Hello friends,
I know you are busy with your studies. I wish you all the best. Here I am presenting some questions from the Age of Elizabeth. Please check your knowledge. If you don't do well don't worry. Just keep reading. If you have done well don't be contented with it.
Thank you.
I know you are busy with your studies. I wish you all the best. Here I am presenting some questions from the Age of Elizabeth. Please check your knowledge. If you don't do well don't worry. Just keep reading. If you have done well don't be contented with it.
Thank you.
Objective UGC NET- Age of Elizabeth Part 1
1. The famous
translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis into English was made by
-Arthur
Golding
2."Donne would be hanged for not keeping the regular accent." Whose commented thus?
Ben Jonson
3.Among the
University Wits who was known as "the true child of Renaissance" ?
Christopher
Marlowe
4. The best
trends of Reformation were presented by Spenser in his?
-Faerie Queene
5. Thomas Kyd
wrote his Spanish Tragedy in the style of?
-Seneca
6. Alexander
and Compaspe is a play written by
-John Lyly
7. Mortimer,
Isabella and Gaveston are characters who appears in Marlowe's play
-Edward II
8. Who does
Grierson - Smith call the 'morning star of Elizabethan drama' ?
-Christopher
Marlowe
9. Who is the author of Steel Glass ?
Gascoigne
10. In which year was the Globe Theatre built
?
1599
11. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first
published in
1609
12.When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy
on his death. What was it’s title?
Astrophel
13. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply
to :
Gosson's School of Abuse
14. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney :
defends the Three Dramatic Unities
15. ––
–– University Wit has written only Tragedies.
Marlowe
16. While referring to whom
does Ruskin said, "He has only heroines and no heroes" ?
Shakespeare
17. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this
Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of :
Gloriana
18. Who calls Spenser the 'Poets' Poet' ?
Charles Lamb
19. For what is the phrase 'The Mousetrap'
used by Shakespeare ?
The play within the play in Hamlet
Sir Walter Raleigh
21. 'Spenser writ no language.' Who said this
?
Ben Jonson
22. Bacon's Essays are modeled on the Essays of :
Montaigne
23. "A place sheweth the man and it
sheweth some to the better, and some to the worse." These lines occur in ?
Bacon’s ‘Of Great Place’
24. “I Know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of King, ?” These lines are spoken by…
Queen Elizabeth, Tilbury speech 1588
25. "......... a
mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make
the metal work the better, but it embaseth it". In which essay of Bacon do
these lines occur ?
Of Truth
26. "We are such
stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life Is
rounded with a sleep"
Who speaks these lines?
Prospero
27. "Neither a
borrower nor a lender be :
Polonius (Hamlet)
28. Who speaks about Shakespeare thus :"Others
abide our question. Thou art free, We ask and ask - thou smilest and art still
Out - topping knowledge."
Matthew Arnold
29. "The lunatic, the lover, and the
poet, Are of imagination all compact."
In which play do these lines occur ?
A Mid - Summer Night's Dream
30. Who wrote Marlowe’s
Doctor Faustus?
