a)French word
b)Italian word
c)Greek word
d)Spanish word
2) What is the meaning of "Renaissance":
a)Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
b)Reveal, revel and reverie
c)Raillery, renunciation and recoup
3) Renaissance first came to the:
a)France
b)Italy
c)England
d)Rome
4) Which of the following are University wits:
a)John Gower and Robert Peele
b)John Skelton and Thomas lodge
c)John Lyly and Robert Greene
d)John Donne and Thomas Nashe
5) University Wits were those who:
a)Had training at two universities
b)gave curriculum of two universities
c)Erected two universities
6) Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:
a)14 th
b)15 th
c)16 th
d)14 th and 16 th
7) Who born in 1422:
a)William Caxton
b)Robert Henry
c)John Lyly
d)Thomas more
8) Utopia was first printed in:
a)1615
b)1516
c)1517
d)1518
9) Who translated Utopia in English language:
a)Thomas More
b)Thomas lodge
c)Ralph Robinson
d)William Tyndale
10) The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
a)Wyclif
b)Thomas more
c)John Lyly
d)Robert Greene
Answers:
1)a
2)a
3)b
4)c
5)a
6)b
7)a
8)b
9)c
10)a
11) Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?
a)Thomas Nash
b)Thomas More
c)Thomas lodge
d)Thomas Wyatt
12) Who wrote "Mirror for Magistrates"?
a)Thomas Sacville
b)Thomas Wyatt
c)Thomas lodge
d)Thomas Kyde
13) Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:
a)1553
b)1554
c)1555
d)1550
14) "Astrophel and Stella" is a:
a) Allegory
b) Epic
c)Sonnet
d)Ballad
15) Greville was biographer of:
a)Edmund Spencer
b)John Donne
c)Sir Philip Sidney
d)John Milton
16) "The Prince Of Poets in his time", on whom grave the inscription is given?
a)Sir Philip Sidney
b)John Milton
c)Edmund Spencer
d)John Donne
17) What is Faerie Queene:
a)An allegory
b)An epic
c)A ballad
d)A sonnet
18) In whose reign Morality plays began?
a)Henry five
b) Elizabeth one
c)Henry six
d)Henry eight
19) Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
a)The Faerie Queene
b)The shepheaedes Calendar
c)Complaints
d)Colin Clouts come home again
20) Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
a)Edmund Spenser
b)John Milton
c)John Donne
d)Sir Philip Sidney
Answers:
11)d
12)a
13)b
14)c
15)c
16)c
17)a
18)c
19)b
20)c
21) The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to ?
a)Nicholas Udall
b)Thomas Colwell
c)Lord Burghley
22)Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?
a)The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune
b)The Spanish Tragedy
c)Jeronimo
d)Cornelia
23)Marlowe born in________
a)1562
b)1563
c)1564
d)1565
24)In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :
a) German scholar
b)French scholar
c)Spanish scholar
d)Greek scholar
25)Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?
a)Shakespeare
b)Christopher Marlowe
c)Edmund Spenser
d)john Milton
26)After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem "Hero and Leander"?
a)Shakespeare
b)Thomas Nash
c)George Chapman
d)Thomas More
27) Who succeeded Lyly?
a)Robert Greene
b)John Milton
c)Philip Sidney
d)Christopher Marlowe
28) Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?
a)Queen of Carthage and The passionate Shepherd.
b)The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage.
c)The passionate Shepherd and The tragedy of Dido.
d)Queen of Carthage and The Massacre of Paris.
29) Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
a)Thomas Nah
b)Thomas lodge
c)Thomas Kyd
d)Thomas Hardy
30) The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:
a)Letters to the Margret Paston
b)Margret Paston to John Paston
c)The Paston letters
d)To John Paston
31) Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?
a)Edmund Spenser
b)John Donne
c)Shakespeare
d)John Milton
32) Who wrote following lines:
"........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
a)John Donne
b)John Milton
c)Earnest Hemingway
d)D.H. Lawrence
33) "On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:
a)Edmund Spenser
b)John Milton
c)Shakespeare
d)Sir Philip Sidney
34) "Paradise lost" was lost by:
a)Eve
b)Adam
c)Both a and b
d)Satan
35) In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?
a)Satan
b)Jesus
c)Adam and Eve
d)Only Adam
36) Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
a)Colin clouts come home again
b)Faerie queen, first three books
c)The Shepherd's calendar
d)Faerie queen, second three books
37)Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?
a) Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De Wilton
b)Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh
c)Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle
d)Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle
38)John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:
a)An elegy in two parts
b)An epic in three parts
c)A ballad in four parts
d) None of these
39) Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
a)Marlowe
b)Milton
c)Spencer
d)Johnson
40)During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:
a)Rosalind
b) Belinda
c)Both a and b
d)None of above
Answers:
21)a
22)b
23)c
24)a
25)b
26)c
27)a
28)b
29)b
30)c
31)b
32)a
33)b
34)c
35)b
36)c
37)c
38)a
39)c
40)a
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