Top 50+ Solved The Study Poetry - Matthew Arnold MCQ Questions Answer
Q. only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___
a. duty
b. job
c. task
d. systems
Q. the first great principle of criticism emancipated by Arnold is __________
a. Disinterestedness
b. Detachment
c. Discernment
d. Disaffectation
Q. According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is
a. Gray
b. Pope
c. Burns
d. Milton
Q. Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason
a. Milton
b. Gray
c. Dryden
d. Pope
Q. In the study of poetry Arnold writes that we have to turn to poetry to
a. understand life and to sustain us
b. interpret life and to control us
c. interpret life and to console and sustain us
d. understand life and to strengthen us
Q. What confuses the distinctions between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound, true and untrue or only half-true in poetry?
a. Charlatanism
b. Philistinism
c. Estimates
d. High seriousness
Q. The definition of poetry as enunciated by Matthew Arnold in 'The Study of Poetry" is
a. A spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
b. A criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty
c. A just and lively image of human nature, to delight and instruct mankind
d. An imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of certain magnitude
Q. What has the power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can?
a. Excellent prose
b. Criticism
c. The best poetry
d. Drama
Q. According to Matthew Arnold, Chaucer is not one of the great classics because
a. His poetry does not transcend and efface the poetry of Catholic Christendom
b. His verse lacks liquidness and fluidity.
c. his poetry lacks virtue of manner and movement
d. None of the above
Q. According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is –
a. a criticism of life
b. spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
c. an escape from personality
d. the sensuous way of expression
Q. Who, according to Arnold is the father of English poetry?
a. Shakespeare
b. Wordsworth
c. Chaucer
d. Dryden
Q. In The Study of Poetry, Arnold puts stress on _______________ in poetry.
a. bright humour
b. high seriousness
c. sensuousness
d. want of seriousness
Q. The ‘touchstone method’ was propagated by –
a. Matthew Arnold
b. T.S. Eliot
c. F.R. Leavis
d. William Wordsworth