Mcq on Restoration Poet John Wilmot | Rochester | Restoration Age | 1600 - 1700

RESTORATION AGE (1600 – 1700)
MCQ on English Poet JOHN WILMOT (2nd Earl of Rochester)

1.     Who is John Wilmot?
a)    English poet
b)    French critic
c)     American Playwright
d)    Australian Explorer
 
2.     Wilmot belongs to -------------- period.
a)    The Romantic period
b)    The Neoclassical period
c)     The Restoration period
d)    Elizabethan period
 
3.     John Wilmot is popularly known in the name of -----------
a)    Derby
b)    Rochester
c)     Shrewsbury
d)    Shaftesbury
 
4.     John Wilmot worked as a ------------ in restoration court.
a)    Poet
b)    Courtier
c)     Nobel Laureate
d)    Soldier
 
5.     Who ruled the kingdom when Wilmot has worked in court?
a)    Charles II
b)    James I
c)     Henry IV
d)    Richard II
 
6.     The restoration reacted against ---------- of the Puritan era.
a)    Intellectual authoritarianism
b)    Moral authoritarianism
c)     Spiritual authoritarianism
d)    Contextual authoritarianism
 
7.     Wilmot was buried at ------------.
a)    Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England
b)    Shaftesbury, Oxfordshire, England
c)     Bloomsbury, Oxfordshire, England
d)    Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
 
8.     Wilmot is also called ------------.
a)    22^nd Earl of Shrewsbury
b)    12^th Earl of Shaftesbury
c)     19^th Earl of Derby
d)    2^nd Earl of Rochester
 
9.     Who described John Wilmot as “The Best English Satirist”?
a)    Andrew Marvell
b)    Brunet
c)     Henry Savile
d)    Fletcher
 
10. Who is considered as the most learned among the restoration wits?
a)    Robert Howard
b)    Andrew Marvell
c)     John Wilmot
d)    William Hazlitt
 
11. Wilmot is best known for his ---------- work.
a)    A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind
b)    A Ramble in St. James’ Park
c)     An Allusion to Horace
d)    The Imperfect Enjoyment
 
12. When did “A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind” was published?
a)    1685
b)    1675
c)     1695
d)    1665
 
13.Who claimed about Wilmot “all his profane and lewd writings” burned?
a)    Burnet
b)    Andrew Marvell
c)     Fletcher
d)    Robert Howard
 
14.What is the work of Wilmot not proven that was written by him?
a)    Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
b)    The imperfect Enjoyment
c)     An Allusion to Horace
d)    A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind
 
15. Who wrote epilogue to Sir Fancis Fane’s “Love in the Dark” in 1675?
a)    Thomas Dekker
b)    Francis Fane
c)     Rochester
d)    William Congreve
 
16. What did Wilmot wrote in Elkanah Settle’s “The Empress of Morocco”?
a)    Scenes
b)    Chores
c)     Epilogues
d)    Soliloquy
 
17. When did Elkanah Settle’s “The Empress of Morocco had published?
a)    1673
b)    1683
c)     1693
d)    1663
 
18.Who is the friend of Wilmot has received letters from him?
a)    Henry Savile
b)    Fletcher
c)     Thomas Shadwell
d)    John Dryden
 
19. Wilmot wrote adaptation for Fletcher’s ------------- work in 1685.
a)    Valentinian
b)    Tragic Maturity
c)     Conquest of China
d)    Prentice work
 
20. Wilmot wrote scenes for the work of “Conquest of China”; it was written by ------------.
a)    Daniel Defoe
b)    Sir Robert Howard
c)     Rochester
d)    Fletcher
 
21. Who is the model for hero Don John in Thomas Shadwell’s “The Libertine”?
a)    Rochester
b)    Jeremy Collier
c)     William Dampier
d)    Thomas Rhymer
 
22.Who praises Wilmot as “The only man in England that had true vein of satire”?
a)    Aphra Behn and Andrew Marvell
b)    Fletcher and Dryden
c)     Dryden and Shadwell
d)    Dekker and collier
 
23.Whom did Voltaire praise “The Man of Genius, the Great Poet”?
a)    John Wilmot
b)    Thomas Rhymer
c)     John Gay
d)    Colley Cibber
 
24. Who commented Wilmot as “Verses cut and Sparkle like Diamonds”?
a)    Samuel Butler
b)    John Evelyn
c)     William Hazlitt
d)    Thomas Shadwell
 
25. Who quoted “A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind in English” as Wilmot’s autobiography?
a)    Graham Greene
b)    Goethe
c)     William Hazlitt
d)    John Gay
 
26. In which work Ezra Bound compared Rochester’s poetry favourably to better known figures such as Alexander Pope and John Milton?
a)    ABC of Reading
b)    Ripostes
c)     Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
d)    The  Cantos
 
27.  “A Ramble in St. James Park” was written by ---------------.
a)    John Wilmot
b)    Samuel Butler
c)     Thomas Gray
d)    Jonathan Swift
 
28.Who Characterised Rochester as a “Spoiled Puritan”?
a)    Ezra Bound
b)    John Milton
c)     Graham Greene
d)    Alexander Pope
 
29.Who argued that “Rochester is not a great poet of any kind”?
a)    Thomas Dekker
b)    F. R. Leavis
c)     John Milton
d)    Ezra Bound
 
30.Who described Rochester as “A man whom the muses were fond to inspire but ashamed to avow”?
a)    Horace Walpole
b)    William Hazlitt
c)     Graham Greene
d)    Samuel Butler
 
31.John Wilmot died at the age of ------------.
a)    23
b)    33
c)     93
d)    73
 
32.Wilmot was affected by -------------- disease.
a)    Diabetes
b)    Venereal
c)     Ischemic heart disease
d)    Coronary artery disease
 
33.“An Allusion to Horace” was written by-------------.
a)    John Wilmot
b)    Samuel Butler
c)     Thomas Gray
d)    John Dryden
 
34.“The Imperfect Enjoyment” was published in the year of -------------.
a)    1680
b)    1780
c)     1980
d)    1580
 
35. “A letter from Artemesia” was written by-----------.
a)    Samuel Pepys
b)    John Wilmot
c)     John Vanbrugh
d)    Thomas otway