Anne Bradstreet – Prologue – Exam Based MCQs
1. Anne Bradstreet is known as an early: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) American poet
B) Irish dramatist
C) Victorian novelist
D) Metaphysical critic
Ans: A) American poet
2. Anne Bradstreet belonged to the: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) Romantic age
B) Puritan tradition
C) Augustan age
D) Modernist movement
Ans: B) Puritan tradition
3. Prologue is written by: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Anne Bradstreet
C) Phillis Wheatley
D) Sylvia Plath
Ans: B) Anne Bradstreet
4. The poem Prologue serves mainly as an introduction to: (UGC NET 2016; SET 2022; PGTRB 2023)
A) a dramatic tragedy
B) the poet’s work and poetic position
C) a political manifesto
D) a pastoral romance
Ans: B) the poet’s work and poetic position
5. In Prologue, Anne Bradstreet initially refers to themes like: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2021)
A) kings, wars, and cities
B) village comedy only
C) romantic love only
D) supernatural terror only
Ans: A) kings, wars, and cities
6. The poet says such grand themes are better suited to: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2018; PGTRB 2022)
A) her own genius alone
B) more learned or powerful poets
C) only dramatists
D) only historians
Ans: B) more learned or powerful poets
7. Prologue reflects Bradstreet’s poetic humility through her: (UGC NET 2021; SET 2023; PGTRB 2020)
A) boastful tone
B) self-deprecating tone
C) bitter anger only
D) comic mockery only
Ans: B) self-deprecating tone
8. One major theme of Prologue is: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2023)
A) women’s literary position
B) industrialization
C) nationalism only
D) pastoral shepherd life
Ans: A) women’s literary position
9. In Prologue, Bradstreet responds to the idea that poetry is mainly for: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2019; PGTRB 2021)
A) women
B) men
C) children only
D) kings only
Ans: B) men
10. Bradstreet ironically comments on the belief that women possess: (UGC NET 2016; SET 2022; PGTRB 2022)
A) superior intellect
B) weaker intellect
C) military strength
D) political authority
Ans: B) weaker intellect
11. The tone of Prologue is best described as: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2020)
A) purely tragic
B) modest yet ironic
C) purely satirical and savage
D) entirely epic
Ans: B) modest yet ironic
12. Bradstreet refers admiringly to the ancient Greek poet: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2023; PGTRB 2021)
A) Homer
B) Virgil
C) Ovid
D) Horace
Ans: A) Homer
13. In the poem, “Bartas” refers to: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2022)
A) a classical hero
B) Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
C) Bradstreet’s husband
D) a Puritan preacher only
Ans: B) Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
14. Anne Bradstreet admired Du Bartas as a: (UGC NET 2021; SET 2022; PGTRB 2023)
A) model poet
B) military leader
C) scientist only
D) comic playwright
Ans: A) model poet
15. Bradstreet’s reference to famous male poets shows her: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2020)
A) ignorance of literary tradition
B) familiarity with literary tradition
C) rejection of all classical learning
D) dislike of poetry
Ans: B) familiarity with literary tradition
16. In Prologue, Bradstreet suggests that critics often say women’s writing is: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2022)
A) impossible
B) stolen or undeserved
C) superior to men’s
D) always comic
Ans: B) stolen or undeserved
17. The line of argument in Prologue reveals Bradstreet’s awareness of: (UGC NET 2015; SET 2021; PGTRB 2021)
A) gender prejudice
B) only economic injustice
C) only religious conflict
D) military decline
Ans: A) gender prejudice
18. When Bradstreet says “men have precedency,” she is referring to: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2022; PGTRB 2023)
A) biological superiority
B) male social priority
C) military command only
D) poetic incapacity only
Ans: B) male social priority
19. Bradstreet asks only for a small amount of recognition, symbolized by: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2023; PGTRB 2020)
A) bays or laurel
B) gold
C) land
D) political office
Ans: A) bays or laurel
20. Her request for “thyme or parsley wreath” suggests: (UGC NET 2016; SET 2017; PGTRB 2022)
A) modest praise
B) military victory
C) tragic despair
D) religious dogma
Ans: A) modest praise
21. Bradstreet does not openly revolt in Prologue; instead she uses: (UGC NET 2021; SET 2021; PGTRB 2021)
A) irony and humility
B) direct violence
C) dramatic revenge
D) complete silence
Ans: A) irony and humility
22. The poem can be read as an early example of: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2020; PGTRB 2020)
A) feminist self-assertion
B) revenge tragedy
C) metaphysical sermon
D) pastoral elegy
Ans: A) feminist self-assertion
23. The metre of Prologue is mainly: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2022; PGTRB 2021)
A) free verse
B) heroic couplets
C) blank verse
D) ballad metre
Ans: B) heroic couplets
24. Heroic couplets consist of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2021; PGTRB 2023)
A) unrhymed pentameter lines
B) two rhymed iambic pentameter lines
C) four tetrameter lines
D) free irregular lines
Ans: B) two rhymed iambic pentameter lines
25. The formal polish of Prologue shows Bradstreet’s: (UGC NET 2016; SET 2023; PGTRB 2022)
A) poetic skill
B) lack of education
C) rejection of craft
D) dislike of metre
Ans: A) poetic skill
26. Bradstreet’s Prologue indirectly challenges the belief that women should remain: (UGC NET 2021; SET 2022; PGTRB 2021)
A) publicly silent
B) politically powerful
C) military leaders
D) merchants only
Ans: A) publicly silent
27. The poem is personal but also: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2021; PGTRB 2020)
A) social in concern
B) purely historical only
C) wholly mythological
D) entirely dramatic
Ans: A) social in concern
28. Bradstreet’s speaker appears modest, but the poem itself proves her: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2022)
A) incompetence
B) literary talent
C) political authority
D) comic nature only
Ans: B) literary talent
29. A major poetic device in Prologue is: (UGC NET 2021; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) irony
B) alliterative revival
C) stream of consciousness
D) absurdism
Ans: A) irony
30. The poem reflects the tension between: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2021; PGTRB 2020)
A) female authorship and male authority
B) village and city only
C) religion and science only
D) war and peace only
Ans: A) female authorship and male authority
31. The speaker’s modesty may be called a rhetorical strategy of: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2023; PGTRB 2023)
A) self-fashioning
B) military boasting
C) comic escapism
D) romantic idealization only
Ans: A) self-fashioning
32. Prologue belongs to the tradition of: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2018; PGTRB 2022)
A) early American colonial poetry
B) Restoration comedy
C) Victorian dramatic monologue
D) modernist experimentation
Ans: A) early American colonial poetry
33. The poem’s appeal for “small acknowledgement” suggests Bradstreet’s: (UGC NET 2021; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) demand for equality in moderate terms
B) complete submission
C) hatred of fame
D) rejection of poetry
Ans: A) demand for equality in moderate terms
34. Bradstreet’s poem is not merely submissive because it also: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2022; PGTRB 2020)
A) questions male literary monopoly
B) celebrates war
C) mocks religion
D) praises silence only
Ans: A) questions male literary monopoly
35. Which statement is TRUE about Prologue? (UGC NET 2016; SET 2021; PGTRB 2023)
A) It is a dramatic tragedy of war
B) It mixes humility with subtle protest
C) It is a sonnet sequence about love
D) It rejects literary tradition
Ans: B) It mixes humility with subtle protest
36. Which pair is correctly matched? (UGC NET 2020; SET 2022; PGTRB 2022)
A) Bradstreet — Prologue
B) Dickinson — Prologue
C) Plath — Prologue
D) Wheatley — Prologue
Ans: A) Bradstreet — Prologue
37. Which statement best suits Bradstreet’s attitude to male poets? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2023; PGTRB 2021)
A) She admires them but also questions exclusive privilege
B) She rejects them completely
C) She ignores them entirely
D) She mocks them as worthless
Ans: A) She admires them but also questions exclusive privilege
38. Which statement best suits the poem’s language? (UGC NET 2021; SET 2021; PGTRB 2023)
A) learned, controlled, and witty
B) fragmented and obscure
C) colloquial and slang-filled
D) purely dramatic
Ans: A) learned, controlled, and witty
39. Which statement best suits the poem’s significance? (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) It is an early articulation of women’s poetic right
B) It is merely a decorative preface
C) It is a mock-epic on kings
D) It is a dramatic monologue of revenge
Ans: A) It is an early articulation of women’s poetic right
40. Which statement best suits Bradstreet’s technique in Prologue? (UGC NET 2017; SET 2022; PGTRB 2020)
A) She uses humility to strengthen her authority
B) She abandons structure entirely
C) She uses only satire without sincerity
D) She avoids all allusion
Ans: A) She uses humility to strengthen her authority
41. Which statement best suits the social context of Prologue? (UGC NET 2020; SET 2023; PGTRB 2022)
A) It emerges from a patriarchal colonial society
B) It belongs to industrial England
C) It belongs to medieval chivalry
D) It rejects Puritan values completely
Ans: A) It emerges from a patriarchal colonial society
42. Which statement best suits the allusions in Prologue? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2018; PGTRB 2021)
A) They establish Bradstreet’s scholarship
B) They show her ignorance
C) They are merely decorative
D) They reject tradition entirely
Ans: A) They establish Bradstreet’s scholarship
43. Which statement best suits the ending of Prologue? (UGC NET 2021; SET 2022; PGTRB 2023)
A) It asks for a modest but just poetic reward
B) It ends in total despair
C) It rejects all praise
D) It demands political revolution
Ans: A) It asks for a modest but just poetic reward
44. Which statement best suits Bradstreet’s voice in Prologue? (UGC NET 2019; SET 2021; PGTRB 2020)
A) restrained, intelligent, and quietly assertive
B) hysterical and uncontrolled
C) comic and empty
D) coldly academic only
Ans: A) restrained, intelligent, and quietly assertive
45. Which statement best suits the feminist dimension of Prologue? (UGC NET 2020; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) It challenges assumptions about women’s inferiority
B) It supports male supremacy without question
C) It ignores gender completely
D) It is anti-literary
Ans: A) It challenges assumptions about women’s inferiority
46. Which statement best suits the poem’s artistry? (UGC NET 2017; SET 2023; PGTRB 2022)
A) It unites formal control with social critique
B) It is shapeless and random
C) It avoids rhetoric completely
D) It depends only on emotional outburst
Ans: A) It unites formal control with social critique
47. Which statement best suits the poem as a prologue? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2023)
A) It introduces the poet’s themes and defenses
B) It narrates a complete tragedy
C) It is only a devotional hymn
D) It contains no self-reference
Ans: A) It introduces the poet’s themes and defenses
48. Which statement best suits Prologue? (UGC NET 2021; SET 2021; PGTRB 2021)
A) It is a witty self-positioning poem by a woman writer in a male literary culture
B) It is a tragic dramatic speech by a queen
C) It is a blank verse pastoral
D) It is an epic on colonial warfare
Ans: A) It is a witty self-positioning poem by a woman writer in a male literary culture
49. Which statement best suits the importance of Anne Bradstreet in literary history? (UGC NET 2016; SET 2022; PGTRB 2020)
A) She is one of the earliest significant women poets in American literature
B) She is the first modernist poet
C) She is only a translator
D) She belongs only to British Romanticism
Ans: A) She is one of the earliest significant women poets in American literature
50. Which statement best describes Anne Bradstreet’s Prologue? (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2023)
A) It is a formally controlled, ironic, and modestly assertive poem in which Bradstreet introduces her poetic role, acknowledges literary tradition, and challenges gender prejudice while asking only limited recognition
B) It is a tragic play about Puritan society
C) It is a mock-epic on kings and war
D) It is a romantic ode to nature
Ans: A) It is a formally controlled, ironic, and modestly assertive poem in which Bradstreet introduces her poetic role, acknowledges literary tradition, and challenges gender prejudice while asking only limited recognition
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