English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

representation

presentation

rebel

revival or rebirth

2 / 50

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

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

Hills and highways

Field and works

3 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Emma

4 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

5 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A traditional poet

A Modernist poet

A classical poet

6 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

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

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

8 / 50

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

Percy Shelley

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

9 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

10 / 50

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

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.

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

All of the above.

11 / 50

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

Romantic

Elizabethan

None of these

Victorian

12 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

john Milton

Christopher Marlowe

13 / 50

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

Couperin

Caleron

Corneille

Moliere

14 / 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

15 / 50

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

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

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

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

16 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

17 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

Dutch

German

British

American

18 / 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 a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

Seeing his mother die

Watching his dad beat his mother

19 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Two

Only one

Three

20 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

21 / 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 the racial segregation in the South.

It is a widespread ?urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

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

22 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

contradictory things

elaborate comparison

similar things

23 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

All the above

national identity

pretension

24 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

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

25 / 50

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

Amiens

Oliver

Jaques

Orlando

26 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

27 / 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

28 / 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.

29 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Engraver

Architect

None of these

30 / 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

31 / 50

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

By Venus

In a hunting accident

By old age

By execution

32 / 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.

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.

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

33 / 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.

34 / 50

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

Hamlet

Macbeth

Othello

King Lear

35 / 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

A reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

36 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience

None of the above