Question. “Death, be not proud” first appeared as ‘Holy Sonnet X’ in Songs and Sonnets, a collection of 19 sonnets published in
(a) 1632
(b) 1633
(c) 1639
(d) 1640

Question. Shakespeare’s notion of ideal love in “Sonnet 116” is juxtaposed with the problems of
(a) Instability
(b) Unsteadiness
(c) Unfaithfulness
(d) flux and change

Question. “Death be not Proud” first appeared as ____________ in Songs and Sonnets in 1633.
(a) Holy Sonnet IX
(b) Holy Sonnet X
(c) Holy Sonnet III
(d) Holy Sonnet XI

Question. One short sleep past, we wake ___________
(a) eternally
(b) immortally
(c) extraordinarily
(d) inevitably

Question. 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. Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and
(a) queens
(b) luck
(c) charms
(d) desperate men

Question. Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds is
(a) An allegory
(b) An epic
(c) A sonnet
(d) A metaphysical poem

Question. The remover who comes with his bending sickle is
(a) Time
(b) Distance
(c) Society
(d) Hardships

Question. William Shakespeare was born in the year:
(a) 1588
(b) 1564
(c) 1616
(d) 1600

Question. Sonnet 116 shares the poet’s reflections on the nature of:
(a) ideal love
(b) ideal companionship
(c) ideal moments
(d) ideal friendship

Question. Love is not love if it alters
(a) With every season
(b) For any reason
(c) With time
(d) When beauty fades

Question. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not _________.
(a) love
(b) true
(c) alter
(d) steady

Question. In the poem Death be not Proud, Donne has presented ‘death’ as a –
(a) powerless figure
(b) powerful figure
(c) murderer
(d) ruler over his soul

Question. Love does not alter with brief hours and
(a) Minutes
(b) Weeks
(c) Days
(d) Seconds

Question. According to Donne, the thing that is better than the stroke of death is
(a) Sleep
(b) Poison
(c) Poppy
(d) Dreams

Question. ‘Death be not proud,’ is a poem of
(a) 10 lines
(b) 14 lines
(c) 12 lines
(d) 16 lines

Question. _________ are the pictures of Death
(a) War and sickness
(b) Rest and sleep
(c) Mighty and dreadful
(d) Chance and fate

Question. “Sonnet 116” is a record of the poet’s reflections on the nature of
(a) classical love
(b) friendship love
(c) romantic love
(d) ideal love

Question. According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the
(a) endpoint
(b) edge of doom
(c) antemeridian
(d) postmeridian

Question. True love does not change with
(a) time
(b) backward
(c) fall
(d) conclusion

Question. According to John Donne, when we wake eternally, there shall be no more
(a) Pain
(b) Hunger
(c) Grief
(d) Death

Question. Shakespeare compares true love to-
(a) a sun
(b) the guiding star
(c) the moon
(d) a compass

Question. In Sonnet 116, True love is
(a) Constant
(b) Consistent
(c) Continuous
(d) Consuming

Question. What is the theme of Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds by Shakespeare?
(a) Even the strongest love is temporary
(b) True love remains steady
(c) Age and time alter love
(d) Love changes as life changes

Question. Donne considers death an immense pleasure similar to –
(a) sleep and fun
(b) fun and game
(c) sleep and rest
(d) rest and game

Question. The poet of, ‘Death be not proud,’ is
(a) John Keats
(b) John Donne
(c) John Dryden
(d) John Milton

Question. John Donne is
(a) Afraid of death
(b) Challenging death
(c) Submitting to death
(d) Resisting death

Question. According to Donne, death is a slave to
(a) Poison
(b) Chance
(c) Sleep
(d) Fate

Question. And soonest our __________ with thee do go
(a) Best kings
(b) Best charms
(c) Best men
(d) Desperate men

Question. Love’s not Time’s
(a) Friend
(b) Foe
(c) Fiend
(d) Fool

Question. 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. Sonnet 116 is composed by
(a) William Shakespeer
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) William Shakepeare
(d) William Shakespear

Question. Rest of their bones refers to
(a) The bones of everyone
(b) The bones of poets
(c) The bones of our best men
(d) The bones of rich men

Question. Love is not love/ Which alters when it alterations ______
(a) seen
(b) sees
(c) finds
(d) meets

Question. The poem, ‘Death be not proud,’ is
(a) An elegy
(b) A ballad
(c) A sonnet
(d) An epic

Question. Love is not love which ______ when it alteration finds.
(a) Changes
(b) Shifts
(c) Moves
(d) Alters

Question. Love alters not with his brief _______ and weeks
(a) hours
(b) minutes
(c) honours
(d) times

Question. True love is
(a) Immortal
(b) Mortal
(c) Dishonest
(d) corrupt

Question. From rest and sleep, which but thy _________ be
(a) melancholy
(b) statements
(c) pictures
(d) remembrances

Question. And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their ______, and soul’s delivery
(a) bones
(b) bodies
(c) leaps
(d) souls

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Question. Love looks on tempests and is never ________

Question. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of _______.

Question. Death is a slave to fate, chance, kings and ________

Question. From rest and sleep, which but thy _____ be

Question. It is the star to every wandering ___________.

Question. Love looks on _____ and is never shaken.

Question. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit ___________

Question. It is the star to every wand’ring bark,/Whose ______ unknown although his height be taken.

Question. Death is a ______ to kings, chance and desperate men.

Question. A Sonnet has ______ lines.

Question. The last two lines of a sonnet is called a _____

Question. Love’s not Time’s _____ .

Question. The poem “Death be not Proud” is also known as _________

Question. Rest and sleep are ______ of Death.

Question. And ______ or charms can make us sleep as well/ And better than thy stroke

Question. The poem “Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds” is also known as ________

Question. Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou ________ me.

Question. Some people have called Death mighty and _________

Question. The poem “Death be not Proud” proclaims in the end that Death shall _____

Question. One short sleep past, we wake __________ / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.