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Important MCQs for National Eligibility Test

1. The term ‘metaphysical’ was first used by – a. Samuel Johnson in Life of Cowley   b. Dryden in Discourse Concerning Satire   c. Helen Gardner in Metaphysical poets    d. Plato 2. ‘He affects the metaphysics’. Who is talking about whom? a. Dryden about Donne   b. Johnson about Cowley   c. Plato about philosophers   d. Helen Gardner about Vaughan 3. ‘ 'Twill tear and blow up all within,       Like a granado shot into a magazine.’ What is compared to a hand grenade? a. Lover’s heart   b. Lover’s eyes   c. Lover’s body   d. Lover’s breasts 4. ‘ The poets in question have, like other poets, various faults. But they were, at best, engaged in the task of trying to find the verbal equivalent for states of mind and feeling.’ (from The Metaphysical Poets) Who said this a. Dryden   b. Johnson   c. Eliot   d. Yeats 5. ‘ If they be two...
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Most Important Questions on Jacobean Literature: Part 1

1.  According to Charles Lamb he is ‘the last of a great race’. Who is he? a. James Shirley   b. Sir William D’Avenant   c. John Ford   d. Philip Massinger 2. Which among the following is considered to be the first English opera? a. Shirley’s The Lady of Pleasure   b. D’Avenant’s The Siege of Rhodes   c. Webster’s The Devil’s Law Case   d. John Ford’s The Broken Heart 3. Drummond reported a playwright as saying that Shakespeare "wanted art" (i.e., lacked skill). Who is the  playwright ? a. Ben Jonson   b. John Ford   c. John Webster   d. James Shirley 4. John Webster is believed to have done one chronicle play. It is- a. The Duchess of Malfy   b. The White Devil   c. Lady Jane   d. Westward Ho ! 5. Every Man in his Humour was published in a. 1588   b.1598   c. 1599   d, 1606 6. What is the firs...
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Important MCQs on Elizabethan Literature

1. Gutenberg invented the printing press in a. 1385   b. 1445   c. 1495   d. 1505 2. A Duch scholar rejected Catholic monasticism and condemned the corruption of the Catholic church. He argued that the only hope was a return to the values and habits of the early Christian church. Identify him a. Martin Luther   b. Erasmus   c. John Calvin   d. Robert Boyle 3. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses Against the Sale of Papal Indulgences eventually resulted in the Reformation. It appeared in a. 1495   b. 1507   c. 1517   d. 1537 4. Who argued that wealth was not enough to make a man a ruler or statesman. Classical education and liberal training was essential to the growth of a true ‘gentleman’. a. Sir Thomas Elyot   b. Erasmus   c. Martin Luther   d. John Calvin 5.  When Lamartine said that ‘man discovered himself and the universe,’ and Taine said that man...
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All Important Questions on Age of Chaucer for CBSE NET November

1. Who were kings of England during Chaucer’s lifetime? Ans: Edward III (1327 -1377), Richard II (1377- 1399) and Henry IV (1399-1413) 2. Shakespeare wrote dramas on two of them? Identify. Ans: Richard II- A tragedy and Henry IV-a comedy. 3. Name two worthy contemporaries of Chaucer? Ans: William Langland and John Gowar 4. ‘His lord well know he please subtly To give and lend him of his own good And have a thank, and yet a gown and hood’ Whom Chaucer is talking about here? Ans: Reeve 5. Who said ‘let such old things slowly pace   And followed new-world manners in their place.’ ? Ans: The Monk 6. ‘Well knew he steal corn and toll thrice And yet he had a thumb of gold’ Who is referred to in these lines from Chaucer’s Prologue? Ans: Miller 7. Who according to Chaucer ‘Full well she sang the service divine/ Entuned in her nose full seemly’ ? Ans: Prioress/ Madam Eglantine 8. ‘My wit is short, ye may ...
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