English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

A character?s final words before dying

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

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

2 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

3 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

4 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A Modernist poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

5 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

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

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

7 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Only one

Three

Two

8 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

9 / 50

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

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

10 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Adam Bede

Emma

11 / 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 aunt get whipped

Seeing his mother die

Watching his dad beat his mother

12 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

poverty

All of the Above

13 / 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

All of the above.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

14 / 50

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

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

Field and works

Hills and highways

15 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

pretension

nostalgia

national identity

16 / 50

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

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 is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

17 / 50

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

By execution

By old age

By Venus

In a hunting accident

18 / 50

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

Urdu

Both A and B

None of these

Bengali

19 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

Dutch

German

American

20 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

21 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

22 / 50

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

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

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

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

23 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

24 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

25 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

26 / 50

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

Caleron

Corneille

Moliere

Couperin

27 / 50

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

Hamlet

Othello

King Lear

Macbeth

28 / 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 epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

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

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.

29 / 50

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

Amiens

Jaques

Orlando

Oliver

30 / 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 focuses on a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

31 / 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.

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.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

32 / 50

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

Elizabethan

None of these

Victorian

Romantic

33 / 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 discrimination endemic in the white community.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

34 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

rebel

presentation

revival or rebirth

representation

35 / 50

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 woman cannot be as educated as men

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

36 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

37 / 50

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

None of the above