Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto – Exam Based MCQs
1. Andrea del Sarto is a poem by: (UGC NET / SET / PGTRB)
A) Alfred Tennyson
B) Matthew Arnold
C) Robert Browning
D) W.B. Yeats
Ans: C) Robert Browning
2. The poem is also called: (SET / PGTRB)
A) “The Faultless Painter”
B) “The Scholar-Gipsy”
C) “The Blessed Damozel”
D) “The Waste Land”
Ans: A) “The Faultless Painter”
3. The poem appears in Browning’s collection: (UGC NET)
A) Dramatis Personae
B) The Ring and the Book
C) Poems (1853)
D) Men and Women (1855)
Ans: D) Men and Women (1855)
4. The poem is best classified as a: (UGC NET / SET)
A) Ballad
B) Dramatic monologue
C) Sonnet sequence
D) Epic
Ans: B) Dramatic monologue
5. The speaker of the poem is: (PGTRB)
A) Raphael
B) Michelangelo
C) Andrea del Sarto
D) The Duke of Ferrara
Ans: C) Andrea del Sarto
6. Andrea addresses his wife named: (SET)
A) Lucrezia
B) Porphyria
C) Mariana
D) Rossetti
Ans: A) Lucrezia
7. The opening line begins with: (UGC NET)
A) “That’s my last Duchess…”
B) “Go, lovely rose…”
C) “April is the cruellest month…”
D) “But do not let us quarrel any more…”
Ans: D) “But do not let us quarrel any more…”
8. Much of the poem takes place as the couple sits near a: (SET)
A) Battlefield
B) Window
C) Church altar
D) Market stall
Ans: B) Window
9. The setting of the poem is mainly in: (PGTRB)
A) Florence (Italy)
B) London (England)
C) Dublin (Ireland)
D) Athens (Greece)
Ans: A) Florence (Italy)
10. The title “Faultless Painter” suggests Andrea is: (UGC NET / SET)
A) A careless painter
B) A poet without rhyme
C) Technically perfect but lacking higher inspiration
D) A painter who refuses commissions
Ans: C) Technically perfect but lacking higher inspiration
11. The poem contrasts “faultless technique” with: (UGC NET)
A) Farm work
B) Travel writing
C) Political speeches
D) Spiritual/creative greatness
Ans: D) Spiritual/creative greatness
12. Andrea compares himself with great artists like: (SET)
A) Raphael and Michelangelo
B) Shakespeare and Milton
C) Wordsworth and Keats
D) Byron and Shelley
Ans: A) Raphael and Michelangelo
13. Andrea’s major personal weakness shown in the poem is: (UGC NET / PGTRB)
A) Courage and firmness
B) Lack of willpower / moral courage
C) Total indifference to Lucrezia
D) Hatred of art
Ans: B) Lack of willpower / moral courage
14. The poem explores the theme of: (UGC NET)
A) Sea adventure
B) Colonial conquest
C) Comic misunderstandings
D) Art, failure, and compromise in marriage
Ans: D) Art, failure, and compromise in marriage
15. Browning is famous especially for writing: (SET)
A) Dramatic monologues
B) Haiku
C) Epics like Paradise Lost
D) Medieval romances only
Ans: A) Dramatic monologues
16. In the poem, Andrea often tries to: (PGTRB)
A) Command Lucrezia harshly
B) Ignore Lucrezia completely
C) Please Lucrezia and avoid conflict
D) Break all ties with his work
Ans: C) Please Lucrezia and avoid conflict
17. The poem’s tone is mainly: (UGC NET)
A) Purely humorous
B) Melancholic, reflective, self-justifying
C) Only celebratory
D) Purely patriotic
Ans: B) Melancholic, reflective, self-justifying
18. The poem shows Andrea blaming his failure partly on: (SET)
A) Weather only
B) Lack of paint
C) Travel sickness
D) Lucrezia’s influence and his own weakness
Ans: D) Lucrezia’s influence and his own weakness
19. “My Last Duchess” is also a Browning poem in the form of a: (UGC NET)
A) Dramatic monologue
B) Haiku
C) Ballad
D) Epic
Ans: A) Dramatic monologue
20. Andrea’s art problem is that he has: (PGTRB)
A) Too much imagination, no skill
B) No practice at all
C) Skill without the “soul”/fire of the greatest masters
D) No patrons ever
Ans: C) Skill without the “soul”/fire of the greatest masters
21. Andrea’s speech reveals a character who is: (UGC NET)
A) Fully confident and aggressive
B) Gentle, resigned, and inwardly troubled
C) Completely silent
D) Joyfully triumphant
Ans: B) Gentle, resigned, and inwardly troubled
22. The poem’s central conflict is mainly: (SET)
A) War between nations
B) Trial in a court
C) Sea voyage disaster
D) Andrea’s inner failure + strained marriage
Ans: D) Andrea’s inner failure + strained marriage
23. The poem is written mainly in: (UGC NET / SET)
A) Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
B) Heroic couplets
C) Limericks
D) Haiku
Ans: A) Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
24. Andrea often speaks like someone seeking: (PGTRB)
A) Revenge
B) Political power
C) Comfort, understanding, and closeness
D) Military victory
Ans: C) Comfort, understanding, and closeness
25. The poem highlights the difference between: (UGC NET)
A) City and sea
B) Technical perfection and inspired greatness
C) Science and maths
D) Comedy and farce
Ans: B) Technical perfection and inspired greatness
26. Lucrezia in the poem is presented as: (SET)
A) Deeply devoted and selfless
B) A poet writing sonnets
C) A warrior queen
D) Cool/distant; more concerned with money and others
Ans: D) Cool/distant; more concerned with money and others
27. A dramatic monologue usually reveals: (UGC NET)
A) The speaker’s psychology through speech
B) Only nature description
C) Only a chorus of many speakers equally
D) Only rhyme rules
Ans: A) The speaker’s psychology through speech
28. Andrea’s attitude to quarrelling is: (PGTRB)
A) He enjoys fights
B) He starts fights intentionally
C) He wants peace and begs to stop quarrelling
D) He laughs at quarrels
Ans: C) He wants peace and begs to stop quarrelling
29. The poem shows art is affected by: (UGC NET)
A) Only weather
B) Personal choices and moral strength
C) Only war
D) Only machines
Ans: B) Personal choices and moral strength
30. Andrea is a figure from the: (SET)
A) Modern age only
B) Ancient Greek age
C) Medieval England
D) Italian Renaissance
Ans: D) Italian Renaissance
31. Andrea’s tragedy in the poem is mainly: (UGC NET)
A) Wasting gifts through weakness and compromise
B) Becoming king
C) Winning a war
D) Finding buried treasure
Ans: A) Wasting gifts through weakness and compromise
32. Andrea often speaks of money because: (PGTRB)
A) He refuses to work
B) He dislikes commissions
C) Lucrezia pressures him to take paid work/commissions
D) He is a banker
Ans: C) Lucrezia pressures him to take paid work/commissions
33. “Faultless” refers most to Andrea’s: (SET)
A) Political speech
B) Technical mastery / craftsmanship
C) Religious sermons
D) Military strength
Ans: B) Technical mastery / craftsmanship
34. Andrea thinks the “great masters” surpass him because they have: (UGC NET)
A) Only better brushes
B) Only better frames
C) Only more money
D) Higher inspiration / inner fire
Ans: D) Higher inspiration / inner fire
35. The poem is best studied for its: (UGC NET / SET)
A) Psychological self-revelation
B) Travel guide details
C) Strict political argument
D) Comedy of errors
Ans: A) Psychological self-revelation
36. Andrea’s relationship with Lucrezia is shown as: (PGTRB)
A) Fully equal and peaceful always
B) Completely indifferent on both sides
C) Unbalanced—Andrea is more devoted than she is
D) Only comic and playful
Ans: C) Unbalanced—Andrea is more devoted than she is
37. The poem indirectly criticizes a life driven mainly by: (SET)
A) Wisdom
B) Money and shallow desire
C) Moral strength
D) Artistic courage
Ans: B) Money and shallow desire
38. The poem’s emotional centre is Andrea’s: (UGC NET)
A) Pride in war
B) Love of politics
C) Joyful humour
D) Regret and longing for love + greatness
Ans: D) Regret and longing for love + greatness
39. Browning often uses Renaissance/Italian settings to: (UGC NET)
A) Explore moral and psychological conflicts
B) Teach farming methods
C) Explain chemistry
D) Praise modern factories
Ans: A) Explore moral and psychological conflicts
40. The poem is NOT an example of: (SET)
A) Browning’s character study
B) Victorian dramatic poetry
C) A romantic lyric about nature only
D) A poem showing inner conflict
Ans: C) A romantic lyric about nature only
41. Andrea’s “failure” is portrayed as: (PGTRB)
A) Purely society’s fault
B) A mix of fate, love-choice, and personal weakness
C) Only his enemies’ fault
D) Only because he hates painting
Ans: B) A mix of fate, love-choice, and personal weakness
42. In dramatic monologue, the listener is usually: (UGC NET)
A) Always silent but present/implied
B) A chorus that speaks equally
C) Not present at all
D) Both A and also strongly shapes the speech
Ans: D) Both A and also strongly shapes the speech
43. Andrea’s repeated pleading shows his: (SET)
A) Need for affection and fear of abandonment
B) Love for warfare
C) Joy at being alone
D) Indifference to Lucrezia
Ans: A) Need for affection and fear of abandonment
44. The poem’s main artistic idea can be summed up as: (UGC NET)
A) Skill always defeats imagination
B) Money is the only purpose of art
C) Perfect technique alone is not enough for greatness
D) Art should be banned
Ans: C) Perfect technique alone is not enough for greatness
45. The poem’s speaker is most reliable as: (PGTRB)
A) A fully objective narrator
B) A self-justifying voice revealing bias and pain
C) A historian with footnotes
D) A comedian
Ans: B) A self-justifying voice revealing bias and pain
46. A key feature of Browning’s style here is: (UGC NET / SET)
A) Very simple nursery rhyme
B) Only end-rhyme music
C) Only short slogans
D) Natural speech-like blank verse with argument and reflection
Ans: D) Natural speech-like blank verse with argument and reflection
47. Lucrezia is mainly important because she represents: (SET)
A) The worldly pull that distracts Andrea from greatness
B) A great patron of pure art
C) A spiritual guide
D) A political leader
Ans: A) The worldly pull that distracts Andrea from greatness
48. The poem is set against the background of: (UGC NET)
A) Industrial England
B) Ancient Rome
C) Renaissance Italian art culture
D) World War I
Ans: C) Renaissance Italian art culture
49. The poem’s major emotion is closest to: (PGTRB)
A) Pure joy
B) Quiet despair and self-knowledge
C) Loud comic laughter
D) Triumphant victory
Ans: B) Quiet despair and self-knowledge
50. Andrea del Sarto is most useful for exams because it illustrates: (UGC NET / SET / PGTRB)
A) Only nature worship
B) Only narrative adventure
C) Only strict rhyme patterns
D) Dramatic monologue + art vs. inspiration theme
Ans: D) Dramatic monologue + art vs. inspiration theme
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