0% 0 English Literature Quiz 56 1 / 50 Which is the best example of the ?double standard? that exists in tales of courtly love ? women are always villains, while men are always heroes women are always involved in supernatural plots while men?s storylines tend to be more realistic men are represented as immoral while women are always presented as chaste men are allowed to boast about their affairs, while women must keep them secret 2 / 50 In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ? The government Organized religion All of these answers Marriage 3 / 50 The poet of ?Romantic Age? is_______________? None of these John Keats D.H. Lawrence John Milton 4 / 50 Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological ?transference? helps to understand the nature of ________________? Incest Taboo Trauma Love 5 / 50 Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text ? ?Utopia? ?Toxophilus? ?Paradise Lost? ?The Inferno? 6 / 50 Why were coffee-houses important in the Restoration ? They created a space for the exchange of pamphlets. They offered people a private place in which they could plan political revolts. Both A and B They enabled discussion about important literary texts. 7 / 50 Coleridge?s Ancient Mariner could be said to be suffering from an overwhelming feeling of ___________? Love Disbelief Hatred Guilt 8 / 50 Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ? To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from ?300 billion to ?800 billion. 9 / 50 The quote ?women who have intellect of love? is from which text ? De Vulgari Eloquentia Vita Nuova De Monarchia The Divine Comedy 10 / 50 To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ? English Neo-Classical theatre English Puritan theatre English Renaissance theatre Restoration theatre 11 / 50 Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ? Cain George III Satan Prometheus 12 / 50 Which of the following events was NOT associated with the Victorian period ? Great Exhibition Opium Wars Repeal of the corn laws French Revolution 13 / 50 How do historians explain the increase in the number of troubadours in the Middle Ages ? the French lords? lack of interest in tales of courtly love the decreased public interest in religious stories the increased interest in stories written in medieval Latin the public disinterest in popular tales about romance 14 / 50 According to Dr. Dino Felluga?s ?General Introduction to Postmodernism,? what is the meaning of the term ?simulacra? ? ?A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact? ?An exact imitation of the material world? ?Something that replaces reality with its representation? ?A basic affirmation of everyday reality? 15 / 50 Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ? Robert Harley John Churchill Henry St. John Robert Walpole 16 / 50 When was the ban finally lifted on H. Lawrence?s novel Lady Chatterley?s Lover, written in 1928? 2000 1930 1945 1960 17 / 50 Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it ? Fortinbras, Corin Osric, Touchstone Ghost, Old servant Adam Leartus, Silvius 18 / 50 The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 is based on ______________? None of above US Sale of Goods Act English Sale of Goods Act Indian Sale of Goods Act 19 / 50 How did increased lay participation in religious life impact monasteries ? it made them more important since there were few literate lay worshipers it made them symbols of the Church?s progress it made them seem irrelevant since they separated religious life from worldly life it made them more valuable sources of information 20 / 50 Which of the following lines provides an example of a poetic apostrophe ? ?Death, that which feels nothing.? ?I wandered lonely as a cloud.? ?She is a woman of beauty and wonder.? ?Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee.? 21 / 50 Joe Gargery is Pip?s ? cousin brother brother-in-Jaw guardian 22 / 50 Which of the following statements best exemplifies the main idea put forward by John Milton in book 9 of Paradise Lost ? God abandoned the realm of Eden without reason. Satan was ultimately heroic. Adam and Eve were driven to evil by their children. The fall of Adam and Eve was a tragic event. 23 / 50 In The Inferno, which three characters are located in the deepest circle of hell ? Guinevere, Dido, and Francesca Homer, Dante, and Virgil Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Pope Nicholas, Pope Boniface, and Pope Clement 24 / 50 Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ? a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery 25 / 50 The statements below are parts of the steps on ?How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction?. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ? Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis. 26 / 50 What is the subject of Lucille Clifton?s ?the lost baby poem? ? The stillborn death of a child. A murdered child. Abortion. A child dying of SIDS. 27 / 50 What the term Blank Verse refers_____________? having no rhyming end having no blanks in the verse having no significance having no rhythmic flow 28 / 50 What Biblical story acts as a springboard for John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? ? The story of Luke The Ascension of Jesus The Second Coming of Jesus The Baptism of Jesus 29 / 50 What does the term ?passing? mean ? To leave one?s past behind. To do well on one?s schoolwork. To gain approval from one?s community. The ability of an African American to live as a White person. 30 / 50 Who became the first ?prime minister? of Great Britain in the reign of George II ? John Churchill Robert Harley Henry St. John Robert Walpole 31 / 50 Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ? William Blake Lord Byron Percy Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge 32 / 50 Desdemona was _____________? wife of Othello both a and b daughter of Othello none of above 33 / 50 ?Milton, thou should?st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee.? Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ? William Wordsworth Horatio Herbert Kitchener William Blake John Keats 34 / 50 In literature, some of Shakespeare?s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________? Ben Jonson folios William Shakespeare Ben Jonson English Renaissance theatre 35 / 50 Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ? Pope Pius V Pope Boniface Pope Gregory XIII Pope Innocent III 36 / 50 Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin?s performativity theory ? Language is used to indicate action as well as thought. Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings. Individuals perform gender actively. Individuals develop consciousness through speech 37 / 50 Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ? Albert Einstein?s theory of relativity wireless communication across the Atlantic the invention of the airplane the creation of the internet 38 / 50 Who wrote ?Emperor Ice cream? ? Countee cullen Langston Hughes Wallace stevens William Faulkner 39 / 50 How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare?s plays ? 9 11 13 7 40 / 50 The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ? Mexico Germany Italy France 41 / 50 Which river is associated with Shakespeare?s birth place ? The Tyburn The Thames The Avon The Seven 42 / 50 Which of the following is true of symbolism ? Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting. Both A and B Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world. Symbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century. 43 / 50 Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways? Sir James Frazer Immanuel Kant all but C Sigmund Freud 44 / 50 Who is the author of the famous book ?The Judgment? is_______________? Kuldip Nayer Anthony Mascarenhas Amartya Sen Nelson Mandela 45 / 50 Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________? Scientific exploration. Love and romance. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self. The philosophy of how to run a new country. 46 / 50 Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen ? The Jew of Malta Edward the Second The Massacre at Paris Doctor Faustus 47 / 50 The primary subject of ?Ode to Psyche? is ___________________? The relationship between art and humanity The expansion of consciousness The death of Byron The possibility of sudden death 48 / 50 Who wrote poem about Lucy ? S. T. Coleridge Lord Byron William Wordsworth P. Shelley 49 / 50 What is the significance of the ?Green Knight? ? He suggests the lack of knightly themes in Middle English poetry. He represents the link with Celtic mythology. He suggests a continued tie with paganism. He alludes to an ancient Anglo-Saxon ruler. 50 / 50 Which of the following does NOT accurately characterize Jane Eyre?s relationship to other literary works ? Like ?Dover Beach,? Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero. Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 0% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 55 English Literature Quiz 57Next
