English Literature Quiz 55

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

A novel set in the past

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

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

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

2 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a modern painter

a film-maker

a playwright

3 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

4 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

British

German

Dutch

5 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

rebel

representation

revival or rebirth

presentation

6 / 50

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

None of these

Urdu

Bengali

Both A and B

7 / 50

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

By Venus

By execution

By old age

In a hunting accident

8 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

9 / 50

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

all are sleeping

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

10 / 50

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

King Lear

Macbeth

Hamlet

Othello

11 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

Isabella Whitney

12 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Two

Four

Three

13 / 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 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.

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

14 / 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

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

A reinforcement of master narratives

15 / 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.

16 / 50

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

Orlando

Amiens

Jaques

Oliver

17 / 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

Indian autobiography

Most popular slave narrative

18 / 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

sound as a means to express meaning

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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

19 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Emma

20 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

Architect

None of these

Sculptor

21 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Caleron

Corneille

22 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

23 / 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 just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

24 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

25 / 50

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

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

26 / 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.

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.

27 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

All the above

nostalgia

national identity

28 / 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 a royal hero.

It focuses on adventures.

29 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A performance poet

A traditional poet

A Modernist poet

30 / 50

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

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

31 / 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 a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

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

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

32 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

33 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

34 / 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

35 / 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.

36 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

similar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

37 / 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

38 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

39 / 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 symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

It functions as a metaphor for the women?s rights movement.

40 / 50

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

poverty

lack of stable work

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

41 / 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 his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

42 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

43 / 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 dialogue between two characters

A rhyming line

A character?s final words before dying

44 / 50

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

45 / 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

46 / 50

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

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

Max__Muller

Otto Jepersen

47 / 50

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

Victorian

Elizabethan

Romantic

None of these

48 / 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 idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

49 / 50

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

spells

fairy trickery

enchantment

All of the Above

50 / 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

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