English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

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 that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

2 / 50

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

Couperin

Caleron

Moliere

Corneille

3 / 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

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

all of the above

sound as a means to express meaning

4 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

5 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

6 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

7 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

8 / 50

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

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

9 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

similar things

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

10 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

Sculptor

Architect

None of these

11 / 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

12 / 50

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

Romantic

Elizabethan

Victorian

None of these

13 / 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

14 / 50

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

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.

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

Seeing his mother die

16 / 50

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

spells

enchantment

fairy trickery

All of the Above

17 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

18 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

19 / 50

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

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth

20 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

21 / 50

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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

A rejection of master narratives

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

22 / 50

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

John Keats

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

23 / 50

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

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

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

24 / 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

25 / 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 a widespread ?urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

26 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

27 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

national identity

All the above

pretension

28 / 50

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

Bengali

Urdu

Both A and B

None of these

29 / 50

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

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

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

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.

30 / 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.

31 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

32 / 50

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

All of the Above

lack of stable work

poverty

his father?s alcoholism

33 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

34 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Only one

Three

Four

35 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

representation

rebel

presentation

36 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

37 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

British

German

38 / 50

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

By Venus

By old age

In a hunting accident

By execution

39 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

40 / 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

41 / 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

42 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

43 / 50

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

Amiens

Oliver

Orlando

Jaques

44 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Emma

Hard Times

Adam Bede

45 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

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

All the above.

46 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

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

It focuses on adventures.

It focuses on a royal hero.

48 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a historian

a modern painter

a playwright

49 / 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.

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 epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

50 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience