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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 first published play as well as the last of Ben Jonson’s plays to be staged during his lifetime?
a. A Tale of a Tub   b. Mortimer His Fall   c. Every Man in His Humour   d. Every Man Out of His Humour

7. In Every Man in His Humour Wellbred has invited Edward to meet him at a tavern called
a. The Windmill   b. The Cobby Tavern   c. Lorenz   d. Cubby

8.  In the same play(EMIHH)  Wellbred takes Edward to the house of his brother-in-law Kitely, where Edward is introduced to Kitely’s younger sister named
a. Dame Kitey   b. Bridget   c. Mary   d. Dame Celia

9. In EMIHH Edward decides to take his cousin ( a country gull) with him to keep his appointment with Wellbred . What’s his name?
a. Stephen   b. Kitely   c. Brainworm   d. Knowell

10. In EMIHH Wellbred takes Bridget secretly to meet Edward to a place called Tower(in London). What’s it?
a. An Ancient, historic building   b. An old abandoned prison   c. Place for private marriage   d. All

11.In EMIHH Who is Brainworm
a. Edward’s friend   b. Kitely’s acquaintance   c. Ex-soldier   d. Knowell’s servant

12. Brainworm disguised himself as many different person . Choose his disguises
a. Ex-Soldier, court clerk, city sergeant   b. Ex-Soldier, judge, city sergeant   c. Merchant, court clerk, city sergeant   d. Ex-Soldier, court clerk, beggar  

13. In EMIHH who is a great champion of tobacco?
a. Tib  b.  Cob   c. Bobadill   d. Downright

14. In EMIHH Captain Bobadill  has been staying as a paying guest. Where?
a. At Cob’s lodging   b. At Justice Clement’s lodging    c. At Brainworm’s lodging   d. At Knowell’s lodging  

15. Who said, "He (Shakespeare) was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped"?
a. Ben Jonson   b. John Suckling   c. T. S Eliot   d. Drummond

16. Identify the person who sets himself up as the ‘Knight’ with a pestle rather than a sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle:
a. Ralph   b. Tim   c. George   d. Squire

17. Beaumont wrote a masque named-
a. The Inner Temple and Gray's Inn    b. The Knight of the Burning Pestle     c. The Woman Hater    d. Cupid’s Revenge

18. Beaumont and Fletcher drew source for Cupid's Revenge from-
a. Spenser’s Faerie Queene   b.  Arcadia of Sir Philip Sidney    c. Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls   d. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

19. Which of the following plays is set in a fictionalised version of the Kingdom of Sicily?
a. The Woman Hater, comedy
b. Cupid's Revenge, tragedy
c. Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy 
d. The Maid's Tragedy,

20. Which of the following Beaumont- Fletcher plays has  incestuous passion?
a. A king and No King   b. Cupid’s Rvenge   c. Philaster   d. The Maid’s Tragedy
21. Love Lies a-Bleeding is the sub title of –
a. The Woman Hater, comedy
b. Cupid's Revenge, tragedy
c. Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy 
d. The Maid's Tragedy,

22. The plot of which play by Beaumont- Fletcher  derives from Las dos Doncellas, one of the Novelas ejemplares of Miguel de Cervantes?
a. The Captain, comedy
b. The Scornful Lady, comedy
c. Love's Pilgrimage, tragicomedy
d. The Noble Gentleman,

23. It has no known source in the previous literature and seems to be that rare item in English Renaissance drama: an original plot. It is set in the ancient Middle East after the death of Alexander the Great, and features the major historical figures of the era: Antigonus, his son Demetrius, and Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus. The plot centers on the love between Demetrius and an obscure young woman named Celia—who at the end of the play turns out to be Enanthe, the daughter of King Seleucus and so a suitable match for a prince. The play is-
a. The Humorous Lieutenant, 
b. Women Pleased, 
c. The Island Princess, 
d. The Wild Goose Chase, 

24.  Leontius, the Duke of Lycia is a character of One of the collaborative project of Beaumont and Fletcher. Identify
a. The Woman Hater, comedy
b. Cupid's Revenge, tragedy
c. Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy 
d. The Maid's Tragedy,

25. This poem, "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us"  is composed by
a. John Milton   b. Ben Jonson   c. Andrew Marvell   d. John Suckling

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