English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 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

2 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

representation

rebel

presentation

revival or rebirth

3 / 50

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

Romantic

None of these

Elizabethan

Victorian

4 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

john Milton

Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser

5 / 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

6 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

American

German

Dutch

7 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

Emma

Hard Times

8 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

9 / 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.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

10 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

11 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Most popular slave narrative

Indian autobiography

None of the above

12 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

similar things

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

13 / 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 character?s final words before dying

A dialogue between two characters

14 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

15 / 50

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

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

All of the Above

poverty

16 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

pretension

All the above

national identity

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 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.

18 / 50

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

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

William Blake

19 / 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 the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

20 / 50

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

Moliere

Corneille

Couperin

Caleron

21 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

22 / 50

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

spells

All of the Above

fairy trickery

enchantment

23 / 50

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

Amiens

Orlando

Oliver

Jaques

24 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

25 / 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 problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

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

26 / 50

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

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

27 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

28 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

29 / 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

30 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

31 / 50

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

By old age

By execution

By Venus

In a hunting accident

32 / 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 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.

33 / 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 start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

34 / 50

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

Both A and C

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

A rejection of master narratives

A reinforcement of master narratives

35 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

36 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

37 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a film-maker

a historian

a playwright

38 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

John Keats

39 / 50

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

Noire

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Max__Muller

Otto Jepersen

40 / 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.

41 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He just wasn?t bright enough

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

42 / 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.

43 / 50

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

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

44 / 50

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

Bengali

Urdu

None of these

Both A and B

45 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Engraver

Architect

None of these

46 / 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

all of the above

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

47 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Three

Two

Only one

48 / 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.

49 / 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.

50 / 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 his aunt get whipped

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

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