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 ‘has suddenly opened his eyes and seen’, they are referring to-
a. The Renaissance b. The Romanticism c. The Modernism d. The Postmodernism
6. Constantinople fell to the Turks in
a. 1450 b. 1452 c. 1453 d. 1454
7. ‘Why, Faustus,
Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee 'tis not half so fair as thou
Or any man that breathes on earth.’
Who is the speaker?
a. Faustus himself b. Mephistophilis c. Satan d. Good angel
8. The ideal- end justifies the means- is connected to
a. Reformation b. Protestantism c. Catholicism d. Machiavellianism
9. Who was the first English poet to use the unrhymed, ten-syllabled verse (blank verse)
a. Sidney b. Surrey c. Spenser d. Shakespeare
10. Spenser dedicated F. Queene to
a. Sidney b. Petrarch c. Elizabeth d. Arthur
11. The first English comedy is
a. Ralph Roister Doister b. Gorboduc c. Hero and Leander d. Praise of Folly
12. The first English tragedy is
a. Ralph Roister Doister b. Gorboduc c. Hero and Leander d. Praise of Folly
13. This prose work was written at Thomas More’s house in 1510. It gives the best expression in literature of the attack that the Oxford reformers were making upon the medieval system. Identify it-
a. Utopia b. New Atlantis c. Praise of Folly d. Republic
14. More’s Utopia was published in
a.1515 b. 1516 c. 1551 d. 1595
15. In Heywood’s interlude The Four P’s, which is not one of the P’s-
a. palmer b. pardoner c. Potycary d. Pedler e.priest
16. The second English comedy is-
a. Ralph Roister Doister b. Gorboduc c. Grammar Gurton’s Needle d. Praise of Folly
17. The first play to be written in blank verse is
a. Ralph Roister Doister b. Gorboduc c. Grammar Gurton’s Needle d. Praise of Folly
18. Who wrote Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex
a. Thomas Sackville b. Thomas Norton c. Both d. Mr.S
19. Ralph Roister Doister is divided into____acts
a.three b. four c. Five d. Six
20. Ralph Roister Doisteris modelled on
a.Plautus b. Terence c. Both d. Seneca
21. Gorboduc is modelled on
a.Plautus b. Terence c. Both d. Seneca
22. Who wrote Ralph Roister Doister?
a. Thomas Sackville b. Thomas Norton c. Nicholas Udall d. Mr.S
23. Who is called ‘the second father of English poetry’?
a. Chaucer b. Sidney c. Spenser d. Wyatt
24. who is known as ‘the poet’s poet’?
a. Chaucer b. Sidney c. Spenser d. Wyatt
25. Spenser wrote a satire on society. It is
a. Mother Hubbard’s Tale b. Astrophel c. Amoretti d. Epithalamion
26. Spenser’s Astrophel is an elegy on the death of
a. Chaucer b. Sidney c. Spenser d. Wyatt
27. In F.Queene who doesn’t represent Queen Elizabeth?
a. Faerie Queene b. Britomartis c. Mercilla d. Lady Belge
28. In F.Queene Artegall represents
a. Friendship b. Justice c. Courtesy d. Holiness
29. Collection of Voyages is by
a. Drake b. Hakluyt c. Gilbert d. Frobisher
30. Who wrote Of the Dignity of Man?
a. Pico della Mirandola b. Thomas More c. Francis Drake d. Francis Bacon
31. Of the Dignity of Man appeared in
a. 1486 b. 1488 c. 1487 d. 1516
32. Sidney’s Defence of Poesy appeared in
a. 1579 b. 1599 c. 1589 d. 1601
33. Samuel Daniel’s Delia appeared in
a. 1592 b. 1599 c. 1619 d. 1678
34. Drayton’s Idea appeared in
a. 1592 b. 1599 c. 1619 d. 1678
35. The Steel Glass (1576) is by
a. Gascoigne b. Sackville c. Lydgate d. Spenser
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