Lesson 3.2.6

3.2.6 Romantic poet: John Keats (Selected Poems) Quiz: Pearson Edexcel English Literature, Unit 3

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  1. Which Keats poem concludes with the line 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?

    • Ode on a Grecian Urn
    • Ode to Autumn
    • Lamia
    • Ode to Psyche

  2. In 'Ode to a Nightingale', what does the speaker contrast with the bird's immortality?

    • Natural decay
    • Eternal art
    • Heavenly bliss
    • Human mortality

  3. Keats's 'Ode on Melancholy' gives human form to abstract ideas such as Melancholy and Joy. Which device is this?

    • Ballad refrain
    • Personification
    • Sonnet volta
    • Dramatic monologue

  4. Which Keats sonnet opens with an address to a steadfast star?

    • On the Sea
    • Bright Star
    • To Sleep
    • When I Have Fears

  5. What does the speaker in 'Ode on Melancholy' urge the reader not to drink from?

    • The river Phlegethon
    • The river Lethe
    • The river Styx
    • The river Acheron

  6. What is the stanza structure of Keats's poem 'To Autumn'?

    • Four twelve-line stanzas
    • Three eleven-line stanzas
    • Four ten-line stanzas
    • Three ten-line stanzas

  7. What object is apostrophised in Keats's famous classical ode?

    • A golden chalice
    • A bronze statue
    • A marble bust
    • An ancient Greek urn

  8. What key quality did Keats define as 'Negative Capability' in his letters?

    • Rejecting emotional art
    • Dwelling in uncertainties
    • Logical scientific reasoning
    • Seeking absolute truth

  9. In 'Ode to a Nightingale', what two means does the speaker use to escape reality?

    • Music and sleep
    • Travel and philosophy
    • Wine and poetry
    • Solitude and prayer

  10. Which Keats poem is an address to the Greek goddess of the soul?

    • Ode to Psyche
    • Ode to a Nightingale
    • Ode on Indolence
    • Ode to Melancholy

  11. On which specific night is Keats's narrative poem 'The Eve of St Agnes' set?

    • St Mark's Eve
    • St Agnes' Eve
    • All Hallows' Eve
    • Midsummer Eve

  12. Which two concepts are famously equated at the end of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?

    • Beauty and truth
    • Love and death
    • Youth and joy
    • Art and nature

  13. Which word acts like a bell to snap the speaker back to reality in 'Ode to a Nightingale'?

    • Adieu
    • Deceived
    • Forlorn
    • Faded

  14. In the sonnet 'Bright Star', what quality of the star does the speaker wish to possess?

    • Steadfast constancy
    • High elevation
    • Cold isolation
    • Bright radiance

  15. Which Keats sonnet describes his awe at reading a translation of Homer?

    • Bright Star
    • Chapman's Homer
    • Ode on Melancholy
    • To Autumn

  16. Which Keats sonnet addresses sleep as a 'soft embalmer of the still midnight'?

    • To Sleep
    • Sleep and Poetry
    • To Autumn
    • Ode to Sleep

  17. In which city did Keats die in 1821?

    • Rome
    • Paris
    • Naples
    • Florence

  18. Which profession did John Keats train in before becoming a full-time poet?

    • Lawyer
    • Architect
    • Schoolteacher
    • Apothecary-surgeon

  19. Which literary device is used when addressing an inanimate object directly, as in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?

    • Apostrophe
    • Litotes
    • Anaphora
    • Synecdoche

  20. How many poems is 'The Eve of St Agnes' counted as in the prescribed list?

    • Ten
    • Five
    • Three
    • Seventeen

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