Deck 2: Poetry and Themes - Death, Love, Autumn, and Fatherhood

Question 1

The poet of, 'Death be not proud,' is

A)John Keats
B)John Donne
C)John Dryden
D)John Milton

Answer 1

John Donne

Question 2

'Death be not proud,' is a poem of

A)10 lines
B)14 lines
C)12 lines
D)16 lines

Answer 2

14 lines

Question 3

_________ are the pictures of Death

A)War and sickness
B)Rest and sleep
C)Mighty and dreadful
D)Chance and fate

Answer 3

Rest and sleep

Question 4

And soonest our __________ with thee do go

A)Best kings
B)Best charms
C)Best men
D)Desperate men

Question 5

The poem, 'Death be not proud,' is

A)An elegy
B)A ballad
C)A sonnet
D)An epic

Question 6

Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.

A)Changes
B)Shifts
C)Moves
D)Alters

Question 7

Sonnet 116 is composed by

A)William Shakespeer
B)William Shakespeare
C)William Shakepeare
D)William Shakespear

Question 8

In Sonnet 116, True love is

A)Constant
B)Consistent
C)Continuous
D)Consuming

Question 9

According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the

A)endpoint
B)edge of doom
C)antemeridian
D)postmeridian

Question 10

True love does not change with

A)time
B)backward
C)fall
D)conclusion

Question 11

True love is

A)Immortal
B)Mortal
C)Dishonest
D)corrupt

Question 12

In 'Death be not proud' the poet argues about the

A)mightiness of death
B)powerlessness of death
C)foulness of death
D)vileness of death

Question 13

Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and

A)queens
B)luck
C)charms
D)desperate men

Question 14

Love's not Time's

A)Friend
B)Foe
C)Fiend
D)Fool

Question 15

Death, according to John Donne, is a slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and _____

A)Poor Men
B)Rich Men
C)Desperate Men
D)Honest Men

Question 16

Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.

A)hopefulness
B)serenity
C)calmness
D)conspiracy

Question 17

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor

A)marble
B)wooden
C)half-reaped
D)granary

Question 18

John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:

A)26
B)39
C)45
D)23

Question 19

Yeats wrote "A Prayer for My Daughter" after the birth of his daughter Anne in:

A)1865
B)1919
C)1939
D)1914

Question 20

May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger's eye _______

A)captivated
B)distracted
C)distraught
D)wander

Question 21

Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will

A)God's
B)Heaven's
C)her
D)thine

Question 22

How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?

A)innocence
B)truth
C)nature
D)grace

Question 23

Autumn is the season of mists and

A)Ripe fruitfulness
B)Mellow fruitfulness
C)Soft fruitfulness
D)Juicy fruitfulness

Question 24

The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir

A)Among the river sallows
B)Among the river bushes
C)Among the river willows
D)Among the river plants

Question 25

Autumn is called the bosom friend of the

A)Blazing sun
B)Bright sun
C)Maturing sun
D)Gigantic sun