PB Shelley MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on P B Shelley

Shelley belonged to the:

(A) Earlier generation of Romantic poets

(B) Later generation of Romantic poets

(C) Earlier generation of Victorian poets

(D) Later generation of Victorian poets

Question’s Answer: Earlier generation of Romantic poets


Adonais is a Pastoral Elegy written on the death of which of the following?

(A) Byron

(C) Scott

(B) keats

(D) Southey

Question’s Answer: Keats


“Nothing of him that doth fade,

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.”

These lines were inscribed upon the tomb of Shelley. From where were these lines borrowed?

(A) From Spenser’s Astrophel

(B) From Gray’s Elegy

(C) From Milton’s Lycidas

(D) From Ariel’s song in The Tempest

Question’s Answer: From Ariel’s song in The Tempest


“Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity

Until Death tramples it to fragments, die.” From which of Shelley’s poems are these lines quoted?

(A) Hellas

(B) Alastor

(C) Adonais

(D) The Cenci

Question’s Answer: Adonais


Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem ?

(A) Adonais

(B) Queen Mab

(C) Alastor

(D) The Cenci

Question’s Answer: Alastor


From which source did Shelley get the idea of writing The Prometheus Unbound?

(A) Seneca

(B) Euripides

(C) Aeschylus

(D) Sophocles

Question’s Answer: Aeschylus


To whom is Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam dedicated?

(A) Jane Clairmont

(B) Mary Godwin

(C) Harriet Westbrook

(D) William Godwin

Question’s Answer: Jane Clairmont


Referring to Adonais, Shelley said, “I have dipped my pen in consuming fire for his

destroyers” Who were these destroyers ?

(A) The Editors of both Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Magazine

(B) The Editors of Quarterly Review

(C) The Editors of Blackwood’s Magazine

(D) The Editors of The London Magazine

Question’s Answer: The Editors of both Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Magazine


Where is the scene of Oedipus Tyrannus by Shelley laid?

(A) Troy

(B) Aethiopia

(C) Constantinople

(D) Thebes

Question’s Answer: Thebes


“Smiling they live, and call life pleasure:

To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.” This line is taken from which of the following  poem?

(A) Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naple

(B) O World Life! O Time!

(C) A Lament

(D) The Dirge

Question’s Answer: Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples



Shelley’s Masque of Anarchy is:

(A) An Elegy

(B) A Satire

(C) A Sonnet

(D) An Ode

Question’s Answer: A Satire


The total span of Shelley’s life was about:

(A) 28 years

(B) 32 years

(C) 31 years

(D) 30 years

Question’s Answer: 30 years


Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University for the publication of which of the following?

(A) On the Necessity of Atheism

(B) The Revolt of Islam

(C) The Mask of Anarchy

(D) Hellas

Question’s Answer: On the Necessity of Atheism


____ called Shelley “an ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”?

(A) Hazlitt

(B) John Ruskin

(C) Charles Lamb

(D) Matthew Arnold

Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold


How many Cantos are there in Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam?

(A) 6

(B) 12

(C) 10

(D)

Question’s Answer: 12


Shelley’s death was caused by:

(A) Fighting

(B) Drowning

(C) Consumption

(D) Poisoning

Question’s Answer: Drowning


How many Acts  are there in Shelley’s play,The Cenci?

(A) Three Acts

(B) Five Acts

(C) Four Acts

(D) Six Acts

Question’s Answer: Five Acts


How many Acts are there in Shelley’s play. Oedipus Tyrannus?

(A) Four Acts

(B) Three Acts

(C) Two Acts

(D) Five Acts

Question’s Answer: Two Acts


How many Parts are there in Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant?

(A) TWO parts

(B) Four Parts

(C) Five Parts

(D) Three Parts

Question’s Answer: Three Parts


Which work of Shelley has the sub-title, The Spirit of Solitude?

(A) Queen Mab

(B) The Sensitive Plant

(C) The Cenci

(D) Alastor

Question’s Answer: Alastor


“I change but I cannot die”What is it that changes but does not die according to a poem by Shelley?

(A) Human spirit

(B) The West Wind

(C) The Cloud

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Cloud


Shelley’s Ariel to Miranda was inspired by Shakespeare’s:

(A) The Tempest

(B) The Taming of the Shrew

(C) The Merchant of Venice

(D) The Winter’s Tale

Question’s Answer: The Tempest


“If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?” Which poem of Shelley ends with this line?

(A) The Cloud

(B) To a Skylark

(C) Ode to the West Wind

(D) To Night

Question’s Answer: Ode to the West Wind


How many Acts are there in Shelley’ play, Prometheus Unbound?

(A) Three Acts

(B) Five Acts

(C) Four Acts

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: Four Acts


Shelley’s Defence of Poetry is a rejoinder to:

(A) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie

(B) Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry

(C) Byron’s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

(D) Hazlitt’s The English Comic Writers

Question’s Answer: Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry


To whom is Shelley’s The Cenci dedicated?

(A) Byron

(B) Leigh Hunt

(C) Coleridge

(D) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Leigh Hunt


Which type of play is The Cenci?

(A) A comedy

(B) A tragi-comedy

(C) A tragedy

(D) A masque

Question’s Answer: A tragedy


What is Shelley’s O World! O Life! O Time!?

(A) A lyric

(B) An Ode

(C) A Sonnet

(D) An elegy

Question’s Answer: A lyric

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