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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5581. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
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A. all of the above

B. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes

C. supernatural phenomenon

D. perversion and sadism, often involving a maidens persecution

5582. How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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A. 3

B. 6

C. 4

D. 5

5583. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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A. Mary Wroth

B. Aemilia Lanyer

C. Samuel Daniel

D. Ben Jonson

5584. Who wrote: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Hart Crane

B. T.S. Eliot

C. William Carlos Williams

D. Ernest Hemingway

5585. Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?
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A. the Protectorate

B. Ulster

C. the Pale

D. West Britain

5586. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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A. The common people were still essentially pagan.

B. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

C. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

D. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic

5587. What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
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A. Protestantism

B. Ancestor-worship

C. Atheism

D. Catholicism

5588. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
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A. William Godwins Caleb Williams

B. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

C. Jane Austens Emma

D. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

5589. In which work do you read: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Sonnets from the Portuguese

B. Prelude

C. The Last Decalogue

D. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock

5590. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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A. William Worsworths Lyrical Ballads

B. all but C

C. John Keatss To Autumn

D. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein

5591. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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A. the classical satire

B. the epigram

C. the country-house poem

D. the Petrarchan sonnet

5592. The churchyard of St. Pauls Cathedral was well-known for its____________?
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A. ruinous condition.

B. performing bears.

C. graffiti.

D. bookshops.

5593. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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A. Romantic

B. Metaphysical

C. Neo-Romantic

D. Augustan

5594. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
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A. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Woman

B. Coleridges Dejection: An Ode

C. Blakes Prophetic Books

D. all but C

5595. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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A. Cheapside

B. Covent Garden

C. Grub Street

D. Elephant and Castle

5596. Which poet could be described as part of \The Movement\of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C

5597. Why didnt Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27

B. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

C. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

D. He just wasnt bright enough

5598. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homers lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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A. a and c only

B. human reverence for the classics

C. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks

D. pride for the vernacular language

5599. According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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A. his party.

B. love.

C. honor.

D. money.\

5600. What is blank verse ?
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A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets

B. unrhymed iambic pentameter

C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter

D. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet

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