Sonnet 116 and Death be not proud Set 1

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This set of General English Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Sonnet 116 and Death be not proud Set 1

Q1 | William Shakespeare was born in the year:
  • 1588
  • 1564
  • 1616
  • 1600
Q2 | Sonnet 116 shares the poet’s reflections on the nature of:
  • ideal love
  • ideal companionship
  • ideal moments
  • ideal friendship
Q3 | Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______
  • seen
  • sees
  • finds
  • meets
Q4 | Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks
  • hours
  • minutes
  • honours
  • times
Q5 | “Death be not Proud” first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in1633.
  • Holy Sonnet IX
  • Holy Sonnet X
  • Holy Sonnet III
  • Holy Sonnet XI
Q6 | From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be
  • melancholy
  • statements
  • pictures
  • remembrances
Q7 | And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul’sdelivery
  • bones
  • bodies
  • leaps
  • souls
Q8 | One short sleep past, we wake ___________
  • eternally
  • immortally
  • extraordinarily
  • inevitably
Q9 | Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is
  • An allegory
  • An epic
  • A sonnet
  • A metaphysical poem
Q10 | The remover who comes with his bending sickle is
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Society
  • Hardships
Q11 | Love is not love if it alters
  • With every season
  • For any reason
  • With time
  • When beauty fades
Q12 | Love does not alter with brief hours and
  • Minutes
  • Weeks
  • Days
  • Seconds
Q13 | John Donne is
  • Afraid of death
  • Challenging death
  • Submitting to death
  • Resisting death
Q14 | According to Donne, death is a slave to
  • Poison
  • Chance
  • Sleep
  • Fate
Q15 | According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is
  • Sleep
  • Poison
  • Poppy
  • Dreams
Q16 | Rest of their bones refers to
  • The bones of everyone
  • The bones of poets
  • The bones of our best men
  • The bones of rich men
Q17 | “Sonnet 116” is a record of the poet’s reflections on the nature of
  • classical love
  • friendship love
  • romantic love
  • ideal love
Q18 | “Death, be not proud” first appeared as ‘Holy Sonnet X’ in Songs and Sonnets, acollection of 19 sonnets published in
  • 1632
  • 1633
  • 1639
  • 1640
Q19 | Shakespeare’s notion of ideal love in “Sonnet 116” is juxtaposed with the problemsof
  • Instability
  • Unsteadiness
  • Unfaithfulness
  • flux and change
Q20 | According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more
  • Pain
  • Hunger
  • Grief
  • Death
Q21 | Shakespeare compares true love to-
  • a sun
  • the guiding star
  • the moon
  • a compass
Q22 | What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare?
  • Even the strongest love is temporary
  • True love remains steady
  • Age and time alter love
  • Love changes as life changes
Q23 | Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments; love is not _________.
  • love
  • true
  • alter
  • steady
Q24 | In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented ‘death’ as a –
  • powerless figure
  • powerful figure
  • murderer
  • ruler over his soul
Q25 | Donne considers death an immense pleasure similar to –
  • sleep and fun
  • fun and game
  • sleep and rest
  • rest and game