Thursday, May 21, 2026

Soupçon MCQ Series 11

 1) "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!" Who is thus addressing the high seas? a) Wordsworth b) Coleridge c) Whitman d) Byron The correct option is (d). This famous quote is from Byron's "Childe Harold", Canto IV. 

2) "Sir, no man's enemy" is a sonnet by          a) Spenser b)Milton c) W. H. Auden d) Hopkins. The correct option is (c). It is a sonnet addressed to God, a prayer entrenched in psycho-analysis. 

3) "Ultima Ratio Regum" by Stephen Spender is inspired by the a) World War I b)World War II c) the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki d) the Spanish Civil War. The correct option is (d). 

Pratima Agnihotri                                                        Pune 

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