MCQ Bank
Choose the correct option.
In the opening of the poem ‘A Poison Tree’ the speaker was _______ with his friend.
- A) ready to talk
- B) angry
- C) reserve
- D) happy
Choose the correct option.
The tone of the poem ‘London’ is ---------------.
- A) Fearful
- B) Whimsical
- C) Cheerful
- D) Sorrowful
Which stylistic device has been used in the given line?
‘Tiger! Tiger! burning bright'
- A) Metaphor
- B) Personification
- C) Alliteration
- D) Simile
Which of the following poem has the sorrowful and sad tone?
- A) The Little Black Boy
- B) A Poison Tree
- C) London
- D) Tyger
The reference of the ‘harlots’ in the poem ‘London’ is for the:
- A) Prostitutes
- B) Destitute children
- C) Soldiers
- D) Poor people
The rhyme scheme of the poem ‘The Poison Tree’ is ----------------.
- A) AABB
- B) AABC
- C) ABBA
- D) ABBC
Wordsworth was greatly inspired by the -------------- revolution.
- A) French
- B) Cuban
- C) Iranian
- D) London
The title of the poem‘The Poison Tree’ signifies:
- A) Love and compassion
- B) Love and hatred
- C) Love and anger
- D) Hatred and anger
To whom does "The Little Black Boy" compare himself?
- A) the night sky
- B) a white English boy
- C) a tired farm animal
- D) a scorched plant
The cry of the Cuckoo reminds Wordsworth of his ____________.
- A) love relations
- B) his childhood
- C) native land
- D) dreams
‘Near where the charter'd Thames does flow’. This line appears in the poem entitled _______.
- A) London
- B) Tyger
- C) The Little Black Boy
- D) A Poison Tree
The line "the Child is the father of Man", is taken from the poem ------------------.
- A) ‘The Rainbow’
- B) ‘Love in a Life’
- C) ‘The Solitary Reaper’
- D) ‘To a Skylark’
Wordsworth took great interest in the French Revolution of _______.
- A) 1810
- B) 1805
- C) 1840
- D) 1789
Choose the correct option.
The poem ‘To the cuckoo’ has a regular, simple rhyme scheme of:
- A) BABA
- B) BBAA
- C) AABB
- D) ABAB
Choose the correct option.
What does the imagery of the "black'ning church" in the poem ‘London’ represents?
- A) Religious zeal and fervor
- B) Paint the church black
- C) A quest to find lost values
- D) Society’s abandonment of religion
Choose the correct option.
The poem ‘Tyger’ is written by ----------------.
- A) Philip Larkin
- B) William Wordsworth
- C) William Blake
- D) Robert Browning
William Blake can be called as one of the earliest champions of ____________.
- A) Chauvinism
- B) Pluralism
- C) Feminism
- D) Syllogism
The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into an octave, the first eight lines and a sestet, the last_______.
- A) six lines
- B) eight lines
- C) nine line
- D) seven lines
Wordsworth was a/an ___________.
- A) Monotheist
- B) Theist
- C) Pantheist
- D) Atheist
The poem ‘London’ represents----------.
- A) Political & religious corruption
- B) Misery & injustice
- C) All of the above
- D) Poverty