Top 50+ Solved Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare MCQ Questions Answer
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
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
Q. Who is the 'father of English poetry', the well of English undefiled according toArnold?
a. Milton
b. Dante
c. Shakespeare
d. Chaucer
Q. Samuel Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the
a. comedy
b. tragedy
c. tragi-comedy
d. none of the above
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
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
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
Q. Samuel Johnson was a writer of the
a. 17th Century
b. 18th Century
c. 19th Century
d. 20th 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
Q. Samuel Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare was published in _________.
a. 1756
b. 1770
c. 1800
d. 1765
Q. In Preface to Shakespeare, Johnson defended Shakespeare’s use of _________.
a. tragic-comedy
b. tragedy
c. comedy
d. None of the above
Q. “Shakespeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul” was said by –
a. Samuel Johnson
b. Matthew Arnold
c. John Dryden
d. Boyle
Q. Johnson is of the opinion that Shakespeare writes without moral purpose and is morecareful to please than to ___________.
a. dictate
b. instruct
c. sacrifice
d. inform