JAMSHEDPUR WOMEN’S COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
BA I, Semester – 2
Paper – CC 4
British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Century
Model Question Paper (2)

FM: 80
Time: 2 hours
Objective Type Questions: (20 X 1 = 20)
1. Dryden first applied the term ___________ to the poems of Donne.
a. Romantic
b. Composite
c. Metaphysical
d. None of the above
2. “Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done it.” Who is “he” in
these lines from Macbeth?
a. Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. Macduff
d. Duncan
3. The two sons of Duncan are Malcolm and ______.
a. Macduff
b. Fleance
c. Donalbaine
d. Rosse
4. Who are the two servants of Portia?
a. Balthazar and Gobbo
b. Balthazar and Stephano
c. Stephano and Gobbo
d. Gobbo and Tubal
5. Which dialect is used by Chaucer in writing of the Canterburry Tales?
 a. The Northern
b. The East Midland
c. The Southern
d. The Kentish
6. Portia sends her servant _______ to Padua to her cousin a famous lawyer
with a letter and instruction to bring lawyer’s robe.
a. Nerissa
b. Balthazar
c. Jessica
d. Stephano
7. Who is called the ‘Morning star of Reformation’?
a. Chaucer
b. John Wycliff
c. Both
d. None of them
8. Portia lives in which city?
a. Venice
b. Belmont
c. Rome
d. None of these
9. Who amongst the following represents Chivalry in Chaucer’s poem?
a. Parson
b. Doctor of Physik
c. Clerk
d. Knight
10. “Our two souls therefore, which are one
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion.”
These lines are from:
a. The Sunne Rising
b. Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
c. The Flea
d. The Canonization
11. The Clerk was a student of:
a. Cambridge
b. Stratford
c. Oxford
d. None of the above
12. Which of the following poem has three stanzas?
a. The Sunne Rising
b. Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
c. Both
d. None of these
13. Who is Portia’s ‘Lady – in – Waiting’?
a. Jessica
b. Nerissa
c. Both
d. None of them
14. Who is the Knight’s son?
a. Monk
b. Yeoman
c. Clerk
d. Squire
15. Who is the king of Scotland at the end of Shakespeare’s drama?
a. Malcolm
b. Macduff
c. Donalbain
d. Macbeth
16. If Shylock drops even a drop of Antonio’s blood then Shylock’s property
will be confiscated by _________.
a. Antonio
b. Portia
c. State of Venice
d. Duke
17. Who is the second Suitor of Portia?
a. Prince of Arragon
 b. Bassanio
c. Prince of Morocco
d. None of the above
18. “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.” About whom are the Witches
prophesising?
a. Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. Malcolm
d. Macduff
19. Duncan is the king of ________.
a. England
b. Florence
c. Scotland
d. Venice
20. Which one of the following is from Renaissance Age?
a. Chaucer
b. Donne
c. Shakespeare
d. Tennyson

Very Short Answer Questions. Answer in 1 or 2 words: (5 x 2 = 10)

1. What is the name of Chaucer’s Prioress?
2. Who is Shylock’s daughter?
3. Which casket is chosen by Bassanio?
4. Who became the King of Scotland after Duncan’s regicide?
5. Donne wrote Valediction: Forbidding Mourning for his wife _____ before he
left on a trip to Continental Europe.

Short Answer Questions. Answer in about 150 words only: (10 x 5 = 50)
1. Write a short note on Chaucer’s contribution to English Language.
2. Write a short note on ‘Hundred Years War’ and its contribution to English
character.
3. Write a short note on the Wife of Bathe.
4. What is Metaphysical poetry?
5. Why does Donne say that mourning is forbidden?
6. Write a short note on the Trial Scene of Antonio.
7. Which casket Bassanio chooses and why?
8. Lady Macbeth is called the fourth Witch. Give one reason ‘For’ or ‘Against’
this statement.
9. Write a short note on ‘Sleep Walking’ scene.
10. Write a short character sketch of Banquo.