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Christopher Marlowe – Previous Year UGC-NET English Literature Quiz
1. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is…
2. Which of the following plays has a Machiavellean hero?
3. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be –
I. “cursed necromancy”
II. “audacious deeds”
III. “dalliance of love”
IV. “self-conceit”
The correct combination according to the code is
4. The center of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean playwright?
5. Which of the following pair best describes the characteristic features of Marlowe’s portrait of Tamburlaine?
(a) ambition
(b) apathy
(c) cruelty
(d) sympathy
The right combination according to the code is.
6. ‘Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight’ is a line that occurs in:
7. The hero of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine was born as a
8. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy?
9. Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features?
10. Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed?
11. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.
12. Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out:
13. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except
14. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place?
15. Christopher Marlowe was one of the first major writers to affirm what can be identified as a clearly homosexual sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it?
16. Christopher Marlowe’s heroes are said to be larger than life, exaggerated both in their faults and in their qualities. They have a desire for everything in extreme. In one of his plays the hero wants to conquer the whole world. The name of the play is …………….
17. In one of Marlowe’s plays the hero is warned not “to practise more than heavenly power permits.” Identify the play.
18. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s
19. In Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, what books does Valdes counsel Faustus to study in preparation for conjuring up spirits?
(a) the works of Bacon and Abanus
(b) the Hebrew Psalter and New Testament
(c) the works of Ovid and Homer
(d) the works of Baxter and Horst
The right combination according to the code is:
20. To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr. Faustus?
21. Traces of the Morality plays are discernible in a play like Dr. Faustus, traces such as
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