Tuesday 16 June 2015

10 set exam question in 2013

1. In which year was the King James Version of the Bible first published? 
A) 1526 B) 1535 C) 1539 D) 1611

 2. To which of the following does Gorboduc belong? 
A) Morality Plays B) Senecan Tragedy C) Farce D) Aristotelian Tragedy

 3. The Parliament of Fowls was written by ----------.
 A) Chaucer B) Philip Sidney C) Shakespeare D) John Fletcher 

4. The first story in the Canterbury Tales sequence is ------------. 
A) The Miller’s Tale B) The Wife of Bath’s Tale C) The Knight’s Tale D) The Squire’s Tale

5. Who among the following was described as the “poets’ poet” by the Romantics?
 A) Ben Jonson B) Edmund Spenser C) Philip Sidney D) John Milton 

6. Who is the author of the prose romance, Arcadia? 
A) Robert Sidney B) Philip Sidney C) Edmund Spenser D) Thomas More

 7. “. . . a thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility.” Whose words are these? A) Samuel Johnson B) Matthew Arnold C) T. S. Eliot D) John Dryden 

8. Tottel’s Miscellany is a 16th century collection of ----------.
 A) Poetic works B) Essays C) Drama D) Short stories 

9. The Chester, York, Wakefield cycles of plays refer to the ---------- of the 14th century. 
A) Masques B) Interludes C) Morality plays D) Miracle plays 

10. “. . . his laboring brain/Begets a world of idle fantasies/To overreach the devil.” Who is being referred to here?
 A) Faustus B) Gaveston C) Barabas D) Tamburlaine

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