English Literature Quiz 55

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

William Blake

Percy Shelley

2 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

3 / 50

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

A dialogue between two characters

A rhyming line

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

A character?s final words before dying

4 / 50

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

All of the above.

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

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.

5 / 50

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

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

all are sleeping

6 / 50

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

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

7 / 50

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

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

A rejection of master narratives

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

8 / 50

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

Romantic

Victorian

None of these

Elizabethan

9 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

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

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

10 / 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 set in the past

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

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

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

It is the racial segregation in the South.

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

12 / 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.

13 / 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

14 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

All of the Above

lack of stable work

poverty

15 / 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 disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

16 / 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 ?

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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

all of the above

17 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

British

German

18 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a film-maker

a playwright

a modern painter

19 / 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 dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

Watching his aunt get whipped

20 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

elaborate comparison

21 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

22 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

national identity

pretension

All the above

23 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

24 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

25 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

26 / 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

All the above.

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

27 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Emma

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Adam Bede

28 / 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

29 / 50

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

30 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

31 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

32 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

33 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

34 / 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 focuses on a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

35 / 50

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

Urdu

Bengali

None of these

Both A and B

36 / 50

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

Jaques

Oliver

Orlando

Amiens

37 / 50

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

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

Otto Jepersen

38 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

None of these

Architect

Sculptor

39 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

40 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

representation

revival or rebirth

rebel

presentation

41 / 50

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

All of the Above

enchantment

fairy trickery

spells

42 / 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 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.

43 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Caleron

Corneille

44 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

45 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

46 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Only one

Four

Three

47 / 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.

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.

48 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Ernest Jones

Sigmund Freud

49 / 50

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

By old age

By execution

In a hunting accident

By Venus

50 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

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