1. “Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.” This line is taken from which of the following essay?
(A) Sir Roger in Town
(B) The Aim of the Spectator
(C) Rural Manners
(D) The Spectator’s Account of Himself
2. Addison’s The Drummer is:
(A) A moral comedy
(B) A tragedy
(C) A satirical play
(D) A prose romance
3. What is Richard Steele’s The Conscious Lovers?
(A) A long poem
(B) A play
(C) A satire in verse
(D) A prose romance
4. Who was the co-author of Addison’s The Coverley Papers?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Daniel Defoe
(D) Richard Steele
5. Addison’s Rosamond is:
(A) A long poem
(B) A satire
(C) A play
(D) A romance
6. “His irony and urbanity are the two most prominent traits in the essays of Addison.” Who expressed this opinion?
(A) Macaulay
(B) Deighton
(C) Lobban
(D) Dr. Johnson
7. “The success of The Spectator was immediate and permanent.” Whose view is this?
(A) Thackeray
(B) Deighton
(C) Fowler
(D) Hugh Walker
8. The Tatler was started by:
(A) Addison
(B) Jointly by Addison and Steele
(C) Steele
(D) Cowley
9. “Addison almost created and perfected English periodical essay as an instrument for the expression of social thought.” Who said this?
(A) J.H. Fowler
(B) Courthope
(C) Deighton
(D) Dr. Johnson
10. Addison’s Cato is:
(A) A comedy
(B) A long prose work
(C) A romance
(D) A tragedy
11. “Addison almost created and perfected English prose as an instrument for the expression of social thought.” Who stated this?
(A) Deighton
(B) Fowler
(C) Courthope
(D) Dr. Johnson
12. Which character in The Coverley Papers is a merchant of great eminence in the city of London?
(A) Lord Rochestor
(B) Will Honeycomb
(C) Captain Sentry
(D) Sir Andrew Freeport
13. In which year was Addison elected as a member of Parliament?
(A) 1710
(B) 1706
(C) 1708
(D) 1712
14. Addison’s The Campaign is:
(A) A romance
(B) A play
(C) A poem
(D) A critical treatise
15. “A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair one.” Which essay begins with this observation?
(A) Sir Roger at Home
(B) Sir Roger at Church
(C) The Coverley Household
(D) The Spectator’s Account of Himself
16. Which character represents the class of gallantry in The Coverley Papers?
(A) Sir Andrew Freeport
(B) Captain Sentry
(C) Will Wimble
(D) Will Honeycomb
17. “The most perfect gift that fitted Addison was his sense of humour.” Who stated this?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Macaulay
(C) Deighton
(D) Cazamian
18. In which year was Addison born?
(A) 1674
(B) 1673
(C) 1780
(D) 1672
19. Which series of essays started the vogue of journalistic literature?
(A) The Spectator
(B) The Tatler
(C) The Guardian
(D) The Rambler
20. In which literary age did Addison write his essays?
(A) Elizabethan Age
(B) Restoration Age
(C) Romantic Age
(D) Neo-classical Age
21. The West Indian and The Fashionable Lover are two plays by whom?
(A) Addison
(B) Pope
(C) Steele
(D) None of these
22. Which work of Addison offers an excellent example of the rhetoric and fine sentiment that are essentials of good writing?
(A) Cato
(B) Spectator
(C) Tatler
(D) Account of the Greatest English Poets
23. According to _____, “Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Jonathan Swift
24. Account of the Greatest English Poets was the creation of which author?
(A) Addison
(B) Lamb
(C) Bacon
(D) Jonathan Swift
25. The Vision of Mirza is a political allegory by whom?
(A) Steele
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Addison
(D) Defoe
26. Addison’s The Drummer is:
(A) An opera
(B) A masque
(C) A prose-comedy
(D) A tragedy
27. “I shall endeavour to enlighten morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.” Identify the personality.
(A) Cowley
(B) Defoe
(C) Steele
(D) Addison
