John Ruskin MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: March 22, 2024

Ruskin’s Literary career may be divided into:
(a) Four Periods
(b) Three Periods
(c) Two Periods
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Periods

Ruskin bought a house in the Lake District in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1873
(c) 1872
(d) 1871
Question’s Answer: 1871

At the time of the publication of the first volume of Modem Painters, Ruskin was of:
(a) Twenty-four
(b) Twenty-two
(c) Twenty
(d) Twenty-five
Question’s Answer: Twenty-four

The second volume of “Modem Painters” appeared in:
(a) 1846
(b) 1849
(c) 1848
(d) 1847
Question’s Answer: 1846

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
Question’s Answer: 1860 to the last years of his life

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
Question’s Answer: 1843-60

Ruskin’s “Modern Painters” contained:
(a) Three Volumes
(b) Five Volumes
(c) Four Volumes
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five Volumes

The Third and Fourth volume of “Modern Painters” appeared in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1858
(c) 1857
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1856

The fifth volume of “Modern Painters” appeared in:
(a) 1863
(b) 1861
(c) 1862
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1860

“The Seven Lamps Of Architecture” was published in which year?
(a) 1848
(b) 1851
(c) 1850
(d) 1849
Question’s Answer: 1849

The first volume of “Modern Painters” appeared in:
(a) 1841
(b) 1843
(c) 1842
(d) 1844
Question’s Answer: 1843

“Unto This Last” by Ruskin contained:
(a) Four Essays
(b) Three Essays
(c) Five Essays
(d) Six Essays
Question’s Answer: Four Essays

“The Stones of Venice” was published in which year?
(a) 1856
(b) 1854
(c) 1855
(d) 1851-53
Question’s Answer: 1851-53

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
Question’s Answer: Art of the Renaissance

The publication of “Unto This Last” was Began-in-Corn Hill magazine,under the editorship of:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Thackeray
(c) Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thackeray

Ruskin pointed out that the decline of Venice started about the year:
(a) 1305
(b) 1316
(c) 1315
(d) 1310
Question’s Answer: 1310

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
Question’s Answer: 1860-62

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
Question’s Answer: Political Economy

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
Question’s Answer: Traffic

“Practerita” by Ruskin was published at intervals during:
(a) 1885-90
(b) 1885-89
(c) 1884-87
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1885-89

Ruskin’s “Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne” was published in which year?
(a) 1866
(b) 1869
(c) 1868
(d) 1867
Question’s Answer: 1867

“Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne” by Ruskin is in the form of a:
(a) Series of twenty-five letters
(b) Series of twenty letters
(c) Series of twenty-six letters
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Series of twenty-five letters

“Praeterita” by John Ruskin is:
(a) Biographical Study
(b) An autobiographical Study
(c) None of A, B, and C
(d) Both (a) & (b)
Question’s Answer: An autobiographical Study

The “Seven Lamps of Architecture was proudly written by:
(a) Aristotle
(b) John Ruskin
(c) Romon Seldom
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

Which is not a work by Ruskin?
(a) Practical Criticism
(b) Munera Pulveris
(c) Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Practical Criticism

Which is not a work by Ruskin?
(a) The Stones of Venice
(b) Sesame And Lillies
(c) Poetics
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poetics

Ruskin delivered his lecture on “The Mystery of Life and its Arts” in:
(a) 1865
(b) 1870
(c) 1869
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1868

During several years of his professorship, in Oxford, Ruskin wrote monthly letters for the workmen of England entitled:
(a) Munera Pulveris
(b) Fors Clavigera
(c) Unto This Last
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fors Clavigera

Ruskin was born of:
(a) English Parentage
(b) Greek Parentage
(c) Sootch Parentage
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sootch Parentage

For how many years, Ruskin used to teach drawing on Thursday evenings in working men’s college?
(a) Three Years
(b) Six Years
(c) Five Years
(d) Four Years
Question’s Answer: Four Years

Ruskin read a paper on “The Study of Architecture” in Schools to the Royal Institute of British Architects in:
(a) 1868
(b) 1866
(c) 1867
(d) 1865
Question’s Answer: 1865

Ruskin was a disciple of:
(a) Thackeray
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) Carlyle
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Carlyle

Who is the author of the “Unto This Last”?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) S.T. Coleridge
(c) John Ruskin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

Which is not a work by Ruskin?
(a) Praeterita
(b) Modern Tragedy
(c) The Stone of Venice
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Modern Tragedy

‘s mother lived on to the age of:
(a) Hundred
(b) Eighty
(c) Ninety
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ninety

Which prize Ruskin won for English Verse for a poem “Salsette And Elephanta”?
(a) Nobel Prize
(b) Pulitzer Prize
(c) Newdigate Prize
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Newdigate Prize

The Saturday Review described the essays of Ruskin in “Unto This Last” as:
(a) Absolute Nonsense
(b) Eruptions of Windy Hysterics
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Both (a) and (b)

Ruskin delivered a lecture called “The Flamboyant Architecture of the Valley of the Somne” in:
(a) 1869
(b) 1867
(c) 1868
(d) 1870
Question’s Answer: 1869

Ruskin pass away in:
(a) 1989
(b) 1902
(c) 1988
(d) 1900
Question’s Answer: 1900

Who called “Praeterita” by Ruskin “the most charming thing that he ever gave to the world, and one of the most pathetic and exquisite in the language”?
(a) Thackeray
(b) Carlyle
(c) Harrison
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Harrison

John Ruskin was born in:
(a) New York
(b) California
(c) London
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: London

When Ruskin was returning from an Alpine tour, he stopped for a few days in:
(a) Rome
(b) Paris
(c) Italy
(d) London
Question’s Answer: Paris

Ruskin stopped for a few days in Paris in:
(a) 1842
(b) 1843
(c) 1845
(d) 1844
Question’s Answer: 1844

John Ruskin was born in:
(a) 1821
(b) 1820
(c) 1819
(d) 1822
Question’s Answer: 1819

John Ruskin’s father was a:
(a) Scotch wine merchant
(b) Landlord
(c) Clerk
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Scotch wine merchant

Ruskin’s mother was a devout:
(a) Catholic Christian
(b) Evangelical Christian
(c) Protestant Christian
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Evangelical Christian

Ruskin took up his degree in:
(a) 1839
(b) 1840
(c) 1842
(d) 1841
Question’s Answer: 1841

Ruskin delivered his first series of lectures on Art in Edinburgh in November:
(a) 1853
(b) 1854
(c) 1855
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1854

Ruskin fell in love at the age of:
(a) Twenty-one
(b) Twenty
(c) Seventeen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Seventeen

Ruskin went up to Christ Church Oxford, when he was a lad of:
(a) Seventeen
(b) Fifteen
(c) Eighteen
(d) Twenty
Question’s Answer: Seventeen

Ruskin married in:
(a) 1845
(b) 1850
(c) 1849
(d) 1848
Question’s Answer: 1848

“The Crown of Wild Olive” was proudly written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Carlyle
(c) John Ruskin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

Ruskin’s wife broke off from him and remarried in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1854
(c) 1852
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1855

Ruskin was appointed as the Slade Professor of Fine Arts in the University of Oxford in:
(a) 1868
(b) 1869
(c) 1871
(d) 1870
Question’s Answer: 1870

“The Sesame And Lillies” was published in which year?
(a) 1864
(b) 1866
(c) 1865
(d) 1867
Question’s Answer: 1865

“The Crown of Wild Olive” was Written in:
(a) 1856
(b) 1866
(c) 1860
(d) 1867
Question’s Answer: 1866

Which is not a work by John Ruskin?
(a) The Waste Land
(b) The Sesame and Lillies
(c) The Crown of Wild Olive
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Waste Land

Ruskin was repeatedly subjected to a painful hervous excitement of the brain from:
(a) 1880 onward
(b) 1883 onward
(c) 1881 onward
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1881 onward

“Forts Clavigera” was proudly written by:
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Raymond William
(c) John Ruskin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

How many papers were contributed by Ruskin on “The Laws Of Art” to the art journal?
(a) Eight
(b) Eleven
(c) Ten
(d) Nine
Question’s Answer: Nine

“The Ethics of the Dust” by Ruskin was published in which year?
(a) 1868
(b) 1867
(c) 1866
(d) 1869
Question’s Answer: 1866

Ruskin’s connection with Oxford continued till:
(a) 1882
(b) 1885
(c) 1884
(d) 1886
Question’s Answer: 1884

“Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin was published in book form in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1871
(c) 1873
(d) 1872
Question’s Answer: 1872

The book “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin is divided into:
(a) Six Chapters
(b) Five Chapters
(c) Chanters
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six Chapters

The second chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Definitions
(b) Store Keeping
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Store Keeping

The third chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Commerce
(b) Coin Keering
(c) Government
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Coin Keering

Ruskin founded a museum in:
(a) Sheffield
(b) Paris
(c) London
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sheffield

The fourth chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Commerce
(b) Government
(c) Mastership
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Commerce

The last chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Government
(b) Commerce
(c) Mastership
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mastership

Forts Clavigera by Ruskin was published in which year?
(a) 1871-80
(b) 1871-82
(c) 1871-84
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1871-84

Who is the author of the “Modern Painters”?
(a) Raymond Williams
(b) John Ruskin
(c) Catharine Belsey
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

The fifth chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Coin Keepin
(b) Government
(c) Store Keeping
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Government

Which is not a work by Ruskin?
(a) Critical Practice
(b) Poetics
(c) Munera Pulveris
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) and (b)

The second lecture of “Sesame And Lillies” deals with:
(a) The sphere, education and duties of women of the privileged classes
(b) Life and art
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The sphere, education and duties of women of the privileged classes

Which is the last work of Ruskin on Political Economy?
(a) Unto This Last
(b) Forts Clavigera
(c) Munera Pulveris
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Forts Clavigera

Ruskin’s “Sesame And Lillies” Political originally consisted:
(a) Three Lectures
(b) Two Lectures
(c) Four Lectures
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Lectures

The First lecture of “Sesame And Lillies” deals with:
(a) None of the below
(b) The sphere education and duties of women of the privileged classes
(c) The question what to read and how to read
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The question what to read and how to read

The third lecture added to “Sesame And Lillies” was delivered by Ruskin in:
(a) 1871
(b) 1869
(c) 1870
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1868

The first lecture of “Crown of Wild Olive” was on:
(a) The Future of England
(b) Traffic
(c) War
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Traffic

Which is not a work by Ruskin?
(a) Forts Clavigers
(b) Sesame and Lillies
(c) An Introduction to Literary Criticism
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An Introduction to Literary Criticism

“Crown of Olive” by Ruskin contained:
(a) Three Lectures
(b) Six Lectures
(c) Five Lecture
(d) Four Lectures
Question’s Answer: Four Lectures

Ruskin’s first notable work was:
(a) Crown of Wild Olive
(b) Modern Painters
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Modern Painters

The Third lecture of “Crown of Wild Olive” was on:
(a) Traffic
(b) Work
(c) War
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Work

Who is the author of the “Praeterita”?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) John Ruskin
(c) S/T Coleridge
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

“Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin was published in book form in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1872
(c) 1871
(d) 1873
Question’s Answer: 1872

The Second lecture of “Crown of Wild Olive” was on:
(a) The Future of England
(b) Work
(c) War
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Future of England

The book “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin is divided into:
(a) Five Chapters
(b) Chanters
(c) Six Chapters
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six Chapters

The third chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Coin Keeping
(b) Government
(c) Commerce
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Coin Keeping

The fourth chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Commerce
(b) Government
(c) Mastership
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Commerce

The second chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Definitions
(b) Store Keeping
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Store Keeping

The fifth chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Coin Keeping
(b) Government
(c) Store Keeping
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Government

Forts Clavigera by Ruskin was published in which year?
(a) 1871-80
(b) 1871-82
(c) 1871-84
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1871-8

Who is the author of the “Modern Painters”?
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Catharine Belsey
(c) Raymond Williams
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

The First lecture of “Sesame And Lillies” deals with
(a) The sphere education and duties of women of the privileged. classes
(b) The question what to read and how to read
(c) None of A, B, and C
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The question what to read and how to read

The last chapter of “Munera Pulveris” by Ruskin deals with:
(a) Government
(b) Commerce
(c) Mastership
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mastership

The second lecture of “Sesame And Lillies” deals with:
(a) The sphere, education and duties of women of the privileged classes
(b) Life and art
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The sphere, education and duties of women of the privileged classes

Which is the last work of Ruskin on Political Economy?
(a) Forts Clavigera
(b) Munera Pulveris
(c) Unto This Last
Question’s Answer: Forts Clavigera

Ruskin’s “Sesame And Lillies” Political originally consisted:
(a) Four Lectures
(b) Three Lectures
(c) Two Lectures
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Lectures

The third lecture added to “Sesame And Lillies” was delivered by Ruskin, in:
(a) 1871
(b) 1869
(c) 1870
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1868

Which is not a work by Ruskin?
(a) Critical Practice
(b) Poetics
(c) Munera Pulveris
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) and (b)

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