General English - About the Poets and their various works
Exam Duration: 60 Mins Total Questions : 30
The edition produced by Yale University is called as
- (a)
Shakespeare's gods
- (b)
University of Shakespeare
- (c)
Yale Shakespeare
- (d)
Shakespeare our "era"
__ is not related with William Shakespeare
- (a)
Cambridge Shakespeare
- (b)
The Oxford Shakespeare
- (c)
Yale Shakespeare
- (d)
Dramatic Shakespeare
Brother of Rabindranath Tagore is __
- (a)
Jyotirindranath Tagore
- (b)
Bhuvanesh Tagore
- (c)
Surendranath Tagore
- (d)
Subash chandranath Tagore
In which year Tagore wrote his finest drama of "visarjan"
- (a)
1892
- (b)
1890
- (c)
1899
- (d)
1789
Internationally, ___ is Tagore's best-known collection of all time
- (a)
Gitanjali
- (b)
Mahayana
- (c)
Vedic period
- (d)
Charulata
Among Tagore's work, his novels are __
- (a)
Last-acknowledged
- (b)
Fine-acknowledged
- (c)
Least-acknowledged
- (d)
Trust-acknowledged
Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from __ until his death in 1850
- (a)
1843
- (b)
1844
- (c)
1841
- (d)
1842
The poem "I Wondered Lovely as a cloud" also known as __
- (a)
Daffodils
- (b)
Dangodils
- (c)
European alice
- (d)
West or East
Wordsworth had for years been making plans to write along philosophical poem in __ parts
- (a)
Nine
- (b)
Seven
- (c)
Three
- (d)
Five
Who is the first American to translate "The Co Divine Comedy"?
- (a)
Robert Frost
- (b)
H.W. Longfellow
- (c)
Archibald Lampman
- (d)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem "Voices of the Night" from H.W. Longfellow was published in the year
- (a)
1839
- (b)
1841
- (c)
1859
- (d)
1843
H.W. Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in
- (a)
Newyork
- (b)
Massachusetts
- (c)
Virginia
- (d)
Arkansas
Walker's father was an __
- (a)
Doctor
- (b)
Scientist
- (c)
Civil Engineer
- (d)
Cheif Electrical Officer
Walker's fifth Novel 'Two rival lovers' was published in the year of
- (a)
1884
- (b)
1885
- (c)
1880
- (d)
1881
In 1989, Mrs.Coghill Senea was the __ of her second cousin's auto-biography
- (a)
Proof-reader
- (b)
Typist
- (c)
Editor
- (d)
All the done
Oscar Fingal o' Flaherite Wills Wilde is an __ writer and poet
- (a)
English
- (b)
Irish
- (c)
American
- (d)
Austrian
What is the chinese name of Pearl S. Buck?
- (a)
Sai Zhenzhu
- (b)
San - Cheug - Yuki
- (c)
Micheal - Cltang
- (d)
Ho - Chi - Min
Pick the odd one out of the following
- (a)
The Mother
- (b)
Other Gods
- (c)
The Promise
- (d)
The Good deed
Match the following:
POETS | PLACE OF BIRTH |
Robert Frost | Ontario, Canada |
Archibald Lampman | Stratford-upon-Avon |
William Shakespeare | Bangalore, India |
V.K. Gokak | California, U.S.A |
- (a)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (b)
a b c d 4 1 2 3 - (c)
a b c d 2 4 3 1 - (d)
a b c d 3 2 4 1
Match the following:
POETS | FAMOUS - BOOKS |
Rabindranath Tagore | A Brush with Life |
Sathish Gujral | C.N. Annadurai |
Chetan Bhagat | Geethanjali |
Velaikari | Revolution 2020 |
- (a)
a b c d 4 3 2 1 - (b)
a b c d 3 1 4 2 - (c)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (d)
a b c d 2 4 1 3
Match the following:
POETS | EDUCATION |
Ruskin Bond | Christ Chruch, Oxford |
Lewis Caroll | Kenyon College |
Randell Jarrell | Yale university |
Stephen Vincent Benet | Bishop Cotton School |
- (a)
a b c d 4 1 2 3 - (b)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (c)
a b c d 2 3 4 1 - (d)
a b c d 3 4 1 2
Match the following:
POETS | PARENTS |
Rabindranath Tagore | Sarada Devi |
H.W. Longfellow | Zilpah Wadsworth |
D.H. Lawrence | Lydia Lawrence |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Robert |
- (a)
a b c d 4 3 2 1 - (b)
a b c d 3 4 1 2 - (c)
a b c d 2 1 4 3 - (d)
a b c d 1 2 3 4
The poet 'Henry Wordsworth Longfellow' belongs to
- (a)
Italy
- (b)
England
- (c)
America
- (d)
Russia
The poet Henry Wordsworth belongs to the period of
- (a)
1807-1882
- (b)
1818-1885
- (c)
1810-1890
- (d)
1813-1884
'Voices of the Night' included
- (a)
A Psalm of Life
- (b)
Eangeline
- (c)
Hiawatha
- (d)
The Courtship of Miles Standish
The work 'Ballads' is written by
- (a)
Anne Louisa walker
- (b)
H.W. Longfellow
- (c)
Dougals Malloch
- (d)
V.K. Gokak
V.K. Gokak, was a professor of
- (a)
Kannada
- (b)
Hindi
- (c)
Telugu
- (d)
English
During the period of ___ he served as the first Vice-Chancellor of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher learning at Puttaparthi, Anantapur district in A.P.
- (a)
1983 - 1986
- (b)
1984 - 1989
- (c)
1981 - 1987
- (d)
1981 - 1985
Which year the V.G. Gokak was awarded the Padmashree by the Government of India?
- (a)
1963
- (b)
1959
- (c)
1961
- (d)
1967
Who was the Associate Editor of American Lumberman?
- (a)
Walt Whitman
- (b)
Douglas Malloch
- (c)
H.W. Longfellow
- (d)
D.H. Lawrence