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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5501. The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________?
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A. Social Movement

B. Literary Movement

C. Religious Movement

D. Political Movement

5502. Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the.., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. A Midsummer Nights Dream

C. Ben Jonson

D. Masque

5503. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Catherine Howard

D. Jane Seymour

5504. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which country did he spend most of the time ?
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A. Spain

B. France

C. Italy

D. Germany

5505. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by \legitimate\ drama ?
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A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

B. All of the actors were British.

C. All of the actors were male.

D. The play was spoken.

5506. For what do Matthew Arnolds moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Paters aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
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A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

B. the surrealist movement

C. late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century satirical drama

D. modern literary criticism

5507. George Eliot was the pen-name of______________?
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A. Clare Reeve

B. Mary Collins

C. Marian Evans

D. Lara Evans

5508. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
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A. blank verse

B. the ode

C. the heroic couplet

D. free verse

5509. What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
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A. plays

B. novels

C. publishers

D. the English

5510. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. all but C

B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

C. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

D. the death of the musical

5511. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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A. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

B. The sensory world is an illusion.

C. All knowledge is derived from experience.

D. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.

5512. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as Old Chaucer who, like the morning star, descends to the shades, so that Darkness again the Age invades.
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A. Abraham Cowley

B. John Dryden

C. John Donne

D. William Shakespeare

5513. Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
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A. William Laud

B. John Lilburne

C. Oliver Cromwell

D. Roger Williams

5514. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Caedmon

C. Bede

D. Sir Thomas Malory

5515. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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A. Virginia Woolf

B. George Orwell

C. Orson Wells

D. Evelyn Waugh

5516. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworths claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ?
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A. the sonnet

B. the political tract

C. the lyric poem written in the first person

D. doggerel rhyme

5517. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the spirit of the age, which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
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A. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley

C. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

5518. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
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A. Bleak House

B. A Tale of Two Cities

C. Great Expectations

D. The Pickwick Papers

5519. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
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A. Machiavellis \The Prince\

B. Castigliones \The Courtier

C. Boccaccios \Decameron

D. Dantes \Divine Comedy

5520. What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
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A. Buckingham Palace

B. the Houses of Parliament

C. Tower Bridge

D. Westminster Abbey

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