Sonnet 116 and Death be not proud Set 2

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This set of General English Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Sonnet 116 and Death be not proud Set 2

Q1 | The poet of, ‘Death be not proud,’ is
  • John Keats
  • John Donne
  • John Dryden
  • John Milton
Answer: John Donne
Q2 | ‘Death be not proud,’ is a poem of
  • 10 lines
  • 14 lines
  • 12 lines
  • 16 lines
Answer: 14 lines
Q3 | _________ are the pictures of Death
  • War and sickness
  • Rest and sleep
  • Mighty and dreadful
  • Chance and fate
Answer: Rest and sleep
Q4 | And soonest our __________ with thee do go
  • Best kings
  • Best charms
  • Best men
  • Desperate men
Answer: Best men
Q5 | The poem, ‘Death be not proud,’ is
  • An elegy
  • A ballad
  • A sonnet
  • An epic
Answer: A sonnet
Q6 | Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.
  • Changes
  • Shifts
  • Moves
  • Alters
Answer: Alters
Q7 | Sonnet 116 is composed by
  • William Shakespeer
  • William Shakespeare
  • William Shakepeare
  • William Shakespear
Answer: William Shakespeare
Q8 | In Sonnet 116, True love is
  • Constant
  • Consistent
  • Continuous
  • Consuming
Answer: Constant
Q9 | According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the
  • endpoint
  • edge of doom
  • antemeridian
  • postmeridian
Answer: edge of doom
Q10 | True love does not change with
  • time
  • backward
  • fall
  • conclusion
Answer: time
Q11 | True love is
  • Immortal
  • Mortal
  • Dishonest
  • corrupt
Answer: Immortal
Q12 | In ‘Death be not proud’ the poet argues about the
  • mightiness of death
  • powerlessness of death
  • foulness of death
  • vileness of death
Answer: powerlessness of death
Q13 | Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and
  • queens
  • luck
  • charms
  • desperate men
Answer: desperate men
Q14 | Love's not Time's
  • Friend
  • Foe
  • Fiend
  • Fool
Answer: Fool
Q15 | Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____
  • Poor Men
  • Rich Men
  • Desperate Men
  • Honest Men
Answer: Desperate Men
Q16 | Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.
  • hopefulness
  • serenity
  • calmness
  • conspiracy
Answer: serenity
Q17 | Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor
  • marble
  • wooden
  • half-reaped
  • granary
Answer: granary
Q18 | John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:
  • 26
  • 39
  • 45
  • 23
Answer: 26
Q19 | Yeats wrote “A Prayer for My Daughter” after the birth of his daughter Anne in:
  • 1865
  • 1919
  • 1939
  • 1914
Answer: 1919
Q20 | May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger’s eye _______
  • captivated
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • wander
Answer: distraught
Q21 | Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will
  • God’s
  • Heaven’s
  • her
  • thine
Answer: Heaven’s
Q22 | How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?
  • innocence
  • truth
  • nature
  • grace
Answer: innocence
Q23 | Autumn is the season of mists and
  • Ripe fruitfulness
  • Mellow fruitfulness
  • Soft fruitfulness
  • Juicy fruitfulness
Answer: Mellow fruitfulness
Q24 | The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir
  • Among the river sallows
  • Among the river bushes
  • Among the river willows
  • Among the river plants
Answer: Among the river sallows
Q25 | Autumn is called the bosom friend of the
  • Blazing sun
  • Bright sun
  • Maturing sun
  • Gigantic sun
Answer: Maturing sun
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