Q:1) Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village is a _____________.
A:) Novel
B:) Prose
C:) Poem
D:) Short Story
Correct: C
Q:2)Select the correct option accordance with the work ‘The Deserted Village’.
A:) It is in Iambic tetrameter
B:) It is in Iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
C:) It is in Spondaic meter in rhyming couplets
D:) It is in Dactylic meter
Correct: B
Q:3) Through this work, Oliver Goldsmith condemns ___________.
A:) Globalization
B:) the people who are coming towards village from city
C:) Industrialization
D:) depopulation of the village
Correct: D
Q:4)Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village is published in __________.
A:) 1870
B:) 1770
C:) 1728
D:) 1774
Correct: B
Q:5) Who was Goldsmith’s close friend and along with Samuel Johnson, and Goldsmith dedicated The Deserted Village to him.
A:) Samuel Johnson
B:) Edmund Burke
C:) John Hawkins
D:) Joshua Reynolds
Correct: D
Q:6) Sweet __________, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheared the labouring swain,
A:) summer
B:) Auburn
C:) young
D:) fields
Correct: B
Q:7) Why did the flowers delay to bloom in ‘The Deserted Village’?
A:) West wind did not approve to bloom
B:) Flowers are protesting to bloom against the summer
C:) laboring swains are planting the flowers
D:) Due to summer’s lingering
Correct: D
Q:8) What are the things did the author notice, when he visited the place, he often paused on every charm in the poem ‘The Deserted Village’
A:) The Sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, the never failing brook, the busy mill, decent church
B:) The decayed farm, the corrupted land, the ghost building, the broken road
C:) The priest house, the blossom flower park, the faithful church, the milky cattle
D:) The peasant ‘s hut, the green village, the old couple at the hut
Correct: A
Q:9) In ‘The Deserted Village’, Who simply seek to renown by holding out to tire each other down ?
A:) The Swains
B:) The old couple
C:) The dancing pair
D:) The trustful friends
Correct: C
Q:10) In The Deserted Village, who was the solitary guest in the glades?
A:) Birds
B:) Tyrant
C:) Brook
D:) England Princes
Correct: A
Q:11) ‘A time there was, era __________’s griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man’
A:) Nature
B:) Somersetshire
C:) England
D:) green
Correct: C
Q:12) ‘Along the lawn, where scattered ________ rose.’ Complete the line.
A:) hamlet
B:) twelfth night
C:) cottage
D:) peasants
Correct: A
Q:13) In The Deserted Village, who were the country’s pride, but now destroyed, now that is not possible to supply them again.
A:) Rural village Heads
B:) Poets who praised about nature
C:) Rural Pilgrimages
D:) Bold Peasantry
Correct: D
Q:14) What was the best companions to the villagers, according to Oliver Goldsmith?
A:) Nature and Rural setting
B:) Green and Organic
C:) Innocence and Health
D:) Peace and Happy
Correct: C
Q:15) What was the best riches to the villagers, according to Oliver Goldsmith?
A:) Naturalist peace
B:) Ignorance of wealth
C:) Nature accumulates the life
D:) Green scenery
Correct: B