Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Ben Jonson is famous for his Comedy of Humours; William Congreve is known today forhis……….
a. comedy of ideas
b. comedy of intrigue
c. comedy of manners
d. comedy of errors
Q. Puritanism was a reaction against …………
a. the renaissance advocacy and admittance of strict rules.
b. the thematic devices used by the elizabethan dramatists.
c. the excesses of the post- shakespearean dramatists and the reaction the theaters were closed in 1642.
d. both a & b.
Q. John Milton’s Lycidas (1637) is an elegy on ……..
a. king james i
b. his friend edward king
c. his first wife
d. his father
Q. Milton was educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where his delicate features earned himthe name of
a. “the delicate flower of christ’s”
b. “the incarnation of christ’s”
c. “the lady of christ’s”
d. “exotic fruit of eden”
Q. In his “Every Man out of His Humour” Ben Jonson attacked which of the followingcontemporary dramatists.
a. john webster
b. john marston
c. philip bourke marston
d. cyril tourneur
Q. Thomas Hobbes wrote ……..
a. gondibert (1650
b. the history of holy war (1639
c. holy dying (1651
d. leviathan (1651
Q. The age of Milton has been called ……..
a. “the golden age of the english pulpit”
b. the era of mythological lyrics
c. the age of lyrics
d. the era of pastoral poetry
Q. During the Age of Milton, Drama was ………..
a. refused by the people
b. developed to the peak
c. declined
d. making gradual progress to enrich the standards.
Q. Queen Elizabeth belonged to ……….
a. lancastrian dynasty
b. tudor dynasty
c. hanoverian dynasty
d. stuart
Q. King Charles I dissolved the Parliament in 1640 is known as …..
a. long parliament
b. dissolute parliament
c. irresolute parliament
d. short parliament
Q. The Royalists in the Age of Milton are also called as ……..
a. reformists
b. cavaliers
c. intellectualists
d. brilliant buds
Q. Oliver Cromwell under an adopted written constitution assumed the title of
a. lord protector of england, scotland, and ireland
b. lord protector of scotland
c. king of england and ireland
d. duke of england
Q. In whose favour the Parliament voted to restore the Monarchy after Cromwell’s death in1658……..
a. george i
b. charles i
c. charles ii
d. charles iii
Q. John Milton wrote ‘Paradise Lost’ ……..
a. immediately after shakespeare’s death
b. after king charles ii’s restoration*
c. during commonwealth period
d. before the commonwealth
Q. Who applied first the epithet “Augustan”?
a. john donne
b. john milton
c. john dryden
d. dr. samuel johnson