english literature MCQs – Page 28

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

541. The Lay of the Last Minstrel is written by_______________?
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A. Byron

B. Blake

C. Tennyson

D. Walter Scott

542. Jane Austens other writings are______________?
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A. Persuasion

B. All of these

C. Emma

D. Sense and Sensibility

543. Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrells 1945 poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ?
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A. The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.

B. The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.

C. The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.

D. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mothers womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.

544. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?
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A. George Eliot

B. Jane Austen

C. Charlotte Bronte

D. Joseph Conrad

545. Written in March is a poem composed by_______________?
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A. William Blake

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Congreve

546. Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Robert Browning

C. None of these

D. Emily Bronte

547. Spensers Epithalamion is____________?
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A. a wedding hymn

B. a narrative poem

C. an elegy

D. a sonnet

548. The father of humanism was_______________?
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A. Boccaccio

B. Pico della Mirandola

C. Petrarch

D. Dante

549. Which contemporary discussions on womens rights did Tennysons The Princess address ?
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A. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

B. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first womens college in London

C. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories

D. the debate on womens suffrage

550. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. A, B and C

B. almost all working class men

C. about half of middle class men

D. all women

551. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. a history of everyday life

B. a book of devotion

C. an instructional manual for manners

D. a book of model letters

552. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
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A. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

B. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication

C. studied melancholy and aestheticism

D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

553. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
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A. the Custody Act

B. the Womens Suffrage Act

C. the Married Womens Property Rights Acts

D. a series of Factory Acts

554. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?
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A. The Book of Duchess

B. The Legend of Good Women

C. Troilus and Criseyde

D. The House of Fame

555. Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
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A. Genghis Khan

B. Zhu Yuanzhang

C. Kublai Khan

D. Timur

556. Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pounds poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ?
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A. Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.

B. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.

C. It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.

D. It is primarily a narrative poem.

557. Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?
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A. Hunnish epic

B. Gothic fiction

C. epistolary novel

D. meta-novel

558. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moores poem A Grave ?
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A. It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.

B. It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.

C. It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.

D. Both A and C

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

B. Cranford

C. Mary Barton

D. North and South

560. Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
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A. H.D.

B. William Carlos Williams

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Hart Crane

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