English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

All the above

national identity

pretension

2 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a modern painter

a film-maker

a playwright

3 / 50

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

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Noire

Otto Jepersen

Max__Muller

4 / 50

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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

A rejection of master narratives

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

5 / 50

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

fairy trickery

enchantment

All of the Above

spells

6 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

7 / 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 be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

8 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Four

Two

Three

9 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Orlando

Amiens

10 / 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.

11 / 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

12 / 50

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

Elizabethan

Romantic

None of these

Victorian

13 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

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

14 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Ernest Jones

15 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

16 / 50

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

By execution

In a hunting accident

By Venus

By old age

17 / 50

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

Field and works

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

Crusted snow and dead leaves

18 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Caleron

Corneille

19 / 50

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

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson

20 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Architect

Sculptor

Engraver

None of these

21 / 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.

22 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

23 / 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

24 / 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.

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.

25 / 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.

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

26 / 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

27 / 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 that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

28 / 50

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

poverty

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

All of the Above

29 / 50

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

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

30 / 50

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

Both A and B

Urdu

None of these

Bengali

31 / 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

32 / 50

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

Joseph Conrad

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

James Joyce

33 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

34 / 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

35 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Hard Times

Emma

Silas Marner

36 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

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

37 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

38 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

39 / 50

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

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.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

40 / 50

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

Indian autobiography

First african american to speak to mixed audience

None of the above