Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. How should we conceive poetry as advocated by Arnold?
a. Worthily and Highly
b. Highly and Mightily
c. Worthily and Prayerful
d. Mighty and Powerful
Q. What did Arnold say will appear incomplete if not for poetry?
a. Religion
b. Philosophy
c. Science
d. Knowledge
Q. Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between
a. Excellent and inferior
b. Sound and unsound
c. True and untrue
d. All of the above
Q. In poetry, as a criticism of life, the spirit of our race will find its _____________
a. Consolation
b. Beauty
c. Truth
d. Sanctity
Q. Mathew Arnold said that the best poetry will be found to have a power of
a. Informing, observing and delighting
b. Guiding, reforming and appreciating
c. Binding, combining and structuring
d. Forming, sustaining and delighting
Q. The different kinds of estimations propounded by Arnold were
a. Historical, Personal and Real
b. Didactic, Prosaic and Autotelic
c. Personal, Historical, Complete
d. None of the above
Q. Arnold was of the view that Chaucer’s superiority is found in his______
a. Diction and subject
b. Manner and style
c. Style and substance
d. Form and subject
Q. Which quality is not needful for a fit prose according to Arnold?
a. Regularity
b. Precision
c. Balance
d. Exclusivity
Q. Poetry is a criticism of life under the ______ fixed for such a criticism
a. Laws
b. Ideals
c. Morals.
d. Conditions
Q. Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______
a. Prose
b. Morals
c. Fiction
d. Poetry
Q. In the age of Pope and Dryden, Arnold regards _________ as a unique poet.
a. Milton
b. Keats
c. Pope
d. Gray
Q. Arnold states, “But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of
a. godlike illusion”
b. human illusion”
c. divine illusion”
d. wonderful illusion”
Q. “Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea: the idea is the
a. fact”
b. knowledge”
c. history”
d. theory”
Q. Arnold states, “The strongest part of our religion is its
a. unconscious verses”
b. unconscious poetry”
c. unconscious lyrics”
d. unconscious history”