0% 2 English Literature Quiz 10 1 / 50 Who wrote following lines: ?_________ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.? ? John Milton Lawrence Earnest Hemingway John Donne 2 / 50 What was the original title of Hemingway?s novel The Old Man and the Sea ? Fiesta Farewell to Arms The Sea in Being The Assistant 3 / 50 Who translated Utopia in English language ? Thomas More Ralph Robinson William Tyndale Thomas lodge 4 / 50 Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ? The Dream of the Rood Chaucer?s Legend of Good Women Boccaccio?s Decameron Dante?s Divine Comedy 5 / 50 ____________articulated by the tip and the blade of the tongue against the teeth ridge with raising of the front of the tongue towards the palate ? Palatal Velar Post__alveolar Palate__alveolar 6 / 50 What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ? The hero?s recognition of his adversary The hero?s recognition of his tragic flaw The hero?s ignorance about his tragic flaw The hero?s recognition of his tragic end 7 / 50 The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word ?sky? does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ? Non__complementary distribution None of the above Complementary distribution Contrastive distribution 8 / 50 In Book Six of ?Paradise Lost,? Satan invents something that he thinks will help win his war against God. What is it ? The Chariot of Paternal Deity The Thunderbolt Adamantine armor Gunpowder 9 / 50 In the ?Book of Job,? Satan speaks to what figure(s) ? Lot Judea A and B God/Yahweh 10 / 50 ?Adela? is a character from_______________? A Passage to India Hamlet Doctor Faustus Paradise Lost 11 / 50 According to most critics, what does the circular structure of Finnegans Wake represent ? the patterns of birth, life, and death the impossibility of resurrection unrequited love the unconscious 12 / 50 According to Max Simon Nordau in his work ?Degeneration,? which of the following best describes the term ?Fin de Si?cle? ? A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user ?A confession and a complaint? All of the above ?The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever? 13 / 50 Which of the following texts is an example of a sentimental novel ? Richardson?s Pamela Pope?s The Rape of the Lock Swift?s ?A Modest Proposal? Lewis?s The Monk 14 / 50 Who were lay mystics ? people who attempted to contact God without the intervention of an established religious order people who reject asceticism and contemplation people who were formally tied to religious orders people who attempt to found their own religious orders 15 / 50 Which of Shakespeare?s characters exclaims; ?Brave, new, world!? ? Miranda Antonio Ferdinand Prospero 16 / 50 The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ? Anapestic pentameter Terza rima Iambic pentameter Trochaic trimeter 17 / 50 To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ? the lower middle classes women slaves the working classes 18 / 50 What does Eva?s father promise her before she dies ? That he will adopt Topsy That he will try to find Harry That he will remarry That he will free Uncle Tom 19 / 50 I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search ? search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________? Helping Robin to search for his uncle Helping the police to look for a letter Leading the police to the scene of a crime A detective 20 / 50 According to Tristan Tzara?s ?Manifesto on Dadaism,? which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ? ?A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action? ?A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? ?Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family? ?Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity? 21 / 50 This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have ?high seriousness.? ? Matthew Arnold Elizabeth Browning Virginia Woolf T.S. Eliot 22 / 50 The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is ? Satan Eve God Adam 23 / 50 Which is an example of a proverb ? You?re driving me crazy. The snow was white as cotton. Get a ?stake? in our business. You can?t have your cake and eat it, too 24 / 50 Which of the following statements offers the best definition of ?rhetoric? ? Persuasive writing and speaking Logical writing and speaking Writing that is complicated and scholarly Questions for which the answers are obvious 25 / 50 The lesson the young man teaches Dorothy is_________________? to hide here emotion not to lodge a complaint to live and enjoy her life to fight with people 26 / 50 Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________? How slavery was worse for men. That female slaves were escaping more frequently than men. That female slaves were more valuable than male slaves. How females were affected by slavery. 27 / 50 The consonant /s/ is called ________ ? Nasal Semi__vowel Sibilant Lateral 28 / 50 Which event marked the defeat of Napoleon ? The battle at Waterloo The Reign of Terror The execution of the King of France Napoleon?s coronation as Emperor of France 29 / 50 Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination ? Wordsworth Southey Coleridge Hazlitt 30 / 50 Which of the following is not related to the term medievalism ? Guildhouses Enlightenment Feudalism Monasticism 31 / 50 Who says ?Earth is the right place for love? ? Robert Frost Silvia plath Wallace Stevens Langston Hughes 32 / 50 Which of the following texts was inspired by Historia Regum Britanniae ? Caedmon?s Hymn Bede?s Ecclesiastical History Chaucer?s The Canterbury Tales Chretien de Troyes Yvain, or le Chevalier au Lion 33 / 50 With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ? anarchism psychoanalysis phrenology eugenics 34 / 50 What century does the play, ?Henry V,? take place in ? 17th century 16th century 15th century 14th century 35 / 50 Famous Irish poet and dramatist is______________? C. Pope L. Tolstoy H.G. Wells W. B. Yeats 36 / 50 Who did Milton have to write his works down when he became Blind ? his friends his sons his daughters his friends 37 / 50 Who was American poet ? Robert Frost Robert Herrick John Milton John Keats 38 / 50 He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this ? Diedrich Knickerbocker Cotton Mather Geoffrey Crayon Brom Bones 39 / 50 Shakespeare?s Henry IV, Pt I contains his _______________? platonic ideals Plays by Shakespeare.. love of nature senecan attitude patriotism 40 / 50 In his essay, ?Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays?, William Hazlitt conceptualizes Hamlet as_______________? a depressed but ultimately good and nonviolent man. a disturbed and insane man. a man of tremendous humor, simplicity, and innate goodness and kindness. a wicked and manipulative man. 41 / 50 Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ? the American and French revolutions the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity formal diplomatic relations with China the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade 42 / 50 According to the sign in the Kentucky Inn, what is branded to George?s right hand ? The Letter H The letter S The number 314 A hexagon 43 / 50 A poem which consists of fourteen line is called________________? None of these A ballad An Ode A Sonnet 44 / 50 Hyperion is a/an poem_________________? None of these Elegy Epic Lyric 45 / 50 In ?Samson Agonistes,? the Chorus describes the approaching Dalila as beautifully and lavishly dressed to better seduce Samson. This is interesting because ? Dalila usually dresses in a more understated Puritan manner. Samson is blind. the Chorus has just stated it hates this kind of lavish, external beauty. Samson hates this kind of lavish, external beauty. 46 / 50 Which one is not by Shakespeare ? None of these. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. True is it that we have seen betting days. Knowledge is power. 47 / 50 Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ? ironic understatement stress on every third diphthong repetition of parallel syntactic structures embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine 48 / 50 But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The speaker of this poem is_____________? A girl A communist An alien A boy 49 / 50 which famous Shakespeare play does the quote ?The first thing we do, let?s kill all the lawyers? come from ? Pericles, Prince of Tyre King Henry the Sixth, Part II Othello, the Moor of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor 50 / 50 Paul O?Brien argues that Shelley did not lose his passion for the French Revolution, but that _____________did? Lord Byron and William Blake John Keats and William Blake Lord Byron and John Clare William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 63% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 9 English Literature Quiz 11Next
