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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