Unit-I Part-VI

1.      Identify the season of the year of the Pilgrimage referred in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales :
            a.  Summer      
            b. Winter   
            c. Spring   
            d. Autumn

2.      The company of Pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue consisted of -------------- Pilgrims.
            a.  28 
            b. 29   
            c. 30  
            d. 35

3.      Cite the name of the Martyr to whose shrine the pilgrimage is undertaken :
            a.  St. Moses
            b. St. Thomas Becket  
            c. St. Joseph 
            d. St. Francis

4.      Identify the year of the Fall of Constantinople :
            a.  1450 
            b. 1453    
            c. 1462   
            d. 1468

5.      Who published the verses of Wyatt and Surrey?
            a.  Lydgate 
            b. Thomas Sackville
            c. Tottel   
            d. Thomas More

6.      “A sound magician is a mighty God” This line appears in the drama :
            a.  Edward II 
            b. The Jew of Malta
            c. Tamburlaine, the Great
            d. Doctor Faustus

7.      Which is the first English tragedy?
            a. The Spanish Tragedy
            b. Cato 
            c. Gorbodoc  
            d. The Changeling

8.      Identify the work NOT authored by Bacon :
            a.  Novam Organum    
            b. Apopthegms  
            c. The New Atlantis
            d. Toxophilus

9.      ‘Goe and catch a falling star’ – Identify the poet of this sonnet :
            a.  Philip Sidney
            b. John Donne  
            c. Surrey    
            d. Wyatt

10.   Which age is commonly referred as ‘a nest of singing birds’?
            a.  Jacobean Age  
            b. Elizabethan Age
            c. Augustan Age
            d. Neo-classical age

11.   A Shakespearean sonnet is characterized by :
            a.  Three quatrains and a couplet
            b. A narrative with no divisions
            c.  An octave and a sestet
            d. A Long narrative

12.   Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?
            a.  John Dryden    
            b. Ben Jonson  
            c. Longinus 
            d. None of the above

13.   ‘Conceits’ are commonly used by :
            a.  Metaphysical poets  
            b. Pre-Raphelites
            c. Modern poets
            d. None of the above

14.   The first anthology of Metaphysical poetry was compiled &edited by :
            a.  Johnson 
            b. Grierson  
            c. Croce      
            d. Nash

15.   Who wrote these lines: “But at my back I hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near -------------”
            a.  C.S. Lewis   
            b. John Donne   
            c. Andrew Marvell
            d. Henry Waughan

16.   “Here is God’s plenty; but he lacks high seriousness” – In this line ‘he’ refers to :
            a.  Homer    
            b. Chaucer  
            c. Dante   
            d. Aristophanes

17.   ‘The Arcadia’ was written by :
            a.  Bacon 
            b. Sidney   
            c. Lyly   
            d. Bayard

18.   Identify the play which is NOT written by Ben Jonson :
            a.  The Alchemist 
            b. Volpone
            c. Pericles, the Prince of Tyre
            d. Bartholomew Fair

19.   ‘Of Truth’ is an essay written by ---------------
            a.  Bacon  
            b. Thomas More  
            c. Caxton 
            d. Hobbes

20.   The noted translator of Shakespeare’s plays into German is :
            a.  Goethe  
            b. Pushkin   
            c. Schlegel    
            d. Grass

21.   “One of the triple pillars of the Roman world transformed into a Strumpet’s fool”. Identify the play :
            a.  Antony and Cleopatra
            b. Julius Caesar  
            c. Henry V    
            d. Henry IV.Part I

22.   “To be or not to be; that’s the question”. Identify the lines in the Play of Shakespeare :
            a.  Othello     
            b. King Lear  
            c. Macbeth 
            d. None of the above

23.   In which play of Shakespeare, Bottom and the rude mechanicals appear :
            a.  A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
            b. As You Like It
            c. Tempest 
            d. None of the above.

24.   Who is called the ‘turncoat’ in the play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’?
            a.  Octavius Caesar
            b. Lepidus  
            c. Enobarbus   
            d. None of the above

25.   Which play of Shakespeare is generally called ‘the tragedy of the handkerchief’?
            a.  Othello    
            b. Macbeth  
            c. King Lear  
            d. Hamlet

26.   The Forest of Arden is the locale of the following play :
            a.  Twelfth Night 
            b. The Merchant of Venice
            c. Measure for Measure
            d. None of the above

27.   “There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned”. Identify the lines in Shakespeare’s play :
            a.  Love’s Labour’s Lost 
            b. As you Like It  
            c. Twelfth Night
            d. Antony and Cleopatra

28.   “As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods- they kill us for their sport”. Which play of Shakespeare contains these lines?
            a.  King Lear    
            b. Julius Caesar  
            c. Cymbeline 
            d. None of the above.

29.   ‘Falstaff ’ is a character in :
            a.  Henry IV     
            b. King Lear   
            c. Hamlet   
            d. Julius Caesar

30.   The fair young man referred in Shakespeare’s Sonnet is :
            a.  Earl of Sussex 
            b. Earl of Burgundy
            c. Earl of Surrey 
            d. Earl of Southampton

31.   Identify one of the last plays of Shakespeare :
            a.  Measure for Measure
            b. Cymbeline
            c. Timon of Athens
            d. Troius and Cressida

32.   Which edition of Shakespeare is taken as the most scholarly edition?
            a.  The Arden edition
            b. The Variorum edition 
            c.  The Clarendon edition    
            d. The Folger edition 

33.   “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds -----” Identify the author of these lines:
            a.  John Keats   
            b. Byron
            c. Shakespeare
            d. Coleridge

34.   Seneca plays were reworking chiefly of :
            a. Euripides   
            b. Aeschylus   
            c. Sophocles   
            d. All the above

35.   ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ – In which play of Shakespeare these lines occur?
            a.  Cymbeline   
            b. Hamlet    
            c. King Lear   
            d. As You Like It

36.   A.C. Bradley is best remembered for his work on :
            a.  Milton
            b. Shakespeare
            c. Dr.Johnson 
            d. Blake

37.   The Theatres in England reopened after Restoration in the year :
            a.  1660  
            b. 1665   
            c. 1670  
            d. 1667

38.   ‘Areopagitica’, by Milton is a plea :

a.      Denouncing opponents of the Commonwealth

b.      Against the Catholic licentiousness’

c.      For the liberty of the press

d.      All the above

39.   “Of Man’s First Disobedience and Fruit of the Forbidden Tree whose mortal taste” These lines are taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost :
            a.  Book IV
            b. Book I     
            c. Book IX 
            d. Book XII

40.   Locate the Chronicler of the 17th century in ‘Diary’:
            a.  Samuel Pepys  
            b. Roger Reynolds
            c. Jeremy Colliers
            d. None of the above

41.   Identify the poet who is NOT a pre-Romantic :
            a.  William Blake  
            b. Oliver Goldsmith
            c. Robert Southey
            d. Robert Burns

42.   Whose ‘lock of hair’ is the subject of Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
            a.  Beatrice  
            b. Belinda 
            c. Benita  
            d. Brawne

43.   ‘Pamela’ is written by :
            a.  Sterne      
            b. Fielding    
            c. Richardson  
            d. Scott

44.   ‘------------ is the first of our really national English poets’.
            a.  Geoffrey Chaucer 
            b. Caedmon 
            c. John Gower
            d. William Langland

45.   The jolly host of the Tabard Inn was ------
            a.  Harry Bailly 
            b. Tom Spencer  
            c. Henry John
            d. John Wood

46.   Name Chaucer’s contemporary who recorded in spirited narrative the great deeds of Robert Bruce :
            a.  Wyclif 
            b. Robert Manning 
            c. John Barbour 
            d. John Lydgate

47.   Who authored Morte D’Arthur?
            a.  William Caxton
            b. Sir Thomas Malory
            c. Reginald Pecock
            d. King Edward IV

48.   ------- was the first English poet to use the unrimed ten-syllabled verse to which the name blank verse is popularly applied.
            a.  Surrey    
            b. Wyatt  
            c. Skelton 
            d. Aschan

49.   Who is Tottel in Tottel’s Miscellany?
            a.  The writer    
            b. The publisher
            c. The translator
            d. The editor

50.   ‘The morality play, like the miracle play, was didactic; but its characters, instead of being taken from sacred narratives, were --------’.
            a.  personified abstractions
            b. legendary saints
            c.  symbolic representations
            d. animals and birds

51.   ‘While -------- aroused the intellect and the aesthetic faculties, ------awakened the spiritual nature’.
            a.  Chaucer . . . Spenser
            b. the Renaissance . . . the Reformation
            c.  the Anglo-Saxon Literature . . . the English Bible
            d. None of the above

52.   Of the twelve books, which Spenser projected in the Faery Queene, how many were published during his lifetime?
            a.  6  
            b. 7         
            c. 9     
            d. 11

53.   John Donne was a :
            a.  poet and preacher      
            b. poet and playwright
            c.  playwright and preacher  
            d. preacher and sonneteer

54.   Of the following who was not the contemporary of Christopher Marlowe?
            a.  George Peele  
            b. Thomas Kyd   
            c. Thomas Otway 
            d. Robert Greene

55.   Downright, Morose, Well-bred, Subtle, Bertinax Surly, Sir Epicure Mammon, are characters in the plays of :
            a.  John Ford     
            b. Ben Jonson   
            c. James Shirley 
            d. Oliver Goldsmith

56.   Who among the following is not a University Wit?
            a.  John Lyly  
            b. George Peele 
            c. Robert Greene
            d. Thomas Middleton

57.   ‘Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.’ Whose words are these?
            a.  Francis Bacon  
            b. David Lindsay 
            c. Thomas Moore     
            d. Roger Bacon

58.   Who described Bacon as ‘the wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind’?
            a. John Dryden    
            b. Alexander Pope
            c. Dr. Johnson
            d. Jonathan Swift

59.   ‘As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage’. Who offers this compliment to Shakespeare?
            a.  Francis Meres 
            b. John Dryden 
            c. S.T. Coleridge
            d. Matthew Arnold

60.   Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in ----------.
            a.  1604     
            b. 1609    
            c. 1612      
            d. 1614

61.   Which play of Shakespeare begins with the following line: ‘If music be the food of love, play on . . .’?
            a.  The Winter’s Tale
            b. Hamlet  
            c. Twelfth Night
            d. The Tempest

62.   Which of the following pairs of plays are the earliest plays written by Shakespeare?

a.  The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus   
b. Macbeth, Othello
c.  Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice 
d. The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale

63.   Which three plays, ignored by Meres, were included by the editors of the First Folio in the canon of Shakespeare’s works?

a.      Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Henry V     

b.      King John, Richard III, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream

c.      Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear

d.      Henry VI Part I, Part II, Part III

64.   ‘-------------- is more of a lyrical monologue than any other play by Shakespeare, with the monologue very exquisitely written’.
            a.  Richard II  
            b. Romeo and Juliet
            c. As You Like It
            d. Julius Caesar

65.   Which critic of Shakespeare divided his dramatic career into four stages?
            a.  Dr. Johnson 
            b. Dowden      
            c. Quiller Couch 
            d. Saintsbury

66.   Which literary historian made the following comment? ‘Julius Caesar is fine; Coriolanus is admirable; Antony and Cleopatra is superb.’
            a.  George Sampson
            b. C.S. Lewis 
            c. W.H. Hudson
            d. Emile Legouis

67.   ‘ --------------- is the most voluminously discussed play ever written; and we may say at once that if people were to read the play itself more often than books about it their minds would be less confused.
            a.  Macbeth  
            b. Hamlet  
            c. Othello   
            d. King Lear

68.   ‘Age cannot wither her / Nor custom stale her infinite variety’. Which character is described and in which play?
            a.  Cordelia in King Lear  
            b. Miranda in The Tempest
            c.  Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra
            d. None of these

69.   When was the Third Folio of the Collected Plays of Shakespeare first published?
            a.  1664       
            b. 1666    
            c. 1669    
            d. 1672

70.   Which play of Shakespeare is generally referred to as Shakespeare’s magical swan-song?
            a.  The Winter’s Tale
            b. All’s Well that Ends Well
            c. Coriolanus 
            d. The Tempest

71.   What is meant by ‘feminine ending’ in Shakespeare?
            a.  An unaccented eleventh syllable 
            b. An accented eleventh syllable
            c.  An unaccented tenth syllable   
            d. An accented tenth syllable

72.   Which of the following pairs is NOT Shakespearean?
            a.  Othello, Desdemona       
            b. Ferdinand, Miranda
            c.  Duke Orsino, Viola   
            d. De Flores, Beatrice

73.   Name the author of the most reliable biography of Shakespeare, William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems:
            a.  Edward Chambers  
            b. Geoffrey Bullough
            c. Granville-Barker  
            d. G.B. Harrison

74.   The clowning of Dogberry and Verges appears in -------.
            a.  The Merchant of Venice
            b. Much Ado about Nothing
            c. As You Like It 
            d. Twelfth Night

75.   Name the first editor of Shakespeare :
            a. Nicholas Rowe 
            b. Alexander Pope 
            c. Lewis Theobald
            d. William Warburton

76.   Name a popular Indian critic of Shakespeare :
            a.  C.D. Narasimhaiah
            b. K. Nagarajan 
            c. Meenakshi Mukherjee
            d. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar

77.   In which tragedy which character describes life as ‘a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing’?
            a.  Macbeth, Macbeth 
            b. King Lear, Lear
            c. Othello, Othello
            d. Hamlet, Hamlet

78.   In -------- we have a Puritanism which is political and ecclesiastical as well as spiritual and ethical.
            a.  L’Allegro
            b. Lycidas  
            c. Il Penseroso 
            d. Comus

79.   Milton’s Areopagitica was directed against an Order of Parliament which established --------.
            a.  a censorship of books
            b. a curtailment of human rights
            c.  a ban on lampooning    
            d. a ban on writers’ involvement in politics

80.   Which book of the Paradise Lost describes the fall of Adam and Eve?
            a.  Book I
            b. Book II  
            c. Book IV   
            d. Book IX

81.   Who described Milton as our one acknowledged master of ‘the grand style’?
            a.  Matthew Arnold    
            b. Joseph Addison   
            c. John Dryden 
            d. Charles Lamb

82.   ‘The Metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour . . . They neither copied nature nor life . . .’ These are the words of :
            a.  Dr. Johnson    
            b. Jeremy Taylor
            c. Richard Baxter
            d. Thomas Hobbes

83.   Who did John Dryden regard as his masters?
            a.  Milton and Spenser   
            b. Walter and Denham
            c.  Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe
            d. Donne and Crashaw

84.   Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther offers an elaborate argument in favour of -----.
            a.  Puritanism
            b. Protestantism 
            c. Roman Catholicism 
            d. Nationalism

85.   Christian is the central character in John Bunyan’s --------.
            a.  The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 
            b. The Holy War
            c.  Grace Abounding
            d. Pilgrim’s Progress

86.   In which of his writings does Pope say that ‘his life was one long disease’?
            a.  Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
            b. Essay on Criticism
            c. The Rape of the Lock
            d. Pastorals

87.   ‘From writing biographies with real names attached to them it was but a short step to writing biographies with fictitious names.’ Who is the author referred to?
            a.  Colley Cibber 
            b. Daniel Defoe 
            c. George Barkeley
            d. Richard Steele

88.   In which book does Swift describe the voyage to Brobingnag?
            a.  Gulliver’s Travels
            b. A Tale of a Tub
            c. The Battle of the Books
            d. Journal of Stella

89.   The subtitle of Richardson’s Pamela is ----.
            a.  Virtue Honoured    
            b. Virtue Adored
            c. Virtue Rewarded 
            d. Vice Punished

90.   ‘The paths of glory lead but to the grave’ is a line from Gray’s :
            a.  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard    
            b. The Progress of Poesy
            c.  The Bard      
            d. The Fatal Sisters

91.   What was the period in which Shakespeare wrote his romances?
            a.  1602-08       
            b. 1604-12  
            c. 1608-16  
            d. 1610-16

92.   Which of the following statement is NOT true?

a.      The first publication of the periodical The Spectator was from 1711 to 1712.

b.      During its first publication, The Spectator was published twice a week.

c.      The Spectator was published a second time in 1714 without the involvement of Steele and continued for six months.

d.      This time, the periodical appeared thrice weekly.

93.   About which period in English literature did Milton say thus in Areopagitica : ”A noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks”?
            a.  Chaucerian period
            b. Elizabethan period 
            c. Civil War period
            d. Restoration period

94.   Who defined essay as “a receptacle for detached thoughts”?
            a.  Richard Steele         
            b. Joseph Addison
            c. Dr. Johnson
            d. Francis Bacon

95.   In which work did Dryden say Donne “affects the metaphysics”?
            a.  Discourse on Satire 
            b. Of Dramatick Poesie
            c. Preface to the Fables
            d. None of these

96.   Milton wrote ……………. sonnets altogether.
            a.  24 
            b. 30    
            c. 32      
            d. 38

97.   Ballads are usually written in ……………. metre.
            a.  Dactylic    
            b. Iambic   
            c. Both a and b
            d. Neither a nor b

98.   Which of the following is a feature that does NOT apply to Defoe’s Moll Flanders?
            a.  Epistolary 
            b. Picaresque   
            c. Memoir    
            d. Pseudo-autobiographical

99.   Which of Laurence Sterne’s novels was incomplete at the time of his death?
            a.  A Sentimental Journey
            b. Tristram Shandy
            c. Both of these
            d. Neither of these

100.          Which of the following works influenced Thomas Moore to write Utopia?

            a. Homer’s Iliad 

            b. Aristotle’s Politics

            c. Plato’s Republic  

            d. None of these

101.          In which work of Edmund Spenser the ‘Ape and the Fox’ serve to satirize the customs of the court?

            a.  Prosopopoia, or Mother of Hubberds Tale

            b. Ruines of Rome : by Bellay

            c.  Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie       

            d. The Teares of the Muses

102.          Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene?

            a.  Stuart     

            b. Plantagenet  

            c. Anjou  

            d. Tudor

103.          How many lines are in Spenserian stanza?

            a.  12     

            b. 24     

            c. 9             

            d. 8

104.          Who among the following is a Graveyard Poet?

            a.  Thomas Gray 

            b. William Cowper  

            c. Robert Blair

            d. All of them

105.          The title of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd was taken from :

            a.      Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

b.      Milton’s Paradise Lost

c.      Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

d.      Spenser’s Prothalamion

106.          Which among the following is a work of Thomas Gray?

a.      Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

b.      The Progress of Poesy

c.      The Bard : A Pindaric Ode

d.      All of them

107.          Which among the following is a work of William Blake?

            a.  Poetical Sketches   

            b. Jerusalem : The Emanation of the Giant Albion

            c.  Milton  

            d. All of them

108.          In An Apology of Poetry, which form of poetry is considered as the best?

            a.  Elegy      

            b. Satire     

            c. Epic         

            d. Lyric

109.          How many Sonnets are there in Shakespeare’s Sonnets?

            a.  126   

            b. 28           

            c. 154     

            d. 148

110.          On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost is a prefatory poem written by :

            a.  John Donne  

            b. Edmund Spenser     

            c. Andrew Marvell  

            d. Henry Vaughan

111.          Match the following :

                                     i.          The Common Wealth                             -              (a) 1603 - 1625

                                    ii.          Restoration                                              -              (b) 1649 - 1660

                                   iii.          Jacobean                                                  -              (c) 1714 - 1837

                                   iv.          Georgian                                                   -              (d) 1660 - 1714

                        a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                        b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

                        c.  (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a               

                        d. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a

112.           According to Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan’s greatest fault is his :

            a.  Lust       

            b. Pride         

            c. Jealousy     

            d. Avarice

113.          Which one of the following is a play by William Congreve?
            a.  The Old Bachelor
            b. The Mourning Bride
            c. Love for Love   
            d. All of them

114.           Which one of the following is the journal begun by Richard Steele?
            a.  The Germ
            b. Rambler and Idler
            c. The Tatler
            d. Citizen of the World

115.           Pepys diary which he kept from1660 to 1669 is one of the most important primary sources for :
            a.  Harlem Renaissance   
            b. English Restoration
            c. Elizabethan Age  
            d. Romantic Age

116.           ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Moll Flanders’ are works of :
            a.  Alexander Pope 
            b. Daniel Defoe      
            c. Dryden 
            d. John Locke

117.          Which among the following is a work of Samuel Johnson?
            a.  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 
            b. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
            c.  Life of Mr Richard Savage 
            d. All of them

118.          Which of the following is an epistolary novel?
            a.  Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice  
            b. Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
            c.  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
            d. All of them

119.           The novel ‘Shamela’ is a parody of Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Who wrote it?
            a.  Jonathan Swift  
            b. Daniel Defoe 
            c. Henry Fielding 
            d. Edmund Burke

120.           In the poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' whose epitaph was written at the end :
            a.  Thomas Gray     
            b. Richard West      
            c. The Reader      
            d. The Villager