1. : “I find ecstasy in living” is written by ____ .
(A) Whitman
(B) Longfellow
(C) Frost
(D) Dickinson
2. : Emily Dickinson in her poetry one finds turn of wit and elliptical metaphors as in
(A) Hopkins
(B) Longfellow
(C) Whitman
(D) The metaphysical poets
3. : The Letters of Emily Dickinson introduces the reader to
(A) Contemporary world
(B) Lamenting unreciprocated love
(C) Religious longings
(D) The mind of the poet
4. : Who is the author of the: “Because I could not for death, He kindly stopped for not me, The carriage held just ourselves/And immortality”
(A) Edward Arlington Robinson
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Vachel Lindsay
5. : Emily Dickinson’s poetry is about which of the following?
(A) Political life at Washington
(B) Seminary at Amherst
(C) Social life
(D) Interior life
6. : Emily Dickinson belonged to which era?
(A) 1850 to 1906
(B) 1879 to 1883
(C) 1830 to 1886
(D) 1830 to 1896
7. : Emily Dickinson had literary affinity with
(A) Melville
(B) Thoreau
(C) Emerson
(D) Whitman
8. : Why study of Emily Dickinson’s works is puzzling?
(A) Undue attention to biographical details
(B) Her being a woman
(C) Being a prolific poet
(D) Being a politician’s daughter
9. : What is that in her which appeals most to modern readers?
(A) Boldness
(B) A sense of wording
(C) Not being a formula poet
(D) Imagism and half-rhymes
10. : Why did Poe try to kill himself in 1848?
(A) For he had become an alcoholic
(B) Due to psychological depression
(C) Due to economic reasons
(D) His wife died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 and he had not established himself at the age of 37
11. : Emily Dickinson is a poet of which century?
(A) The 19th century with modern sensibility
(B) The 19th century
(C) The 18th century
(D) None of A, B, and C
12. : Edgar Allan Poe was born in
(A) New England
(B) Virginia
(C) Washington
(D) Boston
13. : Her poetry can be best described as
(A) Celebration of democracy
(B) Poetry of recluse
(C) Confessional poetry
(D) American dream
14. : How many known poems of Dickinson as a prolific writer?
(A) 1901
(B) 500
(C) 1775
(D) 800
15. : Poe’s childhood and upbringing was
(A) The consequences of his father leaving him when he was only two years old
(B) Full of parental care
(C) Comfortable
(D) Full of wisdom
16. : Poe’s Helen has been idealized by
(A) Captivating beauty
(B) His imagination transcending time
(C) Physical beauty and charms
(D) Use of Greek and Roman myths of Psyche, Helen of Troy and the nymphs
17. : “The Raven” was proudly written by which of the following author?
(A) Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Walt Whitman
18. : When Walt Whitman was born?
(A) West coast in 1819
(B) Long Island in 1819
(C) Boston in 1829
(D) Washington in 1910
19. : “The Raven” brings out which quality of Poe made him famous?
(A) Story depicting manifestation of evil
(B) Mystery
(C) Spirituality
(D) Tight structure
20. : From which poem of Poe these lines have been taken? “Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the ‘Raven Nevermore”
(A) “To One in Paradise”
(B) “Israel”
(C) “To Helen”
(D) “The Raven”
21. : What kind of a family did Walt Whitman come from?
(A) English
(B) Of English-Dutch-Welsh stock
(C) Dutch
(D) Welsh
22. : Which of these expressions best captures Walt Whitman?
(A) A vagrant American poet
(B) A Manhattan sage
(C) People’s poet
(D) A true American poet
23. : Which is the poem, read widely but made the poet regretful?
(A) “Song for Myself” by Walt Whitman
(B) “Birds of Passage” by Walt Whitman
(C) “A Woman Waits for me” by Walt Whitman
(D) “O Captain! My Captain” by Walt Whitman
24. : Why did Whitman regret having written the poem?
(A) Untruthful
(B) Very moving
(C) The poet disliked the regularity of stanza form, metre and rhyme
(D) Politically incorrect
25. : He was influenced by
(A) Buddhism
(B) Koran
(C) Shakespeare and Homer
(D) Virgil
26. : From which century, Ralph Waldo belonged?
(A) 18th century
(B) Late 19th century
(C) 19th century
(D) early 20th century
27. : What was the philosophy of life Emerson preached?
(A) Individualism, self-reliance and simplicity
(B) A life which combines philosophy and poetry; conscientious and self-reliant
(C) Conscientious life
(D) Simple life
28. : In ________, Emerson explained his understanding of Vishnu Purana and Bhagavad Gita?
(A) “Days”
(B) “The Problem”
(C) “Earth Song”
(D) “Brahma”
29. : The famous American poet Walt Whitman is best characterised as which of the following?
(A) A vision of a prophet
(B) A modern American sage
(C) Autocratic
(D) Desiring American superiority over the world
30. : Emerson expresses the idea in the poem _________ that men who claim possession pass away leaving it for those who remain. Earth laughs for man lives, toils and passes away leaving place for others?
(A) “Recited to Maitreya in Hamatreya”
(B) “Brahma”
(C) “Song of the Earth”
(D) “Earth Song”
31. : Which of these best describes Emerson?
(A) Philosopher
(B) Spiritualist
(C) Sage
(D) Transcendentalist
32. : Whitman is best characterised as a poet with
(A) Being proud of his heritage
(B) One who loved mankind
(C) A free spirit and a self-assured worker
(D) Desire for brotherhood
33. : The greatest way to describe what prevents us from understanding the divine is
(A) Wealth, lust
(B) Ambition, pride, ego
(C) Greed
(D) Wickedness
34. : Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
(A) A traditional poet
(B) One who brought European culture and models to American poetry
(C) A typical American poet
(D) A plagiarist
35. : The simplest way to sum up Longfellow’s poetry is that it
(A) Having no depth
(B) Highly decorous
(C) Sweet on the ears
(D) Showing metrical skill but little passion and high imagination
36. : Longfellow is a typical poet of which century?
(A) 20th century
(B) Late 19th century
(C) 19th century
(D) American Romantic period
37. : When was Longfellow born?
(A) 1800
(B) 1921
(C) 1850
(D) 1807
38. : Longfellow’s limited importance became
(A) Due to diffused impact
(B) For American not finding him relevant
(C) As he was hailed as a poet for children, it reduced his adult audience
(D) As he was a good poet with limited audience
39. : Which poetry contains these lines?
“O star of morning and of liberty!
Bringer of the light whose splendour
Shines above the darkness of the Apennines,
Forerunner of the day that is to be!”
40. : Which poetry contains these lines?
“And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song
Is haunting my memory still: A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts?”
(A) “My Lost Youth”
41. : Longfellow came from a ________.
(A) Colonial descent – a period in which American poetry had not evolved its own identity
(B) America with colonial descent
(C) Harvard University
(D) Great Britain