Introduction to Poetry MCQs – Solved Questions Answers

Introduction to Poetry MCQs – Solved Questions Answers

“Introduction to Poetry MCQs – Solved Questions Answers” is the set of frequently asked Multiple Choice questions and these MCQs are asked in different test in the past in different test. Here, we are presenting those MCQs in a different style. Let’s begin with Set 1.

Set 1: MCQs – Introduction to Poetry (FAQ by NTS)

1. _________ was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe’s father?
A. Carpenter
B. Civil servant
C. Cobbler
D. Farmer
E. None of these

Answer - Click Here:
C

2.__________ poet is the national hero in Greece.
A. John Keats
B. Solan
C. A and B
D. Sappho
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
E

3. Which of the following type of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
A. Nonsense
B. Epics
C. Sonnets
D. Nature
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A

4. When Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry?
A. First World War
B. Second World War
C. Korean War
D. Boer War
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A

5.Harold Nicholson explained _________poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’.
A. e. e. Cummings
B. Walt Whitman
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
D. T. S. Elliot
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
D

6. What was unexpected about Emily Dickinson?
A. She rarely left home
B. She wrote in code
C. She never attempted to publish her poetry
D. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A

Set 2: MCQs – Introduction to Poetry (FAQ by GAT)

7. In coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the Ancient Mariner ‘ The three gallants going to_________.
A. A funeral
B. A wedding
C. Market
D. To the races
E. None of these

Answer - Click Here:
B

8. Which of the following Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
A. Marvel
B. Hughes
C. Betjeman
D. Larkin
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
C

9. Which of the following American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’?
A. Robert Hass
B. Jessica Hagedorn
C. Maya Angelou
D. Micheal Palmer
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
C

10. __________Wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?
A. W. B. Yeats
B. Ezra Pound
C. Dylan Thomas
D. e. e. Cummings
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A

11. ________is the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
A. rhyme scheme
B. alliteration
C. meter
D. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
C

12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
A. alliteration
B. onomatopoiea
C. Both a and B
D. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
D

Set 3: MCQs – Introduction to Poetry (FAQ by GRE)

13.Applying human qualities to non-human things is called__________.
A. onomatopoeia
B. personification
C. alliteration
D. None of these

Answer - Click Here:
B

14.The repetition of beginning consonant sounds__________.
A. rhyme
B. alliteration
C. onomatopoeia
D. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
B

15.
16. The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is called:
A. Letters to the Margret Paston
B. Margret Paston to John Paston
C. The Paston letters
D. To John Paston
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
C

which of the followings wrote “Holy Sonnets”?
A. John Donne
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Shakespeare
D. John Milton
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A

17. _____________wrote following lines:
“_______ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. Earnest Hemingway
D. D.H. Lawrence
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
A

17. A collection of sonnets is written by____________ ”On his blindness”.
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Shakespeare
C. John Milton
D. Sir Philip Sidney
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
C

18. “Paradise lost” was lost by__________.
A. Eve
B. Adam
C. Satan
D. Both a and b
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
D

19. Which of the followings was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
A. Thomas Nah
B. John Milton
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Thomas Kyd
E. None of these

Answer - Click Here:
E

20. Which of the followings poem ends ‘I shall but love thee better after death’?
A. In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
B. Ode to a Grecian urn
C. How do I love thee
D. All of these
E. None of these
Answer - Click Here:
C