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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5901. Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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A. John Foxe

B. John Lyly

C. John Locke

D. John Milton

5902. Fill in the blank. John Foxes ambiguous attitude towards the Elizabethan church was ______________?
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A. Untypical

B. Not untypical

C. Rejected

D. Exploded

5903. Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
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A. Langland

B. Chaucer

C. Shakespeare

D. Homer

5904. Choose the best answer. Which of the following statements is true concerning epic poetry ?
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A. Epic poetry is of a moral nature and tends to the promotion of virtue.

B. Canterbury Tales is an example of epic poetry.

C. All of the above answers are true.

D. Both A and B are true.

5905. The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?
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A. Trochaic trimeter

B. Iambic pentameter

C. Anapestic pentameter

D. Terza rima

5906. Martin Luthers translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation ?
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A. Piers Plowman

B. The Bible

C. Canterbury Tales

D. Paradise Lost

5907. The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?
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A. The Prelude

B. Canterbury Tales

C. The Faerie Queen

D. Paradise Lost

5908. Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century?
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A. Dante

B. Machiavelli

C. Petrarch

D. Langland

5909. Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writers epic poetry ?
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A. Milton

B. Wordsworth

C. Aristo

D. Both A and B

5910. Christopher Marlowes Faustus is an example of what dramatic genre ?
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A. Satire

B. Tragedy

C. Comedy

D. Romance

5911. King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
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A. Protestantism

B. Roman Catholicism

C. Catholicism

D. Buddhism

5912. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ______________ and ______________?
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A. Emotional, Psychological

B. none of these

C. Psychological, Sexual

D. Religious, Didactic

5913. Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ?
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A. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived.

B. A and B only

C. The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.

D. All of the above

5914. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?
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A. 95 Theses

B. The Bible

C. Piers Plowman

D. Paradise Lost

5915. Complete the following sentence. Yeatss Sailing to Byzantium is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?
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A. attempts to create a modernist high culture.

B. was written at the very beginning of the 20th century.

C. embraces the rhythms and diction of common mans speech.

D. does not employ rhyme.

5916. Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?
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A. Curiosity about the past

B. Deference to the past

C. Violation of the past

D. Paradoxically both B and C

5917. Professor Hammer argues that Hart Cranes poem Voyages is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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A. T.S. Eliots The Waste Land

B. Ezra Pounds Cantos

C. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

D. T.S. Eliots A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

5918. According to Langston Hughess essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (his answer to George Schuylers essay Negro Art Hokum), what is the mountain that stands in the way of any true Negro art in America ?
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A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

B. It is a widespread urge toward whiteness among African Americans.

C. It is a widespread urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures among white Americans.

D. It is the racial segregation in the South.

5919. The poem Dulce et Decorum Est ends with the following lines: My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori. Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
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A. Brookes inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize

B. distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.

C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.

D. These lines suggest the authors anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.

E. All of the above

5920. Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?
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A. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.

B. They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities.

C. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.

D. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.

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