English Literature Quiz 55

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What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

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

2 / 50

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

Bengali

None of these

Both A and B

Urdu

3 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

4 / 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 the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.

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

5 / 50

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

Indian autobiography

None of the above

Most popular slave narrative

First african american to speak to mixed audience

6 / 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 that consists of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

A novel set in the past

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

7 / 50

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

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

8 / 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.

9 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

10 / 50

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

Corneille

Moliere

Caleron

Couperin

11 / 50

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

Macbeth

Othello

Hamlet

King Lear

12 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

13 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

All the above.

14 / 50

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

Amiens

Oliver

Orlando

Jaques

15 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Emma

Adam Bede

16 / 50

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

poverty

All of the Above

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

17 / 50

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

A character?s final words before dying

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

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

18 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Two

Four

Three

19 / 50

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

Lord Byron

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

20 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

21 / 50

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

Victorian

None of these

Romantic

Elizabethan

22 / 50

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

23 / 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

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

24 / 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 a widespread ?urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

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

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

25 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

Robert Browning

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

26 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

Sculptor

Architect

None of these

27 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a playwright

a historian

a modern painter

28 / 50

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

enchantment

All of the Above

spells

fairy trickery

29 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

30 / 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 ?

sound as a means to express meaning

all of the above

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

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

31 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

nostalgia

pretension

national identity

32 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

33 / 50

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

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

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

34 / 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

35 / 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

36 / 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.

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

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.

37 / 50

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

A rejection of master narratives

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

38 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

Dutch

American

British

39 / 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.

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

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

40 / 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

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

41 / 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 connects to poetry.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It focuses on adventures.

42 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

43 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

44 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

45 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

46 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

47 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

48 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

49 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By Venus

By old age

By execution

50 / 50

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

Field and works

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

Hills and highways

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