Robert Browning MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on Robert Browning

“God’s in his heaven-

All’s right with the world!”

In which poem do these lines occur?

(A) Evelyn Hope

(B) Life in Love

(D) The Patriot

Question’s Answer: Pipa Passes

“I was ever a fighter, so one fight more,

The best and the last. !”

In which poem of Browning’s do these lines occur?

(A) The Lost Leader

(B) Rabbi Ben Ezra

(D) Prospice

Question’s Answer: Prospice

Who was Rabbi Ben Ezra ?

(A) He was a renowned Roman Catholic Priest

(B) He was a real Jewish scholar

(D) He was a great theologian of Persia

Question’s Answer: He was a real Jewish scholar

What does the lover do with his beloved in Porphyria’s Lover?

(A) He strangles her to death

(B) He goes on a long ride together

(D) He strips her naked

Question’s Answer: He strangles her to death

Browning wrote a poem entitled The Lost Leader. Whom does he

call the lost leader?

(A) Tennyson

(B) Milton

(D) Wordsworth

Question’s Answer: Wordsworth

Who was Andrea del Sarto on whom Browning has written a dramatic monologue?

(A) A renowned sculptor

(B) A renowned musician

(D) A renowned architect

Question’s Answer: A renowned painter

Who was Fra Lippo Lippi on whom Browning has written a famous monologue?

(A) A renowned painter

(B) A renowned sculptor

(D) A renowned actor

Question’s Answer: A renowned painter

Browning wrote a poem in memory of his wife had pass away time back.

What was the title of that poem ?

(A) Pippa Passes

(B) Home Thoughts from Abroad

(D) Prospice

Question’s Answer: Prospice

Which is the exact meaning of Prospice?

(A) Hope

(B) Maud

(D) In Memory of

Question’s Answer: Looking forward to

Which monologues is written by Browning?

(A) Ulysse

(B) Maud

(D) sAndrea del Sarto

Question’s Answer: Andrea del Sarto

“Through worlds I shall traverse not a few;

Much is to learn, much to forget

Ere the time be come for taking you.”

From which monologue are these lines quoted?

(A) My Last Duchess

(B) Porphyria’s Lover

(D) Prospice

Question’s Answer: Evelyn Hope

“O Thou soul of my soul I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest.”

Whom does Browning address as “soul of my soul” in these lines?

(A) His beloved whom he could not marry

(B) His wife Elizabeth Barret Browning who had pass away

(D) An imaginatry heroine of the poem

Question’s Answer: His wife Elizabeth Barret Browning who had pass away

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why? all men strive and who succeeds.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem? ?

(A) Andrea del Sarto

(B) The Last Ride Together

(D) Porphyria’s Lover

Question’s Answer: The Last Ride Together

Robert Browning belonged to the group of which of the following?

(A) Early Romantic poets

(B) Victorian poets

(D) Later Romantic poets

Question’s Answer: Victorian poets

The most significant poetical work of Mrs. Browning was:

(A) Sonnets

(B) Sonnets from the Portuguese

(D) Holy Sonnets

Question’s Answer: Sonnets from the Portuguese

Which poem of Browning begins with the lines?

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

The last of life, for which the first was made.”

(A) Rabbi Ben Ezra

(B) Home-Thoughts from Abroad

(D) The Lost Leader

Question’s Answer: Rabbi Ben Ezra

Robert Browning was one of the:

(A) Most agnostic poets

(B) Most pessimistic poets

(D) Most atheistic poets

Question’s Answer: Most optimistic poets

Robert Browning’s wife was also a renowned poet. What was her name

(A) Charlotte Barrett Browning

(B) Emily Barrett Browning

(D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question’s Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Who knows but the world may end tonight ?” This highly striking line is quoted from:

(A) Rabbi Ben Ezra

(B) The Last Ride Togethe

(D) Fra Lippo Lippi

Question’s Answer: The Last Ride Together

From which source did Browning get the idea for the title of his monologue Caliban upon Setebos?

(A) Shakespeare’s The Tempest

(B) Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

(D) Shaw’s Man and Superman

Question’s Answer: Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Browning married Elizabeth Barrett in:
(a) 1844
(b) 1851
(c) 1850
(d) 1846
Question’s Answer: 1846

Browning’s only child was born in:
(a) Florence
(b) Italy
(c) London
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Florence

Browning’s poem “The Bishop Orders His Tomb At St. Praxed’s Church” was first published in:
(a) 1848
(b) 1846
(c) 1847
(d) 1845
Question’s Answer: 1845

Browning’s poem “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church” was published in romances and lyrics in:
(a) 1840
(b) 1845
(c) 1850
(d) 1849
Question’s Answer: 1849

The poem “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church” came under the volume ‘Men and Women’ in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1846
(c) 1845
(d) 1844
Question’s Answer: 1844

Browning made a visit to the Church of St. Praxed’s in Italy in:
(a) 1844
(b) 1843
(c) 1845
(d) 1846
Question’s Answer: 1844

Browning’s poem “Andrea Del Sarto” was published in which year?
(a) 1853
(b) 1855
(c) 1854
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1855

Browning’s first child was born in:
(a) 1847
(b) 1851
(c) 1850
(d) 1849
Question’s Answer: 1849

Mrs. Browning’s health began to fall in:
(a) 1866
(b) 1865
(c) 1860
(d) 867
Question’s Answer: 1860

Browning made up his mind that he would make Poetry his career at the age of:
(a) Seventeen
(b) Fifteen
(c) Twenty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Seventeen

Elizabeth Barrett was:
(a) Four Years older than Browning
(b) Three Years older than Browning
(c) Five Years older than Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three Years older than Browning

Browning’s earliest poem was:
(a) Paracelsus
(b) Pauline
(c) (a) & (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pauline

Browning received his first literary influence from:
(a) Lord Byron
(b) W.B Yeats
(c) W. Blake
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lord Byron

Next to Byron, Browning was influenced by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Shelley

So much moved by the poem “Queen Mab” Browning declared himself an atheist and vegetarian at the age of:
(a) Eleven
(b) Sixteen
(c) Twelve
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sixteen

Browning’s literary work was laid aside for a short time during the winter of:
(a) 1838-9
(b) 1834-5
(c) 1837-8
(d) 1833-4
Question’s Answer: 1833-4

Browning made a three months journey to Russia in:
(a) 1837
(b) 1835
(c) 1836
(d) 1834
Question’s Answer: 1834

Browning’s first experience of Italy came in:
(a) 1841
(b) 1839
(c) 1840
(d) 1838
Question’s Answer: 1838

became acquainted with his would be wife Elizabeth Barrett in:
(a) 1844
(b) 1847
(c) 1846
(d) 1845
Question’s Answer: 1845

How many poems of Browning deal with painting?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Six
(d) Seven
Question’s Answer: Five

Browning came back in London in:
(a) 1836
(b) 1835
(c) 1836
(d) 1834
Question’s Answer: 1834

How many plays were produced by Browning?
(a) Five
(b) Nine
(c) Eight
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eight

The fourth period of Browning’s literary work lasted from:
(a) 1876-1887
(b) 1876-1889
(c) 1876-1888
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1876-1889

Browning’s Poetic Volume “Dramatic Romances” and “Lyrics” published in:
(a) 1848
(b) 1846
(c) 1847
(d) 1845
Question’s Answer: 1845

Strafford was Browning’s:
(a) Second Play
(b) First Play
(c) Last play
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: First Play

Browning’s poem “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau was a character sketch of:
(a) Napoleon III
(b) Napoleon II
(c) Napoleon 1
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Napoleon III

“In A Balcony” was Browning’s:
(a) First Play
(b) Last Play
(c) Third Play
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Last Play

Who gave the following remark about Browning? “Browning will die in a white tie”
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Tennyson
(c) W. Yeats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tennyson

Browning made an unsuccessful negotiation for the Purchase of the old Manzoni palace in:
(a) 1886
(b) 1889
(c) 1890
(d) 1888
Question’s Answer: 1889

Browning’s last play “In A Balcony” was produced in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1846
(c) 1845
(d) 1844
Question’s Answer: 1844

Browning pass away at the age of:
(a) 76
(b) 78
(c) 77
(d) 79
Question’s Answer: 77

Browning’s love poetry may be divided into:
(a) Four Categories
(b) Three Categories
(c) Two Categories
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Categories

Browning had
(a) Three Sisters
(b) Two Sisters
(c) One Sister
(d) Four Sisters
Question’s Answer: One Sister

Browning was a
(a) Dramatist
(b) Novelist
(c) Poet
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poet

Browning’s “Pippa Passes” was published in which year?
(a) 1840
(b) 1843
(c) 1842
(d) 1841
Question’s Answer: 1841

Mrs. Browning pass away in:
(a) 1861
(b) 1860
(c) 1862
(d) 1863
Question’s Answer: 1861

Browning produced his “Men andbWomen” in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1854
(c) 1856
(d) 1857
Question’s Answer: 1855

Browning published the seventh number of “Bells and P megranates” in:
(a) 1841
(b) 1842
(c) 1846
(d) 1845
Question’s Answer: 1845

Who said about Browning’s poem “Sordello” that he could not know whether Sordello was a man, a city or a book?
(a) Carlyle
(b) Tennyson
(c) WB Yeats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Carlyle

Browning was elected to an honorable fellowship at Balliol College in:
(a) 1867
(b) 1866
(c) 1865
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1867

Browning’s “La Saisiaz” was written during the:
(a) Fourth Period of his literary work
(b) Third Period of his literary work
(c) First period of his literary work
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fourth Period of his literary work

The University of Oxford conferred on Browning the degree of M.A. in:
(a) 1854
(b) 1857
(c) 1856
(d) 1855
Question’s Answer: 1855

Who said about Browning’s Poem “Sordello” that there were only two lines in it, which he could understand?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Carlyle
(c) W. Blake
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tennyson

Browning wrote “Luria” and “A Soul’s Tragedy” in:
(a) 1844
(b) 1846
(c) 1845
(d) 1847
Question’s Answer: 1846

Browning wrote “Christman Eve and Easter Day” in:
(a) 1844
(b) 1845
(c) 1851
(d) 1850
Question’s Answer: 1850

Browning’s “Balaustion’s Adventure” was published in which year?
(a) 1870
(b) 1878
(c) 1877
(d) 1871
Question’s Answer: 1871

Browning published the first number of volume called “Bells and Pomegranates” in:
(a) 1840
(b) 1842
(c) 1841
(d) 1843
Question’s Answer: 1841

The Second Period of Browning’s literary work lasted from:
(a) 1846-1869
(b) 1846-1867
(c) 1847-1868
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1846-1869

Browning’s first period of literary work lasted from:
(a) 1833-1845
(b) 1832-1846
(c) 1834-1847
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1832-1846

Browning’s “The Ring and the Book” contained:
(a) 15,000 lines
(b) 21,000 lines
(c) 20,000 lines
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 21,000 lines

Browning’s “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau” was published in which year?
(a) 1873
(b) 1872
(c) 1871
(d) 1874
Question’s Answer: 1871

Browning wrote “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus” in the:
(a) Fourth period of his literary work
(b) Third period of his literary work
(c) Second period of his literaryb work
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fourth period of his literary work

Browning’s poem “The Inn Album” was published in which year?
(a) 1878
(b) 1876
(c) 1877
(d) 1875
Question’s Answer: 1875

Browning’s “The Ring and the Book” consisted of:
(a) Three Volumes
(b) Five Volumes
(c) Four Volumes
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four Volumes

Browning’s poem “Fra Lippo Lippi” was published in the volume:
(a) Bells and Pomegranates
(b) Strafford
(c) Sordello
(d) Men and Wornen
Question’s Answer: Men and Wornen

The poem “Fra Lippo Lippi” by Browning was published in which year?
(a) 1857
(b) 1855
(c) 1858
(d) 1858
Question’s Answer: 1855

Browning paid his second visit to Italy in:
(a) 1842
(b) 1845
(c) 1844
(d) 1843
Question’s Answer: 1843

Browning published the eighth volume of “Bells and Pomegranates” in:
(a) 1846
(b) 1847
(c) 1848
(d) 1849
Question’s Answer: 1846

The Third period of Browing’s literary work lasted from:
(a) 1869-1877
(b) 1869-1876
(c) 1869-1875
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1869-1876

The poem “Fra Lippo Lippi” was a long poem of:
(a) 340 lines
(b) 380 lines
(c) 450 lines
(d) More than 390 lines
Question’s Answer: More than 390 lines

In Browning’s poem “Fra Lippo Lippi” Fra Lippo Lippi was the son of a:
(a) Painter
(b) Butcher
(c) Watchman
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Butcher

Fra Lippo Lippi became an orphan at the age of:
(a) Two Years
(b) One Year
(c) Three Years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Years

Who was tributed by Browning in his poem “Pauline”?
(a) Tennyson
(b) John Keats
(c) P.B. Shelly
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: P.B. Shelly

Browing’s poem “Rabbi Ben Ezra” was written during the:
(a) Second period of his literary
(b) First period of his literary work
(c) Third Period of his literary work
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Second period of his literary

Fra Lippo Lippi was born in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1841
(c) 1842
(d) 1412
Question’s Answer: 1412

Fra Lippo Lippi became chaplain to a convent in Florence in:
(a) 1450
(b) 1456
(c) 1455
(d) 1452
Question’s Answer: 1452

“Fra Lippa Lippi” was appointed rector of St. Quirico at Legnais in:
(a) 1460
(b) 1458
(c) 1459
(d) 1457
Question’s Answer: 1457

The poem “Rabbi Ben Ezra” consisted of:
(a) 30 Stanzas
(b) 31 Stanzas
(c) 33 Stanzas
(d) 32 Stanzas
Question’s Answer: 32 Stanzas

Who was tributed by Browning in his poem “Popularity”?
(a) W. Wordsworth
(b) P.B. Shelley
(c) John Keats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Keats

What is the theme of Browning’s poem “A Death in the Desert”?
(a) Art
(b) Religion
(c) Nature
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Religion

“Andrea Del Sarto” was a Florentine artist of the:
(a) Early Sixteenth Century
(b) Early Eighteenth Century
(c) Early Seventeenth Century
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Early Sixteenth Century

The poem “Prospice” by Browning was a tribute to her:
(a) Wife
(b) Sister
(c) Mother
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Wife

Browning’s poem “Prospice” was published in which year?
(a) 1867
(b) 1865
(c) 1866
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1864

Browning’s poem “Prospice” was in the volume:
(a) In Balcony
(b) Men and Women
(c) Bells and Pomegranates
(d) Dramatis Personae
Question’s Answer: Dramatis Personae

Andrea was born in Florence in:
(a) 1489
(b) 1487
(c) 1488
(d) 1486
Question’s Answer: 1486

Browning’s poem “The Last ride Together” was included in dramatic romances in:
(a) 1860
(b) 1870
(c) 1869
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1868

Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” consisted of:
(a) Fifty-six lines
(b) Fifty lines
(c) Forty lines
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fifty-six lines

The poem “Prospice” was written after:
(a) Few months of Mrs. Browning’s death
(b) Two years of Mrs. Browning’s death
(c) One year of Mrs. Browning’s death
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Few months of Mrs. Browning’s death

“Prospice” is a:
(a) English Word
(b) Latin Word
(c) Italian Word
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Latin Word

Browning poem “The Last Ride Together” was first published in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1854
(c) 1856
(d) 1857
Question’s Answer: 1855

The Word “Prospice” means:
(a) Beautiful
(b) Ugly
(c) Looking forward to
Question’s Answer: Looking forward to

Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” was first published in:
(a) 1867
(b) 1865
(c) 1866
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1864

Robert Browning pass away in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1889
(c) 1888
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1889

Rabbi Ben Ezra was a Jewish scholar born in:
(a) 1090
(b) 1094
(c) 1093
(d) 1092
Question’s Answer: 1092

Rabbi Ben Ezra pass away in:
(a) 1160
(b) 1169
(c) 1168
(d) 1167
Question’s Answer: 1167

Robert Browning was born in:
(a) 1812
(b) 1803
(c) 1813
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1812

Browning called his mother:
(a) A Sacred Woman
(b) A Divine Woman
(c) An Angel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Divine Woman

Browning was the son of a:
(a) Clerk
(b) Doctor
(c) Artist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Clerk

Browning’s mother was of mixed:
(a) Spanish and Turkish descent
(b) Arabic and French descent
(c) German and Scotch descent
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: German and Scotch descent

From whom Browning inherited his musical and artistic taste?
(a) From his father
(b) From his teacher
(c) From his mother
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: From his mother

Browning had written a small volume of verse, but failing to find a publisher he threw it into the fire before he was:
(a) Eleven
(b) Twelve
(c) Thirteen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirteen

Which is not a work by Browning?
(a) The Road Not Taken
(b) Prospice
(c) My Last Duchess
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Road Not Taken

Browning acquired most of his education at:
(a) Home
(b) Oxford
(c) Cambridge
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Home

Browning went for a term to a Greek class at University College. Gower Street at the age of
(a) Seventeen
(b) Sixteen
(c) Eighteen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Seventeen

The day of Browning’s death was the day of the publication of Browning’s:
(a) Love In A Life
(b) My Star
(c) Asoland
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Asoland

Browning’s wish to be buried beside his wife was:
(a) Fulfilled
(b) Ignored
(c) Rejected
(d) Not fulfilled
Question’s Answer: Not fulfilled

Browning’s poem “Sordello” consists of:
(a) 6000 lines
(b) 5000 lines
(c) 4500 lines
(d) 7000 lines
Question’s Answer: 6000 lines

Browning remained at a School for young gentlemen run by a Mr. Ready till the age of
(a) Eleven
(b) Fifteen
(c) Fourteen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fourteen

Browning’s poem “Sordello” was published in which year?
(a) 1840
(b) 1830
(c) 1820
(d) 1841
Question’s Answer: 1840

Browning wrote “Pauline” when he was of:
(a) Twenty
(b) Twenty-two
(c) Twenty-one
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty-one

Browning’s poem “Pauline” was published in which year?
(a) 1836
(b) 1834
(c) 1835
(d) 1833
Question’s Answer: 1833

How many poems Browning wrote during his voyage to Venice?
(a) Two
(b) One
(c) Three
(d) Four
Question’s Answer: Two

Browning’s poem “Paracelsus” was published in which year?
(a) 1834
(b) 1837
(c) 1836
(d) 1835
Question’s Answer: 1835

Browning produced the play Strafford in:
(a) 1842
(b) 1840
(c) 1841
(d) 1837
Question’s Answer: 1837

Robert Browning basic info

Full Name	Robert Browning
Born	May 7, 1812
Died	December 12, 1889
Nationality	English
Occupation	Poet, Playwright
Literary Period	Victorian
Famous Works	“The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “My Last Duchess”, “The Ring and the Book”, “Porphyria’s Lover”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Robert Browning books names

Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession	1833
Paracelsus	1835
Strafford	1837
Sordello	1840
Bells and Pomegranates	1841-1846

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