Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Philip Sidney wrote Arcadia………
a. in the form of the short story
b. in the form of fiction
c. in the form of farce
d. in the form of poetry
Q. The most important anti-dramatic book of Elizabethan period was………..
a. sidney’s apologie for poetrie
b. spenser’s the shepheards calendar
c. gosson’s school of abuse
d. donne’s pseudo-martyr
Q. Which of the following works was left unfinished by Christopher Marlowe?
a. the tragedy of dido, queen of carthage
b. the massacre at paris
c. edward ii
d. none of these
Q. Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella brought out in 1591 is
a. a sequence of 108 sonnets
b. a sequence of 208 sonnets
c. a sequence of 350 sonnects
d. a sequence of 1350 sonnects.
Q. Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella is inspired by ……….
a. penelope devereux
b. sir walter railegh
c. phillipe de mornay
d. none of these
Q. In Astrophel and Stella, Astrophel has a name……..
a. star-love
b. star-king
c. star-heaven
d. none of these
Q. Shakespeare wrote his poem Venus and Adonis in a pattern of
a. six-line stanzas
b. seven-line stanzas
c. eight-line stanzas
d. ten-line stanzas
Q. The name of Shakespeare’s birth place is ……….
a. stratford-on avon
b. stratford down-avon
c. winchester avon
d. somerset-avon
Q. Who affirmed that Shakespeare knew “small Latin and less Greek”?
a. ben jonson
b. francis beaumont
c. thomas heywood
d. john webster
Q. In 1609, a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets was printed by
a. thomas thorpe
b. ben jonson
c. john shakespeare
d. john marston
Q. Shakespeare played the roles of Adam and Ghost in his plays
a. as you like it and hamlet respectively.
b. much ado about nothing and hamlet respectively.
c. measure for measure and king lear respectively.
d. as you like it and king henry v respectively.
Q. Which is the Last Play written by Shakespeare?
a. tempest
b. henry viii (in parts
c. the winter’s tale
d. cymbeline
Q. Shakespeare borrowed the plot for his ‘The Comedy of Errors’ from
a. gargantua by rabelais
b. metamorphoses by ovid
c. menaechmi by plautus
d. none of these
Q. Shakespeare borrowed the formula of Romantic Comedy from
a. george peele
b. john lyly
c. robert greene
d. aristophanes