1. : The slogan “follow nature” can be applied to
(A) The Romantics
(B) The Gothic Writers
(C) The Jacobeans
(D) The Augustans
2. : Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe has been written in which of the following?
(A) Blank verse
(B) Free verse
(C) Spenserian stanza
(D) Heroic couplet
3. : Neo-Classical Age is known as ______ age.
(A) The Augustan Age
(B) The Elizabethan Age
(C) The Victorian Age
(D) The Romantic Age
4. : During the Augustan Age, ______ came to be regarded as an essential quality of English Literature.
(A) Medievalism
(B) Classicism
(C) Romanticism
(D) Imagism
5. : Mac Flecknoe is a personal satire dedicated against a fellow poet of his time.
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) Shaftesbury
(D) Dr. Johnson
6. : Which is the age of Dryden?
(A) The Romantic Age
(B) The Augustan Age
(C) The Victorian Age
(D) The Elizabethan Age
7. : Mac Flecknoe is a/an
(A) Narrative poem
(B) Ballad
(C) Epic
(D) Mock-heroic poem
8. : Each line of a heroic couplet is
(A) An iambic tetrameter
(B) A trochaic pentameter
(C) An iambic pentameter
(D) An anapestic pentameter
9. : Which statement 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
10. : The following lines occur in:
“All human things are subject to decay And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey”
(A) Absalom and Achitophel
(B) The Medal
(C) Religio Laici
11. : In Mac Flecknoe, “this aged Prince” refers to
(A) Thomas Shadwell
(B) Richard Flecknoe
(C) Heywood
(D) Shirley
12. : In Absalom & Achitophel Dryden attacked ______.
(A) Duke of Monmouth
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) Richard Flecknoe
(D) Charles II
13. : The character of Achitophel in Absalom & Achitophel alludes to which of the following?
(A) Charles
(B) Monmouth
(C) Shaftesbury
(D) James
14. : Who is known as the Father of English criticism?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Longinus
(D) John Dryden
15. : The character of Absalom in Absalom & Achitophel alludes to which of the following?
(A) Shaftesbury
(B) Richard Flecknoe
(C) Monmouth
(D) Charles II
16. : In which category will you keep Dryden’s Absalom & Achitophel?
(A) Literary Satire
(B) Religious Satire
(C) Political Satire
(D) Personal Satire
17. : The story of Absalom & Achitophel has been taken from
(A) The English History
(B) The Roman History
(C) Greek Legend
(D) The Bible
18. : 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
19. : Which is not a creation of Dryden?
(A) The Medal
(B) Religio Laici
(C) The Hind and the Panther
(D) Hudibras
20. : Which work is a creation of Dryden?
(A) The Rape of the Lock
(B) Religio Medici
(C) Hudibras
(D) Annus Mirabilis
21. : 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
22. : 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
23. : James, the Duke of York was a/an
(A) Protestant
(B) Catholic
(C) Anglican
(D) Atheist
24. : Absalom & Achitophel can be put in the category of
(A) Allegory
(B) A Romance
(C) Lyrical poem
(D) Ballad
25. : 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
26. : Which statement 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
27. : 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
28. : 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
29. : 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
30. : 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
31. : In Absalom & Achitophel David in the Old Testament allegorically refers to
(A) James, The Duke of York
(B) Oliver Cromwell
(C) Charles II
(D) James, The Duke of Monmouth
32. : In Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe “Mac” means:
(A) Son of
(B) Father of
(C) Teacher of
(D) None of them
33. : 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
34. : Which statement 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 superhuman beings
(D) None of them
35. : 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
36. : In Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe “Shadwell alone my perfect image bears”, here ‘my’ refers to
(A) Dryden
(B) Heywood
(C) Shadwell
(D) Richard Flecknoe
37. : Which book was the creation of Shadwell?
(A) The Medal
(B) Mac Flecknoe
(C) The Medal of John Bayes
(D) None of them