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25 April, 2026

Alfred Lord Tennyson MCQ Test Series

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Alfred Lord Tennyson – MCQ Test (PGT English | 50 Questions)

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UP TGT PGT English Practice Set – Idioms and Phrases MCQs for Exam

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Poetic Forms Mastery: Rhyme Royal to Sonnets - MCQ Test Series

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14 April, 2026

Wordsworth • Biography, Poetry & Legacy • 50 MCQs , UP TGT / PGT English

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John Galsworthy: Life & Works - MCQ Test Series

John Galsworthy: Life & Works - MCQ Test Series

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13 April, 2026

Figures of Speech • 50 MCQs • Literary Devices Quiz

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11 April, 2026

John Milton MCQS , UP TGT English

“Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart / Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea” – Who said this and where?
a) Wordsworth in Sonnet on Milton
b) Arnold in Shakespeare
c) Coleridge in Ancient Mariner
d) None of these
Answer: a
“Yet thy heart / The lowliest duties on herself did lay.” – The lines are about Milton. Who said this and where?
a) Shelley in Adonais
b) Wordsworth in Sonnet on Milton
c) Arnold in Shakespeare
d) None of these
Answer: b
“He (a poet) ought to himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things.” – Who said this?
a) Milton
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) Shakespeare
Answer: a
“Before one can write literature, which is the expression of the ideal, he must first develop in himself the ideal man—the lofty ideal of Fra Angelico.” – Who said this?
a) Shelley
b) Wordsworth
c) Shakespeare
d) Milton
Answer: d
“Because Milton’s human he must know the best in humanity.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Compton Rickett
b) Long
c) Albert
d) Hudson
Answer: b
“His style was unconsciously sublime because he lived and thought consciously in a sublime atmosphere.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Compton Rickett about Milton
b) Long about Milton
c) Long about Shakespeare
d) None of these
Answer: b
Who was Milton’s master?
a) Chaucer
b) Burton
c) Homer
d) Spenser
Answer: d
Milton was also influenced by Fletcher’s:
a) The Nativity
b) The Creativity
c) Christ’s Victory and Triumph
d) None of these
Answer: c
“For I thought it base to be travelling at my ease for intellectual culture while my fellow countrymen at home were fighting for liberty.” – Who gave up travelling with this plea?
a) Shakespeare
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) Milton
Answer: d
Who commented on Milton saying: “This man cuts us all out, and the Ancient too.”
a) Dryden
b) Wordsworth
c) Arnold
d) None of these
Answer: a
Areopagitica highlights:
a) Freedom of sex
b) Freedom of divorce
c) Freedom to adopt any religion
d) Freedom of the press
Answer: d
Paradise Lost is in:
a) Blank verse
b) Free verse
c) Stanza form
d) Spenserian Stanza
Answer: a
Who has described Paradise Lost as “the dream of a Puritan fallen asleep over his Bible”?
a) George Sampson
b) Rickett
c) Lamartine
d) None of these
Answer: c
“The abilities of the poet are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed.” – Who said this?
a) Milton
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
Answer: a
Restoration came in:
a) 1660
b) 1661
c) 1662
d) 1663
Answer: a
Great Plague occurred in:
a) 1665
b) 1666
c) 1667
d) 1668
Answer: a
Who described Milton as “the mighty‑mouthed inventor of harmonies” and “God‑gifted organ voice of England”?
a) Arnold
b) Wordsworth
c) Shelley
d) Tennyson
Answer: d
Milton is said to be:
a) The first Elizabethan
b) The second Elizabethan
c) A belated Elizabethan
d) None of these
Answer: c
“From twelve years of age I hardly ever left my studies or went to bed before midnight.” – Whose statement is this?
a) Milton
b) Shakespeare
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
Answer: a
From 1632 to 1638, Milton continued his studies at:
a) Boston
b) Horton
c) Bread Street
d) None of these
Answer: b
In Paradise Lost Book First, Satan is compared to:
a) Giant
b) Ghost
c) Vampire
d) Leviathan
Answer: d
Satan can seduce man but on himself he will have:
a) treble confusion, wrath and vengeance
b) confusion, wrath and vengeance
c) five‑fold confusion, wrath and vengeance
d) none of these
Answer: a
Who was next to Satan?
a) Abel
b) Cain
c) Molach
d) Beelzebub
Answer: d
“We read Paradise Lost as a task—nobody ever wished it longer.” – Who said this?
a) Dr. Johnson
b) Ben Jonson
c) Arnold
d) None of these
Answer: a
George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick, Richard Crashaw, Richard Lovelace, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell are Milton’s:
a) Friends
b) Enemies
c) Contemporaries
d) None of these
Answer: c
Who stood for an austere, high‑principled, God‑fearing and blameless kind of life?
a) The Puritans
b) The Epicureans
c) The Utilitarian
d) None of these
Answer: a
During the age of Elizabeth, the Puritans were in:
a) Majority
b) Minority
c) Neither in majority nor in minority
d) None of these
Answer: b
“In an International Congress of Poets, Milton and Shakespeare would represent the English Nation.” – Who said this?
a) Oliver Elton
b) Mark Pattison
c) Long
d) None of these
Answer: b
“Milton was a passionate man who lived in passionate times.” – Who said this?
a) John Bailey
b) Pattison
c) Long
d) None of these
Answer: a
“Nor second He, that rode Sublime / Upon the seraph‑wings of Ecstasy / … He saw, but, blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night” – Who said this about Milton?
a) Shelley
b) Wordsworth
c) Gray
d) None of these
Answer: c
“Milton is rightly and judiciously classified with the two great epic poets of the world—Homer and Virgil.” – This statement is of:
a) Oliver Elton
b) Prof. Dobson
c) Dobree
d) None of these
Answer: d
Who appointed Milton to the post of Latin Secretary?
a) Cromwell
b) Charles I
c) James
d) None of these
Answer: a
“If Milton was a Puritan, he was also more than a Puritan.” – This statement is of:
a) Oliver Elton
b) Dobson
c) Huchinson
d) None of these
Answer: d
“Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour / England hath need of thee” – Who said these lines about Milton?
a) Shelley
b) Shakespeare
c) Arnold
d) Wordsworth
Answer: d
“O mighty‑mouthed inventor of harmonies / O skilled to sing of Time and Eternity / God‑gifted voice of England / Milton, a name to resound for ages” – Who praises Milton here?
a) Browning
b) Wordsworth
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
Answer: c
“They are the original Man and Woman not types but prototypes; if they were not set apart from ordinary humanity they would not be Adam and Eve.” – Who said this about Adam and Eve?
a) T. S. Eliot
b) Arnold
c) Oliver Elton
d) Mark Pattison
Answer: d
“To live with Milton is necessarily to learn that the art of poetry is no triviality, no mere amusement, but a high and grave thing, a thing of the choicest discipline of phrase, the finest craftsmanship of structure; the most nobly ordered music of sound.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Mark Pattison
b) Oliver Elton
c) Bailey
d) None of these
Answer: a
“His poetry acts like an incantation. … Change the structure of the sentence; substitute one synonym for another, and the whole effect is destroyed. The spell loses its power.” – Who said this?
a) Raleigh
b) Oliver Elton
c) Macaulay
d) None of these
Answer: c
“Shakespeare’s poetry is characterless; that is, it does not reflect the individual Shakespeare; but John Milton himself is in every line of the Paradise Lost. … The egotism of such a man is a revelation of spirit.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Arnold
b) Wordsworth
c) Long
d) Coleridge
Answer: d
Whose style is called “Grand Style”?
a) Milton
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) Shakespeare
Answer: a
“The style of Milton is the natural expression of a soul exquisitely nourished upon the best thoughts and finest words of all ages.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Oliver Elton
b) Pattison
c) Bailey
d) None of these
Answer: b
“In the sure and flawless perfection of his rhythm and diction he is as admirable as Virgil or Dante; and in this respect he is unique amongst us.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Matthew Arnold about Milton
b) Matthew Arnold about Shakespeare
c) Matthew Arnold about Wordsworth
d) None of these
Answer: a
Which epic of Milton is the product of the Reformation and the Renaissance?
a) Paradise Lost
b) Paradise Regained
c) Samson Agonistes
d) None of these
Answer: a
In Paradise Lost, Milton seems to be championing the cause of:
a) Woman freedom
b) Individualism
c) Utilitarianism
d) None of these
Answer: b
Which doctrine is found in Paradise Lost?
a) Freedom of Will
b) Freedom of Romance
c) Freedom of Wandering
d) Freedom of Sin
Answer: a
“Milton left a high road behind him along which many a tuneful pauper has since limped, but before him he found nothing but the jungle and false fires.” – Whose comment is this?
a) Raleigh
b) Oliver Elton
c) Dobree
d) Dobson
Answer: a
Who described Milton’s style as “a satin brocade stiff with gold”?
a) Oliver Elton
b) Mark Pattison
c) Dobree
d) Raleigh
Answer: d
“Milton wrote no language.” – Who said this?
a) Johnson
b) Ben Jonson
c) Arnold
d) Eliot
Answer: a
“The name of Milton is become the mark not of biography, nor of a theme, but of a style—the most distinguished in our poetry.” – Whose statement is this?
a) Raleigh
b) Oliver Elton
c) Dobree
d) Dobson
Answer: a
“Solitude, sometimes is the best society.” – Who said this?
a) Shelley
b) Shakespeare
c) Wordsworth
d) Milton
Answer: d
“Milton was of Devil’s party without knowing it.” – Who said this?
a) Blake
b) Dobree
c) Pattison
d) None of these
Answer: a
“Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God.” – Who said this?
a) Blake
b) Dobree
c) Hazlitt
d) None of these
Answer: c
Who wrote the music to Milton’s words?
a) Henry Lawes
b) Dobree
c) Michael Angelo
d) Raphel
Answer: a
The second wife of Milton is:
a) Katherine Woodcock
b) Mary Powell
c) Elisabeth Minshul
d) None of these
Answer: a
Milton became totally blind in:
a) 1650
b) 1651
c) 1652
d) 1653
Answer: c
“They also serve who only stand and wait.” – Where does this line appear?
a) Milton’s Paradise Lost
b) Milton’s On His Blindness
c) Milton’s Comus
d) None of these
Answer: b
Milton started writing it in 1658, completed it in 1665 and issued it in 1667. It is:
a) Paradise Regained
b) Paradise Lost
c) Comus
d) None of these
Answer: b
In 1671 Milton issued his last volume of poetry, which contained:
a) Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
b) Paradise Lost and On His Blindness
c) Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
d) None of these
Answer: c
The period known as the age of Milton is:
a) 1621‑1681
b) 1620‑1665
c) 1625‑1660
d) 1628‑1655
Answer: c
The age of Milton had three kinds of poets:
a) Religious, Heroic, Puritan
b) Metaphysical, Cavalier, Puritan
c) Metaphysical, Romantic, Dramatic
d) Cavalier, Religious, Classical
Answer: b
Paradise Lost was written by Milton in the _______ phase of life.
a) Middle
b) Last
c) Student
d) First
Answer: b
“It is surely the simple fact that if Paradise Lost exists for any one figure, that is Satan.” – Who says this?
a) L.A. Crombie
b) Blake
c) Saintsbury
d) W.J. Long
Answer: a
Forbidden tree refers to:
a) The tree of knowledge
b) The tree of ignorance
c) The tree of pleasure
d) None of these
Answer: a
Milton was one of the towering literary personalities of:
a) Elizabethan age
b) Puritan age
c) Classical age
d) None of these
Answer: b
Paradise Lost is in:
a) Iambic pentameter
b) Iambic hexameter
c) Iambic tetrameter
d) None of these
Answer: a
The theme of Paradise Lost is:
a) Fall of Woman
b) Fall of Man
c) Fall of Satan
d) Fall of God
Answer: b
Milton wrote Paradise Lost:
a) during Jacobean period
b) during Commonwealth period
c) after King Charles’ restoration
d) none of these
Answer: b
In Paradise Lost, Book I, the scene of the action takes place in:
a) Heaven
b) Earth
c) Hell
d) None of these
Answer: c
“I may ……… eternal providence, / And justify the ways of God to men.” – The missing word is:
a) state
b) assert
c) declare
d) say
Answer: b
“What in me is dark / Illumine, what is low raise and support” – Who is “me” in these lines?
a) Shakespeare
b) Milton
c) Satan
d) Adam
Answer: b
Which devil is Satan’s second‑in‑command?
a) Beelzebub
b) Belial
c) Abel
d) Cain
Answer: a
“Talent” in Milton’s sonnet stands for:
a) poetic talent
b) singing talent
c) music talent
d) none of these
Answer: a
Satan seduces:
a) Diana
b) Eda
c) Una
d) Eve
Answer: d
Evil is represented by:
a) Adam
b) Abel
c) bull
d) serpent
Answer: d
“Chosen seeds” refer to:
a) Israelites
b) Egyptian
c) Both are correct
d) Both are wrong
Answer: a
“The Shepherd” refers to:
a) Moses
b) Adam
c) Stan
d) Beelzebub
Answer: a
Milton invokes:
a) Heavenly Muse
b) Goddess Diana
c) Leda
d) None of these
Answer: a
“………. brought death into the world.” – The missing word is:
a) disobedience
b) obedience
c) bread
d) disease
Answer: a
“Milton was too busy to much miss his wife.” – Who said this?
a) Jonson
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Albert
d) None of these
Answer: b
“His style is that of a scholar writing of a scholar.” – Who said this?
a) Compton Rickett
b) Raleigh
c) Blake
d) Albert
Answer: b
“Milton’s style is not a simple loose flowing garment but it is concise.” – Who said this?
a) Compton Rickett
b) Albert
c) J. Long
d) Prof. Saintsbury
Answer: d
On His Blindness is a:
a) impersonal sonnet
b) personal sonnet
c) dark sonnet
d) sensual sonnet
Answer: b
“Milton’s early poetry is fruit of the receding romantic colour, emotion and vital intention.” – Who said this?
a) Iyengar
b) Saintsbury
c) Aurobindo
d) None of these
Answer: c
Milton is known for:
a) epic similes
b) ballads
c) lyric poetry
d) similes
Answer: a
Milton, a belated Elizabethan and the great poet of 17th century, adopts the style of Petrarch in writing:
a) ballads
b) lyrics
c) tragedies
d) sonnets
Answer: d
On His Blindness begins with:
a) “When I consider how my light is spent”
b) “When I think how my light is spent”
c) “When I reflect how my light is spent”
d) “When I consider how my eye light is spent”
Answer: a
On His Deceased Wife / To The Memory of His Second Wife is a sonnet which begins with:
a) “Methought I saw my late espoused saint”
b) “When I consider how my light is spent”
c) Both are correct
d) Both are wrong
Answer: a
Milton follows the Petrarchan pattern of Octave and Sestet with the rhyming scheme abba abba cde cde (or cdc dcd), but he does not follow:
a) the Petrarchan similes
b) the Petrarchan metaphors
c) the Petrarchan theme
d) none of these
Answer: c
The poet personifies Patience who comes and prevents him from making:
a) any murmur
b) any talk
c) a discussion
d) any appeal
Answer: a
Milton talks of “talent”. This talent is poetic talent. He alludes to one talent from the famous passage in:
a) the Bible (Matthew 25: 14‑30)
b) the Bible (Matthew 26: 14‑30)
c) the Bible (Matthew 27: 14‑30)
d) None of these
Answer: a
“E’re half my days, in this ……… world and wide” – The missing word is:
a) light
b) dark
c) bright
d) hopeless
Answer: b
“And that one Talent which is ……… to hide” – The missing word is:
a) life
b) death
c) God
d) Satan
Answer: b
“Lodg’d with ……… useless” – The missing word is:
a) me
b) him
c) her
d) them
Answer: a
“To serve therewith my ………, and present” – The missing word is:
a) Maker
b) God
c) Spirit
d) None of these
Answer: a
“Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State.” The poet talks of yoke. This yoke is of:
a) joys and sorrows
b) joys and pleasures
c) joys and bliss
d) none of these
Answer: a
“………… at his bidding speed” – The missing word is:
a) Hundreds
b) Thousands
c) No one
d) Millions
Answer: b
“thou from the first / Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread / Dove‑like satst brooding on the vast abyss / And mad’st it ………” – The missing word is:
a) pregnant
b) lifelike
c) dead
d) heaven
Answer: a
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book I has:
a) 797 lines
b) 800 lines
c) 1002 lines
d) 1004 lines
Answer: a
The loss of ……… marks the beginning of the sorrows of Adam and Eve.
a) Eden
b) Hell
c) Heaven
d) None of these
Answer: a
Who takes upon himself the original sin and sacrifices his life to save humanity from griefs and sufferings?
a) Jesus Christ
b) Satan
c) Adam
d) Eve
Answer: a
Whose teachings will open the door to Paradise for men?
a) Christ
b) Satan
c) Moses
d) None of these
Answer: a
Heavenly Muse inspires the shepherd (Moses) on the hidden top of:
a) Horeb or Sinai
b) Helicon
c) Both are correct
d) Both are wrong
Answer: a
Moses teaches first the Israelites (ancient Jews) how first the Heaven and Earth are created out of:
a) the chaos
b) the elements
c) the matter
d) none of these
Answer: a
Jerusalem is built on the hill of:
a) Sion
b) Helicon
c) Siloa
d) None of these
Answer: a
The Holy Spirit lives in just and sinless human heart and prefers the human heart to:
a) a church
b) a mosque
c) a temple
d) none of these
Answer: c
“Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose ……… taste” – The missing word is:
a) sweet
b) bitter
c) mortal
d) immortal
Answer: c

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