english literature MCQs – Page 274

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5461. The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________?
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A. Medici

B. Inquisition

C. Pazzi

D. Republic

5462. Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel____________?
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A. Emma

B. Hard Times

C. Cranford

D. Great Expectation

5463. Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Edward VI

C. Richard III

D. George III

5464. How many times did Milton marry ?
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A. 1

B. 2

C. 0

D. 3

5465. Wilds drama Woman of No Importance appared in __________?
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A. 1893

B. 1904

C. 1879

D. 1884

5466. Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
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A. realism

B. individualism

C. perspective

D. abstractioin

5467. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
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A. Iliad

B. Beowulf

C. Canterbury Tales

D. Odyssey

5468. the word renaissance means______________?
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A. reading of books

B. the time of astronauts

C. the rebirth of learning or knowledge

D. the study of art

5469. Who composed The Preludes ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. William Wordsworth

C. S T Coleridge

D. William Blake

5470. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Miltons at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
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A. II penseroso

B. lycidas

C. Paradise Lost

D. none of the above

5471. Maud is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Tennyson

B. Swineburne

C. Pope

D. Byron

5472. Thomas Mores Utopia placed the blame for societys problems on_______________?
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A. the Church

B. society itself

C. Gods will

D. human nature

5473. The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?
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A. The Great Order of Life

B. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker

C. The Great Chain of Being

D. The Great System of Shakespeare

5474. Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
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A. Money lending

B. Begging

C. Fortune-telling

D. Wine bottling

5475. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as the special and opportune art of the modern world ?
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A. the novel

B. nonfiction proseB.

C. the lyric

D. comic drama

5476. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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A. all but C

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

C. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.

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

5477. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ?
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A. Oxford Movement

B. Pre-Raphaelite

C. Methodist

D. Imagism

5478. Which one is Gaskells first novel ?
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A. Ruth

B. Mary Barton

C. North and South

D. Cranford

5479. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian periods contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. John Ruskin

C. Friedrich Engels

D. Anthony Trollope

5480. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

B. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

C. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

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