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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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

4881. In what book does the fall take place ?
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A. Book IX

B. Book VII

C. Book X

D. Book VIII

4882. Renaissance first came to the ?
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A. Rome

B. France

C. England

D. Italy

4883. In Samson Agonistes, Harapha exits because of what reason ?
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A. He must hurry to catch up with Dalila.

B. He does not want to fight Samson.

C. Samson will not fight him.

D. He has been called back to his hometown of Gath.

4884. When did John Keats die ?
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A. 11 May 1838

B. 12 March 1833

C. 19 August 1825

D. 23 February 1821

4885. Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen ?
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A. The Massacre at Paris

B. Doctor Faustus

C. Edward the Second

D. The Jew of Malta

4886. John Miltons Comus is best described by which of the following genres ?
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A. Prose polemic

B. Pastoral elegy

C. Blank verse tragedy

D. Masque

4887. How many times does Satan work to tempt Jesus in the Gospels ?
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A. Two

B. Four

C. One

D. Three

4888. What author wrote Life of Milton ?
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A. Edmund Spencer

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. Samuel Johnson

D. T. S. Eliot

4889. Which Poem caused Miltons stature as a poet to be recognized ?
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A. Il Penseroso

B. Lycidas

C. Areopagitica

D. Paradise Lost

4890. Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names ?
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A. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

B. Valdes and Cornelius

C. Troilus and Cressida

D. Pyramus and Thisbe

4891. In Book One of Paradise Lost, the narrator identifies the fallen angels or devils by what names ?
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A. The names of the angels they will become

B. Their surnames

C. The names of pagan gods

D. The names of foreign countries

4892. The English masque has its origins in the traditions of what European country ?
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A. Italy

B. Spain

C. Germany

D. France

4893. Who wrote following lines: _________ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ?
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A. Earnest Hemingway

B. Lawrence

C. John Donne

D. John Milton

4894. John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ?
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A. Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow

B. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen

C. Dante, Spenser, and Pope

D. Homer, Virgil, and Dante

4895. Who declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598 ?
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A. Francis Meres, a lawyer

B. Queen Elizabeth

C. Burbage, an actor

D. King James

4896. Greville was biographer of ?
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A. Sir Philip Sidney

B. John Milton

C. John Donne

D. Edmund Spencer

4897. When did John Milton die ?
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A. 9 December 1670

B. 22 June 1675

C. 8 November 1674

D. 14 February 1669

4898. What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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A. banker

B. lawyer

C. surgeon

D. teacher

4899. In , a good example of Miltons sharp rhetorical prose, Milton denounces restrictive censorship, arguing for freedom of the press ?
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A. Paradise Regained

B. Areopagitica

C. Paradise Lost

D. Samson Agonistes

4900. Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney ?
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A. Complaints

B. Colin Clouts come home again

C. The shepheaedes Calendar

D. The Faerie Queene

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