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. When was John Donne born?
(a) In 1575
(b) In 1577
(c) In 1572
(d) In 1580

2. John Donne belonged to
(a) The Elizabethan age
(b) The Romantic age
(c) The Victorian age
(d) The Modern age

3. John Donne was known as the first and greatest poet of........... poetry.
(a) romantic
(b) religious
(c) metaphysical
(d) None of these

4. Why was John Donne dismissed from the church?
(a) Due to his illness
(b) Due to his secret marriage
(c) Due to his negligence
(d) None of these

5. John Donne's poetry shows an open .......... against the set conventional poetry.
(a) support
(b) challenge
(c) favour
(d) revolt

6. John Donne had become the Dean of .........
(a) St. Paul
(b) Oxford
(c) Cambridge
(d) None of these

7. What did the metaphysical poets desire to express in their poetry?
(a) Their emotions
(b) Their culture
(c) Their tradition
(d) Their learning

8. The metaphysical poets desired to expres their learning in ............
(a) prose
(b) rhyme
(c) story
(d) None of these.

9. What is conceit?
(a) A Form
(b) A movement
(c) A literary term
(d) None of these

10. What is inherent trait of metaphysical poetry?/what is pecular feature
of metasphysical poertry?
(a) Obscurity
(b) Sublimity
(c) Absurdity
(d) Positivity

11. Donne's love poetry, is that of
(a) unmarried love
(b) married love
(c) extra marital affair
(d) None of these

12. Donne is the master of the
(a) force
(b) humour
(c) irony
(d) conceits

13. To whom does John Donne compare himself and his wife in his poem.
"The Anniversary"?
(a) Two Compass.
(b) Two Soldiers 
(c) Two Kings
(d) Two Animals

14. The use of hyperbole is the feature of ..........
(a) classical poetry
(b) metaphysical poetry
(c) romantic poetry
(d) None of these

15. Donne as a religious poet has three theme. What are they?
(a) Love, War and Exploitation
(b) Sin, Death and God
(c) Revenge, War and Ambition
(d) Marriage, Love and War

16. To whom does the poet beg forgiveness?
(a) King
(b) Duke
(c) Knight
(d) God

17. John Donne gave new name and shape to existing ........ poetry. 
(a) contemporary
(b) past
(c) future
(d) None of these

18. When did Donne write 'Devotions upto Emergent Occasions'?
(a) 1620
(b) 1621
(c) 1622
(d) 1623

19. Did Donne have proper poetic career?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Don't know
(d) None of these

20. Donne left Hart Hall without acquiring a .......
(a) money
(b) book
(c) degree
(d) None of these

21. For what did Donne join Lincoln's Inn?
(a) To Study Law
(b) To Study Literature
(c) To Study Language
(d) None of these

22. Who was the leader of the Metaphysical school of poets?
(a) John Lily
(b) Thomas Wyatt
(c) John Donne
(d) None of these

23. Which is the writing of John Donne?
(a) The Progress of the Soul
(b) An Anatomy of the World
(c) An Elegy and Epithalmium
(d) All of these.

24. Into which can Donne's poetry be divided?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(d) 5
(c) 2

25. The major portion of Donne's works is
(a) metaphysical and satirical
(b) intellectual
(c) emotional
(d) None of these

26. "The Progress of the Soul' is written by
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Milton
(c) Donne
(d) Yeats

27. Donne wrote his satire in ........
(a) rhymed couplet
(b) octave
(c) sestet
(d) tercet

28. Who were influenced by Donne's satire?
(a) Keats and Yeats
(b) Milton and Lily
(c) Dryden and Pope
(d) All of these

29. Caroline poetry begins with .......
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Pope
(d) John Donne

30. Who paved the way for the New Metaphisical School of Poetry?
(a) John Donne
(b) John Milton
(c) Philip Larkin
(d) Auden

31. Who popularised 'conceits'?
(a) Gray
(b) Carew
(c) Donne
(d) All of these

32. employed a harsh and rugged poetic diction.
(a) Keats
(b) Donne
(c) Yeats
(d) None of these

33. Who was an ardent admirer of Donne?
(a) Marlowe
(b) Yeats
(c) Robert Browning
(d) All of these

34. Who is the modern poet that has been influenced by Donne?
(a) Philip Larkin
(b) W.H. Auden
(c) Gray
(d) T.S. Eliot

35. Donne was under-estimated by the poets of... century.
(a) Eighteenth
(b) Seventeenth
(c) Sixteenth
(d) Fifteenth

36. "A king who qulandogs he thought, the Universe monarchy of wit." Who said this?
(a) Thomas Gray
(b) Thomas Carew
(c) Thomas Wyatt
(d) Walt Whitman

37. A............. means contrasting or contrary items.
(a) Hyperbole
(b) Paradox
(c) Myth
(d) All of these

38. Donne's poems contain fine combination of emotion and .........
(a) intellect
(b) farce
(c) satire
(d) All of these

39. John Donne glorifies the platonic ......... tradition.
(a) marriage 
(b) fight
(c) love
(d) None of these

40. To whom does the poet call 'Father'?
(a) God
(b) His father
(c) Neighbout
(d) Friend's father

41. In which matter has Donne failed?
(a) To get rid of the sins
(b) In the exams of B.A. I
(c) In civil exams
(d) None of these

42. When Donne completes the last moment of his life, he will ........
(a) recover
(b) die
(c) born
(d) None of these

43. The experience of the poet is .........
(a) artificial
(b) spurious
(c) genuine
(d) None of these

44. The pulse of........ passion throbs in the poem.
(a) king's
(b) queen's
(c) clown's
(d) poet's

45. Which poem is written by John Donne?
(a) A Hymn to God, Thy Father
(b) On His Blindness
(c) Mercy
(d) None of these

46. John Donne is called:
(a) Religious poet
(b) Elizabethan poet
(c) Metaphysical poet
(d) Nature poet

47. John Donne is a contemporary of .........
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Shelley

48. John Donne is regarded as a Metaphysical poet because:
(a) His poetry is highly religious
(b) He is a singer of love
(c) He has described love which is physical
(d) He has used metaphysical conceits

49. John Donne was born in -
(a) Oxford
(b) Cambridge
(c) Eton
(d) London

50. John Donne was the poet of -
(a) Sixteenth century
(b) Seventeenth century
(c) Eighteenth century
(d) Fifteenth century

51. John Donne's poems are full of-
(a) Far-fetched allusions
(b) Biblical allusions
(c) Love and sexuality
(d) Classical references

52. Donne's poems exhibit revolt against -
(a) Conventional poetry
(b) Love poetry
(c) Spiritual poetry
(d) Folk-love

53. John Donne is outspokenly -
(a) Conventional
(b) Unconventional
(c) Rebel
(d) Erotic and sensual

54. To Inowhom Donne addresses in the poem?
(a) His lover
(b) His friend
(c) His wife
(d) His son

55. What was the name of Donne's wife?
(a) Elizabeth Morre
(b) Anne Morre
(c) Stella
(d) Catherine Morre

56. John Donne is called -
(a) Noble and ideal
(b) Frustrated and irritated
(c) Controversial
(d) Earnest and passionate

57. 'As stiff twin compasses one two' figures of speech is -
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Alliteration
(d) Personification

58. Donne is the master of -
(a) Nature
(b) Conceit
(c) Affection
(d) Heavenly love

59. Who said about Donne, "There are two distinctive strains in love poetry of Donne - first cynical strain and secondly married love"?
(a) Dr. Samual Johnson
(b) Richardson
(c) John Keats
(d) H.C. Grierson

60. What the metaphysical poetry is?
(a) Complex and compound
(b) Simple and compact
(c) Obscure and complex
(d) Graceful and charming

61. Who said, "Donne is the first poet in the world for some things, but for not keeping of accent deserves hanging."
(a) Ben Joxnson
(b) R.L. Stevenson
(c) John Dryden
(d) Pope

62. John Donne belongs to :
(a) Metaphysical School of Poetry
(b) Neo-classical
(c) Graveyard School
(d) None of these

63. 'Obscurity' is an important element of:
(a) Romantic Poetry
(b) Classical Poetry
(c) War Poetry
(d) Metaphysical Poetry

64. John Donne is said to affect Metaphysics to an extent that it makes his poetry:
(a) Supernatural
(b) Didactic
(c) Obscure
(d) Pastoral

65. Who remarked for Donne, "He affects metaphysics"?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Dryden
(c) Pope
(d) Michael Drayton

66. Donne tells his beloved wife not to shed tears because :
(a) The people will call them ordinary lovers
(b) The people will comment that their love is passionate
(c) It will be dishonour to their holy soul
(d) None of these.

67. Donne compared their united (two) souls with the :
(a) Star
(b) Compass
(c) Gold
(d) Spheres

68. The poets, who wrote during the ....... century under the impact of John Donne, are described as metaphysical poets.
(a) 18
(b) 19
(c) 17
(d) 20

69 John Donne was a ........ poet.
(a) Elizabethan
(b) Metaphysical
(c) Neo-classical
(d) Augustan

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