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Mcqs from HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - Part II




Hi Folks, how is your preparation going. Today let us revise some questions based on the history of English literature.


1.      Steps to the Temple (1646) and Carmen Deo Nostro (1652) are written by
a.       John Donne
b.      George Herbert
c.       Henry Vaughan
d.      Richard Crashaw
Answer: d

2.      Who wrote an Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland was written in 1650?
a.       John Donne
b.      Andrew Marvel
c.       Henry Vaughan
d.      Richard Crashaw
Answer: b

3.      Who is not a Cavalier poet?
a.       Richard Crashaw
b.      Robert Herrick
c.       John Suckling,
d.      Richard Lovelace
Answer: a
Explanation: Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, and Henry Vaughn are the cavalier poets. They supported Charles I and they followed Ben Jonson.

4.      Who wrote To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us?
a.       Richard Crashaw
b.      Robert Herrick
c.       Ben Jonson
d.      Richard Lovelace
Answer: c
Explanation: It was the part of preface to Shakespeare first folio published in 1623

5.       Who founded to new genre “the city comedy”?
a.       Richard Lovelace
b.      Ben Jonson
c.       Richard Crashaw
d.      Robert Herrick
Answer: b
6.      Who contributed to the genre the city comedy?
a.       Thomas Middleton
b.      Thomas Heywood
c.       Thomas Dekker
d.      All of the above
Answer: d
Explanation: Thomas Middleton,  John Marston, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, John Day, and John Webster  contributed to the development of city comedy.

7.      Who are the Jacobean dramatists?
a.       Thomas Dekker
b.      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
c.       Thomas Heywood
d.      All of the above
Answer: d
                               Explanation:  John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Francis Beaumont and John
                          Fletcher, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Philip Massinger.     

8.       Who wrote the “The Maid’s Tragedy”?
a.       Thomas Dekker
b.      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
c.       Thomas Heywood
d.      Philip Massinger
Answer: b

9.      The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and Love for Love are restoration plays written by
a.       William Wycherley
b.      George Etherege
c.       Sir John Vanbrugh
d.      William Congreve
Answer: d

10.  The diary of Samuel Pepys runs from
a.       1 January 1660 until 31 May 1669
b.       1 January 1670  until 31 May 1679
c.       1 January 1680 until 31 May 1689
d.       1 January 1690 until 31 May 1699
Answer: a


                                                
                                                                                                                                                                              


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