1. “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
2. “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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Browning wrote a poem entitled The Lost Leader. Whom does he call the lost leader?
(A) Tennyson
(B) Milton
(C) Byron
(D) Wordsworth
6. 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
7. 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
8. Browning wrote a poem in memory of his wife who had passed away. What was the title of that poem?
(A) Pippa Passes
(B) Home Thoughts from Abroad
(C) The Lost Leader
(D) Prospice
9. What is the exact meaning of Prospice?
(A) Hope
(B) Maud
(C) Looking forward to
(D) In Memory of
10. Which of the following is a monologue written by Browning?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Maud
(C) Locksley Hall
(D) Andrea del Sarto
11. “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
12. “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 Barrett Browning who had passed away
(C) His sister who passed away young
(D) An imaginary heroine of the poem
13. “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
14. 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
15. The most significant poetical work of Mrs. Browning was:
(A) Sonnets
(B) Sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) Ecclesiastical Sonnets
(D) Holy Sonnets
16. 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
17. Robert Browning was one of the:
(A) Most agnostic poets
(B) Most pessimistic poets
(C) Most optimistic poets
(D) Most atheistic poets
18. 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
19. “Who knows but the world may end tonight?” This highly striking line is quoted from:
(A) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(B) The Last Ride Together
(C) Evelyn Hope
(D) Fra Lippo Lippi
20. 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
