English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

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

Both A and C

A reinforcement of master narratives

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

A rejection of master narratives

2 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

3 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

William Blake

Lord Byron

4 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

5 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

6 / 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

7 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Browning

John Keats

Walt Whitman

8 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

British

American

Dutch

9 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

Isabella Whitney

John Skelton

10 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

similar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

11 / 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

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

12 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Corneille

Caleron

13 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

national identity

pretension

All the above

14 / 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

All of the above.

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

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

15 / 50

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

Elizabethan

None of these

Victorian

Romantic

16 / 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

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

Seeing his mother die

17 / 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

18 / 50

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

his father?s alcoholism

All of the Above

poverty

lack of stable work

19 / 50

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

Orlando

Amiens

Jaques

Oliver

20 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

21 / 50

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

Macbeth

Hamlet

Othello

King Lear

22 / 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 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.

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

23 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

None of these

Sculptor

Architect

Engraver

24 / 50

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

Indian autobiography

Most popular slave narrative

First african american to speak to mixed audience

None of the above

25 / 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.

26 / 50

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

fairy trickery

All of the Above

enchantment

spells

27 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

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 problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

28 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

representation

rebel

presentation

29 / 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

30 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Only one

Two

Four

Three

31 / 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

32 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Emma

33 / 50

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

Joseph Conrad

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Vladimir Nabokov

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

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

35 / 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 focuses on a royal hero.

It connects to poetry.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

36 / 50

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

Both A and B

Bengali

Urdu

None of these

37 / 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 ?

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

all of the above

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

38 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Carl Jung

Ernest Jones

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

39 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By execution

By old age

By Venus

40 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

41 / 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.

42 / 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

43 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a playwright

a modern painter

a historian

44 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the last sentence and first sentence are circular

45 / 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 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.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

46 / 50

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

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

A novel set in the past

47 / 50

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

Alfred Lord Tennyson

48 / 50

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

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

Field and works

49 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

It should be regarded as one of the actors

50 / 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.

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.

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