1. Dover Beach’ is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems; however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849. The most likely date is _______?
A:) 1850
B:) 1851
C:) 1852
D:) 1853
springline- Correct option: B:) 1851
2. The Scholar Gipsy’ (1853) is a poem by Matthew Arnold, based on a 17th-century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing .It has often been called one of the best and most popular of Arnold's poems, and is also familiar to music-lovers through Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral work An Oxford Elegy, which sets lines from this poem and from its companion-piece,_______?
A:) Thyrsis
B:) Dover Beach
C:) Balder Dead
D:) Sohrab and Rustum
springline- Correct option: A:) Thyrsis
3. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a _________?
A:) Librettist
B:) Moralist writer
C:) Sage Writer
D:) Expository writer
springline- Correct option: C:) Sage Writer
4. Dover Beach The title, locale and subject of the poem's descriptive opening lines is the shore of the English ferry port of Dover, in Kent, facing Calais, in France, at the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part (21 miles (34 km)) of the________?
A:) Greek Channel
B:) English Channel
C:) Roman channel
D:) French Channel
springline- Correct option: B:) English Channel
5. Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which auditory imagery plays a significant role .The beach, however, is bare, with only a hint of humanity in a light that ‘gleams and is gone. ‘Dover Beach’ is a difficult poem to analyze, and some of its passages and metaphors have become so well known that they are hard to see with ‘fresh eyes’, Whose opinion is this?
A:) I.A. Richards
B:) Stefan Collini
C:) F.R. Leavis
D:) Harold Bloom
springline- Correct option: B:) Stefan Collini
6. Dover Beach ; Arnold looks at two aspects of this scene, its soundscape (in the first and second stanzas) and the retreating action of the tide (in the third stanza). He hears the sound of the sea as ‘the eternal note of sadness’. Sophocles, a 5th-century BC Greek playwright who wrote tragedies on fate and the will of the gods, also heard this sound as he stood upon the shore of the ______?
A:) Black Sea
B:) Irish Sea
C:) Aegean Sea
D:) Dark Sea
springline- Correct option: C:) Aegean Sea
7. Arnold prefaces the poem with an extract from Glanvill, which tells the story of an impoverished Oxford student who left his studies to join a band of gipsies, and so ingratiated himself with them that they told him many of the secrets of their trade. Arnold begins ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ in ________?
A:) appeal to love
B:) lament mode
C:) impressive mode
D:) Pastoral mode
springline- Correct option: D:) Pastoral mode
8. In 1828, Thomas Arnold was appointed Headmaster of Rugby School, where the family took up residence, that year. From 1831, Arnold was tutored by his clerical uncle, John Buckland, in Laleham. In 1834, the Arnolds occupied a holiday home, Fox How, in the Lake District. There, Who was a neighbour and close friend of Arnold?
A:) S.T. Coleridge
B:) Robert Southey
C:) William Wordsworth
D:) Charles Lamb
springline- Correct option: C:) William Wordsworth
9. Critics differ widely on how to interpret this image of the Greek classical age. One sees a difference between Sophocles interpreting the ‘note of sadness’ humanistically, while Arnold, in the industrial nineteenth century, hears in this sound the retreat of ___________?
A:) religion and faith
B:) religion and hope
C:) religion and truth
D:) truth and imagination
springline- Correct option: A:) religion and faith
10. Dover Beach; The metaphor with which the poem ends is most likely an allusion to a passage in Thucydides's account of the Peloponnesian War (Book 7, 44). He describes an ancient battle that occurred on a similar beach during the Athenian invasion of Sicily. The battle took place at `_______?
A:) day
B:) night
C:) mis evening
D:) rainy day
springline- Correct option: B:) night
11. The Scholar Gypsy; Arnold imagines him as a shadowy figure who can even now be glimpsed in the Berkshire and Oxfordshire countryside, ‘waiting for the spark from Heaven to fall’, and claims to have once seen him himself. One critic sees the complexity of the poem's structure resulting in ‘the first major 'free-verse' poem in the language, Which is________?
A:) The Scholar Gipsy
B:) Dover Beach
C:) Thyrsis
D:) The study of Poetry
springline- Correct option: B:) Dover Beach
12. Dover Beach; 'The poem's discourse’, Honan tells us, ‘shifts literally and symbolically from the present, to Sophocles on the Aegean, from Medieval Europe back to the present—and the auditory and visual images are dramatic and mimetic and ____?
A:) didactic
B:) tactic
C:) naturalistic
D:) melodramatic
springline- Correct option: A:) didactic
13. ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ was written in 1853, probably immediately after ‘Sohrab and Rustum‘. In an 1857 letter to his brother Tom, referring to their friendship with Theodore Walrond and the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, Arnold wrote that ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ was ‘meant to fix the remembrance of those delightful wanderings of ours in the _______?
A:) Eastern Fells
B:) Yorkshire Dales
C:) Cumner hills
D:) Cheviot hills
springline- Correct option: C:) Cumner hills
14. The Scholar Gipsy’, like ‘Requiescat’ and ‘Sohrab and Rustum‘, first appeared in Arnold's Poems (1853), published by Longmans. During the 20th century it was many times published as a booklet, either by itself or with ‘Thyrsis’. It appears in The Oxford Book of English Verse and in some editions of Palgrave's Golden Treasury despite its being, at the lines of_____?
A:) 220 lines
B:) 200 lines
C:) 150 lines
D:) 250 lines
springline- Correct option: D:) 250 lines
15. The Scholar Gipsy’ represents very closely the ghost of each one of us, the living ghost, made up of many recollections and some wishes and promises; the excellence of the study is in part due to the poet's refusal to tie his wanderer to any actual gipsy camp or any invention resembling a plot, Whose notion is this ?
A:) Edmund Blunden
B:) Harold Bloom
C:) D.H. Lawrence
D:) I. A. Richards
springline- Correct option: A:) Edmund Blunden
16. Dover Beach; Exploring the dark terror that lies beneath his happiness in love, the speaker resolves to love—and exigencies of history and the nexus between lovers are the poem's real issues. That lovers may be 'true / To one another' is a precarious notion: love in the modern city momentarily gives peace, but nothing else in a post-medieval society reflects or confirms the faithfulness of lovers. Devoid of love and light the world is a maze of confusion left by ______?
A:) retreating religious
B:) retreating faith
C:) refined truth
D:) refined society
springline- Correct option: B:) retreating faith
17. Dover Beach; The poem ‘emotionally convincing’ even if its logic may be questionable. The same critic notes that ‘the poem upends our expectations of metaphor’ and sees in this the central power of the poem. The poem's historicism creates another complicating dynamic. Beginning in the present it shifts to the classical age of Greece, then (with its concerns for the sea of faith) it turns to _______?
A:) Medieval Europe
B:) Medieval French
C:) European
D:) English
springline- Correct option: A:) Medieval Europe
18. Dover Beach; The form of the poem itself has drawn considerable comment. Critics have noted the careful diction in the opening description, the overall, spell-binding rhythm and cadence of the poem and its dramatic character. One commentator sees the strophe-antistrophe of the ode at work in the poem, with an ending that contains something of the ‘cata-strophe’ of _________?
A:) Comedy
B:) Romantic
C:) Morality
D:) Tragedy
springline- Correct option: D:) Tragedy
19. Dover Beach; According to Tinker and Lowry, ‘a draft of the first twenty-eight lines of the poem’ was written in pencil ‘on the back of a folded sheet of paper containing notes on the career of Empedocles‘. Allott concludes that the notes are probably from around 1849–50. ’Empedocles on Etna’, again according to Allott, was probably written _______?
A:) 1848-49
B:) 1849-52
C:) 1849-52
D:) 1850-52
springline- Correct option: C:) 1849-52
20. In 1836, Arnold was sent to Winchester College, but in 1837 he returned to Rugby School. He moved to the sixth form in 1838 and so came under the direct tutelage of his father. He wrote verse for a family magazine, and won school prizes, His prize poem, ______?
A:) Alaric at Rome
B:) Balder dead
C:) Sohrab and Rustum
D:) Dover Beach
springline- Correct option: A:) Alaric at Rome
21. Ewan quotes part of the poem in his novel Saturday (2005), where the effects of its beauty and language are so strong and impressive that it moves a brutal criminal to tears and remorse. He also seems to have borrowed the main setting of his novella On Chesil Beach (2005) from _________?
A:) Thyrsis
B:) Dover beach
C:) Literature and Dogma
D:) Essays
springline- Correct option: B:) Dover beach
22. The Scholar Gipsy; What the poem actually offers is a charm of relaxation, a holiday from serious aims and exacting business. And what the Scholar-Gipsy really symbolises is Victorian poetry, vehicle (so often) of explicit intellectual and moral intentions, but unable to be in essence anything but relaxed, relaxing and anodyne, whose notion is this?
A:) Walter Peter
B:) I. A. Richards
C:) T.S. Eliot
D:) F.R. Leavis
springline- Correct option: D:) F.R. Leavis
23. Mathew Arnold; Wishing to marry but unable to support a family on the wages of a private secretary, Arnold sought the position of and was appointed in April 1851 one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. Two months later, he married Frances Lucy, daughter of Sir William Wightman, Justice of the _______?
A:) Dover Beach
B:) King’s Bench
C:) Queen’s Bench
D:) Church Bench
springline- Correct option: C:) Queen’s Bench
24. In 1865, Arnold published Essays in Criticism: First Series. Essays in Criticism: Second Series would not appear until November 1888, shortly after his untimely death. In 1866, he published Thyrsis, his elegy to Clough who had died in 1861. Arnold was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, and he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in _____?
A:) Greek
B:) Saxon
C:) Latin
D:) French
springline- Correct option: C:) Latin
25. Arnold died suddenly in 1888 of heart failure whilst running to meet a train that would have taken him to the Liverpool Landing Stage to see his daughter, who was visiting from the United States where she had moved after marrying an American. He was survived by his wife, who died in June _______?
A:) 1900
B:) 1901
C:) 1902
D:) 1903
springline- Correct option: B:) 1901
26. Matthew Arnold,’ wrote G. W. E. Russell in Portraits of the Seventies, is ‘a man of the world entirely free from worldliness and a man of letters without the faintest trace of pedantry‘. In his writings, he often baffled and sometimes annoyed his contemporaries by the apparent contradiction between his urbane, even frivolous manner in controversy, and the ‘high seriousness’ of his critical views and the melancholy, almost plaintive note of much of his poetry. Arnold was a familiar figure at the _________?
A:) Literary Club
B:) Spectator Club
C:) Athenaeum Club
D:) Lit club
springline- Correct option: C:) Athenaeum Club
27. Arnold’s 1867, poem ‘Dover Beach‘ depicted a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded. It is sometimes held up as an early, if not the first, example of the modern sensibility. In a famous preface to a selection of the poems of William Wordsworth, Arnold identified, a little ironically, as a ‘Wordsworthian.’ Arnold is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and _________?
A:) Walter Peter
B:) Thomas Hardy
C:) John Dryden
D:) Robert Browning
springline- Correct option: D:) Robert Browning
28. Who regards this as ‘an exceptionally frank, but not unjust, self-assessment. ... Arnold's poetry continues to have scholarly attention lavished upon it, in part because it seems to furnish such striking evidence for several central aspects of the intellectual history of the nineteenth century, especially the corrosion of 'Faith' by 'Doubt' ?
A:) Stefan Collini
B:) Susan Gubar
C:) I. A. Richards
D:) Cleanth Brooks
springline- Correct option: A:) Stefan Collini
29. Mathew Arnold was led on from literary criticism to a more general critique of the spirit of his age. Between 1867 and 1869 he wrote Culture and Anarchy, famous for the term he popularised for the middle class of the English Victorian era population: ‘Philistines‘, a word which derives its modern cultural meaning from him. Culture and Anarchy is also famous for its popularisation of the phrase ‘sweetness and light,’ first coined by _______?
A:) Ben Johnson
B:) T.S. Eliot
C:) John Dryden
D:) Jonathan Swift
springline- Correct option: D:) Jonathan Swift
30. Who writes that ‘Whatever his(Arnold) achievement as a critic of literature, society or religion, his work as a poet may not merit the reputation it has continued to hold in the twentieth century. Arnold is, at his best, a very good, but highly derivative poet, unlike Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Swinburne and Rossetti, all of whom individualized their voices ?
A:) Walter Peter
B:) Ben Johnson
C:) F.R. Leavis
D:) Harold Bloom
springline- Correct option: D:) Harold Bloom