English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A performance poet

2 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

3 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

pretension

nostalgia

national identity

4 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Work Without Hope

Frost at Midnight

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

5 / 50

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

All of the Above

enchantment

fairy trickery

spells

6 / 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 the racial segregation in the South.

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

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

7 / 50

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

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

8 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

9 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

10 / 50

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

Caleron

Couperin

Corneille

Moliere

11 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should only comment on the action

12 / 50

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

13 / 50

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

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.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

14 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

15 / 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.

16 / 50

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

Amiens

Jaques

Orlando

Oliver

17 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

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

18 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Four

Two

Three

19 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Sculptor

Architect

Engraver

20 / 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 reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

21 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

22 / 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

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

23 / 50

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

Victorian

Elizabethan

Romantic

None of these

24 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

25 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

contradictory things

similar things

elaborate comparison

26 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

presentation

27 / 50

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

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

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.

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.

29 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

30 / 50

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

Field and works

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

all are sleeping

31 / 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 ?

all of the above

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

sound as a means to express meaning

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

32 / 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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.

33 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

34 / 50

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

By old age

In a hunting accident

By execution

By Venus

35 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience