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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6001. Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?
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A. Libertarianism

B. Democracy

C. Marxism

D. Fascism

6002. Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Cranes modernist poetry ?
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A. French Classicism

B. British Romanticism

C. American Romanticism

D. German Romanticism

6003. In Wallace Stevenss poem The Man on the Dump, one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
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A. The broken dreams of the American migr community in Paris

B. Old poetry

C. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context

D. The failed attempt of modern poetry

6004. In his essay The Roots of Modernism, Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
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A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.

B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.

C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.

D. Both A and C

6005. Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Steins poetry and Imagist poetry ?
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A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.

B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.

C. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.

D. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.

6006. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?
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A. Patriotic imagery

B. Apocalyptic imagery

C. Nihilism

D. Irony

6007. One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevenss poem Sunday Morning consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
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A. The ideal of courtly love

B. The Renaissance concept of humanism

C. The alchemical concept of the philosophers stone

D. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation

6008. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
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A. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with womens rights.

C. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.

D. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.

6009. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?
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A. John Milton

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. Amy Lowell

D. Allen Ginsberg

6010. According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, The Strivings of the Negro People, what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
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A. All of the above

B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive

C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment

D. Feeling like an outcast in your own house

6011. Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrells 1945 poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ?
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A. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mothers womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.

B. The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.

C. The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.

D. The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.

6012. H.D.s poem Oread reads: WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir. To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?
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A. Futurist poetry

B. Vorticist poetry

C. Objectivist poetry

D. Imagist poetry

6013. Which of the following women is most closely associated with monastic life ?
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A. Marie de France

B. The Wife of Bath

C. Hildegard of Bingen

D. Christine de Pizan

6014. Which of the following best characterize noble women in the Middle Ages ?
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A. they were expected to be religious role models

B. All of the Above

C. they ran the household

D. they were expected to fix problems in their husbands absence

6015. Which of the following couples exemplify/ exemplifies courtly love ?
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A. All of the Above

B. Dante and Beatrice

C. Arthur and Guinevere

D. Lancelot and Guinevere

6016. Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?
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A. The Bretons roots were in the Celtic cultural tradition.

B. The Bretons represented prominent forces in the Norman invasion.

C. Breton literature had a profound effect on medieval literature in England.

D. All of these answers

6017. How would you describe the phrase oralformulaic, as you learned it in this course ?
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A. As a device used to describe the flaws in the oral tradition

B. As a term associated only with religious written literature

C. As a technique that became popular after the invention of the printing press

D. As a method of composing stories in the oral tradition

6018. What is the significance of the Green Knight ?
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A. He alludes to an ancient Anglo-Saxon ruler.

B. He suggests a continued tie with paganism.

C. He suggests the lack of knightly themes in Middle English poetry.

D. He represents the link with Celtic mythology.

6019. Which literary device is most important structurally in The Book of the City of Ladies ?
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A. assonance

B. allegory

C. simile

D. litotes

6020. Which of the following would most likely be the theme of a medieval romance ?
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A. A poem that features courtly love but denounces supernaturalism

B. The story of an English villages conversion to Christianity

C. A first-person story of the Norman invasion

D. The adventure of a knight who rescues a maiden

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