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MCQs on Younger Poets Of Romantic Age

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MCQs on Younger Poets Of Romantic Age

Younger Poets Of Romantic Age (1798-1824)

The Younger Poets of Romantic Age represents the second Flowering of English Romanticism, the first poets of Romantic Age were Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. The Younger group of Romantic Age poets belong Byron, Shelley and Keats. They were the children of the revolution and their humanitarian ardour affected even Keats who was more of an artist. Moreover, compared to the poets of the older group, the poets of the Younger group were not only less national, but they were also against the historic and social traditions of England. Incidentally, these three poets of second generation of Romanticism died young- Baron at the age of thirty-six, Shelley thirty and Keats twenty-five. So the spirit of youthful freshness is associated with their poetry. All the MCQs on “Poets Of Romantic Age And Their Works” Multiple Choice Questions and Answers are published according to the new study syllabus for academic year 2021-22.

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Younger Poets Of Romantic Age MCQs [Quiz]

✒ Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) As A Romantic Poet:

Q1. Which is the only Romantic poet who showed regard for the poets of the eighteenth century, and ridiculed his own contemporaries in his early satirical poem, and hence called the Romantic Paradox?

  1. Coleridge
  2. Shelley
  3. Byron

Answer: c

 

Q2. The early satirical poem of Byron was:

  1. English Bards and Scottish Reviewers
  2. Manfred and Cain
  3. None

Answer: a

 

Q3. Who had travelled widely captured the imagination of his readers by the publications of the first two Cantos of Childe Harold Pilgrimage (1812)?

  1. Shelley
  2. Byron
  3. Scott

Answer: b

 

Q4. “I woke one morning and found myself famous”, which Romantic poet said the line about himself?

  1. Byron
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Shelley

Answer: a

 

Q5. Who wrote a number of romances which began with “The Giaor” (1813), and in all of them he dealt with the exploits of the Byronic hero?

  1. Wordsworth
  2. Coleridge
  3. Byron

Answer: c

 

Q6. When Byron’s wife was died?

  1. 1816
  2. 1817
  3. 1818

Answer: a

 

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Q7. Who left England, a year after his marriage, under a cloud of distrust and disappointment and never returned because of the public opinion against him ?

  1. Shelley
  2. Campbell
  3. Byron

Answer: c

 

Q8. The best part of poetry was written by Byron, during the years of his exile in which country?

  1. Japan
  2. Italy
  3. Germany

Answer: b

 

Q9. Which cantos of “Childe Harold”, have more sincerity, and are in every way better expressions of Byron’s genius?

  1. Third and fourth cantos (1816-1818)
  2. First two cantos (1812)
  3. Both a and b

Answer: a

 

Q10. Byron wrote sombre and self-conscious tragedies, these includes:

  1. Manfred and Cain
  2. Don Juan
  3. Both a and b

Answer: a

 

Q11. “Beppo” (1818), “The Vision of Judgment” (1822) and “Don Juan” (1819-24), are the satirical poems of which younger poet of the Romantic Age?

  1. Shelley
  2. Keats
  3. Byron

Answer: c

 

Q12. Whose last great act, dying on his way to take part in the Greek War of Independence, was a truly heroic act and made him a martyr in the cause of freedom?

  1. Byron
  2. Southey
  3. Shelle

Answer: a

 

Q13. Byron died at the age of:

  1. 30
  2. 35
  3. 36

Answer: c

 

✒ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) A Romantic Age Poet:

Q14. The first long poem of Shelley when he was eighteen was:

  1. Queen Mab
  2. Alastor
  3. Julian and Meddalo

Answer: a

 

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Q15. “The Revolt of Islam” (1817) and ‘Prometheus Unbound” (1820), are written by?

  1. Keats
  2. Byron
  3. Shelley

Answer: c

 

Q16. The poem in which Shelley describes his pursuit of an unattainable ideal of beauty is:

  1. Alastor
  2. The Triumph of Life
  3. Adonais

Answer: a

 

Q17.In which poem Shelley draws his own portrait contrasted with last of Byron?

  1. Alastor
  2. Julian and Meddalo
  3. Cenci

Answer: b

 

Q18. A poetic drama which deals with the terrible story of Beatrice who, the victim of father’s lust, takes his life in revenge is written by:

  1. Southey
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Shelley

Answer: c

 

Q19. The lyrical drama in which Shelley sings of the rise of Greece against the Ottoman yoke is:

  1. The Revolt of Islam
  2. Hallas
  3. The Cenci

Answer: b

 

Q20. In which poem Shelley celebrates his Platonic love for a beautiful young Italian girl?

  1. Adonais
  2. Epipsychidion
  3. The Triumph of Life

Answer: b

 

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Q21. Shelley’s longer poem, which is also an elegy is:

  1. Adonais
  2. Alastor
  3. The Triumph of Life

Answer: a

 

Q22. “Adonais”, an elegy written by Shelley is dedicated to which Romantic poet on his death? 

  1. Byron
  2. Wordsworth
  3. Keats

Answer: c

 

Q23. The greatest elegies in the English language are:

  1. Milton’s Lycidas, Tennyson’s In Memoriam
  2. Shelley’s Adonais
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q24. The unfinished masterpiece of Shelley is:

  1. The Triumph of Life
  2. Adonais
  3. Epipsychidion

Answer: a

 

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Q25. Shelley wrote a number of small lyrics of exquisite beauty which are:

  1. To Constantia Singing, The Ozymandias sonnet
  2. Ode to the West Wind, The Cloud, To a Skylark, O World! O Life! O time
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

✒ John Keats (1795-1821) Poet Of Romantic Age:

Q26. Who was not only the last but the most perfect and the pure poet of the Romanticists?

  1. Byron
  2. Keats
  3. Shelley

Answer: b

 

Q27. Among the Romantic poets, who did not take much notice of the social, political and literary turmoil, but devoted himself entirely to the worship of beauty and writing poetry as it suited his temperament?

  1. Wordsworth
  2. Southey
  3. Keats

Answer: c

 

Q28. Keats belongs to a ______ family.

  1. poor
  2. aristocratic
  3. rich

Answer: a

 

Q29. Who at an early age had to work as a doctor’s assistant?

  1. Shelley
  2. Southey
  3. Keats

Answer: c

 

Q30. The Romantic poet, whose medical studies did not stand in the way of his passion for writing poetry which was roused by his reading of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is:

  1. Keats
  2. Coleridge
  3. Wordsworth

Answer: a

 

Q31. Keats first volume of poems appeared in:

  1. 1815
  2. 1816
  3. 1817

Answer: c

 

Q32. The first long poem of Keats appeared in1818 is:

  1. Endymion
  2. Isabella
  3. Hyperion

Answer: a

 

Q33. Keats lost his father at the age of:

  1. 5
  2. 9
  3. 10

Answer: b

 

Q34. From which disease his mother and brother died?

  1. Cancer
  2. Tuberculosis
  3. Typhoid

Answer: b

 

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Q35. The Romantic poet who died of tuberculosis at age twenty five is:

  1. Keats
  2. Wordsworth
  3. P.B Shelley

Answer: a

 

Q36. The poems of 1820 are Keats’ enduring monument, these includes:

  1. Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Lamia
  2. Hyperion an epic, the Odes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and a few sonnets
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q37. Which year is called the ‘Living Year’ in Keats life?

  1. 1818
  2. 1820
  3. 1819

Answer: b

 

Q38. Who at an early age had to work as a doctor’s assistant?

  1. Shelley
  2. Southey
  3. Keats

Answer: c

 

Q39. The Romantic poet, whose medical studies did not stand in the way of his passion for writing poetry which was roused by his reading of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is:

  1. Keats
  2. Coleridge
  3. Wordsworth

Answer: a

 

Q40. In which poem, Keats made an attempt to turn a somewhat repellent and tragic love story of Isabella and Lorenzo, who was murdered by Isabella’s brothers, into a thing of beauty by means of fine narrative skill and beautiful phraseology?

  1. Hyperion
  2. Lamia
  3. Isabella

Answer: c

 

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Q41. Keats narrative the story of a beautiful enchantress in which of his poem, who turns from a serpent into a glorious woman and fills every human sense with delight, until as the result of the foolish philosophy of old Apollonius, she vanishes for ever from her lover’s sight?

  1. Endymion
  2. Lamia
  3. Hyperion

Answer: b

 

Q42. Which is the most perfect of Keats’ medieval poems, is surpassingly beautiful in its descriptions?

  1. The Eve of St. Agnes
  2. Hyperion
  3. None

Answer: a

 

Q43. Keats which poem is a magnificent fragment deals with the overthrow of the Titans by the young sun-god Apollo?

  1. Endymion
  2. Lamia
  3. Hyperion

Answer: c

 

Q44. The poem of Keats which shows the influence of Milton as Endymion of Spenser is:

  1. Hyperion
  2. Lamia
  3. Isabella

Answer: a

 

Q45. Which poem of Keats captures the spirit of the Middle Ages, has a haunting melody?

  1. Endymion
  2. Lamia
  3. La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Answer: c

 

Q46. Odes written by Keats includes:

  1. To a Nightingale, On a Grecian Urn
  2. To Autumn
  3. Both a and b

Answer: c

 

Q47. Keats which ode, we find a love of sensuous beauty , and a touch of pessimism?

  1. To a Nightingale
  2. To Autumn
  3. On a Grecian Urn

Answer: a

 

Q48. Ode written by Keats includes the Keats’s love for Greek mythology and art is:

  1. To a Nightingale
  2. On a Grecian Urn
  3. Both a and b

Answer: b

 

Q49. In which ode, Keats has glorified Nature, is a poem which for richness and colour has never been surpassed?

  1. To a Nightingale
  2. To Autumn
  3. On a Grecian Urn

Answer: b

 

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Q50. Keats died young at the age of:

  1. 25
  2. 27
  3. 28

Answer: a

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