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William Hazlitt,Thomas Love Peacock,

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Hazlitt admired all poets except

a)

Milton

b)

Spencer

c)

Shakespeare

d)

Chaucer

2.

He also wrote against______ in 1818 titled “Lectures on the English Poets”.

a)

Spencer

b)

Wordsworth

c)

Shelly

d)

Sidney

3.

“It is we who are Hamlet” appears in __________ . In this essay, Hazlitt considered 35 plays as genuine and covered them in 32 chapters.

a)

The Annals of the Parish

b)

The Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

c)

The Characters of Shakespeare

d)

The Spirit of the Age or Contemporary Portraits

4.

It is a collection of essays by Hazlitt. Originally published in 2 volumes, first of which appeared in 1821. The essay deals with topics such as art, literature and philosophy. The essay “The Indian Jugglers” is an essay of this anthology.

a)

Political Essays

b)

The Spirit of the Age

c)

The Plain Speaker

d)

Table Talk

5.

When he was in teenage he wrote poetical works Palmyra and other poems and Monks of St. Mark. In 1812 he met P.B. Shelley and formed a close relationship with him. Because of financial problems, he took a job in East India Company in 1819

a)

Hazlitt

b)

Love Peacock

6.

The four ages of poetry are ‘Age of Gold’, ‘Age of Silver’, ‘Age of Brass’, and_______. This essay was first published in the Journal “Literary Miscellany” in 1820.

a)

Age of Iron

b)

Age of Nickel

c)

Age of Bronze

d)

Age of Diamond

7.

Peacock is best known for his essay “The Four Ages of Poetry”, which provoked Shelley’s famous “Defence of Poetry” (1821).yes or no

(a)  

8.

In Nightmare Abbey he satired on _______

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Shelley

c)

Sidney

d)

Keats

9.

Headlong Hall (1815) 2. Nightmare Abbey (1818) 3. The Misfortunes of Elphin (1821) are ______ of Peacock

a)

Plays

b)

Novels

c)

Essays

d)

Short stories

10.

In this essay, Peacock defined the poet as “a semi-barbarian in a civilized community”. which essay

(a)  

11.

He was the first novelist in English to present characters as a part of society.  He was the inventor of true historic novel

a)

Scott

b)

Peacock

12.

_________ (1800) is a regional narrative by her. (Her first novel also). It’s first historical novel.  Edgeworth’s first published work was “Letters for Literary Ladies” (1795).

a)

Castle Reckrent

b)

The Double Disguise

c)

Harrington

d)

The Parent’s Assistant

13.

_______ was a historical novelist, playwright, and poet.  He collaborated with Gothic novelist “Monk Lewis” – in Tales of Wonder in 1801.

a)

Edgeworth

b)

Mathew Lewis

c)

Scott

d)

Mr.Waverly

14.

The Waverly novels are a long series of novels.  As Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827 then took its name Waverly.  The first novel of the series was released in 1814.  The later books bore the ________ wordson their title pages.

a)

from the Author of waverly

b)

by the author of Waverly

15.

Jane Austen parodied Radcliffe in her _____

a)

Pride And Prejudice

b)

Persuasion

c)

Northanger Abbey

d)

Silas Mariner

16.

________He is best known as the author of a biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott ,which has been called the second most admirable in the English language ,after Boswell's Life of Johnson

a)

Joseph Andrews

b)

Mathew Flickery

c)

John Lockhart

d)

James Mandevel

17.

In Which Work of Ann Radcliff differentiate between Terror and Horror?

a)

The Mysteries of Udolpho

b)

The Italian

c)

On the Supernatural in Poetry

d)

The Romance of the Forest

18.

Sub title of The Italian by Radcliff

a)

The Confession of the Black Prince

b)

The Confessional of the Black Penitents

19.

who is said to be called as the Father of Gothic Novel

a)

Mathew Lewis

b)

Horace Walpole

c)

Walter Scott

d)

Lord Byron