Question Bank (Elective Course)
ENGLISH (NEW)
Session - Dec 2019 & June 2020
EG1-03: The Restoration : EG1-03
1.In which age Magna Carta was introduced ?
13th century or 1215 A.D
2.Which of the following is the period of the Commonwealth age ?
1649-1660
3.What is called by “The Revolution of 1688” ?
The glorious revolution
4.When did The Great Fire of London take place ?
6th September 1666
5.Name two important diarists of the restoration period?
Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
6.Where does Dryden attack Shadwell ?
In his poem Mac Flecknoe
7.Who has written Hudibras, (1663-78) a satire on the puritans, in three parts ?
Samuel Butler
8.What is feminine rhyme?
Feminine rhyme is rhyme that matches two or more syllables usually at the end of respective lines in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed.
9.Who is called as the father of Neo-Classical rationalistic aesthetics?
Thomas Hobbes
10. Which text of John Wilmot is an un-sparing critique against public immorality?
A satire against reason and Mankind
11.Who calls the Puritans a “barbarous race of men”
John Dryden
12.Who has written the text Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage ?
Jeremy Collier
13.Dryden wrote which of the following in celebration of Charles II’s return ?
Astrea Redux
14.What is called the Period in English history after 1660 ?
The restoration period
15.In the later part of the 17th century, England witnessed the rise of two political parties. What are these two political parties?
Whig and Tory
16.The brief comparison between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson can be found in which text of John Dryden?
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
17.Who finds in Restoration Comedy an illustration of "the rise and decline of a deliberately induced pseudo-courtly ideal in England, or at least in London‟?
David Daichess
18.Which of the following statements about a Restoration Comedy may be true? Options are needed for this question.
I) The plots of restoration comedy deal with complications that the age was conversant with
II) The characters in Restoration comedies are largely types
III) Restoration comedy is called artificial comedy
IV) Restoration comedy was confined to London only
[ALL ARE TRUE]
19.Whose plays are called as “manly”?
William Wycherley
20.William Congreve dedicates his play The Way of the World to Whom?
Earl of Montagu
21.What does the ‘Proviso Scene’ in the Way of the World refer to ?
Agreements of marriage
22. What is the Subtitle of Dryden’s All for Love ?
The world well Lost
23.What is the setting of the play All for Love is ?
Alexandria in Egypt
24.Who is Octavius as mentioned in the first act of the play All for Love ?
Known as Augustus and founder of Roman Empire
25.Which play of Shakespeare is the source of inspiration for All for Love?
Antony and Cleopatra
26.Dryden wrote which of the following in describing Great Fire of London and the Dutch war ?
Annus Mirabilis
27.Dryden uses whom as a mouthpiece for his own views about drama in An Essay on Dramatic Poesy?
Neander
28.“He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.” Who said this about Shakespeare ?
John Dryden
29. "Quantum lent a solent, inter viberna cupressi" What is real source of the quotation ?
Virgil ' s Eclagues
30.Which play of Congreve concludes with the following lines?
“From hence let those be warn’d, who mean to wed; Lest mutual Falsehood stain the Bridal Bed:
The way of the world
31.Who is appointed as a ruler during the period called the Interregnum?
The son of Oliver Cromwell
32.The Restoration period was the political structure during the period from – From 1660-1688 Who are the ‘Cabals’?
Five ministers – Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham,Ashle, and Lauderdale . Or a cabal is a small group of politicians working in secret
33.What is the profession the 'Whigs ‘as a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom between the 1680s and 1850s?
Merchant squires with overseas .
34.In which year Glorious Revolution took place?
1688
35. In which poem of Dryden hailed Charles II as “Augustus” or emperor of Rome?
Astrea Redux
36.In which work of Jeremy Collier sternly condemned the theatre of the Restoration Period?
A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage
37.Who worked as an advisor to Charles II and as Chancellor of England?
Edward Hyde , first Earl of Clarendon
38.The Age of Johnson(1750-1798) was dominated and characterized by the mind and personality of----
Dr.Samuel Johnson
39.What is the meaning of the word ‘Augusta’ as refereed in Mac Flecknoe ?
City of London
40.Who is a well-known Elizabethan comic dramatist, whose plays highlighted the common man?
Thomas Dekker
41. Mention the leading publisher of Charles II‟s reign and publisher to Shadwell.
Herringman
42.Who has written the text Urania, a monumental romance?
Lady Mary Wroth
43. Who was heralded as a successor to Sappho (a Greek lyric poet)?
Aphra Behn
44.Behn's customary use of classical, pastoral, courtly, and traditionally English lyric modes appeared in-
Lycidas : or The lover in Fashion
45 The best-known poem, "The Disappointment" sent to whom with a letter asking him to deny allegations of ill conduct circulating about his activities?
Hoyle
46.Mention the biographer of AphraBehn.
Janet Todd
47.Where does Aphra Behnclaim success in love as a combination of forgiveness, intense passion and endangered but inviolate virtue?
The unfortunate Happy Lady
48. Which of the work of Samuel Butler deals with a mouse trapped in a telescope, a satire on Sir Paul Neale of the Royal Society?
The Elephant on the moon
49Which period may be considered as the classical age of English satire?
The Restoration period
50. Hudibras is a long burlesque narrative, written in the-
Short or octosyllabic couplet
51 "When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why?" What is the reference of dudgeon here?
The prolonged civil wars in England
52. The name "Hudibras" is derived from
The Faerie Queene
53.Which was considered William Congreve's masterpiece, although it was a critical failure at the time?
The way of the world
54. "My wife is an errant wife, and I am a cuckold....'Sdeath! To be out-witted, out-jilted, out-matrimoney'd!... 'Tis scurvy wedlock!" Who said this?
Fainall
55.Who begs for an early marriage, declaring that his nephew, Mirabell, will poison him for his money if he learns of the romance?
Sir Rowland
56.Who offers a compromise; if she will permit her niece to marry him, he will contrive to save Mrs. Fainall's reputation and fortune?
Lady Wishfort
57.The Epilogue of The Way of the World is spoken by whom?
Mrs Bracegirdle
58.Act I Scene I of the play The Way of the World takes place in – Chocolate House The dedicatory preface to the first edition of The Way of the World is a –
Letter to the Earl of Montagu
59.Act I Scene I of the play The Way of the World takes place in –
Chocolate House
60. The dedicatory preface to the first edition of The Way of the World is a
Letter to the Earl of Montagu
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