Joseph Addison
1.“It caught to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact”. The above passage considered to be the death” knell of the neo-classical criticism is attributed to____Samuel
{1] John Dryden
[2] Alexander pope
[3] Samuel Johnson
[4] Joseph Addison
Answer: 3
2.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
3.In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published a series of essays on “The Pleasures of Imagination,” written by
(A) Richard Steele
(B) John Dennis
(C) John Locke
(D) Joseph Addison
Answer: D
4.Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
(A) Thomas Parnell
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Joseph Addison
(D) John Gay
Answer: (C)
5.The four Moral Essays of Alexander Pope are addressed to carefully selected figures. Identify
1. Timons, 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
6.Who of the following is not a periodical essayist ?
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Lancelot Andrews
Answer: D
7.‘Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a turn of midnight-work to come, Of, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquor’dev’ry chink Goodly and great he rails behind his link’. In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
Answer: (C)
8.Joseph Addison called him “The Miracle of the present age” and Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected in his memory. Who is he ?
(A) John Locke
(B) Isaac Newton
(C) Ashley Cooper
(D) Christopher Wren
Answer: B
9.“I suffered from impaired eye-sight, depression and poverty and left Oxford without a degree. After a period as a teacher and my marriage to a widow twice my age, I left for London, to begin writing for a magazine, I produced my own journal.” Choose the correct answer, identifying the writer, the magazine and the journal.
(1)John Milton, The Examiner’s Magazine, London Magazine
(2)Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, The Tattler
(3)Richard Steele, The Guardian, The Spectator
(4)Samuel Johnson, The Gentlemen’s Magazine, The Rambler
Answer: 4
Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Essay). (Essayist)
A. “The Tory Fox-Hunter” I. Francis Bacon
B. “What I Believe” II. Joseph Addison
C. “The Death of the Moth” III. E.M.Forster
D. “Of Ambition” IV. Virginia Woolf
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
B. A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
C. A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
D. A -IV , B -I , C -II , D –II
Answer : B