PGTRB English Online MCQs Model Exam @www.trb.tn.nic.in

PGTRB English Online MCQs Model Exam @www.trb.tn.nic.in

1. Chaucer served in the English army under which king ? 

 (a) Henry iii

 (b) Edward ii

 (c) Edward iii ☑

(d) Richard ii


2. Which of the tale tellers has a conspicuous hairy wart ? 

 (a)The coachman 

 (b) The miller ☑

(c) The tailor 

 (d) The weaver 


3. How many plays did William Shakespeare write ? 

 (a) 36

 (b) 37☑

(c) 38

 (d) 39


4. The line " to be or not to be " comes from which play ? 

 (a) Macbeth 

 (b) twelfth night 

 (c) A midsummer Night's dream 

 (d) Hamlet ☑


5. Which famous Shakespearean play does the quote,

" my salad days, when I was green in judgment"

come from ? 

 (a) antony and cleopatra ☑

(b) hamlet 

 (c) The winter's tale 

 (d) The merry wives of Windsor 


6. In what year was the first Folio published ? 

 (a) 1626

 (b) 1621

 (c) 1623☑

(d) 1629


7. Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth ? 

 (a) The Thames 

 (b) The Avon ☑

(c) The Tyburn 

 (d) The seven 


8. In 1613, The Globe theater burned down during a production of which play ? 

 (a) king John 

 (b) Richard II 

 (c) Henry viii☑

(d) Henry V


9. Who among these characters says this

"it is no sin to deceive a Christian?"

 (a) shylock 

 (b) Shakespeare 

 (c) Barabus 

 (d) Jew of Malta ☑


10. Pick the place where Twelfth Night has been set ? 

 (a) Kingdom of Denmark 

 (b) Kingdom of illyria ☑

(c) Venice 

 (d) Beach Island 


11. Gratiano and Nerrissa are the characters in ? 

 (a) house of fame 

 (b) merchant of Venice ☑

(c) king Lear 

 (d) Othello 


12. " HORATIO I AM DEAD " find the literary device employed here ? 

 (a) prolepsis ☑

(b) anagnorisis 

 (c) hamartia 

 (d) aporia 


13. In " Tempest " who attempts to rape Miranda ? 

 (a) ferdinand 

 (b) caliban ☑

(c) trinculo 

 (d) alonso 


14. " Ripeness is all " occurs in ? 

 (a) hamlet 

 (b) king Lear ☑

(c) Macbeth 

 (d) Othello 


15. " Full Fathom five thy father lies " where do we find these lines ? 

 (a) A midsummer night's dream 

 (b) A winter's tale 

 (c) The taming of the shrew 

 (d) The Tempest ☑


16. " Readiness is all " occurs in ? 

 (a) Julius Caesar 

 (b) Othello 

 (c) Macbeth 

 (d) Hamlet ☑


17. Whom did Charles lamb call " a prose Shakespeare" ? 

 (a) Thomas heywood ☑

(b) Thomas Middleton 

 (c) Thomas dekker 

 (d) Thomas kyd 


18. Who is called the dickens of Elizabethan age ? 

 (a) Thomas heywood 

 (b) John Marston 

 (c) Thomas dekker ☑

(d) George Chapman 


19. Who coined the phrase "Marlowe's mighty line" ? 

 (a) Samuel Johnson 

 (b) Ben Johnson ☑

(c) Mathew Arnold 

 (d) Richard Steele 


20. Which play of Shakespeare is a " conversation play " ? 

 (a) measure for measure 

 (b) much ado about nothing 

 (c) Twelfth night 

 (d) All's well that ends well ☑


21. " Life of Shakespeare " is written by ? 

 (a) Sidney Lee ☑

(b) Philip Sidney 

 (c) Marlowe 

 (d) spencer 


22. Who completed Christopher Marlowe's " Hero and Leander " ? 

 (a) Ben Johnson 

 (b) Shakespeare 

 (c) Chapman ☑

(d) heywood 


23. In which tale of Chaucer, a daughter is killed by her father ? 

 (a) The monk's tale 

 (b) The physician's tale ☑

(c) The friar's tale 

 (d) The clerk's tale 


24. In whose story, the character of Griselda appear ? 

 (a) The clerk's tale ☑

(b) The Reeve's tale 

 (c) The miller's tale 

 (d) The friar's tale 


25. Who is known as the Chaucer of Scotland ? 

 (a) William Dunbar ☑

(b) Robert Henryson 

 (c) John lydgate 

 (d) Gavin Douglas 


26. The schoolmaster by Roger Ascham is a/an ? 

 (a) morality play 

 (b) human ideal 

 (c) educational treatise ☑

(d) all of the above 


27. Who is known as the connecting link between Chaucer and Spenser ? 

 (a) Henry Howard 

 (b) Thomas Sackville ☑

(c) Roger Ascham 

 (d) Sir Thomas Wyatt 


28. When did the Great fire of London take place ? 

 (a) 1610 

 (b) 1606

 (c) 1640

 (d) 1666☑


29. Chaucer was called " the earliest of the Great moderns" and was also called, " The morning star of the Renaissance ". Who initiated these remarks ? 

 (a) Kittredge 

 (b) Hudson 

 (c) Albert ☑

(d) Pope 


30. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ? 

 (a) The short story 

 (b) The heroic epic 

 (c) The morality play ☑


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