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. Mathew Arnold was born in -
(a) October 1822
(b) November 1822
(c) December 1822
(d) January 1823

2. Where Arnold started his primary education at -
(a) Win Chester
(b) Rugby school
(c) Mandy school
(d) Charles school

3. Arnold went to Balliol in -
(a) 1839
(b) 1841
(c) 1843
(d) 1845

4. Mathew Arnold was considered to be -
(a) Philosopher and Psychologist
(b) Poets and Reformer
(c) Critic and Poet
(d) None of these

5. Arnold was called as -
(a) a scholastic and philosopher
(b) a realistic poet
(c) a poet of sensation
(d) an educated versifier

6. Mathew Arnold went for his higher education at -
(a) Leads
(b) Oxford
(c) Cambridge
(d) London

7. Arnold's Cromwell was published in the year -
(a) 1840
(b) 1850
(c) 1841
(d) 1843

8. Arnold married with -
(a) Elizabeth Bannet
(b) Lady Famina
(c) Frances Lady Wightman
(d) Emily Rayburn

9. Arnold won the prize for poetry in -
(a) 1840
(b) 1845
(c) 1839
(d) 1849

10. Which of the poem is not written by Arnold?
(a) Shorab and Rustam
(b) In Memoriam
(c) To Wordsworth
(d) Memorial verses

11. Which component is not desired in an Ode?
(a) Grand style
(b) Sublimity
(c) Humour
(d) Musicality

12. 'Dover Beach' was published in -
(a) 1856
(b) 1867
(c) 1876
(d) 1857

13. Arnold compares Shakespeare with -
(a) Storm
(b) Mountain
(c) Star
(d) Ocean

14. The famous sonnet 'Shakespeare' was published in -
(a) 1849
(b) 1850
(c) 1869
(d) 1877

15. In Dover Beach Arnold bewails the modern man's loss of -
(a) Love
(b) Humour
(c) Courage
(d) Faith

16. Who is the subject of Arnold's elegy Thyrisis?
(a) Swinburn
(b) Auden
(c) A.H. Clough
(d) Eliot

17. Which ocean has been referred in Dover Beach?
(a) Atlantic sea
(b) English channel
(c) Mediterranian sea
(d) Arabean sea

18. Mathew Arnold died in -
(a) 5 June, 1890
(b) 16 May, 1888
(c) 15 April, 1888
(d) 17 April, 1889

19. On whose death Rugby Chapel has been written?
(a) Brother
(b) Beloved
(c) Friend
(d) Father

20. The volume "The Strayed Reveller' and other poems by Arnold came in the year -
(a) 1850
(b) 1841
(c) 1849
(d) 1852

21. On whom the West Minister Abbey has been written -
(a) Swinburn
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Dean Stanely
(d) Auden

22. Who is given tribute after having written the elegy, A southern night by Arnold?
(a) His brother
(b) His sister
(c) His friend
(d) His father

23. Oxford movement was also known as -
(a) Tractarian Movement
(b) Romantic Movement
(c) Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(d) Victorian Movement

24. Which of hte following is not elegy-
(a) Thyrsis
(b) The scholar Gipsy
(c) Break Break Break
(d) Thou Art just indeed

25. While at Oriel College Armold be friended-
(a) A.H. Auden
(b) Swinburn
(c) Eliot
(d) Clough

26. Arnold's 'Dover Beach,' a poem is as a -
(a) Social and reflective
(b) Social and didactic
(c) Reflective and monotonous
(d) Didactic and monotonous

27. Dover Beach has been written in how many lines -
(a) 32
(b) 29
(c) 36
(d) 42

28. 'Glimmering and Vast, out in the tranquil bay,' here the meaning of "tranquil" is -
(a) Calm
(b) Spray
(c) Alone
(d) Sweet

29. "The youth of Man" was published in -
(a) 1869
(b) 1867
(c) 1870
(d) 1871

30. Mathew Arnold got advantage of Balliol Scholarship in -
(a) 1840
(b) 1842
(c) 1847
(d) 1849

31. Arnold's Empedocles was published in the year of-
(a) 1849
(b) 1853
(c) 1852
(d) 1856

32. 'Westminister Abbey' deals with the death of -
(a) Ben Ezra
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Dean Stanely
(d) None of these

33. The rhyme scheme of Arnold's 'Shakespeare' is -
(a) abab, abab, cd, cd, ee
(b) abab, baob, cc, dd, ee
(c) abba, abba, cd, cd, ee
(d) abab, abba, cd, cd, ee

34. In 1853, Arnold has been appointed as professor of poetry at -
(a) Cambridge University
(b) Oxford University
(c) London University
(d) None of these

35. General Elegy expresses the suffering of -
(a) Dear of the poet
(b) Humanity
(c) Person
(d) None of these

36. Which elegy is written by Mathew Arnold -
(a) Lycidas
(b) Thyrsis
(c) America
(d) Elegy written in chuchyard

37. Personal elegy expresses the -
(a) someone else's
(b) general
(c) personal
(d) impersonal

38. 'Memorial Verses' is written by -
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Mathew Arnold

39. Aronld's Thysis wrote to lament the death of -
(a) Arthur Hallam
(b) Henry Clough
(c) Henny Hallam
(d) Hugh Clough

40. Arnold's friend, Arthur Hugh Clough died in -
(a) 1858
(b) 1860
(c) 1861
(d) 1865

41. "Poetry is a criticism of life under conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty." who wrote this definition of this poety?
(a) Longfellow
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Pope

42. Who called/defined the 18th century, as "The Age of Prose and Reason"?
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) William Hazlitt

43. Complete the line by filling in the blank:
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring/The eternal note of ...... in.
(a) Calmness
(b) Peace
(c) Sadness
(d) Melancholy

44. Whose reflective poetry expresses doubts, melancholy and unrest?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Keats

45. The lines "Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/Where ignorant armies clash by night" oecur in :
(a) Far from the Madding Crowd
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) Ode to the Nightingale
(d) Dover Beach

46. "Dover Beach" was written by:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Arnold
(c) Browning
(d) Shelley

47. Which of the following poem was not written by Matthew Arnold?
(a) The Scholar Gipsy
(b) Thyrsis
(c) In Memoriam
(d) Rugby Chapel

48. The timeline of the "Dover Beach" is of:
(a) England during the early nineteenth century
(b) England during the late nineteenth century
(c) Australia during the mid-nineteenth century
(d) Italy during the late nineteenth century

49. What does the 'Sea of Faith' in Arnold's "Dover Beach" symbolize?
(a) Religion
(b) Unwavering belief
(c) Aegean sea
(d) World without hope

50. The central theme of the poem "Dover Beach" is:
(a) Man, the natural world and loss of faith
(b) Love
(c) Nature and its impact on civilization
(d) The poets' confession of his love

51. What is the tone of the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold?
(a) Enthusiastic
(b) Optimistic
(c) Pessimistic
(d) Tranquil

52. Which of the following author-book pair is not correctly matched?
(a) Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b) Arnold - Church Going
(c) Pope - Essay on Man
(d) Tennyson - Break, Break, Break

53. What is the form of the poem "Dover Beach"?
(a) Epic
(b) Pastoral
(c) Narrative
(d) Dramatic Monologue

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