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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

481. What do you mean by Quatrain ?
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A. a stanza of fourteen lines

B. a poem of fourteen lines

C. a stanza of four lines

D. a stanza of six lines

482. According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevenss understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?
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A. Imagism

B. Vorticism

C. British Romanticism

D. Classicism

483. Who is an American author ?
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A. Henry W. Longfellow

B. All 4

C. H.D. Thoreau

D. R.W. Emerson

484. T. Hardy is______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A fatalist

C. None of these

D. A lover of nature

485. Which is called the Victorian Age______________?
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A. None of these

B. 20th Century

C. 19th Century

D. 18th Century

486. Who wrote the poem Requiem ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. John Milton

C. Samuel Johnson

D. Robert Louis Stevenson

487. The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
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A. Nell Gwynn

B. Aphra Behn

C. Ann Hathaway

D. Lady Teazle

488. The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
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A. Moliere

B. Caleron

C. Corneille

D. Couperin

489. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
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A. Arobinda Adigha

B. Arundhoti Roy

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Kiron Dishai

490. Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________?
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A. Thomas More

B. William Shakespeare

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. Thomas Gray

491. In his essay The Roots of Modernism, Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
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A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.

B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.

C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.

D. Both A and C

492. The kind Claudius was killed by________________?
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A. Horatio

B. Laerteus

C. None of these

D. Hamlet

493. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
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A. Gerard Manley Hopkins

B. Ted Hughes

C. Christina Rossetti

D. Elizabeth Barret Browning

494. What do you mean by Burlesque ?
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A. a satiric person

B. a drama

C. a satiric caricature of the characters

D. an allegorical statement

495. Which of the following features of Robert Brownings My Last Duchess make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?
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A. All of these answers

B. It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.

C. It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd), which is sustained throughout the poem.

D. It is primarily a narrative poem.

496. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are written by________________?
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A. William Blake

B. John Keats

C. John Milton

D. P.B. Shelley

497. Ezra Pounds Canto I opens with the following lines: And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(). Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole ?
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A. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.

B. These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.

C. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.

D. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.

498. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
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A. 1000 years ago

B. 3000 years ago

C. 1500 years ago

D. 2000 years ago

499. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
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A. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with womens rights.

B. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.

D. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.

500. Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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A. The Elizabethan Age

B. The Commonwealth Period

C. The Jacobean Age

D. The Middle English Period

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