The Age of Shakespeare
Multiple Choice Questions
1. _____ is not an Elizabethan Prose writer
a) Bacon b) Bunyan c) John Lyly d) Thomas Nashe
2. _____ is considered as the first English man to write Pindaric odes with strophe, anti-strophe and
epode.
a) Spenser b) Milton c) Ben Jonson d) Shakespeare
3. 'The Dream' is a poem by _____
a) Andrew Marvell b) John Dryden c) John Milton d) Robert Browning
4. The source of Shakespeare's As You Like It is taken from _____
a) Thomas Nashe b) Thomas Lodge c) Robert Greene d) Marlowe
5. Identify the writer who is wandering tinker and later became a great writer of prose.
a) Bacon b) John Lyly c) Bunyan d) John Donne
6. Match the following
Works Authors
i) The Anatomy of Melancholy - Thomas Dekker
ii) Spanish Tragedy - Robert Burton
iii) Gul's Horn- Book - Shakespeare
iv) Pericles - Thomas Kyd
7. Identify the INCORRECT statement of the following.
a) Thomas Kyd died in 1594
b) Marlow died in 1593
c) Robert Greene died in 1592
d) Shakespeare died in 1595
8. Which one of the following play is an optimistic play of Shakespeare?
a) King Lear b) Measure for Measure c) Macbeth d) Othello
9. _____ said "Shakespeare wanted art"
a) Dr Johnson b) Dryden c) Ben Jonson d) Arnold
10. Old Crow and Little Crow are the characters that appear in Ben Jonson's ____
a) Epicoene b) Volpone c) Everyman in His Humour d) Bartholomew Fair
11. Who wrote the play Cynthia's Revels?
a) Dryden b) Dr Johnson c) Shakespeare d) Ben Jonson
12. Ben Jonson has written Sejanus and Catiline based on Shakespeare's _____
a) Hamlet b) Titus Andronicus c) Othello d) Julius Caesar
13. Who says the following lines?
"We are each stuff. As dreams, are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sheep"
a) Hotspur b) Iago c) Prospero d) Caliban
14. "Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time" is uttered by _____
a) Ben Jonson b) Dr. Johnson c) Arnold d) Dekker
15. Who is the author of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity?
a) Roger Ascham b) Bacon c) Richard Hooker d) Dr. Johnson
16. _____ is not an earl play Shakespeare
a) Romeo and Juliet b) Pericles c) As You Like It d) Othello
17. Fill in the blank with the suitable name in Milton's saying "sweetest _____, Fancy Child?"
a) Bacon b) Milton c) Shakespeare d) Ben Jonson
18. "There are more things in heaven and earth" These line comes in _____
a) Hamlet b) Othello c) King Lear d) Macbeth
19. _____ said "there is some soul fo goodness in things evil, Would men obviously distil it out"
a) Iago b) Othello c) King Henry V d) Brutus
20. _____ called Thomas Heywood "a sort of prose Shakespeare"
a) Bunyan b) Bacon c) Charles Lamb d) Milton
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