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## 50 Multiple Choice Questions about John Keats (with answers)
Instructions:
Choose the best answer for each question.1. John Keats was born in:
a) London
b) Liverpool
c) Manchester
d) Oxford
Answer: a*2. Keats's principal profession before dedicating himself to poetry was:
a) Lawyer
b) Surgeon/Apothecary
c) Teacher
d) Clergyman
Answer: b*3. Which of these is NOT a characteristic of Keats's poetry?
a) Sensuous imagery
b) Complex rhyme schemes
c) Focus on social and political issues
d) Exploration of beauty and mortality
Answer: c*4. Keats belonged to which literary movement?
a) Romanticism
b) Victorian
c) Modernism
d) Realism
Answer: a*5. Who was a significant influence on Keats's poetry?
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Milton
c) Shakespeare
d) All of the above
Answer: d*6. What year did Keats die?
a) 1821
b) 1825
c) 1830
d) 1835
Answer: a*7. What disease caused Keats's death?
a) Cholera
b) Tuberculosis
c) Typhoid
d) Pneumonia
Answer: b*8. Where did Keats die?
a) London
b) Rome
c) Paris
d) Vienna
Answer: b*9. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" is from which poem?
a) Ode to a Nightingale
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to Psyche
d) When I have fears that I may cease to be
Answer: b*10. Which poem begins with "When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain"?
a) Ode on Melancholy
b) When I have fears that I may cease to be
c) La Belle Dame sans Merci
d) Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Answer: b*11. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" is the opening line of:
a) Endymion
b) Hyperion
c) Lamia
d) Isabella
Answer: a*12. Which of these is an unfinished epic poem by Keats?
a) Hyperion
b) The Eve of St. Agnes
c) Ode on Indolence
d) To Autumn
Answer: a*13. The poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a:
a) Ballad
b) Sonnet
c) Ode
d) Dramatic monologue
Answer: a*14. Which poem features the line "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"?
a) Ode to Autumn
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to a Nightingale
d) Ode on Melancholy
Answer: a*15. "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" is from:
a) Ode to a Nightingale
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to Psyche
d) Ode on Indolence
Answer: a*16. Who was Fanny Brawne?
a) Keats's sister
b) Keats's fiancé
c) Keats's literary agent
d) A fellow poet
Answer: b*17. Keats's letters are celebrated for their:
a) Insights into his poetic process
b) Philosophical reflections
c) Vivid descriptions
d) All of the above
Answer: d*18. What is negative capability, as described by Keats?
a) The ability to remain in uncertainties without any irritable reaching after fact and reason
b) The inability to write good poetry
c) A cynical outlook on life
d) A fear of death
Answer: a*19. Which poem describes the world of the Titans and the rise of the Olympian gods?
a) Hyperion
b) Endymion
c) Lamia
d) Isabella
Answer: a*20. Keats was part of a close circle of literary friends that included:
a) Leigh Hunt
b) Benjamin Haydon
c) Charles Brown
d) All of the above
Answer: d*21. What is the dominant emotion explored in "Ode on Melancholy"?
a) Joy
b) Fear
c) Sadness
d) Anger
Answer: c*22. In "Ode to a Nightingale," what does the nightingale symbolize?
a) Beauty and immortality
b) Pain and suffering
c) Love and loss
d) Nature's indifference
Answer: a*23. The poem "The Eve of St. Agnes" tells a story of:
a) Forbidden love
b) Religious devotion
c) War and heroism
d) Nature's power
Answer: a*24. Which poem features the figure of Lamia, a serpent woman?
a) Lamia
b) Isabella
c) The Eve of St. Agnes
d) Endymion
Answer: a*25. Keats's tombstone famously reads:
a) "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
b) "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"
c) "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
d) "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"
Answer: a*26. Which poem features Porphyro and Madeline?
a) The Eve of St. Agnes
b) Lamia
c) Isabella
d) Ode to Psyche
Answer: a*27. What does the Grecian Urn represent in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
a) The fleeting nature of time
b) The permanence of art
c) The power of love
d) The beauty of nature
Answer: b*28. What is the central theme of "When I have fears that I may cease to be"?
a) Fear of death and unfulfilled potential
b) The beauty of nature
c) The power of love
d) The importance of fame
Answer: a*29. Which of Keats's poems is based on a story from Boccaccio's *Decameron*?
a) Isabella
b) Lamia
c) The Eve of St. Agnes
d) Endymion
Answer: a*30. Keats's use of vivid sensory language is an example of:
a) Imagery
b) Metaphor
c) Simile
d) Alliteration
Answer: a*31. What meter is predominantly used in "Ode to a Nightingale"?
a) Iambic pentameter
b) Iambic tetrameter
c) Trochaic tetrameter
d) Spondaic hexameter
Answer: a*32. The "Ode to Psyche" was inspired by:
a) Greek mythology
b) Roman mythology
c) Norse mythology
d) Egyptian mythology
Answer: a*33. What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
a) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
b) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
c) ABCB DBDB FBF GG
d) AABB CCDD EEFF GG
Answer: a*34. Keats used the Spenserian stanza in which poem?
a) The Eve of St. Agnes
b) Lamia
c) Isabella
d) Endymion
Answer: a*35. What is the setting of "Ode to a Nightingale"?
a) A garden
b) A forest
c) A Grecian urn
d) A medieval castle
Answer: a*36. Which of these poems is NOT an ode?
a) La Belle Dame sans Merci
b) Ode to a Nightingale
c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
d) Ode to Autumn
Answer: a*37. What literary device is used extensively in "When I have fears..."?
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) All of the above
Answer: d*38. "Ode to Psyche" explores the theme of:
a) Imaginative power
b) The fleeting nature of beauty
c) The power of nature
d) The pain of love
Answer: a*39. Keats's poetry often explores the tension between:
a) Beauty and mortality
b) Love and loss
c) Joy and sorrow
d) All of the above
Answer: d*40. "To Autumn" is considered a:
a) Descriptive poem
b) Narrative poem
c) Dramatic poem
d) Didactic poem
Answer: a*41. Keats was educated at:
a) Enfield Academy
b) Harrow School
c) Eton College
d) Westminster School
Answer: a*42. What was the name of the periodical where Keats published many of his early poems?
a) The Examiner
b) The Quarterly Review
c) Blackwood's Magazine
d) The Edinburgh Review
Answer: a*43. What is the name of the knight in "La Belle Dame sans Merci"?
a) Porphyro
b) Endymion
c) The poem doesn't name him
d) Lycius
**Answer: c*
44. What flower is mentioned repeatedly in "Ode to a Nightingale"?
a) Rose
b) Lily
c) Beaded bubbles winking at the brim
d) Hawthorn