Collection of important MCQs on Lord Byron
The Witch of Alps is a character in :
(A) Heaven and Earth
(B) Cain
(C) Manfred
(D) Werner
Question’s Answer: Manfred
How Acts are there in the play Manfred?
(A) Two
(B) Five
(C) Four
(D) Three
Question’s Answer: Three
To whom is the Tragedy Sardanapalus dedicated?
(A) Godwin
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Dryden
(D) Goethe
Question’s Answer: Goethe
Byron’s Beppo is a:
(A) A Venetian Story
(B) A Lyrical play
(C) A Turkish Tale
(D) A Monologue
Question’s Answer: A Venetian Story
Byron wrote an ode to a poet whom he admired. Who was that poet?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Thomas Moore
(D) Thomas Gray
Question’s Answer: Thomas Moore
One of the following Poetic Plays is not created and written by  Byron. Which?
(A) Werner
(B) Cain
(C) Otho the Great
(D) Heaven and Earth
Question’s Answer: Otho the Great
What is Byron’s Hours of Idleness?
(A) A Narrative poem
(B) A Volume of his early poems
(C) A long Satire
(D) A Lyrical play
Question’s Answer: A Volume of his early poems
Byron himself calls his play The Two Foscari:
(A) A Horror Tragedy
(B) A Historical Tragedy
(C) A Lyrical Comedy
(D) A Tragi-comedy
Question’s Answer: A Historical Tragedy
To whom does Byron dedicate his play entitled Cain?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Robert Southey
Question’s Answer: Sir Walter Scott
How many Acts are there in the play Marino Faliero?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Five
(D) Four
Question’s Answer: Five
Byron calls one of his Tales A Fragment of a Turkish Tale. Which is this tale?
(A) The Corsair
(B) The Giaour
(C) The Siege of Corinth
(D) Parisina
Question’s Answer: The Giaour
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Lord Byron pass away at the age of which of the following?
(A) 34 years
(B) 35 years
(C) 38 years
(D) 36 years
Question’s Answer: 36 years
One of the following poetic plays is written by Byron. Which?
(A) The Fall of Robespierre
(B) Remorse
(C) Otho the Great
(D) Manfred
Question’s Answer: Manfred
Seven Spirits act as characters in which of the following poetic plays. In which of the
following plays?
(A) Borderers
(B) Mysterious Mother
(C) Manfred
(D) Foresters
Question’s Answer: Manfred
Byron wrote a powerful satirical rejoinder in defence of Keats. What was that rejoinder?
(A) The Vision of Judgement
(B) Don Juan
(C) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(D) Marino Faliero
In which of Byron’s plays Adam and Eve are leading characters?
(A) Cain
(B) Werner
(C) Heaven and Earth
(D) The Deformed Transformed
Question’s Answer: Cain
What is Byron’s The Vision of Judgement?
(A) AÂ Poetic Play
(B) A Tale
(C) A Satire
(D) A Dream Allegory
Question’s Answer: A Satire
“A man must serve his time to every trade
Save Censure Critics all are ready made.”
In which work does Byron give this opinion?
(A) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(B) The Vision of Judgement
(C) The Curse of Minerva
(D) The Waltz
Question’s Answer: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
To whom does Byron dedicate his tale Don Juan?
(A) Dryden
(B) Robert Southey
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Walter Scott
Question’s Answer: Robert Southey
Which poems shot up Byron into unprecedented popularity?
(A) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(B) Beppo
(C) Don Juan
(D) Cain
Question’s Answer: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Byron woke up one morning and found himself famous What was that occasion?
(A) The publication of his famous long poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(B) The publication of his popular work The Vision of Judgement
(C) The Conferment of the title Lordship on him
(D) The publication of his rejoinder English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Question’s Answer: The publication of his famous long poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Byron wrote an Ode to one of the following historical personalities. Identify him:
(A) Napoleon Buonaparte
(B) Queen Victoria
(C) William Godwin
(D) Queen Mary
Question’s Answer: Napoleon Buonaparte
How many Cantos are there in Childe Harold’s
(A) Two
(B) Four
(C) Three
(D) Five
Question’s Answer: Four
Where is the scene of the Lyrical play Manfred laid ?
(A) On the Higher Alps
(B) On the sea-coast of Greece
(C) In Egypt
(D) In a vast desert
Question’s Answer: On the Higher Alps
Byron’s The Deformed Transformed is a :
(A) Drama
(B) Tale
(C) Elegy
(D) Satire
Question’s Answer: Drama
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