P. B. Shelly Previous Year UGC-NET

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P.B. Shelley Previous Year UGC-NET

1. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by:

(A)Shelley
(B)Wordsworth
(C)Keats
(D)Byron

2. Match the following:

Poet:

I. John Keats

II. P.B. Shelley

III. G.H. Hopkins

IV. Ted Hughes

Bird:

1. Hawk

2. Falcon

3. Skylark

4. Nightingale

I II III IV

(A)4 3 2 1
(B)4 3 1 2
(C)3 4 2 1
(D)3 4 1 2

3. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent?

(A)Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
(B)Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
(C)Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
(D)Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin

4. What is common to the following poems? Wordsworth’s ‘The Recluse’, Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’, Byron’s ‘Don Juan’, Keats’ ‘Hyperion’

(A)They are all elegies
(B)They are all unfinished poems
(C)They are all divided into cantos
(D)They are women-centred poems

5. Which famous Romantic poem begins with the line: ‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit! / Bird thou never wert’?

(A)“Ode to a Nightingale”
(B)“To the Cuckoo”
(C)“To a Skylark”
(D)“To the Daisy”

6. Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence?

(A)Philip Sidney – Astrophel and Stella
(B)Samuel Daniel – Delia
(C)Derek Walcott – Omeros
(D)D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life

7. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to the publication of

(A)The Revolt of Islam
(B)The Necessity of Atheism
(C)The Triumph of Life
(D)The Masque of Anarchy

8. Which of the following poems uses terza rima?

(A)John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B)P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C)William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D)Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

9. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)

(A)winter, spring
(B)autumn, summer
(C)wind, rains
(D)spring, winter

10. “Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then, as I am listening now.” Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?

(A)John Keats. The Nightingale
(B)P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C)William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(D)Robert Browning. The Grammarian

11. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?

(A)“Adonais”
(B)The Revolt of Islam
(C)“Ode to the West Wind”
(D)Alastor

12. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley. The poem consists of

(A)Fourteen line terza rima stanzas
(B)four-lined stanza characterized by swift action
(C)A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(D)An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

13. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?

(A)Mont Blanc
(B)“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
(C)“Adonais”
(D)Alastor

14. Match the character with the author:

List – I (Characters):

I. Madeline

II. Prometheus

III. Urizen

IV. Childe Harold

List – II (Authors):

A. Blake

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

I II III IV

(A)B C A D
(B)C D A B
(C)D C A B
(D)C D B A

15. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais”?

(A)Miletus
(B)Socrates
(C)Plato
(D)Aristotle

16. Arrange the following Elegies in English in Chronological order:

(A)“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – “Adonais” – “Thyrsis” – “In Memoriam”
(B)“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – “Adonais” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
(C)“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – “In Memoriam” – “Adonais” – “Thyrsis”
(D)“Adonais” – “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”

17. Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem in four cantos and the short lyric, “The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy”?

(A)S.T. Coleridge
(B)Lord Byron
(C)Thomas Gray
(D)P.B. Shelley

18. Match List I and List II:

List I (Author):

A. John Keats

B. William Wordsworth

C. P.B. Shelley

D. William Blake

List II (Work):

I. Alastor

II. Songs of Experience

III. Comic

IV. The Excursion

(A)A – III, B – I, C – IV, D – II
(B)A – III, B – IV, C – I, D – II
(C)A – I, B – IV, C – III, D – II
(D)A – IV, B – II, C – I, D – III

19. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, “An Address to the Irish People” was composed by

(A)W.B. Yeats
(B)P.B. Shelley
(C)Jonathan Swift
(D)G.B. Shaw

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