Model Test – 1
ENGLISH
Subject Code: 231101
(Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama)
Time: 4 hours Full marks-80
Part – A
Answer any ten questions: 1×10=10
- Who is Mephistophilis?
- Who are the University Wits?
- What is a soliloquy?
- Who is Macduff?
- Who was Duncan?
- What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw?
- What is Belmont?
- Why does Shylock hate Antonio?
- What is the comedy of Humour?
- How is Volpone punished at last?
- What is the original name of the play “The Duchess of Malfi?”
- What was the parting request from the Duchess to Cariola?
Part – B
Answer any five questions
Marks 4×5=20
- What role does Mephistophilis play in “Doctor Faustus”?
- What is the significance of the Seven Deadly Sins in “Doctor Faustus”?
- Describe Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking scene.
- “Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.”—Locate and explain.
- Do you find any poetic justice in “The Merchant of Venice”? Discuss in brief.
7. Write a short note on the role of law in “The Merchant of Venice”.
- Discuss the role of Mosca as a master manipulator.
- Describe the wooing scene in “The Duchess of Malfi”.
Part – C
Answer any five questions:
Marks 10×5-50
- Delineate the character of Dr. Faustus as a tragic hero.
- Consider ‘Doctor Faustus’ as a morality play.
- What role does Lady Macbeth play in guiding the action of the play “Macbeth’?
- Narrate the trial scene of “The Merchant of Venice”.
- Evaluate “The Merchant of Venice” as a tragicomedy.
- Examine Volpone’ as a comedy of humour.
- “Volpone’ is a satire on the contemporary English society”- Elucidate.
- Discuss the theme of corruption as reflected in ‘The Duchess of Malfi.’
Solution to Part – A
- Ans: He is Lucifer’s servant.
- Ans: They are late 16th-century English poet and playwrights, including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, and Thomas Lodge.
- Ans: Soliloquy means self-revelation. It is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to himself when he is alone on the stage.
- Ans: Macduff is a general in Duncan’s army. His wife and son were killed by Macbeth’s men, and eventually he was able to slay Macbeth.
- Ans: Duncan, a fictitious character, was the excellent King of Scotland.
- Ans: A fictitious city in Venice, Italy.
- Ans: Shylock hates Antonio because he is a Christian and lends money to people without charging excessive interest.
- Ans: Comedy of Humour is a type of comedic play that explores the idea of characters being dominated by a particular “humour” or temperament.
- Ans: At last, Volpone is ordered to be imprisoned and in chains while his property is confiscated and given to the hospitals for the incurables.
- Ans: The Tragedy of the Dutchess of Malfy.
- Ans: The parting request from the Duchess to Cariola is to take care of her children.