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Important MCQs for National Eligibility Test

1. The term ‘metaphysical’ was first used by –
a. Samuel Johnson in Life of Cowley   b. Dryden in Discourse Concerning Satire   c. Helen Gardner in Metaphysical poets    d. Plato
2. ‘He affects the metaphysics’. Who is talking about whom?
a. Dryden about Donne   b. Johnson about Cowley   c. Plato about philosophers   d. Helen Gardner about Vaughan
3. ‘'Twill tear and blow up all within,
      Like a granado shot into a magazine.’ What is compared to a hand grenade?
a. Lover’s heart   b. Lover’s eyes   c. Lover’s body   d. Lover’s breasts

4. ‘The poets in question have, like other poets, various faults. But they were, at best, engaged in the task of trying to find the verbal equivalent for states of mind and feeling.’ (from The Metaphysical Poets) Who said this
a. Dryden   b. Johnson   c. Eliot   d. Yeats

5. ‘If they be two, they are two so
   As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
   To move, but doth, if the other do.’ – Name the poem.
a. The Flea     b. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning   c. The Good-Morrow   d. The Anniversarie

6. ‘Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.’  The lines are from

a. The Flea     b. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning   c. The Good-Morrow   d. The Anniversarie

7. Anatomy of Melancholy is written by
a. Browne   b. Fuller   c. Taylor   d. Burton

8. To the Nightingale is a sonnet written by-

a. Milton   b. Keats   c. Vaughan   d. Drayton

9. Who wrote Areopagitica?

a. Milton   b. Keats   c. Vaughan   d. Drayton

10. Paradise Regained was published in-

a. 1669   b. 1670   c. 1671   d. 1672

11. Samson Agonistes was published in-

a. 1669   b. 1670   c. 1671   d. 1672

12. Paradise Lost is about the temptation of

a. Man   b. God   c. Satan   d. Belzeebub

13. The entire drama of Samson Agonistes takes place in

a. Earth   b. Heaven   c. Hell   d. Samson’s soul

14. Pagan Renaissance is called as-

a. Arcadis   b. Lycidas   c. Nightingale   d. Comus

15. Religio Medici and Pseudodoxia Epidemica are written by
a. Browne   b. Fuller   c. Taylor   d. Burton

16. ‘And calm of mind, all passion spent’-
The line is fron

a. Comus   b. Samson Agonistes   c. Paradise Lost   d. L’Allegro

17. ‘To Daffodils’ is a poem written by

a. Herrick   b. Wordsworth   c. Keats   d. Shelley

18. Temple is a collection of poems by

a. Carew   b. Herrick   c. Herbert   d. Crashaw

19. Who among the following is a Cavalier poet?

a. Vaughan   b. Crashaw   c. Suckling   d. Anne Finch

20. Which group of poets did Saintsburry talk about when he said ‘ the habit common to the school of poets, of always seeking to express something after, something behind, the simple, obvious first sense and suggestion of a subject’ ?
a. Metaphysical Poets   b. Cavalier Poets   c. Later Elizabethan Poets    d. The Caroline Poetry

21. On the Death of Mr. Crashaw is a poem by

a. Crashaw   b. Donne   c. Cowley   d. Vaughan

22. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one
a. The Flea     b. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning   c. The Good-Morrow   d. The
Anniversarie

23. Who is not a Cavalier poet?

a. Suckling   b. Fletcher   c. Herrick   d. Lovelace

24. Vulgar Errors was written by

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

25. Who wrote Hesperides?

 a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

26. Swinburne called him ‘the greatest song-writer ever born of English race’. Who is he?

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

27. Who wrote Ballad upon a Wedding?

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Suckling   d. Herrick

28. To My Worthy Friend George Sandys is wriiten by

a. Bunyan   b. Carew  c. Milton   d. Herrick

29. To Lucasta on Going to the Wars is written by

a. Lovelace  b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

30. Church History of Britain is written by

a. Browne   b. Fuller   c. Taylor   d. Burton

31. Who was a member of Falkland’s circle?

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Suckling

32. Who wrote On His Blindness?

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

33. Who wrote The Massacre in Piedmont?

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

34. Who wrote On Reaching  the age of Twenty-three?

a. Bunyan   b. Browne   c. Milton   d. Herrick

35. Elegy upon the Death of the Death of Pauls, Dr. John Donne is written by
a. Herrick   b. Lovelace   c. Suckling   d. Carew

36. ‘ A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.’ Who made this statement ?
a. T. S. Eliot   b. W. B. Yeats   c. Gardner   d. Saintsbury

37. Who esteemed Donne ‘the first poet in the world for somethings’?
a. Samuel Johnson   b. Ben Jonson   c. T. S. Eliot   d. Helen Gardner

38. ‘A king who ruled as he thought fit,
       The universal monarchy of wit’
Who said this of Donne
a. Herbert   b. Crashaw   c. Carew   d. Lovelace

39. Who wrote Centuries of Meditations?

a. Herbert   b. Traherne   c.Cowley   d. Marvell


40. Charles Cotton described whom as a "soul composed of harmonies"?
a. Marvell   b. Herbert   c. Donne   d. Milton

41. Who wrote ‘Pindaric Odes?

a. Herbert   b. Traherne   c.Cowley   d. Marvell

42.  Who wrote the patriotic poem ‘Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return to England’?
a. Herbert   b. Traherne   c.Cowley   d. Marvell

43. Who wrote ‘the Rules and Exercise of Holy Living and Holy Dying?

a. Thomas Fuller   b. Jeremy Taylor   c. Robert Burton   d. Thomas Browne

44. Thomas Carew wrote an erotic poem. Identify it-

a. Coelum Britannicum   b. To My Worthy Friend GeorgeSandys   c. To Ben Jonson   d. A Rupture
45. Who wrote Silex Scintillans?
a. Vaughan   b. Traherne   c. Cowley   d. Marvell
46. Silex Scintillans and Silex Scintillans II were published in
a. 1645 & 1650   b. 1640 & 1645   c. 1650 & 1655   d. 1675 & 1680
47. Milton wrote his first work, an ode while he was still an under-graduate student of Oxford. Identify.
a. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity   b. L’Allegro   b. Il Penseroso   c. Comus
48. Milton wrote a masque. Identify-
a. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity   b. L’Allegro   b. Il Penseroso   c. Comus
49. Milton wrote an elegy upon the death of Edward king. Identify
a. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity   b.Lycidas   b. Il Penseroso   c. Comus

50. I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee. 
Identify the poem.


a. The Flea     b. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning   c. The Good-Morrow   d. The Anniversarie

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