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Ben Jonson – “Every Man in His Humour” – Exam Based MCQs
1. Every Man in His Humour is written by: (UGC NET)
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) William Shakespeare
C) Ben Jonson
D) Thomas Kyd
Ans: C) Ben Jonson
2. Ben Jonson belongs mainly to the: (SET)
A) Restoration Age
B) Romantic Age
C) Victorian Age
D) Elizabethan/Jacobean Age
Ans: D) Elizabethan/Jacobean Age
3. Every Man in His Humour is best classified as a: (PGTRB)
A) Tragedy
B) History play
C) Comedy of humours
D) Pastoral drama
Ans: C) Comedy of humours
4. The phrase “humour” in Jonson’s drama refers to: (UGC NET)
A) Jokes only
B) A dominating trait or temperament
C) Sadness in tragedy
D) Musical entertainment
Ans: B) A dominating trait or temperament
5. The theory of “humours” originally comes from: (SET)
A) Medieval romance
B) Greek and medieval medicine
C) Pure mathematics
D) Christian theology alone
Ans: B) Greek and medieval medicine
6. The protagonist most associated with young love in the play is: (PGTRB)
A) Downright
B) Kitely
C) Edward Knowell
D) Bobadill
Ans: C) Edward Knowell
7. Edward Knowell’s father is: (UGC NET)
A) Master Stephen
B) Old Knowell
C) Justice Clement
D) Captain Bobadill
Ans: B) Old Knowell
8. Old Knowell is mainly characterized by: (SET)
A) Extreme bravery
B) Suspicion and concern about his son
C) Comic boasting
D) Romantic melancholy
Ans: B) Suspicion and concern about his son
9. The jealous merchant in the play is: (PGTRB)
A) Wellbred
B) Downright
C) Kitely
D) Brainworm
Ans: C) Kitely
10. Kitely’s ruling humour is: (UGC NET)
A) Courage
B) Jealous suspicion
C) Religious devotion
D) Laziness
Ans: B) Jealous suspicion
11. Brainworm is famous in the play for being: (SET)
A) A tragic hero
B) A clever servant and trickster
C) A brave soldier
D) A silent philosopher
Ans: B) A clever servant and trickster
12. Brainworm serves: (PGTRB)
A) Kitely
B) Justice Clement
C) Old Knowell
D) Wellbred
Ans: C) Old Knowell
13. Captain Bobadill is mainly a satire on the: (UGC NET)
A) Honest merchant
B) Braggart soldier
C) Wise judge
D) Devoted lover
Ans: B) Braggart soldier
14. Bobadill is characterized by: (SET)
A) Quiet humility
B) Boasting without real courage
C) Philosophical wisdom
D) Fatherly care
Ans: B) Boasting without real courage
15. Master Stephen is presented as: (PGTRB)
A) A sensible gentleman
B) A foolish country gull
C) A learned scholar
D) A strict magistrate
Ans: B) A foolish country gull
16. Master Matthew is associated with: (UGC NET)
A) Jealousy in trade
B) Pretentious poetry and affectation
C) Judicial seriousness
D) Military heroism
Ans: B) Pretentious poetry and affectation
17. Wellbred’s social position in the play is that of: (SET)
A) A magistrate
B) A witty gentleman
C) A poor servant
D) A country farmer
Ans: B) A witty gentleman
18. Wellbred is connected with Kitely because he is Kitely’s: (PGTRB)
A) Father
B) Employee
C) Brother-in-law
D) Son
Ans: C) Brother-in-law
19. Downright is mainly characterized by: (UGC NET)
A) Hypocrisy
B) Plain speaking and blunt honesty
C) Excessive vanity
D) Romantic sentiment
Ans: B) Plain speaking and blunt honesty
20. Justice Clement represents: (SET)
A) Corrupt authority
B) Comic but effective judicial wisdom
C) Military tyranny
D) Religious fanaticism
Ans: B) Comic but effective judicial wisdom
21. The setting of the revised version of the play is: (PGTRB)
A) Rome
B) Venice
C) London
D) Athens
Ans: C) London
22. One important feature of Jonson’s comedy is: (UGC NET)
A) Romantic fantasy
B) Satire of social types and follies
C) Mythic machinery
D) Gothic terror
Ans: B) Satire of social types and follies
23. Jonson’s “comedy of humours” is based on the idea that: (SET)
A) Character is shaped by one dominant obsession
B) All comedy depends on romance
C) Tragedy is superior to comedy
D) History is more important than drama
Ans: A) One dominant obsession
24. The play is important because it helped establish Jonson as a master of: (PGTRB)
A) Tragic drama
B) Historical drama
C) Satiric comedy
D) Romantic comedy only
Ans: C) Satiric comedy
25. The humour of Kitely leads mainly to: (UGC NET)
A) Public heroism
B) Comic misunderstandings and suspicion
C) Poetic greatness
D) Religious wisdom
Ans: B) Comic misunderstandings
26. The humour of Bobadill creates comedy through: (SET)
A) Courageous action
B) Empty boasting and cowardice
C) Judicial fairness
D) Quiet meditation
Ans: B) Empty boasting and cowardice
27. Brainworm contributes to the plot mainly through: (PGTRB)
A) Military planning
B) Disguises and clever manipulation
C) Religious preaching
D) Romantic song
Ans: B) Disguises and clever manipulation
28. Jonson’s comedy is generally more “classical” than Shakespeare’s because it emphasizes: (UGC NET)
A) Loose plotting
B) Structure, satire, and types
C) Dream fantasy
D) Lyric emotion only
Ans: B) Structure, satire, and types
29. The play presents London society as: (SET)
A) Heroic and solemn
B) Full of follies, pretensions, and comic conflicts
C) Entirely corrupt and tragic
D) Purely idealized
Ans: B) Full of follies and pretensions
30. The play finally moves toward: (PGTRB)
A) Total tragedy
B) Comic resolution and exposure of follies
C) Political rebellion
D) Religious conversion
Ans: B) Comic resolution
31. Ben Jonson is particularly associated with the development of: (UGC NET)
A) Comedy of humours
B) Gothic tragedy
C) Sentimental comedy
D) Problem plays
Ans: A) Comedy of humours
32. Jonson’s method in this play is mainly: (SET)
A) To idealize characters romantically
B) To expose human follies through satire
C) To create supernatural terror
D) To celebrate history patriotically
Ans: B) Expose follies through satire
33. The “humour” theory assumes that imbalance in temperament leads to: (PGTRB)
A) Perfect wisdom
B) Comic eccentricity
C) Heroic tragedy only
D) Religious peace
Ans: B) Comic eccentricity
34. Bobadill can be compared to the traditional stock figure of the: (UGC NET)
A) Wise fool
B) Braggart soldier
C) Melancholy lover
D) Jealous husband only
Ans: B) Braggart soldier
35. Downright’s humour is chiefly: (SET)
A) Artificial courtesy
B) Frank bluntness
C) Affected poetry
D) Cowardly bragging
Ans: B) Frank bluntness
36. Jonson’s dramatic world differs from Shakespeare’s by being more: (PGTRB)
A) Fantastical and romantic
B) Satirical and analytical
C) Lyrical and emotional
D) Mythological and symbolic
Ans: B) Satirical and analytical
37. The play’s importance in English drama lies partly in its: (UGC NET)
A) Use of supernatural ghosts
B) Realistic urban setting and social satire
C) Epic grandeur
D) Religious allegory
Ans: B) Realistic urban setting
38. Edward Knowell’s role in the play is mainly to provide: (SET)
A) Tragic conflict
B) Youthful romantic interest within the comic action
C) Judicial authority
D) Religious instruction
Ans: B) Youthful romantic interest
39. Justice Clement is important because he: (PGTRB)
A) Creates the confusions
B) Helps bring order and resolution
C) Represents military honour
D) Is the tragic villain
Ans: B) Helps bring order
40. Jonson’s language in the play is often: (UGC NET)
A) Elevated epic verse only
B) Sharp, witty, and satirical
C) Mystical and symbolic
D) Entirely lyrical
Ans: B) Sharp, witty, and satirical
41. Which of the following best describes Jonson’s purpose in the play? (SET)
A) To glorify court romance
B) To correct manners by laughing at folly
C) To frighten the audience
D) To retell mythological stories
Ans: B) Correct manners by laughing
42. The title Every Man in His Humour suggests that: (PGTRB)
A) Every person is ruled by some dominant disposition
B) Every person is equally wise
C) All men are tragic heroes
D) Humour means laughter only
Ans: A) Every person ruled by disposition
43. The play is a landmark because it blends: (UGC NET)
A) Myth and religion
B) Character satire and realistic city comedy
C) Tragedy and epic
D) Romance and allegory
Ans: B) Character satire and city comedy
44. Ben Jonson’s comic method depends largely on: (SET)
A) Emotional sympathy alone
B) Exaggeration of a ruling trait
C) Supernatural intervention
D) Heroic speeches only
Ans: B) Exaggeration of a ruling trait
45. Which best describes Master Stephen? (PGTRB)
A) A wise counsellor
B) A vain and foolish gull
C) A serious judge
D) A tragic avenger
Ans: B) A vain and foolish gull
46. Which best describes Master Matthew? (UGC NET)
A) A practical merchant
B) An affected wit and pretender
C) A blunt country gentleman
D) A soldier of real merit
Ans: B) An affected wit
47. The final effect of the play is to show that: (SET)
A) Folly can be exposed and corrected through comedy
B) Society is beyond reform
C) Tragedy is the only serious form
D) Justice always fails
Ans: A) Folly can be exposed
48. The most suitable critical description of the play is: (PGTRB)
A) A romantic fantasy
B) A Jonsonian comedy satirizing social humours
C) A tragic history
D) A religious morality play
Ans: B) A Jonsonian comedy
49. The play remains important because it is one of the earliest successful English: (UGC NET)
A) Gothic tragedies
B) Comedies of humours
C) Problem plays
D) Sentimental dramas
Ans: B) Comedies of humours
50. The best summary of Every Man in His Humour is: (SET)
A) A city comedy in which characters ruled by dominant humours are exposed through wit and satire
B) A tragic love story ending in death
C) A history of English kings
D) A religious allegory of sin
Ans: A) A city comedy ruled by humours
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