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This section includes 450 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 301. |
The use of whale-road for sea and lifehouse for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ? |
| A. | symbolism |
| B. | simile |
| C. | metonymy |
| D. | kenning |
| Answer» E. | |
| 302. |
The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________? |
| A. | Paradise Lost |
| B. | Divine Comedy |
| C. | Utopia |
| D. | Pilgrims Progress |
| Answer» E. | |
| 303. |
The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as_____________? |
| A. | The Protestant Revolution |
| B. | The Protestant Reformation |
| C. | The Protestant Restoration |
| D. | The Protestant Resolution |
| Answer» C. The Protestant Restoration | |
| 304. |
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ? |
| A. | They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers. |
| B. | Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French. |
| C. | Their readers’ primary language was English. |
| D. | A and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 305. |
The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________? |
| A. | Coleridge |
| B. | Eliot |
| C. | Tennyson |
| D. | Keats |
| Answer» D. Keats | |
| 306. |
The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________? |
| A. | Pazzi |
| B. | Republic |
| C. | Medici |
| D. | Inquisition |
| Answer» E. | |
| 307. |
The poem ’The Battle of Maldon’ celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between______________? |
| A. | Danes and English |
| B. | Dutch and English |
| C. | Normans and English |
| D. | French and English |
| Answer» B. Dutch and English | |
| 308. |
The Oxford Movement was started by______________? |
| A. | The people of the Oxford area |
| B. | The Scholars of the Oxford University |
| C. | The clergymen of Oxford |
| D. | The University Wits |
| Answer» C. The clergymen of Oxford | |
| 309. |
The Oxford Movement was basically a_____________? |
| A. | Religious Movement |
| B. | Political Movement |
| C. | Social Movement |
| D. | Literary Movement |
| Answer» B. Political Movement | |
| 310. |
The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________? |
| A. | growth of religious activity among common people |
| B. | earlier occurrence |
| C. | greater appreciation of pagan writers |
| D. | decline in the use of Latin |
| Answer» B. earlier occurrence | |
| 311. |
The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ? |
| A. | Elizabethan era |
| B. | English Reformation |
| C. | England |
| D. | Tudor period |
| Answer» B. English Reformation | |
| 312. |
“The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ? |
| A. | Jordan |
| B. | England |
| C. | Malaysia |
| D. | Tunisia |
| Answer» C. Malaysia | |
| 313. |
The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ____________in London in 1625 ? |
| A. | Cholera |
| B. | Tuberculosis |
| C. | Bubonic plague |
| D. | Plague (disease) |
| Answer» D. Plague (disease) | |
| 314. |
The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as____________? |
| A. | H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine |
| B. | W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn |
| C. | Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries |
| D. | Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries |
| Answer» C. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries | |
| 315. |
The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ? |
| A. | Martin Luther |
| B. | John Calvin |
| C. | Henry VIII |
| D. | Arminius |
| Answer» C. Henry VIII | |
| 316. |
The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ? |
| A. | supernatural phenomenon |
| B. | perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution |
| C. | plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 317. |
The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in______________? |
| A. | 1842 |
| B. | 1837 |
| C. | 1871 |
| D. | 1859 |
| Answer» C. 1871 | |
| 318. |
The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ? |
| A. | John Milton |
| B. | Charles Bacon |
| C. | John Donne |
| D. | Herbert Spencer |
| Answer» D. Herbert Spencer | |
| 319. |
the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ? |
| A. | Iliad |
| B. | Odyssey |
| C. | Beowulf |
| D. | Canterbury Tales |
| Answer» D. Canterbury Tales | |
| 320. |
The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ? |
| A. | Sexuality |
| B. | Criticism of the queen |
| C. | Murder |
| D. | Witchcraft |
| Answer» C. Murder | |
| 321. |
The “father of humanism” was_______________? |
| A. | Petrarch |
| B. | Dante |
| C. | Boccaccio |
| D. | Pico della Mirandola |
| Answer» B. Dante | |
| 322. |
The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ? |
| A. | James I |
| B. | Mary Tudor |
| C. | Elizabeth Tudor |
| D. | Henry VII |
| Answer» D. Henry VII | |
| 323. |
The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ? |
| A. | the Republicans and the Royalists |
| B. | the Royalists and the Whigs |
| C. | the Tories and the Whigs |
| D. | the Royalists and the Tories |
| Answer» D. the Royalists and the Tories | |
| 324. |
The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________? |
| A. | The Great Order of Life |
| B. | The Great Chain of Being |
| C. | The Great System of Shakespeare |
| D. | The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker |
| Answer» C. The Great System of Shakespeare | |
| 325. |
The churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral was well-known for its____________? |
| A. | ruinous condition. |
| B. | performing bears. |
| C. | graffiti. |
| D. | bookshops. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 326. |
The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________? |
| A. | D.G Rossetti |
| B. | Leigh Hunt |
| C. | Tennyson |
| D. | Arnold |
| Answer» D. Arnold | |
| 327. |
The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ? |
| A. | New York City |
| B. | Stanford, Connecticut |
| C. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| D. | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Answer» B. Stanford, Connecticut | |
| 328. |
The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________? |
| A. | In Memorium |
| B. | 1st September |
| C. | Ultima Ratio Regum |
| D. | The Charge of the Light Bridge |
| Answer» E. | |
| 329. |
The basic theme of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma is____________? |
| A. | Contemporary literary criticism |
| B. | Art and Literature |
| C. | Theology |
| D. | Social changes in the Victorian Age |
| Answer» D. Social changes in the Victorian Age | |
| 330. |
Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ? |
| A. | Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheles |
| B. | Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence |
| C. | Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods |
| D. | A and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 331. |
Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________? |
| A. | to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans |
| B. | as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking |
| C. | symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner, |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 332. |
Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________? |
| A. | with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied. |
| B. | through a system of draconian military courts. |
| C. | with deference to Parliament’s legislative supremacy. |
| D. | only a small area around London and Oxford. |
| Answer» D. only a small area around London and Oxford. | |
| 333. |
Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated______________? |
| A. | just the same as men |
| B. | with emphasis on science and mathematics |
| C. | not at all |
| D. | confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting |
| Answer» E. | |
| 334. |
Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ? |
| A. | The Pope in Rome |
| B. | Each man was his own supreme governor |
| C. | The Archbishop of Canterbury |
| D. | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Answer» E. | |
| 335. |
Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________? |
| A. | George IV |
| B. | George III |
| C. | William IV |
| D. | Edward VII |
| Answer» D. Edward VII | |
| 336. |
Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in_____________? |
| A. | 1843 |
| B. | 1854 |
| C. | 1892 |
| D. | 1876 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 337. |
Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to____________________? |
| A. | the royal family and upper orders of the nobility |
| B. | the lower orders of the nobility |
| C. | agricultural laborers |
| D. | the clergy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 338. |
Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ? |
| A. | The Bahagavad Gita |
| B. | The Odyssey |
| C. | The Illiad |
| D. | The Aeneid |
| Answer» D. The Aeneid | |
| 339. |
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________? |
| A. | the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s. |
| B. | the Norman Conquest of 1066. |
| C. | the Peasant Uprising of 1381. |
| D. | the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 340. |
One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ? |
| A. | Anthony and Cleopatra |
| B. | Hero and Leander |
| C. | Troilus and Cressida |
| D. | Apollo and Hyacinth |
| Answer» C. Troilus and Cressida | |
| 341. |
One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet ? |
| A. | Ovid |
| B. | Lucan |
| C. | Virgil |
| D. | Horace |
| Answer» C. Virgil | |
| 342. |
one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________? |
| A. | a musician |
| B. | an astronomer |
| C. | a nun |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 343. |
Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ? |
| A. | The Way of the World |
| B. | The Foundational Ladder |
| C. | The Order of Angels |
| D. | The Great Chain of Being |
| Answer» E. | |
| 344. |
“Milton, thou should’st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee.” Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ? |
| A. | Horatio Herbert Kitchener |
| B. | William Blake |
| C. | William Wordsworth |
| D. | John Keats |
| Answer» D. John Keats | |
| 345. |
Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ? |
| A. | Pembroke College |
| B. | Trinity College |
| C. | Christ’s College |
| D. | St. Xavier’s College |
| Answer» D. St. Xavier’s College | |
| 346. |
Maud is a poem written by_________________? |
| A. | Pope |
| B. | Tennyson |
| C. | Swineburne |
| D. | Byron |
| Answer» C. Swineburne | |
| 347. |
Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________? |
| A. | Arthur Hallam |
| B. | Milton |
| C. | Edward King |
| D. | Hugh Clough |
| Answer» E. | |
| 348. |
Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable match ? |
| A. | Property |
| B. | Wealth |
| C. | Lineage |
| D. | Love |
| Answer» E. | |
| 349. |
Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ? |
| A. | William Shakespeare |
| B. | Thomas Kyd |
| C. | John Dryden |
| D. | John Donne |
| Answer» E. | |
| 350. |
Marlowe’s play ’Tamburlaine the Great’ was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ? |
| A. | Zhu Yuanzhang |
| B. | Genghis Khan |
| C. | Timur |
| D. | Kublai Khan |
| Answer» D. Kublai Khan | |