Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work_________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

   A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27
   B. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid
   C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending
   D. He just wasn’t bright enough

2. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?

   A. To err is human, to forgive divine
   B. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
   C. A little learning is a dangerous thing
   D. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

3. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’ ?

   A. Tennyson
   B. Browning
   C. Swinburne
   D. D.G. Rossetti

4. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?

   A. Elliot
   B. Kipling
   C. Cummings
   D. Brooke

5. Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. William Blake
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

6. Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

7. Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?

   A. Robert Frost
   B. R. W. Emerson
   C. Walt Whitman
   D. Edgar Allen Poe

8. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

9. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

10. A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?

    A. Feminist
    B. Reader Response
    C. Formalist
    D. Mimetic