English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

national identity

pretension

All the above

nostalgia

2 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Emma

Hard Times

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

3 / 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 connects to poetry.

It focuses on adventures.

It focuses on a royal hero.

4 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should make only reports

6 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

7 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

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

8 / 50

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

Bengali

None of these

Urdu

Both A and B

9 / 50

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

By old age

In a hunting accident

By execution

By Venus

10 / 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

11 / 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.

12 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

13 / 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 that consists entirely of dialogue

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

A novel set in the past

14 / 50

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

poverty

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

15 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Amiens

Orlando

16 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

17 / 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.

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.

Most of Chaucer?s poetry was for a secular court audience, whereas Langland?s was didactic, teaching a moral lesson.

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

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

20 / 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 dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

21 / 50

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

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

22 / 50

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

None of these

Romantic

Victorian

Elizabethan

23 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

john Milton

24 / 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

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

25 / 50

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

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

26 / 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.

27 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

28 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

29 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Architect

None of these

Engraver

30 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a film-maker

a playwright

a historian

31 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

32 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

similar things

contradictory things

elaborate comparison

33 / 50

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

Hamlet

Macbeth

King Lear

Othello

34 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

rebel

revival or rebirth

presentation

representation

35 / 50

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

enchantment

fairy trickery

spells

All of the Above

36 / 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 reinforcement of master narratives

A rejection of master narratives

37 / 50

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

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

38 / 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

39 / 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.

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

Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

40 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Caleron

Corneille

41 / 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

42 / 50

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

None of the above

First african american to speak to mixed audience