50 important mcqs on John Dryden
Top 50 MCQ on John Dryden - If you are preparing for UGC NET or TGT English or PGT English then you should read this blog. The most of the competitive exams like - Ugc Net, Upssc, PGT questions are asked from this. I will show you some Multiple Choice Questions on John Dryden. John Dryden was an English poet, playwright, literary critic and translator.
Top 50 Mcqs on John Dryden
1. Dryden was born in:
1631
2. John Dryden birth place in:
Aldwincle Northamptonshire England
3. Dryden died in:
1700 (age 68)
4. John Dryden death place:-
London, England
5.What is the name of John Dryden parents?
Erasums Dryden and Mary Pickering
6. In 1644 he was sent to:-
Westminster School
7. In 1650 he went up to higher education:
Trinity College, Cambridge
8. When John Dryden marriage?
1 December 1663
9. What is the name of John Dryden spouse name?
Lady Elizabeth Howard
10. What is the name of John Dryden children?
Charles John and Erasums Henry
11. Who is the founder of discriptive criticism in English:
John Dryden
12. The works of John Dryden are published in:
20 volumes
13. Which period did John Dryden belong to?
Restoration period (1660- 1700)
14. Who was England's first post laureate?
John Dryden
15. What is the brief description of John Dryden?
England first poet Laureate
16. What is the age of Dryden known as:-
The Restoration period (1600 - 1700)
17.What is the age of Dryden called?
Age of Dryden
18. The term metaphysical poets was first used by
John Dryden
19.What was John Dryden written famous for?
What is the famous drama of John Dryden?
Marriage a' la mode (1673)
20. What is the first work of John Dryden?
The wild Gallant (1663)
21. Which is the first play of John Dryden?
The wild Gallant (1663)
22. What kind of poetry of John Dryden write?
Verse-satires
23. What was John Dryden's most famous work?
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
24. What is the famous satire of John Dryden?
Mac Flecknoe, Absalom and Achitophel
25. What is the ode of John Dryden?
Alexander's Feast
26. What was the poetic style of Dryden?
Heroic couplets
27. What is the contribution of the Dryden in the restoration age?
Advancement of heroic couplet in English verse
28. When was the 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy written?
1666 during the great Plague of London
29. What is the John Dryden contribution in English literature?
As a satirist
30. How many satires did John Dryden write?
Only two
31. Which is the famous satire of John Dariden?
Mac Flecknoe (1682), The Medall (1682)
32. What did Sir Walter Scott say about John Dryden?
Glorious John
33. John Dryden best plays:-
Marriage `a la Mode (1673), All for Love (1678)
34. In an Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom does John Dryden refer to:
Ben Jonson
35. Who wrote the Threnodia Augustalis?
John Dryden
36. Marriage `a la Mode is comedy :-
A Comedy
37. Who said, "Before the time of Dryden there was no poetical diction, no system of words"?
Dr. Johnson
38. All for Love was written in :
Blank verse
39. When was he proposed for membership in the Royal Society?
1662
40. What is the John Dryden religious poem?
Religio Lauci (1682)
41. The setting of the play ' The Indian Queen'-
Peru and Mexico
42. John Dryden conversated to Catholicism in which year:-
1686
43. Dryden dramatization of 'Paradise Lost' entitled-
The state of innocence
44. The Medall, written by John Dryden in 1681 is subtitle:-
The satire against Sedition
45. John Dryden tragedy 'All for love' takes the story:-
Antony and Cleopatra
46. Who said that 'Dramatic poesy' is the first work in English literary criticism?
Samuel Johnson
47. "Hear is God plentry" who is Dryden referring to in this remark?
Geoffrey Chaucer
48. Who called to John Dryden, " The father of English criticism".
Dr. Johnson
49. Dryden's elegy on the death of Amyntas is a :-
Pastoral elegy
50. Dryden has written an elegy on the death of Cromwell what is its title:-
Heroic stanza on the death of Cromwell
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