English Literature - Questions & Answers for Competitive Exams | GkSeries

37. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is an answer to __________.

• [A] Nash
• [B] Plato
• [C] Gosson
• [D] Aristotle

Answer: Option [C]

38. Who is referred to as the pioneer of Picaseque novel in English?

• [A] Kyd
• [B] Nashe
• [C] Greene
• [D] Lyly

Answer: Option [D]

39. Tales are all in verse except two. Which are the ones in prose?

• [A] Doctor's Tale
• [B] Chaucer's Tale
• [C] Knight's Tale
• [D] Squire's Tale

Answer: Option [A]

40. Who of the Following is considered the founder of English prose?

• [A] King Arthur
• [B] King Alfred
• [C] Chaucer
• [D] Aelfric

Answer: Option [B]

41. Who wrote The introductory Sonnet to Spencer's Fairy Queen?

• [A] Spenser's himself
• [B] Liescester
• [C] Sir Philip Sidney
• [D] Sir Walier Raleigh

Answer: Option [D]

42. Webster's The White Devil is Based on it life of the Celebrated Italian Courtesan ________

• [A] Elizabeth
• [B] Vittoria
• [C] Philoclea
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [B]

43. The Cardinal and lady of Pleasure are the masterpiece of playwright whom Charles Lamb called " The last of Great race" Name Him.

• [A] Massinger
• [B] John Ford
• [C] Webster
• [D] James Shirely

Answer: Option [D]

44. Compared to Paradise last, Paradise Regained is less significant and more __________

• [A] Liberal
• [B] Puritan
• [C] Religious
• [D] Secular

Answer: Option [B]

45. Who called Milton's "The Almighty - mouthed in ventor of harmonies"?

• [A] Arnold
• [B] Dryden
• [C] Johnson
• [D] Tennyson

Answer: Option [D]

46. The witch and game at chess are the last plays of __________.

• [A] Beaumont
• [B] Tourneur
• [C] Middleton
• [D] Webster

Answer: Option [C]

47. Hudibras is a famous work of __________.

• [A] Dryden
• [B] Butler
• [C] Donne
• [D] Bacon

Answer: Option [B]

48. Poetry in the Restoration period was predominantly ____________.

• [A] lyrical
• [B] Satirical
• [C] Sentimental
• [D] Philosophical

Answer: Option [B]