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
(C) Pipa Passes
(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
(C) My Last Duchess
(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
(C) He was a great Greek philosopher
(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
(C) He elopes with her
(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
(C) Byron
(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
(C) A renowned painter
(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
(C) A renowned artisan
(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
(C) The Lost Leader
(D) Prospice
Question’s Answer: Prospice
Which is the exact meaning of Prospice?
(A) Hope
(B) Maud
(C) Looking forward to
(D) In Memory of
Question’s Answer: Looking forward to
Which monologues is written by Browning?
(A) Ulysse
(B) Maud
(C) Locksley Hall
(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
(C) Evelyn Hope
(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
(C) His sister who pass away young
(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
(C) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(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
(C) Georgian 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
(C) Ecclesiastical Sonnets
(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
(C) The Last Ride Together
(D) The Lost Leader
Question’s Answer: Rabbi Ben Ezra
Robert Browning was one of the:
(A) Most agnostic poets
(B) Most pessimistic poets
(C) Most optimistic 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
(C) Anne 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
(C) Evelyne Hope
(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
(C) The concept of Early Man
(D) Shaw’s Man and Superman
Question’s Answer: Shakespeare’s The Tempest
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