History of English literature MCQs For BS/MA/MS/M Phil/Phd..
1)Literature is one of the fine art, like music,dance and……
(A) Imagination (B) Painting (C) A&B
2)There are two types of literature applied literature and…..
(A) Pure literature (B) species literature (C) Darwin’s literature
3) How terms can be properly explained by studying Darwin’s.?
(A) Three (B) Four (C) Two
4) The name of terms can be studying Darwin’s?
(A)The origin of species, and keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn(B) species and Literature (C)
Darwin’s and communicated
5)When we speak of literature,we refer to?
(A) Applied literature (B) Pure literature (C) origins species
6) The Literary quality of the book has served a certain specific purpose and there are two
elements in the book the merit of Darwin’s purpose and the…..
(A) Merit of Expressive power (B) Demerit expressive (C) Darwin Power
7)Literature is the reflection of…….
(A) Work (B) Society (C)A&B
8)How is the first philosophers of literature?
(A) Plato (B) Thomas (C) Sidney
9) According to Plato potery is a…..
(A) Copy (B) mere imitation (C) More imitation
10)Walter paters a, critics’of the later …………century who discussed the relation of literature and
life in detail……?
(A) Nineteenth (B) Eighteen (C) seventeenth
The Renaissance period (1500-1600,) and Old Anglo-Saxon period (670-1100)
Q: 1 The Renaissance period in English literature is also called the,
a) Jacobean Period b) Victorian Period
c) Georgian Period d) Elizabeth Period
Q:2. Renaissance means the
a) Rebirth of knowledge b) Rebirth of language
c) Rebirth of Prose d) Rebirth of drama
Q.3 The Renaissance began in Italy
a) 1300 century b) 1400 century
c) 1500 century d) 1700 century
Q. 4 The Constantinople was fall in
a) 1433 AD b) 1453 AD
c) 1429 AD d) 1420 AD
Q. 5 Greek Scholars brought with them invaluable
a) Greek Manuscript b) Greek Language
c) Greek Culture d) Greek Music
Q. 6 Copernicus discovered the
a) Earth b) Solar system
c) America d) Voyage Ways
Q:.7 The chief characteristics of the Renaissance was its emphasis on
a) Feminism b) Terrorism
c) Humanism d) Socialism
Q.8 This movement was started in Italy by
a) Dante b) Petrarch
c) Boccaccio d) All of them
Q. 9 The first English man who wrote under the influence of Greek studies was
a) Sir Philip Sidney b) Sir Thomas More
c) Sir Walter Raleigh d) William Wordswort
Q:10 Sir Thomas wrote Utopia in Latin was suggested by
a) Defence of Poesie b) Plato`s Republic
c) Hamlet d) Euphuism
Q.11 Sir Philip Sidney wrote
a) Hamlet b) The Jew of Malta
c) Poetics d) Defence Of Poesie
Q.12 Renaissance came in England in
a) 1500 century b) 1300 century
c) 1900 century d) 1600 century
Q.13 In the middle of sixteenth century some academic writers attempts to write original plays___on the Latin model
a) In English B) In Greek
c) In France d) In Italian
Q.14 The second period of Elizabethan drama was dominated by the
a) Shakespeare b) Nash
c) Chaucer d) University Wits
Q.15 The author of Euphues Is
a) Lyly b) Thomas Kyd
c) George Peele d) Ben Jonson
Q.16 One of the best play of Lyly is
a) Arcadia b) Ferrex and Porrex
c) Midas d) None of these
Q.17 The earnest work of George Peele is
a) The Arraignment of Peris b) Endymion
c) David and Bathsheba c) All
Q.18 The first popular work of Thomas Kyd is
a) The Spanish Tragedy b) Sapho Phao
c) Edward II c) Compaspe
Q.19 Kyd introduced the_____ element in drama
a) prose b) Blood and Thunder
c) Blank verse c) Euphuism
Q.20 The first play of Marlowe was produced in
a) 1587 b) 1593
c) 1564 d) 1566
Q.21 The most popular tragedy of Marlowe is
a) The Jew of Malta b) The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
c) Tamburlaine d) Edward II
Q.22 Who Is the father of English Dramatic Poetry
a) Chaucer b) Shakespeare
c) Chirstopher Marlowe d) George Peele
Q.23 The greatest of Elizabethan dramatists was
a) Shakespeare b) Ben Jonson
c) Chaucer d) Marlowe
Q.24 Shakespeare got proper training first as an
a) reviser ,actor, singer b) singer ,dramatist ,sailor
c) actor ,poet ,dancer d) actor, reviser of old plays ,dramatist
Q.25 Shakespeare wrote _____ plays and _____ sonnets
a) 37, 76 b) 56 ,12
c) 19,134 d) 37, 154
Q.26 Shakespeare worked as a dramatist about
a) 23 years b) 24 years
c) 16 years d) 6 years
Q.27 Shakespeare`s first comedy and chronicle is
a) love`s labour`s lost,Romeo Juliet b) Midas ,Henry I
c) The winter`s tale, The Tempest d) Othello, Macbeth
Q.28 The third period belong to Shakespeare`s
a) Great tragedies and bitter comedies b) Chronicle plays and sonnets
c) Revision of old plays d) Romances
Q.29 Shakespeare was born on
a) 23 April, 1564 b) 14 Dec, 1566 c) 12 Feb, 1616
Q.30 Who was the opposite of Shakespeare ?
a) Marlowe b) Ben Jonson
c) John Milton d) Wordsworth
Q.31 Who made an attempt to have the classical unities ?
a) Shakespeare b) Lyly
c) Ben Jonson d) Milton
Q.32 Jonson`s most brilliant realistic Elizabethan comedy is
a) The Silent Woman b) The Alchemist
c) King John d) Henry 5
Q.33 Which one presents a true picture of Elizabethan low life
a) Sejanus b) Cataline
c) Volpone d) Bartholomew Fair
Q.34 The greatest Tragedy of Shakespeare is
a) Hamlet b) The Silent Woman
c) The Spanish Tragedy d) The White Devil
Q.35 Thomas Kyd wrote The Spanish Tragedy in
a) 1592 b) 1564
b) 1591 d) 1594
Q.36 Who made himself the head of Church of England
a) Elizabeth I b) Henry II
c) King Henry VIII d) George Peele
Q.37 UTOPIA was written by
a) Shakespeare b) Thomas More
c) Marlowe d) Peele
Q.38 Who was the actor as well as writer of plays
a) George Peele b) Marlowe
c) Lyly d) More
Q.39 In second period of Elizabethen who was the central sun
a) Marlowe b) Thomas Kyd
c) John Milton d) Shakespeare
Q.40 The most famous play of Peele is
a) The arraignment of Paris b) David Ana Bathsheba
c) Blank Verse d) Tamburline
Q.41 Ben Johnson was mainly a writer of
A) Satire b) Tragedies
c) Comedies d) Poetry
Q.42 How many tragic plays are written by Johnson
a) 2 b) 9
c) 1 d) 5
Q.43 What is the special work of Vascoda Gama
a) Discovery Of Earth b) Discovery of Solar system
C) Circumnavigated the earth. d) Discovery of America
Q.43 Who started writing English Essay
a) Montage b) LYLY
c) Marlowe D) Kyd
Q.44 The most memorable achievement in literature was in field of
a) Drama b) Poetry
c) Comedy d) Prose
Q.45 Lyly was born in
a) 1555 b) 1554
c) 1345 d) 1453
Q.46 Lyly wrote his play Compaspe in
a) 1575 b) 1581
c) 1584 d) 1585
Q.47 The duration of Shakespeare`s second period was
a) 1594-1600 b) 1601-1609
c) 1605-1607 d) 1602-1612
Q.48 Anglo-Saxon period extended
a) 675-1100 b) 1500-1600
c) 1700-1800 d) 670-1100
Q.49 Where Anglo lived before occupied Britian
a) Denmark b) Sweden
c) America d) India
Q.50 The most important poem of OLD ENGLISH PERIOD Is
a) Beowulf b) Paradise Lost
c) a & b d) none of these
Q.51 One common thing among Angle & Saxon was their
a) Language b) Religious
c) Poetry d) Prose
Q.52 England was province of
a) Rome b) India
c) America d) Europe
Q.53 The Anglo Saxon language was the only branch of
A ) Aryan b) Urdu
c) Arabic d) Sanskarit
Q.54 Who defeated Anglo Saxon
a) Normanday b) Harold
c) Johnson d) Henry VIII
Q.55 William Langland was the poet of
a) Middle Period b) OLD Period
c) Renaissance Period d) None of these
Q.56 Who was the father of English literature
a) Chaucer b) Peele
c) Kyd d) Marlowe
Q.57 Renaissance is a_______ word
a) Italian b) French
c) Greek d) Latin
Q.58 Who conquered Constantinople
a) Greeks b) Romans
c) Turks d) Latins
Q.59 Which Poet carried humanism to perfection
a) Shakespeare b) Marlowe
c) Peele d) Kyd
Q.60 Whose poet`s birth & death date is same
a) Peele b) Kyd
c) Marlowe d) Shakespeare
Restoration period (1660-1700)
Q:61) From what did begin the Restoration period and when did it end?
(A)1651 1700 (B)1660 1700. (C)1665 1710
Q:62)The age of Restoration is so called because which of the following king was restored to the throne?
(A)James ll. (B) Charles ll. (C) Charles I
Q:63) Who was the greatest prose write of Restoration period?
(A) Sure William. (B)Thomas sprait (C)John Bunyan
Q:64) Charles ll was restorated to the throne of England in?
(A)1665 (B) 1645. (C)1660
Q:65) Charles I was executed in?
(A) 1648. (B) 1647. (C) 1649
Q:66) Which age is called Caroline age?
(A)The age of Charles I (B) The age of Charles ll ( C) The age of James I
Q:67) Charles ll was the son of?
(A) Charles I who was beheaded (B) Charles ll. (C)James
Q:68) The Restoration age is also known as?
(A)Age of Charles I. (B)James ll. (C) The age of Dryden
Q:69) Restoration means?
(A) Restoration of Charles ll as king of England. (B) Restoration king of France
(A) Restoration king of itly
Q:70) The two historians of the restoration period were?
(A)Lock and Hobbes (B) Jack and Jill (C) Clarendon and Burnet
RESTORATION DARAMA:-
Q:71 The Theatres was closed in:
(a) 1645 (b) 1642 (c) 1650 (d) 1660
Q:72 The Theatres closed by the authority of the…..
(a) Parliament (b) senate (c) Prime minister (d) chief minister
Q:73 Good plays wear written form ………
(a) 1642 (b) 1645 (c) 1650 (d) 1669
Q:74 Restoration coming back of monarchy in…..…
(a) Landon (b) France
(c) America (d) England
Q:75 The theatres wears reopen in ……..
(a) 1660 (b) 1664 (c) 1669 (d) 1700
Q:76 The drama in England in 1660 are called the ……
(a) Restoration drama (b) Restoration prose
(c) Restoration poetry (d) Restoration essay
Q:77 The most Popular form of drama was the ……..
(a) Comedy of manners (b) tragedy comedy
(c) Funny comedy (d) Melodrama
Q:78 Willam Congreve love for love wrote in …….
(a) 1695 (b) 1697 (c) 1699 (d) 1698
Q:79The chief protagonist and writer of heroic tragedy was?
(a) Dryden (b) Shakespeare (c) Willam Congreve
Q:80The greatest prose writer of the period was ?
(a) Johan Bunya (b) Johan tillotson (c) George Sayville (d) Smyth
Restoration Prose:-
Q:81 The Restoration period was deficient in
(a) Poetry and drama (b) Poetry and Prose
(c) Prose and drama (d) drama and prose
Q,:82 The chief of leader poetry and drama was
(a) Dryden (b) John Bunyan
(c) Milton (d) Aristotle
Q:84 Bunyan like as ?
(A) Shakespeare (b) Halifax (c) Milton
Q:85 What was the famous for new prose then for his own written
(a) Thomas Sprat (b) William temple (c) Johan
Q:86 Restoration prose enjoy absolute supremacy in
(a) English literature (b) Urdu (c) Arabic (d) Persians
Q:87 The Prose of Bunyan show English of translation
(a) Bible (b) Quran (c) Zaboor (d) Angel
Q,:88 Bunyan other work are grace abounding to the chief
(a) 1666 (b) 1670 (c) 1665 (d) 1669
Q:89 For which prose medium is required, the style of Dryden is the
(a) Require (b) most suitable (c) Not suitable
Q,:90 The Life and Death of Mr. Badman written in
(a) 1675 (b) 1677 (c) 1680 (d) 1682
The Puritan Age (1600-1660)
Q:91 The literature of the Seventeenth Century may be
divided into ?
a) Three periods b) Five periods
c) Two periods d) Six periods
Q.92 The Age Of Milton is further divided into…..
a) Jacobean period b) Caroline period. C) Restoration period. d) A&B
Q:93 The Seventeenth Century was marked by the decline of the …..
a) Realism. b) Renaissance spirit
c) English literature. d) None
Q.94 In which century England expended in all directions ?
a) Sixteenth century b) Eighteenth century
c) Seventeenth Century. d) Fifteenth century
Q.95 Which language the writers began using at first time as a vehicle for storing and conveying facts ?
a) English b) French
c) Italian. d) German
Q.96 The most important and significant feature of Puritan age was the popularization of ?
a) Drama. b) Biography. . c) English Literature. d) None
Q.97 The Seventeenth Century upto 1660 was dominated by ?
a) Puritanism. b) Realism
c) Humanism d) Idealism
Q.98 Which age is called the Age of Milton ?
a) Restoration Age b) Old Age
c) Modern Age. d) Puritan Age
Q.99 Puritan movement in literature may be considered as the ……
a) Renaissance b) Second Renaissance
c) Both d) None of these
Q.100 The Puritan movement stood for ……….
a) Despotism b) Religious
c) Liberty of the people. d) None of these
Q.101 _____ were the real champions of liberty and stood for tolerance ……..
a) Milton & Cromwell b) Dryden & Marlowe
c) Bishop & Charles I d) John Donne & Herrick
Q.102 Charles I was defeated & beheaded in……
a) 1645. b) 1658 c) 1649 d) 1647
Q.103 Puritanism came out triumphant with the establishment of the Commonwealth under?
. a) Cromwell. b) Milton c) Bishop d) Dryden
Q.104 Who was the noblest and indomitable representative of the Puritan Spirit ?
a) Cromwell b) John Milton c) Dryden. d) Charles I
Q.105 The Puritan movement was marked by the rebirth of ……
a) Humanism. b) English Language c) Moral nature of man. d) Knowledge
Q:106. Puritan Age Lacked quality?
(A) Poetry. (B) Drama (C) Playwrights
Q:107----- Was the noblest Representative of the Puritan spirit?
(A) John Milton. (B) Thomas Carew. (C) George Herbert
Puritan Poetry..
Q:108 ...Who was spenser follower?
(A)British (B) England people (C) spenserians (D) . Western people
Q:109 .Who made Italian poetry fashionable?
(A) Shakespeare (B) William(C) . Spenser (D) Sidney spenserians
Q:110….Who was considered the master of spenserians?
(A).Milton (B) Sidney (C) Spenser. (D) All
Q:111...ho was most through going disciple of spenser during the jame (1)?
(A).Jame (B). Shakespeare (C) Phineas Fletcher (D) Giles and Phineas Fletcher
Q:112 .Where they were both fellow Phineas and Giles Fletcher?
(A) University (B) . college (C) School. (D) Cambridge university
Q:113 .Who wrote a number of pastorals and allegories?
(A) James (B)King (C)Sidney. (D) Phineas fletcher
Q:114 ….What is his most ambitious poem of Phineas Fletcher?
(A)Cynewulf (B).Patriot (C)Rebel (D).Purple island
Q:115 Giles Fletcher was more lyrical and mystical than…..
(A).His brother (B).Sister. (C)Uncle (D)All
Q:116 .Who wrote under the influence of spenspense
(A)William brown (B).George wither (C)William Drummond (D).All
Q:117 .Link between religious poetry ?
(A) Thomas (B)Thomasser (C)Milton (D)Spenser and Milton
The Cavalier poets and John Milton
Q:118 Milton was the greatest poet of the ….
(A) puritan age (B) renaissance period(C ) metaphysical poets (D) none
Q:119 john Milton age is?
(A ) 1605 16667 (B )1608 1674 (C ) 1675 1670 (D ) 1453 1667
Q:120 civil war broke out ?
(A )1667. (B) 1642. (C) 1668. (D)1557
Q:121 Milton early poetry is …..
(A) lyrical (B) romantic (C) comedy (D) None
Q:122 Best poem of john Milton is…
(A) comus (B) paradise lost (C) god of man. (D) lyrical genius
Q:123 Cavalier poets followed by ……
(A)Ben Jonson (b) Shakespeare (c)Thomas (d)Robert
Q:124 Cavalier lyrics and songs also different from those of ….
(a)Shakespeare (b)Thomas (C) Robert (d)Ben Jonson
Q:125 The cavalier poets normally wrote about ….
(a)serious subject (b)simple subject (c)trivial subject (d)hard subject
Q:126 Cavalier poets support in during the Civil War …
(a)king Charles (b) king Charles 1. (c) parrement (d) Thomas
Q:127 The Caroline age covers the period?
(A)1620_1640. (b) 1625_1650. (C) 1630_1656. (D)1625_1649
Q:128 Who clearly the influence of the English translation of the Bible?
(A) sir William (B)Thomas spray (C) Bunyan (D) George Saville
Q :129 The greatest story_teller is?
(A)Milton. (B)Thomas (C) Bunyan. (D) None
Q:132 Who made Italian poetry fashionable?
(A) Shakespeare. (B) Williams. (C) Spenser (D).Sidney and spenser
Q:133 Who was considered the master of spenserians?
(A).Milton (B) Sidney (C) Spenser (D) All
The Poets Of The Metaphysical School
Q:134 Who was the leader of Metaphysical School?
A Thomas Carew B John Donne C. Robert Herrick D George Herbert
Q:135 Who used the term Metaphysical in his essay?
A .John Donne B .Henry Vaughan C .Dr.Johnson D .Francis Bacon
Q:136. Dr . Johnson was prejudiced against the metaphysical school of …..
A) Drama B) poets C) Novel D) story
Q:137 Is the major character of a mataphyisical poetry……
( A) conceit. ( B ) love. ( C) marriage ( D ) wit
Q:138 The metaphysical poets... Original thinkers…..
( A) honest. ( B) analyse. ( C) concerned ( D) experience
Q:139 Which poets believed in analysis of emotion….
( A) claviar poets. ( B) Elizabethan poet. ( C) Victorian poets. ( D) metaphysical poets
Q:140. John Donne became Dean of?
(A)St.Paul (B) George Herbert (C) John Donne. (D)All of the above
Q:141 How many parts John Donne’s poetry can be divided?
(A)One (B) .Two (C) Three (D) Four
Q:142 Write the name of his division?
(A) Amorous,Metaphysical, Satirical. (B) progress of the soul (C)An Elegy (D) None
Jacobean and Caroline drama
Q:143 In which year puritan closed theatre……
A.1640 b.1642 c.1645 d.1650
Q:144 The greatest dramatist of Jacobean period was ……
A . Ben Jonson B Thomas dicker C. John Marston D Philip
Q:145 John Marston died in ……..
A.1630 B. 1650 C.1634 D. 1642
Q:146 John Marston best play is ……..
A. Antonia. B Milena. C Eastward Hoe D. Courtesan
Q:147. How many plays written by Thomas Heywood…..
A.228 . B. 229 .C. 230. D. 233
Q:148 Plays of Thomas Heywood deals with the life of……
A . Cities. B. Shakespeare’s. Country. Poets
Q:149 The best known play of Thomas Heywood is…….
A. The foure Prentice of London. B. A woman kilde with kindness. C .The trouble of queen
Q:150 What kind of writer was Thomas Middleton….
A . Poetry . B .comedy . C . Prose
Q:151 . Melodramas ful of crimes and torture written by……
A . John Webster. B . John Fletcher C .Cyrel Tourneur . D . Philip Massinger
Q:152 After the death of__________ the drama in England suffered decline….
A . John Fletcher B . John Webster C. Shakespeare’s D. John Marston