English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 6 – 17th Century: Metaphysicals, Milton & Restoration (Part 2)

Unit 1: British Literature · 22 questions · about 26 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.

Arrange the following works chronologically:

A. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
B. Hobbes, Leviathan
C. Pepys, Diary
D. Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
E. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

AB, C, D, E, A BA, C, D, E, B CC, D, A, B, E DD, E, A, C, B

Q2.

Who wrote The Compleat Angler?

AIzaak Walton BJeremy Taylor CRichard Baxter DThomas Hobbes

Q3.

Which of the following are works by John Bunyan?

A. The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
D. The Holy War
E. Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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

Q4.

Arrange the following in chronological order:

A. Lycidas
B. Hero and Leander
C. Comus
D. Paradise Lost
E. The Waste Land

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

Q5.

Which of the following playwright–play pairs are correct?

A. William Wycherley – The Rivals
B. Ben Jonson – Volpone, or The Fox
C. William Congreve – The Country Wife
D. Aphra Behn – The Dutch Lover
E. R. B. Sheridan – The School for Scandal

AC, D and E only BB, C and D only CA, C and E only DB, D and E only

Q6.

'In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, / Before polygamy was made a sin…' From which poem, satirising a biblical king's promiscuity, are these lines taken?

AAbsalom and Achitophel BMac Flecknoe CA Song for St Cecilia's Day DAlexander's Feast

Q7.

Who, after watching A Midsummer Night's Dream, called it 'the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life'?

AJohn Evelyn BSamuel Pepys CJohn Dryden DRobert Greene

Q8.

Samuel Pepys's claim to fame rests on his:

ABiography BAutobiography CDiary DSpeculative fiction

Q9.

Who is the most famous diarist in English?

ASamuel Pepys BSamuel Johnson CBen Jonson DSamuel Richardson

Q10.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Book	List II: Poet
A. Anniversaries	I. Abraham Cowley
B. The Temple	II. John Donne
C. The Rehearsal Transpros'd	III. George Herbert
D. Pindarique Odes	IV. Andrew Marvell

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

Q11.

In which poem does Donne use the conceit of the compass?

A'Negative Love' B'Lovers' Infiniteness' C'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' D'A Valediction: Of Weeping'

Q12.

Which of the following are works by Aphra Behn?

A. The Rover
B. Oroonoko
C. The Soldier's Fortune
D. The Princess of Cleves

AA and B only BB and C only CB and D only DA and C only

Q13.

Which journal was launched at Bowling Green State University in the late 1960s?

AJournal of Mass Culture BJournal of Popular Culture CJournal of Public Culture DJournal of Culture Studies

Q14.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Poet	List II: Poem
A. John Donne	I. 'The Retreat'
B. Andrew Marvell	II. 'A Valediction: Of Weeping'
C. George Herbert	III. 'The Garden'
D. Henry Vaughan	IV. 'The Collar'

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

Q15.

When Milton recast Paradise Lost from ten books into twelve in 1674, whose model did he follow?

ALucan BVirgil COvid DHomer

Q16.

Which two of the following are Defoe's historical narratives?

A. History of the Rebellion
B. A Meditation upon a Broomstick
C. A Journal of the Plague Year
D. Memoirs of a Cavalier

AA and B only BB and D only CB and C only DC and D only

Q17.

Which two novels belong to Joyce Cary's first trilogy?

A. Aissa Saved
B. To Be a Pilgrim
C. Herself Surprised
D. Charley Is My Darling

AA and B only BB and C only CC and D only DA and D only

Q18.

Which of the following is a set of metaphysical poets?

AJohn Donne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell BJohn Dryden, George Herbert, Alexander Pope CSamuel Johnson, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Grierson DHenry Vaughan, John Dryden, John Donne

Q19.

Which rivers are mentioned in Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'?

A. Ganges
B. Thames
C. Humber
D. Jhelum

AA and D only BA and B only CA and C only DB and C only

Q20.

In which book of Paradise Lost do Adam and Eve quarrel over dividing their labour?

ABook 4 BBook 6 CBook 7 DBook 9

Q21.

What are the major themes of Congreve's The Way of the World?

AJealousy and revenge BLove and intrigue CIntrigue and death DLove and loyalty

Q22.

Which two events are described in Pepys's Diary?

A. The Plague in London
B. The Great Fire of London
C. The War of the Spanish Succession
D. The Essex Rebellion

AA and B only BA and C only CB and C only DB and D only

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