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P. B. Shelly Previous Year UGC-NET

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 โ€“ Astrophel and Stella
  • (B)Samuel Daniel โ€“ Delia
  • (C)Derek Walcott โ€“ Omeros
  • (D)D.G. Rossetti โ€“ 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

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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 โ€“ I (Characters):
I. Madeline
II. Prometheus
III. Urizen
IV. Childe Harold
List โ€“ 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” โ€“ “Adonais” โ€“ “Thyrsis” โ€“ “In Memoriam”
  • (B)“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” โ€“ “Adonais” โ€“ “In Memoriam” โ€“ “Thyrsis”
  • (C)“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” โ€“ “In Memoriam” โ€“ “Adonais” โ€“ “Thyrsis”
  • (D)“Adonais” โ€“ “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” โ€“ “In Memoriam” โ€“ “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 โ€“ III, B โ€“ I, C โ€“ IV, D โ€“ II
  • (B)A โ€“ III, B โ€“ IV, C โ€“ I, D โ€“ II
  • (C)A โ€“ I, B โ€“ IV, C โ€“ III, D โ€“ II
  • (D)A โ€“ IV, B โ€“ II, C โ€“ I, D โ€“ 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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