english literature MCQs – Page 284

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5661. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
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A. a moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models

B. a divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader

C. a defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid censorship

D. a magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader

5662. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?
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A. The Way of the World

B. The Order of Angels

C. The Great Chain of Being

D. The Foundational Ladder

5663. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
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A. Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

B. Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood

C. Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney

D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary

5664. Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
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A. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.

B. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public

C. all of the above

D. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.

5665. Who wrote: Reader, I married him. ?
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A. Emily Bronte

B. Edith Wharton

C. Jane Austen

D. Charlotte Bronte

5666. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?
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A. the Tories and the Whigs

B. the Royalists and the Tories

C. the Republicans and the Royalists

D. the Royalists and the Whigs

5667. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelleys poems to the working classes ?
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A. the Battle of Waterloo

B. the storming of the Bastille

C. the organization of a working class mens choral group in Southern England

D. the Peterloo Massacre

E. ong: Men of England and England in 1819?

5668. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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A. shining sword

B. verdant mead

C. simian rivalry

D. checkered shade

5669. 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. Elephant and Castle

D. Grub Street

5670. His To Penthurst is considered to be one of the primary texts of the neoclassical movement ?
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A. Thomas Carew

B. Sir John Denham

C. John Dryden

D. Ben Jonson

5671. Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
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A. George II

B. James II

C. William and Mary

D. Elizabeth I

5672. Which of the following shifts began in the reign of Henry VII and continued under his Tudor successors ?
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A. the growing authority of the Pope over domestic English affairs

B. the rise in the power and confidence of the aristocracy

C. the expansion of Englands colonial possessions

D. the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority

5673. Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?
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A. James I

B. Elizabeth II

C. Henry IX

D. Charles I

5674. Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?
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A. It was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium

B. Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.

C. It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.

D. It was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.

5675. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for________________?
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A. knights preparing for their first tournament

B. courtiers entering the service of Richard II

C. translators of French romances

D. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

5676. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
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A. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

B. a, b and c

C. a popular thirst for the classics, driving contemporary writers to the margins

D. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

5677. What was the name of the Bronte sisters only brother ?
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A. Branwell

B. Anderson

C. Richard

D. Pearson

5678. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
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A. Margery Kempe

B. William Langland

C. Sir Thomas Malory

D. Julian of Norwich

5679. In which work do you read: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ?
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A. The Canturbury Tales

B. The Wild Swans of Coole

C. The Dark Angel

D. The Second Coming

5680. Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
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A. Elizabeth I

B. Catherine of Aragon

C. Mary Tudor

D. Archbishop Cranmer

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