Top 50+ Solved Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare MCQ Questions Answer

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Q. Shakespeare’s drama reflects

a. life

b. nature

c. chaos

d. order

  • a. life

Q. The object of all criticism according to Johnson is to make the obscure and theconfused

a. clear and understood

b. focused and precise

c. unobscured

d. orderly

  • a. clear and understood

Q. Johnson tries Shakespeare by the test of

a. Coherence and cogence

b. relevance and contemporariness

c. relativity, clarity and imaginativity

d. time, Nature and Universality

  • d. time, Nature and Universality

Q. Shakespeare’s characters portrays

a. humanity

b. nature

c. art

d. truth

  • a. humanity

Q. Who is the 'father of English poetry', the well of English undefiled according toArnold?

a. Milton

b. Dante

c. Shakespeare

d. Chaucer

  • d. Chaucer

Q. Samuel Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the

a. comedy

b. tragedy

c. tragi-comedy

d. none of the above

  • c. tragi-comedy

Q. The defect or fault in Shakespeare according to Johnson is that

a. He sacrifices virtue to convenience

b. He is so much more careful to please than to instruct

c. He seems to write without any moral purpose.

d. All of the above

  • a. He sacrifices virtue to convenience

Q. Johnson said that Shakespeare showed no regard to

a. The unity of time and place

b. The unity of action

c. Characterization

d. Poetic language

  • a. The unity of time and place

Q. According to Johnson what type of drama did Shakespeare write with much labour?

a. Comedy

b. Tragedy

c. Tragi-comedy

d. None of the above

  • b. Tragedy

Q. Samuel Johnson was a writer of the

a. 17th Century

b. 18th Century

c. 19th Century

d. 20th Century

  • b. 18th Century

Q. Johnson said that Shakespeare often surpassed expectation or desire when he wrote

a. Comedy

b. tragedy

c. Tragi-comedy

d. All of the above

  • a. Comedy

Q. In Preface to Shakespeare, Johnson defended Shakespeare’s use of _________.

a. tragic-comedy

b. tragedy

c. comedy

d. None of the above

  • a. tragic-comedy
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