*ELIZABETHAN AGE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS*
1. Forest of Arden appears in the play -
- As You Like It
2. Who is the author of Steel Glass?
- Gascoigne
3. In which year was the Globe Theatre built?
- 1599
4. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in
- 1609
5. Who was the author of Endymion?
- John Lyly
6. Who is the author of Venus and Adonis?
- Shakespeare
7. How many plays did Shakespeare write in all?
- 37
8. When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his
death. Which of the following?
- Astrophel
9. Spenser's Epithalamion is
- a wedding hymn
10. Spenser's Amoretti is
- a collection of his love s sonnets
11. Spenser wrote a series of sonnets in honor of his
lady love, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he later married.
What title did he give to this series?
- Amoretti
12. Roister Doister is believed to be the first real
comedy in English. Who wrote it?
- Nicholas Udall
13. Gorboduc is believed to be our first real tragedy.
It was written in collaboration by:
- Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
14. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled:
- Ferrex and Porrex
15. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to:
- Gosson's School of Abuse
16. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney:
- defends the Three Dramatic Unities
17. –––– has written only Tragedies.
- Marlowe
18. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" In which play does this line occur?
- Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
19. Who used the phrase 'Marlowe's mighty line' for Marlowe's Blank Verse?
- Ben Jonson
20. Who said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes”?
- Ruskin
21. For what is the phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare?
- The play within the play in Hamlet
22. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie
Queene to :
- Sir Walter Raleigh
23. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of:
- Gloriana
24. Who calls Spenser the 'Poets' Poet’?
- Charles Lamb
25. In which work did Spenser first use the Spenserian stanza?
- Faerie Queene
26. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as designed by Spenser, it was to be completed in:
- Twelve Books
27. How many Cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queene?
- Twelve
28. In the complete plan of the Allegory in the Faerie Queene, Spenser designed to have twelve books in it, but
he could not complete the whole plan. How many Books now exist?
- Six
29. In the Dedicatory Letter, Spenser Says that the real beginning of the allegory in the Faerie Queene is to be
found in:
- Book XI I
30. The Faerie Queene is basically a moral allegory. From whom did Spenser derive this concept of moral
allegory?
- Aristotle
31. 'Spenser writ no language.' Who said this?
- Ben Jonson
32. Spenser divided his Shepheardes Calender into twelve Ecologies. Why did he do so?
- Because there are twelve months in a year
33. Who is the author of The New Atlantis?
- Bacon
34. Bacon's Essays are modelled on the Essais of:
- Montaigne
35. Who is the author of Novum Organum?
- Bacon
36. To whom does Spenser dedicate his Shepheardes Calendar?
- Sir Philip Sidney
37. How many Essays were published in Bacon's First Edition of Essays in 1597?
- Ten
38. How many essays of Bacon were published in his third and last edition of Essays in 1625?
- 58
39. "......... a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the
better, but it embaseth it". In which essay of Bacon do these lines occur?
- Of Truth
40. "A place showeth the man and it showeth some to the better, and some to the worse." In which essay of
Bacon do these lines occur?
- Of Great Place
41. "Frailty thy name is a woman." Who says this?
- Hamlet
42. "Life is a tale, told by an idiot,
Full of sound and fury
signifying nothing."
In which play do the se lines occur?
- Macbeth
43. "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars
This other Eden, demi-paradise ....."
These highly patriotic lines are spoke n by:
- John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
44. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact."
In which play do these lines occ ur?
- A Mid - Summer Night's Dream
45. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
- Polonius (Hamlet)
46. "We are such stuff
As dreams are made o n, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep"
Who speaks these lines?
- Prospero
47. "Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more."
In which play do these lines occur?
- Macbeth
48. "Others abide our question. Thou art free,
We ask and ask - thou smilest and art still
Out-topping knowledge."
These lines are written about Shakespeare. Who
was written them?
- Matthew Arnold
49. Shakespeare is called 'The Bard of Avon'. Why is he so-called?
- Shakespeare was born at Stratford on the banks
of the river Avon
50. Ben Jonson's comedies are called 'Comedies of Humour'. Why?
- Each of them deals with a particu
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