John Donnes The Anniversaries is a:
An elegy in two parts
An epic in three parts
A ballad in four parts
None of these
Correct Answer :
A. An elegy in two parts
Related Questions
By Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist:
1590
1591
1592
1593
In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen?
Troy
Carthage
Sparta
Persia
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
Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
William Langland
Sir Thomas Malory
Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe?
Henry V
Richard III
Edward II
John
Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Sir Thomas Malory
Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
Chaucer became a member of Parliament in………..?
1386
1300
1343
1350
Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?
1595
1596
1597
1598
William Shakespeare born in:
26 April 1567
26 April 1566
26 April 1565
26 April 1564
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
Thomas Sacville
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?
Thomas Nash
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Thomas Wyatt
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem Hero and Leander?
Shakespeare
Thomas Nash
George Chapman
Thomas More
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
Zhu Yuanzhang
Genghis Khan
Timur
Kublai Khan
From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
oxford
witternburg
Harvard
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
the Normans
the Geats
the Celts
the Anglo-Saxons
Shakespeare is buried inside the:
Westminster Abbey
Trinity Church
Protestant Cemetery
None of above
Marlowe born in________
1562
1563
1564
1565
One of Marlowes most famous poems was an account of which lovers?
Anthony and Cleopatra
Hero and Leander
Troilus and Cressida
Apollo and Hyacinth
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Bede
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer
Caedmon
What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572?
The Massacre at Berlin
The Massacre at Rome
The Massacre at Copenhagen
The Massacre at Paris
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?
Beowulf
Arthur
Caedmon
Augustine of Canterbury
Who was the first English Christian king?
Alfred
Richard III
Richard II
Ethelbert
Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devils angels?
Mephastophilis
beelzebub
Aamon
None of the above
Who declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598?
Queen Elizabeth
Francis Meres, a lawyer
Burbage, an actor
King James
Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
courtiers entering the service of Richard II
translators of French romances
women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
knights preparing for their first tournament
Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces,which of these was not in his charge?
Westminster Palace
Tower of London
St. Georges chapel at Windsor
Buckingham Palace