1. The Royalists in the Age of Milton are also called as ……..
Correct : B. cavaliers
2. Oliver Cromwell under an adopted written constitution assumed the title of
Correct : A. lord protector of england, scotland, and ireland
3. In whose favour the Parliament voted to restore the Monarchy after Cromwell’s death in
1658……..
Correct : C. charles ii
4. John Milton wrote ‘Paradise Lost’ ……..
Correct : B. after king charles ii’s restoration*
5. Who applied first the epithet “Augustan”?
Correct : D. dr. samuel johnson
6. On the accession of James II in 1685, Dryden changed his faith and political persuasion and
became ……….
Correct : B. a roman catholic
7. In Dryden’s famous satirical allegory Absalom and Achitophel…… Absalom is ……..
Correct : A. the duck of monmouth
8. Dryden wrote which of the following in celebration of Charles II’s return ………..
Correct : C. astraea
9. Dryden’s Religio Laici is ………
Correct : B. a thesis in support of the english church.
10. Which is Dryden’s first play?
Correct : A. the wild gallant
11. Elizabethan Romanticism had all but spent itself by the year……
Correct : D. 1660
12. The Dryden’s School of Poetry is also called as………
Correct : A. the “correct” school
13. Which is the last rhyming tragedy written by John Dryden?
Correct : D. aureng-zebe
14. John Dryden’s ‘The Indian Emperor’ appeared in 1665 is a …….
Correct : C. the heroic play
15. The Restoration Period was less rich in tragedy than in ……..
Correct : B. comedy
16. Oliver Cromwell under an adopted constitution assumed the title of ……….
Correct : A. lord protector of england
17. In whose favour the Parliament voted to restore the Monarchy after Cromwell’s death in
1658?
Correct : C. charles ii
18. Who held the post in Government Administration during The Commonwealth?
Correct : B. john milton
19. Who inspired John Milton to portray the rebel in his epic Paradise Lost?
Correct : C. oliver cromwell
20. Who described Restoration Comedy as “artificial”?
Correct : B. charles lamb
21. The Act of Settlement was passed in 1701 during the reign of ……
Correct : B. queen anne
22. The Age of Pope is known as ……..
Correct : A. the age of tolerance, moderation, and common sense.
23. Who is best known as the founder of the Tatler and the Spectator?
Correct : B. sir richard steele
24. Dr. Johnson’s claim to be called a first-rate writer rests on his……….
Correct : D. prose works
25. Which of the following is Oliver Goldsmith’s first poem?
Correct : B. the traveller
26. ‘Decline and fall of the Roman Empire’ is written by ……..
Correct : C. edward gibbon
27. ‘The Spectator’ discussed moral and social questions, whereas ‘The Tatler’ discussed ……….
Correct : A. the gossip, news and literary essays
28. Who is characteristically known as a Realistic Romanticist?
Correct : A. walter scott
29. Which term Alexander Pope used for a literary technique of Romanticists?
Correct : C. “nature methodised”
30. In 1789, the year of the French Revolution, William Blake issued his ……….
Correct : C. songs of innocence
31. Which of the following works of Wordsworth was completed on 1805 but not published until
1850?
Correct : C. the prelude
32. S.T. Coleridge, while residing in the Lake District, in 1809 started the magazine ……..
Correct : A. the friend
33. Lord Byron wrote all his plays in ……….
Correct : C. the blank verse
34. The Necessity of Atheism, an extra-ordinary pamphlet caused whom to be expelled from
Oxford?
Correct : C. percy bysshe shelley
35. Who preached in his poetry “the human perceptibility and emancipation of the spirit”?
Correct : D. p.b. shelley
36. Point out the kingdom ruled by Alfred, the Great.
Correct : D. wessex
37. Name the document that mentions about the origin of feudalism:
Correct : B. domesday book
38. The founder of the Tudor Monarchy was:
Correct : A. henry vii
39. The leader of the Reformation Movement in Scotland was:
Correct : B. john knox
40. The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from
20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January........................
Correct : D. 1901
41. The phrase Social Darwinism was first used in..............................
Correct : D. 1887
42. Social Darwinism was the name given to the theories of......................, an elitist
philosopher.
Correct : A. Herbert Spencer
43. ......................coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” and this was the essence of
his thought on society.
Correct : A. Herbert Spencer
44. ..................... justified the mass murder of the Jewish people during World War II as
purging inferior genetics.
Correct : A. Adolf Hitler
45. Matthew Arnold is one of the great social voices of the ...................era.
Correct : A. Victorian
46. .......................... wrote his autobiography Apologia (1865–66).
Correct : A. John Henry Newman
47. ...................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to the
Holiest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).
Correct : A. John Henry Newman
48. ................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
Correct : A. John Clare
49. .................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of
the most popular British poets.
Correct : A. Alfred Tennyson
50. ................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The
Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar".
Correct : D. Alfred Tennyson
51. ...................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic
monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Correct : B. Robert Browning
52. ’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry penned
by........................, which was published in 1849.
Correct : A. Matthew Arnold
53. .....................published ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems’ (1852) and
‘Poems: A New Edition’ (1853
Correct : D. Matthew Arnold
54. Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, which
includes ‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869).
Correct : B. Matthew Arnold
55. The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of
............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
Correct : A. England
56. The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its
series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.
Correct : D. Oxford
57. ..................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas
of liberty and equality.
Correct : B. Liberalism
58. ...................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditary
privilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.
Correct : A. Liberalism
59. The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with founding
liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition.
Correct : C. Swinburne c) John Lock
60. ................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick
Papers.
Correct : C. Charles Dickens's
61. .................. was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous for
his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Correct : C. William Makepeace Thackeray
62. In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor to
Fraser’s Magazine.
Correct : A. Thackeray
63. During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed him
in the first rank of novelists.
Correct : C. Thackeray
64. ..............., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the
leading writers of the Victorian era.
Correct : A. George Eliot
65. ....................is the author of Adam Bede (1859),
Correct : A. George Eliot
66. ..................... was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886),
Correct : C. Thomas Hardy
67. ..............................., was an American writer who spent most of his writing career
in Britain.
Correct : C. Henry James
68. ....................... is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis
of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.
Correct : A. Aestheticism
69. ........................ was humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a
cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.
Correct : A. Walter Horatio Pater
70. ................... began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo da
Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo,
Correct : A. Walter Horatio Pater
71. ........................ is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,
Correct : A. Oscar Wilde
72. ................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for
England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage.
Correct : A. Oscar Wilde
73. ............................ wrote Man and Superman
Correct : A. George Bernard Shaw
74. .................. wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost
30 years in the late 19th century.
Correct : A. Karl Marx
75. The Fabian Society, established in .........................in 1884,
Correct : D. London
76. ........................., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transition
to socialism based on humanist foundations.
Correct : A. Fabians
77. The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members,
Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics.
Correct : D. Hannibal’s
78. After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprived
and poor, the Liberal politician ....................identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain.
Correct : D. William Beveridge
79. .........................was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his
advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Correct : A. Thomas Henry Huxley
80. ................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895),
Correct : A. H. G. Wells’
81. ................ 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work,
Correct : A. E. M. Forster’s
82. .................... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961).
Correct : A. Arnold Joseph Toynbee
83. ........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the
episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles,
Correct : A. James Joyce
84. .................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues,"
Correct : A. Wystan Hugh Auden
85. .................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen EightyFour (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
Correct : A. George Orwell
86. ........................ is the process of international integration arising from the
interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.
Correct : D. Globalization
87. The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.
Correct : A. NWO
88. The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of the
Commonwealth.
Correct : A. Queen Elizabeth II
89. William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.
Correct : A. Bengal
90. Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march
1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India.
Correct : A. Lord William Bentinck
91. Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east India
Company's government in India since...........................
Correct : A. 1854
92. ................, the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, “India for the Indians”.
Correct : B. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
93. .................. famous book ‘Anand Math’, the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism,
provided very great inspiration to the people.
Correct : B. Bankim Chandra’s
94. ...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as
‘Maker of Modern India’ and ‘Father of Modern India’ and ‘Father of the Bengal Renaissance.’
Correct : A. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
95. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.
Correct : B. Kolkata
96. Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmonical Magazine,
the Sambad KaumudiandMirat-ul-Akbar.
Correct : A. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
97. ......................, Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.