ODE to Autumn and Prayer for my Daughter Set 1

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This set of General English Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on ODE to Autumn and Prayer for my Daughter Set 1

Q1 | The reaper felt sleepy with the
  • fume of daisies
  • fume of poppies
  • fume of roses
  • fume of hyacinths
Answer: fume of poppies
Q2 | “The Great Queen” that rose out of the spray is
  • Maud Gonne
  • Venus
  • Aphrodite
  • Yeats’ daughter
Answer: Aphrodite
Q3 | Ceremony is a name for
  • A rich horn
  • A spreading laurel tree
  • Innocence and beauty born
  • Wealth and glory
Answer: A rich horn
Q4 | The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is
  • His daughter
  • Lady Gregory
  • Maud Gonne
  • Helen of Troy
Answer: Maud Gonne
Q5 | A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to
  • Maud Gonne
  • Anna Yeats
  • Aphrodite
  • Helen of Troy
Answer: Maud Gonne
Q6 | The poem “A Prayer for My Daughter” was written after the birth of Yeats’ daughter.His daughter’s name is
  • Anne
  • Lily
  • Elizabeth
  • Amy
Answer: Anne
Q7 | Accordingly, Keats’ poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader’s
  • Interpretation
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • perspective
Answer: Imagination
Q8 | The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is
  • Autumn
  • Winter
  • Summer
  • spring
Answer: Autumn
Q9 | Once more the storm is howling and
  • half hid
  • half buried
  • half revealed
  • half shown
Answer: half buried
Q10 | Keats was a poet of
  • Feelings
  • Senses
  • Perceptions
  • thoughts
Answer: Perceptions
Q11 | William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
  • 1923
  • 1927
  • 1928
  • 1929
Answer: 1923
Q12 | What are the two ‘close bosom-friends’ mentioned in Ode to Autumn?
  • The bees and the flowers
  • The sun and the autumn season
  • The autumn season and the bees
  • The trees and the sun
Answer: The sun and the autumn season
Q13 | Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?
  • sounds
  • signs
  • songs
  • sorrows
Answer: songs
Q14 | Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?
  • A gleaner
  • An old man
  • A gardener
  • An apple picker
Answer: A gardener
Q15 | W.B. Yeats’ A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly afterYeats daughter, Anne’s birth.
  • 1918
  • 1919
  • 1920
  • 1922
Answer: 1919
Q16 | May she be granted ___________ and yet notBeauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught.
  • poise
  • virtue
  • beauty
  • fair
Answer: virtue
Q17 | May she become a flourishing hidden -
  • plant
  • flower
  • tree
  • star
Answer: flower
Q18 | The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is
  • Rhymes
  • Personification
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
Answer: Metaphor
Q19 | The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he
  • Is tired of reaping
  • Is drowsed with the fume of poppies
  • Wants to rest
  • Wants to relax
Answer: Is tired of reaping
Q20 | The red ___________ whistles from a garden croft
  • apples
  • breast
  • flowers
  • grapes
Answer: apples
Q21 | The gleaner walks carefully across
  • Granary
  • Half reaped furrow
  • The winnowing wind
  • A brook
Answer: The winnowing wind
Q22 | Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?
  • Cider- presser
  • Cider- maker
  • Cider-brewer
  • Cider owner
Answer: Cider- presser
Q23 | Who bleated from the hilly bourn?
  • Full grown lambs
  • Full grown sheep
  • Full grown bees
  • Full grown crickets
Answer: Full grown crickets
Q24 | What was howling outside Yeats’ house?
  • Wolves
  • Foxes
  • Storm
  • A woman
Answer: Wolves
Q25 | According to Yeats, what is under the ‘cradle hood and coverlid’?
  • A baby
  • A rabbit
  • Feeding bottle
  • Milk
Answer: A baby
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