ENGLISH FOR ELIGIBILITY TESTS

THE CHAUCEREAN
TO
THE SHAKESPEAREAN
PERIOD

BY
SAHITYA CLASSES
 THE CHAUCEREAN TO THE SHAKESPEAREAN PERIOD

1. Who is known as the father of English? (Chaucer)

2. Chaucer’s poetic career is divided into --------- (three periods)
3. Chaucer’s first period is influenced by -------- (French literature)
4. Chaucer’s second period is influenced by ---------- (Italian Literature)
5. The third period is called-------- (The English period)
6. Who introduced the heroic couplet in English? (Chaucer)
7. Who used rhyme-royal for the first ime? (Chaucer)
8. Who married the child-daughter of the King of France? (Richard II)
9. Who called Chaucer, The Father of English Poetry? ( Matthew Arnold)
10. Chaucer’s first poem is -------- (The Romaunt of the Rose)
11. Which poem is called the best of the French period? (The Book of the Duchesse)
12. Chaucer is known much for his -------- (realism)
13. A statute that allowed English in law courts was introduced in the year --------- (1362)
14. Chaucer was born during the reign of --------- (Edward III)
15. In The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer used the -------- (ten-syllabic lines)
16. In The Book of the Duchess Chaucer made use of the --------- (eight- syllabic lines)
17. The rising chivalry of Chaucer’s time is portrayed in the character -----------(Squire)
18. Who said that the Chaucerian inferiority is well marked in satire as in anything else?
(Hugh Walker)
19. New learning was brought to England in the year --------- (1499)
20. Romantic Movement had its symptoms in the --------- (ballads of 15th century)
21. Langland’s Piers the Plowman is a satire on -------- (clergy)
22. Who presented The Fear caused by the Peasant’s Revolt? (Gower)
23. Henry IV reigned during -------- (1399-1413)
24. Chaucer used his rhyme-royal stanza in his ---------- (Triolus and Cresede)
25. Chaucer referred to the ‘stormy people’ in --------- (The Clark’s Tale)
26. ‘Hore stormy people’ refers to the -------- (peasants’ revolt)
27. In Chaucer’s characters, who is shown to be in love for gold? (Doctor of Physic)
28. Orpheus and Eurydice and The Wolf and the Lamb were written by ------ (Henryson)
29. In Doughlas’s King Hart, Hart is -------- (the heart of life)
30. Squyer Meldrum, a poem full of romance and realism, was written by--------- (Lyndsay)
31. Palace of Honour was written by ------- (Gavin Douglas)
32. The proponent of the geocentric theory was -------- (Plotemy)
33. Capgrave’s The Chronicle of England is a -------- (historical place)
34. Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella contains -------- (108 sonnets)
35. The sonnets in Astrophel and Stella (1591) are addressed to --------- (Lady Penelope)
36. Who called Spenser ‘the poet’s poet’? (Charles Lamb)
37. The Four Hymns were composed by -------- (Edmund Spenser)
38. Who said, ‘There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in one’s old age
as it did in one’s youth’? (Alexander Pope)
39. Lollards are those who followed ------- (Wycliff)
40. How many ladies are there in the Prologue? (3)
41. The poem Pearl was written by -------- (Anonymous)
42. The break between Scotland and England is shown by------------(Barbour)
43. Chaucer died during the reign of--------- (Henry IV)
44. Wycliff’s Translation of the Bible came into existence in -------- (1382)
45. Seneca was a --------- (Roman dramatist)
46. Senecan plays were rendered into English by ---------- (Christopher Marlowe)
47. A collection of all Senecan plays was published in the year ---------- (1588)
48. Sackville and Norton produced the first tragedy in English named Gorboduc in --------
(1562)
49. Who wrote Roxana (1592)? (Alabaster)
50. Who wrote The Revenger’s Tragedy and The Atheist Tragedy? (Tourneur)
51. Chaucer borrowed his prose story The Tale of Melibus from -------- (Jean de Maung)
52. Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe is a translation of ------- (Brotheus)
53. Mandevicle’s Travels appeared about the year --------- (1356)
54. Who said ‘In Chaucer’s England, we see for the first time the Modern mingling with the
Medival’? (Trevelyan)
55. Who said ‘to see the marvel of the rising of literary prose style in English there is no
better way than to read Mandevicle’?(Saintsbury)
56. Satire and the Scourge of Villainy (1598) was written by ------ (John Marston)
57. Who said ‘For not keeping the accent, Donne deserved to be hanged’? (Ben Jonson)
58. Metamorphosis Pygmalion’s Image was published by ------ (Marston)
59. George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F.J. was published in --------- (1573)
60. The Adventures of Master F.J. depicts the ------ (English country-house life)
61. The chief motto ‘A golden sentence is worth a world of treasure’ is applicable to -----------
(Eupheus)
62. Richard Hooker’s last book Ecclesiastical Policy came out in the year--------- (1597)
63. While Chaucer used high words for the month April, a 20th century poet mentions April
as the cruellest month’. Who is he? (T.S.Eliot)
64. The hundred years war began in the year ---------- (1338)
65. In The Canterbury Tales the best story teller will be ------- (given a supper by the rest
of the pilgrims)
66. The period 1066-1500 is known as the --------- (Middle English period)
67. George Peele’s The Old Wife’s Tale is a -----------(satire on the contemporary drama)
68. Who called Chaucer ‘The well of English undefiled’? (Edmund Spenser)
69. ‘The well of English undefiled’ means Chaucer’s -------- (avoidance of foreign influence)
70. In The Merchant of Venice, who sings the song ‘Tell me, who is fancy bred’?
(Bassanio)
71. A poet who lived during the period of three kings namely Edward III, Richard II and
Henry IV was ------- (Geoffrey Chaucer)
72. Maraine listens to the song ‘Take, O, take those lips away’ in the play --------
(Measure for Measure)
73. God’s is the Wind and Art thou Poor are the two songs composed by --------- (Dekker)
74. Who ‘found English a dialect and left it a language’? (Geoffrey Chaucer)
75. William Blake said, ‘Their traits are universal, their lineaments are universal; human
life beyond which Nature never steps’. Here who are ‘they’? (Chaucer’s characters)
76. Wycliff translated The Bible originally from ----- (Latin)
77. In 1388, Wycliff’s Translations of the Bible was revised by ------- (John Purvey)
78. What is ‘rhyme-royal’? (The ten-syllabic line arranged in seven-line stanza)
79. Which poem celebrates the betrothal of Richard II and Anne of Bohemio? (The
Parliament of Fowls)
80. The Hundred years War ended in the year ---------- (1453)
81. How many characters are there in The Prologue? (29)
82. Who said about Chaucer’s world wide view that ‘Here is God’s Plenty’? (Dryden)
83. Who said ‘Chaucer’s characters are individuals as well as type, not mere phantoms of
the brain but real human beings’? (A.C.Ward)
84. Who was Fioissart? (a political and military chronicler of France)
85. Froissart was the contemporary of ------- (Chaucer)
86. Who wrote Book of Philip’s Sparrow in which a cat kills the pet bird of a girl? (John
Skelton)
87. King James I married Lady Jane Beaufort in ----------- (1424)
88. Thistle and the Rose celebrates the marriage of James IV to Margaret Tudor. Who
wrote this allegory? (Dunbar)
89. Henryson’s The Two MerryWomen is -------- (a satire on the drinking habit of women)
90. The word ‘Renaissance’ seems to have been first in the book named as --------
(Historie de France)
91. The birth-place of ‘renaissance’ was ----------(Italy)
92. Which dialect is the source language of English? (East-Midland)
93. Who is known as ‘the father of Humanism’? (Petrarch)
94. The ‘renaissance’ was young duringthe period ----------(1579-1602)
95. Who has been hailed as ‘the touch stone of the English poetic sensibility’? (Sydney)
96. Who is known as ‘the Morning star of Reformation’? (Wycliff)
97. Who introduced the sonnet form in England? (Wyatt and Surrey)
98. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (1379-83) is a ------- (Love-tragedy)
99. In The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Chaucer describes the fading chivalry in the
character of ------------- (Knight)
100. Miles Conerdale’s The Bible came out in the year ---------- (!535)
101. Lyly’s Euphues was published in the year -------- (1518)
102. The second part of Euphues named as Euphues and His England came out in the
year ------ (1580)
103. Shakespeare’s ‘The Quality of Mercy’ is taken from his play ---------- (The Merchant of
Venice)
104. The History of Richard III and Dialogue Concerning Heresy were written by --------
(Thomas More)
105. In Spenser’s legend of Courtsey Sir Calidore is the prototype of ------- (Philip Sidney)
106. In The Faerie Queen, Queen Elizebeth is represented as---------- (Una)
107. Duesa, a character in The Faerie Queen is the prototype of --------- (Queen Mary)
108. In Homer’s Odyssey, Ulysses was the king of --------- (Ithaca)
109. Dante addressed his love-sonnets to --------- (Beatrice)
110. Petrarch addressed his love sonnets to ---------- (Laura)
111. Spenser’s Amoretti was published in -------- (1595)
112. Spenser’s eighty eight sonnets in his Amoretti are addressed to------------ (Elizebeth
 Boyle)
113. Shakespeare wrote -------- (154 sonnets)
114. Out of 154 sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed ------------- (Mr.W.H.)
115. Into how many books is The House of Fame divided? (3)
116. La Fantenire is famous for -------- (fables)
117. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks took place in the year --------- (1453)
118. Two names related to the beginning of renaissance are -------- (Petrarch and Boccaccio)
119. Battle of Agincourt took place in the year -------- (1415)
120. Which of Gower’s work is in English? (Confessio Amantis)
121. Vox Calamantis was written in ------ (Latin)
122. Speculum Mediants ws written in ------ (French)
123. John Barbour’s Bruce was written in the year -------- (1375)
124. Confession Amantis was written in the year ------ (1390)
125. Malory’s Morte D’ Arthur was written in the year -------- (1469)
126. Sermons (1562) was written by------ (Hugh Latimer)
127. Sermons is a ------ (prose)
128. Who mocked alliteration verse by calling it ‘riming rum raf ruf’? (Chaucer)
129. Chaucer ridiculed the doggerel rhymes in -------- (Rhymes of Sir Thopas)
130. The defeat of Spanish Armada took place in the year ----------- (1588)
131. The hamlet who utters the lines ‘When sorrows come, they come not in spies, but in
battalions’? (Claudius)
132. Everyman is an anonymous-------- (Morality play)
133. Drayton, Webster, Middleton and Samuel Daniel were English poets of the --------
(Elizabethan Age)
134. The Pleasures of the Earth’are fully expressed in the play----------- (Tamberlaine)
135. The Humanists of 15th century studied the classic -------- (Literae Humaniores)
136. Battle of Casthian took place in the year ---------- (1453)
137. Musica Transaipina (1588), a collection of songs was written by --------- (Nicholas
Young)
138. The song ending with ‘the spotted snakes with double tongue’ is taken from the
play ------- (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
139. How many works did Caxton (1422) translate? (24)
140. The Game and the Play of the Chess (1475) is a work by -------- (Caxton)
141. Governance of England is a work by ------- (Fortesque)
142. More’s Utopia was published in the year --------- (1516)
143. The Kingdom of Nowhere is another name of ------- (Utopia)
144. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales was published in the year --------- (1386 onwards)
145. Which one is considered to be the ‘true prologue to the Renaissance’? (Utopia)
146. Who presented the real picture of 14th century English life? (Chaucer)
147. Columbus discovered America in the year---------- (1498)
148. Vasco-de-Gama reached India in the year ---------- (1498)
149. Caxton printed Morte D’ Arthur in --------(1485)
150. Surrey’s sonnets are addressed to ---------- (Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald)
151. Tottler’s Miscellany is a collection of ------- (300 songs, sonnets and lyrics)
152. Sackville’s Induction was written in ------- (rhyme royal)
153. The Mirror of Magistrates was written by ----- (Thomas Sackville)
154. During the pilgrimage, Chaucer told a story the name of which is ----------- (TheTale of
Melibens)
155. Dunbar satirized his law courts in his ------- (Tiding from the Session)
156. Danbar’s Satire on Edinburgh is an attack on the -------- (dirty conditions of the
society)
157. Elizabeth I succeeded a Catholic dictator the name of whom is ----------- (Mary)
158. The name of the book which deals with the killings by the Catholic Queen Mary is ---
----- (Book of Martyrs)

159. Book of Martyrs was written by ------- (George Foxe)

160. Who said ‘Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language’? (Lawas)
161. The Fall of Princess is a work by ------- (Lydgate)
162. The fictional inn mentioned in The Canterbury Tales is ------ (Tabard)
163. Who is of the view that Chaucer is not as great as the classicists? (Arnold)
164. Donald Praeter’s book European of Yesterday is a biography of -------- (Stefan Zweig)
165. Which book was written by Nicholas Gogal? (The Overcoat)
166. To whom Pope gives the title ‘Defender of the Faith’? (Henry VIII)
167. Battle of Pria took place in the year --------- (1525)
168. Thomas More became the chancellor in ---------- (1529)
169. Dunbar’s Golden Barge, Lydgate’s Temple of Glass, Stephen Hawes’ Example of
Virtue and Pastyme of Pleasure are ------ (Allegories)
170. Which of Lydgate’s works describes the sufferings of the poor? (London Lick Penny)
171. Who is the host of Tabard inn? (Harry Bally)
172. Wyatt’s love sonnets are -------- in total? (95)
173. Wyatt’s sonnets were published in -------- (Tottel’s Miscellany)
174. Tottle’s Miscellany was published in ------ (1557)
175. Wyatt’s satire were composed in --------- (terza rima)
176. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is called’ the prologue to Modern fiction’
because of its -------- (narrative unity)
177. John Gower wrote his first poem Speculum Meditantis in -------- (French)
178. John Gower wrote his second poem Vox Clamantis in --------- (Latin)
179. John Gower’s third poem Confession Amantis is written in ------ (English)
180. Chaucer has been hailed as The Morning Star of ------------ (Renaissance)
181. Wyclif’s Translation of the Bible appeared in ------- (1380)
182. Wyclif’s English is-------- (simple, vigorous and pointed)
183. Identify the book which has been influenced by Wyclif’s The Bible. (The Authorised
version of the Bible)
184. The barren period in Engish literature stretches from -------- (1401 to 1515)
185. The peasants revolt, also known as Tyler’s Rebellion began in ------------(1381)
186. Who are Lollards? (John Wyclif and hisfollowers)
187. In Chaucer’sThe Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims started a sixty mile
ride to Canterbury in the month of -------- (April)
188. The war of the Roses took place during the priod ---------- (1455-1485)
189. Ballads written in the fifteenth century were collected and published for the first time
in -------------- (Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient Popular Poetry)
190. Name the immensely popular form of poetry in the fifteenth century (Ballad)
191. Caxton sets up printing press at Westminster in --------- (1476)
192. Reginald Peacock wrote -------- (Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy and
The Book of Faith)
193. Malory’s Morte D’ Arthur was published by Caxton in -------- (1470)
194. Which work was highly influenced by Malory’s Morte D’ Arthur? (Tennyson’s The
Idylls of the King)
195. The first book printed in England was -------- (The Dictes and Sayengis of
Philosophers)
196. British drama grew out of ------- (Liturgy)
197. The Mystery plays dealt with ------- (Biblical Themes)
198. The Miracle plays represented -------- (A miraculum or a miraculous aspect in the lives
of saints)
199. The Moralities are -------- (serious plays)
200. The outstanding characteristic of interludes is -------- (humour)
201. Identify the first play in English to employ allegory. (Mary Magdalene)
202. The first most gifted writer of the Interlude. (John Heywood)
203. The main cause of the War of Roses was -------- (The commercial rivalry between
France and England)
204. King Henry VII ascended to the throne of England in -----------(1485)
205. King Henry VIII ascended to the throne of England in ---------- (1509)
206. Who restored Roman Catholicism in England? (Queen Mary)
207. The reign of Queen Elizabeth stretches from ---------- (1558-1603)
208. During the Elizabethan Age, England emerged as ‘a noble country…..’ Name of the
author who wrote these words:- (Milton)
209. ‘Renaissance was the manifestation of new… the middle ages’ Name the author
who expressed this opinion:- (Tillyard)
210. The Turks captured Constantinople in --------- (1453)
211. The fall of Constantinople resulted in the -------- (Revival of Greek or classical
learning)
212. Voyages and Discoveries was written by -----(Hakfuyt)
213. Who pioneered the writing of plain, unadorned and direct prose? (voyagers)
214. King Henry VIII issued the famous heroic declaration of renouncing the superemacy of
Pope and of declaring himself the head of the English church is -------------- (1534)
215. Songs and sonnets known as Tottle’s Miscellany appeared in ---------- (1557)
216. Arcadia is a ------- (romance)
217. Astrophel and Stella has been written by ------- (Sydney)
218. Spenser’s famous Epithalamion commemorates the occasion of ----------- (his
marriage with Elizabeth Boyle)
219. Amoretti is a collection of eighty four--------(sonnets)
220. Edmund Spenser’s The Shepherd’s Calendar is called calendar because ---------- (it is a
series of pastoral eclogues for every month of the year)
221. What is the general theme of The Shepherd’s Calendar? (The unrequited love of
Colin Clout for Rosalind)
222. The first three books of The Faerie Queen were published during ---------(1589-90)
223. Who is the central character in the The Faerie Queen? (Prince Arthur)
224. The twelve knights in The Faerie Queen respresent twelve--------- (virtues)
225. ‘A maiden queen that shone as Titans say \ In glistening gold, and peerless
precious stone’. These lines occur in Edmund Spenser’s ---------- (The FaerieQueen)
226. W.H.Hudson’s statement ‘essentially the poet of the people’is applied to --------
(William Langland)
227. Sir Philip Sydney’s The Defence of Poesie was published in --------- (1595)
228. Sidney’s The Defence of Poesie is a prose essay which answered ---------- (Sir Thomas
More’s Utopia)

229. Why is War of Roses known by that name? (The rose was the national flower of
England)
230. Calvin was a -------- (French reformer)
231. Utopia is described as --------- (‘the prologue to the Renaissance’)
232. Arnold wrote ‘with him is born our real poetry’. Who does ‘him’ refer to? (Chaucer)
233. Spenser wrote a preface to The Faerie Queen in the form of a letter. Whom is this
letter addressed to? -------- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
234. Who does Prince Arthur marry in the end in Spenser’s The Faerie Queen? (Gloriana)
235. Whom did Spenser commemorate in the elegy Astrophel? (Sir Philip Sydney)
236. Who sings the song ‘Tell me where fancy is bred’ in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of
Venice? (Bassanio)
237. In which Shakespearean comedy does the song ‘Sigh, no more ladies’ occur? (Much Ado
About Nothing)
238. Who wrote Delia? (Samuel Daniel)
239. As a writer of sonnets, Sir Philip Sidney was influenced by --------- (Petrarch)
240. Who wrote the famous lines ‘May I have done, yet get no more of me’? ( Drayton)
241. Which book has been called ‘the true prologue of Renaissance’ and ‘the first
modern monument of socialism’? (Utopia)
242. Which is the first important treatise on education? (The School Master)
243. Sir Francis Bacon was born in --------- (1561)
244. Who wroteThe Advancement of Learning? (Francis Bacon)
245. What work is considered the first Picaresque novel in England? (Thomas Nashe’s The
Unfortunate Traveller or The Life of Jack Wilton)
246. Richard Hooker’s The Laws of Ecclesiastial Policy appeared in ------ (1594)
247. The Laws of the Ecclesiastical Policy is ------ (a defence of the church against the
 puritans and the first monument of splendid literary prose)
248. Between 1590 and 1593 the theatres were closed due to the ------------- (disturbance
caused by the actors)
249. The most important anti-dramatic book was-------- (Gosson’s School of Abuse)
250. Who wrote the first revenge tragedy? (Ben Jonson)
251. Thomas Nash is identified as one among the --------- --.(the university wits)
252. Who was the only representative of the writers of real comedies in pre- Shakespearean
drama? (John Lyly)
253. The first Pure English comedy is---------- (Ralph Roister Doister)
254. Shakespeare’s Othellois a ---------- (tragedy)
255. Shakespeare arrived in London in --------- (1586)
256. -------- calls Marlowe ‘the first great poet, the father of English tragedy and the creator
of blank verse’. (Swinburne)
257. Marlowe’s blank verse is also known as --------- (Mighty Line)
258. Marlowe’s only historical play is known as --------- (Edward II)
259. remarked ‘Marlowe is the rapturous lyrisist of limitless desire. Shakespeare is
the majestic spokesman of an inexorable moral law. (F.Boas)
260. The Woman in the Moon, one of the earliest romantic comedies is written by --------
(John Lyly)
261. Robert Greene wrote the play -------- (The Wounds of Civil War)
262. The Good Angel and the Evil Angel appear in ----------- (Dr.Faustus)
263. Who coined the phrase ‘Marlowe’s Mighty line’? (Ben Jonson)
264. The name of Shakespeare’s birth place is ---------- (Startford – upon –Avon)
265. Who affirmed that Shakespeare knew ‘small Latin and less Greek’? (Ben Jonson)
266. The title of a collection of verse, which appeared in 1599 with Shakespeare’s name in
the title page? (The Passionate Pilgrim)
267. The first Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was printed in ---------- (1623)
268. Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets to a certain Mr.W.H. as being ‘the only begetter’ of
the sonnets. Who was he? (WilliamHerbert, the Earl of Pembroke)
269. Shakespeare addressed the second group of his sonnets to ‘The Dark Lady’ who may be
(Marry Fitton)
270. The play which was omitted from the First Folio Edition. (Pericles)
271. Portia, a famous character, appears in -----------(The Merchant of Venice)
272. The last play written by Shakespeare is ---------- (Henry VIII (in parts))
273. ‘Cowards die many times before their death; The Valiant never tastes of death but
once.’ Who said this? (Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar)
274. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night also has a title ---------- (What you Will)
275. Shakespeare played the roles of Adam and Ghost in -------- (As you Like it and Hamlet
respectively)
276. Egeus is a character in Shakespeare’s ----------- (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
277. Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well is called a --------- (A Problem Comedy)
278. In which of Shakespeare’s plays does Bottom appear? (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
279. Name the play which begins with the following line, ‘If music be the food of Love, play
on’. (The Twelfth Night)
280. The dramatist who wrote only tragedies is -------- (Christopher Marlowe)
281. Sir Thomas Lucy has been caricatured as Justice Shallow in Shakespeare’s --------
(The Merry Wives of Windsor)
282. Whose burial took place inside the Startford church? (William Shakespeare)
283. Hotspur is a character in Shakespeare’s----------- (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
284. ‘Wear strange suits… ‘Who makes fun of Jacques in As You Like It in the above lines?
(Rosalind)
285. Which King of England was beheaded? (Charles I)
286. Bohemia is a place in the drama? (The Winter’s Tale)
287. Caliban is a character in -------- (Tempest)
288. Which character in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ said, ‘The quality of Mercy is not
strained’? (Portia)
289. Priest’s Nun’s Tale was written by ------- (Chaucer)
290. Malvolio is a character in -------- (Twelfth Night)
291. Ariel is a character in ------- (Tempest)
292. In writing ‘The Canterbury Tales’ Chaucer was influenced by-------- (Decameron)
293. The author of Beowulf is ------- (Unknown)
294. The Anglo-Saxon period is often said to be from 450 to ----------- (1050)
295. The name of the monster in Beowulf is -------- (Grendel)
296. Who says ‘Life, Life, eternal Life’? (Christian)
297. Beatrice was the woman whose love inspired a man to write an immoral poem. Who
was that man? (Dante)
298. Who was the father of poetry in English Literature? (Geoffrey Chaucer)
299. Chaucer’s Prologue and many of the Canterbury Tales appeared in ------------ (1385-89)
300. Chaucer ‘found English a dialect and left it a language’ who said these words? (Lowes)
301. Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressiyde is a ------- (Narrative)
302. ‘If Chaucer is the father of English poetry; he is the grandfather of English fiction’ who
expressed this opinion? (G.K.Chesterton)
303. The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is the ----------(Urbanity)
304. Men and Women of every class of society in England are grouped around the jovial
host of the ------- (Tabard Inn)
305. Her hosen weren of Fyn Scarlet reed…. These lines from the prologue describe the
character of the -------- (Wife of Bath)
306. ‘What is this world? What as Xeth men to have’. Where does these lines occur? (The
Pardoner’s Tale)
307. Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the reshaped and refermed ----------- (East
Midland dialect)
308. Chaucer’s first attempt in English to use the heroic couplet occurs in ----------- (The
Legend of Good women)
309. The pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales go to the pilgrimage to
the tomb of ------- (St.Thomas A.Beckett)
310. The Book of the Duchess is------- (An Allegory)
311. Chaucerian seven line stanza is also known ----------- (Rime Royale)
312. The Black Death was ---------(The Terrible plague bringing death and destruction)
313. The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman is written by ----- (William
Langland)
314. Piers the Plowman is ----- (an allegory on humanlife)
315. The main motive of Piers the Plowman is ------- (To expose the corruption and evils
of the church)
316. In which three languages Chaucer’s works can be divided? (Latin, French, English)
317. Chaucer’s The Romaunt of the Rose is based on --------- (Le Romaunt de la Rose)
318. The Romaunt of the Rose is written in ----- form. (Octasyllabic)
319. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, which is adopted from Boccaccio is dedicated to ----
---- (Gower)
320. Which poem is the first known attempt in English to use the heroic couplet? (Chaucer’s
The Legend of Good Women)
321. Which book is considered the first novel in English literature? (Troilus and Criesyde)
322. Which of the following poems of Chaucer is not in English? (The Canterbury Tales)
323. How many pilgrims go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Thomas Becket? (29
including Chaucer)
324. Who tells the last tale in The Canterbury Tales? (The Parson)
325. The Tabard Inn is situated in --------- (Southwark)
326. How many tales are in The Canterbury Tales? (20 finished and 4 partly completed)
327. Where is the tomb of Thomas Beckett situated? (Canterbury)
328. Which poem of Gower is written in French? (Speculum Meditantis)
329. Who was the first Scottist poet? (John Barbour)
330. Sir John Mandeville translated a French book Travels in ---------- (English)
331. Which book in English in translated by John Wyclif, who is called the father of
English prose? (Bible)
332. For which book Caxton says, ‘Out of certegn books of Frensshe’? (Malory’s Morte’d
Arthur)
333. Who was the king among the Scottish poets? (James I)
334. James I composed his The Kings Quair in --------- (Rhyme Royal)
335. The Testament of Squfer Melelrum by Sir David Lyndsay is a ---------- (Romantic
Biography)
336. Which poem is called the sequel of the Chaucer’s Troilus and Creseyde?
(Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid)
337. Who is considered the chief among the Scottish Chaucerian poets? (Dunbar)
338. Which of the following poems of Dunbar is written in the celebration of the marriage
of James IV? (The Thrissil and the Rois)
339. In which poem John Skelton addressed to Wolsey? (Why come ye not to court)
340. John Skelton’s The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng is known for its ------- (Realism)
341. John Skelton’s Magnificience is a --------- (Morality play)
342. Skeltonics is aform of -------- (Meter)
343. Who was the friend of Chaucer? (John Lydgate)
344. Story of Thebes which is considered the supposed addition of The Canterbury Tales
is written by ------- (John Lydgate)
345. In which form Thomas Hoccleve’s La Mak Regle is written? (partly autobiographical)
346. Which poem is written in the edification of Henry V? (Hoccleve’s The Regement of
Princess)
347. Who is the writer of The Passetyme of Pleasure? (Stephen Hawes)
348. Alexander Barclay’s Certayne Eclogues is the collection of -------- (English Pastorals)
349. The religious book The Ways of Perfect Religion is written by ------- (John Fisher)
350. Who among the following is not a prose writer? (Stephen Hawes)
351. Sir Thomas More’s Latin work Utopia’s English translation came out in --------- (1551)
352. Which poem Edmund Spenser wrote in the honour of his own marriage?
(Epithalamion)
353. Which poem Edmund Spenser wrote in honour of marriage? (Prothalamion)
354. How many petrarchan sonnets are in Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti? (78)
355. Spenser’s The Faerie Queeneis an --------- (allegorical poem)
356. The first instalment of The Faerie Queen was published in 1589. In which year was its
second instalment published? (1596)
357. Edmund Spenser introduced the Spensericen stanza consisting of ---------- (Nine Lines)
358. Who introduced couplet ending in Petrarchan sonnet? (Wyatt)
359. Sir Thomas Wyatt contributed his poem in --------- (Totell’s Miscellany)
360. Earl of Surrey introduced ------- (blank verse)
361. Who introduced poutter’s Measure in English poetry? (Earl of Surrey)
362. Who is called the Earl of Surrey? (Henry Howard)
363. Dorset’s poems was appeared in --------- (Myrroure for Magistrates)
364. Which term is coined by George Gascoigne? (Poutter’s Measure)
365. Gascoighe composed The Steele Glass in -------- (rhyme royal)
366. The first prose comedy Supposes is written by -------- (Gascoigne)
367. How many sonnets are in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella? (108)
368. Sidney’s Arcadia which is a pastroral romance is similar to -------- (More’s Utopia)
369. Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is provoked by -------- (Drayton’s Nymphidia)
370. Who is the writer of The Man in the Moon? (Drayton)
371. Samuel Daniel’s Deliais a --------- (Sonnet series)
372. The Complaint of Rosamond which is considered a romance is written by --------
(George Peele)
373. Which work of Samuel Daniel is considered a fine piece of criticism? (Defence of
Ryme)
374. How many writers are the members of University wits? (7)
375. George Peele’s The Famous Chronicle of King Edward I is a ------------ (Rambling
Chronicle play)
376. Robert Greene’s play ------ represents the Elizabethan life. (Friar Bacon and Friar
Bongay)
377. Robert Greene’s Alphonsus, King of Aragon was an imitation of -------- (Marlow’s
Tamburlaine)
378. Which play is adopted from an English translation of Ariosto? (Greene’s Orlando
Furioso)
379. The Scottish Historic of James the Forth, which has the vision of the life of King
James IV is written by -------- (Robert Greene)
380. Who contributed in Marlowe’s Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage? (Thomas Nash)
381. What is the subtitle of Thomas Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller? (The Life of Jack
Wilton)
382. Thomas Nash’s Summer’s Last Will and Testament is a ------- (satirical Masque)
383. Who among the University Wits collaborated with Shakespeare in Henry IV? (Thomas
Lodge)
384. Thomas Lodge’s The Woundes of Civil War is a --------- (Chronicle play)
385. Who is the writer of the Spanish Tragedie? (Thomas Kyd)
386. Where was Marlowe born? (London)
387. Who wrote Edward II? (Marlowe)
388. Which of the following plays of Marlowe is incomplete? (The Massacre at Paris)
389. Marlowe’s character Doctor Faustus is known for his hunger for --------- (knowledge)
390. Which play of Shakespeare remains unfinished?(Timon of Athens)
391. Shakespeare’s English historical plays are based on ------------ (Marlowe’s Tragedies)
392. Who wrote the following lines about Shakespeare? ‘He was the man who of all modern
and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul’ (John
Dryden)
393. Shakespeare wrote ------- (37 plays)
394. Shakespeare’s Roman plays are based on ----------- (Hollinshed’s Chronicles)
395. Who said that in Shakespeare’s great tragedies character is destiny? (A.C.Bradley)
396. Which plays of Shakespeare are published in parts? (Henry VIII and Pericles)
397. Ben Jonson was born in 1573 at Eastminster. He died in 1637 and buried in --------
(Westminster Abbey)
398. Who is called the father of English Classical Comedy? (Ben Jonson)
399. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Timber? (Discoveries)
400. Who considered the chief function of literature is to instruct? (Ben Jonson)
401. Who wrote ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’? (Ben Jonson)
402. Ben Jonson’s Catiline his Conspiracy is a -------- (Historical Tragedy)
403. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Volpone? ---------- (The Fox)
404. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Epiceone? (The Silent Woman)
405. Who died by the plague? (JohnFletcher)
406. Who wrote The Faithful Sheperdess? (John Fletcher)
407. Which play is very reminiscent of Twelfth Night? (Philaster)
408. Which play of George chapman is based on the tragedies of Marlowe? (The Blind
Beggar of Alexandria)
409. Which play of George Chapman is considered the historical play of contemporary time?
(Tragedie of Chabot)
410. Which play of John Marston is ridiculed by Jonson in the poetaster? (Antonio’s
Revenge)
411. Who is called the Dickens of Elizabethan age? (Thomas Dekker)
412. In which play Dekker collaborated with Massinger? (The Virgin Martyr)
413. Thomas Middleton’s Mad World, My Master was published in --------- (1623)
414. Which play of Middleton is praised by Lamb and other writers? (The Witch)
415. Middleton’s The Witch has a strong resemblance to ----------(Othello)
416. Vittoria and Duchess, in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, are considered the two
finest women characters of the -------- (Elizabethan Drama)
417. Who wrote The Revenger’s Tragedy? (Thomas Heywood)
418. In which two languages did Francis Bacon write? (Italian and Latin)
419. How many essays did Francis Bacon write? (58)
420. Francis Bacon’s essay’s first edition appeared in 1597, second in 1612 and the third in
(1625)
421. Thomas Middleton’s The Spanish Gipsy is a -------- (Tragedy)
422. The best play of Thomas Hoywood is --------- (King Edward the Fourth)
423. Who wrote The Royale King and The Loyale Subject? (John Webster)
424. John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is a --------- (Comedy)
425. Basola is a character in --------- (The Duchess of Malfi)
426. Faerie Queen is a -------- (Moral Allegory)
427. Who is the author of Toxophilus? (RogarAscham)
428. Who criticizes ‘rude beggarly rhyming’? (RogerAscham)
429. Who is the first Tudor chronicler? (EdwardHall)
430. Who is a religious writer? (Richard Hooker)
431. Hooker’s masterpiece is ------- (The Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy)
432. Who is the author of Pedants? (Sir Thomas Overbury)
433. Which is Burton’s famous work? (The Anatomy of Melancholy)
434. Burton’s diction has a ---------(colloquial naturalness)
435. Who is the first to make an attempt at translating the Bible into English? (Bede)
436. Who said about comedy ‘sport with human follies not with crimes’? (Ben Jonson)
437. The first English play was called------- (Mystery play)
438. What is pageant? (Theatres)
439. Which is the most famous morality play? (Everyman)
440. What is Interlude? ( an offshoot of the morality play)
441. The Play of the Weather is an ---------(Interlude)
442. Which type of figures are used in Moralities? (Personification)
443. Who is the first extant of English Comedy? (William Stevenson)
444. Who is the writer of Ralph Roister Doister? (Nicholas Udall)
445. Which is the first work of George Peele? (The Arraignment of Paris)
446. Peele’s David and Bethsabe is based on a --------- (Biblical Story)
447. What is Peele’s history play? (Edward I)
448. What is the first of Marlowe’s plays? (Tamburlaine the Great)
449. What is Marlowe’s last play? (The Jew of Malta)
450. Who used the blank verse extensively in drama? (Marlowe)
451. Who is the writer of Alphonsus? (Robert Greene)
452. What is the surviving play of Thomas Nashe? (Summer’s Last Will)
453. Thomas Lodge’s The Wounds of Civil war is a kind of ---------(Chronicle play)
454. John Lyly’s Endymion is -------- (indirect reflection on the Queen Elizabeth and
Leicester’s affair)
455. John Lyly’s Midas is -------- (Allegory on the Spanish King Philip)
456. Shakespeare’s first period is called--------- (Apprenticeship or training)
457. Who describes Shakespeare’s second period as ‘Shakespeare in the world’? (Dowden)
458. What does Dowden say about the Shakespeare’s third period? (Groping in the depths)
459. The most dismal period begins with a group of plays called -----------(Dark Comedies)
460. Shakespeare’s fourth period is referred as Shakespeare is ------------ (On the heights)
461. What are the last plays of Shakespeare? (Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The
Tempest)
462. Where is the purple passage ‘All the world is a stage’ used? (Shakespeare’s As You
Like it)
463. What is the earliest tragedy of Shakespeare? (Romeo and Juliet)
464. Who is the writer of the monumental work ‘Shakespearean Tragedy’? (A.C.Bradley)
465. How is Shakespeare’s tragic hero exposed? (An Eminent man)
466. How is Macbeth praised? (Valour’s Minion)
467. Who critizes Shakespeare as ‘bored with himself, bored with people, bored with real
life, bored with everything except poetry and poetic drama’? (Lytton Strachey)
468. Who questioned Lytton Strachey’s theory of boredom? (E.M.W.Tillyard)
469. Which form is used in Book of the Duchesse? (Allegory)
470. Who is the first great comic character in English literature? (Criseyde)
471. Who said about Chaucer ‘found English a dialect and left it a language’? (Lowes)
472. Who judged Chaucer’s poetry as extremely musical and must be judged ‘by the ear
rather than by the eye’? (Historian Long)
473. What metre is used by Gower? (Octosyllabic couplet)
474. John Lydgate’s The Temple of Glass is a --------- (Dull Allegory)
475. Where did Robert Heweyson studied? (Glasgow University)
476. Who is the devout follower of James IV? (William Dunbar)
477. What about ‘The thissil and the Roise’? (It says about celebration of the marriage of
James IV and the English princess Margaret)
478. John Trevia was a --------- (Priest)
479. Polychronicon is a translated work by ------- (John Travisa)
480. Who is the author of ‘Polychronicon’? (Higden)
481. Which is the first English prose classic? (The Travels)
482. Who translated the French Arthurean romances into English? (Malory)
483. Who is the author of The Book of Faith? (Reginald Peacock)
484. Who is the first English printer? (William Caxton)
485. Who introduced the Printing Press in England? (Caxton)
486. Robin Hood is known for-------- (Ballad)
487. Arnold said ‘with him is born our real poetry’. Here who is him? (Chaucer)
488. Who was Aeschylus? --------- (An Athenian tragic dramatist)
489. How many books are there in Virgil’s Aeneid? (12)
490. Who was Achilles? ---------(A Greek hero)
491. Shakespeare used the longest word ‘Honerificabilitudinitatibus’ is his play --------
(The Tempest)
492. Who has been called ‘The true Child of the Renaissance’? (Marlowe)
493. Before 1350, there was a single prose work in English. The name of the book is -------
- (Ancrene Riwle)

494. The Nut Brown Maid and Ballad of the Cheve Chase are two ballads which were
popular in ------- (15th century)
495. Who is the first writer of the plain style? (Hugh Latimer)
496. Who regretted ‘I took none heed neither of short nor of long’? (Lydgate)
497. Which work of Occleve is partly autobiographical and partly a satire on poverty? (La
Male Regle)
498. Who was the first writer of Middle style? (Thomas More)
499. Who was the ‘Morning star of Elizabethan drama’? (Marlowe)
500. The first tragedy is said to have been written by ---------(Aeschylus)
501. Who is of the view that ‘Matthew Arnold thinks too much of the uses of literature
and too little of its pleasure’? (A.C.Ward)
502. Who founded the customs? (Edward III)
503. Who said that ‘Arnold does not mean seriousness at all’? (Lionel Trilling)
504. According to Chesterton, Chaucer’s high seriousness can be seen in his --------------(The
Tale of Sir Thopas)
505. The War of the Roses appears in the works of ----------- (Shakespeare)
506. TheWar of the Roses took place during ---------- (1455-85)
507. The War of the Roses is called by that name because -------- (The two parties had
roses as their symbols)
508. Lyly’s Euphues was based on --------- (Italian Stories)
509. Richard II was deposed in the year --------- (1399)
510. Who was a chaplain to Edward III? (Wyclif)
511. Edward V reigned during the year --------- (1488)
512. Who said ‘Chaucer was the earliest of the great moderns’? (Albert)
513. Who wrote the Dance of the Seven Deadly Synnis? (William Dunbar)
514. Testament of Cressida was written by ------ (Henryson)
515. The Coventry Carol Hayle and Comely and Clene are ------- (Carols)
516. A Carol is a type of --------- (Lyric)
517. Carols were developed in the ------- century (15th)
518. Who was Calvin? (A French Reformer)
519. History of Tory was published by Caxton in --------- (1474)
520. Who introduced Eclogues in England? (Barcley and Henryson)
521. Eclogues basically had its birth in---------(Italy)
522. Who influenced Henry Vaughan? (George Herbert)
523. Skelton’s Book of Colin Cout was a Satire on ---------- (Clergy)
524. Who charged Chaucer ‘for a Fondness for long Speeches, for Pedantic digressions?
(E.Albert)
525. Who said ‘of all writers of genius, Chaucer is the one with whom it is easiest to have a
sense of comradeship? (Legious)
526. Who said ‘when Langland cries aloud in anger threatening the world with hell tire,
Chaucer looks on and smiles? (Huxley)
527. Who was the writer of Polychronicon into English? (John Trevisa)
528. How many tales Chaucer wrote in prose? (2)
529. Polychronicon waswritten in ----- (Latin)
530. Who was the writer of Polychronicon? (Higden)
531. Elyot’s Governor is ------- (an Educational Prose)
532. Who was known as the ‘Chaucer of Scotland’? (Dunbar)
533. The first play in English with a regular plot, acts and scenes is ------------(Ralph Roister
Doister)
534. Who drank of Chaucer’s well of English? (Spenser)
535. Shakespeare was regarded as ‘Myriad minded’ by ----------- (Coleridge)
536. Who is known as the father of the Independents? (Thomas Browne)
537. Who said ‘Geoffery Chaucer is never to us than Alexander Pope’? (G.L.Kitteridge)
538. Who is known as the ‘Translator general’ of the Elizabeth? (Philemon Holland)
539. Who said that Chaucer is ‘a perpetual foundation of good sense’? (Dryden)
540. The Old Testament was originally written in -------- (Hebrew)
541. The New Testament was originally written by --------- (Greeks)
542. Spenser’s Mother Hubbard’s Tale is a satire on -------- (politics), written in ------
(heroic couplet).
543. More’s Utopia was originally written in ------- (Latin)
544. The line ‘what a piece of work is man. How noble in reason: How infinite in faculty
are’ is from the play? (Hamlet)
545. Epithalamion is a -------(Nuptial Song)
546. The Authorized version of the Bible was based on ---------- (Wyclif’s Bible)
547. Nicholas Udall’s Ralph Roister Doister was produced in the year -------- (1567)
548. The parliament passed statute against those who attended conventions in the year
-------- (1593)
549. Who said ‘No Bishop, No King’? (James I)
550. Mortimer is a character in -------- by Marlowe (Edward II)
551. The Theme of Boccaccio’s Deccameron is --------- (self Identification of the Individual)
552. Machiavelli is the author of-------- (The Prince)
553. Sir Toby Belch is a character from the play ---------- (Twelfth Night)
554. The ideal relation of husband and wife is depicted by Shakespeare in the relation
between -------- (Bassanio and Portia)
555. When did the Reformation begin in England? (1377)
556. Who called Spenser ‘Poet’s poet’? (Lamb)
557. Who believed that the true end of poetry was ‘delightful teaching’? (Spenser)
558. Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion came out in the year --------- (1595)
559. Which poem of Spenser celebrates the marriage of the daughter of the Earl of
Worchester? (Prothalamion)
560. ‘For gold is physic …therefore his lov’de gold in special’. The above lines come from
------- (Chaucer)
561. Delia is a collection of sonnets by -------- (Michael Drayton)
562. Edmund Spenser, born in 1572, died in the year ---------- (1588)
563. Idea’s Mirror is a collection of sonnets by -------- (Lodge)
564. Spenscer’s The Shepherd’s Calendar came out in the year----------(1579)
565. The Shepherd’s Calendar was inspired by ------- (Virgil and Theocritus)
566. The name of the sonnet sequence by Spenser is ------------ (Amoretti)
567. Two Cantos of Mutability is a title of the last book of -------- (The Fairie Queen)
568. How many Knights are there in The Faiere Queen? (6)
569. The Faierie Queen was planned to be written in ------- (9 books)
570. Castle of Health is a---------(a medical prose)
571. Out of 24 stories of The Canterbury Tales, how many stories are complete? (20)
572. Regionald Peacock belonged to ---------- (15th century)
573. Occelve’s A Dialogue with a Friend is a satire on ---------(women)
574. The History of Richard III waswritten by ------ (More)
575. Who wrote the poem ‘Why Come ye not to Court’? (John Skelton)
576. The above mentioned poem satirizes --------- (Wolsey)
577. Skelton’s Book of Colin Clout satirized --------- (Voice of the Clergy)
578. A patriotic poem Wallace was written by ------- (Harry)
579. Who was Lady Jane Beaufort? (Niece to Henry V)
580. Who fell in love with Lady Beaufort? (King James I)
581. The Passetyme of Pleasure and the Example of virtue are ------ (allegories)
582. The above mentioned allegories were written by----------(Stephen Hawes)
583. Stephen Hawes was an ---------- (English Chaucerian)
584. Barcley was born in 1474 anddied in----------(1552)
585. The Regiment of Princess is a satire on ------- (Fashion in dress)
586. Barabasisacharacter from ------- (The Jew of Malta)
587. Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is about ------ (Love of Wealth)
588. Dr.Faustus is a tragedy about the Pursuit of -------- (Wordly Powers)
589. Gaveston is a character in --------- (Edward II)
590. Shakespeare’s historical plays present the history of England from ------------ (1200-
1550)
591. The Book, The Fall of Princess and The Temple of Glass are by ------- (John Lydgate)
592. Lyly’s Woman in the Moon is a -------- (play)
593. Midas and Mother Bombie are the romantic plays by ---------(John Lyly)
594. Which element is found in Lyly’s plays? (Wit and Humour)
595. Who mentions ‘Marlowe’s mighty line’? (Ben Johnson)
596. Battle of Poitiers took place in -------- (1356)
597. The Hundred Years War was between ---------- (England and France)
598. Black Death in England broke out during the reign of ---------- (Edward III)
599. Who was of the view that Chaucer ‘lacks high seriousness’? (Matthew Arnold)
600. The leader of the Peasant’s Revolt was ------------(John Bull)
601. The Peasant’s Revolt took place in the year----------- (1381)
602. Who said ‘Pray, you now, forget and forgive’? (King Lear)
603. The line ‘best men are moulded out of faults’ occurs in the play ---------- (Measure for
Measure)
604. In the play King Lear, theVillain is-------- (Edmund)
605. is dramatic romance (The Winter’s Tale)
606. Prospero is a character in --------- (The Tempest)
607. The line ‘O brave new world’ occurs in the play --------- (The Tempest)
608. Who says ‘of all his women, Imogen is most perfect’? (Mrs.Jameson)
609. Who remarked about Chaucer, ‘It was easy matter to produce some thousands of his
verse, .which no pronounciation can make otherwise? (Dryden)
610. Diana is a sonnetsequence by --------- (Henry Constable)
611. Which book has been recognized as ‘an English Christian Humanistic epic’? (The
Faerie Queen)
612. Calvins were called -------- (Presbyterians)
613. The Puritan attack on Elizabeth took place in the year ---------- (1579)
614. In 1579, The anem of the Presbyterian leader was ----------- (Thomas Cartright)
615. The Theatre ‘The Curtain’ was built in the year ---------- (1577)
616. Philip Hensolowe built the theatre named as ---------- (The Rose)
617. The Rose was built inthe year ----------(1586)
618. Which one is the most important theatre of the Elizabethan Age? (The Globe)
619. Ithamore is a character in the play --------- (The Jew of Malta)
620. How many historical plays were written by Shakespeare? (14) 621.
Bell Imperia is a character in the play ----------------- (The Spanish
Tragedy)
622. Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar came out in the year ---------- (1599)
623. The theatre the Globe was built in the year --------- (1590)
624. How many of Shakespeare’s history plays are based on Roman history? (3)
625. George Gascoigne’s comedy Suppose, a translation of Ariosto’s I Supposite, came out
in the year -------------(1566)
626. Which one of Shakespeare’s plays was based on Gascoigne’s supposes? (The Taming
of the Shrew)
627. The theatre the Globe was set on fire during an early performance of the play --------
(Henry VII)
628. The Globe was set on fire in the year ---------- (1613)
629. is a comedy of mistaken identity (The Comedy of Errors)
630. TheJewofMaltaappearedintheyear ------- (1589)
631. The Tempest came out in the year ------- (1611)
632. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors is based on -------- (Pautus Menaechmi or The
Twins)
633. Totus mundus agit historian means -------- (All the World isStage)
634. Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona came out in --------- (1594)
635. Angelo is a character in the play --------- (Measure for Measure)
636. Which is known as the ‘Tragedy of time’? (Troilus and Cressida)
637. The Theatre, the Globe, which was set on fire, was rebuilt in the year? (1614)
638. Which of Shakespeare’s play is known as the ‘revenge tragedy’? (Titus Andronicus)
639. Who regards Shakespeare’s early comedies as ‘Joyous, refined, romantic’?
(Dowden)
640. Viola is the heroine of the play --------- (Twelfth night)
641. Shakespeare’s Coriolanus came out in the year---------- (1608)
642. Thomas Kyd was arrested in 1593 because of his ---------- (anti-immigrant incitement)
643. shows the conflict between Rome and Egypt (Antony and Cleopatra)
644. The ghost of Andrew appears in the play ----------(The Spanish Tragedy)
645. Who said that ‘the hero of Shakespeare’s great classical trilogy is Rome’? (Wilson
Knight)
646. Helena de Narbon is the heroine of---------- (All’s Well that Ends well)
647. Who said ‘Shakespearean Comedy is not finally satiric’; it is poetic ------------ (Charlton)
648. Who made the remark that ‘Shakespeare has no heroes, he has only heroines’?
(Ruskin)
649. Edward Ellen was a great actor of --------- (Elizabethan Age)
650. The Swan Theatre was built in the year --------- (1594)
651. How many sides did the Swan Theatre have? (12)
652. Cindrella is known for ---------(neglected thing)
653. Sapho and Phao and Love’s Metamorphosis are the plays by -------- (Lyly)

654. Who is the father of essay? (Bacon)

655. How is Bacon essays called? (Dispersed meditation)
656. How is John Marston called? (a ruffian in his style)
657. Which is Middleton’s most famous tragedy? (Women Beware Women)
658. Middleton’s best tragedy is -------- (The Changeling)

659. Which is Tourneur’s somber tragedy? (The Revenger’s Tragedy)

660. Which are the two melodramatic tragedies of Webster? (The White Devil, The
Duchess of Malfi)

661. Which writers did Sidney follow? (Aristotle, Horace) 662.

Which is the first Authorized Version? (The great Bible) 663.
Breeches Bible is also called ------------------ (The Geneva Bible)
664. What, according to Ben Jonson, that Spenser died? (For want of bread)
665. Where is Spenser buried? (Westminster Abbey)
666. Ben Jonson says about Spenser that ------------ (Spenser write no language)
667. Which is the first pastoral poem? (The Shepherds’ Calander)
668. Edmund Spenser lived during the period of -------- (1552-99)
669. Chaucer is the greatest of the poets of the -------- and ------------- centuries. (Fourteenth
and fifteenth)
670. Which is the slight piece of Chaucer? (The Legend of Good Women)
671. Chaucer used --------- allegory. (Medival)

672. -------- represents a cross-section of the society of Chaucer’s age. (The Canterbury
Tales)
673. Sir Thomas Malory was born in --------- (1417)
674. Malory translated the French Arthurian romances into ------- (English)
675. Malory not only narrates stories but also expresses deep feelings in----------- (Musical
sentences)
676. Reginald Peacock was born in ---------- (1390-1461)
677. Peacock supported the -------- of the church. (ancient practices)
678. Caxton translated many French, Dutch and Latin texts into --------- (English)
679. John Fisher (1459-1535) was an uncompromising supporter of the --------- (Pope)
680. Hugh Latimer (1485-1555) is the first of the writers of -------- (Plain Style)
681. Thomas More was born and educated---------- (in London)
682. Thomas More did not approve of the King’s --------- (Act of Supremacy)
683. Utopia was translated into English in -------- (1551) by Ralph Robinson.
684. More’s English prose works include ------- (The Life of John Picus)
685. The complete title of the work Utopia is -------- (Utopia or The Discourse of Raphael
Hythloday of the Best state of a commonwealth)
686. More was probably inspired to write this work by Plato’s -------- which was the first
outline of an ideal state. (Republic)
687. War is considered ---------(inglorious) in Utopia
688. All issues are settled through -------- (Justice and common sense) in Utopia
689. More’s Utopia influenced many later works like -------- (Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and
Bellamy’s Looking Backward)

690. The title ------- to the English language. (Utopia has lent the word ‘Utopian’)
691. The last book of Utopia contains poems by -------- (Shakespeare, Marlowe and
Raleigh)
692. Shakespeare broke the --------- as well as the content. (Petrarchan form)
693. -------- and -------- are the most enduring of the Elizabethan poets. (Spenser and
Shakespeare)
694. Leicester introduced Spenser to --------- (Queen Elizabeth)
695. Spenser spent eighteen years in --------- (Ireland)
696. Spenser’s sonnet series -------- describes his courtship of the Irish girl Elizabeth.
(Amoretti)
697. Spenser modelled The Faerie Queen on the Italian poet --------- Orlando Furioso.
698. James I succeeded to the throne of England in ----------- (1603)
699. The Turdor Dynasty was brought to a close by ---------- (the death of Elizabeth in 1603)
700. The term ‘metaphysical’ was coined by --------- (John Donne)
701. --------- is a group of Jacobean poets. (William Browne – Giles Fletcher – Phineas
Fletcher)
702. Who nominated the 47 scholars who prepared The Authorised version of the Bible --
------ (James I)
703. The Authorised version of the Bible is known as -------- (The first classic in English
Prose)
704. Religio Medici is------ (A curious mixture of religious faith and scientific skepticism)
705. In England the theatres were closed in ----------(1642)
706. Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi appeared in --------- (1614)
707. The memorable line ‘Lover her face; mine eyes dazzle, she died young’ occurs in -----
--- (The Duchess of Malfi)

708. Between 1590 and 1593 the theatres were closed due to ----------- (disturbances
caused by the actors)
709. The most important anti-dramatic book of this period was -------- (Gosson’s School
of Abuse)
710. Who was the only representative of the writers of real comedies in pre-Shakespeare
drama? (John Lyly)
711. Name the play which is not written by John Lyly ---------(The Love of King David and
fair Bathshabe)
712. -------- calls Marlowe ‘the first great poet, the father of English tragedy, and the creator
of blank verse’? (Swinburne)
713. -------- remarked ‘Marlowe is the rapturous lyrist of limitless desire, Shakespeare is the
majestic spokesman of an inexorable moral law’. (F.Boas)
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714. Who coined the phrase ‘Marlowe’s Mighty line’? (Ben Jonson)
715. Identify the title of a collection of verse which appeared in 1599 with Shakespeare’s
name in the title page ---------(The Passionate Pilgrim)
716. The first folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was printed in ---------- (1623)
717. Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets to a certain Mr.W.H. as being ‘the only begetter’ of
the sonnets. Who was he? (William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke)
718. Shakespeare addressed the second group of his sonnets to ‘The Dark lady’ who may be
(Marry Fitton)
719. What was the name of Shakespeare’s father and mother? (John Shakespeare and Mary
Auden)
720. In which of Shakespeare’s plays do the following lines figure? ‘The Lunatic, the Lover
and the Poet, are the Imagination all compact’ (Twelfth Night)
721. Which of the following begins with the following line? ‘If music be the food of love,
play on’ -------( Twelfth Night)
722. W.H.Hudson’s statement ‘essentially the poet of the people’ applies to --------
(William Langland)
723. Arnold wrote ‘with him is born our real poetry’. Who does ‘him’ refer to? (Chaucer)
724. -------- is considered the first picaresque novel in English. (Thomas Nashe’s The
Unfortunate Traveller or The Life of Jack Witton)
725. Which of the following is called incidentally the ‘first novel’ in English? (Lyly’s
Euphues)
726. The third edition of Bacon’s Essays containing 58 essays appeared in--(1625)