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English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 2 – Renaissance & Elizabethan (incl. Shakespeare) (Part 1)

Unit 1: British Literature · 24 questions · about 28 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Arrange these statements in the order they occur in Bacon's 'Of Studies':

  1. A. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring.
  2. B. To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
  3. C. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
  4. D. Crafty men contemn studies.
  5. E. Histories make men wise.
Q2.

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

  1. A. Browne, Religio Medici
  2. B. Nashe, The Terrors of the Night
  3. C. Lamb, Essays of Elia
  4. D. More, Utopia
  5. E. Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
Q3.

Which details from the dramatis personae of The Duchess of Malfi are correct?

  1. A. Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria
  2. B. The Cardinal, 'Executioner'
  3. C. Antonio Bologna, steward of the Duchess's household
  4. D. Delio, 'Court Officer'
  5. E. Daniel de Bosola, gentleman of the horse
Q4.

Who speaks the line 'Put out the light, and then put out the light'?
Q5.

Match List I with List II:

List I: PoetList II: Work
A. Edmund SpenserI. 'Whoso List to Hunt'
B. Philip SidneyII. 'So Cruel Prison How Could Betide'
C. Thomas WyattIII. The Faerie Queene
D. Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyIV. The Defence of Poesy
Q6.

Which among the following does not fall in the category of 'Revenge Tragedy'?
Q7.

Arrange the following plays of Shakespeare in chronological order:

  1. A. The Tempest
  2. B. Love's Labour's Lost
  3. C. Twelfth Night
  4. D. Much Ado About Nothing
  5. E. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Q8.

'O, sir, content you; / I follow him to serve my turn upon him. / We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly followed.' These lines are spoken by:
Q9.

The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays appeared in:
Q10.

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a:
Q11.

Arrange the following works of Francis Bacon in chronological order of publication:

  1. A. The Advancement of Learning
  2. B. De Augmentis Scientiarum
  3. C. Novum Organum
  4. D. New Atlantis
  5. E. The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
Q12.

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

  1. A. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
  2. B. Luther, Ninety-five Theses at Wittenberg
  3. C. Cranmer, The First Book of Common Prayer
  4. D. More, Utopia
  5. E. Machiavelli, The Prince
Q13.

Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in chronological order:

  1. A. Twelfth Night
  2. B. The Taming of the Shrew
  3. C. Much Ado About Nothing
  4. D. Romeo and Juliet
  5. E. The Winter's Tale
Q14.

Which of the following statements correctly describe 'utopia' and 'dystopia'?

  1. A. More's Utopia (1516) is an essay in four books.
  2. B. More first gave the genre its name by calling his imaginary republic Utopia.
  3. C. Utopia was originally written in English.
  4. D. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World are dystopian (anti-utopian) texts.
  5. E. Utopia was translated into French, German and Spanish by Ralph Robinson.
Q15.

Thomas Norton wrote the first three acts of Gorboduc, the first regular English tragedy. Who wrote the last two?
Q16.

According to Spenser's plan for The Faerie Queene, how many knights (one for each virtue) were to feature?
Q17.

Which of the following history plays are NOT by Shakespeare?

  1. A. Henry the Third
  2. B. Richard the Third
  3. C. Richard the Second
  4. D. Richard the Second
  5. E. Henry the Fifth
  6. F. Richard the Fifth
Q18.

Which of the following plays did Fletcher write with Francis Beaumont?

  1. A. The Faithful Shepherdess
  2. B. The Loyal Subject
  3. C. Cupid's Revenge
  4. D. The Pilgrim
  5. E. The Maid's Tragedy
Q19.

Name the poet who composed the following poems:

  1. A. 'A Hymn to God the Father'
  2. B. 'Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode'
  3. C. 'Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness'
  4. D. 'A Valediction: of Weeping'
Q20.

Choose the two statements that aptly describe Renaissance humanism:

  1. A. It prepared man for eternal life.
  2. B. It was anthropocentric.
  3. C. It was more theological.
  4. D. It rejected the distinction between the noumenal and the phenomenal.
  5. E. It revived interest in classical literature and thought.
Q21.

Which of the following qualities of heroic treatment was NOT needed in the plays of the University Wits?
Q22.

To whom was Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) dedicated?
Q23.

Which proprietor of the Rose Theatre repaired and expanded it in 1592 and 1595?
Q24.

Who wrote Gallathea?
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