by Payal Mudliar

1. MCQ Part - 2
SHRI BALAJI INFOTECH
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2. • What is the general theme of the Shepherd’s Calendar?
Ans :- The unrequitted love of Colin clout for Rosalind.
• The first three books of the faerie queen were published in-
Ans :- 1589-90
• Who was the central character in the faeries queen?
Ans :- Prince Arthur

3. • Sidey’s “The Defence of Poesy” is a prose essay which answered-
Ans :- Sir Thomas Moore’s - Utopia
• The Twelve knights in the faerie queen represent twelve-
Ans :- Virtues
• Why is war of roses known by that name?
Ans :- The rose was the national flower of England

4. • “A maiden queen that shone as titans say in glistening gold, and peerless
precious stone.” These lines occur in Edmund Spenser’s-
Ans :- The Faerie Queen
• W.H Hudson’s statement “essentially the poet of the people” applies to-
Ans :- William Langland
• Sir Philip Sydney’s the defence of Poesie was published in-
Ans :- 1595
W.H Hudson

5. • Thomas Moore’s Utopia was published in-
Ans :- 1551
• Which piece of work described as “the prologue to the renaissance”?
Ans :- Utopia
• Arnold wrote “with him is born our real poetry”- Who does “him” refer to?
Ans :- Chaucer
Thomas Moore

6. • Spenser wrote a preface to the faerie queen in the form of a letter.
Whom is this letter addressed to-
Ans :- Sir Walter Raleigh
• Who does Prince Arthur marry in the end in Spenser’s the faerie queen?
Ans :- Gloriana
• In the faerie queen Elizabeth is allegorised through the character of-
Ans :- Gloriana
Sir Walter Raleigh

7. • Whom did Spenser commemorate in the elegy Astrophel?
Ans :- Sir Philip Sydney
• Who sings the song “tell me where is fancy bred” in Shakespeare’s the
Merchant of Venice?
Ans :- Bassanio
• In which Shakespearean comedy the song “sigh, no more ladies” occurs?
Ans :- Much Ado about Nothing
Much Ado about Nothing

8. • Who wrote Delia?
Ans :- Samuel Daniel
• As a writer of sonnets Sir Philip Sidney was influenced by-
Ans :- Petrarch
• How many sonnets did Shakespeare compose?
Ans :- 154
Samuel Daniel

9. • Who wrote the famous lines?
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part,
Nay I have done, yet get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea, glad with my all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself may free”
Ans :- Drayton
• Which book has been called “the true prologue of Renaissance” and “the first
modern monument of socialism”?
Ans :- Utopia
John Drayton

10. • Which one is the first important treatise on educations?
Ans :- The School Master
• Sir Francis Bacon was born in-
Ans :- 1561
Sir Francis Bacon

11. • Name the critic who summed up bacon’s character in the following couplet-
“If part allure thee, think how bacon shined – the wisest, the brightest and
meanest of mankind
Ans :- Alexander pope
• The third edition of Bacon’s Essays containing 58 essays appeared in-
Ans :- 1625
• Bacon defined his essays as-
Ans :- “Dispersed meditations”
Alexander pope

12. • Bacon borrowed the general conception of essay from-
Ans :- Montaigne’s Essays
• Bacon is “the first English essayist, as he remains by sheer mass and weight of
genius.” This opinion was expressed by-
Ans :- Hugh walker
• Bacon’s essays are conspicuous for the absence of-
Ans :- Confidential, Intimate, Personal and Lyrical element
Montaigne

13. • Which is called incidentally the “first novel” in English?
Ans :- Lyly’s Euphues
• ………… is considered the first picaresque novel in English.
Ans :- Thomas Nashe’s the Unfortunate traveller or the life of jack Wilton
• Richard Hooker’s the Laws of Ecclesiastical polity appeared in-
Ans :- 1594
Thomas Nashe

14. • The Laws of the Ecclesiastical polity is-
Ans :- “A defence of the church against the puritans” and “The first monument
of splendid literary prose that we possess”
• Between 1590 and 1593 the theatres were closed due to-
Ans :- Disturbances caused by the actors
• The most important anti-dramatic book of this period was-
Ans :- Gosson’s School of Abuse
Richard Hooker

15. • Which was the first play in Senecan form?
Ans :- Gorboduc
• Who wrote the first revenge tragedy?
Ans :- Ben Jonson
• Identify the dramatist who does not belong to the group of dramatists,
known as “the University Wits”-
Ans :- Thomas Heywood
Gorboduc

16. • Who was the only representative of the writers of real
comedies in pre-Shakespearean drama?
Ans :- John Lyly
• The first pure English comedy is-
Ans :- Ralph Roister Doister
• Shakespeare arrived in London in-
Ans :- 1586
John Lyly

17. • “The great merit of the university wits was that they come with their passion
and poetry, and their academical training, to unite these forces, and thus to
give Shakespeare a pliable and fitting medium for the expression of their
genius.” Identify the critic who expressed the above opinion-
Ans :- A. Nicoll
Allardyce Nicoll

18. • ………… calls Marlowe “the first great poet, the father of English tragedy, and
the creator of blank verse.”
Ans :- Swinburne
• Marlowe’s blank verse is also known as-
Ans :- Mighty Line
Algernon Swinburne