MCQS-John Keats
Q.1 When was John Keats born?
1. October
31, 1795
2. November
30, 1794
3. October
31, 1796
4. February
23, 1821
Q.2 To which literary movement did John Keats belong?
1. Victorian
Movement
2. Romantic
Movement
3. Metaphysical
School
4. Augustan
Age
Q.3 Which poets are grouped with Keats as the second
generation of Romantic poets?
1. Wordsworth
and Coleridge
2. Dryden
and Pope
3. Lord
Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Milton
and Blake
Q.4 At what age did Keats die?
1. 21
2. 25
3. 30
4. 35
Q.5 What was the profession Keats trained for before
devoting himself to poetry?
1. Lawyer
2. Teacher
3. Surgeon
4. Sailor
Q.6 Which was Keats’s first extant poem?
1. “To
Autumn”
2. “An
Imitation of Spenser”
3. “On
First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
4. “Lamia”
Q.7 “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is a:
1. Sonnet
2. Mock
epic
3. Ballad
4. Pastoral
elegy
Q.8 Which translation inspired “On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer”?
1. Alexander
Pope’s Homer
2. George
Chapman’s Homer
3. Dryden’s
Virgil
4. Tasso’s
Jerusalem Delivered
Q.9 What was the title of Keats’s first published
book?
1. Hyperion
2. Lamia
3. Poems
4. Endymion
Q.10 Which long poem of Keats begins with the famous
line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”?
1. Hyperion
2. Lamia
3. Endymion
4. Isabella
Q.11 To whom was Endymion dedicated?
1. Leigh
Hunt
2. Percy
Shelley
3. Thomas
Chatterton
4. William
Wordsworth
Q.12 Which magazine harshly reviewed Endymion in 1818?
1. The
Spectator
2. Quarterly
Review
3. Edinburgh
Review
4. Tatler
Q.13 Who coined the derogatory term “Cockney School”
for Keats and Leigh Hunt’s circle?
1. Charles
Lamb
2. John
Gibson Lockhart
3. William
Hazlitt
4. Benjamin
Haydon
Q.14 Which illness caused the deaths of Keats, his
mother, and his brother Tom?
1. Cholera
2. Malaria
3. Tuberculosis
4. Typhoid
Q.15 Who was the great love of Keats’s life?
1. Jane
Austen
2. Fanny
Brawne
3. Mary
Shelley
4. Charlotte
Smith
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats fell deeply in love with Fanny
Brawne after moving to Wentworth Place.
Q.16 Which ballad by Keats is believed by some critics
to have been inspired by Fanny Brawne?
1. “To
Autumn”
2. “Hyperion”
3. “La
Belle Dame sans Merci”
4. “On Indolence”
Answer: 3
Explanation: Some scholars believe “La Belle Dame sans
Merci” reflects Keats’s relationship with Fanny Brawne.
Q.17 During which year did Keats compose most of his
greatest poetry?
1. 1814
2. 1817
3. 1818
4. 1819
Answer: 4
Explanation: The year 1819 is regarded as Keats’s
annus mirabilis, when he wrote most of his masterpieces.
Q.18 Which ode by Keats celebrates ripeness and
fulfillment?
1. “Ode
on Melancholy”
2. “To
Autumn”
3. “Ode
to a Nightingale”
4. “Ode
on Indolence”
Answer: 2
Explanation: “To Autumn” presents autumn as a season
of fullness and maturity rather than decay.
Q.19 In “Ode to a Nightingale,” the nightingale
primarily symbolizes:
1. Political
revolution
2. Religious
faith
3. Immortal
art
4. Scientific
progress
Answer: 3
Explanation: The nightingale’s song symbolizes art
that survives beyond human mortality.
Q.20 Which ode contains the line “Beauty is truth,
truth beauty”?
1. “To
Autumn”
2. “Ode
on a Grecian Urn”
3. “Ode
on Melancholy”
4. “To
Psyche”
Answer: 2
Explanation: This famous line appears at the
conclusion of “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
Q.21 What is the main theme of “Ode on Melancholy”?
1. Industrialization
2. Religious
devotion
3. The
inseparability of joy and sadness
4. Nationalism
Answer: 3
Explanation: The ode emphasizes that melancholy is
inevitably linked with human happiness and passion.
Q.22 Which poem of Keats is written in Spenserian
stanzas?
1. “The
Eve of St. Agnes”
2. “Hyperion”
3. “Lamia”
4. “On
First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
Answer: 1
Explanation: “The Eve of St. Agnes” is composed in
richly musical Spenserian stanzas.
Q.23 Which poem of Keats deals with the overthrow of
the Titans by the Olympian gods?
1. Isabella
2. Hyperion
3. Lamia
4. Endymion
Answer: 2
Explanation: Hyperion narrates the conflict between
the Titans and the Olympian gods.
Q.24 Which literary work strongly influenced the style
of Hyperion?
1. The
Faerie Queene
2. Paradise
Lost
3. The
Canterbury Tales
4. Don
Juan
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats consciously modeled Hyperion on
Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Q.25 Which of the following is NOT an ode by John
Keats?
1. “Ode
on Melancholy”
2. “Ode
to the West Wind”
3. “Ode
to a Nightingale”
4. “Ode
on Indolence”
Answer: 2
Explanation: “Ode to the West Wind” was written by
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Q.26 What duty of the poet does Moneta reveal in The
Fall of Hyperion?
1. To
entertain kings
2. To
escape from reality
3. To
share in human suffering
4. To
glorify war
Answer: 3
Explanation: Moneta teaches that the true poet must
participate in the sufferings of humanity.
Q.27 Which Keats poem did the poet himself call “a
weak-sided poem”?
1. Hyperion
2. Isabella
3. Lamia
4. To
Autumn
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats described Isabella as “a weak-sided
poem.”
Q.28 Where did Keats die?
1. London
2. Paris
3. Rome
4. Athens
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats died in Rome on February 23, 1821.
Q.29 What is inscribed on Keats’s tombstone?
1. “Beauty
is truth, truth beauty”
2. “Here
lies One whose Name was writ in Water”
3. “A
thing of beauty is a joy forever”
4. “Season
of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats requested the poignant inscription
on his tombstone.
Q.30 Who wrote Adonais in memory of John Keats?
1. Lord
Byron
2. William
Blake
3. Percy
Bysshe Shelley
4. William
Wordsworth
Answer: 3
Explanation: Shelley composed Adonais as an elegy on
the death of Keats.
Q.31 Which Victorian movement was greatly influenced
by Keats’s medieval poems?
1. Symbolist
Movement
2. Modernist
Movement
3. Pre-Raphaelite
Movement
4. Imagist
Movement
Answer: 3
Explanation: Poems like “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
inspired the Pre-Raphaelites.
Q.32 Which painter referred to Keats as “this little-known
poet”?
1. Dante
Gabriel Rossetti
2. William
Holman Hunt
3. J.M.W.
Turner
4. John
Everett Millais
Answer: 2
Explanation: Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman
Hunt used this description for Keats.
Q.33 When Keats wrote, “if poetry comes not as
naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all,” what core
belief was he expressing?
1. Poetry
should only be written during the springtime.
2. Poets
should never edit or revise their work once it is written.
3. True
poetry must be an organic, spontaneous expression rather than something forced
or artificial.
4. Only
people living in rural areas can truly be great poets.
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats believed genuine poetry should
arise naturally and effortlessly, like leaves growing on a tree.
Q.34 Which friend introduced Keats to Renaissance
literature?
1. Leigh
Hunt
2. Charles
Cowden Clarke
3. Benjamin
Haydon
4. William
Hazlitt
Answer: 2
Explanation: Charles Cowden Clarke introduced Keats to
Spenser, Tasso, and Chapman.
Q.35 Which hospital did Keats work at as a dresser?
1. St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital
2. Guy’s
and St. Thomas’ Hospitals
3. Royal
London Hospital
4. King’s
College Hospital
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats worked as a junior house surgeon at
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals.
Q.36 Which literary term was coined by John Keats in a
letter to his brothers in 1817?
1. Objective
Correlative
2. Negative
Capability
3. Pathetic
Fallacy
4. Dissociation
of Sensibility
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats coined the famous term “Negative
Capability” in a letter to George and Thomas Keats.
Q.37 According to Keats, “Negative Capability” means
the ability to:
1. Reject
imagination completely
2. Remain
content amid uncertainties and mysteries
3. Follow
strict logical reasoning
4. Avoid
emotional experiences
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats defined Negative Capability as
being “in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason.”
Q.38 Which writer did Keats praise as possessing
“Negative Capability” most strongly?
1. John
Milton
2. William
Wordsworth
3. William
Shakespeare
4. Alexander
Pope
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats admired Shakespeare’s ability to
remain open to mystery and uncertainty.
Q.39 Which poet did Keats criticize for an “irritable
reaching after fact and reason”?
1. William
Blake
2. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
3. Lord
Byron
4. Leigh
Hunt
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats contrasted Shakespeare’s Negative
Capability with Coleridge’s search for philosophical certainty.
Q.40 In which form did Keats mostly express his
literary theories and personal ideas?
1. Essays
2. Plays
3. Letters
4. Novels
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats’s letters are considered the chief
source for understanding his poetic ideas and personality.
Q.41 Which phrase is associated with Keats’s view of
poetry?
1. “Poetry
should surprise by a fine excess”
2. “Poetry
should be great & unobtrusive”
3. “Poetry
is emotion recollected in tranquility”
4. “Poetry
is the spontaneous overflow of feelings”
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats believed poetry should enter the
soul naturally without forcing ideas upon readers.
Q.42 What does the Grecian urn symbolize in “Ode on a
Grecian Urn”?
1. Political
freedom
2. Religious
devotion
3. Enduring
art and frozen beauty
4. Scientific
progress
Answer: 3
Explanation: The urn represents eternal beauty and art
that survives beyond mortal life.
Q.43 Which Keats poem contrasts visionary joy with
human suffering and mortality?
1. “To
Autumn”
2. “Ode
to a Nightingale”
3. “Lamia”
4. “Isabella”
Answer: 2
Explanation: “Ode to a Nightingale” contrasts the
immortal bird’s song with human grief and decay.
Q.44 What is the subtitle of “La Belle Dame sans
Merci”?
1. A
Romantic Ode
2. A
Medieval Dream
3. A
Ballad
4. A
Tragic Epic
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats described “La Belle Dame sans
Merci” as a ballad.
Q.45 Which god is associated with poetry in Hyperion?
1. Apollo
2. Zeus
3. Hermes
4. Ares
Answer: 1
Explanation: Apollo emerges as the god of poetry in
Hyperion.
Q.46 What is the primary setting of Keats’s final
days?
1. Paris
2. Rome
3. Hampstead
4. Enfield
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats spent his final months in Rome,
where he died in 1821.
Q.47 Which Keats poem is especially associated with
the theme of ripeness and fulfillment?
1. “To
Autumn”
2. “Hyperion”
3. “Lamia”
4. “On
Indolence”
Answer: 1
Explanation: “To Autumn” celebrates maturity,
abundance, and fulfillment.
Q.48 Who became Keats’s literary mentor and introduced
him to influential literary circles?
1. Leigh
Hunt
2. Charles
Lamb
3. William
Hazlitt
4. Benjamin
Haydon
Answer: 1
Explanation: Leigh Hunt supported Keats early in his
literary career and introduced him to important writers.
Q.49 Which of the following poems by Keats remained
unfinished?
1. “The
Eve of St. Agnes”
2. “Hyperion”
3. “To
Autumn”
4. “Ode
on Melancholy”
Answer: 2
Explanation: Hyperion remained incomplete in both its
original and revised versions.
Q.50 Which quality best describes Keats’s poetry?
1. Harsh
realism
2. Sensuous
imagery
3. Political
satire
4. Scientific
objectivity
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats is renowned for the rich
sensuousness and vivid imagery of his poetry.
Q.51 Who among the following coined the term “Negative
Capability”?
1. William
Wordsworth
2. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
3. John
Keats
4. P.B.
Shelley
Answer: 3
Explanation: John Keats coined the term “Negative
Capability” in a letter written in 1817. (UGC NET PYQ style)
Q.52 John Keats belongs to which generation of
Romantic poets?
1. First
Generation
2. Second
Generation
3. Third
Generation
4. Lake
School
Answer: 2
Explanation: Keats belonged to the second generation
of Romantic poets along with Byron and Shelley.
Q.53 Which poem of Keats deals with the song of a bird
as a symbol of immortal art?
1. “To
Autumn”
2. “Ode
to a Nightingale”
3. “La
Belle Dame sans Merci”
4. “Endymion”
Answer: 2
Explanation: The nightingale symbolizes immortal
artistic expression in the ode.
Q.54 John Keats died of:
1. Cholera
2. Cancer
3. Tuberculosis
4. Pneumonia
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome in
1821.
Q.55 Which of the following poems of Keats is based on
Greek mythology?
1. “Endymion”
2. “To
Autumn”
3. “Ode
on Melancholy”
4. “On
First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
Answer: 1
Explanation: Endymion is based on the Greek myth of
the moon goddess and the shepherd Endymion.
Q.56 How many “Great Odes” did John Keats write in
total during the year 1819?
1. Two
2. Four
3. Six
4. Ten
Answer: 3
Explanation: Keats wrote six major odes in 1819: “On
Indolence,” “On a Grecian Urn,” “To Psyche,” “To a Nightingale,” “On
Melancholy,” and “To Autumn.”
Q.57 Who wrote the scathing review telling Keats to go
“back to the shop” and return to “plasters, pills, and ointment boxes”?
1. John
Wilson Croker
2. John
Gibson Lockhart
3. Leigh
Hunt
4. William
Hazlitt
Answer: 2
Explanation: John Gibson Lockhart, writing in
Blackwood’s Magazine, harshly criticized Keats and mocked his medical
background.
Q.58 In which famous letter did Keats describe himself
as a “camelion Poet”?
1. To his
brother George and Tom (1817)
2. To
Richard Woodhouse (October 27, 1818)
3. To
Fanny Brawne (1819)
4. To
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)
Answer: 2
Explanation: In a letter to Richard Woodhouse dated
October 27, 1818, Keats described the poetical character as having no fixed
identity, calling himself a “camelion Poet.”
Q.59 Keats compares human life to a “Mansion of Many
Apartments.” What is the name of the first room we inhabit?
1. The
Chamber of Maiden Thought
2. The Infant
or Thoughtless Chamber
3. The
Hall of Experience
4. The
Dark Passage
Answer: 2
Explanation: In his famous “Mansion of Many
Apartments” letter, Keats calls the first stage of life the “Infant or
Thoughtless Chamber.”
Q.60 In which famous ode by Keats does the line “Where
are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?” appear?
1. “Ode
to a Nightingale”
2. “Ode
on a Grecian Urn”
3. “To
Autumn”
4. “Ode
on Melancholy”
Answer: 3
Explanation: The line appears in “To Autumn,” where
Keats contrasts autumn’s beauty with the passing of spring.
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