English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 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

2 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

3 / 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 ?

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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

sound as a means to express meaning

all of the above

4 / 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

5 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Sculptor

Engraver

Architect

6 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

representation

revival or rebirth

rebel

7 / 50

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

By Venus

By old age

By execution

In a hunting accident

8 / 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.

9 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

10 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

Izaak Walton

11 / 50

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

Field and works

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

12 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

All of the Above

poverty

13 / 50

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

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

14 / 50

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

the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

15 / 50

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

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

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.

16 / 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.

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.

17 / 50

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

Romantic

Victorian

None of these

Elizabethan

18 / 50

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

Most popular slave narrative

Indian autobiography

First african american to speak to mixed audience

None of the above

19 / 50

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

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

20 / 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

21 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

22 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

British

German

23 / 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 the racial segregation in the South.

It is a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

24 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a film-maker

a playwright

a historian

25 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Emma

26 / 50

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

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

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

27 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

28 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the novel has a traditional plot; nothing is particularly unique about it

29 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

nostalgia

national identity

All the above

30 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

31 / 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 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.

32 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

33 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Three

Four

Only one

34 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

Youth and Age

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

35 / 50

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

Moliere

Caleron

Couperin

Corneille

36 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

37 / 50

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

A rejection of master narratives

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

38 / 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 ?

Seeing his mother die

Watching his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

39 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

john Milton

Shakespeare

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

It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

41 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

42 / 50

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

spells

enchantment

fairy trickery

All of the Above

43 / 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 notion that chastity is impossible for men

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

44 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

45 / 50

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

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

Otto Jepersen

46 / 50

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

None of these

Urdu

Bengali

Both A and B

47 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

48 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

50 / 50

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

Jaques

Oliver

Orlando

Amiens

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