english literature MCQs – Page 283

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5641. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?
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A. Boston, Massachusetts

B. Stanford, Connecticut

C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

D. New York City

5642. Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
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A. odium

B. love

C. unwarranted abuse

D. ignominy

5643. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Arminius

C. John Calvin

D. Martin Luther

5644. Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as Gods deputy ?
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A. constitutional monarchism

B. manifest destiny

C. royal absolutism

D. extreme unction

5645. Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
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A. Johannes Gutenberg

B. Henry VIII

C. William Caxton

D. Elizabeth Eisenstein

5646. 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

5647. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the figment

B. the aubade

C. the fractal

D. the fragment

5648. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Behns Oroonoko

C. Swifts Gullivers Travels

D. Defoes Robinson Crusoe

5649. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ?
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A. an instructional manual for manners

B. a book of model letters

C. a history of everyday life

D. a book of devotion

5650. Wordsworth described all good poetry as_______________?
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A. the divine gift of grace

B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the polite patter of a corrupted age

D. the rhythmic expression of moral intuition

5651. Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
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A. interludes

B. meditations

C. mysteries

D. spectacles

5652. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to Peddlers, and Boats, and Wagons! ?
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A. the clumsiness of Shakespeares plots

B. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge

C. Wordsworths devotion to the ordinary and everyday

D. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden

5653. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?
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A. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

B. Rachel Speght

C. all of the above

D. Aemilia Lanyer

5654. How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
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A. 22

B. 16

C. 14

D. 10

5655. To what does the phrase \the stigma of print\refer ?
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A. lead poisoning contracted from handling printers ink

B. the brutal punishment for printing without a license

C. the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive

D. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English

5656. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
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A. pious devotion to religious virtues

B. carpe diem

C. courtly ideals of the good life

D. loyalty to the king

5657. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
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A. Pirandello

B. Cavalcanti

C. Castiglione

D. Boccaccio

5658. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of Englands large-scale imperialism ?
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A. John Ruskin

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Rabindranath Tagore

D. Joseph Conrad

5659. Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
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A. the union of England and Wales with Scotland

B. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

C. the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

D. formal diplomatic relations with China

5660. Who wrote: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair! ?
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A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. William Woodsworth

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Lord Byron

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