450 + Mcqs in Ages in English Literature Page 1 McqOptions

1.	Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
A.	Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
B.	Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
C.	Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
D.	Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed
Answer» B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

Discussion

2.	Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?
A.	It was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.
B.	Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.
C.	It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.
D.	It was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium
Answer» C. It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.

Discussion

3.	Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
A.	realism
B.	perspective
C.	individualism
D.	abstractioin
Answer» E.

Discussion

4.	Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
A.	New Criticism
B.	Critical Inquiry
C.	Scientific Bibliology
D.	Higher Criticism
Answer» E.

Discussion

5.	Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
A.	William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
B.	Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
C.	William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D.	all of the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

6.	Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
A.	Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
B.	Paine’s Rights of Man
C.	Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
D.	Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
Answer» E.

Discussion

7.	Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A.	courtly ideals of the good life
B.	carpe diem
C.	loyalty to the king
D.	pious devotion to religious virtues
Answer» E.

Discussion

8.	Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A.	Thomas Carlyle
B.	Matthew Arnold
C.	Charles Dickens
D.	all of the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

9.	Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
A.	formal diplomatic relations with China
B.	the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade
C.	the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity
D.	the union of England and Wales with Scotland
Answer» E.

Discussion

10.	Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?
A.	opium
B.	dreams
C.	childhood
D.	A, Band C
Answer» E.

Discussion

11.	Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
A.	opium
B.	dreams
C.	childhood
D.	A, B and c
Answer» E.

Discussion

12.	Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
A.	gluttonous feasting
B.	hard drinking
C.	hunting
D.	all of the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

13.	Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
A.	Unintelligent
B.	Rude
C.	Stingy
D.	Fanatic
Answer» D. Fanatic

Discussion

14.	Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?
A.	the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers
B.	the elimination of bishops
C.	the right of congregations to choose their own leaders
D.	the wider use of religious images in churches
Answer» E.

Discussion

15.	Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the Long Parliament when it convened in 1640 ?
A.	abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
B.	mounting a revolution and executing the king
C.	bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, Strafford and Laud
D.	remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband
Answer» C. bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, Strafford and Laud

Discussion

16.	Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
A.	Prometheus
B.	Satan
C.	Cain
D.	George III
Answer» E.

Discussion

17.	Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
A.	choler
B.	blood
C.	cholesterol
D.	black bile
Answer» D. black bile

Discussion

18.	Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
A.	the Irish National Theatre
B.	the Independent Theatre
C.	the Abbey Theatre
D.	both A and C
Answer» E.

Discussion

19.	Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
A.	verdant mead
B.	checkered shade
C.	simian rivalry
D.	shining sword
Answer» D. shining sword

Discussion

20.	Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?
A.	As an astronomical observation deck
B.	As a storage place for grain
C.	As a prison
D.	As a school for the royal children
Answer» D. As a school for the royal children

Discussion

21.	Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?
A.	Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary
B.	Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
C.	Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
D.	Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney
Answer» C. Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Discussion

22.	Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?
A.	’L’Allegro’
B.	’Lycidas’
C.	’Il Penseroso’
D.	’Absolom and Achitophel’
Answer» E.

Discussion

23.	Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?
A.	Salman Rushdie
B.	Joseph Conrad
C.	Rabindranath Tagore
D.	John Ruskin
Answer» B. Joseph Conrad

Discussion

24.	Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?
A.	a French revolutionary
B.	a Greek or Roman mythological figure
C.	a monster fabricated in a laboratory
D.	All would have been appropriate protagonists for a Romantic literary text.
Answer» E.

Discussion

25.	Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
A.	W. B. Yeats
B.	James Joyce
C.	Seamus Heaney
D.	none of the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

26.	which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?
A.	his birth date
B.	his death year
C.	his father’s name
D.	none of the above
Answer» B. his death year

Discussion

27.	which of these kings was not served by Chaucer ?
A.	Edward III
B.	Henry II
C.	Richard II
D.	none of the above
Answer» C. Richard II

Discussion

28.	Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe ?
A.	Henry V
B.	Richard III
C.	Edward II
D.	John
Answer» D. John

Discussion

29.	Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
A.	Space used to mean “outer space”
B.	Unaccountable
C.	Pandemonium
D.	Blatant
Answer» E.

Discussion

30.	Which one is Gaskell’s first novel ?
A.	Mary Barton
B.	Ruth
C.	Cranford
D.	North and South
Answer» B. Ruth

Discussion

31.	Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?
A.	Dombey and Son
B.	Little Dorrit
C.	Our Mutual Friend
D.	Edwin Drood
Answer» E.

Discussion

32.	Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
A.	Cranford
B.	North and South
C.	Ruth
D.	Mary Barton
Answer» B. North and South

Discussion

33.	Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
A.	the Normans
B.	the Geats
C.	the Celts
D.	the Anglo-Saxons
Answer» E.

Discussion

34.	Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?
A.	Aristotle
B.	Duns Scotus
C.	David Hume
D.	Immanuel Kant
Answer» E.

Discussion

35.	Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?
A.	automatic writing
B.	confused daze
C.	total recall
D.	stream of consciousness
Answer» E.

Discussion

36.	Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
A.	Air and Angels
B.	Satire 3
C.	The Apparition
D.	The Indifferent
Answer» C. The Apparition

Discussion

37.	Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
A.	Thom Gunn
B.	Dylan Thomas
C.	Philip Larkin
D.	both A and C
Answer» E.

Discussion

38.	Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?
A.	Thom Gunn
B.	Dylan Thomas
C.	Philip Larkin
D.	both A and C
Answer» E.

Discussion

39.	Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
A.	William Blake
B.	Alfred Lord Tennyson
C.	Samuel Johnson
D.	William Wordsworth
Answer» E.

Discussion

40.	Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
A.	Addison
B.	Bunyan
C.	Crabbe
D.	Dryden
Answer» E.

Discussion

41.	Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
A.	Ben Jonson
B.	Aemilia Lanyer
C.	Samuel Daniel
D.	Mary Wroth
Answer» E.

Discussion

42.	Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
A.	Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B.	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
C.	William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.	Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Answer» D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

Discussion

43.	Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
A.	Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B.	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
C.	William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.	Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Answer» D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

Discussion

44.	Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
A.	Anne Boleyn
B.	Mary I
C.	Mary, Queen of Scots
D.	Catherine of Aragon
Answer» D. Catherine of Aragon

Discussion

45.	Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
A.	John Lilburne
B.	William Laud
C.	Roger Williams
D.	Oliver Cromwell
Answer» D. Oliver Cromwell

Discussion

46.	Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?
A.	Percy Bysshe Shelley
B.	William Wordsworth
C.	George Gordon, Lord Byron
D.	all of the above
Answer» E.

Discussion

47.	Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
A.	Tudor
B.	Windsor
C.	York
D.	Lancaster
Answer» B. Windsor

Discussion

48.	Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
A.	King Henry VIII
B.	Queen Elizabeth I
C.	Queen Victoria
D.	King John
Answer» D. King John

Discussion

49.	Which school did Milton attend ?
A.	St Paul’s
B.	Christ’s Hospital
C.	Merchant Taylors’
D.	Westminster
Answer» B. Christ’s Hospital

Discussion

50.	Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?
A.	Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
B.	wireless communication across the Atlantic
C.	the creation of the internet
D.	the invention of the airplane
Answer» D. the invention of the airplane

Discussion

Explore topic-wise MCQs in English Literature .

Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?

Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?

Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?

Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?

Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?

Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?

Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states ?

Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?

Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?

Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?

Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?

Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the Long Parliament when it convened in 1640 ?

Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?

Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?

Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?

Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?

Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?

Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?

Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?

Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?

Which of the following would not have been an appropriate protagonist for a Romantic literary text ?

Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?

which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?

which of these kings was not served by Chaucer ?

Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe ?

Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?

Which one is Gaskell’s first novel ?

Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens____________?

Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?

Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?

Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?

Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?

Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?

Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?

Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?

Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?

Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?

Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?

Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?

Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

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

Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

Which school did Milton attend ?

Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?