MCQs- RENAISSANCE (PURITAN)

 RENAISSANCE / EARLY MODERN (1500 – 1660)

(ii) THE PURITAN AGE or THE AGE OF MILTON (1603 - 1660)

MCQs:

1)Who wrote “the Purple Island”

1) Phineas Fletcher     2) Giles fletcher          

3) William Browne      4) George wither

 

2)Who is not a cavalier poet?

1)Robert Herrick         2) John Suckling         

3) Richard Lovelace    4) William Browne

 

3) “Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage” who wrote these lines

 1)Richard Lovelace     2)John suckling

3)Thomas Carew         4) Robert Herrick

 

4) Who wrote the essay Metaphysical Poets?

1)TS Eliot                     2)Richard Lovelace     

3)George Gissing         4)Thomas Carew

 

5)who wrote the biography of John Donne?

1) Izaak Walton           2)Richard Lovelace     

3) Roman Edmond     4) Edmund  Waller

 

6) who is considered as the fore runner of Wordsworth ?

1)Richard Crashaw     2) Andrew  Marvel

3)Edmond Spencer     4) Henry Vaughan

 

7)In  Andrew Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’ which two rivers were mentioned

1) Ganges and Thames           2) Ganges and Nile

3)Ganges and Humber            4)Ganges and Indus

 

8) John Milton  Lycidas was written on the death of his friend

1) King Edward            2) Edward king

3)Edward Louis           4) King Charles

 

9)which two poems are considered as companion poems?

1) Lycidas and  Comus

2) L’Allegro and Il Penseroso

3) Comus  and Areopagitica              

4) Comus and Paradise lost

 

10) which is most influential and impassioned defence of free speech and freedom of the press by Milton?

1) L’Allegro                2) Samson  Agonistes

3)Aeropagitica            4) Comus 

 

11)Poems        “A)To Lucasta B)To Althea,From Prison” are  written by Richard Lovelace?       

1)Only A is true           2)Only B is true          

3)Both are true           4) Neither are true

 

12)Which is not a work of John Donne?

1)The Flea                   2)The Good Morrow              

3)The Canonisation    4)The Flaming Heart

 

13)In his prose work “The Rehearsal Transpros’d” Andrew Marwell attacked………..

1)Samuel Pepys          2)Samuel  Johnson

3)Samuel Parker         4)Samuel Taylor  Coleridge

 

14)Who is the father of Closed  Couplet?

1) George Herbert      2)Richard crashaw     

3)Henry Vaughan       4) Edmund Waller

 

15)Who wrote ‘Hydrotaphia or Urn Burial’?

1)Thomas  Browne      2)Izaak Walton           

3) Robert Burns          4)Thomas Hobbes

 

16) Who wrote ‘Anatomy of Melancholy?

1) Milton                     2)Robert Burton         

3)Thomas Hobbes      4)Thomas Browne

 

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