MC QU

1. Sir Philip Sidney was born in.....
A. 1554 ✔
B. 1564
C. 1607
D. 1545

2. ........... was known as the English Petrarch.
A. Sir Philip Sidney ✔
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Michael Drayton
D. Christopher Marlowe

3. Which of the following work is not belongs to Sir Philip Sidney?
A. Arcadia
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. Ideas Mirrour ✔
D. A Defence of Poesie

4. 'Astrophel and Stella' consist of ......
A. 108 sonnets and 18 songs
B.108 sonnets and 11 songs ✔
C. 101 sonnets and 18 songs
D. 118 sonnets and 11 songs

5. The work 'Astrophel and Stella' addressed to
A. King Edward VI
B. Queen Elizabeth
C. Edward Spencer
D. Panelope Devereaux✔

6. Who is called as "The Poet's Poet"?
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Edmund Spenser ✔
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. William Shakespeare

 7. Who called Edmund Spenser as "The Poet's Poet "?
A. Dr. Jonson
B. John Dryden
C. Charles Lamb✔
D. Mathew Arnold

8. Which of the following work of Edmund Spenser is a great moral allegory that propagates human virtues and values that makes man's life worth living?
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. Faerie Queen✔
C. Amoretti
D. None of these

9. Edmund Spenser outdid Petrarch in sonneteering  as seen in  his .........
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. Faerie Queen
C. Amoretti ✔
D. None of these

10. ..............was the first sonnet sequence in English
A. Edmund Spenser's Amoretti ✔
B. Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
C. Samuel Daniel's Delia
D. None of the above

 11. Who is considered as "The most talented of pre-Shakespeareans"?
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Christopher Marlowe ✔
D. None of the above

 12. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander  is a mythological poem consisting of ...........lines.
A. 818 lines✔
B. 118 lines
C. 881 lines
D. 811 lines

13. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an .....
A. complaint
B. Stichomythia
C. Epyllion✔
D. Pasturelle

14. Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander was an unfinished poem completed by after his death by
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Phineas Fletcher
C. George Chapman ✔
D. None of the above

15. Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents ....

A.Catholic Church
B.Queen Elizabeth ✔
C.Mary, Queen of Scots
D.Anne Boleyn

16.Eight iambic pentameter lines followed by an alexandrine is called ....
A.Rime Royal
B.Ottava Rima
C.Sonnet
D.Spenserian stanza✔

 17.Which of the following is a Christian humanistic epic?
A.The Faerie Queene ✔
B.Aeneid
C.Paradise Lost
D.Prometheus Bound