English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

German

Dutch

American

2 / 50

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

By Venus

In a hunting accident

By execution

By old age

3 / 50

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

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4 / 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

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

5 / 50

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

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

6 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Caleron

Corneille

7 / 50

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

None of these

Romantic

Elizabethan

Victorian

8 / 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 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.

9 / 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

10 / 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 copied French and Italian style, whereas Langland did not.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

11 / 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 of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

12 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Three

Two

Four

13 / 50

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

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

lack of stable work

14 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Carl Jung

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

15 / 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.

16 / 50

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

Amiens

Orlando

Jaques

Oliver

17 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

18 / 50

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

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

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

19 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

Izaak Walton

Isabella Whitney

20 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

21 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

22 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

23 / 50

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

James Joyce

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

24 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

dissimilar things

contradictory things

elaborate comparison

25 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

26 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a modern painter

a playwright

a historian

27 / 50

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

None of these

Both A and B

Urdu

Bengali

28 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

29 / 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.

30 / 50

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

spells

enchantment

All of the Above

fairy trickery

31 / 50

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

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

Both A and C

32 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

rebel

representation

presentation

revival or rebirth

33 / 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

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

34 / 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 a royal hero.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on adventures.

It connects to poetry.

35 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

36 / 50

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

Noire

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Otto Jepersen

Max__Muller

37 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A classical poet

A traditional poet

38 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

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

39 / 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

all of the above

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

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

40 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

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

A character?s final words before dying

41 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

nostalgia

All the above

national identity

42 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

All the above.

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

43 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

44 / 50

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

King Lear

Othello

Hamlet

Macbeth

45 / 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

Indian autobiography