Elizabeth and Restoration Drama MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)
1. The most remarkable achievement during the Elizabethan Period in English literature was in the field of:
a. poetry
b. prose
c. drama
2. On which model some academic writers attempted to write original plays in English about the middle of the sixteenth century?
a. Turkish
b. Latin
c. Rome
3. The three critical plays on the Latin model were
a. Ralph Roister Doister
b. Grammar Gurton’s Needle
c. Gorbuduc or Ferrex and Porrex
d. All of the above
4. The literary work of Nicholas Udall in the field of Elizabethan drama was:
a. Ralph Roister Doister
b. Grammar Gurton’s Needle
c. Gorbuduc or Ferrex and Porrex
5. Gorbuduc or Ferrex and Porrex was the play of which Elizabethan dramatist?
a. Thomas Sackville
b. John Still
c. Nicholas Udall
6. Which type of play was the Ralph Roister Doister?
a. Tragedy
b. Comedy
c. Satire
7. The play Gorbuduc or Ferrex and Porrex was a:
a. Tragedy
b. Comedy
c. Satire
8. The second period of Elizabethan Drama was dominated by:
a. Shakespeare
b. University Wits
c. Ben Johnson
9. Who was the central sun among the University Wits?
a. John Lyly
b. Robert Greene
c. Christopher Marlowe
10. The minor stars of the University Wits include:
a. Thomas Kyd, John Lyly
b. Robert Greene, George Peele
c. Both a and b
11. The author of Euphues was:
a. George Peele(1558-1597)
b. John Lyly(1554-1606)
c. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
12. Compaspe (1581), Sapho and Phao(1584), Endymion(1591), and Midas (1592) were the plays written by:
a. George Peele(1558-1597)
b. Robert Greene(1560-1592)
c. John Lyly(1554-1606)
13. The plays of John Lyly were written in:
a. essay
b. prose
c. novel
14. Who was an actor and writer of plays among the University Wits?
a. George Peele(1558-1597)
b. John Lyly(1554-1606)
c. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
15. Except for Marlowe, who wrote half a dozen plays for his group?
a. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
b. Robert Greene(1560-1592)
c. George Peele(1558-1597)
16. The earnest work of George Peele was:
a. The Arraignment of Paris (1584)
b. David and Bathsheba (1599)
c. Both a and b
17. Which play/play by George Peele contains an elaborate eulogy of Queen Elizabeth, which is a court play of the Masque order?
a. The Arraignment of Paris (1584)
b. David and Bathsheba (1599)
c. Both a and b
18. Like Marlowe, which University Wits was responsible for giving the blank verse musical quality, which later attained perfection in the deft hands of Shakespeare?
a. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
b. Robert Greene(1560-1592)
c. George Peele(1558-1597)
19. The first work of Thomas Kyd in English Literature, translated into many European languages, was:
a. David and Bathsheba
b. Spanish Tragedy
c. Sapho and Phao
20. Among University Wits, who introduced the ‘blood and thunder’ element in the drama was:
a. George Peele(1558-1597)
b. John Lyly(1554-1606)
c. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
21. After 1660, the drama in England called:
a. The Puritan Drama
b. The Elizabethan Drama
c. The Restoration Drama
22. Restoration Drama was greatly affected by the spirit of the new age, which was deficient in the following:
a. imagination and emotional approach to life
b. poetic feeling
c. both a and b
23. During the Restoration, which movement was the ordinary people still influenced by?
a. Realism
b. Puritanism
c. Humanism
24. The most popular form of drama during the Restoration was:
a. Comedy of Manners
b. Satire
c. Tragedy
25. Which portrayed the sophisticated life of the dominant class of society- its joy, foppery, audacity, and intrigue during the Restoration?
a. Tragedy
b. Comedy of Manners
c. Satire
26. The general tone of Restoration’s Comedy of Manners drama was most aptly described by:
a. Shakespeare
b. Ben Jonson
c. P.B Shelley
27. Which period specialized in “Heroic Tragedy” ended happily, and virtue was always rewarded?
a. Puritan Period
b. Restoration Period
c. Both a and b
28. The most gifted among all the Restoration dramatists was:
a. William Shakespeare
b. William Congreve
c. Ben Jonson
29. Who wrote all his best plays before he was thirty?
a. William Congreve (1670-1720)
b. John Dryden (1631-1700)
c. both a and b
30. William Congreve’s well-known comedies are:
a. Wild Gallant (1663), Love in a Tub (1664)
b. Love for Love (1695), The Way of the World (1700)
c. None
31. Because of the remarkable style, which is at the head of the Restoration drama?
a. William Blake
b. William Shakespeare
c. William Congreve
32. The chief protagonist and writer of heroic Tragedy was:
a. Dryden
b. Ben Jonson
c. Thomas Norton
33. Under which leadership did heroic Tragedy dominate the stage from 1660 to 1678?
a. John Bunyan
b. John Dryden
c. John Tillotson
34. Dryden heroic tragedy play was/were:
a. Tyrannic Love
b. The Conquest of Granada
c. Both a and b
35. The play “All for Love” (1678) was written by:
a. Congreve
b. Milton
c. Dryden
36. Orlando Furioso, Friar Bacon, Friar Bungay, Alphonsus King of Aragon, and George A. Greene were the plays of which University Wits?
a. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
b. Robert Greene(1560-1592)
c. George Peele(1558-1597)
37. The most influential play of Robert Greene, which deals partly with the tricks of the Friar and partly with a simple love story between two men with one maid, was:
a. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
b. George A. Greene
c. Orlando Furioso
38. Who achieved distinction by the vigorous humanity of his characterization?
a. Thomas Kyd(1558-1595)
b. Robert Greene(1560-1592)
c. George Peele(1558-1597)
39. The first play of Christopher Marlowe was:
a. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
b. The Jew of Malta
c. Tamburlaine
40. When was Tamburlaine, the first play of Marlowe, published?
a. 1586
b. 1587
c. 1589
41. In which play Marlowe tells the story of the scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for worldly enjoyment and unlimited power, presented most fascinatingly?
a. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
b. Edward II
c. Tamburlaine
42. O soul, be changed into little water-drop And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
a. Tamburlaine
b. The Jew of Malta
c. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
43. The third Tragedy of Marlowe was:
a. Tamburlaine
b. The Jew of Malta
c. Edward II
44. Which of the following is Marlowe’s last play?
a. Edward II
b. The Jew of Malta
c. Tamburlaine
45. From which literary personality did Marlowe’s plays have different styles and content?
a. Sir Philip Sidney
b. Sir Thomas More
c. William Shakespeare
46. Which William Shakespeare’s Tragedy is a Tragedy of Misanthropy?
a. Hamlet
b. Timon of Athens
c. Othello
47. Imogen is a character in
a. Cymbeline
b. Coriolanus
c. Tempest
48. Last plays of William Shakespeare are tragic
comedies, also known as
a. Comedies
b. Farces
c. Tragedies
49. Which play by William Shakespeare is known as autobiographical?
a. The Tempest
b. Cymbeline
c. Pericles
50. William Shakespeare was born in
a. 1550
b. 1505
c. 1564
51. Venus and Adonais and The Rape of Lucrece’ are
a. Tragedies
b. Love poems
c. Comedies
52. William Shakespeare passed away in
a. 1616
b. 1601
c. 1600
53. The life of William Shakespeare is the creation of
a. Sidney Lee
b. Philip Sidney
c. Spenser
54. Which Elizabethan dramatist used Holinshed’s Chronicle?
a. Heywood
b. Marlowe
c. William Shakespeare
55. William Shakespeare took a hint from Spanish.Tragedy in his
a. Macbeth
b. Hamlet
c. Othello
56. William Shakespeare’s 37 plays_____plays were published in quarto form.
a. 12
b. 15
c. 16
57. William Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in
a. 1600
b. 1623
c. 1620
58. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.”
a. Thisbey
b. Bottom
c. Theseus
59. In which William Shakespearean plays are all guilty?
a. As You Like It
b. Twelfth Night
c. Measure for Measure
60. The famous song. Take, a take those lips away’ occurs in
a. As You Like It
b. Merchant of Venice
c. Measure for Measure
61. Falstaff is a character in which of the following historical plays of William Shakespeare?
a. Henry I
b. Henry IV
c. Henry VIII
62. According to_____,’ It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
a. Kent
b. Edgar
c. King Lear
63. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings” are said by which of the following authors?
a Brutus
b Ceasar
c Cassius
64. Which Shakespearean play dramatizes a tale Chaucer presented in “The Knight’s Tale”?
a. The Two Noble Kinsmen
b. As You Like It
c. The Merchant of Venice
65. “Merry Wives” was written by William Shakespeare at the advice of ______.
a. his father
b. Queen Elizabeth
c. his beloved
66. Benedick and Beatrice appear in which of the following Comedy by William Shakespeare?
a. The Tempest
b. The Winter’s Tale
c. Much Ado About Nothing
67. Mythology, folklore, and magic find their way into William Shakespeare’s?
a. Last plays
b. Comedies
c. Tragedies
68. Which play of William Shakespeare ends without a climax?
a. Troilus and Cressida
b. Antony and Cleopatra
c. All’s Well That Ends Well
69. Which play of Ben Jonson is the most expansive of mature satiric comedies?
a. The Poetaster
b. Volpone
c. Bartholomew Fair
70. Sejanus and Catiline are moved by William Shakespeare’s
a. The Taming of a Shrew
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. Julius Ceaser