English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Architect

Engraver

None of these

Sculptor

2 / 50

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

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

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

3 / 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 focuses on adventures.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

4 / 50

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

All of the Above

poverty

lack of stable work

his father?s alcoholism

5 / 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 dialogue between two characters

A rhyming line

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 ?

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

all of the above

sound as a means to express meaning

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

7 / 50

Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?

He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

He just wasn?t bright enough

He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

8 / 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.

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.

9 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

American

Dutch

British

German

10 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

rebel

presentation

representation

11 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Four

Three

Two

Only one

12 / 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

Seeing his mother die

Watching a slave get beaten to death

Watching his dad beat his mother

13 / 50

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

He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

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.

14 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Ernest Jones

15 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

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

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

16 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

17 / 50

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson

T.S. Eliot

William Blake

18 / 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.

19 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

20 / 50

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

Textual Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

21 / 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 a widespread ?urge toward whiteness? among African Americans.

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

22 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners

it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners

it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake

23 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

24 / 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 symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

25 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Edmund Spenser

Shakespeare

john Milton

Christopher Marlowe

26 / 50

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

None of these

Elizabethan

Victorian

Romantic

27 / 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

28 / 50

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

Corneille

Moliere

Caleron

Couperin

29 / 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

30 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

31 / 50

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

Jaques

Amiens

Oliver

Orlando

32 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Adam Bede

Emma

Silas Marner

Hard Times

33 / 50

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

William Blake

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Shelley

34 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

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?

35 / 50

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

None of these

Both A and B

Bengali

Urdu

36 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Work Without Hope

Youth and Age

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

37 / 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

38 / 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