English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Only one

Two

Four

2 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

German

British

3 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

4 / 50

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

Macbeth

Othello

Hamlet

King Lear

5 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

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

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

7 / 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 a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

8 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

9 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

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 segregation in the South.

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.

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 ?

all of the above

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

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

12 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

13 / 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

14 / 50

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

Legislative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

15 / 50

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

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Max__Muller

Noire

Otto Jepersen

16 / 50

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

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Walt Whitman

John Keats

17 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

18 / 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.

19 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

20 / 50

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

A dialogue between two characters

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

A rhyming line

A character?s final words before dying

21 / 50

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

22 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Sculptor

Engraver

Architect

23 / 50

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

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

24 / 50

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

None of these

Romantic

Elizabethan

Victorian

25 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

pretension

All the above

national identity

26 / 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

27 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

28 / 50

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

Urdu

None of these

Both A and B

Bengali

29 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a playwright

a historian

a film-maker

30 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

All the above.

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

31 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Vladimir Nabokov

James Joyce

Joseph Conrad

32 / 50

Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?

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.

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.

33 / 50

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

By execution

By Venus

By old age

In a hunting accident

34 / 50

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

fairy trickery

enchantment

All of the Above

spells

35 / 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 thought that the popes were the only successful part of the Church.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

36 / 50

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

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

all are sleeping

37 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should only comment on the action

It is only lyrical songs in the play

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

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

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

39 / 50

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

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

40 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

lack of stable work

All of the Above

poverty

41 / 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.

42 / 50

Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel set in the past

A novel that consists of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

43 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

44 / 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 woman cannot be as educated as men

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

45 / 50

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

Corneille

Moliere

Caleron

Couperin

46 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Adam Bede

Emma

Silas Marner

47 / 50

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

Orlando

Jaques

Oliver

Amiens

48 / 50

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

49 / 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

50 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

revival or rebirth

rebel

representation

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