Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. John Milton was born in -
(a) 1610
(b) 1609
(c) 1608
(d) 1613
2. Milton died at the age of -
(a) 63
(b) 65
(c) 66
(d) 68
3. Milton was born in -
(a) London
(b) Oxford
(c) Eton
(d) Essex
4. John Milton died in -
(a) 1671
(b) 1674
(c) 1670
(d) 1676
5. Milton wrote only -
(a) Sixteen sonnets
(b) Twenty sonnets
(c) Eighteen sonnets
(d) Nineteen sonnets
6. Milton belongs to -
(a) Seventeenth century
(b) Fifteenth Century
(c) Eighteenth century
(d) Twentieth century
7. Milton combines in himself -
(a) The Spirit of Renaissance and the Reformation
(b) Romanticism and Classicism
(c) Classicism and Noe-Classicism
(d) Mysticism and Romanticism
8. How many sonnets of Milton wrote -
(a) 18
(b) 20
(c) 23
(d) 24
9. Milton followed the style of -
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Swytt
(c) Surrey
(d) Petrarch
10. Milton became totally blind in -
(a) 1650
(b) 1651
(c) 1652
(d) 1653
11. Milton's epic abounds in -
(a) Moder allusion
(b) Transcendental allusion
(c) Classical and Biblical allusion
(d) Transitional allusion
12. Milton's sonnets is called -
(a) Shakespearean sonnet
(b) Miltonic sonnet
(c) English sonnet
(d) Elizabethan sonnet
13. Milton's first poem was
(a) On his Blindness
(b) Ode on the morning of Christ's Nativity
(c) The cloud
(d) Ode to Evening
14. Milton was the greatest poet of -
(a) Restoration Age
(b) Puritan Age
(c) Romantic Age
(d) Transitional Age
15. Milton married with -
(a) Annie powell
(b) Elizabeth Bannet
(c) Mary powell
(d) Anne morre
16. In which year Milton was married?
(a) 1640
(b) 1644
(c) 1642
(d) 1646
17. Who wrote a famous line about Milton -
"Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart'
(a) John Keats
(b) S.T. Coleridge
(c) Sydney
(d) Wordswoth
18. Milton was a great scholar of -
(a) Reformative literature
(b) Hebrew literature
(c) Transitional literature
(d) Transformational literature
19. Milton's early poetry is dominated by -
(a) Restoration element
(b) Renaissance element
(c) Romantic element
(d) Noe-classical element
20. To whom got Milton second marriage with -
(a) Mary Woodcock
(b) Anne Hathaway
(c) Catharine Woodcock
(d) Anne Morre
21. When did Milton change to a house near Lincoln's Inn Fields.
(a) 1645
(b) 1648
(c) 1647
(d) 1649
22. Milton's father was dead in -
(a) 1649
(b) 1646
(c) 1650
(d) 1652
23. When Milton entered in Cambridge... ... Christ's College?
(a) 1622
(b) 1624
(c) 1625
(d) 1626
24. When was Milton's second wife dead?
(a) 1655
(b) 1658
(c) 1660
(d) 1662
25. From where Milton got M.A. degree -
(a) London
(b) Paris
(c) Cambridge
(d) Callifornia
26. Milton was a -
(a) Religious
(b) Republican
(c) Democratic
(d) Democrat and Republican
27. Milton's grandfather was -
(a) Roman catholic
(b) Puritanist
(c) Former
(d) Democratic
28. His father's name was -
(a) Richard Milton (b) George Milton
(c) John Milton
(d) Harrick Milton
29. "John Milton is in every line of Paradise Lost.' who said about Milton?
(a) Sidney
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Shelley
30. "L' Allegro' refers to -
(a) Spenser
(b) Churchill
(c) Milton
(d) Shakespeare
31. "On His Blindness" is a/an :
(a) Shakespearean sonnet
(b) Modern sonnet
(c) Italian sonnet
(d) None of these
32. "Milton was in devil's party without knowing it." Who said it about Milton?
(a) S. T. Coleridge
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) William Blake
(d) William Hazlitt
33. Who committed the original sin?
(a) The poet
(b) Adam and Eve
(c) Jesus Christ
(d) The holy ghost
34. "They also serve who only stand and wait". These lines happen to be in any one of following Milton's work:
(a) To Lord General Fairfax
(b) On His Blindness
(c) To Lord General Cromwell
(d) Comus
35. Which college did Milton attend?
(a) Cambridge
(b) London College
(c) American College
(d) Christs' College
36. "When I consider how my light is spent" - These lines are from :
(a) Shakespearean Sonnet
(b) Miltonic Sonnet
(c) Petrarchan Sonnet
(d) both (b) and (c)
37. "Paradise Lost" by John Milton is an ... ... published in 1667, written in ...
(a) ode; free verse
(b) epic; blank yerse
(c) elegy; free verse
(d) epic; heroic couplet
39. The rhyme scheme of Milton's sonnet "On His blindness" is:
(a) abba abba cde cde
(b) abcd abcd efg efg
(c) abba cdcd ee ff gg
(d) abab bcbc dede ff
40. Which period is known as the Age of Milton?
(a) 1625-1660
(b) 1685-1698
(c) 1625-1700
(d) 1658-1689
41. How many lines are there in Miltonic Sonnet?.
(a) 12
(b) 16
(c) 14
(d) 8
42. Who said about Milton; "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart"?
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats
(d) Arnold
43. Milton's "On His Blindness" is a :
(a) Love poem
(b) Social satire
(c) Political sonnet
(d) Religious sonnet
44. The word 'talent' in Milton's "On His blindness" means:
(a) Talent of speech
(b) Talent of admiration
(c) Talent of poetry
(d) Talent of listening

 

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