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History of English Literature
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1. Which of the following is not a work of Ben Johnson?
2. The witch and game at chess are the last plays of _____________.
3. The great plague is also called __________________.
4. There were three important medieval institutions. Which of the following was not one of them
5. Name the longest Tale in the Canterbury Tales.
6. In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the ______________.
7. Who coined the phrase, Marlowe'smighty Line?"
8. The Definition of Love and To His Coy Mistress are the famous poems of ____________.
9. Webster's The White Devil is based on the life of the Celebrated Italian Courtesan _________.
10. Who is the hero in the Spencer's fairy Queen?
11. The Restoration comedies such as the Relapse, The Provok'd Wife and the Confedency are the works of __________.
12. ___________ was a poet, literary critic, playwright, and translator.
13. Who remarked that Chaucer's found English a dialect and left it a language?"
14. 'Marlowe's mighty line- this phrase refers to his ______________."
15. In Johnson's Every Man in his Humour. Who is Jealous Husband?
16. Hudibras is a famous work of ______________.
17. One of the dominant Characteristic of Sidney's Arcadia is ____________.
18. What does Dryden mean by the term concomment"?"
19. Error and Orgogilo in the Fairy Queen are ______________.
20. The Cardinal and lady of Pleasure are the masterpiece of playwright whom Charles Lamb called The last of Great race" Name Him."
21. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas nasthe is a typical ______________.
22. The fairy Queen apparently follows the style of______________.
23. Which of the following causes accounts for the popularity of Elizabethan Drama?
24. Who is regarded as the first translator of the bible into English?
25. Which characters of Spencer represents Queen Mary of Scots?

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