english literature MCQs – Page 281

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5601. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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A. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,

B. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans

C. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking

D. All the above

5602. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

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

5603. In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the books erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

5604. Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
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A. charity

B. patronage

C. censorship

D. subscription

5605. What was restored in 1660 ?
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A. the Book of Common Prayer

B. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

C. toleration of religious dissidents

D. the dominance of the Tory Party

5606. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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A. hunting

B. gluttonous feasting

C. all of the above

D. hard drinking

5607. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. Ben Jonson

C. Thomas Gray

D. William Collins

5608. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
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A. Mary Tudor

B. Elizabeth Tudor

C. James I

D. Henry VII

5609. What mock epic begins: What dire offence from amrous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Drydens Absalom and Achitophel

C. Popes The Dunciad

D. Drydens Mac Flecknoe

5610. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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A. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

B. It required less skill than other genres.

C. Too many of its readers were women.

D. all of the above

5611. What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
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A. its union of thought and passion

B. A and B

C. its uncompromising engagement with politics

D. its intellectual complexity

5612. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. irresolute open endings

B. narrative realism

C. stream of consciousness

D. free indirect style

5613. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
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A. choler

B. black bile

C. cholesterol

D. blood

5614. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?
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A. only a small area around London and Oxford.

B. with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.

C. with deference to Parliaments legislative supremacy.

D. through a system of draconian military courts.

5615. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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A. Evelyn Waugh

B. Virginia Woolf

C. George Orwell

D. Orson Wells

5616. 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. Neo-Romantic

C. Metaphysical

D. Augustan

5617. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
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A. Butlers Hudibras

B. Gays Beggars Opera

C. Fieldings Jonathan Wild

D. Popes Dunciad

5618. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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A. the Norman Conquest of 1066.

B. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

D. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

5619. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
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A. Decameron

B. Merlin

C. Macpherson

D. Ossian

5620. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poets time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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A. Alfred Lord Tennyson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

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