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1. Which of the following choice is correct in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan – except?
a. Based on Coleridge’s dream
b. The author presents an exotic landscape
c. Author has exposed gothic setting
d. Author is pointing towards a sense of mystery and supernatural in the setting

Answer : c
Explanation

2. Complete the concluding line through Coleridge’s Kubla Khan of this incomplete line
‘For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the __________.’
a. milk of Paradise
b. milk of heaven
c. water of Alph
d. wit of God

Answer : a

3. Kubla Khan, a Mongol emperor and the grandson of _________.
a. Genghis Khan
b. Cambyuskan
c. Xiongu Khan
d. None of the above

Answer : a

Explanation

4. Coleridge tells us about a river that runs across the land and then flows through some underground caves and into ______.
a. Pleasure dome
b. The sea
c. Heaven
d. Forest

Answer : b

5. Who is listening to this noisy river and thinking about war in the poem Kubla Khan?
a. Coleridge
b. Abyssinian maid
c. Kubla Khan
d. People of Xanadu

Answer : c

6. ‘A damsel with a dulcimer’ this line appeared in Kubla Khan, here what is the meaning for the word ‘Damsel’?
a. A young unmarried men
b. A young married women
c. A young unmarried women
d. A young married men

Answer : C

7. Who approached Coleridge to ask the possibility of translate Goethe’s Faust?
a. Lord Byron
b. John Murray
c. James Gillman
d. William Wordsworth

Answer : b

Explanation

8. ‘For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise ‘.
This line appeared in Kubla Khan, in this line who is he?.
a. Coleridge
b. Kubla Khan
c. God of paradise
d. Abyssinian maid

Answer : b

Explanation

9. How many miles are there fertile ground ‘Kubla Khan’?
a. 6
b. 8
c. 10
d. 12

Answer : c ( twice of 5 miles)

10. Which of the following phrase is not appeared in Kubla Khan
a. Alph River
b. caverns measureless
c. sunless sea
d. ‘sacred river

Answer : a

Explanation

11. Which of the following option is not right to the poem Kubla Khan.
a. A kind of reverie
b. It is a fragment
c. It is a symbolic poem
d. It is an entirety poem

Answer : d

Explanation

12. ‘As e'er beneath a waning ____ was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover!’ complete the line from Kubla Khan
a. Woman
b. Moon
c. Sky
d. Sun

Answer : b

Explanation

13. Who prophesying war, which is heard by Kubla Khan.
a. People of Xanadu
b. The Speaker
c. A widow lady
d. Ancestral

Answer : d

Explanation

14. Which of the following journal is printed every 8 days once, to avoid a weekly newspaper tax?
a. The Friend
b. The Watchman
c. Dial
d. Criterion

Answer : b

Explanation

15. Who stated on Coleridge like: ‘Perhaps the greatest of English critics, and in a sense the last’
a. Swinburne
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Thomas Carlyle

Answer : b

16. ‘In _______ did Kubla Khan,
A stately pleasure-dome decree’ chose right word to complete the lines from Kubla Khan.
a. Alph
b. Xanadu
c. China
d. Twice five
miles

Answer : b

17. Which of the following work is not written by ST Coleridge
a. Remorse
b. Osorio
c. Christabel
d. Orlando Furiso

Answer : d

Explanation

18. When did Wordsworth and Coleridge publish a joint volume poetry ‘Lyrical Ballads’
a. 1797
b. 1798
c. 1800
d. 1802

Answer : b

Explanation

19. Where did Coleridge meet Robert Southey
a. Christ’s Hospital
b. Jesus College
c. Germany
d. Trinity College

Answer : b

Explanation

20. Which of the following journal is associated with Coleridge?
a. Criterion
b. Spectator
c. Dial
d. The Friend

Answer : d

Explanation

21. How many chapters are in Biographia Literaria ?
a. 19
b. 4
c. 23
d. 10

Answer : 23

22. What instrument did the Abyssinian maid play?
A. Lyre
B. Tambor
C. Dulcimer
D. Flute

Answer ; (c) Dulcimer

23. And what mountain did the maid sing of?
a. Killimanjaro
b. Abora
c. Sinai
d. Olympus

Answer : (b) Abora

24. How many miles were walled in for the dome
a. 12
b. 10
c. 5
d. 6

Answer : 10

25. What is the sacred river where it was built
a. Ganges
b. Styx
c. Jordan
d. Alph

Answer : Alph

26. Where did Kubla build the dome
a. Guilder
b. Xanadu
c. Poictesme
d. Florin

Answer : Xanadu

27. A traveler asked the poet for directions and much of the vision's images were lost. Where was this anonymous but legendary traveler from?
a. Portsmout
b. Penzance
c. Porlock
d. Puddleby-on-the-Marsh

Answer : Porlock

28. And where did he get the visions he founded his poem on?
a. Alcohol
b. nitrous oxide
c. psychosis
d. opium dream

Answer : opium dream

29. Who wrote the book Coleridge read that inspired the poem?
a. Marco Polo
b. Samuel Purchas
c. Bocchaccio
d. Walter Bradford

Answer : Samuel Purchas

30. When did Coleridge write Kubla Khan?
a. 1797
b. 1800
c. 1817
d. 1798

Answer : 1797

Explanation