How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?

   A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
   B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
   C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
   D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

2. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

   A. Boer War
   B. Second World War
   C. Korean War
   D. First World War

3. Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard” ?

   A. Both poems praise Britain’s military power and its imperial ambitions.
   B. Both poems describe Britain’s civilizing mission in the world.
   C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.
   D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

4. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?

   A. Light verse
   B. Romantic
   C. Political satire
   D. War poems

5. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

6. After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?

   A. two
   B. three
   C. four
   D. five

7. Which of Uncle Tom’s personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ?

   A. His gentle and soft-spoken nature
   B. His honesty and deep devotion to God
   C. His overwhelming fear of violence
   D. His ability to hide his rebellious nature.

8. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

   A. FR Leavis
   B. Harold Bloom
   C. William Empson
   D. Mariella Frostrup

9. What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father, causing his death ?

   A. Burdock
   B. Hebenon
   C. Baneberry
   D. Hemlock

10. “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

    A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
    B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
    C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
    D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.