0% 0 English Literature Quiz 55 1 / 50 In drama, a ?soliloquy? refers to which of the following ? A speech delivered by a character intended to be spoken to only the audience A character?s final words before dying A dialogue between two characters A rhyming line 2 / 50 Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ? A traditional poet A Modernist poet A classical poet A performance poet 3 / 50 Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ? Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe Edmund Spenser john Milton 4 / 50 Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ? To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences All the above. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language 5 / 50 Themes in modern literature are_____________? nostalgia pretension All the above national identity 6 / 50 Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ? Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront? Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley 7 / 50 ?Post-Modernism? is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ? A reinforcement of master narratives A rejection of master narratives Both A and C A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche 8 / 50 Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________? Architect Sculptor None of these Engraver 9 / 50 Which of the following best defines Middle English ? A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence A form brought to England by the Scandinavians An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons A unique form of English spoken in Germany 10 / 50 The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________? Caleron Moliere Corneille Couperin 11 / 50 Why didn?t Alexander Pope attend an English university ? He lived in Italy until the age of 27 He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending He just wasn?t bright enough Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid 12 / 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. 13 / 50 Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ? John Skelton Izaak Walton Isabella Whitney Katherine Philips 14 / 50 Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________? It should be regarded as one of the actors It should make only reports It should only comment on the action It is only lyrical songs in the play 15 / 50 What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ? Dutch German American British 16 / 50 Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem and illustrations to accompany it ? William Blake Percy Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron 17 / 50 What is ?the gender fallacy? ? the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men the notion that chastity is impossible for men the problem of a ?man writing as a woman? the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are 18 / 50 Which of the following best represents Dante?s criticism of the medieval Church ? He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect. 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. 19 / 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 Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate All of the above. 20 / 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 21 / 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 22 / 50 Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ? T.S. Eliot Vladimir Nabokov Joseph Conrad James Joyce 23 / 50 What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ? Indian autobiography None of the above First african american to speak to mixed audience Most popular slave narrative 24 / 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 symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge. It functions as a metaphor for the women?s rights movement. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood. 25 / 50 Simile is the direct comparison between two________________? contradictory things similar things elaborate comparison dissimilar things 26 / 50 The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________? Erik Erikson Carl Jung Sigmund Freud Ernest Jones 27 / 50 Is Dryden?s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work of ? Interpretative Criticism Textual Criticism Legislative Criticism Comparative Criticism 28 / 50 Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________? None of these Victorian Elizabethan Romantic 29 / 50 As per Constitution of 1962, ___________ were held National Languages? None of these Bengali Urdu Both A and B 30 / 50 Seven Ages of Man appears in ? As you like it?. Which character?s speech it is ? Orlando Jaques Oliver Amiens 31 / 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 focuses on adventures. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism. It connects to poetry. 32 / 50 Which is/are typical of the supernatural in medieval romance ? spells enchantment fairy trickery All of the Above 33 / 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. Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects. Langland wrote only about aristocratic characters that were similar to Arthurian legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about lower social classes. 34 / 50 What the term Renaissance refers ? presentation rebel representation revival or rebirth 35 / 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 that is set in the countryside of Europe A novel set in the past A novel that consists entirely of dialogue 36 / 50 ?To be or not to be that is the question?, is famous line of which of Shakespeare?s plays ? King Lear Macbeth Othello Hamlet 37 / 50 Which problem(s) shaped Joyce?s early home life? All of the Above poverty his father?s alcoholism lack of stable work 38 / 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 the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem perspective, as in the dramatic monologue all of the above 39 / 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 order of stories in The Dubliners it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake 40 / 50 The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________? Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget Noire Otto Jepersen Max__Muller 41 / 50 What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ? Alfred Lord Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett Browning William Blake T.S. Eliot 42 / 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 toward whiteness? among African Americans. 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. 43 / 50 George Bernard Shaw is_________________? a playwright a modern painter a film-maker a historian 44 / 50 Who wrote: ?In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree??? Walt Whitman Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Robert Browning 45 / 50 How many stressed are generally marked_____________? Two Three Only one Four 46 / 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 47 / 50 What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ? Hills and highways Field and works Crusted snow and dead leaves all are sleeping 48 / 50 Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________? the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476. the Peasant Uprising of 1381. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. 49 / 50 Dunstan is a character from the novel________________? Silas Marner Hard Times Emma Adam Bede 50 / 50 In Shakespeare?s ?Venus and Adonis,? how is Adonis killed ? 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