English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

King Lear

Hamlet

Othello

Macbeth

2 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Three

Two

Four

3 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

4 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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.

5 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

6 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

7 / 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.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

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

8 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

9 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

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

10 / 50

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

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

A rejection of master narratives

11 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

12 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

None of these

Sculptor

Architect

13 / 50

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

Urdu

Bengali

None of these

Both A and B

14 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Emma

Hard Times

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

15 / 50

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

poverty

lack of stable work

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

16 / 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 ?

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

all of the above

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

sound as a means to express meaning

17 / 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 toward whiteness? among African Americans.

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.

18 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

19 / 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.

20 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a playwright

a historian

a modern painter

21 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

British

German

22 / 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 and Langland wrote in different dialects.

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

23 / 50

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

Otto Jepersen

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

24 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

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

25 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

John Keats

26 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

27 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Amiens

Orlando

28 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

All the above.

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

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

29 / 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.

30 / 50

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

By execution

In a hunting accident

By old age

By Venus

31 / 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 character?s final words before dying

A dialogue between two characters

32 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

It should only comment on the action

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 Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

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

34 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

35 / 50

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

Moliere

Couperin

Corneille

Caleron

36 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

37 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

38 / 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

39 / 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 a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

40 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

All the above

national identity

pretension

41 / 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

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

42 / 50

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

enchantment

spells

fairy trickery

All of the Above

43 / 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 ?

Seeing his mother die

Watching his aunt get whipped

Watching his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

44 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

45 / 50

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

Romantic

Elizabethan

Victorian

None of these

46 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

William Blake

Percy Shelley

47 / 50

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