Top 150+ Solved General English MCQ Questions Answer
Q. William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
a. 1923
b. 1927
c. 1928
d. 1929
Q. What are the two ‘close bosom-friends’ mentioned in Ode to Autumn?
a. The bees and the flowers
b. The sun and the autumn season
c. The autumn season and the bees
d. The trees and the sun
Q. Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?
a. A gleaner
b. An old man
c. A gardener
d. An apple picker
Q. W.B. Yeats’ A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly afterYeats daughter, Anne’s birth.
a. 1918
b. 1919
c. 1920
d. 1922
Q. May she be granted ___________ and yet notBeauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught.
a. poise
b. virtue
c. beauty
d. fair
Q. The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is
a. Rhymes
b. Personification
c. Simile
d. Metaphor
Q. The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he
a. Is tired of reaping
b. Is drowsed with the fume of poppies
c. Wants to rest
d. Wants to relax
Q. The gleaner walks carefully across
a. Granary
b. Half reaped furrow
c. The winnowing wind
d. A brook
Q. Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?
a. Cider- presser
b. Cider- maker
c. Cider-brewer
d. Cider owner
Q. Who bleated from the hilly bourn?
a. Full grown lambs
b. Full grown sheep
c. Full grown bees
d. Full grown crickets
Q. According to Yeats, what is under the ‘cradle hood and coverlid’?
a. A baby
b. A rabbit
c. Feeding bottle
d. Milk