The Old English Period to The Renaissance Period
Total Questions: 100
1) ‘Shakespeare’ is the writer of—
- A: The Tempest
- B: The Idea of University
- C: The Hairy Ape
- D: Riders to the Sea
2) A sonnet is a lyric poem of—
- A: 12 lines
- B: 24 lines
- C: 14 lines
- D: 10 lines
3) William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the—– century.
- A: fifteenth
- B: sixteenth
- C: fourteenth
- D: seventeenth
4) Which of the following plays is by William Shakespeare?
- A: Desire Under the Elms
- B: Measure for Measure
- C: Pygmalion
- D: Cocktail Party
5) Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare-.
- A: King Lear
- B: The Duchess of Malfi
- C: Candida
- D: Waiting for Godot
6) The main feature of the Renaissance is—
- A: Humanism
- B: Utopia
- C: Polyolbian
- D: Opus Majas
7) Shakespeare is known mostly for his-
- A: poetry
- B: novels
- C: autobiography
- D: plays
8) Edmund Spenser is a —.
- A: Scientist
- B: Poet
- C: Critic
- D: Dramatist
9) Which is the oldest period in English Literature?
- A: Anglo-Norman
- B: Anglo-Saxon
- C: Chaucer's Period
- D: Middle
10) A sonnet is a poem having— lines.
- A: sixteen
- B: ten
- C: twelve
- D: fourteen
11) When a speaker speaks his thoughts aloud, it is called-
- A: aside
- B: monody
- C: soliloquy
- D: negative capability
12) Better three hours too soon than a minute too late’ was said by
- A: Shakespeare
- B: Wordsworth
- C: O Henry
- D: Edgar Allan Poe
13) In Shakespearean tragedy, the hero is __
- A: an ordinary man
- B: a high ranking man
- C: a sacrilegious man
- D: none of these
14) Ben Jonson introduced-
- A: allegory
- B: heroic drama
- C: comedy of manners
- D: comedy of humours
15) Which of the following is not true about Shakespeare?
- A: Poet
- B: Playwright
- C: Novelist
- D: Actor
16) William Shakespeare wrote-
- A: sonnets, tragedies and comedies
- B: sonnets, plays and essays
- C: sonnets, plays and novels
- D: sonnets, novels and epics
17) Who, among the following playwrights, is Shakespeare s
- A: Arthur Miller
- B: Marlowe
- C: Samuel Beckett
- D: William Wordsworth
18) Shakespeare was not__.
- A: a dramatist
- B: a playwright
- C: a poet
- D: a story writer
19) Andrew Marvell was a-
- A: Metaphysical poet
- B: Victorian poet
- C: Romantic poet
- D: Modern poet
20) Who is the ‘University Wits’ in the following list?
- A: Shakespeare
- B: Thomas Gray
- C: Robert Greene
- D: Dryden
21) ’Phoenix ’ is __
- A: an imaginary bullock
- B: a mythical bird
- C: a mythical bird regenerating from ashes
- D: a dead mythical bird
22) Much Ado About Nothing-is written by __
- A: Jane Austen
- B: Charles Dickens
- C: William Shakespeare
- D: Virginia Woolf
23) What is an act in a play?
- A: a unit of act on with no change of place or time
- B: the rising action of a play
- C: a major division in the action of a play
- D: conversation of character is in a play
24) What is catastrope?
- A: The comical end of dramatic events
- B: The tragic end of dramatic events
- C: The comic tragic end of the play
- D: None of the above
25) Climax is related to-
- A: Prose
- B: Drama
- C: Poetry
- D: Novel
26) Melodrama- is a kind of play of-
- A: violent and sensational themes
- B: historical themes
- C: philosophical themes
- D: pathetic themes
27) Protagonist- indicates__
- A: the villain in a play
- B: the leading character or actor in a play
- C: the clown in a play
- D: the stage-director of a play.
28) The hero or central character of a literary work is __
- A: Villain
- B: Protagonist
- C: Antagonist
- D: Chorus
29) Comedy is –
- A: a light play with a happy ending.
- B: an amusing play with a serious ending.
- C: a serious play with a humorous ending.
- D: a plays that shows terrible things in a way that is intended to be funny.
30) A comedy does not have__
- A: a happy ending
- B: a plot
- C: catharsis
- D: comic element
31) A drama is a/an —
- A: novel retold in dialogue
- B: magical performnces on the stage
- C: fairy tale
- D: story translated into action
32) A tragedy does not have ____
- A: a tragic hero
- B: a plot
- C: an act
- D: an octave-sestet division
33) What is the meaning of ‘Soliloquy’?
- A: action of body
- B: action of speech
- C: to memorira part
- D: long self speech by an actor
34) The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—
- A: Venice
- B: London
- C: Paris
- D: Florence
35) Soliloquy means –
- A: to memorise
- B: talking to oneself
- C: action of speech
- D: rehearsal of a play
36) Renaissance কথাটির অর্থ কি?
- A: মৃত্যু
- B: বার্ধক্য
- C: পৌঢ়ত্ব
- D: নবজীবন
37) ‘Renaissance’ means—
- A: regain
- B: reborn
- C: re-arrange
- D: rebirth
38) ‘Renaissance’ means —
- A: the revival of learning
- B: the revival of hard task
- C: the revival of life
- D: the revival of new country
39) Who translated ‘The New Testament’?
- A: Langland
- B: John Wycliffe
- C: Layaman
- D: Touci
40) Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?
- A: William Langland
- B: Thomas Moore
- C: Rozer Bacon
- D: Geoffrey Chaucer
41) Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?
- A: Nicolas Udall
- B: Thomas Norton
- C: John Wycliffe
- D: Edmund Spenser
42) Geoffrey Chaucer wrote—
- A: Canterbury Tales
- B: Piers Plowman
- C: Morte d’ Arthur
- D: The Maid’s Tragedy
43) The Canterbury Tales is as alive and—today as it was nearly600 years ago.
- A: appealing
- B: fruitful
- C: repelling
- D: enhanting
44) ‘The Canterbury Tales’ are told by-
- A: Geoffrey Chaucer
- B: Wycliffe
- C: Boccaccio
- D: Thomas Barth
45) A poem of fourteen lines is called—
- A: Elege
- B: Sonnet
- C: Ode
- D: Epic
46) Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?
- A: Cynewulf
- B: Geoffrey Chaucer
- C: Robert Browning
- D: None of the above
47) Who wrote “The Spanish Tragedy”?
- A: John Lyly
- B: Thomas Kyd
- C: Robert Green
- D: Christopher Marlowe
48) Robert Herrick was an English–
- A: Novelist
- B: Historian
- C: Poet
- D: Dramatist
49) There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.’ is taken from-
- A: Hamlet
- B: King Lear
- C: Macbeth
- D: Othello
50) Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?
- A: Cynewulf
- B: Geoffrey Chaucer
- C: Robert Browning
- D: None of the above
51) Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?
- A: William Langland
- B: Thomas More
- C: Francis Bacon
- D: Geoffrey Chaucer
52) Shylock †h bvU‡Ki PwiÎ, †m bvUKwUi bvg—
- A: Doctor Faustus
- B: The Merchant of Venice
- C: The Way of the World
- D: Arms and the Man
53) Who is known as the father of English poetry? /Who is called the father of English Poetry?
- A: Milton
- B: Wordsworth
- C: Chaucer
- D: Charles Dickens
54) Blow, Blow thou winter wind/ Thu art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude;/ They tooth is not so keen, Although they breath be rude.’ These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
- A: J. Webstar
- B: C.Marlowe
- C: William Shakespeare
- D: Lord Byron
55) Who is called the poet of poets?
- A: Geoffrey Chaucer
- B: Edmund Spenser
- C: Francis Bacon
- D: William Shakespeare
56) Ophelia is an important character in the Shakespearean play?
- A: Macbeth
- B: The Tempest
- C: Hamlet
- D: King Lear
57) Calliban is a Character in—
- A: King Lear
- B: Tempest
- C: Man and Superman
- D: Othello
58) Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in—
- A: King Lear
- B: Julius Caeser
- C: The Tempest
- D: Hamlet
59) ‘All the perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten this little hand’s is a quotation from—
- A: Hamlet
- B: Othelo
- C: Macbeth
- D: King Lear
60) Who said ‘Cowards die many times before their death.
- A: Shakespeare
- B: Franklin
- C: Carlyle
- D: Alexander Pope
61) ‘Cowards die many times before their death’ বাক্যটি শেক্সপিয়ারের কোন নাটক হতে উদ্বৃত হয়েছে?
- A: Macbeth
- B: Julius Caesar
- C: Hamlet
- D: Othello
62) ‘Fair daffodils! We weep to see/ You haste away so soon; As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon.’ Who is the writer to these beautiful lines?
- A: William Wordsworth
- B: Robert Herrick
- C: William Blake
- D: John Keats
63) ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ this quotation from Shakespeare\\\’s-
- A: Hamlet
- B: Otherllo
- C: Merchant of Venice
- D: Julius Caesar
64) ‘Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man’ Who said this?
- A: Shakespeare
- B: Bacon
- C: Keats
- D: Kyd
65) ”Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digestd.’ Said-
- A: Joseph
- B: Dr. Johnson
- C: Charles Lamb
- D: Francis Bacon
66) ‘Good face is the best letter of recommendation’ was stated by–
- A: Queen Victoria
- B: Queen Elizabeth
- C: Anne
- D: Queen Marry
67) ‘Faerie Queene’ is a/an —
- A: Play
- B: short story
- C: epic
- D: novel
68) ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by—
- A: Valtaire
- B: Shakespeare
- C: Milton
- D: Tolstoy
69) ‘To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from-
- A: Paradise Lost
- B: Romeo & Juliet
- C: Hamlet
- D: Shahnama
70) ‘Frailty, Thy name is woman’– in which of the following plays
- A: Macbeth
- B: Romeo and Juliet
- C: Hamlet
- D: Paradise lost
71) Cowards die___ before their death.
- A: much time
- B: many time
- C: enough time
- D: many times
72) Who is known as the father of English poetry? Who is called
- A: Milton
- B: Wordsworth
- C: Chaucer
- D: Lord Byron
73) The poem ‘Easter Wings’ written by-
- A: Andrew Marvell
- B: G. Herbert
- C: John Keats
- D: S.T Coleridge
74) Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of-
- A: 17th century
- B: 14th century
- C: 16 the century
- D: 18th century
75) Who wrote the poem ‘The Collar’?
- A: George Herbert
- B: John Donne
- C: Edmund Spenser
- D: Alfred Tennyson
76) The Flea- by John Donne is-
- A: a romantic poem
- B: an Elegy
- C: a religious poem
- D: an Ode
77) Who was both a poet and a Priest?
- A: Andrew Marvell
- B: George Herbert
- C: Edmund Spencer
- D: Robert Browning
78) Who is called the \\\’poet of love\\\’?
- A: Andrew Marvell
- B: John Donne
- C: John Keats
- D: Shakespeare
79) Who wrote the poem ‘The Sun Rising’?
- A: John Donne
- B: Lord Byron
- C: William Wordsworth
- D: None of them
80) ‘The Good Morrow’ is a poem by-
- A: Marvell
- B: W
- C: Yeats
- D: John Donne
81) Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets?
- A: Samuel Johnson
- B: John Donne
- C: Geoffrey Chaucer
- D: Robert Browning
82) The poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ was written by-
- A: Keats
- B: Andrew Marvell
- C: John Milton
- D: Shakespeare
83) Who wrote the poem \\\’The Definition of Love.\\\’
- A: Marvell
- B: John Donne
- C: W.B Yeats
- D: John Keats
84) Who is not called the Metaphysical poet?
- A: John Donne
- B: Andrew Marvell
- C: G. Herbert
- D: Tennyson
85) Who was a friend of John Milton?
- A: John Donne
- B: John Dryden
- C: Andrew Marvell
- D: Alexander Pope
86) Who is a Metaphysical poet?
- A: Cowley
- B: Thomas Kyd
- C: Ben Johnson
- D: John Webster
87) Who used the term \\\’The Metaphysical poet\\\’?
- A: Edmund Spencer
- B: John Donne
- C: Samuel Johnson
- D: Andrew Marvell
88) Which word seems out of place?
- A: rose
- B: lily
- C: cauliflower
- D: daffodil
89) The last line of “To daffodils” is
- A: Ne’er to be seen again
- B: Vanish like summer’s rain
- C: Ne’re to be found again
- D: As quack a growth of meet decay
90) In the poem ‘To Daffodils’ the poet weeps over—
- A: loss of beautiful flower
- B: loss caused to environment
- C: loss of sweet scent
- D: Short-lived human life
91) “Hasting day” in To Daffodils means-
- A: fast day
- B: quiet day
- C: finishing day
- D: hurriedly passing day
92) Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human beings and daffodils?
- A: rising sun, moon
- B: summer’s morning’s dew
- C: spring, summer
- D: hasting day, even song
93) In ‘To Daffodils’, human life is compared with:
- A: “Sunset”
- B: “flowing river”
- C: “Morning’s dew”
- D: “Graying hair”
94) ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is an example of –
- A: Symbol
- B: Metaphor
- C: Simile
- D: Metonymy
95) Which of the following school of literature is connected with a medical theory?
- A: Comedy of Manners
- B: Theatre of Absurd
- C: Heroic Tragedy
- D: Comedy of humours
96) ‘Silent Woman’ written by—
- A: J. Ruskin
- B: Ben Jonson
- C: Kalidas
- D: Munishi Prem Chand
97) Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?
- A: P. B Shelly
- B: Samuel Johnson
- C: Sir Philip Sidney
- D: John Donne
98) Who among the following was an English Renaissance Poet?
- A: John Donne
- B: Robert Browning
- C: John Milton
- D: Sir Philip Sidney
99) Who wrote ‘The Ruins of Time’?
- A: Philip Sidney
- B: Chapman
- C: Spenser
- D: Thomas Hardy
100) Who wrote an epic ‘The Faerie Queen’?
- A: Spenser
- B: T. S Eliot
- C: Browning
- D: Alfred Tennyson
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