English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By execution

By Venus

By old age

2 / 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 symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

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

3 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

4 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Blake

5 / 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 his aunt get whipped

Watching his dad beat his mother

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

6 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

revival or rebirth

representation

rebel

7 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

8 / 50

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

Victorian

None of these

Elizabethan

Romantic

9 / 50

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

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.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

10 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

Dutch

British

American

11 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser

john Milton

12 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Emma

Adam Bede

Hard Times

Silas Marner

13 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

None of these

Sculptor

Architect

14 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

15 / 50

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

Corneille

Caleron

Couperin

Moliere

16 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

17 / 50

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

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

18 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a film-maker

a modern painter

a playwright

19 / 50

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

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel set in the past

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

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

20 / 50

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

Noire

Otto Jepersen

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Max__Muller

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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

sound as a means to express meaning

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

22 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Amiens

Orlando

23 / 50

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

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

24 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

25 / 50

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

enchantment

fairy trickery

All of the Above

spells

26 / 50

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

Most popular slave narrative

Indian autobiography

None of the above

First african american to speak to mixed audience

27 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

All the above.

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

28 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

29 / 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.

30 / 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 ?

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

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.

31 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

32 / 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 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.

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

33 / 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.

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

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

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

34 / 50

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

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

Hills and highways

35 / 50

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

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

All of the above.

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

36 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

37 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

Isabella Whitney

38 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

national identity

All the above

pretension

39 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

40 / 50

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

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

William Blake

41 / 50

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

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

A rhyming line

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

42 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Four

Three

Only one

43 / 50

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

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

44 / 50

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

None of these

Urdu

Bengali

Both A and B

45 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

46 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Work Without Hope

Frost at Midnight

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

47 / 50

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

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

All of the Above

48 / 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?

49 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

50 / 50

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

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Walt Whitman

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