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178/2003 maximum : 100 Time: 2 hours Section A Questions 1 to 60, carry 1 mark each The material from Shakespeare’s English historical plays were derived mainly from the “Chronicles” of ______________. Raphael Holinshed Richard II was written in direct imitation of Marlowe’s __________________. Edward II The __________ of the Taming of the Shrew deals with the practical joke played upon Sly. Scene I To a certain extent Shakespeare was influenced by _________ theory of the “humours”. Ben Jonson's __________ in Twelfth Night is a ridiculous representation of Puritanism. Malvolio Dryden’s “Here is God’s plenty” refers to the diversity of characters in _________. The Canterbury Tales Spenser followed the Italian plan of writing sonnets in sequences in his ___________. Amoretti The collection of “Songs and Sonnets” by various authors, is commonly known from the name of its ...

Who was the important King of England instrumental to the revival of letters during the Anglo-Saxon period? King Alfred. What was the name of the folk tale brought by the Angles? Beowulf Who was called “The Poet's Poet”? Edmund Spenser The lectures of Plato have been preserved in the form of _____________. Dialogues The century in which Aristotle write his “Poetics” is ________B.C. 4 th Century Who wrote the treatise of literary criticism, “On the Sublime”? Longinus The author of “Golden Bough” is ___________. Sir James George Frazer { The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion; by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)} Which play of Shakespeare observes the unity of time strictly? Winter's Tale. Lycidas was occasioned by the death of ________________. Edward King “The tragic pleasure”, says Aristotl...

VHSC- 2013 Solved PSC Question Paper Which of the following is not a character in Chaucer's  “Canterbury Tales”? (A) The Scholar             (B) The Sailor (C) The Doctor              (D) The Princess Answer: D Author of the poem “Ode to St. Cecilia's Day” (A) Keats                       (B) Shelley (C) Dryden                    (D) Pope Answer: C         Read the poem here  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 “Ay, but to die, and go we know not where To lie in cold obstruction and to rot, This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod” - Who is the author of the text from which these  lines are taken? (A) Collins                ...