One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?

   A. The Mahabharata
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. The Odyssey
   D. The Aeneid

2. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

3. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?

   A. The Bahagavad Gita
   B. The Odyssey
   C. The Illiad
   D. The Aeneid

4. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?

   A. L’Allegro
   B. Lycidas
   C. Paradise Lost
   D. The Divine Comedy

5. Martin Luther’s translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation ?

   A. “Paradise Lost”
   B. “Canterbury Tales”
   C. “The Bible”
   D. “Piers Plowman”

6. Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of “Paradise Lost” that that goal of his epic poem will be ?

   A. to justify the ways of God to humankind.
   B. to justify the ways of humankind to God.
   C. to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.
   D. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.

7. Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene ?

   A. Tudor
   B. Stuart
   C. Anjou
   D. Plantagenet

8. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem “Hero and Leander” ?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Nash
   C. George Chapman
   D. Thomas More

9. Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

10. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?

    A. Iliad
    B. Odyssey
    C. Beowulf
    D. Canterbury Tales