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Unit Test – I

Chaucer to Shakespeare

Time: 1 Hour Marks: 50

1) The woman often referred to in Shakespeare’s sonnets is known as the ……….

A) Queen Elizabeth

B) Duchess

C) Dark lady

D) Anne Hathaway

2) Who said “Bacon is the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind”?

A) Pope

B) Arnold

C) Eliot

D) Dryden

3) Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus‟ is based on a ……………… story.

A) German

B) French

C) Roman

D) Italian

4) Will falls into dream-within-a-dream, about the __________ whose gardener is Piers the

Plowman.

A) Tree of Knowledge

B) Tree of Charity

C) Tree of Wise

D) Tree of Honour



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5) Which of the following statements best describe the narrative perspective employed in

Thomas More’s Utopia?

I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday

II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More

III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More

IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday

The right combination according to the code is

A) I and III

B) II and IV

C) II and III

D) I and II

6) Who calls Chaucer “a well of the English undefiled”?

A) Thomas Malory

B) Thomas Occleve

C) John Lydgate

D) Edmund Spenser

7) Thomas More’s Utopia was originally written in ________

A) Greek

B) Latin

C) French

D) Gothic

8) Marlowe wrote the fragmentary poem Hero and Leander and it was completed by

_________

A) Thomas Kyd

B) John Webster

C) George Chapman

D) Thomas Lodge



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9) Spenser’s Astrophel is an pastoral elegy on the death of ……

A) Raleigh

B) Sidney

C) Earl of Leicester

D) Rosalind

10) How did Claudius murder King Hamlet?

A) By stabbing him through an arras

B) By pouring poison into his ear

C) By ordering him to be hanged

D) By poisoning his wineglass

11) What is the name of the "conjuror" brought along by Antipholus of Ephesus's friends

in order to exorcise his supposed "demons"?

A) Dr Smack

B) Dr Pinch

C) Dr Squash

D) Dr Squeeze

12) Which of the following is not advice of Bacon to the present-day traveler?

A) keep a diary

B) rely on a guide book

C) learn the language

D) keep company of fellow countrymen

13) What is the name of Vittoria's maid?

A) Cariola

B) Isabella

C) Zanche

D) Cornelia



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14) What is the other title of Chaucer's long poem The Book of the Duchess?

A) The Knight's Dream

B) The Dreame of Blanche

C) The Dreame of Chaucer

D) Chaucer's Consciousness

15) Identify the correctly matched group:

List – I List – II

i. Hebe 1. The God of Marriage

ii. Hymen 2. The God of Wine

iii. Bacchus 3. The Goddess of Youth

iv. Cynthia 4. The Goddess of Moon

Codes:

i ii iii iv

(A) 2 4 1 3

(B) 3 2 4 1

(C) 1 3 4 2

(D) 3 1 2 4

16) Langland’s ‘Piers the Plowman‟ contains a number of historical events. Which of the

following is not included in it?

A) The murder of Edward II

B) The Treaty of Bretigny

C) The accession of Richard II

D) Norman Conquest

17) According to Shakespeare, the youth’s love is better than high social status, more valuable

than wealth, more worth being proud of than expensive clothes, and more enjoyable than

……………

A) cat and rabbit

B) hawks or horses

C) dogs and goats

D) lions and elephants



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18) The play „Volpone‟ is a merciless satire of ____________

A) love and marriage

B) war and destruction

C) greed and lust

D) adventure and travel

19) In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite

among Utopians?

A) Music

B) Public lectures

C) Conversation

D) Dicing and cards

20) Complete the statement: “A great and potent…………addeth majesty to a monarch, but

diminisheth power; and putteth life and spirit into the people, but presseth their fortune”

A) nobility

B) ambition

C) wealth

D) dignity

21) What is the first vision that William Langland saw in „Piers the Plowman‟?

A) The Vision of Seven Deadly Sins

B) The Vision of a Field Full of Folks

C) The Vision of Lady Bribery

D) The Vision of Man’s Moral and Spiritual Life

22) What is the court's verdict on Lodovico in „The White Devil‟?

A) He is to be executed

B) He is to pay a fine

C) He is to receive money

D) He is to be banished



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23) Volpone fakes his own death but disguises himself as __________

A) a merchant

B) a police officer

C) a woman

D) an Englishman

24) Under which Act was St. Thomas More called to take an oath but he refused?

A) Freedom of Religion Act

B) Human Rights Act

C) The Supremacy Act

D) Arms Act c

25) John Webster is called as __________ dramatist.

A) Elizabethan

B) Puritan

C) Jacobean

D) Restoration

26) Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied?

A) Paris

B) Oxford

C) Constantinople

D) Wittenberg

27) What book does the narrator of The Book of the Duchess use to help his insomnia?

A) Ovid's Metamorphoses

B) The Bible

C) Roman de la Rose

D) The Tale of Seys and Alcyone



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28) Who is the King Henry’s Lord Chancellor and chief adviser in the play „Henry VIII‟?

A) Wolsey

B) Buckingham

C) Campeius

D) Norfolk

29) Which of the following plays was not written by Ben Jonson?

A) Every Man in His Humour

B) The Massacre at Paris

C) Volpone, or The Fox

D) The Alchemist

30) Complete the following line : “For as the …………… is daily new and old, So is my love

still telling what is told”

A) Earth

B) Moon

C) Sun

D) Mars

31) After Faustus finishes signing the contract, two Latin words appear inscribed on his

arm: „Homo fuge‟. What is the translation of these words?

A) Fly, man

B) Property of devil

C) Thou art damned

D) Empty soul

32) Who says ‘Frailty thy name is woman‟?

A) Horatio

B) Claudius

C) Ophelia

D) Hamlet



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33) Bacon’s Essays are modeled on the „Essais‟ of …………..

A) Virgil

B) Aristophanes

C) Montaigne

D) Plato

34) „Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight‟ is a line that occurs in _______

A) Hamlet

B) The White Devil

C) Dr. Faustus

D) Volphone

35) For what is the phrase „The Mousetrap‟ used by Shakespeare in „Hamlet‟?

A) Hamlet’s tragic flaw

B) The ghost of Hamlet’s father

C) The play within the play in Hamlet

D) Hamlet’s Conscience

36) “Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in”. These lines

occurs in ____________

A) Chaucer’s The Book of Duchess

B) Shakespeare’s Sonnet No 116

C) Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost

D) Spenser’s Epithalamion

37) Who blesses Theseus and Hippolyta with a magical charm at the end of the play ‘A Mid

Summer Night‟s Dream‟?

A) Puck and Snout

B) Oberon and Puck

C) Titania and Snout

D) Oberon and Titania



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38) What is the intention of the "little academe" in „Love‟s Labour‟s Lost‟?

A) To form a new monastery

B) To focus on learning and thinking

C) To study astronomy

D) To consider how to revise the school system

39) Webster’s The White Devil is a ___________

A) revenge tragedy

B) comedy of humour

C) comedy of manners

D) Tragic-Comdey

40) Which was Shakespeare's main source for "The Comedy of Errors"?

A) Holinshed Chronicles

B) Plutarch’s Lives

C) Plautus’s Menaechmi

D) Terence’s Andria

41) How is Mosca referred to throughout the play „Volpone‟?

A) Parasite

B) Raven

C) Crow

D) Pest

42) Which of the following is not a university wit?

A) Marlowe

B) Ben Jonson

C) George Peele

D) Robert Greene



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43) Who said, “Shakespeare has only heroines, and no heroes”?

A) Mathew Arnold

B) Ben Jonson

C) Dr. Johnson

D) Ruskin Bond

44) Dumaine falls in love with __________

A) Katherine

B) Maria

C) The Princess

D) Rosaline

45) In Epithalamion, Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with ____________

A) Rosalind

B) Lady Elizabeth

C) Lady Katherine

D) Elizabeth Boyle

46) “For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a

tinkling cymbal, where there is no love”. These lines occur in _______

A) Of Love

B) Of Friendship

C) Of Truth

D) Of Travel

47) Which of the following characters is the servant of Faustus?

A) Robin

B) Ralph

C) Valdes

D) Wagner



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48) A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is ___________

A) Juvenal

B) Horace

C) Ovid

D) Aristophanes

49) Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published together in….....by Thomas Thrope.

A) 1606

B) 1609

C) 1611

D) 1623

50) Identify the correctly matched group:

List – I (Play) List – II (Setting)

i. The Comedy of Errors 1. Athens

ii. A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream 2. London

iii. Hamlet 3. Ephesus

iv. Henry VIII 4. Navarre

v. Love’s Labour’s Lost 5. Denmark

Codes:

i ii iii iv v

(A) 1 2 3 4 5

(B) 5 3 1 2 4

(C) 3 1 5 2 4

(D) 4 3 1 5 2



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