PGTRB TEST SERIES - 8

In which year did Dryden become England’s first official Poet Laureate?

• 1660
• 1668
• 1670
• 1685

Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel is an allegory on:

• The execution of Charles I
• The Popish Plot
• The Exclusion Crisis
• The Glorious Revolution

Who is “Achitophel” allegorically in Absalom and Achitophel?

• Charles II
• James II
• The Earl of Shaftesbury
• The Duke of Monmouth

Which literary movement is John Dryden most associated with?

• Metaphysical
• Romanticism
• Restoration Classicism
• Georgian Poets

Mac Flecknoe is a mock-heroic satire targeted at:

• Alexander Pope
• William Davenant
• Thomas Shadwell
• Ben Jonson

“He was of the Dryden’s race who never writes but blunders twice”: Who wrote this about Dryden?

• Alexander Pope
• Jonathan Swift
• Samuel Johnson
• William Congreve

Assertion (A): Dryden favored heroic couplets. Reason (R): He believed blank verse lacked force and clarity.

• Both A and R are true; R explains A
• A is true; R is false
• A is false; R is true
• Both A and R are false

In which year was An Essay of Dramatic Poesy published?

• 1665
• 1668
• 1671
• 1684

Which four characters debate in An Essay of Dramatic Poesy?

• Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius, Neander
• Neander, Philocles, Glaucus, Criton
• Eugenius, Lucilius, Horace, Neander
• Neander, Pope, Addison, Johnson

Which work of Dryden is a verse paraphrase of a biblical book?

• The Medal
• Religio Laici
• The Hind and the Panther
• The Song of Solomon