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1 AKSHIIRAA COACHING CENTRE POLYTECHNIC TRB EXAM (English only) for the post of Lecturers in Government Polytechnic colleges SALIENT FEATURES Well Trained Professor Excellent Coaching Unit wise Materials Model Exams All Previous TRB Questions Website: Contact: Website: Mobile:

2 Unit Test I Chaucer to Shakespeare Time: 1 Hour Marks: 50 1) The woman often referred to in Shakespeare s sonnets is known as the. A) Queen Elizabeth B) Duchess C) Dark lady D) Anne Hathaway 2) Who said Bacon is the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind? A) Pope B) Arnold C) Eliot D) Dryden 3) Marlowe s Doctor Faustus is based on a story. A) German B) French C) Roman D) Italian 4) Will falls into dream-within-a-dream, about the whose gardener is Piers the Plowman. A) Tree of Knowledge B) Tree of Charity C) Tree of Wise D) Tree of Honour 2 Website: Mobile:

3 5) Which of the following statements best describe the narrative perspective employed in Thomas More s Utopia? I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday The right combination according to the code is A) I and III B) II and IV C) II and III D) I and II 6) Who calls Chaucer a well of the English undefiled? A) Thomas Malory B) Thomas Occleve C) John Lydgate D) Edmund Spenser 7) Thomas More s Utopia was originally written in A) Greek B) Latin C) French D) Gothic 8) Marlowe wrote the fragmentary poem Hero and Leander and it was completed by A) Thomas Kyd B) John Webster C) George Chapman D) Thomas Lodge 3 Website: Mobile:

4 9) Spenser s Astrophel is an pastoral elegy on the death of A) Raleigh B) Sidney C) Earl of Leicester D) Rosalind 10) How did Claudius murder King Hamlet? A) By stabbing him through an arras B) By pouring poison into his ear C) By ordering him to be hanged D) By poisoning his wineglass 11) What is the name of the "conjuror" brought along by Antipholus of Ephesus's friends in order to exorcise his supposed "demons"? A) Dr Smack B) Dr Pinch C) Dr Squash D) Dr Squeeze 12) Which of the following is not advice of Bacon to the present-day traveler? A) keep a diary B) rely on a guide book C) learn the language D) keep company of fellow countrymen 13) What is the name of Vittoria's maid? A) Cariola B) Isabella C) Zanche D) Cornelia 4 Website: Mobile:

5 14) What is the other title of Chaucer's long poem The Book of the Duchess? A) The Knight's Dream B) The Dreame of Blanche C) The Dreame of Chaucer D) Chaucer's Consciousness 15) Identify the correctly matched group: List I List II i. Hebe 1. The God of Marriage ii. Hymen 2. The God of Wine iii. Bacchus 3. The Goddess of Youth iv. Cynthia 4. The Goddess of Moon Codes: i ii iii iv (A) (B) (C) (D) ) Langland s Piers the Plowman contains a number of historical events. Which of the following is not included in it? A) The murder of Edward II B) The Treaty of Bretigny C) The accession of Richard II D) Norman Conquest 17) According to Shakespeare, the youth s love is better than high social status, more valuable than wealth, more worth being proud of than expensive clothes, and more enjoyable than A) cat and rabbit B) hawks or horses C) dogs and goats D) lions and elephants 5 Website: Mobile:

6 18) The play Volpone is a merciless satire of A) love and marriage B) war and destruction C) greed and lust D) adventure and travel 19) In Thomas More s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians? A) Music B) Public lectures C) Conversation D) Dicing and cards 20) Complete the statement: A great and potent addeth majesty to a monarch, but diminisheth power; and putteth life and spirit into the people, but presseth their fortune A) nobility B) ambition C) wealth D) dignity 21) What is the first vision that William Langland saw in Piers the Plowman? A) The Vision of Seven Deadly Sins B) The Vision of a Field Full of Folks C) The Vision of Lady Bribery D) The Vision of Man s Moral and Spiritual Life 22) What is the court's verdict on Lodovico in The White Devil? A) He is to be executed B) He is to pay a fine C) He is to receive money D) He is to be banished 6 Website: Mobile:

7 23) Volpone fakes his own death but disguises himself as A) a merchant B) a police officer C) a woman D) an Englishman 24) Under which Act was St. Thomas More called to take an oath but he refused? A) Freedom of Religion Act B) Human Rights Act C) The Supremacy Act D) Arms Act c 25) John Webster is called as dramatist. A) Elizabethan B) Puritan C) Jacobean D) Restoration 26) Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied? A) Paris B) Oxford C) Constantinople D) Wittenberg 27) What book does the narrator of The Book of the Duchess use to help his insomnia? A) Ovid's Metamorphoses B) The Bible C) Roman de la Rose D) The Tale of Seys and Alcyone 7 Website: Mobile:

8 28) Who is the King Henry s Lord Chancellor and chief adviser in the play Henry VIII? A) Wolsey B) Buckingham C) Campeius D) Norfolk 29) Which of the following plays was not written by Ben Jonson? A) Every Man in His Humour B) The Massacre at Paris C) Volpone, or The Fox D) The Alchemist 30) Complete the following line : For as the is daily new and old, So is my love still telling what is told A) Earth B) Moon C) Sun D) Mars 31) After Faustus finishes signing the contract, two Latin words appear inscribed on his arm: Homo fuge. What is the translation of these words? A) Fly, man B) Property of devil C) Thou art damned D) Empty soul 32) Who says Frailty thy name is woman? A) Horatio B) Claudius C) Ophelia D) Hamlet 8 Website: Mobile:

9 33) Bacon s Essays are modeled on the Essais of.. A) Virgil B) Aristophanes C) Montaigne D) Plato 34) Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight is a line that occurs in A) Hamlet B) The White Devil C) Dr. Faustus D) Volphone 35) For what is the phrase The Mousetrap used by Shakespeare in Hamlet? A) Hamlet s tragic flaw B) The ghost of Hamlet s father C) The play within the play in Hamlet D) Hamlet s Conscience 36) Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in. These lines occurs in A) Chaucer s The Book of Duchess B) Shakespeare s Sonnet No 116 C) Shakespeare s Love s Labour Lost D) Spenser s Epithalamion 37) Who blesses Theseus and Hippolyta with a magical charm at the end of the play A Mid Summer Night s Dream? A) Puck and Snout B) Oberon and Puck C) Titania and Snout D) Oberon and Titania 9 Website: Mobile:

10 38) What is the intention of the "little academe" in Love s Labour s Lost? A) To form a new monastery B) To focus on learning and thinking C) To study astronomy D) To consider how to revise the school system 39) Webster s The White Devil is a A) revenge tragedy B) comedy of humour C) comedy of manners D) Tragic-Comdey 40) Which was Shakespeare's main source for "The Comedy of Errors"? A) Holinshed Chronicles B) Plutarch s Lives C) Plautus s Menaechmi D) Terence s Andria 41) How is Mosca referred to throughout the play Volpone? A) Parasite B) Raven C) Crow D) Pest 42) Which of the following is not a university wit? A) Marlowe B) Ben Jonson C) George Peele D) Robert Greene 10 Website: Mobile:

11 43) Who said, Shakespeare has only heroines, and no heroes? A) Mathew Arnold B) Ben Jonson C) Dr. Johnson D) Ruskin Bond 44) Dumaine falls in love with A) Katherine B) Maria C) The Princess D) Rosaline 45) In Epithalamion, Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with A) Rosalind B) Lady Elizabeth C) Lady Katherine D) Elizabeth Boyle 46) For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. These lines occur in A) Of Love B) Of Friendship C) Of Truth D) Of Travel 47) Which of the following characters is the servant of Faustus? A) Robin B) Ralph C) Valdes D) Wagner 11 Website: Mobile:

12 48) A classical influence on Ben Jonson s Volpone is A) Juvenal B) Horace C) Ovid D) Aristophanes 49) Shakespeare s Sonnets were published together in...by Thomas Thrope. A) 1606 B) 1609 C) 1611 D) ) Identify the correctly matched group: List I (Play) List II (Setting) i. The Comedy of Errors 1. Athens ii. A Midsummer s Night s Dream 2. London iii. Hamlet 3. Ephesus iv. Henry VIII 4. Navarre v. Love s Labour s Lost 5. Denmark Codes: i ii iii iv v (A) (B) (C) (D) Website: Mobile:

English Literature 1 SEMESTER 2 Session 2018/2019

9 January 2019 English Literature 1 SEMESTER 2 Session 2018/2019 MODULE TWO: Literature and the literary: c. 1300-1700 Unless otherwise stated, all texts can be found in the Norton Anthology of English