John Ruskin MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 6, 2025

1. Ruskin’s literary career may be divided into:
(A) Four Periods
(B) Three Periods
(C) Two Periods
(D) None of A, B, and C

2. Ruskin bought a house in the Lake District in:
(A) 1870
(B) 1873
(C) 1872
(D) 1871

3. At the time of the publication of the first volume of Modern Painters, Ruskin was of:
(A) Twenty-four
(B) Twenty-two
(C) Twenty
(D) Twenty-five

4. The second volume of Modern Painters appeared in:
(A) 1846
(B) 1849
(C) 1848
(D) 1847

5. The second period of Ruskin’s literary career lasted from:
(A) 1860 to 1880
(B) 1860–75
(C) 1860 to the last years of his life
(D) None of A, B, and C

6. The first period of Ruskin’s literary career lasted from:
(A) 1845–60
(B) 1844–60
(C) 1843–60
(D) None of A, B, and C

7. Ruskin’s Modern Painters contained:
(A) Three Volumes
(B) Five Volumes
(C) Four Volumes
(D) None of A, B, and C

8. The third and fourth volumes of Modern Painters appeared in:
(A) 1855
(B) 1858
(C) 1857
(D) 1856

9. The fifth volume of Modern Painters appeared in:
(A) 1863
(B) 1861
(C) 1862
(D) 1860

10. The Seven Lamps of Architecture was published in which year?
(A) 1848
(B) 1851
(C) 1850
(D) 1849

11. The first volume of Modern Painters appeared in:
(A) 1841
(B) 1843
(C) 1842
(D) 1844

12. Unto This Last by Ruskin contained:
(A) Four Essays
(B) Three Essays
(C) Five Essays
(D) Six Essays

13. The Stones of Venice was published in which year?
(A) 1856
(B) 1854
(C) 1855
(D) 1851–53

14. In The Stones of Venice Ruskin launched his attack on the:
(A) Art of the Renaissance
(B) Gothic Art
(C) None of A, B, and C
(D) None of A, B, and C

15. The publication of Unto This Last began in Cornhill Magazine, under the editorship of:
(A) Carlyle
(B) Thackeray
(C) Dickens
(D) None of A, B, and C

16. Ruskin pointed out that the decline of Venice started about the year:
(A) 1305
(B) 1316
(C) 1315
(D) 1310

17. Ruskin’s Unto This Last was published in which year?
(A) 1860–63
(B) 1860–62
(C) 1860–61
(D) None of A, B, and C

18. The subject of Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne by Ruskin is:
(A) Religion
(B) Social Economy
(C) Political Economy
(D) None of A, B, and C

19. The fourth lecture of Crown of Wild Olive was on:
(A) Future of England
(B) Work
(C) Traffic
(D) None of A, B, and C

20. Præterita by Ruskin was published at intervals during:
(A) 1885–90
(B) 1885–89
(C) 1884–87
(D) None of A, B, and C