English Literature Quiz 55

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

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

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

All of the above.

2 / 50

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

Field and works

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Hills and highways

3 / 50

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

By Venus

By old age

By execution

In a hunting accident

4 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

5 / 50

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

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Otto Jepersen

Noire

6 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

7 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It should make only reports

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

8 / 50

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

Hamlet

Othello

King Lear

Macbeth

9 / 50

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

None of the above

Indian autobiography

Most popular slave narrative

First african american to speak to mixed audience

10 / 50

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

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

11 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

elaborate comparison

dissimilar things

contradictory things

12 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

All the above.

13 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

14 / 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 set in the past

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

15 / 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 ?

Watching his aunt get whipped

Seeing his mother die

Watching his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

16 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

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

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

17 / 50

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

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

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

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

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

18 / 50

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

William Blake

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

19 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

20 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

21 / 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

22 / 50

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

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

23 / 50

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

None of these

Urdu

Both A and B

Bengali

24 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

25 / 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

sound as a means to express meaning

all of the above

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

26 / 50

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

All of the Above

enchantment

fairy trickery

spells

27 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Four

Two

Three

28 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

presentation

rebel

representation

29 / 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.

30 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

31 / 50

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

Orlando

Amiens

Jaques

Oliver

32 / 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 denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on adventures.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on a royal hero.

33 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

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

34 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

American

Dutch

British

35 / 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

36 / 50

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

All of the Above

poverty

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

37 / 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 ?

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

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

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.

38 / 50

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

James Joyce

Joseph Conrad

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

39 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

None of these

Engraver

Architect

40 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

41 / 50

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

Corneille

Moliere

Couperin

Caleron

42 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

national identity

pretension

All the above

43 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

John Keats

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

44 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Emma

Hard Times

Adam Bede

45 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

46 / 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 a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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

It is the racial segregation in the South.

47 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

john Milton

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

48 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a film-maker

a playwright

a modern painter

49 / 50

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

Victorian

Romantic

None of these

Elizabethan

50 / 50

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

A rejection 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

A reinforcement of master narratives

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