17/05/2018
★★★ প্রতিযোগিতা মূলক পরীক্ষার প্রস্তুতির জন্য ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রশ্নাবলী ( Part- 01-B)। by Arif Haque.
Which of these is magnum opus of Chaucer?
a) Troilus and Criseyde
b) House of Fame
c) The Canterbury Tales ←
d) Parliament of Fowls
In which language the stories of ‘Canterbury Tales’ are written?
a) French
b) Latin
c) Middle English ←
d) English
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
a) Adam Bede
b) Sir Thomas Malory
c) Geoffrey Chaucer ←
d) Caedmon
What was the name of the Jew In Marlowe's ‘The Jew of of Malta’?
a) Lazarus
b) Solomon
c) Barabas ←
d) Shylock
How many years of happiness was Dr. Faustus promised by the Devil?
a) 16
b) 20
c) 24 ←
d) 28
Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based loosely on the life of Asian ruler_____.
a) Zhu Yuanzhang
b) Genghis Khan
c) Timur ←
d) Kublai Khan
Renaissance first came to _____.
a) France
b) Italy ←
c) England
d) Rome
Which of the following are University wits?
a) John Gower and Robert Peele
b) John Skelton and Thomas lodge
c) John Lyly and Robert Greene ←
d) John Donne and Thomas Nashe
What is ‘Faerie Queene’ by Spenser?
a) An allegory
b) An epic ←
c) A ballad
d) A sonnet
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries?
a) Edmund Spenser
b) John Milton
c) John Donne ←
d) Sir Philip Sidney
In "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus", Faustus was a _____.
a) German scholar ←
b) French scholar
c) Spanish scholar
d) Greek scholar
Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
a) Marlowe
b) Milton
c) Spencer ←
d) Johnson
William Shakespeare was born on ____.
a) 23 April 1567
b) 23 April 1566
c) 23 April 1565
d) 23 April 1564 ←
Shakespeare got married to Anne Hathaway at the age of _______ in ______.
a) 18, 1582 ←
b) 17, 1581
c) 16, 1580
d) 15, 1579
Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:
a) 7
b) 8 ←
c) 9
d) 10
Shakespeare died on ____.
a) 23rd April 1616 ←
b) 25th April 1616
c) 28th April 1616
d) 30th April 1616
"Twelfth night" is a _____.
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy ←
c) Problem play
d) Both a and b
Who was villain in 'Othello'?
a) Claudius
b) Iago ←
c) Egeus
d) None of above
The line "To be or not to be" comes from the play ____.
a) Macbeth
b) Twelfth Night
c) A Midsummer Night's dream
d) Hamlet ←
Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from?
a) Cymbeline
b) Hamlet ←
c) Titus Andronicus
d) Pericles, Prince of Tyre
In which century was Shakespeare born?
a) 16th ←
b) 14th
c) 15th
d) 17th
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
a) William Blake
b) William Shakespeare
c) William Morris
d) William Wordsworth ←
Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’ was written in memory of ____.
a) A. H. Hallam ←
b) Edward King
c) Wellington
d) P. B. Shelley
Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
a) Lord Byron
b) P. B. Shelley
c) S. T. Coleridge ←
d) Charles Lamb
The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is ____.
a) Satire
b) Sensuality
c) Sensuousness ←
d) Social reform
Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his poem—
a) Immortality Ode
b) Tintern Abbey ←
c) The Prelude
d) The Solitary Reaper
The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the _____.
a) French Revolution ←
b) Glorious Revolution of1688
c) Reformation
d) Oxford Movement
( to be continued..) Arif Haque
