English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

A rejection of master narratives

2 / 50

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

Indian autobiography

None of the above

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Most popular slave narrative

3 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Two

Three

Only one

4 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should only comment on the action

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

5 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

All the above.

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

6 / 50

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

All of the Above

fairy trickery

enchantment

spells

7 / 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.

8 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

9 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Engraver

Architect

Sculptor

None of these

10 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

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 notion that chastity is impossible for men

11 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By execution

By old age

By Venus

12 / 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

13 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

elaborate comparison

similar things

dissimilar things

contradictory things

14 / 50

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

Max__Muller

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Otto Jepersen

Noire

15 / 50

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

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

All of the above.

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

16 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

17 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Emma

Adam Bede

Hard Times

18 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

All the above

national identity

nostalgia

19 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

British

Dutch

German

20 / 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

21 / 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 copied French and Italian style, whereas Langland did not.

Langland wrote only about aristocratic characters that were similar to Arthurian legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about lower social classes.

Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.

22 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser

john Milton

Christopher Marlowe

23 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a modern painter

a film-maker

a playwright

24 / 50

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

A character?s final words before dying

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

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

25 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

26 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Amiens

Orlando

27 / 50

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

all are sleeping

Field and works

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

28 / 50

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

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

29 / 50

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

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

30 / 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 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.

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

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

31 / 50

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

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

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

32 / 50

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

Victorian

Romantic

Elizabethan

None of these

33 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

34 / 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 dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

35 / 50

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

Bengali

None of these

Both A and B

Urdu

36 / 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 foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

37 / 50

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

Moliere

Couperin

Caleron

Corneille

38 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

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

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

40 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

41 / 50

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

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.

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

42 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

43 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

presentation

representation

rebel

44 / 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 to incorporate and neutralize other cultures? among white Americans.

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

It is the racial segregation in the South.

45 / 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

46 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Work Without Hope

47 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson

48 / 50

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

Robert Browning

John Keats

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

49 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A performance poet

A classical poet

50 / 50

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

All of the Above

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

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