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Ben Jonson – Previous Year UGC-NET English Literature Quiz
1. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was
2. Which of the following plays by Ben Jonson ends with the performance of a puppet play in imitation of Marlowe’s Hero and Leander?
3. This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.
4. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is
5. Ben Jonson’s comedies are
6. Identify the right chronological sequence:
7. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?
8. Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stage for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people?
9. Match the character with the play:
Character:
I. Every Man in His Humour
II. Volpone
III. Epicoene
IV. The Alchemist
Play:
A. Bonario
B. Subtle
C. Knowell
D. Morose
I II III IV
10. Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright?
11. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?
12. “But deeds, and language, such as men do use; And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the time, and sport with human follies, not with crime.” In the above lines Jonson
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important
IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama.
Find out the correct combination according to the code:
13. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below:
List – I (Plays):
i. White Devil
ii. Maids Tragedy
iii. Every Man in his Humour
iv. The Spanish Tragedy
List – II (Characters):
1. Hieronimo
2. Old Knowell
3. Vittoria Corombona
4. Aspatia
Codes: i ii iii iv
14. Ben Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue is a
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