1. All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden which is now his best-known and most performed play. It is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama and It is a tragedy written in____?
A:) Rhymed Verse
B:) Blank Verse
C:) Free Verse
D:) Limerick
springline- Correct option: B:) Blank Verse
2. All For Love; Although it ostensibly deals with the same topic as Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden confines the action to Alexandria and focuses on the end of their doomed relationship. It first appeared in _____?
A:) 1677
B:) 1676
C:) 1678
D:) 1679
springline- Correct option: A:) 1677
3. All for Love: The play was revived at Lincoln's Inn Fields in February 1704, with Betterton as Antony, Mrs. Barry as Cleopatra, Wilks as Dolabella, and Mrs. Bracegirdle as Octavia; at Drury Lane in December 1718, with Booth as Antony, Mrs. Porter as ______?
A:) Cleopatra
B:) Dolabella
C:) Octavia
D:) Marc Antony
springline- Correct option: C:) Octavia
4. In this Play of All for Love, Alexas, Cleopatra's eunuch, dismisses Serapion's claims and is more concerned with Cleopatra's relationship with Antony. Who describes foreboding omens (of storms, whirlwinds, and the flooding of the Nile) of Egypt's impending doom?
A:) Narrator
B:) Octovia
C:) Ventidius
D:) Serapion
springline- Correct option: D:) Serapion
5. Who is a Roman general, comes to aide Antony in Alexandria and also, Who disagrees with Antony's relationship with Cleopatra and offers to give Antony troops if he leaves her ?
A:) Serapion
B:) Alexas
C:) Ventidius
D:) Iras
springline- Correct option: C:) Ventidius
6. All for Love; Cleopatra mourns about her situation without Antony. Charmion, Cleopatra's lady in waiting, attempts to set up a meeting between Cleopatra and Antony, but she is unsuccessful. Who suggests that Cleopatra should tie the bracelet onto Antony's wrist ?
A:) Alexas
B:) Charmion
C:) Myris
D:) Venditius
springline- Correct option: A:) Alexas
7. Antony is returning from battle and is overwhelmed with love for Cleopatra. Ventidius comes to speak with Antony, who attempts to flee unsuccessfully. Antony does not want to go back to war but doesn't know how to stop it. He believes Dolabella can help him and Who brings Dolabella out?
A:) Antony
B:) Ventidius
C:) Octavia
D:) Iras
springline- Correct option: B:) Ventidius
8. Dolabella was banished for his love for Cleopatra, but he returns to a warm welcome from Antony. Dolabella offers a gift that will bring peace between Antony and Caesar. The gift is Octavia, Who was a Antony's true wife and sister of _____?
A:) Caesar
B:) Ventidius
C:) Augustus
D:) Alexander The Great
springline- Correct option: C:) Augustus
9. Octavia tells Antony the war will stop when he returns to his rightful place, by her side. Antony and Octavia reunite. Cleopatra and Octavia have an argument, it seems clear that Octavia is whom Antony rightfully belongs to, even if it is not she whom he loves most. Who tells her to avoid Octavia but Cleopatra chooses to face her as a rival?
A:) Alexas
B:) Dollabella
C:) Antony
D:) Ventidius
springline- Correct option: A:) Alexas
10. Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England, distinguished by both its verse structure and its subject matter. The term ‘heroic drama’ was invented by Dryden for his play of _____?
A:) All For Love
B:) Aureng -Zebe
C:) The Conquest of Granada
D:) Mac Flecknoe
springline- Correct option: C:) The Conquest of Granada
11. Ventidius overhears that Dolabella will be going to Cleopatra to bid her farewell. He also sees her devising a plan with Alexas to inspire jealousy in Antony. Who taking Cleopatra's hand, but when the time comes to make a move romantically, both of them fall apart from the guilt of their betrayal?
A:) Antony
B:) Dolabella
C:) Alexas
D:) Ventidius
springline- Correct option: B:) Dolabella
12. All for Love; Antony then tells Ventidius to end his life, but Ventidius refuses and kills himself. With Ventidius dead, Antony then tries and fails to commit suicide. Cleopatra then comes in and sees Antony, still living, but on the verge of death. Antony dies. Cleopatra then kills herself, as do her ladies-in-waiting, all by the ______?
A:) eating of snakes
B:) killing themselves
C:) biting of Snakes
D:) Commit Suicide
springline- Correct option: C:) biting of Snakes
13. Marcus Antonius commonly known in English as Mark Antony or Anthony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire. Antony was a relative and supporter of ____?
A:) Alexander
B:) Augustan
C:) Julius Caesar
D:) Julian
springline- Correct option: C:) Julius Caesar
14. Octavia the Younger was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus (known also as Octavian), the half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and the fourth wife of Mark Antony. She was also the great-grandmother of the Emperor ________?
A:) Augustus
B:) Nero
C:) Trajan
D:) Caligula
springline- Correct option: D:) Caligula
15. John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in _____?
A:) 1688
B:) 1686
C:) 1689
D:) 1687
springline- Correct option: A:) 1688
16. Dryden is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Who called him ‘Glorious John’?
A:) William Blake
B:) C.S. Lewis
C:) George Herbert
D:) Sir Walter Scott
springline- Correct option: D:) Sir Walter Scott
17. Dryden was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and Parliament. He was a second cousin once removed of _______?
A:) Samuel Johnson
B:) Jonathan Swift
C:) John Milton
D:) Shelly
springline- Correct option: B:) Jonathan Swift
18. In Dryden’s poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet ,Who referred to him as ‘the master of the middle style’—that was a model for his contemporaries and for much of the 18th century?
A:) Henry Vaughan
B:) Thomas Merton
C:) Wystan Hugh Auden
D:) Richard Crashaw
springline- Correct option: C:) Wystan Hugh Auden
19. Dryden's heroic couplet became the dominant poetic form of the 18th century. Who was heavily influenced by Dryden and often borrowed from him; other writers were equally influenced by Dryden?
A:) Ben Johnson
B:) John Keats
C:) Jonathan Swift
D:) Alexander Pope
springline- Correct option: D:) Alexander Pope
20. Who summed up the general attitude with his(Dryden) remark that ‘the veneration with which his name is pronounced by every cultivator of English literature, is paid to him as he refined the language, improved the sentiments, and tuned the numbers of English poetry ?
A:) Samuel Johnson
B:) T.S. Eliot
C:) Sir Walter Scott
D:) Alexander Pope
springline- Correct option: A:) Samuel Johnson
21. Johnson noted,( about Dryden) however, that ‘He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Who edited Dryden’s Works?
A:) Robert Burns
B:) Sir Walter Scott
C:) Robert Southey
D:) William Wordsworth
springline- Correct option: B:) Sir Walter Scott
22. Critical interest in Dryden has increased recently, but, as a relatively straightforward writer of his work has not occasioned as much interest as Andrew Marvell's, John Donne's or Pope's .Who accused Dryden of having a ‘commonplace mind’?
A:) Wordsworth
B:) T. S. Eliot
C:) Alexander Pope
D:) Lord Byron
springline- Correct option: B:) T. S. Eliot
23. Dryden is believed to be the first person to posit that English sentences should not end in prepositions because Latin sentences cannot end in prepositions. Dryden created the proscription against preposition stranding in ____?
A:) 1672
B:) 1673
C:) 1674
D:) 1675
springline- Correct option: A:) 1672
24. Dryden created the proscription against preposition stranding when he objected to Whose (year-1611) phrase, ‘the bodies that those souls were frighted from’, though he did not provide the rationale for his preference?
A:) Samuel Johnson
B:) Ben Jonson
C:) John Keats
D:) Swift
springline- Correct option: B:) Ben Jonson
25. All For Love begins with John Dryden’s dedication of the play to an aristocratic patron, Thomas Osborne. He praises Osborne for his loyalty to the crown during the _______?
A:) English Civil War
B:) Nine Years War
C:) French Revolutionary Wars
D:) War of Roses
springline- Correct option: A:) English Civil War
26. All for Love; Dryden then writes a preface about the play itself. The story of Antony and Cleopatra has been ‘oft told’ most famously by William Shakespeare, but Dryden has made some changes. For instance, he has invented new characters and scripted a fictional meeting between__________?
A:) Charmion and Myris
B:) Serapion and Antony
C:) Cleopatra and Octavia
D:) Antony and Cleopatra
springline- Correct option: C:) Cleopatra and Octavia
27. Serapion, he is very concerned about Egypt’s fate in the Roman invasion, and he spends much of the play’s opening scene discussing a series of frightening omens that have appeared in Egypt recently, seeming to foretell a terrible fate. Who is another priest of the Temple of Isis?
A:) Iras
B:) Alexas
C:) Charmion
D:) Myris
springline- Correct option: D:) Myris
28. When Dryden celebrated the Restoration of the monarchy and the return of Charles II with Astraea Redux, an authentic royalist panegyric?
A:) 1664
B:) 1660
C:) 1666
D:) 1661
springline- Correct option: B:) 1660
29. All for Love; Ventidius and Octavia bring the news of Cleopatra’s infidelity to Antony. This backfires, since Antony becomes frantic with rage and distress. Coming to the realization that Antony still loves Cleopatra and will never love her, Octavia leaves the palace and returns to Octavia’s ____?
A:) Tent
B:) Country
C:) House
D:) Camp
springline- Correct option: D:) Camp
30. All For Love; Who bursts into the throne room, leading Alexas in chains and ‘When he sees the bodies, he remarks on how noble Antony and Cleopatra look, and expresses the hope that they will live a happier and freer life in heaven than they found on earth’ Who remark this ?
A:) Ventidius
B:) Serapion
C:) Prologue
D:) Octavia
springline- Correct option: B:) Serapion