English Literature Quiz 55

1 / 50

Themes in modern literature are_____________?

nostalgia

pretension

All the above

national identity

2 / 50

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

Amiens

Jaques

Oliver

Orlando

3 / 50

Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

Izaak Walton

Katherine Philips

John Skelton

Isabella Whitney

4 / 50

What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake ?

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

the novel is clearly written from the future to the past

5 / 50

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

First african american to speak to mixed audience

Most popular slave narrative

None of the above

Indian autobiography

6 / 50

How many stressed are generally marked_____________?

Two

Only one

Three

Four

7 / 50

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

a modern painter

a playwright

a historian

a film-maker

8 / 50

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Silas Marner

Hard Times

Emma

Adam Bede

9 / 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.

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

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

10 / 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 symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.

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

It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.

11 / 50

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

Noire

Otto Jepersen

Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

Max__Muller

12 / 50

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

Elizabethan

Romantic

None of these

Victorian

13 / 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 Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

14 / 50

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

In a hunting accident

By execution

By Venus

By old age

15 / 50

Which of the following best defines Middle English ?

A unique form of English spoken in Germany

An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons

A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence

A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

16 / 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 denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.

It connects to poetry.

It focuses on a royal hero.

It focuses on adventures.

17 / 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

18 / 50

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

enchantment

spells

All of the Above

fairy trickery

19 / 50

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

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

20 / 50

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

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

A reinforcement of master narratives

21 / 50

Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of poet ?

A performance poet

A traditional poet

A classical poet

A Modernist poet

22 / 50

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

Caleron

Couperin

Moliere

Corneille

23 / 50

What is ?the gender fallacy? ?

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?

the notion that chastity is impossible for men

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

It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

It is the racial segregation in the South.

25 / 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 disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.

He thought the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.

26 / 50

Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

Youth and Age

Frost at Midnight

Work Without Hope

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

27 / 50

The term ?collective unconscious? is coined by_____________?

Carl Jung

Erik Erikson

Sigmund Freud

Ernest Jones

28 / 50

Who wrote ?The Massacre at Paris? ?

Shakespeare

john Milton

Edmund Spenser

Christopher Marlowe

29 / 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 consists entirely of dialogue

A novel set in the past

A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe

30 / 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

31 / 50

What is the function of the Linati schema ?

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

it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses

32 / 50

Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront?

33 / 50

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

Vladimir Nabokov

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

James Joyce

34 / 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

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

sound as a means to express meaning

35 / 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

36 / 50

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

Interpretative Criticism

Legislative Criticism

Comparative Criticism

Textual Criticism

37 / 50

Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?

Chaucer copied French and Italian style, whereas Langland did not.

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 and Langland wrote in different dialects.

38 / 50

What is Christopher Marlowe?s Nationality ?

German

British

Dutch

American

39 / 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

40 / 50

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

all are sleeping

Field and works

Hills and highways

Crusted snow and dead leaves

41 / 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

42 / 50

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

lack of stable work

All of the Above

his father?s alcoholism

poverty

43 / 50

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

dissimilar things

elaborate comparison

similar things

contradictory things

44 / 50

What the term Renaissance refers ?

representation

revival or rebirth

presentation

rebel

45 / 50

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

Sculptor

Engraver

None of these

Architect

46 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

47 / 50

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

Othello

King Lear

Hamlet

Macbeth

48 / 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 a slave get beaten to death

Seeing his mother die

Watching his aunt get whipped

Watching his dad beat his mother

49 / 50

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

None of these

Both A and B

Urdu

Bengali

50 / 50

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

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