Unit Test - 2

1. Richard Crashaw was an eloquent 14. The word 'sonnet' is derived from _____________
a) Catholic priest b)Catholic convert word 'sonetto'
c) Puritan divine d) Puritan poet a)English b)Greek c)Latin d) Italian

2. Edmund Burke's Reflection on the French Revolution 15. Of the five acts of Gorboduc, Thomas Sackville
resulted in wrote the
a) War with France a) first and second b) second and third
b) French victory c) third and fourth d) fourth and fifth
c) Puritan dominance
d) Spiritual death of the English 16. Who was the scholarly translator of Iliad, Odyssey
and Hymns?
3. The Royalist's spirit towards the Puritan was a) Massinger b) Webster
expressed in c) Chapman d) Middleton
a) Pilgrim's progress b) Brut
c) Hudibras d) Euphus 17. "A Parting" has been written by
a) Drayton b) Lodge c) Hall d) Donne
4. When were Theatre closed in England?
a) 1623 b) 1642 c) 1616 d) 1650 18. The Well-known historical poem of Michael Drayton
is
5. In "Genesis", God called the dry land a) "Harmony of the Church"
a) desert b) Earth b) "Shepherd's Garland"
c) Air d) Mountains c) "Ballad of Agincourt"
d) "Nymphidia"
6. Shakespeare died during the reign of
a)Mary b)James II 19. The Miracles were well established by
c)Charles II d) Elizabeth a) 16th Century b) 15th Century
c) 17th Century d) 18th Century
7. When did the Great fire of London take place?
a) 1610 b) 1606 c)1640 d) 1666 20. The earliest morality play was
a) The Gastle of Perseverance
8. The Empire of Babylon was at the Zenith b) Everyman
a)2500 years ago b)1000 years ago c) The Trial of Treasure
c) 1500 years ago d) 3000 years ago d) New Custom

9. The masterpiece of Thomas Browne is 21. Who completed Marlowe's Hero and Leander?
a) Hydriotaphia b) The Garden of Cynus a) Shakespeare b)Chapman
c) Religio Medici d) Vulgar Errors c) Ben Johnson d) Heywood

10. The first work of Robert Greene was 22. Tamburlaine the Great was first produced in
a) Mamillia b) Orlando Furioso a)1587-88 b)1560-61 c)1554-55 d)1540-41
c) Friar Bacon and Friar d) Pandosto
23. The most celebrated and the most successful of
11. "The Shepherd's Calender" was published in Marlowe's character's speech was by
a) 1579 b) 1570 c)1560 d) 1550 a) Dr.Faustus b) Edward II
c) Gaveston d) Helen of Troy
12. Spenser's autobigraphical poem is
a) "Fairie Queene" 24. Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is a dramatic
b) "Cynthia" presentation of
c) "The Shepherd's Calender" a)a king b)a duke
d) "Colin Clouts Come Home Again" c)a scholar d) Machiavillian man

13. Who has been called the poet's poet? 25. Thomas kyd was the founder of
a)Sidney b)Shakespeare a) Romantic comedy b) Romantic tragedy
c)Spenser d)Ben Johnson c) Satire d) Dramatic romance
26. Who gave the name 'Sporting Kyd' to Thomaskyd? 38. Falstaff is a character in Shakespeare's
a) Shakespeare b) Ben Johnson a) Henry I b) Henry VIII
c) Marlowe d) John Lyly c) Henry IV d) Henry V

27. Thomas Kyd is popularly known for his adherence to 39. Imogen is a character in
the a) Pericles b) Coriolanus
a) Romantic School b) Senecan School c) Tempest d) Cymbeline
c) Medieval School d) Primitive School
40. Which play by Shakespeare is considered
28. Nash's The Unfortunate Traveller was published in autobiographical?
a) 1504 b) 1540 c) 1590 d) 1594 a) The Winter's Tale b) Cymbeline
c) Pericles d) The Tempest
29. The first picaresque novel is
a) The Life of jack Wilton 41. Which play of Shakespeare is a dramatisation of a
b)Terrors of Night story told by Chaucer in "Knight's Tale"?
c) Anatomy of Absurdity a) The Merchant of Venice b)As You Like It
d) None of these c) The Two Noble Kingmen d)The Tempest

30. Which Elizabethan fiction writer writes more like 42. In which Shakespearean play all are guilty?
eighteenth century novel? a) Measure for Measure b) Twelfth Night
a) Nash b) Lyly c) Deloney d)reene c) As You Like It d) All's Well That Ends Well

31. The Argument of Paris contains an elaborate tribute 43. Which play of Shakespeare ends without a climax?
to the a) Troilus and Cressida
a) Queen Elizabeth b) Charles I b) Antony and Cleopatra
c) James I d) James II c) All's Well That Ends Well
d) Twelfth Night
32. Who is at once the child of the Renaissance and the
Reformation? 44. Sidney's Arcadia is drawn by Shakespeare in
a) Spenser b) Sidney c) Kyd d) Nashe a) King Lear b) Macbeth
c) The Winter's Tale d) The Tempest
33. Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale? 45. Jonson's first important and successful play was
a) Groat's Worth of Wit b) Pandosto a) Volpone
c) Orlando Furioso d) Friar Bacon b) The Silent Woman
c) Everyman in His Humour
34. Shakespeare took him from Spanish Tragedy in his d) Everman Out of His Humour
a) Macbeth b)Othello c)Hamlet d)king Lear
46. Cunthia's Revels was first acted in
35. Life of Shakespeare is written by a) 1600 b) 1605 c) 1620 d) 1650
a) Sidney Lee b) Philip Sidney
c) Marlowe d) Spenser 47. The Fox is the Sub-title of
a) The Alchemist b) Volpone
36. Out of Shakespeare's 37 plays ____ plays were c) Everyman in His Honour d) None
published in quarto form.
a) 12 b) 15 c) 20 d) 16 48. Ben Johnson's The Poetaster was directed against
a) Marston b) Deloney
37. The famous song, 'Take, O take those lips away' c) Nashe d) Kyd
occurs in
a) As You Like It 49. Face and Subtle are the character of
b) Merchant of Venice a) The Alchemist b) Volpone
c) Much Ado About Nothing c) The Poetaster d) Epicoene
d) Measure for Measure
50. Which Johnson's play is a more regular play
complete with ghosts and chorus?
a) Catiline b) Sejanus
 c) Volpone d) None of these c) Macbeth d) The Taming of the Shrew

51. Jonson;s drama which is an unfinished pastoral 64. Massinger collaborated with Dekker in
drama is a) The Virgin Martyr b) The City Madam
a) The Sad Shepherd b)The Tale of a Tub c)The Unnatural Combat d)Empire of the East
c) The Staple of News d) The New Inn
65. Ford's The Broken Heart was published in
52. In which year was Ben Jonson made poet to King a) 1607 b) 1619 c) 1620 d) 1629
James I?
a) 1657 b) 1624 c) 1630 d) 1614 66. In 1636, James Shirely settled in
a) London b) Italy
53. John Fletcher died of c) Paris d) Dublin
a) Cholera b) Plague
c) Tuberculosis d) Fever 67. Old Fortunatus is a morality play based on ______
legend.
54. Francis Beaumont wrote The Women Hater in a) German b) Russian
a) 1600 b) 1603 c) 1607 d) 1610 c) French d) Italian

55. Beaumont and Fletcher's Pbilaster is a fine study in 68. The Shoemaker's Holiday was written by
a) Romance b) Supernaturalism a) Heywood b) Marston
c) Jealousy d) Human Psychology c) Dekker d) Ben Jonson\

56. The Woman Hater was written by 69. Bacon became a member of Parliment in
a) Beaumontb) Fletcher a) 1500 b) 1584 c) 1561 d) 1556
c) Shakespeare d) Marlowe
70. New Atlantis is modelled on
57. In The Malcontent Webster collaborated with a) More's Utophia b) Jonson's Epigramme
a) Middleton b) Marston c) Marlowe's Hero and Leander d) None
c) Dekker d) Massinger
71. Which writing of Bacon is philosophical?
58. The White devil in The White Devil is a) Essays b) The Advancement of Learning
a)Satan b)Villain c)Courtesan d)ghost c) New Atlantis d) None

59. Which play of Middleton landed him in trouble? 72. The first edition of Bacon's essays were published in
a) A Game of Chess b)The Changeling a) 1509 b) 1519 c) 1590 d) 1597
c) The Old law d) A Faire Quarrel

60. The famous tragi-comedy of Middleton is 73. The only essay of Bacon which is personal is
a) The Family of Love a) Of Death b) Of Supervition
b) Anything for a Quiet life c) Of Ambition d) Of Gardens
c) A Trick to Catch the Old One
d) The Changeling 74. Hooker's book is an object lesson in
a) Religion controversy b) Puritanism
61. Who described Thomas Heywood as a sort of prose c) Episcopacy d) Capitalism
Shakespeare?
a) Charles Lamb b) Johnson 75. Sidney's Arcadia is a
c) Coleridge d) Middleton a) Romance b) Tragedy
c) Masque d) Satire
62. The most remarkable work of Thomas Heywood is
a) Fair Maid of the West 76. The most important critical work of Elizabethan
b) The English Traveller period is
c) The Woman killed with Kindness a) Apologie for Poetrie
d) Arden of Feversham b) The School of Abuse
63. The title of the play A Woman Killed with kindness c) Defence of Rhyme
is taken from a proverb quoted in d) Arcadia
a) King Lear b) The Tempest
77. George Wither was imprisoned for his 90. Which Miltion's work is without a trace of
a) "Juvenilia" Puritanism?
b)"Abuse Stript and Whipt" a) "L'Allegro" b) "Pensereso"
c) "The Manly Heart" c) Both d) None
d) "Shall I Waste in Despair"
91. John Bunyan's first work was
78. John Donne revolted against the tradition of a) Sighs from Hell b) The Pilgrim's
a) Shakespeare b) Ben Johnson Progress
c) Spenser d) Samuel Daniel c) The Holy War d) The Holy City

79. Gorboduc was written in 92. Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy is a _____
a)1561 b)1555 c)1540 d)1562. inspiration.
a) Shakespeare b) Metaphysics
c) Jacobean d) Post-Elizabethan

93. Spenser's "The Shepherd's Calender" was written in

80. Crashaw's secular poems were called a) 1579 b) 1660 c) 1597 d) 1507
a) Delights of The Muse
b) Steps to the Temple 94. Coleridge and Lamb were influenced by Fuller's
c) The Flowing Heart a) Satire b) Comedy
d) Wishes to his Unkonwn Mistress c) Antithetical Humour d) Masque

81. Marvell became Latin Secretary to Milton and 95. "The Preacher" is the sub-title of
Member of Parliament in a) "Ecclesiastical" b) "Ezekiel"
a) 1607 b) 1617 c) 1627 d) 1657 c) "Haggai" d) "St.Matthew"

82. Marvell's finest poem is the noble 96. Marston, Chapman and Webster died in the year
a) "Growth of Popery" b)"The Nymph” a) 1647 b) 1634 c) 1643 d) 1641
C) "Horation Ode" d)"Affairs of State"
97. How many books are there in the Bible?
83. Silex Scintillans was a collection of Vaughan's a) 66 b) 60 c) 50 d) 46
a) Religious poems b) Secular poems
c) Love poems d) Metaphysics 98. James I of England appointed 47 scholars to produce
an English version of the Bible in \
84. Richard Lovelace suffered imprisonment a) 1600 b) 1610 c) 1604 d) 1620
a) Twice b)For Royal disobidience
c) For blasphemy d) Incorrectly 99. The Old Testament was originally written in
a) Hebrew b) Latin
85. Robert Herrick turned to the classical lyric for c) Greek d) English
a) Inspiration b) Rejuvenation 100. Which play is widely recognized as Webster’s
c) Consolation d) Entertainment masterpiece ?
a) The Duchess of Malfi
86. How many books are there in "Paradise Lose"? b) The Malcontent
a) 18 b) 12 c) 15 d) 5 c) The White Devil
d) The devil’s law case
87. The Lady of Light was the nickname of
a) Milton b) Donne
c) Vaughan d) None

88. Which poet helped Milton in writing when he

became blind?
a) Andrew Marvell b) Henry Vaughan
c) Donne d) None

89. Milton's "Comus" was published in

a) 1634 b) 1644 c) 1654 d) 1664