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I Part One
1 Famous playwright, poet and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.1 John Keats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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1.2 Christopher Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.3 Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4 John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.5 The Poetry of John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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1.6 Paradise Lost- John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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1.7 William Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

1.8 Frankenstein-Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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1.10 William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

1.11 Play by sakespear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
1.12 Edmund Spenser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1.13 Geoffrey Chaucer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1.14 James Joyce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.15 Dante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
1.16 Hamlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.17 Macbeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.18 Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
II Part two
2 Ages, era, period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
2.1 Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
2.2 16th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
2.3 Early 17th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
2.4 Restoration and 18th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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2.5 Romantic Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
2.6 Victorian Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
2.7 20th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
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2.8 Elizabethan Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
2.9 Jacobean Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
2.10 The Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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2.11 Middle ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
2.12 Elizabethan era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
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3 American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
3.1 Multiple choice questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
3.2 True and false . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
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3.3 Single answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
4 Literary Theory and Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

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5 Introduction to Literary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
6 Introduction to Literary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

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7 Cultural and Literary English Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
8 Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
9 Cultural and Literary in Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
10 Medieval Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
11 Medieval Women Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

12 The Gothic Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
13 English Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
14 Modern Poetry and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
15 The Victorian Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
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16 African-American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
17 Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
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V Part Five
18 Overview of English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
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Puritan Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
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Native American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
21 Romantic Era - English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
22 The English Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

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23 Theme in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
24 Traditional Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

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25 Transcendentalism Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

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26 Folk Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
27 Genres of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

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28 Gothic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
29 Literature Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
30 Early British literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
31 Wisdom literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
32 World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

33 Latin and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
34 Afro-Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
35 American English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
36 Ancient Greece Language and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
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Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
38 British Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
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39 Dystopian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
40 Early Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
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41 Elements of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
42 England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

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43 Literature Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
VI Part six
44 Miscelleneous questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
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1.4 John Milton

1.5 The Poetry of John Milton
1.6 Paradise Lost- John Milton
1.7 William Wordsworth
1.8 Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
1.9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1.10 William Shakespeare
1.11 Play by sakespear
1.12 Edmund Spenser
1.13 Geoffrey Chaucer
1.14 James Joyce
1.15 Dante
1.16 Hamlet
1.17 Macbeth
1.18 Poetry
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3. What was the profes- 5. In which school did
7. In which hospital John
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Keats registered as a
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John Keats joined for finishing his appren-
apprenticeship? ticeship with Ham-
B. King’s Grammar
A. teacher School mond?
B. surgeon C. Harrow A. Queen’s Chamber
C. banker D. Eton B. Guy’s Hospital
1. C 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. B
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1.2 Christopher Marlowe

1. The title page which 5. To which theater was 9. In which place of Eng-
play of Christopher Christopher Marlow as- land Christopher Mar-
Marlow attributes the sociated with? low born?
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play to Marlowe and A. English Puritan the- A. London
Thomas Nashe? atre
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B. English Renaissance
C. Canterbury
B. Dido, Queen of theatre
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D. Tamburlaine the Classical theatre lished title of Christo-
Great pher Marlow’s play The
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low receive Bachelor of Jew of Malta
Arts degree in 1584? B. 12 September 1598
B. The Tragedy of the
A. Oxford University C. 26 April 1601 Rich Jew of Malta
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D. 1592 8. At what age did Carthage
4. When was Christopher Christopher Marlow C. Edward the Second
Marlowe baptized? die?
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A. 26 February 1564 A. 33
Great
B. 12 January 1569 B. 29 12. From where Christo-
C. 30 April 1560 C. 47 pher Marlowe received
D. 10 October 1547 D. 54 his early Education?
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1. Through his magic, C. Raillery, renuncia- 6. Which of the Marlowe’s
Faustus is visited first tion and recoup plays were written
by which of the devil’s D. none of the above in collaboration with
angels? Thomas Nash?
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3. What is the meaning of
“Renaissance": ? 7. Who wrote following
A. Nicholas Udall lines: " I am in-
A. Rebirth, revival and
volved in mankind: and
re-awaking B. Thomas Colwell therefore never send to
B. Reveal, revel and C. Lord Burghley know for whom the bell
reverie tolls; it tolls for thee."
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A. John Donne A. Valdes and Cor- A. French word

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C. Earnest Hemingway B. Rosencrantz and
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D. Germany D. Rome
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qualities would most ac- Robert Greene
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C. Beethoven Emperor B. Robert Henry
D. Wagner C. John Lyly
C. The King of England
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D. Thomas more
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are their names? 16. “Renaissance” is a: in:
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20. A 21. B 22. C
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A. Allegory Calendar
C. 1517
B. Epic C. Complaints
D. 1518
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A. Thomas More
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A. Edmund Spencer
D. William Tyndale A. Edmund Spenser
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C. Thomas lodge Doctor Faustus". Faus-
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D. Thomas Kyde
26. Philip Sidney was born B. Elizabeth one A. German scholar
on 30th November: C. Henry six B. French scholar
A. 1553 D. Henry eight C. Spanish scholar
B. 1554 D. Greek scholar
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A. Shakespeare 42. Who wrote “Holy Son- D. Faerie queen, sec-

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lowe A. Edmund Spenser 47. Spencer married in
June 11, 1594 to ?
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A. Elizabeth Wilton
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collection of sonnets is D/O Walter Raleigh
finished poem “Hero written by:
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and Leander"? C. Elizabeth Boyle D/O
A. Edmund Spenser James Boyle
A. Shakespeare
B. John Milton D. Elizabeth Boyle D/O
B. Thomas Nash
C. Shakespeare Richard Boyle
an
C. George Chapman
D. Sir Philip Sidney 48. John Donne’s “The An-
D. Thomas More niversaries” is a:
44. “Paradise lost” was lost
39. Who succeeded Lyly? by: A. An elegy in two
Ch
A. Robert Greene A. Eve parts
B. John Milton B. Adam B. An epic in three
parts
C. Philip Sidney C. Both a and b
C. A ballad in four
D. Christopher Mar- D. Satan parts
lowe
an
45. In “Paradise regained”

40. Who was the son of a D. None of these
who regained the par-
rich London merchant adise? 49. Who of the following is
and born in 1557? known as Child Of Re-
A. Satan naissance?
y
A. Thomas Nah
B. Jesus A. Marlowe
B. Thomas lodge
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C. Adam and Eve B. Milton

C. Thomas Kyd
D. Only Adam C. Spencer
D. Thomas Hardy
46. Which of the follow-
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41. The collection of the D. Johnson

ing published in 1579
papers and correspon- and although it placed 50. During Spencer’s visit
dence of a well-to- Spencer immediately in to his Kinsfolk in Lan-
do Norfolk family is the highest rank of liv- cashire he felt in love
known as: ing writers? a woman and who fig-
A. Letters to the Mar- ures as much of his
A. Colin clouts come
gret Paston work:
home again
B. Margret Paston to A. Rosalind
B. Faerie queen, first
John Paston three books B. Belinda
C. The Paston letters C. The Shepherd’s cal- C. Both a and b
D. To John Paston endar D. None of above
38. C 39. A 40. B 41. C 42. B 43. B 44. C 45. C 46. C 47. C 48. A 49. C
50. A
51. William Shakespeare C. both a and b B. Trinity Church

born in:
D. None of above. C. Protestant Ceme-
A. 26 April 1567 55. Ann Hathaway was tery
B. 26 April 1566 years older than D. None of above
Shakespeare:
C. 26 April 1565 59. By Shakespeare had
A. 7 established himself in
er
D. 26 April 1564
B. 8 London as an actor and
52. William Shakespeare dramatist:
was child of John C. 9
A. 1590
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and Mary: D. 10
A. second B. 1591
56. After years of his
B. fourth marriage he left his na- C. 1592
tive town and try his
an
C. third D. 1593
fortune in the great city
of London. 60. Who declared him
D. fifth
as Britain’s greatest
53. He married to the Anne A. two dramatist in 1598?
Ch
Hathaway at the age
B. three A. Queen Elizabeth
of in
C. four B. Francis Meres, a
A. 18, 1582
D. five lawyer
B. 17, 1581
57. Shakespeare’s only son C. Burbage, an actor
C. 16, 1580 Hamnet died in ?
an
D. King James
D. 15, 1579 A. 1595 61. Shakespeare made
54. Which of the following B. 1596 Stratford his regular
statement is correct: home in:
y
C. 1597
A. Shakespeare’s first A. About 1611
child Susanna was born D. 1598
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in 1583. B. About 1610

58. Shakespeare is buried
B. In 1585 twins were inside the: C. About 1609
born and named Ham- A. Westminster Abbey D. About 1608
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net and Judith.
51. D 52. B 53. A 54. C 55. B 56. C 57. B 58. B 59. C 60. B 61. B
1.4 John Milton

1. Which famous work B. Paradise Lost 2. What is the meaning of
of John Milton’s was Milton’s work Samson
based on the fall of C. Samson Agonistes Agonistes?
man? D. On the Late Mas-
A. Paradise Regained sacre in Piedmont A. Theist
1. B 2. D
B. Atheist A. Paradise Lost 11. When was John Milton

B. Il Penseroso born?
C. Antagonist
C. Areopagitica A. 12 June 1628
D. Wrestler
3. When did John Milton D. Lycidas B. 2 May 1614
publish Tenure of Kings 7. Where was John Milton C. 17 August 1612
and Magistrates? born? Where was John
er
D. 9 December 1608
A. 1628 Milton born?
12. Which one of Milton’s
B. 1649 A. London
senses were lost during
gd
B. Bristol writing his works?
C. 1645
C. Wales A. Taste
D. 1637
D. Yorkshire B. Voice
4. In whose memory
8. Which college did John
an
did John Milton write C. Hearing
Methought I saw my Milton attend?
late espousèd saint? A. Queens college D. Vision
A. Katherine Wood- B. Trinity college 13. Who did Milton have

Ch
cock to write his works
C. Christ’s college down when he became
B. Oliver Cromwell D. Warwick college Blind?
C. Edward II 9. When did John Milton A. his friends
D. Mary Powell die?
B. his friends
A. 22 June 1675
an
5. Which book was about C. his daughters

the temptation of B. 9 December 1670
Christ? D. his sons
C. 14 February 1669
A. L’Allegro 14. Whom did John Milton
D. 8 November 1674
y
marry at the age of 34?

B. Paradise Regained 10. When was Paradise
Lost published? A. Agnes
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C. Samson Agonistes
A. 1667 B. Ann Powell
D. Paradise Lost
B. 1639 C. Lynda
6. Which Poem caused
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Milton’s stature as a C. 1669 D. Mary Powell

poet to be recognized? D. 1651
3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. D 10. A 11. D 12. D 13. C 14. D
1.5 The Poetry of John Milton

1. Which of the following A. An Epic Council tion” Speech
elements DOES NOT
B. An “Arming of the D. An Invocation to
characterize epic po-
Hero” Scene the Muse
etry?
C. A “Tragic Recogni- 2. Which of the following
1. C 2. A
British monarchs was (starting with line 1381) 8. John Milton’s “Comus”
executed during the En- he suddenly reverses is best described by
glish Civil War? positions and agrees to which of the following
go. Why does he do genres?
A. Charles I
this?
A. Pastoral elegy
B. Charles II
A. He experiences
B. Prose polemic
C. Queen Anne some “rousing motions”
er
which might be from C. Blank verse tragedy
D. Henry VIII
God.
3. What event occurs
B. Manoa convinces D. Masque
gd
in the final lines of
him to do it or the 9. In the early books of
John Milton’s “Paradise
Philistines will execute John Milton’s “Paradise
Lost”?
Samson. Lost,” Satan conspires
A. Adam and Eve hold with which of the fol-
an
C. The Chorus de-
hands and walk across lowing characters?
mands he stay in his
an arid plain.
prison cell and Samson A. Baal
B. Adam and Eve reacts against them.
promise to be fruitful B. Beelzebub
Ch
D. He wishes to see
and multiply. Dalila one last time in C. Michel
C. Adam and Eve curse the crowd. D. A and B
their God. 6. After graduating from 10. What British Romantic
D. Adam and Eve curse university, John Milton author was particularly
Satan. toured the continent of inspired by the work of
an
Europe and likely met John Milton?

4. “Samson Agonistes” is with which of the fol-
described as a “Closet lowing individuals? A. William Blake
Drama,” which means
A. Michelangelo B. Alfred Lord Ten-
y
A. it can be acted out nyson

on a very small stage. B. Charles II
C. Elizabeth Barrett
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C. Galileo
B. it was written to be Browning
read but not acted upon D. A and B
D. T.S. Eliot
a stage. 7. The English Civil War
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was waged between 11. In John Milton’s “Par-

C. people will read it adise Lost,” Satan as-
in secret and not pub- what two political
groups? sumes the character
lically admit they read and form of what crea-
it. A. Royalists and ture in order to tempt
D. it was written to be Monarchists Eve to eat at the Tree of
acted in a church. B. Royalists and Parlia- Knowledge?
5. Near the end of “Sam- mentarians A. A toad
son Agonistes,” Samson C. Parliamentarians B. A serpent
has decided not to per- and Roundheads
form for attendants at C. A lion
D. Anarchists and Roy-
a certain event when alists D. A tiger
3. A 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. D 10. A 11. B
12. In Book One of “Par- D. Death is Satan’s 18. John Milton’s

adise Lost,” the narrator daughter. “L’Allegro” and “Il
identifies the fallen an- 15. John Milton’s “Paradise Penseroso” are com-
gels or devils by what Regained” is most simi- panion poems and are
names? lar in linguistic style to both written in
A. Their surnames what books from “Par- A. iambic pentameter
adise Lost”?
er
B. The names of pagan B. tetrameter couplets
gods A. Three and Four C. heroic couplets
C. The names of for- B. Five and Six D. Shakespearean son-
gd
eign countries nets
C. Eight and Nine
D. The names of the an- 19. According to John Mil-
D. Eleven and Twelve
gels they will become ton’s view of the struc-
16. As originally envi- ture of the universe, the
an
13. In “Samson Agonistes,”
sioned by John Milton, “Created Universe” is
the Chorus describes
“Paradise Lost” would surrounded by what?
the approaching Dalila
consist of how many
as beautifully and lav- A. Heaven
books?
ishly dressed to better
Ch
B. Hell
seduce Samson. This is A. Nine
interesting because C. Chaos
B. Ten
A. the Chorus has just D. Sunshine
C. Eleven
stated it hates this 20. In “Samson Ago-
kind of lavish, exter- D. Twelve nistes,” Samson’s father,
an
nal beauty. 17. “Samson Agonistes” dif- Manoa, is trying to get

B. Samson hates this fers from its source ma- Samson freed from im-
kind of lavish, external terial, the Biblical book prisonment mainly so
beauty. of “Judges,” in what he can help Samson to
y
way(s)?
C. Dalila usually
dresses in a more under- A. In “Samson,” Hara- A. get revenge on his
ra
stated Puritan manner. pha is Samson’s enemy, enemies

but he is not in “Judges.” B. re-instated as a
Judge
D. Samson is blind.
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14. In “Paradise Lost,” what B. In “Samson,” Sam- C. retire

is the relationship son is a Jew, but he is D. convert
between Satan and not in “Judges.”
21. John Milton’s “Paradise
Death? C. In “Samson,” Sam- Lost” is best described
A. Death is Satan’s fa- son marries the Woman by which of the follow-
ther. of Timnah, but not in ing genres?
“Judges.”
B. Death is Satan’s son. A. Pastoral elegy
D. In “Samson,” Sam- B. Prose polemic
son never worships
C. Death is Satan’s Dagon, but he does in C. Blank verse tragedy
brother. “Judges.”
12. B 13. D 14. B 15. D 16. B 17. A 18. B 19. C 20. C 21. D
D. Epic made him [Adam] just Lost” derives from what

22. Despite Samson’s de- and right, / Sufficient to text?
feat and shame, Sam- have stood though free
A. The Book of “Gene-
son predicts that God to fall.”
sis”
will “arise and his great A. Transubstantiation
name assert” by making B. The Book of “Reve-
B. Free will lations”
Dagon receive “Such a
er
discomfit, as shall quite C. Predestination C. “The Odyssey”
despoil him / Of all
D. Sufficience D. “Canterbury Tales”
these boasted Trophies
gd
won on me / And with 25. John Milton’s “Paradise 29. Which of the following
confusion blank his Regained” is written in themes IS NOT impor-
Worshippers” (467–71). a(n) style. tant to John Milton’s
This prediction is inter- A. plain “Paradise Regained”?
an
esting because
B. luminescent A. Sexual desire
A. the prediction is
never fulfilled. C. Latinate B. Seeking God’s Will
D. Sophistic and Guidance
B. the prophet Enoch
Ch
had made the same pre- 26. John Milton’s “Lycidas” C. What it means to be
diction centuries earlier. is best described by the “Son of God”
which of the following D. Temptation
C. Samson doesn’t genres?
30. What important
know he himself will A. Pastoral elegy event(s) occur(s) in
an
fulfill the prediction. John Milton’s “Paradise

B. Prose polemic
D. the prediction is Lost” immediately af-
C. Blank verse tragedy
finally fulfilled much ter Eve first eats of the
later when Jesus de- Tree of Knowledge?
y
feats Dagon. D. Masque

A. Nature is immedi-
23. In Book Six of “Paradise 27. In “Samson Agonistes,”
ra
ately wounded by Eve’s

Lost,” Adam is told of Harapha exits because transgression.
what major event? of what reason:
B. Satan is immedi-
A. The fall of the Son A. Samson will not
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ately wounded by Eve’s

fight him. transgression.
B. The fall of the Rebel
Angels B. He does not want to C. Raphael is immedi-
fight Samson. ately wounded by Eve’s
C. The fall of God
C. He must hurry to transgression.
D. The death of
catch up with Dalila. D. Abdiel immediately
Michael
D. He has been called flees the Council of
24. In Book Three of “Par-
back to his hometown Rebel Angels.
adise Lost,” God the Fa-
ther alludes to what the- of Gath. 31. Which of the following
ological principle in the 28. The foundation story of works was not written
following quotation: “I John Milton’s “Paradise by John Milton?
22. C 23. B 24. B 25. A 26. A 27. B 28. A 29. A 30. A 31. D
A. “How Soon Hath 35. In the “Book of Job,” Sa- 39. Early in Book Two of
Time” tan speaks to what fig- “Paradise Regained,”
ure(s)? who yearns to see the
B. “Captain or Colonel”
missing Jesus (who
A. God/Yahweh
has wandered into the
C. “Avenge O Lord” B. Judea desert)?
C. Lot A. First Mary, then
er
D. “Drink to Me only
with thine eyes” D. A and B Joseph
32. The character named 36. Unlike the gods and B. First Andrew and Si-
gd
Comus is often seen by goddesses of classical mon (Peter), then Mary
critics as a prototype of epics, John Milton’s
what character Milton God in “Paradise Lost”
C. First Mary, then
later portrayed? is and
James and John
an
A. Jesus A. visible, inaccessible
D. First Peter, then
B. Samson B. inaccessible, om- Paul and Mary
nipresent
C. Satan 40. According to John Mil-
Ch
C. nonexistent, invisi- ton, political offices
D. Adam ble were to be filled by
33. John Milton claimed D. invisible, om-
from an early age nipresent A. the king
that he would become
37. Which of the follow- B. the House of Lords
ing monarchs was “re-
an
A. England’s first poet stored” to the British C. popular election

B. England’s first throne during the
D. God
dramatist Restoration?
41. What poets before Mil-
y
C. England’s poet lau- A. Charles I

ton were famous for
reate B. Charles II writing epics?
ra
D. England’s greatest C. Henry VIII A. Virgil, Shakespeare,

civil engineer D. Charles III and Spenser
Na
34. In his poem “Lycidas,” 38. In the Oliver Cromwell B. Homer, Virgil, and
John Milton does which “Commonwealth” and Spenser
of the following? “Protectorate” adminis- C. Chaucer, Shake-
A. Mourns the death of trations, Milton served speare, and Spenser
a college classmate as the British govern-
ment’s chief
B. Mourns the death of D. Gilgamesh, Pe-
his mother A. Civil Engineer
trarch, and Dryden
C. Mourns the death of B. Poet Laureate
42. The first stanza of John
his son C. Military Strategist Milton’s “Paradise Re-
D. Mourns the death of D. Intellectual De- gained” begins with
his wife fender what topic(s)?
32. C 33. C 34. A 35. A 36. D 37. B 38. D 39. B 40. C 41. B 42. A
A. A brief summary of A. France 49. Harapha claims he

“Paradise Lost” wishes he could have
B. Germany
B. A detailed descrip- fought Samson when
C. Spain he had his eyesight be-
tion of Satan
D. Italy cause
C. A detailed descrip-
tion of Milton himself 46. Which of the follow- A. he wants to get re-
spect from the Philis-
er
ing statements is/are
TRUE concerning Puri- tine general standing
D. A and B beside him.
tanism?
B. he wants Samson
gd
ing statements is NOT A. There is an empha-
sis on the importance of to break out of prison
TRUE concerning Book
preaching. and kill some more
Two of John Milton’s
Philistines.
“Paradise Lost”? B. There is an empha-
an
sis on spiritual experi- C. he wants to encour-
A. A debate is held in
ence. age Samson.
Hell by Satan and his
compatriots concerning D. he wants to seem
C. There is an empha-
whether to attempt to more heroic than he re-
sis on the freedom of
Ch
recover Heaven. ally is.
sexual expression.
B. Satan embarks on 50. What British Roman-
D. A and B tic artist famously de-
his passage across the
great gulf of Chaos. 47. In the demonic council picted John Milton’s
of Book Two of “Par- “Paradise Lost” in a se-
C. The Narrator in-
adise Regained,” who ries of etchings and
an
vokes his muse by the

proposes that Satan prints?
name of “Holy Light.”
should tempt Jesus
A. William Wordsworth
D. The demons begin with lust for a beau-
exploring Hell, engag- tiful woman the way
y
ing in philosophical Solomon was tempted? B. Percy Bysshe Shel-

debates, and entering ley
A. Belial
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singing competitions. C. William Blake

44. The Renaissance was B. Beelzebub
D. John Keats
known for originating C. Venus
which of the follow- 51. What character in “Par-
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ing philosophical move- D. Satan adise Lost” is first

ments? 48. John Milton’s “Are- tempted to eat of the
opagitica” is best de- Tree of Knowledge?
A. Existentialism
scribed by which of the A. Raphael
B. Humanism following genres?
B. Eve
C. Stoicism A. Pastoral elegy
C. Adam
D. Postmodernism
B. Prose polemic
45. The English masque D. The Son
has its origins in the C. Blank verse tragedy 52. Roughly speaking, how
traditions of what Euro- long was the English
pean country? D. Masque Civil War?
43. C 44. B 45. D 46. D 47. A 48. B 49. D 50. C 51. B 52. A
A. One decade A. Bath A. The Son

B. Two decades B. Paris B. Raphael
C. Three decades C. London C. Michael
D. Four decades D. Nottingham D. Adam
53. When John Milton stud- 57. In “Paradise Lost,” Mil- 61. In “Samson Agonistes,”
the character who tells
er
ied at Christ’s College, ton calls his Muse by
Cambridge, his college which of the following others of Samson’s
was a stronghold of names? death is
what religious faith? A. Manoa.
gd
A. Uriel
A. Anglicism B. Dalila.
B. Urania
B. Puritanism C. the Chorus.
C. Calypso
C. Buddhism D. a Messenger.
an
D. Calliope
D. A and C 62. John Milton’s “Paradise
58. Milton in “Samson Ag-
Regained” is a story
54. John Milton was fluent onistes” uses a Chorus,
largely about what
in which of the follow- which he borrows from
topic?
Ch
ing languages? what previous genre?
A. A quest for knowl-
A. Latin, Greek, and A. Medieval Mystery
edge of the self
Hebrew Plays
B. A quest for knowl-
B. Latin, Sanskrit, and B. Greek Epic
edge of other countries
Aramaic
C. Greek Drama
an
C. Latin, Arabic, and C. A quest for knowl-

D. French Chanson de
Spanish edge of the future
Gestes
D. Mandarin, Dutch, 59. In 1660, after the D. A quest for Forbid-
and French
y
Restoration, Milton suf- den Knowledge

55. Which of the following fered which of the fol- 63. John Milton deliber-
ra
statements is/are TRUE lowing punishments? ately distanced himself

concerning John Mil- from the poets, a
A. He was imprisoned.
ton’s ideal republic? group of poets known
for their light, elegant
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A. There was to be no
B. His left index finger style and frivolous con-
king, bishops, or House
was chopped off. tent.
of Lords.
C. He was placed in the A. Romantic
B. There were to be no
stocks for a week.
churches except Angli- B. Victorian
can churches. D. A and B
C. Cavalier
C. There was to be no 60. The Primary Narrator
for Books Eleven and D. Enlightenment
Oxford University.
Twelve of “Paradise 64. The pastoral elegy of-
D. A and C Lost,” who relates fu- ten begins with which
56. John Milton was born ture events is which of of the following poetic
in 1608 in what city? the following? conventions?
53. B 54. A 55. A 56. C 57. B 58. C 59. A 60. C 61. D 62. A 63. C 64. D
A. Invocation of a 67. In his introduction, Mil- 71. In “Samson Agonistes,”

muse ton described the genre Samson predicts “This
B. A cry of lament of “Samson Agonistes” day will be remarkable
as in my life / By some
C. Prayer to the Sun great act, or of my days
A. history play
D. A and B the last”. This is inter-
B. tragedy esting because
65. Which of the following
er
questions would a stu- C. comedy A. both statements end
dent of Book Nine of up happening that day.
D. Morality Play
John Milton’s “Paradise
gd
Lost” likely ask? 68. A number of the British
B. both statements end
Romantic poets argue
A. “What is the precise up not happening that
what character to be the
relationship between day.
protagonist (or “hero”)
Satan, Sin, and Death?”
an
of John Milton’s “Par- C. Samson is echoing
adise Lost”? the older prediction of
B. “How, exactly, was the prophet Enoch.
A. Eve
Eve tempted to eat D. both statements will
Ch
of the Tree of Knowl- B. Adam later be fulfilled by
edge?” Christ.
C. God
C. “How, exactly, was 72. Choose the BEST an-
D. Satan
Adam convinced to eat swer to fill in the blank.
of the Tree of Knowl- 69. The first sonnet form in- John Milton is best
edge?” vented was the described as a strong
an
D. B and C A. Spenserian who emphasized

66. “Samson Agonistes” dif- the freedom of the indi-
B. Shakespearean vidual.
fers from its source ma-
C. Wordsworthian
y
terial, the Biblical book A. Anglican

of “Judges,” in what D. Petrarchan B. Methodist
way(s)?
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70. Which of the following C. Protestant

A. In “Samson,” Sam- events occur(s) at some
son is blind, but he is point in John Milton’s D. Buddhist
not in “Judges.”
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“Paradise Lost”? 73. In the Biblical book of

B. In “Samson,” Manoa “Judges,”
A. Satan contemplates
is Samson’s father, but his reflection in a pool A. Dalila pays Sam-
he is not in “Judges.” of water. son’s ransom from
C. In “Samson,” Sam- prison.
B. Adam contemplates
son is married to Dalila, B. Dalila refuses to pay
his reflection in a pool
but he is not in “Judges.” Samson’s ransom in
of water.
prison.
C. Eve contemplates
D. In “Samson,” Dalila C. Never records
her reflection in a pool
cuts Samson’s hair, but Dalila’s visit to Sam-
of water.
she does not in “Judges.” son in prison.
D. All of these
65. D 66. C 67. B 68. D 69. D 70. C 71. A 72. C 73. C

D. Never records A. One D. “Up to the middle

Dalila’s cutting of Sam- Region of thick Air”
B. Two
son’s hair. 81. Which of the following
C. Three events occur(s) in the
74. What angel often
speaks to Adam in Par- D. Four first book of John Mil-
adise? ton’s “Paradise Lost”?
78. In , a good exam-
er
A. Michelangelo ple of Milton’s sharp A. Satan lays dazed on
rhetorical prose, Mil- the burning lake.
B. Raphael
ton denounces restric- B. Satan assembles his
C. Pandosto tive censorship, argu- fallen legions.
gd
D. Baal ing for freedom of the
C. Adam and Eve fall
press.
75. The elegy began as an from the state of Par-
ancient metrical A. “Paradise Lost” adise.
an
form. B. “Samson Agonistes” D. A and B
A. French 82. According to the “Book
C. “Areopagitica” of Luke,” Herod was the
B. Greek
king of
Ch
C. Roman D. “Paradise Regained”
A. Judea
D. German B. Egypt
79. In Book Six of “Par-
76. Which of the follow- adise Lost,” Satan in- C. Syria
ing statements is TRUE vents something that he
concerning John Mil- D. Jerusalem
thinks will help win his
an
ton’s poetry? 83. After Milton went blind,

war against God. What
he was able to compose
A. He followed the is it?
poetry by using
Shakespearean rather A. Gunpowder
than the Petrarchan A. braille
y
sonnet form. B. Adamantine armor B. dictation

B. He followed the Pe- C. The Chariot of Pa- C. a code of his own de-
ra
trarchan rather than ternal Deity vising

the Shakespearean son- D. The Thunderbolt D. an Abacus
net form.
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80. In Book Four of “Par- 84. What character leads

C. He followed the adise Regained,” for his Adam and Eve from the
Spenserian rather than final temptation Satan Gates of Paradise in the
the Shakespearean son- takes Jesus to what lo- final book of John Mil-
net form. cation? ton’s “Paradise Lost”?
D. He followed the A. The top of the Pan- A. Michelangelo
Spenserian rather than theon in Rome B. Raphael
the Petrarchan sonnet
form. B. The Pinnacle of the C. Uriel
Temple in Jerusalem
77. How many times does D. Michael
Satan work to tempt Je- C. The top of a “Moun- 85. The term “Agonistes” is
sus in the Gospels? tain high” Greek and it means
74. B 75. B 76. B 77. C 78. C 79. A 80. B 81. D 82. A 83. B 84. D 85. C
A. one who is in agony. 89. What author wrote 93. In the first 75 lines of
“Life of Milton”? Book One of “Paradise
A. Samuel Johnson Regained,” Satan refers
B. one who inflicts
to which person he has
agony. B. Edmund Spencer recently seen, who is
C. one who struggles C. Samuel Taylor Co- identified by the follow-
for or champions a leridge ing quote? “Before him
er
cause. [Jesus] a great Prophet,
D. T. S. Eliot
D. one who predicts to proclaim / His com-
90. What Biblical story acts ing, is sent Harbinger,
the future.
as a springboard for
gd
who all / Invites, and in
86. Complete the following John Milton’s “Paradise the Consecrated stream
statement. John Milton Regained”? / Pretends to wash off
explains in the first 26
A. The Baptism of Je- sin”
lines of “Paradise Lost”
an
that that goal of his epic sus A. John the Apostle
poem will be B. The story of Luke B. John the Baptist
A. to justify the ways C. The Ascension of Je-
C. Michael the
of God to humankind. sus
Ch
Archangel
B. to justify the ways D. The Second Coming
D. Joseph, Jesus’s step-
of humankind to God. of Jesus
father
C. to justify the ways 91. Denied the right to ap-
ply for divorce and fac- 94. What poet was famous
of Heaven to Hell.
ing intense humiliation, for his “Eclogues”?
D. to justify the ways
an
John Milton wrote what A. Virgil

of Hell to Heaven. work?
87. The ode form derives B. Shakespeare
A. “Christian Doc-
from a long tradition of C. Chaucer
trines”
y
what type of poetry?

B. “On Regicide” D. A and B
A. Lyric
95. John Milton’s “Par-
ra
C. “The Doctrine and

B. Epic adise Regained” deals
Discipline of Divorce”
C. Satiric mainly with what Bibli-
D. “Paradise Lost” cal event?
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D. Virgilian 92. Even in John Milton’s

lifetime, “Paradise Re- A. The Great Flood
88. was the compan-
ion in publication to gained” was considered B. The Parting of the
John Milton’s “Paradise in literary quality as Red Sea
Regained.” largely to “Par-
C. The Temptation of
adise Lost.”
A. “Paradise Lost” Christ
A. superior
B. “Areopagitica” D. None of these
B. inferior
C. “On Christian Doc- 96. John Milton was in-
trine” C. equal spired by the previ-
D. “Samson Agonistes” D. irrelevant in com- ous works of what au-
parison thors?
86. A 87. A 88. D 89. A 90. A 91. C 92. B 93. B 94. A 95. C 96. A
A. Homer, Virgil, and C. Victorianism fore attendants of what

Dante type of event?
D. Neoclassicism
B. Dante, Spenser, and A. Greek Olympic
Pope 98. John Milton’s “Samson Games
Agonistes” is best de-
C. Homer, Dryden, and B. A Roman Circus
scribed by which of the
Longfellow
following genres? C. A Gladiator compe-
er
D. Virgil, Shakespeare, tition
and Jane Austen A. Pastoral elegy
97. dominated En- B. Prose polemic D. A and B
gd
glish literature from the 100. D Her honor as a Jew
C. Blank verse tragedy
Restoration until the
end of the 18th century A. Religious convic-
with the emergence of tion
D. Masque
an
Romanticism. B. Political patriotism
99. Near the end of “Sam-
A. Medievalism son Agonistes,” Samson C. Her love for Samson
B. Modernism resists performing be-
Ch
97. D 98. C 99. D 100. C
1.6 Paradise Lost- John Milton

1. To justify which pur- 3. When was the first edi- B. Vers libre
an
pose that Milton wrote tion of the poem Par-

C. Regular meter
Paradise Lost? adise Lost published?
A. 1673 D. blank verse
A. To justify the fall of
Lucifer 6. Which one is the
B. 1676
y
longest book in Mil-

B. To justify the loss of C. 1656 ton’s Paradise Lost?
paradise
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D. 1667 A. Book IX
C. To justify the fall of
man 4. How many narrative B. Book XI
arcs does Paradise Lost
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D. To justify the ways have? C. Book IIV

of God to men
A. 2 D. Book X
2. How many books were
included in the second B. 1 7. On which Biblical
edition of the poem Par- theme that Paradise
C. 4
adise Lost? lost is based?
D. 12
A. 10 A. The fall of Lucifer
5. In which style did John
B. 14 Milton write the poem B. The fall of man
Paradise Lost? C. Adam and Eve
C. 12
A. Free verse D. The genesis
D. 11
1. D 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. C
8. At what point does the in power, and next in 15. The battle between
narration unfolds in the crime, long after known God’s army and Satan’s
poem Paradise Lost? in Palestine’. What’s rebels in heaven lasted:
the name of this fallen
A. In Eden A. One day
angel?
B. After the fall of man B. Three days
A. Mammon
er
B. Moloch C. Seven days
C. After the defeat of
rebel angels C. Beelzebub D. One hour
D. In paradise, when D. Ashtaroth 16. In the phrase, “thy seed
gd
Lucifer sits with God shall bruise our foe," the
13. In ’Paradise Lost’,
“seed” refers to:
9. When was Paradise which angel is ordered
Lost published? by God to drive Adam A. The Tree of Knowl-
an
and Eve out of Par- edge
A. 1660
adise? Before he does
B. 1667 so, he shows Adam B. Adam
C. 1658 a number of visions C. Cane and Abel

about the future of
Ch
D. 1654 the human race, be- D. Jesus Christ
10. “Paradise Lost” is con- ginning with Cain mur- 17. In the phrase, “thy seed
sidered a: dering Abel and ending shall bruise our foe,"
with the redemption “thy” refers to:
A. First Person Narra- of mankind through
tive Christ. Who is this an- A. Sin
an
B. Short Story gel that has a large role B. Eden

in the finishing chap-
C. Epic Poem C. Satan
ters of ’Paradise Lost’?
D. Novel
y
A. Michael D. Eve
11. Satan’s name before he
B. Abdiel 18. The two archangels
fell from heaven was:
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who serve as generals

C. Rafael
A. Beezlebub in God’s army are:
D. Gabriel
B. Michael A. Michael and Gabriel
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14. Milton’s “unholy trin-

C. Lucifer ity” of characters in-
D. Belial cludes: B. Michael and
Raphael
12. ’Book 1’ of ’Paradise A. Error, Temptation,
Lost’ presents Satan and Satan C. Raphael and Gabriel
with his angels fallen
B. Sin, Death and
into Hell. When recov-
Temptation D. Michael and Lucifer
ered, Satan awakens all
his legions and speaks C. Sin, Temptation,
to them. The first he and Satan 19. For inspiration in writ-
addresses is described D. Satan, Sin, and ing the poem, Milton
as ’one next to himself Death says he depends on:
9. B 10. C 11. C 12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. D 18. A 19. B
A. Wine 24. Who might be consid- A. Catapults

ered the friendliest and
B. The Holy Spirit B. Artillery
most sociable of all
C. His favorite pen God’s angels? C. Illusions
D. The Son A. Adam D. The Holy Sepulcher
20. Earth is described as B. Michael
29. Adam, Satan, and Eve
er
being connected to
C. Raphael herself are all dazzled
heaven by a:
D. Lucifer by Eve’s:
A. “stepping stones of
25. Everyday before the
gd
clouds A. Wit
Fall Adam and Eve
B. Golden rope B. Beauty
went out to work. What
C. Golden chain did their work consist C. Intelligence
of?
an
D. Ladder D. Hard work and spir-
A. Hunting and gather- ituality
21. Sin was born out of Sa-
ing food 30. The main reason for
tan’s:
B. Tending to the Gar- Adam’s fall might best
A. Head
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den of Eden be described as:
B. Lust A. lust
C. Building shelter to
C. Anger live in B. love for Eve
D. Rib D. Naming all God’s C. pride
22. Eve before the Fall creatures and plants
D. money
an
might best be described 26. The reason for Satan’s

31. When God sees that
as: fall might best be de-
Adam and Eve have dis-
scribed as:
A. a feminist obeyed him, who does
A. incest he send to “judge” them
y
B. uncomfortable with
B. lust and the snake?
Adam
ra
C. greed A. The Son

C. detailed oriented
D. pride B. The Holy Ghost
D. a docile, vain crea-
ture 27. The reason for Eve’s fall C. Michael
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23. Throughout the poem, might best be described D. Raphael

Satan transforms him- as:
32. Inspired by Satan’s vic-
self into many crea- A. vanity tory over man, Sin and
tures. Which creature Death construct:
B. lust
does Satan not turn
into? C. greed A. a bridge from hell to
heaven
A. a mouse D. pride
B. a temple to welcome
B. a cherub 28. On the second day of
Satan back
battle in heaven, what
C. a toad does Satan use that sur- C. a bridge from hell to
D. a serpent prises God’s forces? earth
20. C 21. A 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. A 28. B 29. B 30. B 31. A
32. C
D. a funnel from Eden A. Ordered and ratio- A. To assert his superi-

to the gates of hell nal ority to other poets
33. After they have both B. Chaotic B. To argue against the
eaten from the Tree doctrine of predestina-
of Knowledge, the first C. Wild and unman-
tion
thing Adam and Eve do ageable
is: C. To justify the ways
D. Comfortable
er
of God to men
A. Ask forgiveness 37. Which angel does Satan
from God trick by disguising him- D. To make his story
self as a cherub? hard to understand
gd
B. Put some clothes on
A. Michael
is not a character in Par-
C. Satisfy their sexual B. Uriel adise Lost?
desire for each other
an
C. Raphael A. Night
D. Blame each other
for their Fall D. Abdiel B. Agony
34. The Archangel Michael 38. In what book does the C. Discord
might best be described fall take place?
Ch
as: D. Death
A. Book VIII
A. Jealous and envious 43. Which angel wields a
B. Book X large sword in the bat-
C. Book IX tle and wounds Satan?
B. Bombastic
D. Book VII A. Michael
C. Firm and militant
an
39. In which book of the B. Abdiel

D. Kind and caring
Bible does the story of C. Uriel
35. When Michael tells Adam and Eve occur?
Adam what will be- D. Satan is not injured
y
come of mankind after A. Leviticus

44. When Satan leaps over
the Fall, he is actually B. Exodus the fence into Paradise,
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narrating stories taken

C. Genesis what does Milton liken
directly from:
him to?
A. The New Testament D. Deuteronomy
A. A snake slithering
Na
40. Which devil advocates

up a tree
B. Homer’s epic poems a renewal of all-out war
against God? B. A germ infecting a
body
C. The Hebrew Bible A. Belial
C. A wolf leaping into
D. The Koran B. Moloch
a sheep’s pen
36. What are the best C. Mammon
words to describe the D. A fish leaping out of
Garden of Eden, the D. Beelzebub water
weather, and nature in 41. What is Milton’s stated 45. Which angel tells Adam
general, before the Fall purpose in Paradise about the future in
of Adam and Eve? Lost? Books XI and XII?
33. C 34. C 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. C 40. B 41. C 42. B 43. A 44. C
45. C
A. Raphael A. Virgil C. God and the Son cre-

ate the universe
B. Uriel B. Homer
C. Michael D. The angels battle in
C. Both Virgil and
Heaven
D. None of the above Homer
55. Which of the angels is
46. Which of the following D. Neither Virgil or considered a hero for ar-
Homer
er
is not found in Hell? guing against Satan?
A. Gems 51. What is the stated sub-
A. Abdiel
ject of Paradise Lost?
B. Gold B. Uriel
gd
A. The fight between
C. Oil good and evil C. Michael
D. Minerals D. Raphael
B. Heaven’s battle and
47. Which statement about Satan’s tragic fall 56. In an attempt to de-
an
the Earth is asserted as
C. The creation of the feat God and his angels,
true in Paradise Lost?
universe what do the rebel an-
A. It was created be- gels make?
fore God the Son D. Adam and Eve’s dis-
Ch
obedience A. A fortress
B. Earth hangs from
52. Which devil is Satan’s B. A catapult
Heaven by a chain
second-in-command? C. A large sword
C. The Earth is a lotus
flower A. Mammon D. A cannon
B. Sin
an
D. The Earth revolves 57. According to Paradise

around the sun C. Moloch Lost, which of the fol-
48. Which devil is the main lowing does God not
D. Beezelbub create?
architect of Pandemo-
53. Who discusses cosmol-
y
nium? A. The Son

ogy and the battle of
A. Mulciber Heaven with Adam? B. Adam and Eve
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B. Mammon A. God C. Computers

C. Moloch B. Eve D. He creates every-
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D. Belial thing
C. Raphael
49. How many times does 58. Who does Milton name
Milton invoke a muse? D. Michael as his heavenly muse?
54. Which scene happens A. Titania
A. One
first chronologically?
B. Two B. Urania
A. Satan and the devils
C. Three rise up from the lake in C. Virgil
D. Four Hell D. Michael
50. Which of the following B. The Son is chosen 59. What does Eve do when
poets does Milton emu- as God’s second-in- she first becomes con-
late? command scious?
46. C 47. B 48. A 49. C 50. C 51. D 52. D 53. C 54. B 55. A 56. D 57. D
58. B 59. C
A. Go in search of her A. Tree of Life D. Paradise Lost Again

mate
B. Tree of God
B. Talk to the animals C. Tree of Sin 70. who was the compan-
ion of Adam in par-
C. Look at her reflec- D. Tree of Knowledge adise?
tion in a stream
65. Which is the shortest
D. Eat of the Tree of A. satan
er
book?
Knowledge B. eve
A. Book VII
60. Who is the main protag- C. rapheal
onist of Paradise Lost? B. Book III
gd
C. Book VIII D. god
A. Satan
D. Book V 71. Who is “till wand’ring
B. Adam o’er the earth"?
66. Who was sent to Earth
an
C. Eve to warn Man of the dan- A. Satan’s associates
D. God gers he was facing?
B. Satan
61. In how many books is A. Raphael
Paradise Lost divided? C. Adam
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B. Uriel
A. Nine D. Eve
C. Abdiel
B. Twelve 72. Who will fall through
D. Beelzebub his own “fault"?
C. Eighteen 67. Who was the first to eat
the forbidden fruit? A. Satan
D. Fourteen
an
A. Adam B. God
62. Which is the longest
book? B. Eve C. Adam
A. Book X C. Satan D. Noah
y
B. Book VIII D. Snake 73. Who “headlong them-

68. Which of the following selves they threw
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C. Book IX
is not a character in Par- Down from the verge
D. Book I adise Lost? of Heav’n"?
63. In Books I-II, the rebels A. Adam and Eve
A. Eve
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of Satan build the Pan-

demonium. What is it? B. God B. Noah and the ele-
phant
A. The forbidden fruit C. Satan
C. Rebel angels
B. The capital of D. Jonah
Heaven 69. What is the name of D. Benjamin and
the sequel to Paradise Joseph
C. A beautiful garden
Lost? 74. Who pondered, “How
D. The capital of Hell such united force of
A. Paradise Found
64. The fruit of which tree gods, how such As
B. Paradise Lost Twice
were Adam and Eve for- stood like these, could
bidden to eat? C. Paradise Regained ever know repulse?"?
60. A 61. B 62. C 63. D 64. D 65. A 66. A 67. B 68. D 69. C 70. B 71. A
72. C 73. C 74. D 75. B
A. Adam high exploit: But all 76. When was Paradise Re-
was false and hollow” gained published?
B. Moses
A. Lot A. 1671
C. Joseph
B. Belial B. 1656
D. Satan C. 1669
C. Satan
er
75. Who is described? “For D. 1652
dignity composed and D. Moses
76. A
gd
1.7 William Wordsworth
1. What is the name of Coleridge, helped to 7. In which the the fa-
the sister of William
Wordsworth, who is
also a poet and diarist?
an
launch the Romantic
Age in English litera-
ture?
mous work Lyrical Bal-
lads published?
A. 1778
Ch
A. Anna Wordsworth A. The Excursion B. 1769
B. Agnes Wordsworth B. The Prelude C. 1798
C. Shirley Wordsworth C. Lyrical Ballads D. 1792
D. Poems, in Two Vol- 8. From which year
D. Dorothy Wordsworth to which year that
an
umes
William Wordsworth
2. When was William 5. Which work of William served as the Poet Lau-
Wordsworth born? Wordsworth is gener- reate of Britain?
ally considered to be his
y
A. 7 April 1770 magnum opus? A. 1843-1850

B. 7 July 1767 A. Laodamia B. 1840-1855
ra
C. 20 March 1773 B. The Prelude C. 1842-1851

D. 10 September 1772 D. 1833-1848
C. Guide to the Lakes
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3. When did William 9. Which college did

Wordsworth die? D. Preface to the Lyri- William Wordsworth
cal Ballads attend?
A. 12 January 1842
6. When was William A. St. John’s College
B. 7 June 1849 Wordsworth appointed
poet laureate? B. Trinity College
C. 3 November 1852
C. Christ College
D. 23 April 1850 A. 1847
4. Which work of William D. King’s College
B. 1861
Wordsworth, with 10. When did William
the joint publication C. 1839 Wordsworth marry
with Samuel Taylor D. 1843 Mary Hutchinson?
1. D 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. A 9. A 10. A
A. 1802 in the year 1787, that azine

B. 1812 William Wordsworth
B. New Poetry
made his debut as a
C. 1798 writer by publishing a C. The Tatler
D. 1805 sonnet? D. The Rambler
11. In which magazine, A. The European Mag-
er
11. A
gd
1.8 Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
1. What is the full name A. Someone who can 6. In which year Mary
of the novel Franken- transform him Shelley visited the fa-
stein? mous Frankenstein Cas-
an
B. Another monster tle, where two centuries
A. Frankenstein; or,
C. Another creature before her visit an al-
The Evil Scientist
without the fearful fea- chemist was engaged in
B. Frankenstein; or, tures experiments?
Ch
The Monster
D. A female compan- A. 1816
C. Frankenstein; or,
ion B. 1814
The Devil Within
D. Frankenstein; 4. What is the name of the C. 1808
or, The Modern popular fiction genre
D. 1812
in which the novel
an
Prometheus
Frankenstein belongs 7. At what age did Mary
2. In which University
to? Shelley start writing
Victor Frankenstein de-
the novel Franken-
velops the technique to A. Bildungsroman
stein?
y
reanimate the dead tis- novel

sues which ultimately A. 26
B. Romantic novel
ra
leads to the creation of

B. 18
the monster? C. Künstlerroman
novel C. 31
A. University of Tübin-
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gen D. epistolary novel D. 24

B. University of Greif- 8. Mary Shelley wrote the
swald 5. When was the first
novel Frankenstein in
edition of the novel
C. University of the form of a frame
Frankenstein pub-
Freiburg story that starts one
lished?
character wring letters
D. University of Ingol- A. 1815 to his sister. Who is that
stadt character?
3. Whom did monster B. 1820
A. Captain Cooper
demand to Victor C. 1818
Frankenstein to create B. Victor Frankenstein
for him? D. 1822
1. D 2. D 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. C
C. Captain Robert Wal- 10. Who was the last per- B. Bermuda
ton son the monster kills
C. Galapagos
in the novel Franken-
D. Sergent Thomas
stein? D. Africa
Vincent
A. Elizabeth 12. In which edition of the
9. What is the name of
novel Frankenstein the
the eccentric scientist B. William
name of the author
er
in the novel Franken- C. Clerval Mary Shelley first ap-
stein?
D. Justine peared?
A. Kristofer Franken-
11. To where Walton’s ex- A. 2nd Edition
gd
stein
pedition was headed
B. 1st Edition
B. Paris Frankenstein when he meets the gi-
C. Victor Frankenstein gantic figure and the C. 4th Edition
emaciated Victor?
an
D. 3rd Edition
D. Mario Frankenstein A. North Pole
9. C 10. A 11. A 12. A

Ch
1.9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1. When was Samuel Tay- later contributed Ro- D. The Watchman
lor Coleridge born? mantic movement to 6. The ode on which topic
the English Literature? that Coleridge wrote
A. November 12, 1762
an
A. 1798 while attending Jesus

B. September 8, 1764 College, Cambridge
B. 1779
C. January 10, 1789 won him the Browne
C. 1795 Gold Medal?
y
D. October 21, 1772

D. 1789 A. On the slave trade
2. With which other poet 4. When did Samuel Tay-
ra
B. On romantic philos-
did Samuel Taylor Co- lor Coleridge die? ophy
leridge founded the Ro-
mantic movement in A. 25 July 1834 C. On the creativity of
Na
English Literature? B. 24 February 1841 human mind

A. Lord Byron C. 22 November 1836 D. On supernatural el-
ements in poetry
B. Shelley D. 30 April 1822
7. In which establishment
C. William Wordsworth 5. What is the name of the Coleridge enlisted him-
short-lived journal that self in December 1793
Coleridge established? by using the false name
D. John Keats
A. The Romantic Phi- "Silas Tomkyn Comber-
3. In which year Coleridge losophy bache"?
met poet William
B. The Spectator A. The Poets society
Wordsworth and his
sister Dorothy which C. The Explicator B. British Royal Navy
1. D 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. D
C. Solicitors office Christ’s Hospital, also B. Ernest Holmes

called The Bluecoat
D. Royal Dragoons C. John Locke
School?
8. Which one is the fa- D. John Locke
mous prose work of A. Charles Lamb
11. In which work Samuel
Samuel Taylor Co- B. John Keats Taylor Coleridge intro-
leridge?
C. Shelley duced the term ’willing
er
A. Kubla Khan suspension of disbelief’
D. William Wordsworth in 1817?
B. Christabel
A. Kubla Khan
gd
C. The Rime of the An- 10. Who is the American
cient Mariner transcendental philoso- B. Biographia Literaria
D. Biographia Literaria pher who was much
influenced by Samuel C. The Rime of the An-
an
Taylor Coleridge? cient Mariner
9. With which famous
writer Coleridge be- A. Ralph Waldo Emer- D. Christabel
came friends with in son
Ch
8. D 9. A 10. A 11. B
1.10 William Shakespeare

1. Between what time pe- D. London D. The London Theatre
riod did William Shake-
an
3. To which category that

speare begin a success- two works of William 5. Which one of the fol-
ful career in London as Shakespeare Venus and lowing terms is often
an actor? Adonis and The Rape of called for the England’s
Lucrece belong to?
y
A. between1579 and national poet, William

1583 A. Tragedies Shakespeare?
ra
B. between1585 and B. Historical Plays A. Bard of London

1592 B. Bard of Avon
C. Narrative Poems
C. between1579 and C. Master Dramatist
Na
1587 D. Comedies
4. What was the first D. Supreme Poet
D. between1580 and
name of the playing 6. When was William
1591
company King’s Men Shakespeare baptized?
2. Where was William that William Shake-
Shakespeare was born speare partly-owned? A. 24 July1564
and brought up? B. 26 April 1564
A. Lord Chamberlain’s
A. Yorkshire Men C. 26 August 1564
B. Stratford-upon- B. Stratford Theatre D. 16 April 1564
Avon
C. The Queens Troupe 7. At what age of did
C. Chester William Shakespeare
1. B 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. A
marry Anne Hath- A. London 18. Shakespeare died at the

away? age of
B. Cambridge
A. 18 A. 48
C. Stratford
B. 22 B. 52
D. Oxford
C. 19 13. How many plays did C. 60
William Shakespeare
er
D. 63
D. 23
write? 19. How many times sui-
8. When did William A. 36 cide occurs in Shake-
Shakespeare die? speare’s plays?
gd
B. 37
A. 22 January 1624 A. 7
C. 38
B. 16 April 1616 B. 9
D. 39
C. 23 April 1616 C. 11
an
14. What was Shake-
D. 19 May 1611 speare’s first play? D. 13
9. How many sonnets did A. King Lear 20. The line “To be or not to
William Shakespeare be” comes from which
B. Henry VI
Ch
write? play?
C. The Tempest
A. Macbeth
A. 164
D. Romeo and Juliet
B. Twelfth Night
B. 145 15. How many sonnets did
C. A Midsummer
C. 154 William Shakespeare
Night’s dream
an
write?
D. 126 D. Hamlet
A. 110
10. What was the age of 21. Was the Globe
B. 154
William Shakespeare A. A Roman Amphithe-
y
when he retired from C. 175 ater.

active service to Strat- D. 187 B. An Elizabethan The-
ra
ford around 1613?

16. How many pho- ater.
A. 51 tographs exist of
C. An Elizabethan
B. 49 William Shakespeare?
sports stadium.
Na
A. 2
C. 62 D. A famous map of
B. 4 the world.
D. 53
C. 1 22. Which of these was not
11. Is there is a monument one of Shakespeare’s
of Shakespeare in Strat- D. 0
plays?
ford today? 17. Shakespeare died on?
A. Titus Andronicus
A. True A. 23rd April 1616
B. The Tempest
B. False B. 25th April 1616,
C. Cymbeline
12. In which town was C. 28th April 1616
D. Shakespeare in love
Shakespeare born? D. 30th April 1616
8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A 12. C 13. B 14. B 15. B 16. A 17. A 18. B 19. D
20. D 21. B 22. D 23. A
23. Which famous Shake- C. 1623 again In thunder, light-

speare play does the ning, or in rain?" come
D. 1629
quote,"My salad days, from?
when I was green in 27. What nationality was
Shakespeare? A. The Taming of the
judgment." come from?
Shrew
A. Antony and Cleopa- A. Italian
B. King Lear
tra
er
B. English
C. The Tempest
B. Hamlet, Prince of C. Scottish
Denmark D. Macbeth
D. Greek
gd
C. The Winters Tale 32. How many of Shake-
28. In which century was speare’s plays are clas-
D. The Merry Wives of Shakespeare born? sified as histories?
Windsor
A. 16th A. 7
24. Which famous Shake-
an
speare play does the B. 14th B. 10
quote,"Neither a bor- C. 15th C. 14
rower nor a lender be”
D. 17th D. 18
come from?
Ch
29. which famous Shake- 33. The group of four plays
A. Cymbeline
speare play does the known as the “major
B. Hamlet quote “The first thing tetralogy” is:
we do, let’s kill all the
C. Titus Andronicus A. Richard III, King
lawyers” come from?
D. Pericles, Prince of John, Henry VIII, 1
an
A. The Merry Wives of Henry VI

Tyre
Windsor
25. Which famous Shake- B. 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry
speare play does the B. Othello, the Moor of VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard
quote “How sharper Venice III
y
than a serpent’s tooth C. Pericles, Prince of C. King John, Henry V,

it is to have a thankless Tyre Richard II, Richard III
ra
child!" come from?

D. King Henry the D. Richard II, 1 Henry
A. King Lear Sixth, Part II IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V
B. As You Like It 30. Which river is asso-
Na
C. The Famous History ciated with Shake- 34. In 1613 the Globe The-
of the Life of King speare’s birth place? ater burned down dur-
Henry VIII A. The Thames ing a production of
which play?
D. The Life and Death B. The Avon
of King John A. King John
C. The Tyburn
26. In what year was the B. Richard II
First Folio published? D. The Seven
C. Henry VIII
31. Which famous play
A. 1626
does the quote,"When D. Henry V
B. 1621 shall we three meet
24. B 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. D 32. B 33. D 34. C
1.11 Play by sakespear

1. According to skeptics B. The end of the first 8. What does the term “re-
of Shakespeare’s au- scene of a play naissance” mean?
thorship, all of the
C. The first death on A. Death
following are consid-
stage in a play
ered to be the “true” B. Theater
er
authors of some of D. The turning point of
C. Drama
Shakespeare’s plays EX- the action in the play
CEPT: 5. In verse, “meter” refers D. Rebirth
gd
A. Thomas More. to which of the follow- 9. What is the name of
ing? Shakespeare’s son?
B. Francis Bacon.
A. The length of a writ- A. William
C. Earl of Oxford. ten line
an
B. John
D. John Shakespeare. B. The measured pat-
2. Both Shakespeare and tern of stressed and un- C. Hamlet
Christopher Marlow stressed syllables D. Hamnet
are thought to have
Ch
C. The height of the 10. What religion had the
been born in what
stage most political and so-
year?
D. The number of cial power in Shake-
A. 1564 speare’s time?
words in a line
B. 1580 6. Shakespeare was the A. Catholicism
an
C. 1577 author of which of the B. Buddhism

following plays?
D. 1550 C. Protestantism
A. “Doctor Faustus”
3. In drama, a “soliloquy” D. Mormonism
y
refers to which of the B. “The Faerie Queen”

following? 11. What was the name of
C. “Titus Andronicus” the theater group that
ra
A. A dialogue between Shakespeare worked

D. “The Jew of Malta”
two characters with for most of his
7. What concept best dis- career?
B. A character’s final tinguishes the differ-
Na
words before dying ence between the time A. The Lord Chamber-
C. A speech delivered of the Middles Ages and lin’s Men
by a character intended the Renaissance? B. Elizabeth’s Men
to be spoken to only the A. Humanism
audience C. The Globe’s Men
B. The rise of Queen D. Will’s Men
D. A rhyming line Elizabeth
4. In drama, what is a “cli- 12. Which group was at
C. The popularity of the bottom of England’s
max”?
theater social hierarchy dur-
A. The conclusion of a ing Shakespeare’s early
D. The life of Shake-
play years?
speare
1. D 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. C 11. A 12. B

A. Nobility 16. Who is the author of D. A professional actor

“The Tragical History of
B. Peasants
Doctor Faustus”? 21. At the end of the play,
C. Yeomen “Twelfth Night,” who is
A. Christopher Marlow
D. The gentry discovered to have been
secretly married?
13. Which of the following B. William Shake-
er
best characterizes an speare A. Viola and Orsino
Elizabethan masque? C. Philip Sidney B. Sir Toby and Maria
A. A horror play, fea- D. The Earl of Oxford C. Malvio and Maria
gd
turing supernatural D. Viola and Sir Toby
17. Who of the following
forces
were among Shake- 22. Fill in the blank. Ac-
B. A sophisticated com- speare’s royal patrons? cording to Dr. Deb-
edy with a surprising ora Schwartz, Greek
an
A. King James I.
ending “old comedy” was often
B. King Henry characterized as being
C. A drama, featuring
players representing C. Queen Victoria
Ch
mythic or allegorical D. King Richard A. Highly sexual
figures B. Not comedic at all
18. Who was Shake-
D. A performance of a speare’s wife? C. Satirical and politi-
classical play in con- cal
A. Elizabeth Marlowe
temporary language
B. Joan Shakespeare D. Grounded in reli-
an
14. Which of the following gion

playwrights is thought C. Anne Hathaway 23. Fill in the blank. Ac-
to have had the great- D. Juliet Shakespeare cording to Dr. De-
est influence on Shake- bra Schwartz, Greek
19. Who was the Queen
y
speare? “new comedy” was of-

of England throughout
A. Ben Johnson much of Shakespeare’s ten characterized as be-
ra
early life? ing

B. Christopher Marlow
A. Queen Elizabeth A. Highly sexual
C. Philip Sidney B. Violent

B. Queen Victoria
Na
C. Satirical
D. Thomas Kyd C. Queen Anne
D. Dull and political
15. Who is the author of D. Queen Gertrude
Utopia? 24. Fill in the blank. In the
20. William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer
A. Thomas More father primarily Night’s Dream,” Puck is
worked as which of also known as
B. William Shake- the following?
speare A. Oberon
A. A politician
C. Christopher Mar- B. Robin Goodfellow
lowe B. A teacher
C. Demetrius
C. A glover
D. Philip Sydney D. Hermia
13. C 14. B 15. A 16. A 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. C 21. B 22. C 23. A 24. B
25. A
25. In the play, “A Midsum- C. Antonio 34. In “A Midsummer

mer Night’s Dream,” Night’s Dream,” who
D. Cesario
who is the queen of the says “Lord, what fools
fairies? 30. In the play, “Twelfth these mortals be!”
Night,” who is Sebas- (III.ii.15)?
A. Titania
tian?
A. Puck
B. Lysander
A. Viola’s twin brother
er
B. Nick Bottom
C. Hermia
C. Hippolyta
D. Oberon B. Viola’s eventual
lover D. Helene
gd
26. In the play, “A Midsum-
mer Night’s Dream,” 35. What country does the
C. A clown
where is Helena from? play, “All’s Well that
D. Olivia’s uncle Ends Well,” take place
A. Paris in?
an
31. In the play, “Twelfth
B. Naples Night,” who rescues Se- A. England
C. Athens bastian after his ship-
B. Denmark
wreck?
D. London C. Spain
Ch
A. Antonio
27. In the play, “A Midsum- D. France
mer’s Night’s Dream,” B. Maria
36. What is the craftsmen’s
who is the queen of the
C. Olivia play at the end of
Amazons?
“A Midsummer Night’s
D. None of the above
A. Hippolyta Dream” about?
an
32. In “A Midsummer
B. Egeus A. Puck’s adventures
Night’s Dream,” who
C. Helena is chosen to play Pyra- B. Summertime
D. Hermia mus in the craftsmen’s dreams
y
play? C. The history of

Night,” what country is A. Peter Quince Athens
ra
Orisono from? B. Francis Flute D. Pyramus and Thisbe

A. France C. Nick Bottom
37. Who is Bertram’s main
Na
B. Denmark D. Tom Snout companion throughout

C. Illyria 33. In “A Midsummer much of the play, “All’s
D. England Night’s Dream,” who Well that Ends Well”?
is Nick Bottom? A. Parolles
Night,” what does Viola A. An Athenian crafts- B. Lafew
refer to herself as when man C. The First Lord
she disguises herself as
B. A professional actor D. The Clown
a man?
A. Orsino 38. Who is the central hero-
C. A Duke ine of the play, “Twelfth
B. Sir Toby Night”?
D. An Amazonian
26. C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. A 32. B 33. A 34. A 35. D 36. D 37. A
38. A
A. Viola 43. In his lectures on Shake- B. The children of Ban-

B. Orsino speare’s tragedies, A.C. quo
Bradley states that he
C. Maria C. The children of Mac-
will not do which of the
duff
D. Feste following?
39. “All’s Well that Ends D. The children of the
A. Compare Shake-
Well” is considered to witches
speare to other writers.
er
be what kind of a play? 47. In the play, “Macbeth,”
A. History how does Macbeth kill
B. Evaluate and exam- Duncan?
gd
B. Comedy ine Hamlet.
A. He shoots him.
C. Tragedy C. Consider anything
about Shakespeare’s B. He strangles him.
D. Epic poem
comedies. C. He stabs him.
40. Who is the heroine of
the play, “All’s Well that
Ends Well”?
A. Helena anD. Discuss any aspect
of Shakespeare’s philos-
ophy.
D. He beheads him.
48. In the play, “Macbeth,”
who asks “Whence
Ch
44. In the play, “Hamlet,” is that knocking?”
B. Gertrude
what is the name of (2.11.55)
C. Parolles Polonius’s daughter?
A. Macbeth
D. Mariana A. Laertes
41. According to Dr. Roger B. Lady Macbeth
B. Ophelia
Dunkle, in ancient C. Duncan
an
times, what was con- C. Gertrude

sidered a tragedy? D. Macduff
D. Fortinbras
A. A worship of the 49. In the play, “Macbeth,”
45. In the play, “Hamlet,” who assists Macbeth
gods
y
who is Yorick? with planning Dun-

B. A song for the prize can’s murder?
A. King Hamlet’s for-
ra
or sacrifice of a goat
mer jester A. Banquo
C. A comedic perfor-
mance B. A friend of Hamlet’s B. Macduff
from school
Na
D. A story that ended C. Malcolm

with a marriage C. The King of Norway
D. Lady Macbeth
42. Fill in the blank. In the
play, “Macbeth,” a num- 50. In the play, “Macbeth,”
D. A castle guard
ber of characters refer who becomes king im-
46. In the play, “Mac- mediately after Dun-
to the Three Witches as
beth,” according to can’s murder?
the witches, who will
A. “The violent trio” A. Macbeth
inherit the Scottish
B. “The Fatal Sisters” throne? B. Banquo
C. “The Weird Sisters” A. The children of Mac- C. Macduff
beth
D. “The Dead Sisters” D. Malcolm
39. B 40. A 41. B 42. C 43. A 44. B 45. A 46. B 47. C 48. A 49. D 50. A
51. D
51. In the play, “Macbeth,” 56. The play, “Hamlet,” A. He is killed.

who is the goddess of takes place in which
B. He is arrested.
witchcraft? of the following coun-
tries? C. He is crowned king.
A. Lennox
A. Denmark
B. Lady Macbeth
B. Norway D. He was sent into ex-
C. The porter ile.
er
C. England
D. Hecate 62. Dr. Ian Johnson sug-
52. In “Hamlet,” what D. France gests which of the fol-
gd
is Hamlet’s uncle’s 57. The play, “Macbeth,” is lowing ideas about the
name? set in what country? play, “Henry V”?
A. Polonius A. England A. That it is a satire of
B. Scotland European monarchies
B. Claudius
C. Horatio
D. Fortinbras
53. In “Hamlet,” which anC. France
D. Norway
58. Who is King of Scotland
B. That none of the
characters undergo a re-
markable shift in per-
sonality over the course
Ch
character is left alive at the start of the play, of the play
at the end of the play? “Macbeth”?
C. That it is historically
A. Hamlet A. Macbeth accurate
B. Claudius B. Banquo D. That it is an incom-
C. Duncan plete play and possibly
an
C. Horatio
not authored by Shake-
D. Gertrude D. Donalbain
speare
54. In “Hamlet,” who says 59. Who kills Macbeth at
the end of the play, 63. In Shakespeare’s play,
that “something is rot-
y
“Macbeth”? Henry V is king of what

ten in the state of Den- country?
mark”? A. Duncan
ra
A. England
A. Claudius B. Lady Macbeth
B. Norway
B. Horatio C. Lady Macduff
C. Denmark
Na
C. Hamlet D. Macduff
60. Hamlet is considered to D. France
D. Marcellus
55. In “Macbeth,” where is be what kind of play? 64. In the play “Richard
Macduff when he learns A. Comedy III,” where does Richard
of his family’s execu- imprison the young
B. History princes?
tion?
C. Tragedy A. In a tower
A. England
D. Epic poem
B. France B. In a pit
61. At the end of the play
C. Scotland “Richard III,” what hap- C. In a prison
D. Norway pens to Richard? D. In another country
52. B 53. C 54. D 55. A 56. A 57. B 58. C 59. D 60. C 61. A 62. B 63. A
64. A
65. In the play, “Henry V,” A. Queen Isabel 74. In the play, “Richard III,”
the Chorus serves to who is Richard’s elder
B. Queen Nim
do which of the follow- brother?
ing? C. Queen Alice
A. Clarence
A. Make jokes about D. Queen Montjoy
B. King Edward IV
Henry 70. In the play, “Henry
C. Tyrell
er
B. Sing songs about the V,” who states that “If
events we are marked to die, D. Richmond
we are enough/To do
C. Comment on the 75. In the play, “Richard III,”
our country loss. . . ”
gd
plot and themes of the who is the mother of
(IV.iii.20-21)?
play Prince Edward?
A. Falstaff
D. Dance upon the A. Lady Anne
stage B. Henry V
an
B. Queen Elizabeth
66. In the play, “Henry C. Nim
V,” what country does C. Margaret
Henry wish to con- D. Catherine
D. Duchess of York
quer? 71. In the play, “Richard
Ch
III,” who does Richard 76. In the play, “Richard III,”
A. England who speaks of “the win-
hire to kill the young
B. Spain princes? ter of our discontent”
(I.i.1)?
C. France A. Ratcliffe
A. Richmond
D. Denmark B. Richmond
an
67. In the play, “Henry V,” B. Queen Elizabeth

C. Clarence
who is the close friend C. Richard III
and mentor of young D. Tyrell
D. The princes
Henry? 72. In the play, “Richard
y
III,” who is manipu- 77. The play, “Richard III,”

A. Montjoy
lated into marrying takes place in what
ra
B. Horatio Richard? country?

C. Falstaff A. Greece
A. Lady Anne
D. Nim B. France
B. Queen Elizabeth
Na
68. In the play, “Henry V,” C. Norway

who is the daughter of C. Duchess of York
the King of France? D. Margaret D. England
A. Catherine 73. In the play, “Richard III,” 78. What century does the
who is Richard’s pri- play, “Henry V,” take
B. Alice
mary accomplice? place in?
C. The Hostess
A. Buckingham A. 15th century
D. Nim
B. Clarence B. 16th century
69. In the play, “Henry V,”
who is the Queen of C. Tyrell C. 14th century
France? D. Richmond D. 17th century
65. C 66. C 67. C 68. A 69. A 70. B 71. D 72. A 73. A 74. B 75. C 76. C
77. D 78. A 79. D
79. Who directly chal- C. Ovid’s Metamor- C. When a lower class

lenges Richard for the phoses character speaks
throne in the play,
D. An early Shake- D. When the play ne-
“Richard III”?
speare play cessitates ritualistic,
A. Tyrell 84. For his poems, Shake- choral, and sensuous
B. King Edward IV speare is thought to effect
er
have drawn upon all
C. Queen Elizabeth 88. In Shakespeare’s
of the following for in-
D. The Earl of Rich- fluence and ideas EX- “Venus and Adonis,”
mond CEPT: how is Adonis killed?
gd
80. What type of play is A. Greek mythology A. In a hunting acci-
“Richard III”? dent
B. European history
A. Tragedy B. By Venus
C. Early scientific stud-
B. History
C. Comedy
D. Lyric anies
D. The works of earlier
poets
C. By execution
D. By old age
Ch
81. Blank verse refers to 85. How many sonnets are 89. In the narrative poem,
which of the follow- attributed to Shake- “The Rape of Lucrece,”
ing? speare? who is Lucretia?
A. Prose A. 12
A. A fairy queen
B. Unrhymed iambic B. 67
B. A Roman matron
an
pentameter C. 154
C. Rhyming verse C. A villainess
D. 200
D. Rhyming couplets 86. In his reading of Shake- D. A beggar woman
y
82. Fill in the blank. In speare’s “Fair Youth

Sonnets,” who does 90. Shakespeare often em-
Shakespeare’s plays, ployed which of the fol-
ra
prose is often used in Charlton Ogburn sup-

pose Shakespeare to lowing stylistic forms
have really been? in his dramas?
A. Serious letters
A. Blank verse
Na
A. Marlowe
B. Iambic pentameter
B. Swift B. Old English
C. Rhyming verse
C. Oxford C. Authorial narration
D. Couplets
D. Bacon
83. Fill in the blank. The D. Prose
plot of “Venus and Ado- 87. In Shakespeare’s plays,
nis” is based on pas- when is rhyme often 91. Shakespeare sometimes
sages from used? used the trochee, which
A. When ghosts speak in meter refers to which
A. The Bible
of the following? In
B. A Christopher Mar- B. When characters Shakespeare’s plays, a
lowe play speak naturally troche is:
80. B 81. B 82. A 83. C 84. D 85. C 86. C 87. D 88. A 89. B 90. A 91. B
A. The same as an iamb A. England D. “The Wasteland”

with an unstressed and B. Spain 98. Which of the following
stressed syllable in a statements about a son-
foot C. France
net is false?
B. The opposite of an D. Italy
A. A sonnet is a poem
iamb with a stressed 95. Which of the following consisting of 14 lines.
and then unstressed syl- are not among the sub-
er
lable in a foot jects of Shakespeare’s B. A Shakespearean
sonnets? sonnet consists of the
C. Only one syllable rhyme scheme a-b-a-b,
A. The Dark Lady
gd
for the length of a foot c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
D. None of the above B. Shakespeare’s father C. A sonnet is only
92. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet written in Italian.
153” is what kind of C. A young man
an
D. The last two lines of
poem? D. A rival poet a sonnet are a rhyming
A. A poem about death 96. Which of the following couplet.
poems is considered to 99. Who is the main focus
Ch
be the most neglected of a number of Shake-
B. A poem about love
of Shakespeare’s? speare’s sonnets?
C. A poem about writ-
A. “A Lover’s Com- A. The Dark Lady
ing poetry
plaint”
B. Hamlet
D. A poem about
B. “Venus and Adonis”
Shakespeare and his C. Christopher Marlow
an
father
C. “The Phoenix and
93. The concept of “prose” D. Hamnet Shake-
Turtle”
refers to which of the speare
following? D. “The Rape of Lu-
y
100. What literary genre

crece”
A. Ordinary speech is Shakespeare’s “Venus
ra
and Adonis”?
B. Blank verse poems was authored by
Shakespeare? A. Short story
C. Rhyming verse
A. “Tintern Abbey” B. Tragedy play
Na
D. Non-English word
use B. “A Lover’s Com- C. Comedy play
94. Where does the sonnet plaint” D. Poetry
form originate from? C. “El Cid”
92. B 93. A 94. D 95. B 96. A 97. B 98. C 99. A 100. D
1.12 Edmund Spenser

1. In which work Edmund marriage with Eliza- A. Prothalamion
Spenser celebrates his beth Boyle?
B. Faerie Queen
1. C
C. Epithalamion A. The Faerie Queene A. The Visions of Pe-

trarch
D. Amoretti B. Amoretti
2. To whom Edmund B. A View of the
C. The Shepheardes
Spenser dedicated Present State of Ireland
Calender
the work The Faerie
Queene? D. Astrophel
C. The Ruines of Time
er
A. Sidney 7. Which one of the fol-
D. Visions of the
lowing rhyme scheme
B. Elizabeth worlds vanitie
is the rhyme scheme
Spenserian stanza? 11. What type of work is
gd
C. Mary
the work The Faerie
D. Chaucer A. ab cb bc cd e
Queene?
3. Which royal dynasty B. abba bccb d A. pastoral work
Edmund Spenser cele-
an
C. ab bc cd de f B. religious work
brates in his epic poem
The Faerie Queene? D. ab ab bc bc c C. allegorical work
A. Tudor 8. In which year did Ed-
D. natural work
mund Spenser publish
Ch
B. Stuart 12. How many lines are in
his poem The Shep-
C. Anjou heardes Calender? Spenserian stanza?
D. Plantagenet A. 1568 A. 9
4. Under which B. 1579 B. 12
pseudonym the work
an
C. 1597 C. 24
The Shepheardes Cal-
ender was published? D. 1585 D. 8
A. Edward 9. In which work of Ed- 13. When was Edmund
mund Spenser the Ape Spenser born?
y
B. Jonathan
and the Fox serve to sat- A. 1542
C. Immanuel
irize the customs of the
ra
court? B. 1552
D. Immerito
5. How many books were C. 1569
A. The Teares of the
originally planned to Muses D. 1558
Na
form the work The

B. Prosopopoia, or 14. During which war
Faerie Queene?
Mother Hubberds Tale the castle of Edmund
A. 18 Spenser, Kilcolman by
C. Muiopotmos, or the
B. 8 name burnt by native
Fate of the Butterflie
Irish forces?
C. 23 D. Ruines of Rome: by A. Hundred Years War
D. 12 Bellay
B. Nine Years War
6. Which one of the fol- 10. What is the title of
lowing is an unfin- the prose pamphlet Ed- C. Ten Years War
ished work of Edmund mund Spenser wrote in D. Seventeen Years
Spenser? the year 1596? War
2. B 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. B 10. B 11. C 12. A 13. B 14. B

15. A
15. To whom did Edmund C. East Smithfield A. Lisa Boyle

Spenser dedicate his
D. Kent B. Mary Jane
work The Shepheardes
Calender? 17. When did Edmund C. Queen Elizabeth
Spenser die?
A. Philip Sidney D. Elizabeth Boyle
A. 1599
B. Boyle 19. In which college Ed-
er
B. 1632 mund Spenser study?
C. Queen Elizabeth
C. 1589 A. Pembroke College
D. Chaucer
D. 1621 B. Latin College
gd
16. Where did Edmund
Spenser born? 18. To whom did Edmund C. Corpus Christi
Spenser addresses
A. Worcester D. Queens College
his sonnet sequence
B. Chester Amoretti?
16. C 17. A 18. D 19. A
an
Ch
1.13 Geoffrey Chaucer
1. When did Geoffrey A. 1374 more than one tale.
Chaucer start work- How many tales did
B. 1359
ing on The Canterbury Chaucer originally en-
Tales? C. 1367 vision each pilgrim
an
A. Early 1370s D. 1382 telling?
B. In 1364 4. In which year Geoffrey A. four

Chaucer born?
C. Early 1380s B. six
A. 1343
y
D. In 1376 C. two
2. Which is the first ma- B. 1336
D. one
ra
jor work of Geoffrey C. 1432

Chaucer? 7. During the period of
D. 1347
A. Troilus and which king did Chaucer
5. Who was the king fight in the English
Na
Criseyde when Geoffrey Chaucer Army for the Hundred

B. The Canterbury was born? Years’ War between
Tales France and England?
A. David II
C. The Book of the A. William I
B. Edward III
Duchess
C. Richard II B. Edward II
D. The House of Fame
3. In which year did D. Edward II C. William II
Chaucer fought in Hun- 6. The Canterbury Tales
D. Edward III
dred Years’ War be- is an unfinished work,
tween France and Eng- wherein each pilgrim 8. Geoffrey Chaucer is
land? was supposed to tell also known as:
1. C 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. C
A. The reformer of En- A. The Book of the written for Blanche of

glish language Duchess Lancaster?
B. The poet of English B. The Canterbury A. The House of Fame
language Tales
B. The Book of the
C. The father of En- C. Parlement of Foules Duchess
glish literature
er
C. Troilus and
D. The father of En- D. The Canterbury
Criseyde
glish language Tales
9. Which of Chaucer’s 10. Which one of the fol- D. The Legend of Good
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works is associated lowing works of Geof- Women
with Valentine’s Day? frey Chaucer is an elegy
9. C 10. B
1. By which physical af-

1.14
an James Joyce
4. How do most critics be- B. it led to more depic-
Ch
fliction was Joyce af- lieve Joyce’s exile af- tions of violence and
fected? fected his use of lan- sacrifice in Irish litera-
A. autism guage? ture
B. blindness A. After his exile, he C. it inspired Irish writ-

only used one “voice” in ers to create an Irish na-
C. deafness tional identity
his works
an
D. loss of limb D. All of the Above

B. After his exile, he
2. By which religious disliked the intricacy of 6. In what year did Ireland
writer was Joyce most language acquire national inde-
y
clearly influenced? pendence?

A. Thomas Aquinas C. After his exile, he
never used split narra- A. 1847
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B. William Bradshaw tives B. 1893

C. John Foxe C. 1906
D. After his exile, he
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D. William Tyndale used a mixture of lan- D. 1922

3. For Joyce, what are guages and linguistic
7. In what year did the
epiphanies? traditions in his works
Easter Rising occur?
A. short prose sketches 5. In what way(s) did the A. 1901
that vary in character events of the Easter Ris-
ing affect the work of B. 1916
B. dream-like pieces of
writing writers? C. 1922
C. deep realizations A. it led many Irish D. 1934

linked with religious writers to criticize 8. In which location(s) did
faith British colonial prac- Joyce live while in ex-
tices ile?
D. All of the Above
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. D
A. Trieste 13. Which of the follow- 17. Who was Charles Par-
ing characterizes Mod- nell?
B. Paris
ernism?
C. Zurich A. a popular symbol of
A. the desire to show Irish nationalism
D. All of the Above realistic forms
B. an Irish representa-
9. To whom was Joyce
B. the use of traditional tive in the British Par-
er
married?
formal structure liament
A. Nora Barnacle
C. the lack of interest C. the founder of the
B. Sylvia Beach in characters’ psyches Catholic Land League
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C. Molly Bloom D. the desire to break D. All of the Above
D. Augusta Gregory with established forms
18. With which important
10. Which author(s) are 14. Which problem(s) literary figure(s) was
an
associated with Mod- shaped Joyce’s early Joyce in contact in his
ernism? home life? lifetime?
A. T.S. Eliot A. his father’s alco- A. Arthur Symons
holism
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B. T.E. Hulme B. Harriet Weaver
C. Ezra Pound B. poverty
C. W.B. Yeats
D. All of the Above C. lack of stable work
D. All of the Above
11. Which cultural event(s) D. All of the Above
19. With whom is the con-
led to the rise of Mod- 15. Which was a common cept of “claritas” associ-
an
ernism? metaphor used by Irish ated?

A. the spread of writers in their depic-
tions of the nation? A. Thomas Aquinas
Freud’s theories
A. the metaphor of Ire- B. Augusta Gregory
B. the increased pace
y
of everyday life land as a novel C. Charles Parnell

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C. the controversy B. the metaphor of Ire- D. Ezra Pound

over traditional ideas of land as a woman
20. Which writer arranged
certainty and morality
C. the metaphor of Ire- for the publication of
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D. All of the Above land as a child The Dubliners?

12. Which event(s) caused D. the metaphor of Ire- A. Ezra Pound
the Easter Rising? land as a soldier
B. W.B. Yeats
A. an increase in Irish 16. Which writer(s) is/are
nationalism associated with the C. Ernest Hemming-
Irish Literary Revival? way
B. the Irish desire for
independence A. George Russell D. Virginia Woolf
C. the formation of the 21. According to critics,
B. J.M. Synge
secret, revolutionary what is the function of
IRB C. W.B. Yeats The Dubliners’ third
D. All of the Above D. All of the Above person narration?
9. A 10. D 11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. A
21. C
A. it counters the sense A. adolescence, matu- A. “The Dead”

of unrequited love rity, childhood B. “Eveline”
B. it is used only to dis- B. childhood, maturity, C. “A Painful Case”
rupt the more promi- adolescence
nent first-person narra- D. All of the Above
C. childhood, adoles- 29. In which story from
tion
cence, maturity, public The Dubliners is snow
er
C. it makes the stories life an important occur-
seem more impersonal rence?
D. childhood, adoles-
D. it breaks through cence, maturity A. “Araby”
gd
the sense of paralysis 25. In The Dubliners, B. “The Boarding
22. At the end of “Eveline,” which literary device House”
what decision does the does Joyce use most
C. “The Dead”
frequently?
an
title character make?
D. “An Encounter”
A. she decides to stay A. acatalectic
30. In “A Little Cloud,”
in Ireland B. chiasmus what does Little Chan-
dler dream about be-
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B. she decides to quit C. fantasy
her job coming?
D. pentameter A. a reporter
C. she decides to leave
her mother 26. In The Dubliners, B. a father
which literary style is
D. she leaves for used? C. a poet
an
France D. a soldier
A. realism
23. In The Dubliners, what 31. In “A Mother,” what
do most critics say is B. impressionism does Mrs. Kearney
the function of paraly- C. fantasy make her daughter
y
sis? learn?
D. gothic
A. it is represented in a A. the piano
ra
way that implies collec- 27. In The Dubliners,

B. the Irish language
tive activity is needed which negative char-
acteristic(s) does Joyce C. the English lan-
guage
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B. it reveals the sense associate with Dublin

of imprisonment that as a place? D. the violin
comes from routine
A. commonness 32. In “Ivy Day in the Com-
C. it reveals characters’ mittee Room,” which
B. boredom historical national fig-
literal inability to move
away from Ireland C. backwardness ure is celebrated?
D. All of the Above D. All of the Above A. Leopold Bloom
24. In The Dubliners, 28. In The Dubliners, B. Molly Bloom

which best describes which story/stories pro- C. Charles Stuart Par-
the order of the story vide(s) an example of nell
arc? unrequited passion? D. Wolf Tone
22. A 23. D 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. D 29. C 30. C 31. B 32. C 33. B
33. In “The Dead,” what A. the race for more C. the positive rep-
do most critics suggest modes of transporta- resentation of the
is important about the tion Catholic Church
snowfall? D. the representation
B. the decline of the
A. the snow represents Irish race of adventures the city
Ireland’s inability to be- offers to the mind
come independent C. the race to establish
er
40. In The Dubliners, how
an empire
B. the snow represents does Joyce use epipha-
the quiet that covers life D. the race for Ire- nies?
and death land’s welfare
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A. they sometimes clar-
C. the snow represents 37. Which best describes ify the connection be-
the promise of love the tone at the end of tween death and life
“Araby?” B. they are often cou-
D. the snow represents
an
A. hopeful pled with resignation,
the characters’ ability
sadness, and frustration
to escape Ireland B. disappointed
34. In “Two Gallants,”
C. joyful C. they create a system
Joyce’s major critical
Ch
commentary is: of hope, followed by
D. satiric
passive acceptance
A. that women are 38. Which of the follow- D. All of the Above
more at fault than men ing does Joyce address
thematically in The 41. According to Randy
B. that individuals are Hofbauer, what is/are
too passive Dubliners?
an
the purpose(s) of the

C. that people work A. the positive side of epiphany?
too hard for change war with Germany
A. it enables Stephen
D. that Catholicism is B. the supremacy of to say in Ireland forever
y
not to blame for prob- Britain

lems C. Irish nationalism B. it prepares Stephen
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35. Please identify the to accept his artistic re-

D. the Irish nation’s in- birth
story: “her eyes gave
ability to survive with-
him no sign of love C. it ends Stephen’s pe-
out England’s help
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or farewell or recogni- riod of enlightenment

tion.” 39. Which of the follow-
D. it helps Stephen
A. “The Boarding ing exemplifies the
to decide to join the
House” Modernist style of The
Catholic church
Dubliners?
B. “Clay” 42. According to Stephen,
A. the positive repre- how is art represented
C. “Eveline” sentation of cultural in- in the lyrical form?
D. “A Little Cloud” stitutions
A. the image is pre-
36. To what does the title of B. the representation sented in immediate re-
Joyce’s short story “Af- of a shallow, drab cul- lation to the artist him-
ter the Race” refer? ture self
34. B 35. C 36. C 37. B 38. C 39. B 40. D 41. B 42. A

B. the image is pre- 46. In A Portrait of the A. he is conflicted by

sented is immediate re- Artist, how is the artist his desire to leave Ire-
lation to the artist and represented? land because he has in-
others extricable ties to it
A. as a friend
C. the image is pre- B. he is sure of his de-
sented in a way that is B. as a family member sire to become a leader
like Parnell because
er
not purely personal C. as a romantic hero
his friends and family
D. the image is pre- D. All of the Above universally praise Irish
sented in immediate re- leaders
47. In A Portrait of the
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lation to others only
Artist, the main char- C. he is committed to
43. From whom does acter is named after staying in Ireland
Stephen borrow his which mythical figure? D. he deeply wants to
idea of clarity?
an
A. Aeneas leave Ireland, but he
A. Thomas Aquinas feels that, as an artist,
B. Icarus he can only work with
B. W.B. Yeats
national themes
C. Daedalus
C. Augusta Gregory
Ch
50. In A Portrait of the
D. Minos Artist, what is the im-
D. Ezra Pound
portance of music?
48. In A Portrait of
44. How does Stephen re-
the Artist, what is A. it ties in with
act to his first sexual en-
Stephen’s relationship Stephen’s appreciation
counter?
with his Catholic faith? of language
an
A. he feels alienated B. it reminds Stephen

A. he is opposed to the
B. he feels proud Catholic faith for the of his desire to live life
entire novel to the fullest
C. he feels at peace
y
C. it provides a way for

B. because he has been
D. he feels confident Stephen to feel at peace
raised Catholic, he
ra
45. In A Portrait of the never struggles with

Artist, how do most his faith D. All of the Above
critics suggest that the 51. In A Portrait of the
flight motif functions? C. he is torn between
Artist, what unique
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his desire for freedom

style does Joyce use?
A. it represents the de- and his desire to be
sire to flee Ireland moral A. vowel shift
B. it represents the D. he is committed to B. chiasmus
hero’s fear that he will priesthood for the en- C. acatalectic
overestimate his abili- tire novel D. stream of conscious-
ties
49. In A Portrait of ness
C. it implies that the the Artist, what is 52. In order to become
artist must take flight to Stephen’s relationship an artist, what does
do his work with his Irish national- Stephen Dedalus sacri-
D. All of the Above ity? fice from his life?
43. A 44. A 45. D 46. D 47. C 48. C 49. A 50. D 51. D 52. B
A. his chance for isola- B. an artist’s novel of C. art should be harmo-

tion awakening nious and proportional
B. his relationship with C. an artist’s journey
his family and friends in which he always D. art should not
abandons his art please the perception
C. his individual con-
sciousness D. a novel in which the 59. Who says “forge in the
er
hero solves a crime smithy of my soul the
D. his ability to flee Ire- uncreated conscience
land 56. What is the significance of my race?”
53. In which way(s) is A of the words “moocow”
gd
and “tuckoo,” according A. Leopold Bloom
Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man a Mod- to most critics? B. Molly Bloom
ernist novel? A. it represents Joyce’s C. Gabriel Conroy
decision not to use
an
A. it does not explore a D. Stephen Dedalus
character’s internal de- stream of conscious-
ness 60. A Portrait of the Artist
velopment as a Young Man thema-
B. it uses experimental B. it emulates an tizes which of the fol-
adult’s intellectual pro-
Ch
language lowing:
cess
C. it celebrates the sim- A. the artist in exile
plicity of everyday life C. it captures the intel-
B. spiritual crisis
lectual perceptions of a
child C. artistic awakening
D. it follows a tradi-
D. it represents Joyce’s D. All of the Above
an
tional narrative struc-

ture shift to more conven- 61. How does Joyce parallel
tional language Leopold and Stephen?
54. What are the three
parts of Stephen’s es- 57. Which best describes A A. both are mature
y
poused aesthetic the- Portrait of the Artist as

B. both tend to be
ory? a Young Man in terms
cheerful
of genre?
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A. perception, clarity, C. both are artists

and wholeness A. bildungsroman
D. both dislike music
B. kinesis, clarity, and B. comedy of manners
62. In Ulysses, Joyce retells
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perception C. pastoral which ancient story?

C. clarity, wholeness, D. satire A. Homer’s The Iliad
and kinesis
58. Which is/are an ele- B. Homer’s The
D. wholeness, har- ment(s) of Stephen’s Odyssey
mony, and clarity aesthetic theories? C. Virgil’s The Aeneid
55. What is a kunstlero- A. art should not pro- D. Sophocles’s
man? duce stasis in the Antigone
A. a novel that traces viewer
63. In Ulysses, to what does
women’s intellectual B. art should be kinetic Bloom often compare
developments life?
53. B 54. D 55. B 56. C 57. A 58. C 59. D 60. D 61. C 62. B 63. B
A. a newspaper 67. In Ulysses, which ex- D. in Ulysses, Leopold

perimental technique(s) uses it to describe his
B. a stream
does Joyce use? personal identity
C. a law
A. puns 71. What is the function of
D. a book the Linati schema?
B. parodies
64. In Ulysses, what is/are A. it outlines the transi-
C. unconventional syn-
er
the effect(s) of the tion from child to adult
stream of conscious- tax
in The Dubliners
ness technique? D. All of the Above
B. it outlines the order
gd
A. it obstructs the 68. In Ulysses, which stylis-
of stories in The Dublin-
characters’ interior tic characteristic(s) ap-
ers
thoughts pear?
C. it outlines the fun-
B. it provides a con- A. stream of conscious-
damental structure of
an
ventional approach to ness
Ulysses
representing the char- B. repetition of words
acters D. it outlines the
C. shifts in narrative movement of time in
C. it makes the charac-
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voice Finnegans Wake
ters’ emotions less im-
mediate D. All of the Above 72. What was/were the
69. In Ulysses, with which reaction(s) to Ulysses
D. it provides direct ac-
mythical character does when it was first pub-
cess to the characters’
Stephen best corre- lished?
consciousness
spond?
an
65. In Ulysses, which char- A. it was considered in-

acter best exemplifies A. Odysseus ferior by most authors
anti-Semitism? who read it
B. Telemachus
A. Leopold Bloom B. it was banned for ob-
y
C. Nestor
scenity
B. Mr. Deasy D. Nausicaa
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C. it was considered
C. Gabriel Conroy 70. In what context does too conventional for
Joyce use the term publication
D. Molly Ivors
“amor matris,” or moth-
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66. In Ulysses, which char- erly love? D. it was praised by

acteristic(s) can be con- the government and
sidered Modernist? A. in The Dubliners, churches
Chandler uses it to de-
A. the sequential con- scribe family relation- 73. Which best describes
struction of time ships Bloom’s attitude to-
B. the lack of taboo top- wards nationalism?
B. in The Dubliners,
ics Gabriel uses it in his dis- A. he is deeply in-
C. the use traditional cussions about death vested in the nationalist
language cause
C. in Ulysses, Stephen
D. the inclusion of var- uses it in his lectures on B. he hopes to join the
ious types of media art IRB
64. D 65. B 66. D 67. D 68. D 69. B 70. C 71. C 72. B 73. C
C. he is disinterested in A. Nausicaa 82. According to Margot

nationalism B. Aeolus Norris, what is the sig-
D. he is opposed to the nificance of guilt in
C. Penelope Finnegans Wake?
nationalist cause
74. Which character says D. Telemachus A. it represents origi-
he “fear[s] those big 79. Which text(s) are ref- nal sin
erenced in Joyce’s
er
words that make us so
B. it is linked with sex-
unhappy”? Ulysses?
ual perversions
A. Stephen Dedalus A. The Bible
C. it represents the
gd
B. Mr. Deasy B. Wilde’s The Picture Freudian primal scene
of Dorian Grey
C. Gabriel Conroy D. All of the Above
C. Yeat’s “Who Goes
D. Leopold Bloom 83. According to most
with Fergus”
an
75. Which character says critics, what does the
“wasn’t she the down- D. All of the Above circular structure of
right villain to go and 80. According to Margot Finnegans Wake repre-
do a thing like that”? Norris, what do Joyce’s sent?
Ch
A. Molly Bloom novels imply about civ-
ilization? A. the impossibility of
B. Mrs. Mooney resurrection
A. that it depends on
C. Mrs. Sinico repression B. the unconscious
D. Gerty MacDowell B. that it ends paralysis C. unrequited love
an
D. the patterns of birth,

themes is/are addressed life, and death
C. that it enables fulfill-
in Ulysses?
ment
84. How do historians
A. religious identity
D. that it resolves spir- say Joyce’s exile mani-
y
B. national identity itual crises fest itself in Finnegans

C. married relation- 81. According to Margot Wake?
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ships Norris, what is the A. it led to the combi-

ontological problem of nation of multiple lan-
D. All of the Above
Finnegans Wake? guages to form new
77. Who says “history is
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like a nightmare from A. the characters’ pref- words

which I must awake”? erence for reality over B. it led to the inclu-
dreams sion of dream scenarios
A. Leopold Bloom
B. the inability to dis-
B. Little Chandler tinguish between the
C. it led to the lack of
C. Joe Donnelly “self” and “other”
allusions to other cul-
D. Stephen Dedalus C. the inability to expe- tures’ stories and myths
78. With which character rience guilt
in The Odyssey does D. the disconnection D. it led to the focus
Molly Bloom best cor- from primal senses and on the family as a func-
respond? urges tional institution
74. A 75. A 76. D 77. D 78. C 79. D 80. A 81. B 82. D 83. D 84. A
85. How do Shem the Pen- A. murder C. the start of the book
man and Shaun the Post bears no resemblance to
B. slander
differ? the end
A. while Shem is a con- C. hypocrisy
D. the novel is clearly
formist, Shaun is a tal- D. All of the Above written from the future
ented artist to the past
89. Please identify the text
er
B. while Shem would from which “then must 92. Which of the follow-
rather be a priest, any what you like in ing are popular sources
Shaun is happy at his the power of empthoo” of dispute in the criti-
work
gd
comes. cal study of Finnegans
C. while Shem is a post- Wake?
A. “Araby”
man, Shaun is a artist A. whether the novel
and writer B. “The Dead” has a plot
an
D. while Shem is an C. A Portrait of the B. whether the novel
artistic outsider, Shaun Artist as a Young Man has definite characters
is a dull conformist
D. Finnegans Wake C. whether the novel
86. In Finnegans Wake,
Ch
how does Joyce repre- 90. What do most critics has a protagonist
sent the theme of tragic say that Issy represents D. All of the Above
love? to her brothers and fa-
ther? 93. Which of the following
A. he refers to the figures of speech are
mythical Daedalus A. she is a source of se- present in Finnegans
an
B. he uses an allu- cret, repressed desire Wake?

sion to the mythical B. she represents the A. allusions
Odysseus functional family struc-
ture B. jokes
C. he uses an allusion
y
to Tristian and Iseult C. she is an example of C. portmanteaus

D. he refers to the Oedi- piety
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D. All of the Above

pal myth
D. she dissolves the 94. Which of the following
87. In Finnegans Wake, to tension of the Oedipal themes are developed
which text(s) does Joyce references
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in Finnegans Wake?
make an allusion?
91. What is unique about A. married relation-
A. the Book of the the structure of ships
Dead Finnegans Wake?
B. dreams
B. the Bible
A. the last sentence
C. Vico’s La Scienza and first sentence are C. the movement of
Nuova circular time
D. All of the Above B. the novel has a tra- D. All of the Above
88. In Finnegans Wake, ditional plot; nothing 95. Why do critics consider
which of the following is particularly unique the dream form ideal
typify family life? about it for Finnegans Wake?
85. D 86. C 87. D 88. D 89. D 90. A 91. A 92. D 93. D 94. D
A. it prevents explo- B. the free dream asso- A. The Dubliners

ration of the uncon- ciations
B. A Portrait of the
scious C. the sketchy, Artist as a Young Man
B. it obscures the episodic structure
characters’ immediate C. Ulysses
D. All of the Above
thoughts D. Finnegans Wake
97. With which Irish fig-
er
C. it allows for the in- ure(s) is HCE often 99. From what source is the
troduction of plot snip- identified? title of Finnegans Wake
pets and new language taken?
A. Wolfe Tone
gd
B. Charles Stuart Par- A. a poem by Yeats
D. it makes the readers’
experience of the char- nell
B. a popular Irish bal-
acters less intimate C. Father Arnall lad
an
96. Why do most schol- D. Daniel O’Connell C. an ancient epic
ars consider Finnegans 98. With which text(s) is
Wake avant-garde? the word “riverrun” as- D. a poem by Eliot
A. the invented words sociated?
Ch
95. D 96. D 97. B 98. D 99. B
1.15 Dante
1. According to Dante, C. In essays flict between the Black
an
what does the term Guelphs and White

D. In love poetry
“gramatica” mean? Guelphs
3. According to most crit-
A. It is static language ics, Vita Nuova is an ex- C. Because Pope Boni-
y
with unchanging rules. ample of which of the face VIII was upset by
following genres? his representation of
the church in The Di-
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B. It is the language A. Autobiography

spoken by everyday vine Comedy
people. B. Framed narrative D. Because Beatrice’s
family wanted the two
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C. It is the only kind of C. Lyric poetry

illustrious vernacular. lovers separated
D. All of the above
D. It is synonymous 5. How is Dante’s rela-
4. For what reason was
with natural language. tionship with Beatrice
Dante exiled from his
an example of courtly
home?
love?
2. According to Dante, A. Because many peo-
when is it most appro- A. The relationship
ple were deeply of-
priate to use Latin? watches Dante pass
fended by The Divine
through stages of love
A. In written literature Comedy
for Beatrice’s physi-
B. Because he was cal, moral, and divine
B. In everyday speech embroiled in the con- beauty.
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B
B. The relationship 9. In which important me- C. He rejected the in-

provides an example of dieval city was Dante fluence of Scholasti-
passionate love rather born? cism.
than arranged matches.
A. London D. He was uninter-
ested in the poetics of
B. Rome the sublime.
C. The relationship
focuses on Beatrice’s
er
C. Florence 13. The quote “women who
chastity and purity. have intellect of love” is
D. Sorrento
D. All of the above from which text?
10. In which of the follow-
gd
6. In De Vulgari Eloquen- ing ways was Dante in- A. Vita Nuova
tia, Dante writes pri- volved in the Italian pol- B. De Monarchia
marily in which lan- itics of his time?
C. De Vulgari Eloquen-
guage?
A. He held several po- tia
A. Tuscan
B. Italian
C. Latin ansitions in the local gov-
ernment.
B. He conducted diplo-
D. The Divine Comedy
14. What did Dante have

Ch
matic missions. in common with
D. English Aquinas?
C. He literally fought
7. In Vita Nuova, how at the Battle of Cam- A. Both believed that
does Dante represent paldino. reason was unrelated to
love? faith.
D. All of the above
A. Love is an en-
an
B. Both believed in
nobling force that offers 11. In which text did Dante
the joint power of the
a chance for salvation. introduce the “dolce stil
Church and the State.
novo” technique?
B. Love is problematic C. Both believed that
y
for Dante, because Beat- A. The Convivio only faith was an im-
rice is considered im- B. Vita Nuova portant part of the
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pure. Christian worldview.

C. De Vulgari Eloquen-
C. Love has little to do tia
with spirituality. D. Both believed that
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D. Eclogues reason and faith were

D. Love obscures all
possibility for salvation. 12. In which way was part of the quest for
Dante a precursor of truth.
humanism? 15. What is the best defini-
8. In which dialect is
tion of humanism?
Dante’s Vita Nuova pri- A. He wrote classical
marily written? epics with Christian A. The movement to
materials. write more in vernacu-
A. Latin lar
B. He promoted the
B. Tuscan B. The intellectual
worship of idolatrous
C. English statues from the an- movement interested
cient times. in classical antiquity
D. French
5. D 6. C 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. D 11. B 12. A 13. A 14. D 15. B

C. The scientific move- 19. Which of the follow- C. The difference be-
ment away from classi- ing contributed to the tween grammar and
cal antiquity rise of vernacular liter- language
ature?
D. The movement D. All of the above
based on literature A. Most professional 23. Which of the follow-
about courtly love scribes found it difficult ing was a popular me-
to write in Medieval
er
16. What is the translation dieval criticism about
Latin. the Church?
of the term “dolce stil
novo”? B. The spoken lan- A. Many people were
guage tended to take
gd
unable to understand
A. “The sweet silence” precedence in areas Church texts written in
where the Church was Latin.
B. “The sweetness of
weak.
love” B. Many people were
an
C. Official documents unable to understand
C. “Sweet and still”
were written in spoken the language of the
D. “Sweet new style” language. Mass.
17. Where did Dante stay D. All of the above
C. Many people took
Ch
while he was in exile? 20. Which of the follow- issue with the Pope’s
ing historical events oc- inordinate wealth and
A. Paris curred in Dante’s life- power.
B. Ravenna time?
D. All of the above
C. England A. The Italian Renais-
24. While in exile, how did
an
sance
D. All of the above Dante’s opinions about
B. The Black Death monarchy shift?
18. Which of the following C. The Crusades A. He came to prefer
best represents Dante’s
the idea of an enlight-
y
criticism of the me- D. The Enlightenment

ened emperor.
dieval Church? 21. Which of the following
ra
historical figures influ- B. He decided that only

A. He thought the a dictator should be in
enced Dante?
popes failed to live up power.
the requirements of A. Cicero
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their offices. C. He decided that only

B. Thomas Aquinas
the Catholic Church
B. He disbelieved in C. Brunetto Latini should be in power.
the Christian doctrine.
D. All of the above D. He came to the real-
22. Which of the following ization that all emper-
C. He believed that is the theme of De Vul- ors are unjust.
most of the teachings gari Eloquentia? 25. Which of the following
were incorrect.
A. The historical evolu- is the theme of Dante’s
D. He thought that the tion of language Vita Nuova?
popes were the only A. His dislike of the
successful part of the B. The language of dif-
ferent literary genres vernacular language
Church.
16. D 17. D 18. A 19. D 20. C 21. D 22. D 23. D 24. A 25. C
B. His opposition B. Lust and love are 32. In The Inferno, Cer-
to the separation of both sins that place the berus is the protector of
Church and State sinner in hell. which circle of hell?
C. His love for Beatrice C. Lust involves the A. The circle of lust
subordination of reason B. The circle of glut-
to desire. tony
D. His experiences in
er
exile D. Lust leads to moral C. The circle of heresy
26. According to critics, improvement, while
love is a more destruc- D. The circle of treach-
how does Dante’s un- ery
tive force.
gd
derworld differ from
29. According to most crit- 33. In The Inferno, his jour-
Virgil’s hell?
ics, what does Geryon ney starts on which hol-
A. Unlike Virgil’s hell, represent in The In- iday?
Dante’s underworld fo- ferno? A. Christmas
an
cuses on punishment
for sins. A. Fraud B. All Saint’s Day
B. Unlike Virgil’s hell, B. Reason C. All Soul’s Day
Dante’s underworld is C. Justice D. Good Friday
Ch
concerned with destiny 34. In The Inferno, how
D. Lust
and future. are the wrathful pun-
30. According to Robert
C. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Hollander, what are the ished?
Dante’s underworld is two types of allegory A. They violently fight
not expected to last for- used by Dante? each other in a muddy
an
ever. swamp.
A. “Allegory of speech”
D. Unlike Virgil’s hell, and “allegory of the po- B. They are burned in
Dante’s underworld ets” their graves.
does not include exam-
y
B. “Allegory of speech” C. They roll heavy

ples of justice.
and “allegory of irony” stones onto one an-
27. According to Dante, other.
ra
which is the most seri- C. “Allegory of speech”

ous sin in hell? and “allegory of the the- D. They are forced to
ologians” lie under the surface of
A. Gluttony a marsh.
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D. “Allegory of the po-

B. Avarice ets” and “allegory of the 35. In The Inferno, how
theologians” does his journey end?
C. Heresy
31. Dante’s mention of A. He remains in hell.
D. Treachery
the “sound of the an- B. He returns to earth.
28. According to most crit- gelic trumpet” refers to
ics, how does Dante which religious event? C. He escapes into Pur-
distinguish love from gatory.
A. The Annunciation
lust? D. He emerges in Par-
B. Baptism adise.
A. Lust is often pure,
while love tends to be C. Holy Communion 36. In The Inferno, how is
crude. D. The Last Judgment heresy defined?
26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. D 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. C 36. A
A. As the denial of the A. Dido A. Allegory

soul’s immortality
B. Pope Boniface B. Metonymy
B. As the rejection free C. Beatrice C. Synesthesia
will
D. Judas D. Simile
C. As the choiceof lust
over love 41. In The Inferno, which 45. The quote “abandon all
er
three characters are lo- hope ye who enter here”
D. As the decision to cated in the deepest cir- is from which text?
indulge in various sins cle of hell?
A. Vita Nuova
37. In The Inferno, how is
gd
A. Guinevere, Dido,
the idea of Fortune rep- B. The Divine Comedy
and Francesca
resented?
B. Homer, Dante, and
A. Fortune is a “divine C. De Vulgari Eloquen-
Virgil
tia
an
minister” similar to an
angel. C. Brutus, Cassius, and
D. De Monarchia
Judas
B. Fortune is responsi- 46. What is contrapasso?
D. Pope Nicholas, Pope
ble for the distribution A. The idea that the
Ch
Boniface, and Pope
of worldly goods. punishment fits the
Clement
C. Fortune is beyond crime
42. In The Inferno, who de-
human understanding. fends the city of Dis? B. The poetic verse
D. All of the above form used in Vita
A. The sinners in the
Nuova
38. In The Inferno, what heretic circle
an
quality does Virgil rep- C. The structure of the

B. The furies
resent? cantos in The Divine
C. The fallen angels Comedy
A. Reason
D. The angelic messen- D. The theme of love
y
B. Compassion gers and lust in The Divine

C. Temperance Comedy
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43. In which circle would

D. Fortitude Dante place someone 47. What is limbo?
who committed sui-
39. In The Inferno, where A. In The Inferno, the
cide?
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is hell physically situ- place for many ancient

ated? A. The circle of vio- Roman, Greek, and
lence Egyptian thinkers
A. Beneath Cairo
B. The circle of wrath B. For Dante, the home
B. Beneath Jerusalem of major figures from
C. The circle of heresy
C. Beneath Rome the Hebrew Bible
D. The circle of treach-
D. Beneath Florence C. The place for vir-
ery
tuous non-Christian
40. In The Inferno, which 44. The phrase “where the adults
historical character sun is silent” is an ex-
is found in Satan’s ample of which poetic D. All of the above
mouth? device? 48. What is terza rima?
37. D 38. A 39. B 40. D 41. C 42. C 43. A 44. C 45. B 46. A 47. D 48. C
A. A traditional type A. The secret confes- A. The poet’s attempt

of poetry rejected by sion of sins to climb the mountain
Dante in favor of new B. A lack of remorse B. The poet’s attempt
rhyme schemes
C. The inability to re- to find his way back
B. A form of blank ject one’s old life to Florence from
verse Jerusalem
D. A sense of gratitude
er
C. A poetic form with for God’s mercy C. The poet’s descent
an interlocking three- 53. According to Dante, into hell
line rhyme scheme who resides in his ante- D. The poet’s tour of
gd
D. A poetic form with purgatory? earthly paradise
five-line stanzas A. The souls of those
56. According to Dr. Maz-
49. Which historical figure who are ready to enter
zotta, what trait distin-
appears in the circle of heaven
an
guishes Dante’s purga-
lust? B. The souls of those tory from his hell?
who are not yet ready
A. Francesca A. Purgatory is less
to purge their sins
B. Judas future-oriented.
Ch
C. The souls of those
C. Ciacco who are about to enter B. Purgatory is a place
hell of redemptive interven-
D. Alberigo tion.
D. The souls of the re-
50. In The Inferno, who ini- pentant who are pun- C. Purgatory includes
tially leads him around ished for their sins references to time.
an
hell?
54. According to Dr. Maz- D. Purgatory is less
A. Saint Augustine zotta, what does the rooted in the human,
phrase “the little bark” natural world.
B. Virgil mean?
y
C. Homer 57. According to most

A. It means that sin-
scholars, what does the
ners must resign them-
ra
D. Judas chariot in The Purgato-

selves to life in hell.
51. According to Dante, rio symbolize?
what place is at the top B. It implies that Beat-
rice will return later in A. The absence of
Na
of his purgatory? heretics and monsters

the poem.
A. The Gate to Limbo in medieval church his-
C. It suggests that par- tory
B. The Garden of Eden adise is close to purga-
tory. B. The conflict be-
tween ancient Romans
C. The Dark Wood D. It highlights the
and the early Church
idea that Dante is on
D. The circles of Hell a journey of poetry. C. The impossibility
52. According to Dante, 55. According to Dr. Maz- for sinners to repent
which is necessary in zotta, what is the cen- D. The righteousness
order to make a perfect tral allegorical theme in of the Roman Empire
confession? The Purgatorio? over time
49. A 50. B 51. B 52. D 53. B 54. D 55. A 56. C 57. B 58. A
58. According to most D. He must first be fer- 64. In The Purgatorio,

scholars, what does The ried across the River which of the following
Purgatorio allegorically Lethe. characters does Dante
represent? dream about?
61. In The Purgatorio, the
A. The penitent life opening of the text re- A. Rachel and Leah
sembles which type of
B. The afterlife exis- B. Brutus and Cassius
er
poem?
tence for mortal sinners
C. Dido and Aeneas
A. Sonnet
D. Pope Boniface and
C. The heavenly par- B. Aubade
gd
Pope Clement
adise
C. Ode 65. In The Purgatorio,
D. The earthly par- whom does Dante cite
adise D. Elegy
as his example of tem-
an
59. In The Purgatorio, how 62. In The Purgatorio, perance?
does Dante depict the what is the function
of the residents’ pun- A. Pope Boniface
punishment of the
proud penitents? ishments? B. Pope Clement
Ch
A. They are punished A. The punishments C. Saint Stephen
with whips and bridles. prevent hope from be-
D. John the Baptist
ing reborn in sinners.
66. The levels of purga-
B. They are forced to tory are associated with
carry heavy rocks on B. The punishments
which religious con-
an
their backs. keep the sinners from

cept?
entering the path to
C. They have their salvation. A. The planets
eyes sewn shut with
wire. C. The punishments B. The seven deadly
y
allow the sinners to sins

D. They must walk purge their sins.
through thick smoke. C. The Augustan calen-
ra
D. The punishments re- dar

mind the sinners that D. The seven sacra-
60. In The Purgatorio, how
they are damned to hell. ments
does Dante represent
Na
the entryway to the sev- 67. The quote “take then

enth terrace of lust? 63. In The Purgatorio, henceforth thy pleasure
where does Dante phys- for guide” comes from
A. He must be allowed
ically set purgatory? which text?
by Cerberus to pass.
A. In the southern A. Vita Nuova
B. He must walk
hemisphere
through an immense B. The Convivio
wall of flames. B. In the northern
hemisphere C. De Vulgari Eloquen-
C. He must be escorted tia
into the terrace by an C. In Florence
angelic messenger. D. The Divine Comedy
D. In Rome
59. B 60. B 61. B 62. C 63. A 64. A 65. D 66. B 67. D 68. B
68. What does the term A. Cato A. The seven deadly

“translatio studii” B. Beatrice sins
mean?
C. Virgil B. The seven types of
A. The ability to move sin that keep people
from purgatory into D. Homer from heaven
heaven 72. Which of the following
characters appears in C. The three compo-
er
B. The translation of nents of the perfect con-
The Purgatorio?
culture from one civi- fession
lization to another A. Sapia
D. The eight beatitudes
gd
C. The movement from B. Cato
one circle of hell to an- C. Sordello
other 76. According to Dante,
D. All of the above which class of people
D. The idea that the reside on the planet
an
punishment fits the is a common element of Mars?
crime vision literature? A. The wise
69. What is purgatory? A. The themes usually
B. The warriors of faith
Ch
A. A place for cleans- involve life after death
ing and purification B. A character’s body
is separated from his C. The justice rulers
B. The place of tran-
sition between earth, soul D. The contemplative
heaven, and hell C. A guide leads the 77. According to Dr. Maz-
an
C. The setting for narrator on a spiritual zotta, what do Dante’s

the middle portion of journey planets represent?
Dante’s The Divine D. All of the above A. The deadly sins
Comedy 74. Who is Cato?
y
B. The historical reli-

D. All of the above A. A character who ap- gious eras
70. What is the function of pears in the lust circle
ra
the River Lethe? of hell C. The liberal arts
A. It separates heaven B. A character who ap- D. The sacraments

from hell. pears in the ninth circle
Na
78. According to scholars,

of hell what is the function of
B. It prevents sinners
from escaping hell. C. The example Dante the rose that Dante sees
uses to show a perfect in paradise?
C. It washes away the Christian man
memory of sin. A. It alludes to the Gar-
D. An ancient pagan den of Eden.
D. It separates Dante that Dante meets in pur-
from the other sinners. B. It symbolizes perfec-
gatory
tion and paradise.
71. Which character does 75. In The Purgatorio, what
Dante meet at the end do the steps to the C. It is a symbol of the
of his journey through Gate of Purgatory rep- Virgin Mary.
purgatory? resent? D. All of the above
69. D 70. C 71. B 72. D 73. D 74. D 75. C 76. B 77. C 78. D
79. Dante’s nine spheres of B. He says that God’s 86. In The Paradiso, how
heaven are associated ways are extremely sim- does Dante’s journey
with which of the fol- ple. through heaven end?
lowing religious con-
C. He says that God’s A. With his exclusion
cepts?
ways are beyond hu- from purgatory
A. The deadly sins man understanding.
B. With a vision of the
er
B. The steps to confes- D. He says that God’s Trinity
sion ways are only available
C. With his return to
to those in heaven.
C. The beatitudes hell
gd
83. In The Divine Comedy,
D. The angelic hierar- what do many critics be- D. With his death
chy lieve Beatrice allegori- 87. In The Paradiso, on
cally represents? what day do the events
80. In De Monarchia, what occur?
an
language does Dante A. Natural light
primarily use? A. Easter Sunday
B. Revelations
A. English B. Wednesday after
C. The light of grace
Easter
Ch
B. Latin D. All of the above
C. Good Friday
C. Italian 84. In The Paradiso, Dante
bases his structure of D. All Saint’s Day
D. Tuscan paradise on which of 88. In The Paradiso, what
81. In his Letter to Can the following? event does Dante alle-
gorically represent?
an
Grande, which topic A. The Renaissance

does Dante attempt to concept of the planets A. The soul’s union
explain? with the body
B. The Ptolemaic uni-
A. His use of allegory verse B. The soul’s ascent to
y
B. His opposition C. Ancient Roman cos- heaven

to the separation of mology C. The soul’s tour of
ra
Church and State purgatory

D. Ancient Greek cos-
C. His belief in the in- mology D. The soul’s descent
fallibility of the popes into hell
Na
85. In The Paradiso, Dante

focuses on which kind 89. In The Paradiso, which
D. His interest in me- of politics? class of people does
dieval cosmology A. The politics of Dante place on the
Ravenna moon?
82. In Saturn, what does Pe-
ter Damian say about B. The politics of an- A. Those with the most
God’s ways? cient Greece constancy of characters
A. He says that God’s C. The politics of Ital-

ian city-states B. The proud
ways are similar to
those of Roman emper- D. The politics of the C. The best emperors
ors. Roman Empire and rulers
79. D 80. B 81. A 82. C 83. D 84. B 85. D 86. B 87. B 88. B 89. D
D. The souls of those 95. What does “transhu- 98. Which qualities do the
who abandoned their manize” mean? fixed stars in paradise
vows A. It is the ability to represent?
90. In The Paradiso, which move above the earthly
quality does Dante as- A. Faith, hope, and
state into heaven.
sociate with the wise? love
B. It is the ability to re-
er
A. Justice unite with the body. B. Faith, wisdom, and
B. Temperance love
C. It is the ability to
C. Fortitude commit sins while in C. Love, compassion,
gd
the human body. and pride
D. All of the above
91. In The Paradiso, who D. It is the ability to
separate from the body D. Justice, temperance,
does Dante meet in the
in order to reach hell. and faith
sphere of the sun?
A. Virgil
B. Thomas Aquinas
C. Judas an
96. What is the function of
the Primum Mobile?
A. It symbolizes
99. Who was Can Grande?
A. The poet who leads

Dante on a tour of hell
Ch
Dante’s distrust of the
D. Cacciaguida Church.
B. Dante’s enemy
92. In The Paradiso, who B. It is the home of the
leads Dante on his tour angels. C. Dante’s patron
of heaven?
C. It separates heaven
A. Virgil from hell. D. The emperor of Italy
an
in Dante’s lifetime
B. Beatrice D. It reminds Dante of
C. Cato his own pride. 100. In De Monarchia,
D. Ulysses 97. Which best describes what political opin-
y
Cicero’s concept of ion does Dante express

93. In The Paradiso, who
heaven? about empire?
questions Dante about
ra
hope? A. He believed that

A. He promotes the
A. Saint James eternal life in heaven
separation of Church
was the real one.
and State.
Na
B. Saint John
B. Because he was pa-
C. Saint Peter gan, he did not believe B. He declares papal
D. Saint Thomas in heaven. authority infallible.
94. In which section of The C. Because he was an C. He declares emper-
Divine Comedy does early Christian, he be- ors infallible.
Saint Bernard appear? lieved that heaven was
A. The Inferno inaccessible. D. He says that all em-
D. He believed that pires should be ruled by
B. The Convivio
heaven, hell, and earth dictators.
C. The Purgatorio were indistinguishable.
D. The Paradiso
90. D 91. B 92. B 93. A 94. D 95. A 96. B 97. A 98. A 99. C 100. A
1.16 Hamlet
1. Complete the following 5. What is the name of the A. Francisco
famous line from Ham- playlet Hamlet stages
B. Gorgonzola
let: Something is rotten for Claudius?
in the state of C. Reynaldo
A. Slings and Arrows
A. England D. Samson
er
B. Vice of Kings
B. Venice C. The Murder of Gon- 9. Who is Voltimand?
C. Denmark zago A. Ambassador to the
gd
D. The Slaying of Lu- King of Norway from
D. Maine the King of Denmark
cianus
2. Which of the following 6. Who says, “Good night, B. Hamlet’s cousin
characters does not ap- sweet prince,/And
C. Ambassador to the
an
pear in Hamlet? flights of angels sing
King of Denmark from
A. Polonius thee to thy rest."?
the King of Norway
B. Gertrude A. Fortinbras
D. Assassin in the ser-
B. Marcellus
Ch
C. Claudius vice of Fortinbras
C. Chorus 10. What poison does
D. Miranda
D. Horatio Claudius pour into the
3. Where was Hamlet ear of Hamlet’s father,
7. How does Queen
studying before he re- causing his death?
Gertrude die?
turned to Denmark?
A. Burdock
an
A. Accidentally
A. Wittenberg stabbed by Laertes. B. Hebenon
B. Oslo B. Drowns in the river C. Baneberry
C. London outside the castle.
y
D. Hemlock
C. Suffers a fatal heart
D. Dublin 11. How many soliloquies
attack while watching
ra
4. How are Polonius and Hamlet fight Laertes. does Hamlet deliver?
Laertes related? A. 2
D. Poisoned by drink-
A. Father/son ing from Hamlet’s cup. B. 4
Na
B. Uncle/nephew C. 7
8. Who does Polonius
C. Cousin/cousin send to spy on Laertes D. 9
D. Brother/brother in Paris?
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. C 9. A 10. B 11. C
1.17 Macbeth
1. Tennyson’s poem ‘In 6. Who coined the phrase A. Charles Dickens

Memoriam’was written ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
B. W. M. Thackeray
in memory of?
A. A.H. Hallam C. Graham Greene
B. Edward King B. P.B Shelley D. D. H. Lawrence

C. Wellington 11. Who called Shelley ‘a
er
C. S. T. Coleridge
D. P.B Shelley beautiful and ineffec-
D. John Keats tual angel beating in
2. Macbeth hires assas- the void his luminous
sins to murder Ban- 7. Which of the following
gd
wings in vain’?
quo’s son, named. is the first novel of D. H.
Lawrence? A. Walter Pater
A. Angus
A. The White Peacock B. A. C. Swinburne
B. Ross
an
C. Fleance B. The Trespasser C. Matthew Arnold
D. Lennox C. Sons and Lovers D. T. S. Eliot
3. Which of the follow- D. Women in Love 12. D. G. Rossetti was a true
Ch
ing is not an apparition literary descendant of?
shown to Macbeth by 8. Who derided Hazlitt as
the Witches: one of the members of A. Keats
the ‘Cockney School of
A. An armed head Poetry’? B. Byron
B. A bloody dagger A. Tennyson C. Shelley
an
floating in mid-air.
B. Charles Lamb D. Wordsworth
C. A bloody child.
C. Lockhart 13. W.B. Yeats received the
D. A child crowned,
Nobel Prize for litera-
with a tree in his hand
y
D. T. S. Eliot ture in the year?

4. Who called ‘The Waste
9. W.B.Yeats used the A. 1938
ra
Land ‘a music of
phrase ‘the artifice of
ideas’? B. 1925
eternity’ in his poem?
A. Allen Tate
A. Sailing to Byzan- C. 1932
Na
B. J.C Ransom tium

D. 1923
C. I.A Richards B. Byzantium
14. “Under the green wood
D. F. R Leavis
C. The Second Coming tree” is a song in:
5. The main character in
Paradise Lost Book I A. Love’s labour’s lost
and Book II is? D. Leda and the Swan
B. As you like it
A. God 10. Identify the writer who
used a pseudonym, C. A mid Summer
B. Satan night’s dream
Michael Angelo Tit-
C. Adam marsh, for much of his D. Much ado about
D. Eve early work? nothing
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. C 11. C 12. A 13. D

14. B 15. A
15. :Triumph, my Britain, with the Oxford Move- 24. “There’s a special prov-
thou hast one to show ment? idence in the fall of
To whom all scenes of a sparrow.” The line
A. Robert Browning
Europe homage owe. given above occurs in
He was not of an age, B. John Keble
A. Hamlet
but for all time". Who C. E.B. Pusey
wrote above lines for B. Henry IV, Pt I
er
Shakespeare: D. J. H. Newman
C. The Tempest
20. The term ‘the Palliser
A. Jonson D. Twelfth Night
Novels’ is used to de-
B. Bacon 25. “My own great religion
gd
scribe the political nov-
els of? is a belief in the blood,
C. Wordsworth
the flesh as being wiser
D. none of above A. Charles Dickens than the intellect.” Who
B. Anthony Trollope wrote this?
an
16. Seven Ages of Man ap-
pears in “ As you like C. W. H. White A. Graham Greene
it". Which character’s
D. B.Disraeli B. D. H. Lawrence
speech it is?
21. Identify the poet, C. Charles Dickens
Ch
A. Amiens
whom Queen Victoria, D. Jane Austen
B. Orlando regarded as the perfect
26. Shakespeare makes fun
poet of ‘love and loss’
C. Oliver of the Puritans in his
A. Tennyson play?
D. Jaques
B. Browning A. Twelfth Night
an
17. “To be or not to be that

is the question", is fa- C. Swinburne B. Hamlet
mous line of which of
D. D.G. Rossetti C. The Tempest
Shakespeare’s plays?
22. How many soliloquies D. Henry IV,Pt I
y
A. Othello are spoken by Hamlet 27. In which country is

B. Macbeth in the play Hamlet? Macbeth set?
ra
C. Hamlet A. Nine A. Spain

D. King Lear B. Five B. Denmark
Na
18. Identify the writer who C. Seven C. Scotland

was expelled from Ox- D. Three D. Canada
ford for circulating a
pamphlet 23. Identify the novel in 28. Who is traveling with
which the character of Macbeth when he first
A. P.B. Shelley Charlotte Lucas figures encounters the Three
B. Charles Lamb A. Great Expectations Witches?
C. Hazlitt B. The Power and the A. Macduff
D. Coleridge Glory B. Mercutio
19. Who, among the follow- C. Lord of the Flies C. Lady Macbeth
ing, is not connected D. Pride and Prejudice D. Banquo
16. D 17. C 18. A 19. C 20. D 21. D 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. A 27. C
28. D 29. A
29. At the beginning of the 33. Shakespeare joined the D. Henry Wriothes-
play, the Scots are at Chamber lain’s Men ley, the second earl of
war with which coun- Theatrical Company as Southampton
try? a:
37. During which period
A. Norway A. Actor and play- London theaterrs re-
wright mained closed on ac-
B. Prussia
count of the plague?
er
B. Playwright and poet
C. Iceland
A. 1592
D. Poland
C. Playwright and B. 1593
gd
30. How does Lady Mac- writer
beth explain her hus- C. 1594
D. None of above
band’s wild behavior at D. 1595
the banquet? 34. How many from his
38. Which roles have
an
plays were published in
A. She tells the guests played by Shakespeare
his lifetime:
that Banquo’s ghost is in Hamlet and As you
haunting Macbeth. A. Only sixteen like it?
Ch
B. She tells the guests B. Only seventeen A. Fortinbras, Corin
that Macbeth has had
C. Only eighteen B. Leartus, Silvius
too much to drink.
D. Only nineteen C. Osric, Touchstone
C. She informs the
guests that Macbeth 35. In which year Globe D. Ghost, Old servant
is ill. theater got fire and de- Adam
an
stroyed?
D. She reveals that 39. In year Shake-
Macbeth is overcome A. 1610 speare bought the
with grief over the B. 1611 largest house in Strat-
death of Duncan. ford, called New place:
y
C. 1612
31. Who tells Macbeth, A. 1595
ra
“The queen, my lord, D. 1613

is dead "? B. 1996
36. Shakespeare dedicated
A. Seyton his long narrative poem C. 1597
Na
Venus and Adonis to—— D. 15598

B. Siward ———.
C. The Doctor 40. In 1599 which famous
A. Henry Wriothes- actor and his brother
D. Caithness ley, the third earl of Cuthbert set a new play-
Southampton house on the Bank side,
32. Shakespeare’s father
died in: B. Thomas Wrio- called the Globe?
thesley,forth earl of A. Augustine Phillipps
A. 1600
Southampton
B. 1601 B. John Heimnge
C. William Fitzwilliam,
C. 1602 first earl of Southamp- C. Henry Condell
ton D. Richard Burbage
D. 1603
30. C 31. A 32. B 33. C 34. B 35. D 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. C 40. D 41. B
41. In Shakespeare’s liter- nothing, Henry 6 part A. Desdemona

ary output, the period three. B. Juliet
1604-1608 is the period B. A mid summer
of: C. Rosalind
night’s dream,Romeo
A. Comedy plays and Juliet, As you like D. Hero
it, King Lear,Pericles. 48. Who is the second at-
B. Historical plays
tending gentlewoman
er
C. All’s well that ends
C. Great Tragedies on Hero? Ursula
well, The tempest, As
D. None of above you like it, As you and
like it,A mid summer A. Margaret
gd
42. Following are the lines
of: “I’m your wife if you night’s dream,Much
B. Emilia
marry me If not, I’ll die ado about nothing.
C. Helena
your maid to be your D. King Lear, Mac-
fellow You may deny D. Celia
an
beth, Othello, Measure
me, but I’ll be your ser- for measure, Henry 8, 49. “ Some born great,
vant Whether you deny Romeo and Juliet. some achieve greatness
or not". 45. Who was killed by And some have great-
ness thrust upon them".
Ch
A. Hamlet Hamlet unintention-
ally? Above lines are taken
B. Romeo and Juliet from which of follow-
A. Leartus
C. Tempest ing plays?
B. Polonius
D. Othello A. Macbeth
C. Forinbras
43. Which of the following B. Othello
an
are characters of “Much D. Horatio

C. Twelfth night
ado about nothing": 46. Who is second Prince of
Arragon in “Much ado D. As you like it
A. Hero, Borachio, An- about nothing"? 50. Which of the follow-
y
tonio, Claudio, Leonato

A. Leonato ing play was written in
1601?
ra
B. Hero, Orlando, An- B. Balthasar

A. Othello
tonio, Claudio, Leanato C. Don John
B. Hamlet
D. Don Pedro
Na
C. Mirrinda, Bora- C. King Lear

47. Which character
chio, Antonio, Claudio, spoke following lines? D. Macbeth
Leanato “What’s Montague? It is 51. “Antony and Cleopatra”
D. Hero, Boradio, An- nor hand nor foot, Nor and “Macbeth” was in:
tonio, Claudio, Horatio arm nor face, nor any
A. 1606
other part Belonging
to a man, O be some B. 1607
other name! What’s in C. 1608
is in correct sequel ?
a name? That which
A. Comedy of errors, we call a rose By any D. 1609
A mid summer night’s other word would smell 52. Which of the following
dream, Much ado about as sweet," was written first:
42. C 43. A 44. C 45. B 46. D 47. B 48. A 49. C 50. B 51. A 52. A
A. Henry six 57. The epigraph of The A. Sesame and Lilies

Waste Land is borrowed B. The Seven Lamps of
B. Henry seven
from? Architecture
C. Henry five
A. Virgil C. Unto This Last
D. None of above
B. Fetronius D. Fors Clavigera
C. Seneca 63. Graham Greene’s nov-
er
are King Lear’s daugh-
ters? D. Homer els are marked by?
A. Desdemona, 58. T. S. Eliot has borrowed A. Catholicism
gd
Goneril and Cordelia the term ‘Unreal City’ B. Protestantism
in the first and third sec-
tions from? C. Paganism
B. Goneril, Ophelia
and Regan A. Baudelaire D. Buddhism
an
64. One important feature
C. Goneril, Regan and B. Irving Babbit
of Jane Austen’s style
Cordelia C. Dante is?
D. Regan, Cordelia and D. Laforgue A. boisterous humour
Beatrice
Ch
59. Which of the following B. humour and pathos
54. Shakespeare wrote myths does not figure
plays? C. subtlety of irony
in The Waste Land?
A. 32 D. stream of conscious-
A. Oedipus
ness
B. 34 B. Grail Legend of 65. The title of the poem
an
C. 36 Fisher King ‘The Second Coming’ is

D. 38 C. Philomela taken from?
55. With the accession D. Sysyphus A. The Bible
y
of King James to the 60. Joe Gargery is Pip’s? B. The Irish mythology
English throne, Lord
Chamberlain’s Man A. brother
ra
was renamed: B. brother-in-Jaw C. The German

mythology
A. King Lear C. guardian
D. The Greek mythol-
Na
B. Gentleman D. cousin ogy

C. King’s Man 61. Estella is the daughter 66. In Sons and Lovers,
D. None of above of? Paul Morel’s mother’s
A. Joe Gargery name is?
56. Uneasy lies the head
that ( King Henry B. Abel Magwitch . A. Susan
four, part two): B. Jane
C. Miss Havisham
A. Wears a crown C. Gertrude
D. Bentley Drumnile
B. Wears a hat D. Emily
62. Which book of John
C. Wears a wig Ruskin influenced Ma- 67. The twins in Lord of the
D. none of these hatma Gandhi? Flies are?
53. C 54. C 55. C 56. A 57. D 58. C 59. D 60. C 61. A 62. C 63. A 64. B
65. A 66. D 67. A
A. Ralph and Jack A. Mars A. Alonso

B. Simon and Eric B. Hercules B. Ariel
C. Ralph and Eric C. Zeus C. Gonzalo
D. Simon and Jack D. Bacchus D. Stephano
68. Mr. Jaggers, in Great 73. Who invented the term 78. What is the sub-title
er
Expectations, is a ‘Sprung rhythm’? of the play Twelfth
Night?
A. lawyer A. Hopkins
A. Or, What is you Will
B. postman
gd
B. Tennyson
C. Judge
C. Browning B. Or, What you Will
D. School teacher
D. Wordsworth C. Or, What you Like It
69. What does ‘I’ stand for
an
in the following line? 74. Who wrote the poem
‘To Carthage then I ‘Defence of Lucknow’? D. Or, What you Think
came’ A. Browning
A. Buddha
Ch
B. Tennyson plays of Shakespeare,
B. Tiresias C. Swinburne according to T. S. Eliot,
C. Smyrna Merchant is ‘artistic failure’?
D. Rossetti
D. Augustine A. The Tempest
70. The following lines are plays of Shakespeare B. Hamlet
an
an example of image. has an epilogue? C. Henry IV, Pt I

‘The river sweats Oil
and tar’ A. The Tempest D. Twelfth Night
B. Henry IV, Pt I 80. Who is Thomas Percy
A. visual
y
in Henry IV, Pt I?
B. kinetic C. Hamlet
A. Earl of Northumber-
ra
C. erotic D. Twelfth Night land

D. sensual 76. Hamlet’s famous B. Earl of March
71. Which of the follow- speech ‘To be,or not to
C. Earl of Douglas
Na
ing novels has the sub- be; that is the question’

title ‘A Novel Without occurs in? D. Earl of Worcester
a Hero’? A. Act II, Scene I 81. Paradise Lost was origi-
nally written in?
A. Vanity Fair B. Act III, Scene III
A. ten books
B. Middlemarch C. Act IV, Scene III
B. eleven books
C. Wuthering Heights D. Act III, Scene I
C. nine books
D. Oliver Twist 77. Identify the character
72. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, in The Tempest who is D. eight books
who wooes Leda in referred to as an honest 82. In Pride and Prejudice,
guise of a swan? old counselor Lydia elopes with?
68. A 69. A 70. C 71. A 72. C 73. A 74. C 75. A 76. D 77. C 78. B 79. B
80. A 81. D 82. B
A. Darcy A. Jane Austen A. Leigh Hunt

B. Wickham B. Charles Dickens B. Milton
C. William Collins C. W. M. Thackeray C. Shakespeare

D. Thomas Hardy D. Thomas Chatterton
D. Charles Bingley
93. The second series of Es-
83. Who is commonly 88. Shelley’s Adonais is an
says of Elia by Charles
er
known as ‘Pip’ in Great elegy on the death of?
Lamb was published
Expectations? A. Milton in?
A. Philip Pirrip B. Coleridge A. 1823
gd
B. Filip Pirip C. Keats B. 1826
C. Philip Pip D. Johnson C. 1834
89. In the poem ‘Tintern D. 1833
an
D. Philips Pirip
Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ 94. Which of the following
84. The novel The Power refers to? poets does not belong
and the Glory is set in? to the ‘Lake School’?
A. Nature
Ch
A. Mexico A. Keats
B. Dorothy
B. Italy B. Coleridge
C. Coleridge
C. France C. Southey
D. Wye
D. Germany D. Wordsworth
90. Who, among the follow-
95. Who, among the follow-
ing, is not the second
an
85. Which of the following writers, was not ed-

ing is Golding’s first generation of British
ucated at Christ’s Hos-
novel? Romantics?
pital School, London?
A. The Inheritors A. Keats
A. Charles Lamb
y
B. Lord of the Flies B. Wordsworth

B. William Wordsworth
ra
C. Pincher Martin C. Shelley

D. Byron C. Leigh Hunt
D. Pyramid
91. Which of the following D. S. T. Coleridge
Na
86. Identify the character

poems of Coleridge is a 96. Identify the work by
who is a supporter of ballad? Swinburne which be-
Women’s Rights in Sons
A. Work Without gins “when the hounds
and Lovers?
Hope of spring are on win-
A. Mrs. Morel ter’s traces..”?
B. Frost at Midnight
B. Annie A. Chastelard
C. The Rime of the An-
C. Miriam B. A Song of Italy
cient Mariner
C. Atalanta in Calydon
D. Clara Dawes D. Youth and Age
87. Vanity Fair is a novel 92. Keats’s Endymion is D. Songs before Sun-
by? dedicated to? rise
83. C 84. A 85. B 86. A 87. C 88. C 89. B 90. B 91. C 92. A 93. D 94. A
95. A 96. C 97. B
97. Carlyle’s work On A. Sir Thomas Wyatt 106. ‘Brevity is the soul
Heroes, Hero Worship of wit’ is a quotation
B. William Shake-
and the Heroic in His- from?
speare
tory is a course of?
A. Milton
C. Earl of Surrey
A. six lectures
D. Milton B. William Shake-
B. five lectures speare
er
102. The Aesthetic Move-
C. four lectures C. T. S. Eliot
ment which blossomed
D. seven lectures during the 1880s was D. Ruskin
98. Who is praised as a not influenced by?
gd
107. “Dost thou think, be-
hero by Carlyle in his A. The Pre-Raphaelites cause thou art virtu-
lecture on the ‘Hero as
ous, there shall be no
King’?
B. Ruskin more cakes and ale.”
an
A. Johnson Who speaks the lines
C. Pater given above in Twelfth
B. Cromwell
D. Matthew Arnold Night?
C. Shakespeare
103. Identify the rhetor- A. Duke Orsino
Ch
D. Luther ical figure used in
B. Malvolio
99. Identify the work by the following line of
Ruskin which began as Tennyson “Faith un- C. Sir Andrew
a defence of contempo- faithful kept him falsely Aguecheek
rary landscape artist es- true.”
D. Sir Toby Belch
pecially Turner?
an
A. Oxymoron
A. The Stones of 108. In Paradise Lost, Book
B. Metaphor I, Satan is the embodi-
Venice
ment of Milton’s?
B. The Two Paths C. Simile
A. Sense of injured
y
C. The Seven Lamps of D. Synecdoche

merit
Architecture 104. Who is Pip’s friend in
ra
London? B. Hatred of tyranny

D. Modem Painters
A. Pumblechook C. Spirit of revolt
100. A verse form using
stanza of eight lines, B. Herbert Pocket D. All these
Na
each with eleven sylla-

C. Bentley Drummle 109. Who calls poetry “the
bles, is known as?
breadth and finer spirit
A. Spenserian Stanza D. Jaggers of all knowledge”?
B. Ballad 105. Who is Mr. Tench
A. Wordsworth
in The Power and the
C. Ottava Rima Glory? B. Shelley
D. Rhyme Royal A. A teacher C. Keats
101. Identify the writer
B. A clerk D. Coleridge
who first used blank
verse in English po- C. A thief 110. Twelfth Night opens
etry? D. A dentist with the speech of?
98. B 99. D 100. C 101. C 102. D 103. A 104. D 105. C 106. B 107. D
108. C 109. A 110. B
A. Viola A. The Oxford Move- A. The Waste Land

ment
B. Duke B. Tintern Abbey
B. The Pre-Raphaelite
C. Olivia C. The Second Coming
Movement
D. Malvolio
C. The Romantic
111. What was the cause of Movement D. Prayer for My
Daughter
er
William’s death in Sons
D. The Symbolist
and Lovers? 120. William Morel in Sons
Movement
A. An accident and Lovers is drawn af-
116. The Chartist Move- ter?
gd
B. An overdose of mor- ment sought?
phia A. Lawrence’s father
A. Protection of the
C. Suicide political rights of the B. Lawrence’s brother
working class
an
D. Pneumonia C. Lawrence himself
B. Recognition of char-
112. Which poem of Co- D. None of these
tered trading compa-
leridge is an opium 121. The most notable char-
nies
dream? acteristic of Keats’ po-
Ch
C. Political rights for
A. Kubla Khan etry is?
women
B. Christabel A. Satire
D. Protection of the po-
C. The Ancient litical rights of the mid- B. Sensuality
Mariner dle class
C. Sensuousness
117. Who wrote “Bi-
an
D. Ode on the Depart-

ographia Literaria”? D. Social reform
ing Year
A. Byron 122. The key-note of
113. Which stanza form did
Browning’s philosophy
Shelley use in his fa- B. Shelley of life is?
y
mous poem ‘Ode to the

West Wind’? C. Coleridge A. agnosticism
ra
A. Rime royal D. Lamb

B. optimism
118. Who was “Fortin-
B. Ottava rima C. pessimism
bras”?
C. Terza rima
Na
A. Claudius’s son D. skepticism

D. Spenserian Stanza B. Son to the king of 123. The title of Car-
114. The phrase ‘Pathetic Norway lyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’
fallacy’ is coined by? means?
C. Ophelia’s lover
A. Milton A. Religious Scripture
D. Hamlet’s Mend
B. Coleridge 119. “The best lack all con- B. Seaside Resort
C. Carlyle viction, while the worst C. Tailor Repatched
are full of passionate
D. John Ruskin intensity.” The above D. None of these
115. Tracts for the Times lines have been taken 124. “Epipsychidion” is
relates to? from? composed by?
111. D 112. A 113. C 114. D 115. A 116. A 117. C 118. B 119. C 120. D
121. C 122. B 123. C 124. D
A. Coleridge A. comic figures 134. Oedipus Complex is?

B. Wordsworth B. historical figures A. a kind of physical
C. romantic figures ailment
C. Keats
D. tragic figures B. a kind of vitamin
D. Shelley
130. That Milton was of the C. a brother’s attrac-
125. “The better part of val-
Devil’s party without tion towards his sister
er
our is discretion” oc-
knowing it, was said
curs in Shakespeare’s?
by?
D. a son’s attraction to-
A. Hamlet
A. Blake wards his mother
gd
B. Twelfth Night B. Eliot 135. “The rarer action
C. The Tempest C. Johnson is in virtue that in
vengeance.” This line
D. Henry IV, Pt I D. Shelley
an
occurs in?
126. Epic similes are found 131. Essays of Ella are?
A. Hamlet
in which work of John A. full of didactic ser-
Milton? monising B. Henry IV,Pt I
Ch
A. Paradise Lost B. practically autobio- C. The Tempest
B. Sonnets graphical fragments D. Twelfth Night
C. Lycidas C. remarkable for their 136. Jane Austen’s Pride
aphoristic style and Prejudice is a?
D. Areopagitica
D. satirical and critical A. Picaresque novel
127. Pride and Prejudice
an
132. The theme of Ten-

was originally a youth- B. Gothic novel
nyson’s Poem ‘The
ful work entitled? C. Domestic novel
Princess’ is?
A. ‘Last Impressions’ A. Queen Victoria’s D. Historical novel
y
B. ‘False Impressions’ coronation 137. ‘Heaven lies about

B. Industrial Revolu- us in our infancy’.
ra
C. ‘First Impressions’
tion This line occurs in the
D. ‘True Impressions’ poem?
C. Women’s Education
128. Who said that Shake- and Rights A. Immortality Ode
Na
speare in his comedies

has only heroines and D. Rise of Democracy B. Tintern Abbey
no heroes? 133. Thackeray’s “Esmond” C. The Second Coming
is a novel of historical
A. Ben Jonson
realism capturing the
B. John Ruskin spirit of? D. Leda and the Swan
C. Thomas Carlyle A. the Medieval age 138. Wordsworth calls him-

self ‘a Worshipper of
D. William Hazlitt B. the Elizabethan age Nature’ in his poem
129. Sir John Falstaff is one C. the age of Queen
A. Immortality Ode
of Shakespeare’s great- Anne
est? B. Tintern Abbey
D. the Victorian age
125. D 126. A 127. C 128. B 129. A 130. A 131. B 132. C 133. A 134. D
135. C 136. C 137. A 138. B
C. The Prelude C. Polonius 147. The Romantic Revival

D. Rosencrantz in English Poetry was
D. The Solitary Reaper
influenced by the?
143. Browning’s famous
139. When Wordsworth’s poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ A. French Revolution
‘Immortality Ode’ was is included in? B. Glorious Revolution
first published in 1802, A. Dramatis Personae of1688
er
it had only?
B. Dramatic Idyls C. Reformation
A. Stanzas I to IV
C. Asolando D. Oxford Movement
B. Stanzas I toV
gd
D. Red Cotton Night- 148. The Pre-Raphaelite po-
C. Stanzas I to VI Cap Country ets were mostly in-
D. Stanzas I to VII 144. S. T. Coleridge was an debted to the poets of
Associate of? the?
140. Which method of nar-
an
ration has been em- A. The Royal Society of A. Puritan movement
ployed by Dickens in Edinburgh B. Romantic revival
his novel “Great Expec-
tations”? B. The Royal Society C. Neo-classical age
Ch
ofLondon
A. Direct or epic D. Metaphysical
C. Royal Society of school
method
Arts
B. Documentary 149. ‘O, you are sick of self-
D. Royal Society of Lit- love’ Who is referred
method
erature to in these words in
C. Stream of Con-
an
145. Which of the follow- Twelfth Night?

sciousness technique ing is an unfinished A. Orsino
novel by Jane Austen?
D. Autobiographical B. Sir Andrew
A. Sense and Sensibil-
y
method ity C. Sir Toby

141. Who said ‘Keats was a
B. Mansfield Park D. Malvolio
ra
Greek’?
C. Sandition 150. Hamlet is?
A. Wordsworth
D. Persuasion A. an intellectual
B. Coleridge
Na
146. Why did Miss Hav- B. a man of action

C. Lamb isham remain a spinster
throughout her life in C. a passionate lover
D. Shelley
“Great Expectations”? D. an over ambitious
142. To which character in
Hamlet does the follow- A. She was poor man
ing description apply? B. She was arrogant 151. Which of Shake-
“The tedious wiseacre speare’s characters ex-
who meddles his way to C. Because she was be- claims; ‘Brave, new,
his doom.” trayed by the bride- world!’?
groom
A. Claudius A. Ferdinand
D. She was unwilling
B. Hamlet to marry B. Antonio
139. B 140. A 141. B 142. B 143. A 144. D 145. C 146. B 147. A 148. B
149. D 150. C 151. C
C. Miranda A. senecan attitude 158. “Twelfth night” is a:

D. Prospero B. patriotism A. Tragedy
152. Paradise Lost shows C. love of nature B. Comedy
an influence of? D. platonic ideals C. Problem play
A. Paganism Plays by Shakespeare.. D. Both a and b
COMEDIES All’s
er
B. Pre-Christian theol- 159. Who was villain in
Well That Ends Well
ogy Othello?
As You Like It Com-
C. Christianity and the edy of Errors Love’s A. Claudius
gd
Renaissance Labour’s Lost Measure
B. Iago
for Measure Merchant
D. Greek nihilism C. Egeus
of Venice Merry Wives
153. The style of Paradise of Windsor Midsummer D. None of above
Lost is?
an
Night’s Dream Much
A. more Latin than Ado about Nothing
ing are tragedies of
most poems Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare?
Tempest Twelfth Night
B. more spontaneous Two Gentlemen of A. Hamlet, Othello and
Ch
than thought out Verona Winter’s Tale Troilus and Cressida
C. more satirical than HISTORIES Cymbeline B. Coriolanus, Timon
spontaneous Henry IV, Part I Henry of Athens and Titus An-
IV, Part II Henry V dronicus
D. more dramatic than Henry VI, Part I Henry
lyrical VI, Part II Henry VI, C. King Lear, Measure
an
154. In Pride and Prejudice Part III Henry VIII King for measure and The
we initially dislike but John Pericles Richard II merchant of Venice
later tend to like? Richard III TRAGEDIES D. Macbeth, Much
Antony and Cleopa- ado about nothing and
y
A. Mr. Bennet
tra Coriolanus Ham- Antony and Cleopatra
B. Wickham let Julius Caesar King
ra

Lear Macbeth Othello ing tragedy is not writ-
C. Bingley
Romeo and Juliet Ti- ten by Shakespeare?
D. Darcy mon of Athens Titus
A. Hamlet
Na
155. Who in Hamlet sug- Andronicus Troilus and

gests that one should Cressida B. Macbeth
neither be a lender nor 157. Which of the follow- C. King Lear
a borrower? ing is the earliest com-
edy of Shakespeare? D. King Oedipus
A. Gertrude
A. A mid summer 162. Othello was a :
B. Polonius
night’s dream A. General of England
C. Horatio B. Much ado about B. General of Denmark
D. Hamlet nothing
156. Shakespeare’s Henry C. As you like it C. Prince of England
IV, Pt I contains his? D. Love’s labour’s lost D. Prince of Denmark
152. C 153. A 154. D 155. B 156. B 157. D 158. B 159. B 160. B 161. D
162. A 163. B
163. was father of Des- A. Henry 6 part three A. Beatrice

demona?
B. Henry 4 part two B. Margaret
A. Othello C. Henry 6 part one C. Gertrude
B. Brabantio D. Henry 4 part one D. Rosalind
C. Iago 169. “I have no other but 172. Following are the char-
er
a woman’s reason I acters of: Apemantus,
D. Gratiano think him so, because I Alcibiades, Flavius, Lu-
164. Othello was sent to think him so” Which of cullus, Sempronius
fight with: Shakespeare’s play con-
gd
tain above lines? A. Coriolanus
A. French army
A. The two gentle men B. Cymbeline
B. German army of Verona C. Timon of Athens
an
C. Ottomans B. Merry wives of D. Winter’s tale
Windsor
D. None of above 173. Who is the heroin of
C. The noble Kinsman The Tempest?
165. Desdemona was killed
Ch
by : D. Measure for mea- A. Ophelia
sure
A. Iago B. Desdemona
170. “ What piece of work
B. Casio is a man How noble C. Miranda
in reason, how infi-
C. Othello D. Helena
nite in faculty, In form
an
D. Brabantio and moving how ex- 174. Hamlet consist of

press and admirable acts:
166. Othello gave Desde-
In action! how like
mona as a token of A. 3
an angle In appre-
love:
y
hension! how like a B. 4

A. Ring God: The beauty of the C. 5
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World, the paragon of

B. Handkerchief animals And yet, D. 6
C. Pendant to me, what is this 175. Which of Shake-
quintessence of dust? speare’s play is his
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D. Bengals Above lines are taken only play that has never
167. Desdemona was : from Hamlet’s which been adopted for film
act? or Television?
A. wife of Othello
A. act 1 scene two A. Taming of the
B. daughter of Othello Shrew
B. act 2 scene two
C. both a and b C. act 3 scene two B. The two Noble Kins-
D. none of above men
D. act 4 scene two
168. “ A man can die but 171. Which of the fol- C. Troilus and Cressida
once” is one of quote of lowing is Hamlet’s
following plays: mother? D. Cymbeline
164. C 165. C 166. B 167. A 168. B 169. A 170. B 171. C 172. C 173. C
174. C 175. B 176. A
176. Which of Shake- Windsor C. King John

speare’s play features
Sir John Falstaff? D. Titus Andronicus
B. Troilus and Cressida
A. The merry wives of
er
1.18 Poetry
1. Which of the following A. rhyme A. imagery
is not a literary device
gd
B. onomatopoeia B. personification
used for aesthetic effect
in poetry? C. alliteration C. metaphor
A. Assonance D. none of the above

10. A poem that tells a
an
B. Onomatopaea 6. A comparison of un- story with plot, setting,
C. Rhyme like things without us- and characters
ing a word of compari-
D. Grammar A. lyric
son such as like or as
Ch
2. A pattern of accented B. free verse
and unaccented sylla- A. metaphor
C. narrative
bles in lines of poetry B. simile
A. rhyme scheme C. personification 11. A poem with no meter
B. meter D. none of the above or rhyme
an
C. alliteration A. lyric
7. The comparison of un-
D. none of the above like things using the B. free verse
3. The repetition of simi- words like or as C. narrative
y
lar ending sounds A. metaphor D. none of the above

A. alliteration B. simile 12. A poem that generally
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B. onomatopoiea has meter and rhyme

C. personification
A. lyric
C. rhyme
D. none of the above B. free verse
Na

8. Using words or letters C. narrative
4. Applying human qual- to imitate sounds
ities to non-human D. none of the above
things A. alliteration 13. True or false: Writing
A. personification B. simile predates poetry.
B. onomatopoeia A. True
C. onomatopoeia
B. False
C. alliteration D. none of the above
14. Who wrote the po-
D. none of the above 9. a description that ap- ems, “On death” and
5. The repetition of begin- peals to one of the five “Women, Wine, and
ning consonant sounds senses Snuff?"
1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. C 11. B 12. A 13. B

14. B
A. John Milton 19. Where did chaucer 24. Concentrate on these el-
B. John Keats bury? ements when writing a
good poem.
C. P.B Shelley A. westminster abbey
A. characters, main
D. William Wordsworth B. kent church idea, and theme
C. chapel at windsor B. purpose and audi-
15. Which represents an ex-
er
D. none of the above ence
ample of alliteration?
20. chaucer was impris- C. theme, purpose,
A. Language Arts
oned during ? form, and mood.
gd
B. Peter Piper Picked
A. hundred years’ war D. rhyme and reason
Peppers
25. Which poem ends ’I
C. I like music B. Black death shall but love thee bet-
D. A beautiful scenery C. Peasant revolt ter after death’?
with music
is not a poet?
an
21. What is the earliest
surviving European
A. How do I love thee
B. Ode to a Grecian urn
Ch
A. William Shake-
poem? C. In faith I do not love
speare
A. The Homeric epic thee with mine eyes
B. Terry Saylor
D. Let me not to the
C. Browning B. The Gilgamesh epic
marriage of true minds
D. Emily Dickinson C. The Deluge epic 26. Which poet is consid-
an
17. Which of the following D. The Hesiodic ode ered a national hero in
is not an English poet (i. Greece?
e. from England) ? 22. Auld Lang Syne is a fa-
mous poem by whom? A. John keats
A. Victor Hugo
y
A. Sir Walter Scott B. Lord Byron

B. Alexander Pope
C. Solan
B. William Butler Yeats
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C. John Milton
D. Sappho
D. Samuel Taylor Co-
C. Henry Longfellow 27. Which kind of poem is
leridge
Edward Lear associated
Na
18. Where were the pil- D. Robert Burns with?

grims going in the can-
23. Which of the follow- A. Nature
terbury tales?
ing are Thomas Hardy
A. To the shrine of B. Epics
books?
st. Peter at canterbury C. Sonnets
cathedral A. The Poor Man and
the Lady D. Nonsense
B. To the shrine of 28. In coleridge’s poem
saint thomas becket at B. The Return of Na-
tive ’The rime of the An-
canterbury cathedral cient Mariner’where
C. both A and B C. Chollttee were the three gallants
D. None of these D. None of the above going?
15. B 16. B 17. A 18. B 19. A 20. A 21. A 22. D 23. A 23. B 24. C 25. A
26. B 27. D 28. B
A. A funeral 33. Which American writer 38. In 1960 ’The Colos-

published ’A brave and sus’ was the first book
B. A wedding
startling truth’ in 1996 of poems published by
C. Market which poetess?
A. Robert Hass
D. To the races A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Jessica Hagdorn
29. Harold Nicholson de- B. Sylvia Plath
C. Maya Angelou
er
scribed which poet as
C. Marianne Moore
’Very yellow and glum. D. Micheal Palmer
Perfect manners’? D. Laura Jackson
34. Who wrote about the
gd
A. e. e. Cummings idyllic ’Isle of Innis- 39. In his poem Kipling
free’? said ’If you can meet
B. T. S. Elliot with triumph and
C. John Greenleaf A. Dylan Thomas ’?
Whittier
an
B. Ezra Pound A. Glory
D. Walt Whitman C. Yeats B. Ruin
30. What was strange D. E. E. cummings C. Disaster
about Emily Dickin-
Ch
son? 35. Sylvia Plath married D. victory
which English poet?
A. She rarely left home 40. Which of the following
A. Masefield is not a poetic tradi-
tion?
B. She wrote in code B. Causley
A. The Epic
C. Hughes
an
C. She never attempted

to publish her poetry B. The Comic
D. Larkin
D. She wrote her po- C. The Occult
36. Carl Sandburg ’Planked
ems in invisible ink whitefish’ contains D. The Tragic
y
31. Rupert Brooke wrote what kind of imagery? 41. What is the study of po-
his poetry during A. Sea scenes etry’s meter and form
ra
which conflict? called?

B. Rural Idyll
A. Boer War A. Prosody
C. War
B. Second World War B. Potology
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D. Innocent childhood
C. Korean War C. Rheumatology
37. Which influential
D. First World War American poet was D. Scansion
32. Which Poet Laureate born in Long Island 42. Shakespeare composed
wrote about a church in 1819? much of his plays in
mouse? what sort of verse?
A. Emily Dickinson
A. Betjeman A. Alliterative verse
B. Paul Dunbar
B. Hughes B. Sonnet form
C. John Greenleaf
C. Marvel Whittier C. Iambic pentameter
D. Larkin D. Walt Whitman D. Dactylic hexameter
29. B 30. A 31. D 32. A 33. C 34. C 35. C 36. C 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. C
41. A 42. C 43. A
43. Which poet invented 47. What is a poem called A. Skeptical

the concept of the vari- whose first letters of
B. Authoritative
able foot in poetry? each line spell out a
word? C. Impressionistic
A. William Carlos
Williams A. Alliterative D. Both a & c
B. Emily Dickinson B. Epic 52. Which Welsh poet
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wrote “Under Milk
C. Gerard Manly Hop- C. Acrostic
Wood?"
kins D. Haiku
A. Anthony Hopkins
gd
D. Robert Frost 48. How has Stephen Dunn
been described in ’the B. Richard Burton
44. Who wrote this famous
Oxford Companion to C. Tom Jones
line: ’Shall I compare
20th Century Poetry?
thee to a summer’s day/ D. Dylan Thomas
an
Thou art more lovely A. A poet of middle-
and more temperate’ ness 53. Who wrote Canterbury
Tales?
A. TS Eliot B. Capturing a sense of
spiritual marooness A. Geoffrey Chaucer
Ch
B. Lord Tennyson
C. One of the leading B. Dick Whittington
C. Charlotte Bronte prairie poets C. Thomas Lancaster
D. Shakespeare D. Has some distinc- D. King Richard II
45. From what century tion as a critic
does the poetic form 54. Who wrote “The
an
49. ’The Cambridge school’

the folk ballad date? Hound of the
refers to a group who
Baskervilles?"
A. The 12th emerged when?
A. Agatha Christie
A. The 1900’s
B. The 14th
y
B. H Ryder-Haggard
B. The 1960’s
C. The 17th
C. P D James
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C. The 1920’s
D. The 19th
D. The 1930’s D. Arthur Conan
46. From which of Shake- Doyle
speare’s plays is this 50. Margaret Atwood was
Na
born in which Cana- 55. Wlliam Shakespeare is

famous line: ’Did my
dian city? not the author of:
heart love til now?/ For-
swear it, sight/ For I A. Vancouver A. Titus Andronicus
never saw a true beauty
B. Toronto B. Taming of the Shrew
until this night’
C. Ottowa
A. A Midsummer C. White Devil
Night’s Dream D. Montreal
D. Hamlet
B. Hamlet 51. Which of the following
words describe the pre- 56. is a late 20th cen-
C. Othello vailing attitude of High- tury play written by a
D. Romeo and Juliet Modern Literature? woman?
44. D 45. A 46. D 47. C 48. A 49. B 50. C 51. D 52. D 53. A 54. D 55. C
56. C 57. B
A. Queen Cristina A. Paradise Lost D. A simile must use

B. Paradise Regained animals in the compari-
B. Top Girls
son.
C. Camille C. Samson Agonistes
65. What is the word for a
D. The Homecoimg D. Divorce Tracts “play on words"?
61. William Shakespeare A. pun
was born in the year:
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writers wrote historical B. simile
novels? A. 1564
C. haiku
A. Jane Austen and B. 1544
gd
Charlotte Bronte D. metaphor
C. 1578
66. What is the imitation of
B. Sir Walter Scott and D. 1582
natural sounds in word
Maria Edgeworth 62. Which of the follow- form?
ing is not a Shakespeare
an
C. William Wordsworth
tragedy? A. Personification
and Samuel Taylor Co-
leridge A. Titus Andronicus B. Hyperboles
D. Mary Shelley and B. Othello C. Alliteration
Ch
Percy Bysshe Shelley D. Onomatopoeia
C. Macbeth
58. Who wrote “Ten Little 67. The theme is ?
Niggers?"
63. Who wrote ’The Win- A. a plot.
A. Sir Arthur Conan ter’s Tale?’ B. an character
Doyle
A. George Bernard
an
C. an address
B. Irvine Welsh Shaw
D. the point a writer is
C. Agatha Christie B. John Dryden
trying to make about a
D. None of above C. Christopher Mar- subject.
y
lowe 68. Which is not a poetry

is not a work of John D. William Shake- form?
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Keats? speare A. epic

A. Endymion 64. What is the difference
between a simile and a B. tale
Na
B. To some ladies metaphor? C. ballad

C. To hope A. No difference. Sim- D. sonnet
D. None of above ply two different ways 69. Which is an example of
in referring to the same a proverb?
60. “Of Man’s first disobe- thing.
dience, and the fruit A. Get a “stake” in our
Of that forbidden tree B. A simile is more de-
business.
whose mortal taste scriptive.
B. You can’t have your
Brought death into the C. A simile uses as or
cake and eat it, too
world, and all our woe, like to make a compar-
With loss of Eden." This ison and a metaphor C. The snow was white
is an extract from: doesn’t. as cotton.
58. C 59. D 60. A 61. A 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. A 66. D 67. D 68. B 69. B
70. C
D. You’re driving me A. Onomatopeia 79. What is the title of the

crazy. B. Metonymy poem that begins thus -
70. Which is an exaggera- ’What is this life, if full
C. Alliteration of care, we have no time
tion?
D. Hyperbole to stand and stare’?
A. Alliteration
75. There was aware of A. Comfort
B. Haiku her true love, at length
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come riding by - This B. Leisure
C. Hyperbole
is a couplet from the C. Relaxation
D. Prose Bailiff’s Daughter of Is-
gd
lington. What figure of D. Tranquility
71. Who has defined ’po-
etry’ as a fundamental speech is used by the 80. Who was often called
creative act using lan- poet? as the Romantic Poet as
guages? A. Metaphor most of his poems re-
an
volved around nature?
A. H. W. Longfellow B. Synecdoche
A. William Blake
B. Ralph Waldo Emer- C. Euphemism
son B. William Shake-
D. Irony
Ch
speare
C. Dylan Thomas 76. Which culture is
known for their long, C. William Morris
D. William Wordsworth
rhymic poetic verses D. William Wordsworth
known as Qasidas?
72. What is a sonnet?
A. Hindu 81. What is a funny poem
an
A. A poem of six lines B. Celtic of five lines called?

B. A poem of eight C. Arabic A. Quartet
lines
D. Arameic B. Limerick
y
C. A poem of twelve 77. Complete this Shake-

lines C. Sextet
spearan line - Let me
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D. A poem of fourteen not to the marriage of D. Palindrome

lines true minds bring:
82. How did W. H. Auden
73. What is study of meter, A. Impediments describe poetry?
Na
rhythm and intonation B. Inconveniences A. An awful way to

of a poem called as? earn a living
C. Worries
A. Prosody B. A game of knowl-
D. Troubles
B. Allegory 78. Which of the follow- edge
C. Scansion ing is a Japanese poetic C. The soul exposed
form?
D. Assonance D. An explosion of lan-
A. Jintishi guage
74. Which figure of speech
is it when a statement B. Villanelle 83. Sassoon and Brooke
is exaggerated in a C. Ode wrote what kind of po-
poem? D. Tanka etry?
71. C 72. D 73. A 74. D 75. B 76. C 77. A 78. A 79. B 80. D 81. B 82. B
83. D
A. Light verse A. The Festival of A. Troilus and criseyde

B. Romantic Britain
C. Political satire B. The Surrealist Exhi- B. House of fame

bition
D. War poems C. The canterbury
84. Where did T. S. Eliot C. People of the 20th tales
spend most of his child- Century D. Parliament of fowls.
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hood? D. Drawing the 20th
A. Denver CEntury 93. in which language the
stories of canterbury
gd
B. St Louis 89. Why did ’Poetry Quar-
terly’ cease publication tale are written?
C. Cuba
in 1953? A. French
D. Toronto
85. Ted Hughes was mar- A. Owner convicted of B. Latin
an
ried to which American fraud
C. Middle english
poetess? B. Fall in Sales
D. English
A. Carolyn Kizer C. Rise in taxation on
94. chaucer’s franklin was
Ch
B. Mary Oliver magazines
guilty of which sin?
C. Sylvia Plath D. Shortage of paper
A. Lust
D. Marianne Moore 90. Aldous Huxley was a B. Corruption
86. How old was Rupert poet, but was better
Brooke at the time of known as what? C. Theft
an
his death?
A. Politician D. Gluttony
A. 24
B. Dramatist 95. How many languages
B. 31 did chaucer know?
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C. Novelist
C. 21 A. 2
D. 28 D. Architect
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B. 4
87. In what form did Dy- 91. Of which poet was it
lan Thomas’s ’Under C. 1
said ’Even if he’s not
Milk Wood’ first be- a great poet, he’s cer- D. 5
Na
come known? tainly a great some-

96. from which language
A. Book of poetry thing’?
the name ”chaucer” has
B. A radio play A. Elliot been driven?
C. A stage play B. Kipling A. french
D. a short film C. Cummings B. latin
88. The magazine ’Con- C. italian
D. Brooke
temporary Poetry and
Prose’ was inspired by 92. which of these is mag- D. english
which exhibition? num opus of chaucer?
84. B 85. C 86. D 87. B 88. B 89. A 90. C 91. B 92. C 93. C 94. D 95. B
96. A
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2 Ages, era, period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

2.1 Middle Ages
2.2 16th Century
2.3 Early 17th Century
2.4 Restoration and 18th Century
2.5 Romantic Period
2.6 Victorian Age
2.7 20th Century
2.8 Elizabethan Period
2.9 Jacobean Era
2.10 The Renaissance
2.11 Middle ages
2.12 Elizabethan era
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2. Ages, era, period
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2.1 Middle Ages
1. Popular English adap- D. bigotry and shallow D. a code of laws pro-
tations of romances ap- triumphalism. mulgated by King Ethel-
pealed primarily to 3. Words from which lan- bert
an
A. the royal family and guage began to enter 5. Toward the close of
upper orders of the no- English vocabulary which century did En-
bility around the time of the glish replace French as
Norman Conquest in the language of con-
y
B. the lower orders of 1066? ducting business in Par-

the nobility liament and in court of
A. French
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C. agricultural laborers law?

B. Norwegian
A. tenth
C. Spanish
D. the clergy B. twelfth
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D. Danish
2. Christian writers like C. thirteenth
4. What is the first ex-
the Beowulf poet
tended written speci- D. fourteenth
looked back on their
men of Old English?
pagan ancestors with: 6. Which of the following
A. Boethius’s Consoli- best describes litote, a
A. nostalgia and ill-
dation of Philosophy favorite rhetorical de-
concealed envy.
B. Saint Jerome’s trans- vice in Old English po-
B. bewilderment and lation of the Bible etry?
visceral loathing.
C. Bede’s Ecclesiastical A. embellishment at
C. admiration and ele- History of the English the service of Christian
giac sympathy. People doctrine
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. C
94 Chapter 2. Ages, era, period
B. repetition of parallel 10. Which of the following B. the service owed to

syntactic structures languages did not co- a lord by his peasants
exist in Anglo-Norman (\villeins\)
C. ironic understate-
England?
ment C. unrhymed iambic
A. Latin pentameter
D. stress on every third
diphthong B. Dutch D. a prized ink used in
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C. French the illumination of pres-
7. Which of the following tigious manuscripts
authors is considered a D. Celtic
devotee to chivalry, as 14. In Anglo-Saxon heroic
gd
11. What event resulted poetry, what is the fate
it is personified in Sir
from the premature of those who fail to ob-
Lancelot?
death of Henry V? serve the sacred duty of
A. Julian of Norwich A. the Battle of Agin- blood vengeance?
an
B. Margery Kempe court A. banishment to Asia
C. William Langland B. the Battle of Hast- B. everlasting shame
ings
D. Sir Thomas Malory C. conversion to Chris-
Ch
C. the Norman Con- tianity
8. The use of \whale- quest
road\for sea and \life- D. being buried alive
D. the War of the Roses
house\for body are ex- 15. Who is the author of
amples of what literary Piers Plowman?
technique, popular in 12. Which of the follow-
ing statements is not an A. Sir Thomas Malory
an
Old English poetry?

accurate description of B. Margery Kempe
A. symbolism Old English poetry?
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. simile A. Romantic love is
D. William Langland
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C. metonymy a guiding principle of

moral conduct. 16. Which literary form,
D. kenning developed in the fif-
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B. Its formal and digni-

9. Ancrene Riwle is a man- teenth century, person-
fied use of speech was
ual of instruction for ified vices and virtues?
distant from everyday
use of language. A. the short story
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A. courtiers entering
the service of Richard C. Irony is a mode of B. the heroic epic
II perception, as much as
C. the morality play
it was a figure of speech.
B. translators of D. the romance
French romances
D. Christian and pagan 17. Which hero made his
C. women who have ideals are sometimes earliest appearance in
chosen to live as reli- mixed. Celtic literature be-
gious recluses fore becoming a sta-
13. What was vellum?
D. knights preparing ple subject in French,
A. parchment made of English, and German
for their first tourna-
animal skin literatures?
ment
7. D 8. D 9. C 10. B 11. D 12. A 13. A 14. B 15. D 16. C 17. B

A. Beowulf D. a and c only A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Arthur 20. Who was the first En- B. Marie de France
C. Augustine of Can- glish Christian king? C. Chrt́ien de Troyes
terbury A. Alfred D. b and c only
D. Alfred B. Richard III 24. In addition to Geoffrey
18. Why did the rebels of
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Chaucer and William
1381 target the church, C. Richard II Langland, the \flower-
beheading the arch- D. Ethelbert ing\of Middle English
bishop of Canterbury? literature is evident in
gd
21. What is the climax the works of which of
A. Their leaders were of Geoffrey of Mon-
Lollards, advocating the following writers?
mouth’s The History of
radical religious reform. the Kings of Britain? A. Geoffrey of Mon-
mouth
B. The common people
were still essentially pa-
gan. an
A. the reign of King
Arthur
B. the coronation of
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrt́ien de Troyes
Ch
Henry II
C. They believed that
writing, a skill largely C. King John’s seal of 25. Only a small propor-
confined to the clergy, the Magna Carta tion of medieval books
was a form of black survive, large numbers
magic. D. the marriage of having been destroyed
Henry II to Eleanor of in:
D. The church was
an
Aquitaine
among the greatest of A. the Anglo-Saxon
oppressive landowners. 22. To what did the word Conquest beginning in
the roman, from which the 1450s.
the genre of \ro-
y
19. The styles of The Owl B. the Peasant Upris-

mance\emerged, ini-
and the Nightingale ing of 1381.
tially apply?
and Ancrene Riwle
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C. the Dissolution of
show what about the A. a work derived from the Monasteries in the
poetry and prose writ- a Latin text of the Ro- 1530s.
ten around the year man Empire
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1200? D. the wave of con-

B. a story about love tempt for manuscripts
A. They were written and adventure that followed the begin-
for sophisticated and ning of printing in 1476.
well-educated readers. C. a Roman official
B. Writing continued D. a work written in 26. Who would be called

to benefit only read- the French vernacular the English Homer and
ers fluent in Latin and father of English po-
23. Which twelfth-century
French. etry?
poet or poets were in-
C. Their readers’ pri- debted to Breton story- A. Sir Thomas Malory
mary language was En- tellers for their narra-
glish. tives? B. Geoffrey Chaucer
18. D 19. D 20. D 21. A 22. D 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. B

C. Caedmon in the English vernacu- B. Boccaccio’s De-

D. John Gower lar. cameron
27. Which king began a D. She made pilgrim- C. The Dream of the
war to enforce his ages to Jerusalem, Rood
claims to the throne Rome, and Santiago.
D. Chaucer’s Legend of
of France in 1336? Good Women
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A. Henry II 29. Which people began
their invasion and con- 31. How did Henry II, the
B. Henry V quest of southwestern first of England’s Plan-
C. Louis XIV Britain around 450? tagenet kings, acquire
gd
vast provinces in south-
D. Edward III A. the Normans ern France?
28. Which of the following B. the Geats A. the Battle of Hast-
statements about Julian
C. the Anglo-Saxons ings
an
of Norwich is true?
A. She sought unsuc- D. the Danes B. Saint Patrick’s mis-
cessfully to restore clas- sion
30. Which influential me-
sical paganism. dieval text purported to C. the Fourth Lateran
Ch
B. She was a virgin reveal the secrets of the Council
martyr. afterlife?
D. his marriage to
C. She is the first A. Dante’s Divine Eleanor of Aquitaine
known woman writer Comedy
an
27. D 28. C 29. C 30. A 31. D
2.2 16th Century

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1. Short plays called which the English gov- learn French, Italian,
staged dialogues ernment could claim ef- or Spanish during their
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on religious, moral, and fective control? explorations of the Con-

political themes-were tinent.
A. Ulster
performed by playing
companies before the B. the Protectorate B. English was fast
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construction of public supplanting Latin as

C. the Pale the second language of
theaters.
D. West Britain most European intellec-
A. interludes tuals.
B. spectacles 3. Which of the following
statements accurately C. English travelers of-
C. meditations reflects the status of ten returned from the
D. mysteries England, its people, and Continent with foreign
its language in the early fashions, much to the
2. Which of the following delight of moralists.
sixteenth century?
refers to the small area
of Ireland, extending A. English travelers D. Intending his
north from Dublin, over were not obliged to Utopia for an interna-
1. A 2. C 3. D
tional intellectual com- B. the brutal punish- A. manifest destiny

munity, Thomas More ment for printing with-
B. extreme unction
wrote in Latin, since out a license
English had no prestige C. royal absolutism
C. the pre-Reformation
outside of England. D. constitutional
ban on printing the
4. Who succeeded Eliza- Bible in English monarchism
beth I on the throne of
er
England? D. the perception
statements is not an ac-
among court poets that
A. Elizabeth II curate reflection of ed-
printed verses were less
ucation during the En-
gd
B. Henry IX exclusive
glish Renaissance?
C. James I 8. Who owned the rights
A. It was aimed primar-
to a theatrical script?
D. Charles I ily at sons of the nobil-
A. the patron of the act- ity and gentry.
an
might be addressed/rep- ing company, eg, the B. Its curriculum em-
resented by pastoral po- Lord Chamberlain phasized ancient Greek,
etry? B. the bishop of Lon- the language of diplo-
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A. shepherd and shep- don macy, professions, and
herdesses who fall in higher learning.
C. the printer
love and engage in C. It was conducted by
singing contests D. the acting company tutors in wealthy fam-
B. heroic stories in epic ilies or in grammar
form 9. From which of the fol- schools.
an
lowing Italian texts D. It was ordered ac-

C. a celebration of the
might Tudor courtiers cording to the medieval
humility, contentment,
have learned the art of trivium and quadriv-
and simplicity of living
intrigue and the keys ium.
y
in the country
to gaining and keeping
12. What was the only ac-
D. A and C only power?
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knowledged religion
6. Which of the following A. Castiglione’s \The in England during the
sixteenth-century po- Courtier\ early sixteenth cen-
ets was not a courtier? tury?
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B. Dante’s \Divine
A. George Puttenham A. Atheism
Comedy\
B. Philip Sidney B. Protestantism
C. Boccaccio’s \De-
C. Walter Ralegh cameron\ C. Catholicism
D. Thomas Wyatt D. Machiavelli’s \The D. Ancestor-worship
7. To what does the Prince\ 13. What is blank verse?
phrase \the stigma of
10. Which designates the A. iambic pentameter
print\refer?
theory that the reign- in rhyming couplets
A. lead poisoning con- ing monarch possesses
tracted from handling absolute authority as B. the verse form of the
printer’s ink God’s deputy? Shakespearean sonnet
4. C 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. D 9. D 10. C 11. B 12. C 13. D

C. free verse, without A. ignominy A. Elizabeth Eisenstein

rhyme or regular meter
B. unwarranted abuse
B. Johannes Gutenberg
C. odium
D. unrhymed iambic
pentameter D. love
C. Henry VIII
14. Which royal dynasty 17. To what subgenre did
D. William Caxton
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was established in the the Senecan influence
resolution of the so- give rise, as evidenced 21. Which of the follow-
called War of the Roses in the first English ing describes the chief
and continued through tragedy Gorboduc, or system by which writ-
gd
the reign of Elizabeth I? Ferrex and Porrex? ers received financial
A. villain tragedy rewards for their liter-
A. Tudor
ary production?
B. Windsor B. poetic tragedy
an
A. charity
C. York C. heroic tragedy
B. patronage
D. Lancaster D. revenge tragedy
C. censorship
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ing is true about public D. subscription
shifts began in the reign
of Henry VII and con- theaters in Elizabethan 22. In the Defense of Poesy,
tinued under his Tudor England? what did Sidney at-
successors? A. They relied on ad- tribute to poetry?
A. the growing author- mission charges, an in- A. a magical power
an
ity of the Pope over do- novation of the period. whereby poetry plays
mestic English affairs tricks on the reader
B. the expansion of B. The early versions B. a divine power
England’s colonial pos- were oval in shape. whereby poetry trans-
y
sessions C. They were located mits a message from

outside the city limits of God to the reader
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C. the rise in the power

and confidence of the London. C. a moral power
aristocracy D. all of the above whereby poetry encour-
ages the reader to em-
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D. the countering of 19. The churchyard of St. ulate virtuous models

feudal power structures Paul’s Cathedral was
by a stronger central au- well-known for its:
thority D. a defensive power
A. ruinous condition. whereby poetry and its
16. Expressed in Eliza-
B. performing bears. figurative expressions
bethan poetry as well as
allow the poet to avoid
court rituals and events, C. graffiti.
censorship
a cult of formed
around Elizabeth and D. bookshops. 23. Which of the follow-
dictated the nature of 20. Who introduced the art ing sixteenth-century
relations between her- of printing into Eng- works of English litera-
self and her court. land? ture was translated into
14. A 15. D 16. D 17. D 18. D 19. D 20. D 21. B 22. C

the English language af- C. doubled from 60,000 of distinguished trans-

ter its first publication to 120,000. lations of works, such
in Latin? D. doubled from as Homer’s lliad and
600,000 to 1,200,000. Odyssey, into English
A. Christopher Mar-
during the sixteenth
lowe’s Doctor Faustus
century?
26. Which historical figure
er
B. William Shake- initiated a series of reli- A. human reverence
speare’s King Lear gious persecutions con- for the classics
demning Protestants as
C. Thomas More’s The B. the belief that the
heretics and burning
gd
History of King Richard English were direct de-
them at the stake in the
III scendants of the an-
1550s?
cient Greeks
D. Thomas More’s A. Archbishop Cran-
Utopia mer C. pride for the vernac-
an
24. Who began to ignite ular language
B. Catherine of Aragon
the embers of dissent D. a and c only
against the Catholic
church in November C. Elizabeth I 29. Which was not an ob-
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1517 in a movement D. Mary Tudor jection raised against
that came to be known the public theaters in
27. Who authored Il Cor- the Elizabethan pe-
as the Reformation? tigiano (The Courtier), riod?
A. Anne Boleyn a book that was highly
influential in the En- A. They caused exces-
B. Martin Luther
an
glish court, providing sive noise and traffic.

C. Pope Leo X subtle guidance on self-
B. They charged too
D. Ulrich Zwingli display?
much.
25. Between 1520 and 1550, A. Cavalcanti
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C. They excited illicit

the population of Lon- B. Castiglione sexual desires.
don:
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C. Pirandello D. They drew young

A. remained constant.
D. Boccaccio people away from
B. fell from 375,00 to 28. What impulse probably work.
barely 100,000.
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accounts for the rise
23. D 24. B 25. C 26. D 27. B 28. D 29. B
2.3 Early 17th Century

1. What was the general transience of all life and male readership
subject of the Welsh beauty
C. celebrations of reli-
poet Katherine Philips’s
gious ecstasy and di-
work? B. celebrations of les-
vine inspiration
bian sexuality in terms
A. celebrations of the that did not imply a D. celebrations of fe-
1. D
male friendship in Pla- A. The Litany in a D. celebrating the

tonic terms normally re- Time of Plague Restoration whilst re-
served for male friend- gretting the frivolity of
B. Utopia
ships the new regime
C. Leviathan
2. James I liked to imag- 9. Which of the following
ine himself as a modern D. The Advancement was not one of the four
of Learning bodily humours?
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version of which ruler?
6. Who served as Pro- A. choler
A. Pericles
tector under England’s
B. Genghis Khan first written constitu- B. blood
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tion? C. cholesterol
C. Richard Lionheart
A. Gerrard Winstanley
D. Augustus Caesar D. black bile
10. What was the licensing
an
3. What was the intended B. Oliver Cromwell
target of the Gunpow- system?
C. Praisegod Barebone
der Plot in 1605? A. All royalties from
the sale of books went
A. Westminster Abbey D. George Monk
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to the crown (hence the
7. Which religious radical name).
B. Tower Bridge advocated the civic tol- B. Poets were required
C. the Houses of Parlia- eration of all religions, to have a university
ment including Catholicism, diploma (the original
Judaism, and Islam? \poetic license\).
an
D. Buckingham Palace
A. John Lilburne
C. All books had to be
4. Which of the following B. William Laud dedicated to a noble or
colonial ventures took royal patron.
place in the reign of C. Roger Williams
y
James I (1603-25)? D. Oliver Cromwell D. All books had to be

submitted for official
A. the founding of the 8. What is the delicate bal-
ra
approval before publi-

Jamestown settlement ancing act of Marvell’s cation.
\Horatian Ode\?
B. the founding of the 11. What major new prose
A. praising Roman
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Plymouth colony genre emerged in the Ja-

virtues whilst endors-
C. Henry Hudson’s cobean era?
ing Christian beliefs
fruitless search for the A. the novel
Northwest Passage
B. praising feminine B. the sermon
D. all of the above virtue whilst mocking
C. the familiar essay
the fixation on chastity
5. What was the tile
D. the diary
of Thomas Hobbes’s C. celebrating
defense of absolute Cromwell’s victories 12. Which group of radicals
sovereignty based on whilst inviting sympa- got their name from
a theory of social con- thy for the executed their penchant for ram-
tract? king bling prophecy?
2. D 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. C 10. D 11. C 12. D

A. the Fifth Monar- C. William Shake- A. Rachel Speght

chists speare
B. Aemilia Lanyer
B. the Roarers D. William Tyndale
C. Elizabeth Cary,
C. the Diggers 16. Restored to the throne Lady Falkland
in 1660, Charles II
D. the Ranters D. all of the above
ruled:
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13. Which of the following 19. Who authored the
A. with an absolute
did Milton not advocate scholarly biography,
prerogative his father
in print in the 1640s and Life of Donne?
would have envied.
1650s?
gd
B. through a system A. Izaak Walton
A. the disestablish-
of draconian military B. Katherine Philips
ment of the church and
courts.
the removal of bishops C. John Skelton
an
C. with deference to
B. the right of the peo- D. Isabella Whitney
Parliament’s legislative
ple to dismiss and even
supremacy. 20. Which was not among
execute their rulers
D. only a small area the \new\genres pro-
Ch
C. the free circulation moted by poets such
around London and Ox-
of ideas without prior as Jonson, Donne, and
ford.
censorship Herbert?
17. What was one of the
D. the restoration of A. the Petrarchan son-
first acts of Parliament
the monarchy net
after the outbreak of
14. Which poet was a mem-
an
hostilities in the First B. the classical satire

ber of the powerful Civil War?
and culturally influen- C. the country-house
A. the abolishment of poem
tial Sidney family?
public plays and sports
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A. Ben Jonson D. the epigram

B. the conversion of
B. Aemilia Lanyer the English church to 21. Which of the following
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Catholicism plays was not authored

C. Samuel Daniel
by Shakespeare in the
C. the adoption of En- Jacobean period?
D. Mary Wroth
glish as the official lan-
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15. What historical figure guage A. Othello

promoted the rapid
D. the consolidation of B. Volpone
growth of a high An-
glican faction within power in an absolute
C. King Lear
the church whose cer- monarch
emony, ritual, and D. Antony and Cleopa-
doctrine more closely tra
female authors of the
resembled Roman Jacobean era wrote a 22. What is the title to Mil-
Catholicism? work that became the ton’s blank-verse epic
\first\of its kind to be that assimilates and cri-
A. William Collins
published by an English tiques the epic tradi-
B. William Laud woman? tion?
13. D 14. D 15. B 16. C 17. A 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. C
A. L’Allegro was not common in the 28. Which of the follow-

B. Lycidas works of Cavalier poets, ing was characteristic
such as Thomas Carew, of the court of James I?
C. Paradise Lost Sir John Denham, Ed-
A. gluttonous feasting
D. The Divine Comedy mund Walter, Sir John
Suckling, James Shirely, B. hard drinking
Richard Lovelace, and C. hunting
23. Which poem testifies
er
Robert Herrick?
to the profound doubts D. all of the above
and uncertainties at- A. courtly ideals of the
tending Donne’s con- good life 29. Which writer was not
gd
version from Catholi- active under both Eliza-
B. carpe diem beth I and James I?
cism to Protestantism?
C. loyalty to the king A. William Shake-
A. \Air and Angels\
D. pious devotion to re- speare
an
B. \Satire 3\
ligious virtues B. Ben Jonson
C. \The Apparition\
26. Who succeeded Eliza- C. John Donne
D. \The Indifferent\ beth I in 1603, establish-
D. John Milton
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24. Which of the following the Stuart dynasty?
ing was not a cause 30. Which of the following
A. James IV of Scotland
associated with mili- was not an expressed
tant Protestant reform- objective of the \Long
ers (Puritans, Presbyte- B. James VI of Scotland Parliament\when it con-
rians, and separatists)? vened in 1640?
an
A. the pursuit of a C. Mary, Queen of A. abolishing extra-

more confrontational Scots legal taxes and courts
policy towards Catholic
D. Anne Boleyn
powers
B. mounting a revolu-
y
27. The idea that God pre-

B. the elimination of tion and executing the
destines human be-
bishops king
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ings to be saved or
C. the right of congre- damned is associated C. bringing to trial the
gations to choose their with which Protestant king’s hated ministers,
own leaders reformer? Strafford and Laud
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D. the wider use of A. Martin Luther D. remaining in ses-

religious images in sion until they them-
churches B. John Calvin
selves agreed to dis-
25. Which of the follow- C. Henry VIII band
ing themes or subjects D. Arminius
23. B 24. D 25. D 26. B 27. B 28. D 29. D 30. B
2.4 Restoration and 18th Century

1. According to Samuel A. Sense and Suspensi- D. Hart Crane

Johnson, \No man but bility 8. Which two writers can
a blockhead ever wrote be described as writing
B. Emma
except for : historical novels?
C. Pride and Prejudice
A. love.\ A. Mary Shelley and
D. Mansfield Park
B. honor.\ Percy Bysshe Shelley
er
5. According to a the-
ater licensing act, re- B. William Wordsworth
C. money.\
pealed in 1843, what and Samuel Taylor Co-
D. his party.\ leridge
was meant by “legiti-
gd
2. Romantic poetry about mate” drama? C. Sir Walter Scott and
the natural world uses A. The dramaturge and Maria Edgeworth
descriptions of nature playwright had to be re- D. Jane Austen and
lated. Charlotte Brontë
A. to depict a meta-
physical concept of na-
ture by endowing it
with traits normally as- an B. All of the actors
were male.
C. All of the actors
9. Who was deposed from
the English throne in
the Glorious, or Blood-
less, Revolution in
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sociated with humans were British.
1688?
B. as a means to D. The play was spo-
A. Elizabeth I
demonstrate and dis- ken.
6. Which of the following B. James II
cuss the processes of
human thinking best describes the doc- C. George II
an
trine of empiricism?
C. symbolically to sug- D. William and Mary
gest that natural objects A. All knowledge is de- 10. In which work do you
correspond to an inner, rived from experience. read: “That’s my last
B. Human perceptions Duchess painted on the
y
are constructed and re- wall /looking as if she

D. All the above
flect structures of polit- were alive."?
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3. Which work exposes ical power. A. Porphyria’s Lover

the frivolity of fashion-
able London? C. The search for es- B. My Last Duchess
sential or ultimate prin-
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A. Defoe’s Robinson ciples of reality. C. The Love Song of J.

Crusoe Alfred Prufrock
D. The sensory world
B. Swift’s Gulliver’s is an illusion. D. Fra Lippo Lippi
Travels 7. Who wrote: “I have 11. What happened in 1707
measured out my life that would forever al-
C. Behn’s Oroonoko
with coffee spoons."? ter the relationship be-
D. Pope’s The Rape of tween England, Wales,
the Lock A. William Carlos and Scotland?
Williams
4. Which book was A. the trial and execu-
B. T.S. Eliot tion of Mary, Queen of
not written by Jane
Austen? C. Ernest Hemingway Scots
1. C 2. D 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. B 11. A
B. the Toleration Act 16. Which of the following 19. Which poet, critic and
is not a common feature translator brought Eng-
C. the failed invasion
of neoclassical poetry? land a modern litera-
of the Spanish Armada
ture between 1660 and
A. Imitation of classi-
D. the Act of Union 1700?
cal forms and allusion
12. Pope made money by to mythology A. Addison
selling subscriptions to
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his translation of this B. An effort to repre- B. Bunyan
classical epic. sent human nature
C. Crabbe
C. Use of the rhymed
gd
A. The Bahagavad Gita D. Dryden
couplet
20. What name is given to
B. The Odyssey D. Fantastic compar- the English literary pe-
isons riod that emulated the
C. The Illiad
an
17. Why didn’t Alexander Rome of Virgil, Horace,
D. The Aeneid Pope attend an English and Ovid?
13. What name is given to university? A. Augustan
the English literary pe-
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A. He lived in Italy un- B. Metaphysical
riod that emulated the
til the age of 27
Rome of Virgil, Horace, C. Romantic
and Ovid? B. Asthma, headaches,
and spinal deformity D. Neo-Romantic
A. Augustan
made him an invalid 21. The crisis over the Ex-
B. Metaphysical
an
C. He was a Catholic, clusion Bill effectively

C. Romantic and therefore forbidden divided the country
from attending into which two polit-
D. Neo-Romantic ical parties?
D. He just wasn’t
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14. Who began the tradi- A. the Republicans and

tion of revenge play ? bright enough
the Royalists
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A. Goorge peele 18. In the late seventeenth

century, a “battle of B. the Royalists and
B. Samuel daniel the books” erupted the Whigs
C. Phineas fletcher between which two C. the Tories and the
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groups? Whigs
D. Thomas kyd
A. abolitionists and en- D. the Royalists and
15. Which of the following thusiasts for slavery the Tories
is not generally consid-
ered to be a neoclassical B. round-earthers and 22. Which bird did the An-
poet? flat-earthers cient Mariner kill?
A. John Dryden C. the Welsh and the A. Seagull
Scots
B. Henry Vaughan B. Albatross
D. champions of an-
C. Alexander Pope C. Humming Bird
cient and modern learn-
D. Ben Jonson ing D. Crow
12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. C 18. D 19. D 20. A 21. C 22. B 23. A
23. Which of the follow- B. Velcro replaced but- D. all but C

ing became the most tons and snaps.
30. In which work do you
popular Romantic po- C. Steam, as opposed read: “Things fall apart;
etic form, following to wind and water, be- the center cannot hold.
on Wordsworth’s claim came a primary source "?
that poetic inspiration of power.
is contained within the A. The Canturbury
er
inner feelings of the in- D. both a and c Tales
dividual poet as “the 27. When the Parliament,
spontaneous overflow controlled by the pu- B. The Dark Angel
gd
of powerful feelings"? ritans, took power in C. The Wild Swans of
England, one of the acts Coole
A. the lyric poem writ-
that greatly influenced
ten in the first person D. The Second Coming
Literature of that time
B. the sonnet was
C. doggerel rhyme
D. the political tract
24. Who became the first an
A. The closing of the-
atres
B. The return of the
31. John Donne is, in some
sense, the originator
of metaphysical po-
etry. But who is most
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\prime minister\of King.
closely associated with
Great Britain in the C. King Arthurs’ dead the “founding” of neo-
reign of George II? classical poetry?
D. King to exile
A. Henry St. John 28. Which of the following A. William Wordsworth
B. Robert Harley is a typically Romantic
an
poetic form?
C. John Churchill B. Alexander Pope
A. the fractal
D. Robert Walpole C. Ben Jonson
B. the figment
25. What is Shakespeare’s
y
D. George Herbert
longest play? C. the fragment
D. the aubade 32. Who wrote: “Things
A. Taming of the
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fall apart; the center

Shrew 29. Which of the following
cannot hold "?
B. Romeo and Juliet poems describe or cele-
brate an apocalyptic re- A. William Butler
Na
C. A Midsummer generation of humanity Yeats

Night’s Dream and the world effected
B. James Joyce
D. Hamlet by the creative capacity
of the human mind? C. Thomas Moore
26. Which statement(s)
about inventions dur- A. Coleridge’s Dejec- D. Edgar Allan Poe
ing the Industrial Revo- tion: An Ode
lution are true? 33. Who wrote The Life
B. Blake’s “Prophetic and Opinions of Tris-
A. Hand labor became Books” tram Shandy, a novel
less common with the C. Wollstonecraft’s that abandons clock
invention of power- Vindication of the time for psychological
driven machinery. Rights of Woman time?
24. D 25. D 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. D 31. C 32. A 33. B
A. Henry Fielding the unprecedented eco- 40. Which of the following

nomic wealth of Great was not considered a
B. Laurence Sterne
Britain during the eigh- type of the alienated, ro-
C. Samuel Richardson teenth century? mantic visionary?
D. Tobias Smollett A. formal diplomatic A. Prometheus
34. This famous neoclassi- relations with China B. Satan
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cal poet wrote on pro- B. the exploitation of C. Cain
found themes such as colonial resources, la-
death, but he also had bor, and the slave trade D. George III
a lighter side. He once 41. Which chilling novel of
gd
wrote an ode to a cat surveillance and entrap-
drowned in a tub of C. the American and ment had the alterna-
gold fishes. French revolutions tive title Things as They
D. the creation of the Are?
an
A. Alexander Pope
bourgeois novel as a A. Jane Austen’s
B. William Collins commodity Emma
C. Thomas Gray 38. Which of the following B. Mary Shelley’s
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D. Ben Jonson descriptions would not Frankenstein
have applied to any Ro-
35. What was \restored\in mantic text? C. William Godwin’s
1660? Caleb Williams
A. a spiritual autobiog-
A. the monarchy, in D. Sir Walter Scott’s
raphy written in an epic
the person of Charles II Waverley
style
an
42. Wordsworth described

B. a lyric poem written all good poetry as
B. the dominance of
in the first person
the Tory Party A. the rhythmic expres-
C. a comedy of mansion of moral intuition
y
C. the \Book of Com-

ners
mon Prayer\
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D. a political tract de- B. the spontaneous

D. toleration of reli-
manding labor reform overflow of powerful
gious dissidents
feelings
36. He wrote both religious 39. Horace’s doctrine \ut
Na
and secular poetry. One pictura poesis\was in- C. the polite patter of a
of his poems urged vir- terpreted to mean: corrupted age
gins to make the most A. A picture is worth a D. the divine gift of
of their time. thousand words. grace
A. Ben Jonson B. Poetry is the 43. Sir John Denham com-
supreme artistic form. memorated this poet,
B. Alexander Pope referring to him as “Old
C. Robert Herrick C. Art should hold a Chaucer” who, “like
mirror up to nature. the morning star”, de-
D. John Dryden scends “to the shades,”
D. Poetry ought to be a
37. Which of the following visual as well as a ver- so that “Darkness again
was a major factor in bal art. the Age invades.”
34. C 35. A 36. C 37. B 38. C 39. D 40. D 41. C 42. B 43. C
A. William Shake- A. Sir John Denham A. the organization of

speare B. Ben Jonson a working class men’s
B. John Donne choral group in South-
C. Thomas Carew ern England
C. Abraham Cowley D. John Dryden
B. the Battle of Water-
D. John Dryden 48. Which metrical form loo
44. What is the term we was Pope said to have
er
now use for what the brought to perfection? C. the Peterloo Mas-
Romantics called “mes- sacre
A. the heroic couplet
merism," one of the “oc-
D. the storming of the
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cult” practices that al- B. blank verse
Bastille
lowed people to explore C. free verse
altered states of con- 52. Which of the following
D. the ode
sciousness? is not indebted to the
an
49. Which of the follow- Gothic genre?
A. smoking opium ing periodical publica-
B. hypnotism tions (reviews and mag- A. William Beckford’s
azines) appeared in the Vathek
C. psychoanalysis
Romantic era?
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D. dream interpreta- B. Matthew Lewis’s
tion A. London Magazine The Monk
45. In which work do you B. The Spectator C. Tobias Smollett’s
read: “Beauty is truth, C. The Edinburgh Re- Roderick Randsom
truth beauty."? view
D. Ann Radcliffe’s The
an
A. Adonais D. A and C only Italian

B. Bright Star 50. In the late seventeenth
century, a \battle of the 53. Who wrote: “Beauty is
C. Ode on a Grecian truth, truth beauty."?
Urn books\erupted between
y
which two groups? A. John Keats

D. La Bell Dame Sans
A. abolitionists and en-
ra
Merci B. William Shake-

thusiasts for slavery
46. According to Samuel speare
Johnson, “No man but B. round-earthers and
flat-earthers C. Samuel Butler
a blockhead ever wrote
Na
except for : C. the Welsh and the D. Samuel Taylor Co-

A. love." Scots leridge
B. honor." D. champions of an- 54. Which metrical form

cient and modern learn- was Pope said to have
C. money." ing brought to perfection?
D. his party." 51. What served as the in-
A. the heroic couplet
47. His “To Penthurst” is spiration for P.B Shel-
considered to be one ley’s poems to the B. blank verse
of the primary texts of working classes A Song:
the neoclassical move- “Men of England” and C. free verse
ment. England in 1819? D. the ode
44. B 45. C 46. C 47. B 48. A 49. D 50. D 51. C 52. C 53. A 54. A
55. Who in the Romantic tions for industrial la- onto the page. They
period developed a new borers also considered poetry
novelistic language for to be an expression of
C. Educational reform,
the workings of the the individual, inner
producing a dramatic
mind in flux? self.
increase in literacy
A. Maria Edgeworth A. True
D. A and C only
er
B. Sir Walter Scott 58. Who was the an- B. False
C. Thomas De Quincey cient Gaelic warrior- 62. Which of the follow-
bard considered by ing English groups
gd
Napoleon and Thomas were supportive of the
D. Jane Austen Jefferson to have been French Revolution dur-
56. Which poets collab- greater than Homer? ing its early years?
orated on the Lyri- A. Macpherson
an
cal Ballads of 1798, A. Republicans
thus demonstrating the B. Merlin
B. Liberals
“spirit of the age," which, C. Decameron
in an era of revolution- C. Radicals
D. Ossian
Ch
ary thinking, depended
D. both B and C
on a belief in the limit- 59. In which county was
less possibilities of the Jane Austin born? 63. Which work exposes
poetic imagination? the frivolity of fashion-
A. Sussex
able London?
A. Mary Woll-
B. Hampshire
stonecraft and William A. Defoe’s Robinson
an
Blake C. Yorkshire Crusoe

B. Mary Woll- D. Norfolk B. Swift’s Gulliver’s
stonecraft Shelley and60. What literary work best Travels
Percy B. Shelley
y
captures a sense of the C. Behn’s Oroonoko

C. William Wordsworth political turmoil, partic-
ularly regarding the is- D. Pope’s The Rape of
ra

leridge sue of religion, just af- the Lock
ter the Restoration?
D. Charles Lamb and 64. Whose great Dictio-
A. Gay’s Beggar’s nary, published in 1755,
Na
William Hazlitt
Opera included more than
57. Which sorts of politi- 114,000 quotations?
cal reform took place B. Butler’s Hudibras
during the Romantic pe- C. Fielding’s Jonathan A. William Hogarth
riod? Wild B. Jonathan Swift
A. Parliamentary re- D. Dryden’s Absalom C. Samuel Johnson
form, increasing repre- and Achitophel
sentation of the work- D. Ben Jonson
61. Neoclassicists tended to
ing classes
view poetry as the re- 65. Becky sharp was the
B. Labor reform, im- sult of genius overflow- heroine in which
proving working condi- ing from the mind out novel?
55. D 56. C 57. D 58. D 59. B 60. D 61. B 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. A
A. Vanity Fair C. the epistolary novel A. formal diplomatic

relations with China
B. Sense and Sensibil-
ity D. the comedy of man- B. the exploitation of
ners colonial resources, la-
C. Pride and Prejudice
bor, and the slave trade
D. Mansfield Park
is not an example of
er
66. With its forbidden Restoration comedy? C. the creation of the
themes of incest, mur- bourgeois novel as a
der, necrophilia, athe- A. Etherege’s The Man commodity
ism, and torments of of Mode
gd
D. the union of Eng-
sexual desire, Horace B. Wycherley’s The land and Wales with
Walpole’s Castle of Country Wife Scotland
Otranto, created which
literary genre? C. Behn’s The Rover 73. Which of the following
an
is not indebted to the
A. the revenge tragedy D. Marlowe’s Doctor
Gothic genre?
Faustus
A. William Beckford’s
B. the Gothic romance 70. How many lines are Vathek
Ch
there in a Sonnet?
C. the epistolary novel B. Matthew Lewis’s
A. 10 The Monk
D. the comedy of man- B. 16 C. Tobias Smollett’s
ners C. 14 Roderick Randsom
67. A side note: Which D. Ann Radcliffe’s The
an
D. 22
drug/substance was Italian
Samuel Taylor Co- 71. What are the names of 74. Looking to the ancient
leridge addicted to? the two feuding fam- past, many Romantic
ilies in Romeo and
y
A. Heroine poets identified with

Juliet? the figure of the
B. Cocaine
ra
A. Capulet And Mon- A. troubadour

C. Alcohol tague
B. skald
D. Opium B. Breslow and Felsher
C. chorister
Na
68. With its forbidden

D. bard
themes of incest, mur- C. Fuech and Goodside
der, necrophilia, athe- 75. Who wrote: “That’s my
ism, and torments of last Duchess painted on
D. Dawson and Hurley the wall / looking as if
sexual desire, Horace
Walpole’s Castle of she were alive."?
Otranto, created which 72. Which of the following A. Lord Byron
literary genre? was a major factor in
B. Oscar Wilde
the unprecedented eco-
A. the revenge tragedy
nomic wealth of Great C. Robert Browning
Britain during the eigh- D. William Wordsworth
B. the Gothic romance teenth century?
66. B 67. D 68. B 69. D 70. C 71. A 72. D 73. C 74. D 75. C 76. B
76. What was the name of A. Etherege’s The Man A. the conviction that
the Bronte sister’s only of Mode he was damned forever
brother?
B. Wycherley’s The
A. Anderson Country Wife B. the loss of his for-
B. Branwell tune in the \South Sea
C. Behn’s The Rover
Bubble\
C. Richard
er
D. Marlowe’s Doctor
C. the vindication of
D. Pearson Faustus
Newtonian physics
77. While compiling what 80. Who exemplified the
sort of book did Samuel D. condemnation of his
gd
role of the “peasant
Richardson conceive of poet"? work by Jeremy Collier
the idea for his Pamela,
or Virtue Rewarded? A. John Clare
84. Who is termed as “The
B. John Keats
an
A. a history of every- Morning Star of Renais-
day life C. Robert Burns sance"?
B. an instructional D. A and C only A. Spenser
manual for manners
Ch
81. What London locale, B. John Gower
where many poor writ- C. Chaucer
C. a book of devotion
ers lived, became syn-
D. a book of model let- onymous with hacks D. Langland
ters and scandal mongers? 85. The Faerie Queene
78. Which poet asserted in A. Elephant and Castle was written during
an
practice and theory the the reign of which

value of representing monarch?
rustic life and language B. Grub Street
as well as social out- A. James I
C. Covent Garden
y
casts and delinquents B. Mary Tudor

not only in pastoral po- D. Cheapside
ra
etry, common before C. Elizabeth Tudor

82. In which work do
this poet’s time, but you read: “In Xanadu D. Henry VII
also as the major sub- did Kubla Khan / A
ject and medium for po- 86. Which of the following
Na
stately pleasure dome

etry in general? decree "? would not have been an
appropriate protagonist
A. William Blake
A. Kubla Khan for a Romantic literary
B. Alfred Lord Ten- text?
B. Hellas
nyson
C. The Phoenix and A. a French revolution-
C. Samuel Johnson ary
the Turtle
D. The Castaway B. a Greek or Roman
mythological figure
79. Which of the following 83. What drove William
is not an example of Cowper to break down C. a monster fabricated
Restoration comedy? and become a recluse? in a laboratory
77. D 78. D 79. D 80. D 81. B 82. A 83. A 84. C 85. C 86. D 87. A
D. All would have been 90. What word did writers 93. Which Romantic
appropriate protago- in this period use to writer(s) wrote in more
nists for a Romantic express quickness of than one of these popu-
literary text. mind, inventiveness, a lar literary forms: essay,
87. Who wrote: “In Xanadu knack for conceiving novel, drama, poetry?
did Kubla Khan / A images and metaphors
A. Percy Bysshe Shel-
stately pleasure dome and for perceiving re-
ley
er
decree "? semblances between
things apparently un- B. William Wordsworth
A. Samuel Taylor Co- like?
leridge
gd
A. wit C. George Gordon,
B. Robert Browning Lord Byron
B. sprezzatura
C. John Keats D. all of the above
C. naturalism
an
D. Walt Whitman 94. In which work do you
D. gusto read: “I have measured
88. In which of the follow-
ing works is the social 91. Most neoclassical po- out my life with coffee
outcast represented and ets viewed the world in spoons."?
Ch
addressed? terms of a strictly or- A. Lovesong of J.Alfred
A. Mary Woll- dered hierarchy. What Prufrock
stonecraft Shelley’s was this hierarchy
called? B. Sonnets from the
Frankenstein
Portuguese
B. William Wor- A. The Way of the
C. Prelude
an
sworth’s Lyrical Bal- World

lads B. The Foundational D. The Last Decalogue
C. John Keats’s “To Au- Ladder
tumn” 95. Horace’s doctrine “ut
y
C. The Order of Angels

pictura poesis” was in-
D. all but C
terpreted to mean:
ra
89. What mock epic begins: D. The Great Chain of

“What dire offence from A. A picture is worth a
Being
am’rous causes springs, thousand words.
/ What mighty con- 92. What was “restored” in
Na
B. Poetry is the
tests rise from trivial 1660?
supreme artistic form.
things”? A. the monarchy, in
C. Art should hold a
A. Dryden’s “Mac Flec- the person of Charles II
mirror up to nature.
knoe”
D. Poetry ought to be a
B. Pope’s “The Rape of B. the dominance of
visual as well as a ver-
the Lock” the Tory Party
bal art.
C. Pope’s “The Dun- C. the “Book of Com- 96. Who applied the term
ciad” mon Prayer” “Romantic” to the liter-
D. Dryden’s “Absalom D. toleration of reli- ary period dating from
and Achitophel” gious dissidents 1785 to 1830?
88. D 89. B 90. A 91. D 92. B 93. D 94. A 95. D 96. B

A. Wordsworth be- D. shining sword B. perversion and

cause he wanted to 100. How many children sadism, often involving
distinguish his poetry were there in the a maiden’s persecution
and the poetry of his Bronte family? C. plots of mystery
friends from that of the and terror set in in-
ancien régime, espe- A. 3
hospitable, sullen land-
cially satire B. 4 scapes
er
B. English historians C. 5 D. all of the above
half a century after the
D. 6 104. Who wrote: “Reader, I
period ended
married him."?
gd
C. “The Satanic School” 101. Who wrote: “My
name is Ozymandias, A. Jane Austen
of Byron, Percy Shelley,
and their followers King of Kings / Look on B. Charlotte Bronte
my works ye mighty, C. Edith Wharton
an
D. Oliver Goldsmith in and despair!"?
The Deserted Village D. Emily Bronte
(1770) A. Lord Byron 105. What is the name
97. Which of the following B. Percy Bysshe Shel- for the process of di-
Ch
was a typically Roman- ley viding land into pri-
tic means of achieving vately owned agricul-
C. William Woodsworth
visionary states? tural holdings?
A. opium A. partition
D. Emily Dickinson
B. dreams B. segregation
102. Who remained with-
an
C. childhood out the vote follow- C. enclosure

D. a, b and c ing the Reform Bill of D. division
1832? 106. Who did Dryden use
98. Who became the first
A. about half of middle Absalom to represent,
y
“prime minister” of
Great Britain in the class men allegorically, in his
reign of George II? satire “Absalom and
ra
B. almost all working Achitophel”?

A. Henry St. John class men
A. The Duke of Mon-
B. Robert Harley C. all women mouth
Na
C. John Churchill D. a, b and c B. Charles II

D. Robert Walpole 103. The Gothic novel, a C. The Earl of Shaftes-
99. Which of the follow- popular genre for the bury
ing was probably not Romantics, exemplified D. Cromwell
a stock phrase in in the writing of Ho-
107. Which group of in-
eighteenth-century po- race Walpole and Ann
tellectual women estab-
etry? Radcliffe, could contain
lished literary clubs of
which of the following
A. verdant mead their own around 1750
elements?
under the leadership
B. checkered shade A. supernatural phe- of Elizabeth Vesey and
C. simian rivalry nomenon Elizabeth Montagu?
97. D 98. D 99. C 100. B 101. B 102. D 103. D 104. B 105. C 106. A 107. A
A. the bluestockings C. The search for es- 113. Which philosopher

sential or ultimate prin- had a particular influ-
B. the coteries of
ciples of reality. ence on Coleridge?
plenty
D. The sensory world A. Aristotle
C. the Pre-Raphaelites is an illusion. B. Duns Scotus
D. the tattlers and spec- 111. Romantic poets would
C. David Hume
er
tators have enjoyed, agreed
with, and perhaps writ- D. Immanuel Kant
ten about which of the 114. John Dryden wrote
ing best describes the
following figures as de- “Absalom and Achi-
gd
sort of language and
picted? tophel.” Who was
tone most often used
A. Goethe’s Faust in Achitophel, historically
when Romantic writers
Faust, who is sinful be- speaking?
discuss the French Rev-
olution? cause he attempts to A. King David’s son
A. snide indifference
B. biblical reverence
an exceed the bounds of
human knowledge by
making a pact with the
devil but is nonetheless
B. A Judge of Israel
C. Bathsheba’s
husband
first
Ch
C. condemning cen- redeemed in his striv- D. Absalom’s advisor
sure ing to break free of the 115. In which work do you
D. satirical derision bounds of mortality read: “My name is Ozy-
109. In which work do you B. Icarus, who is killed mandias, King of Kings
read: “There can be in attempting to fly be- / Look on my works ye
an
no freedom or beauty cause only Gods have mighty, and despair!"?

about a home life that the power to fly and A. The Man of Feeling
depends on borrowing mortals must be taught
the limitations of hu- B. In Memoriam
and debt."?
man existence
y
C. Song to Aella
A. A Doll’s House
C. Prometheus, who D. Ozymandias
ra
B. Riders to the Sea succeeds in stealing 116. What was most fre-
fire from the Gods and quently considered a
C. A Handful of Dust
thereby surpasses the source of pleasure and
D. The Fatal Curiosity limitations placed on
Na
an object of inquiry by
humans by the Gods Augustan poets?
ing best describes the D. A and C only A. civilization
doctrine of empiri- 112. In which Dickens B. woman
cism? novel does Pip appear?
C. God
A. All knowledge is de- A. Bleak House
rived from experience. D. nature
B. Great Expectations
117. Who was deposed
B. Human perceptions C. A Tale of Two Cities from the English throne
are constructed and re- in the Glorious, or
flect structures of polit- Bloodless, Revolution
D. The Pickwick Pa-
ical power. in 1688?
pers
108. B 109. A 110. A 111. D 112. B 113. D 114. D 115. D 116. D 117. B
A. Elizabeth I 121. Who was the an- A. It has universal ap-

B. James II cient Gaelic warrior- peal.
bard considered by B. It can stand the test
C. George II Napoleon and Thomas of time.
D. William and Mary Jefferson to have been
greater than Homer? C. It makes connec-
118. What London locale, tions.
where many poor writ- A. Macpherson
er
ers lived, became syn- D. All of the above.
B. Merlin
onymous with hacks 125. Against which of the
and scandal mongers? C. Decameron following principles
gd
A. Elephant and Castle D. Ossian did Jonathan Swift in-
veigh?
B. Grub Street ing women exposed A. theoretical science
an
themselves to scandal B. metaphysics
C. Covent Garden
by writing racy stories
D. Cheapside C. abstract logical de-
for the popular press?
ductions
119. What happened in A. Charlotte Perkins
D. a, b, and c
Ch
1707 that would for- Gilman, Mary Wroth,
ever alter the relation- and Elizabeth Cary 126. What did Byron de-
ship between England, ride with his scathing
Wales, and Scotland? B. Aphra Behn, Delar- reference to "’Peddlers,’
ivier Manley, and Eliza and ’Boats,’ and ’Wag-
A. the trial and execu- Haywood
tion of Mary, Queen of ons’!"?
an
Scots C. Anne Finch, Anne A. the neo-classical in-

Killigrew, and Lady fluence of Pope and
B. the Toleration Act
Mary Wortley Montagu Dryden
C. the failed invasion
B. the clumsiness of
y
of the Spanish Armada

D. Rachel Speght, Shakespeare’s plots
D. the Act of Union Katherine Philips, and
ra
C. the Orientalist fan-

120. What word did writ- Frances Burney
tasies of Coleridge
ers in this period use 123. Which of the fol-
to express quickness of D. Wordsworth’s devo-
lowing was probably
tion to the ordinary and
Na
mind, inventiveness, a not a stock phrase in

knack for conceiving everyday
eighteenth-century po-
images and metaphors etry? 127. Which poet, critic and
and for perceiving re- translator brought Eng-
semblances between A. verdant mead land a modern litera-
things apparently un- B. checkered shade ture between 1660 and
like? 1700?
C. simian rivalry
A. wit A. Addison
D. shining sword
B. sprezzatura B. Bunyan
124. A “classic” book is usu-
C. naturalism ally one that possesses C. Crabbe
D. gusto what quality? D. Dryden
118. B 119. D 120. A 121. D 122. B 123. C 124. D 125. D 126. D 127. D
128. Which of the follow- reigns; / What means 135. Who composed The
ing texts addresses class this tumult in a vestal’s Preludes?
as a social and eco- veins?” A. S T Coleridge
nomic reality? A. The Rape of the B. William Wordsworth
A. William Godwin’s Lock
Inquiry Concerning Po- B. Solitude: An Ode
litical Justice C. William Shake-
er
C. The Dunciad speare
B. Percy Bysshe Shel-
ley’s England in 1819 D. Eloisa to Abelard D. William Blake
132. The poem ’The Battle 136. What was most fre-
gd
C. William Godwin’s
of Maldon’ celebrates quently considered a
Caleb Williams
events which took place source of pleasure and
D. all of the above in the 10th century, but an object of inquiry by
129. Complete this famous who was it between Augustan poets?
quote by John Dryden:
“Who think too little,
and who talk too ”
an A. Danes and English
B. Dutch and English
C. Normans and En-
A. civilization
B. woman
C. God
Ch
A. often
glish D. nature
B. long
D. French and English 137. Given the popularity
C. much
133. Against which of the of the Gothic novel and
D. fast following principles the novel of purpose,
130. Which of the follow- did Jonathan Swift in- which of the following
an
ing charges were com- veigh? novelists wrote fiction

monly leveled at the A. theoretical science that is closer in subject
novel by its detractors matter to the novel of
B. metaphysics manners than it is to the
at the dawn of the Ro-
y
mantic era? C. abstract logical de- writing of her own era?

ductions A. Fanny Burney
A. Too many of its
ra
readers were women. D. a, b, and c B. Mary Woll-

B. It required less skill 134. What literary work stonecraft
than other genres. best captures a sense
C. Anna Letitia Bar-
Na
of the political turmoil,

C. It lacked the classi- bauld
particularly regarding
cal pedigree of poetry the issue of religion, D. Jane Austen
and drama. just after the Restora- 138. Whose great Dictio-
D. all of the above tion? nary, published in 1755,
131. What Pope poem be- A. Gay’s Beggar’s included more than
gins, “In these deep Opera 114,000 quotations?
solitudes and awful A. William Hogarth
B. Butler’s Hudibras
cells, / Where heav’nly-
C. Fielding’s Jonathan B. Jonathan Swift
pensive contemplation
dwells, / And ever- Wild C. Samuel Johnson
musing melancholy D. Pope’s Dunciad D. Ben Jonson
128. D 129. C 130. D 131. D 132. A 133. D 134. D 135. B 136. D 137. D
138. C
139. Who wrote: “There based upon a surprise A. London and Rome
can be no freedom or encounter with a super-
B. Paris and Rome
beauty about a home natural being
life that depends on bor- C. a process by which C. London and Paris
rowing and debt."? things that are famil- D. Berlin and London
A. Henry David iar and thought to be
ordinary are made to 145. While compiling what
Thoreau
er
appear miraculous and sort of book did Samuel
B. Benjamin Franklin Richardson conceive of
new to our eyes
C. Robert Browning the idea for his Pamela,
D. the experience of
gd
or Virtue Rewarded?
D. Henrik Ibsen hallucinating contact
with the supernatu- A. a history of every-
ral world when taking day life
ing factors contributed
to literature becoming opium B. an instructional
a profitable business?
A. Commercial and
public lending libraries an
142. Which social philoso-
phy, dominant during
the Industrial Revolu-
tion, dictated that only
manual for manners
C. a book of devotion
Ch
were established in or-
der to provide for an the free operation of D. a book of model let-
enlarged reading public economic laws would ters
ensure the general wel-
146. The Catcher in the
fare and that the gov-
B. Education reform in- Rye takes place in what
ernment should not in-
creased literacy, thus city?
terfere in any person’s
an
creating a demand for pursuit of their per- A. New York City

commercial and public sonal interests?
lending libraries. B. Stanford, Connecti-
A. economic indepen- cut
C. A new aesthetics of
y
dence
valuing literature for its C. Philadelphia, Penn-
own sake emphasized B. the Rights of Man sylvania
ra
reading for pleasure. C. laissez-faire D. Boston, Mas-

D. all of the above D. enclosure sachusetts
141. How would “Natural 143. Who wrote: “I would
Na
147. Which setting could

Supernaturalism” be prefer not to."? you not imagine a work
best characterized as a A. Edgar Allan Poe of Romantic literature
Romantic notion intro- employing?
duced by Carlyle? B. Herman Melville
A. a field of daffodils
A. a form of animism C. Thomas Gray
in which objects in the D. Henry David B. the “Orient”
natural world are be- Thoreau C. a graveyard
lieved to be inhabited
144. A Tale of Two Cities D. All of the above
by spirits
by Charles Dickens would be appropriate
B. a spontaneous be- involves which two settings for Romantic
lief in the supernatural cities? literature.
139. D 140. D 141. C 142. C 143. B 144. C 145. D 146. A 147. D

148. Alexander Pope C. A little learning is a Elizabeth Montagu?

coined many a mod- dangerous thing
ern day cliché. Which A. the Behnites
D. Fools rush in where
of the following did not
angels fear to tread B. the bluestockings
originate with him?
149. Which group of in-
A. To err is human, to C. the coteries of
tellectual women estab-
forgive divine plenty
er
lished literary clubs of
B. Let not the sun go their own around 1750 D. the Pre-Raphaelites
down upon your wrath under the leadership
of Elizabeth Vesey and
gd
148. B 149. B
an
2.5 Romantic Period
1. Which philosopher had 4. Which poet asserted in 6. Which poets collabo-
a particular influence practice and theory the rated on the Lyrical Bal-
on Coleridge? value of representing lads of 1798?
Ch
rustic life and language A. Mary Woll-
A. Aristotle
as well as social out- stonecraft and William
B. Duns Scotus casts and delinquents Blake
not only in pastoral po-
C. David Hume etry, common before B. Mary Woll-
this poet’s time, but stonecraft Shelley and
an
D. Immanuel Kant
also as the major sub- Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. What is the name for ject and medium for po- C. William Wordsworth
the process of divid- etry in general? and Samuel Taylor Co-
ing land into privately leridge
y
owned agricultural A. William Blake

holdings? B. Alfred Lord Ten- D. Charles Lamb and
ra
nyson William Hazlitt

A. partition
C. Samuel Johnson
B. segregation ing became the most
D. William Wordsworth popular Romantic po-
Na
C. enclosure etic form, following

D. division 5. Who remained without on Wordsworth’s claim
the vote following the that poetic inspiration
3. Who exemplified the is contained within the
Reform Bill of 1832?
role of the \peasant inner feelings of the in-
poet\? A. about half of middle dividual poet as \the
class men spontaneous overflow
A. John Clare
B. almost all working of powerful feelings\?
B. John Keats class men A. the lyric poem writ-
C. Robert Burns C. all women ten in the first person
D. a and c only D. a, b and c B. the sonnet
1. D 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. C 7. A
C. doggerel rhyme A. Maria Edgeworth 16. Who applied the term

D. the political tract \Romantic\to the liter-
B. Sir Walter Scott
ary period dating from
8. Which of the following C. Thomas De Quincey 1785 to 1830?
was a typically Roman-
tic means of achieving A. Wordsworth be-
visionary states? D. Jane Austen
cause he wanted to dis-
er
A. opium 12. Which of the following tinguish his poetry and
is a typically Romantic the poetry of his friends
B. dreams poetic form? from that of the ancien
C. childhood rǵime, especially satire
gd
A. the fractal
D. a, b and c
B. the figment B. English historians
9. Which two writers can
C. the fragment half a century after the
be described as writing
period ended
an
historical novels? D. the aubade
A. Mary Shelley and 13. Which of the following C. \The Satanic
Percy Bysshe Shelley was not considered a School\of Byron, Percy
B. William Wordsworth type of the alienated, ro- Shelley, and their fol-
Ch
and Samuel Taylor Co- mantic visionary? lowers
leridge A. Prometheus D. Oliver Goldsmith in
C. Sir Walter Scott and B. Satan The Deserted Village
Maria Edgeworth (1770)
C. Cain
D. Jane Austen and
an
Charlotte Brontë D. George III 17. Wordsworth described

10. According to a the- 14. Which of the following all good poetry as
ater licensing act, re- plays was actually per-
pealed in 1843, what formed on stage? A. the rhythmic expres-
y
was meant by \legiti- sion of moral intuition

A. Byron’s Manfred
mate\drama?
ra
A. The dramaturge and B. Coleridge’s Remorse

B. the spontaneous
playwright had to be re- overflow of powerful
lated. C. Shelley’s Prometheus feelings
Na
B. All of the actors Unbound

were male. D. Shelley’s The Cenci C. the polite patter of a
corrupted age
C. All of the actors 15. Looking to the ancient
were British. past, many Romantic D. the divine gift of
D. The play was spo- poets identified with grace
ken. the figure of the
11. Who in the Romantic A. troubadour 18. What did Byron de-
period developed a new ride with his scathing
B. skald
novelistic language for reference to \’Peddlers,’
the workings of the C. chorister and ’Boats,’ and ’Wag-
mind in flux? D. bard ons’!\?
8. D 9. C 10. D 11. D 12. C 13. D 14. B 15. D 16. B 17. B 18. D

A. the neo-classical in- D. Increased literacy, 24. Which of the follow-

fluence of Pope and thanks in large part to ing English groups
Dryden Sunday schools were supportive of the
French Revolution dur-
B. the clumsiness of 21. Thomas and Henri-
ing its early years?
Shakespeare’s plots etta Bowdler’s edition
C. the Orientalist fan- of The Family Shake- A. Republicans
speare gave rise to the
er
tasies of Coleridge B. Liberals
verb \bowdlerize.\What
D. Wordsworth’s devo- does it mean? C. Radicals
tion to the ordinary and
D. both B and C
gd
everyday A. the expurgation of
indelicate language 25. Which of the follow-
texts published in the B. the modernization ing charges were com-
1790s did not epitomize of archaic vocabulary monly levelled at the
an
the radical social think- novel by its detractors
C. the insertion of at the dawn of the Ro-
ing stimulated by the
bawdy songs mantic era?
French Revolution?
A. Wollstonecraft’s D. the misspelling A. Too many of its
Ch
Vindication of the of simple words like readers were women.
Rights of Men \the\and \and\
B. It required less skill
B. Paine’s Rights of 22. Horace Walpole’s The than other genres.
Man Castle of Otranto initi-
C. It lacked the classi-
ated which literary tra-
C. Godwin’s Enquiry cal pedigree of poetry
dition?
an
Concerning Political and drama.

Justice A. Hunnish epic
D. all of the above
D. Burke’s Reflections B. Gothic fiction 26. Which of the follow-
on the Revolution in
y
C. epistolary novel ing periodical publica-

France tions (reviews and mag-
20. Which of the follow- D. meta-novel azines) first appeared in
ra
ing factors did not con- 23. Which chilling novel of the Romantic era?
tribute to the growth surveillance and entrap- A. London Magazine
of the reading public in ment had the alterna-
Na
this period? tive title Things as They B. The Spectator

A. The notoriety of the Are? C. The Edinburgh Re-
\Lake School\ view
A. Jane Austen’s
B. Technological devel- Emma D. a and c only
opments, such as the
B. Mary Shelley’s 27. What served as the
steam-driven printing
Frankenstein inspiration for Percy
press
Bysshe Shelley’s poems
C. Innovations in re- C. William Godwin’s to the working classes
tailing, such as the cut- Caleb Williams A Song: \Men of Eng-
price sale of remain- D. Sir Walter Scott’s land\and England in
dered books Waverley 1819?
19. D 20. A 21. A 22. B 23. C 24. D 25. D 26. D 27. C

A. the organization of economic laws would ing the Industrial Revo-

a working class men’s ensure the general wel- lution are true?
choral group in South- fare and that the gov-
A. Hand labor became
ern England ernment should not in-
less common with the
B. the Battle of Water- terfere in any person’s
invention of power-
loo pursuit of their per-
driven machinery.
sonal interests?
er
C. the Peterloo Mas- B. Velcro replaced but-
sacre A. economic indepen-
dence tons and snaps.
D. the storming of the
C. Steam, as opposed
gd
Bastille B. the Rights of Man
to wind and water, be-
28. Which social philoso- C. laissez-faire came a primary source
phy, dominant during of power.
the Industrial Revolu- D. enclosure
an
tion, dictated that only 29. Which statement(s) D. both a and c
the free operation of about inventions dur-
28. C 29. D
Ch
2.6 Victorian Age
1. Which of the following 4. The Charge of the Light A. They remained un-
authors promoted ver- Bridge is a poem by married due to a pop-
sions of socialism? ulation imbalance be-
an
A. D.G Rossetti tween the sexes.

A. William Morris
B. Leigh Hunt B. Their willingness to
B. John Ruskin
C. Tennyson work for low wages re-
C. Edward FitzGerald sulted in a surplus of
y
D. all but C D. Arnold textiles, causing them

2. Heathcliff is a character to drop in price.
ra

from Victorian writers reg- C. They were women
A. Emma ularly published their writers who wrote fre-
work in periodicals? quently about similar
Na
B. Jane Eyre topics.

A. Thomas Carlyle
C. Vanity Fair
D. They prostituted
D. Wuthering Heights B. Matthew Arnold themselves as a way
3. Who was the leader of C. Charles Dickens to make money in a
Pre-Raphaelite group of market economy that
artists in England? D. all of the above. didn’t provide exten-
sive job opportunities
A. D.G Rossetti 6. What did Victorian
to women.
journalists mean by
B. Swinburne
terming certain women 7. Experimentation in
C. Christina Rossetti \surplus\or \redun- which of the follow-
D. Morris dant\? ing areas of poetic ex-
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. A
pression characterize 11. Which city became A. Hugh Clough

Victorian poetry and al- the perceived center
B. Arthur Hallam
low Victorian poets to of Western civilization
represent psychology by the middle of the C. Lord Byron
in a different way? nineteenth century? D. Keats
A. the use of pictorial A. Paris 15. What type of writing
description to construct
er
B. Tokyo did Walter Pater define
visual images to repre- as “the special and op-
sent the emotion or sit- C. London portune art of the mod-
uation of the poem D. Amsterdam ern world"?
gd
B. sound as a means to 12. Elizabeth Barrett’s A. the novel
express meaning poem The Cry of the
B. nonfiction prose
C. perspective, as in Children is concerned
with which major issue C. the lyric
an
the dramatic mono-
logue attendant on the Time
D. comic drama
of Troubles during the
D. all of the above 1830s and 1840s? 16. What was common
8. Which of the follow- amongst D.G Rossetti,
Ch
A. women’s rights and Christina Rossetti, Mor-
ing comic playwrights
suffrage ris and Swinburne?
made fun of Victo-
rian values and pre- B. child labor A. They all belonged to
tensions? C. chartism the Oxford Movement
A. W. S. Gilbert and D. the prudishness and B. They were all
Arthur Sullivan
an
old-fashioned ideals of painters

B. George Bernard her fellow Victorians C. They were all Victo-
Shaw 13. Which of the follow- rian Novelists
C. Robert Corrigan ing contributed to the
D. They all belonged
y
growing awareness in
D. all but C to the Pre-Raphaelite
the Late Victorian Pe-
School
ra
9. George Eliot’s novel Ro- riod of the immense hu-

mola is a: man, economic, and po- 17. The title Vanity Fair has
A. Gothic novel litical costs of running been taken from:
an empire?
Na
B. Autobiographical A. Paradise Lost

novel A. the India Mutiny in B. Divine Comedy
1857
C. Historical novel C. Utopia
B. the Boer War in the
D. Picaresque novel D. Pilgrims Progress
south of Africa
10. Vanity Fair is a novel 18. Fill in the blanks
by: C. the Jamaica Rebel-
lion in 1865 from Tennyson’s The
A. Jane Austin Princess.
D. all of the above Man for the field and
B. Dickens
14. In ’In Memorium’, Ten- woman for the :
C. Emily Bronte nyson mourns the Man for the sword and
D. Thackery death of : for the she:
7. D 8. D 9. C 10. D 11. C 12. B 13. D 14. B 15. B 16. D 17. D

Man with the head and 22. Which one of Gaskell’s 26. The Golden Jubilee of
woman with the : novels has been called Queen Victoria’s reign
Man to command and a Victorian Much Ado was celebrated in:
woman to About Nothing?
A. 1842
A. crop; scabbard; foot; A. Cranford
B. 1837
agree
B. North and South
C. 1871
er
B. throne; scepter;
C. Ruth
soul; decree D. 1859
D. Mary Barton
C. school; scalpel; pen; 27. What did Thomas Car-
gd
set free 23. The Oxford Movement lyle mean by “Close
was basically a: thy Byron; open thy
D. hearth; needle;
A. Religious Move- Goethe"?
heart; obey
ment A. Britain’s preemi-
19. Who were the \Two
an
Nations\referred to in B. Political Movement nence as a global power
the subtitle of Disraeli’s will depend on mastery
C. Social Movement of foreign languages.
Sybil (1845)?
D. Literary Movement B. Even a foreign au-
Ch
A. the rich and the
poor 24. Which ruler’s reign thor is better than a
marks the approximate homegrown scoundrel.
B. Anglicans and beginning and end of
Methodists the Victorian era?
C. Abandon the intro-
C. England and Ireland A. King Henry VIII spection of the Roman-
an
tics and turn to the

B. Queen Elizabeth I
D. Britain and Ger- higher moral purpose
many C. Queen Victoria found in Goethe.
20. Who, among the fol- D. King John D. In a carefully veiled
y
lowing English play- 25. Which best describes critique of the monar-
wrights, scripted the the general feeling ex- chy, Byron and Goethe
ra
film Shakespeare in pressed in literature stand in symbolically

Love ? during the last decade for Queen Victoria and
of the Victorian era? Charles Darwin respec-
A. Alan Bennett
Na
tively.
B. Caryl Churchill A. studied melancholy
and aestheticism 28. Arnold’s Culture and
C. Tom Stoppard Anarchy deals with the
B. sincere earnestness subject of:
D. Harold Pinter and Protestant zeal
21. Dunstan is a character A. Religion
C. raucous celebra-
from the novel tion mixed with self- B. Civilization
A. Silas Marner congratulatory sophis- C. Tehology
tication
B. Emma D. Education
D. paranoid introspec-
C. Hard Times 29. Maud is a poem written
tion and cryptic dissent
D. Adam Bede by:
18. D 19. A 20. C 21. A 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. B
A. Pope A. Paris A. The Romantics re-

mained largely forgot-
B. Tennyson B. Tokyo
ten until their rediscov-
C. Swineburne C. London ery by T. S. Eliot in the
1920s.
D. Byron D. Amsterdam
30. Which of the following B. The Victorians were
33. Who was appointed disgusted by the im-
er
best defines Utilitarian- as Poet-Laureate after
ism? morality and narcis-
William Wordsworth sism of the Romantics.
A. a farming technique
A. D.G Rossetti
gd
aimed at maximizing
productivity with the B. Tennyson C. The Romantics were
fewest tools seen as gifted but crude
C. Robert Browning artists belonging to a
B. a moral arithmetic, distant, semi-barbarous
an
which states that all hu- D. George Eliot
age.
mans aim to maximize 34. Queen Victoria suc-
the greatest pleasure to D. The Victorians were
ceeded to the throne
the greatest number strongly influenced by
of England after:
Ch
the Romantics and ex-
C. a critical method- A. George IV perienced a sense of be-
ology stating that all latedness.
words have a single B. George III
37. Cocktown is an imagi-
meaningful function C. William IV nary industrial town in
within a given piece of
the novelfirst
an
literature D. Edward VII

A. Cranford
D. a philosophy dictat- 35. Elizabeth Barrett’s
ing that we should only poem The Cry of the B. Hard Times
keep what we use on a Children is concerned
C. Ruth
y
daily basis. with which major issue

attendant on the Time D. Vanity Fair
31. To whom did the Re-
ra
of Troubles during the

form Bill of 1832 extend 38. To whom did the Re-
1830s and 1840s?
the vote on parliamen- form Bill of 1832 extend
tary representation? A. women’s rights and the vote on parliamen-
Na
suffrage tary representation?

A. the working classes
B. child labor A. the working classes
B. women
C. Chartism B. women
C. the lower middle
classes D. the prudishness and C. the lower middle
old-fashioned ideals of classes
D. slaves
her fellow Victorians D. slaves
32. Which city became
the perceived center 36. What was the relation- 39. By 1890, what percent-
of Western civilization ship between Victorian age of the earth’s pop-
by the middle of the poets and the Roman- ulation was subject to
nineteenth century? tics? Queen Victoria?
30. B 31. C 32. C 33. B 34. C 35. B 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. D
A. 1% 42. Which of the following A. Cranford

B. 10% best defines Utilitarian-
B. Hard Times
ism?
C. 15% C. Emma
A. a farming technique
D. 25% aimed at maximizing D. Great Expectation
40. The Irish Dramatic productivity with the
46. ’George Eliot’ was the
Movement was her- fewest tools
er
pen-name of:
alded by such figures B. a moral arithmetic,
as which states that all hu- A. Mary Collins
A. H. Drummond, Ed- mans aim to maximize
gd
B. Marian Evans
ward Irving and John the greatest pleasure to
Ervine the greatest number C. Lara Evans
B. W. B. Yeats, Lady C. a critical method- D. Clare Reeve
an
Gregory and Edward ology stating that all 47. Which contempo-
Martyn words have a single rary discussions on
meaningful function women’s rights did Ten-
C. Oscar Wilde and his
within a given piece of nyson’s The Princess
contemporaries
literature
Ch
address?
D. Jonathan Swift and
his contemporaries D. a philosophy dictat- A. the grueling work-
ing that we should only ing conditions for
41. What did Thomas Car- keep what we use on a
lyle mean by \Close women in textile fac-
daily basis. tories
thy Byron; open thy
43. Queen Victoria became
an
Goethe\? B. the debate on

the Empress of India
A. Britain’s preemi- women’s suffrage
in:
nence as a global power C. the need to enlarge
will depend on mastery A. 1843
and improve educa-
y
of foreign languages. B. 1854 tional opportunities for

B. Even a foreign au- C. 1892 women, resulting in the
ra
thor is better than a establishment of the

D. 1876 first women’s college
homegrown scoundrel.
44. What is meant by ’Wes- in London
sex’?
Na
C. Abandon the intro- D. the question of

spection of the Roman- A. The region where monarchical succession
tics and turn to the Bronte sisters lived and if a woman should
higher moral purpose B. The region in which hold royal power
found in Goethe. Hardy’s novels are set 48. Spenser’s Epithalamion
D. In a carefully veiled C. The home town of is:
critique of the monar- George Eliot A. a narrative poem
chy, Byron and Goethe
D. A county in Ireland
stand in symbolically B. a sonnet
for Queen Victoria and 45. Jane Fairfax and Frank
Churchill are charac- C. an elegy
Charles Darwin respec-
tively. ters from the novel D. a wedding hymn
40. B 41. C 42. B 43. D 44. B 45. C 46. B 47. C 48. D

49. The Battle of Baladava application of a scien- A. the use of pictorial

in the Crimean War tific attitude of mind to- description to construct
finds its reference in the ward studying the Bible, visual images to repre-
poem seen as a mere text of sent the emotion or sit-
history and not an infal- uation of the poem
A. In Memorium
libly sacred document?
B. sound as a means to
B. 1st September
A. New Criticism express meaning
er
C. Ultima Ratio Regum B. Critical Inquiry C. perspective, as in
C. Scientific Bibliology the dramatic mono-
D. The Charge of the logue
gd
Light Bridge D. all of the above
D. Higher Criticism
50. Which best describes 55. Why did the novel seem
the minority of Evan- a genre particularly
ing discoveries, theo-
an
gelicals in the Church well-suited to women?
ries, and events con-
of England?
tributed to Victorians A. It did not carry the
A. A group of unattrac- feeling less like they burden of an august tra-
tive people relegated to were a uniquely special, dition like poetry.
Ch
the colonies to perform central species in the
missionary work where B. It was a popular
universe and more iso-
they wouldn’t tarnish form whose market
lated?
the aesthetics of the women could enter eas-
A. geology ily.
Church of England.
B. evolution C. It was seen as a
an
B. Also called Noncon-

formists or Dissenters, C. discoveries in as- frivolous form where
Evangelicals led the tronomy about stellar one shouldn’t make se-
missionary movement distances rious statements about
in the colonies, advo- society.
y
D. all of the above

cated a Puritan moral D. all but C
53. Which one is the unfin-
code, and were respon-
ra
ished novel of Charles 56. Which of the following

sible for the emanci- acts were not passed
Dickens
pation of slaves in the during the Victorian
British Empire as early A. Dombey and Son
era?
Na
as 1833. B. Little Dorrit

A. a series of Factory
C. They were part of C. Our Mutual Friend Acts
the High Church or
the \Catholic\side of the D. Edwin Drood B. the Custody Act
church. 54. Experimentation in C. the Women’s Suf-
which of the follow- frage Act
D. They were devout ing areas of poetic ex-
\tractarians,\as depression characterize D. the Married
scribed by John Henry Victorian poetry and al- Women’s Property
Newman. low Victorian poets to Rights Acts
51. Which of the following represent psychology 57. What does the phrase
terms is defined as the in a different way? “White Man’s Burden,"
49. D 50. B 51. D 52. D 53. D 54. D 55. D 56. C 57. B

coined by Kipling, refer 60. Which of the following Walter Pater’s aesthetic
to? authors promoted ver- investment together
A. Britain’s manifest sions of socialism? pave the way?
destiny to colonize the A. William Morris A. a renewed secular-
world ism in the twentieth
B. John Ruskin
B. the moral responsi- century
C. Edward FitzGerald
er
bility to bring civiliza- B. modern literary crit-
tion and Christianity to D. all but c icism
the peoples of the world 61. The Song of the Lotus
is a poem by C. late “nineteenth-
gd
century and early”
C. the British need to A. Coleridge twentieth-century satir-
improve technology
B. Eliot ical drama
and transportation in
D. the surrealist move-
an
other parts of the world C. Tennyson
ment
D. Keats
D. the importance of 62. What type of writing 65. Which of the following
solving economic and did Walter Pater define novelists best repre-
Ch
social problems in Eng- as \the special and op- sents the mid-Victorian
land before tackling the portune art of the mod- period’s contentment
world’s problems ern world\? with the burgeoning
58. Which of the following economic prosperity
A. the novel and decreased restive-
novelists best repre-
sents the mid-Victorian B. nonfiction prose ness over social and
an
period’s contentment political change?

C. the lyric
with the burgeoning A. Anthony Trollope
economic prosperity D. comic drama
and decreased restive- 63. What best describes the B. Charles Dickens
y
ness over social and subject of most Victo- C. John Ruskin

political change? rian novels?
ra
D. Friedrich Engels
A. Anthony Trollope A. the representation
B. Charles Dickens of a large and compre- 66. Which ruler’s reign
hensive social world in marks the approximate
C. John Ruskin
Na
realistic detail beginning and end of

D. Friedrich Engels the Victorian era?
B. a surrealist explo-
59. The basic theme of ration of alternate A. King Henry VIII
Arnold’s Literature and states of consciousness
Dogma is: B. Queen Elizabeth I
C. the attempt of a pro-
A. Contemporary liter- tagonist to define his or C. Queen Victoria
ary criticism her place in society D. King John
B. Art and Literature D. A and C 67. Which event did not oc-
C. Theology 64. For what do Matthew cur as part of the rise of
D. Social changes in Arnold’s moral invest- the British Empire un-
the Victorian Age ment in nonfiction and der Queen Victoria?
58. A 59. C 60. D 61. C 62. B 63. D 64. B 65. A 66. C

A. Between 1853 and day-to-day government A. Robert Browning

1880, 2,466,000 em- of India was transferred B. D.G Rossetti
igrants left Britain, from Parliament to the
many bound for the private East India Com- C. Tennyson
colonies. pany. D. Christina Rossetti
B. In 1876, Queen Vic- D. From 1830 to 1870, 73. Which best describes
toria was named em- the sum total of in- the general feeling ex-
er
press of India. vestments abroad by pressed in literature
British capitalists had during the last decade
C. To save costs and
risen from £ 300 billion of the Victorian era?
maximize profits, the
gd
day-to-day government to £ 800 billion. A. studied melancholy
of India was transferred 70. Which movement re- and aestheticism
from Parliament to the vived under Whitefield
B. sincere earnestness
private East India Com- and Wesley?
an
and Protestant zeal
pany. A. Methodist C. raucous celebra-
D. From 1830 to 1870, B. Imagism tion mixed with self-
the sum total of in- congratulatory sophis-
vestments abroad by C. Oxford Movement
Ch
tication
British capitalists had D. Pre-Raphaelite
risen from £300 billion D. paranoid introspec-
71. Which contempo- tion and cryptic dissent
to £800 billion.
rary discussions on
68. Matthew Arnold;s women’s rights did Ten-
Thyrsis is an elegy writ- 74. What factors con-
nyson’s The Princess
tributed to the in-
an
ten on the death of: address?

creased popularity of
A. Arthur Hallam A. the grueling work- nonfiction prose?
B. Milton ing conditions for A. a new market po-
women in textile fac-
y
C. Edward King sition for nonfiction

tories writing and an exalted
D. Hugh Clough B. the debate on sense of the didactic
ra
69. Which event did not oc- women’s suffrage function of the writer
cur as part of the rise of
C. the need to enlarge B. a Puritanical dis-
the British Empire un-
and improve educa- trust of fictions and a
Na
der Queen Victoria?

tional opportunities for thirst for trivia
A. Between 1853 and women, resulting in the C. the forbiddingly
1880, 2,466,000 em- establishment of the high cost of three-
igrants left Britain, first women’s college volume novels and the
many bound for the in London difficulty of finding po-
colonies.
D. the question of etry in bookshops out-
B. In 1876, Queen Vic- monarchical succession side of London
toria was named em- and if a woman should D. the deconstruction
press of India hold royal power of the truth-fiction di-
C. To save costs and 72. Who is the author of chotomy and an ac-
maximize profits, the Blessed Damozel? companying relativistic
67. C 68. D 69. C 70. A 71. C 72. B 73. A 74. A

sense that every opin- 79. Which of the follow- A. The Wife of Bath,
ion was of equal value ing discoveries, theo- The Clerk, Sir Gawain
ries, and events con- and The Franklin are
75. The Oxford Movement tributed to Victorians characters and tale-
was started by: feeling less like they tellers in this work.
were a uniquely special,
A. The people of the B. “The General Pro-
central species in the
logue’ is appended to
er
Oxford area universe and more iso-
The Canterbury Tales.
B. The Scholars of the lated?
Oxford University C. In all, Chaucer tells
A. geology
gd
thirty tales in this work.
C. The clergymen of B. evolution
Oxford
C. discoveries in as- D. The Canterbury
D. The University Wits tronomy about stellar Tales remained unfin-
an
distances ished at the time of its
76. Which of the following D. all of the above author’s death.
Victorian writers reg-
80. Wild’s drama Woman 83. Fill in the blanks
ularly published their
of No Importance ap- from Tennyson’s The
Ch
work in periodicals?
pared in : Princess. Man for the
A. Thomas Carlyle field and woman for
A. 1884
B. Matthew Arnold the : Man for the
B. 1893 sword and for the
C. Charles Dickens she: Man with the head
C. 1879
D. all of the above and woman with the
an
D. 1904 : Man to command

77. Which poem by
81. Which of the follow- and woman to
Chaucer was written
ing contributed to the
on the death of Blanche, A. crop; scabbard; foot;
growing awareness in
Wife of John of Gaunt agree
y
the Late Victorian Pe-

? B. throne; scepter;
riod of the immense hu-
ra
A. The Legend of Good man, economic, and po- soul; decree

Women litical costs of running C. school; scalpel; pen;
B. The House of Fame an empire? set free
Na
A. the India Mutiny in

C. The Book of D. hearth; needle;
1857
Duchess heart; obey
B. the Boer War in the 84. From where Matthew
D. Troilus and
south of Africa Arnold took the story
Criseyde
78. Which one is Gaskell’s C. the Jamaica Rebel- for his Sohras and Rus-
first novel? lion in 1865 tam?
A. Mary Barton D. all of the above A. Arabian Nights

82. Which of the follow- B. Canterbury Tales
B. Ruth
ing statements about
C. Cranford The Canterbury Tales is C. Shah Namah
D. North and South true ? D. Pilgrims Progress
75. B 76. D 77. C 78. A 79. D 80. B 81. D 82. B 83. D 84. C
85. What best describes the A. Graham Greene 90. Which of the following
subject of most Victo- B. Anthony Powell acts were not passed
rian novels? during the Victorian
C. Evelyn Waugh era?
A. the representation
of a large and compre- D. William Golding A. a series of Factory
hensive social world in 88. What is common Acts
realistic detail amongst Cardinal New-
er
B. the Custody Act
B. a surrealist explo- man, John Keble, Henry
Newman and Stanley? C. the Women’s Suf-
ration of alternate
frage Act
states of consciousness A. They were all poets
gd
C. the attempt of a pro- D. the Married
B. They were all as-
tagonist to define his or Women’s Property
sociated with Pre-
her place in society Rights Acts
Raphaelite School
an
91. Who were the “Two
D. A and C C. They were all athe-
Nations” referred to in
86. What does the phrase ists
the subtitle of Disraeli’s
\White Man’s Bur- D. They were all asso- Sybil (1845)?
den,\coined by Kipling, ciated with the Oxford
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refer to? A. the rich and the
Movement
poor
A. Britain’s manifest 89. What factors con-
destiny to colonize the tributed to the in- B. Anglicans and
world creased popularity of Methodists
B. the moral responsi- nonfiction prose? C. England and Ireland
an
bility to bring civiliza- A. a new market po-

tion and Christianity to sition for nonfiction D. Britain and Ger-
the peoples of the world writing and an exalted many
sense of the didactic
92. What was the relation-
y
C. the British need to function of the writer

ship between Victorian
improve technology B. a Puritanical dis- poets and the Roman-
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and transportation in trust of fictions and a tics?

other parts of the world thirst for trivia
A. The Romantics re-
C. the forbiddingly mained largely forgot-
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D. the importance of high cost of three- ten until their rediscov-

solving economic and volume novels and the ery by T. S. Eliot in the
social problems in Eng- difficulty of finding po- 1920s.
land before tackling the etry in bookshops out-
world’s problems B. The Victorians were
side of London
disgusted by the im-
87. Who, among the follow- D. the deconstruction morality and narcis-
ing, was a Catholic nov- of the truth-fiction di- sism of the Romantics.
elist, an Intelligence Of- chotomy and an ac-
ficer, a film critic and companying relativistic
set his fictions in far- sense that every opin- C. The Romantics were
away places wrecked ion was of equal value seen as gifted but crude
by political conflicts ? artists belonging to a
85. D 86. B 87. A 88. D 89. A 90. C 91. A 92. D

distant, semi-barbarous ment in nonfiction and C. It was seen as a

age. Walter Pater’s aesthetic frivolous form where
investment together one shouldn’t make se-
D. The Victorians were
pave the way? rious statements about
strongly influenced by
A. a renewed secular- society.
the Romantics and ex-
perienced a sense of be- ism in the twentieth D. all but C
latedness. century
er
97. Who is the author of
93. Which of the follow- B. modern literary crit- Aurora Leigh?
ing comic playwrights icism
made fun of Victo- A. Tennyson
gd
C. late nineteenth-
rian values and pre- century and early- B. Elizabeth Barret
tensions? twentieth-century satir- Browning
A. W. S. Gilbert and ical drama
C. D. G. Rossetti
an
Arthur Sullivan D. the surrealist move-
B. Oscar Wilde ment D. Christina Rossetti
C. Robert Corrigan 96. Why did the novel seem 98. Which of th following
a genre particularly novels is called a "Novel
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D. all but C well-suited to women? without a hero"?
94. By 1890, what percent- A. It did not carry the
age of the earth’s pop- A. Vanity Fair
burden of an august tra-
ulation was subject to dition like poetry. B. Mill on the Floss
Queen Victoria?
B. It was a popular C. Northanger Abbey
A. 1
an
form whose market

95. For what do Matthew women could enter eas- D. Pickwick Papers
Arnold’s moral invest- ily.
93. D 95. B 96. D 97. B 98. A

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2.7 20th Century

1. Which of the following A. W. B. Yeats A. the abolition of the
was originally the Irish Lord Chamberlain’s of-
Na
B. James Joyce
Literary Theatre? fice in 1968
C. Seamus Heaney
A. the Irish National B. the illegal perfor-
Theatre D. none of the above mance of work by
3. What event allowed Howard Brenton and
B. the Globe Theatre
mainstream theater Edward Bond
C. the Abbey Theatre companies to commis- C. the collapse of lib-
D. both A and C sion and perform work eral humanist consen-
that was politically, so- sus in the late 1960s
2. Which of the following cially, and sexually con-
writers did not come troversial without fear D. the foundation of
from Ireland? of censorship? the Field Day Theater
1. D 2. D 3. A
Company in 1980 6. Which of the following C. art for the masses

is not associated with
4. Which events in and D. art for art’s sake
high modernism in the
after the 1960s con-
novel? 9. What was the impact
tributed significantly
on literature of the Ed-
to the decentralization A. stream of conscious-
ucation Act of 1870,
of England from Lon- ness
which made elemen-
don to a more regional
er
B. free indirect style tary schooling compul-
focus, ultimately also
C. irresolute open end- sory?
making way for a less
homogenous vision of ings A. the emergence of
gd
England and the pop- D. narrative realism a mass literate popula-
ularity of postcolonial tion at whom a new
7. Which novel did T. S.
fiction? mass-produced litera-
Eliot praise for uti-
ture could be directed
A. Radio announcers lizing a new \mythi-
were permitted to speak
in regional dialects and
multicultural accents.
an
cal method\in place
of the old \narrative
method\and demon-
strates the use of an-
B. a new market for
basic textbooks which
paid better than sophis-
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B. The Arts Council
cient mythology in ticated novels or plays
designated many of its
modernist fiction to
resources to supporting
think about \making
regional arts councils. C. a popular thirst for
the modern world pos-
the “classics," driving
C. Regional radio and sible for art\?
contemporary writers
television stations ap-
an
A. Virginia Woolf’s to the margins

peared throughout the The Waves
country. D. a, b and c
B. Joseph Conrad’s
D. all of the above Heart of Darkness 10. When was the ban fi-
y
nally lifted on D. H.
5. Which of the following C. James Joyce’s Lawrence’s novel Lady
has been a significant Finnegan’s Wake Chatterley’s Lover,
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development in British
D. James Joyce’s written in 1928.
theater since the abo-
Ulysses A. 1930
lition of censorship in
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1968?
phrases best character- B. 1945
A. the rise of work- izes the late-nineteenth C. 1960
shops and the collabo- century aesthetic move-
rative ethos ment which widened D. 2000
B. the diversifying im- the breach between 11. Which scientific or
pact of playwrights artists and the read- technological advance
from the former ing public, sowing the did not take place in the
colonies seeds of modernism? first fifteen years of the
A. art for intellect’s twentieth century?
C. the death of the mu-
sical sake A. Albert Einstein’s
B. art for God’s sake theory of relativity
D. all but C
4. D 5. D 6. D 7. D 8. D 9. A 10. C 11. C
B. wireless communi- C. “kitchen sink drama” B. religious symbolism

cation across the At- and society comedy
lantic
D. “angry young men C. iambic pentameter
C. the creation of the 15. Which British domin- and sexual innuendo
internet ion achieved indepen- D. witty paradoxes and
D. the invention of the dence in 1921-22, fol- feminist diatribe
er
airplane lowing the Easter Ris-
18. What was the impact
12. Which of the following ing of 1916?
on literature of the Ed-
has been a significant A. the southern coun- ucation Act of 1870,
gd
development in British ties of Ireland which made elemen-
theater since the abo- tary schooling compul-
B. Canada
lition of censorship in sory?
1968? C. Ulster
A. the emergence of
an
A. the rise of work- D. India a mass literate popula-
shops and the collabo- 16. Which novel did T. S. tion at whom a new
rative ethos Eliot praise for utiliz- mass-produced litera-
B. the diversifying im- ing a new “mythical ture could be directed
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pact of playwrights method” in place of the
from the former old “narrative method” B. a new market for
colonies and demonstrates the basic textbooks which
use of ancient mythol- paid better than sophis-
C. the death of the mu-
ogy in modernist fiction ticated novels or plays
sical
to think about “making
an
D. all but C the modern world pos-

13. With which enor- sible for art"? C. a popular thirst for
mously influential per- the \classics,\driving
A. Virginia Woolf’s contemporary writers
spective or practice is The Waves
y
the early-twentieth- to the margins

century thinker Sig- B. Joseph Conrad’s D. none of the above
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mund Freud associ- Heart of Darkness

19. In the 1930s, younger
ated? C. James Joyce’s writers such as W. H.
A. eugenics Finnegan’s Wake Auden were more
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B. psychoanalysis D. James Joyce’s but less than older

Ulysses modernists such as
C. phrenology Eliot and Pound
17. What did T. S. Eliot
D. all of the above attempt to combine, A. popular; reverenced
14. How did one critic sum though not very suc-
up Samuel Beckett’s cessfully, in his plays
B. brash; confident
Waiting for Godot? Murder in the Cathe-
A. “nothing happens- dral and The Cocktail C. radical; inventive
twice” Party? D. anxious; haunting
B. “political correct- A. regional dialect and 20. Which poet could be
ness gone mad” political critique described as part of
12. D 13. B 14. A 15. A 16. D 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. D

\The Movement\of the A. its intellectual com- 27. What did T. S. Eliot
1950s? plexity attempt to combine,
though not very suc-
A. Thom Gunn B. its union of thought
cessfully, in his plays
and passion
B. Dylan Thomas Murder in the Cathe-
C. Philip Larkin C. its uncompromising dral and The Cocktail
engagement with poli- Party?
er
D. both A and C tics A. regional dialect and
21. Which scientific or D. A and B political critique
technological advance
B. religious symbolism
gd
did not take place in the 24. Which thinker had a
first fifteen years of the major impact on early- and society comedy
twentieth century? twentieth-century writ- C. iambic pentameter
ers, leading them to and sexual innuendo
A. Albert Einstein’s reimagine human iden-
an
theory of relativity tity in radically new D. witty paradoxes and
ways? feminist diatribe
B. wireless communi-
cation across the At- 28. What was the signifi-
A. Sigmund Freud
lantic cance of the voyage of
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B. Sir James Frazer the Empire Windrush?
C. the creation of the
internet C. Immanuel Kant A. It brought the last
group of English con-
D. the invention of the D. all but C victs to Australia in
airplane 25. Which poet could be 1901.
an
22. What characteristics described as part of B. It was sunk by the

of seventeenth-century “The Movement” of the German navy in 1914,
Metaphysical poetry 1950s? bringing the United
sparked the enthusiasm States into World War I.
A. Thom Gunn
y
of modernist poets and

critics? B. Dylan Thomas
C. It brought the first
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A. its intellectual com- C. Philip Larkin group of immigrants

plexity from Jamaica to Eng-
D. both A and C
B. its union of thought land in 1948.
26. In the 1930s, younger
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and passion D. It delivered a small

writers such as W. H.
C. its uncompromising Auden were more dog into space in 1959,
engagement with poli- but less than older and returned it to earth.
tics modernists such as
Eliot and Pound. 29. In what decade did
D. a and b
the \angry young
23. What characteristics A. popular; reverenced
men\come to promi-
of seventeenth-century nence on the theatrical
Metaphysical poetry B. brash; confident scene?
sparked the enthusiasm
C. radical; inventive A. 1910s
of modernist poets and
critics? D. anxious; haunting B. 1930s
21. C 22. D 23. D 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. C

C. 1950s B. Jean Rhys’s Wide A. a poetic aesthetic

Sargasso Sea vainly concerned with
D. 1970s
C. Joseph Conrad’s the way words appear
30. Which text exemplifies on the page
Heart of Darkness
the anti-Victorianism
D. Paul Scott’s Staying B. an effort to rid po-
prevalent in the early
On etry of romantic fuzzi-
twentieth century?
ness and facile emotion-
er
A. Eminent Victorians 34. Which thinker had a alism, replacing it with
major impact on early- a precision and clarity
B. Jungle Books twentieth-century writ- of imagery
gd
C. The Way of All ers, leading them to re-
imagine human iden- C. an attention to alter-
Flesh
tity in radically new nate states of conscious-
D. both A and C ways? ness and uncanny im-
agery
an
31. Which text exemplifies A. Sigmund Freud
the anti-Victorianism D. the resurrection of
prevalent in the early B. Sir James Frazer Romantic poetic sensi-
twentieth century? C. Immanuel Kant bility
Ch
A. Eminent Victorians D. all but C 38. How did one critic sum
35. What did Henry James up Samuel Beckett’s
B. Jungle Books Waiting for Godot?
describe as \loose baggy
C. The Way of All monsters\? A. \nothing happens-
Flesh twice\
A. novels
D. both A and C
an
B. plays B. \political correct-

32. Who wrote the ness gone mad\
C. the English
dystopian novel C. \kitchen sink
Nineteen-Eighty-Four D. publishers drama\
y
in which Newspeak 36. With which enor-

demonstrates the D. \angry young men
mously influential per-
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heightened linguistic spective or practice is 39. Which best describes

self-consciousness of the early-twentieth- the imagist movement,
modernist writers? century thinker Sig- exemplified in the work
mund Freud associ- of T. E. Hulme and Ezra
Na
A. George Orwell
ated? Pound?
B. Virginia Woolf
A. eugenics A. a poetic aesthetic
C. Evelyn Waugh vainly concerned with
B. psychoanalysis the way words appear
D. Orson Wells
C. phrenology on the page
D. anarchism B. an effort to rid po-
novels display postwar
37. Which best describes etry of romantic fuzzi-
nostalgia for past impe-
the imagist movement, ness and facile emotion-
rial glory?
exemplified in the work alism, replacing it with
A. E. M. Forster’s A of T. E. Hulme and Ezra a precision and clarity
Passage to India Pound? of imagery
30. D 31. D 32. A 33. D 34. D 35. A 36. B 37. B 38. A 39. B
C. an attention to alter- 43. What did Henry James A. the abolition of the
nate states of conscious- describe as “loose Lord Chamberlain’s of-
ness and uncanny im- baggy monsters”? fice in 1968
agery A. novels B. the illegal perfor-
D. the resurrection of B. plays mance of work by
Romantic poetic sensi- Howard Brenton and
bility C. the English Edward Bond
er
40. Who wrote the D. publishers C. the collapse of lib-
dystopian novel 44. Which of the following eral humanist consen-
Nineteen-Eighty-Four phrases best character-
gd
sus in the late 1960s
in which Newspeak izes the late-nineteenth
demonstrates the D. the foundation of
century aesthetic move-
heightened linguistic the Field Day Theater
ment which widened
self-consciousness of Company in 1980
the breach between
an
modernist writers? artists and the read- 47. When was the ban fi-
A. George Orwell ing public, sowing the nally lifted on D. H.
seeds of modernism? Lawrence’s novel Lady
B. Virginia Woolf Chatterley’s Lover,
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A. art for intellect’s
C. Evelyn Waugh written in 1928.
sake
D. Orson Wells A. 1930
B. art for God’s sake
41. Which of the following B. 1945
C. art for the masses
novels display postwar
nostalgia for past impe- D. art for art’s sake C. 1960
an
rial glory? 45. Which of the follow- D. 2000

A. E. M. Forster’s A ing would be consid- 48. Which phrase indi-
Passage to India ered postcolonial novel- cates the interior flow
ists, defined as coming of thought employed
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide
y
historically after the era in high-modern litera-

Sargasso Sea
of England’s large-scale ture?
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C. Joseph Conrad’s imperialism?

Heart of Darkness A. automatic writing
A. Salman Rushdie
D. Paul Scott’s Staying B. confused daze
B. Joseph Conrad
Na
On C. total recall
C. Rabindranath
42. Which phrase indi-
Tagore D. stream of conscious-
cates the interior flow
of thought employed D. John Ruskin ness
in high-modern litera- 46. What event allowed 49. Which of the following
ture? mainstream theater is not associated with
A. automatic writing companies to commis- high modernism in the
sion and perform work novel?
B. confused daze
that was politically, so- A. stream of conscious-
C. total recall cially, and sexually con- ness
D. stream of conscious- troversial without fear
of censorship? B. free indirect style
ness
40. A 41. D 42. D 43. A 44. D 45. A 46. A 47. C 48. D 49. D
C. irresolute open end- B. the Independent ing of 1916?

ings Theatre
A. the southern coun-
D. narrative realism C. the Abbey Theatre ties of Ireland
50. Which of the following D. both A and C B. Canada
was originally the Irish
51. Which British domin- C. Ulster
Literary Theatre?
ion achieved indepen-
er
A. the Irish National dence in 1921-22, fol- D. India
Theatre lowing the Easter Ris-
gd
50. D 51. A
2.8 Elizabethan Period
an
1. Which relative did Eliz- fection, poverty, child- C. Stealing a horse
abeth I have executed? birth, and occupational
D. Public drunkenness
accidents could all re-
A. Anne Boleyn
sult in one’s untimely 6. Which of the following
Ch
B. Mary I demise. Most people is a ceremony in which
C. Mary, Queen of never reached the age a sovereign is officially
Scots of fifty. When an Eliz- crowned?
abethan died, intricate A. Investiture
D. Catherine of rituals were followed.
Aragon What was NOT a fu- B. Invocation
an
2. Which work did Ed- neral custom? C. Gala

mund Spenser author? A. Long processionals D. Coronation
A. The Castle of Perse- B. Mourning clothes
verance 7. What was Elizabeth’s
y
C. Strict simplicity close circle of advisers

B. The Double called?
D. Tolling of church
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C. The Metamor- A. The Star Chamber

bells
phoses
5. Crime was ardently B. Parliament
D. The Faerie Queene followed by punish-
Na
3. What is the name for a C. The Privy Council

ment. Elizabethans had
shift in tone or meaning devised various ways D. The Cabinet
of a sonnet to fine, humiliate, tor-
8. What was the nick-
A. Octave ture, and kill offenders.
name of Mary I?
Which crime was pun-
B. Volta ishable by death? A. Bloody Mary
C. Iambic Pentameter A. Skipping church on B. Mary, Mary Quite
D. Petrarchan Sunday Contrary
4. Staying alive was a dif- B. A woman screaming C. Mary, Queen of
ficult task for Eliza- at her husband in public Scots
bethans. Disease, in- D. None of the Above
1. C 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. D 7. C 8. A 9. B
9. What religion was A. Dump sites in the A. Pope Pius V

Mary Queen of Scots? nearby country
B. Pope Innocent III
A. Episcopalian B. The streets
C. Pope Gregory XIII
B. Catholic C. The underground D. Pope Boniface
C. Presbyterian drains
15. Who succeeded Eliza-
er
D. Lutheran D. Designated “trash” beth I?
10. Religion played a piv- areas
A. Mary Queen of
otal part in Eliza- 12. Elizabeth and Mary I Scots
bethan life. Protestants,
gd
belonged to what royal
Catholics, Puritans, and family? B. Charles I
other religious groups
C. James I
jostled for power and A. Windsor
survival in uncertain D. Edward VI
an
B. Stuart
times. In 1559, an Act of 16. The term for the reac-
Parliament was passed C. Tudor tion against corruption
which determined the in the Catholic Church
D. Plantagenet
“supreme governor” was known as:
Ch
of all things spiritual. 13. The fine arts flourished
Who was it? in Elizabethan Eng- A. The Protestant Rev-
land. William Shake- olution
A. The Pope in Rome
speare, Christopher B. The Protestant Ref-
B. Each man was his Marlowe, and Edmund ormation
own supreme governor Spenser were some of
an
the more famous play- C. The Protestant

C. The Archbishop of wrights and poets of Restoration
Canterbury the time. Drama, mu- D. The Protestant Res-
sic, songs, and art were olution
y
D. Queen Elizabeth I
popular with noblemen
11. Elizabethan England and commoners alike. 17. Which of the following
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was largely rural, with Exploring certain top- disciplines most fasci-
the majority of its pop- ics, however, was con- nated Elizabeth?
ulation living in the sidered taboo in any A. Philology
verdant countryside. art form. What was a
Na
Towns and cities, how- strictly forbidden sub- B. Alchemy

ever, were growing– ject? C. Zoology
and the most promi-
nent of all was London. A. Sexuality D. Astrology
While Londoners were B. Criticism of the 18. Who was the father of
considered wealthy and queen the Mary I
arrogant, the city was
begrimed, filthy, and C. Murder A. Henry VI
infested with vermin. B. William
D. Witchcraft
Where did people pri-
marily dispose of their 14. Who issued an interdict C. George III
trash and wastes? against Elizabeth? D. Henry VIII
10. D 11. B 12. C 13. B 14. A 15. C 16. B 17. D 18. D 19. A
19. What type of non- survive, what illegal ac- A. A Protestant Poem
rhymed poetry did tivity did a large num-
B. A Petrarchan Son-
Christopher Marlowe ber of citizens pursue?
net
pioneer?
A. Begging
C. An extended
A. Blank verse
B. Money lending metaphor
B. The sonnet
C. Fortune-telling D. A pastoral poem
er
C. Trochaic Heptame- 27. Who was the sister of
ter D. Wine bottling
Mary I?
23. What church did Eliz-
D. Free-flow verse
gd
abeth I establish or re- A. Isabella
20. Which language did establish by law in Eng- B. Victoria
young Elizabeth learn land during her reign?
in secret? C. Anne
A. The Anglican
an
A. French Church D. Elizabeth I
B. Gaelic 28. What religion was
B. The Roman Catholic
Mary I?
C. Esperanto Church
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A. Catholic
D. Welsh C. Calvinism
B. Anglican
21. Elizabethans were no- D. The Lutheran
toriously superstitious. Church C. Episcopalian
They feared witches, be- 24. Which English king D. Presbyterian
lieved in magical ani- had several of his wives 29. Who was the mother of
an
mals, and sought good killed in his obsessive

luck charms. What “sci- Elizabeth I?
quest for a male heir?
ence” did they utilize A. Catherine of
in trying to predict and A. Edward VI Aragon
y
control the future? B. Richard III B. Jane Seymour

A. Alchemy C. George III
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C. Catherine Howard
B. Metallurgy
D. Henry VIII D. Anne Boleyn
C. Geocentricity
25. In what year did Eng- 30. Which of the following
Na
D. Astrology land and Spain fight a was Elizabeth known

famous sea battle? as?
22. Elizabethans had many
occupational choices. A. 1500 A. Unintelligent
One could become
B. 1588 B. Rude
an apothecary, clerk,
physician, or even C. 1600 C. Stingy
court jester. Though
D. 1575 D. Fanatic
there seemed to be a
myriad of careers to 26. A poem that deals in 31. Which country be-
choose from, most peo- an idealized way with lieved it had an “Invin-
ple still ended up being Shepherds and rustic cible Armada” before
very poor. In order to life is known as: 1588?
20. D 21. D 22. A 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. D 30. C 31. C
A. France C. Jousting 39. Everyone in Eliza-

B. England D. Backgammon bethan England was
born into a social class.
C. Spain 35. Elizabeth’s reign was Peasants were the un-
longer than that of any luckiest of the lot: they
D. The Netherlands other Tudor. When she
er
were denied basic com-
32. The complex rank- died at the age of 69 in forts, security, and even
ing system that Eliz- 1603, how many years the chance to dress
abethans believed or- had she reigned? well. Yep, the Statutes
dered every single
gd
A. 35 of Apparel outlined
thing in the universe
B. 40 the clothes one could
was known as:
legally wear based on
A. The Great Order of C. 45 rank. Which of the fol-
Life D. 50 lowing could the poor
an
B. The Great Chain of 36. Who was Edmund wear?
Being Spenser’s patron? A. Purple silk dresses
C. The Great System of A. The Earl of Leicester
Shakespeare B. Woolen underwear
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D. The Great Sonnet B. Elizabeth C. Sable-lined cloaks
Symbolism Maker
C. Lord Burleigh D. Velvet coats
33. Marriage was a so-
D. Francis Bacon
cial obligation, and for 40. What are the beginning
many families a topic of 37. Which of the following
and ending dates of the
obsession. Betrothals was the Tower of Lon-
an
Elizabethan era?
were often arranged by don used for in the Eliz-
parents, especially for abethan age? A. 1558-1603
the high-class. What A. As an astronomical
criterion was consid- observation deck B. 1500-1520
ay
ered the least impor-

B. As a storage place C. 1560-1570
tant in deciding upon a
for grain
suitable match? D. 1575-1600
C. As a prison
A. Property
41. Who was the first Tu-
ar
D. As a school for the

B. Wealth dor King?
royal children
C. Lineage 38. What was Elizabeth’s A. Henry VIII
D. Love nickname for Sir Walter
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34. What was a favorite Raleigh? B. Henry VII

entertainment in Eliza- A. Waldimor C. George III
beth’s court?
B. Water
A. Swimming D. James I
C. William
B. Gambling D. Winter
32. B 33. D 34. C 35. C 36. A 37. C 38. B 39. B 40. A 41. B
2.9 Jacobean Era

1. The word “Jacobean” is century in which of the 8. The Jacobean era suc-
derived from the following countries? ceeds the and pre-
name Jacob, which is A. Jordan cedes the Caroline era,
er
the original form of the and specifically denotes
English name James. B. England a style of architecture,
C. Malaysia visual arts, decorative
A. Samaritan Hebrew
arts, and literature that
language D. Tunisia
gd
is predominant of that
B. Biblical Hebrew 5. In literature, some of period.
Shakespeare’s most
C. Mishnaic Hebrew powerful plays were A. Elizabethan era
D. Hebrew language written in that period B. English Reforma-
an
(for example The Tem- tion
2. The Jacobean era ended
pest, King Lear, and
with a severe economic C. England
Macbeth), as well as
depression in 1620-
powerful works by D. Tudor period
1626, complicated by
John Webster and 9. The foremost poet of Ja-
Ch
a serious outbreak of
in London in 1625. A. William Shake- cobean era was?
speare A. John Milton
A. Cholera
B. Ben Jonson B. Charles Bacon
B. Tuberculosis
C. Ben Jonson folios C. John Donne
C. Bubonic plague
D. English Renaissance
an
D. Herbert Spencer
D. Plague (disease) theatre
10. the first fire-breathing
3. Jonson was also an im- 6. What are the beginning
dragon in English liter-
portant innovator in and ending dates of the
ature occurs in which
the specialized literary reign of James I ?
Old English epic poem.
ay
sub-genre of the ,
A. 1592-1608
which went through an A. Iliad
intense development in B. 1603-1625
B. Odyssey
the Jacobean era. C. 1607-1627
C. Beowulf
ar
A. William Shake- D. 1608-1639

speare D. Canterbury Tales
7. Famous satiric
drama,Volpone,is writ- 11. What proceeded Ja-
B. Ben Jonson
ten by? cobean era?
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C. Masque
A. Sir Walter Scot A. Elizabethan Era
D. A Midsummer
B. Christopher Marlow B. Caroline era
Night’s Dream
C. Victorian era
4. “The Jacobean Era”
refers to a period of C. Ben Johnson D. Jacobean Era
time in the early 17th D. George Herbert
1. D 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. C 11. B
2.10 The Renaissance

1. How many times did A. Norwich university did he at-
Milton marry? tend?
B. York
A. 2 A. Pembroke College
C. London
B. 0 D. Canterbury B. Trinity College
er
C. 1 6. Which of the following C. Christ’s College
D. 3 works was NOT written D. St. Xavier’s College
by John Milton?
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2. Which school did Mil- 10. “Milton, thou should’st
ton attend? A. ’L’Allegro’ be living at this hour.
B. ’Lycidas’ England hath need of
A. St Paul’s
thee." Indeed. But who
B. Christ’s Hospital C. ’Il Penseroso’ was it, summoning his
C. Merchant Taylors’
D. Westminster
3. In 1638 and 1639 Mil-
an
D. ’Absolom and Achi-
tophel’
7. When did John Milton
ghost?
A. Horatio
Kitchener
Herbert
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die?
ton traveled abroad.In B. William Blake
which country did A. 4 February 1702
he spend most of the B. 2 June 1700
time?
C. 17 April 1688 D. John Keats
A. Germany
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D. 8 November 1674 11. Which of these words

B. France or usages did Milton
8. As well as poetry, Mil-
C. Italy ton published exten- NOT coin?
sively on politics, phi- A. Space used to mean
D. Spain
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losophy and religion. “outer space”

4. Following parliament’s Which of the following
victory in the civil B. Unaccountable
ra
was NOT one of his

war, Milton was ap- works? C. Pandemonium
pointed to a position
A. Of Prelatical Episco- D. Blatant
in Cromwell’s govern-
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pacy
ment in 1649. What 12. In 1634 Milton wrote
was his title? B. The Likeliest Means a masque. What’s the
to Remove Hirelings name of that masque?
A. Heresy tsar
from the Church
A. ’Il Penseroso’
B. Poet laureate
C. Of Practical Exor-
B. ’Lycidas’
C. Secretary to the Ad- cisme
miralty C. ’Comus’
D. Doctrine and Disci-
D. Secretary for For- pline of Divorce D. ’The Masque of
eign Tongues 9. Milton continued his Blackness’
5. In which city was Mil- studies at Cambridge. 13. When was John Milton
ton? Which college of the born?
1. D 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. C 9. C 10. C 11. D 12. C 13. D

A. 22 April 1600 17. In what country did the 22. who lost the most
Renaissance begin? power during the re-
B. 19 August 1604
naissance?
A. Italy
C. 6 June 1606
A. Italian merchants
B. France
D. 9 December 1608
B. catholic church
C. England
14. The 20th century has
C. black people
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been less kind to his D. Germany
memory. TS Eliot found 18. who is considered as D. king and queen of
his imagery distract- the model of the peo- Spain
ing, and considered his
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ple during the renais- 23. Utopia was written by:
work “not serious po- sance?
etry”, but it was another A. Cervantes
critic who accused him A. greek and austrian B. Machiavelli
of “callousness to the B. roman and french
an
C. Poliziano
intrinsic nature of En-
C. roman and greek D. Thomas More
glish”. Who?
D. french and greek 24. The Prince was written
A. FR Leavis
19. the word renaissance to gain favor of the:
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B. Harold Bloom means A. Pazzi
C. William Empson A. the rebirth of learn- B. Republic
D. Mariella Frostrup ing or knowledge
C. Medici
15. John Milton was 34 B. reading of books
D. Inquisition
when he married Mary
an
C. the time of astro-

Powell. How old was 25. Who translated the
nauts
she? New Testament into
D. the study of art German for the first
A. 48 time?
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B. 34 techniques was NOT A. Poliziano

C. 22 used in the Renaissance
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B. Cervantes
art?
D. 17 C. Martin Luther
A. realism
16. Edward King, a minor D. Alexander VI
B. perspective
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poet and a contempo-

26. The “father of human-
rary of Milton’s at Cam- C. individualism ism” was
bridge, was drowned at
sea in 1637. Milton D. abstractioin A. Petrarch
wrote an elegy for him. 21. what sparked the Re-
B. Dante
What was the title of naissance?
this poem? C. Boccaccio
A. The Feudal system
A. lycidas was collapsing D. Pico della Miran-
dola
B. Paradise Lost B. the “95 theses”
27. Renaissance thinkers
C. II penseroso C. the Crusades argued that women
D. none of the above D. the Black Plague should be educated
14. A 15. D 16. A 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. D 21. A 22. B 23. D 24. D 25. C
26. A 27. D
A. just the same as men A. emphasis on individ- A. had very little im-
uality pact
B. with emphasis on B. confidence in hu- B. greatly improved
science and mathemat- man rationality the material conditions
ics C. the emergence of of their lives
C. not at all merchant oligarchies
C. worsened their so-
er
D. confined solely to D. the development of
cial status
music, dancing, and social insurance pro-
knitting grams D. allowed them access
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28. An important feature of 30. The northern Renais- to education for the
the Renaissance was an sance differed from the first time
emphasis on Italian Renaissance
32. Thomas More’s Utopia
A. alchemy and magic A. growth of religious
an
placed the blame for so-
B. the literature of activity among com-
ciety’s problems on
Greece and Rome mon people
C. chivalry of the Mid- B. earlier occurrence A. human nature

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dle Ages C. greater appreciation B. God’s will
D. the teaching of St. of pagan writers
Thomas Acquinas D. decline in the use of C. society itself
29. Which was NOT a char- Latin
D. the Church
acteristic of the Renais- 31. For ordinary women,
sance? the Renaissance
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28. B 29. D 30. A 31. A 32. C

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2.11 Middle ages

1. Words from which lan- blood vengeance? B. Philippa de Roet of
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guage began to enter Flanders

A. banishment to Asia
English vocabulary C. Agnes de Copton
around the time of the B. everlasting shame
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Norman Conquest in
1066? C. conversion to Chris- 4. Chaucer acted as a
tianity controller of custom
A. French during ?
D. mild melancholia
B. Norwegian A. 1374 to 1385
3. Chaucer was released
C. Spanish from legal action by B. 1350 to 1360
D. Hungarian in a deed of May 1, C. 1360 to 1400
1380 from rape and ab-
2. In Anglo-Saxon heroic duction? D. none of the above
poetry, what is the fate 5. Which of the following
of those who fail to ob- A. Miss Cecily statements about Julian
serve the sacred duty of Chaumpaigne of Norwich is true?
1. A 2. B 3. A 4. A
A. She sought unsuc- B. repetition of parallel A. Edward III

cessfully to restore clas- syntactic structures
B. Henry II
sical paganism.
C. ironic understate-
C. Richard II
B. She was a virgin ment
martyr. D. none of the above
D. stress on every third
C. She is the first diphthong 13. The use of “whale-
er
known woman writer road”for sea and “life-
in the English vernacu- 9. Which of the following house”for body are ex-
lar. languages did not co- amples of what literary
exist in Anglo-Norman technique, popular in
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D. She made pilgrim- England? Old English poetry?
ages to Jerusalem,
Rome, and Santiago. A. Latin A. symbolism
B. Dutch B. simile
an
6. What is the climax
C. French C. metonymy
of Geoffrey of Mon-
mouth’s The History of D. Celtic D. kenning
the Kings of Britain? 10. Chaucer was made 14. what was the occupa-
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A. the reign of King in-charge of many tion of Chaucer’s fa-
Arthur palaces,which of these ther?
was not in his charge?
B. the coronation of A. leather merchant
Henry II A. Westminster Palace
B. civil servant
C. King John’s seal of B. Tower of London
an
C. a vintner
the Magna Carta
C. St. George’s chapel D. none of the above
D. the marriage of at Windsor
Henry II to Eleanor of 15. What was vellum?
Aquitaine D. Buckingham Palace
y
A. parchment made of
7. in which year chaucer 11. Which hero made his animal skin
was imprisoned by the earliest appearance in
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French? Celtic literature be- B. the service owed to

fore becoming a sta- a lord by his peasants
A. 1360 ("villeins")
ple subject in French,
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B. 1357 English, and German C. unrhymed iambic

C. 1378 literatures? pentameter
D. none of the above A. Beowulf D. an unbreakable oath
8. Which of the following B. Arthur of fealty
best describes litote, a 16. one of Chaucer’s daugh-
C. Caedmon
favorite rhetorical deter was ?
vice in Old English po- D. Augustine of Can-
A. a musician
etry? terbury
B. an astronomer
A. embellishment at 12. which of these kings
the service of Christian was not served by C. a nun
doctrine Chaucer? D. none of the above
5. C 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. D 11. B 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. C

17. The styles of The Owl C. legend’s corner A. courtiers entering

and the Nightingale the service of Richard
and Ancrene Riwle II
show what about the 21. To what did the word
the roman, from which B. translators of
poetry and prose writ-
the genre of “ro- French romances
ten around the year
1200? mance”emerged, ini- C. women who have
er
tially apply? chosen to live as reli-
A. They were written
A. a work derived from gious recluses
for sophisticated and
well-educated readers. a Latin text of the Ro-
D. knights preparing
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man Empire
B. Writing continued for their first tourna-
to benefit only read- B. a story about love ment
ers fluent in Latin and and adventure
25. Which twelfth-century
French. C. a Roman official poet or poets were in-
C. Their readers’ pri-
mary language was En-
glish. anD. a work written in
the French vernacular
22. In addition to Geoffrey
debted to Breton story-
tellers for their narra-
tives?
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D. A and C only Chaucer and William A. Geoffrey Chaucer
Langland, the “flower- B. Marie de France
18. chaucer was fined in
ing”of Middle English
1367 or 1366 for ?
literature is evident in C. Chrétien de Troyes
A. beating a friar in a the works of which of D. b and c only
London street the following writers?
an
26. Chaucer became a

B. for writing poetry A. Geoffrey of Mon-
page to which king’s
against the church mouth
daughter-in-law?
C. for crossing the bor- B. the Gawain poet
A. Edward III
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der of Great Britain

C. the Beowulf poet
D. none of the above B. Richard II
D. Chrétien de Troyes
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19. how many children C. Henry IV

23. What event resulted
chaucer had? from the premature D. none of the above
A. 4 death of Henry V?
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27. Which king began a

B. 1 A. the Battle of Agin- war to enforce his
court claims to the throne
C. 0
B. the Battle of Hast- of France in 1336?
D. 2 ings A. Henry II
20. Chaucer buried in a
C. the Norman Con- B. Henry III
corner of Westminster,
quest
which came to know C. Henry V
as ? D. the War of the Roses
D. Edward III
A. Chaucer’s corner
24. Ancrene Riwle is a man- 28. what was chaucer’s pro-
B. poet’s corner ual of instruction for fession?
17. D 18. A 19. A 20. B 21. D 22. B 23. D 24. C 25. D 26. A 27. D 28. C
A. a poet A. the short story A. Bede

B. a merchant B. the heroic epic B. Sir Thomas Malory
C. a civil servant C. the morality play C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. none of the above D. the romance D. Caedmon
29. How did Henry II, the 33. Chaucer became a 37. Which of the follow-
first of England’s Plan-
er
member of Parliament ing statements is not an
tagenet kings, acquire in ? accurate description of
vast provinces in south- Old English poetry?
ern France? A. 1386
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B. 1300 A. Romantic love is
A. the Battle of Hast- a guiding principle of
ings C. 1343 moral conduct.
B. Saint Patrick’s mis- D. none of the above B. Its formal and digni-
an
sion fied use of speech was
34. Only a small propor-
C. the Fourth Lateran tion of medieval books distant from everyday
Council survive, large numbers use of language.
D. his marriage to having been destroyed C. Irony is a mode of
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Eleanor of Aquitaine in: perception, as much as
A. the Anglo-Saxon it was a figure of speech.
30. which of these is not Conquest beginning in
certain about Chaucer? the 1450s. D. Christian and pagan
A. his birth date B. the Norman Con- ideals are sometimes
an
quest of 1066. mixed

B. his death year
C. the Peasant Upris- 38. Which of the following
C. his father’s name authors is considered a
ing of 1381.
D. none of the above devotee to chivalry, as
D. the Dissolution of
y
31. Which influential me- it is personified in Sir

the Monasteries in the Lancelot?
dieval text purported to
1530s.
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reveal the secrets of the A. Julian of Norwich

afterlife? 35. what did Chaucer’s
wife use to do? B. Margery Kempe
A. Dante’s Divine
C. William Langland
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Comedy A. lady-in-waiting to
Queen Philip pa of D. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Boccaccio’s De- Hainaut
cameron 39. Toward the close of
B. nurse of royal court which century did En-
C. The Dream of the
Rood C. governess to Henry glish replace French as
IV the language of con-
D. Chaucer’s Legend of ducting business in Par-
Good Women D. none of the above liament and in court of
32. Which literary form, 36. Who would be called law?
developed in the fif- the English Homer and
A. tenth
teenth century, person- father of English po-
ified vices and virtues? etry? B. eleventh
29. D 30. A 31. A 32. C 33. A 34. D 35. A 36. C 37. A 38. D 39. D
C. twelfth B. The common people 45. Which people began

were still essentially pa- their invasion and con-
D. fourteenth
gan. quest of southwestern
40. Who was the first En- Britain around 450?
glish Christian king? C. They believed that
writing, a skill largely A. the Normans
A. Alfred confined to the clergy,
B. the Geats
was a form of black
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B. Richard III
magic C. the Celts
C. Richard II
D. The church was D. the Anglo-Saxons
D. Ethelbert
among the greatest of
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46. Christian writers like
41. What is the first ex- oppressive landowners. the Beowulf poet
tended written speci-
looked back on their
men of Old English? 43. Popular English adap- pagan ancestors with:
A. Boethius’s Consoli- tations of romances ap-
an
A. nostalgia and ill-
dation of Philosophy pealed primarily to
concealed envy.
B. Saint Jerome’s trans- A. the royal family and
B. bewilderment and
lation of the Bible upper orders of the no-
visceral loathing.
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bility
C. Malory’s Morte
C. admiration and ele-
Darthur B. the lower orders of
giac sympathy.
the nobility
D. a code of laws pro-
C. agricultural laborers D. bigotry and shallow
mulgated by King Ethel-
triumphalism.
bert
an
42. Why did the rebels of D. the clergy

Piers Plowman?
1381 target the church, 44. what was the duration
beheading the arch- of hundred year’s war? A. Sir Thomas Malory
bishop of Canterbury?
A. 1300 to 1350 B. Margery Kempe
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A. Their leaders were

B. 1337 to 1453 C. Geoffrey Chaucer
Lollards, advocating
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radical religious reform. C. 1302 to 1343 D. William Langland

40. D 41. D 42. D 43. D 44. B 45. D 46. C 47. D
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2.12 Elizabethan era

1. How many years of D. 28 D. John
happiness was Dr Faus- 2. Which of these Kings
tus promised by the was the subject of a play 3. What was the title
Devil? by Marlowe? of the play by Mar-
A. 16 lowe that portrayed the
A. Henry V
events surrounding the
B. 20 B. Richard III Saint Bartholomew’s
C. 24 C. Edward II Day Massacre in 1572?
1. C 2. C
A. The Massacre at me and be my love"; B. Solomon

Berlin which other English au-
C. Barabas
thor wrote a famous
B. The Massacre at
poem beginning with D. Shylock
Rome
this line? 9. One of Marlowe’s most
C. The Massacre at
A. William Shake- famous poems was
Copenhagen
speare an account of which
er
D. The Massacre at lovers?
Paris B. Thomas Kyd
A. Anthony and
4. Christopher Marlowe C. John Dryden
Cleopatra
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was England’s first of- D. John Donne
ficial Poet Laureate. B. Hero and Leander
7. One of Marlowe’s earli-
A. True est published works C. Troilus and Cressida
an
B. False was his translation
of the epic poem D. Apollo and Hy-
5. In the title of Marlowe’s ’Pharsalia’, written by
play, of where was Dido acinth
which Roman poet?
the Queen? 10. Marlowe’s play ’Tam-
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A. Ovid burlaine the Great’ was
A. Troy
B. Lucan based loosely on the life
B. Carthage of which Asian ruler?
C. Virgil
C. Sparta A. Zhu Yuanzhang
D. Horace
D. Persia B. Genghis Khan
an
8. In Marlowe’s play, what

6. Marlowe’s poem ’The
was the name of the Jew C. Timur
Passionate Shepherd to
of Malta?
His Love’ begins with D. Kublai Khan
the line “Come live with A. Lazarus
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3. D 4. B 5. B 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. B 10. C
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3.1 Multiple choice questions
3.2 True and false
3.3 Single answer
4 Literary Theory and Criticism . . . 215

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3.1 Multiple choice questions
1. Stopping on a snowy D. Boasting shows D. B and C
Evening weakness and will lead 5. What statement below
to bad things best sums up the lit-
A. Robert Frost
an
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson erary significance of

B. Langston Hugues was a mentor for a num- Emerson?
C. Countee Cullen ber of early American
writers, including: A. Father of Free verse
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D. Sherwood Ander- B. Father of american

son A. Hawthrone
poetry
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2. What lesson does B. Stewart

C. Pro Slavery
Hare’s adventure in- C. Thoreau
volving a tall man with D. Father of American
D. A and B
a cane attempt to teach Liteature
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4. About Johnathan Ed-

the Winnebago peo- 6. This quote comes from
wards
ple? what writing: "God
A. Wrote the holds you over the pit
A. Flattery will get you
Mayflower Contract of Hell much as one
no where
holds a spider over the
B. Don’t put of for to- B. Was a Puritan fire "?
morrow what you can preacher and writer
do today A. Spiders of the World
C. Do unto others as C. When he spoke, au-

you would have them B. Hands of Satan
diences rose to their
do unto you feet and cheered C. Hell and Salem
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. D
152 Chapter 3. American Literature
D. Sinners in the D. A sad and depress- A. The passing on from

Hand ing view of reality. one generation to an-
7. Thoreau believed that 11. My present business," other of songs, chants,
if a government was continued he, speaking proverbs, and other ver-
unjust, people need to with lofty confidence, bal compositions after
resist the government. "is merely to inquire it has been written
This is called my way to the dwelling down.
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A. Following orders. of my [relative]." B. The telling of songs,
There was a sudden and chants, proverbs, and
B. Resisting arrest. general movement in other verbal composi-
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C. Civil disobedience. the room, which Robin tions to a single gen-
interpreted as express- eration within and be-
D. Mutiny. ing the eagerness of tween non-literate cul-
8. How do the Shelby’s each individual to be- tures
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treat their slaves? come his guide. This
C. The use of "like" or
A. Kindly but firmly passage exemplifies:
"as" to draw a compari-
B. Set them all free A. Jamming son between two unlike
B. Ambiguity things
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C. Beat them everyday
C. Snaring D. The passing on from
one generation (and/or
D. They do not have D. Foregrounding locality) to another of
slaves songs, chants, proverbs,
12. This is the name of
9. When the child finds the report by Cotton and other verbal com-
that issues cannot be
an
Mather about the trial positions within and be-

resolved in 30 minutes accusing Martha Car- tween non-literate cul-
he. . . rier of witchcraft tures by word of mouth
A. will adjust with real- A. The Burning of Our
y
ity House 15. Let me for a few mo-

ments turn your atten-
B. becomes adamant B. The Story of Ply-
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tion to the reservations

and disillusioned mouth Plantation in the different states of
C. will find sources C. Sinners in the Hand New England, and, with
elsewhere but few exceptions, we
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D. resigns to reality shall find them as fol-

D. The Wonders of the lows: the most mean,
10. A good definition of Invisible World abject, miserable race of
American Realism is: beings in the world - a
13. The use of a etcetera in
A. An examination of the final line is complete place of prodi-
life as it actually is. gality and prostitution.
A. euphemism
What does "prodigality"
B. A romantic por-
B. empathy mean?
trayal of life.
C. alliteration A. Wasteful extrava-
C. An examination of
D. onomatopoeia gance
the countryside versus
the city. 14. Define oral tradition. B. Promiscuity
7. C 8. A 9. B 10. A 11. C 12. D 13. A 14. D 15. A

C. Return from the 19. The website address for Man" illustrates what
dead our class is genre of early Ameri-
D. Redemption can writing?
A. Americanlitera-
16. The Puritans who set- ture@gmail.com A. Sermon
tled Massachusetts Bay B. Literature.usa@yahoo.com B. Autobiography
were non-separating
C. Spiritual diary
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Puritans, which
meant? C. www.gatecseit.in
D. Biography
A. They did not want D. American.lit@msn.net
24. What writing describes
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to disassociate from the the death of two settlers
Church of England 20. What job does Uncle at the hands of 300 bow-
B. Separate from Tom perform at the St. men?
church of England Clare plantation?
A. General History of
an
C. Start their own be- A. Cook Virginia
liefs B. Groomsman B. Robin Hood, Prince
D. Create seperation C. Head Coachman of Thieves
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17. Define trickster tale.
D. Valet C. Walum Olum
A. A recurrent the-
21. What statement below D. Beowulf
matic element in an
best sums up the lit-
artistic or literary work. 25. This person was cap-
erary significance of
tured by Native Ameri-
Samuel Sewall?
cans but saved by Poca-
an
B. The struggle found

A. Anti-Slavery hontas
in fiction
C. Giving human qual- B. Father of american A. Joseph Smith, Jr
ities to animals or ob- poetry
B. Jerry Smith
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jects C. Pro Slavery

C. Hiram Smith
D. A story about a mis- D. Father of American
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chievous, supernatural Liteature D. John Smith

being 26. About the Iroquois
22. Which statement best
18. The black language describes literary sig- A. Dekonawidah
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holds great importance nificance of William planted the Tree of

for the APess? Great Peace
A. Black community in A. Indian Autobiogra- B. Powerful enemy of
America phy the Delaware tribe
B. identity of Blacks in B. Father of free verse
The United States C. The tribe drafted a
C. Father of American constitution to define
C. Survival and contin- poetry the governance of their
uation of the Black com- society
munity D. Both A and B
D. All the above
D. restoration of a lan- 23. "An Indian’s Looking
guage Glass for the White 27. About Edward Taylor
16. A 17. D 18. C 19. C 20. C 21. A 22. D 23. D 24. A 25. D 26. D
A. Wrote Huswifery in 31. The ‘fearful trip’ is a re- 36. This is the title of a fa-
an ornate style that call of mous Puritan sermon
wouldn’t have been ac- A. The Civil war A. A Bird in the Hand
cepted by the Puritans
B. Voyage B. Hands of Satan
B. Wrote a poem about C. Abraham Lincoln C. Sinners in the

his house burning Hand
er
D. Trip form England
down to the United States D. Sins of the World
C. Was exiled to the 32. In which state is the 37. Maria Stewart is asso-
New World because he Shelby farm located? ciated with what ma-
gd
wouldn’t talk to the jor American literary
A. Tennessee movement?
Church of England
B. Kentucky A. Idealism
D. A and C
C. Alabama
an
28. The house of this Puri- B. Slavery
tan poet burned down D. Mississipi C. Romanticism
A. Elizabeth Browning 33. Which of the follow-
D. Nationalism
ing is NOT a feature or
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characteristics of Emily 38. How does Eliza cross
B. Eliza Snow the Ohio river?
Dickinson’s poetry?
C. George Elliot A. By ferry
A. Mysterious
D. Anne Bradstreet B. On a makeshift raft
B. Slant Rhymes
29. The first part of Amer- C. In a stolen canoe
C. True Rhymes
an
ican History dwells of

D. Hopping rafts of ice
the D. No titles
A. Discovery of Amer- 34. This checkmark dia-
39. He wrote a journal
ica by Columbus gram represents the
about his expedition in
y
plot structure for what

B. Discovery and set- northern Florida
genre of early Ameri-
tlement of the Western A. De Vaca
ra
can writing?
continent
A. Slave narrative B. Johnathan Edwards
C. early English set-
B. Indian autobiogra- C. Cortez
tlers
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phy D. Vasco de Gama

D. missionaries settled
in America C. Sermon 40. Having undertaken,
for the Glory of God
30. Bartolome de Las Casas D. Trancendentalism
and advancement of
wrote 35. Over which river does the Christian Faith
A. The devastation of Eliza make her miracu- and Honour of our
the indies lous crossing? King and Country
B. Flor Y Canto A. The Mississippi do by these presents
solemnly and mutu-
C. A Very Old Man B. The Colorado
ally in the presence of
with Enormous wings C. The Ohio God and one of another,
D. Hopskotch D. The Danube Covenant and Combine
27. D 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. A 32. B 33. C 34. A 35. C 36. C 37. D 38. D
39. A
ourselves together into 42. What is the author’s by holy and good men,
a Civil Body Politic, for purpose in the Zuni ori- and improved in Ser-
our better ordering and gin tale "The Flood"? vice; and therefore by
preservation and fur- the Command of God,
A. To include the
therance of the ends Lev. 25, 44, and their
tribe’s favorite food,
aforesaid; and by virtue venerable Example, we
corn, into the myth
hereof to enact, consti- may keep Bond men,
er
tute and frame such just B. To warn its youth and use them in our
and equal Laws, Ordi- about the consequences Service still; yet with
nances, Acts, Constitu- of promiscutiy and all candour, moderation
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tions and Offices, from other inquities and Christian prudence,
time to time, as shall be according to their state
C. To explain how
thought most meet and and condition conso-
floods came into ex-
convenient for the gen- nant to the Word of
istence
eral good of the Colony, God
unto which we promise
all due submission and
obedience. In witness
whereof we have here- an D. To explain how
earthquakes came into
existence
A. John Saffin
B. John Winthrop
Ch
43. In which state was “Un- C. Benjamin Franklin
under subscribed our cle Tom’s Cabin” writ-
names at Cape Cod, D. Mayflower Com-
ten?
the 11th of November, pact
in the year of reigne A. Maine 45. How does Hare out-
of our Sovereign Lord B. Massachusetts smart Sharp-elbow to
King James Anno retrieve his stolen ar-
an
Domini 1620. C. Georgia

row?
A. Fredrick Douglass D. Ohio A. He sends a young
B. John Winthrop 44. this may suffice, man to retrieve it
y
that not only the seed

C. Benjamin Franklin B. He sends his grand-
of Cham or Canaan, but
mother to cast a spell
ra
D. Mayflower Com- any lawful Captives of

on him that causes
pact other Heathen Nations
Sharp-elbow to consent
may be made Bond men
41. Maria Steward believe to anything asked of
as hath been proved.
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that black woman are him

By all which it
crucial to the uplift C. He takes a whet-
doth evidently appear
of black Americans. stone with him to re-
both by Scripture and
Why? trieve the arrow and
Reason, the practice of
A. They have the the People of God in when Sharp-elbow at-
power to fix things all Ages, both before tacks he uses the whet-
themselves and after the giving stone for protection
of the Law, and in the against the attack
B. Men are more pow-
times of the Gospel, D. He lights four
erful
that there were Bond prayersticks and asks
C. Both are correct men, Women and Chil- the gods to retrieve it
D. None of the above dren commonly kept for him
40. D 41. A 42. B 43. A 44. A 45. C

46. “ I hear my being dance 49. Who says “Earth is the 53. What does the priest’s
from ear to ear”. Here right place for love” son’s prayers for the
ear to ear refers to A. Silvia plath punishment of the
tribe’s iniquities tell us
A. a round about way B. Langston Hughes about the Zuni tribe?
of telling things
C. Wallace Stevens A. They are nosey and
B. a heart warming stays busy tending to
er
D. Robert Frost
smile other people’s business
50. This person wrote
C. listening through an about a island that B. The Zunis are spiri-
ear and pass it off he called Colba, now tual and have a strong
gd
through the other known as Cuba moral code that they
D. a complete experi- A. John Smith live by and teach to
ence their children
B. Coronado
an
47. In the enthusiasm of my C. That the Zunis are
C. Columbus afraid of earthquakes
confidence, I brought
chairs into the room, D. De Vaca and floods
and desired them here 51. The poem ends on a D. That the Zunis like
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to rest from their fa- to make up stories for
A. happy and meaning-
tigues; while I myself, pure entertainment
ful note
in the wild audacity 54. But when to their fem-
of my perfect triumph, B. courageous and
inine rage the indigna-
placed my own seat hopeful note
tion of the people is
upon the very spot be- C. tragic and painful added, when the igno-
an
neath which reposed note rant and the poor are

the corpse of the victim. aroused, when the un-
What is the meaning of D. philosophical note
intelligent brute force
the word audacity? 52. The children of the vil-
that lies at the bot-
lage, too, would shout
y
A. Fearless daring or tom of society is made

with joy whenever he
aggressive boldness to growl and mow,
approached. He as-
ra
it needs the habit of

B. Auditory city sisted at their sports,
magnanimity and reli-
made their playthings,
C. Authority gion to treat it godlike
taught them to fly kites
as a trifle of no con-
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D. Insanity or demen- and shoot marbles, and

cernment. What does
tia told them long stories
"mow" mean in this
of ghosts, witches, and
48. Who is the representa- context?
Indians. This work
tive figure of the “Jazz draws upon: A. To grimace
Age”
A. A European fairy B. To bleat like sheep
A. Sherwood Ander- tale C. To lift heavy things
son
B. A local ghost story D. To cut grass
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. An Indian legend 55. Whom does Mr.Haley
C. Saul Bellow D. A European ghost choose from among
D. Wallace Stevens story Shelby’s slaves?
46. D 47. A 48. B 49. D 50. C 51. D 52. A 53. B 54. A

A. Eliza and Harry C. It contained clues to D. a deterministic

events yet to happen. poem
B. Uncle Tom and
Cassy D. It had descriptions 64. Who is Sharp-elbow?
C. Uncle Tom and Eliza of shadows in the
woods. A. A genrous village
chief who is known for
60. The tone of the third
D. Uncle Tom and his kindness
er
stanza of the poem em-
Harry
bodies a sense of B. Hare’s grandfather
56. What animal is person-
ified as the trickster in A. Panic C. A god who protects
gd
the Winnebago tale? B. Pain and guides Hare on his
many adventures
A. Bear C. Calmness
B. Coyote D. A tyrannical village
D. content
chief who is known for
C. Snake
D. Hare
57. When did Hemingway an
61. What ritual does the
character resembling
the devil attempt to
perform in the woods,
his elbow blades
65. The emagery in the
poem is
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receive the Nobel Prize with goodman Brown
for Literature ? A. Mystical
as the object?
A. 1952 B. Naturalistics
A. A conversion
B. 1954 B. A christening C. Deterministic
C. 1956 C. A wedding D. Supernatural
an
D. 1958 D. A baptism 66. Yes, when the stars glis-

58. What statement below ten’d, All night long on
62. What was the purpose
best sums up the liter- the prong of a moss-
of the Mayflower Com-
y
ary significance of John scallop’d stake, Down

pact?
Winthrop? almost amid the slap-
A. Establish a new gov-
ra
A. American myths ping waves, Sat the lone

ernment singer wonderful caus-
B. non separating puri- ing tears. What is a
B. first agreement on
tan prong?
self governing
Na
C. City upon a hill

C. Religious freedom A. An edgy platform
D. All are correct
D. Sovereignty B. Other side
59. Jack London’s "To
63. The first stanza of the C. A pointed, projected
Build a Fire" contained
poem provides an idea part of something
foreshadowing, which
that it is
means
D. An adumbration
A. a revenge story
A. It took place at
nightfall. B. not a happy story 67. Which of these state-
ments does NOT ap-
B. It was a moody and C. a metaphysical ply to Hawthorne as a
spooky story. poem moralist:
55. D 56. D 57. B 58. D 59. C 60. A 61. D 62. B 63. B 64. D 65. B 66. C
67. A
A. Awareness of the 69. According to the tale, C. Samuel Sewall

importance of living a what horrible crime did
D. William Apess
life without error and the ucle commit?
sin 71. Who is NOT considered
A. He killed all of the to be a representative
B. Awareness of the old people of the Southern Renais-
dangers of setting your-
B. He killed all of the sance?
self up as the judge of
er
others or of isolating female children A. William Faulkner
yourself from humanity C. He killed all of the B. Tennessee Williams
male children
gd
C. Awareness of the D. He killed all of the C. Robert Penn Warren
ethical problems of sin, women
punishment and atone-
ment 70. But, reader, I acknowl- D. T.S.Eliot
an
edge that this is a con-
D. Awareness of the fused world, and I am 72. The two main char-
mysteries and frailties not seeking for office; acters in The Pearl
of human nature but merely placing be- are
Ch
68. The cautious old gentle- fore you the black in- A. Juan Tomas and his
man knit his brows ten- consistency that you wife.
fold closer after this ex- place before me—which
planation, being sorely B. The doctor and the
is ten times blacker
puzzled by the ratioci- priest.
than any skin that you
nation of the syllogism; will find in the Uni- C. Kino and his wife
an
while methought the verse. And now let me Juana.

one in pepper and salt exhort you to do away
eyed him with some- that principle, as it ap-
thing of a triumphant pears ten times worse 73. Wines Burg Ohio
leer. At length he ob-
y
in the sight of God and A. Sherwood Ander-

served, that all this was candid men, than skins son
very well, but still he of color—more disgrace-
ra
thought the story a lit- ful than all the skins B. Robert Lee Frost
tle extravagant – there that Jehovah ever made. C. William Faulkner
were one or two points If black or red skins,
Na
on which he had his or any other skin of D. Carl Sanburg

doubts. "Faith, sir," color is disgraceful to 74. Which statement be-
replied the story-teller, God, it appears that he low best defined Dick-
"as to that matter, I has disgrace himself a inson’s idea of circum-
don’t believe one half of great deal—for he has ference?
it myself." This passage made fifteen colored
A. Above and beyond
exemplifies: people to one white,
A. Narrative frame and placed them here B. limitations
upon the earth (1462).
B. Hortatory sermon C. no limitations
A. John Saffin D. Eqaulity
C. Snaring
B. John Winthrop 75. About Cotton Mather
D. Jamming
68. A 69. C 70. D 71. D 72. C 73. A 74. B

A. Belonged to the who has one white par- C. Pro Slavery

Delaware tribe ent and one black par-
D. Father of American
ent; what, then, is a
B. Fasted 450 times for Liteature
Quadroon?
sins he committed
A. A person who has 82. His son Rip, an urchin
C. Wrote about the begotten in his own
two black parents.
trial of Martha Carrier likeness, promised to
er
B. A person who has inherit the habits, with
D. B and C
one Meranto parent thåe old clothes of his
76. Who inherits owner- and one black. father. He was gener-
ship of Tom when St.
gd
C. A person who has ally seen trooping like
Clare dies? a colt at his mother’s
two Delfigo parents.
A. Eva heels, equipped in a
D. A person who has pair of his father’s cast-
B. Marie one white parent and off galligaskins, which
C. George Shelby
D. Haley
anone parent who is a Mu-
latto
79. “And then hopped side-
wise to the Wall”. Here
he had much ado to
hold up with one hand,
as a fine lady does her
train in bad weather.
Ch
77. About John Smith
the poet personifies the What are "galligask-
A. Exaggerated and bird as a ins"?
embellish events and
depicted Native Ameri- A. Predator A. Long, wide petti-
cans as barbaric B. Gentleman coats
B. A trench-coat
an
B. In the General His- C. Hierarchical views

tory of Virginia, at- of man C. Loose, wide
tempted an objective,
D. Protector breeches
journalistic style
80. Which American poet D. Underpants
y
C. Was saved by
is hailed as the repre-
Squanto 83. According to the myth,
sentative poet of Amer-
ra
D. A and B why must all things

ica ?
have an end?
78. Dumas, whose fa- A. Robert Frost
ther was a General in A. The Earthmaker
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B. R. W. Emerson wanted the opportu-

the French Army, is
a Mulatto; Soulie, a C. Walt Whitman nity to creat a new race
Quadroon. He went of people
D. Edgar Allen Poe
from New-Orleans, B. Mankind would suf-
where, though to the 81. What statement below
fer because of a lack of
eye a white man, yet, as best sums up the liter-
food if there were more
known to have African ary significance of John
people than resources
blood in his veins, he Saffin?
to care for them
could never have en- A. Anti-Slavery
joyed the privileges C. Hare wished it to be
due to a human being. B. Father of american so and that was how it
A Mulatto is a person poetry was
75. D 76. B 77. D 78. D 79. B 80. C 81. C 82. C 83. B

D. Grandmother C. Only men should D. That he will try to

wished it to be so and work find Harry
that was how it was D. Woman have no 92. Mr. Covey entered
84. About the Pima role in society the stable with a long
A. Introduced domes- 88. Before humans were rope; and just as I was
tic animals to the sold as commodities, half out of the loft, he
er
Navajo what item was highly caught hold of my legs,
sought after in West and was about tying
B. Made houses of
Africa? me. As soon as I found
saplings bent into
what he was up to, I
gd
domes A. Diamonds
gave a sudden spring,
C. Legend From the B. Land and as I did so, he hold-
Houses of Magic C. Gold ing to my legs, I was
D. B and C brought sprawling on
an
D. Gasoline the stable floor. Mr.
85. Who is the central Fig- 89. “learn by going where Covey seemed now
ure in O Nell’s The I have to go”. The poet to think he had me,
Hairy Ape learns of and could do what he
Ch
A. Mildred A. Going back to his pleased; but at this mo-
hometown ment—from whence
B. Yank came the spirit I don’t
C. The Secretary of B. his errors and starts know—I resolved to
I.W.W. correcting them fight; and, suiting my
C. going back to the action the resolution, I
an
state of depression seized Covey hard by

86. About the Navajo the throat, and as I did
D. the final destination
A. Settled in Northeast- so, I rose. He held on
where he has to reach
ern US to me, and I to him.
y
90. Which is one of the five He trembled like

B. Kept the Navajo Ori- tenants of Puritanism? a leaf. We were at
gin Legend through
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A. Total equality it for nearly two hours.

oral tradition Covey at length let me
B. Unconditional love go, puffing and blow-
C. Believed that corn
was crucial to creation C. Individualism ing at a great rate, say-
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ing that if I had not

D. B and C D. Irresistible grace
resisted, he would not
87. Which statement below 91. What does Eva’s father have whipped me half
best paraphrases what promise her before she so much. The truth
John Winthrop meant dies? was, that he had not
when he declared that A. That he will adopt whipped me at all. I
the MBC would be as a Topsy considered him as get-
"city upon a hill"? ting entirely the worst
B. That he will free Un- end of the bargain; for
A. Religious freedom cle Tom he had drawn no blood
B. Everyone has a role C. That he will re- from me, but I had from
in society marry him
84. D 85. B 86. D 87. B 88. C 89. D 90. D 91. B 92. A

A. Fredrick Douglass 97. And seeing GOD hath 99. the eyes of all peo-
B. John Winthrop said, He that stealeth ple are upon us; soe
a Man and Selleth him, that if wee shall deale
C. Benjamin Frankin or if he be found in his falsely with our god in
D. William Apess hand, he shall surely this worke wee have un-
93. Which of the follow- be put to Death. Exod. dertaken and soe cause
ing describes the pre- 21.16. This Law being him to withdrawe his
er
colonial era’s literature of Everlasting Equity, preent help from us,
styles? wherein Man Steal- wee shall be made a
ing is Ranked amongst story and a by-word
A. Pamphlets, poetry,
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the most atrocious of through the world, wee
novels, short stories Capital Crimes: What shall open the mouthes
B. Novels, poetry, dra- louder Cry can there of enemies to speake
mas, histories be made of that Cele- evill of the ways of
brated Warning, Caveat god and all profes-
an
C. Literary magazines,
Emptor!And all things sours for Gods sake;
poetry, novels, short
considered, it would wee shall shame the
stories
conduce more to the faces of many of gods
D. Narratives and po- Welfare of the Province, worthy servants, and
Ch
etry to have White Servants cause theire prayers to
94. This group of Native for a Term of Years, be turned into Cursses
Americans believed than to have slaves for upon us till we be con-
that corn was crucial Life. Few can endure to sumed out of the good
to creation. hear of a Negro’s being land whether wee are
made free; and indeed going
an
A. Teton
they can seldom use
B. Cherokee their freedom well; yet A. Fredrick Douglass
C. Utes their continual aspiring
B. John Winthrop
after their forbidden
y
D. Navajo
Liberty, renders them C. Benjamin Franklin
95. Abslom, Absalom is a unwilling Servants.
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novel written by D. William Apess

A. John Saffin
A. Steinback
B. John Winthrop 100. The story is told from
B. Faulkner the point of view of
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C. Hemingway C. Samuel Sewall

A. Mrs. Mallard
D. Fitzgerald D. William Apess
96. A factual account of the B. Mrs. Mallard’s sister
98. On this explorer’s quest
development of a peo- Josephine
for gold, the guide mis-
ple, nation, institution
lead them to Texas C. Mr. Mallard
or culture
A. Tradition A. Columbus D. a third person
B. Constitution B. Magellan
101. Why does Henry
C. History C. Coronado David Thoreau write
D. Myth D. Houston his book "Walden"?
93. D 94. D 95. B 96. C 97. C 98. C 99. B 100. D 101. A

A. To show ideas of C. His overwhelming A. Relocate to

transcendentalism are fear of violence Louisiana
put into action D. His ability to hide B. Punish another
B. To critique slavery his rebellious nature. slave
C. Tell his entire life 106. The cloud-spirits
C. Abandon his faith
story peeped from their sil-
er
very islands, as the con- D. Marry another
D. None of the above gregated mirth went woman
102. What does the narra- roaring up the sky! The
110. For a time the narra-
tor find at the end of the Man in the Moon heard
gd
tor comforts Roderick
journey? the far bellow. "Oho,"
by reading and paint-
quoth he, "the old earth
A. Field and works ing with him; one of
is frolicsome to-night!"
Roderick’s paintings is
B. Crusted snow and This is:
described as follows:
an
dead leaves A. An autobiography "A small picture pre-
C. Hills and highways B. A fairy tale sented the interior of
an immensely long and
D. all are sleeping C. Gothic fiction rectangular vault or
Ch
103. In which city does the D. A novel tunnel, with low walls,
St.Clare live? 107. Which of the follow- smooth, white, and
ing is true about the tar- without interruption
A. Memphis
get audience for John or device. Certain ac-
B. New Orleans Saffin’s pamphlet? cessory points of the
design served well to
an
C. Louisville A. African Americans convey the idea that

D. Atlanta B. White public of Ply- this excavation lay at
104. Who wrote "Barn mouth an exceeding depth be-
burning"? low the surface of the
y
C. White public of Mas-

sachusetts earth." What later event
A. Rober Lee frost in the story does this
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B. Eugene O’ Neil’s D. Native Americans picture foreshadow?

108. What is TULIP?
C. Tennesse Williams A. The narrator and
A. Total depravity Roderick bury Made-
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D. William Faulkner’s
B. Unconditional elec- line alive in a stone
105. Which of Uncle Tom’s tion tomb beneath the man-
personal characteristics sion.
guided his interactions C. Limited atonement
with others and his re- B. The narrator and
D. Irresistible GraceE.
sponses to his circum- Roderick drown Made-
Perseverance of the
stances? line in the tarn next to
SaintsF. All of the above
the mansion.
A. His gentle and soft-
spoken nature 109. What does George C. Roderick and Made-
Harris’ master demand line escape the house
B. His honesty and of him that prompts via an underground tun-
deep devotion to God him to plan his escape? nel.
102. B 103. B 104. D 105. B 106. C 107. C 108. A 109. D 110. A

D. The narrator and A. national identity D. Rip van Winkle

Roderick become
B. political conflicts 117. What statement below
trapped in catacombs
C. urban and european best sums up the liter-
beneath the mansion.
vs indigenous and rural ary significant of Maria
111. Where does Tom first Stewart?
meet Eva?
D. All the above A. First African Ameri-
er
A. In New Orleans can woman to speak to
115. "When I was 16 years
B. On a ferry a mixed audience
of age, we heard a
C. In Memphis Strange Rumor among B. First African Ameri-
gd
the English, that there can to publish life writ-
D. On a river boat were Extraordinary ingC Most popular na-
112. At the end of Hare’s Ministers preaching tive american writer
adventure with the from Place to Place
an
headless bodies how and Strange Concern C. Most popular slave
does he turned them among the White Peo- narrative
into "fast-fish." ple. This was in the D. All the above
A. The headless bodies Spring of the Year.
118. But when a Boy, and
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served Hare fish. After I was awakened
& converted, I went Barefoot I more than
B. The headless bodies to all the meetings, I once at Noon Have
tried to abuse people so could come at; & Con- passed, I thought, a
they were turned into tinued under Trouble of Whip lash Unbraiding
’fast-fish’ as a punish- Mind about 6 months; in the Sun The speaker
an
ment. at which time I began of this poem is

C. The headless bodies to Learn the English A. A boy
liked to eat fish. letters; got me a Primer,
and used to go to my B. An alien
D. The headless bodies
y
English Neighbours fre- C. A girl

were actually creatures quently for Assistant in
who evolved from fish reading " D. A communist
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so they were simply re-

turned to their primor- A. Samson Occcum 119. What does George
dial state. B. John Winthrop Shelby give Uncle Tom
to wear on a string
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113. This is a system of fun- C. Benjamin Franklin around his neck before
damental laws govern- Tom is taken away?
ing a society D. Mayflower Com-
pact A. A locket
A. Discourse
116. Which of Washing-
B. Constitution ton Irving’s characters B. A ring
falls asleep for twenty C. A dollar
C. Language
years?
D. Connotation D. A crucifix
A. Tom Buchanan
114. What was one theme 120. Why do you think the
B. Tom Joad
in the period of inde- uncle was named the
pendence? C. Philip Marlowe "Unnatural Uncle"?
111. D 112. B 113. B 114. D 115. A 116. D 117. A 118. A 119. C 120. A
A. The Eskimo’s felt writers were trying to A. Jason and Isolde

that family was impor-
B. General History of
tant and to try to harm A. Postmodern; end Virginia
a family member was slavery.
not normal or natural C. Declaration of Inde-
B. Colonial; end patrio- pendence
B. The pronunciation tism for England.
of Eskimo names are D. Journal of an Expe-
er
impossible so the au- C. Modernism; end in- dition
thor decided that this dividualism. 128. Which American
was easy for the reader D. Romanticism; de- writer won the Nobel
gd
C. All Eskimo myths fine themselves and Prize in 1930?
name the antagonist their writing style as A. Sinclair Lewis
the "Unnatural Uncle" independent from Eng-
land. B. Upton Sinclair
an
D. Since this tale is
124. Rabbit Angstrom Nov- C. John Steinbeck
from the oral tradition,
the characters had no els are written by – D. Raymond Chandler
names and when the A. Harper Lee 129. Themes in colonial
Ch
myth was written down time period:
B. John Updike
this is the name that
was given C. Henry Miller A. resistance
121. To which country do D. R. Ellison B. cultural indepen-

George and Eliza plan dence
125. John Winthrop’s "A
to immigrate? Model of Christian C. Europe
an
A. Liberia Charity" illustrates D. All the above

what genre of early
B. Nigeria American writing? 130. What animal is per-
sonified as Hare’s
C. France A. Sermon
y
grandfather?
D. Algeria B. Romanticism A. Bear
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122. Which member of the

C. Transcendtalism B. Fox
corn clan could not
overlook the wrondo- D. Both B and C C. Deer
ings of the rest of the 126. Which of the follow-
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D. Cougar
clan? ing animals seem to
represent strength and 131. Which of the follow-
A. The youngest mem- ing best defines the
ber courage for the Eski-
mos? Enlightenment move-
B. The oldest member ment?
A. Horse
C. The priest’s son A. Age of reason
B. Fox
D. The chief’s son B. Political thinking
C. Eagle
123. The American Re- C. Celebration of indi-
naissance overlapped D. Deer vidual
the time period, 127. What did John Smith D. Philosophical mov-
in which American write? ment
121. A 122. C 123. D 124. B 125. A 126. C 127. B 128. A 129. D 130. A
131. A
132. Which of the follow- D. Native American A. To borrow

ing is a true statement women have been se-
B. To steal
about Romanticism? duced and abandoned
A. Interest in the com- by white men. C. To ruin
mon man 136. From where does Eliza D. To return
B. Celebration of the cross into Cananda?
139. He had heard this de-
er
individual A. Lake Erie struction of the original
C. Age of reason B. Lake Huron possessors of the soil
D. Both A and B described, as we find
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C. Niagara Falls it in the history of the
133. Native Son (1940) is times, where, we are
written by D. Northern Min-
nesota told, "the number de-
A. Jean Toomer stroyed was about four
137. The farmer drove
an
hundred;" and "it was
B. Richard Wright
his plough-share deep a fearful sight to see
C. Ralph Ellison "Whose bones are them thus frying in the
D. Stephen Crane these?" said he, "I find fire, and the streams
them where my brows- of blood quenching the
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134. What is Mrs. Shelby’s
ing sheep Roam o’er the same, and the horrible
first name?
upland lea." What does scent thereof; but the
A. Emily "lea" mean? Veldu eitt: victory seemed a sweet
B. Rachel sacrifice, and they gave
A. Rocky land
the praise thereof to
C. Margaret B. Bridge God." This work is:
an
D. Danielle C. Plain or plateau A. A hortatory sermon

135. Apess claims that Na-
tive Americans in New D. Meadow or pasture-
land B. A historial novel
y
England are the "most

mean, abject, miserable 138. Well, then; I have re- C. Gothic fiction
race of beings in the
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ceived personal infor-

world." Which of the fol- mation, from a very D. A narrative frame
lowing is NOT a reason high quarter, that a cer- 140. Apess concludes his
he offers as an explana- tain document of the piece by:
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tion for their misery? last importance, has

A. They are victim- been purloined from A. Predicting the Apoc-
ized by corrupt Indian the royal apartments. alypse
Agents appointed by The individual who pur- B. Declaring his inten-
the government. loined it is known; this tion to run for public of-
beyond a doubt; he was fice
B. They are not pro- seen to take it. It is
vided with adequate ed- known, also, that it still C. Calling for Native
ucation. remains in his posses- Americans to declare
C. They are legally de- sion. What is the mean- themselves indepen-
nied the right to engage ing of the verb to pur- dent of the U.S. govern-
in commerce. loin? ment
132. D 133. B 134. A 135. C 136. A 137. D 138. B 139. B 140. D

D. Exhorting his allies C. Benjamin Franklin A. a vision for himself

and advocates to con-
D. Mayflower Com- B. inner strength
tinue working to end
pact
prejudice C. his own life
143. Who was Fuseli?
141. This is the implied D. a will not to depend
comparison between A. Swiss-bom painter
on others
two dissimilar things
er
B. French guitarist
148. When there was a
A. Myth C. An Italian-born doc- momentary calm in
B. History tor that tempestuous sea of
gd
D. British painter sound, the leader gave
C. Tradition
the sign, the procession
144. Where does Senator
D. Metaphor resumed its march. On
Bird take Eliza and
142. It was about this time they went, like fiends
Harry?
an
that I conceiv’d the bold that throng in mock-
and arduous Project of A. To a Congregation- ery around some dead
arriving at moral Per- alist community potentate, mighty no
fection. I wish’d to B. To a Methodist com- more, but majestic still
in his agony. On they
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live without commit- munity
ting any Fault at any went, in counterfeited
C. To a Quaker settle- pomp, in senseless up-
time; I would conquer
ment roar, in frenzied mer-
all that either Natural
Inclination, Custom, or D. To Philadelphia riment, trampling all
Company might lead on an old man’s heart.
145. The lesson the young
This is:
an
me into. As I knew, or man teaches Dorothy is

thought I knew, what A. Historical fiction
was right and wrong, A. to hide here emo-
I did not see why I tion B. A fairy tale
y
might not always do B. to live and enjoy her C. An autobiography

the one and avoid the life
other. But I soon found D. A detective story
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C. to fight with people

I had undertaken a Task
149. In Walden, who urges
of more difficulty than D. not to lodge a com-
people to simplify their
I had imagined. plaint
lives and look to nature
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I included under Thir- 146. Henry David Thoreau for meaning?

teen names of Virtues lived for a while
all that at that time oc- A. Robert Frost
curr’d to me as neces- A. At Lake Tahoe.
B. Walt Whitman
sary or desirable, and B. At Willow Pond.
annex’d to each a short C. Henry David
C. At the Feather River.
Precept, which fully ex- Thoreau
press’d the Extent I
gave to its Meaning. D. At Walden Pond. D. Herman Melville
A. Samson Occcum 147. In this technological 150. Who coined the

world the child should phrase ‘Lost Genera-
B. John Winthrop build up. . . ? tion’?
141. D 142. C 143. D 144. C 145. B 146. D 147. B 148. A 149. C 150. B
A. Hemingway 153. Why do we call Ralph way’s novel The Old

Waldo Emerson the "Fa- Man and the Sea?
B. Gertude Stein
ther of American Liter- A. Santiago
C. F. Scott Fitzserald ature"?
B. Marlin
D. Sherwood Ander- A. First native ameri-
can to publish life writ- C. Mandolin
son
ing
er
151. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
B. Mentor to other 157. What does Topsy
as a literary work ex-
writers steal?
posed the evils of
gd
C. Literary Maverick A. Marie’s bracelet
A. dowry
D. None of the above B. A pair of gloves
B. slavery
154. Wanders in that happy C. Augustine’s Bour-
C. corruption
an
valley Through two lu- bon
minous windows saw D. Griddlecakes
D. superstitions
Spirits moving musi-
152. According to the myth, cally To a lute’s well- 158. What term describes
how did frogs loose tunéd law, Round about Cassy’s racial her-
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their teeth? a throne, where sit- itage?
ting (Porphyrogene!) In A. Quadroon
A. Frogs used to eat state his glory well be-
rocks and one day a B. Mulatto
fitting, The sovereign
frog ate a rock that was of the realm was seen. C. Octoroon
too hard and smashed What does Porphyro-
an
its teeth. D. Hectoroon

gene mean?
159. What does the narra-
B. Frogs never had any A. Born to be free tor of the story about
teeth. Rip describe as the
B. Inflicted with the
y
C. Hare hit a frog disease Porphyria great error in Rip’s com-

with a club and burned position?
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the frog and cursed it C. Of royal birth

A. His weakness for
by declaring it would D. Wearing purple spirits
never be able to harm robes
anyone because it B. That he is hen-
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155. The “Cycle of Amer- pecked by his wife

threatedned to hunt the
ican Literature” was
hare down with dogs. C. His love of town
written by?
gossip
D. Grandmother A. Ralph Waldo Emer-
wanted to eat frog leg D. His unwillingness
son
stew so she captured to work
a frog and extracted B. Thoruau 160. According to the myth,
its teeth one by one C. Robert E. Spiller which of the follow-
while chanting a Win- ing are likely hunt-
nebago song, and since D. Gustave Falubert ing preparation ritu-
then frogs were with- 156. Who is the central als that the Winnebago
out teeth. character in Heming- perform?
151. B 152. C 153. B 154. C 155. C 156. A 157. B 158. B 159. D 160. D
A. Burning tobacco as rejection of all stan- 167. The change TV

an offering dard, and mere antino- brought into the so-
mianism - and the bold ciety can be summed
B. Singing songs
sensualist will use the up as
C. Entering into a name of philosophy to
trance to commune A. condensed life to
gild his crimes. But the
with the spirits of the the screen
law of consciousness
er
natural world. abides. There are two B. life turning more at-
D. All of the above confessionals, in one or tractive
the other of which we
161. What statement be- C. bringing reality be-
gd
must be shriven. What
low best sums up the fore them
is "antinomianism"?
literary significance of D. creating indiffer-
William Bradford? A. Doctrine of Stoicism ence to realities of life
A. Created spiritual Di-
ary
B. Non-Separating pu-
ritan an
B. Doctrine of Gnosti-
cism
C. Doctrine of Materi-
168. Which of these is NOT
a rhetorical purpose
of the Spiritual Diary
Ch
alism Genre?
C. Separating puritan
A. finding spiritual
D. both A and C D. Doctrine of salva-
meaning
162. This character sur- tion by faith alone
vived a massacre: B. Critic slavery
165. Which one is a great
A. Faith patriotic poem by C. Defend Slavery
an
Frost? D. Both B and C

B. Hope
A. Mending Wall 169. The ambitious spirits
C. Magawisca
B. Birches of his brother chieftain
D. Madeline
y
Sassacus, had ever as-

163. Before advocating C. The Gift Outright pired to dominion over
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on behalf of the en- the allied tribes - and

D. Directive
slaved in colonial Mas- immediately after the
sachusetts, Samuel Se- 166. What story tells how appearance of the En-
wall participated in Squanto taught the set- glish, the same temper
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what early American tler to grow corn, pro- was manifest in a jeal-
crisis event? cure commodities and ousy of their encroach-
A. Mayflower compact fish? ments. He employed
all his art and influence
A. General History of and authority, to unite
B. Salem Witch Trails Virginia the tribes for the extir-
C. No involvement B. Puritan Sermons pation of the dangerous
invaders. Mononotto,
D. All the above C. The story of Ply- on the contrary, averse
164. The populace think mouth Plantation to all hostility, and fore-
that your rejection of D. Pride and Prejudice seeing no danger from
popular standards is a them, was the advocate
161. D 162. C 163. B 164. D 165. C 166. C 167. D 168. D 169. C

of a hospitable recep- first to cry out, injus- A. Transcendentalism

tion, and pacific con- tice! awful injustice!
B. Communism
duct. What does "extir-
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Totalitarianism
pation" mean?
B. John Winthrop D. Feudalism
A. Execution
C. Benjamin Franklin 175. Who is Eliza’s
B. Going to extremes
er
mother?
D. William Apess
C. Extermination A. Cassy
171. American Civil War
D. Expatriating was fought in B. Mrs.Shelby
gd
170. I know that many say A. 1815-1820 C. Mrs.Legree
that they are willing,
B. 1830-1840 D. Aunt Chole
perhaps the majority
of the people, that we 176. Monadnock on his
C. 1861-1865
an
should enjoy our rights forehead hoar Doth seal
and privileges as they D. 1825-1833 the sacred trust, Your
do. If so, I would ask 172. Whom does St. Clare mountains build their
why are not we pro- give to Ophelia to edu- monument, Though
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tected in our persons cate? ye destroy their dust.
and property through- What is the meaning of
out the Union? Is A. Eva the word "hoar"?
it not because there B. Prue A. Scarred
reigns in the breast of
many who are lead- C. Emmeline B. Grey or white with
an
ers, a most unrigh- age

D. Topsy
teous, unbecoming and C. Ancient or venera-
173. What vice does Tom
impure black principle, ble
attempt to convince Au-
and as corrupt and un-
gustine Clare to re- D. Wrinkled with age
y
holy as it can be–while

nounce? 177. Which of Upton Sin-
these very same unfeel-
clair’s books is about
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ing, self-esteemed char- A. gambling

acters pretend to take the meat-packing in-
B. drinking dustry?
the skin as a pretext
to keep us from our C. bribery A. Main Street
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unalienable and lawful

D. lying B. Arrowsmith
rights? I would ask
you if you would like to 174. The intellectual move- C. Elmer Gantry
be disfranchised from ment that believed that
D. The Jungle
all your rights, merely the observation of na-
because your skin is ture elevates the nature 178. Who wrote The sound
white, and for no other of humans, that deep and the furry?
crime? I’ll venture to truths can be grasped A. Eugene O’ Neil’s
say, these very charac- through intuition, and
B. William Faulkner
ters who hold the skin that God, Nature and
to be such a barrier in humanity are united in C. Robert Lee frost
the way, would be the a shared universe is D. Countee Cullen
170. D 171. C 172. D 173. B 174. A 175. A 176. B 177. D 178. B 179. C
179. Who wrote "The A. For the land A. Obedience

love song of J. Alfred B. Patience
B. Sovereignty to es-
Prufrock"?
tablish godly kingdom C. Loyalty
A. Cumings as they saw fit
D. Jealousy
B. Robert Lee Frost C. Religious practice of 189. William Bradford’s Of
C. T.S. Eliot the Church of England Plymouth Plantation
er
D. All of the above exemplifies what genre
D. Edgar lee masters
185. About Christopher of early American writ-
180. The narrator returns ing?
Columbus
gd
home during the
A. Slave narrative
A. spring A. Arrived on the
Mayflower B. Free verse poem
B. Winter
B. Mistook Bahama Is- C. Journal
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C. fall lands for India D. Spiritual diary
D. summer C. Kept a journal of the 190. Why do people evolve
181. Beecher Stowe wrote First Voyage to America a language
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” A. To communicate
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to illustrate the evils
D. B and C B. To articulate their
of
186. Name the religious circumstances
A. Alcohol group that preached C. For existence
B. Slavery to live a simple and
straightforward life D. For identifying
C. Foreign
an
themselves
A. Mormons 191. How old is Emme-
D. Imperialism
182. Abraham Lincoln: the B. Catholics line?
war Years C. Puritans A. Ten
y
A. T.S. Elliot D. Druids B. Thirteen

C. Seventeen
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B. Carl Sandburg 187. Which of the follow-

C. William Faulkner ing is NOT a rhetorical D. Fifteen
purpose of "An Indian’
D. Wallace Stevene 192. What was the original
Looking Glass for the
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title of Hemingway’s
183. Miniver scorned the White Man"?
novel The Old Man and
gold he sought. Here A. Critic the way white the Sea ?
gold refers to people’s society treats A. Fiesta
A. the yellow metal people of color wrong.
B. The Assistant
B. paycheck or money B. Making peace
C. The Sea in Being
C. materialism C. Working together
D. Farewell to Arms
D. the pot of luck D. both B and C 193. What invention won
184. Why did Bradford and 188. All of the following George Harris the re-
the Pilgrims create Ply- are traits demonstrated spect of his factory’s
mouth Colony? by the hero except? proprietor?
180. B 181. B 182. B 183. D 184. B 185. D 186. C 187. D 188. D 189. D
190. B 191. D 192. C 193. B
A. A cotton ginning 196. In Talbot county, East- me; it would not be

machine ern Shore, Maryland, heard through the wall.
B. A hemp cleaning near Easton, the county At length it ceased. The
machine town of that country, old man was dead. I
there is a small dis- removed the bed and
C. A hemp twines trict of country, thily examined the corpse.
D. A bread slicing ma- populated, and remark- Yes, he was stone, stone
er
chine able for nothing that dead. This victim is
I know of more than killed because of:
194. I ask: Is it not the
for the worn-out, sandy,
case that everybody A. A letter
gd
deserts-like appearance
that is not white is
of its soil, the general B. His clouded eye
treated with contempt
dilapidation of its farms
and counted as barbar- C. His pact with the
and fences, the indigent
ians? And I ask if the devil
and spiritless character
an
word of God justifies
of its inhabitants, and D. His loud heart beat
the white man in so do-
the prevalence of ague
ing. When the prophets 200. He was famed for
and fever. What does di-
prophesied, of whom great skill in horseman-
lapidation mean?
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did they speak? When ship; he was foremost
they spoke of heathens, A. Hunger or famine at all races and cock-
was it not the whites fights; and, with the
B. Decrease
and others who were ascendancy which bod-
counted Gentiles? And C. Derivation ily strength acquires in
I ask if all nations with D. Neglect or decray rustic life, was the um-
an
the exception of the pire in all disputes. He

Jews were not counted 197. How does St. Clare was always ready for ei-
heathens. This passage die? ther a fight or a frolic,
exemplifies: A. He drowns but had more mischief
y
A. Jamming and good humor than ill

B. He suffers a heart at- will in his composition.
B. Snaring tack Who is this?
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C. Hortatory sermon C. He is poisoned

A. Cotton Mather
D. Framing D. He is stabbed
B. Diedrich Knicker-
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195. The Puritans who set- 198. The poem ‘Chicago’ is bocker
tled Plymouth Colony written by
were separating Puri- C. Brom Bones
A. Ezra Pound
tans which meant? D. Geoffrey Crayon
B. E.E. Cummings
A. Continue being 201. Some of the move-
apart of the Church C. Carl Sandburg ments that took place in
of England the modernist time pe-
D. Carlos William
B. Reform riod include:
199. But for many minutes
C. Separate from the the heart beat on with A. Transcendentalism,
Church of England a muffled sound. This, Symbolism, and Dark
however, did not vex Romanticism.
194. C 195. C 196. D 197. D 198. C 199. B 200. C 201. B

B. The Harlem Renais- 206. Which definition be- A. A-1941

sance, The Lost Gener- low best defines Tran- B. B-1949
ation, and Confessional scendentalism?
Poetry. C. C-1945
A. Reason
C. There were no D. D-1938
B. Individualism
movements during the 210. This mode of dis-
modernist time period. C. Political thinking, course attempts to con-
er
philosophical, and so- vince someone
D. Symbolism, Natu- cial movement
ralism, and Postmod- A. Persuasion
ernism. D. Deism, skepticism
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B. Prejudice
202. In Saul Bellow’s novel 207. "Your goodness must
C. Promise
Herzog (1964), Moses have some edge to
it—else it is none. The D. Promotion
Herzog is a
doctrine of hatred must 211. In addition to driving
an
A. Christian be preached as the the family coach, what
B. Hindu counteraction of the other responsibility do
doctrine of love when the St. Clare assign Un-
C. Jew that pules and whines." cle Tom?
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D. Afro-American In this work the author A. Tutoring Eva
argues in favour of:
203. The process of passing B. Managing finances
on sayings, songs and A. Communism
C. Helping Dinah cook
tales. B. Revolution
A. Narration C. An independent na-
an
D. Administering
B. History tion of independent in- Marie’s medicine
dividuals 212. The Manitou is a great
C. Persuasion
D. Abolition god in this legend.
D. Oral Tradition
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208. Miniver Cheevy’s A. Gilgamesh

204. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” name satirically hints B. Colba
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was written by at his

C. Odysseus
A. Harriet Beecher A. a minimalist
Stowe achievements in life D. Walum Olum
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213. This Puritan author

B. Edgar Allan Poe wrote about the Salem
B. magnanimous life
C. Arthur Miller witch trials
style
D. Edith Wharton A. Cotton Mather
C. brave approach to
205. This group united 5 life B. Owen Edwards
tribes D. hard work and sen- C. Annie Bradford
A. Iroquois sitivity towards the so- D. Terry Pratchett
ciety 214. Frost’s poem The
B. Sioux
209. when did william Road Not Taken is in-
C. Navajo Faulkner get nobel cluded in his poetical
D. Hopi prize for literature? collection-
202. C 203. D 204. A 205. A 206. C 207. C 208. A 209. B 210. A 211. B
212. D 213. A 214. D
A. A Boy’s Will A. Fredrick Douglass C. Sculptor

B. A Witness Tree B. John Winthrop D. Author
C. North of Boston C. Benjamin Franklin 221. Of the two, reverend
Sir," said the voice
D. Mountain Interval D. William Apess like the deacon’s, "I
215. Which of the follow- 218. During the Revolu- had rather miss an
ing is NOT a feature of
er
tionary time period, ordination-dinner than
the Enlightenment? what great document to-night’s meeting.
A. Reason was written? They tell me that some
of our community are
gd
B. Deism A. The first romance
to be here from Fal-
C. Political novel.
mouth and beyond, and
D. Skepticism B. The Declaration of others from Connecti-
Independence. cut and Rhode-Island;
216. HOWhich of the fol-
an
lowing themes or ideas C. Confessional poetry. besides several of the In-
are closely associated dian powows, who, af-
with the Native Amer- ter their fashion, know
D. The Heiner Papers almost as much devil-
ican way of life?
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219. The hairy wild-bee try as the best of us. A
A. Waste and abuse of that murmurs and han- "powow" in this context
natural resources kers up and down, that is:
B. Immoral behavior gripes the full-grown A. A devil-worshipper
lady-flower, curves
C. Love and respect for B. A boxer
upon her with amorous
family and its elders
an
firm legs, takes his C. An apples-salesman

D. Uncivilized society will of her, and holds
D. A medicine man
217. Having emerg’d from himself tremulous and
the Poverty and Obscu- tight till he is satisfied. . . 222. According to "Hare’s
Adventure", how does
y
rity in which I was born What does tremulous

and bred, to a State mean? he get his "burnt but-
tocks"?
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of Affluence and some

A. Trembling and
Degree of Reputation A. His buttocks was
timid
in the World, and hav- scorched by the sun
ing gone so far thro’ B. Stiff which he had caught in
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Life with a consider- C. Afraid a trap

able Share of Felicity,
D. Contemplating and B. Grandmother
the conducing Means
deciding burned him with a hot
I made use of, which,
poker for being so mis-
with the Blessing of 220. “He will give the chievous
God, so well succeeded, gloom of gloom, and
my Posterity may like the sunshine of sun- C. Hare caught his
to know, as they may shine”. The pronoun own tale on fire trying
find some of them suit- “He” refers to to cook himself some
able to their own Situa- dinner
A. God
tions, and therefore fit D. He was born that
to be imitated. B. Painter way
215. C 216. C 217. C 218. B 219. A 220. B 221. D 222. A 223. A

223. Who wrote Heritage? C. Ishmael me once more, those

stately forms Within
A. Countiee cullen D. Gabrial
my mirror clear "
B. William Faulkner 227. What statement below The author of this work
best sums up the liter- wanted to:
C. T.S. Eliot ary significance of Walt
D. Wallace stevens Whitman? A. Show the beauty of
Native women
er
224. The following extract A. Father of free verse
presents a suitable an- B. Show the beauty of
B. Father of American Ohio women
swer to the hacknied Poetry
gd
argument drawn by C. Protest the treat-
the defender of Slav- C. Circumference
ment of Native Ameri-
ery from the songs of D. Both A and B cans
the Slave, and is also a
228. In what year was D. Raise awareness of
an
good specimen of the
the Fugitive Slave Act women’s part in US his-
powers of observation
passed? tory
and manly heart of the
writer. The word hack- A. 1784 232. It was the very witch-
nied is an old form of
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B. 1841 ing time of night that
the word hackneyed. he, heavyhearted and
What does it mean? C. 1850 crestfallen, pursued his
A. Lacking in freshness D. 1857 travel homeward. Far
and originality 229. What statement below below, the Tappan Zee
best sums up the liter- spread its dusky wa-
B. Saddened
an
ary significance of Ben- ters. In the dead hush of

C. Double meaning jamin Franklin? midnight he could hear
the faint barking of a
D. Blue-eyed A. Mentor to other watchdog from the op-
225. What statement below writers posite shore. The night
y
best sums up the liter- B. Rewrote the autobi- grew darker and darker;
ary significance of Fred- ography the stars seemed to
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erick Douglass? sink deeper in the sky,

C. Self-made and and driving clouds occa-
A. Indian Autobiogra-
D. Both B and C sionally hid them from
phy
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230. This author wrote of his sight. This passage

B. Father of free verse is from:
the Pilgrims’ voyage to
C. Father of American the New World A. A fairy tale
poetry
A. Bradford Nelson B. An autobiography
D. Most popular slave B. William Holden
narrative C. A detective story
C. Nelson Holden D. A Gothic tale
226. Who is the narrator in
Melville’s Moby Dick D. William Bradford 233. Black Boy is an au-
A. Captain Ahab 231. And then the fair tobiographical account
Ohio charg’d Her many of whose Southern boy-
B. Elijah sisters dear, "Show hood?
224. A 225. D 226. C 227. D 228. C 229. D 230. D 231. C 232. D 233. B
A. Thomas 238. About William Brad- C. Titanic

ford
B. Pynchon D. HMS Bounty
A. Wrote the
C. John Dos Passos 242. Themes in modern lit-
Mayflower Compact
D. Saul Bellow agreement erature are:
234. What statement be- B. Founded Jamestown A. pretension
er
low best sums up the
B. nostalgia
literary significance of
C. Wrote about the Ply- C. national identity
Emily Dickinson?
mouth Plantation
gd
A. oversoul D. All the above
D. A and C
B. Slant Rhyme 239. During the Colonial 243. Of what does Good-
C. True Rhyme Time Period, the writ- man Brown become
ing was influenced guilty after his mid-
an
D. All of the above night meeting in the
most by what religious
235. This group of Native persuasion? woods?
Americans left behind A. Atonement
A. The Puritans
a legend about creation
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using pictographs B. The Catholics B. Catharsis
A. Apache C. The Pilgrims C. Gullibility
B. Delaware D. The Anglo Saxons D. Hubris
C. Sioux 240. Bear is supposed to 244. What statement below
be brave, so how does
an
D. Inuit best sums up the liter-

Hare trick him into be- ary significance of Sa-
236. Which of the following afraid? mon Occum?
ing is NOT a feature of A. Hare told him of a
the Indian autobiogra- A. Indian autobiogra-
large beast living near
y
phy genre? phy

Bear’s home.
A. Birth B. Most popular slave
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B. Hare took out his

quiver and showed him narrative
B. Assimilation
four arrows. C. First african ameri-
C. Sovereignty
can to speak to mixed
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C. Hare told thim that

D. Religious in nature the country is full of audience
237. Which statement be- wars. D. None of the aboveE.
low best defined Whit- All of the above
D. Hare threated to kill
man’s idea of Over-
him. 245. Who wrote "Emperor
soul?
241. Name the ship that Ice cream"?
A. Death brought the first Pil-
grims to the New A. Langston Hughes
B. Relationships
World B. William Faulkner
C. American landscape
A. Mayflower C. Wallace stevens
D. Hope B. Santa Maria D. Countee cullen
234. B 235. B 236. C 237. C 238. D 239. A 240. B 241. A 242. D 243. D
244. A 245. C 246. B
246. Who is the narrator to believe, was driven his capacity, with ref-
in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s from the province by erence to the circum-
novel The Great Gatsby the whizzing of a mus- stances by which he
(1925) ket ball - a fourth, in was surrounded. I knew
the opinion of the same him as a courtier, too,
A. Gatsby
historian, was hastened and as a bold intriguant.
B. Nick to his grave by con- Such a man, I consid-
er
C. Buchannan tinual bickerings with ered, could not fail to
the house of representa- be aware of the ordi-
D. None of the above tives - and the remain- nary political modes of
gd
247. The vivid imagery of ing two, as well as their action. Who is speak-
the season is shown to successors, till the Rev- ing?
olution, were favored A. Brown
A. reinforce the with few and brief in-
thoughts of the nar- tervals of peaceful sway. B. Brom Bones
an
rator What is an "insurrec- C. Rip
B. reflect the happen- tion"?
D. Dupin
ings in the life of the A. An act or instance of
narrator 252. "Left the house of the
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beginning subscriber, bounden
C. state the situation of B. An of revolting servant, Hezekiah
the narrator against civil authority Mudge—had on when
D. emphasize the he went away, grey
C. The state of one coat, leather breeches,
choice of the season risen from the dead master’s third best hat.
an
D. The condition of be- One pound currency re-

248. This mode of dis- ward to whoever shall
ing stopped
course presents de- lodge him in any jail in
tails that appeal to the 250. We paused before a
the province." Hezekiah
House that seemed A
y
senses Mudge is a "bounden

Swelling of the Ground
A. Description servant," meaning that
– The Roof was scarcely
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he is bound by contract
B. Metaphor visible – The Cornice –
to be a servant (essen-
in the Ground – What
C. Persuation tially a willing slave)
is Cornice?
for seven years in re-
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D. Narration
A. Cracks in the payment for:
249. The annals of Mas- ground
A. Freedom
sachusetts Bay will in-
form us, that of six B. Decorative molding B. Escape from en-
governors, in the space beneath a roof slavement
of about forty years C. Dust C. Transportation to
from the surrender of the colonies
the old charter, under D. Stolen goods
James II., two were im- 251. I knew him, however, D. Dropping charges
prisoned by a popular as both mathematician for murder
insurrection - a third, and poet, and my mea- 253. How long is Rip asleep
as Hutchinson inclines sures were adapted to in the woods?
247. A 248. A 249. B 250. B 251. D 252. C 253. B

A. Fifty years known, is the paradoxi- A. History of puritans

cal law of all sentiments B. History of slavery
B. Twenty years
having terror as a basis.
C. One hundred years This work exemplifies: C. Transcendentalism
D. Eighty years D. None of the above

A. Unity of effect
261. This term is an elab-
254. We associate William B. Ratiocinactive effect orate comparison be-
er
Bradford with what
tween two different
colonial settlement?
C. Cataleptic effect subjects
A. Plymouth A. Simile
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D. Didactic effect
B. Mayflower compact B. Conceit
C. Massachusetts Bay ing is not an animal C. Sermon
Colony Hare prepared for hu- D. Anomoly
an
D. Rhode Island mans to eat? 262. This mode of dis-
255. ‘Your’ uses an upper A. Bear course is used to ex-
case because plain. (Example: repair
B. Elk manuals)
Ch
A. he wanted it to cre-
C. Horse A. Connotation
ate logic to the capital-
ization of the final E. D. Both A and B B. Constitution
B. he wanted to empha- 258. Walt Whitman’s style C. Convocation
size the ‘Y’ of writing is known as D. Exposition
an
C. the poem demanded A. Experimental 263. The founder of

an upper case Jamestown
B. Expressionistic
D. he places his A. Johnathon Edwards
beloved in an upper C. Lethargic
y
place D. Modernistic B. John Stillwell

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256. I have said that the 259. How does Sam se- C. John Smith
sole effect of my some- cretly alert Eliza to D. John Stelzer
what childish exper- Mr.Haley’s presence
iment—that of look- 264. Postmodern writing
Na
outside the inn? often uses and

ing down within the
tarn—had been to A. Throws a rock as literary de-
deepen the first singu- vices.
B. Shouts about his hat
lar impression. There A. Black humor;
can be no doubt that metafiction.
the consciousness of C. Sneezes loudly
B. Metaphors; verbal
the rapid increase of my
D. Bucks his horse irony.
superstition—for why
should I not so term 260. Hawthorne’s ances- C. Hyperbole; Personi-
it?—served mainly to tors are associated with fication.
accelerate the increase what historical Ameri- D. Symbolism; Im-
itself. Such, I have long can event? agery.
254. A 255. D 256. A 257. C 258. A 259. B 260. A 261. B 262. D 263. C
264. A 265. A
265. Writers in the Roman- D. Man of ordinary sta- 271. She was a blooming
tic time period were tus lass of fresh eighteen,
concerned with: 267. The sweetest music is plump as a partridge,
not in the oratorio, but ripe and melting and
A. Nature as a source
in rosy-cheeked as one of
of secular and spiritual
her father’s peaches,
knowledge, emotion as A. Soulful lyrics
and universally famed,
er
truth, and exploration B. Human voice not merely for her
of the self.
C. Epic beauty, but her vast
B. Scientific explo- expectations. . . . She
D. Lyric
gd
ration. wore ornaments of pure
268. Occom says he was yellow gold to set off
C. Love and romance. discriminated against her charms, and a pro-
D. The philosophy of as a missionary and vokingly short petticoat
minister. What proof to display the prettiest
an
how to run a new coun-
try. does he present to il- foot and ankle in the
lustrate the unfair treat- country round. This is:
266. "Can this be so!" cried ment of Native Ameri-
goodman Brown, with A. Faith
can ministers?
Ch
a stare of amazement at B. Madeline
A. Establishment of pu-
his undisturbed com-
ritans C. Magawisca
panion. Howbeit, I
have nothing to do with B. Establishment of au- D. Katrina
the governor and coun- tobiography 272. About the Delaware
cil - they have their C. Establishment of In-
an
A. Used pictographs to
own ways, and are no dian praying towns explain nature
rule for a simple hus-
bandman, like me. But, D. Establishment of B. Told the story of
were I to go on with self- reliance Wolam Olum
y
thee, how should I meet 269. The Battle of the

C. Settled in Northeast
the eye of that good old Ants is an excerpt
US
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man, our minister, at from

Salem village? Oh, his D. All the above
A. Civil Disobedience
voice would make me 273. is the end of
tremble, both Sabbath- B. Walden fame
Na
day and lecture-day!" C. Herald of Freedom

A. Love
The word "husband- D. Life without princi-
man" usually means B. Pity
ple
farmer, but in this con- C. Misfortune
text it means something 270. A diary of someone’s
else - what? day by day account of D. Death
events 274. I was somewhat un-
A. Rancher manageable when I
A. Journal
B. Male partner in a first went [to Master
B. History
marriage Covey’s], but a few
C. Article months of this disci-
C. Cowboy pline tamed me.
D. Legend
266. D 267. B 268. C 269. B 270. A 271. D 272. D 273. B

I was broken in body, D. an accomplished D. The dead uncle sent

soul, and spirit. My royal an earthquake to pun-
natural elasticity was ish the corn clan for
crushed, my intellect 277. Along the way, good- their wrongdoings
languished, the dispo- man Brown and the
character who seems to 280. The purpose of plac-
sition to read departed,
be the devil meet three ing ‘fallen cold and
the cheerful spark that
dead’ at the end of each
er
lingered about my eye people:
section is to
died; the dark night A. Goody Cloyse,
of slavery closed in Faith, and old goodman A. remind the leader of
gd
upon men, and behold Brown. the tragedy
a man transformed into
B. Goody Cloyse, dea- B. repeat the lines for
a brute!"
con Gookin, and the the rhyming
A. Fredrick Douglass minister. C. keep the readers
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess an C. The minister, old
goodman Brown, and
deacon Gookin.
aware of what is to
come
D. clarify his idea
Ch
275. According to Hare, D. Faith, old good- 281. This term refers to the
what work did the man Brown and deacon "feeling" of a word
Earthmaker send him Gookin.
A. Connotation
to do?
278. The Weary Blues B. Connection
A. To make mischief
A. William Faulkner
an
and cause trouble C. Constitution

B. To trample upon evil B. Carl Sandburg D. Description
beings that were abus- C. Langston Hues 282. is known as the
ing his aunts and uncles
y
‘friendly innkeeper of
D. Sherwood anderson
the town’
C. To play tricks on
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A. Stephen
other animals to prove 279. How was the priest’s
how intelligent he is son’s prayer an- B. Parker J
D. The hare has no pur- swered?
Na
C. Goodman Parker
pose that is why his A. The prayer was not
grandmother must al- D. Stephen J Parker
answered and the peo-
ways watch over him ple continued to live in 283. Which of the follow-
276. Who is addressed as sin ing is NOT among the
“you” in the poem? 13 virtues Franklin
B. The dead uncle sent struggles to master?
A. a romantic achiever a hail storm to destroy
the land A. Temperance
B. a frustrated roman- C. The priest’s son was B. Silence
tic idealist told to set fire to the vil- C. Order
C. an under achiever lage
274. A 275. B 276. B 277. B 278. C 279. D 280. A 281. A 282. C 283. D
284. I took my visitors all A. Commits suicide 291. How many children
over the house. I bade does Uncle Tom have?
B. Devours a heart
them search — search
A. one
well. I led them, at C. Meets the devil
length, to his cham- B. seven
D. Buries someone
ber. I showed them his alive C. five
treasures, secure, undis-
er
turbed. The narrator 287. Whom did the corn D. three
is: clan member pray to for
292. I would not have it
help?
A. Helping Robin to imagined, however,
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search for his uncle A. His dead uncle that he was one of those
B. His dead father cruel potentates of the
B. A detective school, who joy in the
C. Leading the police C. His dead grand- smart of their subjects;
mother
an
to the scene of a crime on the contrary, he ad-
D. His dead grandfa- ministered justice with
D. Helping the police discrimination rather
to look for a letter ther
than severity; taking
288. Which character in the burthen off the
Ch
285. Berryman’s The Ball
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” di- backs of the weak, and
Poem can be cate-
rectly opposes the Fugi- laying it on those of
gorised as a
tive Slave Law? the strong. What is the
A. Confessional poem meaning of the word
A. Senator Bird
B. Metaphorical poem "smart" in this context?
B. Mrs. Bird
an
C. Fragmental poem A. Stupidity

C. St. Clare
D. Delusional poem B. Silliness
D. Haley
286. The now ghastly pal- C. Pain
y
lor of the skin, and the ing is not one of the D. Intelligence
now miraculous lus- 4 part of Puritan Ser- 293. To Whom does
ra
ter of the eye, above mon?

all things startled and Franklin say he is ad-
even awed me. The A. Text dressing his autobiog-
silken hair, too, had raphy part 1?
B. Doctrine
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been suffered to grow A. Himself

all unheeded, and as, in C. Bibliography
its wild gossamer tex- B. Indians
ture, it floated rather C. His son, john
290. Arthur Miller’s Death
than fell about the
of A Salesman was ap- D. His son, William
face, I could not, even
peared in –
with effort, connect its 294. This Puritan author
arabesque expression A. 1945 wrote a persuasive
with any idea of simple speech
B. 1947
humanity. The char-
A. William Bradstreet
acter described in this C. 1949
passage: B. Mather Edwards
D. 1950
284. C 285. A 286. D 287. A 288. B 289. C 290. C 291. D 292. C 293. D
294. D
C. John Williams D. Walt Whitman. A. Emerged as a

D. Johnathan Edwards 297. This governor was re- supreme power among
elected 30 times the European countries
295. It was possible, I re- A. Anne Bradstreet
flected, that a mere dif- B. a huge collection
ferent arrangement of B. Bradford Nelson of paintings and sculp-
er
the particulars of the C. Jonathan Edwards tures
scene, of the details of
D. William Bradford C. the wisest men of
this picture, would be
the time
sufficient to modify, or 298. Which American
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perhaps to annihilate President reportedly D. many scholars and
its capacity for sorrow- referred to Harriet sceptics
ful impression; and, act- Beecher Stowe as “the
ing upon this idea, I little lady who made 302. Thoreau through this
an
reined my horse to the this big war”? essay tries to por-
precipitous brink of a tray. . .
A. George Washington
black and lurid tarn that
A. Transcendentalism
lay in unruffled lustre
Ch
by the dwelling, and B. John Adams B. Imperialism
gazed down - but with
C. Abraham Lincoln C. Socialism
a shudder even more
thrilling than before - D. John. F. Kennedy D. Naturalism
upon the re-modelled 299. We associate
and inverted images of 303. Thoreau places a sense
Nathaniel Hawthrone
an
the gray sedge, and the of Upon the ants

with what literary
ghastly tree-stems, and movement? A. honor and glory
the vacant eye-like win-
dows. What is the A. Nationalism B. meticulous faction
y
meaning of the word B. Transcendentalism

tarn? Veldu eitt: C. responsibility
C. Romanticism
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A. A bird D. revenge and be-

D. Indian Autobiogra- trayal
B. A small mountain
phy
lake 304. In which state is
Na
300. Black English is the Legree’s plantation lo-

C. A wide river
creation of the cated?
D. A high cliff
A. Linguistics Society A. Georgia
296. Thoreau was part of
the Transcendalists, B. Unites States of
B. Florida
which were founded American -English
by C. Black Diaspora As- C. Louisiana
A. Mark Twain. sociation D. Vermont
B. Herman Melville. D. Black Diaspora 305. What did the family
C. Ralph Waldo Emer- 301. By 1600 Holland had do to protect the chil-
son. dren from the uncle?
295. B 296. C 297. D 298. C 299. C 300. D 301. D 302. B 303. A 304. C
305. A
A. They dressed the A. Origin tale C. Overcoming his al-

boys like girls and told coholism
B. Trickster tale
them to behave as girls D. Reuniting Tom with
do C. Hero tale
Aunt Chole
B. They locked the un- D. A fable 313. Who wrote Mending
cle away until the chil- 309. Unmoved – she notes wall?
dren were old enough
er
the Chariots – pausing A. Carl Sanburg
to protect themselves – At her low Gate – Un-
moved – an Emperor B. T.S. Eliot
C. They dressed the
be kneeling Upon her C. E.e cummings
gd
girls like boys and told
them to behave as boys Mat – I’ve known her –
D. Robert Lee Forst
do from an ample nation –
Then – close the Valves 314. "Light in August"
D. They formed a mob of her attention – Like A. T.S. elliot
an
and chased the uncle Stone - What does am-
out of the village ple mean? B. William Faulkner
306. About Anne Brad- A. Menacing C. Langston Hughes
street D. Sherwood anderson
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B. Large or abundant
A. Husband belonged
to the Massachusetts C. Fearful and gracious 315. A language come into
Bay Company existence when
B. Arrived on the D. Beautiful A. there is brutal neces-
Mayflower 310. Who has been teach- sity
an
C. Wrote about her ing Uncle Tom to read? B. there are speakers of
house burning down A. Eliza the language
D. A and C B. George C. ancient elements
y
force to become a lan-

307. gave a hint of C. Haley guage
the rich culture that
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D. Mr.Symmes D. a new language id

was forgotten
311. Pre-colonial theme: discovered
A. The life of the Indi-
ans A. religious stories 316. Which of the follow-
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ing is not a cultural

B. The influence of the B. creation stories myth we attribute to
missionaries in lives of C. A and B those earliest Mas-
the Indians sachusetts colonial set-
D. None of the above tlements at Plymouth
C. Reported speech po-
ems 312. What promise did Au- and Massachusetts?
gustine’s sudden death A. Democracy
D. Narratives captivity prevent him from fulfill-
ing? B. Brother love/charity
308. What type of myth is A. Freeing his slaves
the tale "The Jealous C. US Exceptionalism
Uncle"? B. Relearning to pray
306. D 307. C 308. C 309. B 310. B 311. C 312. A 313. D 314. B 315. A
316. D
317. What statement be- A. Beat to his size 324. As I lay die
low best sums up the A. Sherwood Ander-
B. Beat to his stomach
literary significance of son
Nathaniel Hawthorne? C. Beat to his socks
B. Langston Hugues
A. Popular early D. Beat to his Shoe
nosiest C. William Faulkner
322. Which statement be-
er
B. Romantisum low best defines the D. Robert Lee Frost
C. Scarlett letter genre of Indian autobi- 325. Usher can only stand
ography? types of noises in his
D. All are correct acutely uncomfortable
gd
A. Genre that details
318. Why was the book state. The narrator de-
life exerpeinces of
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” scribes a number of im-
white americans in
written? promptus that Usher
early america and cri-
plays for him on which
an
A. as a pro- slavery ar- tiques american society
instrument?
gument to native americans.
A. The harp
B. the author was a B. Genre that details
runaway slave life exerpeinces of na- B. The guitar
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C. as a view point from tive americas in early C. The ukulele
Canada america and critiques
american society to na- D. The violin
D. as propaganda tive americans. 326. After Hare had de-
against slavery stroyed all the bad ani-
C. Both A and B
319. Who was the first mals what did he decide
an
black woman who win D. None of the above to do next?

the Nobel Prize for Lit- 323. When the prophets A. He decided to pre-
erature ? prophesied, of whom pare some animals for
A. Toni Morrison did they speak? When humans to eat
y
they spoke of heathens,

B. Jane Austin B. He decided to go on
was it not the whites
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his way and start a fam-

C. Ann Petry and others who were
ily of his own
D. Frances Harper counted Gentiles? And
I ask if all nations with C. He decided that
320. All works of the
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the exception of the there were more bad

highest art are meant Jews were not counted animals and set out to
to heathens. The author destroy the rest of them
A. tingle our senses of this passage was:
B. stir our intellect A. A slave D. The tale ended and
the reader is not certain
C. restore our skills for B. A Transcendentalist about what happened
the art
to bear
D. instill in us the C. The son of itinerant 327. The poem by Berry-
sense of the art actors man has a sad and de-
321. The term Beat Genera- D. An indentured ser- pressed tone about it
tion comes from vant and it foreshadows the
317. D 318. D 319. A 320. B 321. C 322. B 323. D 324. C 325. B 326. A
327. B
A. fate of the author or D. Father of American 336. “Gradually light re-

how depressed be was Liteature turns to the street”
332. Who “haunts” the evil means
B. fate and the mindest
of the boy Simon Legree when he A. life resumes to nor-
is drunk? mal routine
C. turn of events of the
ball A. Cassy B. it is day break
er
D. happenings in the B. Eliza
C. streets are bright
poem C. George
D. life is unpredictable
328. This mode of dis-
gd
D. Uncle Tom
course relates a story
333. We associate John 337. Parker’s report to Mar-
A. Fiction Winthrop with what garet is
B. Narration colonial Settlement?
A. straightforward and
an
C. Exposition A. Plymouth
simple
D. Persuasion B. Mayflower compact
B. complex and heart
329. According to the sign C. Massachusetts Bay wrenching
Ch
in the Kentucky Inn, Colony
what is branded to C. simple and heart-
D. Rhode Island warming
George’s right hand?
334. What event provides
A. The letter S D. painful and disgust-
the motivation for
ingly low
B. The Letter H Shelby to release all
the slaves? 338. Bret Harte’s "The Out-
an
C. A hexagon
casts of Poker Flat" took
A. Tom’s death
D. The number 314 place in
330. The pervading B. Eliza’s escape
A. The Rocky Moun-
metaphor in the story
y
C. Tom’s daughter’s tains.

is wedding
B. The Appalachian
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A. a clean well-lighted D. Tom saving Eva Mountains.

place 335. Thoreau scales hu-
C. The Sierra Nevada
B. the old waiter mans down to the size
Mountains.
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of ants in order to
C. the old man
A. examine the aggres- D. The Sierra Madre
D. liquor Mountains.
sive, dominating and
331. What statement be- stupid nature of human 339. What is Augustine St.
low best sums up the warfare Clare’s selfish wife’s
literary significance of
B. create a very vivid name?
Thoreau?
and impressive picture A. Marie
A. Father of Free verse
C. shows his real inten- B. Eliza
B. Father of american tions in writing
poetry C. Rachel
D. portray humans al-
C. Self-reliance legorically D. Ophelia
328. B 329. D 330. A 331. C 332. A 333. C 334. A 335. A 336. A 337. C
338. C 339. A
340. As a boy, Frederick B. Oxymoron C. be simple and plain

Douglass witnesses a
C. Simile D. not dazzle
scene that mortifies
him and brings him D. Irony 344. Which of the follow-
face to face for the first 342. Whitman uses line ing is NOT considered a
time with the horrors length and word choice write for the Transcen-
of slavery. What is it? to represent dentalism Movement?
er
A. Seeing his mother A. a wide range of emo- A. Emerson
die tion from joy to sorrow
B. Hawthrone
B. Watching a slave get
gd
beaten to death B. His style of writing C. Thoreau
C. Watching his aunt C. the joyous moment D. Stewart
get whipped
D. a feeling of excite- 345. Who wrote "The
an
D. Watching his dad ment waste land"?
beat his mother
343. ‘Picture must not be A. Langston Hues
341. “He glanced with
too picturesque’. Emer-
rapid eyes. . . they B. William Faulkner
son here means pic-
Ch
looked like frightened
tures must C. Wallace Stevens
beads”. The figure of
speech used here is A. not be too scenic D. T.S. Elliot
A. Metahor B. capture our soul
340. C 341. C 342. A 343. D 344. B 345. D

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3.2 True and false

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1. William Faulkner was historical people with A. True

born in New Orleans fictional characters.
B. False
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A. True A. True
6. At the beginning of
B. False B. False the period of 1820-1865
4. John Steinbeck’s The fiction was still seen
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2. Peter Van der Donk was as a threat, likely to

Pearl was originally a
a real New Netherlands inflame the imagina-
folk tale.
historian. tion and passion of sus-
A. True ceptible young readers,
A. True
B. False in particular of young
B. False women.
5. William Carlos
3. Sir Walter Scott had Williams wrote the A. True
an immense impact poem "The Red Wheel-
on American literature barrow" which, like B. False
with his historical nov- T.S. Eliot’s poetry, con- 7. Mark Twain’s real
els cast in historical tained complex images name was Samuel
settings, intermingling and allusions. Clemens.
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. A
A. True 12. John Steinbeck worked A. True

for a while as a farm la-
B. False B. False
borer. His experiences
8. Emerson influenced showed him how to sur- 18. Whitman’s favorite
Friedrich Nietzsche. vive and gave him ma- verse form was the com-
terial for his later writ- mon meter.
A. True ings like The Grapes of
A. True
er
B. False Wrath.
B. False
9. Transcendentalism was A. True
embraced in the late B. False 19. Near the end of The
gd
1830s and 1840s by all Pearl, the little child,
13. Wolfe stole money from
the mainstream news- Coyotito, drowns in the
Kirby?
papers and magazines. river.
A. True
A. True
an
A. True
B. False
B. False
B. False 14. Emerson encouraged
people to learn from the 20. Although Steinbeck
10. John Saffin supported
great people of the past wrote about people
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the institution of slav-
who gave their name to from California, he him-
ery in colonial Mas-
whole periods. self was born and lived
sachusetts
in New York City.
A. True
A. True
B. False A. True
B. False 15. The Sketch Book is an B. False
an
11. He had already lost the example of the personal

21. He now suspected that
strength and instinct travel book, a genre
the great roysters of
vigor of a man, his that became popular in
the mountain had put
muscles were thin, his American literature.
a trick upon him, and
y
nerves weak, his face A. True having dosed him with

(a meek, woman’s face) liquor, had robbed him
ra
B. False
haggard, yellow with of his gun. Wolf, too,
consumption. In the 16. "The Scarlet Letter" per-
had disappeared, but
mill he was know as fectly reflected tran-
he might have strayed
one of the girl-men: scendentalist themes of
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away after a squirrel or

"Molly Wolfe" was his mystery,fright, and the
partridge. The word
sobriquet. He was occult.
"roysters" means "roost-
never seen in the cock- A. True ers."
pit, did not own a ter-
B. False A. True
rier, drank but seldom;
when he did, desper- 17. Many writers turned
B. False
ately. The word "so- editors of magazines
briquet" means "nick- or newspapers in order 22. "Mingled with fine
name". to see their work pub- wheat and the fat of
lished. Washington Irv- a new-born babe," said
A. True ing was one of those the shape of old good-
B. False writers. man Brown. "Ah, your
9. B 10. A 11. A 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. A 16. B 17. A 18. B 19. B 20. A
21. B
worship knows the re- wild land, and shingle 29. The poetry of T.S.Eliot
ceipt," cried the old lady, palaces in the wilder- is an example of Mod-
cackling aloud. "So, ness. The word "tene- ernism.
as I was saying, be- ment" is another word
A. True
ing all ready for the for "residence."
meeting, and no horse B. False
A. True
to ride on, I made up 30. The Pearl takes place in
er
my mind to foot it; for B. False rural South America.
they tell me, there is 24. The novel The Pearl
a nice young man to A. True
contains much "sym-
gd
be taken into commu- bolism," which is us- B. False
nion to-night. But now ing people, places, and 31. It was possible, I re-
your good worship will things that represent flected, that a mere dif-
lend me your arm, and ideas larger than their ferent arrangement of
we shall be there in a
an
literal meaning. the particulars of the
twinkling." The word
A. True scene, of the details of
"receipt" in this context
this picture, would be
means "a written ac- B. False sufficient to modify, or
knowledgment of hav-
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25. Fiction had become perhaps to annihilate
ing received a specified
more popular and pres- its capacity for sorrow-
amount of money or
tigious than poetry in ful impression; and, act-
goods."
1820-1865. ing upon this idea, I
A. True reined my horse to the
A. True
precipitous brink of a
B. False
an
B. False black and lurid tarn that

23. As the enraptured Ich- 26. The Southern States lay in unruffled lustre
abod fancied all this, were the center for by the dwelling, and
and as he rolled his printing and publish- gazed down-but with
y
great green eyes over ing. a shudder even more

the fat meadow lands, thrilling than before-
A. True upon the re-modelled
ra
the rich fields of wheat,

of rye, of buckwheat, B. False and inverted images of
and Indian corn, and the gray sedge, and the
27. Transcendentalists
the orchards burthened ghastly tree-stems, and
were in favor of the
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with ruddy fruit, which the vacant eye-like win-

conservative Protestant
surrounded the warm dows. "Sedge" is a
scrutiny practiced by
tenement of Van Tas- plant.
publicists nationwide.
sel, his heart yearned A. True
after the damsel who A. True
was to inherit these do- B. False
B. False
mains, and his imagina- 32. Well into the middle of
28. Emerson believed that
tion expanded with the the 19th century boys
people should not strive
idea, how they might be and girls alike were
to fit in.
readily turned into cash, protected from sexually
and the money invested A. True frank classics written in
in immense tracts of B. False Greek and Latin.
22. B 23. A 24. A 25. B 26. B 27. B 29. A 30. A 31. A 32. B
A. True 37. The romantic move- A. Revolution with

B. False ment in early war
nineteenth-century lit-
33. Samuel Sewall was a B. Peaceable revolu-
erature was a reaction
leading supporter of tion
against the Age of Rea-
slavery in colonial Mas- son. 40. In The Pearl, what
sachusetts. starts off as a great
A. True
er
A. True opportunity later be-
B. False come nothing but sad-
B. False
ness and destruction.
34. He had seen his people 38. "True;" said Dupin, af-
gd
slaughtered, or driven ter a long and thought- A. True
from their homes and ful whiff from his meer- B. False
hunting-grounds, into schaum, "although I
shameful exile; his wife have been guilty of cer- 41. In general, before 1830
an
had died in captivity, tain doggerel myself." American painting was
and his children lived The word "doggerel" less obviously imitative
in servile dependence means to bark like a of European styles than
in the house of his ene- dog. was American litera-
ture.
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mies. The author of this A. True
work wanted to raise A. True
awareness of women’s B. False
part in US history. B. False
39. Cast your whole vote,
A. True not a strip of paper 42. The final writing as-
merely, but your whole signment in this class
an
B. False was on each student’s

influence. A minority is
35. Nathanial Hawthorne powerless while it con- favorite author.
was America’s lead- forms to the majority; A. True
ing transcendentalist it is not even a minor-
y
thinker. ity then; but it is irre- B. False

A. True sistible when it clogs by 43. Henry David Thoreau
ra
B. False its whole weight. If the believed that the Mex-

alternative is to keep all ican War was immoral
36. Among the many jobs just men in prison, or because it advanced the
Mark Twain had, he
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give up war and slavery, cause of slavery.

was a riverboat cap- the State will not hesi-
tain. A. True
tate which to choose. In
A. True this work the author ar- B. False
B. False gues in favour of
33. B 34. A 35. B 36. A 37. A 38. B 39. B 40. A 41. A 42. A 43. A
3.3 Single answer

1. The limpid liquid her silver spoons, and Answer: Norman

within the young man, that it did not know Mailer
The vexed corrosion, so its friends from its foes, 8. Two together! Winds
pensive and so painful, and I lost all my remain- blow south, or winds
The torment–the irrat- ing respect for it. Write blow north, Day come
able tide that will not the title of this work, white, or night come
be at rest, The like of correctly spelled: black Home, or rivers
er
the same I feel–the like Answer: Resistance to and mountains from
of the same in others, Civil Government home, Singing all time,
The young man that 5. She looked upward minding no time, While
gd
flushes and flushes, and with an intent gaze, as we two keep together
the young woman that if she held communion Write the title of this
flushes and flushes The with an invisible being. work, correctly spelled:
young man that wakes, "Spirit of my mother!" Answer: Out of the
deep at night, the hot
an
burst from her lips. Oh! Cradle Endlessly Rock-
hand seeking to repress that I could follow the ing
what would master him. to that blessed land
Write the title of this 9. To Jerusalem and Back
where I should no more Answer: Saul Bellow
work, correctly spelled: dread the war-cry, nor
Ch
Answer: Spontaneous the death-knife!" Write 10. Their Eyes Were Watch-
Me the title of this work, ing God
2. The catalyst for Wolfe’s correctly spelled: Answer: Zora Neale
downfall is Answer: Hope Leslie Hurston
Answer: Dr. May 6. They have tears to 11. Cup of Gold
an
3. Since then – ’tis Cen- shed over Greece and Answer: John Stein-
turies – and yet Feels Poland; they have an beck
shorter than the Day abundance of sympathy 12. The American Demo-
I first surmised the for "poor Ireland"; they crat
y
Horses’ Heads Were can furnish a ship of Answer: James Cooper

toward Eternity Write war to convey the Hun-
the title of this work, garian refugee from a
ra
13. But at last you may

correctly spelled: Turkish prison to the
think I am what is
Answer: Because I "land of the free and
called a hard and un-
could not stop for home of the brave."
charitable man. But
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Death They boast that Amer-

not so. I believe there
4. As they could not reach ica is the "cradle of lib-
are many who would
me, they had resolved erty"; if it is, I fear they
not hesitate to advocate
to punish my body; have rocked the child
our cause; and those
just as boys, if they to death. Write the title
too who are men of
cannot come at some of this work, correctly
fame and respectabil-
persons against whom spelled:
ity—as well as ladies of
they have a spite, will Answer: Clotel; or,
honor and virtue. Write
abuse his dog. I saw The President’s Daugh-
the author’s full name,
that the State was half- ter
correctly spelled:
witted, that it was timid 7. Why Are We in Viet- Answer: William
as a lone woman with nam? Apess
14. Maud Martha Answer: William Sty- frequent although tran-

Answer: Gwen Brooks ron sient affections of a par-
tially cataleptical char-
19. Who wrote "The
acter, were the usual di-
15. "Full of these ideas, I Heights of Macchu Pic-
agnosis. Write the title
prepared myself with chu?"
of this work, correctly
a pair of green specta- Answer: Pablo Neruda
spelled:
cles, and called one fine
er
Answer: The Fall of
morning, quite by acci-
20. "His lynx eye imme- the House of Usher
dent, at the Ministerial
diately perceives the
hotel. I found D—— at 23. He seldom has to listen
paper, recognizes the
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home, yawning, loung- to lectures on propriety
handwriting of the ad-
ing, and dawdling, as of behavior, or an any-
dress, observes the con-
usual, and pretending thing else. He is never
fusion of the personage
to be in the last extrem- chided for handling his
addressed, and fath-
an
ity of ennui. He is, per- little knife and fork im-
oms her secret. After
haps, the most really properly or awkwardly,
some business transac-
energetic human being for he uses none. He
tion, hurried through
now alive—but that is is never reprimanded
in his ordinary man-
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only when nobody sees for soiling the table-
ner, he produces a let-
him." Write the author’s cloth, for he takes his
ter somewhat similar
name in full, correctly meals on the clay floor.
to the one in question,
spelled: He never has the mis-
opens it, pretends to
Answer: Edgar Allan fortune, in his games
read it, and then places
Poe or sports, of soiling or
it in close juxtaposi-
an
16. Satan in Goray tion to the other. Again tearing his clothes, for
Answer: Isaac Singer he converses, for some he has almost none to
fifteen minutes, upon soil or tear. Write the
17. The order of civilization author’s name in full,
the public affairs. At
is reversed here. The
y
length, in taking leave, correctly spelled:

name of the child is not Answer: Frederick
he takes also from the
expected to be that if
ra
table the letter to which Douglass

its father, and his con-
he had no claim." Write 24. The Fall of America: Po-
dition does not neces-
the title of this work, ems of These States
sarily affect that of the
correctly spelled:
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child. He may be the Answer: Allen Gins-

Answer: The Pur- burg
slave of Mr. Tilgman;
loined Letter
and his child, when
25. The Progress of Love
born, may be the slave 21. Three Lives
Answer: Alice Munro
of Mr. Gross. He may Answer: Gertrude
be a freeman; and his Stein 26. Black Magic
child may be a chattel. Answer: Amiri Baraka
22. The disease of the lady
Write the title of this
[ ] had long baffled
work, correctly spelled:
the skill of her physi- 27. The Strange Case of
Answer: My Bondage
cians. A settled apa- Miss Annie Spragg
and My Freedom
thy, a gradual wasting Answer: Louis Brom-
18. Lie Down in Darkness away of the person, and field
28. Rolling Stones of one after another as The cone-roof’d cab-

Answer: O. Henry I happen to call them ins fell. . . " Write full
29. Not one of all the pur- to me or think of them, name of author, cor-
ple Host Who took the The real poems, (what rectly spelled:
Flag to-day Can tell the we can call poems be- Answer: Lydia
definition, So clear, of ing merely pictures,)* Howard Huntley
victory.. Write the au- The poems of the pri- Sigourney
er
thor’s name in full, cor- vacy of the night, and 40. Her good luck was ow-
rectly spelled: of men like me, This ing to the exceeding
Answer: Emily Dickin- poem drooping shy and care which she took in
gd
son unseen that I always preventing the succu-
carry, and that all men lent root from getting
30. Rocket Ship Galileo carry, (Know once for bruised in the digging,
Answer: Robert Hein- all, avow’d on purpose, and in placing it beyond
lein wherever are men like
an
the reach of frost, by
31. The Pump House Gang me, are our lusty lurk- actually burying it un-
Answer: Tom Wolfe ing masculine poems,) der the hearth of her
32. "A blight came down, Write the title of this cabin during the winter
work, correctly spelled: months. What does suc-
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a blast swept by, The
cone-roof’d cabins fell, Answer: Spontaneous culent mean?
And where that exil’d Me Answer: Juicy
people fled, It is not 37. Begorra! On the spools. 41. of Sor
ours to tell." Write the Alleys behint, though Juana Ines de la Cruz
title of this work, cor- we helped her, we Answer: a woman of
dud. An wid ye! Let
an
rectly spelled: genius: the intellectual

Answer: Our Aborig- Deb alone! It’s onda- biography
ines cent frettin’ a quite
42. The shriek, I said, was
body. Be the powes,
33. One Writer’s Begin- my own in a dream.
an’we’ll have a night of
y
nings The old man, I men-

it! There’ll be lashin’s
Answer: Eudora Welty tioned, was absent in
ódrink, - the Vargent
ra
the country. I took

be blessed and praised
34. The Soul selects her my visitors all over the
for it! What does this
own Society - Then – house. I bade them
Welsh worker mean by
search—search well. I
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shuts the Door – To Vargent?

her divine Majority - led them, at length,
Answer: The virgin
Present no more Write to his chamber. I
Mary
the title of this work, showed them his trea-
38. The Winthrop sures, secure, undis-
correctly spelled:
Covenant turbed. In the enthusi-
Answer: The Soul se-
Answer: Louis Auch- asm of my confidence, I
lects her own Society
incloss brought chairs into the
35. The Neon Wilderness 39. "They rear’d their room, and desired them
Answer: Nelson Al- dwellings on our side, here to rest from their
gren Their corn upon our fatigues Write the
36. Beautiful dripping frag- breast; A blight came title of this work, cor-
ments, the negligent list down, a blast swept by, rectly spelled:
Answer: The Tell-Tale 45. Azul was written by 51. How to Write Short Sto-
Heart Answer: Ruben Dario ries
46. The great chastity of Answer: Ring Lardner
43. In truth, all through the
haunted forest, there paternity, to match 52. Nine Stories
could be nothing more the great chastity of Answer: J. D. Salinger
frightful than the fig- maternity, The oath
of procreation I have 53. The inconsistencies of
er
ure of On he flew, Slaveholding profes-
among the black pines, sworn, my Adamic and
fresh daughters, The sors of religion cry to
brandishing his staff Heaven. We are not
with frenzied gestures, greed that eats me day
gd
and night with hun- disposed to detest, or
now giving vent to an refuse communion with
inspiration of horrid gry gnaw, till I satu-
rate what shall produce them. Their blindness
blasphemy, and now is but one form of that
shouting forth such boys to fill my place
prevalent fallacy which
an
laughter, as set all the when I am through,
The wholesome relief, substitutes a creed for
echoes of the forest a faith, a ritual for a life.
echoing like demons repose, content, And
this bunch pluck’d at Write the title of this
around him. Write the work, correctly spelled:
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title of this work, cor- random from myself, It
has done its work – I Answer: Review of
rectly spelled: Narrative of the Life of
Answer: Young Good- toss it carelessly to fall
where it may. Write Frederick Douglass, An
man Brown American Slave
the title of this work,
44. The night in prison was correctly spelled: 54. Here the fugitive saw
an
novel and interesting Answer: Spontaneous nothing but slaves

enough. The prison- Me brought in and taken
ers in their shirtsleeves 47. Hopskotch is by out, to be placed in
were enjoying a chat Answer: Julio Cortazar ships and sent away to
y
and the evening air in the same part of the

the doorway, when I country to which she
entered. But the jailer 48. Flor Y Canto is by the
ra
herself would soon be

said, "Come, boys, it Answer: aztecs compelled to go. She
is time to lock up"; 49. The Princess Casamas- had seen or heard noth-
and so they dispersed, sima ing of her daughter
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and I heard the sound Answer: Henry James while in Richmond, and
of their steps returning all hopes of seeing her
50. That bond-woman’s
into the hollow apart- now had fled. If she was
corse, - let Potomac’s
ments. My room-mate carried back to New
proud wave Go bear if
was introduced to me Orleans, she could ex-
along by our Washing-
by the jailar as "a first- pect no mercy from her
ton’s grave, And heave
rate fellow and clever master. Write the title
it high up on that hal-
man." Write the au- of this work, correctly
lowed strand, To tell of
thor’s name in full, cor- spelled:
the freedom he won for
rectly spelled: Answer: Clotel; or,
our land. What does
Answer: Henry David The President’s Daugh-
hallowed mean?
Thoreau ter
Answer: Sacred
55. Fanny seemed to be that of Answer: Spontaneous

Answer: Erica Jong an excessive antiquity. Me
56. A free, firm step, a clear- The discoloration of
62. Uncle Tom’s Children
cut olive face, with a ages had been great.
Answer: Richard
scarlet turban tied on Minute fungi over-
Wright
one side, dark, shining spread the whole ex-
eyes, and on the head terior, hanging in a fine 63. Seize the Day
er
the basket poised, filled tangled webwork from Answer: Saul Bellow
with fruit and flowers, the eaves. Yet all of 64. He had stepped aside
under which the scar- this was apart from any where the light fell
gd
let turban and bright extraordinary dilapida- boldest on the figure,
eyes looked out half- tion. Write the author’s looking at it in silence.
shadowed. The pic- name in full, correctly There was not one line
ture caught his eye. It spelled: of beauty or grace in it:
Answer: Edgar Allan
an
was good to see a face a nude woman’s form,
like that. He would Poe muscular, grown coarse
try to-morrow, and cut 59. Name an author whose with labor, the power-
one like it. To-morrow! grandmother was ful limbs instinct with
He threw down the tin, thought to have the some one poignant
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trembling and covered magical powers of a longing. One idea:
his face with his hands. witch? there it was in the
When he looked up Answer: Frederick tense, rigid muscles,
again, the daylight was Douglass the clutching hands,
gone. Write the title 60. The House of Dust: A the wild, eager face,
an
Symphony like that of a starving

spelled: Answer: Conrad wolf’s Write the au-
Answer: Life in the Aiken thor’s name in full, cor-
Iron-Mills rectly spelled:
61. Two sleepers at night
Rebecca
y
57. The continence of veg- lying close together as

Answer:
etables, birds, animals, Harding Davis
they sleep, one with
The consequent mean-
ra
an arm slanting down 65. The pulse pounding

ness of me should I across and below the through palms an tre-
skulk or find myself waist of the other, The bling encircling fin-
indecent, while birds smell of apples, aro- ger, the young man all
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and animals never once mas from crush’d sage- color’d, red, ashamed,
skulk or find them- plant, mint, birch-bark, angry; The souse upon
selves indecent. The The boy’s longings, the me of lover the sea,
great chastity of pa- glow and pressure as as I lie willing and
ternity, to match the he confides to me what naked. The merriment
great chastity of mater- he wad dreaming, The of the twin babies that
nity. Write the author’s dead leaf whirling its crawl over the grass
name in full, correctly spiral whirl and falling in the sun, the mother
spelled: still and content to the never turning her vigi-
Answer: Walt Whit- ground, Write the title lant eyes from them. . .
man of this work, correctly What does souse mean
58. Its principle feature spelled: in this context?
Answer: Drenching in for motives and influ- man Brown

water ences. Upon the sub- 71. The experience
ject of Religion; he through which I was
66. Vineland
speaks with great force, passing, they had
Answer: Thomas Pyn-
and not more than our passed through be-
chon
own sympathies can re- fore. They had already
67. He seldom has to listen spond to. Write the title been initiated into the
er
to lectures on propriety of this work, correctly mysteries of old mas-
of behavior, or on any- spelled: ter’s domicile, and they
thing else. He is never Answer: Review of seemed to look upon
chided for handling his
gd
Narrative of the Life of me with a certain de-
little knife and fork im- Frederick Douglass, An gree of compassion; but
properly or awkwardly, American Slave my heart clave to my
for he uses none. He is
70. A stern, a sad, a darkly grandmother. Think it
never reprimanded for
an
meditative, a distrust- not strange, dear reader,
soiling the table-cloth,
ful, if not a desper- that so little sympathy
for he takes his meals
ate man, did he be- of feeling existed be-
on the clay floor. He
come, from the night of tween us. Write the
never has the misfor-
author’s name in full,
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tune, in his games or that fearful dream. On
the Sabbath-day, when correctly spelled:
sports, of soiling or tear-
the congregation were Answer: Frederick
ing his clothes, for he
singing a holy psalm, Douglass
has almost none to soil
or tear. Write the title he could not listen, be- 72. A Choice of Enemies
of this work, correctly cause an anthem of sin Answer: Mordecai
an
spelled: rushed loudly upon his Richler

Answer: My Bondage ear, and drowned all the 73. She crept into a corner
and My Freedom blessed strain. When of the cell, and stood
the minister spoke from watching him. He was
68. it conveyed to my mind
y
the pulpit, with power scratching the iron bars

in a sense of my en-
and fervid eloquence, of the window with a
tire dependence on the
ra
and, with his hand on piece of tin which he

will of somebody I had
the open bible, of the sa- had picked up, with an
never seen; and, from
cred truths of our reli- idle, uncertain, vacant
some cause or other, I
gion, and of saint-like stare, just as a child or
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had been made to fear

lives and triumphant idiot would do. Write
this somebody above all
deaths, and of future the title of this work,
else on earth. Write the
bliss or misery unut- correctly spelled:
title of this work, cor-
terable, then did [he] Answer: Life in the
rectly spelled:
turn pale, dreading, lest Iron-Mills
Answer: My Bondage
the roof should thun- 74. We slowly drove - He
and My Freedom
der down upon the knew no haste And I
69. We feel that his view, gray blasphemer and had put away My labor
even of those who have his hearers Write and my leisure too, For
injured him most, may the title of this work, his Civility - What does
be relied upon. He correctly spelled: leisure mean?
knows how to allow Answer: Young Good- Answer: Pastime
75. We passed the school door!" Write the title don’t believe one half
where children strove of this work, correctly of it myself." Write the
At recess – in the ring spelled: title of this work, cor-
- We passed the Fields Answer: The Fall of rectly spelled:
of Gazing Grain - We the House of Usher Answer: The Legend
passed the setting Sun 79. Fantastic Voyage of Sleepy Hollow
- Write the title of this Answer: Isaac Asimov 86. Jose hernandez wrote:
er
Answer: the departure
Answer: Because I
80. The Cat Who Walks of martin fierro
could not stop for
Through Walls 87. The dominant spirit,
gd
Death
Answer: Robert Hein- however, that haunts
76. Black Rock: A Tale of
lein this enchanted re-
the Selkirks
Answer: Ralph Con- 81. A Wonder Book for gion, and seems to be
commander-in-chief of
an
nor Boys and Girls
Answer: Nathaniel all the powers of the
77. The young man that air, is the apparition
wakes deep at night, Hawthorne
of a figure on horse-
the hot hand seeking 82. Grendel back, without a head.
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to repress what would Answer: John Gardner It is said by some to be
master him, The mys- the ghost of a Hessian
tic amorous night, the trooper, whose head
83. Following the Equator
strange half-welcome had been carried away
Answer: Mark Twain
pangs, visions, sweats, by a cannon-ball, in
The pulse pounding 84. A Mixture of Frailties
some nameless battle
an
through palms and Answer: Robertson

during the Revolution-
trembling encircling Davies
ary War, and who is
fingers, the young 85. The cautious old gentle- ever and anon seen
man all color’d, red, man knit his brows ten- by the country folk
y
ashamed, angry; Write fold closer after this ex- hurrying along in the
the title of this work, planation, being sorely gloom of night, as if
correctly spelled:
ra
puzzled by the ratioci- on the wings of the

Answer: Spontaneous nation of the syllogism; wind. Write the au-
Me while methought the thor’s name in full, cor-
78. "Have I not heard her one in pepper and salt rectly spelled:
Na
footsteps on the stair? eyed him with some- Answer: Washington

Do I not distinguish thing of a triumphant Irving
that heavy and horri- leer. At length he ob-
88. Name the author who
ble beating of her heart? served, that all this was
called attention to
Madman!" —here he very well, but still he
"white slavery" in the
sprung violently to his thought the story a lit-
US.
feet, and shrieked out tle extravagant – there
Answer: Rebecca
his syllables, as if in the were one or two points
Harding Davis
effort he were giving on which he had his
up his soul—"Madman! doubts. "Faith, sir," 89. The souse upon me of
I tell you that she replied the story-teller, my lover the sea, as
now stands without the "as to that matter, I I lie and naked, The
merriment of the twin 96. Jorge Luis Borges wrote Answer: Robertson
babes that crawl over Davies
the grass in the sun, the Answer: Ficciones
101. She was a dainty lit-
mother never turning
97. Beloved tle figure with a white
her vigilant eyes from
Answer: Toni Morri- neck, round arms, and
them. Write the au-
son a slender waist, at the
thor’s name in full, cor-
er
98. That it was affirmed extremity of which her
rectly spelled:
that the great Hendrick scarlet petticoat jutted
Answer: Walt Whit-
Hudson, the first dis- out over a hoop, as if
man
coverer of the river and she were standing in
gd
90. The Cave country, kept a kind of a balloon. Moreover,
Answer: Robert Penn vigil there every twenty her face was oval and
Warren years, with his crew of pretty, her hair dark
the Half-moon, being beneath the little cap,
an
91. Isabel Allende wrote: and her bright eyes pos-
Answer: house of the permitted in this way
to revisit the scenes sessed a sly freedom,
spirits which triumphed over
of his enterprise, and
92. The Painted Bird keep a guardian eye those of Write the
Ch
Answer: Jerzy Kosin- upon the river, and the title of this work, cor-
ski great city called by his rectly spelled:
name. Write the au- Answer: My Kinsman,
93. A man, yet by these Major Molineux
tears a little boy again,
rectly spelled: 102. Born for another’s
Throwing myself on the
Answer: Washington benefit, as the firstling
an
sand, confronting the

Irving of the cabin flock I was
waves, I, chanter of
pains and joys, uniter of 99. Considered merely as soon to be selected as
here and hereafter, Tak- a narrative, we have a meet offering to the
ing all hints to use them, never read one more fearful and inexorable
y
but swiftly leaping be- simple, true, coherent, demigod, whose huge
yond them, A reminis- and warm with genuine image on so many oc-
ra
cence sing. Write the feeling. It is an excel- casions haunted my

author’s name in full, lent piece of writing, childhood’s imagina-
correctly spelled: and on that score to be tion Write the title of
Na
Answer: Walt Whit- prized as a specimen this work, correctly

man of the powers of the spelled:
Black Race, which Prej- Answer: My Bondage
94. Which author was a udice persists in disput- and My Freedom
recluse? ing. We prize highly
Answer: Emily Dickin- 103. We wish that every
all evidence of this kind,
son one may read his book
and it is becoming more
and see what a mind
95. Name the first author abundant. What does
might have been sti-
who wrote the first coherent mean?
fled in bondage, - what
African American play? Answer: Clear and un-
a man may be sub-
William derstandable
Answer: jected to the insults
Wells Brown 100. Fifth Business of spendthrift dandies,
or the blows of merce- Answer: Robertson - made the whole real

nary brutes, in whom Davies to him. He was done
there is no whiteness 106. When school hours with the world and the
except of the skin, no were over, he was even business of it. Write
humanity except in the the companion and the title of this work,
outward form, and of playmate of the larger correctly spelled:
whom the Avenger will boys; and on holiday Answer: Life in the
er
not fail yet to demand – afternoons would con- Iron Mills
"Where is thy brother?" voy some of the smaller 109. Through this unjust
Write the title of this ones home, who hap- and oppressive law,
gd
work, correctly spelled: pened to have pretty many persons born in
Answer: Review of sisters, or good house- the Free States have bee
Narrative of the Life of wives for mothers, consigned to a life of
Frederick Douglass, An noted for the comforts slavery on the cotton,
American Slave
an
of the cupboard. In- sugar, or rice planta-
104. He was an elderly deed, it behooved him tions of the Southern
man, of large and to keep on good terms States. Write the au-
majestic person, and with his pupils. Write thor’s name in full, cor-
the title of this work, rectly spelled:
Ch
strong, square features,
betokening a steady correctly spelled: Answer: William
soul; but steady as it Answer: The Legend Wells Brown
was, his enemies had of Sleepy Hollow 110. My own songs awaked
found means to shake 107. Name a work form from that hour, And
it. His face was pale this period that alludes with them the key,
an
as death, and far more to Emerson? the word up from the

ghastly; the broad fore- Answer: Life in the waves, The word of the
head was contracted in Iron-Mills sweetest song and all
his agony, so that his 108. It was market-day. songs, That strong and
eyebrows formed one
y
The narrow window delicious word which,

grizzled line; his eyes of the jail looked down creeping to my feet, (Or
were red and wild, and like some old crone
ra
directly on the carts

the foam hung white and the wagons drawn rocking the cradle,
upon his quivering up in a long line, where swathed in sweet gar-
lip. His whole frame they had unloaded. He ments, bending aside)
Na
was agitated by a quick could see, too, and hear The sea whisper’d me.
and continual tremor, distinctly the clink of Write the title of this
which his pride strove money as it changed work, correctly spelled:
to quell, even in those hands, the busy crowds Answer: Out of the
circumstances of over- of whites and blacks Cradle Endlessly Rock-
whelming humiliation. shoving, pushing one ing
Write the author’s full another, and the chaf- 111. Cast your whole vote,
name, correctly spelled: fering and swearing not a strip of paper
Answer: Nathaniel at the stalls. Some- merely, but your whole
Hawthorne Discuss this how, the sound, more influence. A minority is
Question than anything else had powerless while it con-
105. The Rebel Angels done, wakened him up, forms to the majority;
it is not even a minor- nature, and none but caution you that this
ity then; but it is irre- he knows what that is is an affair demanding
sistible when it clogs by which he can do nor the greatest secrecy,
its whole weight. If the does he know until he and that I should most
alternative is to keep all has tried. Write the title probably lose the posi-
men in prison, or give of this work, correctly tion I now hold, were it
up war and slavery, the spelled: known that I confided
er
State will not hesitate Answer: Self-Reliance it to any one." Write the
which to choose. Write 118. Lost in the Funhouse title of this work, cor-
the author’s name in Answer: John Barth rectly spelled:
gd
full, correctly spelled: Answer: The Pur-
Answer: Henry David 119. The Story of a Novel loined Letter
Thoreau Answer: Tom Wolfe
123. I was astounded. The
112. Another Country 120. Any free coloured per-
Perfect appeared abso-
sons visiting Washing-
an
Answer: James Bald- lutely thunderstricken.
win ton, if not provided
For some minutes he
with papers asserting
113. The Morning Watch remained speechless
and providing their
Answer: James Agee and motionless, less,
right to be free, may
Ch
114. Jane of Lantern Hill looking incredulously
be arrested and placed
Answer: Lucy Maud at my friend with open
in one of those dens. If
Montgomery mouth, and eyes that
they succeed in show-
seemed starting from
115. Society and Solitude ing that they are free,
their sockets; then, ap-
Answer: Ralph Waldo they are set at liberty,
parently in some mea-
Emerson provided they are able
an
sure, he seized a pen,

116. Letting Go to pay the expenses of
and after several pauses
Answer: Philip Roth their arrest and impris-
and vacant stares, fi-
onment; if they can-
117. There is a time in nally filled up and
not pay these expenses,
y
every man’s education signed a check for fifty

they are sold out. Write
when he arrives at the thousand francs, and
the author’s name in
ra
conviction that envy handed it across the

full, correctly spelled:
is ignorance; that im- table to [my friend].
Answer: William
itation is suicide; that Write the author’s
Wells Brown
he must take himself name in full, correctly
Na
for better, for worse, 121. Orion and Other Po- spelled:
as his portion; that ems Answer: Edgar Allan
though the wide uni- Answer: Charles Poe
verse is full of good, Roberts
124. Mules and Men
no kernel of nourish- 122. "Why, I will tell you,"
Answer: Zora Neale
ing corn can come to replied the Prefect, as
Hurston
him but through his he gave a long, steady,
toil bestowed on that and contemplative puff, 125. Soon, however a be-
plot of ground which and settled himself in wildering excitement
is given to him to till. his chair. "I will tell began to seize upon his
The power which re- you in a few words; but, mind; the preceding ad-
sides in him is new in before I begin, let me ventures of the night,
the unexpected appear- 128. Low-hanging moon! 133. As they could not
ance of the crowd, the What is that dusky spot reach me, they had re-
torches, the confused in your brown yellow? solved to punish my
din and the hush that O it is the shape, the body; just as boys, if
followed, the spectre of shape of my mate. O they cannot come at
his kinsman reviled by moon do not keep her some person against
that great multitude, from me any longer. whom they have a spite,
er
– all this, and more Write the title of this will abuse his dog. I
than all, a perception work, correctly spelled: saw that the State was
of tremendous ridicule Answer: Out of the half-witted, that it was
gd
in the whole scene, af- Cradle Endlessly Rock- timid as a lone woman
fected him with a sort ing with her silver spoons,
of mental inebriety 129. Picturing Will and that it did not know
Write the author’s full Answer: Ann Beattie its friends from its foes,
name, correctly spelled: and I lost all my remain-
an
130. You Know Me Al
Answer: Nathaniel ing respect for it. Write
Answer: Ring Lardner
Hawthorne the author’s name in
131. We the Living full, correctly spelled:
126. He likes a boggy acre, Answer: Ayn Rand Answer: Henry David
Ch
A floor too cool for corn.
132. Notwithstanding his Thoreau
Yet when a child, and
special acuteness and
barefoot, I more than 134. May stopped, heated,
ability, he is unable
once, at morn, Write glowing with his own
to take a fact out of
the title of this work, magnanimity. And it
its merely political rela-
correctly spelled: was magnanimous. The
tions, and behold it as it
an
Answer: A narrow Fel- puddler had drunk in

lies absolutely to be dis-
low in the Grass every word, looking
posed of by the intellect,
through the Doctor’s
127. But may I remark, that, - what, for instance, it
flurry, and generous
if the lineal descen- behoves a man do here
heat, and self-approval,
y
dants of Ham are only in America to-day with

into his will, with those
to be enslaved, accord- regard to slavery, but
slow, absorbing eyes of
ra
ing to the scriptures, ventures, or is driven,

his. "Make yourself
slavery in the country to make some such des-
what you will. It is your
will soon become an perate answer as the
right." "I know," quietly.
unscriptural institution; following, while pro-
Na
"Will you help me?"

for thousands are ush- fessing to speak abso-
ered into the world an- lutely, and as a private
nually, who – like my- man, - from which that
Answer: Life in the
self – owe their exis- new and singular code
Iron-Mills
tence to white fathers, of consideration, under
and, most frequently, to their responsibility to 135. The Groves of
their masters, and their their constituents, to Academe
master’s sons. Write the general laws of pro- Answer: Mary Mc-
the title of this work, priety, humanity, and Carthy
correctly spelled: to God. . . What does 136. Diary of a Yuppie
Answer: My Bondage acuteness mean? Answer: Louis Auchin-
& My Freedom Answer: Sharpness closs
137. A Slipping-Down Life here, in this nightmare title of this work, cor-
Answer: Anne Tyler fog, that has lain dumb rectly spelled:
for centuries: I want to Answer: Young Good-
138. After what I have
make it a real thing to man Brown
now said of the circum-
you. Write the author’s 145. The grass divides as
stances of my mother,
name in full, correctly with a comb, A spot-
and my relations to her,
spelled: ted shaft is seen; And
the reader will not be
er
Answer: Rebecca then it closes at your
surprised, nor be dis-
Harding Davis feet And opens further
posed to censure me,
when I tell but the sim- 142. Our Mr. Wrenn on. Write the author’s
gd
ple truth, viz: that I re- Answer: Sinclair name in full, correctly
ceived the tidings of her Lewis spelled:
death with no strong 143. In this district is situ- Answer: Emily Dickin-
emotions of sorrow for ated the capitol of the son
an
her, and with very lit- U.S. Any free coloured 146. The Long Valley
tle regret for myself on person visiting Wash- Answer: John Stein-
account of her loss. I ington, if not provided beck
had to learn the value with papers asserting
147. Drum-Taps
Ch
of my mother long af- and providing their
ter her death, and by right to be free, may Answer: Walt Whit-
witnessing the devo- be arrested and placed man
tion of other mothers in one of these dens. If 148. The Outsider
to their children. Write they succeed in show- Answer: Richard
the author’s name in ing that they are free, Wright
an
full, correctly spelled: they are set at liberty,

149. "Have we come to the
Answer: Frederick provided they are able
counsel of old men and
Douglass to pay the expenses of
old women!" said Sas-
139. Going to the Territory their arrest and impris-
sacus in the bitterness
y
Answer: Ralph Ellison onment; if they can-

of his spirit. "When
not pay these expenses,
women put down their
they are sold out. Write
ra
140. Nobody Knows My womanish thoughts

Name and counsel like men,
correctly spelled:
Answer: James Bald- they should be obeyed,"
Answer: Clotel; or,
said my father. "Follow
Na
win The President’s Daugh-

me, warriors!" Write
141. This is what I want ter
you to do. I want you 144. "And now, my chil- correctly spelled:
to hide your disgust, dren, look upon each Answer: Hope Leslie
take no heed to you other!" They did so;
clean clothes, and come and, by the blaze of the 150. The Wapshot Scandal
right down with me, - hell-kindled torches, Answer: John Cheever
here, into the thickest the wretched man be-
of the fog and mud and held his [wife], and the 151. In every threat and in
foul effluvia. I want wife her husband, trem- every compliment there
you to hear this story. bling before that unhal- was a blunder; for they
There is a secret down lowed altar. Write the thought that my chief
desire was to stand the wings are covered with man’s face or person,
other side of that stone smoke, clotted and for I had directed the
wall. I could not but black. Smoke every- ray as if by instinct pre-
smile to see how in- where! A dirty canary cisely upon the damned
dustriously they locked chirps desolately in a spot. Write full name
the door on my medi- cage beside me. Write of author, correctly
tations, which followed the title of this work, spelled:
er
them out again without correctly spelled: Answer: Edgar Allan
let or hindrance, and Answer: Life in the Poe
they were really all that Iron-Mills 164. Name a best-selling
gd
was dangerous. Write 158. The eyes glaze once author from this pe-
the title of this work, – and that is Death – riod:
correctly spelled: Impossible to feign The Answer: Lydia
Answer: Resistance to Beads upon the Fore- Howard Huntley
Civil Government
an
head By homely An- Sigourney
152. The Criterion (a maga- guish strung.. What 165. "We also measured
zine) does feign mean? the thickness of every
Answer: T. S. Eliot Answer: Fake book-cover, with the
Ch
153. Name the first African 159. Have passed I thought most accurate admea-
American novelist: a Whip Lash Unbraid- surement, and applied
Answer: William ing in the Sun When to each the most jealous
Wells Brown stooping to secure it scrutiny of the micro-
154. When the time of my It wrinkled And was scope. Had any of the
departure was decided gone - Write the au- bindings been recently
an
upon, my grandmother, thor’s name in full, cor- meddled with, it would

knowing my fears, and rectly spelled: have been utterly im-
in pity for them, kindly Answer: Emily Dickin- possible that the fact
kept me ignorant of the son should have escaped ob-
y
dreaded event about to 160. Henry James: A Life servation. Some five or
transpire. Write the ti- Answer: Leon Edel six volumes, just from
the hands of the binder,
ra
tle of this work, cor- 161. Ollantay is by

rectly spelled: we carefully probed,
Answer: incas longitudinally, with the
Answer: My Bondage
162. The Lost World needles." Write the title
and My Freedom
Na
Answer: Randall Jar- of this work, correctly

155. A Bridge for Passing rell spelled:
Answer: Pearl Buck Answer: The Pur-
163. It was open—wide,
156. Silver Pitchers and In- wide open—and I grew loined Letter
dependence furious as I gazed upon 166. Its evidence—the ev-
Answer: Louisa Alcott it. I saw it with per- idence of the sen-
fect distinctness—all a tience—was to be seen,
157. Here, inside, is a lit- dull blue with a hideous he said, (and I here
tle broken figure of veil over it that chilled started as he spoke,)
an angel pointing up- the very marrow of my in the gradual yet cer-
ward from the mantel- bones; but I could see tain condensation of
shelf; but even its nothing else of the old an atmosphere of their
own about the waters book before us he has root in him, and merely
and the walls. The put into the story of his lies there, because no
result was discover- life the thoughts, the revolution or no robber
able, he added, in that feelings and the adven- takes it away. Write the
silent, yet importunate tures that have been so title of this work, cor-
and terrible influence affecting through the rectly spelled:
which for centuries had living voice; nor are Answer: Self-Reliance
er
moulded the destinies they less so from the
176. Xingu and Other Sto-
of his family, and which printed page. Write the
ries
made him what I now author’s name in full,
Answer: Edith Whar-
gd
saw him—what he was. correctly spelled:
ton
Write the title of this Answer: Margaret
work, correctly spelled: Fuller 177. I like a look of Agony,
Answer: The Fall of Because I know it’s true
174. The Cross of the Le-
the House of Usher - Men do not sham Con-
an
gion of Honor has
vulsion, Nor simulate,
167. The Crayon Miscel- just been conferred in
a Throe - What does
lany France on Dumas and
sham mean?
Answer: John Irving Soulié, both celebrated
Answer: Fake
Ch
in the paths of light lit-
168. I like a look of Agony
erature. Dumas, whose 178. It is an excellent piece
Because I know it’s
father was a general of writing, and on that
true - Write the author
in the French Army, score to be prized as a
is a Mulatto; Soulié a specimen of the pow-
spelled:
Quadroon. Write the ers of the Black Race,
Answer: Emily Dickin-
an
title of this work, cor- which Prejudice per-

son
rectly spelled: sists in disputing. We
169. Alexander’s Bridge Answer: Review of prize highly all evi-
Answer: Pearl Buck Narrative of the Life of dence of this kind, and
Frederick Douglass, An it is becoming more
y
170. Literary Lapses

Answer: Stephen Lea- American Slave abundant. Write the
cock author’s name in full,
ra
175. They measure their es-

correctly spelled:
171. Rootabaga Stories teem of each other by
Answer: Margaret
Answer: Carl Sand- what each has, and not
Fuller
burg by what each is. But
Na
a cultivated man be- 179. There is but little

172. One Man’s Meat comes ashamed of his virtue in the action of
Answer: E. B. White property, out of new re- masses of men. When
173. He said to be an ex- spect for his nature. Es- the majority shall at
cellent speaker – can pecially he hates what length vote for the abo-
speak from a thorough he has, if he see that lition of slavery, it will
personal experiences it is accidental, – came be because they are in-
– and has upon the to him by inheritance, different to slavery, or
audience, beside, the or gift, or crime; then because there is but
influence of a strong he feels that it is not little slavery left to be
character and uncom- having; it does not be- abolished by their vote.
mon talents. In the long to him, has no They will then be the
only slaves. Only his might have been sti- the patches of briers
vote can hasten the abo- fled in bondage, - what and blackberries, From
lition of slavery who as- a man may be sub- the memories of the
serts his own freedom jected to the insults bird that chanted to me,
by his vote. Write the of spendthrift dandies, Write the title of this
title of this work, cor- or the blows of merce- work, correctly spelled:
rectly spelled: nary brutes, in whom Answer: Out of the
er
Answer: Resistance of there is no whiteness Cradle Endlessly Rock-
Civil Government except of the skin, no ing
humanity except in
180. Ye say they all have 192. Answered Prayers
gd
the outward form, and
passed away, That no- Answer: Truman
of whom the Avenger
ble race and brave, That Capote
will not fail yet to de-
their light canoes have
mand – "Where is thy 193. The Leaning Tower
vanished From off the
brother?" Who is being Answer: Katherine
an
crested wave. . . . Write
described? Anne Porter
full name of author, cor-
Answer: An escaped 194. Considered merely as
rectly spelled:
slave a narrative, we have
Answer: Lydia
Ch
Howard Huntley 186. "Spiritual Laws" never read one more
Sigourney Answer: Ralph Waldo simple, true, coherent,
Emerson and war with genuine
181. Or rather – He passed
187. Although some of feeling. It is an excel-
Us - The Dews drew
them have been pub- lent piece of writing,
quivering and Chill -
lished, most American and so that score to be
For only Gossamer, my
an
stories, songs, tales, and prized as a specimen

Gown - My Tippet –
stories are in the of the powers of the
only Tulle - Write the
tradition. Black Race, which Prej-
title of this work, cor-
Answer: oral udice persists in disput-
rectly spelled:
ing. We prize highly
y
Answer: Because I 188. Andres Bello wrote

all evidence of this kind,
could not stop for Answer: american
and it is becoming more
ra
Death wood
abundant. What does
182. Black Music 189. Beyond Desire abundant mean?
Answer: Amiri Baraka Answer: Sherwood Answer: In great quan-
Na
Anderson tity
183. My Ten Years in a 190. In Native American 195. Name an author
Quandary origin myths, can whose biography was
Answer: Robert be creators. falsified:
Benchley Answer: birds or ani- Answer: Edgar Allan
mals Poe
184. Sor
191. Down from the
Answer: Juana Ines de 196. Bluebeard
shower’d halo, Up
la Cruz Answer: Kurt Von-
from the mystic play
negut
185. We wish that every of shadows twining
one may read his book and twistling as if they 197. The devastation of the
and see what a mind were alive, Out from indies is by
Answer: bartolome de 204. I have just spoken of ers in their shirtsleeves

las casas that morbid condition were enjoying a chat
of the auditory nerve and the evening air in
198. I should look at all
which rendered all mu- the doorway, when I en-
the skins, and I know
sic intolerable to the tered. But he jailer said,
that when I cast my
sufferer, with the excep- "Come, boys, it is time
eye upon that white
tion of certain effects of to lock up"; and so they
skin, and if I saw those
er
stringed instruments. It dispersed, and I heard
crimes written upon it, I
was, perhaps, the nar- the sound of their steps
should enter my protest
row limits to which he returning into the hol-
against it immediately,
gd
thus confined himself low apartments. My
and cleave to the which
upon the guitar, which room-mate was intro-
is more honorable. And
gave birth, in great mea- duced to me by the
I can tell you that I
sure, to the fantastic jailar as "a first-rate fel-
am satisfied with the
character of his perfor- low and clever man."
an
manner of my creation,
mances. Write the au- Write the title of this
fully—whether others
thor’s name in full, cor- work, correctly spelled:
are or not. Write title
rectly spelled: Answer: Resistance to
Answer: Edgar Allan Civil Government
Ch
spelled:
Poe
Answer: An Indian’s 208. The Living Reed
Looking-Glass for the 205. Hugh Selwyn Mauber- Answer: Pearl Buck
White Man ley
Answer: Ezra Pound 209. Main-Travelled Roads
199. The Black Riders Answer: Hamlin Gar-
206. Here a general shout land
Answer: Stephen
an
burst from the by-

Crane 210. Outre Mer–A Pilgrim-
standers—"A tory! a
200. "Experience" tory! a spy! a refugee! age Beyond the Sea
Answer: Ralph Waldo hustle him! away with Answer: Henry
Longfellow
y
Emerson him!" It was with great

difficulty that the self- 211. Several old logs and
201. Success is counted
important man in the
ra
sweetest By those who stumps imposed upon

cocked hat restored me, and got themselves
ne’er succeed. To com-
order; and having as- taken for wild beasts.
prehend a nectar Re-
sumed a tenfold auster- I could see their legs,
quires sorest need.
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ity of brow, demanded eyes, and ears, or I

again of the unknown could see something
culprit, what he came like eyes, legs and ears,
Answer: Success is
there for, and whom till I got close enough
counted sweetest
he was seeking. Write to them to see that
202. Which author argued the title of this work, the eyes were knots,
that voting was like correctly spelled: washed white with rain,
playing in a lottery? Answer: Rip Van Win- and the legs were bro-
Answer: Henry David kle ken limbs, and the ears,
Thoreau 207. The night in prison only ears owing to the
203. The Witches’ Brew was novel and interest- point from which they
Answer: E. J. Pratt ing enough. The prison- were seen. Thus early
I learned that the point Answer: Kurt Von- and make inferences
from which a thing is negut from them as existing
viewed is of some im- 217. Fear of Flying realities.’ With the al-
portance. As the day Answer: Erica Jong gebraist, however, who
advanced the heat in- are Pagans themselves,
creases, and it was not 218. The Two Magics the ’Pagan fables’ are
until the afternoon that Answer: Henry James believed, and the infer-
er
we reached the much 219. American Wood is by: ences are made, not so
dreaded end of the jour- Answer: Andres Bello much through lapse of
ney. Write the title memory, as through an
220. Which work exempli-
gd
of this work, correctly unaccountable addling
fies the hortatory ser-
spelled: of the brains." Write the
mon?
Answer: My Bondage author’s name in full,
Answer: An Indian’s
& My Freedom correctly spelled:
Looking-Glass for the
Answer: Edgar Allan
an
212. Slouching Towards White Man
Bethlehem Poe
221. Aloneness
Answer: Joan Didion 224. The Beads upon the
Answer: Gwendolyn
213. Making, Knowing, Forehead By homely
Brooks • Gwen Brooks
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and Judging Anguish strung. Write
Answer: W H Auden 222. Seeing escape impossi- the author’s name in
ble in that quarter, she full, correctly spelled:
214. As For Me and My stopped suddenly, and Answer: Emily Dickin-
House turned upon her pur- son
Answer: Sinclair Ross suers. On came the pro- 225. Eighteen centuries
an
215. When I was let out fane and ribald crew, ago, the Master of this
the next morning, I pro- faster than ever, already man tried reform in
ceeded to finish my er- exulting in her capture, the streets of a city as
rand, and, having put and threatening punish- crowded and vile as
on my mended shoe, ment for her flight. For
y
this, and did not fail.

joined a huckleberry a moment she looked His disciple, showing
party, who were impa- wildly and anxiously
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Him to-nigh to cultured

tient to put themselves around to see if there hearers, showing the
under my conduct; and was no hope of escape.. clearness of the God-
in half an hour, - for the Write the title of this power acting through
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horse was soon tackled, work, correctly spelled: Him, shrank back from
- was in the midst of Answer: Clotel; or, one coarse fact; that
a huckleberry field, on The President’s Daugh- in birth and habit the
one of our highest hills, ter man Christ was thrown
two miles off; and then 223. "Bryant, in his very up from the lowest of
the State was nowhere learned ’Mythology,’ the people: his flesh,
to be seen. What is the mentions an analogous their flesh; their blood,
meaning of tackled in source of error, when his blood; tempted like
this context? he says that ’although them, to brutalize day
Answer: Harnessed the Pagan fables are not by day; to lie, to steal:
216. Breakfast of Champi- believed, yet we forget the actual slime and
ons ourselves continually, want of their hourly
life, and the wine-press Answer: Lydia 241. Mulatto

he trod alone. Write the Howard Huntley Answer: Langston
author’s name in full, Sigourney Hughes
correctly spelled:
231. "M.S. Found in a Bot- 242. Several of nature’s
Answer: Rebecca
tle" people I know, and
Harding Davis
Answer: Edgar Allen they know me; I feel
226. G. G. Marquez G.G. Poe
er
for them a transport
stands for: Of cordiality Write the
Answer: Gabriel Gar- 232. The Temple of My Fa-
miliar author’s name in full,
cia correctly spelled:
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Answer: Alice Walker
227. City Life Answer: Emily Dickin-
Answer: Donald 233. A Month of Sundays son
Barthelme Answer: John Updike
243. Surfacing
228. Cast your whole vote, 234. The Rains Came
an
Answer: Margaret At-
not a strip of paper Answer: Louis Brom- wood
merely, but your whole field
influence. A minority is 244. The Old South
235. "The Celestial Road" Answer: Arna Bon-
powerless while it con-
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Answer: Nathaniel temps
forms to the majority;
Hawthorne
it is not even a minor-
245. Ernest Hemingways
ity then; but it is irre- 236. The Moviegoer
role in ww1 was
sistible when it clogs by Answer: Walker Percy
Answer: Ambulance
its whole weight. If the
alternative is to keep all 246. Our simple habita-
an
237. The Underground

just men in prison, or Woman tions were soon con-
give up war and slavery, Answer: Kay Boyle sumed; we heard the
the State will not hes- foe retiring, and when
itate which to choose. 238. Axel’s Castle the last sound had died
y
Write the title of this Answer: Edmund Wil- away, we came forth
work, correctly spelled: son to a sight that made
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Answer: Resistance to 239. The disease had sharp- us lament to be among

Civil Government ened my senses—not the living. Write the
229. One Day in the After- destroyed—not dulled full name of the author
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noon of the World them. Above all was the of this work, correctly
Answer: William sense of hearing acute. spelled:
Saroyan I heard all things in the Answer: Catharine
heaven and in the earth. Maria Sedgwick
230. Monadnock on his
forehead hoar Doth seal I heard many things in 247. The Iron Heel
the sacred trust, Your hell. Write the title Answer: Jack London
mountains build their of this work, correctly
monument, Though spelled: 248. The Single Hound
ye destroy their dust. Answer: The Tell-Tale Answer: Emily Dickin-
Write the author’s Heart son
name in full, correctly 240. Raven’s Wing 249. The Friday Book
spelled: Answer: Joyce Oates Answer: John Barth
250. Name the author who streets, which crossed plead the wrongs of his
inspired people like Ma- each other, and mean- race should find them;
hatma Gandhi and Mar- dered at no great dis- on that separate but
tin Luther King to polit- tance from the water- more free and honor-
ical action? side. The smell of tar able ground, where the
Answer: Henry David was obvious to his nos- State places those who
Thoreau trils, the masts of ves- are not with her, but
er
251. Name a Gothic writer: sels pierced the moon- against her – the only
Answer: Edgar Allan light above the tops of house in a slave State in
Poe the buildings, and the which a free man can
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numerous signs, which abide with honor. Write
252. God’s Grace [he] paused to read, in- the author’s name in
Answer: Bernard formed him that he was full, correctly spelled:
Malamud near the centre of busi- Answer: Henry David
253. Which poem has a ness. But the streets Thoreau
classical opening, sim-
ilar to an epic poem?
Answer: Out of the
Cradle Endlessly Rock- anwere empty, the shops
were closed, and lights
were visible only in the
second stories of a few
259. Isidro
Answer: Mary Austin
260. New Hampshire
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Answer: Robert Frost
ing dwelling houses. Write
the title of this work, 261. Portrait in Brown-
254. Among the musi-
correctly spelled: stone
cal disciples who as-
Answer: My Kinsman, Answer: Louis Auch-
sembled, one evening
Major Molineux incloss
in each week, to re-
256. Black Thunder 262. Marjorie Morningstar
an
ceive his instructions

in psalmody, was Answer: Arna Bon- Answer: Herman
the daughter and only temps Wouk
child of a substantial 257. Excursions 263. After the kings of
farmer. She was Great Britain had as-
y
Answer: Henry David

a blooming lass of Thoreau sumed the right of ap-
fresh eighteen; plump pointing the colonial
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258. The proper place to-

as a partridge; ripe day, the only place governors, the measure
and melting and rosy- which Massachusetts of the latter seldom met
cheeked as one of her has provided for her with the ready and gen-
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father’s peaches, and freer and less despon- eral approbation, which
universally famed, not dent spirits, is in her had been paid to those
merely for her beauty, prison, to be put out of their predecessors,
but her vast expecta- and locked out of the under the original char-
tions. Write the au- State by her own act, ters. Write title of this
thor’s name in full, cor- as they have already work, correctly spelled:
rectly spelled: put themselves out by Answer: My Kinsman,
Answer: Washington their principles. It is Major Molineux
Irving there that the fugitive 264. He was a native of
255. He now became en- slave, and the Mexi- Connecticut, a State
tangled in a succession can prisoner on parole, which supplies the
of crooked and narrow and the Indian come to Union with pioneers
for the mind as well as 267. Searching for Caleb grave, reputable, and pi-
for the forest, and sends Answer: Anne Tyler ous people, these elders
forth yearly its legions 268. The Family Moskat of the church, these
of frontier woodmen Answer: Isaac Bashe- chaste dames and dewy
and country schoolmas- vis Singer virgins, there were men
ters. The cognomen of dissolute lives and
269. I knew what the old
of Crane was not inap- women of spotted fame,
man felt, and pitied
er
plicable to his person. wretches given over to
him, although I chuck-
He was tall, but exceed- all mean and filthy vice,
led at heart. I knew
ingly lank, with narrow and suspected even of
that he had been lying
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shoulders, long arms horrid crimes. It was
awake ever since the
and legs, hands that strange to see that the
first slight noise, when
dangled a mile out of good shrank not from
he had turned in the
his sleeves, feet that the wicked, nor were
bed. His fears had been,
might have served for the sinners abashed by
an
ever since, growing
shovels, and his whole the saints. Scattered
upon him. He had been
frame most loosely also among their pale-
trying to fancy them
hung together. Write faced enemies were
causeless, but could not.
the title of this work, the Indian priests, or
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correctly spelled: powwows, who had
Answer: The Legend often scared their na-
Answer: The Tell-Tale
of Sleepy Hollow tive forest with more
Heart
hideous incantations
265. The slow tides of pain 270. Ultramarine than any known to En-
he had borne gath- Answer: Malcolm glish witchcraft. Write
an
ered themselves up and Lowry the author’s full name,

surged against his soul.
271. Letters Home correctly spelled:
His squalid daily life,
Answer: Sylvia Plath Answer: Nathaniel
the brutal coarseness
272. Unmoved – she notes Hawthorne
y
eating into his brain, as

the ashes into his skin: the Chariots – pausing 275. I knew that he had
before, these things had - At her low Gate - Un- been lying awake ever
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been a dull aching into moved – an Emperor be since the first slight
his consciousness; to- kneeling Upon her Mat noise when he had
night, they were reality. - I’ve known her – from turned in the bed. His
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He griped the filthy red an ample nation - Then fears had been ever
shirt that clung, stiff – close the Valves of her since growing upon
with soot, about him, attention - Like Stone. him. He had been
and tore it savagely What are Chariots? trying to fancy them
from his arm. Write Answer: Light car- causeless, but could not.
the title of this work, riages Write full name of au-
correctly spelled: 273. Name a writer who thor, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the worked as a war nurse: Answer: Edgar Allan
Iron-Mills Answer: Margaret Poe
Fuller 276. I ask: Is it not the
266. Genealogy was a
theme in which period? 274. But, irreverently con- case that everybody
Answer: pre-colonial sorting with these that is not white is
treated with contempt Answer: an endless cir- old man, and I have lis-
and counted as barbar- cle. tened to the idle fear
ians? And I ask if the of a doating mother." "I
279. In fact, he declared
word of God justifies come not of a fearful
it was no use to work
the white man in so do- race," said my mother.
on his farm; it was
ing. When the prophets Write the full name of
the most pestilent lit-
prophesied, of whom the author of this work,
tle piece of ground in
er
did they speak? When correctly spelled:
the whole country; ev-
they spoke of heathens, Answer: Catharine
ery thing about it went
was it not the whites Maria Sedgwick
wrong, and would go
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and others who were 283. Here the fugitive saw
wrong, in spite of him.
counted Gentiles? And nothing but slaves
I ask if all nations with brought in and taken
the exception of the out, to be placed in
Answer: Rip Van Win-
Jews were not counted
an
kle ships and sent away to
heathens. Write title the same part of the
of this work, correctly 280. Who humbled ’mid
country to which she
spelled: these dewy glades
herself would soon be
Answer: An Indian’s The red deer’s antler’d
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compelled to go. She
Looking-Glass for the crown, Or soaring at his
had seen or heard noth-
White Man highest noon, Struck
ing of her daughter
the strong eagle down
277. There was a laugh. while in Richmond, and
Write full name of au-
The young man talking all hope of seeing her
thor, correctly spelled:
to Kirby sat with an now had fled. If she was
Answer: Lydia
an
amused light in his cool carried back to New Or-

Howard Huntley
gray eye, surveying crit- leans, she could expect
Sigourney
ically the half-clothed no mercy from her mas-
figures of the puddlers, 281. Virtues are in the pop- ter. Write the author’s
and the slow swing of ular estimate rather name in full, correctly
y
their brawny muscles. the exception than the spelled:

He was a stranger in rule. There is the man Answer: William
ra
the city, - spending a and his virtues. Men Wells Brown

couple of months in the do what is called a
284. The proper place to-
borders of a Slave State, good action, as some
day, the only place
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to study the institution piece of courage or

which Massachusetts
of the South. Write the charity, much as they
has provided for her
author of this work, cor- would pay a fine in
freer and less despon-
rectly spelled: expiation of daily non-
dent spirits, is in her
Answer: Rebecca appearance on parade.
prison, to be put out
Harding Davis Write the name of
and locked out of the
the author, correctly
278. Native Americans do State by her own act,
spelled.
not see the world in a as they have already
Answer: Ralph Waldo
linear fashion, where put themselves out by
Emerson
events happen one after their principles. It is
another; they see life as 282. "The boy sleeps there that the fugitive
safely," muttered the slave, and the Mexi-
can prisoner on parole, hissing. To the out set- my brethren, is there

and the Indian come to ting bard. Write the any agreement? Do
plead the wrongs of his author’s name in full, brethren and sisters
race should find them; correctly spelled: love one another? Do
on that separate but Answer: Walt Whit- they not rather hate
more free and honor- man one another? Outward
able ground, where the forms and ceremonies,
289. Coyote disappeared
er
State places those who the lusts of the flesh,
are not with her, but the lusts of the eye, and
Answer: Because his
against her – the only pride of life is of more
work was finished.
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house in a slave State value to many profes-
in which a free man 290. "Israfel" sors than the love of
can abide with honor. Answer: Edgar Allen God shed abroad in
Write the title of this Poe their hearts, or an at-
work, correctly spelled: tachment to his altar,
an
291. Eighteen centuries
Answer: Resistance to ago, the Master of this to his ordinances, or to
Civil Government man tried reform in his children. But you
the streets of a city as may ask: Who are the
285. To comprehend a nec-
crowded and vile as children of God? Write
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tar Requires sorest
this, and did not fail. the author’s full name,
need. Write the au-
His disciple, showing correctly spelled:
Him to-night to cul- Answer: William
rectly spelled:
tured hearers, show- Apess
Answer: Emily Dickin-
son ing the clearness of 293. Ye say their cone-like
an
the God-power acting cabins, That clustered

286. Pedro Paramo is by
through Him, shrank o’er the vale, Have
Answer: Juan Rulfo
back from one coarse fled away like withered
287. Riot fact; that in birth and leaves Before the au-
Answer: Gwen Brooks habit the man Christ tumn gale, Write the
y
was thrown up from title of this work, cor-

the lowest of the peo- rectly spelled:
ra
288. The love in the heart

ple: his flesh, their flesh; Answer: Indian Names
long pent, now loose,
their blood, his blood;
now at last tumul-
tempted like them, to
tuously bursting, The 294. These prisons are
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brutalize day by day;

aria’s meaning, the ears, mostly occupied by
to lie, to steal: the ac-
the soul, swiftly de- persons to keep their
tual slime and want of
positing, The strange slaves in, when collect-
their hourly life, and
tears down the cheeks ing their gangs together
the wine-press he trod
coursing, The colloquy for the New Orleans
alone. Write the title
there, the trio, each ut- market. Some of them
tering, The undertone, belong to the govern-
spelled:
the savage old mother ment, and one, in partic-
Answer: Life in the
incessantly crying, To ular, is noted for having
Iron-Mills
the boy’s soul’s ques- been the place where a
tions sullenly timing, 292. Let me refer you to number of free colored
some drown’d secret the churches only. And, persons have been in-
carcerated from time old man, and so per- 303. Western Star
to time. Write the au- fectly rational and con- Answer: Stephen
thor’s name in full, cor- sistent on every other Benet
rectly spelled: point, that I think no
304. was written by
Answer: William conscientious person
the Mayans in the pre-
Wells Brown could refuse to take
colonial period.
this into the bargain;
was written by the In-
er
295. Native Americans use
nay, I have seen a cer-
stories to cas in Peru " was
tificate on the subject
Answer: teach a lesson written by the Aztecs "
taken before a coun-
and convey practical in- Answer:Popol
gd
try justice and signed
formation. Vuh,Flor Y Canto, Ol-
with a cross, in the jus-
lantay
296. Carlos Fuentes wrote: tice’s own handwriting.
Answer: The Death of The story, therefore, is 305. The Cynic’s Word
Artemio Cruz beyond the possibility Book
297. If there were one who

lived wholly without
the use of money, the anof a doubt. Write the
author’s name in full,
correctly spelled:
Answer: Washington
Answer:
Bierce
Ambrose
306. The Embarrassments

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State itself would hesi- Answer: Henry James
Irving
tate to demand it of him. 307. But may I remark, that,
But the rich man – not 300. Who wrote "An Old if the lineal descen-
to make any invidious Man With Enormous dants of Ham are only
comparison – is always Wings"? to be enslaved, accord-
sold to the institution Answer: Gabriel Gar- ing to the scriptures,
an
which makes him rich. cia Marquez slavery in the coun-

Absolutely speaking, 301. Low hangs the moon, try will soon become
the more money, the it rose late, It is lag- an unscriptural institu-
less virtue; for money ging - O I think it is tion; for thousands are
y
comes between a man heavy with love, with ushered into the world
and his objects, and love. What does lag- annually, who – like
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obtains them for him; ging mean? myself – owe their exis-
it was certainly no Answer: Falling be- tence to white fathers,
great virtue to obtain it. hind and, most frequently, to
Write the author of this their masters, and their
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work, correctly spelled: 302. When the time of my master’s sons. Write
Answer: Henry David departure was decided the author’s name in
Thoreau upon, my grandmother, full, correctly spelled:
knowing my fears, and Answer: Frederick
298. I Sing the Body Elec- in pity for them, kindly
tric Douglass
kept me ignorant of the
Answer: Ray Bradbury dreaded event about 308. The Tidewater Tales
to transpire. Write the Answer: John Barth
299. I have even talked author’s name in full, 309. The woman sprang up,
with [him] myself, who, correctly spelled: and hastily began to ar-
when last I saw him, Answer: Frederick range some bread and
was a very venerable Douglass flitch in a tin pail, and
to pour her own mea- which never circulated horse or a mule, upon
sure of ale into a bot- beyond the walls of the which to travel twenty-
tle. Tying on her bon- jail. Write the author’s four miles, when she
net, she blew out the name in full, correctly could walk the dis-
candle. What is flitch? spelled: tance. Write the au-
Answer: Salt pork Answer: Henry David thor’s name in full, cor-
310. Demon or bird! (said Thoreau rectly spelled:
er
the boy’s soul,) Is it in- 312. The Cathedral Answer: Frederick
deed toward your mate Answer: James Lowell Douglass
you sing? Or is it really 318. All stood amazed, un-
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me? For I, that was a 313. The mass of men serve til an old woman, totter-
child, my tongue’s use the state thus, not as ing out from among the
sleeping, now I have men mainly, but as ma- crowd, put her hand to
heard you, Now in a chines, with their bod- her brow, and peering
an
moment I know what ies. Write the title under it in his face for
I am for, I awake, And of this work, correctly a moment, exclaimed,
already a thousands spelled: "Sure enough! it is
singers, a thousand Answer: Resistance to [he]—it is himself. Wel-
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songs, clearer, louder Civil Government come home again, old
and more sorrowful neighbor. Why, where
314. Death, Sleep, and the
than yours, A thousand have you been these
Traveller
warbling echoes have twenty years?" Write
Answer: John Hawkes
started to life within the title of this work,
me, never to die. Write correctly spelled:
315. Patriotic Gore
an
the author’s name in Answer: Rip Van Win-

full, correctly spelled: Answer: Edmund Wil-
kle
Answer: Walt Whit- son
man 316. Unmoved –she notes 319. But they replied, "Tall
the Chariots – pausing barks of pride Do
y
311. He occupied one win-

At her low Gate Write cleave our waters blue,
dow, and I the other;
the author’s name in And strong keels ride
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and I saw that if one

full, correctly spelled: our farthest tide, But
stayed there long,
Answer: Emily Dickin- where’s their light ca-
his principal business
son noe?" Write the title
would be to look out
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the window. I had soon 317. She was obliged to
spelled:
read all the tracts that walk, unless chance
Answer: Our Aborig-
were left there, and ex- flung into her way an
ines
amined where former opportunity to ride; and
prisoners had broken the latter was some- 320. ’Tis where Ontario’s
out, and where a grate times her good luck. billow Like Ocean’s
had been sawed off, and But she always had to surge is curled, Where
heard the history of the walk one way or the strong Niagara’s thun-
various occupants of other. It was a greater ders wake The echo of
that room; for I found luxury than slavery the world. Write the
that even there was a could afford, to allow title of this work, cor-
history and a gossip a black slave-mother a rectly spelled:
Answer: Indian Names It was given to this Swelling of the Ground

section of the country The Roof was scarcely
321. A basin was hollowed, probably, at the first, visible The Cornice – in
naturally, in the rock. merely in derision; or it the Ground. Write the
Did it contain water, may possibly have been author’s name in full,
reddened by the lurid applied to it, as I have correctly spelled:
light? or was it blood? heard, because some Answer: Emily Dickin-
er
Or, perchance, a liq- one of its earlier inhabi- son
uid flame? Herein tants has been guilty of 330. In other words, when
did the Shape of Evil the petty meanness of a sixth of the popula-
gd
dip his hand, and pre- stealing a hoe – or tak- tion of a nation which
pare to lay the mark ing a hoe – that did not has undertaken to be
of baptism upon their belong to him. What the refuge of liberty
foreheads Write the is the meaning of deri- are slaves, and a whole
sion?
an
author’s full name, cor- country is unjustly
rectly spelled: Answer: mockery overrun and conquered
Answer: Nathaniel 324. The Naked Lunch by a foreign army, and
Hawthorne Answer: William Bur- subjected to military
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322. Now back, jailor, roughs law, I think it is not too
back to they dungeons, 325. We slowly drove – He soon for honest men to
again, To swing the knew no haste And I rebel and revolutionize.
red lash and rivet the had put away My labor What makes this duty
chain! The form thou and my leisure too, For the more urgent is the
would’st fetter – re- His Civility - Write the fact, that the country
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turned to its God; The author’s name in full, so overrun is not our
universe holdeth no correctly spelled: own, but ours is the in-
realm of night More Answer: Emily Dickin- vading army. Write the
drear than her slavery son author’s name in full,
correctly spelled:
y
- More merciless fiends 326. "The Horse Thief"

than here stayed her Answer: Henry David
Answer: William
fight - Joy! The hunted Thoreau
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Benet
slave is free! What does 331. Not one of all the
fetter mean? 327. A Story Teller’s Story
purple Host Who took
Answer: Shackle Answer: Sherwood
the Flag today Can tell
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Anderson
323. The name of this the definition So clear
singularly unpromis- 328. Domingo Faustino of Victory. . . Whom
ing and truly famine wrote does Dickinson mean
stricken district in Answer:Sarmiento,Facundo: by Who took the Flag?
Tuckahoe, a name well civilizacio y barbarie Answer: Those who
known to all Marylan- 329. We paused before a triumphed
ders, black and white. House that seemed A
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er
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4. Literary Theory and Criticism
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an
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1. Which of the following is C. Coleridge 7. Seven is an archetype as-
a critical work of Ben Jon- D. Matthew Arnold sociated with:
son?
4. Which theorist is associ- A. Perfection
A. Discourse of English ated with the idea that art
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Poetry is a copy of a copy? B. Birth
B. Discoveries A. Plato C. Evil

C. Arte of English Poesie B. Julia Kristeva D. Death
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D. An Apologie for Poet- C. Walter Benjamin 8. Which theorist is most

rie
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D. Louis Althusser closely associated with the

2. The structure of tragedy5. Horace was a friend of idea of art as imitation?
according to Aristotle is
A. Alexander the Great A. Jacques Derrida
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A. Simple
B. Emperor Augustus B. Jacques Lacan
B. Complex
C. Julius Caesar
C. Edward Said
C. Loose D. Pompey
D. Episodic D. Plato
6. Who said that Keat’s love
3. “Poetry is emotions rec- letters of a surgeon’s ap-9. Formalist critics believe
ollected in tranquility.” prentice? that the value of a work
Who has defined poetry A. Arnold cannot be determined by
in these words? the author’s intention.
B. Shelley What term do they use
A. Shelley
C. Byron when speaking of this be-
B. Wordsworth lief?
D. Hazlitt
1. B 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. D 9. B
216 Chapter 4. Literary Theory and Criticism
A. The pathetic fallacy A. Greek A. The West spends too

much time trying to con-
B. The intentional fallacy B. Latin
sider an Asian perspective.
C. Hebrew
C. The affective fallacy D. Italian B. The West tends to look
D. The objective correla- 13. Who coined the term New at Asian countries as in-
tive dividual units rather than
er
Historicism?
10. Which of the following A. Jacques Derrida lump them together.
statements best describes C. The West views mat-
Cleanth Brooks’s attitude B. Terry Eagleton
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ters through its own lim-
towards studying litera- C. Fredric Jameson ited historical position.
ture?
D. Stephen Greenblatt D. The West refuses to ap-
A. Critics should examine ply economic and political
14. The Frankfurt School
an
historical information sur- coercion to Asian writers.
rounding a literary work. of literary theory was
most greatly influenced
by which of the following18. Who is the author of the
B. Critics should develop schools of thought? notorious book entitled
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universal readings of texts. The School of Abuse?
A. Formalism
A. Roger Ascham
B. Structuralism
C. Critics should attempt
B. Stephen Hawes
to paraphrase texts in or- C. Poststructuralism
der to find out what they C. John Skelton
D. Marxism
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mean.
15. Which school of literary D. Stephen Gosson
D. Critics should look at theory shows a particular19. Who used the words “ro-
the biographical informa- interest in the role of testi- manticism” and “romantic”
tion of authors. mony in literature? first?
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11. To what idea does the term A. Trauma theory A. Wordsworth

heteroglossia refer?
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B. Ecotheory B. Coleridge
A. An infant’s inability to
speak prior to the mirror C. Chaos theory C. Carlyle
stage
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D. Formalism D. Schlegel
B. The referential rela- 16. Preface to the Lyrical Bal-
20. In his essay "The Death
tionships among symbols, lads was written by of the Author," Roland
signifiers, and signs Barthes argues what about
A. Wordsworth
C. The multi-layered na- literature?
ture of language in a liter- B. Coleridge A. Biographical informa-
ary work C. Southey tion about the author must
D. All of the above an- D. Shelly be considered when evalu-
swers are correct ating literature.
17. Which is a common post-
12. On the Sublime is written colonial critique of the B. A text and its author
in West? text are unrelated.
10. B 11. C 12. A 13. D 14. D 15. A 16. A 17. C 18. D 19. C 20. B
C. It is possible to dis- C. Strange attractors are A. Kristeva wholly rejects

till meaning from a work mysterious forces that are Lacan’s theory of psycho-
based on the author’s poli- both random and deter- sexual development.
tics. mined.
B. Kristeva centralizes the
D. Literature is inextrica- D. Strange attractors are maternal and the feminine
bly connected to its cre- complex forces that are en- in her revisions of Lacan’s
ator. tirely random. theory.
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21. What is defamiliariza- 24. Which of the following C. Kristeva argues that
tion? best defines the work of a the mirror stage does not
deconstructionist critic?
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A. A term that describes occur until the individual
how literature exposes its A. Calling into question embraces a distinct gender
own artificiality role.
the possibility of the co-
herence of discourse D. All of the above an-
B. An idea explored by
an
Viktor Shklovsky swers are correct.
B. Suggesting that the
27. Which of the following is
C. A term that describes study of literature is based
a rule of semiotics?
the capacity of art to on the breakdown of lan-
counter the effects of habit guage into signs
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A. All linguistic concepts
C. Arguing that language, evolve solely out of the re-
D. All of the above an- and therefore literary sponses of people within a
swers are correct. texts, relies on the dif- specific historical era.
ference between terms B. All linguistic and so-
22. How many principal and therefore constantly cial phenomena are texts,
sources of sublimity are
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defers meaning. and the object of study-

there according to Longi-
nus? D. All of the above an- ing these texts is to reveal
swers are correct. the underlying codes that
A. Three make them meaningful.
25. What does the term meta-
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B. Four language mean, according C. All linguistics is in

to Andrzej Warminski? some way related to class
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C. Five
struggle.
D. Six A. A language about an-
other language D. All of the above an-
23. Which of the following swers are correct.
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statements offers the best B. A supernatural lan-

definition of the concept guage 28. According to trauma the-
of strange attractors in orists, a testifying subject
C. A language that does needs which of the follow-
chaos theory? not yet constitute a real ing to deliver a successful
A. Strange attractors are language testimony?
mysterious forces that are D. All of the above an-
entirely random. A. A figure of judgment
swers are correct.
B. Strange attractors are26. In what way does Julia B. Religious belief
complex forces that are de- Kristeva build on Jacques C. A witness
termined by the laws of Lacan’s theory of psycho-
physics. D. Psychological treat-
sexual development? ment
21. D 22. C 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. C

29. What is the main goal of A. Elaine Showalter sympathized with the plot-
ethnic criticism? ters for the way they were
B. Ellen Moors
abused by the Tory en-
A. To bring attention
C. Julia Kristeva emy, the Whigs. Thus it
to false Euro-centric
makes sense for Otway to
paradigms D. Kate Millet
condemn the conspiracy
B. To rectify the dou- 33. What is the meaning of itself in Vencie Preserv’d
er
ble experiences of certain the term Hamartia as used without condemning the
racial groups by Aristotle in his Theory conspirators themselves."
C. To reconcile cultural of Tragedy? What purpose does this
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identity with individual prescribe to?
A. Tragic end of the
identity tragedy A. To help resolve a ques-
tion, problem, or difficulty
D. All of the above an- B. Working of fate against in the readin
swers are correct.
an
the hero
30. What does hermeneutic B. To help decide which is
C. A weak trait in the the better of two conflict-
theory suggest about how
character of the hero ing readings.
readers view literature?
D. A strong quality in the
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A. It is impossible to view C. To enable to form judg-
character of the hero ments about literature.
a piece of literature as its
author intended. 34. One purpose of LITER- D. All of the above an-
ARY CRITICISM is de- swers are correct.
B. It is impossible to di-
scribed below: "The his- 35. Some critics of literary
vorce a text from capitalist
torical approach, for in- theory argue that literary
ideology.
an
stance, might be helpful theory is problematic for

C. It is impossible to in addressing a problem
which reason?
view a piece of litera- in Thomas Otway’s play
ture correctly, because Venice Preserv’d. Why A. Literary theory tends
y
we can only work within are the conspirators, de- to be too political.
the hetero-normative spite the horrible, bloody B. Literary theory does
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paradigm. details of their obviously not offer a holistic inter-

D. It is impossible to sep- brutish plan, portrayed in pretation of a text.
arate a text from the lin- a sympathetic light? If we C. Literary theory de-
look at the author and his
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guistics that compose it. pends on specialized

time, we see that he was
31. Whom did Aristotle con- a Tory whose play was knowledge that is out-
sider the most tragic of the performed in the wake of side the realm of literary
Greek dramatists? the Popish Plot and the studies.
A. Agathon Exclusion Bill Crisis, and D. All of the above an-
that there are obvious sim- swers are correct.
B. Aeschylus ilarities between the Con-
36. Which school of literary
C. Sophocles spiracy in the play and
theory is associated with
the Popish Plot in history.
D. Euripides the phrase "to make the
The Tories would never ap-
stones stonier"?
32. ‘Gynocriticism’ is associ- prove of the bloody Popish
ated with Plot, but they nonetheless A. Humanism
29. D 30. A 31. D 32. A 33. C 34. A 35. D 36. B 37. A

B. Formalism B. The effect of modern C. An important term in

society on human suffer- the field of New Histori-
C. Structuralism
ing cism
D. Marxism
C. The effect of the econ- D. All of the above an-
37. Trauma theory primarily omy on women’s concerns swers are correct.
developed out of the work
45. Trauma theory is tremen-
of which psychoanalyst?
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D. All of the above an- dously influenced by
A. Sigmund Freud swers are correct. which theoretical school?
B. Carl Jung 41. Sublimity has A. Psychoanalysis
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C. Michel Foucault A. 2 sources B. Marxism
D. Jacques Derrida B. 3 sources C. Feminism
38. To what idea does the an- C. 4 sources D. Deconstruction
an
cient Greek term aporia re-
46. What is false conscious-
fer in terms of deconstruc- D. 5 sources
42. What does the critical ness?
tion theory?
term ’esemplatic’ mean? A. A term for the false
A. The ability of a text to
neuroses expressed in
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contain truth A. The unifying power
dreams
B. The "undecidability" B. Ability to coin new
word B. A feminist term for the
and essentially unstable
state that occurs when
nature of a text C. Power of imagination texts written by women
C. The idea that a text D. Negative capability are not considered in the
an
has a specific meaning study of literature

43. Who made a distinction
that can be understood
between Fancy and Imagi- C. Another term for the
through a process of de-
nation? unconscious
construction
A. Wordsworth D. An ideology that in-
y
D. All of the above an-

volves dominating the con-
swers are correct. B. Coleridge
sciousness of exploited
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39. On the Sublime was writ- C. Southey classes

ten in
D. Hazlitt 47. Biographia Literaria was
A. 1st Century BC 44. What is affective fallacy? written by
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B. 1st Century AD A. A term first used by lit- A. Wordsworth

C. 2nd Century AD erary theorists William B. Coleridge
Wimsatt and Monroe
D. 3rd Century AD Beardsley C. Keats
40. What is generally consid-
B. A term that suggests D. Charles Lamb
ered to be Theodor W.
that a critic should study48. With which theorist is
Adorno’s primary concern
the structural and the- the term identity thinking
as a theorist?
matic elements of a poem most closely associated?
A. The effect of literature rather than the effect it A. Sigmund Freud
in enlightening the human has on the emotions of the
mind reader B. Carl Jung
38. B 39. B 40. B 41. D 42. A 43. B 44. D 45. A 46. D 47. B 48. D 49. B
C. William James lives and historical context D. Fluctuations occurring

D. Theodor W. Adorno of the people who speak it. in the fortune of the hero
49. Coleridge considered 57. What is the central idea

imagination as D. Language is loaded of Ferdinand de Saussure’s
with the intentions of oth- Course in General Linguis-
A. Critical faculty ers. tics?
B. Modifying power
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53. Who was the most illustri- A. Language is insepara-
C. A psychological expe- ous pupil of Plato? ble from its historical con-
rience A. Aristotle text.
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D. A product of intellect B. Longinus B. There are five phases of
50. What is the meaning of C. Aristophanes linguistic development.
the term Anagnorisis as C. Language can be ana-
used by Aristotle in his D. Socrates lyzed as a formal system
an
Theory of Tragedy? 54. ‘On Translating Homer’ is of elements.
A. The hero’s recognition written by D. All of the above an-
of his tragic flaw A. Mathew Arnold swers are correct.
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B. The hero’s ignorance B. Walter Pater 58. “It is not rhyming and
about his tragic flaw C. T. S. ELiot versing that maketh a
C. The hero’s recognition D. William Hazlit poet no more than a long
of his adversary gown maketh an advo-
55. Arnold summarises the cate”. Whose view is this?
D. The hero’s recognition rule of English criticism in
A. Shakespeare’s
an
of his tragic end one word, in The Function

51. Who remarked, “Spenser Of Criticism. What is the B. Marlowe’s
write no language.” word?
C. Spenser’s
A. Pope A. Disintrestedness
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D. Sidney’s
B. Arnold B. Intresedness
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C. Dr. Jhonson C. Purification Ricks’s attitude toward

D. Ben Jonson D. Civilization literary theory?
52. Which of the following56. Who is the meaning of the A. He considers it to be vi-
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statements best explains term Peripeteia as used by tal in order to understand

Mikhail Bakhtin’s philos- Aristotle in his Theory of literary texts.
ophy of language? Tragedy? B. He considers theory to
A. Language includes A. Change in the fortune be the only way that lit-
multiple social dialects of the hero from bad to erary texts can be inter-
and jargons. good preted.
B. Language can include B. Change in the fortune C. He has no misgivings
socio-ideological contra- of the hero from good to about the practical usabil-
dictions from the past. bad ity of literary theory.
C. Language exhibits and C. Constancy in the for- D. He feels that literary
is bound up in the social tune of the hero theory is ultimately too
50. A 51. D 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. A 56. B 57. C 58. D 59. D
limited in scope to serve B. prevents us from com- A. Literary texts should

as a proper method of in- municating through writ- not be read as a projection
terpretation. ing or speech. of the author’s psyche.
60. In his essay "The Business C. involves a constant B. Literary texts solely re-
of Theory," William Dere- process of deferred mean- flect an author’s inten-
siewicz argues which of ing. tions.
the following about Terry
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Eagleton’s book After The- D. All of the above an- C. Literary texts reveal se-
ory? swers are correct. cret elements of an au-
thor’s unconscious.
A. It offers a strong out-
63. This approach can turn
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line for how theory can be a work into little more D. All of the above an-
conducted in the 21st cen- than a case study, neglect- swers are correct.
tury. ing to view it as a piece66. Aristotle said of chorus in
of art. Critics sometimes Greek tragedy that
an
B. It should not be read or
considered by any student attempt to diagnose long
dead authors based on A. It is only lyrical songs
or scholar. in the play
their works, which is per-
C. It offers some valid haps not the best evidence B. It should be regarded
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ideas and critiques, but its of their psychology. Crit- as one of the actors
author is not entirely trust- ics tend to see sex in every-
worthy. thing, exaggerating this C. It should make only re-
aspect of literature. What ports
D. It offers a strong coun-
terpoint to Jacques Der- approach possess this dis- D. It should only com-
rida’s notion of decon- advantage? ment on the action
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struction. A. Moral/Philosophical 67. What is humanism?

61. “The tragic-comedy which
is the product of the En- B. Psychological A. An idea traditionally
glish theatre is one the C. Formalism/New Criti- associated with the Renais-
y
most monstrous inven- cism sance

tions that ever entered B. A humanity-centered
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into a poet’s thought.” D. Historical/Biographi- view of the universe

Whose view is this? cal
C. A theory that values
A. John Dryden’s 64. He was an influential force
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restraint, form, and imita-

B. Alexander Pope’s in archetypal criticism. tion
C. Joseph Addison’s A. Freud D. All of the above an-
D. Dr. Johnson’s B. Tate swers are correct.
62. Jacques Derrida’s concept 68. ‘Preface to the Lyrical Bal-

C. Richards
of différance challenges us lads’ was published in
to think about language as D. Jung
A. 1798
a system that:
65. What fundamental idea B. 1800
A. mirrors our physical does psychoanalytic crit-
evolution as human be- icism hold about literary C. 1802
ings. texts? D. 1815
60. C 61. C 62. C 63. B 64. D 65. C 66. B 67. D 68. B 69. B
69. The name “Ars Poetica” C. Tory A. Moral/Philosophical

(Art of Poetry) was given
D. Psychological B. Formalism/New Criti-
to Horace’s Epistle to the
72. The Lyrical Ballads was cism
Pisos by
published in C. Historical/Biographi-
A. Horace
A. 1780 cal
B. Quintillion
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B. 1798 D. Psychological
C. Cicero
C. 1815 77. This approach provides a
D. Virgil universalistic approach to
D. 1805
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70. Which of the following is73. To whom “poetry is the literature and identifies a
a theme of Eve Kosofsky spontaneous over-flow of reason why certain litera-
Sedgwick’s book Episte- powerful passion.” ture may survive the test
mology of the Closet? of time. It works well with
an
A. Keats works that are highly sym-
A. Understanding sexual- bolic.What approach has
ity is crucial to under- B. Shelley this advantage?
standing culture. C. Wordsworth
A. Mimetic
B. Understanding homo- D. Coleridge
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sexuality has little effect B. Psychological
74. Coleridge’s Biographia Lit-
on understanding culture.
eraria appeared in the C. Historical/Biographi-
year ?. cal
C. Literary study is unaf- A. 1817
fected by a lack of interest D. Mythological/Archety-
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in sexuality. B. 1818 pal
D. All of the above an- C. 1718 78. Ultimately, the literary

swers are correct. theory of deconstruction
D. 1717
argues that:
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71. A critic of Thomas Ot- 75. Which of the following fig-

way’s "Venice Preserv’d" ures is considered to be the A. the meaning of a text
wishes to know why the father of the linguistic the- always relies on context.
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play’s conspirators, de- ory known as structural- B. texts are always hetero-
spite the horrible, bloody ism? geneous.
details of their obviously
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A. Cleanth Brooks
brutish plan, are portrayed C. any system for the pro-
in a sympathetic light. She B. Ferdinand de Saussure duction of meaning is in-
examines the author’s life C. Karl Marx evitably bound by context,
and times and discovers yet also limitless.
that there are obvious sim- D. Toni Morrison
ilarities between the con-76. They believe that this ap-
swers are correct.
spiracy in the play and the proach tends to reduce art
Popish Plot. She is most to the level of biography79. Christopher Ricks would
likely a critic. and make it relative (to the most likely DISAGREE
times) rather than univer- with which of the follow-
A. Historical
sal. What approach posing claims about literary
B. Feminist sess this disadvantage? theory?
70. A 71. A 72. B 73. C 74. A 75. B 76. C 77. D 78. D

A. Literary theory is lim- 83. The statements below are87. The statements below are
ited in its ability to inter- parts of the steps on "How parts of the steps on
pret a text. to Analyze a Play". Which "How to Explicate Poetry".
comes in as second thing Which comes in as second
B. Literary theory of-
to do before writing a crit- to the last thing to do be-
ten depends on esoteric
ical essay of a play? fore writing a critical es-
knowledge to be properly
say of a poem?
understood.
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A. Identify External Fac-
A. Interpret the Poem.
C. Literary theory is em- tors Related to the Work
ployed mostly by aca- B. Introduce External
demics.
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B. Interpret the Play Support.
D. Literary theory is the C. Analyze the Staging C. Analyze the Elements
only proper way to con- of the Poem
ceptualize literary texts. D. Analyze the Essential
D. Evaluate the Poem.
an
Elements of the Play
80. In which capter of Bi-
ographia Lieraria, Co- 84. In which the following88. Aristotle and Plato belong
leridge make a distinction works Plato discusses his to phase of criti-
between fancy and imagi- Theory of Poetry? cism.
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nation? A. Hellenic
A. Apology
A. 14 B. Hellenistic
B. Ion
B. 15 C. Renaissance
C. The Republic
C. 12 D. Graeco-Roman
D. Phaedrus
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D. 13 89. The key word that char-

85. Is Dryden’s Essay of Dra- acterised the Romantic
81. This critical approach as- matic Poesy a work of?
sumes that language does movement was
not refer to any external A. Interpretative Criti- A. Inspiration
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reality. It can assert sev- cism

eral, contradictory inter- B. Imagination
B. Legislative Criticism
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pretations of one text. C. Fancy

C. Comparative Criticism
A. Deconstructionism D. Decorum
B. Formalist Criticism 90. In which essay did Arnold
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D. Textual Criticism
C. Structuralism say that for good literature
86. The term Electra Com- to flourish two powers are
D. Mimetic Criticism plex has originated from necessary – creative and
82. Wordsworth’s theory of a tragedy entitled Electra. the critical
poetry appears in Who is the author of his
A. The Function of Criti-
tragedy?
A. Excursion cism
A. Aeschylus
B. Tintern Abbey Lines B. The Study of Poetry
B. Sophocles C. Preface to Eighteen
C. Preface to the Lyrical
Ballads C. Euripides Fifty Three poems
D. Immortality Ode D. Seneca D. Essay on Wordsworth
79. D 80. D 81. A 82. C 83. C 84. C 85. C 86. B 87. A 88. A 89. B 90. A
91. What do structuralist and A. A reversal B. Compose topic sen-

formalist critics have in tences (four or five, per-
B. An imitation
common? haps) that support, ex-
C. A satire plore, demonstrate, or il-
A. Both sets of critics re-
lustrate your thesis.
ject the importance of his- D. A poetic metaphor
torical context in studying96. Which of the following C. Select specific passages
literature. in the text of the story that
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best describes the differ-
help you to develop each
B. Both sets of critics look ence between literary crit-
topic sentence.
for an objective way to icism and literary theory?
view texts. D. Build your paper to a
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A. Literary criticism is
climax; save your most en-
C. Both sets of critics fo- concerned only with the
gaging or important topic
cus on evaluating litera- meaning of a literary
sentence for discussion
ture in a scientific manner. work, while literary the-
last.
an
ory is concerned only with
the structure of a literary98. Who is the author of Ars
D. All of the above an- work. Poetica?
swers are correct.
B. Literary criticism A. Plato
92. Who considers poetry ‘a
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draws upon research de- B. Aristotle
mother of lies’
rived from sources out-
A. Aristotle side literature, while lit- C. Horace
erary theory draws upon D. Longinus
B. Plato
sources within a text.
C. Pope 99. Who called Dryden the Fa-
C. Literary theory is con- ther of English Criticism?
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D. Stephen Gosson cerned with the method

A. Joseph Addison
93. Who was the first literary used to interpret a work,
critic who said that “Art is while literary criticism is B. Dr. Johnson
twice removed from real- the application of literary C. Coleridge
y
ity”? theory.
D. Matthew Arnold
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A. Plato D. All of the above an-

swers are correct. 100. Which of the follow-
B. Aristotle ing ideas relates to J.L.
97. The statements below are Austin’s performativity
C. Longinus parts of the steps on "How theory?
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D. Horace to Write an Analytical Es-

say about Short Fiction". A. Performance is the ul-
94. Michael Foucault was the
Which comes in as the last timate objective of all hu-
major practitioner of this
thing to do in the writing man beings.
school of criticism.
an essay about short fic- B. Language is used to in-
A. Formalist Criticism tion? dicate action as well as
B. Deconstructionism A. Begin your paper with thought.
an introduction that iden- C. Individuals perform
C. Structuralism
tifies the purpose of the pa- gender actively.
D. Mimetic Criticism per and the text you are
addressing. D. All of the above an-
95. What is mimesis? swers are correct.
91. D 92. B 93. A 94. C 95. B 96. C 97. A 98. C 99. B 100. B 101. B
101. From whom did New His- C. Only the Unity of Ac- C. Biography is essential
toricists draw the idea of tion should be observed to literary analysis
"self-regulating systems"?
D. All the three Unities D. All of the above an-
A. Theodor W. Adorno should be observed swers are correct.
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss 105. With which theorist is109. Which of the following
the concept imaginative critics preferred Shake-
C. Julia Kristeva
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geography associated? speare’s Comedies to his
D. Jacques Derrida Tragedies?
A. Julia Kristeva
102. “The end of writing is to A. Dryden
B. Fredric Jameson
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instruct, the end of poetry B. Pope
is to instruct by pleasing.” C. Terry Eagleton
Whose view is this? C. Dr. Johnson
D. Edward Said
A. Wordsworth’s D. Addison
106. Who established the
an
110. In which book of the Re-
B. Coleridge’s Lyceum?
public did Plato ban poets
C. Dr. Johnson’s A. Plato from his ideal world?
D. Matthew Arnold’s B. Aristotle A. Book 7
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103. The statements below are C. Horace B. Book 10
steps on "How to Read and C. Book 1
D. Longinus
Understand an Expository
Essay". Which comes in as107. Which literary theory D. Book 5
an initial thing to do be- would most directly ex- 111. A critic argues that in
an
fore writing an expository plore questions of the role John Milton’s "Samson Ag-
essay? of spatial setting in a onistes," the shearing of
poem? Samson’s locks is sym-
A. Identify the Mode of
Development A. Trauma theory bolic of his castration
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at the hands of Delilah.

B. Analysis of the Author B. Ecotheory What kind of critical ap-
proach is this critic using?
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C. Game theory
C. Subsequent Read- D. Marxist theory A. Mimetic approach
ings/Reviews
108. In Fredric Jameson’s B. Formalist approach
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D. Identify External Fac- book The Political Uncon-

C. Historical approach
tors Related to the Work scious, what does Jameson
suggest about literature? D. Psychological ap-
proach
104. Regarding the obser- A. History comprises the
vance of the three Clas- essential framework for112. “Of all philosopher’s
sical Unities in a play, Dr. the performance of liter- Plato is the most poetic.”
Johnson’s view is that: Who said this
ary analysis
A. Only the Unity of Time B. Politics and the econ- A. Philiph Sidney
should be observed omy are the most im- B. Shelley
B. Only the Unity of Place portant factors in literary C. Aristlotle
should be observed analysis
D. Keats
102. C 103. B 104. C 105. D 106. B 107. B 108. A 109. C 110. B 111. D
112. A 113. B
113. With which theorist is of Asian countries by the119. Which of the following
the term implied reader as- West. human behaviors is impor-
sociated? B. It illustrates the funda- tant to a Freudian psycho-
A. Wolfgang Iser mental political equality analytic study of William
of all nations. Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
B. William Wimsatt A. Neurotic behavior
C. It was produced by
C. Cleanth Brooks
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Western scholarship. B. Changes in emotional
D. Harold Bloom states
114. According to Aristotle swers are correct. C. Slips of the tongue
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the unravelling of the plot117. What is the main func- D. All of the above an-
A. Should arise from the tion of literary theory? swers are correct.
circumstances of the plot A. To understand the im- 120. What does Judith But-
itself portance of the formal ele- ler mean when she sug-
B. By supernatural ma-
chinery
C. By narration an
ments of literary structure gests that gender is "per-
formed"?
B. To formulate relation- A. Gender does not re-
ships among an author, a flect an essential truth, but
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D. By the choral odes reader, and a literary work rather is a role people
play based on their inter-
115. What does Elaine nalization of socially con-
Showalter argue about C. To understand the role structed gender roles.
gender in terms of repre- of sexuality, gender, race,
sentations of the charac- and ethnicity in literary B. Gender roles do not ex-
an
ter of Ophelia in William study ist.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet? D. All of the above an- C. Real gender roles are
A. Ophelia’s madness rep- swers are correct. scripted by excellent writ-
resents the social oppres- ers.
y
118. How are Julia Kristeva’s

sion of women. psychoanalytic theories D. All of the above an-
swers are correct.
B. It is nearly impossible distinct from traditional
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to represent women as Freudian concepts? 121. What is the philosophical

anything other than mad A. Kristeva rejects the theory known as pragma-
in patriarchal discourses. idea that neuroses provide tism?
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insight into the uncon- A. A maxim of logic devel-

C. Feminist critics need to
scious. oped by Charles Sanders
re-appropriate Ophelia for
their own purposes. B. Kristeva suggests that Peirce
women are not subject to B. A theory of practi-
traditional fetishes. cal actions developed by
swers are correct.
C. Kristeva offers a more William James
116. What does Edward Said
central place for women’s C. An idea used to guide
argue about the concept of
issues within psychologi- conduct towards clear ob-
the Orient?
cal development. jectives
A. It has little relation- D. All of the above an- D. All of the above an-
ship to the colonization swers are correct. swers are correct.
114. A 115. D 116. C 117. D 118. C 119. D 120. A 121. D

122. What is hermeneutics? A. Wordsworth and on the characters of

Adam, Eve, Satan, and
A. A term that describes B. Coleridge
God. He pays special at-
the absence of racial oth- C. Arnold
tention to the epic simi-
ers in the canon
D. Goethe les and metaphors and the
B. A term that describes point of view from which
the attempt to read homo- 127. This literary critic coined the tale is being told. He
er
sexuality into literature the term "fancy." looks for meaning in the
A. Samuel Taylor Co- text itself, and does not
C. A term that describes
leridge refer to any biography of
the effect of autobiogra-
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Milton. He is most likely a
phy on text B. Virginia Woolf
critic.
D. A term that describes C. Matthew Arnold
A. Reader Response
the interpretation of mean- D. Carl Jung
ing B. Feminist
an
128. How does Virginia
123. Plato’s Republic is writ- Woolf’s essay "A Room C. Mimetic
ten in the form of of One’s Own" contribute D. Formalist
A. Drama to feminist theory? 131. What does Ben Jonson
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B. Narrative mode A. It suggests that the sup- mean by a ‘Humorous
pression of women is part Character’?
C. Poetry of a historical climate that A. A character who is al-
D. Dialogue will naturally fade away. ways cheerful and gay
124. The phrase “willing sus- B. It suggests that gender B. A character who is by
an
pension of disbelief” ap- roles are conditioned by nature melancholy

plies to which poet/critic? the possession of money C. A character whose
and power.
A. Charles Lamb temper is determined by
C. It suggests that gender the predominance of one
y
B. Joseph Conrad has power over class. out of the four fluids in
C. Coleridge D. All of the above an- the human body
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swers are correct. D. An eccentric person

D. Wordsworth
129. Name the author of The132. Who called Aristotle “the
125. The concept of otherness New Criticism.
very Alexander of criti-
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is related to which of the

following theories? A. F. R. Leavis cism”?
A. Saintsbury
A. Psychoanalytic theory B. Allen Tate
C. John Crowe Ransom B. Murray
B. Feminist theory
D. R. P. Blackmur C. Atkins
C. Ethnic criticism
130. A critic examining John D. Tyllard
Milton’s "Paradise Lost"133. Who is the author of
swers are correct.
focuses on the physical de- Symposium?
126. Who contributed the scription of the Garden of
A. Aristotle
term “to see the object Eden, on the symbols of
as in itself it really is”? hands, seed, and flower, B. Dante
122. D 123. D 124. C 125. D 126. C 127. A 128. B 129. C 130. D 131. C
132. A 133. D 134. A
C. Longinus 137. With which feminist the- C. Formalism

orist is gynocriticism most
D. Plato D. Mimetic Approach
closely associated?
134. In her essay "The Laugh 141. Who originated the term
A. Elaine Showalter "objective correlative,"
of the Medusa," what does
Hélène Cixous suggest for B. Julia Kristeva which is often used in
women? formalist criticism?
C. Lucy Irigaray
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A. Women should write D. Louise M. Rosenblatt A. C.S. Lewis
for and about themselves
138. Which text argues that, B. Virginia Woolf
in order to counter phallo-
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as infants, human beings C. Matthew Arnold
centric texts.
begin to define their iden-
B. Women should write, tities against the identities D. T.S. Eliot
but they should do so only of others? 142. Which of the following
within the existent male A. Judith Butler’s Gender texts is the BEST exam-
canon.
an
Trouble
C. Women should primar- B. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The
ily dedicate themselves to Souls of Black Folk
ple of the argument that
a work’s meaning does
not come entirely from
the imagination of the au-
Ch
studying women’s litera-
ture from the past. C. Roland Barthes’s "The thor?
Death of the Author" A. Plato’s The Republic
swers are correct. D. Jacques Lacan’s "The B. T.S. Eliot’s "Tradition
Mirror Stage . . . " and the Individual Talent"
135. How did the New Critics139. Who accused Aristotle of
an
view literature? social snobbishness and ar- C. Jacques Derrida’s Of

A. As an aesthetic object rogance? Grammatology
that is independent of his- A. Willy Loman
torical context D. Jacques Lacan’s “The
y
B. Arthur Miller Mirror Stage ”

B. As an aesthetic object
143. The term ‘collective un-
that is influenced by his- C. Henry James
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conscious’ is coined by
torical context D. David
A. Carl Jung
C. As a historical object140. What approach is de-
scribed by the paragraph? B. Sigmund Freud
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that is also aesthetic

This approach takes as a
D. As a historical object fundamental tenet that "lit- C. Ernest Jones
that is not necessarily aes- erature" exists not as an ar- D. Erik Erikson
thetic tifact upon a printed page144. What is the original
136. Aristotle discusses the but as a transaction be- meaning of the term
theory of Tragedy in : tween the physical text Hamartia?
and the mind of a reader.
A. Art Poetique A. To miss the mark
A. Historical/Biographi-
B. Poetics cal Approach B. Sin
C. Rhetoric B. Reader Response Ap- C. Tragic flaw
D. Ars Poetica proach D. Flaws
135. A 136. B 137. A 138. D 139. B 140. B 141. D 142. B 143. A 144. A
145. D
145. Dryden wrote An Essay D. All of the above an- A. To connect human be-
of Dramatic Poesy. Is swers are correct. ings with a higher ideal
this? 149. Aristotle’s critical work B. To entertain those who
A. An Essay is entitled: enjoy it
B. A Drama A. Ars Poetica C. To criticize society
C. A Poetical Work B. Poetics through satire
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D. An Interlocution C. De Arte Poetica D. All of the above an-
146. In which chapter of D. Art Poetique swers are correct.
Biographia Literaria
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150. This poet might be de- 154. Arnold’s views on poetry
Coleridge criticize the
scribed as a moral or philo- and criticism are discussed
theory of language of
sophical critic for argu- in ?
Wordsworth?
ing that works must have A. Preface to the Poems
an
A. 16 "high seriousness."
B. On translating Homer
B. 17 A. T.S. Eliot
C. “Scholar Gypsy”
C. 14 B. Matthew Arnold
D. Culture and Anarchy
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D. 15 C. Elizabeth Browning
147. Reader-response theory 155. Who was the originator
D. Virginia Woolf of the Theory of Imitation
is focused on considering
which of the following? 151. One of the potential dis- in Literature?
advantages of this ap-
A. How readers learn to
proach to literature is that A. Longinus
read
an
it can reduce meaning to a B. Aristotle

B. How readers imagine certain time frame, rather
visual images in a text than making it universal C. Plato
C. How readers partici- throughout the ages. D. Horace
y
pate in creating the mean- A. Formalist 156. In general, what is Judith

ing of a text Butler’s concept of gen-
B. Historical
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D. How readers regard der?

C. Feminist
critics A. Women’s gender is ar-
148. In Of Grammatology, D. Mimetic tificial, while men’s gen-
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Jacques Derrida argues152. Which of the follow- der is not.

what about literature? ing theorists is associated
B. While gender is not
A. No fixed, stable mean- with formalism?
real, the stereotypes that
ing is possible. A. Viktor Shklovsky accompany it are true.
B. Language must be stud- B. Cleanth Brooks C. Gender is largely a cul-
ied in conjunction with tural construct.
history in order to create C. Judith Butler
meaning. D. Mikhail Bakhtin D. All of the above an-
swers are correct.
C. Literature is timeless,153. According to Plato, what
and thus meaning does not is the moral purpose of157. The probable date of com-
change. art? position of Ars Poetica is
146. C 147. C 148. A 149. B 150. B 151. B 152. A 153. A 154. D 155. C
156. C 157. B
A. 100 BC A. 1798 A. They must be observed

B. 12 to 8 BC B. 1800
C. 15 AD B. It is not necessary to
C. 1801 observe them
D. 20 AD
D. 1802 C. He favours the obser-
158. What is New Histori-
162. What is phenomenol- vance of the Unity of Ac-
cism?
er
ogy? tion only
A. A theory that sees his-
D. Their observance de-
tory as a form of writing A. The examination of
pends upon the nature of
and discourse structures informing our
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the theme of the play
B. A theory that aban- conscious experience
165. Who for the first time dis-
dons the idea of history as B. The examination of de-
criminated between imag-
an imitation of events sires informing our con- ination and fancy?
an
C. A theory that regards sciousness
A. Coleridge
history as a series of nar- C. The examination of
ratives our unconscious experi- B. William Wordsworth
D. All of the above an- ence C. John Ruskin
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swers are correct.
D. The examination of in- D. Schegell
159. What is double con- tricate structures within166. With which theorist is
sciousness? our unconscious phenomenology associ-
A. An early aspect of eth-
163. Which of the following ated?
nic criticism statements best explains A. Edmund Husserl
an
B. An understanding of the main objective of New

B. Wolfgang Iser
how double experiences Historicism?
create identity C. Jean-Paul Sartre
A. Texts are examined to
C. A concept developed see how colonizers and the D. All of the above an-
y
by W.E.B Du Bois colonized interact. swers are correct.

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D. All of the above an- B. Texts are examined to167. Which of the following
swers are correct. see how the formal aspects texts provides the best
160. Who said “theatre is not of the text create meaning. example of defamiliariza-
a hospital”? tion?
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A. F.L. Lucas A. Aristotle’s Poetics

C. Texts are examined to
B. J K Atkins determine how they reveal B. Leo Tolstoy’s The
social realities. Kreutzer Sonata
C. Derrida
D. Hillis Miller D. Texts are examined to C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart
determine the author’s in- of Darkness
161. Wordsworth’s Preface to
tent. D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The
the Lyrical Ballads is be-
lieved to be the Pream- 164. What does Sidney say Souls of Black Folk
ble to Romantic Criticism. about the observance of168. Poetic Diction was taken
In which year was it pub- the three Dramatic Unities to be the standard lan-
lished? in drama? guage for poetry in:
158. D 159. D 160. A 161. B 162. A 163. C 164. A 165. B 166. D 167. B
168. B
A. The Elizabethan Age 173. What is the purpose of177. Which school of theorists
B. The Neo-Classical Age feminist theory? is most closely associated
A. To advocate for with phenomenology?
C. The Romantic Age women’s rights A. The Moscow School
D. The Victorian Age B. To create literary sub- B. The Chicago School

jects with which female
169. Who coined the expres- C. The Frankfurt School
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readers can identify
sion “objective corela- D. The Geneva School
tive”? C. To critique phallocen-
178. Among the following
tric assumptions about lit-
A. Coleridge which is not a work by
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erature
B. T. S. Eliot Aristotle?
C. Allen Tate swers are correct. A. Ethics
D. F. R. Leavis 174. Which literary theorist B. Metaphysics
an
170. Which of the following argues that "there is noth- C. Rhetoric
writers might be con- ing outside the text"?
sidered one of the early A. T.S. Eliot
founders of first-wave
D. Ars Poetica
179. How does Wolfgang Iser
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B. Jacques Lacan envision the reader?
feminism?
C. Jacques Derrida A. The reader fills in the
A. Hélène Cixous
D. Stanley Fish gaps imposed by an au-
B. Judith Butler thor’s intention.
175. What has Dryden to say
C. Lucy Irigaray about the observance of B. The reader is subli-
an
D. Mary Wollstonecraft the three Classical Dra- mated beneath the author.
171. On the Sublime is consid- matic Unities?
ered A. He advocates their C. The reader is less im-
A. A classical approach strict observance portant than the author’s
y
context.
B. Romantic approach B. He does not advocate
their strict observance D. All of the above an-
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C. Neo-classical approach swers are correct.

C. He says that every
dramatist should decide it180. Ecotheorists tend to
D. None of these for himself show an interest in which
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172. This feminist critic proof the following?

D. He is silent about this
posed that all female char- A. How writers concep-
issue
acters in literature are in tualize natural environ-
176. In a Freudian approach to
at least one of the follow- ments and the representa-
ing stages of development: literature, concave images tion of environmental is-
the feminine, feminist, or are usually seen as: sues in literature and cul-
female stage. A. Female symbols ture
A. Virginia Woolf B. Phallic symbols B. How writers have dam-
B. Elaine Showalter C. Male symbols aged the environment
C. Mary Wolstencraft D. Evidence of an Oedi- C. How the environment
D. Ellen Mores pus complex can be repaired
169. B 170. D 171. B 172. B 173. D 174. C 175. B 176. A 177. D 178. D
179. A 180. A
D. Who is responsible A. Historical a suppression of the "bes-

for damaging the environ- tial" side of man and one
B. Formalist
ment which sees it as resulting
181. In his essay "What Is an C. Mimetic from too little suppression.
Author?" what position(s) D. All of these We can look to the text
on authorship does Michel and ask: What textual evi-
Foucault take? 185. In her essay "The Poem dence is there for the sup-
er
as Event," Louise M. Rosen- pression or indulgence of
A. The idea of the author blatt sees the reader as per- the "bestial" side of man?
came into being at a cer- forming what function? Does Ralph suppress Jack
tain point in history.
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A. The reader participates when he tries to indulge
B. The names of authors in a transaction with the his bestial side in hunt-
serve a classificatory func- text. ing? Does it appear from
tion. the text that an imposition
B. The reader is acted of stricter law and order
an
C. The author may not al-
upon by the text. would have prevented the
ways exist.
C. The reader acts upon breakdown? Did it work
D. All of the above an- in the "grownup" world of
the text.
swers are correct. the novel? What purpose
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182. How many times do the D. All of the above an- does this prescribe to?
word Katharsis appear in swers are correct.
A. To help resolve a ques-
the Poetics 186. How do Marxist theorists tion, problem, or difficulty
A. 3 react to ideology? in the reading.
B. 2 A. They accept ideology B. To help decide which is
an
as an essential, although the better of two conflict-

C. 4
sometimes problematic, ing readings.
D. 6 part of society.
183. Which of the following C. To enable to form judg-
B. They subject all ideolo-
y
texts is considered the first ments about literature.

gies to critique in order to
example of postcolonial expose biased interests. D. All of the above an-
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criticism? swers are correct.

C. They reject the idea
A. Harold Bloom’s "An El-
that ideology has real ef-188. Which of the following
egy for the Canon"
fects on social progress. offers the best definition
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B. Jacques Lacan’s "The of écriture féminine?

Mirror Stage . . . " D. All of the above an-
swers are correct. A. How women really feel
C. Cleanth Brooks’s about male writers
"Keats’s Sylvan Historian"187. One purpose of LITER-
ARY CRITICISM is de- B. The inscription of
scribed below: A formal- womanhood and feminin-
D. Edward Said’s Orien- ist approach might enable
ity in texts
talism us to choose between a
184. What approach to liter- reading which sees the C. Second-wave femi-
ary criticism requires the dissolution of society in nism
critic to know about the Lord of the Flies as be- D. Psychological studies
author’s life and times? ing caused by too strict of women
181. D 182. B 183. D 184. A 185. D 186. B 187. B 188. B

189. What approach is de- C. Dr. Johnson between the characters

scribed by the paragraph? and their society?
D. Addison
Those who apply this ap- Does the story address so-
193. Plato has a positive view
proach believe it is neces- cietal issues, such as race,
sary to know about the au- of art, in so far as gender, and class?
thor and the political, eco- A. It represents the nature How do social forces
nomical, and sociological shape the power relation-
er
context of his times in or- ships between groups or
B. It contributes to the
der to truly understand his classes of people in the
spiritual growth of people
works. story? Who has the power,
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and who doesn’t? Why?
C. It shows a tragedy How does the story reflect
cal Approach
D. It imitates nobility urban, rural, or suburban
B. Moral/ Philosophical values?
Approach 194. What are some common Does the story address
an
criticisms of literary the- issues of economic ex-
C. Formalism
ory? ploitation? What role does
D. Psychological Ap- money play?
A. Theory has replaced
proach How do economic con-
literary appreciation with
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190. From where has the term formulas for understand- ditions determine the di-
Oedipus Complex origi- ing. rection of the characters’
nated? lives?
B. The reasoning of the-
A. Oedipus the Rex Do any of the characters
ory is often too circular.
correspond to types of
B. Oedipus at Colonus C. Many theories have government, such as a
an
C. Antigone been pushed too far into dictatorship, democracy,

abstraction. communism, socialism,
D. Jocasta, the Queen of fascism, etc.? What atti-
Thebes D. All of the above an-
swers are correct. tudes toward these politi-
y
191. Who said that Arnold cal structures/systems are

was a propagandist for195. Plato said that art is an expressed in the work?
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literature rather than a imperfect reflection of the What approach can be

critic? real world because noted from the questions?
A. Carlyle A. Art presents only part
A. Feminist
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of the world
B. Ruskin
B. Art describes only B. Archetypal
C. T. S. Eliot what appears and not C. Formalist
D. F. R. Leavis what is real
D. Sociological
192. “Be Homer’s works your C. Art tells lies about the
study and delight. Read world 197. What did Sigmund Freud
them by day and meditate believe about the uncon-
D. Art is an exaggeration
by night.” Who gives this scious?
of the world
advice to the poets?
196. Go over the following A. a. It contains secret in-
A. Dryden stincts and desires that are
questions:
B. Pope What is the relationship repressed.
189. A 190. A 191. C 192. B 193. B 194. D 195. B 196. D 197. A

B. It is the only significant A. Sophocles 204. What is denouement?

aspect of the human psy- A. The ending of a
B. Plautus
che. tragedy
C. Plato
C. It can never be ac- B. The ending of a com-
cessed. D. Critus
edy
D. All of the above an- 201. What do many contem-
C. The climax in a tragedy
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swers are correct. porary theorists find prob-
lematic about the literary
198. Which of the following canon? D. The climax in a com-
literary theorists is most edy
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closely associated with A. It includes too few205. New trends in literary
the concept that became works by non-European theory tend to do which
known as liberal human- writers. of the following?
ism? B. It includes too few
an
A. Aristotle works by non-white writ- A. Reject all previous
ers. modes of literary theory
B. Viktor Shklovsky B. Focus on a return to tra-
C. It includes too few
C. Stanley Fish ditional critical methods
works by women.
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C. Make use of different
D. Toni Morrison D. All of the above an-
literary theories in order
swers are correct.
199. How does literary theory to develop new theories
resemble the practice of 202. According to Jacques La-
D. Work only with ideas
philosophy as it was devel- can, the mirror stage is the
developed by post-Marxist
oped by Plato and Aristo- point at which a child:
an
theorists
tle? A. refuses maternal206. According to Aristotle
A. Literary theory en- bonds. pity and fear are evoked
gages with theoretical B. is able to separate the by
y
rather than real-world "I" from the "Other."

A. Comedy
issues.
C. looks into a mirror for B. Tragedy
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B. Literary theory asks the first time.

fundamental questions C. Satire
about literary interpreta- D. All of the above an-
D. Melodrama
tion, and at the same time swers are correct.
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207. This literary critic

builds specific systems of203. In Dryden’s Essay of Dra-
warned: "We must remem-
literary interpretation. matic Poesy there are four
ber that the greater part of
interlocuters representing
C. Literary theory relies our current reading mat-
four different ideologies.
totally on speculation ter is written for us by
Which of them expresses
rather than history. people who have no real
Dryden’s own views?
belief in a supernatural
A. Lisideius order . . . And the greater
swers are correct.
part . . . is coming to
B. Eugenius
200. Who was the most be written by people who
illustrious disciple of C. Neander not only have no such be-
Socrates? D. Crites lief, but are even ignorant
198. A 199. B 200. C 201. D 202. B 203. C 204. B 205. C 206. B 207. B
of the fact that there are A. Psychological Critics A. Understanding the au-
still people in the world B. Feminist critics thor’s ideas in the context
so ’backward’ or so ’ec- of the real world
centric’ as to continue to C. Formalist critics
B. Entering the author’s
believe." D. Marxist critics mind through his or her lit-
A. C.S. Lewis 211. A critic examining Pope’s erary works
"An Essay on Man" asks
er
B. T.S. Eliot C. Reproducing the au-
herself: How well does
C. G.K. Chesterton thor’s thoughts in a criti-
this poem accord with the
cal context
D. Matthew Arnold real world? Is it accurate?
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Is it moral? She is most D. All of the above an-
likely a critic. swers are correct.
descriptions best defines
the literary theory known A. Feminist 216. Go over the following
as formalism? questions:
an
B. Reader Response
How does this story re-
A. An approach that em- C. Formalist semble other stories in
phasizes literary devices plot, character, setting, or
in a text D. Mimetic
symbolism?
212. Plato equated poetry
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B. An approach that em- What universal experi-
with painting, and Aris-
phasizes the historical con- ences are depicted?
totle equated it with
text of a text Are patterns suggested?
A. drama Are seasons used to sug-
C. An approach that em-
gest a pattern or cycle?
phasizes the biographical B. music
Are the names significant?
intent of a text
an
C. dance Is there a Christ-like fig-

D. An approach that em- D. none ure in the work?
phasizes racial issues in a Does the writer allude to
213. Horace was a
text biblical or mythological
y
209. The statements below are A. Greek writer literature? For what pur-
steps on "How to Read and B. Roman Writer pose?
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Understand an Expository What aspects of the work

C. Italian writer
Essay". Which comes in as create deep universal re-
an initial thing to do be- D. English writer sponses to it?
fore writing an expository214. How many poets were in- How does the work re-
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essay? cluded in Jhonson’s ‘The flect the hopes, fears, and

expectations of entire cul-
A. Identify the Mode of Lives of Most Eminent En-
glish Poets’? tures (for example, the
Development
ancient Greeks)?
B. Analysis of the Author A. 48 How do myths attempt to
B. 50 explain the unexplainable:
C. Subsequent Read- C. 52 origin of man? Purpose
ings/Reviews and destiny of human be-
D. 54 ings?
D. All of the above an- 215. According to the Geneva What common human
swers are correct. School, what is the func- concerns are revealed in
210. The New Critics were: tion of the reader? the story?
208. A 209. B 210. C 211. D 212. B 213. B 214. C 215. D

How does the story reflect How do economic con- 220. With what literary critic
the experiences of death ditions determine the di- is the term the author func-
and rebirth? rection of the characters’ tion most closely associ-
What events occur in the lives? ated?
story? (Quest? Initiation? Do any of the characters
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Scapegoating? Descents correspond to types of
into the underworld? As- government, such as a B. Jacques Derrida
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cents into heaven?) dictatorship, democracy, C. Jacques Lacan
What images occur? (Wa- communism, socialism,
ter, rising sun, setting sun, fascism, etc.? What atti- D. Michel Foucault
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symbolic colors) tudes toward these politi-
221. Who proposed that poets
What characters appear in cal structures/systems are should be banished from
the story? (Mother Earth? expressed in the work? the ideal Republic?
Femme Fatal? Wise old What approach can be
man? Wanderer?) noted from the questions? A. Plato
What settings appear?
(Garden? Desert?)
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A. Feminist
What approach can be B. Archetypal
noted from the questions? C. Formalist
B. Aristotle
D. Sir Thomas More
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A. Sociological D. Sociological 222. What is dialectical mate-
rialism?
B. Feminist 218. Who made a difference
between ‘poetry’ and A. A form of literary crit-
C. Archetypal icism that is based on his-
‘poem’
D. Formalist torical context
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A. Coleridge
217. Go over the following B. Addison B. A form of literary crit-
questions: icism that does not incor-
What is the relationship C. Arnold porate economic concerns
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between the characters D. Eliot

and their society? C. A form of literary crit-
219. What does gynocriti-
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Does the story address so- icism based on linguistic

cietal issues, such as race, cism recommend as an analysis
gender, and class? approach to literature?
How do social forces A. Examining only D. A term related to gen-
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shape the power relation- female-authored literature der theory that argues that
ships between groups or more critically men are dominant in soci-
classes of people in the ety by virtue of their eco-
B. Considering women’s nomic privilege
story? Who has the power,
literature outside of its his-
and who doesn’t? Why? 223. What approach is de-
torical context
How does the story reflect scribed by the paragraph?
urban, rural, or suburban C. Becoming more famil- Users of this approach be-
values? iar with the history of lieve that all information
Does the story address women and women’s writ- essential to the interpre-
issues of economic ex- ing tation of a work must be
ploitation? What role does D. All of the above an- found within the work it-
money play? swers are correct. self; there is no need to
216. C 217. D 218. A 219. C 220. D 221. A 222. A

bring in outside informa- is that it tends to make230. The statements below are
tion about the history, pol- readings too subjective. steps on "How to Read
itics, or society of the time, a Short Story Critically".
A. Reader Response Criti-
or about the author’s life. Which comes in as the last
cism
thing to do in the critical
B. Formalist Criticism reading of a narrative?
cal Approach
C. Historical Criticism
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B. Moral/ Philosophical A. Analyze the Structure
Approach of the Story
D. These are all equally
subjective B. Analyze Rhetorical El-
C. Formalism
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227. Plato used the word ements
D. Psychological Ap-
mimesis in relation to lit- C. Analyze the Meaning
proach
erature with the meaning of the Story (Interpreta-
224. An Elizabethan Puritan tion)
critic denounced the poets A. Copying
of a commonwealth’.
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as ‘fathers of lies’,’schools B. Criticism of life
of abuse’ and’caterpillars
C. Representation
Mark him out from the D. Interpretation
D. Analyze the Essential
Elements of the Story
231. One archetype in liter-
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ature is the scapegoat.
following crities:
228. The fall of the prison of Which of these literary
A. William Tyndale Bacille, that marks the be- characters serves that pur-
gining of French Revolu- pose?
B. Roger Ascham
tion occured on
A. Billy Budd
C. Stephen Gosson
A. June 14,1789
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D. Henry Howard B. Hamlet

B. June 14, 1798
225. What is the main func- C. Captain Ahab
tion of postcolonial criti- C. July 14, 1789
D. Ophelia
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cism? D. July 14,1798

232. Who coined the term ’es-
A. To represent the rela- 229. How does New Histori- emplastic’?
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tionship between coloniz- cism differ from tradi-

ers and the colonized tional historicism? A. William Worsworth
B. To draw attention to A. New Historicism re- B. Browning
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the positive effects of col- jects the idea that history

C. Coleridge
onization on literature is neutral.
D. Eliot
C. To explain why there B. New Historicism does
are few examples of suc- not make strict delin- 233. Modern literary theory
cessful non-Western liter- eations between literary began with the work of
ature and non-literary texts. which theorist?
D. To show the ways in C. New Historicism takes A. Ferdinand de Saussure
which most Western liter- a particular interest in
ature is superior B. Viktor Shklovsky
marginalized peoples.
226. One of the disadvantages C. Roland Barthes
of this school of criticism swers are correct. D. Michel Foucault
223. C 224. C 225. A 226. A 227. C 228. C 229. D 230. B 231. A 232. C
233. A 234. D
234. Philip Sidney’s Apologie its. What approach pos- of styles

for Poetrie is a defence of sess this disadvantage?
C. A term used to explain
poetry against the charges
A. Psychological the use of multiple points
brought against it by:
of view in literature
B. Formalism/New Criti-
A. Henry Howard
cism D. All of the above an-
B. Roger Ascham swers are correct.
C. Moral/Philosophical
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C. John Skelton 237. Who is the writer of
D. Historical/Biographi-
‘Hamlet and Oedipus’
D. Stephen Gosson cal
(1949)
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235. Detractors argue that236. What is dialogism?
A. Carl Jung
such an approach can be
A. A term developed by
too "judgmental." Some B. Harold Bloom
Mikhail Bakhtin
believe literature should
C. Ernest Jones
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be judged primarily (if not B. A term used to describe
solely) on its artistic mer- how texts include a variety D. Erik Erikson
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IV
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5 Introduction to Literary Studies . 241
6 Introduction to Literary Theory . 255

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7 Cultural and Literary English Renais-
sance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
8 Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Cen-

turies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
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9 Cultural and Literary in Modernity

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10 Medieval Literature and Culture 307

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11 Medieval Women Writers . . . . . . . 321

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12 The Gothic Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
13 English Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . 345
14 Modern Poetry and Poetics . . . . . . 355
15 The Victorian Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
16 African-American Literature . . . . 397
17 Restoration & Eighteenth-century

Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
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1. The Freudian concept B. Persuasion is the art inous and violent end-
of "the uncanny" refers of lying to good effect. ings.
to:
C. Persuasion is the op- C. Shakespeare only
A. a feeling of being posite of rhetoric. presents fictional politi-
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disconnected from the cal rulers and does not

D. Persuasion is the
world. explore any political
use of syllogisms to in-
realities.
B. a sense of something fluence the opinions of
readers and listeners.
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being familiar and for- D. Shakespeare consid-

eign at once. 3. According to An- ers all political rulers to
be corrupt.
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C. terror at the thought thony DiMatteo’s

of death. "Shakespeare and the 4. Which of the following
Public Discourse of offers the best defini-
D. a realization of Sovereignty: ’Reason tion of a frame narra-
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one’s empowered po- of State’ in ’Hamlet’", tive?

sition in the world. how does Shakespeare
tend to present political A. A narrative that in-
rulers in Hamlet? troduces readers to the
offers the best defini-
main characters of a
tion of the concept of A. Shakespeare story
persuasion? presents political rulers
as flawless, perfect hu- B. A narrative that
A. Persuasion is the art
man beings. summarizes the plot
of making readers or lis-
of the novel
teners believe what the B. Shakespeare
writer or speaker is stat- presents political rulers C. A story within a
ing. as often meeting ru- story
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. C
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D. A story that re- A. In a Greek tragedy, C. They were written

minds the reader that evil people are van- by medieval mystics.
the story is fictional quished by the forces of
D. They were pro-
5. Which of the follow- good.
duced by medieval craft
ing statements demon- B. In a Greek tragedy, guilds, which were
strates the use of characters undergo re- knows as “mysteries".
pathos? versals of fortune, usu-
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10. As a mode of liter-
A. According to really for the worse. ary criticism or the-
search, 22 percent of C. In a Greek tragedy, ory, gender theory at-
the American popula- tempts to bring which
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the hero suffers but al-
tion owns an unsecured ways survives at the of the following to liter-
handgun. end of the play. ary texts?
B. I own a handgun D. In a Greek tragedy, A. An understanding
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and keep it in a secure the tragic hero dies at of the various concep-
place in my house. the end of the play. tions and understand-
C. Every month in ings of gender that have
8. What does Percy Shel- carried throughout var-
the United States, at ley mean when he
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least 100 children are ious cultures
refers to poets as be-
wounded or killed as ing the “unacknowl- B. An understanding
a result of unsecured edged legislators of the of gender as a human
handguns. world"? construct
D. Handguns don’t kill A. He is suggesting C. An understanding
people, people do.
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that artists serve to de- of how standard histo-

6. Which of the follow- velop culture. ries of western societies
ing statements would are presented in terms
B. He is suggesting of heterosexual identity
Percy Shelley, author of
that all artists are from
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“A Defense of Poetry",
high social classes.
agree with? D. All of these.
C. He is suggesting
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A. Art serves a particu- 11. Which of the following

that artists are re-
lar worldly purpose. offers the best descrip-
pressed throughout so-
B. Art’s supreme func- ciety. tion of the concept of
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tion is to entertain the pathos?

D. He is suggesting
public. A. Pathos refers to a
that the making of laws
C. Artists are danger- is itself an art. writer’s presentation of
ous to social order. character and image.
9. What is one reason that
D. Artists serve to con- Mystery Plays are re- B. Pathos refers to
struct the foundations ferred to as such? a writer’s ability to
of culture. present evidence.
A. They involve the
7. Which of the following solving of a crime. C. Pathos refers to a
statements offers the writer’s ability to in-
best characterization of B. They explore myste- spire action in readers.
a Greek tragedy? rious religious topics.
5. C 6. D 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. D 11. D
D. Pathos refers to D. Common, everyday A. Fate and free will

a writer’s ability to language
B. The corruptive force
inspire emotional re- 14. Jane Austen’s of technology
sponses in readers. “Northanger Abbey"
12. Which of the fol- pursues which of the C. The power of reli-
lowing statements following themes? gious faith
best summarizes the
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A. The conflict be- D. Disobedient chil-
main idea behind An- dren
tween marriages based
thony DiMatteo’s es-
on love and those based 17. Which of the following
say, "Shakespeare and
on money
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the Public Discourse of offers the best descrip-
Sovereignty: ’Reason of B. The ways in which tion of the concept of
State’ in ’Hamlet’"? appearances don’t al- ethos?
ways match realities A. Ethos refers to a
A. Hamlet is a tragedy
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focusing on the plight C. The danger in not writer’s presentation of
of the early-modern recognizing the differ- character and image.
self. ence between reality
B. Ethos refers to
and fiction
B. Hamlet is a tragedy a writer’s ability to
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that reflects Shake- D. All of these present evidence.
speare’s own political 15. As a mode of literary C. Ethos refers to a
circumstances. criticism or theory, for- writer’s ability to in-
C. Hamlet is a tragedy malism attempted to spire action in readers.
that focuses on the Eliz- bring which of the fol-
an
abethan era’s loss of lowing to literary stud-

faith in humanity’s abil- ies? D. Ethos refers to a
ity to govern itself with- writer’s ability to in-
A. An awareness of spire emotional re-
out violence. the historical circum- sponses in readers.
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D. Hamlet is a tragedy stances surrounding a

that reflects upon en- text’s production 18. Which of the following
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lightened and progres- statements best defines

B. A set of objective cri- the poetic form of the
sive political systems teria for critical analy-
that developed during villanelle?
sis
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Shakespeare’s time. A. A poem that has no

C. An awareness of rhyme scheme
13. In his preface to
the economic circum-
"Lyrical Ballads",
stances surrounding a B. A poem that eulo-
Wordsworth calls for
literary text gizes the dead
poetry to be written in
what kind of language? D. Strict criteria for C. A poem that car-
evaluating the quality ries a pattern on two
A. Typically poetic and
of a literary text rhymes and offers an al-
fanciful language
16. Sophocles’ "Oedipus ternating refrain
B. Ancient languages
the King" explores D. A poem that cele-
C. Complicated and which of the following brates the life of a cruel
difficult language themes? person
12. C 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. A 17. A 18. C 19. A

19. Which of the following B. A play in which A. Formalism focuses

offers the best defini- characters experience on examining how a
tion of the literary term reversals of fortune, text exemplifies its
motif? usually for the better writer’s psychology.
A. A recurring element C. A play in which no B. Formalism focuses
in a story that is sym- characters die or suffer on examining the struc-
bolically significant
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D. A play in which elite tural dynamics of po-
members of society are ems.
B. A character’s fatal
flaw mocked C. Formalism focuses
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22. Which of the following on examining the use of
C. A rhyme scheme
poetic lines is an exam- literary devices within
D. A character’s mo- ple of a couplet? a literary text.
ment of self-realization A. "Into my head there D. Formalism focuses
in a narrative
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will come / a beach of on examining the his-
20. What is the relationship cotton, a dock where torical contexts and
between the practices from." backgrounds of literary
of New Historicism and B. "To kiss the sky / to texts.
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New Criticism? be the sun / is to live for- 25. Dr. Allen Shoaf’s es-
A. New Historicism ever." say, “’Hamlet’: Like
was a reaction against C. "I heard a car crash Mother, Like Son", ar-
New Criticism, which / just as I died." gues which of the fol-
was seen as too nar- lowing points?
D. "Death comes for all
rowly focused on text
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of us / even you." A. Hamlet’s father’s

rather than context.
23. Which of the following ghost is not really a
B. Both fields of liter- lines provides an exam- ghost.
ary study are American ple of a poetic apostro- B. Hamlet feels a sense
y
in origin. phe? of desire for both his

C. New Historicism is A. "She is a woman of mother and his father.
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simply an early form of beauty and wonder."

Cultural Materialism. C. Hamlet is truly in-
B. "Death, that which sane in the play.
D. Both fields of study feels nothing."
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are strictly focused on D. Hamlet is an impos-

C. "Milton, thou sible play to truly un-
how readers interpret
shouldst be living at derstand.
and invent meanings
this hour: / England
for literary texts. 26. A postmodern play
hath need of thee."
21. Which of the following would most likely not
D. "I wandered lonely
offers the best defini- make use of which of
as a cloud."
tion of a Greek theatri- the following theatrical
cal comedy? 24. Which of the following traditions?
serves as the best defini-
A. A play in which tion of the literary crit- A. A minimalist stage
characters make hu- ical practice of formal- and strict adherence to
morous remarks ism? the script
20. A 21. B 22. A 23. C 24. C 25. B 26. A

B. Video clips and the 29. Which of the following between Hamlet and
use of popular music offers the best descrip- his mother?
tion of literary theory?
C. Nonlinear story- A. Hamlet is placed in
telling and the embrace- A. Literary theory in- a position that can be
ment of popular culture volves coming to a pre- conceptualized as femi-
cise understanding of a nine.
writer’s psychology.
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D. A pastiche of differ- B. Hamlet despises his
ent literary and histori- B. Literary theory in- mother and suspects
cal sources volves measuring the she has killed his father.
quality of a literary
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27. Which of the follow- work.
ing offers the best def- C. Hamlet is entirely
inition of a theatrical C. Literary theory in- masculinized through-
tragedy? volves considering the out the play, and thus,
an
publication history of is ultimately unlike his
A. A play that depicts literary texts. mother in terms of his
the downfall of a noble position in the play.
D. Literary theory in-
person
volves describing the D. Hamlet has a per-
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B. A play in which underlying principles sonality disorder.
someone gets revenge of a literary work.
30. In poetry, each unit of 33. Which of the following
rhythm is known as: statements offers the
C. A play in which a best definition of the
hero faces likely defeat A. a line. term Bildungsroman?
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and overcomes it
B. a foot. A. A story of one per-
D. A play in which no son’s fall from grace
form of humor appears C. a measure.
and into destruction
D. a meter.
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28. Which of the following B. A story of one per-

statements about the 31. What is hermeneutics?
son’s growth and devel-
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plot of Shakespeare’s A. A system for catego- opment within a partic-

"Hamlet" is not true? rizing books ular social order
A. Hamlet is deeply dis- B. The psychological C. A story of one per-
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turbed by his father’s study of authors son’s success within

death. a capitalistic economic
C. The study of textual
B. It is never proven interpretation system
within the play that D. A story of one per-
D. A reader-response
Claudius murdered son’s self-realization
test
King Hamlet. and attempt to return
32. In Dr. R. Allen Shoaf’s
C. Hamlet doubts the to innocence
article, "’Hamlet’: Like
proper course of action Mother, Like Son", 34. Psychoanalytic criti-
to take. Shoaf argues which of cism during its earliest
D. Ophelia dies by the following points stages tended to focus
drowning. about the relationship on:
27. A 28. B 29. D 30. B 31. C 32. A 33. B 34. A

A. the psychologies of A. A novel set in the D. Hamlet desires at-

individual authors. past taining the throne of
Denmark, of which
B. the typographical B. A novel that con-
Ophelia is a symbol.
structures of literary sists entirely of dia-
texts. logue
C. A novel that is set in 40. A writer can establish
C. translation issues.
ethos in a piece of writ-
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the countryside of Eu-
D. how children relate rope ing by doing which of
to their parents in terms the following?
of literary texts. D. A novel that con-
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sists of a series of docu- A. Using informal lan-
35. A play that begins in ments, such as diary en- guage
medias res: tries, letters, and news- B. Demonstrating a
A. begins at the appar- paper articles mastery of the topic
an
ent end of the story. 38. In his introductory lec-
C. Appealing to the
B. introduces the char- ture, how does Paul Fry
reader’s emotions
acters of the play one by define literary theory?
one. D. Using logic and rea-
A. A hypothesis about
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how literary texts can
C. opens by plunging
be understood 41. Marxist theory focuses
the viewer into a crucial
on examining which of
series of events. B. A methodology for
the following aspects of
applying ideas to liter-
D. begins with a pre- literary texts?
ary texts
view of the play’s con-
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C. The practice of in- A. The political and so-

clusion.
terpreting literary texts cial meanings of liter-
36. Which of the following ary texts
lines of poetry is writ-
ten in iambic pentame- D. A trend in univer- B. Characters who are
y
ter? sity English depart- sympathetic to issues

ments facing the working
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A. “To be or not to be, classes

that is the question." 39. Which of the following
statements best repre- C. The relationship be-
B. “And the world sents Lacan’s view of tween economics and
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didn’t even think of Ophelia in his essay, the production of liter-

stopping for me." "Desire and the Inter- ary texts
C. “I played about the pretation of Desire in
D. All of these
front gate, pulling flow- ’Hamlet’"?
ers." 42. In Beckett’s “Waiting
A. Hamlet desires his
for Godot", which of
D. “I wandered lonely mother, not Ophelia.
the following state-
as a cloud." B. Hamlet desires re- ments best describes
venge, not Ophelia. the play’s setting?
ing statements offers C. Hamlet desires A. Stark and sterile
the best definition of an Ophelia, but only when
epistolary novel? she is unattainable. B. Flowery and ornate
35. C 36. A 37. D 38. A 39. C 40. B 41. D 42. A

C. Futuristic and tech- conversations about lit- C. Traditional literary

nologically advanced erary texts. criticism focused on
C. capable of realizing tracking influences and
D. Ancient and sophis-
that the viewpoints of textual allusions and
ticated
some critics are more considering the histori-
43. According to Dr. important than others. cal contexts of literary
Frances Pritchett’s ver- texts.
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sion of Shamsur Rah-
D. aware that Hamlet D. Traditional literary
man Faruqi’s "The His-
is a remarkable work of criticism attempted to
torical Novel and the
literature. consider the psycholog-
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Historical Narrative",
ical aspects of literary
what is the difference 45. A gothic novel will
texts.
between a historical probably not deal with
narrative and a histori- which of the following 48. A work of literary criti-
cal novel? themes? cism that considers how
A. A historical narra-
tive and a historical
novel are the same an
A. The sublime
B. The supernatural
social and economic
power structures are de-
picted in a 19th-century
English novel would be
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thing. C. Love
an example of which
B. A historical narra- D. The manners and type of literary criti-
tive tells only part of traditions of the upper cism?
the story surrounding a classes
46. Which of the following A. Marxist criticism
historical event; a his-
torical novel tells the are common literary el- B. Reader-response
an
whole story. ements used to analyze criticism

novels?
C. A historical novel fo- C. Psychoanalytic criti-
cuses on providing the A. Character cism
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reader with only the B. Setting

central truth of a his- D. New Criticism
C. Plot
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torical event, while a 49. Which of the follow-

historical narrative at- D. All of these ing descriptions of Jane
tempts to tell the en- 47. What is the difference Austen’s “Northanger
tire truth of a historical between traditional Abbey" seems most ap-
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event. literary criticism and propriate?

D. Faruqi actually ar- post-New Criticism lit-
A. It offers a critique
gues that historical nov- erary theory?
of Romantic poetry and
els do not exist. A. Traditional literary ideology.
44. Gerald Graff’s “They criticism is mainly fo-
cused on exploring gen- B. It serves to parody
Say, I Say" encourages gothic novels.
students to become: der issues.
B. Traditional literary C. It is a horror novel.
A. passive readers and
criticism only examines D. It is a memoir based
critics of literary texts.
pre-20th-century liter- on Jane Austen’s child-
B. involved in critical ary texts. hood.
43. C 44. B 45. D 46. D 47. C 48. A 49. B

50. Which of the follow- A. I began driving at Richard Chase identi-

ing statements best de- the age of 16 and have fies which of the follow-
scribes Catherine More- never been involved in ing as a main difference
land in “Northanger a serious car accident. between novels and ro-
Abbey"? mances?
B. No one under the
A. She is mature and re- age of 18 should be al- A. The language in
alistic. lowed to drive. which they are written
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B. She is immature and C. Research has B. The way they view
has difficulty recogniz- demonstrated that reality
some people under the
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ing the difference be-
C. The way they are
tween fact and fiction. age of 18 do not have
structured
the proper judgment
skills to handle operat- D. The type of people
C. She is a matchmaker who write them
ing a car.
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trying to set up ro-
mances between her D. Every year count- 55. What does a prologue
friends, all the while unless people are killed by serve to do in a Greek
able to find true love drivers under the age of tragedy or comedy?
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herself. 18. A. Introduce the main
D. B and C 53. Aristotle felt that ethos characters
was established by a
51. Lauren Beth Signore’s B. Preview the play’s
speaker or writer by
essay, “Anne of Green conclusion
convincing the audi-
Gables: The Trans- ence that: C. Provide insight into
an
formation from Bil- the play’s mythological

dungsroman to Roman- A. the author or
background
tic Comedy", argues speaker was of good
that Anne of Green mind and character. D. Remind the viewers
Gables is ultimately of what kind of play
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B. the author or
what kind of charac- speaker was emotion- they are viewing
ter? ally involved in the 56. Which of the following
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A. A romantic await- topic at hand. represents a stage of de-

ing true love velopment in the poetic
C. the author or
form of the elegy?
speaker has provided
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B. A cynic awaiting the

world’s destruction proper logic and evi- A. Lamentation, in
dence in support of his which the speaker
C. A delusional girl topic. demonstrates grief
with no grasp on real-
D. the author or B. Praise and admira-
ity
speaker maintained the tion for the dead
D. A young girl with a appropriate critical dis-
C. Consolation and so-
particularly dark mind- tance from the topic.
lace
set
52. Which of the follow- 54. According to Dr. Mark D. All of these
ing statements demon- Canada’s "An Intro- 57. In his "Poetics", Aristo-
strates use of logos? duction to the Novel", tle suggests that tragic
50. D 51. A 52. C 53. A 54. B 55. C 56. D 57. A

literary works should tion of the concept of lo- C. George du Maurier

be: gos? attacked the social po-
sition of the novelist in
A. logical in terms of A. Logos refers to a
his illustrations.
plot and structure. writer’s presentation of
character and image. D. George du Maurier
B. complex in terms of
B. Logos refers to was a tremendous influ-
plot and structure.
ence on Victorian nov-
er
a writer’s ability to
C. without any sort of elists.
present evidence.
moral insight. 63. Which of the following
C. Logos refers to a
D. sad. statements best exem-
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writer’s ability to in-
plifies the main idea put
58. Feminist criticism fo- spire action in readers.
forward by John Milton
cuses on exploring
in book 9 of Paradise
which of the follow-
D. Logos refers to a Lost?
an
ing aspects of literary
writer’s ability to in-
texts? A. Satan was ulti-
spire emotional re-
mately heroic.
A. How women are sponses in readers.
portrayed in literary 61. Which of the follow- B. The fall of Adam
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texts ing statements offers and Eve was a tragic
the best definition of a event.
B. The psychologies of
female writers novel of manners? C. Adam and Eve were
A. A novel that attacks driven to evil by their
C. How women have children.
been socially oppressed the lower classes
an
in literary texts B. A novel set in Eu- D. God abandoned the

rope in the 18th century realm of Eden without
D. All of these reason.
59. Reader-response the- 64. Which of the following
C. A novel that ex-
y
ory focuses on consid- statements about Greek

ering how: plores the behavior and
tragedies is true?
values of a particular
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A. readers choose their class of people A. They were not pop-

favorite works of litera- ular with ancient Greek
ture. D. A novel that ex-
audiences.
plores class conflict
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B. readers experience a B. They were usually

62. What is the central ar-
literary work. set in the past.
gument in Dr. Richard
C. readers decide Kelly’s "The Novelist’s C. They were almost
which works of liter- Eye"? never set in the past.
ature to read.
A. All novelists are D. They were often
D. readers develop painters at heart. done in honor of the
their own unique and B. George du Mau- Greek god Zeus.
personal critical dis- rier felt that black-and- 65. In Shakespeare’s "Ham-
courses. white illustrators could let", what does Hamlet
60. Which of the following be as important as nov- mean when he states
offers the best descrip- elists and painters. that, "there is more in
58. D 59. B 60. B 61. C 62. B 63. B 64. B

heaven and earth C. All mammals are 70. In “Characters of Shake-

than are dreamt of in warm-blooded, all dogs speare’s Plays", how
your philosophy"? are mammals, hence all does William Hazlitt ul-
dogs are warm-blooded. timately conceptualize
A. There is such a
the character of Ham-
thing as an afterlife.
let?
D. All dogs have hair,
all people have hair, A. As a crazed fool
er
B. Dreams always tell
hence anything with B. As a profound philo-
the truth.
hair is a dog or a person. sophical genius
C. There are some as-
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pects of existence that C. As boyish and im-
68. Which of the following mature
cannot be explained statements best repre-
through reason. sents the main theme of D. As a brilliant war-
D. Heaven exists on Beckett’s "Waiting for rior
an
earth. Godot"? 71. Which of the follow-
ing statements offers
66. Which of the follow- A. The world can be
the best definition of
ing descriptions best de- fully understood if peo-
"rhetoric"?
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scribes the character of ple listen closely to
Hamlet? what others are saying. A. Questions for which
the answers are obvious
A. Hamlet is depressed
yet highly intelligent. B. Good things, includ-
ing salvation, come to B. Persuasive writing
B. Hamlet is naive and and speaking
those who are patient.
an
simple minded.
C. Redemption comes C. Writing that is com-
C. Hamlet is spoiled plicated and scholarly
from surrendering to a
and manipulative.
higher power. D. Logical writing and
D. Hamlet is intellectu- speaking
y
D. People are funda-

ally passive and deeply 72. In his essay, "Charac-
mentally unable to real-
frightened of his fa- ters of Shakespeare’s
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ize any sort of inherent

ther’s ghost. Plays", William Hazlitt
meaning in existence.
67. Which of the following conceptualizes Hamlet
69. A picaresque novel dra-
statements is a proper as:
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matizes the life of what

example of what Aristo- kind of person? A. a disturbed and in-
tle termed a syllogism? sane man.
A. A member of the
A. All dogs have four royalty B. a man of tremen-
legs, all creatures do dous humor, simplic-
not have four legs, B. A lowborn, wander- ity, and innate good-
hence all creatures with ing adventurer ness and kindness.
four legs are dogs. C. A member of the C. a depressed but ulti-
B. All men breathe air, middle class engaging mately good and nonvi-
all dogs breathe air, in self-exploration olent man.
hence all men are dogs. D. A child as he or she D. a wicked and manip-
develops into an adult ulative man.
65. C 66. A 67. C 68. D 69. B 70. B 71. B 72. C

73. In Samuel Taylor Co- C. A hero or protago- D. had a negative view

leridge’s “Rime of the nist who is tempted by of human nature.
Ancient Mariner", why a villain
does the Mariner kill D. All of these are examples of literary
the albatross?
76. What are some of the interpretation?
A. For revenge hallmarks or conven- A. Investigating the
er
tions of the poetic form relationship between
B. To change the
of the ode? words and objective
weather
A. Simplicity in lan- reality
C. To bring forth life-
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guage, brevity in form, B. Comparing the
in-death
and humorousness in Bible to folk tales from
D. It is never directly attitude other cultures
stated why he does so. B. Complexity in lan- C. Researching an au-
an
74. According to Dr. guage, lengthiness in thor’s biography for
Frances Pritchett’s ver- form, and seriousness clues about how to un-
sion of Shamsur Rah- in attitude derstand his or her writ-
man Faruqi’s "The His- C. Simplicity in lan- ing
Ch
torical Novel and the guage, lengthiness in
Historical Narrative", D. Researching what
form, and humorous-
which of the following previous critics have
ness in attitude
offers the best defini- said about a literary
D. Complexity in lan- work
tion of a "history"?
guage, brevity in form,
80. In her text, "History of
an
A. A narrative based and humorousness in

the Novel", How does
entirely on verifiable attitude
Dr. Agatha Taormina
facts 77. What form of verse is define the novel?
B. A narrative that usually sung and details
A. A narrative that em-
y
does not analyze char- a dramatic or exciting

episode? phasizes character de-
acters on a situation-
velopment
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by-situation basis A. An ode

B. A narrative with a
C. A narrative without B. An elegy unified, plausible plot
characters C. An epitaph structure
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D. A narrative that D. A ballad C. A narrative that con-

takes place in the past. veys the illusion of real-
78. According to Dr.
75. Which of the follow- Taormina, Victorian ity
ing is a component of novelists generally: D. All of these
a gothic novel? A. wanted to subvert 81. Which of the follow-
A. An atmosphere of middle class values. ing assertions would
dread, fear, and dark- B. accepted middle William Wordsworth
ness class values. most likely agree with?
B. An isolated protago- C. wrote in a hyperre- A. Poetry should be
nist alistic fashion. written in the common
73. D 74. B 75. D 76. B 77. D 78. B 79. B 80. D

language of ordinary C. Compares his love A. Epic theater is plot-

people. to a turbulent sea driven theater.
B. Poetry should fo- D. Compares his love B. Epic theater turns
cus on the lives and to his fear of death the passive spectator
thoughts of elite people. 85. Which of the following into an active observer.
offers the best defini-
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C. Poetry should never tion of a fable? C. Epic theater privi-
concern itself with the A. A story in which the leges feeling over rea-
natural world. author provides an ex- son.
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D. Poetry should plicit moral
D. Epic theater main-
rhyme. B. A story that takes tains the illusion of re-
82. Ethos is important to es- place in the distant past alism.
tablish in which of the 89. Which of the following
following types of argu-
ments?
A. Emotional argu-
anC. A light-hearted, hu-
morous story in which
viewers are shown
proper ways to behave
are examples of poetic
structures?
A. Lines of text with
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ments words that rhyme at the
B. Political arguments D. A story told to little end
children
C. Deductive argu- B. A continuous block
ments of text
may be an antagonist
D. Inductive argu- to the protagonist of a C. Unrhymed lines
an
ments novel?
D. All of these
83. Which of the following A. Another character
concepts does Aristotle 90. Which of the follow-
B. The protagonist ing statements offers
consider to be the most
y
important element of a C. Society the best definition of a

Greek tragedy? tragic hero?
D. All of these
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A. Plot 87. Shakespeare’s "A A. A noble person who

Midsummer Night’s becomes completely
B. Poetic diction corrupted
Dream" can be de-
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C. Song composition scribed as what kind B. A cowardly person

D. Stage design of play? who doubts himself or
A. A comedic play herself despite possess-
84. In Shakespeare’s "Son- ing great wealth and po-
net 18", the poet does B. A tragic play litical power
C. A modern play C. A cowardly person
ing?
D. A tragi-comedy who shows some per-
A. Compares his love
88. Which of the follow- sonal strength when
to a winter storm
ing best describes epic faced with a crisis
B. Compares his love theater as defined by D. A noble person who
to a summer’s day Berthold Brecht? makes a costly mistake
81. D 82. B 83. A 84. B 85. A 86. D 87. A 88. B 89. D 90. D 91. A
91. Which of the following the actions of the play D. Hamlet is a work
poems can be described while participating in that was written to be
as a haiku? them read, not performed.
A. Pound’s "In a Sta- D. A group of charac- 96. Which of the following
tion of the Metro" ters who comment on offers the best defini-
the actions of the play tion of the concept of
B. Bishop’s "One Art"
while not participating narrative poetry?
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C. Auden’s "Paysage in them
Moralisé" A. A narrative poem is
94. A work of criticism vague and difficult in
D. William Shake- that considers how
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style.
speare’s "Sonnet 18" the author’s childhood
trauma influenced his B. A narrative poem is
characters would be an a poem that does not
92. In his essay, "The Sig-
example of: have a plot or tell a
an
nificance of Fictionaliz-
story.
ing", Wolfgang Iser ar- A. psychoanalytic criti-
gues which of the fol- cism. C. A narrative poem
lowing points? has a plot and tells a
B. Marxist criticism. story.
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A. Historically, writers
have been considered C. New Criticism.
D. A narrative poem is
liars or at the very least D. structuralism. a poem written in the
irrelevant. 95. In "Characters of Shake- style of a conversation.
B. Fictionalizing real- speare’s Plays", what
ity is a basic human does William Hazlitt 97. A work of criticism
an
need. mean when he states that considers how En-

the following: "We do glish imperialism af-
C. Every text includes
not like to see our au- fected native Indian au-
traces from the outside
thor’s plays acted, and thors would be an ex-
y
world, including social,

least of all, ’Hamlet’. ample of:
historical, and literary
There is no play that
remnants.
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suffers so much in be- A. Marxist theory

D. All of these. ing transferred to the B. psychoanalytic the-
93. Which of the follow- stage"? ory
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ing offers the best def- A. Hamlet cannot be C. postcolonial theory

inition of the theatrical staged properly be-
concept of a chorus? cause of the complexity D. deconstruction
A. Members of the au- of the play’s use of lan- 98. Which of the follow-
dience who comment guage. ing statements best de-
on the play’s actions B. Hamlet is not rele- scribes the worldview
B. Characters who re- vant to the Romantic represented by post-
mind the audience that age. modern theater?
the play is fictional C. The role of Ham- A. The world is a
C. A group of charac- let cannot be properly bright and interesting
ters who comment on played by any actor. place.
92. D 93. D 94. A 95. C 96. C 97. C 98. B

B. Universal truth 99. What are the basic ques- that sexual identity is
doesn’t exist, and au- tions literary theory not fixed and, instead,
dience members must asks? is generated by cultural
discover truth for them- forces?
A. What is literature?
selves.
B. Why do people A. Deconstruction
C. The world is so com-
plex that it does not re- write literature? B. Marxist theory
er
quire literature or the- C. What are the effects
ater. C. Reader-response
of literature?
theory
D. Mainstream audi-
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D. All of these.
ences are so shallow D. Queer theory
that it is not worth writ- 100. Which school of lit-
ing plays for them. erary theory contends
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99. D 100. D
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6. Introduction to Literary Theory
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1. The concept of other- 3. Which school of liter- A. How women really
ness is related to which ary theory shows a par- feel about male writers
of the following theo- ticular interest in the
B. The inscription of
ries? role of testimony in lit-
womanhood and femi-
an
erature?
A. Feminist theory ninity in texts
A. Trauma theory C. Second-wave femi-
B. Ethnic criticism
B. Ecotheory nism
C. Postcolonial theory
y
C. Chaos theory D. Psychological stud-

D. All of the above. ies of women
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D. Formalism
2. In her essay "The Poem 6. What is hermeneutics?
as Event," Louise M. 4. With which feminist A. A term that de-
Rosenblatt sees the theorist is gynocriti- scribes the absence
reader as performing
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cism most closely asso- of racial others in the

what function? ciated? canon
A. The reader is acted A. Elaine Showalter B. A term that de-
upon by the text. scribes the attempt
B. Julia Kristeva
B. The reader acts to read homosexuality
upon the text. C. Lucy Irigaray into literature
C. The reader brings in- D. Hélène Cixous C. A term that de-

dividual knowledge to scribes the effect of
his or her reading of the autobiography on text
ing offers the best def-
text. inition of écriture fémi- D. A term that de-
D. All of the above. nine? scribes the interpreta-
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D
256 Chapter 6. Introduction to Literary Theory
tion of meaning B. Literary criticism D. Gender is largely a

7. Which of the follow- draws upon research cultural construct.
ing statements best derived from sources 12. Which of the following
describes Cleanth outside literature, while figures is considered to
Brooks’s attitude to- literary theory draws be the father of the lin-
wards studying litera- upon sources within a guistic theory known
ture? text. as structuralism?
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A. Critics should exam- C. Literary criticism is A. Cleanth Brooks
ine historical informa- concerned with how
characters in a text act, B. Ferdinand de Saus-
tion surrounding a lit-
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while literary theory sure
erary work.
is concerned with why C. Karl Marx
B. Critics should de- characters act.
velop universal read- D. Sigmund Freud
D. Literary theory is
an
ings of texts.
13. What is false conscious-
concerned with the
C. Critics should con- ness?
method used to inter-
sider evolving notions
pret a work, while lit- A. A feminist term for
of a text over time.
erary criticism is the the state that occurs
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D. Critics should at- application of literary when texts written by
tempt to paraphrase theory. women are not consid-
texts in order to find out ered in the study of lit-
10. Trauma theory is
what they mean. erature
tremendously influ-
8. Which school of liter- enced by which the- B. Another term for
an
ary theory is associ- oretical school? the unconscious

ated with the phrase
"to make the stones A. Psychoanalysis C. A term related to the
stonier"? period of psychosex-
B. Marxism
ual development that
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A. Humanism C. Feminism occurs before an in-

B. Formalism fant reaches the mirror
D. Deconstruction
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stage
C. Structuralism 11. In general, what is Ju-
D. An ideology that
D. Poststructuralism dith Butler’s concept of
involves dominating
gender?
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9. Which of the following the consciousness of

best describes the dif- A. Women’s gender is exploited classes
ference between liter- artificial, while men’s 14. How do Marxist theo-
ary criticism and liter- gender is not. rists react to ideology?
ary theory?
B. While gender is not A. They accept ide-
A. Literary criticism is real, the stereotypes ology as an essential,
concerned only with that accompany it are although sometimes
the meaning of a liter- true. problematic, part of so-
ary work, while liter-
C. Gender is a prob- ciety.
ary theory is concerned
only with the structure lematic, but essentially B. They subject all ide-
of a literary work. true, category. ologies to critique in or-
7. B 8. B 9. D 10. A 11. D 12. B 13. D 14. B

der to expose biased in- 18. What is dialectical ma- 21. Which of the follow-
terests. terialism? ing descriptions best de-
fines the literary theory
C. They reject the A. A form of literary
known as formalism?
idea that ideology has criticism that is based
real effects on social on historical context A. An approach that
progress. B. A form of literary emphasizes literary de-
er
D. They promote ideol- criticism that does not vices in a text
ogy because it helps to incorporate economic
B. An approach that
create a dominant so- concerns
emphasizes the histor-
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cial order. C. A form of literary ical context of a text
15. Which literary theo- criticism based on lin-
rist argues that "there guistic analysis C. An approach that
is nothing outside the emphasizes the bio-
D. A term related to
an
text"? graphical intent of a
gender theory that text
A. T.S. Eliot argues that men are
dominant in society by D. An approach that
B. Jacques Lacan
virtue of their economic emphasizes racial is-
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C. Jacques Derrida privilege sues in a text
D. Stanley Fish 19. What is the purpose of
feminist theory? 22. Which of the following
16. Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosof-
texts provides the best A. To create literary sky Sedgwick’s book
example of defamiliar- subjects with which fe- Epistemology of the
an
ization? male readers can iden- Closet?

tify
A. Aristotle’s Poetics A. Understanding sex-
B. To critique phallo-
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The uality is crucial to un-
centric assumptions
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Kreutzer Sonata derstanding culture.

about literature
C. John Keats’s "Ode C. To counter stereo- B. Understanding ho-
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on a Grecian Urn" types about women mosexuality has little

D. Joseph Conrad’s effect on understanding
D. All of the above. culture.
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20. What is double con-

17. Which of the following sciousness? C. Literary study is un-
writers might be con- affected by a lack of in-
sidered one of the early A. An understanding terest in sexuality.
founders of first-wave of how double experi-
feminism? ences create identity D. Understanding ho-
B. A concept devel- mosexual themes in
A. Hélène Cixous novels has become too
oped by W.E.B Du Bois
B. Judith Butler routine.
C. Lucy Irigaray C. An attempt to ex- 23. How does New Histori-

plain dual identity cism differ from tradi-
D. Mary Woll-
stonecraft D. All of the above. tional historicism?
15. C 16. B 17. D 18. A 19. D 20. D 21. A 22. A

A. New Historicism guage to communicate C. The examination of

does not make strict de- our unconscious experi-
lineations between lit- ence
D. All of the above.
erary and non-literary
D. The examination
texts. 26. What are some com-
of intricate structures
mon criticisms of liter-
B. New Historicism within our unconscious
ary theory?
takes a particular in-
er
terest in marginalized A. The reasoning of
29. What is the main goal
peoples. theory is often too cir-
of ethnic criticism?
cular.
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C. New Historicism is A. To rectify the dou-
interested in how texts B. Many theories have ble experiences of cer-
help us understand eco- been pushed too far tain racial groups
nomic realities. into abstraction.
B. To reconcile cultural
an
D. All of the above. C. Many theories are identity with individual
no longer accepted by identity
24. With what literary
their parent disciplines.
critic is the term the C. To expand the
author function most canon to include works
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closely associated? D. All of the above. authored by different
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss 27. What do structuralist racial groups
and formalist critics D. All of the above.
have in common?
B. Jacques Derrida 30. According to Plato,
A. Both sets of critics what is the moral pur-
an
C. Jacques Lacan
look for an objective pose of art?
D. Michel Foucault way to view texts.
A. To connect human
25. Which of the following B. Both sets of critics beings with a higher
best defines the work study the underlying
y
ideal
of a deconstructionist forms of texts.
critic? B. To entertain those
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C. Both sets of critics who enjoy it

A. Suggesting that the focus on evaluating lit-
study of literature is erature in a scientific C. To criticize society
based on the break- manner. through satire
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down of language into D. To bring to light so-

signs cial oppressions
28. What is phenomenol-
B. Arguing that lan- 31. In his essay "The
ogy?
guage, and therefore Business of Theory,"
literary texts, relies on A. The examination of William Deresiewicz
the difference between structures informing argues which of the
terms and therefore our conscious experi- following about Terry
constantly defers mean- ence Eagleton’s book After
ing. B. The examination of Theory?
C. Calling into ques- desires informing our A. It offers a strong out-
tion the capacity of lan- consciousness line for how theory can
23. D 24. D 25. D 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. D 30. A 31. C

be conducted in the 21st B. It is impossible to di- C. An important term

century. vorce a text from capi- in the field of New His-
talist ideology. toricism
B. It should not be read
or considered by any C. It is impossible to D. All of the above.
student or scholar. view a piece of lit- 36. Modern literary theory
erature correctly, be- began with the work of
C. It offers some valid
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cause we can only which theorist?
ideas and critiques, but
work within the hetero- A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
its author is not entirely
normative paradigm.
trustworthy.
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D. It offers a strong B. Ferdinand de Saus-
D. It is impossible to sure
counterpoint to Jacques
separate a text from
Derrida’s notion of de- C. Viktor Shklovsky
the linguistics that com-
construction. D. Roland Barthes
pose it.
32. Christopher Ricks
would most likely DIS-
AGREE with which of
the following claims
an
34. Ultimately, the literary
theory of deconstruc-
tion argues that:
37. New trends in literary
theory tend to do which
of the following?
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A. Reject all previous
about literary theory? A. texts are always het-
modes of literary the-
erogeneous.
A. Literary theory of- ory
ten depends on esoteric B. the instability of a B. Focus on a return
knowledge to be prop- text is actually evident to traditional critical
erly understood. in the text itself. methods
an
B. Literary theory is C. any system for the C. Make use of differ-

employed mostly by production of meaning ent literary theories in
academics. is inevitably bound by order to develop new
context, yet also limit-
y
theories
C. Literary theory
less.
should not be an aca- D. Work only with
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demic focus in English D. All of the above. ideas developed by

departments. post-Marxist theorists
35. What is affective fal-
38. Who coined the term
D. Literary theory is lacy?
New Historicism?
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the only proper way

A. A term that suggests A. Jacques Derrida
to conceptualize liter-
that a critic should
ary texts. B. Terry Eagleton
study the structural
33. What does hermeneutic and thematic elements C. Fredric Jameson
theory suggest about of a poem rather than
D. Stephen Greenblatt
how readers view liter- the effect it has on the
ature? emotions of the reader 39. Which of the following
statements offers the
A. It is impossible to B. A term that de- best definition of the
view a piece of litera- scribes the confusion concept of strange at-
ture as its author in- between a poem and its tractors in chaos the-
tended. result ory?
32. D 33. A 34. D 35. D 36. B 37. C 38. D

A. Strange attractors B. An idea explored by B. There are five

are mysterious forces Viktor Shklovsky phases of linguistic de-
that are entirely ran- velopment.
C. A term that de-
dom.
scribes the capacity C. Language can be an-
B. Strange attractors of art to counter the alyzed as a formal sys-
are complex forces that effects of habit tem of elements.
er
are determined by the D. All of the above. D. Linguistics is too
laws of physics. complicated to be dis-
C. Strange attractors ing ideas relates to J.L. tilled to a formula.
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are mysterious forces Austin’s performativity 45. What is generally con-
that are both random theory? sidered to be Theodor
and determined. W. Adorno’s primary
A. Performance is the
concern as a theorist?
D. Strange attractors ultimate objective of all
an
are complex forces that human beings. A. The effect of litera-
are entirely random. ture in enlightening the
B. Language is used to
human mind
40. In her essay "The Laugh indicate action as well
of the Medusa," what as thought. B. The effect of mod-
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does Hélène Cixous ern society on human
C. Individuals perform
suggest for women? suffering
gender actively.
A. Women should C. The effect of the
D. Individuals develop
write for and about economy on women’s
consciousness through
themselves in order to concerns
speech.
an
counter phallocentric 43. According to trauma D. The effect of the un-

texts. theorists, a testifying conscious mind on the
subject needs which of conscious self
B. Women should
write, but they should the following to de- 46. With which theorist is
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do so only within the liver a successful testi- the term identity think-
existent male canon. mony? ing most closely associ-
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ated?
C. Women should pri- A. A figure of judg-
marily dedicate them- ment A. Sigmund Freud
selves to studying
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B. Religious belief B. Carl Jung

women’s literature
C. A witness C. William James
from the past.
D. Psychological treat- D. Theodor W. Adorno
D. Women should be ment
unconcerned with the
struggle for identity. 44. What is the central idea 47. What does Edward Said
of Ferdinand de Saus- argue about the concept
41. What is defamiliariza- sure’s Course in Gen- of the Orient?
tion? eral Linguistics?
A. It has little relation-
A. A concept associ- A. Language is insepa- ship to the colonization
ated with Russian for- rable from its historical of Asian countries by
malism context. the West.
39. C 40. A 41. D 42. B 43. C 44. C 45. B 46. D 47. C

B. It illustrates the A. History comprises 54. With which theorist is

fundamental political the essential frame- the concept imagina-
equality of all nations. work for the perfor- tive geography associ-
C. It was produced by mance of literary anal- ated?
Western scholarship. ysis
A. Julia Kristeva
D. Its literature is less B. Politics and the
B. Fredric Jameson
er
proud that that of the economy are the most
West. important factors in C. Terry Eagleton
literary analysis
48. From whom did New D. Edward Said
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Historicists draw the C. Biography is essen-
idea of "self-regulating tial to literary analysis 55. Some critics of literary
systems"? theory argue that liter-
ary theory is problem-
A. Theodor W. Adorno D. Psychoanalysis is atic for which reason?
an
critical to literary anal-
ysis A. Literary theory does
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
not offer a holistic inter-
52. What is the main func- pretation of a text.
C. Julia Kristeva tion of postcolonial crit-
Ch
icism? B. Literary theory de-
D. Jacques Derrida pends on specialized
49. The Frankfurt School A. To represent the re- knowledge that is out-
of literary theory was lationship between col- side the realm of liter-
most greatly influenced onizers and the colo- ary studies.
by which of the follow- nized
an
ing schools of thought? C. Literary theory is

B. To draw attention to sometimes very ab-
A. Formalism the positive effects of stract and difficult to
colonization on litera- read.
B. Structuralism
ture
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C. Poststructuralism D. All of the above.

C. To explain why
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D. Marxism there are few exam- 56. Which of the following

50. Which theorist is most ples of successful non- texts is considered the
closely associated with Western literature first example of post-
the idea of art as imita- colonial criticism?
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D. To show the ways in

tion?
which most Western lit- A. Harold Bloom’s "An
A. Jacques Lacan erature is superior Elegy for the Canon"
B. Edward Said 53. Which of the following B. Jacques Lacan’s
C. Stephen Greenblatt theorists is associated "The Mirror Stage
with formalism? "
D. Plato
51. In Fredric Jameson’s A. Viktor Shklovsky C. Cleanth Brooks’s
book The Political Un- B. Cleanth Brooks "Keats’s Sylvan Histo-
conscious, what does rian"
Jameson suggest about C. Terry Eagleton
D. Edward Said’s Ori-
literature? D. Judith Butler entalism
48. B 49. D 50. D 51. A 52. A 53. A 54. D 55. D 56. D 57. B
57. To what idea does the B. A text and its author A. How writers con-
ancient Greek term apo- text are unrelated. ceptualize natural envi-
ria refer in terms of de- ronments and the rep-
C. It is possible to dis-
construction theory? resentation of environ-
till meaning from a
A. The ability of a text mental issues in litera-
work based on the au-
to contain truth ture and culture
thor’s politics.
B. How writers have
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B. The "undecidability" D. Authorial intent
and essentially unstable damaged the environ-
must be considered
nature of a text ment
when evaluating litera-
ture. C. How the environ-
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C. The idea that a text
has a specific meaning 60. Which literary theory ment can be repaired
that can be understood would most directly ex- D. Who is responsible
through a process of de- plore questions of the for damaging the envi-
construction
an
role of spatial setting in ronment
D. Jacques Derrida’s a poem?
style of writing A. Trauma theory Ricks’s attitude toward
58. Jacques Derrida’s con- literary theory?
B. Ecotheory
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cept of différance chal-
A. He considers it to be
lenges us to think about C. Game theory
vital in order to under-
language as a system
D. Marxist theory stand literary texts.
that:
61. What does gynocriti- B. He considers theory
A. mirrors our physical
cism recommend as an to be the only way that
evolution as human be-
an
approach to literature? literary texts can be in-

ings.
A. Examining only terpreted.
B. prevents us from
female-authored liter- C. He has no misgiv-
communicating
ature more critically ings about the practical
through writing or
y
speech. usability of literary the-

B. Considering ory.
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C. involves a constant
process of deferred women’s literature out- D. He feels that liter-
meaning. side of its historical ary theory is ultimately
context too limited in scope
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D. evolved exclusively
C. Studying women’s to serve as a proper
as a function of our in-
literature for its linguis- method of interpreta-
dividual psyche.
tic qualities only tion.
59. In his essay "The Death
of the Author," Roland D. Becoming more fa- 64. In his essay "What Is
Barthes argues what miliar with the history an Author?" what po-
about literature? of women and women’s sition(s) on authorship
writing does Michel Foucault
A. Biographical infor- take?
mation about the au- 62. Ecotheorists tend to
thor must be consid- show an interest in A. The names of au-
ered when evaluating which of the follow- thors serve a classifica-
literature. ing? tory function.
58. C 59. B 60. B 61. D 62. A 63. D

B. The author is not a of the responses of peo- B. To understand the

source of infinite mean- ple within a specific his- role of sexuality, gen-
ing. torical era. der, race, and ethnicity
in literary study
C. The author may not B. All linguistic and
always exist. social phenomena are C. To evaluate the role
texts, and the object of of historical context in
the interpretation of lit-
er
studying these texts is
65. What does the term to reveal the underlying erature
meta-language mean, codes that make them D. All of the above.
according to Andrzej meaningful.
gd
Warminski? 70. Trauma theory primar-
C. All linguistics is in ily developed out of the
A. A language about some way related to work of which psycho-
another language class struggle. analyst?
an
B. A supernatural lan- D. All linguistics is re- A. Sigmund Freud
guage lated to history, and
B. Carl Jung
C. A language that therefore the meaning
does not yet constitute of linguistics relies ex- C. Michel Foucault
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a real language clusively on historical
D. Jacques Derrida
context.
D. A language used by 71. Which of the follow-
a particular marginal- 68. In Of Grammatology, ing literary theorists is
ized group of people Jacques Derrida argues most closely associated
within a larger domi- what about literature? with the concept that
an
nant culture A. No fixed, stable became known as lib-

66. How did the New Crit- meaning is possible. eral humanism?
ics view literature? A. Aristotle
B. Language must be
A. As an aesthetic ob- studied in conjunction B. Viktor Shklovsky
y
ject that is independent with history in order to

C. Cleanth Brooks
of historical context create meaning.
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D. Stanley Fish
B. As an aesthetic ob- C. There is no poten-
ject that is influenced tial for multiple and dif- 72. Which school of the-
by historical context fering meanings in a orists is most closely
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work of literature. associated with phe-

C. As a historical ob- nomenology?
ject that is also aes- D. Literature is time-
thetic less, and thus meaning A. The Moscow School
does not change.
D. As a historical ob-
ject that is not necessar- B. The Chicago School
69. What is the main func-
ily aesthetic tion of literary theory?
67. Which of the following C. The Frankfurt
A. To formulate rela-
is a rule of semiotics? School
tionships among an au-
A. All linguistic con- thor, a reader, and a lit- D. The Geneva School
cepts evolve solely out erary work 73. What is dialogism?
64. D 65. A 66. A 67. B 68. A 69. D 70. A 71. A 72. D

A. A term used to de- C. Literary texts are 79. What is New Histori-
scribe how texts in- unlike dreams because cism?
clude a variety of styles they have a system A. A theory that aban-
of order and produce dons the idea of his-
B. A term used to ex- meaning. tory as an imitation of
plain the use of multi- D. Literary texts reveal events
ple points of view in lit-
er
secret elements of an B. A theory that re-
erature author’s unconscious. gards history as a series
C. A term that explains 77. Which of the following of narratives
resistance to a mono-
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texts is the BEST exam- C. A theory that capi-
lithic text ple of the argument that talizes on the interplay
D. All of the above. a work’s meaning does between literature and
74. What is mimesis? not come entirely from history
the imagination of the
an
A. A reversal D. All of the above.
author?
B. An imitation 80. What is the philosoph-
A. Plato’s The Republic ical theory known as
C. A satire pragmatism?
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D. A poetic metaphor B. T.S. Eliot’s "Tradi- A. A theory of practi-
75. What is humanism? tion and the Individual cal actions developed
A. A humanity- Talent" by William James
centered view of the C. Jacques Derrida’s Of B. An idea used to
universe Grammatology guide conduct towards
an
B. A school of the- clear objectives

D. Roland Barthes’s
ory devoted to the re- "The Death of the Au- C. A concept derived
vival of Classical (an- thor" from the ancient Greek
cient Greek and Roman) word pragma, meaning
y
literature 78. To what idea does the action

term heteroglossia re-
C. A theory that values D. All of the above.
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fer?
restraint, form, and im- 81. Which of the fol-
itation A. An infant’s inability lowing statements
to speak prior to the best explains Mikhail
Na
mirror stage Bakhtin’s philosophy

76. What fundamental idea
does psychoanalytic B. The referential rela- of language?
criticism hold about tionships among sym- A. Language includes
literary texts? bols, signifiers, and multiple social dialects
signs and jargons.
A. Literary texts
should not be read as C. The multi-layered B. Language can in-
a projection of the au- nature of language in a clude socio-ideological
thor’s psyche. literary work contradictions from the
B. Literary texts solely past.
D. The formulaic shift
reflect an author’s in- between economic and C. Language exhibits
tentions. political themes and is bound up in the
73. D 74. B 75. D 76. D 77. B 78. C 79. D 80. D 81. C

social lives and histori- A. How readers learn idea of the mirror stage.
cal context of the peo- to read
ple who speak it.
B. How readers imag- 88. According to Jacques
D. Language is loaded ine visual images in a Lacan, the mirror stage
with the intentions of text is the point at which a
others. child:
C. How readers partic-
er
82. How does Wolfgang ipate in creating the
Iser envision the A. refuses maternal
meaning of a text
reader? bonds.
D. How readers regard
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A. The reader fills in critics B. is able to separate
the gaps imposed by an the "I" from the "Other."
author’s intention.
human behaviors is im-
B. The reader is subli- portant to a Freudian C. looks into a mirror
an
mated beneath the au- psychoanalytic study of for the first time.
thor. William Shakespeare’s
Hamlet? D. first engages with
C. The reader is less
speech.
important than the au- A. Changes in emo-
Ch
thor’s context. tional states 89. What does Elaine
D. The reader is totally B. Obsessions Showalter argue about
subject to the author’s gender in terms of
intention. C. Slips of the tongue representations of the
D. All of the above. character of Ophelia in
83. Which theorist is asso-
William Shakespeare’s
an
ciated with the idea that 87. How are Julia Kris- Hamlet?
art is a copy of a copy? teva’s psychoanalytic
A. Plato theories distinct from A. It is nearly impossi-
traditional Freudian ble to represent women
y
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss concepts? as anything other than

mad in patriarchal dis-
A. Kristeva rejects the
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C. Julia Kristeva courses.

idea that neuroses pro-
D. Walter Benjamin vide insight into the un- B. Feminist critics need
84. With which theorist is conscious. to re-appropriate Ophe-
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the term implied reader B. Kristeva suggests lia for their own pur-
associated? that women are not poses.
A. Wolfgang Iser subject to traditional
C. Women’s tragedies
fetishes.
B. William Wimsatt tend to be subordinated
C. Kristeva offers a to those of men.
C. Cleanth Brooks more central place for
women’s issues within D. All of the above.
D. Harold Bloom
psychological develop-
85. Reader-response the- 90. What does Judith But-
ment.
ory is focused on con- ler mean when she sug-
sidering which of the D. Kristeva fundamen- gests that gender is
following? tally disagrees with the "performed"?
82. A 83. A 84. B 85. C 86. D 87. C 88. B 89. D 90. A

A. Gender does not re- psychosexual develop- A. It suggests that the

flect an essential truth, ment. suppression of women
but rather is a role peo- is part of a historical cli-
B. Kristeva centralizes
ple play based on their mate that will naturally
the maternal and the
internalization of so- fade away.
feminine in her revi-
cially constructed gen-
sions of Lacan’s theory. B. It suggests that gen-
der roles.
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der roles are condi-
B. Gender roles do not tioned by the posses-
exist. C. Kristeva argues that
sion of money and
the mirror stage does
C. Real gender roles power.
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not occur until the in-
are scripted by excel- dividual embraces a dis- C. It suggests that gen-
lent writers. tinct gender role. der has power over
D. Only individuals D. All of the above. class.
an
who have the capacity
to perform have gender. 93. How does literary the- D. It suggests that ed-
ory resemble the prac- ucation, rather than
tice of philosophy as it money, is needed
91. Which is a common for the liberation of
was developed by Plato
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postcolonial critique of women.
the West? and Aristotle?
A. The West spends A. Literary theory en- 95. Which of the follow-
too much time trying to gages with theoretical ing statements best ex-
consider an Asian per- rather than real-world plains the main objec-
spective. issues. tive of New Histori-
an
cism?
B. The West tends to B. Literary theory asks
look at Asian coun- fundamental questions A. Texts are examined
tries as individual units about literary interpre- to see how colonizers
rather than lump them tation, and at the same and the colonized inter-
y
together. time builds specific sys- act.

tems of literary inter-
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C. The West views mat- B. Texts are examined

pretation.
ters through its own to see how the formal
limited historical posi- C. Literary theory re- aspects of the text cre-
tion. lies totally on specula- ate meaning.
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D. The West refuses to tion rather than history.

C. Texts are examined
apply economic and po- to determine how they
litical coercion to Asian D. Literary theory is reveal social realities.
writers. detached from the real-
92. In what way does Ju- ity of politics and the D. Texts are examined
lia Kristeva build on economy. to determine the au-
Jacques Lacan’s theory thor’s intent.
94. How does Virginia
of psychosexual devel- Woolf’s essay "A Room 96. What do many contem-
opment? of One’s Own" con- porary theorists find
A. Kristeva wholly re- tribute to feminist the- problematic about the
jects Lacan’s theory of ory? literary canon?
91. C 92. C 93. B 94. B 95. C

A. It includes too few C. Jacques Derrida’s Of C. It is the only signif-

works by non-white Grammatology icant aspect of the hu-
writers. D. Jacques Lacan’s man psyche.
B. It includes too few "The Mirror Stage D. It can never be ac-
works by women. " cessed.
C. It includes too few 98. With which theorist is
100. According to the
er
works by non-Western phenomenology associ-
ated? Geneva School, what
writers.
is the function of the
D. All of the above. A. Wolfgang Iser reader?
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97. Which text argues that, B. Jean-Paul Sartre
as infants, human be- A. Entering the au-
C. Emmanuel Lévinas thor’s mind through his
ings begin to define
their identities against D. All of the above. or her literary works
an
the identities of oth- 99. What did Sigmund B. Understanding the
ers? Freud believe about the author’s consciousness
A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s unconscious?
C. Reproducing the au-
The Souls of Black Folk A. It contains secret in-
thor’s thoughts in a crit-
Ch
stincts and desires that
ical context
B. Roland Barthes’s are repressed.
"The Death of the Au- B. It has little impact D. All of the above.
thor" on human behavior.
96. D 97. D 98. D 99. A 100. D

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7. Cultural and Literary English Renaissance
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1. In “The Book of Mar- 3. John Lyly became in- work of William Shake-
tyrs,” John Foxe pro- stantly famous with speare?
vides a record of all the publication of what
A. The idea that
known Christian mar- text?
William Shakespeare
an
tyrs throughout history,

A. “95 Theses” never lived.
focusing on the perse-
cution of people practic- B. “Utopia” B. The idea that
ing which religion? William Shakespeare
C. “Euphues, or the
was a Catholic.
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A. Protestantism Anatomy of Wit”

C. All of the above
B. Catholicism D. “Paradise Lost”
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4. Fill in the blank. In D. A and B only

C. Roman Catholicism
1585, sponsored 6. Fill in the blank. John
D. Buddhism
the first English colony Lyly’s exercised
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2. Fill in the blank. in America on Roanoke considerable influence

was a Christian theolo- Island (now North Car- upon its author’s con-
gian and Augustinian olina). temporaries.
monk whose teachings
inspired the Protestant A. Sir Thomas More A. “Euphues”
Reformation. B. Sir Walter Raleigh B. “Paradise Lost”
A. Niccolo Machiavelli C. John Foxe C. “Utopia”
D. John Lyly D. “Zelauto”
B. Martin Luther
5. Which of the follow- 7. Who introduced the
C. John Milton ing controversial ideas Italian sonnet to the
D. John Wycliffe surround the life and British Isles during the
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. A
270 Chapter 7. Cultural and Literary English Renaissance
reign of King Henry A. A pastoral elegy A. Tragedy

VIII?
B. A satire B. Comedy
A. Thomas Wyatt C. Romance
C. An epic
B. Henry Howard, Earl D. History
D. A mock-epic
of Surrey
16. Fill in the blank. Prior
12. What author speaks of
er
C. John Donne to the rise of the famed
the exemplary story as
tragedians of the late
D. Both A and B a fundamental narra-
1580s, were the
tive unit in which it
8. Which type of poetry great headliners of the
gd
is important to follow
has been inspired by Elizabethan stage.
chronological order?
a philosophical concep- A. Clowns
tion of the universe? A. John Foxe
B. Women
B. John Lyly
an
A. Terza rima
C. Politicians
B. Metaphysical poetry C. Sir Thomas More
D. Pantomimes
D. Sir Walter Raleigh
17. Fill in the blank. When
Ch
C. Rhyme royal 13. Which queen of Eng- writers like and his
D. The Petrarchan son- land attended a num- fellow humanists read
net ber of William Shake- pagan literature, they
speare’s play? were influenced by the
9. There was greater em- secular outlook of the
phasis placed on human A. Queen Elizabeth I
Greeks and Romans.
an
potentiality for growth B. Queen Elizabeth II

and excellence through A. Petrarch
Europe by which year? C. Queen Anne B. Machiavelli
A. 1400 D. Both A and B C. Michelangelo
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B. 1500 14. Choose the best an- D. A and B

swer to complete the
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C. 1600 18. John Lyly’s work signif-

following sentence. All
icantly shaped the writ-
D. 1650 of the following are
ing of which famous
Shakespearean plays
writer?
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10. What genres of plays EXCEPT:

did William Shake- A. William Blake
speare write? A. “Two Gentlemen of
Verona” B. William Wordsworth
A. Tragedies
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
B. Comedies C. Samuel Taylor Co-
C. “The Tempest” leridge
C. Romances
D. “Faustus” D. William Shake-
D. All of the above speare
15. William Shakespeare’s
11. John Milton’s “Lycidas” “Henry V” is an exam- 19. In 1534, King Henry
is what genre of po- ple of what dramatic VIII was declared head
etry? genre? of what church?
7. D 9. B 10. D 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. D 15. D 16. A 17. A 18. D 19. B
A. The Catholic 24. Romance, classical B. Speaker of the

Church structure, and festive House of Commons
elements had already
B. The English Church
begun to come together C. Master of Requests
in drama when what
C. The Church of God author began writing? D. All of the above
D. Both A and B 28. Fill in the blank. Al-
A. Chaucer
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though Sir Philip Sid-
20. Fill in the blank. The B. Langland ney is writing 200 years
greatest insurrection of before the revo-
the age in England C. Homer
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lution, he presents a
was over religion. D. Shakespeare very inward and self-
A. Hanover 25. Who became a favorite absorbed narrator in
of Queen Elizabeth I “Astrophil and Stella.”
B. Protestant
an
and was knighted and A. Medieval
C. Tudor appointed captain of
B. Victorian
D. None of these the Queen’s Guard in
1587? C. Romantic
21. Who was King Henry
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VIII’s first wife? A. Sir Thomas More D. None of the above
A. Catherine of B. Sir Walter Raleigh 29. William Shakespeare’s
Aragon “Hamlet” is an exam-
C. Sir Philip Sidney ple of what dramatic
B. Anne Boleyn genre?
D. Sir William Shake-
C. Mary, Queen of speare
an
A. Tragedy
Scots
26. Fill in the blank. A B. Comedy
D. Anne of Cleves was a spectacle per-
C. Romance
22. The Petrarchan sonnet formed at court or at
y
the manor of a mem- D. Satire

is typically composed
in what form of meter? ber of the nobility and 30. The foundation story of
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was staged to glorify what poem is the Gen-

A. Trochaic trimeter the court or the partic- esis account of the Cre-
B. Terza rima ular aristocrat. ation of the world and
of Adam and Eve, cul-
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C. Iambic pentameter A. Masque

minating in the drama
D. Anapestic pentame- B. Satire of their temptation and
ter C. Tragedy fall?
23. Who was considered to D. Comedy A. “Canterbury Tales”
be England’s first liter-
27. Sir Thomas More held B. “The Faerie Queen”
ary celebrity?
which of the following C. “Paradise Lost”
A. John Donne positions in the English
D. “The Prelude”
B. Sir Walter Raleigh court?
31. How did the invention
C. Sir Thomas More A. Chancellor of the of the printing press af-
Duchy of Lancaster fect European culture?
D. John Foxe
20. C 21. A 22. C 23. D 24. D 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. C
A. Print halted the A. Homer 40. Martin Luther’s transla-

corruption of texts by tion of what text helped
B. Dante
copyists, giving every- to develop a standard
one identical texts. C. Virgil version of the German
language and added
B. Scientific research D. Milton
several principles to
became a more collab-
36. Which of the following the art of translation?
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orative effort.
writers remained a firm A. “Paradise Lost”
C. Learning to read believer in the Royal
was made easier as Supremacy? B. “Canterbury Tales”
gd
print was standardized C. “The Bible”
A. John Locke
and made clearer.
B. John Lyly D. “Piers Plowman”
D. All of the above 41. Fill in the blank. John
C. John Foxe
Foxe was deeply dis-
an
32. King Henry VIII
adopted what religion? D. John Milton gusted by the , and
could not believe that
A. Catholicism 37. What author fell in
any honest Christian
love with Anne Boleyn
could accept its doctri-
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B. Protestantism while she was married
nal basis.
C. Buddhism to King Henry VIII?
A. Mass
D. Roman Catholicism A. Sir Philip Sidney
B. Transubstantiation
33. Which of the following B. Sir Thomas More
C. Resurrection
texts is an example of C. Thomas Wyatt
an
epic poetry? D. both A and C

D. Henry Howard, Earl 42. Christopher Marlowe’s
A. “Paradise Lost” of Surrey “Faustus” is an exam-
B. “The Odyssey” 38. Fill in the blank. ple of what dramatic
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is remembered as the genre?

C. “The Iliad”
“Morning Star of the A. Romance
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D. All of the above Reformation.”

B. Satire
34. “The Vision of the A. John Donne
C. Comedy
Twelve Goddesses” is
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B. John Dryden
an example of what D. Tragedy
dramatic genre? C. John Wycliffe 43. Fill in the blank. In the
A. Masque D. Johan Gutenberg second edition of ,
John Foxe promised
B. Satire 39. Edmund Spenser wrote that he would edit a col-
what famous text? lection of the works
C. Burlesque
A. “Paradise Lost” of William Tyndale,
D. Tragedy John Frith, and Robert
B. “The Faerie Queen” Barnes.
35. Who is largely consid-
ered to be the father of C. “The Prelude” A. “Acts and Monu-
epic poetry? D. “Canterbury Tales” ments”
31. D 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. C 39. B 40. C 41. A 42. D
43. A
B. “Utopia” C. Quaker 52. Fill in the blank. John

D. Catholic Lyly’s style is best de-
C. “Euphues”
scribed as
D. “Paradise Regained” 48. The work of John Foxe
was no longer read or A. Anachronistic
heeded in educated cir- B. Euphuistic
44. Fill in the blank. The
cles after which major
economic analysis of C. Marxist
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historical event?
poverty was advanced D. Solipsistic
by in the four- A. Restoration
teenth century. 53. Book I of John Milton’s
B. Glorious Revolution “Paradise Lost” centers
gd
A. Petrarch on what event?
B. Dante C. French Revolution A. The fall of the rebel
C. Langland D. Seven Years War angels
an
49. Fill in the blank. B. The fall of Adam
D. Machiavelli
Christopher Marlowe’s
45. The conceit of the Pe- C. The fall of Eve
influence on William
trarchan sonnet in En- Shakespeare was in all D. The fall of the son
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glish during the Eliza- probability 54. Fill in the blank. Mar-
bethan period often in- tin Luther nailed his
volves what topic? A. Very great
to a church door
A. Drugs B. Insignificant in Wittenberg, accus-
C. Somewhat signifi- ing the Roman Catholic
B. Sex
cant Church of heresy upon
an
C. Animals heresy.
D. Impossible
D. Propaganda 50. Which of the follow- A. “Paradise Lost”
46. Fill in the blanks. From ing critics is a fa- B. “95 Theses”
y
being narrowly focused mous Shakespearean

C. “The Bible”
on the achievements of scholar?
north Italians in th D. “Piers Plowman”
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A. M. H. Abrams
A. and early 55. Which of the follow-
B. Stephen Greenblatt ing statements is TRUE
centuries, the Renais-
sance is now being seen C. Helen Vendler concerning the Globe
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in a far wider context. theater in Elizabethan

D. Wayne C. Booth
England?
B. 12th and 13th 51. “The Discovery of
A. It burned down and
Guiana” is what au-
C. 14th and 15th was reconstructed hun-
thor’s account of dis-
D. 15th and 16th dreds of years later.
covering an area of the
47. Fill in the blank. John New World? B. It was situated on
Foxe was extremely the Thames River.
A. Sir Thomas More
sensitive to th C. It was lit from nat-
B. Sir Philip Sidney
A. Buddhist ural sunlight as well as
C. Sir Walter Raleigh by candle light.
B. Anglican
D. John Foxe D. All of the above
44. C 45. B 46. D 47. D 48. B 49. A 50. B 51. C 52. B 53. A 54. B 55. D
56. Choose the best answer in England after Queen 63. Fill in the blank. Al-
to fill in the blanks. Elizabeth I came to the though there is dispute
Throughout the Middle throne? about the actual “in-
Ages, English drama, A. The Curtain vention” of the print-
like that of other Eu- ing press with movable
ropean countries, was B. The Rose metal type, is usu-
mainly and C. The Globe ally the man credited
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with the invention.
A. Psychological, Sex- D. All of the above
ual 60. Choose the best answer. A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Religious, Didactic Which of the following
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statements is true con- B. Johan Gutenberg
C. Emotional, Psycho- cerning epic poetry?
logical C. Peter Schoeffer
A. Epic poetry is of a D. Johannes Fust
D. none of these
an
moral nature and tends
64. The Petrarchan sonnet
57. What Renaissance text to the promotion of
is composed of how
uses martyrology as a virtue.
many lines?
device to historicize the B. “Canterbury Tales”
conflict between the A. 9
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is an example of epic po-
true Church and the etry. B. 10
false Church in Eng-
C. All of the above an- C. 12
land?
swers are true. D. 14
A. “Euphues”
D. Both A and B are 65. Sir Thomas More wrote
B. “Paradise Lost”
an
true. what famous text?

C. “Paradise Regained” 61. On which of the fol- A. “Toxophilus”
lowing topics did Sir
B. “Utopia”
Thomas More focus in
D. “Acts and Monu-
y
his “Utopia”? C. “The Inferno”

ments”
A. Riches, jewels, and D. “Paradise Lost”
58. Who was the daugh-
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gold 66. In 1583, which play-

ter of Henry VIII and
B. Suicide wright became in con-
Anne Boleyn who also
trol of the first Blackfri-
reigned as Queen of C. Marriage and di-
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ars Theatre along with

England from 1558 vorce director William Hun-
to1603?
D. All of the above nis?
A. Elizabeth I 62. Fill in the blank. John A. Henry VIII
B. Elizabeth II Foxe’s ambiguous atti-
B. John Lyly
tude towards the Eliza-
C. Mary, Queen of C. Sir Thomas More
bethan church was
Scots
A. Untypical D. John Foxe
D. Catherine of 67. Who was in charge of
Aragon B. Not untypical
organizing court festiv-
59. Which of the following C. Exploded ities and entertainment
theaters could be found D. Rejected of the English court?
56. B 57. D 58. A 59. D 60. D 61. D 62. B 63. B 64. D 65. B 66. B 67. B
A. Court Jester A. Reincarnation 76. Which writer spent

more than twelve years
B. Master of Revels B. Rebirth
imprisoned in the
C. Master of Rebels C. Reproduction Tower of London?
D. Master of Cere- D. Recapitulation A. Sir Thomas More
monies 72. Greek theater was often
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
er
of what genre?
68. The distinction be-
tween comedy and A. Tragedy
tragedy which charac- D. John Milton
B. Comedy
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terized classical drama 77. Fill in the blank. Sir
was first forgotten dur- C. Romance
Philip Sidney’s strong
ing what period in Eng- D. A and B only convictions made
land? him publicly oppose a
73. John Milton’s “Paradise
an
A. Medieval Lost” focuses attention projected marriage for
on the relationship be- Queen Elizabeth.
B. Romantic
tween which opposing A. Catholic
C. Victorian entities?
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B. Protestant
D. Elizabethan A. Heaven vs. hell
C. Buddhist
69. What text greatly popu- B. God vs. Satan
larized the sonnet form D. Quaker
C. Good vs. evil
in England during the 78. Stephen Greenblatt’s
D. All of the above
Elizabethan period? work on the Renais-
an
74. According to many sance is best described

A. “Astrophil and British Romantic po-
Stella” by what theoretical
ets, who is the protag- paradigm?
B. “Utopia” onist of John Milton’s
A. Marxism
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“Paradise Lost”?
C. “Paradise Lost”
A. Satan B. Feminism
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D. “Canterbury Tales”
B. Adam C. New Historicism
70. Edmund Spenser was
C. Eve D. Psychoanalysis
directly influenced by
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which writer’s epic po- D. Christ 79. Fill in the blank. The
etry? 75. Which of the follow- intellectual and social
ing characters is NOT movement which histo-
A. Milton
found in the drama- rians call “ ” is what
B. Wordsworth tis personae of William lies at the base of the pe-
Shakespeare’s “Romeo riod we call the Renais-
C. Aristo
and Juliet”? sance.
D. Both A and B A. Socialism
A. Benvolio
71. Fill in the blank. The B. Capitalism
B. Lady Capulet
term “Renaissance” lit-
erally translates as C. Mercutio C. Humanitarianism
“ ” D. Falstaff D. Humanism
68. A 69. A 70. C 71. B 72. D 73. D 74. A 75. D 76. B 77. B 78. C 79. D
80. B
80. Which of the following which centuries later A. Charles I

is an important compo- would echo during the
B. Charles II
nent of John Foxe’s mar- Protestant Reforma-
tyrology? tion. C. Henry V
A. Hexagrams A. Roman Catholic D. Henry VIII
B. Epigrams B. Anglican 89. Which of the following
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figures was an impor-
C. Heroic couplets C. Buddhist
tant political theorist of
D. All of the above D. Protestant the Renaissance?
81. Choose the best an- 85. Which of the following
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A. Niccolo Machiavelli
swer to complete the plays by William Shake-
following sentence. All speare is a comedy?
B. Francesco Petrarcha
of the following are A. “Romeo and Juliet”
Shakespearean plays
an
B. “Hamlet”
EXCEPT: C. Aristotle
C. “Much Ado about
A. “Romeo and Juliet” D. Plato
Nothing”
B. “Hamlet” 90. hich of the following
D. “Henry IV, Part I”
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statements are true
C. “Titus Andronicus” 86. What author defines concerning Elizabethan
D. “The Spanish the function of poetry theater?
Tragedy” with reference to the
Horatian dictum of “to A. When Elizabeth I
82. What author wrote the came to the throne,
teach and delight”?
poem “Whoso list to there were no specially
an
hunt”? A. Sir Thomas More designed theatre build-

A. Sir Philip Sidney B. Sir Walter Raleigh ings in England.
B. Sir Thomas More C. John Lyly B. When Elizabeth I
y
D. Sir Philip Sidney came to the throne,

C. Thomas Wyatt
there were dozens of
87. A total of how many
D. Henry Howard, Earl specially designed the-
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sonnets constitute the

of Surrey atre buildings in Eng-
entirety of “Astrophil
83. According to John Mil- land.
and Stella”?
ton’s “Paradise Lost,” C. When Elizabeth I
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what is Satan’s tragic A. 10

came to the throne,
flaw? B. 20 there were three spe-
A. Lust C. 30 cially designed theatre
buildings in England.
B. Pride D. 40
88. Fill in the blank. King D. When Elizabeth I
C. Jealousy came to the throne,
was notorious for
D. Love his six marriages and there were ten specially
84. Fill in the blank. John for ruthlessly persecut- designed theatre build-
Wycliffe challenged a ing his political ene- ings in England.
number of doc- mies, violently elimi- 91. Who wrote “Orlando
trines with arguments nating all opposition. Furioso”?
81. D 82. C 83. B 84. A 85. C 86. D 87. C 88. D 89. A 90. A 91. B
A. John Milton D. All of the above A. It regarded human

B. Ludovico Ariosto beings as social crea-
95. Compared to Aquinas,
tures who could cre-
C. Sir Philip Sidney the writers of Floren-
ate meaningful lives
tine humanism consid-
D. William Shake- only in association with
ered which of the fol-
speare other social beings.
lowing only unsystem-
92. The character of Fal- atically? B. Its major premise
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staff is important was that every existing
in which play(s) by A. Sex
thing in the universe
William Shakespeare? B. Emotions had its “place” in a di-
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A. “Henry IV, Part I” vinely planned hierar-
C. Psychology chical order which was
B. “Henry IV, Part II” D. All of the above pictured as a chain, ver-
C. “Titus Andronicus” tically extended.
96. Fill in the blank. Renais-
D. All of the above
93. Fill in the blank. Th
A. was a move- ansance thinkers strongly
associated themselves
with the values of
C. It could only be
achieved through faith
in God’s grace.
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ment that had profound A. Catholicism D. Both A and B
implications not only 99. Which of the following
B. Medieval Europe
for the modern world in plays were written by
general but also for lit- C. Classical antiquity Christopher Marlowe?
erary history. A. “The Jew of Malta”
D. Protestantism
B. Catholic Restora-
an
97. Many of William Shake- B. “Doctor Faustus”

tion
speare’s plays were per- C. “Edward II”
C. Catholic Reforma- formed at what the-
tion ater in Elizabethan Eng- D. All of the above
y
D. Protestant Reforma- land? 100. What doctrine sig-

tion nificantly influenced
A. “The Curtain”
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Sir Thomas More’s

94. Greek theatre took
B. “The Globe” “Utopia”?
place where?
C. “The Rose” A. Marxism
A. Large hillside am-
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phitheaters D. “The Anchor” B. Christian Human-

B. Large indoor theism
aters ing statements best C. Feminism
C. Small indoor the- describes the “Great D. New Historicism
aters Chain of Being”?
92. D 93. D 94. A 95. B 96. C 97. B 98. B 99. D 100. B

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8. Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries
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1. Complete the follow- and neoclassical use B. The burden of white
ing sentence. Ten- of satire. colonizers who are
nyson’s In Memoriam 2. Which of the following forced to learn to live
and Browning’s dra- statements does NOT in new lands
an
matic monologues can accurately characterize

best be seen as combin- C. The Eurocentric
a lyric poem?
ing neoclassicism with idea that the colonizer
A. The lyric poem is a has a social responsi-
romanticism through
popular form in the Ro- bility to civilize other
y
their:
mantic era. nations
A. neoclassical empha- B. The lyric poem has
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sis on traditional form D. The concept that all

a song-like quality. white men do not share
and romantic subjec-
tivism. C. The lyric poem cre- the same imperial du-
ates a personal sense of ties
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B. romantic rejection emotion.

of science and neoclas- 4. Complete the follow-
D. The lyric poem fo- ing sentence. Robert
sical use of mythology.
cuses on action. Browning’s poem “Por-
3. What was the “white phyria’s Lover” is:
C. romantic emphasis man’s burden” that
on personal feelings Kipling speaks of in A. a sonnet expressing
combined with a neo- his poem of the same his devotion to his wife.
classical focus on social title?
context.
A. The pressure of con- B. a dramatic mono-
D. romantic critique forming to preexisting logue spoken by a mur-
of industrialization social conventions derer.
1. C 2. D 3. C 4. B
280 Chapter 8. Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries
C. a dramatic mono- 7. Which poet did Arthur C. Radcliffe’s The Mys-

logue spoken by Brown- Henry Hallum asso- teries of Udolpho
ing. ciate with “the pic-
D. Walpole’s The Cas-
turesque”?
D. an epic describing a tle of Otranto
great romance. A. Alexander Pope 10. Complete the follow-
5. Which of the following B. Percy Shelley ing sentence. Accord-
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does NOT accurately ing to Edmund Burke,
C. Samuel Taylor Co-
describe Robinson Cru- the French Revolution
leridge
soe’s and Oroonoko’s was:
D. Alfred Tennyson
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relationship to central A. the ultimate expres-
features of the early En- 8. “O my death mother! sion of humankind’s
glish novel? I am miserable, truly ability to control its
miserable! But yet, own destiny.
A. Where Oroonoko
an
don’t be frightened, I
foregrounds supernat- B. a misguided attempt
am honest! God, of
ural agents, Robinson to overthrow human
his goodness, keep me
Crusoe avoids religion nature by rejecting tra-
so!” These lines charac-
completely. dition.
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terize Samuel Richard-
B. Both are largely set son’s Pamela in all of C. a necessary change
in South America, re- the following ways EX- that was beginning to
flecting the relationship CEPT: go astray.
between empire and the A. through the per- D. an event that had lit-
early English novel. sonal, direct appeal en- tle consequence to Eng-
an
C. Oroonoko seems to abled by his epistolary land.

defend the aristocracy, form.
11. Samuel Richardson’s
where Robinson Crusoe B. by emphasizing the Pamela and Daniel De-
elaborates the struggles character’s fright. foe’s Robinson Crusoe
y
of the middle class. similarly reflect the

C. by emphasizing sex-
forces giving rise to
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D. Both make claims to ual morality.

historical veracity. the novel in which of
D. through the senti- the following ways?
6. In which of the follow- mental attempt to make
A. Their imperialist
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ing ways did Hopkins readers strongly iden-

settings reflect the in-
revolutionize poetry? tify with the character’s
terest in faraway lands
feelings.
A. He created a radi- that led to adventure
cally new form. 9. Which of the follow- novels.
ing works is considered
B. He used unusual, ar- B. Both emphasize ro-
to be the first Gothic
cane words. mantic relationships
novel?
that play up the impor-
C. He made obscure al- A. Congreve’s The tance of women readers.
lusions. Way of the World
D. All of these answers B. Richardson’s C. Both focus on the
Pamela struggles of lower or
5. A 6. D 7. D 8. B 9. D 10. B 11. C
middle-class characters, B. An emphasis on the find new trading part-

mirroring the develop- power of sympathy to ners.
ment of a large middle- allow individuals to feel
B. Colonizers were no
class readership as con- others’ pain and joy
longer necessarily inter-
sumers.
C. A sense of awe in ested in reforming in-
D. Their epistolary the power of the natu- digenous populations.
forms reflect an increas- ral world
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C. People found ways
ing political interest in to justify expansion by
D. A parody of the in-
subjective feelings. claiming national supe-
terest in emotion that
12. Which of the following riority.
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developed out of the En-
best defines the heroic lightenment interest in D. All of these answers
couplet? reason
A. Two characters in 15. In “Ode to the West 18. Which of the following
an
an epic who are roman- Wind,” why does Shel- statements about the
tically involved ley ask the wind to poems in Blake’s Songs
B. Two lines of “make me thy lyre”? of Innocence and Expe-
rhyming verse written A. To help drive his rience is true?
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in iambic pentameter ideas across the uni- A. The poems defend
C. The concluding verse the industrial revolu-
lines of any poem tion as helping Eng-
B. To help him reach
land’s economy.
D. Two characters who the afterlife
act as foils in a comedy B. The poems criticize
C. To help him hear na-
an
of manners religious institutions

ture’s music
for not helping the op-
13. John Locke is known
D. To help him start a pressed.
for advocating all of
new revolutionary war C. The poems reject ex-
the following ideas EX-
y
CEPT: 16. Which of the following perience in favor of in-

terms is NOT closely nocence.
A. social contract the-
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associated with the D. The poems reject in-

ory of government.
Gothic novel? nocence in favor of ex-
B. blank slate or tabula
A. Horror perience.
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B. The sublime 19. What was the “Woman

C. divine authority of Question” in the Victo-
kings. C. Suspense rian Period?
D. natural political D. Picaresque A. A debate about
rights. whether women should
17. How did ideas about
14. Which of the following the spread of the British be able to vote
best defines sentimen- Empire start to shift in B. A discussion of
talism? the Victorian Period? women’s roles inside
A. A refusal to empha- and outside the home
A. Competition be-
size the innate good- tween European rivals C. A conversation
ness of humanity forced the British to about women’s work
12. B 13. C 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. D 18. B 19. D

as a product of the In- C. The importance of C. its scientific ethos

dustrial Revolution sisterly bonds and setting in London.
D. All of these answers D. All of these answers
D. its refusal to men-
20. Complete the follow- 23. What was the impor- tion Shadwell directly.
ing sentence. The By- tance of the Reform 26. In The Rape of the Lock,
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ronic hero is character- Bills of 1832 and 1867? Pope satirizes which of
ized as: the following social in-
A. They raised the
A. always fighting for stitutions?
question of whether
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good against evil. women should be able A. The government
B. fortunate in always to vote. B. Marriage
coming out victorious. B. They allowed new C. Organized religion
C. nearly superhuman colonization and impe-
an
in his powers but tor- rialism efforts. D. All of these answers
tured by a psychologi- C. They established
cal weight. 27. The Enlightenment in
new standards for Vic-
European history refers
D. devoted to religion torian morality.
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to which of the follow-
above all things. D. They allowed ing?
21. Complete the follow- women to divorce their
ing sentence. Shelley’s A. A period in the 18th
husbands.
“Ozymandias” can be century that celebrated
24. Which of the follow- industry
linked to his “Defence
ing genres is NOT part
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of Poetry” through its: B. The revelation of re-

of the hybrid form of
A. rejection of tradi- Behn’s Oroonoko? ligious truths through
tional form. meditation
A. Nonfiction
B. portrayal of the C. The power given to
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power of art to speak B. Travel memoir absolute monarchs by

truth. C. Detective story God
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C. rejection of art’s po- D. Biography D. A period in which

litical role. reason was celebrated
25. Complete the following
as enabling human
D. attempt to link po- sentence. John Dry-
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knowledge and pos-

etry with music. den’s “Mac Flecknoe”
sibly human perfection
22. Which of the follow- reflects a commitment
ing is a central theme to neoclassical aesthet-
ics through: 28. Which of the following
of Christina Rossetti’s
social issues does Dick-
poem “Goblin Mar- A. its references to ens confront in Great
ket”? Shakespeare. Expectations?
A. The dangers of sen- B. its commitment to A. Penal reform
suality to women an elevated taste, its
B. The links between use of classical imagery, B. Educational reform
sexuality and eco- and its evocation of C. The role of the
nomics classic forms. monarchy
20. C 21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. D

D. Both A and B B. Sonnet 43 is part D. By emphasizing

29. Which of the following of a sonnet sequence the idea that gather-
best defines satire? “Sonnets from the Por- ing knowledge together
tuguese.” can lead to human im-
A. Literature that relies provement
C. Sonnet 43 consists
on devices like irony, 34. Both the Gothic and
of fourteen lines, like
sarcasm, and humor sentimental fiction em-
other sonnets.
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B. A work of litera- phasize which of the fol-
D. Sonnet 43 is lowing?
ture that attempts to im-
a romantic poem
prove society A. Reason over emo-
in the same way
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C. A text that exposes Wordsworth’s “Tintern tions
serious flaws under the Abbey” is a romantic B. The necessity for an
veil of comedy poem. aristocracy
an
D. All of these answers 32. In Matthew Arnold’s C. The power of feel-
poem “Dover Beach,” ings
the speaker refers to the
30. Complete the following “melancholy, long, with- D. A sense of adven-
sentence. Wordsworth drawing roar” of “The ture
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conceives of himself as Sea of Faith.” This ref- 35. Which of the following
a “chosen son” primar- erence alludes to which is a requirement of a
ily because: of the following? dramatic monologue?
A. his brothers died in A. The Protestant Ref- A. It has a speaker
their youth. ormation as well as an implied
an
B. he was endowed reader.

B. Religious interpreta-
with a great poetic tal- tions of changes to the B. It includes elements
ent. oceans of parody.
C. he was given special C. There is a “sponta-
y
C. The decline of re-

educational opportuni- ligion’s importance in neous overflow of emo-
ties. the modern West tion.”
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D. he feels especially D. His lover’s betrayal D. It is written in com-

connected to nature mon, ordinary lan-
33. How does the Ency-
due to his experience guage.
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clopédie best epitomize

as a youth. 36. Which of the following
the mission of the En-
31. Which of the following lightenment? statements accurately
statements about Eliz- describes the theme of
A. By dismissing all Wordsworth’s “Tintern
abeth Barrett Brown-
knowledge from out- Abbey”?
ing’s sonnet 43 (“How
side Europe
do I love thee? Let me A. Nature loses its abil-
count the ways.”) is B. By questioning the ity to affect human emo-
false? nature of scientific tion over time.
method
A. Sonnet 43 is similar B. Sensitivity to na-
to most other sonnets C. By rejecting the di- ture’s message comes
in its focus on love. vine right of kings with age.
29. D 30. D 31. D 32. C 33. D 34. C 35. A 36. B

C. Life experience does D. They provide a 41. In which of the fol-

not have to power to al- moral example for the lowing ways does Rad-
ter human opinions. lower classes. cliffe’s The Mysteries of
Udolpho combine the
D. It is not possible to 39. John Dryden’s poem
features of the Gothic
appreciate beauty once “Annus Mirabilis” em-
and the sentimental?
one has aged. phasizes the solution to
which of the following A. It emphasizes emo-
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important Restoration tion over reason.
ing best characterizes
problems or events?
the ways that Rad- B. It has a didactic
cliffe’s The Mysteries
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A. England’s power to moral focus.
of Udolpho links the overcome the recent
C. There is a focus on
Gothic novel with the plague and the great
a central love story.
sentimental form? fire of London
D. All of these answers
an
A. Its use of a medieval B. The monarch’s abil-
setting to reflect on ra- ity to squelch continu-
tional progress ing Puritan resistance 42. Which of the follow-
ing best characterizes
B. Its focus on having C. The church’s poten- Wordsworth’s attitude
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readers vicariously ex- tial to unify the popu- towards the French Rev-
perience the dangers lace after the English olution?
that a heroine faces revolution
A. He thought it did
C. Its ambivalent treat- D. Parliament’s ability not go far enough in
ment of its leading vil- to restrain the power of granting women rights.
an
lain the King

D. Its use of the sub- 40. The main plot of B. He opposed it in fa-
lime Richardson’s Pamela vor of supporting the
38. Which of the follow- reflects the main char- king and the ancien
y
ing statements best de- acteristics of the senti- régime.

scribes the behavior of mental novel through
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its emphasis on which C. He favored its demo-

the upper-class charac-
of the following? cratic impulses but was
ters in Congreve’s The
appalled by its destruc-
Way of the World? A. Pamela’s attempt to tive nature.
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A. They are somewhat seduce her employer

D. He did not think it
jaded, but all are finally B. Pamela’s parents’ at- concerned him and his
good at heart. tempt to marry her to a relationship to nature.
B. They are almost uni- wealthy landowner
versally self-absorbed C. Pamela’s struggle to events was NOT associ-
and willing to do any- overcome her poverty ated with the Victorian
thing to get what they through hard-work period?
want.
D. Pamela’s attempts A. Repeal of the corn
C. They tend to value to protect her chastity laws
love above money and from the advances of
honor. B. Opium Wars
her employer
37. B 38. B 39. A 40. D 41. D 42. C 43. D 44. A

C. Great Exhibition 46. Mary Shelley’s the characters and their

Frankenstein most re- concerns.
D. French Revolution
flects which central ro-
44. Which of the following C. reveal the learned-
mantic themes or con-
directives was part of ness of the characters.
cerns?
Queen Victoria’s moral
crusade? A. Nature as mirroring
D. elicit the sympathy
the human mind and its
er
A. There should be of elite readers.
imagination
more missionary work 49. Which of the following
in less civilized parts of B. The limits of scien- statements best charac-
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the world. tific attempts to under- terizes Romanticism’s
stand and control the relationship to the En-
B. Concerts in the world
parks that were at- lightenment?
tended by ordinary peo- C. The poet as special A. Romanticism con-
an
ple should be banned. interpreter of the world tinued the Enlighten-
ment’s focus on a uni-
C. Civil servants D. The centrality of versal order best appre-
should talk more subjective experience hended through reason.
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openly and publicly to apprehending the
about their moral work. world B. Romanticism chal-
47. The Pre-Raphaelites are lenged the Enlighten-
D. Members of the Jew- best known for which ment’s emphasis on ob-
ish and Catholic faiths of the following? jectivity as the basis of
an
should be excluded truth.

A. A return to neoclas-
from public office. sical aesthetics C. Romanticism
45. Which of the following largely abandoned the
B. Disassociating
ideas does NOT come Enlightenment’s hope
painting and poetry
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from Edmund Burke’s in progressive political

Philosophical Enquiry change.
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into the Origin of Our C. Lavish attention to

D. Unlike the Enlight-
Ideas of the Sublime? the sensuous elements
enment, Romanticism
of life
A. The effect of the sub- deemed the natural
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lime on the physical D. Rejecting English world unimportant.

body poetic tradition 50. The opening lines
B. The distinction be- 48. Complete the following of Charlotte Smith’s
tween the sublime and sentence. In Pope’s The “Beachy Head” refer
beauty Rape of the Lock, el- to the speaker “re-
evated language func- clin[ing]” on the “stu-
C. An aesthetic expla- tions primarily to: pendous summit” of
nation of the sublime a “rock sublime” as
through painting A. demonstrate the im-
her “Fancy” went forth.
portance of the topic.
D. The important role This poem reflects
surprise plays in creat- B. set up the parody which of the follow-
ing pleasure of the pretensions of ing features common
45. D 46. B 47. C 48. B 49. B 50. A

to much Romantic po- A. a radical break with C. is at odds with her

etry? 18th-century rules on explicit socialist poli-
A. An emphasis on the elevated diction. tics.
relationship between B. a continuity with po- D. implies that contem-
a natural setting and ets such as Alexander porary British society
the imagination as in Pope. has overcome the insti-
Wordsworth’s poems tutions leading to the
er
C. a rejection of nature horrors its characters
B. A focus on the poet in favor of society. experience.
as seer as in some of
Keats’s poems D. a defense of the use 56. The development of the
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of elaborate figurative novel is associated with
C. A call for social and language. all of the following EX-
political reform as in CEPT:
some of Shelley’s works 54. Complete the following
sentence. The scientific A. scientific emphasis
D. A nod to the poet
as outcast as in some of
Byron’s poems anrevolution paralleled
Enlightenment political
thought and political
revolutions through its
on detailed observation.
B. the political focus

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on individuals and their
51. “Do we now live in an similar:
rights.
enlightened age? The
answer is, ‘no,’ but we A. devotion to tradi- C. philosophical theo-
do live in an age of en- tional authority in polit- ries of sympathy and
lightenment.” ical and theoretical mat- human emotions.
ters.
D. the continuing im-
an
A. Immanuel Kant
B. emphasis on the portance of mythologi-
B. John Locke world being governed cal stories.
C. David Hume by laws that could be
discerned through ra-
y
D. Denis Diderot sentence. Keats’s idea

tional exploration.
52. Which writer is most of “negative capability”
refers to the idea that:
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closely associated with C. reliance on classical

the serialized novel? scholarship. A. certain people are
A. William Congreve D. defense of violent simply incapable of un-
derstanding poetry.
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emotions as natural.
B. Ann Radcliffe
55. Complete the following B. the true poet must
C. Matthew Lewis be comfortable with bal-
sentence. The politics
D. Charles Dickens of Radcliffe’s medieval ancing conflicting ideas.
53. Complete the fol- settings:
lowing sentence. A. indicates her long- C. the poet cannot ex-
Wordsworth’s advo- ing for the older aristoc- press anything beyond
cacy of poets drawing racy. his own experience.
on the “language re- D. it is only in the ab-
ally used by men” in B. suggests her com-
sence of experience that
his preface to Lyrical mitment to the Catholic
true poetry can emerge.
Ballads represents: Church.
51. A 52. D 53. A 54. B 55. D 56. D 57. B

58. With which of these D. it emphasizes the in- A. His relationship to

writers is the “sponta- ternal life of the mind God and Christianity
neous overflow of emo- over social action.
B. His understanding
tion” associated? 61. Complete the follow- of the basis of eco-
A. Ann Radcliffe ing sentence. Keats’s nomics
“Ode to a Nightingale”
B. William Wordsworth is characteristically Ro- C. His ability to iden-
er
mantic because of: tify with the slaves he
has sold
C. John Keats A. its focus on his lost
love. D. Both A and B
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D. Alfred Lord Ten-
B. its rejection of scien- 64. Jonathan Swift’s sug-
nyson
tific progress. gestion in “A Modest
59. Complete the following Proposal” that the Irish
sentence. In Charles C. its elaboration of eat their children exem-
an
Dickens’s Great Expec- the intersecting impor- plifies the characteris-
tations, Pip gains his tance of nature and the tics of a satire in all of
fortune from: imagination. the following ways EX-
A. inheriting his fa- D. its development of CEPT:
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ther’s fortune. elements from national A. its mocking tone.
folklore.
B. hard work as a black- B. its absurd response
62. Victor Frankenstein’s
smith. to a real issue.
project to create life in
C. saving the life of a Mary Shelley’s novel C. its sentimental plea
rich heiress. can be linked to roman- to its audience.
an
ticism through which of

D. through the wealth D. its attempt to shock
the following?
of a convict he once readers into acting.
helped. A. His Promethean 65. How does this quo-
striving to exceed hu-
y
60. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” tation from Behn’s

man limitations as ex- Oroonoko most suggest
can be characterized plored by Byron and
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in all of the following its status as an early

Percy Shelley novel: “I do not pretend,
ways, EXCEPT:
B. Its suggestion that in giving you the his-
A. it thematizes the the natural order has tory of this Royal Slave,
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importance of choos- laws beyond human to entertain my reader

ing action over compla- control with adventures of a
cency. feigned hero, whose life
C. His desire to create
B. it reflects a Victo- a political revolution and fortunes fancy may
rian attitude of continu- manage at the poet’s
D. Both A and B pleasure.”
ing to fight against loss
of hope or faith. 63. Robinson Crusoe’s iso-
A. It focuses on a royal
lation on a deserted is-
hero.
C. it uses Greek land allows Defoe to ex-
mythology to comment plore his development B. It denies being imag-
on contemporary ques- in which of the follow- ined in favor of claims
tions. ing ways? of realism.
58. B 59. D 60. D 61. C 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. B

C. It focuses on adven- B. They created a space 71. Which event did Percy
tures. for the exchange of Shelley call “the master
pamphlets. theme of the epoch in
D. It connects to po-
which we live”?
etry. C. They offered people
a private place in which A. Industrial Revolu-
66. With which literary
they could plan politi- tion
form or movement is
cal revolts.
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the Restoration most B. French Revolution
closely associated? D. Both A and B C. Scientific Revolu-
A. Familiar essays 69. In Pamela, how does tion
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the epistolary style en- D. Technological Revo-
B. Comedies of man-
hance the sentimental lution
ners
aspects of the novel?
C. Romanticism
A. It provides access to sentence. The Roman-
D. Medievalism
67. Complete the follow-
ing sentence. In the anthe heroine’s innermost
reactions.
B. It does not cloud the
tic movement is least
closely related to:
A. folklore.
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opening lines of Gerard novel with authorial in- B. nationalism.
Manley Hopkins’s “The trusion that confuses
Windhover,” the words the emotions. C. parody.
“daylight’s dauphin, D. exoticism.
C. It provides a sense
dapple-dawn-drawn
of immediacy because 73. Samuel Johnson’s Ras-
Falcon”:
the letters are written selas most fundamen-
an
A. are an example of in the thick of the ac- tally emphasizes which

antithesis to suggest tion. theme from Johnson’s
the falcon’s contradic- other works or other
tory nature. 18th-century works?
y
B. use alliterative lan- A. The need for linguis-

guage to draw attention tic correctness as exem-
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is among the features

to the falcon’s impor- plified in his Dictionary
that distinguish Robin-
tance as a symbol of
son Crusoe as a novel as
Christ. B. The promise of uni-
opposed to a romance?
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C. refer to the versal knowledge as

A. Its larger-than-life
speaker’s heart. epitomized by the Ency-
hero
clopédie
D. indicate the
B. Its lack of attention C. The ultimate im-
speaker’s lack of faith.
to time possibility of achieving
68. Why were coffee- happiness, as espoused
C. Its defense of the
houses important in in his poem “The Van-
aristocracy
the Restoration? ity of Human Wishes”
D. Its focus on the indi-
A. They enabled dis-
vidual and his psycho-
cussion about impor- D. The need for self-
logical and moral devel-
tant literary texts. sufficiency as detailed
opment
66. B 67. B 68. D 69. D 70. D 71. B 72. C 73. C

in novels like Robinson C. Its medieval settings B. The belief that a

Crusoe person is incapable of
change, even as he or
74. How does the follow- D. Its use of mysteri-
she ages
ing representative quo- ous events to spur read-
tation from Brontë’s ers’ interests and emo- C. The sense of hope
Jane Eyre reflect on Vic- tional responses that death will come
soon
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torian social conven- 76. Complete the follow-
tions? “You have nothing sentence. Neoclas- D. A shared theme that
ing to do with the mas- sicism most paralleled nature exposes the pain
ter of Thornfield, fur- in human life
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Enlightenment thought
ther than to receive in its:
the salary he gives you 79. Which of the following
for teaching his pro- A. rejection of Renais- novelists was NOT asso-
tégée, and to be grate- sance optimism. ciated with the rise of
an
ful for such respectful the novel as a literary
B. rejection of tradi- form?
and kind treatment as,
tional models.
if you do your duty, you A. Samuel Richardson
have a right to expect at C. emphasis on order,
B. Laurence Sterne
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his hands” logic, and universal
truths. C. Daniel Defoe
A. It reiterates the class
divisions that kept both D. emphasis on the cor- D. Charles Dickens
men and women from rupt nature of the aris-
social mobility. tocracy.
ing is NOT a central
an
B. It suggests that 77. Samuel Johnson’s Dic- theme of Wordsworth’s

women were increas- tionary of the English poetry?
ingly accepted as pro- Language most reflects
A. The common man
fessionals. an 18th-century inter-
y
est in which of the fol- B. The promises of

C. It indicates that lowing? technology
British society had be-
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come much more egali- A. Classification, order, C. The outcast figure

tarian. and judgment D. The movement of
B. Romantic origins time
D. It reveals the stern
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consequences of the In- C. Linguistic indeter- 81. How was the philosoph-
dustrial Revolution. minacy ical and popular empha-
sis on sensibility in the
75. Radcliffe’s version of D. Subjective experi- 18th century related to
the Gothic differs most ence the development of the
from Walpole’s in its novel?
use of which of the fol- 78. What do Wordsworth’s
lowing? “Tintern Abbey” and A. Like the novel, it fo-
Coleridge’s “Dejection cused on romantic rela-
A. The sublime Ode” have in common? tionships.
B. The explained super- A. An identical rhyme B. Like the novel, it
natural structure foregrounded abstract
74. A 75. B 76. C 77. A 78. D 79. D 80. B 81. C

reason over experience disrupting Victorian D. The utter rejection

and emotion. faith by decentering of youthful folly in fa-
humans. vor of mature rational-
C. Like the novel, it
ity
emphasized the impor- B. Darwin’s work was
tance of sympathy and almost universally ac- 87. Complete the follow-
individual feelings. cepted from its first ap- ing sentence. We can
pearance. best understand the
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D. Like the novel, it
medieval setting of
demonized the aristoc- C. Darwin’s work had
Walpole’s The Castle
racy. little initial influence on
of Otranto as:
Victorian society and
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82. In The Way of the
World, Congreve sati- culture. A. revealing his inter-
rizes which of the fol- est in Chaucer.
D. Almost all religious
lowing? authorities rejected B. enabling his 18th-
an
A. Ideas about chastity Darwin’s work com- century readers access
pletely. to a world they would
see as less rational.
B. The institution of 85. Which of the following
marriage characteristics is NOT C. promoting the rise
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closely associated with of museums.
C. The aristocracy a comedy of manners?
D. commenting on the
D. All of these answers A. Witty banter French and Indian War.
B. Epic heroes
83. With which text is the
term mock-epic most C. Sexual promiscuity
an
political ideas is least re-

closely associated?
D. Hidden identities lated to the Enlighten-
A. Wordsworth’s “We 86. “For I have learned/To ment?
Are Seven” look on nature, not as A. Checks and bal-
y
B. Pope’s Rape of the in the hour/Of thought- ances

Lock less youth; but hear-
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ing oftentimes/The sad, B. Social contract

C. Swift’s “A Modest
still music of human- C. Enlightened monar-
Proposal”
ity” chy
D. Benn’s Oroonoko
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A. The poet’s changing D. Socialism

84. Which of the follow- relationship to nature
ing most accurately de- 89. Aphra Behn’s
as fount of meaning and
scribes the relationship Oroonoko is a tran-
significance
between Darwin’s On sitional text in all of
the Origin of Species B. The falsity of human the following ways EX-
and Victorian society art as opposed to the im- CEPT:
and its ideals? mediate truth of nature
A. like a romance, it
A. Darwin’s work focuses on an aristo-
echoed Victorian C. The failure of the cratic character consid-
thought with its empha- poet when a youth to ered superior to aver-
sis on struggle while imagine his future age individuals.
82. D 83. B 84. A 85. B 86. A 87. B 88. D 89. C

B. like a novel, it tells of behavior does the of mankind is man” in

its story with an em- author recommend for his “Essay on Man” is
phasis on realistic detail women? indicative of all of the
and the everyday pas- following EXCEPT:
A. Women should wear
sage of time. A. his use of the heroic
more makeup in order
C. like an epic, it in- to attract husbands. couplet.
volves gods and god-
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B. Women should B. an Enlightenment
desses. focus on useful knowl-
make sure to receive
D. like a novel, it an education in order edge.
makes claims to his-
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to secure their own fu- C. a neoclassical em-
torical realism. tures. phasis on propriety and
90. Which of the following C. Women should take knowing limitations.
did NOT contribute to pains to remain gener- D. a radical question-
an
the growth of literacy ous, modest, and capa- ing of revealed religion.
in the 19th-century? ble.
A. More magazines on D. Women should be 95. Complete the follow-
the market given the right to vote ing sentence. Unlike
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immediately. many Enlightenment
B. The rise in serialized
thinkers, Adam Smith
fiction 93. Which of the following
and Rousseau:
C. Lower prices for does NOT accurately
characterize Jane Eyre’s A. traveled to America.
magazines
relationship to other lit-
D. The passage of the
an
erary works? B. believed in God.

Reform Bills
A. Like Great Expec- C. emphasized the im-
91. Complete the following tations, Jane Eyre ad- portance of human
sentence. The open- dresses the power of emotions as guiding
y
ing frame narrative wealth and class. behavior.

of Frankenstein comes
from: B. Like “Dover Beach,” D. rejected Newton’s
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Jane Eyre mourns the view of the universe.

A. Walton, a failed diminishing power of 96. Swinburne’s poems
poet who is attempting Christian faith. such as “Hermaphrodi-
to discover the North
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C. Through Rochester, tus” are best known

Pole.
Jane Eyre develops a By- for which of the follow-
B. the creature, after ronic hero. ing?
he has killed Victor
D. Like Great Expecta- A. Their conservative
Frankenstein.
tions, Jane Eyre can be poetics
C. Victor Franken- read as a bildungsro- B. Their frank depic-
stein’s diary. man. tion of sexuality
D. Mrs. Saville, 94. Pope’s comment that C. Their radical poli-
Frankenstein’s cousin. “Know, then, thyself, tics
92. In Linton’s The Girl of presume God not to D. Their nationalistic
the Period, what course scan;/The proper study tone
90. D 91. A 92. C 93. B 94. D 95. C 96. B

97. What does the shift “Dover Beach”? C. Richardson’s

in weather in Chapter Pamela
A. It is a dramatic
23 of Jane Eyre reflect
monologue. D. Lewis’s The Monk
about the plot?
B. Like earlier Roman-
A. It functions as 100. Shelley expresses all of
tic lyrics, it takes a nat-
a metaphor for the the following ideas in A
ural setting as an occa-
women’s rights move- Defence of Poetry, EX-
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sion for philosophical
ment. CEPT:
reflection.
B. It foreshadows a A. reason can help man
C. It has a melancholic
negative shift in mood.
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tone. understand beauty.
C. It symbolizes the
D. It envisions Chris- B. civilization comes
increase in scientific
tianity as eternal. through beauty.
knowledge.
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D. It acts as an allusion C. language shows hu-
texts is an example of a
to the importance of na- manity’s impulse to-
sentimental novel?
ture in the Romantic pe- wards order.
riod. A. Pope’s The Rape of
D. poetry has no effect
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the Lock
98. Which of the following on society.
does NOT character- B. Swift’s “A Modest
ize Matthew Arnold’s Proposal”
97. B 98. D 99. C 100. D

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9. Cultural and Literary in Modernity
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1. What is “Imagism”? C. Shell shock following is true of the
culture industry?
A. A poetic movement D. A and C only
which hoped to of- A. The culture indus-
3. Fill in the blank. Writ-
fer clear expression try is classified by ruth-
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ten over the course of

of ideas and feelings less uniformity of all
his life, Ezra Pound’s
through the use of spe- ideas.
is an examination
cific visual images
of the human desire for B. The culture indus-
B. An attempt to use knowledge and under- try is the chief method
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the “exact word” in- standing in an inchoate by which technology

stead of flowery, ex- modern landscape. brings true democracy
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cessive descriptive lan- to all.

A. “The Sun Also Rises”
guage in poetry
C. The culture industry
C. A and B only is a fundamental way to
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B. “Hugh Selwyn
D. B and C only promote individuality.
Mauberley”
2. Which of the follow- D. The culture indus-
C. “The Cantos”
ing was one of the try is chiefly intended
major health conse- D. “To the Lighthouse” to offer consumers the
quences for soldiers opportunity to classify
who survived the trau- 4. According to Theodor wants and desires as
mas of trench warfare Adorno’s and Max well as corresponding
in World War One? Horkheimer’s “The Cul- production.
A. Lyme disease ture Industry: Enlight- 5. According to Tristan
enment as Mass De- Tzara’s “Manifesto on
B. Staph infections ception,” which of the Dadaism,” which of the
1. C 2. C 3. C 4. A
294 Chapter 9. Cultural and Literary in Modernity
following does NOT de- A. It begins with the fa- capture the human con-
fine Dadaism? mous line: “Once upon dition.
A. “Every product of a time and a very good
B. Beckett’s play ex-
disgust capable of be- time it was there was a
plores how language
coming a negation of moocow coming down
helps to form one’s no-
the family” along the road and this
tion of self.
moocow that was com-
er
B. “A protest with the ing down along the C. Beckett’s work cap-
fists of its whole being road met a nicens lit- tures an almost tran-
engaged in destructive tle boy named baby scendent melancholy as
action” it explores human de-
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tuckoo ”?
C. “Absolute and un- sires for a redemption
B. It is a semi-
questionable faith in that may or may not
autobiographical ac-
every god that is the ever materialize.
count of Joyce’s “com-
an
immediate product of ing of age” as an artist. D. All of the above
spontaneity” 10. Surrealism became an
D. “A tale told by an id- C. It captures the official aesthetic move-
iot, full of sound and conflict that Stephen ment of the modern pe-
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fury, signifying noth- Dedalus has with his riod with the publica-
ing” Irish and Catholic her- tion of which work?
6. Which of the follow- itage. A. Andre Breton’s
ing is true of Arthur D. All of the above “Surrealist Manifesto”
Rimbaud’s poem “Eter-
nity”? 8. As a result of the out-
an
break of World War I B. James Joyce’s

A. It ends with the and anti-German sen- “Ulysses”
lines: “Eternity./It is the timent which impor- C. Ernest Heming-
sea run off/ With the tant British public fig- way’s “The Sun Also
sun.”
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ure had to adopt the Rises”

B. It suggests that the family name of Wind-
sor? D. T.S. Eliot’s “The
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quest for knowledge

Wasteland”
and enlightenment is A. The Suffragette Em-
deeply satisfying. meline Pankhust 11. Which of the following
is NOT a characteristic
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C. The poem speaks of B. King George V of “Modernism”?

the necessity of seeking
human approval and C. King Edward VII A. A radical project of
communal acceptance. D. King James II experimentation with
literary and artistic
D. It begins with the 9. Which of the following
form
lines: “I kissed the best describes Samuel
dawn of summer.” Beckett’s play “Waiting B. A belief in the power
for Godot”? of the natural world to
communicate transcen-
best describes James A. Beckett’s work ex-
dent truth
Joyce’s “Portrait of presses a certain frus-
the Artist as a Young tration with the inabil- C. The use of irony and
Man”? ity of language to fully parody
5. D 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. D 10. A 11. B
D. Both A and B A. A way of question- A. Genteel

ing Victorian moral
12. Which author writes a B. Symbolist
conceptions
profound criticism of
C. Impressionist
Joseph Conrad’s “Heart B. A musical invention
of Darkness,” accus- of the modern age that D. Decadent
ing Conrad of reinforc- allows for experimenta- 18. Which of the following
ing typical European
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tion of form is true of Ezra Pound’s
stereotypes of Africa? “Canto XIV”?
C. An example of sub-
A. Chinua Achebe jective artistic expres- A. It contains almost
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sion hellish imagery, such
B. Edward Said
D. All of the above as: “Melting like dirty
C. Arundhati Roy wax,/decayed can-
D. Salman Rushdie 15. Which of the following dles, the bums sinking
an
is NOT one of Pablo Pi- lower,/faces submerged
13. What are the differ- casso’s periods of artis- under hams.”
ences between con- tic production?
servative modernism B. It explores the
and progressive mod- A. Dadaist period theme of the perver-
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ernism? B. Blue period sion of language.
A. Conservative mod- C. It deeply identifies

C. Synthetic cubism
ernism came to look with Dante’s “Inferno”
to the past for inspira- D. Rose period in terms of tone and
tion and hope, while thick description.
16. What famous mod-
an
progressive modernism ernist short story com- D. All of the above

looked to the future. pares the universe to 19. Which of the follow-
B. Conservative mod- an infinite library of ing Post-Modern theo-
ernism supported the hexagonal galleries? reticians explores the
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status quo, while pro- A. Joyce’s “The Dead” contradictions of colo-

gressive modernism nial discourse and the
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was deeply engaged B. Hemingway’s “My ambivalence that the

in political and social Old Man” colonizer feels towards
amelioration. the colonized “other” in
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted
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C. Conservative mod- House” works such as “Nation

ernism celebrated aes- and Narration”?
D. Borges’ “The Li-
thetic formalism, while A. Linda Hutcheon
brary of Babel”
progressive modernism
celebrated innovation 17. According to Dr. B. Homi Bhabha
and attacked aesthetic Michael Webster in his C. Jacques Derrida
formalism. essay, “Poetic Modes in
D. Fredric Jameson
the late 19th and early
D. All of the above
20th Century,” which 20. The term “Lost Genera-
14. Jazz music is described of the following is NOT tion” can be applied to
by which of the follow- a poetic mode of this which of the following
ing characteristics? time period? groups?
12. A 13. D 14. D 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. D 19. B

A. A group of self- 23. Fill in the blank. Ac- C. Stream of conscious-

imposed American cording to Sigmund ness attempts to accu-
expatriates living in Freud, psychological rately capture the exter-
Paris that included “transference” helps to nal dialogue of various
Ernest Hemingway, understand the nature characters in a realistic
Hart Crane, and Henry of setting by an objective
Miller observer.
A. Incest
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B. A group of artists D. A and B only
B. Trauma
and writers who were 26. “Flâneur," according to
deeply marked by the C. Taboo Dr. Heather Marcelle
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traumas of World War I Crickenberger in her es-
D. Love
say “The Flâneur,” is a
24. Salman Rushdie’s “Mid- term the French under-
C. Any American in night’s Children” is a
self-exile in Europe to stand to mean which of
an
novel characterized by the following?
avoid fighting in World which of the following
War I descriptions? A. Stroller, idler,
walker
D. A and B only A. It is an excellent ex-
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B. An inhabitant of a
21. The development of cu- ample of “Magical Real-
rural village
bism, with its geomet- ism.”
ric and abstract con- C. A religious believer
B. It is concerned with
cerns, can be attributed D. Both A and B
the post-colonial situ-
largely to which of the
ation of India before 27. Which of the follow-
following two artists?
an
and after its partition- ing is NOT a tenet of

A. Pablo Picasso and ing into India and Pak- F.T. Marinetti’s “Futur-
Claude Monet istan. ist Manifesto”?
B. T.S. Eliot and Wynd- C. It is a book that tells A. “We want to sing
y
ham Lewis the story of the Sinai the love of danger, the
family. habit of danger and of
C. Claude Monet and
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temerity.”
édouard Manet D. All of the above
B. “The essential ele-
D. George Braque and 25. Which of the following
ments of our poetry
Pablo Picasso best describes “stream
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of consciousness” nar-
22. The poem “In Flanders and revolt.”
rative in the modern pe-
Fields” was written by C. “We want to sing
riod?
John McCrae referring the man who holds the
to which war? A. Stream of conscious- steering wheel, whose
ness often relies upon ideal stem pierces the
A. The Franco-
“free association” of Earth, itself launched
Prussian War
ideas. on the circuit of its or-
B. The American Civil bit.”
B. Stream of conscious-
War
ness is the capturing of D. “We want never to
C. World War I the interior monologue glorify war, the scourge
of the narrator. of the planet.”
D. World War II
20. D 21. D 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. D 26. A 27. D

28. Which of the follow- depicts a middle-aged new, more graphic lan-
ing statements is true of protagonist, , who guage.
British India? becomes sexually ob-
C. The periodical
sessed with a twelve-
A. The British pres- and manifesto named
year-old girl, Dolores
ence in India began BLAST attempted to
Haze.
after World War II in expound Vorticism’s
Bombay. A. Sal Paradise principal tenets.
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B. British families B. Humbert Humbert D. The practice of Vor-
never settled in India C. Dean Moriarty ticism in artistic circles
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until after the conclu- grew after World War I.
sion of World War II. D. Jake Barnes
31. According to Max Si-
33. E.M. Forster wrote
mon Nordau in his
C. The British were which of the following
work “Degeneration,”
an
long present in India in novels?
the 19th century and A. “Pale Fire”
best describes the term
were not actively re-
“Fin de Siècle”? B. “A Passage to India”
sisted until the Mutiny
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of 1857-58. A. “The impotent de-
spair of a sick man,
D. Both A and B C. “Daniel Deronda”
who feels himself dying
29. Which of the follow- by inches in the midst D. “On the Road”
ing statements best de- of an eternally living 34. What is “Mimesis”?
scribes the “Blooms- nature blooming inso-
A. It is a philosophical
an
bury Group”? lently forever”

term which means “im-
A. The “Bloomsbury B. A term that means itation” or “mimicry.”
Group” consists of a nothing except for the
group of English writ- signification given to it B. It is a philosophical
y
ers, thinkers, and artists by the user and critical term mean-
who met in the Blooms- ing “otherness.”
C. “A confession and a
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which describes the
D. All of the above
B. The group consisted act of expression and
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of survivors of World the presentation of

statements concerning self-identity, theorized
War II.
“Vorticism” is false? by academics, such as
C. The Bloomsbury Erich Auerbach.
A. The term "Vorti-
group included E.M.
cism" was coined in D. A and C only
Forster, Clive Bell, John
1914 by the avant-
Maynard Keynes, and 35. Which of the following
gardist Ezra Pound.
Virginia Woolf. is true of symbolism?
B. Practitioners of Vor-
D. A and C only ticism often saw them- A. Symbolism began as
30. Fill in the blank. “Lolita” selves just as much as a French literary move-
is infamous for its con- educators as artists as ment in the late 19th
troversial subject as it they taught the public a century.
28. C 29. D 30. B 31. D 32. D 33. B 34. D

B. Paul Gauguin is an commonly deployed in C. Mario Vargas Llosa

example of symbolism Post-Colonial theory?
D. Charles Baudelaire
in painting.
A. Mimicry
41. Who wrote the follow-
C. Symbolism adheres B. Ambivalence ing statement: “When
to an objective view of
C. Hybridity you asked me to speak
reality and a rational
about women and fic-
and realistic depiction
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D. Serendipity tion I sat down on the
of the natural world.
39. According to Walter banks of a river and be-
D. Both A and B Benjamin in “The Work gan to wonder what the
of Art in the Age of Me-
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36. What is meant by the words meant”?
“Haussmannization” of chanical Reproduction,”
which of the following A. Amy Lowell
Paris?
is true? B. Gertrude Stein
A. It was an ur-
an
ban modernization A. “Even the most per- C. Virginia Woolf
project that reorga- fect reproduction of a
work of art is lacking D. Alice Walker
nized Parisian city
streets so that the bour- in one element: its pres- 42. Which of the following
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geoisie could flaunt ence in time and space, famous literary lines is
their new wealth. its unique existence at contained in William
the place where it hap- Butler Yeats’ poem
B. It was an urban ren- pens to be.” “The Second Coming”?
ovation project which
B. “The feeling of
offered social services A. “Hearing of har-
strangeness that over-
in city slums. vests rotting in the val-
an
comes the actor before

leys”
C. It was a political the camera, as Piran-
movement intended to dello describes it, is ba- B. “And we rebuild our
overthrow Napoleon III. sically of the same kind cities, not dream of is-
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as the estrangement felt lands”

D. It was a religious before one’s own image
C. “Things fall apart;
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movement intended to in the mirror.”

the centre cannot hold”
celebrate the values of C. “All art work, even
Christianity. mass produced art,
D. “Mother died today”
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37. Jorge Luis Borges was clearly links to an orig-

born the same year inal referent that has
as what other famous a stable and knowable 43. Which of the following
modern author? meaning.” sentences is the famous
D. Both A and B first line of Nabokov’s
A. James Joyce “Lolita”?
40. Who wrote the collec-
B. Vladimir Nabokov
tion of poems entitled A. “Lolita, light of my
C. T.S. Eliot “The Wind Among the life, fire of my loins. My
Reeds?” sin, my soul.”
D. Joseph Conrad
A. W.B. Yeats B. “Lolita, look at this
literary terms is NOT B. Jorge Luis Borges tangle of thorns.”
35. D 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. D 40. A 41. C 42. C 43. A

C. “Lolita, all at once to standardize aesthetic B. Naturalism depicts

we were madly, clum- taste and value. humans as reasonable
sily, shamelessly, ago- and objective.
C. It is a radical re-
nizingly in love with
thinking of mass cul- C. Naturalism depicts
each other.”
ture in that it promotes the more “animalistic”
D. “Lolita, a cluster the values of high cul- tendencies of humans.
of stars palely glowed
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ture and attempts to
D. Naturalism consid-
above us.” eradicate more popular
ers the author or artist
44. Which of the follow- forms of expression.
to be like a scientist.
ing artists did NOT pro-
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D. Both A and B 50. Wilfred Owen’s war
duce Surrealist photog-
47. Which of the following poem “Dulce et Deco-
raphy?
are well-known Post- rum est” ends with
A. Maurice Tabard Modern theoreticians? which of the following
an
Latin phrases?
B. Ansel Adams A. Linda Hutcheon
A. “Pax romana”
C. Hans Bellmer B. Jean Baudrillard
B. “Veni, vidi, vici”
D. Man Ray C. Thomas Hobbes
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C. “Dux bellorum”
45. Fill in the blank. The D. Both A and B
novel “Things Fall D. “Pro patria mori”
Apart” explores so- 48. What is “Post-
ciety and its encounter Modernism”?
is a literary work of
with European colonial-
A. A term used to de- “The Lost Generation?”
an
ism.
scribe contemporary
A. Ernest Heming-
A. Ibo cultural production
way’s “The Sun Also
B. Russian B. A literary move- Rises”
ment concerned with
y
C. Irish B. James Joyce’s

extreme self-reflexivity
“Dubliners”
D. Indian
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C. Joseph Conrad’s
46. Theodor Adorno’s “Cul- C. An attempt to break “Heart of Darkness”
ture Industry Reconsid- down the barriers be-
ered” further examines tween high and low cul- D. Friedrich Niet-
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the notion of the “culture zsche’s “Twilight of the

ture industry” and sug- Idols”
gests which of the fol- D. All of the above
lowing about the “cul- 49. Which of the following authors is NOT an im-
ture industry?” is NOT a characteris- portant Irish writer?
A. It destroys notions tic of “Naturalism” as
an artistic and literary A. Seamus Heaney
of high and low culture
and replaces it with movement? B. James Joyce
mass culture. A. Naturalism is a C. William Butler Yeats
B. It is an industry in search for scientific cer-
the sense that its aim is tainty.
D. E.M. Forster
44. B 45. A 46. D 47. D 48. D 49. B 50. D 51. A 52. D 53. D
53. Oscar Wilde’s “The Pic- C. Realism gives up the 59. Which of the follow-
ture of Dorian Gray” is search for truth and in- ing best describes the
an example of which stead embraces moral novel “The God of
of the following literary relativism. Small Things?”
trends? D. Realism explores A. It is a lyrical novel
A. Aestheticism ethical quandaries that explores cultural
within a social context.
er
B. Naturalism identity and decline of
an Indian family.
C. Decadence 56. Jorge Luis Borges is a
B. It is a Romantic
D. Both A and C native of which coun-
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novel that explores the
try?
54. Which of the follow- decline of a Russian
ing statements best de- A. Argentina family.
scribes the “Great De- B. Brazil C. It is a stream-of-
an
pression”? consciousness nar-
C. Mexico
A. The Great Depres- rative that explores
D. Britain cultural identity in
sion lasted for one hun-
dred years. 57. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste nineteenth-century Ire-
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Land” begins with land.
B. The Great Depres- which of the following
sion was the longest well-known opening D. It is a lyrical novel
and most severe depres- lines? that explores the de-
sion ever experienced cline of a Caribbean
by Western civilization A. “Was it for this-” family.
since industrialization.
an
B. “Riverrun, past Eve

60. In Jorge Luis Borges’
C. The Great Depres- and Adam’s, from
“The Library of Babel,”
sion was a severe eco- swerve of shore to bend
nomic downturn in the of bay, brings us by a
is NOT a major concern
commodius vicus of
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industrialized world of the work?

that began in 1929 recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Envi- A. The short work
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and lasted for approxi-

mately ten years. rons.” speaks of the daunt-
C. “And the worst ing search for truth and
D. B and C only knowledge.
friend and enemy is
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55. Which of the following but Death.” B. It is obsessed with

is NOT a characteristic the descriptions of an
D. “April is the cru-
of “Realism” as an artis- endless and ultimately
ellest month”
tic and literary move- incomprehensible li-
ment? 58. Who painted “The Ac-
brary.
commodations of De-
A. Realism strives to sire”? C. Borges takes great
depict humans within a pains to show how the
certain social context. A. Salvador Dalí
key to understanding
B. Realism depicts the B. Pablo Picasso the library is reason.
tension between harsh C. Juan Miró D. The library is analo-
reality and ideals.
D. Man Ray gous to the universe.
54. D 55. C 56. A 57. D 58. A 59. A 60. C

61. Which of the following A. His career ended A. “The Dead”

statements does NOT when he was jailed for
B. “The Surrealist Man-
reflect the general char- criminal “gross inde-
ifesto”
acteristics of T.S. Eliot’s cency.”
“The Wasteland”? C. “The Heart of Dark-
B. He believed that art ness”
A. Some academic should be something
D. “To the Lighthouse”
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scholars suggest that more than the reproduc-
“The Wasteland” is an tion and appreciation of
extrapolation of the the natural world. 66. Which of the following
search for the Holy authors is NOT consid-
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C. Wilde was the
Grail. ered to be a practitioner
author of such po-
ems as “Bénédiction,” of “Magical Realism”?
B. “The Wasteland” is
an excellent example of “L’Albatros,” and “éléva- A. Gabriel Garcia Mar-
tion.”
an
modernist symbolism. quez
C. Eliot’s poem takes D. He was notorious B. Isabel Allende
great pains to illustrate for his use of paradox.
C. James Joyce
the breakdown of stable
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meaning in the modern D. Allejo Carpentier
64. The French novelist J.K.
world. Huysmans, in his work 67. According to Dr. Dino
D. “The Wasteland” is “Against the Grain,” is Felluga’s module on
often used as an excel- intended to convey Freud, Sigmund Freud’s
lent example of poetic which of the following work on transference
ideas? and trauma argues
an
realism.
62. The literary style of Vir- A. The work celebrates points?
ginia Woolf’s novel “To the young Jean and his
Jesuit school education A. There is an undeni-
the Lighthouse” is best
able “tension between
y
described in which of as a model for the best

possible education of the death-instinct and
the following ways?
the sexual instincts.”
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the young.
A. As an omniscient B. Repetition-
narrative of love and B. It ends with the fa-
mous line “the horror, compulsion does not
loss help to come to terms
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the horror.”
B. As a third-person with one’s own mortal-
narrative of the Great C. It explores Jean’s ity.
Depression decision to become a
C. Most victims of
recluse and a social
C. As a domestic trauma do not exhibit
drop-out.
stream of conscious- “the compulsion of the
ness narrative D. All of the above human psyche to repeat
traumatic events over
65. T.S. Eliot considered
D. A and B only and over again.”
63. Which of the following ing one of the greatest D. Talk therapy will
statements regarding short stories ever writ- not help cure one’s
Oscar Wilde is false? ten? psychological neuroses
61. D 62. C 63. C 64. C 65. A 66. C 67. A

concerning past trauma. 71. Which of the follow- which of the following
ing is true of Charles artistic movements?
68. According to T.S. Eliot Baudelaire’s “Bénédic-
A. Cubism
in his essay on “Tradi- tion”?
B. Vorticism
tion and the Individual A. It was originally
Talent,” which of the fol- written in English. C. Futurism
lowing is true of “tradi-
er
B. It celebrates the al- D. A and B only
tion?” most divine power of 75. Which Post-Colonial
A. In English literature, the poet. theorist employs an ex-
we cannot refer to "the
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C. It suggests that po- tended analysis of the
tradition" or to "a tradi- etry is demonic in na- term “Orientalism”?
tion;" at most, we em- ture.
ploy the adjective in A. Edward Said
saying that the poetry D. Both A and B
an
B. Arundhati Roy
of so-and-so is "tradi- 72. Between 1890 and 1919,
tional" or even "too tra- which of the following C. Salman Rushdie
ditional." was a preoccupation of D. Homi Bhaba
Western European liter-
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B. Tradition is the 76. Why does the “Flâneur"
ature?
great conversation begin to disappear as a
which links all English A. Sexual mores Parisian phenomenon?
literature and is a coher- B. The importance of A. Because of the in-
ent and stable cannon. the irrational creasing prominence of
C. Bourgeois sensibil- department stores in
an
C. All of the above ity Paris

D. A and B only D. All of the above B. Because of the ad-
69. Which novelist is NOT vent of arcade projects
73. How may W.B. Yeats’
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commonly thought poem, “The Second

of as producing Post- Coming,” be inter- C. Because they began
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Colonial work? preted? to purchase products as

A. As an interpretation they walked the urban-
A. Arundhati Roy
of the Biblical Second scape
B. Salman Rushdie
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Coming of Christ D. Because they were

C. Seamus Heaney B. As an attempt to threatened by police
support European colo- with jail
D. Vladimir Nabokov
nialism in Africa 77. Which of the follow-
70. Of the following, who
C. As a howl of despair ing are contemporary
was NOT a well known
concerning the current Indian artists who have
modernist author?
state of the world begun to more critically
A. James Joyce examine India’s post-
D. Both A and C colonial situation?
B. Voltaire
74. Georges Braque’s
A. Ravinder Reddy
C. Virginia Woolf “Woman with a Gui-
tar” is an example of B. Rummana Hussain
D. Y.B. Yeats
68. D 69. D 70. B 71. B 72. D 73. D 74. A 75. A 76. A 77. D 78. A
C. Dadabhai Naoroji C. Deconstruction 84. The last decade of the

D. Feminism nineteenth century saw
D. A and B only
the development of a
78. Fill in the blank. Wal- 81. “In Parenthesis” is number of literary and
ter Benjamin was most David Jones’s mod- cultural movements
clearly a student of ernist adaptation of which amounted to a
’s work. which traditional lit- rejection of the prin-
er
erary form? ciples of Victorianism
A. Marx
A. The romance because of which social
B. Freud
transformations?
B. The epic
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C. Darwin
C. The sonnet A. The shift from
D. Aristotle
agriculturally-based to
79. According to Dr. Dino D. The haiku
industrial societies in
Felluga’s “General In- 82. Which of the following the West
an
troduction to Post- best describes James
modernism,” Roland Joyce’s “Araby”? B. The decline of tradi-
Barthes, in his work A. It begins with the tional religious beliefs
“The Death of the Au- famous line: “North in Europe
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thor,” argues which of Richmond Street being
the following points? C. The rise of tradi-
blind, was a quiet street
tional social identities
A. “The modern writer except at the hour when
and the decline of per-
(scriptor) is born simul- the Christian Brothers’
sonal identity
taneously with his text.” School set the boys free.”
an
D. Both A and B
B. “Once the Author is B. It speaks of the au-
gone, the claim to "deci- thor’s illicit relation- 85. Siegfried Sassoon’s
pher" a text is quite sim- ship with a young girl. poem “To Victory” is
concerned primarily
y
ple.”
with which of the fol-
C. “A text never con- C. It is a dramatization
lowing themes?
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sists of multiple writ- of the relationship be-

ings, it is always the tween Adam and Eve in A. His safe return
product of a monolithic the Garden of Eden. home
culture.”
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D. It is an analysis
D. Both A and B of “Exodus” from “The B. The defeat of the
Holy Bible.” Germans
80. Literary critics who
analyze the works of 83. Which of the following C. His death and es-
Salman Rushdie often authors is considered a cape from suffering.
engage which “Post- major theorist of decon-
Modern” school of criti- struction? D. His ability to finally
cism? A. Raymond Williams kill an enemy soldier
A. Marxism B. Jacques Derrida
86. What is the “Post-
B. Post-Colonial The- C. Fredric Jameson Modern” practice of
ory “Deconstructionism”?
D. Both A and B
79. A 80. B 81. B 82. A 83. B 84. D 85. A 86. A

A. An assault on the A. A fascination with 92. The motto “art for art’s
notion that there is any the past but a past that sake” means that artists
knowable truth is used out of its origi- began to do which of
nal context as pastiche the following?
B. An assault on the
sexual mores of the Vic- A. Produce works of
torian Age B. A reinforcement of art that were meaning-
less
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master narratives
C. A reaffirmation of
Romantic notions of the C. A rejection of mas- B. Reject artistic pro-
sublime ter narratives duction that was obliga-
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torily moral in charac-
D. All of the above D. Both A and C ter
87. Which of the following 90. Which of the following C. Avoid all forms of
artists was NOT influ- statements is true of the prose
Anglo-Irish War?
an
enced by Surrealism?
D. Make art profitable
A. Giorgio de Chirico A. The Anglo-Irish war above all else
began with the resis-
B. Salvador Dalí tance of the Irish Repub- 93. Which of the follow-
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lican Army. ing is NOT one of the
C. Marcel Duchamp
general themes of con-
D. Paul Gauguin B. The Anglo-Irish war cern in Derek Walcott’s
never involved a guer- poem“Becune Point”
88. Which of the following rilla campaign.
descriptions accurately A. Nature
describes Joseph Con- C. In the course of the
an
B. Christianity
rad’s “Heart of Dark- Anglo-Irish War, only a
ness”? few hundred members C. Pastoral landscapes
of the Irish Republican
A. The end of the D. World War II
Army were actively re-
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novella depicts Mar- sisting British rule. 94. Which of the follow-
low’s conversation ing descriptions of the
with the Kurtz’s In- D. All of the above
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“Avant-Garde Move-
tended. 91. Who wrote “Take ment” is false?
B. The work considers up the White Man’s A. The avant-garde, a
burden-/ Send forth the
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the dark side of Euro- military term meaning

pean colonialism. best ye breed-” in or- “advanced guard,” was
der to inspire Western founded in France in
C. Marlow comes to Europeans to propa- the mid-19th century.
understand the neces- gate benevolent, en-
sity of European leader- lightened colonialism? B. The term avant-
ship in Africa. garde itself means "ad-
A. Charles Baudelaire vanced guard," and the
D. Both A and B
B. William Butler Yeats military role of the ad-
89. “Post-Modernism” is of- vanced guard and the
ten characterized by role of the avant-garde
which of the following C. Rudyard Kipling art movement are much
attitudes? D. Napoleon III of the same.
87. D 88. D 89. D 90. A 91. C 92. B 93. D 94. C

C. The realist painter B. “A stable referent to A. He was born

Gustave Courbet never a knowable original cul- Charles-Edouard Jean-
considered himself a tural artifact” neret.
member of the avant-
C. “An exact imitation B. He was an archi-
garde.
of the material world” tect who designed The
D. Both A and B Chandigarh Legislative
D. “A basic affirmation
Assembly building in
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95. Which of the follow- of everyday reality”
Punjab, India.
ing statements best de- 97. Which of the following
scribes “Magical Real- is NOT a modernist art C. He was the architect
who designed The Ro-
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ism”? movement?
bie House in Chicago,
A. Magical realism of- A. Surrealism Illinois.
ten accepts both a ma-
B. Dadaism D. Both A and B
terialist and a supernat-
an
ural view of the real. C. Symbolism 100. Which of the follow-
B. Magical realism dif- D. Realism ing statements best de-
fers from fantasy and scribes the “British East
98. Important contempo- India Company?”
science fiction in that it rary reviews of Virginia
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considers the impossi- Woolf’s “To the Light- A. The British East
ble as normal. house” tend to focus on India Company was
which of the following originally a group of
C. The term "magi-
aspects of the novel? London businessmen
cal realism" was first
engaged in importing
coined by Franz Roh, a A. The profound and spices from South Asia.
an
German art critic. often troubling relation-

D. All of the above ships among characters
B. The British East In-
96. According to Dr. Dino dia Company first en-
B. The novel’s experi-
y
Felluga’s “General In- tered South Asia as im-

troduction to Postmod- mental structure porters of British Tea.
ernism,” what is the C. The novel’s radi-
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C. The British East

meaning of the term cally unique narrative India Company was
“simulacra”? voice essentially a covert
A. “Something that re- D. All of the above British army.
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places reality with its 99. Who was Le Corbus- D. Both A and B
representation” ier?
95. D 96. A 97. D 98. D 99. D 100. A

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1. Chaucer’s “The Canter- 3. Which of the follow- C. The Black Plague
bury Tales”? ing texts are associated D. All of these answers
with the alliterative re-
A. The court of Richard
vival?
II 5. Which text is an ex-
an
A. “The Dream of the ample of a poem struc-

B. The church Rood” tured as a vision to con-
C. The military B. “The Wanderer” vey the theme of salva-
tion?
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D. The literary tradi- C. “The Seafarer”

tion A. The Battle of Mal-
D. “Sir Gawain and the don
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2. How is the lai similar to Green Knight” B. The Seafarer

a medieval romance?
4. The turbulent years of C. The Wanderer
A. Both include the 14th century wit-
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stacked tales in a single nessed a blending of D. The Dream of the

sequential narrative. language and culture Rood
that led to the rise of 6. What is a lai?
B. Both have courtly Middle English. Which
love as their central A. A poem with
of the following events courtly love as its cen-
theme. led to the nickname tral theme
C. Both are designed in “the era of catastro-
phes”? B. A short lyrical poem
an episodic manner.
D. Both are usually in- A. The Hundred Years
C. A poem that is usu-
tended to be sung as War
ally in octosyllabic cou-
hymns. B. The Great Schism plets
1. B 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. D
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D. All of these answers 10. What is the significance D. All of these answers
of the line: Fate is es-
tablished! in The Wan- 13. Which of the following
7. Which of the follow- derer?
ing epic themes are accurately describes the
invoked in The Wan- A. The line describes way in which the comi-
derer? the optimistic attitude tatus ethic is repre-
of the speaker. sented in Beowulf, The
er
A. Exile Seafarer, and The Wan-
B. The line suggests
derer?
B. Abandoned mead- that the speaker is com-
halls fortably settled. A. As a mutually ben-
gd
C. The Wanderer is a eficial relationship be-
C. Loneliness
poem about fatal end- tween rulers and war-
D. All of these answers ings. riors
an
D. The line suggests B. As an economic sys-
8. Which of the follow- that fate plays an irre- tem of rewards used to
ing is not related to the vocable role in human ensure warriors reliabil-
term medievalism? affairs. ity
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11. Which of the follow- C. As a pre-feudal
A. Enlightenment
ing cultural changes oc- power structure based
B. Feudalism curred as a result of the on the distribution of
Norman invasion? economic and military
C. Guildhouses resources
A. The Church moved
D. Monasticism away from using Latin. D. All of these answers
an
9. Why is Caedmon’s
Hymn important in the B. The trend of educa- 14. Which of the following
history of Old English tional reforms was re- factors helped create a
y
literature? versed. solidified British politi-

C. England returned to cal identity?
A. The poem could
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be easily sung in all its pre-feudal state. A. The shift away from
churches and was D. The primary lan- individual petty king-
widely accepted. guage became French. doms to central rule un-
der King Alfred
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B. The poem’s theme 12. Which of the follow-

of alienation becomes ing advice is offered B. Efforts to revive
familiar to Anglo- to women in Acrene learning
Saxon poetry. Wisse? C. The translation of
A. Anchoresses should Latin religious and his-
C. The poem illustrates
live in a dwelling at- torical works in vernac-
Caedmon’s erudition
tached to a church. ular traditions
and scholarship.
B. Anchoresses should D. All of these answers
D. The poem is widely
avoid gossip.
believed to be the first
written poem in Old En- C. Anchoresses should 15. Which of the following
glish. avoid men. themes is not explored
7. D 8. A 9. D 10. D 11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B

in “Sir Gawain and the B. The epic poem is B. Giving inanimate

Green Knight”? written in a language objects human qualities
that is unrecognizable
A. The knightly ideal
to many English speak- C. A metaphorical
B. Conversion to Chris- ers. compound
tianity
C. Danish and German D. The image used to
C. Sexual purity scholars first claimed
er
share qualities in a
D. Feudal loyalty the poem. metaphor or simile
16. Which of the following D. There are no En- 22. Chaucer and Langland
gd
best defines Middle En- glish characters in the were contemporaries,
glish? poem. but there were several
A. An early form spo- 19. In Caedmon’s Hymn, differences between
ken and written by the the poet borrows the their writing styles.
Which of the follow-
an
Anglo-Saxons language of which liter-
ary form? ing best describes these
B. A filed-down Old differences?
English with heavy A. The mock epic
French influence A. Langland wrote
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B. The lyric ballad only about aristocratic
C. A unique form of characters that were
C. The lai
English spoken in Ger- similar to Arthurian leg-
many D. The heroic epic ends, whereas Chaucer
D. A form brought to 20. Chaucer’s pilgrims are wrote about lower so-
England by the Scandi- a representative section cial classes.
an
navians of late medieval soci- B. Chaucer and Lang-

17. Which of the following ety. Which of the fol- land wrote in different
is not a major category lowing economic situa- dialects.
of the romance genre? tions is evident among
C. Chaucer copied
y
this group?
A. The Matter of Ger- French and Italian style,
many A. Landlords had grow- whereas Langland did
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ing problems with their not.

B. The Matter of Rome tenants.
D. Most of Chaucer’s
B. The lack of guilds poetry was for a sec-
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C. The Matter of led to a decline in avail- ular court audience,

Britain able civic services. whereas Langland’s
D. The Matter of Eng- was didactic, teaching
C. A modern social hi-
land a moral lesson.
erarchy developed.
18. What is problematic 23. Which of the following
D. All of these answers texts was inspired by
about calling Beowulf
part of Old English lit- Historia Regum Britan-
erature? 21. Which of the following niae?
best defines caesura? A. Bede’s Ecclesiastical
A. There is no firm con-
cept of when English lit- A. A pause or break in History
erature began. a line of poetry B. Caedmon’s Hymn
16. B 17. A 18. D 19. C 20. D 21. A 22. C 23. C

C. Chretien de Troyes A. English as a lan- C. The title alludes to

Yvain, or le Chevalier guage of the king’s other plays in the same
au Lion court was replaced by cycle.
Norman French.
D. Chaucer’s The Can- D. The title suggests
terbury Tales B. Eventually English that faith-based issues
was reestablished, are individual to each
24. Why is the presence of
deeply influenced by Christian.
er
the comitatus ethic in
Beowulf significant? Norman French. 29. Which of the following
C. For a time, England are characteristics of a
A. The comitatus ethic
medieval romance?
gd
represents the shift became a country with
from a nomadic to a two languages. A. Episodic French and
more organized social D. All of these answers German poetry
structure. B. Resemblance to an
B. The comitatus ethic
is evidence of a pe-
riod in which behavior
was guided by Chris- an
27. In Beowulf, what is
the significance of
wergild?
epic
C. Supernatural
themes involving drag-
ons and monsters
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tian ethics. A. Wergild is con-
nected to the idea that D. All of these answers
C. The comitatus ethic bloodshed leads to
shows a historical re- more bloodshed.
turn to older types of 30. Which of the following
political organization. B. Wergild contributes is not a characteristic of
to the claustropho- Old English?
an
D. The comitatus ethic bic, doom-laden atmo-

represents a culture in A. Alliteration
sphere.
which rulers had no re- B. Personification
sponsibilities to their C. Wergild relates to
y
citizens. the concept of wyrd. C. Caesura
25. Which of the follow- D. All of these answers D. Romance

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ing characters from 31. Which of the following

“The Canterbury Tales” 28. What is the significance provides an example of
might represent the ris- of the title of “Every- the oral-formulaic tradi-
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ing middle-class of the man”? tion?

14th century?
A. The title suggests A. Caedmon’s Hymn
A. The merchant a long history of con- B. Beowulf
B. The knight flict between the gov-
ernment and the indi- C. The Wanderer
C. The prioress vidual. D. The Dream of the
D. The plowman B. The title is part of Rood
26. Why is the Battle of the morality play’s at- 32. Which of the following
Hastings relevant to the tempt to make Chris- texts provides the best
development of Middle tian struggles universal. example of medieval es-
English? tates satire?
24. A 25. A 26. D 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. D 31. D 32. C

A. “Sir Gawain and the B. To inform illit- B. The term represents

Green Knight” erate readers about the comitatus ethic.
Arthurian legend
B. “Piers Plowman” C. The term is an exam-
C. To reconcile the ple of kenning.
C. “The Canterbury
hero’s responsibilities
Tales” D. The term is an exam-
in love and wars
ple of caesura.
D. “The Book of
er
D. To sway audiences
Margery Kempe” 39. What was historically
away from reading tales
33. What is the significance significant about Chre-
of courtly love
of the dreamer in The tien de Troyes Yvain, le
gd
36. In “Everyman,” which Chevalier au Lion?
Dream of the Rood?
of the following pro-
A. The dreamer func- vides the path to re- A. He recast the his-
tions as an example of demption in the after- tory of Arthur into the
life? romance genre.
an
the comitatus ethic.
B. The dreamer has a A. Faith B. He was the first to
special hope for salva- discuss the Knights of
B. Time spent in the Round Table.
tion. prayer
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C. The dreamer is a C. He separated
C. Donations made to Arthurian legend from
relic from before the the monastery
Christian conversion. tales of courtly love.
D. Good deeds D. He dropped the su-
D. The dreamer is an
37. What is the primary fo- pernatural theme found
example of the supersti-
cus of Bede’s Ecclesias- in Arthurian legend.
an
tion of paganism.
tical History?
34. Which of the following 40. Which of the following
texts provides the best A. The life of everyday best defines alliterative
example of the comita- people in the 5th and verse?
y
tus ethic? 6th centuries

A. A traditional form
A. Caedmon’s Hymn B. The conversion of with repeated conso-
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Britain to Christianity nant sounds

B. The Battle of Mal-
don B. An Anglo-Saxon
C. The history of Chris- form written in iambic
Na
C. The Canterbury tianity before it reached pentameter with tradi-

Tales Britain tional rhymes
D. The Dream of the D. The spread of Chris- C. A popular form in
Rood tianity after the Nor- the 9th and 10th cen-
35. What is the primary man Conquest turies
purpose of Chetien de 38. In Beowulf, what is the D. A form brought to
Troye’s medieval ro- significance of the term England in the years
mances? whale-road? during the Norman in-
A. To convert readers A. The term is an al- vasion
to Christianity through lusion to Beowulf’s 41. Which of the follow-
positive examples golden torque. ing genres applies to
33. B 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. A 41. D

Langland’s “Piers Plow- C. The phrase is con- C. The ability to attract

man”? sidered one of the posi- fellow warriors was a
tive effects of prayer. necessary attribute of
A. Allegory
power.
D. The phrase involves
B. Social satire becoming a nun in or- D. All of these answers
C. Dream vision der to escape the bad in-
fluence of men.
er
47. “The Second Shepherds’
44. How does The Cross, Play” is part of which
as speaker, portray Je- play cycle?
42. What was the primary sus in The Dream of the
gd
A. Cornish cycle
function of The Rule of Rood?
Saint Benedict? B. York cycle
A. As the suffering
A. The Rule of Saint C. Roman cycle
Christ
an
Benedict standardized D. Wakefield cycle
B. As the ransom God
monasticism. 48. Why was Acrene Wisse
demands for the sins of
B. The Rule of Saint humanity written in the vernacu-
Benedict was the first lar language?
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C. As a special Jewish
example of poetry writ- A. English was a more
teacher
ten in the vernacular commonly used lan-
language. D. As the heroic noble guage in the Church.
warrior
C. The Rule of Saint
Benedict explained the 45. Which of the following B. The audience was
is the best example of a
an
new architectural style. likely unable to read

mystery play? French.
D. The Rule of Saint A. “The Wife of Bath’s C. Women were more
Benedict offered an Tale” educated, so they knew
y
early example of dream B. “The Second Shep- more languages.

poetry. herds’ Play” D. The audience was
ra
43. What is the significance C. “The Knight’s Tale” partially lay-women

of the phrase protecting with little knowledge
D. “The Dream of the of Latin.
the heart from Acrene
Na
Rood” 49. Which of the following

Wisse?
46. In Beowulf, what does is not an example of
A. The phrase refers
the representation of Arthurian legend?
to anchoresses respon-
Hrothgar suggest about A. Geoffrey of Mon-
sibility to defend other
rulers? mouth’s Historia
Christians.
A. Kings often used Regum Britanniae
B. The phrase suggests generous gifts to recruit
that women should B. Julian of Norwich’s
their followers. Revelations of Divine
safeguard their spiri-
tuality through total B. It was necessary for Love
withdrawal from the kings to fight in order C. Marie de France’s
world. to keep their power. Lanval
42. A 43. B 44. D 45. B 46. D 47. D 48. D 49. B

D. Sir Thomas Mal- A. The knight is reli- 55. Between which move-
ory’s Morte Darthur gious. ments do historians sit-
B. The knight is sub- uate literature in the
50. Why was the allitera- missive to his lad. Middle Ages?
tive revival associated A. English Reforma-
with nationalism and C. The knight is dedi-
cated to his feudal lord. tion and Elizabethan
nostalgia? Age
er
A. The stories of King B. Civil war and the
Arthur made all English D. The knight is blond,
tall, and elegant. Restoration
people nostalgic.
gd
53. What does Chaucer C. Roman departure
B. Metrical poetry sim- and the Renaissance
write concerning the
ply got boring.
devastating effect of D. Romanticism and
C. Alliterative poetry the Black Death upon the Enlightenment
an
was much easier to English social, cul-
56. What was the fo-
write. tural, and economic
cus of Geoffrey of
D. Alliterative poetry life in “The Canterbury
Monmouth’s Historia
was associated with a Tales”?
Regum Britanniae?
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world before the French A. Priests died in great
A. The life and poems
influence, a world be- numbers.
of Caedmon
fore the Conquest.
B. Rent prices in-
51. How did the Norman B. The conversion of
creased because of the
Conquest affect the in- Britain from paganism
market boom.
ternational political sit- C. The early years of
an
uation in England? C. The upper classes

William the Conqueror
were burdened by their
A. The Norman Con- monopoly of scarce re- D. The tales of King
quest increased the sources. Arthur
French influence.
y
D. Chaucer wrote no 57. Which genre is based

B. The Norman Con- direct descriptions. on interactions be-
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quest marked the last tween three feudal

attempt for a Scandina- classes?
best defines wergild?
vian nation to overtake
A. Dream poetry
England. A. Giving inanimate
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objects human qualities B. Romance

C. The Norman Con-
quest ended cultural in- C. Lai
teraction with Norway B. A metaphorical com- D. Estates satire
and Denmark. pound
D. All of these answers C. A reparational paying statement. Chaucer
ment demanded of a wrote his elegiac poem,
52. Which of the following person guilty of homi- “The Book of the
characteristics are not cide Duchess,” to praise the
essential to knightly D. The image used to young Duchess of Lan-
chivalry as described by share qualities in a caster who tragically
Chretien de Troyes? metaphor or simile died of:
50. D 51. D 52. D 53. C 54. C 55. C 56. D 57. D 58. A

A. the Black Plague. 61. Why is the concept of C. Pride causes one to
B. unrequited love for feudalism important in appear immodest.
John of Gaunt. medieval literature?
D. Extreme pride can
C. drowning in the A. Feudalism repre- cause one to be overly
Thames. sents the world of schol- secure and make mis-
ars who studied the an- takes.
D. childbirth. cient texts of the past.
er
59. Which of the follow- 64. In the first decades after
ing most accurately ex- the Norman Conquest,
B. The feudal world which of the following
plains the Bretons influ- is one of glamor and
gd
ence on medieval litera- best describes the use of
beauty. language in England?
ture?
C. Feudalism repre-
A. The Bretons roots A. The conquered En-
sents an economic hier-
were in the Celtic cul- glish quickly studied
an
archy, the upper levels
tural tradition. French.
of which created and
B. Breton literature consumed literature. B. The French con-
had a profound effect querors learned English
D. Feudalism repre-
on medieval literature in order to be able to
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sents interesting family
in England. govern well.
quarrels that make for
C. The Bretons rep- good stories. C. Latin became a com-
resented prominent 62. In Acrene Wisse, the mon language for inter-
forces in the Norman mission of the an- action between the two
invasion. chorite was justified groups.
an
D. All of these answers through what pur-

D. Most of the English
pose?
population went on
60. In Yvain, le Chevalier A. To serve the church speaking English with
au Lion, what is the sig- French used mostly
y
B. To withdraw and
nificance of trouthe? among the upper-
meditate upon God
ruling class.
ra
A. Trouthe represents
C. To pray
the supernatural as- 65. In Acrene Wisse, what
pects of the medieval D. To preach is the author’s advice re-
romance. 63. Pride in one’s accom- garding priests?
Na
B. Trouthe alludes to plishments was impor-

tant to the Anglo-Saxon A. Priests should be
the British conversion used as examples of ec-
from paganism to Chris- thegn. If so, why does
Hrothgar say in Be- clesiastical life.
tianity.
owulf: do not give way B. Priests should be
C. Trouthe emphasizes to pride? avoided, because men
the positive side of feu-
A. Hrothgar believes it are bad influences.
dalism.
is important to stay fo- C. Priests should offer
D. Trouthe suggests cused on revenge.
the imminent return anchoresses their only
to a pre-feudal social B. Pride is one of the connection to the out-
organization. deadly sins. side world.
59. D 60. C 61. C 62. B 63. D 64. D 65. B

D. Priests should be burned during the Peas- B. Wyrd is related to

honored, because men ants’ Revolt of 138. the folly of earthly pos-
are naturally more spir- What events led to this sessions.
itual. revolt?
C. Wyrd suggests the
66. Which of the follow- A. Government poli- idea of fate.
ing best defines mysti- cies were incorrectly D. Wyrd is an allusion
cism?
er
based on the idea that to the impending con-
the rich would help the version to Christianity.
A. The dream connec-
poor survive.
tion between the two
gd
sexes B. The high rates of the 71. What distinguishes
B. A literary genre poll tax were consid- morality plays from
written mainly in the ered unfair. mystery plays?
Anglo-Saxon era C. Peasants were A. Mystery plays in-
an
jointly united against volve Christian themes,
C. The human soul’s
the pattern of upper- whereas morality plays
tendency towards inti-
class harassments do not.
mate union with the di-
vine B. Morality plays in-
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volve Christian themes,
D. The separation be-
whereas mystery plays
tween humanity and di- 69. What led to the allitera- do not.
vinity tive revival?
C. Morality plays were
67. How do the themes of A. A return to reading written individually,
Marie de France’s Lan-
an
poetry from the 11th whereas mystery plays

val and Chretien de and 12th centuries are in cycles.
Troyes Yvain compare?
B. The influence of D. Mystery plays were
A. Both use the comi- written individually,
southern courtly po-
y
tatus ethic to explain whereas morality plays

ets writing in French
their hero’s motiva- are in cycles.
and Latin
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tions.
C. A surge in English 72. Which of the follow-
B. Both include refer- ing best describes how
nationalism
ences to William the Bede was a typical
Na
Conqueror. D. The introduction to Christian of his time?

new poetic forms dur-
C. Both include the A. He combined zeal-
ing the Norman inva-
theme of broken ous Christianity with
sion
promises between English patriotism.
lovers. 70. In Beowulf, what is the B. He did not believe
D. Both feature men- significance of the term that Christianity was
tions of the conversion wyrd? an essential part of En-
from paganism. A. Wyrd has to do with glish culture.
68. The home of Chaucer’s reparational payments C. He thought that
royal patron and friend, exacted from people England was a pagan
John of Gaunt, was guilty of homicide. wilderness.
66. C 67. C 68. D 69. C 70. C 71. C 72. A

D. He believed that En- Arthurian legend on A. This line suggests

glish Christians needed French literature. that Britain was the
to move to a New Israel. C. This interaction led most important place in
to more stories about the medieval world.
73. Which of the following the English conversion B. This line suggests
is not an example of a to Christianity. that good kings are re-
lai? warded by God.
er
D. The cultural ex-
A. Sir Launfal change led to more C. This line sug-
B. Chaucer’s The Wife stories about ancient gests that Arthur was
myths.
gd
of Bath beloved by the English,
76. What is the significance because he was good.
C. Chaucer’s
Franklin’s Tale of Sutton Hoo?
D. This line suggests
D. Norwich’s Revela- A. Sutton Hoo pro- the elegance necessary
an
tions of Divine Love vides architectural evi- for the feudal king to
dence from a virtually display being at the top
74. Which of the follow- unexplored period of of the economic hierar-
ing lines provides an history. chy.
example of alliterative
Ch
verse? B. Sutton Hoo gives 79. Which of the following
more information is the best example of a
A. “The knight took about the society that morality play?
a step toward/The created Beowulf.
maiden she called him A. “The Seafarer”
forward” C. Sutton Hoo pro-
vides insight into the B. “Everyman”
an
B. “her biginneth the conversion from pagan- C. “The Second Shep-

earste boc of ures ant ism to Christianity. herds’ Play”
ureisuns the gode beoth
to seggen” D. All of these answers D. “The Dream of the
y
Rood”
C. “doughty in theire
doings and dredde ay 77. How did the Normans 80. Beowulf introduces the
ra
schame” revolutionize English reader to the life of a

poetry? thegn. Which of the fol-
D. “I left my lands to
A. They introduced allowing best describes
come where you are/To
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literative verse. the role of the thegn?

find you I have come so
far!” B. They introduced A. The thegn is a war-
75. How did the interac- rhyming octosyllabic rior who has sworn his
tion between the En- couplets. loyalty to an Anglo-
glish and the Bretons af- C. They introduced Saxon lord.
fect literature? iambic pentameter. B. The thegn is a class
A. The exposure to D. They introduced of proto-capitalism op-
new forms ended the metaphor. posed to the guild sys-
production of lais. tem.
78. Arthur, the good King
B. This interaction of Britain held a rich C. The thegn is a war-
led to the influence of and royal court. rior who pays money
73. D 74. C 75. B 76. D 77. B 78. D 79. B 80. A

in exchange for exemp- 83. The adventure of an- B. We can make the
tion from military ser- other lay/Just as it hap- world better if we work
vice. pened, I’ll relay. hard.
D. The thegn is an A. The line has obvious C. There are many
Anglo-Saxon lord who rhyme and meter, and things in the world to
partakes in the comita- the opening words sug- love.
gest a story of adven-
er
tus ethic. D. The love and grace
ture and excitement. of God can change lives
81. What is the significance
of the “Green Knight”? B. The strong alliter- for the better.
gd
ation creates rhythm 86. What was the func-
A. He suggests the lack that accentuates the ad- tion of the Anglo-Saxon
of knightly themes in venturous spirit. Chronicle?
Middle English poetry.
C. The line seems to A. The Anglo-Saxon
an
frame a story with plot Chronicle records the
B. He alludes to an complications. history of the continu-
ancient Anglo-Saxon ity and persistence of
ruler. D. The line alludes to a
Anglo-Saxon culture in
poem with religious un-
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Old English.
C. He represents the dertones.
link with Celtic mythol- B. The Anglo-Saxon
84. The Battle of Maldon
ogy. Chronicle offers a lay
describes which histori-
person’s perspective on
D. He suggests a con- cal event?
Anglo-Saxon history.
tinued tie with pagan- A. The defeat of the En-
an
ism. C. The Anglo-Saxon

glish at the hands of the
Chronicle focuses on
82. Which of the following Vikings in 991
the courtly adventures
statements best char- B. The First Crusade in of Anglo-Saxon English.
acterizes the work of
y
the 11th-century
early monks in shaping
future medieval church C. The Second Crusade D. The Anglo-Saxon
ra
life? in the 12th-century Chronicle presents an

accurate description of
A. They were ex- D. The Norman Con- the Second and Third
tremely charismatic. quest in 1066 Crusades.
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best describes the sig- is not a theme in Chre-
B. They wanted to
nificance of the follow- tien de Troyes Yvain, le
move from the basics of
ing line from Julian of Chevalier au Lion?
Christian faith to a full
Norwich’s “Revelations
Christian life. A. The relationships
of Divine Love”: “all
manner of things shall between knights and
C. They were promot-
be well”? ladies
ers of the monastic life.
B. The feudal system
A. The world is a
D. All of these answers happy and wonderful C. The knight’s lack of
place. loyalty to his lord
81. C 82. D 83. A 84. A 85. D 86. A 87. C

D. The conduct of wars 91. How was mystical liter- B. A first-person story
and tournaments ature significant? of the Norman invasion
88. In The Wanderer, what A. Mystical literature
is the speaker’s primary suggested the contin- C. The adventure of a
conflict? ued link between pa- knight who rescues a
A. The desire to travel ganism and Christian- maiden
ity.
er
in search of wisdom D. A poem that fea-
with the social conven- B. Mystical literature tures courtly love but
tions prohibited women from denounces supernatu-
writing in the voice of
gd
B. The folly of earthly ralism
things with the wisdom God.
94. What literary term is
of heaven C. Mystical literature suggested by the quote
C. The speaker’s spir- ended the trend of po- steadfast companions
an
itual regression with ems in which God was will stand by him from
the increasing trend of cast as a lover. Beowulf?
Christian conversions D. Mystical literature A. The golden torque
D. The desire for a provided a place for
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women to write roman- B. Hurnting
more advanced world
with stagnant social tic and religious litera- C. Comitatus ethic
progress ture.
D. Kenning
89. Despite the fact that the 92. In Lanval, how does
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Marie de France repre- 95. Which of the follow-
sent King Arthur? ing statements regard-
an
continued well into the

Norman rule of the A. As a historical fig- ing the success and im-
12th century, which ure with whom her au- portance of the oral tra-
king originally commis- dience is largely unfa- dition of literature is
sioned this work? true?
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miliar
A. King Harold B. As a warrior king A. Monks memorized
many passages of scrip-
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B. King Arthur C. As someone who ture, preserving scrip-

C. William the Con- broken the tradition of tures.
queror offering lavish gifts to
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his supporters B. Scops recited poems

D. Alfred the Great to noble audiences, pre-
D. As a modest ruler serving the stories and
90. What is the verse form who defended his own
of Marie de France’s poetic tradition.
borders
Lanval? C. Thegns were nobles
A. Dactylic pentameter who liked literature,
would most likely be
and their patronage
the theme of a medieval
made poets popular.
B. Octosyllabic cou- romance?
plets A. The story of an En- D. Anchoresses recited
glish village’s conver- poems to occupy their
C. Heroic couplets
sion to Christianity time alone in their cells.
D. Clerihew
88. B 89. D 90. B 91. D 92. D 93. C 94. C 95. B

96. In Chaucer’s “The B. Barley bread repre- B. The success of the

Miller’s Tale,” why sents the wife’s answer Battle of Maldon
would the miller’s de- to the belief that virgin-
C. The translation of
termination to speak ity is superior to mar-
Latin texts into the ver-
following the knight riage.
nacular language
appear unsettling to C. Barley bread sug-
the 14th century audi- gests the heroine’s state D. The suppression of
er
ence? as a fallen woman. the Norman Invasion
A. The knight had not D. Barley bread signi- 100. How did French be-
finished his tale. fies Chaucer’s use of al- come the dominant lan-
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B. The miller did not literative verse. guage of England?
ask politely. 98. Which of the following A. King Alfred wanted
themes appears in “The all educated people to
C. A member of the
Miller’s Tale”? speak French.
an
clergy should have spo-
ken next. A. The misuse of scrip- B. Many English no-
ture bles preferred French
D. The miller was far
beneath the knight in B. The contrast be- because of the culture’s
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social order, so the tween vulgar love and superior poetry.
miller should have de- courtly love
C. Edward the Confes-
ferred to the person C. The misdirected kiss sor’s wife was French,
who ranked above him. and she had great influ-
D. All of these answers ence at court.
an
97. In “The Wife of Bath’s D. After the success-

Tale,” what is the sig- 99. King Alfred was associ- ful invasion of Eng-
nificance of “barley ated with which of the land, the language of
bread”? following events? William of Normandy
y
A. Barley bread pro- A. The breakdown of became the language of

vides an example of me- England’s once solidi- the elite.
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dieval estates satire. fied political identity
96. D 97. B 98. D 99. C 100. D

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11. Medieval Women Writers
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1. How did the develop- D. a devotional text B. the increased inter-
ment of nation-states in used by anchoresses est in stories written in
the late Middle Ages af- medieval Latin
fect women? 3. Which of the following
best characterize noble C. the decreased public
an
A. they lost the ability women in the Middle interest in religious sto-
to be anchoresses Ages? ries
B. they lost much of A. they were expected D. the French lords’
their political and eco- lack of interest in tales
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to fix problems in their

nomic power husbands’ absence of courtly love
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C. they were able to ac- 5. Which literary device

B. they ran the house-
quire more political cap- is most important struc-
hold
ital turally in The Book of
C. they were expected the City of Ladies?
Na
D. they took on more

important roles in the to be religious role mod-
A. assonance
economy els
B. allegory
2. What is a "lay" in me- D. All of the Above
dieval literature? C. litotes
4. How do historians ex-
A. a short lyrical poem plain the increase in the D. simile
number of troubadours 6. How did the fall of Ro-
B. a story of a saint’s in the Middle Ages? man imperialism affect
life Britain?
A. the public disinter-
C. a type of book of est in popular tales A. it led to the rise of
hours about romance Germanic cultures
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B
322 Chapter 11. Medieval Women Writers
B. it created a conflict C. Christine de Pizan A. it is a union sup-

Christianity and pagan- ported by the Church
D. The Wife of Bath
ism
B. it is a union between
11. How did the Christian
C. it led to the end of anchorites
laws about marriage dif-
Roman forms of govern-
fer from those of Ger- C. it is a mystical union
ing
manic tribes’ customs? between two people
er
D. All of the Above
A. the Germanic tribes D. it is a spiritual union
7. Who were the allowed relationships with God
troubadours? between family mem- 14. Who wrote The Rules
gd
A. poets from France bers, while the Church of Courtly Love?
and Italy prohibited marriage be-
tween relatives A. Christine de Pizan
B. men who wrote only
B. the Church out- B. Catherine of Sienna
an
in the mystical tradition
lawed marriages be- C. Andreas Capellanus
tween children, while
C. the authors of con- Germanic tribes toler-
duct books ated them D. Chretien de Troye
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D. heretics persecuted C. the Germanic tribes 15. What is "scholasticism"
by the Church tolerated polygamy, as it relates to the me-
8. What is the function of while the Church made dieval era?
Ancrene Wisse? monogamy the only ac- A. a period in which
ceptable type of union philosophers attempted
A. paradox
an
to reconcile philosophy
B. affective piety with religion
D. All of the Above
C. imagery B. a period of educa-
12. In the context of
D. pathos Medieval literature, tional activity
y
9. Which writer(s) is/are what does "inner rule" C. a period associated

associated with mysti- mean? with the Carolingian
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cism? A. it includes issues Renaissance

A. Richard Rolle that pertain to the heart D. All of the Above
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B. Walter Hilton 16. With which literary

B. it is part of the an- form is Ancrene Wisse
C. Julian of Norwich choress’ inner self most closely related?
D. All of the Above
C. it is the most im- A. estate satire
10. Which of the following portant part of Ancrene
women is most closely B. medieval lays
Wisse
associated with monas- C. conduct books
D. All of the Above
tic life?
13. In the context of Me- D. medieval allegory
A. Marie de France
dieval literature, what 17. Which provides the
B. Hildegard of Bingen does the term "mystical best example of a me-
marriage" mean? dieval allegory?
6. D 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. B 11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. D 16. C 17. D

A. The Book of A. the critical debate D. the lack of technol-

Margery Kempe about the verification of ogy made it literally
B. "The Wooing of Our events in the letters dark
Lord" B. the idea that 25. How did courtly liter-
C. "An Orison to Abelard wrote all of ature characterize its
Almighty God" the letters heroines?
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D. The Romance of the C. the issue of whether A. they were never
Rose there is a "female voice" chaste or pious
in the letters
18. How was Christine de B. they always repre-
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Pizan a unique female D. All of the Above sented the evil side of
writer for her time? 22. Which event(s) char- love
A. she was the only acterized the Middle
C. they were sources
woman to work in the Ages?
of inspiration for heroic
an
oral tradition A. invasions from bar- action
B. she was the first fe- barian tribes
D. they were examples
male mystic B. financial deficits of mystical unions
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C. she wrote in order from increased military
expenditures 26. What is oral transmis-
to support herself
sion?
D. she was the only C. falling birth rates
woman to write me- A. a method of commu-
D. All of the Above nication used solely by
dieval lays
23. Which is/are a theme(s) the early Church
an
of "The Acts of The-

women is widely con- B. the spreading of ma-
cla?"
sidered the first femi- terial by word of mouth
nist? A. courtly love
B. peasant life
y
A. Margery Kempe C. a mode of communi-

B. Catherine of Siena C. praise of chastity cation used mainly af-
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ter the rise of literacy

C. Thecla D. female literacy
24. Why do most critics D. a method of commu-
D. Christine de Pizan nication that became
also refer to the Middle
20. Which is/are typical of
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Ages as the Dark Ages? prominent at the end of

the supernatural in me- the Middle Ages
dieval romance? A. it was a period of
surging Roman institu- 27. What were "conduct
A. enchantment books"?
tions
B. spells A. books that estab-
B. the production of
C. fairy trickery historical records in- lished standards of be-
D. All of the Above creased havior for women
21. What is the authorship C. there are few pri- B. books that were
controversy as it re- mary sources that re- primarily intended to
lates to Heloise and construct the history of teach men how to treat
Abelard? the time their wives
18. C 19. D 20. D 21. D 22. D 23. C 24. C 25. C 26. B 27. A
C. books that con- D. she attacks double 34. How did increased
formed with strict stan- standards for the sexes lay participation in
dards of behavior religious life impact
D. books that re- monasteries?
themes do both Julian
counted historical of Norwich and Cather- A. it made them more
events in the medieval ine of Siena explore? valuable sources of in-
era formation
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A. the idea that com-
28. What is hagiography? munity is essential to B. it made them seem
A. the literary form salvation irrelevant since they
separated religious life
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linked closely with
B. the concept of dual- from worldly life
courtly love
ism of body and soul
B. a method of creating C. it made them more
a mystical union C. the concept of a sen- important since there
an
sual God were few literate lay
C. a term associated
D. the idea that God is worshipers
with oral transmission
separate from the hu- D. it made them sym-
D. the writing and man experience of love bols of the Church’s
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studying of saints’ lives
progress
29. In the Middle Ages, 32. Which of the following 35. To whom were The Lais
which class of people couples exemplify/ex- of Marie de France ded-
was most likely to be lit- emplifies courtly love? icated?
erate? A. Lancelot and Guine- A. King Alfred
an
A. monks vere B. King Arthur

B. working class B. Dante and Beatrice C. King Henry
women
C. Arthur and Guine- D. King Richard
y
C. working class men vere

36. What is an anchoress?
D. peasants D. All of the Above
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A. a medieval female
30. In The Book of the City
33. In what way(s) did the hermit
of Ladies, how does
legalization of Chris-
Pizan treat the issue of B. a woman who re-
tianity impact medieval
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women’s sexuality? jects the support of the

culture?
community because she
A. she denies that there
A. architecture came to feels it is sexist
is a double standard
be influenced by the C. a male anchorite
B. she says that men Christian church
should be allowed to D. a religious teacher
be more sexually active B. art revolved around in the medieval era
than women Christian themes
37. According to Pizan,
C. she contends that C. the Church became what is the most im-
women should adhere instrumental in the for- portant element in
to traditional rules of mation of laws a woman’s quest for
women D. All of the Above equality?
28. D 29. A 30. D 31. C 32. D 33. D 34. B 35. C 36. A 37. C
A. chastity 40. Which of the following book of the Middle

characterized court life Ages?
B. piety
in the Middle Ages?
A. The Romance of the
C. education
A. recitations by poets Rose
D. secular political ac-
B. knightly tourna- B. "Book of Hours"
tivity
ments
C. The Bible
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38. Which is the best exam-
C. games
ple of the "double stan- D. The Art of Courtly
dard" that exists in tales D. All of the Above Love
of courtly love?
gd
41. In the Medieval era, 45. In "The Wife of Bath’s
A. women are always women most com- Tale," what does Al-
villains, while men are monly worked as isoun say women want
always heroes most?
A. retailers
an
B. women are always A. freedom
B. domestic servants
involved in supernatu- B. love
ral plots while men’s C. spinners
storylines tend to be C. education
D. All of the Above
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more realistic D. chastity
42. In the Middle Ages,
C. men are allowed nuns also performed 46. When did the Norman
to boast about their which of the following Invasion take place?
affairs, while women roles? A. 9th century
must keep them secret
A. teachers B. 10th century
an
D. men are represented

B. scribes C. 11th century
as immoral while
women are always pre- C. authors D. 12th century
sented as chaste D. All of the Above 47. In the Middle Ages,
y
39. In the Middle Ages, 43. Which is true of me- how did religious and
what was the status of dieval women? secular concepts of vir-
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a married woman in re- ginity differ?

lation to her husband? A. they were not al-
lowed to divorce their A. secular authorities
A. she was considered husbands said that virginity was
Na
her husband’s property unimportant, while the

B. they were not al- Church highly valued it
lowed to own a busi-
B. she was considered ness without permis-
equal to her husband sion B. the Church said that
C. she was more virginity was unimpor-
C. they were not al- tant, while the secular
legally powerful than lowed to inherit land if
her husband authorities highly val-
they had any brothers ued it
D. she was her hus- D. All of the Above
band’s property, but C. secular authorities
could not be mistreated 44. Which of the follow- said that virginity was
under law ing was the most copied an ethereal treasure,
38. C 39. A 40. D 41. D 42. D 43. D 44. C 45. A 46. C 47. D
while religious doc- D. All of the Above A. popular books be-

trines said it was spend- 50. In The Book of the City fore the invention of
able of Ladies, what is the the printing press
D. religious doctrines function of the charac- B. books of prayers
said that virginity was ter Reason? used at Christian Mass
an ethereal treasure, A. she offers real rea-
while secular authori- C. books of informa-
er
sons as to why women tion about the history
ties said it was spend- are valuable to society
able of the Church
B. she literally helps D. private books of
48. How did courtly ro-
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build the city prayers to be recited
mances break down
the virgin/whore di- C. she helps the nar- throughout the day
chotomy? rator see the merits of
54. Which of these female
A. they deemphasized women
an
writers is most closely
the importance of D. All of the Above associated with tears?
chastity 51. From which lay is the A. Julian of Norwich
B. they redefined quote "she had no equal
B. Margery Kempe
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women as attainable in the kingdom" taken?
vs unattainable, rather C. Catherine of Siena
A. "Lanval"
than virgin vs whore
B. "La Fresne" D. Catherine de Pizan
C. they indicated that
women’s sexual con- C. "Bisclavert" 55. Which of the follow-
duct should not be clas- D. "Equitan" ing typify the oral-
an
sified by men formulaic?

52. How did travel at the
D. they rarely explored time of the Crusades im- A. The repetition of
issues of sexuality, love, pact Western Europe? words
or romance
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A. people brought tales B. The use of epithets

49. Why do most histori-
of romance from differ- with character’s names
ans think monasticism
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ent literary and cultural

appealed to medieval C. An episodic struc-
traditions back from
women? ture
their trips
A. it provided women D. All of the Above
Na
B. merchants started to
with the opportunity to
import rare silks and 56. Which of the following
protect their own prop-
spices from new trade was a result of Charle-
erty
roots mange’s decree on the
B. it provided women production of books?
with a place to nour- C. architects from
ish their intellectual Western Europe were A. it ended the
growth influenced by new East- Church’s role in the
ern styles creation of books
C. it allowed women
to exercise political au- D. All of the Above B. it led to a sudden
thority in their commu- 53. What are "books of increase of women as
nities hours?" scholars and authors
48. B 49. D 50. D 51. D 52. D 53. D 54. B 55. D 56. C

C. it declared that A. people who attempt 64. What is "the gender fal-
books should be pro- to found their own reli- lacy"?
duced by men gious orders
A. the problem of a
D. it opened up new op- B. people who reject "man writing as a
portunities for women asceticism and contem- woman"
to learn plation B. the idea that woman
er
57. How did the increase in C. people who at- cannot be as educated
universities affect most tempted to contact God as men
middle-class women? without the interven- C. the idea that noble
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tion of an established women are more simi-
A. they were exposed
religious order lar to men than peasant
to new opportunities to
learn in universities D. people who were women are
formally tied to reli- D. the notion that
B. they were not able
an
gious orders chastity is impossible
to attend so they were
virtually unaffected 61. Kempe’s acts of devo- for men
tion included: 65. In what centuries did
C. they were not able
mystical women writ-
Ch
to attend so their edu- A. meditation
ers primarily work?
cation levels declined, B. wearing white cloth-
compared to men ing A. 8th and 9th cen-
turies
D. most of them were C. weeping
unable to read, so they B. 9th and 10th cen-
were not admitted D. All of the Above turies
an
58. Which are examples of 62. With which of the fol- C. 10th and 11th cen-
devotional acts? lowing genres is The turies
Romance of the Rose
A. pilgrimages D. 14th and 15th cen-
y
most closely associ-

turies
B. charitable donations ated?
66. Which best summarizes
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A. medieval lay Christine de Pizan’s re-

C. prayers on the sin- B. hagiography action to The Romance
ner’s behalf of the Rose?
C. mysticism
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D. All of the Above A. she objected to the

D. dream vision treatment of secularism
59. Which topic(s) is/are ex-
plored in The Lais of 63. Which of the following as evil
Marie de France? is an alternative name B. she applauded its
for the Middle Ages? promotion of female ed-
A. superstition
A. Age of Enlighten- ucation
B. adultery ment C. she attacked it as
C. jealous fathers B. Age of Reason misogynistic
D. All of the Above C. Platonic Period D. she praised the ob-
jectification of women
60. Who were lay mystics? D. Dark Ages
57. C 58. D 59. D 60. C 61. D 62. D 63. D 64. A 65. D 66. C
67. Which is true of child- 71. In The Romance of the 74. Which of the follow-
birth in the Middle Rose, which text does ing themes/motifs
Ages? Guillaume de Lorris cite was/were often found
as his inspiration? in literature of "courtly
A. it was normally su-
love"?
pervised by a midwife A. The Book of
Margery Kempe A. nobility
er
B. it was typically dan- B. "Revelations of Di-
B. adultery
gerous for mother and vine Love"
infant C. chastity
C. "The Wooing of Our
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C. it was normally Lord" D. All of the Above
done without medical
D. The Art of Courtly
equipment 75. Which text(s) is/are as-
Love
D. All of the Above sociated with mysti-
an
72. What was a virago?
cism?
68. Which speaker said
A. a heroine who used
that "God is more A. The Canterbury
female attributes to be-
nearer to us than our Tales
come a saint
own soul?"
Ch
B. a saint who was B. "Revelations of Di-
A. Julian of Norwich vine Love"
NOT the humble, pious,
B. Margery Kempe and chaste figure she
was expected to be C. "Book of Hours"
C. Catherine of Siena
C. an asexual female D. The Romance of the
D. Catherine de Pizan
an
saint Rose
69. In the medieval Church,
devotional acts D. an anchorite 76. What do most critics
73. How would you de- find notable about the
A. cancelled out pun-
scribe the phrase virtues that Pizan high-
y
ishment due to sin

"oral-formulaic," as lights in her work?
B. depended entirely you learned it in this
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on literacy A. she values reason

course?
and activity instead of
C. were considered A. As a term associ- silence
"unimportant" by mys- ated only with religious
Na
tics written literature B. she emphasizes

practical rather than
D. were only per- B. As a device used to theological virtues
formed by men describe the flaws in the
70. Which of these female oral tradition C. she does not men-
writers was least likely tion traditional virtues
C. As a technique that
to have been literate? like piety
became popular after
A. Julian of Norwich the invention of the D. All of the Above
printing press
B. Margery Kempe
D. As a method of com- 77. How did lay literacy
C. Catherine de Pizan affect traditional devo-
posing stories in the
D. Heloise oral tradition tional practices?
67. D 68. A 69. A 70. B 71. D 72. C 73. D 74. D 75. B 76. D 77. C
A. people stopped read- A. a type of literature B. the mystic is a vi-

ing the Bible concerned with the be- sionary who experi-
havior of anchorites ences divine insight
B. people increasingly
turned to visual art in B. a type of early litera- C. the mystic uses a re-
order to learn about re- ture produced solely by ligious platform to pro-
ligion medieval women writ- mote equal rights for
ers women
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C. people could be reli-
gious without the help C. a literary conven- D. the mystic usually
of a clergy tion based on the code works as a scribe
of behavior associated
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D. interest in the 84. How did the printing
with chivalrous ro-
Church history depress alter medieval cul-
mance
clined rapidly ture?
D. a method of oral
78. According to most his- A. it improved commu-
an
transmission
torians, why was it so nication between soci-
81. Identify the speaker of eties
important for a man to
these lines: "sweet Je-
marry a virgin wife? B. it increased the
sus, Jesus love"
amount of printed ma-
Ch
A. it assured him that
A. Julian of Norwich terial available to the
his children were his
own B. Margery Kempe masses
B. it assured him that C. Catherine of Siena C. it created a more un-

his wife would carry a restricted circulation of
D. Christine de Pizan
dowry with her texts
an
82. Why did Catherine of

C. it assured him that Siena refuse to marry a D. All of the Above
his wife was not a sin- husband? 85. What is affective
ner piety?
A. she said that the in-
y
D. it assured him that stitution was too flawed A. a term associated

her wife would never with oral transmission
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commit adultery B. she claimed she was B. an important trait of

79. Which of the following already married to God the medieval lay
is an example of female
C. a literary device
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hagiography? C. she wanted to make used in estates satire

A. "Revelations of Di- a political statement
vine Love" against the Church
D. a dramatic demon-
B. "Acts of Thecla" D. she was concerned stration of faith
about loss of property
C. "The Wooing of Our 86. What do most critics be-
83. Which best describes lieve the "rose" of The
Lord"
the work of a mystic? Romance of the Rose
D. "Orison to an symbolizes?
A. the mystic is pri-
Almighty God"
marily tasked with in- A. justice
80. What was "courtly tellectual work within
love"? monasteries B. piety
78. A 79. B 80. C 81. C 82. B 83. B 84. D 85. D 86. C 87. B
C. sexuality 90. The Book of the City D. All of the Above

of Ladies articulates 94. Which is true of me-
D. education
which of the following dieval property laws?
87. In Medieval times, who themes:
were "femme soles"? A. most medieval
A. the value of practi- women had some prop-
A. anchorites who cal virtues over tradi- erty
lived in seclusion tional feminine virtues
er
B. married women
B. women who oper- could hold property
ated their own busi- B. the merit of women
once they had children
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nesses without men C. the lack of truth
C. married women
C. women who were in men’s stereotypes
could hold property
villains in stories of about women
without their husband’s
courtly love D. All of the Above consent
D. educated women
88. What was a Lollard?
A. a hero in a courtly an
91. In the Middle Ages,
how did divorce laws
differ for the sexes?
A. both sexes could
D. widows could hold
property
95. When did the Roman
Ch
Empire formally legal-
romance legally divorce ize Christianity?
B. a member of a sect B. only women could A. The 3rd century
that was considered legally divorce
heretical B. The 4th century
C. only men could
C. a female mystic legally divorce C. The 7th century
an
D. an illiterate an- D. both sexes could di- D. The 8th century

choress vorce only with the 96. In the context of
other’s consent Medieval literature,
89. What does the term
y
"monasticism" mean? 92. With which genre is what does "outer rule"
"The Passion of Saints mean?
A. it describes a life
ra
Perpetua and Felicity" A. it includes issues

based on retreat from most closely associ-
society that pertain to the heart
ated?
B. it describes the im-
Na
A. medieval lay B. it refers to an-

portance of communi-
B. courtly love choress’ everyday be-
cation with others in or-
C. hagiography havior
der to reach salvation
D. romance C. it is part of the an-
C. it describes a form
choress’ inner self
of worship based on 93. Which of the following
praying to devotional characterize(s) a lay? D. it is the most im-
art portant part of Ancrene
A. geographical unity
Wisse
D. it describes a way B. episodic content
of life that became pop- 97. In the Middle Ages,
ular after the Middle C. octosyllabic cou- how did society treat
Ages plets prostitution?
88. B 89. A 90. D 91. C 92. C 93. D 94. D 95. B 96. B

A. prostitution was inventions is associated associated?

considered problematic with the rise in liter-
A. "Revelations of Di-
but legal acy?
vine Love"
B. the Church opposed A. the triptych
prostitution on moral B. "The Book of
grounds B. the flail Margery Kempe"
C. the rudder
er
C. prostitution was C. "An Orison to
considered a solution D. the letter press Almighty God"
to epidemics of rape
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1. How is the abbey D. Dracula as trans- C. Writing
in “The Monk” NOT gressor of God’s order D. John
Gothic?
5. In what way is Drac-
A. It is a Catholic struc- 3. What is NOT Gothic ula NOT an “Other” fig-
an
ture. about the room to ure?

which the female pro-
B. It was built in the A. He is from a foreign
tagonist of “The Yel-
Middle Ages. land.
low Wallpaper” is con-
y
fined? B. He is racially differ-

C. It is a sanctuary for ent.
women. A. It has bars on the
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window. C. He is Christian.
D. It is labyrinthine.
B. It is removed from D. He is a connection
2. All of the following the main area of the to a different time.
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are ways Dracula rep- house. 6. Which of the following

resents the “monstrous best describes how the
C. It is locked.
Other” EXCEPT: novel “Frankenstein” is
D. It is sunny. understood by critics?
A. Dracula as foreign
4. What constitutes a A. As a commentary
invader
“monstrous Other” in on Victorian England
B. Dracula as sexual “The Yellow Wallpa-
B. As an apolitical hor-
predator per”?
ror story
C. Dracula as usurper A. Cousin Henry and
C. As a novel ghost-
of the British class sys- Julia
written by Perce Shel-
tem B. Reading ley
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. D
334 Chapter 12. The Gothic Novel
D. As an exploration 10. What literary conven- C. A hero-villain who

on the effects of science tion is used pervasively defies the laws of God’s
on humanity in “The Mysteries of universe
7. Which of the follow- Udolpho”?
D. A hero who is usu-
ing best explains the A. Satire ally defined by his fatal
treatment of the hero- attraction to women
B. First-person narra-
ine in “The Mysteries of
er
tion 14. How did the term
Udolpho”?
C. Realism “Gothic” become asso-
A. The heroine’s fan- ciated with the literary
tasies about the castle D. The uncanny dou-
phenomenon known as
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are combined with her bling of characters
the Gothic novel?
fear of violation. 11. What does the charac-
ter Dracula symbolize A. The excessive vi-
B. She is excluded from olence found in the
in the novel?
an
the novel’s violent dis- Gothic novel
turbances. A. Modern science
B. The barbarians that
C. She is excluded from B. The consciousness
populate the Gothic
the general sense of iso- C. Theories of evolu- novel
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lation in the novel. tion
C. The use of the
D. The heroine is D. Ancient evil word in the subtitle
robbed of psychological 12. Why is the concept of of Walpole’s novel
complexity by focusing the sublime important
only on horror. D. The style of archi-
in Gothic literature?
8. For what historical tecture found in the
an
A. It leads the reader to Gothic novel

event did the Gothic
overlook the beauty of
serve as a metaphor? 15. Why is it significant
nature.
A. The American Revo- that Dracula is from
B. It reminds readers of Transylvania?
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lution their civic duties.

B. The French Revolu- A. Transylvania is Eng-
C. It causes an expe-
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tion land’s economic rival.

rience of elestasis, or
C. The Battle of Water- transport. B. Transylvania and
loo England had been at
D. It creates a sense of
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war in the 1860s.

D. The Industrial Revo- contentment.
lution 13. What is a Satanic C. Transylvania repre-
Hero? sents a vaguely known
9. The popularity of
and, therefore, suspi-
which Gothic novelist A. A hero who is
cious country.
is parodied in Austen’s known for being aris-
“Northanger Abbey”? tocratic, moody, and D. Transylvania and
A. Horace Walpole secretive England were once part
of the Holy Roman Em-
B. Ann Radcliffe B. A character who is
pire.
essentially kind but per-
C. Matthew Lewis forms a horrible act by 16. How do theorists sug-
D. Mary Shelley accident gest that the Gothic
7. A 8. B 9. B 10. D 11. D 12. C 13. C 14. C 15. C 16. A

novel resembles queer 19. In which way does D. As the resolution of

and camp? Gilman’s “The Yellow madness
Wallpaper” include ele-
A. The body is rep- 22. Which one of the fol-
ments of the uncanny?
resented in abnormal lowing events inspired
ways. A. It reflects a woman’s the trend of body trans-
everyday life. formation in Gothic
B. Women’s issues are novels?
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interrogated. B. An everyday object
causes her terror. A. The decline in ani-
C. Gender issues are of- mal dissections
ten overlooked. C. An apparently nor-
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mal person is revealed B. The increase in sci-
D. Many protagonists’ as a man. entific experimentation
mothers are absent.
D. It features a body
17. In “Frankenstein” how transformation. C. The end of absolute
does Shelley represent
science?
A. As potentially pro- an
20. In what way does
Thornfield Hall dif-
fer from the Castle
of Otranto, Udolpho,
monarchy
D. The end of the Vital-
ist Controversy
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ductive when used cor-
rectly and the Convent of St. 23. Based on your readings
Clare? for this course, which of
B. As something the following best sum-
A. It is the scene of vi-
needed for humans to marizes how most crit-
olence.
advance ics interpret the crum-
B. It is the scene of sex- bling castle in “The Cas-
an
C. As a way to resolve
ual transgression. tle of Otranto”?
human madness
C. It is the scene of re- A. The castle repre-
D. As inherently mon- demption for the By- sents the presence of
strous ronic hero.
y
newer technologies.
18. In what way does D. It serves as a kind of B. The castle signifies
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Radcliffe depart from prison. the ruin of feudal me-

Walpole’s earlier tradi-
21. In “The Gothic Sub- dievalism.
tion?
lime” how does Mishra
C. The castle symbol-
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A. She creates a strong characterize the Gothic

izes the desire for a
male hero to rescue novel?
more powerful aristoc-
Emily. A. As a version of the racy.
B. She is not concerned Romantic novel
D. The castle shows
with issues of rightful B. As a set of literary the lack of change in
inheritance. devices developed in popular architecture
C. She sets the novel in the 18th century but ap- styles.
present day. plicable to present day
24. According to Radcliffe,
D. She resolves the ap- what is the difference
C. As the antithesis of between terror and hor-
pearance of supernatu-
postmodernism ror?
ral phenomena.
17. D 18. D 19. B 20. C 21. B 22. B 23. B 24. D

A. Horror is only a A. It represents male D. She converts to

sense of the sublime. sexuality. Catholicism.
B. Terror contracts the B. It suggests female 32. What is the significance
soul. complicity in sexual de- of “the Other” in Gothic
C. Terror involves un- viance. novels?
certainty and obscurity. C. It refers to the lo-
A. They are almost al-
er
cation of murder in
Gothic novels. ways the subjects of
D. Horror fails to omens and curses.
awaken and expand D. It symbolizes the
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the soul. forced sequestration of B. They are typically
25. Which term is most women both before and heroes.
closely affiliated with after marriage.
C. They always ex-
the female Gothic? 29. In “Frankenstein” how press deviant sexual
an
A. Terror do dreams function? tendencies.
B. Sentimentalism A. They provide relief
D. They are perceived
from the real world.
C. Horror as dangerous because
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B. They prophesy fu- they are unknown.
D. Ghosts
ture destruction.
26. What is the origin of 33. Why does Horace
the vampire myth? C. They are part of the
Walpole make use of
unconscious controlled
A. Stoker’s “Dracula” elaborate machines
by science.
in “The Castle of
B. Beckford’s “Vathek” D. They obscure deep Otranto”?
an
emotions.
C. Ancient civiliza- A. To encourage ratio-
30. All of the following
tions worldwide nal evaluation rather
define the Gothic EX-
than arouse emotional
y
D. Walpole’s “The Cas- CEPT:

reactions
tle of Otranto” A. The unknown
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27. The vampire myth is B. To emphasize the

B. Transgression importance of charac-
NOT associated with
which of the follow- C. Reason ter development over
ing? action
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D. The grotesque
A. Incest 31. How does Emily show C. To assist with the
initiative in “The Mys- flight and pursuit of vil-
B. Life rituals with
teries of Udolpho”? lains and their prey
blood
C. The fear of dying A. She leaves home in D. To support the
search of adventure. growth and develop-
D. The fear of being
B. She takes control of ment of machinery in
buried alive
her own money. the 18th century
28. What is the significance
of the “bloody bed- C. She rejects her 34. In “Dracula” what does
chamber” in Gothic fic- aunt’s invitation to the death of Lucy sug-
tion? travel to Italy. gest?
25. A 26. C 27. A 28. D 29. B 30. C 31. B 32. D 33. C 34. B
A. That sexual purity been associated with 39. How does Franken-
was less important than Romantic literature. stein’s monster learn
society’s safety about the Garden of
C. The sexual lives of
B. That female sexual- Eden?
Romantic-era authors
ity is dangerous and are not relevant to our A. He reads the Bible.
must be destroyed understanding of queer
B. He is taught by Vic-
Romanticism.
er
C. That women are not tor about the Bible.
one-dimensional D. The “Queer Gothic”
C. He reads Milton’s
D. That men consider is understudied.
“Paradise Lost.”
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themselves responsible 37. Why does one scholar
for their own fates D. He listens outside
suggest that “The
35. Why do scholars con- church services.
Monk” represents lit-
sider the first wave erary transvestism? 40. In what way do the
an
of the English Gothic houses in “The Yellow
novel an aspect of Ro- A. The habited nuns Wallpaper” and “Jane
manticism? B. Ambrosio’s rape and Eyre” differ from each
A. The use of poetic murder of his sister other as Gothic literary
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prose in the Gothic structures?
C. Lewis’s use of a fe-
novel male pseudonym in the A. The relative loca-
B. The Gothic novel’s original edition tion of the room in
interest in the apocalyp- which the “troubled”
D. Lewis’s choiceof a women are kept
tic prophecies found in
feminine literary genre
Hebrew and Christian
an
B. The state of disre-

Scriptures pair when the houses
38. “It is very seldom that are first encountered by
C. The ascendency of
mere ordinary people the protagonists
human reason in the
like John and myself se-
Gothic novel
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cure ancestral halls for C. The relative loca-

D. The representation the summer.” How does tion of the houses
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of contemporary life in this opening sentence within the larger com-

the Gothic novel of Gilman’s “The Yel- munities
36. What do scholars low Wallpaper” NOT D. The relative age of
Michael O’Rourke and immediately suggest
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the houses
David Collings argue the Gothic?
about “Queer Romanti- 41. What does the term “an-
A. The reference to angel in the house” sig-
cism”?
cestral halls nify?
A. Romantic literary
B. The uncommon na- A. The idea that
criticism has been stub-
ture of the event women should advise
bornly limited with re-
gard to queer readings. C. The first-person nar- men
rator B. The idea that the
B. Deviant sexuality, D. The dichotomy be- Victorian woman repre-
including homosexu- tween the concepts of sents “the new woman”
ality, has historically ordinary and estate
35. B 36. A 37. D 38. C 39. C 40. B 41. C

C. The idea that subterranean spaces to “the explained supernat-

women are pure and attics as well ural”?
morally superior to A. The uncanny
B. To represent the
men
shift from the male B. The fallen world
D. The idea that con- Gothic villain to the
finement in the home female Gothic villain C. The “Other”
may induce madness
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in the Victorian Gothic D. The sublime
42. How does the use of novel 47. All of the following re-
Gothic architecture as- fer to “the uncanny” EX-
C. To make reference
sist the Gothic novel- CEPT:
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to the rise of personal
ist?
responsibility in Victo- A. A psychoanalytic
A. It engenders con- rian England for the term that explains ter-
fusion for both the care of the sick and in- ror
novel’s protagonist and sane
an
readers. B. The supernatural
D. To make an ironic
B. It offers a secure C. “Unheimlich”
statement about the
refuge for the novel’s point of view and D. A sense of uncom-
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protagonist. marginalization of the fortable strangeness
C. It provides the space “Other” in Victorian 48. How is the concept
for a large community England of “the new woman”
of people to congregate. 45. All of the following are Gothic?
ways in which “The A. It represents a “dou-
D. It represents the Castle of Otranto” re- bling” of Queen Victo-
an
glory of a bygone age. flects the values of En- ria by English women
43. What Gothic literary lightenment England as they remake them-
convention did NOT EXCEPT: selves in her image.
y
originate with Horace A. The concern for the B. It represents the

Walpole’s “The Castle sanctity of legal inheri- “transformation” of the
of Otranto”?
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tance traditional Victorian

A. The ancestral castle woman from the pri-
B. The interest in the
vate sphere to the pub-
lessons and values of
lic sphere.
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B. Psychological terror the Middle Ages for

England in the 18th cen- C. It represents the
tury rise in psychological
C. The supernatural pathologies or “mad-
D. Physical violence C. The support for the ness” in women in the
British class system late 19th century.
44. Why has Bertha been
characterized as the D. The belief in British D. It represents the
“madwoman in the attic” superiority to foreign “pollution” of the ideal
by literary scholars? countries woman by foreign in-
A. To represent the ex- 46. Which of the following fluences.
pansion of Gothic lit- terms is most closely 49. “A MANUSCRIPT was
erary spaces from only related to the phrase communicated to me
42. A 43. B 44. D 45. B 46. A 47. B 48. B

during my travels in ribbed vault and fly- C. He is the first of his

Italy, which was copied ing buttress associated kind.
from the archives of with Gothic architec-
D. He is responsible for
the Cenci Palace at ture
the burden of original
Rome, and contains a C. The reduction in sin.
detailed account of the width of the stone ma-
horrors which ended in 54. How is Thornfield in
sonry in Gothic archi-
er
the extinction of one “Jane Eyre” different
tecture
of the noblest families from the structures
of that city during the D. The immense scale found in the first wave
typical of Gothic struc-
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Pontificate of Clement of Gothic novels?
VIII, in the year 1599.” tures
A. It is an ancestral es-
All of the following 51. In “Jane Eyre” how does tate.
state why this quota- Bertha NOT trouble the
tion from Perce Shel- patriarchy? B. It contains vault-
ley’s “The Cenci” rep-
resents the Gothic EX-
CEPT:
an
A. She is sexually de-
viant.
B. She exemplifies un-
like spaces.
C. It is located in Eng-
land.
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A. The placement of feminine anger. D. It is mysterious.
the action in the past
and in a foreign coun- C. She is not submis- 55. How does Stoker’s
try sive. “Dracula” challenge
D. She is understood to contemporary sexual
B. The grandiose taboos?
threatening setting be mad.
an
that requires ingenious 52. In “The Castle of A. Mina and Jonathan

stagecraft Otranto” which atti- decide to live together
tude does Walpole ex- without being married.
C. The focus on wrong- press towards primo-
y
doing at the highest geniture?

level of authority B. Lucy becomes a sex-
A. It is a necessary part ual predator.
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D. The use of real his- of the social order.

torical resources by C. Van Helsing is a
Shelley for the foun- B. It is essentially fair. bachelor.
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dation of his play C. It is monstrous. D. John Seward re-

50. In what way does D. It will naturally fall mains devoted to Lucy.
Gothic-style architec- out of favor.
ture complement the 53. Why do critics see 56. What have literary
themes of the Gothic Frankenstein’s mon- critics read into the
novel? ster as equivalent to vampirism in Stoker’s
A. The ethereal quality the Biblical Adam? “Dracula”?
of the interior space of A. His habitat is equiv- A. The novel presents
Gothic architecture alent to the Garden of the vampire count as
B. The scientific ad- Eden. a father-figure of great
vancement of the B. He is a mistake. power.
49. D 50. D 51. D 52. C 53. C 54. C 55. B 56. A

B. The vampire repre- C. The owners of each D. Mina Murray

sents a beloved father had mistresses. Harker
who seeks to gather to- D. On the outside they 63. What role does Rosario
gether all the women look like homes, but on play in the Gothic atmo-
and young men (sons). the inside they are pris- sphere of “The Monk”?
C. The vampire repre- ons. A. Queer provocateur
sents sexual impotence.
er
60. Why is “The Castle of
B. Heroine in distress
Otranto” often consid-
ered a reaction against C. Angel in the house
D. The vampire repre-
the Enlightenment?
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sents the future. D. Pursued protagonist
57. All of the following A. It shows the possi-
are labyrinthine in “The ble dangers of science. 64. What quality does the
Mysteries of Udolpho” Gothic novel of the 18th
an
EXCEPT: B. It exposes the deep and early 19th centuries
flaws in medieval ways share with the majority
A. Valancourt’s charac- of English novels of the
of thinking about the
ter same time period?
world.
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B. Emily’s misfortunes A. Realism
C. It marks a return
to more primitive ways B. An epistolary for-
C. The plot of pre-Enlightenment mat
thought and expression.
D. Emily’s mind C. A focus on the indi-
58. Which cultural theme vidual
an
D. It suggests that rea-

is NOT referenced in son is more important D. An English setting
Stoker’s “Dracula”? than emotion. 65. In “The Gothic Sublime”
A. Imperialism 61. What is the significance how does Mishra char-
acterize the labyrinth
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B. The Woman Ques- of the “wandering Jew”

motif? motif?
tion
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A. Religious upheaval A. As a plot structure

C. Labor unions that diminishes the
B. The presence of Gothic novel’s inten-
D. Theories of Dar-
omens sity
winian evolution
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C. The curse of im-

59. Although at least B. As the reader’s in-
morality
one critic has likened ward turn to examine
Thornfield to Bridewell, D. Insanity his or her own tangled
in what way are the two 62. Who does NOT rep- consciousness
structures different? resent the “new C. As a means for char-
woman”? acters to directly con-
A. Each owner upends
the prevailing law of A. Antonia front unconscious prob-
the land. lems
B. Charlotte Perkins
B. Both are former Gilman D. As a place for the
palaces. distressed heroine to
C. Jane Eyre hide
57. A 58. C 59. B 60. C 61. C 62. A 63. A 64. C 65. B

66. What literary purpose A. Emily ends up hap- D. It suggests that re-
does Emily’s stay with pily married. demption is possible
the nuns at the convent through penitence.
B. Emily’s sense of
NOT serve?
decorum seems to falter 72. For many scholars,
A. Emily is confronted late in the novel. what distinguishes ter-
with the duality of the ror from horror in the
human mind, at once ra- C. Emily is a sensible Gothic novel?
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tional and then mad. rather than defenseless
woman. A. The anticipation of
B. Emily is tested re- the violation of one’s
garding the guilt and D. Emily provides a
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person versus an act of
ghosts of sins past. unique example of a physical violence
weak woman.
C. Emily comes to un- B. Plotted revenge ver-
derstand the benefits of 70. Which statement best sus random violence
an
a cloistered life. summarizes the parallel
between Frankenstein C. The male Gothic
D. Emily learns the and Prometheus? versus the female
story of Sister Agnes’s Gothic
past. A. Both were success-
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ful because they fol- D. The persistence of
67. In “The Monk” what the past in the present
lowed the laws of na-
event does NOT repre- versus the betrayal in
ture.
sent the theme of en- the present of the pater-
trapment of women? B. Both refused to use nal protector
A. Antonia’s death science to do innova-
73. In what way is “The
an
tive work.
B. Matilda’s dressing Monk” a reaction to the
as Rosario C. Both worked collab- French Revolution?
oratively.
C. Agnes’s admittance A. It includes apocalyp-
D. Both suffered for
y
to the convent tic themes.

their attempt to do di-
D. The magic mirror vine work. B. It represents society
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68. Which psychological is- as relatively stable.

71. How does the motif of
sue is NOT typical of C. It condemns the mis-
the wandering Jew fig-
the Gothic novel? use of power.
ure in “The Monk”?
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A. Daydreams D. It predicts the up-

A. It introduces one of
B. Aberrant mental several supernatural el- heaval of society.
states ements into the plot. 74. To whom is the con-
C. Violence B. It dispels the anti- cept of the uncanny at-
Semitism associated tributed?
D. Sexual rapacity
with the Gothic novel. A. Sigmund Freud
69. According to Ellen Mo-
ers, how does Rad- C. It offers a positive B. Edmund Lewis
cliffe’s heroine differ alternative to the ex-
from the typical Gothic cesses of the Catholic C. Edmund Burke
woman? Church. D. Mary Shelley
66. C 67. B 68. A 69. C 70. D 71. A 72. A 73. C 74. A 75. D
75. What is distinctive 78. In “The Castle of 82. Which of the following
about Emily’s bedcham- Otranto” what “mon- terms is traditionally as-
ber at Udolpho? strous Other” does Man- sociated with the male
fred embody? Gothic?
A. It is lavishly fur-
nished. A. The undead A. Body transforma-
B. The outcast tion
B. It is haunted.
er
C. The cursed B. Horror
C. It contains a secret
passageway. D. The transgendered C. Terror
79. When Mary Shelley
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D. It does not lock from D. The uncanny
writes about ghosts,
the inside. 83. The Gothic novel was
what is her concern?
intended to have which
76. What is Gothic about A. People are foolishly of the following effects
the narrative structure
an
superstitious. on the reader?
of “Frankenstein”?
B. A world devoid of A. To create a sense
A. The erratic move- supernatural phenom- of mystery, gloom, and
ment of time and place ena is a better world. suspense
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C. A belief in ghosts is
B. To make the reader
B. The readers’ un- a belief in imagination.
dislike modern society
wavering empathy for D. The personification
Frankenstein C. To make the reader
of nature is regressive.
feel distaste for super-
C. The reliable narra- 80. Who should NOT be natural themes
an
tor viewed as Prometheus

in Shelley’s “Franken- D. To generate feelings
D. The mix of language stein”? of intense pleasure
in terms of voice, dic-
A. Frankenstein’s mon- 84. How does the uncanny
tion, and rhythm
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ster function in “Franken-

77. In “Frankenstein” what stein”?
B. Mary Shelley
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is the Gothic signifi- A. The normal activity

cance of the word “abor- C. Robert Walton
of vivisection is repre-
tion”? D. Frankenstein sented as horrible.
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A. It suggests that the 81. What is Strawberry B. Seemingly normal

creation process has be- Hill? characters are actually
come perverted. A. The ancestral home terrifying.
B. It invokes the laws of Ann Radcliffe
C. The dramatic land-
of man. B. The ancestral home scape provides an al-
of Horace Walpole ternative to the usual
C. It offers an accept-
able correction to scien- C. One of the settings world.
tific mistakes. in “The Mysteries of D. The monster’s
Udolpho” grotesque body is ac-
D. It represents a natu-
D. The inspiration for tually made of human
ral process.
“The Castle of Otranto” parts.
76. A 77. B 78. C 79. C 80. A 81. D 82. B 83. A 84. D

85. Why does Radcliffe 87. Which character best 90. Why do most scholars
favor the term “ro- represents the concept assume that Radcliffe fa-
mance” as the subtitle of terror versus that of vored “explained super-
to “The Mysteries of horror in Lewis’s “The naturalism”?
Udolpho”? Monk”? A. Her sense of moral-
A. Radcliffe wants to A. Agnes ity and decorum
emphasize the happy
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B. Ambrosio B. Her defiance of con-
ending of the marriage temporary culture
of Emily and Valan- C. Baptiste
court. C. Her lack of imagina-
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D. Matilda tion
B. It frees Radcliffe
from a strict adherence 88. What is the original D. Her full embrace of
to common life, allow- meaning of the word the Gothic vision of
ing her to place Emily “Gothic”? Walpole, Beckford, and
an
in challenging situa- Lewis
A. Of or relating to
tions. anything Medieval 91. How does the charac-
ter Dracula unsettle the
C. Radcliffe considers B. Of or relating to any- Victorian patriarchy?
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her work a continua- thing rude, uncivilized,
tion of the sentimental or ignorant; devoid of A. He threatens to
novel of the 18th cen- culture and taste spread his madness to
tury. women.
C. Of or relating to the
D. It acknowledges the B. His sexuality ap-
Germanic tribes that in-
lack of supernatural peals to women.
vaded and established
an
plot tricks. kingdoms in Europe in C. He protects

86. What did the novelists the first millennium women’s chastity and
of the first wave of virginity.
D. Of or relating to a
Gothic literature think D. He provides a way
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particular style of archi-

of religion? for Victorian men to
tecture
A. Roman Catholicism blame their actions on
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89. In “The Yellow Wallpa- women.

was wrongfully dis-
per” what does Gilman
mantled in England by 92. How does Lewis por-
suggest about mad-
Henry VIII in the 16th tray the Catholic
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ness?
century. confessional in “The
A. That it is necessary Monk”?
B. Jews represent sym-
to contain mad women A. As a path to redemp-
pathetic literary heroes.
B. That it is an artificial tion
C. Religion is race- patriarchal tool B. As a necessary con-
neutral. C. That men also are trol
D. The Spanish Inquisi- mad C. As a voyeuristic ac-
tion and the legend of D. That female mad- tivity
the wandering Jew con- ness is a serious obsta- D. As a model for con-
firm the superiority of cle to women’s libera- temporary police work
England. tion
85. B 86. D 87. D 88. C 89. B 90. A 91. B 92. C

93. How is “Jane Eyre” dif- D. The negative cri- A. It allows women to
ferent from the novels tique of Catholicism participate in the novel.
of the first wave of En-
glish Gothic novels? 96. Based on your readings B. It serves as a path
A. Its protagonist is at for the course, which to the public sphere for
risk for sexual trans- of the following best women.
gression. states how critics of-
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ten interpret the dead C. It is a less effec-
B. It is a Bildungsro- hand in “The Castle of tive tool than tradi-
man. Otranto”? tional folklore weapons.
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C. It explains strange A. The hand represents
phenomena. the superiority of the D. It becomes a way to
D. The theme of im- Enlightenment over conceal information.
prisonment is promi- medievalism. 99. All of the following are
an
nent. B. The hand symbol- associated with Gothic
94. In what century and in izes the danger of mar- architecture EXCEPT:
what literary era was riage. A. Vaulted ceilings
the first Gothic novel C. The hand signifies
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B. The Middle Ages
written? the mysterious pull of
the labyrinth. C. Complicated floor
A. 17th century; En-
plans
lightenment D. The hand represents
the claim of primogeni- D. Neo-classicism
B. 18th century; En-
lightenment ture over the living. 100. In what way does the
an
97. Which of the following Gothic novel of the 18th

C. 18th century; Ro-
is NOT a theme of “The century differ from the
manticism
Castle of Otranto”? modern English novel
D. 19th century; Ro- that began to emerge
A. Unnatural forces
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manticism in the 17th century and

overwhelming human
95. All of the following are flourished in the 18th
endeavor
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ways in which “The century?

B. The rupture of the
Mysteries of Udolpho” A. The focus on the
everyday by acts of vio-
reflects the values of middle and working
lence
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England in the 1790s classes

EXCEPT: C. The destruction of
humanity through sci- B. The consideration of
A. The triumph of rea- the sensibilities of the
entific experimentation
son over passion protagonists
B. The rise of individ- D. The return of the C. Plots taken from ev-
ual responsibility past to the present eryday life
C. The social and fis- 98. In “Dracula” what is the D. The exploration of
cal independence of significance of the type- cultural taboos
women writer?
93. B 94. B 95. C 96. D 97. C 98. B 99. D 100. D

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13. English Romantic Poetry
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1. William Blake’s “Song “he” referred to in the D. Hardly anyone actu-
of Innocence” poems lines “A sadder and a ally reads Romantic po-
can be best described, wiser man\He rose the etry
in terms of style, as: morrow morn.” 5. Which poet would be
an
A. Simple A. Life-in-Death most likely to compose

a poem and illustra-
B. Violent B. The Ancient tions to accompany it?
C. Satirical Mariner
A. Lord Byron
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D. Mythological C. The Wedding Guest B. Percy Shelley

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would probably NOT be D. The ship’s captain leridge
the topic of a Romantic
poem? 4. Referring to poets as D. William Blake
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“unacknowledged legis- 6. Which contemporary

A. The French Revolu-
lators of the world” sug- fictional character can
tion
gests that: be understood as a By-
B. Man’s relationship ronic hero?
to nature A. Most Romantic po-
ets were politicians A. Superman
C. The experience of
common people B. Poets have no actual B. Dr. House
effect upon the world C. Luke Skywalker
D. A celebration of the
aristocratic C. Poets actually help D. Yoda
3. In “Rime of the Ancient the world grow and de- 7. Many romantic poets
Mariner,” who is the velop regarded the natural
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. A
346 Chapter 13. English Romantic Poetry
world with a feeling of B. Mockery toward C. William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth.
A. Awe and fascination D. John Keats
C. An expression of 15. Which poet would most
doubt and angst. likely express an adher-
B. Disinterest and dis-
regard D. Dark humor. ence to atheism in his
er
writing?
C. Resentment and dis- 11. Who referred to po-
respect ets as “the unacknowl- A. William Wordsworth
edged legislators of the
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D. Fear and horror world”? B. William Blake
8. In her essay A. Lord Byron C. John Keats
“Wordsworth Balladry:
Real Men Wanted,” Eliz- B. William Blake D. Percy Shelley
an
abeth Fey argues that C. William Hazlitt 16. William Blake’s “Little
the Romantics were in- Black Boy” advocates
terested in the medieval D. Percy Shelley
for
focus upon 12. Paul O’Brien’s essay on
A. The abolition of
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Shelley suggests that
A. Courtly love and slavery
Shelley was
modern-seeming emo-
A. Not an atheist B. The equality of all
tion
people
B. Violence B. In love with Lord By-
ron C. The innate bril-
C. Nature liance of children
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C. Suicidal
D. Death and disease D. The beauty of com-
D. Fiercely anti-war mon language
9. Which poet would have
been most likely to com- 13. Elizabeth Fey refers to 17. The Romantic period
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pose a poem examining which poet as “a sort of is generally thought to

his own childhood? poet-king Arthur”? have occurred between
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A. Percy Shelley A. William Wordsworth

A. 1800 - 1900
B. John Keats
B. William Blake B. 1805 - 1827
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C. Lord Byron C. 1798 - 1832
D. Percy Shelley D. 1785 - 1825
leridge 14. A tortured, dark- 18. Duncan Wu rejects
spirited, wry, and in- the assertion that
10. Which of the follow- tellectual protagonist Wordsworth’s Lucy
ing sentiments would would most likely be poems were primarily
be LEAST likely in a found in a poem by about
poem by Lord Byron?
A. Death
A. An expression of A. William Blake
love for common man. B. Perception
B. Lord Byron C. Exhaustion
8. A 9. C 10. A 11. D 12. D 13. A 14. B 15. D 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. A
D. Love 22. Which of the following 26. Which of the following

19. One of the cen- was NOT considered a authors would be most
tral themes of proper form of literary likely to use the super-
Wordsworth’s “Peter expression in the Neo- natural in his poems?
Bell” is classical Period?
A. The essay
A. How nature can ren-
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der someone good B. Satire B. John Keats
B. How nature can cor- C. Blank verse poetry C. Percy Shelley
rupt someone D. The rhymed couplet
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D. William Blake?
C. Eternal youth
D. A dark voyage into statements would you
was a key element or
madness most likely NOT see in
aspect of Romantic po-
an
20. Which British philoso- etry? a Romantic poem?
pher of the Roman- A. “Truth is beauty
A. Engagement with
tic era despised monar- ”
the natural world
chies, believed that the
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best form of govern- B. Rationality B. “Truth is stranger
ment was no govern- C. Emotional restraint than fiction ”
ment at all, and argued
D. Political conser- C. “Familure acts are
that change can only
vatism beautiful through love
come from people treat-
”
ing each other with 24. Duncan Wu discusses
an
sincerity and benevo- the presentation of D. “A little learning is

lence? “spots of time” in the a dangerous thing ”
poetry of:
A. Samuel Taylor Co-
leridge A. William Wordsworth 28. Shelley’s “Ode to the
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West Wind” can be best

B. Edmund Burke
B. William Blake understood as a poem
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C. William Godwin about

C. Percy Shelley
D. John Locke A. The passion be-
D. Lord Byron
21. Which of the follow- tween a husband and
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25. The main thematic fo- wife

ing poets would be cus of “Ode on a Gre-
least likely to explore cian Urn” is B. The loss of inno-
the meaning of beauty cence
or imagination in a A. The nature of death
poem? C. The horrors of the
B. The French Revolu-
French Revolution
A. Lord Byron tion
C. The relationship be- D. How poets can
B. Percy Shelley bring about political
tween truth and beauty
C. John Keats revolution
D. Samuel Taylor Co- D. The author’s child- 29. Shelley’s “Ode to Psy-
leridge hood experience che” is narrated by:
20. C 21. A 22. C 23. A 24. A 25. C 26. D 27. D 28. D 29. C
A. Psyche 33. Which of the fol- 37. Dr. Samuel Gladden be-
B. Cupid lowing concepts are lieves Shelley’s agenda
NOT elements of neo- was to
C. The author of the classicism?
poem A. Revolutionize
A. Optimism France
D. Shelley’s childhood
self B. A sense of man be- B. Expose the nature of
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ing imperfect reality
30. The “Reign of Terror”
refers to: C. Order and reason C. Expose how inti-
A. France’s war with a mate relationships in-
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D. A belief that art is
foreign nation primarily intellectual form political realities
B. The mass execution 34. The line “fools are my
of enemies of the revo- theme, let satire be my D. Change sexual
an
lution song” demonstrates a morals
C. Napoleon’s rise to sentiment that would
38. Which poet would be
power likely appear in a poem
most likely to write
by:
D. The death of the about his time in revo-
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king of France A. William Wordsworth lutionary France?
31. Which event marked A. William Wordsworth
the defeat of B. Samuel Taylor Co-
Napoleon? leridge
B. Samuel Taylor Co-
A. The execution of the C. William Blake leridge
an
King of France
D. Lord Byron C. William Blake
B. The battle at Water-
35. “Don Juan” and “Childe
loo D. John Keats
Harold’s Pilgrimage”
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C. The Reign of Terror are broken into sections 39. John Keats would prob-
D. Napoleon’s coro- called: ably NOT have written
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nation as Emperor of a poem celebrating

A. Cantos
France A. The beauty of the
B. Stanzas
32. The lines “The loveliest natural world
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and the last\The bloom, C. Lines

whose petals nipped be- B. The pains of love
D. Chapters
fore they blew\Died on C. Political and philo-
the promise of the fruit” 36. Which of the follow- sophical conservatism
are from a poem honor- ing is NOT a com-
ing: mon attribute of By- D. The nature of artis-
ronic heroes? tic creation
A. Percy Shelley
A. Arrogance 40. Paul O’Brien argues
B. John Keats
B. Nihilism that Shelley did not
C. Lord Byron lose his passion for the
D. Samuel Taylor Co- C. Good spirits French Revolution, but
leridge D. Dark humor that did.
30. B 31. B 32. B 33. A 34. D 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. A 39. C 40. B
A. Lord Byron and 44. Which of the following B. Demonstrate how

John Clare was NOT a key element the human mind com-
or aspect of Romantic prehends and perceives
poetry? truth
leridge A. Celebration of the C. Demonstrate the
C. John Keats and imagination power of the French
Revolution on the
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William Blake B. Engagement with
British Romantic con-
D. Lord Byron and nature
sciousness
William Blake C. The use of symbol-
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D. Demonstrate the in-
41. Which Romantic poet ism
trinsic connection be-
did Shelley consider a D. The use of allegory tween imagination and
close friend? death
45. Which poet would be
an
A. Lord Byron
most likely to compose 48. Which Romantic poet
B. William Wordsworth a poem using the lan- would have believed
guage of common, ordi- that a poet needs in-
nary people? fluence from something
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external and transfor-
leridge A. William Wordsworth mative in order to write
D. William Blake a strong poem?
42. With whom did John B. Lord Byron A. William Blake
Keats have a love af- C. Percy Shelley
fair? B. Samuel Taylor Co-
an
D. John Keats leridge

A. Fanny Brawne
46. The dedication of By- C. Lord Byron
B. Dorothy Wordsworth
ron’s “Don Juan” can be D. Percy Shelley
best described as
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C. Mary Shelley 49. According to Laura

A. Sincere and heart- Smith, that which “af-
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D. Mary Keats felt fect[s] the human mind

43. Which Romantic poet B. Mocking and satiri- with a sense of over-
would be most likely cal whelming grandeur or
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to feature a main char- irresistible power; cal-

acter or narrator in a C. Mournful and dark culated to inspire awe,
poem who is heroic, tor- D. Polemic and dry deep reverence, or loft
tured, cynical, highly emotion, by reason of
emotional, and intelli- 47. In “Mont Blanc,” Shel- its beauty, vastness, or
gent? ley likens the power grandeur” is known as
of the mountain to the the:
A. John Keats power of human imagi-
nation in order to A. Beautiful
B. William Blake
C. Lord Byron A. Demonstrate how B. Sublime
the human imagination C. Terrifying
is fragile
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41. A 42. A 43. C 44. D 45. A 46. B 47. B 48. D 49. B 50. A
50. Which Romantic poet A. “A Defense of Po- D. Champions

was famous for being etry” Napoleon’s political
“mad, bad and danger- vision
B. “The Rights of Man”
ous to know”? 58. Which of the following
A. Lord Byron would a neoclassical
C. “Advertisement to
poet be most likely to
B. Percy Shelley Lyrical Ballads”
use as a central theme
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C. John Keats D. “An Essay on Dra- in his or her poetry?
matic Poetry”
D. William Blake A. The plight of com-
55. Percy Shelley’s poem mon, ordinary people
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51. A Romantic poet would “Mont Blanc” presents
be LEAST likely to cel- nature as B. A celebration of the
ebrate medieval
A. A powerful, sublime
A. The imagination force C. A satirical represen-
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tation of current events
B. Love B. A peaceful force
C. The natural world C. Depressing and mis- D. A warm remem-
D. Rationality erable brance of childish ideal-
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52. The primary subject of D. Controlled by gods ism
“Ode to Psyche” is 56. Which poet would be 59. Which of the follow-
most likely to write ing was responsible
A. The possibility of
a poem reflecting for Samuel Taylor Co-
sudden death
upon the psychological leridge’s mental de-
an
B. The expansion of changes he has under- cline?

consciousness gone since his youth? A. His addiction to
C. The relationship be- A. William Blake opium
tween art and humanity
B. John Keats B. His experiences dur-
y
ing the French Revolu-

D. The death of Byron tion
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53. John Keats died from: C. The end of his
A. Influenza friendship with
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B. Tuberculosis 57. Edmund Burke’s “Re-

D. His physical battle
flections on the French
C. Fever with gout
Revolution”
D. Suicide 60. Who was the co-
A. Celebrates the
54. The line “It is an hon- author of “Lyrical Bal-
French Revolution
ourable characteristic lads” with William
B. Encourages the Wordsworth?
of Poetry that its ma-
United States to Sup-
terials are to be found A. Samuel Taylor Co-
port the French Revolu-
in every subject which leridge
tion
can interest the human
B. John Keats
mind” appears in which C. Attacks the ideals of
essay? the French Revolution C. William Blake
51. D 52. B 53. B 54. C 55. A 56. D 57. C 58. C 59. A 60. A 61. A
D. Lord Byron 65. Paul O’Brien contends D. Europe’s shift into

that make(s) Shel- being a manufacturing
61. Which poem by
ley a “radical.” economy
Wordsworth examines
writer’s block? A. Shelley’s political 69. To whom does the An-
beliefs cient Mariner tell his
A. “The Prelude” story in “Rime of the
B. Shelley’s sexuality
B. “We Are Seven” Ancient Mariner”?
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C. Shelley’s love of
C. “Lines Written a few A. Coleridge
Shakespeare
miles above Tintern B. Dorothy Wordsworth
D. Shelley’s relation-
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Abbey”
ship with Byron
D. “Lines Written in C. The Wedding Guest
66. Keats was most famous
Early Spring”
for:
62. According to the es- D. Life-in-Death
an
A. His odes
say “A Defense of Po-
70. In “A Defense of Po-
etry,” which of the fol- B. His wild lifestyle
etry,” Percy Shelley ar-
lowing is one of the C. His popularity with gues that humans have
two “classes of mental
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readers an impulse to
action”?
D. His extensive writ- A. Write stories
A. Reason ings
B. Resist understand-
B. Fear 67. The general tone and ating poetry
titude of Byron’s “Don
C. Illogic C. Reproduce rhythm
Juan” would be best de-
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D. Indifference scribed as: and order
63. Who refers to poetry A. Dramatic and dark D. Strive to express

as “an imitation of na- love
B. Ironic and satirical
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ture”? 71. “Lines Written a few

C. Strange and haunt- Miles above Tintern
A. Percy Shelley ing
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Abbey” explores
B. Samuel Taylor Co- D. Humorless and A. The way in which
leridge stark one’s psychological
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C. William Hazlitt 68. Which of the follow- state changes over time
ing was NOT a primary
cause of the Industrial B. The failures of Ro-
Revolution? manticism
64. Who is the narrator of
A. The popularity of C. The beauty of the
“Don Juan”?
Romantic poetry natural world
A. Lord Byron
B. The European econ- D. Coleridge’s addic-
B. Bob Southey omy shifting into a tion to drugs
global economy
C. Don Juan 72. Percy Shelley can be un-
C. The population in- derstood as a poet with
D. A nameless narrator crease in Europe
62. A 63. C 64. D 65. A 66. A 67. B 68. A 69. C 70. C 71. A 72. B
A. No sense of reality A. A hawk C. Samuel Taylor Co-

leridge
B. A desire to make B. A nightingale
the world into a better D. William Wordsworth
C. A dove
place
D. An albatross 81. Who does Shelley con-
C. A dark and twisted
outlook on the world 77. Coleridge’s Ancient sider the true founders
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Mariner could be said of civilized cultures and
D. A strong dislike of to be suffering from an laws?
women overwhelming feeling A. Kings and queens
73. In “Of Poetry in Gen- of
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B. Poets and artists
eral,” William Hazlitt
A. Guilt
contends that good po- C. Dictators and
etry comes from B. Disbelief Tyrants
D. All people equally
an
A. The intellect C. Hatred
D. Love 82. William Blake’s “Songs
B. The author’s per-
of Innocence and Expe-
sonal pain 78. Which poet defines po- rience” explores
C. Strong feeling etry as “the expression
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of the imagination”? A. The loss of child-
D. Rewriting Homer hood and discovery of
A. William Hazlitt the adult world
74. Which Romantic poet
would be the least likely B. William Wordsworth B. The fall of Satan
to write a piece of liter- C. The life of Blake
ary criticism?
an
C. Percy Shelley D. The history of Lon-

A. Lord Byron D. Lord Byron don
B. Percy Shelley 79. Which poem is con- 83. Shelley’s “Hymn to In-
sidered Wordsworth’s tellectual Beauty” sug-
y
C. William Hazlitt
magnum opus? gests that
D. Samuel Taylor Co- A. Beauty can be un-
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leridge A. “Lyrical Ballads”

derstood only through
75. Shelley’s poem “Mont B. “The Prelude” metaphysics
Blanc” can be best said C. “We Are Seven” B. Anything that is
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to depict an encounter intellectual cannot be

with: D. “Lines Written in
Early Spring” beautiful
A. The sublime C. Beauty is missing
80. Which Romantic poet
B. Death died relatively un- from the world
C. Childhood known but would be- D. The source of

come famous posthu- beauty cannot be
D. A lost lover mously, in the 19th cen- known, and that beauty
76. In “Rime of the An- tury? can only be felt
cient Mariner,” what A. William Blake 84. Thomas Paine’s “The
kind of animal does the Rights of Man” argues
Mariner kill? B. Lord Byron that
73. C 74. A 75. A 76. D 77. A 78. C 79. B 80. A 81. B 82. A 83. D 84. C
A. Revolution is inhu- C. Revolution against B. Shelley himself dis-

mane tyranny missed the poem
B. Revolution never D. Communion with C. The poem was in-
succeeds the natural world complete
C. Revolution is proper 88. The final line of “We D. Shelley recognizes
when a government Are Seven” is: “And the power of sexual
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does not take care of its said, ‘Nay’ we are transgression in it
people seven.” This line sug- E. Shelley writes about
gests that: Byron’s sexuality in it
D. Every government
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should be revolted A. The little girl re- 91. “Ode to a Nightingale”
against fuses to cast the dead focuses on
85. Which Romantic au- out of her life.
A. How pleasures are
thor is the subject of B. The little girl is in- fleeting and life cannot
Paul O’Brien’s essay
“Prophet of the Revolu-
tion”?
ansane or delusional
C. The little girl’s sib-
lings have not died
continue forever
B. The fall of man into
sin
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A. Lord Byron
D. The little girl herself C. The futility of artis-
B. Percy Shelley is dead tic creation
C. William Blake 89. Which of the follow- D. The unfortunate
ing would probably conclusion of the
D. William Wordsworth French Revolution
NOT occur in a William
an
Wordsworth poem? 92. Which poet would be

86. Which action served to least likely to write
ignite the French Revo- A. Use of common, ev-
about the beauty of na-
lution? eryday language
ture?
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A. The rise of King B. Engagement with A. William Wordsworth

William the natural world
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B. The execution of C. Mockery of political B. John Keats

King Louis XVI figures
C. The ruling of Bona- D. Psychological in- leridge
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parte sight
D. Lord Byron
D. The madness of 90. Dr. Samuel Gladden, 93. Which long Roman-
King George in his essay “Shelley’s tic poem opens with
Agenda Writ Large: Re- the line “oh there is
87. A neoclassical poet
considering Oedipus blessing in this gentle
would be most likely
Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot breeze”?
to compose a poem cel-
the Tyrant ,” argues
ebrating which of the A. “The Prelude”
that Shelley’s “Oedipus-
following ideals?
Tyrannus” is important B. “Don Juan”
A. Passionate love becaus
C. “Childe Harold’s Pil-
B. Emotional restraint A. grimage”
85. B 86. B 87. B 88. A 89. C 90. E 91. A 92. D 93. A

D. “Rime of the An- B. James Mackintosh C. An examination of

cient Mariner” C. Edmund Burke the city’s past
94. During the 19th cen- D. John Locke D. An attack on
tury, the term “middle William Wordsworth
97. Napoleon’s decision to
class” described people
can be understood
who were:
as representative of the 99. Which of the following
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A. Workers French Revolutionary Romantic poets would
B. Aristocrats spirit because this de- have been most likely
cision served to radi- to write a poem cele-
C. Between workers
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cally reposition France brating the innocence
and aristocrats in contemporary Euro- of childhood?
D. Land owners only pean political affairs.
A. Lord Byron
95. Which of the following A. Engage in the
B. Samuel Taylor Co-
an
is a love poem? Napoleonic Wars
leridge
A. John Clare’s “To B. Change all aspects
of French law C. William Blake
Elia”
C. Involve himself di- D. William Wordsworth
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B. Wordsworth “Peter
rectly in affairs in the
Bell”
United States 100. The French Revolu-
C. Byron’s “Don Juan” tion had a tremendous
D. Offer landmark po-
D. Coleridge’s “Kubla litical writings calling impact on which of
Kahn” for peace with other Eu- the following aspects of
an
ropean nations British life?

96. Which British philoso-
pher believed that 98. The poem “London” A. Politics
monarchs repressed can be best understood
as B. Literature
citizens and that revo-
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lution is proper when A. A celebration of the C. Relations with

a government does not city’s beauty France
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protect its people?

B. A protest against so- D. All of the above
A. Thomas Paine cial inequality
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1. Which of the following D. An octopus of which of the follow-
statements accurately ing?
characterizes Mari-
writers was among the A. His political views
anne Moore’s poem “A
founders of the Imagist
an
Grave?” B. His will to imagina-

movement?
A. It juxtaposes human tive freedom
consciousness against A. Salvador Dali
C. His will to sexual
the sea. B. Horace Greeley freedom
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B. It uses alliteration C. Ezra Pound D. Both B and C

and iambic pentameter.
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D. Rupert Brooke 5. Which of the following

C. It has a subtle for- 4. Professor Hammer statements best char-
mal structure, even argues that in Hart acterizes the difference
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though it does not use Crane’s poem “Legend,” between World War II
rhyme. Crane introduces him- poetry and Futurist po-
self to his readers. The etry?
D. Both A and C
poem opens with the A. The Futurists
2. What is the principal lines: “As silent as a
subject of Marianne apotheosized technol-
mirror is believed/Real- ogy, whereas World
Moore’s poem “An Oc- ities plunge in silence
topus”? War II poets often fo-
by /I am not ready cused on technology’s
A. Death for repentance;” accord- destructive powers.
ing to Professor Ham-
B. Mt. Rainier
mer, Crane’s refusal to B. The Futurists
C. The ocean repent is an assertion praised speed, whereas
1. D 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. A
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World War II poets of- intensity and immedi- A. Slavery

ten evoked images of acy in Pound’s poetry.
B. American attitudes
nature to describe the
toward Jews and Israel
human condition. C. It is a paradoxical
C. Capitalism and so-
C. The Futurists privi- mixture of personal and
cial inequalities
leged the part over the impersonal elements.
whole, whereas World D. All of these answers
er
D. It is a means of
War II poets did not creating a dialogue be-
deal with the problem tween modernity and 11. “How can we live in this
of modernity and alien- tradition. fear says one./From day
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ation. to day says another.”
D. The Futurists fo- poets did NOT write A. Fear of the failure
cused on advancements about his experiences of a segregated educa-
in technology and in- in World War II? tional system
dustry, whereas World
War II poets ignored
advancements in tech-
nology, especially in an A. Wilfred Owen
B. Keith Douglas
C. Randall Jarrell
B. Fear of the AIDs cri-
sis
C. Fear of global nu-
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modern warfare. clear war
D. Karl Shapiro
6. Which of the fol- D. Fear of the eco-
lowing was an im- 9. Which of the following
nomic Great Depres-
portant influence on best describes the idea
sion
Charles Reznikoff’s of the symbol among
shift away from roman- French Symbolist po- 12. Which of the following
an
tic rhetoric? ets? poets would most likely

be categorized as a late-
A. His study of ancient A. A symbol is an im-
Victorian poet?
history age that conveys pow-
erful emotional states. A. John Milton
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B. His study of law

B. A symbol is an B. Alfred Tennyson
C. His study of
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emblem of the actual C. Allen Ginsberg

medicine world endowed with
D. His study of San- supernatural meanings. D. Amy Lowell
skrit 13. Which of the following
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7. Professor Hammer ar- C. A symbol is a best characterizes T.S.

gues that which of the metaphor that allows Eliot’s concept of the
following statements is the poet to capture com- “objective correlative”?
true of Ezra Pound’s plex social realities. A. The objective cor-
strong emphasis on po- relative refers to the
D. A symbol is a de-
etic technique? correlation between the
scription of past reali-
A. It serves to effec- ties. poem’s formal struc-
tively depersonalize ture and its meaning.
Pound’s poems. political themes was ex- B. The objective cor-
B. It serves the greater plored by American Ob- relative refers to the
aim of conveying both jectivist poets? correlation between the
6. B 7. B 8. A 9. B 10. D 11. C 12. B

poem’s formal struc- 16. Which of the follow- A. It is a meditation

ture and its rhetorical ing statements best on the alienation of the
aim. characterizes Langston modern person from na-
Hughes’s poem “The ture.
C. The objective cor-
Negro Speaks of
relative refers to the B. It is a meditation on
Rivers”?
correlation between the the cultural isolation of
poem’s theme and its A. Hughes uses a uni- African Americans in
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objective historical con- versal speaker for an ex- New England.
text. ploration of a profound
C. It is a meditation on
racial divide between
D. The objective correl- the communal and his-
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blacks and whites.
ative refers to a set of torical aspects of indi-
objects, situations, or B. The poem is an an- vidual identity.
events which necessar- alytical exploration of
D. It is a meditation
ily produce a particular racial differences in the
an
on the poet’s personal
emotion. United States.
experience of assimila-
14. Which of the follow- C. Similar to Hart tion.
ing statements accu- Crane and Whitman, 19. Which of the following
rately characterizes the Hughes uses a personal
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natural forces “speaks”
Harlem Renaissance? and universal “I” to ad- in the culminating pas-
A. It was a flowering of dress issues of history, sage of T.S. Eliot’s “The
African American arts race, and identity. Waste Land”?
and culture. D. The poem is an in- A. An avalanche
B. It took place after dictment of racial prej-
an
udice in Harlem. B. Rapids

World War I, at a time
when many African 17. What is the central C. The west wind
Americans were mov- theme of Keith Dou- D. Thunder
ing from the South to glas’s “How to Kill”?
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20. According to Professor

the industrial North. A. Combat detaches a Hammer, which of the
C. It exerted profound man from humanity. following is the central
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influence on 20th- B. All is fair in love and question explored by

century American cul- war. T.S. Eliot in “The Waste
ture. Land”?
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C. It is honorable and
D. All of these answers just to defend your A. Is authentic poetry
country in a war. possible in the after-
15. Which of the following math of the carnage of
D. There is a right and World War I?
writers authored the a wrong way to throw
poem “Dulce et Deco- a hand grenade. B. Given the diversity
rum Est?” of the world’s poetic
A. Wilfred Owen traditions, can there be
ing statements best
a universal language of
B. Siegfried Sassoon characterizes Langston
poetic symbolism?
Hughes’s poem “The
C. Rupert Brooke Negro Speaks of C. How can a shared
D. Rudyard Kipling Rivers”? world be created out of
13. D 14. D 15. A 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. D 20. C

the fundamentally dif- reads: “The apparition 26. Which of the follow-
ferent and private ex- of these faces in the ing statements accu-
periences of individual crowd;/ Petals on a wet, rately compares Rupert
people? black bough.” Which Brooke’s “The Soldier”
of the following state- and Siegfried Sassoon’s
D. Given that each per-
ments best character- “The Rear Guard”?
son experiences trauma
izes this poem? A. Both poems praise
differently, is it possi-
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ble for all to understand A. It seeks to diminish Britain’s military
the modern world as a the distance between power and its imperial
shared “waste land”? society and nature. ambitions.
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21. Which of the following B. It seeks to amplify B. Both poems de-
statements best charac- the distance between scribe Britain’s civi-
terizes American World society and nature. lizing mission in the
War II poems? world.
an
C. It plays with the re-
A. They tend to use tra- lationship between the C. Both poems seek to
ditional rhyme schemes social, natural, and su- respond to the harsh po-
and rhythms, and they pernatural worlds. litical and military real-
avoid free verse. ities of their day.
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D. It evokes the beauty
B. They tend to use of a pastoral scene. D. Both poems roman-
metaphors and avoid di- ticize war and glorify
rect descriptive state- the life of the soldier.
poets would most likely
ments. 27. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”
be categorized as a mod-
C. They tend to use ernist poet? may be called a mod-
an
classical imagery while ernist epic, though its

A. William Carlos form ultimately defies
rejecting romantic
Williams classification. Pound’s
tropes.
B. John Greenleaf poem alludes to which
y
D. They tend to be
Whittier of the following epic po-
narrative and confront
ems?
the reader with stark C. George Herbert
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wartime realities. A. The Mahabharata

D. Robert Browning
22. Which of the following B. Paradise Lost
literary devices is most
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statements does NOT C. The Odyssey

prominent in Gertrude
characterize the poet e. D. The Aeneid
Stein’s poem “New”?
e. cummings?
28. Siegfried Sassoon’s
A. Assonance and
A. Ivy League educated “The Dragon and the
word repetition
Undying” includes
B. Simile the following lines:
B. Active pacifist dur-
C. Metaphor and allu- ing both world wars “Yet, though the slain
sion are homeless as the
C. Popularized the use breeze,/Vocal are they,
D. Circumlocution of free verse like storm-bewilder’d
23. Ezra Pound’s poem “In D. A private and self- seas.” Which of the fol-
a Station of the Metro” effacing person lowing literary devices
21. D 22. A 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. C 27. C

does Sassoon use in statements in their po- B. They point to al-

these lines and to what ems. chemical elements,
effect? D. World War I poets which in turn symbol-
valued clarity of expres- ize the body and the
A. Metaphor to suggest
sion through visual im- soul.
a connection between
soldiers and nature ages, whereas Imagists C. They symbolize the
relied on complex ex- coming apocalypse.
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B. Simile to suggest pression through emo-
a connection between D. They symbolize a
tional visual images.
soldiers and nature fulfilled longing.
30. In his essay “The Roots
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C. Metonymy to de- of Modernism,” Christo-
sentence. Yeats’s “Sail-
scribe the brutality of pher L.C.E. Witcombe
ing to Byzantium” is a
modern warfare defines the modern pe-
good example of High
riod in the history of
Modernism, because it:
an
D. Onomatopoeia to art as the time from
describe the brutality roughly 1860 to 1970. A. embraces the
of modern warfare How does he say mod- rhythms and diction of
ernism is typically de- common man’s speech.
Ch
ing statements best ex- fined?
presses the difference A. Modernism is the B. was written at the
between how visual art produced during the very beginning of the
images functioned in modern period. 20th century.
World War I poetry and B. Modernism is the C. attempts to create a
Imagist poetry? modernist high culture.
an
historical period which

A. There were no sig- followed the modern
nificant differences in period. D. does not employ
the functioning of vi- C. Modernism is the rhyme.
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sual images in these philosophy of modern 33. What is the most no-
two types of poetry. art. table characteristic of
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B. The Imagists re- D. Both A and C Ezra Pound’s “In a Sta-

lied on visual images tion at the Metro”?
31. Yeats’s “Song of Wan-
to achieve clarity of dering Aengus” ends A. The form of a vil-
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expression, whereas with the lines: “And lanelle

World War I poets re- pluck till time and times B. The use of synesthe-
lied on visual images to are done/The silver ap- sia
subtly punctuate their ples of the moon/The
often desperate politi- golden apples of the C. The use of simile
cal messages. sun.” Which of the fol- D. The use of metaphor
C. The Imagists valued lowing is NOT a sym-
brevity, which could be bolic meaning of the ap- 34. Which of the follow-
achieved with precise ples? ing events increased the
visual images, whereas A. They symbolize the appeal of communism
World War I poets return to a lost paradise. among American intel-
preferred declamatory lectuals both black and
28. B 29. B 30. D 31. C 32. C 33. D 34. A

white in the years be- movement, whereas Yeats’s life and in his
tween 1918 and 1939? Vorticism was free of poetry.
all political entangle-
A. The Great Depres- B. Yeats believed that
ments.
sion each person was an in-
B. Hitler’s invasion of C. Futurism lasted stance of a general cul-
Poland in 1939 for several decades, tural type or symbol.
whereas Vorticism was
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C. The Russian Civil C. The young Yeats
short-lived.
War wished to emphasize
D. Vorticists celebrated his identity as an En-
D. World War I technology and indus- glish poet and draw
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35. Which of the follow- trialization, whereas attention away from
ing descriptors does Futurists explored im- his Irish heritage.
NOT apply to the fea- pending cultural chal-
D. Both A and B
tures of French Sym- lenges regarding tech-
an
bolist poetry that influ- nology and industrial- 39. Which of the following
enced other modernist ization. statements best charac-
poetry? terizes the last two stan-
zas of Charles Baude-
statements best char-
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A. French Symbolist laire’s symbolist poem
poetry is full of exag- acterizes the form of
“Correspondences”?
gerated metaphors. Claude McKay’s poem
“The Harlem Dancer”? A. They describe the
B. French Symbolist author’s experiences as
poetry has narrative A. It is an English son-
a young child.
clarity. net.
an
B. They use metaphors

C. French Symbolist B. It is an Italian son-
with subtle political
poetry is shocking. net.
connotations.
D. French Symbolist C. It is a Spenserian
C. They ascribe colors
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poetry is formally ex- sonnet.

and sounds to scents,
perimental. D. It is a free verse relying on a device
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36. Which of the following poem. known as synesthesia.

statements best char- 38. In his first lecture on D. They describe a
acterizes the difference William Butler Yeats, scene in the country-
between Futurism and
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Professor Hammer says side, which symbolizes

Vorticism? that the young Yeats the state of the author’s
A. Members of both identified with King soul.
movements were fasci- Goll. What does he
40. According to Langston
nated by speed and dy- mean by this?
Hughes’s essay “The
namism, but unlike the
A. Yeats’s poetry was Negro Artist and the
Futurists, Vorticists did
autobiographical, but Racial Mountain” (his
not celebrate technol-
he understood his life answer to George
ogy and industrializa-
through the prism of Schuyler’s essay “Ne-
tion.
myths and symbols; gro Art Hokum”), what
B. Futurism was a symbolism was there- is the “mountain” that
politically-inclined fore present in both stands in the way of
35. B 36. A 37. A 38. D 39. C

“any true Negro art in and they anthropomor-

America”? phize weapons to show
C. To “counteract the
a world where there is
A. It is the racial dis- forces of dispersal in-
no place for human val-
crimination endemic in herent in metaphorical
ues.
the white community. language”
D. These lines rep-
B. It is the racial segre- D. To “make poetry
resent a modern fu-
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gation in the South. new”
neral dirge that mimics
C. It is a widespread the rhythm of ancient 44. In the first lecture of
“urge toward whiteness” Greek funeral dirges. his Modern Poetry
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among African Ameri- 42. Which of the following course, what argument
cans. statements best char- does Professor Lang-
acterizes Ezra Pound’s don Hammer make
D. It is a widespread
poem “Hugh Selwyn about the relationship
“urge to incorporate
an
Mauberley”? between the modern
and neutralize other
city and poetic mod-
cultures” among white A. It is primarily a nar- ernism?
Americans. rative poem.
A. Most modernist po-
41. Wilfred Owen’s “An-
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B. It uses iambic pen- ets lived in large cities;
them for Doomed tameter to achieve therefore, they often
Youth” begins with the tonal fluidity. used urban imagery in
following lines: “What
C. It undermines the their poetry.
passing-bells for these
who die as cattle?/ Only idea of a single lyri- B. Many languages and
cal voice by using di-
an
the monstrous anger of many forms of lan-

the guns./ Only the stut- verse cultural symbols guage were used in
tering rifles’ rapid rat- and numerous phrases large cities; modernist
tle/Can patter out their in various languages. poets often treated lan-
hasty orisons.” Which guage not as something
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D. Its intensity derives

of the following state- from the combination given and natural but as
ments best describes of modern subject mat- a construct which they
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these lines? ter and alexandrine cou- could manipulate.

A. These lines suggest plets. C. Individuals often
that it was difficult to 43. In his essay “The felt lost and alienated in
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define patriotism dur- Symbolism of Poetry,” large cities, and among

ing the Great War, but William Butler Yeats poets this resulted in
soldiers who died in bat- argues that which of turning inward and
tle provided the best ex- the following is the pur- focusing only on the
ample of patriotism. pose of rhythm? world of one’s own
B. These lines suggest imagination.
A. To “amplify and
that the Great War clarify the indistinct D. All of these answers
lasted much longer emotions created by
than it should have. metaphorical symbols”
C. These lines equate B. To “prolong the mo- statements best charac-
humans with animals, ment of contemplation” terizes the central ques-
40. C 41. C 42. C 43. B 44. B

tions faced by poetry af- of New York’s complex- in her anthology “May
ter the Holocaust? ity and diversity. Sky”?
A. Is it possible for Ro- B. He moved to New A. Love sonnets from
mantic themes in po- York from Alabama the Nazi death camps
etry to be meaningful and the stark contrast
after the Holocaust? between these places B. American G.I. po-
etry from German pris-
er
B. The horror of the deeply influenced his
writing. oner of war camps
Holocaust was inex-
pressible; how can po- C. He was born in Mis- C. Jewish dissident po-
etry speak of what is etry from the gulags in
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souri and traveled ex-
inexpressible? tensively throughout Siberia
C. Is there a relation- the United States and D. Haiku poetry from
ship between poetry the world before he the Japanese intern-
moved to New York
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and rationality after the ment camps in the US
Holocaust? City.
D. Is there a mean- D. He spent most of his 50. Which of the following

ingful relationship be- life in Washington, DC, images in Arthur Rim-
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tween World War I po- moving to Harlem only baud’s poem “Eternity”
etry and World War II after he gained literary undermines the idea
poetry? fame. that eternity is some-
46. Which of the follow- 48. Professor Hammer ar- thing fixed and perma-
ing writers wrote about gues that in a certain nent?
trench warfare during sense Wallace Stevens’s
an
A. The image of a sen-

the Great War? poetry is always meta- tinel
poetry. What does this
A. Siegfried Sassoon B. The image of the
mean?
B. Isaac Rosenberg sun reflected on the sea
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A. Stevens’s poetry is
C. Wilfred Owen primarily, though not
C. The image of a quest
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D. All of these answers explicitly, concerned

with metaphysics. for knowledge
47. Langston Hughes was B. Stevens’s poetry in- D. The image of satiny
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among the most im- vestigates its own rules. embers

portant figures of the
51. According to W.E.B.
Harlem Renaissance.
C. Stevens’s poetry al- Dubois in his Atlantic
Which of the following
ways addresses several Monthly essay, “The
is an accurate charac-
different audiences. Strivings of the Negro
terization of his expe-
People,” what are some
riences before he pub- D. Stevens’s poetry
of the personal conse-
lished his first book? highlights an objective
quences for an African-
voice.
A. He was a native American living in a
New Yorker who did 49. Violet Cristoforo was racist society at the
not travel much but honored for collecting beginning of the 20th
who was keenly aware what kind of poetry century?
45. B 46. D 47. C 48. B 49. D 50. B

A. Feeling like an out- C. World War I was ideals of Western civi-

cast in your own house the first global con- lization and its realities.
flict where the distinc-
tion between combat-
B. Becoming a stutter- B. These lines suggest
ants and civilians was
ing sycophant just to the author’s anger and
erased, and this had
survive disillusionment with
a devastating effect on
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C. Wrapping yourself cultural norms which
the European psyche.
in the armor of anger glorify war.
and resentment D. Both A and B
C. In these lines,
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D. All of the above 54. Generally speaking, Brooke seeks to bridge
African-American the gap between indi-
themes were very rare vidual experience and
sentence. Poetic images
in white modernist po- cultural norms and be-
which idealize war and
liefs.
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etry. Which of the
ascribe spiritual qual-
following white po- D. All of the above
ities to battle can be
ets attempted to evoke
found primarily in En-
elements of black ex- 56. Which of the following
glish poems written:
perience in his or her statements best char-
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A. around 1900. poems? acterizes the formal
qualities of Langston
B. in the early stages of A. H.D. Hughes’s poem “Life is
World War I.
B. Hart Crane Fine”?
C. in the late stages of
World War I. C. William Carlos A. The diction is much
an
Williams more polysyllabic than

D. in the 1920s. monosyllabic.
53. Which of the following D. T.S. Eliot
B. The use of alternat-
best describes the rea- 55. The poem “Dulce et ing end rhymes and
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sons why World War I Decorum Est” ends word repetitions en-
had a profound impact with the following lines: hance the music of the
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on modern poetry? “My friend, you would poem and along with its
A. The devastation not tell with such high occasional dissonance
wrought by World War zest/To children ar- give it an improvisa-
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I was so enormous that dent for some desper- tional jazz-like quality.
it put Europe’s cultural ate glory,/The old Lie;
and political norms and Dulce et Decorum est/
C. It is written in Stan-
values into question. Pro patria mori.” Which
dard American English
of the following state-
B. The mechanized for middle-class read-
ments best describes
killing, which took ers.
these lines?
place on a massive scale
during World War I, D. This poem is struc-
A. Brooke’s inclusion
made it necessary to re- tured like a villanelle.
of a quotation from
flect about the effects of Horace in these lines 57. Which of the follow-
technological progress. serves to emphasize the ing literary devices are
distance between the present in Langston
51. D 52. C 53. D 54. B 55. D 56. B 57. A

Hughes’s poem “Ku 60. What does Gertrude bowl directly and spec-
Klux”? Stein’s term “the Lost ulates about his state of
Generation” desig- mind.
A. Irony
nate?
D. No, even though
B. Allegory A. It refers to a group Lowell strives for im-
C. Oxymoron of talented American personal expression by
émigré writers who
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borrowing poetic de-
D. Alliteration lived in Europe after vices from Pound, she
58. Which of the following World War I. fails to accomplish this.
was NOT a prominent
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B. It refers to the
theme of American and young generation 62. Professor Hammer ar-
English modernist po- whose coming of age gues that Marianne
etry? was interrupted by Moore’s poem “Eng-
World War I. land” suggests which of
an
A. The search for a new
poetic language and the C. It refers to En- the following?
idea that language can glish poets who sought A. Moore’s emotional
be reinvented by poets refuge in New York and aesthetic attach-
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City after World War I ment to England
B. The quest to de-
ended.
scribe objects with pre- B. Moore’s harsh cri-
cision and without emo- D. Both A and B tique of the carnage of
tion 61. In Amy Lowell’s imag- World War I
C. The idea that the ist poem, “This Green C. Moore’s particu-
an
self is neither unitary Bowl,” a handmade lar kind of combative

nor permanently stable bowl is compared to American cultural na-
a pond in the woods. tionalism
Can one say that, as in
D. The approval of the Pound’s “Cantos,” this D. Moore’s interest in
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norms and values of poem’s dominant tone England’s civilizing

bourgeois culture is impersonal? Why, or mission in the world
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59. Which of the following why not?

best describes the types A. Yes, Lowell’s de- 63. What is the “double-
of imagery used in tailed description of bind” that African-
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Louis Zukofsky’s poem, nature draws attention American women po-

“A: Seventh Movement: away from human real- ets encountered in the
There Are Different ities. thirties and forties, ac-
Techniques”? cording to Anthony
B. Yes, the lyrical voice
Walton’s essay?
A. Historic and con- in Lowell’s poem seeks
temporary imagery to express universal A. Being overworked
rather than individual in menial jobs having to
B. Kabalistic imagery raise large families
experience.
C. Nationalist imagery C. No, Lowell’s poem B. Being a subordi-
is not impersonal; it ad- nated woman in a male
D. Everyday imagery dresses the maker of the dominated culture and
58. D 59. A 60. D 61. C 62. C 63. B

a member of a sup- D. “The Waste Land” Stevens’s understand-

pressed minority race focuses on the per- ing of the imagination
in the middle of a domi- sonal connection be- has most in common
nant white culture tween poet and speaker, with which of the fol-
whereas the futurists fo- lowing literary tradi-
C. Having little formal
cus on an impersonal tions?
education with little ac-
connection between
cess to publishers A. Imagism
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humans and industry.
D. Being ignored by a B. Classicism
traditional poetry read-
ing sentence. Pro- C. British Romanti-
ing public because what
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fessor Hammer argues cism
they wrote about was
that Ezra Pound’s inter-
the travails of subsis- D. Vorticism
est in fascism and his
tence living 68. Ezra Pound’s “Canto
anti-Semitic views were
XIV” opens with the
an
64. Which of the following likely an outcome of
statements best char- his: line “Io venni in lu-
acterizes the contrast ogo d’ogni luce muto” [I
between T.S. Eliot’s A. endorsement of came to a place devoid
“The Waste Land” and Marxism. of light]. This creates
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the futurist aesthetic B. interest in ancient a connection between
project? Rome. the Canto and which of
the following works?
A. “The Waste Land” C. anti-capitalism.
is primarily concerned A. Milton’s “Paradise
with nature, whereas D. interest in Fourier’s Lost”
utopian socialist
an
the futurists are most

thought. B. Dante’s “Divine
interested in industrial
Comedy”
and urban landscapes. 66. In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s
“The Love Song of J. C. Goethe’s “Faust”
B. “The Waste Land”
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Alfred Prufrock,” Pro- D. Thomas Mann’s

confronts the fragmen-
fessor Hammer argues “Doctor Faustus”
tation of modernity
that Eliot creates some-
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by exploring a variety 69. Rupert Brooke’s “The

thing that might be
of modes and voices, Soldier” opens with
called which of the fol-
whereas the futurists the following lines:
lowing?
do not focus on the
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“If I should die, think

fragmentation of mod- A. “A meditation on only this of me:/That
ern experience, prais- contradictions” there’s some corner of
ing speed and industrial a foreign field/That
B. “Overheard inner
progress instead. is for ever England.”
speech”
C. “The Waste Land” is Which of the follow-
C. “Implicit dialogue ing statements best
an ironic exploration
with the future” describes these lines
of Romantic themes,
whereas the futurists in- D. “Objective correla- and Brooke’s poem as a
corporate ironic evoca- tive” whole?
tions of the classical tra- 67. According to Profes- A. These lines and the
dition in their poetry. sor Hammer, Wallace poem as a whole use
64. B 65. C 66. B 67. C 68. D 69. A

both the political con- D. All of these answers ity and its diverse ele-
cept of a nation and ments”
the spiritual concept of 71. Which of the follow- B. “Continual self-
eternity to give meaning best characterizes sacrifice, a continual
ing to soldiers’ deaths the contrast between extinction of personal-
on the battlefield. Gertrude Stein’s poetry ity”
B. These lines and the and Imagist poetry?
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C. “Continual transfor-
poem as a whole are A. Stein experimented mation of the personal-
primarily concerned only with the sound ity”
with the extension qualities of language,
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of Britain’s imperial whereas the Imagists D. “Continual identifi-
power. focused on visual im- cation with the past”
C. These lines and the agery.
73. According to the liter-
poem as a whole seek
an
B. Stein experimented ary critic, Paul Fussell,
to directly express the with language that which of the following
horrors of war. skirted the edges of was a central trope of
sense, whereas the English poetry written
D. These lines and the
Imagists sought pre- during the Great War?
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poem as a whole rely
cision and clarity of
on assonance to mag- A. Patriotic imagery
expression.
nify the critique of war
expressed in the poem. C. Stein sought to com- B. Irony
bine classical poetic C. Nihilism
70. Why was World War II
form with contempo-
a defining event in the
an
rary content, whereas D. Apocalyptic im-

history of the 20th cen- agery
the Imagists used tra-
tury?
ditional poetic sub- 74. Professor Hammer
A. It brought unprece- ject matter but experi- points out that T.S.
y
dented destruction and mented with form. Eliot used quotation

loss of life, thereby as an important literary
D. Stein sought preci-
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putting into question technique. The use of

sion and clarity in her
the entire cultural and quotations, according
poems, whereas the
political legacy of West- to Professor Hammer,
Imagists sought exper-
ern civilization. suggests which of the
imental forms that en-
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B. It was followed by hanced visual imagery. following attitudes to

Soviet domination of the past?
Eastern Europe and by 72. In T.S. Eliot’s essay A. Curiosity about the
the entrenchment of called “Tradition and In- past
the Soviet totalitarian dividual Talent,” he ar-
system of rule. gues that the progress B. Deference to the
of an artist consists of past
C. It was followed by
the Cold War, which which of the follow- C. Violation of the past
affected international ing?
politics throughout the A. “Continual expan- D. Paradoxically both
world. sion of the personal- B and C
70. D 71. B 72. B 73. B 74. D

75. One of the dominant A. These lines evoke 80. H.D.’s poem “Oread”
themes in Wallace Christian imagery to reads: “WHIRL up, sea-
Stevens’s poem “Sun- emphasize the dignity /Whirl your pointed
day Morning” consists of the girl who died. pines./Splash your
of the juxtaposition of great pines/On our
B. These lines evoke
nature against which rocks./Hurl your green
Christian imagery to
set of cultural sym- over us-/Cover us with
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suggest that death
bols? your pools of fir.” To
erases racial divisions.
A. The ideal of courtly
C. These lines present ing categories does this
love
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the problem of racial poem belong?
B. Elements of the prejudice in an ironic A. Objectivist poetry
Christian narrative of mode.
salvation B. Futurist poetry
D. Both A and B
an
C. The alchemical con- C. Imagist poetry
78. Professor Hammer ar-
cept of the philoso- D. Vorticist poetry
gues that Hart Crane’s
pher’s stone
poem “Voyages” is a 81. Which one of the fol-
D. The Renaissance complex reply to which
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lowing was not a “little
concept of humanism of the following mod- magazine” that primar-
ernist works? ily published and cham-
A. Langston Hughes’ pioned modernist po-
figures is the author of
“The Negro Speaks of etry in the first half of
the 1909 “Futurist Man-
Rivers” the 20th century?
ifesto”?
an
A. The Partisan Review

A. Umberto Boccioni B. Ezra Pound’s “Can-
tos”
B. Filippo Marinetti B. The Owl
C. T.S. Eliot’s “A Love
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C. Vladimir Mayakovsky Song of J. Alfred C. Poetry

Prufrock”
D. Blast
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D. Aleksander Wat D. T.S. Eliot’s “The 82. What was the primary
77. The first stanza of Waste Land” significance of “The
Countee Cullen’s “A 79. Which of the follow- Book of American Ne-
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Brown Girl Dead” ing traditions was an gro Poetry” (1922),

reads: “With two important influence on edited by James Wel-
white roses on her Louis Zukofsky’s po- don Johnson?
breasts,/White candles etry? A. It established an
at head and feet,/Dark
A. American Romanti- authoritative and un-
Madonna of the grave
cism questionable canon of
she rests;/Lord Death
African American po-
has found her sweet.” B. British Neo- etry.
Which of the follow- Classicism
ing statements accu- B. It inspired Harlem
rately characterizes C. Kabalistic Judaism Renaissance writers to
these lines? D. Taoism establish a tradition of
75. B 76. B 77. D 78. D 79. C 80. C 81. A 82. B

African American po- that the trash symbol- ian Futurism and its his-
etry. izes which of the follow- torical context?
ing?
C. It presented African A. The Italian Futur-
American writers to a A. Artifacts from for- ists were fascinated by
previously indifferent eign cultures which do the age of electric and
white audience. not fit into the Ameri- chemical power, and
can cultural context they praised the beauty
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D. It provided literary of automobiles.
criticism on African B. The broken dreams
American poetry. of the American émigré B. The Italian Futurists
lived within a quickly
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community in Paris
83. World War I drastically changing social world,
changed the political C. Old poetry
and they praised speed.
and cultural climate D. The failed attempt
in Europe. Which of of modern poetry
an
C. Marinetti and other
the following was NOT
85. According to Profes- Italian Futurists sup-
among the changes
sor Hammer, which ported Mussolini’s fas-
brought about by World
of the following cism.
War I?
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characteristics did
A. Germany was de- Langston Hughes share
feated and blamed for with modernist poets
causing the war. like William Carlos 87. Which of the following
Williams, Marianne statements best charac-
B. In the course of terizes Randall Jarrell’s
Moore, Hart Crane, and
World War I, the Bolshe- 1945 poem “The Death
an
Robert Frost?
viks came to power in of the Ball Turret Gun-
Russia. A. Hughes was very ner”?
conscious that he was
C. Successful parlia- an American poet, and A. The poem contrasts
y
mentary democra- this profoundly influ- the image of a child in

cies were established enced his writing. its mother’s womb with
throughout the conti-
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cruel devaluation of hu-

nent and remained sta- B. Hughes wrote about man life in wartime.
ble until the outbreak the legacy of the Amer-
ican Civil War and its B. The poem praises
of World War II in 1939.
those technological
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long-term cultural con-

sequences. achievements which
D. By the end of the protect human life in
1920s, almost every C. Hughes introduced wartime.
state that had partic- new subject-matter and
new language into po- C. The poem uses im-
ipated in World War I ages of the apocalypse
faced an economic de- etry.
to criticize the cruelty
pression and political D. Both A and C of war.
upheavals.
86. Which of the following D. The poem presents
84. In Wallace Stevens’s statements accurately the war as a natural
poem “The Man on the characterizes the rela- part of the perennial cy-
Dump,” one can say tionship between Ital- cles of human history.
83. C 84. C 85. D 86. D 87. A

88. Which of the following B. Striving for concen- A. employs free verse.
statements best char- trated expression and
B. has an undertow of
acterizes Georgia Dou- imagery
nihilism.
glass Johnson’s poem
C. Reliance on the
“Black Woman”? C. is chauvinistic
language of common
about British “excep-
A. This poem focuses speech
tionalism.”
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primarily on the differ-
D. Creative reliance
ent experiences of black D. was composed be-
on conventional poetic
and white women. tween WW I and WW
forms
II.
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B. This poem describes 91. Which of the following
the relationship be- statements best charac- 94. Which of the follow-
tween a black woman terizes the role played ing statements best de-
and her child. by Gertrude Stein in scribes the relationship
an
American modernism? between Georgian po-
C. This poem is a con-
etry and English World
versation between a A. Stein was a crucially War I poetry?
black woman and a important figure in the
child who is not yet Paris émigré commu- A. Georgian poetry
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born. nity. was modeled on World
War I poetry and
D. The poem is a con- B. Stein was primarily adapted its insights to
versation between a a muse for modernist postwar realities.
black woman and her poets.
ancestors. B. Unlike World War
C. Stein was a propo-
an
I poetry, Georgian po-

89. Which of the following nent of low modernism. etry was concerned pri-
traditions was particu- marily with the effects
larly important in Hart of urbanization and in-
Crane’s modernist po- D. Stein was an op-
dustrialization.
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etry? ponent of vanguard

trends. C. Unlike World War
A. French Classicism
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92. Which of the follow- I poetry, Georgian po-

B. British Romanticism ing poets wrote about etry was concerned pri-
World War II? marily with women’s
rights.
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C. American Romanti- A. Rupert Brooke

cism D. World War I po-
B. Rudyard Kipling ets like Siegfried Sas-
D. German Romanti- soon and Wilfred Owen
C. Karl Shapiro
cism adapted the Georgian
D. Hart Crane poetic manner to write
descriptions does NOT 93. Complete the follow- about modern subjects;
pertain to the Imag- ing sentence. Matthew most Georgian poets fo-
ists? Arnold’s poem “Dover cused on individual ex-
Beach” is illustrative of perience and avoided
A. Total freedom in modernist poetry, be- writing about the up-
choosing the subject cause it: heavals of modernity.
88. C 89. C 90. D 91. A 92. C 93. B 94. D

95. Which of the follow- of the following politi- D. “Inclusion of natu-

ing features of Robert cal philosophies? ral objects as symbols”
Browning’s “My Last A. Marxism
Duchess” make it clas-
sifiable as a Victorian B. Fascism 100. Ezra Pound’s “Canto
poem? C. Democracy I” opens with the fol-
lowing lines: “And
A. It has a regu-
er
D. Libertarianism then went down to the
lar rhyme scheme 98. What are some of the ship,/Set keel to break-
(aa/bb/cc/dd ), surface similarities be- ers, forth on the godly
which is sustained tween Robert Frost’s
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sea, and( ).” Which
throughout the poem. poem “Out, Out” and of the following state-
B. It is primarily a nar- John Greenleaf Whit- ments best character-
rative poem. tier’s poem “Telling the izes these lines and the
Bees”? poem as a whole?
an
C. It is concerned
with conventional 19th- A. They both address
A. These lines set an
century relations be- the theme of death.
impersonal tone which
tween a man and a B. Both use formal me- dominates the entire
woman.
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ter to present a narra- poem.
D. All of these answers tive structure.
B. These lines estab-
C. They are both set in
lish a rhythmical pat-
96. Which of the following rural New England.
tern, which is followed
does Professor Hammer
D. All of these answers strictly throughout the
identify as one of the
an
poem.
most important goals of
Imagist poetry? 99. Which of the following
C. These lines are the
phrases best describes
A. The privileging of only impersonal lines
the central goal of Imag-
image over sound in the poem, the rest of
y
ist poets?
which is primarily fo-
B. The privileging of A. “Emotional power cused on the complex-
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rhythm over meaning achieved through sug- ity of human emotions.

C. The privileging of gestive visual images”
individual detail over B. “Exploration of
D. These lines estab-
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the larger pattern philosophical para-

lish a personal tone, fo-
D. The privileging of doxes through visual
cusing on a lyrical per-
colors over textures images”
spective similar to late-
97. Many critics see similar- C. “Clarity of expres- Victorian era poetry.
ities between the tenets sion through the use of
of Futurism and which precise visual images”
95. D 96. C 97. B 98. D 99. C 100. A

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1. Dickens uses realism poor silly things, are ing may have been, I
as a technique to sup- so short in comparison see a angel sitting in
port a larger theme with Chancery proceed- this room last night
that underlies his writings that, one by one, along with my child,
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ing. He criticizes the in- the whole collection and I trust her to Our
stitutionalized corrup- has died over and over Father!”
tion that existed and at- again. I doubt, do you
tempts to engage the know, whether one of C. “There was such a
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readers’ emotions (frus- these, though they are shock of apprehension

tration, anger or sad- all young, will live to be in his face, and he knew
ness) on behalf of the free! Ve-ry mortifying,
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Richard so perfectly,
victims. Which of these is it not?”’ and I too had seen so
passages best illustrates much of his gradual de-
this technique? B. “Bless you, sir, the cay, that what my dear
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way she tended them girl had said to me in

A. “‘I began to keep two children after the the fullness of her fore-
the little creatures,’ she mother died was the boding love sounded
said, ‘with an object talk of the yard! And like a knell in my ears.
that the wards will read- it was a wonder to see ‘In case you should be
ily comprehend. With her with him after he wanting Mr. C., sir,’
the intention of restor- was took ill, it really said Mr. Vholes, com-
ing them to liberty. was! ’Mrs. Blinder,’ ing after us, ‘you’ll find
When my judgment he said to me the very him in court. I left
should be given. Ye- last he spoke-he was ly- him there resting him-
es! They die in prison, ing there-’Mrs. Blin- self a little. Good day,
though. Their lives, der, whatever my call- sir; good day, Miss Sum-
372 Chapter 15. The Victorian Novel
merson.’ As he gave were supposed to marry answer questions and

me that slowly devour- and stay home as cen- to find solutions.
ing look of his, while ters of the Victorian
B. Both demonstrate a
twisting up the strings family-but many house-
fear of the unknown
of his bag before he has- holds could not be sup-
and are allegorical sto-
tened with it after Mr. ported on a single in-
ries about doubt.
Kenge, the benignant come.
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shadow of whose con- C. Neither reflects
C. There were so many
versational presence he the narrative style of
lower-class women
seemed afraid to leave, careful collection of
in the workforce that
data and description of
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he gave one gasp as if
there was no need for
he had swallowed the places or objects.
middle-class women to
last morsel of his client, D. Neither of the jour-
work.
and his black buttoned- neys make any real im-
up unwholesome figure D. Paid work was un-
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pact on the surround-
glided away to the low necessary because the
ing people, or the wider
door at the end of the salaries of men in the
community of scien-
Hall.” middle class were very
tists.
high.
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D. All of these 6. Which of the following
4. The “Condition-of-
2. Fiction and non-fiction best describes the Whig
England” novel was
frequently influence political perspective?
often influenced by ex-
one another. This was A. The political and
ternal factors. Which
particularly true in Vic- military faction de-
of the following non-
torian Britain. Which feated by Charles the II
fiction accounts might
an
author was particularly

have influenced this
influential to the writ-
genre? B. The liberal party
ing of Darwin’s The
Origin of Species A. Mayhew’s London of the new financial
y
Labor and the London and mercantile inter-

A. Bram Stoker ests and reformist leg-
Poor
islation, who felt the
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B. Thomas Hardy
B. Darwin’s The Origin
aristocracy ruled only
C. Wilkie Collins of Species
at the consent of the
D. Charles Dickens C. Lombroso’s work on people
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3. Middle- and upper- criminals

C. Advocates of per-
class Victorian women D. Charlotte Bronte’s sonal freedom
faced complicated ex- Jane Eyre
D. Strong supporters
pectations regarding
5. In what ways is Journey of William III and his
paid work. Why?
to the Center of the Earth consort Mary
A. They could not similar to the actual
7. Henry Mayhew writes
work if they were preg- journey of the H.M.S.
at length about the
nant or nursing small Beagle and Darwin?
London poor and the
children.
A. Both are driven by types of labor they per-
B. Women of the mid- a sense of mystery and formed. Identify which
dle and upper classes a need for discovery-to type of literary genre
1. D 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. A 6. B
Mayhew’s work most A. “Groups of its inhab- pected to live such was
closely resembles. itants assemble to dis- the sufferings gentle-
A. Science fiction: He cuss the thing, and the men of that child in his
attempts to create a outposts of the army gums) as the plaintive-
dystopian narrative by of observation (princi- so Mrs. Piper insists
merging science and fic- pally boys) are pushed on calling the deceased-
tion. forward to Mr. Krook’s was reported to have
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window, which they sold himself.”
B. Travel literature: He closely invest. A po-
uses drastic shock tac- D. “Here he is, very
liceman has already muddy, very hoarse,
tics to convey an excit-
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walked up to the room, very ragged. Now, boy!
ing discovery of “sav- and walked down again
ages” in the capital city. But stop a minute. Cau-
to the door, where he tion. This boy must be
stands like a tower, only put through a few pre-
condescending to see
an
C. Romance: He makes liminary paces. Name,
the poor into roman- the boys at his base Jo. Nothing else that he
tic/tragic heroes so the occasionally; but when- knows on. Don’t know
reader will sympathize. ever he does see them, that everybody has two
they quail and fall back.”
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names. Never heerd
D. He does not use a lit- of sich a think. Don’t
erary technique. know that Jo is short for
B. “At the appointed
a longer name. Thinks
8. A bildungsroman is a hour arrives the coro-
it long enough for HIM.
novel that concerns it- ner, for whom the ju-
HE don’t find no fault
self with: rymen are waiting and
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with it. Spell it? No. HE

A. the architecture of a who is received with a
can’t spell it. No father,
city or urban landscape, salute of skittles from
no mother, no friends.
as opposed to the coun- the good dry skittle-
Never been to school.
tryside. ground attached to
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What’s home? Knows

the Sol’s Arms. The
B. the development of a broom’s a broom, and
coroner frequents more
knows it’s wicked to
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a youthful protagonist public-houses than any

as he or she matures. tell a lie. Don’t recollect
man alive.”
who told him about the
C. the history of antiq- broom or about the lie,
C. “Mrs. Piper lives in
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uity, particularly of an- but knows both. Can’t

cient Rome and Greece. the court (which her
husband is a cabinet- exactly say what’ll be
maker), and it has long done to him arter he’s
D. the poor versus the been well beknown dead if he tells a lie to
rich. among the neighbours the gentlemen here, but
9. In the novel Bleak (counting from the day believes it’ll be some-
House, Dickens uses next but one before thing wery bad to pun-
realism to represent the the half-baptizing of ish him, and serve him
plight of poor laboring Alexander James Piper right-and so he’ll tell
classes. Which of these aged eighteen months the truth.”
passages best illustrates and four days old on ac- 10. The construction of
the use of realism? counts of not being ex- the railways had a
7. B 8. B 9. D
great impact on British the grounds of religious

life and British fiction- persecution.
C. “I had mechani-
particularly on how
12. Which of the follow- cally turned in this
people judged time and
ing passages most ac- latter direction, and
distance. In which of
curately depicts the was strolling along the
the following novels
sensation-fiction tech- lonely high-road-idly
does the difference be-
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nique of using shock wondering, I remem-
tween time and dis-
or highly charged emo- ber, what the Cum-
tance, as clocked by
tions? berland young ladies
railways, appear specif-
would look like-when,
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ically? A. “When he had thor-
in one moment, every
A. Jane Eyre oughly recovered him-
drop of blood in my
self, and had joined me
B. Bleak House body was brought to a
on the beach, his warm
stop by the touch of a
Southern nature broke
an
C. The Sign of Four hand laid lightly and
through all artificial En-
D. Dracula suddenly on my shoul-
glish restraints in a mo-
der from behind me. I
11. The British Empire is ment. He overwhelmed
turned on the instant,
often described as “am- me with the wildest ex-
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with my fingers tight-
bivalent” in its expan- pressions of affection-
ening round the handle
sion. Which of the exclaimed passionately,
of my stick. There, in
following best explains in his exaggerated Ital-
the middle of the broad
this in terms of Victo- ian way, that he would
bright high-road-there,
rian Imperialism? hold his life henceforth
as if it had that moment
at my disposal-and de-
an
A. The British were al- sprung out of the earth

ways interested in ex- clared that he should
or dropped from the
panding their territo- never be happy again
heaven-stood the figure
ries and had little to no until he had found an
of a solitary Woman,
opportunity of proving
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concern for trade. dressed from head to

his gratitude by render-
B. The British were foot in white ”
ing me some service
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committed to expand- which I might remem- D. “The first touch of

ing the empire in every ber, on my side, to the womanly tenderness
direction and actively end of my days.” that I had heard from
sought to increase their
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her trembled in her

land holdings. B. “We both bounced
voice as she said the
into the parlour in
C. The British were not words; but no tears glis-
a highly abrupt and
always interested in tened in those large,
undignified manner.
the territories that they wistfully attentive eyes
My mother sat by the
took over, but occasion- of hers, which were still
open window laugh-
ally felt compelled to fixed on me.”
ing and fanning her-
conquer one territory
self. Pesca was one of 13. Select the option in
to protect another.
her especial favourites which all three fac-
D. The British were at and his wildest eccen- tors listed were pre-
war with other coun- tricities were always conditions of the In-
tries and colonies on pardonable in her eyes.” dustrial Revolution in
10. D 11. C 12. C 13. B

Britain. A. “It is not a large dantly of wearying out

world. Relatively even the right, which so
A. Literacy, law, and
to this world of ours, exhausts finances, pa-
military power
which has its limits too tience, courage, hope,
B. Widely available (as your Highness shall so overthrows the brain
printed material, lit- find when you have and breaks the heart,
eracy, adequate trans- made the tour of it and that there is not an hon-
er
portation are come to the brink of ourable man among
the void beyond), it is a its practitioners who
C. Slave owners, slave very little speck. There would not give-who
labor, and the East India
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is much good in it; there does not often give-the
Trading Company are many good and true warning, ‘Suffer any
D. Adequate trans- people in it; it has its ap- wrong that can be done
portation, gothic nov- pointed place.” you rather than come
here!”’
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els, and the steam en-
B. “My Lady Dedlock
gine D. “I have a great deal
has returned to her
14. Woodblock illustra- house in town for a few of difficulty in begin-
tions were important days previous to her de- ning to write my por-
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until the development parture for Paris, where tion of these pages, for
of line illustrations and her ladyship intends to I know I am not clever.
other methods. Three stay some weeks, after I always knew that. I
outstanding wood- which her movements can remember, when I
blook illustrators of are uncertain. The was a very little girl in-
the period before line- fashionable intelligence deed, I used to say to
an
drawing include: says so for the comfort my doll when we were

of the Parisians, and it alone together, ‘Now,
A. Napier, Hopkinson, Dolly, I am not clever,
knows all fashionable
and Cope. you know very well,
things.”
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B. Charles Dickens, and you must be pa-

William Thackery, and C. “This is the Court tient with me, like a
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Lewis Carroll. of Chancery, which has dear!’ And so she used

its decaying houses and to sit propped up in a
C. Douglas Jerrold, its blighted lands in ev- great arm-chair, with
Lewis Carroll, and ery shire, which has her beautiful complex-
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Charles Kingsley. its worn-out lunatic in ion and rosy lips, star-
every madhouse and its ing at me-or not so
D. Gustav Doré, John
dead in every church- much at me, I think,
Tenniel, and Linley
yard, which has its ru- as at nothing-while I
Sambourne.
ined suitor with his slip- busily stitched away
15. In many ways, Bleak shod heels and thread- and told her every one
House is a “Condition- bare dress borrowing of my secrets.”
of-England” novel. and begging through
16. In the Victorian period,
Which of the follow- the round of every
phrenology was a sci-
ing passages best re- man’s acquaintance,
ence of the mind that:
flects the tenets of this which gives to monied
genre? might the means abun- A. is the assessment of
14. D 15. C
a person’s character or 18. The Victorian period B. “enlighten the mind

personality based on saw the professional- and infuse the wit.”
his outer appearance, ization of the sciences,
C. “encourage strong
especially the face. and one of the leading
minds, strong souls,
thinkers of the age was
B. is a pseudoscience strong bodies.”
Charles Darwin. Dar-
primarily concerned
win’s theory of evolu- D. “preach to the
er
with reflexology and
tion is best described by nerves instead of the
the nerves of the feet.
which of the following: judgment.”
C. focused on measure-
A. A theory that sug- 20. Which of the following
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ments of the human
gested apes had turned passages most reflects
skull, based on the con-
into men and this the British fear of inva-
cept that the brain is the
proved transmutation, sion as represented by
organ of the mind, and
or the changing of one the vampire?
an
that certain brain areas
species into another
have localized, specific A. “I am glad that it is
species
functions. old and big. I myself
B. An idea that con- am of an old family, and
D. is a practice simi-
cerned adaptation but to live in a new house
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lar to acupuncture and
not actual evolution, a would kill me. A house
focuses on pressure
theory that came later, cannot be made habit-
points and glandular
after Darwin’s death able in a day, and after
activity.
all, how few days go to
C. The understand- make up a century. I
17. Despite Britain’s
ing that all species rejoice also that there
an
prowess at mid-century,
descended from com- is a chapel of old times.
the empire began to fall
mon ancestors and this We Transylvanian no-
behind other nations.
branching pattern of bles love not to think
This decline has been
evolution resulted from that our bones may lie
variously ascribed to:
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a process called natu- amongst the common

A. the fundamentally ral selection, in which dead. I seek not gai-
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anti-technological bias the struggle for exis- ety nor mirth, not the
of British education. tence results in selec- bright voluptuousness
tive breeding of much sunshine and
B. fewer educated peo-
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ple than either Europe D. A theory originally sparkling waters which

or North America. developed as a kind of please the young and
criminology and a way gay.”
C. the fact that the of telling one race from
British middle class B. “For if we fail in this
another our fight he must surely
made money so eas-
ily in the first years of 19. Sensation novels, which win, and then where
the Industrial Revolu- flourished in the Victo- end we? Life is noth-
tion, they simply did rian period, primarily ings, I heed him not.
not work as hard in aimed to: But to fail here, is not
subsequent years. mere life or death. It is
A. “heal the wounded that we become as him,
D. All of these heart.” that we henceforward
16. C 17. D 18. C 19. D 20. B

become foul things of B. supported the end of versal of the gothic’s

the night like him, with- slavery. use of place. Which of
out heart or conscience, C. supported children. the following best de-
preying on the bodies scribes this reversal and
and the souls of those D. intended to end suf- why it is important?
we love best. To us for- fering.
ever are the gates of 22. Non-fiction works like A. Harker travels from
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heaven shut, for who Mayhew’s London La- the west to the east,
shall open them to us bor and the London Poor and his arrival at Castle
again?” and fiction works like Dracula represents the
progress of the British
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Dickens’ Hard Times of-
C. “We Szekelys have Empire and the expan-
ten depict similar kinds
a right to be proud, for sion of colonies.
of things. Which of the
in our veins flows the
following best explains B. Mina travels from
blood of many brave
this relationship?
an
races who fought as the her home to her friend’s
lion fights, for lordship. A. Novels were more home, and this repre-
Here, in the whirlpool fun to read than non- sents the social mobil-
of European races, the fiction, so all writing at- ity of women and of the
middle classes.
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Ugric tribe bore down tempted to look like a
from Iceland the fight- novel when it was pub-
C. Van Helsing travels
ing spirit which Thor lished.
to London, and this rep-
and Wodin gave them, B. Because Victorians resents the power of
which their Berserkers were interested in so- medical men and their
displayed to such fell in- cial responsibility, and ability to thwart myth
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tent on the seaboards of because they believed and superstition.

Europe, aye, and of Asia problems afforded solu-
and Africa too, till the tions, they were more D. The count travels
peoples thought that likely to focus on so- from the east to the
west, and his invasion
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the werewolves them- cial realities in both

selves had come.” fiction and non-fiction of London can be linked
to fears of the “other”
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D. “I saw the fingers than the Romantic-era

writers before them. and the fall of the
and toes grasp the cor-
British Empire.
ners of the stones, worn C. Charles Dickens
clear of the mortar by 24. Between 1870 and 1900,
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and Henry Mayhew

the stress of years, and were friends. the formal Empire ex-
by thus using every pro- panded to occupy an
D. People were fright-
jection and inequality area of 4 million square
ened by progress and
move downwards with miles. Which of the
enjoyed reading novels
considerable speed, just following is NOT one
and non-fiction with
as a lizard moves along of the factors that con-
horrifying narratives
a wall.” tributed to expansion?
about technology. This
21. The Woman’s Suffrage was called sensational- A. The development of
Movement: ism. Britain’s relationship
A. supported women’s 23. In the novel Dracula, with the United States
right to vote. we see a surprising re- of America
21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A

B. A desire to defend C. The end of capital- ing, through that brassy

the financial interests ism and the rise of com- speaking-trumpet of a
abroad munism as a state in- voice of his, his old
C. The threat posed by stitution of power over ignorance and his old
emerging world powers the will of the people poverty. A man who
was the Bully of humil-
D. The concept of
ity.”
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D. The Industrial Revo- atavism and Social Dar-
lution winism as a means of B. “In truth, Mrs. Grad-
subjugating the people grind’s stock of facts
25. In The Sign of Four,
in general was woe-
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the mystery revolves 27. Victorian novels use
around things that hap- characterization to rep- fully defective; but Mr.
pen abroad. Which resent class and rank. Gradgrind in raising
of the following events Which of the following her to her high mat-
leads Jonathon Small passages is a good ex- rimonial position, had
to flee (and initiate the
pact with the Sikhs?)
A. The dissolve of anample of how Charles
Dickens reveals the
class tension in Hard
been influenced by two
reasons. Firstly, she
was most satisfactory
as a question of figures;
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the East India Trading Times?
and, secondly, she had
Company in 1873 A. “He was a rich man: ‘no nonsense’ about her.
B. The Indian Rebel- banker, merchant, man- By nonsense he meant
lion of 1857 ufacturer, and what not. fancy; and truly it is
A big, loud man, with probable she was as free
C. The crowning of
a stare, and a metallic from any alloy of that
Queen Victoria as Em-
an
laugh. A man made nature, as any human

press of India in 1877
out of a coarse mate- being not arrived at the
rial, which seemed to perfection of an abso-
D. The Indian National have been stretched to lute idiot, ever was.”
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Congress of 1885 make so much of him.

26. Karl Marx was pri- A man with a great C. “Being left to
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marily concerned with puffed head and fore- saunter in the hall a
which of the follow- head, swelled veins in minute or two while
ing? his temples, and such Mr. Gradgrind went up-
a strained skin to his stairs for the address,
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A. Human freedom face that it seemed to he opened the door of

and reviving the an- hold his eyes open, and the children’s study and
cient concept of com- lift his eyebrows up. looked into that serene
munism, wherein hu- A man with a pervad- floor-clothed apart-
man beings could fulfill ing appearance on him ment, which, notwith-
their cooperative roles of being inflated like standing its book-cases
within society without a balloon, and ready and its cabinets and
fear of exploitation to start. A man who its variety of learned
B. Sameness and homo- could never sufficiently and philosophical ap-
geneity; he wishes to re- vaunt himself a self- pliances, had much
duce all persons to the made man. A man who of the genial aspect
same class was always proclaim- of a room devoted to
25. B 26. A 27. A

hair-cutting. Louisa fluenced Darwin’s The there were so many

languidly leaned upon Origin of Species. variations.
the window looking C. He read the works
out, without looking at B. Scientists tend to see
their fields in complete of Alexander von Hum-
anything, while young boldt and geologist
Thomas stood sniff- isolation from art and
culture. Charles Lyell’s book,
ing revengefully at the
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Principles of Geology.
fire. Adam Smith and C. Since the coming
Malthus, two younger D. He investigated ge-
of Romanticism in the
Gradgrinds, were out at ology for the first time
late 18th century, many
while traveling to South
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lecture in custody; and poets, such as Blake
little Jane, after manu- America.
and Keats, have tended
facturing a good deal of to oppose science and 30. As both industry and
moist pipe-clay on her technology to the arts. farming became more
face with slate-pencil mechanized, the num-
and tears, had fallen
asleep over vulgar frac-
tions.”
anD. The development
of cinema, television,
video, and digital in-
formation technology
ber of tools required
for such work increased
dramatically. What
were some of the con-
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D. “‘Oh, my poor has provided a kind of sequences of this evolu-
health!’ returned Mrs. intellectual distance. tion?
Gradgrind. ‘The girl
wanted to come to the 29. Which of the follow- A. More and bigger
school, and Mr. Grad- ing describes the most tools required addi-
grind wanted girls to important development tional buildings to
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come to the school, and that came from Dar- house them, horses to
Louisa and Thomas win’s time aboard the run them, and experi-
both said that the girl survey ship, H.M.S. Bea- enced laborers. Smaller
wanted to come, and gle? farms could not afford
to spend money on
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A. He made count- equipment used only
wanted girls to come,
less inquiries of animal a few weeks out of the
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and how was it possi-

breeders, both farmers year.
ble to contradict them
and hobbyists like pi-
when such was the B. The old tools, like
geon fanciers, trying to
fact!”’ the scythe, were put to
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understand how they

28. Though science and the made distinct breeds of other uses.
humanities are some- animals. C. More people be-
times seen as opposi- came farmers.
B. He would find multi-
tional, they often have a D. Additional tools and
ple species in one place
reciprocal relationship. requirements meant
that had replaced all the
Which of the follow- more expense, so farm-
fossil species, while dis-
ing statements best il- ers earned more money
covering a living fossil
lustrates this? and became much
species still alive else-
A. Victorian novels, where. It caused him to wealthier than before.
particularly those by ask where new species 31. Some reactions to
Charles Dickens, in- came from and why Henry Mayhew’s work
28. A 29. B 30. A

on London Labor and labour relations, as well C. Bloody and un-

London Poor might be as on social unrest. successful wars in
described as: Afghanistan, ferocious
33. The growth of the
popular rebellions, in-
A. sensationalism: the British Empire was due,
vocations of jihad, and
attraction of repulsion in large part, to which
inscrutable terrain
and shock. of the following?
D. Aggressive competi-
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B. horror: the discov- A. The discovery of tion for overseas terri-
ery that people in a ma- natural resources like torial acquisitions and
jor city live like "sav- coal, oil, gold, and sil- a quest for captive mar-
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ages." ver in the British Isles kets
C. sympathy: pity for 35. The East India Com-
the destitute women B. The rebellion of pany has a strange his-
and children in a major serfs against their mas- tory. Though it began
an
industrial city. like Lon- ters and a desire for as a trading company, it
don. equality for all men evolved into:
D. All of these C. The ongoing com- A. an entity with its
own military power.
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32. The term the petition for resources
“Condition-of-England and markets that ex- B. a monopoly.
novels” refers to a body isted over a period of
C. a problematic rul-
of narrative fiction centuries between Eng-
ing body separate from
that: land and her Continen-
the British Empire, who
tal rivals, Spain, France,
A. show the differ- finally reigned in its
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and Holland
ences between these power starting in 1813.
traditions as well as D. The emergence of D. All of the above
their similarities. the United States of
America as a world 36. Publishing, printing,
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B. explores the youth power and bookselling busi-

and young adulthood of nesses were:
34. New Imperialism has
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a sensitive protagonist A. primarily organized

who is in search of the often been linked to the
by the East India Trad-
meaning of life and the concept of “empire for
ing Company, who con-
nature of the world. empire’s sake.” Which
trolled the stocks.
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of the following BEST

C. a genre where describes this practice? B. usually owned by
magic elements are a authors, who became
natural part in an other- A. A lack of interest in wealthy landowners as
wise mundane, realistic surplus capital and a a result of their trade.
environment. disregard for protecting
existing trade links C. three divisions that
D. sought to engage di- were just emerging as
rectly with the contem- B. The “Great Game”- separate businesses in
porary social and polit- espionage and counter- the 19th century, and
ical issues with a focus espionage especially they merged almost as
on the representation with reference to Rus- often as they separated.
of class, gender, and sia’s interests
31. D 32. D 33. C 34. D 35. D 36. C

D. financed entirely by eases they were placed A. The railroad work-

book clubs and travel- in a locked hospital. ers did not like to travel
ing libraries. by the railway because
D. She had a personal
they feared it interfered
37. A number of Victorian vendetta against the
with digestion of coarse
feminists revived the men who promoted
food.
Woman Question de- the acts because they
bate in their campaign were her political oppo- B. The coaches were
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for: nents and also opposed differentiated by class,
women and railway workers of-
A. property. ten rode at the back of
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B. divorce. the car.
alogue, and physical ac-
C. suffrage. tions are all techniques C. Most of the passen-
of: gers were wealthy in
D. All of these the early days of the
an
A. plot development. railway; it was too ex-
38. Josephine Butler was
well known for cam- B. theme. pensive for the poorer
paigning for women. classes (who might
C. narration.
Why did she attack make only 10 shillings
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the Contagious Disease D. characterization. a week) to travel that
Acts? way.
40. One contradiction
A. She felt that health about female sexuality D. It did not reinforce
and hygiene was not put “moral guidance” class but rather served
important to the cause and the desire for sex to democratize its rid-
ers, who were all head-
an
of women’s emancipa- in opposition. To be

tion and voting rights. a good wife therefore ing to the same destina-
required women: tion.
A. to want children, 42. Sigmund Freud’s major
B. The acts were only
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but not the means of contribution to science

aimed at children and was his development of
did not include women; getting them-and to be
psychoanalysis. Which
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doctors were therefore never failing in their

Godly virtues. of the following best ex-
ignoring the plight of plain the practice?
women and the prob- B. to be sexual crea-
A. The use of dialogue
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lems of venereal dis- tures but to hide it and

eases. to be coy and playful. between a patient and
a psychoanalyst, using
C. The acts allowed po- C. to always take part free association to dis-
licemen to consider any of the public sphere of cover transference and
women in ports and city life. repression
army towns as prosti-
D. to avoid other B. The use of psy-
tutes and bring them
women of their own chosurgery to correct
in to have compulsory
class. problematic psychosis
checks for venereal dis-
ease. If the women 41. In what ways did the through lobotomy
were suffering from sex- railway reinforce differ- C. The use of myths
ually transmitted dis- ences of class? and legends to reflect
37. D 38. C 39. D 40. A 41. C 42. A

the collective uncon- feature of the governess B. “man is a calculating

scious and its presence novel? animal,” in the causes
in daily life of criminal behavior,
A. A governess heroine
premised on the idea
D. All of these
that people have free
43. The voyages of discov- B. Encounters with a will in making deci-
ery made by the Bea- number of painful situa- sions, and that punish-
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gle and other scientific tions that are connected ment can be a deterrent
survey-related jour- with her position as a for crime.
neys influenced fiction- governess
particularly early sci- C. this was the mecha-
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ence fiction. Which C. Trouble in relation nism that had allowed
of the following BEST to her employers or her monarchies to become
explains why? pupils the primary form of
D. Aspects of the su- government. He con-
an
A. Few people were cluded that monarchs
classically educated, so pernatural, particularly
of ghosts or ghostly had asserted the right
there was no call for to rule and enforced it
reviving the mythology presences
either through an exer-
of the Greeks. 45. Vampirism in Drac-
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cise in raw power, or
ula affects the young
B. The pursuit of ma- through a form of con-
and the healthy, turn-
terial values, even tract.
ing members of the
worldly success itself, D. criminality was in-
British community into
seemed somehow to herited, and that some-
creatures of the night
invite catastrophe. Au- one “born criminal”
almost like animals.
an
thors used the voyages could be identified by

Which of the follow-
as a means of distrac- physical defects, which
ing theories might this
tion from real problems. confirmed a criminal as
reflect?
savage, or atavistic.
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A. Imperialism
C. Seeing foreign lands 47. Clashes like the
and strange people B. Atavism
Crimean War did not
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and animals, and wit- C. Evolution produce much fiction,

nessing new geological but did still influence
formations or strange D. Expansionism
novelists. Which of the
biological processes,
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46. Using concepts drawn following books was

renewed the age-old from physiognomy, most influenced by the
quest for new worlds early eugenics, psychia- war in Crimea?
and the “fantastic.” try and Social Darwin-
ism, Cesare Lombroso’s A. Mysteries of Udolpho
D. The voyages of dis-
covery suggested new theory of anthropolog-
possible colonies that ical criminology essen- B. Bleak House
would aid in the expan- tially stated that:
C. Jane Eyre
sion of the British Em- A. no one can ever be
pire. certain about criminal D. Dracula
44. Which of the following intent, not even the 48. Like the “condition-of-
attributes was NOT a criminal him/herself. England” novels, the
43. C 44. D 45. B 46. D 47. D

governess novel often the household. passages is a good ex-

involves problems of so- ample of how Thomas
49. Some of the tropes of
cial class. Which of Hardy reveals the class
gothic fiction employed
the following explains tension in Return of the
by Victorians include:
why the position of gov- Native?
erness lends itself to a A. scientific discovery,
novel of class critique? narratives of progress, A. “‘I say, Sam,’ ob-
er
and a focus on posi- served Humphrey
A. The governess was
tivism. when the old man
often much better edu-
was gone, ‘she and
cated than her employ- B. colonies, foreigners, Clym Yeobright would
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ers. the arts, and beautiful make a very pretty
B. The governess was scenery. pigeon-pair-hey? If
in the same class as her C. psychological and they wouldn’t I’ll be
employers, and she was physical terror; mys- dazed! Both of one
treated as one of the
family. This demon-
strated the benevolence
of the middle class, antery and the supernatu-
ral; madness, doubling,
and heredity curses.
mind about niceties for
certain, and learned
in print, and always
thinking about high
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which was a model of D. empire building, doctrine-there couldn’t
equality and domestic- the East India Trading be a better couple if
ity. Company, merchant they were made o’ pur-
stories, and often pi- pose. Clym’s family is
C. The servants and rates. as good as hers. His fa-
the governess were gen-
50. The Divorce and Matri- ther was a farmer, that’s
an
erally of the same class

monial Causes Act and true; but his mother
and yet had full control
its later permutation in was a sort of lady, as we
of the upper-class chil-
1891: know. Nothing would
dren, playing upon the
please me better than
fears of class uprising
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A. permitted women to see them two man

among the merchant limited divorce capabil- and wife.”’
and business classes.
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ity.
D. The only occupa- B. “That five minutes
B. allowed married
tion at which an un- of overhearing fur-
women to retain and
married middle-class nished Eustacia with vi-
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control their earned

woman could earn a sions enough to fill the
income.
living and maintain whole blank afternoon.
some claim to gentil- C. denied men conju- Such sudden alterna-
ity was that of a gov- gal rights to their wives’ tions from mental vacu-
erness, but a governess bodies without their ity do sometimes occur
could expect employ- wives’ consent. thus quietly. She could
ment insecurity, mini- never have believed in
D. Both A and C
mal wages, and an am- the morning that her
biguous status, some- 51. Victorian novels use colourless inner world
where between servant characterization to rep- would before night be-
and family member, resent class and rank. come as animated as
that isolated her within Which of the following water under a micro-
48. D 49. C 50. D

scope, and that without hierarchy and estab- B. expansion, industry,

the arrival of a single lished or official state modernization and fear
visitor. The words of religion (conservative). of the future.
Sam and Humphrey on
C. monsters, aliens,
the harmony between
C. writers (progres- and mythical beasts.
the unknown and her-
sive) and Patrons (con-
self had on her mind
servative).
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the effect of the invad- D. Greek and Roman
ing Bard’s prelude in D. All of these gods and goddesses.
the Castle of Indolence, 55. Animal magnetism was,
53. Sensation fiction relied
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at which myriads of im- according to Franz Mes-
upon emotional effect.
prisoned shapes arose mer, an invisible natu-
Which of the following
where had previously ral force exerted by ani-
helps to explain why?
appeared the stillness mals. What did Mesmer
of a void.” A. Women were of-
an
think this magnetism
ten the heroines, and could do?
C. “The subject of their
this helped the cause
discourse had been A. Attract poles of
of New Woman suf-
keenly interesting to magnetic force
fragettes.
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her. A young and clever
man was coming into B. The genre high- B. Describe the entan-
that lonely heath from, lighted architecture glement between man
of all contrasting places and ancient history, the and universe, the vital
in the world, Paris. It supernatural and the fluid or life force
was like a man com- sublime. C. Serve to attract ani-
an
ing from heaven. More mals for selective breed-

C. It served the inter-
singular still, the heath- ing, rather like natural
ests of the government
men had instinctively selection
by distracting the pub-
coupled her and this
lic from scandals of D. Electrify human be-
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man together in their

state. ings; he vowed never
minds as a pair born for
each other.” to use it for therapeutic
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D. The genre employed

a rigorous realism that purposes
D. All of these
catered to a contempo- 56. Monomania was a
52. At the very beginning rary “taste for the fac- frightening mental dis-
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of Victoria’s reign, pro- tual” while it nonethe- order for the Victorians
gressive and conserva- less titillated the public because:
tive schools of thought appetite for the exotic
were best characterized and renewed interest in A. it could strike with-
by: the science of the mind. out warning, like fever.
A. non-believers (pro-
54. Some tenets of gothic B. it was a form of par-
gressive) and believers
fiction include: tial insanity conceived
(conservative).
as single pathological
B. an emphasis on free- A. ruins, darkness, ro- preoccupation in an
dom of action (progres- mance, mystery, castles, otherwise sound mind-
sive) and belief in social and the sublime. and so could be hard to
51. D 52. B 53. D 54. A 55. B 56. B

detect in others or in setting, dress, and char- class women were to

one’s self. acter. provide:
C. it signaled infection D. means that texts A. moral and religious
with the lower classes must engage with polit- guidance for their hus-
and potential degenera- ical action. bands who must en-
tion and atavism. 59. Sensation novels were counter the world be-
er
not just entertainment; yond the home.
D. it primarily attacked
women and was related they also commented B. sexual pleasure or
to the reproductive sys- on social problems. gratification regardless
Elizabeth Braddon cre-
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tem. of the desire for chil-
ated dangerous, schem- dren or the continuance
57. There were several ing heroines embroiled of the family.
phases of the industrial in the complications of
revolution. In which the bigamy plot. Which C. a safe place of
an
combination are the of the following were “hearth and home” that
phases listed in correct these plots responding was free from the cor-
chronological order? to? ruption of market capi-
A. Textiles, Electricity, talism.
A. The divorce rights
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Railway and Steel of women against an ob- D. an income from la-
viously male-biased law bor performed outside
B. Railway and Steel,
that determined that, the home to supple-
Textiles, Information
while a wife’s adultery ment the middle-class
Technologies
was sufficient cause for way of life.
C. Railways and Steel, a divorce, a husband’s
an
Electricity and Chemi- adultery was insuffi- E. Both A and C

cals, Information Tech- cient cause F. Both A and C
nologies,
B. The dangerous and 61. An example of a bil-
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D. None of these scheming prostitutes of dungsroman novel

the Contagious Disease would be:
58. In the context of the
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Acts and the threat they

Victorian Novel, real- A. Thomas Hardy’s Re-
posed to the Victorian
ism:
family turn of the Native.
A. means that we ap- C. The political machi-
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B. Henry Mayhew’s
prove of the novel’s nations of the empire London Labor and the
practicality. during Victoria’s reign, London Poor.
B. refers to the materi- particularly as regards
British colonies C. Bram Stoker’s Drac-
ality of the text, that it ula.
is not digital and that it D. The property rights
does not exist only in of women against an ob- D. Charles Dickens’
the head but is “real.” viously male-biased law Great Expectations.
C. assumes that reality that determined only 62. Most Victorian nov-
inheres in the here and men could inherit els, including those by
now and emphasizes ac- 60. As part of their sep- Charles Dickens, repre-
curate descriptions of arate sphere, middle- sent women and men
57. C 58. C 59. A 60. E 60. F 61. D 62. A

functioning in “sepa- affected women in the monsters of history or

rate spheres.” What 19th century? of mythology
does this mean?
A. Abused Animals C. Dystopian narra-
A. Husbands and wives Act of 1823 tives of science gone-
had distinct, but com- B. The death of Prince wrong, super-strong
plementary, functions Albert in 1861 monsters, and beings
er
to perform. Women with unexplained pow-
were involved in the C. Contagious Dis- ers
work of the household- eases Acts of 1866 and
1869 D. “unexplained” phe-
care of the children,
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nomena, Spiritualism,
sewing, cooking, and D. George Eliot
communication with
cleaning. Men earned 64. What was the impor- the dead or with the
the money to purchase tance of The Married past, aspects of religion
goods needed by their Woman’s Property Act
an
households and de- of 1870?
bated matters of public 66. The railway and its
concern. A. It gave extensive faster pace of life of-
tracts of land to the ten worried Victorians,
B. The middle-class ac-
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husband, overturning a who feared it might
tually maintained two practice of matrilineal have an effect on the
different houses, one inheritance. nerves. Which of the
for all the women and
B. It gave married following passages
one for the men, much
women the right to from The Signalman
like they did in ancient
own property they ei- best illustrates the idea
Greece.
an
ther earned or acquired that “nerves” or senses

C. Separate spheres by inheritance. may be fooled or dis-
were created to pro- rupted?
C. It allowed the aris-
tect women and men
tocracy to own prop- A. “A disagreeable
y
from divorce; it meant

erty only if they were shudder crept over
that they rarely saw
married and had male me, but I did my best
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one another or spoke,

children. against it. It was not
so that disagreements
to be denied, I rejoined,
were minimized. D. It allowed women to
that this was a remark-
get a divorce.
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D. Men were encour- able coincidence, calcu-

aged to go to war or to 65. The term supernatural lated deeply to impress
sea, while women were meant many things to his mind. But, it was
encouraged to work in the Victorians. Which unquestionable that re-
the factories and take of the following BEST markable coincidences
up the slack of the describes Victorian su- did continually occur,
absent men. Women pernatural? and they must be taken
gained new powers and A. Stories of horror into account in dealing
equality from working and myth or “old wives with such a subject.”
in separate spheres. tales”
B. “The voice seemed
63. Which of the following B. Adventure stories hoarse with shouting,
is a legislative act that that often included and it cried, ‘Look out!
63. C 64. B 65. D

Look out!’ And then ing entity, gradually of the following best ex-
again ‘Halloa! Below became the authorized plains atavism?
there! Look out!’ I ruler of the vast Indian
A. It was the theory
caught up my lamp, subcontinent. Which of
that all persons could
turned it on red, and these most accurately
trace their origin to
ran towards the figure, described the reasons
Adam.
calling, ‘What’s wrong? for this shift?
er
What has happened? A. The Company was a B. It believed that
Where?”’ militant group that har- humans neither pro-
nessed the power of the gressed nor regressed,
C. “Punctual to my ap-
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navy to compete with but stayed the same
pointment, I placed my
the British nation. Af- throughout history-
p. 98foot on the first
ter taking control of the only technology
notch of the zig-zag
sea, they took control of changed.
next night, as the dis-
an
tant clocks were strik- the land. C. It was only applied
ing eleven. He was B. Britain did not have to non-white, non-
waiting for me at the firm imperial policies, British persons.
bottom, with his white so much activity de- D. It was the fear of
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light on. ‘I have not veloped in a semi- regression-if all hu-
called out,’ I said, when structured way. The mans had evolved from
we came close together; Company had vast primitive forms, then
‘may I speak now?”’ holdings and resources we could potentially re-
D. “Resisting the slow in India, and became turn to the primitive.
touch of a frozen fin- the primary gateway
an
ger tracing out my through which these

items traveled in and 69. The National Union of
spine, I showed him
out of the country. Women’s Suffrage So-
how that this figure
cieties served to pro-
must be a deception of C. The Company was
y
mote:
his sense of sight, and largely made up of
how that figures, orig- landed gentry from A. women’s equality in
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inating in disease of Britain who were the workplace.

the delicate nerves that elected to run the
B. the right to vote
minister to the func- colonies by their con-
for women in a non-
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tions of the eye, were stituents on the main-

violent manner by con-
known to have often land.
stitutional means.
troubled patients, some D. The Company held
of whom had become all the wealth of Britain C. an end to slavery.
conscious of the na- and threatened to D. None of these
ture of their affliction, bankrupt the nation
and had even proved it 70. “Country life” before in-
if they were not permit-
by experiments upon dustrialization was:
ted to rule their terri-
themselves.” tory. A. idyllic and easy,
67. The East India Trading 68. The theory of atavism characterized by
Company, which had arose alongside evolu- healthy, happy agrar-
been a powerful trad- tionary theory. Which ian workers.
66. D 67. B 68. D 69. B

B. politically problem- A. It is not important B. Complete non-

atic, characterized by to pay attention to resistance to the monar-
revolutionary senti- point of view, and nar- chy
ment. rative voice is only im-
C. Support for Jaco-
portant if it is a first
C. much better than bites
person narrator.
city life, characterized D. A conservative, re-
B. We identify better
er
by fresh air and nour- actionary group that fa-
ishing food. with first person narra- vored the aristocracy,
tors. whose power base was
D. hard and difficult,
the rural squirearchy
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characterized by harsh C. If it is an all-
conditions, malnour- knowing narrator, 75. Between 1850 and 1900,
ishment, and complete then the story will be approximately 1,200
dependence upon the “preachy” and moralis- “art” books were pro-
tic.
an
weather and seasonal duced in Britain. Given
harvest. D. Knowing who is that information, which
telling the story and of the following state-
71. Victorians were inter-
whether they have a ments is most accu-
ested in social justice,
rate?
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and therefore were complete or limited per-
likely to take action spective of the events A. The artist engraved
based upon perceived helps you understand his own white line il-
social wrongs. Which whether they are trust- lustrations on boxwood
of the following were worthy and reliable nar- blocks, and the artist-
programs instituted in rators of the story. engraver remained a
an
the Victorian period? 73. Which of the follow- common figure in book
ing mid-century phe- illustration until mid-
A. Chemistry, electric- century.
nomena led to the pop-
ity, engineering, and ar-
ularity of the sensation B. Most of the Victo-
chitecture
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novel? rian illustrations were

B. Empiricism, enlight- A. Tabloid journalism done with wood blocks.
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enment, and romanti-

cism B. Notorious trials
such as that of the poi- C. From mid-century,
C. Alcoholics Anony- soner Palmer two styles of wood-
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mous, the World Health block illustration occur,

Organization, and C. New weekly and the old vignette and the
NATO monthly (often illus- pen-and-ink drawing.
trated) literary maga-
D. Democracy, femi- zines D. All of the above
nism, unionization of statements are accurate
workers, socialism, and D. All of these descriptions of this art
Marxism 74. Which of the following book period.
best describes the Tory 76. The rise of the gov-
72. Why is it important to
political perspective? erness novel was:
pay attention to point of
view and narrative voice A. Hostility to dis- A. not a popular genre
when reading a novel? senters until the very end of the
70. D 71. D 72. D 73. D 74. D 75. D

19th century, long af- Charles Dickens’ novel but as matters stood, it
ter governesses were no Hard Times uses de- was a town of unnatu-
longer employed in the scription to provide a ral red and black like
average household. picture of the town and the painted face of a
the effects of progress. savage. It was a town
B. only written be-
Which of the following of machinery and tall
fore 1840, and only
passages best visualizes chimneys, out of which
by women who had
er
the consequences of in- interminable serpents
never been governesses
dustrialization? of smoke trailed them-
themselves, but who ro-
selves for ever and ever,
manced the genre and A. “The name of the
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and never got uncoiled.
made it more appealing. public-house was the
It had a black canal in
Pegasus’s Arms. The
it, and a river that ran
C. more often written Pegasus’s legs might
purple with ill-smelling
by men than women. have been more to the
dye, and vast piles of
an
purpose; but, under-
D. connected with the building full of win-
neath the winged horse
19th-century anxiety dows where there was
upon the sign-board,
concerning middle- a rattling and a trem-
the Pegasus’s Arms was
bling all day long, and
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class female employ- inscribed in Roman let-
ment in general, and where the piston of the
ters.”
governess work in par- steam-engine worked
ticular. B. “Before Mr. Bound- monotonously up and
erby could reply, a down, like the head of
77. The sensation novel an elephant in a state of
young man appeared
evolved out of tabloid melancholy madness. It
at the door, and intro-
an
journalism and the pub- contained several large

ducing himself with the
lic’s desire for novelty. streets all very like
words, ‘By your leaves,
They were related to one another, and many
gentlemen!’ walked in
the horror novel and small streets still more
with his hands in his
y
to the mystery novel. like one another, inhab-

pockets. His face, close-
Which of the follow- ited by people equally
shaven, thin, and sal-
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ing texts helped to first like one another, who

low, was shaded by a
make sensation fiction all went in and out at
great quantity of dark
popular with “sensa- the same hours, with
hair, brushed into a roll
tion mania”?
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all round his head, and the same sound upon

A. Wilkie Collins’ parted up the centre. the same pavements, to
Woman in White His legs were very ro- do the same work, and
bust, but shorter than to whom every day was
B. Robert Louis Steven-
legs of good propor- the same as yesterday
son’s Jekyll and Hyde
tions should have been.” and to-morrow, and ev-
C. Elizabeth Braddon’s ery year the counter-
Lady Audley’s Secret part of the last and the
C. “It was a town of next.”
D. All of these red brick, or of brick
78. The Victorian novel of- that would have been D. “‘Very well,’ said
ten depicts the prob- red if the smoke and Bounderby. ‘I was born
lems of Victorian life. ashes had allowed it; in a ditch, and my
76. D 77. A 78. C

mother ran away from suppose I have a consid- just leaving the stile;
me. Do I excuse her erable organ of venera- yet, as the path was
for it? No. Have I tion, for I retain yet the narrow, I sat still to let
ever excused her for it? sense of admiring awe it go by. In those days
Not I. What do I call with which my eyes I was young, and all
her for it? I call her traced her steps. Seen sorts of fancies bright
probably the very worst now, in broad daylight, and dark tenanted my
er
woman that ever lived she looked tall, fair, and mind: the memories of
in the world, except my shapely; brown eyes nursery stories were
drunken grandmother.”’ with a benignant light there amongst other
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in their irids, and a rubbish; and when they
79. The Industrial Revolu- fine pencilling of long recurred, maturing
tion may be best de- lashes round.” youth added to them
fined as: a vigour and vividness
B. “Ravenous, and now beyond what childhood
an
A. the conflict between very faint, I devoured a could give.”
the rich and the poor spoonful or two of my
classes of England, sim- D. “Something of day-
portion without think-
ilar to the French Revo- light still lingered, and
ing of its taste; but
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lution. the moon was wax-
the first edge of hunger
ing bright: I could see
B. the combined con- blunted, I perceived I
him plainly. His figure
flicts of Afghanistan had got in hand a nau-
was enveloped in a rid-
and India that resulted seous mess; burnt por-
ing cloak, fur collared
in the loss of land hold- ridge is almost as bad as
and steel clasped; its
ings for Britain. rotten potatoes; famine
an
details were not ap-

itself soon sickens over
C. the invention of the parent, but I traced
it. The spoons were
steam engine. the general points of
moved slowly: I saw
middle height and con-
D. the vast social and each girl taste her food
y
siderable breadth of
economic changes that and try to swallow it;
chest. He had a dark
resulted from the de- but in most cases the
face, with stern fea-
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velopment of steam- effort was soon relin-

tures and a heavy brow;
powered machinery quished. Breakfast was
his eyes and gathered
and mass-production over, and none had
eyebrows looked ireful
methods. breakfasted. Thanks be-
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and thwarted just now;

ing returned for what
80. Like Dickens, Bronte he was past youth, but
we had not got, and a
uses realism and so- had not reached middle-
second hymn chanted,
cial comparison to cri- age; perhaps he might
the refectory was evac-
tique society and injus- be thirty-five.”
uated for the school-
tice. Which of the fol-
room.” 81. In the novel Jane Eyre,
lowing passages best re-
the governess-heroine
flects this technique?
C. “The din was on the falls in love with her
A. “While the direction causeway: a horse was employer, but knows
was being executed, the coming; the windings that she would be
lady consulted moved of the lane yet hid it, but wrong to tell him.
slowly up the room. I it approached. I was Which of the follow-
79. D 80. B 81. A

ing describes why such D. Better schools and a within the nation’s bor-
a confession would be greater emphasis on ed- ders.
wrong? ucation
D. The mercantilists
A. As a woman of 83. Gothic novels often re- advocated in theory,
lower class with no fer to the “sublime” and sought in prac-
money of her own, Jane or “sublime feelings.” tice, trade monopolies
is considered far be- Which best defines this
er
which would insure
neath her employer and term? that Britain’s exports
such a match would be would exceed its im-
thought degrading and A. Tenderness and af-
ports.
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shameful. fection evoked by beau-
tiful objects 85. The theory of Social
B. Women are consid- Darwinism was primar-
ered emotional crea- B. Feelings character-
ily influenced by the
tures, and so there is no ized by smallness, del-
work of Charles Dar-
an
reason for Jane to hide icacy, and smoothness
win. Which of the fol-
her feelings. That she lowing is also true?
does so is one of the C. Emotions generated
mysteries of the text. A. Darwin was primar-
by objects that were
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ily interested in pre-
C. Rochester is already vast, magnificent, and
serving the concept of
married and so Jane is obscure
superior races.
not meant to take his
D. Spiritually superior
proposals seriously. B. Lombroso and Dar-
and without moral fail-
D. Jane’s training at win worked on the the-
ings
ory of Social Darwin-
an
Lowood makes her

calm, quiet, meek and 84. The first British Empire ism together.
without personal will was a mercantile one.
C. The theory of Social
or desire. It would be Which of the following
Darwinism developed
best explains the mer-
y
against her nature to from philosophies de-

reveal her love for him. cantile perspective of
rived from Darwin’s
empire?
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theory of evolution,
82. The slow decline of the A. A profitable balance and did not reflect the
British Empire and the of trade, it was be- work of Darwin himself.
rise of foreign powers lieved, would provide
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led to which of the fol- the wealth, but simul-

D. Freud heavily influ-
lowing? taneously shrink the
enced Lombroso’s work
A. Fear of the “other” empire, meaning fewer
on the evolution and de-
and of the degeneration colonies.
volution of human be-
of British people B. Textiles were going ings.
B. Greater economic to be the product of the
86. Imperialist foreign poli-
policies favoring future, more important
cies invoked paternal-
women and minorities than crops.
istic and (erroneous)
C. Better foreign pol- C. Trade was unimpor- racial theories based
icy and stronger leader- tant; the wealth of the partly on evolution. Au-
ship nation should be kept thor Rudyard Kipling
82. A 83. C 84. D 85. C

refers to this biased Im- are some of the major from Dracula? “The
perialist viewpoint as problems encountered Count is a criminal and
“the white man’s bur- by governesses? of criminal type [ ]
den.” Which of the A. Outbreaks of plague and qua criminal he
following best explains and other epidemics is of an imperfectly
this phrase and its as- that affect small chil- formed mind. Thus, in
sumptions? dren a difficulty he has to
er
seek resource in habit.
A. The phrase sug- B. Excessive distances His past is a clue, and
gested that women to travel between home the one page of it that
were largely responsi- and work
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we know, and that from
ble for causing prob-
C. Suitors from the his own lips, tells that
lems in the empire,
upper classes seeking once before, when in
particularly between
their hand in marriage what Mr. Morris would
racialized groups.
call a ’tight place,’ he
an
or attempting to ar-
B. The phrase meant range marriages for went back to his own
that British people them country from the land
should trade with their he had tried to invade,
D. Long hours, little and thence, without los-
non-white neighbors,
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pay, enormous respon- ing purpose, prepared
treating them largely as
sibilities with almost no himself for a new effort.
equals in the mercantile
actual power, problem- He came again better
economy.
atic relations with em- equipped for his work,
C. It implied that the ployer and under-staff and won. So he came to
empire was like a child London to invade a new
an
and should be cared 88. Which of the following land. He was beaten,
for by the larger com- lists represents novel and when all hope of
munity of nations sur- forms ALL present dur- success was lost, and
rounding it. ing the Victorian pe- his existence in danger,
y
D. The implication was riod? he fled back over the

that the Empire ex- A. Bildungsroman, sea to his home. Just
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isted not for the ben- feminist novel, anti- as formerly he had fled
efit of Britain itself, bellum novel back over the Danube
but in order that so- from Turkey Land.”
B. Sensation novel,
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called “primitive” peo- A. Sigmund Freud

adaptation, superhero
ples could be “civilized”
novel
(and Christianized) by B. Herbert Spencer
serving Britain. C. Detective novel,
C. Cesare Lombroso
new woman novel,
87. Many well-educated gothic Novel D. Carl Jung
young women from
poorer families be- D. Empty-center novel, 90. In the novels of Char-
came governesses, in- magical realism novel, lotte Bronte and
cluding novelist Char- poetic novel Charles Dickens, re-
lotte Bronte. However, 89. Which of the following alism is frequently used
Bronte did not recom- theorists is being refer- in scenes where the
mend this work. What enced in this passage protagonist encounters
86. D 87. D 88. C 89. C 90. A

challenging situations. his mind degenerates so ones) are often incor-

In what ways does this that he looks, acts, and porated into fiction.
represent a challenge speaks more like an an- Which of the following
to accepted “norms” of imal. passages from The Sign
the period? C. Mr. Hyde is much of Four demonstrate
A. By using realistic craftier than the doctor the imperialistic and
details to contrast the is. frequently race-driven
er
lives of the extremely fear of non-British peo-
D. no one can tell that ple?
wealthy to the struggles the two men are one in
of the poor but virtu- the same. A. “They were tall,
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ous hero, these authors fierce-looking chaps,
point out social prob- Mahomet Singh and Ab-
ing best explains “The
lems and inequalities. dullah Khan by name,
Woman Question”?
B. Most people still both old fighting-men
an
A. Originally asked who had borne arms
read traditional poetry
by Henry Mayhew, it against us at Chilian-
and French romance
raised concerns about wallah. They could talk
novels, so representing
women in the work- English pretty well, but
real characters chal-
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place, fearing that mar- I could get little out of
lenged the reading
ket capitalism would them. They preferred
habits of Victorians.
tarnish their virtue. to stand together and
C. Challenging situ- jabber all night in their
B. Originally asked
ations are more diffi- queer Sikh lingo.”
by Charlotte Bronte,
cult to read than happy
it asked why women B. “He was a good-
ones, so realism is used
an
were not allowed to run sized, powerful man,

to make the story more
schools or to educate and as he stood pois-
interesting in those
the very young. ing himself with legs
challenging chapters.
C. Originally asked astride I could see that
y
by Josephine Butler, from the thigh down-

D. Dickens and Bronte
it primarily concerned wards there was but
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used realism to make

venereal disease and a wooden stump upon
the story seem far more
the Contagious Disease the right side.”
complex than it really
Acts.
was. C. “At the sound of his
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91. The Strange Case of Dr. D. Originally asked by strident, angry cries
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde re- Mary Wollstonecraft in there was movement
flects Victorian fears of the 18th century, it in the huddled bun-
atavism and concepts of raised awareness about dle upon the deck. It
criminal anthropology inequality and encour- straightened itself into
because: aged women to obtain a a little black man-the
proper education and to smallest I have ever
A. the case revolves be allowed entrance to seen-with a great, mis-
around a medical and public debates and the shapen head and a
scientific experiment. public sphere. shock of tangled, di-
B. Dr. Jekyll changes 93. Concepts about evolu- sheveled hair. Holmes
in his appearance as tion (even erroneous had already drawn his
91. B 92. D 93. C

revolver, and I whipped B. Increasing industri- the novel presents the

out mine at the sight alization plot).
of this savage, dis-
C. Changing gender D. chronological set-
torted creature. He was
roles and the concept ting (the time in history
wrapped in some sort
of “separate spheres” when the story takes
of dark ulster or blan-
place) and place (the
ket, which left only D. All of these
location in which the
er
his face exposed; but 95. Victorianism is best story takes place).
that face was enough characterized by which
to give a man a sleep- 97. Many Victorian novels
of the following?
were serialized, or pub-
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less night. Never have I
seen features so deeply A. Being “prudish,” “re- lished in small pieces in
marked with all bes- pressed,” and “old fash- magazines or journals.
tiality and cruelty. His ioned” Some reasons for doing
small eyes glowed and B. The notion that one so include which of the
an
burned with a som- person cannot better following?
bre light, and his thick himself or his environ- A. It allowed authors
lips were writhed back ment to build an audience
from his teeth, which through anticipation,
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C. The birth of Agnos-
grinned and chattered and it also enabled au-
ticism and a disdain for
at us with a half animal thors to respond to
morality
fury.” the response of read-
D. A sense of social re- ers, occasionally trying
D. “‘It is nothing
sponsibility, a basic atti- new strategies if the
against the fort,’ said he.
tude that obviously dif- reception was not good
an
‘We only ask you to do

ferentiates them from enough.
that which your coun-
their immediate prede-
trymen come to this B. It was problematic
cessors, the Romantics
land for. We ask you to to produce the entire
y
be rich. If you will be book because authors

one of us this night, we 96. The two basic aspects often ran out of paper,
will swear to you upon of setting are:
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which slowed the pro-

the naked knife, and A. pace (the speed at duction process.
by the threefold oath which the story is told) C. It was one way
which no Sikh was ever and variation (the ups of becoming wealthy
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known to break, that and downs of the plot through writing.

you shall have your fair structure).
share of the loot. A D. Authors often were
quarter of the treasure B. city (the primary too preoccupied by the
shall be yours. We can city in which the story busy Victorian lifestyle
say no fairer.”’ takes place) and coun- to write sustained prose
try (the primary nation and so this allowed
94. The Victorian Era was in which the story takes them to write whole
characterized by which place). novels on the short-
of the following?
C. plot (what happens story clock.
A. Rapid expansion of in a story), and struc- 98. The realities of Victo-
the British Empire ture (the order in which rian life often offered
94. D 95. D 96. D 97. A

contextual material household sphere, they B. A false-god, an

for Victorian novels. were considered more idol who was really a
Which of the following “natural” for them. femme-fatale and who
statements is true. should be avoided
D. The working con-
A. Charles Dickens ditions for needlework C. A woman who
worked as a coal miner, were very good and vowed to wear only
which influenced his white, as a symbol of
er
governesses were well
writing of Hard Times. paid. purity, and who like-
wise vowed never to
B. Charlotte Bronte 100. Imperialism has a leave the house where
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worked as a governess, problematic definition she lived, but directed
which influenced her in the Victorian period. family affairs from the
writing of Jane Eyre. Though it traditionally drawing room
C. Thomas Hardy means the formal an-
D. A pure woman who
an
worked as a fisherman, nexation of territory,
the “new imperialism” was the moral and spiri-
which influenced his
of Victoria’s reign actu- tual center of the house,
writing of Return of the
ally meant: who never went out
Native.
in the urban setting
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D. Henry Mayhew was A. a feeling of national- or mixed in the pub-
a lawyer who worked ism and pride in being lic, whose mission was
in chancery court, British and in claiming to fight against the
which influenced his other parts as British, immoral influence the
writing of Bleak House. spurred by a fear of los- femme fatale and mar-
ing markets. ket capitalism
an
99. Single women of mid- B. anti-annexation and 102. There were contradic-
dle and upper classes a giving back of claimed tory images of wom-
could work as either territories. anhood in the Victo-
governesses or seam- rian period, particularly
y
stresses. Why were C. a feeling of satisfac-

as it concerns female
these specific positions tion and peace, the well-
sexuality. What were
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open to them? being of the nation and

the two poles between
a focus on the home.
A. They were easier which women were of-
and better-paid pro- D. a desire to increase ten trapped?
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fessions than being a democracy and capital- A. Woman of means

writer or artist. ism. and of poverty
B. Dressmaking was 101. A woman as “the an- B. Pedant and fool
considered very fash- gel of the house” is best
ionable and being a described by which of C. Domestic wife and
governess meant you the following? femme fatale
had better chances of A. A midwife or nurse, D. Hysteric and cold
finding a husband. a woman who did not fish
C. Because they resem- marry but who served 103. Plot and structure are
bled roles that a woman married women in their very important to the
might have in the time of need Victorian novel. Which
98. B 99. C 100. A 101. D 102. C 103. A

of these statements is happens in a story, prising the book itself.

most accurate? and plot is the order
A. Plot is what hap- in which the novel
D. Plot always has a
pens in a story, and presents the structure.
single narrator, while
structure is the order C. Plot is the pace at structure may be ex-
in which the novel which things happen, pressed by several nar-
presents the plot.
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and structure is the rators.
B. Structure is what number of pages com-
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16. African-American Literature
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an
Ch
1. The back to Africa 3. Slavery in the United C. Progressive and
movement was primar- States was officially challenging.
ily about: abolished in D. Abolitionist in sub-
A. Bringing African A. 1804 ject.
an
culture to the United 6. In "125th Street and

B. 1865
States. Abomey," Audre Lorde
C. 1848 references images from
B. Leaving the African
peoples alone. D. 1807
y
C. Writers who took 4. What source did David A. African mythology.

Walker rely on the most
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African themes for their B. African American

work. for support in "Appeal folktale.
in Four Articles"?
D. Completing an op- C. Greek mythology.
A. The Bible.
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pressed people’s quest

D. Contemporary fe-
for freedom, liberty and B. Greek history. male artists.
democracy.
C. Slave narratives. 7. Why did Marcus Gar-
2. What is the character of
D. Abolitionist news- vey spearhead the
Delia most of afraid of
papers. "Back to Africa Move-
in Zora Neale Hurston’s
ment"?
"Sweat"? 5. Phillis Wheatley’s po-
etry is considered: A. Because in was
A. Rabid dogs.
cheaper to live in Africa.
B. Her husband. A. Highly original.
C. Snakes. B. Typical of Colonial B. Because he did not

poetry. feel African Americans
D. Bertha.
1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B
398 Chapter 16. African-American Literature
would ever achieve 11. The characteristic of A. Captivity narratives.

equality in America. Naturalism that is most
present in the first chap-
B. Abolitionist newspa-
ter of Ralph Ellison’s In-
C. He was asked by per accounts.
visible Man is:
African countries to
bring African Ameri- C. Folktales.
A. The theme of man
cans to Africa. against nature.
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D. African mythology.
D. He had to leave the B. The theme of man 15. Who is the author of
country. against man. the novel Passing?
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8. Why does Dee want the C. The theme of hered- A. William Wells
quilt in Alice Walker’s ity. Brown
"Everyday Use"?
D. Nature as an invisi- B. Nella Larsen.
A. She is proud of her
ble force.
an
heritage. C. Charles Chesnutt
12. Brer Rabbit is an exam-
B. She doesn’t want D. James Weldon John-
ple of what kind of char-
Maggie to have it. son
acter?
Ch
C. She wants to display 16. In writing Beloved,
it for her friends to see. A. Trickster
Toni Morrison drew on
B. Victim what for inspiration?
D. She loves the beauty C. Representation of A. Her own memories
of it. the slave master of slavery.
9. The "tragic mulatto"
an
D. "Uncle Tom" charac- B. Stories her grand-

myth: mother told her.
ter who feels slavery
A. Led to novels of is best for the African
C. The television series
passing. American
Roots.
y
B. Existed only in fic- 13. Which of the following

D. Slave narratives.
tion by White authors. statements about slav-
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ery is true? 17. Alice Walker’s story,

C. Developed in the "Everyday Use," in-
A. Most slave children cludes which "Wom-
20th century. lived in two-family
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anist" concern?
D. Existed only in fic- homes.
tion by female authors. A. The importance of
B. Slave owners did not men to the African
allow their slaves to live American family.
10. In Jean Toomer’s "Her as married couples.
Lips Are Copper Wires," B. The negative conse-
C. Slaves were given quences of feminism on
a kiss is compared to:
limited civil rights. the African American
A. A waterfall.
D. Most slaves were family.
B. Electricity. not Christian. C. The importance of
C. A war. 14. Slave narratives were African religious influ-
D. A factory. shaped by: ence in America.
8. C 9. A 10. B 11. B 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. D 17. B 18. B

D. The importance C. Allowed African B. The carved masks of

of African American American authors to African gods.
craftsmanship. sell their works more
C. Characters from the
18. African American di- widely to white audi-
Bible.
alects grew out of: ences
D. Who the narrator
A. The 1960s protest D. Showed that wishes to be.
African Americans
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movements 24. W.E.B. Du Bois accuses
couldn’t speak properly.
B. The attempts of Booker T. Washington
African slaves to com- of being:
21. In Chapter Three of
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municate with each A. A Christian.
other Booker T. Washing-
ton’s Up from Slavery, B. A radical.
C. Slave owners teach- Washington’s primary
ing slaves Elizabethan C. An accomodationist.
goal is to:
an
English
A. Get an education.
D. Slaves’ attempts to D. A coward.
keep their conversa- B. Get a job. 25. For Booker T. Wash-
tions secret C. To be clean. ington, racial uplift
Ch
19. The supportive net- means:
D. To be a teacher.
work of female slaves A. Rejecting all White
22. What was the Great Mi-
led to: assistance.
gration?
A. Resistance to the B. Allowing Whites to
A. A period of time
overseers. help African Americans
an
when African Ameri-

B. Learning to be mid- to reach their potential.
cans moved North in
wives. large numbers.
C. Calling for violent
C. Resistance against B. When African
uprisings.
y
dehumanization. Americans settled

Liberia. D. Separating Blacks
D. Lower suicide rates.
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by income level.
C. When slaves trav-
eled the Underground 26. In Lucille Clifton’s
20. Some critics argue that
Railroad. "wishes for son," the
the use of dialect by
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narrator lists what

such authors as Paul D. When African wishes her sons?
Laurence Dunbar and Americans migrated
Charles Chesnutt did to the South from the A. That they learn
all of the following ex- North. from her mistakes.
cept: B. That they have
23. The mask in Paul Lau-
A. Strengthened the rence Dunbar’s poem, richer lives than hers.
African American’s "We Wear the Mask," C. That they have all
place in the world of represents: they ever wished for
literature themselves.
A. The persona that
B. Perpetuated stereo- the characters show the D. That they experi-
types world. ence all the pain and
19. C 20. D 21. A 22. A 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D

embarrassment of be- A. Explain how D. Insistence on deseg-

ing a woman. African Americans regation.
could not learn stan- 32. Richard Wright said he
27. Booker T. Washing-
dard English created the character of
ton’s message in Up
from Slavery is: B. Make his written in- Bigger in Native Son be-
accessible to white au- cause:
A. Whites should pay diences
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reparations to former A. He had known
slaves. C. To encourage feel- many "Biggers" in his
ings of pride in African life.
B. African Americans American readers
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B. He was trying to
should acculturate to
D. Challenge Ameri- overcome his fears of
mainstream White cul-
can stereotypes about powerful men.
ture.
race C. He was proud of all
C. White institutions
an
30. Which of the follow- the African American
should reform to meet men he had seen stand
ing authors was not of
African American up to Whites.
mixed race heritage?
needs.
A. Jean Toomer D. He wanted to show
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D. African Americans African American
will have to help them- B. Charles Chesnutt
males how not to live.
selves by becoming ed- C. Booker T. Washing- 33. According to Henry
ucated. ton Louis Gates, Jr., recon-
28. Although different D. Frederick Douglass structing black people
in tone, Soujourner into the "New Negro"
an
31. Neo-Slave narratives

Truth’s "Ain’t I a are contemporary nov- has been a matter of:
Woman" and David els written about slav- A. Redefining black
Walker’s "Appeal in ery. Toni Morrison’s people in terms of a
Four Articles" are simi-
y
Beloved is about the presence, not an ab-

lar in what way? ghost of a baby the char- sence.
acter Sethe murdered
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A. Their belief in nec- B. Working against the

essary violence. to keep her from be-
existing racist stereo-
ing recaptured by their
B. Their belief that types.
master. The opening
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women should have chapter of the novel rep- C. A struggle ongoing

equal rights. resents the neo-slave since 1619.
C. Their appeals to narrative by its: D. All of the above
Christians. A. Discussion of race 34. During the early 20th
D. Their belief that relations in the North century, a black per-
African Americans and South. son’s purpose in pass-
should govern them- B. Condemnation of ing might have been:
selves. the plantation myth. A. To obtain justice for
29. Charles W. Chesnutt C. Examination of the black people.
used vernacular speech psychological damage B. To get better accom-
to: of slavery. modations on the train,
27. D 28. C 29. D 30. C 31. C 32. A 33. D 34. B

better seats in the the- C. African American 41. In Octavia Butler’s

atre. toasting on a city street "Bloodchild," The Tlick
corner. keep the humans happy
C. To escape from slav-
by:
ery. D. Blues being played
D. None of the above. in a Harlem bar. A. Supplying them
with narcotic eggs.
35. What unforgivable ac- 38. In Chapter XV of Inci-
er
tion does Mag Smith dents in the Life of a B. Letting them choose
take in Chapter One of Slave Girl, where did their own mates.
Our Nig? Linda hide? C. Freeing the males af-
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A. She tries to pass as A. Under the floor- ter they are hosts.
White. boards. D. Paying them very
B. She washes clothes B. With a friend. well.
an
for White women. 42. Until recent years it
C. In the stables.
C. She lets a man help was thought that Har-
her out. D. In a remote cabin. riet Jacob’s Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl
D. She marries a Black 39. In Gwendolyn Brooks’
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was:
man. poem, "kitchenette
36. In the United States, Re- building," what is most A. Based on a New
construction: important to the build- England captivity nar-
ing’s inhabitants? rative.
A. Is the time period
that followed the Civil A. Having a bathroom B. An anonymous nar-
an
War. with warm water. rative.
B. Describes the re- B. Following one’s C. Fiction written by

building after World dreams. Lydia Maria Child.
War I.
y
C. Getting food on the D. Written by Jacob’s

C. Refers to the Civil table. son.
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Rights movement. 43. In Nella Larsen’s novel

D. Finding a mate.
D. Took place only in Passing, why is Clare
the North. 40. W.E.B. Du Bois argued afraid to have another
that a liberal arts col-
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child?
37. The narrator of lege education was
Langston Hughes’s needed for: A. She almost died in
"Weary Blues" is de- childbirth with her first
scribing: A. The "Talented child.
Tenth."
A. Negro spirituals be- B. She doesn’t want to
ing sung in the cotton B. All African Ameri- lose her figure.
fields. cans.
C. Her husband has
B. The call and re- C. African American threatened to leave her.
sponse of an African women.
American church con-
gregation. D. Only White Ameri- D. She is afraid it may
cans. have dark skin.
35. D 36. A 37. D 38. B 39. A 40. A 41. A 42. C 43. D 44. B
44. Who introduced the A. Betrayal by the edu- 51. Etheridge Knight’s
character of the "tragic cational system. "Hard Rock Returns
mulatto"? B. Betrayal by her sis- to Prison from the Hos-
ter. pital for the Criminal
A. William Wells
Insane," what is Hard
Brown C. Betrayal by her com- Rock’s function in the
B. Lydia Maria Child munity. prison?
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C. Harriet Jacobs D. Betrayal by a family A. To help the other in-
member. mates escape.
D. Harriet Beecher 48. Who wrote Incidents in
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Stowe B. To win money by
the Life of a Slave Girl?
fighting.
45. In what way is Jane A. Lucy Terry
Toomer’s Cane an ex- C. To do what the
ample of Modernism? B. William Wells other inmates were
an
Brown afraid to do.
A. Its fractured, collage
effect. C. Harriet Wilson D. To keep the Blacks
D. Harriet Jacobs and Whites separated.
B. Its insistence on plot.
Ch
49. What does the term 52. Why is the couple in
"passing" mean? Arna Bontemps’s "A
C. Its focus on land-
A. The ability of an Summer Tragedy" get-
scape.
African American to ting dressed up?
D. Its focus on modern live as a White person. A. To go to a party.
city life.
B. To do well on one’s
an
B. To go pay old man

46. Race relations in the schoolwork.
Stevenson.
North are attacked in:
C. To leave one’s past
C. To end their lives.
A. Harriet Jacob’s Inci- behind.
y
dents in the Life of a D. To gain approval D. To go to church.

Slave Girl. from one’s community. 53. Which is not a charac-
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B. Harriet Wilson’s teristic of Realism?

Our Nig. 50. Sonia Sanchez’s "right A. Characters are not
on: white america" is as important as plot.
C. William Wells
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protesting:
Brown’s Clotel.
B. Presentation is ob-
A. The extermination
D. Toni Morrison’s jective.
of Native Americans.
Beloved.
B. That there is a Black C. Ordinary language
47. Alice Walker’s nov- America and a White is used.
els often explore the America. D. Events are plausible.
abuse experienced
by African American C. Black on black vio-
women. What is the lence. 54. The theme of Phillis
only abuse Celie does D. The fact that Amer- Wheatley’s "On Being
not experience The ica still has a frontier Brought from Africa to
Color Purple? mentality. America" is:
45. A 46. B 47. B 48. D 49. A 50. D 51. C 52. C 53. A 54. A
A. Slaves are capable of A. To keep the slave 60. Native Son was written
becoming good Chris- offspring of White slave by:
tians. owners from inheriting.
A. Jean Toomer.
B. Slaves should rebel
B. To allow mixed-race B. Richard Wright.
against the Christian re-
ligion. children to get scholar- C. Ralph Ellison.
ships meant for African
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C. Slaves are the chil- D. James Baldwin.
Americans.
dren of Cain.
C. To make sure moth- 61. The genre Octavia But-
D. Christians should ler’s "Bloodchild" is:
ers of mixed-race chil-
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free their slaves.
dren got custody. A. Mystery.
55. What was special
about Zora Neale D. To keep White B. Science Fiction.
Hurston’s home town slave owner parents
C. Horror.
an
of Eatonville, Florida? of mixed-race offspring
from having to pay for D. Tragedy.
A. It was home to the their children.
Harlem Renaissance. 62. According to Larry
58. One of the functions of Neal, the primary goal
Ch
B. Most of its inhabi- protest poetry was to: of the Black Arts Move-
tants worked for White A. Urge African Amer- ment is:
people. icans to fight their op-
A. To speak to the spir-
C. It was primarily pressors.
itual and cultural needs
African American. B. Encourage societies of African Americans.
strive for equality for
an
D. It was destroyed af-

B. To raise awareness
ter the Civil War. all.
of violence in African
56. The fact that Claude C. Extol the virtues of American youth.
McKay visited Russia in living in the free North.
C. To support the Back
y
1922 exemplifies the fol-

lowing theme of Mod- to Africa Movement.
D. Argue that slavery
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ernism: was not so bad for ev- D. To raise money for

A. Collectivism versus eryone. Sickle Cell Anemia re-
the authority of the in- search.
59. In Ralph Ellison’s Invis-
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dividual. ible Man, living under- 63. The most important

B. The wearing away ground is symbolic of: tenet of the Black Arts
of traditional class Movements is:
A. The narrator’s at-
structures. tempt to stay hidden. A. African American
C. The impact of WWI B. The narrator’s de- art should exclude
and the 1918 Bolshevik sire to be safe. women.
Revolution in Russia. B. African American
C. The narrator’s invis-
D. The disassociated, ibility to society. images should inspire
anomic self. African Americans.
D. The narrator’s at-
57. Why was the "drop of tempt to stay out of C. African American
blood" rule developed? prison. art should subvert the
55. C 56. C 57. A 58. B 59. C 60. B 61. B 62. A 63. B

art of Europeans and spirituals for all of the A. The scene invokes
White Americans. following reasons ex- audience sympathy.
cept:
D. African American B. The heroine has to
literature should repli- A. To impress the hor- balance autonomy with
cate educated White rors of slavery on listen- self-denial.
language. ers
C. The heroine con-
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64. In the poem "When B. To ease their pain quers her passions.
Malindy Sings," Paul
Laurence Dunbar uses C. To pray for deliver- D. A and B
irony and caricature ance
E. B and C
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to "signify" on white D. To show that they 70. Harriet Jacob’s slave
assumptions about were content in their narrative Incidents
African Americans. work in the Life differs
What does Henry Louis
an
67. Who wrote Uncle from Harriet Beecher
Gate’s term "signify"
Tom’s Cabin, an indict- Stowe’s abolitionist
mean?
ment of slavery? novel Uncle Tom’s
A. Giving words dou- Cabin in what way?
A. Harriet Beecher
ble meaning that ap-
Ch
Stowe A. Stowe’s novel is sen-
pear differently to
timental.
white and black readers. B. Richard Wright
B. Stowe describes the
C. Frederick Douglass
B. Fixing words with treatment of slaves.
D. Phillis Wheatley
very specific meanings. C. Stowe describes the
an
68. Which characteristic of escape of slaves.

the slave narrative did
C. Making sure that D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Frederick Douglass in-
what is written makes was used by abolition-
clude in the first chap-
sense. ists.
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ter of his Narrative?

D. Lying to mislead the 71. "The Day Duke Raised"
A. Narration of a de-
reader. by Quincy Troupe is a
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served punishment.
65. Who wrote one of the jazz poem because:
most famous African B. Depictions of a beau-
A. The poem’s rhyth-
American poems that tiful rural environment.
mic lines.
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begins with "what hap-

pens to a dream de- B. The references to
C. Descriptions of the
ferred"? jazz songs and musi-
kinds of food and cloth-
cians.
A. Alice Walker ing slaves were given.
C. The poem can be set
B. Etheridge Knight D. The author’s father
to music.
is often a white man.
C. Martin Luther King, D. There is repetition.
Jr. 69. In Chapter XV of
William Wells Brown’s 72. Which author relied
D. Langston Hughes Clotel, what character- on complex characters
66. Frederick Douglass ar- istic of the sentimental and dialect to overturn
gued that slaves sang novel is evident? American stereotypes
64. A 65. D 66. D 67. A 68. D 69. D 70. A 71. A 72. C

about Southern African B. In order for people 78. The subject of Sou-
Americans? to believe the events in journer Truth’s "Ain’t I
the narratives. a Woman" is:
A. William Wells
Brown C. So that slave owners A. Women’s rights.
could refute the events B. Negro rights.
B. Richard Wright
in the narratives.
C. Charles Chesnutt C. The right to keep
er
D. So that the author one’s children.
D. Booker T. Washing- could be assured he
ton wouldn’t be recaptured. D. The rights of farm
hands.
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73. Although Charles John-
son’s Oxherding Tales 75. In Chapter 11 of The E. A and B.
is based on his Buddhist Autobiography of Mal- 79. All of the following are
beliefs, he meant the colm X, how does Mal- characteristics of the
novel to be a reworking colm X survive prison? African American tradi-
of an American genre,
the slave narrative. In
what way is the novel,
despite its philosophi- anA. Getting an educa-
tion.
B. Fighting.
tion of the toast except:
A. Toasting is oral
B. Toasting is a male
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cal underpinnings, an C. Making friends with event
exemplar of the slave the guards. C. Toasting glorifies
narrative? women
D. Contacting famous
A. Its character’s move- authors. D. Toasting provides
ment from slavery to 76. In Nikki Giovanni’s cultural identification
an
freedom. "The American Vision 80. The term "Civil Disobe-

B. Its emphasis on of Lincoln," the poet dience" was coined by
Christian ideals. argues that the Capi- which author?
tol needs a statue of A. William Gates
C. The novel’s sensa-
y
next to the one of

tionalist scenes of vio- Abraham Lincoln. B. Henry David
lence. Thoreau
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A. W.E.B. DuBois
D. Its didactic (teach- C. Booker T. Washing-
ing) tone of voice. B. Amiri Baraka ton
74. Why was it important C. Booker T. Washing-
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D. Alain Locke
that slave narratives ton
81. The importance of Free-
have a title page that D. Frederick Douglass dom’s Journal was:
claimed either that the 77. Sekou Sundiata is con-
narrative was written A. It was the first
sidered what kind of African American
by the narrator him- poet?
self (or his words were novel.
recorded by someone A. A Modernist poet B. It was the first
close to him, preferably B. A performance poet African American
white)? newspaper.
A. So the author could C. A classical poet C. It was published by
get paid. Frederick Douglass.
D. A traditional poet
73. A 74. B 75. A 76. D 77. B 78. E 79. C 80. B 81. B

D. It argued for a sepa- of the spell put on the C. How females were
rate African American grapes? affected by slavery.
community in America.
A. To describe the hor- D. That female slaves
rors of life on the Post- were more valuable
82. In Chapter XV of bellum plantation. than male slaves.
William Wells Brown’s
B. To explain his reli- 89. What is the subject of
Clotel, why was Clotel
er
gious views. Lucille Clifton’s "the
made to cut her long
hair? C. To amuse the narra- lost baby poem"?
tor’s sickly wife. A. A child dying of
A. The mistress of the
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house was afraid her D. So they won’t inter- SIDS.
husband would be at- rupt his income from B. The stillborn death
tracted to Clotel. the neglected grape har- of a child.
vest.
an
B. To keep the lice C. Abortion.
away. 86. In Paul Laurence Dun-
bar’s "When Malindy D. A murdered child.
C. So that the other Sings," what kind of mu-
slaves would get along 90. Yusef Komunyakaa’s
sic is Malindy singing?
Ch
with her. "Blue Dementia" is an
A. Cakewalk tunes. example of what kind
D. So she could sell it. of poetry?
B. Gospel.
83. Uncle Julius is a charac-
C. Jazz. A. Protest poetry
ter developed by:
A. Harriet Beecher D. Blues. B. Romantic poetry
an
Stowe 87. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s C. Lyric poetry

“Letter from Birming-
B. Joel Chandler Harris D. Jazz poetry
ham Jail,” King advo-
cates: 91. The importance of Lucy
y
C. Richard Wright Terry’s "Bars Flight" is:

A. Breaking the law.
D. Charles Chesnutt A. The poem’s form of
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B. Using violence
84. In Paul Laurence Dun- when necessary. rhymed tetrameter cou-
bar’s "A Cabin Tale," plets.
C. Waiting for times to
which character is a
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get better. B. The poem shows her

trickster figure?
future work as a advo-
D. Disobeying unjust
A. Weasel. cate of civil rights.
laws.
B. Bear. 88. Harriet Jacobs wrote In- C. The poem is filled
C. The farmer. cidents in the Life of a with Christian symbol-
Slave Girl to show: ism.
D. The young boy.
A. That female slaves D. The fact that the
85. In Charles Chesnutt’s poem is the most ac-
were escaping more fre-
"The Goophered Grape curate account of the
quently than men.
Vine," why does Uncle 1742 Indian-White en-
Julius tell the North- B. How slavery was gagement in Deerfield,
ern visitors the story worse for men. Massachusetts.
82. A 83. D 84. A 85. D 86. B 87. D 88. C 89. C 90. D 91. D 92. A
92. In Chapter XV of A. Slaveholders ob- A. The poem is the

William Wells Brown’s jected to losing leisure first-known writing of
Clotel, Clotel is de- time. an African American.
scribed as a quadroon. B. Slaves outnumbered B. The poem is bet-
What does this mean? non-slaves and might ter than the poems of
A. She is one-quarter rebel. the more famous Phillis
Black.
er
C. Slaveholders felt Wheatley.
B. She is one-eighth economic security C. The poem is the
Black. rested on the system first of many poems by
of slavery.
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C. She is White. Terry.
D. B and C.
D. She cannot be a D. The poetry focuses
slave. E. A and C. on slave life in the 18th
93. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ 96. The character of Delia century.
an
poem, "we real cool," in Zora Neale Hurston’s 99. Arna Bontemps’s "A
the Golden Shovel is: "Sweat" was influenced Summer Tragedy" at-
by: tacks the institution of:
A. The name of a
A. Her relationship
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restaurant the pool A. Sharecropping.
players cannot enter. with a patron.
B. Her mother. B. Slavery.
B. A metaphor for C. Her best friend. C. Segregation.
colossal lies they have
D. Her job as a wait- D. Prostitution.
been buried with.
an
ress.
C. A metaphor for the 100. Spirituals like "Go
97. David Walker’s "Appeal Down Moses" were
pool players who are in Four Articles" argues
trying to dig out of their important to African
that: Americans because:
neighborhood.
y
A. The races should A. They showed that

D. The name of a pool not intermarry.
hall. a hero would deliver
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B. Christians the only them from slavery.

94. The trickster figure is
ones not to blame for
usually B. They gave hope
the existence of slavery.
that God would deliver
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A. Amoral (neither
good nor evil) them from slavery.
C. Blacks have the duty
B. Christian to resist slavery. C. They helped them
do their work faster.
C. Evil D. Blacks should re-
95. Slave owners resisted turn to Africa. D. They were based on
abolition for what rea- 98. The importance of Lucy African songs.
son? Terry’s "Bars Flight" is:
93. D 94. A 95. D 96. A 97. C 98. A 99. A 100. B

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1. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” lish and enforce justice. E. It puts all of the lead-
what does this sentence ers of the world on the
from one of the judges stage and mocks them.
reveal? A JUDGE: “I E. The gods are capa-
ble of establishing jus- 3. William Congreve’s
an
don’t wish a quarrel “The Way of World”

with Anitus; he’s a man tice for themselves, and
they need no human in- opens with a game of
much to be feared. If it cards. How does this
were only a question of tervention.
game offer an indirect
y
the gods it would still 2. What is the distinguish- comment on the play?
be overlooked.” ing characteristic of po-
A. Love is a game of
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A. Anitus, being an im- litical satire?

risky bets.
portant businessman in
A. Its object is a real B. Love is a game of
Athens, is able to pur-
person. chance.
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chase justice.
B. It exaggerates as- C. Love is a game that
B. Anitus, being a
pects of society in order requires strategy.
priest, can make life
to address its wrongs.
difficult for the judges D. Love is a game that
who feel pressured to C. Its object is a type requires omniscience.
side with him. of person who needs to
E. Love is a game that
C. Socrates’s crimes change.
punishes the naive.
are essentially harm- D. It attacks human in- 4. Hellena, a character
less. stitutions, such as uni- in Aphra Behn’s “The
D. Law and religion versities, hospitals, and Rover” leaves the con-
work together to estab- religion. vent, marries the rake
1. B 2. A 3. C
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Willmore, and inherits D. Marivaux is a come- 8. The Licensing Act of

300,000 crowns. What dian and Voltaire is a 1737 had what effect on
point is Behn making satirist. the theatre?
by creating a character E. Marivaux is a come- A. Audiences attended
like her? dian and Voltaire is an more plays knowing
A. Behn wanted to essayist. that the works had been
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show that women who 6. According to James properly vetted.
leave the protection Kalb’s review of Got- B. Audiences dis-
of the church are not thold Ephraim Less- trusted the plays that
wise enough to choose ing’s “Emilia Galotti,”
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the censors approved.
a proper spouse. the actions of charac-
ters are: C. Innovation was
B. Behn wanted to por- stymied and older the-
tray a female character A. predictable.
atrical forms were re-
an
in complete control of B. not predictable, but vived.
her life and destiny. they are logical.
D. Actors turned to
C. Behn wanted to C. rational and driven publishing as a means
point out that money by context. to supplement their rev-
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cannot replace wisdom. enue.
D. empty and vapid.
E. chaotic and impul- E. There was a marked
D. Behn wanted to af- sive. increase in the number
firm the theatrical con- of Italian operas staged.
vention of allowing the 7. As a 17-year-old, Pierre
de Marivaux had an ex-
an
rake to win out.

perience that changed 9. Why did playwrights
E. Behn wanted to crit- his life. What was it? such as John Dryden
icize the theatrical con- and Nicholas Rowe
A. When returning
vention of rewarding write about subjects
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a glove to a girl he
virtue and punishing from the distant past?
thought he loved, he
vice.
understood that she
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A. Because the Puri-

5. The primary difference had been manipulating tans were on the look-
between Pierre de Mari- him. out for any reason to
vaux and Voltaire is B. He was injured in shut down the theaters
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that: war. again, artists looked to

the past because it was
A. Marivaux is a C. He had a major the- “safe.”
satirist and Voltaire is a atrical success and de-
comedian. cided to become a play- B. Plays served as a
wright. means to educate the
B. Marivaux is a upper classes, and so
philosopher and D. His parents died in
similar people from the
Voltaire is a tragedian. a fire.
past were used as char-
C. Marivaux is a trage- E. He married and had acters.
dian and Voltaire is a a child, thereby necessi-
tating a successful the- C. Dryden and Rowe
Shakespearean. used the past to veil
atrical career.
4. B 5. D 6. E 7. A 8. C 9. C
references to contempo- 12. The emphasis upon C. French.

rary politics. promiscuity in Restora-
D. British.
tion plays:
D. History was more
E. Swiss.
entertaining than the A. reflected the promis-
present. cuity of Charles II. 15. Sir Walter Raleigh
wrote “The History
E. Audiences associ- B. confirmed the Puri-
of the World” while
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ated the theater with tans’ criticisms about
imprisoned. Under
old-fashioned times, the vices found in the
the guise of a history,
and so the plots re- theaters.
Raleigh’s work is actu-
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flected this expectation. C. shifted to the public ally a:
sphere what had always
been limited to the pri- A. history of England,
10. Aphra Behn wrote to
vate sphere. not of the world.
address stereotypes for
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women. What was D. None of these an- B. biblical reading of
the most common di- swers secular history.
chotomy that fed these
E. All of these answers C. means for Raleigh to
stereotypes?
criticize the king and
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A. The servant and the the court from jail.
spouse 13. What quality of Jo-
hann Wolfgang von D. history of explorers
B. The matron and the Goethe’s novel The Sor- like himself.
maven rows of Young Werther E. history of the world,
C. The supporter and makes it an exemplar nothing more, nothing
an
the scolder for the “Sturm und less.

Drang” movement?
D. The virgin and the 16. Prior to the Restoration,
whore A. It is a pathetic the theatres had been
drama.
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closed because:
E. The courtesan and
the princess B. It is a lamentation. A. the theatre owners
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11. All of the following are
heroism. due to the cost of elabo-
the objects of satire in
rate sets and costumes.
John Gay’s “The Beg- D. Its main theme is re-
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gar’s Opera” EXCEPT: demption.

B. the public found
A. Italian opera. E. It is full of sentimen-
other entertainment.
talism.
B. arias that were not
understood by British 14. “Sturm und Drang” is
C. there had been a
audiences. a German phrase that
lengthy strike from the
refers to a type of
C. high society. costumer’s guild.
drama that was predom-
D. elaborate costumes inantly: D. plays were thought
and sets. A. German. to encourage immoral-
ity.
E. censorship of the B. European.
theatre. E. Both A and C
10. D 11. E 12. E 13. E 14. B 15. C 16. D

17. What was William D. Politics and the E. No one really

Shakespeare’s influ- right ordering of a city thought about it be-
ence on 18th-century cause all serious chal-
E. The proper educa-
French drama? lenges to faith were
tion for knowing how
subject to a panel of
A. None whatsoever to live the good life
bishops.
B. He was so influen- 19. John Dennis, a critic,
21. Because of all of the
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tial that the creativity did not like Richard
adultery and humor
of French playwrights Steele’s “The Conscious
of William Wycherly’s
was stymied for a gen- Lovers.” All of the fol-
“The Country Wife,” it is
eration. lowing are reasons why
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easy for the reader not
Dennis did not like the
C. Much like what had to see true love unfold
play EXCEPT that:
happened in England between:
with the Licensing Act A. Bevil Junior is too
A. Mrs. Alithea and Mr.
servile to his father.
an
of 1737, plays in France Sparkish.
at that time were heav- B. the play was not
ily censored. Thus, B. Miss Lucy and Mr.
funny.
while Shakespeare was Sparkish.
influential, the influ- C. there was not
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C. Mrs. Alithea and Mr.
ence was underground. enough satire in it.
Harcourt.
D. the sets were too
D. Miss Lucy and Mr.
D. French playwrights lavish.
Harcourt.
recirculated his plots. E. it was a tragedy that
E. Mrs. Pinchwife and
E. French playwrights called itself a comedy.
Mr. Horner.
an
revised his plots, giv- 20. Because of the Enlight-

22. Richard Steele’s “The
ing happy endings to enment, the relation-
Conscious Lovers”
tragedies. ship between faith and
changes the formula
reason changed dur-
y
18. Like William Shake- of Restoration drama

speare’s “Hamlet, Jo- ing the 18th century.
in all of the following
hann Wolfgang von Which of the following
ways EXCEPT that:
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Goethe’s “Faust” is a is the most accurate de-

scription of that rela- A. rakes are punished.
philosophical drama.
What is the primary tionship? B. sexual innuendo is
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issue that the “Faust” A. Faith was taken to removed.

play explores? be of little consequence. C. women do not dress
A. The limits of hu- up as men.
man power over the B. Faith was accepted D. costumes and sets
universe without question. are very minimal.
B. The consequences C. The claims of faith E. good morals are re-
of manipulating the were balanced against inforced.
laws of nature the claims of reason.
23. Why is Emila’s father
C. Religion and its D. Reason determined not enamored with the
questions of salvation that faith was unreason- idea of his daughter
and damnation able. marrying a prince?
17. E 18. A 19. D 20. C 21. C 22. D

A. He thinks that the D. Just as Wallen- E. as an essayist.

prince will trick her and stein’s men begged him 28. “Sturm und Drang” in
not marry her. to reconsider, Gordon English means:
begs Butler to recon-
B. He is not ready for
sider. A. “stern and pressure.”
the demands of the
royal court. E. Butler murders
them at the same time B. “storm and drain.”
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C. He thinks that roy-
the emperor kills Wal- C. “sensible and fool-
alty is all show and no
lenstein. ish.”
substance.
26. In Richard Sheridan’s
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D. He has already D. “storm and stress.”
“The School for Scan-
found happiness and
dal,” Lady Sneerwell E. “seize and conquer.”
does not want to be-
and Snake: 29. In Friedrich von
come a duke.
A. lend money at exor- Schiller’s “The Death
an
E. He knows that the of Wallenstein,” why
bitant interest so that
prince has already se- does Butler choose to
they can ruin the repu-
duced many women. kill Wallenstein?
tation of others.
24. How does Butler kill
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B. are not interested A. Loyalty to the em-
Wallenstein?
in having Lady Teazle peror
A. He poisons him. join them because they
B. Revenge
B. He uses a sword. want to gossip about
her. C. Octavio Piccolomini
C. He throws him told him to do so.
down from a castle wall. C. run a network of
an
gossipers. D. He’s upset about

Max. and Thekla mar-
D. He hires a merce- D. emerge victorious
rying and taking his
nary. in what has been seen
dukedom.
as a prediction of the
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E. He burns down the 21st-century’s treat- E. It’s not a choic-

palace. ment of celebrity cul- eso much as it is self-
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25. In a play about Wallen- ture. defense.

stein’s betrayal of the
E. seek forgiveness and 30. Gotthold Ephraim Less-
emperor, what is ironic
are reintegrated back ing’s “Emilia Galotti”
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about Butler’s murder

into society. presents the audience
of both Count Terzky
27. Gotthold Ephraim Less- with a man in love.
and Field-Marshal Illo?
ing’s primary influence How does the charac-
A. Butler acts from a on German theatre ter of the prince reflect
higher moral ground was: the ideas behind “Sturm
than Wallenstein. und Drang”?
A. as a critic.
B. Wallenstein only be- A. He cleans out the
trayed the emperor, he B. as a philosopher. corruption of the court.
did not murder him. C. as a playwright.
C. Butler is no different D. through his theory B. He is sensible,
than Wallenstein. of aesthetics. whereas the other char-
23. E 24. B 25. C 26. C 27. C 28. D 29. B

acters in the play are A. She follows after C. shows the

foolish. Max. hypocrisy of the con-
ventions of 18th-
C. He reverses tradi- B. She chooses to obey
century marriages.
tional morality and adher father and aban-
vocates murder so that dons Max. D. presents female
he can marry Emilia. characters who have
C. She disobeys her fa-
more wit and money
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D. He is subject to ex- ther and elopes with
than their male coun-
treme emotions when Max.
terparts.
he thinks about Emilia. D. She is so torn be-
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E. was the first play
tween all of her options
in the history of En-
E. He proves that abso- that she does not make
glish theatre to feature
lute power corrupts ab- a choice.
women who disguised
solutely. E. She kills herself out themselves as men.
31. Jonathan Swift once
wrote that satire is:
A. like a mirror where anof despair.
33. Characters’ names
in Restoration drama
35. The character type of
the “rake” appears first
in the 18th century.
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people see themselves were typically: What stock character
objectively. most closely resembles
A. signifiers of the per-
him?
sonality of the charac-
B. like a mirror where
ters. A. Uneducated farm-
people see everyone
but themselves. hand
B. regular names found
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in any registry. B. Rich landowner or

C. like a two-way mir-
ror where people can C. farcical and served businessman
see the inner workings to detract from the plot C. Suave seducer
of society. of a play.
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D. Naive husband
D. not like a mirror at D. recycled from
Shakespeare plays. E. Overweight father
all, but rather like a
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E. taken from the head-
break mirrors so that Charles I and the end of
lines of the day.
people don’t have to the English Civil War,
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look at themselves. 34. All of the following Oliver Cromwell estab-

are reasons why “The lished the:
E. like a window where Rover” is an important
people can look in on play EXCEPT that it: A. Protectorate.
society.
A. was written by a B. Restoration.
32. In Friedrich von woman during a time C. Privy Council.
Schiller’s “The Death of when all of the play-
Wallenstein,” what does wrights were men. D. Commonwealth.
Thekla choose to do
B. presents women as E. Monarchy.
about her unapproved
love of Max. Piccolo- capable of being rakes, 37. What is pathetic
mini? just like men. drama?
30. D 31. B 32. A 33. A 34. E 35. C 36. A 37. B

A. A play about a char- to win the bet, and with A. freedom.

acter who is unsuccess- it, Faust’s soul?
B. “Sturm und Drang.”
ful in all that he or she
A. Mephistopheles
attempts C. tragedy.
must give Faust com-
B. A play that focuses plete satisfaction. D. politics.
upon domestic rather
than heroic subjects B. Mephistopheles E. domesticity.
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must give Faust om-
C. A play that is fo- 42. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,”
niscience.
cused on selfish charac- Socrates defends him-
ters, in contrast to sym- C. Mephistopheles self with the following
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pathetic drama must give Gretchen to speech. What is the
Faust. essential point of the
D. A play about kings speech? SOCRATES:
and queens D. Mephistopheles
“Always beware of turn-
an
must give Faust control
E. A play about ser- ing religion into meta-
over the Earth Spirit.
vants physics: Morality is
E. Mephistopheles its essence. Adore and
38. The Scientific Revolu-
must give Faust power stop disputing. If our
tion established sub-
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over death. ancestors had said that
stantial progress in ex-
the Supreme God had
isting knowledge, so 40. According to Everett descended into the
much in fact, that Eng- Ward Olmsted, Pierre arms of Alcmene, of
land in the 17th century de Marivaux’s master- Danae, of Semele, and
saw itself as the most piece was: that he had children
advanced civilization
an
A. the French version with them, our ances-

since Ancient Rome.
of “Hamlet.” tors were imagining
Satirists agreed, but
dangerous fables. It’s
they saw one discipline B. “Cendrillon” (“Cin- insulting to the Divin-
as never progressing or
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derella”). ity to pretend that he

changing. Which one?
C. “Le Jeu de l’Amour had committed with a
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A. Morality woman in whatever

et du Hasard” (“The
B. Biology Game of Love and manner it might be
Chance”). what we would call
C. Physics amongst men an adul-
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D. Chemistry D. “Plato.” tery. That’s discour-

aging to the rest of
E. Anatomy and Physi- E. “L’école des Meres”
men to say that to be
ology (“The School for Moth-
a great man, one must
ers”). If you don’t know
39. One of the most mem- be born from the mys-
the answer, go back and
orable aspects of Jo- terious coupling with
read the text.
hann Wolfgang von one of your wives or
Goethe’s “Faust” is the 41. Johann Wolfgang daughters. Miltiades,
wager between Faust von Goethe said that Cimon, Themistocles,
and Mephistopheles. the main theme of Arisitides, that you
What, exactly, must oc- Friedrich von Schiller’s persecuted were per-
cur for Mephistopheles writing was: haps worth more than
38. A 39. A 40. C 41. A

Perseus, Herakles and what literary move- A. These dramas ex-

Bacchus. There being ment? plored the then-new sci-
no other way to be the ence of psychiatry.
A. Nationalism
children of this God
B. Expressionism B. The characters re-
than by trying to please
flected the political tur-
him, and by being just. C. Rationalism bulence of the times.
Deserve that title by
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never rendering iniqui- D. Romanticism C. The characters in
tous judgments.” E. “Sturm und Drang” these dramas reflected
the new emphasis of
A. We should obey the 45. In Friedrich von
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emotion over reason.
gods by acting like Schiller’s “The Death of
them. Wallenstein,” the char- D. Through their por-
acter Octavio Piccolo- trayal of these charac-
B. We should just love
mini manages to con- ters as emotionally un-
one another.
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vince: stable, the playwrights
C. Faith and reason affirmed the necessity
A. Wallenstein to sur-
should be kept separate of rationalism.
render.
so that we can think
E. Audiences had
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clearly. B. Wallenstein to
grown tired of pre-
change his battle plans.
D. The ludicrous sto- dictable plays.
ries about the gods
48. In Richard Sheridan’s
prove that they do not C. Wallenstein’s men
“The School for Scan-
exist. to become traitors.
dal,” we learn that Lady
an
E. Socrates thinks that D. the emperor that Teazle married Sir Pe-
all religions are too ob- Wallenstein is harmless. ter Teazle only for his
sessed with sex. money. By the end of
E. the emperor to sur- the play:
43. How often were the
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lower classes the render. A. she comes to love

stars of a Restoration 46. Who was the famous di- Sir Peter himself more
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drama? arist who captured the than this money.

A. Quite often (the ma- best surviving descrip- B. she replaces Lady
jority of plays) tion of the Great Fire of Sneerwell as the Presi-
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1666? dent for the School for

B. Rarely (less than
five) A. Oliver Cromwell Scandal.
C. Never B. William Wycherly C. she rejoices when

Sir Peter dies and she in-
D. About the same as C. Samuel Pepys
herits his estate.
any other social class D. Jonathan Swift
D. she spends all of Sir
E. We have no way of E. Nicholas Rowe Teazle’s money, and he
knowing. 47. Why do the characters goes bankrupt.
44. Johann Wolfgang von in “Sturm und Drang” E. nothing changes.
Goethe’s “Faust” is the dramas undergo such She still loves Sir Teazle
greatest expression of emotional extremes? only for his money.
42. C 43. B 44. E 45. C 46. C 47. C 48. A 49. A

49. Which of the follow- C. Socrates is a bad cit- B. the publishing in-
ing was an integral part izen because he has not dustry.
of Restoration musical been consistent.
C. how theatrical suc-
theater?
D. The inner consis- cess depends more
A. Castratos tency of these charges upon who you know
B. Wedding marches reveals that Socrates rather than individual
should be put to death.
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talent.
C. Woodwinds
E. Readers know that D. that audiences will
D. Megaphones
Melitus is upset that attend any play, regard-
E. Italian operas
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Socrates is taking less of its merits.
50. Sentimental comedy re- money that should go
acted against: to the temple. E. the rising number
of plays featuring bur-
A. plots based upon 52. John Dryden was suc- lesque interludes.
an
mistaken identities. cessful in all of these
roles EXCEPT as a: 55. Voltaire was primarily
B. the obsession with
a:
the past, especially that A. satirist.
of ancient Rome. A. poet.
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B. religious poet.
C. the new trend of di- B. playwright.
dactic moralizing. C. translator.
C. politician.
D. the emphasis upon D. critic.
tragedies. E. diarist. D. novelist.
E. the immorality of 53. When Jean-Jacques E. philosopher.
an
previous comedies. Rousseau wrote “Man 56. Domestic tragedy in-

51. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” is born free; and every- cludes all of the follow-
what do these lines where he is in chains,” ing EXCEPT:
from Melitus reveal he associated “chains”
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about the charges with all of the following A. the death of a char-
against Socrates? MELI- EXCEPT: acter.
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TUS: “Silence. Listen,

A. religion. B. a fallen household.
Socrates, you are ac-
cused of being a bad cit- B. enlightenment. C. a husband and wife.
izen; of corrupting the
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youth; of denying the C. society.

plurality of the gods; of D. a villain.
D. history.
being a heretic, deist, E. a wedding.
E. tradition.
atheist. Answer.”
54. Henry Fielding’s “The 57. When it comes to the
A. Socrates’s crimes subject of marriage in
are comprehensive. Author’s Farce” sati-
rizes all of the following William Congreve’s
B. Some of these EXCEPT: “The Way of the World,”
crimes are self- what do the main char-
contradictory, reveal- A. the theater’s empha- acters Mirabell and
ing that Socrates is be- sis of quantity over Millamant value most
ing framed. quality. above anything else?
50. E 51. D 52. E 53. B 54. E 55. E 56. E 57. B

A. Love B. She threatens to Much liberty, much er-

blackmail him. ror! The narrow path
B. Freedom
of duty is securest.”
C. Because she has had
C. Security
an affair with him, she A. Gordon should
D. Money knows for sure that he strive to obtain more
is not impotent, and she power.
E. Social Standing
almost tells the others.
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58. In England in the B. Gordon should
18th century, women’s D. She tells her maid strive to be more lim-
rights: about her affair who al- ited.
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most tells the others.
A. expanded. C. Gordon is free to es-
E. She tells her hus- cape his limitations.
B. contracted. band that he should in-
D. Gordon should find
C. were championed in deed worry about her
comfort in his limita-
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plays. spending time with Mr.
tions.
Horner.
D. were ridiculed in E. Gordon’s freedom
61. How does Odoardo Ga-
plays. and his limitations are
lotti, Emilia’s father,
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E. Both A and C about the same.
prevent her marriage to
59. In Friedrich von the prince? 63. Restoration drama of-
Schiller’s “The Death ten presents the upper
A. He petitions the
of Wallenstein,” Wal- classes as vapid and
king to put a stop to
lenstein is certain that vain. What is the pur-
the proceedings.
his project is the fulfill- pose of doing so?
an
ment of: B. He hires a lawyer

A. Only the upper
who prevents the wed-
A. chance. classes can be satirized.
ding.
B. destiny. C. He knows about the
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B. Readers learn that

C. strategy. prince’s many affairs
true wisdom comes
and threatens to black-
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D. wisdom. only from the lower

mail him.
classes.
E. historical determin- D. He stabs and kills
ism. C. There is no higher
his daughter.
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purpose other than that

60. In William Wycherly’s E. He kidnaps his of humorous entertain-
play “The Country daughter and takes her ment.
Wife,” how does Mrs. back home.
Pinchwife almost ex- D. Actually, all of soci-
62. In Friedrich von ety was satirized, not
pose Mr. Horner’s
Schiller’s “The Death of just the upper classes.
plan?
Wallenstein,” when But-
A. As a country wife, ler says the following to E. Vanity was essential
she is more sophisti- Gordon, what does he to preserving one’s sta-
cated in the ways of mean? “Nay! let it not tion in life.
adultery than a city afflict you, that your 64. The Glorious Revolu-
wife. power Is circumscribed. tion was:
58. E 59. B 60. C 61. D 62. D 63. D

A. the nonviolent vic- 67. In William Wycherly’s A. based on actual

tory of the commoners play “The Country events.
over the crown. Wife,” there is a scene B. completely fictional.
where all of the other
B. named as such be-
female characters take
cause it gave so much C. set in the 16th cen-
Mrs. Pinchwife aside to
glory to King Charles II. tury but had nothing to
prevent her from expos-
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ing Mr. Horner. This do with the actual Jane
C. the first organized action reveals: Shore.
labor strike in history. D. an updated ver-
A. hypocrisy in mar-
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riage and society. sion of the Jane Shore
D. a victory that en- story that reflected the
B. that all marriages promiscuity of Charles
sured that Parliament
are subject to adultery. II.
would have more power
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than the king. C. the loveless society E. changed to remove
of 18th-century Eng- all of the references to
E. the final defeat of
land. religion.
France.
D. the innocence of 70. In William Wycherly’s
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65. The main religious con- play “The Country
those who live in the
flict in England prior to Wife,” Lady Fidget, Mrs.
country.
the Glorious Revolution Squeamish, and Mr.
in 1688 was between E. All of these answers Horner substitute talk
what two groups? about “sex” with talk
A. Atheists and Angli- 68. What was the main about “china.” What
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cans cause of the English literary convention are

Civil War? they using?
B. Presbyterians and
Catholics A. Religious conflict A. Metaphor
between Anglicans and
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C. Anglicans and Pres- Scottish Presbyterians
byterians C. Soliloquy
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B. Political conflict be-

D. Atheists and D. Double entendre
tween the commoners
Catholics and the nobility E. Synonym
71. The conclusion of Jo-
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E. Anglicans and C. Charles I’s defiance

Catholics of Parliament hann Wolfgang von
Goethe’s “Faust” has
66. French Harlequin com- D. Just like America al- been called confusing.
edy first appeared in most 200 years later, What exactly happens
what country? slavery at its end?
A. France E. Charles I’s attempt A. Gretchen is damned,
B. England to establish a state reli- and Faust goes to
gion Heaven.
C. Italy
69. The plot of Nicholas B. Gretchen goes to
D. Spain Rowe’s “Jane Shore: A Heaven, and Faust is
E. Switzerland Tragedy” was: damned.
64. D 65. E 66. C 67. E 68. C 69. A 70. D 71. B

C. Both Gretchen and A. satire is just for A. The emphasis upon

Faust are damned. laughs. emotion as the basis for
D. Both Gretchen and all decisions
B. satire teaches a clear
Faust go to Heaven. moral lesson. B. The emphasis upon
E. Neither Gretchen C. satire depends upon reason as the basis for
nor Faust go to Heaven pratfalls and mistaken all decisions
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or to Hell. identities.
C. The emphasis upon
72. The term “Restoration” D. satires end with a justice as the basis for
refers to what event death, while comedies all decisions
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that followed the En- end with a marriage.
glish Civil War? D. The emphasis upon
E. both are cynical,
A. The restoration of expediency as the basis
abrasive, and mean-
lands to the Catholic for all decisions
spirited - there is not
an
Church a difference between E. The emphasis upon
B. The restoration of them. chance as the basis for
the king and the British 75. In Friedrich von all decisions
monarchy Schiller’s “The Death of
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C. The restoration of Wallenstein,” what ad- 77. In William Congreve’s
the titles to the nobility vice do Wallenstein and “The Way of the World,”
that Charles I had taken his daughter Thekla why is Mrs. Millamant
away give to Max. Piccolo- against marriage?
mini?
D. The restoration of A. In the 18th-century
an
peace throughout Great A. Max. must chose be- weddings were ar-
Britain tween Wallenstein and ranged marriages, and
the Emperor. she wants to choose her
E. The restoration of
voting rights to the B. Max. should elope own spouse.
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House of Commons with Wallenstein ’s

B. After marriage,
73. In William Wycherly’s daughter.
wives are little more
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play “The Country C. Max. should rejoin than the property of

Wife,” Mr. Horner’s the emperor against their husbands.
ruse to gain entry into Wallenstein.
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women’s bedchambers C. Men choose women

D. Max. should com- based upon the size of
is to pretend he’s:
mit treason against the their dowry and not
A. a repairman. emperor and join Wal- upon love.
B. sick. lenstein if he is to marry
Thekla. D. She knows she will
C. a lawyer. lose her freedom.
E. Max. should follow
D. a doctor. his heart. E. She thinks it is old
E. a eunuch. 76. As a “Sturm und Drang” fashioned.
74. The difference between play, what feature is
a satire and a comedy is most prominent in “The 78. French playwrights
that: Death of Wallenstein”? sought:
72. B 73. E 74. B 75. E 76. A 77. C 78. A

A. to compare the past play of the 18th century. easily identify the par-
with present. allels between Antony
81. A farce is a(n): and Charles II. Ventid-
B. to recreate the Ital-
ius’s counsel to Antony
ian and English Renais- A. intellectual comedy. could just as well be
sances.
given to Charles II.
C. to create a new na- What did Ventidius sug-
B. play with a definite
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tional drama with new gest to Antony?
moral.
heroes.
C. wedding play. A. To learn how to rule
D. recognition that himself
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they were better than D. play where jokes are
more important than B. To learn how to rule
English playwrights.
plot. others
E. to present the future
C. To drop his at-
through their plays. E. humorous tragedy.
an
traction for beautiful
79. In the play “Emilia Ga- 82. The fundamental dif- women and to invade
lotti,” the prince Het- ference between the Egypt (i.e., France)
tore Gonzaga is almost rake characters of male
as affected by an artis- authors like William D. To join forces with
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tic rendering of Emilia Wycherly and William him against Rome
as he is of her in person. Congreve and the rake E. To concern himself
What art form moves characters of Aphra with the coming Per-
Hettore’s emotions? Behn is that: sian (i.e., French) inva-
A. A painting A. Behn’s rakes are sion to the east
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punished more severely. 84. The “Prelude in the

B. A sculpture
Theater” of Johann
C. A description Wolfgang von Goethe’s
B. Behn’s rakes are “Faust” presents a con-
D. A poem more successful at se- versation between an
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E. A song duction. audience member, a

80. In a typical Pierre de C. Behn’s rakes are theater owner, and a
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Marivaux play, servants seduced themselves playwright. The audi-

were: rather than the seduc- ence member wants to
ers. be entertained, and the
A. represented by card-
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theater owner wants

board paintings. D. Behn’s rakes care
money. What does the
nothing for seduction
B. as fully developed as playwright want?
but are really after
a play’s main charac- A. Entertainment
money.
ters.
E. Behn’s rakes are B. Money
C. flat characters who
rude, obnoxious, and C. Beauty
did not develop.
not attractive to the
D. not given speaking female characters. D. Fame
roles. E. Awards
83. The events in “All for
E. portrayed no differ- Love” took place in an- 85. In Johann Wolf-
ently from any other cient Rome, but one can gang von Goethe’s
79. A 80. B 81. D 82. C 83. A 84. C

“Faust,” what is the receive visits to and but its message is for
one thing that leaves from whom I please; to 18th-century Europe.
Mephistopheles power- write and receive let- That message is:
less? ters, without interroga-
A. a critique of judges.
tories or wry faces on
A. The Earth Spirit
your part; to wear what
B. Being ignored I please, and choose B. a critique of lawyers.
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C. Prayer conversation with re-
gard only to my own C. a critique of philos-
D. Righteousness taste; to have no obli- ophy.
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E. Boredom gation upon me to con-
verse with wits that D. a critique of orga-
86. What was the name of nized religion.
I don’t like, because
one of the two theatre
they are your acquain- E. a critique of family
companies during the
tance, or to be intimate
an
Restoration? life.
with fools, because they
90. In Oliver Goldsmith’s
A. The Queen’s Com- may be your relations.
play “She Stoops to
pany Come to dinner when
Conquer,” why does
I please, dine in my
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B. The Duke’s Com- Miss Kate Hardcastle
dressing-room when
pany disguise herself as a
I’m out of humour,
C. The Player-Kings lowly maid?
without giving a reason.
To have my closet invio- A. She wants to see the
D. The Courtesan Play-
late; to be sole empress true thoughts and feel-
ers
of my tea-table, which ings of Charles Mar-
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E. The Royal Shake- you must never pre- lowe.

speare Company sume to approach with- B. She is embarrassed
87. All of the following out first asking leave. by her upper class
were either King or And lastly, wherever I riches.
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Queen of England EX- am, you shall always

CEPT: knock at the door be- C. Charles Marlowe
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fore you come in. These is comfortable only

A. Queen Anne. among the lower
articles subscribed, if I
B. Charles I. continue to endure you classes.
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a little longer, I may by D. It is not a disguise;

C. Charles II.
degrees dwindle into a she actually is a maid.
D. Charles III. wife.”
E. She thinks that the
E. Queen Elizabeth. A. Cynical lower classes have
88. When Miss Millamant B. Resigned an admirable naiveté
delivers the follow- about life.
ing speech in William C. Realistic
91. A typical plot of “Sturm
Congreve’s “The Way D. Hopeless und Drang” drama in-
of the World,” what volves:
is the overall tone of E. Excited
her words? “Trifles; 89. Voltaire’s “Socrates” is A. a young man’s unre-
as liberty to pay and set in ancient Greece, quited love.
85. D 86. B 87. D 88. C 89. D 90. C 91. A

B. a woman’s suicide. C. how easy it is to D. Society encourages

C. a wedding. move from one social husbands to drink and
class to another. gamble.
D. the triumph of the
rational characters over D. that virtue and vice E. Society encourages
the emotional charac- exist in all levels of so- wives to have affairs.
ters. ciety. 97. What is the distinguish-
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ing characteristic of pa-
E. a lesson in self- E. that most comedies
thetic drama?
control. depend upon poverty
92. In Johann Wolfgang for their humor. A. It features charac-
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von Goethe’s “Faust,” ters who are down
95. Voltaire was the most
what scientific disci- on their luck and are,
accomplished French
pline does Faust devote therefore, “pathetic.”
playwright of his gen-
himself to? eration. His plays re- B. It features charac-
an
A. Biology flected what theme? ters who are too weak
to change their fate.
B. Alchemy A. A desire to return to
classicism C. It is a type of drama
C. Physics that is highly emo-
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D. Anatomy B. Skepticism in all tional, designed to
forms bring the audience to
E. Chemistry
C. The preference of tears.
93. Each theater company
Rationalism over Ro- D. It features strong
had a group of actors
manticism characters who look
that was a mixture of:
down on everyone as
an
A. men and women. D. A preoccupation

“pathetic,” when, in fact,
with questions of fate
B. noble and common they themselves are the
and destiny
citizens. most pathetic of charac-
E. The need for politi- ters.
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C. rich and poor citi-

cal revolution in order E. It is a label critics
zens.
to bring about substan-
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D. old and young ac- tial change play.
tors.
96. What is the main crit- 98. In Gotthold Ephraim
E. playwrights and ac- icism of marriage in Lessing’s “Emilia Ga-
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tors. Restoration drama? lotti,” the prince’s cham-

94. The emphasis upon berlain Marinelli sets in
A. Married life is bor-
the social classes in motion the events that
ing.
Restoration drama will culminate in the
shows: B. Marriages often mis- death of Count Appiani.
match older men with What is revealed about
A. that a stable social
younger women. Marinelli’s loyalty?
order depends upon
fixed roles. C. Marriages are not A. He is a loyal atten-
B. the economic injus- based upon love or mu- dant to the prince.
tices of the times more tual respect but upon fi- B. He insinuates to
clearly to audiences. nancial gain. Emilia’s father that the
92. B 93. D 94. D 95. B 96. C 97. C 98. B

prince is responsible the death of her fiancé, 100. The European philoso-
for Marinelli’s death. Count Appiani. pher who influenced
the “Sturm und Drang”
C. He takes full respon- 99. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” movement more than
sibility for ordering the what group of people any other was:
death of Count Appiani. is most against the title
character? A. René Descartes.
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B. Jean-Jacques
D. He blackmails the A. Priests
Rousseau.
prince for half of his for-
tune. B. Judges C. Georg Wilhelm
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C. Youth Friedrich Hegel.
E. In order to sabotage
the prince’s marriage D. George Berkely.
D. Philosophers
plans, he tells Emilia E. Francis Bacon.
that the prince ordered E. Women
99. A 100. B
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21 Romantic Era - English Literature 433
22 The English Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . 435
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23 Part Five
Theme in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
24 Traditional Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
25 Transcendentalism Literature . . . 445
26 Folk Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
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27 Genres of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
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28 Gothic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
29 Literature Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
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Early British literature . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Wisdom literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

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32 World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
33 Latin and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
34 Afro-Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

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35 American English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

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36 Ancient Greece Language and Litera-

ture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
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37 Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

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38 British Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
39 Dystopian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
40 Early Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
41 Elements of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 485
42 England: Literature, Pop Culture, and

Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
43 Literature Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

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18. Overview of English Literature
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1. How many main fea- C. Beowulf C. English
tures are there in Old D. Romeo and Juliet D. English and French
English (Anglo-Saxon)
4. How many periods of 7. Knight Literature was
Period?
development are there written in
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A. 1 in Middle English Pe- A. Latin

B. 2 riod?
B. English
C. 3 A. 1
C. French
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D. 4 B. 2
D. French and English
2. When did the Old En- C. 3
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8. Select three trends in

glish Period begin and
D. 4 Anglo Saxon Period.
end?
5. Select three trends of A. Folklore
A. From 400 to 1600
literature in the Anglo-
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B. Medieval realism
B. From 450 to 1600 Norman period.
C. Drama
C. From 460 to 1066 A. Knight literature
D. Knight Literature
D. From 450 to 1066 B. Church literature
3. What is the classical E. Church Literature
C. Folklore
work of the Old English 9. Who is the founder of
Period? D. Drama English realism?
6. Church Literature was A. Robin Hood
A. Song of a husband-
written in
man B. William Shake-
B. The Pardoner’s Tale A. Latin speare
B. French C. Geoffrey Chaucer
1. D 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A 5. B 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. A 8. B 8. C 9. C
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10. Where was drama 13. Who is the Poet’s poets 16. The ideological belief
born? in Renaissance Peak? of the times changed
A. John Milton from Humanism to Pu-
A. in pagoda
ritanism in
B. in church B. Shakespeare
A. Early Renaissance
C. at school C. Thomas More
B. Renaissance Peak
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11. Who is the great hu- D. Edmund Spenser
manist of the Early Re- 14. Who is the last word C. Late Renaissance
naissance? of the English Renais- 17. Humanism was intro-
sance ?
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A. William Shake- duced in
speare A. Shakespeare A. Early Renaissance
B. Thomas More B. Thomas More B. Late Renaissance
C. Edmund Spenser C. Edmund Spenser
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C. Renaissance Peak
D. John Milton D. John Milton 18. Paradise’s Lost was a fa-
12. Who is the idol of the 15. Select the periods of de- mous work of
Renaissance Age? velopment in the Re-
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naissance Age. A. John Milton
A. William Shake-
speare A. Early Renaissance B. Shakespeare
B. Thomas More B. Renaissance Peak C. Edmund Spenser
C. Edmund Spenser C. Late Renaissance D. Thomas More
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19. Puritan Literature
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1. Suffered rhuematic 4. Characteristic of Puri- through "God’s won-
fever as a child tan "Plain Style" drous works"
A. William Bradford A. Familiar images A. William Bradford
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B. Anne Bradstreet B. Simple Words B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Mary Rowlandson C. Direct Statements C. Mary Rowlandson
D. Jonathan Edwards D. All of the above D. Jonathan Edwards

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5. Father managed a large 8. Came to the Americas

2. First governor of the estate in England
Massachusetts Bay on the Mayflower
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colony A. William Bradford A. William Bradford

A. William Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Mary Rowlandson
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B. Anne Bradstreet C. Jonathan Edwards

D. Jonathan Edwards D. George Gordon
C. Jonathan Edwards
6. Who wrote 9. What was the name of
D. George Gordon "Huswifery?" the book of Anne Brad-
3. Married at 16; came to A. George Gordon street’s poems?
America at 18
B. Jonathan Edwards A. "A Good Puritan
A. William Bradford Woman"
C. Edward Taylor
B. Anne Bradstreet B. "The Twelfth Muse"
D. William Bradford
C. Mary Rowlandson 7. Came to a consola- C. "The Tenth Muse"
D. Jonathan Edwards tion about her faith D. "The Goodye Wife"
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. A
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10. Puritans believed in D. Socialism B. The Bible

11. How did Anne Brad- C. God’s wondrous
ing?
street come to a resolu- works
A. Predestination tion of her faith?
B. Foreordination D. Evolution
A. Her husband con-
C. Reincarnation vinced her.
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20. Native American Literature
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1. Why was story telling alive. A. Stories are our best
important to Native source of historical
C. Keeping the chil-
American people? proof.
dren well feed.
A. It passes along his- B. Every time an elder
an
D. Learning from the

tory and knowledge to experiences of the el- dies, a library dies with
a younger generation. ders. them.
B. It is a way to pass 3. From the fable of the C. Some are just too
the time.
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Firewalker shown in long.

C. It was not really that class, what did the D. His grandmother
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important. young brave learn told the best stories.

about fire?
D. It was more efficient 5. Which Native Ameri-
than waiting for the in- A. It’s hot !!! can author was a Protes-
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ternet to be invented. B. Fire can be danger- tant Methodist minis-

2. What was NOT impor- ous. ter?
tant to the Native Amer- C. Fire is a friend not A. Elias Boudinot
ican tribes about listen- food. B. William Apess
ing to the stories of
their ancestors? D. It goes out when it C. Black Hawk
rains.
A. Teaching life-skills D. Charles Eastman
4. What did Seth Fairchild
to the younger mem-
of the Choctaws say 6. Which Native Amer-
bers of the tribe.
about the importance ican author was the
B. Keeping the memo- of recording oral stories most widely known Na-
ries of past generations from our elders? tive American author in
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. B 6. B
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the United States and C. William Apess 9. Who authored the first
abroad during the first two books published
D. Sarah Winnemucca
decades of the twenti- in English by a Native
eth century? 8. What did Seth Fairchild American?
A. Sarah Winnemucca of the Choctaws say A. William Apess
about knowing our his-
B. Charles Eastman tory? B. Elias Boudinot
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C. George Copway C. Mary Rowlandson
A. History is the way
D. Zitkala-Sa to win wars. D. Samson Occom
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B. Those who do not 10. Which of these authors
7. Who was one of the
know their history are was NOT Native Amer-
first Native American
doomed to repeat it. ican?
women to publish tra-
ditional stories derived A. Pauline Johnson
C. History is best left
an
from oral tribal leg- B. George Copway
for the old.
end?
D. History can be en- C. William Byrd
A. George Copway
tertaining and informa- D. Charles Eastman
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B. Zitkala-Sa tive.
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21. Romantic Era - English Literature
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1. In "The Lamb," the C. rich and powerful C. The guest had a
lamb and creator are D. in charge of the glimmer in his eye.
both world D. The old man had a
A. soft and cuddly 4. In "The World is glimmer in his eye.
an
B. open and honest Too Much With us," 6. At first, the sailors
Wordsworth’s main blamed the mariner for
C. innocent and good
subject is killing the albatross un-
D. strong and fearsome til which happened?
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A. the quest for knowl-

edge A. The albatross came
2. In Blake’s "The Lamb,"
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B. the quest for love back to life.

what archetypal figure
is referred to as "He?" and romance B. The fog cleared and
A. the creator C. the quest for power the sun shined brightly.
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and wealth
B. the shepherd
D. the decline of an- C. The sailors started
C. the lamb cient cities dropping dead.
D. the child 5. In Coleridge’s, "Rime of D. The ice melted.
3. In Wordsworth’s "The the Ancient Mariner,"
why couldn’t the guest 7. What must the mariner
World is Too Much with
evade the old man? do to release the alba-
Us" the speaker wishes
tross from around his
to be A. The guest was too neck?
A. closer to his family polite.
A. bless the creatures
B. closer to the beauty B. The man hexed the
of nature guest. B. praise Christ
1. C 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. A
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C. apologize to the C. reason and intellect A. wrote "The World

crew sincerely is Too Much " and
D. new religion, ego-
D. abandon ship "Lyrical Ballads"
tism, individualism
8. The fair breeze blew, B. delighted in nature
E. anti-rationalism
the white foam flew,The C. was known mostly
furrow followed 10. Click all which apply to for his failures
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free;We were the first William Blake.
that ever burstInto that D. inherited a friend’s
silent sea. Which liter- A. an artist estate
ary term describes the B. wrote "The Lamb" 12. Click all which apply to
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first two lines? and "Songs of Inno- Coleridge.
A. assonance cence" A. felt inferior to
B. alliteration Wordsworth and was
C. wrote "Rime of the
known for failures
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C. consonance Ancient Mariner"
B. tried to create an
D. end rhyme D. wrote "The Chim- ideal society
9. Which are NOT char- ney Sweeper"
C. was addicted to
Ch
acteristics of Romantic E. was the most spiri- opium, & brought su-
Literature? tual of the Romantic po- pernatural to English
A. revolution and ideal- ets poetry
ism 11. Click all which apply to D. wrote "The Lamb"
B. music and science Wordsworth.
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22. The English Romantic
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1. When did the Romantic D. Nature and feelings 7. Why did he have to
movement start? 4. What did they fight leave Oxford Univer-
for? sity?
A. In the 18th century
A. Civil Rights A. Because he was
an
B. In the 17th century

catholic
C. In the 19th century B. Social and political
freedom B. Because he was
D. In the 16Th century protestant
C. Oppression
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C. Because he was an
2. Which fields were in- D. Money
atheist
volved?
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5. How did English

Romantics consider D. Because he want to
A. Physics fight
Britain?
B. Maths 8. Who was Shelley’s
A. Free minded
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C. Literature, Music wife?

and Arts B. Loyal
A. Mary Smith
D. Reason C. Fair
B. Mary Byron
3. Where did Romantics D. Oppressive
C. Mary Godwin
take inspiration from? 6. When was Percy Bisshe
Shelley born D. Mary Keats
A. Researches and
Maths A. In 1792 9. Who did Shelley meet
in Lake Geneva
B. Human studies and B. In 1892
socialism A. John Keats
C. in 1700
C. Reason and science B. Ugo Foscolo
D. in 1880
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. C 8. C 9. C
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C. Lord Byron C. From science labora- A. Italian Indepen-

tories dence
D. William Shake-
speare D. From dead people B. British Indepen-
10. When was Byron 14. Why was Italy popular dence
born? with Romantics? C. Turkish Indepen-
A. In 1888 A. Because of its econ- dence
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omy
B. In 1750 D. Greek Indepen-
B. Because of its dence
C. In 1798 weather
18. What did John Polidori
gd
D. In 1788 C. Because of its Ro- write?
11. Why did Byron have to man culture
leave England A. Frankenstein
D. Because of its land-
B. Hamlet
an
A. Because of his love scape
scandals 15. Why was Shelleys’ life C. Vampire
B. Because he didn’t unhappy?
D. Dracula
like England A. Because their friend
Ch
19. Who wrote Dracula?
C. Because he was a Keats died
Lord B. Because their friend A. Mary Shelley
D. Because of his eco- Byron died B. John Polidori

nomic scandals C. Because their love C. John Keats
12. What did Mary Shelley ended
an
D. Bram Stroker
write? D. Because Some of
their children died 20. What happens if a vam-
A. Hamlet
pire drinks someone’s
16. How did Shelley died?
B. Romeo and Juliet blood?
y
A. He committed sui-
C. Poems A. The person col-
cide
lapses
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D. Frankenstein
B. He was murdered
13. What did Dr. Franken- B. The person becomes
C. He drowned in a vampire too
stein take pieces to
Lerici
make his creature
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C. The person becomes

from? D. He fell from a horse
stronger
A. From animals
17. What did Byron fight D. The person happier
B. From live people for?
10. D 11. A 11. D 12. D 13. D 14. C 14. D 15. A 15. D 16. C 17. D 18. C
19. D 20. B
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23. Theme in Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. The theme of a story is 3. Which of the following B. returning home af-
the could be a theme of a ter a long time
story?
A. main character C. A man sees a group
A. A 35-year-old of people he used to
an
B. message about life

woman named Essie work for a long time
that the author ex-
and her brother ago.
presses
D. an old man who
C. sequence of events B. a small apartment in
used to be a farmer
y
Marfa, Texas
D. short summary of 5. Read the following sen-
what the story is about C. Telling the truth
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tence . A toad and

may cause pain, but in a lizard learn to get
the end, it’s better than along while on a jour-
could be the theme of a
lying. ney through the wilder-
story?
Na
D. Essie lied to her ness. The sentence

A. Fear is more danger- above is an example of
ous than any beast brother about her iden-
titiy for two years, but a
B. A brave young girl she finally decided to A. plot
pretends to be a man tell him the truth.
and takes her father’s B. character
place in the army. 4. Which of the following C. summary/main idea
could be a theme of a
C. a fear of heights story?
D. theme
D. "I’ll get you, my
A. Your past does not 6. Read the following sen-
pretty, and your little
define you. tence Friendship helps
dogs, too!"
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. C
438 Chapter 23. Theme in Literature
people get through the runner?” she asked the Ant wouldn’t listen
hard times This sen- Tanner. When Tanner and continued to work.
tence above is an exam- told her that he did tag When winter came, the
ple of the runner, the umpire starving Grasshopper
A. plot changed her decision went to the Ant’s house
and called the player and humbly begged for
B. character out. The coaches and something to eat. “If
er
C. main idea parents were furious, you had listened to my
but the umpire stood by advice in the summer
D. theme
her decision. What is you would not now
7. War destroys human
gd
the theme? be in need,” said the
values . This is an ex- Ant. “I’m afraid you
ample of a A. You should cheat to
will have to go without
win.
A. plot supper,” and he closed
B. Always work hard. the door. What is the
an
B. main idea
theme?
C. fable C. It pays to be honest.
A. share with your
D. theme neighbor
D. Teamwork is best.
Ch
8. During a baseball game,
B. work before you
Tanner tried to tag a 9. One summer’s day, a
play
player leaving first base. merry Grasshopper
When the umpire called was dancing, singing C. be respectful
the player out, Tanner and playing his vio- D. don’t be greedy
immediately informed lin with all his heart.
an
the umpire that he in He saw an Ant pass- 10. A novel can have more
fact did not tag the ing by working hard than one theme.
runner. Two weeks to store food for the A. TRUE
later, the very same winter. “Come and
B. FALSE
y
umpire was at another sing with me instead of

one of Tanner’s base- working so hard,” said 11. A theme should always
ball games. Tanner was the Grasshopper “Let’s
ra
be written as
playing short stop and have fun together.” “I
A. A sentence or state-
tagged a runner as they must store food for the
ment
approached third base. winter,” said the Ant,“
Na
When the umpire called and I advise you to B. A phrase

the player safe, Tanner do the same.” “Don’t
C. One or two words
didn’t say a word, but worry about winter,
the umpire noticed the it’s still very far away,” D. A brief summary of
surprised look on Tan- said the Grasshopper, 5-8 sentences.
ner’s face. “Did you tag laughing at him. But
6. D 7. D 8. C 9. B 10. A 11. A
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24. Traditional Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. A genre of reading that 3. A fairytale can have all B. traditon
contains myths, leg- of the following parts C. fact
ends, tall tales, fairy EXCEPT
tales, folktales, and fa- D. lessons
A. magical setting,
an
bles 6. Tall tales include what

characters, and events
from the following?
A. traditional litera- B. talking animals
ture A. characters have su-
C. realistic characters, perhuman abilities
y
B. fiction events, and setting

B. animals that talk
C. fantasy D. good vs. evil C. have a basis in fact
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D. literary nonfiction 4. What categories have

D. explain natural phe-
Natural Phenomena?
2. What Traditional Liter- nomena
ature categories teach A. Legends and Myths
Na
7. Myths are usually sto-

lessons? B. Myths and Fairy ries about
A. Folk tale, legends, Tales A. giants and dragons
myths, and fables C. Tall tales and Fables B. castles and forests
B. Myth, Fairy tales, C. heroic or godly char-
and Tall tales D. Folk tale and Leg- acters
ends
C. Fairy tales, Folk D. talking animals and
tales, myths, and leg- 5. Legends are based in a lesson
ends what? 8. A story that involves
D. Myth, legends, Fairy A. superhuman magic to create or solve
tales, and fables traights the problem is a . . .
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. C
440 Chapter 24. Traditional Literature
A. Fable A. Fable D. A story dealing with

B. Folk Tale a puzzling crime
B. Folk Tale
C. Fairy Tale C. Fairy Tale 17. Which is an example of
a myth?
D. All of These D. All of These
A. Percy Jackson
9. Fairytales often in- 13. A story from the
past that is believed B. Hercules
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clude
by many people and
A. frogs, toads, snakes, C. Harry Potter
passed down orally
and rabbits
through a culture, but D. Star Wars
gd
B. gods and goddesses, cannot be proven to be
18. "The Grasshopper and
heroes, and magic true
the Ants" is an example
C. talking animals, few A. legend of what traditional liter-
characters, lots of ac- ature category?
an
B. mythology
tion, and a lesson at the
end C. folk tale A. Myth
D. castles or forests. re- D. tall tale B. Legend

Ch
occuring numbers, and 14. Goodness is always re- C. Fable
a happily ever after end- warded in fairy tales.
ing D. Fairy Tales
A. True
10. Normally fables have 19. Myths are usually sto-
as characters in the B. False ries about
story. 15. Which is NOT an ex-
A. giants and dragons
an
ample of a traditional
A. children
text? B. castles and forests
B. bugs
A. A Fable C. heroes or godly
C. animals characters
B. A biography
y
D. teachers C. A Legend D. talking animals and

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11. What is the moral (les- a lesson

D. A Myth
son) of The Tortoise
16. What is the correct def- 20. A genre of reading that
and The Hare?
inition for a traditional are stories that have
Na
A. Don’t be greedy text? been told orally and

B. Always tell the truth passed down from gen-
A. Stories that have eration to generation
been passed down
C. Slow and steady through generations A. traditional litera-
wins the race ture
D. be kind to others B. Stories that could B. fiction

12. A story that starts with have actually happened
C. genre
". . . Once upon a time. in a believable setting
D. literary nonfiction
. ." and ends with ". . C. A story of a person’s
.they lived happily ever life, written about that 21. Fairytales often in-
after. . ." is a . . . person clude
9. D 10. C 11. C 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. A 17. B 18. C 19. C 20. A
21. D
A. frogs, toads, snakes, that it was not a good A. Evil overcoming

and rabbits idea! For everything good
he touched including
B. gods and goddesses, B. Alien Existence
food, water, and even
heroes, and magic
people, turned to gold. C. Talking animals
C. talking animals, few He asked the Gods to D. Good overcoming
characters, lots of ac- forgive him for being so evil
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tion, and a lesson at the greedy and to take this
end power away! What 27. In a piece of narrative
was the conflict of this text, what is theme?
D. castles or forests. re-
gd
occuring numbers, and story? A. What the story is
a happily ever after end- A. The Gods gave the about
ing king the golden touch B. The topic of the text
22. Fables often include
an
B. The king’s new
A. morals, talking an- power was not what C. A message the au-
imals, and few charac- he expected thor is trying to get
ters across to the reader
C. The king was happy
Ch
B. enchanted creatures to have the golden D. Where and when
touch the story happens
C. heroes and superhu- D. The king got rich! 28. "Dreams really do come
man strength true" would be a theme
25. The four types of tra- found in which of the
D. castles, forests, and
ditional literature we following:
an
frogs
looked at today in-
23. A story from the past A. Fable
clude:
about a historical per- B. Fairy tale
son who has been exag- A. plot, rising action,
C. Legend
y
gerated and changed climax, and resolution
A. myth D. Myth
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B. fairytales, fables, 29. What are the five story

B. legend
myths, and legends elements in a story?
C. fable
C. nouns, verbs, adjec- A. Theme, Setting,
Na
D. folktale tives, and prepositions Morals, Food, and Emo-

24. There was once a king tions
who was very greedy B. Plot, Setting, Char-
D. realistic fiction, his-
and wanted all of the acter, Conflict, Theme
torical fiction, fantasy,
gold in the world. He
and science fiction
asked the Gods to
give him the "golden 26. Which of the following C. Character, Magic,
touch" so everything themes would be con- Fables, History, and
he touched turned to sidered "universal" and Evil
gold. The Gods gave would most likely ap- D. Setting, Magic,
him this power and pear in traditional liter- Gods, Goddesses, and
the King soon realized ature? Talking Animals
22. A 23. B 24. B 25. B 26. D 27. C 28. B 29. B 30. A

30. What was the setting of A. The main events 37. This is type of story
Cinderella? that take place in a often develops from a
A. Her house story real historical person
or event, but takes on
B. The store B. The characters who
fictional elements as it
are in the story
C. A dream gets passed along.
C. A person, place,
A. Myth
er
D. The Fairy God- thing, or idea
mother’s house B. Legend
31. What is another name D. The problem that
takes place in the story C. Fable
for the lesson of a
gd
story? 34. This is a short story D. Tall Tale
A. Opinion that has been passed 38. This is type of story
down from generation is filled with unbeliev-
B. Moral to generation. (Choose
an
able exaggerations but
C. Joke all that apply) is told as if it were true.
D. Feedback A. Folk Tale They are meant to be
funny.
32. In the story, "The B. Historical Fiction
Ch
Golden Egg", a man A. Myth
has a hen that laid one C. Realistic Fiction
B. Legend
golden egg a day. The D. Science Fiction
man wanted more gold C. Fable
so he could be richer 35. This is a short folktale
D. Tall Tale
and came up with a that often involves per-
an
sonified animals and 39. Examples: Paul Bun-

plan to cut the hen open
teaches a lesson or yan, Pecos Bill, Johnny
and get all of the eggs
moral. Appleseed.
at one time. When the
man cut the hen open, A. Myth A. Myth
y
there were no golden

B. Legend B. Legend
eggs. The man then re-
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alized that he had killed C. Fable C. Fable

the hen and will now D. Tall Tale
not receive anymore D. Tall Tale
golden eggs. Based 40. Examples: Robin Hood,
Na
36. This is type of story ex-

on the passage above, King Arthur, John
plains something about
what type of traditional Henry
the world such as mys-
literature do you think terious natural forces, A. Myth
this is? how things came to be, B. Legend
A. Fable or what gods and god-
desses have done. C. Fable
B. Fairy tale
A. Myth D. Tall Tale
C. Myth
B. Legend 41. Examples: Midas’s
D. Legend Touch, Venus, Zeus,
33. What is the plot of a C. Fable Thor, Apollo, Romulus
story? D. Tall Tale and Remus
31. B 32. A 33. A 34. A 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. D 40. B 41. A
A. Myth 46. This is type of story common in what type

B. Legend comes from the reli- of literature?
gious traditions of what A. Tall Tales
C. Fable is known as "Western
D. Tall Tale Civilization". B. Fairy Tales
42. Examples: The Tortoise A. Tall Tale C. Fables
and the Hare, The Lion D. Myths
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B. Fairy Tale
and the Mouse, The Boy
E. Legends
Who Cried Wolf C. Fable
51. How do fables end?
A. Myth D. Biblical Story
gd
A. With the moral of
B. Legend 47. Examples: Adam and the story
C. Fable Eve, Noah’s Ark, Jonah
B. With unusual crea-
and the Whale, David
D. Tall Tale tures
an
and Goliath
43. This is type of story is C. With magic
A. Fairy Tale
set in a magical land of- D. With a person’s ac-
ten ruled by kings and B. Fable complishments
queens; the characters
Ch
C. Biblical Story 52. The conflict in the story
tend to be either good
D. Tall Tale involves trickery indi-
or evil. They usually
cates what type of liter-
contain a lesson about 48. Which of the following ature?
good or bad behavior. is NOT a type of tradi-
tional literature? A. Fairytale
A. Myth
an
A. Folk Tale B. Fable

B. Legend
C. Myths
C. Tall Tale B. Legend
D. Legends
D. Fairy Tale C. Historical Fiction
y
44. Examples: Cinderella, E. Tall Tales

D. Biblical Story
Snow White, The Little 53. If you were wanting to
49. What is true of a tall
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Mermaid, Jack and the read something involv-

Beanstalk tale? (select all that ap- ing a king, what type
ply) of literature should you
A. Myth
A. Based on the life of look for?
Na
B. Legend a real person A. Fairytales

C. Fairy Tale
B. Problem solved in a B. Fables
D. Tall Tale hilarious way C. Myths
45. Which of the following C. Exaggerated details
is NOT a type of tradi- D. Legends
tional literature? D. Absolutely true ac- E. Tall Tales
count of what hap- 54. Animals are often the
A. Tall Tale pened main characters in
B. Myth 50. The repetition of 3 or what types of litera-
C. Science Fiction 7 (such as the 3 little ture? (Select more than
D. Fable pigs or the 7 dwarfs) are one)
42. C 43. D 44. C 45. C 46. D 47. C 48. C 49. A 49. B 49. C 50. B 51. A
52. B 53. A 54. A 54. B 54. D
A. Fairytales 56. What type of literature D. Legends

involves gods and god-
B. Fables E. Tall Tales
desses as the main char-
C. Myths acters? 58. How does a fairytale of-
ten begin and end?
D. Legends A. Fairytales
A. Once Upon A time
E. Tall Tales B. Fables They Lived Hap-
er
55. What best describes the C. Myths pily Ever After
setting of a Tall Tale? D. Legends B. So What Had Hap-
pened Was That’s
gd
A. At a castle or in a E. Tall Tales
My Story And I’m Stick-
forest 57. What types of litera- ing To It
B. Always at an out- ture attempt to explain
how something in na- C. It All Began When
side location
The End
an
ture came to be? (Select
C. Can happen anymore than one) D. Have You Ever Won-
where at anytime (noth- dered How And
A. Fairytales
ing specific) That Is How Came
B. Fables
Ch
D. Linked to an actual To Be
historical time period C. Myths
y an
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Na
55. D 56. C 57. C 57. D 58. A

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25. Transcendentalism Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. Fill in the blank: So- 4. Transcendentalism is a D. Careers
ciety.
A. Tone A. literary movement quote: "To be great is to
be "
an
B. Individualism B. social reform move-

ment A. saved
C. Instinct
C. philosophical move- B. a genius
D. Nature ment
C. intelligent
y
2. Who wrote "Civil Dis- D. all of the above

obedience"? D. misunderstood
5. Transcendentalism is
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A. Ralph Waldo Emer- NOT 8. Emerson: "There is a

son time in every man’s ed-
A. a religion ucation whe he arrives
B. Henry David
Na
B. a literary movement at the conviction that

Thoreau
envy is ignorance, that
C. Walt Whitman imitation is "
C. a philosophy
D. Margret Fuller 6. Transcendentalists be- A. reliance
3. The aim of Transcen- lieve that modern ed- B. suicide
dentalism is ucation is corrupting
C. right
A. Self-Reliance
A. Knowledge D. might
B. Self-Knowledge
B. Individualism 9. What historical figures
C. Self-Taught does Emerson reference
C. Society when he says "to be
D. Self-Esteem
1. B 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. D 8. B 9. A
446 Chapter 25. Transcendentalism Literature
great is to be misunder- D. Society conspires to D. Be true to yourself.

stood." deny people their indi-
16. One aspect of
vidual freedoms.
A. Socrates, Jesus, Thoreau’s style is to
Galileo, Pythagoras, 12. The tone of Emerson’s
essay is best described A. begin a paragraph
Copernicus, and New-
as — with a specific event
ton
B. avoid repetition of
er
B. Plato, George Wash- A. unmoving
ington, Jesus, Thoreau, words
B. despairing
Newton, and Benjamin C. follow each long
C. uplifting
Franklin
gd
sentence with a short
D. gloomy sentence.
C. Aristotle, King
George, Jesus, Melville, 13. What is Emerson’s na-
D. As a series of rhetor-
Tesla, and Marie Curie tionality?
ical questions
an
D. IDK A. British
17. What is the central idea
10. Which of these state- B. Irish in Civil Disobedience?
ments best character- C. Welsh A. People must over-
ized the central idea
Ch
D. American throw the government
of "Self-Reliance" by
Ralph Waldo Emer- 14. What does Emerson
son? call "the hobgoblin of B. The fewer who run
little minds"? That the government the bet-
A. Meekness is the vir-
is, what makes unintel- ter
ture that fosters self-
ligent people comfort-
an
awareness C. Citizens should be

able remaining unintel-
B. Rely on your own in- ligent? willing to act on their
stincts opinions
A. consistency
C. customs serve a 18. In Civil Disobedience
y
B. society how does he support

valuable purpose
C. cowardice his view that govern-
ra
11. What is Emerson’s

ment is abused by pow-
overall opinion of so- D. conspiracy
erful individuals?
ciety? 15. Which one of the fol-
lowing statements best A. He analyzes the the
Na
A. Society helps people

achieve their potential. states one of Emerson’s structure of the govern-
philosophies? ment
B. We must accept soci-
ety’s rules whether we A. Turnabout is fair B. He alludes to several
agree with them or not. play. corrupt Massachusetts
politicians
B. Keep your head in
C. Society is all accept- the clouds. C. He cites examples of
ing force that denies no C. Misery loves com- unpopular war
one. pany.
10. B 11. D 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. D 16. D 17. B 18. C

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26. Folk Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. In which genre are the 4. Which type features A. Tale
good characters often characters that were
B. legend
beautiful and the evil real historical figures,
ones ugly? but their deeds have C. myth
an
been exaggerated?
A. fairy tales D. fable
A. tales
B. legend 7. Which type is used to
B. legend explain a mystery of
C. tall tales
y
nature or how things

D. fables C. myth came to be?
ra
2. Which type of folk lit D. fable A. tall tales

uses hyperbole? 5. Which type features a B. fairy tales
A. fairy tale moral or lesson at the
C. fables
Na
end?
B. legend
A. Tales D. myths
C. fable
B. legend 8. Which type is reflective
D. myth of a particular culture
3. Which type usually fea- C. fable like the Greeks or Ro-
tures gods/goddesses? D. myth mans?
A. fairy tale 6. Which type features A. Tall tales
B. legend plants, animals, forces B. legends
of nature, and/or inani-
C. tall tale mate objects as charac- C. fables
D. myth ters? D. myths
1. A 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. D 9. B
448 Chapter 26. Folk Literature
9. Which type of story A. myth A. fact, fiction

would you likely find
B. legend B. truth, reality
a princess as a charac-
ter? C. fable C. fact, reality
A. Fable D. epic D. myths, legend
B. fairy tale 20. Fables, myths and leg-
15. A myth explains the ac-
er
ends were originally
C. myth tions of or
part of tradition.
D. legend A. animals, people A. historical
gd
10. Which type is typically B. gods, heroes B. oral
created for children?
C. men, women C. verbal
A. Tales
D. gods, people D. world
B. myths
an
16. A myth can explain the 21. is the passing down
C. fables origins or elements of of stories by word of
D. legends mouth.
11. A is a brief story or A. classical mythology

Ch
A. history
poem.
B. nature
A. myth B. story telling
C. the world
B. legend C. gods or heroes
D. people
C. fable D. oral tradition
an
17. Greek and Roman 22. An tells the story of

D. epic myths are known as a hero.
12. A fable usually has
characters. A. myth, god
A. the OG myths
y
A. animal B. fable, animal

B. original mythology
B. human C. legend, historical
ra
C. classical mythology D. epic, larger-than-

C. protagonist
life
D. antagonist D. stories 23. The hero in an epic goes
Na
13. A fable teaches a on a dangerous quest or

18. A is a widely told
which is stated at the
story about the past.
of the work.
A. journey
A. epic
A. theme, beginning
B. adventure
B. theme, end B. myth
C. path
C. moral, beginning C. fable
D. search
D. moral, end D. legend
24. An is a long narra-
14. A is a fictional 19. Some legends are based tive poem that is impor-
tale, like "Demeter and on while others are tant to the history of a
Persephone" nation or culture.
10. A 11. C 12. A 13. D 14. A 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. A 20. B 21. D
22. D 23. A 24. C 25. A
A. myth A. myth 34. A type of writing that

is very imaginative and
B. legend B. legend
has elements not found
C. epic C. fable in real life is known as?
D. fable D. epic A. Hyperbole
25. is one’s view of the 30. King Arthur is an exam- B. Irony
er
world ple of a C. Local Customs
A. cultural perspective A. myth D. Fantasy
B. fable 35. An example of personi-
gd
B. oral tradition fication is?
C. epic
C. universal theme A. A human acting like
D. legend
D. moral an animal.
an
31. Stories that are part of
26. A theme repeated B. A nonhuman acting
oral tradition are sto-
across many cultures like a human.
ries that,
and time periods (like C. An animal acting
good vs. evil) A. teach a lesson about like an animal.
Ch
life.
A. oral tradition D. An exaggeration.
B. have a hyperbole.
B. cultural perspective 36. This term involves sur-
C. are told by word prising or amusing con-
C. universal theme of mouth and passed tradictions.
D. moral along by many genera-
A. Hyperbole
an
tions.
27. A is a lesson about B. Fantasy
life that is stated di- D. have magic and
rectly, usually at the myths. C. Universal Theme
end of a work. D. Irony
y
32. A hyperbole is
A. oral tradition 37. Language spoken by
A. a myth
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people of a certain re-

B. moral B. an exaggeration gion is called?
C. cultural perspective A. Irony
C. a lesson
Na
D. a fantasy B. Dialect
D. universal theme
33. A universal theme is C. Hyperbole
28. Tortoise and the Hare is
an example of a A. a message about life D. Personification
that can be understood 38. The unique traditions
A. myth
in many cultures. or ways of life of a par-
B. legend ticular group.
B. a message from na-
C. fable ture. A. Irony
D. epic C. is a story told by B. Oral Tradition
29. Hercules is an example many generations. C. Local Customs
of a D. an exaggeration. D. Universal Theme
26. C 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32. B 33. A 34. D 35. B 36. D 37. B
38. C 39. A
450 Chapter 26. Folk Literature
39. A story about a mouse 43. A legend is a story 47. Explains objects or
who conveniences a events in nature
A. that includes gods.
lion to let him go and
A. Origin Myth
then helps the lion out B. that is about real
of a trap is an example people doing real B. Hero Myth
of a? things.
C. Fairy Tale
A. Fable C. based on facts or
er
real people yet with D. Proverb
B. Legend
imaginative or exagger- 48. Folk tale with super-
C. Myth ated details. natural beings such as
gd
D. Folk Tale D. only told through fairies, dragons, ogres,
40. A story about a Greek oral tradition and never etc.
God who crossed the written down. A. Origin Myth
heavens in his chariot
an
44. a short tale to teach
is an example of a? B. Hero Myth
a moral lesson, often
A. Fable with animals or inani- C. Fairy Tale
mate objects as charac-
B. Legend D. Proverb
Ch
ters
C. Myth 49. A story that tells about
A. myth
the actions of a hero
D. Folk Tale
B. legend
41. A story about Cin- A. Origin Myth
derella, and she is res- C. fable
B. Hero Myth
cued by her fairy god-
an
D. folktale
mother is an example C. Fairy Tale
45. Any belief or story
of a?
passed on traditionally, D. Proverb
A. Fable especially one consid-
50. short saying passed
y
B. Legend ered to be false or based

down by word of
on superstition.
C. Myth mouth
ra
A. myth
D. Folk Tale/Fairy Tale A. Origin Myth
B. legend
B. Hero Myth
Na
42. A story about a real per- C. fable

C. Fairy Tale
son yet over time the D. folktale
story has been exagger- D. Proverb
ated and now the main 46. A story with supernat-
ural events and beings 51. a story that tells how
character can speak to
that tells about creation, the world or human be-
animals is an example
origins, or heroes. ings were created
of a?
A. Fable A. myth A. Origin Myth
B. Legend B. legend B. Creation Myth

C. Myth C. fable C. Fairy Tale
D. Folk Tale D. folktale D. Proverb
40. C 41. D 42. B 43. C 44. C 45. D 46. A 47. A 48. C 49. B 50. D 51. B
52. D
52. Paul Bunyan is a story A. The Twelve Labors A. Arachne

about a giant lumber- of Hercules
B. The affair of the
jack; his story told
B. The Creation Horns
through oral tradition
in US C. Arachne C. The man with a mis-
erable life is never tired
A. myth D. Cinderella
of it
er
B. legend 57. Which of these is a
Fairy Tale? D. Why monkeys live
C. fable in trees
D. folktale A. The Twelve Labors
61. Which of these is a folk
gd
of Hercules
53. giving human charac- tale?
teristics to something B. The Creation
A. Arachne
non human C. Arachne
B. The affair of the
an
A. Personification D. Cinderella Horns
B. Metaphor 58. Which of these is a cre- C. The man with a mis-
C. Simile ation myth? erable life is never tired
of it
Ch
D. Characterization A. The Twelve Labors
54. creating characters by of Hercules D. Why monkeys live
showing what charac- B. The Creation in trees
ters do, say or think
C. Arachne 62. Lesson throughout the
A. Personification story
D. Cinderella
an
B. Metaphor A. Myth
59. Which of these is a Fa-
C. Simile ble? B. Fable
D. Characterization A. Arachne C. Moral
y
55. Which of these is a

B. The affair of the D. Personification
Hero Myth?
Horns 63. Which one is NOT Folk
ra
A. The Twelve Labors

C. The man with a mis- Literature
of Hercules
erable life is never tired A. Myths
B. The Creation of it
Na
C. Arachne B. Fables
D. Why monkeys live
D. Cinderella in trees C. Folk Tales
56. Which of these is an ori- 60. Which of these is a D. Articles
gin myth? proverb?
53. A 54. D 55. A 56. C 57. D 58. B 59. B 60. C 61. D 62. C 63. D
Na
ra
y an
Ch
an
gd
er
er
27. Genres of Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. The story has features B. realistic fiction
not seen in this world,
C. biography
such as magic, time
travel, strange settings D. poetry
an
and fantastic charac-

4. Story including magic,
ters
talking objects and usu-
A. mystery ally a conflict between
good and evil. A. is fiction
B. myth
y
A. mystery B. is nonfiction
C. fantasy
7. This type of story is
ra
B. biography
D. folktale impossible. It might
2. The word "genre" C. fantasy have talking animals or
means magic.
D. realistic fiction
Na
A. an animal A. Fantasy
5. Star Wars is an example
B. a kind or type of what genre? B. Fiction
C. a food A. historical fiction C. Traditional Litera-

ture
D. a genius B. realistic fiction
D. Science Fiction
3. True story of a real per- C. science fiction
son’s life from the past 8. Fiction is
D. informational
or present written by A. Real Information
that person. 6. A FANTASY (a story
with imaginary things B. Caption under a pic-
A. autobiography in it) ture
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. C
454 Chapter 27. Genres of Literature
C. Made-Up Story 14. a true story of the C. realistic fiction

D. TV Guide writer’s life
D. historical ficiton
9. A crime is committed. A. biography 18. Bronze Star by Irwin
In finding the criminal, B. autobiography Keene World War
a detective must un- II has been hard for
ravel a web of clues be- 15. books that teach you
Mama Conner. Her hus-
how to do something or
er
fore pinning down the band and three sons
suspect. make something
have been away at war
A. mystery A. instruction and Mama Conner was
left to keep the house
gd
B. realistic fiction- B. textbook
together, raise money,
adventure C. atlas and provide for Baby
C. folktale D. almanac Maple. The mood in
the town darkens sud-
an
D. fantasy 16. Nonfiction books that denly when her neigh-
10. A traditional story give true facts on a va- bor Betsy loses one of
handed down from riety of subjects. her loved ones in bat-
generation to gener- tle. At Mama Conner’s
A. biography
Ch
ation by word of mouth. ladies club, several up-
Types include fables, B. poetry standing ladies of the
myths and fairy tales town are on edge after
C. informational
A. mystery hearing a garbled news
D. folktales report announcing that
B. fantasy
17. The Hard Way Out by a man from their town
an
C. folktale Terry Vaughn In this was lost in battle, but

D. realistic fiction- novel, Brian struggles as the man’s name went
adventure with living at his Aunt’s unheard, the women
house and sharing a are left to speculate as
11. often called plays
y
room with his cousin to whom will be the

A. drama while dealing with the most affected.
ra
B. poetry grief of having lost both

A. realistic fiction
of his parents in a tragic
C. prose car accident. Basketball B. science fiction
12. books that contain real is his only escape, but C. fantasy
Na
information after geting benched

for low progress report D. historical fiction
A. fiction
grades, Brian’ world 19. "Rapunzel" adapted by
B. nonfiction shatters. Does he have Craig Hooper Once
13. a true story about an- it in him to turn around upon a time a young
other person’s life writ- his grades? Will Brian girl named Rapunzel
ten by another person come to peace with his was running an errand
A. autobiography emotions? Can anyone for her mother when an
help him? evil witch caught her
B. biography and imprisoned her in
A. biography
C. historical fiction the tower of a castle. Af-
B. science fiction ter years in the tower,
D. atlas
9. A 10. C 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. B 15. A 16. C 17. C 18. D

Rapunzel grew long, B. legend D. Historical Fiction

beautiful hair. Having 21. Written to inspire
C. myth
seen nobody but the thoughts and feelings
evil witch her whole D. fary tale
in the reader. It often
life, Rapunzel is very 20. A story set in a real uses rhyme and rhythm.
lonely until one day a place in the past (like Can use stanzas rather
prince wanders by and the Great Depression than paragraphs.
er
climbs up her hair. The or World War II) with
witch doesn’t like this made up, but believable A. poetry
and action ensues, but characters. B. fantasy
gd
eventually the prince
A. Realistic Fiction C. historical fiction
and Rapunzel live hap-
pily every after. B. Fantasy D. science fiction
A. fable C. Biography
an
Ch
y an
ra
Na
19. D 20. D 21. A

Na
ra
y an
Ch
an
gd
er
er
28. Gothic literature
gd
an
Ch
1. One of the elements of C. person vs. supernat- 6. Which of the following
Gothic literature is ural is not a typically Gothic
settings like decaying 4. What is almost always setting?
castles, haunted houses, true about the setting of A. Church
an
and trapdoors or cel- novels in Gothic Litera-

lars. ture? B. Castle
A. supernatural A. Takes place in the C. Wild remote place
B. gloomy wild west D. Shopping centre
y
B. Revolves around a 7. Fill in the blank: The

C. isolation
castle or mansion
ra
author uses to sug-

D. fear gest what may happen
C. Full of joy and hap-
2. What is the meaning of piness next in the story.
the word isolation ?
Na
D. Straight forward A. Forward showing

A. in a crowd with no hidden mes-
B. Foreshadowing
sages
B. left alone
5. Examples of pathetic C. Similes
C. packaging that fallacy include all of the D. Cats
keeps something cold following except
8. This is when the ques-
3. In Gothic novels, the A. Wind howling tioner knows the an-
conflict is often
B. Violent thunder swer already, or an an-
A. person vs. technol- storm swer is not actually de-
ogy manded
C. Raining outside
B. person vs. society A. rhetorical question
D. Woman crying
1. B 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. A
458 Chapter 28. Gothic literature
B. dialogue question 12. The mood of nature re- A. Professional

C. rhyming question flects the type of events
B. Old fashioned
or a character’s emo-
9. a feeling that some- tions, in the narrative. C. Poetic
thing bad will happen
A. personification D. Dull and unimagina-
A. foreshadow
B. pathetic fallacy tive
B. foreboding
er
C. emotive language 16. "Like and old wound, it
C. something that was gave off a faint twinge
before D. pathetic writing
now and again". What
13. Which of these situa-
gd
10. Choose the correct dif- kind of figurative lan-
ference between fore- tions would not require
guage is this?
boding and foreshadow- you to annotate by un-
ing derling or highlighting A. Hyperbole
the text?
an
A. forebode= some- B. Personification
thing great will happen A. information that is
confusing C. Simile
& foreshadow= some-
thing bad will happen B. information you al- D. Metaphor
Ch
ready know 17. Which of these words is
B. forebode= some- C. information that is the odd one out?
thing interesting will interesting
happen & foreshadow= A. blithe
D. information that is
something great will B. dreary
suprising
happen
an
14. One way to annotate is C. uneasy

C. forebode= some- to create that you
thing bad will happen have about the text. D. depressed
& foreshadow= some-
A. questions 18. Mournful or dismal
thing will happen
y
11. a feeling of thoughtful B. unfamiliar words A. mirthful

sadness, typically with C. connections
ra
B. festive
no obvious cause
D. themes C. modest
A. melancholy 15. Which of the following
D. lugubrious
Na
B. melon ball best describes the word

C. mellifluous ’prosaic’?
9. B 10. C 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. A 15. D 16. C 17. A 18. D

er
29. Literature Vocabulary
gd
an
Ch
1. the perspective or posi- 4. an argument, struggle, A. purpose
tion in which a story is or battle
B. context clue
told
A. conflict
C. syllable
A. point of view
an
B. resolution
D. fiction
B. plot C. mood
8. a method of finding the
C. summary D. purpose meaning of unknown
D. conflict
y
5. The answer or outcome words by examining

2. the main storyline or of a conflict or problem other parts of the sen-
tence
ra
pattern of events A. resolution

A. plot A. context clue
B. mood
B. summary B. syllable
C. purpose
Na
C. conflict D. context clue C. fiction
D. resolution 6. a feeling, state of mind, D. novel

or emotion 9. a single unit of pro-
3. a brief account of the
main point of a novel or A. mood nunciation, with only 1
other piece of literature vowel sound
B. purpose
A. summary A. syllable
C. context clue
B. conflict B. fiction
D. syllable
C. resolution 7. the reason or determi- C. novel
D. mood nation for writing D. response
1. A 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. A 10. A
460 Chapter 29. Literature Vocabulary
10. an invented story that A. response A. subject

has been create; made
B. figurative language B. sensory details
up, not real
A. fiction C. subject C. point of view
B. novel D. sensory details D. plot
C. response 13. a word or expression
15. descriptions that use
er
symbolizing other ways
D. figurative language 1 (or more) of our 5
to describe things
11. a fairly lengthy book of senses to describe or
fictional detail A. figurative language portray something
gd
A. novel B. subject A. sensory details
B. response C. sensory details B. point of view
C. figurative language D. point of view plot
an
C. plot
D. subject 14. the person or object in
D. figurative language
12. an answer or reply to a sentence that does the
something action
Ch
y an
ra
Na
11. A 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. A

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30. Early British literature
gd
an
Ch
1. What is known as the 4. What language did 7. In what language was
British Epic? William the Conqueror Beowulf written?
A. Beowulf bring from Normandy? A. Old English
A. Latin
an
B. The Iliad B. Latin

C. The Odyssey B. French C. Renaissance English
D. Canterbury Tales C. Old English
2. Who first invaded the D. German D. French

y
British Isles? 5. Who supposedly drew 8. Who wrote The Canter-

the sword from the bury Tales?
ra
A. The Celts
stone? A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. The Romans
A. Grendel B. William Shake-
C. The angles
Na
B. Beowulf speare
D. The Normans
C. King Arthur C. Alexander Pope
3. What great hero is be-
lieved to have held off D. Charlemagne D. The church
the Germanic invasion 6. what language did the 9. Who wrote Romeo and
of Britain? clerics, the religious Juliet?
A. King Arthur people, speak? A. William Shake-
B. Charlemagne A. Latin speare
C. Robin Hood B. German B. John Donne
D. Edward, the black C. French C. Alexander Pope

prince D. Old English D. Geoffrey Chaucer
1. A 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. A
462 Chapter 30. Early British literature
10. During the Middle A. Old English 13. Who lived in Britain BE-
Ages, peasants and FORE the Romans con-
serfs were required B. Swedish quered it?
to serve their knight. C. American English A. Celtic peoples
Their Knight was re-
quired to serve their D. French B. the Angles
lord and then their lord C. the Saxons
12. What language is
er
was required to serve
this: Hwæt. We Gar- D. the English
the king. What is this
dena in geardagum,
political form known 14. Who conquered Celtic
þeodcyninga, þrym
gd
as? Britain?
gefrunon, hu ða æþelin-
A. Feudalism gas ellen fremedon. A. The Romans
B. Socialism A. Old English B. The French from
C. Democracy Normandy
an
B. Old French
D. Anti socialism C. the Germans
11. What language did the C. Old Norse
D. the Americans
Anglo-Saxons speak? D. Spanish
Ch
y an
ra
Na
10. A 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. A

er
31. Wisdom literature
gd
an
Ch
1. what is wisdom litera- A. How is wisdom A. Satan
ture? used in the bible?
B. Job’s friends
A. knowledge from B. Wisdom is in the 8. Long ago, what gender
God bible was proverbs?
an
B. knowledge C. How to get wisdom? A. female

C. a thought B. male
5. what do the bible books
y
D. a way of thinking have in common? C. genderless

2. what is the book of Job A. wizdom 9. what books did we talk
ra
about? about?
B. wisdome
A. A man disobeying A. Job, Joshua, Ruth
C. wisdom.
God B. Psalms, Nehemiah,
Na
D. wisdom Esther
B. God testing a man
6. Who wrote the book of C. Proverbs, Ecclesi-
3. proverbs was firstly Ecclesiastes?
named astes, Job
A. Solomon D. Lamentations, Ec-
A. Homan
B. David clesiastes, Job
B. Barney
C. A unicorn 10. is wisdom something
C. Steve from God?
D. God
D. Hohma A. yes
7. Who argued with God
4. What was our driving in heaven in the book of B. no
question? Job? C. IDK
1. A 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. C 10. A 11. C
464 Chapter 31. Wisdom literature
11. how many books have in Ecclesiastes? 13. Did you like our presen-
wisdom literature? tation?
A. "Vanity is vanity, all
A. 3 is vanity" A. yes
B. 5 B. "All is vanity" B. no
C. 7 C. "Life has no mean- C. I am not wise
er
D. all ing" enough
12. what is the major quote D. "God is all mighty"
gd
an
Ch
y an
ra
Na
12. A 12. B 13. C

er
32. World Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. How many countries A. Jane Austen to Vladmir Nobokov’s
are in the world? LOLITA?
B. Kerry Greenwood
A. 195 A. "Baby Love"–The
C. Vladmir Nobokov
Supremes
an
B. 200
D. Alexandre Dumas
B. "Part-Time Lover"–
C. 300
5. Which author was Rus- Stevie Wonder
D. 60 sian?
C. "Don’t Stand So
y
2. Which author had a A. Alexandre Dumas Close To Me"–The Po-

Haitian grandmother? lice
B. Vladmir Nobokov
ra
A. Jane Austen D. "Justify My Love"–

C. Jane Austen
B. Xi Qu Modonna
D. Kerry Greenwood
C. James F. Cooper 8. Who wrote Sense and
Na
6. Which author wrote Sensibility?

D. Alexandre Dumas mainly about the Fron-
A. Kerry Greenwood
3. Which author is still liv- tier?
ing today? B. Alexandre Dumas
A. Kerry Greenwood
A. Jane Austen C. James F. Cooper
B. Vladmir Nobokov
B. Alexandre Dumas D. Jane Austen
C. Alexandre Dumas
C. Kerry Greenwood 9. Who wrote The Count
D. James F. Cooper of Monte Cristo?
D. James F. Cooper 7. Which band
A. James F. Cooper
4. Which author was a wrote/sang a song
reclusive? that was connected B. Alexandre Dumas
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. D 9. B
466 Chapter 32. World Literature
C. Jane Austen 12. What novel did James F. D. Kerry Greenwood

Cooper NOT write? 14. Who wrote The
D. Vladmir Nobokov
A. Pride and Prejudice Pathfinder?
10. Who wrote Lolita?
B. The Last of the Mo- A. James F. Cooper
A. Alexandre Dumas hicans B. Vladmir Nobokov
B. Jane Austen C. Lolita
er
C. Kerry Greenwood
C. James F. Cooper D. The Pathfinder D. Alexandre Dumas
D. Vladmir Nobokov 13. Who wrote a novel
15. Who wrote Pride and
about a historical detec-
gd
11. Who wrote The Three Prejudice?
tive series centered on
Musketeers? A. Jane Austen
the character of Phyrne
A. Kerry Greenwood Fisher? B. Vladmir Nobokov
an
B. Alexandre Dumas A. Jane Austen C. Alexandre Dumas
C. Jane Austen B. Vladmir Nobokov D. Kerry Greenwood
D. Vladmir Nobokov C. James F. Cooper
Ch
y an
ra
Na
10. D 11. B 12. A 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. A

er
33. Latin and Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. The language spoken in D. Linguistics 6. Oratory, or , was es-
Rome was 4. Romance Languages pecially prized by Ro-
include mans.
A. Greek
A. public speaking
an
B. Roman A. Chinese, German

C. Latin and Slavic. B. orange tree growing
D. Pig Latin B. English, Russian,

Tagalog, and Hindi C. digging for gold ore
y
2. The Romans brought

writing to C. French, Italian,
Spanish and Por- D. orangutan monkey
ra
A. California chatter
tuguese
B. Egypt 7. The most celebrated Ro-
D. poems, sonnets,
C. Language Arts love letters, and valen- man epic poem was
Na
classes tines A. Hickory Dickory

D. Northern Europe 5. Roman writers and Dock.
3. over time, new lan- thinkers used the Latin B. Homer’s Illiad.
guages called , de- language to create
C. Jabberwocky
veloped from Latin. A. nursery rhymes.
D. Virgil’s Aeneid.
A. Mediterranean Lan- B. Trojan horses.
guages 8. Philosophy is the study
C. epic mathematical of
B. Romance Languages equations. A. reality
D. great works of liter- B. knowledge
C. talking ature.
1. C 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. D
468 Chapter 33. Latin and Literature
C. beliefs speech patterns. A. morality

D. all of the above D. you eat your beans B. learning their ABCs
with every meal.
9. The Greek Stoic philos-
ophy stressed a practi- 10. became the keeper
C. government
cal approach of Roman literature.
A. Augustus Caesar D. law
A. babies were deliv-
er
ered by storks. B. Julius Caesar 12. Latin prefixes and suf-
fixes include
B. people performed C. The Roman Catholic
their civic duty Church A. sub
gd
and accepted their D. The secret cata- B. pre
circumstances-good or combs
bad. C. able
11. Roman literature was
D. ity
an
C. all citizens copied used to educate young
Caesar’s lifestyle and men in
Ch
y an
ra
Na
9. B 10. C 11. A 11. C 11. D 12. A 12. B 12. C 12. D

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34. Afro-Asian Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. What does Afro-Asian C. papyrus A. The Egyptian Book
literature mirror aside of the Dead
D. scrolls
from customs and tradi-
B. Mahabharata
tions? 4. It is the beginning of
an
Asian and African Lit- C. Ramayana

A. political realms
erature.
B. philosophy of life D. Panchatantra
A. historic period
C. aspirations 7. It was written in pa-
y
B. primitive period pyrus in 250 BC.

D. hope
C. pre-historic period A. Mahabharata
ra
2. On the whole, it is
deeply and predomi- D. ancient period B. Panchatantra
nantly contemplative
5. They were used to C. Ramayana
and hauntingly sweet.
Na
record what had tran-

D. The Egyptian Book
A. aspirations spired in history.
of the Dead
B. customs A. Hieroglyphs of 8. In Africa, this hindered
C. traditions Egypt the writing of litera-
D. philosophy of life B. papyrus ture.
3. It is the basis of earlier C. scrolls A. lack of writers

written documents. B. lack of literacy
D. books
A. stories passed on C. lack of love for liter-
6. It is considered to be the
orally ature
earliest records of liter-
B. books ature. D. lack of materials
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. A
470 Chapter 34. Afro-Asian Literature
9. One of the importance 13. The name India is de- early 16th to the mid-
of literature is that it is rived from 18th century.
a sign of
A. early settlers A. Mughal Dynasty
A. old and modern
B. Indus River B. Aramaic Dynasty
times
C. Indus Mountain C. Indian Dynasty
B. progress
er
D. Indus terrotory D. Bharat Dynasty
C. literacy
14. It is the period when 18. These are important
D. love the name India started bases of classification in
10. Another importance
gd
to be widely used. the Indian society.
of literature is that It
A. pre-historic period A. tribal affiliations
teaches people about
the different experi- B. Bharat period
B. racial criteria
ences and of their
an
C. colonial period
ancestors. C. linguistic and cul-
D. English coloniza- tural practices
A. life tion
D. origins
B. history 15. It began in ancient In-
Ch
dia. 19. India has more than
C. lifestyle
languages.
D. culture A. Jainism
A. 100
11. It is the other name of B. Hinduism
India. B. 200
C. Buddhism
A. Rama C. 300
an
D. Islam
B. Varsha 16. It was the strong influ- D. 400
C. Bharata ence Indian culture was 20. It is important in under-
subjected to. standing Indian civiliza-
y
D. Bharat
A. Buddhism tion.
12. It is the name India was
A. racial criteria
ra
known for during me- B. Jainism

dieval times. B. cultural diversity
C. Hinduism
A. Bharat C. linguistic diversity
D. Islamic
Na
B. Varsha D. intermingling of
17. It is the Muslim dy-
C. Rama nasty that ruled most of race
D. Hind northern India from the
10. D 11. D 12. D 13. B 14. C 15. A 16. D 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. C
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35. American English
gd
an
Ch
1. Who is this? C. He had written 10 B. 1681, 1682, 1683
dictionaries
C. 1697, 1698, 1696
D. He compiled 3 ele-
D. 1751, 1752, 1753
mentary books into a
an
dictionary 5. Webster’s first dictio-

3. What are the books that nary was called
Webster had compiled? A. A Compendious
Dictionary of the En-
y
A. The History book,

The Grammar book, glish Language
A. Noah Centineo
ra
The Reader book B. Merriam-Webster

B. Noah Webster Dictionary
B. The Literature book,
C. Trevor Noah The Reader book, The C. The American
Na
D. George Washington History book Spelling Book

C. The Grammar Book, 6. What is the work "A
2. What is contribution of The Spelling Book, The Grammatical Institute
Noah Webster to the Reader Book of the English Lan-
American English? D. The Grammar book, guage" consisted of?
A. He created " A Dic- The Literature book, A. a speller, a syntax, a
tionary of The English The Reader Book reader
Language" 4. In what year did Noah B. a speller, a syntax, a
B. He wrote "The Dec- Webster compile this grammar
laration of Indepen- book?
C. a speller, a grammar,
dence" A. 1783, 1784, 1785 a reader
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. C
472 Chapter 35. American English
7. The "Blue-Backed glish Language. ster came out with this

Speller" was originally statement?
B. 1789 - Dissertation
titled
on the English Lan- A. American indepen-
A. The Elementary guage dence (1776) was seen
Spelling Book by Webster as an oppor-
C. 1884 - Oxford En-
B. The First Part of tunity to get rid of the
glish Dictionary
linguistic influence of
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the Grammatical Insti-
tute of the English Lan- 9. What was Noah Web- Britain
guage ster been called as?
B. The new nation
gd
C. The American A. Father of Revolution needed new language
Spelling Book with a fresh identity
8. Webster’s name has B. Father of British Ed- C. It was a matter of

become synonymous ucation honour as an indepen-
an
with "dictionary" in dent nation to have “a
C. Father of American system of our own, in
the United States, es-
Scholarship and Educa- language as well as gov-
pecially the modern
tion ernment
Merriam-Webster dic-
Ch
tionary. Which of the D. Father for Our Fu- D. There was a popu-
following is the first ture Children lar perception in Amer-
release of Merriam- ica that British English
10. “A national language
Webster’s dictionary? was too corrupt and in
is a band of national
A. 1828 - An American union” (Webster)What a state of decline
Dictionary of the En- are the reasons Web-
y an
ra
Na
7. B 8. A 9. C 10. A 10. B 10. C 10. D

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36. Ancient Greece Language and Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. What is the oldest form D. Epic Poems C. 24
of literature used by the 4. What were epic po- D. 32
Greeks? ems? 7. What percentage of En-
A. Fables A. Funny poems glish words come from
an
B. Folktales the Ancient Greeks?

B. Long poems that
C. Poems told stories about great A. 12
heroes 8. What do lyric poems ex-
D. Epic Poems
y
C. Short poems press?

2. What was the name of
the Greek slave who D. Stories about the A. Information
ra
wrote well-known fa- gods and godded B. Opinions

bles? 5. What was the greatest C. Explanations
A. Matthew achievement in Greek
Na
D. Personal feelings
literature?
B. Zeus 9. What are two of the
A. Poems most famous epic po-
C. Aesop
B. Plays ems?
D. Henry
C. Movies A. Odysseus and Zeus
3. What was the most pop-
ular form of poetry in D. Storybooks B. The Iliad and The
Ancient Greece? Odyssey
6. How many letters are in
A. Limericks the Greek alphabet? C. Athena and Artemis
B. Humorous A. 26
D. The Midas Touch
C. Biography B. 30
and Pandora’s Box
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. B
474 Chapter 36. Ancient Greece Language and Literature
10. Who was the most fa- 11. Who were the actors in each actor in a Greek
mous female poet in a Greek play? play have?
Ancient Greece? A. Women A. One
A. Athena B. Children B. Two
B. Persephone C. Men and Women C. Three
er
C. Sappho D. Men D. Many
D. Hera 12. How many roles did
gd
an
Ch
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10. C 11. D 12. D

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37. Asian Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. A collection of Indian A. Kalidasa B. Lao Tzu
beast fables.
B. Rabindranath C. Sun Tzu
A. Vedas Tagore
D. Li Bai
an
B. Panchatantra C. Prem Chand 6. The story considered as

D. Anita Desai the world’s first true
C. The Rigveda
novel.
4. The founder of Taoism
D. Mahabharata
who stressed freedom, A. The Tale of Haike
y
2. A Sanskrit drama by simplicity and the mys- B. The Epic of Gil-

Kalidasa that tells of a tical contemplation of gamesh
ra
love between a king and nature.

a woman who lives in C. The Pillow Book
A. Confucius
the forest. D. The Tale of Genji
B. Lao Tzu
Na
A. Panchatantra 7. Regarded as the great-

C. Sun Tzu est haiku poet.
B. Ramayana
D. Li Bai A. Yosa Buson
C. Shakuntala
5. The founder of Confu- B. Koyabashi Issa
D. Mahabharata cianism who empha-
sized a code of social C. Matsuo Basho
3. A Sanskrit poet and
conduct and stressed D. Ryunusuke Akuta-
dramatist who is prob-
importance of disci- gawa
ably the greatest writer
pline, morality and
of all time; considered 8. A collection of stories
knowledge.
as the Shakespeare of of which "Alladin", "Sin-
India. A. Confucius bad" and "Alibaba" are
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. C 8. C
476 Chapter 37. Asian Literature
perhaps best known to tributed to the Chi- who searched for ev-
Western readers. nese philosopher Con- erlasting life.
fucius.
A. Men In The Sun A. Alladin
A. The Confucius
B. Zaynab B. The Epic of Gil-
B. The Art of War gamesh
C. Arabian Nights
C. The Analects C. Sinbad
er
D. The Epic of Gil-
gamesh D. The Tang Poems D. One Thousand and
9. The collection of say- 10. A tale of a superhu- One Nights
gd
ings and ideas at- man Sumerian king
an
Ch
y an
ra
Na
9. C 10. B
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38. British Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. "Beowulf" is about B. God 8. "The Time Machine",
"Invisible Man" and
A. a king fighting drag- C. the devil
"The War of Worlds"
ons 5. "Robinson Crusoe" was were written by
written by
an
B. a warrior fighting H.G.Wells. They

monsters A. Jane Austen were
C. a sailor fighting mer- B. Daniel Defoe A. adventure books
maids
B. travels books
y
C. Joanathan Swift
2. "The Canterbury Tales"
6. Choose the titles which C. science fiction
were written in
ra
are examples of gothic books

A. Modern English horror/fiction 9. The book who gave ori-
B. Old English A. Frankenstein gin to this film was
Na
C. Middle English B. Dracula A. The Island of Dr.

Moureau
3. Who wrote "Hamlet?" C. Oliver Twist
B. The Dubliners
A. William Shake- D. Wuthering Heights
speare 7. The creator of the C. Pygmalion
B. John Milton character "Sherlock 10. This expression first ap-

Holmes" is peared in a dystopia
C. Daniel Defoe by George Orwell
A. H.G.Wells
4. "Paradise Lost" written entitled
by Milton is about B. Arthur Conan Doyle
A. Animal Farm
A. angels B. 1984
C. Oscar Wilde
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. A 6. B 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. B 11. B
478 Chapter 38. British Literature
C. The Hobbit A. Alexander Selkirk A. The Juliet

11. What did Geoffrey B. Daniel Dafoe B. the Globe
Chauser write?
C. Winston Churchil C. Londinium
A. London tales D. the king George V D. The National The-
B. Cantenbury tales 16. Robinson Crusoe lived atre
er
C. English tales on the island 22. What was Romeo’s sur-
A. 15 years name?
D. Ancient tales
B. 4 years A. Capulet
gd
12. Why is "Cantenbury
tales" famous? C. 28 years B. Montaque
A. It is the first piece of D. 10 years C. Lawrence

literature written in En- 17. "The adventure of D. Mercutio
an
glish Robinson Crusoe" was 23. Where did the story
B. It is about Middle the first written in take place?
Age knights English
A. Rome
Ch
C. It is written in Old A. novel
B. Florence
English B. short story
C. Verona
D. It is the unfinished C. article
work by Chauser D. Venecia
D. essay
13. Who are the main char- 24. When did Romeo see
18. Where was William
an
acters of "The knight’s Juliet the first time?

Shakespeare born?
tale" A. in the city center
A. London
A. Palamon and Arcite B. in the market
B. Bath
y
C. at the party
B. Theseus and Emily C. Stratford upon Avon
D. at his home
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C. Venus and Mars

D. Avon 25. Why did Juliet die?
D. Geoffrey and Emily
19. Did William Shake- A. She drank poison
Na
14. Who wrote the book speare finish any uni-

"The adventures of B. She had a fever
versity?
Robinson Crusoe" C. She didn’t want to
A. Yes
marry Paris
A. Agatha Cristie
B. No
D. She saw that Romeo
B. Geoffrey Chauser 20. Was William Shake- was dead
C. Daniel Dafoe speare married?
26. Which dramas did
D. Oscar Wilde A. Yes William Shakespeare
B. No write?
15. The story of Robinson
Crusoe is based on the 21. What is the name of A. Macbeth, Hamlet,
life of Shakespeare theatre? Richard III
12. A 13. A 14. C 15. A 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. B 23. C
24. C 25. D 26. A
B. Hobbit, King Lear, C. He didn’t worked B. Ebenezer Scrooge

Othello hard left London and went
to Scotland
C. Much ado about D. He wanted to look
nothing, Christmas like his portrait C. Ebenezer Scrooge
Night, Hamlet 30. Who wrote "A Christ- changed his life style
D. As you like it, the mas Carol"? D. Ebenezer Scrooge
er
Merchant of Verona, A. Jane Austen got married and had a
the Comedy of Errors son
B. G.B. Shaw
27. What nationality was 34. What is the most fa-
gd
Oscar Wilde? C. J.K. Rowling
mous play by Agatha
A. English D. Charles Dickens Christie?
31. What was Ebenezer A. The mousetrap
B. Scottish
Scrooge’s job?
an
C. Irish B. 10 liitle boys
A. a banker
D. Welsh C. Orient train
B. a policeman
28. Oscar Wilde wrote a D. A death on the Dun-
Ch
C. a ghost
novel "The portrait of abee
Dorian " D. an accountant
35. Who are the main heros
A. Gray 32. How many ghosts came of the play "Pigmalion"
to Ebenezer’s house? by G.B. Shaw?
B. Grey
A. 1 A. A doctor and a
an
C. Guy
B. 2 flower girl
D. Black
C. 3 B. An engineer and his
29. Why didn’t Dorian D. 4 wife
y
Gray get older?

33. What is the ending of C. A writer and a maid
A. Dorian sold his soul the story of Ebenezer
ra
to the devil Scrooge? D. A philosopher and

B. He took care of his A. Ebenezer Scrooge his friend
appearance died
Na
27. C 28. A 29. A 30. D 31. A 32. C 33. C 34. A 35. A

Na
ra
y an
Ch
an
gd
er
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39. Dystopian Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. What kind of informa- caught doing some- having basic needs met,
tion and literature is thing bad or illegal like food and shelter
used in dystopian soci- B. Citizens not hav-
B. The people in
eties in order to con- ing access to loved
charge follow the im-
an
trol what the citizens ones like family and/or

portant citizens around
know and the informa- mates
and watch everything
tion they have access
they do, even going to C. Citizens wearing
to?
bed in their rooms assigned clothing and
y
A. Propaganda C. The citizens think working at assigned

B. Newspapers they are under con- jobs
ra
stant surveillance by D. Citizens being al-

C. Control over the in- spies, cameras, or other lowed to have civil
ternet means rights and make choices
Na
D. Burn all the books D. The citizens hear for themselves

2. In Dystopian societies, voices in their heads 4. When stories, legends,
what is one way the telling them that they or rumors in a society
people in charge main- are being watched are told in order to keep
tain the illusion of 3. One way that dystopian people from wanting to
knowing everything societies keep their citi- leave, they are creating
that happens? zens in line is by "dehu- this
manizing" them. Which A. People who are not
A. The citizens don’t
of the following is NOT brave
know, they are just
an example of this?
afraid of what might B. Fear of the outside
happen if they are A. Citizens not always world
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B
482 Chapter 39. Dystopian Literature
C. Oral stories because entertain the children D. myth

the books are taken and old people 10. The spreading of ideas
away and information to help
C. "Illusion of Utopia"
D. reasons that citizens does not exist in any so- or hurt a cause
should explore outside cieties A. Propaganda
for themselves
D. It means that the B. Social Dialect
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5. One way power is main- people in the society be-
tained in dystopian so- lieve they are living in C. Dystopian Element
cieties is by setting the the best kind of soci- D. Allusion
expectation for citizens ety, better than what ex-
gd
to conform to certain isted before and better 11. In The Giver, only the
standards. Which ex- than what else could ex- Receiver of Memories is
ample from The Giver ist now allowed access to books,
is NOT an example of memories, and history.
an
conformity? This is an example of
is NOT an example of a which of the main el-
A. Jonas taking the ap- dytopian novel? ements we have stud-
ple from the lunchroom ies.
A. The Giver
Ch
B. Diary of a Wimpy A. Constant Surveil-
B. Jonas and all the
Kid lance
other 11s becoming
adults on the same day C. The Hunger Games B. Citizens are not al-
lowed to choose their
C. Jonas and all of his D. Maze Runner
own destiny
friends wearing the 8. A dystopian protago-
an
same kinds of clothes nist usually: C. Propaganda is used

to control people’s
D. All of the families A. Is satisfied with thoughts
having a mother, father, their society
one boy, and one girl D. Information, inde-
y
B. is physically pendent thought, and

6. What does it mean for stronger than most peo-
a society to have the "Il- freedom are restricted
ra
ple
lusion of Utopia"?
C. is dissatisfied with 12. Ironically, people in a
A. It means citizens in society and feels
the society didn’t want dystopia
Na
trapped
to live in a dystopia A. fight for their rights
anymore because they D. is the leader of the
were unhappy, so they dystopian society
B. believe everything
moved to a utopia 9. Dystopias are usually
is perfect
B. The "Illusion of set in the
Utopia" is a magic trick C. disbelieve pro-
A. past
that is often performed poganda
B. present
by the leaders in a D. want freedom
dystopian society to C. future
5. A 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. A 11. D 12. B

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40. Early Middle Ages
gd
an
Ch
1. The Early Middle Ages 4. Warriors in Anglo- C. The Ecclesiastical
refers to the period of Saxon society were History of the Anglo-
times from expected to stay with Saxon People
their kings 7. A Chronicle can be de-
A. 490 - 1068
an
A. until death scribed as

B. 540 - 1088
A. a yearly record of
C. 450 - 1066 B. until the warrior got
current events
married
y
2. Which of the follow- B. a book of stories

ing peoples settled in C. until retirement
about the Early Middle
Briton afters years of
ra
5. Who wrote "The Eccle- Ages

pillaging and plunder-
siastical History of the C. a monk’s personal
ing?
Anglo-Saxon People"? diary
A. The Huns
Na
A. Monks 8. Who brought an end to

B. The Anglo-Saxons the Anglo-Saxon era of
B. Bede English history?
C. Asians
C. the Pope A. the pope
3. Which quality in war-
riors was highly re- 6. The most famous work B. the king of Norway
warded by Anglo- of literature written in
C. William ’the Con-
Saxon kings? Old English is
queror’
A. loyalty A. Beowulf 9. The Battle of Hastings
B. bravery took place in
B. The Anglo-Saxon
C. writing poetry Chronicle A. 1096
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. B
484 Chapter 40. Early Middle Ages
B. 1066 erature was also writ- B. Greek

C. 1086 ten in
C. Latin
10. Besides Old English, lit- A. Hebrew
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gd
an
Ch
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Na
10. C
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41. Elements of Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. Theme can be ex- C. Man vs. Self 6. Plot is defined as
plained as
D. Man vs. Nature A. Two or more plots
A. What the reading se- developing alongside
4. In the exposition the
lection is about each other
an
following is included
B. A type of Figurative B. The sequence of
Language A. Time, place, envi-
events in a story
ronment, and charac-
C. a specific message ters C. When a story begins
y
about life and ends in the same

B. Time, place, charac-
D. A lesson lto learn place
ters and conflict
ra
2. Which of the follow- D. Two different sto-

ing figures of speech is C. Time place and char-
ries with the same types
hardest to identify? acters
of plot
Na
A. Analogy D. Time, environment

7. The protagonist can be
and characters
B. Metaphor defined as
5. Paul Walker (Fast and
C. Simile A. The good guy
the Furious) dying in a
D. Word Choice car accident is an exam- B. The bad guy
3. Internal Conflict can be ple of
C. The character who
also known as
A. Tragedy the action revolves
A. Man vs. Supernatu- mostly around
B. Situational Irony
ral
D. The character who
B. Man vs. Technology C. Dramatic Irony
is mentioned mostly in
D. Verbal Irony the story
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. C
486 Chapter 41. Elements of Literature
8. The antagonist can be D. Where everything D. Imagery and dialect

known as changes for the antag-
A. The bad guy onist
12. When something is de-
10. Climax is scribed in terms of an-
B. The character who
saves the day A. The most intense other, stating that one
moment of the story thing in fact IS another,
C. The character who
er
B. The most exiting it is most likely
gets punished in the
story part of the story A. a metaphor
D. The character(s) C. When the protago- B. simile
gd
who oppose(s) the pro- nist returns triumphant
tagonist C. analogy
9. Incitement to Action is D. When all changes D. imagery
the part of the story for the protagonist; the
an
conflict is resolved 13. The author of the The
when
Sniper is
A. The characters are 11. The word choice of an
introduced author influences A. Tim O’Brian
A. Tone and mood
Ch
B. The crisis or conflict B. Luigi Pirandello
is exposed B. Tone, mood and di- C. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Mini problems that alect
increase the tension are C. Tone, mood, dialect D. Liam O’Flaherty
explained and imagery
y an
ra
Na
8. D 9. B 10. D 11. C 12. A 13. D

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42. England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Foo
gd
an
Ch
1. Who is the writer of A. Rolling Stones C. Rolling Stones
Winnie-the-Pooh? B. The Beatles 7. They were an English
A. Alan Alexander rock band formed in
C. Queen
Milne Liverpool made up by
an
5. He is an English singer, four members: John

B. William Shake- pianist and composer. Lennon, Paul McCart-
speare In 1998 he was named ney, George Harrison
C. J.K. Rowling Sir, knighted by Queen and Ringo Starr.
y
2. Who is the writer of Al- Elizabeth II at Buck-

ingham Palace. He A. Queen
ice in Wonderland?
was awarded the title B. Rolling Stones
ra
A. J.K. Rowling of Knight for "services

C. The Beatles
B. Sir Elton John to music and charitable
services". 8. The tradition of drink-
Na
C. Lewis Carroll ing tea was introduced

3. Who is the writer of A. James Bond by
Harry Potter? B. Elton John A. Ana, Duchess of
A. James Bond C. Prince Charles Bedford
B. J.K. Rowling 6. Their most famous B. Catherine, Duchess
song is "Bohemian of Cambridge
C. Alan Alexander
Rhapsody", which
Milne C. Queen Elizabeth
stayed at number one in
4. This is an English rock the UK for nine weeks. 9. Dinner was served at 8
band formed in London. o’clock so she started
They were considered a A. Queen to feel hungry around
“rebellious” group. B. The Beatles
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. A 9. B
488 Chapter 42. England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Food
A. 2 o’clock C. tea and scones 12. What is Marmite?

B. 4 o’clock 11. What is the name of the
A. A dark brown and
C. 10 o’clock plate made up by fish
sticky food spread.
and potatoes?
10. She asked for a tray
with a cup of and A. Marmite B. Chocolate
B. Fish and Chips
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C. blueberry jam
A. coffee and cake
C. Sandwiches and
B. coke and chips Chips
gd
an
Ch
y an
ra
Na
10. C 11. B 12. A

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43. Literature Terms
gd
an
Ch
1. This are people or ani- B. protagonist 6. Simile
mals in stories. C. antagonist A. This is the type of
A. symbols D. allusion narrator in a story.
an
B. characters 4. This type of writing B. This is when a char-

or language helps us acter smiles.
C. metaphors
see the story; it gives C. This compares
D. settings us mental pictures of two unlike things but
y
2. A story’s setting is the sights, sounds, and doesn’t use the word
smells in a story. "like" or "as."
A. the highest point of
ra
suspense in a story. A. falling actions

D. This compares two
B. the people in the B. figurative language unlike things using the
story. C. descriptive writing word "like" or "as." It is
Na
a figure of speech.
C. what the events D. antagonist
7. Metaphor
stand for as symbols. 5. This type of language
makes comparisons be- A. This figure of
tween seemingly unlike speech compares two
D. the time and place
things. unlike things and uses
in which the events
the term "like" or "as."
happen. A. figurative language
3. The conversations or B. This figure of
B. omniscient narrator
talk between characters speech compares two
is called what? unlike things without
C. allusion using the term "like" or
A. dialogue "as."
D. myth
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. B
490 Chapter 43. Literature Terms
C. This is the type of D. the animal or pet 16. This type of story is a
narrator in a story. that the main character traditional story from
D. This is the time and cares for a certain culture which
place in which a story 12. The character who tries to explain a belief,
happens. fights against the pro- a ritual, or a mysterious
tagonist in a story is phenomenon.
8. This type of metaphor
called the A. myth
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talks about nonhuman
things as it it were hu- A. antagonist B. dialogue
man. B. hero C. plot
gd
A. simile C. narrator
D. rising action
B. metaphor D. simile 17. This is the first part of
C. personification 13. This type of conflict is a story where the set-
one a character experi- ting and characters are
an
D. plot
ences within himself introduced.
9. This is a person, place,
A. external conflict A. resolution
thing, or event that
stands for itself and for B. marginal conflict B. rising action
Ch
something beyond it- C. regenerative con-
self. C. exposition
flict
A. symbol D. climax
D. internal conflict
14. A reference to a state- 18. This is the highest point
B. personification
ment, a person, a place, of suspense in a story.
C. metaphor
an
or an event from lit- A. exposition

D. antagonist erature, history, reli-
B. climax
10. This is a type of narra- gion, mythology, poli-
tor who is all-knowing tics, sports, science or C. resolution
pop culture is called
y
and all-seeing. D. myth

what?
A. reflective 19. Resolution
ra
A. a conflict
B. character-driven A. This is the begin-
B. an allusion ning of a story where
C. singular
C. the climax the characters and set-
Na
D. omniscient ting are introduced.

D. a myth
11. A protagonist is
15. This is a type of lit- B. This is the highest
A. the main character erature where realis- point of suspense in a
that we follow who tic events and magical story.
tends to be the hero of or unreal events mix C. This is the end of a
the story. to create a believable story where the loose
B. the villain in the story. ends are tied up.
story. A. realistic literature D. These are the events
C. the supporting char- B. magical realism leading to the climax of
acters in a story / not a story.
C. symbolism
the main character
D. protagonism
8. C 9. A 10. D 11. A 12. A 13. D 14. B 15. B 16. A 17. C 18. B 19. C
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1. In which century was 4. In 1905, Virginia Woolf D. English
Piers Plowman writ- began to write for 7. Who wrote the poem
ten? which publication? “Requiem"?
A. 14th A. The Time’s Literary A. Robert Louis Steven-
an
Supplement son
B. 12th
B. The Lady’s Home B. William Shake-
C. 10th Journal speare
D. 11th
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C. Strand Magazine C. Samuel Johnson

2. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Reader Magazine D. John Milton
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served which king?

5. Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ 8. the prevailing feature
A. Richard III takes place over what of Chaucer’s humour is
B. James 1 period of time? its
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A. A week A. urbanity
C. Edward III
B. 24 hours B. crudity
D. Henry II
C. A lifetime C. triviality
3. The 18th century work
’Tom Jones” was writ- D. 6 months D. sanctity
ten by whom? 6. What was the national- 9. who is the first great En-
A. Samuel Johnson ity of Oscar Wilde? glish critic-poet?
B. Henry Fielding A. Irish A. Shakespeare
C. John Donne B. Scottish B. Arnold

C. French C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Tobias Smollett
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. C 10. A
494 Chapter 44. Miscelleneous questions
D. Chaucer 15. The Bronte sisters A. Blake’s “Songs of In-

10. HYMN TO ADVER- wrote during this pe- nocence”
SITY is a poem by riod B. Mary Shelley’s
A. Regency “Frankenstein”
A. Thomas gray
B. Restoration C. Lord Byron’s “Don
B. Alexander Pope
Juan”
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C. Edward gibbon C. Romantic
D. Sir Walter Scott’s
D. William Blake D. Victorian “Ivanhoe”
11. Who wrote the poem 16. Literary divisions are 20. Which of the following
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’The Seven Ages’? not always exact, but works was written be-
we draw them because fore the all-important
A. John Milton Battle of Hastings?
they are often conve-
B. Geoffrey Chaucer nient. The majority of A. Beowulf
an
C. William Shake- English literary periods
B. Canterbury Tales
speare are named after:
C. The Domesday
D. Edward Gibbon A. The leading charac- Book
teristic of the age
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12. who write the story D. Sons and Lovers
“Story Teller” ? B. Monarchs or politi- 21. Who wrote first?
cal events
A. William Wordsworth A. George Eliot
C. The primary author
of the age B. Christopher Mar-
B. William Shake- lowe
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speare D. The language of the

C. Howard, Earl of Sur-
C. Thomas Grey age
rey
D. Saki 17. Which period of litera- D. William Shake-
ture came first?
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13. Jane Austen wrote dur- speare

ing this period A. Regency 22. Which work was com-
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pleted last?
A. Restoration B. Victorian
A. John Milton’s “Par-
B. Victorian C. Romantic adise Lost”
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C. Middle English D. Restoration B. George Herbert’s

D. Regency 18. In what language did “The Temple”
14. One of these men did Shakespeare write? C. William Shake-
NOT write during the speare’s “Tempest”
A. Middle English
Restoration period. D. Ben Jonson’s
Who? B. German “Volpone”
A. John Milton C. Old English 23. Which of the follow-
B. Thomas Otway ing poets wrote during
D. Modern English
the Victorian period but
C. Sir Walter Scott 19. Which work was pub- was not published until
D. John Dryden lished first? the 20th century?
11. C 12. D 13. D 14. C 15. D 16. B 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. C 22. A
23. B
A. Christina Rossetti 27. He was not a Renais- 31. Which of the following
sance writer. writers would be an ap-
B. Gerard Manley Hop-
A. William Shake- propriate subject for a
kins
speare class on “The Literature
C. Elizabeth Barret of the British Empire”?
Browning B. Sir Philip Sidney
A. Rudyard Kipling
D. Ted Hughes C. Christopher Mar-
er
B. Edward Fitzgerald
24. This work was NOT lowe
originally published in C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Sir Thomas Malory
the 20th Century. 28. Which of the follow- D. Any of these
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A. Henry James’s “The ing literary sub-periods 32. World War I affected
Ambassadors” does NOT fall under the the writing of many au-
Neoclassical Period? thors. Which of the fol-
B. Thomas Hardy’s lowing poets would not
an
“Tess of the A. The Restoration
have been touched by
D’Urbervilles” B. Jacobean Age that event?
C. E.M. Forster’s “A C. The Augustan Age A. T.S. Eliot
Room With A View”
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D. The Age of Sensibil- B. Siegfried Sassoon
D. Virginia Woolf’s ity
“Mrs. Dalloway” C. Wilfred Owen
25. Which poet did NOT periods of English liter- D. Oscar Wilde
write during the 16th ature came last? 33. The period of mat-
century? uration, intellectual
A. The Elizabethan
an
growth and social

A. John Skelton Age graces during the Re-
B. William Shake- B. The Commonwealth naissance is called the:
speare Period A. aristocracy
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C. Sir Thomas Wyatt C. The Jacobean Age B. New Age

D. Thomas Carew D. The Middle English C. Reformation
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26. Historical events of- Period

D. Enlightenment
ten influence literature. 30. This work was written
Which of the follow- before the other three 34. The most popular
Na
ing did NOT occur dur- choices. French playwright,

ing the Restoration pe- Jean Baptiste Poquelin,
A. Bede’s “An Ecclesi- is known as:
riod? astical History of the
English People” A. Caleron
A. Charles II was re-
stored to the throne B. Julian of Nor- B. Corneille
B. The French Revolu- which’s “Book of Show- C. Couperin
tion ings” D. Moliere
C. The Great Fire of C. Chaucer’s “Canter- 35. The first English-
London bury Tales” woman to earn her
D. The Exclusion Bill D. Sir Thomas More’s living as a playwright
Crisis “Utopia” was:
24. B 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. A 31. D 32. D 33. D 34. D 35. B
A. Nell Gwynn 40. ‘O Captain! My Cap- A. Ruskin

tain!’ is a poem written
B. Aphra Behn B. Lamb
by-
C. Lady Teazle C. Mill
A. Robert Frost
D. Ann Hathaway D. Oscar Wilde
B. Emily Dickinson
36. The most important el- 46. ‘Of Human Bondage’ is
C. Mark Twain
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ement of a Tragedy? written by-
D. Walt Whitman
A. Plot A. Somerset Maugham
41. What do you mean by
B. Character B. James Joyce
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Quatrain?
C. Spectacles A. a poem of fourteen C. W.B. Yeats
D. Diction lines D. Philip Sydney
37. “But God’s eternal B. a stanza of fourteen 47. Who wrote "Shake-
an
Laws are kind And lines speare’s Later Come-
break the heart of C. a stanza of six lines dies’?
stone.” In which poem
D. a stanza of four lines A. A.C. Bradley
do these lines appear?
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B. Palmer D.J.
A. We Are Seven
42. Find the Odd man out?
(Wordsworth) C. Dr.Johnsofl
A. Ulysses
B. Ballad of Reading D. None of these
Goal (Oscar Wilde) B. The Falcon
48. The Rape of the Lock is
C. The Virginians a:
an
C. Prisoner of Chillon
(Byron) D. On Liberty A. Parody
D. None of these 43. “Beauty is truth, truth B. Elegy
38. Modern age is an age is beauty” is stated by-
y
C. Romance
of- A. Keats
D. Sonnet
A. Pessimism and Cyn-
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B. Shelley
icism 49. ‘Tom Jones’ by Henry
C. Jane Austine Fielding was first pub-
B. Conflicts and Con-
D. Charles Lamb lished in
troversies
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44. Who is the writer of the A. the first half of 19th

C. Subjectivity poem ‘A Grammarian’s century
D. All of the above Funeral’?
B. the first half of 18th
39. Who is the author of ‘A A. Shelley century
Brief History of Time’? B. William Shake- C. the 2nd half of 18th
A. Albert Einstein speare century
B. Stephen Hawking C. Wordsworth D. 19th century
C. Jagadish Chandra D. Robert Browning 50. One of the following
Basu 45. The treatise ‘On Lib- was a Romantic poet
D. Isaac Newton erty’ was written by:
36. A 37. B 38. B 39. B 40. D 41. D 42. B 43. A 44. D 45. C 46. A 47. B
48. A 49. B 50. C
A. Tennyson A. Roots 60. Who is the writer of

‘The Ring of the Book’?
B. Arnold B. Ulysses
A. Shelley
C. Shelley C. Tom Jones
B. Robert Browning
D. Browning D. Rebecca
C. William Shake-
51. The period between 56. Who is the writer of
speare
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1660 to 1750 is known ‘The Two Voices’?
as: D. Wordsworth
A. A. Lord Tennyson
A. The Age of Classi- 61. Edmund Spenser is a-
B. George Bernard
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cism A. poet
Shaw
B. The Restoration B. dramatist
C. William Shake-
C. The age of Milton speare C. artist
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D. None of these D. Christopher Mar- D. scientist
52. ‘Paradise Lost’ was lowe 62. Which one of the fol-
written by- 57. Who is the writer of lowing writers is not
woman?
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A. Shakespeare ‘The Charge of the
Light Brigade’?
B. Milton A. Emily Bronte
A. George Bernard B. Jane Austen
C. Coleridge Shaw
D. Keats C. Robert Browning
B. Christopher Mar-
53. ‘On Heroes and D. None of these
an
lowe
Hero worship is 63. Who is the author of ‘In-
C. A. Lord Tennyson
written by: dia Wins Freedom’?
D. William Shake-
A. Huxley A. Ghandhi
speare
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B. Carlyle B. Nehru
58. Who is known as an
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C. Ruskin anti-romantic novelist C. Jinnah

D. Mill in the Romantic Age?
D. Abul Kalam Azad
54. Who is known as the A. Charles Lamb 64. Which is called the Vic-
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national poet of Eng- B. Jane Austen torian Age:

land
C. William Hazlitt A. 18th Century
D. Oliver Goldsmith B. 19th Century
59. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Vil- C. 20th Century
B. John Keats
lete were written by: D. None of these
C. William Shake-
speare A. E. Bronte 65. “Poetry is not like rea-
B. J. Austen soning, a power to be
D. T. S. Eliot exerted according to
55. James Joyce’s famous C. C. Bronte the determination of
novel- D. None of these will”, is a statement by:
51. B 52. B 53. B 54. C 55. B 56. A 57. C 58. B 59. C 60. B 61. A 62. C
63. D 64. B 65. B
A. Wordsworth A. Dickens 76. Byron’s journey to

B. Thackeray Spain, Malta, Albania
B. Shelley
and Greece resulted in
C. Coleridge C. Scott the production of the
D. Fielding first two cantos of his
D. Arnold
71. The character of Little poem:
Neil is a creation of: A. cain
er
A. Tom Jones : Henry A. Hardy B. Childe Herald’s Pil-
Fielding grimage
B. Eliot
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B. Roxana: Daniel De- C. Don Juan
foe C. Oscar Wilde
D. Dickens D. the prisoner of
C. The Good-nature Chillon
man: Oliver Goldsmith 72. What did Robert Frost’s
77. Who wrote ‘Crime and
an
father do?
D. All for Love: John Punishment’?
Milton A. teacher
A. Shelley
B. journalist
67. ‘Adela’ is a character B. Tolstoy
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from- C. black-smith
C. Byron
A. A Passage to India D. farmer
D. Dostoyevsky
73. “Justice delayed is jus-
B. Paradise Lost 78. When Alfred Lord Ten-
tice denied” was stated
C. Hamlet by- nyson was born?
A. 1809
an
D. Doctor Faustus A. Shakespeare

68. The period of English B. Emerson B. 1810
literature from 1660 to C. Gladstone C. 1811
the end of the century
D. 1812
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is called: D. Disraeli
74. Thomas Hardy was 79. Who was a friend of
A. Renaissance John Milton?
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brought up to the pro-

B. Jacobean Period fession of: A. John Donne
C. Restoration Period A. Architect B. John Dryden
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D. Romantic Age B. Engraver C. Andrew Marvell

69. Firdausi was the poet C. Sculptor D. Alexander Pope
of- D. None of these 80. The literary figure
75. Who wrote ‘The Span- who had the most pro-
A. Persian
ish Tragedy’? nounced effect on Keats
B. English was:
A. John Lyly
C. French A. Dante
B. Thomas Kyd
D. Italy B. Shakespeare
C. Robert Green
70. ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel C. Wordsworth
D. Christopher Mar-
by- lowe D. Shelley
66. D 67. A 68. C 69. A 70. B 71. D 72. B 73. C 74. A 75. B 76. B 77. D
78. A 79. C 80. B 81. A
81. In his poetry Tennyson 86. Wordsworth was ap- 91. Famous romantic poets
is: pointed as poet Laure- were
ate in:
A. The representative A. Five
poet of Victorian Age A. 1843 b 1844
B. Four
B. The representative B. 1845
C. Six
poet of Romantic Age C. 1846
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D. None of these
C. The best nature poet D. none of these
92. What the term Elegy
D. None of these 87. Which one of the fol- refers?
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lowing is a comedy?
82. Catharsis refers to the A. a song of lamenta-
term- A. All’s Well that Ends tion
Well
A. characters in play B. a song of pleasure
B. Hamlet
an
B. animals in play C. a hymn
C. Timon of Athens
C. sympathy to others D. a praiseworthy song
D. Antony and Cleopa-
D. arouse of pity and tra
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fear 93. Who was more under
88. ’Picture of Dorian Gray the influence of God-
83. Which book wins the ’ was written by win’s philosophy of
2013 Man Booker Prize life?
A. Oscar Wild
A. The Luminaries A. Byron
B. Hardy
B. Wolf Hall
an
C. George Eliot B. Browning

C. The White Tiger D. None of these C. Shelley
D. The Sea 89. From 1st January 2007, D. Keats
how many digits con-
y
84. What do you mean by 94. Which University pre-

Archaism? tains in ISBN (Interna- sented the Pulitzer
tional Standard Book Prize
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A. modern mode of Number)

words A. Columbia Univer-
A. 9 sity
B. up-to-date words
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B. 10 B. Yale University
C. literary words C. 13
C. New York Univer-
D. obsolete words D. 15 sity
85. Would you tell Sordelo 90. Who is the author of D. Harvard University
(Browning) as a: the novel ‘The Golden
95. Keats’ widespread ap-
A. Dramatic Mono- Age’?
peal is to the Reader’s
logue A. Tahmima Anam interest in the supernat-
B. Dramatic Lyrics B. Pearl S. Bark ural.
C. Virginia Woolf A. True

C. Tragic Drama
D. Jane Austen B. False
D. None of these
82. D 83. A 84. D 85. B 86. A 87. A 88. A 89. C 90. A 91. C 92. A 93. C
94. A 95. B 96. C
C. both A and B 101. Who was American A. H.G. Wells

poet?
D. none of these B. Blackmore
96. ‘Paradise Lost’ was A. Robert Frost C. T. S. Eliot
written by B. John Keats D. Jane Austen
A. Mathew C. John Milton 107. Browning is famous
er
B. Robert Browning for his:
D. Robert Herrick
C. John Milton A. Sensory images
102. Which one is not a sci-
ence fiction writer B. Dramatic Mono-
D. W B Yeats
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logues
97. Total number of son- A. H. G. Wells
nets written by Shake- C. Narrative ballads
B. Victor Hugo
speare D. Blank Verse
C. Hugo Gernsback
an
A. 102 108. Adonis is modeled on:
D. Jules Verne A. Bion’s lament for
B. 154
103. Who wrote ‘Hard Adonis
C. 163
Times’ and ‘A tale of
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B. Lycidas
D. 194 two Cities’?
C. In Memoriam
98. ‘Love and Friendship’ is A. John Milton
written by- D. None of these
B. Charles Dickens 109. ‘Lycidas’ is written
A. Francis Bacon
C. John Webster by-
an
B. Jane Austen A. Alexander Pope

D. Daniel Defoe
C. Jonathan Swift B. Henry Fielding
104. “Undo this Button”
D. None is a line from Shake- C. Thomas Hardy
y
99. Which year Geoffrey speare’s:

D. John Milton
Chaucer was born? A. Hamlet 110. In Shakespeare
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A. 1340 AD B. Othello tragedy, the hero is-

B. 1341 AD C. King Lear A. an ordinary man
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C. 1342 AD D. Julius Caeser B. a high ranking man

D. 1343 AD C. a sacrilegious man
105. We find Subjective El-
100. Who is the author of ements in? D. none of these
the drama ‘You never 111. Poetry is defined as
A. Keats
can tell’? ‘Spontaneous overflow
B. Shelley of powerful feeling’ by:
A. G.B. Shaw
B. Ben Jonson C. Wordsworth A. Shelley
C. Shakespeare D. All B. Coleridge

106. Who is the writer of C. Wordsworth
D. Christopher Mar-
lowe ‘Lorna Doone’? D. None of these
97. B 98. B 99. A 100. A 101. A 102. B 103. B 104. C 105. D 106. B 107. B
108. A 109. D 110. B 111. C 112. B 113. A
112. Shakespeare was born 117. Who Is known as the C. Charles Kingsley
in: Father of English Po-
D. Thomas Hood
etry
A. 1570 122. Shaw died at the age
A. William Shake- of:
B. 1564
speare
C. 1590 A. 75
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
er
D. None of these B. 95
C. John Milton
113. In Memoriam by Ten- C. 105
nyson is: D. William Wordsworth
D. none of these
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A. an elegy 123. The poem “Wind” is
118. Who wrote the book
B. a collection of ele- ‘Ivan Hoe’? written by:
gies A. O’ Henry A. Shelley
an
C. a lyric B. R L Stevenson B. John Ashbery
D. a dramatic lyric C. Ernest Hemingway C. Sylvia Plath
114. The Novel of D. Ted Hughes
D. Sir Walter Scott
Lawrence banned by
Ch
119. Synecdoche refers to 124. Childe Harold was
the government was:
the term- written by:
A. Sons and Lovers
A. a thing stands for A. Byron
B. Lady Chatterley’s whole thing B. Shelley
Lover
B. pity and fear C. Tennyson
an
C. Women in Love
C. Self-contradictory D. None of these
D. The Rainbow speech
125. What is an Epic?
115. “Reading makes a D. long speech
full man, conference A. a short poem
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a ready man and writ- 120. Simile is the direct

comparison between B. a long narrative
ing an exact man.”-Who poem
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told it? two-

A. similar things C. a historical poem
A. Shakespeare
B. dissimilar things D. a prose composition
Na
B. Chaucer
C. elaborate compari-
C. Spenser 126. ‘The Metaphysical Po-
son
D. Bacon ets’ is a critical essay
D. contradictory by:
116. In which age is ‘The things
Puritan Period’ in- A. Arnold
cluded? B. T. S. Eliot
“Around the World in
A. The Renaissance Eighty Days”? C. Shelley
B. The Non-classical A. Jules Verne D. None of these
C. The Romantic B. Christopher Mar- 127. Who is the author of
lowe ‘Animal Farm’?
D. The Modern
114. B 115. D 116. A 117. B 118. D 119. A 120. B 121. A 122. B 123. D
124. A 125. B 126. B 127. B
A. Thomas More A. The Wasteland A. The Seven Lamps

B. George Orwell B. The Hollow men B. Unto this Last
C. Boris Pasternak C. East Coker C. The Stones of

Venice
D. Charles Dickens D. Prufrock
D. None of these
128. ‘The Age of Chaucer’ 133. What do you mean by
er
Stanza? 138. ‘Paradise Lost’ and
ranges from- ‘Paradise Regained’ are
A. 1340-1385 A. a division of drama written by-
gd
B. 1240-1300 B. a division of novel A. P.B. Shelley
C. a division of story B. John Keats
C. 1340-1400
D. a subdivision of a C. John Milton
D. 1340-1399
poem
an
D. William Blake
129. Who is the writer of 134. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a 139. ‘The Medal’ by John
the poem ‘Nun Priest’s poem written by: Dryden is a/an-
Tale’?
A. Tennyson A. play
Ch
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Browning B. satire
B. Cynewulf
C. Keats C. prose
C. Robert Browning
D. T. S. Eliot D. translation
D. Shelley 140. "After Apple Picking"
135. The shepherd in “The
an
130. What do you mean by Passionate Shepherd to is written by:

Heroic Couplet? His Love” is A. Robert Browning
A. a pair of rhyming A. sentimental B. Robert Frost
iambic pentameter
y
B. practical C. both A and B

B. a two line stanza D. none of these
C. irresponsible
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C. a poem of lamenta- 141. T. Hardy is:

D. romantic
tion
136. Tradition and Individ- A. A social reformer
D. a song for mourning
Na
ual Talent is a critical es- B. A satirist

say by:
C. A fatalist
131. The poet of ‘Romantic A. Shelley
Age’ is- D. A lover of nature
B. Oscar Wilde 142. Who is famous for rep-
A. D.H. Lawrence resenting London in his
C. T. S. Eliot
B. John Milton novels.
D. None of these
C. John Keats A. Thackeray
B. Hardy
132. ‘April is the Cruelest ing is illustrative of
month of all is taken Ruskin’s interest in so- C. Dickens
from Eliot’s: cial economy? D. W. Scott
128. C 129. A 130. A 131. C 132. A 133. D 134. B 135. D 136. C 137. B
138. C 139. B 140. B 141. C 142. C 143. C
143. Who of the following A. Anglo-Norman 153. Emile Zola is a

was both a poet and famous-
B. Anglo-Saxon
painter?
A. English novelist
C. Chaucer’s period
A. Keats
B. American Novelist
B. Donne D. Middle Age
C. Irish novelist
C. William Blake 149. ‘Prometheus Un-
er
bound’ is a lyrical D. French Novelist
D. Spenser drama by- 154. Which of the follow-
144. Who after the publica- ing is written by P. B.
A. Shelley
gd
tion of a poem, awoke Shelly?
and found himself fa- B. Shakespeare
mous? A. To a skylark
C. Sophocles
A. Shelley B. The Daffodils
D. Euripedes
an
B. Browning C. Pride and Prejudice
150. Shaw’s ‘Man and Su-
C. Wordsworth perman’ is an example D. Culture and Anar-
D. Keats of: chy
Ch
145. ‘The Lotus Eaters’ A. Comedy of Errors 155. is the school of
was written by literary writings is a
B. Comedy of Manners medical theory.
A. Tennyson
C. Comedy of Ideas A. Comedy of Manners
B. Browning
D. Romantic Comedy
C. Blake
an
151. All that glitters is not B. Theater of the Ab-

D. None of these gold. You have heard surd
146. Who wrote ‘The Ad- often this told. This C. Heroic Tragedy
ventures of Augie maxim is included in
y
March’? Shakespeare’s D. Comedy of Hu-

mours
A. Saul Bellow A. Merchant of Venice
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/ Shakespeare’s 156. Jane Austen is the

B. James Osborn writer of
C. Toni Morrison B. Shakespeare’s Tem-
pest A. Jane Eyre
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D. Jean Paul Sartre B. Ramona

C. Shakespeare’s Much
147. ‘Elegy’ is
ado about nothing. C. Emma
A. Historical poem
D. None of these D. Rebecca
B. figurative story
152. Shakespeare’s ‘Ham- 157. The University Wits
C. song of lamentation let’ was published in: were:
A. 1602 A. Poets
D. short story
B. 1608 B. Playwrights
148. Which was the oldest
period in English litera- C. 1610 C. Novelists
ture? D. None of these D. None of these
144. C 145. A 146. A 147. C 148. B 149. A 150. C 151. A 152. A 153. D
154. A 155. D 156. C 157. B 158. B 159. A
158. ‘Sweet are the uses of A. William Wordsworth 169. In “The Gift of the
adversity’ was stated by Magi” Della is pre-
sented as
B. P. B Shelley
A. Valtaire A. a loving wife
C. Lord Byron
B. Shakespeare B. a snobbish wife
D. John Keats
C. a hypocritical wife
er
C. Milton 164. The novel ‘Talisman’
is written by- D. a sacrificing wife
D. Tolstoy
A. Jane Austen 170. Which of the follow-
159. Hardy is a:
gd
ing would a Romantic
B. Charles Dickens Poet be most likely to
A. Pessimist
C. Sir Walter Scott use?
B. Meliorist
D. Oliver Goldsmith A. A "member of the
an
C. Mystic plumy race"
165. Lord Byron was born
D. None of these in: B. A "bird"
160. Eliot was influenced A. 1788 C. A "tenant of the sky"

Ch
by: B. 1789
D. An "airy fairy"
A. Ezra Pound C. 1790
171. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
B. Shaw D. 1791
A. A Poem
C. Hardy 166. ‘Macbeth and Oedi-
pus’ is by: B. Drama
an
D. none of these
A. W. H. Auden C. None of these
161. Who is the first great D. A Poem
modernist of English B. Earnest Jones
Literature? 172. ‘The Lay of the Last
C. Nicoll
y
Minstrel’ is written by:

A. Roger Bacon D. Freud
A. Blake
ra
B. Robert Browning 167. Who wrote the book

B. Byron
‘Lord Jim: A Tale?
C. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Tennyson
A. Oscar Wilde
Na
D. Cynewulf D. Walter Scott

B. Joseph Conrad
162. Julius Caesar was the 173. Which year William
C. Thomas Hardy Shakespeare was
ruler of Rome about-
D. Rudyard Kipling born?
A. 1000 years ago
168. Who is called the fa- A. 1564 AD
B. 1500 years ago ther of English Poetry? B. 1773 AD
C. 2000 years ago A. Milton C. 1809 AD
D. 3000 years ago B. Wordsworth D. 1923 AD
163. Who wrote the poem C. G. Chaucer 174. Who of the following
‘Solitary Reaper’? D. Charles Dickens is a playwright?
160. A 161. C 162. C 163. A 164. C 165. A 166. A 167. B 168. C 169. D
170. D 171. A 172. D 173. A 174. D
A. Dickens 179. ‘Renaissance’ means 184. “Blow, blow thou win-

ter wind Thou art not
B. Frost
so unkind.”-Example
A. the revival of learn-
C. W.B. Yeats of?
ing
D. G.B. Shaw A. Simile
B. the revival of hard
175. In Shakespeare’s task B. Conceit
er
Tragedies Character is
C. the revival of life C. Metaphor
not Destiny but there is
Character and Destiny D. the revival of new D. Couplet
is a remark by: country
gd
185. Who is the writer of
A. Nicoll 180. Who is the Writer of the poem ‘Andrea Del
The White Tiger? Sarto’?
B. Goddord
A. Arobinda Adigha A. William Shake-
an
C. Bradley speare
B. Salman Rushdie
D. Coleridge B. Shelley
C. Arundhoti Roy
176. ‘The Alchemist’ is C. Wordsworth
written by- D. Kiron Dishai
Ch
181. Who is the au- D. Robert Browning
A. Ben Johnson
thor of ‘The Rape of 186. Who is the writer of
B. Samuel Johnson Bangladesh’? ‘Harold’?
C. Marlowe A. Anthony Mascaren- A. George Bernard
has Shaw
D. None of them
an
B. Mathew Arnold B. A. Lord Tennyson

177. The central idea of
‘Ozymandias’ is that C. G. B. Shaw C. Christopher Mar-
lowe
D. Alexander Dumas
y
A. all things, both 182. Who is considered to D. William Shake-

great and small,will per- be the father of English speare
ra
ish novel? 187. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem

B. man is mortal,art im- written by:
A. Francis Bacon
mortal A. Wordsworth
Na
B. Geoffery Chaucer
C. imagination is B. Keats
C. King Alfred the
stronger than fact
Great C. None of these
D. history repeats
D. Henry Fielding D. All of these
178. Who propounds "the 183. The novel ‘The Jungle 188. The kind Claudius was
touchstone method" Book’ is written by- killed by:
A. Arnold A. R. K. Narayan A. Laerteus
B. Shelley B. Edin Blyton B. Hamlet
C. Pope C. Rudyard Kipling C. Horatio
D. Dryden D. H. G. Wells D. None of these
175. C 176. A 177. A 178. A 179. A 180. A 181. A 182. D 183. C 184. D
185. D 186. B 187. A 188. B 189. B
189. ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ A. Christopher Mar- A. Eliot

is a prose work by: lowe
B. Pater
A. John Ruskin B. Lord Tennyson
C. I. A. Richards
B. Carlyle C. John Milton
D. F. R. Leavis
C. Bacon D. All of them
200. A poem mourning
er
D. Lamb 195. Yahoo’s according to someone’s death is
190. ‘Hero and Hero wor- Gulliver were: called:
ship’ was written by: A. European A. Fable
gd
A. Ruskin B. Indians B. Epic
B. Carlyle C. American C. Elegy
C. Mill
D. None of these D. None of these
D. None of these
191. What is the term
Utopia? xx
an
196. A poem of fourteen
lines is called
A. Elege
201. In Shakespeare “Char-
acter is not Destiny”
but “character and Des-
Ch
A. a hat of a king tiny”. Whose comment
B. Sonnet is this?
B. a day dreamer
C. Ode A. Bradley
C. a lotus eater
D. Epic B. Dr. Johnson
D. an ideal state which
does not exist in real 197. Who is the author of C. Nicoll
an
‘The Rime of the An-

192. Henry Higgins is a D. None of these
cient Mariner’?
character in: 202. What is the feature of
A. Pygmalion Romantic poetry?
y
B. saint joan A. Imagination

B. S. T. Coleridge
ra
C. Candida B. Modernism
C. W. Somerset
D. none of these Maugham C. Post-modernism
193. William Blake’s D. Sir Walter Scott D. None of the above
Na
/Song’s of ‘ coun-
terbalance his ‘Songs of 198. Who is the father of 203. ‘I wandered Lonely as
Experience’. English Literature? a cloud’ is an example
of
A. Love A. Roger Bacon
A. symbol
B. childhood B. Robert Browning
B. Metaphor
C. Inexperience C. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Simile
D. Innocence D. Cynewulf
D. Metonymy
194. Who is contempo- 199. Who accuses Arnold
rary of William Shake- of "high pamphleteer- 204. Who is called the
speare? ing" ‘Mock heroic poet’?
190. B 191. D 192. A 193. D 194. A 195. A 196. B 197. B 198. C 199. D
200. C 201. A 202. A 203. C 204. C
A. Edmund Walter 209. Who wrote poem 214. The Romantic Age be-
about Lucy? gan with publication of
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexander Pope A. S. T. Coleridge
A. Lyrical Ballads
D. Dr. Samuel Johnson B. P. B. Shelley
B. My Last Duchess
C. A Tale of Two Cities
er
ing is not a tragedy D. Lord Byron
written by Shake- D. Canonization
speare? 210. Who is the author of
gd
the book ’Around the 215. What is an Effigy?
A. Macbeth World in Eighty Days’ A. a poem
B. Othello
A. Jules Verne B. a sonnet
C. Merchant of Venice
an
B. H. G. Wells C. an image or dummy
D. None of these
C. Mark Twain D. a lamentation
206. Who is the first mod-
ern novelist? D. Charles Dickens 216. T. Hardy is:
Ch
A. Samuel Richardson 211. What is Quinzaine? A. A satirist
B. Samuel Johnson A. a fourteen line B. A fatalist
stanza
C. Samuel Beckett C. A lover of nature
B. a twenty line stanza
D. None of the above D. None of these
an
207. What is the name C. a thirteen line

217. Gunter Grass got No-
of Wordsworth’s long stanza
bel Prize in-xviii
poem? D. a fifteen line stanza
A. 1998
A. The Canterbury
y
212. ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’

B. 1997
Tales Who is the poet
of the poem? C. 1999
ra
B. Don Juan
C. The Prelude A. Wordsworth D. 2000
D. None of these B. Shelley 218. Intense emotion cou-

Na
pled with an intense

208. The literary work C. Shakespeare display of imagery are
‘Kubla khan’ is characteristics of
D. Keats
A. a history by Vincent age
213. Which on of the fol-
Smith A. Victorian
lowing is first long
B. a verse by Coleridge poem in English? B. Elizabethan
A. The Wanderer C. Romantic
C. a drama by Oscar
Wilde B. Beowulf D. None of these
D. a short story by C. The Seafarer 219. "The Crown of Wild
Somerset Maugham D. Dream of the Road Olive", is written by:
205. C 206. A 207. C 208. B 209. C 210. A 211. D 212. D 213. B 214. A
215. C 216. B 217. C 218. C 219. A 220. B
A. Ruskin D. having no blanks in A. Ode on a Grecian

the verse Urn
B. J.S.Mill
225. Who is the author of B. The Prelude
C. C. Lamb the famous book ‘The
C. Ode to Autumn
D. Russell Judgment’ is-
D. None of these
220. "In Memoriam" is : A. Anthony Mascaren-
er
A. an ode has
‘Sherlock Holmes’?
B. an elegy B. Amartya Sen
A. John Gay
C. a sonnet C. Kuldip Nayer
gd
B. Sir Arthur Canon
D. neither D. Nelson Mandela Doyle
221. Who is the writer of 226. What is ‘Parable’? C. Dylan Thomas
‘Comedy of Errors’? A. an allegorical story D. Somerset Maugham
an
A. Ben Jhonson usually containing a
moral lesson 231. ‘The Rainbow’ is a
B. G B Shaw
B. the basic unit of a novel written by:
C. William Shake- composition A. Hemingway
Ch
speare
C. a sense of distress B. Virginia Woolf
D. T S Eliot
D. none of the above C. E.M. Forster
222. “Tales from Shake-
227. Which one is not by D. D.H. Lawrence
speare” is written by:
Shakespeare?
A. Shakespeare 232. What do you mean by
an
A. Nature teaches Phonetics?

B. Lamb beasts to know their
A. study of speech
C. Lawrence friends.
sounds
D. Mary Anne Evans B. True is it that we
B. study of language
y
have seen betting days.

223. ‘Ode to Autumn’ was and rules
written by C. Knowledge is C. study of insects
ra
power.
A. Shelley D. study of meaning
D. None of these. and syntax
B. Keats
228. Who is the representa-
Na

C. Byron tive of the metaphysical ‘For Whom the Bell
D. Blake poets? Tolls’?
224. What the term Blank A. Samuel Johnson A. Charles Dickens
Verse refers- B. John Donne B. Homer
A. having no rhyming C. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Lord Tennison
end
D. Robert Browning D. Ernest Hemingway
B. having no rhythmic
229. ’Heard Melodies are
flow
sweet but those un- 234. In Poem Daffodils
C. having no signifi- heard are sweeter’ is a ‘Sprightly Dance’
cance line from means-
221. C 222. B 223. B 224. A 225. C 226. A 227. C 228. B 229. A 230. B
231. D 232. A 233. D 234. C
A. ugly dance A. Dr. Faustus A. the Christmas carol

B. nonsense dance B. The Jew of Malta B. Great Expectations
C. lively dance C. Tamburlaine C. oliver twist
D. nice dance D. Edward II D. a tale of two cities
235. Find the Odd man out? 244. “The Conduct of the
239. What is Robert Frost
er
Allies’ is a famous work
A. Ulysses : James famous Journal?
of:
Joyce A. The summers day A. Jonathan Swift
B. A Full Moon in
gd
B. The Road not taken B. Samuel Johnson
March : W. B. Yeats
C. The Atlantic C. Oliver ‘Goldsmith
C. Drama of Ideas : T.
Monthly
S. Eliot D. None of these
an
D. The Mountain Inter- 245. In which city the play
D. Riders to the Sea :
val of Shakespeare ’Romeo
John Millington Synge
240. Who is the author and Juliet’ is set in
236. On which novel, the
Sherlock Holmes char- of “The Origin of A. Milan
Ch
acter was first ap- Species”?
B. Verona
peared A. Charles Darwin
C. Turin
A. The Hound of the B. A. Pope
Baskervilles D. none of these
C. T. Hardy 246. Who is the writer
B. The Sign of the Four
an
D. O. Goldsmith of The Restoration Pe-

riod?
C. The Valley of Fear 241. Who is the author of
‘Man and Superman’? A. Robert Herrick
D. A Study in Scarlet
y
B. Jeremy Taylor
A. W. Shakespeare
237. The prose of the Ro-
C. John Dryden
mantic period had a ten- B. George Bernard
ra
dency to: Shaw D. Thomas Hobbes

A. Objectify the issue C. Leo Tolstoy 247. The line ‘Beauty is
in terms of a cause truth, truth beauty’ oc-
Na
D. Charles Dickens curs in which one of

B. Advance a single Keats’ following po-
system to the public 242. Adam Bede is a:
ems:
C. Allow the writer to A. Play
A. Ode to Nightingale
draw on his B. Novel
B. Ode to Grecian Urn
D. Be brooding and C. Poem
meditative. own per- C. Ode to Psyche
sonality D. none of these D. None of these
238. ‘I count religion but a 243. Dickens’ first novel 248. The beginning of the
childish toy’ is a line which focused on the renaissance may be
from Marlowe’s play: specific social ills was: traced to the city
235. C 236. D 237. A 238. B 239. C 240. A 241. B 242. B 243. B 244. A
245. B 246. C 247. B 248. D 249. C
A. Venice A. George Bernard A. A Sonnet

Shaw B. An Ode
B. London
B. William Shake- C. A ballad
C. Paris
speare
D. Florence D. None of these
C. A. Lord Tennyson
249. The Essays of Elia was 259. ‘Exiles’ is a-
D. Christopher Mar-
er
first published in book A. Short Story
lowe
form in
254. Who is an American B. Novel
A. 1795 author? C. Play
gd
B. 1807 A. R.W. Emerson D. Poem
C. 1823 B. H.D. Thoreau 260. The Cardinal virtues
D. 1829 of the Houyhnhnms
C. Henry W. Longfel-
an
are:
250. ‘Hearing’ a colour or low
‘Seeing’ a smell is an ex- A. Friendship and
D. All 4 benevolence
ample of:
255. Macbeth is a B. Bitterness and re-
Ch
A. Oxymoron
A. play venge
B. Synaesthesia
B. novel C. Hatred and jealousy
C. Sensuousness
C. an essy D. None of these
D. Contrast 261. Eliot worked for Faber
D. poem
251. “A long poem is a com- and Faber as a/an:
an
256. ‘Written in March’ is

bination of short po- a poem composed by A. assistant
ems.” Who has held the
above opinion? B. director
A. William Wordsworth C. writer
y
A. Coleridge
D. Editor e none of
B. Keats B. William Congreve
ra
these
C. Wordsworth C. William Blake 262. James Joyce’s narra-
D. None of these tive technique is known
D. William Shake-
as-
Na
252. Poet Alexander Pope’s speare

famous work 257. The statue of ‘Ozy- A. stream of conscious-
mandias’ is ness
A. The Rape of Lock
B. psycho-analysis
B. The Deserted Vil- A. on a mountain
lage C. Objective Co-
B. beside a river
relative
C. Spectator C. in a desert
D. Symbolism and
D. Man was made to D. in a valley Mysticism
mourn 258. A poem which con- 263. Who is the writer
253. Who is the writer of sists of fourteen line is of The Restoration Pe-
‘Vision of Sin’? called: riod?
250. B 251. C 252. A 253. C 254. D 255. A 256. A 257. C 258. A 259. C
260. A 261. D 262. A 263. A 264. A
A. Aphra Ben 269. ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ A. Victorian poet

B. Robert Herrick was written by: B. a modern poet
C. Jeremy Taylor A. Bradley C. Both
D. Thomas Hobbes B. Dover Wilson D. None of these
264. Who have written the C. Earnest Jones 275. Hellenism of Keats
book ’The Godfather’ connotes:
er
D. Freud
A. Mario Puzo A. his love of poetry
270. defines a play as
B. Francis Ford Cop- B. his love of ancient
a just and lively image
gd
pola cultures
of human nature.
C. Marlon Brando C. his love of Greek cul-
A. Dr. Johnson
D. Mark Winegardner ture and art
B. Shakespeare
an
265. George Bernard Shaw D. None of these
is C. Dryden 276. Which poet empha-
A. a playwright sized on rustic language
D. Coleridge
in Poetry?
B. a film-maker
Ch
271. Hardy’s Nature is: A. John Keats
C. a historian
A. Friendly B. William Wordsworth
D. a modern painter
266. Who represents Pride B. Indifferent
in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride C. William Blake
C. Vindictive
and Prejudice’: D. Thomas Gray
an
D. None of these
A. Mr. Bennett 277. Which poem of Ten-
272. Who is the writer of nyson was particularly
B. Mr. Bingley
The Caroline Period? like by Queen Victoria?
C. Miss Elizabeth
y
A. Robert Herrick A. The Idylls of the

D. None of these kings
B. Caedmon
ra
267. ‘Satanic Verses’ is

B. Charge of the Light
written by- C. Dante Brigade
A. R.K. Narayan D. Cynewulf C. In Memoriam
Na
B. Salman Rushdie
273. What do you mean by D. None of these
C. Jhumpa Lahiri Hyperbole? 278. The literary work of
D. Arundhuti Roy A. a long verse ‘Kubla Khan’ is-
268. The ‘Merchant of A. a history by Vincent
B. a long narrative
Venice’ Written by Smith
poem
Shakespeare is
B. a verse by Coleridge
A. A novel C. an overriding view
C. a drama by Oscar
B. a short story D. an overstatement Wilde
about something
C. a poem D. a short story by
D. a drama 274. Yeats was Somerset Maugham
265. A 266. D 267. B 268. D 269. C 270. C 271. B 272. A 273. D 274. C
275. C 276. B 277. C 278. B 279. B
279. Hyperion is a/an 284. The ‘Poet Laureate’ is D. arrangement of the

poem incidents
A. Elegy A. the best poet of the 289. Who is called the Bird
country of Avon?
B. Epic
B. a winner of the No- A. John Dryden
C. Lyric
ble Prize in poetry B. William Shake-
er
D. None of these C. the Court Port Eng- speare
280. has a super land C. John Milton
abundant wealth of 290. What is anthology?
D. a classical poet
gd
words and superfluous
ornaments 285. “To be, or not to be, A. collection of poems
that is the question”- B. collection of insects
A. Hyperbole Where do you find this
quotation? C. fish cultivation
an
B. Metaphor
A. Macbeth D. study of poetry
C. Rhetoric
291. What the term Renais-
D. None of these B. Hamlet
sance refers?
Ch
281. ‘The quality of Mercy C. As You like It
A. revival or rebirth
is not strained’ the line D. Othello B. representation
is taken from
286. Utopia is an ideal state
C. presentation
A. Merchant of Venice written by-
D. rebel
B. Two gentleman of A. Thomas Gray
292. Jane Austen’s other
an
Verona B. William Shake- writings are:

C. Midsummer’s Night speare
A. Sense and Sensibil-
Dream C. George Bernard ity
Shaw
y
D. Anthony and
B. Emma
Cleopatra D. Thomas More
C. Persuasion
ra
282. The poem ‘The Pa- 287. “not of an age, but for
triot’ is written by all time”-was told about D. All of these
Shakespeare by whom? 293. The earliest play writ-
A. Alfred Tennyson
ten by Shakespeare
Na
B. Robert Browning A. Marlowe according to Oxford

C. Mathew Arnold B. Ben Johnson Shakespeare 1988 is:
C. King Henry A. The Taming of the
D. John Donne
Shrew
283. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ D. John Milton
B. As you Like it
was written by: 288. What is a plot?
C. Two Gentlemen of
A. Wordsworth A. an idea about writ-
Verona
ing
B. Coleridge D. Titus Andronicus
B. the choice of words
C. Shelley 294. Who is the hero of Par-
C. choice of poem adise Regained
D. None of these
280. A 281. A 282. B 283. C 284. C 285. B 286. D 287. B 288. D 289. B
290. A 291. A 292. D 293. D 294. A
A. Christ A. a diary A. Coleridge

B. Satan B. a biography B. Shelley
C. The Paritan Church C. an autobiography C. Wordsworth
D. a chronicle D. Keats
D. None of these 305. Famous Irish poet and
300. Who wrote the fantasy
dramatist is-
er
295. Wordsworth is a novel ’The Lord of the
poet. Rings’ A. W.B. Yeats
A. classical A. J. R. R. Tolkien B. L. Tolstoy
gd
B. modern B. Peter Jackson C. A. Pope
D. H.G. Wells
C. romantic C. C. S. Lewis
306. ‘Murder in the Cathe-
D. Greek D. J. K. Rowling
an
dral’ is a play written
296. Who said ‘Cowards 301. What is Epistolary by:
die many times before Novel? A. Shakespeare
their death’?
A. a novel of short B. Marlowe
Ch
A. Shakespeare length
C. Oscar Wilde
B. Franklin B. a novel personal D. T.S. Eliot
feelings
C. Carlyle 307. Who is the writer of
C. a Novella The Augustan Period?
D. Alexander Pope
an
D. a novel of corre- A. Robert Herrick

297. Which one of the fol-
spondence among the B. Jeremy Taylor
lowing poets was ap-
characters
pointed Poet Laureate C. Samuel Richardson
in the year 1813? 302. The Professor was the
y
first novel by: D. Thomas Hobbes

A. Tennyson
308. The Poet Laureate is-
A. Emily Bronte
ra
B. Byron A. the best poet of the

B. Charlotte Bronte country
C. Southey
C. Anne Bronte B. a winner of Noble
D. Wordsworth
Na
D. Jane Austen Prize in Poetry

298. Whose real name was
Mary Anne Evans? 303. ‘The Excursion’ was C. the court poet of
written by: England
A. Jane Austen
D. a classical poet
A. Coleridge
B. Charlotte Bronte 309. How many chapters
B. Blake are in the Qur’an
C. George Eliot
C. Shelley A. 42
D. Joseph Conrad
D. None of these B. 67
299. A person who writes
about his own life 304. Who wrote ‘Kubla C. 98
writes – Khan’? D. 114
295. C 296. A 297. C 298. C 299. C 300. A 301. D 302. B 303. D 304. A
305. A 306. D 307. C 308. C 309. D 310. C
310. Who wrote ‘Beauty is 315. Which one is the 320. ‘All good poetry is
truth, truth beauty’? world’s longest- spontaneous overflow
running play of powerful feelings’
A. Shakespeare
who made this state-
B. wordsworth A. The Mousetrap
ment?
C. John Keats B. Romeo and Juliet
A. Shelly
C. Othello
er
D. Eliot B. De Quincey
311. The age tended D. Macbeth C. Wordsworth
to favour the taste and 316. ‘Essays of Elia’ was D. None of these
gd
search for truth in art: written by-
321. Novel which is not
A. Classical A. William Hazlitt written by D. H
B. Romantic Lawrence.
B. Emily Dickinson
A. The Rainbow
an
C. Victorian C. Emily Bronte
D. Elizabethan B. Ullysses
D. Charles Lamb
312. What do you mean by C. Lady Chatterley’s
317. Negative Capability to Lover
Beast Fable?
Ch
Keats, means
A. a fictional story of D. Sons and Lovers
A. The ability to sym-
animal characters 322. Who served as an Irish
pathize with other
senator for two terms?
B. a short story
B. Say bad thing, about A Wilde
C. a long narrative others A. Shaw
an
prose
C. To empathize B. Ibsen
D. a soft style epic
D. None of these C. Yeats
Diction? 318. In which of the follow- D. none of these
y
ing Genres did Victo-

A. choice of words for 323. Tennyson was:
rian Literature achieve
writing
ra
its greatest success: A. a romantic

B. choice of characters A. Epic Poetry B. a Victorian
C. choice of rhythms B. Lyric Poetry C. a Pre Raphaelite
Na
D. choice of simile and D. none of these

C. The Essay
metaphor 324. What do you mean by
D. The Novel Burlesque?
314. Romanticism is
mainly connected with- 319. Who is the author of A. a satiric caricature
‘Heaven and Earth’? of the characters
A. excitement and sen-
sation A. Lord Tennyson B. a drama
B. love and beauty B. William Wordsworth C. a satiric person
C. job and tiredness D. an allegorical state-
C. John Keats ment
D. expectation and de-
pression D. Lord Byron 325. Tennyson wrote-
311. B 312. A 313. A 314. A 315. A 316. D 317. C 318. D 319. D 320. C
321. B 322. C 323. B 324. A 325. D
A. Dover Beach A. Hardy 336. Romanticism ex-

B. Dickens pressed a restlessness
B. My last Duchess
of
C. The Eve of St. C. Thackeray
Agnes A. Mind
D. None of these
D. The Lotus Eaters 331. Paradise Lost is- B. Soul
er
326. Maggie is the cen- A. an epic 1 C. Body
tral character in George
B. a satirical work D. None of these
Eliot’s:
C. a tragedy 337. ‘The Revolt of Islam’
gd
A. Adam Bede
D. a ballad was written by:
B. Middle March
332. Which of the follow- A. Wordsworth
C. The Mill on the ing is a ‘comedy’ writ-
Floss B. Coleridge
an
ten by Shakespeare?
D. Silas Morner C. Shelley
A. As You Like It
327. On liberty was written B. King Lear D. None of these
by:
338. Who was a blind poet
Ch
C. Macbeth
A. Carlyle
D. Hamlet A. Homer
B. Macaulay
333. Keats was born in B. Ben Jonson
C. Godwin
A. 1770 C. Thomas Hardy
D. Mill B. 1795 D. Pablo Neruda
an
328. "For art’s sake alone I

C. 1790
would not face the toil 339. Who is the writer
of writing a single sen- D. None of these of The Elizabethan Pe-
tence". Who said it 334. Who is the greatest riod?
y
A. T. S. Eliot modern English drama- A. Sir Thomas Wyatt

tist?
B. G. B. Shaw
ra
B. Caedmon
A. Verginia Woolf
C. Thomas Hardy C. Dante
B. George Bernard
D. Virginia Woolf Shaw D. Cynewulf
Na
329. ‘kubla khan’ is a C. P. B. Shelly 340. Who is the author of

poem which reflects
D. S. T. Coleridge ‘The Jungle Book’?
a strain in Cho-
leridge’s poetry. 335. The Charge of the A. Hans Christain An-
Light Brigade” (Ten- derson
A. Intellectual
nyson) commemorates:
B. magical B. Enid Blyton
A. The Boer War
C. melancholic C. Rudyard Kipling
B. The battle of Trafal-
D. pessimistic gar D. H. G. Wells
330. “David Copperfield” C. The Crimean War 341. The correct date of
was written by: D. None of these French Revolution:
326. C 327. D 328. B 329. A 330. B 331. A 332. A 333. B 334. B 335. C
336. B 337. C 338. A 339. A 340. C 341. C
A. 1793 C. Antony and Cleopa- 352. Who is the author of

tra ‘Heaven and Earth’?
B. 1802
D. Macbeth A. Lord Tennyson
C. 1789
347. Shakespeare was B. William Wordsworth
D. None of these
died?
342. Representative Poet of
A. 1592 C. Lord Byron
er
Victorian Age-
B. 1616 D. G. M. Hopkins
A. Charles Dickens
353. The period from 1649-
B. Robert Browning C. 1638
1660 is known as-
gd
C. Alfred Tennyson D. 1632 A. Commonwealth pe-
D. None of them 348. The Crown of Wild riod
Olive is written by: B. Jacobean period
343. ‘Animal Farm’ is writ-
an
ten by? A. Charles Lamb C. Caroline period
A. William Golding B. Carlyle D. Restoration period
B. George Orwell C. Ruskin 354. “Mortality is a private
Ch
and costly luxury” is
C. Virginia Woolf D. None of these
said by-
D. Joseph Conrad 349. ‘The importance of Be-
A. Cowper
344. Who gave the aes- ing Earnest’ was writ-
ten by: B. Henry Adams
thetic theory of Art For
Arts’ Sake: A. Byron C. John Milton
an
A. Wordsworth B. Wordsworth D. Blake

B. Browning 355. For whom it is said:
C. Oscar Wilde “sensuousness is a
C. Oscar Wilde D. None of these paramount bias of his
y
D. None of these genius”:

350. Who is the villain in
ra
345. The first theatre in “Hamlet”? A. Blake

England was estab- B. Keats
A. Horatio
lished in-
B. Iago C. Tennyson
Na
A. 1556
C. Claudius D. Shelley
B. 1566 356. Keats is prominently a
C. 1576 D. None of these man of:
351. Who is the most A. Emotions
D. 1586
satirist in English Liter-
346. The sea battle of ac- ature? B. Sensations
tium takes place in the C. Imagination
play A. Alexander Pope
D. Aestheticism
A. Measure for Mea- B. Jonathon swift
357. With which theatre
sure C. Dryden in London Shakespeare
B. Othello D. Spenser was associated with
342. C 343. B 344. D 345. C 346. C 347. B 348. C 349. C 350. C 351. B
352. C 353. A 354. B 355. B 356. B 357. A
A. The Globe 362. P. B. Shelly wrote his 367. The poem ‘The Love
elegy named ‘Adonais’ Song of J. Alfred
B. London Coliseum
mourning over whose Prufrock’ is composed
C. West End Theatre death. by?
D. Royal Court Theatre A. Wordsworth A. Dylan Thomas
B. Jane Austen B. T.S. Eliot
er
358. “Fire and Ice” is writ- C. John Keats C. W. B. Yeats
ten by:
D. Walter Scott D. Ezra Pound
A. Eliot
gd
363. Who is called the ‘Poet
368. Who has defined
B. Yeats of Beauty’? tragedy as “an imita-
A. William Wordsworth tion of an action”?
C. Frost
A. Shakespeare
an
D. Auden
B. P. B Shelley B. Dryden
359. Who is known for
his theory of psycho- C. John Keats C. Aristotle
analysis? D. Lord Byron D. None of these
Ch
A. Sigmund Freud 364. Who wrote ‘Ode to a 369. “A passage to India” is
Nightingale’? written by:
B. James Joyce
A. Pope A. Forster
C. Arthur Miller
B. Shelley B. Conrad
D. James Osborn
an
C. Wordsworth C. Lawrence
360. ‘O Lady! We receive
but what we give’-has D. John Keats D. Hardy
been quoted from 365. Find the Odd one. 370. Who is well known
for his translation of
y
A. Kubla khan A. G. B. Shaw : Man

and Superman ‘Rubaiyat of Omar
B. Don Juan Khayyam’ into En-
ra
B. Rudyard Kipling : glish?

C. Tithonus Kim
A. Rose Macaulay
D. Dejection: An Ode C. H. G. Wells : The
Na
Time Machine B. Edward Fitzgerald

361. consists of
nine eight five foot D. Toni Morrison : A C. George Bernard
iambic lines followed Portrait of the Artist as Shaw
by an iambic line of six a Young Man D. D.H. Lawrence
fed with rhyme scheme 366. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is 371. “Tear Idle Tears” is a
ab ab bc bcc: written by? poem by:
A. Octometer A. Charles Lamb A. Frost
B. Sonnet B. Virginia Woolf B. Yeats
C. Terza Rina C. Emily Bronte C. Eliot
D. Spenserian Stanza D. Jane Austen D. None of these
358. C 359. A 360. D 361. D 362. C 363. C 364. D 365. D 366. D 367. B
368. C 369. A 370. B 371. D 372. D
372. What do you mean by A. 1810 A. Drama

Lampoon?
B. 1840 B. Novel
A. An exaggerated C. Story
C. 1805
statement
D. None of these D. Essay
B. A short significant
382. ‘Apologie for Poetrie’
poem 377. Who of the following
er
is written by:
was both a poet and
C. The poet who writes A. Arnold
painter?
sonnet
A. Wordsworth B. Philip Sidney
gd
D. To mock some pow-
erful person B. Coleridge C. Pope
D. Dryden
373. Who became the poet C. Blake
Laureate of England 383. Philip Waken, Aunt
an
D. Keats Pallet and Tom Tulliver
and Ireland during the
reign of Queen Victo- 378. ‘The Faerie Queene’ is are the characters of G.
ria? an Eliot’s novel:
A. Tennyson b A. Silas Manner

Ch
A. Elegy
Browning B. Adam Bede
B. Epic
B. Hardy C. Middle March
C. Sonnet
C. Lawrence D. The Mill on the
D. Poem Floss
D. none of these
an
379. ‘A little learning is 384. In ’ I Wandered

374. “We die As hours do, a dangerous thing’ is Lonely As a Cloud’
and dry Away Like to a quotation from An Wordsworth compares
the summer’s rain;” is Essay on Criticism by the daffodils with
stated by-
y
A. the stars of the

A. John keats A. Oscar Wilds milky way
ra
B. Wordsworth B. Alfred Tennyson B. the waves
C. Shelley C. Alexander Pope C. the trees

Na
D. Milton D. the mil

D. Voltaire
385. In the poem ‘To Daf-
375. Who is the composer 380. Oedipus is written by fodils’ the poet weeps
of the ‘Lycidas’? the dramatist- over
A. Thomas Gray A. Aristophanes A. loss of beautiful
B. Alfred Tennyson B. Homer flower
C. John Milton C. Ovid B. loss caused to envi-

ronment
D. John Keats D. Sophocles
C. loss of sweet scant
376. The Prelude was writ- 381. What type of book D. Short-lived human
ten in” ‘The Woman’ is- life
373. A 374. B 375. C 376. D 377. C 378. B 379. C 380. D 381. B 382. B
383. D 384. A 385. D 386. B
386. Who is the writer of 390. One of the following 395. When did Frost died?
The Augustan Period? authors, one is French. A. 1962
Who is he?
A. Thomas Hobbes B. 1963
A. W. Somerset
B. Alexander Pope Maugham C. 1961
C. Robert Herrick B. Sir Arther Doyle D. 1960
er
D. Jeremy Taylor 396. A figure of speech
C. Edward Fitzerald which contains an exag-
387. Byron’s Poetry is am- D. Alexander Dumas geration for emphasis is
biguous and has a vivid- called:
gd
ness of phrasing which 391. Tennyson was ap-
pointed Poet Laureate A. Over tone
sometimes reaches the
point of abstraction: in: B. Rhetoric
A. 1843 C. Extended metaphor
an
A. True
B. 1847 D. Hyperbole
B. False
C. 1850 397. Shelley was expelled
C. both A and B from the Oxford Univer-
D. 1857
Ch
D. none of these sity on the charge of be-
392. Who is the first person ing a(n):
388. Besides the French to receive nobel prize in A. anarchist
Revolution the effect literature
on Romantic Revolu- B. Atheist
tion: A. Leconte de Lisle
C. commonist
an
A. American Revolu- B. Sully Prudhomme

D. nazi
tion C. Alphonse Lemerre 398. Which word seems
B. Napoleonic wars D. Anatole France out of place?
y
C. Industrial Revolu- 393. Prologue refers- A. rose

tion A. conclusion of writ- B. lily
ra
D. The defeat of the ing C. cauliflower

Spanish armada. B. end of the writing D. daffodil
389. Poetry is spontaneous 399. Who is the author of
Na
C. preface to writing
overflow of powerful the drama,’You never
feelings. It takes it ori- D. praise song of a per- can tell’?
gin from emotions rec- son
A. W.Shakespeare
ollected in tranquility. 394. Shakespeare was fa-
Who has given the de- mous for all but one of B. George Bernard
scription of the poetry? the following Shaw
A. Aristotle A. Comedies C. Christopher Mar-

lowe
B. Plato B. Tragedies
D. Ben Jonson
C. Wordsworth C. Bourgeois Drama 400. Which one is the
D. None of these D. Tragi-Drama world’s longest novel
387. A 388. C 389. C 390. D 391. C 392. B 393. C 394. C 395. B 396. D
397. B 398. C 399. B 400. C
A. A Suitable Boy A. naturalism A. H. Melvile

B. L’Astrée B. romanticism B. George Orwell
C. Remembrance of C. fatalism C. Charles Dickens
Things Past
D. classicism D. E. Hemingway
D. War and Peace 406. Who is the writer 411. ‘They in never-
er
401. ’ Fair seed time had my of the poem ‘The Pa- ending ’
soul’ is from triot’?
A. Started, show
A. Ode to autumn A. Robert Browning
B. shone, laughter
gd
B. To a Highland girl B. Shaw
C. grow, row
C. Ancient Mariner C. Jonsen
D. stretched, line
D. None of these D. Ibsen
412. Byron’s first published
an
402. is the animating 407. A Machiavellian char- collection was called:
force in the work of C. acter is a-
Bronte A. Years of Idleness
A. honest person
A. Idealism B. Hours of Idleness
Ch
B. wise person
B. Romanticism C. Moments of Idle-
C. romantic person ness
C. Lyricism
D. cunning person D. Eons of Idleness
D. None of these 408. ‘How can we know the 413. What do you mean
403. What do you mean by dancer from the dance’? Ode?
an
Panegyric or Eulogy? This line written by

viii Yeats is taken from: A. a lyric poem
A. a writing of praising A. Sailing to Byzan- B. a short poem
distinguished persons tium C. a ballad
y
B. a kind of satire B. Among School Chil- D. a sonnet

dren
ra
C. A short lyric poem 414. Who is the writer of

C. The Second Coming Galliver’s Travels?
D. a poem of praising
Gods D. None of these A. John Milton
Na
404. Who is considered to 409. ‘Importance of Being B. Jonathan Swift

be the father of English Earnest’ was written
prose? by: C. Charles Dickens
A. Francis Bacon A. Oscar Wilde D. Jane Austin
B. Kind Alfred the B. Browning 415. Browning was the
Great composer of-
C. Blake
C. Henry A. Two Voices
D. None of these
D. Geoffrey Chaucer B. The Scholar Gypsy
405. A dominant theme in ‘The Old Man and the C. Andrea Del Sarto
Hardy’s novels is: Sea’? D. Adonais
401. D 402. A 403. A 404. A 405. C 406. A 407. D 408. C 409. A 410. D
411. D 412. B 413. A 414. B 415. C 416. B
416. The first English Dic- 421. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ A. T. S. Eliot
tionary was compiled is written by-
B. John Milton
by-
A. Joseph Conrad
A. Isaac Walton C. Plato
B. James Joyce
B. Samuel Johnson D. Ernest Hemingway
C. E.M. Forster
C. Samuel Butler
er
D. G.B. Shaw 427. ‘A Passage to India’ is
D. Sir Thomas Browne
422. Samuel Beckett’s written by-
‘Waiting for Goddot’
417. What the term Short A. E.M. Forster
gd
is a-
Story stands for? B. Sadat Hasan Mintu
A. Morality play
A. a long prose fiction
B. Problem play C. Gallsworth
B. a story of figurative
an
C. Miracle play D. Rudyard Kipling
language
C. a story of many D. Absurd play 428. “Lyrical ballads” were
characters published by:
423. What do you mean
by Stream of Conscious-
Ch
D. a short prose fiction A. Coleridge
ness?
B. Wordsworth
418. ‘Paradise Regained’ A. sense of beauty
is an epic written by C. Both Coleridge and
B. sense of good and Wordsworth
bad
A. Homer D. None of these
an
C. amalgamation of
B. Tagore present, past and future 429. Who is the major
male character in Jane
C. Dante D. aestheticism Austen’s ‘Pride and
D. John Milton Prejudice’:
y
424. A famous essayist in

419. Who is the modern En- Renaissance is-
A. Mr. Darcy
ra
glish dramatist? A. Charles Lamb

B. Mr. Bennett
A. George Bernard B. Tomas Moore
Shaw C. Mr. Collius
C. Thomas Carlyle
Na
B. W. B. Yeats D. None of these

D. John Wycliffe
C. T.S. Eliot 430. ‘The last Essays of
D. None of the above Elia’ was written by:
‘The Patriot’?
420. Who is the writer of A. Carlyle
A. Sir Walter Scott
the poem ‘Time, You
Old Gipsy Man’? B. Robert Browning B. Lamb
A. Ralph Hodgson C. Robert Herrik C. Hunt

B. Laurence Binya D. Robert Rrost D. Ruskin
C. W. B. Yeats 426. Who is the author of 431. W. B. Yeats was born
D. Robert Frost “A Farewell to Arms”? in
417. D 419. A 420. A 421. D 422. D 423. C 424. D 425. B 426. D 427. A
428. C 429. A 430. B 431. B
A. 1856 A. Arundhoti Roy A. Shakespeare

B. 1865 B. Anita Deshai B. Chaucer
C. 1838 C. R.K. Narayan C. Marlowe
D. None of these D. Salman Rusdhi D. Congreve
432. Riders to the Sea is 437. ‘The Brief History of 442. “Fair is foul, and foul
er
written by an Irish Time’ is written by- is fair”-quoted from?
dramatist- A. Stephen Hawking A. Macbeth
A. G. B. Shaw B. As you like It
gd
B. Marx Plank
B. W.B Yeats C. Yan Martel C. Tempest
C. J.M Synge D. Chinu Achebe D. Othello
443. ‘Young leading the
an
D. Oliver Goldsmith 438. "Honest criticism and
sensitive appreciation young is like blind lead-
433. ‘Preface to Shake- ing the blind’ who has
speare’ is written by: and directed not upon
the poet but upon the said these words:
Ch
A. Bradely poetry" Who said this A. Carlyle
B. Dryden A. R.S. Crane B. Bacon
C. Dr. Johnson B. I.A. Richards C. Mantaine
D. None of these C. M. Arnold D. None of these
an
434. ‘Ophelia’ is an impor- D. T.S. Eliot

tant character in the the book ‘The Sense of
439. “Brevity is the soul of an Ending’?
Shakespearean play?
wit” the quotation is
A. Macbeth from- A. Julian Barnes
y
B. The Tempest A. Macbeth B. Henry Fielding

ra
C. Hamlet B. Hamlet C. Rudyard Kipling
C. The Tempest D. Tomas Transtromer

D. King Lear
D. Julius Caesar
Na
435. Romeo and Juliet is

445. What is a Fantasy?
a written by 440. “Art for arts sake”
William Shakespeare found its true adher- A. An imaginary story
early in his career ent in: B. a funny animation
A. Comedy A. Wordsworth film
B. Tragedy B. Byron C. a history record
C. Romance D. a real life event

C. Browning
446. “Idylls of the King”
D. Morality play D. Wilde
is illustration of Ten-
436. Midnight Children is 441. ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ nyson’s deep interest
written by- is written by- in:
432. C 433. C 434. C 435. B 436. D 437. A 438. D 439. B 440. D 441. B
442. A 443. D 444. A 445. A 446. B 447. B
A. Medieval legends A. Jonathan Swift 456. ‘A Voyage of Lilliput’

is written by
B. The role of the king B. Robert Herrick
A. R. L Stevenson
C. Hero worship C. Jeremy Taylor
B. Thomas Hardy
D. The contemporary D. Thomas Hobbes
condition C. Jonathan Swift
452. Who used to write
er
447. Who is the author of problem plays- D. William Wordsworth
the book ’Long walk to
A. Bertrand Russell
Freedom’ 457. Which period of 1798-
B. W. B. Yeats
gd
A. Jawaharlal Nehru 1832 is
C. G. B. Shaw A. The Renaissance Pe-
B. Nelson Mandela
D. James Joyce riod
C. Mahatma Gandhi
B. The Elizabethan age
an
453. Sidney’s Defence of
D. Mario Puzo Poesie was written in
448. ‘The Way of the response to C. The Restoration
World’ is written by?
A. The School of Abuse D. The Romantic Age
Ch
A. William Shake- 458. The first eight lines of
speare B. Tottle’s Miscellany a sonnet are called
B. Christopher Mar- C. Art of English Poe- A. Octave
lowe sie B. Sestet
C. Ben Johnson
an
D. The Courtyer C. Refrain

D. William Congreve 454. “How came he dead? D. None of these
449. Whose work is called I shall not be juggled
‘mock utopia’? with: To hell allegiance! 459. Who is the English
y
Vows, to the blackest ‘Epic’ Poet?

A. Swift’s devil! Is a speech in A. John Keats
ra
B. Sir Thomas More’s Hamlet spoken by:

B. John Milton
C. Wordsworth’s A. Hamlet
C. William Shake-
D. None of these B. Laertes speare
Na
450. Who is the writer of C. Polonius D. Lord Tennyson

the poem ‘Troilus and 460. Who is the writer of
D. Claudius
Criseyde’? The Commonwealth Pe-
A. Cynewulf riod?
the famous novel ’War
B. Geoffrey Chaucer and Peace’ A. Caedmon
C. Robert Browning A. Anton Chekhov B. Dante
D. Shelley B. Nikolai Gogol C. Cynewulf
451. Who is the writer of C. Leo Tolstoy D. Thomas Hobbes

The Augustan Period? D. Karl Marx 461. Jane Austen was a/an?
448. D 449. A 450. B 451. A 452. C 453. A 454. B 455. C 456. C 457. D
458. A 459. B 460. D 461. C 462. A
A. Poet 466. Who kills Macbeth in 471. ‘The Quarterly Re-

B. Dramatist the play “Macbeth”? view’ was founded by:
C. Novelist A. Duncan A. Walter Scott
D. Essayist B. Bonquo B. Byron

462. What do you mean by C. Macduff C. Coleridge
Epitaph?
er
D. None of these D. Thomas De Quincey
A. Inscription on tomb 467. “Our sweetest songs
or monument are those of the tale 472. Who was the eminent
gd
B. a sonnet of hero of ” writer of the Restora-
C. a ballad of folk hero A. patriotic feeling tion?
D. a poem of lamenta- B. heroic tales A. John Milton

tion B. John Dryden
an
C. saddest thought
463. Hermione is the hero- C. William Congreve
ine of Shakespeare in: D. romantic love
468. What is the meaning D. All of them
A. The Winter’s Tale
of the word ‘Dirge’? 473. Ernest Hemingway
Ch
B. Taming of the
A. a kind of sonnet se- wrote:
Shrew
quence A. Mr. Chips
C. Tempest
B. a song expressing B. Pride and Prejudice
D. None of these
patrotic sentiment
464. What is the meaning C. Old Man and the Sea
an
of the word Dirge? C. a long verse telling

about an adventure
A. a kind of sonnet se- D. None of these
quence D. a song expressing
474. Allusion refers the
grief, lamentation and
y
B. a song expressing following-

mourning
patriotism A. a reference of past
469. The Essay of Elia was
ra
C. a long verse about written by: person or thing

adventure B. false
A. Tennyson
D. a song expressing
C. doubtful speech
Na
grief, lamentation and B. Byron

mourning C. Keats D. historical docu-
465. Virginia Wolf : To the ments
D. None of these
Light House :: 475. In Don Juan Byron
470. ‘Supernaturalism’ was used:
A. James Joyce : Flush an important feature of
B. T. S. Eliot : Road to the poetry of: A. blank verse
Freedom B. Ottava Rima
A. Wordsworth
C. Bertrand Russel : C. refrain
B. Byron
Ash Wednesday
C. Coleridge D. terza rima
D. William Golding:
Lord of the Flies D. None of these 476. ‘Don Juan’ is a/an?
463. A 464. D 465. D 466. C 467. C 468. D 469. D 470. C 471. C 472. D
473. C 474. A 475. B 476. B
A. Poem A. William Wordsworth 486. William Wordsworth

is pre-eminently
B. epic
B. William Shake- A. a poet of nature
C. Ode
speare
B. a poet of love
D. novel C. Robert Browning
C. a poet of human na-
477. The poets who believe D. Ralph Hodgson ture
er
that a hard, clear image
was essential to verse 482. What is the Master- D. a poet of liberty
are called: piece of T.S. Eliot?
487. William Wordsworth
gd
A. Imaginists A. The Love Song of J. wrote
Alfred Prufrock
B. Romanticists A. The Rape of the
B. Prelude Lock
C. Classicists
an
C. The Waste Land B. The Rime of the An-
D. Imagists cient Mariner
D. Tradition and Ind.
478. ‘Macbeth’ is Talent C. The Lucy Poems
Ch
A. a play 483. Who wrote ‘Patrio- D. Absalom and Achi-
tism’? tophel
B. a novel
A. William Shake- 488. Earnest Hamingway
C. an essay
speare has written
D. a poem B. William Wordsworth A. Old Man and the Sea
an
479. Which of following

B. Mr. Chips
is written by Shake- C. Sir Walter Scott
speare? C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Robert Browning
A. Dr. Faustus D. None of these
y
484. London town is found

B. Pilgrim’s Progress a living being in the 489. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a
poem written by
ra
C. The preface to Fable work of

A. Thomas Hardy A. Shelley
D. Twelfth Night
B. Charles Dickens B. Browning
Na
480. What the term Alle-

gory refers? C. W. Congreve C. Tennyson
A. a kind short story D. D. H. Lawrence D. None of these
B. a long narrative 485. The first English novel, 490. What was the first
poem Pamela, has been writ- novel of Virginia
ten by- Woolf?
C. a figurative story
A. Daniel Defoe A. The Waves
D. a comic play
B. Henry Fielding B. To the Light House
481. The poem ‘Under the
Greenwood Tree’ is C. Sir Walter Scott C. Jacob’s Room
written by- D. Samuel Richardson D. The Voyage out
477. D 478. A 479. D 480. A 481. B 482. C 483. C 484. B 485. D 486. A
487. C 488. A 489. B 490. D 491. A
491. “Hell hath no limits, A. Novel A. King Lear

nor is circumscribed
B. Play B. Othello
In one self-place; for
where we are is hell, C. Theory C. Hamlet
And where hell is, there D. Short story
must we ever be.”-this D. Macbeth
famous quotation is 496. ‘Bliss was it, in that 501. Poet Alexander Pope’s
er
cited from? Dawn to be alive But famous work-
to be young was very
A. Dr. Faustus heaven.’ Who has writ- A. Spectator
ten these lines?
gd
B. Paradise Lost B. The Rape of the
A. Shelley Lock
C. Tempest
B. Browning C. The Deserted Vil-
D. Macbeth
lage
an
C. Wordsworth
492. Which one is a fe-
D. None of these D. Man Was Made to
mal fictional detective
Mourn
character of Agatha 497. ‘East Coker’ is written
Christie’s novel by: 502. The Solitary Reaper is
Ch
a
A. Anna Karenina A. Browning
A. heroic poem
B. Jane Eyre B. Wordsworth
B. romantic poem
C. Miss Marple C. T. S. Eliot
C. classical poem
D. Daisy Miller D. None of these
an
498. What is a ballad? D. patriotic poem

493. Man Booker Prize is
given only to novels A. a folk song 503. Tennyson’s ‘In Memo-
published from riam’ is a /an-
B. a song of hymn
y
A. USA A. elegy
C. a song of lamenta-
B. UK B. sonnet
ra
tion
C. India D. a lyric song C. ballad
D. France 499. Wordsworth lived D. lyric
Na
from
494. Who among the fol- 504. Who is the famous
lowing is a revolution- A. 1775 – 1859 mock-heroic poet in En-
ary poet? B. 1770 – 1850 glish literature?
A. John Keats C. 1770 – 1802 A. Lord Byron
B. P.B. Shelly D. None of these B. John Milton
C. S.T. Coleridge 500. Which character of C. Alexander Pope
Shakespeare has "the
D. William Wordsworth D. Lord Tennyson
courtier’s, soldier’s,
scholar’s eye, tongue 505. Hemingway was a
495. Moby Dick is a- and sword" great fan of:
492. C 493. B 494. B 495. B 496. C 497. C 498. A 499. B 500. C 501. B
502. B 503. A 504. C 505. B 506. D
A. Cricket C. Christopher Mar- 516. Who is the first fe-

lowe mal winner of the No-
B. Baseball c soft-
bel Prize in Literature
ball D. William Shake-
speare A. Selma Lagerlöf
C. football
511. Who is the heroine B. Pearl S. Buck
D. none of these of Shakespeare’s play
C. Grazia Deledda
er
506. Who is the author of “Hamlet”?
the book "Zest for Life" D. Gabriela Mistral
A. Cordella
A. Gustave Flaubert 517. Who is the author of
B. Desdemona the book ‘A Brief His-
gd
B. Leo Tolstoy tory of Time’?
C. Portia
C. Voltaire A. Albert Einsten
D. Ophelia
D. Emile Zola 512. ‘Death of A Salesman’ B. G.B Shaw
an
507. Who is the heroine of is a Tragedy written by- C. Neuton
‘Hamlet’?
A. Edward Albee D. Stephen Hawking
A. Cordelia
B. Saul Bellow 518. Who represents Prej-
Ch
B. Portia udice in Jane Austen’s
C. Nathaniel
C. Ophelia Hawthorne novel ‘Pride and Preju-
dice’:
D. None of these D. Arthur Miller
A. Mr. Darcy
508. Who wrote ‘The pref- 513. ‘Paradise Regained’ is
ace for Tagore’s Gitan- an epic by B. Miss Elizabeth
an
jali’? A. John Keats C. Miss Jane

A. T.S. Eliot B. P. B. Shelly D. None of these
B. W.B. Yeats C. John Milton 519. Of all his predecessors,
y
C. Byron the following exerted

D. William Blake a direct influence upon
D. Keats 514. Prosody signifies the Shakespeare.
ra
509. What is Anatomy? systematic study of- A. Lyly and Marlowe

A. study of limbs of A. drama B. Robert Greene and
body
Na
B. novel Thomas Nash

B. study of insects C. short story C. George Peele and
C. study of homo sapi- Thomas Lodge
D. versification
ence D. None of these
515. How many lines does
D. study of plants a Shakespearean sonnet 520. ‘Hamlet’ by Shake-
510. Who is the writer of have speare is-
‘The Falcon’? A. 8 A. a comedy
A. George Bernard B. 10 B. a tragic comedy
Shaw
C. 13 C. an epic
B. A. Lord Tennyson
D. 14 D. a tragedy
507. C 508. B 509. A 510. B 511. D 512. D 513. C 514. D 515. D 516. A
517. D 518. B 519. A 520. D 521. D
521. Who is a modern au- 526. In 1857, Matthew 531. The Daffodils in
thor? Arnold as Professor of Wordsworth’s I wan-
Poetry at Oxford de- dered Lonely as a Cloud
A. C. Marlow
livered his inaugural dancing because
B. Charles Dickens lecture in: A. The poet was day
C. Chaucer A. English dreaming
er
D. Joseph Conrad B. Latin B. The flowers had
cheerful company
522. Who was English poet C. Greek
addicted to opium? C. The sea waves be-
gd
D. None of these side them had gone
A. S. T. Coleridge wild
527. Shakespeare wrote
B. W. Somerset D. There was a strong
Maugham A. Tragedies
wind
an
C. Sir Walter Scott B. Comedies 532. ‘Essay on Criticism’ is
C. Poems written by-
A. Alexander Pope
D. All of above
Ch
523. Who is the writer of B. T.S. Eliot
528. Lyrical Ballads opens
The Old English Pe- with; C. Jonathan Swift
riod?
A. Tintern Abbey D. H. Fielding
A. Cynewulf 533. What do you mean by
B. Michael Prose?
B. William Shake-
an
speare C. Dejection: an Ode A. a writing without

C. William Wordsworth D. Rime of Ancient rhyme
Mariner B. a writing with
y
D. Lord Tennyson 529. All is well that ends rhyme

well is a: C. a writing of verse
524. Jonne Donne is fa-
ra
mous for his- A. Comedy D. a writing of

rhythms
A. Sonnet B. Tragedy
534. Poet Alexander Pope’s
Na
B. ballad C. Historical Play famous work

C. novel D. None of these A. Rape of the Lock
D. metaphysical poem 530. The sentence, “Death, B. Spectator
525. Calliban is a Character thou shalt not die.” is an C. The Deserted Vil-
in example of lage
A. King Lear A. simile D. Man was made to
B. metaphor mourn
B. Tempest
535. The subjugation of
C. Min and Superman C. irony Women (1869) is an im-
D. Othello D. paradox portant text of:
522. A 523. A 524. D 525. B 526. A 527. D 528. A 529. A 530. D 531. D
532. A 533. A 534. A 535. C 536. D
A. George Eliot A. Saul Bellow A. Cynewulf

B. Byron B. Sigmund Freud B. Dante
C. John Mill C. Samuel Butler C. Jeremy Taylor
D. Hardy D. Samuel Beckett D. Caedmon
541. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ 546. ‘Verslibre’ is called as:
536. Aspect of the Novel is
er
written by: is written by- A. Free Verse
A. David Cecil A. Rudyard Kipling B. Blank Verse
B. Walter Allen B. Ronald Reuel C. Free meter
gd
Tolkien D. Iambic
C. Arnold Kettle
C. Hobbit 547. An element of the su-
D. E.M. Forster pernatural is present in
D. None
537. ’The Diary of Anne the poetry of :
an
Frank’ was originally 542. Why is Thomas Hardy
famous for? A. Wordsworth
written in which lan-
guage A. As a Dramatist B. Coleridge
C. Browning
Ch
A. German B. As a Sonneteer
D. Byron
B. Dutch C. As a Novelist
548. “To err is human; to
C. Russian D. As a Poet forgive is divine” is said
D. English 543. Who is the writer of by-
The Old English Pe- A. Alexander Pope
an
riod?
Pathos or Catharsis? ix B. John Dryden
A. King Alfred the
A. a sorrowful event Great C. John Benson
B. a murder in a D. None
y
B. William Shake-
tragedy speare 549. Elizabeth is a charac-
ter from Jane Austen’s:
ra
C. an adventure of C. William Wordsworth

hero A. Emma
D. arouse of pity and D. Lord Tennyson B. Pride and Prejudice
Na
fear C. Mansfield Palck

539. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is the poem ‘The Parlia- D. Northanger Abby
a/an- ment of Fowls’? 550. What is the term Fic-
A. comedy A. Geoffrey Chaucer tion?
B. melodrama B. Milton A. a poem
C. play C. Dickens B. a prose
D. tragedy D. Shelly C. an imaginative writ-
ing
540. Who is the author 545. Who is the writer of
of ‘Interpretation of The Commonwealth Pe- D. a story
Drama’? riod? 551. Frost is:
537. B 538. D 539. D 540. B 541. B 542. C 543. A 544. A 545. C 546. A
547. B 548. A 549. B 550. C 551. B
A. a nature poet 557. ‘The pilgrim’s 562. What do you mean by

Progress’ is written by? Minstrel?
B. Poet of Country life
C. a poet of nature and A. William Shake- A. a romantic poet
country life speare
B. a poet of minister
D. None of these B. John Bunyan
C. a budding poet
C. John Dryden
er
552. Who is called the ‘poet
of love’? D. A medieval Euro-
D. John Locke pean poet
A. Andrew Marvell 558. Who is the following
563. Who is the Creator of
gd
B. John Donne was both a poet and
‘Dramatic Monologue’?
painter?
C. John Keats
A. Robert browning
A. Keats
D. William Shake-
B. Alfred Tennyson
an
speare B. Donne
553. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ C. Blake C. George Eliot
is a/an- D. Thomas Hardy
D. Spenser
A. Epic
Ch
559. Vanity Fair is a novel 564. Who is the author of
B. Comedy by ‘Seize the Day’?
C. Poem A. Dickens A. Arthur Miller
D. Novel B. Thackeray B. Saul Bellow
554. ‘Silent Woman’ writ-
C. Scott C. Tony Morrison
an
ten by
D. Fielding D. None
A. John Ruskin
560. Romeo and Juliet 565. Shakespeare wrote
B. Ben Jonson
one of my fa- brilliant-
y
C. Kalidas vorite tragedy plays.

A. poems
D. Munshi Prem A. are
ra
Chand B. essays
B. have been
555. ‘Cervantes’ is a char- C. novels
acter in: C. is
Na
D. were D. dramas
A. Don Quixote
B. Pamele 561. Who is the writer of 566. ‘Earth is the right
The Middle English Pe- place for Love and I
C. Tristram Shandy riod? do not know where it
D. Tom Jones is likely to go better.’
A. William Langland These lines are from:
556. ‘Couplet’ can occur in-
B. William Shake-
A. short story A. The Road Not Taken
speare
B. essay B. Fire and Ice
C. poem C. Birches
D. novel D. Lord Tennyson D. None of these
552. B 553. A 554. B 555. A 556. C 557. B 558. C 559. B 560. C 561. A
562. D 563. A 564. B 565. D 566. C 567. B
567. “Oh sir, she smiled, A. Desire Under the A. Dickens

no doubt, Whene’er I Elms B. George Eliot
passed her; but who B. Measure for Mea-
passed without Much C. Hardy
sure
the same smile? This D. None of these
grew; I gave commands; C. Pygmalion
Then all smiles stopped D. Cocktail Party ‘Robinson Crusoe’?
er
together”. This was
572. Which one is the A. S Johnson
written by:
shortest dramatic
A. Tennyson work? B. Edward Gibben
gd
B. Browning A. Not C. S Richardson
C. Mathew Arnold B. Footballs D. Daniel Defoe

578. Who is the writer
D. William Morris C. Radio
an
of “Absalom and Achi-
568. What is 1st decade D. Breath tophel”?
part of modern age? 573. Hellenism of Keats A. John Webster
A. Edwardian connotes:
B. John Milton
Ch
B. Georgian A. his love of poetry
C. John Dryden
C. Pope B. his love of ancient
cultures D. John Donne
D. Augusta 579. A Winter’s Tale by
C. his love of Greek cul-
569. What is the full name Shakespeare is a:
ture and art
of the great Ameri-
an
A. Dramatic Mono-
can short story writer D. None of these
logue
O’Henry? 574. ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cin-
ematic Version of: B. Comedy
A. William Sidney
Porter C. Tragedy
y
A. Pygmalion
B. Walt Whitman B. Candida D. None of these
ra
C. Marjorie Kennan 580. Hamlet is

C. Getting Married
Rowling A. a tragedy by Shake-
D. None of these
D. Samuel Butler speare
575. It is for the world to de-
Na
570. Dryden and Alexander cide whether you are a B. a play by G. B Shaw
Pope are. . . . . . poets. poet or not. For whom C. a poem by Shelley
A. Neo-classical these words are meant:
D. a novel by Hardy
B. Elizabethan A. Frost 581. ‘Better to reign in hell
B. Pope than serve in heaven’
C. Victorian
has been quoted from-
D. Modern C. Byron
A. Paradise Regained
571. Which is a play by D. None of these
William Shakespeare, 576. The moral choice is ev- B. Paradise Lost
believed to have been erything in the works C. Aeneid
written in 1603 or 1604. of: D. None of these
568. A 569. A 570. A 571. B 572. D 573. C 574. A 575. A 576. A 577. D
578. C 579. B 580. A 581. B 582. B
582. What is soliloquy? 587. Who is the writer of D. emphasis on the

the book ‘Pride and novel
A. a speech to the audi-
Prejudice’? 592. Who wrote the fa-
ence
A. John Milton mous poetic line ‘To err
B. self speech is human, to forgive is
B. Jonathan Swift divine’?
C. talk to others
C. Charles Dickens
er
D. expression of anger A. Alexander Pope
D. Jane Austen B. Shelley
583. Who wrote ‘Ode to a
Nightingale’? 588. Who is the modern C. Keats
gd
philosopher who was
A. Pope awarded Nobel Prize D. Dryden
for literature? 593. The Prelude is written
B. Shelley
in:
A. James Baker
C. Wordsworth
an
A. Couplets
B. Dr. Kissinger
D. John Keats B. Blank Verse
C. Bertrand Russel
584. ‘War and Peace’ an C. Terza rima
epic tale of Napoleonic D. Lenin
Ch
invasion is written by- D. None of these
589. ‘Knowledge is power’
was stated by 594. ‘Calliban’ is a charac-
A. Leo Tolstoy ter in-
B. George Bernard A. Hobbes
A. King Lear
Shaw B. Socrates
B. Othello
an
C. Anne Frank C. Rousseau

C. Man and Superman
D. Earnest Heming- D. Hamlet
D. Tempest
way 590. What is the full name
595. Who is the Villain in
of the tragedy ‘Dr Faus-
y
585. Who is the father of ‘Hamlet’?

English Novel? tus’?
A. Horatio
ra
A. Shakespeare A. The Tragical His-

tory of Dr Faustus B. Iago
B. Henry Fielding
B. The Tragic History C. Claudius
C. G.B. Shaw
Na
of Dr Faustus D. None of these

D. R. L. Stevenson C. The Tragedy of Dr 596. Earnest Hemingway
586. Which of the follow- Faustus in addition to ‘Old Man
ing was written by and the Sea’ bad writ-
D. Dr Faustus
Shakespeare? ten:
591. What is Stress?
A. A Farewell to Arms
A. The Rape of Lucrece A. emphasis on words
B. For Whom the Bell
B. The Rape of the B. emphasis on the sen- Tolls
Lock tence
C. Death in the After-
C. Endymion C. emphasis of litera- noon
D. Fairie Queene ture
D. All of the above
583. D 584. A 585. B 586. A 587. D 588. C 589. A 590. A 591. A 592. A
593. B 594. D 595. C 596. D 597. C
597. Who wrote ‘The Tem- 602. “The Trumpet of C. a short novel
pest’? prophecy! O wind. D. arrangement of inci-
If winter comes, can dents in a writing
spring be far behind?”
Who is the poet of these 607. Elia was the
B. Ben Jonson lines? pseudonym used by
Charles Lamb for get-
C. William Shake- A. P.B. Shelley
er
ting his works pub-
speare B. William Wordsworth lished in:
D. Tennyson A. London magazine
gd
598. Shakespeare was born C. John Keats B. The New York
in D. Robert Browning Times
A. Warwickshire 603. What do you mean by C. The spectator
the word Personnel?
an
B. Derby D. the Sun
C. Oxford A. individual 608. Who was ‘Poet Laure-
ate’?
B. others
D. Northampton
A. Alfred Tennyson
C. papers
Ch
599. Arthur Hugh Clough
B. Robert Browning
became an inspiration D. government em-
for Mathew Arnold’s ployee C. P. B. Shelley
work: 604. In Memoriam was D. none of them
A. the buried life written in: 609. Frost is:
an
B. culture and anarchy A. 1833 A. a nature poet

B. 1860 B. Poet of Country life
C. The Scholor Gypsy C. 1863 C. a poet of nature and
country life
y
D. essays on criticism D. None of these

600. What is verse? 605. “Who trusted God was D. None of these
ra
love indeed And love 610. Chaucer is the repre-

A. lines of poem
creation’s final law”- sentative poet of-
B. a song of lamenta- this famous quotation is A. 17th century
tion taken from?
Na
B. 14th century
C. a rhythmic measure- A. Ulysses
ment C. 16th century
B. In Memoriam
D. 18th century
D. pentameter C. Men and Women
611. A.S. Hornsby is fa-
601. What is type of ‘The D. Vanity Fair mous for-
Daffodils’?
606. What do you mean by A. Writing poems
A. Novel Plot?
B. writing songs
B. Poem A. a drama of comedy
C. writing text books
C. Play B. a disposal of charac-
D. writing dictionaries
ters
D. Adventure
598. A 599. C 600. A 601. B 602. A 603. D 604. D 605. B 606. D 607. A
608. A 609. B 610. B 611. D 612. C
612. ’My Last Duchess’ was A. Charles Dickens A. Ruskin

written by
B. T. S. Eliot B. Mill
A. Keats
C. Jane Austen C. Macaulay
B. Tennyson
D. G. B. Shaw D. None of these
C. Browning
618. Who was often been 623. A famous English poet
er
D. None of these
called The Father of En- who was profession-
613. Who is the author of glish Tragedy? ally knows as man of
‘Arabian Nights’? medicine is
A. William Shake-
gd
A. Sir Richard Burton speare A. Shelley
B. Alexander Pope B. Christopher Mar- B. Keats
C. Smith lowe
C. Milton
an
D. None of them C. John Wycherley
D. Pope
614. Who is called ‘The D. John Lyly
bard of Avon’? 624. Dickens was from a:
619. Who wrote ‘Heart of
Ch
A. Christopher Mar- A. Lower middle class
Darkness’?
lowe origin
A. Thomas Hardy
B. William Shake- B. Upper class origin
speare B. Joseph Conrad
C. Middle class origin
C. John Milton C. Bill Gates
D. Working class ori-
an
D. Homer D. None gin

615. ‘Living History’ is
written by- 620. John Bull’s Other Is- 625. The poem ‘Second
land is written by: Coming’ is written by-
A. Bill Clinton
y
A. Shaw A. W.B. Yeats

B. Hilary Clinton
B. Wilde B. T.S. Eliot
ra
C. Achebe
C. Hemingway C. Frost
D. Barak Obama
616. O’Henry was known D. Beckett D. Auden
Na
as- 621. Who is the writer 626. The first English Dic-
A. American short of The Restoration Pe- tionary was compiled
story writer riod? by
B. British short story A. Robert Herrick A. Izaak Walton
writer
B. Thomas Hobbes B. Samuel Johnson
C. Irish dramatist
C. Jeremy Taylor C. Samuel
D. Roman Short story
writer D. John Milton D. Sir Thomas Browne
617. Who of the following 622. ’Modern Painters’ is
was a poet? written by 627. ‘On Liberty’ is by-
613. D 614. B 615. B 616. A 617. B 618. B 619. B 620. A 621. D 622. A
623. B 624. A 625. A 626. B 627. B 628. B
A. Charles Darwin A. Hamlet A. Gulliver’s Travels

B. John Mill B. As you like It B. Pygmalion
C. Karl Mark C. Othello C. Sons & lovers
D. Thomas Hardy D. Old man and the sea
D. Henry 8
628. Ruskin is famous for:
633. To the Light House” is 638. What do you mean by
er
A. Being a critic of art written by: Linguistics?
B. A social reformer A. Lawrence A. study of languages
C. A moral teacher and its rules
gd
B. Hemingway
D. None of these B. study of sounds
C. Forster
629. Who is the ‘University C. study of speech
Wits’ in the following D. None of these sounds
an
list? 634. Who is of the follow- D. study of meaning
A. William Shake- ing is not a Nobel Lau-
639. Who believed that po-
speare reate?
etry is the spontaneous
overflow of emotions?
Ch
B. Thomas Gray A. W. B. Yeats
C. Robert Greene B. T. S. Eliot A. Blake
D. John Dryden C. William Golding B. Byron

630. A pioneer is psycho- C. Wordsworth
D. E. M. Forster
logical analysis in fic- D. Keats
an
tion is: 635. ‘Murder in the Cathe-

dral’ is written by- 640. Who is the author of
A. Charles Dickens ‘Endgame’?
A. Harold Pinter
B. Thackeray A. G. B. Shaw
y
B. T.S. Eliot B. Samuel Beckett

C. Charlotte Bronte
D. G. Eliot C. G.B. Shaw C. R. K. Narayan
ra
631. Who is the writer D. Samuel Beckett D. Earnest Heming-

of ‘The Merchant of 636. Who is the writer of way
Venice’? 641. ‘Appearances are of-
Na
the epic poems "Par-

A. Shelley adise Lost" and "Par- ten deceiving’ is quoted
adise Regained" by-
B. Wordsworth
A. William Shake- A. Plato
C. William Shake-
speare speare B. Aristotle
D. Milton B. John Donne C. Hobbes

632. “The fool doth think C. John Keats D. Aesop
he is wise but the wise 642. “I have suffered with
D. John Milton
man knows himself to those, that I saw suffer-
be a fool”-this quota- 637. Lilliput is a character ing”. These Humanistic
tion is quoted from? from: words are attributed to:
629. C 630. D 631. C 632. B 633. D 634. D 635. B 636. D 637. A 638. A
639. C 640. B 641. D 642. A
A. Miranda in the A. Tennyson A. Childe Harolde

‘Tempest’
B. Arnold B. Queen Mab
B. Portia in ‘Merchant C. Prometheus
C. Shelley
of Venice’
D. Browning D. The Recluse
C. Lady Macbath in
648. ‘Proper study of 653. ‘The Rainbow’ is-
‘Macbeth’
er
Mankind is man’ – who A. A poem by
D. None of these has said these words: Wordsworth
643. Shelley is remembered A. Pope B. a short story by
gd
as a poet Somerset Maugham
B. Swift
A. Lyric C. a novel by D.H.
C. Shelley Lawrence
B. Tragic
D. None of these
an
D. a verse by Coleridge
C. Mythical
649. Sylvia Plath and Ted
D. None of these Hughes are: 654. ‘Ten thousand saw I at
644. The Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ is A. Husband and wife a glance’ is an example
Ch
written by- of
B. Brother and Sister
A. Charles Lambs A. hyperbole
C. Father and daughter
B. symbol
B. John Keats
D. Friends C. metaphor
C. Sir Walter Scott
650. Who of the following D. apostrophe
an
D. Jane Austen is a famous epic poet in

English literature? 655. The last book of Gul-
645. What is paradox? liver’s travels is
A. William Shake-
A. a self-pleasant state- A. Voyage to Lilliput
speare
y
ment B. Voyage to Brobding-

B. Lord Tennyson
B. personal song nag
ra
C. William Wordsworth C. Voyage to Houyh-

C. a self-contradictory
statement nms
D. John Milton
Na
D. Voyage to Laputa
D. none
651. ‘The Voyage of the 656. “Life’s but a walking
646. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ is Beagle’ was written by: shadow, a poor player
novel by- That starts and frets his
A. J.S. Mill
A. Thomas Hardy hour upon the stage
B. Ruskin and then is heard no
B. Ernest Hemingway more”-quoted from?
C. Carlyle
C. Jane Austen A. King Lear
D. Darwin
D. Scott B. Macbeth
652. Don Juan is an ironic
647. One of the following replica of the very sub- C. Dr. Faustus
was a Romantic Poet ject of : D. Othello
643. A 644. C 645. C 646. B 647. C 648. A 649. A 650. D 651. D 652. A
653. C 654. A 654. C 655. C 656. B 657. A
657. The moral choice is ev- 662. E. M. Foster is a A. Novelist

erything in the works
A. Novelist B. Dramatist
of:
B. Poet C. Poet
A. Dickens
C. Playwright D. Essayist
B. George Eliot
668. Who is the father of
C. Hardy D. None of these
er
Modern English Po-
D. None of these 663. ‘Tradition and the In- etry?
658. Who was the greatest dividual Talent’ is an es- A. Cynewulf
dramatist of English lit- say by-
gd
erature? B. Geoffrey Chaucer
A. Thomas Hardy
A. P.B. Shelley C. Robert Browning
B. T.S. Eliot D. None of the above
an
C. Virginia Woolf 669. Who wrote ‘The Kite
C. William Shake- Runner’?
D. Thomas Carlyle
speare A. Selman Rushdie
664. There is no man like
659. What is ‘Catastro-
Ch
Showman. These views B. Khalid Hussein
phe’?
were held by: C. Orhan Pamuk
A. the comedic end of
dramatic events A. Thomas Carlyle D. none
B. the tragic end of dra- B. Spencer 670. Hamlet was killed by:
matic events C. Shakespeare A. Polonius
an
C. the comic and tragic B. Learteus

D. None of these
end of the play
C. Claudius
D. none of the above 665. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was
written by: D. None of these
y
660. Which is known as

Shakespeare’s enchant- A. Blake 671. Which one is the first
novel of Charles Dick-
ra
ing swan-song?
B. Byron ens
A. Hamlet
C. Tennyson A. Oliver Twist
B. Macbeth
Na
D. None of these B. The Pickwick Pa-

C. The Tempest
pers
D. Twelfth Night 666. ‘End Game’ is written
by: C. David Copperfield
Romance? A. Hemingway D. Little Dorrit
A. any work of fiction 672. “Ode to Psyche” is a
B. Somerset Maugham poem by:
or imagination
C. Beckett A. Milton
B. a real life story
C. any work of litera- D. None of these B. Byron
ture 667. Francis Bacon is a/an C. Keats
D. a play or a drama D. Blake
658. C 659. B 660. C 661. A 662. A 663. B 664. A 665. C 666. C 667. D
668. B 669. B 670. B 671. B 672. C 673. A
673. ‘Nature never did be- A. Dr mohammad A. Robert Frost

tray the heart that loved younus
B. George Orwell
her’ is a quotation.
B. John F. Kennedy
C. Thomas Gray
A. William Wordsworth C. John Don
D. John Milton
D. John Willy
B. B. J. Baryon 684. Edward Fitzgerald’s
er
679. Total number of plays “The Rubaiyat of Omar
C. P. B. Shelley written by Shakespeare Khayyam” inspired
D. J. Keats A. 14 Browning to write:
gd
674. ‘To be or not to be’ B. 28 A. The Last Ride To-
is the beginning of a gether
famous soliloquy from C. 38
D. 52 B. Rabbi Ben Ezra
an
A. Paradise Lost 680. ‘Poet are unacknowl- C. Ester Day
edged legislators of the D. Abt Vogler
B. Romeo and Juliet
world’, Who told it?
C. Hamlet 685. Who wrote ‘Where
A. Browning
Ch
Angels Fear to Tread’?
D. Shahnama
B. P. B. Shelley A. Charles Dickens
675. When was the poem
Tintern Abbey written? C. William Wordsworth
B. E. M. Forster
A. 1793 C. Rudyard Kipling
D. John Keats
B. 1795
an
681. What is the name of D. William Shake-

C. 1798 the storyteller of ’One speare
Thousand and One 686. As a moralist J. S. Mill
D. None of these
Nights’ develops the doctrine
y
676. Who wrote ‘Madame of:

Bovary’? A. Scheherazade
B. Sultana A. Utilitarianism
ra
A. Leo Tolstoy
C. Nura B. Radicalism
B. James Joyce
D. Morgiana C. Puritanism
C. E.M. Forster
Na
682. Who is the first D. None of these

D. Gustave Flaubert
woman to win the Man
677. John Keats is primarily 687. ‘Childe Harold’s Pil-
Booker Prize
a poet of grimage’ written by-
A. Elizabeth Bowen
A. Beauty A. Byron
B. Penelope Fitzgerald
B. Nature B. G.B. Shaw
C. Bernice Rubens
C. Love C. John Buniyan
D. Anita Brookner
D. Revolution D. T.S. Eliot
683. Who wrote ‘Where ig-
678. Who awarded Pulitzer norance is bliss, it is 688. ‘The Sacred Flame’ is
Prize to Robert Frost? folly to be wise’? written by-
674. C 675. C 676. D 677. A 678. B 679. C 680. B 681. A 682. C 683. C
684. B 685. B 686. A 687. A 688. B 689. A
A. G.B. Shaw 693. From which country A. Wordsworth

the famous poet Pablo B. Keats
B. William Somerset
Neruda belongs
Maugham C. Byron
C. Earnest Heming- A. Peru
D. Tennyson
way B. Argentina 699. ‘Tamburlaine the
D. Oscar Wilde Great’ is written by-
er
C. Cuba
689. Which is the rhyme A. Shakespeare
D. Chile
scheme of Shake- B. Marlowe
spearean sonnet? 694. Who is the poet of the
gd
Victorian Age? C. Ben Johnson
A. abab cdcd efef gg
A. Helen Keller D. John Webster
B. abba cdcd efg efg 700. Who is the father
B. Mathew Arnold of modern English
C. abab cde cde efg efg
D. abba cde cde e egg
690. The Good Earth has
been written by- anC. Shakespeare
D. Robert Browning
695. Which of the plays has
Drama?
A. G.B. Shaw
B. John Milton
Ch
A. Virginia Woolf an epilogue? C. Shakespeare
A. Man and Superman D. Thomas Walt
B. George Eliot
701. “All the world’s a
C. Charles Dickens B. Devils’ Disciple stage And all the men
D. Pearl S. Buck C. Pygmalion and women merely
an
players”-quoted from
691. ‘Mirabell’, ‘Millla- D. None of these
mant’, ‘Lady Wish- A. A Midsummer
fort’ are the characters 696. Who wrote the first Night’s Dream
found in- english dictionary
B. Much Ado About
y
A. The Portrait of a A. Jonathan Swift Nothing

Lady C. A Pericles Prince of
ra
B. James Boswell
B. The way of the Tyre
C. Samuel Johnson
World D. None of these
D. Robert Cawdrey
Na
C. All for Love 702. Which Revolution is

697. ‘I am half sick of shad- the historical source of
D. The Rape of the ows’ is a line from: the book ’A Tale of Two
Lock Cities’
A. Shelley
692. Beowulf is written in A. Iranian Revolution
which period? B. Wordsworth
B. American Revolu-
A. Middle English C. Coleridge tion
preod
D. Tennyson C. French Revolution
B. Anlo-saxon preod
698. The image of the D. Russian Revolution
C. Elejabeth preod femme fatale dominates 703. Robert Herrick was an
D. Jacobian preod the poetry of: English
690. D 691. B 692. B 693. D 694. D 695. B 696. C 697. D 698. B 699. B
700. A 701. D 702. C 703. C 704. A
A. Novelist 709. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel A. 1600

written by
B. Historian B. 1700
C. Poet A. Dickens
C. 1800
D. Dramatist B. Hardy
D. 1900
704. Who is the author of C. George Eliot 715. ‘April is the cruelest
er
‘The Old Man and the D. None of these month’ is written by-i
Sea’?
710. “Idylls of the King” A. W.B. Yeats
A. E. Hemingway is illustration of Ten-
B. T.S. Eliot
gd
B. Churchill nyson’s deep interest
in: C. Frost
C. Wilson
A. Medieval legends D. Auden
D. Hardy 716. Which is called the
B. The role of the king
an
705. Jude the Obscure is a: Golden Period of En-
a comedy C. Hero worship glish Literature?
A. Tragedy D. The contemporary A. Elizabethan Age
condition
Ch
B. tragic comedy B. Victorian Age
711. ‘The Metaphysical Po-
C. black comedy ets’ is a critical essay C. Restoration Period
D. none of these by: D. Augustan Age
706. Shakespeare was born A. Arnold 717. Who wrote preface to
in? Shakespeare:
B. T. S. Eliot
an
A. 1616 A. Sir Philip Sydney

C. Shelley
B. 1564 B. Dryden
D. None of these
C. 1566 712. Who is the leader of C. Dr. Johnson
y
D. 1604 Metaphysical poetry? D. None of these

707. "The Rime of the An- A. John Donne
ra
718. Which one is 19th cen-

cient Mariner" was writ- tury English Literature
B. John Milton
ten by: from above?
C. John Dryden
A. W.Scott
Na
A. 1601-1699
713. An exhortatory
B. Coleridge speech, usually deliv- B. 1701-1799
C. Shelley ered to a crowd to incite C. 1801-1899
them to some action is:
D. None of these D. 1901-1999
708. Shakespeare was born A. Declamation
719. Macaulay repre-
in B. Sermon sented:
A. 1570 C. Monologue A. Bourgeois Victorian
B. 1547 D. Harangue enlightenment
C. 1564 714. When did Frost’s first- B. Working class Victo-
born son died? rian attitudes
D. None of these
705. A 706. B 707. B 708. C 709. C 710. B 711. B 712. A 713. D 714. D
715. B 716. A 717. C 718. C 719. A
C. Upper class toler- 725. What period in En- A. Shaw

ance glish Literature is called
B. Beckett
the “Augustans Age”?
D. Radical Romanti-
C. Pinter
cism A. Early 16th Century
720. Who is famous for his D. Eliot
B. 17th Century
‘drama of ideas’? 731. Who is the writer of
C. Early 18th Century
er
The Victorian Period?
A. William Shake-
speare D. None of these A. Lord Alfred Ten-
726. ‘Comedy of Errors’ is nyson
B. Henrik Ibsen
gd
Written by B. Robert Herrick
C. Oscar Wilde
A. Ben Johnson C. Jeremy Taylor
D. T.S. Eliot
721. The youngest Nobel B. G. B Shaw D. Thomas Hobbes
an
Prize winner in Litera- C. T S Eliot 732. The poem ‘Easter
ture is Wings’ written by
D. William Shake-
A. George Orwell speare
A. Andrew Marvell
Ch
B. T.S. Eliot 727. Keats’ poem
C. Thomas Hardy Endymion is based on B. George Herbert
mythology. C. John Keats
D. Rudyard Kipling
722. Who is the writer of A. Greek D. S.T Coleridge
The Jacobean Period? B. Roman 733. The full name of W.B.
an
A. Caedmon Yeats is-

C. celtic
B. Andrew Marvell A. Winstern Barret
D. Indian
Yeats
C. Dante 728. Swift belong to:
y
B. William Bill Yeats

D. Cynewulf A. Renassiance period
C. William Butler Yeats
723. ‘The Good Morrow’ is
ra
B. Restoration D. William Bernard

a poem by
C. Romantic period Yeats
A. Andrew Marvell
D. Augustan age 734. “Poetry is sponta-
Na
B. W. B. Yeats neous overflow of pow-

C. John Donne 729. Kubla Khan was writ- erful Feeling” is said
ten by by-
D. P. B. Browning
A. Coleridge A. S.T Coleridge
724. “A thing of beauty is a
joy forever” occurs in- B. Shelley B. William Blake
A. Eliot’s ‘The waste C. Keats C. William Wordsworth
land’
D. None of these
B. Keats’s ‘Endymion’ D. Tomas Eliot
730. Who belongs to the
C. Shelly’s ‘The Cloud’ Absurd School of 735. ’Heroes and hero wor-
D. none of the above Drama? ship’ was written by
720. B 721. D 722. B 723. C 724. B 725. C 726. D 727. A 728. D 729. A
730. B 731. A 732. B 733. C 734. C 735. B
A. Mill A. Webster A. Cynewulf

B. Carlyle B. Ben Jonson B. Shelley
C. Coleridge C. William Shake- C. Robert Browning
speare D. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. None of these
D. Christopher Mar- 745. What is a Miracle
736. “I am no Prince Ham-
er
lowe Play?
let” is a line written by:
A. Shakespeare 741. ‘Better to reign in A. a play of tragedy
Hell than to serve in
B. a play of comedy
gd
B. Yeats Heaven.’ Who said this
and where? C. a play in fiction
C. Eliot
A. Satan in ’Paradise D. a supernatural reli-
D. Auden
Lost’ gious drama
an
737. ‘I Wandered Lonely as 746. ‘David Copperfield’ is
a Cloud’ is a poem writ- B. Stain in ’Paradise
Regained’ a / an novel.
ten by-
C. Adam in ’Paradise A. Victorian
Ch
Lost’ B. Elizabethan
B. Blake D. Adam in ’Paradise C. Romantic

Regained’
C. Lord Byron D. Modern
742. “Fools rush in where
D. Coleridge 747. A sonnet is a poem
angels fear to tread” is
an
having lines.
738. Who is the writer of a quotation by-
A. sixteen
The Victorian Period? A. William Shake-
speare B. ten
A. Robert Herrick
y
B. Alexander Pope C. twelve

B. Thomas Hobbes
D. fourteen
ra
C. Robert Browning C. Gladstone

748. Which is the famous
D. Jeremy Taylor D. Aesop
elegy written by Shel-
743. ‘A little learning is ley?
Na
739. Which one is Golden

Age in English Litera- a dangerous thing’ A. In Memoriam
ture? quoted by?
B. Lycidas
A. Elizabethan A. Alexander Pope
C. Adonis
B. Classic B. John Dryden
D. Thyrsis
C. Modern C. John Milton
D. Jacobean D. Ben Jonson The Old English Pe-
riod?
740. ‘The Merchant of 744. Who is the author of
Venice’ is a drama by the poem ‘The House of A. William Wordsworth
Fame’?
736. C 737. A 738. C 739. A 740. C 741. A 742. B 743. A 744. D 745. D
746. A 747. D 748. C 749. C 750. B
B. William Shake- 755. ‘Water, water, every- 760. ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is
speare where, not a drop to written by
C. Saint Venerable drink’ the composer of A. Cynewulf
Bede B. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Lord Tennyson A. Wordsworth
C. Robert Browning
750. S.T. Coleridge was B. S. T. Coleridge
er
born in C. Gray
761. George Eliot was an:
A. 1798 D. Scott
A. Atheist
B. 1772
gd
756. ‘The Duchess of Mulfi’
is written by? B. Agnostic
C. 1797
C. Occultist
D. None of these A. William Congreve
D. Conventionalist
751. Who was not the fa- B. John Wycherley
an
mous poet of the age of 762. ‘ Paradise Lost is an
C. Ben Johnson epic by:
Romanticism?
D. John Webster A. . Spenser
A. Coleridge
757. The author of ‘Songs
Ch
B. Byron B. Chaucer
of Innocence and of Ex-
C. Shelley perience’ is C. Milton
D. Shakespeare A. John Lennon D. None of these
752. Nobel Prize winner in 763. The kind Claudius was
B. Richard Mark
literature Harold Pinter killed by:
an
is from? C. William Blake

A. Laerteus
A. USA D. John Keats
B. Hamlet
B. Australia 758. Pure tragedies written
C. Horatio
by Shakespeare are:
y
C. UK D. None of these
A. Four
D. Canada 764. Childe Harold’s Pil-
ra
B. Six grimmage is written

753. Renaissance Period
was dominated by? C. Eight by:
D. None of these A. Blake
Na
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy 759. Who wrote the plays B. Shelley
“The Tempest’ and “The C. Byron
C. Translation
Mid Summer Night’s
D. Prose Dream”? D. None of these
754. ’Waverley’ was writ- 765. Who was English poet
A. William Shake-
ten by addicted to opium?
speare
A. Scott A. S. T Coleridge
B. Ben Jonson
B. Jane Austen B. P. B Shelley
C. John Dryden
C. Dickens C. Lord Byron
D. Christopher Mar-
D. None of these lowe D. John Keats
751. D 752. C 753. A 754. A 755. B 756. D 757. C 758. A 759. A 760. C
761. A 762. C 763. B 764. C 765. A 766. A
766. Who wrote ‘Preface to A. Shelley 777. Which is the author

Shakespeare’? of the drama ‘Joan of
B. Wordsworth
A. Dr. Samuel Johnson Arc’?
C. Coleridge
B. Henry Fielding A. Lord Byron
D. Arnold
C. Daniel Defoe B. Charles Dickens
772. G. B. Shaw’s The Doc-
C. G. B. Shaw
er
D. Thomas Hobbes tor’s Dilemma is a/an-
767. Adonias, Prometheus A. novel D. P.B. Shelley
and "The triumph of 778. James Joyce’s narra-
life" are some of the B. drama
tive technique is known
gd
beautiful poems by: C. poem as-
A. W. Blake D. short story A. stream of conscious-
B. Byron 773. Arms and the Man – a ness
an
C. Shelley novel is written by: B. psycho-analysis
D. none of these A. George Bernard C. Objective Co-
Shaw relative
768. Houyhnhnms repre-
Ch
sent life governed by B. Samuel Beckett D. Symbolism and
sense and: C. Jane Austen Mysticism
A. Moderation 779. Who wrote ‘The Ruins
D. None of these
of Time’?
B. patience 774. Ulysses is a by
James Joyce. A. Sir Philip Sidney
C. understanding d
an
compromise A. novel B. Edmund Spenser

D. none of these C. John Keat
B. poetry
769. The Waste Land by T. D. Henry
C. verse
S. Elliot is an
y

D. play Prologue?
A. Ode
775. Which one is the first
ra
B. Elegy A. the last part of any

tragedy play of Shake-
drama
C. Epic speare
B. the first chapter of
D. None of these A. Julius Caesar
Na
play
770. ‘The Olive Tree’ is a B. Romeo and Juliet
collection of essays by: C. the preface or intro-
C. Hamlet duction of any writing
A. Ruskin
D. Titus Andronicus D. surface
B. Carlyle
776. Which poem is writ- 781. When did Robert Frost
C. Huxley ten by Walt Whitman? marry??
D. Oscar Wilde A. Song of myself A. December 18, 1895
771. Who described poetry
B. Song of Innocence B. December 11, 1895
as “Spontaneous over-
flow of powerful feel- C. Song of Experience C. December 15, 1895
ings”: D. none of these D. December 19, 1895
767. C 768. A 769. B 770. C 771. B 772. B 773. A 774. A 775. D 776. A
777. C 778. A 779. B 780. C 781. D
782. How many Sonnets A. a kind of verse play A. appreciation for

did Shakespeare com- beauty
B. a play with unhappy
pose?
ending B. appreciation for
A. 151 poem
C. blending of tragic
B. 148 and comic elements C. reverence for old
C. 128 D. mixture of dramas D. reverence for poems
er
D. 154 788. Who is the writer of
783. “Twelfth Night” is The Jacobean Period? 793. What the term Allu-
sion refers-
gd
by William
A. Caedmon
Shakespeare A. reference from any
B. Dante person
A. a comedy
B. an elegy C. Henry Vaughan B. obeyed the old men
C. a novel
D. a tragedy
784. Keats belong to an
D. Cynewulf
789. Who is the father of
English Novel?
C. reference of past
events or persons
D. writing in satire
Ch
A. Shakespeare 794. Egden Heath forms
A. Eighteenth century
B. Henry Fielding the back drop of
B. Nineteenth century which of the following
C. Seventeenth cen- C. G. B. Shaw novels by Hardy?
tury D. Dr. Samuel Johnson A. Jude the Obscure
an
D. Eighteenth century B. Hard Times

790. ‘Water, water, every-
C. Return of the Native
785. Who translated the where, not a drop to
Bible into English for drink’ poem of D. Tess
y
the first time?

A. Lotes Eater 795. What is a myth?
A. Nicolas Udall
ra
B. The Rime of the An- A. a fictitious story

B. Thomas Norton cient Mariner B. a real human story
C. John Wycliffe C. Good Morrow C. an animal story
Na
D. Edmund Spenser D. West wind D. short poem

786. ‘Preface to Lyrical Bal-
791. Great Expectations 796. When did Robert
lad’ is written by?
was published in: Frost’s first child born
A. S.T. Coleridge ?
A. 1860 1
B. William Wordsworth A. 1899
B. 1857 8
C. 1852 3 B. 1896
C. Both of them
D. none of these C. 1897
D. None of them
787. What do you mean by 792. What the term Aes- D. 1898
Tragicomedy? thetic refers- 797. Francis Bacon died in:
782. D 783. A 784. B 785. C 786. B 787. C 788. C 789. B 790. B 791. A
792. A 793. C 794. C 795. A 796. B 797. B 798. C
A. 1616 803. The fictional detec- 808. Mr. Bennet is one of

B. 1626 tive character Sherlock Jane Austen’s charac-
Holmes is the creation ters in:
C. 1648 of
A. Emma
D. None of these A. Agatha Christie
B. Persecution
798. Who wrote ‘The
B. Arthur Conan Doyle
Nun’s Priest’s Tale’? C. Pride and Prejudice
er
A. Shelley D. Sense and sensibil-
C. J. K. Rowling ity
B. T.S. Eliot
D. Rudyard Kipling
gd
C. Chaucer 809. Emily Bronte is the
804. ‘Melodrama’ is a kind writer of
D. Donne of play- A. Wuthering heights
799. Who does consider
A. of violent and sensa- B. Under the green
an
‘love’ as a transcend-
ing power handling all tional themes wood tree
things into beauty? B. of pathetic themes C. Mr.chips
A. Wordsworth C. of historical themes D. None of the above
Ch
B. Keats D. of philosophical 810. Shelley’s poetry used
C. Shelley themes all of the following com-
D. Byron 805. ’We are Seven’ is writ- ponents for themes ex-
ten by cept:
800. In what year did Geof-
frey Chaucer died? A. Keats A. Worship of God
an
A. 1400 AD B. Shelly B. Passion

B. 1441 AD C. Hardy C. Narcissism
C. 1442 AD D. Emotional
y
D. None of these
D. 1443 AD self indulgence
806. Shakespeare’s ‘King
811. A Fantasy is
ra
801. Shakespeare was born Lear’ is a

in the year A. An imaginary story
A. Satire
A. 1540 AD B. A funny film
B. Comedy
Na
B. 1564 AD C. A real life event

C. Tragedy
C. 1570 AD
D. A funny place
D. Historical Play
D. 1610 AD 812. Which poem of
802. Who has been called 807. To err is human, for-
Keats contains ‘Heard
"The true child of the give is divine. Who has
melodies are sweet,
Renaissance" said these words:
but those unheard are
A. Shakespeare A. Pope sweeter’.
B. Chaucer B. Swift A. Ode to Autumn
C. More C. Dryden B. Ode on a Grecian
Urn
D. Marlowe D. None of these
799. B 800. A 801. B 802. D 803. B 804. A 805. D 806. C 807. A 808. C
809. A 810. A 811. A 812. B 813. B
C. Ode to melancholy A. Charles Dickens 824. Who was a known aes-

B. Chaucer thete?
D. None of these
813. Ruskin is famous for: C. Jonathan Swift A. Ruskin
A. Being a critic of art D. None of these B. Russell

B. A social reformer 819. The most important el- C. Huxley
ement of a Tragedy?
er
C. A moral teacher D. J.S. Mill
A. Plot
D. None of these 825. Who is the writer of
B. Character The Modern and The
gd
Imagery? C. Spectacles Post Modern Period?
A. language perceived D. Diction A. Alexander Pope

through senses 820. Who said ‘The true op- B. Daniel Defoe
posite of Poetry is not
an
B. jargoned writing C. Jonathan Swift
Prose but Science’.
C. language of litera- D. A. C. Bradley
A. Wordsworth
ture
B. T. S. Eliot 826. The second genera-
Ch
D. drawing pictures tion of the romantic po-
C. Coleridge
815. T. S. Eliot is ets (Shelley, Byron and
poet. D. None of these Keats) was dead by:
A. romantic 821. Yeats was A. 1820
B. victorian A. Victorian poet B. 1825
an
C. modern B. a modern poet

C. 1830
D. post-modern C. Both
D. None of these
816. Charles Dickens is not D. None of these
827. T. S. Eliot and George
y
the novelist for one of 822. Who is the writer of Eliot were:
the following- ‘Queen Marry’?
A. Brothers
ra
A. A Tale of Two Cities A. A. Lord Tennyson

B. George Bernard B. Father and Son
B. Treasure Island
Shaw C. Novelists
C. David Copperfield
Na
C. Christopher Mar- D. None of these

D. Great Expectations lowe
817. Das Capital was pub- 828. Asian Drama is writ-
D. William Shake- ten by-
lished in the year-
speare
A. 1867 A. G.B. Shaw
823. Great Expectations is
B. 1876 a novel written by- B. W.B Yeats
C. 1887 A. Charles Dickens C. Albert Camue
D. 1878 B. Thomas Hardy D. Gunner Myrdal
818. Who wrote Gulliver’s C. Jane Austen 829. The Eve of St. Agnes
Travels? D. Henry Fielding is a poem by:
814. A 815. C 816. B 817. A 818. C 819. A 820. C 821. C 822. A 823. A
824. C 825. D 826. B 827. D 828. D 829. B
A. Milton 835. Of the following who C. Oscar Wilde

B. Keats is the most translated D. Dickens
author of the world?
C. Byron 840. G. B. Shaw got Nobel
A. Leo Tolstoy Prize in 1925 for the
D. Blake
B. Agatha Cristie book?
830. Lotos Eaters is a poem
by: C. V.I. Lenin A. Arms and the man
er
A. Browning B. The doctor’s
D. Mao Tse Tung
dilemma
B. Tennyson 836. Who is the au-
C. Man of destiny
gd
C. Yeats thor of the book ‘Dr.
Zhivago’? D. Philanderer
D. Frost
A. Boris Pasternak 841. Which of the novels
831. William Faulkner was is not written by Jane
awarded Nobel Prize B. Leo Tolstoy
an
Austen?
for literature in:
C. Rabindranath A. Adam Bede
A. 1949 Tagore
B. Mansfield Park
B. 1950 D. Dante
Ch
C. Emma
C. 1951 837. Iron, times of doubts,
D. None of these
D. 1953 disputes, distraction
and Fear is an example 842. Who is known as ‘the
832. A sonnet is a lyric poet of nature in En-
of:
poem of glish literature’?
A. Oxymoron
A. 12 lines
an
A. Lord Tennyson
B. 24 lines B. Conceit
B. John Milton
C. 14 lines C. Alliteration
D. 10 lines D. None of these
y
833. Total how many num- 838. Which quotation is by D. John Keats
Shakespeare?
ra
bers of detective nov- 843. A person who writes

els written by Agatha A. Cowards die many about his own life
Christie times before their writes-
A. 22 deaths.
Na
A. A Chronicle
B. 30 B. To err is human; to B. an Autobiographer
C. 52 forgive is divine.
C. a diary
D. 66 C. Brevity is the soul of
D. a Biography
wit.
834. Who is the writer of 844. Which one is the first
‘Oenone’? D. a and c science-fiction novel
A. Cynewulf 839. The character of Little A. Dracula
Neil is a creation of:
B. Robert Browning B. The Time Machine
C. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Hardy
C. Frankenstein
D. A. Lord Tennyson B. Eliot
D. Fahrenheit 451
830. B 831. A 832. C 833. D 834. D 835. C 836. A 837. C 838. D 839. D
840. A 841. A 842. C 843. B 844. C
845. Shelly was a firm be- 850. Which book written 855. Which one of the fol-
liever in all of the fol- by William Somerset lowing poets named the
lowing except: Maugham? Romantic poet as the
“pond poets”?
A. Personal freedom A. Of Human Bondage
A. Southey
B. The individual’s re-
sponsibility to society B. Roads of Destiny B. Shelley
er
C. The power of love C. Merchant of Venice C. Keats
D. Human conduct D. Paradise Lost D. Byron
based on conviction 856. Who is the writer
gd
851. Who is believed to be
of The Restoration Pe-
suffering from Oedipus
846. Which one is the Ten- riod?
Complex:
nyson’s First work? A. Robert Herrick
A. Oedipus
an
A. Dora B. John Locke
B. Hamlet
B. Ulysses C. Jeremy Taylor
C. Macbeth
C. Two Brothers D. Thomas Hobbes
D. None of these
Ch
D. In Memorium 857. What do you mean by
852. Oliver Goldsmith is a Ballad?
847. Which poet is not al-
a/an novelist. A. a kind of short nar-
ways bound up with the
reformer? A. American rative poem
A. Wordsworth B. Irish B. a poem of patriotism
an
B. Coleridge C. English C. a poem of love af-

fairs
C. Pope D. French
D. a kind of condoling
D. Tennyson 853. Shakespeare’s poem
y
848. Who is the author of "Antony and Cleopa-

858. How many novels
the novel ‘The Sun Also tra" is based on
combine the Harry Pot-
ra
Rises’? A. Lodge’s Rosalynde ter series collection

A. H.G. Wells B. Plutarch’s Lives A. 3
B. George Orwell B. 7
Na
C. Promos and Cassan-

C. Ernest Hemingway dra C. 9
D. Thomas Hardy D. None D. 11
849. I am too much in the 854. The 1805 text of ‘The 859. Who is Irma?
sun in “Hamlet” is spo- Prelude’ is edited by: A. wife
ken by: A. Helen Darbishire B. daughter
A. Polonius B. Ernest De Selin C. aunt
B. Claudius Court
D. daughter in law
C. Hamlet C. Herbert Reads 860. The novel ‘The Big
D. Ophelia D. Coleridge Four’ is written by-
845. D 846. C 847. D 848. C 849. C 850. A 851. A 852. B 853. B 854. B
855. A 856. B 857. A 858. B 859. B 860. B
A. Virginia Wolf A. H. G Wells A. 1916 to 1928

B. Agatha Christie B. Charles Dickens B. 1926 to 1938
C. Sigmund Freud C. Rudyard Kipling C. 1916 to 1938
D. Joseph Conrad D. T. S. Elliot D. 1916 to 1948

871. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’
861. Who is writer of the 866. When Robert frost
is
er
poem ‘Sailing To Byzan- awarded his first of four
tium’? Pulitzer Prizes ? A. a tragedy by Shske-
speare
A. James Joyece A. in 1921
gd
B. a play By G. B. Shaw
B. D. H. Lawrence B. in 1923
C. William Butler Yeats C. in 1924 C. a poem by Lord By-
D. E. M. Forster D. in 1922 ron
862. When did T. S. Eliot

win noble prize?
A. 1948 an
867. ‘To err is human, to
forgive is divine’ is writ-
ten by
D. a novel by S. T. Co-
leridge
872. ‘Macbeth’ is a-
Ch
A. Tennyson A. play
B. 1923
B. W. Blake B. novel
C. 1953
C. essay
C. John Milton
D. 1935
D. poem
D. Alexander Pope
863. Who is the first ever 873. What do you mean by
an
winner of the Nobel 868. What do you mean Protagonist?

Prize in Literature Philology?
A. the character
A. Theodor Mommsen A. Study of Language against main charac-
y
B. science of medicine ter i.e. Antagonist

B. Sully Prudhomme B. the villain of drama
C. science of surgery
ra
C. Rudyard Kipling C. the minor character

D. science of speech
D. Henryk Sienkiewicz sounds D. the main character
in a literary work
Na
869. ‘Dr Faustus’ was writ-

864. Who is the author of ten by 874. Great Expectation was
‘The Affluent Society’? written by
A. Ben Jonson
A. George Eliot
A. H.G. Wells
B. G.B Shaw
B. Thackeray
B. T.S. Eliot
C. T.S Eliot C. Dickens
C. J.K. Galbrath
D. Christopher Mar- D. None of these
D. David Hume lowe
875. Which novel of Hardy
865. is not a Novel- 870. How many during presents ‘Egdon Heath’
ist of the modern age in of times Robert Frost as the background of
the English Language. taught ? the story?
861. C 862. A 863. B 864. C 865. B 866. C 867. D 868. A 869. D 870. C
871. B 872. A 873. D 874. C 875. B 876. B
A. Tess of the 880. Who wrote The Vicar A. Lamia

D’Urberville of Wake Field?
B. Ode to a Grecian
B. Return of the Native A. Richardson Urn
C. Jude the Obscure B. Fielding C. Ode on Melancholy
D. None of these C. Defoe D. Endymion
er
876. ‘The Prelude’ was D. Goldsmith 886. In ‘To Daffodils’, hu-
composed by: 881. The first English dic- man life is compared
tionary was completed with
A. Keats
gd
by – A. Sunset
B. Wordsworth
A. Sir Thomas Browne B. flowing river
C. Blake
C. morning’s dew
D. Byron B. Samuel Butler
an
D. graying hair
877. Which month Robert C. Samuel Johnson
frost and Elinor was 887. Shakespeare wrote
D. Iazak Walton
married? A. Tragedies
882. Who wrote “Jane
Ch
A. December 16, 1895 Eyre”? B. Comedies
B. December 17, 1895 A. Charlotte Bronte C. Poems
C. December 19, 1895 B. Emile Bronte D. All of above
D. December 18, 1895 C. Anne Bronte 888. “Art for arts sake”
found its true adher-
an
878. Who is called the ‘Poet D. None of these

ent in:
of Nature’ in English lit- 883. ‘Lady Chatterley’s
erature? Lover’ and ‘The Rain- A. Wordsworth
A. Lord Byron bow’ written by- B. Byron
y
A. Virginia Woolf C. Browning

B. John Keats
ra
B. Robert Frost
C. William Wordsworth D. Wilde
C. Thomas Moore 889. What is catastrophe?
D. P. B Shelley D. D.H. Lawrence
A. The comical end of
Na
879. The central idea of ‘I 884. “Thought Fox” is writ- dramatic events
wandered lonely as a ten by:
B. The tragic end of
cloud’ is that A. Ted Hughes dramatic events
A. nature excites hu- B. Heaney C. The comic tragic
man imagination C. Sylvia Plath end of the play
B. nature is harmful for D. None of these D. None of the above
human being
885. The line “she dwells 890. ‘Child is the father of
C. nature is beautiful with Beauty – Beauty man’ is taken from the
D. we can find solace in that must be” occurs in poem “My Heart Leaps
nature Keats’ Up” by
877. C 878. C 879. D 880. D 881. C 882. A 883. D 884. A 885. C 886. C
887. D 888. D 889. B 890. A 891. A
A. William Wordsworth 896. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ A. The Traveler

was written by:
B. The speaker
B. S. T. Coleridge A. Dickens
C. Other Kings
C. P. B. Shelley B. Hardy D. Ozymandias him-
D. A. C. Swinburne C. George Eliot self
er
891. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is D. None of these 902. Shakespeare has writ-
written by: ten:
897. Who wrote ‘beauty is
A. Francis Bacon truth, truth is beauty’? A. Historical plays
gd
B. Carlyle A. Shakespeare B. Comedies
C. Montaine B. Eliot C. Tragedies
D. None of these C. Wordsworth D. All of these
an
892. T. S. Eliot was a 903. Romanticism (if it can
D. Keats
A. Critic be pinpointed) is usu-
898. Who is the writer of ally assumed to date
B. Poet the poem ‘The Pied from:
Piper of Hamelin’?
Ch
C. Both A. Publication of "In-
A. Robert Browning timations of Immortal-
D. None of these
893. “Paradise Lost” is di- B. Ibsen ity"
vided into C. Jonsen B. The beginning of
A. 12 Books Queen Victoria’s reign
D. Shaw
an
B. 8 Books C. The Reform Bill of

1832
C. 9 Books A. Iliad : Novel
D. Publication of "Lyri-
D. 5 Books B. The Tempest : Com- cal Ballads" and its pref-
y
894. Which is the shortest edy ace

period of English litera-
ra
C. The Temple : Poem 904. Who wrote ‘Robison

ture? Crusoe’?
D. The Dunciad: Poem
A. Romantic period A. Jonathan Swift
Na
B. Victorian age 900. Who is the youngest B. Daniel Defoe

C. Restoration period literature laureate to
C. William Shake-
win Nobel Prize
D. none of the above speare
895. The national epic of A. Rudyard Kipling
D. Jon Milton
Iran ’Shahnameh’ was B. Karl Gjellerup 905. A great playwright of
written by Shakespeare time was
C. Nelly Sachs
A. Ferdowsi
D. Harry Martinson
B. Omar Khayyám A. Samuel Johnson
901. In the poem ‘Ozyman-
C. Hafez dias’ who calls Ozyman- B. Christopher Mar-
dias ‘King of Kings’? lowe
D. Al-Biruni
892. C 893. A 894. C 895. A 896. A 897. D 898. A 899. A 900. A 901. D
902. D 903. D 904. B 905. B 906. A
C. Oliver Goldsmith 911. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem C. Preface to Ancient

written by: Mariners
D. John Donne
906. Who is the writer A. Coleridge D. Preface to Dr. John-
of The Elizabethan Pe- son
B. Wordsworth
riod? 916. The Charge of the
C. Keats
A. Nicholas Udall Light Brigade” (Ten-
er
D. None of these nyson) commemorates:
B. Cynewulf
912. Who is the writer of A. The Boer War
C. Dante The Victorian Period?
B. The battle of Trafal-
gd
D. Caedmon A. Matthew Arnold gar
907. Mark Twain is a fa- B. Robert Herrick C. The Crimean War
mous author from
C. Jeremy Taylor D. None of these
an
A. USA
D. Thomas Hobbes 917. Which of the follow-
B. UK ing poems by Tennyson
913. What is Limerick?
C. Ireland is a monodrama?
A. A form of light verse
Ch
D. Norway A. Ulysses
908. Who is known as ‘the B. A form of one-act B. Break, Break, Break
poet of nature’ in En- play C. Maud
glish literature?
C. A kind of short nar- D. Crossing the Bar
A. Lord Tennyson rative poem
an
918. T. S. Eliot considers

B. William Wordsworth D. A kind of love poem to be one of
Shakespeare’s most as-
C. John Milton 914. Who is the father of sured artistic success
y
D. John Keats Modern English Litera- A. Hamlet

ture?
909. The Nurse’s Song was B. King Lear
ra
written by: A. G. B. Shaw

C. The Tempest
A. Keats B. Shakespeare
D. Coriolanus
B. Tennyson C. P. B. Shelley
Na
919. Who is the most illus-

C. Blake D. William Wordsworth trious representative of
D. Shelley the doctrine of utilitari-
915. The Romantic age in anism?
910. Milton’s Areopagitica
English literature be- A. Ruskin
is
gan with the publica-
A. a sonnet tion of B. Russell
B. an epic A. Preface to Shake- C. Huxley
C. a plea for the free- speare D. None of these
dom of the press B. Preface of Lyrical 920. The Mayor of Caster
D. a play Ballads Bridge was written by:
907. A 908. B 909. C 910. C 911. B 912. A 913. C 914. A 915. B 916. C
917. C 918. A 919. A 920. B
A. Trollope 925. The Victorian age can A. R. L. Stevenson

be dated by which of
B. Thomas Hardy B. Daniel Defoe
the following events
C. Charles Dickens and years: C. Jonathan Swift
D. None of these A. Mills’s "on liberty’ D. William Worsd-
(1859) to end of century worth
921. The poem ‘Under the
(1900)
er
Green Wood Tree’ was 930. The Eve of St. Agnes
written by B. Reform Bill (1832) to is written by:
A. William Wordsworth end of Boer War (1902) A. Keats
gd
C. Birth of Tennyson B. Blake
B. Robert Browning (1809) to his death
(1892) C. Tennyson
C. William Shake- D. None of these
D. Tennyson’s Poems,
an
speare
Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to 931. Lingua Franca refers
D. Ralph Hodgson death of Queen Victoria to the term-
922. Who is the writer (1901)
A. first language
of the book ’Robinson
Ch
Crusoe" B. second language
The Modern and The
A. Daniel Defoe Postmodern Period? C. official language
B. John Keats A. Henrik Ibsen D. common language

B. Alexander Pope 932. Full name of T. S Eliot
C. Charles Dickens
is
an
D. John Milton C. Jonathan Swift

A. Thomas stearns
923. ‘The child is the father D. Daniel Defoe
B. Thompson Simson
of man’ is a line from 927. was written by
y
Wordsworth’s: Shakespeare. C. Thomas Stewart

A. Immortality Ode A. As You Like It D. Thomas Stephen
ra
B. The Prelude B. King Lear 933. The poem ‘Isle of Inn-

isfree’ is written by
C. My heart leaps C. Macbeth
A. Dylan Thomas
Na
when I Behold a Rain-

bow in the Sky. D. Hamlet
B. W.H Auden
D. None of these 928. Who said this “Poetry
C. Ezra Pound
is the Criticism of life”:
924. Which of the follow- D. W.B. Yeats
ing poems by Tennyson A. Byron
is a monodrama? 934. Santiago is an illustra-
B. T. S. Eliot tion of:
A. Ulysses C. Arnold A. Hemingway’s re-
B. Break, Break, Break D. None of these spect for struggle
C. Maud 929. Who wrote ‘Gulliver’s B. Hemingway’s total
D. Crossing the Bar Travels’? view of life
921. C 922. A 923. C 924. C 925. D 926. A 927. A 928. C 929. C 930. A
931. D 932. A 933. D 934. C 935. B
C. Hemingway’s phi- 940. The following charac- A. The Augustan Age

losophy of life teristics are of Oscar B. The Victorian Age
Wild’s EXCEPT :
D. None of these C. The Georgian Age
935. Byron wrote ‘Childe A. a poet
D. The Restoration
Harold’ in: B. a novelist Age
A. 1808 C. an essayist 946. What is a Myth?
er
B. 1812 D. a dramatist A. a fictitious or imagi-
native story
C. 1818 941. The ‘Solitary Reaper’
gd
is a- B. a legend of hero
D. None of these
A. heroic poem C. a short narrative
936. In what year did poem
Shakespeare die? B. romantic poem
D. a long narrative
an
A. 1570 AD C. classical poem poem
B. 1580 AD D. didactic poem 947. "English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers" is a
C. 1630 AD 942. Who wrote the satirical attack on con-
Ch
‘Odyssey and Iliad’? temporary writers who
D. 1616 AD
A. Milton had annoyed Byron.
937. Ruskin belonged to
(which age) B. Hoffman A. True
A. Romantic age C. Vergil B. False
C. both A and B
an
B. Victorian age D. Homer

C. Augustan age 943. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet D. none of these
had Daughters. 948. Rhymed decasyllables,
D. None of these nearly always in iambic
y
938. Dorothy was the A. Six Pentameters rhymed in

gifted sister of: B. Seven Pairs are called:
ra
A. R. Browning C. Five A. Heroic Couplet

B. Shelley D. None of these B. Blank verse
C. Terza Rima
Na
C. Wordsworth 944. Who did write/publish

D. Coleridge preface to lyrical bal- D. Spenserian stanza
lads: 949. A phrase, line or lines
939. In which year Win- repeated at intervals
ston Churchill got the A. Wordsworth
during a poem and es-
Novel prize in litera- B. Shelley pecially at the end of a
ture? stanza is called:
C. Keats
A. 1943 A. Period
D. None of these
B. 1945 B. Refrain
C. 1948 ing ages in literary his- C. Feminine Ending
D. 1953 tory is the latest? D. Alexandrine
936. D 937. B 938. C 939. D 940. C 941. B 942. D 943. C 944. A 945. C
946. A 947. A 948. A 949. B 950. A
950. William Shakespeare A. S. T. Coleridge 961. T. S Eliot was born in

is a famous
B. John Keats
A. dramatist A. Ireland
C. Lord Byron
B. novelist B. England
D. Blake
C. essayist 956. “If winter come can C. Wales
er
D. critic spring be far behind”- D. USA
quoted from? 962. John Keats died of-
Decameron A. Shelley A. accident
gd
A. Chaucer B. Wordsworth B. tuberculosis
B. Boccaccio C. Keats C. drowned in the sea
C. Dante D. Coleridge D. plane crash
D. Plutarch
952. ‘Brick Lane’ is written
by-
an
957. How many plays did
Shakespeare compose?
A. 154
963. ‘Ophelia’ is an impor-
tant character in the
Shakespeare play-
Ch
A. Virginia Woolf B. 38 A. Hamlet
B. George Eliot C. 29 B. Macbeth
C. Charles Dickens D. 26 C. The Tempest
D. Monica Ali 958. ‘Ode to the west wind’ D. King Lear
is by 964. the quality
an
953. What is sonnet?

A. Keats when man is capable
A. A prose of special of being in uncertain-
nature B. Shelley ties, mysteries, doubts,
B. A sacred poem of re- C. Coleridge without any irritable
y
puted poet reaching after fact and

D. Wordsworth
reason’ is:
ra
C. A poem of fourteen 959. Who is the author of

lines A. Objectivity
‘The Picture of Dorian
D. A criticism of a poet Gray’? B. Subjectivity
Na
A. Aldous Huxley C. Negative capability

954. Who wrote ‘War and
B. Boris Pasternauk D. Scepticism
Peace’?
C. Oscar Wilde 965. Which of follow-
A. Thomas Hardly ing Books consists of
D. Fitzerald Ruskin’s lectures:
B. Robert Lewis
Stevenson 960. Shakespeare died in:
A. Modern painters
C. Scott A. 1625
B. The Stones of Venice
D. Leo Tolstoy B. 1616
C. The Crown of wild
955. Who is sometimes C. 1618 olive
called ‘Rebel Poet’? D. None of these D. None of these
951. B 952. D 953. C 954. D 955. C 956. A 957. B 958. B 959. C 960. B
961. D 962. B 963. A 964. C 965. C 966. B
966. Fortinbras is a charac- C. John Done A. Abrahams, M. H.

ter of the play:
D. Mathew Arnold B. Palmer, D. J.
A. Othello C. Bertrand Russell
971. “Men may be beaten,
B. Hamlet chained, tormented, D. None of these
yoked like cattle,
C. King Lear 976. Which one of the fol-
slaughtered like sum-
er
D. None of these mer flies . . . yet remain lowing is the first long
free . . . ” This was said poem in English?
967. The Advertisement
added to the Lyrical by: A. Beowulf
gd
Ballads was published A. Carlyle B. Dream of the Road
in:
B. J.S. Mill C. The Seafarer
A. 1800
C. Ruskin D. The Wanderer
B. 1802
an
977. ‘Egotistical Sublime’ is
D. Mathew Arnold
C. 1798 a phrase coined by:
972. What is the real name
D. None of these A. Keats
of George Eliot?
Ch
968. “Water, water, every- B. Wordsworth
A. T. S Eliot
where, And all the
C. Coleridge
boards did shrink; Wa- B. Jane Austen
ter, water, everywhere, D. Byron
C. Mary Anne Evans
Nor any drop to drink.”- 978. “David Copperfield”
from which poem? D. William Hazlitt was written by:
an
A. Intimation of Im- 973. What the term Trilogy A. Hardy

mortality refers?
B. Dickens
B. Tintern Abbey A. three stanza poem C. Thackeray
y
C. Don Juan B. a three series of po- D. None of these

D. Rime of the Ancient ems
979. Pleasure and joy in
ra
Mariner C. a triangular drama Beauty become a feast

969. Who wrote ‘Sense and D. a series of three of the scenes in the po-
Sensibility’? drama etry of:
Na
A. Emily Dickinson 974. Hazlitt’s intellectual A. Shelley

B. Virginia Woolf awakening had been B. Keats
stimulated by:
C. Jane Austen C. Byron
A. Shakespeare D. None of these
D. None
B. Coleridge 980. ‘Desert Places’ is a:
ing is a Victorian nov- C. Wordsworth A. Poem
elist?
D. De Quincey B. Play
A. Thomas Carlyle
975. Who wrote "20th Cen- C. Novel
B. Francis Bacon tury Views"? D. None of these
967. C 968. D 969. C 970. D 971. C 972. C 973. D 974. A 975. A 976. A
977. A 978. B 979. B 980. A 981. D
981. Father of antiquities A. short story 992. Which poetry is writ-

were: B. epic poem ten by sir Walter Scott?
A. Socrates C. play A. Patriotism
B. Aristotle D. lyrical poem B. The Patriot
C. Plato 987. Short story is C. A Frosty Night
not than story.
er
D. All of these D. All of the above
A. shorter
982. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and 993. What was the reason
Hazlitt are B. longer
behind Elinor’s death?
gd
A. Poets C. smaller
A. Cancer
B. Essayists D. huger
988. Which of the follow- B. Tuberculises
C. Novelists
an
ing is exceptional? C. Diariea
D. None of these A. William Blake D. Colera
983. The phrase ‘trunk B. William Wordsworth
less legs’ in the poem 994. Who was both a poet
Ch
‘Ozymandias’ refers to and a Priest?
C. William Butler Yeats
A. Andrew Marvell
D. Thomas Gray
A. hug legs
989. Hamlet was killed by: B. George Herbert
B. legs without toes
A. Polonius C. Edmund Spencer
C. legs without body
an
B. Learteus D. Robert Browning

D. beautiful legs
C. Claudius 995. T. S. Eliot was a
D. None of these A. Critic
ing is not a play by
y
Shakespeare? 990. ‘Unto This Last’ is a

B. Poet
book written by:
A. Hamlet
ra
A. Mill on economic re- C. Both

B. Macbeth forms D. None of these
C. Dr. Faustus B. Carlyle on moral re-
996. Samson Agonists:
Na
forms
D. None of these Play ::
C. Ruskin on moral re-
985. ‘The Hollow Men’ is A. The Conquest of
forms
written by: Granada : Satire
D. None of these
A. T.S. Eliot B. The Rivals : Play
991. is a novel by
B. Ezra Pound Miss Burney C. Clarissa : Play
C. Yeats A. Evelina D. Paradise Regained:
D. Larkin B. Emma Play
986. ‘Paradise Lost’ is a/an C. Pamela 997. Who is the writer of
D. Persuasion ‘The Lover’s Tale’?
982. B 983. C 984. C 985. A 986. B 987. A 988. D 989. B 990. C 991. A
992. A 993. A 994. B 995. C 996. B 997. D
A. George Bernard A. Jealousy A. Justify the ways of

Shaw man to God
B. confidence
B. Christopher Mar- B. Justify the ways of
C. Ego
lowe God to man
D. none of these C. Show that the Sa-
C. William Shake-
speare 1003. The lines ‘The one tan and god have equal
er
remains, the many power
D. A. Lord Tennyson change and pass; D. Explain why good
998. Who is the writer Heaven’s light for ever and evil are necessary.
of The Restoration Pe- shines, earth’s shadow
gd
riod? fly; are composed by:
1008. The arrangement of
A. Robert Herrick A. Shelley events in the order of
B. John Bunyan B. Byron their occurrence is-
an
A. Chronometer
C. Jeremy Taylor C. Keats
B. Chorology
D. Thomas Hobbes D. Southey
C. Chronicle
999. ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is 1004. Who did write an
Ch
written by: epic on the growth of D. Choreography
his own mind? 1009. Who is the writer of
A. Wordsworth
A. Blake ‘Dramatic Lyrics’?
B. Blake
A. Shelley
B. Tennyson
C. Keats
B. Wordsworth
an
C. Browning
D. None of these C. William Shake-
1000. Who wrote the short D. Wordsworth speare
story ‘The Gift of the 1005. Which one is not D. Robert Browning
Magi’? written by Robert
y
1010. The Wilde Swans at

Browning?
A. William Wordsworth Coole is first great col-
ra
A. Adonais lection of poems of

B. Robert Frost B. The Patriot A. W. Lewis
C. Jane Auste C. Andrea del Sarto B. Yeats
Na
D. O’ Henry D. My Last Duchess C. D. H. Lawrence

1001. Who belongs to the 1006. "The Recluse" was D. None of these
theatre of Absurd written by: 1011. Which of the follow-
A. Oscar Wilde A. Worsdworth ing novelists is known
for his Satire in the Vic-
B. Backett B. Coleridge torian literature?
C. Ibsen C. W. Blake A. Charlotte Bronte
D. None of these D. Southey B. Thackeray
1002. Lilliputians symbol- 1007. ‘Paradise Lost’ at- C. Hardy
ize excessive human: tempted to D. Meredith
998. B 999. B 1000. D 1001. B 1002. A 1003. A 1004. D 1005. A 1006. A

1007. B 1008. C 1009. D 1010. B 1011. B 1012. A
1012. What is an Epigram? A. 1964 ships upon untamed

seas.”-these lines are
A. a terse and witty B. 1963
the starting of?
statement C. 1962
A. Lullaby
B. a short fiction D. 1961
B. The Shield Of
C. a long poem 1018. What is Iambic Pen- Achilles
er
tameter?
D. a wise man C. The Waste Land
A. a six foot line verse
1013. Which is the first suc- D. Sailing to Byzan-
cessful English Novel? B. a three foot line
tium
gd
xix verse
1023. Jane Austen’s main
A. Gorboduc C. a four foot line verse theme in her novels es-
D. a five foot line verse pecially in ‘Pride and
B. Pamela
an
Prejudice’ is:
C. Iliad 1019. Which one is the cor- A. Love and marriage
D. Robinson Crusoe rect form below?
B. Life of big landlords
A. Emma-Goethe
Ch
1014. Which play among C. Politicians
the following plays is B. Freedom-
not blank verse? Shakespeare D. None of these
C. War and Peace- 1024. ‘Faerie Queen’ is a/an

A. Hamlet
Tolstoy
B. The Jew of Malta
A. Play
an
D. all the above

C. Pygmalion B. short story
1020. ‘Hero and Hero wor-
D. None of these ship’ was written by: C. epic
1015. Beowulf is a/an- A. Ruskin
y
D. novel
A. an epic poem B. Carlyle 1025. Who wrote ‘The
ra
C. Mill Spanish Tragedy’?

B. an elegy
D. None of these A. John Lyly
C. a novel
1021. After whom the Eliz- B. Thomas Kyd
Na
D. a burlesque abethan Age is named:

C. Robert Green
1016. John Keats is known A. Elizabeth I
as poet of D. Christopher Mar-
B. Elizabeth II lowe
A. Beauty
C. Elizabeth Browning 1026. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a
B. Love poem written by:
C. Nature D. None of these A. Hopkins
1022. “She looked over his
D. None of them B. W. B. Yeats
shoulder For vines and
1017. When did Frost visit olive trees, Marble well- C. Larkin
the Soviet Union? governed cities And D. None of these
1013. D 1014. C 1015. A 1016. A 1017. C 1018. D 1019. C 1020. B 1021. A

1022. B 1023. A 1024. C 1025. B 1026. B 1027. D 1028. B
1027. The first tragedy A. classical B. self-contradictory

written in English is ideas
B. modern
A. Edward II C. two language
C. romantic
B. Doctor Faustus D. two contradictory
D. Greek ideas express one thing
C. The Jew of Malta
1033. Wordsworth settled
er
D. Gorboduc in 1038. Who suggested Shel-
1028. The author of the A. Lake District ley to “Curb your mag-
book ‘Asian Drama’ is nanimity and be more
B. Sussex
gd
of a poet’?
A. Shakespeare C. Cumber Land A. Wordsworth
B. Gunnar Myrdal D. None of these B. Coleridge
an
C. Humayun Kobir 1034. “went-home” means- C. Keats
D. Bertrand Russel A. making money very D. Blake
1029. Who wrote the book rapidly, earning large 1039. Which of the follow-
"Republic" sums easily. ing is illustrative of
Ch
A. Marx B. deeply appealed to Ruskin’s interest in so-
cial economy?
B. Socrates C. faithful to their em-
ployers A. The Seven Lamps
C. Plato
D. in keeping B. Unto this Last
D. Aristotle
C. The Stones of
an
1030. The abstract the- 1035. ‘The Silent Woman’

is a play by- Venice
ory of utilitarianism is
the theme of Dicken’s A. G.B. Shaw D. None of these
novel: 1040. Who is the composer
y
B. Shakespeare
A. Bleak House of ‘Paradise Lost’?
C. Marlowe A. John Keats
ra
B. A Tale of Two Cities

D. Ben Johnson B. Lord Byron
C. Hard Times
1036. Kazi Nazrul Islam C. S. T. Coleridge
D. Great Expectations is the poet of
Na
1031. The speaker of ‘I Bangladesh. D. John Milton

wandered lonely as a 1041. Waiting for Godot by
A. Romantic
cloud’ saw S. Beckett was origi-
A. wet daffodils B. national nally written in
B. yellow daffodils C. love A. Italian
C. fair daffodils D. mystic B. Spanish
D. golden daffodils 1037. What the term Oxy- C. German

moron refers? D. French
1032. In ‘The Solitary
Reaper’ what word soli- A. two same ideas are 1042. Keats’ aestheticism
tary mean? combined was later turned into
1029. C 1030. C 1031. A 1031. D 1032. C 1033. A 1034. B 1035. D 1036. B

1037. D 1038. C 1039. B 1040. D 1041. D 1042. B
A. Romanticism May Sweep to my re- C. Lajja

venge’ is a speech from. D. Dwikhondito
B. Pre Raphaelitism
A. Lear 1052. What is ‘Linguis-
C. Idealism B. Macbeth tics’?
D. None of these C. Othello A. the study of litera-

ture
er
1043. Romantic Period D. Hamlet
starts from? B. the study of history
1048. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is
A. 1989 written by? C. the scientific study
of language
gd
B. 1798 A. William Shake-
C. 1998 speare
1053. Who wrote ‘The
D. None of these B. Christopher Mar- Bluest Eyes’?
lowe
an
1044. ‘The Merchant of A. Arthur Miller
Venice’ is a- C. Ben Johnson
B. Saul Bellow
A. Comedy D. William Congreve
C. Tony Morrison
Ch
B. Tragedy 1049. is an attack
by Ruskin on the D. None
C. Historical 1054. T. S. Eliot was born
Philistines.
D. Tragicomedy in
A. Modern Painters
1045. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is A. 1887
written by? B. stones of Venice
B. 1888
an
A. William Shake- C. seven lamps of ar-

chitecture C. 1817
speare
D. praeterita D. None of these
B. Christopher Mar-
1055. T. S. Eliot was
y
lowe 1050. “None of thou shalt

be my paramour” these A. Romantic
C. Ben Johnson
words are attributed to:
ra
B. Classicist
D. William Congreve
A. Helen of Troy – Dr. C. Both
1046. Objectivity stands Faustus
for- D. None of these
Na
B. Marlow’s Jew of
A. personal expression 1056. Who is the writer
Malta
B. impersonal expres- C. Marlow’s Tam- riod?
sion burlaine A. Robert Herrick
C. immature communi- D. None of these
cation B. William Congreve
1051. Which book of C. Thomas Hobbes
D. matured notion Taslima Nasrin was
1047. ‘Haste me to know’t, first banned D. Jeremy Taylor
that I, with wings as 1057. Who is the writer
A. Amar Meyebela
Swift as meditation or of The Elizabethan Pe-
the thoughts of love, B. Utal Hawa riod?
1043. B 1044. D 1045. B 1046. B 1047. D 1048. B 1049. A 1050. A 1051. C

1052. C 1053. C 1054. B 1055. B 1056. B 1057. C
A. Caedmon A. Elimate 1067. Who is the modern

philosopher who was
B. Dante B. Eliot
rewarded Nobel Prize
C. Edmund Spenser C. Elinor for literature?
D. Cynewulf D. elli Willy A. Baker
1058. "Saki" is the pen 1063. Shakespeare’s ‘Mer- B. Kissinger
er
name of chant of Venice’ is a
C. Lenin
A. Somerset Maugham
A. Tragedy D. B. Russell
gd
B. KA Abbas 1068. Beckett was born in
B. Comedy
Dublin Ireland.
C. Wilkie Collins C. Satire
A. In 1906
D. Hector Hugh D. Lyric
B. In 1969
an
Munro
1059. Shakespeare’s Ham- C. In 1952
The Middle English Pe-
let is riod? D. None of these
A. A tragedy A. William Shake- 1069. Who is also known
Ch
B. Comedy speare, Lord Tennyson as the “Lady with the
Lamp”?
C. both A and B
B. William Wordsworth A. Florence Nightin-
D. none of these gale
1060. Who established the B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Durante degli
an
first English printing

Alighieri (Dante) C. Rani Laxmibai
press?
D. Lord Tennyson D. Bachendri Pal
A. William Caxton
1065. Adonais is an elegy 1070. Who believed that
y
B. George Eliot
on the death of: poetry is the sponta-
C. Thomas Hardy neous overflow of emo-
A. Moschus
ra
D. None of the above tions?

B. Edward William
1061. ‘Wuthering Heights’ A. Blake
is- C. John Keats
Na
B. Byron
A. a novel by Charlotte D. Shakespeare
C. Wordsworth
Bronte 1066. In ‘I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud’ D. Keats
B. a novel by Anne
the daffodils gave the 1071. The description of in-
Bronte
poet cidents in sequence is
C. a novel by Thomas called-
A. a great deal of plea-
Hardy
sure A. archive
D. a novel by Emily
Bronte B. very pleasure B. chronology
1062. was proposed C. much pleasure C. anthology
by Robert Frost. D. many pleasure D. antenna
1058. D 1059. A 1060. A 1061. D 1062. C 1063. B 1064. C 1065. C 1066. A

1067. D 1068. A 1069. A 1070. C 1071. B 1072. C
1072. Paul David and Pip 1076. The only play by A. comedy
are the three notable de- Shakespeare which con- B. satire
scriptions of sensitive, firms to the classical
nervous childhood in unities is: C. tragedy
the works of: D. historical play
A. Hamlet
A. Thackery 1082. One of the follow-
B. Twelfth Night
ing is about sin and
er
B. Kingsley C. Romeo and Juliet punishment-
C. Dickens D. None of these A. For the Fallen
D. Austin
gd
1077. The Last Ride To- B. Tree at my Window
1073. You your home gether was written by:
work by the time the A. Byron C. A Mother in Man-
movies starts. nville
B. Tennyson
an
A. will have finished D. The Ancient
C. Browning
B. finished Mariner
D. None of these 1083. Who among the Ro-
C. will finished
1078. Arms and the Man, mantic poets chores the
Ch
D. will finish Candida and Man and ‘Super natural’ as his
1074. Which Booker Prize Super Man are written theme?
winning novel is by: A. Coleridge
chossen as the ’the best A. Shaw B. Shelley
novel out of all the win-
B. Butler C. Byron
ners’ on its 25th and
an
40th anniversary C. Moris D. Keats

A. Holiday D. Wells 1084. ‘The Stone of Venice’
1079. Who is the author of was written by:
B. The Conservationist
y
‘Point Counterpoint’? A. J. S. Mill
C. Midnight’s Children A. Charlotte Bronte B. Carlyle

ra
B. H. G. Wells C. Ruskin
D. Something to An- C. John Galsworthy D. None of these
swer For
Na
D. Aldous Huxley 1085. What the term Objec-

1075. Robert Frost attend tivity refers?
1080. ‘The Art for Art sake’
in which school? A. Impersonal expres-
theory was presented
A. Laiciam High by: sion in literary works
School B. individual
A. Ruskin
B. Lawrence High C. personal expression
B. Oscar Wilde
School in works
C. None of these
C. Adarsha High D. disinterested person
School D. Oscar Wilde
D. Licium High School 1081. Shakespeare’s ‘Julius 1086. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is
Caesar’ is a a poem written by:
1073. A 1074. C 1075. B 1076. B 1077. C 1078. A 1079. D 1080. B 1081. C

1083. A 1084. C 1085. A 1086. B
A. Tennyson A. a kind of short nar- A. first day

rative poem
B. Browning B. quiet day
C. Keats B. a kind of short con-
C. finishing day
doling poem
D. T. S. Eliot D. hurriedly passing a
C. a kind of short love day
1087. ‘Who knows but poem
er
the world many end 1097. Which of follow-
to night.’ In which D. a rhymic verse ing Books consists of
of Browning’s poems 1092. The proper study of Ruskin’s lectures:
the above line appears?
gd
mankind in man. This A. Modern painters
A. The Last Ride to- line is taken from the
gether work of: B. The Stones of Venice
B. One Word More A. Wordsworth C. The Crown of wild
an
olive
C. The Last Duchess B. Pope
D. None of these
D. None of these C. Swift
1098. Who of the follwing
1088. What lies half sunk D. Thomson
Ch
was both a poet and
in the sand in Shelley’s painter?
‘Ozymandias’? 1093. The poet of ‘Roman-
tic Age’ is A. Spenser
A. broken statue
A. George Well B. Keats
B. two trunkless legs
B. D. H. Lawrence C. Donne
an
C. an ancient place
C. John Milton D. Blake
D. broken head of a
statue D. John Keats 1099. Choose the right an-
swer: Chaucer is the
1089. Who is William Ha- 1094. Milton’s ’Comus’ is
y
representative poet of
zlitt?
A. An absurd play
ra
A. Novelist
B. A short story A. 17th Century
B. Essayist
C. A masque B. 14th Century
C. Dramatist
Na
D. An elegy C. 16th Century

D. Poet
1095. Victorian Age starts D. 18th Century
1090. “We are such stuff
from? 1100. Bathos refers-v
as dreams are made”.
Whose words are these. A. 1801 A. ridiculous in writ-
A. Shakespeare ing or speech
B. 1901
B. Marlowe B. a pathetic descrip-
C. 1885
tion
C. Philip Sydney D. 1832 C. pathetic events
D. None of these 1096. ‘Hasting day’ in ‘To D. antiquity of style,
1091. ‘Ballad’ is Daffodils’ means manner or use
1087. A 1088. D 1089. B 1090. A 1091. A 1092. B 1093. D 1094. C 1095. D

1096. D 1097. C 1098. D 1099. B 1100. A 1101. A 1102. B
1101. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ A. Leigh Hunt A. William Shake-

a novel written by- B. Charles Lamb speare
A. Charles Dickens C. Ruskin B. William Wordsworth
B. Lawrence D. None of these
C. Shakespeare 1107. ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is C. Lord Tennyson
a novel written by-
er
D. Hardy D. John Wycliff
1102. Which. of the fol- A. Robert Frost 1112. Francis Bacon was an
lowing is not a play by B. Emily Dickinson English-
gd
Shakespeare?
C. Mark Twain A. essayist
A. Tempest
D. Walt Whitman B. novelist
B. Pygmalion 1108. "Intellectual Beauty"
C. dramatist
an
C. King Lear is written by:
A. Bertrand Russell D. poet
D. None of these
B. Huxley 1113. Who is the author of
1103. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is
‘After Strange Gods’?
a famous story by-
Ch
C. P.B.Shelley
A. Shaw
A. Pearl S. Buck D. None of these
B. Jonathan Swift 1109. "Prophets of Nature B. Robert Frost
......... ................ C. Eliot
C. Ben Johnson
What we have loved
D. D.H. Lawrence Other will love D. None of these
an
1104. Who is called the fa- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .” In which 1114. Who is the writer of
ther of English Prose? poem by Wordsworth The Modern and The
do these lines appear? Post Modern Period?
A. Henry Fielding
y
A. Excursion
B. William Shake- A. A. P. J. Abul Kalam
B. One Summer
speare B. Alexander Pope
ra
Evening
C. William Wordsworth C. Daniel Defoe
C. Prelude
D. None of these D. Jonathan Swift
Na
D. John Wycliffe
1110. Poet of sensuousness 1115. Which is known as
1105. Earnest Hemingway
Romantic Period of En-
got Nobel Prize for-
A. P. B Shelley glish literature?
A. Old Man and the Sea
B. William Wordsworth A. 1550-1558
B. A Farewell to Arms
B. 1649-1660
C. Man and Superman C. John Keats
C. 1798-1832
D. Life of Pea (Ryan D. Byron
Martel) D. 1910-1936
1106. Dream Children was The Middle English Pe- 1116. Shakespeare is
written by riod? known mostly for his-
1103. B 1104. D 1105. A 1106. B 1107. C 1108. C 1109. B 1110. C 1111. D

1112. A 1113. C 1114. A 1115. C 1116. D
A. poetry A. Tennyson A. Fame

B. an autobiography B. Chaucer B. Waterloo
C. a diary C. Browning C. Roll on, Thou deep
and dark Blue Oceans
D. plays D. Spenser
1122. Spenser was: D. None of these
1117. An elaborate clas-
1127. ‘The Wheel of Fire’
er
sical form in which A. Novelist
one Shepherd – Singer a criticism was written
laments the death of B. Dramatist by
another is called: C. Prose writer A. W. Knight
gd
A. Pastoral Romance D. None of these B. Hazlitt
B. Pastoral Elegy 1123. Who is regarded as C. Dryden
"The father of the En-
C. Ballad D. None of these
an
glish Novel"
1128. Who is the major
D. Epic A. Joseph Addison male character in Jane
1118. ‘Biographia Literaria’ B. Henry Fielding Austen’s ‘Pride and
Written by- Prejudice’:
Ch
C. Samuel Pepys
A. Wordsworth A. Mr. Darcy
D. John Bunyan
B. Coleridge B. Mr. Bennett
1124. What is a Character?
C. Keats C. Mr. Collius
A. a poet of writing
D. Shelley D. None of these
B. a joker of the writ-
an
1119. Jerusalem Prize for ing 1129. The Revolt of Islam is

the Freedom of the In- a:
dividual in Society was C. any person in a liter-
ary work A. Novel
first awarded to
B. An epic
y
D. a famous man in
A. Max Frisch
play C. Lyrical Drama
B. André Schwarz-Bart
ra
1125. What do you mean D. None of these

by Irony? 1130. Which of the follow-
C. Bertrand Russell A. a satiric imitation ing novels of Hardy
Na
D. Ignazio Silone has ‘clymn’ as the main

B. a burlesque imita-
male character?
1120. Under the Green- tion
wood Tree is a: A. Tess of the
C. a kind of parody D’Urberville
A. Tale of rustic life D. difference between B. Major of the Caster-
B. Tale of man’s de- reality and appearance bridge
struction of nature 1126. “Thou glorious
C. Jude the Obscure
C. Historical novel mirror, where the
Almighty’s form D. None of these
D. Tale of city life Glasses itself in tem- 1131. is known as
1121. The Faire Queen is pest”. The above line the father of detective
written by- occur in Byron’s: stories
1117. B 1118. B 1119. C 1120. A 1121. D 1122. D 1123. B 1124. C 1125. D

1126. C 1127. A 1128. A 1129. C 1130. D 1131. A
A. Edgar Allen Poe 1136. Total number of A. Brother & Sister

B. Anton Chekov categories for which
B. Contemporary writ-
Pulitzer Prize has been
C. Aurthur Conan ers
awarded
Doyle C. Modern poets
A. 7
D. Judith Wright D. Critics
B. 12
1132. When was pub-
er
1142. Who is of the follow-
lished the novel ‘Lorna C. 17
ing both a poet and a
Doone’?
D. 21 novelist?
A. 1869
gd
1137. Which book win the A. George Eliot
B. 1870 first Man Booker Prize
B. Thomas Hardy
C. 1871 A. Troubles
C. Karl Mark
D. 1872 B. Something to An-
answer For D. R. L. Stevenson

1133. In which poem lies
the line ‘The One re- 1143. How many time
C. The Conservationist
main, the many change Robert Frost proposed
and pass’? Elinor?
Ch
D. Heat and Dust
A. Adonis A. 1st time
B. Hymn to Intellec- B. 3rd times
‘Pride and Prejudice’?
tual Beauty
A. Emily Bronte C. 2nd times
C. The cloud
B. Jane Austen D. 4th times
an
D. None of these
C. Charles Dickens 1144. Jane Austen in addi-
1134. It as the best of times,
tion to, ‘Pride and Prej-
it was the worst of time, D. Charlotte Bronte udice’ had also written:
it was the worst – the
y
opening of Dickens’ 1139. Equivocation means- A. Emma

A. Hard Times A. two contrary things B. Sense and Sensibil-
ra
in same statement ity

B. David Copperfield
B. equal opportunity C. Persuasion
C. Oliver Twist
C. free expression of
Na
D. A Tales of Two D. All of these

opinion
Cities 1145. Which of the follow-
1135. What do you mean D. a true statement ing writer rejected No-
by a Play or Drama? 1140. John Keats is a- bel Prize?
A. a literary lyric A. poet A. Samuel Becket
B. a literary work per- B. dramatist B. Heaney
forming on a stage
C. artist C. Leo Tolstoy
C. a literary prose fic-
tion on stage D. none D. Ja Paul Satre
D. a poem to the alter 1141. George Eliot and T.S. 1146. Charles Dickens was
of God Eliot are: born in
1132. A 1133. A 1134. D 1135. B 1136. D 1137. B 1138. B 1139. A 1140. A

1141. C 1142. B 1143. C 1144. D 1145. D 1146. C
A. 1800 A. Ageless A. Spenser

B. 1789 B. Rare B. Milton
C. 1812 C. Priceless C. Byron
D. None of these D. None of these D. Pope
1147. Find the Odd One? 1152. In which novel by 1157. The last line of ‘To
er
Hardy are "Hayshope", daffodils’ is
A. H. G. Wells : Great "Flint Comb Ash" and
science fiction writer A. Ne’er to be seen
"stone Henge" used as
again
backdrop:
gd
B. G. B. Shaw : great
modern dramatist B. Vanish like sum-
A. A pair of Blue Eyes
mer’s rain
C. Samuel Beckett : B. Jude the Obscure
great Irish novelist 67 C. Ne’re to be found
an
C. Return of the Native again
D. Arthur Miller :
Known playwright D. Tess of the D. As quack a growth
d’Urbervilles of meet decay
1148. William Shakespeare
1153. Who is the writer 1158. Joseph Andrews was
Ch
is the writer of
of The Restoration Pe- written by
A. Paradise Lost riod?
A. Richardson
B. Old Man & the Sea A. Robert Herrick
B. Fielding
C. Daffodils B. William Wycherley
C. Bunyan
an
D. King Lear C. Jeremy Taylor

D. None of these
1149. Coward die be- D. Thomas Hobbes 1159. Who is the romantic
fore their death 1154. ‘Lady Windermere’s precursor in English po-
A. much time fan’ is written by: etry?
y
B. many time A. Oscar Wilde A. William Blake

ra
C. enough time B. Galsworthy B. Tennyson

D. many times C. T. S. Eliot C. Robert browning
Na
1150. What is Novella? x D. None of these D. Shelley
A. a short story of 1155. The famous poem 1160. Emile Bronte’s verse
drama ‘Ulysses’ is written by? reveals a conscious
B. a short narrative A. Homer A. Paganism

poem B. Tennyson B. Pantheism
C. a short narrative fic- C. Popem C. Lyricism
tional prose
D. Alex Haley D. None of these
D. an essay of satire
1156. Who wrote Samson 1161. The phrase "Willing
1151. Texts like Waiting for Agonistes and Paradise suspension of disbelief"
Godot are: Lost? was coined by
1147. C 1148. D 1149. D 1150. A 1151. A 1152. D 1153. B 1154. A 1155. B

1156. B 1157. C 1158. B 1159. A 1160. B 1161. B 1162. C
A. Wordsworth A. Thomas Hardy A. John Donne

B. Coleridge B. John Stuart Mill B. Lord Byron
C. Eliot C. Charles Dickens C. William Wordsworth
D. Arnold D. Emily Bronte 8

1167. The image of the D. None of them
1162. Who wrote “The Sec-
er
ond Coming”? femme fatale dominates 1172. Who is called the
the poetry of: ‘Rebel Poet’?
A. E. Spencer
A. Wordsworth A. P. B. Shelly
gd
B. Eliot
B. Keats B. John Keats
C. W. B. Yeats C. S. T. Coleridge
C. Byron
D. None of these D. Tennyson D. Lord Byron
an
1163. Any one of the fol- 1168. Oscar Wilde’s novel 1173. What is the full name
lowing pairs are literary published in 1891 was of the great Ameri-
collaborators- entitled as: can short story writer
O’Henry?
Ch
A. Eliot and Pound A. the importance of
being earnest A. Marjorie Kinnan
B. Yeats and Eliot
Rawlings
B. lady windermere’s
C. Pope and Dryden
fan B. Walt Whitman
D. Shelley and Keats C. Mark Twain
C. a woman of no im-
an
1164. Who believes in Pan- portance D. William Sydney

theism? Porter
D. Salome
A. Lord Byron 1169. The novel ‘Roots’ 1174. Who is the consid-
was written by ered to be the Rebel
y
Poet in English Litera-
A. Henry Miller ture?
ra
C. John Keats B. H. G. Wells A. John Keats

D. All of them C. Alex Heley B. Lord Byron
Na
1165. ‘To the Lighthouse’ D. P. B. Shelly C. William Shake-

and ‘A Room of one’s 1170. ‘A woman of no im- speare
Own’ written by- portance’ is a by
D. Lord Tennyson
A. Virginia Woolf Oscarwilde:
1175. In 1850, Tennyson
B. Charlotte Bronte A. Comedy succeeded Wordsworth
C. J.M. Synage B. Tragedy as poet laureate.
C. Dramatic Romance A. True
D. None
D. Farce B. False
1166. ‘Tess of the
D’Urbervilles’ is a novel 1171. Who wrote the poem C. both A and B
written by- ‘The Sun Rising’? D. none of these
1163. D 1164. B 1165. A 1166. A 1167. B 1168. D 1169. C 1170. A 1171. A

1172. D 1173. D 1174. B 1175. A 1176. C 1177. B
1176. Who wrote ‘Ro- 1181. Who after the pub- A. Epic
mola’? lication of a poem,
B. Poem
awoke and found him-
A. Thomas Hardy
self famous? C. Novel
B. W. M. Thackery A. Shelley D. Drama
C. George Eliot B. Browning 1186. Yann Martel is
er
D. R. L. Stevenson a/an novelist.
C. Wordsworth
1177. Who is the author A. English
D. Keats
of ‘The Taming of the B. American
1182. Shylock is a charac-
gd
Shrew’?
ter of C. Irish
A. Shaw A. Doctor Faustus D. Canadian
B. William Shake- B. The Merchant of 1187. Jane Austen’s main
an
speare Venice theme in her novels es-
C. Ibsen C. The Way of the pecially in ‘Pride and
World Prejudice’ is:
D. Jonsen
Ch
D. Arms and the Man A. Love and marriage
1178. Would you tell Sor-
delo (Browning) as a: 1183. How many de- B. Life of big landlords
gree did Robert Frost
A. Dramatic Mono- C. Politicians
achieve?
logue D. None of these
A. 40 honorary degrees
B. Dramatic Lyrics 1188. The sentence ‘Who
an
C. Tragic Drama would have thought

B. 30 honorary degrees
Shylock was so un-
D. None of these kind’? expresses
C. 10 honorary degrees
y
1179. “A Farewell to Arms” A. hyperbole

is written by:
D. 20 honorary degrees B. intreeogation
ra
A. Faulkner
C. command
B. Hemmingway 1184. What is the meaning D. wonder
Hymn?
Na
C. James Joyce 1189. Adonais was an elegy

D. Virginia Woolf A. song in praise of Shelley wrote in 1821
poet on the death of:
1180. The author of ‘Songs
B. a song in praise of A. Keats
of Innocence’ and
country
‘Songs of Experience’ B. Byron
is- C. song in praise of
God C. Arthur Hugh
A. John Lennon Clough
D. a mixture of two lan-
B. Richard Mark guage D. William Hazlit
C. John Keats 1185. ‘The Waste Land’ is 1190. ‘Paradise Lost’ at-
D. William Blake a/an? tempts to-
1178. B 1179. B 1180. D 1181. C 1182. B 1183. A 1184. C 1185. B 1186. D

1187. A 1188. D 1189. A 1190. D
A. Justify the ways of 1195. ‘Money is a tie of all 1200. Who said "Tragedy
man to God ties. It is a tie which imitates men as better
B. Show that the Sa- ties and unties all ties’ and comedy as worse
tan and God have equal is quotation from than they really are."
power A. Past and Present A. Aristotle
C. Explain why good B. Of Money B. Shakespeare
er
and evil are necessary
C. Of Marriage C. Dryden
D. Justify the ways of
D. None of these D. Bradley
God to man
1201. ‘Withdrawal from an
gd
1191. Of the following au- 1196. Which poem is writ-
ten by Walt Whitman? uncongenial world of
thors who wrote an
escape either to death
epic? A. Song of myself or more often, to an
A. Jane Mansfield B. Song of Innocence ideal dream world’,
B. John Milton
C. William Cowper
D. William Shake- anC. Song of Experience
D. none of these
1197. Shakespeare’s ‘Ham-
is the theme of Ten-
nyson’s:
A. Ulysses
Ch
speare let’ was published in: B. The Palace of Arts
1192. Award of Nobel C. The Lotos
A. 1602
Prize in Literature was Eaters
started from the year B. 1608
D. None of these
C. 1610 1202. Which of the novels
an
A. 1901 of Hemingway is called

D. None of these
B. 1911 1198. Who said these Hemingway’s Waste
C. 1913 words in ‘The Old Man Land?
and the Sea’ . . . “No A. The Old Man and
y
D. 1917
one should be alone in the Sea
1193. Which was Robert
their old age”:
ra
Frost’s famous poem? B. Farewell to Arms

A. Hemingway C. For Whom the Bell
A. Henry Holt
B. Santiago Tolls
B. North of Boston
Na
C. Manolin D. None of these

C. The road not taken
D. None of these 1203. Which Victorian
D. Mountain Interval
Poet is called the psy-
1194. Your plan is a good 1199. Maggie is the cen-
chologist?
one if a girl only wants tral character in George
to be married. Who said Eliot’s: A. Rossetti
these words? A. Adam Bede B. Morris
A. Charlotte B. Middle March C. Browning
B. Mr. Bennet C. The Mill on the D. Swinburne
C. Mr. Bingley Floss 1204. ‘The Origin of
D. None of these D. Silas Morner Species’ is written by-
1191. B 1192. A 1193. C 1194. A 1195. B 1196. A 1197. A 1198. B 1199. C

1200. A 1201. C 1202. D 1203. C 1204. B
A. Newton 1210. What is the main A. Treasure Island

theme of “Paradise B. The return of the Na-
B. Charles Darwin
Lost”? tive
C. Galileo
A. Justify the ways of C. Das Capital
D. Mary Curie man to God
1205. Who is the writer of D. Adam Bede
B. Justify the ways of
1216. ‘Man and Superman’
er
The Jacobean Period? God to man
and ‘Arms and The
A. Cynewulf C. Clash of God and Sa- Man’ were written by-
B. Dante tan
A. G.B. Shaw
gd
C. George Herbert 1211. Who is known as
the father of English B. Somerset Maugham
D. Caedmon drama? C. William Golding
1206. "The Frankenstein" is
A. Henry Fielding
an
a novel by: D. None
B. William Shake- 1217. The line ‘Beauty is
A. W. Scott
speare truth, truth beauty’ oc-
B. Lewis curs in which one of
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
Ch
C. Mrs. Shelley Keats’ following po-
D. Robert Browning ems:
D. If none of these then
1212. The play Arms and A. Ode to Nightingale
by whom
the Man is by-
1207. Who is called the B. Ode to Grecian Urn
A. James Joyce
poet of supernatural? C. Ode to Psyche
an
A. S. T. Coleridge B. Arthur Miller

D. None of these
B. Wordsworth C. Samuel Beckett
1218. What is Limerick?
C. Keats D. George Bernard A. a form of one act
Shaw
y
D. Shelley play
1213. William Wordsworth
1208. Which English poet B. a kind of novel
ra
was born in:

was a Diplomat? C. a form of short story
A. 1770
A. Geoffrey Chaucer D. a form of light verse
B. 1771
Na
B. Shakespeare
C. 1772 1219. What do you mean
C. Spenser
D. 1779 by Syntax?
D. Dante
1214. Character ‘King Dun- A. study of speech
1209. Mary Anne Evans can’ is found in- sounds
is the same person as
George Eliot. A. Othello B. study of meaning of
words
A. True B. Macbeth
C. study of construct-
B. False C. Julius Caesar
ing sentence
C. both A and B D. Henry 8
D. constructing pas-
D. none of these 1215. Find the Odd one. sage
1205. C 1206. C 1207. A 1208. A 1209. A 1210. B 1211. B 1212. D 1213. A

1214. B 1215. C 1216. A 1217. B 1218. D 1219. C 1220. A
1220. What is the name of C. The Second Coming 1230. The poem “the Tri-
first modern novel? umph of life” was writ-
D. None of these
ten by:
A. Pamala or Virtue 1225. Which one of the fol-
B. Silas Marner lowing poets was ap- A. Keats
pointed Poet Laureate B. Blake
C. Jane Eyre
in the year 1813?
er
1221. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ C. Shelley
and ‘For Whom the Bell A. Tennyson
D. None of these
Tolls’-These two novels B. Byron
were written by- 1231. A poet is a man
gd
C. Southey
speaking to men says?
A. O’Henry
D. Wordsworth
A. Pope
B. Arthur Miller 1226. How many types of
C. Earnest Heming- epic are there? B. Robert Frost
way
D. John Osborn
1222. The line “she dwells an
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these
1232. Charles Dickens is a
Ch
with Beauty – Beauty
great
that must be” occurs in D. 4
Keats’ 1227. Queen Mab is one of A. poet
A. Lamia the first two great po- B. critic
ems written by:
B. Ode to a Grecian C. play-wright
an
Urn A. Shelley
D. novelist
C. Ode on Melancholy B. Byron
D. Endymion C. Blake the poem ‘The Legend
y
1223. Jane Eyre was writ- D. None of these of Good Women’?

ten by: 1228. “Major Barbra” is A. Thomas More
ra
A. C. Dickens written by:

B. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. G. Eliot A. Beckett
C. Roger Bacon
C. C. Bronte B. Eliot
Na
D. William Langland
D. J. Austen C. Shaw
1234. An Apology for Po-
1224. ‘How can we know D. None of these etry is written by-
the dancer from the 1229. The poem, “The Mar-
dance’? This line writ- A. Mathew Arnold
riage of Heaven and
ten by Yeats is taken Hell” was written by: B. Philip Sydney
from:
A. Shelley C. Dr. Johnson
A. Sailing to Byzan-
tium B. Blake D. Tomas Stern Eliot
B. Among School Chil- C. Byron 1235. ‘Ode to Autumn’ is
dren D. Browning written by-
1221. C 1222. C 1223. C 1224. C 1225. C 1226. B 1227. A 1228. C 1229. B

1230. C 1231. C 1232. D 1233. B 1234. B 1235. B
A. Shelley A. a comedy A. Stalin

B. Keats B. a tragi-comedy B. Nixon
C. Byron C. an epic C. Churchill
D. Blake D. a tragedy D. Rosevelt
1236. “Hamlet” is written 1241. “If they be two, they
1246. Mathew Arnold said:
are two so A stiff twin
er
by- “An ineffectual angel
compasses are two; Thy
A. Christopher Mar- beating in the void
soul, the fixed foot,
lowe his luminous wings in
makes no show To
gd
vain”, about:
B. William Congreve move, but doth, if th’
other do”-example of? A. Keats
C. William Shake-
speare A. Conceit B. Byron
an
D. John Webster B. Ode C. Shelley
1237. T. S. Eliot was C. Allusion D. Blake
A. Romantic D. Simile 1247. Parson Adams and
1242. ‘Twelfth Night’ is a-
Ch
B. Classicist Squire Western are cre-
A. A Comedy ations of:
C. Both
B. an Elegy A. Richardson
D. None of these
1238. Who is the writer of C. a Novel B. Sterne
‘Tears Idle Tears’? D. a Tragedy C. Fielding
an
A. George Bernard 1243. The treatise ‘On Lib- D. Smollett

Shaw erty’ was written by:
1248. Literature of Victo-
B. Christopher Mar- A. Ruskin rian Age reflects?
y
lowe B. Lamb
A. Instability
C. A. Lord Tennyson C. Mill
ra
B. Stability
D. William Shake- D. Oscar Wilde
speare C. Doubtless
1244. “Things fall apart” is
1239. Short Story differs a line from Yeats’s: D. Immorality
Na
from a Novel by the fig-

ures of- A. Among School Chil- 1249. Pauline was written
dren by:
A. Length and Charac-
B. Byzentium A. Browning
ters
C. Sailing to Byzen- B. Keats
B. prose and fiction
tium
C. verse and rhymes C. Byron
D. The Second coming
D. rhythms and D. Blake
1245. Who was statesman
prosody but awarded Nobel 1250. Who is the first Hu-
1240. Hamlet by Shake- Prize in English Lit- morist in English Liter-
speare is erature? ature?
1236. C 1237. B 1238. C 1239. A 1240. D 1241. A 1242. A 1243. C 1244. D

1245. C 1246. C 1247. C 1248. B 1249. A 1250. A
A. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Ruskin C. Leo Tolstoy

B. Robert Browning B. J. S. Mill D. Alexander Pope
C. Roger Bacon C. Carlyle 1261. ‘Songs of Experience’
was written by:
D. Cynewulf D. None of these
1256. What the term Hu- A. Blake
1251. Who wrote
er
mor refers? B. Wordsworth
‘Prometheus Un-
bound’? A. anything causes C. Keats
laughter
A. Coleridge D. Shelley
gd
B. amazing
B. Keats 1262. Hero and Hero Wor-
C. wonder ship was written by:
C. Byron
D. rapture A. Ruskin
an
D. Shelley 1257. The novel ‘The Jun- B. Carlyle
1252. ‘Faerie Queen’ is a gle Book’ is written by-
C. J. S. Mill
A. play A. Toni Morrison
D. None of these
Ch
B. short story B. Earnest Hemingway
1263. What is Diction?
C. Rudyard Kipling
C. an epic A. the choice of words
D. Jean Paul Sartre
D. novel B. the choice of charac-
1258. Who wrote ‘Don ters
1253. Which is the famous Juan’?
an
elegy written by Shel- C. choice of incidents

ley? A. Words worth
D. choice of heroine
A. In Memoriam B. Keats
1264. Who wrote ‘The New
C. Shelley Arabian Night’?
y
B. Lycidas
D. Byron A. Thomas Hardy
C. Adonis
ra
1259. ’Poetry is a sponta-

D. Thyrsis B. W. M. Thackery
neous overflow of pow-
1254. ‘Adela’ is a character erful feeling’ is a defini- C. Charles Dickens
tion of poetry by
Na
in the novel ‘A Passage D. R. L. Stevenson

to India’ written by- A. Wordsworth 1265. William Golding got
A. E.M. Forster B. Shelley Nobel Prize for his-
B. William Golding C. Coleridge A. Merchant of Venice
C. Joyce D. None of these B. Measure for Mea-

1260. Who wrote the book sure
D. Hardy
‘Cancer Ward’? C. The Lord of the Flies
1255. The principle of polit-
A. Alexander Solzhen- D. Heart of the Matter
ical Economy was the
itsyn
main theme of the writ- 1266. English poet addicted
ings of: B. Boris Pasternak to Opium was-
1251. D 1252. C 1253. C 1254. A 1255. B 1256. A 1257. C 1258. D 1259. A

1260. A 1261. A 1262. B 1263. A 1264. D 1265. C 1266. C 1267. D
A. Lord Byron A. Rudyard Kipling A. Play

B. Charles Kingsley B. G. B. Shaw B. short story
C. S.T. Coleridge C. Toni Morrison C. novel
D. P.B. Shelly D. Salmon Rushdie D. poem
1267. Yeats was awarded 1277. After whom is
er
the Nobel Prize for lit- the Elizabethan Age
The Modern and The
erature in: named?
Post Modern Period?
A. 1927
A. Alexander Pope A. Elizabeth I
gd
B. 1832
B. Daniel Defoe B. Elizabeth II
C. 1924
C. Jonathan Swift C. Elizabeth Browning
D. None of these
an
1268. B. Shaw confessed to D. Adolf Hitler
D. None of these
be a disciple of: 1273. Shakespeare’s ‘Mea-
sure for Measure’ is a 1278. Maxim Gorky was a
A. Ibsen famous writer from
famous
Ch
B. Swift A. England
A. tragedy
C. Butler
B. America
B. comedy
D. Wells
C. Germany
1269. Wordsworth was in- C. tragi-comedy
spired by D. Russia
D. melodrama
an
A. the French Revolu- 1279. The subjugation of

1274. ‘Paradise Lost’ is
tion Women (1869) is an im-
written by:
portant text of:
B. the American Revo-
A. Milton A. George Eliot
y
lution
B. Pope B. Byron
C. the Russian Revolu-
ra
tion C. Swift C. John Mill

D. the Industrial Revo- D. None of these D. Hardy
lution
Na
1275. Which Century be- 1280. The second shortest

1270. Who is Neo-Classic? longs to Victorian Pe- play of Shakespeare is:
A. Tennyson riod?
A. The Winter’s Tale
B. Alexander Pope A. 19th.
B. Much ado about
C. Robert Browning B. 20th nothing
D. a and c C. 17th C. Tempest
1271. “East is East and
D. 18th D. None of these
West is West and never
the twain shall meet”- 1276. ‘The Rime of the 1281. Shakespeare is
these lines were written Ancient Mariner’ is a knows mostly for his
by?
1268. A 1269. A 1270. B 1271. A 1272. D 1273. C 1274. A 1275. A 1276. D

1277. A 1278. D 1279. C 1280. B 1281. C 1282. C
A. poetry 1287. Who said this “Po- A. The return of the na-
etry is the Criticism of tive
B. autobiography
life”:
C. plays B. Jude the Obscure
A. Wordsworth
D. novels C. Mayor of Caster-
B. Byron bridge
1282. When did Frost and
Elinor were force to re- C. T. S. Eliot D. None of these
er
turn to America? D. Arnold 1293. Shakespeare was
A. 1912 1288. What do you mean born in:
gd
B. 1913 by Synecdoche? A. 1570
C. 1914 A. a figurative story B. 1564
D. 1913 B. a story by animal C. 1590

characters
an
1283. O’Henry is famous D. None of these
for- C. a figure of speech
stands for whole thing
A. Drama ‘The Rhyme of the An-
D. none cient Mariner’?
B. short story
Ch
1289. What was Samuel A. William Wordsworth
C. novel Langhorne Clemens’
D. poem pen-name
B. S. T. Coleridge
1284. Who created the fic- A. Mark Twain
C. W. Somerset
tional private detective B. Bram Stoker Maugham
an
‘Sherlock Holmes’?
C. Ernest Hemingway D. Sir Walter Scott
A. John Gay
D. Leo Tolstoy 1295. The Descent of Man
B. W. B. Somerset
1290. Jack Worthing is a is by Charles Darwin,
Mougham
y
character created by: The Confidence-Man :

C. Sir A Conan Doyle his Masquerade is by-
A. Shaw
ra
D. Dylan Thomas A. Karl Mark

B. Dickens
1285. W. B. Yeats was a/an? B. Herman Melville
C. Hardy
A. Irish Poet C. Stuart Mill
Na
D. none of these
B. English Poet D. Thomas Hardy
1291. Which philosopher
C. Swedish Poet got Nobel Prize in liter- 1296. “Gyre” is a favorite
D. None of them ature? symbol with
1286. Who is the writer of A. Winston Churchill A. T. S. Eliot
The Jacobean Period? B. Abraham Lincoln B. Yeats
A. John Donne C. T.S. Eliot C. Emily Dickenson
B. Caedmon D. Bertrand Russell D. None of these
C. Dante 1292. Little Time is a char- 1297. ‘Oedipus Rex’ is writ-
D. Cynewulf acter in Hardy’s ten by-
1283. B 1284. C 1285. A 1286. A 1287. D 1288. C 1289. A 1290. B 1291. D

1292. B 1293. B 1294. B 1295. B 1296. B 1297. D
A. Socrates A. 30 plays A. meter

B. Shakespeare B. 50 plays B. foot
C. Aristotle C. 60 plays C. mythology
D. Sophocles D. none of these D. none of these
1298. Upon Wartminis- 1308. Who is known as the
er
ter Bridge, written by father of English po-
‘Paradise Regained’?
Wordsworth is: etry?
A. P.B. Shelley A. Milton
A. Ballad
gd
B. John Milton B. Wordsworth
B. Pastoral poem
C. John Keats C. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Sonnet
D. Lyrical poem D. William Blake D. Charles Dickens
an
1299. When did Elinor 1304. William Shakespeare 1309. Who is the creator
die? was Born in: of the fictional charac-
ter known as Sherlock
A. 1935 A. 1564 Holmes
Ch
B. 1937 B. 1534 A. Agatha Christie
C. 1938 C. 1616 B. Arthur Conan Doyle
D. 1936 D. None of these
1300. Love of political free- C. Oscar Wilde
1305. Which of the fol-
dom, always the no-
an
lowing poet was not D. J. K. Rowling

blest of Byron’s pas- awarded the Nobel 1310. “He smiles, he laughs
sions, inspired him to Prize? and he roars”-this quo-
write:
A. Eliot tation is an example of?
y
A. Manfred A. Conceit
B. Yeats
B. The Island B. Allusion
ra
C. Rabindranath
C. The prisoner of Tagore C. Climax
Chillon
D. Milton D. Satire
Na
D. The Prophecy of
1306. For Which Shake- 1311. ‘Essays of Elia’ was
Dante
speare is known written by
1301. Maud and In memo-
mostly? A. William Hazlitt
riam were written by
A. Tennyson A. poetry B. Charles Lamb
B. novels C. Emily Brontee
B. Keats
C. autobiography D. Emily Dickinson
C. Shelley
1312. Which period is
D. None of these D. plays
known as ‘The golden
1302. Shaw wrote more 1307. A sub-division of a age of English litera-
than: poem is called- ture’?
1298. C 1299. C 1300. C 1301. A 1302. C 1303. B 1304. A 1305. D 1306. D

1307. D 1308. C 1309. B 1310. C 1311. B 1312. B 1313. A
A. the Victorian age A. The Princess 1323. Who represents Prej-

udice in Jane Austen’s
B. the Elizabethan age B. In memoriam
novel ‘Pride and Preju-
C. the Restoration age C. Maud dice’:
D. the Eighteenth cen- D. Lackslay Hall A. Mr. Darcy
tury 1318. Dickens, Thackeray, B. Miss Elizabeth
er
1313. Who was the King or George Eliot and Trol-
Queen in early Renais- lope are: C. Miss Jane
sance Period? A. Novelists D. None of these
gd
A. Elizabeth 1 1324. What do you mean
B. Poets
by Satire?
B. Charles 2 C. Critics
A. an ironical writing
C. Charles 1 D. Essayists
B. ridiculous writing
an
D. Victoria 1 1319. ‘The Road not Taken’ against vices or follies
1314. Who wrote an epic is a famous poem of-
C. mixture of two lan-
‘The Faerie Queen’? A. Robert Frost guages
A. Edmund Spenser
Ch
B. Walt Whitman D. a regional epic
B. T. S Eliot C. Emily Dickinson 1325. Who got the Nobel
C. Robert Browning D. None Prize for literature in
2007?
D. Alfred Tennyson 1320. Restoration period
1315. P. B. Shelley is was known as the age A. Becket
an
known as of : B. Pinter
A. Epic Poet A. satire C. Stoppard
B. Romantic Poet B. paganism D. Lessing
y
C. Poet of nature C. classicism 1326. The novel David Cop-

D. puritanism perfield is written by
D. Poet of beauty
ra
1321. ‘Mansfield Park’ is a A. Hardy

1316. Who wrote the world
famous tragic play novel by: B. Shakespeare
‘King Lear’? A. Katherine Mansfield
Na
C. Marlowe
A. George Bernard B. Emily Bronte D. Dickens
Shaw
C. George Eliot 1327. Orhan Pamuk got No-
B. William Shake- bel Prize in-
D. Jane Austen
speare
1322. When did Robert A. 2006
C. Christopher Mar-
frost search for job? B. 2007
lowe
A. 1892 C. 2008
D. John Milton
B. 1891 D. 2000
1317. Tennyson talks about
the equality of women C. 1894 1328. ’Past and Present’ is
in: D. 1893 written by
1314. A 1315. B 1316. B 1317. A 1318. A 1319. A 1320. A 1321. D 1322. C

1323. B 1324. B 1325. D 1326. D 1327. A 1328. C
A. Mill C. a sub division of an A. Metaphor

epic
B. Hazlitt B. Simile
C. Carlyle C. Personification
1333. Wordsworth was ap-
D. None of these pointed Poet Laureate D. None of these
1329. Stephen Guest is an in: 1338. Who is the father of
er
important Character in A. 1817 English novel?
One of the following
novels of George Eliot: B. 1839 A. Thomas hardy
gd
A. The Mill on the C. 1843 B. T.S. Eliot
Floss D. 1849 C. Henry Fielding
B. Adam Bede 1334. Pure tragedies writ- D. None of the above
ten by Shakespeare are:
an
C. Silas Marner 1339. “Beauty is Truth,
A. Four Truth Beauty” This line
D. None of these
B. Six has been taken from:
1330. She can not fade,
though thou hast not C. Eight A. Ode to Autumn
Ch
the bliss, For ever wilt D. None of these B. Ode to a Nightingale
thou love, and she be
fair! The above two 1335. “Ten Thousands saw C. Ode on a Grecian
lines have been taken I at a glance”-example Urn
from: of?
D. La Belle Dame Sans
A. Conceit
an
A. Keats’ Ode to a Merci

Nightingale B. Hyperbole 1340. Who is the writer
B. A Thing of Beauty C. Simile of The Restoration Pe-
riod?
C. La Belle Dame Sans D. Metaphor
y
Mercy 1336. Who is the author of A. Robert Herrick

ra
D. Ode on a Grecian the book ‘The Captive B. Jeremy Taylor

Urn Lady’?
C. Thomas Hobbes
1331. Shakespeare has writ- A. John Keats
D. Samuel Butler
Na
ten B. Michael Madhusu-

dan Dutt 1341. is called the
A. Comedies
first romantic critic.
B. Tragedies C. Rabindronath
Tagore A. Wordsworth
C. Historical Plays
D. W. shakespeare B. Longinus
D. All of these
1337. My soul had been a C. Horace
1332. What does ‘Canto’ lawn besprinkled O’er
means? D. Sidney
with flowers, and Stir-
A. a division of a play ring Shades, and baffled 1342. Dickens sprang to
dreams is an example fame with a publication
B. an act of a play of: of:
1329. A 1330. D 1331. D 1332. C 1333. C 1334. A 1335. B 1336. B 1337. A

1338. C 1339. C 1340. D 1341. B 1342. C
A. Hard Times A. Carpenter C. a verbal play

B. David Copperfield B. Painter D. a wise saying
C. Pickwick Papers C. surgeon 1353. ‘On Pathetic Fallacy’
d Great Expecta- was written by:
D. Driver
tions A. Carlyle
1348. Who wrote
D. none of these
er
‘Ulysses’? B. Lamb
1343. The Anglo-Saxon or
A. Thomas Moore C. Ruskin
Old English period start
on? B. Alfred Tennyson D. Shelley
gd
A. 430 C. R.L. Stevenson 1354. First English
Tragedy?
B. 450 D. S.T. Coleridge
1349. Cordelia’s chief char- A. Oedipus
C. 440
an
acteristic is her: B. Gorboduc
D. 420
A. Devotion C. Aeschylus
1344. ‘Mending Wall’ and
‘Stopping by Woods on B. sympathy D. None of these
Ch
a Snowy Evening’ are C. kindness 1355. Which one from the
two poems written by- below writers was also
D. none of these
A. Robert Frost a physician
1350. ‘A thing of beauty is a
B. Walt Whitman joy forever’ was stated A. Anton Chekhov
C. Emily Dickinson by B. Charles Dickens
an
D. None A. John Keats C. Ernest Hemingway

1345. Who is the author of B. William Wordsworth D. Oscar Wilde
the book ’The Time Ma- 1356. Goethe is the greatest
y
chine’ C. Bacon poet of-

A. Robert Heinlein D. Milton A. Russia
ra
B. H G Wells 1351. What type of work B. Germany

C. Arthur C Clarke ‘Tottle’s Miscellany’ is?
C. England
Na
D. Ray Bradbury A. Epic

D. France
1346. Naguib Mahfouz is B. Sonnet
1357. When Leontes dis-
a/an writer who C. Drama covers the identity of
got Nobel Prize.
D. Comedy Perdita in ‘The Win-
A. Egyptian ter’s Tale’ is an example
1352. What is meaning of of:
B. English the word Euphemism?
C. Irish vii A. Peripety
D. American A. vague idea B. Suspense
1347. Hemingway also B. inoffensive expres- C. revelation

worked as a: sion D. Discovery
1343. B 1344. A 1345. B 1346. A 1347. D 1348. B 1349. A 1350. A 1351. B

1352. B 1353. C 1354. B 1355. A 1356. B 1357. D 1358. A
1358. ‘Importance of Being A. James Joyce A. nineteenth

Earnest’ was written
B. Virginia Woolf B. sixteenth
by:
C. Hardy C. eighteenth
A. Oscar Wilde
D. Forster D. fifteenth
B. Browning
1364. Who is called the 1369. Who wrote ‘Com-
C. Blake
er
poet of poets? mon Pursuit’?
D. None of these
A. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Leavis, F.R.
1359. ‘The Lotos Eaters’
gd
was written by: B. Edmund Spenser B. Cecil, D.
A. Blake C. Roger Bacon C. E.M.Foster
B. Byron D. William Shake- D. None of these
an
speare 1370. A Protagonist is
C. Tennyson
1365. Who is famous for the character in
D. None of these a play or novel.
his elegies?
1360. Shakespeare’s ‘Mea- A. villain
Ch
sure for Measure’ is a- A. Robert Browning
B. leading
A. tragedy B. Lord Byron
C. important
B. comedy C. Thomas Gray
D. comedy
C. tragicomedy D. Thomas Paine
1371. ‘Nothing more real
an
D. sonnet 1366. Which novel is

than nothing’ are the
not written by Jane
1361. What is the real words of?
Austen?
name of O’Henry? A. Harold Pinter
A. Emma
y
A. Mary Anne Evan B. Beckett

B. The Chimes
B. George Gordon C. Shaw
ra
C. Persuation
C. Lord Byron D. None of these
D. William Sydney D. none these
Porter
Na
1367. Who is the author of the poem ‘The Ring and

1362. ‘Songs of Experience’ ‘The Dark Room’? the Book’?
written by Blake was A. R K Narayan A. John Milton
published in:
B. James Osborn B. Lord Tennyson
A. 1790
C. Toni Morrison C. William Shake-
B. 1794
speare
D. Saul Bellow
C. 1820
D. Robert Browning
1368. William Shakespeare
D. None of these was a famous 1373. Who translated the
1363. “Ullyses” is written century English Play- Bible into English for
by: wright. the first time?
1359. C 1360. B 1361. D 1362. B 1363. A 1364. B 1365. C 1366. B 1367. A

1368. B 1369. A 1370. B 1371. B 1372. D 1373. B 1374. B
A. Nicolas Udall D. The Restoration A. Geoffrey Chaucer

Age
B. John Wycliffe B. Robert Browning
C. Thomas Norton C. Cynewulf
the poem ‘Fra Lippo
D. Edmund Spenser Lippi’? D. A. Lord Tennyson
1374. Geraldine is a charac- A. Robertf Browning 1384. Who is the father of
er
ter of the poem;
B. Wordsworth English essay?
A. Lucy Grey
C. William Shake- A. Harold Pinter
B. Christabel
speare
gd
B. Francis Bacon
C. Frost at midnight
D. Milton
D. the last of the flock C. William Hazlitt
1380. Who was awarded
1375. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Nobel prize for the 1385. "A Tale of Two Cities"
an
is written by poem ‘The Waste Novel state the fact in
Land’? following two cities
A. John Keats
B. Jane Austen A. D. H. Lawrence A. London and Paris
Ch
C. Blake B. Lord Tennyson B. London and Berlin
D. Lord Byron C. T. S. Eliot C. Chicago and New

York
1376. For which book pub- D. William Wordsworth
lished in 1897, Bram D. Moscow and Saint
Stoker is famous for Petersburg
1381. ‘Poetry is the criti-
an
A. Frankenstein cism of life’ is a view 1386. The novel Sons and

B. The Raven about poetry by: Lovers is written by-
C. Dracula A. Arnold A. D.H. Lawrence
y
D. The Monk B. Dr. Johnson B. T.S. Eliot

1377. Byron is the writer of C. Shelley
ra
C. Hardy
A. Don Juan D. Hazlitt
D. Joseph Conrad
B. Prometheus Un- 1382. The year 1798 is fa-
1387. The poem ‘To His
Na
bound mous for

Coy Mistress’ was writ-
C. Adonias A. The French Revolu- ten by
D. Lucy Gray tion
A. John Keats
1378. Which of the follow- B. The American Inde-
ing age in literary his- pendence B. Andrew Marvell
tory is the latest? C. Publication of lyri- C. John Milton
A. The Augustan Pe- cal ballads D. William Shake-
riod speare
D. The death of Keats
B. The Victorian Age
1383. Who is the writer of 1388. ‘The Daffodils’ is a
C. The Georgian Age ‘Ulysess’? poem written by
1375. B 1376. C 1377. A 1378. C 1379. A 1380. C 1381. A 1382. C 1383. D

1384. B 1385. A 1386. A 1387. B 1388. B 1389. C
A. John Keats A. Geoffrey Chaucer 1398. ‘The Ring and the

Book’ is a poem written
B. William Wordsworth B. Roger Bacon
by:
C. Robert Browning
C. P.B Shelly A. Browning
D. Cynewulf
D. T.S Eliot B. Mathew Arnold
1394. It as the best of times,
C. Tennyson
er
1389. Which of the plays it was the worst of time,
is not written by T. S. it was the worst – the D. None of these
Eliot? opening of Dickens’ 1399. Who is the writer
gd
A. The Rock A. Hard Times of The Elizabethan Pe-
B. The Family Reunion riod?
B. David Copperfield
C. The importance of A. Caedmon
C. Oliver Twist
being Earnest B. Cynewulf
D. None of these
1390. Gulliver was expelled
from the land of Yahoos anD. A Tales of Two
Cities
1395. Who believed that
Shakespeare did much
C. Christopher
lowe
D. Dante
Mar-
Ch
because he was consid-
ered better in Comedy than 1400. ‘The Flea’ by John
in tragedy? Donne is
A. a yahoo
A. Dryden A. a romantic poem
B. a criminal
B. Bradley B. an Elegy
C. he hated their king
an
C. Johnson C. a religious poem

D. None of these
D. L. C. Knight D. an Ode
1391. Tennyson created a
medieval world in his 1396. She is like a rose. It is 1401. ‘The Revolt of Islam’
y
poem: an example of- is a work by-
A. in memoriam A. Simile A. Byron

ra
B. the lady of Shalott B. Metaphor B. Salman Rushdie

C. the lotus eaters C. Synecdoche C. Shelley
Na
D. Ulyssess D. Metonymy D. G.B. Shaw

1392. ‘In Memoriam’ is 1397. Who is the writer 1402. When did Frost and
written by? of the poem ‘Home Elinor decide move the
Thoughts from family to England?
A. Charles Dickens
Abroad’? A. 1915
B. Tennyson
A. Wordsworth B. 1913
C. Robert Browning
B. Milton C. 1914
D. Thackeray
1393. Who is the first great C. William Shake- D. 1912
English story-teller in speare 1403. Who is writer of the
English Literature? D. Robert Browning poem ‘Justice’?
1390. C 1391. D 1392. B 1393. A 1394. D 1395. C 1396. A 1397. D 1398. A

1399. C 1400. C 1401. C 1402. D 1403. D 1404. A
A. John Milton A. Monologue A. Pope

B. Jonathan Swift B. Dramatic Lyric B. Dryden
C. Charles Dickens C. Dramatic Mono- C. Locke
logue D. Coleridge
D. Henry Wordsworth
Longfellow D. Dramatic Romance 1414. What is literature?
1409. Where is expressed
er
1404. In his poetry Ten- A. writing about soci-
nyson is: the view that ‘There is a ety
divinity that shapes our
A. The representative ends’? B. reflection of society
gd
poet of Victorian Age
A. In King Lear C. literary works
B. The representative
B. In Hamlet D. different customs
poet of Romantic Age
1415. Stones of Venice was
C. The best nature poet C. In the Tempest
written by:
D. None of these
1405. G. B. Shaw began his
literary career first as: anD. In Marry Wives of
Windsor
1410. Charles Lamb’s
"Dream Children" is
A. Macaulay
B. Newman
C. Ruskin
Ch
A. Novelist notable for its: D. Carlyle
B. Dramatist A. Crushing tragedy 1416. Who wrote ‘An Apol-
C. Critic B. Humor ogy for Poetry’?
D. None of these C. Whimsical Pathos A. P. B Shelly
an
1406. Who represents D. Cynicism B. John Donne

Pride in Jane Austen’s C. Sir Philip Sidney
1411. What is Synecdoche?
‘Pride and Prejudice’:
A. a short stanza poem D. Samuel Johnson
A. Mr. Bennett
y
B. a long narrative 1417. Who is famous for

B. Mr. Bingley speech the theory of ‘Objective
ra
C. Miss Elizabeth Co-relative’?

C. a theory
D. None of these A. E.M. Forster
D. a figure of speech
1407. Who is the writer stands for whole thing B. Somerset Maugham
Na
of The Old English Pe- 1412. The "battle of C. T.S. Eliot

riod? Philippi" appears in the D. Woolf
A. William Shake- play
1418. Shelley’s final unfin-
speare A. Othello ished poem was:
B. William Wordsworth B. Julius Caesar A. Hellas
C. Macbeth B. Prometheus Un-
C. Lord Tennyson bound
D. King Lear
D. Caedmon 1413. Who said . . . “expres- C. The Ancient
1408. “Meeting at Night” sion ought to be the Mariner
by Browning is a: dress of the thought”? D. The Triumph of life
1405. A 1406. D 1407. D 1408. A 1409. B 1410. C 1411. D 1412. B 1413. D

1414. B 1415. C 1416. C 1417. C 1418. D
1419. Who used the term A. William Langland A. E. M. Forster

‘The Metaphysical
B. Thomas More B. Charles Dickens
poet’?
C. Roger Bacon C. Rudyard Kipling
A. Edmund
B. John Donne D. Geoffrey Chaucer D. James Joyce
C. Samuel Johnson 1425. What do you mean 1430. Santiago is an illus-
er
by Canto? tration of:
D. Andrew Marvell
A. a stanza of a long A. Hemingway’s re-
1420. Who wrote the poem
poem spect for struggle
gd
‘The Collar’?
B. a stanza of a short B. Hemingway’s total
A. George Herbert
poem view of life
B. John Donne
C. a section or division C. Hemingway’s phi-
an
C. Edmund Spenser losophy of life
of a long poem
D. Alfred Tennyson D. None of these
D. a kind of sonnet
1421. The period from
1649-1660 is known as- 1426. Rabbi Ben Ezra was
Ch
‘Tithonus’?
written by?
A. Commonwealth pe-
A. A. Lord Tennyson
riod A. Tennyson
B. George Bernard
B. Jacobean period B. Browning
Shaw
C. Caroline period C. Matthew Arnold
C. Christopher Mar-
an
D. Restoration period D. None of these lowe

1422. Who was a ‘poet lau-
1427. When did Lesley D. William Shake-
reate’?
born? speare
y
A. 1896 1432. Which is the last

of Shakespeare’s great
B. 1899
ra
B. Robert Browning tragedies?

C. T. S Eliot C. 1898 A. Macbeth
D. John Keats D. 1897 B. King Lear
Na
1423. Dickens’ novels 1428. When was the Lyri- C. Othello

combine and cal Ballads published
melodrama. D. Hamlet
A. 1797
A. journalism 1433. The Study of Poetry
B. 1798 is written by-
B. Satire
C. science C. 1800 A. Dr. Johnson
D. religion D. 1801 B. William Wordsworth

1424. Who is considered to 1429. Who is the writer of
be the father of English the book ‘A Passage to C. S. T. Coleridge
Poem? India’? D. Matthew Arnold
1419. C 1420. A 1421. A 1422. A 1423. B 1424. D 1425. C 1426. B 1427. B

1428. B 1429. A 1430. C 1431. A 1432. B 1433. D 1434. B
1434. Ode to West Wind A. Ted Hughes 1445. Who is the writer of
was written by The Augustan Period?
B. T.S. Eliot
A. Keats A. Robert Herrick
C. W.B. Yeats
B. Shelley B. Jeremy Taylor
D. W.H. Auden
C. Byron 1440. Who is the writer of C. Thomas Hobbes
‘Lotus Eaters’?
er
D. None of these D. Joseph Addison and
A. Cynewulf Richard steele
1435. In Greek tragedy
irony and are 1446. Who is the writer of
B. Geoffrey Chaucer The Victorian Period?
gd
fused into one.
C. Robert Browning A. Robert Herrick
A. Allegory
D. A. Lord Tennyson B. Jeremy Taylor
B. Idealism 1441. Who is the author of
C. Thomas Hobbes
an
C. Imagery the book ‘Waste land’?
D. Charles Dickens
D. Satire A. T.S. Eliot
1447. ‘The Pickwick Pa-
1436. When did Frost at- B. Shelly pers’ by Dickens was
tend Harvard Univer-
Ch
C. Earnest Heming- published in:
sity? way A. 1837
A. 1896 D. Charles Dickens B. 1838
B. 1899 1442. Shakespeare is the C. 1839
C. 1897 writer for
D. 1841
an
D. 1898 A. The Tempest

1448. Doctor Zivago is
1437. ‘If winter come, can B. The Idea of Univer- written by-
spring be far behind’? sity A. Ana Pasternak
y
These lines were writ- C. The Hairy Ape B. Boris Pasternak

ten by
D. Riders to the Sea C. Golding
ra
A. Keats
1443. Romantic Age starts
D. Conrad
B. Frost from?
1449. What the term Mock
C. Eliot A. 1789 Epic refers? xi
Na
D. Shelley B. 1880 A. a satiric writing of

1438. ‘Lyrical Ballad’ was C. 1889 drama
published in? D. 1750 B. a long narrative
A. 1789 poem
1444. The Elgin Marbles in-
B. 1798 spired Keats to write: C. a literary work com-
ically imitates the style
C. 1800 A. Endymion
of epic
D. 1785 B. Lamia
D. none
1439. ‘The Winding Stair’ C. The Grecian Urn 1450. Negative Capability
is written by: D. Melancholy to Keats, means
1435. D 1436. C 1437. D 1438. B 1439. C 1440. D 1441. A 1442. A 1443. A

1444. C 1445. D 1446. D 1447. A 1448. B 1449. C 1450. C
A. The ability to sym- 1455. “The music in my A. E. M. Forster

pathize with other heart I bore, Long after
B. Robert Frost
it was heard no more.”
B. Say bad thing, about
These lines are from the C. George Orwell
others
poem
D. William Golding
C. To empathize A. The Solitary Reaper
1460. In Which century
by Wordsworth
er
D. None of these was the Victorian pe-
1451. “The Heard melodies B. Ode to a Nightmare riod?
are sweet but those un- by John Keats
A. 17th century
gd
heard are sweeter” ap- C. To a lady with a gui-
pear in: B. 18th century
tar by P.B. Shelley
A. Ode to Autumn D. Elegy written in a C. 19th century
country churchyard by D. 20th century
an
B. Ode on a Grecian
Urn Thomas Gray
1461. Who was the contem-
1456. What is the name of porary poet of William
C. Ode to a Nightin-
a modern philosopher, Wordsworth?
gale
who was awarded No-
Ch
D. Ode on Melancholy bel Prize in literature? A. T.S Eliot
1452. Who wrote ‘The A. Bertrand Russell B. S.T Coleridge

Waste Land’? B. Woodrow Wilson C. W.B Yeats
A. W.B. Yeats C. Theodore Roosevelt D. John Keats
an
B. T.S. Eliot 1462. Who wrote ‘Tales

D. None of the above From Shakespeare’?
C. E.M. Forster
1457. is credited A. Charles Lamb and
D. H.G. Wells 3
to have finished Mar- his sister
y
1453. Edmund Spenser is a lowe’s Hero and Lean-

B. Dr. Johnson
der
ra
C. Dryden
A. Scientist A. Michael Drayton
D. None of these
B. Poet B. Ben Jonson
Na
1463. Little Time is a char-

C. Critic C. Shakespeare
acter in Hardy’s
D. Dramatist D. George Chapman
A. The return of the na-
1458. Shakespeare died in: tive
1454. Who is the father
of modern English po- A. 1625 B. Jude the Obscure
etry?
B. 1616 C. Mayor of Caster-
A. Cynewulf C. 1618 bridge
B. Geoffrey Chaucer D. None of these D. None of these
C. Robert Browning 1459. ‘Lord of the flies’ is 1464. Harold Pinter was a/
D. None of the above written by? an-
1451. B 1452. B 1453. B 1454. B 1455. A 1456. A 1457. D 1458. B 1459. D

1460. C 1461. B 1462. A 1463. B 1464. A 1465. C
A. poet 1468. Which English ro- A. short prose

mantic poet admired
B. novelist B. a long fictional
Pope:
prose with many char-
C. absurd dramatist acters
A. Coleridge
D. Lyric poet C. a short narrative
1465. Gulliver was expelled prose
er
from the land of Yahoos D. a literary work on
C. Byron
because he was consid- the stage
ered D. None of these
1473. ‘Sweet Hellen make
gd
A. a yahoo 1469. What was the “soli- me immortal with kiss’.
tary highland lass” do- Who has said these
B. a criminal
ing in “The Solitary words?
C. he hated their king Reaper”?
A. Marlow
D. None of these
1466. “O, beware, my lord,
of jealousy; It is the an
A. She was reaping and
singing
B. She was dancing
B. Shakespeare
C. Benjonson
D. None of these
Ch
green-ey’d monster, and singing
which doth mock The 1474. ‘The God of Small
C. She was reaping and
meat it feeds on.”- Things’ is written by
dancing
quoted from?
D. She was reaping and
A. Dr. Faustus A. Vikram Seth
crying
an
B. Macbeth B. John Galasworthy

1470. In whose poetry do
C. Hamlet we find – ‘a love of C. Arundhati Roy
nature, simplicity and D. E. M. Forster
D. Othello
faith in the dignity of
1475. Robert Herrick find
y
1467. Why is the poet so the humblest’?

similar to human be-
sad to see the Daffodils
A. Coleridge ings and daffodils.
ra
in ‘The Daffodils’?
B. Southey A. rising sun, moon
A. The poet is sad be-
cause the flowers have C. Wordsworth B. summer’s morn-
Na
not bloomed fully. ing’s dew

D. Burns
B. The poet is sad be- C. spring, summer
1471. As Act is to Drama;
cause the flowers re- so Canto is to- D. hasting day, even
mind him of his own song
death. A. Epic
1476. Samuel Beckett was-
C. The poet is sad be- B. Tragedy iv
cause the winter will C. Comedy A. An English drama-
soon arrive. tist
D. Sonnet
D. The poet is sad be- B. A Russian dramatist
cause the summer will 1472. What do you mean
go away. by Novel? C. A French dramatist
1466. D 1467. B 1468. C 1469. A 1470. C 1471. A 1472. B 1473. A 1474. C

1475. B 1476. C 1477. A
D. A Spanish dramatist C. a song of praising 1487. Who wrote "The Pil-

God grim’s Progress"?
1477. Which book is a D. a song of Mourning A. John Bunyan
Tragedy? the dead B. Daniel Defoe
A. Hamlet 1482. Compatriot means- C. Dryden
B. Measure for Mea- A. comrade
er
D. None of these
sure
B. classmate 1488. A famous Playwright
C. As you like it in Modern English Lit-
C. fellow country man
erature is-
gd
D. She stoops to con-
quer D. friend A. Oscar Wild
1478. The Elgin Marbles in- 1483. Which of the follow- B. Bacon
spired Keats to write: ing is a 19th century
C. Lamb
an
woman novelist?
A. Endymion
A. Emily Dickinson D. T.S. Eliot
B. Lamia 1489. ‘The Rape of
B. Ezra Pound Bangladesh’ is written
C. The Grecian Urn
Ch
C. Virginia Woolf by-
D. Melancholy
D. George Eliot A. Viggo Olsen
1479. Who is the famous
woman novelist in Vic- 1484. ‘A Doll’s House’ is B. Alamgir Kabir
torian Age? written by- C. Rehman Sobahan
A. E.B. Browning A. Francis Bacon D. Anthony Mascaren-
an
B. George Eliot has

B. E.M. Forster
1490. The Winter’s Tale is
C. T.S Eliot C. R.K. Narayan Shakespeare
D. Austen
y
D. Henrick Ibsen A. Dramatic mono-

1480. Lyrical Ballads is 1485. Nathaniel Hawthorne logue
written by Wordsworth
ra
is the writer of- B. Comedy

with the Collaboration
of- A. The Scarlet Letter C. Tragedy
A. S.T Coleridge B. A Farewell to Arms D. None of these
Na
B. William Blake C. Great Expectation 1491. In ‘Ozymandias’

the poet says, ‘I
C. Dorothy D. none met a traveler
D. Alfred Tennyson 1486. The Dunciad, Essay an land’.
1481. What do you mean on Man, Epistles are all A. by, old
by an Elegy? written by:
B. going, ancient
A. a poem of happy A. Shakespeare
C. from, antique
ending B. Dryden D. passing, antique
B. a poem of unhappy C. Pope 1492. George Eliot’s real
ending name was:
D. Shaw
1478. C 1479. B 1480. A 1481. D 1482. C 1483. D 1484. D 1485. A 1486. C

1487. A 1488. A 1489. D 1490. A 1491. C 1492. C
A. George Evans A. Ben Johnson’s A. Subjectivity

B. Eliot Evans B. Bernard Shaw’s B. Naturalism
C. Marian Evans C. Shakespeare’s C. Use of common lan-
guage
D. Marian Eliot D. None of these
D. all of these
1493. What the term Cou- 1498. The Common So-
1503. The poem ‘ The Soli-
er
plet refers? journ of Byron, Shelley,
Keats was: tary Reaper’ is written
A. two successive lines by
A. Lake district
A. W. H. Auden
gd
B. first four lines of a
B. Hampshire
poem B. W. Wordsworth
C. Utopia
C. two successive C. W. B. Yeats
rhyming lines D. None of these
D. Ezra Pound
an
D. two lines without 1499. When was the first
1504. ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is
rhymes Oxford English Dictio-
written by?
nary published
1494. Who is the writer A. Joseph Conrad
A. 1830
Ch
B. T.S. Eliot
riod? B. 1855
C. Virginia Woolf
A. George Farquhar C. 1884
D. Dylan Thomas
B. Robert Herrick D. 1898
1505. ‘Samson Agonists’ is
C. Jeremy Taylor 1500. What is a fable? written by-
an
D. Thomas Hobbes A. a story about ani- A. A. Pope

mals
1495. Who is the greatest B. Henry Fielding
modern English drama- B. a story of human be-
C. Thomas Hardy
y
tist? ing
D. John Milton
A. John Milton C. a story of chronol-
ra
ogy 1506. ‘Stream of Conscious-

B. Homer ness’ is the phrase first
D. a song of pleasure used by:
C. G.B. Shaw 1501. Amongst the follow-
Na
A. James Joyce
D. Eliot ing, who is considered
to be the “pioneer of the B. William James
1496. Feminine Ending is:
novel of female emanci- C. Virginia Woolf
A. a Novel pation”?
D. William Faulkner
B. a poem A. Jane Austin
C. a metrical device B. Charlotte Bronte ‘Ivan Hoe’?
D. None of these C. Emily Bronte A. O’Henry
1497. Whose comedies are D. Virginia Woolf B. L. Stevenson

called ‘Comedies of 1502. Feature of Romantic C. Hemingway
Mask’: Period? D. Sir Walter Scott
1493. C 1494. A 1495. C 1496. C 1497. B 1498. A 1499. C 1500. A 1501. B

1502. D 1503. B 1504. C 1505. D 1506. B 1507. D 1508. C
1508. Northanger Abbey, 1513. What the term Com- 1518. What was the name
Emma and Sense and edy refers? of Isabella’s brother in
Sensibility are novels the ‘Measure for Mea-
A. a play ends unhap-
written by sure’?
pily
A. G. Eliot A. Angelo
B. a play ends with
B. Miss Burney murder B. Cladio
er
C. Jane Austen C. a play ends tragedy C. Vincentio
D. None of these D. a play ends happily D. Viola
gd
1509. Who described po- 1519. Macaulay lived from
1514. Bertrand Russell was
etry as “Spontaneous a British- A. 1800 1859
overflow of powerful
feelings”: A. novelist B. 1802 1859
an
B. essayist C. 1859 – 1900
A. Shelley
C. poet D. 1889 1902
B. Wordsworth
1520. When (the year
C. Coleridge D. philosopher
of time when Frost
Ch
D. Arnold 1515. Ophelia, Julia , Viola, awarded gold medal)
Imogen are the charac- did Frost award gold
1510. “Good flences make
ters created by medal?
good neighbours” is
from Frosts’: A. Richardson A. 1930
A. Mending B. Fielding B. 1970
an
B. Pasture C. Hardy C. 1950

C. Birches D. Shakespeare D. 1960
1521. G.B. Shaw was
y
D. None of these 1516. ‘England expects ev-

ery man to do his duty.’ awarded Nobel Prize
1511. Who is the writer of for literature in:
– Who told it?
ra
‘Men and Women’?

A. 1925
A. Robert Browning A. Nelson
B. 1929
B. Shelley B. Churchill
Na
C. 1930
C. William Shake- C. Wilson
D. 1949
speare D. Thatcher
1522. Who is the greatest
D. Wordsworth 1517. ‘Frailty thy name is dramatist of all times?
1512. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is woman’ is a famous di-
alogue from A. G. B. Shaw
also called:
B. William Shake-
A. Catharsis A. Marlowe
speare
B. Catastrophe B. W. Shakespeare
C. Hamartia C. Webster
D. None of these D. T.S Eliot D. Jonathan Swift
1509. B 1510. D 1511. A 1512. C 1513. D 1514. D 1515. D 1516. A 1517. B

1518. B 1519. A 1520. D 1521. A 1522. B 1523. D
1523. Who is the author of 1528. Which of the fol- A. Metaphor

‘Hamlet’? lowing works ‘had the B. Epigram
greatest influence on
A. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Satire
the Victorian Age?
B. William Blake D. Simile
A. Mill’s "On Liberty"
C. William Worsworth 1533. ‘A poison Tree’ is
B. Tennyson’s "In written by?
er
memoriam"
D. William Shake- A. John Keats
speare C. Darwin’s "Origin of
Species" B. Robert Herrick
gd
1524. What do you mean C. William Wordsworth
by Plagiarism? D. Carlyle’s "Sartor Re-
sartus"
A. a story builder D. William Blake
1529. Who said these
an
B. a short story words in ‘The Old Man 1534. What kind of books
and the Sea’ . . . “No are Robinson Crusoe
C. a literary theft
one should be alone in and Moll Flanders?
D. a criticism of litera- their old age”: A. Travel books
ture
Ch
A. Hemingway B. Tragedy
1525. In Chapter XVI the
word muffled in ‘Pride B. Santiago C. Romance
and Prejudice’ is: C. Manolin D. Comedy
A. Confused 1535. Who is the author
D. None of these
of the book ’Gulliver’s
an
B. Amazed 1530. Early plays of Shake- Travels’

C. Not thinking clearly speare’s are?
A. Arthur Conan
D. None of these A. Tragedy Doyle
y
1526. Who wrote the fa- B. Tragicomedy B. Charles Dickens

mous novel the “Three C. H. G. Wells
C. Romantic
ra
Musketeers”?
D. Comedy D. Jonathan Swift
A. R. L Stevenson
1536. Who is known as the
1531. Which one of the fol-
B. William Shake- father of epic poetry
Na
lowing poets named the

speare
Romantic poet as the A. Hesiod
C. Sir Walter Scott “pond poets”? B. Homer
D. Alexandre Dumas A. Southey C. Ferdowsi
1527. ‘Waiting for Godot’ is B. Shelley D. Hesiod
written by-
C. Keats 1537. Ruskin was born in:
A. Samuel Beckett
D. Byron A. 1819
B. Edward Albee B. 1843
1532. “I wandered lonely as
C. Samuel Butler a cloud” is an example C. 1851
D. Samuel Heaney of- D. None of these
1524. C 1525. A 1526. D 1527. A 1528. B 1529. B 1530. D 1531. A 1532. D

1533. D 1534. A 1535. D 1536. B 1537. A 1538. C
1538. “There are two C. William Shake- A. Social Forces

tragedies in life one is speare B. Providence
not to get your heart’s
D. A. Lord Tennyson C. Fate
desire. The other is
get it.”-these lines were 1542. Confessions of an En- D. None of these
written by? glish Opium Eater was 1547. The French Revolu-
A. Jean Paul Sartre written by: tion took place in:
er
B. James Osborn A. Charles Lamb A. 1793
C. G. B. Shaw B. John Ruskin B. 1796
gd
D. H. G. Wells C. Maria Edgeworth C. 1798
1539. Which writing in- D. Thomas de Quencey D. None of these
cludes the manifesto of 1548. Who is familiar as a
an
Romantic poetry? poet of beauty?
1543. Alexander Du-
A. The Prelude mas was a A. Lord Byron
famous novelist. B. John Dryden
B. Lyrical Ballads
A. American
Ch
C. The Ancient C. John Keats
Mariner B. English D. None
D. Songs of Innocence C. Irish 1549. Which College Frost
1540. ’Blow, Blow thou attended for several
D. French months?
winter wind Thu
an
art not so unkind 1544. “Our sweetest songs A. Dartmouth College

As man’s ingrati- are those that tell of sad-
dest thoughts” is a quo- B. Daffodil Interna-
tude; They tooth
tation from- tional College
is not so keen, Al-
C. Dhaka College
y
though they breath be

A. Wordsworth
rude’ These are D. Dental College
a few lines of a poem B. Shelly
ra
1550. What was the reason

of a great poet William
C. John Keats behind Frost died?
Shakespeare.
D. Blake A. tuberculesis
A. J. Webstar
Na
1545. Pastoral Poem refers B. Heart attack

B. C. Marlowe
a poem about life. C. cancer
C. W. Shakespeare
A. human D. prostate surgery
D. Lord Bacon
B. poet’s 1551. Who is the contro-
1541. Who is the writer of versy writer in Post-
‘Locksley Hall’? C. shepherd or rural Modern period?
A. George Bernard D. personal A. Doris Lessing
Shaw
1546. Human situation in B. Ahmed Salman
B. Christopher Mar- Hardy’s novels is con- Rushdie
lowe trolled by: C. Chinua Achebe
1539. B 1540. C 1541. D 1542. D 1543. D 1544. B 1545. C 1546. C 1547. D

1548. C 1549. A 1550. D 1551. B 1552. A 1553. A
1552. Who composed ‘The 1557. The one remains, the 1562. ‘Limerick’ is one kind
waste Land’? many change and pass; of?
Heaven’s light for ever A. Song
A. T.S. Eliot
shines, earth’s shadows
B. John Milton fly; The above two lines B. Narrative Poem
occur in: C. Satire
C. George Eliot
A. Keats’ Hyperion
er
D. long poem
D. John Donne
B. Shelley’s Hymn to 1563. Who is the father
1553. Charles Lamb was of English dramatic po-
Intellectual Beauty
etry?
gd
C. Shelley’s Adonis
A. an Essayist A. Christopher Mar-
D. Keats’ Ode to Psy- lowe
B. a novelist che
C. an epic poem B. John Donne
an
1558. Who wrote the
‘Birthday Party’? C. Edmund Spenser
D. a dramatist
1564. A thing of beauty is
1554. Bertrand Russel was A. James Joyce
joy forever. It is com-
a British B. G.B. Shaw posed by:
Ch
A. Journalist C. Harold Pinter A. Keats
B. Scientist D. Jane Austen B. Shelley
C. Philosopher 1559. ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is C. Byron
written by: D. None of these
D. Astronaut
an
A. Tennyson 1565. Arthur Clarke is

1555. “The first in beauty
should be first in might” B. Byron known as-
. . . is the line spoken in A. a science fiction
C. Keats
Hyperion by:
y
writer
D. None of these
A. Oceanus B. a modern dramatist
ra
1560. Age of Johnson is

B. Hyperion C. a famous English
also known as-
Novelist
C. Apollo A. Age of Criticism D. A short story writer
Na
D. None of these B. Age of Love

1556. What do you mean C. Age of Sensibility 1566. Antony and Cleopa-
by Epilogue? tra is a tragedy written
D. Age of Pope by-
A. a poem comes at be-
ginning 1561. Who is the writer of A. G.B. Shaw
The Jacobean Period?
B. a poem of lamenta- B. Shakespeare
tion A. Cowley
C. Marlowe
B. Caedmon
C. a poem or speech at D. Ibsen
the end of a play C. Dante 1567. What do you mean
D. a figurative story D. Cynewulf by Romanticism?
1554. C 1555. B 1556. C 1557. C 1558. C 1559. B 1560. C 1561. A 1562. B

1563. A 1564. A 1565. A 1566. B 1567. D
A. movement of daily 1572. The Battle of Book is A. The Old man and
life affairs written by- the Sea
B. movement for clas- A. Jonathon Swift B. Robinson Crusoe
sics
B. William Thackeray C. Gulliver’s Travels
C. movement of poem
C. Thomas Stern Eliot D. A Doll’s House
D. movement for imag-
er
D. Daniel Dafoe 1578. Who usually carica-
ination over reason
tures his characters?
1568. ‘Hold your tongue 1573. Which of the Roman-
and let me love’ is said tic poets is called an es- A. Dickens
gd
by- capist? B. George Eliot
A. John Donne A. Keats C. Hardy
B. Shakespeare B. Shelley D. None of these
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Christopher
lowe
Mar-
anC. Wordsworth
D. None of these
1579. Drama which seeks
to mirror life with the
utmost fidelity is called:
Ch
1574. Who is the father of A. Realistic
1569. What kind of liter-
English Language?
ary work is ‘The Lun-
B. Naturalistic drama
cheon’ by Somerset A. Roger Bacon
Maugham? C. Humanistic drama
B. Robert Browning
A. A novel D. Problem play
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
an
B. A short story 1580. A famous Mock Epic

D. Cynewulf poet in English Litera-
C. A poem
1575. The repetition of ture is-
D. A scientific article
sounds in a sequence of A. Alexander Pope
y
1570. American female words is called

novelist pearl S. Buck B. Tennyson
ra
got Nobel prize in 1938 A. Assonance

C. Browning
for the book B. Rhythm
D. Shelley
A. The Good Earth C. Alliteration
Na
1581. Which country does

B. House Divided Shakespeare’s Hamlet
D. None of these
C. The Patriot belongs to
1576. ‘Three score’ means-
D. De Cameron A. England
A. thirty times
1571. The world of “Lady B. France
Shallot” belongs to the: B. three hundred times
C. Denmark
A. Medieval era C. three times twenty
D. Scotland
B. Greek era D. more than three
1582. Which country
C. Victorian era 1577. Jonathan Swift is the awarded the Pulitzer
D. Romantic era author of Prize
1568. A 1569. B 1570. A 1571. C 1572. A 1573. A 1574. C 1575. C 1576. C

1577. C 1578. A 1579. A 1580. A 1581. C 1582. B 1583. C
A. France A. Winston Churchill A. Beloved

B. USA B. George Washington B. Song of Solomon
C. England C. Mahatma Gandhi C. The Bluest Eye
D. Italy D. James Morris D. Tar Baby
1583. ‘She dwells with 1588. Who died in a tavern 1593. Who was the greatest
er
beauty – beauty that brawl dramatist before Shake-
must die’ is a line from speare?
A. Shakespeare
A. Ode to Nightingale A. Andrew Marvell
gd
B. Bacon
B. Ode on Indolence B. Christopher Mar-
C. Sidney lowe
C. Ode to Melancholy
D. Marlowe C. John Webster
D. None of these
an
1589. Placing Phrase or 1594. ‘If music be the food
1584. ‘Orlando’ is a charac- Sentences of similar of love, play on, give me
ter of Shakespeare’s- construction and mean- excess of it, that Surfeit-
ing and balancing each ing The appetite may
A. Hamlet
Ch
other is called: sicken and die? is a
B. King Lear speech from
A. Parallelism
C. Tempest A. Twelfth Night
B. Alliteration
D. As You Like It B. A Mid Summer
C. Para Rhyme
1585. Which of the follow- Nights’ Dream
an
D. Rhetoric
ing in the book/play C. As you Like it
written by Maithili Sha- 1590. ‘Delusion and
ran Gupt? Dream’ is by- D. The Winters’ Tale
A. Saket A. H.G. Wells
y
‘The Lady of Shalott’?

B. Satyartha Prakash B. Sigmund Freud
A. A. Lord Tennyson
ra
C. Shakuntala C. G.B. Shaw

B. Cynewulf
D. Savitri D. James Osborn
C. Robert Browning
Na
1586. A famous short story 1591. In ‘Ozymandias’,

D. Geoffrey Chaucer
of Maupassant is- who saw the statue of
Ozymandias? 1596. Does the per-
A. The Diamond Neck-
sonal name Lucy (in
lace A. the poet
Wordsworth’s poetry)
B. Gift of the Magi B. an old man stands for
C. Tropic of Cancer C. a traveler A. Anneta Vallon
D. The Prince D. a sculptor B. Dorothy
1587. ‘My Experiments 1592. For which one Toni C. Drawn from folk
with Truth’ is written Morrison won Nobel song heroines
by- Prize? D. None of these
1584. D 1585. A 1586. A 1587. C 1588. D 1589. A 1590. B 1591. C 1592. A

1593. B 1594. A 1595. A 1596. B 1597. A 1598. C
1597. Tennyson was born 1602. Who is the author C. The creation of an
in of ‘The Taming of the original philosophy
Shrew’?
A. 1809 D. An examination of
A. Shaw extraneous matters
B. 1798
B. Shakespeare 1607. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is
C. 1709
C. Ibsen written by-
er
D. None of these
D. Jonson A. Shelley
1598. Who is Elinor-white
? 1603. Dramatic Monologue B. Long Fellow
gd
stands for-
A. Daughter C. Frost
A. comparison be-
B. Daughter in law D. Whitman
tween dissimilar things
C. Wife B. a kind of fable 1608. What do you mean
an
by Climax?
D. Aunt C. single
A. a peak of mountain
1599. G Eliot’s novels show D. single speaker speak
her concern for the but audience remain B. a disaster of sea
Ch
character’s prob- silent C. a kind of poem
lems. 1604. Stephen Guest is an
D. the moment of high-
A. economic important Character in
est interest in a play
One of the following
B. Moral novels of George Eliot: 1609. Tom Jones by Henry
C. religious Fielding was first pub-
an
A. The Mill on the

lished in-
D. spiritual e social Floss
B. Adam Bede A. the 1st half of 19th
1600. Jane Eyre was writ-
Century
ten by C. Silas Marner
y
B. the 2nd half of 19th

A. Jane Austen D. None of these Century
ra
B. G. Eliot 1605. Tin Drum is written

C. the 1st half of 18th
by-
C. C. Bronte Century
A. Gunter Grass
D. None of these D. the 2nd half of 18th
Na
B. Gunner Myrdal Century

1601. What do you mean
by classicism? C. William Shake- 1610. ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an
speare example of”
A. reverence for
beauty D. Wordsworth A. Metaphor
B. reverence for En- 1606. Wordsworth’s Poetry
B. Paradox
glish always reflects:
C. Oxymoron
A. The creation of ab-
C. reverence for Greek
stract concepts D. None of these
and Roman/Grecian
works B. An endorsement of 1611. Which of the follow-
the scientific tradition ing is an essayist?
D. none
1599. B 1600. C 1601. C 1602. B 1603. D 1604. A 1605. A 1606. C 1607. D

1608. D 1609. C 1610. C 1611. C 1612. B
A. Chaucer C. William Wordsworth A. Keats

B. John Wycliffe B. Donne
C. Charles Lamb D. William Blake
C. Blake
D. Spenser 1617. Lotus eaters is writ-
D. Spenser
ten by
1612. W. B. Yeats got Nobel 1622. In what year did
A. Tennyson
er
Prize in? William Shakespeare
A. 1913 B. Mathew Arnold died?
B. 1923 C. Hardy A. 1570 AD
gd
C. 1937 D. None of these B. 1580 AD
D. 1919 1618. ‘The rainbow’ is C. 1630 AD
1613. “The Lotos-Eaters” is D. 1616 AD
an
a poem by A. a poem by
1623. Pulitzer Prize was
A. The Lotos-Eaters Wordsworth
first awarded in the
B. Dover Beach B. a short story by year
Ch
Somerset Maugham
C. My Last Dutchess A. 1900
D. The Eve of St. C. a novel by D. H.
B. 1909
Agnes Lawrence
C. 1917
1614. Who is the writer of D. a verse by Coleridge
The Modern and The D. 1942
an
Post Modern Period? 1619. ‘The Old Familiar 1624. An aesthetic delight
A. Jonathan Swift Faces’ was written by: in art and a streak of
extreme sadistic cru-
B. Anthony Mas- A. Ruskin
elty can be observed in
y
carenhu B. Charles Lamb Browning’s Poem:

C. Alexander Pope
C. J. S. Mill A. Paracelsus
ra
D. Daniel Defoe
D. None of these B. My Last Duchess
1615. ‘Murder in the Cathe-
dral’ is written by” 1620. Who is author of C. Sordello
Na
the book ‘Of Human

A. Yeats D. Pippa Passes
Bondage’?
B. T. S. Eliot 1625. Who is labeled as
A. Charles Dickens
misanthropist?
C. D. H. Lawrence B. William Somerset
A. Jane Austen
D. None of these Maugham
1616. Who is the poet of B. Hardy
C. Jane Austen
the ‘Victorian Age’? C. Swift
D. D. H. Lawrence
A. Robert Browning D. None of these
1621. Who of the follow-
B. William Shake- ing was both a poet and 1626. The word renais-
speare painter? sance means:
1613. A 1614. B 1615. B 1616. A 1617. A 1618. C 1619. B 1620. B 1621. C

1622. D 1623. C 1624. D 1625. C 1626. A
A. Rebirth A. Last six line of a son- 1636. ‘Persona’ is

net
B. Revival A. the actor in a play
B. First six lines of son-
C. Renewal B. the plural of Person
net
D. None of these C. a projection of the
C. first eight line of a
1627. Lyrical Ballads are poet into another per-
sonnet
son
er
jointly composed by:
D. last eight lines
A. Keats and Shelley D. None of these
1632. ‘Lady Chatterley’s
B. Wordsworth and Lover’ is written by the 1637. The first which Char-
gd
Shelley author of- lotte Bronte wrote was:
C. Keats and Coleridge A. A passage to India A. Jane Eyre
D. Wordsworth and B. Lord Jim B. Shirley
an
Coleridge C. Rainbow C. the professor
1628. Who wrote the poem D. villette
D. Ulysses
‘Don Juan’?
1633. Dickens gives a 1638. When Alfred Lord
Ch
A. William Wordsworth tragic picture of the Tennyson was died?
French Revolution in A. 1892
B. William Blake his novel:
B. 1893
C. Lord Byron A. Little Dorrit
C. 1894
D. John Keats B. Hard Times
an
D. 1895
1629. The literary work ‘ C. Bleak House
Kubla Khan’ is 1639. Who among the fol-
D. A Tale of Two Cities lowing is not a novel-
A. a historical of Vin- ist?
y
cent Smith 1634. What do you mean

A. Hardy
B. a verse by Coleridge by Deus ex Machina?
ra
B. Blake
A. process of analyzing
C. a drama by Oscar literature C. Joyce
Wilde B. literary theft D. Thackeray
Na
D. a short-story by C. process of solving 1640. The Picture of Dorian

Somerset Maugham problem abruptly Gray is written by:
1630. Who is one of the D. choice of words A. Gissing
lake poets:
1635. Who is the writer of B. D. H. Lawrence
A. Coleridge The Augustan Period?
C. Oscar Wilde
B. Blake A. Thomas Hobbes
D. None of these
C. Browning B. Daniel Defoe
1641. Alexander Pope’s
D. None of these C. Robert Herrick ‘An Essay on Man’ is
1631. What is Sestet? D. Jeremy Taylor a
1627. D 1628. C 1629. B 1630. A 1631. A 1632. C 1633. D 1634. C 1635. B

1636. A 1637. A 1638. A 1639. B 1640. C 1641. D
A. nobel A. Alexander Pushkin A. Friendship and

benevolence
B. short story B. Leo Tolstoy
B. Bitterness and re-
C. treatise C. Maxim Gorky
venge
D. poem D. Anton Chekhov C. Hatred and jealousy
1642. ‘The Poetry Aenied’ 1647. Karl Marx was born
D. None of these
er
is written by- in-
A. Germany The Middle English Pe-
A. Ovid
B. India riod?
gd
B. Dante
C. Russia A. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Boccaccio
D. England B. Lord Tennyson
D. Virgil C. William Wordsworth
1648. Eric Hugh Blair is
an
1643. Who is known as the known as-
poet of Nature? D. William Shake-
A. E.M. Forster
A. Wordsworth speare
B. T.S. Eliot 1653. Oscar Wilde believed
Ch
B. Shelly
C. George Orwell in:
C. Keats A. Aestheticism
D. William Golding
D. All of them 1649. Who is the writer B. Escapism
1644. The French Revolu- of The Elizabethan Pe- C. Pragmatism
riod?
an
tion took place in:

D. None of these
A. 1793 A. Thomas Norton & 1654. ‘Ode on a Grecian
Thomas Sackville Urn’-who is the poet of
B. 1796
B. Cynewulf the poem?
y
C. 1798
C. Dante A. Wordsworth
D. None of these
ra
D. Caedmon B. P. B Shelley
1645. What do you mean C. Lord Byron
1650. Where is expressed
by Fable?
the view the ‘There is a D. John Keats
Na
A. a story of high divinity that shapes our, 1655. Who is the writer of
thoughts ends’?
‘The End of History and
B. a story about great A. In King Lear The Last Man’?
men B. In Merry Wives of A. Samuel Huntington
C. a general story Windsor B. Francis Fukuyama
D. a short story of an- C. In the Tempest C. Robert Frost
imals for moral lesson D. In Hamlet D. David Lynn
1651. The Cardinal virtues 1656. Who wrote the poem
1646. ’Anna Karenina’ is of the Houyhnhnms ‘The Definition of
the creation of are: Love’?
1642. D 1643. A 1644. D 1645. D 1646. B 1647. A 1648. C 1649. A 1650. D

1651. A 1652. A 1653. A 1654. C 1654. D 1655. B 1656. A 1657. A
A. Andrew Marvell A. William Wordsworth 1667. ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ this

B. John Donne quotation from Shake-
B. Thomas Gray speare’s
C. W. B Yeats
C. John Keats A. Hamlet
D. John Keats
D. W. B. Yeats B. Othello
The Middle English Pe- 1662. Which of the follow- C. Merchant of Venice
er
riod? ing is not a dramatist? D. Julius Caesar
A. Sir Thomas Malory A. Ben Johnson 1668. ‘I care for life, for hu-
gd
B. William Shake- B. Byron manity, and you are a
speare part of it.’ Whose words
C. Eliot
are these?
C. William Wordsworth D. None of these
A. Doolittle
an
1663. ‘The Return of the
D. Lord Tennyson Native’ is written by- B. Huggins
1658. Who was the only A. Alexander Dumas C. Pickering
Laureate to refuse the D. None of these
B. Aldous Huxley
Ch
Nobel Prize?
C. Somerset Maugham 1669. Which one is a
A. Leo Tolstoy Tragedy?
B. Jea-Paul Sartre D. Thomas Hardy
A. Antony and Cleopa-
1664. The another name of
C. T.S. Eliot tra
Revenge tragedy or pro-
1659. ‘Good face is the ducer is- B. The Tempest
an
best letter of recom-

A. Sophocles C. King John
mendation’ was stated
by B. Euripides D. Richard 2
A. Queen Victoria C. Homer 1670. Who is the most fa-
y
mous satirist in English

B. Queen Anne D. Senecan tragedy
literature?
ra
C. Queen Elizabeth 1665. What is the name

of Robert-Frost’s first A. Alexander Pope
D. Queen Marry son? B. Jonathan Swift
Na
A. Elliot C. William Wordswarth

the poem ‘Porphyria’s
Lover’? B. Billiot
A. Robert Browning C. Trilliot D. Bulter
B. Shelley D. Juilliot 1671. "The Wuthering

Heights" is a famous
C. William Shake- 1666. What is the first En-
novels written by:
speare glish comedy?
A. C.Bronte
D. Wordsworth A. Ralph Roister Dois-
ter B. Hardy
1661. ‘Elegy Written is a
Country Churchyard’ is B. Volpone C. Emile Bronte
written by C. Baby’s Day Out D. Jane Austen
1658. B 1659. C 1660. A 1661. B 1662. B 1663. D 1664. D 1665. A 1666. A

1667. D 1668. B 1669. A 1670. B 1671. C
1672. Who is not a novelist D. Moulana Akram A. Edmund Walter

of Victorian age men- Khan
B. John Locke
tioned below?
1677. Who is the writer
C. Thomas Hobbes
A. Charles Dickens of the poem ‘My Last
Duchess’? D. John Dryden
B. George Eliot
A. Robert Browning 1682. Who among the fol-
C. Thomas Hardy
er
lowing believes that
D. James Joyce B. Shelley "poetry is the anti-
1673. Brutus is a famous C. William Shake- thesis of science"
gd
character of Shake- speare A. Arnold
speare in
D. Wordsworth B. Eliot
A. King Lear
1678. Mr. Rochester is the C. Coleridge
B. Julius Caeser major character of:
an
D. Keats
C. The Tempest A. Silas Marner
1683. Ernest De Selincourt
D. Hamlet B. Jane Eyre is the editor of:
1674. C. Dickens is known
Ch
C. Jude the Obscure A. Prometheus the Un-
for being a bound
D. Adam Bede
A. Socialist B. The Prelude
1679. Jane Austen’s Work
B. Humorist C. Songs of innocence
is transfused with the
C. Idealist spirit of and of experience
an
D. None of these A. Classicism D. None of these

1675. The Chorus in T. S. B. Idealism 1684. What do you mean
Eliot’s play "Murder in by Parody?
the Cathedral", consist C. Rationalism
y
A. imitation of the
of
D. None of these great man
ra
A. The women of Can-

1680. The characteristics of B. following the rules
terbury
the poem of William
C. a short prose
B. The priests of Can- Wordsworth are EXEPT
Na
terbury : D. imitation of a poem

or a writing
C. The men of Canter- A. Nature
bury 1685. What is an epic?
B. glorification of
D. The servants of childhood A. a prose composition
Thomas Becket
C. Hope and regenera-
1676. Who is the author of tion B. a romance
“India Wins Freedom”?
D. all of them C. a novel
A. Mahatma Gandhi
1681. Who is known as the D. a long poem
B. J. L. Nehru
‘Father of Modern En- 1686. John Galsworthy is
C. Abul Kalam Azad glish Criticism’. a dramatist.
1672. D 1673. B 1674. C 1675. A 1676. C 1677. A 1678. B 1679. A 1680. C

1681. D 1682. C 1683. B 1684. D 1685. D 1686. D
A. Victorian C. A Roman 1693. Who is English Poet?

B. Elizabethan D. A Moor A. Robert Frost
C. Romantic 1690. The first English dic-
tionary was completed B. Emily Dickinson
D. Modern
by C. John Keats
1687. In which play does
"Forest of Arden" fig- A. Izaak Walton
er
D. Toni Morrison
ure B. Samuel Johnson
1694. The Waste Land was
A. A Midsummer C. Samuel Butler
published by Eliot in:
Night’s Dream
gd
D. Sir Thomas Browne
B. The Merry Wives of A. 1922
Windsor
1691. ‘Things Fall Apart’ is B. 1923
C. As You Like It written by-
an
C. 1932
D. Macbeth A. Chino Achebe
1688. Who wrote the poem D. None of these
B. Nom Chomosky
‘Solitary Reaper’?
C. Wole Soyanka 1695. ‘Tradition and Indi-
Ch
A. Wordsworth vidual Talent’ is written
D. Doris Lessing
B. Shelley by:
1692. Which character
C. Keats is from ‘Romeo and A. Russell
D. Shakespeare Juliet’-
B. Carlyle
A. Brutus
an
1689. Othello is a Shake-

speare’s play about- C. T. S. Eliot
B. Ophelia
A. A Jew D. None of these
C. Benvolio
B. A Turk
y
D. Olivia
1687. C 1688. A 1689. D 1690. B 1691. A 1692. C 1693. C 1694. A 1695. C
ra
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1.2 Christopher Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.6 Paradise Lost- John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

1.7 William Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

1.10 William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

III Part three

3.3 Single answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

4 Literary Theory and Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

5 Introduction to Literary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

6 Introduction to Literary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

7 Cultural and Literary English Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

8 Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

9 Cultural and Literary in Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

10 Medieval Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

11 Medieval Women Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

13 English Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

14 Modern Poetry and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

15 The Victorian Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

17 Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

21 Romantic Era - English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

22 The English Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

23 Theme in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

24 Traditional Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

25 Transcendentalism Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

26 Folk Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

27 Genres of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

28 Gothic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

29 Literature Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

30 Early British literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

31 Wisdom literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

32 World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

34 Afro-Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

35 American English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

36 Ancient Greece Language and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

38 British Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

40 Early Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

42 England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

1 Famous playwright, poet and others

1.1 John Keats

1.4 John Milton

C. 23 February 1821 was 19 years of age? Keats?

born? B. Ode on a Grecian B. Keats’ lodging in the

C. New Chapman Hos- D. Trinity Hospital

1.2 Christopher Marlowe

C. Corpus Christi Col-

of Christopher Mar- and the Queen? 11. Which one of the

first performed? tributed to Christopher

Paris A. The Jew of Malta

1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. B 9. C 10. C 11. B 12. A

A. Mephastophilis those who: A. Queen of Carthage

C. Erected two univer-

A. True 5. The first regular En-

A. John Donne A. Valdes and Cor- A. French word

C. Troilus and Cressida D. Spanish word

versity is Faustus a D. John Donne and

mous German com- does Faustus ridicule