: 4
5.Which of the following had the alternative title Things as They Are?
1. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
3. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
4. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
Answer: 4
6.In imitation of which classical poet did Samuel Johnson write his London and The Vanity of Human Wishes?
1. Horace
2. Homer
3. Juvenal
4. Tasso
Answer: 3
7.__________ read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly recommended it to her relatives but also commissioned two paintings of scenes from the novel.
1. Horace Nightingale
2. George Eliot
3. Margaret Cavendish
4. Queen Victoria
Answer: 4
8.What does the phrase ut pictura poesis from Horace’s Art of Poetry mean ?
1. “as in painting, so in poetry”.
2. “poetry beggars pictorial description” .
3. “as in poetry, so in painting” .
4. “picture above all poetry” .
Answer: 1
9.Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” sums up the art of poetry as taught first by :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Horace
(C) Longinus
(D) Plato
Answer: B
10.David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace
Answer: C
11.Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of ……………
(1) Horace
(2) Ovid
(3) Juvenal
(4) Moschus
Answer: 3
12.Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci, prot combined with delight?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus
Answer: (C)
13.Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
(1) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk.
(3) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.
Answer: 4
14.Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as exemplary in Essay on Criticism?
(1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden, Dionysius, Horace
(2) Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Durfey, Dryden
(3) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
(4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfey, Quintilian, Longinus
Answer: 3
15.Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto tells the story of
(A) A decant and heartless tyrant who kills his own son mercilessly.
(B) An usurper and a tyrant who kills his own daughter by mistake.
(C) A castle that collapses and crushes the young and sickly prince to death.
(D) A tyrant who retires to a monastery at the end and lives happily ever after with his queen.
Answers: (B)
16.Match List I and List II
List I Critics
A. Horace
B. John Dryden
C. Samuel Daniel
D. Ben Jonson
List II Text
I. A Defence of Rhyme
II. Timber: or, Discoveries
III. Ars Poetica
IV. Of Dramatic Poesy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III
2. A – III, B – IV, C – II, D – I
3. A – III, B – IV, C – I, D – II
4. A – II, B – IV, C – I, D – III
Answer: 3
17.Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Horace
C. Samuel Daniel
D. Philip Sidney
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
1. A and C only
2. B and D only
3. A and D only
4. D and C only
Answer: 2
18.Who among the following called the Poetasters . The rhyming friends ” ?
a. Lucan Pindar
b. Horace
c. Ontione
d. Plato
Answer :B
19.Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Alexander pope
C. Horace Walpole
D. Thomas Gray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A and B only
- B- A and C only
- C- B and C only
- D- B and D only
Answer: B
Longinus
1.What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the sublime?
(1) great thoughts
(2) immoderate emotion
(3) noble diction
(4) dignified and elevated word arrangement
Answer: 2
2.According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
Answer: (B)
3.Of the five conditions of the Sublime, according to Longinus, the most important condition is:
1. Vigorous treatment of passions
2. Majesty of the structure
3. A lofty cast of mind
4. A wide range of thoughts
Answer: 3
4.According to Longinus which two of the following qualities apply to ‘great poetry’?
A. It must be the work of genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
It must please selectively and on special occasions.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A and C only
B. A and B only
C. B and D only
D. C and D only 4
Answer: A