1. The Tyndale Bible generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale (c.1494–1536). Furthermore, it was the first English biblical translation that was mass-produced as a result of new advances in the art of printing. Tyndale's Bible is credited with being the first English translation to work directly from text of Hebrew and _______?
A:) Greek
B:) Latin
C:) French
D:) Dutch
springline- Correct option: A:) Greek
2. The term 'Tyndale's Bible' is not strictly correct, because Tyndale never published a complete English language Bible; instead, a completely translated Bible was completed by Myles Coverdale, who supplemented Tyndale's translations with his own to produce the first complete printed Bible in English in ____?
A:) 1534
B:) 1535
C:) 1537
D:) 1538
springline- Correct option: B:) 1535
3. Tyndale had translated the New Testament, the Pentateuch, and the historical books of the Old Testament. Of the Old Testament books, the Pentateuch, Book of Jonah, and a revised version of the Book of Genesis were published during Tyndale's lifetime. His other Old Testament works were first used in the creation of the ______
A:) Matthew Bible
B:) Jacob Bible
C:) Abel Bible
D:) Authorised version of Bible
springline- Correct option: A:) Matthew Bible
4. The New English Bible (NEB:) is an English translation of the Bible. The New Testament was published in 1961 and the Old Testament (with the ApocryphA:) was published on 16 March 1970. When it was significantly revised and republished as the Revised English Bible?
A:) 1986
B:) 1987
C:) 1988
D:) 1989
springline- Correct option: D:) 1989
5. The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB:) and the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of _______?
A:) King James V and I
B:) King James VI and I
C:) King James IV and II
D:) King James V and IV
springline- Correct option: B:) King James VI and I
6. The books of the King James Version include the 39 books of the Old Testament, an intertestamental section containing 14 books of the Apocrypha, and How many books are in the New Testament?
A:) 24
B:) 25
C:) 26
D:) 27
springline- Correct option: D:) 27
7. The King James V was first printed by John Norton and Robert Barker, who both held the post of the King's Printer, and was the third translation into English language approved by the English Church authorities: The first had been the Great Bible, commissioned in the reign of King Henry VIII (1535), and the second had been the Bishops' Bible, commissioned in the reign of ___?
A:) Queen Elizabeth I
B:) Queen Victoria
C:) William I
D:) Richard II
springline- Correct option: A:) Queen Elizabeth I
8. By the age of Elizabeth, English had become widely used with the expansion of philosophy, theology and physical sciences. To accommodate this, William Shakespeare expressed new ideas and distinctions by inventing, borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language, known as ____?
A:) neologising
B:) Paleologism
C:) Coinage
D:) Standard
springline- Correct option: A:) neologising
9. Shakespeare's works have been a major influence on subsequent theatre. He developed theatre to an amazing extent and changed the way theatre is today. Shakespeare created some of the most admired plays in ___?
A:) American Literature
B:) Western literature
C:) British literature
D:) Scottish Literature
springline- Correct option: B:) Western literature
10. Shakespeare's plays exhibited ‘spectacular violence, with loose and episodic plotting, and with a mingling of comedy with tragedy’. Shakespeare's work is also lauded for its insight into emotion. His themes regarding the human condition make him more acclaimed than any of his contemporaries. In which Shakespeare play had deliberately brought together two plots of different origins?
A:) Tempest
B:) Macbeth
C:) Hamlet
D:) King Lear
springline- Correct option: D:) King Lear
11. Shakespeare also used groundlings widely in his plays. The use of groundlings ‘saved the drama from academic stiffness and preserved its essential bias towards entertainment in comedy’. Which play is an outstanding example of ‘groundlings’ quickness and response?
A:) Tempest
B:) Romeo and Juliet
C:) Hamlet
D:) King Lear
springline- Correct option: C:) Hamlet
12. Shakespeare's earliest years were dominated by history plays and a few comedies that formed a link to the later written tragedies. Nine out of eighteen plays he produced in the first decade of his career were chronicles or histories. His histories were based on the prevailing ______?
A:) Tudor political thought
B:) Tudor poetical thought
C:) Jacobean Political thought
D:) Elizabeth Political thought
springline- Correct option: A:) Tudor political thought
13. The Falstaff trilogy is in this respect very important. Falstaff, although a minor character, has a powerful reality of his own. ‘Shakespeare uses him as a commentator who passes judgments on events represented in the play, in the light of his own superabundant comic vitality’. Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears ,William Shakespeare plays at______?
A:) two plays
B:) five plays
C:) four plays
D:) three plays
springline- Correct option: D:) three plays
14. Shakespeare united the three main streams of literature: verse, poetry, and drama. To the versification of the English language, he imparted his eloquence and variety giving highest expressions with elasticity of language. The second, the sonnets and poetry, was bound in_____?
A:) structure
B:) form
C:) theme
D:) lines
springline- Correct option: A:) structure
15. Shakespeare influenced many writers in the following centuries, including major novelists such as Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and William Faulkner. While Melville frequently used Shakespearean devices, including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies, in _____?
A:) Oliver Twist
B:) Moby-Dick
C:) David Copperfield
D:) Bleak House
springline- Correct option: B:) Moby-Dick
16. Johnson's dictionary was not the first English dictionary, nor even among the first dozen. Over the previous 150 years more than twenty dictionaries had been published in England, the oldest of these being a Latin-English ‘wordbook’ by Sir Thomas Elyot published in ___
A:) 1536
B:) 1537
C:) 1538
D:) 1539
springline- Correct option: C:) 1538
17. Johnson's dictionary was made when etymology was largely based on guesswork. His Classical leanings led him to prefer spellings that pointed to Latin or Greek sources, ‘while his lack of sound scholarship prevented him from detecting their frequent errors’. For example, he preferred the spelling 'ache' over _____?
A:) aech
B:) ake
C:) aceh
D:) achos
springline- Correct option: B:) ake
18. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, the lexicographers in England had published some developed dictionaries, but the lexicons in both England and America were set to standards by Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language.’ Samuel Johnson was born in ______?
A:) 1708
B:) 1709
C:) 1710
D:) 1711
springline- Correct option: B:) 1709
19. Johnson's dictionary came out in two forms. The first was the 1755 Folio edition, which came in two large volumes on 4 April. The folio edition also features full literary quotes by those authors that Johnson quoted, such as Dryden and _______?
A:) Shakespeare
B:) Milton
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Shelly
springline- Correct option: A:) Shakespeare
20. Who summed up for the unbelievers when he pronounced at the end of the eighteenth century, 'I cannot imagine that Dr Johnson's reputation will be very lasting and' His dictionary was 'a surprising work for one man', but 'the task is too much for one man, and ... a society should alone pretend to publish a standard dictionary ?
A:) Alexander Pope
B:) Emerson
C:) Horace Walpole
D:) Dryden
springline- Correct option: C:) Horace Walpole
21. Spenser's Epithalamion is the most admired of its type in the English language. It was written for his wedding to his young bride, Elizabeth Boyle. The poem consists of 365 long lines, corresponding to the days of the year; 68 short lines, representing the sum of the 52 weeks, 12 months, and 4 seasons of the annual cycle; and How many stanza it have?
A:) 24 stanzas
B:) 26 stanzas
C:) 28 stanzas
D:) 32 stanzas
springline- Correct option: A:) 24 stanzas
22. Spenser’s services to English style, diction and versification are innumerable. He demonstrated that the English language was as capable of subtlety and emotion as any that boasted of their magnificence. He coined new words, imported many from France and_____?
A:) Italy
B:) America
C:) Roman
D:) Greek
springline- Correct option: A:) Italy
23. Spenser saved many an obsolete word from oblivion. In order to further increase the vocabulary, he used terms of hunting and hawking, of seamanship, of art, of archery, of armory, and of law and philosophy. Who objected to Spenser’s language when he said he ‘writ no language’?
A:) Ben Jonson
B:) Shakespeare
C:) Charles Dickens
D:) Milton
springline- Correct option: A:) Ben Jonson
24. Spenser’s greatest contribution to English versification is the Spenserian stanza. ‘The services’ says , ‘which Spenser did to our literature by his exquisite sense of harmony is incalculable’ and he is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English language said by ______?
A:) Leigh Hunt
B:) Charles Lamb
C:) J.R. Lowell
D:) Charlotte Smith
springline- Correct option: C:) J.R. Lowell
25. John Milton, the last great poet of the English Renaissance, laid down in his work the foundations for the emerging aesthetic of the post-Renaissance period. Milton had a concept of the public role of the poet even more elevated, if possible, than, Who is early declared his hope to do for his (Milton) native tongue what ‘the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy’ had done for theirs?
A:) John Dryden
B:) Shakespeare
C:) Wordsworth
D:) Jonson
springline- Correct option: D:) Jonson
26. Milton was probably the last great poet who deliberately composed his verses to be read aloud, rather than merely read through. Milton, who is best known for Paradise Lost, created new meanings for existing words, coined new forms of existing words, introduced negative forms such as_______
A:) unworried
B:) unable
C:) unaccountable
D:) unclear
springline- Correct option: C:) unaccountable
27. The phrase ‘squire of dames’ also occurs in the same work, though most users of the expression now have no idea of its source. The adjective ‘blatant’(loud and noisy) is first recorded in Spenser and as it has not been traced to any other source, is believed to be his coinage. Another word which has in all probability been invented by the poet is _____?
A:) elfin
B:) alfin
C:) Fairy
D:) awfy
springline- Correct option: A:) elfin
28. Which Shakespeare’s Play is perhaps the most abounding in well used phrases of Shakespeare, which are on the lips of many who have never read a line of his writing, and the play is so full of expressions, which have now become part of the machinery of literature and journalism that a collection of these includes: ‘this too solid flesh’, ‘stale, flat and unprofitable’, ‘mind’s eye’etc?
A:) King Lear
B:) Macbeth
C:) Hamlet
D:) Julius Caesar
springline- Correct option: C:) Hamlet
29. With the help of the French prefixes like ‘em-‘ and ‘en-’ he has coined a whole host of new words like enact, enchafed, enchased, endeared, engild, enkindle, enlink, enmesh, enrooted, ensky, entame and embattle. (ii) with the help of the prefix ‘un-‘ Who has coined: unavoided (inevitable), unvalued (precious), uncharged (acquit), unexpressive(in expressible)?
A:) Shakespeare
B:) Milton
C:) Dr. Johnson
D:) Spenser
springline- Correct option: A:) Shakespeare
30. Johnson's Plan received the patronage of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield but not to Johnson's pleasure. Seven years after first meeting Johnson to discuss the work, Chesterfield wrote two anonymous essays in The World that recommended the Dictionary. The words ‘Samuel Johnson’ and ‘English Language’ were printed in ______?
A:) purple
B:) Blue
C:) Black
D:) Red
springline- Correct option: D:) Red