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UGC-NET PYQs – Literary Periods
Elizabethan Poetry
1. Who among the following, as the proprietor of the Rose theatre, repaired it in 1592 and in 1595, and spent substantial sums on renovating and expanding his theatre?
2. Spenser’s The Shepherd’s Calendar, published in 1579, was dedicated to:
3. The book Women Beware Women was published in the year:
4. Philip Sidney’s Arcadia was influenced by:
Age of Pope
5. Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in 1771?
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Horace Walpole
(d) Thomas Gray
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Horace Walpole
(d) Thomas Gray
6. Which of the following poems are written by Alexander Pope?
A) The Dunciad
B) Moral Essays
C) Grongar Hill
D) Cooper’s Hill
E) Absalom and Achitophel
B) Moral Essays
C) Grongar Hill
D) Cooper’s Hill
E) Absalom and Achitophel
Age of Chaucer
7. Indicate the correct chronological order of publication of the following literary works:
(A) Beowulf
(B) Divina Commedia
(C) Summa Theologica
(D) Le Morte d’Arthur
(E) Canterbury Tales
(B) Divina Commedia
(C) Summa Theologica
(D) Le Morte d’Arthur
(E) Canterbury Tales
8. Who is the author of the poem “House of Fame”?
9. Who among the following is an early Tudor poet?
10. Sir David Lindsay’s Satire of the Three Estates is both:
11. The Voyage and Travail of Sir John Mandeville was written in:
12. The heroic couplet is a pair of:
13. Who among the following praised Chaucer’s translation of Roman de la Rose?
Miscellaneous
14. Hudibras of Samuel Butler reflects on the revolt against:
15. Robert Burns was born in:
16. John Bunyan authored the following:
A) The Pilgrim’s Progress
B) Grace Abounding
C) Short View
D) The Holy War
E) Thoughts on Education
B) Grace Abounding
C) Short View
D) The Holy War
E) Thoughts on Education
17. Thomas Rymer coined the term ‘poetic justice’ to imply the following:
A) the distribution of earthly rewards and punishments in proportion to the virtue or vice of the various characters
B) literary work governed by decorum and morality
C) literary work guided by random ways things often work out in the actual world
D) the metaphysical nature of poetic experience
E) the justification of poetry to be an integral part of the Ideal republic
B) literary work governed by decorum and morality
C) literary work guided by random ways things often work out in the actual world
D) the metaphysical nature of poetic experience
E) the justification of poetry to be an integral part of the Ideal republic
18. Who among the following built the Red Lion in Stepney in 1567?
19. Who composed the poem “Address to a Steamvessel”?
20. Who among the following was famous as a diarist?
In chronology question,Beowulf should be earlier…But le morte d’ arthur is giver as earlier