1) It was the era of global explorations and bridging a gap between middle ages and modern civilization. It was over-enthusiastic with culture, artistic, political and economic while the middle ages focused on religion and after life. Which age was it?
A:) Chaucerian era
B:) Renaissance
C:) Elizabethan Age
D:) Tudor Dynasty
springline's Correct option: B
2) In whose era people endured less religious tension and strong political system.
A:) Elizabeth
B:) Queen Anne
C:) Charles I
D:) James II
springline's Correct option: A
3) He is the princes of poets, an intellectual man well versed in mythology of Greece and Rome from whom Milton adopted all of his mythological elements in his Paradise Lost. Who is he?
A:) Collins
B:) Sidney
C:) Marlow
D:) Spenser
springline's Correct option: D
4) In Prothalamion, who was the narrator describing the classical images?
A:) Earl of Essex
B:) Muses
C:) Spenser’s illusion
D:) Spenser
springline's Correct option: D
5) Among the writers who did not imitate the style of Spencer’s poetic style?
A:) Alexander Pope
B:) D G Rosetti
C:) T S Eliot
D:) Tennyson
springline's Correct option: D
6) What is the authentic date when Edmund Spenser wrote Prothalamion while visiting London from Ireland ?
A:) 1596
B:) 1569
C:) 1567
D:) 1568
springline's Correct option: A
7) In the course of his stay with Robert Devearux, the second Earl of Essex, who was formerly in Leicester House, Spenser wrote one of his work which is partly a defense of Lord Arthur Grey de Wilton. What was the work?
A:) The Ruins of Time
B:) Daphnaida
C:) Complaints
D:) A View of the Present State of England
springline's Correct option: D
8) In the refrain “Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song”, Spenser embraces the tonal quality of water bodies that symbolizes life on earth and requests to listen to the eternal song. How many stresses are employed in the refrain?
A:) 6
B:) 9
C:) 5
D:) 8
springline's Correct option: C
9) Where does Spenser find the classical imagery of a group of nymphs with baskets collecting flowers for the new brides’ with references to the two great rivers?
A:) Thames and Lee
B:) Temp and Thames
C:) Thames and Tessilian
D:) Lee and Tessilian
springline's Correct option: A
10) Critics say, Spenser pens his works modeled on the ancient era. The style of verse, Spenser essentially used in Prothalamion must have begun from the Latin poem …………
A:) The Teares of the Muses
B:) Visions of Petrarch
C:) A Tale of Two Swans
D:) The Fate of the Butterflies
springline's Correct option: C
11) Spenser’s mythology in Prothalamion is used to illustrate and ornament his vision on the pre wedding. Given below are the myths which Spenser admits in his poem. Find out the appropriate myth in the poem noticed to be the dwelling of muses.
A:) Penus
B:) Pindus
C:) Titanus
D:) Jove
springline's Correct option: B
12) Who is the Goddess of poetry?
A:) Jove
B:) Muse
C:) Cynthia
D:) Venus
springline's Correct option: B
13) Who said, Spenser shouldn’t have done that and a historical references do not always prove fruitful and enjoyable when it comes to poetry?
A:) Dr. Johnson
B:) Emily Dickinson
C:) Ernest Hemingway
D:) William Painter
springline's Correct option: A
14) Which is the work in Elizabethan era to be known as unparallel product of non-dramatic Renaissance.
A:) The Shepherd’s Calender
B:) The Faerie Queen
C:) Prothalamion
D:) Amoretti
springline's Correct option: C
15) Prothalamion is an ……………., with soothing musical verse and a portrayal of elegance is embodied with bliss and purity.
A:) Epitome
B:) Epitatis
C:) Epitaph
D:) None of the above
springline's Correct option: A
16) The accomplishments of Earl of Essex in Prothalamion is written in …………
A:) 12 lines
B:) 23 lines
C:) 21 lines
D:) 18 lines
springline's Correct option: C
17) The rhyme scheme of Prothalamion is ……………
A:) abbacddceeffgg
B:) abbbacdedefgg
C:) ababcdcdefefgg
D:) None of the above
springline's Correct option: D
18) What was the “gentle spirit” used by Spenser in Prothalamion to ease his pain?
A:) West Wind
B:) Titan’s beam
C:) River Thames
D:) All the above
springline's Correct option: A
19) Who is called the “Noble Peer” in Prothalamion
A:) Queen Elizabeth
B:) Somerset daughters
C:) Earl of Wssex
D:) Earl of Essex
springline's Correct option: D
20) The two swans swimming happily in the river is a symbol of
A:) The bride and bridegroom
B:) The bride
C:) Nuptial chamber
D:) Both b and c
springline's Correct option: B
21) The setting of the poem is
A:) Essex’s Castle
B:) London’s countryside
C:) The river Thames
D:) The backwaters on Spenser’s return from the court
springline's Correct option: C
22) What was the original name of the brides’ father, Earl of Worcester?
A:) Thomas Somerset
B:) Philip Somerset
C:) John Somerset
D:) Edward Somerset
springline's Correct option: D
23) The wedding ceremony of the brides takes place in………..
A:) Worcester’s palace
B:) Essex’s castle
C:) Royal Hall of London
D:) Courtyard of Essex
springline's Correct option: B
24) The wedding date of the Somerset’s daughters is on ………..
A:) 8th November 1596
B:) 9th November 1596
C:) 11th November 1596
D:) 7th November 1596
springline's Correct option: A
25) One of the Somerset’s relative sponsored Spenser in writing Prothalamion. Who was that?
A:) Earl of Tssex
B:) Earl of Bssex
C:) Earl of Surrey
D:) Earl of Essex
springline's Correct option: D
26) Who was the patron of Spenser in his literary career?
A:) Earl of surrey
B:) Earl of Washington
C:) Earl of Leicester
D:) Earl of Somerset
springline's Correct option: C
27) “That like the twins of Jove they seemed in sight,
Which deck the baldric of the heavens bright”. Whom does Spenser mention as twins of Jove?
A:) The knights
B:) The brides
C:) The nymphs
D:) Cupid and Venus
springline's Correct option: A
28) “The rest so far as Cynthia doth shend, the lesser stars.”, Who is Cynthia?
A:) The nymhhs
B:) The moon
C:) Queen Elizabeth
D:) Elisa
springline's Correct option: B