151. Total’s Miscellany (1557) contained the songs and sonnets of

(a) Wyatt and Surrey

(b)Wyatt and Raleigh

(c) Surrey and Sidney

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(d)Sidney and Spenser

152. Which of the following causes accounts for the popularity of Elizabethan drama?

(a) Novels were few and could be enjoyed only by the educated

(b)National themes and sentiments were dramatized.

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(c) Drama was the best way for the author to earn money

(d)All of the above

153. Campuses, Edition, Hudibras, Love’s Metamorphosis and The Woman in the Moon are the best works of John Lyly, who wrote mostly

(a) tragedies (b) comedies

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(c) chronicle plays (d) poetic plays

154. The best known play of George Peele is

(a) Tamburlaine

(b) Edward I

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(c) The Old Vibe’s Tale

(d) The Woman in the Moon

155. Who among the following University Wits is primarily known for his Friar Bacon and Friar Bunge?

(a) Lyly (b) Peele

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(c) Greene (d) Keyed

156. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy shows conspicuous influence of

(a) Seneca (b) Ariosto

(c) Homer (d) Virgil

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157. The Spanish Tragedy is historically impor­tant because it foreshadows Shakespeare’s

(a) King Lear (b) Hamlet

(c) Macbeth (d) Othello

158. One of the University Wits who was killed in a tavern brawl at the age of 29 was

(a) Kyd (b) Greene

(c) Lyly (d) Marlowe

159. Marlowe’s tragedies are all

(a) tragedies of royal people

(b) love tragedies

(c) one-man tragedies

(d) revenge plays

160. Who coined the phrase, “Marlowe’s mighty line”?

(a) Ben Jonson

(b) Samuel Johnson

(c) R.L. Stevenson

(d) Richard Steele

161. One of the elements that Marlowe introduced into English tragedy is

(a) blank verse

(b) internal struggle

(c) supernatural characters

(d) a unified plot

162. The Jew of Malta is the story of insatiable passion for

(a) power (b) woman

(c) wealth (d) exotic land

163. The Dutch Scholar who is known for his works like Colloquies and In Praise of Folly is

(a) Boccaccio

(b) Machiavelli

(c) John Colet

(d) Erasmus

164. The 16th century author of two significant works, The Mirror of Magistrates and Induc­tion, is

(a) Wyatt (b) Gascoigne

(c) Sackville (d) Sidney

165. Who is credited for introducing the first English comedy, The Supposes, the first verse satire, The Steel Glass, and the first translation from the Greek tragedy Jocasta?

(a) Sackville

(b) Gascoigne

(c) Erasmus

(d) Philip Sidney

166. The Spenserian poet who had said that he became “irrecoverably a poet” by reading the Faerie Queen when a boy, is

(a) Dryden (b) Fletcher

(c) Moore (d) Cowley

167. I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist Who acclaimed himself to be the first En­glish satirist in these words?

(a) Joseph Hall

(b) Shakespeare

(c) John Donne

(d) John Marston

168. Which of the following is not one of the satirical works of Ben Jonson?

(a) Every Man in His Humor

(b) Every Man out of His Humor

(c) Alchemist

(d) None of the above

169.The Italian novella became common in En­glish translation after the middle of the

(a) 14th century

(b) 15th century

(c) 16th century

(d) 17th century

170. In which of the following, Naples has been described as a place “of more pleasure than profit and yet of more profit than pity”?

(a) Euphuism by Lyly

(b) Pando to by Greene

(c) The Adventures of Master F.J. by Gascoigne

(d) Rosalinda by Lodge

171. The Unfortunate Traveler by Thomas Nash is a typical

(a) love tragedy

(b) pastoral romance

(c) revenge play

(d) picaresque novel

172. The two gentlemen in the Two Gentlemen of Verona are

(a) Douglas and Calvin

(b) Valentine and Protons

(c) Henry Bailey and Davenant

(d) Lovelace and Herrick

173. Who among the following wrote only trag­edies?

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Thomas Kyd

(c) Christopher Marlowe

(d) Thomas Nash

174. Which of the following poems celebrates Spenser’s love?

(a) Amoretto

(b) The Fairies Queen

(c) The Ruins of Time

(d) Epithalamion

175. Who among the following is Shakespeare’s ‘Fair Vestal’, Spenser’s ‘Gloria’ and Raleigh’s ‘Cynthia’?

(a) The English throne

(b) Queen Mary

(c) Queen Elizabeth

(d) Eve

176. “The lunatic the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact” These words of Shakespeare have be extracted from

(a) Love’s Labor Lost

(b) Hamlet

(c) Henry IV

(d) Midsummer Night’s Dream

177. Sidney’s Apologia for Poetries is an answer to

(a) Nash (b) Plato

(c) Gossoon (d) Aristotle

178. Who is referred to as the pioneer of picaresque novel in English

(a) Kyd (b) Nash

(c) Greene (d) Lyly

179. Who popularized the inductive method for arriving at through his Ovum Organism?

(a) Ben Jonson

(b) Francis Bacon

(c) Addison and Steele

(d) Dr. Johnson

180. Bacon defined the essay as

(a) “receptacle for detached thoughts”

(b) “disposed meditations”

(c) “leisurely talk of a philosopher over the dinner table”

(d) Both (a) and (b)

181. “Marlowe’s mighty line”-this phrase refers to his

(a) blank verse

(b) weighty diction

(c) compact style

(d) imagery

182. On whose tomb the following lines have been inscribed?

“Good friend for Jesus’ sake forebear To dig the dust enclosed hearer; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones”

(a) Marlowe’s (b) Sidney’s

(c) Shakespeare’s (d) Milton’s

183. The one that traces the genealogy of a Shoemaker is

(a) Cobbler

(b) Shoemaker’s Holiday

(c) School of Abuse

(d) The Gentle Craft

184. How many tales were actually planned by Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales, but how many could be complete?

(a) 120 planned, 20 completed

(b) 124 planned, 24 completed

(c) 20 planned, 20 completed

(d) 134 planned, 30 completed

185. The Tales are all in verse except two. Which are the ones in prose?

(a) Chaucer’s Tale of Millie

(b) Doctor’s Tale

(c) Knight’s Tale

(d) Squire’s Tale

186. There is one tale in The Canterbury Tales which is a shrewd satire on unequal mar­riages. Which one is that?

(a) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale of the Cock Chanticleer and the Fox

(b) The Merchant’s Tale of January and May

(c) The Wife of Bath’s Tale

(d) The Knight’s Tale

187. Name the longest tale in The Canterbury Tales.

(a) The Wife of Bath’s

(b) The Franklin’s

(c) The Knight’s

(d) The Cook’s

188. An interesting work of this period is a verse debate of two birds who advocate their rela­tive merits. What is the name of the poem, which is often found in the school antholo­gies in India?

(a) Ormolu

(b) The Owl and the Nightingale

(c) Cuckoo Song

(d) The Cricket and the Grass-hopper

189. Sir Gawain and the Green Night is a/an

(a) romance (b) epic

(c) fairy tale (d) verse drama

190. In the 15th century, Scottish poetry flourished in England. Given below are four poets. Only one of them is not a Scottish poet. Who is that ?

(a) John Skelton

(b) John Barbour .

(c) William Dunbar

(d) Gain Douglas

191. About Total’s Miscellany a character in Shakespeare’s play says, “I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.” Who is the speaker and in which play?

(a) Slender in The Merry Wives of Windsor

(b) Cali ban in The Tempest

(c) Rosalind in As You Like It

(d) Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing

192. Who of the following is considered the founder of English prose?

(a) King Arthur

(b) King Alfred

(c) Chaucer

(d) Aelfric

193. Who is the author of Book of Philip Sparrow?

(a) Philip Sidney

(b) Lydgate

(c) John Skelton

(d) Chaucer

194. Name Sackville’s blank verse tragedy

(a) A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inven­tions

(b) Gorboduc

(c) Gotboduc or Ferrex and Porrex

(d) Steel Glass

195. Name the author of Book of Martyrs (1563)?

(a) Hugh Latimer

(b) Bishop Ridley

(c) John Foxe

(d) John Knox

196. Given below are the title of some famous ballads. Mark the one which is called “a little epic”. It describes the gallant fight between two lords, Percy of Northumberland and Douglas of Scotland.

(a) Chevy Chase

(b) Sir Patrick Spans

(c) Robin Hood and the Curtail Friar

(d) Loch invar

197. Which month figures in the Prologue to Canterbury Tales?

(a) March (b) March-April

(c) April (d) May

193. Identify the love lyric among the following,

(a) Handling Sin (b) Alison

(c) Sir Patrick Spans (d) Ormolu

199. A noteworthy work produced under the French influence in England was Layamon’s voluminous poem of about 30,000 lines, named Brut. What is this book about?

(a) It is a legendary history of Britain

(b) It is the story of Brutus

(c) It is King Arthur’s quest

(d) It is a long pastoral poem

200. What is the subject of Gower’s Confession Amentias?

(a) Love

(b) Moral teachings

(c) Adventure

(d) Confession of a sinner

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