British Literature Nineteenth Century Set 3

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This set of British Literature - Nineteenth Century Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on British Literature Nineteenth Century Set 3

Q1 | Who was the greatest nature poet of England?
  • william wordsworth
  • coleridge
  • robert browning
  • tennyson
Q2 | Lectures on Shakespeare is the work of…………..
  • thomas hardy
  • mathew arnold
  • william thackeray
  • coleridge
Q3 | William Blake’s political radicalism intensified during the years leading up to the…..
  • communist movement
  • french revolution
  • romantic movement
  • industrial revolution
Q4 | The poem ‘The Tyger’ was published in…….
  • 1794
  • 1788
  • 1780
  • 1789
Q5 | The poem ‘The Tyger’ is taken from
  • songs of innocence
  • songs of experience
  • the four zoas
  • the marriage of heaven and hell
Q6 | Which of these poems uses dramatic monologue as a poetic form?
  • wordsworth’s the prelude
  • robert browning’s my last duchess
  • tennyson’s in memoriam
  • shelly’s adonais
Q7 | ……………..is regarded as the poet, who has spoken the strongest word of faith to an age of doubt
  • browning
  • tennyson
  • blake
  • scott
Q8 | An immense poem, twice as long as ‘Paradise Lost’, longer by some two thousand lines than the Iliad by Browning
  • pippa passes
  • the ring and the book
  • saul
  • cleon
Q9 | ………………by Browning is an exquisite tribute to his dead wife.
  • my star
  • prospice
  • one word more
  • meeting at night
Q10 | For ……………poem Tennyson got Chancellor’s Medal
  • lyrical ballad
  • timbuctoo
  • merlin and the glean
  • the princess
Q11 | ……………wrote the song “ Tears, Idle Tears”
  • browning
  • tennyson
  • blake
  • keats
Q12 | ……… poem of Tennyson was a long poem of over three thousand lines of blank verse.
  • wages
  • the princess
  • the higher pantheism
  • maud
Q13 | Browning’s ‘Pauline’ came in
  • 1834
  • 1897
  • 1833
  • 1901
Q14 | Wordsworth believes in the concept of …………
  • hellenism
  • pantheism
  • negative capability
  • willing suspension of disbelief
Q15 | The concept of Pantheism believes in
  • objectivity
  • healing power of nature
  • confession
  • natural calamity
Q16 | Who brought the concept of negative capability?
  • wordsworth
  • coleridge
  • keats
  • shelly
Q17 | Whose epitaph contains “here lies one whose name was written in water”
  • coleridge
  • blake
  • john keats
  • william wordsworth
Q18 | Which is the high watermark f poetry in the 19th century?
  • tintern abbey
  • intimations of immortality
  • stepping westward
  • solitary reaper
Q19 | In which of the followings spiritual appeal of nature is expressed in almost every line?
  • to a highland girl
  • stepping westward
  • tintern abbey
  • solitary reaper
Q20 | Who wrote Lucy poems
  • scott
  • donne
  • wordsworth
  • dryden
Q21 | Who said that the poet was a ‘mere babbler’?
  • scott
  • byron
  • wordsworth
  • gibson
Q22 | Who wrote the “Witch of Atlas”?
  • scott
  • wordsworth
  • blake
  • shelley
Q23 | Which character was the only one of Shelly’s character, who seems to be entirely human?
  • prometheus
  • hellas
  • emilia
  • beatrice
Q24 | Who wrote ‘Confession of an Opium Eater’?
  • wordsworth
  • shelley
  • de- quincey
  • browne
Q25 | Who wrote the critical essay ‘Literary Reminiscences’?
  • shelley
  • de quincey
  • coleridge
  • burton