1. Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book ‘Tales from Sakespeare’, co-authored with his sister________?
A:) Dorothy Lamb
B:) Mary Lamb
C:) Anne Lamb
D:) Eliza Lamb
springline- Correct option: B:) Mary Lamb
2. Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher ________?
A:) Edward Moxon
B:) E. V. Lucas
C:) William Hazlitt
D:) Robert Burns
springline- Correct option: A:) Edward Moxon"),
3. Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by Whom ,his principal biographer, as ‘the most lovable figure in English literature’ ?
A:) William Hazlitt
B:) Edward Moxon
C:) E. V. Lucas
D:) A.V. Lucas
springline- Correct option: C:) E. V. Lucas"),
4. Lamb's essays were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers; the essays ‘established Lamb in the title he now holds, that of the most delightful of English essayists The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to________?
A:) 1822
B:) 1823
C:) 1824
D:) 1825
springline- Correct option: D:) 1825"),
5. Charles Lamb’s father John Lamb was a lawyer's clerk and spent most of his professional life as the assistant to a barrister named Samuel Salt, who lived in the Inner Temple in the legal district of London. It was there in Crown Office Row that Charles Lamb was born and spent his youth. Lamb created a portrait of his father in his ‘Elia on the Old Benchers’ under the name ______?
A:) Lovel
B:) Jovel
C:) Eovel
D:) Fovel
springline- Correct option: B:) Jovel"),
6. Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is ‘Cousin Bridget.’Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of ______?
A:) Greek man
B:) Roman man
C:) Italian man
D:) American man
springline- Correct option: C:) Italian man"),
7. Among the individual essays, ‘Dream-Children’ and ‘Old China’ are perhaps the most highly and generally admired. A short musical work by Elgar was inspired by ‘Dream-Children‘. Lamb's fondness for stage drama provided the subjects of a number of the essays: ‘My First Play,’ ‘Stage Illusion,’ ‘Ellistoniana,’ etc. ‘Blakesmoor in H——shire’ was actually written about _______?
A:) South Sea House
B:) Blakesware
C:) Dream Children
D:) Blokesware
springline- Correct option: B:) Blakesware
8. The Essays of Elia would be criticised in the Quarterly Review (January 1823) by Robert Southey, who thought its author to be irreligious. When Charles read the review, entitled ‘The Progress of Infidelity’, he was filled with indignation, and wrote a letter to his friend _________?
A:) Charles Lloyd
B:) Wordsworth
C:) Bernard Barton
D:) Robert Southey
springline- Correct option: C:) Bernard Barton
9. Lamb's first publication was the inclusion of four sonnets in Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects, published in 1796 by Joseph Cottle. The sonnets were significantly influenced by the poems of_______?
A:) Milton
B:) Dryden
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Robert Burns
springline- Correct option: D:) Robert Burns"),
10. Lamb's poems were to be excluded in the third edition of the Poems though as it turned out a third edition never emerged. Instead, Coleridge's next publication was the monumentally influential Lyrical Ballads co-published with Wordsworth. Lamb, on the other hand, published a book entitled Blank Verse with _____?
A:) Charles Lloyd
B:) Henry Newman
C:) Bernard Barton
D:) Robert Southey
springline- Correct option: A:) Charles Lloyd"),
11. Who described Dream Children as ‘a couple of delicate little pastels for a small orchestra, inspired by an essay of Charles Lamb and Elia (sc. Lamb), entertaining some children with stories of their grandmother, finds them gradually disappear from his sight he is, indeed, only dreaming ?
A:) Earnest Newman
B:) Ernest Newman
C:) George Livin
D:) Henry Newman
springline- Correct option: B:) Ernest Newman
12. Charles Lamb is one of the greatest English essayists whose work ’Essay of Elia’ is considered to be matchless on account of its naturalness and humanism. His essays are light without being frivolous and wise without being tedious. Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago presents an account of his school life. Lamb studied there from _____?
A:) 1777 to 1779
B:) 1780 to 1786
C:) 1781 to 1788
D:) 1782 to 1789
springline- Correct option: D:) 1782 to 1789
13. The Dream Children; Children love to listen to stories of their elders as children, the essay begins, because they get to imagine those elders that they themselves cannot meet. Elia's children gather around him to hear stories about their great-grandmother ______?
A:) Alice
B:) Field
C:) Yield
D:) Bo-Bo
springline- Correct option: B:) Field"),
14. The South Sea House; Elia opens by addressing the reader, asking if on her way from the bank to the ‘Flower Pot,’she ever noticed a magnificent but decrepit old building with a brick and stone edifice. This, says Ellia, is a former house of trade, and he describes its decorations elaborately, with stately porticos and a map of_________?
A:) Canton
B:) Banama
C:) Panama
D:) Lambeth
springline- Correct option: C:) Panama"),
15. The Christ’s Hospital; The essay narrates the greed and indifference of nurses in the school. The nurses used to eat the boys share food openly on the tables without any guilt of moral conscience and there was no authority to check their practices. Recalling his sad experiences, the author says that he was utterly lonely among the _____?
A:) five fifty boys
B:) four hundred boys
C:) five hundred boys
D:) six hundred boys
springline- Correct option: D:) six hundred boys"),
16. Dream Children; Young Alice scoffs at Elia's recollection of that rich person removing a detailed wood carving depicting the story of the Children in the Wood to put up an ugly marble thing instead. At Field's funeral, Elia recounts, everyone praised her goodness and religious faith: she could recite Psalms and some of the New Testament from memory. She was a great dancer until she was stricken by ______?
A:) cancer
B:) flu
C:) tuberculosis
D:) asthma
springline- Correct option: A:) cancer"),
17. The South Sea House; He reminisces on the library the building used to have as well as its pen-knives, and then moves on to a wistful recollection of the various employees who worked at the South-Sea Bank. Most of them were bachelors, since the job didn't pay so well, and all of them had a great sense of humor. Elia considers them a bunch of_____?
A:) flowers
B:) twin town
C:) odd fishes
D:) odd birds
springline- Correct option: C:) odd fishes"),
18. Dream Children; The young Elia used to wander the grounds of that mansion admiring all of the marble busts and wondering when he may himself turn into one. He spent his days picking the various fruit from around the grounds of the estate. Elia breaks from his recollection to notice his children John and Alice splitting a plate of ________?
A:) orange
B:) apple
C:) grapes
D:) mangoes
springline- Correct option: C:) grapes"),
19. The Christ Hospital; The school had a division into two sections – lower and upper sections and both were taught in a very big room with an imaginary partition. The Rev Matthew Field was a charge of the lower-section. Being a kind-hearted man he never beat his students. Who was a charge of the upper-section ?
A:) Rev James Boyer
B:) John Tipp
C:) Evans
D:) Rev Henry Boyar
springline- Correct option: A:) Rev James Boyer"),
20. The South Sea House; Elia describes a sickly man, Evans, who worked as a cashier. He was melancholic during his job, always fearing that accounts would default, but a mirthful storyteller when the workday was done. Who worked under Evans and he had the air of a nobleman but a totally dull mind ?
A:) Bartrum
B:) Henry Man
C:) Thomas Tame
D:) John Tipp
springline- Correct option: C:) Thomas Tame"),
21. The Dream Children; Elia begins by telling them of the seven years he spent courting their mother Alice, with all of its difficulties and rejection. But when he goes to look at his daughter Alice, she has disappeared. A disembodied voice tells Elia that they are not Alice's children, that the real father of Alice's children is a man named ________?
A:) John Tipp
B:) John L.
C:) Elliston
D:) Bartrum
springline- Correct option: D:) Bartrum
22. The South Sea House; There was also John Tipp, who considered accounting the most important work in the world, and himself the greatest accountant. Tipp was a loner who so rejected the company or help of others that Elia took it for a form of timidity. Finally, there were the men who perpetrated the hoax. Who was the author of the South-Sea Bank ?
A:) Edward Elgar
B:) Henry Man
C:) A.N. Wilson
D:) Charles Lamb
springline- Correct option: B:) Henry Man"),
23. Essay on Elia; American editions of both the Essays and the Last Essays were published in Philadelphia in 1828. At the time, American publishers were unconstrained by copyright law, and often reprinted materials from English books and periodicals; so the American collection of the Last Essays preceded its British counterpart by ______?
A:) five years
B:) Six years
C:) Seven years
D:) Three years
springline- Correct option: A:) five years"),
24. The Dream Children; Lamb often depicts the poor and marginalized as noble people who struggle to enjoy themselves within their modest existence. Look no further than ‘The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’ to find the type of person Lamb considers noble. A debate on the merits of privilege is central to the essay _______?
A:) The Widower Schoolmaster
B:) Old China
C:) Old Rome
D:) April Fool’s Day
springline- Correct option: B:) Old China
25. The Dream Children; Who Mentioned as Elia's older brother in ‘Dream-Children, and Who is portrayed as a heroic older brother who gave the young Elia support that Elia never reciprocated and also Elia mourns his death, and bemoans his owns shortcoming ?
A:) Cousin Bridget
B:) John L
C:) Bo-Bo
D:) Elliston
springline- Correct option: B:) John L"),
26. Who is the child in ‘A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig’ who accidentally burns down his family's cottage and eats the pig that burned in it, discovering that cooked meat is delicious and He's a fanciful character devised by Lamb to illustrate the absurdity of the thought that, at some point, somewhere along the way, humans learned how to cook meat ?
A:) Field
B:) Elia
C:) Bo-bo
D:) Alice
springline- Correct option: C:) Bo-bo"),
27. Lamb wrote two essays in prison about his friend, a beloved stage actor whose humor and presence infatuated Lamb. He is illustrated as a larger-than-life character who was always entertaining people, whether on stage or off. What is the name of Lamb’s Friend?
A:) Elliston
B:) James White
C:) Schoolmaster
D:) Alice
springline- Correct option: A:) Elliston"),
28. Who is Elia's friend from ‘The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’ is the kind of person Elia typically admires and he is generally magnanimous and helps the underprivileged live with pride and dignity and he throws a yearly feast for children chimney sweepers, lavishing them with food, ale, and good company ?
A:) Bridget
B:) John L
C:) Elliston
D:) James White
springline- Correct option: D:) James White"),
29. Essay of Elia; This plays out in novel fantasies such as the days of the month partying together and a boy eating a pig burnt by a house fire, as well as in the fabrications of something similar to Lamb's own life, such as the made up workers in the South Sea House or his fictive children in ‘Dream-Children; A Reverie.’ The innovation that Lamb brought to the essay was this very sense of the imagination, helping expand the form from its root of_____?
A:) religious
B:) philosophical
C:) psychological
D:) imagination
springline- Correct option: B:) philosophical"),
30. The Christ’s Hospital; For the first offense, the boy was put in fetters, for the second he was locked up in a dungeon where he had to stay for the whole day and night. After the third offense, the boy was not only expelled from the school but also unkindly ______?
A:) beaten
B:) kicked
C:) flogged
D:) foamy
springline- Correct option: C:) flogged"),