0% 2 English Literature Quiz 25 1 / 50 In Octavia Butler?s ?Bloodchild,? The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________? Supplying them with narcotic eggs. Freeing the males after they are hosts. Letting them choose their own mates. Paying them very well. 2 / 50 Blank verse refers to which of the following ? Unrhymed iambic pentameter Rhyming couplets Prose Rhyming verse 3 / 50 Based on your readings for the course, which of the following best states how critics often interpret the dead hand in ?The Castle of Otranto? ? The hand signifies the mysterious pull of the labyrinth. The hand represents the claim of primogeniture over the living. The hand represents the superiority of the Enlightenment over medievalism. The hand symbolizes the danger of marriage. 4 / 50 In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ? Skill Skin Kill Skit 5 / 50 The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________? Anne Bradstreet Eliza Snow Elizabeth Browning George Elliot 6 / 50 Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ? Sexual rapacity Violence Aberrant mental states Daydreams 7 / 50 What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole?s ?The Castle of Otranto? ? The ancestral castle The supernatural Physical violence Psychological terror 8 / 50 What nationality was Shakespeare ? Scottish Italian Greek English 9 / 50 Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ? ?The Dream of the Rood? ?Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? ?The Seafarer? ?The Wanderer? 10 / 50 What does Gertrude Stein?s term ?the Lost Generation? designate ? It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended. Both A and B It refers to a group of talented American ?migr? writers who lived in Europe after World War I. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I. 11 / 50 W.B.Yeats used the phrase ?the artifice of eternity? in his poem ? Sailing to Byzantium The Second Coming Leda and the Swan Byzantium 12 / 50 Who is the writer of the poem ?Nun Priest?s Tale? ? Geoffrey Chaucer Cynewulf Shelley Robert Browning 13 / 50 As per section 2 sub-section 8, of the Sales of Goods Act, insolvent means a person_________________? Who has ceased to pay his debts in the ordinary course of business Or can not pay his debts as they become due None of above Both A and B 14 / 50 ?On Translating Homer? is written by________________? Walter Pater T. S. ELiot Mathew Arnold William Hazlit 15 / 50 Who coined the phrase ?Egotistical Sublime? ? P.B Shelley John Keats William Wordsworth S. T. Coleridge 16 / 50 Which was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ? the epigram the classical satire the Petrarchan sonnet the country-house poem 17 / 50 In which way(s) is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a Modernist novel ? it does not explore a character?s internal development it uses experimental language it celebrates the simplicity of everyday life it follows a traditional narrative structure 18 / 50 Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ? Ode Villanelle Tanka Jintishi 19 / 50 The term Beat Generation comes from______________? Beat to his socks Beat to his stomach Beat to his size Beat to his Shoe 20 / 50 The trickster figure is usually_______________? Christian Evil Amoral (neither good nor evil) None of these 21 / 50 ?Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will?, is a statement by______________? Coleridge Arnold Wordsworth Shelley 22 / 50 Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton?s God in ?Paradise Lost? is and____________? nonexistent, invisible invisible, omnipresent visible, inaccessible inaccessible, omnipresent 23 / 50 What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ? teacher lawyer banker surgeon 24 / 50 Which of the following statements demonstrates the use of pathos ? Every month in the United States, at least 100 children are wounded or killed as a result of unsecured handguns. According to research, 22 percent of the American population owns an unsecured handgun. I own a handgun and keep it in a secure place in my house. Handguns don?t kill people, people do 25 / 50 Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers ? The Pope The Holy Roman Emperor The King of England The King of France 26 / 50 Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ? Man Ray Maurice Tabard Ansel Adams Hans Bellmer 27 / 50 What poets before Milton were famous for writing epics ? Virgil, Shakespeare, and Spenser Gilgamesh, Petrarch, and Dryden Homer, Virgil, and Spenser Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser 28 / 50 Who is termed as ?The Morning Star of Renaissance? ? Spenser John Gower Geoffrey Chaucer Langland 29 / 50 What do you mean by Phonetics ? study of insects study of speech sounds study of meaning and syntax study of language and rules 30 / 50 John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? is written in a(n) style ? plain luminescent Sophistic Latinate 31 / 50 Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on ?The Literature of the British Empire? ? Any of these Edward Fitzgerald Rudyard Kipling Charlotte Bronte 32 / 50 What is Strawberry Hill ? The inspiration for ?The Castle of Otranto? One of the settings in ?The Mysteries of Udolpho? The ancestral home of HoraceWalpole The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe 33 / 50 Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ? Henry Hudson?s fruitless search for the Northwest Passage the founding of the Plymouth colony all of the above the founding of the Jamestown settlement 34 / 50 In his essay ?The Business of Theory,? William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton?s book After Theory ? It offers a strong outline for how theory can be conducted in the 21st century. It should not be read or considered by any student or scholar. It offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques Derrida?s notion of deconstruction. It offers some valid ideas and critiques, but its author is not entirely trustworthy. 35 / 50 What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ? sprezzatura gusto wit naturalism 36 / 50 There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by ? This is a couplet from the Bailiff?s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ? Euphemism Synecdoche Irony Metaphor 37 / 50 Who wrote: ?Reader, I married him.? ? Edith Wharton Emily Bronte Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen 38 / 50 Which was the oldest period in English literature ? Anglo-Norman Chaucer?s period Anglo-Saxon Middle Age 39 / 50 Which of the following statements offers the best definition of a tragic hero ? A noble person who becomes completely corrupted A noble person who makes a costly mistake A cowardly person who shows some personal strength when faced with a crisis A cowardly person who doubts himself or herself despite possessing great wealth and political power 40 / 50 What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost ? The creation of the universe Adam and Eve?s disobedience The fight between good and evil Heaven?s battle and Satan?s tragic fall 41 / 50 ?Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey? explores ________________? The way in which one?s psychological state changes over time The failures of Romanticism The beauty of the natural world Coleridge?s addiction to drugs 42 / 50 Black English is the creation of the____________________? Black Diaspora Black Diaspora Association Linguistics Society Unites States of American -English 43 / 50 Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages ? The Art of Courtly Love ?Book of Hours? The Bible The Romance of the Rose 44 / 50 ?Do we now live in an enlightened age? The answer is, ?no,? but we do live in an age of enlightenment.? ? Immanuel Kant David Hume Denis Diderot John Locke 45 / 50 What literary purpose does Emily?s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ? Emily is confronted with the duality of the human mind, at once rational and then mad. Emily learns the story of Sister Agnes?s past. Emily comes to understand the benefits of a cloistered life. Emily is tested regarding the guilt and ghosts of sins past. 46 / 50 Which of the following is NOT a central theme of Wordsworth?s poetry ? The promises of technology The movement of time The outcast figure The common man 47 / 50 Who will fall through his own ?fault? ? God Noah Adam Satan 48 / 50 ?It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.? How does this opening sentence of Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper? NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ? The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate The reference to ancestral halls The uncommon nature of the event The first-person narrator 49 / 50 What is Gothic about the narrative structure of ?Frankenstein? ? The mix of language in terms of voice, diction, and rhythm The erratic movement of time and place The reliable narrator The readers? unwavering empathy for Frankenstein 50 / 50 In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________? cancelled out punishment due to sin depended entirely on literacy were considered ?unimportant? by mystics were only performed by men Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 25% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 24 English Literature Quiz 26Next
