0% 1 English Literature Quiz 8 1 / 50 /m/ is a ______________consonant? Glottal Bilabial__nasal Velar Bilabial 2 / 50 Which of the following statements about the plot of Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet? is not true ? Hamlet is deeply disturbed by his father?s death. It is never proven within the play that Claudius murdered King Hamlet. Ophelia dies by drowning. Hamlet doubts the proper course of action to take. 3 / 50 ?The Day Duke Raised? by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________? The poem can be set to music. The poem?s rhythmic lines. The references to jazz songs and musicians. There is repetition. 4 / 50 Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ? Religious practice of the Church of England Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit For the land All of the above 5 / 50 What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe?s father ? Farmer Carpenter Civil servant Cobbler 6 / 50 What is affective piety ? a dramatic demonstration of faith a term associated with oral transmission an important trait of the medieval lay a literary device used in estates satire 7 / 50 In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ?willing suspension of disbelief? in 1817 ? Biographia Literaria Christabel Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 8 / 50 What does George Harris? master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ? Abandon his faith Punish another slave Relocate to Louisiana Marry another woman 9 / 50 The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ? A cry of lament Prayer to the Sun A and B Invocation of a muse 10 / 50 For Joyce, what are epiphanies ? All of the Above deep realizations linked with religious faith dream-like pieces of writing short prose sketches that vary in character 11 / 50 Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________? Fitzgerald Hemingway Steinback Faulkner 12 / 50 How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett?s Waiting for Godot ? kitchen sink drama nothing happens-twice angry young men political correctness gone mad 13 / 50 The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as_________________? bringing reality before them life turning more attractive condensed life to the screen creating indifference to realities of life 14 / 50 Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ? Bunyan Crabbe Dryden Addison 15 / 50 Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ? Langland Chaucer Shakespeare Homer 16 / 50 In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven ? Virgil Ulysses Cato Beatrice 17 / 50 Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ? Sir Thomas Malory Margery Kempe William Langland Julian of Norwich 18 / 50 In the Middle Ages, how did society treat prostitution ? prostitution was considered problematic but legal All of the Above the Church opposed prostitution on moral grounds prostitution was considered a solution to epidemics of rape 19 / 50 a description that appeals to one of the five senses____________? none of the above imagery metaphor personification 20 / 50 The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________? Semi__vowels Laterals Sibilants Trills. 21 / 50 Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ? Schegell Coleridge William Wordsworth John Ruskin 22 / 50 How do theorists suggest that the Gothic novel resembles queer and camp ? Women?s issues are interrogated. Many protagonists? mothers are absent. The body is represented in abnormal ways. Gender issues are often overlooked. 23 / 50 Which of the following themes IS NOT important to John Milton?s ?Paradise Regained? ? Sexual desire What it means to be the ?Son of God? Temptation Seeking God?s Will and Guidance 24 / 50 Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT? ?The Tempest? ?Two Gentlemen of Verona? ?The Winter?s Tale? ?Faustus? 25 / 50 Thackeray?s ?Esmond? is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________? the age of Queen Anne the Medieval age the Victorian age the Elizabethan age 26 / 50 The title of the poem ?The Second Coming? is taken from ? The Irish mythology The Greek mythology The Bible The German mythology 27 / 50 The theory which Is based upon the assumption that language has been formed from the words uttered by groups of persons engaged in joint burdensome labour ? Ding__Dong theory. The Poo__Pooh theory The Gesture theory The Yo__He__Ho Theory 28 / 50 Who succeeded Lyly ? Robert Greene John Milton Philip Sidney Christopher Marlowe 29 / 50 Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ? Ernest Hemingway?s ?The Sun Also Rises? James Joyce?s ?Ulysses? T.S. Eliot?s ?The Wasteland? Andre Breton?s ?Surrealist Manifesto? 30 / 50 Fill in the blanks from Tennyson?s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the ?..: Man to command and woman to ____________? crop; scabbard; foot; agree throne; scepter; soul; decree school; scalpel; pen; set free hearth; needle; heart; obey 31 / 50 Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by ? George Herbert Christopher Marlow Ben Johnson Sir Walter Scot 32 / 50 Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ? Cleanth Brooks?s ?Keats?s Sylvan Historian? Edward Said?s Orientalism Harold Bloom?s ?An Elegy for the Canon? Jacques Lacan?s ?The Mirror Stage ? ? 33 / 50 Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of ?Paradise Lost? that that goal of his epic poem will be ? to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell. to justify the ways of God to humankind. to justify the ways of humankind to God. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven. 34 / 50 Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ? Curiosity about the past Deference to the past Paradoxically both B and C Violation of the past 35 / 50 Marxist theory focuses on examining which of the following aspects of literary texts ? The relationship between economics and the production of literary texts The political and social meanings of literary texts Characters who are sympathetic to issues facing the working classes All of these 36 / 50 What lesson does Hare?s adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you Flattery will get you no where Don?t put of for tomorrow what you can do today Boasting shows weakness and will lead to bad things 37 / 50 The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________? Calmness content Panic Pain 38 / 50 Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________? Jane Austen?s Emma Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein Sir Walter Scott?s Waverley William Godwin?s Caleb Williams 39 / 50 ?But God?s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.? In which poem do these lines appear ? We Are Seven (Wordsworth) None of these Prisoner of Chillon (Byron) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde) 40 / 50 Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Robinson Crusoe?s and Oroonoko?s relationship to central features of the early English novel ? Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernatural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids religion completely. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class. Both make claims to historical veracity. 41 / 50 Find the Odd man out ? The Virginians The Falcon Ulysses On Liberty 42 / 50 Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare ? Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cressida King Lear, Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and Antony and Cleopatra 43 / 50 Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ? Judith Butler H?l?ne Cixous Mary Wollstonecraft Lucy Irigaray 44 / 50 Who is the writer of ?Vision of Sin? ? C. Lord Tennyson William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe George Bernard Shaw 45 / 50 Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ? Viktor Shklovsky Roland Barthes Ferdinand de Saussure Michel Foucault 46 / 50 Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ? A bloody dagger floating in mid-air. A bloody child. A child crowned, with a tree in his hand An armed head 47 / 50 Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers ? The Shepherd?s calendar Colin clouts come home again Faerie queen, first three books Faerie queen, second three books 48 / 50 A picaresque novel dramatizes the life of what kind of person ? A member of the royalty A child as he or she develops into an adult A member of the middle class engaging in self-exploration A lowborn, wandering adventurer 49 / 50 On which Biblical theme that Paradise lost is based ? The fall of man The fall of Lucifer Adam and Eve The genesis 50 / 50 What source did David Walker rely on the most for support in ?Appeal in Four Articles? ? Greek history. Abolitionist newspapers. The Bible. Slave narratives. Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 42% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevEnglish Literature Quiz 7 English Literature Quiz 9Next
