English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

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

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

2 / 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 set in the past

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

3 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

presentation

rebel

representation

4 / 50

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

None of these

Elizabethan

Romantic

Victorian

5 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

elaborate comparison

dissimilar things

contradictory things

6 / 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

7 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

8 / 50

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

enchantment

All of the Above

spells

fairy trickery

9 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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.

He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.

10 / 50

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

Walt Whitman

Robert Browning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

11 / 50

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

Most popular slave narrative

None of the above

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Indian autobiography

12 / 50

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

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.

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.

13 / 50

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

Hamlet

King Lear

Macbeth

Othello

14 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Work Without Hope

Frost at Midnight

15 / 50

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

Percy Shelley

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

16 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It should make only reports

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

17 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

18 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

19 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a historian

a playwright

a modern painter

a film-maker

20 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Four

Two

Only one

21 / 50

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

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Field and works

all are sleeping

Hills and highways

22 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

pretension

national identity

nostalgia

All the above

23 / 50

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

Orlando

Jaques

Amiens

Oliver

24 / 50

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

All of the above.

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

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

25 / 50

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

By Venus

By execution

By old age

In a hunting accident

26 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

Dutch

American

British

German

27 / 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

28 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

29 / 50

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

Otto Jepersen

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Max__Muller

Noire

30 / 50

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

Moliere

Couperin

Caleron

Corneille

31 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

32 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

33 / 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.

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.

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

34 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

35 / 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 Peasant Uprising of 1381.

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

36 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

All the above.

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

37 / 50

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

Both A and B

None of these

Urdu

Bengali

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

39 / 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

40 / 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

41 / 50

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

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

42 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

A performance poet

A traditional poet

43 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

Emma

Hard Times

44 / 50

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

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

All of the Above

poverty

45 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Architect

Sculptor

Engraver

46 / 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

47 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

48 / 50

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

A rhyming line

A character?s final words before dying

A dialogue between two characters

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

49 / 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 focuses on adventures.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

50 / 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 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 discrimination endemic in the white community.

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