English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 5 – 17th Century: Metaphysicals, Milton & Restoration (Part 1)

Unit 1: British Literature · 22 questions · about 26 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Which description of a character in Congreve's The Way of the World is INCORRECT?

AFainall, in love with Mrs Marwood BMirabell, in love with Mrs Millamant CWitwoud, follower of Mrs Millamant DPetulant, follower of Mrs Marwood

Q2.

Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne's wife, who died in 1617?

A'Death, be not proud' B'Thou hast made me' CHoly Sonnet 17 ('Since she whom I loved') D'At the round earth's imagined corners'

Q3.

Which of the following is not a character in William Congreve's The Way of the World?

AFainall BMirabell CWaitwell DPeachum

Q4.

Which play mocks the heroic drama of Dryden and his contemporaries?

AGay, The Beggar's Opera BFielding, Tom Thumb CSheridan, The Critic DGeorge Villiers, The Rehearsal

Q5.

From which book of Paradise Lost is the epigraph of Frankenstein taken?

ABook I BBook II CBook X DBook XII

Q6.

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication:

A. The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Beowulf
C. Endymion
D. The Faerie Queene
E. Paradise Lost

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

Q7.

Who was called 'the Lady of Christ's' at Cambridge?

ARichard Lovelace BAlexander Pope CJohn Milton DSir John Suckling

Q8.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Comedy	List II: Dramatist
A. The Man of Mode	I. Sir John Vanbrugh
B. The Country Wife	II. William Congreve
C. The Old Bachelor	III. William Wycherley
D. The Provoked Wife	IV. Sir George Etherege

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

Q9.

Sir Thomas Browne's longest work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors (1646), deals with:

Athe mistaken beliefs of the poorly educated Bvulgarity in the aristocratic class Cvulgar beliefs and practices of the time Dvulgar language in literary works

Q10.

'My love is of a birth as rare / As 'tis for object strange and high; / It was begotten by despair / Upon impossibility.' Name the poem.

A'The Garden' B'An Horatian Ode' C'The Definition of Love' D'To His Coy Mistress'

Q11.

Which of the following characteristics of She Stoops to Conquer is NOT correct?

AIt is endowed with an ingenious and lively plot. BIt does not cast excellent characters. CIt has a vivacious and delightful style. DIt lacks the Restoration grossness.

Q12.

Arrange the following works of Milton in chronological order:

A. Paradise Lost
B. Lycidas
C. 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'
D. 'On Shakespeare'
E. Paradise Regained

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

Q13.

In Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, whom does Achitophel represent?

AThe first Earl of Shaftesbury BThe first Duke of Monmouth CThe first Duke of Buckingham DThe Duke of York

Q14.

Who composed Lucasta: Posthume Poems?

AGeorge Herbert BThomas Carew CRichard Lovelace DSir John Suckling

Q15.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Critic	List II: Work on Milton
A. Christopher Hill	I. Milton
B. Catherine Belsey	II. Milton's Language
C. E. M. W. Tillyard	III. John Milton: Language, Gender, Power
D. Thomas N. Corns	IV. Milton and the English Revolution

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

Q16.

Who was a famous seventeenth-century diarist?

AJohn Evelyn BJohn Bunyan CThe Earl of Rochester DRobert Walker

Q17.

Which of the following statements about Religio Laici are true?

A. John Dryden wrote Religio Laici.
B. It strongly criticises the Anglican Church.
C. Religio Laici means 'A Layman's Faith'.
D. It was published in 1690.
E. It is a philosophical-religious prose treatise.

AA, B and C only BA and C only CA and D only DD and E only

Q18.

Which of Milton's works adapts the form of Greek tragedy?

ASamson Agonistes BParadise Regained CLycidas DComus

Q19.

Which playwrights collaborated on Three Hours after Marriage?

A. John Gay
B. John Dryden
C. Alexander Pope
D. William Congreve
E. John Arbuthnot

AA, B and D only BA, C and E only CA, B and E only DA, D and E only

Q20.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

A. W. H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939'
B. George Herbert, 'The Collar'
C. Lord Byron, Beppo
D. John Milton, Paradise Lost
E. Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things

AB, D, C, A, E BB, A, E, C, D CA, E, B, C, D DC, B, A, D, E

Q21.

Who wrote a poem titled 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'?

A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Sylvia Plath
E. Robert Frost

AA and C only BA and B only CD and E only DB and C only

Q22.

Which of the following defines 'sentimental comedy'?

AA play satirising the manners and affectations of a class BA play whose characters each represent a type of personality CA play showing how seriously young people take love DA play exhibiting private virtues and the distresses of mankind rather than exposing their vices

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