English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

2 / 50

What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?

Indian autobiography

None of the above

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Most popular slave narrative

3 / 50

What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T.S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson

4 / 50

Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?

A novel set in the past

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel that consists of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

5 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

American

Dutch

German

6 / 50

Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

Most of Chaucer?s poetry was for a secular court audience, whereas Langland?s was didactic, teaching a moral lesson.

Langland wrote only about aristocratic characters that were similar to Arthurian legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about lower social classes.

Chaucer copied French and Italian style, whereas Langland did not.

7 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

8 / 50

?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?

Both A and C

A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche

A rejection of master narratives

A reinforcement of master narratives

9 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

10 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

rebel

revival or rebirth

representation

presentation

11 / 50

In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ?

In a hunting accident

By Venus

By old age

By execution

12 / 50

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

13 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

14 / 50

Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ?

Jaques

Oliver

Orlando

Amiens

15 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Architect

None of these

Sculptor

Engraver

16 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language

To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

17 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the novel has a traditional plot; nothing is particularly unique about it

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

18 / 50

Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ?

All of the Above

enchantment

spells

fairy trickery

19 / 50

The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?

Noire

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Otto Jepersen

20 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

21 / 50

Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

all of the above

the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

sound as a means to express meaning

22 / 50

In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ?

A speech delivered by a character intended to be spoken to only the audience

A character?s final words before dying

A dialogue between two characters

A rhyming line

23 / 50

The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?

Moliere

Corneille

Caleron

Couperin

24 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

25 / 50

Samuel Richardson?s Pamela and Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the forces giving rise to the novel in which of the following ways ?

Both focus on the struggles of lower or middle-class characters, mirroring the development of a large middle-class readership as consumers.

Both emphasize romantic relationships that play up the importance of women readers.

Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

Their imperialist settings reflect the interest in faraway lands that led to adventure novels.

26 / 50

As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages?

Bengali

None of these

Both A and B

Urdu

27 / 50

Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ?

He thought that the popes were the only successful part of the Church.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

He thought the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

28 / 50

Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life?

All of the Above

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

29 / 50

?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ?

Othello

Hamlet

Macbeth

King Lear

30 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

31 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Two

Three

Only one

32 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

33 / 50

Which of the following best defines the work of a deconstructionist critic ?

Suggesting that the study of literature is based on the breakdown of language into signs

All of the above.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.

34 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

national identity

nostalgia

pretension

35 / 50

Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?

Romantic

None of these

Victorian

Elizabethan

36 / 50

Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

37 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

elaborate comparison

dissimilar things

contradictory things

38 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a historian

a playwright

a modern painter

39 / 50

Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ?

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

40 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Ernest Jones

41 / 50

As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

Seeing his mother die

Watching his aunt get whipped

42 / 50

Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

William Blake

Lord Byron

43 / 50

According to Langston Hughes?s essay ?The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain? (his answer to George Schuyler?s essay ?Negro Art Hokum?), what is the ?mountain? that stands in the way of ?any true Negro art in America? ?

It is a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

It is a widespread ?urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

44 / 50

What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?

Field and works

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Hills and highways

45 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Emma

Silas Marner

Hard Times

46 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

Youth and Age

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

47 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

48 / 50

Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree???

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

49 / 50

How does this quotation from Behn?s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: ?I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet?s pleasure.? ?

It focuses on adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on a royal hero.

50 / 50

What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

It functions as a metaphor for the women?s rights movement.

It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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