A. King David’s son
B. A Judge of Israel
C. Bathsheba’s first husband
D. Absalom’s advisor
Related Mcqs:
- Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and Achitophel” ?
A. The Duke of Monmouth
B. Charles II
C. The Earl of Shaftesbury
D. Cromwell - In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?
A. Lisideius
B. Eugenius
C. Neander
D. Crites - Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too __________” ?
A. often
B. long
C. much
D. fast - Complete the following sentence. John Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” reflects a commitment to neoclassical aesthetics through_______________?
A. its references to Shakespeare.
B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its use of classical imagery, and its evocation of classic forms.
C. its scientific ethos and setting in London.
D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly. - John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London
B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance
C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution
D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King - ‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an________________?
A. play
B. satire
C. prose
D. translation - Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this ?
A. An Essay
B. A Drama
C. A Poetical Work
D. An Interlocution - Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________?
A. Steinback
B. Faulkner
C. Hemingway
D. Fitzgerald - Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?
A. Salman Rushdie
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. John Ruskin - Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues
