1. Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem by Robert Browning (1812–1889) published in his 1855 poetry collection, Men and Women. It is a dramatic monologue, a form of poetry for which he is famous, about Andrea del Sarto Who was a _____?
A:) Roman Painter
B:) Italian Poet
C:) Italian Painter
D:) Greek Poet
springline- Correct option: C:) Italian Painter
2. Andrea del Sarto’ is one of Browning's dramatic monologues that shows that Browning is trying to create art that allows for the body and the soul to both be portrayed rather than just the body or just the soul. The poem is in blank verse and mainly uses _______?
A:) iambic tetrameter
B:) iambic hexameter
C:) sestet
D:) iambic Pentameter
springline- Correct option: D:) iambic Pentameter
3. The poem was inspired by Andrea del Sarto, originally named Andrea d'Agnolo, a renaissance artist. The historical del Sarto was born in Florence, Italy on July 16, 1486 and died in Florence, Italy on ________?
A:) September 29, 1530
B:) September 19, 1530
C:) September 29, 1531
D:) September 22, 1530
springline- Correct option: A:) September 29, 1530
4. Del Sarto was the pupil of Piero di Cosimo. del Sarto was influenced by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Fra' Bartolommeo. His work stems from traditional Quattrocento painting. He began to produce work in _________?
A:) 1559
B:) 1560
C:) 1561
D:) 1562
springline- Correct option: B:) 1560
5. Del Sarto was revered for his art; some called him Andrea senza errori, the unerring. In his poem, Browning cedes the paintings are free of errors, but that alone does not make a piece of art special or evocative. The poem is based on biographical material by ______?
A:) Ted Hughes
B:) D.H. Lawrence
C:) Edgar Allen Poe
D:) Giorgio Vasari
springline- Correct option: D:) Giorgio Vasari
6. Andrea del Sarto’ ; Two thirds of Browning's poetic works are written in unrhymed pentameters. Browning is considered one of the foremost innovators of the dramatic monologue, though he was little known by contemporary Victorians. Critics of his time commented on his lack of rhyme scheme, known as ________?
A:) Free Verse
B:) Sonnet
C:) Blank Verse
D:) Limerick
springline- Correct option: C:) Blank Verse
7. Some literary analysts claim Browning adapted his versification to his characters; Andrea del Sarto is no exception. It explores aestheticism and human reciprocity, and as a result is written in near perfect iambic pentameter. Browning is also known for his originality, dramatic style and fresh subject matter for the time, which complemented his lack of rhyme scheme. Browning places his reader in the scene through his use of temporal _____?
A:) syntax
B:) adverbs
C:) object
D:) monologue
springline- Correct option: B:) adverbs
8. Robert Browning; During his life Browning struggled with religion. At age 13, he announced he was atheist, following in the foot steps of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet he looked up to. As Browning got older he was considered a ________?
A:) Theist
B:) Priest
C:) Parson
D:) Clergy
springline- Correct option: A:) Theist
9. Browning spent much of his work exploring and questioning religion through his dramatic monologues. Browning's main audience for all his poetry was his beloved wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Browning based del Sarto's love for his wife, Lucrezia, on his own love for his wife. Del Sarto also called as_____?
A:) The default painter
B:) The romantic painter
C:) The Fault Painter
D:) The Faultless Painter
springline- Correct option: D:) The Faultless Painter
10.Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. His verse was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and _______?
A:) Blank Verse
B:) Monologue
C:) Syntax
D:) drama
springline- Correct option: C:) Syntax
11. Browning’ s career began well – the long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed – but his reputation shrank for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had changed from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 Browning married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to ______?
A:) England
B:) Rome
C:) Italy
D:) Britain
springline- Correct option: C:) Italy
12. Andrea del Sarto; Browning creates an internal world for his reader by giving them insight into how the narrator interprets the whole scene, not just the words spoken: line four, ‘You turn your face, but does it bring your heart?’ refers to how the narrator is interpreting Lucrezia's _____?
A:) emotion
B:) body language
C:) thought
D:) ideal
springline- Correct option: B:) body language
13. Andrea del Sarto explores broad themes such as if all human interactions are governed by aesthetic or exchange value, failure, whether one's wife is a possession, and morality in general. Browning chose to use painters as his subjects during the ____________?
A:) reformation
B:) restoration
C:) common wealth
D:) renaissance
springline- Correct option: D:) renaissance
14. Andrea del Sarto; However, later undertones hint at a suspecting of lacking and not being enough, as Lucrezia chooses her lover over her husband, even though he is making her a romantic suit. He quickly falls into a class of literary males who lack masculinity and passion; the only thing that makes him truly different from ______?
A:) Prufrock
B:) Exterior
C:) Romantic
D:) Conversational
springline- Correct option: A:) Prufrock
15. Who explains about the Poem of ‘Andrea del Sarto’; ‘That his wife's beauty is without a soul to del Sarto, it is only a beauty on the outside, which perfectly matches the state of del Sarto's art, which is beautiful, but spiritually empty ?
A:) Harold Bloom
B:) Hughes
C:) Hawlin
D:) Tennyson
springline- Correct option: C:) Hawlin
16. Men and Women was Browning's first published work after a five year hiatus, and his first collection of shorter poems since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. Men and Women is a collection of poem in two volumes. How many poems were in this collection ?
A:) fifty five
B:) fifty one
C:) fifty
D:) fifty two
springline- Correct option: B:) fifty one
17. Robert was raised in a household of significant literary resources. His mother, to whom he was very close, was a devout nonconformist and a talented musician. His younger sister, Sarianna, also gifted, became her brother's companion in his later years, after the death of his wife in ____?
A:) 1861
B:) 1862
C:) 1863
D:) 1864
springline- Correct option: A:) 1861
18. By the age of 12, Browning had written a book of poetry which he later destroyed when no publisher could be found. After being at one or two private schools, and showing an insuperable dislike of school life, he was educated at home by a tutor via the resources of his father's extensive library. By 14, he was fluent in French, Greek, Italian and Latin. He became a great admirer of the Romantic poets, especially ___?
A:) Keats
B:) Tennyson
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Shelley
springline- Correct option: D:) Shelley
19. In 1838, Browning visited Italy looking for background for Sordello, a long poem in heroic couplets, presented as the imaginary biography of the Mantuan bard spoken of by Dante in the Divine Comedy, canto 6 of Purgatory, set against a background of hate and conflict during the Guelph-Ghibelline wars. This was published in 1840 and met with widespread derision, gaining him the reputation of wanton carelessness and obscurity. Who commented that he only understood the first and last lines ?
A:) Wordsworth
B:) Tennyson
C:) Hardy
D:) Yeats
springline- Correct option: B:) Tennyson
20. In 1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his senior, who lived as a semi-invalid in her father's house in Wimpole Street, London.The second edition of Elizabeth's Poems included her love sonnets. The book increased her popularity and high critical regard, cementing her position as an eminent Victorian poet. Upon William Wordsworth's death in 1850, she was a serious contender to become Poet Laureate, the position eventually going to ____?
A:) Yeats
B:) T.S. Eliot
C:) Tennyson
D:) Hardy
springline- Correct option: C:) Tennyson
21. The poem begins with the Speaker, the artist Andrea del Sarto, asking his wife, Lucrezia, to come and sit with him for a moment without fighting. He wants the two of them to have a quiet moment together before he jumps into a reflection of his life. The speaker begins by describing the passage of______?
A:) Art
B:) Time
C:) year
D:) Work
springline- Correct option: B:) Time
22. Andrea del Sarto’ ;By the end of the poem, he concludes that although his life has not been what he wanted he knows that he cannot change it. He is happy to have spent this time with his wife and says as much to her. This nice moment is interrupted by the arrival of Lucrezia’s___________?
A:) Cousin
B:) Friend
C:) Brother
D:) Mother
springline- Correct option: A:) Cousin
23. Andrea del Sarto’; The speaker seems to believe that Lucrezia is the ideal model for his work as he says that with one smile from her he can compose a whole painting. That is all the inspiration that he needs. She is what ‘painters call our harmony!’ She is his ___?
A:) friend
B:) Muse
C:) Angel
D:) mother
springline- Correct option: B:) Muse
24. Probably the most adulatory judgment of Browning by a modern critic comes from Harold Bloom: ‘Browning is the most considerable poet in English since the major Romantics, surpassing his great contemporary rival Tennyson and the principal twentieth-century poets, including even Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and__________?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) D.H. Lawrence
C:) Thomas Hardy
D:) Ted Hughes
springline- Correct option: C:) Thomas Hardy
25. Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Santayana were gave the critical appreciation about Browning; The latter expressed his views in the essay ‘The Poetry of Barbarism,’ which attacks Browning and Walt Whitman for what he regarded as their embrace of irrationality. In a largely hostile essay , Who wrote: ‘We all want to like Browning, but we find it very hard'?
A:) Anthony Burgess
B:) Martin Luther
C:) Johannes Kepler
D:) Pieto Bembo
springline- Correct option: A:) Anthony Burgess
26. Andrea del Sarto’ ; The particular piece is easy for the speaker to break down. He knows how it was painted and how the artist ‘Pour[ed] his soul’ into the art for ‘kings and popes to see.’ The art may be beautiful in its conception but del Sarto, with his eye for detail, can see that the ‘arm is wrongly put’ and that there are faults in the ‘drawing’s lines.’ These details are excused by other viewers as its ‘soul is right.’ All may understand that, even a ______?
A:) painter
B:) women
C:) poet
D:) Child
springline- Correct option: D:) Child
27. Andrea del Sarto’; All this being said, the speaker knows that a man should reach for things that might seem unattainable. He looks at his own work and sees how it is perfectly one thing. It is ‘Placid’ in a way that bothers him. Once more he bemoans the fact that he was not given the soul to rise above everyone else. He could have even surpassed _________?
A:) Rafael
B:) Pablo Picasso
C:) Leonard Da Vinci
D:) Vincent Van Gogh
springline- Correct option: A:) Rafael
28. Del Sarto is remembering when he worked for the king of France, Francis, and was at Fontainebleau for a year. It was here that he had confidence and could put on the clothes, or stature of Raphael. This was caused by his closeness with the king. He remembers how Francis’ clothes sounded when he walked and how he stood over his shoulder as the speaker painted. When he had this position he was admired by the _______?
A:) French Painting
B:) French church
C:) Monarch art
D:) French Court
springline- Correct option: D:) French Court
29. Long even by Browning's standards (over twenty-thousand lines), The Ring and the Book was his most ambitious project and is arguably his greatest work; it has been called a tour de force of dramatic poetry. The Robert Browning Society was formed in ______?
A:) 1881
B:) 1882
C:) 1883
D:) 1884
springline- Correct option: A:) 1881
30. According to Whom ,the entire poem is ‘between asserted artistic and masculine virility and a steadily increasing awareness of debility and He backs this up by describing how he is trying to suggest his own masculine strength ?
A:) F.R. Lewis
B:) Roma A. King
C:) Harold Bloom
D:) Walter Rem
springline- Correct option: B:) Roma A. King