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Social and Cultural History of Britain | Set 2

1. Who was Founder of the Hannoverian dynasty?

Correct : C. george i

2. Whose accession marked the beginning of Hanoverian Dynasty in England?

Correct : A. george i

3. Who was considered the first "prime minister’ of England?

Correct : D. robert walpole

4. …………..was actually the child of the American War of Independence.

Correct : A. the french revolution of 1789

5. Who was the leader of the American War of Independence?

Correct : D. george washington

6. ‘Rights of Man’is the work of ……………

Correct : D. thomas paine

7. Who wrote ‘Reflexions on the Revolution’?

Correct : D. edmund burke

8. Who is the author of the “Age of Reason?”

Correct : D. thomas paine

9. French Revolution occurred in ……………

Correct : A. 1789

10. Who said “man is born free but everywhere he is in chains”?

Correct : D. rousseau

11. ………….’s Social Contract made a profound impact on the reading and thinking community of France.

Correct : D. rousseau

12. The ………….mob stormed the Bastille (the state Prison) and all the prisoners were set free.

Correct : D. paris

13. The Peninsular War was the last of the wars the English fought against …………………

Correct : A. napolean bonoparte

14. At the Battle of Waterloo ………. in Napolean was completely crushed by the Duke of Wellington.

Correct : A. 1815

15. On 21 January 1793, ……….was executed and the Jacobins set up a dictatorship through the Committee of Public Safety.

Correct : A. louis xvi

16. ……………….. wrote ‘The French Revolution: A History’,

Correct : A. thomas carlyle

17. Who wrote ‘The History of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire’?

Correct : A. edward gibbon

18. ………'s longest poem, THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, appeared in 1749.

Correct : A. johnson

19. Who wrote 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798?

Correct : A. william wordsworth

20. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a famous poem of ……………..

Correct : A. samuel taylor coleridge

21. Sense and Sensibility is the novel of …………..

Correct : A. austen

22. Who wrote the novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’?

Correct : A. austen

23. The Black Death was …….

Correct : C. the terrible plague bringing poverty and unrest.

24. King Richard II Succeeded to the Crown in ………

Correct : A. 1377

25. Chaucer’s The Romaunt of the Rose is

Correct : B. a lengthy allegorical poem

26. Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer’s long poem adopted from …….

Correct : D. boccaccio

27. Chaucer’s poem ‘The House of Fame’ is written in …….

Correct : B. octosyllabic couplet

28. Chaucer’s first attempt in English to use the heroic couplet occurs in which of the following poems.

Correct : C. the legend of good women

29. The pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of ……..

Correct : C. st. thomas a becket

30. Chaucer virtually imported the decasyllabic lines in his poetry from ………

Correct : A. france

31. Chaucerian seven-line stanza in English poetry is also known as …………

Correct : C. rime royale

32. The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its ……

Correct : A. urbanity

33. The Hundred Years’ War was originated in

Correct : A. the conquest of 1066.

34. The sole cause of the Hundred Years’ War was ………

Correct : A. the commercial rivalry between france and england.

35. The Statute of Labourers was enacted in English in ……..

Correct : D. 1351

36. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is also called ……….

Correct : A. tyler’s rebellion

37. The Peasants’ Revolt was based on the theory of democracy and socialism of whose text ………..

Correct : A. wat tyler

38. Who are called Lollards?

Correct : B. john wyclif and his followers

39. Who is called the real originator of European Protestantism?

Correct : A. john wyclife

40. John Wyclif is called………………

Correct : A. the morning star of reformation.

41. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a literary form of enclosing a number of tales within one narrative is ……..

Correct : A. oriental in origin.

42. In Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims started a sixty-mile ride to Canterbury in the month of …….

Correct : B. april

43. In Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, who amongst the following characters told the first tale on their way to Canterbury………..

Correct : C. knight

44. The last tale told by Parson on the last day of pilgrimage in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales was a prose sermon on ………

Correct : A. penintence, with emphasis upon the seven sins.

45. The War of the Roses took place during the period …….

Correct : B. 1455 – 1485

46. The War of the Roses is a thirty-year struggle between the houses of ……….

Correct : D. lancaster and york.

47. The fifteenth century is traditionally described as…….

Correct : A. the barren period of english literature.

48. Who was imprisoned for participation in the War of the Roses?

Correct : D. sir thomas malory

49. Who was led to imprisonment in 1534 for his refusal to accept the Act of Supremacy?

Correct : C. sir thomas more

50. Utopia is a fine description of “Imaginative Ideal State” written by

Correct : D. sir thomas more

51. Who succeeded Wyclife as a Leader of Lollard Movement?

Correct : B. john purvey

52. W.H. Hudson’s statement “essentially the poet of the people” reveals the personality of ……….

Correct : A. william langland

53. What was the name of Edmund Spenser’s father?

Correct : D. john spenser

54. Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion is ………..

Correct : C. a nuptial hymn modelled upon the catullan form, influenced by the italian or provencal canzone.

55. Who was apostrophized by Shakespeare in As You Like It?

Correct : C. christopher marlowe

56. What is the period of Queen Elizabeth’s reign?

Correct : D. 1558 – 1603

57. Humanism is a term ……….

Correct : A. strictly applies to the revival of interest in the classic literature of greece and rome.

58. Sir Thomas More’s Utopia is …….

Correct : B. a political essay-romance describing an imaginary commonwealth.

59. What is the meaning of Utopia?

Correct : A. “no place” in greek language.

60. The chief characteristic of the Renaissance was ………

Correct : A. its emphasis on humanism

61. Philip Sidney wrote Arcadia………

Correct : A. in the form of the short story

62. The most important anti-dramatic book of Elizabethan period was………..

Correct : C. gosson’s school of abuse

63. Which of the following works was left unfinished by Christopher Marlowe?

Correct : B. the massacre at paris

64. Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella brought out in 1591 is

Correct : A. a sequence of 108 sonnets

65. Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella is inspired by ……….

Correct : A. penelope devereux

66. In Astrophel and Stella, Astrophel has a name……..

Correct : A. star-love

67. Stella means ………..

Correct : A. star

68. Shakespeare wrote his poem Venus and Adonis in a pattern of

Correct : A. six-line stanzas

69. The name of Shakespeare’s birth place is ……….

Correct : A. stratford-on avon

70. Who affirmed that Shakespeare knew “small Latin and less Greek”?

Correct : A. ben jonson

71. In 1609, a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets was printed by

Correct : A. thomas thorpe

72. Shakespeare played the roles of Adam and Ghost in his plays

Correct : A. as you like it and hamlet respectively.

73. Which is the Last Play written by Shakespeare?

Correct : B. henry viii (in parts

74. Shakespeare borrowed the plot for his ‘The Comedy of Errors’ from

Correct : C. menaechmi by plautus

75. Shakespeare borrowed the formula of Romantic Comedy from

Correct : C. robert greene

76. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night also has a little

Correct : C. what you will?

77. Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well is called a

Correct : C. a problem comedy

78. Who has been called England’s “National Homer”?

Correct : C. richard hakluyt

79. Renaissance means…………

Correct : B. tthe revival of learning

80. The chief characteristic of the Renaissance was its………..

Correct : B. emphasis on humanism

81. What was the name of Shakespeare’s father?

Correct : C. john shakespeare

82. What was the name of Shakespeare’s mother?

Correct : C. mary arden

83. The private theatres in Elizabethan period were designed on the model of ………….

Correct : B. the guild halls

84. In Elizabethan theatres there was a jester to dance between the acts ………

Correct : C. to keep up the spirits of the audience

85. In which of the following tragedies did Shakespeare act a part?

Correct : D. sejanus his fall

86. Who is regarded as “the first great English Neolithic-Classicist”?

Correct : A. ben jonson

87. When was the Tudor Dynasty brought to close?

Correct : B. by the death of elizabeth in 1603.

88. Who amongst the following prose writers was appointed tutor to Queen Elizabeth and Latin secretary to Queen Mary?

Correct : A. roger ascham

89. The Phrase Jacobean Drama is related to ……….

Correct : B. the drama of the age of james i

90. Who is called the originator of the “Comedy of Manners”?

Correct : B. william congreve

91. Ben Jonson is famous for his Comedy of Humours; William Congreve is known today for his……….

Correct : C. comedy of manners

92. Puritanism was a reaction against …………

Correct : C. the excesses of the post- shakespearean dramatists and the reaction the theaters were closed in 1642.

93. John Milton’s Lycidas (1637) is an elegy on ……..

Correct : B. his friend edward king

94. Milton was educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where his delicate features earned him the name of

Correct : C. “the lady of christ’s”

95. In his “Every Man out of His Humour” Ben Jonson attacked which of the following contemporary dramatists.

Correct : B. john marston

96. Thomas Hobbes wrote ……..

Correct : D. leviathan (1651

97. The age of Milton has been called ……..

Correct : A. “the golden age of the english pulpit”

98. During the Age of Milton, Drama was ………..

Correct : C. declined

99. Queen Elizabeth belonged to ……….

Correct : B. tudor dynasty

100. King Charles I dissolved the Parliament in 1640 is known as …..

Correct : D. short parliament