Quiz 64 By Asit

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale had its origin in :

• The French Roman de Renart

• The Italian Boccaccio's 'Teseide

• The English John Gower’s 'Confessio Amantis

• The German Goethe’s 'Faust

Answer explanation

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale had its origin in The French Roman de Renart, making it the correct choice.

Restoration comedy begins with

• Congreve

• Dryden

• Sheridan

• Etherege

Answer explanation

Restoration comedy begins with Congreve as he is considered one of the key figures in the genre.

The author of 'The Progress of the Soul' is :

• John Bunyan

• Henry Vaughan

• John Donne

• Richard Crashaw

Answer explanation

The author of 'The Progress of the Soul' is John Donne, as mentioned in the answer choices.

Dr. Johnson’s 'The Lives of The Poets' is an

example of :

• Psychological criticism

• Biographical criticism

• Historical criticism

• Archetypal criticism

Answer explanation

Dr. Johnson's 'The Lives of The Poets' falls under Biographical criticism as it focuses on the lives of poets rather than their works.

The picaresque novel with a female picaroon is:

• Tom Jones

• Clarissa

• Moll Flanders

• Amelia

Answer explanation

The picaresque novel with a female picaroon is 'Moll Flanders', making it the correct choice out of the options provided.

The expression “ancestral voices prophesying

war” occurs in :

• Kubla Khan’

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

• Christabel'

• ‘Frost at Midnight’

Answer explanation

The expression 'ancestral voices prophesying war' occurs in 'Kubla Khan', making it the correct choice.

The posthumously published novel of Jane

Austen is :

• Sense and Sensibility

• Mansfield Park

• Emma

• Northanger Abbey

Answer explanation

The posthumously published novel of Jane Austen is 'Northanger Abbey'.

The character not created by Hardy is :

• Bathsheba Everdene

• Thomasin

• Sue Bridehead

• Betsy Trotwood

Answer explanation

The character not created by Hardy is Betsy Trotwood.

The poet who described poetry as “Inspired

mathematics” is :

• T.S. Eliot

• Hopkins

• Archibald Macleish

• Ezra Pound

Answer explanation

The poet who described poetry as “Inspired mathematics” is Ezra Pound.

The woman character who is an artist by

profession in Virginia Woolf’s 'To the

Lighthouse' is :

• Lily Briscoe

• Mrs. Ramsay

• Mrs. Dalloway

• Miriam

Answer explanation

In Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', the woman artist character is Lily Briscoe, not Mrs. Ramsay, Mrs. Dalloway, or Miriam.