3451. Who invented the term Sprung rhythm ?
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A. Browning

B. Tennyson

C. Hopkins

D. Wordsworth

3452. Which statement about the Earth is asserted as true in Paradise Lost ?
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A. It was created before God the Son

B. Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain

C. The Earth revolves around the sun

D. The Earth is a lotus flower

3454. Which college did William Wordsworth attend ?
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A. Christ College

B. Kings College

C. Trinity College

D. St. Johns College
3455. Complete the following statement. John Milton explains in the first 26 lines of Paradise Lost that that goal of his epic poem will be ?
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A. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.

B. to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.

C. to justify the ways of God to humankind.

D. to justify the ways of humankind to God.

3456. In which country is Macbeth set ?
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A. Spain

B. Scotland

C. Denmark

D. Canada

3458. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child! come from ?
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A. g Henry VIII

B. The Life and Death of King John

C. King Lear

D. As You Like It

E. The Famous History of the Life of

3459. Estella is the daughter of ?
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A. Joe Gargery

B. Bentley Drumnile

C. Miss Havisham

D. Abel Magwitch .

3463. John Miltons Samson Agonistes is best described by which of the following genres ?
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A. Pastoral elegy

B. Blank verse tragedy

C. Masque

D. Prose polemic

3464. Which is the longest book ?
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A. Book I

B. Book X

C. Book IX

D. Book VIII

3465. Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Charles Dickens

C. W. M. Thackeray

D. Thomas Hardy

3468. What is the name of the eccentric scientist in the novel Frankenstein ?
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A. Mario Frankenstein

B. Kristofer Frankenstein

C. Paris Frankenstein

D. Victor Frankenstein
3469. In what book does the fall take place ?
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A. Book VIII

B. Book VII

C. Book IX

D. Book X

3470. Which of the following are characters of Much ado about nothing ?
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A. Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato

B. Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato

C. Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato

D. Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio

3471. What nationality was Shakespeare ?
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A. Scottish

B. English

C. Greek

D. Italian

3473. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lains Men Theatrical Company as a ?
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A. None of above

B. Actor and playwright

C. Playwright and writer

D. Playwright and poet

3476. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
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A. The Seven Lamps of Architecture

B. Modem Painters

C. The Two Paths

D. The Stones of Venice

3477. Which of the following is Goldings first novel ?
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A. Pyramid

B. Lord of the Flies

C. Pincher Martin

D. The Inheritors

3480. Despite Samsons defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will arise and his great name assert by making Dagon receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers (46771). This prediction is interesting because ?
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A. Samson doesnt know he himself will fulfill the prediction.

B. the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.

C. the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon

D. the prediction is never fulfilled.

3481. Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Miltons God in Paradise Lost is and____________?
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A. inaccessible, omnipresent

B. invisible, omnipresent

C. visible, inaccessible

D. nonexistent, invisible

3482. After Milton went blind, he was able to compose poetry by using ______________?
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A. braille

B. an Abacus

C. a code of his own devising

D. dictation
3483. When Satan leaps over the fence into Paradise, what does Milton liken him to ?
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A. A snake slithering up a tree

B. A wolf leaping into a sheeps pen

C. A fish leaping out of water

D. A germ infecting a body

3484. Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
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A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

B. Christabel

C. Biographia Literaria

D. Kubla Khan

3485. John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
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A. Englands poet laureate

B. Englands first poet

C. Englands greatest civil engineer

D. Englands first dramatist

3486. Eve before the Fall might best be described as ?
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A. detailed oriented

B. uncomfortable with Adam

C. a docile, vain creature

D. a feminist

3487. Was the Globe ?
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A. An Elizabethan sports stadium.

B. A famous map of the world.

C. An Elizabethan Theater.

D. A Roman Amphitheater.

3488. On which Biblical theme that Paradise lost is based ?
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A. Adam and Eve

B. The fall of man

C. The genesis

D. The fall of Lucifer

3490. Satans name before he fell from heaven was ?
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A. Michael

B. Beezlebub

C. Belial

D. Lucifer
3491. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, My salad days, when I was green in judgment. come from ?
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A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. The Merry Wives of Windsor

C. The Winters Tale

D. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

3492. The group of four plays known as the major tetralogy is ?
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A. 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III

B. Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V

C. King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III

D. Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI

3495. Who tells Macbeth, The queen, my lord, is dead ?
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A. The Doctor

B. Caithness

C. Seyton

D. Siward

3496. What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious ?
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A. Talk to the animals

B. Eat of the Tree of Knowledge

C. Go in search of her mate

D. Look at her reflection in a stream
3497. John Miltons Paradise Regained is a story largely about what topic ?
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A. A quest for knowledge of other countries

B. A quest for Forbidden Knowledge

C. A quest for knowledge of the future

D. A quest for knowledge of the self
3499. Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ?
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A. between1579 and 1583

B. between1585 and 1592

C. between1580 and 1591

D. between1579 and 1587

3500. Where was William Shakespeare was born and brought up ?
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A. Stratford-upon-Avon

B. London

C. Chester

D. Yorkshire