THE AGE OF NEO-CLASSICISM (1660-1798)
(ii) Age of Johnson- Neo Classicism
MCQs: Neo Classicism- SET-1
1. Identify
the correct chronological order of the periodicals,
a)The
Spectator, The Rambler, The Tatler, The Idler
b)The
Spectator, the Tatler, the Rambler, the Idler
c)The
Tatler, the spectator, the Rambler, The Idler
d)The
Tatler, the Rambler, the spectator, the Idler
2. Who
wrote with the name Isaac Bickerstaff?
a)Addison
b)Steele
c)Gray
d)Parnell
3. Who
is not a Church Poet?
a)Thomas Parnell
b)Edward Young
c)Thomas Gray
d)Pope
4. Who
doesn't belong to Scriblerus club?
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Gay
d) Gray.
5.
“The Tatler" was founded by.
a) Addison
b) Steele
c) Pope
d) Johnson
6.
Arrange these Pope's works in chronological order
a) The
Rape of the Lock, Mesaiah, Windsor Forest, the Dunciad
b) The
Dunciad, Windsor Forest, Mesaiah, the Rape of the Lock
c) The
Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest, Mesaiah, the Dunciad
d) Windsor
Forest, Mesaiah, The Dunciad, the Rape of the Lock
7. An
Essay on Man by Pope is.
a) Essay
b) Poem
c) Novel
d) Pamphlet
8.
Which is wrong about 'Lives of poets'
a) It
consists 52 poets
b) It
was written by Dr Johnson.
c)It
was arranged by the date of death
d)The
first Poet is Dryden in it
9. In
which year Johnson's Dictionary was published
a)1735
b) 1745
c)1755
d)1765
10. According
to Johnson in which Shakespeare play the three unities covered?
a) Hamlet
b) King Lear
c)Tempest
d) Macbeth
11. Marriage
has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures is in……
a) Ressalas
b) Irene
c) Vicar of Wakefield
d) The way of the world
12. The
only novel by "Oliver Goldsmith"?
a) The citizen of the World
b) The Hermit
c) The Vicar of Wake field
d) The Deserted
village
13. Goldsmith's
she stoops to conquer is a…….
a) Restoration comedy
b) Sentimental Comedy
c) Anti-sentimental comedy
d) Restoration Tragedy
14. The
Rivals" was written by
a) John Gay
b) Sheridan
c) Goldsmith
d) Johnson
15. who
wrote the biography of Parnell?
a) Edward Young
b) Swift
c) James Boswell
d) Goldsmith
16. which
is a “New gate pastoral”?
a)Alma
b)The Rivals
c)The Beggars Opera
d)The school for scandal
17. In
Swift's "Gulliver's Travel" horses appear in
a) Laputa
b)To Lilliput
c)Houyhnhnms
d)Brobdingnag
18.
Who is Stella in "A Journal to Stella" by Swift
a)Esther Johnson
b) Mary shelly
c)Fanny Burney
d)Juliet
19. The
full title of Robinson Crusoe?
a)The
Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
b)The
Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
c)The
life and bold Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
d)
The life and strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson
20.
which is not written by Henry Fielding?
a)Amelia
b)Pamela
c)Joseph Andrews.
d)Shamela
21.The
subtitle of "The Vicar of Wakefield"
A. A Novel
B. A Tale
C. A Village
D. A Poem
22.
The subtitle of “She stoops to
conquer"
A.
Mistakes of a knight
B.
Mistakes of a Night
C.
Adventures of a knight
D.
Adventures in a Night
23.Arrange
in correct chronological order:
A.
Spectator - Tatler - Rambler- Idler
B.
Tatler- Rambler Idler - Spectator
C.
Spectator - Idler Rambler- Tatler
D.
Tatler Spectator- Rambler - Idler
24. Who
wrote pleasures of Imagination?
A.
Sterne B. Defoe
C.
Addison D. Wordsworth
25.
Which is called as Neo-classical manifesto
A. Essay on Man
B. Essay on criticism
C. Epistles to Dr. Arbuthnot
D. The Rape of
the Lock
26.
“To err is human, to forgive divine" is found in
A. Essay on Man
B. Essay on
criticism
C. Dunciad
D. The Rape of the Lock
27.
Which of the following works has not been authored by Dr. Johnson?
A. Lives of the poets
B. London
C. Dictionary of the English
D. Candida.
28."Pope
is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller" This
quotation is from
A. Dr. Johnson
B. Wordsworth
C. Milton
D. Cowley
29.
Who is the members of ‘The Scriblerus Club (171d)’? i. Pope, ii. Swift, iii.
John Arbuthnot, iv. Thomas Parnell, v. John Gay
Choose
the correct code:
A. (i) only
B. (i), (ii) only
C. (i), (ii), (v) only
D. (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv), (v)
30.
The character, Mrs. Malaprop was created by
A. Dr. Johnson
B. William
Wycherley
C. Sheridan
D. None
31.The
rivals in Sheridan's "The Rivals" are
A.
Captain Absolute and Esgin Beverley
B.
Captain Absolute and Faulkland
C.
Julia and Lydia
D.
Bob Acres and Faulkland
32.Who
was deaf and has asked " Has miss Piper had. twins" in The School for
Scandals
A. Mrs. Clackit
B. Mrs. Candour
C. Lady Dundizzy
D. Lady Sneerwell
33.
Which is not a work of " fanny Burney"
A. Evelina
B. Cecilia
C. Camilla
D. Esther Johnson
34
Who wrote the Romans history of 1500 years.
A. Edmund Burke
B. Edward Gibbon
C. Thomas Paine
D. William Blackstone
35.
In Goldsmith's " she stoops to Conquer" she is to conquer whom?
A. Tony Lumpkin
B. Mr. Hardcastle
C. Hastings
D. Marlowe
36.
Smollett models his novels on?
A.
Cervante's Don Quixote
B.
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
C.
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
D.
Fielding's Joseph Andrews
37. Which is not a work of Samuel Richardson
a. Pamela
b. Tom
Jones
c. Clarissa
d. Sir Charles Grandison
38. "Robinson Crusoe" is based on the true
story of
a. Alexander Selkirk
b. Captain
Manly
c. Captain Boody
d. Sir
Thomas Fuller.
39. "The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy” is
a work of
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Laurence
Sterne
c. Goldsmith
d. Jonathan
Swift
40. Which of the following works supported bloody
French revolution.
a. Wealth of Nations
b. Rights of Man
c. Common sense
d. Reflections on the French Revolution
Answers:
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1) 3 |
2) 2 |
3) 4 |
4) 4 |
5) 2 |
6) 4 |
7) 2 |
8) 4 |
9) 3 |
10) 3 |
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11) 1 |
12) 3 |
13) 1 |
14) 2 |
15) 4 |
16) 3 |
17) 3 |
18) 1 |
19) 4 |
20) 2 |
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21) B |
22) B |
23) D |
24) C |
25) B |
26) B |
27) D |
28)A |
29) D |
30) C |
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32) A |
32) B |
32) D |
34) B |
35) D |
36) A |
37) B |
38) A |
39) B |
40) B |
MCQs: Neo Classicism- SET-2
1)In Sheridan's play "The school for Scandal,
"Charles Surface" is in love with
1)Sady Teazle
2)Maria
3)Mrs.Candour
4)None
2)Who has been called "a dramatic star of the
first magnitude?
1)GB Shaw
2)Shakespeare
3)Ibsen
4)
Sheridan
3)In Sheridan's The Rivals, when Lydia comes to know
that her lover was the son of a rich man,
1)she felf vey happy
2) she was very disappointed
3)she was neutral
4)she
did not believe it
4) Which of the following statements may be true in
the context of Sheridan's "The Rivals ?
1)Captain was the nephew of Sir Anthony Absolute
2)Captain Absolute and Faulkland rivals in love
3)Captain Absolute and Ensign Beverley are one and the same person
4)None of the Above.
5)Which of the following characters in Sheridan's
"The Rivals" is fond of reading sentimental novels?
1)Captain Absolute
2) Lydia
3)Julia
4)Faulkland
6)Which of the following is an opera
1)The Rivals
2)The
school for Scandal
3)The Critic
4)The Duenna
7)Goldsmith made use of the ....... in his "The
Deserted Village"
1)Blank Verse
2)Sonnet form
3)heroic couplet 4) Elegy.
8)These lines occur in which work of Goldsmith?
"Those who have most virtue in their mouths, have least of it in their
bosoms"
1)The Vicar of Wakefield
2)she stoops to Conquer
3)The Good Natured man
4)The Traveller
9)Henry Fielding's Tom Jones was dedicated to
1)Joseph Andrews
2) The Jolly
Beggars
3)Richardson
4)None.
10)Comic epic in prose was initiated by
1)Richardson
2)
Fielding
3)Pope
4)Prior
11)In fielding's "Joseph Andrews", Joseph
Andrews is
1) a footman in the house of Lady Broody
2)Priest
3)the husband of Pamela
4) the brother of Parson Adams
12)In "Tom Jones" there is too much
plot". Who said this?
1)Arnold Kettle
2)FR.
Leavis
3) Coleridge
4)Ian
Watt
13)In "Tom Jones", "Nightingale"
is the name of
1)a bird
2)an
Inn
3) a male character
4)a female
Character
14)Sophia" is a character in
1)Shamela
2)Joseph
Andrews
3)Tom Jones
4)
Jonathan Wild
15)In which novel, many of the passages have been
adapted or taken bodily from Burton, Rabelias and a score of other writers?
1)Pamela
2)Humphery Clinker
3)A Sentimental Journey
4)Joseph
Andrews
16)Which novelist was compared to "a little
bronze satyr of antiquity in whose hollow exquisite odors were stored"?
1)Smollet
2)Richardson
3)Sterne
4)Fielding
17)"Lovelace", the mechanical hero is the
creation of
1)Defoe
2)Fielding
3)Smollett
4)
Richardson
18)Pamela was published in .......volumes
1)three
2)Four
3)five
4)six
19)Fielding, Smollett, sterne and.....formed the four
wheels of the van of the English novel
1)Richardson
2)Goldsmith
3)Defoe
4)Swift
20)Nor second he, that rode sublime upon the
seraphwings of Ecstasy? These lines quoted from Gray's "The Progress of
Poesy" alludes to ?
1)Shakespeare
2)Milton
3)Spenser
4)Donne.
21)Which poet was lamented by William Collins in his
poem "In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies"?
1)Pope
2)James
Thomson
3)Crabbe
4)Gray.
22)Who said, "What is fit for everything can fit
nothing well"?
1)Pope
2)Bacon
3)Johnson
4)George.
23)Who said," Tediousness is the most fatal of
all faults"
1)Pope
2)Johnson
3)Gray
4)Eliot
24) Dr. Johnson left out one important poet in his
"Lives of the Poets" who was that poet?
1)Gray
2)Collins
3)Goldsmith
4)Thomson
25)Music is in articulate poetry" who has said
this?
1)Pope
2)Dryden
3)Milton
4)Cowley.
26)Steele at first signed his essays with the name
1)Isaac Mount
2)Isaac
Bickerstaff
3) Isaac walton
4)Isaac
Cowly.
27)"The West Indian and "The Fashionable
Lover" are two plays by
1)Pope
2)Addison
3)steele
4)Swift
28)Defoe was arrested for writing an ironical satire
on High church extremism. Name the satire?
1)A Journal of the Plague year
2) The shortest way with Dissenters
3)The Complete English Gentleman
4) The Complete English Tradesman
29)In Robinson Crusoe, ‘Friday’ is a
1)Hero
2)Whiteman
3)Cannibal
4)sailor
30)In Swift's "The Battle of the Books' who is
the Commander of the ancients?
1)Dryden
2)Milton
3)Hobbes
4)William
Temple.
31)Which of the following books by Swift contains the
tale of three sons Peter, Martin and Jack ?
1)The Battle of the Books
2)
A tale of tub
3)A modest Proposal
4)Gulliver's Travels
32)In Swift's Gulliver's Travels - Houyhnhnms is the
name of
1)Group of Islands
2)living
thing
3)River
4)
Mountain
33) "Lagado" is the capital city in
Gulliver's
1)Voyage to Lilliput
2)Voyage
to Brobdingnag
3)Voyage to Laputa
4)voyage to
Houyhnhnms.
34)Glumdalclitch is the name of a girl who looked
after Gulliver in his voyage of
1)Lilliput
2)Brobdingnag
3)Laputa
4)Houyhnhnms
35)What was the name given to Gulliver in his "A
Voyage to Brobdingnag"?
1)Bolgolam
2)Blefuscu
3)Mildendo
4)Grildrig
36)Who asserted, "To copy nature is to copy
them(the ancients)
1)Pope
2)Swift
3) Johnson
4)Tennyson
37)The term "bathos" was first used by ?
1)Pope
2)Shakespeare
3)Dryden
4)Arnold
38)Bunyan's first work was......
1)Sighs from Hell
2)The
Pilgrim's progress
3) The Holy war
4) The
Holy City.
39)Bunyan's style was influenced by
1)Bible
2)
Faerie Queen
3) Euphues
4) Pandosto
40)Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy" is
1)Satirical
2)Melancholic
3)religious
4)characteristic
of time
41)"The Aged Prince" in Dryden's "Mac
Flecknoe".
1)Thomas Shadwell
2)Richard
Flecknoe
3) Heywood
4)Shirley
42)In "Absalom & Achitophel" Dryden
attacked
1)Duke of Monmouth
2)Thomas Shadwell
3)Richard Flecknoe
4)charles-II
43)In "Absalom and Achitophel" the character
of Achitophel refers to
1)Shaftesbury
2)Monmouth
3) Charles-II
4)
James
44)In Congreve's The Way of the World" Millamant
is Loved by ?
1)Mr. Fainall
2)Petulant
3) Witwoud
4)
Mirabel
45)Which is true regarding "The Way of the
world"?
1)Mirabell disguised himself as Sir Rowland
2)Waitwell disguised as Sir Rowland
3)Witwoud disguised as Sir Rowland
4)Mr. Fainall disguised as Sir Rowland
46)In Way of the world, Waitwell had been secretly
married to ?
1)Mrs. Fainall
2)
Marwood
3)Lady Wish fort
4)Foible
47)In Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" the
character Atticus refers to
1)Swift
2)Dryden
3)Addison
4)Steele
48)Epistle in Pope's "An Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot" means
1)A short story
2) An
eulogy
3)A letter
4)A
panegyric
49) "willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike" is taken from
1)"The Rape of the Lock
2)The
Dunciad
3)An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
4)The Essay on Man
50)Which of the poem was written by Pope?
1)The Medal
2)Mac Flecknoe
3)The Rime of Ancient Mariner
4)The
Dunciad
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1. 4 |
11. 4 |
21. 4 |
31. 2 |
41. 1 |
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2. 4 |
12. 4 |
22. 1 |
32. 2 |
42. 1 |
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3. 2 |
13. 3 |
23. 2 |
33. 3 |
43. 1 |
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4. 3 |
14. 3 |
24. 4 |
34. 2 |
44. 4 |
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5. 4 |
15. 4 |
25. 3 |
35. 4 |
45. 2 |
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6. 4 |
16. 4 |
26. 2 |
36. 2 |
46. 1 |
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7. 3 |
17. 4 |
27. 3 |
37. 1 |
47. 3 |
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8. 1 |
18. 2 |
28. 2 |
38. 1 |
48. 3 |
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9. 4 |
19. 3 |
29. 4 |
39. 1 |
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