English Lecturer Series

Name of the Candidate :

Test 2

Time Allowed: 100 Minutes Total Marks: 100

Note: The wrong answer will cause .25% deduction of marks.

Attempted: Wrong: Obtained Marks:

Choose the right options and bold them.

1. ________ Age had a thirsty curiosity for the classical literature and the keen interest in the
activities of humanity.
a. Medieval b. Renaissance c. Restoration d. Victorian
2. According to the Renaissance scholars, both man and world are hindered only by external checks
from ______improvement
a. infinite b. finite c. limited d. possible
3. Sir Thomas Wyatt(1503-42), a courtier and a diplomat, translated sonnets from ________ and
Alamanni.
a. Dante b. Boccaccio c. Petrarch d. Donne
4. In his sonnet, ‘deer’ is identified as ____________ , his love, whose pursuit he had to give up.
a. Ann Boleyn b. Ann Joseph c. Ann Bishop d. Anne Donne
5. In his letter after exile (1536), Wyatt contrasts the corruption and flattery of the court with the
moral________ of country life.
a. decline b. rise c. health d. value
6. The innocence of rural __________ is naturalized in Wyatt’s songs and sonnets.
a. retirement b. scene c. landscape d. side
7. Wyatt and Surrey were first printed in 1557 in Tottel’s ________ of Songs and Sonnets.
a. Tattler b. Miscellany c. Review d. Spectator
8. _________ was beheaded on a false charge, at the age of 30.
a. Wyatt b. Surrey c. Donne d. Milton
9. Surrey’s songs and sonnets were _______ popular than Wyatt’s in his life.
a. less b. more c. equally d. not
10. Henry Howard, Earl of the Surrey(1517-47), son of Duke of Norfolk was the head of _________
of England.
a. nobility b. court c. church d. parliarment
11. Spenser adopted ________ romance as the form of his epic.
a. courtly b. chivalric c. foreign d. native
12. Spenser wanted to build a ____ myth and protect the ermine of Queen Elizabeth.
a. puritan b. national c. global d. secular
13. Spenser’s ________ was drawn on by Milton, Wordsworth and Keats.
a. Faerie Queene b. Paradise Regained c. Prelude d. Paradise Lost
14. Spenser’s craft is the admiration of the______.
a. critics b. poets c. painters d. artists
15. Spenser’s ________ is the outward sign of inward religious truth.
a. book c. epic c. dream d. romance
16. Spenser adds chivalric romance to the medieval _______, the glamour gilds the pill of truth.
a. epic b. allegory c. romance d. ballad
17. For Spenser religion, ethics and politics coalesce a ________ nation.
a. virtuous b. noble c. great d. wicked
18. The Faeire Queene is the greatest poetic monument for its musical, _______and intellectual
delights.
a. philosophical b. pictorial c. modern d. spiritual
19. Glorianna who asks the knight of Redcross to kill the dragon, is the greatest glorious ________of
fairyland.
a. queen b. fairy c. nymph d. aerial
20. The pattern of a _____stanza is ababbcbcc.
a.Chaucerian b. Spenserian c. Miltonic d. Shakespearean
21. The ________Plot refers to a failed attempt of Catholic extremists to blow up Parliament and the
King James I in 1605.
a. Gunpowder b. Rebellion c. Jesuit d. Catholic
22. John Donne (1572-1631), born a Roman Catholic, suffered for his loyalty to Catholic but
converted into the _____ Church in 1590s.
a. Anglican b. Baptist c. Orthodox d. German protestant
23. John Donne wrote ________ and elegies in 1590s.
a. Irony b. satire c. hymns d. sonnets
24. Donne argues aloud to define, ______and project a moment’s mood.
a. conceal b. explain c. dramatize d. reject
25. Donne is also appreciated for his _________ monologues.
a. poetic b. dramatic c. individual d. exterior
26. ‘The Sun Rising’, ‘The Good Morrow’ and ‘Anniversary’ are striking _______poems of John
Donne.
a. divine b. spiritual c. death d. love
27. ‘I’m carried towards the west / This day, when my soul’s form bends towards the east’ is an
instance of _________ .
a. oxymoron b. satire c. paradox d. irony
28. Donne often took images from the new discoveries of anatomy and _________ .
a. Philosophy b. Geography c. Geology d. History
29. Donne’s __________ was admired by those who read his poetry.
a. logic b. wit c. cynicism d. hypocrisy
30. Doctor Jonson identified ‘a race of poets’ between Donne and Cowley as ________ poets.
a. love b. divine c. romantic d. metaphysical
31. The members of The Society of ________, founded in 1534, are called Jesuits.
32. a. Jesus b. Christ c. Son d. Father
33. In a drama, the story is presented through the dialogue and the ______of the characters.
a. dialogues b. plots c. actions d. costumes
34. A ______entertainment, the Interludes, were played between the courses in big houses at
Christmas and Easter.
a. moral b. comic c. serious d. religious
35. In Renaissance, both Tragedies and Comedies were derived from Latin sources: comedies from
the works of Terence and Plautus, tragedies largely from Seneca, with echoes from ________
antecedents in both cases.
a. French b. Italian c. Greek d. English
36. Roman comedies by Plautus and __________ were adapted by the humanist schoolmasters for
their pupils.
a. Marlow b. Terence c. Kyd d. Shakespeare
37. Early Senecan tragedies were Gorbudduc by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton and The
Spanish Tragedy by Thomas _________.
a. Nasche b. Greene c. Hardy d. Kyd
38. The university-educated playwrights such as George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Nashe,
Robert Greene, John Lyly and Christopher Marlow are known as _________ .
a. University fellows b. university men c. dramatists d. university wits
39. Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man is in his Humour are the best plays of _______.
a. Christopher Marlow b. Ben Jonson c. Thomas Kyd d. Shakespeare
40. John Webster, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, Francis Beamount, Cyril Tourner, and John
Ford are the distinguished ________ dramatists.
a. Elizabethan b. Jacobean c. Edwardian d. Georgian
41. The famous forms of Renaissance drama include chronicle or history plays, comedies, tragedies
and__________.
a.farce b. mystery c. gothic d. romances
42. Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) was killed in a _________ brawl.
a. shop b. tavern c. church d. university
43. The protagonists of Marlowe’s plays, Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, and Barabas, scorn the
human ________ .
a. limits b. dignity c. image d. rights
44. Doctor Faustus, ambitious for knowledge, sells his ________ to the devil to learn the art of
necromancy.
a. will b. soul c. piety d. repentance
45. ______ says to Helen of Troy, “Give me thy kiss and make me immortal.”
a. Faustus b. Barabas c. Paris d. Tamburlaine
46. Mephistopheles persuades _________ to join the party of Lucifer and shun the Christ.
a. Faustus b. Barabas c. Paris d. Tamburlaine
47. The orthodox ______ of the Epilogue is transformed by a might and music of language in
Doctor Faustus.
a. conclusion b. moral c. belief d. conviction
48. The Romantics saw Doctor Faustus like Goethe’s Faust as emblem of human _____ .
a. aspirations b. decline c. confusion d. helplessness
49. Barabas, the protagonist of The Jew of Malta, sends poisoned food to the nuns of ________ to
take revenge.
a. cathedral b. chapel c. convent d. monastery
50. Marlow’s ‘mighty line’ is the blank pentameter which ‘might’ comes from the ______ energy.
a. rhythmic b. glowing c. passionate d. powerful
51. Marlow exploits the _________ of his audience.
a. attraction b. revulsion c. approval d. ideals
52. Barabs follows the cunning approach of ____________ .
a. Christ b. Paul c. Machiavelli d. Kant
53. The Prologue to The Jew of Malta, spoken by Machiavelli, presents _________ as the great sin.
a. pride b. jealousy c. ignorance d. avarice
54. The final screams of Barabs shows that the sin of ________ is universal.
a.pride b. jealousy c. ignorance d. avarice
55. In 1623 two fellow actors of Shakespeare brought out two collected edition: 36 plays in a book
of about 900 pages in large _____, entitled Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.
a. Folio b. complete works c. complete plays d. the dramas
56. Many of ________ new coinages and turns of expression have become everyday usage in
English life.
a. Shakespeare’s b. Ben Jonson’s c. Spenser’s d. Marlow’s
57. Shakespearean plays, written for ________rather than publication, were at the cutting edge of the
debate on a great many of the moral and philosophical issues of the time.
a. king b. queen c. art d. performance
58. The starting point of Shakespeare’s writing career was English______.
a. history b. tragedy c. comedy d. tragicomedy
59. The nineteen plays had come out in ________ in Shakespeare’s life time.
a. Folio b. complete works c. complete plays d. Quarto
60. The Folio, real monument of Shakespeare, was prefaced by a poem by ________ .
a.Shakespeare b. Ben Jonson c. Spenser d. Marlow
61. _________ has been described as melancholic and neurotic, as having an Oedipus complex, as
being a failure and indecisive, as well as being a hero, and a perfect Renaissance prince.
a. Othello b. Macbeth c. King Lear d. Hamlet
62. ‘To be or not to be’ is the centre of ________ questioning.
a. Othello’s b. Macbeth’s c. King Lear’s d. Hamlet’s
63. Hamlet discusses the problems he faces directly with the audience, in a series of seven________,
of which ‘To be or not to be’ is the fourth and central one.
a. aside b. monologue c. speeches d. soliloquies
64. The play Hamlet can be seen as a universal image of life and of the necessity of individual
choice and________.
a. desire b. ambition c. action d. success
65. _______ final words are ‘the rest is silence’.
a. Othello’s b. Macbeth’s c. King Lear’s d. Hamlet’s
66. When King Lear’s daughter Cordelia announces that she can say ‘Nothing’ about her love for
her______, the ties of family love fall apart.
a. husband b. father c. sisters d. mother
67. Othello and Desdemona are the perfect union of ______and virgin whose union is ruined by the
devil-figure, Iago.
a. husband b. lover c. warrior d. married
68. In his first appearance Macbeth appears as__________.
a. king b. Thane of Cawdor c. Duke d. military general
69. Lady Macbeth is often seen as the strong, scheming woman behind an ______husband – and
sometimes as the fourth witch.
a. indecisive b. convicted c. ideal d. intoxicated
70. The witches, murders and hallucination remind the audience _________
a. Othello b. Macbeth c. King Lear d. Hamlet
71. Thane of Fife, _________, had unnatural birth.
a. Ross b. Malcolm c. Donaldbin d. Macduff
72. Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale joins Pericles , Cymbeline , and The Tempest in the list of
_________later plays, usually referred as tragicomedies or romances.
a. great b. weak c. genre-defying d. genre-oriented
73. King _______of Sicilia begs his childhood friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, to extend his visit
to Sicilia. The latter agrees on the request of the former’s wife.
a. Leontes b. Lear c. Duncan d. Claudius
74. Leontes orders his loyal retainer, ______, to poison the Bohemian king but he warns him.
a. Polixenes b. Camillo c. Hermione d. Antigonus
75. Antigonus is killed by a bear, and Leontes and Hermione’s daughter, Perdita is raised by a
kindly_______.
a. prince b. beggar c. shepherd d. kind woman
76. Hermione comes to ________ at the end of the play.
a. life b. wonder c. surprise d. miracle
77. In Mamillius's words, "a sad tale's best for_______," (II.i.25) and the first three acts are set in a
Sicilian winter, and these acts make it a miniature tragedy.
a. spring b. summer c. autumn d. winter
78. After sixteen years, the scene set in Bohemia and spring offers rebirth and celebration and sets
the _____ mood of the play.
a. comic b. tragic c. romantic d. farcical
79. Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night, draws a comparison of solemn characters like Malvolio and
__________ like Sir Toby.
a.Sadist b. Puritan c. Epicurion d. male
80. Viola, the protagonist of Twelfth Night, takes a disguise of _____________.
a. Orsino b. Cesario c. Antonio d. Sebastian
81. ‘Who’s there?’ is an opening line of ________.
a.Hamlet b. King Lear c. Othello d. Macbeth
82. Edmund and Edgar were the sons of ___________.
a. Lear b. Kent c. Cornwall d. Gloucester
83. A ‘brave new world’, as ______describes it in The Tempest, is created out of the turbulence of
the old.
a. Miranda b. Cordelia c. Ophelia d. Viola
84. ________was terrified to hear about the storm in the sea and the fate of the people in ship.
a. Miranda b. Cordelia c. Ophelia d. Viola
85. _______ decides to forgive the culprits and starts a life with no more magic.
86. Antonio b. Alonso c. Prospero d. Sebastian
87. The term _________is used generally for the study of the relationship between language and
society.
a. speech b. style c. style-shifting d. sociolinguistics
88. The most basic distinction in _____ style is between formal uses and informal uses.
a. speech b. personal c. style-shifting d. sociolinguistics
89. Formal ______is when we pay more careful attention to how we’re speaking and informal _____
is when we pay less attention.
a. speech b. style c. style-shifting d. sociolinguistics
90. A particular variety of language spoken in one place by a distinct group of people is called
_______.
a. dialect b. idiolect c. diglossia d. code
91. A _______ reflects the colloquialisms, grammatical constructions, distinctive vocabulary, and
pronunciations that are typical of a region.
a. dialect b. idiolect c. linguistic d. code
92. Deixis is a reference by means of an expression which interpretation is relative to the
_______context of the utterance.
a. linguistic b. extra-linguistic c. nonlinguistic d. physical
93. A ______ is a conventional way of using language that is appropriate in a specific context such
as situational, occupational, or topical.
a.jargon b. register c. slang d. vernacular
94. ______ is special technical vocabulary (e.g. plaintiff, suffix) associated with a specific area of
work or interest.
a. jargon b. register c. slang d. vernacular
95. ______, or “colloquial speech,” describes words or phrases that are used instead of more
everyday terms among younger speakers and other groups with special interests.
a. jargon b. register c. slang d. vernacular
96. A rather special situation involving two distinct varieties of a language, called _______, exists in
some countries.
a. pidgin b. creole c. diglossia d. isogloss
97. A _____ is a variety of a language that developed for some practical purpose, such as trading,
among groups of people who had a lot of contact, but who did not know each other’s languages.
a. pidgin b. creole c. diglossia d. isogloss
98. As a contact language, ______ would have no native speakers.
a. pidgin b. creole c. diglossia d. isogloss
99. When a pidgin develops beyond its role as a trade or contact language and becomes the first
language of a social community, it is described as a creole.
a. pidgin b. creole c. diglossia d. isogloss
100. The ________is a general expression for a kind of social dialect, treated as “non-
standard”.

a.jargon b. register c. slang d. vernacular