English Literature Quiz 55

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What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

2 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

3 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

presentation

4 / 50

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

5 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

john Milton

6 / 50

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

Both A and C

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

7 / 50

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

Both A and B

Urdu

None of these

Bengali

8 / 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.

9 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10 / 50

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

Indian autobiography

Most popular slave narrative

First african american to speak to mixed audience

None of the above

11 / 50

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

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

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

12 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

13 / 50

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

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.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

14 / 50

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

Couperin

Caleron

Corneille

Moliere

15 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a playwright

a film-maker

a historian

16 / 50

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

All of the Above

poverty

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

17 / 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 to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

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.

18 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Sculptor

Architect

Engraver

19 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

20 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

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

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

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

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

22 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

Work Without Hope

23 / 50

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

Othello

Macbeth

King Lear

Hamlet

24 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

similar things

contradictory things

25 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

national identity

All the above

nostalgia

26 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

German

Dutch

British

27 / 50

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

None of these

Romantic

Elizabethan

Victorian

28 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

All the above.

29 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

30 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Three

Two

Only one

31 / 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 a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on adventures.

32 / 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

33 / 50

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

Jaques

Oliver

Amiens

Orlando

34 / 50

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

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

Otto Jepersen

Max__Muller

35 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By execution

By old age

By Venus

36 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

James Joyce

37 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Emma

Adam Bede

38 / 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

All of the above.

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.

39 / 50

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

Lord Byron

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

40 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

John Keats

41 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

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

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

42 / 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

43 / 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 his aunt get whipped

Watching a slave get beaten to death

44 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A performance poet

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

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

46 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

47 / 50

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

enchantment

fairy trickery

spells

All of the Above

48 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

49 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

50 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A character?s final words before dying

A dialogue between two characters

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

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