When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man’s heart. This is______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of_____________?

   A. A letter
   B. His clouded eye
   C. His pact with the devil
   D. His loud heart beat

2. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

3. 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

4. It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from________________?

   A. A fairy tale
   B. An autobiography
   C. A detective story
   D. A Gothic tale

5. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

6. “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”- Who told it ?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Chaucer
   C. Spenser
   D. Bacon

7. What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?

   A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
   B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
   C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
   D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”

8. Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   C. William Woodsworth
   D. Emily Dickinson

9. 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

10. Pope’s comment that “Know, then, thyself, presume God not to scan;/The proper study of mankind is man” in his “Essay on Man” is indicative of all of the following EXCEPT______________?

    A. his use of the heroic couplet.
    B. an Enlightenment focus on useful knowledge.
    C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety and knowing limitations.
    D. a radical questioning of revealed religion