Oliver Goldsmith English Comedy MCQs

Which works is a creation of Oliver Goldsmith?

(a) The Alchemist

(b) The Vicar of Wakefield

(c) The Apple Cart

(d) The Rivals

Question’s Answer: The Vicar of Wakefield


Sir William Thornhill (abas Mir Burchel) figures in which of the following?

(a) She Stoops to Conquer

(b) The Vicar of Wakefield

(c) Amelia

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Vicar of Wakefield


Dr. Primrose is a character in the novel

(a) Robinson Crusoe

(b) Pamela

(c) Moll Flanders

(d) The Vicar of Wakefield

Question’s Answer: The Vicar of Wakefield


Which novel is regarded as a “novel of the family and of the home”?

(a) Pamela

(b) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce

(c) Tom Jones

(d) The Vicar of Wakefield

Question’s Answer: The Vicar of Wakefield


Which works is not a creation of Oliver Goldsmith?

(a) The Good Natur’d Man

(b) The Old Bachelor

(c) The Traveller

(d) She Stoops to Conquer

Question’s Answer: The Old Bachelor


She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith was not entirely an original composition; it was inspired by

(a) Farquhar’s Beaux Stratagem

(b) Sheridan’s The Rivals

(c) Congreve’s The Way of the World

(d) Richard Steele’s Tender Husband

Question’s Answer: Farquhar’s Beaux Stratagem


She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith has the following full title:

(a) She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of an Evening

(b) She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Morning

(c) She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night

(d) She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Noon

Question’s Answer: She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night


Oliver Goldsmith belongs to which century?

(a) 18th century

(b) 17th century

(c) 19th century

(d) 20th century

Question’s Answer: 18th centur


In the title of the play “She Stoops to Conquer ” She’ stands for which of the following?

(a) Miss Kate Hardcastle

(b) Mrs. Hardcastle

(c) Miss Neville

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Miss Kate Hardcastle


In “She Stoops to Conquer,” Mr. Hardcastle’s old friend was

(a) Diggory

(b) Sir Charles Marlowe

(c) Hastings

(d) Tony Lumpkin

Question’s Answer: Sir Charles Marlowe


Why the title of the comedy, “She Stoops to Conquer” is very suitable?

(a) Miss Hardcastle is prepared to do anything to possess Marlowe

(b) Miss Hardcastle supplied very low quality wine to Marlowe

(c) Miss Hardcastle debases herself to fight against Marlowe

(d) Miss Hardcastle stoops to be a barmaid to conquer Marlowe

Question’s Answer: Miss Hardcastle stoops to be a barmaid to conquer Marlowe


In Oliver Goldsmith’s  “She Stoops to Conquer” Who is the Tony Lumpkin?

(a) The son of Mrs. Hardcastle and her first husband

(b) The son of Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle

(c) The son of Mr. Hardcastle

(d) The son of Mrs. Hardcastle

Question’s Answer: The son of Mrs. Hardcastle and her first husband


Who  is the character in “She Stoops to Conquer” who adores everything e old , including old  books, old  wines, vintage companions, old  times, and old  manners?

(a) Hastings

(b) Tony Lumpkin

(c) Mr. Hardcastle

(d) Marlowe

Question’s Answer: Marlowe


In “She Stoops to Conquer”,  Mrs.Hardcastle wanted Tony Lumpkin to marry with which lady?

(a) Miss Neville

(b) Kate

(c) The barmaid

(d) The village girl

Question’s Answer: Miss Neville


Sir Charles Marlowe in “She Stoops to Conquer” has proposed match a between young Marlowe and which of the following?

(a) Miss Neville

(b) Mrs. Hardcastle

(c) Kate Hardcastle

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Kate Hardcastle


Which statements can be considered as correct about Oliver Goldsmith?

(a) Oliver Goldsmith promoted sentimental comedy in English liférature

(b) Oliver Goldsmith gave a hard blow to sentimental comedy

(c) The plays of Oliver Goldsmith are full of pathos, preaching and meddling sentimentality

(d) The comedies of Oliver Goldsmith are adult comedies as they mainly deal with sex

Question’s Answer: Oliver Goldsmith gave a hard blow to sentimental comedy


“The Mistakes of a Night” is the subtitle of which of the following  play?

(a) The Rivals

(b) She Stoops to Conquer

(c) Evelina

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: She Stoops to Conquer


What year did “Animated Nature” by Oliver Goldsmith release?

(a) 1890

(b) 1772

(c) 1774

(d) 1773

Question’s Answer: 1774


There is a character in She Stoops to Conquer who is always playing mischievous and roguish tricks upon others. Who is this character?

(a) Marlowe

(b) Hastings

(c) Mr. Hardcastle

(d) Tony Lumpkin

Question’s Answer: Tony Lumpkin


In an essay against sentimental comedy, “The Present State of Polite Learning,” was the creation of

(a) Oliver Goldsmith

(b) Gosson

(c) Addison

(d) Collier

Question’s Answer: Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith’s periodical ‘Bee’ started in  which year?

(a) 1762

(b) 1881

(c) 1759

(d) 1756

Question’s Answer: 1759


She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by which of the following authors?

(a) Butler

(b) Oliver Goldsmith

(c) Eliot

(d) Austen

Question’s Answer: Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith’s The History of Rome released in

(a) 1769

(b) 1768

(c) 1800

(d) 1791

Question’s Answer: 1769


What is the relationship between,Hastings and Marlowe’ in She to Conquer? Stoops

(a) Friends

(b) Brother

(c) Father and son

(d) Uncle and nephew

Question’s Answer: Friends


In Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, she is to conquer whom?

(a) Tony Lumpkin

(b) Marlowe

(c) Hastings

(d) Mr. Hardcastle

Question’s Answer: Marlowe


What kind of work is Oliver Goldsmith’s work “ The Vicar of Wakefield ?”

(a) Novel

(b) Romance

(c) Essay

(d) Play

Question’s Answer: Novel


Oliver Goldsmith produced his play The Good-Natured Man in

(a) 1768

(b) 1802

(c) 1762

(d) 1774

Question’s Answer: 1768


The Vicar of Wakefield, written in 1762 and it was published in which year?

(a) 1776

(b) 1790

(c) 1770

(d) 1778

Question’s Answer: 1776


Whose essays were Originally published as “Chinese Letters”?

(n) Addison

(b) Steele

(c) Oliver Goldsmith

(d) Johnso

Question’s Answer: Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith made use of the____in his “The Deserted Village”

(a) Blank verse

(b) Heroic couplet

(c) Sonnet form

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: Heroic couplet

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