Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Model Test -1

Model Test – 1

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Subject Code: 231101

(Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama)

Time: 4 hours               Full marks-80

Part – A

Answer any ten questions:              1×10=10

1. Who is Mephistophilis? 
2. Who are the University Wits? 
3. What is a soliloquy? 
4. Who is Macduff?
5. Who was Duncan? 
6. What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw?  
7. What is Belmont? 
8. Why does Shylock hate Antonio? 
9. What is the comedy of Humour?  
10. How is Volpone punished at last?  
11. What is the original name of the play “The Duchess of Malfi?” 
12. What was the parting request from the Duchess to Cariola? 

Part – B

Answer any five questions

Marks 4×5=20

2. What role does Mephistophilis play in “Doctor Faustus”? 
3. What is the significance of the Seven Deadly Sins in “Doctor Faustus”? 
4. Describe Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking scene. 
5. “Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.”—Locate and explain. 

6. 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”. 

8. Discuss the role of Mosca as a master manipulator. 
9. Describe the wooing scene in “The Duchess of Malfi”. 

Part – C

Answer any five questions:

Marks 10×5-50

10. Delineate the character of Dr. Faustus as a tragic hero. 
11. Consider ‘Doctor Faustus’ as a morality play. 
12. What role does Lady Macbeth play in guiding the action of the play “Macbeth’? 
13. Narrate the trial scene of “The Merchant of Venice”.
14. Evaluate “The Merchant of Venice” as a tragicomedy. 
15. Examine Volpone’ as a comedy of humour. 
16. “Volpone’ is a satire on the contemporary English society”- Elucidate. 
17. 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: His high ambition.

• 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.