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. Robert Browning was born on -
(a) 1814
(b) 1813
(c) 1812
(d) 1822

2. Browning called his mother-
(a) 'a divine woman'
(b) 'a divine mother'
(c) 'a divine lady'
(d) 'a divine beauty'

3. Browning's father was -
(a) a clergy in church
(b) a clerk in the Bank of England
(c) a bishop in church
(d) an advocate

4. Browning went to university for a short term at the age of -
(a) Forteen
(b) Fifteen
(c) Sixteen
(d) Seventeen

5. Browning went to Russia, during the year of -
(a) 1830
(b) 1832
(c) 1833
(d) 1835

6. When he met his future wife 'Elizabeth Barret' -
(a) in 1842
(b) in 1845
(c) in 1848
(d) in 1850

7. Browning's wife was a -
(a) house lady
(b) a professional lady
(c) a poet
(d) a psychologist

8. Browning got married with Elizabeth Barret in -
(a) 1846
(b) 1849
(c) 1851
(d) 1853

9. Browning was blessed with a son in -
(a) 1847
(b) 1848
(c) 1849
(d) 1851

10. The meaning 'prospice' is -
(a) Go ahead
(b) Look Forward
(c) Go abroad
(d) Go forward

11. The name of place where Browning was born at -
(a) Spain
(b) Italy
(c) London
(d) Paris

12. 'My Last Dutchess' is a -
(a) Dramatic Monologue
(b) Lyric
(c) Sonnet
(d) Ode

13. The name of Duke who was in my Last Dutchess was -
(a) Bruno
(b) Hamlet
(c) Fra Pandolf
(d) Ferrara

14. My Last Dutchess was published in -
(a) 1843
(b) 1842
(c) 1844
(d) 1845

15. My Last Dutchess was written in -
(a) Triplet
(b) Heroic couplet
(c) Blank verse
(d) Spensarian stanza

16. Dramatic-Monologue is a -
(a) Delivered speech between two
(b) Passionate temperament
(c) Study of human character
(d) Speech of consulting

17. Browning is a poet of -
(a) A modernist
(b) An optimist
(c) A nihilist
(d) A pessimist

18. Which is romatic quality in poetry -
(a) Wit
(b) Humour
(c) Reason
(d) Imagination

19. Name of the lady whom Browning married was -
(a) Emily sarah
(b) Elizabeth Barret
(c) Elizabeth Bannet
(d) Fanna Browne

20. The year when Browning took his last breathe -
(a) 1881
(b) 1871
(c) 1889
(d) 1898

21. Browning is a famous for which poetic form -
(a) Love songs
(b) Ballad
(c) Dramatic monologue
(d) Elegies

22. The Duke tells about the Dutchess to
(a) Fra pandolf
(b) Envoy
(c) Neighbour
(d) Servant

23. Prospice was written by Browning after the death of -
(a) His sister
(b) His father
(c) His friend
(d) His wife

24. Which poem is not written by Browning?
(a) Meeting at Night
(b) Scholar Gipsy
(c) My Last Dutchess
(d) Prospice

25. Browning is a poet of -
(a) Pessimism
(b) Imagism
(c) Naturalism
(d) Optimism

26. The name of the artist who painted -
(a) Bruno
(b) Fro Lippo lippi
(c) Fra Pandolf
(d) Claus of Innsbuck

27. In the end of the Duke in the "My Last Duckess" show the bronze cast of -
(a) Neptune
(b) Diana
(c) Jupiter
(d) None of these

28. Neptune is a Roman God of -
(a) Air
(b) Love
(c) Fire
(d) Water

29. The poem Prospice was first published in the magazine -
(a) Monthly Review
(b) Atlantic Monthly
(c) Literary Monthly
(d) None of these

30. The title 'Prospice' derived from Latin means -
(a) Look backward
(b) Look forward
(c) Come together
(d) Last Ride Together

31. Browning was a contemporary poet of -
(a) Pope
(b) Tennyson
(c) G.M. Hopkins
(d) None of these

32. Browning's first poem was published in-
(a) 1830
(b) 1832
(c) 1833
(d) 1834

33. Browning's first poem was -
(a) A Death in the Desert
(b) The Ring and the Book
(c) Ben Ezra
(d) Paulin

34. Browning began to write a poem at the age of -
(a) Twelve
(b) Fifteen
(c) Seventeen
(d) Nineteen

35. 'Red Cotton Night-cap country' was written by -
(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Hopkins

36. 'Sordello' was published in 1842 and containing lines as -
(a) 4000
(b) 7000
(c) 6000
(d) 9000

37. Browning's famous volume of poems 'Dramatis Personal' was appeared in -
(a) 1864
(b) 1866
(c) 1869
(d) 1870

38. What is Dramatic Monologue?
(a) A song
(b) A story
(c) A speech
(d) A poem

39. Does the listener of Dramatic monologue speak?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) A little so
(d) None of these

40. The dramatic monologue is a poem with a -
(a) Living quality
(b) Dramatic quality
(c) Human qualaity
(d) Pictorial quality

41. Dramatic Monologue is -
(a) Objective poetry
(b) Subjective poetry
(c) Narrative poetry
(d) A sollyloquie

42. In which poetic form are the audience silent -
(a) Ballad
(b) Elegy
(c) Epic
(d) Dramatic Monologue

43. Whose dramatic monologues are considered to be the best in English literature -
(a) Milton
(b) Arnold
(c) Browning
(d) Tennyson

44. Which poems of Browning are exquisite specimen of his optimism?
(a) Last Ride Together and Prospice
(b) My Last Dutchess and Sordello
(c) Evelyn Hope and Prospice
(d) All of these

45. The setting of Browning's "My Last Dutchess" is that of the -
(a) Renaissance of Greek
(b) Renaissance of Italy
(c) Renaissance of England
(d) Renaissance of France

46. In "My Last Dutchess." the lady painted in the picture is -
(a) Aggressive impression
(b) Smiling impression
(c) Sensuous impression
(d) None of these

47. The theme of 'My Last Dutchess' is a -
(a) Personal
(b) Subjective
(c) Objective
(d) Situational

48. The poem. "My last Dutchess" is a remarkable study of the -
(a) Philosophy of the speaker
(b) Personal intention of the speaker
(c) Psychology of the speaker
(d) Sociology of the speaker

49. "My Last Dutchess" is the story of a -
(a) Jealous lover
(b) Social lover
(c) Emotional lover
(d) Kindle lover

50. "My Last Dutchess" is regarded as the -
(a) Sensuous piece of Browning
(b) Natural piece of Browning
(c) Obscure piece of Browning
(d) All of these

51. The Duke told the story in a -
(a) emotional way
(b) sentimental
(c) satirical way
(d) haughty way

52. 'Worked busily a day and there she stands.' refers to -
(a) Prospice
(b) The Last RideTogether
(c) Evanhoe
(d) My Last Dutchess

53. That piece a wonder, now: Fra pandolf's hards what the mean 'Piece', here is?
(a) Wonderful
(b) Designing
(c) Painting
(d) Representing

54. Browning's My Last Dutchess, Fra Pandolf is the name of -
(a) an ordinary painter
(b) an imaginary painter
(c) a social painter
(d) a realistic painter

55. Robert Browing was a poet of the -
(a) Realistic temper
(b) Reformative temper
(c) Victorian temper
(d) None of these

56. "The Ring and the Book was published in -
(a) 1864
(b) 1869
(c) 1870
(d) 1872

57. "And all right long we have not stirred," refers to -
(a) Lamia
(b) My Last Dutchess
(c) Porphyria's lover
(d) Asolando

58. Who said "God is in his Heaven and all's right with the world"?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Robert Browning
(c) P.B. Shelley
(d) Tennyson

59. Which among the following was not written by Browning?
(a) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(b) The Last Ride Together
(c) The Lost Leader
(d) Maud

60. Browing retured to ....... after his wife's death to settle down quietly.
(a) Italy
(b) France
(c) England
(d) None of these

61. "She looked on, and her looks went everywhere
Sir, it was all one!"
The above lines occur in the poem:
(a) Dover Beach
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) My Last Duchess
(d) Elegy

62. Which of the following is a dramatic monologue?
(a) The Eve of St. Agnes
(b) The Rime of Ancient Mariner
(c) Tintern Abbey
(d) The Last Ride Together

63. "Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee" is a line from the poem:
(a) Elegy
(b) Dover Beach
(c) Break, Break, Break
(d) The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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