english literature MCQs – Page 271

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5401. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst_____________?
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A. Cranford

B. Ruth

C. Vanity Fair

D. Hard Times

5402. Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
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A. Stingy

B. Unintelligent

C. Rude

D. Fanatic

5403. 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. the Rights of Man

B. laissez-faire

C. enclosure

D. economic independence

5404. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
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A. Godwins Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

B. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Men

C. Paines Rights of Man

D. Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France

5405. Which one of Gaskells novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
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A. Ruth

B. North and South

C. Cranford

D. Mary Barton

5406. Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
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A. epistolary novel

B. Gothic fiction

C. meta-novel

D. Hunnish epic

5407. Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?
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A. As a prison

B. As a school for the royal children

C. As an astronomical observation deck

D. As a storage place for grain

5408. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as \the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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A. nonfiction prose

B. comic drama

C. the lyric

D. the novel

5409. The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?
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A. Keats

B. Eliot

C. Coleridge

D. Tennyson

5410. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
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A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.

B. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.

C. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.

D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

5411. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
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A. Tom Stoppard

B. Harold Pinter

C. Caryl Churchill

D. Alan Bennett

5412. Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?
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A. Pope Innocent III

B. Pope Gregory XIII

C. Pope Pius V

D. Pope Boniface

5413. One of Marlowes most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
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A. Hero and Leander

B. Troilus and Cressida

C. Apollo and Hyacinth

D. Anthony and Cleopatra

5414. The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?
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A. The Charge of the Light Bridge

B. 1st September

C. Ultima Ratio Regum

D. In Memorium

5415. Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
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A. Our Mutual Friend

B. Edwin Drood

C. Little Dorrit

D. Dombey and Son

5416. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________?
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A. Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

B. H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

C. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

D. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

5417. In which city was Milton ?
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A. London

B. Norwich

C. Canterbury

D. York

5418. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
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A. Paradise Lost

B. Pilgrims Progress

C. Utopia

D. Divine Comedy

5419. 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 Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

C. the India Mutiny in 1857

D. the Boer War in the south of Africa

5420. Elizabeth Barretts poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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A. womens rights and suffrage

B. child labor

C. Chartism

D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

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