1. George Herbert was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as one of the foremost British lyricists of _______?
a) Spiritual
b) Devotional
c) Religious
d) Tango
springline's Correct option: b) Devotional
2. Herbert received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention of King James I. He served in the Parliament of England in _______.
a) 1619
b) 1620
c) 1622
d) 1624
springline's Correct option: d) 1624
3. Herbert was never a healthy man and died of consumption at age 39.Who called him a most glorious saint and seer ?
a) Henry Vaughan
b) John Donne
c) Gerard Manley
d) Thomas Carew
springline's Correct option: a) Henry Vaughan
4. Edward (who was ultimately created Baron Herbert of Cherbury) became a soldier, diplomat, historian, poet, and philosopher whose religious writings led to his reputation as the 'father of English deism', Edward who was a Herbert’s _____?
a) younger brother
b) Son
c) Elder brother
d) fellow poet
springline's Correct option: c) Elder brother
5. In which year Herbert decided to enter the priesthood and the next year was appointed rector of the rural parish of Fugglestone St Peter with Bemerton, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, about 75 miles southwest of London?
a) 1624
b) 1626
c) 1628
d) 1629
springline's Correct option: c) 1628
6. Herbert wrote poetry in English, Latin and Greek. Shortly before his death, he sent a literary manuscript to his friend , reportedly telling him to publish the poems if he though they might 'turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul', otherwise to burn them. Who was his friend?
a) Gerard Manley
b) Nicholas Ferrar
c) Charles
d) Thomas Carew
springline's Correct option: b) Nicholas Ferrar
7. George Herbert’s metaphysical poem, ‘The Pulley’ is one of his best-known. In it, he uses a conceit, a type of figurative language that is most commonly associated with __________?
a) Gerard Manley
b) Henry Vaughan
c) John Donne
d) Andrew Marvell
springline's Correct option: c) John Donne
8. In this Poem of Pulley, the conceit revolves around the pulley. He uses it to depict humanity’s restless nature and the reason why human beings are incapable of being ______?
a) Satisfied
b) Humanity
c) Rest
d) Peace
springline's Correct option: a) Satisfied
9. Which is the poem, George Herbert speaks on one part of the Christian creation story in which God chose to imbue humanity with blessings?
a) The Pulley
b) Affliction
c) Temple
d) A Choice of George
springline's Correct option: a) The Pulley
10. The Pulley poem; Herbert is particularly interested in the part where God gives humankind knowledge, wisdom, beauty, and strength. These are important features of human existence that flowed easily from God to humankind. There is one blessing that God did not let out of his cup of_______?
a) success
b) satisfaction
c) rest
d) Spiritualism
springline's Correct option: c) rest
11. Whose speaker states that God did not want humanity to love Nature more than they love ‘the God of Nature’?
a) Herbert
b) soul's
c) man
d) God
springline's Correct option: a) Herbert
12. Herbert was interested in exploring themes of religion and human nature. In pulley poem, the speaker describes these traits, which are the best that humanity has to offer, flowing from ___?
a) Humanity
b) God
c) mankind
d) Spiritualism
springline's Correct option: c) mankind
13. The Pulley: This poem provides the reader with an image and idea of how God bestowed various traits on humanity. The Pulley’ by George Herbert is a four stanza poem that is separated into sets of _____?
a) couplets
b) four lines
c) three lines
d) five lines
springline's Correct option: d) five lines
14. The Pulley; The consistent repetition in the rhyme helps to give the poem an overwhelming feeling of unity. Each of these quintains follows a structured rhyme scheme. The rhyming scheme of the poem is___?
a) ABBAB
b) AABBA
c) ABABA
d) AABAB
springline's Correct option: c) ABABA
15. The Pulley the poem structure, is regards to the meter, the lines are also very consistent. The first and fifth lines of each stanza conform to a Short pattern of ________?
a) iambic trimeter
b) iambic pentameter
c) couplet
d) iambic tetrameter
springline's Correct option: a) iambic trimeter
16. In the poem pulley, the speaker is able to describe what God was thinking and feeling when he decided to make humanity. God saw what he had made, and decided to pour a_______?
a) glass of mankind
b) cup of rest
c) cup of humankind
d) glass of blessing
springline's Correct option: d) glass of blessing
17. In the poem Pulley, the first of the blessings in ‘The Pulley’ that came to humanity was ‘strength’. It made away, next came beauty. It was soon followed by ‘wisdom, honor’ and lastly _____?
a) Pleasure
b) Mankind
c) Wealthy
d) Health
springline's Correct option: a) Pleasure
18. ‘Rest’ as a blessing equal to beauty and strength is interesting. It is not something that one might immediately think of as a feature of life that can be given or granted. But in this narrative, it is the _______?
a) Boon
b) spring season
c) Treasure
d) Piece of gold
springline's Correct option: c) Treasure
19. According to the speaker of the poem of Pulley, Which is not something that is an integral part of human life and God made an informed, at least to him, the choice to withhold it?
a) Mankind
b) Rest
c) Treasure
d) Humility
springline's Correct option: b) Rest
20. The poem The pulley was written in the 17th century England. The metaphysical poets are 17th century English poets who employed the use of conceit and ________.
a) prosody
b) religious
c) Syllogism
d) Spiritual
springline's Correct option: c) Syllogism
21. Herbert’s Affliction the poem, the first of the series, while not essentially autobiographical, did grow from Herbert’s life and experiences. The poem (1633) consists of 11 six-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ____?
a) ababbc
b) abcbca
c) abcabc
d) ababcc
springline's Correct option: d) ababcc
22. Affliction I’ is one of 17th-century English poet George Herbert’s most memorable and loved poems. Herbert was a Welsh poet and priest. His single collection of poems, known as The Temple, was published in _______?
a) 1632
b) 1633
c) 1626
d) 1630
springline's Correct option: b) 1633
23. The theme of 'Affliction I 'is the relationship between humans and God. The first-person speaker describes his changing mental and physical state as he tries to get closer to God. In the second part of the poem, the speaker begins to face _____?
a) friend’s death
b) failure
c) death
d) Sickness
springline's Correct option: d) Sickness
24. Affliction the poem’s final stanza, it is still unclear how much spiritual progress the speaker has made on this journey. The poem ends with the speaker affirming his desire to love God while also expressing his doubts about whether or not he will be ________?
a) Failure
b) Trust worthy
c) Successful
d) Sorrowful
springline's Correct option: c) Successful
25. Affliction’ of the poem the speaker of the poem is unable to reach spiritual consistency, the form of the poem is similarly caught between consistency and change. Affliction” means ________?
a) Affection
b) Divinity
c) Experience
d) Misery
springline's Correct option: d) Misery
26. George Herbert's life, his struggle with bad health, and his early death, which these were some scholars seen in his work, and that work were considered his autobiographical poem of Herbert by some scholars. In which Herbert’s work is considered his autobiographical work ?
a) The Complete poetry
b) Herbert’s Remains
c) The Pulley
d) Affliction
springline's Correct option: d) Affliction
27. Commenting on Herbert’s religious poetry later in the 17th century , Who said, Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth in God, and whose business in the world is most with God?
a) Gerard Manley
b) Thomas Traherne
c) Richard Baxter
d) Robert Southwell
springline's Correct option: c) Richard Baxter
28. In Affliction; The persona Who begins by recalling “When first thou didst entice to thee my heart,” referring to an initial “service brave” to ____?
a) god
b) man
c) poet
d) speaker
springline's Correct option: a) god
29. Herbert was a Welsh poet and priest. His single collection of poems, known as The Temple, was published in 1633 after his early death at the age of____.
a) 32
b) 34
c) 36
d) 38
springline's Correct option: d) 38
30. Walton gave it as his opinion about Herbert, that he composed such hymns and anthems as he and the angels now sing in heaven, Who described Herbert as a soul composed of harmonies ?
a) Charles Cotton
b) Walton
c) Gerard Manley
d) John Donne
springline's Correct option: a) Charles Cotton