0% 3 English Literature Quiz 1 1 / 50 What is the author?s purpose in the Zuni origin tale ?The Flood? ? To warn its youth about the consequences of promiscutiy and other inquities To explain how earthquakes came into existence To include the tribe?s favorite food, corn, into the myth To explain how floods came into existence 2 / 50 When was William Wordsworth born ? 7 April 1770 7 July 1767 20 March 1773 10 September 1772 3 / 50 Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth?s advocacy of poets drawing on the ?language really used by men? in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________? a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope. a rejection of nature in favor of society. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language. 4 / 50 According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ? Understanding the author?s consciousness Entering the author?s mind through his or her literary works Reproducing the author?s thoughts in a critical context All of the above. 5 / 50 In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan build the Pandemonium. What is it ? The capital of Heaven A beautiful garden The capital of Hell The forbidden fruit 6 / 50 The work of John Foxe was no longer read or heeded in educated circles after which major historical event ? French Revolution Glorious Revolution Seven Years War Restoration 7 / 50 Words with more than three syllables are called __________words? Multisyllabic Polysyllabic Disyllabic Try syllabic 8 / 50 Section 4, of the Sale of Goods Act 1930, deals with_______________? Sale Both A and B None of above Agreement to sell 9 / 50 The levels of purgatory are associated with which religious concept ? The Augustan calendar The seven deadly sins The seven sacraments The planets 10 / 50 John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is most similar in linguistic style to what books from ?Paradise Lost? ? Eleven and Twelve Three and Four Five and Six Eight and Nine 11 / 50 What was the cause of William?s death in Sons and Lovers ? Suicide An accident An overdose of morphia Pneumonia 12 / 50 What is phenomenology ? The examination of our unconscious experience The examination of structures informing our conscious experience The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious The examination of desires informing our consciousness 13 / 50 Philip Sidney?s Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by____________? Roger Ascham Henry Howard Stephen Gosson John Skelton 14 / 50 In the United States, Reconstruction_______________? Describes the rebuilding after World War I. Is the time period that followed the Civil War. Refers to the Civil Rights movement. Took place only in the North. 15 / 50 Which of the following does NOT characterize Matthew Arnold?s ?Dover Beach? ? It has a melancholic tone. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection. It is a dramatic monologue. It envisions Christianity as eternal. 16 / 50 Phillis Wheatley?s poetry is considered_____________? Progressive and challenging. Highly original. Typical of Colonial poetry. Abolitionist in subject. 17 / 50 What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years ? his body his horse his house his soul 18 / 50 Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ? The Chicago School The Frankfurt School The Geneva School The Moscow School 19 / 50 To which country do George and Eliza plan to immigrate ? Nigeria France Algeria Liberia 20 / 50 For what historical event did the Gothic serve as a metaphor ? The Industrial Revolution The French Revolution The Battle of Waterloo The American Revolution 21 / 50 Which best describes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in terms of genre ? bildungsroman satire pastoral comedy of manners 22 / 50 Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century? Langland Dante Petrarch Machiavelli 23 / 50 The opening lines of Charlotte Smith?s ?Beachy Head? refer to the speaker ?reclin[ing]? on the ?stupendous summit? of a ?rock sublime? as her ?Fancy? went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ? A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron?s poems An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth?s poems A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley?s works A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats?s poems 24 / 50 Between which movements do historians situate literature in the Middle Ages ? Roman departure and the Renaissance English Reformation and Elizabethan Age Romanticism and the Enlightenment Civil war and the Restoration 25 / 50 What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ? A strong quality in the character of the hero Tragic end of the tragedy A weak trait in the character of the hero Working of fate against the hero 26 / 50 What author wrote ?Life of Milton? ? Samuel Johnson T. S. Eliot Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edmund Spencer 27 / 50 Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance ? William Faulkner Tennessee Williams T.S.Eliot Robert Penn Warren 28 / 50 Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ? Charles II was restored to the throne The Exclusion Bill Crisis The French Revolution The Great Fire of London 29 / 50 What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ? Butler?s Hudibras Pope?s Dunciad Fielding?s Jonathan Wild Gay?s Beggar?s Opera 30 / 50 According to Constitution of 1962, age limit to cast vote was ___________________? 20 years None of these 18 years 21 years 31 / 50 Who is called the ?Mock heroic poet? ? Edmund Walter Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift Dr. Samuel Johnson 32 / 50 The term ?Agonistes? is Greek and it means______________? one who struggles for or champions a cause. one who inflicts agony. one who is in agony. one who predicts the future. 33 / 50 What is the ?double-bind? that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton?s essay ? Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living Having little formal education with little access to publishers Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families 34 / 50 Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems ? William Wordsworth William Blake? Percy Shelley John Keats 35 / 50 In Beowulf, what is the significance of wergild ? Wergild contributes to the claustrophobic, doom-laden atmosphere. Wergild is connected to the idea that bloodshed leads to more bloodshed. Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd. All of these answers 36 / 50 Who has been teaching Uncle Tom to read ? Haley Eliza George Mr.Symmes 37 / 50 What is the significance of Sutton Hoo ? Sutton Hoo provides insight into the conversion from paganism to Christianity. Sutton Hoo provides architectural evidence from a virtually unexplored period of history. All of these answers Sutton Hoo gives more information about the society that created Beowulf. 38 / 50 Desdemona was killed by _________________? Casio Othello Iago Brabantio 39 / 50 Which best summarizes Christine de Pizan?s reaction to The Romance of the Rose ? she praised the objectification of women she objected to the treatment of secularism as evil she attacked it as misogynistic she applauded its promotion of female education 40 / 50 which of these kings was not served by Chaucer ? none of the above Henry II Richard II Edward III 41 / 50 The Weary Blues______________? Langston Hues Carl Sandburg William Faulkner Sherwood anderson 42 / 50 Marlowe born in______________? 1565 1564 1563 1562 43 / 50 Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ? William Hazlitt Charles Lamb Jane Austen Oliver Goldsmith 44 / 50 In Finnegans Wake, which of the following typify family life ? slander All of the Above hypocrisy murder 45 / 50 Fill in the blank. The plot of ?Venus and Adonis? is based on passages from_____________? Ovid?s Metamorphoses The Bible A Christopher Marlowe play An early Shakespeare play 46 / 50 When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________? The return of the King. King Arthurs? dead The closing of theatres King to exile 47 / 50 Which of the following was a popular medieval criticism about the Church ? Many people took issue with the Pope?s inordinate wealth and power. Many people were unable to understand Church texts written in Latin. All of the above Many people were unable to understand the language of the Mass. 48 / 50 Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ? Ernest Holmes John Locke Ralph Waldo Emerson John Locke 49 / 50 Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance ? Niccolo Machiavelli Plato Aristotle Francesco Petrarcha 50 / 50 What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ? William Laud William Tyndale William Collins William Shakespeare Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 45% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp English Literature Quiz 2Next
