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12 questions
  1. "The Last Ride Together" is a —
    1. sonnet
    2. dramatic monologue
    3. pastoral elegy
    4. mock epic
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    Answer: (B) dramatic monologue

    A single speaker addresses a silent listener at a critical moment — a dramatic monologue.

  2. The poem appears in Browning’s collection —
    1. Dramatic Lyrics
    2. Men and Women
    3. The Ring and the Book
    4. Bells and Pomegranates
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    Answer: (B) Men and Women

    It was published in Men and Women in 1855.

  3. What does the speaker ask for after being rejected?
    1. A letter of explanation
    2. One last ride together
    3. Her portrait
    4. Her forgiveness
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    Answer: (B) One last ride together

    He claims only a memory, and her leave for one more last ride.

  4. How does the speaker react to his rejection?
    1. With anger and threats
    2. With blessing and thankfulness
    3. With silent despair
    4. By leaving the country
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    Answer: (B) With blessing and thankfulness

    His whole heart rises up to bless her name in pride and thankfulness.

  5. Which of these does the speaker NOT list among those who also failed?
    1. The statesman
    2. The soldier
    3. The sculptor
    4. The merchant
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    Answer: (D) The merchant

    His list is statesman, soldier, poet, sculptor and musician — not a merchant.

  6. "What hand and brain went ever paired?" means that —
    1. artists always work alone
    2. no one’s achievement ever matched his imagination
    3. thinking is better than doing
    4. men and women are never equal
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    Answer: (B) no one’s achievement ever matched his imagination

    Nobody’s power to do ever equalled his power to conceive.

  7. The speaker compares his soul, released at last, to —
    1. a bird in flight
    2. a flag unfurling in the wind
    3. a river in flood
    4. a lamp being lit
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    Answer: (B) a flag unfurling in the wind

    His long-folded soul smooths itself out like a flag in the wind.

  8. What does the speaker imagine heaven might be?
    1. Reunion with his family
    2. The ride continuing for ever
    3. Fame after death
    4. Peace without feeling
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    Answer: (B) The ride continuing for ever

    He wonders whether heaven is simply this moment made eternal — "ride together, for ever ride".

  9. Each stanza of the poem has —
    1. eight lines
    2. ten lines
    3. eleven lines
    4. fourteen lines
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    Answer: (C) eleven lines

    Browning invented an eleven-line stanza for this poem.

  10. Browning’s outlook, compared with Tennyson’s, is generally —
    1. more pessimistic
    2. more optimistic
    3. more religious
    4. more political
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    Answer: (B) more optimistic

    Browning is the great Victorian optimist; failure here promises fulfilment hereafter.

  11. Why does the poet say the sculptor has also failed?
    1. His statue was broken
    2. His statue is cold stone, not a living woman
    3. Nobody looked at his work
    4. He never finished it
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    Answer: (B) His statue is cold stone, not a living woman

    The crowd admires the marble, but the lover has the living woman beside him.

  12. The repetition of "ride" at the end chiefly creates —
    1. a sense of anger
    2. the rhythm of riding and of endlessness
    3. a feeling of regret
    4. a religious chant
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    Answer: (B) the rhythm of riding and of endlessness

    The repeated word makes the hoofbeat audible and stretches the moment towards eternity.

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