Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?

A. William Hogarth
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Ben Jonson

Answer

C. Samuel Johnson

Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?

A. John Dryden
B. Bradley
C. Samuel Johnson
D. L. C. Knight

Answer

C. Samuel Johnson

‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:

A. Bradley
B. Dryden
C. Dr Johnson
D. None of these

Answer

C. Dr Johnson

Who wrote the preface to Shakespeare:

A. Sir Philip Sydney
B. Dryden
C. Dr Johnson
D. None of these

Answer

C. Dr Johnson

‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ was written by:

A. Dr Johnson
B. Chaucer
C. Shaw
D. Webster

Answer

A. Dr Johnson

18th Century is divided into the Age of Pope and the Age of _____.

A. Dryden
B. Johnson
C. Locke
D. Hardy

Answer

B. Johnson

The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to a School of Poets by?

A. James Boswell
B. Edmund Burke
C. Dr Johnson
D. David Hume

Answer

C. Dr Johnson

Whose response to the death of Cordelia in King Lear was— “I was so shocked by Cordelia’s death that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor”?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Milton
C. Alexander Pope
D. James Boswell

Answer

A. Samuel Johnson

Who said this? “The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

A. Carlyle
B. Pope
C. David Hume
D. Dr Johnson

Answer

D. Dr Johnson