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famous playwright poet and others Mcqs
41. Which of Chaucers works is associated with Valentines Day ?
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A. The Canterbury Tales

B. Parlement of Foules

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. The Book of the Duchess

42. What is the title of the prose pamphlet Edmund Spenser wrote in the year 1596 ?
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A. Visions of the worlds vanitie

B. A View of the Present State of Ireland

C. The Visions of Petrarch

D. The Ruines of Time

43. ____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
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A. Top Girls

B. Camille

C. Queen Cristina

D. The Homecoimg

44. In which year did Chaucer fought in Hundred Years War between France and England ?
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A. 1382

B. 1367

C. 1374

D. 1359
45. What is the function of the Linati schema ?
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A. it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

B. it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

C. it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

D. it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

46. Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
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A. The Book of the Duchess

B. The House of Fame

C. Troilus and Criseyde

D. The Legend of Good Women

47. A poem with no meter or rhyme______________?
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A. free verse

B. lyric

C. narrative

D. none of the above

48. Which one of the following is an unfinished work of Edmund Spenser ?
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A. The Faerie Queene

B. The Shepheardes Calender

C. Amoretti

D. Astrophel

49. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem ?
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A. rhyme and reason

B. theme, purpose, form, and mood.

C. purpose and audience

D. characters, main idea, and theme

50. In Finnegans Wake, which of the following typify family life ?
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A. murder

B. slander

C. All of the Above

D. hypocrisy

51. Which is the first major work of Geoffrey Chaucer ?
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A. The House of Fame

B. Troilus and Criseyde

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. The Book of the Duchess

52. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess ?
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A. Carolyn Kizer

B. Marianne Moore

C. Sylvia Plath

D. Mary Oliver

53. In A Portrait of the Artist, the main character is named after which mythical figure ?
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A. Minos

B. Daedalus

C. Icarus

D. Aeneas

54. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels ?
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A. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

B. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

55. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ?
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A. William Blake

B. William Morris

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Shakespeare

56. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ?
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A. Iambic pentameter

B. Sonnet form

C. Dactylic hexameter

D. Alliterative verse

57. Which of the following statement is correct ?
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A. Shakespeares first child Susanna was born in 1583.

B. In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith.

C. both a and b

D. None of above.

58. Where did chaucer bury ?
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A. westminster abbey

B. none of the above

C. kent church

D. chapel at windsor

59. Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark ?
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A. Wittenberg

B. Oslo

C. Dublin

D. London

60. Who says, Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ?
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A. Chorus

B. Horatio

C. Fortinbras

D. Marcellus