1. Who stoops to conquer in the play She Stoops to Conquer?
(A) Miss Neville
(B) Miss Williams
(C) Miss Hardcastle
(D) A Maid
2. On his grave the following epitaph was written: “A gentle master who left scarcely any kind of writing untouched.” Who is the writer of this epitaph?
(A) Garrick
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Burke
(D) Reynolds
3. To whom did Goldsmith dedicate his play She Stoops to Conquer?
(A) Lord Chesterfield
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) Mr. Whitehead
(D) Dr. Samuel Johnson
4. Goldsmith belongs to which literary age?
(A) The Age of Johnson
(B) The Age of Pope
(C) The Augustan Age
(D) The Age of Wordsworth
5. Goldsmith traveled over the Continent for two years supported only:
(A) By playing on his flute
(B) By reading aloud his poems and singing songs
(C) By his friends
(D) None of these
6. In his literary age, Goldsmith was so poor and supportless that for some time he:
(A) Served as a bookseller’s hack but left it
(B) Lived with professional beggars
(C) Took to teaching in basic schools but failed
(D) Took to writing articles to local papers
7. Goldsmith’s first work published under his name was:
(A) The Good-Natured Man
(B) The Vicar of Wakefield
(C) The Deserted Village
(D) The Traveller
8. She Stoops to Conquer was published in:
(A) 1780
(B) 1774
(C) 1750
(D) 1775
9. Goldsmith was born in which country?
(A) Scotland
(B) England
(C) Ireland
(D) Border of England-Scotland
10. The alternative title given by Goldsmith to She Stoops to Conquer was:
(A) The Errors of a Night
(B) The Mistakes of a Night
(C) The Blunders of a Night
(D) The Follies of a Night
11. Who said of Goldsmith that “He wrote like an angel but talked like poor Poll”?
(A) Beanclerk
(B) Garrick
(C) Masson
(D) Newberry
12. The Deserted Village was written by Goldsmith in the memory of:
(A) His father who had passed away not long before
(B) His brother who had passed away a few months earlier
(C) A village in Ireland where Goldsmith passed his boyhood days
(D) It refers to no particular village
13. What is Goldsmith’s The Good-Natured Man?
(A) A Narrative Poem
(B) A Play
(C) A Novel
(D) A Satire in Verse
14. Name the work which Goldsmith left unfinished on account of his death:
(A) The Vicar of Wakefield
(B) The Good-Natured Man
(C) Retaliation
(D) The Deserted Village
15. At the age of ___ Goldsmith passed away.
(A) Fifty-six
(B) Fifty-eight
(C) Forty-eight
(D) Forty-six
16. What is Goldsmith’s The Bee?
(A) A Short Poem
(B) A Prose Pamphlet
(C) A Book of Stories
(D) A Periodical
17. What is Retaliation?
(A) A Galaxy of Animated Reparties
(B) A Prose Romance
(C) A Story in Verse
(D) A Novel
18. But finally, he found both a sheltering rock and literary recognition by writing:
(A) An account of his continental tours
(B) A history of France
(C) A history of England
(D) Writing articles in national journals
19. Goldsmith published a series of letters under the title The Letters of a Citizen of the World. They were professed to have been written by:
(A) A French Traveller
(B) A Roman Traveller
(C) A Chinese Traveller
(D) A Japanese Traveller
20. What is Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer?
(A) A Satire on Hero Worship
(B) A Farce
(C) A Satire on Women
(D) A Comedy
