Online Test: The Background Reading - Renaissance Literature

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1. Which of the following years are known as The Age of Elizabeth?

1 point

1550 - 1620

1640 - 1660

1850 - 1901

1440 - 1500

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2. Who is the writer of following lines for the rising England under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth?

"A Noble and puissant nation, rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks"

1 point

Spenser

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

John Milton

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3. Which of the following social conditions helped in creating conducing environment for the literary output in the age of Elizabeth?

Mark all that are correct.

1 point

Puritanical control

Social contentment

Enthusiasm

Religious tolerance

4. Which of the following statements about the age of Elizabeth is TRUE?

1 point

Such an age of great thought and great action, appealing to the eyes as well as to the imagination and intellect, finds but one adequate literary expression; neither drama nor the story can express the whole man, - his thought, feeling, action and the resulting character; hence in the Age of Elizabeth literature turned instinctively to the poetry and brought it rapidly to the highest stage of its development"

Such an age of great thought and great action, appealing to the eyes as well as to the imagination and intellect, finds but one adequate literary expression; neither poetry nor drama can express the whole man, - his thought, feeling, action and the resulting character; hence in the Age of Elizabeth literature turned instinctively to the novel and brought it rapidly to the highest stage of its development"

Such an age of great thought and great action, appealing to the eyes as well as to the imagination and intellect, finds but one adequate literary expression; neither poetry nor the story can express the whole man, - his thought, feeling, action and the resulting character; hence in the Age of Elizabeth literature turned instinctively to the drama and brought it rapidly to the highest stage of its development"

None of the above

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5. Which of the following marked the Age of Elizabeth?

Mark all correct option/s

1 point

intellectual liberty

growing intelligence

comfort among all classes

unbounded patriotism

6. Match the writer with the years of their birth and death:

5 points

1552 - 1599

1564 - 1593

1564 - 1616

1573 - 1637

1561 - 1626

Francis Bacon

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare

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7. match the following with the appropriate counterpart:

3 points

First English tragedy, written by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton

A domestic comedy, written by William Stevenson

First true play in English, written by Nicholas Udall

Grammar Gurton's Needle (# 1562)

Ralph Royster Doyster (#1556)

Gorboduc (1562)

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8. Match with the appropriate characteristics of the Plays during the Development of the Drama in the Elizabethan Age

3 points

medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.

a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

A drama in the 15th and 16th centuries using allegorical characters (Life, Death, Repentence, Goodness, Love, Greed, Deadly Sins) to portray the soul's struggle to achieve salvation. Something viewed as exhibiting a struggle between good and evil and offering a moral lesson.

Miracle Play

Mystery Play

Morality Play

medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.

a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

Miracle Play

Mystery Play

Morality Play

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9. During the Development Phase, two schools of Drama were found struggling to master the English drama - The University Wits and the Popular Playwrights. Which of the following sentence/s is/are TRUE in this regard:

Mark all correct option/s

2 points

The Univeristy Wits, as men of learning were called, generally upheld the classical ideal, and ridiculed the crudeness of the new English plays.

Sackville and Norton were of this class

'Gorboduc', the first English tragedy, was classic in its construction

In the 'Defence of Poesy', Sidney ridicules the classics and upholds the too ambitious scope of the English drama

Against the University Wits, were the popular playwrights, Lyly, Peele, Greene, Marlowe. (Marlowe was educated at Cambridge, so many considers him among Uni wits)

They recognized the English love of action and disregarded the dramatic unities in their endeavor to present 'Life as it is'.

10. Match the playwrights with the play penned by them:

6 points

The Jew of Malta

The Merchant of Venice

The Alchemist

Women Beware Women

A Woman killed with Kindness

The Duchess of Malfi

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Middleton

Ben Jonson

John Webster

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

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11. Among the translators of the Elizabethan Age Sir Thomas North (1535 - 1601) is most deserving of notice because . . . . . .

1 point

. . . . of his version of 'Plutarch's Lives - 1579 - from which Shakespeare took the characters and many of the incidents for three great Roman Plays. The plays are 'Julius Caesar', 'Hamlet' and 'Othello'.

. .. .. . . . of his version of 'Plutarch's Lives - 1579 - from which Ben Jonson took the characters and many of the incidents for three great Roman Plays. The plays are 'Everyman in His Humour', 'The Alchemist' and 'Volpone'.

. . . . of his version of 'Plutarch's Lives - 1579 - from which Christopher Marlowe took the characters and many of the incidents for three great Plays. The plays are 'Tamburlaine', 'Doctor Faustus' and 'Edward II'.

. . . . of his version of 'Plutarch's Lives - 1579 - from which Shakespeare took the characters and many of the incidents for three great Roman Plays. The plays are 'Julius Caesar', 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'Coriolanus'.

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12. Match the person with the profession, they are best know for:

4 points

Translator

Editor

Historian

Essayist

Francis Bacon

William Camden

Richard Hakluyt

Thomas North

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13. Who is known as 'the poets' poet'?

1 point

Edmund Spenser for his love for beauty and melody

William Shakespeare for his Sonnets

John Donne for his metaphysical poetry

Chaucer - being father of English poetry

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14. Which of the following are the characteristics of Spenser's poetry?

Tick mark all correct options

3 points

a perfect melody

a rare sense of beauty

the use of conceits - far-fetched images

a splendid imagination

thronging ideal of Renaissance

a lofty moral purity and seriousness

a delicate idealism

a fiery enthusiasm

15. The last ruler of the Tudor Dynasty was ------------

1 point

Queen Mary Tudor

Queen Elizabeth - I

King Edward VI

King James - VI

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16. The first ruler of the Stuart Dynasty was __________________ .

1 point

King James - I

Queen Elizabeth - I

King Charles - I

King Charles - II

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17. The period of English history during the reign of James - I is known as _______ .

1 point

The Age of Renaissance

The Age of Reformation

The Restoration Age

Jacobean Period

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18. The supporters of Charles - I in the Civil War were known as ________ .

1 point

Cavaliers

Roundheads

Presbyterians

Protestants

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19. The supporters of the Parliament in the Civil war were known as _______ .

1 point

Cavaliers

Roundheads

Presbyterians

Protestants

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20. _____ was first to introduce sonnet into England.

1 point

Shakespeare

Spenser

Wyatt

Plutarch

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21. _______ wrote his beautiful sonnets under the pen name of 'Astrophel', addressed to 'Stella'.

1 point

Spenser

Shakespeare

Sir Philip Sidney

Wyatt

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22. The great Elizabethan who write the first systematic essay on literary criticism under the title 'Apologie for Poetry' or 'Defence of Poesie', was ______ .

1 point

Sir Philip Sidney

Ben Jonson

John Dryden

Thomas Nash

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23. 'The Shepherd's Calender' was written by ___ .

1 point

Sidney

Spenser

Shakespeare

Wyatt

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24. _____ was the classicist among the romantic writers of the Elizabethan Age.

1 point

Ben Jonson

John Webster

Beaumont and Fletcher

Christopher Marlowe

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25. _________ defeated Charles - I in the Civil War and established Commonwealth - the rule of the Parliament in England during 1648 - 1660

1 point

Oliver Cromwell - Lord Protector

Charles - II

King Edward VI

James - I

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26. Match the items

3 points

Translation - King James Version of The Bible

Bacon's Advancement of Learning

Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour

1611

1605

1598

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27. Match the play with following classification of Shakespeare's plays

3 points

Comedy

Tragedy

History

As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream

Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello

Julius Ceasar, Richard III, Henry IV, Antony and Cleopatra

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28. Match Vishal Bhardwaj's Hindi films with that of Shakespeare's tragedies

6 points

Omkara

Maqbool

Haider

Macbeth

Othello

Hamlet

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29. Which Shakespearean adaptation is ranked as the best one this list ( https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/the-best-shakespeare-films-ranked ) ?

2 points

Shakespeare in Love

Shekhar Kapoor's Elizabeth

Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood

Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider

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30. Which two Hindi films are listed in this list of best twenty film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/the-best-shakespeare-films-ranked

2 points

Bhansali's Raam Leela and Mansoor Khan's QSQT

Gulzar's Angoor and Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool

Gulzar's Angoor and Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider

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31. Match Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare : https://www.masala.com/movies/5-best-bollywood-film-adaptations-of-shakespeare-that-are-a-must-watch-324658

4 points

The Taming of the Shrew

Romeo and Juliet

Mehboob’s Khan’s Aan(1952)

Raj Kapoor’s Bobby(1973):

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