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