English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 3 – Renaissance & Elizabethan (incl. Shakespeare) (Part 2)

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

All 20 topic-wise mocks in this unit

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Q1.

Who wrote Lear, an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear?

AEdward Bond BArthur Miller CSteven Berkoff DVirginia Woolf

Q2.

During a 1613 performance of which play did the Globe Theatre burn down?

AHenry VI BHenry VIII CRichard II DRichard III

Q3.

Which two of the following plays were written by Ben Jonson?

A. Flowers for Latin Speaking
B. The Devil Is an Ass
C. Sappho and Phao
D. The Woman in the Moon
E. The Staple of News

AA and D only BA and C only CB and E only DD and E only

Q4.

Who built the Red Lion playhouse in Stepney in 1567?

ARichard Burbage BJames Burbage CJohn Brayne DPhilip Henslowe

Q5.

Which of the following figures are named in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?

A. Ezra Pound
B. Michelangelo
C. Valerie Eliot
D. Hamlet
E. Walt Whitman

AA, C and E only BB and D only CB, D and E only DD and E only

Q6.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Humour	List II: Temperament
A. Blood	I. Phlegmatic
B. Yellow bile	II. Sanguine
C. Phlegm	III. Melancholy
D. Black bile	IV. Choleric

AA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV BA-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III CA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I DA-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

Q7.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Quotation	List II: Play
A. 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness…'	I. The Tempest
B. 'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind'	II. The Comedy of Errors
C. 'Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word'	III. A Midsummer Night's Dream
D. 'We are such stuff / As dreams are made on'	IV. Twelfth Night

AA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I BA-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV CA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II DA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Q8.

Which of the following were written by Robert Greene?

A. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B. Alphonsus
C. A Moon for the Misbegotten
D. The Old Wives' Tale
E. King of Aragon

AB and D only BA and E only CB and E only DC and E only

Q9.

Which of the following were written by George Peele?

A. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B. A Moon for the Misbegotten
C. The Arraignment of Paris
D. The Scottish History of James the Fourth
E. The Old Wives' Tale

AB, C and D only BA, C and E only CA, C and D only DC, D and E only

Q10.

'What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones / The labour of an age in piled stones… Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid / Under a star-ypointing pyramid?' Who wrote these lines?

ABen Jonson BJohn Milton CRobert Browning DWilliam Wordsworth

Q11.

Who wrote A Woman Killed with Kindness?

AFrancis Beaumont BBeaumont and Fletcher CThomas Kyd DThomas Heywood

Q12.

Arrange the following poets in order of birth:

A. George Herbert
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Philip Sidney
D. John Donne
E. Oliver Goldsmith

AA, B, D, C, E BB, C, D, A, E CE, B, A, D, C DA, D, E, B, C

Q13.

Arrange the following writers chronologically:

A. Richard Steele
B. Charles Lamb
C. John Dryden
D. Francis Bacon
E. Matthew Arnold

AA, B, C, D, E BB, D, E, C, A CC, B, D, A, E DD, C, A, B, E

Q14.

Who wrote Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity?

ARichard Hakluyt BFrancis Bacon CRaphael Holinshed DRichard Hooker

Q15.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Quotation	List II: Play
A. 'Come what come may, / Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.'	I. Othello
B. 'When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.'	II. King Lear
C. 'I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.'	III. Macbeth
D. 'I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at.'	IV. Hamlet

AA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I BA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV CA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I DA-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III

Q16.

Who wrote Epicoene, or The Silent Woman?

AWilliam Congreve BThomas Kyd CBen Jonson DGeorge Farquhar

Q17.

Arrange the following plays in chronological order:

A. Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness
B. Shaw, John Bull's Other Island
C. Congreve, The Double Dealer
D. Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday
E. Steele, The Conscious Lovers

AB, D, C, A, E BD, A, C, E, B CC, D, A, B, E DE, B, D, C, A

Q18.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Character	List II: Play
A. Doll Common	I. Twelfth Night
B. Malvolio	II. The Alchemist
C. Mortimer	III. The Duchess of Malfi
D. Bosola	IV. Edward II

AA-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II BA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III CA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I DA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Q19.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Quotation	List II: Play
A. 'There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face'	I. Hamlet
B. 'The time is out of joint'	II. Richard III
C. 'The better part of valour is discretion'	III. Macbeth
D. 'My kingdom for a horse!'	IV. Henry IV, Part 1

AA-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II BA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II CA-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I DA-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Q20.

Who wrote The Steele Glas (1576)?

AThe Earl of Surrey BThomas Sackville CGeorge Gascoigne DEdmund Spenser

Q21.

Which novel is set against religious persecution in Mexico?

AThe Power and the Glory BFor Whom the Bell Tolls CIn Our Time DAll of the above

Q22.

Sidney's Arcadia was influenced by:

AMetaphysical poetry BArthurian legends CThe Italian paintings of Veronese DThe Spanish romance of Montemayor

Q23.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Play	List II: Approximate date
A. Hamlet	I. 1606
B. Macbeth	II. 1599
C. Julius Caesar	III. 1604
D. Othello	IV. 1600

AA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I BA-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III CA-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Q24.

Who attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham's (Lord Admiral's) company?

AWilliam Shakespeare BChristopher Marlowe CBen Jonson DGeorge Peele

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