1. Oriental Eclogues, though romantic in feeling, is written in the prevailing mechanical
(A) Triplets
(B) Quatrains
(C) Couplets
(D) Sestets
2. In his poem “In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies”, William Collins bemoaned which poet?
(A) James Thomson
(B) Pope
(C) Crabbe
(D) None of these
3. Gray briefly departs from his Welsh and material at the ____ phase of his poetry career and exhibits a new area of love interest in Norse.
(A) Third
(B) Fourth
(C) First
(D) None of these
4. Persian Eclogues is the first work of which of the following?
(A) Thomas Gray
(B) James Thomson
(C) George Crabbe
(D) William Collins
5. Which ode is an attractive event in the romantic revival for it presented a new world of witches, fairies, pygmies, and medieval kings, for the imagination to play in?
(A) “Ode to Simplicity”
(B) “Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands”
(C) “Ode to the Passions”
(D) “Ode to Fear”
6. Which is a creation of Collins?
(A) “Ode to the West”
(B) “Ode to Simplicity”
(C) “Ode to Evening”
(D) None of these
7. Which poem begins with the line: “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”?
(A) Collins’ “Ode to Evening”
(B) Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
(C) Collins’ “Ode on the Passions”
(D) Gray’s “On the Death of a Favourite Cat”
8. “Nor second He, that rode sublime, upon the seraph wings of Ecstasy.” These lines are taken from Gray’s The Progress of Poesy and allude to
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Spenser
(C) Milton
(D) Donne
9. The theme of Gray’s The Bard is the curse inflicted upon King Edward I and his progeny by
(A) Some poets killed by him
(B) Some gods desecrated by him
(C) Some patriots killed by him
(D) None of these
10. Gray’s poetic career has a total of _____ periods.
(A) Two
(B) Five
(C) Four
(D) Three
11. Which of Gray’s poems, notable for their use of Northern mythology, were translated from Latin?
(A) “The Fatal Sisters”
(B) “The Progress of Poesy”
(C) “The Bard”
(D) “Elegy”
12. Which are The Gray’s The Bard and The Progress of Poesy?
(A) Long lyrics
(B) Verse tales
(C) Narrative poems
(D) Pindaric odes
13. Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the most perfect poem of the age, was written in the year
(A) 1750
(B) 1749
(C) 1751
(D) 1752