· ... tale from bible c) tale of two cities d) ... the word "utopia” derives its meaning...

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TEST - 2

1) _______technique used in Utopia gives

verisimilitude to the work.

a) Eyewitness technique

b) Foreshadowing technique

c) Personification technique

d) Suspense technique

2) ____________ransomed Chaucer from France.

a) King George II

b) King Edward III

c) King Edward I

d) King John I

3) In A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, __________ is

transformed into a donkey-headed man.

a) Cobweb

b) Bottom

c) Francis Flute

d) Mote

4) The narrator of the poem The Book of the

Duchess fells that _______ was better activity

than playing chess or backgammon.

a) hunting

b) dreaming

c) reading

d) fantasizing

5) How many cities did Utopia contain?

a) 50

b) 52

c) 54

d) 58

6) Surely, I will never eat one

crumb of bread, I make a vow to my god here,

unless I might hear of my lord!”.

Who is the lady referred to here?

a) Euridice

b) Cybele

c) Cyclopes

d) Alcyone

7) In Epithalamion the lady’s posture before the

alter is considered to be__________.

a) proud

b) humble

c) modest

d) gloomy

8) _____ is the narrator of the novel Robinson

Crusoe.

a) Friday

b) Crusoe's son

c) Xury

d) Robinson Crusoe himself

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10) Raphael Hythloday from ________. a) Spain

b) Portugal

c) Greece

d) Rome

11) The locks of the approaching storm!

The figure of speech used here is

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Personification

d) Refrain

12) Ah! my deere love, why doe ye _____ thus long?

………….,

T’ awayt the comming of your joyous make,

And hearken to the birds love-learnèd song,

The deawy leaves among!

What was the speakers lady doing when he

uttered the above?

a) Dreaming

b) Sleeping

c) Knitting

d) Weaving

13) The speaker in Epithalamion wanted _________

to be opened for his lady to enter in

a) Church gates

b) Temple gates

c) Bedroom door

d) Front door

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14) Who captured and enslaved Robinson off the

coast of Africa?

a) Portuguese Naval Ship

b) Cannibals

c) Savages

d) Moorish Pirates

15) Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,

Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;

Resembling sire and child and happy mother, The

figure of speech used in the above lines

is_______.

a) simile

b) Metaphor

c) Metonymy

d) Personification

16) "Amaurot", Utopia's capital city literally means

_______.

a) Castle in the air

b) Castle of love

c) Castle in the sea

d) Castle of paradise

17) ________ is the wife of Antipholus of Ephesus.

a) Luciana

b) Aurora

c) Adriana

d) Emilia

18) Under which of the following circumstances

would Utopians not engage in war?

a) To protect themselves

b) To protect allies

c) To gain territories

d) To free oppressed peoples

19) Who says, "Good night, sweet prince,/ And

flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."?

a) Fortinbras

b) Marcellus

c) Chorus

d) Horatio

20) __________ is the father of the Muse?

a) Morpheus

b) Phoebus

c) Artimis

d) Saphyres

21) _______ are the mercenaries hired by Utopians to

fight their wars.

a) Napoletes

b) Zapoletes

c) Dapoletes

d) Sapoletes

22) __________ is the son of Morpheus.

a) Hermes

b) Eclympasteyr

c) Erastus

d) Hector

23) Which of these doctrines does not characterise

Utopian philosophy?

a) Belief in after life

b) Belief in the immortality of the soul

c) Belief in astrology

d) Belief in the importance of happiness

24) Which among the following is not a revenge

tragedy?

a) Spanish Tragedy

b) Merchant of Venice

c) Hamlet

d) The Jew of Malta

25) ______ number of candidates would contest to

the Prince of Utopia.

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

26) How does Queen Gertrude die?

a) Accidentally stabbed by Laertes

b) Drowns in the river outside the castle

c) Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching

Hamlet fight Laertes

d) Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup



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27) When was Dr. Faustus published for the first

time?

a) 1602 A.D.

b) 1604 A.D.

c) 1606 A.D.

d) 1612 A.D.

28) _______ is the name given to the Governor that

30 Utopian household elect every year.

a) Syphogrint

a) Syphogrent

b) Syphogrunt

c) Syphogrant

29) This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,

Like to a step-dame or a dowager

Long withering out a young man revenue.

Identify the speaker of the above lines:

a) Philostrate

b) Egeus

c) Theseus

d) Lysander

30) So, recently, the other night, when I saw that I

could

not sleep, I sat up in my bed and bid someone to

bring me a book, a/ an ___________ .

What kind of book did the speaker wanted to

read?

a) book of poetry

b) fairy tale

c) romance

d) adventure story

31) ___________ is sent by Dr Faustus to fetch the

two magicians Valdes and Cornelius.

a) Mephistopheles

b) Wagner

c) The bad angel

d) servant

32) Utopians consider the following to be immoral:

a) Animalism

b) Atheism

c) hero - worship

d) Worship of Stars

33) Who utters the following in All for Love?

Were she the sister of the thunderer Jove, And

bore her brother’s lightning in her eyes, Thus

would I face my rival.

a) Octavia

b) Cleopatra

c) Fulvia

d) Alexas

34) ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a

sparrow.” The line given above occurs in

a) Hamlet

b) Henry IV, Pt I

c) The Tempest

d) Twelfth Night

35) Bacon’s style is known for:

a) pathos

b) humour

c) paradox

d) aphorisms

36) In Book 1, in which city does More meet Peter

Giles?

a) Antwerp

b) Antoing

c) Aubel

d) Anderlecht

37) Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be, or not to be; that

is the question’ occurs in?

a) Act II, Scene I

b) Act III, Scene III

c) Act IV, Scene III

d) Act III, Scene I

38) Theseus, the Duke of Athens, was preparing for

his marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the ______.

a) Amazons

b) Athens

c) Armado d) Adelaide

39) The meaning of the Latin expression “Que sere,

sere” is?

a) What will be, shall be

b) What is that is

c) What has been has been right

d) What is what is to be



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40) In 1807, Charles Lamb and Mary Anne Lamb

was published ____________

a) Tale from Shakespeare

b) Tale from Bible

c) Tale of Two cities

d) Tale of Canterbury

41) The narrator of the Book of the Duchess suffered

by sleeplessness for __________ years.

a) four

b) six

c) eight

d) nine

42) Then cease, bright Nymph! to mourn the ravish'd

Hair

Which adds new Glory to the shining Sphere!

Not all the Tresses that fair Head can boast

Shall draw such Envy as the Lock you lost.

Alexander Pope consoles Belinda not to mourn

telling that __________.

a) her lock of hair would be restored

b) her lock of hair was much sought after

c) her lock of hair became a star in the sky

d) her lock of hair was envied even by angels

43) Who translated Utopia into English in 1556?

a) Ralph Robertson

b) Ralph Richardson

c) Ralph Rowlandson

d) Ralph Robinson

44) Who is Gulliver's main enemy in the royal court

of Brobdingnag?

a) The king

b) The dwarf

c) The queen

d) Reldresal

45) Charles Lamb use to write under the pen-name of

______.

a) Charles

b) Anne c) Elia

d) Dyer

46) Who utters the following?

Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will

do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,

that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,

let him roar again.'

a) Quince

a) Snug

b) Snout

c) Bottom

47) Only under this circumstances divorce permitted

in Utopia:

a) Adultery

b) Infertility

c) Drunkenness

d) Swearing

48) ___________ are the tenants of the heart

according to William Shakespeare.

a) perception

b) intuition

c) thoughts

d) feelings

49) Dr Faustus orders Mephostophilis to change its

appearance into _____________.

a) Monk

b) Franciscan friar

c) Helen of Troy

d) Mendicant

50) An elected Prince in Utopia can rule for _____.

a) 5 years

b) 10 years

c) 20 years

d) Life time

51) The Vision of William Concerning Piers _______

is compared to a knight ready to joust for men's

souls.

a) Lady Mede

b) Piers

c) Goodwill

d) Christ

52) For as _________is daily new and old,

So is my love still telling what is told.

According to William Shakespeare what is daily

new and old?

a) The moon

a) The sun

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c) The breeze

53) The stanzas of “Elegy Written in a County

Churchyard” are called_________.

a) ballad meter

b) quartets

c) heroic quatrains

d) octaves

54) Who utters the following?

Content with Hermia! No; I do repent

The tedious minutes I with her have spent.

Not Hermia but Helena I love:

Who will not change a raven for a dove?

a) Demetrius

a) Bottom

b) Lysander

c) Quince

55) The word "Utopia” derives its meaning from the

Greek language and has double meaning

________ and _________.

a) Every place; new place

b) No place; good place

c) Hidden place; perfect place

d) Possible place; impossible place

56) Nothing can make my sorrows slide away, not

all the remedies of Ovid, nor Orpheus, the god of

music, nor Daedalus with his ingenious

inventions;

no physician may heal me, not Hippocrates nor

Galen.

Who utters the following in The Book of the

Duchess?

a) The narrator

b) Ocativian

c) Ceyx

d) The Knight in Black

57) The argument between the Big-Endians and the

Small-Endians was about ...

a) Ships

b) Eggs

c) Shoes

d) Women

58) The Vision of William Concerning Piers, the

Plowman is the only extant poem of

a) John Gower

b) Lydgate

c) W. Langland

d) Higden

59) When I perceive that men as plants increase,

Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,

Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,

What figure of Speech is used in the quoted

lines?

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Conceit

d) Hyperbole

60) So spake our Morning Star then in his rise,

And looking round on every side beheld

A pathless Desert, dusk with horrid shades;

Who is referred to “Morning Star” here?

a) John Wycliff

b) John the Baptist

c) Jesus Christ

d) Mother Mary

61) Utopians are at par with Europeans in their

understanding of _________.

a) Logic

b) Arithmetic

c) Geometry

d) All the above

62) I believe that no one has ever had the insight to

interpret my dream correctly.

No, not _________, without a doubt, who

interpreted the Pharaoh’s dream.

Who is the interpreter of dreams referred to in

The Book of the Duchess?

a) John of Gaunt

b) Joseph of Egypt

c) Jason

d) Medea

63) According to William Shakespeare __________

is better than high birth.

a) Commitment

b) Dedication

c) Love



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d) Loyalty

64) Taxation!

Wherein? and what taxation? My lord cardinal,

You that are blamed for it alike with us,

Know you of this taxation?

Who is the Cardinal mentioned here?

a) Suffolk

a) Norfolk

b) Wolsey

c) Sands

65) There are two groups of people in Lilliput who

argue about ____.

a) Which color shoes to wear

b) Which end to break their eggs

c) Which language to speak

d) Which king and queen to choose

66) The main fault of Dr. Faustus is that ________.

a) He was proud

b) He was arrogant

c) He was ambitious

d) He was blind to his own salvation

67) Which of the following is a typical ritual before

marriage in Utopia?

a) The groom presents his bride-to-be with a

golden necklace

b) The bride-to-be writes a love poem for her

groom

c) The families of the couple invite the whole

town to a celebratory supper

d) The couple see each other naked

68) ____________ utters the following in Love’s

Labour’s Lost.

Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:

Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;

Our court shall be a little Academe,

Still and contemplative in living art.

a) Biron

a) Ferdinand b) Longaville

c) Dumain

69) The meaning of the Latin Phrase Participes

curarum is_______ .

a) Sharer of love

b) Sharer of cares

c) Doctor who cures

d) Participant par excellence

70) The traitoress, false and full of guile, she who

promises everything and delivers nothing, who

walks upright and still limps, who squints so

foully and still looks lovely, the disdainful and

gracious one, who scorns so many creatures!

Who is the “traitoress”?

a) False fortune

a) Juno

b) Luck

c) Beatrice

71) The White Devil is a ________ Drama

a) Elizabethan

b) Jacobean

c) Carolian

d) Augustan

72) ___________ is Vittoria’s brother who plans to

advance his career.

a) Camillo

b) Flamineo

c) Fransisco

d) Monticelso

73) Which of the following is not a reason to become

a slave in Utopia?

a) Being captured by the Utopians in battle

b) Committing a terrible crime within Utopia

such as adultery

c) Taking food from the communal store

d) Being condemned to death in another country

and saved by the Utopians

74) Was this the face that launched a thousand ships

and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

What is the figure of speech employed here?

a) Hyperbole

b) Personifiacation

c) Metalepsis d) Metanomy

75) Which of the following periods encompassed the

Renaissance in England?

a) 1485-1669

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c) 1445-1670

d) 1510-1600

76) Thomas More did not support the second

marriage of ___________.

a) Henry I

b) Henry IV

c) Henry VII

d) Henry VIII

77) Thomas More died of_______.

a) Hanging

b) Decapitation

c) Falling of a horse

d) Poisoning

78) __________ was responsible for the burning of

the topless towers of Ilium.

a) Priam

b) Paris

c) Helen

d) Hector

79) The country of Lilliput is _____ the country of

Blefuscu.

a) Under

b) A long way from

c) Friendly with

d) At war with

80) Which of the following text was not the source of

Utopia?

a) Plato’s Republic

b) Cicero’s De Republica

c) Homer’s Iliad

d) St. Augustin’s De Civitate Dei

81) What does Robinson see on the beach that fills

him full of fear?

a) a human footprint

b) the ripped up remains of his hut

c) a dead shark

d) wild penguins

82) When did Francis Bacon publish Advancement of

Learning?

a) 1605

b) 1600

c) 1598

d) 1596

83) To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them

What figure of speech is being employed here?

a) simile

b) metaphor

c) epithet

d) transferred epithet

84) The island of Utopia is ____ shaped as described

in Book 2.

a) Crescent moon

b) Star

c) Circle

d) Diamond

85) At the end of Hamlet, Fortinbras comes to

Denmark victorious of the ____________ ?

a) Polish wars

b) Kentish Wars

c) War of Roses

d) Spanish Wars

86) More thought that a perfect world would be better

off without which professionals?

a) Teachers

b) Lawyers

c) Chefs

d) Writers

87) Utopians who are terminally ill and suffering

are urged to do what?

a) Write a will

b) Let themselves die

c) Impart their knowledge to the young

d) Write their memoirs

88) Which Shakespearean characters speaks

thus:

Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day

I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:

Come when the king doth to my lady come;

Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some.

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b) Emilia

c) Katherine

d) Cleopatra

89) …forty thousand brothers

Could not, with all their quantity of love,

Make up my sum"

Who is the speaker of the above lines?

a) Polonius

b) Horatio

c) Hamlet

d) Marcellus

90) Who is Faustus' servant who shares his name

with a famous German composer?

a) Bach

b) Schumann

c) Beethoven

d) Wagner

91) Farewell, sweet, my world’s bliss! I pray to God

to lessen your sorrow. Our bliss lasts for so short

a time!”.

Who is referred to as “sweet, my world’s bliss!”?

a) Blanche

b) Lady White

c) Helen of Troy

d) Alcyone

92) Raphael Hythloday believes that scholars should

avoid doing ___.

a) Socializing with those of inferior intelligence

b) Travelling to countries further than 1000

miles from their own

c) Discussing politics with other scholars

d) Advising and offering services to those in

power

93) How long did Robinson Crusoe spend on this

island after his shipwreck?

a) 28 years

b) 42 years

c) 12 years

d) 9 years

94) The river in Utopia with a name meaning

"without water” is it called?

a) Anyder

b) Anoder

c) Aneder

d) Anuder

95) The Spirit descended, while the Fathers voice

From Heav'n pronounc'd him his beloved Son

That heard the Adversary, who roving still

About the world, at that assembly fam'd

Would not be last..

The event referred to in the above lines is _____.

a) Description of a prophecy

b) Baptism of Jesus

c) Event after the temptation of Jesus

d) Baptism of John the Baptist

96) Where was Hamlet studying before he returned

to Denmark?

a) Wittenberg

b) Oslo

c) London

d) Dublin

97) Which of the following lines from Gray's

"Elegy" has an example of alliteration?

a) "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"

b) "The plowman homeward plods his weary

way"

c) "And leaves the world to darkness and to me"

d) "Molest her ancient solitary reign"

98) Which of the following epithets does not apply

to the Rape of the lock?

a) Mock-Heroic

b) Heroi-Comical

c) Comic epic in Prose

d) Mock-Epic

99) The people of Lilliput call Gulliver ____.

a) Man-Hill

b) Man-Mountain

c) Man-Giant

d) Man-House

100) In Jonathan Swift’s “Tale of a Tub”, Peter

represents

a) Protestant Church

b) Church of England

c) Roman Catholic Church

d) Greek Orthodox Church



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