George Herbert: Poems Quizzes

George Herbert: Poems Quiz

1 In what year was The Temple published?

1633

1900

1600

1932
2 What was Herbert's age at his time of death?

25

82

40

39
3 Which of the following is NOT a section of The Temple?

The Churchgoer

The Church-porch

The Church-millitant

The Church
4 Besides The Temple, Herbert wrote all of the following EXCEPT:

French poetry

Greek poetry

A prose work called The Country Parson

Latin poetry
5 Herbert employed all of the following forms, EXCEPT:

free verse

haiku

hieroglyphic poetry shaped like objects

traditional meter and rhyme (i.e. iambic pentameter)
6 God, as represented by Herbert, portrays all the following attributes EXCEPT:

kindness

infinite love

wrath

failibility
7 Herbert believed priests were important to religious life because...

they frightened religious leaders from other sects

they were wealthy

they were not afraid to use punishment to motivate their congregants

they influenced other men's actions and thus the fate of their souls
8 Hebert's five poems titled "Affliction" emphasize...

the devastation of the bubonic plague in Europe

the ultimate reason why God curses man with affliction

that God wants mankind to suffer for no reason

that romantic love is an affliction
9 According to poems like "The Collar," religious doubt...

damns one to hell

never happens

happens only to the weak, but never to priests

is natural, and sometimes helps mankind rediscover God
10 Why do poems like "The Clasping of Hands" and "Love (III)" use romantic imagery?

to emphasize the divine union between God and man in heaven and the power of religious longing

to show that lust is a sin

to transgress the church's doctrine at the time

to appeal to 17th century readers who were easily bored
11 Herbert was popular in all of the following periods except:

the late 17th century

the early 19th century

the medieval era

the modernist era (beginning of the 20th century)

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