1. The Canonization is a poem by English metaphysical poet John Donne. First published in 1633, the poem is viewed as exemplifying Donne's wit and irony. It is addressed to one friend from another, but concerns itself with the complexities of_________?
a) Love and Faith
b) Romantic Love
c) Saint and Love
d) Peace and Love
springline's Correct option: b) Romantic Love
2. Canonization; The poem's title serves a dual purpose: while the speaker argues that his love will canonise him into a kind of sainthood, the poem itself functions as a canonisation of the pair of lovers. Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized ________?
a) Monk
b) Spiritual Lover
c) Saint
d) Lover of God
springline's Correct option: c) Saint
3. Whose view is, the entire poem(Canonization) gives ‘a new twist to one of the most worn conventions of Elizabethan love poetry by expanding the lover–saint conceit to full and precise definition, a comparison that is seriously meant’
a) Clay Hunt
b) John Guillory
c) Jonathan Culler
d) Brooks
springline's Correct option: a) Clay Hunt
4. The poem The Canonization features images typical of the Petrarchan sonnet, yet they are more than the ‘threadbare Petrarchan conventionalities’. The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the ______
a) Greek’s Sonnet
b) England Sonnet
c) Romanian Sonnet
d) Italian Sonnet
springline's Correct option: d) Italian Sonnet
5. In this poem of Canonization ;Who argues that the phoenix, which means rebirth, is a particularly apt analogy, since it combines the imagery of birds and of burning candles, and adequately expresses the power of love to preserve, though passion consumes?
a) Clay Hunt
b) John Guillory
c) Cleanth Brooks
d) Jonathan Culler
springline's Correct option: c) Cleanth Brooks
6. Whose analysis concludes by cataloguing the devices of wit found throughout the poem, as well as mentioning that a complexity of attitudes, fostered largely through the use of the canonisation conceit, perpetuates wit within the poem ?
a) Jonathan Culler
b) Leonard Unger
c) Cleanth Brook
d) Clay Hunt
springline's Correct option: b) Leonard Unger
7. The Canonization figures prominently in critic Cleanth Brooks's arguments for the paradox as integral to poetry, a central tenet of ______?
a) New Criticism
b) New Theory
c) New Genere
d) modern theory
springline's Correct option: a) New Criticism
8. Brooks analyses several poems to illustrate his argument but cites The Canonization as his main evidence. According to Brooks, there are superficially many ways to read ‘The Canonization,’ but the most likely interpretation is that despite his witty tone and extravagant ____?
a) metaphors
b) Simile
c) Rhythm
d) Speech
springline's Correct option: a) metaphors
9. In Brooks collection of critical essays; Brooks writes that a poet 'must work by contradiction and qualification', and that paradox is an extension of the normal language of poetry, not a perversion of it. Which is a collection of the Essay by Brooks?
a) We Real Cool
b) The Well Wrought Urn
c) Sadie and Maud
d) The Bean Easters
springline's Correct option: b) The Well Wrought Urn
10. Brooks's analysis is not the definitive reading of ‘The Canonization’ . A critique by John Guillory points out the superficiality of his logic. On whether to regard the equation of profane love with the divine as_________.
a) Stanza form
b) Metaphor
c) Parody
d) rhythm
springline's Correct option: c) Parody
11. John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family. In The Church of England, Later he became a __________?
a) Cleric
b) Courtier
c) Poet Laureate
d) Critic
springline's Correct option: a) Cleric
12. Under royal patronage, John Donne was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. The term Metaphysical poets was coined by _______?
a) Samuel Johnson
b) John Donne
c) Jonathan Culler
d) Dryden
springline's Correct option: a) Samuel Johnson
13. John Donne’s early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism[citation needed]. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true_____?
a) Love
b) Religion
c) Metaphysical
d) Metaphorical
springline's Correct option: b) Religion
14. After Donne's death, a number of poetical tributes were paid to him, of which one of the principal was ,Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Elegy for Doctor Donne. Who is ‘Lord Herbert of Cherbury’ to John Donne?
a) Fellow poet
b) Friend
c) Brother
d) Contemporary writer
springline's Correct option: b) Friend
15. Who is considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery?
a) Jonathan Culler
b) John Donne
c) Dryden
d) Brooks
springline's Correct option: b) John Donne
16. Who had written of Donne in 1693: ‘He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.’ ?
a) Henry Vaughan
b) C.S. Lewis
c) Dryden
d) John Donne
springline's Correct option: c) Dryden
17. One such, a previously unknown manuscript that is believed to be one of the largest contemporary collections of Donne's work (among that of others), was found at Melford Hall in ______?
a) November 2015
b) November 2016
c) November 2017
d) November 2018
springline's Correct option: d) November 2018
18. John Donne’s poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious, poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, and satires. He is also known for his ______.
a) Sermons
b) Religious Poet
c) Saint
d) Monk
springline's Correct option: a) Sermons
19. John Donne wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical _______?.
a) Poem
b) rhyme
c) prosody
d) Conceits
springline's Correct option: d) Conceits
20. The Ecstasy is one of John Donne's most popular poems, which expresses his unique and unconventional ideas about love For Donne, true love only exists when both bodies and souls are inextricably united. In this poem Donne criticizes ____________.
a) ironic lover
b) the platonic lover
c) Spiritual lover
d) Metaphysical love
springline's Correct option: b) the platonic lover
21. In the poem Ecstasy; The poet begins the narration of the event with a typically passionate scene as the backdrop for the lovers to embrace and experience the 'ecstasy'. The setting is natural, very calm and quiet The scenery is;. Violets are in bloom and it is a________?
a) Winter season
b) Rainy time
c) Spring time
d) Autumn time
springline's Correct option: c) Spring time
22. The poem The Ecstasy is one of John Donne's most popular poems, which expresses his unique and unconventional ideas about love. In this poem: ‘violets are in bloom’. To a Renaissance reader, the image of violets symbolizes faithful ________?
a) Love and truth
b) Faith and love
c) Faith and trust
d) Truth and Peace
springline's Correct option: a) Love and truth
23. According to the medieval mystical conception, What is means a trance-like state in which the soul leaves the body, comes out, and holds communion with the Divine, the Supreme or the Over-soul of the Universe ?
a) The Canonization
b) Ecstasy
c) The Flea
d) Holy Sonnet
springline's Correct option: b) Ecstasy
24. Donne is considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. An example of this is his equation of lovers with saints in ____?
a) The Canization
b) The Flea
c) Holy Sonnet
d) Ecstasy
springline's Correct option: a) The Canization
25. John Donne (1572-1631) didn’t write ordinary love poems. Arguably the first of the ‘metaphysical poets’, Donne writes about love in a refreshingly direct and honest way. This paradox of Donne’s poetry is neatly exemplified by ‘The Ecstasy’ ,sometimes the poem’s title is given as_____?
a) The Exactsie
b) The Extasie
c) The Exatacy
d) The Extacie
springline's Correct option: b) The Extasie
26. Donne fell in love with Egerton's niece Anne More, and they were secretly married just before Christmas in 1601. Upon discovery, this wedding ruined Donne's career, getting him dismissed and he put in ______?
a) Church prison
b) Court Prison
c) Fleet Prison
d) River Prison
springline's Correct option: c) Fleet Prison
27. John Donne wife died on 15 August 1617, five days after giving birth to their twelfth child, a still-born baby. Donne mourned her deeply, and wrote of his love and loss in his _______?
a) 17th Holy Sonnet
b) 18th Holy Sonnet
c) 16th Holy Sonnet
d) 15th Holy Sonnet
springline's Correct option: a) 17th Holy Sonnet
28. Which year John Donne was awarded an honorary doctorate in divinity from Cambridge University, and he became a Royal Chaplain in the same year ?
a) 1615
b) 1616
c) 1617
d) 1618
springline's Correct option: a) 1615
29. In 1621 Donne was made Dean of St Paul's, a leading and well-paid position in the Church of England, which he held until his death in 1631. In which year he became a prolocutor to Charles I ?
a) 1620
b) 1621
c) 1623
d) 1625
springline's Correct option: d) 1625
30. Who ask questions to, Brooks's decision to concentrate on the conflict between sacred and secular, rather than sacred and profane, as the central paradox: ‘the paradox overshoots its target’?
a) Jonathan Culler
b) John Donne
c) Guillory
d) Parmenides
springline's Correct option: c) Guillory