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This section includes 193 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English (CBCS) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Lali s father was |
| A. | A preacher |
| B. | An alcoholic |
| C. | A weaver |
| D. | A womanizer |
| Answer» C. A weaver | |
| 2. |
The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir |
| A. | Among the river sallows |
| B. | Among the river bushes |
| C. | Among the river willows |
| D. | Among the river plants |
| Answer» B. Among the river bushes | |
| 3. |
William Shakespeare was born in the year: |
| A. | 1588 |
| B. | 1564 |
| C. | 1616 |
| D. | 1600 |
| Answer» C. 1616 | |
| 4. |
Sonnet 116 shares the poet s reflections on the nature of: |
| A. | ideal love |
| B. | ideal companionship |
| C. | ideal moments |
| D. | ideal friendship |
| Answer» B. ideal companionship | |
| 5. |
Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______ |
| A. | seen |
| B. | sees |
| C. | finds |
| D. | meets |
| Answer» D. meets | |
| 6. |
Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks |
| A. | hours |
| B. | minutes |
| C. | honours |
| D. | times |
| Answer» B. minutes | |
| 7. |
Death be not Proud first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in 1633. |
| A. | Holy Sonnet IX |
| B. | Holy Sonnet X |
| C. | Holy Sonnet III |
| D. | Holy Sonnet XI |
| Answer» C. Holy Sonnet III | |
| 8. |
From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be |
| A. | melancholy |
| B. | statements |
| C. | pictures |
| D. | remembrances |
| Answer» D. remembrances | |
| 9. |
And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul s delivery |
| A. | bones |
| B. | bodies |
| C. | leaps |
| D. | souls |
| Answer» B. bodies | |
| 10. |
One short sleep past, we wake ___________ |
| A. | eternally |
| B. | immortally |
| C. | extraordinarily |
| D. | inevitably |
| Answer» B. immortally | |
| 11. |
Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is |
| A. | An allegory |
| B. | An epic |
| C. | A sonnet |
| D. | A metaphysical poem |
| Answer» D. A metaphysical poem | |
| 12. |
The remover who comes with his bending sickle is |
| A. | Time |
| B. | Distance |
| C. | Society |
| D. | Hardships |
| Answer» B. Distance | |
| 13. |
John Donne is |
| A. | Afraid of death |
| B. | Challenging death |
| C. | Submitting to death |
| D. | Resisting death |
| Answer» C. Submitting to death | |
| 14. |
Love is not love if it alters |
| A. | With every season |
| B. | For any reason |
| C. | With time |
| D. | When beauty fades |
| Answer» C. With time | |
| 15. |
Love does not alter with brief hours and |
| A. | Minutes |
| B. | Weeks |
| C. | Days |
| D. | Seconds |
| Answer» C. Days | |
| 16. |
According to Donne, death is a slave to |
| A. | Poison |
| B. | Chance |
| C. | Sleep |
| D. | Fate |
| Answer» C. Sleep | |
| 17. |
Rest of their bones refers to |
| A. | The bones of everyone |
| B. | The bones of poets |
| C. | The bones of our best men |
| D. | The bones of rich men |
| Answer» D. The bones of rich men | |
| 18. |
According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is |
| A. | Sleep |
| B. | Poison |
| C. | Poppy |
| D. | Dreams |
| Answer» D. Dreams | |
| 19. |
Sonnet 116 is a record of the poet s reflections on the nature of |
| A. | classical love |
| B. | friendship love |
| C. | romantic love |
| D. | ideal love |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
Death, be not proud first appeared as Holy Sonnet X in Songs and Sonnets, a collection of 19 sonnets published in |
| A. | 1632 |
| B. | 1633 |
| C. | 1639 |
| D. | 1640 |
| Answer» C. 1639 | |
| 21. |
Shakespeare s notion of ideal love in Sonnet 116 is juxtaposed with the problems of |
| A. | Instability |
| B. | Unsteadiness |
| C. | Unfaithfulness |
| D. | flux and change |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Shakespeare compares true love to- |
| A. | a sun |
| B. | the guiding star |
| C. | the moon |
| D. | a compass |
| Answer» C. the moon | |
| 23. |
According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more |
| A. | Pain |
| B. | Hunger |
| C. | Grief |
| D. | Death |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
The University of Nalanda was situated at |
| A. | Vishakapatnam |
| B. | Pataliputra |
| C. | Karnasuvarna |
| D. | Dwarbhanga |
| Answer» C. Karnasuvarna | |
| 25. |
The gleaner walks carefully across |
| A. | Granary |
| B. | Half reaped furrow |
| C. | The winnowing wind |
| D. | A brook |
| Answer» D. A brook | |
| 26. |
Who watched the last oozing hours by hours? |
| A. | Cider- presser |
| B. | Cider- maker |
| C. | Cider-brewer |
| D. | Cider owner |
| Answer» B. Cider- maker | |
| 27. |
Who bleated from the hilly bourn? |
| A. | Full grown lambs |
| B. | Full grown sheep |
| C. | Full grown bees |
| D. | Full grown crickets |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Patna was formerly known as |
| A. | Patiala |
| B. | Poona |
| C. | Chandigarh |
| D. | Pataliputra |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Manga is |
| A. | A friend of Zovi |
| B. | The uncle of Lali |
| C. | The father of Rozika |
| D. | The husband of Thani |
| Answer» C. The father of Rozika | |
| 30. |
What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare? |
| A. | Even the strongest love is temporary |
| B. | True love remains steady |
| C. | Age and time alter love |
| D. | Love changes as life changes |
| Answer» C. Age and time alter love | |
| 31. |
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not _________. |
| A. | love |
| B. | true |
| C. | alter |
| D. | steady |
| Answer» B. true | |
| 32. |
In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented death as a |
| A. | powerless figure |
| B. | powerful figure |
| C. | murderer |
| D. | ruler over his soul |
| Answer» B. powerful figure | |
| 33. |
Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and |
| A. | queens |
| B. | luck |
| C. | charms |
| D. | desperate men |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____ |
| A. | Poor Men |
| B. | Rich Men |
| C. | Desperate Men |
| D. | Honest Men |
| Answer» D. Honest Men | |
| 35. |
Once more the storm is howling and |
| A. | half hid |
| B. | half buried |
| C. | half revealed |
| D. | half shown |
| Answer» C. half revealed | |
| 36. |
The reaper felt sleepy with the |
| A. | fume of daisies |
| B. | fume of poppies |
| C. | fume of roses |
| D. | fume of hyacinths |
| Answer» C. fume of roses | |
| 37. |
W.B. Yeats A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly after Yeats daughter, Anne s birth. |
| A. | 1918 |
| B. | 1919 |
| C. | 1920 |
| D. | 1922 |
| Answer» C. 1920 | |
| 38. |
The Great Queen that rose out of the spray is |
| A. | Maud Gonne |
| B. | Venus |
| C. | Aphrodite |
| D. | Yeats daughter |
| Answer» D. Yeats daughter | |
| 39. |
Yeats wrote A Prayer for My Daughter after the birth of his daughter Anne in: |
| A. | 1865 |
| B. | 1919 |
| C. | 1939 |
| D. | 1914 |
| Answer» C. 1939 | |
| 40. |
The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is |
| A. | His daughter |
| B. | Lady Gregory |
| C. | Maud Gonne |
| D. | Helen of Troy |
| Answer» D. Helen of Troy | |
| 41. |
Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn? |
| A. | A gleaner |
| B. | An old man |
| C. | A gardener |
| D. | An apple picker |
| Answer» D. An apple picker | |
| 42. |
William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in |
| A. | 1923 |
| B. | 1927 |
| C. | 1928 |
| D. | 1929 |
| Answer» B. 1927 | |
| 43. |
What was howling outside Yeats house? |
| A. | Wolves |
| B. | Foxes |
| C. | Storm |
| D. | A woman |
| Answer» B. Foxes | |
| 44. |
According to Yeats, what is under the cradle hood and coverlid ? |
| A. | A baby |
| B. | A rabbit |
| C. | Feeding bottle |
| D. | Milk |
| Answer» B. A rabbit | |
| 45. |
What are the two close bosom-friends mentioned in Ode to Autumn? |
| A. | The bees and the flowers |
| B. | The sun and the autumn season |
| C. | The autumn season and the bees |
| D. | The trees and the sun |
| Answer» C. The autumn season and the bees | |
| 46. |
A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to |
| A. | Maud Gonne |
| B. | Anna Yeats |
| C. | Aphrodite |
| D. | Helen of Troy |
| Answer» B. Anna Yeats | |
| 47. |
The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he |
| A. | Is tired of reaping |
| B. | Is drowsed with the fume of poppies |
| C. | Wants to rest |
| D. | Wants to relax |
| Answer» B. Is drowsed with the fume of poppies | |
| 48. |
Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it. |
| A. | hopefulness |
| B. | serenity |
| C. | calmness |
| D. | conspiracy |
| Answer» C. calmness | |
| 49. |
Ceremony is a name for |
| A. | A rich horn |
| B. | A spreading laurel tree |
| C. | Innocence and beauty born |
| D. | Wealth and glory |
| Answer» B. A spreading laurel tree | |
| 50. |
The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is |
| A. | Autumn |
| B. | Winter |
| C. | Summer |
| D. | spring |
| Answer» B. Winter | |