1. 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
2. Adonais is a Pastoral Elegy written on the death of which of the following?
(A) Byron
(B) Keats
(C) Scott
(D) Southey
3.
“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?
4.
“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?
5. Which is Shelley’s autobiographical poem?
(A) Adonais
(B) Queen Mab
(C) Alastor
(D) The Cenci
6. From which source did Shelley get the idea of writing The Prometheus Unbound?
(A) Seneca
(B) Euripides
(C) Aeschylus
(D) Sophocles
7. To whom is Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam dedicated?
(A) Jane Clairmont
(B) Mary Godwin
(C) Harriet Westbrook
(D) William Godwin
8. 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
9. Where is the scene of Oedipus Tyrannus by Shelley laid?
(A) Troy
(B) Aethiopia
(C) Constantinople
(D) Thebes
10.
“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 poems?
(A) Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
11. Shelley’s Masque of Anarchy is:
(A) An Elegy
(B) A Satire
(C) A Sonnet
(D) An Ode
12. The total span of Shelley’s life was about:
(A) 28 years
(B) 32 years
(C) 31 years
(D) 30 years
13. Shelley was expelled from 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
14. ____ 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
15. How many Cantos are there in Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam?
(A) 6
(B) 12
(C) 10
(D) 8
16. Shelley’s death was caused by:
(A) Fighting
(B) Drowning
(C) Consumption
(D) Poisoning
17. How many Acts are there in Shelley’s play The Cenci?
(A) Three Acts
(B) Five Acts
(C) Four Acts
(D) Six Acts
18. How many Acts are there in Shelley’s play Oedipus Tyrannus?
(A) Four Acts
(B) Three Acts
(C) Two Acts
(D) Five Acts
19. How many Parts are there in Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant?
(A) Two Parts
(B) Four Parts
(C) Five Parts
(D) Three Parts
20. Which work of Shelley has the sub-title The Spirit of Solitude?
(A) Queen Mab
(B) The Sensitive Plant
(C) The Cenci
(D) Alastor
21. “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
22. 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
23. “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
24. How many Acts are there in Shelley’s play Prometheus Unbound?
(A) Three Acts
(B) Five Acts
(C) Four Acts
(D) None of these
25. 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
26. To whom is Shelley’s The Cenci dedicated?
(A) Byron
(B) Leigh Hunt
(C) Coleridge
(D) Wordsworth
27. Which type of play is The Cenci?
(A) A comedy
(B) A tragi-comedy
(C) A tragedy
(D) A masque
28. What is Shelley’s O World! O Life! O Time!?
(A) A lyric
(B) An Ode
(C) A Sonnet
(D) An Elegy
