1. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious, theological fiction in English literature. It has been translated into more than _______?
a) 100 language
b) 200 language
c) 250 language
d) 180 language
springline- Correct option: b) 200 language
2. The Pilgrim's Progress; The first North American edition was issued in 1681. It has also been cited as the first novel written in English. It appeared in Dutch in 1681, in German in 1703 and in Swedish in ______?
a) 1727
b) 1723
c) 1717
d) 1737
springline- Correct option: a) 1727
3. Early Bunyan scholars such, Who believed The Pilgrim's Progress was begun in Bunyan's second, shorter imprisonment for six months in 1675 ?
a) Samuel Johnson
b) John Fox
c) John Brown
d) John Gielgud
springline- Correct option: c) John Brown
4. Bunyan began his work while in the Bedfordshire county prison for violations of the Conventicle Act of 1664, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside the auspices of the established______?
a) Church of Rome
b) Religious Court
c) Court of England
d) Church of England
springline- Correct option: ) Church of England
5. The Pilgrim's Progress; The Second Part appeared in 1684. There were eleven editions of the first part in John Bunyan's lifetime, published in successive years from 1678 to 1685 and in 1688, and there were two editions of the second part, published in ______?
a) 1683 and 1684
b) 1684 and 1686
c) 1685 and 1686
d) 1687 and 1688
springline- Correct option: b) 1684 and 1686
6. The Pilgrim's Progress; The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character . The ‘everyman’ is a stock character in ______?
a) Biblical character
b) Fiction
c) Prose
d) Epic
springline- Correct option: b) Fiction
7. The Pilgrim's Progress; The plot centres on his(Christian) journey from his hometown, the ‘City of Destruction’ (‘this world’), to the ‘Celestial City’ (‘that which is to come’: Heaven) atop Mount _____?
a) Zeean
b) Legion
c) Lion
d) Zion
springline- Correct option: d) Zion
8. The Pilgrim's Progress ; Christian is weighed down by a great burden—the knowledge of his sin—which he believed came from his reading ‘the book in his hand’ (the Bible). He meets Evangelist as he is walking out in the fields, who directs him to the _____?
a) Pliable
b) Wicket Gate
c) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
d) Goodwill
springline- Correct option: b) Wicket Gate
9. The Pilgrim's Progress ; Whose journey with Christian is cut short when the two of them fall into the Slough of Despond, a boggy mire-like swamp where pilgrims' doubts, fears, temptations, lusts, shames, guilts, and sins of their present condition of being a sinner are used to sink them into the mud of the swamp ?
a) Pliable
b) Beelzebub
c) Formalist
d) Timorous
springline- Correct option: a) Pliable
10.The Pilgrim's Progress ; On Christian’s way to the Wicket Gate, Christian is diverted by the secular ethics of Mr. Worldly Wiseman into seeking deliverance from his burden through the Law, supposedly with the help of a _______?
a) Faithful
b) Charity
c) Prudence
d) Mr. Legality
springline- Correct option: d) Mr. Legality
11. In this plot; At the Wicket Gate begins the ‘straight and narrow’ King's Highway, and Christian is directed onto it by the gatekeeper Goodwill who saves him from archers of________?
a) Moses
b) Beelzebub
c) Faithful
d) Wanton
springline- Correct option: b) Beelzebub
12. The Pilgrim's Progress; In the Second Part, Goodwill is shown to be Jesus Himself. To Christian's query about relief from his burden, Who was directs him forward to 'the place of deliverance ?
a) Mr. Skill
b) Hopeful
c) Goodwill
d) Moses
springline- Correct option: c) Goodwill
13. In ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’; Christian makes his way from there to the House of the Interpreter, where he is shown pictures and tableaux that portray or dramatize aspects of the Christian faith and life. Who denotes them as ‘emblems’?
a) Richard Pasco
b) Roger Sharrock
c) Charles Dickens
d) Mark Twain
springline- Correct option: b) Roger Sharrock
14. In The Pilgrims Progress’; Christian is relieved of his burden, he is greeted by three angels, who give him the greeting of peace, new garments, and a scroll as a passport into the Celestial City. Encouraged by all this, Christian happily continues his journey until he comes upon three men named Simple, Sloth, and______?
a) Hopeful
b) Superstition
c) Envy
d) Presumption
springline- Correct option: d) Presumption
15. In The Pilgrims Progress’; Before coming to the Hill of Difficulty, Christian meets two well-dressed men named Formality and Hypocrisy who prove to be false Christians that perish in the two dangerous bypasses near the hill, named _______?
a) Timorous and Destruction
b) Danger and Destruction
c) Giant Despair and Giantess Diffidence
d) Envy and Superstition
springline- Correct option: b) Danger and Destruction
16. Christian falls asleep at the arbour above the hill and loses his scroll, forcing him to go back and get it. Near the top of the Hill of Difficulty, he meets two weak pilgrims who tell him of the great lions of the Palace Beautiful. The two weak pilgrims named were Mistrust and_______?
a) Demas
b) Mr. Skill
c) Danger
d) Timorous
springline- Correct option: d) Timorous
17. Atop the Hill of Difficulty, Christian makes his first stop for the night at the House of the Palace Beautiful, which is a place built by God for the refresh of pilgrims and godly travellers. How many days Christian spends there ?
a) Two days
b) Three days
c) One day
d) one day two night
springline- Correct option: b) Three days
18. As night falls, Christian enters the fearful Valley of the Shadow of Death. When he is in the middle of the Valley amidst the gloom, terror, and demons, he hears the words of the Twenty-third Psalm, spoken possibly by his friend ____?
a) Faithful
b) Hope
c) Promise
d) Knowledge
springline- Correct option: a) Faithful
19. In the Pilgrims Progress; Christian and Hopeful come to a mining hill. Its owner named Demas offers them all the silver of the mine but Christian sees through Demas's trickery and they avoid the mine. A mining hill called as______?
a) By-Path Meadow
b) Plain Ease
c) Lucre
d) The Enchanted Ground
springline- Correct option: c) Lucre
20. In one morning , the pilgrims are taken to the Giant's Doubting Castle, where they are imprisoned, beaten and starved. The Giant and the Giantess want them to commit suicide, but they endure the ordeal until Christian realizes that a key he has, called ______?
a) Trust
b) Knowledge
c) Trickery
d) Promise
springline- Correct option: d) Promise
21. The Pilgrims Progress: On a rough, stony stretch of road, Christian and Hopeful leave the highway to travel on the easier By-Path Meadow, where a rainstorm forces them to spend the night. In the morning they are captured by Giant Despair, who is known for his savage cruelty, and his wife Diffidence. What is the weakness of the Giant?
a) Candle light
b) Moon Light
c) Sunlight
d) Whistle sound
springline- Correct option: c) Sunlight
22. In this Pilgrims Progress; On Mount Clear, Christian and Hopeful are able to see the Celestial City through the shepherd's ‘perspective glass’, which serves as a telescope. The shepherds tell the pilgrims to avoid the Enchanted Ground and beware of the ____?
a) Giant
b) Mr. Sagacity
c) Pick-Thank
d) Flatterer
springline- Correct option: d) Flatterer
23. The Second Part of The Pilgrim's Progress presents the pilgrimage of Christian's wife, Christiana, and their sons, and the maiden, Mercy. The hero of the story is Greatheart, a servant of the Interpreter, who is the pilgrims' guide to the Celestial City. He kills four giants called Giant Grim, Giant Maul, Giant Slay-Good, and Giant Despair and participates in the slaying of a monster called ____?
a) Pick-Thank
b) Legion
c) Atheist
d) Matthew
springline- Correct option: b) Legion
24. Who is a resident of a place called Carnal Policy, who persuades Christian to go out of his way to being helped by a friend named Mr. Legality and then move to the City of Morality (which focuses salvation on the Law and good deeds instead of faith and love in Jesus Christ) ?
a) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
b) Mr. By-Ends
c) Lord Hate-Good
d) Prudence
springline- Correct option: a) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
25. Who was one of the two residents of the City of Destruction, and who run after Christian when he first sets out, in order to bring him back. Like his name, he is stubborn and is disgusted with Christian and with Pliable for making a journey that he thinks is nonsense ?
a) Giant Despair
b) Experience
c) Ignorance
d) Obstinate
springline- Correct option: d) Obstinate
26. Who is one of two travelers and false pilgrims on the King's Highway, who do not come in by the Wicket Gate, but climb over the wall that encloses it, at least from the hill and sepulchres up to the Hill Difficulty?
a) Formalist
b) Mr.Timorous
c) The Flatterer
d) Obstinate
springline- Correct option: a) Formalist
27. Who is the guide and bodyguard sent by the Interpreter with Christiana and her companions from his house to their journey's end. He proves to be one of the main protagonists in the Second Part?
a) Mr. Sagacity
b) Mr. Greatheart
c) Mrs. Timorous
d) Christiana
springline- Correct option: b) Mr. Greatheart
28. Which is place of a treacherous, devilish Valley filled with demons, dragons, fiends, satyrs, goblins, hobgoblins, monsters, creatures from the bottomless pit, beasts from the mouth of Hell, darkness, terror, and horror with a quicksand bog on one side and a deep chasm/ditch on the other side of the King's Highway going through it ?
a) Hill Difficulty
b) Valley of the Shadow of Death
c) Valley of Humiliation
d) The Pillar of Salt
springline- Correct option: b) Valley of the Shadow of Death
29. John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly _____?
a) fifty five titles
b) Seventy titles
c) Fifty titles
d) Sixty titles
springline- Correct option: d) Sixty titles
30. John Bunyan is remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the United States Episcopal Church on _________?
a) 26 August
b) 29 August
c) 28 August
d) 27 August
springline- Correct option: b) 29 August