Collection of important MCQs on John Keats
The severe criticism of Endymion which is believed to have hastened Keats’s death appeared in:
(A) Quarterly Review
(B) Edinburgh Review
(C) Blackwood’s Magazine
(D) London Magazine
Question’s Answer: Quarterly Review
Referring to Adonais, Shelley said, “I have dipped my pen in consuming fire for his
destroyers.” Who were those destroyers?
(A) The Editors of the London Magazine
(B) The Editors of Quarterly Review
(C) The Editors of Blackwood’s Magazine
(D) The Editors of both Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Magazine
The Editors of both Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Magazine
How did Keats begin his career?
(A) As an apprentice to an apothecary
(B) As a proof-reader in a publisher’s firm
(C) As a sub-editor of a local Newspaper
(D) As a clerk in an office
Question’s Answer: As an apprentice to an apothecary
What was the cause of the death of Keats at such an early age?
(A) Frustration in love
(B) Adverse criticism of his poetry
(C) Drowning
(D) Disease of consumption
Question’s Answer: Disease of consumption
Hyperion presents a war between:
(A) Satan and Archangels
(B) Gods and Devils
(C) Titans and Olympians
(D) Greeks and Trojans
Question’s Answer: Titans and Olympians
Who was Lamia?
(A) A fairy
(B) An enchantress
(C) A serpent-woman
(D) A nymph
Question’s Answer: A serpent-woman
Isabella is a story of love between Isabella and:
(A) Porphyro
(B) Lorenzo
(C) Lacius
(D) Corinth
Question’s Answer: Lorenzo
Who is the writer of  a famous Pastoral Elegy on the death of Keats?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Byron
(C) Walter Scott
(D) Shelley
Question’s Answer: Shelley
Who says Keats “one of the inheritors of unfulfilled renown?
(A) Byron
(B) Shelley
(C) Walter Scott
(D) None of these
Question’s Answer: Shelley
What was the total span of Keat’s life?
(A) 25 years
(B) 24 years
(C) 28 years
(D) 26 years
Question’s Answer: 26 years
What was the title of the elegy written by  Shelley on the death of Keats?
(A) Thyrsis
(B) Astrophel
(C) Lycidas
(D) Adonais
Question’s Answer: Adonais
One of Keats’s Odes ends with the line:
“For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair,”
Which odes ?
(A) Ode to a Nightingale
(B) To Psyche
(C) Ode to Autumn
(D) Ode on a Grecian Urn
Question’s Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn
“A thing of is a joy for ever.” A verse-tale of Keats begins with this line. Which tales?
(A) Hyperion
(B) Eve of St. Mark
(C) Eve of St. Agnes
(D) Endymion
Question’s Answer: Endymion
A critic said about Keats, “He is with Shakespeare.” Who is this critic?
(A) Hazlitt
(B) Coleridge
(C) Ruskin
(D) Matthew Arnold
Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold
Keats said about himself “My name is writ in water.” Why did he say so?
(A) Because he had a premonition of his early death
(B) Because of his frustration in love
(C) Because he had no hope of his being remembered as a poet
(D) Because he suffered from consumption
Question’s Answer: Because he had no hope of his being remembered as a poet
Madeline is the main character and heroine of a narrative poem of Keats and the poem is ______ .
(A) Eve of St. Agnes
(B) Eve of St. Mark
(C) Hyperion
(D) Endymion
Question’s Answer: Eve of St. Agnes
Which works of Keats is based on Drayton’s The Man in the Moon and Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepherdess?
(A) Isabella
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Hyperion
(D) Endymion
Question’s Answer: Endymion
Isabella’s lover Lorenzo is treacherously killed by:
(A) Her rival lover
(B) Her brothers
(C) Her foster father
(D) Her uncles
Question’s Answer: Her brothers
Endymion is the story of love between the hero Endymion and:
(A) Venus
(B) Prosperpina
(C) Agnes
(D) Cynthia
Question’s Answer: Cynthia
In the lines quoted above in Q. 14, what does “arrow” imply?
(A) Byron’s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(B) Byron’s rejoinder published in the London Magazine
(C) Byron’s Manfred
(D) Byron’s The Vision of Judgement
Question’s Answer: Byron’s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Which poem of Keats is modelled on Milton’s Paradise Lost in style and structure?
(A) Hyperion
(B) Isabella
(C) Endymion
(D) Lamia
Question’s Answer: Hyperion
Which one of the following poems of Keats is a story of the elopement of two lovers?
(A) The Eve of St. Agnes
(B) Hyperion
(C) Isabella
(D) Lamia
Question’s Answer: The Eve of St. Agnes
Which work of Keats is based on Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy?
(A) Endymion
(B) Hyperion
(C) Isabella
(D) Lamia
Question’s Answer: Lamia
Keats took the story of Endymion from:
(A) Irish legends
(B) Italian folk tales
(C) Hyperion
(D) Roman myths
Question’s Answer: Greek mythology
Keats’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a:
(A) Lyrie
(B) Ballad
(C) Sonnet
(D) Song
Question’s Answer: Ballad
Keats’s Volume of Poems of 1817 was dedicated to:
(A) Spenser
(B) Fanny Brawne
(C) Wordsworth
(D) Leigh Hunt
Question’s Answer: Leigh Hunt
Who is the main character hero of Keats’s Lamia 7
(A) Corinth
(B) Porphyro
(C) Lorenzo
(D) Clymene
Question’s Answer: Corinth
“Keats was a Greek born in England.” Why is it sald so?
(A) Because Keats had great fascination for Greek heroes
(B) Because Keats was a highly sensuous poet like the Greek poets
(C) Because Keats borrowed most of his idea/theme s from Greek mythology
(D) Because he was a great admirer of Homer
Question’s Answer: Because Keats borrowed most of his idea/theme s from Greek mythology
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