english literature MCQs – Page 282

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5621. What was the licensing system ?
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A. All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).

B. All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.

C. All books had to be dedicated to a noble or royal patron.

D. Poets were required to have a university diploma (the original \poetic license\).

5622. Who is termed as The Morning Star of Renaissance ?
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A. Spenser

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. John Gower

D. Langland

5623. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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A. London Magazine

B. A and C only

C. The Edinburgh Review

D. The Spectator

5624. what was chaucers profession ?
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A. a poet

B. a merchant

C. none of the above

D. a civil servant

5625. In which work do you read: There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ?
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A. The Fatal Curiosity

B. A Handful of Dust

C. Riders to the Sea

D. A Dolls House

5626. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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A. Paul Scotts Staying On

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea

D. E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

5627. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
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A. Sigmund Freud

B. Sir James Frazer

C. Immanuel Kant

D. all but C

5628. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. irresolute open endings

B. free indirect style

C. narrative realism

D. stream of consciousness

5629. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?
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A. all but C

B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

C. the death of the musical

D. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

5630. Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the \Long Parliament\ when it convened in 1640 ?
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A. remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband

B. mounting a revolution and executing the king

C. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts

D. bringing to trial the kings hated ministers, Strafford and Laud

5631. Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ?
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A. A and C only

B. Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes

C. Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers

D. Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy

5632. 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. Gays Beggars Opera

B. Drydens Absalom and Achitophel

C. Butlers Hudibras

D. Fieldings Jonathan Wild

5633. In which work do you read: Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive. ?
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A. Fra Lippo Lippi

B. Porphyrias Lover

C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

D. My Last Duchess

5634. Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
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A. a monster fabricated in a laboratory

B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure

C. a French revolutionary

D. All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.

5635. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
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A. art for arts sake

B. art for intellects sake

C. art for Gods sake

D. art for the masses

5636. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
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A. the Pre-Raphaelites

B. the coteries of plenty

C. the bluestockings

D. the Behnites

5637. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrences novel Lady Chatterleys Lover, written in 1928?
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A. 1930

B. 1945

C. 1960

D. 2000

5638. Who applied the term Romantic to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
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A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

B. English historians half a century after the period ended

D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

E. The Satanic School of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

5639. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
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A. Richard Lionheart

B. Augustus Caesar

C. Pericles

D. Genghis Khan

5640. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
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A. George Gordon, Lord Byron

B. all of the above

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

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