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UNIT – 2 (TEST - 1)
1) Dryden’s All for Love is a/ an ____________.
a) Love drama
b) Prose Poem
c) Heroic Drama
2) _____________ was the angel sent to deliver
good news to the virgin at Galilee.
a) Michael
b) Gabriel
c) Raphael
d) Lucifer
3) _____ is the narrator of the novel Robinson
Crusoe.
a) Friday
b) Crusoe's son
c) Xury
d) Robinson Crusoe himself
4) The locks of the approaching storm!
The figure of speech used here is
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Refrain
5) What prized possession does the Baron steal
from Belinda?
a) A lock of hair
b) Her favorite dress
c) The key to a treasure chest
d) A locket she wears around her neck
6) Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The
place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all
thy empire now: now it contains thee…
Why does Ventidius call Antony ‘shadow of an
emperor’?
a) Because Antony was a Roman General
b) Because Antony was Second in command
c) Because Antony behave like a coward
d) Because Ventidius was angry with him
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7) ___________ suggested that Paradise
Regained is "practically sui generis" in its
poetic execution.
a) Barbara K. Lewalski
b) William Kerrigan
c) Northrop Fry
d) Stephen M. Fallon
8) In "Rape of the Lock", Miss Arabella Fermor is
presented as:
a) Nymph
b) Miss Prism
c) Miss Arabella
d) Belinda
9) Who captured and enslaved Robinson off the
coast of Africa?
a) Portuguese Naval Ship
b) Cannibals
c) Savages
d) Moorish Pirates
10) Identify the speaker of the following words:
Nature has cast me in so soft a mould, That but
to hear a story, feigned for pleasure, Of some
sad lover's death, moistens my eyes, And robs
me of my manhood.
a) Alexas
b) Ventidius
c) Iras
d) Dolabella
11) 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
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12) Satan took Jesus to the top of the mountain from
whose side two rivers flow. Name the two rivers.
a) Amazon and Nile
b) Rye and Wye
c) Nile and Tigris
d) Tigris and Euphrates
13) Who is Gulliver's main enemy in the royal court
of Brobdingnag?
a) The king
b) The dwarf
c) The queen
d) Reldresal
14) Who does Satan cite as the father of Jesus
Christ in Paradise Regained?
a) God, the Almighty
b) Moses
c) Abraham
d) David
15) Who is the speaker of the philosophical
statement?
Men are but children of a larger growth; Our
appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as
craving too, and full as vain…
a) Cleopatra
b) Ventidius
c) Mark Antony
d) Dolabella
16) The stanzas of “Elegy Written in a County
Churchyard” are called_________.
a) ballad meter
b) quartets
c) heroic quatrains
d) octaves
17) All for Love is dedicated to ______________.
a) Thomas, Earl of Danby
b) Shakespeare
c) Sir Gilbert Pickering
d) Sir Godfrey Kneller
b) Guard Belinda's favorite lock
c) None of them
d) Guard Belinda's earrings
19) Fill in the blank: “I seek not mine, but his
Who sent me, and thereby _______ whence I
am.”
a) speak
b) declare
c) indicat
d) witness
20) The stanzas of “Elegy Written in a County
Churchyard” are called_________.
a) ballad meter
b) quartets
c) heroic quatrains
d) octaves
21) 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
22) In “The Rape of the Lock” ___________ act as
armour to Belinda?
a) Sir Plume
b) Sylphs
c) Thalestris
d) Spleen
23) 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
18) In "Rape of the Lock", Brillante's duty is to:
a) Guard Belinda's Watch
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24) 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
25) My friend, my friend, What endless treasure hast
thou thrown away; And scattered, like an infant, in
the ocean, Vain sums of wealth, which none can
gather thence!
What is the treasure that Dolabella refers to?
a) Egypt
b) Love of Cleopatra
c) Physical beauty of Cleopatra
d) Beauty of Charmion
26) God, the father planned to send Jesus Christ to
conquer two grand foes. Who are they?
a) Lucifer and Beelzabul
b) Sin and Death
c) Sin and Guilt
d) Satan and Sin
27) Identify the speaker of the following:
O horror, horror! Egypt has been; our latest
hour has come: The queen of nations, from her
ancient seat, Is sunk for ever in the dark abyss:
Time has unrolled her glories to the last, And
now closed up the volume…
a) Myris
b) Alexas
c) Serapion
d) Iras
28)
___________ according to Jesus in Paradise
Regained suffered for truth.
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Epicurus
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29) 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
30) 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
31) 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"
32) __________ fed Elijah by the brook of Cherith.
a) Cranes
b) Angels
c) Ravens
d) Crows
33) Which of the following epithets does not apply
to the Rape of the lock?
a) Mock-Heroic
b) Heroic-Comical
c) Comic epic in Prose
d) Mock-Epic
34) So spake Israel's true King, and to the Fiend
Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles.
So fares it when with truth falshood contends.
1. Who is referred to as “Fiend”?
a) Satan
b) Spirits
c) Raven
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d) Sin
c) Mark Antony
d) Cleopatra
35) The people of Lilliput call Gulliver ____.
a) Man-Hill
b) Man-Mountain
c) Man-Giant
d) Man-House
36) Who is addressed thus by Ventidius?
Thou art her darling mischief, her chief engine,
Antony's other fate. Go, tell thy queen, Ventidius
is arrived, to end her charms.
a) Iras
b) Alexas
c) Charmion
d) Ladies
37) 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
38) How long did Robinson Crusoe spend on this
island after his shipwreck?
a) 28 years
b) 42 years
c) 12 years
d) 9 years
39) Who spoke thus?
Riches are mine, Fortune is in my hand;
They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain,
While Virtue, Valor, Wisdom, sit in want.
a) Pilate
b) Judas
c) Satan
d) Belial
40) Identify the speaker:
The original villain sure no god created; He
was a bastard of the sun, by Nile, Aped into
man; with all his mother's mud Crusted about
his soul.
a) Octavius
b) Ventidius
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41) “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor
Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The
short and simple annals of the poor.”
Which device is used in these lines from
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?
a) personification
b) irony
c) proverb
d) allegory
42) According to Alexas how did Cleopatra kill
herself?
a) By jumping off from the castle
b) By drowning herself in Nile
c) By consuming poison
d) By plunging her poniard on her breast
43) ___________ labelled Paradise Regained as a
"brief epic".
a) Barbara K. Lewalski
b) William Kerrigan
c) Susanne Woods
d) Stephen M. Fallon
44) Complete this line from "The Tyger": "Did
he smile his work to see? Did he who made
the ____ make thee?"
a) World
b) Lamb
c) Heart
d) Brain
45) Milton describes Jesus as _____________ in
Paradise Regained.
a) Our Saviour
b) Our Redeemer
c) Our Morning Star
d) Our Helper
46) In “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,”
what does the speaker celebrate?
a) the worth of all human beings
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b) the “boast of heraldry, the pomp of power”
c) the lives of great poets and politicians
d) “the knell of parting day”
47) “Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair, A
thousand wings, by turn, blow back the hair” In
these lines from The Rape of the Lock,
which epic convention is parodied?
a) supernatural intervention
b) epic simile
c) invocation to the muse
d) epic battle
48) In the prologue to All for Love, Dryden
compares bad critics to ____________.
a) Dogs
b) Donkeys
c) Hyenas
d) Vultures
49) In Blake’s “The Tyger,” the images of the
hammer and anvil portray the Creator as a
a) blacksmith
b) sculptor
c) painter
d) carpenter
50) Who according to Ventidius is the executioner of
Mark Antony?
a) Octavius
b) Octavia
c) Cleopatra
d) Alexas
51) The term 'innocence ' in William Blake’s Songs
of Innocence would mean:
a) All of the above
b) Stainless representation of childhood
c) Blake himself become a happy child.
d) To celebrate the spontaneous joys of
childhood
52) Who utters the closing lines of the play All for
Love?
a) Myris
b) Octavia
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c) Serapion
d) Alexas
53) How many days did Moses and Elijah fast?
a) 12 days
b) 54 days
c) 40 days
d) 48 days
54) Who is the speaker in “The Lamb”?
a) a child
b) a shepherd
c) a lamb
d) a blacksmith
55) To what are Belinda’s eyes repeatedly
compared in “The Rape of the Lock”?
a) The moon
b) The sun
c) The earth
d) The star
56) In “The Tyger,” which word best describes the
Tiger’s creator?
a) daring
b) distant
c) tender
d) generous
57) John Milton’s __________ primarily dealt with
the temptation of Christ as recounted in
the Gospel of Luke.
a) Paradise Regained
b) Areopagitica
c) On the eve of Christ’s Nativity
d) Paradise Regained
58) Identify the speaker of the following utterance:
Where will this end? four times ten days I
have pass'd
Wandring this woody maze, and humane food
Nor tasted, nor had appetite; …
a) John the Baptist
b) Jesus Christ
c) Peter
d) Moses
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59) Portents and prodigies have grown so frequent,
That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile
Flowed ere the wonted season, with a torrent So
unexpected, and so wondrous fierce…
Who thus opens up the play All for Love?
a) Myris
b) Serapion
c) Alexas
d) Ventidius
60) Besides poet, what was Blake's main
occupation?
a) minister
b) limner
c) engraver
d) typesetter
61)
How does Cleopatra die in All for Love?
a) She stabs herself
b) She orders Alexas to stab her
c) She allows asp to bit her
d) She drinks poison
62) What was Blake's first published volume of
poetry?
a) Lyrical Ballads
b) Songs of Innocence
c) Songs of Experience
d) Poetical Sketches
63) How old was Robinson the first time he
boarded a ship?
a) 17 years old
b) 21 years old
c) 19 years old
d) 24 years old
64) Identify the Speaker;
Curse on the tongue that bids this general joy!
Can they be friends of Antony, who revel When
Antony's in danger? Hide, for shame, You
Romans, your great grandsires' images, For
fear their souls should animate their marbles,
To blush at their degenerate progeny.
a) Dolabella
b) A Gentleman
c) Ventidius
d) Serapion
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65) Paradise Regained was written using
_________.
a) Alexandrine
b) Blank Verse
c) Rhymed iambic Pentameter
d) Iambic hexameter
66) __________ is the other title for All for Love.
a) A Romantic Tale
b) An Adaptation
c) The World Well Lost
d) A Tragedy
67) ________ is a gentleman of Worcestershire.
a) Captain Sentry
b) Will Honeycomb
c) Sir Andrew Freeport
d) Sir Roger de Coverley
68) _________is a clergyman, a very philosophic
man, of general learning, great sanctity of life,
and the most exact good breeding among the
members of the Spectator’s Club.
a) Captain Sentry
b) Will Honeycomb
c) Sir Andrew Freeport
d) Tom Mirable
69) In Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, the baron
obtains the “fatal engine” from
a) Ariel
b) Clarissa
c) Sir Plume
d) Sir Fopling
70) John Milton’s Paradise Regained is an epic in
_________ books.
a) 2
b) 4
c) 7
d) 12
71) Amid the chorus of praise after the publication
of “Pamela” of Richardson, the novel was at
the same time criticized for its excessive
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sentimentality and its utilitarian morality.
Fielding even wrote a novel called _________
to criticize it.
a) Tom Jones
b) Joseph Andrews
c) Amelia
d) Jonathan Wild The Great
72) Identify the speaker of the following words:
All these are Spirits of Air, and Woods, and
Springs,
Thy gentle Ministers, who come to pay
Thee homage, and acknowledge thee thir Lord:
What doubt'st thou Son of God? sit down and
eat.
a) Serpent
b) Satan
c) Cherubim
d) Beelzebub
73) Who is described in the following lines?
He eats not, drinks not, sleeps not, has no use
Of anything, but thought; or if he talks, 'Tis to
himself, and then 'tis perfect raving: Then he
defies the world,…
a) Ventidius
b) Dolabella
c) Mark Antony
d) Octavius
74) Henry Fielding in his novels adopted _______
in which the author
becomes the “all-knowing god”.
a) the third-person narration
b) the first-person narration
c) the epistolary form
d) the picaresque
75) In the coach Mr. Adams listens avidly to a
gossipy tale about a jilted woman named
__________.
a) Maria
b) Leonora
c) Fanny Goodwill
d) Catherine
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76) Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice
More awful then the sound of Trumpet, cried
Repentance, and Heavens Kingdom nigh at hand…
The word “Proclaimed” in the above line is a
reference to __________.
a) Elijah
b) John the Baptist
c) John the Apostle
d) Jesus Christ
77) In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes
a)
b)
c)
d)
English military ambitions
rivalry between Whigs and Tories
preoccupation with upper-class trivialities
conflicts between commoners and aristocrats
78) Songs of Innocence begins with William Blake
as the Piper with _____ as his guide as his
audience.
a) the Sphinx
b) the Minx
c) the child
d) the guardian angel
79)In The Rape of the Lock, the “airy band” refers
a)
b)
c)
d)
to
The band troupe
Gentlemen and ladies
the empty-headed beaux and belles
the sylphs assigned to protect Belinda
80) __________ Poem by William Blake was in
support of William Wilberforce and
abolitionists.
a) The Chimney Sweeper
b) The Little Black Boy
c) The Little Boy Lost
d) The Little Boy Found
81)
Jesus triumphant after the temptations
compared infernal serpent to ____________.
a) defeated hero
b) autumnal star
c) mouse
d) idiotic beast
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82) Who spoke thus in All for Love?
Our faint Egyptians pray for Antony; But in
their servile hearts they own Octavius.
a) Myris
b) Serapion
c) Iras
d) Alexas
83) Why did Robinson Crusoe go back to Guinea
after being a successful plantation owner?
a) He wanted to travel the world.
b) Other Brazilians (plantation owners)
pushed him out
c) His plantation was going out of business.
d) He wanted to get slaves on an expedition
for a few neighbors in Brazil and he
would get an equal share of the Slaves
84) Christ’s crucifixion on the cross and his Godlike sacrifice is fore told in ______ book of
Paradise Lost.
a) First
b) Seventh
c) Eleventh
d) Twelfth
85) In Songs of Experience William Blake sues the
phrase “The Fallen Man”. What does he mean
by the usage “The Fallen Man”?
a) Disobedience of human beings
b) Imprisoned man by mind-forged
manacles
c) Human beings in slavery
d) Consumerist attitude
86) What happen to Jesus at the end of Paradise
Regained?
a) He is crucified
b) he is stoned to death
c) He is taken back to His mothers home
d) He is left to tend the earth
87) What did Crusoe's father wanted him to have as
a career?
a) Doctor
b) Lawyer
a) Engineer
b) Naval Officer
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88) The Father of the Ancient Man – the jealous
god of the church is depicted by William Blake
as _________.
a) Uriel
b) Umbriel
c) Urizen
d) Abdiel
89) Which poem of William Blake begin thus:
I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?
a) My Pretty Rose Tree
b) The Lamb
c) The Angel
d) The Poison Tree
90) Dryden's play All for Love is based on
Shakespeare’s _____________.
a) Julius Caesar
b) Antony and Cleopatra
c) Romeo and Juliet
d) None of the above
91) ___________ abstained from Nebuchadnezzar's
meat in order to adhere to his diet of pulse and
to avoid assimilating to Babylonian ways.
a) David
b) Amos
c) Daniel
d) Elijah
92) The Garden of Cyrus was published in ______.
a) 1651
b) 1655
c) 1658
d) 1659
93)
Crusoe set sail from the Queen’s Dock in
_________ on a sea voyage in August 1651.
a) Holland
b) Hull
c) Finland
d) England
94)
“I beheld you in Cilicia, An enemy to Rome,
I pardoned you.”
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Who was this enemy of Rome mentioned in the
above line?
a) Pompey
b) Agrippa
c) Mark Antony
d) Cleopatra
95) Who is addressed thus:
Why do I need you?
What wife had Rafael, or has Agnolo?
a) Helena
b) Luciana
c) Lucrezia
d) Rosalind
96) ___________ according to Alexas seeks
revenge on Mark Antony.
a) The Senate
b) Octavia
c) Octavius Caesar
d) Lepidus
97) _________ is the setting of the play All for
Love.
a) Cilicia
b) Syria
c) Rome
d) Alexandria
98) The Ring and the Book (1868–69) is the story
of a Roman murder trial in ______ .
a) 7 books
b) 10 books
c) 12 books
d) 14 books
99) Paradise Regained by John Milton was
published first in 1671 in a volume along with
_________.
a) Lycidas
b) Samson Agonistes
c) Areopagitica
d) Camus
100) I who e're while the happy Garden sung,
By one mans disobedience lost, now sing
Recover'd Paradise to all mankind,
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By one mans firm obedience fully tri'd
Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls't,
And Eden rais'd in the wast Wilderness.
Whose obedience is implied in the above lines?
a) Adam’s
b) Peter’s
c) Paul’s
d) Christ’s
101) When was Dryden’s All for Love published?
a) 1671
b) 1675
c) 1677
d) 1679
102)
__________ and ________ were the first of
the disciples who followed Jesus Christ.
a) John and Simon
b) Simon and Matthew
c) Andrew and Simon
d) Andrew and Jude
103)
According to Alexas, Mark Antony is a/ an
__________.
a) foolish man
b) Vanquished man
c) Hero
d) idiot
104)
__________ foretold the rise and fall of
Israel in the person of Jesus.
a) Anna
b) Old Simeon
c) John the Baptist
d) Zachariah
105) Why did Fulvia, the wife of Antony raised a
war in Italy?
a) She wanted to become the Queen
b) She was jealousy of Cleopatra and wanted to
call Antony back
c) She was angry with Octavius
d) She was supported by the ambitious friends
of Antony
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106) Paradise Regained was modelled upon
_____________.
a) The Book of Job
b) Samson Agonistes
c) The Gospel Narratives
d) Folk-lore
107) “Not fierce Othello in so loud a strain
Roared for the handkerchief that caused his
pain.”
These lines from The Rape of the Lock illustrate the
use of
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Paradox
d) Oxymoron
108) In which book of Paradise Lost does John
Milton ask the readers to consider a kind of
heroism that is “more Heroic” than that sung by
Homer in the Iliad or the Odyssey or by Virgil
in his Aeneid?
a) Book 4
b) Book 7
c) Book 9
d) Book 12
109) Who is ‘the great lieutenant in the East’
according to Alexas?
a) Dolabella
b) Ventidius
c) Agrippa
d) Sexton
110) Ombre, in "Rape of the Lock is a
____________.
a) Person
b) Term
c) Sylph
d) Game
112) Regarding __________ Johnson pointed out
that though it had many elegant passages and
was always instructive it was deficient in
dialogues and action.
a) Paradise Lost
b) Comus
c) Samson Agonistes
d) Paradise Regained
113) Identify the poetic device used in the following
line: “To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land…”
a) Metonymy
b) Synecdoche
c) Metaphor
d) Oxymoron
114) Identify the poetic device used in the following
line:
“Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,/ And
Melancholy mark'd him for her own.”
a) Assonance
b) Personification
c) Hyperbole
d) Metonymy
115) What is the structural principle that John
Dryden used while choosing the setting of All for
Love?
a) Decorum
b) French Neoclassicism
c) Unity of time, place, and action
d) A thrust stage
111) Which character in All for Love spoke thus?
“I have no friends in heaven; and all the world”
a) Dolabella
b) Mark Antony
c) Octavia
d) Cleopatra
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