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 ?

Macbeth

Othello

King Lear

Hamlet

2 / 50

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

Bengali

Urdu

Both A and B

None of these

3 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a film-maker

a modern painter

a historian

4 / 50

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

Max__Muller

Noire

Otto Jepersen

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

5 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

representation

revival or rebirth

rebel

6 / 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.

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

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

Their epistolary forms reflect an increasing political interest in subjective feelings.

7 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

8 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Architect

Engraver

Sculptor

9 / 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

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 the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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

It is a widespread ?urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

11 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

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

12 / 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

Most popular slave narrative

Indian autobiography

13 / 50

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

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.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

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

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

15 / 50

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

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

16 / 50

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

Moliere

Caleron

Corneille

Couperin

17 / 50

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

Oliver

Amiens

Jaques

Orlando

18 / 50

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

enchantment

All of the Above

spells

fairy trickery

19 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

British

Dutch

American

20 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

nostalgia

All the above

national identity

21 / 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

22 / 50

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

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

Percy Shelley

23 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

24 / 50

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

all are sleeping

Field and works

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Hills and highways

25 / 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

26 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

27 / 50

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

Elizabethan

None of these

Victorian

Romantic

28 / 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.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

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

29 / 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

30 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

similar things

31 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

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

A character?s final words before dying

32 / 50

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

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

33 / 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 dad beat his mother

Seeing his mother die

Watching his aunt get whipped

34 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

john Milton

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

Edmund Spenser

35 / 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

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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

36 / 50

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

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

A rejection of master narratives

A reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

37 / 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 a royal hero.

It focuses on adventures.

38 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

39 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

40 / 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

41 / 50

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

poverty

All of the Above

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

42 / 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 the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.

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

43 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A classical poet

A traditional poet

A performance poet

44 / 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

45 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

46 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Four

Three

Only one

47 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Walt Whitman

John Keats

Robert Browning

48 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Emma

Silas Marner

Adam Bede

49 / 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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

All the above.

50 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By execution

By old age

By Venus

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