0% 1 English Literature Quiz 18 1 / 50 All of the following are ways Dracula represents the ?monstrous Other? EXCEPT_______________? Dracula as foreign invader Dracula as transgressor of God?s order Dracula as usurper of the British class system Dracula as sexual predator 2 / 50 One of Marlowe?s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ? Apollo and Hyacinth Troilus and Cressida Hero and Leander Anthony and Cleopatra 3 / 50 What is the name of Shakespeare?s son ? William Hamnet Hamlet John 4 / 50 In general, what is Judith Butler?s concept of gender ? While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true. Women?s gender is artificial, while men?s gender is not. All of the above answers are correct. Gender is largely a cultural construct. 5 / 50 What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ? It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901. 6 / 50 Who wrote the book ?Lord Jim: A Tale ? Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad 7 / 50 Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ? Cavalcanti Castiglione Pirandello Boccaccio 8 / 50 What religion was Mary I ? Presbyterian Catholic Anglican Episcopalian 9 / 50 According to Paradise Lost, which of the following does God not create ? He creates everything The Son Computers Adam and Eve 10 / 50 In the play, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? who is the queen of the fairies ? Titania Oberon Hermia Lysander 11 / 50 In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound? brash; confident anxious; haunting popular; reverenced radical; inventive 12 / 50 John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities ? Heaven vs. hell All of the above God vs. Satan Good vs. evil 13 / 50 In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ? a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader 14 / 50 In Matthew Arnold?s poem ?Dover Beach,? the speaker refers to the ?melancholy, long, withdrawing roar? of ?The Sea of Faith.? This reference alludes to which of the following ? His lover?s betrayal The decline of religion?s importance in the modern West The Protestant Reformation Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans 15 / 50 Which of Chaucer?s works is associated with Valentine?s Day ? The Book of the Duchess The Canterbury Tales Parlement of Foules The Canterbury Tales 16 / 50 Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ? Ann Radcliffe?s The Italian Tobias Smollett?s Roderick Randsom William Beckford?s Vathek Matthew Lewis?s The Monk 17 / 50 Which of the following writers wrote historical novels ? Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 18 / 50 About the Navajo____________? Settled in Northeastern US B and C Believed that corn was crucial to creation Kept the Navajo Origin Legend through oral tradition 19 / 50 Which of the following would probably NOT occur in a William Wordsworth poem ? Engagement with the natural world Psychological insight Mockery of political figures Use of common, everyday language 20 / 50 When was Paradise Lost published ? 1667 1660 1658 1654 21 / 50 Who wrote ?Orlando Furioso? ? William Shakespeare Sir Philip Sidney John Milton Ludovico Ariosto 22 / 50 Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________? Art presents only part of the world Art describes only what appears and not what is real Art tells lies about the world Art is an exaggeration of the world 23 / 50 What is New Historicism ? All of the above answers are correct. A theory that sees history as a form of writing and discourse A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events A theory that regards history as a series of narratives 24 / 50 How does the following representative quotation from Bront??s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? ?You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his prot?g?e, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands? ? It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals. 25 / 50 Who is second Prince of Arragon in ?Much ado about nothing? ? Leonato Don John Balthasar Don Pedro 26 / 50 In ?Paradise regained? who regained the paradise ? Only Adam Jesus Satan Adam and Eve 27 / 50 ?Your goodness must have some edge to it?else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.? In this work the author argues in favour of____________? An independent nation of independent individuals Communism Revolution Abolition 28 / 50 A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to ? Heroine Alcohol Opium Cocaine 29 / 50 What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ? Metaphysical Neo-Romantic Romantic Augustan 30 / 50 Who wrote the collection of poems entitled ?The Wind Among the Reeds ?? W.B. Yeats Jorge Luis Borges Mario Vargas Llosa Charles Baudelaire 31 / 50 Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel ?Great Expectations? ? Direct or epic method Autobiographical method Stream of Consciousness technique Documentary method 32 / 50 Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ? Christopher Marlowe?s Doctor Faustus Thomas More?s Utopia William Shakespeare?s King Lear Thomas More?s The History of King Richard III 33 / 50 Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ? between1579 and 1587 between1579 and 1583 between1580 and 1591 between1585 and 1592 34 / 50 To whom were The Lais of Marie de France dedicated ? King Alfred King Richard King Henry King Arthur 35 / 50 Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ? Seamus Heaney William Butler Yeats E.M. Forster James Joyce 36 / 50 Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ? Edward Said Jacques Derrida Plato Jacques Lacan 37 / 50 ________________is the totality of the speech habits of an individual? Register Slang Idiolect Dialect 38 / 50 Who is Bertram?s main companion throughout much of the play, ?All?s Well that Ends Well? ? Parolles The Clown Lafew The First Lord 39 / 50 This literary critic coined the term ?fancy.? ? Matthew Arnold Virginia Woolf Carl Jung Samuel Taylor Coleridge 40 / 50 Who wrote: ?I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.? ? Hart Crane T.S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Ernest Hemingway 41 / 50 In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive prison ? Getting an education. Contacting famous authors. Making friends with the guards. Fighting. 42 / 50 Hamlet is_________________? an over ambitious man a man of action an intellectual a passionate lover 43 / 50 Shakespeare was the author of which of the following plays ? ?Titus Andronicus? ?The Faerie Queen? ?The Jew of Malta? ?Doctor Faustus? 44 / 50 This quote comes from what writing: ?God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________?? Hell and Salem Sinners in the Hand? Hands of Satan Spiders of the World 45 / 50 In his ?Poetics?, Aristotle suggests that tragic literary works should be ? sad. without any sort of moral insight. logical in terms of plot and structure. complex in terms of plot and structure. 46 / 50 In The Purgatorio, where does Dante physically set purgatory ? In Florence In the northern hemisphere In the southern hemisphere In Rome 47 / 50 Why does one scholar suggest that ?The Monk? represents literary transvestism ? The habited nuns Lewis?s use of a female pseudonym in the original edition Lewis?s choiceof a feminine literary genre Ambrosio?s rape and murder of his sister 48 / 50 According to Dante, what place is at the top of his purgatory ? The circles of Hell The Gate to Limbo The Dark Wood The Garden of Eden 49 / 50 Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ? Wollstonecraft?s Vindication of the Rights of Men Godwin?s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Paine?s Rights of Man Burke?s Reflections on the Revolution in France 50 / 50 In The Inferno, how are the wrathful punished ? They roll heavy stones onto one another. They are forced to lie under the surface of a marsh. They violently fight each other in a muddy swamp. They are burned in their graves. 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