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1. Spenser worked as a secretary to
A) Earl of Pembroke B) Earl of Leicester. C) Grey de wilton D) Edward lIl
2. Spenser's shepherd calendar was dedicated to
A) His beloved. B) Sidney C) Rosalind. D) Benjohnson
3. Who called Spenser a 'Poets poet
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A) Rickett B) Sidney C) Lamb. D) Arnold
4. Who was the first wife of Spenser?
A) Machabyas childe B) Elizabeth Boyle C) Catherine Boyle D) Rosalind
5. Which of the following work, Spenser wrote an elegy on Sidney's death?
A) Shepherd’s calendar B) Astrophel C) Amoretti D) Epithalamion
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6. Spenser's Amoretti is
A) Collection of his love sonnets. B) Collection of his love songs C) An Elegy D)
None
7. Spenser wrote a series of sonnets in honour of his lady love, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he
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married later?
A) Amoretti B) Epithalamion c) Venus and Adonis. D) None
8. In which work did Spenser use the Spenserian Stanza?
A) Amoretti B) Epithalamion C) Prothalamion. D) Faerie Queene
9. 'Spenser wrote no language' who said this?
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A) Ben Jonson B) Dr. Johnson C) Dryden. D) Arnold
10. Amoretti is a collection of Eighty eight ___
A) Sonnets. B) Odes C) Play D) Songs
11. lambicum Trimetrum is associated with
A) Wyatt B) Surrey. c) Sidney D) Spenser
12. Prothalamion is a
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i) Inner Champer. ii) Spousal Verse. iii) Nuptial song iv) Wedding ode
A) i, ii B) ii, iii C) i, ii, iv only D) All the above
13. when did Spenser's Prothalamion publish?
A) 1594 B) 1595 C) 1596 D) 1597
14. Prothalamion was based on
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A) Betrothal song. B) A Tale of two swans C) Epithalamion D) Spousal song
15. "Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly lay' in this line Zephyrus meant by?
A) Wild wind B) west wind C) Sun D) East wind
16) Match the following:
a) Elizabeth Somerset 1. Brides
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b) Katherine Somerset 2. Henry Gilford
c) Swans 3. Nymphs
d) Lovely daughters 4. William peter
A) ABCD B) CABD C) DACB D) CADB
17. What is Spenserian rhyme scheme?
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A) ab ab cd cd ef ef gg. B) abba abba cd cd cd C) abab bc bc cd cd ee D) abcd
abcd ef ef gg
18. Which flower not mentioned in the poem "Prothalamion'?
A) violet pallid B) Red daisy c) Virgin lily D) Vermeil rose
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19. Which Stanza of Prothalamion considered as benediction song by Nymphs?
A) 4h Stanza. B) 5 th Stanza C) 6 Stanza. D) 7h Stanza
20. What is the meaning of Spousal verse?
A) Song of love B) Song of Marriage C) Song of Betrothal D) Song of happiness
21. Prothalamion is form of
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A) Italian canzone. B) Marriage sonnets C) Latin Lyrics D) French songs
22. Who said "our sage and serious poet, Better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas".
A) Lamb. B) Milton. C) Long. D) Alexander pope
23. Leigh Hunt praises Spenser "I think he would not been great poet, he would been a great
painter.
A) Imagination and fancy B) Faerie Queene. C) Aeropagatica D) Love hymns to
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24. When did the marriage of the daughters of Edward Somerset occur?
A) 10 November, 1595 B) 12 September, 1596. C) 8 November, 1596. D)
14 November, 1595
25. Who says that Prothalamion holds autobiographical lines of Spenser?
A) T.S.Eliot B) Bacon C) Dr. Johnson D) Chaucer
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26. Who were belongs to Areopagus literary club?
A) Gabriel Harvey, Dyer, Sidney, Spenser. B) Walter Raleigh, Spenser, Sidney, Dyer
C) Hervey, Spenser, Sidney, Benjohnson D) None
27. Who is the best companion of Spenser?
A) Walter Raleigh B) Gabriel Harvey C) Philip Sydney. D) Benjohnson
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28. Which work of Spenser is called as work of unformed literature and the product of
unperfected art?
A) Prothalamion B) Astrophel. C) Faerie Queen D) Epithalamion
29. Which is Spenser highest poetic achievement?
A) Prothalamion. B) Astrophel C) Faerie Queen D) Epithalamion
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30. Who called Spenser as the poet of delighted senses?
A) Rickett. B) Harvey C) W.B.Yeats. D) Arnold
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1-C. 2- B. 3- C. 4- A. 5- B.
6- A. 7- A. 8- D. 9- A.
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11- D. 12- D. 13- C. 14- B. 15- B.
16- D. 17- C. 18- B. 19- C. 20- C
21- A. 22- B. 23-A 24- C. 25- C
26- A. 27- B. 28- C. 29- C 30- C
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