The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who is the author of Ars Poetica ?

   A. Plato
   B. Aristotle
   C. Horace
   D. Longinus

2. The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?

   A. Horace
   B. Quintillion
   C. Cicero
   D. Virgil

3. What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s composition ?

   A. His weakness for spirits
   B. That he is henpecked by his wife
   C. His love of town gossip
   D. His unwillingness to work

4. He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this ?

   A. Cotton Mather
   B. Diedrich Knickerbocker
   C. Brom Bones
   D. Geoffrey Crayon

5. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date ?

   A. The 12th
   B. The 14th
   C. The 17th
   D. The 19th

6. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father’s peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is_______________?

   A. Faith
   B. Madeline
   C. Magawisca
   D. Katrina

7. In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?

   A. The representative poet of Victorian Age
   B. The representative poet of Romantic Age
   C. The best nature poet
   D. None of these

8. T. Hardy is_______________?

   A. A social reformer
   B. A satirist
   C. A fatalist
   D. A lover of nature

9. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real cool,” the Golden Shovel is_______________?

   A. The name of a restaurant the pool players cannot enter.
   B. A metaphor for colossal lies they have been buried with.
   C. A metaphor for the pool players who are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
   D. The name of a pool hall.

10. According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?

    A. To speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans.
    B. To raise awareness of violence in African American youth.
    C. To support the Back to Africa Movement.
    D. To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.