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6 NOV. 2020

1. “Marlowe’s mighty line”-this phrase refers to his-

A) Blank Verse

B) Weighty diction

C) Compact Style

D) Imagery

2. Which of the following was an autobiography of Muriel Spark?

A) The Driver's Seat

B) Reality and Dreams

C) Curriculum Vitae

D) Territorial Dreams

3. "The temptation is the greatest treason,/ To do the right deed for the wrong
reason" Why is the 'temptation', 'treason' for the speaker of the above lines?

A) It is only self-serving.

B) It is not intended

C) It violates a norm

D) It is conspiratorial
4. Who called Kyd "Sporting Kyd"?

A) Ben JOhnson

B) Dr. Johnson

C) T.S. Eliot

D) Dryden

5. Which of the following causes accounts for the popularity of Elizabethan

drama?

A) Novels were few and could be enjoyed only by the educated

B) National themes and sentiments were dramatized.

C) Drama was the best way for the author to earn money

D) All of the above

6. When was 'The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie' published?

A) 1961

B) 1959

C) 1955

D) 1948

7. Who is referred to as the pioneer of picaresque novel in English?

A) Kyd

B) Nash

C) Greene

D) Lyly
8. Research is not ethical if it-

A) Tries to prove a particular point.

B) Does not ensure privacy and anonymity of the respondent.

C) Does not investigate the data scientifically

D) Is not of a very high standard

9. 'Pandosto' by Robert Greene is used by Shakespeare for which of the

following play's plot?

A) Hamlet

B) Macbeth

C) The Winter's Tale

D) Twelfth night

10. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is set in which city?

A) London

B) Dublin

C) Glasgow

D) Edinburgh

11. Who among the following University Wits is primarily known for his Friar
Bacon and Friar Bunge?

A) Lyly

B) Nash
C) Greene

D) Marlowe

12. What is the sum of writer's point of view in the lines given below- "Nature
never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither
with pleasant rivets, fruitless trees, sweet-smelling flowers, not what so ever
else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the
poets only deliver a golden"

A) Works of art are superior to the natural world they present.

B) Works of art can often complete with the natural world represented by
them.

C) Neither the poets nor the natural world they set forth equal nature's rich
tapestry.

D) The natural world is far superior to the works of art that represent it.

13. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called-

A) The Ballad of Peckham Rye

B) Robinson

C) Memento Mori

D) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

14. University Wits were those who-

A) Had training at 2 Universities

B) Gave curriculum of 2 Universities

C) Erected 2 Universities
D) None of the above

15. Who among the following wrote only trag-edies?

A) John Lyly

B) George Peele

C) Christopher Marlowe

D) Thomas Kyd

16. Assertion (A):- Instances of beliefs trigerring action are present in social life
and may give rise to problems in determining 'Causality'. Reason (R):- Beliefs
may not be accompanied y or give rise to logically appropriate actions, and
actions may occur which are consistent with motivations and intentions, but
they often, if not usually, also have unanticipated outcomes.

A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct reason of (A)

B) Both (A) and (R) are true but, (R) is not the correct reason of (A).

C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

17. Campaspe, Endymion, Hudibras, Love's Metamorphosis and The Woman in

the Moon are teh best works of John Lyly. Who wrote mostly?

A) Tragedies

B) Comedies

C) Chronicle Plays

D) Poetic Plays
18. Elizabethan Age in English Literature covers the period of-

A) 1557- 1600

B) 1558-1603

C) 1558-1606

D) 1557-1599

19. The act of publishing the same results in more than one journal or
publication refers to which of the following professional issues-

A) Partial Duplication

B) Duplicate Publication

C) Full Publication

D) None of the above

20. The Italian novella became common in En-glish translation after the middle
of the-

A) 14

B) 15

C) 16

D) 17

21. Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics,

Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain
times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the
"supreme governor" of all things spiritual. Who was it?

A) The Pope in Rome

B) Each man was his on supreme governor.

C) The Archbishop of Canterbury

D) Queen Elizabethan I

22. What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer?

A) Blank Verse

B) Sonnet

C) Trochaic Heptameter

D) Free Flow Verse

23. Identify the writer of the following lines- "Come live with me and be my
love/ And we will all the pleasures prove"

A) Kyd

B) Marlowe

C) Lyly

D) None of the above

24. In one of Marlowe's plays the hero is warned not "to practise more than
heavenly power permits." Identify the play.

A) Jew of Malta

B) Edward the second

C) Doctor Faustus

D) Tamburlaine, the Great

25. Which was Muriel Spark's first novel ?

A) The Abbess of Crewe

B) The Comforters

C) Not to disturb

D) A far Cry from Kensington

26. In which of the following, Naples has been described as a place “of more
pleasure than profit and yet of more profit than pity”?

A) Euphism by Lyly

B) Pando by Greene

C) Rosalind by Lodge

D) None of the above

27. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England . William Shakespeare,

Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous
playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular
with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was
considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject?

A) Sexuality

B) Criticism of the Queen

C) Murder

D) Witchcraft

28. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher

Marlowe's-
A) Doctor Faustus

B) Tamburlaine, the Great

C) The Jew of Malta

D) Edward II

29. Identify the important theatres of the Elizabethan period-

A) Peacock and Globe

B) Globe and Grand

C) Grand and Peacock

D) Globe and Swan

30. Recognizing our own values in pursuit of research is essential because-

A) It allows us to eliminate them.

B) It allows us to be honest with ourselves.

C) At least we know what we can ignore.

D) It enables us to persuade others of our values

31. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy shows conspicuous influence of-

A) Seneca

B) Ariosto

C) Homer

D) Virgil
32. Traces of the morality plays are discernible in the Dr. Faustus, traces such
as-

A) Vernacular songs adapting secular themes.

B) Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad Angels and its final moral.

C) Its refrains from the Corpus Christi Carol, the complaint of Christ, the lover
of mankind.

D) Its Rhythmical prose, and the presence of a larger narrative rhythm in the
Morality plays.

33. What tone will be best suited to the following poem- THE COMING OF
WISDOM WITH AGE Through leaves are many, the root is one/ Through all the
lying days of my youth/ I sawyed my leaves and flowers in the Sun/ Now I may
wither into the truth.

A) Regret

B) Excitement

C) Revulsion

D) Exultation

34. Assertion (A):- The Elizabethan prose writer Thomas Kyd's Euphues gave
birth to the word 'Euphuism'. Reason (R):- Because of his ornate style and
mechanical devices.

A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explaination.

B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explaination.

C) Both (A) and (R) are false.

D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

35. Thomas Nashe's The Unfortune Traveller is narrated by-

A) Ben Lyte, a coarse Papist

B) Jack Wilton, an English Page

C) Peter Marston, a sworn Calvinist

D) Philip Foxe, an English highwayman

36. The Jew of Malta is the story of insatiable passion for-

A) power

B) woman

C) wealth

D) exotic land

37. Which of the following is published in a journal?

A) Article

B) Paper

C) Both a and b

D) None of the above

38. Which of the following plays of Marlowe is based on a German Legend?

A) Tamburlaine, the Great

B) The Jew of Malta

C) Edward II

D) Doctor Faustus
39. Prior to rise of the famed tragedians of late 1580s, What were the great
headliners of the Elizabethan stage?

A) Clowns

B) Women

C) Politicians

D) Pantomimes

40. The Unfortunate Traveler by Thomas Nash is a typical-

A) love tragedy

B) pastoral romance

C) revenge play

D) picaresque novel

41. Why is it important that personal data bout research participants be kept
within secure, confidential records?

A) To observe principle of research ethics

B) To sell the data at a later stage to recover the cost of research.

C) To keep secrecy from other researchers.

D) None of the above

42. Stephen Greenblatt's work on the Renaissance is best described by what

theoretical paradigm?

A) Marxism
B) Feminism

C) New Historicism

D) Psychoanalysis

43. The Spanish Tragedy is historically impor-tant because it foreshadows

Shakespeare’s-

A) King Lear

B) Hamlet

C) Macbeth

D) Othelo

44. How did the invention of the printing press affect European Culture?

A) Print halted the corruption of texts by copyists, giving everyone identical

texts.

B) Scientific research became a more collaborative effort.

C) Learning to read was made easier as print was standardized and made
clearer.

D) All of the above

45. Which intellectual and social movement lies at the base of the period we
call the Renaissance?

A) Socialism

B) Capitalism

C) Humanitarianism

D) Humanism
46. Read the following poem and answer the questions given below- The
Mountain My students look at me expectantly/ I explain to them that the life
of art is a life/ of endless labor. Their expressions/ hardly change; they need to
know/ a little more about the endless labor/ So I tell them the story of
Sisyphus,/ how he was doomed to push/ a rock up a mountain knowing
nothing/ would come of this effort / but that he would repeat it /indefinitely. I
tell them / there is joy in this, in the artist's life/ that one eludes/ judgement,
and as I speak/ I am secretly pushing a rock myself,/ slyly pushing it up the
steep/ face of a mountain. Why do I lie/ to these children? They aren't
listening,/ they aren't deceived, their fingers/ tapping at the wooden desks/So I
retract/the myth; I tell them it occurs!in hell, and that the artist lies/ because
he is obsessed with attainment,that he perceived the summit/ as that place
where he will live for ever,a place about to be/ transformed by his burden:
with every/ breath,I am standing at the top of the mountain.Both my /hands
are free. And the rock has/ added height to the mountain. Whose poetic voice
is triggered right from the beginning?

A) Of student's

B) Of teacher's

C) of Critics'

D) Of an observer's

47. Read the following poem and answer the questions given below- The
Mountain My students look at me expectantly/ I explain to them that the life
of art is a life/ of endless labor. Their expressions/ hardly change; they need to
know/ a little more about the endless labor/ So I tell them the story of
Sisyphus,/ how he was doomed to push/ a rock up a mountain knowing
nothing/ would come of this effort / but that he would repeat it /indefinitely. I
tell them / there is joy in this, in the artist's life/ that one eludes/ judgement,
and as I speak/ I am secretly pushing a rock myself,/ slyly pushing it up the
steep/ face of a mountain. Why do I lie/ to these children? They aren't
listening,/ they aren't deceived, their fingers/ tapping at the wooden desks/So I
retract/the myth; I tell them it occurs!in hell, and that the artist lies/ because
he is obsessed with attainment,that he perceived the summit/ as that place
where he will live for ever,a place about to be/ transformed by his burden:
with every/ breath,I am standing at the top of the mountain.Both my /hands
are free. And the rock has/ added height to the mountain. The speaker brings
up the story of Sisyphus specifically by the way of glossing________

A) Art in life

B) Life in art

C) Endless labour

D) Poetic expression

48. Read the following poem and answer the questions given below- The
Mountain My students look at me expectantly/ I explain to them that the life
of art is a life/ of endless labor. Their expressions/ hardly change; they need to
know/ a little more about the endless labor/ So I tell them the story of
Sisyphus,/ how he was doomed to push/ a rock up a mountain knowing
nothing/ would come of this effort / but that he would repeat it /indefinitely. I
tell them / there is joy in this, in the artist's life/ that one eludes/ judgement,
and as I speak/ I am secretly pushing a rock myself,/ slyly pushing it up the
steep/ face of a mountain. Why do I lie/ to these children? They aren't
listening,/ they aren't deceived, their fingers/ tapping at the wooden desks/So I
retract/the myth; I tell them it occurs!in hell, and that the artist lies/ because
he is obsessed with attainment,that he perceived the summit/ as that place
where he will live for ever,a place about to be/ transformed by his burden:
with every/ breath,I am standing at the top of the mountain.Both my /hands
are free. And the rock has/ added height to the mountain. In its context, the
words 'the fingers/ tapping at the wooden desks', best represents the
students-

A) Lack of protest

B) Lack of interest

C) Show of disrespect
D) Show of impatience

49. Read the following poem and answer the questions given below- The
Mountain My students look at me expectantly/ I explain to them that the life
of art is a life/ of endless labor. Their expressions/ hardly change; they need to
know/ a little more about the endless labor/ So I tell them the story of
Sisyphus,/ how he was doomed to push/ a rock up a mountain knowing
nothing/ would come of this effort / but that he would repeat it /indefinitely. I
tell them / there is joy in this, in the artist's life/ that one eludes/ judgement,
and as I speak/ I am secretly pushing a rock myself,/ slyly pushing it up the
steep/ face of a mountain. Why do I lie/ to these children? They aren't
listening,/ they aren't deceived, their fingers/ tapping at the wooden desks/So I
retract/the myth; I tell them it occurs!in hell, and that the artist lies/ because
he is obsessed with attainment,that he perceived the summit/ as that place
where he will live for ever,a place about to be/ transformed by his burden:
with every/ breath,I am standing at the top of the mountain.Both my /hands
are free. And the rock has/ added height to the mountain.

Why does the speaker say that " the rock has added height to the mountain"?

A) Because the speaker is already on top of the mountain

B) Because both the hands of the speaker are now free

C) Because the mountain now seems largely incomprehensible

D) Because she feels that the immensity of the problem has grown

50. Read the following poem and answer the questions given below- The
Mountain My students look at me expectantly/ I explain to them that the life
of art is a life/ of endless labor. Their expressions/ hardly change; they need to
know/ a little more about the endless labor/ So I tell them the story of
Sisyphus,/ how he was doomed to push/ a rock up a mountain knowing
nothing/ would come of this effort / but that he would repeat it /indefinitely. I
tell them / there is joy in this, in the artist's life/ that one eludes/ judgement,
and as I speak/ I am secretly pushing a rock myself,/ slyly pushing it up the
steep/ face of a mountain. Why do I lie/ to these children? They aren't
listening,/ they aren't deceived, their fingers/ tapping at the wooden desks/So I
retract/the myth; I tell them it occurs!in hell, and that the artist lies/ because
he is obsessed with attainment,that he perceived the summit/ as that place
where he will live for ever,a place about to be/ transformed by his burden:
with every/ breath,I am standing at the top of the mountain.Both my /hands
are free. And the rock has/ added height to the mountain.

Which of the following can't be observed in the above lines?

A) Subjectivity

B) Pessimist approach

C) Allusion

D) Narrative style