John Bunyan was committed to prison for three months in which year?
(a) 1605
(b) 1600
(c) 1610
(d) 1660
Question’s Answer: 1660
Thomas Browne was the son of a
(a) Doctor
(b) Sailor
(c) London Merchant
(d) Priest
Question’s Answer: London Merchant
Thomas Browne was a _______ by profession
(a) Politician
(b) Sailor
(c) Doctor
(d) Chemist
Question’s Answer: Sailor
Bunyan was appointed as the minister of Baptists in
(a) 1661
(b) 1771
(c) 1660
(d) 1671
Question’s Answer: 1671
The most popular of Bunyan’s works is
(a) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(b) The Holy War
(c) The Holy City
(d) The Life and Death of Mr.Badman
The masterpiece of Thomas Browne is
(a) Hydriotaphia
(b) The Garden of Cyrus
(c) Religio Medici
(d) Vulgar Errors
Browne wrote Religio Medici to defend doctors against the charge of
(a) Atheism
(b) Magic
(c) Astrology
(d) Witchcraft
Question’s Answer: Atheism
Bunyan’s style was influenced by
(a) Bible
(b) Faerie Queene
(c) Euphues
(d) Pandosto
John Bunyan wrote “Sighs from Hell”,______years after his marriage.
(a) 5
(b) 8
(c) 3
(d) 6
Question’s Answer: 3
John Bunyan’s first work was
(a) The Holy City
(b) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(c) The Holy War
(d) Sighs from Hell
Question’s Answer: Sighs from Hell
As a _________, Robert Burton entered Christ Church.
(a) Priest
(b) Bishop
(c) Rector
(d) Student
Question’s Answer: Student
Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy is a_____inspiration
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Metaphysics
(c) Post Elizabethan
(d) Jacobean
Question’s Answer: Jacobean
Burton’s great and only literary achievement The Anatomy of Melancholy is
(a) Satirical
(b) Characteristic of time
(c) Religious
(d) Melancholic
Question’s Answer: Characteristic of time
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lamb were influenced by Fuller’s
(a) Satire
(b) Comedy
(c) Antithetical humour
(d) Masque
The bulkiest of Browne’s works is
(a) Vulgar Errors
(b) Religio Medici
(c) A Letter to a Friend
(d) The Garden of Cyrus
When Browne was knighte?
(a) 1611
(b) 1621
(c) 1671
(d) 1617
Question’s Answer: 1671
His idiosyncratic diction and his learned allusions make Browne
(a) Popular
(b) Orthodox
(c) Enlightened
(d) Difficult
Question’s Answer: Orthodox
When Thomas Fuller was born?
(a) 1600
(b) 1613
(c) 1610
(d) 1608
Question’s Answer: 1608
“The Worthies of England” by Fuller was published by his __________.
(a) son
(b) father
(c) brother
(d) friend
Izaak Walton was born of a ______ .
(a) Priest
(b) Trader
(d) Yeoman stork
(c) Tailor
Question’s Answer: Yeoman stork
When Browne pass away?
(a) 1670
(b) 1682
(c) 1678
(d) 1672
Question’s Answer: 1682
When Browne was born ?
(a) 1605
(b) 1613
(c) 1600
(d) 1650
Question’s Answer: 1605
How many daughters was Job given in the end by God?
(a) 5
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 6
Question’s Answer: 3
The script of The Old Testament was in which language?
(a) Greek
(b) French
(c) Russian
(d) Latin
Question’s Answer: Greek
Which Psalm is “A Prayer of David”?
(a) 80
(b) 27
(c) 65
(d) 17
Question’s Answer: 17
Elihu’s wrath was kindled against his three friends because
(a) They had condemned job wrongly
(b) They cursed him
(c) They did not help him
(d) They foresook him
Question’s Answer: They had condemned job wrongly
The Old Testament was originally written in
(a) English
(b) Latin
(c) Greek
(d) Hebrew
Question’s Answer: Hebrew
Walton’s most famous work The Complete Angler was published in
(a) 1603
(b) 1623
(c) 1653
(d) 1633
Question’s Answer: 1653
“The Preacher” is the sub-title of which of the following?
(a) “Haggai”
(b) “Ezekiel”
(c) “Ecclesiastical”
(d) “St. Matthew”
Question’s Answer: “Ecclesiastical”
The New Testament opens with which of the following?
(a) “Hebrews”
(b) “St. Mark”
(c) “Philemon”
(d) “St. Matthew”
Question’s Answer: “St. Matthew”
______ Job to “curse God and die”.
(a) satan
(b) his neighbour
(c) his sons
(d) his wife
Question’s Answer: his wife
In “Genesis”, Abel was a
(a) Farmer
(b) Shepherd
(c) Horse keeper
(d) Mason
Question’s Answer: Shepherd
In “Genesis”, God called the dry land as ___________.
(a) Desert
(b) Air
(c) Earth
(d) Mountains
Question’s Answer: Earth
In Chapter 38 of the Book of Job, the Lord answered out of the
(a) Fire
(b) Whirlwind
(c) Sky
(d) Sea
Question’s Answer: Whirlwind
Job’s friends sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights without saying anything.
Why?
(a) He was excited
(b) He was sick
(c) He was angry
(d) His grief was great
Question’s Answer: His grief was great
In which of the following books does a beast with seven heads and 10 horns appear in Chapter 13?
(a) “Revelation”
(b) “Colossias”
(c) “John”
(d) “Corinthians”
Question’s Answer: “Revelation”
The Lord’s wrath against Israel_________ was evident in Judges Chapter 10.
(a) Palestine
(b) Syria
(c) Philistine
(d) Israel
Question’s Answer: Israel
How many books are there in the Bible?
(a) 50
(b) 60
(c) 66
(d) 46
Question’s Answer: 66
Medieval Europe knew the Bible in which of the following?
(a) English
(b) French
(c) Greek
(d) Latin
Question’s Answer: Latin
William Tyndale translated the “New Testament” from
(a) French
(b) Latin
(c) Greek
(d) English
Question’s Answer: Greek
After regaining his blessings and children, he lived for how many years?
(a) 140
(b) 130
(c) 135
(d) 120
Question’s Answer: 140
The New Testament was translated into Middle English In which century?
(a) 14th
(b) 15th
(c) 16th
(d) 12th
Question’s Answer: 14th
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