Unit-I Part-VII

1.      To which of the following does Gorboduc belong?
                        a.  Morality Plays     
                        b. Senecan Tragedy  
                        c. Farce      
                        d. Aristotelian Tragedy

2.      The Parliament of Fowls was written by ----------.
                        a.  Chaucer    
                        b. Philip Sidney   
                        c. Shakespeare 
                        d. John Fletcher

3.      The first story in the Canterbury Tales sequence is ------------.
                        a.  The Miller’s Tale  
                        b. The Wife of Bath’s Tale
                        c. The Knight’s Tale
                        d. The Squire’s Tale

4.      Who among the following was described as the “poets’ poet” by the Romantics?
                        a.  Ben Jonson   
                        b. Edmund Spenser   
                        c. Philip Sidney     
                        d. John Milton

5.      Who is the author of the prose romance, Arcadia?
                        a.  Robert Sidney  
                        b. Philip Sidney    
                        c. Edmund Spenser 
                        d. Thomas More

6.      Tottel’s Miscellany is a 16th century collection of ----------.
                        a.  Poetic works 
                        b. Essays   
                        c. Drama    
                        d. Short stories

7.      The Chester, York, Wakefield cycles of plays refer to the ---------- of the 14^th century.
                        a.  Masques     
                        b. Interludes    
                        c. Morality plays
                        d. Miracle plays

8.      “. . . his laboring brain/Begets a world of idle fantasies/To overreach the devil.” Who is being referred to here?
                        a.  Faustus     
                        b. Gaveston   
                        c. Barabas  
                        d. Tamburlaine

9.      Who set up the first printing press in England?
                        a.  Richard Tottel
                        b. Thomas Norton   
                        c. William Caxton   
                        d. Johanes Gutenberg

10.   “Reading maketh a Full Man; Conference a Ready Man; and Writing an Exact Man.” Whose words are these?
                        a.  Joseph Addison 
                        b. Richard Steele
                        c. Thomas More 
                        d. Francis Bacon

11.   John Heywood’s importance in English literature lies in his short dramatic -----------.
                        a.  Farces      
                        b. Satires
                        c. Poems  
                        d. Interludes

12.   Thomas More’s contemplative vision of the ideal is presented in -----------.
                        a.  Epistola ad Pomeranum     
                        b. Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation
                        c.  Utopia 
                        d. Encomium Moriae

13.   Name the 17th century playwright who is also famous as a writer of masques :
                        a.  Ben Jonson   
                        b. Christopher Marlowe   
                        c. Thomas Nashe 
                        d. Robert Greene

14.   Thomas Traherne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw and Henry Vaughan belong to the group of writers called :
                        a.  The University Wits
                        b. The Metaphysical Poets
                        c. The Utilitarians
                        d. The University Mummers

15.   Who among the following was not part of the group called the ‘University Wits’?
                        a.  Christopher Marlowe 
                        b. Robert Greene
                        c. Ben Jonson    
                        d. George Peele

16.   Religio Medici, Pseudodoxia Epidemica and The Garden of Cyrus are works by ------------.
                        a.  John Locke  
                        b. Francis Bacon 
                        c. Thomas Hobbes
                        d. Thomas Browne

17.   Thomas Hobbes was a ------------ of the 17th century.
                        a.  Poet    
                        b. Playwright   
                        c. Painter   
                        d. Philosopher

18.   The title of Wilson Knight’s The Wheel of Fire comes from the play ------------.
                        a.  Othello 
                        b. King Lear    
                        c. Macbeth   
                        d. Hamlet

19.   His “legs bestrid the ocean” and his “rear’d arm crested the world.” Who is referred to here?
                        a.  Julius Caesar  
                        b. Octavius Caesar
                        c. Mark Antony   
                        d. Coriolanus

20.   Who called Shakespeare “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers”?
                        a.  Robert Greene  
                        b. Ben Jonson   
                        c. Christopher Marlowe  
                        d.Thomas Rymer

21.   Who plays the character of poor Tom in King Lear?
                        a.  Edgar      
                        b. The Fool   
                        c. Kent   
                        d. Edmund

22.   Which one of these is not a source for the play Hamlet?
                        a.  Thomas Kyd     
                        b. Saxo Grammaticus   
                        c. F. de Belleforest
                        d. Plutarch

23.   Which Shakespeare play has 2 sets of identical twin brothers with the same names?
                        a.  The Two Gentlemen of Verona
                        b. The Comedy of Errors
                        c.  Twelfth Night   
                        d. Love’s Labours Lost

24.   ----------- is generally considered to be Shakespeare’s final tragedy.
                        a.  Othello   
                        b. Macbeth    
                        c. Coriolanus 
                        d. Hamlet

25.   Shakespeare collaborated with ------------ in writing Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
                        a.  Thomas Dekker  
                        b. John Marston    
                        c. John Fletcher 
                        d. Thomas Middleton

26.   Which Shakespearean character is the “Moor of Venice”?
                        a. Othello  
                        b. Antonio 
                        c. Iago   
                        d. Enobarbus

27.   The first work of Shakespeare to be printed under his own name is -------------.
                        a.  A Lover’s Complaint
                        b. The Rape of Lucrece
                        c. Venus and Adonis  
                        d. The Comedy of Errors

28.   The plays Pericles, Cymbeline, The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale are generally called -------------.
                        a.  Problem Plays
                        b. Comedies 
                        c. Tragicomedies  
                        d. Romances

29.   The notion that Shakespeare’s works were better read and studied rather than performed was part of -------------
                        a. Victorian criticism  
                        b. Early Romantic criticism
                        c.  Twentieth century criticism 
                        d. Neoclassical criticism

30.   “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly,” sings _______.
                        a. Jaques    
                        b. Amiens  
                        c. Touchstone 
                        d. Silvius

31.   Name the protagonist referred to in the title of the play The Merchant of Venice :
                        a.  Antonio   
                        b. Shylock  
                        c. Bassanio    
                        d. Petruccio

32.   ----------- is generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote.
                        a.  Timon of Athens
                        b. Troilus and Cressida   
                        c. The Tempest     
                        d. The Winter’s Tale

33.   The play within the play in Hamlet is called ------------.
                        a.  ‘The Pageant of Nine Worthies’  
                        b. ‘The Murder of Gonzago’
                        c.  ‘The Mousetrap’   
                        d. ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’

34.   “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.” Identify the speaker :
                        a.  Feste    
                        b. Touchstone
                        c. Dogberry  
                        d. Falstaff

35.   “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Who said this of Shakespeare?
                        a.  John Lyly      
                        b. Thomas Heywood     
                        c. Ben Jonson  
                        d. Marlowe

36.   Which critic wrote The Elizabethan World Picture?
                        a.  EMW Tillyard  
                        b. J Dover Wilson 
                        c. LC Knights  
                        d. G Wilson Knight

37.   In which year was Shakespeare’s sonnets first published as a quarto edition?
                        a.  1616
                        b. 1605   
                        c. 1599      
                        d. 1609

38.   Which famous poem opens with the words: “Of man’s first disobedience. . . sing Heavenly Muse”?
                        a.  L’Allegro
                        b. Paradise Lost
                        c. Paradise Regained 
                        d. Heaven and Earth

39.   The Spectator and The Tatler are journals associated with -----------.
                        a.  Addison and Steele
                        b. Dr Johnson 
                        c. Edmund Burke    
                        d. William Hazlitt

40.   Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the :
                        a.  Search for individual expression 
                        b. Ethos of the Church
                        c.  Ethos of success  
                        d. Ethos of chivalry

41.   In which play of Shakespeare are the following lines found?

“O! it is excellent, // To have a giant’s strength, // but it is tyrannous, // To use it like a giant.”

                  a.  Measure for Measure   

                  b. The Merchant of Venice

                  c.  Cymbeline  

                  d. Much Ado About Nothing

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

43.   Identify the year of the fall of Constantinople :
                        a.  1443     
                        b. 1453  
                        c. 1463    
                        d. 1433

44.   In which play of Christopher Marlowe are the following lines found?

“Cut the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough,

That sometime within this learned man.”

                  a.  Doctor Faustus

                  b. The Jew of Malta

                  c. Edward II   

                  d. Tamburlaine the Great

45.   Name the author of The Shepherd Calendar :
                        a.  Philip Sidney  
                        b. Sir Thomas Wyatt   
                        c. Geoffrey Chaucer
                        d. Edmund Spenser

46.   Biron is a character in Shakespeare’s :
                        a.  All’s Well That End Well
                        b. The Comedy of Errors
                        c.  Love’s Labour’s Lost   
                        d. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

47.   “Sol thro” white curtains shot a tim’rous ray.

And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day” – “Those eyes” are the eyes of :

                  a.  Helen 

                  b. Belinda    

                  c. Cleopatra     

                  d. Rosalind

48.   The Spectator appeared on a daily basis for how many issues?
                        a.  480 
                        b. 575   
                        c. 520 
                        d. 555

49.   Match the authors with the books :

                 i.          Richardson                                                              -              (a)Roderick Random

                ii.          Fielding                                                                    -              (b)Vicar of Wakefield

               iii.          Smollett                                                                   -              (c)Joseph Andrews

               iv.          Goldsmith                                                                -              (d)Pamela

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

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

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

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

50.   Which one of the following poets does NOT belong to the Augustan Age?
                        a.  John Donne    
                        b. Mathew Prior
                        c. John Gay    
                        d. Alexander Pope

51.   Iamb is a foot of :

a.      Two stressed beats

b.      Two beats, an unstressed followed by a stressed

c.      Two beats, a stressed followed by an unstressed

d.      Three beats, the first stressed the second and the third unstressed

52.   The first stanza of a Pindaric Ode is called :
                        a.  Apostrophe  
                        b. Strophe   
                        c. Antistrophe
                        d. Canto

53.   Which of these is NOT a history play?
                        a.  Richard III 
                        b. Henry V 
                        c. Merchant of Venice  
                        d. Richard II

54.   Chaucer was called “Father of English Poesie” by :
                        a.  Dryden 
                        b. Byron    
                        c. Shakespeare  
                        d. Donne

55.   Which statement is NOT true about the Jacobean Age?

a.      It coincides with the reign of King James I of England.

b.      It succeeds the Restoration period.

c.      It coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland.

d.      It precedes the Caroline Age.

56.   What is a play designed for reading rather than performance called?
                        a.  Poetic Drama   
                        b. Melodrama  
                        c. Morality Play
                        d. Closet Drama

57.   Who is the author of Troilus and Criseyde?
                        a.  Thomas Wyatt     
                        b. Edmund Spenser  
                        c. John Lyly        
                        d. Geoffrey Chaucer

58.   Which is the “three person coalition” after the death of Julius Caesar?
                        a.  Octavius, Antony, Lepidus   
                        b. Julius, Brutus, Cassius

c.  Cassius, Augustus, Antony  
d. Casa, Cinna, Brutus

59.   “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” occurs in Shakespeare’s play :
                        a.  Hamlet 
                        b. Julius Caesar      
                        c. Macbeth
                        d. Othello

60.   Who among the following were University wits?

                    i.          Christopher Marlow and Robert Greene                                       ii. Thomas Nashe and Thomas Lodge

                 iii.          George Peel and John Lyly

                  a.  (i) and (ii) only

                  b. (i) and (iii) only

                  c. (ii) and (iii) only

                  d.(i), (ii) and (iii) only

61.   The two characters that appear in the Spectator are :

i.       Roger de Coverly                     ii. Robert Harley                iii. Andrew Freeport         iv. Lord Chesterfield
      a.  (i) and (iii)
      b. (i) and (ii) 
      c. (iii) and (iv)   
      d. (i) and (iv)

62.   Given below are two lists related to Gulliver’s Travels. Match the book with the title :

                 i.          Book I                                         -              (a)A Voyage to Laputa

                ii.          Book II                                        -              (b)A Voyage to Lilliput

               iii.          Book III                                      -              (c)A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

               iv.          Book IV                                      -              (d)A Voyage to Brobdingnag

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

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

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

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

63.   Match the names of the books by Daniel Defoe with their year of publication :

                 i.          Robinson Crusoe                                      -              ­(a)1724

                ii.          Captain Singleton                                    -              (b)1722

               iii.          Moll Flanders                                           -              (c)1720

               iv.          Roxana                                                      -              (d)1719

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

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

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

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

64.   Arrange the epistles in An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope in the order in which they appear in the poem :

                 i.          Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Society.

                ii.          Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Himself as an Individual.

               iii.          Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Universe.

               iv.          Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Happiness.

                  a.  (iv), (i), (ii), (iii) 

                  b. (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)     

                  c. (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)  

                  d. (i), (iv), (iii), (ii)

65.   Match the plays with the playwrights :

                 i.          She Stoops to Conquer                                                         -              (a)Oscar Wilde

                ii.          The School for Scandal                                                         -              (b)Henry Arthur Jones

               iii.          The Importance of Being Earnest                                        -              (c)Richard Sheridan

               iv.          The Silver King                                                                       -              (d)Goldsmith

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

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

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

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

66.   Who, in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, proposes that each pilgrim will tell a story on the way to Canterbury?
                        a.  The Doctor of Physic      
                        b. The Host  
                        c. The Prioress  
                        d. The Friar

67.   Who speaks these lines?

“This above all : to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day”.

                  a.  Laertes      

                  b. Horatio    

                  c. Rosencrantz  

                  d. Polonius

68.   Malvolio appears in :
                        a.  The Winter’s Tale 
                        b. Measure for Measure
                        c.  As You Like It    
                        d. Twelfth Night

69.   Which of the following sequences of plays by Ben Jonson is chronologically arranged?

a.      Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour, The Silent Woman

b.      The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour, The Silent Woman, Volpone

c.      Volpone, Every Man in His Humour, The Alchemist, The Silent Woman

d.      Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, The Silent Woman, The Alchemist

70.   The Pilgrim’s Progress is :
                        a. A romance      
                        b. A tragedy    
                        c. An allegory 
                        d. An elegy

71.   Which of the following is NOT a poem by a metaphysical poet?
                        a.  The Canonization    
                        b. The Temple
                        c.  The Garden    
                        d. The Vanity of Human Wishes

72.   Milton’s Lycidas laments the death of :
                        a.  Diodati   
                        b. King Charles I 
                        c. Oliver Cromwell   
                        d. Edward Young

73.   The ‘Proviso’ scene occurs in :
                        a.  The Way of the World   
                        b. The Double Dealer
                        c.  The Country Wife  
                        d. All for Love

74.   Dryden’s All for Love is an adaptation of :
                        a.  Romeo and Juliet   
                        b. Hero and Leander
                        c.  Antony and Cleopatra
                        d. Venus and Adonis

75.   In the fourth book of The Gulliver’s Travel Houyhnhnms have no words for :
                        a.  Reasoning      
                        b. Feeling    
                        c. Debating     
                        d. Lying

76.   The classical tragedy Cato was written by :
                        a.  Dryden     
                        b. Steele   
                        c. Addison    
                        d. Dr. Johnson

77.   In which poem, in a later edition, is Colley Cibber substituted for Theobald?
                        a.  Mac Flecknoe    
                        b. The Dunciad    
                        c. The Rape of the Lock  
                        d. An Essay on Man

78.   Mrs. Slipslop is a character in :
                        a.  Pamela      
                        b. Joseph Andrews 
                        c. Tom Jones       
                        d. Roderick Random

79.   She Stoops to Conquer is :
                        a.  A romantic comedy  
                        b. A comedy of humours
                        c.  A sentimental comedy   
                        d. An anti-sentimental comedy

80.   Which of the following poets cast his influence on Keats’s Hyperion?
                        a.  Shakespeare   
                        b. Milton 
                        c. Homer     
                        d. Spenser

81.   An Alexandrine is :
                        a.  An iambic pentameter line 
                        b. An unrhymed couplet
                        c.  An iambic hexameter line    
                        d. An iambic tetrameter line

82.   Identify the metre when two unstressed syllables are followed by one stressed syllable in a poetic line :
                        a. Iamb        
                        b. Anapaest   
                        c. Dactyl       
                        d. Bacchius

83.   The revenge tragedy was influenced by :
                        a.  Seneca       
                        b. Horace 
                        c. Cicero     
                        d. Plautus

84.   Sidney’s Arcadia is :
                        a. A comedy     
                        b. An allegory  
                        c. A romance 
                        d. A tragedy

85.   Which of the following plays of Shakespeare is NOT a ‘Roman Play’?
                        a.  Julius Caesar   
                        b. Antony and Cleopatra 
                        c. Coriolanus      
                        d. Troilus and Cressida

86.   The following words : “Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither” appear in :
                        a.  Hamlet     
                        b. King Lear        
                        c. Macbeth    
                        d. Othello

87.   The character of Zimri appears in :
                        a.  Absalom and Achitophel   
                        b. Mac Flecknoe
                        c.  Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
                        d. Alexander’s Feast

88.   Identify the author of the following : “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
                        a.  Francis Bacon
                        b. John Dryden  
                        c. Thomas Browne    
                        d. John Milton

89.   Who wrote the following lines :

“But at my back, I always hear

Time’s winged chariot hurrying near”

                  a. John Milton

                  b. Andrew Marvell  

                  c. William Shakespeare     

                  d. Robert Herrick

90.   Identify the play in which ‘The China Scene’ appears :
                        a.  The Gentleman Dancing Master    
                        b. The Country Wife
                        c.  The Malcontent 
                        d. The Plain Dealer

91.   Milton’s Comus is :
                        a. A tragedy    
                        b. A masque  
                        c. A pastoral poem 
                        d. An elegy

92.   Who is the female protagonist of The Rape of the Lock?
                        a.  Sophia Western  
                        b. Lydia Languish
                        c. Belinda
                        d. Margery Pinchwife

93.   A house is mistaken for an inn in :
                        a.  The School for Scandal  
                        b. The Rivals
                        c.  She Stoops to Conquer
                        d. The Critic

94.   Which of the following is a Gothic novel?
                        a.  The Castle of Otranto
                        b. The Vicar of Wakefield
                        c.  Tristram Shandy    
                        d. A Sentimental Journey

95.   Gray’s An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard alludes to :
                        a.  Milton, Hampden and Cromwell  
                        b. Dryden, King Charles II and Hampden
                        c.  Milton, Shaftesbury and Dryden     
                        d. Cromwell, Shaftesbury and King Charles II

96.   Match the following groups :

                      i.     Spondee                                                    -              (a)One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

                     ii.     Dactyl                                                        -              (b)Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

                    iii.     Anapaest                                                   -              (c) Two stressed syllables

                    iv.     Iamb                                                          -              (d) One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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

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

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

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

97.   The Spenserian stanza has the following rhime scheme :
                        a.  ababbcbcc     
                        b. abbccddee  
                        c. ababababb  
                        d. ababcdcdd

98.   Which of the following works by Dryden is said to be inspired by Boileau and Tassoni?
                        a.  The Conquest of Granada    
                        b. Mac Flecknoe
                        c.  Translation of Juvenal 
                        d. Absalom and Achitophel

99.   Which poem of Dryden is sub-titled ”A Satire against Sedition”?
                        a.  The Medal of John Bayes 
                        b. The Medal
                        c.  Absalom and Achitophel 
                        d. Mac Flecknoe

100.  In The Rape of the Lock, who gets accidentally cut by the scissors?
              a.  Clarissa  
              b. One of the sylphs
              c. The Baron    
              d. Belinda

101.  Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen?
              a.  Doctor Faustus  
              b. The Jew of Malta 
              c. The Massacre at Paris 
              d. Edward the Second

102.  Who is considered as the father of English literature?
              a.  Geoffrey Chaucer   
              b. William Langland 
              c. William Shakespeare    
              d. John Milton

103.  Which among the following is a work of Geoffrey Chaucer?
              a.  The Book of the Duchess
              b. The House of Fame
              c.  The Legend of Good Women
              d. All of them

104. Le Morte d'Arthur(The Death of Arthur) is written by :
              a.  Thomas Kyd 
              b. Thomas Malory
              c. Caxton  
              d. Marlowe

105.  “Poetry is an art of imitation for specific purpose, it is imitated to teach and delight.” – Whose opinion is this?
              a.  Shelley   
              b. Philip Sidney
              c. Spenser   
              d. Milton

106.  Which of the following is NOT a play of Ben Jonson?
             a. Every Man in His Humour 
             b. Volpone, or The Fox 
             c. Bartholomew Fair 
             d. Jew of Malta

107.  Which among the following is a work of Christopher Marlowe?
             a.  The Jew of Malta 
             b. Edward the Second 
             c. The Massacre at Paris 
             d. All of them

108.  Which one of the following is NOT a “Problem Play”?
             a. All's Well That Ends Well 
             b. Measure for Measure 
             c. Troilus and Cressida
             d. As You Like It

109.  Who said this about Shakespeare - “Not of an age, but for all time”?
             a.  Ben Johnson 
             b. John Milton 
             c. Spenser  
             d. Surrey

110.  The protagonist Christian’s journey from the "City of Destruction" to the "Celestial City" is depicted in the novel :
             a.  The Pilgrim’s Progress 
             b. Nightmare Abbey 
             c. The Monk 
             d. The Castle of Otranto

111.  Which among the following poems is NOT taken by the New Critic Cleanth Brooks to illustrate his argument for paradox as central to poetry?
              a. Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man 
              b. William Wordsworth’s Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
              c. John Donne’s The Canonization
              d. Spenser’s Prothalamion

112.  Thackeray took the title of Vanity Fair from :
              a.  Paradise Lost
              b. The Pilgrim’s Progress
              c. The Canterbury Tales
              d. Utopia

113.  Match the following works with the author :

                 i.          The Double-Dealer                                                 -              (a) William Wycherley

                ii.          Love in a Wood                                                       -              (b) Oliver Goldsmith

               iii.          An Essay on the Theatre                                       -              (c) Richard Sheridan

               iv.          The Duenna                                                             -              (d) William Congreve

                  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

114.  Who among the following is a co-founder of ‘The Spectator’ magazine?
             a.  John Locke      
             b. Joseph Addison  
             c. Edmund Burke  
             d. Samuel Richardson

115.  ‘The Funeral’ is a comedy play written by :
             a.  Richard Steele
             b. Joseph Addison
             c. Edmund Burke   
             d. Samuel Richardson

116.  The Spectator  was initially published as :
             a.  Weekly    
             b. Bi-weekly 
             c. Daily  
             d. Monthly

117.  ‘Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subject’ is a work by :
             a.  Thomas Gray  
             b. William Collins
             c. Cowper    
             d. Burns

118.  ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ is a work by :
             a.  William Blake   
             b. William Collins  
             c. William Cowper   
             d. Robert Burns

119.  The novel A Journal of the Plague Year which is an account of the Great Plague of London in 1665 was written by :
             a.  Samuel Richardson
             b. Daniel Defoe
             c. Tobias Smollet    
             d. Edmund Burke

120.  Match the following :

                 i.          Epistolary Novel                       -              (a) Novels written by, for and about women

                ii.          Picaresque Novel                     -              (b) Focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist

               iii.          Bildungsroman                         -              (c) Written as a series of documents

               iv.          Domestic Novel                        -              (d) Depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class

                  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