21) The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to ?
a)Nicholas Udall
b)Thomas Colwell
c)Lord Burghley


22)Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?
a)The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune
b)The Spanish Tragedy
c)Jeronimo
d)Cornelia

23)Marlowe born in________
a)1562
b)1563
c)1564
d)1565

24)In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :
a) German scholar
b)French scholar
c)Spanish scholar
d)Greek scholar


25)Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?
a)Shakespeare
b)Christopher Marlowe
c)Edmund Spenser
d)john Milton

26)After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem "Hero and Leander"?
a)Shakespeare
b)Thomas Nash
c)George Chapman
d)Thomas More


27) Who succeeded Lyly?
a)Robert Greene
b)John Milton
c)Philip Sidney
d)Christopher Marlowe


28) Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?
a)Queen of Carthage and The passionate Shepherd.
b)The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage.
c)The passionate Shepherd and The tragedy of Dido.
d)Queen of Carthage and The Massacre of Paris.

29) Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
a)Thomas Nah
b)Thomas lodge
c)Thomas Kyd
d)Thomas Hardy

30) The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:
a)Letters to the Margret Paston
b)Margret Paston to John Paston
c)The Paston letters
d)To John Paston

31) Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?
a)Edmund Spenser
b)John Donne
c)Shakespeare
d)John Milton

32) Who wrote following lines:
"........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
a)John Donne
b)John Milton
c)Earnest Hemingway
d)D.H. Lawrence

33) "On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:
a)Edmund Spenser
b)John Milton
c)Shakespeare
d)Sir Philip Sidney

34) "Paradise lost" was lost by:
a)Eve
b)Adam
c)Both a and b
d)Satan

35) In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?
a)Satan
b)Jesus
c)Adam and Eve
d)Only Adam

36) Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
a)Colin clouts come home again
b)Faerie queen, first three books
c)The Shepherd's calendar
d)Faerie queen, second three books

37)Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?
a) Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De Wilton
b)Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh
c)Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle
d)Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle


38)John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:
a)An elegy in two parts
b)An epic in three parts
c)A ballad in four parts
d) None of these

39) Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
a)Marlowe
b)Milton
c)Spencer
d)Johnson


40)During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:
a)Rosalind
b) Belinda
c)Both a and b
d)None of above


21)a
22)b
23)c
24)a
25)b
26)c
27)a
28)b
29)b
30)c
31)b
32)a
33)b
34)c
35)b
36)c
37)c
38)a
39)c
40)a

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