0% 1 English Literature Quiz 3 1 / 50 Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ? Individualism Deism, skepticism Reason Political thinking, philosophical, and social movement 2 / 50 What is hagiography ? a term associated with oral transmission a method of creating a mystical union the writing and studying of saints? lives the literary form linked closely with courtly love 3 / 50 What is blank verse ? unrhymed iambic pentameter the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets free verse, without rhyme or regular meter 4 / 50 What is contrapasso ? The poetic verse form used in Vita Nuova The idea that the punishment fits the crime The theme of love and lust in The Divine Comedy The structure of the cantos in The Divine Comedy 5 / 50 Which of the following is not an example of Arthurian legend ? Sir Thomas Malory?s Morte Darthur Geoffrey of Monmouth?s Historia Regum Britanniae Marie de France?s Lanval Julian of Norwich?s Revelations of Divine Love 6 / 50 ______________refers to an individual?s equal and native command of two or more languages? Bilingualism None of the above Poly__glotism Multilingualism 7 / 50 In which century was Shakespeare born ? 16th 15th 14th 17th 8 / 50 Which ofWashington Irving?s characters falls asleep for twenty years ? Rip van Winkle Philip Marlowe Tom Buchanan Tom Joad 9 / 50 The general tone and attitude of Byron?s ?Don Juan? would be best described as ______________? Dramatic and dark Humorless and stark Ironic and satirical Strange and haunting 10 / 50 How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________? By ferry On a makeshift raft In a stolen canoe Hopping rafts of ice 11 / 50 What are ?books of hours ?? private books of prayers to be recited throughout the day popular books before the invention of the printing press books of information about the history of the Church books of prayers used at Christian Mass 12 / 50 According to Dr. Dino Felluga?s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud?s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ? Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one?s own mortality. Talk therapy will not help cure one?s psychological neuroses concerning past trauma. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit ?the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.? There is an undeniable ?tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.? 13 / 50 What did Robert Frost?s father do ? black-smith teacher journalist farmer 14 / 50 In his essay ?The Business of Theory,? William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton?s book After Theory ? It should not be read or considered by any student or scholar. It offers a strong outline for how theory can be conducted in the 21st century. 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. 15 / 50 A postmodern play would most likely not make use of which of the following theatrical traditions ? Video clips and the use of popular music Nonlinear storytelling and the embracement of popular culture A minimalist stage and strict adherence to the script A pastiche of different literary and historical sources 16 / 50 A critic examining John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ? Mimetic Formalist Reader Response Feminist 17 / 50 Which of the following works is considered to be the first Gothic novel ? Radcliffe?s The Mysteries of Udolpho Richardson?s Pamela Walpole?s The Castle of Otranto Congreve?s The Way of the World 18 / 50 In the play, ?Henry V,? who is the Queen of France ? Queen Nim Queen Isabel Queen Montjoy Queen Alice 19 / 50 Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ? Too many of its readers were women. all of the above It required less skill than other genres. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama. 20 / 50 Jane Austen wrote during this period________________? Regency Restoration Victorian Middle English 21 / 50 Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ? The Way of All Flesh both A and C Eminent Victorians Jungle Books 22 / 50 Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________? nostalgia and ill-concealed envy. bewilderment and visceral loathing. bigotry and shallow triumphalism. admiration and elegiac sympathy. 23 / 50 Who write the story ?Story Teller? ? Thomas Grey William Shakespeare Saki William Wordsworth 24 / 50 Where was William Shakespeare was born and brought up ? Stratford-upon-Avon London Yorkshire Chester 25 / 50 Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad?s ?Heart of Darkness? ? The end of the novella depicts Marlow?s conversation with the Kurtz?s Intended. The work considers the dark side of European colonialism. Both A and B Marlow comes to understand the necessity of European leadership in Africa. 26 / 50 Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ? Emotions Sex Psychology All of the above 27 / 50 In A Portrait of the Artist, how is the artist represented ? as a friend as a family member as a romantic hero All of the Above 28 / 50 The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________? African American art should exclude women. African American art should subvert the art of Europeans and White Americans. African American images should inspire African Americans. African American literature should replicate educated White language. 29 / 50 When Michael tells Adam what will become of mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories taken directly from______________? The New Testament The Hebrew Bible The Koran Homer?s epic poems 30 / 50 Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ?love and loss? ? Tennyson Swinburne Browning D.G. Rossetti 31 / 50 According to Dante, when is it most appropriate to use Latin ? In essays In written literature In everyday speech In love poetry 32 / 50 ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined ? Portmanteau Backformation. Compounding Derivation 33 / 50 Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Chomsky?s competence and Performance ? Leonard bloom Filed. Edward Sapir Charles Sanders Pierce Ferdinand De Saussure. 34 / 50 Where does the sonnet form originate from ? England Italy France Spain 35 / 50 Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ? Both A and B Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Thomas Wyatt John Donne 36 / 50 A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________? Dialect Register Slang Idiolects 37 / 50 ________________is known as the ?friendly innkeeper of the town? ? Stephen Goodman Parker Parker J Stephen J Parker 38 / 50 Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________? John Milton Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare William Wordsworth 39 / 50 Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others? Jacques Lacan?s ?The Mirror Stage ?? W.E.B. Du Bois?s The Souls of Black Folk______________? Roland Barthes?s ?The Death of the Author? Jacques Derrida?s Of Grammatology 40 / 50 The form ?dog? is a __________morphemE? A free morpheme None of these Free variation Bound morpheme 41 / 50 According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on ?Tradition and the Individual Talent,? which of the following is true of ?tradition ?? A and B only In English literature, we cannot refer to ?the tradition? or to ?a tradition;? at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is ?traditional? or even ?too traditional.? All of the above Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon. 42 / 50 Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________? Vanity Fair Hard Times Ruth Cranford 43 / 50 What is the significance of ?the Other? in Gothic novels ? They always express deviant sexual tendencies. They are perceived as dangerous because they are unknown. They are almost always the subjects of omens and curses. They are typically heroes. 44 / 50 In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ? Both A and B Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol. Yeats?s poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeats?s life and in his poetry. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage. 45 / 50 Where does Tom first meet Eva ? In New Orleans On a ferry On a river boat In Memphis 46 / 50 Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ? Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Laurence Sterne Tobias Smollett 47 / 50 What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer?s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ? pride for the vernacular language human reverence for the classics a and c only the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks 48 / 50 Which of the following describes the precolonial era?s literature styles ? Novels, poetry, dramas, histories Pamphlets, poetry, novels, short stories Narratives and poetry Literary magazines, poetry, novels, short stories 49 / 50 Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?s book Epistemology of the Closet ? Understanding homosexual themes in novels has become too routine Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture. 50 / 50 Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ? Deconstruction Feminism Marxism Psychoanalysis Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 50% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 2 English Literature Quiz 4Next
