A. Porphyria’s Lover
B. My Last Duchess
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D. Fra Lippo Lippi
Related Mcqs:
- Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.” ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Browning
D. William Wordsworth - Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, “The Book of the Duchess,” to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of___________________?
A. the Black Plague.
B. unrequited love for John of Gaunt.
C. drowning in the Thames.
D. childbirth. - Which of the following features of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?
A. It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd…), which is sustained throughout the poem.
B. It is primarily a narrative poem.
C. It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.
D. All of these answers - In which work do you read: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ” ?
A. The Canturbury Tales
B. The Dark Angel
C. The Wild Swans of Coole
D. The Second Coming - In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
A. Adonais
B. Bright Star
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. La Bell Dame Sans Merci - In which work do you read: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ?
A. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
B. Sonnets from the Portuguese
C. Prelude
D. The Last Decalogue - In which work do you read: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree…” ?
A. Kubla Khan
B. Hellas
C. The Phoenix and the Turtle
D. The Castaway - In which work do you read: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?
A. A Doll’s House
B. Riders to the Sea
C. A Handful of Dust
D. The Fatal Curiosity - In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?
A. The Man of Feeling
B. In Memoriam
C. Song to Aella
D. Ozymandias - Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
A. Long processionals
B. Mourning clothes
C. Strict simplicity
D. Tolling of church bells
