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PPSC English Literature Objective Type MCQs Test Important Question Answers 2017 Must Prepare Now

PPSC English Literature Objective Type MCQs Test Important Question Answers 2017 Must Prepare Now

  1. Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
  2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards
  3. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career
  4. Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)
  5. Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380
  6. William Langland’s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in – 1362-90
  7. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was published in – 1400
  8. The Hundred Years’ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century)
  9. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France
  10. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in – 1381
  11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster
  12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86
  13. Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485)
  14. Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1485
  15. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)
  16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550 Nicholas Udall
  17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall
  18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561
  19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton
  20. Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in – 1557
  21. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558
  22. Globe Theatre was built in – 1599
  23. The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602
  24. The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe
  25. Marlowe’s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587)
  26. Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays
  27. Dryden’s All for Love is based on Shakespeare’s – Antony and Cleopatra
  28. Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in – 1609
  29. The hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene is – King Arthur
  30. Spenser’s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth
  31. Spenser dedicated his Shephearde’s Calendar to – Philip Sydney
  32. John Lyly’s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was contemporary with – Shepheardes Calender.
  33. White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester
  34. Ben Jonson’s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598
  35. Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours
  36. Ben Jonson’s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair
  37. Bacon’s essays are written in – Aphoristic style
  38. Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays)
  39. Authorised version of the Bible – 1611
  40. The leader of Metaphysical School of Poets was – Henery Vaughan
  41. The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson
  42. The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau
  43. Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798
  44. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti
  45. The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt
  46. The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble
  47. The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is associated with – James Joyce
  48. The Hero of Homer’s Iliad is – Achilles
  49. Pope’s Rape of the Lock contains – Five Cantos
  50. A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines

PPSC English Literature Objective Type MCQs Test Important Question Answers 2017 Must Prepare Now