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One of the first early comedies in English is_____

• Gorboduc

• Gammar Gurton's needle

• Ralph Roister Doister

• Everyman

Answer explanation

Earliest comedies in English:

Gammar Gurton's Needle(1559)

Ralph Roister Doister(1551-53)

'Defence of Good Women', 'Boke Named Governour' are the works of ___

• Desidarius Erasmus

• Thomas Elyot

• Thomas More

• John Skelton

Mystery play are also called___

• Corpus Christi Cycle

• Interludes

• Saints plays

Match the work with the author.

• Praise of Folly

• Alexander Barclay

• Translations of Aeneid

• Thomas More

• The Ship of Fools of the World

• Desidarius Erasmus

• Hero and Leander

• Earl of Surrey

• Utopia

• Chistopher Marlowe

Match the following

• 1534

• Peasant's Revolt

• 1498

• Anglo-Saxon Age

• 449-1066

• Sea route to India

• 1381

• Sea route to America

• 1492

• Act of Supremacy

Queen Elizabeth belonged to which dynasty?

• Plantagenet

• Tudor

• Stuart

• Hanovarian

Match the works in a chronological order_____

• 1

• "Ecclesiastical History of English people"

• 3

• "Brut"

• 4

• "Piers the Plowman"

• 5

• "School Master"

• 2

• "Le Morte de Arthur"

The rhyme scheme of Petrarchan sonnet is___

• abba abba cdc cde

• ab ab cd cd ef ef gg

• ababbcc

• ababbcbcc

When was the first commercial theatre, 'The Theatre' opened in Elizabethan England?

• 1594

• 1572

• 1576

• 1580

Who wrote the books- "History of the World", "The Discovery of Guiana"?

• Edmund Spenser

• Lord Leicester

• Philip Sidney

• Sir Walter Raleigh