1.Who among the following wrote an immensely powerful play about the
remapping of Irish places with new British names?
(1) J.M. Synge
(2) Seamus Heaney
(3) Brian Friel
(4) G.B. Shaw
Answer: 3
2.Match the poets with the collection :
List – I
I. Philip Larkin
II. Geoffrey Hill
III. Ted Hughes
IV. Seamus Heaney
List – II
A. Lupercal
B. Door into the Dark
C. The Less Deceived
D. For the Unfallen
I II III IV
(1) C D B A
(2) C B D A
(3) C D A B
(4) D C B A
Answer: 3
3. The “Bog” poems are associated with :
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Elizabeth Jennings
(C) Tony Harrison
(D) Seamus Heaney
Answer: D
4.Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ?
(A) Thom Gunn
(B) Alan Lewis
(C)Edward Thomas
(D) Seamus Heaney
Answer: D
5.Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in :
(A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Elizabeth Jennigs
(C) Arnold Wesker
(D) Edward Albee
Answer: A
6.Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and
subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish
Answer: C
7.Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
List – I (Authors)
i. Ted Hughes
ii. Seamus Heaney
iii. W.H. Auden
iv. D.H. Lawrence
List – II (Poems)
1. “The Otter”
2. “Snake”
3. “Ghost Crabs”
4. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone.”
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer: (C)
8.Nobel Prize Winners in Literature :
(A)Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, W.B. Yeats
(B)W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney
(C)T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Nadine Gordimer
(D)Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot,
Answer: B
9. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998
Answer: A
10.Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate?
(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Geoffrey Hill
Answer: (A & B)
11. List – I
I. “Because I could not stop for death…”
II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”
III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….”
IV. “So much depends /upon”
List – II
a. Robert Frost
b. William Carlos Williams
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Walt Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :
(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
Answer: (D)
12.Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for
literature who rejected the label “British” though he has always written in
English rather than his regional language?
(A) Douglas Dunn
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Geoffrey Hill
(D) Philip Larkin
Answer: (B)
13.Which of the following poems by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the Irish
poet Paul Muldoon ?
(1) “The Loaning”
(2) “The Sandpit”
(3) “A Migration”
(4) “Widgeon”
Answer: 4
14.Seamus Heaney’s famous poem “Digging” forms a part of his celebrated
collection called
(A) North
(B) Death of a Naturalist
(C) Field Work
(D) Door into the Dark
Answer: B
15.. Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” in his first volume of poetry, Death of a
Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT
(1) his preoccupation with his roots
(2) his obsession with Irish legend and folklore
(3) his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the labour of
his ancestors
(4) his displaced vocation of digging with a pen
Answer: 2
16.Identify the poet in whose verse rural figures prominently
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice
Answer: C
9. In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the
“perishable treasure” of a body ‘Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible?
1. “Bog Queen”
2. “Grauballe Man”
3. “Punishment
4. “Strange Fruit”
Answer: 4
10.Which two of the following poems by Seamus Heaney come under his Bog
Poems ?
( A ) ” Personal Helicon ” ” ( B ) ” Punishment
( C ) ” The Early Purges ( D ) ” Tollund Man “
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
a. ( A ) and ( B ) Only b. ( A ) and ( C ) Only
c. ( B ) and ( C ) Only d. ( B ) and ( D ) Only
Answer:D