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A play on a Mughal Emperor was written by Dryden,

(A) Shahjahan
(B) Aurang-Zebe
(C) Bahadur Shah
(D) Akbar

(B)

Dryden's Love Triumphant is a :

(A) Comedy
(B) Horror plays
(C) Tragi-comedy
(D) Heroic play

(D)

Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is very powerful :
(A) Political satire
(B) Social satire
(C) Religious satire
(D) Personal satire

(A)

Dryden's The Wife of Bath Her Tale is :
(A) A mock-poem
(B) A Fable
(C) A satirical poem
(D) A verse tale

(B)

Dryden's elegy On the Death of Amyntas is a :
(A) Non-serious elegy
(B) Pastoral elegy
(C) Conventional elegy
(D) An elegy of personal grief

(B)

Which drama is not written by Dryden?
(A) All For Love
(B) Love's Labour's Lost
(C) Tyrannic Love
(B) Romeo and Juliet

(B) 

All For Love (by Dryden) is based on :

(A) Samson Agonistes
(B) Caesar and Cleopatra
(C) Conquest of Granada
(D)Antony and Cleopatra 

(D) 

The main  theme of The Hind and the Panther (written by Dryden ) is:

(A) Defence of Puritanism
(B) Defence of Roman Catholicism
(C) Defence of Protestantism
(D) Defence of Anglicanism

(B)

Dryden referring to in this remark who is the writer "Here is God's prosperity or plenty."?
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Marlowe
(C) Chaucer
(D) Spenser

(C) 

The Medal is a personal (written by  Dryden's ) satire on :

(A) Shaftesbury
(B) James II
(C) Charles I
(D) John Bunyan

Following was written on the tomb of Dryden's wife. 
 "Here lies my wife, here let her rest!"Who was this poet?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Dr Johnson
(D) John Dryden

(D)

Who called Dryden "The Father of English criticism."?

(A) Samuel Butler
(B) Pope
(C)Dr. Johnson
(D) Coleridge

(A)

Duke of Buckingham, Zimri  is a character that appears in Dryden's which work:

(A) MacFlecknoe
(B) Absolem and Achitophel
(C)The Medal
(D) The Rehearsal

(B)

Dryden's Alexander's Feast is :
(A) A play
(B) An ode
(C) A narrative poem
(D) A satire

(B)

One of the following odes is written by Dryden. Which one?
(A) A Hymn to God the Father
(B) Anne Killigrew
(C) On the Nativity of Christ
(D) To Virgil

(B)

Dryden has written an elegy on the death of Cromwell. What is its title
(A) In Memory of Cromwell
(B) Cromwell
(C) Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell
(D) A Tribute to Cromwell

(C)

Whom does Dryden satirise in MacFlecknoe?
(A) Pope
(B) Duke of Buckingham
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Cromwell

(B)

Dryden wrote which of the following plays?
(A) The Rival Ladies
(B) Revenge
(C) The Maid's Revenge
(D) The Traitor

(A)

Dryden live between which set of years?

(A) 1625-1700

(B) 1631-1700

(C) 1635-1700

(D) 1628-1700

(B) 

Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy(1668) is, 
(A) A long poetical work
(B) A play in Five Acts
(C) A dramatic art developed through dialogues
(D) A long essay on the art 

(C) 

Essay of Dramatic Poesy Neander represents,

(A) French Dramatists
(B) Greek Dramatists
(C) Ancient Dramatists
(D) Modern English Dramatists

(D)