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I Part One
1 Famous playwright, poet and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.1 John Keats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2 Christopher Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1.3 Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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1.4 John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5 The Poetry of John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.6 Paradise Lost- John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.7 William Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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1.8 Frankenstein-Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

1.9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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1.10 William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

1.11 Play by sakespear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
1.12 Edmund Spenser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1.13 Geoffrey Chaucer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1.14 James Joyce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1.15 Dante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.16 Hamlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
1.17 Macbeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.18 Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
II Part two
2 Ages, era, period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
2.1 Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
2.2 16th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
2.3 Early 17th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
2.4 Restoration and 18th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
2.5 Romantic Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
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2.6 Victorian Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
2.7 20th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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2.8 Elizabethan Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
2.9 Jacobean Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
2.10 The Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
2.11 Middle ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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2.12 Elizabethan era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
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3 American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
3.1 Multiple choice questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
3.2 True and false . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
3.3 Single answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
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4 Literary Theory and Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

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IV Part four
5 Introduction to Literary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
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6 Introduction to Literary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
7 Cultural and Literary English Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

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8 Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
9 Cultural and Literary in Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
10 Medieval Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
11 Medieval Women Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
12 The Gothic Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
13 English Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

14 Modern Poetry and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
15 The Victorian Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
16 African-American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
17 Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
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V Part Five
18 Overview of English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
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19 Puritan Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
20 Native American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
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21 Romantic Era - English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
22 The English Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
23 Theme in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

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24 Traditional Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
25 Transcendentalism Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
26 Folk Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

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27 Genres of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

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28 Gothic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
29 Literature Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

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30 Early British literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
31 Wisdom literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

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32 World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
33 Latin and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
34 Afro-Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
35 American English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
36 Ancient Greece Language and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
37 Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

38 British Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
39 Dystopian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
40 Early Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
41 Elements of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
42 England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
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43 Literature Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
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44 Miscelleneous questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
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Part One
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1.1 John Keats
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1.2 Christopher Marlowe

1.3 Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe
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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John Keats
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1. When did John Keats die? C. Ode to a Skylark
A. 11 May 1838 D. An Imitation of Spenser
B. 12 March 1833 5. In which school did John Keats study?
C. 23 February 1821 A. John Clarke’s school
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B. 30 April 1789 6. Which period of John Keats as called "the
most placid time in Keats’s life" by Cowden
C. 31 October 1795
Clarke, a close friend of Keats?
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D. 22 November1756
A. His visit to Lake District
3. What was the profession of Thomas Ham-
mond under whom John Keats joined for B. Keats’ lodging in the attic above the
apprenticeship? surgery at 7 Church Street
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A. teacher C. Keats stay in Italy
B. surgeon D. Keats’ travel to Alps

7. In which hospital John Keats registered as a
C. banker
medical student after finishing his appren-
D. lawyer ticeship with Hammond?
4. Which is the first extant poem of John A. Queen’s Chamber
Keats, which is written in the year 1814
when when was 19 years of age? B. Guy’s Hospital
A. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy C. New Chapman Hospital
B. Ode on a Grecian Urn D. Trinity 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 play of Christopher 7. Which one of the following plays of
Marlow attributes the play to Marlowe and Christopher Marlow tells the story of the
Thomas Nashe? disposition of a king by his barons and the
Queen?
A. Doctor Faustus
B. Dido, Queen of Carthage A. Doctor Faustus
C. Edward the Second B. Edward the Second
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D. Tamburlaine the Great C. The Massacre at Paris
2. From which institution did Christopher D. The Jew of Malta
Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 8. At what age did Christopher Marlow die?
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1584?
A. 33
A. Oxford University
B. 29
B. Trinity College
C. 47
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D. Queens college
3. In which year the play of Christopher Mar- 9. In which place of England Christopher Mar-
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A. 1597 A. London
B. 1601 B. Norflock
C. 1587 C. Canterbury
D. 1592 D. Warwick
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4. When was Christopher Marlowe baptized? 10. What was the first published title of
Christopher Marlow’s play The Jew of
A. 26 February 1564
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B. 12 January 1569
A. The Tragedy of the Jew of Malta
C. 30 April 1560
B. The Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta
D. 10 October 1547
C. The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of
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5. To which theater was Christopher Marlow Malta

associated with?
D. The Story of the Rich Jew of Malta
A. English Puritan theatre
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B. English Renaissance theatre tributed to Christopher Marlow is believed
C. Restoration theatre to have been his first?
D. English Neo-Classical theatre A. The Jew of Malta
6. When did Christopher Marlow die? B. Dido, Queen of Carthage
A. 30 May 1593 C. Edward the Second
B. 12 September 1598 D. Tamburlaine the Great
C. 26 April 1601 12. From where Christopher Marlowe received
D. 15 February 1611 his early Education?
1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. B 9. C 10. C 11. B 12. A 13. A

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A. Corpus Christi College A. Carpenter
B. Cambridge B. Civil servant
C. oxford C. Cobbler
D. witternburg D. Farmer
13. How many children did Shakespeare have?
16. Marlow died of?
A. 3
A. Illness
B. 5
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D. 12 C. poisoned
14. What is Christopher Marlowe’s National- D. Hanged
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17. Which was Marlowe’s first play?
A. British
A. Dr.Faustus
B. German
B. Tamburlaine
C. Dutch
D. American
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1.3 Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe
1. Through his magic, Faustus is visited first B. gave curriculum of two universities
by which of the devil’s angels?
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A. Mephastophilis
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B. beelzebub 5. The first regular English comedy, based on

C. Aamon the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed
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A. Nicholas Udall
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2. At the end of the play, Faustus is dragged

down to hell, begging to repent. B. Thomas Colwell
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B. False D. none of the above

3. What is the meaning of “Renaissance": 6. Which of the Marlowe’s plays were written
A. Rebirth, revival and re-awaking in collaboration with Thomas Nash?
B. Reveal, revel and reverie A. Queen of Carthage and The passionate

Shepherd.
C. Raillery, renunciation and recoup
B. The tragedy of Dido and Queen of
D. none of the above Carthage.
4. University Wits were those who:
C. The passionate Shepherd and The
A. Had training at two universities tragedy of Dido.
1. A 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. B
D. Queen of Carthage and The Massacre 13. What does Faustus promise to the devil in
of Paris. exchange for great knowledge, riches and
7. Who wrote following lines: " I am in- power for a period of 24 years?
volved in mankind: and therefore never A. his body
send to know for whom the bell tolls; it
tolls for thee." B. his house
A. John Donne C. his soul

B. John Milton D. his horse
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C. Earnest Hemingway 14. Which of the following qualities would
most accurately describe Faustus’ character
D. Lawrence
at the beginning of the play?
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8. In what country is ’Dr Faustus’ based?
A. kind
A. England
B. stupid
B. Italy
C. sensitive
C. France
D. Germany
9. When, is it estimated, was ’Dr Faustus’ first
performed?
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A. 1594 A. The Pope
B. 1604 B. The Holy Roman Emperor
C. 1590 C. The King of England
D. 1593 D. The King of France
10. At what famous university is Faustus a 16. “Renaissance” is a:
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A. French word
A. Wittenburg
B. Italian word
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B. Sorbonne
C. Greek word
C. Heidelberg
D. Spanish word
D. Cambridge
17. Renaissance first came to the:
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11. Faustus’ servant shares his name with a

famous German composer. Who? A. France
A. Bach B. Italy
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B. Schumann C. England
C. Beethoven D. Rome
D. Wagner 18. Which of the following are University wits:
12. Faustus asks two magicians to aid him
A. John Gower and Robert Peele
in summoning the devil. What are their
names? B. John Skelton and Thomas lodge
A. Valdes and Cornelius C. John Lyly and Robert Greene
B. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern D. John Donne and Thomas Nashe
C. Troilus and Cressida 19. Which century is known as Dawn of Re-
D. Pyramus and Thisbe naissance:
7. A 8. D 9. A 10. A 11. D 12. A 13. C 14. D 15. A 16. A 17. B 18. C 19. B
20. A
A. 14 th 26. Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:

B. 15 th A. 1553
C. 16 th B. 1554
D. 14 th and 16 th C. 1555
20. Who born in 1422: D. 1550
A. William Caxton 27. “Astrophel and Stella” is a:
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B. Robert Henry A. Allegory
C. John Lyly B. Epic
D. Thomas more C. Sonnet
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21. Utopia was first printed in: D. Ballad
A. 1615 28. Greville was biographer of:
B. 1516 A. Edmund Spencer
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C. 1517 B. John Donne
D. 1518 C. Sir Philip Sidney
22. Who translated Utopia in English lan- D. John Milton
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29. “The Prince Of Poets in his time", on whom
A. Thomas More grave the inscription is given?
B. Thomas lodge A. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Ralph Robinson B. John Milton
D. William Tyndale C. Edmund Spencer

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23. The first complete version of Bible in En- D. John Donne

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A. Wyclif A. An allegory
B. Thomas more B. An epic
C. John Lyly C. A ballad
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D. Robert Greene D. A sonnet

24. Who took Degree at fifteen from Cam- 31. In whose reign Morality plays began?
bridge in 1518?
A. Henry five
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A. Thomas Nash
B. Elizabeth one
B. Thomas More
C. Henry six
C. Thomas lodge
D. Henry eight
D. Thomas Wyatt 32. Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to
25. Who wrote “Mirror for Magistrates"? the Philip Sidney:
A. Thomas Sacville A. The Faerie Queene
B. Thomas Wyatt B. The shepheaedes Calendar
C. Thomas lodge C. Complaints
D. Thomas Kyde D. Colin Clouts come home again
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. C 29. C 30. A 31. C 32. B 33. C
33. Which poet was first who used metaphysi- A. Robert Greene
cal poetry among his contemporaries: B. John Milton
A. Edmund Spenser C. Philip Sidney
B. John Milton D. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Donne 40. Who was the son of a rich London mer-
chant and born in 1557?
D. Sir Philip Sidney
A. Thomas Nah
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34. Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great pop-
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A. The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune C. Thomas Kyd
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D. Thomas Hardy
B. The Spanish Tragedy
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C. Jeronimo dence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is
D. Cornelia known as:
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35. Marlowe born in A. Letters to the Margret Paston
A. 1562 B. Margret Paston to John Paston

C. The Paston letters
B. 1563
D. To John Paston
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C. 1564
42. Who wrote “Holy Sonnets"?
D. 1565
A. Edmund Spenser
36. In “the tragic history of Doctor Faustus".
B. John Donne
Faustus was a :
C. Shakespeare
A. German scholar
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D. John Milton
B. French scholar 43. “On his blindness", a collection of sonnets
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D. Greek scholar A. Edmund Spenser

37. Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris"? B. John Milton
A. Shakespeare C. Shakespeare
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D. Sir Philip Sidney

B. Christopher Marlowe
44. “Paradise lost” was lost by:
C. Edmund Spenser
A. Eve
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D. john Milton
B. Adam
38. After the death of Christopher Marlowe
C. Both a and b
who completed his unfinished poem “Hero
and Leander"? D. Satan
45. In “Paradise regained” who regained the
A. Shakespeare
paradise?
B. Thomas Nash
A. Satan
C. George Chapman B. Jesus
D. Thomas More C. Adam and Eve
39. Who succeeded Lyly? D. Only Adam
34. B 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. B 41. C 42. B 43. B 44. C 45. C 46. C
46. Which of the following published in 1579 A. second

and although it placed Spencer immediately
B. fourth
in the highest rank of living writers?
C. third
A. Colin clouts come home again
D. fifth
B. Faerie queen, first three books
53. He married to the Anne Hathaway at the
C. The Shepherd’s calendar age of in
D. Faerie queen, second three books A. 18, 1582
er
47. Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to ?
B. 17, 1581
A. Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De
C. 16, 1580
Wilton
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D. 15, 1579
B. Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh
54. Which of the following statement is cor-
C. Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle rect:
D. Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle
A. Shakespeare’s first child Susanna was
48. John Donne’s “The Anniversaries” is a:
A. An elegy in two parts
B. An epic in three parts an born in 1583.
B. In 1585 twins were born and named
Hamnet and Judith.
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C. A ballad in four parts C. both a and b
D. None of these D. None of above.

49. Who of the following is known as Child Of 55. Ann Hathaway was years older than
Renaissance? Shakespeare:
A. Marlowe A. 7
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B. Milton B. 8
C. Spencer C. 9
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D. Johnson D. 10
50. During Spencer’s visit to his Kinsfolk in 56. After years of his marriage he left his
Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who native town and try his fortune in the great
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figures as much of his work: city of London.

A. Rosalind A. two
B. Belinda B. three
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C. Both a and b C. four

D. None of above D. five
51. William Shakespeare born in: 57. Shakespeare’s only son Hamnet died in
?
A. 26 April 1567
A. 1595
B. 26 April 1566
B. 1596
C. 26 April 1565
C. 1597
D. 26 April 1564
52. William Shakespeare was child of John D. 1598
and Mary: 58. Shakespeare is buried inside the:
47. C 48. A 49. C 50. A 51. D 52. B 53. A 54. C 55. B 56. C 57. B 58. B
A. Westminster Abbey A. Queen Elizabeth

B. Trinity Church B. Francis Meres, a lawyer
C. Protestant Cemetery C. Burbage, an actor
D. None of above D. King James
59. By Shakespeare had established him-
self in London as an actor and dramatist: 61. Shakespeare made Stratford his regular
home in:
A. 1590
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A. About 1611
B. 1591
B. About 1610
C. 1592
D. 1593 C. About 1609
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60. Who declared him as Britain’s greatest D. About 1608
dramatist in 1598?
59. C 60. B 61. B
1.4
1. Which famous work of John Milton’s was an

John Milton
5. Which book was about the temptation of

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based on the fall of man? Christ?
A. Paradise Regained A. L’Allegro
B. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes C. Samson Agonistes
D. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont D. Paradise Lost
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2. What is the meaning of Milton’s work Sam- 6. Which Poem caused Milton’s stature as a
son Agonistes? poet to be recognized?
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A. Theist A. Paradise Lost

B. Atheist B. Il Penseroso
C. Antagonist
C. Areopagitica
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D. Wrestler
D. Lycidas
3. When did John Milton publish Tenure of
7. Where was John Milton born? Where was
Kings and Magistrates?
John Milton born?
A. 1628
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A. London
B. 1649
B. Bristol
C. 1645
C. Wales
D. 1637
D. Yorkshire
4. In whose memory did John Milton write
Methought I saw my late espousèd saint? 8. Which college did John Milton attend?
A. Katherine Woodcock A. Queens college
B. Oliver Cromwell B. Trinity college
C. Edward II C. Christ’s college
D. Mary Powell D. Warwick college
1. B 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. C
9. When did John Milton die? A. Taste

A. 22 June 1675 B. Voice
B. 9 December 1670 C. Hearing
C. 14 February 1669 D. Vision
D. 8 November 1674 13. Who did Milton have to write his works
10. When was Paradise Lost published? down when he became Blind?
A. his friends
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A. 1667
B. 1639 B. his friends
C. 1669 C. his daughters
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D. 1651 D. his sons
11. When was John Milton born? 14. Whom did John Milton marry at the age of
34?
A. 12 June 1628
A. Agnes
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B. 2 May 1614
C. 17 August 1612 B. Ann Powell
D. 9 December 1608 C. Lynda

12. Which one of Milton’s senses were lost dur- D. Mary Powell
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ing writing his works?
9. D 10. A 11. D 12. D 13. C 14. D
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1. Which of the following elements DOES B. Adam and Eve promise to be fruitful and
NOT characterize epic poetry? multiply.
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A. An Epic Council C. Adam and Eve curse their God.

B. An “Arming of the Hero” Scene D. Adam and Eve curse Satan.
C. A “Tragic Recognition” Speech 4. “Samson Agonistes” is described as a
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D. An Invocation to the Muse “Closet Drama,” which means
2. Which of the following British monar- A. it can be acted out on a very small stage.
chs was executed during the English Civil
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War?
B. it was written to be read but not acted
A. Charles I upon a stage.
B. Charles II C. people will read it in secret and not pub-
lically admit they read it.
C. Queen Anne
D. Henry VIII D. it was written to be acted in a church.
3. What event occurs in the final lines of John 5. Near the end of “Samson Agonistes,” Sam-
Milton’s “Paradise Lost”? son has decided not to perform for atten-
dants at a certain event when (starting with
A. Adam and Eve hold hands and walk line 1381) he suddenly reverses positions
across an arid plain. and agrees to go. Why does he do this?
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. A
A. He experiences some “rousing motions” A. William Blake

which might be from God.
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
B. Manoa convinces him to do it or the C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Philistines will execute Samson.
D. T.S. Eliot
C. The Chorus demands he stay in his
11. In John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan as-
prison cell and Samson reacts against them.
sumes the character and form of what crea-
ture in order to tempt Eve to eat at the Tree
er
D. He wishes to see Dalila one last time in of Knowledge?
the crowd.
A. A toad
6. After graduating from university, John Mil-
B. A serpent
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ton toured the continent of Europe and
likely met with which of the following in- C. A lion
dividuals?
D. A tiger
A. Michelangelo 12. In Book One of “Paradise Lost,” the narra-
an
B. Charles II tor identifies the fallen angels or devils by
what names?
C. Galileo
A. Their surnames
D. A and B
B. The names of pagan gods
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7. The English Civil War was waged between
C. The names of foreign countries
what two political groups?
D. The names of the angels they will be-
A. Royalists and Monarchists
come
B. Royalists and Parliamentarians 13. In “Samson Agonistes,” the Chorus de-
C. Parliamentarians and Roundheads scribes the approaching Dalila as beauti-
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fully and lavishly dressed to better seduce

D. Anarchists and Royalists Samson. This is interesting because
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8. John Milton’s “Comus” is best described by A. the Chorus has just stated it hates this
which of the following genres? kind of lavish, external beauty.
A. Pastoral elegy B. Samson hates this kind of lavish, exter-
nal beauty.
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B. Prose polemic
C. Blank verse tragedy C. Dalila usually dresses in a more under-
stated Puritan manner.
D. Masque
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D. Samson is blind.
9. In the early books of John Milton’s “Par-
14. In “Paradise Lost,” what is the relationship
adise Lost,” Satan conspires with which of
between Satan and Death?
the following characters?
A. Death is Satan’s father.
A. Baal
B. Death is Satan’s son.
B. Beelzebub
C. Death is Satan’s brother.
C. Michel
D. Death is Satan’s daughter.
D. A and B
15. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is most
10. What British Romantic author was particu- similar in linguistic style to what books
larly inspired by the work of John Milton? from “Paradise Lost”?
6. C 7. B 8. D 9. D 10. A 11. B 12. B 13. D 14. B 15. D

A. Three and Four A. get revenge on his enemies

B. Five and Six B. re-instated as a Judge
C. Eight and Nine C. retire
D. Eleven and Twelve D. convert
16. As originally envisioned by John Milton, 21. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is best de-
“Paradise Lost” would consist of how many scribed by which of the following genres?
books? A. Pastoral elegy
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A. Nine B. Prose polemic
B. Ten C. Blank verse tragedy
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C. Eleven D. Epic
22. Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Sam-
D. Twelve
son predicts that God will “arise and his
17. “Samson Agonistes” differs from its source great name assert” by making Dagon re-
material, the Biblical book of “Judges,” in ceive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite de-
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what way(s)? spoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies
A. In “Samson,” Harapha is Samson’s en- won on me / And with confusion blank his
emy, but he is not in “Judges.” Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is
interesting because
B. In “Samson,” Samson is a Jew, but he is
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not in “Judges.” A. the prediction is never fulfilled.
C. In “Samson,” Samson marries the B. the prophet Enoch had made the same
Woman of Timnah, but not in “Judges.” prediction centuries earlier.
D. In “Samson,” Samson never worships C. Samson doesn’t know he himself will

Dagon, but he does in “Judges.” fulfill the prediction.
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18. John Milton’s “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” D. the prediction is finally fulfilled much
are companion poems and are both written later when Jesus defeats Dagon.
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in 23. In Book Six of “Paradise Lost,” Adam is told

of what major event?
A. iambic pentameter
A. The fall of the Son
B. tetrameter couplets
B. The fall of the Rebel Angels
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C. heroic couplets
C. The fall of God
D. Shakespearean sonnets
D. The death of Michael
19. According to John Milton’s view of the
24. In Book Three of “Paradise Lost,” God the
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structure of the universe, the “Created Uni-

Father alludes to what theological princi-
verse” is surrounded by what?
ple in the following quotation: “I made him
A. Heaven [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have
stood though free to fall.”
B. Hell
A. Transubstantiation
C. Chaos
B. Free will
D. Sunshine
C. Predestination
20. In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson’s father,
Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from D. Sufficience
imprisonment mainly so he can help Sam- 25. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is writ-
son to ten in a(n) style.
16. B 17. A 18. B 19. C 20. C 21. D 22. C 23. B 24. B 25. A
A. plain 31. Which of the following works was not writ-

B. luminescent ten by John Milton?
C. Latinate A. “How Soon Hath Time”
D. Sophistic B. “Captain or Colonel”

26. John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described C. “Avenge O Lord”
by which of the following genres?
D. “Drink to Me only with thine eyes”
A. Pastoral elegy 32. The character named Comus is often seen
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B. Prose polemic by critics as a prototype of what character
Milton later portrayed?
C. Blank verse tragedy
D. Masque A. Jesus
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27. In “Samson Agonistes,” Harapha exits be- B. Samson
cause of what reason: C. Satan
A. Samson will not fight him. D. Adam
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B. He does not want to fight Samson. 33. John Milton claimed from an early age that
C. He must hurry to catch up with Dalila. he would become
D. He has been called back to his home- A. England’s first poet
town of Gath. B. England’s first dramatist
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28. The foundation story of John Milton’s “Par-
C. England’s poet laureate
adise Lost” derives from what text?
A. The Book of “Genesis” D. England’s greatest civil engineer
34. In his poem “Lycidas,” John Milton does
B. The Book of “Revelations”
which of the following?
C. “The Odyssey”
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A. Mourns the death of a college classmate

D. “Canterbury Tales”
29. Which of the following themes IS NOT
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B. Mourns the death of his mother

important to John Milton’s “Paradise Re-
gained”? C. Mourns the death of his son
A. Sexual desire D. Mourns the death of his wife
35. In the “Book of Job,” Satan speaks to what
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B. Seeking God’s Will and Guidance

figure(s)?
C. What it means to be the “Son of God”
A. God/Yahweh
D. Temptation
B. Judea
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30. What important event(s) occur(s) in John

Milton’s “Paradise Lost” immediately after C. Lot
Eve first eats of the Tree of Knowledge?
D. A and B
A. Nature is immediately wounded by
36. Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical
Eve’s transgression.
epics, John Milton’s God in “Paradise Lost”
B. Satan is immediately wounded by Eve’s is and
transgression.
A. visible, inaccessible
C. Raphael is immediately wounded by
B. inaccessible, omnipresent
Eve’s transgression.
C. nonexistent, invisible
D. Abdiel immediately flees the Council of
Rebel Angels. D. invisible, omnipresent
26. A 27. B 28. A 29. A 30. A 31. D 32. C 33. C 34. A 35. A 36. D 37. B
37. Which of the following monarchs was “re- A. A brief summary of “Paradise Lost”
stored” to the British throne during the
B. A detailed description of Satan
Restoration?
C. A detailed description of Milton himself
A. Charles I
B. Charles II D. A and B
C. Henry VIII 43. Which of the following statements is NOT
TRUE concerning Book Two of John Mil-
er
D. Charles III
ton’s “Paradise Lost”?
38. In the Oliver Cromwell “Commonwealth”
and “Protectorate” administrations, Milton A. A debate is held in Hell by Satan and his
served as the British government’s chief compatriots concerning whether to attempt
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to recover Heaven.
B. Satan embarks on his passage across the
A. Civil Engineer
great gulf of Chaos.
B. Poet Laureate
C. The Narrator invokes his muse by the
C. Military Strategist
D. Intellectual Defender
39. Early in Book Two of “Paradise Regained,” an name of “Holy Light.”
D. The demons begin exploring Hell, en-
gaging in philosophical debates, and enter-
ing singing competitions.
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who yearns to see the missing Jesus (who
has wandered into the desert)? 44. The Renaissance was known for originat-
ing which of the following philosophical
A. First Mary, then Joseph movements?
B. First Andrew and Simon (Peter), then A. Existentialism
Mary
B. Humanism
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C. First Mary, then James and John

C. Stoicism
D. First Peter, then Paul and Mary
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D. Postmodernism
40. According to John Milton, political offices
45. The English masque has its origins in the
were to be filled by
traditions of what European country?
A. the king
A. France
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B. the House of Lords B. Germany

C. popular election C. Spain
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D. God D. Italy
41. What poets before Milton were famous for 46. Which of the following statements is/are
writing epics? TRUE concerning Puritanism?
A. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Spenser A. There is an emphasis on the importance
of preaching.
B. Homer, Virgil, and Spenser
B. There is an emphasis on spiritual expe-
C. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser
rience.
D. Gilgamesh, Petrarch, and Dryden
C. There is an emphasis on the freedom of
42. The first stanza of John Milton’s “Paradise sexual expression.
Regained” begins with what topic(s)?
D. A and B
38. D 39. B 40. C 41. B 42. A 43. C 44. B 45. D 46. D 47. A
47. In the demonic council of Book Two of “Par- A. One decade

adise Regained,” who proposes that Satan B. Two decades
should tempt Jesus with lust for a beautiful
woman the way Solomon was tempted? C. Three decades
A. Belial D. Four decades

53. When John Milton studied at Christ’s
B. Beelzebub College, Cambridge, his college was a
C. Venus stronghold of what religious faith?
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D. Satan A. Anglicism
48. John Milton’s “Areopagitica” is best de- B. Puritanism
scribed by which of the following genres? C. Buddhism
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A. Pastoral elegy D. A and C
B. Prose polemic 54. John Milton was fluent in which of the fol-
lowing languages?
an
A. Latin, Greek, and Hebrew
D. Masque
B. Latin, Sanskrit, and Aramaic
49. Harapha claims he wishes he could have
fought Samson when he had his eyesight C. Latin, Arabic, and Spanish
because D. Mandarin, Dutch, and French
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A. he wants to get respect from the Philis- 55. Which of the following statements is/are
tine general standing beside him. TRUE concerning John Milton’s ideal re-
public?
B. he wants Samson to break out of prison
and kill some more Philistines. A. There was to be no king, bishops, or
House of Lords.
C. he wants to encourage Samson.
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B. There were to be no churches except

D. he wants to seem more heroic than he Anglican churches.
really is.
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C. There was to be no Oxford University.

50. What British Romantic artist famously de-
picted John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” in a D. A and C
series of etchings and prints? 56. John Milton was born in 1608 in what city?
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A. William Wordsworth A. Bath

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley B. Paris
C. William Blake C. London

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D. John Keats D. Nottingham

57. In “Paradise Lost,” Milton calls his Muse by
51. What character in “Paradise Lost” is first
which of the following names?
tempted to eat of the Tree of Knowledge?
A. Uriel
A. Raphael
B. Urania
B. Eve
C. Calypso
C. Adam
D. Calliope
D. The Son 58. Milton in “Samson Agonistes” uses a Cho-
52. Roughly speaking, how long was the En- rus, which he borrows from what previous
glish Civil War? genre?
48. B 49. D 50. C 51. B 52. A 53. B 54. A 55. A 56. C 57. B 58. C
A. Medieval Mystery Plays 64. The pastoral elegy often begins with which
of the following poetic conventions?
B. Greek Epic
A. Invocation of a muse
C. Greek Drama
B. A cry of lament
D. French Chanson de Gestes
C. Prayer to the Sun
59. In 1660, after the Restoration, Milton suf-
fered which of the following punishments? D. A and B
65. Which of the following questions would
er
A. He was imprisoned.
a student of Book Nine of John Milton’s
B. His left index finger was chopped off. “Paradise Lost” likely ask?
C. He was placed in the stocks for a week. A. “What is the precise relationship be-
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tween Satan, Sin, and Death?”
D. A and B
B. “How, exactly, was Eve tempted to eat
60. The Primary Narrator for Books Eleven and
of the Tree of Knowledge?”
Twelve of “Paradise Lost,” who relates fu-
ture events is which of the following? C. “How, exactly, was Adam convinced to
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eat of the Tree of Knowledge?”
A. The Son
D. B and C
B. Raphael 66. “Samson Agonistes” differs from its source
C. Michael material, the Biblical book of “Judges,” in
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what way(s)?
D. Adam
A. In “Samson,” Samson is blind, but he is
61. In “Samson Agonistes,” the character who
not in “Judges.”
tells others of Samson’s death is
B. In “Samson,” Manoa is Samson’s father,
A. Manoa.
but he is not in “Judges.”
B. Dalila.
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C. In “Samson,” Samson is married to

C. the Chorus. Dalila, but he is not in “Judges.”
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D. a Messenger. D. In “Samson,” Dalila cuts Samson’s hair,

but she does not in “Judges.”
62. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is a story
largely about what topic? 67. In his introduction, Milton described the
genre of “Samson Agonistes” as
A. A quest for knowledge of the self
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A. history play
B. A quest for knowledge of other coun-
B. tragedy
tries
C. comedy
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C. A quest for knowledge of the future

D. Morality Play
D. A quest for Forbidden Knowledge 68. A number of the British Romantic poets ar-
63. John Milton deliberately distanced himself gue what character to be the protagonist (or
from the poets, a group of poets “hero”) of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”?
known for their light, elegant style and A. Eve
frivolous content.
B. Adam
A. Romantic
C. God
B. Victorian
D. Satan
C. Cavalier 69. The first sonnet form invented was the
D. Enlightenment
59. A 60. C 61. D 62. A 63. C 64. D 65. D 66. C 67. B 68. D 69. D
A. Spenserian D. Never records Dalila’s cutting of Sam-

son’s hair.
B. Shakespearean
74. What angel often speaks to Adam in Par-
C. Wordsworthian adise?
D. Petrarchan A. Michelangelo
70. Which of the following events occur(s)
B. Raphael
at some point in John Milton’s “Paradise
Lost”? C. Pandosto
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A. Satan contemplates his reflection in a D. Baal
pool of water. 75. The elegy began as an ancient met-
rical form.
B. Adam contemplates his reflection in a
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pool of water. A. French
C. Eve contemplates her reflection in a B. Greek
pool of water. C. Roman
D. All of these
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D. German
71. In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson predicts 76. Which of the following statements is TRUE
“This day will be remarkable in my life / concerning John Milton’s poetry?
By some great act, or of my days the last”.
A. He followed the Shakespearean rather
This is interesting because
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than the Petrarchan sonnet form.
A. both statements end up happening that
B. He followed the Petrarchan rather than
day.
the Shakespearean sonnet form.
B. both statements end up not happening
C. He followed the Spenserian rather than
that day.
the Shakespearean sonnet form.
C. Samson is echoing the older prediction
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D. He followed the Spenserian rather than

of the prophet Enoch.
the Petrarchan sonnet form.
D. both statements will later be fulfilled by 77. How many times does Satan work to tempt
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Christ. Jesus in the Gospels?

72. Choose the BEST answer to fill in the blank. A. One
John Milton is best described as a strong
who emphasized the freedom of the B. Two
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individual. C. Three
A. Anglican D. Four
B. Methodist 78. In , a good example of Milton’s sharp
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rhetorical prose, Milton denounces restric-

C. Protestant
tive censorship, arguing for freedom of the
D. Buddhist press.
73. In the Biblical book of “Judges,” A. “Paradise Lost”
A. Dalila pays Samson’s ransom from B. “Samson Agonistes”
prison.
C. “Areopagitica”
B. Dalila refuses to pay Samson’s ransom
D. “Paradise Regained”
in prison.
79. In Book Six of “Paradise Lost,” Satan invents
C. Never records Dalila’s visit to Samson something that he thinks will help win his
in prison. war against God. What is it?
70. C 71. A 72. C 73. C 74. B 75. B 76. B 77. C 78. C 79. A
A. Gunpowder 85. The term “Agonistes” is Greek and it means

B. Adamantine armor A. one who is in agony.
C. The Chariot of Paternal Deity B. one who inflicts agony.
D. The Thunderbolt C. one who struggles for or champions a
80. In Book Four of “Paradise Regained,” for his cause.
final temptation Satan takes Jesus to what D. one who predicts the future.
location? 86. Complete the following statement. John
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A. The top of the Pantheon in Rome Milton explains in the first 26 lines of “Par-
adise Lost” that that goal of his epic poem
B. The Pinnacle of the Temple in Jerusalem
will be
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A. to justify the ways of God to humankind.
C. The top of a “Mountain high”
D. “Up to the middle Region of thick Air”
B. to justify the ways of humankind to God.
81. Which of the following events occur(s) in
an
the first book of John Milton’s “Paradise
C. to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.
Lost”?
D. to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.
A. Satan lays dazed on the burning lake.
87. The ode form derives from a long tradition
B. Satan assembles his fallen legions.
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of what type of poetry?
C. Adam and Eve fall from the state of Par- A. Lyric
adise.
B. Epic
D. A and B
C. Satiric
82. According to the “Book of Luke,” Herod
was the king of D. Virgilian
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A. Judea 88. was the companion in publication

to John Milton’s “Paradise Regained.”
B. Egypt
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A. “Paradise Lost”
C. Syria
B. “Areopagitica”
D. Jerusalem
C. “On Christian Doctrine”
83. After Milton went blind, he was able to
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compose poetry by using D. “Samson Agonistes”

89. What author wrote “Life of Milton”?
A. braille
A. Samuel Johnson
B. dictation
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B. Edmund Spencer
C. a code of his own devising
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. an Abacus
84. What character leads Adam and Eve from D. T. S. Eliot
the Gates of Paradise in the final book of 90. What Biblical story acts as a springboard
John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”? for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained”?
A. Michelangelo A. The Baptism of Jesus
B. Raphael B. The story of Luke
C. Uriel C. The Ascension of Jesus
D. Michael D. The Second Coming of Jesus
80. B 81. D 82. A 83. B 84. D 85. C 86. A 87. A 88. D 89. A 90. A 91. C
91. Denied the right to apply for divorce and C. The Temptation of Christ
facing intense humiliation, John Milton
D. None of these
wrote what work?
96. John Milton was inspired by the previous
A. “Christian Doctrines” works of what authors?
B. “On Regicide” A. Homer, Virgil, and Dante
C. “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce” B. Dante, Spenser, and Pope
C. Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow
er
D. “Paradise Lost”
D. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen
92. Even in John Milton’s lifetime, “Paradise
Regained” was considered in literary qual- 97. dominated English literature from
the Restoration until the end of the 18th
gd
ity as largely to “Paradise Lost.”
century with the emergence of Romanti-
A. superior cism.
B. inferior A. Medievalism
C. equal
an
B. Modernism
D. irrelevant in comparison C. Victorianism
93. In the first 75 lines of Book One of “Paradise
D. Neoclassicism
Regained,” Satan refers to which person
98. John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” is best
Ch
he has recently seen, who is identified by
the following quote? “Before him [Jesus] described by which of the following gen-
a great Prophet, to proclaim / His coming, res?
is sent Harbinger, who all / Invites, and in A. Pastoral elegy
the Consecrated stream / Pretends to wash
off sin” B. Prose polemic
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A. John the Apostle

B. John the Baptist D. Masque
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99. Near the end of “Samson Agonistes,” Sam-

C. Michael the Archangel
son resists performing before attendants of
D. Joseph, Jesus’s stepfather what type of event?
94. What poet was famous for his “Eclogues”? A. Greek Olympic Games
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A. Virgil B. A Roman Circus

B. Shakespeare C. A Gladiator competition
C. Chaucer D. A and B
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D. A and B 100. D Her honor as a Jew

95. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” deals A. Religious conviction
mainly with what Biblical event?
B. Political patriotism
A. The Great Flood
C. Her love for Samson
B. The Parting of the Red Sea
92. B 93. B 94. A 95. C 96. A 97. D 98. C 99. D 100. C
1.6 Paradise Lost- John Milton

1. To justify which purpose that Milton wrote A. The fall of Lucifer

Paradise Lost?
B. The fall of man
A. To justify the fall of Lucifer
C. Adam and Eve
B. To justify the loss of paradise
D. The genesis
C. To justify the fall of man 8. At what point does the narration unfolds
D. To justify the ways of God to men in the poem Paradise Lost?
2. How many books were included in the sec- A. In Eden
er
ond edition of the poem Paradise Lost?
B. After the fall of man
A. 10
C. After the defeat of rebel angels
gd
B. 14
D. In paradise, when Lucifer sits with God
C. 12
D. 11 9. When was Paradise Lost published?
3. When was the first edition of the poem Par- A. 1660
adise Lost published?
A. 1673
B. 1676 an B. 1667
C. 1658
D. 1654
Ch
C. 1656 10. “Paradise Lost” is considered a:
D. 1667 A. First Person Narrative
4. How many narrative arcs does Paradise
B. Short Story
Lost have?
C. Epic Poem
A. 2
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D. Novel
B. 1
11. Satan’s name before he fell from heaven
C. 4
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was:
D. 12 A. Beezlebub
5. In which style did John Milton write the
B. Michael
poem Paradise Lost?
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C. Lucifer
A. Free verse
D. Belial
B. Vers libre
12. ’Book 1’ of ’Paradise Lost’ presents Satan
C. Regular meter
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with his angels fallen into Hell. When re-

D. blank verse covered, Satan awakens all his legions and
6. Which one is the longest book in Milton’s speaks to them. The first he addresses is de-
Paradise Lost? scribed as ’one next to himself in power,
and next in crime, long after known in
A. Book IX Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen
B. Book XI angel?
C. Book IIV A. Mammon
D. Book X B. Moloch
7. On which Biblical theme that Paradise lost C. Beelzebub
is based?
D. Ashtaroth
1. D 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. B 10. C 11. C 12. C
13. In ’Paradise Lost’, which angel is ordered A. Michael and Gabriel

by God to drive Adam and Eve out of Par- B. Michael and Raphael
adise? Before he does so, he shows Adam a
number of visions about the future of the C. Raphael and Gabriel
human race, beginning with Cain murder- D. Michael and Lucifer
ing Abel and ending with the redemption 19. For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton
of mankind through Christ. Who is this says he depends on:
angel that has a large role in the finishing
A. Wine
chapters of ’Paradise Lost’?
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B. The Holy Spirit
A. Michael
C. His favorite pen
B. Abdiel
D. The Son
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C. Rafael 20. Earth is described as being connected to
D. Gabriel heaven by a:
14. Milton’s “unholy trinity” of characters in- A. “stepping stones of clouds
cludes:
an
B. Golden rope
A. Error, Temptation, and Satan C. Golden chain
B. Sin, Death and Temptation D. Ladder
C. Sin, Temptation, and Satan 21. Sin was born out of Satan’s:
Ch
A. Head
D. Satan, Sin, and Death
15. The battle between God’s army and Satan’s B. Lust
rebels in heaven lasted: C. Anger
A. One day D. Rib
22. Eve before the Fall might best be described
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B. Three days
as:
C. Seven days
A. a feminist
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D. One hour B. uncomfortable with Adam

16. In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our C. detailed oriented
foe," the “seed” refers to:
D. a docile, vain creature
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A. The Tree of Knowledge 23. Throughout the poem, Satan transforms

B. Adam himself into many creatures. Which crea-
ture does Satan not turn into?
C. Cane and Abel
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A. a mouse
D. Jesus Christ
B. a cherub
17. In the phrase, “thy seed shall bruise our
foe," “thy” refers to: C. a toad
D. a serpent
A. Sin
24. Who might be considered the friendliest
B. Eden and most sociable of all God’s angels?
C. Satan A. Adam
D. Eve B. Michael
18. The two archangels who serve as generals C. Raphael
in God’s army are:
D. Lucifer
13. A 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. C 21. A 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. B
25. Everyday before the Fall Adam and Eve 31. When God sees that Adam and Eve have
went out to work. What did their work disobeyed him, who does he send to “judge”
consist of? them and the snake?
A. Hunting and gathering food A. The Son
B. Tending to the Garden of Eden B. The Holy Ghost
C. Building shelter to live in C. Michael

D. Raphael
D. Naming all God’s creatures and plants
er
32. Inspired by Satan’s victory over man, Sin
26. The reason for Satan’s fall might best be and Death construct:
described as:
A. a bridge from hell to heaven
A. incest
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B. a temple to welcome Satan back
B. lust
C. a bridge from hell to earth
C. greed D. a funnel from Eden to the gates of hell
D. pride 33. After they have both eaten from the Tree of
27. The reason for Eve’s fall might best be de-
scribed as:
A. vanity an Knowledge, the first thing Adam and Eve
do is:
A. Ask forgiveness from God
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B. Put some clothes on
B. lust
C. Satisfy their sexual desire for each other
C. greed
D. pride D. Blame each other for their Fall
28. On the second day of battle in heaven, what 34. The Archangel Michael might best be de-
does Satan use that surprises God’s forces? scribed as:
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A. Catapults A. Jealous and envious

B. Bombastic
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B. Artillery
C. Illusions C. Firm and militant
D. Kind and caring
D. The Holy Sepulcher
35. When Michael tells Adam what will be-
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29. Adam, Satan, and Eve herself are all dazzled come of mankind after the Fall, he is actu-
by Eve’s: ally narrating stories taken directly from:
A. Wit A. The New Testament
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B. Beauty B. Homer’s epic poems

C. Intelligence C. The Hebrew Bible
D. Hard work and spirituality D. The Koran
30. The main reason for Adam’s fall might best 36. What are the best words to describe the
be described as: Garden of Eden, the weather, and nature in
general, before the Fall of Adam and Eve?
A. lust
A. Ordered and rational
B. love for Eve B. Chaotic
C. pride C. Wild and unmanageable
D. money D. Comfortable
26. D 27. A 28. B 29. B 30. B 31. A 32. C 33. C 34. C 35. C 36. A 37. B
37. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising A. Michael

himself as a cherub? B. Abdiel
A. Michael C. Uriel
B. Uriel D. Satan is not injured
C. Raphael 44. When Satan leaps over the fence into Par-
adise, what does Milton liken him to?
D. Abdiel
A. A snake slithering up a tree
38. In what book does the fall take place?
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B. A germ infecting a body
A. Book VIII
C. A wolf leaping into a sheep’s pen
B. Book X
D. A fish leaping out of water
gd
C. Book IX
45. Which angel tells Adam about the future
D. Book VII in Books XI and XII?
39. In which book of the Bible does the story A. Raphael
of Adam and Eve occur?
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B. Uriel
A. Leviticus C. Michael
B. Exodus D. None of the above
C. Genesis 46. Which of the following is not found in
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Hell?
D. Deuteronomy
40. Which devil advocates a renewal of all-out A. Gems
war against God? B. Gold
A. Belial C. Oil
B. Moloch D. Minerals
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47. Which statement about the Earth is as-

C. Mammon
serted as true in Paradise Lost?
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D. Beelzebub
A. It was created before God the Son
41. What is Milton’s stated purpose in Paradise
B. Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain
Lost?
C. The Earth is a lotus flower
A. To assert his superiority to other poets
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D. The Earth revolves around the sun

B. To argue against the doctrine of predes-
48. Which devil is the main architect of Pande-
tination
monium?
C. To justify the ways of God to men
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A. Mulciber
D. To make his story hard to understand
B. Mammon
42. Which of the following is not a character
C. Moloch
in Paradise Lost?
D. Belial
A. Night
49. How many times does Milton invoke a
B. Agony muse?
C. Discord A. One
D. Death B. Two
43. Which angel wields a large sword in the C. Three
battle and wounds Satan?
D. Four
38. C 39. C 40. B 41. C 42. B 43. A 44. C 45. C 46. C 47. B 48. A 49. C
50. Which of the following poets does Milton A. A fortress

emulate? B. A catapult
A. Virgil C. A large sword
B. Homer D. A cannon
C. Both Virgil and Homer 57. According to Paradise Lost, which of the
D. Neither Virgil or Homer following does God not create?
51. What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost? A. The Son
er
A. The fight between good and evil B. Adam and Eve
B. Heaven’s battle and Satan’s tragic fall C. Computers
gd
C. The creation of the universe D. He creates everything
58. Who does Milton name as his heavenly
D. Adam and Eve’s disobedience
muse?
52. Which devil is Satan’s second-in-
command? A. Titania
an
A. Mammon B. Urania
B. Sin C. Virgil
C. Moloch D. Michael
Ch
59. What does Eve do when she first becomes
D. Beezelbub
conscious?
53. Who discusses cosmology and the battle of
Heaven with Adam? A. Go in search of her mate
A. God B. Talk to the animals
B. Eve C. Look at her reflection in a stream

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D. Eat of the Tree of Knowledge

C. Raphael
60. Who is the main protagonist of Paradise
D. Michael Lost?
ya
54. Which scene happens first chronologi-

A. Satan
cally?
B. Adam
A. Satan and the devils rise up from the
lake in Hell C. Eve
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B. The Son is chosen as God’s second-in- D. God

command 61. In how many books is Paradise Lost di-
C. God and the Son create the universe vided?
Na
D. The angels battle in Heaven A. Nine

55. Which of the angels is considered a hero B. Twelve
for arguing against Satan? C. Eighteen
A. Abdiel D. Fourteen
B. Uriel 62. Which is the longest book?
C. Michael A. Book X
D. Raphael B. Book VIII
56. In an attempt to defeat God and his angels, C. Book IX
what do the rebel angels make?
D. Book I
50. C 51. D 52. D 53. C 54. B 55. A 56. D 57. D 58. B 59. C 60. A 61. B 62. C
63. In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan build the A. Paradise Found
Pandemonium. What is it? B. Paradise Lost Twice
A. The forbidden fruit C. Paradise Regained
B. The capital of Heaven D. Paradise Lost Again
C. A beautiful garden 70. who was the companion of Adam in par-
adise?
D. The capital of Hell
A. satan
er
64. The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve
forbidden to eat? B. eve
A. Tree of Life C. rapheal

D. god
gd
B. Tree of God
71. Who is “till wand’ring o’er the earth"?
C. Tree of Sin
A. Satan’s associates
D. Tree of Knowledge
B. Satan
an
65. Which is the shortest book?
C. Adam
A. Book VII D. Eve
B. Book III 72. Who will fall through his own “fault"?
A. Satan
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C. Book VIII
D. Book V B. God
66. Who was sent to Earth to warn Man of the C. Adam
dangers he was facing? D. Noah
A. Raphael 73. Who “headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of Heav’n"?
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B. Uriel
A. Adam and Eve
C. Abdiel
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B. Noah and the elephant

D. Beelzebub
C. Rebel angels
67. Who was the first to eat the forbidden
fruit? D. Benjamin and Joseph
74. Who pondered, “How such united force of
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A. Adam gods, how such As stood like these, could

B. Eve ever know repulse?"?
C. Satan A. Adam
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D. Snake B. Moses
68. Which of the following is not a character C. Joseph

in Paradise Lost? D. Satan
A. Eve 75. Who is described? “For dignity composed
and high exploit: But all was false and hol-
B. God low”
C. Satan A. Lot
D. Jonah B. Belial
69. What is the name of the sequel to Paradise C. Satan
Lost?
D. Moses
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
76. A
76. When was Paradise Regained published? C. 1669

A. 1671 D. 1652
B. 1656
1.7 William Wordsworth
1. What is the name of the sister of William 6. When was William Wordsworth appointed
er
Wordsworth, who is also a poet and di- poet laureate?
arist? A. 1847
A. Anna Wordsworth B. 1861
gd
B. Agnes Wordsworth C. 1839
C. Shirley Wordsworth D. 1843
D. Dorothy Wordsworth 7. In which the the famous work Lyrical Bal-
an
lads published?
2. When was William Wordsworth born?
A. 1778
A. 7 April 1770
B. 1769
B. 7 July 1767
C. 1798
Ch
C. 20 March 1773
D. 1792
D. 10 September 1772 8. From which year to which year that
3. When did William Wordsworth die? William Wordsworth served as the Poet
Laureate of Britain?
A. 12 January 1842
A. 1843-1850
B. 7 June 1849
n
B. 1840-1855
C. 3 November 1852
C. 1842-1851
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D. 23 April 1850
D. 1833-1848
4. Which work of William Wordsworth, with
9. Which college did William Wordsworth at-
the joint publication with Samuel Taylor
tend?
Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic
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Age in English literature? A. St. John’s College
A. The Excursion B. Trinity College
B. The Prelude C. Christ College

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D. King’s College
C. Lyrical Ballads
10. When did William Wordsworth marry
D. Poems, in Two Volumes Mary Hutchinson?
5. Which work of William Wordsworth is A. 1802
generally considered to be his magnum
opus? B. 1812
A. Laodamia C. 1798
D. 1805
B. The Prelude
11. In which magazine, in the year 1787, that
C. Guide to the Lakes William Wordsworth made his debut as a
D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads writer by publishing a sonnet?
1. D 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. A 9. A 10. A 11. A
A. The European Magazine C. The Tatler

D. The Rambler
B. New Poetry
1.8 Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
1. What is the full name of the novel Franken- 6. In which year Mary Shelley visited the fa-
er
stein? mous Frankenstein Castle, where two cen-
A. Frankenstein; or, The Evil Scientist turies before her visit an alchemist was en-
gaged in experiments?
B. Frankenstein; or, The Monster
gd
A. 1816
C. Frankenstein; or, The Devil Within
B. 1814
D. Frankenstein; or, The Modern
Prometheus C. 1808
2. In which University Victor Frankenstein D. 1812
develops the technique to reanimate the
dead tissues which ultimately leads to the
creation of the monster?
A. University of Tübingen
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7. At what age did Mary Shelley start writing
the novel Frankenstein?
A. 26
Ch
B. 18
B. University of Greifswald
C. 31
C. University of Freiburg
D. 24
D. University of Ingolstadt
8. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein
3. Whom did monster demand to Victor in the form of a frame story that starts one
Frankenstein to create for him?
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character wring letters to his sister. Who is

A. Someone who can transform him that character?
B. Another monster
ya
A. Captain Cooper
C. Another creature without the fearful B. Victor Frankenstein
features
C. Captain Robert Walton
D. A female companion
D. Sergent Thomas Vincent
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4. What is the name of the popular fiction

9. What is the name of the eccentric scientist
genre in which the novel Frankenstein be-
in the novel Frankenstein?
longs to?
A. Kristofer Frankenstein
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A. Bildungsroman novel
B. Romantic novel B. Paris Frankenstein
C. Künstlerroman novel C. Victor Frankenstein
D. epistolary novel D. Mario Frankenstein

5. When was the first edition of the novel 10. Who was the last person the monster kills
Frankenstein published? in the novel Frankenstein?
A. 1815 A. Elizabeth
B. 1820 B. William
C. 1818 C. Clerval
D. 1822 D. Justine
1. D 2. D 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. A
11. To where Walton’s expedition was headed 12. In which edition of the novel Frankenstein
when he meets the gigantic figure and the the name of the author Mary Shelley first
emaciated Victor? appeared?
A. North Pole A. 2nd Edition
B. Bermuda B. 1st Edition

C. 4th Edition
C. Galapagos
D. 3rd Edition
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D. Africa
11. A 12. A
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1.9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1. When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge A. The Romantic Philosophy

born?
an
B. The Spectator
A. November 12, 1762
C. The Explicator
B. September 8, 1764
D. The Watchman
C. January 10, 1789
6. The ode on which topic that Coleridge
Ch
D. October 21, 1772 wrote while attending Jesus College, Cam-
2. With which other poet did Samuel Taylor bridge won him the Browne Gold Medal?
Coleridge founded the Romantic movement A. On the slave trade
in English Literature?
B. On romantic philosophy
A. Lord Byron
C. On the creativity of human mind
n
B. Shelley
D. On supernatural elements in poetry
C. William Wordsworth
ya
7. In which establishment Coleridge enlisted

D. John Keats
himself in December 1793 by using the false
3. In which year Coleridge met poet William name "Silas Tomkyn Comberbache"?
Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which
later contributed Romantic movement to A. The Poets society
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the English Literature? B. British Royal Navy

A. 1798 C. Solicitors office
B. 1779 D. Royal Dragoons
Na
C. 1795 8. Which one is the famous prose work of

D. 1789 Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
4. When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die? A. Kubla Khan
A. 25 July 1834 B. Christabel
B. 24 February 1841 C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. 22 November 1836 D. Biographia Literaria
D. 30 April 1822 9. With which famous writer Coleridge be-
5. What is the name of the short-lived journal came friends with in Christ’s Hospital, also
that Coleridge established? called The Bluecoat School?
1. D 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. D 9. A
A. Charles Lamb C. John Locke

B. John Keats D. John Locke
C. Shelley 11. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge in-

troduced the term ’willing suspension of
D. William Wordsworth disbelief’ in 1817?
10. Who is the American transcendental A. Kubla Khan
philosopher who was much influenced by
B. Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
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C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Christabel
B. Ernest Holmes
gd
10. A 11. B
1.10 William Shakespeare
1. Between what time period did William

Shakespeare begin a successful career in
London as an actor?
an C. The Queens Troupe
D. The London Theatre
5. Which one of the following terms is of-
Ch
A. between1579 and 1583 ten called for the England’s national poet,
B. between1585 and 1592 William Shakespeare?
C. between1579 and 1587 A. Bard of London
D. between1580 and 1591 B. Bard of Avon
2. Where was William Shakespeare was born C. Master Dramatist

n
and brought up? D. Supreme Poet

A. Yorkshire 6. When was William Shakespeare baptized?
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B. Stratford-upon-Avon A. 24 July1564
C. Chester B. 26 April 1564
D. London C. 26 August 1564

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3. To which category that two works of D. 16 April 1564

William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and 7. At what age of did William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece belong to? marry Anne Hathaway?
Na
A. Tragedies A. 18
B. Historical Plays B. 22
C. Narrative Poems C. 19
D. Comedies D. 23
4. What was the first name of the playing com- 8. When did William Shakespeare die?
pany King’s Men that William Shakespeare A. 22 January 1624
partly-owned?
B. 16 April 1616
A. Lord Chamberlain’s Men C. 23 April 1616
B. Stratford Theatre D. 19 May 1611
1. B 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. A 8. C 9. C
9. How many sonnets did William Shake- 16. How many photographs exist of William
speare write? Shakespeare?
A. 164 A. 2
B. 145 B. 4
C. 154 C. 1
D. 126 D. 0
10. What was the age of William Shakespeare 17. Shakespeare died on?
er
when he retired from active service to Strat- A. 23rd April 1616
ford around 1613?
B. 25th April 1616,
A. 51
C. 28th April 1616
gd
B. 49
D. 30th April 1616
C. 62 18. Shakespeare died at the age of
D. 53 A. 48
an
11. Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in
B. 52
Stratford today?
C. 60
A. True
D. 63
B. False
Ch
19. How many times suicide occurs in Shake-
12. In which town was Shakespeare born? speare’s plays?
A. London A. 7
B. Cambridge B. 9
C. Stratford C. 11
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D. Oxford D. 13
13. How many plays did William Shakespeare 20. The line “To be or not to be” comes from
write? which play?
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A. 36 A. Macbeth
B. 37 B. Twelfth Night
C. 38 C. A Midsummer Night’s dream
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D. 39 D. Hamlet
14. What was Shakespeare’s first play? 21. Was the Globe
A. King Lear A. A Roman Amphitheater.
Na
B. Henry VI B. An Elizabethan Theater.

C. The Tempest C. An Elizabethan sports stadium.
D. Romeo and Juliet D. A famous map of the world.
15. How many sonnets did William Shake- 22. Which of these was not one of Shake-
speare write? speare’s plays?
A. 110 A. Titus Andronicus
B. 154 B. The Tempest
C. 175 C. Cymbeline
D. 187 D. Shakespeare in love
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 Shakespeare play does the A. The Merry Wives of Windsor
quote,"My salad days, when I was green in B. Othello, the Moor of Venice
judgment." come from?
C. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
A. Antony and Cleopatra
D. King Henry the Sixth, Part II
B. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
30. Which river is associated with Shake-
C. The Winters Tale speare’s birth place?
D. The Merry Wives of Windsor A. The Thames
er
24. Which famous Shakespeare play does the
B. The Avon
quote,"Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
come from? C. The Tyburn
gd
A. Cymbeline D. The Seven
B. Hamlet 31. Which famous play does the quote,"When
shall we three meet again In thunder, light-
C. Titus Andronicus ning, or in rain?" come from?
D. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
an
A. The Taming of the Shrew
25. Which famous Shakespeare play does the
quote “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth B. King Lear
it is to have a thankless child!" come from? C. The Tempest
Ch
A. King Lear D. Macbeth
B. As You Like It 32. How many of Shakespeare’s plays are clas-
sified as histories?
C. The Famous History of the Life of King
Henry VIII A. 7
D. The Life and Death of King John B. 10
26. In what year was the First Folio published?
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C. 14
A. 1626 D. 18
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B. 1621 33. The group of four plays known as the “ma-

jor tetralogy” is:
C. 1623
D. 1629 A. Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1
Henry VI
27. What nationality was Shakespeare?
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B. 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI,

A. Italian
Richard III
B. English
C. King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard
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C. Scottish III
D. Greek D. Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV,
28. In which century was Shakespeare born? Henry V
A. 16th 34. In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down
during a production of which play?
B. 14th
A. King John
C. 15th
B. Richard II
D. 17th
29. which famous Shakespeare play does the C. Henry VIII
quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all D. Henry V
the lawyers” come from?
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 of Shakespeare’s au- A. “Doctor Faustus”

thorship, all of the following are considered
B. “The Faerie Queen”
to be the “true” authors of some of Shake-
speare’s plays EXCEPT: C. “Titus Andronicus”
A. Thomas More. D. “The Jew of Malta”
B. Francis Bacon. 7. What concept best distinguishes the differ-
er
ence between the time of the Middles Ages
C. Earl of Oxford. and the Renaissance?
D. John Shakespeare. A. Humanism
gd
2. Both Shakespeare and Christopher Mar- B. The rise of Queen Elizabeth
low are thought to have been born in what
year? C. The popularity of theater
A. 1564 D. The life of Shakespeare
an
8. What does the term “renaissance” mean?
B. 1580
A. Death
C. 1577
B. Theater
D. 1550
C. Drama
Ch
3. In drama, a “soliloquy” refers to which of
the following? D. Rebirth
A. A dialogue between two characters 9. What is the name of Shakespeare’s son?
B. A character’s final words before dying A. William
C. A speech delivered by a character in- B. John
n
tended to be spoken to only the audience C. Hamlet

D. Hamnet
ya
D. A rhyming line
10. What religion had the most political and
4. In drama, what is a “climax”? social power in Shakespeare’s time?
A. The conclusion of a play A. Catholicism
B. The end of the first scene of a play
ra
B. Buddhism
C. The first death on stage in a play C. Protestantism
D. The turning point of the action in the D. Mormonism
Na
play 11. What was the name of the theater group

5. In verse, “meter” refers to which of the fol- that Shakespeare worked with for most of
lowing? his career?
A. The length of a written line A. The Lord Chamberlin’s Men
B. The measured pattern of stressed and B. Elizabeth’s Men
unstressed syllables
C. The Globe’s Men
C. The height of the stage
D. Will’s Men
D. The number of words in a line 12. Which group was at the bottom of Eng-
6. Shakespeare was the author of which of the land’s social hierarchy during Shake-
following plays? speare’s early years?
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 A. Elizabeth Marlowe

B. Peasants B. Joan Shakespeare
C. Yeomen C. Anne Hathaway
D. The gentry D. Juliet Shakespeare
13. Which of the following best characterizes 19. Who was the Queen of England throughout
an Elizabethan masque? much of Shakespeare’s early life?
A. A horror play, featuring supernatural A. Queen Elizabeth
er
forces B. Queen Victoria
B. A sophisticated comedy with a surpris- C. Queen Anne
ing ending
gd
D. Queen Gertrude
C. A drama, featuring players representing 20. William Shakespeare’s father primarily
mythic or allegorical figures worked as which of the following?
D. A performance of a classical play in con- A. A politician
temporary language
an
B. A teacher
14. Which of the following playwrights is
thought to have had the greatest influence C. A glover
on Shakespeare? D. A professional actor
Ch
A. Ben Johnson 21. At the end of the play, “Twelfth Night,” who
is discovered to have been secretly mar-
B. Christopher Marlow
ried?
C. Philip Sidney
A. Viola and Orsino
D. Thomas Kyd
B. Sir Toby and Maria
15. Who is the author of Utopia?
C. Malvio and Maria
n
A. Thomas More
D. Viola and Sir Toby
B. William Shakespeare
ya
22. Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debora

C. Christopher Marlowe Schwartz, Greek “old comedy” was often
characterized as being
D. Philip Sydney
16. Who is the author of “The Tragical History A. Highly sexual
ra
of Doctor Faustus”? B. Not comedic at all

A. Christopher Marlow C. Satirical and political
B. William Shakespeare D. Grounded in religion
Na
C. Philip Sidney 23. Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debra

Schwartz, Greek “new comedy” was often
D. The Earl of Oxford
characterized as being
17. Who of the following were among Shake-
A. Highly sexual
speare’s royal patrons?
B. Violent
A. King James I.
C. Satirical
B. King Henry
D. Dull and political
C. Queen Victoria
24. Fill in the blank. In the play, “A Midsum-
D. King Richard mer Night’s Dream,” Puck is also known as
18. Who was Shakespeare’s wife?
13. C 14. B 15. A 16. A 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. C 21. B 22. C 23. A 24. B
A. Oberon A. Viola’s twin brother

B. Robin Goodfellow B. Viola’s eventual lover
C. Demetrius C. A clown
D. Hermia D. Olivia’s uncle
25. In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 31. In the play, “Twelfth Night,” who rescues
who is the queen of the fairies? Sebastian after his shipwreck?
A. Antonio
er
A. Titania
B. Lysander B. Maria
C. Hermia C. Olivia
gd
D. Oberon D. None of the above
26. In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 32. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is
where is Helena from? chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s
play?
an
A. Paris
A. Peter Quince
B. Naples
B. Francis Flute
C. Athens
C. Nick Bottom
Ch
D. London
D. Tom Snout
27. In the play, “A Midsummer’s Night’s
33. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is
Dream,” who is the queen of the Amazons?
Nick Bottom?
A. Hippolyta
A. An Athenian craftsman
B. Egeus
B. A professional actor
n
C. Helena
C. A Duke
D. Hermia
ya
D. An Amazonian
28. In the play, “Twelfth Night,” what country 34. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who
is Orisono from? says “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
A. France (III.ii.15)?
ra
B. Denmark A. Puck
C. Illyria B. Nick Bottom
D. England C. Hippolyta
Na
29. In the play, “Twelfth Night,” what does Vi- D. Helene

ola refer to herself as when she disguises 35. What country does the play, “All’s Well that
herself as a man? Ends Well,” take place in?
A. Orsino A. England
B. Sir Toby B. Denmark
C. Antonio C. Spain
D. Cesario D. France
30. In the play, “Twelfth Night,” who is Sebas- 36. What is the craftsmen’s play at the end of
tian? “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” about?
25. A 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. A 32. B 33. A 34. A 35. D 36. D 37. A
A. Puck’s adventures A. “The violent trio”

B. Summertime dreams B. “The Fatal Sisters”
C. The history of Athens C. “The Weird Sisters”
D. Pyramus and Thisbe D. “The Dead Sisters”
37. Who is Bertram’s main companion 43. In his lectures on Shakespeare’s tragedies,
throughout much of the play, “All’s Well A.C. Bradley states that he will not do
that Ends Well”? which of the following?
er
A. Parolles A. Compare Shakespeare to other writers.
B. Lafew B. Evaluate and examine Hamlet.
C. The First Lord C. Consider anything about Shakespeare’s
gd
comedies.
D. The Clown
38. Who is the central heroine of the play, D. Discuss any aspect of Shakespeare’s phi-
“Twelfth Night”? losophy.
an
44. In the play, “Hamlet,” what is the name of
A. Viola
Polonius’s daughter?
B. Orsino
A. Laertes
C. Maria
B. Ophelia
Ch
D. Feste
C. Gertrude
39. “All’s Well that Ends Well” is considered to
be what kind of a play? D. Fortinbras
45. In the play, “Hamlet,” who is Yorick?
A. History
A. King Hamlet’s former jester
B. Comedy
n
B. A friend of Hamlet’s from school

C. Tragedy
C. The King of Norway
D. Epic poem
ya
40. Who is the heroine of the play, “All’s Well D. A castle guard
that Ends Well”? 46. In the play, “Macbeth,” according to the
witches, who will inherit the Scottish
A. Helena
throne?
ra
B. Gertrude
A. The children of Macbeth
C. Parolles
B. The children of Banquo
D. Mariana
C. The children of Macduff
Na
41. According to Dr. Roger Dunkle, in ancient

times, what was considered a tragedy? D. The children of the witches
47. In the play, “Macbeth,” how does Macbeth
A. A worship of the gods
kill Duncan?
B. A song for the prize or sacrifice of a goat
A. He shoots him.
B. He strangles him.
C. A comedic performance
C. He stabs him.
D. A story that ended with a marriage
42. Fill in the blank. In the play, “Macbeth,” D. He beheads him.
a number of characters refer to the Three 48. In the play, “Macbeth,” who asks “Whence
Witches as is that knocking?” (2.11.55)
38. A 39. B 40. A 41. B 42. C 43. A 44. B 45. A 46. B 47. C 48. A
A. Macbeth A. Claudius
B. Lady Macbeth B. Horatio
C. Duncan C. Hamlet
D. Marcellus
D. Macduff
55. In “Macbeth,” where is Macduff when he
49. In the play, “Macbeth,” who assists Macbeth learns of his family’s execution?
with planning Duncan’s murder?
A. England
er
A. Banquo
B. France
B. Macduff C. Scotland
C. Malcolm D. Norway
gd
D. Lady Macbeth 56. The play, “Hamlet,” takes place in which of
the following countries?
50. In the play, “Macbeth,” who becomes king
immediately after Duncan’s murder? A. Denmark
an
B. Norway
A. Macbeth
C. England
B. Banquo
D. France
C. Macduff 57. The play, “Macbeth,” is set in what coun-
Ch
D. Malcolm try?
51. In the play, “Macbeth,” who is the goddess A. England
of witchcraft? B. Scotland
A. Lennox C. France
B. Lady Macbeth D. Norway
n
58. Who is King of Scotland at the start of the

C. The porter
play, “Macbeth”?
ya
D. Hecate A. Macbeth
52. In “Hamlet,” what is Hamlet’s uncle’s B. Banquo
name?
C. Duncan
A. Polonius
ra
D. Donalbain
B. Claudius 59. Who kills Macbeth at the end of the play,
C. Horatio “Macbeth”?
Na
A. Duncan
D. Fortinbras
B. Lady Macbeth
53. In “Hamlet,” which character is left alive at
the end of the play? C. Lady Macduff
A. Hamlet D. Macduff
60. Hamlet is considered to be what kind of
B. Claudius play?
C. Horatio A. Comedy
D. Gertrude B. History
54. In “Hamlet,” who says that “something is C. Tragedy
rotten in the state of Denmark”? D. Epic poem
49. D 50. A 51. D 52. B 53. C 54. D 55. A 56. A 57. B 58. C 59. D 60. C 61. A
61. At the end of the play “Richard III,” what 67. In the play, “Henry V,” who is the close
happens to Richard? friend and mentor of young Henry?
A. He is killed. A. Montjoy
B. He is arrested. B. Horatio
C. He is crowned king. C. Falstaff
D. He was sent into exile.
D. Nim
62. Dr. Ian Johnson suggests which of the fol-
er
lowing ideas about the play, “Henry V”? 68. In the play, “Henry V,” who is the daughter
of the King of France?
A. That it is a satire of European monar-
chies A. Catherine
gd
B. That none of the characters undergo B. Alice
a remarkable shift in personality over the C. The Hostess
course of the play
D. Nim
C. That it is historically accurate
an
69. In the play, “Henry V,” who is the Queen of
D. That it is an incomplete play and possi-
France?
bly not authored by Shakespeare
63. In Shakespeare’s play, Henry V is king of A. Queen Isabel
what country? B. Queen Nim
Ch
A. England C. Queen Alice
B. Norway
D. Queen Montjoy
C. Denmark
70. In the play, “Henry V,” who states that “If
D. France we are marked to die, we are enough/To do
64. In the play “Richard III,” where does Richard our country loss. . . ” (IV.iii.20-21)?
n
imprison the young princes?

A. Falstaff
A. In a tower
ya
B. Henry V
B. In a pit
C. Nim
C. In a prison
D. Catherine
D. In another country
ra
65. In the play, “Henry V,” the Chorus serves 71. In the play, “Richard III,” who does Richard
to do which of the following? hire to kill the young princes?
A. Make jokes about Henry A. Ratcliffe

Na
B. Sing songs about the events B. Richmond

C. Comment on the plot and themes of the C. Clarence
play
D. Tyrell
D. Dance upon the stage
72. In the play, “Richard III,” who is manipu-
66. In the play, “Henry V,” what country does lated into marrying Richard?
Henry wish to conquer?
A. Lady Anne
A. England
B. Queen Elizabeth
B. Spain
C. France C. Duchess of York
D. Denmark D. Margaret
62. B 63. A 64. A 65. C 66. C 67. C 68. A 69. A 70. B 71. D 72. A 73. A
73. In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s A. Tyrell

primary accomplice? B. King Edward IV
A. Buckingham C. Queen Elizabeth
B. Clarence D. The Earl of Richmond
C. Tyrell 80. What type of play is “Richard III”?
D. Richmond A. Tragedy
74. In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s B. History
er
elder brother? C. Comedy
A. Clarence D. Lyric
81. Blank verse refers to which of the follow-
gd
B. King Edward IV
ing?
C. Tyrell
A. Prose
D. Richmond
B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
75. In the play, “Richard III,” who is the mother
an
of Prince Edward? C. Rhyming verse
A. Lady Anne D. Rhyming couplets
82. Fill in the blank. In Shakespeare’s plays,
B. Queen Elizabeth
prose is often used in
Ch
C. Margaret A. Serious letters
D. Duchess of York B. Iambic pentameter
76. In the play, “Richard III,” who speaks of “the C. Rhyming verse
winter of our discontent” (I.i.1)?
D. Couplets
A. Richmond
83. Fill in the blank. The plot of “Venus and
n
B. Queen Elizabeth Adonis” is based on passages from

C. Richard III A. The Bible
ya
D. The princes B. A Christopher Marlowe play

77. The play, “Richard III,” takes place in what C. Ovid’s Metamorphoses
country? D. An early Shakespeare play
ra
A. Greece 84. For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to

have drawn upon all of the following for
B. France
influence and ideas EXCEPT:
C. Norway
Na
A. Greek mythology
D. England
B. European history
78. What century does the play, “Henry V,” take
C. Early scientific studies
place in?
D. The works of earlier poets
A. 15th century
85. How many sonnets are attributed to Shake-
B. 16th century speare?
C. 14th century A. 12
D. 17th century B. 67
79. Who directly challenges Richard for the C. 154
throne in the play, “Richard III”?
D. 200
74. B 75. C 76. C 77. D 78. A 79. D 80. B 81. B 82. A 83. C 84. D 85. C
86. In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn sup-
pose Shakespeare to have really been? D. None of the above
A. Marlowe 92. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 153” is what kind of
B. Swift poem?
C. Oxford A. A poem about death
D. Bacon B. A poem about love
er
87. In Shakespeare’s plays, when is rhyme of- C. A poem about writing poetry
ten used? D. A poem about Shakespeare and his fa-
A. When ghosts speak ther
gd
93. The concept of “prose” refers to which of
B. When characters speak naturally
the following?
C. When a lower class character speaks
A. Ordinary speech
D. When the play necessitates ritualistic,
B. Blank verse
an
choral, and sensuous effect
88. In Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,” how C. Rhyming verse
is Adonis killed? D. Non-English word use
A. In a hunting accident 94. Where does the sonnet form originate
Ch
from?
B. By Venus
A. England
C. By execution
B. Spain
D. By old age
C. France
89. In the narrative poem, “The Rape of Lu-
crece,” who is Lucretia? D. Italy
n
A. A fairy queen 95. Which of the following are not among the
subjects of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
B. A Roman matron
ya
A. The Dark Lady

C. A villainess
B. Shakespeare’s father
D. A beggar woman
C. A young man
90. Shakespeare often employed which of the
ra
following stylistic forms in his dramas? D. A rival poet

96. Which of the following poems is considered
A. Blank verse
to be the most neglected of Shakespeare’s?
B. Old English
Na
A. “A Lover’s Complaint”
C. Authorial narration
B. “Venus and Adonis”
D. Prose
C. “The Phoenix and Turtle”
91. Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee,
D. “The Rape of Lucrece”
which in meter refers to which of the fol-
lowing? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche 97. Which of the following poems was au-
is: thored by Shakespeare?
A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed A. “Tintern Abbey”

and stressed syllable in a foot B. “A Lover’s Complaint”
B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed C. “El Cid”
and then unstressed syllable in a foot
D. “The Wasteland”
86. C 87. D 88. A 89. B 90. A 91. B 92. B 93. A 94. D 95. B 96. A 97. B
98. Which of the following statements about a A. The Dark Lady

sonnet is false?
B. Hamlet
A. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines. C. Christopher Marlow
D. Hamnet Shakespeare
B. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the
100. What literary genre is Shakespeare’s
rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
“Venus and Adonis”?
A. Short story
er
C. A sonnet is only written in Italian.
B. Tragedy play
D. The last two lines of a sonnet are a
rhyming couplet. C. Comedy play
gd
99. Who is the main focus of a number of D. Poetry
Shakespeare’s sonnets?
98. C 99. A 100. D
1.12
1. In which work Edmund Spenser celebrates

his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle?
an
Edmund Spenser
C. Immanuel
Ch
D. Immerito
A. Prothalamion
5. How many books were originally planned
B. Faerie Queen to form the work The Faerie Queene?
C. Epithalamion A. 18
D. Amoretti B. 8
n
2. To whom Edmund Spenser dedicated the C. 23

work The Faerie Queene?
ya
D. 12
A. Sidney
6. Which one of the following is an unfinished
B. Elizabeth
work of Edmund Spenser?
C. Mary
A. The Faerie Queene
ra
D. Chaucer
B. Amoretti
3. Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser
celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie C. The Shepheardes Calender
Na
Queene? D. Astrophel
A. Tudor 7. Which one of the following rhyme scheme
B. Stuart is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza?
C. Anjou A. ab cb bc cd e
D. Plantagenet B. abba bccb d
4. Under which pseudonym the work The C. ab bc cd de f
Shepheardes Calender was published?
D. ab ab bc bc c
A. Edward
8. In which year did Edmund Spenser publish
B. Jonathan his poem The Shepheardes Calender?
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. B
A. 1568 14. During which war the castle of Edmund

Spenser, Kilcolman by name burnt by na-
B. 1579
tive Irish forces?
C. 1597
A. Hundred Years War
D. 1585
B. Nine Years War
9. In which work of Edmund Spenser the Ape
C. Ten Years War
and the Fox serve to satirize the customs of
the court? D. Seventeen Years War
er
A. The Teares of the Muses 15. To whom did Edmund Spenser dedicate his
work The Shepheardes Calender?
B. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale
A. Philip Sidney
gd
C. Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butter-
B. Boyle
flie
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. Ruines of Rome: by Bellay
D. Chaucer
10. What is the title of the prose pamphlet Ed-
an
mund Spenser wrote in the year 1596? 16. Where did Edmund Spenser born?
A. The Visions of Petrarch A. Worcester
B. A View of the Present State of Ireland B. Chester

Ch
C. The Ruines of Time C. East Smithfield
D. Kent
D. Visions of the worlds vanitie
17. When did Edmund Spenser die?
11. What type of work is the work The Faerie
Queene? A. 1599
A. pastoral work B. 1632

n
B. religious work C. 1589

D. 1621
ya
C. allegorical work
18. To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses
D. natural work
his sonnet sequence Amoretti?
12. How many lines are in Spenserian stanza?
A. Lisa Boyle
ra
A. 9
B. Mary Jane
B. 12 C. Queen Elizabeth
C. 24 D. Elizabeth Boyle
Na
D. 8 19. In which college Edmund Spenser study?

13. When was Edmund Spenser born? A. Pembroke College
A. 1542 B. Latin College
B. 1552 C. Corpus Christi
C. 1569 D. Queens College
D. 1558
9. B 10. B 11. C 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. A 16. C 17. A 18. D 19. A
1.13 Geoffrey Chaucer
1. When did Geoffrey Chaucer start working did Chaucer originally envision each pil-
on The Canterbury Tales? grim telling?
A. Early 1370s A. four
B. In 1364 B. six
C. Early 1380s C. two
er
D. In 1376 D. one
2. Which is the first major work of Geoffrey 7. During the period of which king did
Chaucer? Chaucer fight in the English Army for the
gd
A. Troilus and Criseyde Hundred Years’ War between France and
England?
B. The Canterbury Tales
A. William I
C. The Book of the Duchess
B. Edward II
an
D. The House of Fame
C. William II
3. In which year did Chaucer fought in Hun-
dred Years’ War between France and Eng- D. Edward III
land? 8. Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as:
Ch
A. 1374 A. The reformer of English language
B. 1359 B. The poet of English language
C. 1367 C. The father of English literature
D. 1382 D. The father of English language
4. In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born? 9. Which of Chaucer’s works is associated
n
A. 1343 with Valentine’s Day?
B. 1336 A. The Book of the Duchess

ya
C. 1432 B. The Canterbury Tales
D. 1347 C. Parlement of Foules

5. Who was the king when Geoffrey Chaucer D. The Canterbury Tales
ra
was born? 10. Which one of the following works of Geof-

A. David II frey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche
of Lancaster?
B. Edward III
Na
A. The House of Fame

C. Richard II
B. The Book of the Duchess
D. Edward II
C. Troilus and Criseyde
6. The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished
work, wherein each pilgrim was supposed D. The Legend of Good Women
to tell more than one tale. How many tales
1. C 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. C 9. C 10. B
1.14 James Joyce

1. By which physical affliction was Joyce af- A. 1847

fected? B. 1893
A. autism C. 1906
B. blindness D. 1922
C. deafness 7. In what year did the Easter Rising occur?
D. loss of limb A. 1901
2. By which religious writer was Joyce most B. 1916
er
clearly influenced?
C. 1922
A. Thomas Aquinas
D. 1934
B. William Bradshaw
gd
8. In which location(s) did Joyce live while in
C. John Foxe exile?
D. William Tyndale A. Trieste
3. For Joyce, what are epiphanies? B. Paris
A. short prose sketches that vary in char-
acter
B. dream-like pieces of writing
an C. Zurich
D. All of the Above
9. To whom was Joyce married?
Ch
C. deep realizations linked with religious A. Nora Barnacle
faith
B. Sylvia Beach
D. All of the Above
C. Molly Bloom
4. How do most critics believe Joyce’s exile
affected his use of language? D. Augusta Gregory
A. After his exile, he only used one “voice” 10. Which author(s) are associated with Mod-
n
in his works ernism?
B. After his exile, he disliked the intricacy A. T.S. Eliot

ya
of language B. T.E. Hulme

C. After his exile, he never used split nar- C. Ezra Pound
ratives D. All of the Above
ra
D. After his exile, he used a mixture of 11. Which cultural event(s) led to the rise of
languages and linguistic traditions in his Modernism?
works
A. the spread of Freud’s theories
5. In what way(s) did the events of the Easter
Na
Rising affect the work of writers? B. the increased pace of everyday life
A. it led many Irish writers to criticize C. the controversy over traditional ideas
British colonial practices of certainty and morality
B. it led to more depictions of violence and D. All of the Above

sacrifice in Irish literature 12. Which event(s) caused the Easter Rising?
C. it inspired Irish writers to create an Irish A. an increase in Irish nationalism
national identity B. the Irish desire for independence
D. All of the Above C. the formation of the secret, revolution-
6. In what year did Ireland acquire national ary IRB
independence?
D. All of the Above
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. D 11. D 12. D
13. Which of the following characterizes Mod- 19. With whom is the concept of “claritas” as-
ernism? sociated?
A. the desire to show realistic forms A. Thomas Aquinas
B. the use of traditional formal structure B. Augusta Gregory
C. the lack of interest in characters’ psy- C. Charles Parnell
ches
D. Ezra Pound
D. the desire to break with established
er
forms 20. Which writer arranged for the publication
14. Which problem(s) shaped Joyce’s early of The Dubliners?
home life? A. Ezra Pound
gd
A. his father’s alcoholism B. W.B. Yeats
B. poverty C. Ernest Hemmingway
C. lack of stable work
D. Virginia Woolf
an
D. All of the Above
21. According to critics, what is the function
15. Which was a common metaphor used by of The Dubliners’ third person narration?
Irish writers in their depictions of the na-
tion? A. it counters the sense of unrequited love
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A. the metaphor of Ireland as a novel
B. it is used only to disrupt the more promi-
B. the metaphor of Ireland as a woman
nent first-person narration
C. the metaphor of Ireland as a child
C. it makes the stories seem more imper-
D. the metaphor of Ireland as a soldier sonal
16. Which writer(s) is/are associated with the
D. it breaks through the sense of paralysis
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Irish Literary Revival?

22. At the end of “Eveline,” what decision does
A. George Russell
the title character make?
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B. J.M. Synge
A. she decides to stay in Ireland
C. W.B. Yeats
B. she decides to quit her job
D. All of the Above
C. she decides to leave her mother
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17. Who was Charles Parnell?

A. a popular symbol of Irish nationalism D. she leaves for France
B. an Irish representative in the British Par- 23. In The Dubliners, what do most critics say
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liament is the function of paralysis?
C. the founder of the Catholic Land League A. it is represented in a way that implies
collective activity is needed
D. All of the Above B. it reveals the sense of imprisonment that
18. With which important literary figure(s) comes from routine
was Joyce in contact in his lifetime? C. it reveals characters’ literal inability to
A. Arthur Symons move away from Ireland
B. Harriet Weaver D. All of the Above
C. W.B. Yeats 24. In The Dubliners, which best describes the
order of the story arc?
D. All of the Above
13. D 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. C 22. A 23. D 24. C
A. adolescence, maturity, childhood A. a reporter

B. childhood, maturity, adolescence B. a father
C. childhood, adolescence, maturity, pub- C. a poet
lic life D. a soldier
D. childhood, adolescence, maturity 31. In “A Mother,” what does Mrs. Kearney
25. In The Dubliners, which literary device make her daughter learn?
does Joyce use most frequently? A. the piano
er
A. acatalectic B. the Irish language
B. chiasmus C. the English language
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C. fantasy D. the violin
D. pentameter 32. In “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” which
historical national figure is celebrated?
26. In The Dubliners, which literary style is
used? A. Leopold Bloom
A. realism
B. impressionism
C. fantasy an B. Molly Bloom
C. Charles Stuart Parnell
D. Wolf Tone
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D. gothic 33. In “The Dead,” what do most critics suggest
is important about the snowfall?
27. In The Dubliners, which negative charac-
teristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin A. the snow represents Ireland’s inability
as a place? to become independent
A. commonness B. the snow represents the quiet that cov-

ers life and death
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B. boredom
C. the snow represents the promise of love
C. backwardness
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D. All of the Above D. the snow represents the characters’ abil-

28. In The Dubliners, which story/stories pro- ity to escape Ireland
vide(s) an example of unrequited passion? 34. In “Two Gallants,” Joyce’s major critical
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A. “The Dead” commentary is:
B. “Eveline” A. that women are more at fault than men

B. that individuals are too passive
C. “A Painful Case”
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C. that people work too hard for change

D. All of the Above
29. In which story from The Dubliners is snow D. that Catholicism is not to blame for
an important occurrence? problems
35. Please identify the story: “her eyes gave
A. “Araby”
him no sign of love or farewell or recogni-
B. “The Boarding House” tion.”
C. “The Dead” A. “The Boarding House”
D. “An Encounter” B. “Clay”
30. In “A Little Cloud,” what does Little Chan- C. “Eveline”
dler dream about becoming?
D. “A Little Cloud”
25. B 26. A 27. D 28. D 29. C 30. C 31. B 32. C 33. B 34. B 35. C 36. C
36. To what does the title of Joyce’s short story A. it enables Stephen to say in Ireland for-
“After the Race” refer? ever
A. the race for more modes of transporta- B. it prepares Stephen to accept his artistic
tion rebirth
B. the decline of the Irish race C. it ends Stephen’s period of enlighten-
C. the race to establish an empire ment
D. the race for Ireland’s welfare D. it helps Stephen to decide to join the
er
Catholic church
37. Which best describes the tone at the end of
“Araby?” 42. According to Stephen, how is art repre-
sented in the lyrical form?
A. hopeful
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A. the image is presented in immediate re-
B. disappointed
lation to the artist himself
C. joyful
B. the image is presented is immediate re-
D. satiric lation to the artist and others
an
38. Which of the following does Joyce address
C. the image is presented in a way that is
thematically in The Dubliners?
not purely personal
A. the positive side of war with Germany
D. the image is presented in immediate re-
B. the supremacy of Britain lation to others only
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C. Irish nationalism 43. From whom does Stephen borrow his idea
of clarity?
D. the Irish nation’s inability to survive
without England’s help A. Thomas Aquinas
39. Which of the following exemplifies the B. W.B. Yeats
Modernist style of The Dubliners?
C. Augusta Gregory
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A. the positive representation of cultural

institutions D. Ezra Pound
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B. the representation of a shallow, drab cul- 44. How does Stephen react to his first sexual
ture encounter?
C. the positive representation of the A. he feels alienated

Catholic Church B. he feels proud
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D. the representation of adventures the C. he feels at peace

city offers to the mind
D. he feels confident
40. In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use
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epiphanies? 45. In A Portrait of the Artist, how do most crit-

ics suggest that the flight motif functions?
A. they sometimes clarify the connection
between death and life A. it represents the desire to flee Ireland
B. they are often coupled with resignation, B. it represents the hero’s fear that he will
sadness, and frustration overestimate his abilities
C. they create a system of hope, followed C. it implies that the artist must take flight
by passive acceptance to do his work
D. All of the Above D. All of the Above
41. According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are 46. In A Portrait of the Artist, how is the artist
the purpose(s) of the epiphany? represented?
37. B 38. C 39. B 40. D 41. B 42. A 43. A 44. A 45. D 46. D
A. as a friend 51. In A Portrait of the Artist, what unique

style does Joyce use?
B. as a family member
C. as a romantic hero A. vowel shift
D. All of the Above B. chiasmus
47. In A Portrait of the Artist, the main charac- C. acatalectic

ter is named after which mythical figure? D. stream of consciousness
A. Aeneas
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52. In order to become an artist, what does
B. Icarus Stephen Dedalus sacrifice from his life?
C. Daedalus A. his chance for isolation
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D. Minos B. his relationship with his family and
friends
48. In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen’s
relationship with his Catholic faith? C. his individual consciousness
A. he is opposed to the Catholic faith for D. his ability to flee Ireland
the entire novel
B. because he has been raised Catholic, he
never struggles with his faith
an
53. In which way(s) is A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man a Modernist novel?
A. it does not explore a character’s internal
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C. he is torn between his desire for free- development
dom and his desire to be moral
B. it uses experimental language
D. he is committed to priesthood for the
C. it celebrates the simplicity of everyday
entire novel
life
49. In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen’s
relationship with his Irish nationality? D. it follows a traditional narrative struc-
n
ture
A. he is conflicted by his desire to leave
54. What are the three parts of Stephen’s es-
Ireland because he has inextricable ties to
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poused aesthetic theory?

it
A. perception, clarity, and wholeness
B. he is sure of his desire to become a
leader like Parnell because his friends and B. kinesis, clarity, and perception
family universally praise Irish leaders
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C. clarity, wholeness, and kinesis

C. he is committed to staying in Ireland
D. wholeness, harmony, and clarity
D. he deeply wants to leave Ireland, but he
55. What is a kunstleroman?
feels that, as an artist, he can only work
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with national themes A. a novel that traces women’s intellectual

developments
50. In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the im-
portance of music? B. an artist’s novel of awakening
A. it ties in with Stephen’s appreciation of C. an artist’s journey in which he always
language abandons his art
B. it reminds Stephen of his desire to live D. a novel in which the hero solves a crime
life to the fullest
C. it provides a way for Stephen to feel at 56. What is the significance of the words
peace “moocow” and “tuckoo,” according to most
critics?
D. All of the Above
47. C 48. C 49. A 50. D 51. D 52. B 53. B 54. D 55. B 56. C
A. it represents Joyce’s decision not to use 62. In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient
stream of consciousness story?
B. it emulates an adult’s intellectual pro- A. Homer’s The Iliad
cess B. Homer’s The Odyssey
C. it captures the intellectual perceptions C. Virgil’s The Aeneid
of a child
D. Sophocles’s Antigone
D. it represents Joyce’s shift to more con-
63. In Ulysses, to what does Bloom often com-
er
ventional language
pare life?
57. Which best describes A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man in terms of genre? A. a newspaper
B. a stream
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A. bildungsroman
B. comedy of manners C. a law
C. pastoral D. a book
64. In Ulysses, what is/are the effect(s) of the
D. satire
an
stream of consciousness technique?
58. Which is/are an element(s) of Stephen’s aes-
thetic theories? A. it obstructs the characters’ interior
thoughts
A. art should not produce stasis in the
viewer B. it provides a conventional approach to
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representing the characters
B. art should be kinetic
C. it makes the characters’ emotions less
C. art should be harmonious and propor- immediate
tional
D. it provides direct access to the charac-
D. art should not please the perception ters’ consciousness
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59. Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul 65. In Ulysses, which character best exempli-
the uncreated conscience of my race?” fies anti-Semitism?
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A. Leopold Bloom A. Leopold Bloom

B. Molly Bloom B. Mr. Deasy
C. Gabriel Conroy C. Gabriel Conroy
D. Stephen Dedalus
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D. Molly Ivors
60. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 66. In Ulysses, which characteristic(s) can be
thematizes which of the following: considered Modernist?
A. the artist in exile A. the sequential construction of time
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B. spiritual crisis B. the lack of taboo topics

C. artistic awakening C. the use traditional language
D. All of the Above D. the inclusion of various types of media
61. How does Joyce parallel Leopold and 67. In Ulysses, which experimental tech-
Stephen? nique(s) does Joyce use?
A. both are mature A. puns
B. both tend to be cheerful B. parodies
C. both are artists C. unconventional syntax
D. both dislike music D. All of the Above
57. A 58. C 59. D 60. D 61. C 62. B 63. B 64. D 65. B 66. D 67. D
68. In Ulysses, which stylistic characteristic(s) 73. Which best describes Bloom’s attitude to-
appear? wards nationalism?
A. stream of consciousness A. he is deeply invested in the nationalist
cause
B. repetition of words
B. he hopes to join the IRB
C. shifts in narrative voice
C. he is disinterested in nationalism
D. All of the Above
D. he is opposed to the nationalist cause
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69. In Ulysses, with which mythical character
74. Which character says he “fear[s] those big
does Stephen best correspond?
words that make us so unhappy”?
A. Odysseus
A. Stephen Dedalus
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B. Telemachus B. Mr. Deasy
C. Nestor C. Gabriel Conroy
D. Nausicaa D. Leopold Bloom
an
70. In what context does Joyce use the term 75. Which character says “wasn’t she the
“amor matris,” or motherly love? downright villain to go and do a thing like
A. in The Dubliners, Chandler uses it to that”?
describe family relationships A. Molly Bloom
Ch
B. in The Dubliners, Gabriel uses it in his B. Mrs. Mooney
discussions about death C. Mrs. Sinico
C. in Ulysses, Stephen uses it in his lectures D. Gerty MacDowell
on art 76. Which of the following themes is/are ad-
D. in Ulysses, Leopold uses it to describe dressed in Ulysses?
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his personal identity A. religious identity

71. What is the function of the Linati schema? B. national identity
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A. it outlines the transition from child to C. married relationships

adult in The Dubliners
D. All of the Above
B. it outlines the order of stories in The 77. Who says “history is like a nightmare from
Dubliners which I must awake”?
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C. it outlines the fundamental structure of A. Leopold Bloom

Ulysses
B. Little Chandler
D. it outlines the movement of time in
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C. Joe Donnelly
Finnegans Wake
D. Stephen Dedalus
72. What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses
when it was first published? 78. With which character in The Odyssey does
Molly Bloom best correspond?
A. it was considered inferior by most au-
thors who read it A. Nausicaa
B. Aeolus
B. it was banned for obscenity
C. Penelope
C. it was considered too conventional for
publication D. Telemachus
79. Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce’s
D. it was praised by the government and
Ulysses?
churches
68. D 69. B 70. C 71. C 72. B 73. C 74. A 75. A 76. D 77. D 78. C 79. D
A. The Bible D. it led to the focus on the family as a

B. Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey functional institution
85. How do Shem the Penman and Shaun the
C. Yeat’s “Who Goes with Fergus” Post differ?
D. All of the Above A. while Shem is a conformist, Shaun is a
80. According to Margot Norris, what do talented artist
Joyce’s novels imply about civilization?
B. while Shem would rather be a priest,
A. that it depends on repression Shaun is happy at his work
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B. that it ends paralysis C. while Shem is a postman, Shaun is a
C. that it enables fulfillment artist and writer
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D. that it resolves spiritual crises D. while Shem is an artistic outsider, Shaun
is a dull conformist
81. According to Margot Norris, what is the
ontological problem of Finnegans Wake? 86. In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce repre-
sent the theme of tragic love?
A. the characters’ preference for reality
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over dreams A. he refers to the mythical Daedalus
B. the inability to distinguish between the B. he uses an allusion to the mythical

“self” and “other” Odysseus
C. the inability to experience guilt C. he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult

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D. the disconnection from primal senses
and urges D. he refers to the Oedipal myth
82. According to Margot Norris, what is the 87. In Finnegans Wake, to which text(s) does
significance of guilt in Finnegans Wake? Joyce make an allusion?
A. it represents original sin A. the Book of the Dead

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B. it is linked with sexual perversions B. the Bible

C. Vico’s La Scienza Nuova
C. it represents the Freudian primal scene
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D. All of the Above

D. All of the Above
88. In Finnegans Wake, which of the following
83. According to most critics, what does the
typify family life?
circular structure of Finnegans Wake rep-
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resent? A. murder
A. the impossibility of resurrection B. slander
B. the unconscious C. hypocrisy
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C. unrequited love D. All of the Above

D. the patterns of birth, life, and death 89. Please identify the text from which “then
must any what you like in the power of
84. How do historians say Joyce’s exile mani-
empthoo” comes.
fest itself in Finnegans Wake?
A. “Araby”
A. it led to the combination of multiple lan-
guages to form new words B. “The Dead”
B. it led to the inclusion of dream scenarios C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. Finnegans Wake
C. it led to the lack of allusions to other 90. What do most critics say that Issy repre-
cultures’ stories and myths sents to her brothers and father?
80. A 81. B 82. D 83. D 84. A 85. D 86. C 87. D 88. D 89. D 90. A
A. she is a source of secret, repressed de- 95. Why do critics consider the dream form
sire ideal for Finnegans Wake?
B. she represents the functional family A. it prevents exploration of the uncon-
structure scious
C. she is an example of piety B. it obscures the characters’ immediate
D. she dissolves the tension of the Oedipal thoughts
references C. it allows for the introduction of plot
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91. What is unique about the structure of snippets and new language
Finnegans Wake? D. it makes the readers’ experience of the
A. the last sentence and first sentence are characters less intimate
gd
circular 96. Why do most scholars consider Finnegans
B. the novel has a traditional plot; nothing Wake avant-garde?
is particularly unique about it A. the invented words
C. the start of the book bears no resem- B. the free dream associations
an
blance to the end
C. the sketchy, episodic structure
D. the novel is clearly written from the fu-
ture to the past D. All of the Above
92. Which of the following are popular sources 97. With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often
Ch
of dispute in the critical study of Finnegans identified?
Wake? A. Wolfe Tone
A. whether the novel has a plot B. Charles Stuart Parnell
B. whether the novel has definite charac- C. Father Arnall
ters
D. Daniel O’Connell
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C. whether the novel has a protagonist

98. With which text(s) is the word “riverrun”
D. All of the Above associated?
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93. Which of the following figures of speech

A. The Dubliners
are present in Finnegans Wake?
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A. allusions
C. Ulysses
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B. jokes
C. portmanteaus D. Finnegans Wake
99. From what source is the title of Finnegans
D. All of the Above
Wake taken?
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94. Which of the following themes are devel-

oped in Finnegans Wake? A. a poem by Yeats
A. married relationships B. a popular Irish ballad

B. dreams C. an ancient epic
C. the movement of time D. a poem by Eliot
D. All of the Above
91. A 92. D 93. D 94. D 95. D 96. D 97. B 98. D 99. B
1.15 Dante
1. According to Dante, what does the term C. The relationship focuses on Beatrice’s
“gramatica” mean? chastity and purity.
A. It is static language with unchanging D. All of the above
rules. 6. In De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dante writes pri-
B. It is the language spoken by everyday marily in which language?
people. A. Tuscan
C. It is the only kind of illustrious vernac- B. Italian
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ular.
C. Latin
D. It is synonymous with natural language.
D. English
7. In Vita Nuova, how does Dante represent
gd
2. According to Dante, when is it most appro-
priate to use Latin? love?
A. In written literature A. Love is an ennobling force that offers a

chance for salvation.
B. In everyday speech
an
B. Love is problematic for Dante, because
C. In essays Beatrice is considered impure.
D. In love poetry C. Love has little to do with spirituality.
3. According to most critics, Vita Nuova is an
D. Love obscures all possibility for salva-
example of which of the following genres?
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tion.
A. Autobiography 8. In which dialect is Dante’s Vita Nuova pri-
B. Framed narrative marily written?
C. Lyric poetry A. Latin
D. All of the above B. Tuscan
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4. For what reason was Dante exiled from his C. English

home?
D. French
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A. Because many people were deeply of-

9. In which important medieval city was
fended by The Divine Comedy
Dante born?
B. Because he was embroiled in the con-
A. London
flict between the Black Guelphs and White
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Guelphs B. Rome
C. Because Pope Boniface VIII was upset C. Florence
by his representation of the church in The D. Sorrento
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Divine Comedy
10. In which of the following ways was Dante
D. Because Beatrice’s family wanted the involved in the Italian politics of his time?
two lovers separated
A. He held several positions in the local
5. How is Dante’s relationship with Beatrice government.
an example of courtly love?
B. He conducted diplomatic missions.
A. The relationship watches Dante pass
through stages of love for Beatrice’s physi- C. He literally fought at the Battle of Cam-
cal, moral, and divine beauty. paldino.
B. The relationship provides an example D. All of the above

of passionate love rather than arranged 11. In which text did Dante introduce the
matches. “dolce stil novo” technique?
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. D 11. B
A. The Convivio A. “The sweet silence”

B. Vita Nuova B. “The sweetness of love”
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia C. “Sweet and still”
D. Eclogues D. “Sweet new style”
12. In which way was Dante a precursor of hu-
17. Where did Dante stay while he was in ex-
manism?
ile?
A. He wrote classical epics with Christian
er
materials. A. Paris
B. He promoted the worship of idolatrous B. Ravenna

statues from the ancient times. C. England
gd
C. He rejected the influence of Scholasti- D. All of the above
cism.
18. Which of the following best represents
D. He was uninterested in the poetics of Dante’s criticism of the medieval Church?
the sublime.
13. The quote “women who have intellect of
love” is from which text?
A. Vita Nuova an A. He thought the popes failed to live up
the requirements of their offices.
B. He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.
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B. De Monarchia
C. He believed that most of the teachings
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
were incorrect.
D. The Divine Comedy
D. He thought that the popes were the only
14. What did Dante have in common with successful part of the Church.
Aquinas?
19. Which of the following contributed to the
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A. Both believed that reason was unrelated rise of vernacular literature?

to faith.
A. Most professional scribes found it diffi-
ya
B. Both believed in the joint power of the

cult to write in Medieval Latin.
Church and the State.
B. The spoken language tended to take
C. Both believed that only faith was an im-
precedence in areas where the Church was
portant part of the Christian worldview.
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weak.
D. Both believed that reason and faith were
part of the quest for truth. C. Official documents were written in spo-
ken language.
15. What is the best definition of humanism?
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D. All of the above

A. The movement to write more in vernac-
ular 20. Which of the following historical events
occurred in Dante’s lifetime?
B. The intellectual movement interested in
classical antiquity A. The Italian Renaissance
C. The scientific movement away from B. The Black Death
classical antiquity
C. The Crusades
D. The movement based on literature
about courtly love D. The Enlightenment
16. What is the translation of the term “dolce 21. Which of the following historical figures
stil novo”? influenced Dante?
12. A 13. A 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. D 18. A 19. D 20. C 21. D
A. Cicero A. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld

focuses on punishment for sins.
B. Thomas Aquinas
B. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld
C. Brunetto Latini
is concerned with destiny and future.
D. All of the above
C. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld
22. Which of the following is the theme of De is not expected to last forever.
Vulgari Eloquentia?
D. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld
A. The historical evolution of language
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does not include examples of justice.
B. The language of different literary genres 27. According to Dante, which is the most seri-
ous sin in hell?
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C. The difference between grammar and A. Gluttony
language
B. Avarice
D. All of the above
C. Heresy
23. Which of the following was a popular me-
an
dieval criticism about the Church? D. Treachery
A. Many people were unable to understand 28. According to most critics, how does Dante
Church texts written in Latin. distinguish love from lust?
B. Many people were unable to understand A. Lust is often pure, while love tends to
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the language of the Mass. be crude.
C. Many people took issue with the Pope’s B. Lust and love are both sins that place
inordinate wealth and power. the sinner in hell.
D. All of the above C. Lust involves the subordination of rea-

son to desire.
24. While in exile, how did Dante’s opinions
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about monarchy shift? D. Lust leads to moral improvement, while

love is a more destructive force.
A. He came to prefer the idea of an enlight-
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ened emperor. 29. According to most critics, what does

Geryon represent in The Inferno?
B. He decided that only a dictator should
be in power. A. Fraud
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C. He decided that only the Catholic B. Reason

Church should be in power. C. Justice
D. He came to the realization that all em-
D. Lust
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perors are unjust.

30. According to Robert Hollander, what are
25. Which of the following is the theme of
the two types of allegory used by Dante?
Dante’s Vita Nuova?
A. “Allegory of speech” and “allegory of
A. His dislike of the vernacular language
the poets”
B. His opposition to the separation of
B. “Allegory of speech” and “allegory of
Church and State
irony”
C. His love for Beatrice
C. “Allegory of speech” and “allegory of
D. His experiences in exile the theologians”
26. According to critics, how does Dante’s un- D. “Allegory of the poets” and “allegory of
derworld differ from Virgil’s hell? the theologians”
22. D 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. D
31. Dante’s mention of the “sound of the an- 37. In The Inferno, how is the idea of Fortune
gelic trumpet” refers to which religious represented?
event? A. Fortune is a “divine minister” similar to
A. The Annunciation an angel.
B. Baptism B. Fortune is responsible for the distribu-
tion of worldly goods.
C. Holy Communion
C. Fortune is beyond human understand-
D. The Last Judgment
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ing.
32. In The Inferno, Cerberus is the protector of
which circle of hell? D. All of the above
38. In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil
A. The circle of lust represent?
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B. The circle of gluttony A. Reason
C. The circle of heresy B. Compassion
D. The circle of treachery C. Temperance
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33. In The Inferno, his journey starts on which
D. Fortitude
holiday?
39. In The Inferno, where is hell physically sit-
A. Christmas uated?
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B. All Saint’s Day A. Beneath Cairo
C. All Soul’s Day B. Beneath Jerusalem
D. Good Friday C. Beneath Rome
34. In The Inferno, how are the wrathful pun- D. Beneath Florence
ished? 40. In The Inferno, which historical character
n
A. They violently fight each other in a is found in Satan’s mouth?

muddy swamp. A. Dido
ya
B. They are burned in their graves. B. Pope Boniface

C. They roll heavy stones onto one another. C. Beatrice
D. Judas
D. They are forced to lie under the surface
ra
41. In The Inferno, which three characters are

of a marsh.
located in the deepest circle of hell?
35. In The Inferno, how does his journey end?
A. Guinevere, Dido, and Francesca
A. He remains in hell.
Na
B. Homer, Dante, and Virgil

B. He returns to earth.
C. Brutus, Cassius, and Judas
C. He escapes into Purgatory.
D. Pope Nicholas, Pope Boniface, and Pope
D. He emerges in Paradise. Clement
36. In The Inferno, how is heresy defined? 42. In The Inferno, who defends the city of
Dis?
A. As the denial of the soul’s immortality
A. The sinners in the heretic circle
B. As the rejection free will
B. The furies
C. As the choiceof lust over love
C. The fallen angels
D. As the decision to indulge in various
sins D. The angelic messengers
32. B 33. D 34. A 35. C 36. A 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. D 41. C 42. C 43. A
43. In which circle would Dante place someone A. A traditional type of poetry rejected by
who committed suicide? Dante in favor of new rhyme schemes
A. The circle of violence B. A form of blank verse
B. The circle of wrath C. A poetic form with an interlocking

three-line rhyme scheme
C. The circle of heresy
D. A poetic form with five-line stanzas
D. The circle of treachery 49. Which historical figure appears in the circle
er
44. The phrase “where the sun is silent” is an of lust?
example of which poetic device? A. Francesca
A. Allegory B. Judas
gd
B. Metonymy C. Ciacco
C. Synesthesia D. Alberigo
50. In The Inferno, who initially leads him
D. Simile
an
around hell?
45. The quote “abandon all hope ye who enter
A. Saint Augustine
here” is from which text?
B. Virgil
A. Vita Nuova
C. Homer
Ch
B. The Divine Comedy
D. Judas
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia 51. According to Dante, what place is at the
D. De Monarchia top of his purgatory?
46. What is contrapasso? A. The Gate to Limbo

B. The Garden of Eden
n
A. The idea that the punishment fits the

crime C. The Dark Wood
ya
B. The poetic verse form used in Vita D. The circles of Hell

Nuova 52. According to Dante, which is necessary in
order to make a perfect confession?
C. The structure of the cantos in The Di-
vine Comedy A. The secret confession of sins
ra
D. The theme of love and lust in The Di- B. A lack of remorse

vine Comedy C. The inability to reject one’s old life
47. What is limbo?
Na
D. A sense of gratitude for God’s mercy

A. In The Inferno, the place for many an- 53. According to Dante, who resides in his ante-
cient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian thinkers purgatory?
A. The souls of those who are ready to en-
B. For Dante, the home of major figures ter heaven
from the Hebrew Bible B. The souls of those who are not yet ready
C. The place for virtuous non-Christian to purge their sins
adults C. The souls of those who are about to en-
ter hell
D. All of the above
D. The souls of the repentant who are pun-
48. What is terza rima?
ished for their sins
44. C 45. B 46. A 47. D 48. C 49. A 50. B 51. B 52. D 53. B
54. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what does the C. The heavenly paradise
phrase “the little bark” mean?
D. The earthly paradise
A. It means that sinners must resign them-
59. In The Purgatorio, how does Dante depict
selves to life in hell.
the punishment of the proud penitents?
B. It implies that Beatrice will return later
A. They are punished with whips and bri-
in the poem.
dles.
C. It suggests that paradise is close to pur-
B. They are forced to carry heavy rocks on
er
gatory.
their backs.
D. It highlights the idea that Dante is on a
C. They have their eyes sewn shut with
journey of poetry.
wire.
gd
55. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what is the cen-
tral allegorical theme in The Purgatorio? D. They must walk through thick smoke.
A. The poet’s attempt to climb the moun- 60. In The Purgatorio, how does Dante repre-
tain sent the entryway to the seventh terrace of
lust?
an
B. The poet’s attempt to find his way back
to Florence from Jerusalem A. He must be allowed by Cerberus to pass.
C. The poet’s descent into hell

B. He must walk through an immense wall
Ch
D. The poet’s tour of earthly paradise of flames.
56. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait
C. He must be escorted into the terrace by
distinguishes Dante’s purgatory from his
an angelic messenger.
hell?
A. Purgatory is less future-oriented. D. He must first be ferried across the River
Lethe.
B. Purgatory is a place of redemptive inter-
n
61. In The Purgatorio, the opening of the text

vention.
resembles which type of poem?
C. Purgatory includes references to time.
ya
A. Sonnet
D. Purgatory is less rooted in the human,
natural world. B. Aubade
57. According to most scholars, what does the C. Ode

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chariot in The Purgatorio symbolize? D. Elegy

A. The absence of heretics and monsters 62. In The Purgatorio, what is the function of
in medieval church history the residents’ punishments?
Na
B. The conflict between ancient Romans A. The punishments prevent hope from be-
and the early Church ing reborn in sinners.
C. The impossibility for sinners to repent B. The punishments keep the sinners from
D. The righteousness of the Roman Empire entering the path to salvation.
over time C. The punishments allow the sinners to
58. According to most scholars, what does The purge their sins.
Purgatorio allegorically represent?
D. The punishments remind the sinners
A. The penitent life that they are damned to hell.
B. The afterlife existence for mortal sin- 63. In The Purgatorio, where does Dante phys-
ners ically set purgatory?
54. D 55. A 56. C 57. B 58. A 59. B 60. B 61. B 62. C 63. A
A. In the southern hemisphere A. A place for cleansing and purification

B. In the northern hemisphere B. The place of transition between earth,
heaven, and hell
C. In Florence
C. The setting for the middle portion of
D. In Rome
Dante’s The Divine Comedy
64. In The Purgatorio, which of the following
characters does Dante dream about? D. All of the above
70. What is the function of the River Lethe?
A. Rachel and Leah
er
A. It separates heaven from hell.
B. Brutus and Cassius
B. It prevents sinners from escaping hell.
C. Dido and Aeneas
C. It washes away the memory of sin.
gd
D. Pope Boniface and Pope Clement
65. In The Purgatorio, whom does Dante cite D. It separates Dante from the other sin-
as his example of temperance? ners.
71. Which character does Dante meet at the
A. Pope Boniface
end of his journey through purgatory?
B. Pope Clement
C. Saint Stephen
D. John the Baptist an A. Cato
B. Beatrice
C. Virgil
Ch
66. The levels of purgatory are associated with
D. Homer
which religious concept?
72. Which of the following characters appears
A. The planets in The Purgatorio?
B. The seven deadly sins A. Sapia
C. The Augustan calendar B. Cato
n
D. The seven sacraments C. Sordello

67. The quote “take then henceforth thy plea-
ya
D. All of the above

sure for guide” comes from which text?
73. Which of the following is a common ele-
A. Vita Nuova ment of vision literature?
B. The Convivio A. The themes usually involve life after
ra
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia death

D. The Divine Comedy B. A character’s body is separated from his
68. What does the term “translatio studii” soul
Na
mean? C. A guide leads the narrator on a spiritual

journey
A. The ability to move from purgatory into
heaven D. All of the above
B. The translation of culture from one civ- 74. Who is Cato?
ilization to another A. A character who appears in the lust cir-
C. The movement from one circle of hell cle of hell
to another B. A character who appears in the ninth
D. The idea that the punishment fits the circle of hell
crime C. The example Dante uses to show a per-
69. What is purgatory? fect Christian man
64. A 65. D 66. B 67. D 68. B 69. D 70. C 71. B 72. D 73. D 74. D
D. An ancient pagan that Dante meets in A. English

purgatory B. Latin
75. In The Purgatorio, what do the steps to the C. Italian
Gate of Purgatory represent?
D. Tuscan
A. The seven deadly sins 81. In his Letter to Can Grande, which topic
B. The seven types of sin that keep people does Dante attempt to explain?
from heaven A. His use of allegory
er
C. The three components of the perfect B. His opposition to the separation of
confession Church and State
D. The eight beatitudes C. His belief in the infallibility of the popes
gd
76. According to Dante, which class of people
reside on the planet Mars? D. His interest in medieval cosmology
82. In Saturn, what does Peter Damian say
A. The wise about God’s ways?
B. The warriors of faith
C. The justice rulers
D. The contemplative an A. He says that God’s ways are similar to
those of Roman emperors.
B. He says that God’s ways are extremely
simple.
Ch
77. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what do Dante’s
C. He says that God’s ways are beyond hu-
planets represent?
man understanding.
A. The deadly sins D. He says that God’s ways are only avail-
B. The historical religious eras able to those in heaven.
83. In The Divine Comedy, what do many
C. The liberal arts
n
critics believe Beatrice allegorically repre-

D. The sacraments sents?
ya
78. According to scholars, what is the function A. Natural light

of the rose that Dante sees in paradise? B. Revelations
A. It alludes to the Garden of Eden. C. The light of grace
ra
B. It symbolizes perfection and paradise. D. All of the above

C. It is a symbol of the Virgin Mary. 84. In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure
of paradise on which of the following?
D. All of the above
A. The Renaissance concept of the planets
Na
79. Dante’s nine spheres of heaven are associ- B. The Ptolemaic universe
ated with which of the following religious
concepts? C. Ancient Roman cosmology
A. The deadly sins D. Ancient Greek cosmology

85. In The Paradiso, Dante focuses on which
B. The steps to confession kind of politics?
C. The beatitudes A. The politics of Ravenna
D. The angelic hierarchy B. The politics of ancient Greece
80. In De Monarchia, what language does C. The politics of Italian city-states
Dante primarily use? D. The politics of the Roman Empire
75. C 76. B 77. C 78. D 79. D 80. B 81. A 82. C 83. D 84. B 85. D 86. B
86. In The Paradiso, how does Dante’s journey 92. In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his
through heaven end? tour of heaven?
A. With his exclusion from purgatory A. Virgil
B. With a vision of the Trinity B. Beatrice
C. With his return to hell C. Cato
D. With his death D. Ulysses
87. In The Paradiso, on what day do the events 93. In The Paradiso, who questions Dante
er
occur? about hope?
A. Easter Sunday A. Saint James

B. Saint John
gd
B. Wednesday after Easter
C. Saint Peter
C. Good Friday
D. Saint Thomas
D. All Saint’s Day
94. In which section of The Divine Comedy
88. In The Paradiso, what event does Dante
an
does Saint Bernard appear?
allegorically represent?
A. The Inferno
A. The soul’s union with the body
B. The Convivio
B. The soul’s ascent to heaven
Ch
C. The Purgatorio
C. The soul’s tour of purgatory
D. The Paradiso
D. The soul’s descent into hell
95. What does “transhumanize” mean?
89. In The Paradiso, which class of people does
A. It is the ability to move above the earthly
Dante place on the moon?
state into heaven.
A. Those with the most constancy of char-
n
B. It is the ability to reunite with the body.

acters
B. The proud
ya
C. It is the ability to commit sins while in

C. The best emperors and rulers the human body.
D. The souls of those who abandoned their D. It is the ability to separate from the body
vows in order to reach hell.
ra
90. In The Paradiso, which quality does Dante 96. What is the function of the Primum Mo-
associate with the wise? bile?
A. Justice A. It symbolizes Dante’s distrust of the
Na
Church.
B. Temperance
B. It is the home of the angels.
C. Fortitude
C. It separates heaven from hell.
D. All of the above
D. It reminds Dante of his own pride.
91. In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in
the sphere of the sun? 97. Which best describes Cicero’s concept of
heaven?
A. Virgil
A. He believed that eternal life in heaven
B. Thomas Aquinas was the real one.
C. Judas B. Because he was pagan, he did not be-
D. Cacciaguida lieve in heaven.
87. B 88. B 89. D 90. D 91. B 92. B 93. A 94. D 95. A 96. B 97. A
C. Because he was an early Christian, he B. Dante’s enemy

believed that heaven was inaccessible.
C. Dante’s patron
D. He believed that heaven, hell, and earth
D. The emperor of Italy in Dante’s lifetime
were indistinguishable.
98. Which qualities do the fixed stars in par-
100. In De Monarchia, what political opinion
adise represent?
does Dante express about empire?
A. Faith, hope, and love
A. He promotes the separation of Church
er
B. Faith, wisdom, and love and State.
C. Love, compassion, and pride B. He declares papal authority infallible.
D. Justice, temperance, and faith C. He declares emperors infallible.
gd
99. Who was Can Grande? D. He says that all empires should be ruled
A. The poet who leads Dante on a tour of by dictators.
hell
98. A 99. C 100. A
1.16 Hamlet
an
Ch
1. Complete the following famous line from C. Cousin/cousin
Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state D. Brother/brother
of
5. What is the name of the playlet Hamlet
A. England stages for Claudius?
B. Venice A. Slings and Arrows
n
C. Denmark B. Vice of Kings

D. Maine C. The Murder of Gonzago
ya
2. Which of the following characters does not D. The Slaying of Lucianus

appear in Hamlet? 6. Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And
A. Polonius flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."?
ra
B. Gertrude A. Fortinbras
C. Claudius B. Marcellus
D. Miranda C. Chorus
Na
3. Where was Hamlet studying before he re- D. Horatio

turned to Denmark? 7. How does Queen Gertrude die?
A. Wittenberg A. Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
B. Oslo B. Drowns in the river outside the castle.
C. London C. Suffers a fatal heart attack while watch-
D. Dublin ing Hamlet fight Laertes.
4. How are Polonius and Laertes related? D. Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s
cup.
A. Father/son
8. Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes
B. Uncle/nephew in Paris?
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. C
A. Francisco A. Burdock
B. Gorgonzola B. Hebenon
C. Reynaldo
C. Baneberry
D. Samson
D. Hemlock
9. Who is Voltimand?
A. Ambassador to the King of Norway 11. How many soliloquies does Hamlet de-
from the King of Denmark liver?
er
B. Hamlet’s cousin A. 2
C. Ambassador to the King of Denmark B. 4
from the King of Norway
gd
C. 7
D. Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
10. What poison does Claudius pour into the D. 9
ear of Hamlet’s father, causing his death?
an
9. A 10. B 11. C
1.17 Macbeth
Ch
1. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was writ- C. I.A Richards
ten in memory of?
D. F. R Leavis
A. A.H. Hallam 5. The main character in Paradise Lost Book
B. Edward King I and Book II is?
C. Wellington A. God
n
D. P.B Shelley B. Satan

2. Macbeth hires assassins to murder Ban- C. Adam
ya
quo’s son, named.

D. Eve
A. Angus
6. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sub-
B. Ross lime’?
C. Fleance
ra
A. William Wordsworth
D. Lennox
B. P.B Shelley
3. Which of the following is not an apparition
shown to Macbeth by the Witches: C. S. T. Coleridge
Na
A. An armed head D. John Keats
B. A bloody dagger floating in mid-air. 7. Which of the following is the first novel of
D. H. Lawrence?
C. A bloody child.
A. The White Peacock
D. A child crowned, with a tree in his hand
B. The Trespasser
4. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of C. Sons and Lovers
ideas’?
D. Women in Love
A. Allen Tate 8. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members
B. J.C Ransom of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. D
A. Tennyson A. Love’s labour’s lost

B. Charles Lamb B. As you like it
C. Lockhart C. A mid Summer night’s dream
D. T. S. Eliot D. Much ado about nothing

15. :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to
9. W.B.Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of
show To whom all scenes of Europe
eternity’ in his poem?
homage owe. He was not of an age, but
er
A. Sailing to Byzantium for all time". Who wrote above lines for
B. Byzantium Shakespeare:
A. Jonson
C. The Second Coming
gd
B. Bacon
D. Leda and the Swan
C. Wordsworth
10. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym,
Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his D. none of above
early work? 16. Seven Ages of Man appears in “ As you like
A. Charles Dickens
B. W. M. Thackeray
C. Graham Greene an it". Which character’s speech it is?
A. Amiens
B. Orlando
Ch
C. Oliver
D. D. H. Lawrence
D. Jaques
11. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffec-
17. “To be or not to be that is the question",
tual angel beating in the void his luminous
is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s
wings in vain’?
plays?
A. Walter Pater
n
A. Othello
B. A. C. Swinburne B. Macbeth
ya
C. Matthew Arnold C. Hamlet

D. T. S. Eliot D. King Lear
12. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descen- 18. Identify the writer who was expelled from
dant of? Oxford for circulating a pamphlet
ra
A. Keats A. P.B. Shelley

B. Byron B. Charles Lamb
Na
C. Shelley C. Hazlitt
D. Wordsworth D. Coleridge
19. Who, among the following, is not con-
13. W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for lit-
nected with the Oxford Movement?
erature in the year?
A. Robert Browning
A. 1938
B. John Keble
B. 1925
C. E.B. Pusey
C. 1932
D. J. H. Newman
D. 1923 20. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to
14. “Under the green wood tree” is a song in: describe the political novels of?
9. A 10. C 11. C 12. A 13. D 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. A 19. C 20. D
A. Charles Dickens A. Twelfth Night

B. Anthony Trollope B. Hamlet
C. W. H. White C. The Tempest
D. B.Disraeli D. Henry IV,Pt I
21. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, 27. In which country is Macbeth set?
regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and
A. Spain
loss’
er
B. Denmark
A. Tennyson
C. Scotland
B. Browning
D. Canada
gd
C. Swinburne
28. Who is traveling with Macbeth when he
D. D.G. Rossetti first encounters the Three Witches?
22. How many soliloquies are spoken by Ham-
A. Macduff
let in the play Hamlet?
an
B. Mercutio
A. Nine
C. Lady Macbeth
B. Five
D. Banquo
C. Seven
Ch
29. At the beginning of the play, the Scots are
D. Three at war with which country?
23. Identify the novel in which the character
A. Norway
of Charlotte Lucas figures
B. Prussia
A. Great Expectations
C. Iceland
B. The Power and the Glory
n
D. Poland
C. Lord of the Flies
30. How does Lady Macbeth explain her hus-
ya
D. Pride and Prejudice band’s wild behavior at the banquet?

24. “There’s a special providence in the fall of
A. She tells the guests that Banquo’s ghost
a sparrow.” The line given above occurs in
is haunting Macbeth.
A. Hamlet
B. She tells the guests that Macbeth has
ra
B. Henry IV, Pt I had too much to drink.

C. The Tempest C. She informs the guests that Macbeth is
ill.
Na
D. Twelfth Night
25. “My own great religion is a belief in the D. She reveals that Macbeth is overcome
blood, the flesh as being wiser than the in- with grief over the death of Duncan.
tellect.” Who wrote this? 31. Who tells Macbeth, “The queen, my lord, is
dead "?
A. Graham Greene
A. Seyton
B. D. H. Lawrence
B. Siward
C. Charles Dickens
C. The Doctor
D. Jane Austen
26. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in D. Caithness
his play? 32. Shakespeare’s father died in:
21. D 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. A 32. B
A. 1600 38. Which roles have played by Shakespeare

in Hamlet and As you like it?
B. 1601
A. Fortinbras, Corin
C. 1602
B. Leartus, Silvius
D. 1603
C. Osric, Touchstone
33. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain’s
Men Theatrical Company as a: D. Ghost, Old servant Adam
39. In year Shakespeare bought the largest
er
A. Actor and playwright
house in Stratford, called New place:
B. Playwright and poet
A. 1595
C. Playwright and writer
gd
B. 1996
D. None of above
C. 1597
34. How many from his plays were published
in his lifetime: D. 15598
40. In 1599 which famous actor and his brother
an
A. Only sixteen
Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank
B. Only seventeen side, called the Globe?
C. Only eighteen A. Augustine Phillipps
Ch
D. Only nineteen B. John Heimnge
35. In which year Globe theater got fire and C. Henry Condell
destroyed?
D. Richard Burbage
A. 1610
41. In Shakespeare’s literary output, the period
B. 1611 1604-1608 is the period of:
n
C. 1612 A. Comedy plays

D. 1613 B. Historical plays
ya
36. Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative C. Great Tragedies

poem Venus and Adonis to—————.
D. None of above
A. Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of 42. Following are the lines of: “I’m your wife if
Southampton
ra
you marry me If not, I’ll die your maid to

B. Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of be your fellow You may deny me, but I’ll be
Southampton your servant Whether you deny or not".
A. Hamlet
Na
C. William Fitzwilliam, first earl of

Southampton B. Romeo and Juliet
D. Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of C. Tempest
Southampton
D. Othello
37. During which period London theaterrs re-
43. Which of the following are characters of
mained closed on account of the plague?
“Much ado about nothing":
A. 1592
A. Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio,
B. 1593 Leonato
C. 1594 B. Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio,
Leanato
D. 1595
33. C 34. B 35. D 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. C 40. D 41. B 42. C 43. A
C. Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, A. Margaret

Leanato B. Emilia
D. Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Hora- C. Helena
tio
D. Celia
44. Which of the following is in correct sequel
49. “ Some born great, some achieve great-
?
ness And some have greatness thrust upon
A. Comedy of errors, A mid summer them". Above lines are taken from which
night’s dream, Much ado about nothing,
er
of following plays?
Henry 6 part three.
A. Macbeth
B. A mid summer night’s dream,Romeo
B. Othello
and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear,Pericles.
gd
C. Twelfth night
C. All’s well that ends well, The tempest, D. As you like it
As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer 50. Which of the following play was written in
night’s dream,Much ado about nothing. 1601?
D. King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure
for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.
45. Who was killed by Hamlet unintention-
ally? an A. Othello
B. Hamlet
C. King Lear
Ch
D. Macbeth
A. Leartus
51. “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Macbeth” was
B. Polonius in:
C. Forinbras A. 1606
D. Horatio B. 1607
n
46. Who is second Prince of Arragon in “Much C. 1608

ado about nothing"?
D. 1609
ya
A. Leonato 52. Which of the following was written first:

B. Balthasar A. Henry six
C. Don John B. Henry seven
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D. Don Pedro C. Henry five

47. Which character spoke following lines? D. None of above
“What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, 53. Which of the following are King Lear’s
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Be- daughters?
Na
longing to a man, O be some other name!

What’s in a name? That which we call A. Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia
a rose By any other word would smell as B. Goneril, Ophelia and Regan
sweet," C. Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
A. Desdemona D. Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice
B. Juliet 54. Shakespeare wrote plays?
C. Rosalind A. 32
D. Hero B. 34
48. Who is the second attending gentlewoman C. 36
on Hero? Ursula and
D. 38
44. C 45. B 46. D 47. B 48. A 49. C 50. B 51. A 52. A 53. C 54. C
55. With the accession of King James to the A. Joe Gargery

English throne, Lord Chamberlain’s Man B. Abel Magwitch .
was renamed:
C. Miss Havisham
A. King Lear
D. Bentley Drumnile
B. Gentleman 62. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Ma-
C. King’s Man hatma Gandhi?
D. None of above A. Sesame and Lilies
er
56. Uneasy lies the head that ( King Henry B. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
four, part two): C. Unto This Last
A. Wears a crown D. Fors Clavigera
gd
B. Wears a hat 63. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
C. Wears a wig A. Catholicism
D. none of these B. Protestantism
57. The epigraph of The Waste Land is bor-

rowed from?
A. Virgil an C. Paganism
D. Buddhism
64. One important feature of Jane Austen’s
style is?
Ch
B. Fetronius
A. boisterous humour
C. Seneca
B. humour and pathos
D. Homer
C. subtlety of irony
58. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal
D. stream of consciousness
City’ in the first and third sections from?
n
65. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’

A. Baudelaire is taken from?
B. Irving Babbit A. The Bible
ya
C. Dante B. The Irish mythology

D. Laforgue C. The German mythology
59. Which of the following myths does not fig- D. The Greek mythology
ra
ure in The Waste Land? 66. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s
A. Oedipus name is?
A. Susan
Na
B. Grail Legend of Fisher King

B. Jane
C. Philomela
C. Gertrude
D. Sysyphus
D. Emily
60. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
67. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
A. brother
A. Ralph and Jack
B. brother-in-Jaw B. Simon and Eric
C. guardian C. Ralph and Eric
D. cousin D. Simon and Jack
61. Estella is the daughter of? 68. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
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
68. A
A. lawyer 75. Which of the following plays of Shake-

B. postman speare has an epilogue?
C. Judge A. The Tempest
D. School teacher B. Henry IV, Pt I

69. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following C. Hamlet
line? ‘To Carthage then I came’
D. Twelfth Night
A. Buddha
er
76. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be;
B. Tiresias that is the question’ occurs in?
C. Smyrna Merchant A. Act II, Scene I
gd
D. Augustine B. Act III, Scene III
70. The following lines are an example of im-
C. Act IV, Scene III
age. ‘The river sweats Oil and tar’
D. Act III, Scene I
A. visual
an
77. Identify the character in The Tempest who
B. kinetic
is referred to as an honest old counselor
C. erotic
A. Alonso
D. sensual
B. Ariel
Ch
71. Which of the following novels has the sub-
title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’? C. Gonzalo
A. Vanity Fair D. Stephano
B. Middlemarch 78. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth
C. Wuthering Heights Night?
A. Or, What is you Will
n
D. Oliver Twist
72. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in B. Or, What you Will
guise of a swan?
ya
C. Or, What you Like It

A. Mars
D. Or, What you Think
B. Hercules
79. Which of the following plays of Shake-
C. Zeus speare, according to T. S. Eliot, is ‘artistic
ra
D. Bacchus failure’?
73. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’? A. The Tempest
Na
A. Hopkins B. Hamlet
B. Tennyson C. Henry IV, Pt I
C. Browning D. Twelfth Night
D. Wordsworth 80. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
74. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Luc-
A. Earl of Northumberland
know’?
B. Earl of March
A. Browning
C. Earl of Douglas
B. Tennyson
C. Swinburne D. Earl of Worcester
81. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
D. Rossetti
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
A. ten books 88. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death

B. eleven books of?
C. nine books A. Milton
D. eight books B. Coleridge

82. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with? C. Keats
A. Darcy D. Johnson
er
B. Wickham 89. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest
friend’ refers to?
C. William Collins
A. Nature
D. Charles Bingley
gd
83. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great B. Dorothy
Expectations? C. Coleridge
A. Philip Pirrip D. Wye
B. Filip Pirip
an
90. Who, among the following, is not the sec-
C. Philip Pip ond generation of British Romantics?
D. Philips Pirip A. Keats
84. The novel The Power and the Glory is set B. Wordsworth
Ch
in?
C. Shelley
A. Mexico
D. Byron
B. Italy
91. Which of the following poems of Coleridge
C. France is a ballad?
D. Germany A. Work Without Hope
n
85. Which of the following is Golding’s first

B. Frost at Midnight
novel?
ya
C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

A. The Inheritors
D. Youth and Age
B. Lord of the Flies
92. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
C. Pincher Martin
ra
A. Leigh Hunt
D. Pyramid
86. Identify the character who is a supporter B. Milton
of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers? C. Shakespeare
Na
A. Mrs. Morel D. Thomas Chatterton

B. Annie 93. The second series of Essays of Elia by
C. Miriam Charles Lamb was published in?
D. Clara Dawes A. 1823
87. Vanity Fair is a novel by? B. 1826
A. Jane Austen C. 1834
B. Charles Dickens D. 1833
C. W. M. Thackeray 94. Which of the following poets does not be-
D. Thomas Hardy long to the ‘Lake School’?
82. B 83. C 84. A 85. B 86. A 87. C 88. C 89. B 90. B 91. C 92. A 93. D 94. A
A. Keats A. Spenserian Stanza

B. Coleridge B. Ballad
C. Southey C. Ottava Rima
D. Wordsworth D. Rhyme Royal
95. Who, among the following writers, was not 101. Identify the writer who first used blank
educated at Christ’s Hospital School, Lon- verse in English poetry?
don?
er
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Wordsworth
C. Earl of Surrey
C. Leigh Hunt
gd
D. Milton
D. S. T. Coleridge
96. Identify the work by Swinburne which be- 102. The Aesthetic Movement which blos-
gins “when the hounds of spring are on somed during the 1880s was not influenced
by?
an
winter’s traces..”?
A. Chastelard A. The Pre-Raphaelites
B. A Song of Italy B. Ruskin
C. Atalanta in Calydon C. Pater

Ch
D. Songs before Sunrise D. Matthew Arnold
97. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship 103. Identify the rhetorical figure used in
and the Heroic in History is a course of? the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-
faithful kept him falsely true.”
A. six lectures
A. Oxymoron
n
B. five lectures
C. four lectures B. Metaphor
ya
D. seven lectures C. Simile

98. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his D. Synecdoche
lecture on the ‘Hero as King’? 104. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
A. Johnson
ra
A. Pumblechook
B. Cromwell
B. Herbert Pocket
C. Shakespeare
C. Bentley Drummle
Na
D. Luther
D. Jaggers
99. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as
a defence of contemporary landscape artist 105. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the
especially Turner? Glory?
A. The Stones of Venice A. A teacher
B. The Two Paths B. A clerk
C. The Seven Lamps of Architecture C. A thief

D. Modem Painters D. A dentist
100. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, 106. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation
each with eleven syllables, is known as? from?
95. A 96. C 97. B 98. B 99. D 100. C 101. C 102. D 103. A 104. D 105. C 106. B
A. Milton A. Kubla Khan

B. William Shakespeare B. Christabel
C. T. S. Eliot C. The Ancient Mariner
D. Ruskin D. Ode on the Departing Year
107. “Dost thou think, because thou art vir- 113. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his
tuous, there shall be no more cakes and famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’?
ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in A. Rime royal
er
Twelfth Night?
B. Ottava rima
A. Duke Orsino
C. Terza rima
B. Malvolio
gd
D. Spenserian Stanza
C. Sir Andrew Aguecheek 114. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
D. Sir Toby Belch A. Milton
108. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the em- B. Coleridge
bodiment of Milton’s?
A. Sense of injured merit
B. Hatred of tyranny an C. Carlyle
D. John Ruskin
115. Tracts for the Times relates to?
Ch
C. Spirit of revolt A. The Oxford Movement
D. All these B. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
109. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer C. The Romantic Movement
spirit of all knowledge”?
D. The Symbolist Movement
A. Wordsworth 116. The Chartist Movement sought?
n
B. Shelley A. Protection of the political rights of the

working class
ya
C. Keats
D. Coleridge B. Recognition of chartered trading com-
panies
110. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
C. Political rights for women
ra
A. Viola
D. Protection of the political rights of the
B. Duke middle class
C. Olivia 117. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
Na
D. Malvolio A. Byron
111. What was the cause of William’s death in B. Shelley
Sons and Lovers? C. Coleridge
A. An accident D. Lamb
B. An overdose of morphia 118. Who was “Fortinbras”?
C. Suicide A. Claudius’s son
D. Pneumonia B. Son to the king of Norway
112. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium C. Ophelia’s lover
dream?
D. Hamlet’s Mend
107. D 108. C 109. A 110. B 111. D 112. A 113. C 114. D 115. A 116. A 117. C
118. B 119. C
119. “The best lack all conviction, while the A. Hamlet

worst are full of passionate intensity.” The B. Twelfth Night
above lines have been taken from?
C. The Tempest
A. The Waste Land
D. Henry IV, Pt I
B. Tintern Abbey
126. Epic similes are found in which work of
C. The Second Coming John Milton?
D. Prayer for My Daughter A. Paradise Lost
er
120. William Morel in Sons and Lovers is B. Sonnets
drawn after?
C. Lycidas
A. Lawrence’s father
gd
D. Areopagitica
B. Lawrence’s brother 127. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youth-
C. Lawrence himself ful work entitled?
D. None of these A. ‘Last Impressions’
an
121. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ B. ‘False Impressions’
poetry is? C. ‘First Impressions’
A. Satire D. ‘True Impressions’
Ch
B. Sensuality 128. Who said that Shakespeare in his come-
dies has only heroines and no heroes?
C. Sensuousness
A. Ben Jonson
D. Social reform
B. John Ruskin
122. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy
of life is? C. Thomas Carlyle
n
A. agnosticism D. William Hazlitt

129. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s
B. optimism
greatest?
ya
C. pessimism
A. comic figures
D. skepticism
B. historical figures
123. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’
C. romantic figures
ra
means?
D. tragic figures
A. Religious Scripture
130. That Milton was of the Devil’s party with-
B. Seaside Resort out knowing it, was said by?
Na
C. Tailor Repatched A. Blake

D. None of these B. Eliot
124. “Epipsychidion” is composed by? C. Johnson
A. Coleridge D. Shelley
B. Wordsworth 131. Essays of Ella are?
C. Keats A. full of didactic sermonising
D. Shelley B. practically autobiographical fragments
125. “The better part of valour is discretion” C. remarkable for their aphoristic style
occurs in Shakespeare’s?
D. satirical and critical
120. D 121. C 122. B 123. C 124. D 125. D 126. A 127. C 128. B 129. A 130. A
131. B 132. C
132. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The A. Immortality Ode

Princess’ is?
B. Tintern Abbey
A. Queen Victoria’s coronation
C. The Prelude
B. Industrial Revolution
D. The Solitary Reaper
C. Women’s Education and Rights 139. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’
D. Rise of Democracy was first published in 1802, it had only?
er
133. Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of histor- A. Stanzas I to IV
ical realism capturing the spirit of? B. Stanzas I toV
A. the Medieval age C. Stanzas I to VI
gd
B. the Elizabethan age D. Stanzas I to VII
C. the age of Queen Anne 140. Which method of narration has been em-
D. the Victorian age ployed by Dickens in his novel “Great Ex-
pectations”?
an
134. Oedipus Complex is?
A. Direct or epic method
A. a kind of physical ailment
B. Documentary method
B. a kind of vitamin
C. Stream of Consciousness technique
Ch
C. a brother’s attraction towards his sister
D. Autobiographical method
D. a son’s attraction towards his mother
141. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?
135. “The rarer action is in virtue that in
vengeance.” This line occurs in? A. Wordsworth
A. Hamlet B. Coleridge
n
B. Henry IV,Pt I C. Lamb
C. The Tempest D. Shelley

ya
142. To which character in Hamlet does the

D. Twelfth Night
following description apply? “The te-
136. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a? dious wiseacre who meddles his way to his
A. Picaresque novel doom.”
ra
B. Gothic novel A. Claudius
C. Domestic novel B. Hamlet

Na
D. Historical novel C. Polonius
137. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This D. Rosencrantz

line occurs in the poem? 143. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’
A. Immortality Ode is included in?
A. Dramatis Personae
B. Tintern Abbey
B. Dramatic Idyls
C. The Second Coming
C. Asolando
D. Leda and the Swan
138. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper D. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
of Nature’ in his poem 144. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?
133. A 134. D 135. C 136. C 137. A 138. B 139. B 140. A 141. B 142. B 143. A
144. D 145. C
A. The Royal Society of Edinburgh A. an intellectual

B. The Royal Society ofLondon B. a man of action
C. Royal Society of Arts C. a passionate lover
D. Royal Society of Literature D. an over ambitious man

151. Which of Shakespeare’s characters ex-
145. Which of the following is an unfinished
claims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?
novel by Jane Austen?
A. Ferdinand
er
A. Sense and Sensibility
B. Antonio
B. Mansfield Park
C. Miranda
C. Sandition
D. Prospero
gd
D. Persuasion 152. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?
146. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spin- A. Paganism
ster throughout her life in “Great Expecta-
tions”? B. Pre-Christian theology
A. She was poor

B. She was arrogant
C. Because she was betrayed by the bride- an C. Christianity and the Renaissance
D. Greek nihilism
153. The style of Paradise Lost is?
Ch
A. more Latin than most poems
groom
B. more spontaneous than thought out
D. She was unwilling to marry
C. more satirical than spontaneous
147. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry
was influenced by the? D. more dramatic than lyrical
154. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike
A. French Revolution
n
but later tend to like?

B. Glorious Revolution of1688 A. Mr. Bennet
ya
C. Reformation B. Wickham
D. Oxford Movement C. Bingley
148. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly in- D. Darcy
debted to the poets of the?
ra
155. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should

A. Puritan movement neither be a lender nor a borrower?
B. Romantic revival A. Gertrude
Na
C. Neo-classical age B. Polonius

C. Horatio
D. Metaphysical school
D. Hamlet
149. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is re-
ferred to in these words in Twelfth Night? 156. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his?
A. Orsino A. senecan attitude

B. patriotism
B. Sir Andrew
C. love of nature
C. Sir Toby
D. platonic ideals Plays by Shakespeare..
D. Malvolio COMEDIES All’s Well That Ends Well
150. Hamlet is? As You Like It Comedy of Errors Love’s
146. B 147. A 148. B 149. D 150. C 151. C 152. C 153. A 154. D 155. B 156. B
Labour’s Lost Measure for Measure Mer- A. Hamlet

chant of Venice Merry Wives of Wind-
B. Macbeth
sor Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado
about Nothing Taming of the Shrew Tem- C. King Lear
pest Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of D. King Oedipus
Verona Winter’s Tale HISTORIES Cymbe-
162. Othello was a :
line Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry
V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry A. General of England
VI, Part III Henry VIII King John Pericles
er
B. General of Denmark
Richard II Richard III TRAGEDIES Antony
and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius C. Prince of England
Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo D. Prince of Denmark
gd
and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Androni- 163. was father of Desdemona?
cus Troilus and Cressida
A. Othello
157. Which of the following is the earliest com-
edy of Shakespeare? B. Brabantio
an
A. A mid summer night’s dream C. Iago
B. Much ado about nothing D. Gratiano
C. As you like it 164. Othello was sent to fight with:
Ch
D. Love’s labour’s lost A. French army
158. “Twelfth night” is a: B. German army
A. Tragedy C. Ottomans
B. Comedy D. None of above
C. Problem play 165. Desdemona was killed by :
n
D. Both a and b A. Iago

159. Who was villain in Othello? B. Casio
ya
A. Claudius C. Othello
B. Iago D. Brabantio
C. Egeus 166. Othello gave Desdemona as a token
ra
of love:
D. None of above
A. Ring
160. Which of the following are tragedies of
Shakespeare? B. Handkerchief
Na
A. Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cres- C. Pendant

sida D. Bengals
B. Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus 167. Desdemona was :
Andronicus
A. wife of Othello
C. King Lear, Measure for measure and The
B. daughter of Othello
merchant of Venice
C. both a and b
D. Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and
Antony and Cleopatra D. none of above
161. Which of the following tragedy is not writ- 168. “ A man can die but once” is one of quote
ten by Shakespeare? of following plays:
157. D 158. B 159. B 160. B 161. D 162. A 163. B 164. C 165. C 166. B 167. A
168. B
A. Henry 6 part three A. Coriolanus

B. Henry 4 part two B. Cymbeline
C. Henry 6 part one C. Timon of Athens
D. Henry 4 part one D. Winter’s tale
169. “I have no other but a woman’s reason I
173. Who is the heroin of The Tempest?
think him so, because I think him so” Which
of Shakespeare’s play contain above lines? A. Ophelia
er
A. The two gentle men of Verona B. Desdemona
B. Merry wives of Windsor C. Miranda
C. The noble Kinsman D. Helena
gd
D. Measure for measure 174. Hamlet consist of acts:
170. “ What piece of work is a man How noble
A. 3
in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form
and moving how express and admirable In B. 4
an
action! how like an angle In apprehension!
C. 5
how like a God: The beauty of the World,
the paragon of animals And yet, to me, D. 6
what is this quintessence of dust? Above 175. Which of Shakespeare’s play is his only
Ch
lines are taken from Hamlet’s which act? play that has never been adopted for film
A. act 1 scene two or Television?
B. act 2 scene two A. Taming of the Shrew
C. act 3 scene two B. The two Noble Kinsmen
D. act 4 scene two C. Troilus and Cressida
n
171. Which of the following is Hamlet’s

D. Cymbeline
mother?
176. Which of Shakespeare’s play features Sir
ya
A. Beatrice
John Falstaff?
B. Margaret
A. The merry wives of Windsor
C. Gertrude
B. Troilus and Cressida
ra
D. Rosalind
C. King John
172. Following are the characters of: Apeman-
tus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempro- D. Titus Andronicus
nius
Na
169. A 170. B 171. C 172. C 173. C 174. C 175. B 176. A
1.18 Poetry
1. Which of the following is not a literary de- D. Grammar

vice used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
2. A pattern of accented and unaccented syl-
A. Assonance lables in lines of poetry
B. Onomatopaea A. rhyme scheme
C. Rhyme B. meter
1. D 2. B
C. alliteration 9. a description that appeals to one of the five

senses
3. The repetition of similar ending sounds A. imagery
B. personification
A. alliteration
C. metaphor
B. onomatopoiea
C. rhyme
10. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting,
er
D. none of the above and characters
4. Applying human qualities to non-human A. lyric
things
B. free verse
gd
A. personification
C. narrative
B. onomatopoeia D. none of the above
C. alliteration 11. A poem with no meter or rhyme
an
D. none of the above A. lyric
5. The repetition of beginning consonant B. free verse
sounds C. narrative
A. rhyme
Ch
B. onomatopoeia 12. A poem that generally has meter and
rhyme
C. alliteration
A. lyric
B. free verse
6. A comparison of unlike things without us-
n
ing a word of comparison such as like or C. narrative

as D. none of the above
ya
A. metaphor 13. True or false: Writing predates poetry.

B. simile A. True
C. personification B. False
14. Who wrote the poems, “On death” and
ra

“Women, Wine, and Snuff?"
7. The comparison of unlike things using the
A. John Milton
words like or as
B. John Keats
Na
A. metaphor
C. P.B Shelley
B. simile
D. William Wordsworth
C. personification
15. Which represents an example of allitera-
D. none of the above tion?
8. Using words or letters to imitate sounds A. Language Arts
A. alliteration B. Peter Piper Picked Peppers
B. simile C. I like music
C. onomatopoeia D. A beautiful scenery with music
16. Which of the following is not a poet?
3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. C 11. B 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. B 16. B
A. William Shakespeare A. Sir Walter Scott

B. Terry Saylor B. William Butler Yeats
C. Browning C. Henry Longfellow
D. Emily Dickinson D. Robert Burns

23. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy
17. Which of the following is not an English
books?
poet (i. e. from England) ?
A. The Poor Man and the Lady
er
A. Victor Hugo
B. The Return of Native
B. Alexander Pope
C. Chollttee
C. John Milton
gd
D. None of the above
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
24. Concentrate on these elements when writ-
18. Where were the pilgrims going in the can- ing a good poem.
terbury tales?
A. characters, main idea, and theme
an
A. To the shrine of st. Peter at canterbury B. purpose and audience
cathedral
C. theme, purpose, form, and mood.
B. To the shrine of saint thomas becket at
canterbury cathedral D. rhyme and reason
Ch
25. Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee bet-
C. both A and B
ter after death’?
D. None of these A. How do I love thee
19. Where did chaucer bury? B. Ode to a Grecian urn
A. westminster abbey C. In faith I do not love thee with mine
n
B. kent church eyes
C. chapel at windsor D. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

ya

26. Which poet is considered a national hero
20. chaucer was imprisoned during ? in Greece?
A. hundred years’ war A. John keats
ra
B. Black death B. Lord Byron
C. Peasant revolt C. Solan

Na
D. none of the above D. Sappho

27. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear asso-
21. What is the earliest surviving European
ciated with?
poem?
A. Nature
A. The Homeric epic
B. Epics
B. The Gilgamesh epic
C. Sonnets
C. The Deluge epic
D. Nonsense
D. The Hesiodic ode
28. In coleridge’s poem ’The rime of the An-
22. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by cient Mariner’where were the three gal-
whom? lants going?
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
29. B
A. A funeral A. Dylan Thomas

B. A wedding B. Ezra Pound
C. Market C. Yeats
D. To the races D. E. E. cummings

35. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
29. Harold Nicholson described which poet as
’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’? A. Masefield
B. Causley
er
A. e. e. Cummings
C. Hughes
B. T. S. Elliot
D. Larkin
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
gd
36. Carl Sandburg ’Planked whitefish’ contains
D. Walt Whitman what kind of imagery?
30. What was strange about Emily Dickinson? A. Sea scenes
A. She rarely left home B. Rural Idyll
B. She wrote in code
C. She never attempted to publish her po-
etry an C. War
D. Innocent childhood
37. Which influential American poet was born
in Long Island in 1819?
Ch
D. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
A. Emily Dickinson
31. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during
which conflict? B. Paul Dunbar
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
A. Boer War
D. Walt Whitman
B. Second World War
n
38. In 1960 ’The Colossus’ was the first book

C. Korean War of poems published by which poetess?
ya
D. First World War A. Elizabeth Bishop

32. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church B. Sylvia Plath
mouse? C. Marianne Moore
A. Betjeman
ra
D. Laura Jackson
B. Hughes 39. In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet
with triumph and ’?
C. Marvel
A. Glory
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D. Larkin
B. Ruin
33. Which American writer published ’A brave
C. Disaster
and startling truth’ in 1996
D. victory
A. Robert Hass
40. Which of the following is not a poetic tra-
B. Jessica Hagdorn dition?
C. Maya Angelou A. The Epic
D. Micheal Palmer B. The Comic
34. Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innis- C. The Occult
free’? D. The Tragic
30. A 31. D 32. A 33. C 34. C 35. C 36. C 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. C 41. A
41. What is the study of poetry’s meter and 47. What is a poem called whose first letters of
form called? each line spell out a word?
A. Prosody A. Alliterative
B. Potology B. Epic
C. Rheumatology C. Acrostic
D. Scansion D. Haiku
42. Shakespeare composed much of his plays 48. How has Stephen Dunn been described in
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in what sort of verse? ’the Oxford Companion to 20th Century
Poetry?
A. Alliterative verse
A. A poet of middleness
B. Sonnet form
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B. Capturing a sense of spiritual ma-
C. Iambic pentameter
rooness
D. Dactylic hexameter
C. One of the leading prairie poets
43. Which poet invented the concept of the
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variable foot in poetry? D. Has some distinction as a critic
49. ’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group
A. William Carlos Williams
who emerged when?
B. Emily Dickinson
A. The 1900’s
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C. Gerard Manly Hopkins
B. The 1960’s
D. Robert Frost
C. The 1920’s
44. Who wrote this famous line: ’Shall I com-
pare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more D. The 1930’s
lovely and more temperate’ 50. Margaret Atwood was born in which Cana-
dian city?
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A. TS Eliot
A. Vancouver
B. Lord Tennyson
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B. Toronto
C. Charlotte Bronte
C. Ottowa
D. Shakespeare
45. From what century does the poetic form D. Montreal
the folk ballad date? 51. Which of the following words describe the
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prevailing attitude of High-Modern Litera-

A. The 12th
ture?
B. The 14th
A. Skeptical
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C. The 17th
B. Authoritative
D. The 19th
C. Impressionistic
46. From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this
famous line: ’Did my heart love til now?/ D. Both a & c
Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true 52. Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk
beauty until this night’ Wood?"
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream A. Anthony Hopkins
B. Hamlet B. Richard Burton
C. Othello C. Tom Jones
D. Romeo and Juliet D. Dylan Thomas
42. C 43. A 44. D 45. A 46. D 47. C 48. A 49. B 50. C 51. D 52. D 53. A
53. Who wrote Canterbury Tales? A. Endymion

A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. To some ladies
B. Dick Whittington C. To hope
C. Thomas Lancaster D. None of above

60. “Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
D. King Richard II
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
54. Who wrote “The Hound of the Brought death into the world, and all our
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Baskervilles?" woe, With loss of Eden." This is an extract
A. Agatha Christie from:
B. H Ryder-Haggard A. Paradise Lost
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B. Paradise Regained
C. P D James
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Arthur Conan Doyle
D. Divorce Tracts
55. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
an
61. William Shakespeare was born in the year:
A. Titus Andronicus
A. 1564
B. Taming of the Shrew
B. 1544
C. White Devil
C. 1578
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D. Hamlet
D. 1582
56. is a late 20th century play written by a 62. Which of the following is not a Shakespeare
woman? tragedy?
A. Queen Cristina A. Titus Andronicus
B. Top Girls
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C. Camille C. Macbeth
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D. The Homecoimg D. None of the above

57. Which of the following writers wrote his- 63. Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale?’
torical novels? A. George Bernard Shaw
A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
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B. John Dryden
B. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth C. Christopher Marlowe
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Tay- D. William Shakespeare
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lor Coleridge 64. What is the difference between a simile and

D. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley a metaphor?
58. Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers?" A. No difference. Simply two different
ways in referring to the same thing.
A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B. A simile is more descriptive.
B. Irvine Welsh
C. A simile uses as or like to make a com-
C. Agatha Christie parison and a metaphor doesn’t.
D. None of above D. A simile must use animals in the com-
59. Which of the following is not a work of parison.
John Keats? 65. What is the word for a “play on words"?
54. D 55. C 56. C 57. B 58. C 59. D 60. A 61. A 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. A
A. pun 72. What is a sonnet?

B. simile A. A poem of six lines
C. haiku B. A poem of eight lines
D. metaphor C. A poem of twelve lines
66. What is the imitation of natural sounds in D. A poem of fourteen lines
word form? 73. What is study of meter, rhythm and intona-
A. Personification tion of a poem called as?
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B. Hyperboles A. Prosody
C. Alliteration B. Allegory
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D. Onomatopoeia C. Scansion
67. The theme is ? D. Assonance
A. a plot. 74. Which figure of speech is it when a state-
ment is exaggerated in a poem?
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B. an character
A. Onomatopeia
C. an address
B. Metonymy
D. the point a writer is trying to make
C. Alliteration
about a subject.
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68. Which is not a poetry form? D. Hyperbole
75. There was aware of her true love, at length
A. epic
come riding by - This is a couplet from the
B. tale Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure
of speech is used by the poet?
C. ballad
A. Metaphor
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D. sonnet
69. Which is an example of a proverb? B. Synecdoche
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A. Get a “stake” in our business. C. Euphemism
B. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too D. Irony
76. Which culture is known for their long,
C. The snow was white as cotton. rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
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D. You’re driving me crazy. A. Hindu

70. Which is an exaggeration?
B. Celtic
A. Alliteration
C. Arabic
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B. Haiku
D. Arameic
C. Hyperbole 77. Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me
D. Prose not to the marriage of true minds bring:
71. Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental A. Impediments
creative act using languages? B. Inconveniences
A. H. W. Longfellow C. Worries
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Troubles
C. Dylan Thomas 78. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic
form?
66. D 67. D 68. B 69. B 70. C 71. C 72. D 73. A 74. D 75. B 76. C 77. A 78. A
A. Jintishi A. Denver
B. Villanelle B. St Louis
C. Ode C. Cuba
D. Toronto
D. Tanka
85. Ted Hughes was married to which Ameri-
79. What is the title of the poem that begins can poetess?
thus - ’What is this life, if full of care, we
have no time to stand and stare’? A. Carolyn Kizer
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B. Mary Oliver
A. Comfort
C. Sylvia Plath
B. Leisure
D. Marianne Moore
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C. Relaxation 86. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of
D. Tranquility his death?
80. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet A. 24
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as most of his poems revolved around na- B. 31
ture?
C. 21
A. William Blake D. 28
B. William Shakespeare 87. In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ’Under
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Milk Wood’ first become known?
C. William Morris
A. Book of poetry
B. A radio play
81. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
C. A stage play
A. Quartet
D. a short film
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B. Limerick 88. The magazine ’Contemporary Poetry and

C. Sextet Prose’ was inspired by which exhibition?
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A. The Festival of Britain

D. Palindrome
B. The Surrealist Exhibition
82. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
C. People of the 20th Century
A. An awful way to earn a living
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D. Drawing the 20th CEntury

B. A game of knowledge 89. Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publica-
C. The soul exposed tion in 1953?
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D. An explosion of language A. Owner convicted of fraud

B. Fall in Sales
83. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of
poetry? C. Rise in taxation on magazines
A. Light verse D. Shortage of paper
90. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better
B. Romantic known as what?
C. Political satire A. Politician
D. War poems B. Dramatist
84. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his child- C. Novelist
hood?
D. Architect
79. B 80. D 81. B 82. B 83. D 84. B 85. C 86. D 87. B 88. B 89. A 90. C 91. B
91. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not 94. chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin?
a great poet, he’s certainly a great some-
A. Lust
thing’?
B. Corruption
A. Elliot
B. Kipling C. Theft
C. Cummings D. Gluttony
D. Brooke 95. How many languages did chaucer know?
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92. which of these is magnum opus of A. 2
chaucer?
B. 4
A. Troilus and criseyde
C. 1
gd
B. House of fame
D. 5
C. The canterbury tales
96. from which language the name ”chaucer”
D. Parliament of fowls. has been driven?
93. in which language the stories of canterbury
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tale are written? A. french
A. French B. latin
B. Latin C. italian
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C. Middle english D. english
D. English
92. C 93. C 94. D 95. B 96. A

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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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2.1 Middle Ages
1. Popular English adaptations of romances A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy

appealed primarily to
A. the royal family and upper orders of the B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
nobility
C. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the En-
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B. the lower orders of the nobility glish People

C. agricultural laborers D. a code of laws promulgated by King
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D. the clergy Ethelbert

2. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet 5. Toward the close of which century did En-
looked back on their pagan ancestors with: glish replace French as the language of con-
ducting business in Parliament and in court
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A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

of law?
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
A. tenth
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
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B. twelfth
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
3. Words from which language began to enter C. thirteenth
English vocabulary around the time of the D. fourteenth
Norman Conquest in 1066?
6. Which of the following best describes litote,
A. French a favorite rhetorical device in Old English
B. Norwegian poetry?
C. Spanish A. embellishment at the service of Chris-
D. Danish tian doctrine
4. What is the first extended written specimen B. repetition of parallel syntactic struc-
of Old English? tures
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. C
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C. ironic understatement 12. Which of the following statements is not

an accurate description of Old English po-
D. stress on every third diphthong
etry?
7. Which of the following authors is consid-
A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of
ered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personi-
moral conduct.
fied in Sir Lancelot?
B. Its formal and dignified use of speech
A. Julian of Norwich was distant from everyday use of language.
B. Margery Kempe
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C. William Langland C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much
as it was a figure of speech.
D. Sir Thomas Malory
D. Christian and pagan ideals are some-
gd
8. The use of \whale-road\for sea and \life- times mixed.
house\for body are examples of what liter- 13. What was vellum?
ary technique, popular in Old English po-
etry? A. parchment made of animal skin
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B. the service owed to a lord by his peas-
A. symbolism
ants (\villeins\)
B. simile
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
C. metonymy D. a prized ink used in the illumination of
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D. kenning prestigious manuscripts
14. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the
9. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction
fate of those who fail to observe the sacred
for
duty of blood vengeance?
A. courtiers entering the service of Richard
A. banishment to Asia
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B. everlasting shame
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B. translators of French romances

C. conversion to Christianity
C. women who have chosen to live as reli-
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D. being buried alive

gious recluses
15. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
D. knights preparing for their first tourna-
A. Sir Thomas Malory
ment
B. Margery Kempe
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10. Which of the following languages did not

coexist in Anglo-Norman England? C. Geoffrey Chaucer
A. Latin D. William Langland

16. Which literary form, developed in the
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B. Dutch fifteenth century, personified vices and

C. French virtues?
D. Celtic A. the short story
11. What event resulted from the premature B. the heroic epic
death of Henry V? C. the morality play
A. the Battle of Agincourt D. the romance
17. Which hero made his earliest appearance
B. the Battle of Hastings
in Celtic literature before becoming a sta-
C. the Norman Conquest ple subject in French, English, and German
literatures?
D. the War of the Roses
7. D 8. D 9. C 10. B 11. D 12. A 13. A 14. B 15. D 16. C 17. B
A. Beowulf 22. To what did the word the roman, from

which the genre of \romance\emerged, ini-
B. Arthur
tially apply?
C. Augustine of Canterbury
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the
D. Alfred Roman Empire
18. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the B. a story about love and adventure
church, beheading the archbishop of Can-
C. a Roman official
terbury?
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D. a work written in the French vernacular
A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating
radical religious reform.
23. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were
B. The common people were still essen-
gd
indebted to Breton storytellers for their nar-
tially pagan. ratives?
C. They believed that writing, a skill A. Geoffrey Chaucer
largely confined to the clergy, was a form
of black magic. B. Marie de France
D. The church was among the greatest of

oppressive landowners.
19. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale an C. Chrt́ien de Troyes
D. b and c only
24. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and
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and Ancrene Riwle show what about the William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle
poetry and prose written around the year English literature is evident in the works
1200? of which of the following writers?
A. They were written for sophisticated and A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
well-educated readers. B. the Gawain poet
B. Writing continued to benefit only read- C. the Beowulf poet
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ers fluent in Latin and French.

D. Chrt́ien de Troyes
C. Their readers’ primary language was
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25. Only a small proportion of medieval books

English. survive, large numbers having been de-
D. a and c only stroyed in:
20. Who was the first English Christian king? A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning
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in the 1450s.
A. Alfred
B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
B. Richard III
C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in
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C. Richard II
the 1530s.
D. Ethelbert D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts
21. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Mon- that followed the beginning of printing in
mouth’s The History of the Kings of 1476.
Britain? 26. Who would be called the English Homer
A. the reign of King Arthur and father of English poetry?
B. the coronation of Henry II A. Sir Thomas Malory
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta B. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of C. Caedmon

Aquitaine D. John Gower
18. D 19. D 20. D 21. A 22. D 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. B 27. D
27. Which king began a war to enforce his B. the Geats

claims to the throne of France in 1336?
C. the Anglo-Saxons
A. Henry II
D. the Danes
B. Henry V 30. Which influential medieval text purported
C. Louis XIV to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
D. Edward III A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
28. Which of the following statements about
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B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
Julian of Norwich is true?
C. The Dream of the Rood
A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore
classical paganism. D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
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B. She was a virgin martyr. 31. How did Henry II, the first of England’s
Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces
C. She is the first known woman writer in in southern France?
the English vernacular.
A. the Battle of Hastings
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D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem,
Rome, and Santiago. B. Saint Patrick’s mission
29. Which people began their invasion and con- C. the Fourth Lateran Council
quest of southwestern Britain around 450? D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
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A. the Normans
28. C 29. C 30. A 31. D
2.2 16th Century

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1. Short plays called staged dialogues on ple, and its language in the early sixteenth
religious, moral, and political themes-were century?
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performed by playing companies before the

A. English travelers were not obliged to
construction of public theaters.
learn French, Italian, or Spanish during
A. interludes their explorations of the Continent.
B. spectacles B. English was fast supplanting Latin as
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the second language of most European in-

C. meditations
tellectuals.
D. mysteries
C. English travelers often returned from
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2. Which of the following refers to the small the Continent with foreign fashions, much
area of Ireland, extending north from to the delight of moralists.
Dublin, over which the English government
could claim effective control? D. Intending his Utopia for an interna-
tional intellectual community, Thomas
A. Ulster More wrote in Latin, since English had no
B. the Protectorate prestige outside of England.
C. the Pale 4. Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne

of England?
D. West Britain
A. Elizabeth II
3. Which of the following statements accu-
rately reflects the status of England, its peo- B. Henry IX
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. C
C. James I 10. Which designates the theory that the reign-

D. Charles I ing monarch possesses absolute authority
as God’s deputy?
5. Which of the following might be ad-
dressed/represented by pastoral poetry? A. manifest destiny
A. shepherd and shepherdesses who fall in B. extreme unction
love and engage in singing contests C. royal absolutism
B. heroic stories in epic form D. constitutional monarchism
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C. a celebration of the humility, content- 11. Which of the following statements is not
ment, and simplicity of living in the country an accurate reflection of education during
the English Renaissance?
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D. A and C only A. It was aimed primarily at sons of the
6. Which of the following sixteenth-century nobility and gentry.
poets was not a courtier? B. Its curriculum emphasized ancient
A. George Puttenham Greek, the language of diplomacy, profes-
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B. Philip Sidney sions, and higher learning.
C. Walter Ralegh C. It was conducted by tutors in wealthy

families or in grammar schools.
D. Thomas Wyatt
D. It was ordered according to the me-
7. To what does the phrase \the stigma of
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dieval trivium and quadrivium.
print\refer?
12. What was the only acknowledged religion
A. lead poisoning contracted from han- in England during the early sixteenth cen-
dling printer’s ink tury?
B. the brutal punishment for printing with- A. Atheism
out a license
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B. Protestantism
C. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the
Bible in English C. Catholicism
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D. the perception among court poets that D. Ancestor-worship

printed verses were less exclusive 13. What is blank verse?
8. Who owned the rights to a theatrical A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
script?
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A. the patron of the acting company, eg, B. the verse form of the Shakespearean
the Lord Chamberlain sonnet
B. the bishop of London C. free verse, without rhyme or regular me-
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C. the printer ter

D. the acting company D. unrhymed iambic pentameter
9. From which of the following Italian texts 14. Which royal dynasty was established in the
might Tudor courtiers have learned the art resolution of the so-called War of the Roses
of intrigue and the keys to gaining and and continued through the reign of Eliza-
keeping power? beth I?
A. Castiglione’s \The Courtier\ A. Tudor
B. Dante’s \Divine Comedy\ B. Windsor
C. Boccaccio’s \Decameron\ C. York
D. Machiavelli’s \The Prince\ D. Lancaster
5. D 6. A 7. D 8. D 9. D 10. C 11. B 12. C 13. D 14. A
15. Which of the following shifts began in the 20. Who introduced the art of printing into
reign of Henry VII and continued under his England?
Tudor successors? A. Elizabeth Eisenstein
A. the growing authority of the Pope over B. Johannes Gutenberg
domestic English affairs
C. Henry VIII
B. the expansion of England’s colonial pos-
sessions D. William Caxton
21. Which of the following describes the chief
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C. the rise in the power and confidence of
system by which writers received financial
the aristocracy
rewards for their literary production?
D. the countering of feudal power struc- A. charity
tures by a stronger central authority
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B. patronage
16. Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well
as court rituals and events, a cult of C. censorship
formed around Elizabeth and dictated the D. subscription
nature of relations between herself and her
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22. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney
court.
attribute to poetry?
A. ignominy A. a magical power whereby poetry plays
B. unwarranted abuse tricks on the reader
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C. odium B. a divine power whereby poetry trans-
mits a message from God to the reader
D. love
17. To what subgenre did the Senecan influence C. a moral power whereby poetry encour-
give rise, as evidenced in the first English ages the reader to emulate virtuous models
tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex?
D. a defensive power whereby poetry and
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A. villain tragedy
its figurative expressions allow the poet to
B. poetic tragedy avoid censorship
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C. heroic tragedy 23. Which of the following sixteenth-century

works of English literature was translated
D. revenge tragedy
into the English language after its first pub-
18. Which of the following is true about public lication in Latin?
theaters in Elizabethan England?
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A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

A. They relied on admission charges, an
innovation of the period. B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
B. The early versions were oval in shape. C. Thomas More’s The History of King
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Richard III
C. They were located outside the city lim-
its of London. D. Thomas More’s Utopia
24. Who began to ignite the embers of dissent
D. all of the above against the Catholic church in November
19. The churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral was 1517 in a movement that came to be known
well-known for its: as the Reformation?
A. ruinous condition. A. Anne Boleyn
B. performing bears. B. Martin Luther
C. graffiti. C. Pope Leo X
D. bookshops. D. Ulrich Zwingli
15. D 16. D 17. D 18. D 19. D 20. D 21. B 22. C 23. D 24. B
25. Between 1520 and 1550, the population of C. Pirandello

London:
D. Boccaccio
A. remained constant. 28. What impulse probably accounts for the
B. fell from 375,00 to barely 100,000. rise of distinguished translations of works,
such as Homer’s lliad and Odyssey, into
C. doubled from 60,000 to 120,000. English during the sixteenth century?
D. doubled from 600,000 to 1,200,000. A. human reverence for the classics
26. Which historical figure initiated a series of
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B. the belief that the English were direct
religious persecutions condemning Protes-
descendants of the ancient Greeks
tants as heretics and burning them at the
stake in the 1550s? C. pride for the vernacular language
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A. Archbishop Cranmer D. a and c only
B. Catherine of Aragon 29. Which was not an objection raised against
the public theaters in the Elizabethan pe-
C. Elizabeth I riod?
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D. Mary Tudor A. They caused excessive noise and traffic.
27. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier),
a book that was highly influential in the
B. They charged too much.
English court, providing subtle guidance
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on self-display? C. They excited illicit sexual desires.
A. Cavalcanti D. They drew young people away from
work.
B. Castiglione
25. C 26. D 27. B 28. D 29. B

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1. What was the general subject of the Welsh D. Augustus Caesar

poet Katherine Philips’s work?
3. What was the intended target of the Gun-
A. celebrations of the transience of all life powder Plot in 1605?
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and beauty
A. Westminster Abbey
B. celebrations of lesbian sexuality in
B. Tower Bridge
terms that did not imply a male readership
C. the Houses of Parliament
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C. celebrations of religious ecstasy and di-

vine inspiration D. Buckingham Palace
D. celebrations of female friendship in Pla- 4. Which of the following colonial ventures
tonic terms normally reserved for male took place in the reign of James I (1603-25)?
friendships
A. the founding of the Jamestown settle-
2. James I liked to imagine himself as a mod- ment
ern version of which ruler?
B. the founding of the Plymouth colony
A. Pericles
C. Henry Hudson’s fruitless search for the
B. Genghis Khan
Northwest Passage
C. Richard Lionheart
D. all of the above
1. D 2. D 3. C 4. D
5. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes’s de- A. All royalties from the sale of books went
fense of absolute sovereignty based on a to the crown (hence the name).
theory of social contract? B. Poets were required to have a university
A. The Litany in a Time of Plague diploma (the original \poetic license\).
B. Utopia C. All books had to be dedicated to a noble

or royal patron.
C. Leviathan
D. All books had to be submitted for offi-
er
D. The Advancement of Learning cial approval before publication.
6. Who served as Protector under England’s 11. What major new prose genre emerged in
first written constitution? the Jacobean era?
gd
A. Gerrard Winstanley A. the novel
B. Oliver Cromwell B. the sermon

C. the familiar essay
C. Praisegod Barebone
D. the diary
an
D. George Monk
12. Which group of radicals got their
7. Which religious radical advocated the civic name from their penchant for rambling
toleration of all religions, including Catholi- prophecy?
cism, Judaism, and Islam?
Ch
A. the Fifth Monarchists
A. John Lilburne
B. the Roarers
B. William Laud C. the Diggers
C. Roger Williams D. the Ranters
D. Oliver Cromwell 13. Which of the following did Milton not ad-
n
vocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s?

8. What is the delicate balancing act of Mar-
vell’s \Horatian Ode\? A. the disestablishment of the church and
ya
the removal of bishops

A. praising Roman virtues whilst endors-
ing Christian beliefs B. the right of the people to dismiss and
even execute their rulers
B. praising feminine virtue whilst mocking
C. the free circulation of ideas without
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the fixation on chastity

prior censorship
C. celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst
D. the restoration of the monarchy
inviting sympathy for the executed king
14. Which poet was a member of the powerful
Na
D. celebrating the Restoration whilst re- and culturally influential Sidney family?
gretting the frivolity of the new regime
A. Ben Jonson
9. Which of the following was not one of the
B. Aemilia Lanyer
four bodily humours?
C. Samuel Daniel
A. choler
D. Mary Wroth
B. blood
15. What historical figure promoted the rapid
C. cholesterol growth of a high Anglican faction within
the church whose ceremony, ritual, and
D. black bile
doctrine more closely resembled Roman
10. What was the licensing system? Catholicism?
5. C 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. C 10. D 11. C 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B

A. William Collins 20. Which was not among the \new\genres pro-
moted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and
B. William Laud
Herbert?
C. William Shakespeare
A. the Petrarchan sonnet
D. William Tyndale
B. the classical satire
16. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II
C. the country-house poem
ruled:
D. the epigram
er
A. with an absolute prerogative his father
would have envied. 21. Which of the following plays was not au-
thored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean pe-
B. through a system of draconian military
riod?
gd
courts.
A. Othello
C. with deference to Parliament’s legisla-
tive supremacy. B. Volpone
D. only a small area around London and C. King Lear
an
Oxford. D. Antony and Cleopatra
17. What was one of the first acts of Parliament 22. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse
after the outbreak of hostilities in the First epic that assimilates and critiques the epic
Civil War?
Ch
tradition?
A. the abolishment of public plays and A. L’Allegro
sports
B. Lycidas
B. the conversion of the English church to
Catholicism C. Paradise Lost
C. the adoption of English as the official D. The Divine Comedy

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language 23. Which poem testifies to the profound

D. the consolidation of power in an abso- doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s
ya
lute monarch conversion from Catholicism to Protes-

tantism?
18. Which of the following female authors of
the Jacobean era wrote a work that became A. \Air and Angels\
the \first\of its kind to be published by an
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B. \Satire 3\
English woman?
C. \The Apparition\
A. Rachel Speght
D. \The Indifferent\
Na
B. Aemilia Lanyer
24. Which of the following was not a cause as-
C. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland sociated with militant Protestant reformers
D. all of the above (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists)?
19. Who authored the scholarly biography, Life A. the pursuit of a more confrontational
of Donne? policy towards Catholic powers
A. Izaak Walton B. the elimination of bishops
B. Katherine Philips C. the right of congregations to choose

their own leaders
C. John Skelton
D. the wider use of religious images in
D. Isabella Whitney churches
16. C 17. A 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. C 23. B 24. D
25. Which of the following themes or subjects 28. Which of the following was characteristic
was not common in the works of Cavalier of the court of James I?
poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Den-
A. gluttonous feasting
ham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling,
James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert B. hard drinking
Herrick? C. hunting
A. courtly ideals of the good life D. all of the above
B. carpe diem 29. Which writer was not active under both
er
Elizabeth I and James I?
C. loyalty to the king
A. William Shakespeare
D. pious devotion to religious virtues
gd
26. Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, estab- B. Ben Jonson
lishing the Stuart dynasty? C. John Donne
A. James IV of Scotland D. John Milton
B. James VI of Scotland 30. Which of the following was not an ex-
an
pressed objective of the \Long Parlia-
C. Mary, Queen of Scots ment\when it convened in 1640?
D. Anne Boleyn A. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
27. The idea that God predestines human be-
Ch
B. mounting a revolution and executing
ings to be saved or damned is associated
the king
with which Protestant reformer?
C. bringing to trial the king’s hated minis-
A. Martin Luther
ters, Strafford and Laud
B. John Calvin D. remaining in session until they them-
C. Henry VIII selves agreed to disband
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D. Arminius
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25. D 26. B 27. B 28. D 29. D 30. B
2.4 Restoration and 18th Century

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1. According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but C. symbolically to suggest that natural ob-
a blockhead ever wrote except for : jects correspond to an inner,
A. love.\ D. All the above
3. Which work exposes the frivolity of fash-
Na
B. honor.\
ionable London?
C. money.\
A. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
D. his party.\
B. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
2. Romantic poetry about the natural world
uses descriptions of nature C. Behn’s Oroonoko
A. to depict a metaphysical concept of na- D. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

ture by endowing it with traits normally 4. Which book was not written by Jane
associated with humans Austen?
B. as a means to demonstrate and discuss A. Sense and Suspensibility
the processes of human thinking B. Emma
1. C 2. D 3. D 4. A
C. Pride and Prejudice 10. In which work do you read: “That’s my last
Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if
D. Mansfield Park
she were alive."?
5. According to a theater licensing act, re-
pealed in 1843, what was meant by “legiti- A. Porphyria’s Lover
mate” drama? B. My Last Duchess
A. The dramaturge and playwright had to C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
be related. D. Fra Lippo Lippi
er
B. All of the actors were male. 11. What happened in 1707 that would for-
ever alter the relationship between Eng-
C. All of the actors were British.
land, Wales, and Scotland?
D. The play was spoken.
gd
A. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen
6. Which of the following best describes the of Scots
doctrine of empiricism?
B. the Toleration Act
A. All knowledge is derived from experi-
C. the failed invasion of the Spanish Ar-
an
ence.
mada
B. Human perceptions are constructed and
D. the Act of Union
reflect structures of political power.
12. Pope made money by selling subscriptions
C. The search for essential or ultimate prin- to his translation of this classical epic.
Ch
ciples of reality.
A. The Bahagavad Gita
D. The sensory world is an illusion.
B. The Odyssey
7. Who wrote: “I have measured out my life
C. The Illiad
with coffee spoons."?
D. The Aeneid
A. William Carlos Williams
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13. What name is given to the English literary

B. T.S. Eliot period that emulated the Rome of Virgil,
C. Ernest Hemingway Horace, and Ovid?
ya
D. Hart Crane A. Augustan

8. Which two writers can be described as writ- B. Metaphysical
ing historical novels? C. Romantic
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A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley D. Neo-Romantic

B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor 14. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
Coleridge A. Goorge peele
Na
C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth B. Samuel daniel

D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë C. Phineas fletcher
9. Who was deposed from the English throne D. Thomas kyd
in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 15. Which of the following is not generally con-
1688? sidered to be a neoclassical poet?
A. Elizabeth I A. John Dryden
B. James II B. Henry Vaughan
C. George II C. Alexander Pope
D. William and Mary D. Ben Jonson
5. D 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. B 11. A 12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B

16. Which of the following is not a common A. the Republicans and the Royalists
feature of neoclassical poetry?
B. the Royalists and the Whigs
A. Imitation of classical forms and allusion
C. the Tories and the Whigs
to mythology
D. the Royalists and the Tories
B. An effort to represent human nature
22. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
C. Use of the rhymed couplet
A. Seagull
D. Fantastic comparisons
er
17. Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an En- B. Albatross
glish university? C. Humming Bird
A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27 D. Crow
gd
B. Asthma, headaches, and spinal defor- 23. Which of the following became the most
mity made him an invalid popular Romantic poetic form, following
C. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbid- on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspira-
den from attending tion is contained within the inner feelings
an
of the individual poet as “the spontaneous
D. He just wasn’t bright enough overflow of powerful feelings"?
18. In the late seventeenth century, a “battle
A. the lyric poem written in the first per-
of the books” erupted between which two
son
groups?
Ch
B. the sonnet
A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
C. doggerel rhyme
B. round-earthers and flat-earthers D. the political tract
C. the Welsh and the Scots 24. Who became the first \prime minister\of
Great Britain in the reign of George II?
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D. champions of ancient and modern learn-

ing A. Henry St. John
19. Which poet, critic and translator brought B. Robert Harley
ya
England a modern literature between 1660

C. John Churchill
and 1700?
D. Robert Walpole
A. Addison
25. What is Shakespeare’s longest play?
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B. Bunyan
A. Taming of the Shrew
C. Crabbe
B. Romeo and Juliet
D. Dryden
Na
20. What name is given to the English literary C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, D. Hamlet
Horace, and Ovid?
26. Which statement(s) about inventions dur-
A. Augustan ing the Industrial Revolution are true?
B. Metaphysical A. Hand labor became less common with
C. Romantic the invention of power-driven machinery.
D. Neo-Romantic B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.

21. The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water,
divided the country into which two politi- became a primary source of power.
cal parties?
D. both a and c
16. D 17. C 18. D 19. D 20. A 21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. D 26. D 27. A
27. When the Parliament, controlled by the pu- A. William Butler Yeats
ritans, took power in England, one of the
B. James Joyce
acts that greatly influenced Literature of
that time was C. Thomas Moore
A. The closing of theatres D. Edgar Allan Poe
B. The return of the King. 33. Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tris-
tram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock
C. King Arthurs’ dead time for psychological time?
er
D. King to exile A. Henry Fielding
28. Which of the following is a typically Ro- B. Laurence Sterne
mantic poetic form?
gd
C. Samuel Richardson
A. the fractal
D. Tobias Smollett
B. the figment
34. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on pro-
C. the fragment found themes such as death, but he also had
an
D. the aubade a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a
cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes.
29. Which of the following poems describe or
celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of A. Alexander Pope
humanity and the world effected by the cre- B. William Collins
Ch
ative capacity of the human mind?
C. Thomas Gray
A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
D. Ben Jonson
B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
35. What was \restored\in 1660?
C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the
A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles
Rights of Woman
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II
D. all but C B. the dominance of the Tory Party
ya
30. In which work do you read: “Things fall

C. the \Book of Common Prayer\
apart; the center cannot hold. "?
D. toleration of religious dissidents
A. The Canturbury Tales
36. He wrote both religious and secular poetry.
B. The Dark Angel One of his poems urged virgins to make the
ra
C. The Wild Swans of Coole most of their time.

D. The Second Coming A. Ben Jonson
Na
31. John Donne is, in some sense, the origina- B. Alexander Pope
tor of metaphysical poetry. But who is most C. Robert Herrick
closely associated with the “founding” of
neoclassical poetry? D. John Dryden
A. William Wordsworth 37. Which of the following was a major fac-

tor in the unprecedented economic wealth
B. Alexander Pope of Great Britain during the eighteenth cen-
C. Ben Jonson tury?
D. George Herbert A. formal diplomatic relations with China
32. Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the center B. the exploitation of colonial resources,
cannot hold "? labor, and the slave trade
28. C 29. D 30. D 31. C 32. A 33. B 34. C 35. A 36. C 37. B
C. the American and French revolutions 43. Sir John Denham commemorated this poet,
referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who,
D. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a
“like the morning star”, descends “to the
commodity
shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age
38. Which of the following descriptions would invades.”
not have applied to any Romantic text?
A. a spiritual autobiography written in an
epic style B. John Donne
er
B. a lyric poem written in the first person C. Abraham Cowley
C. a comedy of manners D. John Dryden

D. a political tract demanding labor reform 44. What is the term we now use for what the
gd
Romantics called “mesmerism," one of the
“occult” practices that allowed people to ex-
39. Horace’s doctrine \ut pictura poesis\was in-
plore altered states of consciousness?
terpreted to mean:
A. smoking opium
an
A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. hypnotism
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature. C. psychoanalysis
D. dream interpretation
Ch
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a
verbal art. 45. In which work do you read: “Beauty is
40. Which of the following was not considered truth, truth beauty."?
a type of the alienated, romantic vision- A. Adonais
ary?
B. Bright Star
A. Prometheus
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C. Ode on a Grecian Urn

B. Satan
D. La Bell Dame Sans Merci
C. Cain
ya
46. According to Samuel Johnson, “No man but

D. George III a blockhead ever wrote except for :
41. Which chilling novel of surveillance and
A. love."
entrapment had the alternative title Things
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as They Are? B. honor."

A. Jane Austen’s Emma C. money."
B. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein D. his party."
Na
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams 47. His “To Penthurst” is considered to be one
of the primary texts of the neoclassical
D. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
movement.
42. Wordsworth described all good poetry as
A. Sir John Denham
A. the rhythmic expression of moral intu-
ition B. Ben Jonson
B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful C. Thomas Carew

feelings D. John Dryden
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age 48. Which metrical form was Pope said to have
D. the divine gift of grace brought to perfection?
38. C 39. D 40. D 41. C 42. B 43. C 44. B 45. C 46. C 47. B 48. A
A. the heroic couplet 54. Which metrical form was Pope said to have
B. blank verse brought to perfection?
A. the heroic couplet
C. free verse
B. blank verse
D. the ode
49. Which of the following periodical publica- C. free verse
tions (reviews and magazines) appeared in D. the ode
the Romantic era? 55. Who in the Romantic period developed a
er
A. London Magazine new novelistic language for the workings
of the mind in flux?
B. The Spectator
A. Maria Edgeworth
C. The Edinburgh Review
gd
B. Sir Walter Scott
D. A and C only
50. In the late seventeenth century, a \battle C. Thomas De Quincey
of the books\erupted between which two D. Jane Austen
groups?
an
56. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical
A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the
“spirit of the age," which, in an era of rev-
olutionary thinking, depended on a belief
B. round-earthers and flat-earthers
in the limitless possibilities of the poetic
Ch
C. the Welsh and the Scots imagination?
D. champions of ancient and modern learn- A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
ing
51. What served as the inspiration for P.B Shel- B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy
ley’s poems to the working classes A Song: B. Shelley
“Men of England” and England in 1819?
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C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Tay-

A. the organization of a working class lor Coleridge
men’s choral group in Southern England
ya
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

B. the Battle of Waterloo 57. Which sorts of political reform took place
C. the Peterloo Massacre during the Romantic period?
D. the storming of the Bastille A. Parliamentary reform, increasing repre-
ra
52. Which of the following is not indebted to sentation of the working classes
the Gothic genre? B. Labor reform, improving working con-
A. William Beckford’s Vathek ditions for industrial laborers
Na
B. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk C. Educational reform, producing a dra-

matic increase in literacy
C. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom
D. A and C only
D. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
58. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard
53. Who wrote: “Beauty is truth, truth considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jef-
beauty."? ferson to have been greater than Homer?
A. John Keats A. Macpherson
B. William Shakespeare B. Merlin
C. Samuel Butler C. Decameron
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Ossian
49. D 50. D 51. C 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. D 56. C 57. D 58. D 59. B
59. In which county was Jane Austin born? 65. Becky sharp was the heroine in which
novel?
A. Sussex
A. Vanity Fair
B. Hampshire
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Yorkshire
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Norfolk
D. Mansfield Park
60. What literary work best captures a sense of
66. With its forbidden themes of incest, mur-
the political turmoil, particularly regarding
er
der, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of
the issue of religion, just after the Restora-
sexual desire, Horace Walpole’s Castle of
tion?
Otranto, created which literary genre?
A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
gd
A. the revenge tragedy
B. Butler’s Hudibras B. the Gothic romance
C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild C. the epistolary novel
D. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel D. the comedy of manners
61. Neoclassicists tended to view poetry as the
result of genius overflowing from the mind
out onto the page. They also considered po-
etry to be an expression of the individual, an
67. A side note: Which drug/substance was
Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
A. Heroine
B. Cocaine
Ch
inner self.
C. Alcohol
A. True
D. Opium
B. False
68. With its forbidden themes of incest, mur-
62. Which of the following English groups der, necrophilia, atheism, and torments of
were supportive of the French Revolution sexual desire, Horace Walpole’s Castle of
n
during its early years? Otranto, created which literary genre?

A. Republicans A. the revenge tragedy
ya
B. Liberals B. the Gothic romance

C. Radicals C. the epistolary novel
D. both B and C D. the comedy of manners
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69. Which of the following is not an example

63. Which work exposes the frivolity of fash-
of Restoration comedy?
ionable London?
A. Etherege’s The Man of Mode
A. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Na
B. Wycherley’s The Country Wife

B. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
C. Behn’s The Rover
C. Behn’s Oroonoko
D. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
D. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock 70. How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
64. Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, A. 10
included more than 114,000 quotations?
B. 16
A. William Hogarth
C. 14
B. Jonathan Swift
D. 22
C. Samuel Johnson 71. What are the names of the two feuding fam-
D. Ben Jonson ilies in Romeo and Juliet?
60. D 61. B 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. A 66. B 67. D 68. B 69. D 70. C 71. A
A. Capulet And Montague 77. While compiling what sort of book did
B. Breslow and Felsher Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for
his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
C. Fuech and Goodside
A. a history of everyday life
D. Dawson and Hurley
B. an instructional manual for manners
72. Which of the following was a major fac-
tor in the unprecedented economic wealth C. a book of devotion
of Great Britain during the eighteenth cen-
D. a book of model letters
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tury?
78. Which poet asserted in practice and theory
A. formal diplomatic relations with China the value of representing rustic life and lan-
B. the exploitation of colonial resources, guage as well as social outcasts and delin-
gd
labor, and the slave trade quents not only in pastoral poetry, common
before this poet’s time, but also as the major
C. the creation of the bourgeois novel as a
subject and medium for poetry in general?
commodity
D. the union of England and Wales with A. William Blake
Scotland
73. Which of the following is not indebted to
the Gothic genre?
A. William Beckford’s Vathek
an B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
Ch
79. Which of the following is not an example
B. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk of Restoration comedy?
C. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom A. Etherege’s The Man of Mode
D. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
B. Wycherley’s The Country Wife
74. Looking to the ancient past, many Roman-
C. Behn’s The Rover
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tic poets identified with the figure of the

A. troubadour D. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
ya
B. skald 80. Who exemplified the role of the “peasant

poet"?
C. chorister
A. John Clare
D. bard
B. John Keats
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75. Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess

painted on the wall / looking as if she were C. Robert Burns
alive."?
D. A and C only
A. Lord Byron
Na
81. What London locale, where many poor

B. Oscar Wilde writers lived, became synonymous with
C. Robert Browning hacks and scandal mongers?
D. William Wordsworth A. Elephant and Castle

76. What was the name of the Bronte sister’s B. Grub Street
only brother? C. Covent Garden
A. Anderson
D. Cheapside
B. Branwell 82. In which work do you read: “In Xanadu
C. Richard did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome
decree "?
D. Pearson
72. D 73. C 74. D 75. C 76. B 77. D 78. D 79. D 80. D 81. B 82. A
A. Kubla Khan 88. In which of the following works is the so-

cial outcast represented and addressed?
B. Hellas
C. The Phoenix and the Turtle A. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Franken-
stein
D. The Castaway
B. William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
83. What drove William Cowper to break down
and become a recluse? C. John Keats’s “To Autumn”
A. the conviction that he was damned for- D. all but C
er
ever 89. What mock epic begins: “What dire of-
B. the loss of his fortune in the \South Sea fence from am’rous causes springs, / What
Bubble\ mighty contests rise from trivial things”?
gd
C. the vindication of Newtonian physics A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
D. condemnation of his work by Jeremy B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”

Collier C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
an
84. Who is termed as “The Morning Star of
D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”
Renaissance"?
90. What word did writers in this period use
A. Spenser to express quickness of mind, inventive-
B. John Gower ness, a knack for conceiving images and
Ch
metaphors and for perceiving resemblances
C. Chaucer
between things apparently unlike?
D. Langland
A. wit
85. The Faerie Queene was written during the
reign of which monarch? B. sprezzatura
A. James I C. naturalism
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B. Mary Tudor D. gusto

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C. Elizabeth Tudor 91. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in

terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What
D. Henry VII was this hierarchy called?
86. Which of the following would not have
A. The Way of the World
been an appropriate protagonist for a Ro-
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mantic literary text? B. The Foundational Ladder

A. a French revolutionary C. The Order of Angels
B. a Greek or Roman mythological figure D. The Great Chain of Being
Na
C. a monster fabricated in a laboratory 92. What was “restored” in 1660?

D. All would have been appropriate pro- A. the monarchy, in the person of Charles
tagonists for a Romantic literary text. II
87. Who wrote: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / B. the dominance of the Tory Party
A stately pleasure dome decree "?
C. the “Book of Common Prayer”
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. toleration of religious dissidents
B. Robert Browning
93. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more
C. John Keats than one of these popular literary forms:
essay, novel, drama, poetry?
D. Walt Whitman
83. A 84. C 85. C 86. D 87. A 88. D 89. B 90. A 91. D 92. B 93. D 94. A
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley A. Henry St. John

B. William Wordsworth B. Robert Harley
C. George Gordon, Lord Byron C. John Churchill

D. Robert Walpole
D. all of the above
99. Which of the following was probably not
94. In which work do you read: “I have mea- a stock phrase in eighteenth-century po-
sured out my life with coffee spoons."? etry?
er
A. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock A. verdant mead
B. Sonnets from the Portuguese B. checkered shade
C. Prelude C. simian rivalry
gd
D. shining sword
D. The Last Decalogue
100. How many children were there in the
95. Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was Bronte family?
interpreted to mean:
A. 3
A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature. an B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
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D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a 101. Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias,
verbal art. King of Kings / Look on my works ye
mighty, and despair!"?
96. Who applied the term “Romantic” to the
literary period dating from 1785 to 1830? A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
A. Wordsworth because he wanted to dis-
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tinguish his poetry and the poetry of his C. William Woodsworth

friends from that of the ancien régime, es- D. Emily Dickinson
pecially satire
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102. Who remained without the vote following

B. English historians half a century after the Reform Bill of 1832?
the period ended A. about half of middle class men
C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy B. almost all working class men
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Shelley, and their followers

C. all women
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Vil- D. a, b and c
lage (1770) 103. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the
Na
97. Which of the following was a typically Romantics, exemplified in the writing of
Romantic means of achieving visionary Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could
states? contain which of the following elements?
A. opium A. supernatural phenomenon
B. dreams B. perversion and sadism, often involving

a maiden’s persecution
C. childhood
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhos-
D. a, b and c pitable, sullen landscapes
98. Who became the first “prime minister” of D. all of the above
Great Britain in the reign of George II? 104. Who wrote: “Reader, I married him."?
95. D 96. B 97. D 98. D 99. C 100. B 101. B 102. D 103. D 104. B
A. Jane Austen 110. Which of the following best describes the

B. Charlotte Bronte doctrine of empiricism?
C. Edith Wharton A. All knowledge is derived from experi-

ence.
D. Emily Bronte
105. What is the name for the process of divid- B. Human perceptions are constructed and
ing land into privately owned agricultural reflect structures of political power.
holdings? C. The search for essential or ultimate prin-
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A. partition ciples of reality.
B. segregation D. The sensory world is an illusion.
C. enclosure 111. Romantic poets would have enjoyed,
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agreed with, and perhaps written about
D. division
which of the following figures as depicted?
106. Who did Dryden use Absalom to repre-
sent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom A. Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful be-
and Achitophel”? cause he attempts to exceed the bounds of
an
human knowledge by making a pact with
A. The Duke of Monmouth
the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in
B. Charles II his striving to break free of the bounds of
C. The Earl of Shaftesbury mortality
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D. Cromwell B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly
107. Which group of intellectual women estab- because only Gods have the power to fly
lished literary clubs of their own around and mortals must be taught the limitations
1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth of human existence
Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu? C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing
A. the bluestockings fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses
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the limitations placed on humans by the

B. the coteries of plenty
Gods
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C. the Pre-Raphaelites
D. A and C only
D. the tattlers and spectators
112. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
108. Which of the following best describes the
sort of language and tone most often used A. Bleak House
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when Romantic writers discuss the French B. Great Expectations

Revolution?
C. A Tale of Two Cities
A. snide indifference
D. The Pickwick Papers
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B. biblical reverence
113. Which philosopher had a particular influ-
C. condemning censure
ence on Coleridge?
D. satirical derision
A. Aristotle
109. In which work do you read: “There can
be no freedom or beauty about a home life B. Duns Scotus
that depends on borrowing and debt."?
C. David Hume
A. A Doll’s House
D. Immanuel Kant
B. Riders to the Sea
114. John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achi-
C. A Handful of Dust tophel.” Who was Achitophel, historically
D. The Fatal Curiosity speaking?
105. C 106. A 107. A 108. B 109. A 110. A 111. D 112. B 113. D 114. D
A. King David’s son 120. What word did writers in this period use
B. A Judge of Israel to express quickness of mind, inventive-
ness, a knack for conceiving images and
C. Bathsheba’s first husband metaphors and for perceiving resemblances
D. Absalom’s advisor between things apparently unlike?
115. In which work do you read: “My name is A. wit
Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my
works ye mighty, and despair!"? B. sprezzatura
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A. The Man of Feeling C. naturalism
B. In Memoriam D. gusto
C. Song to Aella 121. Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard
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considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jef-
D. Ozymandias ferson to have been greater than Homer?
116. What was most frequently considered a
source of pleasure and an object of inquiry A. Macpherson
by Augustan poets? B. Merlin
A. civilization
B. woman
C. God an C. Decameron
D. Ossian
122. Which of the following women exposed
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D. nature themselves to scandal by writing racy sto-
117. Who was deposed from the English throne ries for the popular press?
in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in A. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth,
1688? and Elizabeth Cary
A. Elizabeth I B. Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and
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B. James II Eliza Haywood

C. George II C. Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady
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Mary Wortley Montagu

D. William and Mary
118. What London locale, where many poor D. Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and
writers lived, became synonymous with Frances Burney
hacks and scandal mongers? 123. Which of the following was probably not
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A. Elephant and Castle a stock phrase in eighteenth-century po-

etry?
B. Grub Street
A. verdant mead
C. Covent Garden
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D. Cheapside B. checkered shade

119. What happened in 1707 that would for- C. simian rivalry
ever alter the relationship between Eng- D. shining sword
land, Wales, and Scotland?
124. A “classic” book is usually one that pos-
A. the trial and execution of Mary, Queen sesses what quality?
of Scots
A. It has universal appeal.
B. the Toleration Act
B. It can stand the test of time.
C. the failed invasion of the Spanish Ar-
mada C. It makes connections.
D. the Act of Union D. All of the above.
115. D 116. D 117. B 118. B 119. D 120. A 121. D 122. B 123. C 124. D
125. Against which of the following principles A. Too many of its readers were women.
did Jonathan Swift inveigh? B. It required less skill than other genres.
A. theoretical science C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry
B. metaphysics and drama.
C. abstract logical deductions D. all of the above
131. What Pope poem begins, “In these deep
D. a, b, and c
solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-
er
126. What did Byron deride with his scathing pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-
reference to "’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and musing melancholy reigns; / What means
’Wagons’!"? this tumult in a vestal’s veins?”
A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and
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A. The Rape of the Lock
Dryden
B. Solitude: An Ode
B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots
C. The Dunciad
C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
D. Eloisa to Abelard
D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary
and everyday
127. Which poet, critic and translator brought
England a modern literature between 1660 an
132. The poem ’The Battle of Maldon’ cele-
brates events which took place in the 10th
century, but who was it between
A. Danes and English
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and 1700?
B. Dutch and English
A. Addison
C. Normans and English
B. Bunyan
D. French and English
C. Crabbe 133. Against which of the following principles
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D. Dryden did Jonathan Swift inveigh?

128. Which of the following texts addresses A. theoretical science
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class as a social and economic reality? B. metaphysics

A. William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning C. abstract logical deductions
Political Justice
D. a, b, and c
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
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134. What literary work best captures a sense

C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams of the political turmoil, particularly regard-
ing the issue of religion, just after the
D. all of the above
Restoration?
Na
129. Complete this famous quote by John Dry-

A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
den: “Who think too little, and who talk
too ” B. Butler’s Hudibras
A. often C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
B. long D. Pope’s Dunciad
C. much 135. Who composed The Preludes?
A. S T Coleridge
D. fast
130. Which of the following charges were com- B. William Wordsworth
monly leveled at the novel by its detractors C. William Shakespeare
at the dawn of the Romantic era?
D. William Blake
125. D 126. D 127. D 128. D 129. C 130. D 131. D 132. A 133. D 134. D 135. B
136. What was most frequently considered a D. all of the above

source of pleasure and an object of inquiry 141. How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be
by Augustan poets? best characterized as a Romantic notion in-
A. civilization troduced by Carlyle?
B. woman A. a form of animism in which objects in
C. God the natural world are believed to be inhab-
ited by spirits
D. nature
er
B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatu-
137. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel
ral based upon a surprise encounter with a
and the novel of purpose, which of the fol-
supernatural being
lowing novelists wrote fiction that is closer
in subject matter to the novel of manners C. a process by which things that are fa-
gd
than it is to the writing of her own era? miliar and thought to be ordinary are made
A. Fanny Burney to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
B. Mary Wollstonecraft D. the experience of hallucinating contact

with the supernatural world when taking
an
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld opium
D. Jane Austen 142. Which social philosophy, dominant dur-
138. Whose great Dictionary, published in ing the Industrial Revolution, dictated that
1755, included more than 114,000 quota- only the free operation of economic laws
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tions? would ensure the general welfare and that
A. William Hogarth the government should not interfere in any
person’s pursuit of their personal inter-
B. Jonathan Swift ests?
C. Samuel Johnson
A. economic independence
D. Ben Jonson
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B. the Rights of Man

139. Who wrote: “There can be no freedom or
beauty about a home life that depends on C. laissez-faire
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borrowing and debt."? D. enclosure

A. Henry David Thoreau 143. Who wrote: “I would prefer not to."?
B. Benjamin Franklin A. Edgar Allan Poe
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C. Robert Browning B. Herman Melville

D. Henrik Ibsen
C. Thomas Gray
140. Which of the following factors con-
D. Henry David Thoreau
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tributed to literature becoming a profitable

business? 144. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A. Commercial and public lending libraries involves which two cities?
were established in order to provide for an A. London and Rome
enlarged reading public
B. Paris and Rome
B. Education reform increased literacy,
thus creating a demand for commercial and C. London and Paris
public lending libraries. D. Berlin and London
C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature 145. While compiling what sort of book did
for its own sake emphasized reading for Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for
pleasure. his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded?
136. D 137. D 138. C 139. D 140. D 141. C 142. C 143. B 144. C 145. D
A. a history of everyday life 148. Alexander Pope coined many a modern

day cliché. Which of the following did not
B. an instructional manual for manners
originate with him?
C. a book of devotion
A. To err is human, to forgive divine
D. a book of model letters
B. Let not the sun go down upon your
146. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what wrath
city?
C. A little learning is a dangerous thing
A. New York City
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D. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
B. Stanford, Connecticut
C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 149. Which group of intellectual women estab-
gd
D. Boston, Massachusetts lished literary clubs of their own around
147. Which setting could you not imagine a 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth
work of Romantic literature employing? Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
A. a field of daffodils A. the Behnites
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B. the “Orient” B. the bluestockings
C. a graveyard C. the coteries of plenty
D. All of the above would be appropriate D. the Pre-Raphaelites

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settings for Romantic literature.
146. A 147. D 148. B 149. B
2.5 Romantic Period
1. Which philosopher had a particular influ- D. a and c only

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ence on Coleridge? 4. Which poet asserted in practice and theory

A. Aristotle the value of representing rustic life and lan-
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guage as well as social outcasts and delin-

B. Duns Scotus
quents not only in pastoral poetry, common
C. David Hume before this poet’s time, but also as the major
D. Immanuel Kant subject and medium for poetry in general?
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2. What is the name for the process of divid- A. William Blake

ing land into privately owned agricultural B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
holdings?
C. Samuel Johnson
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A. partition
B. segregation
5. Who remained without the vote following
C. enclosure the Reform Bill of 1832?
D. division A. about half of middle class men
3. Who exemplified the role of the \peasant B. almost all working class men
poet\?
C. all women
A. John Clare
D. a, b and c
B. John Keats 6. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical
C. Robert Burns Ballads of 1798?
1. D 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. D
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake 11. Who in the Romantic period developed a
new novelistic language for the workings
of the mind in flux?
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy
Bysshe Shelley A. Maria Edgeworth
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Tay- B. Sir Walter Scott
lor Coleridge C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt D. Jane Austen
er
7. Which of the following became the most 12. Which of the following is a typically Ro-
popular Romantic poetic form, following mantic poetic form?
on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspira-
A. the fractal
tion is contained within the inner feelings
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of the individual poet as \the spontaneous B. the figment
overflow of powerful feelings\? C. the fragment
A. the lyric poem written in the first per- D. the aubade
son
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13. Which of the following was not considered
B. the sonnet a type of the alienated, romantic vision-
ary?
C. doggerel rhyme
A. Prometheus
D. the political tract
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B. Satan
8. Which of the following was a typically
Romantic means of achieving visionary C. Cain
states? D. George III
A. opium 14. Which of the following plays was actually
B. dreams performed on stage?
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A. Byron’s Manfred
C. childhood
B. Coleridge’s Remorse
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D. a, b and c
C. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
9. Which two writers can be described as writ-
ing historical novels? D. Shelley’s The Cenci
A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley 15. Looking to the ancient past, many Roman-
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tic poets identified with the figure of the

B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge A. troubadour
B. skald
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C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

C. chorister
D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
D. bard
10. According to a theater licensing act, re-
pealed in 1843, what was meant by \legiti- 16. Who applied the term \Romantic\to the lit-
mate\drama? erary period dating from 1785 to 1830?
A. The dramaturge and playwright had to A. Wordsworth because he wanted to dis-

be related. tinguish his poetry and the poetry of his
friends from that of the ancien rǵime, espe-
B. All of the actors were male. cially satire
C. All of the actors were British. B. English historians half a century after
D. The play was spoken. the period ended
6. C 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. D 11. D 12. C 13. D 14. B 15. D 16. B

C. \The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy 21. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition
Shelley, and their followers of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the
verb \bowdlerize.\What does it mean?
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Vil-
lage (1770) A. the expurgation of indelicate language
17. Wordsworth described all good poetry as B. the modernization of archaic vocabulary
A. the rhythmic expression of moral intu-
ition C. the insertion of bawdy songs
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B. the spontaneous overflow of powerful D. the misspelling of simple words like
feelings \the\and \and\
C. the polite patter of a corrupted age 22. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto ini-
gd
tiated which literary tradition?
D. the divine gift of grace
A. Hunnish epic
18. What did Byron deride with his scathing
reference to \’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and B. Gothic fiction
’Wagons’!\?
an
C. epistolary novel
A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and D. meta-novel
Dryden
23. Which chilling novel of surveillance and
B. the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots entrapment had the alternative title Things
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C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge as They Are?
D. Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary A. Jane Austen’s Emma

and everyday B. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
19. Which of the following texts published in C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
the 1790s did not epitomize the radical so-
D. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
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cial thinking stimulated by the French Rev-

olution? 24. Which of the following English groups
were supportive of the French Revolution
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A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the during its early years?

Rights of Men
A. Republicans
B. Paine’s Rights of Man
B. Liberals
C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political
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Justice C. Radicals
D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution D. both B and C

in France 25. Which of the following charges were com-
Na
20. Which of the following factors did not con- monly levelled at the novel by its detractors
tribute to the growth of the reading public at the dawn of the Romantic era?
in this period? A. Too many of its readers were women.
A. The notoriety of the \Lake School\ B. It required less skill than other genres.
B. Technological developments, such as C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry
the steam-driven printing press and drama.
C. Innovations in retailing, such as the cut- D. all of the above
price sale of remaindered books 26. Which of the following periodical publi-
D. Increased literacy, thanks in large part cations (reviews and magazines) first ap-
to Sunday schools peared in the Romantic era?
17. B 18. D 19. D 20. A 21. A 22. B 23. C 24. D 25. D 26. D
A. London Magazine ensure the general welfare and that the gov-
ernment should not interfere in any per-
B. The Spectator
son’s pursuit of their personal interests?
C. The Edinburgh Review
A. economic independence
D. a and c only
B. the Rights of Man
27. What served as the inspiration for Percy
Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working C. laissez-faire
classes A Song: \Men of England\and Eng- D. enclosure
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land in 1819? 29. Which statement(s) about inventions dur-
A. the organization of a working class ing the Industrial Revolution are true?
men’s choral group in Southern England A. Hand labor became less common with
gd
B. the Battle of Waterloo the invention of power-driven machinery.
C. the Peterloo Massacre B. Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.
D. the storming of the Bastille C. Steam, as opposed to wind and water,
became a primary source of power.
an
28. Which social philosophy, dominant during
the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only D. both a and c
the free operation of economic laws would
27. C 28. C 29. D

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2.6 Victorian Age
1. Which of the following authors promoted A. D.G Rossetti

versions of socialism? B. Leigh Hunt
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A. William Morris C. Tennyson

B. John Ruskin D. Arnold
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C. Edward FitzGerald 5. Which of the following Victorian writers

regularly published their work in periodi-
D. all but C
cals?
2. Heathcliff is a character from
A. Thomas Carlyle
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A. Emma
B. Matthew Arnold
B. Jane Eyre C. Charles Dickens
C. Vanity Fair D. all of the above.
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D. Wuthering Heights 6. What did Victorian journalists mean by

3. Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite terming certain women \surplus\or \redun-
group of artists in England? dant\?
A. D.G Rossetti A. They remained unmarried due to a pop-

ulation imbalance between the sexes.
B. Swinburne
B. Their willingness to work for low wages
C. Christina Rossetti resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing
D. Morris them to drop in price.
4. The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem C. They were women writers who wrote
by frequently about similar topics.
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. A
D. They prostituted themselves as a way 12. Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the
to make money in a market economy that Children is concerned with which major
didn’t provide extensive job opportunities issue attendant on the Time of Troubles
to women. during the 1830s and 1840s?
7. Experimentation in which of the following A. women’s rights and suffrage
areas of poetic expression characterize Vic-
B. child labor
torian poetry and allow Victorian poets to
represent psychology in a different way? C. chartism
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A. the use of pictorial description to con- D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ide-
struct visual images to represent the emo- als of her fellow Victorians
tion or situation of the poem 13. Which of the following contributed to the
gd
B. sound as a means to express meaning growing awareness in the Late Victorian
Period of the immense human, economic,
C. perspective, as in the dramatic mono- and political costs of running an empire?
logue
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
an
D. all of the above
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
8. Which of the following comic playwrights
made fun of Victorian values and preten- C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
sions? D. all of the above
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A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan 14. In ’In Memorium’, Tennyson mourns the
B. George Bernard Shaw death of :
C. Robert Corrigan A. Hugh Clough
D. all but C B. Arthur Hallam
9. George Eliot’s novel Romola is a: C. Lord Byron

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A. Gothic novel D. Keats

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B. Autobiographical novel 15. What type of writing did Walter Pater de-
fine as “the special and opportune art of the
C. Historical novel modern world"?
D. Picaresque novel A. the novel
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10. Vanity Fair is a novel by: B. nonfiction prose

A. Jane Austin C. the lyric
B. Dickens D. comic drama
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C. Emily Bronte 16. What was common amongst D.G Rossetti,

D. Thackery Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne?
11. Which city became the perceived center of A. They all belonged to the Oxford Move-
Western civilization by the middle of the ment
nineteenth century? B. They were all painters
A. Paris C. They were all Victorian Novelists
B. Tokyo D. They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite
C. London School
17. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from:
D. Amsterdam
7. D 8. D 9. C 10. D 11. C 12. B 13. D 14. B 15. B 16. D 17. D
A. Paradise Lost 23. The Oxford Movement was basically a:

B. Divine Comedy A. Religious Movement
C. Utopia B. Political Movement
D. Pilgrims Progress C. Social Movement
18. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The D. Literary Movement
Princess. 24. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate
Man for the field and woman for the : beginning and end of the Victorian era?
er
Man for the sword and for the she:
A. King Henry VIII
Man with the head and woman with the
: B. Queen Elizabeth I
Man to command and woman to C. Queen Victoria
gd
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree D. King John
B. throne; scepter; soul; decree 25. Which best describes the general feeling ex-
pressed in literature during the last decade
C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
of the Victorian era?
D. hearth; needle; heart; obey
19. Who were the \Two Nations\referred to in
the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845)?
A. the rich and the poor
an A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
C. raucous celebration mixed with self-
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congratulatory sophistication
B. Anglicans and Methodists
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dis-
C. England and Ireland sent
D. Britain and Germany 26. The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s
20. Who, among the following English play- reign was celebrated in:
wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in
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A. 1842
Love ?
B. 1837
A. Alan Bennett
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C. 1871
B. Caryl Churchill D. 1859
C. Tom Stoppard 27. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close
D. Harold Pinter thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?
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21. Dunstan is a character from the novel A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power
will depend on mastery of foreign lan-
A. Silas Marner
guages.
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B. Emma
B. Even a foreign author is better than a
C. Hard Times homegrown scoundrel.
D. Adam Bede C. Abandon the introspection of the Ro-
22. Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been mantics and turn to the higher moral pur-
called a Victorian Much Ado About Noth- pose found in Goethe.
ing? D. In a carefully veiled critique of the
A. Cranford monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in sym-
bolically for Queen Victoria and Charles
B. North and South
Darwin respectively.
C. Ruth 28. Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with
D. Mary Barton the subject of:
18. D 19. A 20. C 21. A 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. C
A. Religion 34. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of

B. Civilization England after:
C. Tehology A. George IV
D. Education B. George III

29. Maud is a poem written by: C. William IV
A. Pope D. Edward VII
35. Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the
er
B. Tennyson
Children is concerned with which major
C. Swineburne issue attendant on the Time of Troubles
D. Byron during the 1830s and 1840s?
gd
30. Which of the following best defines Utili- A. women’s rights and suffrage
tarianism?
B. child labor
A. a farming technique aimed at maximiz-
C. Chartism
ing productivity with the fewest tools
an
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ide-
humans aim to maximize the greatest plea- als of her fellow Victorians
sure to the greatest number 36. What was the relationship between Victo-
rian poets and the Romantics?
C. a critical methodology stating that all
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words have a single meaningful function A. The Romantics remained largely forgot-
within a given piece of literature ten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in
the 1920s.
D. a philosophy dictating that we should
only keep what we use on a daily basis. B. The Victorians were disgusted by the
31. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend immorality and narcissism of the Roman-
the vote on parliamentary representation? tics.
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A. the working classes C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but

crude artists belonging to a distant, semi-
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B. women barbarous age.

C. the lower middle classes D. The Victorians were strongly influenced
D. slaves by the Romantics and experienced a sense
32. Which city became the perceived center of of belatedness.
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Western civilization by the middle of the 37. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town
nineteenth century? in the novelfirst
A. Paris A. Cranford
Na
B. Tokyo B. Hard Times

C. London C. Ruth
D. Amsterdam D. Vanity Fair
33. Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after 38. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend
William Wordsworth the vote on parliamentary representation?
A. D.G Rossetti A. the working classes
B. Tennyson B. women
C. Robert Browning C. the lower middle classes
D. George Eliot D. slaves
28. D 29. B 30. B 31. C 32. C 33. B 34. C 35. B 36. D 37. B 38. C
39. By 1890, what percentage of the earth’s A. 1843

population was subject to Queen Victoria? B. 1854
A. 1% C. 1892
B. 10% D. 1876
C. 15% 44. What is meant by ’Wessex’?
D. 25% A. The region where Bronte sisters lived
40. The Irish Dramatic Movement was her- B. The region in which Hardy’s novels are
er
alded by such figures as set
A. H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John C. The home town of George Eliot
Ervine
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D. A county in Ireland
B. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward 45. Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are char-
Martyn acters from the novel
C. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries A. Cranford
an
D. Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries B. Hard Times
41. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close C. Emma
thy Byron; open thy Goethe\?
D. Great Expectation
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power
Ch
46. ’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of:
will depend on mastery of foreign lan-
guages. A. Mary Collins
B. Even a foreign author is better than a B. Marian Evans

homegrown scoundrel. C. Lara Evans
C. Abandon the introspection of the Ro- D. Clare Reeve
n
mantics and turn to the higher moral pur- 47. Which contemporary discussions on
pose found in Goethe. women’s rights did Tennyson’s The
ya
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the Princess address?

monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in sym- A. the grueling working conditions for
bolically for Queen Victoria and Charles women in textile factories
Darwin respectively.
B. the debate on women’s suffrage
ra
42. Which of the following best defines Utili-

tarianism? C. the need to enlarge and improve educa-
tional opportunities for women, resulting
A. a farming technique aimed at maximiz- in the establishment of the first women’s
ing productivity with the fewest tools
Na
college in London
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all D. the question of monarchical succession
humans aim to maximize the greatest plea- and if a woman should hold royal power
sure to the greatest number
48. Spenser’s Epithalamion is:
C. a critical methodology stating that all A. a narrative poem
words have a single meaningful function
within a given piece of literature B. a sonnet
D. a philosophy dictating that we should C. an elegy

only keep what we use on a daily basis. D. a wedding hymn
43. Queen Victoria became the Empress of In- 49. The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War
dia in: finds its reference in the poem
39. D 40. B 41. C 42. B 43. D 44. B 45. C 46. B 47. C 48. D 49. D
A. In Memorium A. Dombey and Son

B. 1st September B. Little Dorrit
C. Ultima Ratio Regum C. Our Mutual Friend
D. The Charge of the Light Bridge D. Edwin Drood

54. Experimentation in which of the following
50. Which best describes the minority of Evan-
areas of poetic expression characterize Vic-
gelicals in the Church of England?
torian poetry and allow Victorian poets to
er
A. A group of unattractive people rele- represent psychology in a different way?
gated to the colonies to perform missionary
A. the use of pictorial description to con-
work where they wouldn’t tarnish the aes-
struct visual images to represent the emo-
thetics of the Church of England.
gd
tion or situation of the poem
B. Also called Nonconformists or Dis- B. sound as a means to express meaning
senters, Evangelicals led the missionary
movement in the colonies, advocated a Pu- C. perspective, as in the dramatic mono-
ritan moral code, and were responsible for logue
an
the emancipation of slaves in the British D. all of the above
Empire as early as 1833. 55. Why did the novel seem a genre particu-
C. They were part of the High Church or larly well-suited to women?
the \Catholic\side of the church. A. It did not carry the burden of an august
Ch
D. They were devout \tractarians,\as de- tradition like poetry.
scribed by John Henry Newman. B. It was a popular form whose market
51. Which of the following terms is defined as women could enter easily.
the application of a scientific attitude of C. It was seen as a frivolous form where
mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a one shouldn’t make serious statements
n
mere text of history and not an infallibly about society.

sacred document?
D. all but C
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A. New Criticism 56. Which of the following acts were not

B. Critical Inquiry passed during the Victorian era?
C. Scientific Bibliology A. a series of Factory Acts

B. the Custody Act
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D. Higher Criticism
C. the Women’s Suffrage Act
52. Which of the following discoveries, theo-
ries, and events contributed to Victorians D. the Married Women’s Property Rights
Na
feeling less like they were a uniquely spe- Acts

cial, central species in the universe and 57. What does the phrase “White Man’s Bur-
more isolated? den," coined by Kipling, refer to?
A. geology A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize
the world
B. evolution
B. the moral responsibility to bring civi-
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar
lization and Christianity to the peoples of
distances
the world
D. all of the above C. the British need to improve technology
53. Which one is the unfinished novel of and transportation in other parts of the
Charles Dickens world
50. B 51. D 52. D 53. D 54. D 55. D 56. C 57. B

D. the importance of solving economic and A. the representation of a large and com-
social problems in England before tackling prehensive social world in realistic detail
the world’s problems
58. Which of the following novelists best rep- B. a surrealist exploration of alternate
resents the mid-Victorian period’s content- states of consciousness
ment with the burgeoning economic pros-
C. the attempt of a protagonist to define
perity and decreased restiveness over social
his or her place in society
and political change?
er
D. A and C
A. Anthony Trollope
64. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral in-
B. Charles Dickens vestment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s
aesthetic investment together pave the
gd
C. John Ruskin
way?
D. Friedrich Engels
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth
59. The basic theme of Arnold’s Literature and century
Dogma is:
an
B. modern literary criticism
A. Contemporary literary criticism
C. late “nineteenth-century and early”
B. Art and Literature twentieth-century satirical drama
C. Theology D. the surrealist movement
Ch
D. Social changes in the Victorian Age 65. Which of the following novelists best rep-
60. Which of the following authors promoted resents the mid-Victorian period’s content-
versions of socialism? ment with the burgeoning economic pros-
perity and decreased restiveness over social
A. William Morris and political change?
B. John Ruskin
n
A. Anthony Trollope
C. Edward FitzGerald B. Charles Dickens
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D. all but c C. John Ruskin

61. The Song of the Lotus is a poem by D. Friedrich Engels
A. Coleridge 66. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate
beginning and end of the Victorian era?
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B. Eliot
A. King Henry VIII
C. Tennyson
B. Queen Elizabeth I
D. Keats
Na
C. Queen Victoria
62. What type of writing did Walter Pater de-
fine as \the special and opportune art of the D. King John
modern world\? 67. Which event did not occur as part of the
A. the novel rise of the British Empire under Queen Vic-
toria?
B. nonfiction prose
A. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 em-
C. the lyric igrants left Britain, many bound for the
D. comic drama colonies.
63. What best describes the subject of most B. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named em-
Victorian novels? press of India.
58. A 59. C 60. D 61. C 62. B 63. D 64. B 65. A 66. C 67. C
C. To save costs and maximize profits, the in the establishment of the first women’s
day-to-day government of India was trans- college in London
ferred from Parliament to the private East
D. the question of monarchical succession
India Company.
and if a woman should hold royal power
D. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of in-
72. Who is the author of Blessed Damozel?
vestments abroad by British capitalists had
risen from £300 billion to £800 billion. A. Robert Browning
68. Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy writ- B. D.G Rossetti
er
ten on the death of:
C. Tennyson
A. Arthur Hallam
D. Christina Rossetti
B. Milton
gd
73. Which best describes the general feeling ex-
C. Edward King pressed in literature during the last decade
D. Hugh Clough of the Victorian era?
69. Which event did not occur as part of the A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
an
rise of the British Empire under Queen Vic- B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
toria?
C. raucous celebration mixed with self-
A. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 em-
congratulatory sophistication
igrants left Britain, many bound for the
Ch
colonies. D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dis-
sent
B. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named em-
press of India 74. What factors contributed to the increased
popularity of nonfiction prose?
C. To save costs and maximize profits, the
day-to-day government of India was trans- A. a new market position for nonfiction
ferred from Parliament to the private East writing and an exalted sense of the didactic
n
India Company. function of the writer

D. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of in- B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a
ya
vestments abroad by British capitalists had thirst for trivia

risen from £ 300 billion to £ 800 billion. C. the forbiddingly high cost of three-
70. Which movement revived under Whitefield volume novels and the difficulty of finding
and Wesley?
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poetry in bookshops outside of London

A. Methodist D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction
B. Imagism dichotomy and an accompanying relativis-
tic sense that every opinion was of equal
Na
C. Oxford Movement value

D. Pre-Raphaelite 75. The Oxford Movement was started by:
71. Which contemporary discussions on
A. The people of the Oxford area
women’s rights did Tennyson’s The
Princess address? B. The Scholars of the Oxford University
A. the grueling working conditions for C. The clergymen of Oxford
women in textile factories
D. The University Wits
B. the debate on women’s suffrage
76. Which of the following Victorian writers
C. the need to enlarge and improve educa- regularly published their work in periodi-
tional opportunities for women, resulting cals?
68. D 69. C 70. A 71. C 72. B 73. A 74. A 75. B 76. D

A. Thomas Carlyle 82. Which of the following statements about

B. Matthew Arnold The Canterbury Tales is true ?
C. Charles Dickens A. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain

and The Franklin are characters and tale-
D. all of the above tellers in this work.
77. Which poem by Chaucer was written on
the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt B. “The General Prologue’ is appended to
? The Canterbury Tales.
er
A. The Legend of Good Women C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this
work.
B. The House of Fame
D. The Canterbury Tales remained unfin-
C. The Book of Duchess
gd
ished at the time of its author’s death.
D. Troilus and Criseyde
83. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The
78. Which one is Gaskell’s first novel?
Princess. Man for the field and woman for
A. Mary Barton the : Man for the sword and for the
an
B. Ruth she: Man with the head and woman with
the : Man to command and woman to
C. Cranford
D. North and South
A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
Ch
79. Which of the following discoveries, theo-
ries, and events contributed to Victorians B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
feeling less like they were a uniquely spe- C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
cial, central species in the universe and
more isolated? D. hearth; needle; heart; obey
A. geology 84. From where Matthew Arnold took the story
n
for his Sohras and Rustam?

B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar A. Arabian Nights
ya
distances B. Canterbury Tales

D. all of the above
C. Shah Namah
80. Wild’s drama Woman of No Importance
D. Pilgrims Progress
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appared in :
A. 1884 85. What best describes the subject of most
Victorian novels?
B. 1893
Na
C. 1879 A. the representation of a large and com-

prehensive social world in realistic detail
D. 1904
81. Which of the following contributed to the
B. a surrealist exploration of alternate
growing awareness in the Late Victorian
states of consciousness
Period of the immense human, economic,
and political costs of running an empire? C. the attempt of a protagonist to define
A. the India Mutiny in 1857 his or her place in society
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa D. A and C

C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865 86. What does the phrase \White Man’s Bur-
den,\coined by Kipling, refer to?
D. all of the above
77. C 78. A 79. D 80. B 81. D 82. B 83. D 84. C 85. D 86. B
A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize 90. Which of the following acts were not
the world passed during the Victorian era?
B. the moral responsibility to bring civi- A. a series of Factory Acts
lization and Christianity to the peoples of B. the Custody Act
the world
C. the Women’s Suffrage Act
C. the British need to improve technology
and transportation in other parts of the D. the Married Women’s Property Rights
world Acts
er
91. Who were the “Two Nations” referred to in
D. the importance of solving economic and
the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845)?
social problems in England before tackling
the world’s problems A. the rich and the poor
gd
87. Who, among the following, was a Catholic B. Anglicans and Methodists
novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic
C. England and Ireland
and set his fictions in far-away places
wrecked by political conflicts ? D. Britain and Germany
A. Graham Greene
B. Anthony Powell
C. Evelyn Waugh an
92. What was the relationship between Victo-
rian poets and the Romantics?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgot-
ten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in
Ch
D. William Golding the 1920s.
88. What is common amongst Cardinal New- B. The Victorians were disgusted by the
man, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stan- immorality and narcissism of the Roman-
ley? tics.
A. They were all poets C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but
n
crude artists belonging to a distant, semi-

B. They were all associated with Pre- barbarous age.
Raphaelite School
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D. The Victorians were strongly influenced

C. They were all atheists by the Romantics and experienced a sense
D. They were all associated with the Ox- of belatedness.
ford Movement 93. Which of the following comic playwrights
ra
89. What factors contributed to the increased made fun of Victorian values and preten-
popularity of nonfiction prose? sions?
A. a new market position for nonfiction A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Na
writing and an exalted sense of the didactic B. Oscar Wilde

function of the writer
C. Robert Corrigan
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a
D. all but C
thirst for trivia
94. By 1890, what percentage of the earth’s
C. the forbiddingly high cost of three- population was subject to Queen Victoria?
volume novels and the difficulty of finding
poetry in bookshops outside of London A. 1
95. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral in-
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction
vestment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s
dichotomy and an accompanying relativis-
aesthetic investment together pave the
tic sense that every opinion was of equal
way?
value
87. A 88. D 89. A 90. C 91. A 92. D 93. D 95. B
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth D. all but C

century 97. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh?
B. modern literary criticism A. Tennyson
C. late nineteenth-century and early-
B. Elizabeth Barret Browning
twentieth-century satirical drama
C. D. G. Rossetti
D. the surrealist movement
96. Why did the novel seem a genre particu- D. Christina Rossetti
er
larly well-suited to women? 98. Which of th following novels is called a
A. It did not carry the burden of an august "Novel without a hero"?
tradition like poetry. A. Vanity Fair
gd
B. It was a popular form whose market B. Mill on the Floss
women could enter easily.
C. Northanger Abbey
C. It was seen as a frivolous form where
one shouldn’t make serious statements D. Pickwick Papers
about society.
96. D 97. B 98. A
2.7
an
20th Century
Ch
1. Which of the following was originally the D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater
Irish Literary Theatre? Company in 1980
A. the Irish National Theatre 4. Which events in and after the 1960s con-
tributed significantly to the decentraliza-
B. the Globe Theatre
tion of England from London to a more
n
C. the Abbey Theatre regional focus, ultimately also making way

D. both A and C for a less homogenous vision of England
ya
2. Which of the following writers did not and the popularity of postcolonial fiction?
come from Ireland? A. Radio announcers were permitted to
A. W. B. Yeats speak in regional dialects and multicultural
accents.
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B. James Joyce
B. The Arts Council designated many of its
C. Seamus Heaney
resources to supporting regional arts coun-
D. none of the above cils.
Na
3. What event allowed mainstream theater C. Regional radio and television stations
companies to commission and perform appeared throughout the country.
work that was politically, socially, and sex-
ually controversial without fear of censor- D. all of the above
ship? 5. Which of the following has been a signifi-
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s cant development in British theater since
office in 1968 the abolition of censorship in 1968?
B. the illegal performance of work by A. the rise of workshops and the collabo-
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond rative ethos
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consen- B. the diversifying impact of playwrights
sus in the late 1960s from the former colonies
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. D
C. the death of the musical 10. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H.
Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover,
D. all but C
written in 1928.
6. Which of the following is not associated
A. 1930
with high modernism in the novel?
B. 1945
A. stream of consciousness
C. 1960
B. free indirect style
D. 2000
er
C. irresolute open endings 11. Which scientific or technological advance
D. narrative realism did not take place in the first fifteen years
of the twentieth century?
7. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utiliz-
gd
ing a new \mythical method\in place of the A. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
old \narrative method\and demonstrates B. wireless communication across the At-
the use of ancient mythology in modernist lantic
fiction to think about \making the modern
C. the creation of the internet
an
world possible for art\?
D. the invention of the airplane
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
12. Which of the following has been a signifi-
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness cant development in British theater since
the abolition of censorship in 1968?
Ch
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses A. the rise of workshops and the collabo-
rative ethos
8. Which of the following phrases best char-
B. the diversifying impact of playwrights
acterizes the late-nineteenth century aes-
from the former colonies
thetic movement which widened the breach
between artists and the reading public, sow- C. the death of the musical
n
ing the seeds of modernism? D. all but C

A. art for intellect’s sake 13. With which enormously influential per-
ya
spective or practice is the early-twentieth-

B. art for God’s sake
century thinker Sigmund Freud associ-
C. art for the masses ated?
D. art for art’s sake A. eugenics
ra
9. What was the impact on literature of the B. psychoanalysis

Education Act of 1870, which made elemen- C. phrenology
tary schooling compulsory?
Na
D. all of the above

A. the emergence of a mass literate popu-
14. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s
lation at whom a new mass-produced liter-
Waiting for Godot?
ature could be directed
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. a new market for basic textbooks which
paid better than sophisticated novels or B. “political correctness gone mad”
plays C. “kitchen sink drama”
C. a popular thirst for the “classics," driv- D. “angry young men
ing contemporary writers to the margins 15. Which British dominion achieved indepen-
dence in 1921-22, following the Easter Ris-
D. a, b and c ing of 1916?
6. D 7. D 8. D 9. A 10. C 11. C 12. D 13. B 14. A 15. A

A. the southern counties of Ireland C. radical; inventive

B. Canada D. anxious; haunting
20. Which poet could be described as part of
C. Ulster
\The Movement\of the 1950s?
D. India
A. Thom Gunn
16. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utiliz-
B. Dylan Thomas
ing a new “mythical method” in place of the
old “narrative method” and demonstrates C. Philip Larkin
er
the use of ancient mythology in modernist D. both A and C
fiction to think about “making the modern 21. Which scientific or technological advance
world possible for art"? did not take place in the first fifteen years
gd
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves of the twentieth century?
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness A. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake B. wireless communication across the At-

lantic
an
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses
C. the creation of the internet
17. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine,
though not very successfully, in his plays D. the invention of the airplane
Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail 22. What characteristics of seventeenth-
century Metaphysical poetry sparked the
Ch
Party?
enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics?
A. regional dialect and political critique
A. its intellectual complexity
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
politics
n
D. a and b
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
23. What characteristics of seventeenth-
ya
18. What was the impact on literature of the century Metaphysical poetry sparked the
Education Act of 1870, which made elemen- enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics?
tary schooling compulsory?
A. its intellectual complexity
A. the emergence of a mass literate popu-
B. its union of thought and passion
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lation at whom a new mass-produced liter-

ature could be directed C. its uncompromising engagement with
politics
B. a new market for basic textbooks which
D. A and B
Na
paid better than sophisticated novels or

plays 24. Which thinker had a major impact on early-
twentieth-century writers, leading them to
C. a popular thirst for the \classics,\driving reimagine human identity in radically new
contemporary writers to the margins ways?
D. none of the above A. Sigmund Freud
19. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. B. Sir James Frazer
Auden were more but less than
older modernists such as Eliot and Pound C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C
A. popular; reverenced
25. Which poet could be described as part of
B. brash; confident “The Movement” of the 1950s?
16. D 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. D 21. C 22. D 23. D 24. D 25. D
A. Thom Gunn A. Eminent Victorians

B. Dylan Thomas B. Jungle Books
C. Philip Larkin C. The Way of All Flesh
D. both A and C D. both A and C
26. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. 31. Which text exemplifies the anti-
Auden were more but less than Victorianism prevalent in the early twenti-
older modernists such as Eliot and Pound. eth century?
er
A. popular; reverenced A. Eminent Victorians
B. brash; confident B. Jungle Books
C. radical; inventive
gd
C. The Way of All Flesh
D. anxious; haunting
D. both A and C
27. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine,
32. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-
though not very successfully, in his plays
Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demon-
Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail
an
strates the heightened linguistic self-
Party?
consciousness of modernist writers?
A. regional dialect and political critique
A. George Orwell
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
B. Virginia Woolf
Ch
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe 33. Which of the following novels display post-
28. What was the significance of the voyage of war nostalgia for past imperial glory?
the Empire Windrush? A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
n
A. It brought the last group of English con- B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
victs to Australia in 1901.
ya
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

B. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914,
bringing the United States into World War D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
I. 34. Which thinker had a major impact on early-
C. It brought the first group of immigrants twentieth-century writers, leading them to
ra
from Jamaica to England in 1948. re-imagine human identity in radically new

ways?
D. It delivered a small dog into space in
1959, and returned it to earth. A. Sigmund Freud
Na
29. In what decade did the \angry young B. Sir James Frazer
men\come to prominence on the theatrical
C. Immanuel Kant
scene?
D. all but C
A. 1910s
35. What did Henry James describe as \loose
B. 1930s
baggy monsters\?
C. 1950s
A. novels
D. 1970s
B. plays
30. Which text exemplifies the anti-
Victorianism prevalent in the early twenti- C. the English
eth century? D. publishers
26. C 27. B 28. C 29. C 30. D 31. D 32. A 33. D 34. D 35. A
36. With which enormously influential per- A. George Orwell

spective or practice is the early-twentieth- B. Virginia Woolf
century thinker Sigmund Freud associ-
ated? C. Evelyn Waugh
A. eugenics D. Orson Wells

41. Which of the following novels display post-
B. psychoanalysis
war nostalgia for past imperial glory?
C. phrenology
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
er
D. anarchism
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
37. Which best describes the imagist move-
ment, exemplified in the work of T. E. C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
gd
Hulme and Ezra Pound? D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with 42. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of
the way words appear on the page thought employed in high-modern litera-
ture?
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzzi-
an
ness and facile emotionalism, replacing it A. automatic writing
with a precision and clarity of imagery B. confused daze
C. an attention to alternate states of con- C. total recall
sciousness and uncanny imagery
Ch
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sen- 43. What did Henry James describe as “loose
sibility baggy monsters”?
38. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s
A. novels
Waiting for Godot?
B. plays
A. \nothing happens-twice\
n
C. the English
B. \political correctness gone mad\
D. publishers
C. \kitchen sink drama\
ya
44. Which of the following phrases best char-

D. \angry young men acterizes the late-nineteenth century aes-
39. Which best describes the imagist move- thetic movement which widened the breach
ment, exemplified in the work of T. E. between artists and the reading public, sow-
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Hulme and Ezra Pound? ing the seeds of modernism?

A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with A. art for intellect’s sake
the way words appear on the page B. art for God’s sake
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B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzzi- C. art for the masses

ness and facile emotionalism, replacing it
with a precision and clarity of imagery D. art for art’s sake
45. Which of the following would be consid-
C. an attention to alternate states of con- ered postcolonial novelists, defined as com-
sciousness and uncanny imagery ing historically after the era of England’s
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sen- large-scale imperialism?
sibility A. Salman Rushdie
40. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-
B. Joseph Conrad
Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demon-
strates the heightened linguistic self- C. Rabindranath Tagore
consciousness of modernist writers? D. John Ruskin
36. B 37. B 38. A 39. B 40. A 41. D 42. D 43. A 44. D 45. A
46. What event allowed mainstream theater C. total recall

companies to commission and perform
work that was politically, socially, and sex-
ually controversial without fear of censor- 49. Which of the following is not associated
ship? with high modernism in the novel?
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s A. stream of consciousness
office in 1968 B. free indirect style
B. the illegal performance of work by
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C. irresolute open endings
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
D. narrative realism
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consen-
sus in the late 1960s 50. Which of the following was originally the
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Irish Literary Theatre?
D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater
Company in 1980 A. the Irish National Theatre
47. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. B. the Independent Theatre
Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover,
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written in 1928. C. the Abbey Theatre
A. 1930 D. both A and C

B. 1945 51. Which British dominion achieved indepen-
dence in 1921-22, following the Easter Ris-
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C. 1960
ing of 1916?
D. 2000
A. the southern counties of Ireland
48. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of
thought employed in high-modern litera- B. Canada
ture? C. Ulster
A. automatic writing
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D. India
B. confused daze
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46. A 47. C 48. D 49. D 50. D 51. A
2.8 Elizabethan Period

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1. Which relative did Elizabeth I have exe- 3. What is the name for a shift in tone or mean-
cuted? ing of a sonnet
A. Anne Boleyn A. Octave
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B. Mary I B. Volta
C. Mary, Queen of Scots C. Iambic Pentameter
D. Catherine of Aragon D. Petrarchan
2. Which work did Edmund Spenser author? 4. Staying alive was a difficult task for Eliza-
bethans. Disease, infection, poverty, child-
A. The Castle of Perseverance birth, and occupational accidents could all
B. The Double result in one’s untimely demise. Most peo-
ple never reached the age of fifty. When an
C. The Metamorphoses Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were fol-
D. The Faerie Queene lowed. What was NOT a funeral custom?
1. C 2. D 3. B 4. C
A. Long processionals 10. Religion played a pivotal part in Eliza-

bethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans,
B. Mourning clothes
and other religious groups jostled for power
C. Strict simplicity and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an
Act of Parliament was passed which deter-
D. Tolling of church bells
mined the “supreme governor” of all things
5. Crime was ardently followed by punish- spiritual. Who was it?
ment. Elizabethans had devised various A. The Pope in Rome
ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill
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offenders. Which crime was punishable by B. Each man was his own supreme gover-
death? nor
C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
A. Skipping church on Sunday
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D. Queen Elizabeth I
B. A woman screaming at her husband in
11. Elizabethan England was largely rural,
public
with the majority of its population liv-
C. Stealing a horse ing in the verdant countryside. Towns
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and cities, however, were growing–and the
D. Public drunkenness
most prominent of all was London. While
6. Which of the following is a ceremony in Londoners were considered wealthy and
which a sovereign is officially crowned? arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and
infested with vermin. Where did people pri-
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A. Investiture
marily dispose of their trash and wastes?
B. Invocation A. Dump sites in the nearby country
C. Gala B. The streets
D. Coronation C. The underground drains
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7. What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advis- D. Designated “trash” areas

ers called? 12. Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what
royal family?
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A. The Star Chamber

A. Windsor
B. Parliament
B. Stuart
C. The Privy Council
C. Tudor
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D. The Cabinet
D. Plantagenet
8. What was the nickname of Mary I? 13. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan Eng-
A. Bloody Mary land. William Shakespeare, Christopher
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Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some

B. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary of the more famous playwrights and poets
C. Mary, Queen of Scots of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art
were popular with noblemen and common-
D. None of the Above ers alike. Exploring certain topics, however,
9. What religion was Mary Queen of Scots? was considered taboo in any art form. What
was a strictly forbidden subject?
A. Episcopalian
A. Sexuality
B. Catholic B. Criticism of the queen
C. Presbyterian C. Murder
D. Lutheran D. Witchcraft
5. C 6. D 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. D 11. B 12. C 13. B 14. A
14. Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth? 21. Elizabethans were notoriously supersti-
A. Pope Pius V tious. They feared witches, believed in mag-
ical animals, and sought good luck charms.
B. Pope Innocent III What “science” did they utilize in trying to
C. Pope Gregory XIII predict and control the future?
D. Pope Boniface A. Alchemy
15. Who succeeded Elizabeth I? B. Metallurgy
A. Mary Queen of Scots
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C. Geocentricity
B. Charles I D. Astrology
C. James I 22. Elizabethans had many occupational
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D. Edward VI choices. One could become an apothe-
16. The term for the reaction against corrup- cary, clerk, physician, or even court jester.
tion in the Catholic Church was known as: Though there seemed to be a myriad of
careers to choose from, most people still
A. The Protestant Revolution ended up being very poor. In order to
B. The Protestant Reformation
C. The Protestant Restoration
D. The Protestant Resolution an survive, what illegal activity did a large
number of citizens pursue?
A. Begging
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17. Which of the following disciplines most fas- B. Money lending
cinated Elizabeth? C. Fortune-telling
A. Philology D. Wine bottling
B. Alchemy 23. What church did Elizabeth I establish or
C. Zoology re-establish by law in England during her
reign?
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D. Astrology
18. Who was the father of the Mary I A. The Anglican Church
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A. Henry VI B. The Roman Catholic Church
B. William C. Calvinism
C. George III D. The Lutheran Church
24. Which English king had several of his wives
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D. Henry VIII
killed in his obsessive quest for a male
19. What type of non-rhymed poetry did
heir?
Christopher Marlowe pioneer?
A. Edward VI
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A. Blank verse
B. The sonnet B. Richard III
C. Trochaic Heptameter C. George III
D. Free-flow verse D. Henry VIII

20. Which language did young Elizabeth learn 25. In what year did England and Spain fight a
in secret? famous sea battle?
A. French A. 1500
B. Gaelic B. 1588
C. Esperanto C. 1600
D. Welsh D. 1575
15. C 16. B 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. D 21. D 22. A 23. A 24. D 25. B
26. A poem that deals in an idealized way with A. The Great Order of Life
Shepherds and rustic life is known as: B. The Great Chain of Being
A. A Protestant Poem C. The Great System of Shakespeare
B. A Petrarchan Sonnet D. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker
C. An extended metaphor 33. Marriage was a social obligation, and for
many families a topic of obsession. Be-
D. A pastoral poem trothals were often arranged by parents,
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27. Who was the sister of Mary I? especially for the high-class. What crite-
rion was considered the least important in
A. Isabella deciding upon a suitable match?
B. Victoria A. Property
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C. Anne B. Wealth
D. Elizabeth I C. Lineage
28. What religion was Mary I? D. Love
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A. Catholic 34. What was a favorite entertainment in Eliz-
abeth’s court?
B. Anglican
A. Swimming
C. Episcopalian B. Gambling
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D. Presbyterian C. Jousting
29. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I? D. Backgammon
A. Catherine of Aragon 35. Elizabeth’s reign was longer than that of
any other Tudor. When she died at the
B. Jane Seymour age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she
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C. Catherine Howard reigned?

D. Anne Boleyn A. 35
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30. Which of the following was Elizabeth B. 40

known as? C. 45
A. Unintelligent D. 50
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36. Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron?

B. Rude
A. The Earl of Leicester
C. Stingy
B. Elizabeth
D. Fanatic
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C. Lord Burleigh
31. Which country believed it had an “Invinci-
ble Armada” before 1588? D. Francis Bacon
37. Which of the following was the Tower of
A. France London used for in the Elizabethan age?
B. England A. As an astronomical observation deck
C. Spain B. As a storage place for grain
D. The Netherlands C. As a prison
32. The complex ranking system that Eliza- D. As a school for the royal children
bethans believed ordered every single thing 38. What was Elizabeth’s nickname for Sir Wal-
in the universe was known as: ter Raleigh?
26. D 27. D 28. A 29. D 30. C 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. C 35. C 36. A 37. C 38. B
A. Waldimor D. Velvet coats

B. Water 40. What are the beginning and ending dates
C. William of the Elizabethan era?
D. Winter A. 1558-1603
39. Everyone in Elizabethan England was born B. 1500-1520
into a social class. Peasants were the un-
C. 1560-1570
luckiest of the lot: they were denied basic
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comforts, security, and even the chance to D. 1575-1600
dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel out- 41. Who was the first Tudor King?
lined the clothes one could legally wear
based on rank. Which of the following A. Henry VIII
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could the poor wear? B. Henry VII
A. Purple silk dresses C. George III
B. Woolen underwear D. James I
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C. Sable-lined cloaks
39. B 40. A 41. B

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2.9 Jacobean Era
1. The word “Jacobean” is derived from the 4. “The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of
name Jacob, which is the original form time in the early 17th century in which of
of the English name James. the following countries?
A. Samaritan Hebrew language A. Jordan
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B. Biblical Hebrew B. England

C. Mishnaic Hebrew C. Malaysia
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D. Hebrew language D. Tunisia

2. The Jacobean era ended with a severe eco-
5. In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most
nomic depression in 1620-1626, compli-
powerful plays were written in that period
cated by a serious outbreak of in Lon-
(for example The Tempest, King Lear, and
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don in 1625.
Macbeth), as well as powerful works by
A. Cholera John Webster and
B. Tuberculosis A. William Shakespeare
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C. Bubonic plague B. Ben Jonson

D. Plague (disease) C. Ben Jonson folios
3. Jonson was also an important innovator
in the specialized literary sub-genre of the D. English Renaissance theatre
, which went through an intense devel- 6. What are the beginning and ending dates
opment in the Jacobean era. of the reign of James I ?
A. William Shakespeare A. 1592-1608
B. Ben Jonson B. 1603-1625
C. Masque C. 1607-1627
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream D. 1608-1639
1. D 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. B 6. B
7. Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written B. Charles Bacon

by?
C. John Donne
A. Sir Walter Scot
D. Herbert Spencer
B. Christopher Marlow
10. the first fire-breathing dragon in English
C. Ben Johnson literature occurs in which Old English epic
D. George Herbert poem.
8. The Jacobean era succeeds the and A. Iliad
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precedes the Caroline era, and specifically B. Odyssey
denotes a style of architecture, visual arts,
decorative arts, and literature that is pre- C. Beowulf
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dominant of that period. D. Canterbury Tales
A. Elizabethan era 11. What proceeded Jacobean era?
B. English Reformation A. Elizabethan Era
C. England
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B. Caroline era
D. Tudor period C. Victorian era
9. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was?
D. Jacobean Era
A. John Milton
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7. C 8. A 9. C 10. C 11. B
2.10 The Renaissance
1. How many times did Milton marry? 4. Following parliament’s victory in the civil
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war, Milton was appointed to a position in

A. 2
Cromwell’s government in 1649. What was
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B. 0 his title?
C. 1 A. Heresy tsar
D. 3 B. Poet laureate
C. Secretary to the Admiralty
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2. Which school did Milton attend?

A. St Paul’s D. Secretary for Foreign Tongues
5. In which city was Milton?
B. Christ’s Hospital
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A. Norwich
C. Merchant Taylors’
B. York
D. Westminster C. London
3. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad.In D. Canterbury
which country did he spend most of the
6. Which of the following works was NOT
time?
written by John Milton?
A. Germany A. ’L’Allegro’
B. France B. ’Lycidas’
C. Italy C. ’Il Penseroso’
D. Spain D. ’Absolom and Achitophel’
1. D 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. D
7. When did John Milton die? 13. When was John Milton born?
A. 4 February 1702 A. 22 April 1600
B. 2 June 1700 B. 19 August 1604
C. 17 April 1688 C. 6 June 1606
D. 8 November 1674
D. 9 December 1608
8. As well as poetry, Milton published exten-
sively on politics, philosophy and religion. 14. The 20th century has been less kind to his
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Which of the following was NOT one of his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery dis-
works? tracting, and considered his work “not seri-
ous poetry”, but it was another critic who
A. Of Prelatical Episcopacy accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic
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B. The Likeliest Means to Remove nature of English”. Who?
Hirelings from the Church A. FR Leavis
C. Of Practical Exorcisme
B. Harold Bloom
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D. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
C. William Empson
9. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge.
Which college of the university did he at- D. Mariella Frostrup
tend? 15. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary
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A. Pembroke College Powell. How old was she?
B. Trinity College A. 48
C. Christ’s College B. 34
D. St. Xavier’s College C. 22
10. “Milton, thou should’st be living at this
D. 17
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hour. England hath need of thee." Indeed.

But who was it, summoning his ghost? 16. Edward King, a minor poet and a con-
temporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was
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A. Horatio Herbert Kitchener

drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an
B. William Blake elegy for him. What was the title of this
C. William Wordsworth poem?
D. John Keats A. lycidas
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11. Which of these words or usages did Milton B. Paradise Lost

NOT coin?
C. II penseroso
A. Space used to mean “outer space”
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B. Unaccountable
17. In what country did the Renaissance be-
C. Pandemonium
gin?
D. Blatant
A. Italy
12. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What’s the
name of that masque? B. France
A. ’Il Penseroso’ C. England
B. ’Lycidas’ D. Germany
C. ’Comus’ 18. who is considered as the model of the peo-
D. ’The Masque of Blackness’ ple during the renaissance?
7. D 8. C 9. C 10. C 11. D 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. D 16. A 17. A 18. C 19. A
A. greek and austrian 25. Who translated the New Testament into
German for the first time?
B. roman and french
A. Poliziano
C. roman and greek
B. Cervantes
D. french and greek
C. Martin Luther
19. the word renaissance means
D. Alexander VI
A. the rebirth of learning or knowledge
26. The “father of humanism” was
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B. reading of books
A. Petrarch
C. the time of astronauts B. Dante
D. the study of art
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C. Boccaccio
20. Which of the following techniques was D. Pico della Mirandola
NOT used in the Renaissance art?
27. Renaissance thinkers argued that women
A. realism should be educated
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B. perspective A. just the same as men
C. individualism B. with emphasis on science and mathe-
matics
D. abstractioin
C. not at all
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21. what sparked the Renaissance?
D. confined solely to music, dancing, and
A. The Feudal system was collapsing knitting
B. the “95 theses” 28. An important feature of the Renaissance
C. the Crusades was an emphasis on
A. alchemy and magic
D. the Black Plague
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22. who lost the most power during the renais- B. the literature of Greece and Rome
sance? C. chivalry of the Middle Ages
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A. Italian merchants D. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

B. catholic church 29. Which was NOT a characteristic of the Re-
naissance?
C. black people
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A. emphasis on individuality
D. king and queen of Spain
B. confidence in human rationality
23. Utopia was written by:
C. the emergence of merchant oligarchies
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A. Cervantes
D. the development of social insurance pro-
B. Machiavelli grams
C. Poliziano 30. The northern Renaissance differed from the
Italian Renaissance
D. Thomas More
A. growth of religious activity among com-
24. The Prince was written to gain favor of the: mon people
A. Pazzi B. earlier occurrence
B. Republic C. greater appreciation of pagan writers
C. Medici D. decline in the use of Latin
D. Inquisition 31. For ordinary women, the Renaissance
20. D 21. A 22. B 23. D 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. A 31. A
A. had very little impact society’s problems on

B. greatly improved the material condi- A. human nature
tions of their lives
B. God’s will
C. worsened their social status
C. society itself
D. allowed them access to education for
the first time D. the Church
32. Thomas More’s Utopia placed the blame for
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32. C
2.11 Middle ages
gd
1. Words from which language began to enter A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore
English vocabulary around the time of the classical paganism.
Norman Conquest in 1066? B. She was a virgin martyr.
an
A. French C. She is the first known woman writer in
B. Norwegian the English vernacular.
C. Spanish D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem,
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Rome, and Santiago.
D. Hungarian
6. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Mon-
2. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the
mouth’s The History of the Kings of
fate of those who fail to observe the sacred
Britain?
duty of blood vengeance?
A. the reign of King Arthur
A. banishment to Asia
B. the coronation of Henry II
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B. everlasting shame
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
C. conversion to Christianity
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D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of

D. mild melancholia
Aquitaine
3. Chaucer was released from legal action by
7. in which year chaucer was imprisoned by
in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and
the French?
abduction?
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A. 1360
A. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
B. 1357
B. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
C. 1378
C. Agnes de Copton
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8. Which of the following best describes litote,
4. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom
a favorite rhetorical device in Old English
during ?
poetry?
A. 1374 to 1385
A. embellishment at the service of Chris-
B. 1350 to 1360 tian doctrine
C. 1360 to 1400 B. repetition of parallel syntactic struc-
D. none of the above tures
5. Which of the following statements about C. ironic understatement
Julian of Norwich is true? D. stress on every third diphthong
1. A 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. B
9. Which of the following languages did not 15. What was vellum?
coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
A. parchment made of animal skin
A. Latin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peas-
B. Dutch ants ("villeins")
C. French C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. Celtic D. an unbreakable oath of fealty
10. Chaucer was made in-charge of many
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16. one of Chaucer’s daughter was ?
palaces,which of these was not in his
charge? A. a musician
A. Westminster Palace B. an astronomer
gd
B. Tower of London C. a nun
C. St. George’s chapel at Windsor D. none of the above
D. Buckingham Palace 17. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale
11. Which hero made his earliest appearance and Ancrene Riwle show what about the
in Celtic literature before becoming a sta-
ple subject in French, English, and German
literatures?
A. Beowulf
an poetry and prose written around the year
1200?
A. They were written for sophisticated and
well-educated readers.
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B. Arthur B. Writing continued to benefit only read-
C. Caedmon ers fluent in Latin and French.
D. Augustine of Canterbury C. Their readers’ primary language was
12. which of these kings was not served by English.
Chaucer? D. A and C only
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A. Edward III 18. chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for ?

B. Henry II
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A. beating a friar in a London street

C. Richard II
B. for writing poetry against the church
C. for crossing the border of Great Britain
13. The use of “whale-road”for sea and “life-
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house”for body are examples of what liter- D. none of the above

ary technique, popular in Old English po- 19. how many children chaucer had?
etry?
A. 4
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A. symbolism
B. 1
B. simile
C. 0
C. metonymy
D. 2
D. kenning
14. what was the occupation of Chaucer’s fa- 20. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster,
ther? which came to know as ?
A. leather merchant A. Chaucer’s corner
B. civil servant B. poet’s corner

C. a vintner C. legend’s corner
D. none of the above D. none of the above
10. D 11. B 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. C 17. D 18. A 19. A 20. B
21. To what did the word the roman, from A. Edward III
which the genre of “romance”emerged, ini-
B. Richard II
tially apply?
C. Henry IV
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the
Roman Empire D. none of the above
B. a story about love and adventure 27. Which king began a war to enforce his
claims to the throne of France in 1336?
C. a Roman official
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D. a work written in the French vernacular A. Henry II
B. Henry III
22. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and C. Henry V
gd
William Langland, the “flowering”of Middle
English literature is evident in the works D. Edward III
of which of the following writers? 28. what was chaucer’s profession?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth A. a poet
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B. the Gawain poet B. a merchant
C. the Beowulf poet
C. a civil servant
D. Chrétien de Troyes
23. What event resulted from the premature
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death of Henry V? 29. How did Henry II, the first of England’s
Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces
A. the Battle of Agincourt in southern France?
B. the Battle of Hastings A. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
B. Saint Patrick’s mission
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D. the War of the Roses

C. the Fourth Lateran Council
24. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction
for D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
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A. courtiers entering the service of Richard 30. which of these is not certain about
II Chaucer?
B. translators of French romances A. his birth date

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C. women who have chosen to live as reli- B. his death year

gious recluses C. his father’s name
D. knights preparing for their first tourna- D. none of the above
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ment
31. Which influential medieval text purported
25. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were
to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
indebted to Breton storytellers for their nar-
ratives? A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
B. Marie de France C. The Dream of the Rood
C. Chrétien de Troyes D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
D. b and c only 32. Which literary form, developed in the
26. Chaucer became a page to which king’s fifteenth century, personified vices and
daughter-in-law? virtues?
21. D 22. B 23. D 24. C 25. D 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. A 32. C 33. A
A. the short story C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much

as it was a figure of speech.
B. the heroic epic
D. Christian and pagan ideals are some-
C. the morality play
times mixed
D. the romance
38. Which of the following authors is consid-
33. Chaucer became a member of Parliament ered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personi-
in ? fied in Sir Lancelot?
A. 1386
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A. Julian of Norwich
B. 1300 B. Margery Kempe
C. 1343 C. William Langland
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D. none of the above D. Sir Thomas Malory
34. Only a small proportion of medieval books 39. Toward the close of which century did En-
survive, large numbers having been de- glish replace French as the language of con-
stroyed in: ducting business in Parliament and in court
A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning
in the 1450s.
B. the Norman Conquest of 1066.
an of law?
A. tenth
B. eleventh
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C. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
C. twelfth
D. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in
D. fourteenth
the 1530s.
40. Who was the first English Christian king?
35. what did Chaucer’s wife use to do?
A. Alfred
A. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of
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Hainaut B. Richard III

B. nurse of royal court C. Richard II
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C. governess to Henry IV D. Ethelbert

D. none of the above 41. What is the first extended written specimen
36. Who would be called the English Homer of Old English?
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and father of English poetry? A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy

A. Bede
B. Sir Thomas Malory B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
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C. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Malory’s Morte Darthur
D. Caedmon D. a code of laws promulgated by King

Ethelbert
37. Which of the following statements is not
an accurate description of Old English po- 42. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the
etry? church, beheading the archbishop of Can-
terbury?
A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of
moral conduct. A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating
radical religious reform.
B. Its formal and dignified use of speech
was distant from everyday use of language. B. The common people were still essen-
tially pagan.
34. D 35. A 36. C 37. A 38. D 39. D 40. D 41. D 42. D

C. They believed that writing, a skill A. the Normans

largely confined to the clergy, was a form
B. the Geats
of black magic
D. The church was among the greatest of C. the Celts
oppressive landowners. D. the Anglo-Saxons
43. Popular English adaptations of romances
appealed primarily to 46. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet
looked back on their pagan ancestors with:
A. the royal family and upper orders of the
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nobility A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. the lower orders of the nobility B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. agricultural laborers
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C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. the clergy
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
44. what was the duration of hundred year’s
war? 47. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
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A. 1300 to 1350 A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. 1337 to 1453 B. Margery Kempe
C. 1302 to 1343
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
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45. Which people began their invasion and con- D. William Langland
quest of southwestern Britain around 450?
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A. 16 C. The Massacre at Copenhagen
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D. 28 official Poet Laureate.
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play by Marlowe? B. False

A. Henry V 5. In the title of Marlowe’s play, of where was
Dido the Queen?
B. Richard III
A. Troy
C. Edward II
B. Carthage
D. John
C. Sparta
3. What was the title of the play by Mar-
lowe that portrayed the events surrounding D. Persia
the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 6. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd
1572? to His Love’ begins with the line “Come
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. B
live with me and be my love"; which other B. Solomon

English author wrote a famous poem be-
C. Barabas
ginning with this line?
D. Shylock
9. One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was
B. Thomas Kyd an account of which lovers?
C. John Dryden A. Anthony and Cleopatra
D. John Donne B. Hero and Leander
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7. One of Marlowe’s earliest published works C. Troilus and Cressida
was his translation of the epic poem
’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet? D. Apollo and Hyacinth
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10. Marlowe’s play ’Tamburlaine the Great’
A. Ovid
was based loosely on the life of which Asian
B. Lucan ruler?
C. Virgil A. Zhu Yuanzhang
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D. Horace B. Genghis Khan
8. In Marlowe’s play, what was the name of C. Timur
the Jew of Malta?
D. Kublai Khan
A. Lazarus
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3.2 True and false
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3.1 Multiple choice questions
1. Stopping on a snowy Evening 4. About Johnathan Edwards

A. Robert Frost A. Wrote the Mayflower Contract
B. Langston Hugues B. Was a Puritan preacher and writer
C. When he spoke, audiences rose to their
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D. Sherwood Anderson
D. B and C
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2. What lesson does Hare’s adventure involv-

ing a tall man with a cane attempt to teach 5. What statement below best sums up the
the Winnebago people? literary significance of Emerson?
A. Flattery will get you no where A. Father of Free verse

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B. Don’t put of for tomorrow what you can B. Father of american poetry
do today C. Pro Slavery
C. Do unto others as you would have them D. Father of American Liteature
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do unto you 6. This quote comes from what writing: "God

D. Boasting shows weakness and will lead holds you over the pit of Hell much as one
to bad things holds a spider over the fire "?
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a A. Spiders of the World
number of early American writers, includ- B. Hands of Satan
ing:
C. Hell and Salem
A. Hawthrone
D. Sinners in the Hand
B. Stewart
7. Thoreau believed that if a government was
C. Thoreau unjust, people need to resist the govern-
ment. This is called
D. A and B
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. C
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A. Following orders. 13. The use of a etcetera in the final line is

B. Resisting arrest.
A. euphemism
C. Civil disobedience.
B. empathy
D. Mutiny.
8. How do the Shelby’s treat their slaves? C. alliteration
A. Kindly but firmly D. onomatopoeia

14. Define oral tradition.
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B. Set them all free
A. The passing on from one generation
C. Beat them everyday
to another of songs, chants, proverbs, and
D. They do not have slaves other verbal compositions after it has been
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9. When the child finds that issues cannot be written down.
resolved in 30 minutes he. . . B. The telling of songs, chants, proverbs,
A. will adjust with reality and other verbal compositions to a single
generation within and between non-literate
B. becomes adamant and disillusioned
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cultures
C. will find sources elsewhere
C. The use of "like" or "as" to draw a com-
D. resigns to reality parison between two unlike things
10. A good definition of American Realism is: D. The passing on from one generation
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A. An examination of life as it actually is. (and/or locality) to another of songs, chants,
proverbs, and other verbal compositions
B. A romantic portrayal of life.
within and between non-literate cultures
C. An examination of the countryside ver- by word of mouth
sus the city. 15. Let me for a few moments turn your at-
D. A sad and depressing view of reality. tention to the reservations in the different
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states of New England, and, with but few

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exceptions, we shall find them as follows:
ing with lofty confidence, "is merely to in-
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the most mean, abject, miserable race of

quire my way to the dwelling of my [rela-
beings in the world - a complete place of
tive]." There was a sudden and general
prodigality and prostitution. What does
movement in the room, which Robin inter-
"prodigality" mean?
preted as expressing the eagerness of each
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individual to become his guide. This pas- A. Wasteful extravagance

sage exemplifies: B. Promiscuity
A. Jamming C. Return from the dead
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B. Ambiguity D. Redemption
C. Snaring 16. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts
D. Foregrounding Bay were non-separating Puritans, which
meant?
12. This is the name of the report by Cotton
Mather about the trial accusing Martha Car- A. They did not want to disassociate from
rier of witchcraft the Church of England
A. The Burning of Our House B. Separate from church of England
B. The Story of Plymouth Plantation C. Start their own beliefs
C. Sinners in the Hand D. Create seperation
17. Define trickster tale.
D. The Wonders of the Invisible World
8. A 9. B 10. A 11. C 12. D 13. A 14. D 15. A 16. A
A. A recurrent thematic element in an artis- A. Sermon

tic or literary work. B. Autobiography
B. The struggle found in fiction C. Spiritual diary
C. Giving human qualities to animals or D. Biography
objects
24. What writing describes the death of two
D. A story about a mischievous, supernat- settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen?
ural being
A. General History of Virginia
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18. The black language holds great importance
for the B. Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
A. Black community in America C. Walum Olum
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B. identity of Blacks in The United States D. Beowulf
25. This person was captured by Native Amer-
C. Survival and continuation of the Black
icans but saved by Pocahontas
community
A. Joseph Smith, Jr
D. restoration of a language
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19. The website address for our class is B. Jerry Smith
A. Americanliterature@gmail.com C. Hiram Smith
B. Literature.usa@yahoo.com D. John Smith

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26. About the Iroquois
C. www.gatecseit.in
A. Dekonawidah planted the Tree of Great
D. American.lit@msn.net
Peace
20. What job does Uncle Tom perform at the
St. Clare plantation? B. Powerful enemy of the Delaware tribe
A. Cook C. The tribe drafted a constitution to de-

fine the governance of their society
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B. Groomsman
D. All the above
C. Head Coachman
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D. Valet
A. Wrote Huswifery in an ornate style that
21. What statement below best sums up the wouldn’t have been accepted by the Puri-
literary significance of Samuel Sewall? tans
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A. Anti-Slavery B. Wrote a poem about his house burning

B. Father of american poetry down
C. Pro Slavery C. Was exiled to the New World because
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D. Father of American Liteature he wouldn’t talk to the Church of England

22. Which statement best describes literary sig- D. A and C
nificance of William APess? 28. The house of this Puritan poet burned
A. Indian Autobiography down
B. Father of free verse A. Elizabeth Browning
C. Father of American poetry B. Eliza Snow
D. Both A and B C. George Elliot

23. "An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White D. Anne Bradstreet
Man" illustrates what genre of early Amer- 29. The first part of American History dwells
ican writing? of the
17. D 18. C 19. C 20. C 21. A 22. D 23. D 24. A 25. D 26. D 27. D 28. D 29. B
A. Discovery of America by Columbus A. The Mississippi

B. Discovery and settlement of the West- B. The Colorado
ern continent C. The Ohio
C. early English settlers D. The Danube
D. missionaries settled in America 36. This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon
30. Bartolome de Las Casas wrote A. A Bird in the Hand
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A. The devastation of the indies B. Hands of Satan
B. Flor Y Canto C. Sinners in the Hand
C. A Very Old Man with Enormous wings D. Sins of the World
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D. Hopskotch 37. Maria Stewart is associated with what ma-
jor American literary movement?
31. The ‘fearful trip’ is a recall of
A. Idealism
A. The Civil war
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B. Slavery
B. Voyage
C. Romanticism
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Nationalism
D. Trip form England to the United States
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38. How does Eliza cross the Ohio river?
32. In which state is the Shelby farm located?
A. By ferry
A. Tennessee
B. On a makeshift raft
B. Kentucky C. In a stolen canoe
C. Alabama D. Hopping rafts of ice
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33. Which of the following is NOT a feature northern Florida
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or characteristics of Emily Dickinson’s po- A. De Vaca

etry?
B. Johnathan Edwards
A. Mysterious
C. Cortez
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B. Slant Rhymes
D. Vasco de Gama
C. True Rhymes 40. Having undertaken, for the Glory of God
D. No titles and advancement of the Christian Faith and
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Honour of our King and Country do

34. This checkmark diagram represents the by these presents solemnly and mutually
plot structure for what genre of early Amer- in the presence of God and one of another,
ican writing? Covenant and Combine ourselves together
A. Slave narrative into a Civil Body Politic, for our better or-
dering and preservation and furtherance of
B. Indian autobiography the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to
C. Sermon enact, constitute and frame such just and
equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitu-
D. Trancendentalism
tions and Offices, from time to time, as shall
35. Over which river does Eliza make her be thought most meet and convenient for
miraculous crossing? the general good of the Colony, unto which
30. A 31. A 32. B 33. C 34. A 35. C 36. C 37. D 38. D 39. A
we promise all due submission and obedi- after the giving of the Law, and in the times
ence. In witness whereof we have hereun- of the Gospel, that there were Bond men,
der subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the Women and Children commonly kept by
11th of November, in the year of reigne of holy and good men, and improved in Ser-
our Sovereign Lord King James Anno vice; and therefore by the Command of God,
Domini 1620. Lev. 25, 44, and their venerable Example,
we may keep Bond men, and use them in
A. Fredrick Douglass
our Service still; yet with all candour, mod-
B. John Winthrop eration and Christian prudence, according
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C. Benjamin Franklin to their state and condition consonant to
the Word of God
D. Mayflower Compact
A. John Saffin
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41. Maria Steward believe that black woman
are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. B. John Winthrop
Why? C. Benjamin Franklin
A. They have the power to fix things them- D. Mayflower Compact
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selves
45. How does Hare outsmart Sharp-elbow to
B. Men are more powerful retrieve his stolen arrow?
C. Both are correct A. He sends a young man to retrieve it
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D. None of the above B. He sends his grandmother to cast a spell
42. What is the author’s purpose in the Zuni on him that causes Sharp-elbow to consent
origin tale "The Flood"? to anything asked of him
A. To include the tribe’s favorite food, corn, C. He takes a whetstone with him to re-
into the myth trieve the arrow and when Sharp-elbow at-
tacks he uses the whetstone for protection
B. To warn its youth about the conse-
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D. He lights four prayersticks and asks the
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C. To explain how floods came into exis- gods to retrieve it for him
tence 46. “ I hear my being dance from ear to ear”.
Here ear to ear refers to
D. To explain how earthquakes came into
existence A. a round about way of telling things
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43. In which state was “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” B. a heart warming smile
written?
C. listening through an ear and pass it off
A. Maine through the other
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B. Massachusetts D. a complete experience

C. Georgia 47. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I
brought chairs into the room, and desired
D. Ohio
them here to rest from their fatigues; while
44. this may suffice, that not only the seed I myself, in the wild audacity of my per-
of Cham or Canaan, but any lawful Cap- fect triumph, placed my own seat upon the
tives of other Heathen Nations may be very spot beneath which reposed the corpse
made Bond men as hath been proved. of the victim. What is the meaning of the
By all which it doth evidently appear both word audacity?
by Scripture and Reason, the practice of the
People of God in all Ages, both before and A. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
40. D 41. A 42. B 43. A 44. A 45. C 46. D 47. A

B. Auditory city A. They are nosey and stays busy tending

to other people’s business
C. Authority
B. The Zunis are spiritual and have a
D. Insanity or dementia
strong moral code that they live by and
48. Who is the representative figure of the “Jazz teach to their children
Age”
C. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes
A. Sherwood Anderson and floods
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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D. That the Zunis like to make up stories
C. Saul Bellow for pure entertainment
54. But when to their feminine rage the indig-
D. Wallace Stevens
nation of the people is added, when the ig-
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49. Who says “Earth is the right place for love” norant and the poor are aroused, when the
A. Silvia plath unintelligent brute force that lies at the bot-
tom of society is made to growl and mow,
B. Langston Hughes it needs the habit of magnanimity and re-
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C. Wallace Stevens ligion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no
concernment. What does "mow" mean in
D. Robert Frost
this context?
50. This person wrote about a island that he
called Colba, now known as Cuba A. To grimace
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A. John Smith B. To bleat like sheep
C. To lift heavy things
B. Coronado
D. To cut grass
C. Columbus
55. Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among
D. De Vaca Shelby’s slaves?
51. The poem ends on a
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A. happy and meaningful note B. Uncle Tom and Cassy
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B. courageous and hopeful note C. Uncle Tom and Eliza

C. tragic and painful note D. Uncle Tom and Harry
D. philosophical note 56. What animal is personified as the trickster
in the Winnebago tale?
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52. The children of the village, too, would

shout with joy whenever he approached. A. Bear
He assisted at their sports, made their play-
B. Coyote
things, taught them to fly kites and shoot
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marbles, and told them long stories of C. Snake

ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work D. Hare
draws upon: 57. When did Hemingway receive the Nobel
A. A European fairy tale Prize for Literature ?
B. A local ghost story A. 1952
C. An Indian legend B. 1954
D. A European ghost story C. 1956

53. What does the priest’s son’s prayers for the D. 1958
punishment of the tribe’s iniquities tell us 58. What statement below best sums up the
about the Zuni tribe? literary significance of John Winthrop?
48. B 49. D 50. C 51. D 52. A 53. B 54. A 55. D 56. D 57. B 58. D
A. American myths A. A genrous village chief who is known

for his kindness
B. non separating puritan
B. Hare’s grandfather
C. City upon a hill
C. A god who protects and guides Hare on
D. All are correct his many adventures
59. Jack London’s "To Build a Fire" contained
D. A tyrannical village chief who is known
foreshadowing, which means
for his elbow blades
A. It took place at nightfall.
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65. The emagery in the poem is
B. It was a moody and spooky story. A. Mystical
C. It contained clues to events yet to hap- B. Naturalistics
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pen. C. Deterministic
D. It had descriptions of shadows in the D. Supernatural
woods. 66. Yes, when the stars glisten’d, All night
60. The tone of the third stanza of the poem long on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake,
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embodies a sense of Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat
A. Panic the lone singer wonderful causing tears.
What is a prong?
B. Pain
A. An edgy platform
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C. Calmness
B. Other side
D. content C. A pointed, projected part of something
61. What ritual does the character resembling
D. An adumbration
the devil attempt to perform in the woods,
67. Which of these statements does NOT apply
with goodman Brown as the object?
to Hawthorne as a moralist:
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A. Awareness of the importance of living
B. A christening a life without error and sin
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C. A wedding B. Awareness of the dangers of setting

yourself up as the judge of others or of iso-
D. A baptism
lating yourself from humanity
62. What was the purpose of the Mayflower
C. Awareness of the ethical problems of
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Compact?
sin, punishment and atonement
A. Establish a new government
D. Awareness of the mysteries and frailties
B. first agreement on self governing of human nature
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C. Religious freedom 68. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows
tenfold closer after this explanation, be-
D. Sovereignty ing sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of
63. The first stanza of the poem provides an the syllogism; while methought the one
idea that it is in pepper and salt eyed him with some-
A. a revenge story thing of a triumphant leer. At length he
observed, that all this was very well, but
B. not a happy story still he thought the story a little extravagant
C. a metaphysical poem – there were one or two points on which he
had his doubts. "Faith, sir," replied the story-
D. a deterministic poem teller, "as to that matter, I don’t believe one
64. Who is Sharp-elbow? half of it myself." This passage exemplifies:
59. C 60. A 61. D 62. B 63. B 64. D 65. B 66. C 67. A 68. A
A. Narrative frame 73. Wines Burg Ohio

B. Hortatory sermon A. Sherwood Anderson
C. Snaring B. Robert Lee Frost
D. Jamming C. William Faulkner
69. According to the tale, what horrible crime
D. Carl Sanburg
did the ucle commit?
A. He killed all of the old people 74. Which statement below best defined Dick-
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inson’s idea of circumference?
B. He killed all of the female children
A. Above and beyond
C. He killed all of the male children
B. limitations
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D. He killed all of the women
70. But, reader, I acknowledge that this is a C. no limitations
confused world, and I am not seeking for D. Eqaulity
office; but merely placing before you the
75. About Cotton Mather
black inconsistency that you place before
me—which is ten times blacker than any
skin that you will find in the Universe. And
now let me exhort you to do away that
principle, as it appears ten times worse an A. Belonged to the Delaware tribe
B. Fasted 450 times for sins he committed
C. Wrote about the trial of Martha Carrier
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in the sight of God and candid men, than
D. B and C
skins of color—more disgraceful than all the
skins that Jehovah ever made. If black or 76. Who inherits ownership of Tom when St.
red skins, or any other skin of color is dis- Clare dies?
graceful to God, it appears that he has dis-
A. Eva
grace himself a great deal—for he has made
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placed them here upon the earth (1462).
C. George Shelby
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A. John Saffin
D. Haley
B. John Winthrop
77. About John Smith
C. Samuel Sewall
A. Exaggerated and embellish events and
D. William Apess
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depicted Native Americans as barbaric

71. Who is NOT considered to be a representa-
B. In the General History of Virginia, at-
tive of the Southern Renaissance?
tempted an objective, journalistic style
A. William Faulkner
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B. Tennessee Williams
D. A and B
C. Robert Penn Warren
78. Dumas, whose father was a General in
D. T.S.Eliot the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a
72. The two main characters in The Pearl Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans,
are where, though to the eye a white man, yet,
A. Juan Tomas and his wife. as known to have African blood in his veins,
he could never have enjoyed the privileges
B. The doctor and the priest. due to a human being. A Mulatto is a per-
C. Kino and his wife Juana. son who has one white parent and one
black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon?
69. C 70. D 71. D 72. C 73. A 74. B 75. D 76. B 77. D 78. D
A. A person who has two black parents. A. The Earthmaker wanted the opportu-
nity to creat a new race of people
B. A person who has one Meranto parent
and one black. B. Mankind would suffer because of a lack
of food if there were more people than re-
C. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
sources to care for them
D. A person who has one white parent and
C. Hare wished it to be so and that was
one parent who is a Mulatto
how it was
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D. Grandmother wished it to be so and that
Here the poet personifies the bird as a
was how it was
A. Predator 84. About the Pima
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B. Gentleman A. Introduced domestic animals to the
C. Hierarchical views of man Navajo
D. Protector B. Made houses of saplings bent into

domes
80. Which American poet is hailed as the rep-
resentative poet of America ?
A. Robert Frost
B. R. W. Emerson an C. Legend From the Houses of Magic
D. B and C
85. Who is the central Figure in O Nell’s The
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Hairy Ape
C. Walt Whitman
A. Mildred
D. Edgar Allen Poe
B. Yank
81. What statement below best sums up the
literary significance of John Saffin? C. The Secretary of I.W.W.
A. Anti-Slavery D. None of the above

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B. Father of american poetry
A. Settled in Northeastern US
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C. Pro Slavery
B. Kept the Navajo Origin Legend through
D. Father of American Liteature oral tradition
82. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own
C. Believed that corn was crucial to cre-
likeness, promised to inherit the habits,
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with thåe old clothes of his father. He was
generally seen trooping like a colt at his D. B and C
mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his 87. Which statement below best paraphrases
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father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had what John Winthrop meant when he de-
much ado to hold up with one hand, as clared that the MBC would be as a "city
a fine lady does her train in bad weather. upon a hill"?
What are "galligaskins"?
A. Religious freedom
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. Everyone has a role in society
B. A trench-coat
C. Only men should work
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Woman have no role in society
D. Underpants 88. Before humans were sold as commodities,
83. According to the myth, why must all things what item was highly sought after in West
have an end? Africa?
79. B 80. C 81. C 82. C 83. B 84. D 85. B 86. D 87. B 88. C
A. Diamonds the worst end of the bargain; for he had

B. Land drawn no blood from me, but I had from
him
C. Gold
D. Gasoline
B. John Winthrop
89. “learn by going where I have to go”. The
poet learns of C. Benjamin Frankin
A. Going back to his hometown D. William Apess
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93. Which of the following describes the pre-
B. his errors and starts correcting them colonial era’s literature styles?
C. going back to the state of depression A. Pamphlets, poetry, novels, short stories
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D. the final destination where he has to B. Novels, poetry, dramas, histories
reach
C. Literary magazines, poetry, novels,
90. Which is one of the five tenants of Puri-
short stories
tanism?
D. Narratives and poetry
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A. Total equality
94. This group of Native Americans believed
B. Unconditional love that corn was crucial to creation.
C. Individualism A. Teton
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D. Irresistible grace B. Cherokee
91. What does Eva’s father promise her before C. Utes
she dies?
D. Navajo
A. That he will adopt Topsy 95. Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by
B. That he will free Uncle Tom A. Steinback
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C. That he will remarry B. Faulkner

D. That he will try to find Harry C. Hemingway
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92. Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long D. Fitzgerald

rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he
96. A factual account of the development of a
caught hold of my legs, and was about tying
people, nation, institution or culture
me. As soon as I found what he was up to,
A. Tradition
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I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he

holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling B. Constitution
on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now
C. History
to think he had me, and could do what he
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pleased; but at this moment—from whence D. Myth

came the spirit I don’t know—I resolved to 97. And seeing GOD hath said, He that stealeth
fight; and, suiting my action the resolution, a Man and Selleth him, or if he be found
I seized Covey hard by the throat, and as I in his hand, he shall surely be put to
did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. Death. Exod. 21.16. This Law being
He trembled like a leaf. We were of Everlasting Equity, wherein Man Steal-
at it for nearly two hours. Covey at length ing is Ranked amongst the most atrocious
let me go, puffing and blowing at a great of Capital Crimes: What louder Cry can
rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he there be made of that Celebrated Warning,
would not have whipped me half so much. Caveat Emptor!And all things considered,
The truth was, that he had not whipped me it would conduce more to the Welfare of
at all. I considered him as getting entirely the Province, to have White Servants for a
89. D 90. D 91. B 92. A 93. D 94. D 95. B 96. C

Term of Years, than to have slaves for Life. A. To show ideas of transcendentalism are
Few can endure to hear of a Negro’s being put into action
made free; and indeed they can seldom use B. To critique slavery
their freedom well; yet their continual as-
piring after their forbidden Liberty, renders C. Tell his entire life story
them unwilling Servants. D. None of the above
A. John Saffin 102. What does the narrator find at the end of
the journey?
B. John Winthrop
er
A. Field and works
C. Samuel Sewall
B. Crusted snow and dead leaves
D. William Apess
C. Hills and highways
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98. On this explorer’s quest for gold, the guide
mislead them to Texas D. all are sleeping
103. In which city does the St.Clare live?
A. Columbus
A. Memphis
B. Magellan
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B. New Orleans
C. Coronado
C. Louisville
D. Houston
D. Atlanta
99. the eyes of all people are upon us; soe
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104. Who wrote "Barn burning"?
that if wee shall deale falsely with our god
in this worke wee have undertaken and A. Rober Lee frost
soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help B. Eugene O’ Neil’s
from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-
C. Tennesse Williams
word through the world, wee shall open the
mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the D. William Faulkner’s
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ways of god and all professours for Gods 105. Which of Uncle Tom’s personal character-
sake; wee shall shame the faces of many istics guided his interactions with others
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of gods worthy servants, and cause theire and his responses to his circumstances?
prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us A. His gentle and soft-spoken nature
till we be consumed out of the good land
whether wee are going B. His honesty and deep devotion to God
C. His overwhelming fear of violence
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D. His ability to hide his rebellious nature.
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin 106. The cloud-spirits peeped from their sil-
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D. William Apess very islands, as the congregated mirth went

roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon
100. The story is told from the point of view
heard the far bellow. "Oho," quoth he, "the
of
old earth is frolicsome to-night!" This is:
A. Mrs. Mallard
A. An autobiography
B. Mrs. Mallard’s sister Josephine B. A fairy tale
C. Mr. Mallard C. Gothic fiction
D. a third person D. A novel
101. Why does Henry David Thoreau write his 107. Which of the following is true about the
book "Walden"? target audience for John Saffin’s pamphlet?
97. C 98. C 99. B 100. D 101. A 102. B 103. B 104. D 105. B 106. C 107. C
A. African Americans A. In New Orleans

B. White public of Plymouth B. On a ferry
C. White public of Massachusetts C. In Memphis
D. Native Americans D. On a river boat

108. What is TULIP? 112. At the end of Hare’s adventure with the
headless bodies how does he turned them
A. Total depravity into "fast-fish."
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B. Unconditional election A. The headless bodies served Hare fish.
C. Limited atonement B. The headless bodies tried to abuse peo-
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D. Irresistible GraceE. Perseverance of the ple so they were turned into ’fast-fish’ as a
SaintsF. All of the above punishment.
109. What does George Harris’ master demand C. The headless bodies liked to eat fish.
of him that prompts him to plan his es- D. The headless bodies were actually crea-
an
cape? tures who evolved from fish so they were
A. Relocate to Louisiana simply returned to their primordial state.
113. This is a system of fundamental laws gov-
B. Punish another slave
erning a society
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C. Abandon his faith
A. Discourse
D. Marry another woman B. Constitution
110. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick C. Language
by reading and painting with him; one of
Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: D. Connotation
n
"A small picture presented the interior of 114. What was one theme in the period of in-
an immensely long and rectangular vault dependence?
or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white,
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and without interruption or device. Certain A. national identity

accessory points of the design served well B. political conflicts
to convey the idea that this excavation lay
at an exceeding depth below the surface C. urban and european vs indigenous and
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of the earth." What later event in the story rural

does this picture foreshadow? D. All the above
A. The narrator and Roderick bury Made- 115. "When I was 16 years of age, we heard
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line alive in a stone tomb beneath the man- a Strange Rumor among the English, that
sion. there were Extraordinary Ministers preach-
ing from Place to Place and Strange Con-
B. The narrator and Roderick drown Made-
cern among the White People. This was
line in the tarn next to the mansion.
in the Spring of the Year. After I was
C. Roderick and Madeline escape the awakened & converted, I went to all the
house via an underground tunnel. meetings, I could come at; & Continued
under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at
D. The narrator and Roderick become
which time I began to Learn the English
trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.
letters; got me a Primer, and used to go
to my English Neighbours frequently for
111. Where does Tom first meet Eva? Assistant in reading "
108. A 109. D 110. A 111. D 112. B 113. B 114. D 115. A

A. Samson Occcum B. The pronunciation of Eskimo names are

impossible so the author decided that this
B. John Winthrop
was easy for the reader
C. Benjamin Franklin
C. All Eskimo myths name the antagonist
D. Mayflower Compact the "Unnatural Uncle"
116. Which of Washington Irving’s characters D. Since this tale is from the oral tradition,
falls asleep for twenty years? the characters had no names and when the
myth was written down this is the name
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A. Tom Buchanan
that was given
B. Tom Joad
121. To which country do George and Eliza
C. Philip Marlowe plan to immigrate?
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D. Rip van Winkle A. Liberia
117. What statement below best sums up the
B. Nigeria
literary significant of Maria Stewart?
C. France
an
A. First African American woman to speak
to a mixed audience D. Algeria
B. First African American to publish life 122. Which member of the corn clan could not
writingC Most popular native american overlook the wrondoings of the rest of the
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writer clan?
C. Most popular slave narrative A. The youngest member
D. All the above B. The oldest member
118. But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more C. The priest’s son
than once at Noon Have passed, I thought,
a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The D. The chief’s son
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speaker of this poem is 123. The American Renaissance overlapped

the time period, in which American
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A. A boy
writers were trying to
B. An alien
A. Postmodern; end slavery.
C. A girl
B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
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D. A communist
C. Modernism; end individualism.
119. What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom
to wear on a string around his neck before D. Romanticism; define themselves and
Tom is taken away? their writing style as independent from
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England.
A. A locket
124. Rabbit Angstrom Novels are written by –
B. A ring
A. Harper Lee
C. A dollar
B. John Updike
D. A crucifix
120. Why do you think the uncle was named C. Henry Miller
the "Unnatural Uncle"? D. R. Ellison
A. The Eskimo’s felt that family was impor- 125. John Winthrop’s "A Model of Christian
tant and to try to harm a family member Charity" illustrates what genre of early
was not normal or natural American writing?
116. D 117. A 118. A 119. C 120. A 121. A 122. C 123. D 124. B 125. A
A. Sermon 132. Which of the following is a true statement

B. Romanticism about Romanticism?
C. Transcendtalism A. Interest in the common man
D. Both B and C B. Celebration of the individual

126. Which of the following animals seem to C. Age of reason
represent strength and courage for the Es-
D. Both A and B
kimos?
133. Native Son (1940) is written by
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A. Horse
A. Jean Toomer
B. Fox
B. Richard Wright
C. Eagle
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C. Ralph Ellison
D. Deer
127. What did John Smith write? D. Stephen Crane
A. Jason and Isolde 134. What is Mrs. Shelby’s first name?
an
B. General History of Virginia A. Emily
C. Declaration of Independence B. Rachel
D. Journal of an Expedition C. Margaret

128. Which American writer won the Nobel D. Danielle
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Prize in 1930? 135. Apess claims that Native Americans in
A. Sinclair Lewis New England are the "most mean, abject,
miserable race of beings in the world."
B. Upton Sinclair
Which of the following is NOT a reason he
C. John Steinbeck offers as an explanation for their misery?
n
D. Raymond Chandler A. They are victimized by corrupt Indian

129. Themes in colonial time period: Agents appointed by the government.
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A. resistance B. They are not provided with adequate

B. cultural independence education.
C. Europe C. They are legally denied the right to en-

gage in commerce.
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D. All the above

130. What animal is personified as Hare’s D. Native American women have been se-
grandfather? duced and abandoned by white men.
136. From where does Eliza cross into
A. Bear
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Cananda?
B. Fox
A. Lake Erie
C. Deer
B. Lake Huron
D. Cougar
C. Niagara Falls
131. Which of the following best defines the
Enlightenment movement? D. Northern Minnesota
A. Age of reason 137. The farmer drove his plough-share deep
"Whose bones are these?" said he, "I find
B. Political thinking
them where my browsing sheep Roam o’er
C. Celebration of individual the upland lea." What does "lea" mean?
D. Philosophical movment Veldu eitt:
126. C 127. B 128. A 129. D 130. A 131. A 132. D 133. B 134. A 135. C 136. A
137. D
A. Rocky land A. Myth

B. Bridge B. History
C. Plain or plateau C. Tradition
D. Meadow or pastureland D. Metaphor
138. Well, then; I have received personal in- 142. It was about this time that I conceiv’d
formation, from a very high quarter, that the bold and arduous Project of arriving at
a certain document of the last importance, moral Perfection. I wish’d to live without
er
has been purloined from the royal apart- committing any Fault at any time; I would
ments. The individual who purloined it is conquer all that either Natural Inclination,
known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to Custom, or Company might lead me into.
take it. It is known, also, that it still remains As I knew, or thought I knew, what was
gd
in his possession. What is the meaning of right and wrong, I did not see why I might
the verb to purloin? not always do the one and avoid the other.
But I soon found I had undertaken a Task
A. To borrow
of more difficulty than I had imagined.
an
B. To steal I included under Thirteen names of Virtues
all that at that time occurr’d to me as nec-
C. To ruin
essary or desirable, and annex’d to each
D. To return a short Precept, which fully express’d the
Extent I gave to its Meaning.
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139. He had heard this destruction of the origi-
nal possessors of the soil described, as we A. Samson Occcum
find it in the history of the times, where, we
are told, "the number destroyed was about B. John Winthrop
four hundred;" and "it was a fearful sight C. Benjamin Franklin
to see them thus frying in the fire, and the
D. Mayflower Compact
streams of blood quenching the same, and
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the horrible scent thereof; but the victory 143. Who was Fuseli?
seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the A. Swiss-bom painter
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praise thereof to God." This work is:

B. French guitarist
A. A hortatory sermon
C. An Italian-born doctor
B. A historial novel
D. British painter
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C. Gothic fiction
144. Where does Senator Bird take Eliza and
D. A narrative frame Harry?
140. Apess concludes his piece by: A. To a Congregationalist community
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A. Predicting the Apocalypse B. To a Methodist community

B. Declaring his intention to run for public C. To a Quaker settlement
office
D. To Philadelphia
C. Calling for Native Americans to declare 145. The lesson the young man teaches
themselves independent of the U.S. govern- Dorothy is
ment
A. to hide here emotion
D. Exhorting his allies and advocates to
continue working to end prejudice B. to live and enjoy her life
141. This is the implied comparison between C. to fight with people
two dissimilar things D. not to lodge a complaint
138. B 139. B 140. D 141. D 142. C 143. D 144. C 145. B

146. Henry David Thoreau lived for a A. dowry

while
B. slavery
A. At Lake Tahoe.
C. corruption
B. At Willow Pond.
D. superstitions
C. At the Feather River.
152. According to the myth, how did frogs
D. At Walden Pond. loose their teeth?
147. In this technological world the child
er
should build up. . . ? A. Frogs used to eat rocks and one day
a frog ate a rock that was too hard and
A. a vision for himself smashed its teeth.
gd
B. inner strength B. Frogs never had any teeth.
C. his own life
C. Hare hit a frog with a club and burned
D. a will not to depend on others the frog and cursed it by declaring it would
148. When there was a momentary calm in never be able to harm anyone because it
an
that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader threatedned to hunt the hare down with
gave the sign, the procession resumed its dogs.
march. On they went, like fiends that D. Grandmother wanted to eat frog leg
throng in mockery around some dead po- stew so she captured a frog and extracted
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tentate, mighty no more, but majestic still its teeth one by one while chanting a Win-
in his agony. On they went, in counter- nebago song, and since then frogs were
feited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied without teeth.
merriment, trampling all on an old man’s
heart. This is: 153. Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the
"Father of American Literature"?
A. Historical fiction
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A. First native american to publish life writ-

B. A fairy tale ing
C. An autobiography
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B. Mentor to other writers

D. A detective story
C. Literary Maverick
149. In Walden, who urges people to simplify
their lives and look to nature for meaning? D. None of the above
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A. Robert Frost 154. Wanders in that happy valley Through

two luminous windows saw Spirits mov-
B. Walt Whitman
ing musically To a lute’s well-tunéd law,
C. Henry David Thoreau Round about a throne, where sitting (Por-
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D. Herman Melville phyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting,

The sovereign of the realm was seen. What
150. Who coined the phrase ‘Lost Genera- does Porphyrogene mean?
tion’?
A. Born to be free
A. Hemingway
B. Inflicted with the disease Porphyria
B. Gertude Stein
C. F. Scott Fitzserald C. Of royal birth
D. Sherwood Anderson D. Wearing purple robes

151. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as a literary work 155. The “Cycle of American Literature” was
exposed the evils of written by?
146. D 147. B 148. A 149. C 150. B 151. B 152. C 153. B 154. C 155. C 156. A
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson A. Created spiritual Diary

B. Thoruau B. Non-Separating puritan
C. Robert E. Spiller C. Separating puritan
D. Gustave Falubert D. both A and C
156. Who is the central character in Heming- 162. This character survived a massacre:
way’s novel The Old Man and the Sea?
A. Faith
A. Santiago
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B. Hope
B. Marlin
C. Magawisca
C. Mandolin
D. Madeline
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163. Before advocating on behalf of the en-
157. What does Topsy steal? slaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel
A. Marie’s bracelet Sewall participated in what early American
crisis event?
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B. A pair of gloves
A. Mayflower compact
C. Augustine’s Bourbon
B. Salem Witch Trails
D. Griddlecakes
C. No involvement
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158. What term describes Cassy’s racial her-
itage? D. All the above
A. Quadroon 164. The populace think that your rejection of
B. Mulatto popular standards is a rejection of all stan-
dard, and mere antinomianism - and the
C. Octoroon bold sensualist will use the name of phi-
n
D. Hectoroon losophy to gild his crimes. But the law of

consciousness abides. There are two con-
159. What does the narrator of the story about
fessionals, in one or the other of which
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Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s com-

we must be shriven. What is "antinomi-
position?
anism"?
A. His weakness for spirits
A. Doctrine of Stoicism
B. That he is henpecked by his wife
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B. Doctrine of Gnosticism
C. His love of town gossip
C. Doctrine of Materialism
D. His unwillingness to work
D. Doctrine of salvation by faith alone
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160. According to the myth, which of the fol-

lowing are likely hunting preparation ritu- 165. Which one is a great patriotic poem by
als that the Winnebago perform? Frost?
A. Burning tobacco as an offering A. Mending Wall
B. Singing songs B. Birches

C. Entering into a trance to commune with C. The Gift Outright
the spirits of the natural world. D. Directive
D. All of the above 166. What story tells how Squanto taught the
161. What statement below best sums up the settler to grow corn, procure commodities
literary significance of William Bradford? and fish?
157. B 158. B 159. D 160. D 161. D 162. C 163. B 164. D 165. C 166. C
A. General History of Virginia same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters

B. Puritan Sermons pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep
us from our unalienable and lawful rights?
C. The story of Plymouth Plantation I would ask you if you would like to be
D. Pride and Prejudice disfranchised from all your rights, merely
167. The change TV brought into the society because your skin is white, and for no other
can be summed up as crime? I’ll venture to say, these very charac-
ters who hold the skin to be such a barrier
A. condensed life to the screen in the way, would be the first to cry out,
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B. life turning more attractive injustice! awful injustice!
C. bringing reality before them A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
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D. creating indifference to realities of life
168. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical pur- C. Benjamin Franklin
pose of the Spiritual Diary Genre? D. William Apess
A. finding spiritual meaning 171. American Civil War was fought in
B. Critic slavery
C. Defend Slavery
D. Both B and C an A. 1815-1820
B. 1830-1840
C. 1861-1865
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169. The ambitious spirits of his brother chief- D. 1825-1833
tain Sassacus, had ever aspired to domin- 172. Whom does St. Clare give to Ophelia to
ion over the allied tribes - and immediately educate?
after the appearance of the English, the
A. Eva
same temper was manifest in a jealousy
of their encroachments. He employed all B. Prue
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his art and influence and authority, to unite C. Emmeline

the tribes for the extirpation of the danger-
D. Topsy
ous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary,
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averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no 173. What vice does Tom attempt to convince
danger from them, was the advocate of a Augustine Clare to renounce?
hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. A. gambling
What does "extirpation" mean? B. drinking
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A. Execution C. bribery
B. Going to extremes D. lying
C. Extermination 174. The intellectual movement that believed
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D. Expatriating that the observation of nature elevates the

nature of humans, that deep truths can be
170. I know that many say that they are will-
grasped through intuition, and that God,
ing, perhaps the majority of the people, that
Nature and humanity are united in a shared
we should enjoy our rights and privileges
universe is
as they do. If so, I would ask why are not
we protected in our persons and property A. Transcendentalism
throughout the Union? Is it not because B. Communism
there reigns in the breast of many who are
C. Totalitarianism
leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming
and impure black principle, and as corrupt D. Feudalism
and unholy as it can be–while these very 175. Who is Eliza’s mother?
167. D 168. D 169. C 170. D 171. C 172. D 173. B 174. A 175. A

A. Cassy A. Alcohol
B. Mrs.Shelby B. Slavery
C. Mrs.Legree C. Foreign
D. Aunt Chole D. Imperialism
176. Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth 182. Abraham Lincoln: the war Years
seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build A. T.S. Elliot
their monument, Though ye destroy their
er
dust. What is the meaning of the word B. Carl Sandburg
"hoar"? C. William Faulkner
A. Scarred D. Wallace Stevene
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B. Grey or white with age 183. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here
gold refers to
C. Ancient or venerable
A. the yellow metal
D. Wrinkled with age
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B. paycheck or money
177. Which of Upton Sinclair’s books is about
the meat-packing industry? C. materialism
A. Main Street D. the pot of luck
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B. Arrowsmith 184. Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create
Plymouth Colony?
C. Elmer Gantry
A. For the land
D. The Jungle
B. Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom
178. Who wrote The sound and the furry? as they saw fit
A. Eugene O’ Neil’s
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C. Religious practice of the Church of Eng-

B. William Faulkner land
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C. Robert Lee frost D. All of the above

D. Countee Cullen 185. About Christopher Columbus
179. Who wrote "The love song of J. Alfred A. Arrived on the Mayflower
Prufrock"? B. Mistook Bahama Islands for India
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A. Cumings C. Kept a journal of the First Voyage to

B. Robert Lee Frost America
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C. T.S. Eliot D. B and C

186. Name the religious group that preached
D. Edgar lee masters
to live a simple and straightforward life
180. The narrator returns home during the
A. Mormons
A. spring
B. Catholics
B. Winter
C. Puritans
C. fall
D. Druids
D. summer 187. Which of the following is NOT a rhetor-
181. Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ical purpose of "An Indian’ Looking Glass
to illustrate the evils of for the White Man"?
176. B 177. D 178. B 179. C 180. B 181. B 182. B 183. D 184. B 185. D 186. C
187. D
A. Critic the way white people’s society A. A cotton ginning machine

treats people of color wrong. B. A hemp cleaning machine
B. Making peace C. A hemp twines
C. Working together D. A bread slicing machine
D. both B and C 194. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody
that is not white is treated with contempt
188. All of the following are traits demon-
and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the
strated by the hero except?
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word of God justifies the white man in so
A. Obedience doing. When the prophets prophesied, of
whom did they speak? When they spoke of
B. Patience
heathens, was it not the whites and others
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C. Loyalty who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if
all nations with the exception of the Jews
D. Jealousy
were not counted heathens. This passage
189. William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Planta- exemplifies:
an
tion exemplifies what genre of early Amer-
A. Jamming
ican writing?
B. Snaring
A. Slave narrative
C. Hortatory sermon
B. Free verse poem
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D. Framing
C. Journal
195. The Puritans who settled Plymouth
D. Spiritual diary Colony were separating Puritans which
meant?
190. Why do people evolve a language
A. Continue being apart of the Church of
A. To communicate
England
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B. To articulate their circumstances B. Reform

C. For existence C. Separate from the Church of England
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D. For identifying themselves D. None of the above

191. How old is Emmeline? 196. In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Mary-
land, near Easton, the county town of that
A. Ten
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country, there is a small district of country,

B. Thirteen thily populated, and remarkable for noth-
ing that I know of more than for the worn-
C. Seventeen
out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its
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D. Fifteen soil, the general dilapidation of its farms

and fences, the indigent and spiritless char-
192. What was the original title of Heming-
acter of its inhabitants, and the prevalence
way’s novel The Old Man and the Sea ?
of ague and fever. What does dilapidation
A. Fiesta mean?
B. The Assistant A. Hunger or famine
C. The Sea in Being B. Decrease
D. Farewell to Arms C. Derivation
193. What invention won George Harris the D. Neglect or decray
respect of his factory’s proprietor? 197. How does St. Clare die?
188. D 189. D 190. B 191. D 192. C 193. B 194. C 195. C 196. D 197. D
A. He drowns 202. In Saul Bellow’s novel Herzog (1964),

B. He suffers a heart attack Moses Herzog is a
A. Christian
C. He is poisoned
B. Hindu
D. He is stabbed
198. The poem ‘Chicago’ is written by C. Jew
A. Ezra Pound D. Afro-American

203. The process of passing on sayings, songs
er
B. E.E. Cummings
and tales.
C. Carl Sandburg A. Narration
D. Carlos William B. History
gd
199. But for many minutes the heart beat on
C. Persuasion
with a muffled sound. This, however, did
not vex me; it would not be heard through D. Oral Tradition
the wall. At length it ceased. The old man 204. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written
was dead. I removed the bed and examined by
the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.
This victim is killed because of:
A. A letter
an A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Arthur Miller
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B. His clouded eye
D. Edith Wharton
C. His pact with the devil 205. This group united 5 tribes
D. His loud heart beat A. Iroquois
200. He was famed for great skill in horseman-
B. Sioux
ship; he was foremost at all races and cock-
fights; and, with the ascendancy which bod- C. Navajo
n
ily strength acquires in rustic life, was the D. Hopi

umpire in all disputes. He was always ready 206. Which definition below best defines Tran-
ya
for either a fight or a frolic, but had more scendentalism?

mischief and good humor than ill will in
his composition. Who is this? A. Reason
A. Cotton Mather B. Individualism

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B. Diedrich Knickerbocker C. Political thinking, philosophical, and so-

cial movement
C. Brom Bones
D. Deism, skepticism
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D. Geoffrey Crayon 207. "Your goodness must have some edge to

201. Some of the movements that took place in it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred
the modernist time period include: must be preached as the counteraction of
A. Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and the doctrine of love when that pules and
Dark Romanticism. whines." In this work the author argues in
favour of:
B. The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Gen-
eration, and Confessional Poetry. A. Communism
C. There were no movements during the B. Revolution

modernist time period. C. An independent nation of independent
D. Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmod- individuals
ernism. D. Abolition
198. C 199. B 200. C 201. B 202. C 203. D 204. A 205. A 206. C 207. C 208. A
208. Miniver Cheevy’s name satirically hints A. A Boy’s Will

at his
B. A Witness Tree
A. a minimalist achievements in life
C. North of Boston
B. magnanimous life style
D. Mountain Interval
C. brave approach to life
215. Which of the following is NOT a feature
D. hard work and sensitivity towards the of the Enlightenment?
society
er
A. Reason
209. when did william Faulkner get nobel prize
for literature? B. Deism
A. A-1941 C. Political
gd
B. B-1949 D. Skepticism
C. C-1945 216. HOWhich of the following themes or
D. D-1938 ideas are closely associated with the Na-
an
210. This mode of discourse attempts to con- tive American way of life?
vince someone A. Waste and abuse of natural resources
A. Persuasion B. Immoral behavior
B. Prejudice
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C. Love and respect for family and its el-
C. Promise ders
D. Promotion D. Uncivilized society
211. In addition to driving the family coach, 217. Having emerg’d from the Poverty and Ob-
what other responsibility do the St. Clare scurity in which I was born and bred, to a
assign Uncle Tom? State of Affluence and some Degree of Rep-
n
A. Tutoring Eva utation in the World, and having gone so

far thro’ Life with a considerable Share of
B. Managing finances
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Felicity, the conducing Means I made use

C. Helping Dinah cook of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well
D. Administering Marie’s medicine succeeded, my Posterity may like to know,
as they may find some of them suitable to
212. The Manitou is a great god in this legend.
their own Situations, and therefore fit to be
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A. Gilgamesh imitated.
B. Colba A. Fredrick Douglass
C. Odysseus
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B. John Winthrop
D. Walum Olum C. Benjamin Franklin
213. This Puritan author wrote about the Salem
witch trials D. William Apess
A. Cotton Mather 218. During the Revolutionary time period,

what great document was written?
B. Owen Edwards
A. The first romance novel.
C. Annie Bradford
B. The Declaration of Independence.
D. Terry Pratchett
214. Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken is in- C. Confessional poetry.
cluded in his poetical collection- D. The Heiner Papers
209. B 210. A 211. B 212. D 213. A 214. D 215. C 216. C 217. C 218. B 219. A
219. The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and han- A. Countiee cullen
kers up and down, that gripes the full- B. William Faulkner
grown lady-flower, curves upon her with
amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and C. T.S. Eliot
holds himself tremulous and tight till he is D. Wallace stevens
satisfied. . . What does tremulous mean? 224. The following extract presents a suitable
A. Trembling and timid answer to the hacknied argument drawn
by the defender of Slavery from the songs
B. Stiff
er
of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of
C. Afraid the powers of observation and manly heart
of the writer. The word hacknied is an old
D. Contemplating and deciding
form of the word hackneyed. What does it
gd
220. “He will give the gloom of gloom, and the mean?
sunshine of sunshine”. The pronoun “He”
refers to A. Lacking in freshness and originality
B. Saddened
A. God
an
C. Double meaning
B. Painter
D. Blue-eyed
C. Sculptor
225. What statement below best sums up the lit-
D. Author erary significance of Frederick Douglass?
Ch
221. Of the two, reverend Sir," said the voice A. Indian Autobiography
like the deacon’s, "I had rather miss an
ordination-dinner than to-night’s meeting. B. Father of free verse
They tell me that some of our commu- C. Father of American poetry
nity are to be here from Falmouth and be- D. Most popular slave narrative
yond, and others from Connecticut and
n
Rhode-Island; besides several of the Indian 226. Who is the narrator in Melville’s Moby
powows, who, after their fashion, know al- Dick
ya
most as much deviltry as the best of us. A A. Captain Ahab

"powow" in this context is:
B. Elijah
A. A devil-worshipper C. Ishmael
B. A boxer D. Gabrial
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C. An apples-salesman 227. What statement below best sums up the

literary significance of Walt Whitman?
D. A medicine man
A. Father of free verse
Na
222. According to "Hare’s Adventure", how

does he get his "burnt buttocks"? B. Father of American Poetry
A. His buttocks was scorched by the sun C. Circumference
which he had caught in a trap D. Both A and B
B. Grandmother burned him with a hot 228. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act
poker for being so mischievous passed?
C. Hare caught his own tale on fire trying A. 1784
to cook himself some dinner
B. 1841
D. He was born that way C. 1850
223. Who wrote Heritage?
D. 1857
220. B 221. D 222. A 223. A 224. A 225. D 226. C 227. D 228. C
229. What statement below best sums up the 234. What statement below best sums up the
literary significance of Benjamin Franklin? literary significance of Emily Dickinson?
A. Mentor to other writers A. oversoul
B. Rewrote the autobiography B. Slant Rhyme
C. Self-made and C. True Rhyme
D. Both B and C D. All of the above
230. This author wrote of the Pilgrims’ voyage 235. This group of Native Americans left be-
er
to the New World hind a legend about creation using pic-
A. Bradford Nelson tographs
B. William Holden A. Apache
gd
C. Nelson Holden B. Delaware
D. William Bradford C. Sioux
231. And then the fair Ohio charg’d Her many
D. Inuit
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sisters dear, "Show me once more, those
stately forms Within my mirror clear " 236. Which of the following is NOT a feature
The author of this work wanted to: of the Indian autobiography genre?
A. Show the beauty of Native women A. Birth

Ch
B. Show the beauty of Ohio women B. Assimilation
C. Protest the treatment of Native Ameri- C. Sovereignty
cans D. Religious in nature
D. Raise awareness of women’s part in US 237. Which statement below best defined Whit-
history man’s idea of Oversoul?
n
232. It was the very witching time of night that

A. Death
he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued
his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan B. Relationships
ya
Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead

C. American landscape
hush of midnight he could hear the faint
barking of a watchdog from the opposite D. Hope
shore. The night grew darker and darker; 238. About William Bradford
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the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky,

and driving clouds occasionally hid them A. Wrote the Mayflower Compact agree-
from his sight. This passage is from: ment
B. Founded Jamestown
Na
A. A fairy tale
B. An autobiography C. Wrote about the Plymouth Plantation
C. A detective story D. A and C

D. A Gothic tale 239. During the Colonial Time Period, the writ-
ing was influenced most by what religious
233. Black Boy is an autobiographical account
persuasion?
of whose Southern boyhood?
A. Thomas A. The Puritans
B. Pynchon B. The Catholics
C. John Dos Passos C. The Pilgrims
D. Saul Bellow D. The Anglo Saxons
229. D 230. D 231. C 232. D 233. B 234. B 235. B 236. C 237. C 238. D 239. A
240. B
240. Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does 246. Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
Hare trick him into being afraid? novel The Great Gatsby (1925)
A. Hare told him of a large beast living A. Gatsby
near Bear’s home.
B. Nick
B. Hare took out his quiver and showed
C. Buchannan
him four arrows.
C. Hare told thim that the country is full
247. The vivid imagery of the season is shown
er
of wars.
to
D. Hare threated to kill him.
A. reinforce the thoughts of the narrator
241. Name the ship that brought the first Pil-
gd
grims to the New World B. reflect the happenings in the life of the
narrator
A. Mayflower
C. state the situation of the narrator
B. Santa Maria
D. emphasize the choice of the season
C. Titanic
D. HMS Bounty
242. Themes in modern literature are:
A. pretension an
248. This mode of discourse presents details
that appeal to the senses
A. Description
Ch
B. Metaphor
B. nostalgia
C. Persuation
C. national identity
D. Narration
D. All the above 249. The annals of Massachusetts Bay will in-
243. Of what does Goodman Brown become form us, that of six governors, in the space
guilty after his midnight meeting in the of about forty years from the surrender
n
woods? of the old charter, under James II., two

A. Atonement were imprisoned by a popular insurrec-
ya
tion - a third, as Hutchinson inclines to

B. Catharsis believe, was driven from the province by
C. Gullibility the whizzing of a musket ball - a fourth, in
the opinion of the same historian, was has-
D. Hubris
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tened to his grave by continual bickerings

244. What statement below best sums up the with the house of representatives - and the
literary significance of Samon Occum? remaining two, as well as their successors,
A. Indian autobiography till the Revolution, were favored with few
Na
and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What

B. Most popular slave narrative is an "insurrection"?
C. First african american to speak to mixed A. An act or instance of beginning
audience
B. An of revolting against civil authority
D. None of the aboveE. All of the above
C. The state of one risen from the dead
245. Who wrote "Emperor Ice cream"?
D. The condition of being stopped
A. Langston Hughes
250. We paused before a House that seemed A
B. William Faulkner
Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was
C. Wallace stevens scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the
Ground – What is Cornice?
D. Countee cullen
241. A 242. D 243. D 244. A 245. C 246. B 247. A 248. A 249. B 250. B
A. Cracks in the ground 255. ‘Your’ uses an upper case because

B. Decorative molding beneath a roof A. he wanted it to create logic to the capi-
C. Dust talization of the final E.
D. Stolen goods B. he wanted to emphasize the ‘Y’

251. I knew him, however, as both mathe- C. the poem demanded an upper case
matician and poet, and my measures were D. he places his beloved in an upper place
adapted to his capacity, with reference to 256. I have said that the sole effect of my some-
er
the circumstances by which he was sur- what childish experiment—that of looking
rounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and down within the tarn—had been to deepen
as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I con- the first singular impression. There can
sidered, could not fail to be aware of the
gd
be no doubt that the consciousness of the
ordinary political modes of action. Who is rapid increase of my superstition—for why
speaking? should I not so term it?—served mainly to
A. Brown accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have
B. Brom Bones long known, is the paradoxical law of all
an
sentiments having terror as a basis. This
C. Rip work exemplifies:
D. Dupin A. Unity of effect
252. "Left the house of the subscriber, bounden
B. Ratiocinactive effect
Ch
servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when
he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, C. Cataleptic effect
master’s third best hat. One pound cur- D. Didactic effect
rency reward to whoever shall lodge him in 257. Which of the following is not an animal
any jail in the province." Hezekiah Mudge Hare prepared for humans to eat?
is a "bounden servant," meaning that he
A. Bear
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is bound by contract to be a servant (es-

sentially a willing slave) for seven years in B. Elk
repayment for:
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C. Horse
A. Freedom
D. Both A and B
B. Escape from enslavement 258. Walt Whitman’s style of writing is known
C. Transportation to the colonies as
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D. Dropping charges for murder A. Experimental

253. How long is Rip asleep in the woods? B. Expressionistic
A. Fifty years
Na
C. Lethargic
B. Twenty years D. Modernistic
C. One hundred years 259. How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to
Mr.Haley’s presence outside the inn?
D. Eighty years
254. We associate William Bradford with what A. Throws a rock
colonial settlement? B. Shouts about his hat
A. Plymouth C. Sneezes loudly
B. Mayflower compact D. Bucks his horse
C. Massachusetts Bay Colony 260. Hawthorne’s ancestors are associated
with what historical American event?
D. Rhode Island
251. D 252. C 253. B 254. A 255. D 256. A 257. C 258. A 259. B 260. A
A. History of puritans 266. "Can this be so!" cried goodman Brown,

with a stare of amazement at his undis-
B. History of slavery
turbed companion. Howbeit, I have noth-
C. Transcendentalism ing to do with the governor and council -
they have their own ways, and are no rule
for a simple husbandman, like me. But,
261. This term is an elaborate comparison be- were I to go on with thee, how should I
tween two different subjects meet the eye of that good old man, our
minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice
er
A. Simile
would make me tremble, both Sabbath-day
B. Conceit and lecture-day!" The word "husbandman"
usually means farmer, but in this context it
C. Sermon
gd
means something else - what?
D. Anomoly A. Rancher
262. This mode of discourse is used to explain. B. Male partner in a marriage
(Example: repair manuals)
an
C. Cowboy
A. Connotation
D. Man of ordinary status
B. Constitution
267. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio,
C. Convocation but in
Ch
D. Exposition A. Soulful lyrics
263. The founder of Jamestown B. Human voice
A. Johnathon Edwards C. Epic

D. Lyric
B. John Stillwell
268. Occom says he was discriminated against
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C. John Smith as a missionary and minister. What proof

D. John Stelzer does he present to illustrate the unfair treat-
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ment of Native American ministers?

264. Postmodern writing often uses and
as literary devices. A. Establishment of puritans
A. Black humor; metafiction. B. Establishment of autobiography

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B. Metaphors; verbal irony. C. Establishment of Indian praying towns

D. Establishment of self- reliance
C. Hyperbole; Personification.
269. The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt
Na
D. Symbolism; Imagery. from

265. Writers in the Romantic time period were A. Civil Disobedience
concerned with:
B. Walden
A. Nature as a source of secular and spiri-
C. Herald of Freedom
tual knowledge, emotion as truth, and ex-
ploration of the self. D. Life without principle
B. Scientific exploration. 270. A diary of someone’s day by day account
of events
C. Love and romance.
A. Journal
D. The philosophy of how to run a new
B. History
country.
261. B 262. D 263. C 264. A 265. A 266. D 267. B 268. C 269. B 270. A
C. Article A. To make mischief and cause trouble

D. Legend B. To trample upon evil beings that were
271. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, abusing his aunts and uncles
plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and C. To play tricks on other animals to prove
rosy-cheeked as one of her father’s peaches, how intelligent he is
and universally famed, not merely for her
D. The hare has no purpose that is why his
beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She
grandmother must always watch over him
wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set
er
off her charms, and a provokingly short pet- 276. Who is addressed as “you” in the poem?
ticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle A. a romantic achiever
in the country round. This is:
B. a frustrated romantic idealist
gd
A. Faith
C. an under achiever
B. Madeline
D. an accomplished royal
C. Magawisca 277. Along the way, goodman Brown and the
an
D. Katrina character who seems to be the devil meet
three people:
272. About the Delaware
A. Goody Cloyse, Faith, and old goodman
A. Used pictographs to explain nature
Brown.
B. Told the story of Wolam Olum
Ch
B. Goody Cloyse, deacon Gookin, and the
C. Settled in Northeast US minister.
D. All the above C. The minister, old goodman Brown, and
273. is the end of fame deacon Gookin.
A. Love D. Faith, old goodman Brown and deacon

Gookin.
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B. Pity
278. The Weary Blues
C. Misfortune
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A. William Faulkner
D. Death
B. Carl Sandburg
274. I was somewhat unmanageable when I
C. Langston Hues
first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few
ra
months of this discipline tamed me. I D. Sherwood anderson

was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My nat- 279. How was the priest’s son’s prayer an-
ural elasticity was crushed, my intellect lan- swered?
guished, the disposition to read departed,
A. The prayer was not answered and the
Na
the cheerful spark that lingered about my

people continued to live in sin
eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in
upon men, and behold a man transformed B. The dead uncle sent a hail storm to de-
into a brute!" stroy the land
A. Fredrick Douglass C. The priest’s son was told to set fire to
the village
B. John Winthrop
D. The dead uncle sent an earthquake to
C. Benjamin Franklin
punish the corn clan for their wrongdoings
D. William Apess
275. According to Hare, what work did the 280. The purpose of placing ‘fallen cold and
Earthmaker send him to do? dead’ at the end of each section is to
271. D 272. D 273. B 274. A 275. B 276. B 277. B 278. C 279. D 280. A
A. remind the leader of the tragedy 286. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and
the now miraculous luster of the eye, above
B. repeat the lines for the rhyming
all things startled and even awed me. The
C. keep the readers aware of what is to silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow
come all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer
D. clarify his idea texture, it floated rather than fell about the
face, I could not, even with effort, connect
281. This term refers to the "feeling" of a word its arabesque expression with any idea of
simple humanity. The character described
er
A. Connotation
in this passage:
B. Connection
A. Commits suicide
C. Constitution
gd
B. Devours a heart
D. Description
C. Meets the devil
282. is known as the ‘friendly innkeeper
of the town’ D. Buries someone alive
287. Whom did the corn clan member pray to
an
A. Stephen
for help?
B. Parker J
A. His dead uncle
C. Goodman Parker
B. His dead father
Ch
D. Stephen J Parker
C. His dead grandmother
283. Which of the following is NOT among the
13 virtues Franklin struggles to master? D. His dead grandfather
288. Which character in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
A. Temperance
directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law?
B. Silence
A. Senator Bird
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C. Order
B. Mrs. Bird
C. St. Clare
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284. I took my visitors all over the house. I

D. Haley
bade them search — search well. I led them,
at length, to his chamber. I showed them 289. Which of the following is not one of the 4
his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The nar- part of Puritan Sermon?
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rator is: A. Text

A. Helping Robin to search for his uncle B. Doctrine
B. A detective C. Bibliography
Na
C. Leading the police to the scene of a D. None of the above

crime 290. Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman was
D. Helping the police to look for a letter appeared in –
285. Berryman’s The Ball Poem can be cate- A. 1945
gorised as a
B. 1947
A. Confessional poem
C. 1949
B. Metaphorical poem
D. 1950
C. Fragmental poem 291. How many children does Uncle Tom
D. Delusional poem have?
281. A 282. C 283. D 284. C 285. A 286. D 287. A 288. B 289. C 290. C 291. D
A. one A. A bird
B. seven B. A small mountain lake
C. five C. A wide river
D. three D. A high cliff
292. I would not have it imagined, however, 296. Thoreau was part of the Transcendalists,
that he was one of those cruel potentates which were founded by
of the school, who joy in the smart of A. Mark Twain.
er
their subjects; on the contrary, he admin-
B. Herman Melville.
istered justice with discrimination rather
than severity; taking the burthen off the C. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
backs of the weak, and laying it on those D. Walt Whitman.
gd
of the strong. What is the meaning of the 297. This governor was re-elected 30 times
word "smart" in this context?
A. Anne Bradstreet
A. Stupidity
B. Bradford Nelson
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B. Silliness
C. Jonathan Edwards
C. Pain
D. William Bradford
D. Intelligence 298. Which American President reportedly re-
293. To Whom does Franklin say he is address- ferred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as “the lit-
Ch
ing his autobiography part 1? tle lady who made this big war”?
A. Himself A. George Washington
B. Indians B. John Adams
C. His son, john C. Abraham Lincoln
D. His son, William D. John. F. Kennedy
n
294. This Puritan author wrote a persuasive 299. We associate Nathaniel Hawthrone with
speech what literary movement?
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A. William Bradstreet A. Nationalism

B. Transcendentalism
B. Mather Edwards
C. Romanticism
C. John Williams
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D. Indian Autobiography
D. Johnathan Edwards
300. Black English is the creation of the
295. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere dif-
ferent arrangement of the particulars of the A. Linguistics Society
Na
scene, of the details of this picture, would B. Unites States of American -English
be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to an- C. Black Diaspora Association
nihilate its capacity for sorrowful impres-
sion; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my D. Black Diaspora
horse to the precipitous brink of a black and 301. By 1600 Holland had
lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the A. Emerged as a supreme power among
dwelling, and gazed down - but with a shud- the European countries
der even more thrilling than before - upon
B. a huge collection of paintings and sculp-
the re-modelled and inverted images of the
tures
gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and
the vacant eye-like windows. What is the C. the wisest men of the time
meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt: D. many scholars and sceptics
292. C 293. D 294. D 295. B 296. C 297. D 298. C 299. C 300. D 301. D
302. Thoreau through this essay tries to por- A. The life of the Indians
tray. . .
B. The influence of the missionaries in
A. Transcendentalism lives of the Indians
B. Imperialism C. Reported speech poems
C. Socialism D. Narratives captivity

308. What type of myth is the tale "The Jealous
D. Naturalism Uncle"?
er
303. Thoreau places a sense of Upon the A. Origin tale
ants
B. Trickster tale
A. honor and glory
C. Hero tale
gd
B. meticulous faction
D. A fable
C. responsibility 309. Unmoved – she notes the Chariots – paus-
D. revenge and betrayal ing – At her low Gate – Unmoved – an
an
Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat – I’ve
304. In which state is Legree’s plantation lo- known her – from an ample nation – Then
cated? – close the Valves of her attention – Like
A. Georgia Stone - What does ample mean?
Ch
A. Menacing
B. Florida
B. Large or abundant
C. Louisiana
C. Fearful and gracious
D. Vermont
D. Beautiful
305. What did the family do to protect the chil-
310. Who has been teaching Uncle Tom to
dren from the uncle?
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read?
A. They dressed the boys like girls and told
A. Eliza
them to behave as girls do
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B. George
B. They locked the uncle away until the
children were old enough to protect them- C. Haley
selves D. Mr.Symmes
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C. They dressed the girls like boys and told 311. Pre-colonial theme:
them to behave as boys do A. religious stories
D. They formed a mob and chased the un- B. creation stories
Na
cle out of the village

C. A and B
306. About Anne Bradstreet
A. Husband belonged to the Massachusetts 312. What promise did Augustine’s sudden
Bay Company death prevent him from fulfilling?
B. Arrived on the Mayflower A. Freeing his slaves
C. Wrote about her house burning down B. Relearning to pray
D. A and C C. Overcoming his alcoholism
307. gave a hint of the rich culture that D. Reuniting Tom with Aunt Chole
was forgotten 313. Who wrote Mending wall?
302. B 303. A 304. C 305. A 306. D 307. C 308. C 309. B 310. B 311. C 312. A
313. D 314. B
A. Carl Sanburg A. Toni Morrison

B. T.S. Eliot B. Jane Austin
C. E.e cummings C. Ann Petry
D. Robert Lee Forst D. Frances Harper
314. "Light in August"
320. All works of the highest art are meant
A. T.S. elliot to
er
B. William Faulkner A. tingle our senses
C. Langston Hughes B. stir our intellect
D. Sherwood anderson C. restore our skills for the art
gd
315. A language come into existence
when D. instill in us the sense of the art
A. there is brutal necessity 321. The term Beat Generation comes from
B. there are speakers of the language A. Beat to his size
C. ancient elements force to become a lan-

guage
D. a new language id discovered an B. Beat to his stomach
C. Beat to his socks
D. Beat to his Shoe
Ch
316. Which of the following is not a cul-
tural myth we attribute to those earliest 322. Which statement below best defines the
Massachusetts colonial settlements at Ply- genre of Indian autobiography?
mouth and Massachusetts? A. Genre that details life exerpeinces of
A. Democracy white americans in early america and cri-
tiques american society to native americans.
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B. Brother love/charity
C. US Exceptionalism
B. Genre that details life exerpeinces of na-
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D. None of the above tive americas in early america and critiques

317. What statement below best sums up american society to native americans.
the literary significance of Nathaniel C. Both A and B
Hawthorne?
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A. Popular early nosiest
323. When the prophets prophesied, of whom
B. Romantisum
did they speak? When they spoke of hea-
C. Scarlett letter thens, was it not the whites and others who
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D. All are correct were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all na-
tions with the exception of the Jews were
318. Why was the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
not counted heathens. The author of this
written?
passage was:
A. as a pro- slavery argument
A. A slave
B. the author was a runaway slave
B. A Transcendentalist
C. as a view point from Canada
C. The son of itinerant actors
D. as propaganda against slavery
D. An indentured servant
319. Who was the first black woman who win
the Nobel Prize for Literature ? 324. As I lay die
315. A 316. D 317. D 318. D 319. A 320. B 321. C 322. B 323. D 324. C
A. Sherwood Anderson A. The letter S

B. Langston Hugues B. The Letter H
C. William Faulkner C. A hexagon
D. Robert Lee Frost D. The number 314
325. Usher can only stand types of noises in 330. The pervading metaphor in the story is
his acutely uncomfortable state. The narra-
tor describes a number of impromptus that A. a clean well-lighted place
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Usher plays for him on which instrument? B. the old waiter
A. The harp C. the old man
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B. The guitar D. liquor
C. The ukulele 331. What statement below best sums up the
D. The violin literary significance of Thoreau?
A. Father of Free verse
an
326. After Hare had destroyed all the bad ani-
mals what did he decide to do next? B. Father of american poetry
A. He decided to prepare some animals for C. Self-reliance
humans to eat
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D. Father of American Liteature
B. He decided to go on his way and start a
family of his own 332. Who “haunts” the evil Simon Legree when
he is drunk?
C. He decided that there were more bad
animals and set out to destroy the rest of A. Cassy
them B. Eliza
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D. The tale ended and the reader is not cer- C. George

tain about what happened to bear
D. Uncle Tom
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327. The poem by Berryman has a sad and de-

pressed tone about it and it foreshadows 333. We associate John Winthrop with what
the colonial Settlement?
A. fate of the author or how depressed be A. Plymouth

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was B. Mayflower compact

B. fate and the mindest of the boy C. Massachusetts Bay Colony
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C. turn of events of the ball D. Rhode Island

D. happenings in the poem 334. What event provides the motivation for
328. This mode of discourse relates a story Shelby to release all the slaves?
A. Fiction A. Tom’s death
B. Narration B. Eliza’s escape
C. Exposition C. Tom’s daughter’s wedding
D. Persuasion D. Tom saving Eva
329. According to the sign in the Kentucky Inn, 335. Thoreau scales humans down to the size
what is branded to George’s right hand? of ants in order to
325. B 326. A 327. B 328. B 329. D 330. A 331. C 332. A 333. C 334. A 335. A
336. A
A. examine the aggressive, dominating and 341. “He glanced with rapid eyes. . . they
stupid nature of human warfare looked like frightened beads”. The figure
B. create a very vivid and impressive pic- of speech used here is
ture A. Metahor
C. shows his real intentions in writing B. Oxymoron
D. portray humans allegorically
C. Simile
336. “Gradually light returns to the street”
er
means D. Irony
A. life resumes to normal routine 342. Whitman uses line length and word choice
B. it is day break to represent
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C. streets are bright A. a wide range of emotion from joy to
sorrow
D. life is unpredictable
337. Parker’s report to Margaret is B. His style of writing
A. straightforward and simple C. the joyous moment
B. complex and heart wrenching
C. simple and heartwarming
D. painful and disgustingly low an D. a feeling of excitement
343. ‘Picture must not be too picturesque’.
Emerson here means pictures must
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338. Bret Harte’s "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
A. not be too scenic
took place in
B. capture our soul
A. The Rocky Mountains.
B. The Appalachian Mountains. C. be simple and plain
C. The Sierra Nevada Mountains. D. not dazzle
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D. The Sierra Madre Mountains. 344. Which of the following is NOT considered
339. What is Augustine St. Clare’s selfish wife’s a write for the Transcendentalism Move-
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name? ment?
A. Marie A. Emerson
B. Eliza B. Hawthrone
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C. Rachel
C. Thoreau
D. Ophelia
D. Stewart
340. As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses
345. Who wrote "The waste land"?
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a scene that mortifies him and brings him

face to face for the first time with the hor-
A. Langston Hues
rors of slavery. What is it?
A. Seeing his mother die B. William Faulkner
B. Watching a slave get beaten to death C. Wallace Stevens

C. Watching his aunt get whipped D. T.S. Elliot
D. Watching his dad beat his mother
337. C 338. C 339. A 340. C 341. C 342. A 343. D 344. B 345. D
3.2 True and false

1. William Faulkner was born in New Orleans A. True

A. True B. False
B. False 10. John Saffin supported the institution of slav-
ery in colonial Massachusetts
2. Peter Van der Donk was a real New Nether-
lands historian. A. True
A. True B. False
11. He had already lost the strength and in-
er
B. False
stinct vigor of a man, his muscles were thin,
3. Sir Walter Scott had an immense impact on his nerves weak, his face (a meek, woman’s
American literature with his historical nov- face) haggard, yellow with consumption.
els cast in historical settings, intermingling
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In the mill he was know as one of the girl-
historical people with fictional characters. men: "Molly Wolfe" was his sobriquet. He
A. True was never seen in the cockpit, did not own
a terrier, drank but seldom; when he did,
B. False
desperately. The word "sobriquet" means
an
4. John Steinbeck’s The Pearl was originally "nickname".
a folk tale.
A. True
A. True
B. False
B. False
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12. John Steinbeck worked for a while as a farm
5. William Carlos Williams wrote the poem laborer. His experiences showed him how
"The Red Wheelbarrow" which, like T.S. to survive and gave him material for his
Eliot’s poetry, contained complex images later writings like The Grapes of Wrath.
and allusions.
A. True
A. True
B. False
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B. False 13. Wolfe stole money from Kirby?

6. At the beginning of the period of 1820-
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A. True
1865 fiction was still seen as a threat, likely
to inflame the imagination and passion of B. False
susceptible young readers, in particular of 14. Emerson encouraged people to learn from
young women. the great people of the past who gave their
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name to whole periods.

A. True
A. True
B. False
7. Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel B. False
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Clemens. 15. The Sketch Book is an example of the per-

sonal travel book, a genre that became pop-
A. True
ular in American literature.
B. False
A. True
8. Emerson influenced Friedrich Nietzsche.
B. False
A. True 16. "The Scarlet Letter" perfectly reflected tran-
B. False scendentalist themes of mystery,fright, and
the occult.
9. Transcendentalism was embraced in the
late 1830s and 1840s by all the mainstream A. True
newspapers and magazines.
B. False
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. B 10. A 11. A 12. A 13. B 14. B
15. A 16. B 17. A
17. Many writers turned editors of magazines 23. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this,
or newspapers in order to see their work and as he rolled his great green eyes over
published. Washington Irving was one of the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of
those writers. wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian
corn, and the orchards burthened with
A. True
ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm
B. False tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned
18. Whitman’s favorite verse form was the after the damsel who was to inherit these
common meter. domains, and his imagination expanded
er
with the idea, how they might be readily
A. True
turned into cash, and the money invested
B. False in immense tracts of wild land, and shin-
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19. Near the end of The Pearl, the little child, gle palaces in the wilderness. The word
Coyotito, drowns in the river. "tenement" is another word for "residence."
A. True A. True
B. False B. False
20. Although Steinbeck wrote about people
from California, he himself was born and
lived in New York City.
an
24. The novel The Pearl contains much "sym-
bolism," which is using people, places, and
things that represent ideas larger than their
literal meaning.
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A. True
A. True
B. False
B. False
21. He now suspected that the great roysters of
the mountain had put a trick upon him, and 25. Fiction had become more popular and pres-
having dosed him with liquor, had robbed tigious than poetry in 1820-1865.
him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, A. True
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but he might have strayed away after a

squirrel or partridge. The word "roysters" B. False
means "roosters." 26. The Southern States were the center for
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printing and publishing.

A. True
A. True
B. False
22. "Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a B. False
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new-born babe," said the shape of old good- 27. Transcendentalists were in favor of the con-
man Brown. "Ah, your worship knows the servative Protestant scrutiny practiced by
receipt," cried the old lady, cackling aloud. publicists nationwide.
"So, as I was saying, being all ready for the
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A. True
meeting, and no horse to ride on, I made up
my mind to foot it; for they tell me, there is B. False
a nice young man to be taken into commu- 28. Emerson believed that people should not
nion to-night. But now your good worship strive to fit in.
will lend me your arm, and we shall be there A. True
in a twinkling." The word "receipt" in this
context means "a written acknowledgment B. False
of having received a specified amount of 29. The poetry of T.S.Eliot is an example of
money or goods." Modernism.
A. True A. True
B. False B. False
18. B 19. B 20. A 21. B 22. B 23. A 24. A 25. B 26. B 27. B 29. A 30. A
30. The Pearl takes place in rural South Amer- 36. Among the many jobs Mark Twain had, he
ica. was a riverboat captain.
A. True A. True
B. False B. False
31. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere dif- 37. The romantic movement in early
ferent arrangement of the particulars of the nineteenth-century literature was a re-
scene, of the details of this picture, would action against the Age of Reason.
be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to an-
er
A. True
nihilate its capacity for sorrowful impres-
sion; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my B. False
horse to the precipitous brink of a black and 38. "True;" said Dupin, after a long and thought-
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lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the ful whiff from his meerschaum, "although
dwelling, and gazed down-but with a shud- I have been guilty of certain doggerel my-
der even more thrilling than before-upon self." The word "doggerel" means to bark
the re-modelled and inverted images of the like a dog.
gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and
the vacant eye-like windows. "Sedge" is a
plant.
A. True
an A. True
B. False
39. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper
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B. False merely, but your whole influence. A minor-
ity is powerless while it conforms to the
32. Well into the middle of the 19th century
majority; it is not even a minority then; but
boys and girls alike were protected from
it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole
sexually frank classics written in Greek and
weight. If the alternative is to keep all just
Latin.
men in prison, or give up war and slavery,
A. True the State will not hesitate which to choose.
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B. False In this work the author argues in favour

of
33. Samuel Sewall was a leading supporter of
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slavery in colonial Massachusetts. A. Revolution with war

A. True B. Peaceable revolution
B. False 40. In The Pearl, what starts off as a great op-
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portunity later become nothing but sadness

34. He had seen his people slaughtered, or
and destruction.
driven from their homes and hunting-
grounds, into shameful exile; his wife had A. True
died in captivity, and his children lived in
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B. False
servile dependence in the house of his en-
emies. The author of this work wanted to 41. In general, before 1830 American painting
raise awareness of women’s part in US his- was less obviously imitative of European
tory. styles than was American literature.
A. True A. True
B. False B. False
35. Nathanial Hawthorne was America’s lead- 42. The final writing assignment in this class
ing transcendentalist thinker. was on each student’s favorite author.
A. True A. True
B. False B. False
31. A 32. B 33. B 34. A 35. B 36. A 37. A 38. B 39. B 40. A 41. A 42. A 43. A
43. Henry David Thoreau believed that the A. True

Mexican War was immoral because it ad-
B. False
vanced the cause of slavery.
3.3 Single answer
1. The limpid liquid within the young man, pathy for "poor Ireland"; they can furnish
er
The vexed corrosion, so pensive and so a ship of war to convey the Hungarian
painful, The torment–the irratable tide that refugee from a Turkish prison to the "land
will not be at rest, The like of the same of the free and home of the brave." They
I feel–the like of the same in others, The boast that America is the "cradle of liberty";
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young man that flushes and flushes, and the if it is, I fear they have rocked the child to
young woman that flushes and flushes The death. Write the title of this work, correctly
young man that wakes, deep at night, the spelled:
hot hand seeking to repress what would Answer: Clotel; or, The President’s Daugh-
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master him. Write the title of this work, ter
correctly spelled: 7. Why Are We in Vietnam?
Answer: Spontaneous Me Answer: Norman Mailer
2. The catalyst for Wolfe’s downfall is 8. Two together! Winds blow south, or winds
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Answer: Dr. May blow north, Day come white, or night come
3. Since then – ’tis Centuries – and yet Feels black Home, or rivers and mountains from
shorter than the Day I first surmised the home, Singing all time, minding no time,
Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity Write While we two keep together Write the title
the title of this work, correctly spelled: of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Because I could not stop for Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock-
n
Death ing
4. As they could not reach me, they had re- 9. To Jerusalem and Back
solved to punish my body; just as boys, if Answer: Saul Bellow
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they cannot come at some persons against 10. Their Eyes Were Watching God
whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. Answer: Zora Neale Hurston
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it
11. Cup of Gold
was timid as a lone woman with her silver
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Answer: John Steinbeck

spoons, and that it did not know its friends
from its foes, and I lost all my remaining 12. The American Democrat
respect for it. Write the title of this work, Answer: James Cooper
correctly spelled: 13. But at last you may think I am what is called
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Answer: Resistance to Civil Government a hard and uncharitable man. But not so. I
5. She looked upward with an intent gaze, as believe there are many who would not hes-
if she held communion with an invisible itate to advocate our cause; and those too
being. "Spirit of my mother!" burst from who are men of fame and respectability—as
her lips. Oh! that I could follow the to that well as ladies of honor and virtue. Write
blessed land where I should no more dread the author’s full name, correctly spelled:
the war-cry, nor the death-knife!" Write the Answer: William Apess
title of this work, correctly spelled: 14. Maud Martha
Answer: Hope Leslie Answer: Gwen Brooks
6. They have tears to shed over Greece and 15. "Full of these ideas, I prepared myself with a
Poland; they have an abundance of sym- pair of green spectacles, and called one fine
morning, quite by accident, at the Ministe- of a partially cataleptical character, were

rial hotel. I found D—— at home, yawning, the usual diagnosis. Write the title of this
lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pre- work, correctly spelled:
tending to be in the last extremity of ennui. Answer: The Fall of the House of Usher
He is, perhaps, the most really energetic 23. He seldom has to listen to lectures on pro-
human being now alive—but that is only priety of behavior, or an anything else. He
when nobody sees him." Write the author’s is never chided for handling his little knife
name in full, correctly spelled: and fork improperly or awkwardly, for he
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
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uses none. He is never reprimanded for soil-
16. Satan in Goray ing the table-cloth, for he takes his meals
Answer: Isaac Singer on the clay floor. He never has the misfor-
17. The order of civilization is reversed here. tune, in his games or sports, of soiling or
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The name of the child is not expected to be tearing his clothes, for he has almost none
that if its father, and his condition does not to soil or tear. Write the author’s name in
necessarily affect that of the child. He may full, correctly spelled:
be the slave of Mr. Tilgman; and his child, Answer: Frederick Douglass
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when born, may be the slave of Mr. Gross. 24. The Fall of America: Poems of These States
He may be a freeman; and his child may Answer: Allen Ginsburg
be a chattel. Write the title of this work, 25. The Progress of Love
correctly spelled: Answer: Alice Munro
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom
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26. Black Magic
18. Lie Down in Darkness Answer: Amiri Baraka
Answer: William Styron 27. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg
19. Who wrote "The Heights of Macchu Pic- Answer: Louis Bromfield
chu?" 28. Rolling Stones
Answer: Pablo Neruda Answer: O. Henry
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20. "His lynx eye immediately perceives the 29. Not one of all the purple Host Who took
paper, recognizes the handwriting of the the Flag to-day Can tell the definition, So
address, observes the confusion of the per- clear, of victory.. Write the author’s name
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sonage addressed, and fathoms her secret. in full, correctly spelled:

After some business transaction, hurried Answer: Emily Dickinson
through in his ordinary manner, he pro- 30. Rocket Ship Galileo
duces a letter somewhat similar to the one Answer: Robert Heinlein
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in question, opens it, pretends to read it, 31. The Pump House Gang
and then places it in close juxtaposition to Answer: Tom Wolfe
the other. Again he converses, for some
32. "A blight came down, a blast swept by, The
fifteen minutes, upon the public affairs. At
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cone-roof’d cabins fell, And where that

length, in taking leave, he takes also from
exil’d people fled, It is not ours to tell." Write
the table the letter to which he had no
the title of this work, correctly spelled:
claim." Write the title of this work, correctly
Answer: Our Aborigines
spelled:
Answer: The Purloined Letter 33. One Writer’s Beginnings
Answer: Eudora Welty
21. Three Lives
Answer: Gertrude Stein 34. The Soul selects her own Society - Then –
shuts the Door – To her divine Majority -
22. The disease of the lady [ ] had long baf-
Present no more Write the title of this work,
fled the skill of her physicians. A settled ap-
correctly spelled:
athy, a gradual wasting away of the person,
Answer: The Soul selects her own Society
and frequent although transient affections
35. The Neon Wilderness well. I led them, at length, to his cham-
Answer: Nelson Algren ber. I showed them his treasures, secure,
36. Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my con-
list of one after another as I happen to call fidence, I brought chairs into the room,
them to me or think of them, The real po- and desired them here to rest from their
ems, (what we can call poems being merely fatigues Write the title of this work,
pictures,)* The poems of the privacy of the correctly spelled:
night, and of men like me, This poem droop- Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart
er
ing shy and unseen that I always carry, 43. In truth, all through the haunted forest,
and that all men carry, (Know once for there could be nothing more frightful than
all, avow’d on purpose, wherever are men the figure of On he flew, among the
like me, are our lusty lurking masculine po- black pines, brandishing his staff with fren-
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ems,) Write the title of this work, correctly zied gestures, now giving vent to an inspi-
spelled: ration of horrid blasphemy, and now shout-
Answer: Spontaneous Me ing forth such laughter, as set all the echoes
37. Begorra! On the spools. Alleys behint, of the forest echoing like demons around
an
though we helped her, we dud. An wid him. Write the title of this work, correctly
ye! Let Deb alone! It’s ondacent frettin’ a spelled:
quite body. Be the powes, an’we’ll have a Answer: Young Goodman Brown
night of it! There’ll be lashin’s ódrink, - the 44. The night in prison was novel and in-
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Vargent be blessed and praised for it! What teresting enough. The prisoners in their
does this Welsh worker mean by Vargent? shirtsleeves were enjoying a chat and the
Answer: The virgin Mary evening air in the doorway, when I entered.
38. The Winthrop Covenant But the jailer said, "Come, boys, it is time to
Answer: Louis Auchincloss lock up"; and so they dispersed, and I heard
the sound of their steps returning into the
39. "They rear’d their dwellings on our side, hollow apartments. My room-mate was in-
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Their corn upon our breast; A blight came troduced to me by the jailar as "a first-rate
down, a blast swept by, The cone-roof’d fellow and clever man." Write the author’s
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cabins fell. . . " Write full name of author, name in full, correctly spelled:
correctly spelled: Answer: Henry David Thoreau
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigour-
ney 45. Azul was written by
Answer: Ruben Dario
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40. Her good luck was owing to the exceed-

ing care which she took in preventing 46. The great chastity of paternity, to match
the succulent root from getting bruised in the great chastity of maternity, The oath
the digging, and in placing it beyond the of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic
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reach of frost, by actually burying it under and fresh daughters, The greed that eats
the hearth of her cabin during the winter me day and night with hungry gnaw, till
months. What does succulent mean? I saturate what shall produce boys to fill
Answer: Juicy my place when I am through, The whole-
some relief, repose, content, And this bunch
41. of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz pluck’d at random from myself, It has done
Answer: a woman of genius: the intellec- its work – I toss it carelessly to fall where it
tual biography may. Write the title of this work, correctly
42. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. spelled:
The old man, I mentioned, was absent in Answer: Spontaneous Me
the country. I took my visitors all over 47. Hopskotch is by
the house. I bade them search—search Answer: Julio Cortazar
48. Flor Y Canto is by the To-morrow! He threw down the tin, trem-
Answer: aztecs bling and covered his face with his hands.
49. The Princess Casamassima When he looked up again, the daylight was
Answer: Henry James gone. Write the title of this work, correctly
spelled:
50. That bond-woman’s corse, - let Potomac’s Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills
proud wave Go bear if along by our Wash-
57. The continence of vegetables, birds, an-
ington’s grave, And heave it high up on
imals, The consequent meanness of me
that hallowed strand, To tell of the freedom
er
should I skulk or find myself indecent,
he won for our land. What does hallowed
while birds and animals never once skulk
mean?
or find themselves indecent. The great
Answer: Sacred
chastity of paternity, to match the great
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51. How to Write Short Stories chastity of maternity. Write the author’s
Answer: Ring Lardner name in full, correctly spelled:
52. Nine Stories Answer: Walt Whitman
Answer: J. D. Salinger 58. Its principle feature seemed to be that of
an
53. The inconsistencies of Slaveholding profes- an excessive antiquity. The discoloration
sors of religion cry to Heaven. We are not of ages had been great. Minute fungi over-
disposed to detest, or refuse communion spread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine
with them. Their blindness is but one form tangled webwork from the eaves. Yet all
of this was apart from any extraordinary
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of that prevalent fallacy which substitutes
a creed for a faith, a ritual for a life. Write dilapidation. Write the author’s name in
the title of this work, correctly spelled: full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 59. Name an author whose grandmother was
thought to have the magical powers of a
54. Here the fugitive saw nothing but slaves
witch?
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brought in and taken out, to be placed in

Answer: Frederick Douglass
ships and sent away to the same part of the
country to which she herself would soon 60. The House of Dust: A Symphony
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be compelled to go. She had seen or heard Answer: Conrad Aiken

nothing of her daughter while in Richmond, 61. Two sleepers at night lying close together
and all hopes of seeing her now had fled. as they sleep, one with an arm slanting
If she was carried back to New Orleans, down across and below the waist of the
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she could expect no mercy from her mas- other, The smell of apples, aromas from
ter. Write the title of this work, correctly crush’d sage-plant, mint, birch-bark, The
spelled: boy’s longings, the glow and pressure as
Answer: Clotel; or, The President’s Daugh- he confides to me what he wad dreaming,
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ter The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and

55. Fanny falling still and content to the ground, Write
Answer: Erica Jong the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Spontaneous Me
56. A free, firm step, a clear-cut olive face, with
62. Uncle Tom’s Children
a scarlet turban tied on one side, dark, shin-
Answer: Richard Wright
ing eyes, and on the head the basket poised,
filled with fruit and flowers, under which 63. Seize the Day
the scarlet turban and bright eyes looked Answer: Saul Bellow
out half-shadowed. The picture caught his 64. He had stepped aside where the light fell
eye. It was good to see a face like that. He boldest on the figure, looking at it in si-
would try to-morrow, and cut one like it. lence. There was not one line of beauty
or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, mus- 70. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a dis-
cular, grown coarse with labor, the power- trustful, if not a desperate man, did he
ful limbs instinct with some one poignant become, from the night of that fearful
longing. One idea: there it was in the tense, dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the con-
rigid muscles, the clutching hands, the wild, gregation were singing a holy psalm, he
eager face, like that of a starving wolf’s could not listen, because an anthem of sin
Write the author’s name in full, correctly rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned
spelled: all the blessed strain. When the minister
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis spoke from the pulpit, with power and fer-
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65. The pulse pounding through palms an tre- vid eloquence, and, with his hand on the
bling encircling finger, the young man all open bible, of the sacred truths of our reli-
color’d, red, ashamed, angry; The souse gion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant
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upon me of lover the sea, as I lie willing deaths, and of future bliss or misery unut-
and naked. The merriment of the twin ba- terable, then did [he] turn pale, dreading,
bies that crawl over the grass in the sun, lest the roof should thunder down upon the
the mother never turning her vigilant eyes gray blasphemer and his hearers Write
an
from them. . . What does souse mean in this
context? Answer: Young Goodman Brown
Answer: Drenching in water 71. The experience through which I was pass-
66. Vineland ing, they had passed through before. They
Answer: Thomas Pynchon had already been initiated into the mys-
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67. He seldom has to listen to lectures on pro- teries of old master’s domicile, and they
priety of behavior, or on anything else. He seemed to look upon me with a certain de-
is never chided for handling his little knife gree of compassion; but my heart clave to
and fork improperly or awkwardly, for he my grandmother. Think it not strange, dear
uses none. He is never reprimanded for soil- reader, that so little sympathy of feeling ex-
ing the table-cloth, for he takes his meals isted between us. Write the author’s name
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on the clay floor. He never has the misfor- in full, correctly spelled:
tune, in his games or sports, of soiling or Answer: Frederick Douglass
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tearing his clothes, for he has almost none 72. A Choice of Enemies
to soil or tear. Write the title of this work, Answer: Mordecai Richler
correctly spelled:
73. She crept into a corner of the cell, and
stood watching him. He was scratching
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68. it conveyed to my mind in a sense of my the iron bars of the window with a piece
entire dependence on the will of somebody of tin which he had picked up, with an idle,
I had never seen; and, from some cause or uncertain, vacant stare, just as a child or
other, I had been made to fear this some- idiot would do. Write the title of this work,
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body above all else on earth. Write the title correctly spelled:
of this work, correctly spelled: Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills
74. We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I
69. We feel that his view, even of those who
had put away My labor and my leisure too,
have injured him most, may be relied upon.
For his Civility - What does leisure mean?
He knows how to allow for motives and in-
Answer: Pastime
fluences. Upon the subject of Religion; he
speaks with great force, and not more than 75. We passed the school where children strove
our own sympathies can respond to. Write At recess – in the ring - We passed the Fields
the title of this work, correctly spelled: of Gazing Grain - We passed the setting
Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of Sun - Write the title of this work, correctly
Frederick Douglass, An American Slave spelled:
Answer: Because I could not stop for 86. Jose hernandez wrote:
Death Answer: the departure of martin fierro
76. Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks 87. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts
Answer: Ralph Connor this enchanted region, and seems to be
77. The young man that wakes deep at night, commander-in-chief of all the powers of
the hot hand seeking to repress what would the air, is the apparition of a figure on horse-
master him, The mystic amorous night, back, without a head. It is said by some to
the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose
er
sweats, The pulse pounding through palms head had been carried away by a cannon-
and trembling encircling fingers, the young ball, in some nameless battle during the
man all color’d, red, ashamed, angry; Write Revolutionary War, and who is ever and
the title of this work, correctly spelled: anon seen by the country folk hurrying
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Answer: Spontaneous Me along in the gloom of night, as if on the
78. "Have I not heard her footsteps on the stair? wings of the wind. Write the author’s name
Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible in full, correctly spelled:
beating of her heart? Madman!" —here he Answer: Washington Irving
an
sprung violently to his feet, and shrieked 88. Name the author who called attention to
out his syllables, as if in the effort he were "white slavery" in the US.
giving up his soul—"Madman! I tell you that Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis
she now stands without the door!" Write 89. The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as
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I lie and naked, The merriment of the twin
Answer: The Fall of the House of Usher babes that crawl over the grass in the sun,
79. Fantastic Voyage the mother never turning her vigilant eyes
Answer: Isaac Asimov from them. Write the author’s name in full,
80. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls correctly spelled:
Answer: Robert Heinlein Answer: Walt Whitman
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81. A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls 90. The Cave
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Answer: Robert Penn Warren
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82. Grendel 91. Isabel Allende wrote:

Answer: John Gardner Answer: house of the spirits
83. Following the Equator 92. The Painted Bird
Answer: Mark Twain Answer: Jerzy Kosinski
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84. A Mixture of Frailties

93. A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
Answer: Robertson Davies
Throwing myself on the sand, confronting
85. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows the waves, I, chanter of pains and joys,
tenfold closer after this explanation, be- uniter of here and hereafter, Taking all hints
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ing sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond
the syllogism; while methought the one them, A reminiscence sing. Write the au-
in pepper and salt eyed him with some- thor’s name in full, correctly spelled:
thing of a triumphant leer. At length he Answer: Walt Whitman
observed, that all this was very well, but
94. Which author was a recluse?
still he thought the story a little extravagant
Answer: Emily Dickinson
– there were one or two points on which
he had his doubts. "Faith, sir," replied the 95. Name the first author who wrote the first
story-teller, "as to that matter, I don’t be- African American play?
lieve one half of it myself." Write the title Answer: William Wells Brown
of this work, correctly spelled: 96. Jorge Luis Borges wrote
Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Answer: Ficciones
97. Beloved there is no whiteness except of the skin, no

Answer: Toni Morrison humanity except in the outward form, and
98. That it was affirmed that the great Hen- of whom the Avenger will not fail yet to
drick Hudson, the first discoverer of the demand – "Where is thy brother?" Write
river and country, kept a kind of vigil there the title of this work, correctly spelled:
every twenty years, with his crew of the Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of
Half-moon, being permitted in this way to Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep 104. He was an elderly man, of large and ma-
er
a guardian eye upon the river, and the great jestic person, and strong, square features,
city called by his name. Write the author’s betokening a steady soul; but steady as
name in full, correctly spelled: it was, his enemies had found means to
Answer: Washington Irving shake it. His face was pale as death, and far
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99. Considered merely as a narrative, we have more ghastly; the broad forehead was con-
never read one more simple, true, coherent, tracted in his agony, so that his eyebrows
and warm with genuine feeling. It is an ex- formed one grizzled line; his eyes were red
cellent piece of writing, and on that score and wild, and the foam hung white upon
an
to be prized as a specimen of the powers his quivering lip. His whole frame was
of the Black Race, which Prejudice persists agitated by a quick and continual tremor,
in disputing. We prize highly all evidence which his pride strove to quell, even in
of this kind, and it is becoming more abun- those circumstances of overwhelming hu-
dant. What does coherent mean? miliation. Write the author’s full name, cor-
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Answer: Clear and understandable rectly spelled:
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Discuss
100. Fifth Business
this Question
105. The Rebel Angels
101. She was a dainty little figure with a white
neck, round arms, and a slender waist, at
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the extremity of which her scarlet petticoat 106. When school hours were over, he was
jutted out over a hoop, as if she were stand- even the companion and playmate of the
ing in a balloon. Moreover, her face was larger boys; and on holiday afternoons
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oval and pretty, her hair dark beneath the would convoy some of the smaller ones
little cap, and her bright eyes possessed a home, who happened to have pretty sisters,
sly freedom, which triumphed over those of or good housewives for mothers, noted for
Write the title of this work, correctly the comforts of the cupboard. Indeed, it
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spelled: behooved him to keep on good terms with

Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineux his pupils. Write the title of this work, cor-
rectly spelled:
102. Born for another’s benefit, as the firstling
Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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of the cabin flock I was soon to be selected

as a meet offering to the fearful and inex- 107. Name a work form this period that alludes
orable demigod, whose huge image on so to Emerson?
many occasions haunted my childhood’s Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills
imagination Write the title of this work, 108. It was market-day. The narrow window of
correctly spelled: the jail looked down directly on the carts
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom and the wagons drawn up in a long line,
103. We wish that every one may read his book where they had unloaded. He could see,
and see what a mind might have been sti- too, and hear distinctly the clink of money
fled in bondage, - what a man may be sub- as it changed hands, the busy crowds of
jected to the insults of spendthrift dandies, whites and blacks shoving, pushing one an-
or the blows of mercenary brutes, in whom other, and the chaffering and swearing at
the stalls. Somehow, the sound, more than is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that
anything else had done, wakened him up, - he must take himself for better, for worse,
made the whole real to him. He was done as his portion; that though the wide uni-
with the world and the business of it. Write verse is full of good, no kernel of nourish-
the title of this work, correctly spelled: ing corn can come to him but through his
Answer: Life in the Iron Mills toil bestowed on that plot of ground which
109. Through this unjust and oppressive law, is given to him to till. The power which
many persons born in the Free States have resides in him is new in nature, and none
but he knows what that is which he can do
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bee consigned to a life of slavery on the cot-
ton, sugar, or rice plantations of the South- nor does he know until he has tried. Write
ern States. Write the author’s name in full, the title of this work, correctly spelled:
correctly spelled: Answer: Self-Reliance
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Answer: William Wells Brown 118. Lost in the Funhouse
110. My own songs awaked from that hour, Answer: John Barth
And with them the key, the word up from 119. The Story of a Novel
the waves, The word of the sweetest song Answer: Tom Wolfe
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and all songs, That strong and delicious 120. Any free coloured persons visiting Wash-
word which, creeping to my feet, (Or like ington, if not provided with papers assert-
some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed ing and providing their right to be free, may
in sweet garments, bending aside) The sea be arrested and placed in one of those dens.
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whisper’d me. Write the title of this work, If they succeed in showing that they are
correctly spelled: free, they are set at liberty, provided they
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock- are able to pay the expenses of their arrest
ing and imprisonment; if they cannot pay these
111. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of pa- expenses, they are sold out. Write the au-
per merely, but your whole influence. A thor’s name in full, correctly spelled:
minority is powerless while it conforms Answer: William Wells Brown
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to the majority; it is not even a minority 121. Orion and Other Poems
then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by Answer: Charles Roberts
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its whole weight. If the alternative is to

122. "Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect,
keep all men in prison, or give up war and
as he gave a long, steady, and contempla-
slavery, the State will not hesitate which
tive puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I
to choose. Write the author’s name in full,
will tell you in a few words; but, before I be-
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correctly spelled:
gin, let me caution you that this is an affair
Answer: Henry David Thoreau
demanding the greatest secrecy, and that
112. Another Country I should most probably lose the position I
Answer: James Baldwin
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now hold, were it known that I confided

113. The Morning Watch it to any one." Write the title of this work,
Answer: James Agee correctly spelled:
114. Jane of Lantern Hill Answer: The Purloined Letter
Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery 123. I was astounded. The Perfect appeared
115. Society and Solitude absolutely thunderstricken. For some min-
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson utes he remained speechless and motion-
less, less, looking incredulously at my
116. Letting Go friend with open mouth, and eyes that
Answer: Philip Roth seemed starting from their sockets; then,
117. There is a time in every man’s education apparently in some measure, he seized a
when he arrives at the conviction that envy pen, and after several pauses and vacant
stares, finally filled up and signed a check 132. Notwithstanding his special acuteness and
for fifty thousand francs, and handed it ability, he is unable to take a fact out of its
across the table to [my friend]. Write the merely political relations, and behold it as it
author’s name in full, correctly spelled: lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intel-
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe lect, - what, for instance, it behoves a man
124. Mules and Men do here in America to-day with regard to
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston slavery, but ventures, or is driven, to make
some such desperate answer as the follow-
125. Soon, however a bewildering excitement
ing, while professing to speak absolutely,
er
began to seize upon his mind; the preced-
and as a private man, - from which that new
ing adventures of the night, the unexpected
and singular code of consideration, under
appearance of the crowd, the torches, the
their responsibility to their constituents, to
confused din and the hush that followed,
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the general laws of propriety, humanity,
the spectre of his kinsman reviled by that
and to God. . . What does acuteness mean?
great multitude, – all this, and more than
Answer: Sharpness
all, a perception of tremendous ridicule in
the whole scene, affected him with a sort 133. As they could not reach me, they had re-
an
of mental inebriety Write the author’s full solved to punish my body; just as boys, if
name, correctly spelled: they cannot come at some person against
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog.
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it
126. He likes a boggy acre, A floor too cool for
was timid as a lone woman with her silver
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corn. Yet when a child, and barefoot, I more
spoons, and that it did not know its friends
than once, at morn, Write the title of this
from its foes, and I lost all my remaining
work, correctly spelled:
respect for it. Write the author’s name in
Answer: A narrow Fellow in the Grass
full, correctly spelled:
127. But may I remark, that, if the lineal de- Answer: Henry David Thoreau
scendants of Ham are only to be enslaved,
134. May stopped, heated, glowing with his
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according to the scriptures, slavery in the

own magnanimity. And it was magnan-
country will soon become an unscriptural
imous. The puddler had drunk in every
institution; for thousands are ushered into
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word, looking through the Doctor’s flurry,

the world annually, who – like myself –
and generous heat, and self-approval, into
owe their existence to white fathers, and,
his will, with those slow, absorbing eyes
most frequently, to their masters, and their
of his. "Make yourself what you will. It is
master’s sons. Write the title of this work,
your right." "I know," quietly. "Will you help
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correctly spelled:
me?" Write the title of this work, correctly
Answer: My Bondage & My Freedom
spelled:
128. Low-hanging moon! What is that dusky Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills
spot in your brown yellow? O it is the
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shape, the shape of my mate. O moon do 135. The Groves of Academe

not keep her from me any longer. Write the Answer: Mary McCarthy
title of this work, correctly spelled: 136. Diary of a Yuppie
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock- Answer: Louis Auchincloss
ing 137. A Slipping-Down Life
129. Picturing Will Answer: Anne Tyler
Answer: Ann Beattie 138. After what I have now said of the circum-
130. You Know Me Al stances of my mother, and my relations to
Answer: Ring Lardner her, the reader will not be surprised, nor be
131. We the Living disposed to censure me, when I tell but the
Answer: Ayn Rand simple truth, viz: that I received the tidings
of her death with no strong emotions of feet And opens further on. Write the au-
sorrow for her, and with very little regret thor’s name in full, correctly spelled:
for myself on account of her loss. I had to Answer: Emily Dickinson
learn the value of my mother long after her 146. The Long Valley
death, and by witnessing the devotion of Answer: John Steinbeck
other mothers to their children. Write the 147. Drum-Taps
author’s name in full, correctly spelled: Answer: Walt Whitman
148. The Outsider
er
139. Going to the Territory Answer: Richard Wright
Answer: Ralph Ellison 149. "Have we come to the counsel of old men
140. Nobody Knows My Name and old women!" said Sassacus in the bitter-
Answer: James Baldwin ness of his spirit. "When women put down
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141. This is what I want you to do. I want you their womanish thoughts and counsel like
to hide your disgust, take no heed to you men, they should be obeyed," said my fa-
clean clothes, and come right down with ther. "Follow me, warriors!" Write the title
me, - here, into the thickest of the fog and of this work, correctly spelled:
an
mud and foul effluvia. I want you to hear Answer: Hope Leslie
this story. There is a secret down here, in 150. The Wapshot Scandal
this nightmare fog, that has lain dumb for Answer: John Cheever
centuries: I want to make it a real thing to 151. In every threat and in every compliment
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you. Write the author’s name in full, cor- there was a blunder; for they thought that
rectly spelled: my chief desire was to stand the other side
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis of that stone wall. I could not but smile
142. Our Mr. Wrenn to see how industriously they locked the
Answer: Sinclair Lewis door on my meditations, which followed
143. In this district is situated the capitol of them out again without let or hindrance,
and they were really all that was danger-
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the U.S. Any free coloured person visiting

Washington, if not provided with papers as- ous. Write the title of this work, correctly
serting and providing their right to be free, spelled:
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may be arrested and placed in one of these Answer: Resistance to Civil Government
dens. If they succeed in showing that they 152. The Criterion (a magazine)
are free, they are set at liberty, provided Answer: T. S. Eliot
they are able to pay the expenses of their 153. Name the first African American novelist:
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arrest and imprisonment; if they cannot pay Answer: William Wells Brown
these expenses, they are sold out. Write the 154. When the time of my departure was de-
title of this work, correctly spelled: cided upon, my grandmother, knowing my
Answer: Clotel; or, The President’s Daugh- fears, and in pity for them, kindly kept me
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ter ignorant of the dreaded event about to tran-

144. "And now, my children, look upon each spire. Write the title of this work, correctly
other!" They did so; and, by the blaze of spelled:
the hell-kindled torches, the wretched man Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom
beheld his [wife], and the wife her hus- 155. A Bridge for Passing
band, trembling before that unhallowed al- Answer: Pearl Buck
tar. Write the title of this work, correctly 156. Silver Pitchers and Independence
spelled: Answer: Louisa Alcott
Answer: Young Goodman Brown 157. Here, inside, is a little broken figure of
145. The grass divides as with a comb, A spot- an angel pointing upward from the mantel-
ted shaft is seen; And then it closes at your shelf; but even its wings are covered with
smoke, clotted and black. Smoke every- 166. Its evidence—the evidence of the sen-
where! A dirty canary chirps desolately in tience—was to be seen, he said, (and I here
a cage beside me. Write the title of this started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet cer-
work, correctly spelled: tain condensation of an atmosphere of their
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills own about the waters and the walls. The
158. The eyes glaze once – and that is Death result was discoverable, he added, in that
– Impossible to feign The Beads upon silent, yet importunate and terrible influ-
the Forehead By homely Anguish strung.. ence which for centuries had moulded the
destinies of his family, and which made him
er
What does feign mean?
Answer: Fake what I now saw him—what he was. Write
159. Have passed I thought a Whip Lash Un- Answer: The Fall of the House of Usher
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braiding in the Sun When stooping to se-
167. The Crayon Miscellany
cure it It wrinkled And was gone - Write
Answer: John Irving
the author’s name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson 168. I like a look of Agony Because I know it’s
true - Write the author of this work, cor-
an
160. Henry James: A Life
rectly spelled:
Answer: Leon Edel
161. Ollantay is by
169. Alexander’s Bridge
Answer: incas
Answer: Pearl Buck
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162. The Lost World
170. Literary Lapses
Answer: Randall Jarrell
Answer: Stephen Leacock
163. It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew
171. Rootabaga Stories
furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with
Answer: Carl Sandburg
perfect distinctness—all a dull blue with a
hideous veil over it that chilled the very 172. One Man’s Meat
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marrow of my bones; but I could see noth- Answer: E. B. White

ing else of the old man’s face or person, 173. He said to be an excellent speaker – can
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for I had directed the ray as if by instinct speak from a thorough personal experi-
precisely upon the damned spot. Write full ences – and has upon the audience, be-
name of author, correctly spelled: side, the influence of a strong character
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe and uncommon talents. In the book be-
fore us he has put into the story of his life
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164. Name a best-selling author from this pe-

riod: the thoughts, the feelings and the adven-
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigour- tures that have been so affecting through
ney the living voice; nor are they less so from
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the printed page. Write the author’s name

165. "We also measured the thickness of ev-
in full, correctly spelled:
ery book-cover, with the most accurate ad-
Answer: Margaret Fuller
measurement, and applied to each the most
jealous scrutiny of the microscope. Had 174. The Cross of the Legion of Honor has just
any of the bindings been recently meddled been conferred in France on Dumas and
with, it would have been utterly impossible Soulié, both celebrated in the paths of light
that the fact should have escaped observa- literature. Dumas, whose father was a gen-
tion. Some five or six volumes, just from the eral in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulié
hands of the binder, we carefully probed, a Quadroon. Write the title of this work,
longitudinally, with the needles." Write the correctly spelled:
title of this work, correctly spelled: Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of
Answer: The Purloined Letter Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
175. They measure their esteem of each other Answer: Because I could not stop for
by what each has, and not by what each Death
is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed
182. Black Music
of his property, out of new respect for his
Answer: Amiri Baraka
nature. Especially he hates what he has, if
he see that it is accidental, – came to him by 183. My Ten Years in a Quandary
inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels Answer: Robert Benchley
that it is not having; it does not belong to 184. Sor
him, has no root in him, and merely lies
er
Answer: Juana Ines de la Cruz
there, because no revolution or no robber
takes it away. Write the title of this work, 185. We wish that every one may read his book
correctly spelled: and see what a mind might have been sti-
gd
Answer: Self-Reliance fled in bondage, - what a man may be sub-
jected to the insults of spendthrift dandies,
176. Xingu and Other Stories
or the blows of mercenary brutes, in whom
Answer: Edith Wharton
there is no whiteness except of the skin, no
177. I like a look of Agony, Because I know it’s humanity except in the outward form, and
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true - Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor of whom the Avenger will not fail yet to
simulate, a Throe - What does sham mean? demand – "Where is thy brother?" Who is
Answer: Fake being described?
178. It is an excellent piece of writing, and on Answer: An escaped slave
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that score to be prized as a specimen of the 186. "Spiritual Laws"
powers of the Black Race, which Prejudice Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
persists in disputing. We prize highly all
evidence of this kind, and it is becoming 187. Although some of them have been pub-
more abundant. Write the author’s name lished, most American stories, songs, tales,
in full, correctly spelled: and stories are in the tradition.
Answer: Margaret Fuller Answer: oral
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179. There is but little virtue in the action of 188. Andres Bello wrote
masses of men. When the majority shall at Answer: american wood
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length vote for the abolition of slavery, it 189. Beyond Desire

will be because they are indifferent to slav- Answer: Sherwood Anderson
ery, or because there is but little slavery
left to be abolished by their vote. They will 190. In Native American origin myths,
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then be the only slaves. Only his vote can can be creators.
hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts Answer: birds or animals
his own freedom by his vote. Write the title 191. Down from the shower’d halo, Up from
of this work, correctly spelled: the mystic play of shadows twining and
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Answer: Resistance of Civil Government twistling as if they were alive, Out from the
180. Ye say they all have passed away, That no- patches of briers and blackberries, From
ble race and brave, That their light canoes the memories of the bird that chanted to
have vanished From off the crested wave. . . . me, Write the title of this work, correctly
Write full name of author, correctly spelled: spelled:
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigour- Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock-
ney ing
181. Or rather – He passed Us - The Dews drew 192. Answered Prayers
quivering and Chill - For only Gossamer, Answer: Truman Capote
my Gown - My Tippet – only Tulle - Write
193. The Leaning Tower
Answer: Katherine Anne Porter
194. Considered merely as a narrative, we have limits to which he thus confined himself
never read one more simple, true, coherent, upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great
and war with genuine feeling. It is an ex- measure, to the fantastic character of his
cellent piece of writing, and so that score performances. Write the author’s name in
to be prized as a specimen of the powers full, correctly spelled:
of the Black Race, which Prejudice persists Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
in disputing. We prize highly all evidence 205. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
of this kind, and it is becoming more abun- Answer: Ezra Pound
dant. What does abundant mean?
er
206. Here a general shout burst from the by-
Answer: In great quantity
standers—"A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee!
195. Name an author whose biography was fal- hustle him! away with him!" It was with
sified: great difficulty that the self-important man
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Answer: Edgar Allan Poe in the cocked hat restored order; and hav-
196. Bluebeard ing assumed a tenfold austerity of brow,
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut demanded again of the unknown culprit,
197. The devastation of the indies is by what he came there for, and whom he was
an
Answer: bartolome de las casas seeking. Write the title of this work, cor-
rectly spelled:
198. I should look at all the skins, and I know Answer: Rip Van Winkle
that when I cast my eye upon that white
skin, and if I saw those crimes written upon 207. The night in prison was novel and in-
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it, I should enter my protest against it im- teresting enough. The prisoners in their
mediately, and cleave to the which is more shirtsleeves were enjoying a chat and the
honorable. And I can tell you that I am evening air in the doorway, when I entered.
satisfied with the manner of my creation, But he jailer said, "Come, boys, it is time to
fully—whether others are or not. Write title lock up"; and so they dispersed, and I heard
of this work, correctly spelled: the sound of their steps returning into the
hollow apartments. My room-mate was in-
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Answer: An Indian’s Looking-Glass for

the White Man troduced to me by the jailar as "a first-rate
fellow and clever man." Write the title of
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199. The Black Riders this work, correctly spelled:

Answer: Stephen Crane Answer: Resistance to Civil Government
200. "Experience" 208. The Living Reed
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson Answer: Pearl Buck
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201. Success is counted sweetest By those who 209. Main-Travelled Roads

ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Re- Answer: Hamlin Garland
quires sorest need. Write the title of this
210. Outre Mer–A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea
work, correctly spelled:
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Answer: Henry Longfellow

Answer: Success is counted sweetest
211. Several old logs and stumps imposed upon
202. Which author argued that voting was like
me, and got themselves taken for wild
playing in a lottery?
beasts. I could see their legs, eyes, and
ears, or I could see something like eyes, legs
203. The Witches’ Brew and ears, till I got close enough to them to
Answer: E. J. Pratt see that the eyes were knots, washed white
204. I have just spoken of that morbid condi- with rain, and the legs were broken limbs,
tion of the auditory nerve which rendered and the ears, only ears owing to the point
all music intolerable to the sufferer, with from which they were seen. Thus early I
the exception of certain effects of stringed learned that the point from which a thing
instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow is viewed is of some importance. As the
day advanced the heat increases, and it was Answer: Clotel; or, The President’s Daugh-
not until the afternoon that we reached the ter
much dreaded end of the journey. Write 223. "Bryant, in his very learned ’Mythology,’
the title of this work, correctly spelled: mentions an analogous source of error,
Answer: My Bondage & My Freedom when he says that ’although the Pagan fa-
212. Slouching Towards Bethlehem bles are not believed, yet we forget our-
Answer: Joan Didion selves continually, and make inferences
213. Making, Knowing, and Judging from them as existing realities.’ With
er
Answer: W H Auden the algebraist, however, who are Pagans
themselves, the ’Pagan fables’ are believed,
214. As For Me and My House
and the inferences are made, not so much
Answer: Sinclair Ross
through lapse of memory, as through an
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215. When I was let out the next morning, I unaccountable addling of the brains." Write
proceeded to finish my errand, and, hav- the author’s name in full, correctly spelled:
ing put on my mended shoe, joined a huck- Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
leberry party, who were impatient to put 224. The Beads upon the Forehead By homely
themselves under my conduct; and in half
an
Anguish strung. Write the author’s name
an hour, - for the horse was soon tackled, in full, correctly spelled:
- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, Answer: Emily Dickinson
on one of our highest hills, two miles off;
225. Eighteen centuries ago, the Master of this
and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
man tried reform in the streets of a city
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What is the meaning of tackled in this con-
as crowded and vile as this, and did not
text?
fail. His disciple, showing Him to-nigh to
Answer: Harnessed
cultured hearers, showing the clearness of
216. Breakfast of Champions the God-power acting through Him, shrank
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut back from one coarse fact; that in birth and
217. Fear of Flying habit the man Christ was thrown up from
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Answer: Erica Jong the lowest of the people: his flesh, their
218. The Two Magics flesh; their blood, his blood; tempted like
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Answer: Henry James them, to brutalize day by day; to lie, to steal:

the actual slime and want of their hourly
219. American Wood is by:
life, and the wine-press he trod alone. Write
Answer: Andres Bello
the author’s name in full, correctly spelled:
220. Which work exemplifies the hortatory ser- Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis
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mon?
226. G. G. Marquez G.G. stands for:
Answer: An Indian’s Looking-Glass for
Answer: Gabriel Garcia
the White Man
227. City Life
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221. Aloneness
Answer: Donald Barthelme
Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks • Gwen
Brooks 228. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper
merely, but your whole influence. A minor-
222. Seeing escape impossible in that quarter,
ity is powerless while it conforms to the
she stopped suddenly, and turned upon her
majority; it is not even a minority then; but
pursuers. On came the profane and ribald
it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole
crew, faster than ever, already exulting in
weight. If the alternative is to keep all just
her capture, and threatening punishment
men in prison, or give up war and slav-
for her flight. For a moment she looked
ery, the State will not hesitate which to
wildly and anxiously around to see if there
choose. Write the title of this work, cor-
was no hope of escape.. Write the title of
rectly spelled:
this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government
229. One Day in the Afternoon of the World 245. Ernest Hemingways role in ww1 was
Answer: William Saroyan
230. Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth Answer: Ambulance
seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build 246. Our simple habitations were soon con-
their monument, Though ye destroy their sumed; we heard the foe retiring, and when
dust. Write the author’s name in full, cor- the last sound had died away, we came forth
rectly spelled: to a sight that made us lament to be among
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigour- the living. Write the full name of the author
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ney of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
231. "M.S. Found in a Bottle"
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe 247. The Iron Heel
Answer: Jack London
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232. The Temple of My Familiar
248. The Single Hound
Answer: Alice Walker
233. A Month of Sundays 249. The Friday Book
Answer: John Updike Answer: John Barth
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234. The Rains Came 250. Name the author who inspired people like
Answer: Louis Bromfield Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King
235. "The Celestial Road" to political action?
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Answer: Henry David Thoreau
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236. The Moviegoer 251. Name a Gothic writer:
Answer: Walker Percy Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
252. God’s Grace
237. The Underground Woman
Answer: Bernard Malamud
Answer: Kay Boyle
253. Which poem has a classical opening, sim-
238. Axel’s Castle
ilar to an epic poem?
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Answer: Edmund Wilson

Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rock-
239. The disease had sharpened my ing
senses—not destroyed—not dulled them.
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254. Among the musical disciples who assem-

Above all was the sense of hearing acute. bled, one evening in each week, to receive
I heard all things in the heaven and in the his instructions in psalmody, was the
earth. I heard many things in hell. Write daughter and only child of a substantial
the title of this work, correctly spelled: farmer. She was a blooming lass of
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Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe

240. Raven’s Wing and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of
Answer: Joyce Oates her father’s peaches, and universally famed,
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not merely for her beauty, but her vast ex-

241. Mulatto
pectations. Write the author’s name in full,
Answer: Langston Hughes
correctly spelled:
242. Several of nature’s people I know, and they Answer: Washington Irving
know me; I feel for them a transport Of
255. He now became entangled in a succes-
cordiality Write the author’s name in full,
sion of crooked and narrow streets, which
correctly spelled:
crossed each other, and meandered at no
great distance from the water-side. The
243. Surfacing smell of tar was obvious to his nostrils,
Answer: Margaret Atwood the masts of vessels pierced the moonlight
244. The Old South above the tops of the buildings, and the nu-
Answer: Arna Bontemps merous signs, which [he] paused to read,
informed him that he was near the centre forth yearly its legions of frontier wood-
of business. But the streets were empty, the men and country schoolmasters. The cog-
shops were closed, and lights were visible nomen of Crane was not inapplicable to
only in the second stories of a few dwelling his person. He was tall, but exceedingly
houses. Write the title of this work, cor- lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms
rectly spelled: and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of
Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineux his sleeves, feet that might have served for
shovels, and his whole frame most loosely
256. Black Thunder
hung together. Write the title of this work,
er
Answer: Arna Bontemps
correctly spelled:
257. Excursions Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Answer: Henry David Thoreau 265. The slow tides of pain he had borne gath-
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258. The proper place today, the only place ered themselves up and surged against
which Massachusetts has provided for her his soul. His squalid daily life, the bru-
freer and less despondent spirits, is in her tal coarseness eating into his brain, as the
prison, to be put out and locked out of the ashes into his skin: before, these things had
been a dull aching into his consciousness;
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State by her own act, as they have already
put themselves out by their principles. It is to-night, they were reality. He griped the
there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexi- filthy red shirt that clung, stiff with soot,
can prisoner on parole, and the Indian come about him, and tore it savagely from his
to plead the wrongs of his race should find arm. Write the title of this work, correctly
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them; on that separate but more free and spelled:
honorable ground, where the State places Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills
those who are not with her, but against her 266. Genealogy was a theme in which period?
– the only house in a slave State in which a Answer: pre-colonial
free man can abide with honor. Write the 267. Searching for Caleb
author’s name in full, correctly spelled: Answer: Anne Tyler
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Answer: Henry David Thoreau 268. The Family Moskat

259. Isidro Answer: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Answer: Mary Austin 269. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied
him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew
260. New Hampshire
that he had been lying awake ever since
Answer: Robert Frost
the first slight noise, when he had turned
261. Portrait in Brownstone in the bed. His fears had been, ever since,
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Answer: Louis Auchincloss growing upon him. He had been trying to

262. Marjorie Morningstar fancy them causeless, but could not. Write
Answer: Herman Wouk the title of this work, correctly spelled:
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Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart

263. After the kings of Great Britain had as- 270. Ultramarine
sumed the right of appointing the colonial Answer: Malcolm Lowry
governors, the measure of the latter seldom
271. Letters Home
met with the ready and general approba-
Answer: Sylvia Plath
tion, which had been paid to those of their
predecessors, under the original charters. 272. Unmoved – she notes the Chariots – paus-
Write title of this work, correctly spelled: ing - At her low Gate - Unmoved – an
Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineux Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat - I’ve
known her – from an ample nation - Then
264. He was a native of Connecticut, a State – close the Valves of her attention - Like
which supplies the Union with pioneers for Stone. What are Chariots?
the mind as well as for the forest, and sends Answer: Light carriages
273. Name a writer who worked as a war nurse: 278. Native Americans do not see the world in
Answer: Margaret Fuller a linear fashion, where events happen one
274. But, irreverently consorting with these after another; they see life as
grave, reputable, and pious people, these Answer: an endless circle.
elders of the church, these chaste dames 279. In fact, he declared it was no use to work
and dewy virgins, there were men of dis- on his farm; it was the most pestilent little
solute lives and women of spotted fame, piece of ground in the whole country; ev-
wretches given over to all mean and filthy ery thing about it went wrong, and would
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vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. go wrong, in spite of him. Write the title of
It was strange to see that the good shrank this work, correctly spelled:
not from the wicked, nor were the sin- Answer: Rip Van Winkle
ners abashed by the saints. Scattered also 280. Who humbled ’mid these dewy glades The
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among their pale-faced enemies were the red deer’s antler’d crown, Or soaring at his
Indian priests, or powwows, who had of- highest noon, Struck the strong eagle down
ten scared their native forest with more Write full name of author, correctly spelled:
hideous incantations than any known to Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigour-
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English witchcraft. Write the author’s full ney
name, correctly spelled:
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne 281. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather
the exception than the rule. There is the
275. I knew that he had been lying awake ever man and his virtues. Men do what is called
since the first slight noise when he had
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a good action, as some piece of courage
turned in the bed. His fears had been ever or charity, much as they would pay a fine
since growing upon him. He had been try- in expiation of daily non-appearance on
ing to fancy them causeless, but could not. parade. Write the name of the author, cor-
Write full name of author, correctly spelled: rectly spelled.
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
276. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody
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282. "The boy sleeps safely," muttered the old

that is not white is treated with contempt
man, and I have listened to the idle fear of
and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the
a doating mother." "I come not of a fearful
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word of God justifies the white man in so

race," said my mother. Write the full name
doing. When the prophets prophesied, of
of the author of this work, correctly spelled:
whom did they speak? When they spoke of
Answer: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
heathens, was it not the whites and others
283. Here the fugitive saw nothing but slaves
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who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if

all nations with the exception of the Jews brought in and taken out, to be placed in
were not counted heathens. Write title of ships and sent away to the same part of the
this work, correctly spelled: country to which she herself would soon
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Answer: An Indian’s Looking-Glass for be compelled to go. She had seen or heard
the White Man nothing of her daughter while in Richmond,
and all hope of seeing her now had fled.
277. There was a laugh. The young man talk-
If she was carried back to New Orleans,
ing to Kirby sat with an amused light in
she could expect no mercy from her master.
his cool gray eye, surveying critically the
Write the author’s name in full, correctly
half-clothed figures of the puddlers, and the
spelled:
slow swing of their brawny muscles. He
Answer: William Wells Brown
was a stranger in the city, - spending a cou-
ple of months in the borders of a Slave State, 284. The proper place today, the only place
to study the institution of the South. Write which Massachusetts has provided for her
the author of this work, correctly spelled: freer and less despondent spirits, is in her
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis prison, to be put out and locked out of the
State by her own act, as they have already life, and the wine-press he trod alone. Write
put themselves out by their principles. It is the title of this work, correctly spelled:
there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexi- Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills
can prisoner on parole, and the Indian come 292. Let me refer you to the churches only.
to plead the wrongs of his race should find And, my brethren, is there any agreement?
them; on that separate but more free and Do brethren and sisters love one another?
honorable ground, where the State places Do they not rather hate one another? Out-
those who are not with her, but against her ward forms and ceremonies, the lusts of the
– the only house in a slave State in which a
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flesh, the lusts of the eye, and pride of life
free man can abide with honor. Write the is of more value to many professors than
title of this work, correctly spelled: the love of God shed abroad in their hearts,
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government or an attachment to his altar, to his ordi-
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285. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest nances, or to his children. But you may ask:
need. Write the author’s name in full, cor- Who are the children of God? Write the
rectly spelled: author’s full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson Answer: William Apess
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286. Pedro Paramo is by 293. Ye say their cone-like cabins, That clus-
Answer: Juan Rulfo tered o’er the vale, Have fled away like with-
287. Riot ered leaves Before the autumn gale, Write
Answer: Gwen Brooks the title of this work, correctly spelled:
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288. The love in the heart long pent, now loose, Answer: Indian Names
now at last tumultuously bursting, The 294. These prisons are mostly occupied by per-
aria’s meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly sons to keep their slaves in, when collecting
depositing, The strange tears down the their gangs together for the New Orleans
cheeks coursing, The colloquy there, the market. Some of them belong to the gov-
trio, each uttering, The undertone, the ernment, and one, in particular, is noted
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savage old mother incessantly crying, To for having been the place where a number
the boy’s soul’s questions sullenly timing, of free colored persons have been incarcer-
some drown’d secret hissing. To the out ated from time to time. Write the author’s
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setting bard. Write the author’s name in name in full, correctly spelled:
full, correctly spelled: Answer: William Wells Brown
Answer: Walt Whitman 295. Native Americans use stories to
289. Coyote disappeared Answer: teach a lesson and convey practi-
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Answer: Because his work was finished. cal information.

290. "Israfel" 296. Carlos Fuentes wrote:
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe Answer: The Death of Artemio Cruz
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291. Eighteen centuries ago, the Master of this 297. If there were one who lived wholly with-
man tried reform in the streets of a city out the use of money, the State itself would
as crowded and vile as this, and did not hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich
fail. His disciple, showing Him to-night to man – not to make any invidious compari-
cultured hearers, showing the clearness of son – is always sold to the institution which
the God-power acting through Him, shrank makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the
back from one coarse fact; that in birth and more money, the less virtue; for money
habit the man Christ was thrown up from comes between a man and his objects, and
the lowest of the people: his flesh, their obtains them for him; it was certainly no
flesh; their blood, his blood; tempted like great virtue to obtain it. Write the author
them, to brutalize day by day; to lie, to steal: of this work, correctly spelled:
the actual slime and want of their hourly Answer: Henry David Thoreau
298. I Sing the Body Electric owe their existence to white fathers, and,
Answer: Ray Bradbury most frequently, to their masters, and their
299. I have even talked with [him] myself, who, master’s sons. Write the author’s name in
when last I saw him, was a very venerable full, correctly spelled:
old man, and so perfectly rational and con- Answer: Frederick Douglass
sistent on every other point, that I think no 308. The Tidewater Tales
conscientious person could refuse to take Answer: John Barth
this into the bargain; nay, I have seen a cer- 309. The woman sprang up, and hastily began
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tificate on the subject taken before a coun- to arrange some bread and flitch in a tin
try justice and signed with a cross, in the pail, and to pour her own measure of ale
justice’s own handwriting. The story, there- into a bottle. Tying on her bonnet, she blew
fore, is beyond the possibility of a doubt. out the candle. What is flitch?
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Write the author’s name in full, correctly Answer: Salt pork
spelled: 310. Demon or bird! (said the boy’s soul,) Is
Answer: Washington Irving it indeed toward your mate you sing? Or
300. Who wrote "An Old Man With Enormous is it really me? For I, that was a child, my
an
Wings"? tongue’s use sleeping, now I have heard
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez you, Now in a moment I know what I am for,
I awake, And already a thousands singers,
301. Low hangs the moon, it rose late, It is lag-
a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more
ging - O I think it is heavy with love, with
sorrowful than yours, A thousand warbling
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love. What does lagging mean?
echoes have started to life within me, never
Answer: Falling behind
to die. Write the author’s name in full, cor-
302. When the time of my departure was de- rectly spelled:
cided upon, my grandmother, knowing my Answer: Walt Whitman
fears, and in pity for them, kindly kept me 311. He occupied one window, and I the other;
ignorant of the dreaded event about to tran- and I saw that if one stayed there long, his
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spire. Write the author’s name in full, cor- principal business would be to look out the
rectly spelled: window. I had soon read all the tracts that
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were left there, and examined where for-

303. Western Star mer prisoners had broken out, and where a
Answer: Stephen Benet grate had been sawed off, and heard the his-
304. was written by the Mayans in the tory of the various occupants of that room;
for I found that even there was a history
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pre-colonial period. was written by

the Incas in Peru " was written by and a gossip which never circulated beyond
the Aztecs " the walls of the jail. Write the author’s
Answer:Popol Vuh,Flor Y Canto, Ollantay name in full, correctly spelled:
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312. The Cathedral
305. The Cynic’s Word Book
Answer: James Lowell
Answer: Ambrose Bierce
313. The mass of men serve the state thus, not
306. The Embarrassments
as men mainly, but as machines, with their
Answer: Henry James
bodies. Write the title of this work, cor-
307. But may I remark, that, if the lineal de- rectly spelled:
scendants of Ham are only to be enslaved, Answer: Resistance to Civil Government
according to the scriptures, slavery in the 314. Death, Sleep, and the Traveller
country will soon become an unscriptural Answer: John Hawkes
institution; for thousands are ushered into
315. Patriotic Gore
the world annually, who – like myself –
Answer: Edmund Wilson
316. Unmoved –she notes the Chariots – paus- realm of night More drear than her slavery -
ing At her low Gate Write the author’s More merciless fiends than here stayed her
name in full, correctly spelled: fight - Joy! The hunted slave is free! What
Answer: Emily Dickinson does fetter mean?
317. She was obliged to walk, unless chance Answer: Shackle
flung into her way an opportunity to ride; 323. The name of this singularly unpromising
and the latter was sometimes her good luck. and truly famine stricken district in Tucka-
But she always had to walk one way or the hoe, a name well known to all Marylanders,
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other. It was a greater luxury than slavery black and white. It was given to this sec-
could afford, to allow a black slave-mother tion of the country probably, at the first,
a horse or a mule, upon which to travel merely in derision; or it may possibly have
twenty-four miles, when she could walk been applied to it, as I have heard, because
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the distance. Write the author’s name in some one of its earlier inhabitants has been
full, correctly spelled: guilty of the petty meanness of stealing a
Answer: Frederick Douglass hoe – or taking a hoe – that did not belong
to him. What is the meaning of derision?
318. All stood amazed, until an old woman, tot-
Answer: mockery
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tering out from among the crowd, put her
hand to her brow, and peering under it in 324. The Naked Lunch
his face for a moment, exclaimed, "Sure Answer: William Burroughs
enough! it is [he]—it is himself. Welcome 325. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And
home again, old neighbor. Why, where I had put away My labor and my leisure
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have you been these twenty years?" Write too, For His Civility - Write the author’s
the title of this work, correctly spelled: name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rip Van Winkle Answer: Emily Dickinson
319. But they replied, "Tall barks of pride Do 326. "The Horse Thief"
cleave our waters blue, And strong keels Answer: William Benet
ride our farthest tide, But where’s their 327. A Story Teller’s Story
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light canoe?" Write the title of this work, Answer: Sherwood Anderson
correctly spelled: 328. Domingo Faustino wrote
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Answer: Our Aborigines Answer:Sarmiento,Facundo: civilizacio y

barbarie
320. ’Tis where Ontario’s billow Like Ocean’s
surge is curled, Where strong Niagara’s 329. We paused before a House that seemed
thunders wake The echo of the world. A Swelling of the Ground The Roof was
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Write the title of this work, correctly scarcely visible The Cornice – in the
spelled: Ground. Write the author’s name in full,
Answer: Indian Names correctly spelled:
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321. A basin was hollowed, naturally, in the

330. In other words, when a sixth of the popula-
rock. Did it contain water, reddened by the
tion of a nation which has undertaken to be
lurid light? or was it blood? Or, perchance,
the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole
a liquid flame? Herein did the Shape of Evil
country is unjustly overrun and conquered
dip his hand, and prepare to lay the mark
by a foreign army, and subjected to mili-
of baptism upon their foreheads Write
tary law, I think it is not too soon for hon-
the author’s full name, correctly spelled:
est men to rebel and revolutionize. What
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
makes this duty the more urgent is the fact,
322. Now back, jailor, back to they dungeons, that the country so overrun is not our own,
again, To swing the red lash and rivet the but ours is the invading army. Write the
chain! The form thou would’st fetter – re- author’s name in full, correctly spelled:
turned to its God; The universe holdeth no Answer: Henry David Thoreau
331. Not one of all the purple Host Who took mean by Who took the Flag?
the Flag today Can tell the definition So Answer: Those who triumphed
clear of Victory. . . Whom does Dickinson
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4. Literary Theory and Criticism
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1. Which of the following is a critical work of C. Walter Benjamin
Ben Jonson?
D. Louis Althusser
A. Discourse of English Poetry
5. Horace was a friend of
B. Discoveries
A. Alexander the Great
C. Arte of English Poesie
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B. Emperor Augustus
D. An Apologie for Poetrie
C. Julius Caesar
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2. The structure of tragedy according to Aristo-

tle is D. Pompey
A. Simple 6. Who said that Keat’s love letters of a sur-
B. Complex geon’s apprentice?
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C. Loose A. Arnold
D. Episodic B. Shelley
3. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.”
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C. Byron
Who has defined poetry in these words?
D. Hazlitt
A. Shelley
7. Seven is an archetype associated with:
B. Wordsworth
A. Perfection
C. Coleridge
B. Birth
D. Matthew Arnold
4. Which theorist is associated with the idea C. Evil
that art is a copy of a copy? D. Death
A. Plato 8. Which theorist is most closely associated
B. Julia Kristeva with the idea of art as imitation?
1. B 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. D
212 Chapter 4. Literary Theory and Criticism
A. Jacques Derrida A. Jacques Derrida

B. Jacques Lacan B. Terry Eagleton
C. Edward Said C. Fredric Jameson
D. Plato D. Stephen Greenblatt

14. The Frankfurt School of literary theory was
9. Formalist critics believe that the value of a
most greatly influenced by which of the fol-
work cannot be determined by the author’s in-
lowing schools of thought?
tention. What term do they use when speak-
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ing of this belief? A. Formalism
A. The pathetic fallacy B. Structuralism

C. Poststructuralism
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B. The intentional fallacy
D. Marxism
C. The affective fallacy
15. Which school of literary theory shows a par-
D. The objective correlative ticular interest in the role of testimony in
10. Which of the following statements best de- literature?
studying literature?
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scribes Cleanth Brooks’s attitude towards A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
A. Critics should examine historical informa- C. Chaos theory
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tion surrounding a literary work.
D. Formalism
B. Critics should develop universal readings
16. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by
of texts.
A. Wordsworth
C. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts
in order to find out what they mean. B. Coleridge
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D. Critics should look at the biographical in- C. Southey

formation of authors. D. Shelly
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17. Which is a common postcolonial critique of

11. To what idea does the term heteroglossia re-
fer? the West?
A. An infant’s inability to speak prior to the A. The West spends too much time trying to
mirror stage consider an Asian perspective.
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B. The West tends to look at Asian countries

B. The referential relationships among sym-
as individual units rather than lump them
bols, signifiers, and signs
together.
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C. The multi-layered nature of language in a

C. The West views matters through its own
literary work
limited historical position.
D. All of the above answers are correct D. The West refuses to apply economic and
12. On the Sublime is written in political coercion to Asian writers.
A. Greek 18. Who is the author of the notorious book en-
titled The School of Abuse?
B. Latin
A. Roger Ascham
C. Hebrew B. Stephen Hawes
D. Italian C. John Skelton
13. Who coined the term New Historicism? D. Stephen Gosson
9. B 10. B 11. C 12. A 13. D 14. D 15. A 16. A 17. C 18. D 19. C
19. Who used the words “romanticism” and “ro-

24. Which of the following best defines the work
mantic” first? of a deconstructionist critic?
A. Wordsworth A. Calling into question the possibility of the
B. Coleridge coherence of discourse
C. Carlyle B. Suggesting that the study of literature is

based on the breakdown of language into
D. Schlegel signs
20. In his essay "The Death of the Author," Roland
er
C. Arguing that language, and therefore lit-
Barthes argues what about literature?
erary texts, relies on the difference between
A. Biographical information about the au- terms and therefore constantly defers mean-
thor must be considered when evaluating lit- ing.
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erature.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
25. What does the term meta-language mean, ac-
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a cording to Andrzej Warminski?
an
work based on the author’s politics.
A. A language about another language
D. Literature is inextricably connected to its
B. A supernatural language
creator.
21. What is defamiliarization? C. A language that does not yet constitute a
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real language
A. A term that describes how literature ex-
poses its own artificiality D. All of the above answers are correct.
B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky 26. In what way does Julia Kristeva build on
Jacques Lacan’s theory of psychosexual de-
C. A term that describes the capacity of art velopment?
to counter the effects of habit
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A. Kristeva wholly rejects Lacan’s theory of

psychosexual development.
22. How many principal sources of sublimity are
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there according to Longinus? B. Kristeva centralizes the maternal and the

feminine in her revisions of Lacan’s theory.
A. Three
C. Kristeva argues that the mirror stage does
B. Four not occur until the individual embraces a dis-
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C. Five tinct gender role.
D. Six D. All of the above answers are correct.

23. Which of the following statements offers the27. Which of the following is a rule of semiotics?
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best definition of the concept of strange at-

A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out
tractors in chaos theory?
of the responses of people within a specific
A. Strange attractors are mysterious forces historical era.
that are entirely random.
B. All linguistic and social phenomena are
B. Strange attractors are complex forces that texts, and the object of studying these texts
are determined by the laws of physics. is to reveal the underlying codes that make
C. Strange attractors are mysterious forces them meaningful.
that are both random and determined. C. All linguistics is in some way related to
D. Strange attractors are complex forces that class struggle.
are entirely random. D. All of the above answers are correct.
20. B 21. D 22. C 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. C
28. According to trauma theorists, a testifying A. Tragic end of the tragedy

subject needs which of the following to de- B. Working of fate against the hero
liver a successful testimony?
C. A weak trait in the character of the hero
A. A figure of judgment
D. A strong quality in the character of the
B. Religious belief hero
C. A witness 34. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is
described below: "The historical approach,
D. Psychological treatment
er
for instance, might be helpful in addressing
29. What is the main goal of ethnic criticism? a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice
A. To bring attention to false Euro-centric Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, de-
paradigms spite the horrible, bloody details of their ob-
gd
viously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympa-
B. To rectify the double experiences of cer- thetic light? If we look at the author and
tain racial groups his time, we see that he was a Tory whose
C. To reconcile cultural identity with indi- play was performed in the wake of the Popish
an
vidual identity Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that
there are obvious similarities between the
D. All of the above answers are correct. Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot
30. What does hermeneutic theory suggest about in history. The Tories would never approve
how readers view literature? of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonethe-
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less sympathized with the plotters for the
A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature
way they were abused by the Tory enemy,
as its author intended.
the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway
B. It is impossible to divorce a text from cap- to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie
italist ideology. Preserv’d without condemning the conspir-
C. It is impossible to view a piece of liter- ators themselves." What purpose does this
n
ature correctly, because we can only work prescribe to?

within the hetero-normative paradigm. A. To help resolve a question, problem, or
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difficulty in the readin

D. It is impossible to separate a text from the
linguistics that compose it. B. To help decide which is the better of two
31. Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic conflicting readings.
of the Greek dramatists? C. To enable to form judgments about litera-
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ture.
A. Agathon
B. Aeschylus
35. Some critics of literary theory argue that liter-
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C. Sophocles ary theory is problematic for which reason?

D. Euripides A. Literary theory tends to be too political.
32. ‘Gynocriticism’ is associated with B. Literary theory does not offer a holistic
A. Elaine Showalter interpretation of a text.
B. Ellen Moors C. Literary theory depends on specialized

knowledge that is outside the realm of liter-
C. Julia Kristeva ary studies.
D. Kate Millet D. All of the above answers are correct.
33. What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as36. Which school of literary theory is associated
used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy? with the phrase "to make the stones stonier"?
29. D 30. A 31. D 32. A 33. C 34. A 35. D 36. B

A. Humanism 42. What does the critical term ’esemplatic’

mean?
B. Formalism
C. Structuralism A. The unifying power
D. Marxism B. Ability to coin new word

37. Trauma theory primarily developed out of C. Power of imagination
the work of which psychoanalyst? D. Negative capability
A. Sigmund Freud
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43. Who made a distinction between Fancy and
B. Carl Jung Imagination?
C. Michel Foucault A. Wordsworth
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D. Jacques Derrida B. Coleridge
38. To what idea does the ancient Greek term C. Southey
aporia refer in terms of deconstruction the-
ory? D. Hazlitt
an
A. The ability of a text to contain truth 44. What is affective fallacy?
B. The "undecidability" and essentially un- A. A term first used by literary theorists
stable nature of a text William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
Ch
C. The idea that a text has a specific meaning B. A term that suggests that a critic should
that can be understood through a process of study the structural and thematic elements
deconstruction of a poem rather than the effect it has on the
emotions of the reader
39. On the Sublime was written in C. An important term in the field of New
Historicism
A. 1st Century BC
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B. 1st Century AD
45. Trauma theory is tremendously influenced
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C. 2nd Century AD by which theoretical school?

D. 3rd Century AD A. Psychoanalysis
40. What is generally considered to be Theodor
B. Marxism
W. Adorno’s primary concern as a theorist?
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A. The effect of literature in enlightening the C. Feminism

human mind D. Deconstruction
B. The effect of modern society on human46. What is false consciousness?
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suffering
A. A term for the false neuroses expressed
C. The effect of the economy on women’s in dreams
concerns
B. A feminist term for the state that occurs
D. All of the above answers are correct. when texts written by women are not consid-
41. Sublimity has ered in the study of literature
A. 2 sources C. Another term for the unconscious
B. 3 sources D. An ideology that involves dominating the
C. 4 sources consciousness of exploited classes
47. Biographia Literaria was written by
D. 5 sources
37. A 38. B 39. B 40. B 41. D 42. A 43. B 44. D 45. A 46. D 47. B
A. Wordsworth 53. Who was the most illustrious pupil of Plato?

B. Coleridge A. Aristotle
C. Keats B. Longinus
D. Charles Lamb C. Aristophanes
48. With which theorist is the term identity think-
D. Socrates
ing most closely associated?
54. ‘On Translating Homer’ is written by
A. Sigmund Freud
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B. Carl Jung A. Mathew Arnold
C. William James B. Walter Pater
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D. Theodor W. Adorno C. T. S. ELiot
49. Coleridge considered imagination as D. William Hazlit
A. Critical faculty 55. Arnold summarises the rule of English criti-
B. Modifying power cism in one word, in The Function Of Criti-
an
cism. What is the word?
C. A psychological experience
A. Disintrestedness
D. A product of intellect
50. What is the meaning of the term Anagnori- B. Intresedness
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sis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of C. Purification
Tragedy?
D. Civilization
A. The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
56. Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as
B. The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
A. Change in the fortune of the hero from

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C. The hero’s recognition of his adversary bad to good

D. The hero’s recognition of his tragic end
B. Change in the fortune of the hero from
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51. Who remarked, “Spenser write no language.” good to bad

A. Pope C. Constancy in the fortune of the hero
B. Arnold
D. Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of
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C. Dr. Jhonson the hero

D. Ben Jonson 57. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saus-
52. Which of the following statements best ex- sure’s Course in General Linguistics?
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plains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of lan- A. Language is inseparable from its historical
guage? context.
A. Language includes multiple social dialects
B. There are five phases of linguistic devel-
and jargons.
opment.
B. Language can include socio-ideological
C. Language can be analyzed as a formal sys-
contradictions from the past.
tem of elements.
C. Language exhibits and is bound up in the
social lives and historical context of the peo-
ple who speak it. 58. “It is not rhyming and versing that maketh
a poet no more than a long gown maketh an
D. Language is loaded with the intentions of
advocate”. Whose view is this?
others.
48. D 49. B 50. A 51. D 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. A 56. B 57. C 58. D
A. Shakespeare’s C. involves a constant process of deferred

meaning.
B. Marlowe’s
C. Spenser’s
63. This approach can turn a work into little more
D. Sidney’s than a case study, neglecting to view it as a
59. What is Christopher Ricks’s attitude toward piece of art. Critics sometimes attempt to
literary theory? diagnose long dead authors based on their
A. He considers it to be vital in order to un- works, which is perhaps not the best evidence
er
derstand literary texts. of their psychology. Critics tend to see sex in
everything, exaggerating this aspect of litera-
B. He considers theory to be the only way ture. What approach possess this disadvan-
that literary texts can be interpreted. tage?
gd
C. He has no misgivings about the practical A. Moral/Philosophical
usability of literary theory.
B. Psychological
D. He feels that literary theory is ultimately
C. Formalism/New Criticism
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too limited in scope to serve as a proper
method of interpretation. D. Historical/Biographical
60. In his essay "The Business of Theory," William64. He was an influential force in archetypal crit-
Deresiewicz argues which of the following icism.
about Terry Eagleton’s book After Theory?
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A. Freud
A. It offers a strong outline for how theory B. Tate
can be conducted in the 21st century.
C. Richards
B. It should not be read or considered by any
D. Jung
student or scholar.
65. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic
C. It offers some valid ideas and critiques, criticism hold about literary texts?
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but its author is not entirely trustworthy.

A. Literary texts should not be read as a pro-
D. It offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques jection of the author’s psyche.
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Derrida’s notion of deconstruction.

B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s in-
61. “The tragic-comedy which is the product of
tentions.
the English theatre is one the most monstrous
inventions that ever entered into a poet’s C. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an
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thought.” Whose view is this? author’s unconscious.

A. John Dryden’s D. All of the above answers are correct.
66. Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that
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B. Alexander Pope’s
A. It is only lyrical songs in the play
C. Joseph Addison’s
B. It should be regarded as one of the actors
D. Dr. Johnson’s
62. Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance chal- C. It should make only reports
lenges us to think about language as a system D. It should only comment on the action
that: 67. What is humanism?
A. mirrors our physical evolution as human A. An idea traditionally associated with the
beings. Renaissance
B. prevents us from communicating through B. A humanity-centered view of the universe
writing or speech.
59. D 60. C 61. C 62. C 63. B 64. D 65. C 66. B 67. D

C. A theory that values restraint, form, and A. 1780

imitation B. 1798
D. All of the above answers are correct. C. 1815
68. ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ was published D. 1805
in
73. To whom “poetry is the spontaneous over-
A. 1798 flow of powerful passion.”
B. 1800 A. Keats
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C. 1802 B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. 1815
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D. Coleridge
69. The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was
given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by 74. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria appeared in
the year ?.
A. Horace
A. 1817
an
B. Quintillion
B. 1818
C. Cicero C. 1718
D. Virgil D. 1717
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70. Which of the following is a theme of Eve75. Which of the following figures is considered
Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of to be the father of the linguistic theory known
the Closet? as structuralism?
A. Understanding sexuality is crucial to un- A. Cleanth Brooks
derstanding culture. B. Ferdinand de Saussure
B. Understanding homosexuality has little
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C. Karl Marx
effect on understanding culture.
D. Toni Morrison
C. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of76. They believe that this approach tends to re-
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interest in sexuality. duce art to the level of biography and make

D. All of the above answers are correct. it relative (to the times) rather than universal.
What approach possess this disadvantage?
71. A critic of Thomas Otway’s "Venice Pre-
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serv’d" wishes to know why the play’s con- A. Moral/Philosophical

spirators, despite the horrible, bloody details B. Formalism/New Criticism
of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed
C. Historical/Biographical
in a sympathetic light. She examines the au-
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thor’s life and times and discovers that there D. Psychological

are obvious similarities between the conspir- 77. This approach provides a universalistic ap-
acy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is proach to literature and identifies a reason
most likely a critic. why certain literature may survive the test of
A. Historical time. It works well with works that are highly
symbolic.What approach has this advantage?
B. Feminist
A. Mimetic
C. Tory B. Psychological
D. Psychological C. Historical/Biographical
72. The Lyrical Ballads was published in D. Mythological/Archetypal
68. B 69. B 70. A 71. A 72. B 73. C 74. A 75. B 76. C 77. D
78. Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruc-

83. The statements below are parts of the steps
tion argues that: on "How to Analyze a Play". Which comes in
as second thing to do before writing a critical
A. the meaning of a text always relies on con-
essay of a play?
text.
A. Identify External Factors Related to the
B. texts are always heterogeneous.
Work
C. any system for the production of mean-
B. Interpret the Play
ing is inevitably bound by context, yet also
er
limitless. C. Analyze the Staging
D. All of the above answers are correct. D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Play
79. Christopher Ricks would most likely DIS-
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AGREE with which of the following claims84. In which the following works Plato discusses
about literary theory? his Theory of Poetry?
A. Literary theory is limited in its ability to A. Apology
interpret a text.
B. Ion
B. Literary theory often depends on esoteric
knowledge to be properly understood.
C. Literary theory is employed mostly by aca-
demics. anC. The Republic
D. Phaedrus
85. Is Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a work
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of?
D. Literary theory is the only proper way to
conceptualize literary texts. A. Interpretative Criticism
80. In which capter of Biographia Lieraria, Co- B. Legislative Criticism
leridge make a distinction between fancy and
C. Comparative Criticism
imagination?
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D. Textual Criticism
A. 14
86. The term Electra Complex has originated
B. 15
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from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the

C. 12 author of his tragedy?
D. 13 A. Aeschylus
81. This critical approach assumes that language B. Sophocles
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does not refer to any external reality. It can

assert several, contradictory interpretations C. Euripides
of one text. D. Seneca
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A. Deconstructionism 87. The statements below are parts of the steps

on "How to Explicate Poetry". Which comes
B. Formalist Criticism
in as second to the last thing to do before
C. Structuralism writing a critical essay of a poem?
D. Mimetic Criticism A. Interpret the Poem.
82. Wordsworth’s theory of poetry appears in B. Introduce External Support.
A. Excursion C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem
B. Tintern Abbey Lines D. Evaluate the Poem.
C. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads 88. Aristotle and Plato belong to phase of
D. Immortality Ode criticism.
78. D 79. D 80. D 81. A 82. C 83. C 84. C 85. C 86. B 87. A 88. A
A. Hellenic A. Formalist Criticism

B. Hellenistic B. Deconstructionism
C. Renaissance C. Structuralism
D. Graeco-Roman D. Mimetic Criticism
95. What is mimesis?
89. The key word that characterised the Roman-
tic movement was A. A reversal
A. Inspiration
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B. An imitation
B. Imagination C. A satire
C. Fancy D. A poetic metaphor
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D. Decorum 96. Which of the following best describes the dif-
90. In which essay did Arnold say that for good ference between literary criticism and literary
literature to flourish two powers are neces- theory?
sary – creative and the critical A. Literary criticism is concerned only with
an
A. The Function of Criticism the meaning of a literary work, while literary
theory is concerned only with the structure
B. The Study of Poetry
of a literary work.
C. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems
B. Literary criticism draws upon research de-
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D. Essay on Wordsworth rived from sources outside literature, while
91. What do structuralist and formalist critics literary theory draws upon sources within a
have in common? text.
A. Both sets of critics reject the importance C. Literary theory is concerned with the
of historical context in studying literature. method used to interpret a work, while lit-
erary criticism is the application of literary
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B. Both sets of critics look for an objective theory.

way to view texts.
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C. Both sets of critics focus on evaluating

97. The statements below are parts of the steps
literature in a scientific manner.
on "How to Write an Analytical Essay about
D. All of the above answers are correct. Short Fiction". Which comes in as the last
92. Who considers poetry ‘a mother of lies’ thing to do in the writing an essay about short
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fiction?
A. Aristotle
A. Begin your paper with an introduction
B. Plato
that identifies the purpose of the paper and
C. Pope
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the text you are addressing.

D. Stephen Gosson B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, per-
93. Who was the first literary critic who said that haps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or
“Art is twice removed from reality”? illustrate your thesis.
A. Plato C. Select specific passages in the text of the
story that help you to develop each topic sen-
B. Aristotle
tence.
C. Longinus
D. Build your paper to a climax; save your
D. Horace most engaging or important topic sentence
94. Michael Foucault was the major practitioner for discussion last.
of this school of criticism. 98. Who is the author of Ars Poetica?
89. B 90. A 91. D 92. B 93. A 94. C 95. B 96. C 97. A 98. C
A. Plato 104. Regarding the observance of the three Clas-

B. Aristotle sical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson’s view is
that:
C. Horace
A. Only the Unity of Time should be ob-
D. Longinus served
99. Who called Dryden the Father of English Crit-
B. Only the Unity of Place should be ob-
icism?
served
A. Joseph Addison
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C. Only the Unity of Action should be ob-
B. Dr. Johnson served
C. Coleridge D. All the three Unities should be observed
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D. Matthew Arnold 105. With which theorist is the concept imagina-
100. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. tive geography associated?
Austin’s performativity theory? A. Julia Kristeva
A. Performance is the ultimate objective of B. Fredric Jameson
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all human beings.
C. Terry Eagleton
B. Language is used to indicate action as well
as thought. D. Edward Said
106. Who established the Lyceum?
C. Individuals perform gender actively.
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A. Plato
101. From whom did New Historicists draw the B. Aristotle
idea of "self-regulating systems"? C. Horace
A. Theodor W. Adorno D. Longinus
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss 107. Which literary theory would most directly
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C. Julia Kristeva explore questions of the role of spatial setting

in a poem?
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D. Jacques Derrida
A. Trauma theory
102. “The end of writing is to instruct, the end
of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.” Whose B. Ecotheory
view is this? C. Game theory
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A. Wordsworth’s D. Marxist theory

B. Coleridge’s 108. In Fredric Jameson’s book The Political Un-
C. Dr. Johnson’s conscious, what does Jameson suggest about
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literature?
D. Matthew Arnold’s
103. The statements below are steps on "How to A. History comprises the essential frame-
Read and Understand an Expository Essay". work for the performance of literary analysis
Which comes in as an initial thing to do be-
fore writing an expository essay? B. Politics and the economy are the most im-
A. Identify the Mode of Development portant factors in literary analysis
B. Analysis of the Author C. Biography is essential to literary analysis
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews D. All of the above answers are correct.

109. Which of the following critics preferred
D. Identify External Factors Related to the
Shakespeare’s Comedies to his Tragedies?
Work
99. B 100. B 101. B 102. C 103. B 104. C 105. D 106. B 107. B 108. A 109. C
A. Dryden 115. What does Elaine Showalter argue about

gender in terms of representations of the char-
B. Pope
acter of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s
C. Dr. Johnson Hamlet?
D. Addison A. Ophelia’s madness represents the social
110. In which book of the Republic did Plato ban oppression of women.
poets from his ideal world? B. It is nearly impossible to represent women
as anything other than mad in patriarchal dis-
er
A. Book 7
courses.
B. Book 10
C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate
C. Book 1 Ophelia for their own purposes.
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D. Book 5 D. All of the above answers are correct.
111. A critic argues that in John Milton’s "Sam- 116. What does Edward Said argue about the con-
son Agonistes," the shearing of Samson’s cept of the Orient?
locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands A. It has little relationship to the colonization
an
of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is of Asian countries by the West.
this critic using?
B. It illustrates the fundamental political
A. Mimetic approach equality of all nations.
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B. Formalist approach C. It was produced by Western scholarship.
C. Historical approach D. All of the above answers are correct.
D. Psychological approach 117. What is the main function of literary the-
ory?
112. “Of all philosopher’s Plato is the most po-
etic.” Who said this A. To understand the importance of the for-
mal elements of literary structure
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A. Philiph Sidney
B. To formulate relationships among an au-
B. Shelley thor, a reader, and a literary work
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C. Aristlotle C. To understand the role of sexuality, gen-

D. Keats der, race, and ethnicity in literary study
113. With which theorist is the term implied D. All of the above answers are correct.
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reader associated? 118. How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic the-

ories distinct from traditional Freudian con-
A. Wolfgang Iser
cepts?
B. William Wimsatt
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A. Kristeva rejects the idea that neuroses pro-

C. Cleanth Brooks vide insight into the unconscious.
D. Harold Bloom B. Kristeva suggests that women are not sub-
114. According to Aristotle the unravelling of the ject to traditional fetishes.
plot C. Kristeva offers a more central place for
women’s issues within psychological devel-
A. Should arise from the circumstances of
opment.
the plot itself
B. By supernatural machinery
119. Which of the following human behaviors is
C. By narration important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study
D. By the choral odes of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
110. B 111. D 112. A 113. B 114. A 115. D 116. C 117. D 118. C 119. D
A. Neurotic behavior A. Charles Lamb

B. Changes in emotional states B. Joseph Conrad
C. Slips of the tongue C. Coleridge
D. All of the above answers are correct. D. Wordsworth
120. What does Judith Butler mean when she sug-
125. The concept of otherness is related to which
gests that gender is "performed"? of the following theories?
er
A. Gender does not reflect an essential truth, A. Psychoanalytic theory
but rather is a role people play based on their
B. Feminist theory
internalization of socially constructed gender
roles. C. Ethnic criticism
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B. Gender roles do not exist. D. All of the above answers are correct.
C. Real gender roles are scripted by excellent126. Who contributed the term “to see the object
writers. as in itself it really is”?
an
D. All of the above answers are correct. A. Wordsworth
121. What is the philosophical theory known as B. Coleridge
pragmatism?
C. Arnold
A. A maxim of logic developed by Charles
Ch
Sanders Peirce D. Goethe
127. This literary critic coined the term "fancy."
B. A theory of practical actions developed by
William James A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. An idea used to guide conduct towards B. Virginia Woolf
clear objectives
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C. Matthew Arnold
D. Carl Jung
122. What is hermeneutics?
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128. How does Virginia Woolf’s essay "A Room

A. A term that describes the absence of racial of One’s Own" contribute to feminist theory?
others in the canon
A. It suggests that the suppression of women
B. A term that describes the attempt to read is part of a historical climate that will natu-
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homosexuality into literature rally fade away.

C. A term that describes the effect of autobi- B. It suggests that gender roles are condi-
ography on text tioned by the possession of money and power.
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D. A term that describes the interpretation

of meaning C. It suggests that gender has power over
123. Plato’s Republic is written in the form of class.
A. Drama D. All of the above answers are correct.
B. Narrative mode 129. Name the author of The New Criticism.
C. Poetry A. F. R. Leavis
D. Dialogue B. Allen Tate

124. The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” C. John Crowe Ransom
applies to which poet/critic?
D. R. P. Blackmur
120. A 121. D 122. D 123. D 124. C 125. D 126. C 127. A 128. B 129. C
130. A critic examining John Milton’s "Paradise C. Women should primarily dedicate them-
Lost" focuses on the physical description of selves to studying women’s literature from
the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, the past.
seed, and flower, and on the characters of
Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special
attention to the epic similes and metaphors135. How did the New Critics view literature?
and the point of view from which the tale is A. As an aesthetic object that is independent
being told. He looks for meaning in the text of historical context
itself, and does not refer to any biography of
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Milton. He is most likely a critic. B. As an aesthetic object that is influenced
by historical context
A. Reader Response
C. As a historical object that is also aesthetic
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B. Feminist
C. Mimetic
D. As a historical object that is not necessar-
D. Formalist ily aesthetic
131. What does Ben Jonson mean by a ‘Humor-
136. Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in
an
ous Character’? :
A. A character who is always cheerful and A. Art Poetique
gay
B. Poetics
B. A character who is by nature melancholy
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C. Rhetoric
C. A character whose temper is determined
by the predominance of one out of the four D. Ars Poetica
fluids in the human body 137. With which feminist theorist is gynocriti-
D. An eccentric person cism most closely associated?
132. Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of A. Elaine Showalter
n
criticism”?
B. Julia Kristeva
A. Saintsbury
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C. Lucy Irigaray
B. Murray
D. Louise M. Rosenblatt
C. Atkins
138. Which text argues that, as infants, human
D. Tyllard beings begin to define their identities against
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133. Who is the author of Symposium? the identities of others?

A. Aristotle A. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble
B. Dante B. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
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C. Longinus C. Roland Barthes’s "The Death of the Au-

D. Plato thor"
134. In her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa," D. Jacques Lacan’s "The Mirror Stage . . . "
what does Hélène Cixous suggest for139. Who accused Aristotle of social snobbish-
women? ness and arrogance?
A. Women should write for and about them-
A. Willy Loman
selves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
B. Arthur Miller
B. Women should write, but they should do C. Henry James
so only within the existent male canon.
D. David
130. D 131. C 132. A 133. D 134. A 135. A 136. B 137. A 138. D 139. B
140. What approach is described by the para- A. An Essay

graph? This approach takes as a fundamental
B. A Drama
tenet that "literature" exists not as an artifact
upon a printed page but as a transaction be- C. A Poetical Work
tween the physical text and the mind of a D. An Interlocution
reader.
146. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Co-
A. Historical/Biographical Approach leridge criticize the theory of language of
B. Reader Response Approach Wordsworth?
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C. Formalism A. 16
D. Mimetic Approach B. 17
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141. Who originated the term "objective correl- C. 14
ative," which is often used in formalist criti- D. 15
cism?
147. Reader-response theory is focused on con-
A. C.S. Lewis sidering which of the following?
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B. Virginia Woolf A. How readers learn to read
C. Matthew Arnold B. How readers imagine visual images in a
D. T.S. Eliot text
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142. Which of the following texts is the BEST ex- C. How readers participate in creating the
ample of the argument that a work’s meaning meaning of a text
does not come entirely from the imagination D. How readers regard critics
of the author?
148. In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida ar-
A. Plato’s The Republic gues what about literature?
B. T.S. Eliot’s "Tradition and the Individual A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
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Talent"
B. Language must be studied in conjunction
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology with history in order to create meaning.
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D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage ” C. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning
143. The term ‘collective unconscious’ is coined does not change.
by D. All of the above answers are correct.
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A. Carl Jung 149. Aristotle’s critical work is entitled:

B. Sigmund Freud A. Ars Poetica
C. Ernest Jones B. Poetics
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D. Erik Erikson C. De Arte Poetica

144. What is the original meaning of the term D. Art Poetique
Hamartia?
150. This poet might be described as a moral or
A. To miss the mark philosophical critic for arguing that works
B. Sin must have "high seriousness."
C. Tragic flaw A. T.S. Eliot
D. Flaws B. Matthew Arnold
145. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. C. Elizabeth Browning

Is this? D. Virginia Woolf
140. B 141. D 142. B 143. A 144. A 145. D 146. C 147. C 148. A 149. B 150. B
151. B
151. One of the potential disadvantages of this157. The probable date of composition of Ars Po-
approach to literature is that it can reduce etica is
meaning to a certain time frame, rather than A. 100 BC
making it universal throughout the ages.
B. 12 to 8 BC
A. Formalist
C. 15 AD
B. Historical
D. 20 AD
C. Feminist
158. What is New Historicism?
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D. Mimetic
A. A theory that sees history as a form of
152. Which of the following theorists is associ- writing and discourse
ated with formalism?
B. A theory that abandons the idea of history
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A. Viktor Shklovsky as an imitation of events
B. Cleanth Brooks C. A theory that regards history as a series
C. Judith Butler of narratives
D. Mikhail Bakhtin D. All of the above answers are correct.
153. According to Plato, what is the moral pur-
pose of art?
A. To connect human beings with a higher
ideal
an
159. What is double consciousness?
A. An early aspect of ethnic criticism
B. An understanding of how double experi-
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ences create identity
B. To entertain those who enjoy it C. A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois
C. To criticize society through satire D. All of the above answers are correct.
D. All of the above answers are correct. 160. Who said “theatre is not a hospital”?
154. Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are A. F.L. Lucas
discussed in ?
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B. J K Atkins
A. Preface to the Poems
C. Derrida
B. On translating Homer
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D. Hillis Miller
C. “Scholar Gypsy”
161. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
D. Culture and Anarchy is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic
155. Who was the originator of the Theory of Criticism. In which year was it published?
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Imitation in Literature? A. 1798

A. Longinus B. 1800
B. Aristotle C. 1801
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C. Plato D. 1802
D. Horace 162. What is phenomenology?
156. In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept A. The examination of structures informing
of gender? our conscious experience
A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s B. The examination of desires informing our
gender is not. consciousness
B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes C. The examination of our unconscious ex-
that accompany it are true. perience
C. Gender is largely a cultural construct. D. The examination of intricate structures
D. All of the above answers are correct. within our unconscious
152. A 153. A 154. D 155. C 156. C 157. B 158. D 159. D 160. A 161. B 162. A
163. Which of the following statements best ex- A. The Elizabethan Age
plains the main objective of New Histori-
B. The Neo-Classical Age
cism?
C. The Romantic Age
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers
and the colonized interact. D. The Victorian Age
169. Who coined the expression “objective corel-
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal
ative”?
aspects of the text create meaning.
A. Coleridge
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C. Texts are examined to determine how they
reveal social realities. B. T. S. Eliot
D. Texts are examined to determine the au- C. Allen Tate
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thor’s intent. D. F. R. Leavis
164. What does Sidney say about the observance170. Which of the following writers might be con-
of the three Dramatic Unities in drama? sidered one of the early founders of first-wave
A. They must be observed feminism?
an
B. It is not necessary to observe them A. Hélène Cixous
C. He favours the observance of the Unity of B. Judith Butler

Action only C. Lucy Irigaray
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D. Their observance depends upon the na- D. Mary Wollstonecraft
ture of the theme of the play 171. On the Sublime is considered
165. Who for the first time discriminated be- A. A classical approach
tween imagination and fancy?
B. Romantic approach
A. Coleridge
C. Neo-classical approach
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D. None of these
C. John Ruskin 172. This feminist critic proposed that all female
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D. Schegell characters in literature are in at least one of

the following stages of development: the fem-
166. With which theorist is phenomenology as-
inine, feminist, or female stage.
sociated?
A. Virginia Woolf
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A. Edmund Husserl
B. Elaine Showalter
B. Wolfgang Iser
C. Mary Wolstencraft
C. Jean-Paul Sartre
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D. Ellen Mores
173. What is the purpose of feminist theory?
167. Which of the following texts provides the
best example of defamiliarization? A. To advocate for women’s rights
A. Aristotle’s Poetics B. To create literary subjects with which fe-

male readers can identify
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. To critique phallocentric assumptions
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness about literature
D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk D. All of the above answers are correct.
168. Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard174. Which literary theorist argues that "there is
language for poetry in: nothing outside the text"?
163. C 164. A 165. B 166. D 167. B 168. B 169. B 170. D 171. B 172. B 173. D
174. C
A. T.S. Eliot 180. Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in

B. Jacques Lacan which of the following?
C. Jacques Derrida A. How writers conceptualize natural envi-

ronments and the representation of environ-
D. Stanley Fish mental issues in literature and culture
175. What has Dryden to say about the obser-
B. How writers have damaged the environ-
vance of the three Classical Dramatic Uni-
ment
ties?
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C. How the environment can be repaired
A. He advocates their strict observance
D. Who is responsible for damaging the en-
B. He does not advocate their strict obser-
vironment
vance
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181. In his essay "What Is an Author?" what po-
C. He says that every dramatist should de-
sition(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault
cide it for himself
take?
D. He is silent about this issue
A. The idea of the author came into being at
an
176. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave a certain point in history.
images are usually seen as:
B. The names of authors serve a classifica-
A. Female symbols tory function.
B. Phallic symbols
C. The author may not always exist.
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C. Male symbols
D. Evidence of an Oedipus complex
182. How many times do the word Katharsis ap-
177. Which school of theorists is most closely pear in the Poetics
associated with phenomenology?
A. 3
A. The Moscow School
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B. 2
B. The Chicago School
C. 4
C. The Frankfurt School
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D. 6
D. The Geneva School
183. Which of the following texts is considered
178. Among the following which is not a work
the first example of postcolonial criticism?
by Aristotle?
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A. Harold Bloom’s "An Elegy for the Canon"

A. Ethics
B. Metaphysics
B. Jacques Lacan’s "The Mirror Stage . . . "
C. Rhetoric
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C. Cleanth Brooks’s "Keats’s Sylvan Histo-

D. Ars Poetica rian"
179. How does Wolfgang Iser envision the
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism
reader?
184. What approach to literary criticism requires
A. The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an
the critic to know about the author’s life and
author’s intention.
times?
B. The reader is sublimated beneath the au-
A. Historical
thor.
B. Formalist
C. The reader is less important than the au-
thor’s context. C. Mimetic
D. All of the above answers are correct. D. All of these
175. B 176. A 177. D 178. D 179. A 180. A 181. D 182. B 183. D 184. A
185. In her essay "The Poem as Event," Louise A. How women really feel about male writ-
M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing ers
what function? B. The inscription of womanhood and femi-
A. The reader participates in a transaction ninity in texts
with the text. C. Second-wave feminism
B. The reader is acted upon by the text. D. Psychological studies of women
C. The reader acts upon the text. 189. What approach is described by the para-
er
graph? Those who apply this approach be-
lieve it is necessary to know about the author
186. How do Marxist theorists react to ideology? and the political, economical, and sociological
A. They accept ideology as an essential, al- context of his times in order to truly under-
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though sometimes problematic, part of soci- stand his works.
ety. A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. They subject all ideologies to critique in B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
an
order to expose biased interests.
C. Formalism
C. They reject the idea that ideology has real D. Psychological Approach
effects on social progress.
190. From where has the term Oedipus Complex
D. All of the above answers are correct. originated?
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187. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is A. Oedipus the Rex
described below: A formalist approach might
B. Oedipus at Colonus
enable us to choose between a reading which
sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the C. Antigone
Flies as being caused by too strict a suppres- D. Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes
sion of the "bestial" side of man and one
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191. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist

which sees it as resulting from too little sup-
for literature rather than a critic?
pression. We can look to the text and ask:
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What textual evidence is there for the sup- A. Carlyle

pression or indulgence of the "bestial" side B. Ruskin
of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he
tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? C. T. S. Eliot
Does it appear from the text that an impo- D. F. R. Leavis
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sition of stricter law and order would have192. “Be Homer’s works your study and delight.
prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the Read them by day and meditate by night.”
"grownup" world of the novel? What purpose Who gives this advice to the poets?
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does this prescribe to?

A. Dryden
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or
difficulty in the reading. B. Pope
B. To help decide which is the better of two C. Dr. Johnson

conflicting readings. D. Addison
193. Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as
C. To enable to form judgments about litera-
ture.
D. All of the above answers are correct. A. It represents the nature
188. Which of the following offers the best defi- B. It contributes to the spiritual growth of
nition of écriture féminine? people
185. D 186. B 187. B 188. B 189. A 190. A 191. C 192. B 193. B

C. It shows a tragedy 197. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the
unconscious?
D. It imitates nobility
194. What are some common criticisms of liter- A. a. It contains secret instincts and desires
ary theory? that are repressed.
A. Theory has replaced literary appreciation B. It is the only significant aspect of the hu-
with formulas for understanding. man psyche.
B. The reasoning of theory is often too circu- C. It can never be accessed.
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lar. D. All of the above answers are correct.
C. Many theories have been pushed too far198. Which of the following literary theorists is
into abstraction. most closely associated with the concept that
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D. All of the above answers are correct. became known as liberal humanism?
195. Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection A. Aristotle

of the real world because B. Viktor Shklovsky
A. Art presents only part of the world C. Stanley Fish
C. Art tells lies about the world an

B. Art describes only what appears and not D. Toni Morrison
what is real
199. How does literary theory resemble the prac-
tice of philosophy as it was developed by
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D. Art is an exaggeration of the world Plato and Aristotle?
196. Go over the following questions: A. Literary theory engages with theoretical
What is the relationship between the charac- rather than real-world issues.
ters and their society? B. Literary theory asks fundamental ques-
Does the story address societal issues, such tions about literary interpretation, and at the
as race, gender, and class? same time builds specific systems of literary
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How do social forces shape the power rela- interpretation.

tionships between groups or classes of people
in the story? Who has the power, and who C. Literary theory relies totally on specula-
ya
doesn’t? Why? tion rather than history.

How does the story reflect urban, rural, or D. All of the above answers are correct.
suburban values? 200. Who was the most illustrious disciple of
Does the story address issues of economic Socrates?
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exploitation? What role does money play?

How do economic conditions determine the A. Sophocles
direction of the characters’ lives? B. Plautus
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Do any of the characters correspond to types

C. Plato
of government, such as a dictatorship, democ-
racy, communism, socialism, fascism, etc.? D. Critus
What attitudes toward these political struc-201. What do many contemporary theorists find
tures/systems are expressed in the work? problematic about the literary canon?
What approach can be noted from the ques-
A. It includes too few works by non-
tions?
European writers.
A. Feminist
B. It includes too few works by non-white
B. Archetypal writers.
C. Formalist C. It includes too few works by women.
D. Sociological D. All of the above answers are correct.
194. D 195. B 196. D 197. A 198. A 199. B 200. C 201. D 202. B
202. According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage to be written by people who not only have
is the point at which a child: no such belief, but are even ignorant of the
A. refuses maternal bonds. fact that there are still people in the world so
’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to
B. is able to separate the "I" from the "Other." believe."
A. C.S. Lewis
C. looks into a mirror for the first time.
B. T.S. Eliot
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C. G.K. Chesterton
203. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there
are four interlocuters representing four dif- D. Matthew Arnold
ferent ideologies. Which of them expresses208. Which of the following descriptions best de-
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Dryden’s own views? fines the literary theory known as formal-
A. Lisideius ism?
B. Eugenius A. An approach that emphasizes literary de-

vices in a text
C. Neander
an
B. An approach that emphasizes the histori-
D. Crites cal context of a text
204. What is denouement?
C. An approach that emphasizes the bio-
A. The ending of a tragedy graphical intent of a text
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B. The ending of a comedy D. An approach that emphasizes racial issues
C. The climax in a tragedy in a text
D. The climax in a comedy 209. The statements below are steps on "How to
Read and Understand an Expository Essay".
205. New trends in literary theory tend to do
Which comes in as an initial thing to do be-
fore writing an expository essay?
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A. Reject all previous modes of literary the-

A. Identify the Mode of Development
ory
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B. Analysis of the Author

B. Focus on a return to traditional critical
methods C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
C. Make use of different literary theories in D. All of the above answers are correct.
order to develop new theories 210. The New Critics were:
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D. Work only with ideas developed by post- A. Psychological Critics

Marxist theorists
B. Feminist critics
206. According to Aristotle pity and fear are
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evoked by C. Formalist critics

A. Comedy D. Marxist critics
B. Tragedy 211. A critic examining Pope’s "An Essay on
Man" asks herself: How well does this poem
C. Satire accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is
D. Melodrama it moral? She is most likely a critic.
207. This literary critic warned: "We must re- A. Feminist
member that the greater part of our current
B. Reader Response
reading matter is written for us by people
who have no real belief in a supernatural or- C. Formalist
der . . . And the greater part . . . is coming
D. Mimetic
203. C 204. B 205. C 206. B 207. B 208. A 209. B 210. C 211. D 212. B
212. Plato equated poetry with painting, and How do myths attempt to explain the unex-
Aristotle equated it with plainable: origin of man? Purpose and des-
tiny of human beings?
A. drama
What common human concerns are revealed
B. music in the story?
C. dance How does the story reflect the experiences of
death and rebirth?
D. none What events occur in the story? (Quest? Ini-
tiation? Scapegoating? Descents into the un-
er
213. Horace was a
derworld? Ascents into heaven?)
A. Greek writer What images occur? (Water, rising sun, set-
B. Roman Writer ting sun, symbolic colors)
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What characters appear in the story? (Mother
C. Italian writer
Earth? Femme Fatal? Wise old man? Wan-
D. English writer derer?)
214. How many poets were included in Jhonson’s What settings appear? (Garden? Desert?)
What approach can be noted from the ques-
an
‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’?
tions?
A. 48
A. Sociological
B. 50
B. Feminist
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C. 52 C. Archetypal
D. 54 D. Formalist
215. According to the Geneva School, what is the217. Go over the following questions:
function of the reader? What is the relationship between the charac-
A. Understanding the author’s ideas in the ters and their society?
Does the story address societal issues, such
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context of the real world

as race, gender, and class?
B. Entering the author’s mind through his or How do social forces shape the power rela-
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her literary works tionships between groups or classes of people

C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a in the story? Who has the power, and who
critical context doesn’t? Why?
How does the story reflect urban, rural, or
D. All of the above answers are correct. suburban values?
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216. Go over the following questions: Does the story address issues of economic
How does this story resemble other stories in exploitation? What role does money play?
plot, character, setting, or symbolism? How do economic conditions determine the
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What universal experiences are depicted? direction of the characters’ lives?

Are patterns suggested? Are seasons used to Do any of the characters correspond to types
suggest a pattern or cycle? of government, such as a dictatorship, democ-
Are the names significant? racy, communism, socialism, fascism, etc.?
Is there a Christ-like figure in the work? What attitudes toward these political struc-
Does the writer allude to biblical or mytho- tures/systems are expressed in the work?
logical literature? For what purpose? What approach can be noted from the ques-
What aspects of the work create deep univer- tions?
sal responses to it? A. Feminist
How does the work reflect the hopes, fears,
and expectations of entire cultures (for exam- B. Archetypal
ple, the ancient Greeks)? C. Formalist
213. B 214. C 215. D 216. C 217. D 218. A

D. Sociological 223. What approach is described by the para-

graph? Users of this approach believe that all
218. Who made a difference between ‘poetry’ and
information essential to the interpretation of
‘poem’
a work must be found within the work itself;
A. Coleridge there is no need to bring in outside informa-
tion about the history, politics, or society of
B. Addison
the time, or about the author’s life.
C. Arnold
A. Historical/Biographical Approach
er
D. Eliot B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
219. What does gynocriticism recommend as an C. Formalism
approach to literature?
D. Psychological Approach
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A. Examining only female-authored litera-
224. An Elizabethan Puritan critic denounced
ture more critically the poets as ‘fathers of lies’,’schools of abuse’
B. Considering women’s literature outside and’caterpillars of a commonwealth’. Mark
of its historical context him out from the following crities:
C. Becoming more familiar with the history

of women and women’s writing
D. All of the above answers are correct. an A. William Tyndale
B. Roger Ascham
C. Stephen Gosson
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220. With what literary critic is the term the au- D. Henry Howard
thor function most closely associated? 225. What is the main function of postcolonial
criticism?
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
A. To represent the relationship between col-
B. Jacques Derrida
onizers and the colonized
C. Jacques Lacan
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B. To draw attention to the positive effects

D. Michel Foucault of colonization on literature
C. To explain why there are few examples of
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221. Who proposed that poets should be ban-

ished from the ideal Republic? successful non-Western literature
A. Plato D. To show the ways in which most Western

literature is superior
B. Aristotle
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226. One of the disadvantages of this school of

C. Sir Philip Sidney criticism is that it tends to make readings too
subjective.
D. Sir Thomas More
A. Reader Response Criticism
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222. What is dialectical materialism?

B. Formalist Criticism
A. A form of literary criticism that is based
C. Historical Criticism
on historical context
D. These are all equally subjective
B. A form of literary criticism that does not
227. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to
incorporate economic concerns
literature with the meaning
C. A form of literary criticism based on lin- A. Copying
guistic analysis
B. Criticism of life
D. A term related to gender theory that ar-
gues that men are dominant in society by C. Representation
virtue of their economic privilege D. Interpretation
219. C 220. D 221. A 222. A 223. C 224. C 225. A 226. A 227. C 228. C
228. The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks233. Modern literary theory began with the work
the begining of French Revolution occured of which theorist?
on
A. Ferdinand de Saussure
A. June 14,1789
B. Viktor Shklovsky
B. June 14, 1798
C. Roland Barthes
C. July 14, 1789
D. Michel Foucault
D. July 14,1798
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229. How does New Historicism differ from tra- 234. Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is a de-
ditional historicism? fence of poetry against the charges brought
against it by:
A. New Historicism rejects the idea that his-
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tory is neutral. A. Henry Howard
B. New Historicism does not make strict de- B. Roger Ascham
lineations between literary and non-literary
C. John Skelton
texts.
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C. New Historicism takes a particular inter- D. Stephen Gosson
est in marginalized peoples. 235. Detractors argue that such an approach can
D. All of the above answers are correct. be too "judgmental." Some believe literature
should be judged primarily (if not solely) on
230. The statements below are steps on "How to
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its artistic merits. What approach possess
Read a Short Story Critically". Which comes
this disadvantage?
in as the last thing to do in the critical reading
of a narrative? A. Psychological
A. Analyze the Structure of the Story B. Formalism/New Criticism
B. Analyze Rhetorical Elements C. Moral/Philosophical
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C. Analyze the Meaning of the Story (Inter-

D. Historical/Biographical
pretation)
236. What is dialogism?
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D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the

Story A. A term developed by Mikhail Bakhtin
231. One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. B. A term used to describe how texts include
Which of these literary characters serves that a variety of styles
purpose?
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A. Billy Budd points of view in literature
B. Hamlet
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237. Who is the writer of ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’
D. Ophelia (1949)
232. Who coined the term ’esemplastic’?
A. Carl Jung
A. William Worsworth
B. Harold Bloom
B. Browning
C. Ernest Jones
C. Coleridge
D. Erik Erikson
D. Eliot
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5 Introduction to Literary Studies . . . . . . . . 237
6 Introduction to Literary Theory . . . . . . . 249

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10 Medieval Literature and Culture . . . . . . 295

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11 Medieval Women Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
12 The Gothic Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
13 English Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
14 Modern Poetry and Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . 339
15 The Victorian Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
16 African-American Literature . . . . . . . . . . 375
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1. The Freudian concept of "the uncanny" A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as
refers to: flawless, perfect human beings.
A. a feeling of being disconnected from the B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as
world. often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
B. a sense of something being familiar and
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foreign at once. C. Shakespeare only presents fictional po-

C. terror at the thought of death. litical rulers and does not explore any po-
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litical realities.
D. a realization of one’s empowered posi-
tion in the world. D. Shakespeare considers all political
2. Which of the following offers the best defi- rulers to be corrupt.
nition of the concept of persuasion? 4. Which of the following offers the best defi-
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A. Persuasion is the art of making read- nition of a frame narrative?

ers or listeners believe what the writer or A. A narrative that introduces readers to
speaker is stating. the main characters of a story
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B. Persuasion is the art of lying to good B. A narrative that summarizes the plot of
effect. the novel
C. Persuasion is the opposite of rhetoric. C. A story within a story
D. Persuasion is the use of syllogisms to D. A story that reminds the reader that the
influence the opinions of readers and lis- story is fictional
teners.
5. Which of the following statements demon-
3. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s "Shake- strates the use of pathos?
speare and the Public Discourse of
Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Ham- A. According to research, 22 percent of the
let’", how does Shakespeare tend to present American population owns an unsecured
political rulers in Hamlet? handgun.
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. C
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B. I own a handgun and keep it in a secure B. They explore mysterious religious top-
place in my house. ics.
C. Every month in the United States, at C. They were written by medieval mystics.
least 100 children are wounded or killed as
a result of unsecured handguns. D. They were produced by medieval craft
D. Handguns don’t kill people, people do. guilds, which were knows as “mysteries".
6. Which of the following statements would 10. As a mode of literary criticism or theory,
gender theory attempts to bring which of
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Percy Shelley, author of “A Defense of Po-
etry", agree with? the following to literary texts?
A. Art serves a particular worldly purpose. A. An understanding of the various con-

ceptions and understandings of gender that
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have carried throughout various cultures
B. Art’s supreme function is to entertain
B. An understanding of gender as a human
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construct
C. Artists are dangerous to social order.
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C. An understanding of how standard his-
D. Artists serve to construct the founda- tories of western societies are presented in
tions of culture. terms of heterosexual identity
7. Which of the following statements of- D. All of these.
fers the best characterization of a Greek
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11. Which of the following offers the best de-
tragedy? scription of the concept of pathos?
A. In a Greek tragedy, evil people are van- A. Pathos refers to a writer’s presentation
quished by the forces of good. of character and image.
B. In a Greek tragedy, characters undergo B. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to
reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. present evidence.
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C. In a Greek tragedy, the hero suffers but C. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to in-
always survives at the end of the play. spire action in readers.
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D. In a Greek tragedy, the tragic hero dies D. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to in-
at the end of the play. spire emotional responses in readers.
8. What does Percy Shelley mean when he 12. Which of the following statements best
summarizes the main idea behind Anthony
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refers to poets as being the “unacknowl-

edged legislators of the world"? DiMatteo’s essay, "Shakespeare and the
Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason
A. He is suggesting that artists serve to of State’ in ’Hamlet’"?
develop culture.
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A. Hamlet is a tragedy focusing on the

B. He is suggesting that all artists are from plight of the early-modern self.
high social classes.
B. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects Shake-
C. He is suggesting that artists are re- speare’s own political circumstances.
pressed throughout society.
C. Hamlet is a tragedy that focuses on the
D. He is suggesting that the making of laws Elizabethan era’s loss of faith in humanity’s
is itself an art. ability to govern itself without violence.
9. What is one reason that Mystery Plays are D. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects upon
referred to as such? enlightened and progressive political sys-
A. They involve the solving of a crime. tems that developed during Shakespeare’s
time.
6. D 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. D 11. D 12. C
13. In his preface to "Lyrical Ballads", D. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to in-
Wordsworth calls for poetry to be writ- spire emotional responses in readers.
ten in what kind of language? 18. Which of the following statements best de-
A. Typically poetic and fanciful language fines the poetic form of the villanelle?
B. Ancient languages A. A poem that has no rhyme scheme
C. Complicated and difficult language B. A poem that eulogizes the dead
D. Common, everyday language C. A poem that carries a pattern on two
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14. Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey" pursues rhymes and offers an alternating refrain
which of the following themes? D. A poem that celebrates the life of a cruel
A. The conflict between marriages based person
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on love and those based on money 19. Which of the following offers the best defi-
B. The ways in which appearances don’t nition of the literary term motif?
always match realities A. A recurring element in a story that is
C. The danger in not recognizing the dif- symbolically significant
ference between reality and fiction
D. All of these
15. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, an B. A character’s fatal flaw
C. A rhyme scheme
D. A character’s moment of self-realization
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formalism attempted to bring which of the in a narrative
following to literary studies?
20. What is the relationship between the prac-
A. An awareness of the historical circum- tices of New Historicism and New Criti-
stances surrounding a text’s production cism?
B. A set of objective criteria for critical A. New Historicism was a reaction against
analysis New Criticism, which was seen as too nar-
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D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality B. Both fields of literary study are Ameri-
of a literary text can in origin.
16. Sophocles’ "Oedipus the King" explores C. New Historicism is simply an early form
which of the following themes? of Cultural Materialism.
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B. The corruptive force of technology on how readers interpret and invent mean-
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21. Which of the following offers the best defi-
D. Disobedient children nition of a Greek theatrical comedy?
A. A play in which characters make hu-
scription of the concept of ethos?
morous remarks
A. Ethos refers to a writer’s presentation
B. A play in which characters experience
of character and image.
reversals of fortune, usually for the better
B. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to
C. A play in which no characters die or
present evidence.
suffer
C. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to in-
D. A play in which elite members of soci-
spire action in readers.
ety are mocked
13. D 14. D 15. B 16. A 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. A
22. Which of the following poetic lines is an A. A minimalist stage and strict adherence
example of a couplet? to the script
A. "Into my head there will come / a beach B. Video clips and the use of popular music
of cotton, a dock where from."
B. "To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to C. Nonlinear storytelling and the embrace-
live forever." ment of popular culture
C. "I heard a car crash / just as I died." D. A pastiche of different literary and his-
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D. "Death comes for all of us / even you." torical sources
23. Which of the following lines provides an 27. Which of the following offers the best defi-
example of a poetic apostrophe? nition of a theatrical tragedy?
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A. "She is a woman of beauty and wonder." A. A play that depicts the downfall of a
noble person
B. "Death, that which feels nothing." B. A play in which someone gets revenge
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C. "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this
C. A play in which a hero faces likely de-
hour: / England hath need of thee."
feat and overcomes it
D. "I wandered lonely as a cloud."
D. A play in which no form of humor ap-
24. Which of the following serves as the best pears
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definition of the literary critical practice of
formalism? 28. Which of the following statements about
the plot of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" is not
A. Formalism focuses on examining how a true?
text exemplifies its writer’s psychology.
A. Hamlet is deeply disturbed by his fa-
B. Formalism focuses on examining the
ther’s death.
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C. Formalism focuses on examining the
Claudius murdered King Hamlet.
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D. Formalism focuses on examining the tion to take.
historical contexts and backgrounds of lit- D. Ophelia dies by drowning.
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25. Dr. Allen Shoaf’s essay, “’Hamlet’: Like scription of literary theory?
Mother, Like Son", argues which of the fol-
lowing points? A. Literary theory involves coming to a
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precise understanding of a writer’s psychol-

A. Hamlet’s father’s ghost is not really a
ogy.
ghost.
B. Literary theory involves measuring the
B. Hamlet feels a sense of desire for both
quality of a literary work.
his mother and his father.
C. Hamlet is truly insane in the play. C. Literary theory involves considering the
publication history of literary texts.
D. Hamlet is an impossible play to truly
understand. D. Literary theory involves describing the
underlying principles of a literary work.
26. A postmodern play would most likely not
make use of which of the following theatri- 30. In poetry, each unit of rhythm is known
cal traditions? as:
23. C 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. B

A. a line. 35. A play that begins in medias res:

B. a foot. A. begins at the apparent end of the story.
C. a measure. B. introduces the characters of the play one
D. a meter. by one.
31. What is hermeneutics? C. opens by plunging the viewer into a cru-
A. A system for categorizing books cial series of events.
D. begins with a preview of the play’s con-
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B. The psychological study of authors
clusion.
C. The study of textual interpretation
36. Which of the following lines of poetry is
D. A reader-response test written in iambic pentameter?
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32. In Dr. R. Allen Shoaf’s article, "’Hamlet’:
Like Mother, Like Son", Shoaf argues which A. “To be or not to be, that is the question."
of the following points about the relation-
ship between Hamlet and his mother? B. “And the world didn’t even think of stop-
ping for me."
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A. Hamlet is placed in a position that can
be conceptualized as feminine. C. “I played about the front gate, pulling
B. Hamlet despises his mother and sus- flowers."
pects she has killed his father. D. “I wandered lonely as a cloud."
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C. Hamlet is entirely masculinized 37. Which of the following statements offers
throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately the best definition of an epistolary novel?
unlike his mother in terms of his position
in the play. A. A novel set in the past
D. Hamlet has a personality disorder. B. A novel that consists entirely of dia-

logue
33. Which of the following statements offers
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the best definition of the term Bildungsro- C. A novel that is set in the countryside of
man? Europe
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A. A story of one person’s fall from grace D. A novel that consists of a series of doc-
and into destruction uments, such as diary entries, letters, and
B. A story of one person’s growth and de- newspaper articles
velopment within a particular social order 38. In his introductory lecture, how does Paul
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C. A story of one person’s success within A. A hypothesis about how literary texts
a capitalistic economic system can be understood
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D. A story of one person’s self-realization B. A methodology for applying ideas to lit-

and attempt to return to innocence erary texts
34. Psychoanalytic criticism during its earliest
C. The practice of interpreting literary
stages tended to focus on:
texts
A. the psychologies of individual authors.
D. A trend in university English depart-
B. the typographical structures of literary ments
texts.
39. Which of the following statements best rep-
C. translation issues. resents Lacan’s view of Ophelia in his essay,
D. how children relate to their parents in "Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in
terms of literary texts. ’Hamlet’"?
31. C 32. A 33. B 34. A 35. C 36. A 37. D 38. A 39. C

A. Hamlet desires his mother, not Ophelia. C. A historical novel focuses on providing
the reader with only the central truth of
a historical event, while a historical narra-
B. Hamlet desires revenge, not Ophelia.
tive attempts to tell the entire truth of a
C. Hamlet desires Ophelia, but only when historical event.
she is unattainable.
D. Faruqi actually argues that historical
D. Hamlet desires attaining the throne of novels do not exist.
Denmark, of which Ophelia is a symbol. 44. Gerald Graff’s “They Say, I Say" encourages
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writing by doing which of the following?
A. passive readers and critics of literary
A. Using informal language texts.
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B. Demonstrating a mastery of the topic B. involved in critical conversations about
literary texts.
C. Appealing to the reader’s emotions
C. capable of realizing that the viewpoints
D. Using logic and reason
of some critics are more important than
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41. Marxist theory focuses on examining others.
which of the following aspects of literary
texts? D. aware that Hamlet is a remarkable work
of literature.
A. The political and social meanings of lit-
45. A gothic novel will probably not deal with
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which of the following themes?
B. Characters who are sympathetic to is-
A. The sublime
sues facing the working classes
B. The supernatural
C. The relationship between economics
and the production of literary texts C. Love
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42. In Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot", which of
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the following statements best describes the 46. Which of the following are common liter-
play’s setting? ary elements used to analyze novels?
A. Stark and sterile A. Character
B. Flowery and ornate B. Setting

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D. Ancient and sophisticated 47. What is the difference between traditional
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43. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s ver- literary criticism and post-New Criticism
sion of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s "The His- literary theory?
torical Novel and the Historical Narrative", A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly
what is the difference between a historical focused on exploring gender issues.
narrative and a historical novel?
B. Traditional literary criticism only exam-
A. A historical narrative and a historical ines pre-20th-century literary texts.
novel are the same thing.
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on
B. A historical narrative tells only part of tracking influences and textual allusions
the story surrounding a historical event; a and considering the historical contexts of
historical novel tells the whole story. literary texts.
40. B 41. D 42. A 43. C 44. B 45. D 46. D 47. C

D. Traditional literary criticism attempted D. A young girl with a particularly dark

to consider the psychological aspects of lit- mindset
erary texts. 52. Which of the following statements demon-
48. A work of literary criticism that consid- strates use of logos?
ers how social and economic power struc- A. I began driving at the age of 16 and have
tures are depicted in a 19th-century English never been involved in a serious car acci-
novel would be an example of which type dent.
of literary criticism?
B. No one under the age of 18 should be
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B. Reader-response criticism C. Research has demonstrated that some
C. Psychoanalytic criticism people under the age of 18 do not have the
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proper judgment skills to handle operating
D. New Criticism
a car.
49. Which of the following descriptions of Jane
D. Every year countless people are killed
Austen’s “Northanger Abbey" seems most
by drivers under the age of 18.
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appropriate?
53. Aristotle felt that ethos was established by
A. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry a speaker or writer by convincing the audi-
and ideology. ence that:
B. It serves to parody gothic novels. A. the author or speaker was of good mind
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C. It is a horror novel. and character.
D. It is a memoir based on Jane Austen’s B. the author or speaker was emotionally
childhood. involved in the topic at hand.
50. Which of the following statements best de- C. the author or speaker has provided
scribes Catherine Moreland in “Northanger proper logic and evidence in support of his
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Abbey"? topic.
A. She is mature and realistic. D. the author or speaker maintained the
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appropriate critical distance from the topic.

B. She is immature and has difficulty rec-
ognizing the difference between fact and
fiction. 54. According to Dr. Mark Canada’s "An In-
troduction to the Novel", Richard Chase
C. She is a matchmaker trying to set up ro-
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identifies which of the following as a main

mances between her friends, all the while difference between novels and romances?
unable to find true love herself.
A. The language in which they are written
D. B and C
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51. Lauren Beth Signore’s essay, “Anne of B. The way they view reality
Green Gables: The Transformation from
Bildungsroman to Romantic Comedy", ar- C. The way they are structured
gues that Anne of Green Gables is ulti- D. The type of people who write them
mately what kind of character? 55. What does a prologue serve to do in a Greek
A. A romantic awaiting true love tragedy or comedy?
B. A cynic awaiting the world’s destruc- A. Introduce the main characters
tion B. Preview the play’s conclusion
C. A delusional girl with no grasp on real- C. Provide insight into the play’s mytho-
ity logical background
48. A 49. B 50. D 51. A 52. C 53. A 54. B 55. C

D. Remind the viewers of what kind of play C. Logos refers to a writer’s ability to in-
they are viewing spire action in readers.
56. Which of the following represents a stage D. Logos refers to a writer’s ability to in-
of development in the poetic form of the spire emotional responses in readers.
elegy?
61. Which of the following statements offers
A. Lamentation, in which the speaker the best definition of a novel of manners?
demonstrates grief
A. A novel that attacks the lower classes
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B. Praise and admiration for the dead
B. A novel set in Europe in the 18th cen-
C. Consolation and solace tury
D. All of these C. A novel that explores the behavior and
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57. In his "Poetics", Aristotle suggests that values of a particular class of people
tragic literary works should be:
D. A novel that explores class conflict
A. logical in terms of plot and structure.
62. What is the central argument in Dr. Richard
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B. complex in terms of plot and structure. Kelly’s "The Novelist’s Eye"?
C. without any sort of moral insight. A. All novelists are painters at heart.
D. sad. B. George du Maurier felt that black-and-
58. Feminist criticism focuses on exploring white illustrators could be as important as
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which of the following aspects of literary novelists and painters.
texts? C. George du Maurier attacked the social
A. How women are portrayed in literary position of the novelist in his illustrations.
texts D. George du Maurier was a tremendous
B. The psychologies of female writers influence on Victorian novelists.
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C. How women have been socially op- 63. Which of the following statements best ex-
pressed in literary texts emplifies the main idea put forward by John
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Milton in book 9 of Paradise Lost?

D. All of these
59. Reader-response theory focuses on consid- A. Satan was ultimately heroic.
ering how: B. The fall of Adam and Eve was a tragic
event.
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literature. C. Adam and Eve were driven to evil by
B. readers experience a literary work. their children.
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C. readers decide which works of literature D. God abandoned the realm of Eden with-
to read. out reason.
D. readers develop their own unique and 64. Which of the following statements about
personal critical discourses. Greek tragedies is true?
60. Which of the following offers the best de- A. They were not popular with ancient
scription of the concept of logos? Greek audiences.
A. Logos refers to a writer’s presentation B. They were usually set in the past.
of character and image.
C. They were almost never set in the past.
B. Logos refers to a writer’s ability to
D. They were often done in honor of the
present evidence.
Greek god Zeus.
56. D 57. A 58. D 59. B 60. B 61. C 62. B 63. B 64. B 65. C
65. In Shakespeare’s "Hamlet", what does Ham- 69. A picaresque novel dramatizes the life of
let mean when he states that, "there is more what kind of person?
in heaven and earth than are dreamt
A. A member of the royalty
of in your philosophy"?
B. A lowborn, wandering adventurer
A. There is such a thing as an afterlife.
B. Dreams always tell the truth. C. A member of the middle class engaging
in self-exploration
C. There are some aspects of existence that
D. A child as he or she develops into an
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cannot be explained through reason.
adult
D. Heaven exists on earth.
70. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays", how
66. Which of the following descriptions best
does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptu-
describes the character of Hamlet?
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alize the character of Hamlet?
A. Hamlet is depressed yet highly intelli-
gent. A. As a crazed fool
B. Hamlet is naive and simple minded. B. As a profound philosophical genius
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C. Hamlet is spoiled and manipulative. C. As boyish and immature
D. Hamlet is intellectually passive and D. As a brilliant warrior
deeply frightened of his father’s ghost. 71. Which of the following statements offers
67. Which of the following statements is a the best definition of "rhetoric"?
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proper example of what Aristotle termed a
A. Questions for which the answers are
syllogism?
obvious
A. All dogs have four legs, all creatures do
B. Persuasive writing and speaking
not have four legs, hence all creatures with
four legs are dogs. C. Writing that is complicated and schol-
B. All men breathe air, all dogs breathe air, arly
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C. All mammals are warm-blooded, all 72. In his essay, "Characters of Shakespeare’s
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dogs are mammals, hence all dogs are Plays", William Hazlitt conceptualizes
warm-blooded. Hamlet as:
D. All dogs have hair, all people have hair, A. a disturbed and insane man.
hence anything with hair is a dog or a per-
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son.
and innate goodness and kindness.
68. Which of the following statements best rep-
resents the main theme of Beckett’s "Wait- C. a depressed but ultimately good and
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ing for Godot"? nonviolent man.

A. The world can be fully understood if D. a wicked and manipulative man.
people listen closely to what others are say- 73. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the
ing. Ancient Mariner", why does the Mariner
B. Good things, including salvation, come kill the albatross?
to those who are patient. A. For revenge
C. Redemption comes from surrendering
B. To change the weather
to a higher power.
C. To bring forth life-in-death
D. People are fundamentally unable to re-
alize any sort of inherent meaning in exis- D. It is never directly stated why he does
tence. so.
66. A 67. C 68. D 69. B 70. B 71. B 72. C 73. D
74. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s ver- 79. Which of the following are examples of lit-
sion of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s "The His- erary interpretation?
torical Novel and the Historical Narrative",
A. Investigating the relationship between
which of the following offers the best defi-
words and objective reality
nition of a "history"?
A. A narrative based entirely on verifiable B. Comparing the Bible to folk tales from
facts other cultures
B. A narrative that does not analyze char- C. Researching an author’s biography for
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acters on a situation-by-situation basis clues about how to understand his or her
writing
C. A narrative without characters
D. Researching what previous critics have
D. A narrative that takes place in the past.
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said about a literary work
75. Which of the following is a component of 80. In her text, "History of the Novel", How
a gothic novel? does Dr. Agatha Taormina define the
novel?
A. An atmosphere of dread, fear, and dark-
ness
B. An isolated protagonist
C. A hero or protagonist who is tempted an A. A narrative that emphasizes character
development
B. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot
structure
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by a villain
D. All of these C. A narrative that conveys the illusion of
76. What are some of the hallmarks or conven- reality
tions of the poetic form of the ode? D. All of these
A. Simplicity in language, brevity in form, 81. Which of the following assertions would
and humorousness in attitude William Wordsworth most likely agree
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form, and seriousness in attitude
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A. Poetry should be written in the common

C. Simplicity in language, lengthiness in language of ordinary people.
form, and humorousness in attitude
B. Poetry should focus on the lives and
D. Complexity in language, brevity in form, thoughts of elite people.
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C. Poetry should never concern itself with
77. What form of verse is usually sung and de-
the natural world.
tails a dramatic or exciting episode?
A. An ode D. Poetry should rhyme.
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B. An elegy 82. Ethos is important to establish in which of

the following types of arguments?
C. An epitaph
A. Emotional arguments
D. A ballad
78. According to Dr. Taormina, Victorian nov- B. Political arguments
elists generally: C. Deductive arguments
A. wanted to subvert middle class values.
D. Inductive arguments
B. accepted middle class values.
83. Which of the following concepts does Aris-
C. wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion. totle consider to be the most important ele-
D. had a negative view of human nature. ment of a Greek tragedy?
74. B 75. D 76. B 77. D 78. B 79. B 80. D 81. D 82. B 83. A
A. Plot D. Epic theater maintains the illusion of

B. Poetic diction realism.
C. Song composition 89. Which of the following are examples of po-

etic structures?
D. Stage design
A. Lines of text with words that rhyme at
84. In Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 18", the poet does
the end
B. A continuous block of text
A. Compares his love to a winter storm
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B. Compares his love to a summer’s day C. Unrhymed lines
C. Compares his love to a turbulent sea D. All of these
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D. Compares his love to his fear of death 90. Which of the following statements offers
the best definition of a tragic hero?
nition of a fable? A. A noble person who becomes com-
A. A story in which the author provides an pletely corrupted
an
explicit moral B. A cowardly person who doubts himself
B. A story that takes place in the distant or herself despite possessing great wealth
past and political power
C. A light-hearted, humorous story in C. A cowardly person who shows some

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which viewers are shown proper ways to personal strength when faced with a crisis
behave D. A noble person who makes a costly mis-
D. A story told to little children take
86. Which of the following may be an antago- 91. Which of the following poems can be de-
nist to the protagonist of a novel? scribed as a haiku?
n
A. Another character A. Pound’s "In a Station of the Metro"

B. The protagonist B. Bishop’s "One Art"
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C. Society
C. Auden’s "Paysage Moralisé"
D. All of these
D. William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 18"
87. Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s
92. In his essay, "The Significance of Fictional-
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Dream" can be described as what kind of

play? izing", Wolfgang Iser argues which of the
following points?
A. A comedic play
A. Historically, writers have been consid-
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B. A tragic play
ered liars or at the very least irrelevant.
C. A modern play
B. Fictionalizing reality is a basic human
D. A tragi-comedy need.
88. Which of the following best describes epic C. Every text includes traces from the out-
theater as defined by Berthold Brecht? side world, including social, historical, and
A. Epic theater is plot-driven theater. literary remnants.
B. Epic theater turns the passive spectator D. All of these.
into an active observer.
93. Which of the following offers the best def-
C. Epic theater privileges feeling over rea- inition of the theatrical concept of a cho-
son. rus?
84. B 85. A 86. D 87. A 88. B 89. D 90. D 91. A 92. D

A. Members of the audience who comment C. A narrative poem has a plot and tells a
on the play’s actions story.
B. Characters who remind the audience D. A narrative poem is a poem written in
that the play is fictional the style of a conversation.
C. A group of characters who comment on 97. A work of criticism that considers how En-
the actions of the play while participating glish imperialism affected native Indian au-
in them thors would be an example of:
A. Marxist theory
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D. A group of characters who comment on
the actions of the play while not participat- B. psychoanalytic theory
ing in them
C. postcolonial theory
94. A work of criticism that considers how the
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author’s childhood trauma influenced his D. deconstruction
characters would be an example of: 98. Which of the following statements best de-
scribes the worldview represented by post-
A. psychoanalytic criticism.
modern theater?
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B. Marxist criticism. A. The world is a bright and interesting
C. New Criticism. place.
D. structuralism. B. Universal truth doesn’t exist, and au-
dience members must discover truth for
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95. In "Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays",
themselves.
what does William Hazlitt mean when he
states the following: "We do not like to see C. The world is so complex that it does not
our author’s plays acted, and least of all, require literature or theater.
’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so
D. Mainstream audiences are so shallow
much in being transferred to the stage"?
that it is not worth writing plays for them.
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A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly be- 99. What are the basic questions literary the-
cause of the complexity of the play’s use of ory asks?
language.
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A. What is literature?
B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic
B. Why do people write literature?
age.
C. What are the effects of literature?
C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly
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played by any actor. D. All of these.

D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be 100. Which school of literary theory contends
read, not performed. that sexual identity is not fixed and, instead,
is generated by cultural forces?
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nition of the concept of narrative poetry? A. Deconstruction
A. A narrative poem is vague and difficult B. Marxist theory
in style. C. Reader-response theory
B. A narrative poem is a poem that does D. Queer theory
not have a plot or tell a story.
93. D 94. A 95. C 96. C 97. C 98. B 99. D 100. D

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6. Introduction to Literary Theory
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1. The concept of otherness is related to which A. Elaine Showalter
of the following theories? B. Julia Kristeva
A. Feminist theory C. Lucy Irigaray
B. Ethnic criticism D. Hélène Cixous
C. Postcolonial theory 5. Which of the following offers the best defi-
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D. All of the above. nition of écriture féminine?

A. How women really feel about male writ-
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2. In her essay "The Poem as Event," Louise M.

Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing ers
what function? B. The inscription of womanhood and fem-
A. The reader is acted upon by the text. ininity in texts
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B. The reader acts upon the text. C. Second-wave feminism
C. The reader brings individual knowledge D. Psychological studies of women

to his or her reading of the text. 6. What is hermeneutics?
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D. All of the above. A. A term that describes the absence of

racial others in the canon
3. Which school of literary theory shows a
particular interest in the role of testimony B. A term that describes the attempt to
in literature? read homosexuality into literature
A. Trauma theory C. A term that describes the effect of auto-
biography on text
B. Ecotheory
D. A term that describes the interpretation
C. Chaos theory
of meaning
D. Formalism 7. Which of the following statements best de-
4. With which feminist theorist is gynocriti- scribes Cleanth Brooks’s attitude towards
cism most closely associated? studying literature?
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D
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A. Critics should examine historical infor- A. Women’s gender is artificial, while

mation surrounding a literary work. men’s gender is not.
B. Critics should develop universal read- B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes
ings of texts. that accompany it are true.
C. Critics should consider evolving notions C. Gender is a problematic, but essentially
of a text over time. true, category.
D. Critics should attempt to paraphrase D. Gender is largely a cultural construct.
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texts in order to find out what they mean. 12. Which of the following figures is consid-
8. Which school of literary theory is associ- ered to be the father of the linguistic theory
ated with the phrase "to make the stones known as structuralism?
stonier"?
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A. Cleanth Brooks
A. Humanism B. Ferdinand de Saussure
B. Formalism C. Karl Marx
C. Structuralism
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D. Sigmund Freud
D. Poststructuralism 13. What is false consciousness?
9. Which of the following best describes the A. A feminist term for the state that oc-
difference between literary criticism and curs when texts written by women are not
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literary theory? considered in the study of literature
A. Literary criticism is concerned only B. Another term for the unconscious
with the meaning of a literary work, while
literary theory is concerned only with the C. A term related to the period of psycho-
structure of a literary work. sexual development that occurs before an
infant reaches the mirror stage
B. Literary criticism draws upon research
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D. An ideology that involves dominating

derived from sources outside literature,
the consciousness of exploited classes
while literary theory draws upon sources
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within a text. 14. How do Marxist theorists react to ideol-

ogy?
C. Literary criticism is concerned with
how characters in a text act, while literary A. They accept ideology as an essential,
theory is concerned with why characters although sometimes problematic, part of
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act. society.
D. Literary theory is concerned with the B. They subject all ideologies to critique in
method used to interpret a work, while lit- order to expose biased interests.
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erary criticism is the application of literary C. They reject the idea that ideology has
theory. real effects on social progress.
10. Trauma theory is tremendously influenced D. They promote ideology because it helps
by which theoretical school? to create a dominant social order.
A. Psychoanalysis 15. Which literary theorist argues that "there
B. Marxism is nothing outside the text"?
C. Feminism A. T.S. Eliot
D. Deconstruction B. Jacques Lacan

11. In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept C. Jacques Derrida
of gender? D. Stanley Fish
7. B 8. B 9. D 10. A 11. D 12. B 13. D 14. B 15. C 16. B

16. Which of the following texts provides the A. An approach that emphasizes literary
best example of defamiliarization? devices in a text
A. Aristotle’s Poetics B. An approach that emphasizes the his-
torical context of a text
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. An approach that emphasizes the bio-
C. John Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
graphical intent of a text
D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. An approach that emphasizes racial is-
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17. Which of the following writers might be sues in a text
considered one of the early founders of first-
22. Which of the following is a theme of Eve
wave feminism?
Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of
A. Hélène Cixous the Closet?
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B. Judith Butler A. Understanding sexuality is crucial to un-
C. Lucy Irigaray derstanding culture.
D. Mary Wollstonecraft B. Understanding homosexuality has little
an
effect on understanding culture.
18. What is dialectical materialism?
C. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of
A. A form of literary criticism that is based interest in sexuality.
on historical context
D. Understanding homosexual themes in
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B. A form of literary criticism that does novels has become too routine.
not incorporate economic concerns
23. How does New Historicism differ from tra-
C. A form of literary criticism based on ditional historicism?
linguistic analysis
A. New Historicism does not make strict
D. A term related to gender theory that ar- delineations between literary and non-
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gues that men are dominant in society by literary texts.

virtue of their economic privilege
B. New Historicism takes a particular in-
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19. What is the purpose of feminist theory? terest in marginalized peoples.

A. To create literary subjects with which C. New Historicism is interested in how
female readers can identify texts help us understand economic realities.
B. To critique phallocentric assumptions
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about literature D. All of the above.

C. To counter stereotypes about women 24. With what literary critic is the term the
D. All of the above. author function most closely associated?
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20. What is double consciousness? A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
A. An understanding of how double expe- B. Jacques Derrida

riences create identity C. Jacques Lacan
B. A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois D. Michel Foucault
C. An attempt to explain dual identity 25. Which of the following best defines the
D. All of the above. work of a deconstructionist critic?
21. Which of the following descriptions best A. Suggesting that the study of literature
defines the literary theory known as for- is based on the breakdown of language into
malism? signs
17. D 18. A 19. D 20. D 21. A 22. A 23. D 24. D 25. D

B. Arguing that language, and therefore 30. According to Plato, what is the moral pur-
literary texts, relies on the difference be- pose of art?
tween terms and therefore constantly de- A. To connect human beings with a higher
fers meaning. ideal
C. Calling into question the capacity of lan- B. To entertain those who enjoy it
guage to communicate
C. To criticize society through satire
D. All of the above.
D. To bring to light social oppressions
26. What are some common criticisms of liter-
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ary theory? 31. In his essay "The Business of Theory,"
William Deresiewicz argues which of the
A. The reasoning of theory is often too cir- following about Terry Eagleton’s book Af-
cular.
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ter Theory?
B. Many theories have been pushed too far A. It offers a strong outline for how theory
into abstraction. can be conducted in the 21st century.
C. Many theories are no longer accepted B. It should not be read or considered by
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by their parent disciplines. any student or scholar.
D. All of the above. C. It offers some valid ideas and critiques,
27. What do structuralist and formalist critics but its author is not entirely trustworthy.
have in common?
D. It offers a strong counterpoint to
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A. Both sets of critics look for an objective Jacques Derrida’s notion of deconstruction.
way to view texts.
B. Both sets of critics study the underlying 32. Christopher Ricks would most likely DIS-
forms of texts. AGREE with which of the following claims
about literary theory?
C. Both sets of critics focus on evaluating
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literature in a scientific manner. A. Literary theory often depends on eso-

teric knowledge to be properly understood.
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28. What is phenomenology?

B. Literary theory is employed mostly by
A. The examination of structures inform- academics.
ing our conscious experience
C. Literary theory should not be an aca-
B. The examination of desires informing
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demic focus in English departments.

our consciousness
D. Literary theory is the only proper way
C. The examination of our unconscious ex- to conceptualize literary texts.
perience
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33. What does hermeneutic theory suggest

D. The examination of intricate structures about how readers view literature?
within our unconscious
A. It is impossible to view a piece of litera-
29. What is the main goal of ethnic criticism? ture as its author intended.
A. To rectify the double experiences of cer- B. It is impossible to divorce a text from
tain racial groups capitalist ideology.
B. To reconcile cultural identity with indi- C. It is impossible to view a piece of liter-
vidual identity ature correctly, because we can only work
C. To expand the canon to include works within the hetero-normative paradigm.
authored by different racial groups D. It is impossible to separate a text from
D. All of the above. the linguistics that compose it.
26. D 27. D 28. A 29. D 30. A 31. C 32. D 33. A

34. Ultimately, the literary theory of decon- 39. Which of the following statements offers
struction argues that: the best definition of the concept of strange
attractors in chaos theory?
A. texts are always heterogeneous.
B. the instability of a text is actually evi- A. Strange attractors are mysterious forces
dent in the text itself. that are entirely random.
C. any system for the production of mean- B. Strange attractors are complex forces
ing is inevitably bound by context, yet also that are determined by the laws of physics.
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limitless.
D. All of the above. C. Strange attractors are mysterious forces
that are both random and determined.
35. What is affective fallacy?
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D. Strange attractors are complex forces
A. A term that suggests that a critic should
that are entirely random.
study the structural and thematic elements
of a poem rather than the effect it has on 40. In her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa,"
the emotions of the reader what does Hélène Cixous suggest for
an
women?
B. A term that describes the confusion be-
tween a poem and its result A. Women should write for and about
themselves in order to counter phallocen-
C. An important term in the field of New
tric texts.
Historicism
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B. Women should write, but they should
do so only within the existent male canon.
36. Modern literary theory began with the
work of which theorist? C. Women should primarily dedicate them-
selves to studying women’s literature from
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss the past.
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B. Ferdinand de Saussure D. Women should be unconcerned with

C. Viktor Shklovsky the struggle for identity.
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D. Roland Barthes 41. What is defamiliarization?

37. New trends in literary theory tend to do A. A concept associated with Russian for-
which of the following? malism
A. Reject all previous modes of literary the- B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
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ory
C. A term that describes the capacity of art
B. Focus on a return to traditional critical to counter the effects of habit
methods
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C. Make use of different literary theories
42. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L.
in order to develop new theories
Austin’s performativity theory?
D. Work only with ideas developed by post-
A. Performance is the ultimate objective of
Marxist theorists
all human beings.
38. Who coined the term New Historicism?
B. Language is used to indicate action as
A. Jacques Derrida well as thought.
B. Terry Eagleton C. Individuals perform gender actively.
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Individuals develop consciousness
D. Stephen Greenblatt through speech.
34. D 35. D 36. B 37. C 38. D 39. C 40. A 41. D 42. B 43. C
43. According to trauma theorists, a testifying C. It was produced by Western scholarship.

subject needs which of the following to de-
liver a successful testimony? D. Its literature is less proud that that of
A. A figure of judgment the West.
B. Religious belief 48. From whom did New Historicists draw the
idea of "self-regulating systems"?
C. A witness
A. Theodor W. Adorno
D. Psychological treatment
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B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
44. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de
Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics? C. Julia Kristeva
A. Language is inseparable from its histor- D. Jacques Derrida
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ical context. 49. The Frankfurt School of literary theory was
most greatly influenced by which of the fol-
B. There are five phases of linguistic devel- lowing schools of thought?
opment.
A. Formalism
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C. Language can be analyzed as a formal
system of elements. B. Structuralism
D. Linguistics is too complicated to be dis- C. Poststructuralism

tilled to a formula. D. Marxism
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45. What is generally considered to be Theodor 50. Which theorist is most closely associated
W. Adorno’s primary concern as a theo- with the idea of art as imitation?
rist? A. Jacques Lacan
A. The effect of literature in enlightening B. Edward Said
the human mind
C. Stephen Greenblatt
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B. The effect of modern society on human

suffering D. Plato
51. In Fredric Jameson’s book The Political
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C. The effect of the economy on women’s

Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest
concerns
about literature?
D. The effect of the unconscious mind on A. History comprises the essential frame-
the conscious self work for the performance of literary analy-
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46. With which theorist is the term identity sis

thinking most closely associated?
B. Politics and the economy are the most
A. Sigmund Freud important factors in literary analysis
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B. Carl Jung C. Biography is essential to literary analy-

sis
C. William James
D. Psychoanalysis is critical to literary
D. Theodor W. Adorno analysis
47. What does Edward Said argue about the 52. What is the main function of postcolonial
concept of the Orient? criticism?
A. It has little relationship to the coloniza- A. To represent the relationship between
tion of Asian countries by the West. colonizers and the colonized
B. It illustrates the fundamental political B. To draw attention to the positive effects
equality of all nations. of colonization on literature
44. C 45. B 46. D 47. C 48. B 49. D 50. D 51. A 52. A

C. To explain why there are few examples A. The ability of a text to contain truth
of successful non-Western literature
B. The "undecidability" and essentially un-
D. To show the ways in which most West- stable nature of a text
ern literature is superior C. The idea that a text has a specific mean-
53. Which of the following theorists is associ- ing that can be understood through a pro-
ated with formalism? cess of deconstruction
A. Viktor Shklovsky D. Jacques Derrida’s style of writing
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B. Cleanth Brooks 58. Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance
challenges us to think about language as a
C. Terry Eagleton system that:
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D. Judith Butler A. mirrors our physical evolution as hu-
54. With which theorist is the concept imagi- man beings.
native geography associated? B. prevents us from communicating
A. Julia Kristeva through writing or speech.
B. Fredric Jameson
C. Terry Eagleton
D. Edward Said
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meaning.
D. evolved exclusively as a function of our
individual psyche.
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55. Some critics of literary theory argue that 59. In his essay "The Death of the Author,"
literary theory is problematic for which rea- Roland Barthes argues what about litera-
son? ture?
A. Literary theory does not offer a holistic A. Biographical information about the au-
interpretation of a text. thor must be considered when evaluating
n
literature.
B. Literary theory depends on specialized
knowledge that is outside the realm of lit- B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
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erary studies.
C. Literary theory is sometimes very ab- C. It is possible to distill meaning from a
stract and difficult to read. work based on the author’s politics.
D. Authorial intent must be considered
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when evaluating literature.
56. Which of the following texts is considered
the first example of postcolonial criticism? 60. Which literary theory would most directly
explore questions of the role of spatial set-
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A. Harold Bloom’s "An Elegy for the ting in a poem?

Canon"
A. Trauma theory
B. Jacques Lacan’s "The Mirror Stage
B. Ecotheory
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C. Game theory
C. Cleanth Brooks’s "Keats’s Sylvan Histo-
rian" D. Marxist theory
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism 61. What does gynocriticism recommend as an
approach to literature?
57. To what idea does the ancient Greek term
aporia refer in terms of deconstruction the- A. Examining only female-authored litera-
ory? ture more critically
53. A 54. D 55. D 56. D 57. B 58. C 59. B 60. B 61. D

B. Considering women’s literature outside C. A language that does not yet constitute
of its historical context a real language
C. Studying women’s literature for its lin- D. A language used by a particular
guistic qualities only marginalized group of people within a
larger dominant culture
D. Becoming more familiar with the his-
tory of women and women’s writing 66. How did the New Critics view literature?
62. Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in A. As an aesthetic object that is indepen-
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which of the following? dent of historical context
A. How writers conceptualize natural en- B. As an aesthetic object that is influenced
vironments and the representation of envi- by historical context
ronmental issues in literature and culture
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C. As a historical object that is also aes-
thetic
B. How writers have damaged the environ-
D. As a historical object that is not neces-
ment
sarily aesthetic
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C. How the environment can be repaired 67. Which of the following is a rule of semi-
D. Who is responsible for damaging the otics?
environment A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out
63. What is Christopher Ricks’s attitude to- of the responses of people within a specific
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ward literary theory? historical era.
A. He considers it to be vital in order to B. All linguistic and social phenomena are
understand literary texts. texts, and the object of studying these texts
is to reveal the underlying codes that make
B. He considers theory to be the only way
them meaningful.
that literary texts can be interpreted.
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C. All linguistics is in some way related to

C. He has no misgivings about the practi-
class struggle.
cal usability of literary theory.
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D. All linguistics is related to history, and

D. He feels that literary theory is ulti-
therefore the meaning of linguistics relies
mately too limited in scope to serve as a
exclusively on historical context.
proper method of interpretation.
68. In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida ar-
64. In his essay "What Is an Author?" what posi-
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gues what about literature?

tion(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault
take? A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
A. The names of authors serve a classifica- B. Language must be studied in conjunc-
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tory function. tion with history in order to create meaning.

B. The author is not a source of infinite
meaning. C. There is no potential for multiple and
differing meanings in a work of literature.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning
does not change.
65. What does the term meta-language mean,
69. What is the main function of literary the-
according to Andrzej Warminski?
ory?
A. A language about another language
A. To formulate relationships among an
B. A supernatural language author, a reader, and a literary work
62. A 63. D 64. D 65. A 66. A 67. B 68. A 69. D

B. To understand the role of sexuality, gen- A. A humanity-centered view of the uni-

der, race, and ethnicity in literary study verse
C. To evaluate the role of historical context B. A school of theory devoted to the revival
in the interpretation of literature of Classical (ancient Greek and Roman) lit-
D. All of the above. erature
70. Trauma theory primarily developed out of C. A theory that values restraint, form, and
the work of which psychoanalyst? imitation
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A. Sigmund Freud D. All of the above.
B. Carl Jung 76. What fundamental idea does psychoana-
lytic criticism hold about literary texts?
C. Michel Foucault
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A. Literary texts should not be read as a
D. Jacques Derrida
projection of the author’s psyche.
71. Which of the following literary theorists is
most closely associated with the concept B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s
intentions.
an
that became known as liberal humanism?
A. Aristotle C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because
they have a system of order and produce
B. Viktor Shklovsky
meaning.
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C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of
D. Stanley Fish an author’s unconscious.
72. Which school of theorists is most closely 77. Which of the following texts is the BEST ex-
associated with phenomenology? ample of the argument that a work’s mean-
A. The Moscow School ing does not come entirely from the imagi-
nation of the author?
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B. The Chicago School

A. Plato’s The Republic
C. The Frankfurt School
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B. T.S. Eliot’s "Tradition and the Individual

D. The Geneva School
Talent"
73. What is dialogism?
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
A. A term used to describe how texts in-
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clude a variety of styles D. Roland Barthes’s "The Death of the Au-

thor"
B. A term used to explain the use of multi-
ple points of view in literature 78. To what idea does the term heteroglossia
refer?
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C. A term that explains resistance to a

monolithic text A. An infant’s inability to speak prior to
the mirror stage
B. The referential relationships among
74. What is mimesis?
symbols, signifiers, and signs
A. A reversal
C. The multi-layered nature of language in
B. An imitation a literary work
C. A satire D. The formulaic shift between economic
D. A poetic metaphor and political themes
75. What is humanism? 79. What is New Historicism?
70. A 71. A 72. D 73. D 74. B 75. D 76. D 77. B 78. C 79. D
A. A theory that abandons the idea of his- A. Plato

tory as an imitation of events
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. A theory that regards history as a series
C. Julia Kristeva
of narratives
D. Walter Benjamin
C. A theory that capitalizes on the inter-
play between literature and history 84. With which theorist is the term implied
reader associated?
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A. Wolfgang Iser
80. What is the philosophical theory known as
pragmatism? B. William Wimsatt
A. A theory of practical actions developed C. Cleanth Brooks
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by William James D. Harold Bloom
B. An idea used to guide conduct towards 85. Reader-response theory is focused on con-
clear objectives sidering which of the following?
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C. A concept derived from the ancient A. How readers learn to read
Greek word pragma, meaning action B. How readers imagine visual images in a
D. All of the above. text
C. How readers participate in creating the
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81. Which of the following statements best ex-
plains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of lan- meaning of a text
guage? D. How readers regard critics
A. Language includes multiple social di- 86. Which of the following human behaviors
alects and jargons. is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic
B. Language can include socio-ideological study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
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contradictions from the past. A. Changes in emotional states

C. Language exhibits and is bound up in B. Obsessions
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the social lives and historical context of the

C. Slips of the tongue
people who speak it.
D. Language is loaded with the intentions
87. How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic
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of others.
theories distinct from traditional Freudian
82. How does Wolfgang Iser envision the concepts?
reader?
A. Kristeva rejects the idea that neuroses
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A. The reader fills in the gaps imposed by provide insight into the unconscious.
an author’s intention.
B. Kristeva suggests that women are not
B. The reader is sublimated beneath the subject to traditional fetishes.
author.
C. Kristeva offers a more central place for
C. The reader is less important than the women’s issues within psychological devel-
author’s context. opment.
D. The reader is totally subject to the au- D. Kristeva fundamentally disagrees with
thor’s intention. the idea of the mirror stage.
83. Which theorist is associated with the idea 88. According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror
that art is a copy of a copy? stage is the point at which a child:
80. D 81. C 82. A 83. A 84. B 85. C 86. D 87. C 88. B

A. refuses maternal bonds. A. Kristeva wholly rejects Lacan’s theory

of psychosexual development.
B. is able to separate the "I" from the
"Other." B. Kristeva centralizes the maternal and
the feminine in her revisions of Lacan’s the-
C. looks into a mirror for the first time.
ory.
D. first engages with speech.
C. Kristeva argues that the mirror stage
89. What does Elaine Showalter argue about does not occur until the individual em-
gender in terms of representations of the braces a distinct gender role.
er
character of Ophelia in William Shake-
speare’s Hamlet? D. All of the above.
93. How does literary theory resemble the prac-
A. It is nearly impossible to represent
tice of philosophy as it was developed by
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women as anything other than mad in pa-
Plato and Aristotle?
triarchal discourses.
A. Literary theory engages with theoreti-
B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate
cal rather than real-world issues.
Ophelia for their own purposes.
an
B. Literary theory asks fundamental ques-
C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordi-
tions about literary interpretation, and at
nated to those of men.
the same time builds specific systems of
D. All of the above. literary interpretation.
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90. What does Judith Butler mean when she C. Literary theory relies totally on specu-
suggests that gender is "performed"? lation rather than history.
A. Gender does not reflect an essential D. Literary theory is detached from the re-
truth, but rather is a role people play based ality of politics and the economy.
on their internalization of socially con-
94. How does Virginia Woolf’s essay "A Room
structed gender roles.
of One’s Own" contribute to feminist the-
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B. Gender roles do not exist. ory?

C. Real gender roles are scripted by excel- A. It suggests that the suppression of
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lent writers. women is part of a historical climate that

D. Only individuals who have the capacity will naturally fade away.
to perform have gender. B. It suggests that gender roles are con-
ditioned by the possession of money and
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91. Which is a common postcolonial critique

of the West? power.
A. The West spends too much time trying C. It suggests that gender has power over
to consider an Asian perspective. class.
Na
B. The West tends to look at Asian coun- D. It suggests that education, rather than
tries as individual units rather than lump money, is needed for the liberation of
them together. women.
C. The West views matters through its own 95. Which of the following statements best ex-
limited historical position. plains the main objective of New Histori-
cism?
D. The West refuses to apply economic and
A. Texts are examined to see how coloniz-
political coercion to Asian writers.
ers and the colonized interact.
92. In what way does Julia Kristeva build on
Jacques Lacan’s theory of psychosexual de- B. Texts are examined to see how the for-
velopment? mal aspects of the text create meaning.
89. D 90. A 91. C 92. C 93. B 94. B 95. C

C. Texts are examined to determine how A. Wolfgang Iser

they reveal social realities.
B. Jean-Paul Sartre
D. Texts are examined to determine the au-
C. Emmanuel Lévinas
thor’s intent.
96. What do many contemporary theorists find D. All of the above.
problematic about the literary canon? 99. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the
A. It includes too few works by non-white unconscious?
writers.
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A. It contains secret instincts and desires
B. It includes too few works by women. that are repressed.
C. It includes too few works by non- B. It has little impact on human behavior.
Western writers.
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C. It is the only significant aspect of the
D. All of the above. human psyche.
97. Which text argues that, as infants, hu-
D. It can never be accessed.
man beings begin to define their identities
against the identities of others? 100. According to the Geneva School, what is
an
the function of the reader?
A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
A. Entering the author’s mind through his
or her literary works
B. Roland Barthes’s "The Death of the Au-
Ch
thor" B. Understanding the author’s conscious-
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology ness
D. Jacques Lacan’s "The Mirror Stage C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a

" critical context
98. With which theorist is phenomenology as- D. All of the above.
sociated?
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96. D 97. D 98. D 99. A 100. D

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7. Cultural and Literary English Renaissance
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an
Ch
1. In “The Book of Martyrs,” John Foxe pro- 4. Fill in the blank. In 1585, sponsored the
vides a record of all known Christian mar- first English colony in America on Roanoke
tyrs throughout history, focusing on the Island (now North Carolina).
persecution of people practicing which re-
A. Sir Thomas More
ligion?
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
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A. Protestantism
C. John Foxe
B. Catholicism
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D. John Lyly
C. Roman Catholicism
5. Which of the following controversial ideas
D. Buddhism surround the life and work of William
2. Fill in the blank. was a Christian Shakespeare?
theologian and Augustinian monk whose
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A. The idea that William Shakespeare

teachings inspired the Protestant Reforma-
never lived.
tion.
B. The idea that William Shakespeare was
A. Niccolo Machiavelli
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a Catholic.
B. Martin Luther
C. All of the above
C. John Milton
D. A and B only
D. John Wycliffe 6. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s exercised
3. John Lyly became instantly famous with considerable influence upon its author’s
the publication of what text? contemporaries.
A. “95 Theses” A. “Euphues”
B. “Utopia” B. “Paradise Lost”
C. “Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit” C. “Utopia”
D. “Paradise Lost” D. “Zelauto”
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. A
262 Chapter 7. Cultural and Literary English Renaissance
7. Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the 13. Which queen of England attended a num-
British Isles during the reign of King Henry ber of William Shakespeare’s play?
VIII? A. Queen Elizabeth I
A. Thomas Wyatt B. Queen Elizabeth II
B. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey C. Queen Anne
C. John Donne D. Both A and B
D. Both A and B 14. Choose the best answer to complete the fol-
er
8. Which type of poetry has been inspired by a lowing sentence. All of the following are
philosophical conception of the universe? Shakespearean plays EXCEPT:
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
A. Terza rima
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B. “The Winter’s Tale”
B. Metaphysical poetry
C. “The Tempest”
C. Rhyme royal
D. “Faustus”
D. The Petrarchan sonnet
15. William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is an ex-
an
9. There was greater emphasis placed on hu- ample of what dramatic genre?
man potentiality for growth and excellence
through Europe by which year? A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
A. 1400
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C. Romance
B. 1500
D. History
C. 1600
16. Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the
D. 1650 famed tragedians of the late 1580s,
10. What genres of plays did William Shake- were the great headliners of the Elizabethan
speare write? stage.
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A. Tragedies A. Clowns
B. Women
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B. Comedies
C. Romances C. Politicians
D. All of the above D. Pantomimes

17. Fill in the blank. When writers like
11. John Milton’s “Lycidas” is what genre of
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and his fellow humanists read pagan liter-

poetry?
ature, they were influenced by the secular
A. A pastoral elegy outlook of the Greeks and Romans.
B. A satire
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A. Petrarch
C. An epic B. Machiavelli
D. A mock-epic C. Michelangelo
12. What author speaks of the exemplary story D. A and B
as a fundamental narrative unit in which it 18. John Lyly’s work significantly shaped the
is important to follow chronological order? writing of which famous writer?
A. John Foxe A. William Blake
B. John Lyly B. William Wordsworth
C. Sir Thomas More C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Sir Walter Raleigh D. William Shakespeare
7. D 9. B 10. D 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. D 15. D 16. A 17. A 18. D 19. B
19. In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared head 25. Who became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth
of what church? I and was knighted and appointed captain
of the Queen’s Guard in 1587?
A. The Catholic Church
A. Sir Thomas More
B. The English Church
C. The Church of God
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Both A and B
20. Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection D. Sir William Shakespeare
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of the age in England was over reli- 26. Fill in the blank. A was a spectacle
gion. performed at court or at the manor of a
member of the nobility and was staged to
A. Hanover
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glorify the court or the particular aristo-
B. Protestant crat.
C. Tudor A. Masque
D. None of these B. Satire
21. Who was King Henry VIII’s first wife?
A. Catherine of Aragon
B. Anne Boleyn an C. Tragedy
D. Comedy
27. Sir Thomas More held which of the follow-
Ch
ing positions in the English court?
C. Mary, Queen of Scots
A. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
D. Anne of Cleves
22. The Petrarchan sonnet is typically com- B. Speaker of the House of Commons
posed in what form of meter? C. Master of Requests
A. Trochaic trimeter D. All of the above
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B. Terza rima 28. Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney
is writing 200 years before the revo-
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C. Iambic pentameter lution, he presents a very inward and self-

D. Anapestic pentameter absorbed narrator in “Astrophil and Stella.”
23. Who was considered to be England’s first A. Medieval
literary celebrity?
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B. Victorian
A. John Donne
C. Romantic
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C. Sir Thomas More 29. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is an ex-

D. John Foxe ample of what dramatic genre?
24. Romance, classical structure, and festive A. Tragedy
elements had already begun to come to-
B. Comedy
gether in drama when what author began
writing? C. Romance
A. Chaucer D. Satire
B. Langland 30. The foundation story of what poem is the

Genesis account of the Creation of the
C. Homer world and of Adam and Eve, culminating
D. Shakespeare in the drama of their temptation and fall?
20. C 21. A 22. C 23. D 24. D 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. C
A. “Canterbury Tales” A. John Locke

B. “The Faerie Queen” B. John Lyly
C. “Paradise Lost” C. John Foxe
D. “The Prelude” D. John Milton
31. How did the invention of the printing press 37. What author fell in love with Anne Boleyn
affect European culture? while she was married to King Henry VIII?
A. Print halted the corruption of texts by A. Sir Philip Sidney
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copyists, giving everyone identical texts.
B. Sir Thomas More
B. Scientific research became a more col-
C. Thomas Wyatt
laborative effort.
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D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
C. Learning to read was made easier as
print was standardized and made clearer. 38. Fill in the blank. is remembered as the
“Morning Star of the Reformation.”
D. All of the above A. John Donne

32. King Henry VIII adopted what religion?
A. Catholicism
B. Protestantism an B. John Dryden
C. John Wycliffe
D. Johan Gutenberg
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C. Buddhism 39. Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text?
D. Roman Catholicism A. “Paradise Lost”

33. Which of the following texts is an example B. “The Faerie Queen”
of epic poetry? C. “The Prelude”
A. “Paradise Lost” D. “Canterbury Tales”
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B. “The Odyssey” 40. Martin Luther’s translation of what text

helped to develop a standard version of the
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C. “The Iliad”
German language and added several prin-
D. All of the above ciples to the art of translation?
34. “The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses” is an
example of what dramatic genre?
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B. “Canterbury Tales”
A. Masque
C. “The Bible”
B. Satire
D. “Piers Plowman”
C. Burlesque
Na
41. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was deeply dis-

D. Tragedy gusted by the , and could not believe
35. Who is largely considered to be the father that any honest Christian could accept its
of epic poetry? doctrinal basis.
A. Homer A. Mass
B. Dante B. Transubstantiation
C. Virgil C. Resurrection
D. Milton D. both A and C
36. Which of the following writers remained a 42. Christopher Marlowe’s “Faustus” is an ex-
firm believer in the Royal Supremacy? ample of what dramatic genre?
31. D 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. C 39. B 40. C 41. A 42. D
A. Romance 48. The work of John Foxe was no longer read

B. Satire or heeded in educated circles after which
major historical event?
C. Comedy
A. Restoration
D. Tragedy
B. Glorious Revolution
43. Fill in the blank. In the second edition of
, John Foxe promised that he would C. French Revolution
edit a collection of the works of William
D. Seven Years War
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Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes.
49. Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe’s
A. “Acts and Monuments” influence on William Shakespeare was in
B. “Utopia” all probability
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C. “Euphues” A. Very great
D. “Paradise Regained” B. Insignificant
44. Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of C. Somewhat significant
poverty was advanced by in the four-
an
teenth century. D. Impossible
50. Which of the following critics is a famous
A. Petrarch
Shakespearean scholar?
B. Dante
A. M. H. Abrams
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C. Langland
B. Stephen Greenblatt
D. Machiavelli
C. Helen Vendler
45. The conceit of the Petrarchan sonnet in En-
glish during the Elizabethan period often D. Wayne C. Booth
involves what topic? 51. “The Discovery of Guiana” is what author’s
A. Drugs account of discovering an area of the New
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World?
B. Sex
A. Sir Thomas More
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C. Animals
B. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Propaganda
46. Fill in the blanks. From being narrowly fo- C. Sir Walter Raleigh
cused on the achievements of north Italians D. John Foxe
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in th
52. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s style is best
A. and early centuries, the Re- described as
naissance is now being seen in a far wider
A. Anachronistic
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context.
B. 12th and 13th B. Euphuistic
C. 14th and 15th C. Marxist
D. 15th and 16th D. Solipsistic

47. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was extremely 53. Book I of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” cen-
sensitive to th ters on what event?
A. Buddhist A. The fall of the rebel angels
B. Anglican B. The fall of Adam
C. Quaker C. The fall of Eve
D. Catholic D. The fall of the son
43. A 44. C 45. B 46. D 47. D 48. B 49. A 50. B 51. C 52. B 53. A
54. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his 59. Which of the following theaters could be
to a church door in Wittenberg, accus- found in England after Queen Elizabeth I
ing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy came to the throne?
upon heresy.
A. The Curtain
B. The Rose
B. “95 Theses”
C. The Globe
C. “The Bible”
D. All of the above
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D. “Piers Plowman” 60. Choose the best answer. Which of the fol-
55. Which of the following statements is TRUE lowing statements is true concerning epic
concerning the Globe theater in Eliza- poetry?
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bethan England?
A. Epic poetry is of a moral nature and
A. It burned down and was reconstructed tends to the promotion of virtue.
hundreds of years later.
B. “Canterbury Tales” is an example of epic
B. It was situated on the Thames River. poetry.
C. It was lit from natural sunlight as well
as by candle light.
D. All of the above an C. All of the above answers are true.
D. Both A and B are true.
61. On which of the following topics did Sir
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56. Choose the best answer to fill in the Thomas More focus in his “Utopia”?
blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, En-
glish drama, like that of other European A. Riches, jewels, and gold
countries, was mainly and B. Suicide
A. Psychological, Sexual C. Marriage and divorce
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B. Religious, Didactic D. All of the above

C. Emotional, Psychological 62. Fill in the blank. John Foxe’s ambiguous at-
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titude towards the Elizabethan church was

D. none of these
57. What Renaissance text uses martyrology as
a device to historicize the conflict between A. Untypical
the true Church and the false Church in B. Not untypical
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England?
C. Exploded
A. “Euphues”
D. Rejected
B. “Paradise Lost”
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63. Fill in the blank. Although there is dispute

C. “Paradise Regained” about the actual “invention” of the printing
D. “Acts and Monuments” press with movable metal type, is usu-
ally the man credited with the invention.
58. Who was the daughter of Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn who also reigned as Queen of A. Niccolo Machiavelli
England from 1558 to1603? B. Johan Gutenberg
A. Elizabeth I C. Peter Schoeffer
B. Elizabeth II D. Johannes Fust
C. Mary, Queen of Scots 64. The Petrarchan sonnet is composed of how
D. Catherine of Aragon many lines?
54. B 55. D 56. B 57. D 58. A 59. D 60. D 61. D 62. B 63. B 64. D 65. B
A. 9 70. Edmund Spenser was directly influenced

by which writer’s epic poetry?
B. 10
A. Milton
C. 12
B. Wordsworth
D. 14
C. Aristo
65. Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text?
D. Both A and B
A. “Toxophilus”
71. Fill in the blank. The term “Renaissance”
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B. “Utopia” literally translates as “ ”
C. “The Inferno” A. Reincarnation
D. “Paradise Lost” B. Rebirth
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66. In 1583, which playwright became in con- C. Reproduction
trol of the first Blackfriars Theatre along D. Recapitulation
with director William Hunnis?
72. Greek theater was often of what genre?
an
A. Henry VIII A. Tragedy
B. John Lyly B. Comedy
C. Sir Thomas More C. Romance
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D. John Foxe D. A and B only
67. Who was in charge of organizing court fes- 73. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses at-
tivities and entertainment of the English tention on the relationship between which
court? opposing entities?
A. Court Jester A. Heaven vs. hell
B. Master of Revels B. God vs. Satan
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C. Master of Rebels C. Good vs. evil

D. All of the above
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D. Master of Ceremonies
74. According to many British Romantic po-
68. The distinction between comedy and
ets, who is the protagonist of John Milton’s
tragedy which characterized classical
“Paradise Lost”?
drama was first forgotten during what
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period in England? A. Satan
A. Medieval B. Adam
B. Romantic C. Eve
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D. Christ
C. Victorian
75. Which of the following characters is NOT
D. Elizabethan found in the dramatis personae of William
69. What text greatly popularized the sonnet Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”?
form in England during the Elizabethan pe- A. Benvolio
riod?
B. Lady Capulet
A. “Astrophil and Stella”
C. Mercutio
B. “Utopia”
D. Falstaff
C. “Paradise Lost” 76. Which writer spent more than twelve years
D. “Canterbury Tales” imprisoned in the Tower of London?
66. B 67. B 68. A 69. A 70. C 71. B 72. D 73. D 74. A 75. D 76. B
A. Sir Thomas More 82. What author wrote the poem “Whoso list
to hunt”?
A. Sir Philip Sidney
B. Sir Thomas More
D. John Milton
77. Fill in the blank. Sir Philip Sidney’s strong C. Thomas Wyatt
convictions made him publicly oppose D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
a projected marriage for Queen Elizabeth. 83. According to John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,”
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A. Catholic what is Satan’s tragic flaw?
B. Protestant A. Lust
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C. Buddhist B. Pride
D. Quaker C. Jealousy
78. Stephen Greenblatt’s work on the Renais- D. Love
sance is best described by what theoretical 84. Fill in the blank. John Wycliffe challenged
an
paradigm? a number of doctrines with arguments
A. Marxism which centuries later would echo during
the Protestant Reformation.
B. Feminism
A. Roman Catholic
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C. New Historicism
B. Anglican
D. Psychoanalysis
79. Fill in the blank. The intellectual and social C. Buddhist
movement which historians call “ ” is D. Protestant
what lies at the base of the period we call 85. Which of the following plays by William
the Renaissance. Shakespeare is a comedy?
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A. Socialism A. “Romeo and Juliet”

B. Capitalism
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B. “Hamlet”
C. Humanitarianism C. “Much Ado about Nothing”
D. Humanism D. “Henry IV, Part I”
80. Which of the following is an important 86. What author defines the function of poetry
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component of John Foxe’s martyrology? with reference to the Horatian dictum of

A. Hexagrams “to teach and delight”?
B. Epigrams A. Sir Thomas More
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C. Heroic couplets B. Sir Walter Raleigh

D. All of the above C. John Lyly
81. Choose the best answer to complete the fol- D. Sir Philip Sidney
lowing sentence. All of the following are 87. A total of how many sonnets constitute the
Shakespearean plays EXCEPT: entirety of “Astrophil and Stella”?
A. “Romeo and Juliet” A. 10
B. “Hamlet” B. 20
C. “Titus Andronicus” C. 30
D. “The Spanish Tragedy” D. 40
77. B 78. C 79. D 80. B 81. D 82. C 83. B 84. A 85. C 86. D 87. C
88. Fill in the blank. King was notori- 93. Fill in the blank. Th
ous for his six marriages and for ruthlessly
A. was a movement that had profound
persecuting his political enemies, violently
implications not only for the modern world
eliminating all opposition.
in general but also for literary history.
A. Charles I
B. Catholic Restoration
B. Charles II
C. Catholic Reformation
C. Henry V
D. Protestant Reformation
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D. Henry VIII 94. Greek theatre took place where?
89. Which of the following figures was an A. Large hillside amphitheaters
important political theorist of the Renais-
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sance? B. Large indoor theaters
A. Niccolo Machiavelli C. Small indoor theaters
B. Francesco Petrarcha D. All of the above

95. Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Flo-
an
C. Aristotle
rentine humanism considered which of the
D. Plato following only unsystematically?
90. hich of the following statements are true A. Sex
concerning Elizabethan theater?
Ch
B. Emotions
A. When Elizabeth I came to the throne,
there were no specially designed theatre C. Psychology
buildings in England. D. All of the above
B. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, 96. Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers
there were dozens of specially designed the- strongly associated themselves with the val-
n
atre buildings in England. ues of

C. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, A. Catholicism
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there were three specially designed theatre

B. Medieval Europe
buildings in England.
C. Classical antiquity
D. When Elizabeth I came to the throne,
there were ten specially designed theatre D. Protestantism
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buildings in England. 97. Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were

91. Who wrote “Orlando Furioso”? performed at what theater in Elizabethan
England?
A. John Milton
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A. “The Curtain”
B. Ludovico Ariosto
B. “The Globe”
C. “The Rose”
D. William Shakespeare
D. “The Anchor”
92. The character of Falstaff is important in
which play(s) by William Shakespeare? 98. Which of the following statements best de-
scribes the “Great Chain of Being”?
A. “Henry IV, Part I”
A. It regarded human beings as social crea-
B. “Henry IV, Part II”
tures who could create meaningful lives
C. “Titus Andronicus” only in association with other social beings.
D. All of the above
88. D 89. A 90. A 91. B 92. D 93. D 94. A 95. B 96. C 97. B 98. B
B. Its major premise was that every exist- B. “Doctor Faustus”

ing thing in the universe had its “place” in a
C. “Edward II”
divinely planned hierarchical order which
was pictured as a chain, vertically extended. D. All of the above
100. What doctrine significantly influenced Sir
C. It could only be achieved through faith Thomas More’s “Utopia”?
in God’s grace. A. Marxism
D. Both A and B B. Christian Humanism
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99. Which of the following plays were written C. Feminism
by Christopher Marlowe?
D. New Historicism
A. “The Jew of Malta”
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99. D 100. B
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8. Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries
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an
Ch
1. Complete the following sentence. Ten- A. The pressure of conforming to preexist-
nyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dra- ing social conventions
matic monologues can best be seen as B. The burden of white colonizers who are
combining neoclassicism with romanticism forced to learn to live in new lands
through their:
C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer
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A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional has a social responsibility to civilize other

form and romantic subjectivism. nations
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B. romantic rejection of science and neo- D. The concept that all white men do not
classical use of mythology. share the same imperial duties
C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings 4. Complete the following sentence. Robert
combined with a neoclassical focus on so- Browning’s poem “Porphyria’s Lover” is:
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cial context.
A. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his
D. romantic critique of industrialization wife.
and neoclassical use of satire.
B. a dramatic monologue spoken by a mur-
2. Which of the following statements does
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derer.
NOT accurately characterize a lyric poem?
C. a dramatic monologue spoken by
A. The lyric poem is a popular form in the Browning.
Romantic era.
D. an epic describing a great romance.
B. The lyric poem has a song-like quality.
5. Which of the following does NOT ac-
C. The lyric poem creates a personal sense curately describe Robinson Crusoe’s and
of emotion. Oroonoko’s relationship to central features
D. The lyric poem focuses on action. of the early English novel?
3. What was the “white man’s burden” that A. Where Oroonoko foregrounds supernat-
Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same ural agents, Robinson Crusoe avoids reli-
title? gion completely.
1. C 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A
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B. Both are largely set in South America, A. the ultimate expression of humankind’s
reflecting the relationship between empire ability to control its own destiny.
and the early English novel.
B. a misguided attempt to overthrow hu-
C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristoc- man nature by rejecting tradition.
racy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates
C. a necessary change that was beginning
the struggles of the middle class.
to go astray.
D. Both make claims to historical veracity.
D. an event that had little consequence to
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England.
6. In which of the following ways did Hopkins
revolutionize poetry? 11. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Daniel De-
foe’s Robinson Crusoe similarly reflect the
A. He created a radically new form. forces giving rise to the novel in which of
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B. He used unusual, arcane words. the following ways?
C. He made obscure allusions. A. Their imperialist settings reflect the in-
terest in faraway lands that led to adventure
D. All of these answers
novels.
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7. Which poet did Arthur Henry Hallum as-
sociate with “the picturesque”? B. Both emphasize romantic relationships
that play up the importance of women read-
A. Alexander Pope
ers.
B. Percy Shelley
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C. Both focus on the struggles of lower or
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge middle-class characters, mirroring the de-
D. Alfred Tennyson velopment of a large middle-class reader-
ship as consumers.
8. “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly
miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, D. Their epistolary forms reflect an increas-
I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep ing political interest in subjective feelings.
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me so!” These lines characterize Samuel

Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following 12. Which of the following best defines the
ways EXCEPT:
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heroic couplet?
A. through the personal, direct appeal en- A. Two characters in an epic who are ro-
abled by his epistolary form. mantically involved
B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in
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C. by emphasizing sexual morality. iambic pentameter

D. through the sentimental attempt to C. The concluding lines of any poem
make readers strongly identify with the
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D. Two characters who act as foils in a com-

character’s feelings.
edy of manners
9. Which of the following works is considered
to be the first Gothic novel? 13. John Locke is known for advocating all of
the following ideas EXCEPT:
A. Congreve’s The Way of the World
A. social contract theory of government.
B. Richardson’s Pamela
B. blank slate or tabula rasa.
C. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
C. divine authority of kings.
D. Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
10. Complete the following sentence. Accord- D. natural political rights.
ing to Edmund Burke, the French Revolu- 14. Which of the following best defines senti-
tion was: mentalism?
6. D 7. D 8. B 9. D 10. B 11. C 12. B 13. C 14. B

A. A refusal to emphasize the innate good- B. The poems criticize religious institu-
ness of humanity tions for not helping the oppressed.
B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy C. The poems reject experience in favor of
to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and innocence.
joy D. The poems reject innocence in favor of
C. A sense of awe in the power of the nat- experience.
ural world 19. What was the “Woman Question” in the
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D. A parody of the interest in emotion that Victorian Period?
developed out of the Enlightenment inter- A. A debate about whether women should
est in reason be able to vote
15. In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shel-
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B. A discussion of women’s roles inside
ley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre”? and outside the home
A. To help drive his ideas across the uni- C. A conversation about women’s work as
verse a product of the Industrial Revolution
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B. To help him reach the afterlife D. All of these answers
C. To help him hear nature’s music 20. Complete the following sentence. The By-
ronic hero is characterized as:
D. To help him start a new revolutionary
war A. always fighting for good against evil.
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16. Which of the following terms is NOT B. fortunate in always coming out victori-
closely associated with the Gothic novel? ous.
A. Horror C. nearly superhuman in his powers but
tortured by a psychological weight.
B. The sublime
D. devoted to religion above all things.
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C. Suspense
21. Complete the following sentence. Shelley’s
D. Picaresque “Ozymandias” can be linked to his “Defence
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17. How did ideas about the spread of the of Poetry” through its:
British Empire start to shift in the Victo-
A. rejection of traditional form.
rian Period?
B. portrayal of the power of art to speak
A. Competition between European rivals
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truth.
forced the British to find new trading part-
ners. C. rejection of art’s political role.
B. Colonizers were no longer necessarily D. attempt to link poetry with music.

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interested in reforming indigenous popula- 22. Which of the following is a central theme
tions. of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Mar-
ket”?
C. People found ways to justify expansion
by claiming national superiority. A. The dangers of sensuality to women
D. All of these answers B. The links between sexuality and eco-
18. Which of the following statements about nomics
the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence C. The importance of sisterly bonds
and Experience is true?
A. The poems defend the industrial revo- 23. What was the importance of the Reform
lution as helping England’s economy. Bills of 1832 and 1867?
15. A 16. D 17. D 18. B 19. D 20. C 21. B 22. D 23. A

A. They raised the question of whether 28. Which of the following social issues does
women should be able to vote. Dickens confront in Great Expectations?
B. They allowed new colonization and im- A. Penal reform
perialism efforts.
B. Educational reform
C. They established new standards for Vic-
C. The role of the monarchy
torian morality.
D. Both A and B
D. They allowed women to divorce their
29. Which of the following best defines satire?
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husbands.
24. Which of the following genres is NOT part A. Literature that relies on devices like
of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko? irony, sarcasm, and humor
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A. Nonfiction B. A work of literature that attempts to
B. Travel memoir improve society
C. Detective story C. A text that exposes serious flaws under

the veil of comedy
D. Biography
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25. Complete the following sentence. John Dry-
den’s “Mac Flecknoe” reflects a commit- 30. Complete the following sentence.
ment to neoclassical aesthetics through: Wordsworth conceives of himself as a “cho-
sen son” primarily because:
A. its references to Shakespeare.
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A. his brothers died in their youth.
B. its commitment to an elevated taste, its
use of classical imagery, and its evocation B. he was endowed with a great poetic tal-
of classic forms. ent.
C. its scientific ethos and setting in Lon- C. he was given special educational oppor-
don. tunities.
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D. its refusal to mention Shadwell directly. D. he feels especially connected to nature

due to his experience as a youth.
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26. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes 31. Which of the following statements about
which of the following social institutions? Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43
A. The government (“How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways.”) is false?
B. Marriage
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A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other son-

C. Organized religion nets in its focus on love.
D. All of these answers B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence
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27. The Enlightenment in European history “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”

refers to which of the following?
C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like
A. A period in the 18th century that cele- other sonnets.
brated industry
D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the
B. The revelation of religious truths same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
through meditation is a romantic poem.
C. The power given to absolute monarchs 32. In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,”
by God the speaker refers to the “melancholy, long,
D. A period in which reason was cele- withdrawing roar” of “The Sea of Faith.”
brated as enabling human knowledge and This reference alludes to which of the fol-
possibly human perfection lowing?
24. C 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. D 29. D 30. D 31. D 32. C

A. The Protestant Reformation 37. Which of the following best characterizes

B. Religious interpretations of changes to the ways that Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of
the oceans Udolpho links the Gothic novel with the
sentimental form?
C. The decline of religion’s importance in
the modern West A. Its use of a medieval setting to reflect
on rational progress
D. His lover’s betrayal
33. How does the Encyclopédie best epitomize B. Its focus on having readers vicariously
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the mission of the Enlightenment? experience the dangers that a heroine faces
A. By dismissing all knowledge from out-
side Europe C. Its ambivalent treatment of its leading
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B. By questioning the nature of scientific villain
method D. Its use of the sublime
C. By rejecting the divine right of kings
38. Which of the following statements best
D. By emphasizing the idea that gathering describes the behavior of the upper-class
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knowledge together can lead to human im- characters in Congreve’s The Way of the
provement World?
34. Both the Gothic and sentimental fiction em-
A. They are somewhat jaded, but all are
phasize which of the following?
finally good at heart.
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A. Reason over emotions
B. They are almost universally self-
B. The necessity for an aristocracy absorbed and willing to do anything to
C. The power of feelings get what they want.
D. A sense of adventure C. They tend to value love above money
35. Which of the following is a requirement of and honor.
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a dramatic monologue?
D. They provide a moral example for the
A. It has a speaker as well as an implied lower classes.
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reader.
39. John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” em-
B. It includes elements of parody. phasizes the solution to which of the fol-
C. There is a “spontaneous overflow of lowing important Restoration problems or
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emotion.” events?
D. It is written in common, ordinary lan- A. England’s power to overcome the recent
guage. plague and the great fire of London
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36. Which of the following statements accu-

B. The monarch’s ability to squelch contin-
rately describes the theme of Wordsworth’s
uing Puritan resistance
“Tintern Abbey”?
A. Nature loses its ability to affect human C. The church’s potential to unify the pop-
emotion over time. ulace after the English revolution
B. Sensitivity to nature’s message comes D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the

with age. power of the King
C. Life experience does not have to power 40. The main plot of Richardson’s Pamela re-
to alter human opinions. flects the main characteristics of the sen-
D. It is not possible to appreciate beauty timental novel through its emphasis on
once one has aged. which of the following?
33. D 34. C 35. A 36. B 37. B 38. B 39. A 40. D

A. Pamela’s attempt to seduce her em- D. Members of the Jewish and Catholic
ployer faiths should be excluded from public office.
B. Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her
to a wealthy landowner 45. Which of the following ideas does NOT
come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical
C. Pamela’s struggle to overcome her
Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the
poverty through hard-work
Sublime?
D. Pamela’s attempts to protect her
A. The effect of the sublime on the physical
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chastity from the advances of her employer
body
41. In which of the following ways does Rad- B. The distinction between the sublime
cliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho combine and beauty
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the features of the Gothic and the sentimen- C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime
tal? through painting
A. It emphasizes emotion over reason. D. The important role surprise plays in cre-
B. It has a didactic moral focus. ating pleasure
C. There is a focus on a central love story.

42. Which of the following best characterizes an
46. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects
which central romantic themes or con-
cerns?
A. Nature as mirroring the human mind
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Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French and its imagination
Revolution?
B. The limits of scientific attempts to un-
A. He thought it did not go far enough in derstand and control the world
granting women rights.
C. The poet as special interpreter of the
B. He opposed it in favor of supporting the world
king and the ancien régime.
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D. The centrality of subjective experience

C. He favored its democratic impulses but to apprehending the world
was appalled by its destructive nature.
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47. The Pre-Raphaelites are best known for

D. He did not think it concerned him and which of the following?
his relationship to nature.
A. A return to neoclassical aesthetics
43. Which of the following events was NOT
B. Disassociating painting and poetry
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associated with the Victorian period?

A. Repeal of the corn laws C. Lavish attention to the sensuous ele-
ments of life
B. Opium Wars
D. Rejecting English poetic tradition
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C. Great Exhibition
48. Complete the following sentence. In Pope’s
D. French Revolution The Rape of the Lock, elevated language
44. Which of the following directives was part functions primarily to:
of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade? A. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
A. There should be more missionary work
in less civilized parts of the world. B. set up the parody of the pretensions of
B. Concerts in the parks that were attended the characters and their concerns.
by ordinary people should be banned. C. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
C. Civil servants should talk more openly
and publicly about their moral work. D. elicit the sympathy of elite readers.
41. D 42. C 43. D 44. A 45. D 46. B 47. C 48. B

49. Which of the following statements best 53. Complete the following sentence.
characterizes Romanticism’s relationship Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing
to the Enlightenment? on the “language really used by men” in
A. Romanticism continued the Enlighten- his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents:
ment’s focus on a universal order best ap- A. a radical break with 18th-century rules
prehended through reason. on elevated diction.
B. Romanticism challenged the Enlighten- B. a continuity with poets such as Alexan-
ment’s emphasis on objectivity as the basis der Pope.
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of truth. C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
C. Romanticism largely abandoned the En-
lightenment’s hope in progressive political D. a defense of the use of elaborate figura-
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change. tive language.
D. Unlike the Enlightenment, Romanti- 54. Complete the following sentence. The sci-
cism deemed the natural world unimpor- entific revolution paralleled Enlightenment
tant. political thought and political revolutions
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50. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s through its similar:
“Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “re- A. devotion to traditional authority in po-
clin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of litical and theoretical matters.
a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth.
This poem reflects which of the following B. emphasis on the world being governed
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features common to much Romantic po- by laws that could be discerned through
etry? rational exploration.
A. An emphasis on the relationship be- C. reliance on classical scholarship.

tween a natural setting and the imagination D. defense of violent emotions as natural.
as in Wordsworth’s poems 55. Complete the following sentence. The poli-
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B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some tics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings:

of Keats’s poems A. indicates her longing for the older aris-
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C. A call for social and political reform as tocracy.

in some of Shelley’s works B. suggests her commitment to the
D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some Catholic Church.
of Byron’s poems C. is at odds with her explicit socialist pol-
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51. “Do we now live in an enlightened age? itics.

The answer is, ‘no,’ but we do live in an age
D. implies that contemporary British soci-
of enlightenment.”
ety has overcome the institutions leading
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A. Immanuel Kant to the horrors its characters experience.

B. John Locke 56. The development of the novel is associated
with all of the following EXCEPT:
C. David Hume
A. scientific emphasis on detailed observa-
D. Denis Diderot
tion.
52. Which writer is most closely associated
with the serialized novel? B. the political focus on individuals and
their rights.
A. William Congreve
C. philosophical theories of sympathy and
B. Ann Radcliffe human emotions.
C. Matthew Lewis D. the continuing importance of mytholog-
D. Charles Dickens ical stories.
49. B 50. A 51. A 52. D 53. A 54. B 55. D 56. D
57. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s C. its elaboration of the intersecting impor-
idea of “negative capability” refers to the tance of nature and the imagination.
idea that:
D. its development of elements from na-
A. certain people are simply incapable of tional folklore.
understanding poetry.
62. Victor Frankenstein’s project to create life
B. the true poet must be comfortable with in Mary Shelley’s novel can be linked to
balancing conflicting ideas. romanticism through which of the follow-
ing?
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C. the poet cannot express anything be-
yond his own experience. A. His Promethean striving to exceed hu-
D. it is only in the absence of experience man limitations as explored by Byron and
that true poetry can emerge. Percy Shelley
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58. With which of these writers is the “sponta- B. Its suggestion that the natural order has
neous overflow of emotion” associated? laws beyond human control
A. Ann Radcliffe C. His desire to create a political revolution
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C. John Keats D. Both A and B
63. Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted
D. Alfred Lord Tennyson
island allows Defoe to explore his develop-
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59. Complete the following sentence. In ment in which of the following ways?
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Pip
gains his fortune from: A. His relationship to God and Christianity
A. inheriting his father’s fortune.
B. His understanding of the basis of eco-
B. hard work as a blacksmith.
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C. saving the life of a rich heiress.

C. His ability to identify with the slaves he
D. through the wealth of a convict he once has sold
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helped.
D. Both A and B
60. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized
in all of the following ways, EXCEPT: 64. Jonathan Swift’s suggestion in “A Modest
Proposal” that the Irish eat their children
A. it thematizes the importance of choos- exemplifies the characteristics of a satire in
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ing action over complacency. all of the following ways EXCEPT:

B. it reflects a Victorian attitude of contin- A. its mocking tone.
uing to fight against loss of hope or faith.
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B. its absurd response to a real issue.

C. it uses Greek mythology to comment on C. its sentimental plea to its audience.
contemporary questions. D. its attempt to shock readers into acting.
D. it emphasizes the internal life of the
mind over social action. 65. How does this quotation from Behn’s
61. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an
“Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving
Romantic because of: you the history of this Royal Slave, to enter-
A. its focus on his lost love. tain my reader with adventures of a feigned
hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may
B. its rejection of scientific progress. manage at the poet’s pleasure.”
57. B 58. B 59. D 60. D 61. C 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. B

A. It focuses on a royal hero. 70. Which of the following is among the fea-
B. It denies being imagined in favor of tures that distinguish Robinson Crusoe as
claims of realism. a novel as opposed to a romance?
C. It focuses on adventures. A. Its larger-than-life hero
D. It connects to poetry. B. Its lack of attention to time

66. With which literary form or movement is C. Its defense of the aristocracy
the Restoration most closely associated? D. Its focus on the individual and his psy-
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A. Familiar essays chological and moral development
B. Comedies of manners 71. Which event did Percy Shelley call “the
master theme of the epoch in which we
C. Romanticism
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live”?
D. Medievalism
A. Industrial Revolution
67. Complete the following sentence. In the
opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s B. French Revolution
“The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s
an
C. Scientific Revolution
dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon”:
D. Technological Revolution
A. are an example of antithesis to suggest 72. Complete the following sentence. The Ro-
the falcon’s contradictory nature. mantic movement is least closely related
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B. use alliterative language to draw atten- to:
tion to the falcon’s importance as a symbol
A. folklore.
of Christ.
B. nationalism.
C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
C. parody.
D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.
68. Why were coffee-houses important in the D. exoticism.
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Restoration? 73. Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamen-

tally emphasizes which theme from John-
A. They enabled discussion about impor-
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son’s other works or other 18th-century

tant literary texts.
works?
B. They created a space for the exchange
of pamphlets. A. The need for linguistic correctness as
exemplified in his Dictionary
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C. They offered people a private place in

which they could plan political revolts. B. The promise of universal knowledge as
epitomized by the Encyclopédie
D. Both A and B
C. The ultimate impossibility of achieving
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69. In Pamela, how does the epistolary style en-

happiness, as espoused in his poem “The
hance the sentimental aspects of the novel?
Vanity of Human Wishes”
A. It provides access to the heroine’s inner-
D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed
most reactions.
in novels like Robinson Crusoe
B. It does not cloud the novel with autho- 74. How does the following representative quo-
rial intrusion that confuses the emotions. tation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on
Victorian social conventions? “You have
C. It provides a sense of immediacy be- nothing to do with the master of Thorn-
cause the letters are written in the thick field, further than to receive the salary he
of the action. gives you for teaching his protégée, and
to be grateful for such respectful and kind
66. B 67. B 68. D 69. D 70. D 71. B 72. C 73. C 74. A
treatment as, if you do your duty, you have C. The sense of hope that death will come
a right to expect at his hands” soon
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept D. A shared theme that nature exposes the
both men and women from social mobility. pain in human life
79. Which of the following novelists was NOT
B. It suggests that women were increas- associated with the rise of the novel as a
ingly accepted as professionals. literary form?
A. Samuel Richardson
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C. It indicates that British society had be-
come much more egalitarian. B. Laurence Sterne
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the C. Daniel Defoe
Industrial Revolution.
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D. Charles Dickens
75. Radcliffe’s version of the Gothic differs
80. Which of the following is NOT a central
most from Walpole’s in its use of which
theme of Wordsworth’s poetry?
of the following?
A. The common man
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A. The sublime
B. The promises of technology
B. The explained supernatural
C. The outcast figure
C. Its medieval settings
D. The movement of time
D. Its use of mysterious events to spur read-
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81. How was the philosophical and popular em-
ers’ interests and emotional responses
phasis on sensibility in the 18th century
76. Complete the following sentence. Neo- related to the development of the novel?
classicism most paralleled Enlightenment
thought in its: A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic
relationships.
A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.
B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract
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B. rejection of traditional models. reason over experience and emotion.

C. emphasis on order, logic, and universal C. Like the novel, it emphasized the impor-
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truths. tance of sympathy and individual feelings.

D. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the
aristocracy. D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristoc-
racy.
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77. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English

Language most reflects an 18th-century in- 82. In The Way of the World, Congreve sati-
terest in which of the following? rizes which of the following?
A. Classification, order, and judgment A. Ideas about chastity
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B. Romantic origins B. The institution of marriage

C. Linguistic indeterminacy C. The aristocracy
D. Subjective experience D. All of these answers
78. What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” 83. With which text is the term mock-epic most
and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in closely associated?
common? A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”
A. An identical rhyme structure B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock
B. The belief that a person is incapable of C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
change, even as he or she ages
D. Benn’s Oroonoko
75. B 76. C 77. A 78. D 79. D 80. B 81. C 82. D 83. B 84. A
84. Which of the following most accurately de- 88. Which of the following political ideas is
scribes the relationship between Darwin’s least related to the Enlightenment?
On the Origin of Species and Victorian so- A. Checks and balances
ciety and its ideals?
B. Social contract
A. Darwin’s work echoed Victorian
thought with its emphasis on struggle C. Enlightened monarchy
while disrupting Victorian faith by decen- D. Socialism
tering humans. 89. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a transitional
er
B. Darwin’s work was almost universally text in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
accepted from its first appearance. A. like a romance, it focuses on an aris-
C. Darwin’s work had little initial influ- tocratic character considered superior to
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ence on Victorian society and culture. average individuals.
D. Almost all religious authorities rejected B. like a novel, it tells its story with an em-
Darwin’s work completely. phasis on realistic detail and the everyday
85. Which of the following characteristics is passage of time.
an
NOT closely associated with a comedy of C. like an epic, it involves gods and god-
manners? desses.
A. Witty banter D. like a novel, it makes claims to historical
realism.
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B. Epic heroes
90. Which of the following did NOT con-
C. Sexual promiscuity tribute to the growth of literacy in the 19th-
D. Hidden identities century?
86. “For I have learned/To look on nature, not A. More magazines on the market
as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but
B. The rise in serialized fiction
hearing oftentimes/The sad, still music of
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humanity” C. Lower prices for magazines

A. The poet’s changing relationship to na- D. The passage of the Reform Bills
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ture as fount of meaning and significance 91. Complete the following sentence. The
opening frame narrative of Frankenstein
B. The falsity of human art as opposed to comes from:
the immediate truth of nature A. Walton, a failed poet who is attempting
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C. The failure of the poet when a youth to to discover the North Pole.
imagine his future B. the creature, after he has killed Victor
D. The utter rejection of youthful folly in Frankenstein.
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favor of mature rationality C. Victor Frankenstein’s diary.

87. Complete the following sentence. We can D. Mrs. Saville, Frankenstein’s cousin.
best understand the medieval setting of 92. In Linton’s The Girl of the Period, what
Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as: course of behavior does the author recom-
A. revealing his interest in Chaucer. mend for women?
B. enabling his 18th-century readers access A. Women should wear more makeup in
to a world they would see as less rational. order to attract husbands.
C. promoting the rise of museums. B. Women should make sure to receive an
education in order to secure their own fu-
D. commenting on the French and Indian
tures.
War.
85. B 86. A 87. B 88. D 89. C 90. D 91. A 92. C
C. Women should take pains to remain A. Their conservative poetics

generous, modest, and capable.
B. Their frank depiction of sexuality
D. Women should be given the right to C. Their radical politics
vote immediately.
D. Their nationalistic tone
93. Which of the following does NOT accu-
rately characterize Jane Eyre’s relationship 97. What does the shift in weather in Chapter
to other literary works? 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot?
A. It functions as a metaphor for the
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A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre ad-
women’s rights movement.
dresses the power of wealth and class.
B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
B. Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns
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the diminishing power of Christian faith.
C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific
C. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops knowledge.
a Byronic hero.
D. It acts as an allusion to the importance
D. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can of nature in the Romantic period.
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be read as a bildungsroman.
98. Which of the following does NOT charac-
94. Pope’s comment that “Know, then, thyself, terize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”?
presume God not to scan;/The proper study
A. It is a dramatic monologue.
of mankind is man” in his “Essay on Man” is
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indicative of all of the following EXCEPT: B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a
natural setting as an occasion for philosoph-
A. his use of the heroic couplet.
ical reflection.
B. an Enlightenment focus on useful
C. It has a melancholic tone.
knowledge.
D. It envisions Christianity as eternal.
C. a neoclassical emphasis on propriety
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99. Which of the following texts is an example

and knowing limitations.
of a sentimental novel?
D. a radical questioning of revealed reli-
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A. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

gion.
B. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
95. Complete the following sentence. Unlike
many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith C. Richardson’s Pamela
and Rousseau:
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D. Lewis’s The Monk

A. traveled to America. 100. Shelley expresses all of the following ideas
B. believed in God. in A Defence of Poetry, EXCEPT:
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A. reason can help man understand beauty.

C. emphasized the importance of human
emotions as guiding behavior.
B. civilization comes through beauty.
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe.
C. language shows humanity’s impulse to-
wards order.
96. Swinburne’s poems such as “Hermaphrodi-
tus” are best known for which of the fol- D. poetry has no effect on society.
lowing?
93. B 94. D 95. C 96. B 97. B 98. D 99. C 100. D

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1. What is “Imagism”? B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
A. A poetic movement which hoped to of- C. “The Cantos”
fer clear expression of ideas and feelings
D. “To the Lighthouse”
through the use of specific visual images
4. According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max
B. An attempt to use the “exact word” in- Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: En-
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stead of flowery, excessive descriptive lan- lightenment as Mass Deception,” which of

guage in poetry the following is true of the culture indus-
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C. A and B only try?
D. B and C only A. The culture industry is classified by

ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
2. Which of the following was one of the ma-
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jor health consequences for soldiers who B. The culture industry is the chief method
survived the traumas of trench warfare in by which technology brings true democ-
World War One? racy to all.
C. The culture industry is a fundamental
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A. Lyme disease
way to promote individuality.
B. Staph infections
D. The culture industry is chiefly intended
C. Shell shock to offer consumers the opportunity to clas-
D. A and C only sify wants and desires as well as corre-
sponding production.
3. Fill in the blank. Written over the course
of his life, Ezra Pound’s is an exami- 5. According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on
nation of the human desire for knowledge Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT
and understanding in an inchoate modern define Dadaism?
landscape. A. “Every product of disgust capable of be-
A. “The Sun Also Rises” coming a negation of the family”
1. C 2. C 3. C 4. A
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B. “A protest with the fists of its whole be- A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain frus-
ing engaged in destructive action” tration with the inability of language to
C. “Absolute and unquestionable faith in fully capture the human condition.
every god that is the immediate product of B. Beckett’s play explores how language
spontaneity” helps to form one’s notion of self.
D. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound C. Beckett’s work captures an almost tran-
and fury, signifying nothing” scendent melancholy as it explores human
6. Which of the following is true of Arthur desires for a redemption that may or may
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Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity”? not ever materialize.
A. It ends with the lines: “Eternity./It is the D. All of the above
sea run off/ With the sun.” 10. Surrealism became an official aesthetic
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B. It suggests that the quest for knowledge movement of the modern period with the
and enlightenment is deeply satisfying. publication of which work?
C. The poem speaks of the necessity of A. Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto”

seeking human approval and communal ac- B. James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
ceptance.
D. It begins with the lines: “I kissed the
dawn of summer.”
7. Which of the following best describes
an C. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also
Rises”
D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”
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11. Which of the following is NOT a character-
James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a istic of “Modernism”?
Young Man”?
A. A radical project of experimentation
A. It begins with the famous line: “Once with literary and artistic form
upon a time and a very good time it was
there was a moocow coming down along B. A belief in the power of the natural
the road and this moocow that was coming world to communicate transcendent truth
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down along the road met a nicens little boy C. The use of irony and parody
named baby tuckoo ”?
D. Both A and B
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B. It is a semi-autobiographical account of 12. Which author writes a profound criticism

Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist. of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” ac-
C. It captures the conflict that Stephen cusing Conrad of reinforcing typical Euro-
Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic her- pean stereotypes of Africa?
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itage. A. Chinua Achebe

D. All of the above B. Edward Said
8. As a result of the outbreak of World War I
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C. Arundhati Roy
and anti-German sentiment which impor-
tant British public figure had to adopt the D. Salman Rushdie
family name of Windsor? 13. What are the differences between conser-
vative modernism and progressive mod-
A. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust
ernism?
B. King George V
A. Conservative modernism came to look
C. King Edward VII to the past for inspiration and hope, while
D. King James II progressive modernism looked to the fu-
9. Which of the following best describes ture.
Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for B. Conservative modernism supported the
Godot”? status quo, while progressive modernism
5. D 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. D 10. A 11. B 12. A

was deeply engaged in political and social A. It contains almost hellish imagery, such
amelioration. as: “Melting like dirty wax,/decayed can-
dles, the bums sinking lower,/faces sub-
C. Conservative modernism celebrated
merged under hams.”
aesthetic formalism, while progressive
modernism celebrated innovation and at- B. It explores the theme of the perversion
tacked aesthetic formalism. of language.
D. All of the above C. It deeply identifies with Dante’s “In-
ferno” in terms of tone and thick descrip-
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14. Jazz music is described by which of the fol-
tion.
lowing characteristics?
D. All of the above
A. A way of questioning Victorian moral
19. Which of the following Post-Modern the-
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conceptions
oreticians explores the contradictions of
B. A musical invention of the modern age colonial discourse and the ambivalence that
that allows for experimentation of form the colonizer feels towards the colonized
C. An example of subjective artistic expres- “other” in works such as “Nation and Nar-
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sion ration”?
D. All of the above A. Linda Hutcheon
15. Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo B. Homi Bhabha

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Picasso’s periods of artistic production? C. Jacques Derrida
A. Dadaist period D. Fredric Jameson
B. Blue period 20. The term “Lost Generation” can be applied
to which of the following groups?
C. Synthetic cubism
A. A group of self-imposed American expa-
D. Rose period
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triates living in Paris that included Ernest

16. What famous modernist short story com- Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller
pares the universe to an infinite library of
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hexagonal galleries?
B. A group of artists and writers who were
A. Joyce’s “The Dead” deeply marked by the traumas of World
War I
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
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C. Any American in self-exile in Europe to

C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
avoid fighting in World War I
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel” D. A and B only
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17. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his 21. The development of cubism, with its ge-
essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and ometric and abstract concerns, can be at-
early 20th Century,” which of the following tributed largely to which of the following
is NOT a poetic mode of this time period? two artists?
A. Genteel A. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet
B. Symbolist B. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis
C. Impressionist C. Claude Monet and édouard Manet
D. Decadent D. George Braque and Pablo Picasso
18. Which of the following is true of Ezra 22. The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written
Pound’s “Canto XIV”? by John McCrae referring to which war?
13. D 14. D 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. D 19. B 20. D 21. D 22. C
A. The Franco-Prussian War 27. Which of the following is NOT a tenet of

B. The American Civil War F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto”?
C. World War I A. “We want to sing the love of danger, the

habit of danger and of temerity.”
D. World War II
B. “The essential elements of our poetry
23. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund
will be courage, daring, and revolt.”
Freud, psychological “transference” helps
to understand the nature of C. “We want to sing the man who holds the
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steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces
A. Incest
the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of
B. Trauma its orbit.”
C. Taboo D. “We want never to glorify war, the
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D. Love scourge of the planet.”
24. Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” is 28. Which of the following statements is true
a novel characterized by which of the fol- of British India?
lowing descriptions?
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A. The British presence in India began af-
A. It is an excellent example of “Magical ter World War II in Bombay.
Realism.” B. British families never settled in India
B. It is concerned with the post-colonial until after the conclusion of World War II.
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situation of India before and after its parti- C. The British were long present in India
tioning into India and Pakistan. in the 19th century and were not actively
C. It is a book that tells the story of the resisted until the Mutiny of 1857-58.
Sinai family. D. Both A and B
D. All of the above 29. Which of the following statements best de-
25. Which of the following best describes scribes the “Bloomsbury Group”?
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“stream of consciousness” narrative in the A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of

modern period? a group of English writers, thinkers, and
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A. Stream of consciousness often relies artists who met in the Bloomsbury district
upon “free association” of ideas. of London.
B. Stream of consciousness is the capturing B. The group consisted of survivors of

of the interior monologue of the narrator. World War II.
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C. Stream of consciousness attempts to ac- C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M.

curately capture the external dialogue of Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes,
various characters in a realistic setting by and Virginia Woolf.
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an objective observer. D. A and C only

D. A and B only 30. Fill in the blank. “Lolita” is infamous for its
26. “Flâneur," according to Dr. Heather Mar- controversial subject as it depicts a middle-
celle Crickenberger in her essay “The aged protagonist, , who becomes sex-
Flâneur,” is a term the French understand ually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl,
to mean which of the following? Dolores Haze.
A. Stroller, idler, walker A. Sal Paradise
B. An inhabitant of a rural village B. Humbert Humbert
C. A religious believer C. Dean Moriarty
D. Both A and B D. Jake Barnes
23. B 24. D 25. D 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. D 30. B

31. According to Max Simon Nordau in his A. Symbolism began as a French literary
work “Degeneration,” which of the follow- movement in the late 19th century.
ing best describes the term “Fin de Siècle”?
B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbol-
A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, ism in painting.
who feels himself dying by inches in the
C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view
midst of an eternally living nature bloom-
of reality and a rational and realistic depic-
ing insolently forever”
tion of the natural world.
B. A term that means nothing except for
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D. Both A and B
the signification given to it by the user
36. What is meant by the “Haussmannization”
C. “A confession and a complaint” of Paris?
D. All of the above
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A. It was an urban modernization project
32. Which of the following statements concern- that reorganized Parisian city streets so
ing “Vorticism” is false? that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new
wealth.
A. The term "Vorticism" was coined in 1914
an
by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound. B. It was an urban renovation project
which offered social services in city slums.
B. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw
themselves just as much as educators as C. It was a political movement intended to
artists as they taught the public a new, more overthrow Napoleon III.
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graphic language. D. It was a religious movement intended
C. The periodical and manifesto named to celebrate the values of Christianity.
BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism’s 37. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year
principal tenets. as what other famous modern author?
D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic cir- A. James Joyce
cles grew after World War I.
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B. Vladimir Nabokov
33. E.M. Forster wrote which of the following
novels? C. T.S. Eliot
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A. “Pale Fire” D. Joseph Conrad
B. “A Passage to India” 38. Which of the following literary terms is

NOT commonly deployed in Post-Colonial
C. “Daniel Deronda” theory?
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D. “On the Road” A. Mimicry

34. What is “Mimesis”? B. Ambivalence
A. It is a philosophical term which means
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C. Hybridity
“imitation” or “mimicry.”
D. Serendipity
B. It is a philosophical and critical term
meaning “otherness.” 39. According to Walter Benjamin in “The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
C. It is a critical term, which describes the Reproduction,” which of the following is
act of expression and the presentation of true?
self-identity, theorized by academics, such
as Erich Auerbach. A. “Even the most perfect reproduction of
a work of art is lacking in one element: its
D. A and C only presence in time and space, its unique exis-
35. Which of the following is true of symbol- tence at the place where it happens to be.”
ism?
31. D 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. D 36. A 37. B 38. D

B. “The feeling of strangeness that over- D. “Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed
comes the actor before the camera, as Pi- above us.”
randello describes it, is basically of the same 44. Which of the following artists did NOT pro-
kind as the estrangement felt before one’s duce Surrealist photography?
own image in the mirror.”
A. Maurice Tabard
C. “All art work, even mass produced art,
clearly links to an original referent that has B. Ansel Adams
a stable and knowable meaning.” C. Hans Bellmer
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D. Both A and B D. Man Ray
40. Who wrote the collection of poems entitled 45. Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall
“The Wind Among the Reeds?” Apart” explores society and its en-
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A. W.B. Yeats counter with European colonialism.
B. Jorge Luis Borges A. Ibo
C. Mario Vargas Llosa B. Russian
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D. Charles Baudelaire C. Irish
41. Who wrote the following statement: D. Indian
“When you asked me to speak about women
and fiction I sat down on the banks of a 46. Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Re-
considered” further examines the notion of
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river and began to wonder what the words
meant”? the “culture industry” and suggests which
of the following about the “culture indus-
A. Amy Lowell try?”
B. Gertrude Stein A. It destroys notions of high and low cul-
C. Virginia Woolf ture and replaces it with mass culture.
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D. Alice Walker B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim

42. Which of the following famous literary is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
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lines is contained in William Butler Yeats’ C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture

poem “The Second Coming”? in that it promotes the values of high cul-
A. “Hearing of harvests rotting in the val- ture and attempts to eradicate more popular
leys” forms of expression.
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B. “And we rebuild our cities, not dream of D. Both A and B

islands” 47. Which of the following are well-known
C. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot Post-Modern theoreticians?
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hold” A. Linda Hutcheon

D. “Mother died today” B. Jean Baudrillard
43. Which of the following sentences is the fa- C. Thomas Hobbes
mous first line of Nabokov’s “Lolita”?
D. Both A and B
A. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
My sin, my soul.” 48. What is “Post-Modernism”?
B. “Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.” A. A term used to describe contemporary

cultural production
C. “Lolita, all at once we were madly, clum-
sily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with B. A literary movement concerned with
each other.” extreme self-reflexivity
39. D 40. A 41. C 42. C 43. A 44. B 45. A 46. D 47. D 48. D
C. An attempt to break down the barriers 54. Which of the following statements best de-
between high and low culture scribes the “Great Depression”?
D. All of the above A. The Great Depression lasted for one
49. Which of the following is NOT a charac- hundred years.
teristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic and
B. The Great Depression was the longest
literary movement?
and most severe depression ever experi-
A. Naturalism is a search for scientific cer- enced by Western civilization since indus-
tainty. trialization.
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B. Naturalism depicts humans as reason- C. The Great Depression was a severe eco-
able and objective. nomic downturn in the industrialized world
C. Naturalism depicts the more “animalis- that began in 1929 and lasted for approxi-
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tic” tendencies of humans. mately ten years.
D. Naturalism considers the author or D. B and C only
artist to be like a scientist.
55. Which of the following is NOT a character-
50. Wilfred Owen’s war poem “Dulce et Deco-
an
istic of “Realism” as an artistic and literary
rum est” ends with which of the following movement?
Latin phrases?
A. Realism strives to depict humans within
A. “Pax romana”
a certain social context.
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B. “Veni, vidi, vici”
B. Realism depicts the tension between
C. “Dux bellorum” harsh reality and ideals.
D. “Pro patria mori” C. Realism gives up the search for truth
51. Which of the following is a literary work and instead embraces moral relativism.
of “The Lost Generation?”
D. Realism explores ethical quandaries
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A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also within a social context.

Rises”
56. Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which coun-
B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
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try?
C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
A. Argentina
D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the
Idols” B. Brazil
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52. Which of the following authors is NOT an C. Mexico

important Irish writer?
D. Britain
A. Seamus Heaney
57. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” begins with
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B. James Joyce which of the following well-known open-

C. William Butler Yeats ing lines?
D. E.M. Forster A. “Was it for this-”
53. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” B. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from
is an example of which of the following swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us
literary trends? by a commodius vicus of recirculation back
A. Aestheticism to Howth Castle and Environs.”
B. Naturalism C. “And the worst friend and enemy is but
C. Decadence Death.”
D. Both A and C D. “April is the cruellest month”
49. B 50. D 51. A 52. D 53. D 54. D 55. C 56. A 57. D 58. A
58. Who painted “The Accommodations of De- 62. The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel
sire”? “To the Lighthouse” is best described in
A. Salvador Dalí which of the following ways?
A. As an omniscient narrative of love and
B. Pablo Picasso
loss
C. Juan Miró
B. As a third-person narrative of the Great
D. Man Ray Depression
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C. As a domestic stream of consciousness
novel “The God of Small Things?” narrative
A. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural D. A and B only
identity and decline of an Indian family.
63. Which of the following statements regard-
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B. It is a Romantic novel that explores the ing Oscar Wilde is false?
decline of a Russian family.
A. His career ended when he was jailed for
C. It is a stream-of-consciousness nar- criminal “gross indecency.”
rative that explores cultural identity in
an
B. He believed that art should be some-
nineteenth-century Ireland.
thing more than the reproduction and ap-
D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the de- preciation of the natural world.
cline of a Caribbean family.
C. Wilde was the author of such poems as
60. In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Ba-
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“Bénédiction,” “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”
bel,” which of the following is NOT a major
concern of the work?
D. He was notorious for his use of paradox.
A. The short work speaks of the daunting
search for truth and knowledge. 64. The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his
B. It is obsessed with the descriptions of work “Against the Grain,” is intended to
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an endless and ultimately incomprehensi- convey which of the following ideas?

ble library. A. The work celebrates the young Jean and
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C. Borges takes great pains to show how his Jesuit school education as a model for
the key to understanding the library is rea- the best possible education of the young.
son. B. It ends with the famous line “the horror,
D. The library is analogous to the universe. the horror.”
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C. It explores Jean’s decision to become a

61. Which of the following statements does recluse and a social drop-out.
NOT reflect the general characteristics of
D. All of the above
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”?

65. T.S. Eliot considered which of the follow-
A. Some academic scholars suggest that ing one of the greatest short stories ever
“The Wasteland” is an extrapolation of the written?
search for the Holy Grail.
A. “The Dead”
B. “The Wasteland” is an excellent example
of modernist symbolism. B. “The Surrealist Manifesto”
C. Eliot’s poem takes great pains to illus- C. “The Heart of Darkness”

trate the breakdown of stable meaning in D. “To the Lighthouse”
the modern world. 66. Which of the following authors is NOT con-
D. “The Wasteland” is often used as an ex- sidered to be a practitioner of “Magical Re-
cellent example of poetic realism. alism”?
59. A 60. C 61. D 62. C 63. C 64. C 65. A 66. C

A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez A. James Joyce

B. Isabel Allende B. Voltaire
C. James Joyce C. Virginia Woolf
D. Allejo Carpentier D. Y.B. Yeats
67. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s module 71. Which of the following is true of Charles
on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on trans- Baudelaire’s “Bénédiction”?
ference and trauma argues which of the
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following points? A. It was originally written in English.
A. There is an undeniable “tension be- B. It celebrates the almost divine power of

tween the death-instinct and the sexual in- the poet.
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stincts.” C. It suggests that poetry is demonic in
B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to nature.
come to terms with one’s own mortality. D. Both A and B
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C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit 72. Between 1890 and 1919, which of the fol-
“the compulsion of the human psyche to re- lowing was a preoccupation of Western Eu-
peat traumatic events over and over again.” ropean literature?
A. Sexual mores
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D. Talk therapy will not help cure one’s
psychological neuroses concerning past B. The importance of the irrational
trauma. C. Bourgeois sensibility
68. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tra- D. All of the above
dition and the Individual Talent,” which of
the following is true of “tradition?” 73. How may W.B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second
Coming,” be interpreted?
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A. In English literature, we cannot refer to

"the tradition" or to "a tradition;" at most, A. As an interpretation of the Biblical Sec-
ond Coming of Christ
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we employ the adjective in saying that the

poetry of so-and-so is "traditional" or even B. As an attempt to support European colo-
"too traditional." nialism in Africa
B. Tradition is the great conversation C. As a howl of despair concerning the cur-
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which links all English literature and is a rent state of the world
coherent and stable cannon.
D. Both A and C
C. All of the above
74. Georges Braque’s “Woman with a Guitar”
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D. A and B only is an example of which of the following

69. Which novelist is NOT commonly thought artistic movements?
of as producing Post-Colonial work? A. Cubism
A. Arundhati Roy B. Vorticism
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Futurism
C. Seamus Heaney
D. A and B only
D. Vladimir Nabokov 75. Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an
70. Of the following, who was NOT a well extended analysis of the term “Oriental-
known modernist author? ism”?
67. A 68. D 69. D 70. B 71. B 72. D 73. D 74. A 75. A 76. A
A. Edward Said 80. Literary critics who analyze the works of

Salman Rushdie often engage which “Post-
B. Arundhati Roy
Modern” school of criticism?
C. Salman Rushdie
A. Marxism
D. Homi Bhaba
B. Post-Colonial Theory
76. Why does the “Flâneur" begin to disappear
as a Parisian phenomenon? C. Deconstruction
A. Because of the increasing prominence
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D. Feminism
of department stores in Paris
81. “In Parenthesis” is David Jones’s modernist
B. Because of the advent of arcade projects adaptation of which traditional literary
form?
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C. Because they began to purchase prod-
A. The romance
ucts as they walked the urbanscape
B. The epic
D. Because they were threatened by police
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with jail C. The sonnet
77. Which of the following are contemporary D. The haiku
Indian artists who have begun to more crit-
ically examine India’s post-colonial situa- 82. Which of the following best describes
tion? James Joyce’s “Araby”?
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A. Ravinder Reddy A. It begins with the famous line: “North
Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet
B. Rummana Hussain
street except at the hour when the Chris-
C. Dadabhai Naoroji tian Brothers’ School set the boys free.”
D. A and B only B. It speaks of the author’s illicit relation-
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78. Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most ship with a young girl.
clearly a student of ’s work.
C. It is a dramatization of the relationship
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A. Marx between Adam and Eve in the Garden of

B. Freud Eden.
C. Darwin D. It is an analysis of “Exodus” from “The

Holy Bible.”
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D. Aristotle
79. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General 83. Which of the following authors is consid-
Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland ered a major theorist of deconstruction?
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Barthes, in his work “The Death of the A. Raymond Williams

Author,” argues which of the following
points? B. Jacques Derrida
A. “The modern writer (scriptor) is born C. Fredric Jameson

simultaneously with his text.” D. Both A and B
B. “Once the Author is gone, the claim to
84. The last decade of the nineteenth cen-
"decipher" a text is quite simple.”
tury saw the development of a number
C. “A text never consists of multiple writ- of literary and cultural movements which
ings, it is always the product of a mono- amounted to a rejection of the principles of
lithic culture.” Victorianism because of which social trans-
formations?
D. Both A and B
77. D 78. A 79. A 80. B 81. B 82. A 83. B 84. D
A. The shift from agriculturally-based to 89. “Post-Modernism” is often characterized by

industrial societies in the West which of the following attitudes?
B. The decline of traditional religious be- A. A fascination with the past but a past
liefs in Europe that is used out of its original context as
pastiche
C. The rise of traditional social identities
and the decline of personal identity B. A reinforcement of master narratives
D. Both A and B C. A rejection of master narratives
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85. Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is D. Both A and C
concerned primarily with which of the fol- 90. Which of the following statements is true
lowing themes? of the Anglo-Irish War?
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A. His safe return home A. The Anglo-Irish war began with the re-
B. The defeat of the Germans sistance of the Irish Republican Army.
C. His death and escape from suffering. B. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a
guerrilla campaign.
an
D. His ability to finally kill an enemy sol-
C. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War,
dier
only a few hundred members of the Irish
86. What is the “Post-Modern” practice of “De- Republican Army were actively resisting
constructionism”? British rule.
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A. An assault on the notion that there is D. All of the above
any knowable truth
91. Who wrote “Take up the White Man’s
B. An assault on the sexual mores of the burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-”
Victorian Age in order to inspire Western Europeans to
propagate benevolent, enlightened colo-
C. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of
nialism?
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the sublime
A. Charles Baudelaire
D. All of the above
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B. William Butler Yeats

87. Which of the following artists was NOT
influenced by Surrealism? C. Rudyard Kipling
A. Giorgio de Chirico D. Napoleon III
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B. Salvador Dalí 92. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that
artists began to do which of the following?
C. Marcel Duchamp
A. Produce works of art that were mean-
D. Paul Gauguin ingless
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88. Which of the following descriptions accu- B. Reject artistic production that was obli-
rately describes Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of gatorily moral in character
Darkness”?
C. Avoid all forms of prose
A. The end of the novella depicts Marlow’s
conversation with the Kurtz’s Intended. D. Make art profitable above all else
93. Which of the following is NOT one of the
B. The work considers the dark side of Eu-
general themes of concern in Derek Wal-
ropean colonialism.
cott’s poem“Becune Point”
C. Marlow comes to understand the neces- A. Nature
sity of European leadership in Africa.
B. Christianity
D. Both A and B
85. A 86. A 87. D 88. D 89. D 90. A 91. C 92. B 93. D
C. Pastoral landscapes 97. Which of the following is NOT a modernist

art movement?
D. World War II
A. Surrealism
94. Which of the following descriptions of the
“Avant-Garde Movement” is false? B. Dadaism
A. The avant-garde, a military term mean- C. Symbolism
ing “advanced guard,” was founded in D. Realism
France in the mid-19th century.
98. Important contemporary reviews of Vir-
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B. The term avant-garde itself means "ad- ginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to
vanced guard," and the military role of the focus on which of the following aspects of
advanced guard and the role of the avant- the novel?
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garde art movement are much of the same.
A. The profound and often troubling rela-
tionships among characters
C. The realist painter Gustave Courbet B. The novel’s experimental structure
never considered himself a member of the
C. The novel’s radically unique narrative
an
avant-garde.
voice
D. Both A and B
D. All of the above
95. Which of the following statements best de-
99. Who was Le Corbusier?
scribes “Magical Realism”?
Ch
A. He was born Charles-Edouard Jean-
A. Magical realism often accepts both a ma-
neret.
terialist and a supernatural view of the real.
B. He was an architect who designed The
Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building
B. Magical realism differs from fantasy and in Punjab, India.
science fiction in that it considers the im-
n
possible as normal. C. He was the architect who designed The

Robie House in Chicago, Illinois.
C. The term "magical realism" was first
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coined by Franz Roh, a German art critic. D. Both A and B

D. All of the above
scribes the “British East India Company?”
96. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General
A. The British East India Company was
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Introduction to Postmodernism,” what is

originally a group of London businessmen
the meaning of the term “simulacra”?
engaged in importing spices from South
A. “Something that replaces reality with Asia.
its representation”
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B. The British East India Company first en-

B. “A stable referent to a knowable original tered South Asia as importers of British Tea.
cultural artifact”
C. “An exact imitation of the material C. The British East India Company was es-
world” sentially a covert British army.
D. “A basic affirmation of everyday reality” D. Both A and B
94. C 95. D 96. A 97. D 98. D 99. D 100. A

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10. Medieval Literature and Culture
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an
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1. Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”? 4. The turbulent years of the 14th century
witnessed a blending of language and cul-
A. The court of Richard II
ture that led to the rise of Middle English.
B. The church Which of the following events led to the
nickname “the era of catastrophes”?
C. The military
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A. The Hundred Years War

D. The literary tradition
B. The Great Schism
2. How is the lai similar to a medieval ro-
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mance? C. The Black Plague

A. Both include stacked tales in a single
sequential narrative. 5. Which text is an example of a poem struc-
tured as a vision to convey the theme of
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B. Both have courtly love as their central salvation?

theme.
A. The Battle of Maldon
C. Both are designed in an episodic man-
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B. The Seafarer
ner.
C. The Wanderer
D. Both are usually intended to be sung as
hymns. D. The Dream of the Rood
3. Which of the following texts are associated 6. What is a lai?

with the alliterative revival? A. A poem with courtly love as its central
theme
A. “The Dream of the Rood”
B. A short lyrical poem
B. “The Wanderer”
C. A poem that is usually in octosyllabic
C. “The Seafarer” couplets
D. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” D. All of these answers
1. B 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. D
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7. Which of the following epic themes are in- 12. Which of the following advice is offered to
voked in The Wanderer? women in Acrene Wisse?
A. Exile A. Anchoresses should live in a dwelling
B. Abandoned mead-halls attached to a church.
C. Loneliness B. Anchoresses should avoid gossip.
D. All of these answers C. Anchoresses should avoid men.

8. Which of the following is not related to the D. All of these answers
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term medievalism? 13. Which of the following accurately de-
A. Enlightenment scribes the way in which the comitatus
ethic is represented in Beowulf, The Sea-
B. Feudalism
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farer, and The Wanderer?
C. Guildhouses A. As a mutually beneficial relationship be-
D. Monasticism tween rulers and warriors
9. Why is Caedmon’s Hymn important in the B. As an economic system of rewards used
an
history of Old English literature? to ensure warriors reliability
A. The poem could be easily sung in all C. As a pre-feudal power structure based
churches and was widely accepted. on the distribution of economic and mili-
B. The poem’s theme of alienation be- tary resources
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comes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry. D. All of these answers
C. The poem illustrates Caedmon’s erudi- 14. Which of the following factors helped cre-
tion and scholarship. ate a solidified British political identity?
D. The poem is widely believed to be the A. The shift away from individual petty
first written poem in Old English. kingdoms to central rule under King Alfred
n
10. What is the significance of the line: Fate is

established! in The Wanderer? B. Efforts to revive learning
ya
A. The line describes the optimistic atti- C. The translation of Latin religious and
tude of the speaker. historical works in vernacular traditions
B. The line suggests that the speaker is D. All of these answers
comfortably settled.
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15. Which of the following themes is not

C. The Wanderer is a poem about fatal end- explored in “Sir Gawain and the Green
ings. Knight”?
D. The line suggests that fate plays an ir- A. The knightly ideal
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revocable role in human affairs.

B. Conversion to Christianity
11. Which of the following cultural changes oc-
curred as a result of the Norman invasion? C. Sexual purity
A. The Church moved away from using D. Feudal loyalty

Latin. 16. Which of the following best defines Middle
B. The trend of educational reforms was English?
reversed. A. An early form spoken and written by
C. England returned to its pre-feudal state. the Anglo-Saxons
B. A filed-down Old English with heavy
D. The primary language became French. French influence
7. D 8. A 9. D 10. D 11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. B

C. A unique form of English spoken in Ger- A. A pause or break in a line of poetry

many
B. Giving inanimate objects human quali-
D. A form brought to England by the Scan- ties
dinavians
C. A metaphorical compound
17. Which of the following is not a major cate-
D. The image used to share qualities in a
gory of the romance genre?
metaphor or simile
A. The Matter of Germany 22. Chaucer and Langland were contempo-
er
B. The Matter of Rome raries, but there were several differences
between their writing styles. Which of the
C. The Matter of Britain following best describes these differences?
gd
D. The Matter of England A. Langland wrote only about aristocratic
18. What is problematic about calling Beowulf characters that were similar to Arthurian
part of Old English literature? legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about
lower social classes.
A. There is no firm concept of when En-
an
glish literature began. B. Chaucer and Langland wrote in differ-
ent dialects.
B. The epic poem is written in a language
that is unrecognizable to many English C. Chaucer copied French and Italian style,
speakers. whereas Langland did not.
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C. Danish and German scholars first D. Most of Chaucer’s poetry was for a sec-
claimed the poem. ular court audience, whereas Langland’s
was didactic, teaching a moral lesson.
D. There are no English characters in the
poem. 23. Which of the following texts was inspired
by Historia Regum Britanniae?
19. In Caedmon’s Hymn, the poet borrows the
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language of which literary form? A. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
A. The mock epic B. Caedmon’s Hymn

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C. Chretien de Troyes Yvain, or le Cheva-

B. The lyric ballad
lier au Lion
C. The lai
D. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
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D. The heroic epic

24. Why is the presence of the comitatus ethic
20. Chaucer’s pilgrims are a representative sec- in Beowulf significant?
tion of late medieval society. Which of the
A. The comitatus ethic represents the shift
following economic situations is evident
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from a nomadic to a more organized social

among this group?
structure.
A. Landlords had growing problems with
B. The comitatus ethic is evidence of a pe-
their tenants.
riod in which behavior was guided by Chris-
B. The lack of guilds led to a decline in tian ethics.
available civic services. C. The comitatus ethic shows a historical
C. A modern social hierarchy developed. return to older types of political organiza-
tion.
D. The comitatus ethic represents a culture
21. Which of the following best defines
in which rulers had no responsibilities to
caesura?
their citizens.
17. A 18. D 19. C 20. D 21. A 22. C 23. C 24. A 25. A
25. Which of the following characters from C. Supernatural themes involving dragons
“The Canterbury Tales” might represent the and monsters
rising middle-class of the 14th century?
A. The merchant 30. Which of the following is not a character-
B. The knight istic of Old English?
C. The prioress A. Alliteration
D. The plowman B. Personification
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26. Why is the Battle of Hastings relevant to C. Caesura
the development of Middle English? D. Romance
A. English as a language of the king’s court
gd
31. Which of the following provides an exam-
was replaced by Norman French. ple of the oral-formulaic tradition?
B. Eventually English was reestablished, A. Caedmon’s Hymn
deeply influenced by Norman French.
B. Beowulf
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C. For a time, England became a country
C. The Wanderer
with two languages.
D. The Dream of the Rood
32. Which of the following texts provides the
27. In Beowulf, what is the significance of
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best example of medieval estates satire?
wergild?
A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
A. Wergild is connected to the idea that
bloodshed leads to more bloodshed. B. “Piers Plowman”
B. Wergild contributes to the claustropho- C. “The Canterbury Tales”
bic, doom-laden atmosphere. D. “The Book of Margery Kempe”
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C. Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd. 33. What is the significance of the dreamer in
D. All of these answers The Dream of the Rood?
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28. What is the significance of the title of “Ev- A. The dreamer functions as an example
eryman”? of the comitatus ethic.
A. The title suggests a long history of con- B. The dreamer has a special hope for sal-
vation.
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flict between the government and the indi-

vidual. C. The dreamer is a relic from before the
B. The title is part of the morality play’s Christian conversion.
attempt to make Christian struggles univer-
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D. The dreamer is an example of the super-

sal. stition of paganism.
C. The title alludes to other plays in the 34. Which of the following texts provides the
same cycle. best example of the comitatus ethic?
D. The title suggests that faith-based issues A. Caedmon’s Hymn
are individual to each Christian. B. The Battle of Maldon
29. Which of the following are characteristics
C. The Canterbury Tales
of a medieval romance?
D. The Dream of the Rood
A. Episodic French and German poetry
35. What is the primary purpose of Chetien de
B. Resemblance to an epic Troye’s medieval romances?
26. D 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. D 31. D 32. C 33. B 34. B 35. C
A. To convert readers to Christianity D. He dropped the supernatural theme

through positive examples found in Arthurian legend.
B. To inform illiterate readers about 40. Which of the following best defines alliter-
Arthurian legend ative verse?
C. To reconcile the hero’s responsibilities A. A traditional form with repeated conso-
in love and wars nant sounds
D. To sway audiences away from reading B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic
pentameter with traditional rhymes
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tales of courtly love
36. In “Everyman,” which of the following pro- C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th cen-
vides the path to redemption in the after- turies
life?
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D. A form brought to England in the years
A. Faith during the Norman invasion
B. Time spent in prayer 41. Which of the following genres applies to
C. Donations made to the monastery Langland’s “Piers Plowman”?
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D. Good deeds A. Allegory
37. What is the primary focus of Bede’s Eccle- B. Social satire
siastical History? C. Dream vision
A. The life of everyday people in the 5th
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and 6th centuries
42. What was the primary function of The Rule
B. The conversion of Britain to Christian- of Saint Benedict?
ity
A. The Rule of Saint Benedict standardized
C. The history of Christianity before it monasticism.
reached Britain
B. The Rule of Saint Benedict was the first
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D. The spread of Christianity after the Nor- example of poetry written in the vernacular
man Conquest language.
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38. In Beowulf, what is the significance of the C. The Rule of Saint Benedict explained
term whale-road? the new architectural style.
A. The term is an allusion to Beowulf’s D. The Rule of Saint Benedict offered an
golden torque. early example of dream poetry.
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B. The term represents the comitatus ethic. 43. What is the significance of the phrase pro-
tecting the heart from Acrene Wisse?
C. The term is an example of kenning. A. The phrase refers to anchoresses respon-
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D. The term is an example of caesura. sibility to defend other Christians.

39. What was historically significant about B. The phrase suggests that women should
Chretien de Troyes Yvain, le Chevalier au safeguard their spirituality through total
Lion? withdrawal from the world.
A. He recast the history of Arthur into the C. The phrase is considered one of the pos-
romance genre. itive effects of prayer.
B. He was the first to discuss the Knights D. The phrase involves becoming a nun in
of the Round Table. order to escape the bad influence of men.
C. He separated Arthurian legend from 44. How does The Cross, as speaker, portray
tales of courtly love. Jesus in The Dream of the Rood?
36. D 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. A 41. D 42. A 43. B

A. As the suffering Christ A. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia

Regum Britanniae
B. As the ransom God demands for the sins
of humanity B. Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Di-
vine Love
C. As a special Jewish teacher
C. Marie de France’s Lanval
D. As the heroic noble warrior
D. Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
45. Which of the following is the best example
of a mystery play? 50. Why was the alliterative revival associated
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with nationalism and nostalgia?
A. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
A. The stories of King Arthur made all En-
B. “The Second Shepherds’ Play” glish people nostalgic.
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C. “The Knight’s Tale” B. Metrical poetry simply got boring.
D. “The Dream of the Rood” C. Alliterative poetry was much easier to
write.
46. In Beowulf, what does the representation
an
of Hrothgar suggest about rulers? D. Alliterative poetry was associated with
a world before the French influence, a world
A. Kings often used generous gifts to re-
before the Conquest.
cruit their followers.
51. How did the Norman Conquest affect the in-
B. It was necessary for kings to fight in
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ternational political situation in England?
order to keep their power.
A. The Norman Conquest increased the
C. The ability to attract fellow warriors French influence.
was a necessary attribute of power.
B. The Norman Conquest marked the last
D. All of these answers attempt for a Scandinavian nation to over-
47. “The Second Shepherds’ Play” is part of take England.
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which play cycle? C. The Norman Conquest ended cultural

A. Cornish cycle interaction with Norway and Denmark.
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B. York cycle
52. Which of the following characteristics are
C. Roman cycle not essential to knightly chivalry as de-
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D. Wakefield cycle scribed by Chretien de Troyes?

48. Why was Acrene Wisse written in the ver- A. The knight is religious.
nacular language? B. The knight is submissive to his lad.
Na
A. English was a more commonly used lan- C. The knight is dedicated to his feudal
guage in the Church. lord.
B. The audience was likely unable to read D. The knight is blond, tall, and elegant.
French.
53. What does Chaucer write concerning the
C. Women were more educated, so they devastating effect of the Black Death upon
knew more languages. English social, cultural, and economic life
in “The Canterbury Tales”?
D. The audience was partially lay-women
with little knowledge of Latin. A. Priests died in great numbers.
49. Which of the following is not an example B. Rent prices increased because of the
of Arthurian legend? market boom.
44. D 45. B 46. D 47. D 48. D 49. B 50. D 51. D 52. D 53. C
C. The upper classes were burdened by 59. Which of the following most accurately ex-
their monopoly of scarce resources. plains the Bretons influence on medieval
D. Chaucer wrote no direct descriptions. literature?
54. Which of the following best defines A. The Bretons roots were in the Celtic cul-
wergild? tural tradition.
A. Giving inanimate objects human quali- B. Breton literature had a profound effect
ties on medieval literature in England.
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B. A metaphorical compound C. The Bretons represented prominent
forces in the Norman invasion.
C. A reparational payment demanded of a
person guilty of homicide D. All of these answers
60. In Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion, what is the
gd
D. The image used to share qualities in a
metaphor or simile significance of trouthe?
55. Between which movements do historians A. Trouthe represents the supernatural as-
situate literature in the Middle Ages? pects of the medieval romance.
an
A. English Reformation and Elizabethan B. Trouthe alludes to the British conver-
Age sion from paganism to Christianity.
B. Civil war and the Restoration C. Trouthe emphasizes the positive side of
C. Roman departure and the Renaissance feudalism.
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D. Romanticism and the Enlightenment D. Trouthe suggests the imminent return
to a pre-feudal social organization.
56. What was the focus of Geoffrey of Mon-
mouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae? 61. Why is the concept of feudalism important
in medieval literature?
A. The life and poems of Caedmon
A. Feudalism represents the world of schol-
B. The conversion of Britain from pagan-
ars who studied the ancient texts of the past.
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ism
C. The early years of William the Con-
B. The feudal world is one of glamor and
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queror
beauty.
D. The tales of King Arthur
C. Feudalism represents an economic hi-
57. Which genre is based on interactions be- erarchy, the upper levels of which created
tween three feudal classes? and consumed literature.
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A. Dream poetry D. Feudalism represents interesting family

B. Romance quarrels that make for good stories.
C. Lai 62. In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the an-
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chorite was justified through what pur-

D. Estates satire
pose?
58. Complete the following statement.
Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, “The A. To serve the church
Book of the Duchess,” to praise the young B. To withdraw and meditate upon God
Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died
C. To pray
of:
D. To preach
A. the Black Plague.
63. Pride in one’s accomplishments was impor-
B. unrequited love for John of Gaunt. tant to the Anglo-Saxon thegn. If so, why
C. drowning in the Thames. does Hrothgar say in Beowulf: do not give
way to pride?
D. childbirth.
54. C 55. C 56. D 57. D 58. A 59. D 60. C 61. C 62. B
A. Hrothgar believes it is important to stay A. Both use the comitatus ethic to explain
focused on revenge. their hero’s motivations.
B. Pride is one of the deadly sins. B. Both include references to William the
Conqueror.
C. Pride causes one to appear immodest.
D. Extreme pride can cause one to be C. Both include the theme of broken
overly secure and make mistakes. promises between lovers.
64. In the first decades after the Norman Con- D. Both feature mentions of the conversion
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quest, which of the following best describes from paganism.
the use of language in England? 68. The home of Chaucer’s royal patron and
A. The conquered English quickly studied friend, John of Gaunt, was burned during
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French. the Peasants’ Revolt of 138. What events
led to this revolt?
B. The French conquerors learned English
in order to be able to govern well. A. Government policies were incorrectly
based on the idea that the rich would help
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C. Latin became a common language for the poor survive.
interaction between the two groups.
B. The high rates of the poll tax were con-
D. Most of the English population went on sidered unfair.
speaking English with French used mostly
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among the upper-ruling class. C. Peasants were jointly united against the
pattern of upper-class harassments
65. In Acrene Wisse, what is the author’s ad-
vice regarding priests? D. All of these answers
A. Priests should be used as examples of 69. What led to the alliterative revival?
ecclesiastical life.
A. A return to reading poetry from the 11th
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B. Priests should be avoided, because men and 12th centuries

are bad influences.
B. The influence of southern courtly poets
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C. Priests should offer anchoresses their writing in French and Latin

only connection to the outside world.
C. A surge in English nationalism
D. Priests should be honored, because men
are naturally more spiritual. D. The introduction to new poetic forms
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during the Norman invasion

66. Which of the following best defines mysti-
cism? 70. In Beowulf, what is the significance of the
term wyrd?
A. The dream connection between the two
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sexes A. Wyrd has to do with reparational pay-

ments exacted from people guilty of homi-
B. A literary genre written mainly in the cide.
Anglo-Saxon era
B. Wyrd is related to the folly of earthly
C. The human soul’s tendency towards in- possessions.
timate union with the divine
C. Wyrd suggests the idea of fate.
D. The separation between humanity and
divinity D. Wyrd is an allusion to the impending
conversion to Christianity.
67. How do the themes of Marie de France’s
Lanval and Chretien de Troyes Yvain com- 71. What distinguishes morality plays from
pare? mystery plays?
63. D 64. D 65. B 66. C 67. C 68. D 69. C 70. C 71. C

A. Mystery plays involve Christian themes, C. This interaction led to more stories
whereas morality plays do not. about the English conversion to Christian-
ity.
B. Morality plays involve Christian themes,
whereas mystery plays do not. D. The cultural exchange led to more sto-
ries about ancient myths.
C. Morality plays were written individu-
ally, whereas mystery plays are in cycles. 76. What is the significance of Sutton Hoo?
A. Sutton Hoo provides architectural evi-
dence from a virtually unexplored period
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D. Mystery plays were written individu-
ally, whereas morality plays are in cycles. of history.
B. Sutton Hoo gives more information
72. Which of the following best describes how about the society that created Beowulf.
gd
Bede was a typical Christian of his time? C. Sutton Hoo provides insight into the
A. He combined zealous Christianity with conversion from paganism to Christianity.
English patriotism. D. All of these answers
77. How did the Normans revolutionize En-
an
B. He did not believe that Christianity was
an essential part of English culture. glish poetry?
C. He thought that England was a pagan A. They introduced alliterative verse.
wilderness. B. They introduced rhyming octosyllabic
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D. He believed that English Christians couplets.
needed to move to a New Israel. C. They introduced iambic pentameter.
73. Which of the following is not an example D. They introduced metaphor.
of a lai? 78. Arthur, the good King of Britain held a
A. Sir Launfal rich and royal court.
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B. Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath A. This line suggests that Britain was the
most important place in the medieval world.
C. Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale
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D. Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love

B. This line suggests that good kings are
74. Which of the following lines provides an rewarded by God.
example of alliterative verse?
C. This line suggests that Arthur was
A. “The knight took a step toward/The
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beloved by the English, because he was

maiden she called him forward” good.
B. “her biginneth the earste boc of ures ant D. This line suggests the elegance neces-
ureisuns the gode beoth to seggen” sary for the feudal king to display being at
Na
C. “doughty in theire doings and dredde the top of the economic hierarchy.
ay schame” 79. Which of the following is the best example
of a morality play?
D. “I left my lands to come where you
are/To find you I have come so far!” A. “The Seafarer”
75. How did the interaction between the En- B. “Everyman”
glish and the Bretons affect literature? C. “The Second Shepherds’ Play”
A. The exposure to new forms ended the D. “The Dream of the Rood”
production of lais.
80. Beowulf introduces the reader to the life
B. This interaction led to the influence of of a thegn. Which of the following best
Arthurian legend on French literature. describes the role of the thegn?
72. A 73. D 74. C 75. B 76. D 77. B 78. D 79. B 80. A

A. The thegn is a warrior who has sworn A. The defeat of the English at the hands
his loyalty to an Anglo-Saxon lord. of the Vikings in 991
B. The thegn is a class of proto-capitalism B. The First Crusade in the 11th-century
opposed to the guild system. C. The Second Crusade in the 12th-century
C. The thegn is a warrior who pays money
in exchange for exemption from military D. The Norman Conquest in 1066
service.
er
D. The thegn is an Anglo-Saxon lord who significance of the following line from Ju-
partakes in the comitatus ethic. lian of Norwich’s “Revelations of Divine
81. What is the significance of the “Green Love”: “all manner of things shall be well”?
gd
Knight”? A. The world is a happy and wonderful
A. He suggests the lack of knightly themes place.
in Middle English poetry. B. We can make the world better if we
B. He alludes to an ancient Anglo-Saxon work hard.
an
ruler. C. There are many things in the world to
C. He represents the link with Celtic love.
mythology. D. The love and grace of God can change
lives for the better.
Ch
D. He suggests a continued tie with pagan-
ism. 86. What was the function of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle?
characterizes the work of early monks in A. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the
shaping future medieval church life? history of the continuity and persistence of
Anglo-Saxon culture in Old English.
A. They were extremely charismatic.
n
B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers a lay

B. They wanted to move from the basics
person’s perspective on Anglo-Saxon his-
of Christian faith to a full Christian life.
ya
tory.
C. They were promoters of the monastic C. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle focuses on
life. the courtly adventures of Anglo-Saxon En-
D. All of these answers glish.
ra
83. The adventure of another lay/Just as it hap- D. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle presents
pened, I’ll relay. an accurate description of the Second and
Third Crusades.
A. The line has obvious rhyme and meter,
Na
and the opening words suggest a story of 87. Which of the following is not a theme in
adventure and excitement. Chretien de Troyes Yvain, le Chevalier au
Lion?
B. The strong alliteration creates rhythm
that accentuates the adventurous spirit. A. The relationships between knights and
ladies
C. The line seems to frame a story with
plot complications. B. The feudal system
D. The line alludes to a poem with religious C. The knight’s lack of loyalty to his lord
undertones. D. The conduct of wars and tournaments
84. The Battle of Maldon describes which his- 88. In The Wanderer, what is the speaker’s pri-
torical event? mary conflict?
81. C 82. D 83. A 84. A 85. D 86. A 87. C 88. B

A. The desire to travel in search of wisdom D. As a modest ruler who defended his
with the social conventions own borders
B. The folly of earthly things with the wis- 93. Which of the following would most likely
dom of heaven be the theme of a medieval romance?
C. The speaker’s spiritual regression with A. The story of an English village’s conver-
the increasing trend of Christian conversion to Christianity
sions B. A first-person story of the Norman in-
er
D. The desire for a more advanced world vasion
with stagnant social progress C. The adventure of a knight who rescues
89. Despite the fact that the Anglo-Saxon a maiden
Chronicle continued well into the Norman
gd
D. A poem that features courtly love but
rule of the 12th century, which king origi-
denounces supernaturalism
nally commissioned this work?
94. What literary term is suggested by the
A. King Harold quote steadfast companions will stand by
an
B. King Arthur him from Beowulf?
C. William the Conqueror A. The golden torque
D. Alfred the Great B. Hurnting
90. What is the verse form of Marie de France’s C. Comitatus ethic
Ch
Lanval?
D. Kenning
A. Dactylic pentameter 95. Which of the following statements regard-
B. Octosyllabic couplets ing the success and importance of the oral
tradition of literature is true?
C. Heroic couplets
A. Monks memorized many passages of
n
D. Clerihew
scripture, preserving scriptures.
91. How was mystical literature significant?
B. Scops recited poems to noble audiences,
ya
A. Mystical literature suggested the con- preserving the stories and poetic tradition.
tinued link between paganism and Chris-
tianity.
C. Thegns were nobles who liked litera-
B. Mystical literature prohibited women ture, and their patronage made poets popu-
ra
from writing in the voice of God. lar.

C. Mystical literature ended the trend of D. Anchoresses recited poems to occupy
poems in which God was cast as a lover. their time alone in their cells.
Na
D. Mystical literature provided a place for 96. In Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale,” why
women to write romantic and religious lit- would the miller’s determination to speak
erature. following the knight appear unsettling to
92. In Lanval, how does Marie de France repre- the 14th century audience?
sent King Arthur? A. The knight had not finished his tale.
A. As a historical figure with whom her B. The miller did not ask politely.
audience is largely unfamiliar
C. A member of the clergy should have
B. As a warrior king spoken next.
C. As someone who broken the tradition D. The miller was far beneath the knight
of offering lavish gifts to his supporters in social order, so the miller should have
89. D 90. B 91. D 92. D 93. C 94. C 95. B 96. D

deferred to the person who ranked above A. The breakdown of England’s once solid-
him. ified political identity
97. In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” what is the
B. The success of the Battle of Maldon
significance of “barley bread”?
A. Barley bread provides an example of me- C. The translation of Latin texts into the
dieval estates satire. vernacular language
B. Barley bread represents the wife’s an- D. The suppression of the Norman Inva-
swer to the belief that virginity is superior sion
er
to marriage.
100. How did French become the dominant lan-
C. Barley bread suggests the heroine’s guage of England?
state as a fallen woman.
gd
A. King Alfred wanted all educated people
D. Barley bread signifies Chaucer’s use of
to speak French.
alliterative verse.
98. Which of the following themes appears in B. Many English nobles preferred French
“The Miller’s Tale”? because of the culture’s superior poetry.
A. The misuse of scripture
B. The contrast between vulgar love and
courtly love
an C. Edward the Confessor’s wife was
French, and she had great influence at court.
Ch
C. The misdirected kiss D. After the successful invasion of Eng-
D. All of these answers land, the language of William of Normandy
became the language of the elite.
99. King Alfred was associated with which of
the following events?
97. B 98. D 99. C 100. D

n
ya
ra
Na
er
11. Medieval Women Writers
gd
an
Ch
1. How did the development of nation-states 4. How do historians explain the increase in
in the late Middle Ages affect women? the number of troubadours in the Middle
Ages?
A. they lost the ability to be anchoresses
A. the public disinterest in popular tales
B. they lost much of their political and eco-
about romance
nomic power
n
B. the increased interest in stories written

C. they were able to acquire more political
in medieval Latin
capital
ya
C. the decreased public interest in religious

D. they took on more important roles in stories
the economy
D. the French lords’ lack of interest in tales
2. What is a "lay" in medieval literature?
of courtly love
ra
A. a short lyrical poem 5. Which literary device is most important

B. a story of a saint’s life structurally in The Book of the City of
Ladies?
Na
C. a type of book of hours

A. assonance
D. a devotional text used by anchoresses
B. allegory
3. Which of the following best characterize
noble women in the Middle Ages? C. litotes
A. they were expected to fix problems in D. simile

their husbands’ absence 6. How did the fall of Roman imperialism af-
fect Britain?
B. they ran the household
A. it led to the rise of Germanic cultures
C. they were expected to be religious role
models B. it created a conflict Christianity and pa-
ganism
D. All of the Above
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. D 7. A
308 Chapter 11. Medieval Women Writers
C. it led to the end of Roman forms of gov- 12. In the context of Medieval literature, what
erning does "inner rule" mean?
D. All of the Above A. it includes issues that pertain to the
7. Who were the troubadours? heart
A. poets from France and Italy B. it is part of the anchoress’ inner self
C. it is the most important part of Ancrene
B. men who wrote only in the mystical tra-
Wisse
dition
er
D. All of the Above
C. the authors of conduct books
13. In the context of Medieval literature, what
D. heretics persecuted by the Church does the term "mystical marriage" mean?
8. What is the function of Ancrene Wisse?
gd
A. it is a union supported by the Church
A. paradox B. it is a union between anchorites
B. affective piety C. it is a mystical union between two peo-
C. imagery ple
D. pathos
9. Which writer(s) is/are associated with mys-
ticism?
an D. it is a spiritual union with God
14. Who wrote The Rules of Courtly Love?
A. Christine de Pizan
Ch
A. Richard Rolle B. Catherine of Sienna
B. Walter Hilton C. Andreas Capellanus
C. Julian of Norwich D. Chretien de Troye

15. What is "scholasticism" as it relates to the
D. All of the Above medieval era?
10. Which of the following women is most
n
A. a period in which philosophers at-

closely associated with monastic life?
tempted to reconcile philosophy with re-
A. Marie de France ligion
ya
B. Hildegard of Bingen B. a period of educational activity

C. Christine de Pizan C. a period associated with the Carolingian
Renaissance
D. The Wife of Bath
ra
D. All of the Above

11. How did the Christian laws about marriage
differ from those of Germanic tribes’ cus- 16. With which literary form is Ancrene Wisse
toms? most closely related?
Na
A. the Germanic tribes allowed relation- A. estate satire

ships between family members, while the B. medieval lays
Church prohibited marriage between rela- C. conduct books
tives
D. medieval allegory
B. the Church outlawed marriages be-
17. Which provides the best example of a me-
tween children, while Germanic tribes tol-
dieval allegory?
erated them
A. The Book of Margery Kempe
C. the Germanic tribes tolerated polygamy,
while the Church made monogamy the only B. "The Wooing of Our Lord"
acceptable type of union C. "An Orison to Almighty God"
D. All of the Above D. The Romance of the Rose
8. D 9. D 10. B 11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. D 16. C 17. D
18. How was Christine de Pizan a unique fe- A. courtly love

male writer for her time? B. peasant life
A. she was the only woman to work in the C. praise of chastity
oral tradition
D. female literacy
B. she was the first female mystic 24. Why do most critics also refer to the Middle
C. she wrote in order to support herself Ages as the Dark Ages?
D. she was the only woman to write me- A. it was a period of surging Roman insti-
er
dieval lays tutions
19. Which of the following women is widely B. the production of historical records in-
considered the first feminist? creased
gd
C. there are few primary sources that re-
A. Margery Kempe
construct the history of the time
B. Catherine of Siena D. the lack of technology made it literally
C. Thecla dark
D. Christine de Pizan
20. Which is/are typical of the supernatural in
medieval romance? an
25. How did courtly literature characterize its
heroines?
A. they were never chaste or pious
Ch
B. they always represented the evil side of
A. enchantment
love
B. spells C. they were sources of inspiration for
C. fairy trickery heroic action
D. All of the Above D. they were examples of mystical unions

26. What is oral transmission?
n
21. What is the authorship controversy as it

relates to Heloise and Abelard? A. a method of communication used solely
by the early Church
ya
A. the critical debate about the verification

of events in the letters B. the spreading of material by word of
mouth
B. the idea that Abelard wrote all of the
C. a mode of communication used mainly
letters
after the rise of literacy
ra
C. the issue of whether there is a "female

D. a method of communication that be-
voice" in the letters
came prominent at the end of the Middle
D. All of the Above Ages
Na
22. Which event(s) characterized the Middle 27. What were "conduct books"?
Ages? A. books that established standards of be-
A. invasions from barbarian tribes havior for women
B. books that were primarily intended to
B. financial deficits from increased military
teach men how to treat their wives
expenditures
C. books that conformed with strict stan-
C. falling birth rates dards of behavior
D. All of the Above D. books that recounted historical events
23. Which is/are a theme(s) of "The Acts of in the medieval era
Thecla?" 28. What is hagiography?
18. C 19. D 20. D 21. D 22. D 23. C 24. C 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. D
A. the literary form linked closely with A. architecture came to be influenced by

courtly love the Christian church
B. a method of creating a mystical union B. art revolved around Christian themes
C. a term associated with oral transmission C. the Church became instrumental in the
formation of laws
D. the writing and studying of saints’ lives D. All of the Above
34. How did increased lay participation in reli-
er
29. In the Middle Ages, which class of people
gious life impact monasteries?
was most likely to be literate?
A. monks A. it made them more valuable sources of
information
gd
B. working class women
B. it made them seem irrelevant since they
C. working class men separated religious life from worldly life
D. peasants
C. it made them more important since
an
30. In The Book of the City of Ladies, how does there were few literate lay worshipers
Pizan treat the issue of women’s sexuality?
D. it made them symbols of the Church’s
A. she denies that there is a double stan- progress
dard
35. To whom were The Lais of Marie de France
Ch
B. she says that men should be allowed to dedicated?
be more sexually active than women
A. King Alfred
C. she contends that women should adhere
to traditional rules of women B. King Arthur
D. she attacks double standards for the C. King Henry
sexes
n
D. King Richard
31. Which of the following themes do both Ju-
lian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena ex- 36. What is an anchoress?
ya
plore? A. a medieval female hermit

A. the idea that community is essential to B. a woman who rejects the support of the
salvation community because she feels it is sexist
ra
B. the concept of dualism of body and soul

C. a male anchorite
D. a religious teacher in the medieval era
C. the concept of a sensual God
37. According to Pizan, what is the most impor-
Na
D. the idea that God is separate from the

human experience of love tant element in a woman’s quest for equal-
ity?
32. Which of the following couples exempli-
fy/exemplifies courtly love? A. chastity
A. Lancelot and Guinevere B. piety
B. Dante and Beatrice C. education
C. Arthur and Guinevere D. secular political activity
D. All of the Above 38. Which is the best example of the "dou-
33. In what way(s) did the legalization of Chris- ble standard" that exists in tales of courtly
tianity impact medieval culture? love?
29. A 30. D 31. C 32. D 33. D 34. B 35. C 36. A 37. C 38. C
A. women are always villains, while men A. they were not allowed to divorce their
are always heroes husbands
B. women are always involved in supernat- B. they were not allowed to own a business
ural plots while men’s storylines tend to be without permission
more realistic
C. they were not allowed to inherit land if
C. men are allowed to boast about their af- they had any brothers
fairs, while women must keep them secret
D. All of the Above
er
44. Which of the following was the most copied
D. men are represented as immoral while book of the Middle Ages?
women are always presented as chaste
A. The Romance of the Rose
39. In the Middle Ages, what was the status
gd
of a married woman in relation to her hus- B. "Book of Hours"
band? C. The Bible
A. she was considered her husband’s prop- D. The Art of Courtly Love
erty
an
45. In "The Wife of Bath’s Tale," what does Al-
B. she was considered equal to her hus- isoun say women want most?
band
A. freedom
C. she was more legally powerful than her
B. love
Ch
husband
D. she was her husband’s property, but C. education
could not be mistreated under law D. chastity
40. Which of the following characterized court 46. When did the Norman Invasion take place?
life in the Middle Ages?
A. 9th century
n
A. recitations by poets
B. 10th century
B. knightly tournaments
C. 11th century
ya
C. games
D. 12th century
D. All of the Above 47. In the Middle Ages, how did religious and
41. In the Medieval era, women most com- secular concepts of virginity differ?
monly worked as
ra
A. secular authorities said that virginity

A. retailers was unimportant, while the Church highly
B. domestic servants valued it
Na
C. spinners B. the Church said that virginity was

unimportant, while the secular authorities
D. All of the Above highly valued it
42. In the Middle Ages, nuns also performed C. secular authorities said that virginity
which of the following roles? was an ethereal treasure, while religious
A. teachers doctrines said it was spendable
B. scribes D. religious doctrines said that virginity
was an ethereal treasure, while secular au-
C. authors
thorities said it was spendable
D. All of the Above 48. How did courtly romances break down the
43. Which is true of medieval women? virgin/whore dichotomy?
39. A 40. D 41. D 42. D 43. D 44. C 45. A 46. C 47. D 48. B
A. they deemphasized the importance of 53. What are "books of hours?"

chastity A. popular books before the invention of
B. they redefined women as attainable vs the printing press
unattainable, rather than virgin vs whore B. books of prayers used at Christian Mass
C. they indicated that women’s sexual con-
duct should not be classified by men C. books of information about the history
D. they rarely explored issues of sexuality, of the Church
er
love, or romance D. private books of prayers to be recited
49. Why do most historians think monasticism throughout the day
appealed to medieval women? 54. Which of these female writers is most
closely associated with tears?
gd
A. it provided women with the opportu-
nity to protect their own property A. Julian of Norwich
B. it provided women with a place to nour- B. Margery Kempe
ish their intellectual growth C. Catherine of Siena
an
C. it allowed women to exercise political D. Catherine de Pizan
authority in their communities
55. Which of the following typify the oral-
D. All of the Above formulaic?
50. In The Book of the City of Ladies, what is
Ch
A. The repetition of words
the function of the character Reason?
B. The use of epithets with character’s
A. she offers real reasons as to why women names
are valuable to society
C. An episodic structure
B. she literally helps build the city
D. All of the Above
C. she helps the narrator see the merits of
n
56. Which of the following was a result of

women Charlemange’s decree on the production
D. All of the Above of books?
ya
51. From which lay is the quote "she had no A. it ended the Church’s role in the cre-
equal in the kingdom" taken? ation of books
A. "Lanval" B. it led to a sudden increase of women as
ra
scholars and authors

B. "La Fresne"
C. it declared that books should be pro-
C. "Bisclavert" duced by men
D. "Equitan"
Na
D. it opened up new opportunities for

52. How did travel at the time of the Crusades women to learn
impact Western Europe? 57. How did the increase in universities affect
A. people brought tales of romance from most middle-class women?
different literary and cultural traditions A. they were exposed to new opportunities
back from their trips to learn in universities
B. merchants started to import rare silks B. they were not able to attend so they
and spices from new trade roots were virtually unaffected
C. architects from Western Europe were C. they were not able to attend so their ed-
influenced by new Eastern styles ucation levels declined, compared to men
D. All of the Above
49. D 50. D 51. D 52. D 53. D 54. B 55. D 56. C 57. C
D. most of them were unable to read, so A. Age of Enlightenment

they were not admitted
B. Age of Reason
58. Which are examples of devotional acts?
C. Platonic Period
A. pilgrimages D. Dark Ages
B. charitable donations 64. What is "the gender fallacy"?
C. prayers on the sinner’s behalf A. the problem of a "man writing as a
woman"
er
D. All of the Above
B. the idea that woman cannot be as edu-
59. Which topic(s) is/are explored in The Lais
cated as men
of Marie de France?
gd
C. the idea that noble women are more sim-
A. superstition
ilar to men than peasant women are
B. adultery
D. the notion that chastity is impossible
C. jealous fathers for men
an
D. All of the Above 65. In what centuries did mystical women writ-
ers primarily work?
60. Who were lay mystics?
A. 8th and 9th centuries
A. people who attempt to found their own
B. 9th and 10th centuries
Ch
religious orders
C. 10th and 11th centuries
B. people who reject asceticism and con-
templation D. 14th and 15th centuries
C. people who attempted to contact God 66. Which best summarizes Christine de
without the intervention of an established Pizan’s reaction to The Romance of the
religious order Rose?
n
D. people who were formally tied to reli- A. she objected to the treatment of secular-
ism as evil
ya
gious orders
61. Kempe’s acts of devotion included: B. she applauded its promotion of female
education
A. meditation
C. she attacked it as misogynistic
ra
B. wearing white clothing

D. she praised the objectification of
C. weeping women
D. All of the Above 67. Which is true of childbirth in the Middle
Na
Ages?
62. With which of the following genres is The
Romance of the Rose most closely associ- A. it was normally supervised by a midwife
ated?
A. medieval lay B. it was typically dangerous for mother
and infant
B. hagiography
C. it was normally done without medical
C. mysticism equipment
D. dream vision D. All of the Above
63. Which of the following is an alternative 68. Which speaker said that "God is more
name for the Middle Ages? nearer to us than our own soul?"
58. D 59. D 60. C 61. D 62. D 63. D 64. A 65. D 66. C 67. D 68. A 69. A
A. Julian of Norwich 74. Which of the following themes/motifs

B. Margery Kempe was/were often found in literature of
"courtly love"?
C. Catherine of Siena
A. nobility
D. Catherine de Pizan
B. adultery
69. In the medieval Church, devotional acts
C. chastity
A. cancelled out punishment due to sin D. All of the Above
er
B. depended entirely on literacy 75. Which text(s) is/are associated with mysti-
cism?
C. were considered "unimportant" by mys-
tics A. The Canterbury Tales
gd
D. were only performed by men B. "Revelations of Divine Love"
70. Which of these female writers was least C. "Book of Hours"
likely to have been literate? D. The Romance of the Rose
an
A. Julian of Norwich 76. What do most critics find notable about the
B. Margery Kempe virtues that Pizan highlights in her work?
C. Catherine de Pizan A. she values reason and activity instead

of silence
D. Heloise
Ch
B. she emphasizes practical rather than
71. In The Romance of the Rose, which text
theological virtues
does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspi-
ration? C. she does not mention traditional virtues
like piety
A. The Book of Margery Kempe
D. All of the Above
B. "Revelations of Divine Love"
77. How did lay literacy affect traditional de-
n
C. "The Wooing of Our Lord" votional practices?

D. The Art of Courtly Love A. people stopped reading the Bible
ya
72. What was a virago?

B. people increasingly turned to visual art
A. a heroine who used female attributes to in order to learn about religion
become a saint
C. people could be religious without the
ra
B. a saint who was NOT the humble, pious, help of a clergy

and chaste figure she was expected to be
D. interest in the Church history declined
C. an asexual female saint rapidly
Na
D. an anchorite 78. According to most historians, why was it

73. How would you describe the phrase "oral- so important for a man to marry a virgin
formulaic," as you learned it in this course? wife?
A. As a term associated only with religious A. it assured him that his children were his
written literature own
B. As a device used to describe the flaws B. it assured him that his wife would carry
in the oral tradition a dowry with her
C. As a technique that became popular af- C. it assured him that his wife was not a
ter the invention of the printing press sinner
D. As a method of composing stories in the D. it assured him that her wife would never
oral tradition commit adultery
70. B 71. D 72. C 73. D 74. D 75. B 76. D 77. C 78. A

79. Which of the following is an example of A. it improved communication between so-

female hagiography? cieties
A. "Revelations of Divine Love" B. it increased the amount of printed ma-
B. "Acts of Thecla" terial available to the masses
C. "The Wooing of Our Lord" C. it created a more unrestricted circula-

tion of texts
D. "Orison to an Almighty God"
D. All of the Above
80. What was "courtly love"?
er
85. What is affective piety?
A. a type of literature concerned with the
behavior of anchorites A. a term associated with oral transmission
B. a type of early literature produced solely
gd
by medieval women writers B. an important trait of the medieval lay
C. a literary convention based on the code C. a literary device used in estates satire
of behavior associated with chivalrous ro-
D. a dramatic demonstration of faith
mance
an
86. What do most critics believe the "rose" of
D. a method of oral transmission The Romance of the Rose symbolizes?
81. Identify the speaker of these lines: "sweet
A. justice
Jesus, Jesus love"
B. piety
Ch
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe C. sexuality
C. Catherine of Siena D. education
D. Christine de Pizan 87. In Medieval times, who were "femme

soles"?
82. Why did Catherine of Siena refuse to marry
n
a husband? A. anchorites who lived in seclusion

A. she said that the institution was too B. women who operated their own busi-
ya
flawed nesses without men

B. she claimed she was already married to C. women who were villains in stories of
God courtly love
C. she wanted to make a political state- D. educated women
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ment against the Church 88. What was a Lollard?

D. she was concerned about loss of prop- A. a hero in a courtly romance
erty
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83. Which best describes the work of a mystic? B. a member of a sect that was considered
heretical
A. the mystic is primarily tasked with in-
tellectual work within monasteries C. a female mystic
B. the mystic is a visionary who experi- D. an illiterate anchoress

ences divine insight 89. What does the term "monasticism" mean?
C. the mystic uses a religious platform to A. it describes a life based on retreat from
promote equal rights for women society
D. the mystic usually works as a scribe B. it describes the importance of commu-
84. How did the printing press alter medieval nication with others in order to reach sal-
culture? vation
79. B 80. C 81. C 82. B 83. B 84. D 85. D 86. C 87. B 88. B 89. A
C. it describes a form of worship based on 95. When did the Roman Empire formally le-
praying to devotional art galize Christianity?
D. it describes a way of life that became A. The 3rd century
popular after the Middle Ages
B. The 4th century
90. The Book of the City of Ladies articulates
which of the following themes: C. The 7th century
A. the value of practical virtues over tradi- D. The 8th century
tional feminine virtues
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96. In the context of Medieval literature, what
B. the merit of women does "outer rule" mean?
C. the lack of truth in men’s stereotypes A. it includes issues that pertain to the
about women heart
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D. All of the Above B. it refers to anchoress’ everyday behav-
91. In the Middle Ages, how did divorce laws ior
differ for the sexes?
C. it is part of the anchoress’ inner self
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A. both sexes could legally divorce
D. it is the most important part of Ancrene
B. only women could legally divorce Wisse
C. only men could legally divorce 97. In the Middle Ages, how did society treat
D. both sexes could divorce only with the prostitution?
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other’s consent
A. prostitution was considered problem-
92. With which genre is "The Passion of Saints atic but legal
Perpetua and Felicity" most closely associ-
ated? B. the Church opposed prostitution on
moral grounds
A. medieval lay
C. prostitution was considered a solution
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B. courtly love
to epidemics of rape
C. hagiography
D. All of the Above
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D. romance
98. Which of the following inventions is asso-
93. Which of the following characterize(s) a
ciated with the rise in literacy?
lay?
A. the triptych
A. geographical unity
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B. episodic content B. the flail
C. octosyllabic couplets C. the rudder

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D. All of the Above D. the letter press

94. Which is true of medieval property laws? 99. With which text is the theme of "Christ as
A. most medieval women had some prop- mother" most closely associated?
erty A. "Revelations of Divine Love"
B. married women could hold property B. "The Book of Margery Kempe"
once they had children
C. "An Orison to Almighty God"
C. married women could hold property
without their husband’s consent D. "The Wooing of Our Lord"
D. widows could hold property
90. D 91. C 92. C 93. D 94. D 95. B 96. B 97. D 98. D 99. A
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12. The Gothic Novel
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Ch
1. How is the abbey in “The Monk” NOT A. Cousin Henry and Julia
Gothic? B. Reading
A. It is a Catholic structure.
C. Writing
B. It was built in the Middle Ages.
D. John
C. It is a sanctuary for women.
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5. In what way is Dracula NOT an “Other”

D. It is labyrinthine. figure?
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2. All of the following are ways Dracula rep- A. He is from a foreign land.
resents the “monstrous Other” EXCEPT:
B. He is racially different.
A. Dracula as foreign invader
C. He is Christian.
B. Dracula as sexual predator
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D. He is a connection to a different time.

C. Dracula as usurper of the British class
6. Which of the following best describes how
system
the novel “Frankenstein” is understood by
D. Dracula as transgressor of God’s order critics?
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3. What is NOT Gothic about the room to A. As a commentary on Victorian England

which the female protagonist of “The Yel-
low Wallpaper” is confined?
B. As an apolitical horror story
A. It has bars on the window.
C. As a novel ghostwritten by Perce Shel-
B. It is removed from the main area of the ley
house.
D. As an exploration on the effects of sci-
C. It is locked. ence on humanity
D. It is sunny. 7. Which of the following best explains the
4. What constitutes a “monstrous Other” in treatment of the heroine in “The Mysteries
“The Yellow Wallpaper”? of Udolpho”?
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. A
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A. The heroine’s fantasies about the castle 13. What is a Satanic Hero?
are combined with her fear of violation.
A. A hero who is known for being aristo-
B. She is excluded from the novel’s violent cratic, moody, and secretive
disturbances.
B. A character who is essentially kind but
C. She is excluded from the general sense performs a horrible act by accident
of isolation in the novel.
C. A hero-villain who defies the laws of
D. The heroine is robbed of psychological God’s universe
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complexity by focusing only on horror.
8. For what historical event did the Gothic D. A hero who is usually defined by his
serve as a metaphor? fatal attraction to women
14. How did the term “Gothic” become associ-
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A. The American Revolution
ated with the literary phenomenon known
B. The French Revolution as the Gothic novel?
C. The Battle of Waterloo A. The excessive violence found in the
D. The Industrial Revolution Gothic novel
9. The popularity of which Gothic novelist is
parodied in Austen’s “Northanger Abbey”?
A. Horace Walpole
an B. The barbarians that populate the Gothic
novel
C. The use of the word in the subtitle of
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B. Ann Radcliffe Walpole’s novel
C. Matthew Lewis D. The style of architecture found in the
D. Mary Shelley Gothic novel
10. What literary convention is used perva- 15. Why is it significant that Dracula is from
sively in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”? Transylvania?
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A. Satire A. Transylvania is England’s economic ri-

B. First-person narration val.
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C. Realism B. Transylvania and England had been at

war in the 1860s.
D. The uncanny doubling of characters
11. What does the character Dracula symbolize C. Transylvania represents a vaguely
known and, therefore, suspicious country.
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in the novel?
A. Modern science D. Transylvania and England were once
part of the Holy Roman Empire.
B. The consciousness
16. How do theorists suggest that the Gothic
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C. Theories of evolution novel resembles queer and camp?

D. Ancient evil
A. The body is represented in abnormal
12. Why is the concept of the sublime impor- ways.
tant in Gothic literature?
B. Women’s issues are interrogated.
A. It leads the reader to overlook the
beauty of nature. C. Gender issues are often overlooked.
B. It reminds readers of their civic duties. D. Many protagonists’ mothers are absent.
C. It causes an experience of elestasis, or
transport. 17. In “Frankenstein” how does Shelley repre-
sent science?
D. It creates a sense of contentment.
8. B 9. B 10. D 11. D 12. C 13. C 14. C 15. C 16. A 17. D
A. As potentially productive when used A. The decline in animal dissections

correctly
B. The increase in scientific experimenta-
B. As something needed for humans to ad- tion
vance
C. The end of absolute monarchy
C. As a way to resolve human madness
D. The end of the Vitalist Controversy
D. As inherently monstrous
18. In what way does Radcliffe depart from 23. Based on your readings for this course,
which of the following best summarizes
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Walpole’s earlier tradition?
how most critics interpret the crumbling
A. She creates a strong male hero to rescue castle in “The Castle of Otranto”?
Emily.
A. The castle represents the presence of
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B. She is not concerned with issues of right-
newer technologies.
ful inheritance.
C. She sets the novel in present day. B. The castle signifies the ruin of feudal
medievalism.
D. She resolves the appearance of super-
an
natural phenomena. C. The castle symbolizes the desire for a
more powerful aristocracy.
19. In which way does Gilman’s “The Yellow
Wallpaper” include elements of the un- D. The castle shows the lack of change in
canny? popular architecture styles.
Ch
A. It reflects a woman’s everyday life. 24. According to Radcliffe, what is the differ-
B. An everyday object causes her terror. ence between terror and horror?
C. An apparently normal person is re- A. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.
vealed as a man.
B. Terror contracts the soul.
D. It features a body transformation.
C. Terror involves uncertainty and obscu-
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20. In what way does Thornfield Hall differ

rity.
from the Castle of Otranto, Udolpho, and
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the Convent of St. Clare? D. Horror fails to awaken and expand the
soul.
A. It is the scene of violence.
B. It is the scene of sexual transgression. 25. Which term is most closely affiliated with
the female Gothic?
C. It is the scene of redemption for the By-
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ronic hero. A. Terror
D. It serves as a kind of prison. B. Sentimentalism

21. In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra
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C. Horror
characterize the Gothic novel?
D. Ghosts
A. As a version of the Romantic novel
26. What is the origin of the vampire myth?
B. As a set of literary devices developed in
the 18th century but applicable to present A. Stoker’s “Dracula”
day
B. Beckford’s “Vathek”
C. As the antithesis of postmodernism
C. Ancient civilizations worldwide
D. As the resolution of madness
D. Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto”
22. Which one of the following events inspired
the trend of body transformation in Gothic 27. The vampire myth is NOT associated with
novels? which of the following?
18. D 19. B 20. C 21. B 22. B 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. A
A. Incest C. They always express deviant sexual ten-

B. Life rituals with blood dencies.
C. The fear of dying D. They are perceived as dangerous be-

cause they are unknown.
D. The fear of being buried alive
28. What is the significance of the “bloody bed- 33. Why does Horace Walpole make use of
chamber” in Gothic fiction? elaborate machines in “The Castle of
Otranto”?
A. It represents male sexuality.
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B. It suggests female complicity in sexual A. To encourage rational evaluation rather
deviance. than arouse emotional reactions
C. It refers to the location of murder in B. To emphasize the importance of charac-
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Gothic novels. ter development over action
D. It symbolizes the forced sequestration C. To assist with the flight and pursuit of
of women both before and after marriage. villains and their prey
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29. In “Frankenstein” how do dreams func-
D. To support the growth and development
tion?
of machinery in the 18th century
A. They provide relief from the real world.
34. In “Dracula” what does the death of Lucy
suggest?
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B. They prophesy future destruction.
C. They are part of the unconscious con- A. That sexual purity was less important
trolled by science. than society’s safety
D. They obscure deep emotions. B. That female sexuality is dangerous and

30. All of the following define the Gothic EX- must be destroyed
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CEPT: C. That women are not one-dimensional

A. The unknown
D. That men consider themselves respon-
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B. Transgression sible for their own fates

C. Reason 35. Why do scholars consider the first wave
D. The grotesque of the English Gothic novel an aspect of
Romanticism?
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31. How does Emily show initiative in “The

Mysteries of Udolpho”? A. The use of poetic prose in the Gothic
A. She leaves home in search of adventure. novel
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B. The Gothic novel’s interest in the apoc-

B. She takes control of her own money. alyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and
C. She rejects her aunt’s invitation to Christian Scriptures
travel to Italy. C. The ascendency of human reason in the
D. She converts to Catholicism. Gothic novel
32. What is the significance of “the Other” in
D. The representation of contemporary life
Gothic novels?
in the Gothic novel
A. They are almost always the subjects of
omens and curses. 36. What do scholars Michael O’Rourke and
David Collings argue about “Queer Roman-
B. They are typically heroes. ticism”?
28. D 29. B 30. C 31. B 32. D 33. C 34. B 35. B 36. A

A. Romantic literary criticism has been C. The relative location of the houses
stubbornly limited with regard to queer within the larger communities
readings.
D. The relative age of the houses
B. Deviant sexuality, including homosexu- 41. What does the term “angel in the house”
ality, has historically been associated with signify?
Romantic literature.
A. The idea that women should advise men
C. The sexual lives of Romantic-era au-
thors are not relevant to our understanding
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of queer Romanticism. B. The idea that the Victorian woman rep-
resents “the new woman”
D. The “Queer Gothic” is understudied.
37. Why does one scholar suggest that “The C. The idea that women are pure and
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Monk” represents literary transvestism? morally superior to men
A. The habited nuns D. The idea that confinement in the home

may induce madness
B. Ambrosio’s rape and murder of his sister
42. How does the use of Gothic architecture
C. Lewis’s use of a female pseudonym in

the original edition
D. Lewis’s choiceof a feminine literary an assist the Gothic novelist?
A. It engenders confusion for both the
novel’s protagonist and readers.
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genre B. It offers a secure refuge for the novel’s
38. “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people protagonist.
like John and myself secure ancestral halls C. It provides the space for a large commu-
for the summer.” How does this opening nity of people to congregate.
sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpa-
D. It represents the glory of a bygone age.
per” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic?
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43. What Gothic literary convention did NOT

A. The reference to ancestral halls
originate with Horace Walpole’s “The Cas-
B. The uncommon nature of the event tle of Otranto”?
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C. The first-person narrator A. The ancestral castle

D. The dichotomy between the concepts B. Psychological terror
of ordinary and estate
C. The supernatural
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39. How does Frankenstein’s monster learn

about the Garden of Eden? D. Physical violence
A. He reads the Bible. 44. Why has Bertha been characterized as the
“madwoman in the attic” by literary schol-
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B. He is taught by Victor about the Bible. ars?

C. He reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
A. To represent the expansion of Gothic lit-
D. He listens outside church services. erary spaces from only subterranean spaces
40. In what way do the houses in “The Yellow to attics as well
Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each B. To represent the shift from the male
other as Gothic literary structures? Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain
A. The relative location of the room in in the Victorian Gothic novel
which the “troubled” women are kept C. To make reference to the rise of personal
B. The state of disrepair when the houses responsibility in Victorian England for the
are first encountered by the protagonists care of the sick and insane
37. D 38. C 39. C 40. B 41. C 42. A 43. B 44. D

D. To make an ironic statement about the 49. “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to

point of view and marginalization of the me during my travels in Italy, which was
“Other” in Victorian England copied from the archives of the Cenci
45. All of the following are ways in which “The Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed ac-
Castle of Otranto” reflects the values of En- count of the horrors which ended in the
lightenment England EXCEPT: extinction of one of the noblest families of
that city during the Pontificate of Clement
A. The concern for the sanctity of legal in- VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following
heritance state why this quotation from Perce Shel-
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B. The interest in the lessons and values ley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EX-
of the Middle Ages for England in the 18th CEPT:
century A. The placement of the action in the past
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C. The support for the British class system and in a foreign country
B. The grandiose threatening setting that
D. The belief in British superiority to for- requires ingenious stagecraft
eign countries
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C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest
46. Which of the following terms is most level of authority
closely related to the phrase “the explained D. The use of real historical resources by
supernatural”? Shelley for the foundation of his play
Ch
A. The uncanny 50. In what way does Gothic-style architec-
B. The fallen world ture complement the themes of the Gothic
novel?
C. The “Other”
A. The ethereal quality of the interior
D. The sublime space of Gothic architecture
47. All of the following refer to “the uncanny”
B. The scientific advancement of the
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EXCEPT:
ribbed vault and flying buttress associated
A. A psychoanalytic term that explains ter- with Gothic architecture
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ror
C. The reduction in width of the stone ma-
B. The supernatural sonry in Gothic architecture
C. “Unheimlich” D. The immense scale typical of Gothic
structures
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D. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness

51. In “Jane Eyre” how does Bertha NOT trou-
48. How is the concept of “the new woman”
ble the patriarchy?
Gothic?
A. She is sexually deviant.
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A. It represents a “doubling” of Queen Vic-

toria by English women as they remake B. She exemplifies unfeminine anger.
themselves in her image. C. She is not submissive.
B. It represents the “transformation” of the D. She is understood to be mad.
traditional Victorian woman from the pri-
52. In “The Castle of Otranto” which attitude
vate sphere to the public sphere.
does Walpole express towards primogeni-
C. It represents the rise in psychological ture?
pathologies or “madness” in women in the
A. It is a necessary part of the social order.
late 19th century.
D. It represents the “pollution” of the ideal
B. It is essentially fair.
woman by foreign influences.
45. B 46. A 47. B 48. B 49. D 50. D 51. D 52. C

C. It is monstrous. 58. Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in

Stoker’s “Dracula”?
D. It will naturally fall out of favor.
53. Why do critics see Frankenstein’s monster A. Imperialism
as equivalent to the Biblical Adam? B. The Woman Question
A. His habitat is equivalent to the Garden C. Labor unions
of Eden.
D. Theories of Darwinian evolution
B. He is a mistake. 59. Although at least one critic has likened
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C. He is the first of his kind. Thornfield to Bridewell, in what way are
the two structures different?
D. He is responsible for the burden of orig-
inal sin. A. Each owner upends the prevailing law
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of the land.
54. How is Thornfield in “Jane Eyre” different
from the structures found in the first wave B. Both are former palaces.
of Gothic novels? C. The owners of each had mistresses.
A. It is an ancestral estate.
an
D. On the outside they look like homes, but
B. It contains vault-like spaces. on the inside they are prisons.
C. It is located in England. 60. Why is “The Castle of Otranto” often con-
sidered a reaction against the Enlighten-
D. It is mysterious. ment?
Ch
55. How does Stoker’s “Dracula” challenge con- A. It shows the possible dangers of science.
temporary sexual taboos?
A. Mina and Jonathan decide to live to- B. It exposes the deep flaws in medieval
gether without being married. ways of thinking about the world.
B. Lucy becomes a sexual predator. C. It marks a return to more primitive ways
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C. Van Helsing is a bachelor. of pre-Enlightenment thought and expres-

sion.
D. John Seward remains devoted to Lucy.
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56. What have literary critics read into the vam- D. It suggests that reason is more impor-
pirism in Stoker’s “Dracula”? tant than emotion.
61. What is the significance of the “wandering
A. The novel presents the vampire count
Jew” motif?
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as a father-figure of great power.

A. Religious upheaval
B. The vampire represents a beloved father
who seeks to gather together all the women B. The presence of omens
and young men (sons).
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C. The curse of immorality

C. The vampire represents sexual impo- D. Insanity
tence. 62. Who does NOT represent the “new
D. The vampire represents the future. woman”?
57. All of the following are labyrinthine in “The A. Antonia
Mysteries of Udolpho” EXCEPT:
B. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A. Valancourt’s character
C. Jane Eyre
B. Emily’s misfortunes D. Mina Murray Harker
C. The plot 63. What role does Rosario play in the Gothic
D. Emily’s mind atmosphere of “The Monk”?
53. C 54. C 55. B 56. A 57. A 58. C 59. B 60. C 61. C 62. A 63. A
A. Queer provocateur A. Daydreams

B. Heroine in distress B. Aberrant mental states
C. Angel in the house C. Violence
D. Pursued protagonist D. Sexual rapacity
64. What quality does the Gothic novel of the 69. According to Ellen Moers, how does Rad-
18th and early 19th centuries share with cliffe’s heroine differ from the typical
the majority of English novels of the same Gothic woman?
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time period? A. Emily ends up happily married.
A. Realism B. Emily’s sense of decorum seems to falter
B. An epistolary format late in the novel.
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C. Emily is a sensible rather than defense-
C. A focus on the individual
less woman.
D. An English setting
D. Emily provides a unique example of a
65. In “The Gothic Sublime” how does Mishra weak woman.
an
characterize the labyrinth motif? 70. Which statement best summarizes the
A. As a plot structure that diminishes the parallel between Frankenstein and
Gothic novel’s intensity Prometheus?
B. As the reader’s inward turn to examine A. Both were successful because they fol-
Ch
his or her own tangled consciousness lowed the laws of nature.
C. As a means for characters to directly B. Both refused to use science to do inno-
confront unconscious problems vative work.
D. As a place for the distressed heroine to C. Both worked collaboratively.
hide D. Both suffered for their attempt to do
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66. What literary purpose does Emily’s stay divine work.

with the nuns at the convent NOT serve? 71. How does the motif of the wandering Jew
figure in “The Monk”?
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A. Emily is confronted with the duality of

the human mind, at once rational and then A. It introduces one of several supernatu-
mad. ral elements into the plot.
B. Emily is tested regarding the guilt and B. It dispels the anti-Semitism associated
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ghosts of sins past. with the Gothic novel.

C. Emily comes to understand the benefits C. It offers a positive alternative to the ex-
of a cloistered life. cesses of the Catholic Church.
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D. Emily learns the story of Sister Agnes’s D. It suggests that redemption is possible
past. through penitence.
67. In “The Monk” what event does NOT repre- 72. For many scholars, what distinguishes ter-
sent the theme of entrapment of women? ror from horror in the Gothic novel?
A. Antonia’s death A. The anticipation of the violation of

one’s person versus an act of physical vio-
B. Matilda’s dressing as Rosario lence
C. Agnes’s admittance to the convent B. Plotted revenge versus random violence
D. The magic mirror
68. Which psychological issue is NOT typical C. The male Gothic versus the female
of the Gothic novel? Gothic
64. C 65. B 66. C 67. B 68. A 69. C 70. D 71. A 72. A

D. The persistence of the past in the 78. In “The Castle of Otranto” what “monstrous
present versus the betrayal in the present Other” does Manfred embody?
of the paternal protector
A. The undead
73. In what way is “The Monk” a reaction to
the French Revolution? B. The outcast
A. It includes apocalyptic themes. C. The cursed
B. It represents society as relatively stable. D. The transgendered
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79. When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts,
C. It condemns the misuse of power. what is her concern?
D. It predicts the upheaval of society. A. People are foolishly superstitious.
gd
74. To whom is the concept of the uncanny B. A world devoid of supernatural phenom-
attributed? ena is a better world.
A. Sigmund Freud C. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagina-
tion.
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B. Edmund Lewis
C. Edmund Burke D. The personification of nature is regres-
sive.
D. Mary Shelley
80. Who should NOT be viewed as Prometheus
Ch
75. What is distinctive about Emily’s bedcham- in Shelley’s “Frankenstein”?
ber at Udolpho?
A. Frankenstein’s monster
A. It is lavishly furnished.
B. Mary Shelley
B. It is haunted.
C. Robert Walton
C. It contains a secret passageway.
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D. It does not lock from the inside. D. Frankenstein
76. What is Gothic about the narrative struc- 81. What is Strawberry Hill?
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ture of “Frankenstein”? A. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe

A. The erratic movement of time and place B. The ancestral home of Horace Walpole
C. One of the settings in “The Mysteries of
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B. The readers’ unwavering empathy for Udolpho”

Frankenstein
D. The inspiration for “The Castle of
C. The reliable narrator
Otranto”
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D. The mix of language in terms of voice,

82. Which of the following terms is tradition-
diction, and rhythm
ally associated with the male Gothic?
77. In “Frankenstein” what is the Gothic signif-
A. Body transformation
icance of the word “abortion”?
A. It suggests that the creation process has B. Horror
become perverted. C. Terror
B. It invokes the laws of man. D. The uncanny
C. It offers an acceptable correction to sci- 83. The Gothic novel was intended to have
entific mistakes. which of the following effects on the
D. It represents a natural process. reader?
73. C 74. A 75. D 76. A 77. B 78. C 79. C 80. A 81. D 82. B 83. A
A. To create a sense of mystery, gloom, and 87. Which character best represents the con-
suspense cept of terror versus that of horror in
Lewis’s “The Monk”?
B. To make the reader dislike modern soci-
ety A. Agnes
C. To make the reader feel distaste for su- B. Ambrosio
pernatural themes C. Baptiste
D. To generate feelings of intense pleasure D. Matilda
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88. What is the original meaning of the word
84. How does the uncanny function in “Gothic”?
“Frankenstein”?
A. Of or relating to anything Medieval
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A. The normal activity of vivisection is rep-
resented as horrible. B. Of or relating to anything rude, unciv-
ilized, or ignorant; devoid of culture and
B. Seemingly normal characters are actu- taste
ally terrifying.
C. Of or relating to the Germanic tribes
an
C. The dramatic landscape provides an al- that invaded and established kingdoms in
ternative to the usual world. Europe in the first millennium
D. The monster’s grotesque body is actu- D. Of or relating to a particular style of
ally made of human parts. architecture
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85. Why does Radcliffe favor the term “ro- 89. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” what does
mance” as the subtitle to “The Mysteries Gilman suggest about madness?
of Udolpho”?
A. That it is necessary to contain mad
A. Radcliffe wants to emphasize the happy women
ending of the marriage of Emily and Valan-
court. B. That it is an artificial patriarchal tool
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B. It frees Radcliffe from a strict adherence C. That men also are mad
to common life, allowing her to place Emily D. That female madness is a serious obsta-
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in challenging situations. cle to women’s liberation

C. Radcliffe considers her work a continu- 90. Why do most scholars assume that Rad-
ation of the sentimental novel of the 18th cliffe favored “explained supernatural-
century. ism”?
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D. It acknowledges the lack of supernatu- A. Her sense of morality and decorum

ral plot tricks. B. Her defiance of contemporary culture
86. What did the novelists of the first wave of
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C. Her lack of imagination

Gothic literature think of religion?
D. Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of
A. Roman Catholicism was wrongfully dis- Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis
mantled in England by Henry VIII in the
91. How does the character Dracula unsettle
16th century.
the Victorian patriarchy?
B. Jews represent sympathetic literary
A. He threatens to spread his madness to
heroes.
women.
C. Religion is race-neutral.
B. His sexuality appeals to women.
D. The Spanish Inquisition and the legend
C. He protects women’s chastity and vir-
of the wandering Jew confirm the superior-
ginity.
ity of England.
84. D 85. B 86. D 87. D 88. C 89. B 90. A 91. B

D. He provides a way for Victorian men to C. The hand signifies the mysterious pull
blame their actions on women. of the labyrinth.
92. How does Lewis portray the Catholic con- D. The hand represents the claim of primo-
fessional in “The Monk”? geniture over the living.
A. As a path to redemption 97. Which of the following is NOT a theme of
“The Castle of Otranto”?
B. As a necessary control
A. Unnatural forces overwhelming human
C. As a voyeuristic activity
endeavor
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D. As a model for contemporary police
B. The rupture of the everyday by acts of
work
violence
93. How is “Jane Eyre” different from the nov-
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els of the first wave of English Gothic nov- C. The destruction of humanity through
els? scientific experimentation
A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual trans- D. The return of the past to the present
gression. 98. In “Dracula” what is the significance of the
an
typewriter?
B. It is a Bildungsroman.
A. It allows women to participate in the
C. It explains strange phenomena.
novel.
D. The theme of imprisonment is promi-
B. It serves as a path to the public sphere
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nent.
for women.
94. In what century and in what literary era
was the first Gothic novel written? C. It is a less effective tool than traditional
folklore weapons.
A. 17th century; Enlightenment
D. It becomes a way to conceal informa-
B. 18th century; Enlightenment tion.
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C. 18th century; Romanticism 99. All of the following are associated with
D. 19th century; Romanticism Gothic architecture EXCEPT:
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95. All of the following are ways in which “The A. Vaulted ceilings
Mysteries of Udolpho” reflects the values B. The Middle Ages
of England in the 1790s EXCEPT:
C. Complicated floor plans
A. The triumph of reason over passion
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D. Neo-classicism
B. The rise of individual responsibility
100. In what way does the Gothic novel of the
C. The social and fiscal independence of 18th century differ from the modern En-
women
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glish novel that began to emerge in the

D. The negative critique of Catholicism 17th century and flourished in the 18th cen-
tury?
96. Based on your readings for the course,
which of the following best states how crit- A. The focus on the middle and working
ics often interpret the dead hand in “The classes
Castle of Otranto”? B. The consideration of the sensibilities of
A. The hand represents the superiority of the protagonists
the Enlightenment over medievalism. C. Plots taken from everyday life
B. The hand symbolizes the danger of mar- D. The exploration of cultural taboos
riage.
92. C 93. B 94. B 95. C 96. D 97. C 98. B 99. D 100. D

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1. William Blake’s “Song of Innocence” poems A. Most Romantic poets were politicians
can be best described, in terms of style, as:
B. Poets have no actual effect upon the
A. Simple world
B. Violent C. Poets actually help the world grow and
develop
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C. Satirical
D. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic
D. Mythological
poetry
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2. Which of the following would probably 5. Which poet would be most likely to com-
NOT be the topic of a Romantic poem? pose a poem and illustrations to accompany
A. The French Revolution it?
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B. Man’s relationship to nature A. Lord Byron
C. The experience of common people B. Percy Shelley
D. A celebration of the aristocratic C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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3. In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” who is the D. William Blake

“he” referred to in the lines “A sadder and a 6. Which contemporary fictional character
wiser man\He rose the morrow morn.” can be understood as a Byronic hero?
A. Life-in-Death A. Superman
B. The Ancient Mariner B. Dr. House
C. The Wedding Guest C. Luke Skywalker
D. The ship’s captain D. Yoda
4. Referring to poets as “unacknowledged leg- 7. Many romantic poets regarded the natural
islators of the world” suggests that: world with a feeling of
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. A
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A. Awe and fascination 13. Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort
of poet-king Arthur”?
B. Disinterest and disregard
C. Resentment and disrespect
B. William Blake
D. Fear and horror
C. Lord Byron
8. In her essay “Wordsworth Balladry: Real
Men Wanted,” Elizabeth Fey argues that the D. Percy Shelley
Romantics were interested in the medieval 14. A tortured, dark-spirited, wry, and intellec-
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focus upon tual protagonist would most likely be found
A. Courtly love and modern-seeming emo- in a poem by
tion A. William Blake
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B. Violence B. Lord Byron
C. Nature C. William Wordsworth
D. Death and disease D. John Keats
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9. Which poet would have been most likely to 15. Which poet would most likely express an
compose a poem examining his own child- adherence to atheism in his writing?
hood? A. William Wordsworth
A. Percy Shelley B. William Blake
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B. John Keats C. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Shelley
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 16. William Blake’s “Little Black Boy” advo-
cates for
10. Which of the following sentiments would
be LEAST likely in a poem by Lord Byron? A. The abolition of slavery
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A. An expression of love for common man. B. The equality of all people

C. The innate brilliance of children
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B. Mockery toward William Wordsworth. D. The beauty of common language

C. An expression of doubt and angst. 17. The Romantic period is generally thought
to have occurred between
D. Dark humor.
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A. 1800 - 1900
11. Who referred to poets as “the unacknowl-
edged legislators of the world”? B. 1805 - 1827
A. Lord Byron C. 1798 - 1832
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B. William Blake D. 1785 - 1825

18. Duncan Wu rejects the assertion that
C. William Hazlitt
Wordsworth’s Lucy poems were primarily
D. Percy Shelley about
12. Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests A. Death
that Shelley was
B. Perception
A. Not an atheist
C. Exhaustion
B. In love with Lord Byron
D. Love
C. Suicidal 19. One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s
D. Fiercely anti-war “Peter Bell” is
8. A 9. C 10. A 11. D 12. D 13. A 14. B 15. D 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. A
A. How nature can render someone good 25. The main thematic focus of “Ode on a Gre-
B. How nature can corrupt someone cian Urn” is
C. Eternal youth A. The nature of death
D. A dark voyage into madness B. The French Revolution

20. Which British philosopher of the Roman- C. The relationship between truth and
tic era despised monarchies, believed that beauty
the best form of government was no gov-
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ernment at all, and argued that change can D. The author’s childhood experience
only come from people treating each other 26. Which of the following authors would be
with sincerity and benevolence? most likely to use the supernatural in his
poems?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Edmund Burke A. William Wordsworth
C. William Godwin B. John Keats
D. John Locke C. Percy Shelley
21. Which of the following poets would be least
likely to explore the meaning of beauty or
imagination in a poem?
A. Lord Byron
an D. William Blake?
27. Which of the following statements would
you most likely NOT see in a Romantic
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poem?
B. Percy Shelley
A. “Truth is beauty ”
C. John Keats
B. “Truth is stranger than fiction ”
22. Which of the following was NOT consid- C. “Familure acts are beautiful through
ered a proper form of literary expression in love ”
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the Neoclassical Period? D. “A little learning is a dangerous thing

A. The essay ”
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B. Satire 28. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” can be

best understood as a poem about
C. Blank verse poetry
D. The rhymed couplet A. The passion between a husband and
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wife
23. Which of the following was a key element
or aspect of Romantic poetry? B. The loss of innocence
A. Engagement with the natural world C. The horrors of the French Revolution
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B. Rationality D. How poets can bring about political rev-

C. Emotional restraint olution
D. Political conservatism 29. Shelley’s “Ode to Psyche” is narrated by:
24. Duncan Wu discusses the presentation of A. Psyche
“spots of time” in the poetry of:
B. Cupid
C. The author of the poem
B. William Blake
C. Percy Shelley D. Shelley’s childhood self
D. Lord Byron 30. The “Reign of Terror” refers to:
20. C 21. A 22. C 23. A 24. A 25. C 26. D 27. D 28. D 29. C 30. B
A. France’s war with a foreign nation 36. Which of the following is NOT a common
B. The mass execution of enemies of the attribute of Byronic heroes?
revolution A. Arrogance
C. Napoleon’s rise to power B. Nihilism
D. The death of the king of France C. Good spirits
31. Which event marked the defeat of D. Dark humor
Napoleon? 37. Dr. Samuel Gladden believes Shelley’s
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A. The execution of the King of France agenda was to
B. The battle at Waterloo A. Revolutionize France
C. The Reign of Terror B. Expose the nature of reality
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D. Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor of C. Expose how intimate relationships in-
France form political realities
32. The lines “The loveliest and the last\The D. Change sexual morals
bloom, whose petals nipped before they
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38. Which poet would be most likely to write
blew\Died on the promise of the fruit” are about his time in revolutionary France?
from a poem honoring:
A. Percy Shelley
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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B. John Keats
C. William Blake
C. Lord Byron
D. John Keats
39. John Keats would probably NOT have writ-
33. Which of the following concepts are NOT ten a poem celebrating
elements of neo-classicism?
A. The beauty of the natural world
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A. Optimism
B. The pains of love
B. A sense of man being imperfect
C. Political and philosophical conser-
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C. Order and reason vatism

D. A belief that art is primarily intellectual D. The nature of artistic creation
40. Paul O’Brien argues that Shelley did not
34. The line “fools are my theme, let satire be
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lose his passion for the French Revolution,

my song” demonstrates a sentiment that but that did.
would likely appear in a poem by:
A. Lord Byron and John Clare
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B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge
C. William Blake C. John Keats and William Blake
D. Lord Byron D. Lord Byron and William Blake
35. “Don Juan” and “Childe Harold’s Pilgrim- 41. Which Romantic poet did Shelley consider
age” are broken into sections called: a close friend?
A. Cantos A. Lord Byron
B. Stanzas B. William Wordsworth
C. Lines C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Chapters D. William Blake
31. B 32. B 33. A 34. D 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. A 39. C 40. B 41. A 42. A
42. With whom did John Keats have a love af- C. Demonstrate the power of the French
fair? Revolution on the British Romantic con-
A. Fanny Brawne sciousness
B. Dorothy Wordsworth D. Demonstrate the intrinsic connection

between imagination and death
C. Mary Shelley
48. Which Romantic poet would have believed
D. Mary Keats that a poet needs influence from something
43. Which Romantic poet would be most likely external and transformative in order to
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to feature a main character or narrator in write a strong poem?
a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, A. William Blake
highly emotional, and intelligent?
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A. John Keats
C. Lord Byron
B. William Blake
D. Percy Shelley
C. Lord Byron
49. According to Laura Smith, that which
an
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge “affect[s] the human mind with a sense
44. Which of the following was NOT a key ele- of overwhelming grandeur or irresistible
ment or aspect of Romantic poetry? power; calculated to inspire awe, deep rev-
A. Celebration of the imagination erence, or loft emotion, by reason of its
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beauty, vastness, or grandeur” is known as
B. Engagement with nature the:
C. The use of symbolism A. Beautiful
D. The use of allegory B. Sublime
45. Which poet would be most likely to com-
C. Terrifying
pose a poem using the language of common,
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ordinary people? D. Romantic

A. William Wordsworth 50. Which Romantic poet was famous for being
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“mad, bad and dangerous to know”?

B. Lord Byron
A. Lord Byron
C. Percy Shelley
B. Percy Shelley
D. John Keats
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46. The dedication of Byron’s “Don Juan” can C. John Keats

be best described as D. William Blake
A. Sincere and heartfelt 51. A Romantic poet would be LEAST likely to
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B. Mocking and satirical celebrate
C. Mournful and dark A. The imagination
D. Polemic and dry B. Love

47. In “Mont Blanc,” Shelley likens the power C. The natural world
of the mountain to the power of human D. Rationality
imagination in order to
52. The primary subject of “Ode to Psyche” is
A. Demonstrate how the human imagina-
tion is fragile
A. The possibility of sudden death
B. Demonstrate how the human mind com-
prehends and perceives truth B. The expansion of consciousness
43. C 44. D 45. A 46. B 47. B 48. D 49. B 50. A 51. D 52. B 53. B
C. The relationship between art and hu- A. The plight of common, ordinary people
manity
D. The death of Byron B. A celebration of the medieval
53. John Keats died from: C. A satirical representation of current
A. Influenza events
B. Tuberculosis D. A warm remembrance of childish ideal-

ism
C. Fever
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59. Which of the following was responsible for
D. Suicide Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s mental decline?
54. The line “It is an honourable characteristic A. His addiction to opium
of Poetry that its materials are to be found
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B. His experiences during the French Rev-
in every subject which can interest the hu-
olution
man mind” appears in which essay?
C. The end of his friendship with
A. “A Defense of Poetry”
Wordsworth
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B. “The Rights of Man”
D. His physical battle with gout
C. “Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads” 60. Who was the co-author of “Lyrical Ballads”
D. “An Essay on Dramatic Poetry” with William Wordsworth?
55. Percy Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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presents nature as B. John Keats
A. A powerful, sublime force C. William Blake
B. A peaceful force D. Lord Byron
C. Depressing and miserable 61. Which poem by Wordsworth examines
writer’s block?
D. Controlled by gods
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56. Which poet would be most likely to write A. “The Prelude”

a poem reflecting upon the psychological B. “We Are Seven”
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changes he has undergone since his youth?

C. “Lines Written a few miles above Tin-
A. William Blake tern Abbey”
B. John Keats D. “Lines Written in Early Spring”
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C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 62. According to the essay “A Defense of Po-

etry,” which of the following is one of the
D. William Wordsworth two “classes of mental action”?
57. Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the French
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A. Reason
Revolution”
B. Fear
A. Celebrates the French Revolution
C. Illogic
B. Encourages the United States to Support
the French Revolution D. Indifference
63. Who refers to poetry as “an imitation of
C. Attacks the ideals of the French Revolu-
nature”?
tion
A. Percy Shelley
D. Champions Napoleon’s political vision
58. Which of the following would a neoclassi- B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
cal poet be most likely to use as a central C. William Hazlitt
theme in his or her poetry?
54. C 55. A 56. D 57. C 58. C 59. A 60. A 61. A 62. A 63. C
64. Who is the narrator of “Don Juan”? A. Write stories

A. Lord Byron B. Resist understanding poetry
B. Bob Southey C. Reproduce rhythm and order
C. Don Juan D. Strive to express love
D. A nameless narrator 71. “Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern
Abbey” explores
65. Paul O’Brien contends that make(s)
Shelley a “radical.” A. The way in which one’s psychological
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state changes over time
A. Shelley’s political beliefs
B. The failures of Romanticism
B. Shelley’s sexuality
C. The beauty of the natural world
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C. Shelley’s love of Shakespeare
D. Coleridge’s addiction to drugs
D. Shelley’s relationship with Byron
72. Percy Shelley can be understood as a poet
66. Keats was most famous for: with
an
A. His odes A. No sense of reality
B. His wild lifestyle B. A desire to make the world into a better
C. His popularity with readers place
C. A dark and twisted outlook on the world
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D. His extensive writings
67. The general tone and attitude of Byron’s
“Don Juan” would be best described as: D. A strong dislike of women
A. Dramatic and dark 73. In “Of Poetry in General,” William Hazlitt
contends that good poetry comes from
B. Ironic and satirical
A. The intellect
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C. Strange and haunting

B. The author’s personal pain
D. Humorless and stark
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C. Strong feeling
68. Which of the following was NOT a primary
cause of the Industrial Revolution? D. Rewriting Homer
A. The popularity of Romantic poetry 74. Which Romantic poet would be the least
likely to write a piece of literary criticism?
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B. The European economy shifting into a

global economy A. Lord Byron
C. The population increase in Europe B. Percy Shelley

C. William Hazlitt
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D. Europe’s shift into being a manufactur-

ing economy D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
69. To whom does the Ancient Mariner tell his 75. Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” can be best
story in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? said to depict an encounter with:
A. Coleridge A. The sublime
B. Dorothy Wordsworth B. Death
C. The Wedding Guest C. Childhood
D. Life-in-Death D. A lost lover
70. In “A Defense of Poetry,” Percy Shelley ar- 76. In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” what kind
gues that humans have an impulse to of animal does the Mariner kill?
64. D 65. A 66. A 67. B 68. A 69. C 70. C 71. A 72. B 73. C 74. A 75. A 76. D
A. A hawk A. The loss of childhood and discovery of

the adult world
B. A nightingale
C. A dove B. The fall of Satan
D. An albatross C. The life of Blake

77. Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner could be said D. The history of London
to be suffering from an overwhelming feel- 83. Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
ing of suggests that
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A. Guilt
A. Beauty can be understood only through
B. Disbelief metaphysics
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C. Hatred B. Anything that is intellectual cannot be
D. Love beautiful
78. Which poet defines poetry as “the expres- C. Beauty is missing from the world
sion of the imagination”? D. The source of beauty cannot be known,
A. William Hazlitt
C. Percy Shelley an and that beauty can only be felt
84. Thomas Paine’s “The Rights of Man” argues
that
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A. Revolution is inhumane
D. Lord Byron
79. Which poem is considered Wordsworth’s B. Revolution never succeeds
magnum opus? C. Revolution is proper when a govern-
A. “Lyrical Ballads” ment does not take care of its people
B. “The Prelude” D. Every government should be revolted

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against
C. “We Are Seven”
85. Which Romantic author is the subject of
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D. “Lines Written in Early Spring”

Paul O’Brien’s essay “Prophet of the Revo-
80. Which Romantic poet died relatively un- lution”?
known but would become famous posthu-
mously, in the 19th century? A. Lord Byron
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A. William Blake B. Percy Shelley
B. Lord Byron C. William Blake
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. William Wordsworth

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D. William Wordsworth 86. Which action served to ignite the French

Revolution?
81. Who does Shelley consider the true
founders of civilized cultures and laws? A. The rise of King William
A. Kings and queens B. The execution of King Louis XVI
B. Poets and artists C. The ruling of Bonaparte
C. Dictators and Tyrants D. The madness of King George
D. All people equally 87. A neoclassical poet would be most likely to
82. William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and compose a poem celebrating which of the
Experience” explores following ideals?
77. A 78. C 79. B 80. A 81. B 82. A 83. D 84. C 85. B 86. B 87. B 88. A
A. Passionate love A. William Wordsworth

B. Emotional restraint B. John Keats
C. Revolution against tyranny C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Communion with the natural world D. Lord Byron
88. The final line of “We Are Seven” is: “And 93. Which long Romantic poem opens with
said, ‘Nay’ we are seven.” This line suggests the line “oh there is blessing in this gen-
that: tle breeze”?
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A. The little girl refuses to cast the dead A. “The Prelude”
out of her life.
B. “Don Juan”
B. The little girl is insane or delusional
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C. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
C. The little girl’s siblings have not died
D. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
D. The little girl herself is dead 94. During the 19th century, the term “middle
89. Which of the following would probably class” described people who were:
an
NOT occur in a William Wordsworth
A. Workers
poem?
B. Aristocrats
A. Use of common, everyday language
C. Between workers and aristocrats
B. Engagement with the natural world
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D. Land owners only
C. Mockery of political figures
95. Which of the following is a love poem?
D. Psychological insight
A. John Clare’s “To Elia”
90. Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s
Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedi- B. Wordsworth “Peter Bell”
pus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” C. Byron’s “Don Juan”
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argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus-Tyrannus”

is important becaus D. Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn”
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96. Which British philosopher believed that

A.
monarchs repressed citizens and that revo-
B. Shelley himself dismissed the poem lution is proper when a government does
C. The poem was incomplete not protect its people?
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D. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual A. Thomas Paine

transgression in it B. James Mackintosh
E. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality C. Edmund Burke
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in it
D. John Locke
91. “Ode to a Nightingale” focuses on
97. Napoleon’s decision to can be un-
A. How pleasures are fleeting and life can- derstood as representative of the French
not continue forever Revolutionary spirit because this decision
B. The fall of man into sin served to radically reposition France in con-
temporary European political affairs.
C. The futility of artistic creation
A. Engage in the Napoleonic Wars
D. The unfortunate conclusion of the
French Revolution B. Change all aspects of French law
92. Which poet would be least likely to write C. Involve himself directly in affairs in the
about the beauty of nature? United States
89. C 90. E 91. A 92. D 93. A 94. C 95. A 96. A 97. A 98. B
D. Offer landmark political writings call- A. Lord Byron

ing for peace with other European nations
98. The poem “London” can be best understood C. William Blake

as D. William Wordsworth
A. A celebration of the city’s beauty 100. The French Revolution had a tremendous
impact on which of the following aspects
B. A protest against social inequality
of British life?
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C. An examination of the city’s past
A. Politics
D. An attack on William Wordsworth
B. Literature
99. Which of the following Romantic poets
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would have been most likely to write a C. Relations with France
poem celebrating the innocence of child- D. All of the above
hood?
99. C 100. D
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14. Modern Poetry and Poetics
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1. Which of the following statements ac- 4. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart
curately characterizes Marianne Moore’s Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces
poem “A Grave?” himself to his readers. The poem opens
with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is be-
A. It juxtaposes human consciousness
lieved/Realities plunge in silence by /I
against the sea.
am not ready for repentance;” according
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B. It uses alliteration and iambic pentame- to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to

ter. repent is an assertion of which of the fol-
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C. It has a subtle formal structure, even lowing?

though it does not use rhyme. A. His political views
D. Both A and C B. His will to imaginative freedom
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2. What is the principal subject of Marianne C. His will to sexual freedom

Moore’s poem “An Octopus”?
D. Both B and C
A. Death
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B. Mt. Rainier characterizes the difference between World

C. The ocean War II poetry and Futurist poetry?
D. An octopus A. The Futurists apotheosized technology,
3. Which of the following writers was among whereas World War II poets often focused
the founders of the Imagist movement? on technology’s destructive powers.
A. Salvador Dali B. The Futurists praised speed, whereas

World War II poets often evoked images of
B. Horace Greeley nature to describe the human condition.
C. Ezra Pound C. The Futurists privileged the part over
D. Rupert Brooke the whole, whereas World War II poets did
1. D 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. A
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not deal with the problem of modernity and C. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the
alienation. poet to capture complex social realities.
D. The Futurists focused on advancements D. A symbol is a description of past reali-
in technology and industry, whereas World ties.
War II poets ignored advancements in tech- 10. Which of the following political themes
nology, especially in modern warfare. was explored by American Objectivist po-
6. Which of the following was an important ets?
influence on Charles Reznikoff’s shift away
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A. Slavery
from romantic rhetoric?
B. American attitudes toward Jews and Is-
A. His study of ancient history rael
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B. His study of law C. Capitalism and social inequalities
C. His study of medicine D. All of these answers
D. His study of Sanskrit 11. “How can we live in this fear says
7. Professor Hammer argues that which of one./From day to day says another.”
the following statements is true of Ezra
Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic tech-
nique?
A. It serves to effectively depersonalize
an A. Fear of the failure of a segregated edu-
cational system
B. Fear of the AIDs crisis
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Pound’s poems. C. Fear of global nuclear war
B. It serves the greater aim of conveying D. Fear of the economic Great Depression
both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s 12. Which of the following poets would most
poetry. likely be categorized as a late-Victorian
poet?
C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal
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and impersonal elements. A. John Milton

D. It is a means of creating a dialogue be- B. Alfred Tennyson
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tween modernity and tradition.

C. Allen Ginsberg
8. Which of the following poets did NOT
D. Amy Lowell
write about his experiences in World War
II? 13. Which of the following best characterizes
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T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective correl-

A. Wilfred Owen ative”?
B. Keith Douglas A. The objective correlative refers to the
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C. Randall Jarrell correlation between the poem’s formal

structure and its meaning.
D. Karl Shapiro
B. The objective correlative refers to the
correlation between the poem’s formal
idea of the symbol among French Symbolist
structure and its rhetorical aim.
poets?
C. The objective correlative refers to the
A. A symbol is an image that conveys pow-
correlation between the poem’s theme and
erful emotional states.
its objective historical context.
B. A symbol is an emblem of the actual
D. The objective correlative refers to a set
world endowed with supernatural mean-
of objects, situations, or events which nec-
ings.
essarily produce a particular emotion.
6. B 7. B 8. A 9. B 10. D 11. C 12. B 13. D

14. Which of the following statements accu- 18. Which of the following statements best
rately characterizes the Harlem Renais- characterizes Langston Hughes’s poem
sance? “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
A. It was a flowering of African American A. It is a meditation on the alienation of
arts and culture. the modern person from nature.
B. It took place after World War I, at a time B. It is a meditation on the cultural isola-
when many African Americans were mov- tion of African Americans in New England.
ing from the South to the industrial North.
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C. It is a meditation on the communal and
C. It exerted profound influence on 20th- historical aspects of individual identity.
century American culture.
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D. It is a meditation on the poet’s personal
D. All of these answers experience of assimilation.
15. Which of the following writers authored 19. Which of the following natural forces
the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?” “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S.
an
Eliot’s “The Waste Land”?
A. Wilfred Owen
A. An avalanche
B. Siegfried Sassoon
B. Rapids
C. Rupert Brooke
C. The west wind
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D. Rudyard Kipling
D. Thunder
characterizes Langston Hughes’s poem 20. According to Professor Hammer, which of
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”? the following is the central question ex-
plored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land”?
A. Hughes uses a universal speaker for an
A. Is authentic poetry possible in the after-
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exploration of a profound racial divide be-

tween blacks and whites. math of the carnage of World War I?
B. Given the diversity of the world’s po-
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B. The poem is an analytical exploration

of racial differences in the United States. etic traditions, can there be a universal lan-
guage of poetic symbolism?
C. Similar to Hart Crane and Whitman,
Hughes uses a personal and universal “I” C. How can a shared world be created out
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to address issues of history, race, and iden- of the fundamentally different and private
tity. experiences of individual people?
D. Given that each person experiences
D. The poem is an indictment of racial prej-
trauma differently, is it possible for all to
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udice in Harlem.
understand the modern world as a shared
17. What is the central theme of Keith Dou- “waste land”?
glas’s “How to Kill”?
A. Combat detaches a man from humanity. characterizes American World War II po-
ems?
B. All is fair in love and war. A. They tend to use traditional rhyme
schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free
C. It is honorable and just to defend your
verse.
country in a war.
B. They tend to use metaphors and avoid
D. There is a right and a wrong way to
direct descriptive statements.
throw a hand grenade.
14. D 15. A 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. D 20. C 21. D

C. They tend to use classical imagery while A. Both poems praise Britain’s military
rejecting romantic tropes. power and its imperial ambitions.
D. They tend to be narrative and confront B. Both poems describe Britain’s civilizing
the reader with stark wartime realities. mission in the world.
22. Which of the following literary devices is C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh
most prominent in Gertrude Stein’s poem political and military realities of their day.
“New”?
D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify
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A. Assonance and word repetition the life of the soldier.
B. Simile 27. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a mod-
ernist epic, though its form ultimately de-
C. Metaphor and allusion
fies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to
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D. Circumlocution which of the following epic poems?
23. Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the A. The Mahabharata
Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces
in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” B. Paradise Lost
an
Which of the following statements best C. The Odyssey
characterizes this poem?
D. The Aeneid
A. It seeks to diminish the distance be-
28. Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the
tween society and nature.
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Undying” includes the following lines:
B. It seeks to amplify the distance between “Yet, though the slain are homeless as
society and nature. the breeze,/Vocal are they, like storm-
bewilder’d seas.” Which of the following
C. It plays with the relationship between
literary devices does Sassoon use in these
the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
lines and to what effect?
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A. Metaphor to suggest a connection be-

D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.
tween soldiers and nature
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24. Which of the following poets would most B. Simile to suggest a connection between
likely be categorized as a modernist poet? soldiers and nature
A. William Carlos Williams C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of

modern warfare
B. John Greenleaf Whittier
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D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality

C. George Herbert of modern warfare
D. Robert Browning 29. Which of the following statements best ex-
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25. Which of the following statements does presses the difference between how visual
NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings? images functioned in World War I poetry
and Imagist poetry?
A. Ivy League educated
A. There were no significant differences in
B. Active pacifist during both world wars
the functioning of visual images in these
C. Popularized the use of free verse two types of poetry.
D. A private and self-effacing person B. The Imagists relied on visual images
26. Which of the following statements accu- to achieve clarity of expression, whereas
rately compares Rupert Brooke’s “The Sol- World War I poets relied on visual images
dier” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear to subtly punctuate their often desperate
Guard”? political messages.
22. A 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. C 27. C 28. B 29. B

C. The Imagists valued brevity, which 33. What is the most notable characteristic of
could be achieved with precise visual im- Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro”?
ages, whereas World War I poets preferred
A. The form of a villanelle
declamatory statements in their poems.
B. The use of synesthesia
D. World War I poets valued clarity of ex-
pression through visual images, whereas C. The use of simile
Imagists relied on complex expression
D. The use of metaphor
through emotional visual images.
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30. In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” 34. Which of the following events increased
Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the the appeal of communism among Ameri-
modern period in the history of art as the can intellectuals both black and white in
time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does the years between 1918 and 1939?
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he say modernism is typically defined? A. The Great Depression
A. Modernism is the art produced during B. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939
the modern period.
C. The Russian Civil War
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B. Modernism is the historical period
which followed the modern period. D. World War I
C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern 35. Which of the following descriptors does
art. NOT apply to the features of French Sym-
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bolist poetry that influenced other mod-
D. Both A and C
ernist poetry?
31. Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends
with the lines: “And pluck till time and A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exag-
times are done/The silver apples of the gerated metaphors.
moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative
of the following is NOT a symbolic mean- clarity.
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ing of the apples?

C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
A. They symbolize the return to a lost par-
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adise. D. French Symbolist poetry is formally ex-

perimental.
B. They point to alchemical elements,
which in turn symbolize the body and the 36. Which of the following statements best
soul. characterizes the difference between Futur-
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ism and Vorticism?

C. They symbolize the coming apocalypse.
A. Members of both movements were fas-
cinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike
D. They symbolize a fulfilled longing.
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the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate

32. Complete the following sentence. Yeats’s technology and industrialization.
“Sailing to Byzantium” is a good example of
High Modernism, because it: B. Futurism was a politically-inclined
movement, whereas Vorticism was free of
A. embraces the rhythms and diction of all political entanglements.
common man’s speech.
C. Futurism lasted for several decades,
B. was written at the very beginning of the whereas Vorticism was short-lived.
20th century.
D. Vorticists celebrated technology and in-
C. attempts to create a modernist high cul-
dustrialization, whereas Futurists explored
ture.
impending cultural challenges regarding
D. does not employ rhyme. technology and industrialization.
30. D 31. C 32. C 33. D 34. A 35. B 36. A 37. A

37. Which of the following statements best A. It is the racial discrimination endemic
characterizes the form of Claude McKay’s in the white community.
poem “The Harlem Dancer”?
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
A. It is an English sonnet.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward white-
B. It is an Italian sonnet. ness” among African Americans.
C. It is a Spenserian sonnet. D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate
and neutralize other cultures” among white
D. It is a free verse poem.
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Americans.
38. In his first lecture on William Butler Yeats, 41. Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed
Professor Hammer says that the young Youth” begins with the following lines:
Yeats identified with King Goll. What does “What passing-bells for these who die as cat-
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he mean by this? tle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./
A. Yeats’s poetry was autobiographical, Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can
but he understood his life through the patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the
prism of myths and symbols; symbolism following statements best describes these
an
was therefore present in both Yeats’s life lines?
and in his poetry. A. These lines suggest that it was difficult
B. Yeats believed that each person was an to define patriotism during the Great War,
instance of a general cultural type or sym- but soldiers who died in battle provided the
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bol. best example of patriotism.
C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize B. These lines suggest that the Great War
his identity as an English poet and draw lasted much longer than it should have.
attention away from his Irish heritage. C. These lines equate humans with ani-
D. Both A and B mals, and they anthropomorphize weapons
to show a world where there is no place for
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human values.
characterizes the last two stanzas of
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Charles Baudelaire’s symbolist poem “Cor- D. These lines represent a modern funeral
respondences”? dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient
Greek funeral dirges.
A. They describe the author’s experiences
as a young child. 42. Which of the following statements best
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characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh

B. They use metaphors with subtle politi- Selwyn Mauberley”?
cal connotations.
A. It is primarily a narrative poem.
C. They ascribe colors and sounds to
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scents, relying on a device known as synes- B. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve

thesia. tonal fluidity.
D. They describe a scene in the country- C. It undermines the idea of a single lyrical
side, which symbolizes the state of the au- voice by using diverse cultural symbols and
thor’s soul. numerous phrases in various languages.
40. According to Langston Hughes’s essay D. Its intensity derives from the combina-
“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” tion of modern subject matter and alexan-
(his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Ne- drine couplets.
gro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” 43. In his essay “The Symbolism of Poetry,”
that stands in the way of “any true Negro William Butler Yeats argues that which of
art in America”? the following is the purpose of rhythm?
38. D 39. C 40. C 41. C 42. C 43. B

A. To “amplify and clarify the indistinct C. Wilfred Owen

emotions created by metaphorical symbols”
47. Langston Hughes was among the most im-
B. To “prolong the moment of contempla-
portant figures of the Harlem Renaissance.
tion”
Which of the following is an accurate char-
C. To “counteract the forces of dispersal acterization of his experiences before he
inherent in metaphorical language” published his first book?
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D. To “make poetry new” A. He was a native New Yorker who did
44. In the first lecture of his Modern Po- not travel much but who was keenly aware
etry course, what argument does Professor of New York’s complexity and diversity.
Langdon Hammer make about the relation-
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B. He moved to New York from Alabama
ship between the modern city and poetic and the stark contrast between these places
modernism? deeply influenced his writing.
A. Most modernist poets lived in large C. He was born in Missouri and traveled
cities; therefore, they often used urban im-
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extensively throughout the United States
agery in their poetry. and the world before he moved to New York
B. Many languages and many forms of lan- City.
guage were used in large cities; modernist
D. He spent most of his life in Washington,
poets often treated language not as some-
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DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained
thing given and natural but as a construct
literary fame.
which they could manipulate.
48. Professor Hammer argues that in a certain
C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always
in large cities, and among poets this re- meta-poetry. What does this mean?
sulted in turning inward and focusing only
on the world of one’s own imagination. A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though
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characterizes the central questions faced B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own
by poetry after the Holocaust? rules.
A. Is it possible for Romantic themes in po- C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses sev-
etry to be meaningful after the Holocaust? eral different audiences.
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D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective

B. The horror of the Holocaust was inex- voice.
pressible; how can poetry speak of what is 49. Violet Cristoforo was honored for collect-
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inexpressible? ing what kind of poetry in her anthology

C. Is there a relationship between poetry “May Sky”?
and rationality after the Holocaust? A. Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps
D. Is there a meaningful relationship be-
tween World War I poetry and World War B. American G.I. poetry from German pris-
II poetry? oner of war camps
46. Which of the following writers wrote about
C. Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags
trench warfare during the Great War?
in Siberia
A. Siegfried Sassoon
D. Haiku poetry from the Japanese intern-
B. Isaac Rosenberg ment camps in the US
44. B 45. B 46. D 47. C 48. B 49. D

50. Which of the following images in Arthur and civilians was erased, and this had a
Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the devastating effect on the European psyche.
idea that eternity is something fixed and
permanent? D. Both A and B
A. The image of a sentinel 54. Generally speaking, African-American
B. The image of the sun reflected on the themes were very rare in white modernist
sea poetry. Which of the following white po-
ets attempted to evoke elements of black
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C. The image of a quest for knowledge experience in his or her poems?
D. The image of satiny embers A. H.D.
51. According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic B. Hart Crane
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Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro
People,” what are some of the personal con- C. William Carlos Williams
sequences for an African-American living D. T.S. Eliot
in a racist society at the beginning of the 55. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends
20th century? with the following lines: “My friend, you
A. Feeling like an outcast in your own
house
B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to an would not tell with such high zest/To chil-
dren ardent for some desperate glory,/The
old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria
mori.” Which of the following statements
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survive
best describes these lines?
C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger
A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from
and resentment
Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
D. All of the above the distance between the ideals of Western
52. Complete the following sentence. Poetic civilization and its realities.
images which idealize war and ascribe spir- B. These lines suggest the author’s anger
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itual qualities to battle can be found primar- and disillusionment with cultural norms
ily in English poems written: which glorify war.
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A. around 1900. C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge

B. in the early stages of World War I. the gap between individual experience and
cultural norms and beliefs.
C. in the late stages of World War I.
D. All of the above
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D. in the 1920s.
53. Which of the following best describes the characterizes the formal qualities of
reasons why World War I had a profound Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine”?
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impact on modern poetry?

A. The diction is much more polysyllabic
A. The devastation wrought by World War than monosyllabic.
I was so enormous that it put Europe’s cul-
B. The use of alternating end rhymes and
tural and political norms and values into
word repetitions enhance the music of the
question.
poem and along with its occasional disso-
B. The mechanized killing, which took nance give it an improvisational jazz-like
place on a massive scale during World War quality.
I, made it necessary to reflect about the ef-
C. It is written in Standard American En-
fects of technological progress.
glish for middle-class readers.
C. World War I was the first global conflict
D. This poem is structured like a villanelle.
where the distinction between combatants
50. B 51. D 52. C 53. D 54. B 55. D 56. B 57. A

57. Which of the following literary devices are in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant
present in Langston Hughes’s poem “Ku tone is impersonal? Why, or why not?
Klux”?
A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of na-
A. Irony ture draws attention away from human re-
alities.
B. Allegory
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem
C. Oxymoron
seeks to express universal rather than indi-
D. Alliteration vidual experience.
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58. Which of the following was NOT a promi- C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it
nent theme of American and English mod- addresses the maker of the bowl directly
ernist poetry? and speculates about his state of mind.
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A. The search for a new poetic language D. No, even though Lowell strives for im-
and the idea that language can be rein- personal expression by borrowing poetic
vented by poets devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish
B. The quest to describe objects with pre- this.
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cision and without emotion 62. Professor Hammer argues that Marianne
C. The idea that the self is neither unitary Moore’s poem “England” suggests which
nor permanently stable of the following?
A. Moore’s emotional and aesthetic attach-
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D. The approval of the norms and values
of bourgeois culture ment to England
59. Which of the following best describes the B. Moore’s harsh critique of the carnage of
types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky’s World War I
poem, “A: Seventh Movement: There Are C. Moore’s particular kind of combative
Different Techniques”? American cultural nationalism
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A. Historic and contemporary imagery D. Moore’s interest in England’s civilizing

B. Kabalistic imagery mission in the world
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C. Nationalist imagery 63. What is the “double-bind” that African-

American women poets encountered in the
D. Everyday imagery thirties and forties, according to Anthony
60. What does Gertrude Stein’s term “the Lost Walton’s essay?
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Generation” designate?
A. Being overworked in menial jobs hav-
A. It refers to a group of talented American ing to raise large families
émigré writers who lived in Europe after
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male
World War I.
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dominated culture and a member of a sup-

B. It refers to the young generation whose pressed minority race in the middle of a
coming of age was interrupted by World dominant white culture
War I.
C. Having little formal education with lit-
C. It refers to English poets who sought tle access to publishers
refuge in New York City after World War I
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry
ended.
reading public because what they wrote
D. Both A and B about was the travails of subsistence living
61. In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green
Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a 64. Which of the following statements best
pond in the woods. Can one say that, as characterizes the contrast between T.S.
58. D 59. A 60. D 61. C 62. C 63. B

Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist B. Classicism

aesthetic project? C. British Romanticism
A. “The Waste Land” is primarily con- D. Vorticism
cerned with nature, whereas the futurists
68. Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” opens with the
are most interested in industrial and urban
line “Io venni in luogo d’ogni luce muto” [I
landscapes.
came to a place devoid of light]. This cre-
B. “The Waste Land” confronts the frag- ates a connection between the Canto and
mentation of modernity by exploring a va- which of the following works?
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riety of modes and voices, whereas the fu-
A. Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
turists do not focus on the fragmentation
of modern experience, praising speed and B. Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
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industrial progress instead. C. Goethe’s “Faust”
C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic explo- D. Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus”
ration of Romantic themes, whereas the
69. Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with
futurists incorporate ironic evocations of
the following lines: “If I should die, think
an
the classical tradition in their poetry.
only this of me:/That there’s some corner
D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the per- of a foreign field/That is for ever England.”
sonal connection between poet and speaker, Which of the following statements best de-
whereas the futurists focus on an imper- scribes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a
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sonal connection between humans and in- whole?
dustry.
A. These lines and the poem as a whole
65. Complete the following sentence. Professor use both the political concept of a nation
Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest and the spiritual concept of eternity to give
in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battle-
likely an outcome of his: field.
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A. endorsement of Marxism. B. These lines and the poem as a whole are

B. interest in ancient Rome. primarily concerned with the extension of
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Britain’s imperial power.

C. anti-capitalism.
C. These lines and the poem as a whole
D. interest in Fourier’s utopian socialist seek to directly express the horrors of war.
thought.
D. These lines and the poem as a whole
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66. In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. rely on assonance to magnify the critique
Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues of war expressed in the poem.
that Eliot creates something that might be
70. Why was World War II a defining event in
called which of the following?
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the history of the 20th century?

A. “A meditation on contradictions”
A. It brought unprecedented destruction
B. “Overheard inner speech” and loss of life, thereby putting into ques-
C. “Implicit dialogue with the future” tion the entire cultural and political legacy
of Western civilization.
D. “Objective correlative”
B. It was followed by Soviet domination of
67. According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Eastern Europe and by the entrenchment
Stevens’s understanding of the imagination of the Soviet totalitarian system of rule.
has most in common with which of the fol-
lowing literary traditions? C. It was followed by the Cold War, which
affected international politics throughout
A. Imagism the world.
64. B 65. C 66. B 67. C 68. D 69. A 70. D

D. All of these answers A. Curiosity about the past

71. Which of the following best characterizes B. Deference to the past
the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s po-
C. Violation of the past
etry and Imagist poetry?
D. Paradoxically both B and C
A. Stein experimented only with the sound
qualities of language, whereas the Imagists 75. One of the dominant themes in Wallace
focused on visual imagery. Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists
of the juxtaposition of nature against which
B. Stein experimented with language that
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set of cultural symbols?
skirted the edges of sense, whereas the
Imagists sought precision and clarity of ex- A. The ideal of courtly love
pression. B. Elements of the Christian narrative of
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C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic salvation
form with contemporary content, whereas C. The alchemical concept of the philoso-
the Imagists used traditional poetic subject pher’s stone
matter but experimented with form.
D. The Renaissance concept of humanism
an
D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her 76. Which of the following figures is the author
poems, whereas the Imagists sought experi- of the 1909 “Futurist Manifesto”?
mental forms that enhanced visual imagery.
A. Umberto Boccioni
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72. In T.S. Eliot’s essay called “Tradition and In- B. Filippo Marinetti
dividual Talent,” he argues that the progress C. Vladimir Mayakovsky
of an artist consists of which of the follow-
ing? D. Aleksander Wat
77. The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A
A. “Continual expansion of the personality
Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white
and its diverse elements”
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B. “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual ex- and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she
tinction of personality” rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.”
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C. “Continual transformation of the per- Which of the following statements accu-

sonality” rately characterizes these lines?
D. “Continual identification with the past” A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to
emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
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73. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell,

which of the following was a central trope B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to
of English poetry written during the Great suggest that death erases racial divisions.
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War? C. These lines present the problem of racial

A. Patriotic imagery prejudice in an ironic mode.
B. Irony D. Both A and B
C. Nihilism 78. Professor Hammer argues that Hart
Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex re-
D. Apocalyptic imagery ply to which of the following modernist
74. Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot works?
used quotation as an important literary
A. Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks
technique. The use of quotations, accord-
of Rivers”
ing to Professor Hammer, suggests which
of the following attitudes to the past? B. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”
71. B 72. B 73. B 74. D 75. B 76. B 77. D 78. D

C. T.S. Eliot’s “A Love Song of J. Alfred 83. World War I drastically changed the politi-
Prufrock” cal and cultural climate in Europe. Which
of the following was NOT among the
D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
changes brought about by World War I?
79. Which of the following traditions was an
important influence on Louis Zukofsky’s A. Germany was defeated and blamed for
poetry? causing the war.
A. American Romanticism B. In the course of World War I, the Bol-

sheviks came to power in Russia.
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B. British Neo-Classicism
C. Successful parliamentary democracies
C. Kabalistic Judaism were established throughout the continent
D. Taoism and remained stable until the outbreak of
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World War II in 1939.
80. H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up,
sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your D. By the end of the 1920s, almost every
great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green state that had participated in World War I
over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” faced an economic depression and political
To which of the following categories does
this poem belong?
A. Objectivist poetry
an upheavals.
84. In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on
the Dump,” one can say that the trash sym-
bolizes which of the following?
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B. Futurist poetry
A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do
C. Imagist poetry
not fit into the American cultural context
D. Vorticist poetry
B. The broken dreams of the American émi-
81. Which one of the following was not a “lit- gré community in Paris
tle magazine” that primarily published and
C. Old poetry
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championed modernist poetry in the first

half of the 20th century? D. The failed attempt of modern poetry
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A. The Partisan Review 85. According to Professor Hammer, which of

the following characteristics did Langston
B. The Owl
Hughes share with modernist poets like
C. Poetry William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore,
Hart Crane, and Robert Frost?
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D. Blast
82. What was the primary significance of “The A. Hughes was very conscious that he was
Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), an American poet, and this profoundly in-
edited by James Weldon Johnson? fluenced his writing.
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A. It established an authoritative and un- B. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the
questionable canon of African American American Civil War and its long-term cul-
poetry. tural consequences.
B. It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers C. Hughes introduced new subject-matter

to establish a tradition of African American and new language into poetry.
poetry. D. Both A and C
C. It presented African American writers 86. Which of the following statements accu-
to a previously indifferent white audience. rately characterizes the relationship be-
D. It provided literary criticism on African tween Italian Futurism and its historical
American poetry. context?
79. C 80. C 81. A 82. B 83. C 84. C 85. D

A. The Italian Futurists were fascinated by 90. Which of the following descriptions does
the age of electric and chemical power, and NOT pertain to the Imagists?
they praised the beauty of automobiles.
A. Total freedom in choosing the subject
B. The Italian Futurists lived within a
B. Striving for concentrated expression
quickly changing social world, and they
and imagery
praised speed.
C. Reliance on the language of common
C. Marinetti and other Italian Futurists
speech
supported Mussolini’s fascism.
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D. Creative reliance on conventional po-
etic forms
characterizes Randall Jarrell’s 1945 poem
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characterizes the role played by Gertrude
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”?
Stein in American modernism?
A. The poem contrasts the image of a child
A. Stein was a crucially important figure
in its mother’s womb with cruel devalua-
in the Paris émigré community.
tion of human life in wartime.
B. The poem praises those technological
achievements which protect human life in
wartime.
an B. Stein was primarily a muse for mod-
ernist poets.
C. Stein was a proponent of low mod-
ernism.
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C. The poem uses images of the apocalypse
to criticize the cruelty of war. D. Stein was an opponent of vanguard
trends.
D. The poem presents the war as a natu-
ral part of the perennial cycles of human 92. Which of the following poets wrote about
history. World War II?
88. Which of the following statements best A. Rupert Brooke
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characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s B. Rudyard Kipling

poem “Black Woman”?
C. Karl Shapiro
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A. This poem focuses primarily on the

different experiences of black and white D. Hart Crane
women. 93. Complete the following sentence. Matthew
B. This poem describes the relationship be- Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative
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tween a black woman and her child. of modernist poetry, because it:
C. This poem is a conversation between A. employs free verse.

a black woman and a child who is not yet B. has an undertow of nihilism.
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born.
C. is chauvinistic about British “exception-
D. The poem is a conversation between a alism.”
black woman and her ancestors.
D. was composed between WW I and WW
89. Which of the following traditions was par- II.
ticularly important in Hart Crane’s mod-
ernist poetry?
scribes the relationship between Georgian
A. French Classicism poetry and English World War I poetry?
B. British Romanticism A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World
C. American Romanticism War I poetry and adapted its insights to
postwar realities.
D. German Romanticism
86. D 87. A 88. C 89. C 90. D 91. A 92. C 93. B
B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian po- 98. What are some of the surface similarities be-
etry was concerned primarily with the ef- tween Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and
fects of urbanization and industrialization. John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling
the Bees”?
C. Unlike World War I poetry, Geor- A. They both address the theme of death.
gian poetry was concerned primarily with
B. Both use formal meter to present a nar-
women’s rights.
rative structure.
D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sas-
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soon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Geor- C. They are both set in rural New England.
gian poetic manner to write about modern
subjects; most Georgian poets focused on D. All of these answers
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individual experience and avoided writing 99. Which of the following phrases best de-
about the upheavals of modernity. scribes the central goal of Imagist poets?
95. Which of the following features of Robert
Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it clas- A. “Emotional power achieved through
sifiable as a Victorian poem? suggestive visual images”
A. It has a regular rhyme scheme

(aa/bb/cc/dd ), which is sustained
throughout the poem.
B. It is primarily a narrative poem.
an B. “Exploration of philosophical paradoxes
through visual images”
C. “Clarity of expression through the use
of precise visual images”
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C. It is concerned with conventional 19th- D. “Inclusion of natural objects as symbols”
century relations between a man and a
woman. 100. Ezra Pound’s “Canto I” opens with the
D. All of these answers following lines: “And then went down to
96. Which of the following does Professor the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the
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Hammer identify as one of the most im- godly sea, and( ).” Which of the fol-
portant goals of Imagist poetry? lowing statements best characterizes these
lines and the poem as a whole?
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A. The privileging of image over sound

A. These lines set an impersonal tone
B. The privileging of rhythm over meaning
which dominates the entire poem.
B. These lines establish a rhythmical pat-
C. The privileging of individual detail over
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tern, which is followed strictly throughout

the larger pattern
the poem.
D. The privileging of colors over textures
C. These lines are the only impersonal
97. Many critics see similarities between the
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lines in the poem, the rest of which is pri-

tenets of Futurism and which of the follow-
marily focused on the complexity of human
ing political philosophies?
emotions.
A. Marxism
D. These lines establish a personal tone,
B. Fascism focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to
C. Democracy late-Victorian era poetry.
D. Libertarianism
94. D 95. D 96. C 97. B 98. D 99. C 100. A
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15. The Victorian Novel
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1. Dickens uses realism as a technique to sup- der, whatever my calling may have been, I
port a larger theme that underlies his writ- see a angel sitting in this room last night
ing. He criticizes the institutionalized cor- along with my child, and I trust her to Our
ruption that existed and attempts to engage Father!”
the readers’ emotions (frustration, anger or
C. “There was such a shock of apprehen-
sadness) on behalf of the victims. Which
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sion in his face, and he knew Richard so

of these passages best illustrates this tech-
perfectly, and I too had seen so much of his
nique?
gradual decay, that what my dear girl had
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A. “‘I began to keep the little creatures,’ said to me in the fullness of her foreboding
she said, ‘with an object that the wards love sounded like a knell in my ears. ‘In
will readily comprehend. With the inten- case you should be wanting Mr. C., sir,’ said
tion of restoring them to liberty. When my Mr. Vholes, coming after us, ‘you’ll find
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judgment should be given. Ye-es! They die him in court. I left him there resting him-
in prison, though. Their lives, poor silly self a little. Good day, sir; good day, Miss
things, are so short in comparison with Summerson.’ As he gave me that slowly de-
Chancery proceedings that, one by one, the vouring look of his, while twisting up the
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whole collection has died over and over strings of his bag before he hastened with
again. I doubt, do you know, whether one it after Mr. Kenge, the benignant shadow of
of these, though they are all young, will whose conversational presence he seemed
live to be free! Ve-ry mortifying, is it not?”’ afraid to leave, he gave one gasp as if he
had swallowed the last morsel of his client,
and his black buttoned-up unwholesome
B. “Bless you, sir, the way she tended them figure glided away to the low door at the
two children after the mother died was the end of the Hall.”
talk of the yard! And it was a wonder to see
her with him after he was took ill, it really D. All of these
was! ’Mrs. Blinder,’ he said to me the very 2. Fiction and non-fiction frequently influ-
last he spoke-he was lying there-’Mrs. Blin- ence one another. This was particularly
1. D
354 Chapter 15. The Victorian Novel
true in Victorian Britain. Which author D. Neither of the journeys make any real
was particularly influential to the writing impact on the surrounding people, or the
of Darwin’s The Origin of Species wider community of scientists.
A. Bram Stoker 6. Which of the following best describes the
B. Thomas Hardy Whig political perspective?
C. Wilkie Collins A. The political and military faction de-

feated by Charles the II
D. Charles Dickens
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B. The liberal party of the new financial
3. Middle- and upper-class Victorian women
and mercantile interests and reformist leg-
faced complicated expectations regarding
islation, who felt the aristocracy ruled only
paid work. Why?
at the consent of the people
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A. They could not work if they were preg-
nant or nursing small children. C. Advocates of personal freedom
B. Women of the middle and upper classes D. Strong supporters of William III and his
were supposed to marry and stay home as consort Mary
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centers of the Victorian family-but many 7. Henry Mayhew writes at length about the
households could not be supported on a London poor and the types of labor they
single income. performed. Identify which type of literary
C. There were so many lower-class women genre Mayhew’s work most closely resem-
Ch
in the workforce that there was no need for bles.
middle-class women to work. A. Science fiction: He attempts to create
D. Paid work was unnecessary because the a dystopian narrative by merging science
salaries of men in the middle class were and fiction.
very high.
B. Travel literature: He uses drastic shock
4. The “Condition-of-England” novel was of- tactics to convey an exciting discovery of
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ten influenced by external factors. Which “savages” in the capital city.

of the following non-fiction accounts might
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have influenced this genre? C. Romance: He makes the poor into ro-
mantic/tragic heroes so the reader will sym-
A. Mayhew’s London Labor and the London pathize.
Poor
D. He does not use a literary technique.
B. Darwin’s The Origin of Species
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8. A bildungsroman is a novel that concerns

C. Lombroso’s work on criminals
itself with:
D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
A. the architecture of a city or urban land-
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5. In what ways is Journey to the Center of the scape, as opposed to the countryside.
Earth similar to the actual journey of the
H.M.S. Beagle and Darwin? B. the development of a youthful protago-
nist as he or she matures.
A. Both are driven by a sense of mystery
and a need for discovery-to answer ques- C. the history of antiquity, particularly of
tions and to find solutions. ancient Rome and Greece.
B. Both demonstrate a fear of the unknown D. the poor versus the rich.
and are allegorical stories about doubt.
9. In the novel Bleak House, Dickens uses real-
C. Neither reflects the narrative style of ism to represent the plight of poor laboring
careful collection of data and description classes. Which of these passages best illus-
of places or objects. trates the use of realism?
2. D 3. B 4. A 5. A 6. B 7. B 8. B
A. “Groups of its inhabitants assemble to great impact on British life and British
discuss the thing, and the outposts of the fiction-particularly on how people judged
army of observation (principally boys) are time and distance. In which of the follow-
pushed forward to Mr. Krook’s window, ing novels does the difference between time
which they closely invest. A policeman has and distance, as clocked by railways, appear
already walked up to the room, and walked specifically?
down again to the door, where he stands
A. Jane Eyre
like a tower, only condescending to see the
boys at his base occasionally; but whenever B. Bleak House
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he does see them, they quail and fall back.” C. The Sign of Four
B. “At the appointed hour arrives the coro- D. Dracula
ner, for whom the jurymen are waiting and
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11. The British Empire is often described as
who is received with a salute of skittles
“ambivalent” in its expansion. Which of the
from the good dry skittle-ground attached
following best explains this in terms of Vic-
to the Sol’s Arms. The coroner frequents
torian Imperialism?
more public-houses than any man alive.”
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A. The British were always interested in
C. “Mrs. Piper lives in the court (which her
expanding their territories and had little to
husband is a cabinet-maker), and it has long
no concern for trade.
been well beknown among the neighbours
(counting from the day next but one before B. The British were committed to expand-
Ch
the half-baptizing of Alexander James Piper ing the empire in every direction and ac-
aged eighteen months and four days old tively sought to increase their land hold-
on accounts of not being expected to live ings.
such was the sufferings gentlemen of that C. The British were not always interested
child in his gums) as the plaintive-so Mrs. in the territories that they took over, but
Piper insists on calling the deceased-was occasionally felt compelled to conquer one
reported to have sold himself.”
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territory to protect another.

D. “Here he is, very muddy, very hoarse, D. The British were at war with other coun-
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very ragged. Now, boy! But stop a minute. tries and colonies on the grounds of reli-
Caution. This boy must be put through a gious persecution.
few preliminary paces. Name, Jo. Nothing
else that he knows on. Don’t know that 12. Which of the following passages most ac-
everybody has two names. Never heerd of curately depicts the sensation-fiction tech-
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sich a think. Don’t know that Jo is short for nique of using shock or highly charged
a longer name. Thinks it long enough for emotions?
HIM. HE don’t find no fault with it. Spell A. “When he had thoroughly recovered
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it? No. HE can’t spell it. No father, no himself, and had joined me on the beach,
mother, no friends. Never been to school. his warm Southern nature broke through
What’s home? Knows a broom’s a broom, all artificial English restraints in a moment.
and knows it’s wicked to tell a lie. Don’t He overwhelmed me with the wildest ex-
recollect who told him about the broom or pressions of affection-exclaimed passion-
about the lie, but knows both. Can’t exactly ately, in his exaggerated Italian way, that
say what’ll be done to him arter he’s dead he would hold his life henceforth at my
if he tells a lie to the gentlemen here, but disposal-and declared that he should never
believes it’ll be something wery bad to pun- be happy again until he had found an oppor-
ish him, and serve him right-and so he’ll tunity of proving his gratitude by rendering
tell the truth.” me some service which I might remember,
10. The construction of the railways had a on my side, to the end of my days.”
9. D 10. D 11. C
B. “We both bounced into the parlour in C. Douglas Jerrold, Lewis Carroll, and
a highly abrupt and undignified manner. Charles Kingsley.
My mother sat by the open window laugh-
D. Gustav Doré, John Tenniel, and Linley
ing and fanning herself. Pesca was one of
Sambourne.
her especial favourites and his wildest ec-
centricities were always pardonable in her 15. In many ways, Bleak House is a “Condition-
eyes.” of-England” novel. Which of the follow-
ing passages best reflects the tenets of this
C. “I had mechanically turned in this lat-
genre?
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ter direction, and was strolling along the
lonely high-road-idly wondering, I remem- A. “It is not a large world. Relatively even
ber, what the Cumberland young ladies to this world of ours, which has its limits
would look like-when, in one moment, ev- too (as your Highness shall find when you
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ery drop of blood in my body was brought have made the tour of it and are come to
to a stop by the touch of a hand laid lightly the brink of the void beyond), it is a very
and suddenly on my shoulder from behind little speck. There is much good in it; there
me. I turned on the instant, with my fin- are many good and true people in it; it has
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gers tightening round the handle of my its appointed place.”
stick. There, in the middle of the broad
B. “My Lady Dedlock has returned to her
bright high-road-there, as if it had that mo-
house in town for a few days previous to
ment sprung out of the earth or dropped
her departure for Paris, where her ladyship
from the heaven-stood the figure of a soli-
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intends to stay some weeks, after which
tary Woman, dressed from head to foot in
her movements are uncertain. The fashion-
white ”
able intelligence says so for the comfort of
D. “The first touch of womanly tenderness the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable
that I had heard from her trembled in her things.”
voice as she said the words; but no tears
C. “This is the Court of Chancery, which
glistened in those large, wistfully attentive
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has its decaying houses and its blighted

eyes of hers, which were still fixed on me.”
lands in every shire, which has its worn-
13. Select the option in which all three factors out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead
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listed were pre-conditions of the Industrial in every churchyard, which has its ru-
Revolution in Britain. ined suitor with his slipshod heels and
A. Literacy, law, and military power threadbare dress borrowing and begging
through the round of every man’s acquain-
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B. Widely available printed material, liter-

tance, which gives to monied might the
acy, adequate transportation
means abundantly of wearying out the
C. Slave owners, slave labor, and the East right, which so exhausts finances, patience,
India Trading Company courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and
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D. Adequate transportation, gothic novels, breaks the heart, that there is not an hon-
and the steam engine ourable man among its practitioners who
would not give-who does not often give-
14. Woodblock illustrations were important un-
the warning, ‘Suffer any wrong that can be
til the development of line illustrations and
done you rather than come here!”’
other methods. Three outstanding wood-
blook illustrators of the period before line- D. “I have a great deal of difficulty in be-
drawing include: ginning to write my portion of these pages,
for I know I am not clever. I always knew
A. Napier, Hopkinson, and Cope.
that. I can remember, when I was a very
B. Charles Dickens, William Thackery, and little girl indeed, I used to say to my doll
Lewis Carroll. when we were alone together, ‘Now, Dolly,
12. C 13. B 14. D 15. C

I am not clever, you know very well, and B. An idea that concerned adaptation but
you must be patient with me, like a dear!’ not actual evolution, a theory that came
And so she used to sit propped up in a great later, after Darwin’s death
arm-chair, with her beautiful complexion C. The understanding that all species de-
and rosy lips, staring at me-or not so much scended from common ancestors and this
at me, I think, as at nothing-while I busily branching pattern of evolution resulted
stitched away and told her every one of my from a process called natural selection, in
secrets.” which the struggle for existence results in
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16. In the Victorian period, phrenology was a selective breeding
science of the mind that:
D. A theory originally developed as a kind
A. is the assessment of a person’s character of criminology and a way of telling one race
or personality based on his outer appear-
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from another
ance, especially the face.
19. Sensation novels, which flourished in the
B. is a pseudoscience primarily concerned Victorian period, primarily aimed to:
with reflexology and the nerves of the feet.
A. “heal the wounded heart.”
an
B. “enlighten the mind and infuse the wit.”
C. focused on measurements of the human
skull, based on the concept that the brain
is the organ of the mind, and that certain C. “encourage strong minds, strong souls,
brain areas have localized, specific func- strong bodies.”
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tions. D. “preach to the nerves instead of the
D. is a practice similar to acupuncture and judgment.”
focuses on pressure points and glandular 20. Which of the following passages most re-
activity. flects the British fear of invasion as repre-
17. Despite Britain’s prowess at mid-century, sented by the vampire?
the empire began to fall behind other na-
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A. “I am glad that it is old and big. I my-

tions. This decline has been variously as- self am of an old family, and to live in a
cribed to: new house would kill me. A house can-
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A. the fundamentally anti-technological not be made habitable in a day, and after

bias of British education. all, how few days go to make up a century.
B. fewer educated people than either Eu- I rejoice also that there is a chapel of old
rope or North America. times. We Transylvanian nobles love not to
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think that our bones may lie amongst the

C. the fact that the British middle class common dead. I seek not gaiety nor mirth,
made money so easily in the first years of not the bright voluptuousness of much sun-
the Industrial Revolution, they simply did shine and sparkling waters which please
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not work as hard in subsequent years. the young and gay.”

D. All of these B. “For if we fail in this our fight he must
18. The Victorian period saw the profession- surely win, and then where end we? Life is
alization of the sciences, and one of the nothings, I heed him not. But to fail here, is
leading thinkers of the age was Charles not mere life or death. It is that we become
Darwin. Darwin’s theory of evolution is as him, that we henceforward become foul
best described by which of the following: things of the night like him, without heart
A. A theory that suggested apes had turned or conscience, preying on the bodies and
into men and this proved transmutation, or the souls of those we love best. To us for-
the changing of one species into another ever are the gates of heaven shut, for who
species shall open them to us again?”
16. C 17. D 18. C 19. D 20. B

C. “We Szekelys have a right to be proud, A. Harker travels from the west to the east,
for in our veins flows the blood of many and his arrival at Castle Dracula represents
brave races who fought as the lion fights, the progress of the British Empire and the
for lordship. Here, in the whirlpool of Eu- expansion of colonies.
ropean races, the Ugric tribe bore down
B. Mina travels from her home to her
from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor
friend’s home, and this represents the so-
and Wodin gave them, which their Berserk-
cial mobility of women and of the middle
ers displayed to such fell intent on the
classes.
seaboards of Europe, aye, and of Asia and
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Africa too, till the peoples thought that the C. Van Helsing travels to London, and this
werewolves themselves had come.” represents the power of medical men and
their ability to thwart myth and supersti-
D. “I saw the fingers and toes grasp the cor-
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tion.
ners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar
by the stress of years, and by thus using ev- D. The count travels from the east to the
ery projection and inequality move down- west, and his invasion of London can be
wards with considerable speed, just as a linked to fears of the “other” and the fall of
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lizard moves along a wall.” the British Empire.
21. The Woman’s Suffrage Movement: 24. Between 1870 and 1900, the formal Empire
A. supported women’s right to vote. expanded to occupy an area of 4 million
square miles. Which of the following is
B. supported the end of slavery. NOT one of the factors that contributed to
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C. supported children. expansion?
D. intended to end suffering. A. The development of Britain’s relation-
22. Non-fiction works like Mayhew’s London ship with the United States of America
Labor and the London Poor and fiction B. A desire to defend the financial interests
works like Dickens’ Hard Times often de- abroad
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pict similar kinds of things. Which of the

following best explains this relationship? C. The threat posed by emerging world
powers
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A. Novels were more fun to read than non-

fiction, so all writing attempted to look like D. The Industrial Revolution
a novel when it was published. 25. In The Sign of Four, the mystery revolves
around things that happen abroad. Which
B. Because Victorians were interested in
of the following events leads Jonathon
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social responsibility, and because they be-

Small to flee (and initiate the pact with the
lieved problems afforded solutions, they
Sikhs?)
were more likely to focus on social reali-
ties in both fiction and non-fiction than the A. The dissolve of the East India Trading
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Romantic-era writers before them. Company in 1873

C. Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew B. The Indian Rebellion of 1857
were friends.
C. The crowning of Queen Victoria as Em-
D. People were frightened by progress and press of India in 1877
enjoyed reading novels and non-fiction
D. The Indian National Congress of 1885
with horrifying narratives about technol-
ogy. This was called sensationalism. 26. Karl Marx was primarily concerned with
23. In the novel Dracula, we see a surprising
reversal of the gothic’s use of place. Which A. Human freedom and reviving the an-
of the following best describes this reversal cient concept of communism, wherein hu-
and why it is important? man beings could fulfill their cooperative
21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. A

roles within society without fear of ex- up-stairs for the address, he opened the
ploitation door of the children’s study and looked into
that serene floor-clothed apartment, which,
B. Sameness and homogeneity; he wishes
notwithstanding its book-cases and its cab-
to reduce all persons to the same class
inets and its variety of learned and philo-
C. The end of capitalism and the rise of sophical appliances, had much of the genial
communism as a state institution of power aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
over the will of the people Louisa languidly leaned upon the window
looking out, without looking at anything,
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D. The concept of atavism and Social Dar-
winism as a means of subjugating the peo- while young Thomas stood sniffing re-
ple vengefully at the fire. Adam Smith and
Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were
27. Victorian novels use characterization to
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out at lecture in custody; and little Jane,
represent class and rank. Which of the fol-
after manufacturing a good deal of moist
lowing passages is a good example of how
pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and
Charles Dickens reveals the class tension
tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar frac-
in Hard Times?
tions.”
A. “He was a rich man: banker, merchant,
manufacturer, and what not. A big, loud
man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh. A
man made out of a coarse material, which an D. “‘Oh, my poor health!’ returned Mrs.
Gradgrind. ‘The girl wanted to come to the
school, and Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to
come to the school, and Louisa and Thomas
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seemed to have been stretched to make so
both said that the girl wanted to come, and
much of him. A man with a great puffed
that Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come,
head and forehead, swelled veins in his tem-
and how was it possible to contradict them
ples, and such a strained skin to his face
when such was the fact!”’
that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and
lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervad- 28. Though science and the humanities are
ing appearance on him of being inflated sometimes seen as oppositional, they of-
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like a balloon, and ready to start. A man ten have a reciprocal relationship. Which
who could never sufficiently vaunt himself of the following statements best illustrates
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a self-made man. A man who was always this?

proclaiming, through that brassy speaking- A. Victorian novels, particularly those by
trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance Charles Dickens, influenced Darwin’s The
and his old poverty. A man who was the Origin of Species.
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Bully of humility.”
B. Scientists tend to see their fields in com-
B. “In truth, Mrs. Gradgrind’s stock of facts plete isolation from art and culture.
in general was woefully defective; but Mr.
Gradgrind in raising her to her high mat- C. Since the coming of Romanticism in the
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rimonial position, had been influenced by late 18th century, many poets, such as Blake
two reasons. Firstly, she was most satis- and Keats, have tended to oppose science
factory as a question of figures; and, sec- and technology to the arts.
ondly, she had ‘no nonsense’ about her. By D. The development of cinema, television,
nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is video, and digital information technology
probable she was as free from any alloy of has provided a kind of intellectual distance.
that nature, as any human being not arrived
at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever
29. Which of the following describes the most
was.”
important development that came from
C. “Being left to saunter in the hall a Darwin’s time aboard the survey ship,
minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went H.M.S. Beagle?
27. A 28. A
A. He made countless inquiries of animal 32. The term the “Condition-of-England nov-
breeders, both farmers and hobbyists like els” refers to a body of narrative fiction
pigeon fanciers, trying to understand how that:
they made distinct breeds of animals.
A. show the differences between these tra-
B. He would find multiple species in one ditions as well as their similarities.
place that had replaced all the fossil species,
B. explores the youth and young adulthood
while discovering a living fossil species still
of a sensitive protagonist who is in search
alive elsewhere. It caused him to ask where
of the meaning of life and the nature of the
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new species came from and why there were
world.
so many variations.
C. a genre where magic elements are a nat-
C. He read the works of Alexander von
ural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic
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Humboldt and geologist Charles Lyell’s
environment.
book, Principles of Geology.
D. sought to engage directly with the con-
D. He investigated geology for the first temporary social and political issues with a
time while traveling to South America. focus on the representation of class, gender,
an
30. As both industry and farming became more and labour relations, as well as on social un-
mechanized, the number of tools required rest.
for such work increased dramatically. What 33. The growth of the British Empire was due,
were some of the consequences of this evo- in large part, to which of the following?
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lution?
A. The discovery of natural resources like
A. More and bigger tools required addi- coal, oil, gold, and silver in the British Isles
tional buildings to house them, horses
to run them, and experienced laborers.
Smaller farms could not afford to spend B. The rebellion of serfs against their mas-
money on equipment used only a few ters and a desire for equality for all men
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weeks out of the year.

B. The old tools, like the scythe, were put C. The ongoing competition for resources
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centuries between England and her Conti-
C. More people became farmers. nental rivals, Spain, France, and Holland
D. Additional tools and requirements
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meant more expense, so farmers earned D. The emergence of the United States of
more money and became much wealthier America as a world power
than before.
34. New Imperialism has often been linked to
31. Some reactions to Henry Mayhew’s work
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the concept of “empire for empire’s sake.”

on London Labor and London Poor might Which of the following BEST describes this
be described as: practice?
A. sensationalism: the attraction of repul- A. A lack of interest in surplus capital and a
sion and shock. disregard for protecting existing trade links
B. horror: the discovery that people in a
major city live like "savages." B. The “Great Game”-espionage and
C. sympathy: pity for the destitute women counter-espionage especially with refer-
and children in a major industrial city. like ence to Russia’s interests
London. C. Bloody and unsuccessful wars in
Afghanistan, ferocious popular rebellions,
D. All of these
29. B 30. A 31. D 32. D 33. C 34. D
invocations of jihad, and inscrutable terrain therefore ignoring the plight of women and
the problems of venereal diseases.
D. Aggressive competition for overseas ter- C. The acts allowed policemen to consider
ritorial acquisitions and a quest for captive any women in ports and army towns as
markets prostitutes and bring them in to have com-
35. The East India Company has a strange his- pulsory checks for venereal disease. If the
tory. Though it began as a trading company, women were suffering from sexually trans-
it evolved into: mitted diseases they were placed in a locked
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hospital.
A. an entity with its own military power.
D. She had a personal vendetta against the
B. a monopoly.
men who promoted the acts because they
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C. a problematic ruling body separate from were her political opponents and also op-
the British Empire, who finally reigned in posed women
its power starting in 1813.
39. Physical description, dialogue, and physical
D. All of the above actions are all techniques of:
an
36. Publishing, printing, and bookselling busi- A. plot development.
nesses were:
B. theme.
A. primarily organized by the East In-
dia Trading Company, who controlled the C. narration.
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stocks. D. characterization.
B. usually owned by authors, who became 40. One contradiction about female sexuality
wealthy landowners as a result of their put “moral guidance” and the desire for sex
trade. in opposition. To be a good wife therefore
C. three divisions that were just emerging required women:
as separate businesses in the 19th century, A. to want children, but not the means of
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and they merged almost as often as they getting them-and to be never failing in their
separated. Godly virtues.
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D. financed entirely by book clubs and trav- B. to be sexual creatures but to hide it and
eling libraries. to be coy and playful.
37. A number of Victorian feminists revived
C. to always take part of the public sphere
the Woman Question debate in their cam-
of city life.
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paign for:
D. to avoid other women of their own class.
A. property.
B. divorce.
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41. In what ways did the railway reinforce dif-

C. suffrage. ferences of class?
D. All of these A. The railroad workers did not like to
38. Josephine Butler was well known for cam- travel by the railway because they feared
paigning for women. Why did she attack it interfered with digestion of coarse food.
the Contagious Disease Acts? B. The coaches were differentiated by class,
A. She felt that health and hygiene was not and railway workers often rode at the back
important to the cause of women’s emanci- of the car.
pation and voting rights. C. Most of the passengers were wealthy in
B. The acts were only aimed at children the early days of the railway; it was too ex-
and did not include women; doctors were pensive for the poorer classes (who might
35. D 36. C 37. D 38. C 39. D 40. A 41. C

make only 10 shillings a week) to travel C. Trouble in relation to her employers or

that way. her pupils
D. It did not reinforce class but rather D. Aspects of the supernatural, particu-
served to democratize its riders, who were larly of ghosts or ghostly presences
all heading to the same destination. 45. Vampirism in Dracula affects the young and
42. Sigmund Freud’s major contribution to sci- the healthy, turning members of the British
ence was his development of psychoanal- community into creatures of the night al-
ysis. Which of the following best explain most like animals. Which of the following
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the practice? theories might this reflect?
A. The use of dialogue between a patient A. Imperialism
and a psychoanalyst, using free association
B. Atavism
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to discover transference and repression
C. Evolution
B. The use of psychosurgery to correct
problematic psychosis through lobotomy D. Expansionism
C. The use of myths and legends to reflect 46. Using concepts drawn from physiognomy,
an
the collective unconscious and its presence early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Dar-
in daily life winism, Cesare Lombroso’s theory of
anthropological criminology essentially
D. All of these
stated that:
43. The voyages of discovery made by the Bea-
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gle and other scientific survey-related jour- A. no one can ever be certain about crimi-
neys influenced fiction-particularly early nal intent, not even the criminal him/her-
science fiction. Which of the following self.
BEST explains why? B. “man is a calculating animal,” in the
A. Few people were classically educated, causes of criminal behavior, premised on
so there was no call for reviving the mythol- the idea that people have free will in mak-
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ogy of the Greeks. ing decisions, and that punishment can be

a deterrent for crime.
B. The pursuit of material values, even
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worldly success itself, seemed somehow to C. this was the mechanism that had al-
invite catastrophe. Authors used the voy- lowed monarchies to become the primary
ages as a means of distraction from real form of government. He concluded that
problems. monarchs had asserted the right to rule and
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C. Seeing foreign lands and strange people
raw power, or through a form of contract.
and animals, and witnessing new geolog-
ical formations or strange biological pro- D. criminality was inherited, and that
someone “born criminal” could be identi-
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cesses, renewed the age-old quest for new

worlds and the “fantastic.” fied by physical defects, which confirmed
a criminal as savage, or atavistic.
D. The voyages of discovery suggested
new possible colonies that would aid in the 47. Clashes like the Crimean War did not pro-
expansion of the British Empire. duce much fiction, but did still influence
novelists. Which of the following books
44. Which of the following attributes was NOT
was most influenced by the war in Crimea?
a feature of the governess novel?
A. Mysteries of Udolpho
A. A governess heroine
B. Bleak House
B. Encounters with a number of painful
situations that are connected with her po- C. Jane Eyre
sition as a governess
D. Dracula
42. A 43. C 44. D 45. B 46. D 47. D
48. Like the “condition-of-England” novels, the C. denied men conjugal rights to their
governess novel often involves problems wives’ bodies without their wives’ consent.
of social class. Which of the following ex-
plains why the position of governess lends
D. Both A and C
itself to a novel of class critique?
51. Victorian novels use characterization to
A. The governess was often much better
represent class and rank. Which of the fol-
educated than her employers.
lowing passages is a good example of how
Thomas Hardy reveals the class tension in
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B. The governess was in the same class
as her employers, and she was treated as Return of the Native?
one of the family. This demonstrated the
A. “‘I say, Sam,’ observed Humphrey when
benevolence of the middle class, which was
the old man was gone, ‘she and Clym Yeo-
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a model of equality and domesticity.
bright would make a very pretty pigeon-
C. The servants and the governess were pair-hey? If they wouldn’t I’ll be dazed!
generally of the same class and yet had full Both of one mind about niceties for certain,
control of the upper-class children, playing and learned in print, and always thinking
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upon the fears of class uprising among the about high doctrine-there couldn’t be a bet-
merchant and business classes. ter couple if they were made o’ purpose.
Clym’s family is as good as hers. His father
D. The only occupation at which an un- was a farmer, that’s true; but his mother
married middle-class woman could earn a was a sort of lady, as we know. Nothing
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living and maintain some claim to gentility would please me better than to see them
was that of a governess, but a governess two man and wife.”’
could expect employment insecurity, mini-
mal wages, and an ambiguous status, some- B. “That five minutes of overhearing fur-
where between servant and family member, nished Eustacia with visions enough to
that isolated her within the household. fill the whole blank afternoon. Such sud-
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49. Some of the tropes of gothic fiction em- sometimes occur thus quietly. She could
ployed by Victorians include: never have believed in the morning that
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A. scientific discovery, narratives of her colourless inner world would before

progress, and a focus on positivism. night become as animated as water under
a microscope, and that without the arrival
B. colonies, foreigners, the arts, and beau- of a single visitor. The words of Sam and
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tiful scenery. Humphrey on the harmony between the

C. psychological and physical terror; mys- unknown and herself had on her mind the
tery and the supernatural; madness, dou- effect of the invading Bard’s prelude in the
Castle of Indolence, at which myriads of
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bling, and heredity curses.

imprisoned shapes arose where had previ-
D. empire building, the East India Trading ously appeared the stillness of a void.”
Company, merchant stories, and often pi-
rates. C. “The subject of their discourse had been
keenly interesting to her. A young and
50. The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act clever man was coming into that lonely
and its later permutation in 1891: heath from, of all contrasting places in the
world, Paris. It was like a man coming from
A. permitted women limited divorce capa-
heaven. More singular still, the heathmen
bility.
had instinctively coupled her and this man
B. allowed married women to retain and together in their minds as a pair born for
control their earned income. each other.”
48. D 49. C 50. D 51. D

D. All of these A. Attract poles of magnetic force

52. At the very beginning of Victoria’s reign, B. Describe the entanglement between
progressive and conservative schools of man and universe, the vital fluid or life
thought were best characterized by: force
A. non-believers (progressive) and believ- C. Serve to attract animals for selective
ers (conservative). breeding, rather like natural selection
B. an emphasis on freedom of action (pro- D. Electrify human beings; he vowed never
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gressive) and belief in social hierarchy and to use it for therapeutic purposes
established or official state religion (conser- 56. Monomania was a frightening mental dis-
vative). order for the Victorians because:
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C. writers (progressive) and Patrons (con- A. it could strike without warning, like
servative). fever.
D. All of these B. it was a form of partial insanity con-
ceived as single pathological preoccupation
53. Sensation fiction relied upon emotional ef-
an
in an otherwise sound mind-and so could
fect. Which of the following helps to ex-
be hard to detect in others or in one’s self.
plain why?
C. it signaled infection with the lower
A. Women were often the heroines, and
classes and potential degeneration and
this helped the cause of New Woman suf-
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atavism.
fragettes.
D. it primarily attacked women and was
B. The genre highlighted architecture and related to the reproductive system.
ancient history, the supernatural and the
sublime. 57. There were several phases of the industrial
revolution. In which combination are the
C. It served the interests of the government phases listed in correct chronological or-
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by distracting the public from scandals of der?

state.
A. Textiles, Electricity, Railway and Steel
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D. The genre employed a rigorous realism

B. Railway and Steel, Textiles, Information
that catered to a contemporary “taste for
Technologies
the factual” while it nonetheless titillated
the public appetite for the exotic and re- C. Railways and Steel, Electricity and
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newed interest in the science of the mind. Chemicals, Information Technologies,

D. None of these
54. Some tenets of gothic fiction include: 58. In the context of the Victorian Novel, real-
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A. ruins, darkness, romance, mystery, cas- ism:

tles, and the sublime. A. means that we approve of the novel’s
practicality.
B. expansion, industry, modernization and
fear of the future. B. refers to the materiality of the text, that
it is not digital and that it does not exist
C. monsters, aliens, and mythical beasts.
only in the head but is “real.”
D. Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.
C. assumes that reality inheres in the here
55. Animal magnetism was, according to Franz and now and emphasizes accurate descrip-
Mesmer, an invisible natural force exerted tions of setting, dress, and character.
by animals. What did Mesmer think this
D. means that texts must engage with po-
magnetism could do?
litical action.
52. B 53. D 54. A 55. B 56. B 57. C 58. C 59. A
59. Sensation novels were not just entertain- 62. Most Victorian novels, including those
ment; they also commented on social prob- by Charles Dickens, represent women
lems. Elizabeth Braddon created dangerous, and men functioning in “separate spheres.”
scheming heroines embroiled in the com- What does this mean?
plications of the bigamy plot. Which of the A. Husbands and wives had distinct, but
following were these plots responding to? complementary, functions to perform.
A. The divorce rights of women against an Women were involved in the work of the
obviously male-biased law that determined household-care of the children, sewing,
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that, while a wife’s adultery was sufficient cooking, and cleaning. Men earned the
cause for a divorce, a husband’s adultery money to purchase goods needed by their
was insufficient cause households and debated matters of public
concern.
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B. The dangerous and scheming prosti-
tutes of the Contagious Disease Acts and B. The middle-class actually maintained
the threat they posed to the Victorian fam- two different houses, one for all the women
ily and one for the men, much like they did in
ancient Greece.
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C. The political machinations of the em-
pire during Victoria’s reign, particularly as C. Separate spheres were created to protect
regards British colonies women and men from divorce; it meant that
they rarely saw one another or spoke, so
D. The property rights of women against
that disagreements were minimized.
an obviously male-biased law that deter-
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mined only men could inherit D. Men were encouraged to go to war or to
60. As part of their separate sphere, middle- sea, while women were encouraged to work
class women were to provide: in the factories and take up the slack of
the absent men. Women gained new pow-
A. moral and religious guidance for their ers and equality from working in separate
husbands who must encounter the world spheres.
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beyond the home.

63. Which of the following is a legislative act
B. sexual pleasure or gratification regard- that affected women in the 19th century?
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less of the desire for children or the contin-

A. Abused Animals Act of 1823
uance of the family.
B. The death of Prince Albert in 1861
C. a safe place of “hearth and home” that
was free from the corruption of market cap- C. Contagious Diseases Acts of 1866 and
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italism. 1869
D. an income from labor performed out- D. George Eliot
side the home to supplement the middle- 64. What was the importance of The Married
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class way of life. Woman’s Property Act of 1870?

E. Both A and C A. It gave extensive tracts of land to the
F. Both A and C husband, overturning a practice of matri-
lineal inheritance.
61. An example of a bildungsroman novel
would be: B. It gave married women the right to own
property they either earned or acquired by
A. Thomas Hardy’s Return of the Native.
inheritance.
B. Henry Mayhew’s London Labor and the
C. It allowed the aristocracy to own prop-
London Poor.
erty only if they were married and had male
C. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. children.
D. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. D. It allowed women to get a divorce.
60. E 60. F 61. D 62. A 63. C 64. B

65. The term supernatural meant many things were known to have often troubled patients,
to the Victorians. Which of the following some of whom had become conscious of
BEST describes Victorian supernatural? the nature of their affliction, and had even
proved it by experiments upon themselves.”
A. Stories of horror and myth or “old wives
tales”
67. The East India Trading Company, which
B. Adventure stories that often included
had been a powerful trading entity, grad-
monsters of history or of mythology
ually became the authorized ruler of the
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C. Dystopian narratives of science gone- vast Indian subcontinent. Which of these
wrong, super-strong monsters, and beings most accurately described the reasons for
with unexplained powers this shift?
A. The Company was a militant group that
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D. “unexplained” phenomena, Spiritual-
ism, communication with the dead or with harnessed the power of the navy to com-
the past, aspects of religion pete with the British nation. After taking
66. The railway and its faster pace of life of- control of the sea, they took control of the
ten worried Victorians, who feared it might land.
have an effect on the nerves. Which of
the following passages from The Signal-
man best illustrates the idea that “nerves”
or senses may be fooled or disrupted? an B. Britain did not have firm imperial poli-
cies, so much activity developed in a semi-
structured way. The Company had vast
holdings and resources in India, and be-
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A. “A disagreeable shudder crept over me, came the primary gateway through which
but I did my best against it. It was not to be these items traveled in and out of the coun-
denied, I rejoined, that this was a remark- try.
able coincidence, calculated deeply to im- C. The Company was largely made up
press his mind. But, it was unquestionable of landed gentry from Britain who were
that remarkable coincidences did contin- elected to run the colonies by their con-
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ually occur, and they must be taken into stituents on the mainland.
account in dealing with such a subject.”
D. The Company held all the wealth of
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B. “The voice seemed hoarse with shout- Britain and threatened to bankrupt the na-
ing, and it cried, ‘Look out! Look out!’ And tion if they were not permitted to rule their
then again ‘Halloa! Below there! Look territory.
out!’ I caught up my lamp, turned it on red, 68. The theory of atavism arose alongside evo-
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and ran towards the figure, calling, ‘What’s lutionary theory. Which of the following
wrong? What has happened? Where?”’ best explains atavism?
C. “Punctual to my appointment, I placed A. It was the theory that all persons could
my p. 98foot on the first notch of the zig-
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trace their origin to Adam.

zag next night, as the distant clocks were
striking eleven. He was waiting for me at B. It believed that humans neither pro-
the bottom, with his white light on. ‘I have gressed nor regressed, but stayed the
not called out,’ I said, when we came close same throughout history-only technology
together; ‘may I speak now?”’ changed.
D. “Resisting the slow touch of a frozen C. It was only applied to non-white, non-
finger tracing out my spine, I showed him British persons.
how that this figure must be a deception D. It was the fear of regression-if all hu-
of his sense of sight, and how that figures, mans had evolved from primitive forms,
originating in disease of the delicate nerves then we could potentially return to the
that minister to the functions of the eye, primitive.
65. D 66. D 67. B 68. D 69. B

69. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage perspective of the events helps you under-
Societies served to promote: stand whether they are trustworthy and
A. women’s equality in the workplace. reliable narrators of the story.
73. Which of the following mid-century phe-
B. the right to vote for women in a non-
nomena led to the popularity of the sensa-
violent manner by constitutional means.
tion novel?
C. an end to slavery.
A. Tabloid journalism
D. None of these
B. Notorious trials such as that of the poi-
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70. “Country life” before industrialization was: soner Palmer
A. idyllic and easy, characterized by C. New weekly and monthly (often illus-
healthy, happy agrarian workers. trated) literary magazines
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B. politically problematic, characterized by D. All of these
revolutionary sentiment.
C. much better than city life, characterized Tory political perspective?
by fresh air and nourishing food.
an
A. Hostility to dissenters
D. hard and difficult, characterized by
harsh conditions, malnourishment, and B. Complete non-resistance to the monar-
complete dependence upon the weather chy
and seasonal harvest. C. Support for Jacobites
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71. Victorians were interested in social jus- D. A conservative, reactionary group that
tice, and therefore were likely to take ac- favored the aristocracy, whose power base
tion based upon perceived social wrongs. was the rural squirearchy
Which of the following were programs in-
75. Between 1850 and 1900, approximately
stituted in the Victorian period?
1,200 “art” books were produced in Britain.
A. Chemistry, electricity, engineering, and
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Given that information, which of the fol-

architecture lowing statements is most accurate?
B. Empiricism, enlightenment, and roman-
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A. The artist engraved his own white line

ticism illustrations on boxwood blocks, and the
C. Alcoholics Anonymous, the World artist-engraver remained a common figure
Health Organization, and NATO in book illustration until mid-century.
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D. Democracy, feminism, unionization of B. Most of the Victorian illustrations were

workers, socialism, and Marxism done with wood blocks.
72. Why is it important to pay attention to C. From mid-century, two styles of wood-
point of view and narrative voice when read- block illustration occur, the old vignette and
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ing a novel? the pen-and-ink drawing.

A. It is not important to pay attention to D. All of the above statements are accurate
point of view, and narrative voice is only descriptions of this art book period.
important if it is a first person narrator. 76. The rise of the governess novel was:
B. We identify better with first person nar- A. not a popular genre until the very end
rators. of the 19th century, long after governesses
C. If it is an all-knowing narrator, then the were no longer employed in the average
story will be “preachy” and moralistic. household.
D. Knowing who is telling the story and B. only written before 1840, and only by
whether they have a complete or limited women who had never been governesses
70. D 71. D 72. D 73. D 74. D 75. D 76. D

themselves, but who romanced the genre ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood,
and made it more appealing. it was a town of unnatural red and black
C. more often written by men than women. like the painted face of a savage. It was a
town of machinery and tall chimneys, out
of which interminable serpents of smoke
D. connected with the 19th-century anxi- trailed themselves for ever and ever, and
ety concerning middle-class female employ- never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it,
ment in general, and governess work in and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling
particular. dye, and vast piles of building full of win-
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77. The sensation novel evolved out of tabloid dows where there was a rattling and a trem-
journalism and the public’s desire for nov- bling all day long, and where the piston of
elty. They were related to the horror novel the steam-engine worked monotonously up
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and to the mystery novel. Which of the fol- and down, like the head of an elephant in a
lowing texts helped to first make sensation state of melancholy madness. It contained
fiction popular with “sensation mania”? several large streets all very like one an-
A. Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White other, and many small streets still more like
one another, inhabited by people equally
an
B. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and like one another, who all went in and out at
Hyde the same hours, with the same sound upon
C. Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Se- the same pavements, to do the same work,
cret and to whom every day was the same as
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yesterday and to-morrow, and every year
D. All of these
the counterpart of the last and the next.”
78. The Victorian novel often depicts the prob-
lems of Victorian life. Charles Dickens’ D. “‘Very well,’ said Bounderby. ‘I was
novel Hard Times uses description to pro- born in a ditch, and my mother ran away
vide a picture of the town and the effects from me. Do I excuse her for it? No. Have
of progress. Which of the following pas- I ever excused her for it? Not I. What do I
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sages best visualizes the consequences of call her for it? I call her probably the very
industrialization? worst woman that ever lived in the world,
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except my drunken grandmother.”’

A. “The name of the public-house was the
Pegasus’s Arms. The Pegasus’s legs might 79. The Industrial Revolution may be best de-
have been more to the purpose; but, un- fined as:
derneath the winged horse upon the sign- A. the conflict between the rich and the
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board, the Pegasus’s Arms was inscribed in poor classes of England, similar to the
Roman letters.” French Revolution.
B. “Before Mr. Bounderby could reply, a B. the combined conflicts of Afghanistan
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young man appeared at the door, and intro- and India that resulted in the loss of land
ducing himself with the words, ‘By your holdings for Britain.
leaves, gentlemen!’ walked in with his
hands in his pockets. His face, close-shaven, C. the invention of the steam engine.
thin, and sallow, was shaded by a great D. the vast social and economic changes
quantity of dark hair, brushed into a roll that resulted from the development of
all round his head, and parted up the cen- steam-powered machinery and mass-
tre. His legs were very robust, but shorter production methods.
than legs of good proportions should have 80. Like Dickens, Bronte uses realism and so-
been.” cial comparison to critique society and in-
C. “It was a town of red brick, or of brick justice. Which of the following passages
that would have been red if the smoke and best reflects this technique?
77. A 78. C 79. D

A. “While the direction was being exe- five.”

cuted, the lady consulted moved slowly 81. In the novel Jane Eyre, the governess-
up the room. I suppose I have a consid- heroine falls in love with her employer, but
erable organ of veneration, for I retain yet knows that she would be wrong to tell him.
the sense of admiring awe with which my Which of the following describes why such
eyes traced her steps. Seen now, in broad a confession would be wrong?
daylight, she looked tall, fair, and shapely;
brown eyes with a benignant light in their A. As a woman of lower class with no
irids, and a fine pencilling of long lashes money of her own, Jane is considered far
er
round.” beneath her employer and such a match
would be thought degrading and shameful.
B. “Ravenous, and now very faint, I de-
voured a spoonful or two of my portion
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B. Women are considered emotional crea-
without thinking of its taste; but the first
tures, and so there is no reason for Jane to
edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had
hide her feelings. That she does so is one
got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt por-
of the mysteries of the text.
ridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes;
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famine itself soon sickens over it. The C. Rochester is already married and so Jane
spoons were moved slowly: I saw each girl is not meant to take his proposals seriously.
taste her food and try to swallow it; but in
most cases the effort was soon relinquished.
D. Jane’s training at Lowood makes her
Breakfast was over, and none had break-
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calm, quiet, meek and without personal will
fasted. Thanks being returned for what we
or desire. It would be against her nature to
had not got, and a second hymn chanted,
reveal her love for him.
the refectory was evacuated for the school-
room.” 82. The slow decline of the British Empire and
the rise of foreign powers led to which of
C. “The din was on the causeway: a horse the following?
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was coming; the windings of the lane yet

A. Fear of the “other” and of the degenera-
hid it, but it approached. I was just leav-
tion of British people
ing the stile; yet, as the path was narrow, I
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sat still to let it go by. In those days I was B. Greater economic policies favoring
young, and all sorts of fancies bright and women and minorities
dark tenanted my mind: the memories of C. Better foreign policy and stronger lead-
nursery stories were there amongst other ership
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rubbish; and when they recurred, maturing

youth added to them a vigour and vividness D. Better schools and a greater emphasis
beyond what childhood could give.” on education
83. Gothic novels often refer to the “sublime”
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D. “Something of daylight still lingered,

or “sublime feelings.” Which best defines
and the moon was waxing bright: I could
this term?
see him plainly. His figure was enveloped
in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel A. Tenderness and affection evoked by
clasped; its details were not apparent, but I beautiful objects
traced the general points of middle height B. Feelings characterized by smallness, del-
and considerable breadth of chest. He icacy, and smoothness
had a dark face, with stern features and
a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eye- C. Emotions generated by objects that
brows looked ireful and thwarted just now; were vast, magnificent, and obscure
he was past youth, but had not reached D. Spiritually superior and without moral
middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty- failings
80. B 81. A 82. A 83. C

84. The first British Empire was a mercantile C. It implied that the empire was like a
one. Which of the following best explains child and should be cared for by the larger
the mercantile perspective of empire? community of nations surrounding it.
A. A profitable balance of trade, it was be- D. The implication was that the Empire ex-
lieved, would provide the wealth, but si- isted not for the benefit of Britain itself, but
multaneously shrink the empire, meaning in order that so-called “primitive” peoples
fewer colonies. could be “civilized” (and Christianized) by
B. Textiles were going to be the product of serving Britain.
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the future, more important than crops. 87. Many well-educated young women from
poorer families became governesses, includ-
C. Trade was unimportant; the wealth of
ing novelist Charlotte Bronte. However,
the nation should be kept within the na-
Bronte did not recommend this work. What
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tion’s borders.
are some of the major problems encoun-
D. The mercantilists advocated in theory, tered by governesses?
and sought in practice, trade monopolies
A. Outbreaks of plague and other epi-
which would insure that Britain’s exports
demics that affect small children
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would exceed its imports.
85. The theory of Social Darwinism was pri- B. Excessive distances to travel between
marily influenced by the work of Charles home and work
Darwin. Which of the following is also C. Suitors from the upper classes seeking
true?
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their hand in marriage or attempting to ar-
A. Darwin was primarily interested in pre- range marriages for them
serving the concept of superior races. D. Long hours, little pay, enormous respon-
B. Lombroso and Darwin worked on the sibilities with almost no actual power, prob-
theory of Social Darwinism together. lematic relations with employer and under-
staff
C. The theory of Social Darwinism devel-
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oped from philosophies derived from Dar-
novel forms ALL present during the Vic-
win’s theory of evolution, and did not re-
torian period?
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flect the work of Darwin himself.

A. Bildungsroman, feminist novel, anti-
D. Freud heavily influenced Lombroso’s
bellum novel
work on the evolution and devolution of
human beings. B. Sensation novel, adaptation, superhero
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ternalistic and (erroneous) racial theories C. Detective novel, new woman novel,
based partly on evolution. Author Rud- gothic Novel
yard Kipling refers to this biased Imperi-
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D. Empty-center novel, magical realism

alist viewpoint as “the white man’s burden.”
novel, poetic novel
Which of the following best explains this
phrase and its assumptions? 89. Which of the following theorists is being
referenced in this passage from Dracula?
A. The phrase suggested that women were “The Count is a criminal and of criminal
largely responsible for causing problems in type [ ] and qua criminal he is of an
the empire, particularly between racialized imperfectly formed mind. Thus, in a diffi-
groups. culty he has to seek resource in habit. His
B. The phrase meant that British people past is a clue, and the one page of it that
should trade with their non-white neigh- we know, and that from his own lips, tells
bors, treating them largely as equals in the that once before, when in what Mr. Morris
mercantile economy. would call a ’tight place,’ he went back to
84. D 85. C 86. D 87. D 88. C

his own country from the land he had tried C. Mr. Hyde is much craftier than the doc-
to invade, and thence, without losing pur- tor is.
pose, prepared himself for a new effort. He
D. no one can tell that the two men are one
came again better equipped for his work,
in the same.
and won. So he came to London to invade
a new land. He was beaten, and when all 92. Which of the following best explains “The
hope of success was lost, and his existence Woman Question”?
in danger, he fled back over the sea to his A. Originally asked by Henry Mayhew, it
home. Just as formerly he had fled back raised concerns about women in the work-
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over the Danube from Turkey Land.” place, fearing that market capitalism would
tarnish their virtue.
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Originally asked by Charlotte Bronte, it
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B. Herbert Spencer
asked why women were not allowed to run
C. Cesare Lombroso schools or to educate the very young.
D. Carl Jung C. Originally asked by Josephine Butler, it
primarily concerned venereal disease and
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90. In the novels of Charlotte Bronte and
Charles Dickens, realism is frequently used the Contagious Disease Acts.
in scenes where the protagonist encoun- D. Originally asked by Mary Woll-
ters challenging situations. In what ways stonecraft in the 18th century, it raised
does this represent a challenge to accepted awareness about inequality and encour-
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“norms” of the period? aged women to obtain a proper education
and to be allowed entrance to public de-
A. By using realistic details to contrast the
bates and the public sphere.
lives of the extremely wealthy to the strug-
gles of the poor but virtuous hero, these 93. Concepts about evolution (even erroneous
authors point out social problems and in- ones) are often incorporated into fiction.
equalities. Which of the following passages from The
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Sign of Four demonstrate the imperialis-

B. Most people still read traditional poetry tic and frequently race-driven fear of non-
and French romance novels, so represent-
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British people?
ing real characters challenged the reading
habits of Victorians. A. “They were tall, fierce-looking chaps,
Mahomet Singh and Abdullah Khan by
C. Challenging situations are more diffi- name, both old fighting-men who had
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cult to read than happy ones, so realism is borne arms against us at Chilian-wallah.
used to make the story more interesting in They could talk English pretty well, but I
those challenging chapters. could get little out of them. They preferred
D. Dickens and Bronte used realism to to stand together and jabber all night in
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make the story seem far more complex than their queer Sikh lingo.”
it really was. B. “He was a good-sized, powerful man,
91. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and as he stood poising himself with legs
reflects Victorian fears of atavism and con- astride I could see that from the thigh down-
cepts of criminal anthropology because: wards there was but a wooden stump upon
the right side.”
A. the case revolves around a medical and
scientific experiment. C. “At the sound of his strident, angry
cries there was movement in the huddled
B. Dr. Jekyll changes in his appearance as bundle upon the deck. It straightened it-
his mind degenerates so that he looks, acts, self into a little black man-the smallest I
and speaks more like an animal. have ever seen-with a great, misshapen
89. C 90. A 91. B 92. D 93. C

head and a shock of tangled, disheveled A. pace (the speed at which the story is
hair. Holmes had already drawn his re- told) and variation (the ups and downs of
volver, and I whipped out mine at the sight the plot structure).
of this savage, distorted creature. He was
B. city (the primary city in which the story
wrapped in some sort of dark ulster or blan-
takes place) and country (the primary na-
ket, which left only his face exposed; but
tion in which the story takes place).
that face was enough to give a man a sleep-
less night. Never have I seen features so C. plot (what happens in a story), and struc-
deeply marked with all bestiality and cru- ture (the order in which the novel presents
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elty. His small eyes glowed and burned the plot).
with a sombre light, and his thick lips were
D. chronological setting (the time in his-
writhed back from his teeth, which grinned
tory when the story takes place) and place
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and chattered at us with a half animal fury.”
(the location in which the story takes place).
D. “‘It is nothing against the fort,’ said he. 97. Many Victorian novels were serialized, or
‘We only ask you to do that which your published in small pieces in magazines or
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countrymen come to this land for. We ask journals. Some reasons for doing so include
you to be rich. If you will be one of us this which of the following?
night, we will swear to you upon the naked
knife, and by the threefold oath which no A. It allowed authors to build an audience
Sikh was ever known to break, that you through anticipation, and it also enabled
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shall have your fair share of the loot. A authors to respond to the response of read-
quarter of the treasure shall be yours. We ers, occasionally trying new strategies if
can say no fairer.”’ the reception was not good enough.
94. The Victorian Era was characterized by B. It was problematic to produce the entire
which of the following? book because authors often ran out of pa-
per, which slowed the production process.
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A. Rapid expansion of the British Empire

B. Increasing industrialization
C. It was one way of becoming wealthy
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of “separate spheres” D. Authors often were too preoccupied by
D. All of these the busy Victorian lifestyle to write sus-
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95. Victorianism is best characterized by which
write whole novels on the short-story clock.
of the following?
A. Being “prudish,” “repressed,” and “old 98. The realities of Victorian life often offered
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fashioned” contextual material for Victorian novels.

B. The notion that one person cannot bet- Which of the following statements is true.
ter himself or his environment A. Charles Dickens worked as a coal miner,
C. The birth of Agnosticism and a disdain which influenced his writing of Hard Times.
for morality
D. A sense of social responsibility, a basic B. Charlotte Bronte worked as a governess,
attitude that obviously differentiates them which influenced her writing of Jane Eyre.
from their immediate predecessors, the Ro- C. Thomas Hardy worked as a fisherman,
mantics which influenced his writing of Return of
96. The two basic aspects of setting are: the Native.
94. D 95. D 96. D 97. A 98. B

D. Henry Mayhew was a lawyer who B. A false-god, an idol who was really a
worked in chancery court, which influ- femme-fatale and who should be avoided
enced his writing of Bleak House.
C. A woman who vowed to wear only
99. Single women of middle and upper classes white, as a symbol of purity, and who like-
could work as either governesses or seam- wise vowed never to leave the house where
stresses. Why were these specific positions she lived, but directed family affairs from
open to them? the drawing room
A. They were easier and better-paid pro-
D. A pure woman who was the moral and
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fessions than being a writer or artist.
spiritual center of the house, who never
B. Dressmaking was considered very fash- went out in the urban setting or mixed
ionable and being a governess meant you in the public, whose mission was to fight
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had better chances of finding a husband. against the immoral influence the femme
C. Because they resembled roles that a fatale and market capitalism
woman might have in the household sphere, 102. There were contradictory images of wom-
they were considered more “natural” for anhood in the Victorian period, particularly
them.
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as it concerns female sexuality. What were
D. The working conditions for needlework the two poles between which women were
were very good and governesses were well often trapped?
paid. A. Woman of means and of poverty
100. Imperialism has a problematic definition
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in the Victorian period. Though it tradi- B. Pedant and fool
tionally means the formal annexation of C. Domestic wife and femme fatale
territory, the “new imperialism” of Victo-
D. Hysteric and cold fish
ria’s reign actually meant:
A. a feeling of nationalism and pride in be- 103. Plot and structure are very important to
ing British and in claiming other parts as the Victorian novel. Which of these state-
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British, spurred by a fear of losing markets. ments is most accurate?

A. Plot is what happens in a story, and
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B. anti-annexation and a giving back of structure is the order in which the novel
claimed territories. presents the plot.
C. a feeling of satisfaction and peace, the B. Structure is what happens in a story, and
well-being of the nation and a focus on the plot is the order in which the novel presents
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home. the structure.

D. a desire to increase democracy and cap- C. Plot is the pace at which things happen,
italism. and structure is the number of pages com-
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101. A woman as “the angel of the house” is prising the book itself.
best described by which of the following? D. Plot always has a single narrator, while
A. A midwife or nurse, a woman who did structure may be expressed by several nar-
not marry but who served married women rators.
in their time of need
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1. The back to Africa movement was primar- 4. What source did David Walker rely on the
ily about: most for support in "Appeal in Four Arti-
cles"?
A. Bringing African culture to the United
States. A. The Bible.
B. Leaving the African peoples alone. B. Greek history.

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C. Writers who took African themes for C. Slave narratives.

their work. D. Abolitionist newspapers.
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for freedom, liberty and democracy. A. Highly original.
2. What is the character of Delia most of B. Typical of Colonial poetry.
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afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston’s "Sweat"?

C. Progressive and challenging.
A. Rabid dogs. D. Abolitionist in subject.
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B. Her husband. 6. In "125th Street and Abomey," Audre Lorde

references images from
C. Snakes.
A. African mythology.
D. Bertha.
B. African American folktale.
3. Slavery in the United States was officially
abolished in C. Greek mythology.
D. Contemporary female artists.
A. 1804
7. Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the
B. 1865 "Back to Africa Movement"?
C. 1848 A. Because in was cheaper to live in Africa.
D. 1807
1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B
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B. Because he did not feel African Ameri- 13. Which of the following statements about
cans would ever achieve equality in Amer- slavery is true?
ica.
A. Most slave children lived in two-family
C. He was asked by African countries to homes.
bring African Americans to Africa.
B. Slave owners did not allow their slaves
D. He had to leave the country. to live as married couples.
8. Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice C. Slaves were given limited civil rights.
Walker’s "Everyday Use"?
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D. Most slaves were not Christian.
A. She is proud of her heritage.
14. Slave narratives were shaped by:
B. She doesn’t want Maggie to have it.
A. Captivity narratives.
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C. She wants to display it for her friends
to see. B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.
D. She loves the beauty of it. C. Folktales.

9. The "tragic mulatto" myth: D. African mythology.
A. Led to novels of passing.
B. Existed only in fiction by White authors.
an 15. Who is the author of the novel Passing?
A. William Wells Brown
B. Nella Larsen.
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C. Developed in the 20th century.
C. Charles Chesnutt
D. Existed only in fiction by female au-
D. James Weldon Johnson
thors.
10. In Jean Toomer’s "Her Lips Are Copper 16. In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew on
Wires," a kiss is compared to: what for inspiration?
A. Her own memories of slavery.
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A. A waterfall.
B. Electricity. B. Stories her grandmother told her.
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C. A war. C. The television series Roots.

D. A factory. D. Slave narratives.
11. The characteristic of Naturalism that is 17. Alice Walker’s story, "Everyday Use," in-
most present in the first chapter of Ralph cludes which "Womanist" concern?
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Ellison’s Invisible Man is: A. The importance of men to the African

A. The theme of man against nature. American family.
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B. The theme of man against man. B. The negative consequences of feminism

C. The theme of heredity. on the African American family.
D. Nature as an invisible force. C. The importance of African religious in-

fluence in America.
12. Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind of
character? D. The importance of African American
craftsmanship.
A. Trickster
18. African American dialects grew out of:
B. Victim
A. The 1960s protest movements
C. Representation of the slave master
B. The attempts of African slaves to com-
D. "Uncle Tom" character who feels slavery
municate with each other
is best for the African American
8. C 9. A 10. B 11. B 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. D 17. B 18. B
C. Slave owners teaching slaves Eliza- A. The persona that the characters show
bethan English the world.
D. Slaves’ attempts to keep their conversa- B. The carved masks of African gods.
tions secret
C. Characters from the Bible.
19. The supportive network of female slaves
D. Who the narrator wishes to be.
led to:
24. W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. Washing-
A. Resistance to the overseers. ton of being:
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B. Learning to be midwives. A. A Christian.
C. Resistance against dehumanization. B. A radical.
D. Lower suicide rates.
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C. An accomodationist.
20. Some critics argue that the use of dialect by D. A coward.
such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar and
25. For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift
Charles Chesnutt did all of the following
means:
except:
A. Strengthened the African American’s
place in the world of literature
B. Perpetuated stereotypes an A. Rejecting all White assistance.
B. Allowing Whites to help African Amer-
icans to reach their potential.
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C. Calling for violent uprisings.
C. Allowed African American authors to
sell their works more widely to white audi- D. Separating Blacks by income level.
ences 26. In Lucille Clifton’s "wishes for son," the nar-
D. Showed that African Americans rator lists what wishes her sons?
couldn’t speak properly. A. That they learn from her mistakes.
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21. In Chapter Three of Booker T. Washing- B. That they have richer lives than hers.
ton’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s pri-
mary goal is to: C. That they have all they ever wished for
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themselves.
A. Get an education.
D. That they experience all the pain and
B. Get a job. embarrassment of being a woman.
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C. To be clean. 27. Booker T. Washington’s message in Up

from Slavery is:
D. To be a teacher.
22. What was the Great Migration? A. Whites should pay reparations to for-
mer slaves.
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A. A period of time when African Ameri-

cans moved North in large numbers. B. African Americans should acculturate
to mainstream White culture.
B. When African Americans settled
C. White institutions should reform to
Liberia.
meet African American needs.
C. When slaves traveled the Underground
D. African Americans will have to help
Railroad.
themselves by becoming educated.
D. When African Americans migrated to 28. Although different in tone, Soujourner
the South from the North. Truth’s "Ain’t I a Woman" and David
23. The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, Walker’s "Appeal in Four Articles" are sim-
"We Wear the Mask," represents: ilar in what way?
19. C 20. D 21. A 22. A 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. C
A. Their belief in necessary violence. C. He was proud of all the African Amer-
ican men he had seen stand up to Whites.
B. Their belief that women should have
equal rights.
D. He wanted to show African American
C. Their appeals to Christians.
males how not to live.
D. Their belief that African Americans
33. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recon-
should govern themselves.
structing black people into the "New Negro"
29. Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular has been a matter of:
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speech to:
A. Redefining black people in terms of a
A. Explain how African Americans could presence, not an absence.
not learn standard English
B. Working against the existing racist
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B. Make his written inaccessible to white stereotypes.
audiences
C. A struggle ongoing since 1619.
C. To encourage feelings of pride in
D. All of the above
African American readers
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34. During the early 20th century, a black per-
D. Challenge American stereotypes about son’s purpose in passing might have been:
race
A. To obtain justice for black people.
30. Which of the following authors was not of
mixed race heritage? B. To get better accommodations on the
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train, better seats in the theatre.
A. Jean Toomer
C. To escape from slavery.
B. Charles Chesnutt
D. None of the above.
C. Booker T. Washington
35. What unforgivable action does Mag Smith
D. Frederick Douglass take in Chapter One of Our Nig?
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31. Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary

A. She tries to pass as White.
novels written about slavery. Toni Mor-
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rison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby B. She washes clothes for White women.
the character Sethe murdered to keep her C. She lets a man help her out.
from being recaptured by their master. The
opening chapter of the novel represents the D. She marries a Black man.
neo-slave narrative by its: 36. In the United States, Reconstruction:
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A. Discussion of race relations in the North A. Is the time period that followed the Civil
and South. War.
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B. Condemnation of the plantation myth. B. Describes the rebuilding after World

C. Examination of the psychological dam- War I.
age of slavery. C. Refers to the Civil Rights movement.
D. Insistence on desegregation. D. Took place only in the North.
32. Richard Wright said he created the charac- 37. The narrator of Langston Hughes’s "Weary
ter of Bigger in Native Son because: Blues" is describing:
A. He had known many "Biggers" in his A. Negro spirituals being sung in the cot-
life. ton fields.
B. He was trying to overcome his fears of B. The call and response of an African
powerful men. American church congregation.
29. D 30. C 31. C 32. A 33. D 34. B 35. D 36. A 37. D

C. African American toasting on a city A. She almost died in childbirth with her
street corner. first child.
D. Blues being played in a Harlem bar. B. She doesn’t want to lose her figure.
38. In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of a C. Her husband has threatened to leave her.
Slave Girl, where did Linda hide?
A. Under the floorboards. D. She is afraid it may have dark skin.
B. With a friend. 44. Who introduced the character of the "tragic
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mulatto"?
C. In the stables.
D. In a remote cabin.
B. Lydia Maria Child
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39. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, "kitchenette
building," what is most important to the C. Harriet Jacobs
building’s inhabitants? D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
A. Having a bathroom with warm water. 45. In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an ex-
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ample of Modernism?
B. Following one’s dreams.
A. Its fractured, collage effect.
C. Getting food on the table.
B. Its insistence on plot.
D. Finding a mate.
C. Its focus on landscape.
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40. W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a liberal arts
college education was needed for: D. Its focus on modern city life.
46. Race relations in the North are attacked in:
A. The "Talented Tenth."
A. Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of
B. All African Americans.
a Slave Girl.
C. African American women.
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D. Only White Americans. C. William Wells Brown’s Clotel.
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41. In Octavia Butler’s "Bloodchild," The Tlick

D. Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
keep the humans happy by:
47. Alice Walker’s novels often explore the
A. Supplying them with narcotic eggs. abuse experienced by African American
B. Letting them choose their own mates. women. What is the only abuse Celie does
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C. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
A. Betrayal by the educational system.
D. Paying them very well.
B. Betrayal by her sister.
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42. Until recent years it was thought that Har-

riet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave C. Betrayal by her community.
Girl was: D. Betrayal by a family member.
A. Based on a New England captivity nar- 48. Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave
rative. Girl?
B. An anonymous narrative. A. Lucy Terry
C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child. B. William Wells Brown
D. Written by Jacob’s son. C. Harriet Wilson
43. In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is D. Harriet Jacobs

Clare afraid to have another child? 49. What does the term "passing" mean?
38. B 39. A 40. A 41. A 42. C 43. D 44. B 45. A 46. B 47. B 48. D 49. A
A. The ability of an African American to A. Slaves are capable of becoming good

live as a White person. Christians.
B. To do well on one’s schoolwork. B. Slaves should rebel against the Christian
religion.
C. To leave one’s past behind.
C. Slaves are the children of Cain.
D. To gain approval from one’s community.
D. Christians should free their slaves.
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is protesting: Hurston’s home town of Eatonville,
Florida?
A. The extermination of Native Americans.
A. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance.
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B. That there is a Black America and a
White America. B. Most of its inhabitants worked for
White people.
C. Black on black violence.
C. It was primarily African American.
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D. The fact that America still has a frontier
mentality. D. It was destroyed after the Civil War.
51. Etheridge Knight’s "Hard Rock Returns to 56. The fact that Claude McKay visited Russia
Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal in 1922 exemplifies the following theme of
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Insane," what is Hard Rock’s function in the Modernism:
prison? A. Collectivism versus the authority of the
A. To help the other inmates escape. individual.
B. To win money by fighting. B. The wearing away of traditional class

structures.
C. To do what the other inmates were
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afraid to do. C. The impact of WWI and the 1918 Bol-

shevik Revolution in Russia.
D. To keep the Blacks and Whites sepa-
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rated. D. The disassociated, anomic self.
52. Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps’s "A 57. Why was the "drop of blood" rule devel-
Summer Tragedy" getting dressed up? oped?
A. To keep the slave offspring of White
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A. To go to a party.
slave owners from inheriting.
B. To go pay old man Stevenson.
B. To allow mixed-race children to get
C. To end their lives. scholarships meant for African Americans.
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D. To go to church.
53. Which is not a characteristic of Realism? C. To make sure mothers of mixed-race
children got custody.
A. Characters are not as important as plot.
D. To keep White slave owner parents of
mixed-race offspring from having to pay
B. Presentation is objective. for their children.
C. Ordinary language is used. 58. One of the functions of protest poetry was
D. Events are plausible. to:
54. The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s "On Being A. Urge African Americans to fight their
Brought from Africa to America" is: oppressors.
50. D 51. C 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. C 56. C 57. A 58. B

B. Encourage societies strive for equality C. African American art should subvert the
for all. art of Europeans and White Americans.
C. Extol the virtues of living in the free D. African American literature should
North. replicate educated White language.
D. Argue that slavery was not so bad for 64. In the poem "When Malindy Sings," Paul
everyone. Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature
to "signify" on white assumptions about
59. In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, living un- African Americans. What does Henry
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derground is symbolic of: Louis Gate’s term "signify" mean?
A. The narrator’s attempt to stay hidden. A. Giving words double meaning that ap-
B. The narrator’s desire to be safe. pear differently to white and black readers.
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C. The narrator’s invisibility to society.
B. Fixing words with very specific mean-
D. The narrator’s attempt to stay out of ings.
prison.
C. Making sure that what is written makes
an
60. Native Son was written by:
sense.
A. Jean Toomer. D. Lying to mislead the reader.
B. Richard Wright. 65. Who wrote one of the most famous African
American poems that begins with "what
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C. Ralph Ellison.
happens to a dream deferred"?
D. James Baldwin.
A. Alice Walker
61. The genre Octavia Butler’s "Bloodchild" is:
B. Etheridge Knight
A. Mystery.
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
B. Science Fiction.
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D. Langston Hughes
C. Horror. 66. Frederick Douglass argued that slaves sang
D. Tragedy. spirituals for all of the following reasons
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except:
62. According to Larry Neal, the primary goal
of the Black Arts Movement is: A. To impress the horrors of slavery on
listeners
A. To speak to the spiritual and cultural
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needs of African Americans. B. To ease their pain

B. To raise awareness of violence in C. To pray for deliverance
African American youth. D. To show that they were content in their
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C. To support the Back to Africa Move- work

ment. 67. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an indict-
ment of slavery?
D. To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia
research. A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
63. The most important tenet of the Black Arts B. Richard Wright
Movements is: C. Frederick Douglass
A. African American art should exclude D. Phillis Wheatley
women.
68. Which characteristic of the slave narrative
B. African American images should inspire did Frederick Douglass include in the first
African Americans. chapter of his Narrative?
59. C 60. B 61. B 62. A 63. B 64. A 65. D 66. D 67. A 68. D
A. Narration of a deserved punishment. 73. Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding

Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he
B. Depictions of a beautiful rural environ-
meant the novel to be a reworking of an
ment.
American genre, the slave narrative. In
C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and what way is the novel, despite its philo-
clothing slaves were given. sophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the
D. The author’s father is often a white man. slave narrative?
A. Its character’s movement from slavery
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69. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s to freedom.
Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimen- B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
tal novel is evident?
C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of vio-
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A. The scene invokes audience sympathy. lence.
B. The heroine has to balance autonomy D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.
with self-denial.
74. Why was it important that slave narratives
C. The heroine conquers her passions. have a title page that claimed either that the
D. A and B
E. B and C
70. Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents an narrative was written by the narrator him-
self (or his words were recorded by some-
one close to him, preferably white)?
A. So the author could get paid.
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in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s B. In order for people to believe the events
Cabin in what way? in the narratives.
A. Stowe’s novel is sentimental. C. So that slave owners could refute the

events in the narratives.
B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
D. So that the author could be assured he
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wouldn’t be recaptured.
C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
75. In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of
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D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used by aboli- Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive
tionists. prison?
71. "The Day Duke Raised" by Quincy Troupe A. Getting an education.
is a jazz poem because:
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B. Fighting.
A. The poem’s rhythmic lines.
C. Making friends with the guards.
B. The references to jazz songs and musi-
D. Contacting famous authors.
cians.
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76. In Nikki Giovanni’s "The American Vision

C. The poem can be set to music. of Lincoln," the poet argues that the Capitol
D. There is repetition. needs a statue of next to the one of
Abraham Lincoln.
72. Which author relied on complex characters
and dialect to overturn American stereo- A. W.E.B. DuBois
types about Southern African Americans?
B. Amiri Baraka
C. Booker T. Washington
B. Richard Wright D. Frederick Douglass
C. Charles Chesnutt 77. Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of
D. Booker T. Washington poet?
69. D 70. A 71. A 72. C 73. A 74. B 75. A 76. D 77. B

A. A Modernist poet A. The mistress of the house was afraid her

husband would be attracted to Clotel.
B. A performance poet
B. To keep the lice away.
C. A classical poet
C. So that the other slaves would get along
D. A traditional poet with her.
78. The subject of Soujourner Truth’s "Ain’t I D. So she could sell it.
a Woman" is: 83. Uncle Julius is a character developed by:
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A. Women’s rights. A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Negro rights. B. Joel Chandler Harris
C. The right to keep one’s children. C. Richard Wright
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D. The rights of farm hands. D. Charles Chesnutt
84. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s "A Cabin Tale,"
E. A and B.
which character is a trickster figure?
79. All of the following are characteristics of
an
A. Weasel.
the African American tradition of the toast
except: B. Bear.
A. Toasting is oral C. The farmer.

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D. The young boy.
B. Toasting is a male event
85. In Charles Chesnutt’s "The Goophered
C. Toasting glorifies women Grape Vine," why does Uncle Julius tell the
D. Toasting provides cultural identification Northern visitors the story of the spell put
on the grapes?
80. The term "Civil Disobedience" was coined A. To describe the horrors of life on the
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by which author? Post-bellum plantation.

B. To explain his religious views.
A. William Gates
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C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.

B. Henry David Thoreau
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from
C. Booker T. Washington the neglected grape harvest.
86. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s "When Ma-
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D. Alain Locke
lindy Sings," what kind of music is Malindy
81. The importance of Freedom’s Journal was:
singing?
A. It was the first African American novel. A. Cakewalk tunes.
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B. Gospel.
B. It was the first African American news-
C. Jazz.
paper.
D. Blues.
C. It was published by Frederick Douglass.
87. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birm-
ingham Jail,” King advocates:
D. It argued for a separate African Ameri-
A. Breaking the law.
can community in America.
B. Using violence when necessary.
82. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s
Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long C. Waiting for times to get better.
hair? D. Disobeying unjust laws.
78. E 79. C 80. B 81. B 82. A 83. D 84. A 85. D 86. B 87. D 88. C
88. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life A. The name of a restaurant the pool play-
of a Slave Girl to show: ers cannot enter.
A. That female slaves were escaping more B. A metaphor for colossal lies they have
frequently than men. been buried with.
B. How slavery was worse for men. C. A metaphor for the pool players who
C. How females were affected by slavery. are trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
D. That female slaves were more valuable
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than male slaves. D. The name of a pool hall.
89. What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s "the 94. The trickster figure is usually
lost baby poem"?
A. Amoral (neither good nor evil)
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A. A child dying of SIDS.
B. Christian
B. The stillborn death of a child.
C. Evil
C. Abortion.
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D. A murdered child. 95. Slave owners resisted abolition for what
reason?
90. Yusef Komunyakaa’s "Blue Dementia" is an
example of what kind of poetry? A. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure
time.
A. Protest poetry
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B. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and
B. Romantic poetry
might rebel.
C. Lyric poetry
C. Slaveholders felt economic security
D. Jazz poetry rested on the system of slavery.
91. The importance of Lucy Terry’s "Bars
D. B and C.
Flight" is:
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couplets.
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96. The character of Delia in Zora Neale

B. The poem shows her future work as a Hurston’s "Sweat" was influenced by:
advocate of civil rights. A. Her relationship with a patron.
C. The poem is filled with Christian sym- B. Her mother.
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bolism.
C. Her best friend.
D. The fact that the poem is the most ac-
curate account of the 1742 Indian-White D. Her job as a waitress.
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97. David Walker’s "Appeal in Four Articles"
92. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s argues that:
Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon.
What does this mean? A. The races should not intermarry.
A. She is one-quarter Black. B. Christians the only ones not to blame
for the existence of slavery.
B. She is one-eighth Black.
C. She is White. C. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.
D. She cannot be a slave. D. Blacks should return to Africa.

93. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, "we real cool," 98. The importance of Lucy Terry’s "Bars
the Golden Shovel is: Flight" is:
89. C 90. D 91. D 92. A 93. D 94. A 95. D 96. A 97. C 98. A
A. The poem is the first-known writing of C. Segregation.

an African American.
D. Prostitution.
B. The poem is better than the poems of
100. Spirituals like "Go Down Moses" were im-
the more famous Phillis Wheatley.
portant to African Americans because:
C. The poem is the first of many poems by
Terry. A. They showed that a hero would deliver
them from slavery.
D. The poetry focuses on slave life in the
B. They gave hope that God would deliver
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18th century.
them from slavery.
99. Arna Bontemps’s "A Summer Tragedy" at-
tacks the institution of: C. They helped them do their work faster.
A. Sharecropping.
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D. They were based on African songs.
B. Slavery.
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1. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” what does this sen- C. Its object is a type of person who needs
tence from one of the judges reveal? A to change.
JUDGE: “I don’t wish a quarrel with An-
D. It attacks human institutions, such as
itus; he’s a man much to be feared. If it
universities, hospitals, and religion.
were only a question of the gods it would
still be overlooked.” E. It puts all of the leaders of the world on
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the stage and mocks them.

A. Anitus, being an important business-
3. William Congreve’s “The Way of World”
man in Athens, is able to purchase justice.
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opens with a game of cards. How does

this game offer an indirect comment on the
B. Anitus, being a priest, can make life dif- play?
ficult for the judges who feel pressured to
A. Love is a game of risky bets.
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side with him.

B. Love is a game of chance.
C. Socrates’s crimes are essentially harm-
less. C. Love is a game that requires strategy.
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D. Law and religion work together to es- D. Love is a game that requires omni-
tablish and enforce justice. science.
E. The gods are capable of establishing jus- E. Love is a game that punishes the naive.
tice for themselves, and they need no hu- 4. Hellena, a character in Aphra Behn’s “The
man intervention. Rover” leaves the convent, marries the
rake Willmore, and inherits 300,000 crowns.
2. What is the distinguishing characteristic of
What point is Behn making by creating a
political satire?
character like her?
A. Its object is a real person.
A. Behn wanted to show that women who
B. It exaggerates aspects of society in order leave the protection of the church are not
to address its wrongs. wise enough to choose a proper spouse.
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B
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B. Behn wanted to portray a female char- 8. The Licensing Act of 1737 had what effect
acter in complete control of her life and on the theatre?
destiny.
A. Audiences attended more plays know-
C. Behn wanted to point out that money ing that the works had been properly vetted.
cannot replace wisdom.
D. Behn wanted to affirm the theatrical B. Audiences distrusted the plays that the
convention of allowing the rake to win out. censors approved.
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C. Innovation was stymied and older the-
E. Behn wanted to criticize the theatrical
atrical forms were revived.
convention of rewarding virtue and punish-
ing vice. D. Actors turned to publishing as a means
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5. The primary difference between Pierre de to supplement their revenue.
Marivaux and Voltaire is that: E. There was a marked increase in the num-
A. Marivaux is a satirist and Voltaire is a ber of Italian operas staged.
comedian. 9. Why did playwrights such as John Dryden
B. Marivaux is a philosopher and Voltaire
is a tragedian.
C. Marivaux is a tragedian and Voltaire is
a Shakespearean. an and Nicholas Rowe write about subjects
from the distant past?
A. Because the Puritans were on the look-
out for any reason to shut down the the-
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D. Marivaux is a comedian and Voltaire is aters again, artists looked to the past be-
a satirist. cause it was “safe.”
E. Marivaux is a comedian and Voltaire is B. Plays served as a means to educate the

an essayist. upper classes, and so similar people from
6. According to James Kalb’s review of Got- the past were used as characters.
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thold Ephraim Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti,” C. Dryden and Rowe used the past to veil
the actions of characters are: references to contemporary politics.
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A. predictable. D. History was more entertaining than the

B. not predictable, but they are logical. present.
C. rational and driven by context. E. Audiences associated the theater with
D. empty and vapid. old-fashioned times, and so the plots re-
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E. chaotic and impulsive.
7. As a 17-year-old, Pierre de Marivaux had 10. Aphra Behn wrote to address stereotypes
an experience that changed his life. What for women. What was the most common
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was it? dichotomy that fed these stereotypes?
A. When returning a glove to a girl he A. The servant and the spouse

thought he loved, he understood that she B. The matron and the maven
had been manipulating him.
C. The supporter and the scolder
B. He was injured in war.
D. The virgin and the whore
C. He had a major theatrical success and
decided to become a playwright. E. The courtesan and the princess
D. His parents died in a fire. 11. All of the following are the objects of satire
E. He married and had a child, thereby ne- in John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” EX-
cessitating a successful theatrical career. CEPT:
5. D 6. E 7. A 8. C 9. C 10. D
A. Italian opera. D. history of explorers like himself.

B. arias that were not understood by E. history of the world, nothing more,
British audiences. nothing less.
C. high society. 16. Prior to the Restoration, the theatres had
been closed because:
D. elaborate costumes and sets.
A. the theatre owners lost too much money
E. censorship of the theatre.
due to the cost of elaborate sets and cos-
12. The emphasis upon promiscuity in Restora-
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tumes.
tion plays:
B. the public found other entertainment.
A. reflected the promiscuity of Charles II.
C. there had been a lengthy strike from the
B. confirmed the Puritans’ criticisms about
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costumer’s guild.
the vices found in the theaters.
D. plays were thought to encourage im-
C. shifted to the public sphere what had
morality.
always been limited to the private sphere.
E. Both A and C
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D. None of these answers
17. What was William Shakespeare’s influence
E. All of these answers
on 18th-century French drama?
13. What quality of Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young A. None whatsoever
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Werther makes it an exemplar for the B. He was so influential that the creativity
“Sturm und Drang” movement? of French playwrights was stymied for a
A. It is a pathetic drama. generation.
B. It is a lamentation. C. Much like what had happened in Eng-

land with the Licensing Act of 1737, plays in
C. Its main theme is heroism. France at that time were heavily censored.
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D. Its main theme is redemption. Thus, while Shakespeare was influential,

the influence was underground.
E. It is full of sentimentalism.
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14. “Sturm und Drang” is a German phrase that D. French playwrights recirculated his
refers to a type of drama that was predomi- plots.
nantly: E. French playwrights revised his plots,
giving happy endings to tragedies.
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A. German.
B. European. 18. Like William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet, Jo-
hann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” is a
C. French. philosophical drama. What is the primary
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D. British. issue that the “Faust” play explores?

E. Swiss. A. The limits of human power over the uni-
15. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote “The History of verse
the World” while imprisoned. Under the B. The consequences of manipulating the
guise of a history, Raleigh’s work is actu- laws of nature
ally a:
C. Religion and its questions of salvation
A. history of England, not of the world. and damnation
B. biblical reading of secular history. D. Politics and the right ordering of a city
C. means for Raleigh to criticize the king E. The proper education for knowing how
and the court from jail. to live the good life
11. E 12. E 13. E 14. B 15. C 16. D 17. E 18. A

19. John Dennis, a critic, did not like Richard 23. Why is Emila’s father not enamored with
Steele’s “The Conscious Lovers.” All of the the idea of his daughter marrying a prince?
following are reasons why Dennis did not A. He thinks that the prince will trick her
like the play EXCEPT that: and not marry her.
A. Bevil Junior is too servile to his father. B. He is not ready for the demands of the
B. the play was not funny. royal court.
C. there was not enough satire in it. C. He thinks that royalty is all show and
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D. the sets were too lavish. no substance.
E. it was a tragedy that called itself a com- D. He has already found happiness and
edy. does not want to become a duke.
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20. Because of the Enlightenment, the relation- E. He knows that the prince has already
ship between faith and reason changed dur- seduced many women.
ing the 18th century. Which of the follow- 24. How does Butler kill Wallenstein?
ing is the most accurate description of that
A. He poisons him.
relationship?
A. Faith was taken to be of little conse-
quence.
B. Faith was accepted without question. an B. He uses a sword.
C. He throws him down from a castle wall.
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D. He hires a mercenary.
C. The claims of faith were balanced
against the claims of reason. E. He burns down the palace.
D. Reason determined that faith was un- 25. In a play about Wallenstein’s betrayal of
reasonable. the emperor, what is ironic about Butler’s
murder of both Count Terzky and Field-
E. No one really thought about it because Marshal Illo?
all serious challenges to faith were subject
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to a panel of bishops. A. Butler acts from a higher moral ground

than Wallenstein.
21. Because of all of the adultery and humor of
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William Wycherly’s “The Country Wife,” it B. Wallenstein only betrayed the emperor,
is easy for the reader not to see true love he did not murder him.
unfold between: C. Butler is no different than Wallenstein.
A. Mrs. Alithea and Mr. Sparkish.
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D. Just as Wallenstein’s men begged him

B. Miss Lucy and Mr. Sparkish. to reconsider, Gordon begs Butler to recon-
sider.
C. Mrs. Alithea and Mr. Harcourt.
E. Butler murders them at the same time
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D. Miss Lucy and Mr. Harcourt.

the emperor kills Wallenstein.
E. Mrs. Pinchwife and Mr. Horner. 26. In Richard Sheridan’s “The School for Scan-
22. Richard Steele’s “The Conscious Lovers” dal,” Lady Sneerwell and Snake:
changes the formula of Restoration drama
in all of the following ways EXCEPT that: A. lend money at exorbitant interest so
that they can ruin the reputation of others.
A. rakes are punished.
B. sexual innuendo is removed. B. are not interested in having Lady Tea-
C. women do not dress up as men. zle join them because they want to gossip
about her.
D. costumes and sets are very minimal.
C. run a network of gossipers.
E. good morals are reinforced.
19. D 20. C 21. C 22. D 23. E 24. B 25. C 26. C

D. emerge victorious in what has been E. He proves that absolute power corrupts
seen as a prediction of the 21st-century’s absolutely.
treatment of celebrity culture.
31. Jonathan Swift once wrote that satire is:
E. seek forgiveness and are reintegrated
back into society. A. like a mirror where people see them-
27. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s primary influ- selves objectively.
ence on German theatre was: B. like a mirror where people see everyone
A. as a critic. but themselves.
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B. as a philosopher. C. like a two-way mirror where people can
C. as a playwright. see the inner workings of society.
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D. through his theory of aesthetics. D. not like a mirror at all, but rather like a
brick that is used to break mirrors so that
E. as an essayist.
people don’t have to look at themselves.
28. “Sturm und Drang” in English means:
E. like a window where people can look in
an
A. “stern and pressure.”
on society.
B. “storm and drain.”
32. In Friedrich von Schiller’s “The Death of
C. “sensible and foolish.” Wallenstein,” what does Thekla choose to
D. “storm and stress.” do about her unapproved love of Max. Pic-
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colomini?
E. “seize and conquer.”
29. In Friedrich von Schiller’s “The Death of A. She follows after Max.
Wallenstein,” why does Butler choose to kill
B. She chooses to obey her father and aban-
Wallenstein?
dons Max.
A. Loyalty to the emperor
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C. She disobeys her father and elopes with

B. Revenge
Max.
C. Octavio Piccolomini told him to do so.
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D. He’s upset about Max. and Thekla mar- that she does not make a choice.
rying and taking his dukedom.
E. She kills herself out of despair.
E. It’s not a choiceso much as it is self-
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30. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti” were typically:
presents the audience with a man in love.
A. signifiers of the personality of the char-
How does the character of the prince reflect
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acters.
the ideas behind “Sturm und Drang”?
A. He cleans out the corruption of the B. regular names found in any registry.
court. C. farcical and served to detract from the
B. He is sensible, whereas the other char- plot of a play.
acters in the play are foolish.
D. recycled from Shakespeare plays.
C. He reverses traditional morality and ad-
vocates murder so that he can marry Emilia. E. taken from the headlines of the day.
34. All of the following are reasons why “The

D. He is subject to extreme emotions when Rover” is an important play EXCEPT that
he thinks about Emilia. it:
27. C 28. D 29. B 30. D 31. B 32. A 33. A

A. was written by a woman during a time century saw itself as the most advanced
when all of the playwrights were men. civilization since Ancient Rome. Satirists
agreed, but they saw one discipline as never
B. presents women as capable of being
progressing or changing. Which one?
rakes, just like men.
A. Morality
C. shows the hypocrisy of the conventions
of 18th-century marriages. B. Biology
D. presents female characters who have C. Physics
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more wit and money than their male coun- D. Chemistry
terparts.
E. Anatomy and Physiology
E. was the first play in the history of En- 39. One of the most memorable aspects of Jo-
glish theatre to feature women who dis-
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hann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” is the
guised themselves as men. wager between Faust and Mephistopheles.
35. The character type of the “rake” appears What, exactly, must occur for Mephistophe-
first in the 18th century. What stock charles to win the bet, and with it, Faust’s soul?
acter most closely resembles him?
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A. Mephistopheles must give Faust com-
A. Uneducated farmhand plete satisfaction.
B. Rich landowner or businessman B. Mephistopheles must give Faust omni-
C. Suave seducer science.
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D. Naive husband C. Mephistopheles must give Gretchen to
Faust.
E. Overweight father
D. Mephistopheles must give Faust control
36. After the deposition of Charles I and over the Earth Spirit.
the end of the English Civil War, Oliver
Cromwell established the: E. Mephistopheles must give Faust power
over death.
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A. Protectorate.
40. According to Everett Ward Olmsted, Pierre
B. Restoration. de Marivaux’s masterpiece was:
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C. Privy Council. A. the French version of “Hamlet.”

D. Commonwealth. B. “Cendrillon” (“Cinderella”).
E. Monarchy. C. “Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard” (“The
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37. What is pathetic drama? Game of Love and Chance”).
A. A play about a character who is unsuc- D. “Plato.”

cessful in all that he or she attempts E. “L’école des Meres” (“The School for
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B. A play that focuses upon domestic Mothers”). If you don’t know the answer,
rather than heroic subjects go back and read the text.
41. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that the
C. A play that is focused on selfish char-
main theme of Friedrich von Schiller’s writ-
acters, in contrast to sympathetic drama
ing was:
A. freedom.
D. A play about kings and queens
B. “Sturm und Drang.”
E. A play about servants
C. tragedy.
38. The Scientific Revolution established sub-
stantial progress in existing knowledge, so D. politics.
much in fact, that England in the 17th E. domesticity.
34. E 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. A 39. A 40. C 41. A

42. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” Socrates defends A. Nationalism

himself with the following speech. What
B. Expressionism
is the essential point of the speech?
SOCRATES: “Always beware of turning C. Rationalism
religion into metaphysics: Morality is its D. Romanticism
essence. Adore and stop disputing. If our
ancestors had said that the Supreme God E. “Sturm und Drang”
had descended into the arms of Alcmene, of 45. In Friedrich von Schiller’s “The Death of
Danae, of Semele, and that he had children Wallenstein,” the character Octavio Piccolo-
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with them, our ancestors were imagining mini manages to convince:
dangerous fables. It’s insulting to the Divin- A. Wallenstein to surrender.
ity to pretend that he had committed with
B. Wallenstein to change his battle plans.
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a woman in whatever manner it might be
what we would call amongst men an adul- C. Wallenstein’s men to become traitors.
tery. That’s discouraging to the rest of men
D. the emperor that Wallenstein is harm-
to say that to be a great man, one must be
less.
born from the mysterious coupling with
one of your wives or daughters. Miltiades,
Cimon, Themistocles, Arisitides, that you
persecuted were perhaps worth more than
Perseus, Herakles and Bacchus. There be- an E. the emperor to surrender.
46. Who was the famous diarist who captured
the best surviving description of the Great
Fire of 1666?
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ing no other way to be the children of this
A. Oliver Cromwell
God than by trying to please him, and by
being just. Deserve that title by never ren- B. William Wycherly
dering iniquitous judgments.”
C. Samuel Pepys
A. We should obey the gods by acting like D. Jonathan Swift
them.
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E. Nicholas Rowe
B. We should just love one another.
47. Why do the characters in “Sturm und
C. Faith and reason should be kept sepa-
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Drang” dramas undergo such emotional ex-

rate so that we can think clearly. tremes?
D. The ludicrous stories about the gods A. These dramas explored the then-new
prove that they do not exist. science of psychiatry.
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E. Socrates thinks that all religions are too B. The characters reflected the political tur-
obsessed with sex. bulence of the times.
43. How often were the lower classes the stars C. The characters in these dramas reflected
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of a Restoration drama? the new emphasis of emotion over reason.

A. Quite often (the majority of plays) D. Through their portrayal of these char-
B. Rarely (less than five) acters as emotionally unstable, the play-
wrights affirmed the necessity of rational-
C. Never
ism.
D. About the same as any other social class
E. Audiences had grown tired of pre-
dictable plays.
E. We have no way of knowing. 48. In Richard Sheridan’s “The School for Scan-
44. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” is dal,” we learn that Lady Teazle married Sir
the greatest expression of what literary Peter Teazle only for his money. By the end
movement? of the play:
42. C 43. B 44. E 45. C 46. C 47. C 48. A

A. she comes to love Sir Peter himself more 52. John Dryden was successful in all of these
than this money. roles EXCEPT as a:
B. she replaces Lady Sneerwell as the Pres- A. satirist.
ident for the School for Scandal.
B. religious poet.
C. she rejoices when Sir Peter dies and she
C. translator.
inherits his estate.
D. she spends all of Sir Teazle’s money, and D. critic.
he goes bankrupt.
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E. diarist.
E. nothing changes. She still loves Sir Tea- 53. When Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote “Man
zle only for his money. is born free; and everywhere he is in chains,”
49. Which of the following was an integral part he associated “chains” with all of the fol-
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of Restoration musical theater? lowing EXCEPT:
A. Castratos A. religion.
B. Wedding marches B. enlightenment.
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C. Woodwinds C. society.
D. Megaphones D. history.
E. Italian operas E. tradition.
50. Sentimental comedy reacted against:
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54. Henry Fielding’s “The Author’s Farce” sati-
A. plots based upon mistaken identities. rizes all of the following EXCEPT:
B. the obsession with the past, especially A. the theater’s emphasis of quantity over
that of ancient Rome. quality.
C. the new trend of didactic moralizing. B. the publishing industry.
D. the emphasis upon tragedies. C. how theatrical success depends more
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E. the immorality of previous comedies. upon who you know rather than individual
51. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” what do these lines talent.
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from Melitus reveal about the charges D. that audiences will attend any play, re-
against Socrates? MELITUS: “Silence. Lis- gardless of its merits.
ten, Socrates, you are accused of being a
E. the rising number of plays featuring bur-
bad citizen; of corrupting the youth; of
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lesque interludes.
denying the plurality of the gods; of being
a heretic, deist, atheist. Answer.” 55. Voltaire was primarily a:
A. Socrates’s crimes are comprehensive. A. poet.
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B. Some of these crimes are self- B. playwright.

contradictory, revealing that Socrates is C. politician.
being framed.
D. novelist.
C. Socrates is a bad citizen because he has
not been consistent. E. philosopher.
D. The inner consistency of these charges 56. Domestic tragedy includes all of the follow-
reveals that Socrates should be put to death. ing EXCEPT:
A. the death of a character.
E. Readers know that Melitus is upset that B. a fallen household.
Socrates is taking money that should go to
the temple. C. a husband and wife.
49. A 50. E 51. D 52. E 53. B 54. E 55. E 56. E

D. a villain. 61. How does Odoardo Galotti, Emilia’s father,

E. a wedding. prevent her marriage to the prince?
57. When it comes to the subject of mar- A. He petitions the king to put a stop to
riage in William Congreve’s “The Way of the proceedings.
the World,” what do the main characters
B. He hires a lawyer who prevents the wed-
Mirabell and Millamant value most above
ding.
anything else?
A. Love C. He knows about the prince’s many af-
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fairs and threatens to blackmail him.
B. Freedom
D. He stabs and kills his daughter.
C. Security
E. He kidnaps his daughter and takes her
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D. Money
back home.
E. Social Standing
58. In England in the 18th century, women’s
Wallenstein,” when Butler says the follow-
rights:
ing to Gordon, what does he mean? “Nay!
an
A. expanded. let it not afflict you, that your power Is cir-
B. contracted. cumscribed. Much liberty, much error! The
narrow path of duty is securest.”
C. were championed in plays.
A. Gordon should strive to obtain more
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D. were ridiculed in plays.
power.
E. Both A and C
B. Gordon should strive to be more limited.
Wallenstein,” Wallenstein is certain that his
project is the fulfillment of: C. Gordon is free to escape his limitations.
A. chance.
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B. destiny. D. Gordon should find comfort in his limi-

tations.
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C. strategy.
E. Gordon’s freedom and his limitations
D. wisdom.
are about the same.
E. historical determinism.
63. Restoration drama often presents the up-
60. In William Wycherly’s play “The Country
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per classes as vapid and vain. What is the

Wife,” how does Mrs. Pinchwife almost ex-
purpose of doing so?
pose Mr. Horner’s plan?
A. As a country wife, she is more sophis- A. Only the upper classes can be satirized.
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ticated in the ways of adultery than a city

wife. B. Readers learn that true wisdom comes
B. She threatens to blackmail him. only from the lower classes.
C. Because she has had an affair with him, C. There is no higher purpose other than
she knows for sure that he is not impotent, that of humorous entertainment.
and she almost tells the others. D. Actually, all of society was satirized, not
D. She tells her maid about her affair who just the upper classes.
almost tells the others.
E. Vanity was essential to preserving one’s
E. She tells her husband that he should in- station in life.
deed worry about her spending time with
64. The Glorious Revolution was:
Mr. Horner.
57. B 58. E 59. B 60. C 61. D 62. D 63. D
A. the nonviolent victory of the common- A. Religious conflict between Anglicans

ers over the crown. and Scottish Presbyterians
B. named as such because it gave so much B. Political conflict between the common-
glory to King Charles II. ers and the nobility
C. the first organized labor strike in his- C. Charles I’s defiance of Parliament
tory. D. Just like America almost 200 years later,
D. a victory that ensured that Parliament slavery
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would have more power than the king. E. Charles I’s attempt to establish a state
E. the final defeat of France. religion
69. The plot of Nicholas Rowe’s “Jane Shore: A
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Tragedy” was:
to the Glorious Revolution in 1688 was be-
tween what two groups? A. based on actual events.
A. Atheists and Anglicans B. completely fictional.

C. set in the 16th century but had nothing
an
B. Presbyterians and Catholics
to do with the actual Jane Shore.
C. Anglicans and Presbyterians
D. an updated version of the Jane Shore
D. Atheists and Catholics story that reflected the promiscuity of
Charles II.
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E. Anglicans and Catholics
66. French Harlequin comedy first appeared in E. changed to remove all of the references
what country? to religion.
A. France Wife,” Lady Fidget, Mrs. Squeamish, and
B. England Mr. Horner substitute talk about “sex” with
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talk about “china.” What literary conven-

C. Italy tion are they using?
D. Spain
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A. Metaphor
E. Switzerland B. Simile
67. In William Wycherly’s play “The Coun- C. Soliloquy
try Wife,” there is a scene where all of the
D. Double entendre
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other female characters take Mrs. Pinch-

wife aside to prevent her from exposing Mr. E. Synonym
Horner. This action reveals: 71. The conclusion of Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe’s “Faust” has been called confusing.
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A. hypocrisy in marriage and society.

What exactly happens at its end?
B. that all marriages are subject to adultery.
A. Gretchen is damned, and Faust goes to
Heaven.
C. the loveless society of 18th-century Eng-
B. Gretchen goes to Heaven, and Faust is
land.
damned.
D. the innocence of those who live in the
C. Both Gretchen and Faust are damned.
country.
D. Both Gretchen and Faust go to Heaven.
E. All of these answers
68. What was the main cause of the English
E. Neither Gretchen nor Faust go to
Civil War?
Heaven or to Hell.
64. D 65. E 66. C 67. E 68. C 69. A 70. D 71. B 72. B
72. The term “Restoration” refers to what event D. Max. should commit treason against
that followed the English Civil War? the emperor and join Wallenstein if he is
to marry Thekla.
A. The restoration of lands to the Catholic
Church E. Max. should follow his heart.
B. The restoration of the king and the 76. As a “Sturm und Drang” play, what feature
British monarchy is most prominent in “The Death of Wal-
lenstein”?
C. The restoration of the titles to the nobil-
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ity that Charles I had taken away A. The emphasis upon emotion as the basis
for all decisions
D. The restoration of peace throughout
Great Britain B. The emphasis upon reason as the basis
for all decisions
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E. The restoration of voting rights to the
House of Commons C. The emphasis upon justice as the basis
for all decisions
Wife,” Mr. Horner’s ruse to gain entry into D. The emphasis upon expediency as the
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women’s bedchambers is to pretend he’s: basis for all decisions
A. a repairman. E. The emphasis upon chance as the basis
for all decisions
B. sick.
77. In William Congreve’s “The Way of the
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C. a lawyer. World,” why is Mrs. Millamant against mar-
D. a doctor. riage?
E. a eunuch. A. In the 18th-century weddings were ar-
ranged marriages, and she wants to choose
74. The difference between a satire and a com-
her own spouse.
edy is that:
B. After marriage, wives are little more
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A. satire is just for laughs.

than the property of their husbands.
B. satire teaches a clear moral lesson.
C. Men choose women based upon the size
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C. satire depends upon pratfalls and mis- of their dowry and not upon love.
taken identities.
D. She knows she will lose her freedom.
D. satires end with a death, while comedies
E. She thinks it is old fashioned.
end with a marriage.
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78. French playwrights sought:

E. both are cynical, abrasive, and mean-
spirited - there is not a difference between A. to compare the past with present.
them. B. to recreate the Italian and English Re-
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75. In Friedrich von Schiller’s “The Death of naissances.

Wallenstein,” what advice do Wallenstein C. to create a new national drama with new
and his daughter Thekla give to Max. Pic- heroes.
colomini?
D. recognition that they were better than
A. Max. must chose between Wallenstein English playwrights.
and the Emperor.
E. to present the future through their plays.
B. Max. should elope with Wallenstein ’s
daughter.
79. In the play “Emilia Galotti,” the prince Het-
C. Max. should rejoin the emperor against tore Gonzaga is almost as affected by an
Wallenstein. artistic rendering of Emilia as he is of her
73. E 74. B 75. E 76. A 77. C 78. A 79. A

in person. What art form moves Hettore’s the parallels between Antony and Charles
emotions? II. Ventidius’s counsel to Antony could just
as well be given to Charles II. What did
A. A painting
Ventidius suggest to Antony?
B. A sculpture
A. To learn how to rule himself
C. A description
B. To learn how to rule others
D. A poem
C. To drop his attraction for beautiful
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E. A song women and to invade Egypt (i.e., France)
80. In a typical Pierre de Marivaux play, ser- D. To join forces with him against Rome
vants were:
E. To concern himself with the coming Per-
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A. represented by cardboard paintings. sian (i.e., French) invasion to the east
B. as fully developed as a play’s main char- 84. The “Prelude in the Theater” of Johann
acters. Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” presents a
C. flat characters who did not develop. conversation between an audience mem-
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ber, a theater owner, and a playwright. The
D. not given speaking roles. audience member wants to be entertained,
E. portrayed no differently from any other and the theater owner wants money. What
play of the 18th century. does the playwright want?
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81. A farce is a(n): A. Entertainment
A. intellectual comedy. B. Money
B. play with a definite moral. C. Beauty
C. wedding play. D. Fame
D. play where jokes are more important E. Awards
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than plot. 85. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust,”

E. humorous tragedy. what is the one thing that leaves
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Mephistopheles powerless?
82. The fundamental difference between the
rake characters of male authors like A. The Earth Spirit
William Wycherly and William Congreve
B. Being ignored
and the rake characters of Aphra Behn is
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that: C. Prayer
A. Behn’s rakes are punished more D. Righteousness
severely. E. Boredom
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B. Behn’s rakes are more successful at se- 86. What was the name of one of the two the-
duction. atre companies during the Restoration?
C. Behn’s rakes are seduced themselves A. The Queen’s Company
rather than the seducers.
B. The Duke’s Company
D. Behn’s rakes care nothing for seduction
C. The Player-Kings
but are really after money.
D. The Courtesan Players
E. Behn’s rakes are rude, obnoxious, and
not attractive to the female characters. E. The Royal Shakespeare Company
83. The events in “All for Love” took place in 87. All of the following were either King or
ancient Rome, but one can easily identify Queen of England EXCEPT:
80. B 81. D 82. C 83. A 84. C 85. D 86. B 87. D

A. Queen Anne. 90. In Oliver Goldsmith’s play “She Stoops to

Conquer,” why does Miss Kate Hardcastle
B. Charles I.
disguise herself as a lowly maid?
C. Charles II.
A. She wants to see the true thoughts and
D. Charles III. feelings of Charles Marlowe.
E. Queen Elizabeth. B. She is embarrassed by her upper class
riches.
88. When Miss Millamant delivers the follow-
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ing speech in William Congreve’s “The C. Charles Marlowe is comfortable only
Way of the World,” what is the overall tone among the lower classes.
of her words? “Trifles; as liberty to pay and
D. It is not a disguise; she actually is a maid.
receive visits to and from whom I please;
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to write and receive letters, without inter-
rogatories or wry faces on your part; to E. She thinks that the lower classes have
wear what I please, and choose conversa- an admirable naiveté about life.
tion with regard only to my own taste; to
91. A typical plot of “Sturm und Drang” drama
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have no obligation upon me to converse
involves:
with wits that I don’t like, because they are
your acquaintance, or to be intimate with A. a young man’s unrequited love.
fools, because they may be your relations.
B. a woman’s suicide.
Come to dinner when I please, dine in my
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dressing-room when I’m out of humour, C. a wedding.
without giving a reason. To have my closet
D. the triumph of the rational characters
inviolate; to be sole empress of my tea-table,
over the emotional characters.
which you must never presume to approach
without first asking leave. And lastly, wher- E. a lesson in self-control.
ever I am, you shall always knock at the
92. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust,”
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door before you come in. These articles

what scientific discipline does Faust devote
subscribed, if I continue to endure you a
himself to?
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little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into

a wife.” A. Biology
A. Cynical B. Alchemy
B. Resigned C. Physics
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D. Hopeless E. Chemistry
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E. Excited 93. Each theater company had a group of actors

that was a mixture of:
89. Voltaire’s “Socrates” is set in ancient
Greece, but its message is for 18th-century A. men and women.
Europe. That message is: B. noble and common citizens.
A. a critique of judges. C. rich and poor citizens.
B. a critique of lawyers. D. old and young actors.
C. a critique of philosophy. E. playwrights and actors.
D. a critique of organized religion. 94. The emphasis upon the social classes in
E. a critique of family life. Restoration drama shows:
88. C 89. D 90. C 91. A 92. B 93. D 94. D

A. that a stable social order depends upon D. It features strong characters who look
fixed roles. down on everyone as “pathetic,” when, in
B. the economic injustices of the times fact, they themselves are the most pathetic
more clearly to audiences. of characters.
C. how easy it is to move from one social E. It is a label critics used to criticize a bad
class to another. play.
D. that virtue and vice exist in all levels of 98. In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Emilia Ga-
lotti,” the prince’s chamberlain Marinelli
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society.
sets in motion the events that will culmi-
E. that most comedies depend upon
nate in the death of Count Appiani. What
poverty for their humor.
is revealed about Marinelli’s loyalty?
95. Voltaire was the most accomplished French
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playwright of his generation. His plays re- A. He is a loyal attendant to the prince.
flected what theme? B. He insinuates to Emilia’s father that the
A. A desire to return to classicism prince is responsible for Marinelli’s death.
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B. Skepticism in all forms C. He takes full responsibility for ordering
C. The preference of Rationalism over Ro- the death of Count Appiani.
manticism D. He blackmails the prince for half of his
D. A preoccupation with questions of fate fortune.
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and destiny
E. In order to sabotage the prince’s mar-
E. The need for political revolution in or- riage plans, he tells Emilia that the prince
der to bring about substantial change ordered the death of her fiancé, Count Ap-
96. What is the main criticism of marriage in piani.
Restoration drama? 99. In Voltaire’s “Socrates,” what group of peo-
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A. Married life is boring. ple is most against the title character?

B. Marriages often mismatch older men A. Priests
with younger women.
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B. Judges
C. Marriages are not based upon love or
mutual respect but upon financial gain. C. Youth
D. Society encourages husbands to drink D. Philosophers
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and gamble.
E. Women
E. Society encourages wives to have affairs.
100. The European philosopher who influ-
enced the “Sturm und Drang” movement
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97. What is the distinguishing characteristic of

more than any other was:
pathetic drama?
A. René Descartes.
A. It features characters who are down on
their luck and are, therefore, “pathetic.” B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
B. It features characters who are too weak C. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
to change their fate.
D. George Berkely.
C. It is a type of drama that is highly emo-
tional, designed to bring the audience to E. Francis Bacon.
tears.
95. B 96. C 97. C 98. B 99. A 100. B

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Puritan Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
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Part Five
Native American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
21 Romantic Era - English Literature . . . . . 409
22 The English Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
23 Theme in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
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24 Traditional Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
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25 Transcendentalism Literature . . . . . . . . . . 421
26 Folk Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
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27 Genres of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
28 Gothic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
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Literature Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
30 Early British literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
31 Wisdom literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
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33 Latin and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

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37 Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
38 British Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
39 Dystopian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
40 Early Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
41 Elements of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
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1. How many main features are there in Old C. 3
English (Anglo-Saxon) Period?
D. 4
A. 1
5. Select three trends of literature in the
B. 2 Anglo-Norman period.
C. 3
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D. 4
B. Church literature
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end? C. Folklore
A. From 400 to 1600 D. Drama
B. From 450 to 1600 6. Church Literature was written in
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D. From 450 to 1066
B. French
3. What is the classical work of the Old En-
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A. Song of a husbandman D. English and French
B. The Pardoner’s Tale 7. Knight Literature was written in
C. Beowulf A. Latin
D. Romeo and Juliet B. English
4. How many periods of development are
there in Middle English Period? C. French
A. 1 D. French and English

B. 2 8. Select three trends in Anglo Saxon Period.
1. D 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A 5. B 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. A 8. B 8. C
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A. Folklore C. Thomas More

B. Medieval realism D. Edmund Spenser
C. Drama 14. Who is the last word of the English Renais-
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D. Knight Literature
A. Shakespeare
E. Church Literature
B. Thomas More
9. Who is the founder of English realism?
C. Edmund Spenser
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A. Robin Hood
D. John Milton
15. Select the periods of development in the
C. Geoffrey Chaucer Renaissance Age.
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A. Early Renaissance
A. in pagoda
B. Renaissance Peak
B. in church
C. Late Renaissance
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C. at school
D. Mid-Renaissance
11. Who is the great humanist of the Early Re-
16. The ideological belief of the times changed
naissance?
from Humanism to Puritanism in
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B. Renaissance Peak
C. Edmund Spenser
C. Late Renaissance
D. John Milton 17. Humanism was introduced in
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B. Thomas More
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D. John Milton A. John Milton
13. Who is the Poet’s poets in Renaissance B. Shakespeare
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Peak?
C. Edmund Spenser
A. John Milton
D. Thomas More
B. Shakespeare
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1. Suffered rhuematic fever as a child 5. Father managed a large estate in England
A. William Bradford A. William Bradford
B. Anne Bradstreet B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Mary Rowlandson C. Mary Rowlandson
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2. First governor of the Massachusetts Bay 6. Who wrote "Huswifery?"
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colony A. George Gordon

A. William Bradford B. Jonathan Edwards
B. Anne Bradstreet C. Edward Taylor
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C. Jonathan Edwards D. William Bradford

D. George Gordon 7. Came to a consolation about her faith
3. Married at 16; came to America at 18 through "God’s wondrous works"
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A. William Bradford A. William Bradford

B. Anne Bradstreet B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Mary Rowlandson C. Mary Rowlandson
D. Jonathan Edwards D. Jonathan Edwards
4. Characteristic of Puritan "Plain Style" 8. Came to the Americas on the Mayflower
A. Familiar images A. William Bradford
B. Simple Words B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Direct Statements C. Jonathan Edwards
D. All of the above D. George Gordon
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. A
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9. What was the name of the book of Anne C. Reincarnation

Bradstreet’s poems?
D. Socialism
A. "A Good Puritan Woman"
11. How did Anne Bradstreet come to a resolu-
B. "The Twelfth Muse" tion of her faith?
C. "The Tenth Muse"
A. Her husband convinced her.
D. "The Goodye Wife"
B. The Bible
10. Puritans believed in which of the follow-
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ing? C. God’s wondrous works
A. Predestination D. Evolution
B. Foreordination
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20. Native American Literature
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1. Why was story telling important to Native C. Fire is a friend not food.
American people? D. It goes out when it rains.
A. It passes along history and knowledge 4. What did Seth Fairchild of the Choctaws
to a younger generation. say about the importance of recording oral
B. It is a way to pass the time. stories from our elders?
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C. It was not really that important. A. Stories are our best source of historical
proof.
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D. It was more efficient than waiting for

the internet to be invented. B. Every time an elder dies, a library dies
with them.
2. What was NOT important to the Native
American tribes about listening to the sto- C. Some are just too long.
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ries of their ancestors? D. His grandmother told the best stories.

A. Teaching life-skills to the younger mem- 5. Which Native American author was a
bers of the tribe. Protestant Methodist minister?
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B. Keeping the memories of past genera- A. Elias Boudinot

tions alive. B. William Apess
C. Keeping the children well feed. C. Black Hawk
D. Learning from the experiences of the D. Charles Eastman
elders.
6. Which Native American author was the
3. From the fable of the Firewalker shown in most widely known Native American au-
class, what did the young brave learn about thor in the United States and abroad during
fire? the first decades of the twentieth century?
A. It’s hot !!! A. Sarah Winnemucca
B. Fire can be dangerous. B. Charles Eastman
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. B 6. B
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C. George Copway D. History can be entertaining and infor-

mative.
D. Zitkala-Sa
7. Who was one of the first Native Ameri- 9. Who authored the first two books pub-
can women to publish traditional stories lished in English by a Native American?
derived from oral tribal legend? A. William Apess
A. George Copway B. Elias Boudinot
B. Zitkala-Sa C. Mary Rowlandson
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C. William Apess D. Samson Occom
D. Sarah Winnemucca 10. Which of these authors was NOT Native
8. What did Seth Fairchild of the Choctaws American?
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say about knowing our history? A. Pauline Johnson
A. History is the way to win wars. B. George Copway
B. Those who do not know their history C. William Byrd
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are doomed to repeat it.
D. Charles Eastman
C. History is best left for the old.
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7. B 8. B 9. D 10. C
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21. Romantic Era - English Literature
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1. In "The Lamb," the lamb and creator are B. the quest for love and romance
both
C. the quest for power and wealth
A. soft and cuddly D. the decline of ancient cities
B. open and honest 5. In Coleridge’s, "Rime of the Ancient
Mariner," why couldn’t the guest evade the
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C. innocent and good

old man?
D. strong and fearsome
A. The guest was too polite.
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2. In Blake’s "The Lamb," what archetypal fig-

ure is referred to as "He?" B. The man hexed the guest.
A. the creator C. The guest had a glimmer in his eye.

D. The old man had a glimmer in his eye.
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B. the shepherd
6. At first, the sailors blamed the mariner
C. the lamb
for killing the albatross until which hap-
D. the child pened?
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3. In Wordsworth’s "The World is Too Much A. The albatross came back to life.
with Us" the speaker wishes to be
B. The fog cleared and the sun shined
A. closer to his family brightly.
B. closer to the beauty of nature C. The sailors started dropping dead.
C. rich and powerful D. The ice melted.
D. in charge of the world 7. What must the mariner do to release the
4. In "The World is Too Much With us," albatross from around his neck?
Wordsworth’s main subject is A. bless the creatures
A. the quest for knowledge 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 crew sincerely B. wrote "The Lamb" and "Songs of Inno-
cence"
D. abandon ship
8. The fair breeze blew, the white foam C. wrote "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
flew,The furrow followed free;We were the D. wrote "The Chimney Sweeper"
first that ever burstInto that silent sea.
Which literary term describes the first two E. was the most spiritual of the Romantic
lines? poets
11. Click all which apply to Wordsworth.
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A. assonance
B. alliteration A. wrote "The World is Too Much " and
"Lyrical Ballads"
C. consonance
B. delighted in nature
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D. end rhyme
C. was known mostly for his failures
9. Which are NOT characteristics of Romantic
Literature? D. inherited a friend’s estate
12. Click all which apply to Coleridge.
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A. revolution and idealism
B. music and science A. felt inferior to Wordsworth and was
known for failures
C. reason and intellect
B. tried to create an ideal society
D. new religion, egotism, individualism
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C. was addicted to opium, & brought su-
E. anti-rationalism pernatural to English poetry
10. Click all which apply to William Blake.
D. wrote "The Lamb"
A. an artist
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8. B 9. B 9. C 10. A 10. B 10. D 10. E 11. A 11. B 11. D 12. A 12. B 12. C
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22. The English Romantic
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1. When did the Romantic movement start? 5. How did English Romantics consider
Britain?
A. In the 18th century
A. Free minded
B. In the 17th century
B. Loyal
C. In the 19th century
C. Fair
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D. Oppressive
2. Which fields were involved?
6. When was Percy Bisshe Shelley born
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A. Physics
A. In 1792
B. Maths
B. In 1892
C. Literature, Music and Arts
C. in 1700
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D. Reason
D. in 1880
3. Where did Romantics take inspiration
7. Why did he have to leave Oxford Univer-
from?
sity?
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A. Researches and Maths

A. Because he was catholic
B. Human studies and socialism B. Because he was protestant
C. Reason and science C. Because he was an atheist
D. Nature and feelings D. Because he want to fight
4. What did they fight for? 8. Who was Shelley’s wife?
A. Civil Rights A. Mary Smith
B. Social and political freedom B. Mary Byron
C. Oppression C. Mary Godwin
D. Money D. Mary Keats
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. C 8. C
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9. Who did Shelley meet in Lake Geneva A. Because their friend Keats died
A. John Keats B. Because their friend Byron died
B. Ugo Foscolo C. Because their love ended
C. Lord Byron D. Because Some of their children died
D. William Shakespeare 16. How did Shelley died?
10. When was Byron born? A. He committed suicide
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A. In 1888 B. He was murdered
B. In 1750 C. He drowned in Lerici
C. In 1798
D. He fell from a horse
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D. In 1788 17. What did Byron fight for?
11. Why did Byron have to leave England
A. Italian Independence
A. Because of his love scandals
B. British Independence
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B. Because he didn’t like England
C. Turkish Independence
C. Because he was a Lord
D. Greek Independence
D. Because of his economic scandals
18. What did John Polidori write?
12. What did Mary Shelley write?
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A. Frankenstein
A. Hamlet
B. Hamlet
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Vampire
C. Poems
D. Dracula
D. Frankenstein
19. Who wrote Dracula?
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13. What did Dr. Frankenstein take pieces to

make his creature from? A. Mary Shelley
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A. From animals B. John Polidori

B. From live people C. John Keats
C. From science laboratories D. Bram Stroker
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D. From dead people 20. What happens if a vampire drinks some-

14. Why was Italy popular with Romantics? one’s blood?
A. Because of its economy A. The person collapses
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B. Because of its weather B. The person becomes a vampire too

C. Because of its Roman culture C. The person becomes stronger
D. Because of its landscape D. The person happier
15. Why was Shelleys’ life unhappy?
9. C 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
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1. The theme of a story is the D. Essie lied to her brother about her iden-
titiy for two years, but she finally decided
A. main character
to tell him the truth.
B. message about life that the author ex- 4. Which of the following could be a theme
presses of a story?
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C. sequence of events A. Your past does not define you.

D. short summary of what the story is B. returning home after a long time
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about
C. A man sees a group of people he used
2. Which of the following could be the theme to work for a long time ago.
of a story?
D. an old man who used to be a farmer
A. Fear is more dangerous than any beast
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5. Read the following sentence . A toad and

B. A brave young girl pretends to be a man a lizard learn to get along while on a jour-
and takes her father’s place in the army. ney through the wilderness. The sentence
C. a fear of heights above is an example of a
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A. plot
D. "I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little
dogs, too!" B. character
3. Which of the following could be a theme C. summary/main idea
of a story?
D. theme
A. A 35-year-old woman named Essie and 6. Read the following sentence Friendship
her brother helps people get through hard times This
B. a small apartment in Marfa, Texas sentence above is an example of
C. Telling the truth may cause pain, but in A. plot

the end, it’s better than lying. B. character
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. D
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C. main idea with all his heart. He saw an Ant passing by

D. theme working hard to store food for the winter.
“Come and sing with me instead of work-
7. War destroys human values . This is an
ing so hard,” said the Grasshopper “Let’s
example of a
have fun together.” “I must store food for
A. plot the winter,” said the Ant,“ and I advise you
B. main idea to do the same.” “Don’t worry about winter,
it’s still very far away,” said the Grasshop-
C. fable per, laughing at him. But the Ant wouldn’t
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D. theme listen and continued to work. When win-
8. During a baseball game, Tanner tried to ter came, the starving Grasshopper went
tag a player leaving first base. When the to the Ant’s house and humbly begged for
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umpire called the player out, Tanner im- something to eat. “If you had listened to
mediately informed the umpire that he in my advice in the summer you would not
fact did not tag the runner. Two weeks later, now be in need,” said the Ant. “I’m afraid
the very same umpire was at another one of you will have to go without supper,” and he
Tanner’s baseball games. Tanner was play- closed the door. What is the theme?
ing short stop and tagged a runner as they
approached third base. When the umpire
called the player safe, Tanner didn’t say a
word, but the umpire noticed the surprised an A. share with your neighbor
B. work before you play
C. be respectful
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look on Tanner’s face. “Did you tag the run-
ner?” she asked Tanner. When Tanner told D. don’t be greedy
her that he did tag the runner, the umpire 10. A novel can have more than one theme.
changed her decision and called the player
out. The coaches and parents were furious, A. TRUE
but the umpire stood by her decision. What B. FALSE
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is the theme?
11. A theme should always be written as
A. You should cheat to win.
A. A sentence or statement
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B. Always work hard.

B. A phrase
C. It pays to be honest.
C. One or two words
D. Teamwork is best.
D. A brief summary of 5-8 sentences.
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9. One summer’s day, a merry Grasshopper

was dancing, singing and playing his violin
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7. D 8. C 9. B 10. A 11. A
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24. Traditional Literature
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1. A genre of reading that contains myths, leg- A. Legends and Myths
ends, tall tales, fairy tales, folktales, and
B. Myths and Fairy Tales
fables
C. Tall tales and Fables
A. traditional literature
D. Folk tale and Legends
B. fiction
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5. Legends are based in what?

C. fantasy
A. superhuman traights
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D. literary nonfiction
B. traditon
2. What Traditional Literature categories
teach lessons? C. fact
A. Folk tale, legends, myths, and fables D. lessons

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6. Tall tales include what from the following?

B. Myth, Fairy tales, and Tall tales
A. characters have superhuman abilities
C. Fairy tales, Folk tales, myths, and leg-
ends B. animals that talk
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D. Myth, legends, Fairy tales, and fables C. have a basis in fact

3. A fairytale can have all of the following D. explain natural phenomena
parts EXCEPT 7. Myths are usually stories about
A. magical setting, characters, and events A. giants and dragons
B. talking animals B. castles and forests
C. realistic characters, events, and setting C. heroic or godly characters
D. good vs. evil D. talking animals and a lesson
4. What categories have Natural Phenom- 8. A story that involves magic to create or
ena? solve the problem is a . . .
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. C
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A. Fable A. True
B. Folk Tale B. False
C. Fairy Tale 15. Which is NOT an example of a traditional
text?
D. All of These
A. A Fable
9. Fairytales often include
B. A biography
A. frogs, toads, snakes, and rabbits
C. A Legend
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B. gods and goddesses, heroes, and magic
D. A Myth
C. talking animals, few characters, lots of
16. What is the correct definition for a tradi-
action, and a lesson at the end
tional text?
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D. castles or forests. reoccuring numbers, A. Stories that have been passed down
and a happily ever after ending through generations
10. Normally fables have as characters in
B. Stories that could have actually hap-
the story.
pened in a believable setting
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A. children
C. A story of a person’s life, written about
B. bugs that person
C. animals D. A story dealing with a puzzling crime
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D. teachers 17. Which is an example of a myth?
11. What is the moral (lesson) of The Tortoise A. Percy Jackson
and The Hare? B. Hercules
A. Don’t be greedy C. Harry Potter
B. Always tell the truth D. Star Wars
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C. Slow and steady wins the race 18. "The Grasshopper and the Ants" is an exam-
ple of what traditional literature category?
D. be kind to others
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12. A story that starts with ". . . Once upon A. Myth

a time. . ." and ends with ". . .they lived B. Legend
happily ever after. . ." is a . . . C. Fable
A. Fable
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D. Fairy Tales
B. Folk Tale 19. Myths are usually stories about
C. Fairy Tale A. giants and dragons
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D. All of These B. castles and forests

13. A story from the past that is believed C. heroes or godly characters
by many people and passed down orally
D. talking animals and a lesson
through a culture, but cannot be proven to
be true 20. A genre of reading that are stories that have
been told orally and passed down from gen-
A. legend eration to generation
B. mythology A. traditional literature
C. folk tale B. fiction
D. tall tale C. genre
14. Goodness is always rewarded in fairy tales. D. literary nonfiction
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. Fairytales often include A. plot, rising action, climax, and resolu-
tion
A. frogs, toads, snakes, and rabbits
B. fairytales, fables, myths, and legends
B. gods and goddesses, heroes, and magic
C. nouns, verbs, adjectives, and preposi-
C. talking animals, few characters, lots of tions
action, and a lesson at the end
D. realistic fiction, historical fiction, fan-
D. castles or forests. reoccuring numbers, tasy, and science fiction
and a happily ever after ending
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26. Which of the following themes would be
22. Fables often include considered "universal" and would most
likely appear in traditional literature?
A. morals, talking animals, and few char-
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acters A. Evil overcoming good
B. enchanted creatures B. Alien Existence

C. Talking animals
C. heroes and superhuman strength
D. Good overcoming evil
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D. castles, forests, and frogs
27. In a piece of narrative text, what is theme?
23. A story from the past about a histori-
cal person who has been exaggerated and A. What the story is about
changed B. The topic of the text
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A. myth C. A message the author is trying to get
across to the reader
B. legend
D. Where and when the story happens
C. fable
28. "Dreams really do come true" would be a
D. folktale theme found in which of the following:
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24. There was once a king who was very greedy A. Fable
and wanted all of the gold in the world. B. Fairy tale
He asked the Gods to give him the "golden
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touch" so everything he touched turned to C. Legend

gold. The Gods gave him this power and the D. Myth
King soon realized that it was not a good 29. What are the five story elements in a story?
idea! For everything he touched includ-
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ing food, water, and even people, turned A. Theme, Setting, Morals, Food, and Emo-
to gold. He asked the Gods to forgive him tions
for being so greedy and to take this power B. Plot, Setting, Character, Conflict, Theme
away! What was the conflict of this story?
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A. The Gods gave the king the golden C. Character, Magic, Fables, History, and
touch Evil
B. The king’s new power was not what he D. Setting, Magic, Gods, Goddesses, and
expected Talking Animals
C. The king was happy to have the golden 30. What was the setting of Cinderella?
touch A. Her house
D. The king got rich! B. The store
25. The four types of traditional literature we C. A dream
looked at today include: D. The Fairy Godmother’s house
21. D 22. A 23. B 24. B 25. B 26. D 27. C 28. B 29. B 30. A 31. B
31. What is another name for the lesson of a 36. This is type of story explains something
story? about the world such as mysterious natural
A. Opinion forces, how things came to be, or what gods
and goddesses have done.
B. Moral
A. Myth
C. Joke
B. Legend
D. Feedback
C. Fable
32. In the story, "The Golden Egg", a man has a
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hen that laid one golden egg a day. The man D. Tall Tale
wanted more gold so he could be richer and 37. This is type of story often develops from a
came up with a plan to cut the hen open real historical person or event, but takes on
and get all of the eggs at one time. When
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fictional elements as it gets passed along.
the man cut the hen open, there were no
A. Myth
golden eggs. The man then realized that
he had killed the hen and will now not re- B. Legend
ceive anymore golden eggs. Based on the C. Fable
an
passage above, what type of traditional lit-
D. Tall Tale
erature do you think this is?
38. This is type of story is filled with unbeliev-
A. Fable
able exaggerations but is told as if it were
B. Fairy tale true. They are meant to be funny.
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C. Myth A. Myth
D. Legend B. Legend
33. What is the plot of a story? C. Fable
A. The main events that take place in a D. Tall Tale
story
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B. The characters who are in the story Appleseed.
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C. A person, place, thing, or idea A. Myth

D. The problem that takes place in the B. Legend
story
C. Fable
34. This is a short story that has been
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passed down from generation to genera- D. Tall Tale

tion. (Choose all that apply) 40. Examples: Robin Hood, King Arthur, John
Henry
A. Folk Tale
A. Myth
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B. Historical Fiction
B. Legend
C. Realistic Fiction
C. Fable
D. Science Fiction
35. This is a short folktale that often involves D. Tall Tale
personified animals and teaches a lesson or 41. Examples: Midas’s Touch, Venus, Zeus,
moral. Thor, Apollo, Romulus and Remus
A. Myth A. Myth
B. Legend B. Legend
C. Fable C. Fable
D. Tall Tale D. Tall Tale
32. A 33. A 34. A 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. D 40. B 41. A
42. Examples: The Tortoise and the Hare, The 48. Which of the following is NOT a type of
Lion and the Mouse, The Boy Who Cried traditional literature?
Wolf
A. Folk Tale
A. Myth
B. Legend
B. Legend
C. Historical Fiction
C. Fable
D. Tall Tale D. Biblical Story
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43. This is type of story is set in a magical land 49. What is true of a tall tale? (select all that
often ruled by kings and queens; the char- apply)
acters tend to be either good or evil. They
A. Based on the life of a real person
usually contain a lesson about good or bad
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behavior. B. Problem solved in a hilarious way
A. Myth C. Exaggerated details
B. Legend D. Absolutely true account of what hap-
an
C. Tall Tale pened
D. Fairy Tale 50. The repetition of 3 or 7 (such as the 3 little
44. Examples: Cinderella, Snow White, The Lit- pigs or the 7 dwarfs) are common in what
tle Mermaid, Jack and the Beanstalk type of literature?
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A. Myth A. Tall Tales
B. Legend B. Fairy Tales
C. Fairy Tale
C. Fables
D. Tall Tale
D. Myths
45. Which of the following is NOT a type of
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traditional literature? E. Legends

A. Tall Tale 51. How do fables end?
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B. Myth A. With the moral of the story

C. Science Fiction
B. With unusual creatures
D. Fable
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C. With magic
46. This is type of story comes from the reli-
gious traditions of what is known as "West- D. With a person’s accomplishments
ern Civilization".
52. The conflict in the story involves trickery
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A. Tall Tale indicates what type of literature?

B. Fairy Tale A. Fairytale
C. Fable
B. Fable
D. Biblical Story
C. Myths
47. Examples: Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark,
Jonah and the Whale, David and Goliath D. Legends
A. Fairy Tale E. Tall Tales
B. Fable 53. If you were wanting to read something
C. Biblical Story involving a king, what type of literature
should you look for?
D. Tall Tale
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
A. Fairytales A. Fairytales
B. Fables B. Fables
C. Myths C. Myths
D. Legends D. Legends
E. Tall Tales E. Tall Tales
54. Animals are often the main characters in
57. What types of literature attempt to explain
what types of literature? (Select more than
how something in nature came to be? (Se-
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one)
lect more than one)
A. Fairytales
A. Fairytales
B. Fables
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B. Fables
C. Myths
C. Myths
D. Legends
D. Legends
E. Tall Tales
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55. What best describes the setting of a Tall E. Tall Tales
Tale? 58. How does a fairytale often begin and end?
A. At a castle or in a forest A. Once Upon A time They Lived Hap-
B. Always at an outside location pily Ever After
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C. Can happen anywhere at anytime (noth- B. So What Had Happened Was That’s
ing specific) My Story And I’m Sticking To It
D. Linked to an actual historical time pe- C. It All Began When The End
riod D. Have You Ever Wondered How And
56. What type of literature involves gods and That Is How Came To Be
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goddesses as the main characters?

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54. A 54. B 54. D 55. D 56. C 57. C 57. D 58. A

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1. Fill in the blank: Society. A. a religion
A. Tone B. a literary movement
B. Individualism C. a philosophy
C. Instinct 6. Transcendentalists believe that modern ed-
ucation is corrupting
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D. Nature
A. Knowledge
2. Who wrote "Civil Disobedience"?
B. Individualism
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A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Society
B. Henry David Thoreau
D. Careers
C. Walt Whitman
7. Complete the following quote: "To be great
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D. Margret Fuller is to be "

3. The aim of Transcendentalism is A. saved
A. Self-Reliance B. a genius
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B. Self-Knowledge C. intelligent
C. Self-Taught D. misunderstood
D. Self-Esteem 8. Emerson: "There is a time in every man’s
education whe he arrives at the conviction
4. Transcendentalism is a
that envy is ignorance, that imitation is
A. literary movement "
B. social reform movement A. reliance
C. philosophical movement B. suicide
D. all of the above C. right
5. Transcendentalism is NOT D. might
1. B 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. D 8. B
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9. What historical figures does Emerson ref- 14. What does Emerson call "the hobgoblin of
erence when he says "to be great is to be little minds"? That is, what makes unintel-
misunderstood." ligent people comfortable remaining unin-
A. Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Pythagoras, telligent?
Copernicus, and Newton A. consistency
B. Plato, George Washington, Jesus, B. society
Thoreau, Newton, and Benjamin Franklin
C. cowardice
er
C. Aristotle, King George, Jesus, Melville,
D. conspiracy
Tesla, and Marie Curie
15. Which one of the following statements best
D. IDK
states one of Emerson’s philosophies?
gd
10. Which of these statements best character-
ized the central idea of "Self-Reliance" by A. Turnabout is fair play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson? B. Keep your head in the clouds.
A. Meekness is the virture that fosters self- C. Misery loves company.
an
awareness
D. Be true to yourself.
B. Rely on your own instincts
16. One aspect of Thoreau’s style is to
C. customs serve a valuable purpose
A. begin a paragraph with a specific event
11. What is Emerson’s overall opinion of soci-
Ch
ety? B. avoid repetition of words
A. Society helps people achieve their po- C. follow each long sentence with a short
tential. sentence.
B. We must accept society’s rules whether D. As a series of rhetorical questions

we agree with them or not. 17. What is the central idea in Civil Disobedi-
n
C. Society is all accepting force that denies ence?

no one. A. People must overthrow the government
ya
D. Society conspires to deny people their

individual freedoms. B. The fewer who run the government the
12. The tone of Emerson’s essay is best de- better
scribed as — C. Citizens should be willing to act on their
ra
A. unmoving opinions
B. despairing 18. In Civil Disobedience how does he support
his view that government is abused by pow-
C. uplifting
Na
erful individuals?
D. gloomy
A. He analyzes the the structure of the gov-
13. What is Emerson’s nationality? ernment
A. British B. He alludes to several corrupt Mas-
B. Irish sachusetts politicians
C. Welsh C. He cites examples of unpopular war
D. American
9. A 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 good characters of- C. myth
ten beautiful and the evil ones ugly? D. fable
A. fairy tales 5. Which type features a moral or lesson at
B. legend the end?
C. tall tales A. Tales

n
D. fables B. legend
C. fable
ya
2. Which type of folk lit uses hyperbole?

A. fairy tale D. myth
6. Which type features plants, animals, forces
B. legend
of nature, and/or inanimate objects as char-
C. fable
ra
acters?
D. myth A. Tale
3. Which type usually features gods/god- B. legend
desses?
Na
C. myth
A. fairy tale
D. fable
B. legend 7. Which type is used to explain a mystery of
C. tall tale nature or how things came to be?
D. myth A. tall tales
4. Which type features characters that were B. fairy tales
real historical figures, but their deeds have C. fables
been exaggerated?
D. myths
A. tales 8. Which type is reflective of a particular cul-
B. legend ture like the Greeks or Romans?
1. A 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. D
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A. Tall tales 15. A myth explains the actions of or

B. legends A. animals, people
C. fables B. gods, heroes
D. myths C. men, women
9. Which type of story would you likely find D. gods, people
a princess as a character? 16. A myth can explain the origins or elements
A. Fable of
er
B. fairy tale A. history
C. myth B. nature
gd
D. legend C. the world
10. Which type is typically created for chil- D. people
dren? 17. Greek and Roman myths are known as
A. Tales A. the OG myths
B. myths
C. fables
D. legends an B. original mythology
C. classical mythology
D. stories
Ch
11. A is a brief story or poem. 18. A is a widely told story about the past.
A. myth A. epic
B. legend B. myth
C. fable C. fable
D. epic D. legend
n
12. A fable usually has characters. 19. Some legends are based on while oth-
ers are
A. animal
ya
A. fact, fiction
B. human
B. truth, reality
C. protagonist
C. fact, reality
D. antagonist
ra
D. myths, legend
13. A fable teaches a which is stated at the
20. Fables, myths and legends were originally
of the work.
part of tradition.
A. theme, beginning
Na
A. historical
B. theme, end
B. oral
C. moral, beginning C. verbal
D. moral, end D. world
14. A is a fictional tale, like "Demeter and 21. is the passing down of stories by word
Persephone" of mouth.
A. myth A. classical mythology
B. legend B. story telling
C. fable C. gods or heroes
D. epic D. oral tradition
8. D 9. B 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. An tells the story of a hero. A. myth

A. myth, god B. legend
B. fable, animal C. fable
C. legend, historical D. epic

29. Hercules is an example of a
D. epic, larger-than-life
A. myth
23. The hero in an epic goes on a dangerous
B. legend
er
quest or
A. journey C. fable
B. adventure D. epic
gd
30. King Arthur is an example of a
C. path
A. myth
D. search
B. fable
24. An is a long narrative poem that is
C. epic
an
important to the history of a nation or cul-
ture. D. legend
A. myth 31. Stories that are part of oral tradition are
stories that,
B. legend
Ch
A. teach a lesson about life.
C. epic
B. have a hyperbole.
D. fable
C. are told by word of mouth and passed
25. is one’s view of the world along by many generations.
A. cultural perspective D. have magic and myths.
n
B. oral tradition 32. A hyperbole is

C. universal theme A. a myth
ya
D. moral B. an exaggeration
26. A theme repeated across many cultures and C. a lesson
time periods (like good vs. evil) D. a fantasy
ra
A. oral tradition 33. A universal theme is

B. cultural perspective A. a message about life that can be under-
stood in many cultures.
C. universal theme
Na
B. a message from nature.

D. moral
C. is a story told by many generations.
27. A is a lesson about life that is stated
directly, usually at the end of a work. D. an exaggeration.
34. A type of writing that is very imaginative
A. oral tradition
and has elements not found in real life is
B. moral known as?
C. cultural perspective A. Hyperbole
D. universal theme B. Irony
28. Tortoise and the Hare is an example of a C. Local Customs
D. Fantasy
22. D 23. A 24. C 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32. B 33. A 34. D
35. B
35. An example of personification is? A. Fable

A. A human acting like an animal. B. Legend
B. A nonhuman acting like a human. C. Myth
C. An animal acting like an animal. D. Folk Tale/Fairy Tale
42. A story about a real person yet over time
D. An exaggeration.
the story has been exaggerated and now
36. This term involves surprising or amusing the main character can speak to animals is
contradictions.
er
an example of a?
A. Hyperbole A. Fable
B. Fantasy B. Legend
gd
C. Universal Theme C. Myth
D. Irony D. Folk Tale
37. Language spoken by people of a certain 43. A legend is a story
region is called?
an
A. that includes gods.
A. Irony B. that is about real people doing real
B. Dialect things.
C. Hyperbole C. based on facts or real people yet with
Ch
imaginative or exaggerated details.
D. Personification
D. only told through oral tradition and
38. The unique traditions or ways of life of a
never written down.
particular group.
44. a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often
A. Irony with animals or inanimate objects as char-
B. Oral Tradition acters
n
C. Local Customs A. myth

B. legend
ya
D. Universal Theme
39. A story about a mouse who conveniences C. fable
a lion to let him go and then helps the lion D. folktale
out of a trap is an example of a? 45. Any belief or story passed on tradition-
ra
A. Fable ally, especially one considered to be false

or based on superstition.
B. Legend
A. myth
C. Myth
Na
B. legend
D. Folk Tale
C. fable
40. A story about a Greek God who crossed the
heavens in his chariot is an example of a? D. folktale
46. A story with supernatural events and be-
A. Fable
ings that tells about creation, origins, or
B. Legend heroes.
C. Myth A. myth
D. Folk Tale B. legend
41. A story about Cinderella, and she is rescued C. fable
by her fairy godmother is an example of a?
D. folktale
36. D 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. C 41. D 42. B 43. C 44. C 45. D 46. A 47. A
47. Explains objects or events in nature A. Personification

A. Origin Myth B. Metaphor
B. Hero Myth C. Simile
C. Fairy Tale D. Characterization
D. Proverb 54. creating characters by showing what char-
acters do, say or think
48. Folk tale with supernatural beings such as
A. Personification
er
fairies, dragons, ogres, etc.
A. Origin Myth B. Metaphor
B. Hero Myth C. Simile
gd
C. Fairy Tale D. Characterization
55. Which of these is a Hero Myth?
D. Proverb
A. The Twelve Labors of Hercules
49. A story that tells about the actions of a hero
an
B. The Creation
A. Origin Myth
C. Arachne
B. Hero Myth
D. Cinderella
C. Fairy Tale
56. Which of these is an origin myth?
Ch
D. Proverb
50. short saying passed down by word of
mouth B. The Creation
A. Origin Myth C. Arachne

D. Cinderella
B. Hero Myth
n
57. Which of these is a Fairy Tale?

C. Fairy Tale
D. Proverb
ya
B. The Creation
51. a story that tells how the world or human
beings were created C. Arachne
A. Origin Myth D. Cinderella

ra
58. Which of these is a creation myth?

B. Creation Myth
C. Fairy Tale
B. The Creation
D. Proverb
Na
C. Arachne
52. Paul Bunyan is a story about a giant lumber-
jack; his story told through oral tradition D. Cinderella
in US 59. Which of these is a Fable?
A. myth A. Arachne
B. legend B. The affair of the Horns
C. fable C. The man with a miserable life is never
D. folktale tired of it
53. giving human characteristics to something D. Why monkeys live in trees

non human 60. Which of these is a proverb?
48. C 49. B 50. D 51. B 52. D 53. A 54. D 55. A 56. C 57. D 58. B 59. B 60. C
A. Arachne 62. Lesson throughout the story

B. The affair of the Horns A. Myth
C. The man with a miserable life is never B. Fable
tired of it C. Moral
D. Why monkeys live in trees D. Personification
61. Which of these is a folk tale? 63. Which one is NOT Folk Literature
er
A. Arachne A. Myths
B. The affair of the Horns B. Fables
C. The man with a miserable life is never C. Folk Tales
gd
tired of it D. Articles
D. Why monkeys live in trees
an
Ch
n
ya
ra
Na
61. D 62. C 63. D

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27. Genres of Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. The story has features not seen in this B. biography
world, such as magic, time travel, strange C. fantasy
settings and fantastic characters
D. realistic fiction
A. mystery
5. Star Wars is an example of what genre?
B. myth
n
A. historical fiction
C. fantasy B. realistic fiction
ya
D. folktale C. science fiction

2. The word "genre" means D. informational
A. an animal 6. A FANTASY (a story with imaginary things
in it)
ra
B. a kind or type
C. a food
D. a genius
Na
3. True story of a real person’s life from the

past or present written by that person.
A. autobiography
B. realistic fiction
C. biography
D. poetry
A. is fiction
4. Story including magic, talking objects and
B. is nonfiction
usually a conflict between good and evil.
7. This type of story is impossible. It might
A. mystery have talking animals or magic.
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. A
430 Chapter 27. Genres of Literature
A. Fantasy A. biography
B. Fiction B. autobiography
C. Traditional Literature 15. books that teach you how to do something
or make something
D. Science Fiction
A. instruction
8. Fiction is
B. textbook
A. Real Information
C. atlas
er
B. Caption under a picture
D. almanac
C. Made-Up Story 16. Nonfiction books that give true facts on a
D. TV Guide variety of subjects.
gd
9. A crime is committed. In finding the crimi- A. biography
nal, a detective must unravel a web of clues B. poetry
before pinning down the suspect.
C. informational
A. mystery
an
D. folktales
B. realistic fiction-adventure
17. The Hard Way Out by Terry Vaughn In
C. folktale this novel, Brian struggles with living at his
Aunt’s house and sharing a room with his
D. fantasy
Ch
cousin while dealing with the grief of hav-
10. A traditional story handed down from gen- ing lost both of his parents in a tragic car ac-
eration to generation by word of mouth. cident. Basketball is his only escape, but af-
Types include fables, myths and fairy tales ter geting benched for low progress report
A. mystery grades, Brian’ world shatters. Does he have
it in him to turn around his grades? Will
B. fantasy
n
Brian come to peace with his emotions?

C. folktale Can anyone help him?
ya
D. realistic fiction-adventure A. biography

11. often called plays B. science fiction
A. drama C. realistic fiction
D. historical ficiton
ra
B. poetry
18. Bronze Star by Irwin Keene World War
C. prose
II has been hard for Mama Conner. Her
12. books that contain real information husband and three sons have been away
Na
A. fiction at war and Mama Conner was left to keep

the house together, raise money, and pro-
B. nonfiction vide for Baby Maple. The mood in the
13. a true story about another person’s life writ- town darkens suddenly when her neigh-
ten by another person bor Betsy loses one of her loved ones in
A. autobiography battle. At Mama Conner’s ladies club, sev-
eral upstanding ladies of the town are on
B. biography edge after hearing a garbled news report an-
C. historical fiction nouncing that a man from their town was
lost in battle, but as the man’s name went
D. atlas unheard, the women are left to speculate
14. a true story of the writer’s life as to whom will be the most affected.
8. C 9. A 10. C 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. B 15. A 16. C 17. C 18. D

A. realistic fiction C. myth

B. science fiction D. fary tale
C. fantasy 20. A story set in a real place in the past (like
the Great Depression or World War II) with
D. historical fiction made up, but believable characters.
19. "Rapunzel" adapted by Craig Hooper Once A. Realistic Fiction
upon a time a young girl named Rapunzel
was running an errand for her mother when B. Fantasy
er
an evil witch caught her and imprisoned C. Biography
her in the tower of a castle. After years in
D. Historical Fiction
the tower, Rapunzel grew long, beautiful
21. Written to inspire thoughts and feelings in
gd
hair. Having seen nobody but the evil witch
her whole life, Rapunzel is very lonely until the reader. It often uses rhyme and rhythm.
one day a prince wanders by and climbs up Can use stanzas rather than paragraphs.
her hair. The witch doesn’t like this and ac- A. poetry
tion ensues, but eventually the prince and
an
B. fantasy
Rapunzel live happily every after.
C. historical fiction
A. fable
D. science fiction
B. legend
Ch
n
ya
ra
Na
19. D 20. D 21. A

Na
ra
ya
n
Ch
an
gd
er
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28. Gothic literature
gd
an
Ch
1. One of the elements of Gothic literature is D. Straight forward with no hidden mes-
settings like decaying castles, haunted sages
houses, and trapdoors or cellars.
5. Examples of pathetic fallacy include all of
A. supernatural the following except
B. gloomy A. Wind howling
n
C. isolation B. Violent thunder storm

ya
D. fear C. Raining outside

2. What is the meaning of the word isolation D. Woman crying
?
6. Which of the following is not a typically
A. in a crowd Gothic setting?
ra
B. left alone
A. Church
C. packaging that keeps something cold
B. Castle
Na
3. In Gothic novels, the conflict is often

C. Wild remote place
A. person vs. technology
D. Shopping centre
B. person vs. society
7. Fill in the blank: The author uses
C. person vs. supernatural to suggest what may happen next in the
4. What is almost always true about the set- story.
ting of novels in Gothic Literature?
A. Forward showing
A. Takes place in the wild west
B. Foreshadowing
B. Revolves around a castle or mansion
C. Similes
C. Full of joy and happiness
D. Cats
1. B 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. A
434 Chapter 28. Gothic literature
8. This is when the questioner knows the an- A. information that is confusing
swer already, or an answer is not actually
B. information you already know
demanded
C. information that is interesting
A. rhetorical question
D. information that is suprising
B. dialogue question
14. One way to annotate is to create that
C. rhyming question you have about the text.
9. a feeling that something bad will happen A. questions
er
A. foreshadow B. unfamiliar words
B. foreboding C. connections
gd
C. something that was before D. themes
10. Choose the correct difference between fore- 15. Which of the following best describes the
boding and foreshadowing word ’prosaic’?
A. Professional
an
A. forebode= something great will happen
& foreshadow= something bad will happen B. Old fashioned
C. Poetic
B. forebode= something interesting will D. Dull and unimaginative
Ch
happen & foreshadow= something great
16. "Like and old wound, it gave off a faint
will happen
twinge now and again". What kind of figu-
C. forebode= something bad will happen rative language is this?
& foreshadow= something will happen
A. Hyperbole
11. a feeling of thoughtful sadness, typically
B. Personification
with no obvious cause
n
C. Simile
A. melancholy
D. Metaphor
ya
B. melon ball
17. Which of these words is the odd one out?
C. mellifluous
A. blithe
12. The mood of nature reflects the type of
B. dreary
events or a character’s emotions, in the nar-
ra
rative. C. uneasy
A. personification D. depressed
18. Mournful or dismal
Na
B. pathetic fallacy
A. mirthful
C. emotive language
B. festive
D. pathetic writing
C. modest
13. Which of these situations would not require
you to annotate by underling or highlight- D. lugubrious
ing the text?
9. B 10. C 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. A 15. D 16. C 17. A 18. D

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29. Literature Vocabulary
gd
an
Ch
1. the perspective or position in which a story 5. The answer or outcome of a conflict or prob-
is told lem
A. point of view A. resolution
B. plot B. mood
C. summary
n
C. purpose
D. conflict D. context clue
2. the main storyline or pattern of events
ya
6. a feeling, state of mind, or emotion

A. plot
A. mood
B. summary
B. purpose
C. conflict
ra
C. context clue
D. resolution
D. syllable
3. a brief account of the main point of a novel
or other piece of literature 7. the reason or determination for writing
Na
A. summary A. purpose
B. conflict B. context clue
C. resolution C. syllable
D. mood D. fiction
4. an argument, struggle, or battle 8. a method of finding the meaning of un-
A. conflict known words by examining other parts of
the sentence
B. resolution
A. context clue
C. mood
B. syllable
D. purpose
1. A 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. A 7. A 8. A
436 Chapter 29. Literature Vocabulary
C. fiction C. subject
D. novel D. sensory details
9. a single unit of pronunciation, with only 1 13. a word or expression symbolizing other
vowel sound ways to describe things
A. syllable A. figurative language
B. fiction
B. subject
C. novel
er
C. sensory details
D. response
D. point of view plot
10. an invented story that has been create;
made up, not real 14. the person or object in a sentence that does
gd
the action
A. fiction
A. subject
B. novel
C. response B. sensory details
an
D. figurative language C. point of view
11. a fairly lengthy book of fictional detail D. plot
A. novel 15. descriptions that use 1 (or more) of our 5
Ch
B. response senses to describe or portray something
C. figurative language A. sensory details
D. subject B. point of view

12. an answer or reply to something C. plot
A. response D. figurative language
n
B. figurative language
ya
ra
Na
9. A 10. A 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 British Epic? 5. Who supposedly drew the sword from the
A. Beowulf stone?
B. The Iliad A. Grendel
C. The Odyssey B. Beowulf

C. King Arthur
n
D. Canterbury Tales
2. Who first invaded the British Isles? D. Charlemagne
ya
A. The Celts 6. what language did the clerics, the religious

people, speak?
B. The Romans
A. Latin
C. The angles
B. German
ra
D. The Normans
C. French
3. What great hero is believed to have held
off the Germanic invasion of Britain? D. Old English
7. In what language was Beowulf written?
Na
A. King Arthur
B. Charlemagne A. Old English
C. Robin Hood B. Latin
D. Edward, the black prince C. Renaissance English

4. What language did William the Conqueror D. French
bring from Normandy? 8. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
A. Latin A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. French B. William Shakespeare
C. Old English C. Alexander Pope
D. German D. The church
1. A 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. A
438 Chapter 30. Early British literature
9. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? 12. What language is this: Hwæt. We Gar-
A. William Shakespeare dena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym
gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
B. John Donne
A. Old English
C. Alexander Pope
B. Old French
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
10. During the Middle Ages, peasants and serfs C. Old Norse
were required to serve their knight. Their D. Spanish
er
Knight was required to serve their lord and
13. Who lived in Britain BEFORE the Romans
then their lord was required to serve the
conquered it?
king. What is this political form known
as? A. Celtic peoples
gd
A. Feudalism B. the Angles
B. Socialism C. the Saxons
C. Democracy D. the English
D. Anti socialism
11. What language did the Anglo-Saxons
speak?
an
14. Who conquered Celtic Britain?
A. The Romans
B. The French from Normandy
Ch
A. Old English
B. Swedish C. the Germans
C. American English D. the Americans
D. French
n
ya
ra
Na
10. A 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. A

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31. Wisdom literature
gd
an
Ch
1. what is wisdom literature? C. wisdom.
A. knowledge from God D. wisdom
B. knowledge 6. Who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes?
C. a thought A. Solomon
n
D. a way of thinking B. David

2. what is the book of Job about? C. A unicorn
ya
A. A man disobeying God D. God

7. Who argued with God in heaven in the
B. God testing a man
book of Job?
3. proverbs was firstly named
ra
A. Satan
A. Homan
B. Job’s friends
B. Barney
8. Long ago, what gender was proverbs?
Na
C. Steve
A. female
D. Hohma B. male
4. What was our driving question?
C. genderless
A. How is wisdom used in the bible? 9. what books did we talk about?
B. Wisdom is in the bible A. Job, Joshua, Ruth
C. How to get wisdom? B. Psalms, Nehemiah, Esther
5. what do the bible books have in common? C. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job
A. wizdom D. Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Job
B. wisdome 10. is wisdom something from God?
1. A 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. A 8. A 9. C 10. A
440 Chapter 31. Wisdom literature
A. yes A. "Vanity is vanity, all is vanity"

B. no B. "All is vanity"
C. IDK C. "Life has no meaning"
11. how many books have wisdom literature? D. "God is all mighty"
A. 3 13. Did you like our presentation?
B. 5 A. yes
er
C. 7 B. no
D. all C. I am not wise enough
12. what is the major quote in Ecclesiastes?
gd
an
Ch
n
ya
ra
Na
11. C 12. A 12. B 13. C

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32. World Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. How many countries are in the world? A. Alexandre Dumas
A. 195 B. Vladmir Nobokov
B. 200 C. Jane Austen
C. 300 D. Kerry Greenwood
n
D. 60 6. Which author wrote mainly about the Fron-

tier?
2. Which author had a Haitian grandmother?
ya
A. Kerry Greenwood
A. Jane Austen
B. Vladmir Nobokov
B. Xi Qu
C. Alexandre Dumas
C. James F. Cooper
D. James F. Cooper
ra
D. Alexandre Dumas
7. Which band wrote/sang a song that was
3. Which author is still living today?
connected to Vladmir Nobokov’s LOLITA?
A. Jane Austen
A. "Baby Love"–The Supremes
Na
B. Alexandre Dumas
B. "Part-Time Lover"–Stevie Wonder
C. Kerry Greenwood
C. "Don’t Stand So Close To Me"–The Po-
D. James F. Cooper lice
4. Which author was a reclusive? D. "Justify My Love"–Modonna
A. Jane Austen 8. Who wrote Sense and Sensibility?
B. Kerry Greenwood A. Kerry Greenwood
C. Vladmir Nobokov B. Alexandre Dumas
D. Alexandre Dumas C. James F. Cooper
5. Which author was Russian? D. Jane Austen
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. D 9. B
442 Chapter 32. World Literature
9. Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo? C. Lolita

A. James F. Cooper D. The Pathfinder
B. Alexandre Dumas 13. Who wrote a novel about a historical de-
tective series centered on the character of
C. Jane Austen Phyrne Fisher?
D. Vladmir Nobokov A. Jane Austen
10. Who wrote Lolita?
B. Vladmir Nobokov
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A. Alexandre Dumas C. James F. Cooper
B. Jane Austen D. Kerry Greenwood
C. James F. Cooper 14. Who wrote The Pathfinder?
gd
D. Vladmir Nobokov A. James F. Cooper
11. Who wrote The Three Musketeers? B. Vladmir Nobokov
A. Kerry Greenwood C. Kerry Greenwood
B. Alexandre Dumas
C. Jane Austen
D. Vladmir Nobokov an D. Alexandre Dumas
15. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
A. Jane Austen
Ch
12. What novel did James F. Cooper NOT B. Vladmir Nobokov
write?
C. Alexandre Dumas
A. Pride and Prejudice
D. Kerry Greenwood
B. The Last of the Mohicans
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33. Latin and Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. The language spoken in Rome was D. poems, sonnets, love letters, and valen-
tines
A. Greek
5. Roman writers and thinkers used the Latin
B. Roman
language to create
C. Latin
A. nursery rhymes.
n
D. Pig Latin
B. Trojan horses.
2. The Romans brought writing to
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C. epic mathematical equations.

A. California
D. great works of literature.
B. Egypt
6. Oratory, or , was especially prized by
C. Language Arts classes
Romans.
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D. Northern Europe
A. public speaking
3. over time, new languages called , de-
veloped from Latin. B. orange tree growing
Na
A. Mediterranean Languages C. digging for gold ore
B. Romance Languages D. orangutan monkey chatter

C. talking 7. The most celebrated Roman epic poem
was
D. Linguistics
A. Hickory Dickory Dock.
4. Romance Languages include
A. Chinese, German and Slavic. B. Homer’s Illiad.
B. English, Russian, Tagalog, and Hindi C. Jabberwocky
C. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese D. Virgil’s Aeneid.

8. Philosophy is the study of
1. C 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. D 8. D
444 Chapter 33. Latin and Literature
A. reality B. Julius Caesar

B. knowledge C. The Roman Catholic Church
C. beliefs D. The secret catacombs
D. all of the above 11. Roman literature was used to educate
young men in
9. The Greek Stoic philosophy stressed a prac-
tical approach A. morality
B. learning their ABCs
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A. babies were delivered by storks.
B. people performed their civic duty and C. government
accepted their circumstances-good or bad. D. law
gd
C. all citizens copied Caesar’s lifestyle and 12. Latin prefixes and suffixes include
speech patterns. A. sub
D. you eat your beans with every meal. B. pre
10. became the keeper of Roman litera-
an
C. able
ture.
D. ity
A. Augustus Caesar
Ch
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34. Afro-Asian Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. What does Afro-Asian literature mirror B. primitive period
aside from customs and traditions? C. pre-historic period
A. political realms D. ancient period
B. philosophy of life 5. They were used to record what had tran-
spired in history.
n
C. aspirations
A. Hieroglyphs of Egypt
D. hope
ya
B. papyrus
2. On the whole, it is deeply and pre-
dominantly contemplative and hauntingly C. scrolls
sweet. D. books
A. aspirations 6. It is considered to be the earliest records of
ra
B. customs literature.
A. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
C. traditions
B. Mahabharata
Na
D. philosophy of life
C. Ramayana
3. It is the basis of earlier written documents.
D. Panchatantra
A. stories passed on orally
7. It was written in papyrus in 250 BC.
B. books
A. Mahabharata
C. papyrus
B. Panchatantra
D. scrolls
C. Ramayana
4. It is the beginning of Asian and African
D. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Literature.
8. In Africa, this hindered the writing of liter-
A. historic period ature.
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. A 7. D 8. B
446 Chapter 34. Afro-Asian Literature
A. lack of writers 15. It began in ancient India.

B. lack of literacy A. Jainism
C. lack of love for literature B. Hinduism
D. lack of materials C. Buddhism
9. One of the importance of literature is that
it is a sign of D. Islam
A. old and modern times 16. It was the strong influence Indian culture
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was subjected to.
B. progress
A. Buddhism
C. literacy
B. Jainism
D. love
gd
10. Another importance of literature is that It C. Hinduism
teaches people about the different experi- D. Islamic
ences and of their ancestors.
17. It is the Muslim dynasty that ruled most of
an
A. life northern India from the early 16th to the
B. history mid-18th century.
C. lifestyle A. Mughal Dynasty
D. culture B. Aramaic Dynasty
Ch
11. It is the other name of India.
C. Indian Dynasty
A. Rama
D. Bharat Dynasty
B. Varsha
18. These are important bases of classification
C. Bharata in the Indian society.
D. Bharat
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A. tribal affiliations
12. It is the name India was known for during
medieval times. B. racial criteria
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A. Bharat C. linguistic and cultural practices

B. Varsha D. origins
C. Rama 19. India has more than languages.
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D. Hind A. 100
13. The name India is derived from B. 200
A. early settlers
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C. 300
B. Indus River
D. 400
C. Indus Mountain
20. It is important in understanding Indian civ-
D. Indus terrotory ilization.
14. It is the period when the name India started
to be widely used. A. racial criteria
A. pre-historic period B. cultural diversity
B. Bharat period C. linguistic diversity

C. colonial period D. intermingling of race
D. English colonization
9. A 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? D. He compiled 3 elementary books into a
dictionary
3. What are the books that Webster had com-
piled?
A. The History book, The Grammar book,
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The Reader book

B. The Literature book, The Reader book,
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The History book

C. The Grammar Book, The Spelling Book,
The Reader Book
D. The Grammar book, The Literature
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book, The Reader Book

A. Noah Centineo
4. In what year did Noah Webster compile this
B. Noah Webster book?
Na
C. Trevor Noah A. 1783, 1784, 1785

D. George Washington B. 1681, 1682, 1683
2. What is contribution of Noah Webster to C. 1697, 1698, 1696
the American English? D. 1751, 1752, 1753
A. He created " A Dictionary of The En- 5. Webster’s first dictionary was called
glish Language"
A. A Compendious Dictionary of the En-
B. He wrote "The Declaration of Indepen- glish Language
dence"
B. Merriam-Webster Dictionary
C. He had written 10 dictionaries C. The American Spelling Book
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. A
448 Chapter 35. American English
6. What is the work "A Grammatical Institute 9. What was Noah Webster been called as?
of the English Language" consisted of?
A. Father of Revolution
A. a speller, a syntax, a reader
B. Father of British Education
B. a speller, a syntax, a grammar
C. Father of American Scholarship and Ed-
C. a speller, a grammar, a reader ucation
7. The "Blue-Backed Speller" was originally D. Father for Our Future Children
titled
10. “A national language is a band of national
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A. The Elementary Spelling Book union” (Webster)What are the reasons Web-
B. The First Part of the Grammatical Insti- ster came out with this statement?
tute of the English Language A. American independence (1776) was
gd
C. The American Spelling Book seen by Webster as an opportunity to get
rid of the linguistic influence of Britain
8. Webster’s name has become synonymous
with "dictionary" in the United States, es- B. The new nation needed new language
pecially the modern Merriam-Webster dic- with a fresh identity
tionary. Which of the following is the first
release of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary?
A. 1828 - An American Dictionary of the
English Language. an C. It was a matter of honour as an indepen-
dent nation to have “a system of our own,
in language as well as government
Ch
D. There was a popular perception in
B. 1789 - Dissertation on the English Lan- America that British English was too cor-
guage rupt and in a state of decline
C. 1884 - Oxford English Dictionary
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6. C 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 of literature used C. Short poems
by the Greeks? D. Stories about the gods and godded
A. Fables 5. What was the greatest achievement in
B. Folktales Greek literature?
C. Poems A. Poems
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D. Epic Poems B. Plays

ya
2. What was the name of the Greek slave who C. Movies

wrote well-known fables? D. Storybooks
A. Matthew 6. How many letters are in the Greek alpha-
B. Zeus bet?
ra
C. Aesop A. 26
D. Henry B. 30
3. What was the most popular form of poetry C. 24
Na
in Ancient Greece?
D. 32
A. Limericks 7. What percentage of English words come
B. Humorous from the Ancient Greeks?
C. Biography A. 12
D. Epic Poems 8. What do lyric poems express?
4. What were epic poems? A. Information
A. Funny poems B. Opinions
B. Long poems that told stories about great C. Explanations
heroes D. Personal feelings
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. D
450 Chapter 36. Ancient Greece Language and Literature
9. What are two of the most famous epic po- 11. Who were the actors in a Greek play?
ems?
A. Women
A. Odysseus and Zeus B. Children
B. The Iliad and The Odyssey C. Men and Women
C. Athena and Artemis D. Men
D. The Midas Touch and Pandora’s Box 12. How many roles did each actor in a Greek
play have?
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10. Who was the most famous female poet in
Ancient Greece? A. One
A. Athena B. Two
gd
B. Persephone C. Three
C. Sappho D. Many
D. Hera
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9. B 10. C 11. D 12. D

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37. Asian Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. A collection of Indian beast fables. A. Confucius
A. Vedas B. Lao Tzu
B. Panchatantra C. Sun Tzu
C. The Rigveda D. Li Bai
n
D. Mahabharata 5. The founder of Confucianism who em-

2. A Sanskrit drama by Kalidasa that tells of phasized a code of social conduct and
ya
a love between a king and a woman who stressed importance of discipline, morality
lives in the forest. and knowledge.
A. Panchatantra A. Confucius
B. Ramayana B. Lao Tzu

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C. Shakuntala C. Sun Tzu
D. Mahabharata D. Li Bai
Na
3. A Sanskrit poet and dramatist who is prob- 6. The story considered as the world’s first
ably the greatest writer of all time; consid- true novel.
ered as the Shakespeare of India. A. The Tale of Haike
A. Kalidasa B. The Epic of Gilgamesh
B. Rabindranath Tagore C. The Pillow Book
C. Prem Chand D. The Tale of Genji
D. Anita Desai 7. Regarded as the greatest haiku poet.
4. The founder of Taoism who stressed free- A. Yosa Buson
dom, simplicity and the mystical contem-
plation of nature. B. Koyabashi Issa
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. C
452 Chapter 37. Asian Literature
C. Matsuo Basho A. The Confucius

D. Ryunusuke Akutagawa B. The Art of War
8. A collection of stories of which "Alladin", C. The Analects
"Sinbad" and "Alibaba" are perhaps best
known to Western readers. D. The Tang Poems
10. A tale of a superhuman Sumerian king who
A. Men In The Sun
searched for everlasting life.
B. Zaynab
A. Alladin
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C. Arabian Nights
B. The Epic of Gilgamesh
D. The Epic of Gilgamesh
C. Sinbad
9. The collection of sayings and ideas at-
gd
tributed to the Chinese philosopher Confu- D. One Thousand and One Nights
cius.
an
Ch
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8. C 9. C 10. B
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38. British Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. "Beowulf" is about 6. Choose the titles which are examples of
A. a king fighting dragons gothic horror/fiction
B. a warrior fighting monsters A. Frankenstein
C. a sailor fighting mermaids B. Dracula

n
2. "The Canterbury Tales" were written C. Oliver Twist

in D. Wuthering Heights
ya
A. Modern English 7. The creator of the character "Sherlock

B. Old English Holmes" is
C. Middle English A. H.G.Wells
3. Who wrote "Hamlet?" B. Arthur Conan Doyle
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A. William Shakespeare C. Oscar Wilde

B. John Milton 8. "The Time Machine", "Invisible Man" and
"The War of Worlds" were written by
Na
C. Daniel Defoe
H.G.Wells. They were
4. "Paradise Lost" written by Milton is
about A. adventure books
A. angels B. travels books
B. God C. science fiction books
C. the devil 9. The book who gave origin to this film
5. "Robinson Crusoe" was written by was
A. Jane Austen A. The Island of Dr. Moureau
B. Daniel Defoe B. The Dubliners
C. Joanathan Swift C. Pygmalion
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. A 6. B 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. B
454 Chapter 38. British Literature
10. This expression first appeared in a dystopia 17. "The adventure of Robinson Crusoe" was
by George Orwell entitled the first written in English
A. Animal Farm A. novel
B. 1984 B. short story
C. The Hobbit C. article
11. What did Geoffrey Chauser write? D. essay
A. London tales 18. Where was William Shakespeare born?
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B. Cantenbury tales A. London
C. English tales B. Bath
gd
D. Ancient tales C. Stratford upon Avon
12. Why is "Cantenbury tales" famous? D. Avon
A. It is the first piece of literature written 19. Did William Shakespeare finish any univer-
in English sity?
an
B. It is about Middle Age knights A. Yes
C. It is written in Old English B. No
D. It is the unfinished work by Chauser 20. Was William Shakespeare married?
13. Who are the main characters of "The
Ch
A. Yes
knight’s tale"
B. No
A. Palamon and Arcite
21. What is the name of Shakespeare theatre?
B. Theseus and Emily
A. The Juliet
C. Venus and Mars
B. the Globe
n
D. Geoffrey and Emily

C. Londinium
14. Who wrote the book "The adventures of
Robinson Crusoe" D. The National Theatre
ya
22. What was Romeo’s surname?

A. Agatha Cristie
A. Capulet
B. Geoffrey Chauser
B. Montaque
C. Daniel Dafoe
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D. Oscar Wilde C. Lawrence

15. The story of Robinson Crusoe is based on D. Mercutio
the life of 23. Where did the story take place?
Na
A. Alexander Selkirk A. Rome

B. Daniel Dafoe B. Florence
C. Winston Churchil C. Verona
D. the king George V D. Venecia
16. Robinson Crusoe lived on the island 24. When did Romeo see Juliet the first time?
A. 15 years A. in the city center
B. 4 years B. in the market
C. 28 years C. at the party
D. 10 years D. at his home
11. B 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. Why did Juliet die? 31. What was Ebenezer Scrooge’s job?
A. She drank poison A. a banker
B. She had a fever B. a policeman
C. She didn’t want to marry Paris C. a ghost
D. She saw that Romeo was dead D. an accountant
26. Which dramas did William Shakespeare
32. How many ghosts came to Ebenezer’s
write?
house?
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A. Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III
A. 1
B. Hobbit, King Lear, Othello
B. 2
C. Much ado about nothing, Christmas
gd
Night, Hamlet C. 3
D. As you like it, the Merchant of Verona, D. 4

the Comedy of Errors 33. What is the ending of the story of Ebenezer
Scrooge?
an
27. What nationality was Oscar Wilde?
A. English A. Ebenezer Scrooge died
B. Scottish B. Ebenezer Scrooge left London and went
C. Irish to Scotland
Ch
D. Welsh C. Ebenezer Scrooge changed his life style
28. Oscar Wilde wrote a novel "The portrait of
Dorian " D. Ebenezer Scrooge got married and had
A. Gray a son
B. Grey 34. What is the most famous play by Agatha

n
Christie?
C. Guy
A. The mousetrap
D. Black
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29. Why didn’t Dorian Gray get older? B. 10 liitle boys
A. Dorian sold his soul to the devil C. Orient train
B. He took care of his appearance D. A death on the Dunabee

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C. He didn’t worked hard 35. Who are the main heros of the play "Pig-
malion" by G.B. Shaw?
D. He wanted to look like his portrait
30. Who wrote "A Christmas Carol"? A. A doctor and a flower girl
Na
A. Jane Austen B. An engineer and his wife
B. G.B. Shaw C. A writer and a maid

C. J.K. Rowling D. A philosopher and his friend
D. Charles Dickens
25. D 26. A 27. C 28. A 29. A 30. D 31. A 32. C 33. C 34. A 35. A
Na
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39. Dystopian Literature
gd
an
Ch
1. What kind of information and literature Which of the following is NOT an example
is used in dystopian societies in order to of this?
control what the citizens know and the in-
A. Citizens not always having basic needs
formation they have access to?
met, like food and shelter
A. Propaganda
B. Citizens not having access to loved ones
n
B. Newspapers like family and/or mates

C. Control over the internet C. Citizens wearing assigned clothing and
ya
working at assigned jobs

D. Burn all the books
2. In Dystopian societies, what is one way the D. Citizens being allowed to have civil
people in charge maintain the illusion of rights and make choices for themselves
ra
knowing everything that happens? 4. When stories, legends, or rumors in a so-

ciety are told in order to keep people from
A. The citizens don’t know, they are just
wanting to leave, they are creating this
afraid of what might happen if they are
caught doing something bad or illegal A. People who are not brave
Na
B. The people in charge follow the impor- B. Fear of the outside world
tant citizens around and watch everything
C. Oral stories because the books are taken
they do, even going to bed in their rooms
away
C. The citizens think they are under con-
D. reasons that citizens should explore out-
stant surveillance by spies, cameras, or
side for themselves
other means
5. One way power is maintained in dystopian
D. The citizens hear voices in their heads societies is by setting the expectation for
telling them that they are being watched citizens to conform to certain standards.
3. One way that dystopian societies keep their Which example from The Giver is NOT an
citizens in line is by "dehumanizing" them. example of conformity?
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. A
458 Chapter 39. Dystopian Literature
A. Jonas taking the apple from the lunch- C. is dissatisfied with society and feels
room trapped
B. Jonas and all the other 11s becoming D. is the leader of the dystopian society
adults on the same day 9. Dystopias are usually set in the
C. Jonas and all of his friends wearing the A. past
same kinds of clothes
B. present
D. All of the families having a mother, fa-
C. future
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ther, one boy, and one girl
6. What does it mean for a society to have the D. myth
"Illusion of Utopia"? 10. The spreading of ideas and information to
help or hurt a cause
gd
A. It means citizens in the society didn’t
want to live in a dystopia anymore because A. Propaganda
they were unhappy, so they moved to a
B. Social Dialect
utopia
C. Dystopian Element
an
B. The "Illusion of Utopia" is a magic trick
that is often performed by the leaders in a D. Allusion
dystopian society to entertain the children 11. In The Giver, only the Receiver of Memo-
and old people ries is allowed access to books, memories,
and history. This is an example of which of
Ch
C. "Illusion of Utopia" does not exist in any
societies the main elements we have studies.
D. It means that the people in the society A. Constant Surveillance
believe they are living in the best kind of B. Citizens are not allowed to choose their
society, better than what existed before and own destiny
better than what else could exist now
C. Propaganda is used to control people’s
n
7. Which of the following is NOT an example

thoughts
of a dytopian novel?
D. Information, independent thought, and
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A. The Giver
freedom are restricted
B. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 12. Ironically, people in a dystopia
C. The Hunger Games A. fight for their rights
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D. Maze Runner B. believe everything is perfect

8. A dystopian protagonist usually:
C. disbelieve propoganda
A. Is satisfied with their society
D. want freedom
Na
B. is physically stronger than most people
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 refers to the period A. Monks
of times from B. Bede
A. 490 - 1068
C. the Pope
B. 540 - 1088 6. The most famous work of literature written
C. 450 - 1066 in Old English is
n
2. Which of the following peoples settled in A. Beowulf

Briton afters years of pillaging and plun-
ya
B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

dering?
C. The Ecclesiastical History of the Anglo-
A. The Huns
Saxon People
B. The Anglo-Saxons 7. A Chronicle can be described as
ra
C. Asians
A. a yearly record of current events
3. Which quality in warriors was highly re-
warded by Anglo-Saxon kings? B. a book of stories about the Early Middle
Ages
Na
A. loyalty
C. a monk’s personal diary
B. bravery
8. Who brought an end to the Anglo-Saxon
C. writing poetry era of English history?
4. Warriors in Anglo-Saxon society were ex- A. the pope
pected to stay with their kings
B. the king of Norway
A. until death
C. William ’the Conqueror’
B. until the warrior got married
9. The Battle of Hastings took place in
C. until retirement
A. 1096
5. Who wrote "The Ecclesiastical History of
the Anglo-Saxon People"? B. 1066
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. B
460 Chapter 40. Early Middle Ages
C. 1086 B. Greek
10. Besides Old English, literature was also
written in C. Latin
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 explained as 5. Paul Walker (Fast and the Furious) dying
A. What the reading selection is about in a car accident is an example of
B. A type of Figurative Language A. Tragedy
C. a specific message about life B. Situational Irony

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D. A lesson lto learn C. Dramatic Irony

2. Which of the following figures of speech is D. Verbal Irony
hardest to identify?
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6. Plot is defined as
A. Analogy
A. Two or more plots developing alongside
B. Metaphor each other
C. Simile B. The sequence of events in a story
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D. Word Choice C. When a story begins and ends in the

3. Internal Conflict can be also known as same place
A. Man vs. Supernatural
Na
D. Two different stories with the same

B. Man vs. Technology types of plot
C. Man vs. Self 7. The protagonist can be defined as
D. Man vs. Nature A. The good guy

4. In the exposition the following is included B. The bad guy
A. Time, place, environment, and charac- C. The character who the action revolves
ters mostly around
B. Time, place, characters and conflict D. The character who is mentioned mostly
C. Time place and characters in the story
D. Time, environment and characters 8. The antagonist can be known as
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. C
462 Chapter 41. Elements of Literature
A. The bad guy 11. The word choice of an author influences

B. The character who saves the day A. Tone and mood
C. The character who gets punished in the B. Tone, mood and dialect
story
C. Tone, mood, dialect and imagery
D. The character(s) who oppose(s) the pro-
tagonist D. Imagery and dialect
9. Incitement to Action is the part of the story 12. When something is described in terms of
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when another, stating that one thing in fact IS
A. The characters are introduced another, it is most likely
B. The crisis or conflict is exposed A. a metaphor
gd
C. Mini problems that increase the tension B. simile
are explained
C. analogy
D. Where everything changes for the an-
tagonist D. imagery
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10. Climax is 13. The author of the The Sniper is
A. The most intense moment of the story A. Tim O’Brian
B. The most exiting part of the story B. Luigi Pirandello
Ch
C. When the protagonist returns tri- C. Edgar Allan Poe
umphant
D. Liam O’Flaherty
D. When all changes for the protagonist;
the conflict is resolved
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8. D 9. B 10. D 11. C 12. A 13. D

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42. England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Food
gd
an
Ch
1. Who is the writer of Winnie-the-Pooh? for "services to music and charitable ser-
vices".
A. Alan Alexander Milne
A. James Bond
B. Elton John
C. J.K. Rowling
C. Prince Charles
n
2. Who is the writer of Alice in Wonderland?

6. Their most famous song is "Bohemian
A. J.K. Rowling
Rhapsody", which stayed at number one
ya
B. Sir Elton John in the UK for nine weeks.

C. Lewis Carroll A. Queen
3. Who is the writer of Harry Potter? B. The Beatles
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A. James Bond C. Rolling Stones

B. J.K. Rowling 7. They were an English rock band formed in
Liverpool made up by four members: John
C. Alan Alexander Milne
Na
Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison

4. This is an English rock band formed in Lon- and Ringo Starr.
don. They were considered a “rebellious”
group. A. Queen
B. Rolling Stones
A. Rolling Stones
C. The Beatles
B. The Beatles
8. The tradition of drinking tea was intro-
C. Queen duced by
5. He is an English singer, pianist and com-
A. Ana, Duchess of Bedford
poser. In 1998 he was named Sir, knighted
by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham B. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Palace. He was awarded the title of Knight C. Queen Elizabeth
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. A 9. B
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9. Dinner was served at 8 o’clock so she 11. What is the name of the plate made up by
started to feel hungry around fish and potatoes?
A. 2 o’clock A. Marmite
B. 4 o’clock B. Fish and Chips
C. 10 o’clock C. Sandwiches and Chips
10. She asked for a tray with a cup of and 12. What is Marmite?
A. A dark brown and sticky food spread.
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B. coke and chips C. blueberry jam
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1. This are people or animals in stories. A. falling actions
A. symbols B. figurative language
B. characters C. descriptive writing
C. metaphors D. antagonist
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D. settings 5. This type of language makes comparisons

between seemingly unlike things.
2. A story’s setting is
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A. figurative language
A. the highest point of suspense in a story.
B. omniscient narrator
C. allusion
B. the people in the story.
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D. myth
C. what the events stand for as symbols.
6. Simile
D. the time and place in which the events
happen. A. This is the type of narrator in a story.
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3. The conversations or talk between charac- B. This is when a character smiles.

ters is called what? C. This compares two unlike things but
A. dialogue doesn’t use the word "like" or "as."
D. This compares two unlike things us-
B. protagonist
ing the word "like" or "as." It is a figure of
C. antagonist speech.
D. allusion 7. Metaphor
4. This type of writing or language helps us A. This figure of speech compares two un-
see the story; it gives us mental pictures of like things and uses the term "like" or "as."
the sights, sounds, and smells in a story.
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. B
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B. This figure of speech compares two un- 13. This type of conflict is one a character ex-
like things without using the term "like" or periences within himself
"as." A. external conflict
C. This is the type of narrator in a story. B. marginal conflict
D. This is the time and place in which a C. regenerative conflict
story happens.
D. internal conflict
8. This type of metaphor talks about nonhu-
14. A reference to a statement, a person, a place,
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man things as it it were human.
or an event from literature, history, religion,
A. simile mythology, politics, sports, science or pop
B. metaphor culture is called what?
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A. a conflict
C. personification
B. an allusion
D. plot
C. the climax
9. This is a person, place, thing, or event that
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stands for itself and for something beyond D. a myth
itself. 15. This is a type of literature where realistic
A. symbol events and magical or unreal events mix to
create a believable story.
B. personification
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A. realistic literature
C. metaphor
B. magical realism
D. antagonist
C. symbolism
10. This is a type of narrator who is all-
knowing and all-seeing. D. protagonism
16. This type of story is a traditional story from
A. reflective
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B. character-driven lief, a ritual, or a mysterious phenomenon.
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C. singular A. myth
D. omniscient B. dialogue
11. A protagonist is C. plot
D. rising action
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A. the main character that we follow who

tends to be the hero of the story. 17. This is the first part of a story where the
setting and characters are introduced.
B. the villain in the story.
A. resolution
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C. the supporting characters in a story /

not the main character B. rising action
D. the animal or pet that the main charac- C. exposition
ter cares for D. climax
12. The character who fights against the pro- 18. This is the highest point of suspense in a
tagonist in a story is called the story.
A. antagonist A. exposition
B. hero B. climax
C. narrator C. resolution
D. simile D. myth
8. C 9. A 10. D 11. A 12. A 13. D 14. B 15. B 16. A 17. C 18. B

19. Resolution C. This is the end of a story where the loose

A. This is the beginning of a story where ends are tied up.
the characters and setting are introduced. D. These are the events leading to the cli-
B. This is the highest point of suspense in max of a story.
a story.
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44. Miscelleneous questions
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1. In which century was Piers Plowman writ- C. Strand Magazine
ten?
D. Reader Magazine
A. 14th
5. Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over
B. 12th what period of time?
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C. 10th A. A week
D. 11th B. 24 hours
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2. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king?

C. A lifetime
A. Richard III
D. 6 months
B. James 1
6. What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?
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C. Edward III
A. Irish
D. Henry II
B. Scottish
3. The 18th century work ’Tom Jones” was
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written by whom? C. French
A. Samuel Johnson D. English

B. Henry Fielding 7. Who wrote the poem “Requiem"?
C. John Donne A. Robert Louis Stevenson
D. Tobias Smollett B. William Shakespeare
4. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for C. Samuel Johnson
which publication?
D. John Milton
A. The Time’s Literary Supplement
8. the prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour
B. The Lady’s Home Journal is its
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. A
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A. urbanity A. Regency
B. crudity B. Restoration
C. triviality C. Romantic
D. sanctity D. Victorian
9. who is the first great English critic-poet? 16. Literary divisions are not always exact, but
we draw them because they are often con-
A. Shakespeare venient. The majority of English literary
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B. Arnold periods are named after:
C. Sir Philip Sidney A. The leading characteristic of the age
D. Chaucer B. Monarchs or political events
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10. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by C. The primary author of the age
A. Thomas gray D. The language of the age

17. Which period of literature came first?
B. Alexander Pope
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A. Regency
C. Edward gibbon
B. Victorian
D. William Blake
C. Romantic
11. Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’?
D. Restoration
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A. John Milton
18. In what language did Shakespeare write?
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
A. Middle English
C. William Shakespeare B. German
D. Edward Gibbon C. Old English
12. who write the story “Story Teller” ?
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D. Modern English
A. William Wordsworth 19. Which work was published first?
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B. William Shakespeare A. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”

C. Thomas Grey B. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
D. Saki C. Lord Byron’s “Don Juan”
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13. Jane Austen wrote during this period D. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”
A. Restoration 20. Which of the following works was writ-
ten before the all-important Battle of Hast-
B. Victorian ings?
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C. Middle English A. Beowulf

D. Regency B. Canterbury Tales
14. One of these men did NOT write during the C. The Domesday Book
Restoration period. Who?
D. Sons and Lovers
A. John Milton 21. Who wrote first?
B. Thomas Otway A. George Eliot
C. Sir Walter Scott B. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Dryden C. Howard, Earl of Surrey
15. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period D. William Shakespeare
9. C 10. A 11. C 12. D 13. D 14. C 15. D 16. B 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. C
22. A
22. Which work was completed last? 28. Which of the following literary sub-periods
does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Pe-
A. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
riod?
B. George Herbert’s “The Temple”
A. The Restoration
C. William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”
B. Jacobean Age
D. Ben Jonson’s “Volpone”
C. The Augustan Age
23. Which of the following poets wrote during
D. The Age of Sensibility
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the Victorian period but was not published
until the 20th century? 29. Which of the following periods of English
literature came last?
A. Christina Rossetti
A. The Elizabethan Age
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B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
B. The Commonwealth Period
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
C. The Jacobean Age
D. Ted Hughes
D. The Middle English Period
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24. This work was NOT originally published
in the 20th Century. 30. This work was written before the other
three choices.
A. Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”
A. Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the
B. Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the
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English People”
D’Urbervilles”
B. Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Show-
C. E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View” ings”
D. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” C. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
25. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th
D. Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”
century?
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31. Which of the following writers would be

A. John Skelton an appropriate subject for a class on “The
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B. William Shakespeare Literature of the British Empire”?
C. Sir Thomas Wyatt A. Rudyard Kipling
D. Thomas Carew B. Edward Fitzgerald

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26. Historical events often influence literature. C. Charlotte Bronte

Which of the following did NOT occur dur- D. Any of these
ing the Restoration period?
32. World War I affected the writing of many
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A. Charles II was restored to the throne authors. Which of the following poets
B. The French Revolution would not have been touched by that
event?
C. The Great Fire of London
A. T.S. Eliot
D. The Exclusion Bill Crisis
B. Siegfried Sassoon
27. He was not a Renaissance writer.
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Oscar Wilde
B. Sir Philip Sidney
33. The period of maturation, intellectual
C. Christopher Marlowe growth and social graces during the Renais-
D. Sir Thomas Malory sance is called the:
23. B 24. B 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. A 31. D 32. D 33. D
A. aristocracy 40. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written

B. New Age by-
C. Reformation A. Robert Frost
D. Enlightenment B. Emily Dickinson

34. The most popular French playwright, Jean C. Mark Twain
Baptiste Poquelin, is known as: D. Walt Whitman
A. Caleron 41. What do you mean by Quatrain?
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B. Corneille A. a poem of fourteen lines
C. Couperin B. a stanza of fourteen lines
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D. Moliere C. a stanza of six lines
35. The first Englishwoman to earn her living D. a stanza of four lines
as a playwright was:
42. Find the Odd man out?
A. Nell Gwynn
A. Ulysses
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B. Aphra Behn
B. The Falcon
C. Lady Teazle
C. The Virginians
D. Ann Hathaway
D. On Liberty
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36. The most important element of a Tragedy?
43. “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated
A. Plot by-
B. Character A. Keats
C. Spectacles B. Shelley
D. Diction C. Jane Austine
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37. “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break

D. Charles Lamb
the heart of stone.” In which poem do these
lines appear? 44. Who is the writer of the poem ‘A Grammar-
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ian’s Funeral’?
A. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
A. Shelley
B. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
C. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
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C. Wordsworth
D. None of these
D. Robert Browning
38. Modern age is an age of-
45. The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
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A. Pessimism and Cynicism

A. Ruskin
B. Conflicts and Controversies
B. Lamb
C. Subjectivity
C. Mill
D. All of the above
D. Oscar Wilde
39. Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of
Time’? 46. ‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by-
A. Albert Einstein A. Somerset Maugham
B. Stephen Hawking B. James Joyce
C. Jagadish Chandra Basu C. W.B. Yeats
D. Isaac Newton D. Philip Sydney
34. D 35. B 36. A 37. B 38. B 39. B 40. D 41. D 42. B 43. A 44. D 45. C 46. A
47. B
47. Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Come- A. Huxley

dies’? B. Carlyle
A. A.C. Bradley C. Ruskin
B. Palmer D.J. D. Mill
C. Dr.Johnsofl 54. Who is known as the national poet of Eng-
land
D. None of these
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48. The Rape of the Lock is a:
B. John Keats
A. Parody
B. Elegy
D. T. S. Eliot
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C. Romance 55. James Joyce’s famous novel-
D. Sonnet A. Roots
49. ‘Tom Jones’ by Henry Fielding was first B. Ulysses
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published in C. Tom Jones
A. the first half of 19th century D. Rebecca
B. the first half of 18th century 56. Who is the writer of ‘The Two Voices’?
Ch
C. the 2nd half of 18th century A. A. Lord Tennyson
D. 19th century B. George Bernard Shaw
50. One of the following was a Romantic poet C. William Shakespeare

D. Christopher Marlowe
A. Tennyson 57. Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the
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Light Brigade’?
B. Arnold
A. George Bernard Shaw
C. Shelley
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D. Browning C. A. Lord Tennyson
51. The period between 1660 to 1750 is known D. William Shakespeare
as:
58. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist
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A. The Age of Classicism in the Romantic Age?

B. The Restoration A. Charles Lamb
B. Jane Austen
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C. The age of Milton

C. William Hazlitt
D. None of these
D. Oliver Goldsmith
52. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by-
59. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:
A. Shakespeare
A. E. Bronte
B. Milton
B. J. Austen
C. Coleridge C. C. Bronte
D. Keats D. None of these
53. ‘On Heroes and Hero worship is writ- 60. Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the
ten by: Book’?
48. A 49. B 50. C 51. B 52. B 53. B 54. C 55. B 56. A 57. C 58. B 59. C 60. B
61. A
A. Shelley 67. ‘Adela’ is a character from-

B. Robert Browning A. A Passage to India
C. William Shakespeare B. Paradise Lost
D. Wordsworth C. Hamlet
61. Edmund Spenser is a- D. Doctor Faustus
A. poet 68. The period of English literature from 1660
to the end of the century is called:
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B. dramatist
C. artist A. Renaissance
D. scientist B. Jacobean Period
gd
62. Which one of the following writers is not C. Restoration Period
woman? D. Romantic Age
A. Emily Bronte 69. Firdausi was the poet of-
B. Jane Austen
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A. Persian
C. Robert Browning B. English
D. None of these C. French
63. Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?
D. Italy
Ch
A. Ghandhi 70. ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by-
B. Nehru A. Dickens
C. Jinnah B. Thackeray
D. Abul Kalam Azad C. Scott
64. Which is called the Victorian Age:
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D. Fielding
A. 18th Century
71. The character of Little Neil is a creation of:
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B. 19th Century
A. Hardy
C. 20th Century
B. Eliot
D. None of these
C. Oscar Wilde
65. “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be
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exerted according to the determination of D. Dickens

will”, is a statement by: 72. What did Robert Frost’s father do?
A. Wordsworth A. teacher
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B. Shelley B. journalist
C. Coleridge C. black-smith
D. Arnold D. farmer
66. Find the Odd man out? 73. “Justice delayed is justice denied” was
A. Tom Jones : Henry Fielding stated by-
B. Roxana: Daniel Defoe A. Shakespeare
C. The Good-nature man: Oliver Gold- B. Emerson

smith C. Gladstone
D. All for Love: John Milton D. Disraeli
62. C 63. D 64. B 65. B 66. D 67. A 68. C 69. A 70. B 71. D 72. B 73. C 74. A
74. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the pro- A. Dante

fession of: B. Shakespeare
A. Architect C. Wordsworth
B. Engraver D. Shelley
C. Sculptor 81. In his poetry Tennyson is:
A. The representative poet of Victorian
D. None of these
Age
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75. Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’?
B. The representative poet of Romantic
A. John Lyly Age
B. Thomas Kyd C. The best nature poet
gd
C. Robert Green D. None of these
82. Catharsis refers to the term-
D. Christopher Marlowe
A. characters in play
76. Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania
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and Greece resulted in the production of B. animals in play
the first two cantos of his poem: C. sympathy to others
A. cain D. arouse of pity and fear
83. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker
Ch
B. Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
Prize
C. Don Juan A. The Luminaries
D. the prisoner of Chillon B. Wolf Hall
77. Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’? C. The White Tiger
A. Shelley D. The Sea
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B. Tolstoy 84. What do you mean by Archaism?

A. modern mode of words
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C. Byron
B. up-to-date words
D. Dostoyevsky
C. literary words
78. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born?
D. obsolete words
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A. 1809 85. Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:

B. 1810 A. Dramatic Monologue
C. 1811 B. Dramatic Lyrics
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D. 1812 C. Tragic Drama
79. Who was a friend of John Milton? D. None of these

86. Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laure-
A. John Donne ate in:
B. John Dryden A. 1843 b 1844
C. Andrew Marvell B. 1845
D. Alexander Pope C. 1846
80. The literary figure who had the most pro- D. none of these
nounced effect on Keats was: 87. Which one of the following is a comedy?
75. B 76. B 77. D 78. A 79. C 80. B 81. A 82. D 83. A 84. D 85. B 86. A 87. A
88. A
A. All’s Well that Ends Well 94. Which University presented the Pulitzer
B. Hamlet Prize
A. Columbia University
C. Timon of Athens
B. Yale University
D. Antony and Cleopatra
88. ’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by C. New York University
A. Oscar Wild D. Harvard University

95. Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s
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B. Hardy interest in the supernatural.
C. George Eliot A. True
D. None of these B. False
gd
89. From 1st January 2007, how many digits
C. both A and B
contains in ISBN (International Standard
Book Number) D. none of these
96. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by
A. 9
an
A. Mathew
B. 10
B. Robert Browning
C. 13
C. John Milton
D. 15
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D. W B Yeats
90. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Golden
Age’? 97. Total number of sonnets written by Shake-
speare
A. Tahmima Anam
A. 102
B. Pearl S. Bark
B. 154
C. Virginia Woolf
C. 163
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D. Jane Austen
D. 194
91. Famous romantic poets were
98. ‘Love and Friendship’ is written by-
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A. Five
A. Francis Bacon
B. Four B. Jane Austen
C. Six C. Jonathan Swift
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D. None of these D. None

92. What the term Elegy refers? 99. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born?
A. a song of lamentation A. 1340 AD
Na
B. a song of pleasure B. 1341 AD

C. a hymn C. 1342 AD
D. a praiseworthy song D. 1343 AD
93. Who was more under the influence of God- 100. Who is the author of the drama ‘You never
win’s philosophy of life? can tell’?
A. Byron A. G.B. Shaw
B. Browning B. Ben Jonson
C. Shelley C. Shakespeare
D. Keats D. Christopher Marlowe
89. C 90. A 91. C 92. A 93. C 94. A 95. B 96. C 97. B 98. B 99. A 100. A 101. A
101. Who was American poet? 108. Adonis is modeled on:

A. Robert Frost A. Bion’s lament for Adonis
B. John Keats B. Lycidas
C. John Milton C. In Memoriam
D. Robert Herrick D. None of these
102. Which one is not a science fiction writer 109. ‘Lycidas’ is written by-
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A. H. G. Wells A. Alexander Pope
B. Victor Hugo B. Henry Fielding
C. Hugo Gernsback C. Thomas Hardy
gd
D. Jules Verne D. John Milton
103. Who wrote ‘Hard Times’ and ‘A tale of 110. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is-
two Cities’?
A. an ordinary man
an
A. John Milton
B. a high ranking man
B. Charles Dickens
C. a sacrilegious man
C. John Webster
D. none of these
D. Daniel Defoe
Ch
111. Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous over-
104. “Undo this Button” is a line from Shake- flow of powerful feeling’ by:
speare’s:
A. Shelley
A. Hamlet
B. Coleridge
B. Othello
C. Wordsworth
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C. King Lear
D. None of these
D. Julius Caeser 112. Shakespeare was born in:
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105. We find Subjective Elements in?

A. 1570
A. Keats
B. 1564
B. Shelley
C. 1590
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C. Wordsworth
D. None of these
D. All 113. In Memoriam by Tennyson is:
106. Who is the writer of ‘Lorna Doone’?
A. an elegy
Na
A. H.G. Wells
B. a collection of elegies
B. Blackmore
C. a lyric
C. T. S. Eliot
D. a dramatic lyric
D. Jane Austen 114. The Novel of Lawrence banned by the gov-
107. Browning is famous for his: ernment was:
A. Sensory images A. Sons and Lovers
B. Dramatic Monologues B. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
C. Narrative ballads C. Women in Love
D. Blank Verse D. The Rainbow
102. B 103. B 104. C 105. D 106. B 107. B 108. A 109. D 110. B 111. C 112. B
113. A 114. B
115. “Reading makes a full man, conference a A. Jules Verne

ready man and writing an exact man.”-Who
told it?
C. Charles Kingsley
A. Shakespeare
D. Thomas Hood
B. Chaucer
122. Shaw died at the age of:
C. Spenser
A. 75
D. Bacon
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B. 95
116. In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ in-
cluded? C. 105
A. The Renaissance D. none of these
gd
123. The poem “Wind” is written by:
B. The Non-classical
A. Shelley
C. The Romantic
B. John Ashbery
D. The Modern
117. Who Is known as the Father of English
Poetry
A. William Shakespeare an C. Sylvia Plath
D. Ted Hughes
124. Childe Harold was written by:
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B. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Byron
C. John Milton B. Shelley
D. William Wordsworth C. Tennyson
118. Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’? D. None of these
A. O’ Henry 125. What is an Epic?
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B. R L Stevenson A. a short poem

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C. Ernest Hemingway B. a long narrative poem
D. Sir Walter Scott C. a historical poem

119. Synecdoche refers to the term- D. a prose composition
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A. a thing stands for whole thing 126. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay
by:
B. pity and fear
A. Arnold
C. Self-contradictory speech
Na
B. T. S. Eliot
D. long speech
C. Shelley
120. Simile is the direct comparison between
two- D. None of these
A. similar things 127. Who is the author of ‘Animal Farm’?
B. dissimilar things A. Thomas More
C. elaborate comparison B. George Orwell
D. contradictory things C. Boris Pasternak
121. Who is the author of “Around the World D. Charles Dickens

in Eighty Days”? 128. ‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from-
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 128. C 129. A
A. 1340-1385 A. sentimental
B. 1240-1300 B. practical
C. 1340-1400 C. irresponsible
D. 1340-1399 D. romantic
129. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun 136. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical
Priest’s Tale’? essay by:
A. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Shelley
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B. Oscar Wilde
B. Cynewulf
C. T. S. Eliot
C. Robert Browning
D. None of these
gd
D. Shelley
137. Which of the following is illustrative of
130. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet? Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter A. The Seven Lamps
an
B. a two line stanza B. Unto this Last
C. a poem of lamentation C. The Stones of Venice
D. a song for mourning D. None of these
131. The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is- 138. ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’
Ch
are written by-
A. D.H. Lawrence
A. P.B. Shelley
B. John Milton
B. John Keats
C. John Keats
C. John Milton
132. ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken
from Eliot’s: D. William Blake
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A. The Wasteland 139. ‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an-

A. play
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B. The Hollow men

B. satire
C. East Coker
C. prose
D. Prufrock
D. translation
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133. What do you mean by Stanza?

140. "After Apple Picking" is written by:
A. a division of drama
A. Robert Browning
B. a division of novel
B. Robert Frost
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C. a division of story
C. both A and B
D. a subdivision of a poem
D. none of these
134. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by: 141. T. Hardy is:
A. Tennyson A. A social reformer
B. Browning B. A satirist
C. Keats C. A fatalist
D. T. S. Eliot D. A lover of nature
135. The shepherd in “The Passionate Shep- 142. Who is famous for representing London
herd to His Love” is in his novels.
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
A. Thackeray 149. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama

B. Hardy by-
C. Dickens A. Shelley
D. W. Scott B. Shakespeare
143. Who of the following was both a poet and C. Sophocles
painter? D. Euripedes
A. Keats
er
150. Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example
B. Donne of:
C. William Blake A. Comedy of Errors
gd
D. Spenser B. Comedy of Manners
144. Who after the publication of a poem, C. Comedy of Ideas
awoke and found himself famous?
D. Romantic Comedy
A. Shelley
an
151. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard
B. Browning often this told. This maxim is included in
C. Wordsworth Shakespeare’s
D. Keats A. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
Ch
145. ‘The Lotus Eaters’ was written by B. Shakespeare’s Tempest
A. Tennyson C. Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
B. Browning D. None of these
C. Blake 152. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:
D. None of these A. 1602
n
146. Who wrote ‘The Adventures of Augie

B. 1608
March’?
ya
C. 1610
A. Saul Bellow
D. None of these
B. James Osborn
153. Emile Zola is a famous-
C. Toni Morrison
ra
A. English novelist
D. Jean Paul Sartre
147. ‘Elegy’ is B. American Novelist
A. Historical poem C. Irish novelist
Na
B. figurative story D. French Novelist

C. song of lamentation 154. Which of the following is written by P. B.
Shelly?
D. short story
148. Which was the oldest period in English A. To a skylark
literature? B. The Daffodils
A. Anglo-Norman C. Pride and Prejudice
B. Anglo-Saxon D. Culture and Anarchy
C. Chaucer’s period 155. is the school of literary writings is
D. Middle Age a medical theory.
143. C 144. C 145. A 146. A 147. C 148. B 149. A 150. C 151. A 152. A 153. D
154. A 155. D
A. Comedy of Manners A. 1000 years ago

B. Theater of the Absurd B. 1500 years ago
C. Heroic Tragedy C. 2000 years ago
D. Comedy of Humours D. 3000 years ago
156. Jane Austen is the writer of 163. Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’?
A. Jane Eyre A. William Wordsworth
er
B. Ramona B. P. B Shelley
C. Emma C. Lord Byron
D. Rebecca D. John Keats
gd
157. The University Wits were: 164. The novel ‘Talisman’ is written by-
A. Poets A. Jane Austen
B. Playwrights B. Charles Dickens
an
C. Novelists C. Sir Walter Scott
D. None of these D. Oliver Goldsmith
158. ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was 165. Lord Byron was born in:
stated by
Ch
A. 1788
A. Valtaire
B. 1789
B. Shakespeare
C. 1790
C. Milton
D. 1791
D. Tolstoy 166. ‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:
n
159. Hardy is a:
A. W. H. Auden
A. Pessimist
B. Earnest Jones
ya
B. Meliorist
C. Nicoll
C. Mystic
D. Freud
D. None of these 167. Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale?
ra
160. Eliot was influenced by:

A. Oscar Wilde
A. Ezra Pound
B. Joseph Conrad
B. Shaw
C. Thomas Hardy
Na
C. Hardy
D. Rudyard Kipling
D. none of these 168. Who is called the father of English Po-
161. Who is the first great modernist of English etry?
Literature?
A. Milton
A. Roger Bacon
B. Wordsworth
B. Robert Browning
C. G. Chaucer
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Charles Dickens
D. Cynewulf 169. In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is pre-
162. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about- sented as
156. C 157. B 158. B 159. A 160. A 161. C 162. C 163. A 164. C 165. A 166. A
167. B 168. C 169. D
A. a loving wife 176. ‘The Alchemist’ is written by-

B. a snobbish wife A. Ben Johnson
C. a hypocritical wife B. Samuel Johnson
D. a sacrificing wife C. Marlowe
170. Which of the following would a Romantic D. None of them
Poet be most likely to use? 177. The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is that
A. A "member of the plumy race"
er
B. A "bird" A. all things, both great and small,will per-
ish
C. A "tenant of the sky"
B. man is mortal,art immortal
gd
D. An "airy fairy"
171. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is: C. imagination is stronger than fact
A. A Poem D. history repeats

178. Who propounds "the touchstone method"
B. Drama
an
A. Arnold
C. None of these
B. Shelley
D. A Poem
172. ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written C. Pope
by:
Ch
D. Dryden
A. Blake 179. ‘Renaissance’ means
B. Byron A. the revival of learning
C. Tennyson B. the revival of hard task
D. Walter Scott C. the revival of life
n
173. Which year William Shakespeare was D. the revival of new country
born? 180. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger?
ya
A. 1564 AD A. Arobinda Adigha

B. 1773 AD B. Salman Rushdie
C. 1809 AD C. Arundhoti Roy
ra
D. 1923 AD D. Kiron Dishai

174. Who of the following is a playwright? 181. Who is the author of ‘The Rape of
A. Dickens Bangladesh’?
A. Anthony Mascarenhas
Na
B. Frost
C. W.B. Yeats B. Mathew Arnold
D. G.B. Shaw C. G. B. Shaw

175. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is D. Alexander Dumas
not Destiny but there is Character and Des- 182. Who is considered to be the father of En-
tiny is a remark by: glish novel?
A. Nicoll A. Francis Bacon
B. Goddord B. Geoffery Chaucer
C. Bradley C. King Alfred the Great
D. Coleridge D. Henry Fielding
170. D 171. A 172. D 173. A 174. D 175. C 176. A 177. A 178. A 179. A 180. A
181. A 182. D
183. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by- 190. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:
A. R. K. Narayan A. Ruskin
B. Edin Blyton B. Carlyle
C. Rudyard Kipling C. Mill
D. H. G. Wells D. None of these
184. “Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art 191. What is the term Utopia? xx
not so unkind.”-Example of?
er
A. a hat of a king
A. Simile B. a day dreamer
B. Conceit C. a lotus eater
gd
C. Metaphor D. an ideal state which does not exist in
D. Couplet real
185. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Andrea 192. Henry Higgins is a character in:
Del Sarto’? A. Pygmalion
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth an B. saint joan
C. Candida
D. none of these
Ch
D. Robert Browning 193. William Blake’s /Song’s of ‘ coun-
terbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.
186. Who is the writer of ‘Harold’?
A. Love
B. childhood
B. A. Lord Tennyson
C. Inexperience
n
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Innocence
194. Who is contemporary of William Shake-
ya
187. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by: speare?

A. Wordsworth A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Keats B. Lord Tennyson
ra
C. None of these C. John Milton

D. All of these D. All of them
188. The kind Claudius was killed by: 195. Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
Na
A. Laerteus A. European
B. Hamlet B. Indians
C. Horatio C. American
D. None of these D. None of these
189. ‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by: 196. A poem of fourteen lines is called
A. John Ruskin A. Elege
B. Carlyle B. Sonnet
C. Bacon C. Ode
D. Lamb D. Epic
183. C 184. D 185. D 186. B 187. A 188. B 189. B 190. B 191. D 192. A 193. D
194. A 195. A 196. B 197. B
197. Who is the author of ‘The Rime of the A. symbol

Ancient Mariner’? B. Metaphor
A. William Wordsworth C. Simile
B. S. T. Coleridge D. Metonymy
C. W. Somerset Maugham 204. Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’?
D. Sir Walter Scott A. Edmund Walter
er
198. Who is the father of English Literature? B. Jonathan Swift
A. Roger Bacon C. Alexander Pope
B. Robert Browning D. Dr. Samuel Johnson
gd
C. Geoffrey Chaucer 205. Which of the following is not a tragedy
written by Shakespeare?
D. Cynewulf
A. Macbeth
199. Who accuses Arnold of "high pamphle-
B. Othello
an
teering"
C. Merchant of Venice
A. Eliot
D. None of these
B. Pater
206. Who is the first modern novelist?
Ch
C. I. A. Richards
A. Samuel Richardson
D. F. R. Leavis
B. Samuel Johnson
200. A poem mourning someone’s death is
C. Samuel Beckett
called:
A. Fable
207. What is the name of Wordsworth’s long
n
B. Epic poem?
C. Elegy A. The Canterbury Tales
ya
D. None of these B. Don Juan

201. In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” C. The Prelude
but “character and Destiny”. Whose com-
D. None of these
ment is this?
ra
208. The literary work ‘Kubla khan’ is

A. Bradley
A. a history by Vincent Smith
B. Dr. Johnson
B. a verse by Coleridge
Na
C. Nicoll
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde
D. None of these
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham
202. What is the feature of Romantic poetry? 209. Who wrote poem about Lucy?
A. Imagination A. S. T. Coleridge
B. Modernism B. P. B. Shelley
C. Post-modernism C. William Wordsworth
D. None of the above D. Lord Byron
203. ‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an exam- 210. Who is the author of the book ’Around
ple of the World in Eighty Days’
198. C 199. D 200. C 201. A 202. A 203. C 204. C 205. C 206. A 207. C 208. B
209. C 210. A
A. Jules Verne 217. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii

B. H. G. Wells A. 1998
C. Mark Twain B. 1997
D. Charles Dickens C. 1999
211. What is Quinzaine? D. 2000
A. a fourteen line stanza 218. Intense emotion coupled with an intense
display of imagery are characteristics of
er
B. a twenty line stanza age
C. a thirteen line stanza A. Victorian
D. a fifteen line stanza B. Elizabethan
gd
212. ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the C. Romantic
poet of the poem?
D. None of these
A. Wordsworth 219. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
an
B. Shelley A. Ruskin
C. Shakespeare B. J.S.Mill
D. Keats C. C. Lamb
213. Which on of the following is first long
Ch
D. Russell
poem in English?
220. "In Memoriam" is :
A. The Wanderer
A. an ode
B. Beowulf
B. an elegy
C. The Seafarer C. a sonnet
n
D. Dream of the Road D. neither

214. The Romantic Age began with publication 221. Who is the writer of ‘Comedy of Errors’?
ya
of
A. Ben Jhonson
A. Lyrical Ballads
B. G B Shaw
B. My Last Duchess
ra
C. A Tale of Two Cities

D. T S Eliot
D. Canonization 222. “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by:
215. What is an Effigy? A. Shakespeare
Na
A. a poem B. Lamb
B. a sonnet C. Lawrence
C. an image or dummy D. Mary Anne Evans
D. a lamentation 223. ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by
216. T. Hardy is: A. Shelley
A. A satirist B. Keats
B. A fatalist C. Byron
C. A lover of nature D. Blake
224. What the term Blank Verse refers-
D. None of these
211. D 212. D 213. B 214. A 215. C 216. B 217. C 218. C 219. A 220. B 221. C
222. B 223. B 224. A
A. having no rhyming end 231. ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:

B. having no rhythmic flow A. Hemingway
C. having no significance B. Virginia Woolf
D. having no blanks in the verse C. E.M. Forster
225. Who is the author of the famous book ‘The
Judgment’ is- D. D.H. Lawrence
A. Anthony Mascarenhas 232. What do you mean by Phonetics?
er
B. Amartya Sen A. study of speech sounds
C. Kuldip Nayer B. study of language and rules
gd
D. Nelson Mandela C. study of insects
226. What is ‘Parable’? D. study of meaning and syntax
A. an allegorical story usually containing 233. Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell
a moral lesson Tolls’?
an
B. the basic unit of a composition
A. Charles Dickens
C. a sense of distress
B. Homer
C. Lord Tennison
227. Which one is not by Shakespeare?
Ch
D. Ernest Hemingway
A. Nature teaches beasts to know their
friends. 234. In Poem Daffodils ‘Sprightly Dance’
means-
B. True is it that we have seen betting days.
C. Knowledge is power. A. ugly dance
B. nonsense dance
n
D. None of these.
228. Who is the representative of the metaphys- C. lively dance
ical poets?
ya
D. nice dance
A. Samuel Johnson
235. Find the Odd man out?
B. John Donne
A. Ulysses : James Joyce
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
ra
B. A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats

D. Robert Browning
229. ’Heard Melodies are sweet but those un- C. Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot
heard are sweeter’ is a line from D. Riders to the Sea : John Millington
Na
A. Ode on a Grecian Urn Synge

B. The Prelude 236. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes
character was first appeared
C. Ode to Autumn
D. None of these A. The Hound of the Baskervilles
230. Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’? B. The Sign of the Four
A. John Gay C. The Valley of Fear
B. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle D. A Study in Scarlet
C. Dylan Thomas 237. The prose of the Romantic period had a
D. Somerset Maugham tendency to:
225. C 226. A 227. C 228. B 229. A 230. B 231. D 232. A 233. D 234. C 235. C
236. D 237. A
A. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause 244. “The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous
B. Advance a single system to the public work of:
C. Allow the writer to draw on his A. Jonathan Swift
D. Be brooding and meditative. own per- B. Samuel Johnson

sonality C. Oliver ‘Goldsmith
238. ‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line D. None of these
from Marlowe’s play:
245. In which city the play of Shakespeare
er
A. Dr. Faustus ’Romeo and Juliet’ is set in
B. The Jew of Malta A. Milan
C. Tamburlaine B. Verona
gd
D. Edward II C. Turin
239. What is Robert Frost famous Journal?
D. none of these
A. The summers day 246. Who is the writer of The Restoration Pe-
an
B. The Road not taken riod?
C. The Atlantic Monthly A. Robert Herrick
D. The Mountain Interval B. Jeremy Taylor
Ch
240. Who is the author of “The Origin of C. John Dryden
Species”?
D. Thomas Hobbes
A. Charles Darwin 247. The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’
B. A. Pope occurs in which one of Keats’ following po-
C. T. Hardy ems:
A. Ode to Nightingale
n
D. O. Goldsmith
241. Who is the author of ‘Man and Super- B. Ode to Grecian Urn
man’?
ya
C. Ode to Psyche
A. W. Shakespeare D. None of these
B. George Bernard Shaw 248. The beginning of the renaissance may be
C. Leo Tolstoy traced to the city
ra
D. Charles Dickens A. Venice

242. Adam Bede is a: B. London
C. Paris
Na
A. Play
B. Novel D. Florence
C. Poem 249. The Essays of Elia was first published in
book form in
D. none of these
243. Dickens’ first novel which focused on the A. 1795
specific social ills was: B. 1807
A. the Christmas carol C. 1823
B. Great Expectations D. 1829
C. oliver twist 250. ‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an
example of:
D. a tale of two cities
238. B 239. C 240. A 241. B 242. B 243. B 244. A 245. B 246. C 247. B 248. D
249. C 250. B
A. Oxymoron 257. The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ is

B. Synaesthesia A. on a mountain
C. Sensuousness B. beside a river
D. Contrast C. in a desert
251. “A long poem is a combination of short D. in a valley
poems.” Who has held the above opinion? 258. A poem which consists of fourteen line is
A. Coleridge called:
er
B. Keats A. A Sonnet
B. An Ode
C. Wordsworth
gd
C. A ballad
D. None of these
D. None of these
252. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous
work 259. ‘Exiles’ is a-
A. The Rape of Lock A. Short Story
B. The Deserted Village

C. Spectator
D. Man was made to mourn an B. Novel
C. Play
D. Poem
Ch
260. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms
253. Who is the writer of ‘Vision of Sin’?
are:
A. George Bernard Shaw A. Friendship and benevolence
B. William Shakespeare B. Bitterness and revenge
C. A. Lord Tennyson C. Hatred and jealousy
n
D. Christopher Marlowe D. None of these

254. Who is an American author? 261. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an:
ya
A. R.W. Emerson A. assistant

B. H.D. Thoreau B. director
C. Henry W. Longfellow C. writer
ra
D. All 4 D. Editor e none of these

255. Macbeth is a 262. James Joyce’s narrative technique is
known as-
A. play
Na
A. stream of consciousness
B. novel
B. psycho-analysis
C. an essy
C. Objective Co-relative
D. poem
D. Symbolism and Mysticism
256. ‘Written in March’ is a poem composed
263. Who is the writer of The Restoration Pe-
by
riod?
A. William Wordsworth A. Aphra Ben
B. William Congreve B. Robert Herrick
C. William Blake C. Jeremy Taylor
D. William Shakespeare D. Thomas Hobbes
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
264. Who have written the book ’The Godfa- A. Dr. Johnson
ther’
B. Shakespeare
A. Mario Puzo C. Dryden
B. Francis Ford Coppola D. Coleridge
C. Marlon Brando 271. Hardy’s Nature is:
D. Mark Winegardner A. Friendly
er
265. George Bernard Shaw is B. Indifferent
A. a playwright C. Vindictive
B. a film-maker D. None of these
gd
272. Who is the writer of The Caroline Period?
C. a historian
A. Robert Herrick
D. a modern painter
B. Caedmon
266. Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s
an
‘Pride and Prejudice’: C. Dante
D. Cynewulf
A. Mr. Bennett
273. What do you mean by Hyperbole?
B. Mr. Bingley
Ch
A. a long verse
C. Miss Elizabeth
B. a long narrative poem
D. None of these
C. an overriding view
267. ‘Satanic Verses’ is written by-
D. an overstatement about something
A. R.K. Narayan 274. Yeats was
n
B. Salman Rushdie A. Victorian poet

C. Jhumpa Lahiri B. a modern poet
ya
D. Arundhuti Roy C. Both

268. The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by D. None of these
Shakespeare is 275. Hellenism of Keats connotes:
ra
A. A novel A. his love of poetry

B. a short story B. his love of ancient cultures
C. a poem C. his love of Greek culture and art
Na
D. a drama D. None of these

276. Which poet emphasized on rustic lan-
269. ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:
guage in Poetry?
A. Bradley
A. John Keats
B. Dover Wilson B. William Wordsworth
C. Earnest Jones C. William Blake
D. Freud D. Thomas Gray
270. defines a play as a just and lively 277. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly
image of human nature. like by Queen Victoria?
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
A. The Idylls of the kings A. the best poet of the country

B. Charge of the Light Brigade B. a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry
C. In Memoriam C. the Court Port England
D. None of these D. a classical poet
278. The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ is- 285. “To be, or not to be, that is the question”-
A. a history by Vincent Smith Where do you find this quotation?
er
B. a verse by Coleridge A. Macbeth
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde B. Hamlet
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham C. As You like It
gd
279. Hyperion is a/an poem D. Othello
A. Elegy 286. Utopia is an ideal state written by-
B. Epic A. Thomas Gray
an
C. Lyric B. William Shakespeare
D. None of these C. George Bernard Shaw
280. has a super abundant wealth of D. Thomas More
words and superfluous ornaments
Ch
287. “not of an age, but for all time”-was told
A. Hyperbole about Shakespeare by whom?
B. Metaphor A. Marlowe
C. Rhetoric B. Ben Johnson
D. None of these C. King Henry
n
281. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the

D. John Milton
line is taken from
288. What is a plot?
ya
A. Merchant of Venice
A. an idea about writing
B. Two gentleman of Verona
B. the choice of words
C. Midsummer’s Night Dream
C. choice of poem
ra
D. Anthony and Cleopatra

282. The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by D. arrangement of the incidents
A. Alfred Tennyson 289. Who is called the Bird of Avon?

Na
B. Robert Browning A. John Dryden
C. Mathew Arnold B. William Shakespeare
D. John Donne C. John Milton

283. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by: 290. What is anthology?
A. Wordsworth A. collection of poems

B. Coleridge B. collection of insects
C. Shelley C. fish cultivation
D. None of these D. study of poetry
284. The ‘Poet Laureate’ is 291. What the term Renaissance refers?
279. B 280. A 281. A 282. B 283. C 284. C 285. B 286. D 287. B 288. D 289. B
290. A 291. A
A. revival or rebirth 298. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans?
B. representation A. Jane Austen
C. presentation B. Charlotte Bronte
D. rebel C. George Eliot
292. Jane Austen’s other writings are: D. Joseph Conrad
A. Sense and Sensibility 299. A person who writes about his own life
writes –
er
B. Emma
A. a diary
C. Persuasion
B. a biography
D. All of these
gd
C. an autobiography
293. The earliest play written by Shakespeare
according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is: D. a chronicle
300. Who wrote the fantasy novel ’The Lord of
A. The Taming of the Shrew
the Rings’
an
B. As you Like it
A. J. R. R. Tolkien
C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
B. Peter Jackson
D. Titus Andronicus
C. C. S. Lewis
294. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained
Ch
D. J. K. Rowling
A. Christ 301. What is Epistolary Novel?
B. Satan A. a novel of short length
C. The Paritan Church B. a novel personal feelings
D. None of these C. a Novella
n
295. Wordsworth is a poet. D. a novel of correspondence among the

A. classical characters
ya
B. modern 302. The Professor was the first novel by:
C. romantic A. Emily Bronte
D. Greek B. Charlotte Bronte

ra
296. Who said ‘Cowards die many times before C. Anne Bronte
their death’? D. Jane Austen
A. Shakespeare 303. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:
Na
B. Franklin A. Coleridge
C. Carlyle B. Blake
D. Alexander Pope C. Shelley
297. Which one of the following poets was ap- D. None of these
pointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813? 304. Who wrote ‘Kubla Khan’?
A. Tennyson A. Coleridge
B. Byron B. Shelley
C. Southey C. Wordsworth
D. Wordsworth D. Keats
292. D 293. D 294. A 295. C 296. A 297. C 298. C 299. C 300. A 301. D 302. B
303. D 304. A 305. A
305. Famous Irish poet and dramatist is- 312. What do you mean by Beast Fable?
A. W.B. Yeats A. a fictional story of animal characters
B. L. Tolstoy B. a short story
C. A. Pope C. a long narrative prose
D. H.G. Wells D. a soft style epic
306. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written 313. What do you mean by Diction?
by:
er
A. choice of words for writing
A. Shakespeare
B. choice of characters
B. Marlowe
C. choice of rhythms
gd
C. Oscar Wilde
D. choice of simile and metaphor
D. T.S. Eliot
307. Who is the writer of The Augustan Pe- 314. Romanticism is mainly connected with-
riod? A. excitement and sensation
an
A. Robert Herrick B. love and beauty
B. Jeremy Taylor C. job and tiredness
C. Samuel Richardson D. expectation and depression
Ch
D. Thomas Hobbes 315. Which one is the world’s longest-running
308. The Poet Laureate is- play
A. the best poet of the country A. The Mousetrap
B. a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry B. Romeo and Juliet
C. the court poet of England C. Othello
n
D. a classical poet D. Macbeth

309. How many chapters are in the Qur’an 316. ‘Essays of Elia’ was written by-
ya
A. 42 A. William Hazlitt
B. 67 B. Emily Dickinson
C. 98 C. Emily Bronte
ra
D. 114 D. Charles Lamb

310. Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth, truth
317. Negative Capability to Keats, means
beauty’?
A. The ability to sympathize with other
Na
A. Shakespeare
B. wordsworth B. Say bad thing, about others
C. John Keats C. To empathize
D. Eliot D. None of these

311. The age tended to favour the taste 318. In which of the following Genres did Victo-
and search for truth in art: rian Literature achieve its greatest success:
A. Classical A. Epic Poetry
B. Romantic B. Lyric Poetry
C. Victorian C. The Essay
D. Elizabethan D. The Novel
306. D 307. C 308. C 309. D 310. C 311. B 312. A 313. A 314. A 315. A 316. D
317. C 318. D 319. D
319. Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’? 326. Maggie is the central character in George
A. Lord Tennyson Eliot’s:
B. William Wordsworth A. Adam Bede
C. John Keats B. Middle March

D. Lord Byron C. The Mill on the Floss
320. ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow D. Silas Morner
of powerful feelings’ who made this state-
er
ment? 327. On liberty was written by:
A. Shelly A. Carlyle
B. De Quincey B. Macaulay
gd
C. Wordsworth C. Godwin
D. None of these D. Mill
321. Novel which is not written by D. H 328. "For art’s sake alone I would not face the
an
Lawrence. toil of writing a single sentence". Who said
A. The Rainbow it
B. Ullysses A. T. S. Eliot
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover B. G. B. Shaw
Ch
D. Sons and Lovers C. Thomas Hardy
322. Who served as an Irish senator for two
terms? A Wilde D. Virginia Woolf
A. Shaw 329. ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects

a strain in Choleridge’s poetry.
B. Ibsen
n
A. Intellectual
C. Yeats
B. magical
D. none of these
ya
323. Tennyson was: C. melancholic

A. a romantic D. pessimistic
B. a Victorian 330. “David Copperfield” was written by:
ra
C. a Pre Raphaelite A. Hardy

D. none of these B. Dickens
324. What do you mean by Burlesque?
Na
C. Thackeray
A. a satiric caricature of the characters
D. None of these
B. a drama
331. Paradise Lost is-
C. a satiric person
A. an epic 1
D. an allegorical statement
325. Tennyson wrote- B. a satirical work
A. Dover Beach C. a tragedy

B. My last Duchess D. a ballad
C. The Eve of St. Agnes 332. Which of the following is a ‘comedy’ writ-
ten by Shakespeare?
D. The Lotus Eaters
320. C 321. B 322. C 323. B 324. A 325. D 326. C 327. D 328. B 329. A 330. B
331. A 332. A
A. As You Like It 339. Who is the writer of The Elizabethan Pe-

riod?
B. King Lear
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
C. Macbeth
B. Caedmon
D. Hamlet
C. Dante
333. Keats was born in
D. Cynewulf
A. 1770
340. Who is the author of ‘The Jungle Book’?
er
B. 1795
A. Hans Christain Anderson
C. 1790
B. Enid Blyton
D. None of these
gd
C. Rudyard Kipling
334. Who is the greatest modern English
D. H. G. Wells
dramatist?
341. The correct date of French Revolution:
A. Verginia Woolf
A. 1793
an
B. George Bernard Shaw
B. 1802
C. P. B. Shelly
C. 1789
D. S. T. Coleridge
D. None of these
Ch
335. The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Ten- 342. Representative Poet of Victorian Age-
nyson) commemorates:
A. Charles Dickens
A. The Boer War
B. Robert Browning
B. The battle of Trafalgar
C. Alfred Tennyson
C. The Crimean War
D. None of them
n
D. None of these 343. ‘Animal Farm’ is written by?

336. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of
ya
A. William Golding
A. Mind B. George Orwell
B. Soul C. Virginia Woolf
C. Body D. Joseph Conrad
ra
D. None of these 344. Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For
337. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by: Arts’ Sake:
A. Wordsworth
Na
A. Wordsworth
B. Browning
B. Coleridge
C. Oscar Wilde
C. Shelley
D. None of these
D. None of these
345. The first theatre in England was estab-
338. Who was a blind poet lished in-
A. Homer A. 1556
B. Ben Jonson B. 1566
C. Thomas Hardy C. 1576
D. Pablo Neruda D. 1586
333. B 334. B 335. C 336. B 337. C 338. A 339. A 340. C 341. C 342. C 343. B
344. D 345. C 346. C
346. The sea battle of actium takes place in the 353. The period from 1649-1660 is known as-
play A. Commonwealth period
A. Measure for Measure B. Jacobean period
B. Othello C. Caroline period
C. Antony and Cleopatra D. Restoration period
D. Macbeth 354. “Mortality is a private and costly luxury”
347. Shakespeare was died? is said by-
er
A. 1592 A. Cowper
B. 1616 B. Henry Adams
C. John Milton
gd
C. 1638
D. 1632 D. Blake
348. The Crown of Wild Olive is written by: 355. For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a
paramount bias of his genius”:
A. Charles Lamb
an
A. Blake
B. Carlyle
B. Keats
C. Ruskin
C. Tennyson
D. None of these
Ch
D. Shelley
349. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was
356. Keats is prominently a man of:
written by:
A. Emotions
A. Byron
B. Sensations
B. Wordsworth
C. Imagination
C. Oscar Wilde
n
D. Aestheticism
D. None of these
357. With which theatre in London Shake-
350. Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
ya
speare was associated with

A. Horatio
A. The Globe
B. Iago B. London Coliseum
C. Claudius C. West End Theatre
ra
D. None of these D. Royal Court Theatre

351. Who is the most satirist in English Litera- 358. “Fire and Ice” is written by:
ture?
A. Eliot
Na
A. Alexander Pope
B. Yeats
B. Jonathon swift
C. Frost
C. Dryden
D. Auden
D. Spenser 359. Who is known for his theory of psycho-
352. Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’? analysis?
A. Lord Tennyson A. Sigmund Freud
B. William Wordsworth B. James Joyce
C. Lord Byron C. Arthur Miller
D. G. M. Hopkins D. James Osborn
347. B 348. C 349. C 350. C 351. B 352. C 353. A 354. B 355. B 356. B 357. A
358. C 359. A
360. ‘O Lady! We receive but what we give’- A. Charles Lamb

has been quoted from
B. Virginia Woolf
A. Kubla khan C. Emily Bronte
B. Don Juan D. Jane Austen
C. Tithonus 367. The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred
D. Dejection: An Ode Prufrock’ is composed by?
A. Dylan Thomas
er
361. consists of nine eight five foot
iambic lines followed by an iambic line of B. T.S. Eliot
six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:
C. W. B. Yeats
gd
A. Octometer
D. Ezra Pound
B. Sonnet 368. Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation
C. Terza Rina of an action”?
A. Shakespeare
an
D. Spenserian Stanza
362. P. B. Shelly wrote his elegy named ‘Adon- B. Dryden
ais’ mourning over whose death. C. Aristotle
A. Wordsworth D. None of these
Ch
B. Jane Austen 369. “A passage to India” is written by:
C. John Keats A. Forster
D. Walter Scott B. Conrad

363. Who is called the ‘Poet of Beauty’? C. Lawrence
n
A. William Wordsworth D. Hardy

370. Who is well known for his translation of
B. P. B Shelley
ya
‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English?

C. John Keats
A. Rose Macaulay
D. Lord Byron
B. Edward Fitzgerald
364. Who wrote ‘Ode to a Nightingale’?
C. George Bernard Shaw
ra
A. Pope
D. D.H. Lawrence
B. Shelley 371. “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
Na
C. Wordsworth A. Frost
D. John Keats B. Yeats
365. Find the Odd one. C. Eliot
A. G. B. Shaw : Man and Superman D. None of these
B. Rudyard Kipling : Kim 372. What do you mean by Lampoon?
C. H. G. Wells : The Time Machine A. An exaggerated statement
D. Toni Morrison : A Portrait of the Artist B. A short significant poem

as a Young Man C. The poet who writes sonnet
366. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is written by? D. To mock some powerful person
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 373. A
373. Who became the poet Laureate of Eng- A. Oscar Wilds

land and Ireland during the reign of Queen B. Alfred Tennyson
Victoria?
C. Alexander Pope
A. Tennyson b Browning
D. Voltaire
B. Hardy 380. Oedipus is written by the dramatist-
C. Lawrence A. Aristophanes
D. none of these B. Homer
er
374. “We die As hours do, and dry Away Like C. Ovid
to the summer’s rain;” is stated by-
D. Sophocles
A. John keats
gd
381. What type of book ‘The Woman’ is-
B. Wordsworth A. Drama
C. Shelley B. Novel
D. Milton C. Story
375. Who is the composer of the ‘Lycidas’?
A. Thomas Gray
B. Alfred Tennyson an D. Essay
382. ‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:
A. Arnold
Ch
B. Philip Sidney
C. John Milton
C. Pope
D. John Keats
D. Dryden
376. The Prelude was written in”
383. Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tul-
A. 1810 liver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:
n
B. 1840 A. Silas Manner

C. 1805 B. Adam Bede
ya
D. None of these C. Middle March

377. Who of the following was both a poet and D. The Mill on the Floss
painter? 384. In ’ I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud’
Wordsworth compares the daffodils with
ra
A. Wordsworth
A. the stars of the milky way
B. Coleridge
B. the waves
C. Blake
Na
C. the trees
D. Keats
D. the mil
378. ‘The Faerie Queene’ is an
385. In the poem ‘To Daffodils’ the poet weeps
A. Elegy over
B. Epic A. loss of beautiful flower
C. Sonnet B. loss caused to environment
D. Poem C. loss of sweet scant
379. ‘A little learning is a dangerous thing’ is D. Short-lived human life
a quotation from An Essay on Criticism by 386. Who is the writer of The Augustan Pe-
riod?
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
A. Thomas Hobbes A. Leconte de Lisle

B. Alexander Pope B. Sully Prudhomme
C. Robert Herrick C. Alphonse Lemerre
D. Jeremy Taylor D. Anatole France
387. Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a 393. Prologue refers-
vividness of phrasing which sometimes A. conclusion of writing
reaches the point of abstraction:
B. end of the writing
er
A. True
C. preface to writing
B. False
D. praise song of a person
C. both A and B
gd
394. Shakespeare was famous for all but one of
D. none of these the following
388. Besides the French Revolution the effect A. Comedies
on Romantic Revolution: B. Tragedies
an
A. American Revolution C. Bourgeois Drama
B. Napoleonic wars D. Tragi-Drama
C. Industrial Revolution 395. When did Frost died?
Ch
D. The defeat of the Spanish armada. A. 1962
389. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of power- B. 1963
ful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions C. 1961
recollected in tranquility. Who has given
the description of the poetry? D. 1960
396. A figure of speech which contains an ex-
A. Aristotle
n
aggeration for emphasis is called:

B. Plato A. Over tone
ya
C. Wordsworth B. Rhetoric
D. None of these C. Extended metaphor
390. One of the following authors, one is D. Hyperbole
French. Who is he?
397. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford Uni-
ra
A. W. Somerset Maugham versity on the charge of being a(n):

B. Sir Arther Doyle A. anarchist
C. Edward Fitzerald B. Atheist
Na
D. Alexander Dumas C. commonist

391. Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate D. nazi
in: 398. Which word seems out of place?
A. 1843 A. rose
B. 1847 B. lily
C. 1850 C. cauliflower
D. 1857 D. daffodil
392. Who is the first person to receive nobel 399. Who is the author of the drama,’You never
prize in literature can tell’?
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
A. W.Shakespeare 406. Who is the writer of the poem ‘The Pa-

B. George Bernard Shaw triot’?
C. Christopher Marlowe A. Robert Browning
D. Ben Jonson B. Shaw

400. Which one is the world’s longest novel C. Jonsen
A. A Suitable Boy D. Ibsen
er
B. L’Astrée 407. A Machiavellian character is a-
C. Remembrance of Things Past A. honest person
D. War and Peace B. wise person
gd
401. ’ Fair seed time had my soul’ is from C. romantic person
A. Ode to autumn D. cunning person
B. To a Highland girl 408. ‘How can we know the dancer from the
an
C. Ancient Mariner dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken
from:
D. None of these
402. is the animating force in the work A. Sailing to Byzantium
of C. Bronte B. Among School Children
Ch
A. Idealism C. The Second Coming
B. Romanticism D. None of these
C. Lyricism 409. ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written
D. None of these by:
403. What do you mean by Panegyric or Eu- A. Oscar Wilde
n
logy? viii B. Browning

A. a writing of praising distinguished per-
ya
C. Blake
sons
D. None of these
B. a kind of satire
410. Who is the author of ‘The Old Man and
C. A short lyric poem the Sea’?
ra
D. a poem of praising Gods

A. H. Melvile
404. Who is considered to be the father of En-
glish prose? B. George Orwell
Na
A. Francis Bacon C. Charles Dickens
B. Kind Alfred the Great D. E. Hemingway
C. Henry 411. ‘They in never-ending ’
D. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Started, show

405. A dominant theme in Hardy’s novels is: B. shone, laughter
A. naturalism C. grow, row
B. romanticism D. stretched, line
C. fatalism 412. Byron’s first published collection was
called:
D. classicism
400. C 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
A. Years of Idleness A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Hours of Idleness B. W. B. Yeats
C. Moments of Idleness C. T.S. Eliot
D. Eons of Idleness D. None of the above
413. What do you mean Ode? 420. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Time, You
Old Gipsy Man’?
A. a lyric poem
A. Ralph Hodgson
er
B. a short poem
B. Laurence Binya
C. a ballad
C. W. B. Yeats
D. a sonnet
gd
414. Who is the writer of Galliver’s Travels? D. Robert Frost
421. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is written by-
A. John Milton
A. Joseph Conrad
B. Jonathan Swift
B. James Joyce
an
C. Charles Dickens
C. E.M. Forster
D. Jane Austin
415. Browning was the composer of- D. G.B. Shaw
422. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Goddot’ is
Ch
A. Two Voices
a-
B. The Scholar Gypsy
A. Morality play
C. Andrea Del Sarto
B. Problem play
D. Adonais
C. Miracle play
416. The first English Dictionary was compiled
D. Absurd play
n
by-
423. What do you mean by Stream of Con-
A. Isaac Walton sciousness?
ya
B. Samuel Johnson A. sense of beauty

C. Samuel Butler B. sense of good and bad
D. Sir Thomas Browne C. amalgamation of present, past and fu-
ra
417. What the term Short Story stands for? ture

A. a long prose fiction D. aestheticism
B. a story of figurative language 424. A famous essayist in Renaissance is-
Na
C. a story of many characters A. Charles Lamb

D. a short prose fiction B. Tomas Moore
418. ‘Paradise Regained’ is an epic written by C. Thomas Carlyle
D. John Wycliffe
A. Homer 425. Who is the writer of ‘The Patriot’?
B. Tagore A. Sir Walter Scott
C. Dante B. Robert Browning
D. John Milton C. Robert Herrik
419. Who is the modern English dramatist?
D. Robert Rrost
414. B 415. C 416. B 417. D 419. A 420. A 421. D 422. D 423. C 424. D 425. B
426. D
426. Who is the author of “A Farewell to 433. ‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:
Arms”?
A. Bradely
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Dryden
B. John Milton
C. Dr. Johnson
C. Plato
D. None of these
D. Ernest Hemingway
434. ‘Ophelia’ is an important character in the
427. ‘A Passage to India’ is written by-
er
Shakespearean play?
A. E.M. Forster
A. Macbeth
B. Sadat Hasan Mintu
B. The Tempest
gd
C. Gallsworth
C. Hamlet
D. Rudyard Kipling
428. “Lyrical ballads” were published by: D. King Lear
A. Coleridge 435. Romeo and Juliet is a written by
an
William Shakespeare early in his career
B. Wordsworth
A. Comedy
C. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
B. Tragedy
D. None of these
Ch
429. Who is the major male character in Jane C. Romance
Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’: D. Morality play
A. Mr. Darcy 436. Midnight Children is written by-
B. Mr. Bennett A. Arundhoti Roy
C. Mr. Collius B. Anita Deshai
n
D. None of these
C. R.K. Narayan
430. ‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:
ya
D. Salman Rusdhi
A. Carlyle
437. ‘The Brief History of Time’ is written by-
B. Lamb
A. Stephen Hawking
C. Hunt
ra
B. Marx Plank
D. Ruskin
431. W. B. Yeats was born in C. Yan Martel
A. 1856 D. Chinu Achebe

Na
B. 1865 438. "Honest criticism and sensitive appreci-

ation and directed not upon the poet but
C. 1838
upon the poetry" Who said this
D. None of these
A. R.S. Crane
432. Riders to the Sea is written by an Irish
dramatist- B. I.A. Richards
A. G. B. Shaw C. M. Arnold
B. W.B Yeats D. T.S. Eliot
C. J.M Synge 439. “Brevity is the soul of wit” the quotation
is from-
D. Oliver Goldsmith
427. A 428. C 429. A 430. B 431. B 432. C 433. C 434. C 435. B 436. D 437. A
438. D 439. B
A. Macbeth 446. “Idylls of the King” is illustration of Ten-

nyson’s deep interest in:
B. Hamlet
A. Medieval legends
C. The Tempest
B. The role of the king
D. Julius Caesar
C. Hero worship
440. “Art for arts sake” found its true adherent
in: D. The contemporary condition
A. Wordsworth 447. Who is the author of the book ’Long walk
er
to Freedom’
B. Byron
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
C. Browning
B. Nelson Mandela
gd
D. Wilde
C. Mahatma Gandhi
441. ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ is written by-
D. Mario Puzo
A. Shakespeare 448. ‘The Way of the World’ is written by?
an
B. Chaucer A. William Shakespeare
C. Marlowe B. Christopher Marlowe
D. Congreve C. Ben Johnson
442. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”-quoted from?
Ch
D. William Congreve
A. Macbeth 449. Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?
B. As you like It A. Swift’s
C. Tempest B. Sir Thomas More’s
D. Othello C. Wordsworth’s
n
443. ‘Young leading the young is like blind lead- D. None of these
ing the blind’ who has said these words: 450. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Troilus
and Criseyde’?
ya
A. Carlyle
A. Cynewulf
B. Bacon
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Mantaine
C. Robert Browning
ra
D. None of these
D. Shelley
444. Who is the author of the book ‘The Sense
451. Who is the writer of The Augustan Pe-
of an Ending’?
riod?
Na
A. Julian Barnes
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Henry Fielding B. Robert Herrick
C. Rudyard Kipling C. Jeremy Taylor
D. Tomas Transtromer D. Thomas Hobbes
445. What is a Fantasy? 452. Who used to write problem plays-
A. An imaginary story A. Bertrand Russell
B. a funny animation film B. W. B. Yeats
C. a history record C. G. B. Shaw
D. a real life event D. James Joyce
440. D 441. B 442. A 443. D 444. A 445. A 446. B 447. B 448. D 449. A 450. B
451. A 452. C 453. A
453. Sidney’s Defence of Poesie was written in A. John Keats

response to
B. John Milton
A. The School of Abuse C. William Shakespeare
B. Tottle’s Miscellany D. Lord Tennyson
C. Art of English Poesie 460. Who is the writer of The Commonwealth
Period?
D. The Courtyer
A. Caedmon
er
454. “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled
with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the black- B. Dante
est devil! Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by: C. Cynewulf
gd
A. Hamlet D. Thomas Hobbes
B. Laertes 461. Jane Austen was a/an?
C. Polonius A. Poet
an
D. Claudius B. Dramatist
455. Who is the author of the famous novel C. Novelist
’War and Peace’ D. Essayist
A. Anton Chekhov 462. What do you mean by Epitaph?
Ch
B. Nikolai Gogol A. Inscription on tomb or monument
C. Leo Tolstoy B. a sonnet of hero
D. Karl Marx C. a ballad of folk hero
456. ‘A Voyage of Lilliput’ is written by D. a poem of lamentation

n
463. Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare

A. R. L Stevenson
in:
ya
B. Thomas Hardy
A. The Winter’s Tale
C. Jonathan Swift B. Taming of the Shrew
D. William Wordsworth C. Tempest
ra
457. Which period of 1798-1832 is D. None of these

A. The Renaissance Period 464. What is the meaning of the word Dirge?
B. The Elizabethan age A. a kind of sonnet sequence
Na
C. The Restoration B. a song expressing patriotism
D. The Romantic Age C. a long verse about adventure
458. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called D. a song expressing grief, lamentation
and mourning
A. Octave
465. Virginia Wolf : To the Light House ::
B. Sestet
A. James Joyce : Flush
C. Refrain B. T. S. Eliot : Road to Freedom
D. None of these C. Bertrand Russel : Ash Wednesday
459. Who is the English ‘Epic’ Poet? D. William Golding: Lord of the Flies
454. B 455. C 456. C 457. D 458. A 459. B 460. D 461. C 462. A 463. A 464. D
465. D 466. C
466. Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”? 473. Ernest Hemingway wrote:
A. Duncan A. Mr. Chips
B. Bonquo B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Macduff C. Old Man and the Sea
467. “Our sweetest songs are those of the tale 474. Allusion refers the following-
of ”
er
A. a reference of past person or thing
A. patriotic feeling
B. false
B. heroic tales
C. doubtful speech
gd
C. saddest thought
D. historical documents
D. romantic love
475. In Don Juan Byron used:
468. What is the meaning of the word ‘Dirge’?
A. blank verse
A. a kind of sonnet sequence
an
B. a song expressing patrotic sentiment B. Ottava Rima
C. a long verse telling about an adventure C. refrain
D. a song expressing grief, lamentation D. terza rima

Ch
and mourning 476. ‘Don Juan’ is a/an?
469. The Essay of Elia was written by: A. Poem
A. Tennyson B. epic
B. Byron C. Ode
C. Keats D. novel
n
D. None of these 477. The poets who believe that a hard, clear
470. ‘Supernaturalism’ was an important fea- image was essential to verse are called:
ya
ture of the poetry of:

A. Imaginists
A. Wordsworth
B. Romanticists
B. Byron
C. Classicists
C. Coleridge
ra
D. Imagists
D. None of these
478. ‘Macbeth’ is
471. ‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:
A. a play
Na
A. Walter Scott
B. a novel
B. Byron
C. an essay
C. Coleridge
D. a poem
D. Thomas De Quincey
472. Who was the eminent writer of the 479. Which of following is written by Shake-
Restoration? speare?
A. John Milton A. Dr. Faustus
B. John Dryden B. Pilgrim’s Progress
C. William Congreve C. The preface to Fable

D. All of them D. Twelfth Night
467. C 468. D 469. D 470. C 471. C 472. D 473. C 474. A 475. B 476. B 477. D
478. A 479. D 480. A
480. What the term Allegory refers? A. a poet of nature

A. a kind short story B. a poet of love
B. a long narrative poem C. a poet of human nature

D. a poet of liberty
C. a figurative story
487. William Wordsworth wrote
D. a comic play
A. The Rape of the Lock
481. The poem ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
er
written by-
C. The Lucy Poems
D. Absalom and Achitophel
gd
488. Earnest Hamingway has written
C. Robert Browning A. Old Man and the Sea
D. Ralph Hodgson B. Mr. Chips
482. What is the Masterpiece of T.S. Eliot? C. Pride and Prejudice
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. Prelude
C. The Waste Land
an D. None of these
489. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
A. Shelley
Ch
B. Browning
D. Tradition and Ind. Talent
C. Tennyson
483. Who wrote ‘Patriotism’?
D. None of these
A. William Shakespeare 490. What was the first novel of Virginia
B. William Wordsworth Woolf?
n
C. Sir Walter Scott A. The Waves

B. To the Light House
ya
D. Robert Browning
C. Jacob’s Room
484. London town is found a living being in
the work of D. The Voyage out
491. “Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
A. Thomas Hardy
ra
In one self-place; for where we are is hell,

B. Charles Dickens And where hell is, there must we ever be.”-
this famous quotation is cited from?
C. W. Congreve
A. Dr. Faustus
Na
D. D. H. Lawrence
B. Paradise Lost
485. The first English novel, Pamela, has been
written by- C. Tempest
D. Macbeth
A. Daniel Defoe
492. Which one is a femal fictional detective
B. Henry Fielding character of Agatha Christie’s novel
C. Sir Walter Scott A. Anna Karenina
D. Samuel Richardson B. Jane Eyre
486. William Wordsworth is pre-eminently C. Miss Marple
D. Daisy Miller
481. B 482. C 483. C 484. B 485. D 486. A 487. C 488. A 489. B 490. D 491. A
492. C 493. B
493. Man Booker Prize is given only to novels 500. Which character of Shakespeare has "the
published from courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye, tongue
A. USA and sword"
B. UK A. King Lear
C. India B. Othello
D. France C. Hamlet
494. Who among the following is a revolution-
D. Macbeth
er
ary poet?
501. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work-
A. John Keats
B. P.B. Shelly A. Spectator
gd
C. S.T. Coleridge B. The Rape of the Lock
D. William Wordsworth C. The Deserted Village
495. Moby Dick is a- D. Man Was Made to Mourn
an
A. Novel 502. The Solitary Reaper is a
B. Play
A. heroic poem
C. Theory
B. romantic poem
Ch
D. Short story
C. classical poem
496. ‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But
to be young was very heaven.’ Who has D. patriotic poem
written these lines?
503. Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is a /an-
A. Shelley
A. elegy
B. Browning
n
B. sonnet
C. Wordsworth
C. ballad
D. None of these
ya
497. ‘East Coker’ is written by: D. lyric

A. Browning 504. Who is the famous mock-heroic poet in
B. Wordsworth English literature?
ra
C. T. S. Eliot A. Lord Byron

D. None of these B. John Milton
498. What is a ballad? C. Alexander Pope
Na
A. a folk song
D. Lord Tennyson
B. a song of hymn
505. Hemingway was a great fan of:
C. a song of lamentation
A. Cricket
D. a lyric song
499. Wordsworth lived from B. Baseball c softball
A. 1775 – 1859 C. football
B. 1770 – 1850 D. none of these

C. 1770 – 1802 506. Who is the author of the book "Zest for
Life"
D. None of these
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. Gustave Flaubert 513. ‘Paradise Regained’ is an epic by

B. Leo Tolstoy A. John Keats
C. Voltaire B. P. B. Shelly
D. Emile Zola C. John Milton
507. Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’? D. William Blake
A. Cordelia 514. Prosody signifies the systematic study of-
er
B. Portia A. drama
C. Ophelia
B. novel
D. None of these
gd
C. short story
508. Who wrote ‘The preface for Tagore’s Gi-
tanjali’? D. versification
A. T.S. Eliot 515. How many lines does a Shakespearean

sonnet have
an
B. W.B. Yeats
A. 8
C. Byron
B. 10
D. Keats
C. 13
509. What is Anatomy?
Ch
D. 14
A. study of limbs of body
516. Who is the first femal winner of the Nobel
B. study of insects
Prize in Literature
C. study of homo sapience
A. Selma Lagerlöf
D. study of plants
B. Pearl S. Buck
n
510. Who is the writer of ‘The Falcon’?

C. Grazia Deledda
ya
D. Gabriela Mistral
B. A. Lord Tennyson
517. Who is the author of the book ‘A Brief
C. Christopher Marlowe History of Time’?
A. Albert Einsten
ra
511. Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play

“Hamlet”? B. G.B Shaw
A. Cordella C. Neuton
Na
B. Desdemona D. Stephen Hawking
C. Portia 518. Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s

novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
D. Ophelia
A. Mr. Darcy
512. ‘Death of A Salesman’ is a Tragedy writ-
ten by- B. Miss Elizabeth
A. Edward Albee C. Miss Jane
B. Saul Bellow D. None of these
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne 519. Of all his predecessors, the following ex-
erted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.
D. Arthur Miller
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
A. Lyly and Marlowe A. English

B. Robert Greene and Thomas Nash B. Latin
C. George Peele and Thomas Lodge C. Greek
520. ‘Hamlet’ by Shakespeare is- 527. Shakespeare wrote
A. a comedy A. Tragedies
er
B. a tragic comedy B. Comedies
C. an epic C. Poems
D. a tragedy D. All of above
gd
521. Who is a modern author? 528. Lyrical Ballads opens with;
A. C. Marlow
A. Tintern Abbey
B. Charles Dickens
B. Michael
an
C. Chaucer
C. Dejection: an Ode
D. Joseph Conrad
D. Rime of Ancient Mariner
522. Who was English poet addicted to opium?
529. All is well that ends well is a:
A. S. T. Coleridge
Ch
A. Comedy
B. W. Somerset Maugham
B. Tragedy
C. Sir Walter Scott
C. Historical Play
D. None of these
523. Who is the writer of The Old English Pe-
riod? 530. The sentence, “Death, thou shalt not die.”
n
is an example of
A. Cynewulf
A. simile
ya
B. metaphor
C. irony
D. Lord Tennyson
524. Jonne Donne is famous for his- D. paradox
ra
A. Sonnet 531. The Daffodils in Wordsworth’s I wandered

Lonely as a Cloud dancing because
B. ballad
A. The poet was day dreaming
Na
C. novel
B. The flowers had cheerful company
D. metaphysical poem
C. The sea waves beside them had gone
525. Calliban is a Character in
wild
A. King Lear
D. There was a strong wind
B. Tempest
532. ‘Essay on Criticism’ is written by-
C. Min and Superman
A. Alexander Pope
D. Othello
B. T.S. Eliot
526. In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of
Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural C. Jonathan Swift
lecture in: D. H. Fielding
520. D 521. D 522. A 523. A 524. D 525. B 526. A 527. D 528. A 529. A 530. D
531. D 532. A 533. A
533. What do you mean by Prose? A. comedy

A. a writing without rhyme B. melodrama
B. a writing with rhyme C. play

D. tragedy
C. a writing of verse
540. Who is the author of ‘Interpretation of
D. a writing of rhythms Drama’?
534. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work A. Saul Bellow
er
B. Sigmund Freud
A. Rape of the Lock C. Samuel Butler
B. Spectator D. Samuel Beckett
gd
C. The Deserted Village 541. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is written by-
D. Man was made to mourn A. Rudyard Kipling
535. The subjugation of Women (1869) is an B. Ronald Reuel Tolkien

important text of:
A. George Eliot
B. Byron an C. Hobbit
D. None
542. Why is Thomas Hardy famous for?
Ch
A. As a Dramatist
C. John Mill
B. As a Sonneteer
D. Hardy
C. As a Novelist
536. Aspect of the Novel is written by:
D. As a Poet
A. David Cecil 543. Who is the writer of The Old English Pe-
n
B. Walter Allen riod?

A. King Alfred the Great
C. Arnold Kettle
ya
D. E.M. Forster
537. ’The Diary of Anne Frank’ was originally
written in which language D. Lord Tennyson
544. Who is the author of the poem ‘The Par-
ra
A. German liament of Fowls’?

B. Dutch A. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Russian B. Milton
Na
D. English C. Dickens
538. What do you mean by Pathos or Cathar- D. Shelly

sis? ix 545. Who is the writer of The Commonwealth
Period?
A. a sorrowful event
A. Cynewulf
B. a murder in a tragedy
B. Dante
C. an adventure of hero
C. Jeremy Taylor
D. arouse of pity and fear D. Caedmon
539. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a/an- 546. ‘Verslibre’ is called as:
534. A 535. C 536. D 537. B 538. D 539. D 540. B 541. B 542. C 543. A 544. A
545. C 546. A
A. Free Verse 553. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is a/an-

B. Blank Verse A. Epic
C. Free meter B. Comedy
D. Iambic C. Poem
547. An element of the supernatural is present D. Novel
in the poetry of : 554. ‘Silent Woman’ written by
A. Wordsworth A. John Ruskin
er
B. Coleridge B. Ben Jonson
C. Browning C. Kalidas
gd
D. Byron D. Munshi Prem Chand
548. “To err is human; to forgive is divine” is 555. ‘Cervantes’ is a character in:
said by- A. Don Quixote
A. Alexander Pope B. Pamele
B. John Dryden
C. John Benson
D. None an C. Tristram Shandy
D. Tom Jones
556. ‘Couplet’ can occur in-
Ch
549. Elizabeth is a character from Jane A. short story
Austen’s: B. essay
A. Emma C. poem
B. Pride and Prejudice D. novel
C. Mansfield Palck 557. ‘The pilgrim’s Progress’ is written by?
n
D. Northanger Abby A. William Shakespeare

ya
550. What is the term Fiction? B. John Bunyan

A. a poem C. John Dryden
B. a prose D. John Locke
C. an imaginative writing 558. Who is the following was both a poet and
ra
painter?
D. a story
A. Keats
551. Frost is:
B. Donne
Na
A. a nature poet
C. Blake
B. Poet of Country life
D. Spenser
C. a poet of nature and country life
559. Vanity Fair is a novel by
D. None of these
A. Dickens
552. Who is called the ‘poet of love’?
B. Thackeray
A. Andrew Marvell
C. Scott
B. John Donne
D. Fielding
C. John Keats 560. Romeo and Juliet one of my fa-
D. William Shakespeare vorite tragedy plays.
547. B 548. A 549. B 550. C 551. B 552. B 553. A 554. B 555. A 556. C 557. B
558. C 559. B 560. C
A. are 567. “Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I

B. have been passed her; but who passed without Much
the same smile? This grew; I gave com-
C. is mands; Then all smiles stopped together”.
D. were This was written by:
561. Who is the writer of The Middle English A. Tennyson
Period?
B. Browning
A. William Langland
er
C. Mathew Arnold
D. William Morris
C. William Wordsworth 568. What is 1st decade part of modern age?
gd
D. Lord Tennyson A. Edwardian
562. What do you mean by Minstrel?
B. Georgian
A. a romantic poet
C. Pope
B. a poet of minister
an
D. Augusta
C. a budding poet
569. What is the full name of the great Ameri-
D. A medieval European poet can short story writer O’Henry?
563. Who is the Creator of ‘Dramatic Mono- A. William Sidney Porter
Ch
logue’?
B. Walt Whitman
A. Robert browning
C. Marjorie Kennan Rowling
B. Alfred Tennyson
D. Samuel Butler
C. George Eliot
570. Dryden and Alexander Pope are. . . . . . poets.
D. Thomas Hardy
n
A. Neo-classical
564. Who is the author of ‘Seize the Day’?
B. Elizabethan
A. Arthur Miller
ya
C. Victorian
B. Saul Bellow
D. Modern
C. Tony Morrison
571. Which is a play by William Shakespeare,
D. None
ra
believed to have been written in 1603 or

565. Shakespeare wrote brilliant- 1604.
A. poems A. Desire Under the Elms
Na
B. essays B. Measure for Measure

C. novels C. Pygmalion
D. dramas D. Cocktail Party
566. ‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do 572. Which one is the shortest dramatic work?
not know where it is likely to go better.’
These lines are from: A. Not
A. The Road Not Taken B. Footballs
B. Fire and Ice C. Radio
C. Birches D. Breath
573. Hellenism of Keats connotes:
D. None of these
561. A 562. D 563. A 564. B 565. D 566. C 567. B 568. A 569. A 570. A 571. B
572. D 573. C 574. A
A. his love of poetry 580. Hamlet is

B. his love of ancient cultures A. a tragedy by Shakespeare
C. his love of Greek culture and art B. a play by G. B Shaw
D. None of these C. a poem by Shelley
574. ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of: D. a novel by Hardy
A. Pygmalion 581. ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven’ has been quoted from-
er
B. Candida
A. Paradise Regained
C. Getting Married
B. Paradise Lost
D. None of these
gd
575. It is for the world to decide whether you C. Aeneid
are a poet or not. For whom these words D. None of these
are meant: 582. What is soliloquy?
A. Frost A. a speech to the audience
B. Pope
C. Byron
D. None of these an B. self speech
C. talk to others
D. expression of anger
Ch
576. The moral choice is everything in the 583. Who wrote ‘Ode to a Nightingale’?
works of:
A. Pope
A. Dickens
B. Shelley
B. George Eliot
C. Wordsworth
C. Hardy
D. John Keats
n
D. None of these 584. ‘War and Peace’ an epic tale of Napoleonic

577. Who is the writer of ‘Robinson Crusoe’? invasion is written by-
ya
A. S Johnson A. Leo Tolstoy

B. Edward Gibben B. George Bernard Shaw
C. S Richardson C. Anne Frank
ra
D. Daniel Defoe D. Earnest Hemingway

578. Who is the writer of “Absalom and Achi- 585. Who is the father of English Novel?
tophel”? A. Shakespeare
Na
A. John Webster B. Henry Fielding

B. John Milton C. G.B. Shaw
C. John Dryden D. R. L. Stevenson
D. John Donne 586. Which of the following was written by
579. A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a: Shakespeare?
A. Dramatic Monologue A. The Rape of Lucrece
B. Comedy B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Tragedy C. Endymion
D. None of these D. Fairie Queene
575. A 576. A 577. D 578. C 579. B 580. A 581. B 582. B 583. D 584. A 585. B
586. A
587. Who is the writer of the book ‘Pride and A. Couplets

Prejudice’?
B. Blank Verse
A. John Milton C. Terza rima
B. Jonathan Swift D. None of these
C. Charles Dickens 594. ‘Calliban’ is a character in-
D. Jane Austen A. King Lear
er
588. Who is the modern philosopher who was B. Othello
awarded Nobel Prize for literature?
C. Man and Superman
A. James Baker D. Tempest
gd
B. Dr. Kissinger 595. Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?
C. Bertrand Russel A. Horatio
D. Lenin B. Iago
an
589. ‘Knowledge is power’ was stated C. Claudius
by
D. None of these
A. Hobbes 596. Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old
B. Socrates Man and the Sea’ bad written:
Ch
C. Rousseau A. A Farewell to Arms
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D. Hamlet
C. Death in the Afternoon
590. What is the full name of the tragedy ‘Dr
Faustus’? D. All of the above
n
A. The Tragical History of Dr Faustus 597. Who wrote ‘The Tempest’?
B. The Tragic History of Dr Faustus A. William Wordsworth

ya
C. The Tragedy of Dr Faustus B. Ben Jonson

D. Dr Faustus
D. Tennyson
591. What is Stress?
ra
598. Shakespeare was born in

A. emphasis on words
A. Warwickshire
B. emphasis on the sentence
B. Derby
Na
C. emphasis of literature
C. Oxford
D. emphasis on the novel
D. Northampton
592. Who wrote the famous poetic line ‘To err
599. Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspira-
is human, to forgive is divine’?
tion for Mathew Arnold’s work:
A. Alexander Pope A. the buried life
B. Shelley B. culture and anarchy
C. Keats C. The Scholor Gypsy
D. Dryden D. essays on criticism
593. The Prelude is written in: 600. What is verse?
587. D 588. C 589. A 590. A 591. A 592. A 593. B 594. D 595. C 596. D 597. C
598. A 599. C 600. A 601. B
A. lines of poem 607. Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles

B. a song of lamentation Lamb for getting his works published in:
C. a rhythmic measurement A. London magazine
D. pentameter B. The New York Times

601. What is type of ‘The Daffodils’? C. The spectator
A. Novel D. the Sun
B. Poem 608. Who was ‘Poet Laureate’?
er
C. Play A. Alfred Tennyson
D. Adventure B. Robert Browning
gd
602. “The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If
C. P. B. Shelley
winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
Who is the poet of these lines? D. none of them
A. P.B. Shelley 609. Frost is:
an
B. William Wordsworth A. a nature poet
C. John Keats B. Poet of Country life
D. Robert Browning C. a poet of nature and country life
603. What do you mean by the word Person-
Ch
D. None of these
nel?
610. Chaucer is the representative poet of-
A. individual
A. 17th century
B. others
B. 14th century
C. papers
C. 16th century
n
D. government employee
604. In Memoriam was written in: D. 18th century
611. A.S. Hornsby is famous for-
ya
A. 1833
B. 1860 A. Writing poems
C. 1863 B. writing songs

C. writing text books
ra
D. None of these
605. “Who trusted God was love indeed And D. writing dictionaries
love creation’s final law”-this famous quo-
612. ’My Last Duchess’ was written by
tation is taken from?
Na
A. Keats
A. Ulysses
B. In Memoriam B. Tennyson
C. Men and Women C. Browning
D. Vanity Fair D. None of these

606. What do you mean by Plot? 613. Who is the author of ‘Arabian Nights’?
A. a drama of comedy A. Sir Richard Burton
B. a disposal of characters B. Alexander Pope
C. a short novel C. Smith
D. arrangement of incidents in a writing D. None of them
602. A 603. D 604. D 605. B 606. D 607. A 608. A 609. B 610. B 611. D 612. C
613. D 614. B
614. Who is called ‘The bard of Avon’? 621. Who is the writer of The Restoration Pe-
riod?
A. Christopher Marlowe
A. Robert Herrick
B. Thomas Hobbes
C. John Milton
C. Jeremy Taylor
D. Homer
D. John Milton
615. ‘Living History’ is written by-
622. ’Modern Painters’ is written by
er
A. Bill Clinton
A. Ruskin
B. Hilary Clinton B. Mill
C. Achebe C. Macaulay
gd
D. Barak Obama D. None of these
616. O’Henry was known as- 623. A famous English poet who was pro-
A. American short story writer fessionally knows as man of medicine is
B. British short story writer

C. Irish dramatist
D. Roman Short story writer an A. Shelley
B. Keats
C. Milton
Ch
617. Who of the following was a poet?
D. Pope
A. Charles Dickens 624. Dickens was from a:
B. T. S. Eliot A. Lower middle class origin
C. Jane Austen B. Upper class origin
D. G. B. Shaw C. Middle class origin
n
618. Who was often been called The Father of D. Working class origin
English Tragedy? 625. The poem ‘Second Coming’ is written by-
ya
A. William Shakespeare A. W.B. Yeats

B. Christopher Marlowe B. T.S. Eliot
C. John Wycherley C. Frost
ra
D. John Lyly D. Auden

619. Who wrote ‘Heart of Darkness’? 626. The first English Dictionary was compiled
by
Na
A. Thomas Hardy
A. Izaak Walton
B. Joseph Conrad
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Bill Gates C. Samuel
D. None D. Sir Thomas Browne
620. John Bull’s Other Island is written by: 627. ‘On Liberty’ is by-
A. Shaw A. Charles Darwin
B. Wilde B. John Mill
C. Hemingway C. Karl Mark
D. Beckett D. Thomas Hardy
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
628. Ruskin is famous for: A. W. B. Yeats

A. Being a critic of art B. T. S. Eliot
B. A social reformer C. William Golding
C. A moral teacher D. E. M. Forster
635. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by-
D. None of these
629. Who is the ‘University Wits’ in the follow- A. Harold Pinter
er
ing list? B. T.S. Eliot
A. William Shakespeare C. G.B. Shaw
B. Thomas Gray D. Samuel Beckett
gd
C. Robert Greene 636. Who is the writer of the epic poems "Par-
adise Lost" and "Paradise Regained"
D. John Dryden
630. A pioneer is psychological analysis in fic-
B. John Donne
an
tion is:
C. John Keats
A. Charles Dickens
D. John Milton
B. Thackeray
637. Lilliput is a character from:
Ch
C. Charlotte Bronte
A. Gulliver’s Travels
D. G. Eliot
B. Pygmalion
631. Who is the writer of ‘The Merchant of
C. Sons & lovers
Venice’?
D. Old man and the sea
A. Shelley
638. What do you mean by Linguistics?
n
B. Wordsworth
A. study of languages and its rules
B. study of sounds
ya
D. Milton
C. study of speech sounds
632. “The fool doth think he is wise but the
D. study of meaning
wise man knows himself to be a fool”-this
quotation is quoted from? 639. Who believed that poetry is the sponta-
ra
neous overflow of emotions?

A. Hamlet
A. Blake
B. As you like It
B. Byron
Na
C. Othello
C. Wordsworth
D. Henry 8
D. Keats
633. To the Light House” is written by: 640. Who is the author of ‘Endgame’?
A. Lawrence A. G. B. Shaw
B. Hemingway B. Samuel Beckett
C. Forster C. R. K. Narayan
D. None of these D. Earnest Hemingway
634. Who is of the following is not a Nobel 641. ‘Appearances are often deceiving’ is
Laureate? quoted by-
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
A. Plato 648. ‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who

has said these words:
B. Aristotle
A. Pope
C. Hobbes
D. Aesop B. Swift
642. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suf- C. Shelley

fering”. These Humanistic words are at- D. None of these
tributed to:
er
649. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:
A. Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
A. Husband and wife
B. Portia in ‘Merchant of Venice’
B. Brother and Sister
gd
C. Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
C. Father and daughter
D. None of these
D. Friends
643. Shelley is remembered as a poet
650. Who of the following is a famous epic poet
an
A. Lyric in English literature?
B. Tragic
C. Mythical
B. Lord Tennyson
D. None of these
Ch
644. The Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ is written by-
D. John Milton
A. Charles Lambs
651. ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written
B. John Keats by:
C. Sir Walter Scott A. J.S. Mill
n
D. Jane Austen B. Ruskin

645. What is paradox? C. Carlyle
ya
A. a self-pleasant statement D. Darwin

B. personal song 652. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very
C. a self-contradictory statement subject of :
ra
D. none A. Childe Harolde

646. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ is novel by- B. Queen Mab
Na
A. Thomas Hardy C. Prometheus

B. Ernest Hemingway D. The Recluse
C. Jane Austen 653. ‘The Rainbow’ is-
D. Scott A. A poem by Wordsworth
647. One of the following was a Romantic Poet B. a short story by Somerset Maugham
A. Tennyson C. a novel by D.H. Lawrence
B. Arnold D. a verse by Coleridge
C. Shelley 654. ‘Ten thousand saw I at a glance’ is an ex-
D. Browning ample of
642. A 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
A. hyperbole 661. What do you mean by Romance?

B. symbol A. any work of fiction or imagination
C. metaphor B. a real life story
D. apostrophe C. any work of literature
655. The last book of Gulliver’s travels is D. a play or a drama
A. Voyage to Lilliput 662. E. M. Foster is a
er
B. Voyage to Brobdingnag A. Novelist
C. Voyage to Houyhnms B. Poet
D. Voyage to Laputa C. Playwright
gd
656. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor
D. None of these
player That starts and frets his hour upon
the stage and then is heard no more”- 663. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ is an
quoted from? essay by-
an
A. King Lear A. Thomas Hardy
B. Macbeth B. T.S. Eliot
C. Dr. Faustus C. Virginia Woolf
D. Othello D. Thomas Carlyle
Ch
657. The moral choice is everything in the 664. There is no man like Showman. These
works of: views were held by:
A. Dickens A. Thomas Carlyle
B. George Eliot B. Spencer
C. Hardy C. Shakespeare
n

ya
658. Who was the greatest dramatist of English 665. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
literature?
A. Blake
A. P.B. Shelley
B. Byron
ra
C. Tennyson
D. None of these
659. What is ‘Catastrophe’?
666. ‘End Game’ is written by:
A. the comedic end of dramatic events
Na
A. Hemingway
B. the tragic end of dramatic events
B. Somerset Maugham
C. the comic and tragic end of the play
C. Beckett
660. Which is known as Shakespeare’s enchant- D. None of these
ing swan-song? 667. Francis Bacon is a/an
A. Hamlet A. Novelist
B. Macbeth B. Dramatist
C. The Tempest C. Poet
D. Twelfth Night D. Essayist
656. B 657. A 658. C 659. B 660. C 661. A 662. A 663. B 664. A 665. C 666. C
667. D 668. B
668. Who is the father of Modern English Po- 675. When was the poem Tintern Abbey writ-
etry? ten?
A. Cynewulf A. 1793
B. Geoffrey Chaucer B. 1795
C. Robert Browning C. 1798
D. None of these
669. Who wrote ‘The Kite Runner’?
er
676. Who wrote ‘Madame Bovary’?
A. Selman Rushdie
A. Leo Tolstoy
B. Khalid Hussein
B. James Joyce
gd
C. Orhan Pamuk
D. none C. E.M. Forster
670. Hamlet was killed by: D. Gustave Flaubert
A. Polonius 677. John Keats is primarily a poet of
B. Learteus
C. Claudius
D. None of these an A. Beauty
B. Nature
C. Love
Ch
671. Which one is the first novel of Charles
Dickens D. Revolution
A. Oliver Twist 678. Who awarded Pulitzer Prize to Robert

Frost?
B. The Pickwick Papers
A. Dr mohammad younus
C. David Copperfield
B. John F. Kennedy
n
D. Little Dorrit
672. “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by: C. John Don
ya
A. Milton D. John Willy

B. Byron 679. Total number of plays written by Shake-
C. Keats speare
A. 14
ra
D. Blake
673. ‘Nature never did betray the heart that B. 28
loved her’ is a quotation.
C. 38
Na
D. 52
B. B. J. Baryon
680. ‘Poet are unacknowledged legislators of
C. P. B. Shelley the world’, Who told it?
D. J. Keats A. Browning
674. ‘To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a
famous soliloquy from B. P. B. Shelley
A. Paradise Lost C. William Wordsworth

B. Romeo and Juliet D. John Keats
C. Hamlet 681. What is the name of the storyteller of ’One
Thousand and One Nights’
D. Shahnama
669. B 670. B 671. B 672. C 673. A 674. C 675. C 676. D 677. A 678. B 679. C
680. B 681. A
A. Scheherazade 688. ‘The Sacred Flame’ is written by-

B. Sultana A. G.B. Shaw
C. Nura B. William Somerset Maugham
D. Morgiana C. Earnest Hemingway
682. Who is the first woman to win the Man D. Oscar Wilde
Booker Prize
689. Which is the rhyme scheme of Shake-
A. Elizabeth Bowen spearean sonnet?
er
B. Penelope Fitzgerald A. abab cdcd efef gg
C. Bernice Rubens B. abba cdcd efg efg
gd
D. Anita Brookner C. abab cde cde efg efg
683. Who wrote ‘Where ignorance is bliss, it is D. abba cde cde e egg
folly to be wise’?
690. The Good Earth has been written by-
A. Robert Frost
A. Virginia Woolf
an
B. George Orwell
B. George Eliot
C. Thomas Gray
C. Charles Dickens
D. John Milton
D. Pearl S. Buck
Ch
684. Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of
691. ‘Mirabell’, ‘Milllamant’, ‘Lady Wishfort’
Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to
are the characters found in-
write:
A. The Portrait of a Lady
A. The Last Ride Together
B. Rabbi Ben Ezra B. The way of the World
C. Ester Day C. All for Love

n
D. Abt Vogler D. The Rape of the Lock

685. Who wrote ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’? 692. Beowulf is written in which period?
ya
A. Charles Dickens A. Middle English preod
B. E. M. Forster B. Anlo-saxon preod
C. Rudyard Kipling C. Elejabeth preod

ra
D. William Shakespeare D. Jacobian preod

686. As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doc- 693. From which country the famous poet
trine of: Pablo Neruda belongs
Na
A. Utilitarianism A. Peru
B. Radicalism B. Argentina
C. Puritanism C. Cuba
D. None of these D. Chile

687. ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ written by- 694. Who is the poet of the Victorian Age?
A. Byron A. Helen Keller
B. G.B. Shaw B. Mathew Arnold
C. John Buniyan C. Shakespeare
D. T.S. Eliot D. Robert Browning
682. C 683. C 684. B 685. B 686. A 687. A 688. B 689. A 690. D 691. B 692. B
693. D 694. D 695. B
695. Which of the plays has an epilogue? 702. Which Revolution is the historical source
A. Man and Superman of the book ’A Tale of Two Cities’
B. Devils’ Disciple A. Iranian Revolution
C. Pygmalion B. American Revolution
D. None of these C. French Revolution

696. Who wrote the first english dictionary D. Russian Revolution
703. Robert Herrick was an English
er
A. Jonathan Swift
B. James Boswell A. Novelist
C. Samuel Johnson B. Historian
gd
D. Robert Cawdrey C. Poet
697. ‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line from: D. Dramatist
A. Shelley 704. Who is the author of ‘The Old Man and
the Sea’?
an
B. Wordsworth
A. E. Hemingway
C. Coleridge
B. Churchill
D. Tennyson
C. Wilson
698. The image of the femme fatale dominates
Ch
the poetry of: D. Hardy
A. Wordsworth 705. Jude the Obscure is a: a comedy
B. Keats A. Tragedy
C. Byron B. tragic comedy
D. Tennyson C. black comedy

n
699. ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ is written by- D. none of these

706. Shakespeare was born in?
ya
A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe A. 1616
C. Ben Johnson B. 1564
D. John Webster C. 1566

ra
700. Who is the father of modern English D. 1604

Drama? 707. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was
A. G.B. Shaw written by:
Na
B. John Milton A. W.Scott
C. Shakespeare B. Coleridge
D. Thomas Walt C. Shelley

701. “All the world’s a stage And all the men D. None of these
and women merely players”-quoted from 708. Shakespeare was born in
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream A. 1570
B. Much Ado About Nothing B. 1547
C. A Pericles Prince of Tyre C. 1564
696. C 697. D 698. B 699. B 700. A 701. D 702. C 703. C 704. A 705. A 706. B
707. B 708. C 709. C
709. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by 716. Which is called the Golden Period of En-
A. Dickens glish Literature?
A. Elizabethan Age
B. Hardy
B. Victorian Age
C. George Eliot
C. Restoration Period
D. None of these
710. “Idylls of the King” is illustration of Ten- D. Augustan Age
nyson’s deep interest in: 717. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:
er
A. Medieval legends A. Sir Philip Sydney
B. The role of the king B. Dryden

C. Dr. Johnson
gd
C. Hero worship
D. The contemporary condition D. None of these
718. Which one is 19th century English Litera-
711. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay
ture from above?
by:
an
A. 1601-1699
A. Arnold
B. 1701-1799
B. T. S. Eliot
C. 1801-1899
C. Shelley
Ch
D. 1901-1999
D. None of these
719. Macaulay represented:
712. Who is the leader of Metaphysical po-
etry? A. Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment
A. John Donne B. Working class Victorian attitudes

C. Upper class tolerance
B. John Milton
n
D. Radical Romanticism
C. John Dryden
720. Who is famous for his ‘drama of ideas’?
713. An exhortatory speech, usually delivered
ya
to a crowd to incite them to some action is: A. William Shakespeare

A. Declamation B. Henrik Ibsen
B. Sermon C. Oscar Wilde

ra
C. Monologue D. T.S. Eliot

721. The youngest Nobel Prize winner in Lit-
D. Harangue
erature is
714. When did Frost’s firstborn son died?
A. George Orwell
Na
A. 1600
B. T.S. Eliot
B. 1700
C. Thomas Hardy
C. 1800
D. Rudyard Kipling
D. 1900 722. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Pe-
715. ‘April is the cruelest month’ is written by-i riod?
A. W.B. Yeats A. Caedmon
B. T.S. Eliot B. Andrew Marvell
C. Frost C. Dante
D. Auden D. Cynewulf
710. B 711. B 712. A 713. D 714. D 715. B 716. A 717. C 718. C 719. A 720. B
721. D 722. B 723. C
723. ‘The Good Morrow’ is a poem by 730. Who belongs to the Absurd School of
A. Andrew Marvell Drama?
B. W. B. Yeats A. Shaw
C. John Donne B. Beckett

D. P. B. Browning C. Pinter
724. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs D. Eliot
in-
er
731. Who is the writer of The Victorian Pe-
A. Eliot’s ‘The waste land’ riod?
B. Keats’s ‘Endymion’ A. Lord Alfred Tennyson
gd
C. Shelly’s ‘The Cloud’ B. Robert Herrick
D. none of the above C. Jeremy Taylor
725. What period in English Literature is called
the “Augustans Age”? D. Thomas Hobbes
an
A. Early 16th Century 732. The poem ‘Easter Wings’ written by
B. 17th Century
A. Andrew Marvell
C. Early 18th Century
B. George Herbert
Ch
D. None of these
726. ‘Comedy of Errors’ is Written by C. John Keats
A. Ben Johnson D. S.T Coleridge

B. G. B Shaw 733. The full name of W.B. Yeats is-
C. T S Eliot A. Winstern Barret Yeats
n
D. William Shakespeare B. William Bill Yeats

727. Keats’ poem Endymion is based on C. William Butler Yeats
ya
mythology.
D. William Bernard Yeats
A. Greek
734. “Poetry is spontaneous overflow of pow-
B. Roman erful Feeling” is said by-
ra
C. celtic
A. S.T Coleridge
D. Indian
B. William Blake
728. Swift belong to:
Na
A. Renassiance period
D. Tomas Eliot
B. Restoration
735. ’Heroes and hero worship’ was written by
C. Romantic period
A. Mill
D. Augustan age
729. Kubla Khan was written by B. Carlyle
A. Coleridge C. Coleridge
B. Shelley D. None of these
C. Keats 736. “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written
by:
D. None of these
724. B 725. C 726. D 727. A 728. D 729. A 730. B 731. A 732. B 733. C 734. C
735. B 736. C 737. A
A. Shakespeare A. William Shakespeare

B. Yeats B. Alexander Pope
C. Eliot C. Gladstone
D. Auden D. Aesop
743. ‘A little learning is a dangerous thing’
737. ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ is a poem quoted by?
written by-
A. Alexander Pope
er
B. John Dryden
B. Blake
C. John Milton
C. Lord Byron D. Ben Jonson
gd
D. Coleridge 744. Who is the author of the poem ‘The House
of Fame’?
738. Who is the writer of The Victorian Pe-
riod? A. Cynewulf
an
A. Robert Herrick B. Shelley
B. Thomas Hobbes C. Robert Browning

D. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Robert Browning
745. What is a Miracle Play?
Ch
D. Jeremy Taylor
A. a play of tragedy
739. Which one is Golden Age in English Lit-
B. a play of comedy
erature?
C. a play in fiction
A. Elizabethan
D. a supernatural religious drama
B. Classic
n
746. ‘David Copperfield’ is a / an novel.

C. Modern A. Victorian
ya
D. Jacobean B. Elizabethan
740. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a drama by C. Romantic
D. Modern
A. Webster 747. A sonnet is a poem having lines.
ra
B. Ben Jonson A. sixteen

C. William Shakespeare B. ten
Na
D. Christopher Marlowe C. twelve
741. ‘Better to reign in Hell than to serve in D. fourteen

Heaven.’ Who said this and where? 748. Which is the famous elegy written by Shel-
ley?
A. Satan in ’Paradise Lost’
A. In Memoriam
B. Stain in ’Paradise Regained’
B. Lycidas
C. Adam in ’Paradise Lost’ C. Adonis
D. Adam in ’Paradise Regained’ D. Thyrsis
742. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” 749. Who is the writer of The Old English Pe-
is a quotation by- riod?
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
A. William Wordsworth 756. ‘The Duchess of Mulfi’ is written by?

B. William Shakespeare A. William Congreve
C. Saint Venerable Bede B. John Wycherley
D. Lord Tennyson C. Ben Johnson
750. S.T. Coleridge was born in D. John Webster
A. 1798 757. The author of ‘Songs of Innocence and of
Experience’ is
er
B. 1772
A. John Lennon
C. 1797
B. Richard Mark
D. None of these
gd
C. William Blake
751. Who was not the famous poet of the age
of Romanticism? D. John Keats
758. Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:
A. Coleridge
A. Four
an
B. Byron
B. Six
C. Shelley
C. Eight
D. Shakespeare
D. None of these
752. Nobel Prize winner in literature Harold
Ch
759. Who wrote the plays “The Tempest’ and
Pinter is from?
“The Mid Summer Night’s Dream”?
A. USA
B. Australia
B. Ben Jonson
C. UK C. John Dryden
n
D. Canada D. Christopher Marlowe

753. Renaissance Period was dominated by? 760. ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is written by
ya
A. Tragedy A. Cynewulf
B. Comedy B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Translation C. Robert Browning
ra
D. Prose D. None of the above

754. ’Waverley’ was written by 761. George Eliot was an:
A. Scott A. Atheist
Na
B. Jane Austen B. Agnostic

C. Dickens C. Occultist
D. None of these D. Conventionalist

755. ‘Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to 762. ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:
drink’ the composer of A. . Spenser
A. Wordsworth B. Chaucer
B. S. T. Coleridge C. Milton
C. Gray D. None of these
763. The kind Claudius was killed by:
D. Scott
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
A. Laerteus 770. ‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays

by:
B. Hamlet
A. Ruskin
C. Horatio
B. Carlyle
D. None of these
C. Huxley
764. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written
by: D. Oscar Wilde
A. Blake 771. Who described poetry as “Spontaneous
er
overflow of powerful feelings”:
B. Shelley
A. Shelley
C. Byron
B. Wordsworth
gd
D. None of these
C. Coleridge
765. Who was English poet addicted to opium?
D. Arnold
A. S. T Coleridge 772. G. B. Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma is
an
B. P. B Shelley a/an-
C. Lord Byron A. novel
D. John Keats B. drama

766. Who wrote ‘Preface to Shakespeare’? C. poem
Ch
A. Dr. Samuel Johnson D. short story
773. Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
B. Samuel Beckett
D. Thomas Hobbes
C. Jane Austen
n
767. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph

of life" are some of the beautiful poems by: D. None of these
ya
774. Ulysses is a by James Joyce.

A. W. Blake
A. novel
B. Byron
B. poetry
C. Shelley
C. verse
ra
D. none of these
D. play
768. Houyhnhnms represent life governed by
sense and: 775. Which one is the first tragedy play of
Shakespeare
Na
A. Moderation
A. Julius Caesar
B. patience
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. understanding d compromise
C. Hamlet
D. none of these D. Titus Andronicus
769. The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an 776. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?
A. Ode A. Song of myself
B. Elegy B. Song of Innocence
C. Epic C. Song of Experience
D. None of these D. none of these
764. C 765. A 766. A 767. C 768. A 769. B 770. C 771. B 772. B 773. A 774. A
775. D 776. A 777. C
777. Which is the author of the drama ‘Joan of A. a comedy

Arc’? B. an elegy
A. Lord Byron C. a novel
B. Charles Dickens D. a tragedy
C. G. B. Shaw 784. Keats belong to
D. P.B. Shelley A. Eighteenth century
er
778. James Joyce’s narrative technique is B. Nineteenth century
known as- C. Seventeenth century
A. stream of consciousness D. Eighteenth century
gd
B. psycho-analysis 785. Who translated the Bible into English for
the first time?
C. Objective Co-relative
A. Nicolas Udall
D. Symbolism and Mysticism
B. Thomas Norton
an
779. Who wrote ‘The Ruins of Time’?
C. John Wycliffe
A. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Edmund Spenser
B. Edmund Spenser 786. ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballad’ is written by?
Ch
C. John Keat A. S.T. Coleridge
D. Henry B. William Wordsworth
780. What do you mean by Prologue? C. Both of them
A. the last part of any drama D. None of them
B. the first chapter of play 787. What do you mean by Tragicomedy?
n
C. the preface or introduction of any writ- A. a kind of verse play

ing B. a play with unhappy ending
ya
D. surface C. blending of tragic and comic elements

781. When did Robert Frost marry?? D. mixture of dramas
A. December 18, 1895 788. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Pe-
ra
riod?
B. December 11, 1895
A. Caedmon
C. December 15, 1895
B. Dante
Na
D. December 19, 1895 C. Henry Vaughan

782. How many Sonnets did Shakespeare com- D. Cynewulf
pose?
789. Who is the father of English Novel?
A. 151
A. Shakespeare
B. 148 B. Henry Fielding
C. 128 C. G. B. Shaw
D. 154 D. Dr. Samuel Johnson
783. “Twelfth Night” is by William 790. ‘Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to
Shakespeare drink’ poem of
778. A 779. B 780. C 781. D 782. D 783. A 784. B 785. C 786. B 787. C 788. C
789. B 790. B 791. A
A. Lotes Eater A. 1616

B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner B. 1626
C. Good Morrow C. 1648
D. West wind D. None of these
791. Great Expectations was published in: 798. Who wrote ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’?
A. 1860 1 A. Shelley
er
B. 1857 8 B. T.S. Eliot
C. 1852 3 C. Chaucer
D. none of these D. Donne
gd
792. What the term Aesthetic refers- 799. Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcend-
A. appreciation for beauty ing power handling all things into beauty?
B. appreciation for poem A. Wordsworth
an
C. reverence for old B. Keats
D. reverence for poems C. Shelley

793. What the term Allusion refers- D. Byron
800. In what year did Geoffrey Chaucer died?
Ch
A. reference from any person
B. obeyed the old men A. 1400 AD
C. reference of past events or persons B. 1441 AD
D. writing in satire C. 1442 AD
794. Egden Heath forms the back drop of D. 1443 AD
n
which of the following novels by Hardy? 801. Shakespeare was born in the year
A. Jude the Obscure A. 1540 AD
ya
B. Hard Times B. 1564 AD

C. Return of the Native C. 1570 AD
D. Tess D. 1610 AD
ra
795. What is a myth? 802. Who has been called "The true child of the
A. a fictitious story Renaissance"
B. a real human story A. Shakespeare
Na
C. an animal story B. Chaucer

D. short poem C. More
796. When did Robert Frost’s first child born D. Marlowe
?
803. The fictional detective character Sherlock
A. 1899 Holmes is the creation of
B. 1896 A. Agatha Christie
C. 1897 B. Arthur Conan Doyle
D. 1898 C. J. K. Rowling
797. Francis Bacon died in: D. Rudyard Kipling
792. A 793. C 794. C 795. A 796. B 797. B 798. C 799. B 800. A 801. B 802. D
803. B 804. A
804. ‘Melodrama’ is a kind of play- 811. A Fantasy is

A. of violent and sensational themes A. An imaginary story
B. of pathetic themes B. A funny film
C. of historical themes C. A real life event
D. of philosophical themes D. A funny place
805. ’We are Seven’ is written by 812. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard
melodies are sweet, but those unheard are
er
A. Keats
sweeter’.
B. Shelly
A. Ode to Autumn
C. Hardy
B. Ode on a Grecian Urn
gd
D. None of these
C. Ode to melancholy
806. Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is a
D. None of these
A. Satire
813. Ruskin is famous for:
an
B. Comedy
A. Being a critic of art
C. Tragedy
B. A social reformer
D. Historical Play
C. A moral teacher
807. To err is human, forgive is divine. Who
Ch
has said these words: D. None of these
A. Pope 814. What do you mean by Imagery?
B. Swift A. language perceived through senses
C. Dryden B. jargoned writing
D. None of these C. language of literature

n
808. Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s char- D. drawing pictures

acters in: 815. T. S. Eliot is poet.
ya
A. Emma A. romantic
B. Persecution B. victorian
C. Pride and Prejudice C. modern
ra
D. Sense and sensibility D. post-modern

809. Emily Bronte is the writer of 816. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one
A. Wuthering heights of the following-
Na
B. Under the green wood tree A. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Mr.chips B. Treasure Island
D. None of the above C. David Copperfield

810. Shelley’s poetry used all of the following D. Great Expectations
components for themes except: 817. Das Capital was published in the year-
A. Worship of God A. 1867
B. Passion B. 1876
C. Narcissism C. 1887
D. Emotional self indulgence D. 1878
805. D 806. C 807. A 808. C 809. A 810. A 811. A 812. B 813. B 814. A 815. C
816. B 817. A 818. C
818. Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels? 825. Who is the writer of The Modern and The
Post Modern Period?
A. Charles Dickens
A. Alexander Pope
B. Chaucer
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Jonathan Swift
C. Jonathan Swift
D. None of these
D. A. C. Bradley
819. The most important element of a Tragedy?
826. The second generation of the romantic po-
er
A. Plot ets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
B. Character A. 1820
C. Spectacles B. 1825
gd
D. Diction C. 1830
820. Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is D. None of these
not Prose but Science’.
827. T. S. Eliot and George Eliot were:
an
A. Wordsworth A. Brothers
B. T. S. Eliot B. Father and Son
C. Coleridge C. Novelists
Ch
821. Yeats was 828. Asian Drama is written by-
A. Victorian poet A. G.B. Shaw
B. a modern poet B. W.B Yeats
C. Both C. Albert Camue
n
D. None of these D. Gunner Myrdal

822. Who is the writer of ‘Queen Marry’? 829. The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:
ya
A. A. Lord Tennyson A. Milton

B. George Bernard Shaw B. Keats
C. Christopher Marlowe C. Byron

ra
D. William Shakespeare D. Blake

830. Lotos Eaters is a poem by:
823. Great Expectations is a novel written by-
A. Browning
Na
A. Charles Dickens
B. Tennyson
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Yeats
C. Jane Austen
D. Frost
D. Henry Fielding
831. William Faulkner was awarded Nobel
824. Who was a known aesthete? Prize for literature in:
A. Ruskin A. 1949
B. Russell B. 1950
C. Huxley C. 1951
D. J.S. Mill D. 1953
819. A 820. C 821. C 822. A 823. A 824. C 825. D 826. B 827. D 828. D 829. B
830. B 831. A 832. C
832. A sonnet is a lyric poem of A. Cowards die many times before their
deaths.
A. 12 lines
B. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
B. 24 lines
C. Brevity is the soul of wit.
C. 14 lines
D. a and c
D. 10 lines
839. The character of Little Neil is a creation
833. Total how many numbers of detective nov- of:
er
els written by Agatha Christie
A. Hardy
A. 22
B. Eliot
B. 30
gd
C. Oscar Wilde
C. 52
D. Dickens
D. 66
840. G. B. Shaw got Nobel Prize in 1925 for the
834. Who is the writer of ‘Oenone’? book?
A. Cynewulf
B. Robert Browning
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
an A. Arms and the man
B. The doctor’s dilemma
C. Man of destiny
Ch
D. A. Lord Tennyson D. Philanderer
835. Of the following who is the most trans- 841. Which of the novels is not written by Jane
lated author of the world? Austen?
A. Leo Tolstoy A. Adam Bede

n
B. Agatha Cristie B. Mansfield Park
C. V.I. Lenin C. Emma

ya
D. None of these
D. Mao Tse Tung
842. Who is known as ‘the poet of nature in
836. Who is the author of the book ‘Dr.
English literature’?
Zhivago’?
ra
A. Lord Tennyson
A. Boris Pasternak
B. John Milton
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Rabindranath Tagore
Na
D. John Keats
D. Dante
843. A person who writes about his own life
837. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction writes-
and Fear is an example of:
A. A Chronicle
A. Oxymoron
B. an Autobiographer
B. Conceit
C. a diary
C. Alliteration
D. a Biography
D. None of these
844. Which one is the first science-fiction
838. Which quotation is by Shakespeare? novel
833. D 834. D 835. C 836. A 837. C 838. D 839. D 840. A 841. A 842. C 843. B
844. C
A. Dracula A. Of Human Bondage

B. The Time Machine B. Roads of Destiny
C. Frankenstein C. Merchant of Venice
D. Fahrenheit 451 D. Paradise Lost

851. Who is believed to be suffering from Oedi-
845. Shelly was a firm believer in all of the fol- pus Complex:
lowing except:
A. Oedipus
er
A. Personal freedom
B. Hamlet
B. The individual’s responsibility to soci-
C. Macbeth
ety
D. None of these
gd
C. The power of love
852. Oliver Goldsmith is a/an novelist.
D. Human conduct based on conviction A. American
846. Which one is the Tennyson’s First work? B. Irish
an
A. Dora C. English
B. Ulysses D. French
C. Two Brothers 853. Shakespeare’s "Antony and Cleopatra" is
based on
Ch
D. In Memorium
A. Lodge’s Rosalynde
847. Which poet is not always bound up with
B. Plutarch’s Lives
the reformer?
C. Promos and Cassandra
A. Wordsworth
D. None
B. Coleridge
n
854. The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:

C. Pope A. Helen Darbishire
ya
D. Tennyson B. Ernest De Selin Court

848. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Sun C. Herbert Reads
Also Rises’?
D. Coleridge
A. H.G. Wells 855. Which one of the following poets named
ra
the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?

B. George Orwell
A. Southey
C. Ernest Hemingway
B. Shelley
Na
D. Thomas Hardy
C. Keats
849. I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is
spoken by: D. Byron
A. Polonius riod?
B. Claudius A. Robert Herrick
C. Hamlet B. John Locke
D. Ophelia C. Jeremy Taylor
850. Which book written by William Somerset D. Thomas Hobbes
Maugham? 857. What do you mean by a Ballad?
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
A. a kind of short narrative poem 864. Who is the author of ‘The Affluent Soci-
ety’?
B. a poem of patriotism
C. a poem of love affairs A. H.G. Wells
D. a kind of condoling poem B. T.S. Eliot

858. How many novels combine the Harry Pot- C. J.K. Galbrath
ter series collection D. David Hume
A. 3
er
865. is not a Novelist of the modern age
B. 7 in the English Language.
C. 9 A. H. G Wells
gd
D. 11 B. Charles Dickens
859. Who is Irma? C. Rudyard Kipling
A. wife D. T. S. Elliot
an
B. daughter 866. When Robert frost awarded his first of
C. aunt four Pulitzer Prizes ?
D. daughter in law A. in 1921
860. The novel ‘The Big Four’ is written by- B. in 1923
Ch
A. Virginia Wolf C. in 1924
B. Agatha Christie D. in 1922
C. Sigmund Freud 867. ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’ is
D. Joseph Conrad written by
n
861. Who is writer of the poem ‘Sailing To A. Tennyson

Byzantium’?
B. W. Blake
ya
A. James Joyece
C. John Milton
B. D. H. Lawrence
D. Alexander Pope
C. William Butler Yeats
868. What do you mean Philology?
ra
D. E. M. Forster
A. Study of Language
862. When did T. S. Eliot win noble prize?
B. science of medicine
A. 1948
Na
C. science of surgery
B. 1923
D. science of speech sounds
C. 1953
869. ‘Dr Faustus’ was written by
D. 1935
863. Who is the first ever winner of the Nobel A. Ben Jonson
Prize in Literature B. G.B Shaw
A. Theodor Mommsen C. T.S Eliot
B. Sully Prudhomme D. Christopher Marlowe
C. Rudyard Kipling 870. How many during of times Robert Frost
D. Henryk Sienkiewicz taught ?
858. B 859. B 860. B 861. C 862. A 863. B 864. C 865. B 866. C 867. D 868. A
869. D 870. C 871. B
A. 1916 to 1928 877. Which month Robert frost and Elinor was
married?
B. 1926 to 1938
A. December 16, 1895
C. 1916 to 1938
D. 1916 to 1948 B. December 17, 1895
871. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is C. December 19, 1895
A. a tragedy by Shskespeare D. December 18, 1895
er
B. a play By G. B. Shaw 878. Who is called the ‘Poet of Nature’ in En-
glish literature?
C. a poem by Lord Byron
A. Lord Byron
D. a novel by S. T. Coleridge
gd
B. John Keats
872. ‘Macbeth’ is a-
A. play
D. P. B Shelley
B. novel
an
879. The central idea of ‘I wandered lonely as
C. essay
a cloud’ is that
D. poem
A. nature excites human imagination
873. What do you mean by Protagonist?
B. nature is harmful for human being
Ch
A. the character against main character i.e.
Antagonist C. nature is beautiful
B. the villain of drama D. we can find solace in nature
C. the minor character 880. Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?
D. the main character in a literary work A. Richardson

n
874. Great Expectation was written by B. Fielding

C. Defoe
ya
A. George Eliot
B. Thackeray D. Goldsmith
C. Dickens 881. The first English dictionary was com-
pleted by –
ra
D. None of these
A. Sir Thomas Browne
875. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon
Heath’ as the background of the story? B. Samuel Butler
Na
A. Tess of the D’Urberville C. Samuel Johnson

B. Return of the Native D. Iazak Walton
C. Jude the Obscure 882. Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
D. None of these A. Charlotte Bronte
876. ‘The Prelude’ was composed by: B. Emile Bronte
A. Keats C. Anne Bronte
B. Wordsworth D. None of these
C. Blake 883. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and ‘The Rain-
D. Byron bow’ written by-
872. A 873. D 874. C 875. B 876. B 877. C 878. C 879. D 880. D 881. C 882. A
883. D 884. A
A. Virginia Woolf 890. ‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from

the poem “My Heart Leaps Up” by
B. Robert Frost
C. Thomas Moore
B. S. T. Coleridge
D. D.H. Lawrence
884. “Thought Fox” is written by: C. P. B. Shelley
D. A. C. Swinburne
A. Ted Hughes
891. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:
er
B. Heaney
A. Francis Bacon
C. Sylvia Plath
B. Carlyle
D. None of these
gd
C. Montaine
885. The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty
that must be” occurs in Keats’ D. None of these
892. T. S. Eliot was a
A. Lamia
A. Critic
an
B. Ode to a Grecian Urn
B. Poet
C. Ode on Melancholy
C. Both
D. Endymion
D. None of these
886. In ‘To Daffodils’, human life is compared
Ch
with 893. “Paradise Lost” is divided into
A. Sunset A. 12 Books
B. flowing river B. 8 Books
C. morning’s dew C. 9 Books

D. 5 Books
n
D. graying hair
894. Which is the shortest period of English
887. Shakespeare wrote
literature?
ya
A. Tragedies
A. Romantic period
B. Comedies
B. Victorian age
C. Poems
C. Restoration period
ra
D. All of above
888. “Art for arts sake” found its true adherent 895. The national epic of Iran ’Shahnameh’ was
in: written by
Na
A. Wordsworth A. Ferdowsi
B. Byron B. Omar Khayyám
C. Browning C. Hafez
D. Wilde D. Al-Biruni
889. What is catastrophe? 896. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
A. The comical end of dramatic events A. Dickens
B. The tragic end of dramatic events B. Hardy
C. The comic tragic end of the play C. George Eliot
D. None of the above D. None of these
885. C 886. C 887. D 888. D 889. B 890. A 891. A 892. C 893. A 894. C 895. A
896. A 897. D
897. Who wrote ‘beauty is truth, truth is A. Publication of "Intimations of Immortal-

beauty’? ity"
A. Shakespeare B. The beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign
B. Eliot C. The Reform Bill of 1832
C. Wordsworth D. Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its

preface
D. Keats 904. Who wrote ‘Robison Crusoe’?
er
898. Who is the writer of the poem ‘The Pied A. Jonathan Swift
Piper of Hamelin’?
B. Daniel Defoe
A. Robert Browning
gd
B. Ibsen
D. Jon Milton
C. Jonsen 905. A great playwright of Shakespeare time
D. Shaw was
an
899. Find the Odd man out? A. Samuel Johnson
A. Iliad : Novel B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Oliver Goldsmith
B. The Tempest : Comedy
D. John Donne
Ch
C. The Temple : Poem
906. Who is the writer of The Elizabethan Pe-
D. The Dunciad: Poem riod?
900. Who is the youngest literature laureate to A. Nicholas Udall
win Nobel Prize
B. Cynewulf
A. Rudyard Kipling C. Dante
n
B. Karl Gjellerup D. Caedmon

C. Nelly Sachs 907. Mark Twain is a famous author from
ya
D. Harry Martinson A. USA

901. In the poem ‘Ozymandias’ who calls Ozy- B. UK
mandias ‘King of Kings’? C. Ireland
ra
A. The Traveler D. Norway

B. The speaker 908. Who is known as ‘the poet of nature’ in
English literature?
Na
C. Other Kings
A. Lord Tennyson
D. Ozymandias himself
902. Shakespeare has written:
C. John Milton
A. Historical plays D. John Keats
B. Comedies 909. The Nurse’s Song was written by:
C. Tragedies A. Keats
D. All of these B. Tennyson
903. Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is C. Blake
usually assumed to date from: D. Shelley
898. A 899. A 900. A 901. D 902. D 903. D 904. B 905. B 906. A 907. A 908. B
909. C 910. C
910. Milton’s Areopagitica is 917. Which of the following poems by Ten-

A. a sonnet nyson is a monodrama?
B. an epic A. Ulysses
C. a plea for the freedom of the press B. Break, Break, Break
D. a play C. Maud
911. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by: D. Crossing the Bar
A. Coleridge 918. T. S. Eliot considers to be one of
er
B. Wordsworth Shakespeare’s most assured artistic success
C. Keats A. Hamlet
gd
D. None of these B. King Lear
912. Who is the writer of The Victorian Pe- C. The Tempest
riod?
D. Coriolanus
A. Matthew Arnold 919. Who is the most illustrious representative
B. Robert Herrick
C. Jeremy Taylor
D. Thomas Hobbes an of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
A. Ruskin
B. Russell
Ch
913. What is Limerick? C. Huxley
A. A form of light verse D. None of these
B. A form of one-act play 920. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written
C. A kind of short narrative poem by:
D. A kind of love poem A. Trollope
n
914. Who is the father of Modern English Lit- B. Thomas Hardy

erature?
C. Charles Dickens
ya
A. G. B. Shaw
D. None of these
B. Shakespeare
921. The poem ‘Under the Green Wood Tree’
C. P. B. Shelley was written by
ra
D. William Wordsworth A. William Wordsworth

915. The Romantic age in English literature be-
gan with the publication of B. Robert Browning
Na
A. Preface to Shakespeare
B. Preface of Lyrical Ballads D. Ralph Hodgson
C. Preface to Ancient Mariners 922. Who is the writer of the book ’Robinson
Crusoe"
D. Preface to Dr. Johnson
A. Daniel Defoe
916. The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Ten-
nyson) commemorates: B. John Keats
A. The Boer War C. Charles Dickens
B. The battle of Trafalgar D. John Milton
C. The Crimean War 923. ‘The child is the father of man’ is a line
from Wordsworth’s:
D. None of these
911. B 912. A 913. C 914. A 915. B 916. C 917. C 918. A 919. A 920. B 921. C
922. A 923. C
A. Immortality Ode 929. Who wrote ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?

B. The Prelude A. R. L. Stevenson
C. My heart leaps when I Behold a Rain- B. Daniel Defoe
bow in the Sky.
C. Jonathan Swift
D. None of these
D. William Worsdworth
924. Which of the following poems by Ten-
930. The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:
nyson is a monodrama?
er
A. Keats
A. Ulysses
B. Blake
B. Break, Break, Break
C. Tennyson
gd
C. Maud
D. None of these
D. Crossing the Bar
931. Lingua Franca refers to the term-
925. The Victorian age can be dated by which
of the following events and years: A. first language
an
A. Mills’s "on liberty’ (1859) to end of cen- B. second language
tury (1900) C. official language
B. Reform Bill (1832) to end of Boer War D. common language
(1902)
Ch
932. Full name of T. S Eliot is
C. Birth of Tennyson (1809) to his death
A. Thomas stearns
(1892)
B. Thompson Simson
D. Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
(1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901) C. Thomas Stewart
D. Thomas Stephen
n
926. Who is the writer of The Modern and The 933. The poem ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by
Postmodern Period?
A. Dylan Thomas
ya
A. Henrik Ibsen
B. W.H Auden
B. Alexander Pope
C. Ezra Pound
C. Jonathan Swift
D. W.B. Yeats
ra
D. Daniel Defoe
934. Santiago is an illustration of:
927. was written by Shakespeare.
A. Hemingway’s respect for struggle
A. As You Like It
Na
B. Hemingway’s total view of life

B. King Lear
C. Hemingway’s philosophy of life
C. Macbeth
D. None of these
D. Hamlet
935. Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:
928. Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of
life”: A. 1808
A. Byron B. 1812
B. T. S. Eliot C. 1818
C. Arnold D. None of these

936. In what year did Shakespeare die?
D. None of these
924. C 925. D 926. A 927. A 928. C 929. C 930. A 931. D 932. A 933. D 934. C
935. B 936. D 937. B
A. 1570 AD 943. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had Daugh-

ters.
B. 1580 AD
A. Six
C. 1630 AD
B. Seven
D. 1616 AD
C. Five
937. Ruskin belonged to (which age)
D. None of these
A. Romantic age
944. Who did write/publish preface to lyrical
er
B. Victorian age ballads:
C. Augustan age A. Wordsworth
D. None of these B. Shelley
gd
938. Dorothy was the gifted sister of: C. Keats
A. R. Browning D. None of these
945. Which of the following ages in literary
B. Shelley
an
history is the latest?
C. Wordsworth
A. The Augustan Age
D. Coleridge B. The Victorian Age
939. In which year Winston Churchill got the
C. The Georgian Age
Ch
Novel prize in literature?
D. The Restoration Age
A. 1943
946. What is a Myth?
B. 1945 A. a fictitious or imaginative story
C. 1948 B. a legend of hero
D. 1953
n
C. a short narrative poem

940. The following characteristics are of Oscar D. a long narrative poem
Wild’s EXCEPT :
ya
947. "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is

A. a poet a satirical attack on contemporary writers
who had annoyed Byron.
B. a novelist
A. True
C. an essayist
ra
B. False
D. a dramatist
C. both A and B
941. The ‘Solitary Reaper’ is a-
D. none of these
Na
A. heroic poem
948. Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in
B. romantic poem iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are
called:
C. classical poem
A. Heroic Couplet
D. didactic poem
B. Blank verse
942. Who wrote the ‘Odyssey and Iliad’?
C. Terza Rima
A. Milton
D. Spenserian stanza
B. Hoffman
949. A phrase, line or lines repeated at inter-
C. Vergil vals during a poem and especially at the
end of a stanza is called:
D. Homer
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
A. Period A. Shelley
B. Refrain B. Wordsworth
C. Feminine Ending C. Keats
D. Alexandrine D. Coleridge
950. William Shakespeare is a famous 957. How many plays did Shakespeare com-
pose?
A. dramatist
A. 154
er
B. novelist
B. 38
C. essayist
C. 29
D. critic
gd
D. 26
951. Who is the writer of Decameron
958. ‘Ode to the west wind’ is by
A. Chaucer
A. Keats
B. Boccaccio B. Shelley
C. Dante
D. Plutarch
952. ‘Brick Lane’ is written by- an C. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth
959. Who is the author of ‘The Picture of Do-
Ch
A. Virginia Woolf rian Gray’?
B. George Eliot A. Aldous Huxley
C. Charles Dickens B. Boris Pasternauk

C. Oscar Wilde
D. Monica Ali
953. What is sonnet? D. Fitzerald
n
960. Shakespeare died in:

A. A prose of special nature
A. 1625
ya
B. A sacred poem of reputed poet

B. 1616
C. A poem of fourteen lines
C. 1618
D. A criticism of a poet
D. None of these
ra
954. Who wrote ‘War and Peace’?

961. T. S Eliot was born in
A. Thomas Hardly
A. Ireland
B. Robert Lewis Stevenson
B. England
Na
C. Scott
C. Wales
D. Leo Tolstoy D. USA
955. Who is sometimes called ‘Rebel Poet’? 962. John Keats died of-
A. S. T. Coleridge A. accident
B. John Keats B. tuberculosis
C. Lord Byron C. drowned in the sea
D. Blake D. plane crash
956. “If winter come can spring be far behind”- 963. ‘Ophelia’ is an important character in the
quoted from? Shakespeare play-
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
A. Hamlet A. Emily Dickinson

B. Macbeth B. Virginia Woolf
C. The Tempest C. Jane Austen
D. King Lear D. None
964. the quality when man is capable of 970. Which of the following is a Victorian nov-
being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, elist?
without any irritable reaching after fact and A. Thomas Carlyle
er
reason’ is:
B. Francis Bacon
A. Objectivity C. John Done
B. Subjectivity
gd
D. Mathew Arnold
C. Negative capability 971. “Men may be beaten, chained, tormented,
D. Scepticism yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer
flies . . . yet remain free . . . ” This was said
965. Which of following Books consists of by:
an
Ruskin’s lectures:
A. Carlyle
A. Modern painters
B. J.S. Mill
B. The Stones of Venice
C. Ruskin
Ch
C. The Crown of wild olive
D. Mathew Arnold
D. None of these 972. What is the real name of George Eliot?
966. Fortinbras is a character of the play: A. T. S Eliot
A. Othello B. Jane Austen
B. Hamlet C. Mary Anne Evans
n
C. King Lear D. William Hazlitt

973. What the term Trilogy refers?
ya
D. None of these
967. The Advertisement added to the Lyrical A. three stanza poem
Ballads was published in: B. a three series of poems
A. 1800 C. a triangular drama
ra
B. 1802 D. a series of three drama

C. 1798 974. Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been
stimulated by:
Na
D. None of these
968. “Water, water, everywhere, And all the A. Shakespeare
boards did shrink; Water, water, every- B. Coleridge
where, Nor any drop to drink.”-from which C. Wordsworth
poem?
D. De Quincey
A. Intimation of Immortality
975. Who wrote "20th Century Views"?
B. Tintern Abbey
A. Abrahams, M. H.
C. Don Juan B. Palmer, D. J.
D. Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. Bertrand Russell
969. Who wrote ‘Sense and Sensibility’?
D. None of these
964. C 965. C 966. B 967. C 968. D 969. C 970. D 971. C 972. C 973. D 974. A
975. A 976. A
976. Which one of the following is the first long 983. The phrase ‘trunk less legs’ in the poem
poem in English? ‘Ozymandias’ refers to
A. Beowulf A. hug legs
B. Dream of the Road B. legs without toes
C. The Seafarer C. legs without body
D. The Wanderer D. beautiful legs
977. ‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by: 984. Which of the following is not a play by
er
Shakespeare?
A. Keats
A. Hamlet
B. Wordsworth
gd
B. Macbeth
C. Coleridge
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Byron
978. “David Copperfield” was written by: D. None of these
985. ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:
an
A. Hardy
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Dickens
B. Ezra Pound
C. Thackeray
C. Yeats
D. None of these
Ch
979. Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast D. Larkin
of the scenes in the poetry of: 986. ‘Paradise Lost’ is a/an
A. Shelley A. short story
B. Keats B. epic poem
n
C. Byron C. play
D. None of these D. lyrical poem
ya
980. ‘Desert Places’ is a: 987. Short story is not than story.

A. Poem A. shorter
B. Play B. longer
ra
C. Novel C. smaller
D. None of these D. huger
981. Father of antiquities were: 988. Which of the following is exceptional?
Na
A. Socrates A. William Blake

B. Aristotle B. William Wordsworth
C. Plato C. William Butler Yeats
D. All of these D. Thomas Gray
982. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are 989. Hamlet was killed by:
A. Poets A. Polonius
B. Essayists B. Learteus
C. Novelists C. Claudius
977. A 978. B 979. B 980. A 981. D 982. B 983. C 984. C 985. A 986. B 987. A
988. D 989. B 990. C
990. ‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by: 997. Who is the writer of ‘The Lover’s Tale’?
A. Mill on economic reforms A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Carlyle on moral reforms B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Ruskin on moral reforms C. William Shakespeare
D. None of these D. A. Lord Tennyson
991. is a novel by Miss Burney
er
A. Evelina riod?
B. Emma A. Robert Herrick
C. Pamela B. John Bunyan
gd
D. Persuasion C. Jeremy Taylor
992. Which poetry is written by sir Walter
D. Thomas Hobbes
Scott?
999. ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:
an
A. Patriotism
A. Wordsworth
B. The Patriot
B. Blake
C. A Frosty Night
C. Keats
D. All of the above
Ch
993. What was the reason behind Elinor’s D. None of these
death? 1000. Who wrote the short story ‘The Gift of
A. Cancer the Magi’?
B. Tuberculises A. William Wordsworth

C. Diariea B. Robert Frost
n
D. Colera C. Jane Auste

ya
994. Who was both a poet and a Priest? D. O’ Henry

A. Andrew Marvell 1001. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd
B. George Herbert A. Oscar Wilde
ra
C. Edmund Spencer B. Backett

D. Robert Browning
C. Ibsen
995. T. S. Eliot was a
D. None of these
Na
A. Critic
1002. Lilliputians symbolize excessive human:
B. Poet
A. Jealousy
C. Both
B. confidence
D. None of these
C. Ego
996. Samson Agonists: Play ::
A. The Conquest of Granada : Satire D. none of these
1003. The lines ‘The one remains, the many
B. The Rivals : Play
change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever
C. Clarissa : Play shines, earth’s shadow fly; are composed
D. Paradise Regained: Play by:
991. A 992. A 993. A 994. B 995. C 996. B 997. D 998. B 999. B 1000. D 1001. B
1002. A 1003. A
A. Shelley 1010. The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great

B. Byron collection of poems of
C. Keats A. W. Lewis
D. Southey B. Yeats
1004. Who did write an epic on the growth of C. D. H. Lawrence
his own mind?
D. None of these
A. Blake
er
1011. Which of the following novelists is
B. Tennyson known for his Satire in the Victorian lit-
C. Browning erature?
gd
D. Wordsworth A. Charlotte Bronte
1005. Which one is not written by Robert B. Thackeray
Browning?
C. Hardy
A. Adonais
an
D. Meredith
B. The Patriot
1012. What is an Epigram?
C. Andrea del Sarto
D. My Last Duchess A. a terse and witty statement
1006. "The Recluse" was written by: B. a short fiction
Ch
A. Worsdworth C. a long poem
B. Coleridge D. a wise man
C. W. Blake 1013. Which is the first successful English
D. Southey Novel? xix
n
1007. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempted to A. Gorboduc

A. Justify the ways of man to God B. Pamela
ya
B. Justify the ways of God to man C. Iliad

C. Show that the Satan and god have equal
D. Robinson Crusoe
power
1014. Which play among the following plays
ra
D. Explain why good and evil are neces-

is not blank verse?
sary.
1008. The arrangement of events in the order A. Hamlet
of their occurrence is- B. The Jew of Malta
Na
A. Chronometer C. Pygmalion
B. Chorology
D. None of these
C. Chronicle
1015. Beowulf is a/an-
D. Choreography
A. an epic poem
1009. Who is the writer of ‘Dramatic Lyrics’?
B. an elegy
A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth C. a novel
C. William Shakespeare D. a burlesque

D. Robert Browning 1016. John Keats is known as poet of
1004. D 1005. A 1006. A 1007. B 1008. C 1009. D 1010. B 1011. B 1012. A 1013. D
1014. C 1015. A 1016. A
A. Beauty 1023. Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels

B. Love especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
C. Nature A. Love and marriage
D. None of them B. Life of big landlords

1017. When did Frost visit the Soviet Union? C. Politicians
A. 1964 D. None of these
1024. ‘Faerie Queen’ is a/an
er
B. 1963
C. 1962 A. Play
D. 1961 B. short story
gd
1018. What is Iambic Pentameter? C. epic
A. a six foot line verse D. novel
B. a three foot line verse 1025. Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’?
an
C. a four foot line verse A. John Lyly
D. a five foot line verse B. Thomas Kyd
1019. Which one is the correct form below? C. Robert Green
A. Emma-Goethe D. Christopher Marlowe
Ch
B. Freedom-Shakespeare 1026. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:
C. War and Peace-Tolstoy A. Hopkins
D. all the above B. W. B. Yeats
1020. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by: C. Larkin
n
A. Ruskin D. None of these

B. Carlyle 1027. The first tragedy written in English is
ya
C. Mill A. Edward II
D. None of these B. Doctor Faustus
1021. After whom the Elizabethan Age is C. The Jew of Malta
named:
ra
D. Gorboduc
A. Elizabeth I
1028. The author of the book ‘Asian Drama’ is
B. Elizabeth II
Na
C. Elizabeth Browning A. Shakespeare

D. None of these B. Gunnar Myrdal
1022. “She looked over his shoulder For vines
C. Humayun Kobir
and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas.”-these lines D. Bertrand Russel
are the starting of? 1029. Who wrote the book "Republic"
A. Lullaby A. Marx
B. The Shield Of Achilles B. Socrates
C. The Waste Land C. Plato
D. Sailing to Byzantium D. Aristotle
1017. C 1018. D 1019. C 1020. B 1021. A 1022. B 1023. A 1024. C 1025. B 1026. B
1027. D 1028. B 1029. C 1030. C
1030. The abstract theory of utilitarianism is A. Romantic

the theme of Dicken’s novel: B. national
A. Bleak House C. love
B. A Tale of Two Cities D. mystic
C. Hard Times 1037. What the term Oxymoron refers?
D. Great Expectations A. two same ideas are combined

B. self-contradictory ideas
er
1031. The speaker of ‘I wandered lonely as a
cloud’ saw C. two language
A. wet daffodils D. two contradictory ideas express one
thing
gd
B. yellow daffodils
1038. Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your
C. fair daffodils magnanimity and be more of a poet’?
D. golden daffodils A. Wordsworth
an
1032. In ‘The Solitary Reaper’ what word soli- B. Coleridge
tary mean? C. Keats
A. classical D. Blake
B. modern 1039. Which of the following is illustrative of
Ch
Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
C. romantic
A. The Seven Lamps
D. Greek
B. Unto this Last
1033. Wordsworth settled in
C. The Stones of Venice
A. Lake District
D. None of these
n
B. Sussex 1040. Who is the composer of ‘Paradise Lost’?

C. Cumber Land A. John Keats
ya
D. None of these B. Lord Byron

1034. “went-home” means- C. S. T. Coleridge
A. making money very rapidly, earning D. John Milton
ra
large sums easily. 1041. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was orig-
inally written in
B. deeply appealed to
A. Italian
Na
C. faithful to their employers

B. Spanish
D. in keeping
C. German
1035. ‘The Silent Woman’ is a play by-
D. French
A. G.B. Shaw 1042. Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into
B. Shakespeare A. Romanticism
C. Marlowe B. Pre Raphaelitism
D. Ben Johnson C. Idealism
1036. Kazi Nazrul Islam is the poet of D. None of these
Bangladesh. 1043. Romantic Period starts from?
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 1043. B
A. 1989 1050. “None of thou shalt be my paramour”

B. 1798 these words are attributed to:
A. Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
C. 1998
B. Marlow’s Jew of Malta
D. None of these
1044. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a- C. Marlow’s Tamburlaine
A. Comedy D. None of these

1051. Which book of Taslima Nasrin was first
er
B. Tragedy
banned
C. Historical
A. Amar Meyebela
D. Tragicomedy
B. Utal Hawa
gd
1045. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is written by?
C. Lajja
D. Dwikhondito
1052. What is ‘Linguistics’?
an
C. Ben Johnson
A. the study of literature
D. William Congreve
B. the study of history
1046. Objectivity stands for-
C. the scientific study of language
A. personal expression
Ch
B. impersonal expression
1053. Who wrote ‘The Bluest Eyes’?
C. immature communication
A. Arthur Miller
D. matured notion
B. Saul Bellow
1047. ‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings
C. Tony Morrison
as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of
n
love, May Sweep to my revenge’ is a speech D. None

from. 1054. T. S. Eliot was born in
ya
A. Lear A. 1887
B. Macbeth B. 1888
C. Othello C. 1817
ra
D. Hamlet D. None of these

1048. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is written by? 1055. T. S. Eliot was
A. William Shakespeare A. Romantic
Na
B. Christopher Marlowe B. Classicist

C. Ben Johnson C. Both
D. William Congreve D. None of these
1049. is an attack by Ruskin on the 1056. Who is the writer of The Restoration Pe-
Philistines. riod?
A. Modern Painters A. Robert Herrick
B. stones of Venice B. William Congreve
C. seven lamps of architecture C. Thomas Hobbes
D. praeterita D. Jeremy Taylor
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
1057. Who is the writer of The Elizabethan Pe- 1064. Who is the writer of The Middle English
riod? Period?
A. Caedmon A. William Shakespeare, Lord Tennyson
B. Dante B. William Wordsworth
C. Edmund Spenser C. Durante degli Alighieri (Dante)
D. Cynewulf D. Lord Tennyson
1058. "Saki" is the pen name of
er
1065. Adonais is an elegy on the death of:
A. Somerset Maugham
A. Moschus
B. KA Abbas
B. Edward William
gd
C. Wilkie Collins
C. John Keats
D. Hector Hugh Munro
1059. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is D. Shakespeare
A. A tragedy 1066. In ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ the
an
daffodils gave the poet
B. Comedy
A. a great deal of pleasure
C. both A and B
B. very pleasure
D. none of these
Ch
1060. Who established the first English print- C. much pleasure
ing press? D. many pleasure
A. William Caxton 1067. Who is the modern philosopher who was
B. George Eliot rewarded Nobel Prize for literature?
C. Thomas Hardy A. Baker
n
D. None of the above B. Kissinger

1061. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is- C. Lenin
ya
A. a novel by Charlotte Bronte

D. B. Russell
B. a novel by Anne Bronte
1068. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.
C. a novel by Thomas Hardy
A. In 1906
ra
D. a novel by Emily Bronte

B. In 1969
1062. was proposed by Robert Frost.
C. In 1952
A. Elimate
Na
B. Eliot D. None of these
C. Elinor 1069. Who is also known as the “Lady with the

Lamp”?
D. elli Willy
A. Florence Nightingale
1063. Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’ is a
B. Sarojini Naidu
A. Tragedy C. Rani Laxmibai
B. Comedy D. Bachendri Pal
C. Satire 1070. Who believed that poetry is the sponta-
D. Lyric neous overflow of emotions?
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
A. Blake A. Hamlet
B. Byron B. Twelfth Night
C. Wordsworth C. Romeo and Juliet
1071. The description of incidents in sequence 1077. The Last Ride Together was written by:
is called- A. Byron
er
A. archive B. Tennyson
B. chronology C. Browning
C. anthology D. None of these
gd
D. antenna 1078. Arms and the Man, Candida and Man
and Super Man are written by:
1072. Paul David and Pip are the three notable
descriptions of sensitive, nervous child- A. Shaw
hood in the works of: B. Butler
A. Thackery
B. Kingsley
C. Dickens an C. Moris
D. Wells
1079. Who is the author of ‘Point Counter-
Ch
point’?
D. Austin
A. Charlotte Bronte
1073. You your home work by the time
the movies starts. B. H. G. Wells
A. will have finished C. John Galsworthy

D. Aldous Huxley
n
B. finished
1080. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was pre-
C. will finished sented by:
ya
D. will finish A. Ruskin

1074. Which Booker Prize winning novel is B. Oscar Wilde
chossen as the ’the best novel out of all the
winners’ on its 25th and 40th anniversary C. None of these
ra
A. Holiday D. Oscar Wilde

1081. Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ is a
B. The Conservationist
A. comedy
Na
C. Midnight’s Children
B. satire
D. Something to Answer For
C. tragedy
1075. Robert Frost attend in which school?
D. historical play
A. Laiciam High School
1082. One of the following is about sin and
B. Lawrence High School punishment-
C. Adarsha High School A. For the Fallen
D. Licium High School B. Tree at my Window
1076. The only play by Shakespeare which con- C. A Mother in Mannville
firms to the classical unities is:
D. The Ancient Mariner
1071. B 1072. C 1073. A 1074. C 1075. B 1076. B 1077. C 1078. A 1079. D 1080. B
1081. C 1083. A
1083. Who among the Romantic poets chores 1090. “We are such stuff as dreams are made”.
the ‘Super natural’ as his theme? Whose words are these.
A. Coleridge A. Shakespeare
B. Shelley B. Marlowe
C. Byron C. Philip Sydney
1084. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by: 1091. ‘Ballad’ is
er
A. J. S. Mill A. a kind of short narrative poem
B. Carlyle B. a kind of short condoling poem
gd
C. Ruskin C. a kind of short love poem
D. None of these D. a rhymic verse
1085. What the term Objectivity refers? 1092. The proper study of mankind in man.
A. Impersonal expression in literary works This line is taken from the work of:
B. individual
C. personal expression in works
D. disinterested person an A. Wordsworth
B. Pope
C. Swift
Ch
1086. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by: D. Thomson
A. Tennyson 1093. The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is
B. Browning A. George Well
C. Keats B. D. H. Lawrence
D. T. S. Eliot C. John Milton
n
1087. ‘Who knows but the world many end D. John Keats
to night.’ In which of Browning’s po-
1094. Milton’s ’Comus’ is
ya
ems the above line appears?

A. An absurd play
A. The Last Ride together
B. A short story
B. One Word More
C. A masque
C. The Last Duchess
ra
D. An elegy
D. None of these
1088. What lies half sunk in the sand in Shel- 1095. Victorian Age starts from?
ley’s ‘Ozymandias’? A. 1801
Na
A. broken statue B. 1901

B. two trunkless legs C. 1885
C. an ancient place D. 1832
D. broken head of a statue 1096. ‘Hasting day’ in ‘To Daffodils’ means
1089. Who is William Hazlitt?
A. Novelist A. first day
B. Essayist B. quiet day
C. Dramatist C. finishing day
D. Poet D. hurriedly passing a day
1084. C 1085. A 1086. B 1087. A 1088. D 1089. B 1090. A 1091. A 1092. B 1093. D
1094. C 1095. D 1096. D
1097. Which of following Books consists of 1104. Who is called the father of English Prose?
Ruskin’s lectures: A. Henry Fielding
A. Modern painters
B. The Stones of Venice
C. The Crown of wild olive
D. John Wycliffe
D. None of these 1105. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for-
1098. Who of the follwing was both a poet and
er
A. Old Man and the Sea
painter?
B. A Farewell to Arms
A. Spenser
C. Man and Superman
B. Keats
gd
D. Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)
C. Donne
1106. Dream Children was written by
D. Blake
1099. Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the A. Leigh Hunt
an
representative poet of B. Charles Lamb
A. 17th Century C. Ruskin
B. 14th Century D. None of these
C. 16th Century 1107. ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is a novel written by-
Ch
D. 18th Century A. Robert Frost
1100. Bathos refers-v B. Emily Dickinson
A. ridiculous in writing or speech C. Mark Twain
B. a pathetic description D. Walt Whitman
C. pathetic events 1108. "Intellectual Beauty" is written by:
n
D. antiquity of style, manner or use A. Bertrand Russell

ya
1101. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ a novel written by- B. Huxley

A. Charles Dickens C. P.B.Shelley
B. Lawrence D. None of these
C. Shakespeare
ra
1109. "Prophets of Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

D. Hardy What we have loved Other will love
1102. Which. of the following is not a play by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .” In which poem by
Shakespeare? Wordsworth do these lines appear?
Na
A. Tempest A. Excursion
B. Pygmalion B. One Summer Evening
C. King Lear C. Prelude

1103. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a famous story by- 1110. Poet of sensuousness
A. Pearl S. Buck A. P. B Shelley

B. Jonathan Swift B. William Wordsworth
C. Ben Johnson C. John Keats
D. D.H. Lawrence D. Byron
1097. C 1098. D 1099. B 1100. A 1101. A 1102. B 1103. B 1104. D 1105. A 1106. B
1107. C 1108. C 1109. B 1110. C
1111. Who is the writer of The Middle English A. Pastoral Romance

Period?
B. Pastoral Elegy
A. William Shakespeare C. Ballad
B. William Wordsworth D. Epic
C. Lord Tennyson 1118. ‘Biographia Literaria’ Written by-
D. John Wycliff A. Wordsworth
er
1112. Francis Bacon was an English- B. Coleridge
A. essayist C. Keats
B. novelist D. Shelley
gd
C. dramatist 1119. Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the
Individual in Society was first awarded to
D. poet
A. Max Frisch
1113. Who is the author of ‘After Strange
an
Gods’? B. André Schwarz-Bart
A. Shaw C. Bertrand Russell
B. Robert Frost D. Ignazio Silone
1120. Under the Greenwood Tree is a:
Ch
C. Eliot
A. Tale of rustic life
D. None of these
1114. Who is the writer of The Modern and B. Tale of man’s destruction of nature
The Post Modern Period? C. Historical novel
A. A. P. J. Abul Kalam D. Tale of city life
n
B. Alexander Pope 1121. The Faire Queen is written by-
C. Daniel Defoe A. Tennyson

ya
D. Jonathan Swift B. Chaucer

1115. Which is known as Romantic Period of C. Browning
English literature? D. Spenser
ra
A. 1550-1558 1122. Spenser was:

B. 1649-1660 A. Novelist
C. 1798-1832 B. Dramatist
Na
D. 1910-1936 C. Prose writer

1116. Shakespeare is known mostly for his- D. None of these
A. poetry 1123. Who is regarded as "The father of the
English Novel"
B. an autobiography
A. Joseph Addison
C. a diary
B. Henry Fielding
D. plays
C. Samuel Pepys
1117. An elaborate classical form in which one
Shepherd – Singer laments the death of an- D. John Bunyan
other is called: 1124. What is a Character?
1111. D 1112. A 1113. C 1114. A 1115. C 1116. D 1117. B 1118. B 1119. C 1120. A
1121. D 1122. D 1123. B 1124. C
A. a poet of writing A. Tess of the D’Urberville

B. a joker of the writing B. Major of the Casterbridge
C. any person in a literary work C. Jude the Obscure
D. a famous man in play D. None of these

1131. is known as the father of detective
1125. What do you mean by Irony?
stories
A. a satiric imitation A. Edgar Allen Poe
er
B. a burlesque imitation B. Anton Chekov
C. a kind of parody C. Aurthur Conan Doyle
D. difference between reality and appear- D. Judith Wright
gd
ance 1132. When was published the novel ‘Lorna
1126. “Thou glorious mirror, where the Doone’?
Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”. A. 1869
The above line occur in Byron’s:
an
B. 1870
A. Fame C. 1871
B. Waterloo D. 1872
C. Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue 1133. In which poem lies the line ‘The One re-
Ch
Oceans main, the many change and pass’?
D. None of these A. Adonis
1127. ‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was writ- B. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
ten by C. The cloud
A. W. Knight D. None of these
n
B. Hazlitt 1134. It as the best of times, it was the worst

of time, it was the worst – the opening of
ya
C. Dryden Dickens’
D. None of these A. Hard Times
1128. Who is the major male character in Jane B. David Copperfield
Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
ra
C. Oliver Twist
A. Mr. Darcy D. A Tales of Two Cities
B. Mr. Bennett 1135. What do you mean by a Play or Drama?
Na
C. Mr. Collius A. a literary lyric

D. None of these B. a literary work performing on a stage
1129. The Revolt of Islam is a: C. a literary prose fiction on stage
A. Novel D. a poem to the alter of God

1136. Total number of categories for which
B. An epic Pulitzer Prize has been awarded
C. Lyrical Drama A. 7
D. None of these B. 12
1130. Which of the following novels of Hardy C. 17
has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?
D. 21
1125. D 1126. C 1127. A 1128. A 1129. C 1130. D 1131. A 1132. A 1133. A 1134. D
1135. B 1136. D 1137. B
1137. Which book win the first Man Booker 1144. Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and
Prize Prejudice’ had also written:
A. Troubles A. Emma
B. Something to Answer For B. Sense and Sensibility
C. The Conservationist C. Persuasion
D. Heat and Dust D. All of these
1138. Who is the author of ‘Pride and Preju- 1145. Which of the following writer rejected
er
dice’? Nobel Prize?
A. Emily Bronte A. Samuel Becket
B. Jane Austen B. Heaney
gd
C. Charles Dickens C. Leo Tolstoy
D. Charlotte Bronte D. Ja Paul Satre
1139. Equivocation means- 1146. Charles Dickens was born in
an
A. two contrary things in same statement A. 1800
B. equal opportunity B. 1789
C. free expression of opinion C. 1812
Ch
D. a true statement D. None of these
1140. John Keats is a- 1147. Find the Odd One?
A. poet A. H. G. Wells : Great science fiction writer
B. dramatist
B. G. B. Shaw : great modern dramatist
C. artist
C. Samuel Beckett : great Irish novelist 67
n
D. none
D. Arthur Miller : Known playwright
1141. George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:
1148. William Shakespeare is the writer of
ya
A. Brother & Sister

B. Contemporary writers A. Paradise Lost
C. Modern poets B. Old Man & the Sea
ra
D. Critics C. Daffodils
1142. Who is of the following both a poet and
D. King Lear
a novelist?
1149. Coward die before their death
Na
A. George Eliot
A. much time
B. Thomas Hardy
B. many time
C. Karl Mark
C. enough time
D. R. L. Stevenson
D. many times
1143. How many time Robert Frost proposed
Elinor? 1150. What is Novella? x
A. 1st time A. a short story of drama

B. 3rd times B. a short narrative poem
C. 2nd times C. a short narrative fictional prose
D. 4th times D. an essay of satire
1138. B 1139. A 1140. A 1141. C 1142. B 1143. C 1144. D 1145. D 1146. C 1147. C
1148. D 1149. D 1150. A 1151. A
1151. Texts like Waiting for Godot are: A. Ne’er to be seen again
A. Ageless B. Vanish like summer’s rain
B. Rare C. Ne’re to be found again
C. Priceless D. As quack a growth of meet decay

1158. Joseph Andrews was written by
D. None of these
A. Richardson
1152. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope",
er
"Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used B. Fielding
as backdrop: C. Bunyan
A. A pair of Blue Eyes D. None of these
gd
B. Jude the Obscure 1159. Who is the romantic precursor in English
poetry?
C. Return of the Native
A. William Blake
D. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
an
B. Tennyson
riod? C. Robert browning
A. Robert Herrick D. Shelley

1160. Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious
Ch
B. William Wycherley
A. Paganism
C. Jeremy Taylor
B. Pantheism
D. Thomas Hobbes
C. Lyricism
1154. ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:
D. None of these
A. Oscar Wilde
n
1161. The phrase "Willing suspension of disbe-

B. Galsworthy lief" was coined by
ya
C. T. S. Eliot A. Wordsworth
D. None of these B. Coleridge
1155. The famous poem ‘Ulysses’ is written by? C. Eliot
ra
A. Homer D. Arnold
1162. Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
B. Tennyson
A. E. Spencer
C. Popem
Na
B. Eliot
D. Alex Haley
C. W. B. Yeats
1156. Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Par-
adise Lost? D. None of these
1163. Any one of the following pairs are liter-
A. Spenser
ary collaborators-
B. Milton
A. Eliot and Pound
C. Byron B. Yeats and Eliot
D. Pope C. Pope and Dryden
1157. The last line of ‘To daffodils’ is D. Shelley and Keats
1152. D 1153. B 1154. A 1155. B 1156. B 1157. C 1158. B 1159. A 1160. B 1161. B
1162. C 1163. D 1164. B 1165. A
1164. Who believes in Pantheism? A. Comedy

A. Lord Byron B. Tragedy
B. William Wordsworth C. Dramatic Romance
C. John Keats D. Farce

1171. Who wrote the poem ‘The Sun Rising’?
D. All of them
A. John Donne
1165. ‘To the Lighthouse’ and ‘A Room of one’s
B. Lord Byron
er
Own’ written by-
A. Virginia Woolf
D. None of them
B. Charlotte Bronte
gd
1172. Who is called the ‘Rebel Poet’?
C. J.M. Synage
A. P. B. Shelly
D. None B. John Keats
1166. ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ is a novel writ- C. S. T. Coleridge
an
ten by-
D. Lord Byron
A. Thomas Hardy 1173. What is the full name of the great Amer-
B. John Stuart Mill ican short story writer O’Henry?
Ch
C. Charles Dickens A. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
D. Emily Bronte 8 B. Walt Whitman
1167. The image of the femme fatale dominates C. Mark Twain

the poetry of: D. William Sydney Porter
A. Wordsworth 1174. Who is the considered to be the Rebel
n
Poet in English Literature?

B. Keats
A. John Keats
C. Byron
ya
B. Lord Byron
D. Tennyson C. William Shakespeare
1168. Oscar Wilde’s novel published in 1891 D. Lord Tennyson
was entitled as:
1175. In 1850, Tennyson succeeded
ra
A. the importance of being earnest Wordsworth as poet laureate.

B. lady windermere’s fan A. True
B. False
Na
C. a woman of no importance
C. both A and B
D. Salome
D. none of these
1169. The novel ‘Roots’ was written by
1176. Who wrote ‘Romola’?
A. Henry Miller
A. Thomas Hardy
B. H. G. Wells
B. W. M. Thackery
C. Alex Heley C. George Eliot
D. P. B. Shelly D. R. L. Stevenson
1170. ‘A woman of no importance’ is a 1177. Who is the author of ‘The Taming of the
by Oscarwilde: Shrew’?
1166. A 1167. B 1168. D 1169. C 1170. A 1171. A 1172. D 1173. D 1174. B 1175. A
1176. C 1177. B
A. Shaw 1184. What is the meaning Hymn?

B. William Shakespeare A. song in praise of poet
C. Ibsen B. a song in praise of country
D. Jonsen C. song in praise of God
1178. Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a: D. a mixture of two language
A. Dramatic Monologue 1185. ‘The Waste Land’ is a/an?
er
B. Dramatic Lyrics A. Epic
C. Tragic Drama B. Poem
D. None of these C. Novel
gd
1179. “A Farewell to Arms” is written by: D. Drama
A. Faulkner 1186. Yann Martel is a/an novelist.
B. Hemmingway A. English
an
C. James Joyce B. American
D. Virginia Woolf C. Irish
1180. The author of ‘Songs of Innocence’ and D. Canadian
‘Songs of Experience’ is-
Ch
1187. Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels
A. John Lennon especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
B. Richard Mark A. Love and marriage
C. John Keats B. Life of big landlords
D. William Blake C. Politicians
n
1181. Who after the publication of a poem, D. None of these

awoke and found himself famous? 1188. The sentence ‘Who would have thought
ya
A. Shelley Shylock was so unkind’? expresses

B. Browning A. hyperbole
C. Wordsworth B. intreeogation
ra
D. Keats C. command
1182. Shylock is a character of D. wonder
A. Doctor Faustus 1189. Adonais was an elegy Shelley wrote in
Na
1821 on the death of:

B. The Merchant of Venice
A. Keats
C. The Way of the World
B. Byron
D. Arms and the Man
1183. How many degree did Robert Frost C. Arthur Hugh Clough
achieve? D. William Hazlit
A. 40 honorary degrees 1190. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempts to-
B. 30 honorary degrees A. Justify the ways of man to God
C. 10 honorary degrees B. Show that the Satan and God have equal
power
D. 20 honorary degrees
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 1191. B
C. Explain why good and evil are neces- 1197. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:
sary
A. 1602
D. Justify the ways of God to man
B. 1608
1191. Of the following authors who wrote an
epic? C. 1610
A. Jane Mansfield D. None of these

1198. Who said these words in ‘The Old Man
B. John Milton
and the Sea’ . . . “No one should be alone in
er
C. William Cowper their old age”:
D. William Shakespeare A. Hemingway
1192. Award of Nobel Prize in Literature was
gd
B. Santiago
started from the year
C. Manolin
A. 1901
D. None of these
B. 1911
1199. Maggie is the central character in George
an
C. 1913 Eliot’s:
D. 1917 A. Adam Bede
1193. Which was Robert Frost’s famous poem?
B. Middle March
A. Henry Holt
Ch
C. The Mill on the Floss
B. North of Boston
D. Silas Morner
C. The road not taken 1200. Who said "Tragedy imitates men as bet-
D. Mountain Interval ter and comedy as worse than they really
1194. Your plan is a good one if a girl only are."
n
wants to be married. Who said these A. Aristotle

words?
B. Shakespeare
ya
A. Charlotte
C. Dryden
B. Mr. Bennet
D. Bradley
C. Mr. Bingley
1201. ‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world
D. None of these of escape either to death or more often, to
ra
1195. ‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Ten-
ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from nyson’s:
A. Past and Present A. Ulysses
Na
B. Of Money B. The Palace of Arts

C. Of Marriage C. The Lotos Eaters
1196. Which poem is written by Walt Whit- 1202. Which of the novels of Hemingway is
man? called Hemingway’s Waste Land?
A. Song of myself A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. Song of Innocence B. Farewell to Arms
C. Song of Experience C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D. none of these D. None of these
1192. A 1193. C 1194. A 1195. B 1196. A 1197. A 1198. B 1199. C 1200. A 1201. C
1202. D 1203. C
1203. Which Victorian Poet is called the psy- 1210. What is the main theme of “Paradise
chologist? Lost”?
A. Rossetti A. Justify the ways of man to God
B. Morris B. Justify the ways of God to man
C. Browning C. Clash of God and Satan
D. Swinburne 1211. Who is known as the father of English
1204. ‘The Origin of Species’ is written by- drama?
er
A. Newton A. Henry Fielding
B. Charles Darwin B. William Shakespeare
gd
C. Galileo C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Mary Curie D. Robert Browning
1205. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Pe- 1212. The play Arms and the Man is by-
riod?
A. James Joyce
A. Cynewulf
B. Dante
C. George Herbert an B. Arthur Miller
C. Samuel Beckett
D. George Bernard Shaw
Ch
D. Caedmon
1213. William Wordsworth was born in:
1206. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by:
A. 1770
A. W. Scott
B. 1771
B. Lewis
C. 1772
C. Mrs. Shelley
n
D. 1779
D. If none of these then by whom
1214. Character ‘King Duncan’ is found in-
1207. Who is called the poet of supernatural?
ya
A. Othello
A. S. T. Coleridge
B. Macbeth
B. Wordsworth
C. Julius Caesar
C. Keats
ra
D. Henry 8
D. Shelley
1208. Which English poet was a Diplomat? 1215. Find the Odd one.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Treasure Island

Na
B. Shakespeare B. The return of the Native
C. Spenser C. Das Capital
D. Dante D. Adam Bede

1209. Mary Anne Evans is the same person as 1216. ‘Man and Superman’ and ‘Arms and The
George Eliot. Man’ were written by-
A. True A. G.B. Shaw
B. False B. Somerset Maugham
C. both A and B C. William Golding
D. none of these D. None
1204. B 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
1217. The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ 1224. ‘How can we know the dancer from the
occurs in which one of Keats’ following po- dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken
ems: from:
A. Ode to Nightingale A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. Ode to Grecian Urn B. Among School Children
C. Ode to Psyche C. The Second Coming
er
1218. What is Limerick?
1225. Which one of the following poets was
A. a form of one act play appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
B. a kind of novel A. Tennyson
gd
C. a form of short story B. Byron
D. a form of light verse C. Southey
1219. What do you mean by Syntax?
D. Wordsworth
an
A. study of speech sounds
1226. How many types of epic are there?
B. study of meaning of words
A. 1
C. study of constructing sentence
B. 2
Ch
D. constructing passage
1220. What is the name of first modern novel? C. 3
A. Pamala or Virtue D. 4
B. Silas Marner 1227. Queen Mab is one of the first two great
poems written by:
C. Jane Eyre
A. Shelley
n
1221. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘For Whom the

Bell Tolls’-These two novels were written B. Byron
by-
ya
C. Blake
A. O’Henry
D. None of these
B. Arthur Miller
1228. “Major Barbra” is written by:
C. Earnest Hemingway
ra
A. Beckett
D. John Osborn
B. Eliot
1222. The line “she dwells with Beauty –
Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’ C. Shaw
Na
A. Lamia D. None of these

B. Ode to a Grecian Urn 1229. The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and
C. Ode on Melancholy Hell” was written by:
D. Endymion A. Shelley
1223. Jane Eyre was written by: B. Blake
A. C. Dickens C. Byron
B. G. Eliot D. Browning
C. C. Bronte 1230. The poem “the Triumph of life” was writ-
D. J. Austen ten by:
1218. D 1219. C 1220. A 1221. C 1222. C 1223. C 1224. C 1225. C 1226. B 1227. A
1228. C 1229. B 1230. C
A. Keats A. Romantic
B. Blake B. Classicist
C. Shelley C. Both
1231. A poet is a man speaking to men says? 1238. Who is the writer of ‘Tears Idle Tears’?
A. Pope
er
B. Robert Frost
C. A. Lord Tennyson
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these
gd
1239. Short Story differs from a Novel by the
1232. Charles Dickens is a great figures of-
A. poet A. Length and Characters
B. critic B. prose and fiction
C. play-wright
D. novelist
1233. Who is the author of the poem ‘The Leg- an C. verse and rhymes
D. rhythms and prosody
1240. Hamlet by Shakespeare is
Ch
end of Good Women’? A. a comedy
A. Thomas More B. a tragi-comedy
B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. an epic
C. Roger Bacon D. a tragedy
D. William Langland 1241. “If they be two, they are two so A stiff
n
twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed

1234. An Apology for Poetry is written by- foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if
A. Mathew Arnold th’ other do”-example of?
ya
B. Philip Sydney A. Conceit
C. Dr. Johnson B. Ode
D. Tomas Stern Eliot C. Allusion

ra
1235. ‘Ode to Autumn’ is written by- D. Simile

1242. ‘Twelfth Night’ is a-
A. Shelley
A. A Comedy
Na
B. Keats
B. an Elegy
C. Byron
C. a Novel
D. Blake
D. a Tragedy
1236. “Hamlet” is written by-
1243. The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:
A. Christopher Marlowe A. Ruskin
B. William Congreve B. Lamb
C. William Shakespeare C. Mill
D. John Webster D. Oscar Wilde
1237. T. S. Eliot was 1244. “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
1231. C 1232. D 1233. B 1234. B 1235. B 1236. C 1237. B 1238. C 1239. A 1240. D
1241. A 1242. A 1243. C 1244. D
A. Among School Children 1251. Who wrote ‘Prometheus Unbound’?

B. Byzentium A. Coleridge
C. Sailing to Byzentium B. Keats
D. The Second coming C. Byron
1245. Who was statesman but awarded Nobel D. Shelley
Prize in English Literature? 1252. ‘Faerie Queen’ is a
A. Stalin A. play
er
B. Nixon B. short story
C. Churchill C. an epic
gd
D. Rosevelt D. novel
1246. Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual an- 1253. Which is the famous elegy written by
gel beating in the void his luminous wings Shelley?
in vain”, about:
A. In Memoriam
an
A. Keats
B. Lycidas
B. Byron
C. Adonis
C. Shelley
D. Thyrsis
D. Blake
Ch
1254. ‘Adela’ is a character in the novel ‘A Pas-
1247. Parson Adams and Squire Western are sage to India’ written by-
creations of:
A. E.M. Forster
A. Richardson
B. William Golding
B. Sterne
C. Joyce
C. Fielding
n
D. Hardy
D. Smollett 1255. The principle of political Economy was
1248. Literature of Victorian Age reflects?
ya
the main theme of the writings of:

A. Instability A. Ruskin
B. Stability B. J. S. Mill
C. Doubtless C. Carlyle
ra
D. Immorality D. None of these

1249. Pauline was written by: 1256. What the term Humor refers?
A. Browning A. anything causes laughter
Na
B. Keats B. amazing
C. Byron C. wonder
D. Blake D. rapture
1250. Who is the first Humorist in English Lit- 1257. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written
erature? by-
A. Geoffrey Chaucer A. Toni Morrison
B. Robert Browning B. Earnest Hemingway
C. Roger Bacon C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Cynewulf D. Jean Paul Sartre
1245. C 1246. C 1247. C 1248. B 1249. A 1250. A 1251. D 1252. C 1253. C 1254. A
1255. B 1256. A 1257. C
1258. Who wrote ‘Don Juan’? 1265. William Golding got Nobel Prize for his-
A. Words worth A. Merchant of Venice
B. Keats B. Measure for Measure
C. Shelley C. The Lord of the Flies
D. Byron D. Heart of the Matter
1259. ’Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of 1266. English poet addicted to Opium was-
powerful feeling’ is a definition of poetry
er
A. Lord Byron
by
B. Charles Kingsley
A. Wordsworth
C. S.T. Coleridge
gd
B. Shelley
D. P.B. Shelly
C. Coleridge 1267. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for
D. None of these literature in:
1260. Who wrote the book ‘Cancer Ward’? A. 1927
A. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
B. Boris Pasternak
C. Leo Tolstoy an B. 1832
C. 1924
D. None of these
Ch
D. Alexander Pope 1268. B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:
1261. ‘Songs of Experience’ was written by: A. Ibsen
A. Blake B. Swift
B. Wordsworth C. Butler
D. Wells
n
C. Keats
D. Shelley 1269. Wordsworth was inspired by
ya
1262. Hero and Hero Worship was written by: A. the French Revolution
A. Ruskin B. the American Revolution
B. Carlyle C. the Russian Revolution

D. the Industrial Revolution
ra
C. J. S. Mill
1270. Who is Neo-Classic?
D. None of these
1263. What is Diction? A. Tennyson
Na
A. the choice of words B. Alexander Pope

C. Robert Browning
B. the choice of characters
D. a and c
C. choice of incidents
1271. “East is East and West is West and never
D. choice of heroine the twain shall meet”-these lines were writ-
1264. Who wrote ‘The New Arabian Night’? ten by?
A. Thomas Hardy A. Rudyard Kipling
B. W. M. Thackery B. G. B. Shaw
C. Charles Dickens C. Toni Morrison
D. R. L. Stevenson D. Salmon Rushdie
1258. D 1259. A 1260. A 1261. A 1262. B 1263. A 1264. D 1265. C 1266. C 1267. D
1268. A 1269. A 1270. B 1271. A 1272. D
1272. Who is the writer of The Modern and A. England

The Post Modern Period? B. America
A. Alexander Pope C. Germany
B. Daniel Defoe D. Russia
C. Jonathan Swift 1279. The subjugation of Women (1869) is an
important text of:
D. Adolf Hitler
A. George Eliot
er
1273. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is
a famous B. Byron
A. tragedy C. John Mill
gd
D. Hardy
B. comedy
1280. The second shortest play of Shakespeare
C. tragi-comedy is:
D. melodrama A. The Winter’s Tale
an
1274. ‘Paradise Lost’ is written by: B. Much ado about nothing
A. Milton C. Tempest
B. Pope D. None of these
1281. Shakespeare is knows mostly for his
Ch
C. Swift
D. None of these
A. poetry
1275. Which Century belongs to Victorian Pe-
B. autobiography
riod?
C. plays
A. 19th.
n
D. novels
B. 20th 1282. When did Frost and Elinor were force to
C. 17th return to America?
ya
D. 18th A. 1912
1276. ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a B. 1913
C. 1914
ra
A. Play D. 1913
B. short story 1283. O’Henry is famous for-
A. Drama
Na
C. novel
B. short story
D. poem
C. novel
1277. After whom is the Elizabethan Age
named? D. poem
1284. Who created the fictional private detec-
A. Elizabeth I
tive ‘Sherlock Holmes’?
B. Elizabeth II
A. John Gay
C. Elizabeth Browning B. W. B. Somerset Mougham
D. None of these C. Sir A Conan Doyle
1278. Maxim Gorky was a famous writer from D. Dylan Thomas
1273. C 1274. A 1275. A 1276. D 1277. A 1278. D 1279. C 1280. B 1281. C 1282. C
1283. B 1284. C 1285. A
1285. W. B. Yeats was a/an? 1292. Little Time is a character in Hardy’s

A. Irish Poet A. The return of the native
B. English Poet B. Jude the Obscure
C. Swedish Poet
C. Mayor of Casterbridge
D. None of them
D. None of these
1286. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Pe-
riod? 1293. Shakespeare was born in:
er
A. John Donne A. 1570
B. Caedmon B. 1564
gd
C. Dante C. 1590
D. Cynewulf
D. None of these
1287. Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of
life”: 1294. Who is the author of ‘The Rhyme of the
Ancient Mariner’?
an
A. Wordsworth
B. Byron
C. T. S. Eliot B. S. T. Coleridge
C. W. Somerset Maugham
Ch
D. Arnold
1288. What do you mean by Synecdoche? D. Sir Walter Scott
A. a figurative story 1295. The Descent of Man is by Charles Dar-
B. a story by animal characters win, The Confidence-Man : his Masquerade
is by-
C. a figure of speech stands for whole thing
A. Karl Mark
n
D. none
1289. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ B. Herman Melville
ya
pen-name
C. Stuart Mill
A. Mark Twain
D. Thomas Hardy
B. Bram Stoker
1296. “Gyre” is a favorite symbol with
C. Ernest Hemingway
ra
A. T. S. Eliot
D. Leo Tolstoy
1290. Jack Worthing is a character created by: B. Yeats
C. Emily Dickenson
Na
A. Shaw
B. Dickens D. None of these
C. Hardy 1297. ‘Oedipus Rex’ is written by-
D. none of these A. Socrates
1291. Which philosopher got Nobel Prize in
literature? B. Shakespeare
A. Winston Churchill C. Aristotle
B. Abraham Lincoln D. Sophocles

C. T.S. Eliot 1298. Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by
Wordsworth is:
D. Bertrand Russell
1286. A 1287. D 1288. C 1289. A 1290. B 1291. D 1292. B 1293. B 1294. B 1295. B
1296. B 1297. D 1298. C
A. Ballad 1305. Which of the following poet was not

awarded the Nobel Prize?
B. Pastoral poem
C. Sonnet A. Eliot
D. Lyrical poem B. Yeats

1299. When did Elinor die? C. Rabindranath Tagore
A. 1935 D. Milton
er
B. 1937 1306. For Which Shakespeare is known
mostly?
C. 1938
A. poetry
D. 1936
gd
1300. Love of political freedom, always the no- B. novels
blest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to C. autobiography
write:
D. plays
A. Manfred
an
1307. A sub-division of a poem is called-
B. The Island
A. meter
C. The prisoner of Chillon
B. foot
D. The Prophecy of Dante
Ch
C. mythology
1301. Maud and In memoriam were written by
D. none of these
A. Tennyson
1308. Who is known as the father of English
B. Keats
poetry?
C. Shelley
A. Milton
n
D. None of these
B. Wordsworth
1302. Shaw wrote more than:
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
ya
A. 30 plays
D. Charles Dickens
B. 50 plays
1309. Who is the creator of the fictional char-
C. 60 plays acter known as Sherlock Holmes
ra
D. none of these
A. Agatha Christie
1303. Who wrote the book ‘Paradise Re-
gained’? B. Arthur Conan Doyle
Na
A. P.B. Shelley C. Oscar Wilde
B. John Milton D. J. K. Rowling
C. John Keats 1310. “He smiles, he laughs and he roars”-this

quotation is an example of?
D. William Blake
A. Conceit
1304. William Shakespeare was Born in:
B. Allusion
A. 1564
C. Climax
B. 1534
C. 1616 D. Satire
1311. ‘Essays of Elia’ was written by
D. None of these
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
A. William Hazlitt 1318. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and

B. Charles Lamb Trollope are:
C. Emily Brontee A. Novelists
D. Emily Dickinson B. Poets

1312. Which period is known as ‘The golden C. Critics
age of English literature’?
D. Essayists
A. the Victorian age
er
1319. ‘The Road not Taken’ is a famous poem
B. the Elizabethan age of-
C. the Restoration age A. Robert Frost
gd
D. the Eighteenth century
B. Walt Whitman
1313. Who was the King or Queen in early Re-
naissance Period? C. Emily Dickinson
A. Elizabeth 1 D. None
B. Charles 2
C. Charles 1
D. Victoria 1 an
1320. Restoration period was known as the age
of :
A. satire
Ch
1314. Who wrote an epic ‘The Faerie Queen’? B. paganism
A. Edmund Spenser C. classicism
B. T. S Eliot D. puritanism
C. Robert Browning 1321. ‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:
D. Alfred Tennyson A. Katherine Mansfield
n
1315. P. B. Shelley is known as

B. Emily Bronte
A. Epic Poet
ya
C. George Eliot
B. Romantic Poet
D. Jane Austen
C. Poet of nature
1322. When did Robert frost search for job?
D. Poet of beauty
ra
1316. Who wrote the world famous tragic play A. 1892

‘King Lear’? B. 1891
A. George Bernard Shaw C. 1894
Na
D. 1893
C. Christopher Marlowe
1323. Who represents Prejudice in Jane
D. John Milton Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
1317. Tennyson talks about the equality of A. Mr. Darcy
women in:
B. Miss Elizabeth
A. The Princess
B. In memoriam C. Miss Jane
C. Maud D. None of these
D. Lackslay Hall 1324. What do you mean by Satire?
1313. A 1314. A 1315. B 1316. B 1317. A 1318. A 1319. A 1320. A 1321. D 1322. C
1323. B 1324. B
A. an ironical writing A. Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale

B. ridiculous writing against vices or fol- B. A Thing of Beauty
lies C. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
C. mixture of two languages D. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. a regional epic 1331. Shakespeare has written
1325. Who got the Nobel Prize for literature in A. Comedies
2007?
er
B. Tragedies
A. Becket
C. Historical Plays
B. Pinter
D. All of these
gd
C. Stoppard 1332. What does ‘Canto’ means?
D. Lessing A. a division of a play
1326. The novel David Copperfield is written B. an act of a play
by
an
C. a sub division of an epic
A. Hardy
B. Shakespeare
1333. Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laure-
C. Marlowe ate in:
Ch
D. Dickens A. 1817
1327. Orhan Pamuk got Nobel Prize in- B. 1839
A. 2006 C. 1843
B. 2007 D. 1849
1334. Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare
n
C. 2008
are:
D. 2000
A. Four
ya
1328. ’Past and Present’ is written by

B. Six
A. Mill
C. Eight
B. Hazlitt
D. None of these
ra
C. Carlyle
1335. “Ten Thousands saw I at a glance”-
D. None of these example of?
1329. Stephen Guest is an important Character A. Conceit
Na
in One of the following novels of George

Eliot: B. Hyperbole
A. The Mill on the Floss C. Simile

D. Metaphor
B. Adam Bede
1336. Who is the author of the book ‘The Cap-
C. Silas Marner tive Lady’?
D. None of these A. John Keats
1330. She can not fade, though thou hast not
B. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
the bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be
fair! The above two lines have been taken C. Rabindronath Tagore
from: D. W. shakespeare
1325. D 1326. D 1327. A 1328. C 1329. A 1330. D 1331. D 1332. C 1333. C 1334. A
1335. B 1336. B 1337. A
1337. My soul had been a lawn besprinkled A. 430

O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and B. 450
baffled dreams is an example of:
C. 440
A. Metaphor
D. 420
B. Simile
1344. ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Stopping by Woods
C. Personification on a Snowy Evening’ are two poems writ-
D. None of these ten by-
er
1338. Who is the father of English novel? A. Robert Frost
A. Thomas hardy B. Walt Whitman
C. Emily Dickinson
gd
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Henry Fielding D. None
D. None of the above 1345. Who is the author of the book ’The Time
Machine’
1339. “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line
an
has been taken from: A. Robert Heinlein
A. Ode to Autumn B. H G Wells
B. Ode to a Nightingale C. Arthur C Clarke

Ch
C. Ode on a Grecian Urn D. Ray Bradbury
1346. Naguib Mahfouz is a/an writer
D. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
who got Nobel Prize.
riod? A. Egyptian
B. English
A. Robert Herrick
n
C. Irish
B. Jeremy Taylor
D. American
C. Thomas Hobbes
ya
1347. Hemingway also worked as a:

D. Samuel Butler
A. Carpenter
1341. is called the first romantic critic.
B. Painter
A. Wordsworth
ra
C. surgeon
B. Longinus
D. Driver
C. Horace
1348. Who wrote ‘Ulysses’?
Na
D. Sidney
A. Thomas Moore
1342. Dickens sprang to fame with a publica-
tion of: B. Alfred Tennyson
A. Hard Times C. R.L. Stevenson
B. David Copperfield D. S.T. Coleridge

1349. Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her:
C. Pickwick Papers d Great Expecta-
tions A. Devotion
D. none of these B. sympathy
1343. The Anglo-Saxon or Old English period C. kindness
start on?
D. none of these
1338. C 1339. C 1340. D 1341. B 1342. C 1343. B 1344. A 1345. B 1346. A 1347. D
1348. B 1349. A 1350. A
1350. ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ was 1357. When Leontes discovers the identity of
stated by Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example
A. John Keats of:
B. William Wordsworth A. Peripety
C. Bacon B. Suspense
D. Milton C. revelation
1351. What type of work ‘Tottle’s Miscellany’ D. Discovery
er
is?
1358. ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was writ-
A. Epic ten by:
B. Sonnet
gd
A. Oscar Wilde
C. Drama
B. Browning
D. Comedy
C. Blake
1352. What is meaning of the word Eu-
an
phemism? vii D. None of these
A. vague idea 1359. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:
B. inoffensive expression A. Blake
C. a verbal play B. Byron
Ch
D. a wise saying C. Tennyson
1353. ‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:
D. None of these
A. Carlyle
1360. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is
B. Lamb a-
C. Ruskin
n
A. tragedy
D. Shelley
B. comedy
ya
1354. First English Tragedy?

C. tragicomedy
A. Oedipus
D. sonnet
B. Gorboduc
C. Aeschylus 1361. What is the real name of O’Henry?
ra
D. None of these A. Mary Anne Evan

1355. Which one from the below writers was B. George Gordon
also a physician
Na
C. Lord Byron
A. Anton Chekhov
D. William Sydney Porter
B. Charles Dickens
1362. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake
C. Ernest Hemingway was published in:
D. Oscar Wilde A. 1790
1356. Goethe is the greatest poet of-
B. 1794
A. Russia
C. 1820
B. Germany
D. None of these
C. England
1363. “Ullyses” is written by:
D. France
1351. B 1352. B 1353. C 1354. B 1355. A 1356. B 1357. D 1358. A 1359. C 1360. B
1361. D 1362. B 1363. A
A. James Joyce 1370. A Protagonist is the character in a

play or novel.
B. Virginia Woolf
A. villain
C. Hardy
D. Forster B. leading
1364. Who is called the poet of poets? C. important
A. Geoffrey Chaucer D. comedy
er
B. Edmund Spenser 1371. ‘Nothing more real than nothing’ are the
words of?
C. Roger Bacon
A. Harold Pinter
gd
B. Beckett
1365. Who is famous for his elegies?
C. Shaw
A. Robert Browning
D. None of these
B. Lord Byron
an
1372. Who is the writer of the poem ‘The Ring
C. Thomas Gray
and the Book’?
D. Thomas Paine
A. John Milton
1366. Which novel is not written by Jane
B. Lord Tennyson
Ch
Austen?
A. Emma C. William Shakespeare
B. The Chimes D. Robert Browning

1373. Who translated the Bible into English for
C. Persuation
the first time?
D. none these
n
A. Nicolas Udall
1367. Who is the author of ‘The Dark Room’?
B. John Wycliffe
ya
A. R K Narayan
C. Thomas Norton
B. James Osborn
D. Edmund Spenser
C. Toni Morrison
1374. Geraldine is a character of the poem;
ra
D. Saul Bellow
A. Lucy Grey
1368. William Shakespeare was a famous
century English Playwright. B. Christabel
Na
A. nineteenth C. Frost at midnight

B. sixteenth D. the last of the flock
C. eighteenth 1375. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is written by
D. fifteenth A. John Keats
1369. Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’? B. Jane Austen
A. Leavis, F.R. C. Blake
B. Cecil, D. D. Lord Byron
C. E.M.Foster 1376. For which book published in 1897, Bram
Stoker is famous for
D. None of these
1364. B 1365. C 1366. B 1367. A 1368. B 1369. A 1370. B 1371. B 1372. D 1373. B
1374. B 1375. B 1376. C 1377. A
A. Frankenstein 1383. Who is the writer of ‘Ulysess’?

B. The Raven A. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Dracula B. Robert Browning
D. The Monk C. Cynewulf
1377. Byron is the writer of D. A. Lord Tennyson
A. Don Juan 1384. Who is the father of English essay?
er
B. Prometheus Unbound A. Harold Pinter
C. Adonias B. Francis Bacon
D. Lucy Gray C. William Hazlitt
gd
1378. Which of the following age in literary 1385. "A Tale of Two Cities" Novel state the
history is the latest? fact in following two cities
A. The Augustan Period A. London and Paris
B. The Victorian Age B. London and Berlin
C. The Georgian Age
D. The Restoration Age
1379. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Fra Lippo an C. Chicago and New York
D. Moscow and Saint Petersburg
1386. The novel Sons and Lovers is written by-
Ch
Lippi’? A. D.H. Lawrence
A. Robertf Browning B. T.S. Eliot
B. Wordsworth C. Hardy
C. William Shakespeare D. Joseph Conrad
D. Milton 1387. The poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ was writ-
n
1380. Who was awarded Nobel prize for the ten by

poem ‘The Waste Land’? A. John Keats
ya
A. D. H. Lawrence B. Andrew Marvell

B. Lord Tennyson C. John Milton
C. T. S. Eliot D. William Shakespeare
ra
D. William Wordsworth 1388. ‘The Daffodils’ is a poem written

1381. ‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view by
about poetry by: A. John Keats
Na
A. Arnold B. William Wordsworth

B. Dr. Johnson C. P.B Shelly
C. Shelley D. T.S Eliot
D. Hazlitt 1389. Which of the plays is not written by T. S.
1382. The year 1798 is famous for Eliot?
A. The French Revolution A. The Rock
B. The American Independence B. The Family Reunion
C. Publication of lyrical ballads C. The importance of being Earnest
D. The death of Keats D. None of these
1378. C 1379. A 1380. C 1381. A 1382. C 1383. D 1384. B 1385. A 1386. A 1387. B
1388. B 1389. C 1390. C
1390. Gulliver was expelled from the land of A. Simile

Yahoos because he was considered B. Metaphor
A. a yahoo C. Synecdoche
B. a criminal D. Metonymy
C. he hated their king 1397. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Home
Thoughts from Abroad’?
D. None of these
A. Wordsworth
er
1391. Tennyson created a medieval world in
his poem: B. Milton
A. in memoriam C. William Shakespeare

D. Robert Browning
gd
B. the lady of Shalott
1398. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem writ-
C. the lotus eaters ten by:
D. Ulyssess A. Browning
an
1392. ‘In Memoriam’ is written by? B. Mathew Arnold
A. Charles Dickens C. Tennyson
B. Tennyson D. None of these
Ch
C. Robert Browning
riod?
D. Thackeray
A. Caedmon
1393. Who is the first great English story-teller
in English Literature? B. Cynewulf
A. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe

D. Dante
n
B. Roger Bacon
1400. ‘The Flea’ by John Donne is
C. Robert Browning
A. a romantic poem
ya
D. Cynewulf
B. an Elegy
1394. It as the best of times, it was the worst
C. a religious poem
of time, it was the worst – the opening of
Dickens’ D. an Ode
ra
A. Hard Times 1401. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ is a work by-

A. Byron
B. David Copperfield
B. Salman Rushdie
Na
C. Oliver Twist
C. Shelley
D. A Tales of Two Cities
D. G.B. Shaw
1395. Who believed that Shakespeare did much
1402. When did Frost and Elinor decide move
better in Comedy than in tragedy?
the family to England?
A. Dryden
A. 1915
B. Bradley B. 1913
C. Johnson C. 1914
D. L. C. Knight D. 1912
1396. She is like a rose. It is an example of- 1403. Who is writer of the poem ‘Justice’?
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. In King Lear

B. Jonathan Swift B. In Hamlet
C. Charles Dickens C. In the Tempest
D. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow D. In Marry Wives of Windsor

1410. Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is no-
1404. In his poetry Tennyson is: table for its:
A. The representative poet of Victorian A. Crushing tragedy
er
Age
B. Humor
B. The representative poet of Romantic
C. Whimsical Pathos
Age
D. Cynicism
gd
C. The best nature poet
1411. What is Synecdoche?
D. None of these A. a short stanza poem
1405. G. B. Shaw began his literary career first B. a long narrative speech
an
as:
C. a theory
A. Novelist
D. a figure of speech stands for whole thing
B. Dramatist
1412. The "battle of Philippi" appears in the
Ch
C. Critic
play
D. None of these
A. Othello
1406. Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s
B. Julius Caesar
‘Pride and Prejudice’:
C. Macbeth
A. Mr. Bennett
D. King Lear
n
B. Mr. Bingley 1413. Who said . . . “expression ought to be the

C. Miss Elizabeth dress of the thought”?
ya
D. None of these A. Pope
1407. Who is the writer of The Old English Pe- B. Dryden

riod? C. Locke
ra
A. William Shakespeare D. Coleridge

1414. What is literature?
A. writing about society
Na
C. Lord Tennyson
B. reflection of society
D. Caedmon
C. literary works
1408. “Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:
D. different customs
A. Monologue 1415. Stones of Venice was written by:
B. Dramatic Lyric A. Macaulay
C. Dramatic Monologue B. Newman
D. Dramatic Romance C. Ruskin
1409. Where is expressed the view that ‘There D. Carlyle
is a divinity that shapes our ends’? 1416. Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?
1405. A 1406. D 1407. D 1408. A 1409. B 1410. C 1411. D 1412. B 1413. D 1414. B
1415. C 1416. C
A. P. B Shelly 1423. Dickens’ novels combine and

melodrama.
B. John Donne
A. journalism
B. Satire
D. Samuel Johnson
C. science
1417. Who is famous for the theory of ‘Objec-
tive Co-relative’? D. religion
1424. Who is considered to be the father of En-
er
A. E.M. Forster
glish Poem?
B. Somerset Maugham
A. William Langland
C. T.S. Eliot
B. Thomas More
gd
D. Woolf
C. Roger Bacon
1418. Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
A. Hellas 1425. What do you mean by Canto?
an
B. Prometheus Unbound A. a stanza of a long poem
C. The Ancient Mariner B. a stanza of a short poem
D. The Triumph of life C. a section or division of a long poem
Ch
1419. Who used the term ‘The Metaphysical D. a kind of sonnet
poet’? 1426. Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?
A. Edmund A. Tennyson
B. John Donne B. Browning
C. Samuel Johnson C. Matthew Arnold
n
D. Andrew Marvell D. None of these

1420. Who wrote the poem ‘The Collar’? 1427. When did Lesley born?
ya
A. George Herbert A. 1896

B. John Donne B. 1899
C. Edmund Spenser C. 1898

ra
D. Alfred Tennyson D. 1897

1428. When was the Lyrical Ballads published
1421. The period from 1649-1660 is known as-
A. 1797
Na
A. Commonwealth period
B. 1798
B. Jacobean period
C. 1800
C. Caroline period
D. 1801
D. Restoration period
1429. Who is the writer of the book ‘A Passage
1422. Who was a ‘poet laureate’? to India’?
A. William Wordsworth A. E. M. Forster
B. Robert Browning B. Charles Dickens
C. T. S Eliot C. Rudyard Kipling
D. John Keats D. James Joyce
1417. C 1418. D 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
1430. Santiago is an illustration of: 1437. ‘If winter come, can spring be far be-
A. Hemingway’s respect for struggle hind’? These lines were written by
B. Hemingway’s total view of life A. Keats
C. Hemingway’s philosophy of life B. Frost
D. None of these C. Eliot

1431. Who is the writer of ‘Tithonus’? D. Shelley
1438. ‘Lyrical Ballad’ was published in?
er
A. A. Lord Tennyson
B. George Bernard Shaw A. 1789
C. Christopher Marlowe B. 1798
gd
D. William Shakespeare C. 1800
1432. Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great D. 1785
tragedies? 1439. ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:
A. Macbeth
an
A. Ted Hughes
B. King Lear B. T.S. Eliot
C. Othello C. W.B. Yeats
D. Hamlet D. W.H. Auden
Ch
1433. The Study of Poetry is written by-
1440. Who is the writer of ‘Lotus Eaters’?
A. Dr. Johnson
A. Cynewulf
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. S. T. Coleridge
C. Robert Browning
D. Matthew Arnold
n
D. A. Lord Tennyson
1434. Ode to West Wind was written by
1441. Who is the author of the book ‘Waste
ya
A. Keats land’?
B. Shelley A. T.S. Eliot
C. Byron B. Shelly
D. None of these
ra
C. Earnest Hemingway
1435. In Greek tragedy irony and are
D. Charles Dickens
fused into one.
1442. Shakespeare is the writer for
A. Allegory
Na
A. The Tempest
B. Idealism
B. The Idea of University
C. Imagery
C. The Hairy Ape
D. Satire
1436. When did Frost attend Harvard Univer- D. Riders to the Sea
sity? 1443. Romantic Age starts from?
A. 1896 A. 1789
B. 1899 B. 1880
C. 1897 C. 1889
D. 1898 D. 1750
1432. B 1433. D 1434. B 1435. D 1436. C 1437. D 1438. B 1439. C 1440. D 1441. A
1442. A 1443. A 1444. C
1444. The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to A. The ability to sympathize with other
write:
B. Say bad thing, about others
A. Endymion
C. To empathize
B. Lamia
D. None of these
C. The Grecian Urn 1451. “The Heard melodies are sweet but those
D. Melancholy unheard are sweeter” appear in:
er
1445. Who is the writer of The Augustan Pe- A. Ode to Autumn
riod? B. Ode on a Grecian Urn
A. Robert Herrick C. Ode to a Nightingale
gd
B. Jeremy Taylor D. Ode on Melancholy
C. Thomas Hobbes 1452. Who wrote ‘The Waste Land’?
D. Joseph Addison and Richard steele A. W.B. Yeats
an
1446. Who is the writer of The Victorian Pe- B. T.S. Eliot
riod?
C. E.M. Forster
A. Robert Herrick
D. H.G. Wells 3
B. Jeremy Taylor
Ch
1453. Edmund Spenser is a
C. Thomas Hobbes
A. Scientist
D. Charles Dickens
B. Poet
1447. ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was
published in: C. Critic
n
A. 1837 D. Dramatist
1454. Who is the father of modern English po-
B. 1838
etry?
ya
C. 1839
A. Cynewulf
D. 1841
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
1448. Doctor Zivago is written by-
ra
C. Robert Browning
A. Ana Pasternak
B. Boris Pasternak
1455. “The music in my heart I bore, Long after
Na
C. Golding it was heard no more.” These lines are from

the poem
D. Conrad
A. The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
1449. What the term Mock Epic refers? xi
B. Ode to a Nightmare by John Keats
A. a satiric writing of drama
C. To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley
B. a long narrative poem
D. Elegy written in a country churchyard
C. a literary work comically imitates the
by Thomas Gray
style of epic
1456. What is the name of a modern philoso-
D. none pher, who was awarded Nobel Prize in lit-
1450. Negative Capability to Keats, means erature?
1445. D 1446. D 1447. A 1448. B 1449. C 1450. C 1451. B 1452. B 1453. B 1454. B
1455. A 1456. A
A. Bertrand Russell 1463. Little Time is a character in Hardy’s

B. Woodrow Wilson A. The return of the native
C. Theodore Roosevelt B. Jude the Obscure
D. None of the above C. Mayor of Casterbridge
1457. is credited to have finished Mar- D. None of these
lowe’s Hero and Leander 1464. Harold Pinter was a/ an-
A. Michael Drayton A. poet
er
B. Ben Jonson B. novelist
C. Shakespeare C. absurd dramatist
gd
D. Lyric poet
D. George Chapman
1465. Gulliver was expelled from the land of
1458. Shakespeare died in: Yahoos because he was considered
A. 1625 A. a yahoo
an
B. 1616 B. a criminal
C. 1618 C. he hated their king
1459. ‘Lord of the flies’ is written by? 1466. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the
Ch
green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The
A. E. M. Forster
meat it feeds on.”-quoted from?
B. Robert Frost A. Dr. Faustus
C. George Orwell B. Macbeth
D. William Golding C. Hamlet
n
1460. In Which century was the Victorian pe- D. Othello

riod? 1467. Why is the poet so sad to see the Daf-
ya
A. 17th century fodils in ‘The Daffodils’?

B. 18th century A. The poet is sad because the flowers have
not bloomed fully.
C. 19th century
B. The poet is sad because the flowers re-
ra
D. 20th century mind him of his own death.

1461. Who was the contemporary poet of C. The poet is sad because the winter will
William Wordsworth? soon arrive.
Na
A. T.S Eliot D. The poet is sad because the summer will

B. S.T Coleridge go away.
1468. Which English romantic poet admired
C. W.B Yeats
Pope:
D. John Keats
A. Coleridge
1462. Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?
A. Charles Lamb and his sister
C. Byron
B. Dr. Johnson D. None of these
C. Dryden 1469. What was the “solitary highland lass” do-
ing in “The Solitary Reaper”?
D. None of these
1457. D 1458. B 1459. D 1460. C 1461. B 1462. A 1463. B 1464. A 1465. C 1466. D
1467. B 1468. C 1469. A
A. She was reaping and singing A. rising sun, moon

B. She was dancing and singing B. summer’s morning’s dew
C. She was reaping and dancing C. spring, summer
D. She was reaping and crying D. hasting day, even song
1470. In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of 1476. Samuel Beckett was-iv

nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity A. An English dramatist
of the humblest’?
er
B. A Russian dramatist
A. Coleridge
C. A French dramatist
B. Southey D. A Spanish dramatist
gd
C. Wordsworth 1477. Which book is a Tragedy?
D. Burns A. Hamlet
1471. As Act is to Drama; so Canto is to- B. Measure for Measure
an
A. Epic C. As you like it
B. Tragedy D. She stoops to conquer
C. Comedy 1478. The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to
write:
Ch
D. Sonnet
A. Endymion
1472. What do you mean by Novel?
B. Lamia
A. short prose
C. The Grecian Urn
B. a long fictional prose with many char-
D. Melancholy
acters
n
1479. Who is the famous woman novelist in

C. a short narrative prose Victorian Age?
ya
D. a literary work on the stage A. E.B. Browning

1473. ‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with B. George Eliot
kiss’. Who has said these words?
C. T.S Eliot
A. Marlow
ra
D. Austen
B. Shakespeare 1480. Lyrical Ballads is written by Wordsworth
C. Benjonson with the Collaboration of-
Na
D. None of these A. S.T Coleridge
1474. ‘The God of Small Things’ is written by B. William Blake

C. Dorothy
A. Vikram Seth D. Alfred Tennyson
B. John Galasworthy 1481. What do you mean by an Elegy?
C. Arundhati Roy A. a poem of happy ending
D. E. M. Forster B. a poem of unhappy ending
1475. Robert Herrick find similar to human be- C. a song of praising God
ings and daffodils. D. a song of Mourning the dead
1470. C 1471. A 1472. B 1473. A 1474. C 1475. B 1476. C 1477. A 1478. C 1479. B
1480. A 1481. D 1482. C
1482. Compatriot means- 1489. ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ is written by-

A. comrade A. Viggo Olsen
B. classmate B. Alamgir Kabir
C. fellow country man C. Rehman Sobahan
D. friend D. Anthony Mascarenhas
1483. Which of the following is a 19th century 1490. The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare
woman novelist?
er
A. Dramatic monologue
A. Emily Dickinson B. Comedy
B. Ezra Pound C. Tragedy
gd
C. Virginia Woolf D. None of these
D. George Eliot 1491. In ‘Ozymandias’ the poet says, ‘I met a
1484. ‘A Doll’s House’ is written by- traveler an land’.
A. Francis Bacon A. by, old
B. E.M. Forster
C. R.K. Narayan
D. Henrick Ibsen an B. going, ancient
C. from, antique
D. passing, antique
Ch
1485. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the writer of- 1492. George Eliot’s real name was:
A. The Scarlet Letter A. George Evans
B. A Farewell to Arms B. Eliot Evans
C. Great Expectation C. Marian Evans
D. none D. Marian Eliot
n
1486. The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are 1493. What the term Couplet refers?
all written by:
ya
A. two successive lines

A. Shakespeare B. first four lines of a poem
B. Dryden C. two successive rhyming lines
C. Pope D. two lines without rhymes
ra
D. Shaw 1494. Who is the writer of The Restoration Pe-

1487. Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"? riod?
A. John Bunyan A. George Farquhar
Na
B. Daniel Defoe B. Robert Herrick

C. Dryden C. Jeremy Taylor
D. None of these D. Thomas Hobbes
1488. A famous Playwright in Modern English 1495. Who is the greatest modern English
Literature is- dramatist?
A. Oscar Wild A. John Milton
B. Bacon B. Homer
C. Lamb C. G.B. Shaw
D. T.S. Eliot D. Eliot
1483. D 1484. D 1485. A 1486. C 1487. A 1488. A 1489. D 1490. A 1491. C 1492. C
1493. C 1494. A 1495. C 1496. C
1496. Feminine Ending is: A. Subjectivity

A. a Novel B. Naturalism
B. a poem C. Use of common language
C. a metrical device D. all of these

1503. The poem ‘ The Solitary Reaper’ is writ-
D. None of these ten by
1497. Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of A. W. H. Auden
er
Mask’:
B. W. Wordsworth
A. Ben Johnson’s
C. W. B. Yeats
B. Bernard Shaw’s
D. Ezra Pound
gd
C. Shakespeare’s 1504. ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is written by?
D. None of these A. Joseph Conrad
1498. The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, B. T.S. Eliot
an
Keats was: C. Virginia Woolf
A. Lake district D. Dylan Thomas
B. Hampshire 1505. ‘Samson Agonists’ is written by-
Ch
C. Utopia A. A. Pope
D. None of these B. Henry Fielding
1499. When was the first Oxford English Dic- C. Thomas Hardy
tionary published D. John Milton
A. 1830 1506. ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase
n
first used by:

B. 1855
A. James Joyce
C. 1884
ya
B. William James
D. 1898 C. Virginia Woolf
1500. What is a fable? D. William Faulkner
A. a story about animals 1507. Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’?
ra
B. a story of human being A. O’Henry
C. a story of chronology B. L. Stevenson

Na
C. Hemingway
D. a song of pleasure
D. Sir Walter Scott
1501. Amongst the following, who is consid-
ered to be the “pioneer of the novel of fe- 1508. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and
male emancipation”? Sensibility are novels written by
A. G. Eliot
A. Jane Austin
B. Miss Burney
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte
D. None of these
D. Virginia Woolf 1509. Who described poetry as “Spontaneous
1502. Feature of Romantic Period? overflow of powerful feelings”:
1497. B 1498. A 1499. C 1500. A 1501. B 1502. D 1503. B 1504. C 1505. D 1506. B
1507. D 1508. C 1509. B
A. Shelley 1516. ‘England expects every man to do his

duty.’ – Who told it?
B. Wordsworth
A. Nelson
C. Coleridge
B. Churchill
D. Arnold
1510. “Good flences make good neighbours” is C. Wilson
from Frosts’: D. Thatcher
1517. ‘Frailty thy name is woman’ is a famous
er
A. Mending
dialogue from
B. Pasture
A. Marlowe
C. Birches
gd
B. W. Shakespeare
D. None of these
C. Webster
1511. Who is the writer of ‘Men and Women’?
D. T.S Eliot
A. Robert Browning
1518. What was the name of Isabella’s brother
an
B. Shelley in the ‘Measure for Measure’?
C. William Shakespeare A. Angelo
D. Wordsworth B. Cladio
Ch
1512. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called: C. Vincentio
A. Catharsis D. Viola
B. Catastrophe 1519. Macaulay lived from
C. Hamartia A. 1800 1859
D. None of these B. 1802 1859
n
1513. What the term Comedy refers? C. 1859 – 1900

ya
A. a play ends unhappily D. 1889 1902

B. a play ends with murder 1520. When (the year of time when Frost
awarded gold medal) did Frost award gold
C. a play ends tragedy
medal?
ra
D. a play ends happily

A. 1930
1514. Bertrand Russell was a British-
B. 1970
A. novelist
C. 1950
Na
B. essayist
D. 1960
C. poet 1521. G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for
D. philosopher literature in:
1515. Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogen are the A. 1925
characters created by
B. 1929
A. Richardson
C. 1930
B. Fielding D. 1949
C. Hardy 1522. Who is the greatest dramatist of all
D. Shakespeare times?
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
A. G. B. Shaw 1529. Who said these words in ‘The Old Man

and the Sea’ . . . “No one should be alone in
their old age”:
A. Hemingway
D. Jonathan Swift
B. Santiago
1523. Who is the author of ‘Hamlet’?
C. Manolin
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. None of these
er
B. William Blake
1530. Early plays of Shakespeare’s are?
C. William Worsworth
A. Tragedy
gd
B. Tragicomedy
1524. What do you mean by Plagiarism?
C. Romantic
A. a story builder
B. a short story D. Comedy
an
1531. Which one of the following poets named
C. a literary theft
the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?
D. a criticism of literature
A. Southey
1525. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is: B. Shelley
Ch
A. Confused C. Keats
B. Amazed D. Byron
C. Not thinking clearly 1532. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is an ex-

ample of-
D. None of these
A. Metaphor
n
1526. Who wrote the famous novel the “Three

Musketeers”? B. Epigram
ya
A. R. L Stevenson C. Satire
B. William Shakespeare D. Simile
C. Sir Walter Scott 1533. ‘A poison Tree’ is written by?
ra
D. Alexandre Dumas A. John Keats

1527. ‘Waiting for Godot’ is written by- B. Robert Herrick
A. Samuel Beckett C. William Wordsworth
Na
B. Edward Albee D. William Blake

C. Samuel Butler 1534. What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe
and Moll Flanders?
D. Samuel Heaney
1528. Which of the following works ‘had the A. Travel books
greatest influence on the Victorian Age? B. Tragedy
A. Mill’s "On Liberty" C. Romance
B. Tennyson’s "In memoriam" D. Comedy
C. Darwin’s "Origin of Species" 1535. Who is the author of the book ’Gulliver’s
D. Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus" Travels’
1523. D 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
A. Arthur Conan Doyle A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Charles Dickens B. Christopher Marlowe
C. H. G. Wells C. William Shakespeare
D. Jonathan Swift D. A. Lord Tennyson
1536. Who is known as the father of epic po- 1542. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
etry was written by:
A. Hesiod A. Charles Lamb
er
B. Homer B. John Ruskin
C. Ferdowsi C. Maria Edgeworth
gd
D. Hesiod D. Thomas de Quencey
1537. Ruskin was born in: 1543. Alexander Dumas was a famous novelist.
A. 1819 A. American
B. 1843 B. English
C. 1851
D. None of these
1538. “There are two tragedies in life one is not an C. Irish
D. French
1544. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of
Ch
to get your heart’s desire. The other is get saddest thoughts” is a quotation from-
it.”-these lines were written by? A. Wordsworth
A. Jean Paul Sartre B. Shelly
B. James Osborn C. John Keats
C. G. B. Shaw D. Blake
n
D. H. G. Wells 1545. Pastoral Poem refers a poem

1539. Which writing includes the manifesto of about life.
ya
Romantic poetry? A. human

A. The Prelude B. poet’s
B. Lyrical Ballads C. shepherd or rural
ra
C. The Ancient Mariner D. personal

D. Songs of Innocence 1546. Human situation in Hardy’s novels is
1540. ’Blow, Blow thou winter wind Thu controlled by:
Na
art not so unkind As man’s ingrati- A. Social Forces

tude; They tooth is not so keen, 
Although they breath be rude’ These B. Providence
are a few lines of a poem of a great poet C. Fate
William Shakespeare.
D. None of these
A. J. Webstar 1547. The French Revolution took place in:
B. C. Marlowe A. 1793
C. W. Shakespeare B. 1796
D. Lord Bacon C. 1798
1541. Who is the writer of ‘Locksley Hall’?
D. None of these
1537. A 1538. C 1539. B 1540. C 1541. D 1542. D 1543. D 1544. B 1545. C 1546. C
1547. D 1548. C
1548. Who is familiar as a poet of beauty? 1555. “The first in beauty should be first in
might” . . . is the line spoken in Hyperion
A. Lord Byron
by:
B. John Dryden
A. Oceanus
C. John Keats
B. Hyperion
D. None
C. Apollo
1549. Which College Frost attended for several
D. None of these
er
months?
A. Dartmouth College 1556. What do you mean by Epilogue?
B. Daffodil International College A. a poem comes at beginning
gd
C. Dhaka College B. a poem of lamentation
D. Dental College C. a poem or speech at the end of a play

1550. What was the reason behind Frost died? D. a figurative story
an
A. tuberculesis 1557. The one remains, the many change and
pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s
B. Heart attack
shadows fly; The above two lines occur in:
C. cancer
A. Keats’ Hyperion
Ch
D. prostate surgery
B. Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
1551. Who is the controversy writer in Post-
Modern period? C. Shelley’s Adonis
A. Doris Lessing D. Keats’ Ode to Psyche

1558. Who wrote the ‘Birthday Party’?
B. Ahmed Salman Rushdie
n
A. James Joyce
C. Chinua Achebe
1552. Who composed ‘The waste Land’? B. G.B. Shaw
ya
A. T.S. Eliot C. Harold Pinter
B. John Milton D. Jane Austen
C. George Eliot 1559. ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:

ra
D. John Donne A. Tennyson

1553. Charles Lamb was B. Byron
Na
A. an Essayist C. Keats
B. a novelist D. None of these
C. an epic poem 1560. Age of Johnson is also known as-
D. a dramatist A. Age of Criticism
1554. Bertrand Russel was a British B. Age of Love
A. Journalist C. Age of Sensibility
B. Scientist D. Age of Pope
C. Philosopher 1561. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Pe-
riod?
D. Astronaut
1549. A 1550. D 1551. B 1552. A 1553. A 1554. C 1555. B 1556. C 1557. C 1558. C
1559. B 1560. C 1561. A 1562. B
A. Cowley A. John Donne

B. Caedmon B. Shakespeare
C. Dante C. T. S. Eliot
D. Cynewulf D. Christopher Marlowe
1562. ‘Limerick’ is one kind of? 1569. What kind of literary work is ‘The Lun-
A. Song cheon’ by Somerset Maugham?
A. A novel
er
B. Narrative Poem
C. Satire B. A short story
D. long poem C. A poem
gd
1563. Who is the father of English dramatic D. A scientific article
poetry? 1570. American female novelist pearl S. Buck
A. Christopher Marlowe got Nobel prize in 1938 for the book
B. John Donne A. The Good Earth
C. Edmund Spenser
1564. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is com-
posed by:
an B. House Divided
C. The Patriot
D. De Cameron
Ch
A. Keats 1571. The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to
B. Shelley the:
C. Byron A. Medieval era
D. None of these B. Greek era

1565. Arthur Clarke is known as- C. Victorian era
n
A. a science fiction writer D. Romantic era

B. a modern dramatist 1572. The Battle of Book is written by-
ya
C. a famous English Novelist A. Jonathon Swift
D. A short story writer B. William Thackeray

1566. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy writ- C. Thomas Stern Eliot
ra
ten by- D. Daniel Dafoe

A. G.B. Shaw 1573. Which of the Romantic poets is called an
B. Shakespeare escapist?
Na
C. Marlowe A. Keats
D. Ibsen B. Shelley
1567. What do you mean by Romanticism? C. Wordsworth
A. movement of daily life affairs D. None of these
B. movement for classics 1574. Who is the father of English Language?
C. movement of poem A. Roger Bacon
D. movement for imagination over reason B. Robert Browning

1568. ‘Hold your tongue and let me love’ is said C. Geoffrey Chaucer
by- D. Cynewulf
1563. A 1564. A 1565. A 1566. B 1567. D 1568. A 1569. B 1570. A 1571. C 1572. A
1573. A 1574. C 1575. C
1575. The repetition of sounds in a sequence 1582. Which country awarded the Pulitzer
of words is called Prize
A. Assonance A. France
B. Rhythm B. USA
C. Alliteration
C. England
D. None of these
D. Italy
1576. ‘Three score’ means-
er
1583. ‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that
A. thirty times
must die’ is a line from
B. three hundred times
A. Ode to Nightingale
gd
C. three times twenty
B. Ode on Indolence
D. more than three
1577. Jonathan Swift is the author of C. Ode to Melancholy
A. The Old man and the Sea D. None of these

B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. A Doll’s House an
1584. ‘Orlando’ is a character of Shakespeare’s-
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
Ch
1578. Who usually caricatures his characters?
C. Tempest
A. Dickens
D. As You Like It
B. George Eliot
1585. Which of the following in the book/play
C. Hardy
written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?
D. None of these
A. Saket
n
1579. Drama which seeks to mirror life with

the utmost fidelity is called: B. Satyartha Prakash
ya
A. Realistic C. Shakuntala
B. Naturalistic drama D. Savitri
C. Humanistic drama 1586. A famous short story of Maupassant is-
ra
D. Problem play
A. The Diamond Necklace
1580. A famous Mock Epic poet in English Lit-
erature is- B. Gift of the Magi
C. Tropic of Cancer
Na
A. Alexander Pope
B. Tennyson D. The Prince
C. Browning 1587. ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is written
D. Shelley by-
1581. Which country does Shakespeare’s Ham- A. Winston Churchill
let belongs to
B. George Washington
A. England
C. Mahatma Gandhi
B. France
D. James Morris
C. Denmark
1588. Who died in a tavern brawl
D. Scotland
1576. C 1577. C 1578. A 1579. A 1580. A 1581. C 1582. B 1583. C 1584. D 1585. A
1586. A 1587. C 1588. D 1589. A
A. Shakespeare A. Twelfth Night

B. Bacon B. A Mid Summer Nights’ Dream
C. Sidney C. As you Like it
D. Marlowe D. The Winters’ Tale

1595. Who is the writer of ‘The Lady of
1589. Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar Shalott’?
construction and meaning and balancing
each other is called: A. A. Lord Tennyson
er
A. Parallelism B. Cynewulf
C. Robert Browning
B. Alliteration
gd
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Para Rhyme
1596. Does the personal name Lucy (in
D. Rhetoric Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for
1590. ‘Delusion and Dream’ is by- A. Anneta Vallon
an
A. H.G. Wells B. Dorothy
B. Sigmund Freud C. Drawn from folk song heroines
C. G.B. Shaw D. None of these

Ch
1597. Tennyson was born in
D. James Osborn
A. 1809
1591. In ‘Ozymandias’, who saw the statue of
Ozymandias? B. 1798
C. 1709
A. the poet
D. None of these
B. an old man
n
1598. Who is Elinor-white ?

C. a traveler
A. Daughter
ya
D. a sculptor
B. Daughter in law
1592. For which one Toni Morrison won Nobel C. Wife
Prize?
D. Aunt
ra
A. Beloved
1599. G Eliot’s novels show her concern for the
B. Song of Solomon character’s problems.
C. The Bluest Eye A. economic
Na
D. Tar Baby B. Moral
1593. Who was the greatest dramatist before C. religious

Shakespeare? D. spiritual e social
A. Andrew Marvell 1600. Jane Eyre was written by
A. Jane Austen
B. G. Eliot
C. John Webster
C. C. Bronte
1594. ‘If music be the food of love, play on, give
me excess of it, that Surfeiting The appetite D. None of these
may sicken and die? is a speech from 1601. What do you mean by classicism?
1590. B 1591. C 1592. A 1593. B 1594. A 1595. A 1596. B 1597. A 1598. C 1599. B
1600. C 1601. C
A. reverence for beauty A. Shelley

B. reverence for English B. Long Fellow
C. reverence for Greek and Roman/Gre- C. Frost
cian works D. Whitman
D. none 1608. What do you mean by Climax?
1602. Who is the author of ‘The Taming of the A. a peak of mountain
Shrew’?
er
B. a disaster of sea
A. Shaw
C. a kind of poem
B. Shakespeare
D. the moment of highest interest in a play
gd
C. Ibsen
D. Jonson 1609. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first
published in-
1603. Dramatic Monologue stands for-
an
A. the 1st half of 19th Century
A. comparison between dissimilar things
B. the 2nd half of 19th Century
B. a kind of fable
C. the 1st half of 18th Century
C. single
D. the 2nd half of 18th Century
Ch
D. single speaker speak but audience re-
main silent 1610. ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”
1604. Stephen Guest is an important Character A. Metaphor

in One of the following novels of George B. Paradox
Eliot:
C. Oxymoron
n
A. The Mill on the Floss

D. None of these
B. Adam Bede 1611. Which of the following is an essayist?
ya
C. Silas Marner A. Chaucer

D. None of these B. John Wycliffe
1605. Tin Drum is written by- C. Charles Lamb
ra
A. Gunter Grass D. Spenser

B. Gunner Myrdal 1612. W. B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in?
Na
C. William Shakespeare A. 1913

D. Wordsworth B. 1923
1606. Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects: C. 1937
A. The creation of abstract concepts D. 1919
B. An endorsement of the scientific tradi- 1613. “The Lotos-Eaters” is a poem by
tion A. The Lotos-Eaters
C. The creation of an original philosophy B. Dover Beach
D. An examination of extraneous matters C. My Last Dutchess
1607. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is written by- D. The Eve of St. Agnes
1602. B 1603. D 1604. A 1605. A 1606. C 1607. D 1608. D 1609. C 1610. C 1611. C
1612. B 1613. A 1614. B 1615. B
1614. Who is the writer of The Modern and 1621. Who of the following was both a poet
The Post Modern Period? and painter?
A. Jonathan Swift A. Keats
B. Anthony Mascarenhu B. Donne
C. Alexander Pope C. Blake
D. Daniel Defoe D. Spenser
1615. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”
er
1622. In what year did William Shakespeare
A. Yeats died?
B. T. S. Eliot A. 1570 AD
gd
C. D. H. Lawrence B. 1580 AD
D. None of these C. 1630 AD
1616. Who is the poet of the ‘Victorian Age’? D. 1616 AD
an
A. Robert Browning 1623. Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in the
B. William Shakespeare year
C. William Wordsworth A. 1900
D. William Blake B. 1909
Ch
1617. Lotus eaters is written by C. 1917
A. Tennyson D. 1942
B. Mathew Arnold 1624. An aesthetic delight in art and a streak
C. Hardy of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed
in Browning’s Poem:
n
D. None of these
1618. ‘The rainbow’ is A. Paracelsus
ya
A. a poem by Wordsworth B. My Last Duchess
B. a short story by Somerset Maugham C. Sordello

C. a novel by D. H. Lawrence D. Pippa Passes
ra
D. a verse by Coleridge 1625. Who is labeled as misanthropist?

1619. ‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by: A. Jane Austen
A. Ruskin B. Hardy
Na
B. Charles Lamb C. Swift

C. J. S. Mill D. None of these
D. None of these 1626. The word renaissance means:
1620. Who is author of the book ‘Of Human
A. Rebirth
Bondage’?
B. Revival
A. Charles Dickens
C. Renewal
B. William Somerset Maugham
C. Jane Austen D. None of these
1627. Lyrical Ballads are jointly composed by:
D. D. H. Lawrence
1616. A 1617. A 1618. C 1619. B 1620. B 1621. C 1622. D 1623. C 1624. D 1625. C
1626. A 1627. D 1628. C
A. Keats and Shelley A. process of analyzing literature

B. Wordsworth and Shelley B. literary theft
C. Keats and Coleridge C. process of solving problem abruptly
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge D. choice of words
1628. Who wrote the poem ‘Don Juan’? 1635. Who is the writer of The Augustan Pe-
riod?
A. Thomas Hobbes
er
B. William Blake
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Lord Byron
C. Robert Herrick
D. John Keats
gd
D. Jeremy Taylor
1629. The literary work ‘ Kubla Khan’ is
1636. ‘Persona’ is
A. a historical of Vincent Smith
A. the actor in a play
B. a verse by Coleridge
B. the plural of Person
an
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde
C. a projection of the poet into another
D. a short-story by Somerset Maugham person
1630. Who is one of the lake poets: D. None of these
Ch
A. Coleridge 1637. The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote
was:
B. Blake
A. Jane Eyre
C. Browning
B. Shirley
D. None of these
1631. What is Sestet? C. the professor
n
A. Last six line of a sonnet D. villette

1638. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was died?
B. First six lines of sonnet
ya
A. 1892
C. first eight line of a sonnet
B. 1893
D. last eight lines
C. 1894
1632. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is written by
ra
the author of- D. 1895

1639. Who among the following is not a novel-
A. A passage to India
ist?
B. Lord Jim
Na
A. Hardy
C. Rainbow
B. Blake
D. Ulysses
C. Joyce
1633. Dickens gives a tragic picture of the
French Revolution in his novel: D. Thackeray
1640. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written
A. Little Dorrit by:
B. Hard Times A. Gissing
C. Bleak House B. D. H. Lawrence
D. A Tale of Two Cities C. Oscar Wilde
1634. What do you mean by Deus ex Machina?
D. None of these
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. Alexander Pope’s ‘An Essay on Man’ is 1648. Eric Hugh Blair is known as-
a
A. E.M. Forster
A. nobel
B. T.S. Eliot
B. short story
C. George Orwell
C. treatise
D. William Golding
D. poem
1642. ‘The Poetry Aenied’ is written by-
er
riod?
A. Ovid
A. Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
B. Dante
B. Cynewulf
gd
C. Boccaccio
C. Dante
D. Virgil
D. Caedmon
1643. Who is known as the poet of Nature?
1650. Where is expressed the view the ‘There
an
A. Wordsworth is a divinity that shapes our, ends’?
B. Shelly
A. In King Lear
C. Keats
B. In Merry Wives of Windsor
D. All of them
Ch
C. In the Tempest
1644. The French Revolution took place in:
D. In Hamlet
A. 1793
1651. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms
B. 1796 are:
C. 1798
A. Friendship and benevolence
n
D. None of these
B. Bitterness and revenge
1645. What do you mean by Fable?
C. Hatred and jealousy
ya
A. a story of high thoughts

D. None of these
B. a story about great men
1652. Who is the writer of The Middle English
C. a general story Period?
ra
D. a short story of animals for moral lesson

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
1646. ’Anna Karenina’ is the creation of B. Lord Tennyson

Na
A. Alexander Pushkin C. William Wordsworth
B. Leo Tolstoy D. William Shakespeare

C. Maxim Gorky 1653. Oscar Wilde believed in:
D. Anton Chekhov A. Aestheticism

1647. Karl Marx was born in- B. Escapism
A. Germany C. Pragmatism
B. India D. None of these
C. Russia 1654. ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’-who is the poet
D. England of the poem?
1641. D 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
A. Wordsworth 1661. ‘Elegy Written is a Country Churchyard’

B. P. B Shelley is written by
C. Lord Byron A. William Wordsworth

B. Thomas Gray
D. John Keats
1655. Who is the writer of ‘The End of History C. John Keats
and The Last Man’? D. W. B. Yeats
A. Samuel Huntington 1662. Which of the following is not a drama-
er
tist?
B. Francis Fukuyama
A. Ben Johnson
C. Robert Frost
B. Byron
gd
D. David Lynn
1656. Who wrote the poem ‘The Definition of C. Eliot
Love’? D. None of these
A. Andrew Marvell 1663. ‘The Return of the Native’ is written by-
an
B. John Donne A. Alexander Dumas
C. W. B Yeats B. Aldous Huxley
D. John Keats C. Somerset Maugham
Ch
1657. Who is the writer of The Middle English D. Thomas Hardy
Period? 1664. The another name of Revenge tragedy or
A. Sir Thomas Malory producer is-
B. William Shakespeare A. Sophocles
C. William Wordsworth B. Euripides

n
D. Lord Tennyson C. Homer

1658. Who was the only Laureate to refuse the D. Senecan tragedy
ya
Nobel Prize? 1665. What is the name of Robert-Frost’s first

A. Leo Tolstoy son?
B. Jea-Paul Sartre A. Elliot

B. Billiot
ra
C. T.S. Eliot
1659. ‘Good face is the best letter of recommen- C. Trilliot
dation’ was stated by D. Juilliot
A. Queen Victoria 1666. What is the first English comedy?
Na
B. Queen Anne A. Ralph Roister Doister

C. Queen Elizabeth B. Volpone
D. Queen Marry C. Baby’s Day Out
1660. Who is the writer of the poem ‘Por- 1667. ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ this quotation from
phyria’s Lover’? Shakespeare’s
A. Robert Browning A. Hamlet
B. Shelley B. Othello
C. William Shakespeare C. Merchant of Venice
D. Wordsworth D. Julius Caesar
1656. A 1657. A 1658. B 1659. C 1660. A 1661. B 1662. B 1663. D 1664. D 1665. A
1666. A 1667. D 1668. B
1668. ‘I care for life, for humanity, and you are A. Socialist
a part of it.’ Whose words are these? B. Humorist
A. Doolittle C. Idealist
B. Huggins D. None of these
C. Pickering 1675. The Chorus in T. S. Eliot’s play "Murder
in the Cathedral", consist of
D. None of these
A. The women of Canterbury
er
1669. Which one is a Tragedy?
B. The priests of Canterbury
A. Antony and Cleopatra
C. The men of Canterbury
B. The Tempest
gd
D. The servants of Thomas Becket
C. King John 1676. Who is the author of “India Wins Free-
D. Richard 2 dom”?
1670. Who is the most famous satirist in En- A. Mahatma Gandhi
an
glish literature? B. J. L. Nehru
A. Alexander Pope C. Abul Kalam Azad
B. Jonathan Swift D. Moulana Akram Khan
Ch
C. William Wordswarth 1677. Who is the writer of the poem ‘My Last
Duchess’?
D. Bulter
A. Robert Browning
1671. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous
B. Shelley
novels written by:
A. C.Bronte
n
D. Wordsworth
B. Hardy
1678. Mr. Rochester is the major character of:
C. Emile Bronte
ya
A. Silas Marner
D. Jane Austen B. Jane Eyre
1672. Who is not a novelist of Victorian age C. Jude the Obscure
mentioned below?
ra
D. Adam Bede
A. Charles Dickens 1679. Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with
B. George Eliot the spirit of
Na
C. Thomas Hardy A. Classicism
D. James Joyce B. Idealism
1673. Brutus is a famous character of Shake- C. Rationalism

speare in D. None of these
A. King Lear 1680. The characteristics of the poem of
William Wordsworth are EXEPT :
B. Julius Caeser
A. Nature
C. The Tempest
B. glorification of childhood
D. Hamlet
C. Hope and regeneration
1674. C. Dickens is known for being a
D. all of them
1669. A 1670. B 1671. C 1672. D 1673. B 1674. C 1675. A 1676. C 1677. A 1678. B
1679. A 1680. C 1681. D
1681. Who is known as the ‘Father of Modern 1688. Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’?
English Criticism’. A. Wordsworth
A. Edmund Walter B. Shelley
B. John Locke C. Keats
C. Thomas Hobbes D. Shakespeare
D. John Dryden 1689. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about-
1682. Who among the following believes that
er
A. A Jew
"poetry is the anti-thesis of science"
B. A Turk
A. Arnold
C. A Roman
B. Eliot
gd
D. A Moor
C. Coleridge
1690. The first English dictionary was com-
D. Keats pleted by
1683. Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of: A. Izaak Walton
A. Prometheus the Unbound
B. The Prelude
C. Songs of innocence and of experience an B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Butler
D. Sir Thomas Browne
Ch
D. None of these 1691. ‘Things Fall Apart’ is written by-
1684. What do you mean by Parody? A. Chino Achebe
A. imitation of the great man B. Nom Chomosky
B. following the rules C. Wole Soyanka
C. a short prose D. Doris Lessing
n
D. imitation of a poem or a writing 1692. Which character is from ‘Romeo and

1685. What is an epic? Juliet’-
ya
A. a prose composition A. Brutus

B. a romance B. Ophelia
C. a novel C. Benvolio
ra
D. a long poem D. Olivia

1686. John Galsworthy is a dramatist. 1693. Who is English Poet?
A. Victorian A. Robert Frost
Na
B. Elizabethan B. Emily Dickinson

C. Romantic C. John Keats
D. Modern D. Toni Morrison
1687. In which play does "Forest of Arden" fig- 1694. The Waste Land was published by Eliot
ure in:
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream A. 1922
B. The Merry Wives of Windsor B. 1923
C. As You Like It C. 1932
D. Macbeth D. None of these
1682. C 1683. B 1684. D 1685. D 1686. D 1687. C 1688. A 1689. D 1690. B 1691. A
1692. C 1693. C 1694. A 1695. C
1695. ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is writ- C. T. S. Eliot

ten by:
D. None of these
A. Russell
B. Carlyle
er
gd
an
Ch
n
ya
ra
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Preface to the second edition

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1 Famous playwright, poet and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.3 Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.4 John Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.8 Frankenstein-Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

1.10 William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

III Part three

4 Literary Theory and Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

6 Introduction to Literary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

7 Cultural and Literary English Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

8 Cultural and Literary 18t/19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

9 Cultural and Literary in Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

10 Medieval Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

11 Medieval Women Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

12 The Gothic Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

13 English Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

15 The Victorian Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

16 African-American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

17 Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

18 Overview of English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

20 Native American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

22 The English Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

23 Theme in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

25 Transcendentalism Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

26 Folk Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

27 Genres of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

28 Gothic literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

29 Literature Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

30 Early British literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

31 Wisdom literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

32 World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

33 Latin and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

34 Afro-Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

35 American English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

36 Ancient Greece Language and Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

37 Asian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

39 Dystopian Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

40 Early Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

41 Elements of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

42 England: Literature, Pop Culture, and Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

1 Famous playwright, poet and others . . . . 9

1.2 Christopher Marlowe

D. 19 August 1825 B. King’s Grammar School

A. 25 December 1767 D. Eton

A. teacher C. Keats stay in Italy

B. surgeon D. Keats’ travel to Alps

A. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy C. New Chapman Hospital

B. Ode on a Grecian Urn D. Trinity Hospital

1.2 Christopher Marlowe

C. Edward the Second B. Edward the Second

5. To which theater was Christopher Marlow Malta

11. Which one of the following dramas at-

1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. B 9. C 10. C 11. B 12. A 13. A

1.3 Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe

C. Erected two universities

B. beelzebub 5. The first regular English comedy, based on

2. At the end of the play, Faustus is dragged