0% 0 English Literature Quiz 20 1 / 50 In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ? 1789 1798 1779 1795 2 / 50 What is TULIP ? Irresistible Grace Unconditional election Limited atonement Total depravity 3 / 50 To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ? Historical Plays Narrative Poems Tragedies Comedies 4 / 50 Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ? The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived. A and B only All of the above 5 / 50 Arthur, the good King of Britain?held a rich and royal court ? This line suggests the elegance necessary for the feudal king to display being at the top of the economic hierarchy. This line suggests that good kings are rewarded by God. This line suggests that Britain was the most important place in the medieval world. This line suggests that Arthur was beloved by the English, because he was good. 6 / 50 Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________? Rude Stingy Fanatic Unintelligent 7 / 50 What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ? The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age. 8 / 50 Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ? Modem Painters The Stones of Venice The Two Paths The Seven Lamps of Architecture 9 / 50 When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ? 1847 1843 1861 1839 10 / 50 Under Article 13 of the Constitution of 1962 ____________ can be impeached? None of these Speaker Prime-Minister President 11 / 50 Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________? Domestic novel Picaresque novel Historical novel Gothic novel 12 / 50 In 1960 ?The Colossus? was the first book of poems published by which poetess ? Laura Jackson Marianne Moore Sylvia Plath Elizabeth Bishop 13 / 50 The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ? ?Paradise Lost? ?The Prelude? ?Canterbury Tales? ?The Faerie Queen? 14 / 50 Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a novel of manners ? A novel that explores the behavior and values of a particular class of people A novel set in Europe in the 18th century A novel that attacks the lower classes A novel that explores class conflict 15 / 50 Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ? the short story the morality play the heroic epic the romance 16 / 50 Which long Romantic poem opens with the line ?oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze? ? ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner? ?Don Juan? ?The Prelude? ?Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage? 17 / 50 The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________? Both ?a? & ?b? Chomsky?s ?Aspects of the theory of Syntax? Leonard Bloomfield?s ?Language? Chomsky?s ?Syntactic Structures? 18 / 50 Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ? love unwarranted abuse odium ignominy 19 / 50 The term semiology was introduced by_____________? Noam Chomsky Edward Sapir Charles Sanders Pierce Ferdinand de Saussure 20 / 50 Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ? ?Lycidas? ?Absolom and Achitophel? ?Il Penseroso? ?L?Allegro? 21 / 50 This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________? The Wonders of the Invisible World Sinners in the Hand The Story of Plymouth Plantation The Burning of Our House 22 / 50 Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet with _________________? No sense of reality A strong dislike of women A desire to make the world into a better place A dark and twisted outlook on the world 23 / 50 At the end of Hare?s adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into ?fast-fish.? ? The headless bodies served Hare fish. The headless bodies liked to eat fish. The headless bodies were actually creatures who evolved from fish so they were simply returned to their primordial state The headless bodies tried to abuse people so they were turned into ?fast-fish? as a punishment. 24 / 50 In ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner,? what kind of animal does the Mariner kill ? A nightingale A dove A hawk An albatross 25 / 50 Sin was born out of Satan?s_________________? Lust Rib Head Anger 26 / 50 Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used in W.H. questions asked in a warm and friendly way indicating extra politeness ? The fall__rise None of the above The falling The rising 27 / 50 The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________? Semantics Phonology Morphology Syntax 28 / 50 Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ? ?Death comes for all of us / even you.? ?Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from.? ?To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.? ?I heard a car crash / just as I died.? 29 / 50 Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ? Shelley Keats Wordsworth Browning 30 / 50 Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ? A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-ef,g-g. A sonnet is only written in Italian. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines. 31 / 50 Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot?s concept of the ?objective correlative? ? The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem?s theme and its objective historical context. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem?s formal structure and its meaning. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem?s formal structure and its rhetorical aim. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion. 32 / 50 Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes?s poem ?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? ? It is a meditation on the poet?s personal experience of assimilation. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity. It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England. 33 / 50 What century does the play, ?Henry V,? take place in ? 17th century 14th century 16th century 15th century 34 / 50 In which work do you read: ?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ? ? The Dark Angel The Second Coming The Wild Swans of Coole The Canturbury Tales 35 / 50 Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ? A teacher A clerk A dentist A thief 36 / 50 Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________? Edward VII George IV William IV George III 37 / 50 Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ? Norwegian Spanish French Hungarian 38 / 50 Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby?s slaves ? Uncle Tom and Harry Eliza and Harry Uncle Tom and Eliza Uncle Tom and Cassy 39 / 50 The ?Merchant of Venice? Written by Shakespeare is________________? a poem a drama a short story A novel 40 / 50 In the Middle Ages, what was the status of a married woman in relation to her husband ? she was more legally powerful than her husband she was her husband?s property, but could not be mistreated under law she was considered her husband?s property she was considered equal to her husband 41 / 50 The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. ?Oho,? quoth he, ?the old earth is frolicsome to-night!? This is_______________? An autobiography A novel A fairy tale Gothic fiction 42 / 50 How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ? New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts. All of the above. 43 / 50 There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA. 24 23 25 22 44 / 50 Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ? A mid summer night?s dream Love?s labour?s lost As you like it Much ado about nothing 45 / 50 Which best describes Bloom?s attitude towards nationalism ? he hopes to join the IRB he is opposed to the nationalist cause he is disinterested in nationalism he is deeply invested in the nationalist cause 46 / 50 ?The Medal? by John Dryden is a/an________________? prose translation play satire 47 / 50 Milton in ?Samson Agonistes? uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ? Greek Epic French Chanson de Gestes Medieval Mystery Plays Greek Drama 48 / 50 Which of the following offers the best definition of ?criture f?minine ? Second-wave feminism The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts Psychological studies of women How women really feel about male writers 49 / 50 Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ? How readers regard critics How readers imagine visual images in a text How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text How readers learn to read 50 / 50 Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin?s philosophy of language ? Language is loaded with the intentions of others. Language can include socioideological contradictions from the past. Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons. 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