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

901. Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
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A. They caused excessive noise and traffic.

B. They charged too much.

C. They excited illicit sexual desires.

D. They drew young people away from work.

902. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
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A. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

B. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

C. religious symbolism and society comedy

D. regional dialect and political critique

903. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
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A. The Odyssey

B. The Illiad

C. The Bahagavad Gita

D. The Aeneid

904. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
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A. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

B. Stanford, Connecticut

C. New York City

D. Boston, Massachusetts

905. In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
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A. 1930s

B. 1950s

C. 1970s

D. 1910s

906. In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the books erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

907. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire Absalom and Achitophel ?
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A. The Earl of Shaftesbury

B. Charles II

C. Cromwell

D. The Duke of Monmouth

908. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
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A. Ethereges The Man of Mode

B. Behns The Rover

C. Marlowes Doctor Faustus

D. Wycherleys The Country Wife

909. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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A. wit

B. naturalism

C. sprezzatura

D. gusto

910. In which work do you read: There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ?
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A. A Handful of Dust

B. Riders to the Sea

C. The Fatal Curiosity

D. A Dolls House

911. Which poet could be described as part of The Movement of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C

912. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. William Hogarth

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Samuel Johnson

913. To what does the phrase \the stigma of print\refer ?
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A. lead poisoning contracted from handling printers ink

B. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English

C. the brutal punishment for printing without a license

D. the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive

914. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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A. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

B. E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

C. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea

D. Paul Scotts Staying On

915. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any persons pursuit of their personal interests ?
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A. laissez-faire

B. the Rights of Man

C. economic independence

D. enclosure

916. Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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A. the restoration of the monarchy

B. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops

C. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship

D. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers

917. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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A. total recall

B. automatic writing

C. confused daze

D. stream of consciousness

918. What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?
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A. William Laud

B. William Collins

C. William Shakespeare

D. William Tyndale

919. Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?
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A. A and C only

B. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods

C. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence

D. Goethes Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality

920. What happened in 1707 that would forever alter the relationship between England, Wales, and Scotland ?
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A. the Toleration Act

B. the Act of Union

C. the failed invasion of the Spanish Armada

D. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

921. What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?
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A. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.

B. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.

C. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.

D. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.

922. Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
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A. unwarranted abuse

B. love

C. odium

D. ignominy

923. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new \mythical method\in place of the old \narrative method\and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about \making the modern world possible for art\ ?
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A. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

B. Virginia Woolfs The Waves

C. James Joyces Ulysses

D. James Joyces Finnegans Wake

924. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
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A. all of the above

B. phrenology

C. psychoanalysis

D. eugenics

925. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. Canada

B. Ulster

C. the southern counties of Ireland

D. India

926. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?
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A. brash; confident

B. anxious; haunting

C. radical; inventive

D. popular; reverenced

927. According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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A. his party.

B. honor.

C. love.

D. money.\

928. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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A. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.

C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.

D. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

929. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled 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. It required less skill than other genres.

C. all of the above

D. Too many of its readers were women.

930. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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A. The sensory world is an illusion.

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

C. All knowledge is derived from experience.

D. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

931. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a book of model letters

C. a book of devotion

D. a history of everyday life

932. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse ?
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A. the conviction that he was damned forever

B. condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier

C. the vindication of Newtonian physics

D. the loss of his fortune in the \South Sea Bubble

933. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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A. Richard Lionheart

B. Pericles

C. Augustus Caesar

D. Genghis Khan

934. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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A. checkered shade

B. simian rivalry

C. verdant mead

D. shining sword

935. What is the delicate balancing act of Marvells\Horatian Ode\ ?
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A. praising Roman virtues whilst endorsing Christian beliefs

B. celebrating the Restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime

C. praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity

D. celebrating Cromwells victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king

936. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Swifts Gullivers Travels

B. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

C. Behns Oroonoko

D. Popes The Rape of the Lock

937. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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A. none of the above

B. Seamus Heaney

C. W. B. Yeats

D. James Joyce

938. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
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A. psychoanalysis

B. eugenics

C. phrenology

D. anarchism

939. In which work do you read: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Bright Star

B. Adonais

C. Ode on a Grecian Urn

D. La Bell Dame Sans Merci

940. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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A. naturalism

B. sprezzatura

C. gusto

D. wit

941. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. India

B. Ulster

C. Canada

D. the southern counties of Ireland

942. What is Shakespeares longest play ?
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A. Romeo and Juliet

B. Hamlet

C. Taming of the Shrew

D. A Midsummer Nights Dream

943. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
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A. Julian of Norwich

B. William Langland

C. Sir Thomas Malory

D. Margery Kempe

944. What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
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A. publishers

B. novels

C. the English

D. plays

945. 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. William Shakespeare

B. Abraham Cowley

C. John Donne

D. John Dryden

946. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?
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A. Aemilia Lanyer

B. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

C. all of the above

D. Rachel Speght

947. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
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A. Tobias Smollett

B. Henry Fielding

C. Samuel Richardson

D. Laurence Sterne

948. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. William Beckfords Vathek

B. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom

C. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

D. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

949. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

B. The common people were still essentially pagan.

C. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

D. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic

950. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homers lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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A. pride for the vernacular language

B. a and c only

C. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks

D. human reverence for the classics

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