Collection of important MCQs on Alexander Pope
According to Pope, “the most significant characteristic feature of his poetry is _________.
(A) Swiftness
(B) Correctness
(C) Intellectualism
(D) Didacticism
Question’s Answer: Correctness
Pope was basically a ______ .
(A) a poet
(B) a critic
(C) a prose writer
(D) a satirist
Question’s Answer: a satirist
Pope has addressed the Essay on Man to which of the following?
(A) Dryden
(B) Lord Bolingbroke
(C) Lord Harvey
(D) Lady Mary
Question’s Answer: Lord Bolingbroke
In one of the poem Pope says: “Beauty divorced from good sense is worth nothing.” In which poem does he make this observation?
(A) The Essay on Man
(B) Dunciad
(C) Epistle to Arbuthnot
(D) The Rape of the Lock
Question’s Answer: The Rape of the Lock
Pope’s poetry basically lacked in which of the following?
(A) Reason
(B) Argument
(C) Correctness
(D) Emotion
Question’s Answer: Emotion
Pope’s Pastorals were published in:
(A) 1710
(B) 1709
(C) 1712
(D) 1708
Question’s Answer: 1709
What did Pope mean by the expression “Follow Nature”?
(A) To oppose artificiality
(B) To speak the truths
(C) To follow moral law
(D) To avoid frivolity in one’s behaviour
Question’s Answer: To follow moral law
How many Epistles are there in Pope’s An Essay on Man?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Four
(D) Three
Question’s Answer: Four
which of the following?
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but ever to be blest.” In which
poem do these lines occur?
(A) Essay on criticism
(B) Essay on Man
(C) The Dunciad
(D) Rape of the Lock
Question’s Answer: Essay on Man
As the spokesman of the Augustan Age, Pope exposes its ‘frivolities’ in:
(A) An Essay on Criticism
(B) The Essay on Man
(C) The Dunciad
(D) The Rape of the Lock
Question’s Answer: The Rape of the Lock
Which poets did Pope admire most?
(A) Chaucer
(B) Dryden
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) Spenser
Question’s Answer: Dryden
Pope wrote his poetry in ____.
(A) Blank Verse
(B) lambic Hexametre
(C) Free Verse
(D) Heroic Couplets
Question’s Answer: Heroic Couplets
Whom did Pope regard as his ‘poetic mentor’ ?
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Dryden
(C) Chaucer
(D) Spenser
Question’s Answer: Dryden
When was Alexander Pope born?
(A) 1680
(B) 1688
(C) 1685
(D) 1689
Question’s Answer: 1688
In which age did Pope and write?
(A) The Restoration Age
(B) The Romantic Age
(C) The Neo-classical Age or Augustan Age
(D) The Victorian Age
Question’s Answer: The Neo-classical Age or Augustan Age
According to Pope, Which is the ultimate end of poetry?
(A) Aesthetic Pleasure
(B) Didacticism
(C) Emotional Fervour
(D) Beauty of Nature
Question’s Answer: Didacticism
What does Pope define in these words? “What oft was thought but never so well
expressed?”
(A) Emotional fervour
(B) Wit
(C) Didacticism
(D) Poetic imagination
Question’s Answer: Wit
Pope took Ars Poetica as a model for his poetry. Who is the author of Ars Poetica?
(A) Boileau
(B) Vida
(C) Horace
(D) Bossu
Question’s Answer: Horace
Pope believed that a work of art must be based on which of the following?
(A) Imagination
(B) Emotion
(C) Truth
(D) Didacticism
Question’s Answer: Truth
“A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of Versification equal to that of Pope.” _________critics holds this view.
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Hazlitt
(C) Amold
(D) Saintsbury
Question’s Answer: Dr. Johnson
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