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1) Which is the last play (unfinished) written by Shakespeare?
(a) Tempest (b) Henry VIII
(c) The Winter's Tale (d) Cymbeline |
2) The first Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays was printed in:
(a) 1622 (b) 1623
(c) 1624 (d) 1625 |
3) Shakespeare's collection of Sonnets was dedicated to a certain 'Mr. W.H.'
(a) William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (b) William Drummond of Howthorden
(c) Earl of Surrey (d) Queen Elizabeth |
4) The name of Shakespeare's birth place is:
(a) Startford-on-Avon (b) Startford down-Avon
(c) Winchester Avon (d) Somerset-Avon |
5) Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is inspired by:
(a) Penelope Devereux (b) Sir Walter Raleigh
(c) Philipe de Mornay (d) None |
6) In Astrophel and Stella, Astrophel has a name:
(a) Star Love (b) Star King
(c) Star Heaven (d) None |
7) Stella means:
(a) Star (b) King
(c) Moon (d) None |
8) Sidney's A & Stella brought out in 1591 is:
(a) a sequence of 108 sonnets (b) 208
(c) 350 (d) 1350 |
9) Sidney's The Defence of Poesie was published in:
(a) 1595 (b) 1596
(c) 1597 (d) 1598 |
10) Sidney's The Defence of Poesie is a Prose Essay which answered:
(a) Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse
(b) Thomas Lodge's Maruis and Sylla
(c) Thomas Lodge's A Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays
(d) None |
11)Which of the following works was left unfinished by Marlowe:
(a) The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage
(b) The Massacre at Paris
(c) Edward-II
(d) None |
12) Regarding his use of the Blank verse, who coined the phrase: "Marlowe's Mighty Line"?
(a) Shakespeare (b) Kyd
(c) Ben Jonson (d) Dr. Johnson |
13) Which was the first play in Senecan form?
(a) Ferrex & Porrex (b) The Old Wive's Tale
(c) Dr. Faustus (d) Campaspe |
14) For whom's death, Ben Johnson stated the phrase "for lack of bread"
(a) Sir Thomas Wyatt (b) Donne
(c) Spenser (d) Andrew Marvell |
15) The Book VII o the Faerie Queen was published:
(a) 1589 (b) 1596
(c) After Spenser's death (d) before 2 years of Spenser death |
16) Between 1590 and 1593 the theatre's were closed owing to:
(a) disturbances caused by the elites (b) disturbances caused by the people
(c) disturbances caused by the actors (d) disturbances caused by the knights. |
17) Who began the tradition of Revenge play?
(a) George Peele (b) Samuel Daniel
(c) Marlowe (d) Kyd |
| 18) The Chief subject of Milton’s Areopagitica is________________________ |
| 19) The Story of Milton's Samson Agonistes is taken from________________ |
| 20) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is based on Kyd's play_______________ |
| 21) Lyly, Nash, Greene etc. belong to the group of what is known as_________ |
22) 'Dear Son of a memory, great heir of fame'. This has been said by Milton about:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Chaucer
(c) Spenser (d) None |
23) Whom does the Red Cross Knight in the FQ represent:
(a) Sidney (b) Sir Walter
(c) King Arthur (d) Henry IV of France |
24) Milton became blind as the age of:
(a) 32 (b) 43
(c) 55 (d) 60 |
25) Polyoblion is a long poem by:
(a) Sidney (b) Michael Drayton
(c) George Chapman (d) Thomas Dekker |
26) The heroine of the 'Rape of the Lock' is:
(a) Clarissa (b) Crispissa
(c) Belinda (d) Diana |
27) "For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn" to whom does 'them' refer:
(a) Bards killed by William II. (b) Poor Rusty people who are now dead.
(c) Ambitious people (d) Politicians |
28) Which of the following poem is written by Shakespeare in 1593:
(a) Venus and Adonis (b) Hero and Leander
(c) Poems (d) The Queens Wake |
29) Which of the work by Milton is written in prose?
(a) Comus (b) La Allegro
(c) II Penseroso (d) Samson Agonistes |
30) Who wrote Tottel's Miscellany (1587):
(a) Sidney (b) Donne
(c) Drayton (d) Wyatt |
31) Who is the writer of Timon of Athens (Incomplete):
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Kyd
(c) Shakespeare (d) Greene |
32) Which of the work is written by John Webster?
(a) The Captives (b) The Duchess of Malfi (1613)
(c) The Shoemaker's Holiday (d) Measure for Measure |
33) Thomas Hobbes wrote:
(a) Characters (b) Toxophilus
(c) Leviathan (d) Religio Medici |
34) Give thy thoughts no tongue nor any unproportioned thought his act who said these lines:
(a) Hamlet (b) Macbeth
(c) Faustus (d) King Lear |
35) Which writer (poet) has written these lines in the poem 'Ode on a Distant prospect of Eton College':
(a) Lord Byron (b) Robert Browning
(c) William Blake (d) Thomas Gray |
36) 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' forms the opening line of Keat's poem:
(a) Hyperion (b) Endymion
(c) Lamia (d) Ode on a Grecian Urn |
37) The line 'Tis not too later to seek a newer world' appears in Tennyson's poem:
(a) Tithonus (b) Lotos-Eaters
(c) Crossing the Bar (d) None |
38) Which figure of speech is this:
"And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me"
(a) Similie (b) Metaphor
(c) Oxymoron (d) Synechoche |
39) Tell the figure of speech
…….and that strife …………..Was not inglorious, though the event was dire.
(a)Hyperbole (b) Transferred epithet
(c) Litotes (d) Oxymoron |
40) Figure of speech:
That age is best which is the first:
When youth and blood are warmer.
(a) Synecdoche (b) Apostrophe (c) Metonymy (d) Personification |
41) Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Nobel Laureate in literature in:
(a) 1916 (b) 1913 (c) 1910 (d) 1911 |
42) W.B. Yeats was awarded Nobel Laureate in:
(a) 1923 (b) 1935 (c) 1921 (d) 1924 |
43) Eugene O' Neill was awarded Nobel Laureate in:
(a) 1925 (b) 1932 (c) 1935 (d) 1936 |
44) Writers and their age:
a) Addison, Joseph ________________
b) Arnold, Mathew ________________
d) Bunyan, John ________________
e) Carlyle Thomas ________________
f) Dekker Thomas ________________
g) Donne, John ________________
h) Eliot, George ________________
i) Eliot, T.S. ________________
j) Galsworthy, John ________________ |
45) Which of these writers were awarded the Nobel Prize?
(a) Shaw (b) Galsworthy (c) T.S. Eliot (d) All of these. |
46) What is the real name of George Eliot:
(a) Mary Ann Evans (b) B. Ifor Evans
(c) Mary Wolstoncraft (d) None |
47) Sir Toby Belch is a famous character in:
(a) Much Ado About nothing (b) Twelfth Night
(c) The Merchant of Venice (d) As you like it |
48) Which play was omitted from the First Folio Editors of Shakespeare:
(a)Henry VIII (b) Pericles
(c) Henry VII (d) Henry VI |
49) The first folio edition of Shakespeare was printed in:
(a) 1622 (b) 1621
(c) 1623 (d) 1625 |
50) In 1609, a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets was printed by:
(a) Thomas Thorpe (b) Ben Johnson
(c) John Shakespeare (d) John Marston |
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SAMPLE PAPER 1
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| 1 b |
2 b |
3 a |
4 a |
5 a |
6 a |
7 a |
8 a |
9 a |
10 a |
| 11 b |
12 c |
13 a |
14 c |
15 c |
16 c |
17 d |
18 Freedom of speech |
19 The Bible |
20 The Spanish Tragedy |
| 21 University Wits |
22 a |
23 a |
24 b |
25 b |
26 c |
27 b |
28 a |
29 a |
30 d |
| 31 c |
32 b |
33 c |
34 a |
35 d |
36 b |
37 d |
38 d |
39 c |
40 c |
| 41 b |
42 a |
43 d |
44 (a)Neo- Classical
(b) Victorian,
(c) Victorian,
(d) Restoration (e) Victorian (f) Elizabethan (g) Elizabethan, (h) Victorian, (i) Inter- War (j) Edwardian |
45 d |
46 a |
47 b |
48 b |
49 c |
50 a |
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