ages era period MCQs – Page 10

Practise focused ages era period questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

ages era period Mcqs
451. Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation ?
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A. Anne Boleyn

B. Martin Luther

C. Pope Leo X

D. Ulrich Zwingli

452. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?
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A. woman

B. God

C. nature

D. civilization

453. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre ?
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A. Matthew Lewiss The Monk

B. Ann Radcliffes The Italian

C. William Beckfords Vathek

D. Tobias Smolletts Roderick Randsom
454. Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
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A. Thomas Mores The History of King Richard III

B. Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus

C. William Shakespeares King Lear

D. Thomas Mores Utopia
455. What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?
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A. William Laud

B. William Collins

C. William Shakespeare

D. William Tyndale

456. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?
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A. a field of daffodils

B. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

C. a graveyard

D. the Orient

457. Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
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A. William Godwins Caleb Williams

B. Percy Bysshe Shelleys England in 1819

C. all of the above

D. William Godwins Inquiry Concerning Political Justice

458. Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
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A. They caused excessive noise and traffic.

B. They drew young people away from work.

C. They excited illicit sexual desires.

D. They charged too much.
459. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
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A. total recall

B. stream of consciousness

C. confused daze

D. automatic writing

460. What was the general subject of theWelsh poet Katherine Philipss work ?
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A. celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships

B. celebrations of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration

C. celebrations of the transience of all life and beauty

D. celebrations of lesbian sexuality in terms that did not imply a male readership

461. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
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A. the invention of the airplane

B. wireless communication across the Atlantic

C. Albert Einsteins theory of relativity

D. the creation of the internet
462. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?
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A. partition

B. division

C. segregation

D. enclosure
463. 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

464. 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
465. 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
466. 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

467. 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

468. 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

469. 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

470. 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.

471. 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
472. 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

473. 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

474. 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

475. 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

476. 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.
477. 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
478. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
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A. Dutch

B. Latin

C. French

D. Celtic

479. 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.

480. 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

481. 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
482. 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

483. 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

484. 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

485. 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

486. 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

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

B. Margery Kempe

C. William Langland

D. Sir Thomas Malory

488. 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.

489. 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.

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

B. Dutch

C. Celtic

D. French

491. 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

492. 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

493. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to____________________?
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A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility

B. the lower orders of the nobility

C. the clergy

D. agricultural laborers

494. 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
495. 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

496. 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

497. 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
498. 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
499. 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

500. 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