The slogan “follow nature” can be applied to
(a) The Romantics
(b) The Gothic Writers
(c) The Jacobeans
(d) The Augustans
Question’s Answer: The Augustans
Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe has been written in which of the following?
(a) Blank verse
(b) Free verse
(c) Spenserian stanza
(d) Heroic couplet
Question’s Answer: Heroic coupl
Neo-Classical Age is known as ______ age.
(a) The Augustan Age
(b) The Elizabethan Age
(c) The Victorian Age
(d) The Romantic Age
Question’s Answer: The Augustan Age
During Augustan Age came to be regarded as an essential quality of English Literature.
(a) Medievalism
(b) Classicism
(c) Romanticism
(d) Imagism
Question’s Answer: Classicism
“Mac Flecknoe” is a personal satire.It is dedicated against a fellow poet of his time
(a) Alexander Pope (English poet)
(b) Thomas Shadwell
(c) Shaftesbury
(d) Dr. Johnson
Question’s Answer: Thomas Shadwell
Which is the age of Dryden?
(a) The Romantic Age
(b) The Augustan Age
(c) The Victorian Age
(d) The Elizabethan Age
Question’s Answer: The Augustan Age
“Mac Flecknoe” is a/an
(a) Narrative poem
(b) Ballad
(c) Epic
(d) Mock-heroic poem
Question’s Answer: Mock-heroic poem
Each line of a heroic couplet is
(a) An lambic tetrameter
(b) A trochaie pentameter
(c) An lambic pentameter
(d) An anapestic pentameter
Question’s Answer: An lambic pentameter
Which statements can be considered as correct about ‘satire’?
(a) Satire is a story with a moral lesson
(b) Satire is a union of denunciation and humour
(c) Satire is a story with a tragic end
(d) Satire is a story which has fun without any moral
Question’s Answer: Satire is a union of denunciation and humour
The following lines occur in
“All human things are subject to decay And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey”
(a) “Absalo and Achitophel”
(b) “The Medal”
(c) “Religio Laici” In this line taken from Dryden’s “Mac
(d) “Mac Flecknoe”
Question’s Answer: “Mac Flecknoe”
Flecknoe”, “this aged Prince’ refers to
(a) Thomas Shadwell
(b) Richard Flecknoe
(c) Heywood
(d) Shirley
In “Absalom & Achitophel” Dryden attacked ______ .
(a) Duke of Monmouth
(b) Thomas Shadwell
(c) Richard Flecklioe
(d) Charles II
The character of Achitophel in “Absalom & Achitophel” alludes to which of the following?
(a) Charles
(b) Monmouth
(c) IIShaftesbury
(d) James
Question’s Answer: Shaftesbury
Which is known as the Father of English criticism?
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Longinus
(d) John Dryden
Question’s Answer: John Dryden
The character of Absalom in “Absalom & Achitophel” alludes to which of the following?
(a) Shaftesbury
(b) Richard Flecknoe
(c) Monmouth
(d) Charles II
Question’s Answer: Monmouth
In Which category will you keep Dryden’s “Absalom & Achitophel”?
(a) Literary Satire
(b) Religious Satire
(c) Political Satire
(d) Personal Satire
Question’s Answer: Political Satire
The story of “Absalom & Achitophel” has been taken from
(a) The English History
(b) The Roman History
(c) Greek Legend
(d) The Bible
Question’s Answer: The Bible
James, The Duke of York was the
(a) Friend of Charles II
(b) Son of Charles II
(c) Brother of Charles II
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Brother of Charles II
Which is not a creation of Dryden?
(a) “The Medal”
(b) “Religio Laici”
(c) “The Hind and the Panther”
(d) “Hudibras”
Question’s Answer: “Hudibras”
Which works is a creation of Dryden?
(a) “The Rape of the Lock”
(b) “Religio Medici”
(c) “Hudibras”
(d) “Annus Mirabilis”
Question’s Answer: “Annus Mirabilis”
The mistress of Charles II who had given birth to James, the Duke of Monmouth was
(a) Catherine
(b) Lucy Waters
(c) Mona Lisa
(d) Rebecca
Question’s Answer: Lucy Waters
Shaftesbury was not prepared to accept James, The Duke of York as the future King of England because
(a) He was the illegal son
(b) He was a Protestant
(c) He was corrupt
(d) He was a Catholic of Chares II
Question’s Answer: He was a Catholic of Chares II
James, the Duke of York was a/an
(a) Protestant
(b) Catholic
(c) Anglican
(d) Atheist
Question’s Answer: Catholic
“Absalom & Achitophel” can be put in the category of
(a) Allegory
(b) A Romance
(c) Lyrical poem
(d) Ballad
Question’s Answer: Allegory
In “Absalom & Achitophel” the Biblical character Saul refers to
(a) Charles II
(b) James, The Duke of Monmouth
(c) James, The Duke of York
(d) Oliver Cromwell
Question’s Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Which statements is correct?
(a) Shaftesbury was a friend of Charles II
(b) Shaftesbury was a Tory leader
(c) Shaftesbury was the son of Charles II
(d) Shaftesbury was a Whig leader
Question’s Answer: Shaftesbury was a Whig leader
The story on which Dryden based his allegory, “Absalom & Achitophel” is found in
(a) New Testament
(b) Samuel Second of the Old Testament
(c) Ten Commandments
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Samuel Second of the Old Testament
Dryden’s” Absalom & Achitophel” allegorically refers to
(a) Shaftesbury and The Duke of York
(b) The Tory and The Whig parties
(c) Dryden and Charles II
(d) Shaftesbury and Monmouth parties
Question’s Answer: Shaftesbury and Monmouth parties
The line from Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” “Shadwell never deviates
into sense” means
(a) Shadwell never talked nonsense
(b) Shadwell was always intelligent
(c) Shadwell was always nonsensical
(d) Shadwell never committed a mistake
Question’s Answer: Shadwell was always nonsensical
Dryden’s “Absalom & Achitophel” alludes to the Biblical story of
(a) David & Goliath
(b) The historic quarrel between David, King of Israel and his son Absalom
(c) The Ecclesiastes
(d) The Book of Job
Question’s Answer: The historic quarrel between David, King of Israel and his son Absalom
In “Absalom & Achitophel” David in Old Testament allegorically refers to
(a) James, The Duke of York
(b) Oliver Cromwell
(c) Charles II
(d) James, The Duke of Monmouth
Question’s Answer: Charles II
In Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” Mac means:
(a) Son of
(b) Father of
(c) Teacher of
(d) None of them
Question’s Answer: Son of
In Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”: “The mantle fell to the young prophet’s part”, ‘young prophet’ refers to
(a) Dryden
(b) Richard Flecknoe
(c) Heywood
(d) Shadwell
Question’s Answer: Shadwell
Which statements is correct about a mock-epic?
(a) A mock epic mocks at an epic
(b) In a mock epic trivial incidents are, invested with dignified language in a kind of burlesque of the epic manner
(c) In a mock-epic characters are super human beings
(d) None of them
Question’s Answer: In a mock epic trivial incidents are, invested with dignified language in a kind of burlesque of the epic manner
What was the relationship between Flecknoe and Shadwell?
(a) Flecknoe was the natural father of Shadwell
(b) Flecknoe and Shadwell are the same person
(c) Shadwell was the natural father of Flecknoe
(d) Flecknoe was the intellectual father of Shadwell
Question’s Answer: Flecknoe was the intellectual father of Shadwell
In Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” “Shadwell alone my perfect image bears”, here ‘my’ refers to
(a) Dryden
(b) Heywood
(c) Shadwell
(d) Richard Flecknoe
Question’s Answer: Richard Flecknoe
Which books was the creation of Shadwell?
(a) The Medal
(b) “Mac Flecknoe”
(c) “The Medal of John Bayes”
(d) None of them
Question’s Answer: “The Medal of John Bayes”
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