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)?