english literature MCQs – Page 289

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5761. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for_______________?
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A. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

B. translators of French romances

C. knights preparing for their first tournament

D. courtiers entering the service of Richard II

5762. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
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A. everlasting shame

B. banishment to Asia

C. conversion to Christianity

D. being buried alive

5763. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
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A. Chrtien de Troyes

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. b and c only

D. Marie de France

5764. which of these kings was not served by Chaucer ?
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A. Henry II

B. Richard II

C. none of the above

D. Edward III

5765. Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Margery Kempe

C. William Langland

D. Sir Thomas Malory

5766. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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A. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

B. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

C. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

D. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

5767. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
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A. A and C only

B. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

C. Their readers primary language was English.

D. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

5768. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
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A. Latin

B. Dutch

C. Celtic

D. French

5769. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
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A. the Beowulf poet

B. the Gawain poet

C. Geoffrey of Monmouth

D. Chrtien de Troyes

5770. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?
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A. Boccaccios Decameron

B. Chaucers Legend of Good Women

C. Dantes Divine Comedy

D. The Dream of the Rood

A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility

B. the lower orders of the nobility

C. the clergy

D. agricultural laborers

5772. How did Henry II, the first of Englands Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
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A. the Fourth Lateran Council

B. Saint Patricks mission

C. the Battle of Hastings

D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

5773. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
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A. 1374 to 1385

B. 1350 to 1360

C. 1360 to 1400

D. none of the above

5774. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?
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A. ironic understatement

B. stress on every third diphthong

C. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine

D. repetition of parallel syntactic structures

5775. What was vellum ?
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A. an unbreakable oath of fealty

B. unrhymed iambic pentameter

C. the service owed to a lord by his peasants(villeins)

D. parchment made of animal skin

5776. What was vellum ?
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A. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (\villeins\)

C. unrhymed iambic pentameter

D. parchment made of animal skin

5777. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
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A. Boethiuss Consolidation of Philosophy

B. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

C. Saint Jeromes translation of the Bible

D. Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People

5778. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
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A. the heroic epic

B. the short story

C. the romance

D. the morality play

5779. one of Chaucers daughter was___________?
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A. a nun

B. an astronomer

C. none of the above

D. a musician

5780. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
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A. Chrtien de Troyes

B. Marie de France

C. b and c only

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

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