Samuel Johnson

In which year was Samuel Johnson’s great ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ completed and published?

• 1755

• 1753

• 1752

• 1554

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What text did Samuel Johnson write to pay for his mother Sarah’s funeral in 1759?

• Rasselas

• The Vanity Of Human Wishes

• A Dictionary Of The English Language

• The Lives Of The English Poets

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Samuel Johnson said that “ Everyone is perhaps more willing to honour past than present excellence; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age”

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Statement 1: Johnson believed that Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers.

Statement 2: Johnson was so in awe of Shakespeare however, that he never spoke of his demerits in ‘Preface to Shakespeare’.

• Statement 1 is true

• Statement 2 is true

• Statement 1 is true but statement 2 is false

• Both statement 1 and 2 are false

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

According to Johnson the unities of time and place are extremely essential to a just drama.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Johnson abhorred the Scots hence he used this famous definition in his dictionary , to describe a grain, which said that “ In England it is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”. What grain is it?

• Rice

• Wheat

• Oats

• Barley

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which statement did Johnson not say about Shakespeare?

• “Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

• “In the writing of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.”

• “We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account."

• ‘‘Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion.’’

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

In 1776 Johnson travelled with to Oxford, where he stood bareheaded in the rain in the market-place before the stall which had housed his father's bookshop, in order to atone for a -________committed fifty years before.

• breach of filial piety

• breach of honesty

• breach of contract

• breach of rules

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

According to Johnson, plots are often________

• loosely formed and carelessly pursued

• only loosely formed

• only carelessly pursued

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Johnson calls Shakespeare______

• poet of love

• poet of nature

• poet of happiness

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6