ages era period Mcqs
301. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
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A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Volpone

C. King Lear

D. Othello

302. Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Windsor

B. Tudor

C. Lancaster

D. York

303. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
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A. all of the above

B. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes

C. supernatural phenomenon

D. perversion and sadism, often involving a maidens persecution

304. How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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A. 3

B. 6

C. 4

D. 5

305. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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A. Mary Wroth

B. Aemilia Lanyer

C. Samuel Daniel

D. Ben Jonson

306. Who wrote: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Hart Crane

B. T.S. Eliot

C. William Carlos Williams

D. Ernest Hemingway

307. Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?
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A. the Protectorate

B. Ulster

C. the Pale

D. West Britain

308. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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A. The common people were still essentially pagan.

B. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

C. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

D. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic

309. What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
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A. Protestantism

B. Ancestor-worship

C. Atheism

D. Catholicism
310. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
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A. William Godwins Caleb Williams

B. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

C. Jane Austens Emma

D. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

311. In which work do you read: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Sonnets from the Portuguese

B. Prelude

C. The Last Decalogue

D. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
312. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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A. William Worsworths Lyrical Ballads

B. all but C

C. John Keatss To Autumn

D. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein

313. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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A. the classical satire

B. the epigram

C. the country-house poem

D. the Petrarchan sonnet
314. The churchyard of St. Pauls Cathedral was well-known for its____________?
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A. ruinous condition.

B. performing bears.

C. graffiti.

D. bookshops.
315. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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A. Romantic

B. Metaphysical

C. Neo-Romantic

D. Augustan
316. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
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A. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Woman

B. Coleridges Dejection: An Ode

C. Blakes Prophetic Books

D. all but C
317. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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A. Cheapside

B. Covent Garden

C. Grub Street

D. Elephant and Castle

318. Which poet could be described as part of \The Movement\of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C
319. Why didnt Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27

B. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

C. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

D. He just wasnt bright enough

320. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homers lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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A. a and c only

B. human reverence for the classics

C. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks

D. pride for the vernacular language

321. According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
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A. his party.

B. love.

C. honor.

D. money.\
322. What is blank verse ?
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A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets

B. unrhymed iambic pentameter

C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter

D. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet

323. Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
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A. symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,

B. to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans

C. as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking

D. All the above
324. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
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A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

C. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

D. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

325. In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the books erupted between which two groups ?
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A. the Welsh and the Scots

B. champions of ancient and modern learning

C. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery

D. round-earthers and flat-earthers

326. Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?
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A. charity

B. patronage

C. censorship

D. subscription

327. What was restored in 1660 ?
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A. the Book of Common Prayer

B. the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

C. toleration of religious dissidents

D. the dominance of the Tory Party
328. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
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A. hunting

B. gluttonous feasting

C. all of the above

D. hard drinking

329. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. Ben Jonson

C. Thomas Gray

D. William Collins

330. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?
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A. Mary Tudor

B. Elizabeth Tudor

C. James I

D. Henry VII

331. What mock epic begins: What dire offence from amrous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things ?
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A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

B. Drydens Absalom and Achitophel

C. Popes The Dunciad

D. Drydens Mac Flecknoe

332. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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A. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

B. It required less skill than other genres.

C. Too many of its readers were women.

D. all of the above
333. What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
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A. its union of thought and passion

B. A and B

C. its uncompromising engagement with politics

D. its intellectual complexity

334. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. irresolute open endings

B. narrative realism

C. stream of consciousness

D. free indirect style

335. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
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A. choler

B. black bile

C. cholesterol

D. blood

336. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?
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A. only a small area around London and Oxford.

B. with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.

C. with deference to Parliaments legislative supremacy.

D. through a system of draconian military courts.

337. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
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A. Evelyn Waugh

B. Virginia Woolf

C. George Orwell

D. Orson Wells

338. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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A. Romantic

B. Neo-Romantic

C. Metaphysical

D. Augustan
339. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?
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A. Butlers Hudibras

B. Gays Beggars Opera

C. Fieldings Jonathan Wild

D. Popes Dunciad
340. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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A. the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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

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

D. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

341. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ?
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A. Decameron

B. Merlin

C. Macpherson

D. Ossian
342. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poets time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
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A. Alfred Lord Tennyson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

343. What was the licensing system ?
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A. All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).

B. All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.

C. All books had to be dedicated to a noble or royal patron.

D. Poets were required to have a university diploma (the original \poetic license\).

344. Who is termed as The Morning Star of Renaissance ?
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A. Spenser

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. John Gower

D. Langland

345. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic era ?
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A. London Magazine

B. A and C only

C. The Edinburgh Review

D. The Spectator

346. what was chaucers profession ?
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A. a poet

B. a merchant

C. none of the above

D. a civil servant
347. In which work do you read: There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. ?
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A. The Fatal Curiosity

B. A Handful of Dust

C. Riders to the Sea

D. A Dolls House
348. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
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A. Paul Scotts Staying On

B. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

C. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea

D. E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

349. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
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A. Sigmund Freud

B. Sir James Frazer

C. Immanuel Kant

D. all but C
350. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?
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A. irresolute open endings

B. free indirect style

C. narrative realism

D. stream of consciousness