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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
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GENERAL ENGLISH, ENG/II/FC/2
SEMESTER-II

UNIT-I: SONNET 116 & DEATH BE NOT PROUD
I. MCQ:
1. William Shakespeare was born in the year:
(a) 1588
(b) 1564
(c) 1616
(d) 1600
2. Sonnet 116 shares the poet‟s reflections on the nature of:
(a) ideal love
(b) ideal companionship
(c) ideal moments
(d) ideal friendship
3. Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______
(a) seen
(b) sees
(c) finds
(d) meets
4. Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks
(a) hours
(b) minutes
(c) honours
(d) times
5. “Death be not Proud” first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in
1633.
(a) Holy Sonnet IX
(b) Holy Sonnet X
(c) Holy Sonnet III
(d) Holy Sonnet XI
6. From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be
(a) melancholy
(b) statements
(c) pictures
(d) remembrances
7. And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul‟s
delivery
(a) bones
(b) bodies
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(c) leaps
(d) souls
8. One short sleep past, we wake ___________
(a) eternally
(b) immortally
(c) extraordinarily
(d) inevitably
9. Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is
(a) An allegory
(b) An epic
(c) A sonnet
(d) A metaphysical poem
10. The remover who comes with his bending sickle is
(a) Time
(b) Distance
(c) Society
(d) Hardships
11. Love is not love if it alters
(a) With every season
(b) For any reason
(c) With time
(d) When beauty fades
12. Love does not alter with brief hours and
(a) Minutes
(b) Weeks
(c) Days
(d) Seconds
13. John Donne is
(a) Afraid of death
(b) Challenging death
(c) Submitting to death
(d) Resisting death
14. According to Donne, death is a slave to
(a) Poison
(b) Chance
(c) Sleep
(d) Fate
15. According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is
(a) Sleep
(b) Poison
(c) Poppy
(d) Dreams

16. Rest of their bones refers to
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(a) The bones of everyone
(b) The bones of poets
(c) The bones of our best men
(d) The bones of rich men
17. “Sonnet 116” is a record of the poet‟s reflections on the nature of
(a) classical love
(b) friendship love
(c) romantic love
(d) ideal love
18. “Death, be not proud” first appeared as „Holy Sonnet X‟ in Songs and Sonnets, a
collection of 19 sonnets published in
(a) 1632
(b) 1633
(c) 1639
(d) 1640
19. Shakespeare‟s notion of ideal love in “Sonnet 116” is juxtaposed with the problems
of
(a) Instability
(b) Unsteadiness
(c) Unfaithfulness
(d) flux and change
20. According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more
(a) Pain
(b) Hunger
(c) Grief
(d) Death
21. Shakespeare compares true love to-
(a) a sun
(b) the guiding star
(c) the moon
(d) a compass
22. What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare?
(a) Even the strongest love is temporary
(b) True love remains steady
(c) Age and time alter love
(d) Love changes as life changes
23. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not _________.
(a) love
(b) true
(c) alter
(d) steady

24. In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented „death‟ as a –
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(a) powerless figure
(b) powerful figure
(c) murderer
(d) ruler over his soul
25. Donne considers death an immense pleasure similar to –
(a) sleep and fun
(b) fun and game
(c) sleep and rest
(d) rest and game
26. The poet of, „Death be not proud,‟ is
(a) John Keats
(b) John Donne
(c) John Dryden
(d) John Milton
27. „Death be not proud,‟ is a poem of
(a) 10 lines
(b) 14 lines
(c) 12 lines
(d) 16 lines
28. _________ are the pictures of Death
(a) War and sickness
(b) Rest and sleep
(c) Mighty and dreadful
(d) Chance and fate
29. And soonest our __________ with thee do go
(a) Best kings
(b) Best charms
(c) Best men
(d) Desperate men
30. The poem, „Death be not proud,‟ is
(a) An elegy
(b) A ballad
(c) A sonnet
(d) An epic
31. Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.
(a) Changes
(b) Shifts
(c) Moves
(d) Alters

32. Sonnet 116 is composed by
(a) William Shakespeer
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) William Shakepeare
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(d) William Shakespear
33. In Sonnet 116, True love is
(a) Constant
(b) Consistent
(c) Continuous
(d) Consuming
34. According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the
(a) endpoint
(b) edge of doom
(c) antemeridian
(d) postmeridian

35. True love does not change with
(a) time
(b) backward
(c) fall
(d) conclusion

36. True love is
(a) Immortal
(b) Mortal
(c) Dishonest
(d) corrupt

37. In „Death be not proud‟ the poet argues about the
(a) mightiness of death
(b) powerlessness of death
(c) foulness of death
(d) vileness of death

38. Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and
(a) queens
(b) luck
(c) charms
(d) desperate men
39. Love's not Time's
(a) Friend
(b) Foe
(c) Fiend
(d) Fool
40. Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____
(a) Poor Men
(b) Rich Men
(c) Desperate Men
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(d) Honest Men

II. Fill in the blanks:
1. It is the star to every wand‟ring bark,/Whose ______ unknown although his height
be taken.
2. And ______ or charms can make us sleep as well/ And better than thy stroke
3. Love‟s not Time‟s _____ .
4. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge
of _______.
5. One short sleep past, we wake __________ / And death shall be no more; Death,
thou shalt die.
6. Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and ________
7. It is the star to every wandering ___________.
8. Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou ________ me.
9. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit ___________
10. From rest and sleep, which but thy _____ be
11. A Sonnet has ______ lines.
12. Love looks on tempests and is never ________
13. Rest and sleep are ______ of Death.
14. The poem “Death be not Proud” proclaims in the end that Death shall _____
15. The poem “Death be not Proud” is also known as _________
16. The poem “Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds” is also known as ________
17. Death is a ______ to kings, chance and desperate men.
18. Some people have called Death mighty and ____
19. Love looks on _____ and is never shaken.
20. The last two lines of a sonnet is called a _____

Unit- I Keys:
I. MCQ
1. (b)
2. (a)
3. (c)
4. (a)
5. (b)
6. (c)
7. (a)
8. (a)
9. (c)
10. (a)
11. (b)
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12. (b)
13. (b)
14. (b)
15. (c)
16. (c)
17. (d)
18. (b)
19. (d)
20. (d)
21. (b)
22. (b)
23. (a)
24. (a)
25. (c)
26. (b)
27. (b)
28. (b)
29. (c)
30. (c)
31. (d)
32. (b)
33. (a)
34. (b)
35. (a)
36. (a)
37. (b)
38. (d)
39. (d)
40. (c)

II. Fill in the blanks:
1. worth‟s
2. poppy
3. fool
4. doom
5. eternally
6. Desperate men
7. bark
8. kill
9. impediments
10. Pictures
11. fourteen
12. shaken
13. Pictures
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14. Die
15. Holy Sonnet X
16. Sonnet 116
17. Slave
18. Dreadful
19. Tempests
20. couplet

UNIT-II: ODE TO AUTUMN & PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER
I. MCQ
1. Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.
(a) hopefulness
(b) serenity
(c) calmness
(d) conspiracy
2. Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor
(a) marble
(b) wooden
(c) half-reaped
(d) granary
3. John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:
(a) 26
(b) 39
(c) 45
(d) 23
4. Yeats wrote “A Prayer for My Daughter” after the birth of his daughter Anne in:
(a) 1865
(b) 1919
(c) 1939
(d) 1914
5. May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger‟s eye _______
(a) captivated
(b) distracted
(c) distraught
(d) wander
6. Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will
(a) God‟s
(b) Heaven‟s
(c) her
(d) thine
7. How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?
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(a) innocence
(b) truth
(c) nature
(d) grace
8. Autumn is the season of mists and
(a) Ripe fruitfulness
(b) Mellow fruitfulness
(c) Soft fruitfulness
(d) Juicy fruitfulness
9. The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir
(a) Among the river sallows
(b) Among the river bushes
(c) Among the river willows
(d) Among the river plants
10. Autumn is called the bosom friend of the
(a) Blazing sun
(b) Bright sun
(c) Maturing sun
(d) Gigantic sun
11. The reaper felt sleepy with the
(a) fume of daisies
(b) fume of poppies
(c) fume of roses
(d) fume of hyacinths
12. “The Great Queen” that rose out of the spray is
(a) Maud Gonne
(b) Venus
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Yeats‟ daughter
13. Ceremony is a name for
(a) A rich horn
(b) A spreading laurel tree
(c) Innocence and beauty born
(d) Wealth and glory
14. The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is
(a) His daughter
(b) Lady Gregory
(c) Maud Gonne
(d) Helen of Troy
15. A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to
(a) Maud Gonne
(b) Anna Yeats
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Helen of Troy
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16. The poem “A Prayer for My Daughter” was written after the birth of Yeats‟ daughter.
His daughter‟s name is
(a) Anne
(b) Lily
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Amy
17. Accordingly, Keats‟ poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader‟s
(a) Interpretation
(b) Understanding
(c) Imagination
(d) perspective

21. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is
(a) Autumn
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) spring
22. Once more the storm is howling and
(a) half hid
(b) half buried
(c) half revealed
(d) half shown
23. Keats was a poet of
(a) Feelings
(b) Senses
(c) Perceptions
(d) thoughts
24. William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
(a) 1923
(b) 1927
(c) 1928
(d) 1929
25. What are the two „close bosom-friends‟ mentioned in Ode to Autumn?
(a) The bees and the flowers
(b) The sun and the autumn season
(c) The autumn season and the bees
(d) The trees and the sun
26. Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?
(a) sounds
(b) signs
(c) songs
(d) sorrows
27. Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?
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