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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5321. The Jacobean Era refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?
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A. Malaysia

B. England

C. Tunisia

D. Jordan

5322. What Pope poem begins, In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heavnly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestals veins ?
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A. The Rape of the Lock

B. Eloisa to Abelard

C. The Dunciad

D. Solitude: An Ode

5323. The basic theme of Arnolds Literature and Dogma is____________?
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A. Contemporary literary criticism

B. Art and Literature

C. Social changes in the Victorian Age

D. Theology

5324. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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A. Duns Scotus

B. Immanuel Kant

C. Aristotle

D. David Hume

5325. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ?
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A. Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.

B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.

C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.

D. both A and C

5326. Who were the Two Nations referred to in the subtitle of Disraelis Sybil (1845) ?
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A. the rich and the poor

B. England and Ireland

C. Britain and Germany

D. Anglicans and Methodists

5327. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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A. William Morris

B. Edward FitzGerald

C. John Ruskin

D. all but C

5328. An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
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A. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

B. the literature of Greece and Rome

C. alchemy and magic

D. chivalry of the Middle Ages

5329. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
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A. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

C. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

D. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

5330. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama

B. the surrealist movement

C. modern literary criticism

D. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

5331. Which rulers reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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A. Queen Victoria

B. King Henry VIII

C. King John

D. Queen Elizabeth I

5332. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?
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A. Christs College

B. Trinity College

C. St. Xaviers College

D. Pembroke College

5333. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
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A. sound as a means to express meaning

B. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

C. all of the above

D. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

5334. What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeths court ?
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A. Jousting

B. Gambling

C. Backgammon

D. Swimming

5335. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdlers edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean ?
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A. the expurgation of indelicate language

B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary

C. the insertion of bawdy songs

D. the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and

5336. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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A. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

C. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

5337. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
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A. women

B. slaves

C. the working classes

D. the lower middle classes

5338. Who was Edmund Spensers patron ?
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A. Francis Bacon

B. The Earl of Leicester

C. Elizabeth

D. Lord Burleigh

5339. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
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A. all of the above

B. the Boer War in the south of Africa

C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

D. the India Mutiny in 1857

5340. 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 history of everyday life

C. a book of model letters

D. a book of devotion

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