Deck 4: Famous Biographers and Their Contributions to Literature

Question 1

"Y.Y" was the pen name of__________

A)robert lynd
B)j b s haldane
C)walter pater
D)carl jung

Answer 1

robert lynd

Question 2

_______________is regarded as a great modern biographer

A)peter ackroyd
B)lytton strachey
C)robert lynd
D)michel faber

Answer 2

lytton strachey

Question 3

Who is the author of Eminent Victorians?

A)lytton strachey
B)robert lynd
C)virginia woolf
D)peter ackroyd

Answer 3

lytton strachey

Question 4

Peter Ackroyd's biography of ________is regarded as one of the best biographies in English language.

A)t s eliot
B)thomas more
C)charlie chaplin
D)charles dickens

Question 5

_____________is particularly noted for his biography of Charles Lamb

A)hilaire belloc
B)e v lucas
C)a g gardiner
D)g k chesterton

Question 6

_____________was an eminent Victorian prose writer

A)ruskin bond
B)coleridge
C)e v lucas
D)g k chesterton

Question 7

___________ developed further Ruskin's approach to social and economic problems through art to active propaganda for socialism.

A)thomas carlyle
B)mathew arnold
C)walter pater
D)william morris

Question 8

An Inland Voyage is the collection of essays of _______

A)walter pater
B)r l stevenson
C)mathew arnold
D)thomas carlyle

Question 9

Who contributed five biographies for Encyclopaedia of Britannica?

A)walter pater
B)john ruskin
C)macaulay
D)thomas carlyle

Question 10

Who contributed the literary term 'pathetic fallacy'?

A)john ruskin
B)walter pater
C)mathew arnold
D)t s eliot

Question 11

Who was the author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Woman?

A)virginia woolf
B)mary wollstonecraft
C)judith butler
D)george eliot

Question 12

The Lives of the Poets was written by_______

A)dr. johnson
B)samuel johnson
C)edward gibbon
D)coleridge

Question 13

Oliver Goldsmith's ___________is a series of imaginary letters from a Chinese traveller

A)the citizen of the world
B)the hermit
C)the deserted village
D)the traveller

Question 14

Name of the imaginary character in the essays of Joseph Addison

A)elia
B)sir roger de coverley
C)robinson
D)mathew

Question 15

Who is the author of Robinson Crusoe?

A)robert green
B)charles dickens
C)daniel defoe
D)george orwell

Question 16

The Pilgrim's Progress is the masterpiece of ______

A)john dryden
B)daniel defoe
C)thomas hardy
D)john bunyan

Question 17

The _____century was doubtlessly an age of prose.

A)16th
B)18th
C)19th
D)17th

Question 18

__________ had a powerful effect on early Stuart prose

A)puritanism
B)communism
C)humanism
D)egalitarianism

Question 19

Who wrote Apology for Poetrie?

A)philip sidney
B)thomas lodge
C)milton
D)robert greene

Question 20

Novum Organum is the work of _________

A)milton
B)johnson
C)bacon
D)robert greene

Question 21

_________was a strong believer of the theory of art for art's sake.

A)r l stevenson
B)thomas carlyle
C)william morris
D)walter pater