About the Poets ( Part- C )
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Question 1 |
Who among the following is a Bengali poet and has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
Mahasweta Devi | |
Rabindranath Tagore | |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | |
Sunil Gangopadhyay |
Question 2 |
David Herbert Lawrence occupies a unique position among the leading …………
of England.
Modernist writers | |
Classical writers | |
Victorian writers | |
Neo-classical writers |
Question 3 |
Rabindranath Tagore won the____ for his ‘Gitanjali’.
Washington Prize | |
Man Booker International Prize | |
Nobel Prize | |
American Book Award |
Question 4 |
Pulitzer prize for literature was awarded for the poem “American Civil War, John Brown’s Body”. ‘Who wrote this poem?
Rabindranath Tagore | |
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow | |
William Wordsworth | |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
Question 5 |
In which year did H.W. Longfellow publish his first volume of poems?
in 1838 | |
in 1839 | |
in 1837 | |
in 1836 |
Question 6 |
Who was the only poet honoured with the title “Poet Laureate of Michigan”.
William Wordsworth | |
Edgar Allen Poe | |
Kahl Gibran | |
Edgar A Guest |
Question 7 |
Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in
1947 | |
1920 | |
1913 | |
1964 |
Question 8 |
The National Anthem’ was written by
Sundaram Pillai | |
Rabindranath Tagore | |
Thiru V. Ka | |
Namakkal Kavignar |
Question 9 |
Walt Whitman, a famous poet, started his career as an
Typist | |
Office boy | |
Clerk | |
Teacher |
Question 10 |
The poet who made a bridge between The Victorian Age and The modernist movement was
Walt Whitman | |
Thomas Hardy | |
Robert Frost | |
William Shakeapeare |
Question 11 |
Annie Louisa walker was educated in
Kannada | |
India | |
France | |
Ontario |
Question 12 |
Walt Whitman started his career as an office boy in a law office in Brooklyn at the age of
Twenty | |
Eleven | |
Twenty Five | |
Fifteen |
Question 13 |
Who wrote the sonnet ‘composed upon Westminster Bridge’?
William Shakespeare | |
William Wordsworth | |
John Donne | |
John Keats |
Question 14 |
When was Jane Masefield born?
1st June 1878 | |
1st June 1868 | |
1st June 1888 | |
1st June 1858 |
Question 15 |
V.K. Gokak was a professor of—–
Telugu | |
English | |
Tamil | |
Kannada |
Question 16 |
Which state does the poet, Kamala Das belong to
Tamilnadu | |
Kerala | |
Maharashtra | |
Karnataka |
Question 17 |
Select the correct answer to fill the blank from the options given below:
The mother tongue of Rabindranath Tagore is …….
Oriya | |
Tamil | |
Bengali | |
Hindi |
Question 18 |
During his life time, H.W. Longfellow became a——-
National Institution’ | |
Stylish Institution’ | |
Popular Institution’ | |
Global Institution’ |
Question 19 |
Of the following poets, who was known as the ‘People’s Poet’ for having contributed 11,000 poems to English Literature?
Stephen Vincent Benet | |
Edgar Albert Guest | |
F. Joanna | |
Rudyard Kipling |
Question 20 |
Shakespeare’s sonnets are —– in number.
159 | |
156 | |
134 | |
154 |
Question 21 |
Rabindranath Tagore’s works are originally written in
Hindi | |
Bengali | |
English | |
Kannada |
Question 22 |
Which one of the following statement is correct?
V.K Gokak is a Telugu poet and novelist | |
V.K. Gokak is a Kannada poet and novelist | |
V.K. Gokak is a Marathi poet and novelist | |
V.K. Gokak is a Gujarathi poet and novelist |
Question 23 |
Choose the option that completes the given sentence.
Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel prize for his work
Galpaguccha | |
Chitra | |
Binodini | |
Gitanjali |
Question 24 |
The State U.R.Ananthamoorthy was born, brought up and lived in till his death was ——
Tamil Nadu | |
Karnataka | |
Bengal | |
Andra Pradesh |
Question 25 |
Which state does the poet V.K. Gokak belong to?
Uttar Pradesh | |
Bihar | |
Haryana | |
Karnataka |
Question 26 |
When was Rabindranath Tagore born?
18 May 1861 | |
7 May 1861 | |
17 May 1816 | |
17 June 1861 |
Question 27 |
The Poet Jack Prelutsky was born in
New York | |
Brooklyn | |
Lebanon | |
United States |
Question 28 |
Identify the poet who is not an Indian.
Famida Y. Basheer | |
Kamala Surayya | |
V.K. Gokak | |
James Kirkup |
Question 29 |
Annie Louisa Walker was educated in——
Delhi | |
Moscow | |
London | |
Ontario |
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