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?