Online Test: Puritan and Restoration Age

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1. Which of the following years is considered as the 'The Puritan Age'?

2 points

1400-1550

1550-1620

1620 - 1660

1660-1700

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2. Match the Age with the Years

5 points

1350-1400

1400 - 1550

1550 - 1620

1620 - 1660

1660 - 1700

The Age of chaucer

The Age of Elizabeth

The Revival of Learning

The Puritan Age

The Restoration Age

3. Which of the following statement/s about the characteristics of the Puritan Age is/are 'NOT' true?

2 points

Puritan literature, with all its diversity, had a marked unity in spirit, resulting from the patriotism of all classes and their devotion to a queen who, with all her faults, sought first the nation's welfare.

The literature of the Puritans were as divided as that the time which was divided by the struggle for political and religious liberty.

Puritan literature speaks of age and sadness; even its brightest hours are followed by gloom and by the pessimism inseparable from the passing of old standards

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4. Is it true: "Elizabethan literature is intensely romantic; the romance springs from the heart of youth, and believes all things, even the impossible. Whereas, in the literature of the Puritan period one looks in vain for romantic ardor,

2 points

True

False

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5. In the literature of any age there are generally found two distinct tendencies. The first expresses the dominant spirit of the time; the second, a secret or an open rebellion. Which group of the poets stood for these spirits?

4 points

The Metaphysical poets represented the dominant spirit of the time - and - the Cavalier poets, a secret or an open rebellion.

The Spencerian poets represented the dominant spirit of the time - and - the Transition poets, a secret or an open rebellion.

The Cavalier poets represented the dominant spirit of the time - and - the Metaphysical poets, a secret or an open rebellion.

The Transition poets represented the dominant spirit of the time - and - the Spencerian poets, a secret or an open rebellion.

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6. Who is the writer of these lines? "Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage; / If I have freedom in my love, / And in my soul am free, / Enjoy such liberty."

2 points

Richard Lovelace

Thomas Carew

John Suckling

Robert Harrick

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7. Who wrote these lines? "Ask me no more if east or west, The phoenix builds her spicy nest, For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant boson dies".

2 points

Thomas Carew

John Suckling

Richard Lovelace

Robert Harrick

Clear selection

8. 'L'Allegaro' and 'Il Penseroso' are twin poems, containing many lines and short descriptive passages which linger in the mind like strains of music, and which are known and loved wherever English is spoken. These poems are written by?

2 points

John Milton

John Donne

John Suckling

John Dryden

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9. 'L'Allegaro' and 'Il Penseroso' are twin poems, containing many lines and short descriptive passages which linger in the mind like strains of music, and which are known and loved wherever English is spoken. What is the meaning of these titles of the poems?

2 points

'L'Allegaro' = the joyous or happy man

'Il Penseroso' = the serious man

'L'Allegaro' = the serious man

'Il Penseroso' = the joyous or happy man

10. 'Lycidas' is a pastoral elegy written in 1637 by Milton. It is written in memory of _______

2 points

The King

Edward King

John Dryden

Shakespeare

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11. Lamartine has described ______ as the dream of a Puritan fallen asleep over his Bible, and this suggestive description leads us to the curious fact that it is the dream, not the theology or the descriptions of Bible scenes, that chiefly interests us.

2 points

Dead be not proud

Paradise Lost

Hudibras

Paradise Regained

Clear selection

12. Which of Milton's poem is Christ's temptation in the wilderness and he follows the account in the fourth chapter of Matthew's gospel?

2 points

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Samson Agonistes

Lycidas

Clear selection

13. Match the writer of these three great allegories:

3 points

Faery Queen

Divine Comedy

Pilgrim's Progress

Edmund Spenser

Dante

Bunyan

Clear selection

14. Hippolyte Taine: "Next to the Bible, the book most widely read in England is _________ "

2 points

Paradise Lost

Pilgrim's Progress

Paradise Regained

Hudibras

Clear selection

15. Match the writer with the work:

6 points

Anatomy of Melancholy

Religio Medici

The Holy War

The Liberty of Prophesying

The Saint's Everlasting Rest

The Complete Angler

Robert Burton

Thomas Browne

Thomas Fuller

Jeremy Taylor

Richard Baxter

Izaak Walton

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16. During Restoration age, the country was divided into two political parties, the Whigs and the Tories. What were their chief characteristics?

2 points

The Whigs sought to limit the royal power in the interest of Parliament and the people

The Tories strove to check the growing power of the people in the interests of their hereditary rulers.

The Tories sought to limit the royal power in the interest of Parliament and the people

The Whigs strove to check the growing power of the people in the interests of their hereditary rulers.

17. Which of the four things are the main characteristics of Restoration literature?

4 points

the tendency to vulgar realism in the drama,

a general formalism which came from following set rules

the development of a simpler and more direct prose style

the prevalence of the heroic couplet in poetry

18. Who wrote these lines and in which work? "A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she know no sin."

2 points

John Dryden - The Hind and the Panther

John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress

Samuel Butler - Hudibras

John Dryden - Aurangzeb, the Despotic Ruler of the Hind

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19. In 'The Hind and the Panther' . . . .

2 points

The 'Hind' as a symbol of Puritans and the Royalists, as a Panther.

The 'Hind' is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglicans, as a Panther.

The 'Hind' is a symbol of 'Hindustan' and the Moghul ruler Aurangzeb, as a Panther.

The 'Hind' is a symbol of 'India' and the British rule as a Panther.

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20. Dryden's famous work 'All for Love' is . . . .

2 points

A poem written in blank verse

A play written in heroic couplet

A political satirical poem in heroic couplet

A play written in blank verse

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21. One of the best political satires written by Dryden is ____

2 points

Absalom and Achitophel

Annus Mirabilis

All for Love

Alexander's Feast

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22. The work of criticism for which Dryden is often considered the Father of English Criticism.

2 points

Of Heroic Plays

Preface to the Fables

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Discourse on Satire

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23. Dryden's influence on literature: three new elements which he bought into English literature

3 points

the establishment of the heroic couplet as the fashion for satiric, didactic and descriptive poetry

his development of a direct, serviceable prose style such as we still cultivate

his creation of sonnet known as Drydenean sonnet like shakespearean sonnet or Spencerian sonnet

his development of the art of literary criticism in his essay and his numerous prefaces to his poems

24. Whose and which poem is considered as the best burlesque / doggerel in English language?

2 points

Milton's Lycidas

Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel

Dryden's The Hind and the Panther

Samuel Butler's Hudibras

Clear selection

25. Match the work with the author:

4 points

Leviathan or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth

Essays concerning Human Understanding

'Sylva' and 'Terra'

Diary

John Evelyn

Samuel Peppy

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Clear selection

26. Match:

4 points

He has been to see a play called Midsummer Night's Dream, but that he will never go again to hear Shakespeare, "for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."

I saw Hamlet played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad

John Evelyn

Samuel Pepys

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27. Who wrote 'Paradise Lost'?

2 points

28. Who wrote 'Pilgrim's Progress'?

2 points

29. Which work of Restoration age do you recall when you see this image? Just write the name of the work. Do not put extra space or punctuation or inverted commas.

2 points