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. In which year was Thomas Gray born?
(a) 1716
(b) 1717
(c) 1718
(d) 1719

2. What was the name of the churchyard where Gray was buried?
(a) New Place
(b) Startford
(c) Stoke Poges
(d) None of these.

3. Who was the close friend of Gray?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Tennyson
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Horace Walpole.

4. In which year was Gray appointed professor at Cambridge?
(a) 1765
(b) 1768
(c) 1770
(d) 1775

5. The diction of Gray is -
(a) artificial and ornate
(b) impressive
(c) dignified
(d) simple

6. What did Gray refuse?
(a) Money
(b) Ph. D. Degree
(c) The Poet Laureateship
(d) Land

7. Gray was the ....... of the romantic lovers of Nature.
(a) first
(b) second
(c) third
(d) fourth

8. It is said, "Gray was romantic in spirit and classical in manner." Is it true?
(a) No
(b) Yes
(c) Don't know
(d) None of these

9. Thomas Gray was a  -
(a) optimist
(b) reformer
(c) dramatist
(d) pessimist

10. Gray is not a pure classicist but a ....... poet.
(a) Elizabethan
(b) Transitional
(c) Victorian
(d) None of these

11. Gray's poetry glides from classicism to ........
(a) romanticism
(b) supernaturalism
(c) modernism
(d) None of these

12. 'The Bard' is ..........
(a) sonnet
(b) elegy
(c) lyric
(d) ode

13. "The Bard' expresses the sentiments of the .........
(a) lover
(b) friend
(c) bard
(d) sailor

14. Gray's 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a ........ elegy.
(a) general
(b) personal
(c) common
(d) None of these.

15. Where does the poet stand?
(a) Window
(b) Church
(c) Library
(d) Churchyard

16. 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' begins with the .........
(a) Thunder
(b) Rain
(c) Ringing of the curfew
(d) Announcement of the curfew.

17. The atmosphere around the poet is
(a) pleasant
(b) gloomy
(c) graceful
(d) None of these

18. 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' was published in ........
(a) 1751
(b) 1752
(c) 1753
(d) 1754

19. 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a poem in mourning for ........ the entire
(a) town
(b) village
(c) country
(d) humanity

20. 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is not ........ poem.
(a) an escape
(b) a gloomy
(c) a sad
(d) None of these

21. 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is cry for .........
(a) deep love
(b) reformation
(c) human sympathy
(d) None of these

22. Gray reflects on the........ of the poor villagers that lie before him. 
(a) homes
(b) fields
(c) cattles
(d) graves

23. Will any sound make the dead villagers awake?
(a) Always
(b) Never
(c) Sometimes
(d) None of these

24. "The paths of glory lead but to the ......
(a) grave
(b) home
(c) palace
(d) court

25. The rich and the poor all ......
(a) happy
(b) sad
(c) die
(d) hungry

26. What are written on the stone on the graves of the poor villagers?
(a) Only their names and dates of birth
(b) Their whole details
(c) Their address
(c) None of these

27. Where is the ploughman going?
(a) To the field
(b) To the forest
(c) To the river
(d) To the home

28. What does the poet call 'the grave'?
(a) Hut
(b) Room
(c) Narrow cell
(d) Palace

29. For whom shall no hearth be burnt?
(a) Dead villagers
(b) Farmers
(c) Friends
(d) Enemies

30. What, according to Gray, is 'neglected spot'?
(a) Home
(b) Field
(c) Hut
(d) Grave

31. From which did the poor villagers keep themselves away?
(a) Higher education
(b) Wealth and power
(c) High society
(d) None of these

32. The words written on the stones of the graves of the villagers are ........
(a) quite correct
(b) simple
(c) impressive
(d) wrongly spelt

33. What are written on the graves?
(a) Quotations from the Gita
(b) Quotations from the Kuran
(c) Quotation from the Bible
(d) None of these

34. Where does a dying person want to die, according to Gray?
(a) In the lap of his/her dear
(b) In the church
(c) In the temple
(d) None of these

35. When will God show his grace to Gray?
(a) On the day of destruction
(b) On the first day of New Year
(c) On the day of judgement
(d) None of these

36. What was the name of the father of Thomas Gray?
(a) Peter Gray
(b) Philip Gráy
(c) Tom Gray
(d) None of these

37. What was the father of Thomas Gray?
(a) Poet
(b) Teacher
(c) Money Scrivener
(d) Merchant

38. Where did Horace Walpole ask Thomas Gray to accompany him on?
(a) Continental Tour
(b) World Tour
(c) Asia Tour
(d) Europe Tour

39. Who asked Thomas Gray to accompany him on the continental tour?
(a) His Father
(b) His Friend
(c) His Wife
(d) Horace Walpole

40. In which year did Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole make a continental tour -
(a) 1633
(b) 1733
(c) 1833
(d) None of these

41. When did the continental tour of Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole completed?
(a) 1739
(b) 1740
(c) 1741
(d) 1742

42. Where did Thomas Gray settle down after completing his continental tour?
(a) Windsor Castle
(b) Cambridge
(c) Oxford
(d) Paris

43. Who refused 'Poet Laureateship'?
(a) Keats
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Chaucer
(d) Thomas Gray

44. How many years old was Thomas Gray when he died?
(a) 57
(b) 58
(c) 59
(d) 60

45. Thomas Gray was buried by the side of his.....
(a) father
(b) wife.
(c) mother
(d) sister

46. ......... churchyard where Thomas Gray's mother was buried inspired him to compose his famous elegy 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' in his early years.
(a) Stoke Poges
(b) Westminster
(c) Cathedral
(d) None of these

47. The first complete poems of Gray were ......
(a) Ode on Spring
(b) Hymn to Adversity
(c) Hymn to Ignorance
(d) All of these

48. When was Gray's first complete poems published?
(a) 1741
(b) 1742
(c) 1743
(d) 1744

49. When was Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'?
(a) 1747
(b) 1847
(c) 1945
(d) 1947

50. When did Gray begin 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'?
(a) 1742
(b) 1743
(c) 1744
(d) 1745

51. When was 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' published?
(a) 1749
(b) 1750
(c) 1751 
(d) None of these

52. Gray's 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' shows simple philosophy of ........
(a) happiness
(b) dejection
(c) partition
(d) life and death

53. 'The Progress of Poesy' and 'The Bard' both were published at Strawberry Hill Press of........
(a) Peter
(b) Horace Walpole
(c) Larkin
(d) None of these

54. What was "The Fatal Sisters'?
(a) Elegy
(b) Lyric
(c) Ode
(d) None of these

55. When was Gray's ode 'The Descent of Odin' published?
(a) 1761
(b) 1760
(c) 1759
(d) 1758

56. Gray's "The Letters' were published....... years after his death. 
(a) two
(b) three
(c) four
(d) five

57. 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is Gray's pathetic cry for.....
(a) human antipathy
(b) human sympathy
(c) anarchy
(d) None of these

58. What is the ultimate goal of all men and all things?
(a) Birth
(b) Marriage
(c) To be parents
(d) Death

59. Milton's 'Lycidas' is an ........
(a) sonnet
(b) epic
(c) elegy
(d) lyric

60. Who is the poet of 'Adonais'?
(a) Drama
(b) Elegy
(c) Short-story
(d) One-act play

61. 'In Memorium' is written by .........
(a) Browning
(b) Pope
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) Tennyson

62. Arnold's "Thyrsis' is an .....
(a) epic
(b) sonnet
(c) elegy
(d) ballad

63. Gray is considered to be the disciple of........
(a) Dryden
(b) Pope
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Milton

64. Gray's early poems were
(a) romantic
(b) non-romantic
(c) feelingful
(d) natural

65. What does 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' mark?
(a) Ending
(b) Beginning
(c) Transition
(d) None of these

66. What are the chief characteristic of romanticism?
(a) Sentiment and Emotion
(b) Imagination and Sensibility
(c) Wonder and Curiosity
(d) All of these

67. Gray strikes out ........... of his age.
(a) ahead
(b) following
(c) opposing
(d) None of these

68. In "The Fatal Sisters", "The Descent of Odin" and "The Triumphs of Owen", Gray is strictly a ..........
(a) conventional
(b) romantic
(c) traditional
(d) orthodox

69. The cruel hand of death shows mercy to ........
(a) everyone
(b) someone
(c) none
(d) None of these

70. Which is everlasting in the world?
(a) Nothing
(b) Everything
(c) Something
(d) All of these

71. Where are the village-folks lyring burind under the?
(a) Bed
(b) Church
(c) House
(d) Mouldering heap

72. The villagers were wedded to ........
(a) women
(b) ladies
(c) misery and tears
(d) None of these

73. What is permanent in the world?
(a) Everything
(b) Nothing
(c) Something
(d) None of these

74. One day the poet will also ........
(a) become rich
(b) become poor
(c) become old
(d) die

75. The paths of glory lead but to the .........
(a) palace
(b) heaven
(c) grave
(d) throne

76. The villagers were poor and ........
(a) uneducated
(b) educated
(c) literate
(d) None of these

77. The village-folks never got the opportunity to become like......
(a) rich men
(b) educated folks
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) Milton

78. Who did not run to get the envied kiss?
(a) The lover.
(b) The children
(c) The beloved
(d) None of these

79. Who saw the funeral pyre of the poet?
(a) A child
(b) A man
(c) A woman
(d) A shepherd

80. The shepherd saw the funeral pyre to the
(a) graveyard
(b) home
(c) palace
(d) None of these

81. Thomas Gray is considered to be the disciple of.......
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Pope
(c) Milton
(d) Dryden

82. In the Elegy, Gray speaks of the life of -
(a) General
(b) Urban
(c) Rustics
(d) Common

83. "In the character of his elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader."
.who said about Thomas Gray?
(a) John Drinkwater
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Phelps
(d) Cleanth Brooks

84. "The ploughman homeward plods the weary way," figures of speech is -
(a) Personifical
(b) Alliteration
(c) Assonance
(d) Transferred epithet

85. "Let not ambition mock their useful toil," figures of speech is -
(a) Alliteration
(b) Personification
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

86. Gray was admitted to Inner Temple in -
(a) 1732
(b) 1734
(c) 1735
(d) 1736

87. "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West" was written by -
(a) Pope
(b) Gray
(c) Tennyson
(d) Shakespeare

88. Gray's Elegy. "Wrote the long story" was completed in -
(a) 1748
(b) 1749
(c) 1750
(d) 1751

89. "Ode to Muse" was composed by -
(a) Addison
(b) Hazlitt
(c) Pope
(d) Gray

90. When Gray was appointed as a professor of History and Modern Language?
(a) 1763
(b) 1765
(c) 1768
(d) 1771

91. "The Elegy is perhaps not one of the greatest poems in the English language, but it is perhaps the one best known." Who said about Gray?
(a) Alfred Austin
(b) Sanuel Johnson
(c) Addison
(d) Cleanth Brooks

92. Thomas Gray belongs to which literary period?
(a) Transitional age
(b) Romantic age
(c) Restoration age
(d) None of these

93. Gray's Progress of Poesy' is a/an :
(a) Pindaric Ode
(b) Romantic Ode
(c) Melancholic Ode
(d) Irregular Ode

94. In Elegy, Gray refers to which Churchyard?
(a) Westminster Abbey
(b) Raj Ghat
(c) Portsmouth
(d) Stock Pogas

95. How many stanzas are there in Gray's Elegy?
(a) 30
(b) 31
(c) 32
(d) 33

96. In Elegy Gray expresses his sympathy for :
(a) Politicians
(b) Women
(c) Children
(d) Poor Peasant

97. Who says, "Paths of Glory heads but to Grave"?
(a) Gray
(b) Pope
(c) Keats
(d) W.B. Yeats

98. Identify figure of speech in "The Ploughman Homewards plods his weary way":
(a) Metaphor
(b) Transferred Epithet
(c) Simile
(d) Personification

99. Identify figure of speech in "Let not ambition mock their useful tall":
(a) Personification
(b) Alliteration
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

100. Transitional poets are called:
(a) New poets
(b) Experimental poets
(c) Precursors of Romanticism
(d) None of these

101. The Elegy where grains are situated?
(a) In the room
(b) In the hall
(c) On the roof
(d) Beneath rugged tree

102. Epitaph is:
(a) Religious message
(b) Words on the grave
(c) Message of king
(d) Legal message

103. Elegy is written in :
(a) Stanza form
(b) Blank verse
(c) Terza Rima
(d) None of these

104. Who among the following is not a Romantic poet.
(a) Coleridge
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Southey
(d) Tennyson

105. Gray's Elegy is a :
(a) Classical Elegy
(b) Personal Elegy
(c) Pastoral Elegy
(d) Professional Elegy

106. Thomas Gray was a :
(a) Metapysical poet
(b) An Elizabethan poet
(c) Neo-classical poet
(d) Transitional poet

107. In "Full many a gem of purest ray serene", the gem refers to (in Elégy):
(a) Stones in the ocean
(b) Flowers in the desert
(c) Stars in the sky
(d) None of these

108. "A Youth to fortune and to fame unknown Fair science frowned not on his humble birth."
The above lines occur in the poem :
(a) Essay on Man
(b) Tyger
(c) Lake Isle of Innisfree
(d) Elegy

109. In "Elegy", Gray refers to which Churchyard?
(a) Westminster Abbey
(b) Portsmouth
(c) Tintern Abbey
(d) None of these

110. "Here rests his head upon the lap of earth a youth to fortune and to fame unknown". These lines occur in :
(a) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(c) Presence in absence
(d) My Last Duchess

111. Thomas Gray was a ....... .poet.
(a) Romantic
(b) Modern
(c) Victorian
(d) Transitional

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