ages era period Mcqs
201. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian periods contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. John Ruskin

C. Friedrich Engels

D. Anthony Trollope
202. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

B. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

C. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

203. In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen ?
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A. Troy

B. Persia

C. Carthage

D. Sparta

204. Who was the sister of Mary I ?
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A. Elizabeth I

B. Anne

C. Victoria

D. Isabella

205. The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________?
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A. greater appreciation of pagan writers

B. decline in the use of Latin

C. earlier occurrence

D. growth of religious activity among common people
206. What religion was Mary I ?
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A. Catholic

B. Episcopalian

C. Anglican

D. Presbyterian

207. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. a series of Factory Acts

B. the Womens Suffrage Act

C. the Custody Act

D. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

208. what sparked the Renaissance ?
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A. the Crusades

B. the Black Plague

C. the 95 theses

D. The Feudal system was collapsing
209. Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated______________?
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A. just the same as men

B. not at all

C. with emphasis on science and mathematics

D. confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting
210. Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
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A. Velvet coats

B. Sable-lined cloaks

C. Woolen underwear

D. Purple silk dresses

211. Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love begins with the line Come live with me and be my love; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. Thomas Kyd

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

212. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian periods contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. Friedrich Engels

C. John Ruskin

D. Anthony Trollope
213. 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 poets time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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A. Alfred Lord Tennyson

B. William Wordsworth

C. William Blake

D. Samuel Johnson

214. Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
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A. Timur

B. Genghis Khan

C. Zhu Yuanzhang

D. Kublai Khan

215. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?
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A. Amsterdam

B. London

C. Tokyo

D. Paris

216. The Oxford Movement was started by______________?
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A. The University Wits

B. The Scholars of the Oxford University

C. The clergymen of Oxford

D. The people of the Oxford area

217. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
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A. The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its authors death.

B. The General Prologue is appended to The Canterbury Tales.

C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.

D. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

218. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. the Custody Act

B. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

C. a series of Factory Acts

D. the Womens Suffrage Act
219. What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?
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A. 1603-1625

B. 1608-1639

C. 1592-1608

D. 1607-1627

220. Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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A. Dickens

B. Thackery

C. Jane Austin

D. Emily Bronte

221. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century ?
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A. Amsterdam

B. Paris

C. London

D. Tokyo

222. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
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A. Tudor period

B. English Reformation

C. Elizabethan era

D. England

223. The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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A. Social Movement

B. Literary Movement

C. Religious Movement

D. Political Movement

224. Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. A Midsummer Nights Dream

C. Ben Jonson

D. Masque
225. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Catherine Howard

D. Jane Seymour

226. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which country did he spend most of the time ?
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A. Spain

B. France

C. Italy

D. Germany

227. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
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A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

B. All of the actors were British.

C. All of the actors were male.

D. The play was spoken.
228. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

B. the surrealist movement

C. late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century satirical drama

D. modern literary criticism
229. George Eliot was the pen-name of______________?
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A. Clare Reeve

B. Mary Collins

C. Marian Evans

D. Lara Evans

230. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
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A. blank verse

B. the ode

C. the heroic couplet

D. free verse

231. What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
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A. plays

B. novels

C. publishers

D. the English

232. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. all but C

B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

C. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

D. the death of the musical

233. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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A. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

B. The sensory world is an illusion.

C. All knowledge is derived from experience.

D. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.

234. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as Old Chaucer who, like the morning star, descends to the shades, so that Darkness again the Age invades.
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A. Abraham Cowley

B. John Dryden

C. John Donne

D. William Shakespeare

235. Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
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A. William Laud

B. John Lilburne

C. Oliver Cromwell

D. Roger Williams
236. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Caedmon

C. Bede

D. Sir Thomas Malory

237. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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A. Virginia Woolf

B. George Orwell

C. Orson Wells

D. Evelyn Waugh

238. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworths claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ?
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A. the sonnet

B. the political tract

C. the lyric poem written in the first person

D. doggerel rhyme

239. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the spirit of the age, which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
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A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley

C. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

240. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
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A. Bleak House

B. A Tale of Two Cities

C. Great Expectations

D. The Pickwick Papers

241. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
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A. Machiavellis \The Prince\

B. Castigliones \The Courtier

C. Boccaccios \Decameron

D. Dantes \Divine Comedy

242. What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
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A. Buckingham Palace

B. the Houses of Parliament

C. Tower Bridge

D. Westminster Abbey

243. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
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A. biblical reverence

B. satirical derision

C. snide indifference

D. condemning censure

244. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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A. the invention of the airplane

B. wireless communication across the Atlantic

C. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity

D. the creation of the internet
245. Who was the first English Christian king ?
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A. Alfred

B. Richard II

C. Richard III

D. Ethelbert
246. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
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A. the familiar essay

B. the sermon

C. the diary

D. the novel

247. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
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A. The closing of theatres

B. King to exile

C. The return of the King.

D. King Arthurs dead

248. In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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A. Hampshire

B. Norfolk

C. Yorkshire

D. Sussex

249. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

B. William Beckfords Vathek

C. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom

D. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

250. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?
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A. Thomas Wyatt

B. George Puttenham

C. Walter Ralegh

D. Philip Sidney