English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 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

2 / 50

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

All of the Above

enchantment

spells

fairy trickery

3 / 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

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

All of the above.

4 / 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

5 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Engraver

Architect

None of these

6 / 50

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

Most popular slave narrative

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Indian autobiography

None of the above

7 / 50

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

Both A and B

Bengali

Urdu

None of these

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

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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

9 / 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 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 disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

10 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

John Skelton

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

11 / 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

12 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

British

Dutch

American

German

13 / 50

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

Oliver

Jaques

Amiens

Orlando

14 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

national identity

pretension

nostalgia

15 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

16 / 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

17 / 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

18 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a playwright

a modern painter

a film-maker

a historian

19 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

All the above.

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

20 / 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 Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

21 / 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

22 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

23 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A classical poet

A traditional poet

A Modernist poet

A performance poet

24 / 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 aunt get whipped

Watching his dad beat his mother

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

25 / 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 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.

26 / 50

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

By Venus

By execution

By old age

In a hunting accident

27 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

28 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

contradictory things

elaborate comparison

similar things

dissimilar things

29 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Only one

Four

Two

30 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

john Milton

31 / 50

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

Hamlet

Othello

Macbeth

King Lear

32 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Frost at Midnight

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Work Without Hope

33 / 50

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

Both A and C

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

A rejection of master narratives

34 / 50

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

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

All of the Above

35 / 50

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

A character?s final words before dying

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

A rhyming line

A dialogue between two characters

36 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

37 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Ernest Jones

38 / 50

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

Moliere

Couperin

Caleron

Corneille

39 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

40 / 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

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

all of the above

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

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 focuses on a royal hero.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It focuses on adventures.

42 / 50

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

Victorian

Romantic

None of these

Elizabethan

43 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

presentation

revival or rebirth

representation

rebel

44 / 50

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

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

45 / 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.

46 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Emma

Adam Bede

47 / 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 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.

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

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

48 / 50

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

T.S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Blake

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

49 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

50 / 50

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

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

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