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 Alexander Pope born?
(a) 1685-
(b) 1690
(c) 1688
(d) 1693

2. In which city was Pope born?
(a) London
(b) Warwickshire
(c) New York
(d) Sydney

3. Pope had a ....... and...... body.
(a) healthy, handsome
(b) diseased, deformed
(c) ill, weak
(d) None of these

4. In the beginning, Pope followed ........
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Tennyson
(d) None of these.

5. Pope's poetry was more ....... than emotional.
(a) intellectual
(b) satirical
(c) farcical
(d) sentimental

6. Pope's poetry appeals to the ....... rather than .......
(a) heart, mind
(b) mind, heart
(c) only heart 
(d) None of these

7. Which is not the creation of Pope?
(a) Windsor Forest
(b) Four Pastorals
(c) The Lotos Eaters
(d) The Rape of The Lock

8. Pope's poetry was the poetry of
(a) reason and commonsense
(b) emotion and sentiments
(c) absurdity and satire
(d) None of these

9. Pope perfected the
(a) octave
(b) ballad
(c) ode
(d) heroic couplet

10. Pope's poetry was mainly the poetry of the
(a) village
(b) forest
(c) town
(d) nature

11. "The Rape of the Lock' describes the artificial customs and manners of men and women."
(a) town-bred
(b) prosperous
(c) poor
(d) high status

12. Pope's greatest poems are ........
(a) The Rape of the Lock
(b) Essay on Man
(c) The Dunciad
(d) All of them

13. The Rape of the Lock' depicts .......
(a) the dramatic scene
(b) the emotional scene
(c) the social scene
(d) None of these

14. Pope was a ....... rather than a poet.
(a) social reformer
(b) craftsman
(c) businessman
(d) prose-writer

15. What is "The Dunciad'?
(a) Sonnet
(b) Dramatic monologue
(c) Ode
(d) A personal and a general satire

16. What is "The Rape of the Lock'?
(a) Lyric
(b) Sonnet
(c) Mock-epic
(d) Elegy

17. "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot' is a .......
(a) satirical poem
(b) love poem
(c) emotional poem
(d) poem of dejection

18. Pope is called ........
(a) dramatist
(b) classic
(c) short-story writer
(d) None of these

19. Pope used Nature as a ......
(a) synonymous of reason
(b) flower
(c) tree
(d) mountain

20. What was 'Scriblerus'?
(a) The name of newspaper
(b) The name of college
(c) The name of church
(d) The name of club

21. In which style is the poem 'Lines on Addison from the Dunciad written?
(a) Mock-heroic style
(b) Dramatic monologue
(c) Petrarchan pattern
(d) None of these

22. In the poem, 'Lines on Addison from the Dunciad', Pope attacks the ....... and the ........ alike.
(a) kings, knight
(b) men and women.
(c) dead, living
(d) rich and poor

23. The Dunciad' is the epic of the ......
(a) English
(b) German
(c) American
(d) Dunces

24. Who founded "The Scriblerian Club'?
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) John Milton
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Scriblerus Martin

25. Who sits on the throne of Dulness?
(a) Queen Elizabeth
(b) Theobald
(c) King Henry
(d) Richard III

26. What does Dulness declare?
(a) The opening of heroic game.
(b) The closing of heroic game.
(c) To distribute money among the poor.
(d) None of these

27. The first game is for .........
(a) soldiers
(b) merchants
(c) farmers
(d) book-sellers

28. To whom do the publishers run to grab?
(a) Curll
(b) Jove
(c) Moore
(d) Theobald

29. Who prays to Jove?
(a) Curll
(b) Moore
(c) Theobald
(d) Jove

30. Who grabs the phantom?
(a) Jove
(b) Theobald
(c) Moore
(d) Curll

31. What does Dulness urge Curll?
(a) To sing a song
(b) To repeat the joke
(c) To tell a story
(d) To play the music

32. What does Dulness award Curll for his victory?
(a) A trophy
(b) A gold coin
(c) A tapestry
(d) A casket

33. When did Alexander Pope leave school?
(a) 12 Years old
(b) 14 Years old
(c) 16 Years old
(d) 18 Years old

34. Pope's schooling was ......
(a) long
(b) medium
(c) brief
(d) None of these

35. Where did Pope's parents shift?
(a) Warwickshire
(b) London
(c) Nottinghamshire
(d) Binfield

36. Pope's height was .......
(a) three feet
(b) four feet
(c) five feet
(d) six feet

37. Pope was a celebrated man of...
(a) action
(b) ambition
(c) letters
(d) None of these

38. In writing, Pope's aim was to achieve
(a) absolute correctness
(b) absolute emotions
(c) absolute sentiments
(d) All of these

39. In the beginning of his career Pope used............ in his poetry.
(a) rhyming couplet
(b) heroic couplet
(c) unrhymed couplet
(d) None of these

40. Pope brought Heroic Couplet to.....
(a) Dryden
(b) Shakespeare
(c) imperfection
(d) perfection

41. Pope ........ a villa at Twickenham near London.
(a) owned
(b) friend's
(c) rented
(d) None of these

42. Pope restricted the variations of the ........
(a) octave
(b) sestet
(c) tercet
(d) caesura

43. In whose hands did Heroic Couplet become a sensitive instrument of attack?
(a) Dryden
(b) Pope
(c) Chaucer
(d) Shakespeare

44. Did Pope deal in thoughts beyond the reach of our souls?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Don't know
(d) None of these

45. With which are Pope's greatest work concerned?
(a) Contemporary society life.
(b) The ancient culture of England.
(c) The ancient culture of the world.
(d) None of these

46. Which is the writing of Pope?
(a) Paradise Lost
(b) Macbeth
(c) The Imitations of Horace
(d) All of these

47. Who is the most quoted and offcited poets of English Literature?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Chaucer
(d) Pope

48. Which mirrors eighteen century elegant society life?
(a) Hamlet
(c) Arms and The Man
(b) The Silver Box
(d) The Rape of The Lock

49. ........... was the high priest of the Age of Reason and Commonsense.
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) Dryden
(c) Keats
(d) Yeats

50. Who was the undisputed master in satirical and didactic verse?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Chaucer
(d) Larkin

51. Who was the opposite of poets as Spenser and Shakespeare?
(a) Chaucer
(b) Dryden
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Alexander Pope

52. Both in subject-matter and style, Pope broke with the .............. tradition.
(a) romantic
(b) victorian
(c) reformation
(d) None of these

53. Pope laid a great emphasis on
(a) love
(b) revenge
(c) authority
(d) dejection

54. Alexander Pope had to abide by certain rules and standards that were
followed by the
(a) ancients
(b) modernists
(c) victorians
(d) All of these

55. According to Alexander Pope, Nature was synonymous with ..........
(a) emotions
(b) feelings
(c) reason
(d) All of these

56. In which poem did Pope lay down principles of literary tastes and style?
(a) The Rape of the Lock
(b) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
(c) Dunciad
(d) Essay on Criticism

57. Who introduced the Heroic Couplet?
(a) Shakspeare and Surrey
(b) Denham and Waller
(c) Dryden and Pope
(d) Chaucer and Larkin

58. Who was credited to popularize Heroic Couplet?
(a) Pope
(b) Larkin
(c) Auden
(d) Dryden

59. Who fixed the position of the 'pause' in the middle of the line?
(a) Dryden
(b) Pope
(c) Chaucer
(d) Shakespeare

60. A line containing six iambic feet is .........
(a) octave
(b) quatrain
(c) Alexandrine
(d) tercet

61. Three lines rhyming together is called
(a) triplet
(b) couplet
(c) tercet
(d) sestet

62. Which is the poetry of Pope?
(a) The Dunciad
(b) Essay on Man
(c) The Rape of the Lock
(d) All of these.

63. What were the envy of many poets?
(a) Larkin's Mysticism
(b) Keats's Intellectualism
(c) Pope's Wit and Irony
(d) None of these

64. What was Pope considered more than a poet?
(a) Sonneteer
(b) Craftman
(c) Lyricist
(d) All of these

65. In which poem of Pope is unity of structure found?
(a) Essay on Criticism
(b) Dunciad
(c) The Rape of the Lock
(d) None of these

66. What is the name of the romantic poem that Pope has written?
(a) Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) Dunciad
(d) All of these

67. Who is the writer of 'Mac Flecknoe'?
(a) Pope
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Milton
(d) Dryden

68. The main idea of "The Dunciad' was taken from ..........
(a) Macbeth
(b) Mac Flecknoe
(c) Paradise Lost
(d) None of these

69. How many versions have "The Dunciad'?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) One
(d) Two

70. When was the first version published?
(a) 1725
(b) 1726
(c) 1727
(d) 1728

71. The New Dunciad' was published in ..........
(a) 1742
(b) 1743
(c) 1744
(d) 1745

72. Whom does the poem celebrate?
(a) Dulness
(b) Venus
(c) Maened
(d) None of these

73. Alexander Pope was the greatest master of the :
(a) The Blank Verse
(b) Terza Rima
(c) Heroic Couplet
(d) The Allegory

74. Pope was a -
(a) Pagan
(b) Catholic
(c) Puritan
(d) Jew

75. By nature Pope was -
(a) Jealous, pervish, vain and mean
(b) Unbriddled, cruel and savage
(c) Upright, unrestrained, self-willed and gentle
(d) Hones, unmathodical and perverse

76. Pope was profoundly influenced by the -
(a) Roman poets
(b) Metaphysical poets
(c) Greek poets
(d) Elizabethan poets

77. Pope quarrelled with -
(a) Gray
(b) Addison
(c) Johnson
(d) Collins

78. Pope was a disciple of -
(a) Donne
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Dryden
(d) Milton

79. The Essay on Man is a philosophical poem written in -
(a) Triplet
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Trimeter
(d) Heroic Couplet

80. Epistle-I deals with the nature of man-
(a) in relation to the universe
(b) in relation to man
(c) in relation to animal
(d) in relation to man and animals

81. The essay on man is -
(a) a commentary on rural life
(b) an investigation of the natural law
(c) an allegory on human life
(d) a narration on urban life

82. Pope was a -
(a) elegiac poet
(b) satiric and didactic poet
(c) religious poet
(d) mystical poet

83. Pope is the most famous poet of the -
(a) Eighteenth century
(b) Seventeenth century
(c) Sixteenth century
(d) Nineteenth century

84. Pope was -
(a) Four feet tall
(b) Three feet tall
(c) Four and a half feet tall
(d) Five feet tall

85. Pope's "Essay on Man" was published in -
(a) 1729
(b) 1731
(c) 1733
(d) 1736

86. Who has given an idea about "Essay on Man" -
(a) His wife
(b) His brother
(c) His friend
(d) His father

87. How many contains have pope's "Essay on Man"?
(a) Three Epistle
(b) Four Epistle
(c) Five Epistle
(d) Six Epistle

88. In 'Essay on Man' Pope vindicates -
(a) The way of man to woman
(b) The way of child to youth
(c) The way of God to man
(d) The way of youth to old

89. "Essay on Man" is a -
(a) Religious poem
(b) Realistic poem
(c) Classical poem
(d) Philosophical poem

90. "Those rules of old discovered not devised; refers to -'
(a) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(b) Essay on Criticism
(c) The Rape of the lock
(d) Essay on Man

91. Pope called a -
(a) Romantist
(b) Expressionist
(c) Reformist
(d) Classicist

92. Who said about pope, "The gist of his poem in prose and Pope only turned it into verse."
(a) Longionus
(b) Prolingbroke
(c) Chesterton
(d) John Richardson

93. The essay on man is a philosophical poem written in -
(a) Trimeter
(b) Blank verse
(c) Heroic couplet
(d) Triplet

94. "An Essay on Criticism" was published in -
(a) 1711
(c) 1717
(b) 1713
(d) 1719

95. Who edited "The Works of Shakespeare" -
(a) Mathew Arnold
(b) Addison
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Pope

96. Pope's works in prose was published in -
(a) 1740
(b) 1741
(c) 1743
(d) 1746

97. "The Dunciad" written in -
(a) Two Books
(b) Four Books
(c) Three Books
(d) Seven Books

98. 'Blest with each talent and each art to please,' refers to -
(a) An Epistel to Dr. Arbuthnot
(c) The Dunciad
(b) Essay on Criticism
(d) Essay on Man

99. "Windsor Forest" was appeared in -
(a) 1715
(b) 1716
(c) 1713
(d) 1712

100. 'A being darkly wise and rudely great refers to -
(a) The New Dunciad
(b) The Dunciad
(c) Essay on Man
(d) Essay on Criticism

101. How many canto has been written "The Rape of the Lock"?
(a) Canto II
(b) Canto III
(c) Canto IV
(d) Canto V

102. Pope was dead due to -
(a) Cancer
(b) Killing fever
(c) Dropsy and asthma
(d) Breath problem

103. "The Rape of the Lock' is a -
(a) Epic
(b) Ballad
(c) Elegy
(d) Mock-epic

104. "Great lord of all things, yet a pray to all,' refers to -
(a) The Duniciad
(b) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(c) Essay on Man
(d) Essay on Criticism

105. "Essays in the Guardian" was published in -
(a) 1714
(b) 1716
(c) 1712
(d) 1713

106. "Pope's powers as a poet." who remarks about pope -
(a) Addison
(b) Gardiner
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Longionus

107. Pope wrote in:
(a) Lyric
(b) Spencerian Stanza
(c) Heroic Couplet
(d) Terza Rima

108. Which is not written by Alexander Pope?
(a) Windsor Forest
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) Essays on Man
(d) Ode to Skylark

109. 'Rape of the Lock' is satire on:
(a) Corruption in Church
(b) Crisis in Nationality
(c) Environment
(d) Female Vanity

110. "Satrie is my weapon, but Iam too discrete/To Run amuck, and tilt at all I meet." Who said?
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) John Mitlton
(c) John Donne
(d) Alexander Pope.

111. Who said, "First follow nature" and "Homer is nature, and nature is Homer"?
(a) Wordworth
(b) Pope
(c) Shelley
(d) Gray

112. Who said, "The proper study of mankindi is man"?
(a) Milton
(b) Donne
(c) Pope
(d) Shakespeare

113. "In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas' ning but to err"
(a) Tyger
(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(c) Elegy
(d) Essay on Man

114. An "Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope is a/an :
(a) Philosophical Essay
(b) Philosophical Poem
(c) Epic Poem
(d) Fiction

115. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is man."
These are the opening lines of Alexander Pope's poem :
(a) Essay on Man
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) The Dunciad
(d) None of the above

116. What is the subtitle of "Essay on Man" epistle II?
(a) of the Nature and State of Man
(b) Politics and Religion
(c) Nature and Religion
(d) None of the above

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