The Study Poetry - Matthew Arnold
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This set of Literary Criticism Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on The Study Poetry - Matthew Arnold
Q1 | What attaches its emotion to facts according to Arnold?
- Poetry
- Prose
- Religion
- Tradition
Q2 | How should we conceive poetry as advocated by Arnold?
- Worthily and Highly
- Highly and Mightily
- Worthily and Prayerful
- Mighty and Powerful
Q3 | What did Arnold say will appear incomplete if not for poetry?
- Religion
- Philosophy
- Science
- Knowledge
Q4 | Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between
- Excellent and inferior
- Sound and unsound
- True and untrue
- All of the above
Q5 | In poetry, as a criticism of life, the spirit of our race will find its _____________
- Consolation
- Beauty
- Truth
- Sanctity
Q6 | Mathew Arnold said that the best poetry will be found to have a power of
- Informing, observing and delighting
- Guiding, reforming and appreciating
- Binding, combining and structuring
- Forming, sustaining and delighting
Q7 | The different kinds of estimations propounded by Arnold were
- Historical, Personal and Real
- Didactic, Prosaic and Autotelic
- Personal, Historical, Complete
- None of the above
Q8 | Arnold was of the view that Chaucer’s superiority is found in his______
- Diction and subject
- Manner and style
- Style and substance
- Form and subject
Q9 | Which quality is not needful for a fit prose according to Arnold?
- Regularity
- Precision
- Balance
- Exclusivity
Q10 | Poetry is a criticism of life under the ______ fixed for such a criticism
- Laws
- Ideals
- Morals.
- Conditions
Q11 | Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______
- Prose
- Morals
- Fiction
- Poetry
Q12 | In the age of Pope and Dryden, Arnold regards _________ as a unique poet.
- Milton
- Keats
- Pope
- Gray
Q13 | Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________
- Milton
- Wordsworth
- Shakespeare
- Shelley
Q14 | Arnold states, “But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of
- godlike illusion”
- human illusion”
- divine illusion”
- wonderful illusion”
Q15 | “Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea: the idea is the
- fact”
- knowledge”
- history”
- theory”
Q16 | Arnold states, “The strongest part of our religion is its
- unconscious verses”
- unconscious poetry”
- unconscious lyrics”
- unconscious history”
Q17 | Arnold believes that without poetry, “Science will appear
- complete”
- incomplete”
- immature
- undefined”
Q18 | Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the
- ideal estimate
- principal estimate
- critical estimate
- real estimate
Q19 | To Arnold, the superiority of best poetry is marked by the superior character of
- truth and seriousness
- truth and ideas
- seriousness and knowledge
- knowledge and truth
Q20 | Arnold defines poetry as
- ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’.
- ‘The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge’.
- ‘Not an expression of emotion, but as escape from emotion’.
- ‘A speaking picture with its end, to teach and delight’.
Q21 | The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of
- Disinterestedness or detachment
- Response to rhythm and metre
- Speculation and theorisation
- Measurement of knowledge
Q22 | Which poet does Arnold say lack ‘the high seriousness of the great classics’?
- Chaucer
- Dryden
- Pope
- Burns
Q23 | Middleton Murry has criticized the critical work of
- Wordsworth
- Eliot
- Arnold
- Leavis
Q24 | Eliot says , “ inner voice is ____ “
- hoarse
- artificial
- whiggery
- sublime
Q25 | Eliot’s essay ‘The Function of Criticism’ has
- two points
- three parts
- four parts
- five parts