English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

2 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the novel has a traditional plot; nothing is particularly unique about it

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

3 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a film-maker

a modern painter

a historian

4 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

5 / 50

As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?

Bengali

None of these

Urdu

Both A and B

6 / 50

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

7 / 50

?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ?

King Lear

Macbeth

Hamlet

Othello

8 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

Dutch

American

German

9 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

All the above.

To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language

10 / 50

Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

all of the above

sound as a means to express meaning

the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

11 / 50

The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?

Moliere

Corneille

Caleron

Couperin

12 / 50

Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?

spells

fairy trickery

enchantment

All of the Above

13 / 50

Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?

Suggesting that the study of literature is based on the breakdown of language into signs

Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.

All of the above.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

14 / 50

What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?

None of the above

Most popular slave narrative

Indian autobiography

First african american to speak to mixed audience

15 / 50

Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?

Victorian

Elizabethan

Romantic

None of these

16 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

representation

revival or rebirth

rebel

17 / 50

What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

Hills and highways

18 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

19 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

20 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Two

Only one

Four

21 / 50

As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?

Seeing his mother die

Watching his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

22 / 50

Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?

Chaucer copied French and Italian style, whereas Langland did not.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

Most of Chaucer?s poetry was for a secular court audience, whereas Langland?s was didactic, teaching a moral lesson.

Langland wrote only about aristocratic characters that were similar to Arthurian legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about lower social classes.

23 / 50

The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?

Noire

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Otto Jepersen

24 / 50

Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?

Jaques

Oliver

Amiens

Orlando

25 / 50

?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?

A rejection of master narratives

A reinforcement of master narratives

A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche

Both A and C

26 / 50

What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?

It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

It functions as a metaphor for the women?s rights movement.

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

27 / 50

Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???

Walt Whitman

John Keats

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

28 / 50

Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?

Textual Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

29 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

John Skelton

Izaak Walton

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

30 / 50

Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel that consists of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel set in the past

31 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

32 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Engraver

None of these

Architect

33 / 50

Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?

poverty

lack of stable work

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

34 / 50

Samuel Richardson?s Pamela and Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?

Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.

Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.

Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.

35 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

A traditional poet

36 / 50

According to Langston Hughes?s essay ?The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain? (his answer to George Schuyler?s essay ?Negro Art Hokum?), what is the ?mountain? that stands in the way of ?any true Negro art in America? ?

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

It is a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

It is a widespread ?urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

37 / 50

In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ?

A speech delivered by a character intended to be spoken to only the audience

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

38 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

national identity

nostalgia

All the above

pretension

39 / 50

Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

40 / 50

In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?

By execution

By old age

In a hunting accident

By Venus

41 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

42 / 50

How does this quotation from Behn?s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: ?I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet?s pleasure.? ?

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on adventures.

43 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

44 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should make only reports

45 / 50

Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

46 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

47 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Hard Times

Emma

Silas Marner

48 / 50

What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

49 / 50

Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

He thought that the popes were the only successful part of the Church.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

He thought the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.

50 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

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