English Literature Quiz 55

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

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

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 set in the past

2 / 50

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

Couperin

Caleron

Moliere

Corneille

3 / 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

4 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

5 / 50

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

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

6 / 50

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

all are sleeping

Hills and highways

Field and works

Crusted snow and dead leaves

7 / 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

8 / 50

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

Otto Jepersen

Noire

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Max__Muller

9 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Hard Times

Emma

Silas Marner

10 / 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 ?

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

Watching his aunt get whipped

11 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

12 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

13 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Edmund Spenser

john Milton

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

14 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A character?s final words before dying

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

A dialogue between two characters

15 / 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

16 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Architect

Sculptor

None of these

Engraver

17 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a historian

a modern painter

a playwright

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 and Langland wrote in different dialects.

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.

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

19 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

20 / 50

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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.

21 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

All of the Above

poverty

lack of stable work

22 / 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 adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

23 / 50

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

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

24 / 50

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

By execution

By old age

In a hunting accident

By Venus

25 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

26 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

Dutch

British

American

German

27 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

William Blake

Percy Shelley

28 / 50

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

spells

All of the Above

fairy trickery

enchantment

29 / 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

30 / 50

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

Robert Browning

John Keats

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

31 / 50

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

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

32 / 50

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

Elizabethan

Victorian

Romantic

None of these

33 / 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 idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

34 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

All the above

national identity

nostalgia

35 / 50

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

None of these

Bengali

Both A and B

Urdu

36 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

37 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A Modernist poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

38 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

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

He just wasn?t bright enough

39 / 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 believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

40 / 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 novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

41 / 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 ?

all of the above

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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

sound as a means to express meaning

42 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

43 / 50

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

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

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

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

44 / 50

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

All of the above.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

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.

45 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Comparative Criticism

46 / 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 toward whiteness? among African Americans.

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

47 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Two

Three

Four

48 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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 epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

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.

Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.

50 / 50

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

Jaques

Orlando

Amiens

Oliver

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