english literature MCQs – Page 277

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5521. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?
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A. biblical reverence

B. satirical derision

C. snide indifference

D. condemning censure

5522. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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A. the invention of the airplane

B. wireless communication across the Atlantic

C. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity

D. the creation of the internet

5523. Who was the first English Christian king ?
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A. Alfred

B. Richard II

C. Richard III

D. Ethelbert

5524. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
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A. the familiar essay

B. the sermon

C. the diary

D. the novel

5525. When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
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A. The closing of theatres

B. King to exile

C. The return of the King.

D. King Arthurs dead

5526. In which county was Jane Austin born ?
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A. Hampshire

B. Norfolk

C. Yorkshire

D. Sussex

5527. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

B. William Beckfords Vathek

C. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom

D. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

5528. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?
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A. Thomas Wyatt

B. George Puttenham

C. Walter Ralegh

D. Philip Sidney

5529. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. almost all working class men

B. all women

C. about half of middle class men

D. A, B and C

5530. Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
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A. The Bahagavad Gita

B. The Aeneid

C. The Odyssey

D. The Illiad

5531. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
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A. the Irish National Theatre

B. the Independent Theatre

C. the Abbey Theatre

D. both A and C

5532. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
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A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement

B. all of the above

C. Henry Hudsons fruitless search for the Northwest Passage

D. the founding of the Plymouth colony

5533. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical method in place of the old narrative method and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
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A. James Joyces Finnegans Wake

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. Virginia Woolfs The Waves

D. James Joyces Ulysses

5534. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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A. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

B. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

C. formal diplomatic relations with China

D. the American and French revolutions

5535. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill ?
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A. Humming Bird

B. Seagull

C. Crow

D. Albatross

5536. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. India

B. Canada

C. Ulster

D. the southern counties of Ireland

5537. Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
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A. the restoration of the monarchy

B. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship

C. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers

D. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops

5538. Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
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A. John Keats

B. A and C only

C. Robert Burns

D. John Clare

5539. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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A. George II

B. James II

C. Elizabeth I

D. William and Mary

5540. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Swifts Gullivers Travels

B. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

D. Behns Oroonoko

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