Elizabethan Literature - Literary Genres - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

 

Literary Genres

Objective Type Questions (Multiple Choice):

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1. Who is the tragic hero in Macbeth?

a) Banquo
b) Duncan
c) Macbeth ✅
d) Malcolm

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2. What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw?

a) Indecision
b) Ambition ✅
c) Jealousy
d) Cowardice

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3. Who wrote The Tempest?

a) Marlowe
b) Ben Jonson
c) Shakespeare ✅
d) Kyd

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4. Tragedy ends in—

a) Marriage
b) Reconciliation
c) The downfall or death of the hero ✅
d) None of these

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5. Comedy often ends in—

a) Death
b) Tragedy
c) Marriage or happiness ✅
d) War

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6. Which of the following is a Tragi-Comedy?

a) Hamlet
b) The Tempest ✅
c) Othello
d) Richard III

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7. Tragi-Comedy blends—

a) Tragedy and Comedy ✅
b) Romance and Satire
c) Mystery and Horror
d) Farce and Masque

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8. Which of these plays deals with mistaken identity?

a) Macbeth
b) Twelfth Night ✅
c) King Lear
d) Hamlet

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9. Catharsis is a concept associated with—

a) Comedy
b) Tragedy ✅
c) Masque
d) Chronicle Play

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10. Which playwright popularized the Tragic genre in Elizabethan theatre?

a) Ben Jonson
b) Christopher Marlowe ✅
c) Shakespeare
d) Kyd

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11. In a Tragi-Comedy, the hero usually—

a) Dies
b) Lives happily ✅
c) Goes to war
d) None of the above

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12. What genre is As You Like It?

a) Tragedy
b) Comedy ✅
c) Chronicle Play
d) Masque

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13. The Merchant of Venice is best classified as—

a) Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) Tragi-Comedy ✅
d) Farce

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14. Who kills Macbeth?

a) Banquo
b) Macduff ✅
c) Duncan
d) Lady Macbeth

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15. A key theme of Tragedy is—

a) Triumph of love
b) Fate and downfall ✅
c) Comedy of errors
d) Romantic love

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16. Who is the hero of Othello?

a) Iago
b) Othello ✅
c) Cassio
d) Desdemona

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17. Tragi-Comedies avoid the—

a) Death of the main characters ✅
b) Use of humor
c) Use of serious themes
d) Comic relief

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18. Which genre was often accompanied by music and dance in court performances?

a) Tragi-Comedy
b) Masque ✅
c) Chronicle Play
d) Tragedy

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19. Volpone by Ben Jonson is—

a) A Tragedy
b) A Comedy ✅
c) A Masque
d) An Allegory

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20. Which genre evokes pity and fear?

a) Tragedy ✅
b) Comedy
c) Farce
d) Masque

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Dr. Noojilla Srinivas

Lecturer in English, Government College (Autonomous),

Rajahmundry

Phone: 7981862200