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famous playwright poet and others Mcqs
881. Ann Hathaway was____________years older than Shakespeare?
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A. 10

B. 8

C. 7

D. 9

882. After Milton went blind, he was able to compose poetry by using ______________?
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A. braille

B. dictation

C. an Abacus

D. a code of his own devising

883. According to John Milton, political offices were to be filled by______________?
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A. the House of Lords

B. the king

C. popular election

D. God

884. When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ?
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A. 1637

B. 1645

C. 1628

D. 1649
885. John Miltons LAllegro and Il Penseroso are companion poems and are both written in ?
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A. iambic pentameter

B. heroic couplets

C. tetrameter couplets

D. Shakespearean sonnets

886. Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium ?
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A. Mulciber

B. Mammon

C. Belial

D. Moloch

887. In the tragic history of Doctor Faustus. Faustus was a ?
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A. Greek scholar

B. German scholar

C. French scholar

D. Spanish scholar

888. Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in ?
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A. About 1608

B. About 1611

C. About 1609

D. About 1610
889. In Paradise regained who regained the paradise ?
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A. Jesus

B. Only Adam

C. Adam and Eve

D. Satan

890. Which of the following is not found in Hell ?
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A. Gold

B. Oil

C. Minerals

D. Gems

891. The first sonnet form invented was the____________?
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A. Shakespearean

B. Petrarchan

C. Wordsworthian

D. first sonnet form invented was the

E. Spenserian

892. What is the meaning of Miltons work Samson Agonistes ?
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A. Wrestler

B. Theist

C. Antagonist

D. Atheist

893. William Shakespeare was______________ child of John and Mary?
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A. third

B. fifth

C. second

D. fourth
894. After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?
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A. four

B. five

C. two

D. three

895. Utopia was first printed in ?
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A. 1516

B. 1518

C. 1517

D. 1615

896. Which of the following monarchs was restored to the British throne during the Restoration ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Charles III

C. Charles I

D. Charles II
897. In the demonic council of Book Two of Paradise Regained, who proposes that Satan should tempt Jesus with lust for a beautiful woman the way Solomon was tempted ?
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A. Venus

B. Belial

C. Beelzebub

D. Satan

898. Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in_____________?
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A. 1596

B. 1597

C. 1595

D. 1598

899. On his blindness, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
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A. Sir Philip Sidney

B. John Milton

C. Shakespeare

D. Edmund Spenser

900. What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ?
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A. Homer, Virgil, and Spenser

B. Gilgamesh, Petrarch, and Dryden

C. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Spenser

D. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser