english literature MCQs – Page 266

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5301. 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. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

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

5302. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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A. shining sword

B. simian rivalry

C. checkered shade

D. verdant mead

5303. Fill in the blanks from Tennysons The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the ..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?
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A. throne; scepter; soul; decree

B. school; scalpel; pen; set free

C. hearth; needle; heart; obey

D. crop; scabbard; foot; agree

5304. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. Whats the name of that masque ?
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A. Il Penseroso

B. Lycidas

C. Comus

D. The Masque of Blackness

5305. Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
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A. Stealing a horse

B. Public drunkenness

C. Skipping church on Sunday

D. A woman screaming at her husband in public

5306. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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A. Tennyson

B. D. G. Rossetti

C. Christina Rossetti

D. Elizabeth Barret Browning

5307. Spensers Epithalamion is____________?
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A. a wedding hymn

B. a narrative poem

C. an elegy

D. a sonnet

5308. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
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A. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication

B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

C. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

D. studied melancholy and aestheticism

5309. Arnolds Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
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A. Civilization

B. Education

C. Religion

D. Tehology

5310. Who was the father of the Mary I_______________?
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A. Henry VI

B. George III

C. William

D. Henry VIII

5311. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Maria Edgeworth

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. Thomas De Quincey

5312. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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A. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.

B. all but C

C. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.

D. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldnt make serious statements about society.

5313. How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
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A. 20

B. 28

C. 16

D. 24

5314. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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A. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

B. Britains preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

C. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

D. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

5315. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
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A. studied melancholy and aestheticism

B. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication

C. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

5316. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront

B. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

5317. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the aubade

B. the figment

C. the fractal

D. the fragment

5318. Who wrote: I would prefer not to. ?
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A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Thomas Gray

C. Herman Melville

D. Henry David Thoreau

5319. What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era ?
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A. 1575-1600

B. 1558-1603

C. 1500-1520

D. 1560-1570

5320. Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?
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A. Coleridges Remorse

B. Byrons Manfred

C. Shelleys Prometheus Unbound

D. Shelleys The Cenci

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