MCQs on Restoration Comedy by William Congreve & Wycherley

William Congreve (Restoration Comedy)

Essay of Dramatic Poesy is the creation of

(a) Congreve

(b) Alexander Pope (English poet)

(c) William Shakespeare

(d) Dryden

Question’s Answer: Dryden


Who speaks this line in The Way of the World “A wit should no more be

sincere, than a woman constant”?

(a) Lady Wishfort

(b) Millamant

(c) Mirabel

(d) Witwoud

Question’s Answer: Witwoud


The plays of William Congreve are known as

(a) Comedy of humours

(b) Comedy of errors

(c) Farce

(d) Comedy of manners

Question’s Answer: Comedy of manners


William Congreve was a

(a) Gothic novelist

(b) Restoration dramatist

(c) Jacobean dramatist

(d) Augustan satirist

Question’s Answer: Restoration dramatist


Who speaks this line in The Way of the World “Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without

enjoyment”?

(a) Lady Wishfort

(b) Millamant

(c) Witwoud

(d) Mirabel

Question’s Answer: Witwoud


In Congreve’s The Way of the World Millamant is loved by:

(a) Mr. Fainall

(b) Mirabel

(c) Witwoud

(d) Petulant

Question’s Answer: Mirabel


Millamant appears in Which comedies of Congreve?

(a) The Old Bachelor

(b) The Way of the World

(c) Love for Love

(d) The Country Wife

Question’s Answer: The Way of the World


The display of wit forms an important part of which dramas?

(a) Restoration Comedy

(b) William Shakespearean Tragedy

(c) William Shakespearean comedy

(d) Jacobean Drama

Question’s Answer: Restoration Comedy


Which statements is correct regarding The Way of the World?

(a) Waitwell disguised himself as Sir Rowland

(b) Mirabell disguised himself as Sir Rowland

(c) Witwoud disguised himself as Sir Rowland

(d) Mr. Fainall disguised himself as Sir Rowland

Question’s Answer: Waitwell disguised himself as Sir Rowland

 


In The Way of the World Mirabel is making pretensions of love towards

(a) Lady Wishfort

(b) Millamant

(c) Mrs. Fainall

(d) Mrs. Marwood

Question’s Answer: Millamant


Which books is a creation of William Congreve?

(a) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(b) She Would if She Could

(c) The Old Bachelor

(d) The Country Wife

Question’s Answer: The Old Bachelor


Which of these is a creation of William Congreve?

(a) The Double Dealer

(b) Love for Love

(c) The Constant Couple

(d) The Way of the World

Question’s Answer: The Way of the World


Which statements is correct?

(a) Etherage is character in a Congreve’s play

(b) Etherage is dramatist novelist a restoration

(c) Etherage is a restoration

(d) Etherage is a contemporary of T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: Etherage is a restoration


Waitwell had secretly been joyfully wedded to which of the following?

(a) Mrs. Fainall

(b) Foible

(c) Lady Wishfort

(d) Marwood

Question’s Answer: Foible


In Congreve’s The Way of the World Lady Wishfort is the aunt of which of the following?

(a) Marwood

(b) Mirabel

(c) Mrs. Fainall

(d) Millamant

Question’s Answer: Millamant


Fondle wife is a character in which plays of Congreve?

(a) The Way of the World

(b) Love for Love

(c) The Double Dealer

(d) The Old Bachelor

Question’s Answer: The Old Bachelor


Valentine is a character in a play _________ of Congreve?

(a) The Way of The World

(b) Love for Love

(c) The Old Bachelor

(d) The Double Dealer

Question’s Answer: Love for Love


Which’ statement is correct  about “The Way of the World”?

(a) Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Foible

(b) Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Lady Wishfort

(c) Mirabell disguised himself as Sir Rowland

(d) Sir Rowland was sincerely in love with Lady Wishfort

Question’s Answer: Waitwell was disguised as Sir Rowland and he was to woo Lady Wishfort


Who was instrumental in exposing the intrigue which Mirabel was playing upon Lady Wishfort?’

(a) Millamant

(b) Mrs. Marwood and Mr. Fainall

(c) Mrs. Fainall

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Mrs. Marwood and Mr. Fainall


Which characters in The Way of the World was sent to prison at the end of the play?

(a) Witwoud

(b) Mr. Fainall

(c) Mirabel

(d) Waitwell

Question’s Answer: Waitwell


Who is the old Bachelor  in Congreve’s”The Old Bachelor”?

(a) Mirabel

(b) Witwoud

(c) Heartwell

(d) Fainall

Question’s Answer: Heartwell


Which statement is wrong?

(a) Fainall and Mrs. Fainall have been separated

(b) Mrs. Fainall had a love affair with Mirabell

(c) Fainall and Mrs. Fainall are not on good terms

(d) Mr. Fainall ill-treats Mrs.Fainall

Question’s Answer: Fainall and Mrs. Fainall have been separated

William Wycherley (Restoration Comedy)


In which play of Wycherley the character Manly appears?

(a) The Gentleman Dancing Master

(b) The Country Wife

(c) Love in a Wood

(d) The Plain Dealer

Question’s Answer: The Plain Dealer


Fidellia in Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer is in love with which of the

following characters?

(a) Mirabel

(b) Manly

(c) Fainal

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Manly


Who wrote the book the play The Country Wife?

(a) William Congreve

(b) William William Shakespeare

(c) William Wycherley

(d) Thomas Becket

Question’s Answer: William Wycherley


Which plays is a creation of William Wycherley?

(a) The Plain Dealer

(b) She Stoops to Conquer

(c) The Way of the World

(d) The Man of Mode

Question’s Answer: The Plain Dealer


In which play of Wycherley the character Blackacre appears?

(a) Love in a Wood

(b) The Country Wife

(c) The Plain Dealer

(d) The Gentleman Dancing Master

Question’s Answer: The Plain Dealer


In Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer who disguises as a boy to serve Manly?

(a) Blackacre

(b) Fidelia

(c) Millamant

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Fidelia


William Wycherley belongs to Which periods?

(a) Restoration Period

(b) Victorian Period

(c) Romantic Period

(d) Elizabethan Period

Question’s Answer: Restoration Period


Olivia is a character in which plays of Wycherley?

(a) The Gentleman Dancing Master

(b) The Country Wife

(c) Love in a Wood

(d) The Plain Dealer

Question’s Answer: The Plain Dealer


Which plays is not a creation of Farquhar?

(a) Love and a Bottle

(b) The Provoked Wife play

(c) The Recruiting Officer

(d) The Constant Couple

Question’s Answer: The Provoked Wife play


In Wycherley’s The Country Wife who proclaims himself to be an cunuch?

(a) Mirabel

(b) Mr. Horner

(c) Manly

(d) None of these


In Wycherley’s The Country Wife which character has happily married the country girl and brought her to London?

(a) Mr. Pinchwife

(b) Mr. Horner

(c) Mirabel

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Mr. Pinchwife


Which characters in Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer is the  plain dealer?

(a) Mr. Pinchwife

(b) Fidelia

(c) Olivia

(d) Manly

Question’s Answer: Manly


George Farquhar belongs to Which periods?

(a) Restoration Period

(b) Victorian Period

(c) Romantic Period

(d) Elizabethan Period

Question’s Answer: Restoration Period


Which is the last written by Farquhar?

(a) Love and a Bottle

(b) The Constant Couple

(c) The Beaux Stratagem

(d) The Recruiting Officer

Question’s Answer: The Beaux Stratagem


Which plays is a creation of Farquhar?

(a) The Country Wife

(b) The Beaux Stratagem

(c) The Plain Dealer

(d) The Man of Mode

Question’s Answer: The Beaux Stratagem


Silvia is a character in Which plays of Farquhar?

(a) The Recruiting Officer

(b) The Constant Couple

(c) Love and a Bottle

(d) The Beaux Stratagem

Question’s Answer: The Recruiting Officer


George Etherage belongs to Which periods?

(a) Romantic Period

(b) Victorian Period

(c) Restoration Period

(d) Elizabethan Period

Question’s Answer: Restoration Period


Which plays is not a creation of John Vanbrugh?

(a) The Confederacy

(b) The Relapse

(c) The Provoked Wife

(d) The Man of Mode

Question’s Answer: The Man of Mode


Which can be said to be the first accomplished practitioner

of the Restoration Comedy of manners?

(a) William Congreve

(b) William Wycherley

(c) George Etherage

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: George Etherage


Who wrote the book the play The Provoked Wife?

(a) William Wycherley

(b) William Congreve

(c) John Vanbrugh

(d) George Etherage

Question’s Answer: John Vanbrugh


Which is the first play written by George Etherage?

(a) She Would if She Could

(b) The Comical Revenge

(c) The Man of Mode

(d) The Silent Woman

Question’s Answer: The Comical Revenge


In which play of Etherage, the character Dorimant appears?

(a) The Silent Woman

(b) The Comical Revenge

(c) She Would if She Could

(d) The Man of Mode

Question’s Answer: The Man of Mode


In which play of Etherage, the character Harriet appears?

(a) The Man of Mode

(b) The Comical Revenge

(c) She Would if She Could

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Man of Mode


In which play of Van brugh, Sir John and Lady Brute reveal their mutual antipathy?

(a) The Confederacy

(b) The Relapse

(c) The Provoked Wife

(d) Journey to London

Question’s Answer: The Provoked Wife


John Vanbrugh belongs to which periods?

(a) Romantic Period

(b) Restoration Period

(c) Victorian Period

(d) Elizabethan Period

Question’s Answer: Restoration Period

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