30 important mcq on the renaissance period l mcq on English Literature

1. Shakespeare's 'measures for measures ' is a suddessful----

A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Tragi-comedy
D. Melodrama

Answer: C

2. The sentence ' Who would have thought  shylock was so unkind?' express -----

A. Hyperbole
B. Interrogation
C. Command
D. Wonder

Answer: D

3. "To be or not to be" that is the----

A. Meaning
B. Question
C. Answer
D. Issue

Answer: B

4. A machiavellian  character is----

A. An honest person
B. A selfish person
C. A courageous person
D. A judicious person

Answer: B

5. Renaissance  is---- word

A. An italian
B. A Russian
C. A European
D. A French

Answer : B

6. Where did the renaissance start from

A. England
B. Germany
C. Italy
D. USA

Answer: C

7. The main feature of the renaissance is----

A. Humanism
B. Utopia
C. Polyolbian
D. Opus majas

Answer: A

8. Who is the 'University wits ' in the following list?

A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas gray
C. Robert Greene
D. John Dryden

Answer : C

9. Elizabethan tragedy is centred on-----

A. Love
B. War
C. Revenge
D. Philosophy

Answer: C

10. Which is the oldest period in English literature?

A. Anglo-norman
B. Anglo-saxan
C. Chaucers period
D. Middle

Answer: B

11. Who wrote the plays " the tempest" and " the mid summer nights dream?

A. Ben jonson
B. Christopher marlowr
C. John drydan
D. William Shakespeare

Answer: D

12. Julias ceasar was the ruler of rome about----

A. 1000 years ago
B. 1500 years ago
C. 2000 years ago
D. 3000 years ago

Answer: C

13. 'Frality the name is woman' --- is a famous dialogue  from.

A. Christopher marlowe
B. John webster
C. W. Shakespeare
D. T.S Eliot

Answer: C

14. ' The merchant of venice' is a Shakespean play about---

A. A jew
B. A moor
C. A Roman
D. A Turk

Answer: A

15. Othello gave desdemona ______ as a taken of lovr.

A. Ring
B. Handkerchief
C. Pendant
D. Bangles

Answer: B

16. Which of the following  is not apoetic tradition?

A. The epic
B. The comic
C. The occult
D. The tragic

Answer: C

17. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what of verse?

A. Alliterative verse
B. Sonnet form
C. Iambic pentameter
D. Daetylic hexameter

Answer: CC

18.  Who has written the play volpone?

A. John Webster
B. Ben jonson
C. Christopher  marlowe
D. William Shakespeare

Answer: b

19. Fill in the blank_____ is Shakespeare last play.

A. As you like it
B. Macbeth
C. Tempest
D. Othello

Answer: C

20. Which period is known as ' the golden age' of english

A. The victorian age
B. The eighteenth century
C. The restoration
D. The Elizabethan age

Answer: D

21. Jacobean Period  of English  literature  refers to

A. 1558-1602
B. 1625-1649
C. 1603-1625
D. 1649-1660

Answer: C

22. 'For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love. This ine written  by

A. Emily Dickinson
B. T.S Eliot
C. Mathew Arnold
D. John donne

Answer: D

23. The play 'spanish Tragedy' is Written  by....

A. Thimas kyd
B. Willaim Shakespeare
C. Christopher marlowe
D. Ben Johnson

Answer: A

24. Shakespeare is known mostly for his

A. Poetry
B. Novels
C. Autobiography
D. Plays

Answer: D

25. Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare

A. King lear
B. The duchess of malfi
C. Candida
D. Waiting for godot

Answer: A

26. William Shakespeare was an english dramatist and poet of thr ------- century

A. Fifteenth
B. Sixteenth
C. Fourteenth
D. Seventeenth

Answer: B

27. Which of the following  plays is  by william Shakespeare?

A. Desire under the elms
B. Measure for measure
C. Pygmalion
D. Cocktail party

Answer: B

28. Willaim Shakespeare is the author of

A. Pride and prejudice
B. Waiting for godot
C. Sound of magic
D. King lear

Answer: D

29. Shakespeare is the Writer  of------

A. The tempest
B. The idea of University
C. The hairy ape
D. Riders to the sea

Answer: A

30. A sonnet is a lyric poem of----

A. 12 lines
B. 24 lines
C. 14 lines
D. 10 lines

Answer: C

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