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?