Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?

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1. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?

   A. William Hogarth
   B. Jonathan Swift
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. Ben Jonson

2. Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

   A. Curiosity about the past
   B. Deference to the past
   C. Violation of the past
   D. Paradoxically both B and C

3. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language most reflects an 18thcentury interest in which of the following ?

   A. Classification, order, and judgment
   B. Romantic origins
   C. Linguistic indeterminacy
   D. Subjective experience

4. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?

   A. Elliot
   B. Kipling
   C. Cummings
   D. Brooke

5. Name the English poet of 18th century whose works included Rape of the Lock, Dunciad and Essay on Man?

   A. Nelson Mandela
   B. Winston Churchill
   C. Alexander Pope
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: M AQIB ZAI

6. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?

   A. Rachel Speght
   B. Aemilia Lanyer
   C. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
   D. all of the above

7. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

   A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
   B. Paine’s Rights of Man
   C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
   D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

8. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

   A. Thomas Carlyle
   B. Matthew Arnold
   C. Charles Dickens
   D. all of the above

9. As well as poetry, Milton published extensively on politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the following was NOT one of his works ?

   A. Of Prelatical Episcopacy
   B. The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church
   C. Of Practical Exorcisme
   D. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

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

    A. Ovid
    B. Lucan
    C. Virgil
    D. Horace