PGTRB TEST SERIES - 7

Alexander Pope’s Pastorals, his first major work, was published in:

• 1701
• 1704
• 1709
• 1711

The couplet “A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring” appears in:

• The Rape of the Lock
• Essay on Criticism
• Dunciad
• Essay on Man

Which club was co-founded by Pope along with Swift and Arbuthnot?

• The Kit-Kat Club
• The Scriblerus Club
• The Cockney School
• The Spectator Club

Pope was a major poet of the:

• Romantic Age
• Victorian Age
• Augustan Age
• Restoration Age

In which poem does Pope write, “Whatever is, is right”?

• The Rape of the Lock
• Epistle to Arbuthnot
• Essay on Man
• Moral Essays

Which Pope work is a mock-epic satirizing a high-society quarrel over a lock of hair?

• The Dunciad
• The Rape of the Lock
• Essay on Criticism
• Windsor-Forest

The Dunciad mainly targets:

• Aristocrats
• Political Whigs
• Grub Street hacks and mediocre writers
• Religious dissenters

Who was Pope’s chief rival and target in The Dunciad?

• Colley Cibber
• John Dryden
• Jonathan Swift
• Samuel Johnson

“To err is human, to forgive divine” is a line from:

• Epistle to Burlington
• Essay on Criticism
• The Rape of the Lock
• Moral Essays

What physical condition did Pope suffer from throughout his life?

• Blindness
• Tuberculosis of the spine (Pott’s disease)
• Deafness
• Paralysis