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. Larkin was born in the year:
(a) 1924
(b) 1922
(c) 1928
(d) 1931

2. Larkin's first collection of poems "The Northship', was published in:
(a) 1946
(b) 1948
(c) 1950
(d) 1951

3. He graduated in the year:
(a) 1940
(b) 1928
(c) 1943
(d) 1944

4. Larkin's was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in the year:
(a) 1969
(b) 1965
(c) 1967
(d) 1970

5. Which poem is not of Larking?
(a) The Less Deceived
(b) High windows
(c) The Northship
(d) The Dance of Shiva

6. We have ......... in Larkin's poems :
(a) Romantic ideas
(b) Sentimental ideas
(c) Heroic ideas
(d) Stark, naked reality

7. 'Church Going' is an extract from:
(a) The North Ship
(b) High Windows
(c) The Less Deceived
(d) The Whitsun Weddings

8. Who is the speaker in Church Going?
(a) A friend of Larkin
(c) Larkin
(b) Priest
(d) A worshipper at Church

9. What is it that is picked for a cancer:
(a) holy water
(b) simplex
(c) stones
(d) pebbles

10. Larkin Pokes fun at the:
(a) society
(b) women
(c) Church
(d) religion

11. Larkin died in the year:
(a) 1985
(b) 1987
(c) 1986
(d) 1989

12. Literature is :
(a) a war of books
(b) a time pass
(c) a mirror of life
(d) none of these

13. A good poem :
(a) Recreats us
(b) Pleases us
(c) Irritates us
(d) Impresses us

14. "Church Going" is a poem written during the period :
(a) Medieval.
(b) Twentieth Century
(c) Ancient Time
(d) Modern time

15. "Church Going" describes the visit of how many persons:
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) One

16. How much money the poet denotes in Church?
(a) Six pence
(b) One Shilling
(c) One pound
(d) None of these.

17. What is meant by "a serious house" in "Church Going"?
(a) A Palace
(b) A public house
(c) A private house
(d) A Church

18. "Church going" is:
(a) an epic
(b) an allegory
(c) a ballad
(d) a monologue

19. The discussion in the Church Going is :
(a) serious
(b) mocking
(c) half-mocking
(d) half-mocking and serious

20. "The Less Deceived" was published in:
(a) 1953
(b) 1955
(c) 1954
(d) 1950

21. The Whitesun Weddings' was published in:
(a) 1964
(b) 1965
(c) 1955
(d) 1951

22. 'Church Going' echoes the gloomy tone after the:
(a) World War I
(b) Hundred years of war
(c) World War II
(d) None of these

23. What part of the church in Philip Larkin's poem will remain as a reminder of the church when the natural world takes over?
(a) Vestibule
(b) Pulpit
(c) Pews
(d) Buttress

24. According to the speaker of the poem "Church Going", how does the roof of the church look so new?
(a) Its been blessed
(b) Its been restored
(c) It is cleaned
(d) He doesn't know

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