PPSC English Literature Objective Type MCQs Test Important Question Answers 2017 Must Prepare Now
- Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career
- Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)
- Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380
- William Langland’s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in – 1362-90
- The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was published in – 1400
- The Hundred Years’ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century)
- The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France
- Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in – 1381
- The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster
- The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86
- Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485)
- Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1485
- Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)
- The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550 Nicholas Udall
- Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall
- The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561
- Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton
- Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in – 1557
- Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558
- Globe Theatre was built in – 1599
- The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602
- The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe
- Marlowe’s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587)
- Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays
- Dryden’s All for Love is based on Shakespeare’s – Antony and Cleopatra
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in – 1609
- The hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene is – King Arthur
- Spenser’s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth
- Spenser dedicated his Shephearde’s Calendar to – Philip Sydney
- John Lyly’s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was contemporary with – Shepheardes Calender.
- White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester
- Ben Jonson’s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598
- Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours
- Ben Jonson’s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair
- Bacon’s essays are written in – Aphoristic style
- Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays)
- Authorised version of the Bible – 1611
- The leader of Metaphysical School of Poets was – Henery Vaughan
- The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson
- The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau
- Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798
- The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti
- The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt
- The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble
- The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is associated with – James Joyce
- The Hero of Homer’s Iliad is – Achilles
- Pope’s Rape of the Lock contains – Five Cantos
- A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines
PPSC English Literature Objective Type MCQs Test Important Question Answers 2017 Must Prepare Now