British Literature II

1. Immortality Ode," what is the central theme?

A) Death and immortality
B) Nature and beauty
C) Love and friendship
D) War and peace
Answer: A) Death and immortality
2. Who is addressed as "Thou" in the poem? A) The speaker's friend
B) The speaker's child
C) The speaker's lover
D) The concept of immortality
Answer: D) The concept of immortality

3. According to the speaker, where does immortality reside?

A) In nature B) In human memories
B) C) In physical objects
D) In religious beliefs
Answer: B) In human memories

4. What does the speaker mean by "thoughts that do often lie too
deep for tears"?
A) There are thoughts that are too painful to express in words
B) There are thoughts that are too joyful to express in words
C) There are thoughts that are too complex to express in words
D) There are thoughts that are too insignificant to express in words
Answer: A) There are thoughts that are too painful to express in
words

5. What is the "visionary gleam" that the speaker describes?

A) The light of the setting sun
B) The light of the full moon
C) The light of a shooting star
D) The light of imagination and creativity
Answer: D) The light of imagination and creativity

6. What does the speaker mean by "trailing clouds of glory"?

A) The afterlife
B) The memory of great achievements
C) The beauty of nature
D) The innocence of childhood
Answer: D) The innocence of childhood
7. What is the "mighty being" that the speaker refers to in the final
stanza?
A) God B) Nature C) Immortality D) The speaker's own creative
spirit
Answer: B) Nature

[Link] is the speaker's attitude towards death? A) Fearful B)

Accepting C) Indifferent D) Joyful Answer: A) Fearful

9. Which literary device does Wordsworth use in the line "Though

nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in
the flower"?
A) Metaphor B) Personification C) Simile D) Allusion
Answer: A) Metaphor
10. What is the overall tone of the poem?
A) Optimistic B) Pessimistic C) Neutral D) Reflective
Answer: D) Reflective
D) Reflective
[Link] is the speaker's attitude towards the concept of
immortality?
A) Skeptical B) Enthusiastic C) Ambivalent D) Dismissive
Answer: A) Skeptical

12. What does the speaker mean by "triumphant agony"? A) The

pain of accepting mortality B) The joy of being immortal C) The
struggle to achieve greatness D) The pain of losing a loved one
Answer: A) The pain of accepting mortality

[Link] did Coleridge write it?

1799
1780
1800
1797
Ans:1797
[Link] wrote the book Coleridge read that inspired the
poem?

Marco Polo
Samuel Purchas
Bocchaccio
Walter Bradford
Ans:Samuel Purchas
[Link] did Kubla build the dome?

Xanadu
Florin
Poictesme
Guilder
Ans:Xanadu

[Link] is the sacred river where it was built?

Jordan
Ganges
Alph
Styx
Ans:Alph
[Link] many miles were walled in for the dome?

6
10
12
20
Ans:10
[Link] instrument did the Abyssinian maid play?

dulcimer
flute
lyre
tambor
Ans:dulcimer
[Link] what mountain did the maid sing of?

Killimanjaro
Olympus
Sinai

Abora
Ans:Abora

[Link] old is Catherine?

a.15

B.17

c.21

d.26

21.

Ans:17

[Link] is Mrs. Allen?

[Link]'s mother

[Link]'s sister

[Link]'s deceased mother

[Link]'s guardian in Bath

Ans:Catherine guardian in Bath

[Link] novel does Catherine read while she's in

Bath?

[Link] Burney

[Link] Radcliffe

[Link] Brontë

d. Daniel Defoe

Ans: Ann Radcliffe

[Link] does Catherine suspect General Tilney of

doing?

[Link] his son Henry

[Link] Frederick Tilney to pursue Isabella

[Link] his wife

[Link] real estate deals

Ans:Murdering his wife

[Link] is Henry's other home and parsonage, away

from Northanger Abbey?

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[Link]

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bath

[Link] causes the break-up between James and

Isabella?

[Link]

[Link]

[Link] Tilney

[Link]. Alle

Ans:Frederick Tilley
[Link] tells General Tilney that Catherine is very

wealthy, then later tells him she is very poor?

[Link]

[Link] Thorpe

[Link] Morland

[Link]

Ans:John Thorpe

[Link] is narration does Austen uses in her novels?

[Link] person omniscient

[Link] person narration

[Link] irony

[Link] indirect discourse

Ans:Free indirect discourse

[Link] does Catherine find of interest in the late

Mrs. Tilney's room?

a.A secret diary

[Link]. Louis

[Link]

d.A portrait of Mrs. Tilney

Ans:Nothing

29. Who is the protagonist of the novel Northanger Abbey?

a. General Tilney
b. [Link]
c. Henry Tilney
d. Catherine Morland

Ans: Catherine Morland

[Link] does Catherine meet Henry?

[Link] a dance in the Lower Rooms

[Link] a tea party in the Upper Rooms

[Link] Northanger Abbey

[Link] Woodston

Ans;During a dance in the Lower Rooms

[Link] is hemlock referred in the Keat’s poem “Ode to Nightingale”?

a)A poisonous herb
b)A type of flower
c)A sedative drug
d) A hallucinogenic plant
Ans: A poisonous herb

32. It was ——-when Keats heard the song of the nightingale.

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c. Spring

dAutumn

Ans: Spring

33. My Herat aches— The cause of the ache is

a. Joy
b. Despair
c. Inability
d. Disability
Ans:Joy

34. ”My sense as though of Hemlock I had”——

a. drunk

b. Dried

c. Fried

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Ans: drunk

35. Keats suggest the ——— of the Nightingale’s song

a. transience

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36. What does the phrase “beaded bubbles winking at the brim” refer to?

a) Stars sparkling in the night sky

b) Dewdrops on flower petals
c) Sparkling wine in a glass
d) Raindrops falling on a pond

Answer: c) Sparkling wine in a glass

37, Which poetic form does “Ode to a Nightingale” belong to?

a) Sonnet
b) Ballad
c) Ode
d) Haiku

Answer: c) Ode

38.. What are some allusions to mythology in the poem?

a) Lethe, Bacchus, and Flora
b) Ruth, dryads, and Pegasus
c) Hippocrene, Bacchus, and Lethe
d) Flora, dryads, and Ruth

Answer: a) Lethe, Bacchus, and Flora

39.. How does Keats intend to join the nightingale in his fantasy world?

a) Through Bacchanalian revelry

b) Through drinking fine wine
c) Through poetry and art
d) Through immortality and beauty

Answer: c) Through poetry and art

40 What is hemlock?

a) A poisonous herb
b) A type of flower
c) A sedative drug
d) A hallucinogenic plant

Answer: a) A poisonous herb

40. Lethe is one of the five rivers in Hades. What is another name for
Lethe?

a) Styx
b) Acheron
c) Cocytus
d) Ameles potamos

Answer: d) Ameles potamos

[Link] is the effect of drinking the waters of Lethe?

a) Eternal youth
b) Enhanced memory
c) Forgetfulness
d) Immortality

Answer: c) Forgetfulness

43. Which Greek god or goddess is associated with the river Lethe?
a) Hades
b) Poseidon
c) Hermes
d) Persephone

Answer:As red

44,What is a Dryad?

a) A sea creature
b) A woodland nymph
c) A celestial being
d) A fire spirit

Answer: b) A woodland nymph

[Link] element of nature are Dryads primarily associated with?

a) Water
b) Air
c) Earth
d) Fire

Answer: c) Earth

46. According to Greek mythology, what do Dryads inhabit?

a) Rivers and lakes

b) Caves and underground realms
c) Trees and forests
d) Mountains and cliffs

Answer: c) Trees and forests

47. What does the phrase “beaded bubbles winking at the brim” refer to?

a) Stars sparkling in the night sky

b) Dewdrops on flower petals
c) Sparkling wine in a glass
d) Raindrops falling on a pond

Answer: c) Sparkling wine in a glass

48, Which poetic form does “Ode to a Nightingale” belong to?

a) Sonnet
b) Ballad
c) Ode
d) Haiku

Answer: c) Ode

49. What are some allusions to mythology in the poem?

a) Lethe, Bacchus, and Flora

b) Ruth, dryads, and Pegasus
c) Hippocrene, Bacchus, and Lethe
d) Flora, dryads, and Ruth

Answer: a) Lethe, Bacchus, and Flora

50. How does Keats intend to join the nightingale in his fantasy world?

a) Through Bacchanalian revelry

b) Through drinking fine wine
c) Through poetry and art
d) Through immortality and beauty

Answer: c) Through poetry and art

51. What is hemlock?

a) A poisonous herb
b) A type of flower
c) A sedative drug
d) A hallucinogenic plant

Answer: a) A poisonous herb

52. Lethe is one of the five rivers in Hades. What is another name for
Lethe?

a) Styx
b) Acheron
c) Cocytus
d) Ameles potamos

Answer: d) Ameles potamos

53 What is the effect of drinking the waters of Lethe?

a) Eternal youth
b) Enhanced memory
c) Forgetfulness
d) Immortality

Answer: c) Forgetfulness

54. Which Greek god or goddess is associated with the river Lethe?

a) Hades
b) Poseidon
c) Hermes
d) Persephone

Answer: a) Hades

55. What is a Dryad?

a) A sea creature
b) A woodland nymph
c) A celestial being
d) A fire spirit

Answer: b) A woodland nymph

56. Which element of nature are Dryads primarily associated with?

a) Water
b) Air
c) Earth
d) Fire

Answer: c) Earth

[Link] to Greek mythology, what do Dryads inhabit?

a) Rivers and lakes

b) Caves and underground realms
c) Trees and forests
d) Mountains and cliffs

Answer: c) Trees and forests

58. Provence was known for their songs of:

a) Religious devotion
b) Love and chivalry
c) Political protest
d) Folklore and mythology

Answer: b) Love and chivalry

59. Provençal songs are associated with which region in France?

a) Normandy
b) Brittany
c) Provence
d) Alsace

Answer: c) Provence

60..Which biblical character is mentioned in Ode to a Nightingale?

a) Naomi
b) Ruth
c) Boaz
d) Obed

Answer: b) Ruth

61. “O, for a draught of…. ” Here the poet longs for

a) wine
b) immortality
c) imagination
d) opium

Answer: a) wine

The skylark is addressed as a:

a) Blithe spirit
b) Melodious songbird
c) Heavenly creature
d) Enchanted being

Answer: a) Blithe spirit

62. The skylark is described as springing from:

a) Heaven
b) Water
c) Earth
d) Air

Answer: c) Earth

63. The skylark is springing from the earth like a/an

a) Flower in bloom
b) Whirlwind
c) Cloud of fire
d) Shooting star

Answer: c) Cloud of fire

64. How many stanzas does “To a Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
consist of?

a) 21
b) 14
c) 7
d) 4

Answer: a) 21

65. What is the rhyme scheme followed in “To a Skylark”?

a) ABABC
b) AABBCC
c) ABABB
d) ABCD

Answer: c) ABABB

66. In “To a Skylark,” what is the metrical pattern of the first four lines in
each stanza?

a) Iambic pentameter
b) Trochaic trimeter
c) Anapestic tetrameter
d) Dactylic hexameter
Answer: b) Trochaic trimeter

67. How many stressed syllables are there in each line of the first four
lines of each stanza?

a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 6

Answer: b) 3

68. What is the metrical pattern of the fifth longer line in each stanza of
“To a Skylark”?

a) Iambic pentameter
b) Trochaic trimeter
c) Anapestic tetrameter
d) Iambic hexameter

Answer: d) Iambic hexameter

69. What literary genre does “To a Skylark” belong to?

a) Sonnet
b) Epic
c) Ballad
d) Ode

Answer: d) Ode

70. “To a Skylark” is an ode written by which poet?

a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) John Keats
d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer: d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

71. What is the main subject of “To a Skylark”?

a) A bird’s flight
b) Nature’s beauty
c) The human condition
d) The power of imagination

Answer: a) A bird’s flight

72. Which poetic device is employed when the speaker addresses the
skylark as a “blithe Spirit”?

a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Apostrophe
d) Alliteration

Answer: c) Apostrophe

73 Which literary device is used in the line “The blue deep thou wingest”?

a) Personification
b) Metaphor
c) Simile
d) Imagery

Answer: d) Imagery

74. To what does the term “silver sphere” figuratively refer ?

a) The moon.
b) Cloud cover.
c) The wing of the skylark.
d) The earth.

Answer : a) The moon.

75. What makes human beings inadequate in comparison with the skylark,
according to Shelley?

a) That they are hateful, prideful, and scornful.

b) That they yearn for things they do not possess.
c) That they have frail voices.
d) That they dream only of death.

Answer : b) That they yearn for things they do not possess.

[Link] were Lamb’s essays first published serially?

(A) In the Quarterly Review

(B) In the London Magazine

(C) In the Edinburgh Review

(D) In Blackwood’s Magazine

Answer: In the London Magazine

[Link] Lamb wrote his essays under the pen-name:

(A) Ilia

(B) Ellia

(C) Elia

(D) Alia

Answer: Elia

[Link] kind of house did Elia's

grandmother maintain?
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c. Apartment building

[Link] House

Answer: Mansion

[Link] is the name of Sissy’s father’s dog?

[Link]

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[Link]
[Link]. Snips

Ans: Merry legs

[Link] is the main principle of Mr. Gradgrind’s

philosophy

[Link]

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d. Patriotism

Answer: fact

[Link]. Pegler is the mother of which character?

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]

Answer : Bounderby

[Link] robs the bank?

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]. Sparsit

Answer: Tom
[Link] does Rachael find that leads her to believe

Stephen has been murdered?

a.A trail of bloody footprints

b.A note from the killer

[Link] hat, abandoned in a field

[Link] empty bottle of poison

Answer: His hat abandoned in a field

[Link] runs the circus?

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]. Pegler

[Link]’s father

Ans : Sleary

[Link] character is a Member of Parliament?

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]

[Link]. McChoakumChild

Ans: Gradgrind

[Link] is Stephen unable to marry Rachael?

[Link] is already married

[Link] is too old

[Link] is too poor

[Link] is in love with another man

Ans: He is already married

[Link] does Louisa flee after Harthouse’s

declaration of love?

[Link] husband’s house

[Link] father’s house

[Link]’s room

[Link] circus

Ans:Her father house

[Link] does Mr. Gradgrind hire to become a teacher

at his school?

[Link]. Gulpidge

[Link]. Pumblechook

[Link]. Tulkinghorn

[Link]. McChoakumchild

Ans: McChoakumchild

[Link] is the name of the Gradgrind home?

[Link]

[Link] Home
[Link] Lodge

[Link] Grange

Ans: Stone Lodge

[Link] believes her father abandoned her for what

reason?

[Link] own best interest

[Link] elope with a Frenchwoman

[Link] over her mother’s death

d.A desire to see the world

Ans: Her own best interest