In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen?
Troy
Carthage
Sparta
Persia
Correct Answer :
B. Carthage
Related Questions
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Donnes The Anniversaries is a:
An elegy in two parts
An epic in three parts
A ballad in four parts
None of these
what was the occupation of Chaucers father?
leather merchant
civil servant
a vintner
None of the above
At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?
Wittenburg
Sorbonne
Heidelberg
Cambridge
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Dantes Divine Comedy
Boccaccios Decameron
The Dream of the Rood
Chaucers Legend of Good Women
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Bede
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer
Caedmon
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
The use of whale-roadfor sea and life-housefor body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
symbolism
simile
metonymy
kenning
What was vellum?
parchment made of animal skin
the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
unrhymed iambic pentameter
an unbreakable oath of fealty
After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem Hero and Leander?
Shakespeare
Thomas Nash
George Chapman
Thomas More
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
Who declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598?
Queen Elizabeth
Francis Meres, a lawyer
Burbage, an actor
King James
University Wits were those who:
Had training at two universities
gave curriculum of two universities
Erected two universities
None of the above
Which of the following statement is correct:
Shakespeares first child Susanna was born in 1583.
In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith.
both a and b.
None of above.
Chaucer became a member of Parliament in………..?
1386
1300
1343
1350
The Prince Of Poets in his time, on whom grave the inscription is given?
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?
Carpenter
Civil servant
Cobbler
Farmer
On his blindness, a collection of sonnets is written by:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Renaissance is a:
French word
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word
William Shakespeare born in:
26 April 1567
26 April 1566
26 April 1565
26 April 1564
Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
Zhu Yuanzhang
Genghis Khan
Timur
Kublai Khan
In the tragic history of Doctor Faustus. Faustus was a :
German scholar
French scholar
Spanish scholar
Greek scholar
Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
Marlowe
Milton
Spencer
Johnson
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch
French
English
Who born in 1422:
William Caxton
Robert Henry
John Lyly
Thomas more
Astrophel and Stella is a:
Allegory
Epic
Sonnet
Ballad
Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
Thomas Nah
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Hardy
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
the Norman Conquest of 1066.
the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Marlow died of?
Illness
stabbing
poisoned
Hanged
Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
Colin clouts come home again
Faerie queen, first three books
The Shepherds calendar
Faerie queen, second three books