*18th CENTURY – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS*
1. The epithet 'Augustan' was first applied to Dryden by:
- Dr. Johnson
2. The eighteenth century in English literature is also called:
- The Age of Reason
3. The term 'Augustan' was first applied to a School of Poets by:
- Dr. Johnson
4. Who called the eighteenth century "Our admirable and indispensable Eighteenth Century"?
- Matthew Arnold
5. Who called the eighteenth century 'the Age of Prose and Reason’?
- Matthew Arnold
6. 'Dryden found English poetry brick and left it marble.' Who made this remark?
- Dr. Johnson
7. 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Who made this observation?
- Dr. Johnson
8. The Neo-Classical Age in English Literature follows the models of :
- Roman Literature
9. In the 'Life' of which poet did Dr. Johnson apply the term 'Metaphysical School of Poets’?
- Cowley
10. James II ascended the throne after:
- Charles II
11. Who started the Journal The Tatler?
- Steele
12. "I shall endeavor to enlighten morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality." Who made this endeavor?
- Addison
13. Referring to one of his novels, Jonathan Swift said, "Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book!
" Which novel was he referring to?
- A Tale of the Tub
14. In a letter to Pope, Swift wrote: "I heartily hate and detest that animal called man. "This is the central theme
of one of his novels. Which is it?
- Gulliver's Travels
15. Swift wrote in one of his works: "A young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious
nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled." Where does he make this
observation?
- A Modest Proposal
16. Who said, "The proper study of mankind is man?”
- Pope
17. Iliad and Odyssey were translated into English by:
- Pope
18. Which of the following deals with the Popish Plot'?
- Absolem and Achitophel
19. Who wrote, 'True wit is what oft was thought but
never so well expressed ?"
- Pope
20. Thomas Rhymer was a :
- Critic
21. The Elegie in praise of John Donne was written by-
- Thomas Carew
22. The play by Marston that foreshadows Shakespeare's The Tempest is -
- The Malcontent
23. In Joseph Andrews Fielding parodies :
- Richardson's Pamela
24. The 'Four Wheels of the Van of the English Novel are
- Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Richardson
25. 'Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six'. Who said this?
- Swift
26. The 'Coffee House Culture' flourished in:
- The Age of Dr. Johnson
27. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring."
Whose observation is this?
- Pope
28. A certain critic says that Pope's Essay on Criticism
is 'all stolen'. Which of the following says this?
- Lady M.W.Montagu
29. Matthew Prior's The Town and Country Mouse is
a parody of Dryden's :
- The Hind and the Panther
30. Who is the author of Moll Flanders?
- Daniel Defoe
31. The 'Lives' of how many poets were written by Dr. Johnson in his "Lives of the Poets’?
- 52
32. Dr. Johnson left out one important poet in his Lives
of the Poets. Who was that poet?
- Goldsmith
33. Who is the author of The School for Scandal?
- Sheridan
34. Who is the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
- Edward Gibbon
35. Who is the author of Inquiry Concerning Political Justice ?
- William Godwin
36. Who is the author of Castle of Otranto?
- Horace Walpole
37. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a :
- Gothic Novel
38. What is a Picaresque Novel?
- a novel whose hero is a wandering rogue
39. Who called Milton "the mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies"
- Tennyson
40. Fielding's Joseph Andrews is a burlesque based on:
- Richardson's Pamela
41. James Thomson's Seasons is a Nature poem divided into:
- four parts
42. Who is the author of the poem Grongar hill?
- John Dyer
43. Thomas Browne, the greatest prose writer of the puritan age, was by profession ––––.
- a doctor
44. Thomas Chatterton died at the age of :
- 18
45. Bishop Percy became famous as an antiquarian by the publication of :
- Reliques of Ancient Minstrels
46. Which poem begins with the line "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" ?
- Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
47. Gray's The Bard and The Progress of Poesy are:
- Pindaric Odes
48. The theme of Gray's Bard is the curse inflicted upon King Edward I and his progeny by :
- some poets were killed by him
49. 'Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy"- they allude to
- Milton
50. Louix XVI of France was executed by the Revolutionaries in :
- 1793
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