English Literature Quiz 55

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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.

2 / 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.

3 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

4 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

5 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

6 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

7 / 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 segregation in the South.

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 a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

8 / 50

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson

9 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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.

10 / 50

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

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

11 / 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

12 / 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

13 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Two

Four

Only one

14 / 50

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

By old age

By Venus

In a hunting accident

By execution

15 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

16 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

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

17 / 50

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

Victorian

Romantic

None of these

Elizabethan

18 / 50

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

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

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

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.

19 / 50

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

Corneille

Couperin

Moliere

Caleron

20 / 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

21 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

22 / 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

Seeing his mother die

Watching his dad beat his mother

23 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

elaborate comparison

24 / 50

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

enchantment

All of the Above

fairy trickery

spells

25 / 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

26 / 50

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

Both A and B

Urdu

None of these

Bengali

27 / 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.

28 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a playwright

a historian

a film-maker

29 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

None of these

Engraver

Architect

30 / 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

31 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

British

German

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 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.

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.

33 / 50

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

None of the above

Indian autobiography