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601.	In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s elder brother ?
A.	Clarence
B.	King Edward IV
C.	Tyrell
D.	Richmond
Answer» C. Tyrell

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602.	In the play, “Richard III,” who is manipulated into marrying Richard ?
A.	Lady Anne
B.	Queen Elizabeth
C.	Duchess of York
D.	Margaret
Answer» B. Queen Elizabeth

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603.	In the play, “Macbeth,” who is the goddess of witchcraft ?
A.	Lennox
B.	Lady Macbeth
C.	The porter
D.	Hecate
Answer» E.

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604.	In the play, “Richard III,” who does Richard hire to kill the young princes ?
A.	Ratcliffe
B.	Richmond
C.	Clarence
D.	Tyrell
Answer» E.

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605.	In the play “Richard III,” where does Richard imprison the young princes ?
A.	In a tower
B.	In a pit
C.	In a prison
D.	In another country
Answer» B. In a pit

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606.	In the play, “Macbeth,” who becomes king immediately after Duncan’s murder ?
A.	Macbeth
B.	Banquo
C.	Macduff
D.	Malcolm
Answer» B. Banquo

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607.	In the play, “Macbeth,” who assists Macbeth with planning Duncan’s murder ?
A.	Banquo
B.	Macduff
C.	Malcolm
D.	Lady Macbeth
Answer» E.

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608.	In the play, “Macbeth,” how does Macbeth kill Duncan ?
A.	He shoots him.
B.	He strangles him.
C.	He stabs him.
D.	He beheads him.
Answer» D. He beheads him.

Discussion

609.	In the play, “Macbeth,” who asks “Whence is that knocking?” (2.11.55)
A.	Macbeth
B.	Lady Macbeth
C.	Duncan
D.	Macduff
Answer» B. Lady Macbeth

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610.	In the play, “Macbeth,” according to the witches, who will inherit the Scottish throne ?
A.	The children of Macbeth
B.	The children of Banquo
C.	The children of Macduff
D.	The children of the witches
Answer» C. The children of Macduff

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611.	In the play, “Henry V,” who states that “If we are marked to die, we are enough/To do our country loss__________” (IV.iii.20-21) ?
A.	Falstaff
B.	Henry V
C.	Nim
D.	Catherine
Answer» C. Nim

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612.	In the play, “Henry V,” who is the Queen of France ?
A.	Queen Isabel
B.	Queen Nim
C.	Queen Alice
D.	Queen Montjoy
Answer» B. Queen Nim

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613.	In the play, “Henry V,” who is the daughter of the King of France ?
A.	Catherine
B.	Alice
C.	The Hostess
D.	Nim
Answer» B. Alice

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614.	In the play, “Henry V,” who is the close friend and mentor of young Henry ?
A.	Montjoy
B.	Horatio
C.	Falstaff
D.	Nim
Answer» D. Nim

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615.	In the play, “Henry V,” what country does Henry wish to conquer ?
A.	England
B.	Spain
C.	France
D.	Denmark
Answer» D. Denmark

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616.	In the play, “Henry V,” the Chorus serves to do which of the following ?
A.	Make jokes about Henry
B.	Sing songs about the events
C.	Comment on the plot and themes of the play
D.	Dance upon the stage
Answer» D. Dance upon the stage

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617.	In the play, “Hamlet,” what is the name of Polonius’s daughter ?
A.	Laertes
B.	Ophelia
C.	Gertrude
D.	Fortinbras
Answer» C. Gertrude

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618.	In the play, “Hamlet,” who is Yorick ?
A.	King Hamlet’s former jester
B.	A friend of Hamlet’s from school
C.	The King of Norway
D.	A castle guard
Answer» B. A friend of Hamlet’s from school

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619.	In the play, “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” who is the queen of the Amazons ?
A.	Hippolyta
B.	Egeus
C.	Helena
D.	Hermia
Answer» B. Egeus

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620.	In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is the queen of the fairies ?
A.	Titania
B.	Lysander
C.	Hermia
D.	Oberon
Answer» B. Lysander

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621.	In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” where is Helena from ?
A.	Paris
B.	Naples
C.	Athens
D.	London
Answer» D. London

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622.	In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,” “thy” refers to__________________?
A.	Sin
B.	Eden
C.	Satan
D.	Eve
Answer» E.

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623.	In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?
A.	Virgil
B.	Thomas Aquinas
C.	Judas
D.	Cacciaguida
Answer» C. Judas

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624.	In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,” the “seed” refers to______________?
A.	The Tree of Knowledge
B.	Adam
C.	Cane and Abel
D.	Jesus Christ
Answer» E.

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625.	In The Paradiso, who questions Dante about hope ?
A.	Saint James
B.	Saint John
C.	Saint Peter
D.	Saint Thomas
Answer» B. Saint John

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626.	In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven ?
A.	Virgil
B.	Beatrice
C.	Cato
D.	Ulysses
Answer» C. Cato

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627.	In The Paradiso, which quality does Dante associate with the wise ?
A.	Justice
B.	Temperance
C.	Fortitude
D.	All of the above
Answer» E.

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628.	In The Paradiso, which class of people does Dante place on the moon ?
A.	Those with the most constancy of characters
B.	The proud
C.	The best emperors and rulers
D.	The souls of those who abandoned their vows
Answer» E.

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629.	In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ?
A.	The soul’s union with the body
B.	The soul’s ascent to heaven
C.	The soul’s tour of purgatory
D.	The soul’s descent into hell
Answer» C. The soul’s tour of purgatory

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630.	In The Paradiso, on what day do the events occur ?
A.	Easter Sunday
B.	Wednesday after Easter
C.	Good Friday
D.	All Saint’s Day
Answer» C. Good Friday

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631.	In The Paradiso, Dante focuses on which kind of politics ?
A.	The politics of Ravenna
B.	The politics of ancient Greece
C.	The politics of Italian city-states
D.	The politics of the Roman Empire
Answer» E.

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632.	In The Paradiso, how does Dante’s journey through heaven end ?
A.	With his exclusion from purgatory
B.	With a vision of the Trinity
C.	With his return to hell
D.	With his death
Answer» C. With his return to hell

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633.	In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?
A.	The Renaissance concept of the planets
B.	The Ptolemaic universe
C.	Ancient Roman cosmology
D.	Ancient Greek cosmology
Answer» C. Ancient Roman cosmology

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634.	In the Oliver Cromwell “Commonwealth” and “Protectorate” administrations, Milton served as the British government’s chief ?
A.	Civil Engineer
B.	Poet Laureate
C.	Military Strategist
D.	Intellectual Defender
Answer» C. Military Strategist

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635.	In the narrative poem, “The Rape of Lucrece,” who is Lucretia ?
A.	A fairy queen
B.	A Roman matron
C.	A villainess
D.	A beggar woman
Answer» C. A villainess

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636.	In The Inferno, who initially leads him around hell ?
A.	Saint Augustine
B.	Virgil
C.	Homer
D.	Judas
Answer» C. Homer

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637.	In The Inferno, who defends the city of Dis ?
A.	The sinners in the heretic circle
B.	The furies
C.	The fallen angels
D.	The angelic messengers
Answer» D. The angelic messengers

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638.	In The Inferno, which three characters are located in the deepest circle of hell ?
A.	Guinevere, Dido, and Francesca
B.	Homer, Dante, and Virgil
C.	Brutus, Cassius, and Judas
D.	Pope Nicholas, Pope Boniface, and Pope Clement
Answer» D. Pope Nicholas, Pope Boniface, and Pope Clement

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639.	In The Inferno, which historical character is found in Satan’s mouth ?
A.	Dido
B.	Pope Boniface
C.	Beatrice
D.	Judas
Answer» E.

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640.	In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?
A.	Reason
B.	Compassion
C.	Temperance
D.	Fortitude
Answer» B. Compassion

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641.	In The Inferno, where is hell physically situated ?
A.	Beneath Cairo
B.	Beneath Jerusalem
C.	Beneath Rome
D.	Beneath Florence
Answer» C. Beneath Rome

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642.	In The Inferno, how is heresy defined ?
A.	As the denial of the soul’s immortality
B.	As the rejection free will
C.	As the choiceof lust over love
D.	As the decision to indulge in various sins
Answer» B. As the rejection free will

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643.	In The Inferno, how is the idea of Fortune represented ?
A.	Fortune is a “divine minister” similar to an angel.
B.	Fortune is responsible for the distribution of worldly goods.
C.	Fortune is beyond human understanding.
D.	All of the above
Answer» E.

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644.	In The Inferno, his journey starts on which holiday ?
A.	Christmas
B.	All Saint’s Day
C.	All Soul’s Day
D.	Good Friday
Answer» E.

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645.	In The Inferno, how are the wrathful punished ?
A.	They violently fight each other in a muddy swamp.
B.	They are burned in their graves.
C.	They roll heavy stones onto one another.
D.	They are forced to lie under the surface of a marsh.
Answer» B. They are burned in their graves.

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646.	In The Inferno, how does his journey end ?
A.	He remains in hell.
B.	He returns to earth.
C.	He escapes into Purgatory.
D.	He emerges in Paradise.
Answer» D. He emerges in Paradise.

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647.	In The Inferno, Cerberus is the protector of which circle of hell ?
A.	The circle of lust
B.	The circle of gluttony
C.	The circle of heresy
D.	The circle of treachery
Answer» C. The circle of heresy

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648.	In the first 75 lines of Book One of “Paradise Regained,” Satan refers to which person he has recently seen, who is identified by the following quote? “Before him [Jesus] a great Prophet, to proclaim / His coming, is sent Harbinger, who all / Invites, and in the Consecrated stream / Pretends to wash off sin” ?
A.	John the Apostle
B.	John the Baptist
C.	Michael the Archangel
D.	Joseph, Jesus’s stepfather
Answer» C. Michael the Archangel

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649.	In the early books of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?
A.	Baal
B.	Beelzebub
C.	Michel
D.	A and B
Answer» E.

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650.	In The Dubliners, which story/stories provide(s) an example of unrequited passion ?
A.	“The Dead”
B.	“Eveline”
C.	“A Painful Case”
D.	All of the Above
Answer» E.

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Explore topic-wise MCQs in English Literature .

In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s elder brother ?

In the play, “Richard III,” who is manipulated into marrying Richard ?

In the play, “Macbeth,” who is the goddess of witchcraft ?

In the play, “Richard III,” who does Richard hire to kill the young princes ?

In the play “Richard III,” where does Richard imprison the young princes ?

In the play, “Macbeth,” who becomes king immediately after Duncan’s murder ?

In the play, “Macbeth,” who assists Macbeth with planning Duncan’s murder ?

In the play, “Macbeth,” how does Macbeth kill Duncan ?

In the play, “Macbeth,” who asks “Whence is that knocking?” (2.11.55)

In the play, “Macbeth,” according to the witches, who will inherit the Scottish throne ?

In the play, “Henry V,” who states that “If we are marked to die, we are enough/To do our country loss__________” (IV.iii.20-21) ?

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the Queen of France ?

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the daughter of the King of France ?

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the close friend and mentor of young Henry ?

In the play, “Henry V,” what country does Henry wish to conquer ?

In the play, “Henry V,” the Chorus serves to do which of the following ?

In the play, “Hamlet,” what is the name of Polonius’s daughter ?

In the play, “Hamlet,” who is Yorick ?

In the play, “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” who is the queen of the Amazons ?

In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is the queen of the fairies ?

In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” where is Helena from ?

In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,” “thy” refers to__________________?

In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun ?

In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our foe,” the “seed” refers to______________?

In The Paradiso, who questions Dante about hope ?

In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven ?

In The Paradiso, which quality does Dante associate with the wise ?

In The Paradiso, which class of people does Dante place on the moon ?

In The Paradiso, what event does Dante allegorically represent ?

In The Paradiso, on what day do the events occur ?

In The Paradiso, Dante focuses on which kind of politics ?

In The Paradiso, how does Dante’s journey through heaven end ?

In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following ?

In the Oliver Cromwell “Commonwealth” and “Protectorate” administrations, Milton served as the British government’s chief ?

In the narrative poem, “The Rape of Lucrece,” who is Lucretia ?

In The Inferno, who initially leads him around hell ?

In The Inferno, who defends the city of Dis ?

In The Inferno, which three characters are located in the deepest circle of hell ?

In The Inferno, which historical character is found in Satan’s mouth ?

In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?

In The Inferno, where is hell physically situated ?

In The Inferno, how is heresy defined ?

In The Inferno, how is the idea of Fortune represented ?

In The Inferno, his journey starts on which holiday ?

In The Inferno, how are the wrathful punished ?

In The Inferno, how does his journey end ?

In The Inferno, Cerberus is the protector of which circle of hell ?

In the early books of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?

In The Dubliners, which story/stories provide(s) an example of unrequited passion ?