english literature MCQs – Page 154

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

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

3061. Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
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A. Byron

B. Lamb

C. Coleridge

D. Shelley

3062. Which of Shakespeares characters exclaims; Brave, new, world! ?
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A. Ferdinand

B. Antonio

C. Prospero

D. Miranda

3063. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of ?
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A. Keats

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Wordsworth

3064. For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
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A. The works of earlier poets

B. Greek mythology

C. European history

D. Early scientific studies

3065. Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false ?
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A. A sonnet is only written in Italian.

B. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet.

C. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines.

D. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-ef,g-g.

3066. What is limbo ?
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A. All of the above

B. For Dante, the home of major figures from the Hebrew Bible

C. In The Inferno, the place for many ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian thinkers

D. The place for virtuous non-Christian adults

3067. What is the craftsmens play at the end of A Midsummer Nights Dream about ?
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A. Pucks adventures

B. Summertime dreams

C. Pyramus and Thisbe

D. The history of Athens

3068. Who is the heroin of The Tempest ?
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A. Ophelia

B. Miranda

C. Helena

D. Desdemona

3069. Shakespeares Sonnet 153 is what kind of poem ?
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A. A poem about love

B. A poem about Shakespeare and his father

C. A poem about death

D. A poem about writing poetry

3070. Who kills Macbeth at the end of the play, Macbeth ?
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A. Lady Macduff

B. Lady Macbeth

C. Duncan

D. Macduff

3071. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Keats

D. Shelley

3072. Who is the main focus of a number of Shakespeares sonnets ?
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A. Christopher Marlow

B. Hamlet

C. The Dark Lady

D. Hamnet Shakespeare

3073. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ?
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A. W. M. Thackeray

B. Charles Dickens

C. Graham Greene

D. D. H. Lawrence

3074. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term Unreal City in the first and third sections from ?
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A. Laforgue

B. Baudelaire

C. Irving Babbit

D. Dante

3075. What is the best definition of humanism ?
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A. The intellectual movement interested in classical antiquity

B. The movement based on literature about courtly love

C. The scientific movement away from classical antiquity

D. The movement to write more in vernacular

3076. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play ?
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A. Twelfth Night

B. The Tempest

C. Henry IV,Pt I

D. Hamlet

3077. Uneasy lies the head that_______________( King Henry four, part two)?
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A. none of these

B. Wears a wig

C. Wears a crown

D. Wears a hat

3078. What concept best distinguishes the difference between the time of the Middles Ages and the Renaissance ?
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A. The popularity of theater

B. Humanism

C. The life of Shakespeare

D. The rise of Queen Elizabeth

3079. In the play, Macbeth, who assists Macbeth with planning Duncans murder ?
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A. Macduff

B. Banquo

C. Malcolm

D. Lady Macbeth

3080. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
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A. Seven

B. Five

C. Nine

D. Three

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