English Literature Quiz 55

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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 ?

Seeing his mother die

Watching his aunt get whipped

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

2 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

None of these

Engraver

Architect

3 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should only comment on the action

4 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

5 / 50

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

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.

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

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

6 / 50

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

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

7 / 50

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

8 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9 / 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.

10 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

Youth and Age

Work Without Hope

11 / 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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

12 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

similar things

dissimilar things

contradictory things

13 / 50

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

A rhyming line

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

14 / 50

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

Most popular slave narrative

None of the above

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Indian autobiography

15 / 50

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

Victorian

None of these

Elizabethan

Romantic

16 / 50

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

John Keats

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Walt Whitman

17 / 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 form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

18 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

representation

presentation

rebel

revival or rebirth

19 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a playwright

a historian

a film-maker

20 / 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

21 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

22 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

23 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Emma

Adam Bede

24 / 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.

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

25 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

26 / 50

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

Macbeth

King Lear

Othello

Hamlet

27 / 50

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

fairy trickery

spells

All of the Above

enchantment

28 / 50

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

Otto Jepersen

Max__Muller

Noire

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

29 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

All the above.

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

30 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

31 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

32 / 50

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

By old age

By execution

By Venus

In a hunting accident

33 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

john Milton

34 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

national identity

nostalgia

pretension

35 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

36 / 50

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

Both A and B

Urdu

Bengali

None of these

37 / 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 Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

38 / 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 ?

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

sound as a means to express meaning

all of the above

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

39 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

40 / 50

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

Couperin

Corneille

Moliere

Caleron

41 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

German

Dutch

British

42 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

44 / 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 focuses on a royal hero.

It focuses on adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

45 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Amiens

Orlando

46 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

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

47 / 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 of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

48 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Four

Two

Only one

49 / 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 to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

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.

50 / 50

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

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

All of the Above

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