MCQs- Neo Classicism (Age of Restoration)

 THE AGE OF NEO-CLASSICISM (1660-1798)

                                              (i) THE RESTORATION AGE 

MCQs

1)In which year the Great Fire in London took place
A)1660                       

B)1663                                     

C)1666                         

D)1668

2)Who is the first poet Laureate of England
A)Southey                   

B)Wordsworth                        

C) Dryden                  

D) Spencer

3) In "Mac Flecknoe" Dryden attacked        
A)Thomas Malory       

B)Thomas Shadwell                

C)Thomas stern          

D) Thomas Wyatt

4)Threnodia Augustalis was written on the death of ?
A)Charles-II                 

B) James -II                              

C)Edward-II                 

D)Edward-III

5)Which Poem described the great fire in London
A)All for love               

B) Religio Laici                        

C)Alexander’s feast     

D) Annus Mirabilis
 
6)Who introduced “comedy of manners”
A)George Etherege     

B) William Wycherley             

C) Dryden                    

D) Ben Johnson
 
7) The Way of the World: A Comedy was written by
A) William Wycherley 

B) William Congreve               

C) William Collins        

D) Jeremy Collier
 
8)Match the following
1)Samuel Butler                      A) Terra          
2) John Bunyan                       B) pilgrim’s progress  
3) Thomas Hobbs                    C) Hudibras
4)John Evelyn                          D) leviathan

A) 1A 2B 3C 4D           

B)1C2D3B4A                           

C)1B2D3A4C                

D)1C2B3D4A
 
9) Samuel Pepys diary consisted the events from & to?
A) 1.3.1660, 31.3.1669                       

B)1.1.1660, 31.3.1668

C)1.1.1660, 31.3.1669                       

D) 1.3.1660, 31.3.1668
 
10) what is the subtitle of Aphra Ben’s Oroonoko ?
A) the royal slave        

B) the great                 

C) A comedy                

D) the jealous bridegroom

11. “All human things are subject to decay

And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey" is in

A. Absalom and Achitophel

B. The Medal

C. Mac Flecknoe

D. Religio Laici

 

12.The slogan" follow the nature” can be applied to

A. The Romantics

B. The Augustans

C. The Jacobeans

D. The Gothic writers

 

13.Thomas Carew's poems were addressed to

A. Elia

B. Celia

C. Melie

D. Emily

 

14."The Pseudo Martyr" was written by

A. John Suckling

B. Richard Crashaw

C. John Donne

D. George Herbert

 

1 5. Who is not a metaphysical poet?

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. Edmund Waller

D. Robert Herrick.

  

16. “Awake, arise, or be forever fallen" is a line in.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. On this blindness.

 

17.Who is first professional biographer in English?

A.Thomas Fuller

B. Jeremy Taylor

C. Jeremy collier

D. Izak Walton

 

 18.Milton's On His Blindness" is a

A.Spenserian Sonnet

B.Petrarchan Sonnet

C.Masque

D.Lyric

 

19. Who called Milton as "Poetical son of Spencer" ?

A.Shakespeare

B.Dryden

C.Pope

D.Johnson

 

20. "The Garden of Cyrus" and "Urn Burial or Hydrotaphia" are the works of

A.Milton

B.Thomas Browne

C.Abraham Cowley

D.John Donne

  

21. "Threnodia Augustalis" was written on the death of-

A. King James-I

B. King David-1

C. Charles-I

D. Charles II

  

22 Millamant & Mirabell characters are found in.

A. The country wife

B. The plain Dealer

C. The Double Dealer

D. The way of the world

 

23 Dryden's "Alexander's fearst is also known as.

A. Essay of Dramatic Poesy

B. Ode in honor of St. Cecilia's Day

C. On the Death of Oliver Cromwell

D. The Layman's faith.

 

24."From this world to that which is to come" is a subtitle of

a.The Holy war

b.The Way of the world

c.The Pilgrim's Progress

d.The Conquest of Granada

 

 25. "If we don't Cheat women, they will cheat us" is in.

a.The old Batchelor

b.The plain Dealer

c.The Provoked wife

d.The Country wife

 

  Answers:

1.3

2.3

3.2

4.A

5.D

6.A

7.B

8.D

9.C

10.A

11.C	12.B	13.B	14.C	15.D	16.A	17.D	18.B	19.B	20.B
21.D	22.D	23.B	24.C	25.D