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University of Madras UCRA Elizabethan Age Question Paper

MAY 2012 U/ID 31510/UCRA
Time : Three hours
Maximum : 100 marks
PART A — (40 ´ 1 = 40 marks)
Answer ALL questions.

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1. The sonnet was brought to England by ————————.
(a) Wyatt
(b) Surrey
(c) Petrarch

2. Surrey wrote sonnets on ————————’s model.
(a) Wyatt
(b) Petrarch
(c) Shakespeare

3. ———————— modified or perfected the sonnet form.
(a) Wyatt
(b) Surrey
(c) Spenser

4. Spenser’s ‘‘Amoretti’’ song sequence consists of ———————— sonnets.
(a) 87
(b) 88
(c) 86

5. ‘Sonnet’ is a/an ———————— word.
(a) Greek
(b) English
(c) Italian

6. ‘‘Amoretti’’ is one where Spenser expresses his feeling without recourse to ————————.
(a) epic
(b) comparison
(c) allegory

7. Shakespeare published his sonnets in ————————.
(a) 1608
(b) 1610
(c) 1609

8. Shakespeare wrote ———————— sonnets.
(a) 154
(b) 153
(c) 152

9. Shakespeare divided his sonnets into —————— lines.
(a) 15
(b) 16
(c) 14

10. Shakespeare’s sonnets consisted ———————— stanzas.
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5

11. John Donne is one of the ———————— poets.
(a) Classical
(b) Romantic
(c) Meta physical

12. ———————— has written ‘‘Amoretti’’.
(a) Spenser
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Wyatt

13. ‘‘The Sunne Rising’’ is in ———————— style.
(a) conversation
(b) narrative
(c) descriptive

14. In the first two Acts, Faustus’ mind is seen swaying between ————————.
(a) repentance and damnation
(b) desire immortality
(c) life and death

15. Valdes and ———————— are the students of Faustus.
(a) Cornelius
(b) Cornilie
(c) Beelzebub

16. The good and Bad Angels symbolise the two sides of ————————’s nature.
(a) Mephistophilis
(b) Faustus
(c) Man

17. ———————— played such beautiful music that stones moved of their own accord to form the walls of Jhebes.
(a) Arion
(b) Amphion
(c) Celia

18. Dr. Faustus was forbidden to study ————————.
(a) Nacromancy
(b) Astrology
(c) Mathematics

19. ———————— was a product of Renaissance and Reformation.
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Marlowe
(c) Ben Jonson

20. ‘Paster’ is a Latin word which means a ————————.
(a) Shepherd
(b) Soldier
(c) King

21. Oliver cob is by profession a ————————.
(a) military man
(b) lawyer
(c) water-carrier

22. Oliver cob represents ————————.
(a) lower class
(b) upper class
(c) middle class

23. Ben Jonson followed Greek and ———————— dramatists.
(a) French
(b) English
(c) Latin

24. Ben Jonson accepted the ideal of ———————— in characterisation.
(a) decorum
(b) regularity
(c) liveliness

25. In ‘‘The Sunne Rising’’, in the second stanza ———————— is belittled.
(a) the cloud
(b) the sun
(c) the lovers

26. ———————— is the author of ‘‘Tell Me’’.
(a) Donne
(b) Spenser
(c) Drayton

27. ‘‘Farewell, Love’’ is a ————————.
(a) common poem
(b) sonnet
(c) lyric

28. ———————— is the base of Marlowe’s ‘‘Dr. Faustus’’.
(a) Faust-book
(b) Faustus the Great
(c) The Jew of Malta

29. The two Angels in ‘‘Dr. Faustus’’ are messengers of ————————.
(a) richness
(b) divinity
(c) powers

30. ‘‘Dr. Faustus’’ is a play about ————————.
(a) gaining only
(b) knowledge
(c) immortality knowledge

31. By exercising his magical power, Faustus wanted to achieve ————————.
(a) immortality
(b) beauty
(c) wealth and luxury

32. The good and Evil Angels may be regarded as personifications of Faustus’s own ———————.
(a) desires for power
(b) contrary impulses
(c) past life

33. ‘‘Come Celia’’ is written by ————————.
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) Ben Jonson
(c) Sackville

34. Bacon’s essays are ————————.
(a) aphoristic
(b) personal
(c) social

35. Bacon used ———————— for apt comparisons for his essays.
(a) The Kuran
(b) The Bible
(c) The Gita

36. If ‘‘Of Death’’, Bacon condemns people’s fear of ————————.
(a) life
(b) marriage
(c) death

37. If ‘‘Of Studies’’ Bacon says that Mathematics enables a man to ————————.
(a) grasp subtleties
(b) concentrate
(c) trace analogies

38. ———————— is written by Christopher Marlowe.
(a) The Jew of Malta
(b) Richard II
(c) Henry IV Part-I

39. ‘‘Every man in His Humour’’ is written by ————————.
(a) Marlowe
(b) Bacon
(c) Ben Jonson

40. ———————— is not one of the works of Christopher Marlowe.
(a) Tamburlaine the Great
(b) Edward II
(c) Richard II

PART B : (5 ´ 4 = 20 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
41. Discuss the role of miracles in the Gospel.
42. What is Bacon’s advice to masters and princes?
43. Discuss the appropriateness or otherwise of the comic and farcical scenes in ‘‘Doctor Faustus’’.
44. Explain the different roles played by friends in our life with reference to ‘Of Friendship’?
45. Comment on the plot and construction of ‘‘Everyman in His Humour’’.
46. Critically appreciate Shakespeare’s Sonnet-18.
47. What has Bacon got to say about ‘delays’?
48. Trace the various stages of damnation of Faustus.

PART C : (2 ´ 20 = 40 marks)
Answer any TWO of the following in about 500 words each.
49. ‘‘The Essays of Bacon constitute a handbook of practical wisdom’’ – Discuss.
50. Trace the mental conflict of Faustus from the beginning till his last hour on this earth.
51. Discuss Everyman in His Humour as a classical comedy.
52. Discuss Wyatt and Surrey as sonneteers.