Q:1) ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’ is an elegy on the death of _____________.
A:) writer’s father
B:) Walt Whitman
C:) Abraham Lincoln
D:) a place
Correct: C
Q:2) How many times has Whitman mentioned the Lincoln in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’?
A:) Three
B:) Five
C:) Seven
D:) not mentioned
Correct: D
Q:3) Which of the following Walt Whitman’s poems were not about Abraham Lincoln?
A:) O’Captain! My Captain
B:) Hush’d Be the Camps To-day
C:) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
D:) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Correct: D
Q:4) Abraham Lincoln died on ____________, after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
A:) April 15, 1865
B:) February 12, 1809
C:) May 31, 1819
D:) March 26, 1892
Correct: A
Q:5) Walt Whitman wrote the lyric poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’ in __________.
A:) free verse
B:) couplet
C:) iambic pentameter
D:) ottava rima
Correct: A
Q:6) Which of the following is not correct one to the poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’
A:) Expressions of grief and praise for the deceased.
B:) A funeral procession
C:) An urban locale as its settings
D:) An idealized shepherd
Correct: C
Q:7) The poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’ included in the collection of Whitman’s poems _____________.
A:) A Song of Joys
B:) Leaves of Grass
C:) The Wound Dresser
D:) Song of the Universal
Correct: B
Q:8) The time of the poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’ is ________.
A:) January
B:) April
C:) August
D:) December
Correct: B
Q:9) In the poem title ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’’, here the Lilacs is ________.
A:) the process of dying or ending in a very painful or unpleasant way
B:) countryside
C:) an area of very wet soft land
D:) a bush or small tree with sweet-smelling purple or white flowers
Correct: D
Q:10) Where did John Wilkes Booth do assassination attempt of Abraham Lincoln?
A:) The Walnut
B:) Ford's Theater
C:) African Grove Theatre
D:) National Theatre
Correct: B
Q:11) Where does the star fall in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’?
A:) in the Eastern Sky
B:) in the Northern Sky
C:) in the Southern Sky
D:) in the Western Sky
Correct: D
Q:12) The poem ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’’ begins with ____________.
A:) When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d
B:) The Great star early droop’d ……….. in the sky
C:) Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul
D:) There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim
Correct: A
Q:13) ‘The Great star early droop’d ……….. in the sky’ in this line, the falling star is ___________.
A:) the Sun
B:) the planet Venus
C:) the planet Mercury
D:) the planet Mars
Correct: B
Q:14) In the poem ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’’, which one of the following symbolizes Abraham Lincoln
A:) flower
B:) planet
C:) star
D:) Sun
Correct: C
Q:15) Which of the following has bloomed last in the dooryard in the poem ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’’?
A:) Shadbush
B:) Roses
C:) Groundsel
D:) Lilacs
Correct: D
Q:16) Who mourns the death of Lincoln in the poem ‘‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’’?
A:) Walt Whitman
B:) The spring season
C:) The People of America
D:) star, lilac, and bird
Correct: A
Q:17) ‘O shades of night, O moody, tearful night,
O great star disappear’d O black murk that hides the star?
What does it hide the star?
A:) the evangelist
B:) thick darkness
C:) streaming
D:) Angels in the air
Correct: B
Q:18) The tall lilac bush are grown well in the dooryard fronting an old farm house. The shape of the leaves is ___________.
A:) heart
B:) bird
C:) palm
D:) head
Correct: A
Q:19) Who sang a lonely song from a bleeding throat in the poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloome’d’?
A:) Poet Himself
B:) swamp
C:) Hermit thrush
D:) Tall Lilac bush
Correct: C
Q:20) Complete the line:
‘Passing the yellow-spear’d wheat, every gain from its shroud in the dark brown fields uprisen,
Passing the _______ tree blows of white and pink in the orchards.’
A:) orange
B:) apple
C:) pineapple
D:) mango
Correct: B