english literature MCQs – Page 285

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5681. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
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A. Samuel Richardson

B. Tobias Smollett

C. Henry Fielding

D. Laurence Sterne

5682. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?
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A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Vanity Fair

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Mansfield Park

5683. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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A. confused daze

B. automatic writing

C. total recall

D. stream of consciousness

5684. 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 the masses

B. art for arts sake

C. art for intellects sake

D. art for Gods sake

5685. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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A. Republicans

B. Liberals

C. Radicals

D. both B and C

5686. Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
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A. Mansfield Park

B. Sense and Suspensibility

C. Pride and Prejudice

D. Emma

5687. What was \restored\in 1660 ?
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A. the \Book of Common Prayer

B. the dominance of the Tory Party

C. toleration of religious dissidents

D. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

5688. What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
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A. the conversion of the English church to Catholicism

B. the abolishment of public plays and sports

C. the adoption of English as the official language

D. the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch

5689. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
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A. all of the above

B. phrenology

C. eugenics

D. psychoanalysis

5690. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
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A. Immanuel Kant

B. Aristotle

C. Duns Scotus

D. David Hume

5691. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
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A. Goorge peele

B. Phineas fletcher

C. Samuel daniel

D. Thomas kyd

5692. To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
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A. poetic tragedy

B. heroic tragedy

C. revenge tragedy

D. villain tragedy

5693. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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A. the romance

B. the morality play

C. the short story

D. the heroic epic

5694. Who became the first \prime minister\of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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A. John Churchill

B. Henry St. John

C. Robert Harley

D. Robert Walpole

5695. How did one critic sum up Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot ?
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A. political correctness gone mad

B. angry young men

C. kitchen sink drama

D. nothing happens-twice

5696. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by legitimate drama ?
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A. All of the actors were male.

B. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

C. The play was spoken.

D. All of the actors were British.

5697. Who wrote: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold ?
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A. Thomas Moore

B. William Butler Yeats

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. James Joyce

5698. Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire Absalom and Achitophel ?
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A. Cromwell

B. The Duke of Monmouth

C. Charles II

D. The Earl of Shaftesbury

5699. In which work do you read: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree ?
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A. Kubla Khan

B. The Castaway

C. Hellas

D. The Phoenix and the Turtle

5700. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

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