Category: Prose Writers Of Romantic Age Objective Questions

Prose Writers Of Romantic Age Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unlike which Romantic poet, who was interested in natural surroundings and shunned society, Lamb was deeply interested in the city crowd, its pleasures and occupations, its endless comedies and tragedies?

1. Coleridge
2. Keats
3. Wordsworth

Answer: C

2. Which prose writer never married, but devoted himself to the care of his sister Mary, ten years his senior?

1. Charles Lamb
2. Hazlitt
3. De Quincy

Answer: A

3. In which prose work of Lamb, he himself revealed his own personality, he talks intimately to the readers about himself, his experiences and the cheerful and heroic struggle which he made against misfortunes?

1. Essays of Elia (1823)
2. Last Essays (1833)
3. Both a and b

Answer: C

4. Who in his essays interpreted with great insight and human sympathy that crowded human life of joys and sorrows?

1. Hazlitt
2. Lamb
3. Jane Austen

Answer: B

5. In every essays Lamb’s style changes because he makes use of the rhythms and vocabularies of the 16th and 17th-century writers he loved most, these are:

1. Milton, Sir Thomas Browne
2. Fuller, Burton, Isaac Walton
3. Both a and b

Answer: C

6. Who is the most lovable of all English essayists, and in his hand the Essay reached its perfection?

1. Lamb
2. Jane Austen
3. Hazlitt

Answer: A

7. Who said about Lamb’s Essays “a loose sally of the mind”?

1. Jane Austen
2. Johnson
3. Hazlitt

Answer: B

8. “The Prince among English Essayists” title goes to which prose writer of the Romantic Age?

1. Lamb
2. Jane Austen
3. De Quincy

Answer: A

9. Who was a man of violent temper, with strong likes and dislikes, and at the time of his death only which prose writer stood by him?

1. De Quincy
2. Lamb
3. None

Answer: B

10. Which prose writer of Romantic age, wrote many volumes of essays, of which the most effective is “The Spirit of the Age” (1825)?

1. Hazlitt
2. Lamb
3. De Quincy

Answer: A

11. “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”, is an autobiographical sketch is written by which Romantic prose writer?

1. Hazlitt
2. Lamb
3. De Quincy

Answer: C

12. A biography “The Caerars”, and the most perfect historical essay is “Joan of Arc” is written by:

1. De Quincy
2. Jane Austen
3. Hazlitt

Answer: A

13. “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is written by:

1. Jane Austen
2. Hazlitt
3. De Quincy

Answer: C

14. Who wrote very scholarly articles on Goethe, Pope, Schiller and Shakespeare and wrote a number of essays on science and theology?

1. Hazlitt
2. De Quincy
3. Jane Austen