1. Who among the following is mourned in Walt Whitman’s 0 Captain! My Captain!?
1. R. W. Emerson
2. John Keats
3. P. B. Shelley
4. Abraham Lincoln
ANSWER:4
2. Allen Ginsberg’s vision of America is inspired by :
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Edgar A. Poe
ANSWER:A
3. “The Kelson of creation is love”. The line occurs in Walt Whitman’s :
(A) Paumonak
(B) Passage to India
(C) O Captain, My Captain
(D) Song of Myself
ANSWER:D
4. “Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The above lines are from…
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier
ANSWER:A
5. Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?
(A) Robert Lowell
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Wallace Stevens
(D) Langston Hughes
ANSWER:B
6. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet,
(1) Anne Bradstreet
(2) Robert Lowell
(3) Walt Whitman
(4) Sylvia Plath
ANSWER:3
7. Who among the following is mourned in Walt Whitman’s 0 Captain! My Captain!?
1. R. W. Emerson
2. John Keats
3. P. B. Shelley
4. Abraham Lincoln
ANSWER:4