English Literature Quiz 50
1 / 50
According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by legitimate drama ?
2 / 50
Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
3 / 50
Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
4 / 50
Which among the following implies the underlying rules governing the combination and organization of the elements of language ?
5 / 50
Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?
6 / 50
Which statement about the Earth is asserted as true in Paradise Lost ?
7 / 50
The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in ?
8 / 50
What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is ?performed? ?
9 / 50
The importance of Lucy Terry?s ?Bars Fight? is______________?
10 / 50
The play, ?Macbeth,? is set in what country ?
11 / 50
Which of the following is NOT a feature or characteristics of Emily Dickinson?s poetry ?
12 / 50
The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
13 / 50
Whom did monster demand to Victor Frankenstein to create for him ?
14 / 50
Which of the Marlowe?s plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash ?
15 / 50
But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does ?mow? mean in this context ?
16 / 50
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?
17 / 50
How was the priest?s son?s prayer answered ?
18 / 50
What do you mean by Stanza ?
19 / 50
Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
20 / 50
Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ?
21 / 50
Section 58, of The Sale of Goods Act provide right of suit for Specific Performance of Contract on the part of ________________?
22 / 50
As per section 4(2), of The Sale of Goods Act, a contract of sale may be _________________?
23 / 50
Who wrote The Rules of Courtly Love ?
24 / 50
The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
25 / 50
Who calls poetry ?the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge? ?
26 / 50
In The Paradiso, how does Dante?s journey through heaven end ?
27 / 50
In the play, ?Richard III,? who speaks of ?the winter of our discontent? (I.i.1) ?
28 / 50
Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
29 / 50
Following are the lines of: ?I?m your wife if you marry me If not, I?ll die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but I?ll be your servant Whether you deny or not? ?
30 / 50
Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
31 / 50
Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist ?
32 / 50
What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow?s play The Jew of Malta ?
33 / 50
For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
34 / 50
In T.S. Eliot?s essay called ?Tradition and Individual Talent,? he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
35 / 50
In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown?s Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental novel is evident ?
36 / 50
Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land? and the futurist aesthetic project ?
37 / 50
Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
38 / 50
What is ?scholasticism? as it relates to the medieval era ?
39 / 50
Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
40 / 50
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
41 / 50
Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacob?s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
42 / 50
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
43 / 50
?And then hopped sidewise to the Wall?. Here the poet personifies the bird as a______________?
44 / 50
With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
45 / 50
What led to the alliterative revival ?
46 / 50
?The Alchemist? is written by_______________?
47 / 50
Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?
48 / 50
During the period of which king did Chaucer fight in the English Army for the Hundred Years? War between France and England ?
49 / 50
A language come into existence when_____________?
50 / 50
The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?
Provide Your Information
Your score is
The average score is 0%
Restart quiz
