english literature MCQs – Page 279

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5561. Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
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A. They were located outside the city limits of London.

B. The early versions were oval in shape.

C. all of the above

D. They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.

5562. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
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A. the Fifth Monarchists

B. the Ranters

C. the Roarers

D. the Diggers

5563. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?
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A. Robert Herrick

B. John Dryden

C. Ben Jonson

D. Alexander Pope

5564. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donnes conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
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A. Air and Angels

B. The Apparition

C. The Indifferent

D. \Satire 3\

5565. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
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A. woman

B. civilization

C. nature

D. God

5566. In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
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A. 1970s

B. 1930s

C. 1950s

D. 1910s

5567. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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A. Maria Edgeworth

B. Sir Walter Scott

C. Thomas De Quincey

D. Jane Austen

5568. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
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A. the southern counties of Ireland

B. Ulster

C. India

D. Canada

5569. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrences novel Lady Chatterleys Lover, written in 1928?
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A. 1945

B. 1960

C. 2000

D. 1930

5570. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

B. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

D. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

5571. What is Shakespeares longest play ?
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A. A Midsummer Nights Dream

B. Hamlet

C. Taming of the Shrew

D. Romeo and Juliet

5572. Who wrote: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Samuel Butler

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. John Keats

D. William Shakespeare

5573. 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. economic independence

B. enclosure

C. the Rights of Man

D. laissez-faire

5574. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
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A. Eminent Victorians

B. Jungle Books

C. The Way of All Flesh

D. both A and C

5575. 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

5576. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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A. naturalism

B. sprezzatura

C. gusto

D. wit

5577. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
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A. admiration and elegiac sympathy.

B. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

C. bewilderment and visceral loathing.

D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

5578. A classic book is usually one that possesses what quality ?
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A. All of the above.

B. It makes connections.

C. It has universal appeal.

D. It can stand the test of time.

5579. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
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A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Volpone

C. King Lear

D. Othello

5580. Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Windsor

B. Tudor

C. Lancaster

D. York

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