CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART VI

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART VI

1. Sir Moby Belch is a character from the play?

2. When did the Reformation begin in England?

3. Who believed that the true end of poetry was ‘delightful teaching’.

4. Who is known as the child of the Renaissance and Reformation?

5. Delia is a collection of sonnets by?

6. Ideas Mirror (1594) is  a collection of sonnets by?

7. Who wrote, “The metaphysical poets were men of learning and to show their learning was their whole endeavour.”

8. The Shepherd’s Calendar was inspired by?

9. The name of sonnet sequence by Spenser is?

10. “Two Cantos of Mutability” is a title of the last book of?

11. How many knights are there in The Faerie Queen?

12. Diana (1532) is a sonnet sequence by?

13. Which book has been recognized as “an English Christian Humanistic epic.”

14. The followers of Calvin were called?

15. In 1579, the name of the Presbyterian leader was?

16. Philip Hensolowe built the theatre named as?

17. Ithamore is a character in the play?

18. How many historical plays were written by Shakespeare?

19. Bell-Imperia is a character in the play?

20. The theatre The Globe was built in the year?

21. How many of Shakespeare’s history plays are based on Roman History?

22. Which play of Shakespeare was based on Gascoigne’s Supposes?

23. The Globe was set on fire in 1613 during an early performance of the play?

24. Which play is considered as ‘a comedy of mistaken identity’?

25. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (1592) is based on?

26. Totus mundus agit historian means ?

27. Angelo is a character in the play?

28. The theatre The Globe, which was set on fire, was rebuilt in the year?

29. Who regards shakespeare’s early comedies as “joyous, refined, romantic.”

30. The line ‘the rarer action is/In virtue than in vengeance’ occurs in?

31. Viola is the heroine of the play?

32. Thomas Kyd was arrested in 1593 because of his?

33. The ghost of Andrea appears in the play?

34. Who said that “the hero of Shakespeare’s great classical trilogy is Rome.”

35. Helena de Narbon is the heroine of?

36. Who said, “Shakespearean comedy is not finally satiric; it is poetic.”

37. Edward Ellen was a great actor of which age.

38. Cindrella is known for?

39. Which dialect was the first to produce a literature?

40. Which poem is generally considered to be the oldest poem in the language?

41. Whose translation of the Bible was the first complete English Bible to be printed?

42. Which translations of the Bible was the first of the authorized version?

43. Theatres were first closed in the year?

44. Who was the first great Anglican preacher?

45. The most important anti-dramatic book of the Elizabethan age was?

46. The Steele Gas (1576), one of the first regular satires, was written by?

47. Who finished Marlowe’s unfinished play Dido?

48. Who is often recognized as the “father of the English prose?”

49. Colloquy is an old English prose work by?

50. Who is probably known for his Grammar?

51. In one of his books, who describes himself as “scholemaster of Dunfermeling.”

52. Magnificence is an excellent morality play by?

53. At the accession of Mary, who was thrown into jail and was burnt at Oxford?

54. Heywood’s The Four P’s is a ?

55. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594) was produced by?

56. Who was tried for treason and beheaded on Tower Hill?

57. Which is the first prose comedy?

58. Who died at the battle of Zutphen in 1586?

59. “Since there is no Help” is an inspiring poem by?

60. The Civil Wars (1595) is a long historical poem by?

61. Endymion (1592) is a play by?

62. Who died in a tavern brawl?

63. Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is a?

64. Othello is a tragedy of?

65. Macbeth is a tragedy of?

66. Hamlet is a tragedy of?

67. The witches appear in the play?

68. The Rape of Lucree is a work by?

69. In Henry IV, Part I the name of the son of the king is?

70. The name of the comic character in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) is?

71. The Battle of Philippi appears in the play?

72. The name of the here of the play Coriolanus is?

73. The war between Rome and the Volscians takes place in the play?

74. Who said that ‘Shakespeare represents the tragic aspect of life, the tragic fact’.

75. Antony and Cleopatra is based on?

76. The sea battle of Actium takes place in the play?

77. Who thought of Oedipus Complex as the reason for the delay in Hamlet?

78. Puck is a character in the play?

79. Which play is based on Lodge’s romance Rosalynde?

80. Othello was based on?

81. Which play of Shakespeare has been regarded as “one of Shakespeare’s most assured artistic successes” by T. S. Eliot?

82. Which character of Shakespeare has “the courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye, tongue and sword.”

83. Marston’s play The Malcontent has something common with the play?

84. The source of Measure for Measure was?

85. Ariel, in The Tempest, is a ?

86. Which was regarded as ‘a hateful work’ by Coleridge?

87. Caliban, in The Tempest, is a?

88. Which character of Shakespeare was referred to as ‘full of the milk of human kindness.’

89. Which scene is known as the ‘balcony scene’ in Romeo and Juliet?

90. In which play the following line appears ‘Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.’

91. The song “Blow, blow, thou Winter wind” was sung by Ameins in the play?

92. Return of the sailors of a ship that had disappeared, inspired Shakespeare to write?

93. Who were the characters of the ‘morality’ plays?

94. “To fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline” is the aim of the book?

95. In Marlowe’s play Edward II, who says, “I learned in Naples how to poison flowers.”

96. Who names Shakespeare’s history plays as a “mirror of kings”?

97. “whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also a reap” is the motto of the play?

98. As regards literature, which age of French history is compared to the Elizabethan Age?

99. Who speaks the following lines in a Shakespearean play:
         Doubt that the stars are fire
         Doubt that the Sun doth move
         Doubt truth to be a liar

         But never doubt I love.”

100. Queen Mary reigned during?

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART V

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART V

1. Tottel’s Miscellany is a collection of ….songs, sonnets and lyrics.

2. Who is the author of Inferno?

3. Sackville’s Induction was written in?

4. The Mirror of Magistrates was written by?

5. Dunbar satirized his law courts in his?

6. Dunbar’s Satire on Edinburgh is an attack on?

7. Elizabeth I succeeded a catholic dictator the name of whom is?

8. The name of the book which deals with the killings by the catholic queen Mary is?

9. Book of Martyrs was written by?

10. Who is of the view that Chaucer is not as great as the classicists?

11. To whom Pope gives the title ‘Defender of the Faith’?

12. Battle of Pavia took place in the year?

13. Thomas More becomes Chancellor in?

14. Which of Lydgate’s works describes the sufferings of the poor?

15. Wyatt’s love sonnets are …in total.

16. Wyatt’s sonnets were published in?

17. Tottel’s Miscellany was published in?

18. Wyatt’s satire were composed in?

19. Why is ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’ called ‘Prologue to Modern Fiction?” Because of its?

20. Robin Hood is known for ?

21. Arnold said, “With him is born our real poetry.” Here who is ‘him’?

22. Who was Aeschylus (525-456 B. C)?

23. How many books are there in Virgil’s Aeneid?

24. Who was Achilles?

25. Shakespeare used the longest word ‘Honerificabilitudinitatibus’ in his play?

26. Who has been called ‘the true child of the Renaissance’.

27. Before 1350, there was a single prose work in English. The name of the book is?

28. The Nut Brown Maid and Ballad of the Cheve chase are two ballads which were popular in …….century.

29. Who is the first writer of the plain style?

30. Who regretted, “I took none heed neither of short nor of long.”

31. Which work of Occleve is partly autobiographical and partly a satire on poverty?

32. Who was the first writer of Middle style?

33. Who was the “morning star of Elizabethan drama”?

34. The first tragedy is said to have been written by?

35. Who is of the view that “Matthew Arnold thinks too much of the uses of literature and too little of its pleasure”.

36. Who founded the Customs?

37. Who said that, “Arnold does not mean seriousness at all.”

38. According to Chesterton, Chaucer’s high seriousness can be seen in his?

39. The war of the Roses appears in the works of ?

40. The war of the Roses is called by that name because?

41. Lyly’s Euphues was based on?

42. Who said, “Chaucer was the earliest of the great moderns.”

43. Who wrote The Dance of the Seven Deadly Synnis?

44. The Coventry Carol Hayle and Comely and Clene are?

45. A carol is a type of ?

46. Carols were developed in the …..century.

47. Who was Calvin?

48. Who introduced Eclogues in England?

49. Eclogues basically had its birth place in?

50. Who influenced Henry Vaughan?

51. Skelton’s Book of Colin Cout was a satire on?

52. Who charged Chaucer “for a fondness for long speeches, for pedantic digressions…”?

53. Who said, “Of all writers of genius Chaucer is the one with whom it is easiest to have a sense of comradeship.”

54. Who said, “When Langland cries aloud in anger threatening the world with hell fire, Chaucer looks on and smiles.”

55. Who was writer of Polychronicon (1350)?

56. Polychronicon was written in?

57. Who translated Polychronicon into English ?

58. Who said, “Chaucer is the first great painter of character because he is the first great observer of it among European writers.”

59. Out of 24 stories of Canterbury Tales, how many stories are complete?

60. Occelve’s A Dialogue with a Friend is a satire on?

61. Skelton’s Book of Colin Clout satirized?

62. Who fell in love with Lady Beaufort?’

63. Who was Lady Beaufort?

64. The Regiment of Princess is a satire on?

65. Barabas is a character from?

66. Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is about?

67. Dr. Faustus is a tragedy about the pursuit of?

68. Gaveston is a character in?

69. Shakespeare’s historical plays present the history of England from?

70. Which element is found in Lyly’s plays?

71. The Hundred Years’ War was between?

72. Black Death in England broke out during the reign of?

73. The leader of the Peasant’s Revolt was?

74. Who said, “Pray, you now, forget and forgive.”

75. Cordelia is a character in the play?

76. The line “Best men are moulded out of faults’ occurs in the play?

77. Mariana is a character in the play?

78. In the play King Lear, the villain is?

79. The line, “O brave new world” occurs in the play?

80. Who says, “Of all his women, Imogen is most perfect.”

81. Who remarked about Chaucer, “It was easy matter to produce some thousands of his verse, which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.”

82. Who was known as the “Chaucer of Scotland?”

83. The first play in English with a regular plot, acts and scenes is?

84. Who drank of Chaucer’s ‘well of English’?

85. Shakespeare was regarded as ‘myriad-minded’ by?

86. Who is known as the father of the Independents?

87. Who said, “Geoffery Chaucer is nearer to us than Alexander Pope.”

88. Who is known as the “Translator general” of the Elizabeth?

89. Who said that Chaucer is “ a perpetual fountain of good sense.”

90. The Old Testament was originally written in?

91. The New Testament was originally written in?

92. Spenser’s Mother Hubbard’s Tale is a satire on?

93. The lines, “What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty” are from the play?

94. Don Quixote is a work by?

95. Malvilo is a character from the play?

96. The Authorized Version of the Bible was based on?

97. The Parliament passed Statute against those who attended conventions in the year?

98. Who said, “No Bishop, no king.”

99. Mortimer is a character in a play by Marlowe?

100. The theme of Boccaccio’s Decameron is?

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART IV

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART IV

1. Which writer was died by the Plague?

2. Who wrote The Faithful Shepherdess?

3. Which play is very reminiscent of Twelfth Night?

4. Which play of George Chapman is based on the tragedies of Marlowe?

5. Which play of George Chapman is considered the historical play of contemporary time?

6. Which play of John Marston is ridiculed by Jonson in The Poetaster?

7. Who is called the Dickens of Elizabethan age?

8. Who wrote The Shoemaker’s Holiday, which is based on modern London?

9. In which play Dekker collaborated with Massinger?

10. Which play of Middleton is praised by Lamb and other wirters?

11. Middleton’s The Witch has a strong resemblance to?

12. Thomas Middleton’s The Spanish Gipsy is a?

13. Who wrote The Royall King and the Loyall Subject (1602)?

14. John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is a?

15. Basola is a character in?

16. Vitteria and Duchess, in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, are considered the two finest women characters of the?

17. Who wrote The Revenger’s Tragedy (1600)?

18. In which two languages did Francis Bacon wrote?

19. How many essays Francis Bacon wrote?

20. Bacon’s essay’s first edition appeared in 1597, second in 1612 and the third in?

21. Who said, “Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes”?

22. For what is the phrase ‘The Moustrap’ used by Shakespeare?

23. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to?

24. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of?

25. Who calls Spenser the ‘Poets’ Poet?

26. In which work did spenser first use the Spenserian stanza?

27. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as designed by Spenser, it was completed in?

28. How many cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queene?

29. 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?

30. In the Dedicatory Letter, Spenser says that the real beginning of the allegory in the Faerie Queene is to be found in?

31. The Faerie Queen is basically a moral allegory. From whom did Spenser derive this concept of moral allegory?

32. ‘Spenser writ no language’. Who said this?

33. Spenser divided his Shepheardes Calender into twelve Eclogues. Why did he do so?

34. Who is the author of The New Atlantis?

35. Bacon’s Essays are modeled on the Essais of?

36. Who is the author of Novum Organum?

37. To whom does Spenser dedicate his Shepheardes Calendar?

38. How many Essays were published in Bacon’s first edition of Essays in 1597?

39. How many Essays of Bacon were published in his third and last edition of Essays in 1625?

40. “Frailty they name is woman”. Who says this?

41. “Life is a tale, told by an idiot,

    Full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing”.

In which play do these lines occur?

42. “This royal throne of kings, this sceptre’d isle,

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,

This other Eden, demi-paradise….”

These highly patriotic lines are spoken by?

43. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,

   Are of imagination all compact.”

In which play do these lines occur?

44. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be:

For loan often loses both itself and friend”.

Who speaks these lines?

45. “We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

                 Is rounded with a sleep”

                 Who speaks these lines?

46. “Life’s 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?

47. “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 has written them?

48. Shakespeare is called ‘The Bard of Avon’. Why is he so called?

49. Ben Jonson’s comedies are called ‘Comedies of Humour’. Why?

50. ‘The well of English undefiled’ means Chaucer’s?

51. Maraine listens to the song “Take, O take those lips away.” In the play?

52. Balthazar is a character from?

53. ‘God’s is the wind’ and ‘Art thou poor’ are two songs composed by?

54. William Blake said, “Their traits are universal, their lineaments are universal human life beyond which Nature never steps.” Here, who are theirs?

55. In 1388,Wycliff’s translation of the Bible was revised by?

56. What is ‘rhyme-royal’?

57. The Hundred Years’ war ended in the year?

58. Which poem celebrates the betrothal of Richard II and Anne of Bohemio?

59. Who said, “Chaucer’s characters are individuals as well as type, not mere phantoms of the brain but real human beings.”

60. Who was Froissart?

61. Froissart was the contemporary of?

62. Who wrote Book of Philip Sparrow in which a cat kills the pet bird of a girl?

63. Henryson’s The Two Mary Women is about?

64. The word ‘Renaissance’ seems to have been first in the book named as?

65. The birth place of ‘Renaissance’ was?

66. Who is known as the father of Humanism?

67. The ‘Renaissance’ was young during the period?

68. Who has been hailed as “the touch stone of English poetic sensibility”?

69. Shakespeare’s “The Quality of Mercy” is taken from his play?

70. In spenser’s Legend of Courtesy, Sir Calidore is the protype of?

71. Duesa, a character in the Faerie Queene, is the prototype of?

72. In Homer’s Odyssey, Ulysses was the king of?

73. Dante addressed his love sonnets to?

74. Petrarch addressed his love sonnets to?

75. Spenser’s Amoretti was published in?

76. Spenser’s eighty eight sonnets in his Amoretti are addressed to?

77. Out of 154 sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to?

78. In how many books is The House of Fame divided?

79. La Fantenire is famous for?

80. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks took place in the year?

81. Two names related to the beginning of renaissance are?

82. Battle of Agincourt took place in the year?

83. Sermons (1562) was written by?

84. Sermons is a?

85. Who mocked alliteration verse by calling it, “riming rum raf ruf”?

86. Chaucer ridiculed the doggerel rhymes in?

87. The defeat of Spanish Armada took place in the year?

88. In Hamlet who utters the lines “when sorrows come, they come not in spies, but in battalions.”

89. The pleasures of the earth are fully expressed in the play?

90. The Humanists of 15^th century studied the classic?

91. Battle of Castlian took place in the year?

92. Musica Transalpina (1588) is collection of songs, was written by?

93. The song ending with, “the spotted snakes with double tongue” is taken from the play?

94. How many works did Caxton translate?

95. ‘The Kingdom of Nowhere’ is another name of?

96. Columbus discovered America in the year ?

97. Vasco-de-Gama reached India in the year?

98. Caxton printed Morte D’ Arthur in?

99. Surrey’s sonnets are addressed to?

100. Who is the writer of Decameron?

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART III

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART III

1. Who made frequent use of tag phrases (like ‘sothly to telle) in his work?

2. Who has the credit of being the most voluminous poet of medieval England?

3. The life span of John Skelton is?

4. “The Bowge of Court” has been written by?

5. Which work of Skelton is an elaborate set piece in praise of himself?

6. Who is known as the Chaucer of Scotland?

7. Who is considered to be the greatest of the Scottish Chaucerians.?

8. Which work of Dunbar deals with the union of two countries – England and Scotland?

9. Which work of the Scottish Chaucerian imitates Chaucer’s House of Fame?

10. Which poem by the Scottish Chaucerian was inspired by Chaucer’s House of Fame?

11. Who was the first Chaucerian to translate the whole of Virgil into English verse?

12. The poem”The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” has been written by?

13. In the poem “The Flower and the Leaf” the flower stands for?

14. “Lord Randal” is a famous?

15. The word ‘Ballad’ is derived from the word ‘ballare’ which means?

16. “The Nut Brown Maid” is well known?

17. William Caxton who invented the printing press was basically a?

18. Which national language of England was fixed for the printing press?

19. Which was the first printed English book?

20. Which book, published by Caxton had the largest circulation of all his publications?

21. Who has written most of his stories in prison?

22. Guenevere is the name of a character who appears in?

23. Which is the first book in English in poetic prose?

24. Which work is considered to be ‘the true prologue to the Renaissance’?

25. The Schoolmaster is a well known work written by?

26. English prayer Book which was adopted as the official prayer book in 1549 was written by?

27. which is the earliest version of Bible?

28. Sir Thomas Wyatt, a young courtier of the court of Henry VIII was deeply influenced by?

29. The vogue of the lyric was inaugurated by?

30. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey divided his sonnet into?

31. Who is known as the connecting link between Chaucer and Spenser?

32. The works of Wyatt and Surrey were published in Tottel’s Miscellany in?

33. The Licensing Act for closing of all theatres except Drury Lane and Covent Garden was passed in?

34. The characters represent abstract qualities in?

35. In subject the miracle plays were essentially?

36. The Betraying of Christ is a?

37. The Castle of Perseverance is a significant?

38. The morality play Everyman belongs to the?

39. John Rastell is a famous writer of?

40. Miracle plays were based on?

41. Blank verse is used for the first time for dramatic purposes in?

42. The first English playhouse called ‘The Theatre’ was founded in?

43. The earliest known religious plays is?

44. The Four Elements, a well known ?

45. In Lyndsay’s morality play The Satire of the Three Estates, three estates are?

46. The first book printed in English was?

47. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy published in?

48. Which play of George Peele is a satire on the popular drama of the day>

49. Which play of Robert Greene is an imitation of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine?

50. Shakespeare borrowed the plot of Greene’s Pandosto or the Triumph of Trine (1588) for which play?

51. Shakespeare borrowed the plot of Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde for which play?

52. Which play of Marlowe is based on german legend?

53. Which play of Marlowe is unfinished?

54. The “Marlowian hero” is known for his hunger for?

55. “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships

And burnt the topless towers of Illium?”
who wrote this?

56. Shakespeare addressed his sonnets to a male named?

57. In which tragedy of Shakespeare is there the role of a ghost?

58. Who said that shakespare knew “little Latin and less Greek”?

59. Wherein does the phrase “Brave New World” appear?

60. “To be or not to be” in Hamlet refers to?

61. “Ripeness is all” is uttered in King Lear by?

62. “Readiness is all” occurs in?

63. “Life is a tale told by an idiot” is uttered by?

64. “Cowards die many times before their death” appears in which play?

65. “There is providence in the fall of a sparrow” occurs in?

66. “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” occurs in?

67. Shakespare’s Roman plays are based on which sources?

68. Shakespare’s English History plays are based on which sources?

69. In which play shakespare appears an “Indian boy”?

70. Who said that in shakespeare’s great tragedies “Character is destiny”?

71. Who called Hamlet an “artistic failure”?

72. Who calls Hamlet “The Mona Lisa of literature”?

73.  Who has made a Freudian interpretation of Hamlet?

74.  Who made the study of imagery in Shakespeare?

75. Who would consider Shakespeare an “imperial author?

76. What is the subtitle of John Lyly’s Euphues (1579)?

77. What is the famous work of Richard Hooker?

78. Characters was composed by?

79. About whom did Dryden say the following? “He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul”.

80. Shakespeare acted in which of the play of Ben Jonson?

81. Which work of Samuel Daniel is considered a fine piece of criticism?

82. How many writers are the members of University Wits?

83. Which play of George Peele was a clever satire on popular drama?

84. George Peele’s The Famous Chronicle of King Edward I is a?

85. Which play of Robert Greene represents the Elizabethan life?

86. The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth, which has imaginary incident of the life of King James IV, is written by?

87. Who contributed in the Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage?

88. What is the subtitle of Thomas Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)?

89. Who among the University Wit collaborated with Shakespeare in Henry IV?

90. From which language Thomas Kyd translated Cornelia (1593)?

91. How many sonnets are composed by Shakespeare?

92. Which play of Shakespeare remains unfinished?

93. Which play of Shakespeare is published in parts?

94. Which is called the father of English classical comedy?

95. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Timber?

96. Who considered the chief function of literature is to instruct?

97. Who wrote “Drink to me only with thin eyes”?

98. Ben Jonson’s Catiline His Conspiracy (1611) is a ?

99. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Volpone (1605)?

100. What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Epicane (1609)?