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1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'? 9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling
a. How do I love thee truth' in 1996
b. Ode to a Grecian urn a. Robert Hass
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes b. Jessica Hagdorn
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John Keats 10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
b. Lord Byron a. Dylan Thomas
c. Solan b. Ezra Pound
d. Sappho c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature 11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines
b. Epics of poetry
c. Sonnets 1. rhyme scheme
d. Nonsense 2. meter
3. alliteration
4. In Coleridges poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner 12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
where were the three gallants going? 1. alliteration
a. A funeral 2. onomatopoiea
b. A wedding 3. rhyme
c. Market 13. Applying human qualities to non-human things
d. To the races 1. personification
2. onomatopoeia
5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow 3. alliteration
and glum. Perfect manners'? 14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
a. e. e. Cummings 1. rhyme
b. T. S. Elliot 2. onomatopoeia
c. John Greenleaf Whittier 3. alliteration
d. Walt Whitman 15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of
comparison such as like or as
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson? 1. metaphor
a. She rarely left home 2. simile
b. She wrote in code 3. personification
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink 16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or
as
7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict? 1. metaphor
a. Boer War 2. simile
b. Second World War 3. personification
c. Korean War 17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
d. First World War 1. alliteration
2. simile
8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse? 3. onomatopoeia
a. Betjeman 18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
b. Hughes 1. imagery
c. Marvel 2. personification
d. Larkin 3. metaphor
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19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and 28. True or false: Writing predates poetry.
characters a. True
1. lyric b. False
2. free verse 3. narrative
20. A poem with no meter or rhyme 29. What is the earliest surviving European poem?
1. lyric a. The Homeric epic
2. free verse b. The Gilgamesh epic
3. narrative c. The Deluge epic
21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme d. The Hesiodic ode
1. lyric
2. free verse 30. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
3. narrative a. The Epic
b. The Comic
22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet? c. The Occult
a. Masefield d. The Tragic
b. Causley
c. Hughes 31. What is the study of poetry's meter and form called?
d. Larkin a. Prosody
b. Potology
23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of c. Rheumatology
imagery? d. Scansion
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll 32. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of
c. War verse?
d. Innocent childhood a. Alliterative verse
b. Sonnet form
24. Which influential American poet was born in Long c. Iambic pentameter
Island in 1819? d. Dactylic hexameter
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar 33. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in
c. John Greenleaf Whittier poetry?
d. Walt Whitman a. William Carlos Williams
b. Emily Dickinson
25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems c. Gerard Manly Hopkins
published by which poetess? d. Robert Frost
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath 34. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a
c. Marianne Moore summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate'
d. Laura Jackson a. TS Eliot
b. Lord Tennyson
26. In his poem Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph c. Charlotte Bronte
and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '? d. Shakespeare
a. Glory
b. Ruin 35. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad
c. Disaster date?
d. victory a. The 12th
b. The 14th
27. Which of the following is not a literary device used for c. The 17th
aesthetic effect in poetry? d. The 19th
a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea 36. From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line:
c. Rhyme 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never
d. Grammar saw a true beauty until this night'
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. Hamlet
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a.Paradise Lost
b.Paradise Regained 62. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good
c.Samson Agonistes poem.
d.Divorce Tracts a) characters, main idea, and theme
b) purpose and audience
54. William Shakespeare was born in the year: c) theme, purpose, form, and mood.
a.1564 d) rhyme and reason
b.1544
c.1578 63. Which is not a poetry form?
d.1582 a) epic
b) tale
55. Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy? c) ballad
a.Titus Andronicus d) sonnet
b.Othello
c.Macbeth 64. Which is an example of a proverb?
d.Hamlet a) Get a "stake" in our business.
e.None of the above b) You can't have your cake and eat it, too
c) The snow was white as cotton.
56. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?' d) You're driving me crazy.
a.George Bernard Shaw
b.John Dryden 65. Which is an exaggeration?
c.Christopher Marlowe a) Alliteration
d.William Shakespeare b) Haiku
c) Hyperbole
57. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? d) Prose
a) No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to
the same thing. 66. Which of the following is not a poet?
b) A simile is more descriptive. a) William Shakespeare
c) A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a b) Terry Saylor
metaphor doesn't. c) Elizabeth B. Browning
d) A simile must use animals in the comparison. d) Emily Dickinson
67. Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act
58. What is the word for a "play on words"? using languages?
a) pun a. H. W. Longfellow
b) simile b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c) haiku c. Dylan Thomas
d) metaphor d. William Wordsworth
60. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form? 69. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a
a) Personification poem called as?
b) Hyperboles a. Prosody
c) Alliteration b. Allegory
d) Onomatopoeia c. Scansion
d. Assonance
61. The theme is ...?
a) a plot. 70. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is
b) an character exaggerated in a poem?
c) an address a. Onomatopeia
d) the point a writer is trying to make about a subject. b. Metonymy
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c. Alliteration b. Limerick
d. Hyperbole c. Sextet
d. Palindrome
71. There was aware of her true love, at length come riding 79. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
by - This is a couplet from the Bailiff's Daughter of a. An awful way to earn a living
Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet? b. A game of knowledge
a. Metaphor c. The soul exposed
b. Synecdoche d. An explosion of language
c. Euphemism
d. Irony 80. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
a. Light verse
b. Romantic
72. Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic c. Political satire
verses known as Qasidas? d. War poems
a. Hindu
b. Celtic
c. Arabic 81. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
d. Arameic a. Denver
b. St Louis
73. Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me not to the c. Cuba
marriage of true minds bring: d. Toronto
a. Impediments
b. Inconveniences 82. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
c. Worries a. Carolyn Kizer
d. Troubles b. Mary Oliver
c. Sylvia Plath
74. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form? d. Marianne Moore
a. Jintishi
b. Villanelle 83. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
c. Ode a. 24
d. Tanka b. 31
c. 21
75. What is the title of the poem that begins thus - 'What is d. 28
this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'?
a. Comfort 84. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'
b. Leisure first become known?
c. Relaxation a. Book of poetry
d. Tranquility b. A radio play
c. A stage play
76. Which of the following is not an English poet (i. d. a short film
e. from England)?
a. Victor Hugo 85. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was
b. Alexander Pope inspired by which exhibition?
c. John Milton a. The Festival of Britain
d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge b. The Surrealist Exhibition
c. People of the 20th Century
77. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of d. Drawing the 20th CEntury
his poems revolved around nature?
a. William Blake 86. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?
b. William Shakespeare a. Owner convicted of fraud
c. William Morris b. Fall in Sales
d. William Wordsworth c. Rise in taxation on magazines
d. Shortage of paper
78. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a. Quartet 87. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as
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90.in which language the stories of canterbury tale are 98. Words from which language began to enter English
written? vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in
A. French 1066?
b. Latin a) French
c. Middle english b) Norwegian
d. English c) Spanish
d) Hungarian
91.chaucer's franklin was guilty of which sin? e) Danish
A. Lust
b. Corruption 99. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic
c. Theft literature before becoming a staple subject in French,
d. Gluttony English, and German literatures?
a) Beowulf
92. How many languages did chaucer know? b) Arthur
A.2 c) Caedmon
b.4 d) Augustine of Canterbury
c.1 e) Alfred
d.5
100. Toward the close of which century did English replace
93.from which language the name ''chaucer'' has been French as the language of conducting business in Parliament
driven? and in court of law?
A.french a) tenth
b.latin b) eleventh
c.italian c) twelfth
d.english d) thirteenth
e) fourteenth
94. Where did chaucer bury?
A.westminster abbey 101. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the
b.kent church throne of France in 1336?
c.chapel at windsor a) Henry II
95.chaucer was imprisoned during----------------------? b) Henry III
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c) Chrtien de Troyes 121. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church,
d) a and c only beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
e) b and c only a) Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious
reform.
115. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre b) The common people were still essentially pagan.
of "romance"emerged, initially apply? c) They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the
a) a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire clergy, was a form of black magic.
b) a story about love and adventure d) The church was among the greatest of oppressive
c) a Roman official landowners.
d) a work written in the French vernacular e) a and c only
e) a series of short stories
122. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the
116. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed secrets of the afterlife?
primarily to a) Dante's Divine Comedy
a) the royal family and upper orders of the nobility b) Boccaccio's Decameron
b) the lower orders of the nobility c) The Dream of the Rood
c) agricultural laborers d) Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
d) the clergy e) Gower's Confessio Amantis
e) the Welsh
123. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
117. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The a) Sir Thomas Malory
History of the Kings of Britain? b) Margery Kempe
a) the reign of King Arthur c) Geoffrey Chaucer
b) the coronation of Henry II d) William Langland
c) King John's seal of the Magna Carta e) Geoffrey of Monmouth
d) the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
e) the defeat of the French by Henry V 124. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry
V?
118. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for a) the Battle of Agincourt
a) courtiers entering the service of Richard II b) the Battle of Hastings
b) translators of French romances c) the Norman Conquest
c) women who have chosen to live as religious recluses d) the Black Death
d) knights preparing for their first tournament e) the War of the Roses
e) witch-hunters and exorcists
125. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth
119. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and century, personified vices and virtues?
Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose a) the short story
written around the year 1200? b) the heroic epic
a) They were written for sophisticated and well-educated c) the morality play
readers. d) the romance
b) Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin e) the limerick
and French.
c) Their readers' primary language was English. 126. Which of the following statements about Julian of
d) a and c only Norwich is true?
e) a and b only a) She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
b) She was a virgin martyr.
120. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William c) She is the first known woman writer in the English
Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is vernacular.
evident in the works of which of the following writers? d) She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
a) Geoffrey of Monmouth e) She probably never met Margery Kempe.
b) the Gawain poet
c) the Beowulf poet 127. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee
d) Chrtien de Troyes to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
e) Marie de France a) Julian of Norwich
b) Margery Kempe
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c) William Langland
d) Sir Thomas Malory 138. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom
e) Geoffrey Chaucer during.............?
128.what was the occupation of Chaucer's father? a. 1374 to 1385
a. leather merchant b. 1350 to 1360
b.civil servant c. 1360 to 1400
c. a vintner
139. Chaucer was released from legal action by
129. Chaucer became a page to which king's daughter-in- ........................ in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and
law? abduction?
a. Edward III a. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
b. Richard II b. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
c. Henry IV c. Agnes de Copton
130. which of these is not certain about Chaucer? 140. Chaucer became a member of Parliament in...........?
a. his birth date a. 1386
b. his death year b. 1300
c. his father's name c. 1343
131. which of these kings was not served by Chaucer? 141. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which
a. Edward III came to know as.........?
b. Henry II a. Chaucer's corner
c. Richard II b. poet's corner
c. legend's corner
132.what was the duration of hundred year's war?
a.1300 to 1350 142. what was chaucer's profession?
b.1337 to 1453 a. a poet
c. 1302 to 1343 b. a merchant
c. a civil servant
133.what did Chaucer's wife use to do?
a. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut The Life and Works of Christopher Marlowe
b. nurse of royal court ( Elizabethan era)
c. governess to Henry IV
143)One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his
134.one of Chaucer's daughter was............? translation of the epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which
a. a musician Roman poet?
b. an astronomer a)Ovid
c. a nun b)Lucan
c)Virgil
135. in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French? d)Horace
a. 1360
b. 1357 144) Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His
c. 1378 Love' begins with the line "Come live with me and be my
love"; which other English author wrote a famous poem
136.chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for..............? beginning with this line?
a. beating a friar in a London street a)William Shakespeare
b. for writing poetry against the church b)Thomas Kyd
c. for crossing the border of Great Britain c)John Dryden
d)John Donne
137. Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which
of these was not in his charge? 145)In Marlowe's play, what was the name of the Jew of
a. Westminster Palace Malta?
b. Tower of London a)Lazarus
c. St. George's chapel at Windsor b)Solomon
d. Buckingham Palace
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c)Barabas b)Italy
d)Shylock c)France
d)Germany
146How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised
by the Devil? 154)When, is it estimated, was 'Dr Faustus' first performed?
a)16 a)1594
b)20 b)1604
c)24 c)1590
d)28 d)1593
147) Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by 155)At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?
Marlowe? a)Wittenburg
a)Henry V b)Sorbonne
b)Richard III c)Heidelberg
c)Edward II d)Cambridge
d)John
156)Faustus' servant shares his name with a famous German
148)One of Marlowe's most famous poems was an account composer. Who?
of which lovers? a)Bach c)Beethoven
a)Anthony and Cleopatra b)Schumann d)Wagner
b)Hero and Leander 157)Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning
c)Troilus and Cressida the devil. What are their names?
d)Apollo and Hyacinth
a)Valdes and Cornelius
149) Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based b)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
loosely on the life of which Asian ruler? c)Troilus and Cressida
a)Zhu Yuanzhang d)Pyramus and Thisbe
b)Genghis Khan
c)Timur
d)Kublai Khan 158)Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of
the devil's angels?
150)What was the title of the play by Marlowe that
portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's a)Mephastophilis
Day Massacre in 1572? b)beelzebub
a)The Massacre at Berlin c)Aamon
b)The Massacre at Rome 159)What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for
c)The Massacre at Copenhagen great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years?
d)The Massacre at Paris a)his body
b)his house
151)In the title of Marlowe's play, of where was Dido the c)his soul
Queen? d)his horse
a)Troy
b)Carthage 160)Which of the following qualities would most accurately
c)Sparta describe Faustus' character at the beginning of the play?
d)Persia
a)kind
152)Christopher Marlowe was England's first official Poet b)stupid
Laureate. c)sensitive
a)True d)arrogant
b)False
(It was John Dryden-appointed in 1670) 161)Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his
Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe new-found powers?
164) What is the meaning of "Renaissance": 173) Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?
a)Rebirth, revival and re-awaking a)Thomas Nash
b)Reveal, revel and reverie b)Thomas More
c)Raillery, renunciation and recoup c)Thomas lodge
d)Thomas Wyatt
228) Was the Globe 236)In which century was Shakespeare born?
a) A Roman Amphitheater.
b) An Elizabethan Theater. a)16th
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium. b)14th
d) A famous map of the world. c)15th
d)17th
229)Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford
today? 237)which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "The
a)True first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" come from?
b)False
a)The Merry Wives of Windsor
230)Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays? b)Othello, the Moor of Venice
a)Titus Andronicus c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
b)The Tempest d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II
c)Cymbeline
d)Shakespeare in love 238)Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth
place?
231)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,"My
salad days, when I was green in judgment." come from? a)The Thames
a)Antony and Cleopatra b)The Avon
b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark c)The Tyburn
c)The Winters Tale d)The Seven
d)The Merry Wives of Windsor
239)Which famous play does the quote,"When shall we
232)Which famous Shakespeare play does the three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" come
quote,"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from? from?
a)Cymbeline
b)Hamlet a) The Taming of the Shrew
c)Titus Andronicus b) King Lear
d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre c) The Tempest
d) Macbeth
233)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How
sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" 240)How many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as
come from? histories?
a)King Lear
b)As You Like It a) 7
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII b) 10
d)The Life and Death of King John c) 14
d) 18
234)In what year was the First Folio published?
d) Henry V a) Francisco
b) Gorgonzola
Hamlet c) Reynaldo
d) Samson
243)Complete the following famous line from Hamlet:
Something is rotten in the state of... 251)Who is Voltimand?
a) England a) Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of
b) Venice Denmark
c) Denmark b) Hamlet's cousin
d) Maine c) Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of
Norway
244)Which of the following characters does not appear in d) Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
Hamlet?
a) Polonius 252)What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of
b) Gertrude Hamlet's father, causing his death?
c) Claudius a) Burdock
d) Miranda b) Hebenon
c) Baneberry
245) Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to d) Hemlock
Denmark?
a) Wittenberg 253)How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?
b) Oslo
c) London a)2
d) Dublin b)4
c)7
246) How are Polonius and Laertes related? d)9
a) Father/son
b) Uncle/nephew Macbeth
c) Cousin/cousin 254)In which country is Macbeth set?
d) Brother/brother
a) Spain
247) What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for b) Denmark
Claudius? c) Scotland
d) Canada
a) Slings and Arrows
b) Vice of Kings 255)Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first
c) The Murder of Gonzago encounters the Three Witches?
d) The Slaying of Lucianus a) Macduff
b) Mercutio
248)Who says, "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of c) Lady Macbeth
angels sing thee to thy rest."? d) Banquo
a) Fortinbras
b) Marcellus 256)At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with
c) Chorus which country?
d) Horatio
a) Norway
249)How does Queen Gertrude die? b) Prussia
a) Accidentally stabbed by Laertes. c) Iceland
b) Drowns in the river outside the castle. d) Poland
c) Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight
Laertes. 257)Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son,
d) Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup. named...
a) Angus
250)Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris? b) Ross
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278)Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally? 285) Which of the following was written first:
a) Leartus a) Henry six
b)Polonius b) Henry seven
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(C) S. T. Coleridge 329. Who, among the following, is not the second
(D) John Keats generation of British
Romantics?
(A) Keats (B) Wordsworth (C) Shelley (D) Byron
320. Who is commonly known as Pip in Great 330. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a
Expectations? ballad?
(A) Philip Pirrip (A) Work Without Hope
(B) Filip Pirip (B) Frost at Midnight
(C)Philip Pip (C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(D) Philips Pirip (D) Youth and Age
321. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in? 331. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for
(A)Mexico circulating a pamphlet
(B) Italy (A) P. B. Shelley
(C)France (B) Charles Lamb
(D) Germany (C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
323. Which of the following is Goldings first novel?
(A) The Inheritors 332. Keatss Endymion is dedicated to?
(B) Lord of the Flies (A) Leigh Hunt
(C) Pincher Martin (B) Milton
(D) Pyramid (C) Shakespeare
(D) Thomas Chatterton
324.Identify the character who is a supporter of Womens
Rights in Sons and Lovers? 333. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
(A) Mrs. Morel was published in?
(B) Annie (A) 1823
(C) Miriam (B) 1826
(D) Clara Dawes (C) 1834
(D) 1833
325. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
(A) Jane Austen 334. Which of the following poets does not belong to the
(B) Charles Dickens Lake School?
(C) W. M. Thackeray (A) Keats
(D) Thomas Hardy (B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
326. Shelleys Adonais is an elegy on the death of? (D) Wordsworth
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge 335.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at
(C) Keats Christs Hospital School,
(D) Johnson London?
(A) Charles Lamb
327. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. (B) William Wordsworth
Lawrence? (C) Leigh Hunt
(A) The White Peacock (D) S. T. Coleridge
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers 336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the
(D) Women in Love Cockney School of Poetry?
(A) Tennyson
328. In the poem Tintern Abbey, dearest friend refers to? (8) Charles Lamb
(A) Nature (C) Lockhart
(B) Dorothy (D) T. S. Eliot
(C) Coleridge
(D) Wye 337. Tennysons poem In Memoriamwas written in
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memory of?
(A) A. H. Hallam 345. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with
(B) Edward King eleven syllables, is known as?
(C) Wellington (A) Spenserian Stanza
(D) P. B. Shelley (B) Ballad
(C) Ottava Rima
(D) Rhyme Royal
338. Who, among the following, is not connected with the
Oxford Movement?
(A) Robert Browning 346. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in
(B) John Keble English poetry?
(C) E. B. Pusey (A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(D) J. H. Newman (B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey
339. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins when (D) Milton
the hounds of spring are on winters traces..?
(A) Chastelard 347. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the
(B) A Song of Italy 1880s was not influenced by?
(C) Atalanta in Calydon (A) The Pre-Raphaelites
(D) Songs before Sunrise (B) Ruskin
(C) Pater
340. Carlyles work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the (D) Matthew Arnold
Heroic in History is a course of?
(A) six lectures 348. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line
(B) five lectures of Tennyson Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.
(C) four lectures (A) Oxymoron
(D) seven lectures (B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on (D) Synecdoche
the Hero as King?
(A) Johnson 349. W. B. Yeats used the phrase the artifice of eternity in
(B) Cromwell his poem?
(C) Shakespeare (A) Sailing to Byzantium
(D) Luther (B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
342. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence (D) Leda and the Swan
of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
(A) The Stones of Venice 350. Who is Pips friend in London?
(B) The Two Paths (A) Pumblechook
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture (B) Herbert Pocket
(D) Modem Painters (C) Bentley Drummle
(D) Jaggers
343. The term the Palliser Novels is used to describe the
political novels of? 351. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A) Charles Dickens (A) A teacher
(B) Anthony Trollope (B) A clerk
(C) W. H. White (C) A thief
(D) B. Disraeli (D) A dentist
344. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as 352. Brevity is the soul of wit is a quotation from?
the perfect poet of love and loss (A) Milton
(A) Tennyson (B) William Shakespeare
(B) Browning (C) T. S. Eliot
(C) Swinburne (D) Ruskin
(D) D. G. Rossetti
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353. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall (A) The Oxford Movement
be no more cakes and ale. Who speaks the lines given (B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
above in Twelfth Night? (C) The Romantic Movement
(A) Duke Orsino (D) The Symbolist Movement
(B) Malvolio
(C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek 362. The Chartist Movement sought?
(D) Sir Toby Belch (A) Protection of the political rights of the working class
(B) Recognition of chartered trading companies
354. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of (C) Political rights for women
Miltons? (D) Protection of the political rights of the middle class
(A) Sense of injured merit 363. Who wrote Biographia Literaria?
(B) Hatred of tyranny (A)Byron
(C) Spirit of revolt (B) Shelley
(D) All these (C) Coleridge
(D) Lamb
355. Who calls poetry the breadth and finer spirit of all
knowledge? 364. Who was Fortinbras?
(A) Wordsworth (A) Claudiuss son
(B) Shelley (B) Son to the king of Norway
(C) Keats (C) Ophelias lover
(D) Coleridge (D) Hamlets Mend
356. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of? 365. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the
(A)Viola play Hamlet?
(B) Duke A) Nine
(C)Olivia (b) Five
(D) Malvolio (c )Seven
(D) Three
357. What was the cause of Williams death in Sons and
Lovers? 366. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full
(A) An accident of passionate intensity. The above lines have been taken
(B) An overdose of morphia from?
(C) Suicide (A) The Waste Land
(D) Pneumonia (B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Second Coming
358. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream? (D) Prayer for My Daughter
(A) Kubla Khan
(B) Christabel 367.William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after?
(C) The Ancient Mariner (A) Lawrences father
(D) Ode on the Departing Year (B) Lawrences brother
(C) Lawrence himself
359. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem (D) None of these
Ode to the West Wind?
(A) Rime royal 368. The most notable characteristic of Keats poetry is?
(B) Ottava rima (A) Satire
(C) Terza rima (B) Sensuality
(D) Spenserian Stanza (C) Sensuousness
(D) Social reform
360. The phrase Pathetic fallacy is coined by?
(A) Milton 369. The key-note of Brownings philosophy of life is?
(B) Coleridge (A) agnosticism
(C) Carlyle (B) optimism
(D) John Ruskin (C) pessimism
(D) skepticism
361. Tracts for the Times relates to?
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370. The title of Carlyles Sartor Resartus means? (B) John Ruskin
(A) Religious Scripture (C) Thomas Carlyle
(B) Seaside Resort (D) William Hazlitt
(C) Tailor Repatched
(D) None of these
371. Epipsychidion is composed by?
(A) Coleridge 379. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeares greatest?
(B) Wordsworth (A) comic figures
(C) Keats (B) historical figures
(D) Shlley (C) romantic figures
(D) tragic figures
372. The better part of valour is discretion occurs in
Shakespeares? 380. That Milton was of the Devils party without knowing
(A) Hamlet it, was said by?
(B) Twelfth Night (A)Blake
(C) The Tempest (B) Eliot
(D) Henry IV, Pt I (C)Johnson
(D) Shelley
373. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton?
(A) Paradise Lost 381. Who called Shelley a beautiful and ineffectual angel
(B) Sonnets beating in the void his luminous wings in vain?
(C) Lycidas (A) Walter Pater
(D) Areopagitica (B) A. C. Swinburne
(C) Matthew Arnold
374. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael (D) T. S. Eliot
Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work?
(A) Charles Dickens 382. Essays of Ella are?
(B) W. M. Thackeray (A) full of didactic sermonising
(C) Graham Greene (B) practically autobiographical fragments
(D) D. H. Lawrence (C) remarkable for their aphoristic style
(D) satirical and critical
375. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work
entitled? 383. The theme of Tennysons Poem The Princess is?
(A)Last Impressions (A) Queen Victorias coronation
(B)False Impressions (B) Industrial Revolution
(C)First Impressions (C) Womens Education and Rights
(D)True Impressions (D) Rise of Democracy
376. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte 384. Thackerays Esmond is a novel of historical realism
Lucas figures capturing the spirit of?
(A) Great Expectations (A) the Medieval age
(B) The Power and the Glory (B) the Elizabethan age
(C) Lord of the Flies (C) the age of Queen Anne
(D) Pride and Prejudice (D) the Victorian age
377 Theres a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 385. Oedipus Complex is?
The line given above occurs in (A) a kind of physical ailment
(A) Hamlet (B) a kind of vitamin
(B) Henry IV, Pt I (C)a brothers attraction towards his sister
(C) The Tempest (D) a sons attraction towards his mother
(D) Twelfth Night
386. My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the
378. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only flesh as being wiser than the intellect. Who wrote this?
heroines and no heroes? (A)Graham Greene
(A) Ben Jonson (B)D. H. Lawrence
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388. The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance. This 396. To which character in Hamlet does the following
line occurs in? description apply?
(A) Hamlet The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.
(B) Henry IV,Pt I (A) Claudius
(C) The Tempest (B) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night (C) Polonius
(D) Rosencrantz
389. Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice is a?
(A) Picaresque novel 46. Brownings famous poem Rabbi Ben Ezra is included
(B) Gothic novel in?
(C) Domestic novel (A) Dramatis Personae
(D) Historical novel (B) Dramatic Idyls
390. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. This line occurs (C) Asolando
in the poem? (D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
(A) Immortality Ode
(B) Tintern Abbey 397. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?
(C) The Second Coming (A) The Royal Society of Edinburgh
(D) Leda and the Swan (B) The Royal Society ofLondon
(C) Royal Society of Arts
391. Wordsworth calls himself a Worshipper of Nature in (D) Royal Society of Literature
his
poem 398. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane
(A) Immortality Ode Austen?
(B) Tintern Abbey (A) Sense and Sensibility
(C) The Prelude (B) Mansfield Park
(D) The Solitary Reaper (C) Sandition
(D) Persuasion
392. When Wordsworths Immortality Ode was first
published in 399.Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout
1802, it had only? her life in Great Expectations?
(A) Stanzas I to IV (A) She was poor
(B) Stanzas I toV (B) She was arrogant
(C) Stanzas I to VI (C) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom
(D) Stanzas I to VII (D) She was unwilling to marry
393. Which method of narration has been employed by 400. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in
Dickens in his novel Great Expectations? the year?
(A) Direct or epic method (A)1938
(B) Documentary method (B) 1925
(C) Stream of Consciousness technique (C)1932
(D) Autobiographical method (D) 1923
394. Who said Keats was a Greek? 401. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was
(A) Wordsworth influenced
(B) Coleridge by the?
(C) Lamb (A) French Revolution
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402. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the 410. Shakespeares Henry IV, Pt I contains his?
poets of the? (A) senecan attitude
(A) Puritan movement (B) patriotism
(B) Romantic revival (C) love of nature
(C) Neo-classical age (D) platonic ideals
(D) Metaphysical school Plays by Shakespeare..
1699. Dryden's" Fables." nature, and the meaning of life. It is considered one of the
1700. Congreve's "Way of the World." masterpieces of world literature.
1706. Farquhar's"Recruiting Officer."
1707. Farquhar's "Beaux Stratagem."
1759. Butler's " Genuine Prose Remains" published. 1678. Bunyan's"Pilgrim's Progress." English Puritan John
1775. Sheridan's " The Rivals," " St. Patrick's Day,: and" Bunyan writes the religious allegory Pilgrim's Progress in
The Duenna." 1678. The work, generally considered a masterpiece in
1777. Sheridan's " School for Scandal." Christian and English literature, describes the journey of the
1779. Sheridan's "The Critic." central character, named Christian, through life to eventual
1780. Sheridan became a Member of Parliament. salvation.
b)1500-1520 choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In
c)1560-1570 order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of
d)1575-1600 citizens pursue?
440) Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a 445)Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the
social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they majority of its population living in the verdant countryside.
were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance Towns and cities, however, were growing--and the most
to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the prominent of all was London. While Londoners were
clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the considered wealthy and arrogant, the city was begrimed,
following could the poor wear? filthy, and infested with vermin. Where did people primarily
a)Purple silk dresses dispose of their trash and wastes?
b)Woolen underwear
c)Sable-lined cloaks a)Dump sites in the nearby country
d)Velvet coats b)The streets
c)The underground drains
d)Designated "trash" areas
441)Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families
a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by 446)Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They
parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought
considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable good luck charms. What "science" did they utilize in trying
match? to predict and control the future?
a)Property
b)Wealth a)Alchemy
c)Lineage b)Metallurgy
d)Love c)Geocentricity
d)Astrology
442) Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One
could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court 447)The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England.
jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund
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Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and (a) France
poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were (b) England
popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring (c) Spain
certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art (d) The Netherlands
form. What was a strictly forbidden subject?
449)Which of the following was the Tower of London used (a) Edward VI
for in the Elizabethan age? (b) Richard III
(c) George III
(a) As an astronomical observation deck (d) Henry VIII
(b) As a storage place for grain
(c) As a prison 457)What religion was Mary I?
(d) As a school for the royal children (a) Catholic
(b) Anglican
450)Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth? (c) Episcopalian
(d) Presbyterian
(a) Pope Pius V
(b) Pope Innocent III 458)What religion was Mary Queen of Scots?
(c) Pope Gregory XIII (a) Episcopalian
(d) Pope Boniface (b) Catholic
(c) Presbyterian
(d) Lutheran
451) What was Elizabeth's close circle of advisers called?
459)Which work did Edmund Spenser author?
(a) The Star Chamber (a) The Castle of Perseverance
(b) Parliament (b) The Double
(c) The Privy Council (c) The Metamorphoses
(d) The Cabinet (d) The Faerie Queene
453)Which country believed it had an "Invincible Armada" 461)Which of the following was Elizabeth known as?
before 1588? (a) Unintelligent
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465)Which of the following disciplines most fascinated 472)In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful
Elizabeth? plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest,
(a) Philology King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by
(b) Alchemy John Webster and ________.
(c) Zoology a)William Shakespeare
(d) Astrology b)Ben Jonson
c)Ben Jonson folios
466)Elizabeth's reign was longer than that of any other d)English Renaissance theatre
Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many
years had she reigned? 473)What proceeded Jacobean era?
a)35 a)Elizabethan Era
b)40 b)Caroline era
c)45 c)Victorian era
d)50 d)Jacobean Era
468)The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed 475)The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ________
ordered every single thing in the universe was known as: name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name
a)The Great Order of Life James.
b)The Great Chain of Being a)Samaritan Hebrew language
c)The Great System of Shakespeare b)Biblical Hebrew
d)The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker c)Mishnaic Hebrew
d)Hebrew language
469)A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds 476)The Jacobean era succeeds the ________ and precedes
and rustic life is known as: the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of
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architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is English literary periods are named after:
predominant of that period. a)The leading characteristic of the age
a)Elizabethan era b)Monarchs or political events
b)English Reformation c)The primary author of the age
c)England d)The language of the age
d)Tudor period
484)Which period of literature came first?
477)Jonson was also an important innovator in the a)Regency
specialized literary sub-genre of the ________, which went b)Victorian
through an intense development in the Jacobean era. c)Romantic
a)William Shakespeare d)Restoration
b)Ben Jonson
c)Masque 485)In what language did Shakespeare write?
d)A Midsummer Night's Dream a)Middle English
478)the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature b)German
occurs in which Old English epic poem. c)Old English
d)Modern English
a)Iliad
b)Odyssey
c)Beowulf 486)Jane Austen wrote during this period.
d)Canterbury Tales a)Restoration
480)Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by? 487)Which work was published first?
a)Sir Walter Scot a)Blakes "Songs of Innocence"
b)Christopher Marlow b)Mary Shelleys "Frankenstein"
c)Ben Johnson c)Lord Byrons "Don Juan"
d)George Herbert d)Sir Walter Scotts "Ivanhoe"
481)The foremost poet of Jacobean era was? 488)Which of the following works was written before the
a)John Milton all-important Battle of Hastings?
b)Charles Bacon a)Beowulf
c)John Donne b)Canterbury Tales
d)Herbert Spencer c)The Domesday Book
d)Sons and Lovers
482)"The Jacobean Era" refers to a period of time in the
early 17th century in which of the following countries? 489)Who wrote first?
a) Jordan
b) England a)George Eliot
c)Malaysia b)Christopher Marlowe
d)Tunisia c)Howard, Earl of Surrey
d)William Shakespeare
>>>The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and
John Donne, are regarded as the originators of two diverse 490)Which work was completed last?
poetic traditionsthe Cavalier and the metaphysical. a)John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
English Literature(In General) b)George Herbert's "The Temple"
c)William Shakespeare's "Tempest"
483) Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw d)Ben Jonson's "Volpone"
them because they are often convenient. The majority of
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493)Which of the following poets wrote during the a)Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English
Victorian period but was not published until the 20th People"
century? b)Julian of Norwhich's "Book of Showings"
a)Christina Rossetti c)Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
b)Gerard Manley Hopkins d)Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"
c)Elizabeth Barret Browning
d)Ted Hughes
501)Which of the following writers would be an appropriate
494)This work was NOT originally published in the 20th subject for a class on The Literature of the British
Century. Empire?
a)Henry James's "The Ambassadors" a)Rudyard Kipling
b)Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" b)Edward Fitzgerald
c)E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View" c)Charlotte Bronte
d)Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" d)Any of these
495)Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century? 502)World War I affected the writing of many authors.
a)John Skelton Which of the following poets would not have been touched
b)William Shakespeare by that event?
c)Sir Thomas Wyatt a)T.S. Eliot
d)Thomas Carew b)Siegfried Sassoon
c)Wilfred Owen
496)Historical events often influence literature. Which of d)Oscar Wilde
the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period?
503)The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social
a)Charles II was restored to the throne graces during the Renaissance is called the:
b)The French Revolution A) aristocracy
c)The Great Fire of London B) New Age
d)The Exclusion Bill Crisis C) Reformation
D) Enlightenment
497)He was not a Renaissance writer.
504)The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste
a)William Shakespeare Poquelin, is known as:
b)Sir Philip Sidney A) Caleron
c)Christopher Marlowe B) Corneille
d)Sir Thomas Malory C) Couperin
D) Moliere
498)Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT
fall under the Neoclassical Period? 505)The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a
playwright was:
a)The Restoration A) Nell Gwynn
b)Jacobean Age B) Aphra Behn
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C) Lady Teazle c) 22
D) Ann Hathaway d) 17
The Life Of John Milton(Caroline Period-The
Renaissance)
(1608-1674) 514. Milton was a royalist?
506.In which city was Milton?
a)Norwich True or False
b)York
c)London 515. Which of the following works was NOT written by
d)Canterbury John Milton?
508. Which school did Milton attend? 516. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What's the name of
a)St Paul's that masque?
b)Christ's Hospital a)'Il Penseroso'
c)Merchant Taylors' b)'Lycidas'
d)Westminster c)'Comus'
d)'The Masque of Blackness'
510. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of 518. Following parliaments victory in the civil war, Milton
Milton's at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton was appointed to a position in Cromwells government in
wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem? 1649. What was his title?
a)lycidas a)Heresy tsar
b)Paradise Lost b)Poet laureate
c)Il penseroso c)Secretary to the Admiralty
d)Secretary for Foreign Tongues
511. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which
country did he spend most of the time?
a)Germany 519. As well as poetry, Milton published extensively on
b)France politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the following
c)Italy was NOT one of his works?
d)Spain
a)Of Prelatical Episcopacy
512. How many times did Milton marry? b)The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the
a)2 Church
b)0 c)Of Practical Exorcisme
c)1 d)Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
d)3 520. When did John Milton die?
513. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. a) 4 February 1702
How old was she? b) 2 June 1700
a) 48 c) 17 April 1688
b) 34 d) 8 November 1674
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525. Satan's name before he fell from heaven was: 532. The two archangels who serve as generals in God's
a)Beezlebub army are:
b)Michael a)Michael and Gabriel
c)Lucifer b)Michael and Raphael
d)Belial c)Raphael and Gabriel
526. 'Book 1' of 'Paradise Lost' presents Satan with his d)Michael and Lucifer
angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all
his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is 533. For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton says he
described as 'one next to himself in power, and next in depends on:
crime, long after known in Palestine'. What's the name of a)Wine
this fallen angel? b)The Holy Spirit
a)Mammon c)His favorite pen
b)Moloch d)The Son
c)Beelzebub
d)Ashtaroth 534. Earth is described as being connected to heaven by a:
a)"stepping stones of clouds
527. In 'Paradise Lost', which angel is ordered by God to b)Golden rope
drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before he does so, he c)Golden chain
shows Adam a number of visions about the future of the d)Ladder
human race, beginning with Cain murdering Abel and
ending with the redemption of mankind through Christ. 535. Sin was born out of Satan's:
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553. Which devil advocates a renewal of all-out war against 561. Which devil is the main architect of Pandemonium?
God? (A) Mulciber
(A) Belial (B) Mammon
(B) Moloch (C) Moloch
(C) Mammon (D) Belial
(D) Beelzebub
562. How many times does Milton invoke a muse?
554. What is Miltons stated purpose in Paradise Lost? (A) One
(A) To assert his superiority to other poets (B) Two
(B) To argue against the doctrine of predestination (C) Three
(C) To justify the ways of God to men (D) Four
(D) To make his story hard to understand
563. Which of the following poets does Milton emulate?
555. Which of the following is not a character in Paradise (A) Virgil
Lost? (B) Homer
(A) Night (C) Both Virgil and Homer
(B) Agony (D) Neither Virgil or Homer
(C) Discord
(D) Death 564. What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost?
556. Which angel wields a large sword in the battle and (A) The fight between good and evil
wounds Satan? (B) Heavens battle and Satans tragic fall
(A) Michael (C) The creation of the universe
(B) Abdiel (D) Adam and Eves disobedience
(C) Uriel
(D) Satan is not injured 565. Which devil is Satans second-in-command?
557. When Satan leaps over the fence into Paradise, what (A) Mammon
does Milton liken him to? (B) Sin
(A) A snake slithering up a tree (C) Moloch
(B) A germ infecting a body (D) Beezelbub
(C) A wolf leaping into a sheeps pen
(D) A fish leaping out of water 566. Who discusses cosmology and the battle of Heaven
with Adam?
558. Which angel tells Adam about the future in Books XI (A) God
and XII? (B) Eve
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(C) Raphael
(D) Michael 575.Which is the longest book?
a)Book X
567. Which scene happens first chronologically? b)Book VIII
c)Book IX
(A) Satan and the devils rise up from the lake in Hell d)Book I
(B) The Son is chosen as Gods second-in-command
(C) God and the Son create the universe 576.In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan build the
(D) The angels battle in Heaven Pandemonium. What is it?
a)The forbidden fruit
568. Which of the angels is considered a hero for arguing b)The capital of Heaven
against Satan? c)A beautiful garden
(A) Abdiel d)The capital of Hell
(B) Uriel
(C) Michael 577.The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden
(D) Raphael to eat?
a)Tree of Life
569. In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, what do the b)Tree of God
rebel angels make? c)Tree of Sin
(A) A fortress d)Tree of Knowledge
(B) A catapult
(C) A large sword 578.Which is the shortest book?
(D) A cannon a)Book VII
b)Book III
570. According to Paradise Lost, which of the following c)Book VIII
does God not create? d)Book V
(A) The Son
(B) Adam and Eve
(C) Computers 579.Who was sent to Earth to warn Man of the dangers he
(D) He creates everything was facing?
a)Raphael
571. Who does Milton name as his heavenly muse? b)Uriel
(A) Titania c)Abdiel
(B) Urania d)Beelzebub
(C) Virgil
(D) Michael
580.Who was the first to eat the forbidden fruit?
572. What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious? a)Adam
(A) Go in search of her mate b)Eve
(B) Talk to the animals c)Satan
(C) Look at her reflection in a stream d)Snake
(D) Eat of the Tree of Knowledge
581.Which of the following is not a character in Paradise
573.Who is the main protagonist of Paradise Lost? Lost?
a)Satan a)Eve
b)Adam b)God
c)Eve c)Satan
d)God d)Jonah
585. Who will fall through his own "fault"? 593.the word renaissance means
a)Satan a.the rebirth of learning or knowledge
b)God b.reading of books
c)Adam c.the time of astronauts
d)Noah d.the study of art
586.Who "headlong themselves they threw Down from the 594.Which of the following techniques was NOT used in
verge of Heav'n"? the Renaissance art?
a)Adam and Eve a.realism
b)Noah and the elephant b.perspective
c)Rebel angels c.individualism
d)Benjamin and Joseph d.abstractioin
587. Who pondered, "How such united force of gods, how 595.what sparked the Renaissance?
such As stood like these, could ever know repulse?"? a.The Feudal system was collapsing
b.the "95 theses"
a)Adam c.the Crusades
b)Moses d.the Black Plague
c)Joseph
d)Satan 596.who lost the most power during the renaissance?
a.Italian merchants
588.Who is described? "For dignity composed and high b.catholic church
exploit: But all was false and hollow" c.black people
a)Lot d.king and queen of Spain
b)Belial
c)Satan 597.Utopia was written by:
d)Moses a) Cervantes
b) Machiavelli
589. When was Paradise Lost published? c) Poliziano
a) 1660 d) Thomas More
b) 1667
c) 1658 598.The Prince was written to gain favor of the:
d) 1654 a) Pazzi
b) Republic
590.When was Paradise Regained published? c) Medici
a) 1671 d) Inquisition
b) 1656
c) 1669 599.Who translated the New Testament into German for the
d) 1652 first time?
a) Poliziano
The Renaissance b) Cervantes
c) Martin Luther
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d) Alexander VI
608. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king?
600.The "father of humanism" was a)Richard III
a)Petrarch b)James 1
b)Dante c)Edward III
c)Boccaccio d)Henry II
d)Pico della Mirandola
609. The 18th century work 'Tom Jones" was written by
601.Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be whom?
educated a)Samuel Johnson
a)just the same as men b)Henry Fielding
b)with emphasis on science and mathematics c)John Donne
c)not at all d)Tobias Smollett
d)confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting
610. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which
602.An important feature of the Renaissance was an publication?
emphasis on a)The Time's Literary Supplement
a)alchemy and magic b)The Lady's Home Journal
b)the literature of Greece and Rome c)Strand Magazine
c)chivalry of the Middle Ages d)Reader Magazine
d)the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas
611. Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place over what period of
603.Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance? time?
a)A week
a)emphasis on individuality b)24 hours
b)confidence in human rationality c)A lifetime
c)the emergence of merchant oligarchies d)6 months
d)the development of social insurance programs
612. What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?
604.The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian a)Irish
Renaissance b)Scottish
a)growth of religious activity among common people c)French
b)earlier occurrence d)English
c)greater appreciation of pagan writers
d)decline in the use of Latin 613. Who wrote the poem "Requiem"?
a)Robert Louis Stevenson
605.For ordinary women, the Renaissance b)William Shakespeare
a)had very little impact c)Samuel Johnson
b)greatly improved the material conditions of their lives d)John Milton
c)worsened their social status
d)allowed them access to education for the first time 614. the prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its
a)urbanity
606.Thomas More's Utopia placed the blame for society's b)crudity
problems on c)triviality
a)human nature d)sanctity
b)God's will
c)society itself 615. who is the first great English critic-poet?
d)the Church a)Shakespeare
b)Arnold
Random MCQs c)Sir Philip Sidney
607. In which century was Piers Plowman written? d)Chaucer
a)14th
b)12th 616. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by
c)10th a)Thomas gray
d)11th b)Alexander Pope
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619. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the a)abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland? b)round-earthers and flat-earthers
a)the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots c)the Welsh and the Scots
b)the Toleration Act d)champions of ancient and modern learning
c)the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada e)Oxfordians and Baconians
d)the Bishops' War
e)the Act of Union 626. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of
empiricism?
620. Which of the following was a major factor in the
unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the a)All knowledge is derived from experience.
eighteenth century? b)Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures
a)formal diplomatic relations with China of political power.
b)the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave c)The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.
trade d)The sensory world is an illusion.
c)the American and French revolutions e)God is the center of an ordered and just universe.
d)the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
e)the union of England and Wales with Scotland 627. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan
Swift inveigh?
621. What was "restored" in 1660?
a)the monarchy, in the person of Charles II
b)the dominance of the Tory Party
c)the "Book of Common Prayer"
d)toleration of religious dissidents
e)Irish independence. a)theoretical science
b)metaphysics
622. What literary work best captures a sense of the c)abstract logical deductions
political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, d)a and b only
just after the Restoration? e)a, b, and c
a)Gay's Beggar's Opera
b)Butler's Hudibras 628. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included
c)Fielding's Jonathan Wild more than 114,000 quotations?
d)Pope's Dunciad a)William Hogarth
e)Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel b)Jonathan Swift
c)Samuel Johnson
623. Who was deposed from the English throne in the d)Ben Jonson
Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688? e)James Boswell
a)Elizabeth I
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c)The Dunciad 664.Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot
d)Eloisa to Abelard hold."?
a)William Butler Yeats
657. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his b)James Joyce
translation of this classical epic. c)Thomas Moore
a)The Bahagavad Gita d)Edgar Allan Poe
b)The Odyssey
c)The Illiad 665.In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the
d)The Aeneid center cannot hold."?
a)The Canturbury Tales
658. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound b)The Dark Angel
themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once c)The Wild Swans of Coole
wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes. d)The Second Coming
a)Alexander Pope
b)William Collins 666.Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
c)Thomas Gray a)John Keats
d)Ben Jonson b)William Shakespeare
c)Samuel Butler
659. His To Penthurst is considered to be one of the d)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
primary texts of the neoclassical movement.
a)Sir John Denham 667.In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth
b)Ben Jonson beauty."?
c)Thomas Carew a)Adonais
d)John Dryden b)Bright Star
c)Ode on a Grecian Urn
660. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to d)La Bell Dame Sans Merci
him as Old Chaucer who, like the morning star,
descends to the shades, so that Darkness again the Age 668.Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately
invades. pleasure dome decree..."?
a)William Shakespeare a)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b)John Donne b)Robert Browning
c)Abraham Cowley c)John Keats
d)John Dryden d)Walt Whitman
661. What mock epic begins: What dire offence from 669.In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla
am'rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?
trivial things? a)Kubla Khan
a)Drydens Mac Flecknoe b)Hellas
b)Popes The Rape of the Lock c)The Phoenix and the Turtle
c)Popes The Dunciad d)The Castaway
d)Drydens Absalom and Achitophel
670.A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor
662.When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took Coleridge addicted to?
power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced a)Heroine
Literature of that time was b)Cocaine
a)The closing of theatres c)Alcohol
b)The return of the King. d)Opium
c)King Arthurs' dead
d)King to exile 671.Who wrote: "I would prefer not to."?
a)Edgar Allan Poe
663:Who wrote: "Reader, I married him."? b)Herman Melville
a)Jane Austen c)Thomas Gray
b)Charlotte Bronte d)Henry David Thoreau
c)Edith Wharton 672.Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about
d)Emily Bronte a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."?
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a)Henry David Thoreau 680.A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what
b)Benjamin Franklin quality?
c)Robert Browning a)It has universal appeal.
d)Henrik Ibsen b)It can stand the test of time.
c)It makes connections.
673.In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom d)All of the above.
or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and
debt."? 681. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves
a)A Doll's House which two cities?
b)Riders to the Sea a)London and Rome
c)A Handful of Dust b)Paris and Rome
d)The Fatal Curiosity c)London and Paris
d)Berlin and London
674.Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings /
Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"? 682.The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?
a)Lord Byron a)New York City
b)Percy Bysshe Shelley b)Stanford, Connecticut
c)William Woodsworth c)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d)Emily Dickinson d)Boston, Massachusetts
675.In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, 683.Which book was not written by Jane Austen?
King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and a)Sense and Suspensibility
despair!"? b)Emma
a)The Man of Feeling c)Pride and Prejudice
b)In Memoriam d)Mansfield Park
c)Song to Aella
d)Ozymandias 684.What is Shakespeare's longest play?
a)Taming of the Shrew
676.Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the b)Romeo and Juliet
wall / looking as if she were alive."? c)A Midsummer Night's Dream
a)Lord Byron d)Hamlet
b)Oscar Wilde
c)Robert Browning 685)The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events
d)William Wordsworth which took place in the 10th century, but who was it
between
677.In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess a)Danes and English
painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive."? b)Dutch and English
a)Porphyria's Lover c)Normans and English
b)My Last Duchess d)French and English
c)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 686)The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of
d)Fra Lippo Lippi which monarch?
678.Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee a)James I
spoons."? b)Mary Tudor
a)William Carlos Williams c)Elizabeth Tudor
b)T.S. Eliot d)Henry VII
c)Ernest Hemingway
d)Hart Crane 687)Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?
a)Vanity Fair
679.In which work do you read: "I have measured out my b)Sense and Sensibility
life with coffee spoons."? c)Pride and Prejudice
a)Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock d)Mansfield Park
b)Sonnets from the Portuguese
c)Prelude 688) How many children were there in the Bronte family?
d)The Last Decalogue a)3
b)4
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693)What are the names of the two feuding families in 701. Which social philosophy, dominant during the
Romeo and Juliet? Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation
a)Capulet And Montague of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that
b)Breslow and Felsher the government should not interfere in any person's pursuit
c)Fuech and Goodside of their personal interests?
d)Dawson and Hurley a) economic independence
694)Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill? b) the Rights of Man
a)Seagull c) laissez-faire
b)Albatross d) enclosure
c)Humming Bird e) lazy government
d)Crow
702. What served as the inspiration for P. B. Shelley's
695)What was the name of the Bronte sisters only brother? poems to the working classes A Song: "Men of England"
a)Anderson and England in 1819?
b)Branwell a) the organization of a working class men's choral group in
c)Richard Southern England
d)Pearson b) the Battle of Waterloo
c) the Peterloo Massacre
696)In which county was Jane Austin born? d) the storming of the Bastille
a)Sussex e) the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832, which aimed to
b)Hampshire bring greater Parliamentary representation to the working
c)Yorkshire classes
d)Norfolk
697)In which Dickens novel does Pip appear? 703. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period
a)Bleak House dating from 1785 to 1830?
b)Great Expectations a) Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry
c)A Tale of Two Cities and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime,
d)The Pickwick Papers especially satire
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b) English historians half a century after the period 708. Which setting could you not imagine a work of
ended Romantic literature employing?
c) "The Satanic School" of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their a) a field of daffodils
followers b) the "Orient"
d) Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770) c) a graveyard
e) Harold Bloom d) a medieval castle
e) All of the above would be appropriate settings for
704. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of Romantic literature.
1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in
an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the 709. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of
limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination? representing rustic life and language as well as social
a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry,
b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley common before this poet's time, but also as the major
c) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge subject and medium for poetry in general?
d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt a) William Blake
e) Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally Ashburner b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
c) Samuel Johnson
705. Which of the following became the most popular d) William Wordsworth
Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim e) Mary Wollstonecraft
that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings
of the individual poet as "the spontaneous overflow of 710. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics
powerful feelings"? called "mesmerism," one of the "occult" practices that
a) the lyric poem written in the first person allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?
b) the sonnet a) smoking opium
c) doggerel rhyme b) hypnotism
d) the political tract c) psychoanalysis
e) the ode d) dream interpretation
e) Satanism
706. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses
descriptions of nature _________. 711. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and
a) for their own sake; to merely describe natural perhaps written about which of the following figures as
phenomenon depicted?
b) to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it a) Goethe's Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he
with traits normally associated with humans attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by
c) as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in
human thinking his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
d) symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to b) Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only
an inner, spiritual world Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the
e) b, c, and d limitations of human existence
c) Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods
707. How would "Natural Supernaturalism" be best and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by
characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle? the Gods
a) a form of animism in which objects in the natural world d) all of the above
are believed to be inhabited by spirits e) a and c only: Romantics were more interested in
b) a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a representations of humans as they were able to exceed
surprise encounter with a supernatural being their human limitations.
c) a process by which things that are familiar and
thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous 712. Which of the following best describes the sort of
and new to our eyes language and tone most often used when Romantic writers
d) the experience of hallucinating contact with the discuss the French Revolution?
supernatural world when taking opium a) snide indifference
e) an oxymoron that nobody understood and that cannot be b) biblical reverence
explained in the context of a discussion of Romantic c) condemning censure
literature d) satirical derision
e) none of the above: Romantic writers had no interest in
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a) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein 731. Which philosopher had a particular influence on
b) William Worsworth's Lyrical Ballads Coleridge?
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner a) Aristotle
d) John Keats's "To Autumn" b) Duns Scotus
e) all but d c) David Hume
d) Immanuel Kant
726. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets e) Bertrand Russell
identified with the figure of the
732. Which of the following was not considered a type of
a) troubadour the alienated, romantic visionary?
b) skald
c) chorister a) Prometheus
d) minstrel b) Satan
e) bard c) Cain
d) Napoleon
727. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to e) George III
"'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!"?
733. Who remained without the vote following the Reform
a) the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden Bill of 1832?
b) the clumsiness of Shakespeare's plots
c) the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge a) about half of middle class men
d) Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and everyday b) almost all working class men
e) Blake's apocalyptic visions c) all women
d) b and c
e) a, b and c
728. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
734. Which of the following charges were commonly
a) the rhythmic expression of moral intuition leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the
b) the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings Romantic era?
c) the polite patter of a corrupted age
d) the divine gift of grace a) Too many of its readers were women.
e) the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. b) It required less skill than other genres.
c) It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
d) Too many of its authors were women.
729. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of e) all of the above
representing rustic life and language as well as social
outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, 735. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment
common before this poet's time, but also as the major had the alternative title Things as They Are?
subject and medium for poetry in general?
a) Jane Austen's Emma
a) William Blake b) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
b) Alfred Lord Tennyson c) William Godwin's Caleb Williams
c) Samuel Johnson d) Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
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740. Which city became the perceived center of Western 745. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle
civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century? of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
a) Paris
b) Tokyo a) the rich and the poor
c) London b) Anglicans and Methodists
d) Amsterdam c) England and Ireland
e) New York d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south
741. By 1890, what percentage of the earth's population was
subject to Queen Victoria? 746. Which of the following novelists best represents the
mid-Victorian period's contentment with the burgeoning
a) 1% economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social
b) 10% and political change?
c) 15%
d) 25% a) Anthony Trollope
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754. Which of the following acts were not passed during the
749. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism? Victorian era?
Man for the field and woman for the _____: c) The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists
Man for the sword and for the _____ she: belonging to a distant, semi-barbarous age.
Man with the head and woman with the _____: d) The Victorians were strongly influenced by the
Man to command and woman to _____. Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
e) The Victorians were aware of no distinction between
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree themselves and the Romantics; the distinction was only
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree created by critics in the twentieth century.
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
d) hearth; needle; heart; obey 761. Experimentation in which of the following areas of
e) field; sword; head; command poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow
Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way?
757. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly
published their work in periodicals? a) the use of pictorial description to construct visual images
to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
a) Thomas Carlyle b) sound as a means to express meaning
b) Matthew Arnold c) perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
c) Charles Dickens d) all of the above
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning e) none of the above: Victorians were not experimental in
e) all of the above: (In addition to short fiction, most their poetry.
Victorian novels appeared serialized in periodicals.)
762. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the
special and opportune art of the modern world"?
758. What best describes the subject of most Victorian
novels? a) the novel
b) nonfiction prose
a) the representation of a large and comprehensive social c) the lyric
world in realistic detail d) comic drama
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of e) transcripts of Parliamentary debates
consciousness
c) a mythic dream world 763. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in nonfiction prose?
society
e) a and d a) a new market position for nonfiction writing and an
exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
b) a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
759. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well- c) the forbiddingly high cost of three-volume novels and the
suited to women? difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
d) the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an
a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of
poetry. equal value
b) It was a popular form whose market women could enter e) c and d
easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn't make 764. For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in
serious statements about society. nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic investment together
d) It often concerned the domestic world with which women pave the way?
were familiar.
e) all but c a) a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
b) modern literary criticism
760. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and c) latenineteenth-century and earlytwentieth-century
the Romantics? satirical drama
d) the surrealist movement
a) The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their e) none of the above: Victorian prose was mostly forgotten
rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s. until recently and had little impact on literature of or after
b) The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and its time.
narcissism of the Romantics.
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765. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of a) Sigmund Freud
Victorian values and pretensions? b) Sir James Frazer
c) Immanuel Kant
a) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan d) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Oscar Wilde e) all but c
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Robert Corrigan 771. Which scientific or technological advance did not take
e) all but d place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?
20th Century
766. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the a) Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened b) wireless communication across the Atlantic
the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing c) the creation of the internet
the seeds of modernism? d) the invention of the airplane
e) the mass production of cars
a) art for intellect's sake
b) art for God's sake 772. Which best describes the imagist movement,
c) art for the masses exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound?
d) art for art's sake
e) art for sale a) a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words
appear on the page
767. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act b) an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile
of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory? emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of
imagery
a) the emergence of a mass literate population at whom c) an attention to alternate states of consciousness and
a new mass-produced literature could be directed uncanny imagery
b) a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than d) the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility
sophisticated novels or plays e) a neo-platonic poetics that stresses the importance of
c) a popular thirst for the "classics," driving contemporary poetry aiming to achieve its ideal "form"
writers to the margins
d) a, b and c 773. What characteristics of seventeenth-century
e) none of the above Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist
poets and critics?
768. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent
in the early twentieth century? a) its intellectual complexity
b) its union of thought and passion
a) Eminent Victorians c) its uncompromising engagement with politics
b) Jungle Books d) a and b
c) Philistine Victorians e) a,b, and c
d) The Way of All Flesh
e) both a and d
774. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden
769. With which enormously influential perspective or were more _______ but less _______ than older modernists
practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund such as Eliot and Pound.
Freud associated?
a) popular; reverenced
a) eugenicsa b) brash; confident
b) psychoanalysis c) radical; inventive
c) phrenology d) anxious; haunting
d) anarchism e) spiritual; orthodox
e) all of the above
775. Which poet could be described as part of "The
770. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth- Movement" of the 1950s?
century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity
in radically new ways? a) Thom Gunn
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777. Which of the following writers did not come from 783. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's
Ireland? novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928.
a) 1930
a) W. B. Yeats b) 1945
b) James Joyce c) 1960
c) Seamus Heaney d) 2000
d) Oscar Wilde e) The ban has not yet been formally lifted.
e) none of the above; all came from Ireland
784. Which of the following was originally the Irish
778. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought Literary Theatre?
employed in high-modern literature? a) the Irish National Theatre
b) the Globe Theatre
a) automatic writing c) the Independent Theatre
b) confused daze d) the Abbey Theatre
c) total recall e) both a and d
d) stream of consciousness
e) free association 785. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not
very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and
779. Which of the following is not associated with high The Cocktail Party?
modernism in the novel? a) regional dialect and political critique
b) religious symbolism and society comedy
a) stream of consciousness c) iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
b) free indirect style d) witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
c) irresolute open endings e) all of the above
d) the "mythical method"
e) narrative realism 786. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting
for Godot?
780. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new a) "nothing happens-twice"
"mythical method" in place of the old "narrative method" b) "political correctness gone mad"
and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist c) "kitchen sink drama"
fiction to think about "making the modern world possible d) "angry young men
for art"? e) "better than Cats"
a) Virginia Woolf's The Waves
b) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 787. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to
c) James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake commission and perform work that was politically, socially,
d) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?
e) James Joyce's Ulysses a) the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968
b) the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and
781. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four Edward Bond
in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic c) the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late
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1960s
d) the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in
1980
e) the establishment of the Abbey Theater
a) novels
b) plays
c) the English
d) publishers
e) his trousers
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