Hons
3rd Sem
Paper-5
History
of English Literature and forms
Short type Questions
1. How many tales are there in The Canterburu?
Ans- 24 tales.
2. Name two titles of tales in The Canterbury Tales?
Ans- i. The Knight’s Tale, ii. The Wife of Bath’s Tale, iii. The Cook’s Tale
3. What is narrative poetry?
Ans- Narrative poetry is aform of poetry that tells a story in verse.
4. What is sonnet?
Ans- A sonnet is a one stanza, fourteen lines poem written in iambic pentameter.
5. From which word does the word sonnet coin?
Ans- Italian word ‘sonetto’ which means a little sound or song.
6. Name the two parts of Italian sonnet.
Ans- Octave(first eight lines) and Sestet(last six lines)
7. What is the rhyming scheme of Shakespearean sonnet?
Ans- ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
8. What is the rhyming scheme of Italian / Petrarchan sonnet?
Ans- ABBAABBA CDCCDC OR CDECDE
9. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write in total?
Ans- 154 sonnets
10. To whom did Shakespeare address in his last 26 sonnets?
Ans- To a dark lady.
11. Last two lines of Shakespearean sonnet is called ………………………
Ans- Heroic couplet.
12. Who are called Metaphysical poets?
Ans- Poets like Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw etc are called Metaphysical poets.
13. Write two major features of Metaphysical poery.
Ans- i) Metaphysical conceit, ii) Dramatic beginning
14. Write down two characteristic of Romantic poetry?
Ans- i. Imagination, passion and emotion, ii. Nature and country life
15. What is blank verse?
Ans- ‘Blank verse’ is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost iambic pentameter.
16. Write down two major works of Lord Tennyson.
Ans- Ulysses and In Memoriam
17. Who are the famous poets of Victorian period?
Ans- Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Arnolds, Oscar Wilde etc.
18. Mention two features of Victorian poetry?
Ans- Sentimentalism and Pessimism.
19. Who are Modern poets in English Literature?
Ans- T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath etc.
20. Write down two main features of Modern Poetry.
Ans- Love, Symbolism, Realism, Exprementalism etc.
21. Who are post Modern poets in English Literature?
Ans- Marion Angus, W. H. Auden, Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Bishop, Rupert Brooke etc.
22. Name two post colonial writer in English literature.
Ans- Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R. k. NarayanKiron
Desai, Amitabh Ghose etc.
23.
What is Derek Walcott
most famous poem?
Ans- Omeros
24. Name two famous postcolonial poets?
Ans- Derek Walcott and Ramanujan
25. Give three examples of Miracles plays.
Ans- The Coventry Plays, The Chester Plays, The Passion play is the chief modern
example of the miracle play.
26. What is a Miracle play?
Ans- A miracle play presents a real or fictitious account of the life,
miracles, or martyrdom of a saint.
27. What is a morality play? Give two examples.
Ans- A kind of allegorical play having personified
abstract qualities as the main characters and presenting a lesson about good
conduct and character, which was popular in the 15th and early 16th centuries
are called morality play. Example- Everyman, The play of the creed.
28. What is Interlude? Give two examples.
Ans- A short comical play that was shown in the
interval of a long play in the 15th century is called interlude. The
purpose was to provide comic relief to the audience. Examples- i) The Pardoner
& the Frier, ii) The word and the
child.
29. Who are called ‘University wits’?
Ans- Christopher Marlowe, Robert Green, Thomas
Nashe( all belong to Cambridge University ), John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George
Peele (all belong to Oxford University ) & Thomas Kyd are called University
wits.
30. Which university wits is not a university scholar?
Ans- Thomas kyd.
31. What are the major works
of Christopher Marlowe?
Ans- Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Tanburlaine,
Edward II etc.
32. Which age is called the ‘golden age’ of drama in English
Literature?
Ans- Elizabethan age.
33. Name different type of plays of Shakespeare with examples.
Ans- A)
Tragedy
Examples- i. Hamlet,
ii, Macbeth, iii. King Lear, iv. Othello etc.
B) Comedy
Examples- i. As you like it, ii. Twelfth Night, iii. Taming
of the shrew etc
C) Tragi-Comidy
Examples- i. The Tempest, ii. The Merchant of the Venice etc.
D) Historical plays
Examples- i. Henry IV, Henry V, Richard III etc.
34. Mention two features of Shakespearean Tragedies and Comedies.
Ans- Tragedies features, i. Tragic flaw of the hero, ii. Chance or Accident, etc.
Comedies features, i. Love and marriage, ii. Blending of fancy and realism, etc.
35. Name three famous dramatist of Jacobean age and their plays.
Ans- John Webester, ( his plays- The Duchess od Malfi,
The White Devil etc.)
Ben Jonson
( his plays- The Alchemist, The
Devil is an Ass etc.
36. Give an example of ‘City Comedy’ of Jacobean period.
Ans- Everyman
37. Why does the comedy of Restoration period is called ‘Comedy of
Manners’/
Ans- Because it reflects the temper and the
manners of the upper class people of that time.
38. Mention famous writers of ‘Comedy of Manners’ and their works.
Ans- Willam Congrive, (his plays, The Way of the
World, The old Bachelor, Love for love, etc.)
William Wycherley,
(his plays, Love in a Wood, The Country
Wife, The Plain Dealer, etc.)
39. Mention three important features of ‘Comedy of Manners’.
Ans- i.
Reflects the manners of upper class people of the contemporary life,
ii. Sex and adultery,
iii. Immorality
40. Name two dramatists of ‘Sentimental Drama’.
Ans- Oliver Goldsmith, (his plays- She Stoops to
Conquer, The Good Natur’d Man, etc.)
R. B. Sheridan, (his
plays- The Rivals, The Critic, The Camp etc.
41. Give two examoles of Irish Drama.
Ans- W.B. Yeats play- i. The Land of Heart’s
Desire, ii. The Green Halmet, etc
Lady
Gregory’s play- i. The Rising of the Moon, ii. Spreading the News, etc.
41. Modern and postmodern dramatists and their dramas.
Ans- 1.
Modern
dramatists, - T.S. Eliot
i.
Murder in the
Cathedral,
ii.
The Cooktail Party,
iii.
The Family Reunion
G.B. Shaw-
i.
Major Barbara
ii.
Candida
iii, Arms and the Man
2.
Postmodern Dramatists, - Samuel Backet
i.
Waiting for Godot
ii.
Endgame
iii, Happy Days
Thomas Bernhard
i.
Heldenplatz
ii.
Ritter, Dene, Voss
42. Postcolonial dramatists and their dramas.
Ans- A) Girish Karnad, (his plays- i. The Fire
and the Rain, ii. Nagamandala)
B) Athol Fugard, (his plays- i. The
Island, ii. Blood Knot)
43.
18th Century Novelists and their works.
Ans-
A) Daniel Defoe, (his novels-
Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague year, etc.)
B)
Samuel Richardson, (his novels- Pamela, Clarissa, etc)
C) Henry Fielding, (his novels- Tom Jones, Joseph Andrew, etc)
D) Laurence Sterne, (his novels- Tristram Shandy, The Man of Feeling,
etc)
44.
What is Gothic Novels?
Ans- A type of 18th
and 19th centuries novel based on story of terror and suspense. It
is called gothic because imaginative impulse drawn from medieval castle or
monsters or monasteries, ghost etc.Novelist, Horace Walpole’s novel, ‘Castle of
Otranto’ is a gothic novel.
45.
What are the historical novels of Walter Scott?
Ans- Old Mortality, Guy Mannering.
46. Who are the women novelist and their
works of the 19th century?
Ans- i. Charlotte Bronte’s novel, The Professor, Villette, June Eyre,
Shirley etc.
iii.
Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Weights
iv.
George Eliot’s novel, Adam Bade, Romala, The Mill on the Floss etc.
47. Give three examples of Victorian
novelists and their works.
Ans- i. Charles Dickens’s novel, David
Copperfield, Oliver Twist etc.
ii. W.M. Thackery’s novel, Vanity Fair, The Virginians, The Luck of
Barry London etc.
iii, Thomas Hardy’s novel, The
Return of the Native, Far From the Madding Crowd, etc.
48. Modern novelists and their novels.
Ans. A) Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, etc
B) D. H Lawrence’s novel, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow,
etc.
C) Virgina Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dolloway, The Voyage out, etc.
D) James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a
Youngman etc.
49. Postmodern novelist
of America.
Ans- Thomas Berger’s novel Crazy in Berlin, Little Big Man, Arthur Rex,
etc.
50. Postmodern
novelist of India.
Ans- Salman Rushdie’s novel, Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses,
etc.
Amitabh
Ghose’s novel, River of Smoke, The Hungry Tide, etc.
51. Postcolonial
novelists of South Asia.
Ans- V. S. Naipaul’s novel, A House for Mr. Biswas, In a free State,
etc.
Anita Desai’s novel, ‘Fasting,
Feasting’, In Custody etc.
Rohinton Mistry’s novel, A Fine Balance, Family Matters, etc
52. Postcolonial
novelists of Africa.
Ans- Buchi Emecheta’s novei, Second Class Citizen, The Slave Girl, etc
53. Give an example of
personal essay of Charles Lamb.
Ans- New
Year's Eve, by Charles Lamb
54. Who is called the father of English Essays?
Ans-
Francis Bacon.
55. What is a
journalistic prose?
Ans- Journalistic
prose is explicit and precise and
tries not to rely on jargon. As a rule, journalists will not use a long
word when a short one will do. They use subject-verb-object construction.
Dr.
Taybul Islam Mollah
*************** HOD, English
P.B. College, Gauripur
Hons
3rd Sem
Paper-6
American
Literature
Short type Questions
‘The Glass Menagerie’?
1.
How
many Acts are there in ‘The Glass Menagerie’?
Ans-
Seven Acts.
2.
Who
is the mother of Tom in ‘The Glass Menegerie’?
Ans-
Amenda.
3.
Who
is the sister of Tom in ‘The Glass Menegerie’?
Ans-
Laura.
4.
What
is the full name of ‘Tennessee William’?
Ans-
Thomas Lanier Williams III.
5.
When
did Tinnessee William born?
Ans-
26th March 1911, Columbus Missippi, U.S. and died on 25th
February, 1983.
6.
Name
two plays of Tinnessee William?
Ans-
i) A Streetcar Named Desire, ii) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
7.
Whose
nickname is ‘blue rose’ in ‘The Glass Menagerie’?
Ans-
Laura.
8.
Who
is the narrator of the play The Glass Menagerie’?
Ans-
Tom Wingfield.
9.
Where
does the action of the play The Glass Menagerie’ take place?
Ans-
The play sets in St. Place in1930’s. But
maximum action takes place in Wingfield apartment.
10. In which college did Laura study in the play
The Glass Menagerie’?
Ans-
Rubicam’ Business College.
11. Where did Laura visit without
attending her college?
Ans-
She use to walking at the park or zoo without attending her college.
12. Which type of diseases did Laura
suffer during her school days?
Ans-
Pleurosis.
13. Which thing was broken during Jim’s
dance with Laura?
Ans-
Glass unicorn.
14. Name the girl with whom did Jim
engage in the play ‘The Glass Menagerie’?
Ans-
Betty
15. Where does Tom work in the play ‘The Glass
Menagerie’?
Ans-
At a shoe warehouse.
16. What does Tom like to write in ‘The
Glass Menagerie’?
Ans- Poetry
17. The
Glass Menagerie is a “memory play.” From which character’s memory is it
drawn?
Ans. Tom’s.
18. For what does
Amanda conduct a telephone campaign in order to make extra money?
Ans. Magazine subscription.
19. Amanda returns a library book that Tom has checked out. Who is the author
of this book?
Ans. D. H. Lawrence.
20. According to Tom, where does he spend most of his nights?
Ans. At the movies.
21. In what is Jim taking night courses?
Ans. Radio engineering and public speaking.
22. For whom did Tom’s father work?
Ans. T Telephone Company.
23. What is Laura’s favorite animal among her glass figurines?
Ans. A unicorn.
24. What is Jim’s nickname for Tom in ‘The Glass Menagerie’?
Ans. Shakespeare
25. What class did Jim and Laura have together in high school?
Ans. Chorus
26. Of what origin is Jim’s family?
Ans. Irish
27. Why did Jim call Laura “Blue Roses”?
Ans. Because it sounds like pleurosis.
28. For what does Tom pay membership dues with the money earmarked for the
abovementioned bill?
Ans. The Union Of Merchant Seamen.
29. What is across the alley from the Wingfields’ apartment?
Ans. A Dance Hall.
30. What does Amanda make Tom promise that he will never be?
Ans. A drunkard.
31. Why is the play called “The Glass Menagerie”?
Ans. The play was
originally entitled “The Glass Menagerie.” That is b Laura’s frailty. Like the
glass figurines that she loves so well because it is a symbol of frailty, Laura
is very fragile and has a great deal of trouble existing in the modern world.
32. In “The Glass Menagerie,” what is the significance
of Laura’s glass animals, especially the symbolic unicorn?
Ans. There is a special
affinity between Laura and the unicorn. The unicorn does not exist in the
modern world, just as Aura seems unable to exist in modern society. She has a
limp and feels deformed; the unicorn has only one horn, which makes him
different from the rest of the animals.
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
1.
Which river do Huck and Jim
travel?
Ans. The Mississippi
2.
How do Huck and Jim initially
acquire the raft?
Ans. They find it during a flood.
3.
What is the name of the town
where Huck, Jim, and Tom live at the novel’s opening?
Ans. St. Petersburg.
4.
Why does Jim run away from Miss
Watson’s?
Ans. Because Miss Watson is planning to sell him, which would separate
him from his family.
5. What animal does Huck kill as to fake
his own death?
Ans. A pig.
6.
Who finally tells Huck that Pap
is dead?
Ans. Jim.
7.
What is Mark Twain’s real name?
Ans. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
8. Where does Huck intend to go at the novel’s end?
Ans. To the West.
9. How old is Huck Finn in the Novel?
Ans. 13 years.
10. Who is Miss Watson?
Ans. Miss
Watson is the sister of Widow
Douglas.
11. ‘The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn’ is a sequence of earlier novel, what is it?
Ans. The Adventure
of Tom Sawyer.
12.
Who is Pap Finn?
Ans. Father of Huck.
13.
In which island did
Huck meet Jim?
Ans. Jackson Island.
14.
Which city is shown as
slavery free in The Huckleberry Finn?
Ans. Cairo
15.
Who is Peter Wilks’s
brother?
Ans.The two brothers of Peter’s Wilks’s are
William Wilks and Harvey Wilks who live in England.
16.
Who do pretend to be
the brothers of Peter Wilks’s?
Ans. The king and the duke.
17.
What are the themes of
‘The Huckleberry Finn’?
Ans. Slavery, Adventure, Freedom, Racism, etc.
18.
Which is the first
picaresque novel in English?
Ans. ‘The Unfortunate Traveller’, written by
Thomas Nash in 1594.
19.
What does the
Mississippi river symbolize in the novel?
Ans. Freedom.
20. What book does Huck Finn tell the
reader he was also in?
Ans. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer.
21. Why does the rest of Tom's gang object
to Huck joining?
Ans. Because he has no family, moreover his father was a drunkard.
22. Why does Huck sell his fortune to
Judge Thatcher?
Ans. Because, he
does not want his father to get it.
23. Whom are the Grangerfords feuding
with?
Ans. The
Sheperdsons.
24. How does Buck die in the novel?
Ans. He is shot by a
Sheperdson.
25. What has delayed the arrival of the
true Wilks brothers?
Ans. Because their
luggage was lost and one of them broke his arm.
26. Why is the crowd surprised when Peter
Wilks's coffin is opened?
Ans. The crowd
surprised because they found the inheritance money inside the coffin.
27. How does Jim finally gain his freedom?
Ans. Tom reveals
that Miss Watson has freed him in her will before her death.
28. Why does Huck want to head out West?
Ans. To escape Aunt
Sally’s effort to civilize him.
29. How many chapters are there in the
Huckleberry Finn?
Ans. The novel
consists of 43 chapters.
30. Who is Sid in the novel?
Ans. Tom Sawyer’s
younger brother.
The
Purloined Letter
1. What is the place where the actions of
the story of The Purloined Letter take place?
Ans. In Paris
2. What is the name of the detective of
the story The Purloined Letter?
Ans. C. Auguste
Dupin. His address is third floor of the building No. 33, Rue Dunot, Faubourg
St. Germain.
3. In "The Purloined Letter,"
who is the prefect of the Paris police?
Ans. Monsier D-
4. What does Dupin intentionally leave at
the Minister's apartment so that he'll have reason to return?
Ans. His snuffbox
5. What time is it when the new,
ghoulishly-dressed party guest appears?
Ans. Midnight
6. What does the ghoulish partygoer's
mask look like?
Ans. A corpse.
7. What animal does Montresor claim is
depicted on his family's coat of arms?
Ans. A snake.
8. How
much of a reward does the prefect offer for the return of the letter?
Ans. Fifty thousand francs.
9.
Where did Dupin find the purloined letter?
Ans. Dupin found the letter, disguised as another
letter, in an organizer box hanging from the fireplace.
10.
‘The Purloined Letter’ is sequence of earlier
two short stories, what are they?
Ans. i. The Murders in the Rue Morge, ii. The Mystery of
Marie Roget.
11.
What does purloined letter mean?
Ans. The lost or theft letter.
12.
What is written in the Epigram in the opening
of the story?
Ans. It is a quotation from Seneca, a France dramatist, “To
earn knowledge showing too much cunningness is like a stupid.”
13.
Who did steal the letter in ‘The Purloined
Letter’ and from whom?
Ans. Minister D Archy stole the letter from the Royal Lady.
14.
Why does
Dupin leave a fake letter behind in place of real one?
Ans. To embarrass the Minister he leaves a fake letter there.
15.
When was ‘The Purloined Letter’ published?
Ans. In 1844.
16.
What does Dupin inscribe inside the fake
letter?
Ans. Dupin inscribes a French poem, “So baneful a scheme, if
not worthy of Atriums, is worthy of Thyestes.”
17.
Who is Monsieur G-? Why did he come to Dupin?
Ans.Monsieur was an old acquaintance of Dupin and the narrator;
he was the perfect of the Parisian police. He came to Mr. Dupin to take a counsel
about a case regarding recovery a letter of a royal lady that has been stolen
by Minister D-.
18.
What is the time of the day when the story begins?
Ans.
The story begins just after of one gusty evening in the autumn.
19.
“…you are quite au fait in this investigation.” Who is the
speaker?
Ans.
The narrator of the story is the speaker.
20.
Why did Dupin use a
pair of green spectacles?
Ans.
Dupin says he had visited the minister at his hotel. Complaining of weak eyes he wore
a pair of green spectacles, the true purpose of which was to disguise his eyes
as he searched for the letter.
The
Crack-Up
1.
In which year Fitzgerald’s essay
‘The Crack-up’ was published?
Ans. The Crack-up is a collection of essays were published serially in
Esquire magazine in 1936, and posthumously in a book form 1945.
2.
What are two essays that were
published along with The Crack-up?
Ans. Pasting It Together, and Handle with Care.
3.
What is the essay ‘The Crack-Up’
about?
Ans. The essay ‘The Crack-Up’ is about the story of Fitzgerald’s sudden
descent at thirty nine from a life of success and glamour to one of emptiness
and despair, and his determination to recovery.
4.
Name the wife of Fitzgerald.
Ans. Zelda.
5.
What is the theme of ‘The
Crack-Up’?
Ans. The promise and failure of the American Dream is a common theme of ‘The Crack-Up’.
‘The Prologue’
1.
Who is ‘Bartas’
as referred in the poem ‘The Prologue’?
Ans. A famous French poet.
2.
Who is
‘Demosthenes’ as referred in the poem ‘The Prologue’?
Ans. Demosthenes was a Greek statesman
and orator of ancient Athens.
3.
Who is
‘Calliope’ as referred in the poem ‘The Prologue’?
Ans. In Greek mythology, Calliope is
the Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry.
4.
In which year
the poems of Anne Bradstreet’s poems were published, and by whom?
Ans. Her poems were published by her brother-in –law
in the year 1650.
5.
How many stanzas
are there in the poem ‘The Prologue’?
Ans. Eight stanzas.
A Bird Came Down the Walk
1.
When did the
poem ‘A Bird Came Down the Walk’ publish?
Ans. 1891
2.
How many
quatrains are there in the poem ‘A Bird Came Down the Walk’?
Ans. Five stanzas.
3.
What is the rhyming pattern of
the poem A Bird Came Down the Walk’?
Ans. ABCB
4.
What are the theme of the poem A Bird Came Down the Walk’?
Ans. Beauty, and brutality of nature.
5.
How many poems did Emily
Dickenson write in total?
Ans. Almost 1775.
6.
When did Emily Dickenson born?
Ans. She was born in 10th December, 1830, and died in 15th May in 1886.
7.
A Bird Came Down
the Walk’, what does walk mean here?
Ans. Walk means the road or pavement where people
walk.
8.
What does the
bird do the ‘Angle Warm’?
Ans. The birds bits the Angle Warm in halves and
eats it in raw.
9.
What did the bird do after eating the angle
warm?
Ans. After eating the angle warm the bird drank a
dew from a convenient grass and then hopped to the sidewall to let pass a beetle.
10. How do the eyes of the birds look like?
Ans. The eyes looked like frightened beads.
Because I could not stop for Death
1.
Why death is
called a civil suitor?
Ans. Death
is called a civil suitor because it is a gentle driver that drives
slowly and gracefully. It knows no
haste and never snatches life abruptly.
2.
What does ‘setting
sun’ indicates in the poem?
Ans. It indicates death
3.
What does
‘House’ mean in the poem?
Ans. It means the grave of the writer.
4.
How many
stanza/quatrain does the poem have?
Ans. six
5. Who is the 'He' of the second line
of the poem?
Ans. Death
O Captain! My Captain!
1.
From which book by Whitman the
poem ‘O Captain! My Captain’ has been taken?
Ans. From Leaves of Grass.
2.
What kind of poem ‘O Captain! My
Captain’ is about?
Ans. The poem is an elegy on the death of the American President ‘Abraham
Lincoln’.
3.
When did the poem ‘O Captain! My
Captain’ publishes?
Ans. In 1865.
4.
How many quatrains are there in
the poem ‘O Captain! My Captain’?
Ans. Three.
5.
Who is referred as captain in the
poem ‘O Captain! My Captain’?
Ans. 16th American President, ‘Abraham Lincoln’.
6.
Who did kill ‘Abraham Lincoln’?
Ans. On 14th April,1865, John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln
at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC.
7.
What is the meter in which
Whitman had written the poem O! Captain! My Captain!?
Ans. The poem is written in iambic meter.
8.
“My father does not feel my arm”,
who is called as father here?
Ans. 16th American President, ‘Abraham Lincoln’.
9.
Which phrase is repeated in the
poem ‘O Captain! My Captain!’?
Ans. ‘Fallen cold and death’.
10. The poem contains three stanzas of ----------------------lines.
Ans. Eight lines.
11. How are the people waiting to welcome of the captain?
Ans. The people are waiting to welcome the captain with bouquets and
garlands of flowers.
12. What does the ship refer to?
Ans. The ship refers to America.
Passage to India
1.
What type of verse did Whitman
use in his poem?
Ans. Free verse, he is often called the father of free verse.
2.
What three modern wonders are as
mentioned in the poem ‘passage to India’?
Ans. The Suez canal, mighty railroad, and the seas inlaid with eloquent
gentle wires.
3.
What is Whitman’s poem ‘Passage
to India’ about?
Ans. ‘Passage to India' by Walt Whitman
describes an imaginary journey that a speaker wants to take
into fabled India.
4.
From which book by Whitman the
poem ‘O Captain! My Captain’ has been taken?
Ans. From ‘Leaves of Grass’.
5.
What does India signify in
Passage to India?
Ans. In the poem India is
presented as a fabled land that inspired Columbus to
seek a westward route from Europe to India,
a route that ended up with his discovery of the Americas. While India is
celebrated as an antique land that rich in history.
Hons
3rd Sem
Paper-7
British
Poetry and Drama
Short type Questions
Paradise Lost
1. Why Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise?
Ans. Because they had eaten forbidden fruit.
2. Why does Eve eat the forbidden fruit?
Ans. Because Satan in the guise of serpent tells her that she will get the gift of speech by eating the fruit.
3. How long did it take Satan to fall from Heaven to Hell?
Ans. It took nine days and nine nights for Satan to fall from Heaven to Hell.
4. At the beginning of the poem which demon was floating along with Satan in the fiery lake?
Ans. Demon namely Beelzebub was floating in the fiery lake.
5. Who is the heavenly muse in Paradise Lost?
Ans. Urania is the muse.
6. What is the name of Satan’s second in command?
Ans. Beelzebub.
7. What is an epic?
Ans. An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a
serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a
culture or nation narrated in elevated style.
8. What does the title of "Paradise
Lost" refer to?
Ans. The title of "Paradise Lost" refers to the Biblical
story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel
Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
9. Who are the main characters of
"Paradise Lost"?
Ans. Satan, Adam, Eve, God, the Son, Devils (Beelzebub), and
Angels (Michael) are the main characters of "Paradise Lost".
10. How does Milton
depict Satan's leadership qualities in Paradise Lost?
Ans. Although
Milton initially depicts Satan as a kind of military leader in Books 1 and 2,
Satan mostly leads by deception. He uses Beelzebub as his mouthpiece to
persuade the other fallen angels of his plan to corrupt mankind. His
volunteering to fly to Earth seems like a sacrifice but it is actually
self-serving, so that he can ensure his plan is carried out. In the battle with
God's army Satan spends a great deal of energy and time arming his soldiers; he
forgets that God can and will stop the battle at any time. While he is a strong
speaker and clever in warfare, he is always motivated by pride, which Milton
does not see as a leadership quality.
11. In Milton's Paradise Lost, is Satan's revenge justified?
Ans. Satan's revenge is not ultimately justified.
Though his jealousy and doubt are understandable, God is essentially a
benevolent and kind ruler, who endowed all creatures with free will so they may
make their own choices. Satan is allowed to make the choice to get revenge, but
God already knows the outcome and so his revenge is also futile. In Book 3, God
notes to the Son that, "so bent [Satan] seems/On desperate revenge that
shall redound/Upon his own rebellious head." Satan could have repented to
God at any time and been forgiven. But to corrupt all of mankind in order to
get revenge is of a different magnitude—Satan is not only harming God but his
innocent creations as well.
12. Who is the Hero of
“Paradise Lost” Book-I
Ans. Probably the most
famous quote about Paradise Lost is William Blake's statement that
Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it." While Blake may
have meant something other than what is generally understood from this
quotation (see "Milton's Style" in the Critical Essays), the idea
that Satan is the hero, or at least a type of hero, in Paradise
Lost is widespread. However, the progression, or, more precisely,
regression, of Satan's character from Book I through Book X gives a much
different and much clearer picture of Milton's attitude toward Satan.
Writers and critics of the Romantic era advanced the notion that
Satan was a Promethean hero, pitting himself against an unjust God. Most of
these writers based their ideas on the picture of Satan in the first two books
of Paradise Lost. In those books, Satan rises off the lake of fire and
delivers his heroic speech still challenging God. Satan tells the other rebels
that they can make "a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" (I, 255) and
adds, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n" (I, 263). Satan
also calls for and leads the grand council. Finally, he goes forth on his own
to cross Chaos and find Earth. Without question, this picture of Satan makes
him heroic in his initial introduction to the reader.
Besides his actions, Satan also appears heroic because the first
two books focus on Hell and the fallen angels. The reader's introduction to the
poem is through Satan's point of view. Milton, by beginning in medias
res gives Satan the first scene in the poem, a fact that makes Satan the first
empathetic character. Also, Milton's writing in these books, and his
characterization of Satan, make the archfiend understandable and unforgettable.
These facts certainly make Satan the most interesting character
in the poem — but they do not make him the hero. Because the reader hears
Satan's version first, the reader is unaware of the exaggerations and outright
lies that are parts of Satan's magnificent speeches. Moreover, the reader can
easily overlook the fact that Milton states that, whatever powers and abilities
the fallen angels have in Hell, those powers and abilities come from God, who
could at any moment take them away.
In essence then, Milton's grand poetic style sets Satan up as
heroic in Books I and II. The presentation of Satan makes him seem greater than
he actually is and initially draws the reader to Satan's viewpoint. Further,
because all of the other characters in the poem — Adam, Eve, God, the Son, the
angels — are essentially types rather than characters, Milton spends more
artistic energy on the development of Satan so that throughout the poem,
Satan's character maintains the reader's interest and, perhaps, sympathy — at
least to an extent.
No matter how brilliantly Milton created the character of Satan,
the chief demon cannot be the hero of the poem. For Milton, Satan is the enemy
who chooses to commit an act that goes against the basic laws of God, that
challenges the very nature of the universe. Satan attempts to destroy the
hierarchy of Heaven through his rebellion. Satan commits this act not because
of the tyranny of God but because he wants what he wants rather than
what God wants. Satan is an egoist. His interests always turn on his personal
desires. Unlike Adam, who discusses a multiplicity of subjects with Raphael,
rarely mentioning his own desires, Satan sees everything in terms of what will
happen to him. A true Promethean / Romantic hero has to rebel against an unjust
tyranny in an attempt to right a wrong or help someone less fortunate. If Satan
had been Prometheus, he would have stolen fire to warm himself, not to help
Mankind.
Milton shows his own attitude toward Satan in the way the
character degenerates or is degraded in the progression of the poem. Satan is
magnificent, even admirable in Books I and II. By book IV, he is changed. In
his soliloquy that starts Book IV, Satan declares that Hell is wherever he
himself is. Away form his followers and allowed some introspection, Satan
already reveals a more conflicted character.
Similarly, Satan's motives change as the story advances. At
first, Satan wishes to continue the fight for freedom from God. Later his
motive for continuing the fight becomes glory and renown. Next, the temptation
of Adam and Eve is simply a way to disrupt God's plans. And, at the end, Satan
seems to say that he has acted as he has to impress the other demons in Hell.
This regression of motives shows quite a fall.
Satan also regresses or degenerates physically. Satan shifts
shapes throughout the poem. These changes visually represent the degeneration
of his character. First, he takes the form of a lesser angel, a cherub, when he
speaks to Uriel. Next, he is a ravening cormorant in the tree of life — an
animal but able to fly. Then he is a lion and a tiger — earth-bound beasts of
prey, but magnificent. Finally, he is a toad and a snake. He becomes reptilian
and disgusting. These shape changes graphically reveal how Satan's actions
change him.
Even in his own shape, Satan degenerates. When Gabriel confronts
Satan in Book V, none of the angels initially recognize Satan because his
appearance is noticeably changed. Likewise, in Book X, when Satan once again
sits on his throne in Hell, none of the earlier magnificence of his physical
appearance is left. Now he looks like a drunken debauchee.
Though Satan is not heroic in Paradise Lost, he at times
does border on tragedy. Ironically, he also borders on comedy. The comic
element associated with Satan derives from the absurdity of his position. As a
rebel, he challenges an omnipotent foe, God, with power that is granted him by
his foe. God simply toys with Satan in battle. Satan is, in fact, cartoonish
when he and Belial gloat over the success of their infernal cannon in Book VI.
Satan and Belial stand laughing at the disorder they have caused, but they are
unaware of the mountains and boulders just about to land on their heads.
If all of Paradise Lost were on the level of the
battle scene, the poem would be comic. But Satan's temptation of Adam and Eve
moves the demon closer to tragedy. Satan's motives in destroying the human
couple may be arguable, but the effect and its implications are not. Satan
brings the humans down and causes their removal from Eden. In so doing, he also
provides the way to salvation for those humans who choose freely to obey God.
However, Satan provides nothing for himself. Hell is where Satan is because he
has no way to rejoin God. Unlike humanity, Satan and the other fallen angels
have already sealed their fates. They live always with the knowledge of Hell.
In the end, Satan calls to mind the Macbeth of Shakespeare. Both
characters are magnificent creations of evil. Both are heroic after a fashion,
but both are doomed. Both are fatalistic about the afterlife. Satan knows that
he must remain in Hell; Macbeth says that he would "jump the life to
come," if he could kill Duncan with no consequence on Earth. Both
characters are the driving force in their own works. And finally both create a
kind of Hell; Macbeth's on Earth, Satan's in the universe.
13. What is the name of fallen angle in Book 1 of Paradise Lost?
Ans. In
Milton's Paradise Lost Satan is not clearly separated from one of his fellow
fallen angels. In Book 1, the character of Satan is blended with the character
of fallen angel under the name of Beelzebub.
14. What is pandemonium in Paradise Lost Book 1?
Ans. Pandemonium is the
capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.
15. Who is called archfiend by Milton in Paradise Lost?
Ans. Archfiend
The Devil; Satan.
16. How many Books are there of Paradise Lost?
Ans. Ten Books, was first published in London in 1667, and in
1674 Paradise Lost was published for second time in 12 books.
17. Which angel does Satan trick by
disguising himself as a cherub?
Ans. Uriel.
18. In what book does the fall take place?
Ans. Book IX.
19. In which book of the Bible does the
story of Adam and Eve occur?
Ans. Genesis
20. How many times does Milton invoke a
muse?
Ans. Three times
21. Who leads Adam and Eve out of
Paradise?
Ans. Michael.
22. Who does Milton name as his heavenly
muse?
Ans. Urania
23. Paradise Lost is written in
………………..form.
Ans. Blank verse.
24. What is the capital of hell in
Paradise Lost?
Ans. The Pandimonium.
25. Who discusses cosmology and the
battle of heaven with Adam?
Ans. Raphael
The
Duchess of Malfi
1. How many Acts are there in The
Duchess of Malfi?
Ans. Five Acts.
i)
Act
1, 3 Scenes, ii) Act 2, 5 Scenes, iii)
Act 3, 5 Scenes, iv) Act 4, 2 Scenes, v) Act 5, 5 Scenes
2. Which character is the Duchess’s
twin brother?
Ans. Ferdinand
3. Who does Cardinal hire to spy on
the Duchess?
Ans. Bosola
4. In what post Bosola is appointed
in the royal house of Duchess?
Ans. Stable keeper
5. To whom Duchess
6. Who has just returned from France at the opening of
the play?
Ans. Antonio
7. Who is the avenger in ‘The
Duchess of Malfi’?
Ans. In The Duchess of Malfi, Bosola is initially an antagonist of the Duchess, having been
hired to spy on and kill her, but later he becomes her avenger.
8. How many children do Duchess and Antonio have?
Ans. Three.
9. Why did the brothers of the Duchess oppose her marriage with Antonio?
Ans. Both brothers seem to be worried that their widowed sister will succumb to temptation and undertake a marriage that damages the family honour. They also appear to be afraid that because she is a widow she is more likely to want to marry a second time.
10. Who killed Antonio in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’?
Ans. Bosola
11. Who killed Julia in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’?
Ans. Cardinal
12. Who is Antonio’s friend in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’?
Ans. Delio.
13. Who killed Bosola in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’?
Ans. Ferdinand and Bosola stab each other to death.
14. How Julia is killed?
Ans. Julia was murdered by Cardinal via a poisonous Bible that she kissed.
15. Who is the elder brother of Duchess?
Ans. Cardinal.
The Rover
1. The Rover was first performed on stage in what year?
Ans. In the year1677.
2. In which city does the play take place?
Ans. Naples, Italy.
3. Who does Florinda’s father want her
daughter to marry?
Ans. Florinda's father wants her daughter to marry the elderly Don Vincentio.
4. Who is Angellica in ‘The Rover’?
Ans. A beautiful and wealthy courtesan in Naples.
5.
Why is Willmore called
The Rover?
Ans. A classic rake, and
the Rover of the play's title, he is not just called so because of his
travelling, but also because of
his roving eye. He constantly lusts for women, and seeks out different ways
to seduce them, leaving a trail of broken hearts wherever he goes.
6. In which year was Aphra Behn born?
Ans. In 1640.
7.
Name
a famous work of Aphra Behn.
Ans. Oroonoko
8.
What was the name of Florinda’s sister in the play ‘The Rover’?
Ans. Hellena.
9.
Who is the brother of Florinda and Hellena?
Ans. Don Pedro.
10.
What did Aphra Behn do before taking writer as a profession?
Ans. She worked as
a spy for King Charles II.
11.
What is the sub-title of the play ‘The Rover’?
Ans. The Banish’d
Cavaliers.
12. Who does Florinda’s brother want
her sister to marry?
Ans. Don Antonio
13.
Who is the cousin of Florinda and Hellena?
Ans. Valeria
14.
Who is called ‘Rover’ in the play?
Ans. Willmore
15.
What do you mean by Carnival?
Ans. The
carnival is a festival allows the women
to disguise themselves, and to cause confusion and mayhem amongst the
males.
The Rape of the
lock
1.
On which actual incident the story of ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is written’?
Ans. The story of
Miss Arabella and Lord Peter.
2.
On whose request did Pope write ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Pope wrote
‘The Rape of the Lock’ in response to a request made by his friend John Caryll.
3.
In Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’ who represent the character of
Arabella?
Ans. Belinda
4.
When did ‘The Rape of the Lock’ was published?
Ans. First published in 1712, (two cantos), second
publication in 1714, (five cantos), and third publication in 1717, (five cantos
and Clarisa’s speech).
5.
Mention the setting of the poem ‘The Rape of the Lock’.
Ans. Setting—
Canto-1, Belinda’s
House at London,
Canto-2, Street of
the London, and Thames
Cantos- 3-5,
Hempton Court Palace.
6.
What are the themes of ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Love battle, Beauty
is fleeting, Idleness of upper-class, Religious piety, and Gender issues.
7.
Who is ‘Shock’ in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Belinda’s lapdog.
8.
Name Belinda’s maid in the poem ‘The Rape of the Lock’.
Ans. Betty.
9.
Who did cut the lock of Belinda in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Baron.
10.
Who is compared to Sir George Brown in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Sir Plume
11.
Who is Thalestris in the poem ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Friend to Belinda.
12.
Where did Belinda pinch Beron?
Ans On his nose.
13.
Who is Berenice?
Ans. Queen of Egypt.
14.
At what time do “sleepless lovers”
awake in this poem?
Ans. At noon.
15. Who inspires Belinda’s dream in
the first canto?
Ans. Ariel.
16.
To what are Belinda’s eyes repeatedly compared ‘The Rape of the
Lock’?
Ans. The sun.
17. What does Belinda wear around her neck?
Ans. A cross.
18. Who wins the hand of ombre?
Ans. Belinda
19. What beverage is served after the card
game ends in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. Coffee
20. Who arms the Baron with a pair of
scissors?
Ans. Clarissa.
21. Who gets accidentally cut by the
scissors by the Beron?
Ans. One of the
sylphs
22. What is Billet duex?
Ans. A box in which
love letters are kept
23. Which game is played by Belinda/Beron
in ‘The Rape of Lock’?
Ans. The card game
of ombre.
24. What are the things are there on the
dressing table of Belinda?
Ans. Powder, puff, pins,
Bible, billet duex.
25. What does the name of Belinda signify?
Ans. Beautiful eyes.
26. Why did Ariel warn Belinda in her
dream?
Ans. Because Ariel
suspected that some bad event will take place.
27. Which literary period Pope belongs to?
Ans. The Augustan
Period.
28. Which century does ‘The Rape of the
Lock’ represent?
Ans. 18th
century
29. What is the name of the head Sylph?
Ans. Ariel
30. Define mock-epic?
Ans. Mock-epic is a
long satirical poem written in lofty and exalted manner of an epic with trivial
subject.
31. What is the role of Ariel in ‘The Rape
of the Lock’?
Ans. Ariel is
Belinda’s guardian sprit, his role is to guard and guide Belinda.
32. Where did Belinda’s lock finally go?
Ans. Belinda’s lock
finally go to the lunar sphere.
33. To whom did Pope dedicate the poem
‘The Rape of the Lock’?
Ans. John Caryl.
34.
Why does the Baron cut
Belinda’s hair lock?
Ans. Belinda is considered a great beauty and is particularly
admired for the two curly locks of hair which hang down onto her neck. A man
known only as the Baron desires
to take one of the locks so that he can boast of its possession. And with the
help of his lady friend Clarissa, he cuts off one of the locks
35. Who is the Queen of Spleen?
Ans.
Queen of the subterranean, Cave of Spleen. A personification of the concept of
spleen itself, she bestows hysteria,
melancholy, and bodily disfunction on women.
Mac Flecknoe
1.
What is the sub-title
of the poem Mac Flecknoe?
Ans. The
sub-title is "A Satire upon the True-blue Protestant Poet T.S."
2.
Dryden was supporter
of Tory/Whig.
Ans. Troy
3.
Dryden published Mac Flecknoe in the year………………………
Ans. 1682
4.
What does Mac means in
‘Mac Flecknoe’?
Ans. Mac is an Irish
word which means son.
5.
How many lines are
there in Mac Flecknoe?
Ans. 217 lines
6.
How many owls flew at the time of coronation in
the poem, Mac Flecknoe?
Ans. Twelve
7.
What is lampoon?
Ans.
Lampoon
is a form of virulent satire in verse or prose, which is
sometimes a malicious or unjust attack on a person, an institute, or an activity.
Simply, when a writer or an artist makes fun of someone or something, by
imitating the same thing in a funny way, it is called lampoon.
8. Flecknoe ruled over the realms of
_______ absolute.
Ans.
Nonsense.
9. Name
the place where the coronation ceremony of Thomas Shadwell was held?
Ans. Shadwell takes the
throne in a district of Augusta
(London).
10. In
‘Mac Fleckmoe’, Flecknoe has been presented as the king of ………………
Ans. Realm of non-sense.
11. Mac
Flecknoe is a satire on the poet, ……………………..
Ans Thomas Shadwell.
12. Mac
Flecknoe is a reply on the poem, what is that poem?
Ans. Thomas Shadwell’s poem ‘Medal
of John Bayes’
13. Why
did Dryden write ‘Mac Flecknoe’?
Ans. Mac Flecknoe is a personal
satire on Thomas Shadwell who offended Dryden with his aesthetic and political
learning. It is a reply to Thomas Shadwell’s poem ‘Medal of John Bayes’.
14. Who
is Thomas Shadwell?
Ans. Thomas Shadwell was an English poet and playwright who
was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689.
15.
How does Dryden satire
Shadwell through Mac Flecknoe?
Ans. Dryden makes fun of
Shadwell's poetic art and indirectly suggests that Shadwell had no poetic
talent, although Shadwell was to succeed him as Poet Laureate of England later
on. Dryden criticizes Shadwell because they had Political differences and Shadwell
was a celebrated Playwright during his time.
16. Who
is the target of satire in Mac Flecknoe?
Ans. Thomas Shadwell.
17.
Who was Singleton in
Mac Flecknoe?
Ans. John Singleton was a court musician and singer.
18. ‘Mac
Flecknoe’ is written in …………………. form.
Ans. Heroic couplet.
19. Whigs
were the supporter of parliament.
True/False
Ans. True.
20. Who
was ‘Richard Flecknoe’?
Ans. Richard Flecknoe was a poet,
dramatist, and traveler, later he become an English priest in Rome.
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