English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience

None of the above

Indian autobiography

Most popular slave narrative

2 / 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.

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.

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

3 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

4 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

nostalgia

national identity

All the above

5 / 50

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

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.

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

6 / 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

7 / 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

8 / 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

9 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By old age

By execution

By Venus

10 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Emma

Hard Times

Silas Marner

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 his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

Seeing his mother die

12 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

A performance poet

A traditional poet

13 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

similar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

14 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Architect

Engraver

Sculptor

None of these

15 / 50

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

spells

fairy trickery

All of the Above

enchantment

16 / 50

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

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

Field and works

17 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

18 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a film-maker

a historian

a playwright

19 / 50

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

All of the Above

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

20 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Only one

Four

Three

21 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

presentation

22 / 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.

23 / 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 start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

24 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

25 / 50

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

Romantic

Victorian

None of these

Elizabethan

26 / 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.

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

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

27 / 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 adventures.

It focuses on a royal hero.

28 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

29 / 50

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

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T.S. Eliot

30 / 50

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

Corneille

Couperin

Caleron

Moliere

31 / 50

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

A rejection of master narratives

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

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

32 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

33 / 50

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

None of these

Both A and B

Bengali

Urdu

34 / 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

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

35 / 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 disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

36 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

37 / 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 rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

38 / 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 the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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

39 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Walt Whitman

Robert Browning

40 / 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

41 / 50

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

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.

42 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

43 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

44 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

Dutch

British

American

German

45 / 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

all of the above

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

46 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

47 / 50

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

Amiens

Jaques

Oliver

Orlando

48 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

49 / 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

50 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

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

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

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