Sunday Test : 24/12/2023 (17th Century Literature)

1) ‘To Daffodils’ is a poem written by -

a) Thomas Carew
b) Robert Harrick
c) John Suckling
d) Lovelace

2) “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,” is a line from -

a) To Lucasta
b) Hesperides
c) Ballad upon a wedding
d) To Althea, from Prison

3) Who wrote “Tenure of Kings and Magistrates” and defends the right of people to
execute a guilty sovereign, whether tyrannical or not?

a) John Donne
b) William Shakespeare
c) John Milton
d) Richard Lovelace

4) Who said for Milton - “This man cuts us all out, and the ancients too” ?

a) Dryden
b) Pope
c) Samuel Johnson
d) Swift

5) The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning "When I consider how my light is
spent..." ends with-

a) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh

 b) They also serve who only stand and wait
c) And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
d) And bless him for the sake of him that's gone

6) What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared
to protest against his impious doctrine and left his company to return to God (Paradise
Lost, Book V)?

a) Michael
b) Abdiel
c) Uriel
d) Gabriel

7) Match the following texts with their respective themes:

I. Areopagitica (Milton)
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)
III. Alexander's Feast (Dryden)
IV. The Way of The World(Congreve)

i. Fashion, courtship, seduction

ii. The liberty For Unlicensed Printing
iii. Absolute Sovereignty
iv. The power of music

a) i ii iii iv
b) iii iv i ii
c) ii iii iv i
d) ii iv i iii

8) Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

a) It was published in 1644.

b) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
c) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
d) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.

9) Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?

 a) Lycidas
b) L'Allegro
c) Camus
d) Paradise Lost

10) What is 'L' Allegro's' companion piece called?

a) Lamia
b) Hyperion
c) Il Penseroso
d) Thyrsis

11) In John Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesy Neander defends the English invention
of -

a) romantic comedy
b) action tragedy
c) tragi-comedy
d) morality plays

12) Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect?

a) John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.

b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.
c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668.

13) John Dryden's Absalom and Achotophel is a -

a) religious tract
b) political allegory
c) comic verse epic
d) comedy

14) John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare's

a) Troilus and Cressida

b) The Merchant of Venice
 c) Antony and Cleopatra
d) Measure for Measure

15) John Dryden described a major English poet as "a rough diamond, and must
first be polished ere he shines ....." Identify him:

a) Geoffrey Chaucer
b) John Gower
c) George Herbert
d) Robert Herrick

16) Dryden's dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled-

a) All for Love

b) The State of Innocence
c) Annus Mirabilis
d) Religio Medici

17) Who said about John Donne, "He affects the metaphysics, not only in his
satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign..."?

a) Samuel Johnson
b) Ben Jonson
c) T. S. Eliot
d) John Dryden

18) Who defined the wit of Metaphysical Poets as "...a kind of Discordia concors; a
combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things
apparently unlike”?

a) Samuel Johnson
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Dryden
d) Milton

19) To whom did Carew pay the tribute as the poet who "ruled as he thought fit, The
universal monarchy of wit'?

a) Marvell
 b) Donne
c) Milton
d) Crashaw

20) Which of the following themes was not common to the works of Cavalier poets
such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, James
Shirley, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick?

a) Courtly ideals of the good life

b) Carpe diem
c) Loyalty to the king
d) Pious devotion to religious virtues

21) Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright ?

a) William Congreve
b) William Wycherley
c) Ben Jonson
d) George Etherege

22) Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

a) Hamlet
b) The Duchess of Malfi
c) Volpone
d) Gorboduc

23) Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve ?

a) The way of the World

b) The Old Bachelor
c) Love for Love
d) The Relapse

24) The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them:

(Dramatists)
I. George Etheredge
II. William Wycherley
III. John Vanbrugh
IV. William Congreve

(Plays)
1. The Country Wife
2. The Man of Mode
3. The Double Dealer
4. The Provok'd Wife

The correct combination is:

a) 2,3,4,1
b) 3,2,1,4
c) 4,3,2,1
d) 2,1,4,3

25) In poems like "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" . …………, exploits… … . ?

a) John Donne, alliteration

b) Robert Herrick, trimetre
c) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
d) George Herbert, typographic space

26) MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden's literary rival-

a) Richard Flecknoe
b) Thomas Shadwell
c) John Wilmot
d) Matthew Prior

27) The Temple is a collection of poems by

a) Thomas Carew
b) Robert Herrick
c) George Herbert
d) Richard Crashaw

28) “For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love” ………., We can die by it,
if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
And if no piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,

These are lines from?

a) The Flea
b) The Sun Rising
c) The Good Morrow
d) The Canonization

29) Which of the following rivers are mentioned in Andrew Marvell's poem "To His
Coy Mistress" ?

a) Thames and Rhine

b) Humber and Rhine
c) Ganges and Humber
d) Thames and Humber

30) Who is known as “Shakespeare of Divines” ?

a) Thomas Fuller
b) Jeremy Taylor
c) Thomas Hobbes
d) Izzak Walton