English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

American

British

Dutch

2 / 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.

3 / 50

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

A dialogue between two characters

A character?s final words before dying

A rhyming line

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

4 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

5 / 50

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

Percy Shelley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

Lord Byron

6 / 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 a royal hero.

It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on adventures.

7 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Youth and Age

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

8 / 50

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

spells

fairy trickery

enchantment

All of the Above

9 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

All the above

national identity

pretension

nostalgia

10 / 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

11 / 50

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

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

Both A and C

A rejection of master narratives

12 / 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 segregation in the South.

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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

13 / 50

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

None of the above

Most popular slave narrative

Indian autobiography

First african american to speak to mixed audience

14 / 50

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

William Blake

T.S. Eliot

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson

15 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a film-maker

a playwright

a modern painter

a historian

16 / 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 problem of a ?man writing as a woman?

the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

17 / 50

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

Both A and B

Bengali

None of these

Urdu

18 / 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

19 / 50

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

Field and works

Crusted snow and dead leaves

Hills and highways

all are sleeping

20 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Christopher Marlowe

Shakespeare

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

21 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

revival or rebirth

presentation

rebel

representation

22 / 50

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

Oliver

Orlando

Jaques

Amiens

23 / 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

24 / 50

What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

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

It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

25 / 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.

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

All of the above.

Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

26 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Emma

Hard Times

Silas Marner

Adam Bede

27 / 50

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

James Joyce

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

Vladimir Nabokov

28 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A Modernist poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A performance poet

29 / 50

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

By Venus

By execution

By old age

In a hunting accident

30 / 50

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

King Lear

Macbeth

Hamlet

Othello

31 / 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 a slave get beaten to death

Watching his aunt get whipped

Watching his dad beat his mother

32 / 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 was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

He just wasn?t bright enough

33 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

similar things

elaborate comparison

contradictory things

dissimilar things

34 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Three

Two

Only one

Four

35 / 50

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

Otto Jepersen

Max__Muller

Noire

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

36 / 50

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

John Keats

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

37 / 50

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

He thought that the popes were the only successful part of the 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.

38 / 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 be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

39 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end

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

40 / 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 Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

41 / 50

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

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

A novel that consists entirely of dialogue

42 / 50

Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?

It should make only reports

It should be regarded as one of the actors

It is only lyrical songs in the play

It should only comment on the action

43 / 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.

44 / 50

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

poverty

lack of stable work

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

45 / 50

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

Elizabethan

Romantic

Victorian

None of these

46 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Isabella Whitney

Katherine Philips

Izaak Walton

John Skelton

47 / 50

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

Couperin

Moliere

Corneille

Caleron

48 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Ernest Jones

Sigmund Freud

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

49 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Architect

None of these

Engraver

Sculptor

50 / 50

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

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Interpretative Criticism

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