English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 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 disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

2 / 50

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

Caleron

Corneille

Couperin

Moliere

3 / 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 the racial segregation in the South.

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 a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

4 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

German

American

Dutch

5 / 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 denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

6 / 50

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

None of the above

Most popular slave narrative

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Indian autobiography

7 / 50

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

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

8 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9 / 50

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

None of these

Victorian

Romantic

Elizabethan

10 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Emma

Adam Bede

11 / 50

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

Hills and highways

Field and works

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

12 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

All the above.

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

13 / 50

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

Noire

Max__Muller

Otto Jepersen

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

14 / 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 filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

15 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

16 / 50

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

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

poverty

17 / 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.

18 / 50

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

Hamlet

Macbeth

King Lear

Othello

19 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

20 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Three

Four

Only one

21 / 50

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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

A rejection of master narratives

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

22 / 50

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

fairy trickery

spells

enchantment

All of the Above

23 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a modern painter

a film-maker

a historian

24 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

25 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

nostalgia

pretension

national identity

26 / 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

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

27 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

28 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

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

29 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

30 / 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.

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.

31 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

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?

32 / 50

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

By old age

By execution

By Venus

In a hunting accident

33 / 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.

34 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

35 / 50

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

None of these

Both A and B

Bengali

Urdu

36 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Sculptor

Engraver

Architect

37 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

rebel

representation

revival or rebirth

38 / 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 was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

39 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

40 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

41 / 50

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

Orlando

Amiens

Oliver

Jaques

42 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

similar things

43 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

It is only lyrical songs in the play

44 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

45 / 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

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

all of the above

46 / 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 consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

47 / 50

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

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

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

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

48 / 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.

49 / 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

50 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

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