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Bharathi Women's College (A) Chennai Research Department of English
E Quiz for NET/SET Aspirants
Prepared by:
Dr. S. Chitra
Associate Professor of English and Head
Bharathi Women's College (A)
Chennai
Quiz Theme: Medieval Drama and Early Renaissance
Quiz Dates: 31/08/2021 to 07/09/2021
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1. The aim of the earliest attempt of Church Drama in English was to____________________.
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Bring Bibilical stories to a wider audience
Make Liturgical stories more accessible
To reach out to the people in Vernacular
All of the above
2. The genre of the Mystery and Miracle plays revolve around_________________.
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Religious issues of common man
Moral Fables
Nativity and Resurrection of Christ
The spiritual theme of Crusade war
3. When the Mystery plays moved out of the Church premises, who sponsored them?
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The Royal family
The Lords and Aristocrats
The Church authorities
The guilds or the association of Tradesmen
4. Which of the following statement is true about Mystery plays performed outside the Church?
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The Plays were performed in Globe Theatre London
The Plays were performed in the Royal court
The Plays were performed on a mobile wagon
The Plays were performed in Community Halls
5. The best known Miracle and Mystery plays come from the cycle of_________________.
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York, Wakefield and Chester
London, Warwickshire and Manchester
Wakefield, Nottingham and Lake District
N-Town, York and East Midlands
6. The Wakefield Master refers to_________________
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The name of a Mystery Play
The assumed name of an anonymous writer
The Miracles of the Lord
A character in the Mystery Play
7. The Morality Plays are based on ________________.
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The role of Monarchy in religion
Concepts of Birth and Crucifixion of Christ
Allegorical representations of human life
Moral Fables and Tales
8. The Play "Everyman" belongs to the genre of -------play and it is originally adapted into English from the ------
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Miracle Play, French
Mystery Play, German
Miracle Play, Latin
Morality Play, Dutch
9. "A Satire of the Three Estates" is a Morality play written by_________________.
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Sir Thomas Malory
John Skelton
David Lindsay
The Wakefield Master
10. Identify the theme of the play "The Castle of Perseverance."
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Class conflict between upper, middle and Lower classes
Life is seen as a struggle with challenges and disappointments
Adventures of a Knight
Chivalry as a moral code of honour
11. Sir Thomas Malory and John Skelton are the two writers who _____________________.
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Bridge the gap between the Medieval Age and Renaissance
Wrote didactic plays
Portrayed human traits as allegorical characters
Improvised on church dramas
12. Identify the work that was published by William Caxton using the newly invented printing techniques.
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Magnificence
Le Morte D' Arthur
The Castle of Perseverance
Everyman
13. Who was made the first "poet laureate" ?
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Sir Thomas Malory
David Lindsay
William Dunbar
John Skelton
14. Malory's story of King Arthur and the Knights at the Round Table was written in the___________.
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Poetic form
Prose form
Dramatic form
Ballad form
15. What is the historical significance of the year in which "Le Morte D'Arthur" was Published?
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1485, War of Roses ended
1588, the Spanish Armada
1384, Ottoman Turkish Empire founded
1349, the Black Death
16. Who wrote the unusual elegy to a pet bird titled "Philip Sparrow" ?
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William Dunbar
John Skelton
John Barbour
Jean Calvin
17. In which year did Christopher Columbus's Voyage to the Americas take place?
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1485
1496
1492
1453
18. After the War of Roses which dynasty came to power?
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Stuarts
Hanoverians
Plantegenet
Tudors
19. What led to the direct conflict of Henry VIII with the Catholic church?
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Henry VIII married six times
The annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon
corruption of the Catholic church
The narrowness of Catholic monasticism
20. Match the following:
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Erasmus
Puritan Commonwealth
Martin Luther
King as the Defender of Faith
95 Theses
The Praise of folly
Reformation
Cromwell
Erasmus
Puritan Commonwealth
Martin Luther
King as the Defender of Faith
95 Theses
The Praise of folly
Reformation
Cromwell
21. Match the Following:
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Search for Individual expression
Humanist way of thinking
Dominated by ethos of the Church
church outside Catholicism
Neo-Platonic philosophy
Literature before the Renaissance
Jean Calvin
Literature after Reformation
Search for Individual expression
Humanist way of thinking
Dominated by ethos of the Church
church outside Catholicism
Neo-Platonic philosophy
Literature before the Renaissance
Jean Calvin
Literature after Reformation
22. Which of these is true of Calvinism as a strict model of civic organisation and behaviour?
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Censored drama
Dress was austere
Women were drowned and men were beheaded for adultery
All of the above
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