In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?

   A. Plato
   B. Aristotle
   C. Sir Philip Sidney
   D. Sir Thomas More

2. How many poets were included in Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’ ?

   A. 48
   B. 50
   C. 52
   D. 54

3. John Milton deliberately distanced himself from the poets, a group of poets known for their light, elegant style and frivolous content ?

   A. Romantic
   B. Victorian
   C. Cavalier
   D. Enlightenment

4. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?

   A. Puritan movement
   B. Romantic revival
   C. Neo-classical age
   D. Metaphysical school

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. Which of the following poets did NOTwrite about his experiences in World War II ?

   A. Wilfred Owen
   B. Keith Douglas
   C. Randall Jarrell
   D. Karl Shapiro

7. Plato’s Republic is written in the form of______________?

   A. Drama
   B. Narrative mode
   C. Poetry
   D. Dialogue

8. Through an amendment in ____________ 1962, name of the State was declared Islamic Republic of Pakistan instead of Republic of Pakistan ?

   A. December
   B. October
   C. August
   D. None of these

9. Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

   A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
   B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
   C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
   D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

10. Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?

    A. H.D.
    B. Hart Crane
    C. William Carlos Williams
    D. T.S. Eliot