English Literature

Time: 12 minute
Marks: 20
Serial Question
1 Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is a successfull-
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) Tragi-comedy
d) melo drama
Ans: 2
2 Marlowe's first play, which was staged on a regular commercial stage in London is -
a) Doctor Faustus
b) The Jew of Malta
c) Tambeurlaine the Great
d) Edward II
Ans: 3
3 William Shakespeare is not the author of -
a) Titus Andronicus
b) Taming of the Shrew
c) White Devil
d) Hamlet
Ans: 3
4 When was the globe theatre built?
a) December 28, 1598
b) December 18, 1596
c) December 18, 1694
d) December 28, 1692
Ans: 1
5 By Which year it is thought that William Shakespeare's palys were being regularly performed in London?
a) 1591
b) 1592
c) 1593
d) 1594
Ans: 2
6 In what city does A Midsummer Night's Dream take place?
a) London
b) Venice
c) Rome
d) Athens
Ans: 4
7 One of the four mentioned below is Shakespeare's shortest play-
a) Hamlet
b) The comedy of errors
c) The Tempest
d) King Lear
Ans: 2
8 Which of the following is not tragedy?
a) Othello
b) Antony and Cleopatra
c) Titus Andronicus
d) Much Ado About Nothing
Ans: 4
9 Who is the dramatist that introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression in his plays?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) G.B Shaw
d) None of them
Ans: 2
10 In which play would you find the character Mephistophilis ?
a) Edward (II)
b) The Jew of Malta
c) Doctor Faustus
d) Tambeirlaine the Great
Ans: 3
11 Christopher Marlowe is known as -
a) Father of English Tragedy
b) Father of Revenge Tragedy
c) Father of Modern English Criticism
d) First Sonneter in English Literature
Ans: 1
12 Sweet are the uses of adversity -From which comedy the sentence has taken ?
a) Comedy of Errors
b) As You Like It
c) Twelfth Night
d) The Taming of the Shrew
Ans: 2
13 Which is known as Shakespeare's swang song?
a) Hamlet
b) Machbeth
c) The Tempest
d) Twelfth Night
Ans: 3
14 Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell- Quote from
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Foctor Faustus
d) The Jew of Malta
Ans: 3
15 A Shakespearean play consists of -
a) Theree Acts
b) Two acts
c) Five Acts
d) One Act
Ans: 3
16 All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand - Who said ?
a) Macbeth
b) Prince Hamlet
c) Lady Macbeth
d) Claudius
Ans: 3
17 Which is not title of Shakespeare?
a) National Poet of England
b) King without crown
c) The Bard of Avon
d) Father of English Tragedy
Ans: 4
18 How many sonnets did shakespeare write?
a) 157
b) 156
c) 155
d) 154
Ans: 4