1. The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and it is one of the longest poems in the English language. How many stanzas were in this poem ?
a) 5000 stanzas
b) 4000 stanzas
c) 4500 stanzas
d) 5100 stanzas
springline's Correct option: b) 4000 stanzas
2. The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total. The first eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. What is the rhyming scheme of these line is ________?
a) ABABBCBCC
b) AABABBCBB
c) ABABCCBCA
d) ABCABCBAC
springline's Correct option: a) ABABBCBCC
3. Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine. The line's name derives from its use in the Medieval French Roman d'Alexandre of 1170. The foundation of most alexandrines consists each of ________?
a) Four hemistichs (half-line) of two syllables
b) Thee hemistichs (half-line) of five syllables
c) Two hemistichs (half-line) of six syllables
d) Five hemistichs (half-line) of seven syllables
springline's Correct option: c) Two hemistichs (half-line) of six syllables
4. Spenserian stanza has a possible influence is rhyme royal, a traditional medieval form used by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme ABABBCC. More likely, however, is the eight-line ballad stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC, which Chaucer used in his __________?
a) Miller’s tale
b) Monk’s tale
c) Squire’s tale
d) Knight’s tale
springline's Correct option: b) Monk’s tale
5. Spenser's invention of Spenserian stanza may have been influenced by the Italian form ottava rima, which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABABABCC. This form was used by Italian poet. Who are the Italian role models of Spenser ?
a) Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca
b) Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe
c) Giacomo Leopardi and Matteo Maria
d) Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tass
springline's Correct option: d) Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tass
6. The Faerie queene, the poem was a clear effort to gain court favour, and as a reward Elizabeth granted Spenser a pension for life amounting to £50 a year, though there is no further evidence that Elizabeth I ever read any of the poem. Spenser presented the first three books of The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I in 1589, probably sponsored by ________?
a) Sir Walter Raleigh
b) Queen Elizabeth I
c) Lord Gray of Wilton
d) Lord Hunsdon
springline's Correct option: a) Sir Walter Raleigh
7. Archimago is a sorcerer in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. In the narrative, he is continually engaged in deceitful magics. His name is an Amalgam of the Greek word. Archon means ______?
a) King
b) Player
c) Ruler
d) Empire
springline's Correct option: c) Ruler
8. Orgoglio is a literary character in Edmund Spenser's famous epic The Faerie Queene. 'Orgoglio' means 'pride' in Italian. In chapter IX of Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott, the manor of Bradwardyne is compared to the castle of Orgoglio. In Book one as a main character, he appears in the ________?
a) Sixth canto
b) Seventh Canto
c) Fourth Canto
d) Fifth Canto
springline's Correct option: b) Seventh Canto
9. The Faerie Queene is an epic poem . In this poem one of the character name refers as Heavenly Sprit and also a ruler of island called Fairy Land and also the character called as mother of Faith, hope and charity. What is the name of the character ?
a) Fidelia
b) Caelia
c) Speranza
d) Charissa
springline's Correct option: b) Caelia
10. The Shepheard’s Calender is Edmund Spenser's first major work, which appeared in 1579. It emulates Virgil's Eclogues of the first century BCE and the Eclogues of Mantuan by Baptista Mantuanus, a late medieval, early renaissance poet. An eclogue is a short pastoral poem that is in the form of ______?
a) Allegory
b) Dialogue
c) Medival Allegory
d) Narrative
springline's Correct option: b) Dialogue
11. Modern Iyric Poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle between three broad categories of poetry . What are the three categories of poetry ?
a) Lyrical, Dramatic ,Epic
b) Sonnet, Lyrical ,Epic
c) Dramatic, Sonnet, lyrical
d) Epic, Sonnet , Dramatic
springline's Correct option: a) Lyrical, Dramatic ,Epic
12. Spenser presented as a preface to the epic in most published editions, this letter outlines plans for________; twelve based each on a different knight who exemplified one of twelve ‘_______’
a) twenty-four books; private virtues
b) twelve books; private virtues
c) Six Books; Public Virtues
d) Six Books; Private Virtues
springline's Correct option: a) twenty-four books; private virtues
13. A letter written by Spenser to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1590 contains a preface for The Faerie Queene, in which Spenser describes the allegorical presentation of virtues through Arthurian knights in the mythical 'Faerieland'. Presented as a preface to the epic in most published editions, this letter outlines plans for _________?
a) Twelve books
b) Twenty –four books
c) Twenty books
d) Ten books
springline's Correct option: b) Twenty –four books
14. The Fairy Queen or Queen of the Fairies is a figure from Irish and British folklore, believed to rule the fairies. Based on Shakespeare's influence, in English-speaking cultures she is often named of _________ ?
a) Diana
b) Tam lin
c) Oberon
d) Titania
springline's Correct option: d) Titania
15. Raleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. A group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence of dense classical reference and elaborate poetic devices. Who considered Raleigh one of the era's 'silver poets'?
a) John keats
b) C.S.Lewis
c) Christopher Marlow
d) T.S. Eliot
springline's Correct option: b) C.S.Lewis
16. Spenser was called 'the Poet's Poet' by Charles Lamb. John Milton mentions 'our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas' about Spenser in his work of _______?
a) Magnum Opus
b) Lycidas
c) Areopagitica
d) Paradise Regained
springline's Correct option: c) Areopagitica
17. Which Literary device have a feature of a “Narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences ?
a) Blank Verse
b) Lyrical poem
c) Allegory
d) Ballad
springline's Correct option: c) Allegory
18. The Faerie Queene was written in Spenserian stanza, which Spenser created specifically for The Faerie Queene. Spenser varied existing epic stanza forms, the rhyme royal used by Chaucer, with the rhyme pattern ABABBCC, and the ottava rima, Which originated in ________?
a) England
b) Italy
c) Roman
d) Greek
springline's Correct option: b) Italy
19. In Elizabethan England, no subject was more familiar to writers than theology. Elizabethans learned to embrace religious studies in petty school, where they 'read from selections from the Book of Common Prayer and memorized Catechisms from the Scriptures'. This influence is evident in Spenser's text, as demonstrated in the moral allegory of _________?
a) Book I
b) Book II
c) Book III
d) Book I and Book II
springline's Correct option: a) Book I
20. The diction and atmosphere of The Faerie Queene relied on much more than just Middle English. Samuel Johnson also commented critically on Spenser's diction, with which he became intimately acquainted during his work on _________?
a) The Idler
b) The Rambler
c) A Dictionary of the English Language
d) The Vanity of Human Wishes
springline's Correct option: c) A Dictionary of the English Language
21. A letter written by Spenser to in 1590 contains a preface for The Faerie Queene, in which Spenser describes the allegorical presentation of virtues through Arthurian knights in the mythical story of ________?
a) Fairyworld
b) Faeryland
c) Faerieland
d) Faerietale
springline's Correct option: c) Faerieland
22. A knight was a professional heavy cavalry soldier in the Middle Ages. They were the top soldiers to the kingdom, and protected it at all costs. Knights worked for lords or nobles, who in exchange would give them land if the knight would fight for them. Knights thought honour was very important, and they had a code of honour called ________?
a) Crest
b) Chivalry
c) Patron
d) Mission
springline's Correct option: b) Chivalry
23. Ate is one of the character of The Faerie Queene .Ate, a fiend from Hell disguised as a beautiful maiden. Ate opposes Book IV's virtue of friendship through spreading discord. She is aided in her task by Duessa, the female deceiver of Book I, whom Ate summoned from Hell. Ate and Duessa have fooled the false knights Blandamour and Paridell into taking them as lovers. Her name is possibly inspired by ?
a) Greek God
b) Greek Goddess
c) Greek Angle
d) Greek Nun
springline's Correct option: b) Greek Goddess
24. The Redcrosse Knight, hero of Book I. Introduced in the first canto of the poem, he bears the emblem of Saint George, patron saint of England; a red cross on a white background that is still the ________?
a) Flag of Britain
b) Flag of Italy
c) Flag of England
d) Flag of Australia
springline's Correct option: c) Flag of England
25. Britomartis was a Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes believed to be an oread, or a mountain nymph, but she was often conflated or syncretized with Artemis and Aphaea, the 'invisible' patroness of Aegina. She is also known as _________?
a) Diana
b) Diktynna
c) Oberon
d) Titania
springline's Correct option: b) Diktynna
26. The poem is dedicated to Elizabeth I who is represented in the poem as the Faerie Queene Gloriana, as well as the character Belphoebe. Spenser prefaces the poem with _______?
a) Lyrical
b) Epic
c) Sonnet
d) Verse
springline's Correct option: c) Sonnet
27. The Faerie Queene was written during the Reformation, a time of religious and political controversy. After taking the throne following the death of her half-sister Mary, Elizabeth changed the official religion of the nation to Protestantism. The plot of book one is similar the work of ___________?
a) Orlando Furioso
b) Prophetiae Merlini
c) Jerusalam Delivered
d) Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
springline's Correct option: d) Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
28. In Book –I of Faerie Queene ,The Redcrosse Knight and his lady Una travel together as he fights the monster Errour, then separately after the wizard Archimago tricks the Redcrosse Knight into thinking that Una is unchaste using a false dream. After he leaves, the Redcrosse Knight meets ______?
a) Duessa
b) Archimago
c) Caelia
d) Orgoglio
springline's Correct option: a) Duessa
29. In Faerie Queene ,Spenser includes the controversy of Elizabethan church reform within the epic. Gloriana has godly English knights destroy Catholic continental power in Books I and V. Book I is centered on the ________?
a) Virtue of Temperance
b) Virtue of Chastity
c) Virtue of Holiness
d) Virtue of Justice
springline's Correct option: c) Virtue of Holiness
30. Throughout The Faerie Queene, Spenser creates a network of allusions to events, issues, and particular persons in England and Ireland including Mary, Queen of Scots, the Spanish Armada, the English Reformation, and even the Queen herself. It is also known that James VI read the poem. The Faerie Queene was banned in________?
a) Italy
b) Scotland
c) Britain
d) Wasteland
springline's Correct option: b) Scotland