english literature mcqs to prepare for nts, kppsc, fpsc, ppsc and more

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

601. Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?
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A. John Clare

B. Robert Burns

C. A and C only

D. John Keats

602. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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A. all but C

B. Oscar Wilde

C. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

D. Robert Corrigan

603. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Anna Letitia Barbauld

C. Fanny Burney

D. Mary Wollstonecraft

604. What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley ?
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A. They were all poets

B. They were all atheists

C. They were all associated with the Oxford Movement

D. They were all associated with Pre- Raphaelite School

605. What is the central theme of Keith Douglass How to Kill ?
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A. It is honorable and just to defend your country in a war.

B. Combat detaches a man from humanity.

C. All is fair in love and war.

D. There is a right and a wrong way to throw a hand grenade.

606. Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the supreme governor of all things spiritual. Who was it ?
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A. The Pope in Rome

B. Queen Elizabeth I

C. The Archbishop of Canterbury

D. Each man was his own supreme governor

607. The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?
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A. D.G Rossetti

B. Arnold

C. Leigh Hunt

D. Tennyson

608. What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?
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A. The Roman Catholic Church

B. The Lutheran Church

C. Calvinism

D. The Anglican Church

609. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century satirical drama

B. the surrealist movement

C. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

D. modern literary criticism

610. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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A. Elizabeth Barret Browning

B. Tennyson

C. Christina Rossetti

D. D. G. Rossetti

611. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as \the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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A. nonfiction prose

B. the novel

C. comic drama

D. the lyric

612. Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
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A. all of the above

B. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances

C. geology

D. evolution

613. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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A. Robert Corrigan

B. all but C

C. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

D. George Bernard Shaw

614. The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?
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A. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker

B. The Great Order of Life

C. The Great Chain of Being

D. The Great System of Shakespeare

615. An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
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A. chivalry of the Middle Ages

B. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

C. the literature of Greece and Rome

D. alchemy and magic

616. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
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A. Sexuality

B. Witchcraft

C. Criticism of the queen

D. Murder

617. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
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A. all of the above

B. the Boer War in the south of Africa

C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

D. the India Mutiny in 1857

618. The word Jacobean is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?
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A. Hebrew language

B. Samaritan Hebrew language

C. Mishnaic Hebrew

D. Biblical Hebrew

619. the word renaissance means______________?
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A. the rebirth of learning or knowledge

B. reading of books

C. the study of art

D. the time of astronauts

620. Elizabeth Barretts poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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A. chartism

B. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

C. child labor

D. womens rights and suffrage

621. Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement ?
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A. Ezra Pound

B. Rupert Brooke

C. Salvador Dali

D. Horace Greeley

622. Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pounds strong emphasis on poetic technique ?
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A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pounds poems.

B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pounds poetry.

C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.

D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.

623. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
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A. Imagism

B. Oxford Movement

C. Pre-Raphaelite

D. Methodist

624. How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another. ?
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A. Fear of the AIDs crisis

B. Fear of the economic Great Depression

C. Fear of global nuclear war

D. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system

625. Ezra Pounds Cantos may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pounds poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
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A. The Mahabharata

B. Paradise Lost

C. The Odyssey

D. The Aeneid

626. Which of the following writers authored the poem Dulce et Decorum Est?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Rupert Brooke

C. Siegfried Sassoon

D. Wilfred Owen

627. What does the phrase \White Mans Burden,\ coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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A. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

B. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the worlds problems

C. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world

D. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

628. Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour. England hath need of thee. Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
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A. Horatio Herbert Kitchener

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

629. Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
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A. abstractioin

B. individualism

C. realism

D. perspective

630. 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

631. Arnolds Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
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A. Civilization

B. Tehology

C. Education

D. Religion

632. Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time ?
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A. Poliziano

B. Alexander VI

C. Martin Luther

D. Cervantes

633. Who was the first Tudor King ?
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A. Henry VII

B. George III

C. James I

D. Henry VIII

634. who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
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A. greek and austrian

B. roman and greek

C. french and greek

D. roman and french

635. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
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A. chorister

B. skald

C. troubadour

D. bard

636. Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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A. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

B. Too many of its readers were women.

C. It required less skill than other genres.

D. all of the above

637. Elizabeths reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned ?
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A. 35

B. 45

C. 40

D. 50

638. Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?
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A. Invocation

B. Gala

C. Investiture

D. Coronation

639. What does the phrase White Mans Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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A. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the worlds problems

B. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world

C. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

D. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

640. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
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A. Prometheus

B. George III

C. Cain

D. Satan

641. Which country believed it had an Invincible Armada before 1588 ?
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A. England

B. Spain

C. France

D. The Netherlands

642. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
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A. the lower middle classes

B. women

C. slaves

D. the working classes

643. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in_____________?
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A. 1854

B. 1892

C. 1876

D. 1843

644. What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?
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A. 1607-1627

B. 1608-1639

C. 1592-1608

D. 1603-1625

645. Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevenss poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?
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A. Stevenss poetry highlights an objective voice.

B. Stevenss poetry always addresses several different audiences.

C. Stevenss poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.

D. Stevenss poetry investigates its own rules.

646. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
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A. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

B. Jane Austens Emma

C. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

D. William Godwins Caleb Williams

647. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?
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A. Charles Bacon

B. John Milton

C. John Donne

D. Herbert Spencer

648. Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?
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A. theoretical science

B. abstract logical deductions

C. A, B, and C

D. metaphysics

649. In In Memorium, Tennyson mourns the death of ________________?
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A. Keats

B. Arthur Hallam

C. Lord Byron

D. Hugh Clough

650. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
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A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

C. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

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