1. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet. In English Literature the lyric poet, credited with introducing _________?
A:) Ballad
B:) Sonnet
C:) Lyrical poem
D:) Blank Verse
springline's Correct option: B:) Sonnet
2. A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in the Italian poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in Palermo, Sicily. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention for expressing of _________?
A:) Country Love
B:) Courtly Love
C:) Nature Love
D:) Hunting
springline's Correct option:B:) Courtly Love
3. Sir Thomas Wyatt was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent, though the family was originally from Yorkshire. His family adopted the Lancastrian side in the Wars of Roses. His mother was Anne Skinner, and his father Henry, who had earlier been imprisoned and tortured by ________?
A:) Richard I
B:) Richard II
C:) Richard III
D:) Henry II
springline's Correct option:C:) Richard III
4. Sir Thomas Wyatt took subject matter from Petrarch's sonnets, but his rhyme schemes are significantly different. Petrarch's sonnets consist of an octave rhyming abba abba, followed by a sestet with various rhyme schemes. Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet scheme is _____?
A:) cddc ee
B:) ccdd ee
C:) cdcd ee
D:) cdde ec
springline's Correct option:> A:) cddc ee
5. Wyatt introduced the poulter's measure form, rhyming couplets composed of a 12-syllable iambic line (Alexandrine) followed by a 14-syllable iambic line (fourteener), and he is considered a master of the _________?
A:) iambic pentameter
B:) Rhyme of Tercet
C:) Octta Sitch
D:) iambic tetrameter
springline's Correct option: D:) iambic tetrameter
6. Wyatt's poetry reflects classical and Italian models, but he also admired the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, and his vocabulary reflects that of Chaucer. Wyatt's poems are short but fairly numerous. His 96 love poems appeared posthumously (1557) in a compendium called _______?
A:) Total's Miscellany
B:) Tottel's Miscomplete
C:) Tottel's Mischellany
D:) Collection of Mischellany
springline's Correct option: C:) Tottel's Mischellany
7. Wyatt’s poems were found praisworthy by numerous poets, including Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, John Berryman, Yvor Winters, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen. C.S.Lewis called him the father of the Drab Age' (i.e. the unornate), from what he calls the 'golden age of the 16th century. Who describes Wyatt as 'the Father of English Poetry?
A:) Patricia Thomson
B:) William Ponsonby
C:) Henry Clay Floger
D:) Sir Henry Guilfold
springline's Correct option: A:) Patricia Thomson
8. Wyatt's poetry reflects classical and Italian models, but he also admired the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, and his vocabulary reflects that of Chaucer; for example, he uses Chaucer's word newfangleness, Which means?
A:) Fickleness
B:) Fickle
C:) Trigger
D:) fatal
springline's Correct option: A:) Fickleness
9. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517 – 19 January 1547), KG, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was the last known person executed at the instance of King Henry VIII. He was one of the founders of English _______?
A:) Renaissance Poetry
B:) Reformation Poetry
C:) Restoration Poetry
D:) Historical Poem
" style="color:green">springline's Correct option: A:) Renaissance Poetry10.Henry Howard Surrey’s name is usually associated in literature with that of the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt . He was the son of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and when his father became a Duke of Norfolk he adopted the courtesy title of Earl of Surrey . Who is a 3rd Duke of Norfolk?
A:) Jane Howard
B:) Henry Howard Surrey
C:) Edward Stafford
D:) Thomas Howard
springline's Correct option: D:) Thomas Howard
11. Along with Thomas Wyatt, Howard was the first to use the sonnet form that would later be popularized by _________
A:) Edmund Spenser
B:) William Shakespeare
C:) John Milton
D:) Geoffrey Chaucer
springline's Correct option: B:) William Shakespeare
12. Henry Howard Surrey ,in 1524, when his grandfather died he had been made the Earl of Surrey and in 1532 he went to France where he stayed for a year, residing at the _________?
A:) Court of Francis I
B:) Church of Francis II
C:) Court of Francis II
D:) Church of Francis I
springline's Correct option: A:) Court of Francis I
13. Much of Surrey’s literary fame was achieved after his untimely death, particularly his collection Songes and Sonnettes which was published in the year of ___________?
A:) 1588
B:) 1586
C:) 1587
D:) 1589
springline's Correct option: C:) 1587
14. Howard helped to develop the iambic pentameter in English poetry. His poetry written in metrical lines but without any rhyming lines and both he and Wyatt were hailed as providing the polish and style for subsequent English poetry. Who was first used Blank Verse in English ?
A:) Earl of Surrey
B:) Hart Crane
C:) Sir Thomas Wyatt
D:) Walt Whitman
springline's Correct option: A:)Earl of Surrey
15. The Poem appeal is entitled ‘An earnest suit to his unkind Mistress, not to forsake him’ The poem contains four stanzas. The first line is ‘And Will you leave me thus’. Last line is Say nay, Say Nay’. In this poem every stanza contains _______?
A:) 4 lines
B:) 5 lines
C:) 6 lines
D:) 3 lines
springline's Correct option: C:) 6 lines
16. The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (lit. little song, derived from the Latin word sonus, meaning a sound). By the 13th century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a very strict rhyme scheme and structure. According to Christopher Blum, during the Renaissance the sonnet was the choice mode of expressing __________?
A:) Romance
B:) Love
C:) Pastral
D:) Romantic Love
springline's Correct option: D:) Romantic Love
17. Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines. It has been described as probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century, and Paul Fussell has estimated that about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse'. The Blank verse almost always in _________?
A:) iambic pentameter
B:) iambic Hexameter
C:) iambic tetrameter
D:) iambic heptameter
springline's Correct option: A:) iambic pentameter
18. A Praise of His Love , a poem Surrey compares his lady love with the ladies of other lovers. The poem contains 5 stanzas. Surrey addresses the other lovers, praising the beauty of his ladylove. He Challengers them of his ladylove is like the ______?
A:) Moon
B:) Sun
C:) Star
D:) Butterfly
springline's Correct option: B:) Sun
19. Wyatt’s one of the song is composed of 3 line rhyme, followed by 4th line (Refrain ) and written for Ann Boleyn and that poem Wyatt describe himself as a “faithful servant”. What is the name of that poem ?
A:) Forget Not Yet
B:) The Appeal
C:) A Praise of His Love
D:) Ballad
springline's Correct option: A:) Forget Not Yet
20. Forget not yet the great essays. ‘The Cruell wrong, the Skornfull ways, The paynfull pacyence in denays’...Whose notion is this?
A:) George Gascoigne
B:) Earl of Surrey
C:) Sir Thomas Wyatt
D:) Edward Spenser
springline's Correct option: C:) Sir Thomas Wyatt
21. A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally ‘dance songs’. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce ______.
A:) Lyrical Ballad
B:) Sentimental Ballad
C:) Oral Ballad
D:) Written Ballad
springline's Correct option: A:) Lyrical Ballad
22. Sir Patrick Spens’ is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at _______?
A:) World
B:) Nature
C:) Sea
D:) Country
springline's Correct option: C:) Sea
23. The Child Ballads (NO. 58); The story as told in the ballad has multiple versions, but they all follow the same basic plot. The King of Scotland has called for the greatest sailor in the land to command a ship for a royal errand. The name 'Sir Patrick Spens' is mentioned by a _______?
A:) Poet Laureate
B:) Courtier
C:) Scottish Poet
D:) England Poet
springline's Correct option: B:) Courtier
24. Brave Lord Willounghby (English Ballad); In this ballad describes the bravery of Pere Grinebertic, Lord Willounghby of Eresby. In 1586 he took part in the war of Zntphen. In this war, he fought against __________?
A:) British People
B:) Scottish People
C:) Italian People
D:) Spanish People
springline's Correct option: D:) Spanish People
25. Robin Hood is very popular in English Folklore. He was an English hunter. He robbed from the rich people and gave to the poor people. His group was could be called_______?
A:) Merry Men
B:) Merry team
C:) Merry Mercy
D:) Merry Man
springline's Correct option: A:)Merry Men
26. Robin Hood and Curtil Friar; Robin hood was dressed in Lincoln Green. In this Ballad, Robin Hood and his fellow man go for the hunt. Robin-Hood says that there is no match for little John who lives within 100 miles. At end of this Ballad, how many dogs were killed by Little John?
A:) 10 dogs
B:) 20 dogs
C:) 25 dogs
D:) 15 dogs
springline's Correct option: B:) 20 dogs
27. The John Pinder of Wakefield is Child ballad 124, about Robin Hood. The oldest manuscript of this English broadside ballad, according to the University of Rochester, dates back to 1557, and a fragment of the ballad appears also in the _______.
A:) Percy Folio
B:) Robin Hood Folio
C:) John Folio
D:) Wyatt Folio
springline's Correct option: A:)Percy Folio
28. Ballad No:124 child Ballad; In this Ballad, Robin Hood, impressed by the pinder's physical prowess in battle and his desire to protect those who cannot protect themselves, offers the pinder a place in his group. The ballad concludes with the pinder promising that after Michaelmas he will join Robin and his band. Michaelmas which is a ________?
A:) Hunting Festival
B:) Christian Festival
C:) Religious celebration
D:) Victory Festival
springline's Correct option: B:) Christian Festival
29. Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires or Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons is a traditional ballad about Robin Hood, listed as Child ballad 140 and Round 70. Who retold this story in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood with the hero as Little John ?
A:) Thomas Pyle
B:) Howard Henry Pyle
C:) John Pinder
D:) Howard Pyle
springline's Correct option: D:) Howard Pyle
30. William Armstrong of Kinmont or Kinmont Willie was a Scottish border reiver and outlaw active in the Anglo-Scottish Border country in the last decades of the 16th century. The tower was built for his father __________?
A:) Sandy Armstrong
B:) Henry Armstrong
C:) Robin Armstrong
D:) Thomas Armstrong
springline's Correct option: A:)Sandy Armstrong