English Literature Quiz 55

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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

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

all of the above

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

2 / 50

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

Urdu

Bengali

None of these

Both A and B

3 / 50

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

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

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.

4 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

rebel

representation

presentation

revival or rebirth

5 / 50

Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?

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.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

6 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

7 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

8 / 50

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

Orlando

Amiens

Oliver

Jaques

9 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Adam Bede

Emma

10 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

similar things

elaborate comparison

dissimilar things

11 / 50

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

A dialogue between two characters

A rhyming line

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

A character?s final words before dying

12 / 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.

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

Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

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

All of the above.

14 / 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.

15 / 50

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

16 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

17 / 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 entirely of dialogue

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

18 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Three

Two

Four

19 / 50

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

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

Field and works

20 / 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 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.

21 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

22 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

23 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

24 / 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 believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

25 / 50

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

spells

enchantment

fairy trickery

All of the Above

26 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

William Blake

27 / 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

28 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

29 / 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

30 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

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

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

31 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By Venus

By execution

By old age

32 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

All of the Above

lack of stable work

33 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

34 / 50

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

Caleron

Corneille

Moliere

Couperin

35 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

36 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a modern painter

a film-maker

a historian

37 / 50

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

Victorian

Romantic

Elizabethan

None of these

38 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

39 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

40 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

41 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

42 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

American

Dutch

German

43 / 50

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

Othello

Macbeth

King Lear

Hamlet

44 / 50

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

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.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

45 / 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

He just wasn?t bright enough

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

46 / 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 his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

47 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

48 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Architect

None of these

Engraver

49 / 50

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