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1. : Who completed “Hero and Leander,” a poem by Christopher Marlowe and _________?

(A) Chapman


(B) William Shakespeare


(C) Ben Jonson


(D) Heywood



2. : The resounding use of exotic places in Paradise Lost has its origin in

(A) Arden of Feversham


(B) Tamburlaine


(C) The Spanish Tragedy


(D) None of these



3. : Tamburlaine is the perfect illustration of the view maintained in

(A) Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy


(B) Milton’s Paradise Lost


(C) Hobbes’ Leviathan


(D) Marlowe’s Tamburlaine



4. : Who gave the name ‘Sporting Kyd’ to Thomas Kyd?

(A) Ben Jonson


(B) William Shakespeare


(C) Marlowe


(D) John Lyly



5. : Marlowe’s “mighty lines” first came into Elizabethan drama with

(A) Dr. Faustus


(B) Edward II


(C) Tamburlaine


(D) None of these



6. : Thomas Kyd is well-known for adhering to the

(A) Senecan School


(B) Romantic School


(C) Medieval School


(D) Primitive School



7. : Tamburlaine the Great was first produced in

(A) 1554-55


(B) 1560-61


(C) 1587-88


(D) 1540-41



8. : Tamburlaine is the story of _____.

(A) A sailor


(B) A French soldier


(C) A Scythian shepherd


(D) A Roman soldier



9. : The ‘blood and thunder’ element of Thomas Kyd’s drama proved one of the ______ of Pre-William Shakespearean drama.

(A) Nemesis


(B) Experiments


(C) Weaknesses


(D) Attractive features



10. : The most celebrated and the most successful of Marlowe’s character’s speech was by

(A) Helen of Troy


(B) Edward II


(C) Gaveston


(D) Dr. Faustus



11. : Thomas Kyd was the son of a parent with a profession of ___________.

(A) Wine merchant


(B) Dramatist


(C) Writer


(D) London notary



12. : The most popular of Kyd’s plays is

(A) Cornelia


(B) Jeronimo


(C) Solyman and Perseda


(D) The Spanish Tragedy



13. : Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was translated into German and Dutch, and one of the Elizabethan dramatists is supposed to have collaborated with him. Who was he?

(A) Ben Jonson


(B) Fletcher


(C) Middleton


(D) Beaumont



14. : Thomas Nash distinguished himself as a

(A) Playwright


(B) Humorist


(C) Satirist


(D) Allegorist



15. : Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller was published in

(A) 1504


(B) 1594


(C) 1590


(D) 1540



16. : Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller is the first Elizabethan

(A) Tragedy


(B) Romance


(C) Novel


(D) Comedy



17. : Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is a dramatic presentation of

(A) Machiavellian man


(B) A duke


(C) A scholar


(D) A king



18. : Thomas Kyd was the founder of

(A) Dramatic romance


(B) Tragedy


(C) Satire


(D) Romantic comedy



19. : Which Elizabethan fiction writer writes more like an eighteenth-century novel?

(A) Deloney


(B) Lyly


(C) Nash


(D) Greene



20. : The first picaresque novel is

(A) Anatomy of Absurdity


(B) Terrors of Night


(C) The Life of Jack Wilton


(D) None of these



21. : Thomas Nash had a rich fund of humor that resembles that of

(A) Rabelais


(B) Dr. Jonathan Swift


(C) Dryden


(D) None of these



22. : Who was the first great realist whose graphically depicted contemporary London life and its manners?

(A) Thomas Sackville


(B) Thomas Deloney


(C) Robert Greene


(D) Thomas Nash



23. : Which work of Nash is a study of superstition of the age?

(A) Christ’s Ears Over


(B) Anatomy of Absurdity


(C) The Unfortunate Traveller


(D) Terrors of Night



24. : “The Life of Jack Wilton”: A novel by Thomas Nashe is a _________.

(A) Romance


(B) Tragedy


(C) Comedy


(D) Both tragedy and comedy



25. : When was John Lyly born?

(A) 1554


(B) 1570


(C) 1544


(D) 1540



26. : Nash passed away at the age of

(A) 25


(B) 30


(C) 40


(D) 33



27. : John Lyly wrote his Euphues when he was in

(A) M.A.


(B) B.A.


(C) Matriculation


(D) Higher Secondary



28. : John Lyly wrote some Latin verses in praise of the Queen in

(A) 1597


(B) 1580


(C) 1590


(D) 1570



29. : The Arraignment of Paris contains an elaborate tribute to the

(A) James I


(B) Charles I


(C) Queen Elizabeth


(D) James II



30. : Greene’s Pandosto supplied the plot to William Shakespeare’s

(A) The Tempest


(B) Pericles


(C) King Lear


(D) The Winter’s Tale



31. : Lyly’s The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius was translated by

(A) Francis Bacon


(B) John Foxe


(C) Thomas North


(D) Richard Hooker



32. : Which Lyly’s comedy stands apart from his other plays being in the tradition of Plautus and Terence?

(A) Midas


(B) Euphues


(C) Sapho and Phao


(D) Mother Bombie



33. : George Peele was born about

(A) 1558


(B) 1530


(C) 1530


(D) 1500



34. : The Arraignment of Paris, Edward I, The Battle of Alcazar, and The Old Wives’ Tale are written by

(A) Thomas Kyd


(B) Thomas Nash


(C) George Peele


(D) John Lyly



35. : Which work of Robert Greene is best known for its early reference to William Shakespeare?

(A) Pandosto


(B) Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance


(C) Menaphon


(D) None of these



36. : As a writer of prose romance, Greene is remembered for

(A) Mamilia


(B) Pandosto


(C) Menaphon


(D) Never Too Late



37. : David and Fair Bathsheba was the creation of George Peele in

(A) 1599


(B) 1595


(C) 1596


(D) 1590



38. : Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale?

(A) Pandosto


(B) Groat’s Worth of Wit


(C) Orlando Furioso


(D) Friar Bacon



39. : Robert Greene entered St. John’s College, Cambridge at the age of

(A) 16


(B) 18


(C) 17


(D) 15



40. : Which is the first work of Robert Greene?

(A) Mamillia


(B) Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay


(C) Orlando Furioso


(D) Pandosto



41. : Robert Greene’s Looking Glass for London and England was written in collaboration with

(A) George Peele


(B) Thomas Nash


(C) John Lyly


(D) Thomas Lodge



 

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