Deck 3: The Study Poetry - Matthew Arnold

Question 1

only the best poetry according to Arnold is capable of performing its ___

A)duty
B)job
C)task
D)systems

Answer 1

task

Question 2

according to Arnold, poetry interprets life in ____ ways.

A)one
B)two
C)three
D)four

Answer 2

two

Question 3

the first great principle of criticism emancipated by Arnold is __________

A)Disinterestedness
B)Detachment
C)Discernment
D)Disaffectation

Answer 3

Disinterestedness

Question 4

Poetry according to Arnold, attaches its emotion to the

A)theme
B)style
C)idea
D)diction

Question 5

According to Arnold, the scantiest and frailest of classics in English poetry is

A)Gray
B)Pope
C)Burns
D)Milton

Question 6

Whom did Arnold regard as the high priest of prose and reason

A)Milton
B)Gray
C)Dryden
D)Pope

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

Who, according to Arnold is the father of English poetry?

A)Shakespeare
B)Wordsworth
C)Chaucer
D)Dryden

Question 14

In The Study of Poetry, Arnold puts stress on _______________ in poetry.

A)bright humour
B)high seriousness
C)sensuousness
D)want of seriousness

Question 15

The 'touchstone method' was propagated by ___________

A)Matthew Arnold
B)T.S. Eliot
C)F.R. Leavis
D)William Wordsworth

Question 16

Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English __________.

A)fiction
B)poetry
C)prose
D)morals

Question 17

"The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can" was said by ___________

A)William Wordsworth
B)Matthew Arnold
C)John Dryden
D)Alexander Pope

Question 18

Middleton Murry had criticized the critical work of _____________

A)Matthew Arnold
B)F.R. Leavis
C)T.S. Eliot
D)Samuel Johnson

Question 19

What attaches its emotion to facts according to Arnold?

A)Poetry
B)Prose
C)Religion
D)Tradition

Question 20

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

Question 21

What did Arnold say will appear incomplete if not for poetry?

A)Religion
B)Philosophy
C)Science
D)Knowledge

Question 22

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

Question 23

In poetry, as a criticism of life, the spirit of our race will find its _____________

A)Consolation
B)Beauty
C)Truth
D)Sanctity

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

Which quality is not needful for a fit prose according to Arnold?

A)Regularity
B)Precision
C)Balance
D)Exclusivity

Question 28

Poetry is a criticism of life under the ______ fixed for such a criticism

A)Laws
B)Ideals
C)Morals.
D)Conditions

Question 29

Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______

A)Prose
B)Morals
C)Fiction
D)Poetry

Question 30

In the age of Pope and Dryden, Arnold regards _________ as a unique poet.

A)Milton
B)Keats
C)Pope
D)Gray

Question 31

Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________

A)Milton
B)Wordsworth
C)Shakespeare
D)Shelley

Question 32

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"

Question 33

"Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea: the idea is the

A)fact"
B)knowledge"
C)history"
D)theory"

Question 34

Arnold states, "The strongest part of our religion is its

A)unconscious verses"
B)unconscious poetry"
C)unconscious lyrics"
D)unconscious history"

Question 35

Arnold believes that without poetry, "Science will appear

A)complete"
B)incomplete"
C)immature
D)undefined"

Question 36

Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the

A)ideal estimate
B)principal estimate
C)critical estimate
D)real estimate

Question 37

To Arnold, the superiority of best poetry is marked by the superior character of

A)truth and seriousness
B)truth and ideas
C)seriousness and knowledge
D)knowledge and truth

Question 38

Arnold defines poetry as

A)'The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty'.
B)'The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge'.
C)'Not an expression of emotion, but as escape from emotion'.
D)'A speaking picture with its end, to teach and delight'.

Question 39

The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of

A)Disinterestedness or detachment
B)Response to rhythm and metre
C)Speculation and theorisation
D)Measurement of knowledge

Question 40

Which poet does Arnold say lack 'the high seriousness of the great classics'?

A)Chaucer
B)Dryden
C)Pope
D)Burns