Quiz 2 - UGC NET/JRF English
(a) Terence
(b) Catullus
(c) Plotinus
(d) Horace
2. Who was the leader of the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381?
(a) Guy Fawkes
(b) Vat Tyler
(c) William Wallace
(d) John Wyclif
3. How many works did Caxton translate into English?
(a) 20
(b) 27
(c) 16
(d) 24
4. The Old Testament and the New Testament were originally written in which
languages?
(a) Hebrew and Greek
(b) Hebrew and Latin
(c) Hebrew and Hebrew
(d) Greek and Latin
5. What was the name of Marlowe’s theatrical company?
(a) Lord Admiral’s Men
(b) Lord Chamberlain’s Men
(c) King’s Men
(d) Queen’s Men
6. Which printer and translator wrote The Game and the Play of Chess?
(a) Lord Berners
(b) William Caxton
(c) John Skelton
(d) Gavin Douglas
7. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs which is a record of the killings of Queen Mary?
(a) George Meredith
(b) Richard Hooker
(c) Izaak Walton
(d) George Foxe
8. The House of Life is a collection of 101 sonnets by which19th c painter/poet?
(a) William Blake
(b) A. C. Swinburne
(c) D. G. Rossetti
(d) William Morris
9. Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man was a reply to __________
(a) Leviathan
(b) A View of the Present State of Ireland
(c) The Wounds of Civil War
(d) Reflections on the French Revolution
10. Which of Kipling’s poems is written in Cockney dialect?
(a) White Man’s Burden
(b) Puck of Pook’s Hill
(c) If
(d) Fuzzy Wuzzy
11. Marmion is a collection of poems by which 19 th century novelist?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) George Eliot
12. The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biography of Michelangelo, was written by __________.
(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) Oliver Goldsmith
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Irving Stone
13. From which language did John Wyclif translate the Bible?
(a) Latin Vulgate
(b) Hebrew
(c) Greek
(d) Old English
14. The Augustan author whose life was like a Marlovian tragedy.
(a) Dryden
(b) Pope
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) John Gay
15. In which year did Tagore win the Nobel Prize?
(a) 1919
(b) 1920
(c) 1913
(d) 1916
16. Which is the first English prose‐comedy?
(a) Ralph Roister Doister
(b) Supposes
(c) Gammar Gurton’s Needle
(d) Richard II
17. Robert Markham is the pseudonym of which angry young man?
(a) John Osborne
(b) Kingsley Amis
(c) Allan Sillitoe
(d) Colin Wilson
18. Which modernist novel opens with the chapter “1880”?
(a) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(b) To the Lighthouse
(c) The Years
(d) Tin Drum
19. Who wrote the work of verse criticism Illusion and Reality?
(a) I.A. Richards
(b) Palgrave
(c) Cleanth Brooks
(d) Christopher Caudwell
20. Which Elizabethan/ Jacobean writer wrote the comedy The Devil is an Ass?
(a) Webster
(b) Jonson
(c) Marston
(d) Fletcher
21. There were _________ members in the Pre‐Raphaelite Brotherhood.
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
22. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the last unfinished work of which Victorian
novelist?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) William Makepeace Thackeray
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) George Eliot
23. Who co‐authored the tragedy Dido Queen of Carthage along with Marlowe?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Thomas Nashe
(c) Thomas Kyd
(d) George Peele
24. Who authored the novel Endymion?
(a) John Keats
(b) Anthony Trollope
(c) Graham Greene
(d) Benjamin Disraeli
25. Who wrote the essay collection The English Comic Writers?
(a) William Hazlitt (b) Charles Lamb
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Richard Brinsley Sheridan1.
(c) Plotinus
Answers:
2. (b) Vat Tyler
3. (d) 24
4. (a) Hebrew and Greek
5. (a) Lord Admiral’s Men
6. (b) William Caxton
7. (d) George Foxe
8. (c) D.G. Rossetti
9. (d) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution
10. (d) “Fuzzy Wuzzy“
11. (b) Walter Scott
12. (d) Irving Stone
13. (a) Latin Vulgate
14. (c) Jonathan Swift
15. (c) 1913.
16. (b) George Gascoigne’s Supposes
17. (b) Kingsley Amis
18. (c) The Years by Virginia Woolf
19. (d) Christopher Caudwell
20. (b) Ben Jonson
21. (c) 7
22. (c) Charles Dickens
23. (b) Thomas Nashe
24. (d) Benjamin Disraeli
25. (a) William Hazlitt
