51) Marlowe's tragedies are:
A. tragedies of noble men
B. love tragedies
C. one-man tragedies
D. revenge plays
Answer: …………………………….
52) Who coined the phrase, "Marlowe's mighty line"?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. R.L. Stevenson
D. Richard Steele
Answer: ………………………………..
53) Out of the four chief dialects that flourished in the pre-Chaucerian period, the one that became the standard English in Chaucer's time is:
A. the Northern
B. the East-Midland
C. the West-Midland
D. the Southern
Answer: ……………………..
54) Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding medieval literature?
A. Allegory was frequent and usual
B. The dream-vision convention was prevalent
C. Chaucer exploited the dream-vision convention in The Canterbury Tales.
D. There was often an undercurrent of moral and dialectic strain.
Answer: …………………………………..
55) In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the
A. Ottawa Rhyme
B. Rhyme Royal
C. Heroic Couplet
D. Both A and C
Answer: …………………………………………..
56) Chaucer has been criticized for presenting an incomplete picture of his times, because
A. he overemphasizes the rights of the lower class
B. he exaggerates the courtly benevolence
C. he writes for the court and cultivated classes and neglects the suffering of the poor
D. he supports the Lolland and the Peasant Revolution too fervently
Answer: …………………………………………..
57) Which of the following are correctly matched?
a. Captain Singleton 1. a sailor
b. Moll Flanders 2. a prostitute
c. Colonel Jack 3. a valiant solider
d. Cavalier 4. a prince
A. Only a-1 and b-2
B. Only b-2
C. Only c-3 and d-4
D. Only d-4
Answer: ………………….
58) " Lunatics, lovers, and poets all are ruled by their overactive imaginations. " These words of Shakespeare are taken from:
A. Love's Labor Lost
B. Hamlet
C. Henry IV
D. Midsummer Night's Dream
Answer:……………………………………
59) An author sums up the human condition thus, "human life is everywhere a state, in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed." Who said this and where?
A. Alexander Pope - Essay on Man
B. Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
C. Albert Camus - The Stranger
D. Dr. Johnson – Rasselas
Answer: …………………………..
60) “Yet
if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways
of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its
successes, ''tradition" should positively be discouraged. We have seen many
such simple currents soon lo.st in the sand; and novelty is better than repetition.
Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. Ii cannot be inherited, and
if you want it you must obtain it by
great labor.”
A.
T.S.Eliot
B.
Alexander Pope
C.
P.B.Shelley
D.
Matthew Arnold
Answer:
…………………………………………
51- C
52- A
53- B
54- C
55- C
56- C
57-A
58-D
59-D
60-A
