English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

Romantic

Victorian

Elizabethan

None of these

2 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

John Skelton

Izaak Walton

3 / 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

Watching his aunt get whipped

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

4 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

5 / 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

6 / 50

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

Both A and B

Bengali

Urdu

None of these

7 / 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 to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

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.

8 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

9 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

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

10 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Adam Bede

Emma

Silas Marner

11 / 50

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

Field and works

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

12 / 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 order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

13 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Work Without Hope

Frost at Midnight

Youth and Age

14 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Three

Four

Only one

15 / 50

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

A rejection of master narratives

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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

16 / 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 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.

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

17 / 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.

18 / 50

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

All of the Above

poverty

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

19 / 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 ?

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

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

20 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

German

American

Dutch

21 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

22 / 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

23 / 50

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

By execution

By Venus

By old age

In a hunting accident

24 / 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.

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

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.

25 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

26 / 50

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

Jaques

Oliver

Amiens

Orlando

27 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

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

28 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a historian

a film-maker

a modern painter

29 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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.

30 / 50

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

Otto Jepersen

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

Max__Muller

31 / 50

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.

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

32 / 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 connects to poetry.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

33 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

34 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

representation

presentation

rebel

35 / 50

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

John Keats

Walt Whitman

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

36 / 50

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

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

A rhyming line

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

37 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

38 / 50

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

Couperin

Caleron

Moliere

Corneille

39 / 50

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

All of the Above

enchantment

fairy trickery

spells

40 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

41 / 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

42 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Indian autobiography

None of the above