Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

   A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
   B. modern literary criticism
   C. late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama
   D. the surrealist movement

2. From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?

   A. Arabian Nights
   B. Canterbury Tales
   C. Shah Namah
   D. Pilgrims Progress

3. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

   A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
   B. modern literary criticism
   C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
   D. the surrealist movement

4. In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,” the speaker refers to the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to which of the following ?

   A. The Protestant Reformation
   B. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
   C. The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West
   D. His lover’s betrayal

5. Which of the following does NOT characterize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” ?

   A. It is a dramatic monologue.
   B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.
   C. It has a melancholic tone.
   D. It envisions Christianity as eternal.

6. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?

   A. employs free verse.
   B. has an undertow of nihilism.
   C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
   D. was composed between WW I and WW II.

7. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?

   A. Milton
   B. Coleridge
   C. Keats
   D. Johnson

8. Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?

   A. The House of Fame
   B. The Book of the Duchess
   C. Troilus and Criseyde
   D. The Legend of Good Women

9. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

   A. lycidas
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. II penseroso
   D. none of the above

10. Which of the following represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?

    A. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief
    B. Praise and admiration for the dead
    C. Consolation and solace
    D. All of these