Grand Test Jacobean age Carolina age MCQS Test

Grand Test Jacobean age Carolina age

MCQs Test

1.The origin of English drama is attributed to

C.The Lituogy or Liturgy  (a religious ceremony of the church)

2.The first Tragedy of the Senecan school to be written in England was

Gorbucduc or Ferrex and Porrex By

A.Thomas Sackville

B.Thomas Norton

C.Thomas Kyd

D.Both (a) and (b)

(Play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset)

3. Who introduced sonnet form to England?

A.Wyatt

B.Petrarch

C.Spenser

D.Shakespeare

4.One of the dominant Characteristic of Sidney's Arcadia,

A.Pathetic fallacy

B.Pathos

C.Concrete imageries

D.Euphuism

5.The Defence of Ryme (1530) was written by,

A.Samuel daniel

B.Philip Sidney

C.Thomas Dekher

D.Robert Greene

6.Who among the following is best known as the creator of a new genre, the Picaresque novel?

A.Lily 

B.Delaney

C.Nash (Thomas Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller)

D.Greene

7.The great essayist who had once said that the vernacular

"would one day play the bankrupt with books" 

A.Raleigh

B.Johnson

C Steele

D.Bacon

8.Bacon had Barrowed the term Essay from the French writer,

A.De Meung

B Goethe

C.Montiague

D.De Loris

9.Bacon published the first edition of his Essay's in

A.1589

B.1612

C.1625

D.1597

10.Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed of crushed this is a typical Extract from,

A.Pope

B.Johnson

C.Lamb

D.Ваcon

11.The greatest demerit of Bacon as an essayist, when Compared to Montaigne on Lamb is,

A.His excessive indulgence in himself

B.His over pragmatic nations

C.His lack of personal touch 

D.disjointed thoughts

12."Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as in body," 

This statement is an example of Bacon's

A.Immorality

B.Philosophical bent

C.Prudence

D.Love for attire

13.Who is called the first great stylist in English prose?

A. Lyly

B.Bacon

C Sidney

D.Dryden

14.Who is the hero in the Spencer's Faerie Queene?

A.Prince Arthur

B.Henry VI

C.Prince Edward

D.Spenser himself

15.Which of the following is not one of the Satirical works of Ben Jonson?

A.Every man in his Humour

B.Every man out of his Humour

c.Alchemist

D.None of the Above

(Ben Jonson Satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614)

16.The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe is a typical,

A.Pastoral romance

B.Love tragedy

C.Revenge play

D.Picaresque Novel

17.The two gentlemen in the Two Gentleman of Verona are,

A.Douglas and Calvin

B.Henry Bailey and Avenant 

C.Lovelace and heroic

D.Valentine and Proteins

18.Which of the following poems celebrates Spencer's love?

A.Amoretti

B.The Faerie Queene

C.Epithalamion

D.The Ruins of Time

19.Who among the following in Shakespeare's Fair Vestal',Spenser's Gloriana' and Raleigh's 'Cynthia,

A.The English Throne

B.Queen Elizabeth

C.Queen Mary

D.Eve

20.Sidney's Apologie for Poetic is an answer to

A.Nash

B.Plato

C.Gosson

D.Aristotle 

21.Who is referred to as the pioneer of Picaresque novel in English?

A.Kyd

B.Aristotle

C.Lyly

D.Nashe

22.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)

23."Marlowe's mighty line"

This above phrase refers to his,

A.Blank verse

B.Compact style

C.Weighty direction

D.imagery

24.John Milton was  born in,

A.1607

B.1608

C.1600

D.1601

25.Bacon Published the first edition of this  Essay's in,

A.1589

B.1597

C.1612

D.1625