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PRACTICE PAPER - 1 Q.1 William Shakespeare was born in (a) Canterbury (b) London (c) Norwich (d) Stratford-on-Avon Q.2 Who says that Shakespeare knew small Latin and less Greek? (a) Thomas Kyd (b) Marlowe (c) Francis Bacon (d) Ben Johnson Q.3 Who Wrote Venus and Adonis (1593)? (a) William Shakespeare (c) Ben Johnson (b) Edmund Spenser (d) Marlowe Q.4 Shakespeare addressed his sonnets to (a) Mr. H.W. (b) Mr. W.H. (c) Elizabeth (d) Ben Jonson Q.5 How many sonnets are composed by Shakespeare? (a) 154 (b) 54 (c) 159 (d) 150 Q.6 Which of the following play of Shakespeare remains unfinished? (a) Titus Andronicus (b) Timon of Athens (c) Hamlet (d) Cymbeline Q.7 Which of the following play of Shakespeare is not his early comedy? (a) The Comedy of Errors (b) Love's Labour's Lost (c) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (d) As you like it Q.8 Which of the following play is not Shakespeare's mature comedy? (a) Much Ado about nothing (b) Twelfth Night (c) The Taming of the Shrew (d) The Merchant of Venice Q.9 Shakespeare's English historical plays are based on (a) Holinshed's Chronicles (b) Marlowe's Tragedies (c) North's Plutarch (d) None Q.10 Who wrote the following lines about Shakespeare? "He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul." (a) Ben Johnson (b) John Dryden (c) Marlowe (d) Bacon Q.11 Shakespeare wrote total plays. (a) 36 (b) 35 (c) 37 (d) 38 Q.12 Shakespeare's Roman plays are based on (a) North's Plutarch (b) Holinshed's Chronicles (c) Roman's History (d) None Q.13 Who said that in Shakespeare's great tragedies character is destiny? (a) F.H. Bradley (b) A.C. Bradley (c) Ernest Jones (d) Caroline Spurgeon Q.14 Which of the following plays of Shakespeare is not his last play? (a) Cymbeline (b) The Winter's Tale (c) The Tempest (d) Julius Caesar [3]
Q.15 Which of the following plays of Shakespeare is published in parts? (a) Henry VIII & Pericles (b) Henry VIII & Othello (c) Henry VIII & Macbeth (d) Henry VIII & Hamlet Q.16 Which of the following play of Shakespeare is not a great tragedy? (a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) Macbeth (d) The Tempest Q.17 In As You Like It Shakespeare followed the plot of (a) Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde (b) Thomas Kyd's Cornelia (c) Marlowe's Edward II (d) Robert Greene's Alphonsus Q.18 Who is known as 'Bard of Avon'? (a) Milton (b) Wordsworth (c) Shakespeare (d) Shelley Q.19 The Phoenix and the turtle was attributed to whom? (a) Greene (b) Marlowe (c) Shakespeare (d) Ben Johnson Q.20 Shakespeare wrote which of the poem of the following? (a) The Rape of Shavi (b) The Rape of Lucrecee (c) The Rape of the Lack (d) The Rape of Venus Q.21 Who acted in Ben Johnson comedy 'Every Man in his Humours'? (a) Shakespeare (b) Greene (c) Pole (d) No one Q.22 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is based on? (a) North's Plutarch's lives (c) Troilus & Crisseycde (b) Holinshed's chronicles (d) Boccaccio's Decameron Q.23 Which of the Shakespeare's play ends with the songs of Cuckoo & the owl? (a) Taming of the Shrew (b) The comedy of Errors (c) Love's Labour's Last (d) Romeo & Juliet Q.24 The line appears in: Is twice blesseth : It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (a) The Merchant of Venice (b) Much Ado About Nothing (c) The Merry Wives of Wind (d) As You Like It Q.25 Which of the comedy ends with multiple Marriages : (a) As You Like It (b) Julius Caesar (c) Romeo & Juliet (d) Much Ado About Nothing Q.26 Which of the play described as "the world's most fined story after Cindrella. (a) Henry-IV (b) Othello (c) Hamlet (d) King Lear Q.27 Who said about King Lear that "No man will ever write a better tragedy than liar." (a) G.B. Shaw (b) Dickens (c) Galsworthy (d) John Dryden Q.28 The character Hippolyta appears in : (a) Love's Labour's lost (c) Romeo & Juliet (b) A Mid Summer Night's Dream (d) The Merry Winner of Windsor [4]
Q.29 Is this her fault or mine The temper or the tempted, who sins most? The line occurs in (a) Measure & Measure (b) Twelfth Night (c) The tempest (d) Antony & Cleopatra Q.30 Who among the University Wit collaborated with Shakespeare in Henry IV? (a) George Peele (b) Thomas Nash (c) Thomas Lodge (d) Thomas Kyd ANSWERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 D D A B A B D C A B 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 C A B D A D A C C B 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 A A C A D C A B A C [5]
PRACTICE PAPER - 2 Q.1 John Milton was born in (a) 1608 (b) 1618 (c) 1622 (d) 1630 Q.2 In which language John Milton wrote his pamphlets. (a) English (b) Latin (c) English & Latin (d) English & French Q.3 John Milton wrote total 25 pamphlets. How many pamphlets were in written in English? (a) 19 (b) 20 (c) 18 (d) 21 Q.4 Which of the following Milton wrote when his wife deserted him? (a) On Divorce (b) Of Education (c) Areopagitica (d) History of Britain Q.5 Milton wrote of Education while he was teaching. Which of the following was written for the liberty of the press? (a) On press (b) On freedom (c) History of Britain (d) Areopagitica Q.6 Which of the following is Milton's partly complete work? (a) Of Education (b) On Divorce (c) History of Britain (d) Areopagitica Q.7 Milton's Comus (1634) is a (a) Poem (b) Elegy (c) Pamphlets (d) Masque Q.8 Who wrote L' Allegro (a) John Milton (b) John Donne (c) Andrew Marvell (d) Abraham Cowley Q.9 Milton's Lycidas (1637) is an elegy on the death of his friend (a) Marvell (b) John Donne (c) Edward King (d) None Q.10 Milton's On His Blindness is a (a) Lyric (b) Sonnet (c) Ode (d) Elegy Q.11 Milton's Paradise Lost was begun in 1658 and issued in 1667. It was divided into books. (a) 12 (b) 11 (c) 10 (d) 9 Q.12 Which of the following is the sequel of Milton's Paradise Lost? (a) Paradise Regained (1671) (b) Samson Agonistes (c) Il Penseroso (d) Late Massacre in Piedmont Q.13 Milton's Samson Agonistes is a (a) Greek Tragedy (b) Greek Romance (c) Greek comedy (d) Greek poetry Q.14 Which of the following poem justifies the ways of God to men? (a) Paradise Regained (b) Paradise Lost (c) Comus (d) L'Allegro [6]
Q.15 In Samson Agonistes, Samson is a prisoner of the (a) England (b) France (c) India (d) Philistines Q.16 Milton's Paradise Lost was reissued in 1674. It was redivided into books. (a) 11 (b) 12 (c) 13 (d) 14 Q.17 The sonnet On the Late Massacre in Piedmont was written by (a) Spenser (b) Marvell (c) Cowley (d) Milton Q.18 Who wrote The Collar? (a) Milton (b) George Herbert (c) Richard Crashaw (d) Henry Vaughan Q.19 Who among the following is not a metaphysical poet? (a) John Milton (b) George Herbert (c) Henry Vaughan (d) Thomas Carew Q.20 Milton was buried in? (a) St. Giles Cripple Gate (c) St. Church Joseph (b) Westminister Abbey (d) St. Martin's Church Q.21 Who wrote of Education? (a) John Milton (b) W. Shakespeare (c) Galsworthy (d) Lewis Caroll Q.22 Who said, "Milton, a name resound for ages." (a) Arnold (b) Charles Lamb (c) Ted Hughes (d) Tennyson Q.23 Identify the work of Milton? (a) Denfensio Secunda (c) Denfense of poetry (b) Defensio Grotius (d) Peter Bell Q.24 Who wrote History of Britain? (a) Milton (b) Gower (c) John Lamb (d) Chaucer Q.25 Identify the work, which is not written by Milton? (a) A treatise of Civil Power (b) Art of Logic (c) History of Britain (d) After the Fall Q.26 In which year, he was appointed Latin Secretary to the Common wealth? (a) 1631 (b) 1632 (c) 1648 (d) 1649 Q.27 'Of true Religion' was written by? (a) Milton (b) Words worth (c) Shakespeare (d) Andrew Marvell Q.28 Milton wrote the doctrine & discipline of Divorce at the beginning of which war? (a) War of Roses (b) American Civil War (c) England Revolution (d) English Civil War Q.29 Which of the work discusses christ's temptation and victory? (a) Denfensio Secunda (b) Defensio Grotius (c) Paradise Regained (d) Peter Bell Q.30 On the arriving at the age of Twenty Three was (a) Ballad (b) Elegy (c) Sonnet (d) Ode [7]
ANSWERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A C D A D C D A C B 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 A A A B D D D B A A 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 A D A A D D A D C C [8]