Alexander Pope Previous Year UGC-NET English
1. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.” The above lines are quoted from
- (A)MacFlecknoe
- (B)The Rape of the Lock
- (C)Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
- (D)Absalom and Achitophel
2. “First follow ____________ and your judgement frame. By her just __________, which is still the same.” Supply the appropriate words to fill in the blanks.
“First follow ____________ and your judgement frame.
By her just __________, which is still the same.”
- (A)wit, law
- (B)reason, rule
- (C)nature, standard
- (D)sense, criterion
3. The main idea of Pope’s The Dunciad was taken from:
- (A)Absalom and Achitophel
- (B)Mac-Flecknoe
- (C)The Medal
- (D)An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
4. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus?
- (A)Lady Wortley Montague
- (B)Joseph Addison
- (C)Lord Shaftsbury
- (D)Lord Harvey
5. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in
- (A)three cantos
- (B)four cantos
- (C)five cantos
- (D)two cantos
6. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
- (A)Luck
- (B)Shock
- (C)Pluck
- (D)Muck
7. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
- (A)The sun
- (B)The moon
- (C)The North Star
- (D)The rose
8. Sir Plume is a character in ____
- (A)Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
- (B)Congreve’s The Way of the World
- (C)Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
- (D)Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem
9. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
- (A)A mock heroic poem
- (B)Written in heroic couplets
- (C)Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
- (D)Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos
10. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary individuals:
- (A)Addison and Lord Hervey
- (B)Dryden and Rochester
- (C)Swift and Steele
- (D)Smollett and Defoe
11. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”
- (A)Pope’s father
- (B)Pope himself
- (C)Dr. Arbuthnot
- (D)The Duke of Marlborough
12. In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your piece nine years'” – which enjoins on writer’s patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose “counsel” is Pope referring to?
- (A)Longinus’s in On the Sublime
- (B)Horace’s in Ars Poetica
- (C)Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- (D)Aristotle’s Poetics
13. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
- (A)Belinda
- (B)Clarissa
- (C)Betty
- (D)Thalestris
14. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
- (A)It is given back to its rightful owner.
- (B)It is preserved in a monument.
- (C)It turns into a star.
- (D)It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude.
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