Collection of important MCQs on John Dryden
Dryden said in one of his critical treatises:
“Our numbers (Versification) were in their nonage till these two appeared.” Whom does
Dryden refer to in this observation?
(A) Samuel Butler and Cowley
(B) Milton and Donne
(C) Herrick and Taylor
(D) Waller and Denham
Question’s Answer: Waller and Denham
Between which sets of years did Dryden live ?
(A) 1625-1700
(B) 1628-1700
(C) 1635-1700
(D) 1631-1700
Question’s Answer: 1631-1700
Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy in
(A) A long poetical work
(B) A play in Five Acts
(C) A critical treatise on dramatic art developed through dialogues
(D) A long essay on the art and craft of English dramatists
Question’s Answer: A critical treatise on dramatic art developed through dialogues
Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy develops through dialogues amongst four interlocutors. One of the following is not one of those interlocutors. Identify him:
(A) Eugenius
(B) Crites
(C) Neander
(D) Leslie
Question’s Answer: Leslie
One of the following interlocutors in Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy respresents
Dryden himself. Identify him:
(A) Eugenius
(B) Crites
(C) Lisidelus
(D) Neander
Question’s Answer:Â Neander
Which plays is not created and written by  Dryden?
(A) All For Love
(B) Conquest of Granada
(C) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(D) Tyrannic Love
Question’s Answer: Love’s Labour’s Lost
“Here is God’s plenty ” Who is Dryden referring to in this remark?
(A) Chaucer
(B) Marlowe
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Spenser
Question’s Answer: Chaucer
Dryden’s All For Love is based on:
(A) Samson Agonistes.
(B) Antony and Cleopatra
(C) Caesar and Cleopatra
(D) Romeo and Juliet
Question’s Answer: Antony and Cleopatra
The central idea/theme  of Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther is:
(A) Defence of Puritanism
(B) Defence of Protestantism
(C) Defence of Roman Catholicism
(D) Defence of Anglicanism
Question’s Answer: Defence of Roman Catholicism
Dryden’s The Medal is a personal satire on:
(A) Charles 1
(B) James II
(C) Shaftesbury
(D) John Bunyan
Question’s Answer: Shaftesbury
“Here lies my wife, here let her rest!
Now she is at rest, and so am I.”
This was a proposed epitaph to be engraved on the tomb of his wife. Who was this poet?
(A) John Dryden
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Samuel Butler
Question’s Answer: John Dryden
Dryden was hailed as “The Father of English criticism.” Who hailed him thus ?
(A) Coleridge
(B) Pope
(C) Addison
(D) Dr.Johnson
Question’s Answer: Dr.Johnson
What special epithet is given to Dryden’s plays in general?
(A) Horror plays
(B) Historical Tragedy
(C) Revenge plays
(D) Heroic plays
Question’s Answer: Heroic plays
Zimri, Duke of Buckingham, is a character
that appears in Dryden’s:
(A) MacFlecknoe
(B) The Rehearsal
(C) The Medal
(D) Absolem and Achitophel
Question’s Answer: Absolem and Achitophel
Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast is:
(A) A play
(B) A satire
(C) A narrative poem
(D) An ode
Question’s Answer:Â An ode
One of the following odes is written by Dryden. Which one?
(A) A Hymn to God the Father
(B) Anne Killigrew
(C) On the Nativity of Christ
(D) None of these
Question’s Answer: Anne Killigrew
Dryden has written an elegy on the death of Cromwell. What is its title?
(A) In Memory of Cromwell
(B) Cromwell
(C) Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell
(D) A Tribute to Cromwell
Question’s Answer: Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell
Whom does Dryden satirise in MacFlecknoe?
(A) Thomas Shadwell
(B) Pope
(C) Duke of Buckingham
(D) Shaftesbury
Question’s Answer: Thomas Shadwell
Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel is a very powerful:
(A) Personal satire
(B) Social satire
(C) Religious satire
(D) Political satire
Question’s Answer: Political satire
Dryden’s The Wife of Bath Her Tale is:
(A) A mock-poem
(B) A verse tale
(C) A satirical poem
(D) A Fable
Question’s Answer: A Fable
Dryden’s elegy On the Death of Amyntas is a:
(A) Pastoral elegy
(B) Conventional elegy
(C) Non-serious elegy
(D) An elegy of personal grief
Question’s Answer: Pastoral elegy
In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy Neander speaks for:
(A) French Dramatists
(B) Modern English Dramatists
(C) Ancient Dramatists
(D) Greek Dramatists
Question’s Answer: Modern English Dramatists
Dryden has written a play on a Mughal Emperor. On Which Emperors?
(A) Shahjahan
(B) Aurang-Zebe
(C) Bahadur Shah
(D) Akbar
Question’s Answer: Aurang-Zebe
Which plays is written by Dryden?
(A) The Traitor
(B) The Maid’s Revenge
(C) Revenge
(D) The Rival Ladies
Question’s Answer: The Rival Ladie
Dryden’s Love Triumphant is a:
(A) Heroic play
(B) Tragi-comedy
(C) Comedy
(D) Satircal plays
Question’s Answer: Heroic play
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