0% 1 English Literature Quiz 23 1 / 50 Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub ? Uriel Raphael Michael Abdiel 2 / 50 Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ? tenth thirteenth twelfth fourteenth 3 / 50 In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry ? Phaedrus The Republic Ion Apology 4 / 50 Which character spoke following lines? ?What?s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man, O be some other name! What?s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet,? ? Juliet Desdemona Hero Rosalind 5 / 50 Which angel tells Adam about the future in Books XI and XII ? Uriel Michael None of the above Raphael 6 / 50 What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ? the novel the lyric nonfiction prose comic drama 7 / 50 Which of the following characteristics are not essential to knightly chivalry as described by Chretien de Troyes ? The knight is submissive to his lad. The knight is blond, tall, and elegant. The knight is religious. The knight is dedicated to his feudal lord. 8 / 50 Satan?s name before he fell from heaven was ? Michael Beezlebub Belial Lucifer 9 / 50 Which of the following elements DOES NOT characterize epic poetry ? An Invocation to the Muse An ?Arming of the Hero? Scene A ?Tragic Recognition? Speech An Epic Council 10 / 50 What mock epic begins: ?What dire offence from am?rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things? ? Dryden?s ?Mac Flecknoe? Dryden?s ?Absalom and Achitophel? Pope?s ?The Dunciad? Pope?s ?The Rape of the Lock? 11 / 50 Who originated the term ?objective correlative,? which is often used in formalist criticism ? C.S. Lewis T.S. Eliot Matthew Arnold Virginia Woolf 12 / 50 Which is the first extant poem of John Keats, which is written in the year 1814 when when was 19 years of age ? An Imitation of Spenser La Belle Dame Sans Mercy Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Skylark 13 / 50 Who wrote the poems, ?On death? and ?Women, Wine, and Snuff ?? John Keats John Milton William Wordsworth P.B Shelley 14 / 50 According to Dr. Taormina, Victorian novelists generally________________? wanted to subvert middle class values. had a negative view of human nature. accepted middle class values. wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion. 15 / 50 For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ? Plotted revenge versus random violence The male Gothic versus the female Gothic The anticipation of the violation of one?s person versus an act of physical violence The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector 16 / 50 In which place of England Christopher Marlow born ? Norflock Canterbury London Warwick 17 / 50 Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work?s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ? Plato?s The Republic Jacques Derrida?s Of Grammatology T.S. Eliot?s ?Tradition and the Individual Talent? Roland Barthes?s ?The Death of the Author? 18 / 50 What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of ?to teach and delight? ? Sir Thomas More John Lyly Sir Philip Sidney Sir Walter Raleigh 19 / 50 From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)? 13 10 15 9 20 / 50 John Milton was fluent in which of the following languages ? Mandarin, Dutch, and French Latin, Sanskrit, and Aramaic Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Latin, Arabic, and Spanish 21 / 50 What story tells how Squanto taught the settler to grow corn, procure commodities and fish ? General History of Virginia Puritan Sermons Pride and Prejudice The story of Plymouth Plantation 22 / 50 About Christopher Columbus_______________? Arrived on the Mayflower Kept a journal of the First Voyage to America Mistook Bahama Islands for India B and C 23 / 50 A total of how many sonnets constitute the entirety of ?Astrophil and Stella? ? 30 10 40 20 24 / 50 Section 12, of the Sale of Goods Act deals with __________________? Both A and B Warraty in contracts Condition in contracts None of above 25 / 50 In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ? All of the above answers are correct. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change. No fixed, stable meaning is possible. 26 / 50 In ?The Book of Martyrs,? John Foxe provides a record of all known Christian martyrs throughout history, focusing on the persecution of people practicing which religion ? Buddhism Catholicism Roman Catholicism Protestantism 27 / 50 Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ? Sonnet form Iambic pentameter Alliterative verse Dactylic hexameter 28 / 50 Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ? Coleridge Charles Lamb P.B. Shelley Hazlitt 29 / 50 Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ? Canada India Ulster the southern counties of Ireland 30 / 50 Who wrote ?The Colossus? in 1960? Toni Morrison Ahmed Sulman Rushdie Sylvia Plath Chinua Achebe 31 / 50 What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious ? Go in search of her mate Look at her reflection in a stream Eat of the Tree of Knowledge Talk to the animals 32 / 50 Who of the following is a playwright ? Dickens W.B. Yeats Frost G.B. Shaw 33 / 50 Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ? The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together. The West views matters through its own limited historical position. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers. TheWest spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective. 34 / 50 Which poet would be most likely to write about his time in revolutionary France ? William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats William Blake 35 / 50 What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard ? the idea that Abelard wrote all of the letters All of the Above the issue of whether there is a ?female voice? in the letters the critical debate about the verification of events in the letters 36 / 50 Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth?s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as ?the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings? ? the sonnet doggerel rhyme the lyric poem written in the first person the political tract 37 / 50 A syllabic division is marked with______________? A hyphen A vertical bar A slash An arrow mark 38 / 50 ?Don Juan? and ?Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage? are broken into sections called______________? Stanzas Chapters Lines Cantos 39 / 50 The Professor was the first novel by________________? Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Anne Bronte 40 / 50 Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum associate with ?the picturesque? ? Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alexander Pope Percy Shelley Alfred Tennyson 41 / 50 A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ? Reader-response criticism New Criticism Psychoanalytic criticism Marxist criticism 42 / 50 Who introduced the art of printing into England ? Henry VIII William Caxton Elizabeth Eisenstein Johannes Gutenberg 43 / 50 Which ruler?s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ? Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth I King Henry VIII King John 44 / 50 What angel often speaks to Adam in Paradise ? Pandosto Baal Raphael Michelangelo 45 / 50 Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom ? Henry Longfellow Sir Walter Scott Robert Burns William Butler Yeats 46 / 50 What is a kunstleroman ? an artist?s novel of awakening a novel in which the hero solves a crime a novel that traces women?s intellectual developments an artist?s journey in which he always abandons his art 47 / 50 ?learn by going where I have to go?. The poet learns of______________? his errors and starts correcting them the final destination where he has to reach going back to the state of depression Going back to his hometown 48 / 50 Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ? Interest in the common man Age of reason Celebration of the individual Both A and B 49 / 50 The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________? Feudalism Totalitarianism Transcendentalism Communism 50 / 50 The Chartist Movement sought ? Protection of the political rights of the working class Recognition of chartered trading companies Protection of the political rights of the middle class Political rights for women Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 30% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 22 English Literature Quiz 24Next
