English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 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 connects to poetry.

It focuses on adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on a royal hero.

2 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

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

5 / 50

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

Corneille

Moliere

Couperin

Caleron

6 / 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

7 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a historian

a film-maker

a modern painter

8 / 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

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

sound as a means to express meaning

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

9 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

Work Without Hope

10 / 50

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

poverty

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

11 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

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

12 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

13 / 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.

14 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

john Milton

15 / 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 Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

16 / 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 reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

17 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

18 / 50

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

By Venus

In a hunting accident

By old age

By execution

19 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

It should make only reports

20 / 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.

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.

21 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

22 / 50

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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.

23 / 50

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

None of these

Romantic

Victorian

Elizabethan

24 / 50

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

enchantment

spells

All of the Above

fairy trickery

25 / 50

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

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

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

26 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

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

27 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Adam Bede

Emma

Silas Marner

28 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

29 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

30 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

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 to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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

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

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

33 / 50

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

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Otto Jepersen

Noire

34 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

Architect

None of these

Sculptor

35 / 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

36 / 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

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

37 / 50

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