CSP
A. What is the name of the satire written by Cowley?
Ans:- The name of the satire written by Cowley is ‘The Puritan and Papist’.
B. What kind of allusions does Cowley use?
Ans:- The allusions, used by Cowley, are not always to vulgar things. He offends by exaggeration, as much as by diminution. Whatever he writes it always polluted with some conceits.
C. What is the aim of the ‘Spectator’?
Ans:- The aim of the ‘Spectator’ is “to enliven morality with wit, and to temper with morality …. to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses.
D. What is Soho Square?
Ans:- Soho Square is a squire in Soho, London. It was originally called King squire after Charles II, whose statue stands in the squire. It was then the centre of fashionable life. It now marks the estern limit of the social world of London.
E. What is the essay ‘Of Plantation’ about?
Ans:- The essay illustrates the interest in English colonization in America.
F. How many kinds of love are mentioned by Bacon in ‘Of Love’?
Ans:- There are three types of love are mentioned in ‘Of Love’. They are ‘friendly love’, ‘nuptial love’ and ‘wanton love’.
G. Why is a married man hostage to the fortune?
Ans:- Married persons are hostage to the fortune for in a marriage, wife and children are impediments to great enterprises.
H. Who drafted and……….the last ‘India Bill’?
Ans:- The ‘East India Bill’ was drafted and introduced by Fox.
I. When did Edmund Burke give the speech on the East India Bill?
Ans:- Edmund Burke gave his famous Speech on Fox’s East India Bill in 1783.
K. What is a pamphlet?
Ans:- Pamphlet is a small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject.
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A. What are the three roles played by a wife in different stages of life?
Ans:- The three roles played by a wife in different stages of life are mistress, companion and nurse.
B. What is the most ordinary cause of single life?
Ans:- Having fuller enjoyment of liberty is the most important/ordinary cause of single life.
C. What kind of writing is ‘The Guardian’ by Cowley?
Ans:- The Guardian’ by Cowley is a pastoral comedy.
D. What type of composition is the ‘Life of Cowley’?
Ans:- ‘The Life of Cowley’ is a biography and critical study of his(Cowley’s) character and works.
E. What is Magna Carta?
Ans:- Magna Carta is a document officially stating the political and legal rights of the English people, that King John was forced to sign in 1215.
F. What were the East India Company’s officials formally called?
Ans:- ‘The East India Company’s’ officials were formerly called English/British East India Company.
G. What is the aim of the Spectator?
Ans:- The aim of the ‘Spectator’ is “to enliven morality with wit, and to temper with with morality …. to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses.
H. What is the Tatler?
Ans:- The Tatler is a British literary and society journal founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, who used the pseudonym “Issac Bickerstall, Esquire”.
K. Why is not an unmarried man a good citizen?
Ans:- An unmarried men lead a careless life and so he is not a good citizens.
L. Who are the metaphysical poets?
Ans:- John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell and Henry Vaughn are the most prominent metaphysical poets.
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A. What types of love are mentioned by Bacon in his essay “Of Love”?
Ans:- There are three types of love are mentioned in ‘Of Love’. They are ‘friendly love’, ‘nuptial love’ and ‘wanton love’.
B. Who was Pilate?
Ans:- Pilate was a Roman Governor.
C. What is superior to taking revenge?
Ans:- Pardoning or forgiving is superior to taking revenge.
D. Why did Sir Roger de Coverley remain a bachelor?
Ans:- Sir Roger de Coverley remains a bachelor because he was disappointed in love in his youth.
E. How old is Sir Roger de Coverley now?
Ans:- Now Sir Roger is a gentle man of fifty-six years old.
F. What is the Spectator’s Club?
Ans:- The Spectator was a daily publication which was founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England.
G. What was the name of the epic poem that Cowley attempt to write?
Ans:- The epic poem that Cowley attempted to write is the ‘Davideis’ which he designed to have twelve books, but left it unfinished.
H. Who is the father of criticism mentioned in the ‘Life of Cowley’?
Ans:- John Dryden is the father of criticism mentioned in the ‘Life of Cowley’.
I. What type of work is ‘Love’s Riddle’?
Ans:- ‘Love’s Riddle’ is a pastoral comedy in blank-verse. It includes simplicity of thoughts, rustic setting, idyllic scene etc.
J. What was the main target of Burke’s ‘Speech on the East India Bill’?
Ans:- The main target of Burke’s Speech on East India Bill was to bring reformation in unscrupulous privileges enjoyed by the East India Company.
K. Who was Edmund Burke?
Ans:- Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator and political philosopher.
L. What is East India Charter?
Ans:- The East India Charter is a charter to establish monopoly and to create power. The East India charter is violation of the spirit of the Magna Carta, the instrument of protecting humanity.
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A. Who was Tacitus?
Ans:- Tacitus was a well known historian of ancient Rome.
B. What does Bacon mean by the term ‘Plantation’?
Ans:- According to Bacon the term ‘plantation’ means colonization.
C. Who are the impediments to great enterprise according to Bacon?
Ans:- According to Bacon wife and children are the impediments to great enterprise.
D. Who inherited Sir Roger’s property?
Ans:- Sir Roger’s property was inherited among Captain Sentry, and Sir Roger’s nephew.
E. A penny saved is a penny got. —– Who is the believer of the maxim?
Ans:- Sir Andrew Freeport is the believer of the maxim.
F. What did Sir Roger do to beautify the inside of the church?
Ans:- He has decorated and beautified the inside of the church with several texts of his own choosing, on his own accord and at his own expense.
G. What kind of odes did Cowley write?
Ans:- Abraham Cowley liked and wrote mainly Pindaric Odes.
H. Who first coined the term ‘metaphysical poets’?
Ans:- The term ‘metaphysical poets’ was first coined by Samuel Johnson.
I. Write two names of the members of the ‘Spectator’s Club’?
Ans:- Sir Roger de Coverley and Will Honeycomb are two names of the members of the ‘Spectator’s Club’.
J. Who was the first governor-general of India?
Ans:- Warren Hastings was the first governor-general of India.
K. When did Edmund Burke deliver his famous speech on Fox’s East India Bill?
Ans:- Burke deliveried his famous Speech on Fox’s East India Bill in 1783.
L. Who were the Tartars?
Ans:- The Tartars are the members of the combined forces of central Asian peoples, including Mongols and Turks, who under the leadership of Genghis Khan conquered much of Asia and eastern Europe of the early 13 century, and under Tamerlane (14th century) established an empire with his capital at Samarkand.