english literature MCQs – Page 288

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5741. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
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A. popular; reverenced

B. radical; inventive

C. brash; confident

D. anxious; haunting

5742. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
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A. Fuech and Goodside

B. Dawson and Hurley

C. Breslow and Felsher

D. Capulet And Montague

5743. Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

C. James IV of Scotland

D. Mary, Queen of Scots

E. James VI of Scotland

5744. What is the title to Miltons blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
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A. The Divine Comedy

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. LAllegro

5745. Who wrote: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan /A stately pleasure dome decree?
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A. Walt Whitman

B. Robert Browning

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. John Keats

5746. What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
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A. its uncompromising engagement with politics

B. its intellectual complexity

C. A and B

D. its union of thought and passion

5747. what was the duration of hundred years war ?
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A. 1337 to 1453

B. 1300 to 1350

C. none of the above

D. 1302 to 1343

5748. Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?
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A. All knowledge is derived from experience.

B. The sensory world is an illusion.

C. The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

D. Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.

5749. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy ?
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A. Behns The Rover

B. Wycherleys The Country Wife

C. Ethereges The Man of Mode

D. Marlowes Doctor Faustus

5750. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the founding of neoclassical poetry ?
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A. George Herbert

B. Alexander Pope

C. Ben Jonson

D. William Wordsworth

5751. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?
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A. all but C

B. Sir James Frazer

C. Sigmund Freud

D. Immanuel Kant

5752. Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
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A. the bishop of London

B. the acting company

C. the patron of the acting company, eg, the Lord Chamberlain

D. the printer

5753. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?
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A. London and Rome

B. Berlin and London

C. London and Paris

D. Paris and Rome

5754. What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?
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A. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.

B. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.

C. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.

D. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.

5755. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called mesmerism, one of the occult practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?
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A. dream interpretation

B. psychoanalysis

C. smoking opium

D. hypnotism

5756. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
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A. Dutch

B. Latin

C. French

D. Celtic

5757. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?
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A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.

B. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

C. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

D. She was a virgin martyr.

5758. what was the occupation of Chaucers father ?
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A. civil servant

B. a vintner

C. none of the above

D. leather merchant

5759. what did Chaucers wife use to do ?
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A. none of the above

B. nurse of royal court

C. governess to Henry IV

D. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut

5760. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of romanceemerged, initially apply ?
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A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire

B. a Roman official

C. a work written in the French vernacular

D. a story about love and adventure

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