0% 2 English Literature Quiz 9 1 / 50 ?The Prince Of Poets in his time?, on whom grave the inscription is given ? John Milton Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spencer John Donne 2 / 50 Which of the following are King Lear?s daughters ? Goneril, Regan and Cordelia Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice Goneril, Ophelia and Regan 3 / 50 What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ? the Battle of Agincourt the Battle of Hastings the Norman Conquest the War of the Roses 4 / 50 Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ? Charles Chesnutt William Wells Brown Booker T. Washington Richard Wright 5 / 50 In which work Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle ? Faerie Queen Prothalamion Amoretti Epithalamion 6 / 50 Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the ?Father of American Literature? ? None of the above Mentor to other writers First native american to publish life writing Literary Maverick 7 / 50 ?It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet no more than a long gown maketh an advocate?. Whose view is this ? Shakespeare?s Spenser?s Marlowe?s Sidney?s 8 / 50 What is Shakespeare?s longest play ? Taming of the Shrew Hamlet A Midsummer Night?s Dream Romeo and Juliet 9 / 50 The Rape of the Lock is a_______________? Sonnet Elegy Parody Romance 10 / 50 About William Bradford__________________? Wrote about the Plymouth Plantation A and C Founded Jamestown Wrote the Mayflower Compact agreement 11 / 50 ?Under the green wood tree? is a song in____________________? Love?s labour?s lost A mid Summer night?s dream As you like it Much ado about nothing 12 / 50 Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ? Henry IX Elizabeth II James I Charles I 13 / 50 Through an amendment in ____________ 1962, name of the State was declared Islamic Republic of Pakistan instead of Republic of Pakistan ? October None of these December August 14 / 50 Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ? Wilfred Owen All of these answers Isaac Rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon 15 / 50 Who coined the expression ?objective corelative? ? F. R. Leavis Coleridge T. S. Eliot Allen Tate 16 / 50 How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ? They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order 17 / 50 To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? ?The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.? ? Hamlet Rosencrantz Claudius Polonius 18 / 50 Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________? chorister skald bard troubadour 19 / 50 Why do people evolve a language_______________? For identifying themselves To communicate To articulate their circumstances For existence 20 / 50 Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet?s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ? William Blake Samuel Johnson William Wordsworth Alfred Lord Tennyson 21 / 50 In his poem Kipling said ?If you can meet with triumph and _____________?? victory Glory Ruin Disaster 22 / 50 _____________________is a processes of word formation whereby new words are formed by subtracting a root by deleting final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix? Portmanteau Compounding Backformation. Derivation 23 / 50 Who was the first literary critic who said that ?Art is twice removed from reality? ? Plato Longinus Aristotle Horace 24 / 50 Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ? English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals. English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent. Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England. English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists. 25 / 50 According section 5(2) Subject to provision of any law for the time being in force a contract of sale may be_______________? By words of month All of above ways Made in writing Partly in writing or partly in words of month 26 / 50 What British Romantic artist famously depicted John Milton?s ?Paradise Lost? in a series of etchings and prints ? William Wordsworth Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats William Blake 27 / 50 According to most critics, how does Dante distinguish love from lust ? Lust leads to moral improvement, while love is a more destructive force. Lust involves the subordination of reason to desire. Lust and love are both sins that place the sinner in hell. Lust is often pure, while love tends to be crude. 28 / 50 How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ? All of the above answers are correct. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues. 29 / 50 From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated ? Oedipus the Rex Oedipus at Colonus Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes Antigone 30 / 50 Which among the following does not constitute the scientific nature of linguistics_____________? Chronological presentation of data Systematic gathering and analysis of data Determination of causal relationship between facts Verification, validation and generalization. 31 / 50 What type of play is ?Richard III? ? Lyric Tragedy Comedy History 32 / 50 Which of the following is a love poem ? Wordsworth ?Peter Bell? Byron?s ?Don Juan? John Clare?s ?To Elia? Coleridge?s ?Kubla Kahn? 33 / 50 In which of the following ways was Dante involved in the Italian politics of his time ? He literally fought at the Battle of Campaldino. He held several positions in the local government. All of the above He conducted diplomatic missions. 34 / 50 Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre ? Birth Assimilation Religious in nature Sovereignty 35 / 50 Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ? Political satire Romantic War poems Light verse 36 / 50 We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement ? Rhode Island Mayflower compact Massachusetts Bay Colony Plymouth 37 / 50 What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ? All the above Most popular slave narrative First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience First African American to publish life writing Most popular native American writer 38 / 50 Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ? Ben Jonson Alexander Pope Henry Vaughan John Dryden 39 / 50 One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens?s poem ?Sunday Morning? consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ? The alchemical concept of the philosopher?s stone The Renaissance concept of humanism Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation The ideal of courtly love 40 / 50 How did the Normans revolutionize English poetry ? They introduced metaphor. They introduced alliterative verse. They introduced rhyming octosyllabic couplets. They introduced iambic pentameter. 41 / 50 Which of the following is written by P. Shelly ? Pride and Prejudice Culture and Anarchy The Daffodils To a skylark 42 / 50 In The Divine Comedy, what do many critics believe Beatrice allegorically represents ? Revelations Natural light The light of grace All of the above 43 / 50 By 1600 Holland had____________________? many scholars and sceptics Emerged as a supreme power among the European countries a huge collection of paintings and sculptures the wisest men of the time 44 / 50 Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ? Canada India Ulster the southern counties of Ireland 45 / 50 Dr. Samuel Gladden believes Shelley?s agenda was to _____________? Expose the nature of reality Change sexual morals Revolutionize France Expose how intimate relationships inform political realities 46 / 50 Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ? Onomatopeia Metonymy Hyperbole Alliteration 47 / 50 Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that ? texts are always heterogeneous. the meaning of a text always relies on context. any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless. All of the above answers are correct. 48 / 50 G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of ? Byron Wordsworth Keats Shelley 49 / 50 Joyce?s novel ?Ulysses? takes place over what period of time ? A lifetime 6 months A week 24 hours 50 / 50 James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ? 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