MCQs:
- Chaucer served in the English army under which king ?
(a) Henry iii
(b) Edward ii
(c) Edward iii ☑
(d) Richard ii - Which of the tale tellers has a conspicuous hairy wart ?
(a)The coachman
(b) The miller ☑
(c) The tailor
(d) The weaver - How many plays did William Shakespeare write ?
(a) 36
(b) 37☑
(c) 38
(d) 39 - The line ” to be or not to be ” comes from which play ?
(a) Macbeth
(b) twelfth night
(c) A midsummer Night’s dream
(d) Hamlet ☑ - Which famous Shakespearean play does the quote,
” my salad days, when I was green in judgment”
come from ?
(a) antony and cleopatra ☑
(b) hamlet
(c) The winter’s tale
(d) The merry wives of Windsor - In what year was the first Folio published ?
(a) 1626
(b) 1621
(c) 1623☑
(d) 1629 - Which river is associated with Shakespeare’s birth ?
(a) The Thames
(b) The Avon ☑
(c) The Tyburn
(d) The seven - In 1613, The Globe theater burned down during a production of which play ?
(a) king John
(b) Richard II
(c) Henry viii☑
(d) Henry V - Who among these characters says this
“it is no sin to deceive a Christian?”
(a) shylock
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Barabus
(d) Jew of Malta ☑ - Pick the place where Twelfth Night has been set ?
(a) Kingdom of Denmark
(b) Kingdom of illyria ☑
(c) Venice
(d) Beach Island - Gratiano and Nerrissa are the characters in ?
(a) house of fame
(b) merchant of Venice ☑
(c) king Lear
(d) Othello - ” HORATIO I AM DEAD ” find the literary device employed here ?
(a) prolepsis ☑
(b) anagnorisis
(c) hamartia
(d) aporia - In ” Tempest ” who attempts to rape Miranda ?
(a) ferdinand
(b) caliban ☑
(c) trinculo
(d) alonso - ” Ripeness is all ” occurs in ?
(a) hamlet
(b) king Lear ☑
(c) Macbeth
(d) Othello - ” Full Fathom five thy father lies ” where do we find these lines ?
(a) A midsummer night’s dream
(b) A winter’s tale
(c) The taming of the shrew
(d) The Tempest ☑ - ” Readiness is all ” occurs in ?
(a) Julius Caesar
(b) Othello
(c) Macbeth
(d) Hamlet ☑ - Whom did Charles lamb call ” a prose Shakespeare” ?
(a) Thomas heywood ☑
(b) Thomas Middleton
(c) Thomas dekker
(d) Thomas kyd - Who is called the dickens of Elizabethan age ?
(a) Thomas heywood
(b) John Marston
(c) Thomas dekker ☑
(d) George Chapman - Who coined the phrase “Marlowe’s mighty line” ?
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) Ben Johnson ☑
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Richard Steele - Which play of Shakespeare is a ” conversation play ” ?
(a) measure for measure
(b) much ado about nothing
(c) Twelfth night
(d) All’s well that ends well ☑ - ” Life of Shakespeare ” is written by ?
(a) Sidney Lee ☑
(b) Philip Sidney
(c) Marlowe
(d) spencer - Who completed Christopher Marlowe’s ” Hero and Leander ” ?
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Chapman ☑
(d) heywood - In which tale of Chaucer, a daughter is killed by her father ?
(a) The monk’s tale
(b) The physician’s tale ☑
(c) The friar’s tale
(d) The clerk’s tale - In whose story, the character of Griselda appear ?
(a) The clerk’s tale ☑
(b) The Reeve’s tale
(c) The miller’s tale
(d) The friar’s tale - Who is known as the Chaucer of Scotland ?
(a) William Dunbar ☑
(b) Robert Henryson
(c) John lydgate
(d) Gavin Douglas - The schoolmaster by Roger Ascham is a/an ?
(a) morality play
(b) human ideal
(c) educational treatise ☑
(d) all of the above - Who is known as the connecting link between Chaucer and Spenser ?
(a) Henry Howard
(b) Thomas Sackville ☑
(c) Roger Ascham
(d) Sir Thomas Wyatt - When did the Great fire of London take place ?
(a) 1610
(b) 1606
(c) 1640
(d) 1666☑ - Chaucer was called ” the earliest of the Great moderns” and was also called, ” The morning star of the Renaissance “. Who initiated these remarks ?
(a) Kittredge
(b) Hudson
(c) Albert ☑
(d) Pope - Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
(a) The short story
(b) The heroic epic
(c) The morality play ☑
