Aphra Behn
1.The Female Quixote was written by :
(A)Henry Fielding
(B)Tobias Smollett
(C) Charlotte Lennox
(D) Aphra Behn
Answer: C
2.The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :
(A)Mary Edgeworth
(B) Aphra Behn
(C) Mary Russell
(D) Mrs Gaskell
Answer: A
3.Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in __________.
(1) Surinam
(2) Abyssinia
(3) Egypt
(4) Assyria
Answer: 1
4.In Aphra Behn’s Oronooko, how does the titular character die ?
(A) He disembowels hi
(B) He is whipped to death.
(C) He is hanged in the public square.
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the executioner.
Answer: D
5.Which two works in the following list are written by Aphra Behn?
A. Rover
B. Oroonoko
C. Soldier’s Fortune
D. The Princess of Cleve
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A and B only
B. A and C only
C. B and C only
D. B and D only
Answer: A
Alexader Pope
1. Which of the following statement hold true with respect to Alexander pope’s
essay on criticism”?
[A] It is “an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry”.
[B] It presents “a series of generalizations about good taste”.
[C] It explores the challenges of impartial and just criticism.
[D] It underlines the traits of “the good critic”.
[E] It critically reflects on Plato’s rejection of poetry.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] Band C only
[3] A, B, C and E only
[4] B,C and D only
Answer:[4]
2. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of :
(A) Lord Petrie
(B) Theobald
(C) Lord Bolingbroke
(D) Lord Harvey
Answer: C
3. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the
door, good
John, fatigued I said” :
(A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
(B) “Dunciad”
(C) “Epistles”
(D) “Rape of the Lock”
Answer: A
4. Which Augustan writer’s epitaph reads : “one who strove with all his
might to champion liberty” ?
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Daniel Defoe
Answer: B
5. The expression “Thy hand, great Anarch” occurs in a satire by :
(A) Dryden
(B) Pope
(C) Johnson
(D)Swift
Answer: B
6. Live Like Pigs is :
(A) a humorous poem by Pope
(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell
(C) a play by Arden
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift
Answer: C
7. Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ can best be read as a poem of :
(A) classical understanding of nature
(B) anti-romantic view of life
(C) sociological estimate of man
(D) philosophical apprehension of life
Answer: D
8. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus ?
(A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Lord Shaftsbury
(D) Lord Harvey
Answer: D
9. Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the
question with the help of the Code given below :
(i) The Dunciad
(ii) The Rape of the Lock
(iii) An Essay on Man
(iv) An Essay on Criticism
Code :
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
Answer: C
10. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
(A) The sun
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star
(D) The rose
Answer: (A)
11. Sir Plume is a character in ____
(A) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Congreve’s The Way of the World
(C) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
(D) Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem
Answer: (C)
12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines ?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxiously through his age.”
(A) Pope’s father
(B) Pope himself
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) The Duke of Marlborough
Answer: A
13. In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope tells us that as a poet he had
benefited from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your piece nine years’” – which
enjoins on writer’s patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose
“counsel” is Pope referring to?
(1) Longinus’s in On the Sublime
(2) Horace’s in Ars Poetica
(3) Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
(4) Aristotle’s Poetics
Answer: 2
14. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final
revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
(1) Belinda
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestris
Answer: 2
15. Who among the following translated Homer?
(1) Thomas Gray
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) Oliver Goldsmith
(4) Alexander Pope
Answer: 4
16. The four Moral Essays of Alexander Pope are addressed to carefully
selected figures. Identify
1. Timmons, Newton, Martha Blount, Wellington
2. Lord Cobham, Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, Chandos
3. Martha Blount, Lord Cobham, Bathurst, Burlington
4. William III, John Haydn, Joseph Addison, John Dennis
Answer: 3
17. Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” sums up the art of poetry as taught first by :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Horace
(C) Longinus
(D) Plato
Answer: B
18. The main idea of Pope’s The Dunciad was taken from :
(A) Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Mac-Flecknoe
(C) The Medal
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Answer: B
19. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in
(A) three cantos
(B) four cantos
(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos
Answer: D
20. In the lines “With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments
their want of art” (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects
(1) the ‘Follow Nature’ fallacy
(2) artificiality
(3) aesthetic order
(4) poor taste
Answer: 2