0% 1 English Literature Quiz 16 1 / 50 Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, ?My salad days, when I was green in judgment.? come from ? Antony and Cleopatra The Winters Tale Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Merry Wives of Windsor 2 / 50 In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ? The Book of Margery Kempe ?The Wooing of Our Lord? The Art of Courtly Love ?Revelations of Divine Love? 3 / 50 Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called________ ? Bilabial Dental Alveolar Labio__dental 4 / 50 According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ? It is a symbol of the Virgin Mary. It alludes to the Garden of Eden. All of the above It symbolizes perfection and paradise. 5 / 50 The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________? An Indian legend A European fairy tale A European ghost story A local ghost story 6 / 50 The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated in the sense of rhythm innate in man ? The Gesture theory The Bow__vow theory The Pooh__pooh theory Ding Dong theory 7 / 50 Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ? Literary theory often depends on esoteric knowledge to be properly understood. Literary theory is limited in its ability to interpret a text. Literary theory is the only proper way to conceptualize literary texts. Literary theory is employed mostly by academics. 8 / 50 Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ? D. H. Lawrence W. M. Thackeray Charles Dickens Graham Greene 9 / 50 What are some of the hallmarks or conventions of the poetic form of the ode ? Complexity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude Simplicity in language, brevity in form, and humorousness in attitude Simplicity in language, lengthiness in form, and humorousness in attitude Complexity in language, lengthiness in form, and seriousness in attitude 10 / 50 Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure?s Langue and Parole ? Charles Sanders Pierce Noam Chomsky Leonard bloom FileD. Edward Sapir 11 / 50 Which college did John Milton attend ? Christ?s college Warwick college Trinity college Queens college 12 / 50 Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ? the patron of the acting company, eg, the Lord Chamberlain the printer the bishop of London the acting company 13 / 50 Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso?s periods of artistic production ? Synthetic cubism Blue period Dadaist period Rose period 14 / 50 Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ? Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Sense and Sensibility Vanity Fair 15 / 50 Identify the speaker of these lines: ?sweet Jesus, Jesus love? ? Margery Kempe Christine de Pizan Julian of Norwich Catherine of Siena 16 / 50 Who painted ?The Accommodations of Desire? ? Man Ray Salvador Dal? Juan Mir? Pablo Picasso 17 / 50 Complete the following sentence. In Pope?s The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________? elicit the sympathy of elite readers reveal the learnedness of the characters. demonstrate the importance of the topic. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns. 18 / 50 King Henry VIII adopted what religion ? Protestantism Catholicism Buddhism Roman Catholicism 19 / 50 All of the following refer to ?the uncanny? EXCEPT________________? A sense of uncomfortable strangeness A psychoanalytic term that explains terror The supernatural ?Unheimlich? 20 / 50 Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ? the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity formal diplomatic relations with China the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade the union of England and Wales with Scotland 21 / 50 Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ? the Women?s Suffrage Act the Custody Act a series of Factory Acts the Married Women?s Property Rights Acts 22 / 50 Who called Aristotle ?the very Alexander of criticism? ? Saintsbury Atkins Tyllard Murray 23 / 50 In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ? Regular meter blank verse Free verse Vers libre 24 / 50 What was Shakespeare?s first play ? Romeo and Juliet King Lear The Tempest Henry VI 25 / 50 Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ? Popularized the use of free verse A private and self-effacing person Ivy League educated Active pacifist during both world wars 26 / 50 Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ? Total equality Individualism Unconditional love Irresistible grace 27 / 50 Which of the following poets does not belong to the ?Lake School? ? Southey Coleridge Keats Wordsworth 28 / 50 Fill in the blank. John Lyly?s style is best described as ___________________? Marxist Anachronistic Euphuistic Solipsistic 29 / 50 Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ? A sense of awe in the power of the natural world A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others? pain and joy A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason 30 / 50 What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author?s life and times ? All of these Historical Mimetic Formalist 31 / 50 The narrator of Langston Hughes?s ?Weary Blues? is describing__________________? African American toasting on a city street corner. The call and response of an African American church congregation. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields. Blues being played in a Harlem bar. 32 / 50 which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ? The canterbury tales Troilus and criseyde Parliament of fowls House of fame 33 / 50 When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ? 1645 1637 1649 1628 34 / 50 Coleridge considered imagination as______________? A psychological experience A product of intellect Modifying power Critical faculty 35 / 50 In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about ? Rachel and Leah Pope Boniface and Pope Clement Brutus and Cassius Dido and Aeneas 36 / 50 ?The Age of Chaucer? ranges from_______________? 1240-1300 1340-1400 1340-1399 1340-1385 37 / 50 Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ? Idealism Slavery Romanticism Nationalism 38 / 50 Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________? Alveolar Labio__dental Bilabial Dental 39 / 50 How many children were there in the Bronte family? 6 4 3 5 40 / 50 Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ? Wayne Booth Stephen Greenblatt M. H. Abrams Helen Vendler 41 / 50 In which dialect is Dante?s Vita Nuova primarily written ? English Tuscan Latin French 42 / 50 The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy ? Seneca Euripides Aeschylus Sophocles 43 / 50 Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ? Lancaster York Windsor Tudor 44 / 50 Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ? Elk Horse Both A and B Bear 45 / 50 The theme of Phillis Wheatley?s ?On Being Brought from Africa to America? is_______________? Slaves are the children of Cain. Slaves are capable of becoming good Christians. Christians should free their slaves. Slaves should rebel against the Christian religion. 46 / 50 Jonathan Swift?s suggestion in ?A Modest Proposal? that the Irish eat their children exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in all of the following ways EXCEPT_______________? its mocking tone. its sentimental plea to its audience. its attempt to shock readers into acting. its absurd response to a real issue. 47 / 50 In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term wyrd ? Wyrd has to do with reparational payments exacted from people guilty of homicide. Wyrd suggests the idea of fate. Wyrd is related to the folly of earthly possessions. Wyrd is an allusion to the impending conversion to Christianity 48 / 50 Who is an American author ? R.W. Emerson Henry W. Longfellow All 4 H.D. Thoreau 49 / 50 The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought ? Structuralism Formalism Marxism Poststructuralism 50 / 50 According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in ?The Waste Land? ? Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I? Given the diversity of the world?s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism? Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared ?waste land?? How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people? Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 48% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 15 English Literature Quiz 17Next
