To Science
1.
Who wrote the poem To
Science?
a.
Edgar Allan Poe
2.
Who was a well-known
American writer born in the year 1809?
a.
Edgar Allan Poe
3.
Who was a leading figure in
the Romantic Movement in American Literature?
a.
Edgar Allan Poe
4.
For what type of tales was
Edgar Allan Poe well known?
a.
Mystery Tales
5.
Edgar Allan Poe is
considered to be the inventor of which genre?
a.
Detective fiction
6.
What type of sonnet is the
poem To Science?
a.
Block sonnet
7.
What does the poet not
support (dislikes) in the poem To Science?
a.
Science/ technological
advancement and rationality
8.
According to Poe, what does
science reflect?
a.
Curiosity without
sensitivity
9.
What does Poe's poem
directly addressing to?
a.
Science
10. What is science referees to as in the poem To Science?
a.
Daughter of Old Time
11.
Why is science referred as ‘Daughter
of Old Time’?
a.
Because science, like time,
alters and destroys things.
12. In the poem To Science what does ‘peering eyes’ refer to?
a.
Scientific method of close
analysis
13. To which creature is science compared to?
a.
Vulture
14. Why is science seen as a ‘vulture’?
a.
Because it preys in the
poet's creative imagination
15. In the poem, the attitude of the poet to science is one of ____.
a.
Dislike
16. The poem To Science reflects opposition between _______.
a.
Science and poetry
17.
Which all mythological
characters are referred to in the poem To Science?
a.
Roman mythological
character, Diana, Greek and Roman Mythological character, Hamadryad and
classical mythological character, a water nymph, Naiad.
18. Who is Diana according to Roman mythology?
a.
Goddess of the hunt who
ride the moon
19. What does the line ‘dragged Diana from her care mean in the poem
To Science?
a.
Science destroys the sense
of magic/pulls Diana from her chariot
20. Who is Hamadryad as per the Greek and Roman mythology?
a.
A nymph who lives and dies
in a tree (woods)
21. Who is Naiad according time classical mythology?
a.
Water nymph who lives in a
river/ spring or waterfall
22. Which word is used by Poe to refer the dislike of science?
a.
Dull realities
23. According to the poet, science has ____.
a.
Disproved mythology
24. What does Poe mean in the lines ‘Who alterest all things with thy
peering eyes' ?
a.
Science is based on
sheer/keen observation
25. Why does Poe use classical Greek and Roman mythological character?
a.
To reveal how science
restricts poetic imagination.
26. With mythological images what does Poe state regarding the
connection of science and nature?
a.
Science is blind to all
things in nature.
27. What does Science prey upon?
a.
Poet's heart
28. What does the reference ‘Elfin from the green grass’ mean?
a.
Science does not support
existence of fairies and elves
29. What has science taken away from humans?
a.
Human imagination
30. What do jewelled skies mean?
a.
Sky filled with stars
31. Who is dragged from the car according to Poe?
a.
Diana, goddess of hunt
32. What does undaunted mean?
a.
Not intimidated/ unafraid
33. Who is driven out from the woods as per the sonnet To Science?
a.
Hamadryad, nymph of
forest/woods/tree
34. What does soared mean in the poem To Science?
a.
Flew or raised high in the
air
35. Who has been torn put from the flood according to Poe?
a.
Naiad, the water nymph
36. To seek for treasures in the ____ skies.
a.
Jewelled
37. The summer dream beneath the ____ tree.
a.
Tamarind
38. What does the word beneath mean?
a.
Below
39. What do ‘dull realities in the sonnet To Science refer to?
a.
Reality based on facts and
figures devoid (without) human imagination
40. What is the possible outcome of ‘Summer Dream’?
a.
Possibilities of creative
ideas
41. From where was Diana dragged out as per the poem To Science?
a.
From her car
42. Where was Hamadryad driven out from?
a.
From the wood
43. Where the nymph Hamadryad used to live?
a.
In the woods
44. What did Elfin lose according to the poet?
a.
Green grass
45. According to Poe, what does science prey upon?
a.
Poet’s Heart
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