1. The Witch of Alps is a character in:
(A) Heaven and Earth
(B) Cain
(C) Manfred
(D) Werner
2. How many Acts are there in the play Manfred?
(A) Two
(B) Five
(C) Four
(D) Three
3. To whom is the tragedy Sardanapalus dedicated?
(A) Godwin
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Dryden
(D) Goethe
4. Byron’s Beppo is a:
(A) A Venetian Story
(B) A Lyrical play
(C) A Turkish Tale
(D) A Monologue
5. Byron wrote an ode to a poet whom he admired. Who was that poet?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Walter Scott
(C) Thomas Moore
(D) Thomas Gray
6. One of the following poetic plays is not written by Byron. Which?
(A) Werner
(B) Cain
(C) Otho the Great
(D) Heaven and Earth
7. What is Byron’s Hours of Idleness?
(A) A Narrative poem
(B) A Volume of his early poems
(C) A long Satire
(D) A Lyrical play
8. Byron himself calls his play The Two Foscari:
(A) A Horror Tragedy
(B) A Historical Tragedy
(C) A Lyrical Comedy
(D) A Tragi-comedy
9. To whom does Byron dedicate his play entitled Cain?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Robert Southey
10. How many Acts are there in the play Marino Faliero?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Five
(D) Four
11. Byron calls one of his tales “A Fragment of a Turkish Tale.” Which is this tale?
(A) The Corsair
(B) The Giaour
(C) The Siege of Corinth
(D) Parisina
12. Lord Byron passed away at the age of:
(A) 34 years
(B) 35 years
(C) 38 years
(D) 36 years
13. One of the following poetic plays is written by Byron. Which?
(A) The Fall of Robespierre
(B) Remorse
(C) Otho the Great
(D) Manfred
14. Seven Spirits act as characters in which of the following poetic plays?
(A) Borderers
(B) Mysterious Mother
(C) Manfred
(D) Foresters
15. Byron wrote a powerful satirical rejoinder in defence of Keats. What was that rejoinder?
(A) The Vision of Judgement
(B) Don Juan
(C) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(D) Marino Faliero
16. In which of Byron’s plays are Adam and Eve leading characters?
(A) Cain
(B) Werner
(C) Heaven and Earth
(D) The Deformed Transformed
17. What is Byron’s The Vision of Judgement?
(A) A Poetic Play
(B) A Tale
(C) A Satire
(D) A Dream Allegory
18. “A man must serve his time to every trade / Save Censure—Critics all are ready made.” In which work does Byron give this opinion?
(A) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(B) The Vision of Judgement
(C) The Curse of Minerva
(D) The Waltz
19. To whom does Byron dedicate his tale Don Juan?
(A) Dryden
(B) Robert Southey
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Walter Scott
20. Which poem shot Byron into unprecedented popularity?
(A) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(B) Beppo
(C) Don Juan
(D) Cain
21. Byron woke up one morning and found himself famous. What was that occasion?
(A) The publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(B) The publication of The Vision of Judgement
(C) The conferment of his Lordship
(D) The publication of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
22. Byron wrote an ode to one of the following historical personalities. Identify him:
(A) Napoleon Buonaparte
(B) Queen Victoria
(C) William Godwin
(D) Queen Mary
23. How many Cantos are there in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?
(A) Two
(B) Four
(C) Three
(D) Five
24. Where is the scene of the lyrical play Manfred laid?
(A) On the Higher Alps
(B) On the sea-coast of Greece
(C) In Egypt
(D) In a vast desert
25. Byron’s The Deformed Transformed is a:
(A) Drama
(B) Tale
(C) Elegy
(D) Satire
