Chaucer to Shakespeare

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Chaucer to Shakespeare Objective Questions

1. Which of the four chief dialects that flourished in the pre-Chaucerian period became the standard English in Chaucer’s time?
A. the Northern
B. the Southern
C. the East-Midland
D. the West-Midland

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2. which of the following Chaucer’s tales is in prose?
A. The Parson’s Tale
B. The Pardoner’s Tale
C. The Prioress’s tale
D. The Cook’s tale

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3. Chaucer lived through the reigns of:
A. Two Kings
B. Three kings
C. Four Kings
D. Five Kings

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4. The poet who was born in the reign of Edward-III, lived through that of Richard-II, and died in the reign of Henry-IV was:
A. Chaucer
B. Langland
C. Trevelyan
D. Boccaccio

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5. Who is Lowes talking about in the following line ‘He found English a dialect and left it a language?
A. Shakespeare
B. Milton
C. Ben Jonson
D. Chaucer

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6. Which of the following English alphabet occurs most often in writing?
A. e
B. s
C. r
D. a

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7. Hundred Years’ war began in:
A. 1327
B. 1330
C. 1337
D. 1339

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8. The Saxons came to England in:
A. 435 AD
B. 450 AD
C. 455 AD
D. 457 AD

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9. ‘Beowulf’ an important piece of literature of the old English period is a/an:
A. lyrical ballad
B. classical epic
C. Prose narrative
D. Anglo-Saxon epic

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10 ‘peasants Revolt’ took place in:
A. 1346
B. 1365
C. 1378
D. 1381

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11. ‘The peasant’s Revolt’ resulted in the:
A. dethroning of the
B. demolition of the church as an institution
C. end of selfdom
D. rise of nationalism

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12. The followers of John Wycliffe were known as:
A. University wits
B. Lollards
C. Chaucerians
D. Feudals

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13. ‘Utopia’ is written by:
A. Thomas More
B. William Caxton
C. John Fisher
D. Reginald Peacock

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14. The chief characteristic feature of medieval literature is:
A. a large body of personal literature
B. realism in the representation of time and space
C. frequent use of allegory
D. the popular genre of the bird and the beast fable

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15. Piers and Plowman are a/an:
A. elegy
B. ballad
C. allegorical poem
D. A satire

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16. Confessio Amantis by John Gower is written in:
A. Latin
B. Italian
C. Greek
D. English

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17. Vox Clamantis is written in:
A. Latin
B. England
C. French
D. Italian

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18. Vox Clamantis is largely concerned with:
A. Criticism of clergy
B. wat Tyler’s rebellion
C. Malvern’s poverty and struggle
D. The purity of the gospel truth

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19. Who wrote The parliament of fouls?
A. William Langland
B. Sir David Lyndsay
C. James-I
D. Geoffrey Chaucer

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20. The spirit of new learning in the transitional period from the medieval to the modern was chiefly the influence of:
A. German Renaissance
B. French Renaissance
C. Italian Renaissance
D. All of the above

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21. There were three medieval institutions. which of the following was not one of them?
A. Chivalry
B. Feudalism
C. The church
D. Slavery

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22. The canterbury Tales depicts a picture gallery of:
A. Religion of the age
B. Canterbury Society of the age
c. The educational trends of the age
D. The manners of the age

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23. The spirit of English chivalry and romantic idealism is shown in the tale of:
A. The knight
B. The Yeoman
C. The squire
D. The reeve

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24. Chaucer wrote The Romance Of The Rose under the influence of:
A. De Lorries and De Meung
B. Dante and Boccaccio
C. Blanche and De Lorries
D. Blanche and De Meung

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25. Chaucer makes a clear reference is of Petrarch in:
A. Merchant’s Tale
B. Miller’s tale
C. Clerkes’ tale
D. Manciple’s tale

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26. Who is acknowledged as ‘the morning star of Reformation’?
A. Chaucer
B. Langland
C. Gower
D. Wycliff

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27. Who wrote The Brus?
A. William Langland
B. John Barbour
C. John Bruce
D. De Bruce

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28. The Brus records the great deeds of …..in the spirited narrative :
A. Robert Bruce
B. William Bruce
C. John Bruce
D. De Bruce

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29. The first battle of the wars of Roses began in:
A. 1413
B. 1426
C. 1453
D. 1455

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30. Chaucer became a page to the Duchess of Clarence at the age of:
A. Sixteen
B. Seventeen
C. Nineteen
D. Twenty-one

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31. In his later life, Chaucer was greatly influenced by the skeptical philosophy and satirical humor of:
A. Machat
B. Lorris
C. Froissart
D. Meung

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32. The Boke of the Duchess was written on the death of the wife of:
A. Edward the Confessor
B. Simon de Monfort
C. John of Gaunt
D. Henry-II

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33. Piers Plowman-A vision is a long poem of about…lines.
A. 15,000
B. 20,000
C. 22,000
D. 24,000

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34. The child king who ascended the throne in England in 1377 was:
A. Richard-I
B. Richard-II
C. Edward-III
D. Henry-II

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35. Who is the old man out in the following?
A. Chaucer
B. Marlowe
C. Gower
D. Mandeville

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36. Troylus and Criseyde are partly based on Filostrato written by:
A. Froissart
B. Petrarch
C. Deschamps
D. Boccaccio

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37. which of the following works Of Chaucer bears a close resemblance to Dante’s Divine Comedy?
A. Troylus and Cryseyde
B. The Romance Of The Rose
C. The House of Fame
D. The parliament of fouls

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38. The Black Death that swept over England in 1348 is another name for:
A. The Great plague
B. The Great famine
C. The great flood
D. The Great Revolt

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39. One of the following statements is incorrect about medieval literature. Identify it:
A. The dream-vision convention was in vogue
B. Allegory was widely used
C. There was often an undercurrent of moral and didactic strain
D. Chaucer exploited the dream-vision convention in The Canterbury Tales

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40. How many pilgrims were there in the Canterbury Tales?
A. Twenty-one
B. Twenty-six
C. Twenty-nine
D. Thirty-one

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41. The pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales assembled at the:
A. Bracket Inn
B. Tabard Inn
C. Web le Inn
D. Arcite’s Inn

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42. The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales were welcomed by a very Jolly host named:
A. Harry Baily
B. Harry Miller
C. Jacques More
D. Palamon

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43. Chaucer employed….. in his prologue and Canterbury Tales.
A. Rhyme Royal
B. Ottava Rhyme
C. Heroic Couplet
D. Blank verse

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44. Chaucer effectively used rhyme Royal in Troylus and Criseyde and arranged in stanzas consisting of 10 syllabic lines and having:
A. five lines in each Stanza
B. Nine lines in each stanza
C. Eight lines in each Stanza
D. Seven lines in each Stanza

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45. The Legende of Good women by Chaucer was written on the Queen of:
A. Clarence
B. Kent
C. Bohemian
D. Dido

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46. The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales were bound to visit the shrine of:
A. St.Salisbury
B. Thomas-a-Becket
C. St.Jude
D. St.Mary

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47. The ‘wife of Bath’ in The Canterbury Tales tells about her….. marriages.
A. Three
B. Four
C. two
D. Five

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48. Chaucer’s physician in the Doctor of physique was heavily dependent upon:
A. Astrology
B. Astronomy
C. Sorcery
D. Church

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49. Spenser called…… as ‘the well of English undefiled.
A. Langland
B. Wycliff
C. Dunbar
D. Chaucer

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50. Chaucer introduced the heroic couplet in English verse and invented the:
A. Free verse
B. Rhyme royal
C. Ottava rhyme
D. Sestet

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51. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is believed to be the English translation of a certain French writer named:
A. De Meung
B. John of Trevisa
C. Jean de Bourgogne
D. de Lorris

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52. John Gower wrote a French book on the subject of Fallen man….. his vice and virtues. Identify the book:
A. Cinkante Ballades
B. Mirron de I’Omme
C. vox Clamantis
D. Confessio Amantis

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53. Gower’s In Praise of peace is addressed to:
A. Richard-I
B. Richard-II
C. Edward-III
D. Henry-IV

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54. Confessio Amantis is written by:
A. Gower
B. Chaucer
C. Wycliff
D. Lyndsay

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55. Gower is represented as a figure of old poetic authority in Shakespeare’s play:
A. Pericles
B. Venus and Adonis
C. Cymbeline
D. Titus Andronicus

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56. Peblis to the play is a work of:
A. Lyndsay
B. Chaucer
C. James-I
D. Barbour

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57. Which of the following is not written by David Lyndsay?
A. The Dreme
B. The king is Quair
C. The Testament of square Meldrum
D. The pleasant satire of Three Estates

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58. Which is the most famous book by Robert Henryson?
A. Morall Fabillis of Esope
B. Orpheus and Euridice
C. Garamond of Gud Ladies
D. Robene and make

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59. Morall fables of Esope is a collection of…… fables.
A. Seventeen
B. Nineteen
C. Twenty-three
D. Thirteen

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60. HenrySon wrote The Testament of Cressied in:
A. Blank verse
B. Ottava rhyme
C. Rhyme royal
D. Heroic couplet

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61. William Caxton printed the first book in English in 1474. identify the book:
A. The Bible
B. History of Troy
C. Brus
D. The complaint unto Pity

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62. Matthew Arnold criticized Chaucer for lacking in:
A. the lyrical quality
B. coherence
C. realism
D. high seriousness

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63. Who is known to be the first translator of the Bible into English?
A. William Tyndale
B. John Wycliff
C. John Gower
D. Thomas more

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64. In which month did the pilgrims March towards the canterbury?
A. April
B. May
C. March
D. June

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65. Which book of William Dunbar commemorates the marriage of James-IV of Scotland with Margaret, daughter of Henry-IIV of England?
A. The Golden Targe
B. Lament for the makaris
C. The Thistle and the Rose
D. Dance of the Seven Deadly sins

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66. The dream, vision, love, and adventure of William Dunbar are depicted in:
A. The Golden Targe
B. Lament for the makaris
C. Dance of the Seven Deadly sins
D. None of the above

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67. Who is popularly known as Burns of the 15th century?
A. Gavin Douglas
B. Robert Harrison
C. Sir David Lyndsay
D. William Dunbar

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68. What was the prize for the best storyteller among the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales?
A. A free horse ride
B. A free supper
C. Free stay in the inn
D. A Bible

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69. Which war resulted in bringing Tudor Rule to England?
A. The Anglo-French Wars
B. The battle of Hastings
C. The war of Roses
D. The battle of Agincourt

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70. The origin of English drama is attributed to:
A. The Liturgy, or religious ceremony of the church
B. Chaucer
C. The Ballad
D. The royal jesters

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71. Who targeted the corrupting influence of Cardinal Wolsey:
A. Thomas Heywood
B. Thomas skeleton
C. Sir John Lyndsay
D. Thomas Sackville

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72. The drama in England evolved through four well-marked stages till the end of the 16th century. Which of the following was not one of them?
A. The morality plays
B. The comedy of humor
C. The religious play
D. The interludes

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73. John Skelton was the tutor to the prince:
A. Henry
B. Richard
C. Charles
D. Edward

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74. ….. was awarded the poet laureate by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
A. Gavin Douglas
B. John Lydgate
C. Thomas Occleve
D. John skeleton

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75. Caxton refers to it as the first book of English prose. Identify the book:
A. The Bible
B. The palace of Honor
C. Morte d’ the Arthur
D. The History of Troy

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76. The vice of the clergy was satirized in the Callin Clout by:
A. Occleve
B. Skelton
C. Lydgate
D. Sackville

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77. …… by Skeleton examines the dangers of corrupt practices prevalent in the court.
A. Speak parrot
B. The Phyllype of a sparrow
C. Magnyfycence
D. The Garland

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78. Aeneados, the English translation of Virgil’s Aeneid was written by:
A. Gavin Douglas
B. Occleve
C. Skelton
D. John Lydgate

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79. Gavin Douglas wrote his Police of Honor under the influence of Chaucer’s:
A. Anelida and Arcite
B. Troilus and Cryseyde
C. The boke of the Duchess
D. The house of Fame

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80. The police of Honor by Gavin Douglas is a/an:
A. elegy
B. allegorical poem
C. ballad
D. interlude

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81. The first English playhouse called ‘The Theatre’ was founded in the suburbs of London in:
A. 1512
B. 1529
C. 1576
D. 1580

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82. The new Grammar Schools of 15th century England were a result of:
A. the war of Roses
B. diversion of funds from going to monasteries to education
C. the Ascent of Henry-VII to the throne
D. royal patronage to educational institutions

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83. The most remarkable ballads of the 15th century included:
A. Chevy-chase
B. The Nut-Brown maid
C. Cornelia
D. Both (A) and (B)

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84. Troye Book and The siege of Thebes are 15th-century works of:
A. John Lydgate
B. John Barbour
C. Stephen Hawes
D. William Tyndale

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85. John Lydgate translated Boccaccio’s compilation of tragedies in:
A. London Lack penny
B. pilgrimage of the Life of man
C. Fall of Princess
D. The Temple of Glass

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86. The literary genre, the eclogue, is attributed to:
A. John Skelton
B. Alexander Barclay
C. William Dunbar
D. Stephen Hawes

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87. La Mala Regele by Thomas Occleve is a satire on:
A. poverty
B. superstition
C. Fanaticism
D. Morality

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88. The complaint of our Lady is a work of:
A. Gavin Douglas
B. John Lydgate
C. John Mandeville
D. Thomas Occleve

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89. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is a:
A. Drama
B. Poem
C. Prose
D. Biography

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90. Who called Skeleton Beauty skeleton?
A. Chaucer
B. Alexander Pope
C. Wycliff
D. Dryden

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91. Tottle’s miscellany contained the Songs and Sonnets of:
A. Wyatt and Surrey
B. Wyatt and Raleigh
C. Sidney and Surrey
D. Sidney and Raleigh

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92. Sir Thomas Wyatt was a Poet, Courtier, and diplomat in the court of:
A. Henry V
B. Henry VII
C. Henry IV
D. Henry VIII

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93. Surrey was the first English poet who imitated the Italian model in the ten-syllabled verse called the:
A. Meter
B. Strope
C. Heroic couplet
D. Blank verse

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94. Sir Thomas Wyatt was suspected to have a love affair with:
A. Cornelia
B. Lady Becket
C. Anne Boleyn
D. Cindy Simon

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95. Wyatt and Surrey were greatly influenced by the:
A. Spanish poetry
B. Italian poetry
C. Greek poetry
D. French poetry

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96. Utopia was written by:
A. John Lydgate
B. Gavin Douglas
C. Sir Thomas More
D. John Mandeville

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97. Utopia was written in Latin in:
A. 1514
B. 1516
C. 1518
D. 1521

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98. One of the friends of the writer of Utopia is an important character in it. Identify him:
A. Peter Giles
B. Raphael Hythloday
C. Robertson
D. John Brown

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99. The prose works of Sir Thomas More include:
A. The Game and play of the Chess
B. The Life of John Picus
C. The History of Richard-III
D. Both (B) and (C)

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100. The Spanish Armada was defeated in:
A. 1488
B. 1496
C. 1540
D. 1588

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101. The contemporary of Chaucer who is regarded as the most original and powerful prose writer of his times are:
A. William Langland
B. John Wycliff
C. John Gower
D. John Gay

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102. Morte de’ Arthur is a work of:
A. John Wycliff
B. Stephen Hawes
C. Alexander Barclay
D. Thomas Malory

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103. Utopia is also known by the name:
A. An unknown island
B. A strange land
C. A world of imagination
D. The kingdom of nowhere

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104. Reginald peacock was a …… of St. Asaph and Chichester:
A. Bishop
B. Priest
C. Friar
D. None of the above

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105. Repressor of overmuch Blaming of the clergy Reginald peacock was written in:
A. 1439
B. 1445
C. 1447
D. 1449

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106. Which of the following is not written by Stephen Hawes?
A. The example of virtue
B. The conversion of Swesrrs
C. Boke of Faith
D. A Joyful meditation

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107. The pastime of pleasure is written by:
A. Stephen Hawes
B. Thomas Malory
C. Reginald peacock
D. Alexander Barclay

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108. The greatest shortcoming of 15th-century poetry was:
A. immoral note
B. Poor versification
C. Poverty of themes
D. All of above

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109. The Way of perfect religion was written by:
A. Lydgate
B. Tyndale
C. Wycliff
D. John Fisher

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110. Who ascended the throne of England in 1558?
A. Henry-VIII
B. Richard-II
C. Edward-III
D. Elizabeth-I

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111. Who among the following were a 15th-century educationist and reformer?
A. Martin Luther
B. Machiavelli
C. Roger Ascham
D. More

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112. Ship of the fool and Certayne eclogues are the works of:
A. Stephen Hawes
B. Reginald peacock
C. Alexander Barclay
D. John Barbour

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113. English New Testament appeared in:
A. 1523
B. 1525
C. 1528
D. 1531

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114. English New Testament is a work of:
A. William Tyndale
B. John Wycliff
C. John Barbour
D. Stephen Hawes

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115. The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York was written by:
A. Cranmer
B. Erasmus
C. Ascham
D. Daniel

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116. Coverdale Miles English Bible appeared in:
A. 1532
B. 1535
C. 1539
D. 1541

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117. Name the writer who was the tutor of Elizabeth-I and the secretary of Mary-I
A. Samuel Daniel
B. Roger Ascham
C. Tyndale
D. None of the above

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118. Theophilus is a dialogue in praise of:
A. archery
B. fencing
C. wrestling
D. horse-riding

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119. The schoolmaster by Roger Ascham is a/an:
A. Morality play
B. educational treatise
C. human ideal
D. all the above

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120. Roger Ascham was a public orator at the University of:
A. Oxford
B. Kent
C. Dublin
D. Cambridge

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121. Which is known as the first real English comedy?
A. Jocasta
B. The Four P’s
C. Roister Doister
D. London Lack Penny

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122. The first real English comedy was written by:
A. Nicholas Udall
B. Erasmus
C. Drayton
D. Milles Coverdale

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123. Who introduced the sonnet in England?
A. Shakespeare
B. Spenser
C. Milton
D. Wyatt

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124. Name the heroine of Roister Doister:
A. Katherine
B. Belinda
C. Dame Custance
D. Joan Mary

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125. Nicholas Udall was the headmaster at:
A. Harrow
B. Eton
C. Sheffield
D. Suffolk

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126. Nicholas Udall was greatly indebted to…… for their inspiration in writing Roister Doister.
A. Petrarch and Spenser
B. Boccaccio and Surrey
C. Mary and Matthew
D. Plautus and Terence

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127. The first tragedy of the Senecan School written in England was Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porres. Who wrote it?
A. Thomas Sackville
B. Thomas Norton
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Both (A) and (B)

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128. Gorboduc was staged before the members of the Inner Temple in:
A. 1558
B. 1562
C. 1563
D. 1567

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129. Who was the first to use the blank verse in English drama?
A. Sackville
B. Marlowe
C. Shakespeare
D. Thomas Kyd

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130. The theme of a famous play is ‘Blood asketh blood, and death must death require.’ Name the play:
A. The Golden Targe
B. Bruce
C. Gorboduc
D. The Palace of Honor

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131. Henry-VIII quarreled with the Pope because :
A. he did not like the clergies
B. Pope was involved in corrupt practices
C. the Pope did not grant him a divorce from Queen Catherine
D. Pope disliked the king and criticized him quite often

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132. Calvin whose followers in England were called the spiritual ancestors of the Puritan movement of the 17th century was a/an :
A. Italian
B. German
C. Spanish
D. French

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133. Spenser was called ‘the poet’s poet’ by :
A. Eliot
B. Bacon
C. Shelley
D. Wordsworth

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134. Spenser was greatly influenced by Chaucer and :
A. Wycliff
B. Langland
C. Aristo
D. Daniel

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135. Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar contains three principal themes-love, poetry, and ……..
A. religion
B. chivalry
C. diplomacy
D. art

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136. In Shepherd’s Calendar Spenser identifies himself in the character of the shepherd:
A. George Vaughan
B. John Murray
C. Colin Clout
D. Anderson

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137. The hero of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is :
A. Prince Richard
B. Prince Edward
C. Prince Arthur
D. Spenser himself

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138. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene was first published in:
A. 1590
B. 1591
C. 1592
D. 1593

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139. In which of his works does Spenser celebrate his love for Elizabeth Boyle whom he married later?
A. Amoretti
B. Prothalamion
C. Epithalamion
D. None of these

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140. In The Faerie Queene, Elizabeth and the Red Cross knight stand for:
A. The Catholic Church
B. The Protestant and the Catholic Church respectively
C. The Catholic and the Protestant Church respectively
D. The Protestant Church

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141. Which of the following had the aim ‘to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline?
A. The Tears of the Muses
B. The Faerie Queene
C. The Ruins of Time
D. The Ruins of the Muses

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142. Astrophel by Spenser is an allegory on the life and death of:
A. Michael Drayton
B. Samuel Daniel
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. John Dryden

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143. Sans Foy and Sans Loy in The Faerie Queen are:
A. Holy knights
B. Powerful knights
C. Wicked knights
D. The friends of Red-cross knight

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144. The Faerie Queen follows the style of :
A. Virgil’s Aeneid
B. Dante’s Divine Comedy
C. Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
D. Aristo’s Orlando Furioso

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145. ‘No man was ever born with a greater genius of more knowledge to support.’ Who said this about Edmund Spenser?
A. Dryden
B. Milton
C. Shakespeare
D. Lamb

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146. Though the sonnet was imported by Wyatt from Italy and was invented in the English form by Surrey, the sonnet proper remained neglected till Sidney’s publication of:
A. An Apology for Poetry
B. Arcadia
C. Astrophel and Stella
D. None of these

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147. Which book of Spenser contained 88 sonnets?
A. Shepherd’s Calendar
B. Astrophel
C. Mother Hubbard’s Tale
D. Amoretti

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148. Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded at the battle of:
A. Zutphen
B. Sutphen
C. Katephen
D. Hutphen

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149. Sidney’s sister, Mary Sidney, was the countess of:
A. Verrotti
B. Pembroke
C. Lutein
D. York

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150. Three quatrains followed by a couplet, linked together by an artistic arrangement of lines is a:
A. Shakespearean sonnet
B. Spenserian sonnet
C. Petrarchan sonnet
D. All the above

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151. Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia is a prose romance containing several :
A. allusions eclogues
B. cantos
C. eclogues
D. fallacies

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152. Who is not the ‘silver poet’ referred to by Gerald Bullet?
A. Sidney
B. Wyatt
C. Spencer
D. Davies

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153. Which of the following causes made the Elizabethan drama popular?
A. National themes and sentiments were dramatized
B. Drama was the best way for the playwright to earn money
C. Novels were few and could be enjoyed by the educated class only
D. All the above

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154. An Apologies for Poetries was in response to The School of Abuse by:
A. Michael Drayton
B. Stephen Gosson
C. Thomas Norton
D. John Lyly

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155. Drayton wrote…………sonnets in Petrarchan style.
A. 51
B. 52
C. 53
D. 54

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156. Which of Michael Drayton’s works is remarkable for its combination of the Ovidian and homoerotic?
A. Polyolbion
B. Idea’s mirror
C. Piers Gaveston
D. Mortimerios

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157. Drayton’s Polyolbion is written in :
A. Blank Verse
B. Alexandrine verse
C. Spenserian stanza
D. Heroic couplet

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158. Which is the second English tragedy published in 1573?
A. Dr.Faustus
B. Ferrex and Porres
C. The Steel Glass
D. Jocasta

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159. Who is credited for introducing the first English comedy The Supposes and the first translation of the Greek tragedy Jocasta?
A. Sidney
B. Gascoigne
C. Sackville
D. Dryden

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160. The masterpiece works Ecclesiastical Polity in over rhetorical style is written by:
A. Richard Hooker
B. Michael Drayton
C. Gascoigne
D. Dryden

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161. Campaspe, Endymion, and Galathea are the best works of John Lyly who wrote mostly
A. tragedies
B. poetic plays
C. comedies
D. interludes

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162. Name the prose romance by John Lyly which is a sort of love story without action but full of long conversations on philosophical and ethical subjects.
A. Midas
B. Eupheus
C. Sapho and Phao
D. Endymion

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163. Mother’s Bombie is a comedy written by:
A. John Lyly
B. Gosson
C. Thomas Nashe
D. John Kyd

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164. Who called Francis Bacon jestingly ‘Little Lord Keeper’?
A. The Prince
B. The King
C. The Queen
D. All the above

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165. Bacon defined the essay as:
A. receptacle for detached thoughts
B. disposed meditations
C. leisurely talk of a philosopher over the dining table
D. both (A) and (B)

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166. Who was appointed as Viscount St. Albans in 1621 and subsequently fined heavily on various charges of malpractice?
A. Richard Hooker
B. Francis Bacon
C. George Peele
D. John Lyly

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167. The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon is a/an :
A. Unfinished novel
B. Unfinished poem
C. Drama
D. Essay

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168. ‘Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects’. Who wrote this?
A. A. G. Gardiner
B. Francis Bacon
C. Charles Lamb
D. William Hazlitt

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169. Novum Organum by Francis Bacon was written in:
A. French
B. Greek
C. German
D. Latin

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170. ‘Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortune more bitter’. Who wrote this?
A. Charles Lamb
B. De Quincey
C. Francis Bacon
D. Thomas Hardy

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171. On whose tomb have the following lines been inscribed?
‘Good friend for Jesus’ sake forebearer; To dig the dust enclosed weave; Blest is the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.’
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Milton
C. William Shakespeare
D. Geoffrey Chaucer

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172. Sir Gawayn and the Green Night is a/an:
A. romance
B. epic
C. fairy tale
D. poem

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173. Desdemona is the heroine of Shakespeare’s:
A. Hamlet
B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
C. Love’s Labour Lost
D. Othello

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174. Eupheus falls in love with :
A. Viola
B. Belinda
C. Lucilla
D. Hermia

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175. Shakespeare’s heroes are by and large:
A. Common men
B. Royal Kings
C. Common kings
D. Animals

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176. Pick the odd one out :
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. The Tempest

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177. Gonzalo is a character in Shakespeare’s:
A. Macbeth
B. The Tempest
C. Twelfth Night
D. As You Like It

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178. Malvolio is a character in :
A. Twelfth Night
B. Cymbeline
C. Much Ado About Nothing
D. Pericles

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179. ‘Age cannot wither her,
Nor custom stale
Her infinite variety……’
These lines are for
A. Calphurnia
B. Rosalind
C. Cleopatra
D. Portia

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180. Pick the odd man out :
A. Marlowe
B. Shakespeare
C. Lodge
D. Lyly

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181. Who wrote Coriolanus?
A. Marlowe
B. Jonson
C. Peele
D. Shakespeare

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182. The Globe Theatre was gutted down in:
A. 1613
B. 1614
C. 1615
D. 1616

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183. Beauty provoketh fools are better than gold’. From which Shakespearean play has this line been taken?
A. All’s Well That Ends Well
B. Much Ado About Nothing
C. As You Like It
D. The Merchant of Venice

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184. There is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so’. In which Shakespearean play does this line occur?
A. Julius Caesar
B. Hamlet
C. As You Like It
D. The Comedy of Errors

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185. ‘A young man married is a man that’s marred’ This line is taken from:
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Henry-IV
C. All’s Well That Ends Well
D. King John

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186. ‘Fear no more the heat O’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done
Home is gone and ta’en thy wages.
Which play of Shakespeare do these lines occur in?
A. Cymbeline
B. The Winter’s Tail
C. The Merry Wives of Windsor
D. Troilus and Cressida

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187. ‘As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport’
Which play of Shakespeare do these lines occur
A. Macbeth
B. Henry-IV, Part I
C. Julius Caesar
D. King Lear

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188. Which of the following marks the beginning of Shakespeare’s success?
A. Sonnets
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. Venus and Adonis
D. Love’s Labour Lost

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189. Shakespeare depended primarily on two sources for his legendary and historical plays. Which is the most important out of the following?
A. Plutarch’s Lives
B. Holinshed’s Chronicles
C. Legends of Charlemagne
D. King Arthur’s Legend

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190. In which play of Shakespeare does the forest of Arden figure?
A. Macbeth
B. Two Gentlemen of Verona
C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
D. As You Like It

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191. The Winter’s Tale is based on :
A. An old English folklore
B. Lodge’s Rosalynde
C. Greene’s Pandosto
D. Plutarch’s Lives

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192. ‘Others abide our question
Thou art free.’
Who said this about Shakespeare?
A. Hazlitt
B. Chesterton
C. Matthew Arnold
D. John Milton

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193. If any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespeare’. Who said this?
A. Alexander Pope
B. Thomas Fuller
C. Dr Johnson
D. John Milton

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194. Shakespeare wrote his plays uninterrupted between the years 1591 and 1613 except in 1603 and 1612. Why didn’t he write any play in 1603?
A. He was sick
B. The theatres were closed that year
C. Both (A) and (B)
D. None of the above

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195. Which of Shakespeare’s plays is performed at 9 p.m. on June 19 every year?
A. All’s is Well That Ends
B. The Tempest
C. Twelfth Night
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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196. Who said, ‘Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes?
A. Eliot
B. Ruskin
C. Johnson
D. Arnold

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197. The character Fool’ in Twelfth Night serves the purpose of :
A. reality of life
B. humor
C. interlinking the main and sub-plots
D. All the three above

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198. ‘The rest is silence’. These are the last words spoken by…before his death.
A. Macbeth
B. Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Romeo

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199. The romantic comedy The Spanish Gipsy by Thomas Middleton bears some similarities with Shakespeare’s
A. As You Like It
B. All’s Well That Ends Well
C. Much Ado About Nothing
D. Twelfth Night

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200. Which of the following characters does not belong toThe Tempest?
A. Caliban
B. Puck
C. Ferdinand
D. Ariel

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201. Who is referred to as the pioneer of the picturesque novels in English?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Thomas Nashe
C. Thomas Lodge
D. John Lyly

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202. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe is typical:
A. revenge play
B. picturesque novel
C. love tragedy
D. pastoral romance

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203. Name the best friends of the Two Gentlemen of Verona :
A. Henry Bailey
B. Valentine and Proteus
C. Lovelace and Herric
D. Beaumont and Fletcher

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204. Who among the following wrote only tragedies?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Shakespeare
C. Marlowe
D. Cowley

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205. Which play was jointly written by Nashe and Jonson in 1597?
A. Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem
B. Lenten Stuff
C. Volpone
D. The Isle of Dogs

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206. The Jew of Malta is the story of an insatiable passion for:
A. Wealth
B. Love
C. Woman
D. Sport

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207. Parody is a form of:
A. burlesque none of these
B. imitation
C. Both (A) and (B)
D. none of these

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208. Thomas Nashe acquired the zest for comic writing from:
A. Local comedians
B. Red Herring
C. Francois Rabelais
D. Lodge

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209. Rosalynde is a work of:
A. Shakespeare
B. Lodge
C. Nashe
D. Jonson

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210. Rosalynde is a prose romance that was subsequently used as the story for:
A. Cymbeline
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. The Tempest
D. As You Like it

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211. Name the picturesque romance which is considered by some critics as the first Elizabethan novel :
A. Life of Jack Wilton by Nashe
B. Rosalynde by Lodge
C. Jack of Newbury by Deloney
D. Scilla’s Metamorphosis by Lodge

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212. In which play does the Birnam Wood figure?
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. As You Like It
C. Macbeth
D. Merry Wives of Windsor

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213. One of the University Wits who was killed in a tavern at the age of 29 was:
A. Greene
B. Marlowe
C. Lyly
D. Kyd

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214. The Elizabethan love for picturesque description was inherited from:
A. Greece
B. Germany
C. France
D. Italy

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215. The Life of Jack Wilton is a work of:
A. Deloney
B. Dekker
C. Thomas Nashe
D. Thomas Lodge(D) Jonson

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216. Schools on Abuse is an attack on theatrical literature by:
A. Sackville
B. Gosson
C. Gascoigne
D. Lodge

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217. Phillis by Thomas Lodge is a collection of:
A. Epistles
B. Sonnets
C. Lyrics
D. Essays

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218. Wit’s Misery and World Madness by Thomas Lodge are:
A. sonnet sequences
B. literary chronicles
C. satirical pamphlets
D. none of these

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219. The Wounds of Civile War is a:
A. Chronicle play
B. historical play
C. historical novel
D. romantic play

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220. Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem is the writer’s repentance for religious doubts. Identify the writer.
A. Thomas Lodge
B. Thomas Nashe
C. Robert Burton
D. George Peele

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221. Thomas Nashe wrote a satire in 1592 in the tradition of morality plays. Name that work.
A. Summer’s Last Will and Testament
B. Grammar Gurtan’s Needle
C. The Mirror of Magistrates
D. Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil

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222. Thomas Lodge went on a piratical expedition to Brazil in:
A. 1591
B. 1592
C. 1593
D. 1594

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223. Who is considered Shakespeare’s master in tragedy?
A. Robert Burton
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. George Peele

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224. Identify the right order:
A. Tamburlaine; Dr. Faustus; The Jew of Malta; Edward-II
B. Dr. Faustus; Edward-II; Tamburlaine; The Jew of Malta
C. Tamburlaine; The Jew of Malta; Edward-II; Dr. Faustus
D. The Jew of Malta, Dr. Faustus; Tamburlaine; Edward-II

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225. Who coined the phrase ‘Marlowe’s mighty line?
A. Samuel Jonson
B. Ben Jonson
C. Matthew Arnold
D. Richard Steele.

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226. One of the elements that Marlowe introduced into the English tragedies is:
A. blank verse
B. a well-knit plot
C. supernatural characters
D. internal struggle

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227. Who wrote the non-dramatic narrative poem Hero and Leander?
A. Shakespeare
B. Milton
C. Marlowe
D. Lodge

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228. Dr. Faustus is the story of a scholar who has:
A. Lust for knowledge
B. Lust for power
C. Lust for love
D. Lust for pelf

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229. In which of his plays Marlowe has dramatized the exploits of a Scythian shepherd who rose to be the terror of the world?
A. Edward-11
B. Tamburlaine
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Jew of Malta

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230. Shakespeare’s Richard-II and III are based on Marlowe’s:
A. The Massacre of Paris
B. The Tragedy of Dido
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Edward-11

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231. In which play do these lines occur?
‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Illium?
A. Tamburlaine
B. The Massacre of Paris
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Edward-II

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232. Who is the central character in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta?
A. Shylock
B. Barabas
C. Issac
D. Abraham

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233. Mephistopheles is a character in:
A. Dr. Faustus
B. The Jew of Malta
C. The Massacre of Paris
D. Edward II

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234. Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis is based on Marlowe’s:
A. The Tragedy of Dido
B. The Passionate Shepherd
C. Hero and Leander
D. The Massacre of Paris

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235. Which of the following works of Marlowe is unfinished?
A. The Jew of Malta
B. The Massacre of Paris
C. Eduard II
D. Queen of Carthage

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236. Marlowe’s tragedies are all :
A. tragedies of the royal people
B. revenge plays
C. love tragedies
D. one-man tragedies

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237. Marlowe’s Tamburlaine presents his Renaissance spirit of:
A. Lust for wealth
B. Lust for power
C. Lust for knowledge
D. Lust for the opposite sex

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238. Chronicle Plays dramatizes the:
A. domestic events
B. historical events
C. political events
D. popular myths and legends

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239. Who wrote plays that were all tragedies?
A. Shakespeare
B. Jonson
C. Marlowe
D. None of the above

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240. In which year was Dr. Faustus written?
A. 1591
B. 1592
C. 1593
D. 1590

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241. Who wrote Anatomy of Melancholy?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. George Peele
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Robert Burton

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242. Who wrote under the pseudonym of Democritus Junior:
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Robert Burton
C. Thomas Lodge
D. Thomas Nashe

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243. By whom was The Spanish Tragedy written?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Thomas Middleton
C. Shakespeare
D. George Peele

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244. Which is believed to be the first important revenge tragedy?
A. Gorboduc
B. Hamlet
C. The Spanish Tragedy
D. Tamburlaine

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245. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy shows the conspicuous influence of:
A. Seneca
B. Ariosto
C. Homer
D. Virgil

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246. The Spanish Tragedy is historically important because it foreshadows Shakespeare’s :
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth

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247. Cornelia is a work of :
A. Ben Jonson
B. Greene
C. George Peele
D. Thomas Kyd

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248. Dr. Faustus enters into a diabolical contract with :
A. Beelzebub
B. Mephistophilis
C. Lucifer
D. None of the above

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249. Thomas Kyd wrote Soliman and Persida in:
A. 1588
B. 1589
C. 1591
D. 1593

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250. ‘He helped to give greater smoothness and flexibility to the use of the blank verse and combined elements appealing to the taste of the public with qualities of courtly refinement’. Who is being referred to here?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Thomas Lodge
D. George Peele

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251. Name the writer of The Old Wives Tale.
A. Thomas Lodge
B. George Peele
C. George Chapman
D. Thomas Middleton

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252. The Arraignment of Paris by George Peele is a :
A. pastoral play
B. romantic comedy
C. comi-tragedy
D. historical play

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253. The Arraignment of Paris was written in:
A. 1584
B. 1586
C. 1588
D. 1589

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254. Given below are some of the early tragedies out of which one was full of horror. Despite that, it became popular and remained so till the end of the century. Ben Jonson refers to it in his Everyman in his Humour. Identify that tragedy.
A. Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
B. The Jew of Malta by Marlowe
C. The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd
D. Gorboduc by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

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255. The Love of King David and Fair Bathsheba by George Peele is a:
A. romantic play
B. biblical play
C. tragic play
D. pastoral play

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256. The famous Chronicle of King Edward-I is a historical play by George Peele. When was it written?
A. 1587
B. 1589
C. 1591
D. 1593

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257. For whom are the following lines uttered?
‘Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle :
She died young’.
A. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
B. Duchess in the Duchess of Malfi by Webster
C. Cordelia in King Lear by Shakespeare
D. Anne in A Woman Killed with Kindness by

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258. Barabas is ruined by Christians. He plans revenge by resorting to incredible cruelties until he falls into a cauldron of boiling water prepared for his enemies. This is in short, the story of a play written by Christopher Marlowe. Name the play
A. Edward-II
B. Queen of Carthage
C. The Jew of Malta
D. The Massacre of Paris

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259. Thomas Middleton was a dramatist who was employed to write……….to celebrate civic occasions.
A. Pageants
B. Comedies
C. Interludes
D. Chorus

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260. The Changeling is one of the finest tragedies in English since Shakespeare written by:
A. George Peele
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Michael Drayton
D. Thomas Middleton

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261. Who wrote Anatomy of Melancholy?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. George Peele
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Robert Burton

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262. Who wrote under the pseudonym of Democritus Junior:
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Robert Burton
C. Thomas Lodge
D. Thomas Nashe

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263. By whom was The Spanish Tragedy written?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Thomas Middleton
C. Shakespeare
D. George Peele

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264. Which is believed to be the first important revenge tragedy?
A. Gorboduc
B. Hamlet
C. The Spanish Tragedy
D. Tamburlaine

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265. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy shows the conspicuous influence of:
A. Seneca
B. Ariosto
C. Homer
D. Virgil

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266. The Spanish Tragedy is historically important because it foreshadows Shakespeare’s :
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth

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267. Cornelia is a work of :
A. Ben Jonson
B. Greene
C. George Peele
D. Thomas Kyd

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268. Dr. Faustus enters into a diabolical contract with :
A. Beelzebub
B. Mephistophilis
C. Lucifer
D. None of the above

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269. Thomas Kyd wrote Soliman and Persida in:
A. 1588
B. 1589
C. 1591
D. 1593

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270. ‘He helped to give greater smoothness and flexibility to the use of the blank verse and combined elements appealing to the taste of the public with qualities of courtly refinement’. Who is being referred to here?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Thomas Lodge
D. George Peele

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271. Name the writer of The Old Wives Tale.
A. Thomas Lodge
B. George Peele
C. George Chapman
D. Thomas Middleton

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272. The Arraignment of Paris by George Peele is a :
A. pastoral play
B. romantic comedy
C. comi-tragedy
D. historical play

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273. The Arraignment of Paris was written in:
A. 1584
B. 1586
C. 1588
D. 1589

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274. Given below are some of the early tragedies out of which one was full of horror. Despite that, it became popular and remained so till the end of the century. Ben Jonson refers to it in his Everyman in his Humour. Identify that tragedy.
A. Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
B. The Jew of Malta by Marlowe
C. The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd
D. Gorboduc by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

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275. The Love of King David and Fair Bathsheba by George Peele is a:
A. romantic play
B. biblical play
C. tragic play
D. pastoral play

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276. The famous Chronicle of King Edward-I is a historical play by George Peele. When was it written?
A. 1587
B. 1589
C. 1591
D. 1593

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277. For whom are the following lines uttered?
‘Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle :
She died young’.
A. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
B. Duchess in the Duchess of Malfi by Webster
C. Cordelia in King Lear by Shakespeare
D. Anne in A Woman Killed with Kindness by

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278. Barabas is ruined by Christians. He plans revenge by resorting to incredible cruelties until he falls into a cauldron of boiling water prepared for his enemies. This is in short, the story of a play written by Christopher Marlowe. Name the play
A. Edward-II
B. Queen of Carthage
C. The Jew of Malta
D. The Massacre of Paris

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279. Thomas Middleton was a dramatist who was employed to write……….to celebrate civic occasions.
A. Pageants
B. Comedies
C. Interludes
D. Chorus

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280. The Changeling is one of the finest tragedies in English since Shakespeare written by:
A. George Peele
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Michael Drayton
D. Thomas Middleton

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281. ‘Cowards die many times before their death’, Where does this line occur, and who speaks it?
A. Antony in Antony and Cleopatra
B. Romeo in Romeo and Juliet
C. Caesar in Julius Caesar
D. lago in Othello

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282. Apart from being a playwright. George Poele was also a/an:
A. Teacher
B. Actor
C. Doctor
D. Priest

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283. Name the writer of All Fools:
A. Thomas Dekker
B. George Poole
C. Thomas Hobbes
D. George Chapman

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284. Name the work in which Thomas Hobbes argued that human society was governed by two individual concerns-fear of death and desire for power.
A. The Elements of Law
B. De Corporate
C. Leviathan
D. De Homine

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285. Thomas Hobbes dominated 17th century England by his:
A. Psychological theories
B. Political theories
C. Physiological theories
D. Philosophical theories

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286. Who tried to give a glimpse of the underworld of London in his The Honest Whore?
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. Thomas Dekkar
C. George Chapman.
D. George Polo

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287. When was the Globe Theatre rebuilt?
A. 1613
B. 1614
C. 1615
D. 1616

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288. In which year was King James Bible published?
A. 1611
B. 1612
C. 1613
D. 1614

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289. Shakespeare’s tragic heroes suffer from a flaw in their character which brings about their tragic end. What is the tragic flaw in Hamlet?.
A. Indecision
B. Greed
C. Excessive love
D. Obstinacy

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290. The first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays was brought out by Hemming and Condell since they thought that they could keep the memory of a fellow friend alive. What is this first edition called?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Shakespeare Plays
C. The Great Bard
D. First Folio

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291. Hobbes analyzed the causes of civil war in England in :
A. De Cive
B. De Corporate
C. Behemoth
D. De Homine.

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292. Francis Bacon lived between:
A. 1550-1620
B. 1561-1626
C. 1578-1626
D. 1581-1626

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293. ‘Beatrice’ is the heroine of:
A. Much Ado About Nothing
B. King John
C. Henry IV
D. The Winter’s Tale

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294. The Broken Heart is a tragedy by:
A. Marlowe
B. Chapman
C. John Ford
D. Greene

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295. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer has……lines in all.
A. 17,000
B. 18,000
C. 19,000
D. 20,000

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296. Find the odd one out:
A. Julius Caesar
B. Macbeth
C. Hamlet
D. The Spanish Tragedy

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297. Prince Hal is a character in Shakespeare’s :
A. King John
B. Henry V
C. Hamlet
D. Henry IV

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298. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a comedy by:
A. Thomas Kyd
B. Robert Greene
C. Thomas Middleton
D. John Webster

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299. Sir John Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare’s plays does not figure in :
A. Henry-IV Part I
B. Henry-IV Part II
C. Henry-V
D. King John

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300. Philoclea and Pamela in ‘The Arcadia’ are the daughters of
A. Pyrocles
B. Basilius
C. Musidous
D. Eurachus

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301. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?
A. Mummings-The Temple of Glass-Fall of Princes-The Siege of Thebes
B. Fall of Princes-The Siege of Thebes-Mummings-The Temple of Glass
C. The Siege of Thebes-Fall of Princes-The Temple of Glass-Mummings
D. The Temple of Glass-Mummings- The Siege of Thebes-Fall of Princes

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302. Which of the following arrangements of John Lyly’s comedies is in the correct chronological order?
A. Sapho and Phao-Gallathea-Endymion-Midas
B. Endymion-Sapho and Phao-Midas-Gallathea
C. Midas-Gallathea-Sapho and Phao-Endymion
D. Gallathea-Midas-Endymion-Sapho and Phao.

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303. Which of the following arrangements of Shakespeare’s plays is in correct chronological order?
A. Cymbeline-Macbeth-King John-Two Gentlemen of Verona
B. Macbeth-Two Gentlemen of Verona-Cymbeline King John
C. King John-Cymbeline-Two Gentlemen of Verona-Macbeth
D. Two Gentlemen of Verona-King John Macbeth-Cymbeline

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304. Which of the following arrangements of Christopher Marlowe’s plays is in the correct chronological order:
A. Edward II-The Jew of Malta-Tamburlain-Queen of Carthage
B. Queen of Carthage-Tamburlaine- The Jew of Malta Edward II
C. The Jew of Malta-Edward II-Queen of Carthage-Tamburlaine
D. Tamburlaine-The Jew of Malta-Edward II Queen of Carthage

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305. Which of the following arrangements of works is in the correct chronological order?
A. All Fools-Philaster-The Old Law-The Maid’s Tragedy
B. The Old Law-All Fools-The Maid’s Tragedy Philaster
C. The Maid’s Tragedy-Philaster-All Fools-The Old Law
D. None of the above

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306. “The Well of English Undefiled”. Which quality of Geoffrey Chaucer does this phrase refer to?
A. Chaucer’s diction
B. Chaucer’s linguistic competence
C. Chaucer’s avoidance of foreign influences
D. None of the above

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307. Long calls ‘Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’ as The Prologue to Modern Fiction’ because of its :
A. Lack of poetic quality
B. Narrative unity
C. Formlessness
D. Lack of allusions

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308. Who was the first translator of the Bible into English?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Thomas Malory
C. John Wycliff
D. William Langland

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309. Romantic Movement had its antecedents in:
A. The 15th Century Ballad
B. The Poetry of Chaucer
C. Shakespearean Comedy
D. Nong of the above

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310. Identify the writer who is criticized by Legouise for writing ‘Charming Verses On Nothing’:
A. Edmund Waller
B. John Mar
C. John Ford
D. John Suckling

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311. Cromwell, the dictator, was said to have been influenced by:
A. Utopia
B. The Capital
C. The Prince
D. None of the above

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312. Name the story that Chaucer narrated during the pilgrimage:
A. Tale of Melibens
B. The Parson’s Tale
C. The Carpenter’s Tale
D. He did not narrate a story

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313. What does Shakespeare refer to in the following lines?
“This royal throne of kings, the sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi paradise”:
A. France
B. London
C. Denmark
D. England

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314. Spenser wrote a preface to ‘The Faerie Queen, in the form of a letter. Who is this letter addressed to?
A. John Donne
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. Sir Thomas Wyatt
D. Thomas Sackville

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315. Who is being referred to in the expressions of Spenser’s ‘Gloriana’, Raleigh’s ‘Cynthia’, and Shakespeare’s ‘Fair Vestal”?
A. England
B. Queen Mary
C. Elizabeth
D. Victoria

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316. The East India Company was founded in
A. 1599
B. 1567
C. 1563
D. 1559

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317. In which of Shakespeare’s plays do these lines appear?
“The Lunatic the Lover and the Poet
Are of imagination all compact.”
A. Twelfth Night
B. The Tempest
C. Much Ado About Nothing
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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318. Who among the following can be considered the originator of the ‘picaresque novel”?
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Thomas Nash
C. Charles Dickens
D. George Herbert

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319. Bacon popularised the ‘inductive method’ for arriving at truth in his ‘Novum Organum’:
A. Yes
B. No
C. Cannot be said
D. None of the above

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320. The tragic flaw in Hamlet’s character is:
A. Noble Inaction
B. Oedipus Complex
C. Vaulting Ambition
D. Acute Cowardice

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321. Who is Wordsworth referring to in ‘Brother Englishman and Friend”?
A. Coleridge
B. Cowley
C. Spenser
D. Sidney

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322. Who has coined the phrase ‘Marlowe’s Mighty Line”?
A. Dr. Johnson
B. Ben Jonson
C. Charles Lamb
D. Mathew Arnold

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323. What could be the tragic flaw in Macbeth?
A. Vaulting Ambition
B. Lack of Action
C. Both (A) and (B)
D. None of the above

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324. Which of the Shakespearean plays has an element of colonialism suggestively?
A. Hamlet
B. Cymbeline
C. King Lear
D. The Tempest

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325. Shakespeare used prose for:
A. Plays within plays
B. Comic scenes
C. Chorus
D. Interludes

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326. Who has written the following?
“What a piece of work is man? How noble in reason; how infinite in faculty; in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god? The beauty of the world; the paragon of animals, and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
A. Chaucer in ‘The Canterbury Tales’
B. Christopher Marlowe in ‘Dr. Faustus’
C. Ben Jonson in ‘Volpone’
D. William Shakespeare in ‘Hamlet’

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327. Name Christopher Marlowe’s work that was completed by Thomas Nash:
A. The Massacre at Paris
B. Edward I
C. The Tragedy of Dido
D. The Jew of Malta

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328. Who is considered the ‘Dickens of the Elizabethan Stage’ for his intimate knowledge of common men?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Thomas Dekker

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329. The First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was printed in:
A. 1616
B. 1619
C. 1621
D. 1623

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330. Shakespeare took many characters and incidents from ‘Plutarch’s Lives’ (1579). Who translated this book into English?
A. Thomas North
B. Knox
C. John Foxe
D. None of the above

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331. Which of the following begins with these words? “Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint.”
A. The Poetaster
B. Cynthia’s Revels
C. Volpone
D. The Devil is an Ass

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332. What is common among ‘Faerie Queen, Divine Comedy’ and ‘Pilgrim’s Progress?
A. They are all religious
B. They are all political
C. They are all novels,
D. They are all great allegories

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333. Chaucer died in the reign of:
A. Edward III
B. Richard II
C. Henry IV
D. Henry III

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334. In which three languages can we divide Chaucer’s works?
A. French, Latin, English
B. French, Italian, English
C. French, Latin, Italian
D. None of the above

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335. Dryden wrote the following about a book. Identify it: “Here indeed is God’s plenty.”
A. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
B. The Book of Duchess
C. The House of the Fame
D. The Legend of Good Women

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336. The Romaunt of the Rose by Chaucer is based on:
A. The Romance of the Rose
B. Le Ramaunt de la Rose
C. Romount of the Rose
D. None of the above

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337. One of the following poems of Chaucer is not in English. Identify it:
A. The Lak of Steadfastness
B. Complete Chaucer to his Empty Purse
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. Anelida and Arcite

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338. Who narrates the last tale in the ‘Canterbury Tales”?
A. The Knight
B. Nun
C. The Parson
D. Geoffrey Chaucer

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339. The Tabard Inn is located in:
A. Southwark
B. Canterbury
C. Kent
D. York

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340. How many tales are there in the ‘Canterbury Tales’?
A. 20 finished and 4 partly completed
B. 22 finished and 4 partly completed
C. 18 finished and 4 partly completed
D. 24 finished and 4 partly completed

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341. Which of the following poems of Gower is written in French?
A. Vox Clamantis
B. Confessio Amantis
C. Piers the Plowman
D. Speculum Meditantis

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342. The first Scottish poet was:
A. James I
B. John Barbour
C. Robert Henryson
D. Lyndsay

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343. Which book in English is translated by John Wycliff, the father of English prose?
A. Bible
B. Travels
C. Morte d’ Arthur
D. Bruce

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344. For which book Caxton says, ‘Out of certain books of French?
A. Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’
B. Lyndsay’s ‘Dreme’
C. Malory’s ‘Morte d’ Arthur’
D. James I’s The King is Quair

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345. Who was the king among the Scottish poets?
A. Henryson
B. James-I
C. Dunbar
D. Douglas

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346. ‘The Testament of Squyer Meldrum’ by Sir David Lyndsay is a:
A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. romantic biography
D. poem

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347. Which poem is called the sequel to Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’?
A. Douglas’ ‘King Heart’
B. Dunbar’s ‘Golden Targe’
C. Henryson’s ‘The Testament of Cresseid’
D. Lyndsay’s ‘The Dreme’

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348. Who is considered the chief among the Scottish Chaucerian Poets?
A. Dunbar
B. Douglas
C. James I
D. Lyndsay

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349. Which of the following poems of Dunbar is written in the celebration of the marriage of James IV?
A. Goldyn Targe
B. The Lament for the Makaric
C. The Thrissil and the Rois
D. Dance of the Seven Deidle Synnis

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350. John Skelton’s ‘The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummying is known for its :
A. Meter
B. Realism
C. Theme
D. Subject

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351. ‘Story of Thebes’ which is considered the supposed addition of the ‘Canterbury Tales’ is written by:
A. John Skelton
B. Alexander Barclay
C. Stephen Hawes
D. John Lydgate

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352. Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘La Mala Regle’ is written in :
A. Autobiographical form
B. Partly autobiographical form
C. Biographical form
D. Partly biographical form

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353. Who introduced the first printing machine in England in 1476?
A. William Caxton
B. Thomas More
C. Reginald Peacock
D. Stephen Hawes

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354. Who is not a prose writer among the following?
A. John Fisher
B. Reginald Peacock
C. Thomas More
D. Stephen Hawes

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355. Spenser wrote one of the following poems in honor of his own marriage. Identify it:
A. Amoretti
B. Epithalamion
C. Four Hymns
D. Prothalamion

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356. Which of the following is not a minor poem by Edmund Spenser?
A. The Ruins of Time
B. The Tears of Muses
C. Amoretti
D. The Shepherd’s Calendar

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357. Sir Thomas Wyatt contributed his poems in:
A. Mother Hubbard’s Tale (1578-79)
B. Tottel’s Miscellany (1557)
C. The Steel Glass (1576)
D. Myrroure for Magistrates (1563)

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358. Who among the following is called the Earl of Surrey?
A. Henry Howard
B. Sidney
C. Spenser
D. Sackville

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359. Dorset’s poems appeared in :
A. Jocasta
B. Tottel’s Miscellany
C. Arcadia
D. Myrroure for Magistrates

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360. Which term was coined by George Gascoigne?
A. couplet ending
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. Poulter’s measure

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361. ‘The Steel Glass’ was composed by Gascoigne in:
A. blank verse
B. free verse
C. rhyme royal
D. Poulter’s measure

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362. The first prose comedy ‘Supposes’ (1566) is written by:
A. Sidney
B. Gascoigne
C. Surrey
D. Dorset

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363. Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ has …..sonnets:
A. 108
B. 110
C. 112
D. 116

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364. Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ which is a pastoral romance is similar to:
A. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’
B. Ben Jonson’s ‘Every Man in His Humour
C. More’s ‘Utopia’
D. Gascoigne’s ‘Jocasta’

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365. Who among the following is known as the contemporary of Shakespeare?
A. Giles Fletcher
B. Michael Drayton
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Campion

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366. Which of the following poems of Thomas Campion is not written by him?
A. A Book of Ayres (1601)
B. Songs of Mourning (1613)
C. Two Books of Ayres (1612)
D. Delia (1592)

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367. Samuel Daniel’s ‘Delia’ (1592) is a:
A. poem series
B. sonnet series
C. play series
D. satire series

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368. ‘The Complaint of Rosamoud’ (1592) which is considered a romance is written by:
A. George Peele
B. Samuel Daniel
C. Thomas Nash
D. William Shakespeare

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369. How many writers are the members of University Wits?
A. Eight
B. Nine
C. Seven
D. Six

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370. Which of the following plays of George Peele was a clever satire on popular drama?
A. The Love of King David and Fair Bathsheba
B. The Araygnement of Paris
C. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward
D. The Old Wives Tale.

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371. One of the following plays of Robert Greene represents the Elizabethan life. Identify it:
A. Orlando Furioso
B. Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay
C. Alphonsus, King of Aragon
D. Pondosto or The Triumph of Trine

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372. Who wrote ‘The Scottish Historie of James the Forth?
A. Thomas Kyd
B. William Shakespeare
C. Ben Jonson
D. Robert Greene

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373. Name the subtitle of Thomas Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller’:
A. Queen of Carthage
B. The Life of Jack Wilton
C. The Triumph of Trine
D. King of Aragon

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374. ‘Summer’s Last Will and Treatment’ by Thomas Nash are a:
A. Satirical masque
B. Comic play
C. Tragic play
D. Mousetrap

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375. ‘The Wounds of Civil War’ by Thomas Lodge is a:
A. Comic play
B. Tragic play
C. Historical play
D. Chronicle play

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376. Thomas Kyd translated ‘Cornelia’ (1593) from:
A. Spanish
B. French
C. Italian
D. German

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377. Where was Christopher Marlowe born?
A. Canterbury
B. Liverpool
C. Kent
D. Hampshire

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378. One of the following plays of Shakespeare is not his early comedy. Identify it:
A. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
B. The Comedy of Errors
C. As You Like It
D. Love’s Labour Lost

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379. One of the following plays of Shakespeare is not a mature comedy. Identify it
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. Much Ado About Nothing
C. The Taming of the Shrew
D. Twelfth Night

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380. “He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul. This is written about William Shakespeare. Identify its writer :
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Dryden
C. Ben Jonson
D. Francis Bacon

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381. On which are Shakespeare’s Roman plays based?
A. North’s ‘Plutarch’
B. Roman’s ‘History’
C. Hollinshed’s ‘Chronicles’
D. None of the above

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382. One of the critics said that in Shakespeare’s great tragedies character is destiny. Identify that critic :
A. Ernest Jones
B. Caroline Spurgeon
C. F.H. Bradley
D. A.C, Bradley.

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383. Where was Ben Jonson buried?
A. London
B. Canterbury
C. Westminster Abbey
D. Manchester

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384. One of the following playwrights is called the father of English classical comedy. Identify the writer :
A. Thomas Middleton
B. William Shakespeare
C. Ben Jonson
D. Thomas Heywood

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385. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Timber”?
A. Discoveries
B. The Fairy Prince
C. The Silent Woman
D. The Fox

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386. The chief function of literature is to instruct. Who said it?
A. John Dryden
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Francis Bacon
D. Ben Jonson

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387. Given below are the four comedies. One of them is not written by Ben Jonson. Identify it:
A. Catiline His Conspiracy
B. Every Man in His Humour
C. Sejanus His Fall
D. Every Man Out of His Humour

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388. Which of the following is not Ben Jonson’s Masque?
A. The Masque of Queens
B. Oberon, the Fairy Prince
C. Sejanus His Fall
D. The Masque of Beauty

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389. One of the following is the subtitle of Ben ‘Volpone’, Identify it:
A. The Fairy Prince
B. The Fox
C. The Lion
D. Discoveries

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390. Francis Bacon’s essays’ first edition appeared in 1597, the second in 1612, and the third in:
A. 1621
B. 1616
C. 1619)
D. 1623

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391. Which of the following is considered to be the best play by Thomas Heywood?
A. The English Traveller
B. The Captives
C. A Woman killed with Kindness
D. King Edward the Fourth

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392. One of the following writers died due to the plague. Identify that writer:
A. John Fletcher
B. George Chapman
C. Francis Bacon
D. Francis Beaumont

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393. Name the writer of ‘The Royall King and the Loyall Subject’:
A. Thomas Heywood
B. Thomas Dekker
C. John Webster
D. John Marston

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394. Who has written ‘The Faithful Shepherdess’?
A. George Chapman
B. John Fletcher
C. Thomas Middleton
D. None of the above

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395. Thomas Middleton’s The Witch’ has a strong resemblance to Shakespeare’s :
A. Macbeth
B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
C. Julius Caesar
D. Othello

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396. Victoria and Duchess in Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ are considered the two finest women characters of the:
A. Pre-Elizabethan Drama
B. Elizabethan Drama
C. Post-Elizabethan Drama
D. Jacobean Drama

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397. Identify the following plays of George Chapman which is considered the historical play of contemporary time :
A. Tragedie of Chabot
B. Caesar and Pompey
C. All Fools
D. Eastward Hoe

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398. Who is called the Dickens of the Elizabethan age?
A. Thomas Heywood
B. John Marston
C. Thomas Dekker
D. George Chapman

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399. In which play did Thomas Dekker collaborate with Massinger?
A. Satriomastix
B. The Virgin Martyr
C. Old Fortunate
D. The Witch of Edmonton

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400. One of the following plays of Thomas Middleton was praised by Charles Lamb and other writers. Identify it :
A. The Witch
B. Women Beware of Women
C. The Changeling
D. The Spanish Gipsy

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