{"id":15,"date":"2020-08-18T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-08-24T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T23:44:11","slug":"english-literature-mcq-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/index.php\/english-literature-mcq-1\/","title":{"rendered":"English Literature: Poetry Questions & Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCQ English Literature<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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POETRY<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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1. Which poem ends ‘I shall but love<\/span><\/p>\n

thee better after death’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. How do I love thee<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Ode to a Grecian urn<\/span><\/p>\n

c. In faith I do not love thee with mine<\/span><\/p>\n

eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Let me not to the marriage of true<\/span><\/p>\n

minds<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Which poet is considered a national<\/span><\/p>\n

hero in Greece?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. John keats<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Lord Byron<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Solan<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Sappho<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

associated with?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Nature<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Epics<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Sonnets<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Nonsense<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

4. In coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Ancient Mariner’where were the three<\/span><\/p>\n

gallants going?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. A funeral<\/span><\/p>\n

b. A wedding<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Market<\/span><\/p>\n

d. To the races<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Harold Nicholson described which<\/span><\/p>\n

poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect<\/span><\/p>\n

manners’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. e. e. Cummings<\/span><\/p>\n

b. T. S. Elliot<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. John Greenleaf Whittier<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Walt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

6. What was strange about Emily<\/span><\/p>\n

Dickinson?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. She rarely left home<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. She wrote in code<\/span><\/p>\n

c. She never attempted to publish her<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

during which conflict?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Boer War<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Second World War<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Korean War<\/span><\/p>\n

d. First World War<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a<\/span><\/p>\n

church mouse?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Betjeman<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Hughes<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Marvel<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Larkin<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Which American writer published ‘A<\/span><\/p>\n

brave and startling truth’ in 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Robert Hass<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Jessica Hagdorn<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Maya Angelou<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Micheal Palmer<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of<\/span><\/p>\n

Innisfree’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Dylan Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Ezra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

c. W. B. Yeats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. e. e. cummings<\/span><\/p>\n

11. A pattern of accented and<\/span><\/p>\n

unaccented syllables in lines of poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>rhyme scheme<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>meter<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

12. The repetition of similar ending<\/span><\/p>\n

sounds<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>onomatopoiea<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>rhyme<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

13. Applying human qualities to nonhuman<\/span><\/p>\n

things<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>personification<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>onomatopoeia<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

14. The repetition of beginning<\/span><\/p>\n

consonant sounds<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>rhyme<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>onomatopoeia<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>alliteration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

15. A comparison of unlike things<\/span><\/p>\n

without using a word of comparison<\/span><\/p>\n

such as like or as<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>metaphor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>simile<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>personification<\/span><\/p>\n

16. The comparison of unlike things<\/span><\/p>\n

using the words like or as<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span><\/b>simile<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>personification<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Using words or letters to imitate<\/span><\/p>\n

sounds<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>simile<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>onomatopoeia<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

18. a description that appeals to one of<\/span><\/p>\n

the five senses<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>imagery<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>personification<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

19. A poem that tells a story with plot,<\/span><\/p>\n

setting, and characters<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>lyric<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>free verse<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>narrative<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

20. A poem with no meter or rhyme<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>lyric<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>free verse<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>narrative<\/span><\/p>\n

21. A poem that generally has meter<\/span><\/p>\n

and rhyme<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>lyric<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>free verse<\/span><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>narrative<\/span><\/p>\n

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22. Sylvia Plath married which English<\/span><\/p>\n

poet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Masefield<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Causley<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Hughes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Larkin<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Carl Sandburg ‘Planked whitefish’<\/span><\/p>\n

contains what kind of imagery?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Sea scenes<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Rural Idyll<\/span><\/p>\n

c. War<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Innocent childhood<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Which influential American poet was<\/span><\/p>\n

born in Long Island in 1819?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Emily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Paul Dunbar<\/span><\/p>\n

c. John Greenleaf Whittier<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Walt Whitman<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

25. In 1960 ‘The Colossus’ was the first<\/span><\/p>\n

book of poems published by which<\/span><\/p>\n

poetess?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Elizabeth Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Sylvia Plath<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Marianne Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Laura Jackson<\/span><\/p>\n

26. In his poem Kipling said ‘If you can<\/span><\/p>\n

meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

. . . ‘?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Glory<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Ruin<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Disaster<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. victory<\/span><\/p>\n

27. Which of the following is not a<\/span><\/p>\n

literary device used for aesthetic effect<\/span><\/p>\n

in poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Assonance<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Onomatopaea<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Rhyme<\/span><\/p>\n

d<\/span>. Grammar<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

28. True or false: Writing predates<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

a. True<\/span><\/p>\n

b. False<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

29. What is the earliest surviving<\/span><\/p>\n

European poem?<\/span><\/p>\n

a<\/span>. The Homeric epic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. The Gilgamesh epic<\/span><\/p>\n

c. The Deluge epic<\/span><\/p>\n

d. The Hesiodic ode<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Which of the following is not a<\/span><\/p>\n

poetic tradition?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. The Epic<\/span><\/p>\n

b. The Comic<\/span><\/p>\n

c. The Occult<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. The Tragic<\/span><\/p>\n

31. What is the study of poetry’s meter<\/span><\/p>\n

and form called?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Prosody<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Potology<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Rheumatology<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Scansion<\/span><\/p>\n

32. Shakespeare composed much of his<\/span><\/p>\n

plays in what sort of verse?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Alliterative verse<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Sonnet form<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Iambic pentameter<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Dactylic hexameter<\/span><\/p>\n

33. Which poet invented the concept of<\/span><\/p>\n

the variable foot in poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. William Carlos Williams<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Emily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Gerard Manly Hopkins<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Robert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

34. Who wrote this famous line: ‘Shall I<\/span><\/p>\n

compare thee to a summer’s day\/ Thou<\/span><\/p>\n

art more lovely and more temperate\u2026’<\/span><\/p>\n

a. TS Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Lord Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Charlotte Bronte<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Shakespeare<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

35. From what century does the poetic<\/span><\/p>\n

form the folk ballad date?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. The 12th<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. The 14th<\/span><\/p>\n

c. The 17th<\/span><\/p>\n

d. The 19th<\/span><\/p>\n

36. From which of Shakespeare’s plays<\/span><\/p>\n

is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love til<\/span><\/p>\n

now?\/ Forswear it, sight\/ For I never<\/span><\/p>\n

saw a true beauty until this night’<\/span><\/p>\n

a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

d<\/span>. Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

37. What is a poem called whose first<\/span><\/p>\n

letters of each line spell out a word?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Alliterative<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Epic<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Acrostic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Haiku<\/span><\/p>\n

38. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem<\/span><\/p>\n

by whom?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Sir Walter Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

b. William Butler Yeats<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Henry Longfellow<\/span><\/p>\n

d. <\/span>Robert Burns<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

39. How has Stephen Dunn been<\/span><\/p>\n

described in ‘the Oxford Companion to<\/span><\/p>\n

20th Century Poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. A poet of middleness<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Capturing a sense of spiritual<\/span><\/p>\n

marooness<\/span><\/p>\n

c. One of the leading prairie poets<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Has some distinction as a critic<\/span><\/p>\n

40. ‘The Cambridge school’ refers to a<\/span><\/p>\n

group who emerged when?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. The 1900’s<\/span><\/p>\n

b. The 1960’s<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. The 1920’s<\/span><\/p>\n

d. The 1930’s<\/span><\/p>\n

41. Margaret Atwood was born in which<\/span><\/p>\n

Canadian city?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Vancouver<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Toronto<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Ottowa<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Montreal<\/span><\/p>\n

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42. Which of the following words<\/span><\/p>\n

describe the prevailing attitude of High-<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern Literature?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Skeptical<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Authoritative<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Impressionistic<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Confident<\/span><\/p>\n

e.Both a & c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

43. Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk<\/span><\/p>\n

Wood?”<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Anthony Hopkins<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Richard Burton<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Tom Jones<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Dylan Thomas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

44. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.Dick Whittington<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Thomas Lancaster<\/span><\/p>\n

d.King Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

45. Who wrote “The Hound of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Baskervilles?”<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Agatha Christie<\/span><\/p>\n

b.H Ryder-Haggard<\/span><\/p>\n

c.P D James<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Arthur Conan Doyle<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

46. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the<\/span><\/p>\n

author of:<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Taming of the Shrew<\/span><\/p>\n

c.White Devil<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d.Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

47. ___________is a late 20th century<\/span><\/p>\n

play written by a woman?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Queen Cristina<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Top Girls<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Camille<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d.The Homecoimg<\/span><\/p>\n

48. Which of the following writers wrote<\/span><\/p>\n

historical novels?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Sir Walter Scott and Maria<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Edgeworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c.William Wordsworth and Samuel<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

49. Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers?”<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Irvine Welsh<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Agatha Christie<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d.None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

50. Which of the following are Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

Hardy books?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.The Poor Man and the Lady<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.The Return of Native<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c.Chollttee<\/span><\/p>\n

d.None of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

51. Which of the following is not a work<\/span><\/p>\n

of John Keats?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Endymion<\/span><\/p>\n

b.To some ladies<\/span><\/p>\n

c.To hope<\/span><\/p>\n

d.None of above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

52. Who wrote the poems, “On death”<\/span><\/p>\n

and “Women, Wine, and Snuff?”<\/span><\/p>\n

a.John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

b.John Keats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c.P.B. Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

d.William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

53. “Of Man’s first disobedience, and the<\/span><\/p>\n

fruit Of that forbidden tree whose<\/span><\/p>\n

mortal taste Brought death into the<\/span><\/p>\n

world, and all our woe, With loss of<\/span><\/p>\n

Eden.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an extract from:<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Paradise Lost<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.Paradise Regained<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Samson Agonistes<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Divorce Tracts<\/span><\/p>\n

54. William Shakespeare was born in the<\/span><\/p>\n

year:<\/span><\/p>\n

a.1564<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.1544<\/span><\/p>\n

c.1578<\/span><\/p>\n

d.1582<\/span><\/p>\n

55. Which of the following is not a<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare tragedy?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/p>\n

b.Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

e.None of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

56. Who wrote ‘The Winter’s Tale?’<\/span><\/p>\n

a.George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

b.John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

c.Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

d.William Shakespeare<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

57. What is the difference between a<\/span><\/p>\n

simile and a metaphor?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) No difference. Simply two different<\/span><\/p>\n

ways in referring to the same thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) A simile is more descriptive.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) A simile uses as or like to make a<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

comparison and a metaphor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

doesn’t<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) A simile must use animals in the<\/span><\/p>\n

comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

58. What is the word for a “play on<\/span><\/p>\n

words”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) pun<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) simile<\/span><\/p>\n

c) haiku<\/span><\/p>\n

d) metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

59. Which represents an example of<\/span><\/p>\n

alliteration?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Language Arts<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Peter Piper Picked Peppers<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) I like music.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) A beautiful scenery with music<\/span><\/p>\n

60. What is the imitation of natural<\/span><\/p>\n

sounds in word form?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Personification<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Hyperboles<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Onomatopoeia<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

61. The theme is …?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a plot.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) an character<\/span><\/p>\n

c) an address<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the point a writer is trying to<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

make about a subject.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

62. Concentrate on these elements<\/span><\/p>\n

when writing a good poem.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) characters, main idea, and theme<\/span><\/p>\n

b) purpose and audience<\/span><\/p>\n

c) theme, purpose, form, and<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

mood.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) rhyme and reason<\/span><\/p>\n

63. Which is not a poetry form?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) epic<\/span><\/p>\n

b) tale<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) ballad<\/span><\/p>\n

d) sonnet<\/span><\/p>\n

64. Which is an example of a proverb?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Get a “stake” in our business.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) You can’t have your cake and eat<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

it, too<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) The snow was white as cotton.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) You’re driving me crazy.<\/span><\/p>\n

65. Which is an exaggeration?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Haiku<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Hyperbole<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Prose<\/span><\/p>\n

66. Which of the following is not a poet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Terry Saylor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Elizabeth B. Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Emily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

67. Who has defined ‘poetry’ as a<\/span><\/p>\n

fundamental creative act using<\/span><\/p>\n

languages?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. H. W. Longfellow<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Dylan Thomas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

68. What is a sonnet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. A poem of six lines<\/span><\/p>\n

b. A poem of eight lines<\/span><\/p>\n

c. A poem of twelve lines<\/span><\/p>\n

d. A poem of fourteen lines<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

69. What is study of meter, rhythm and<\/span><\/p>\n

intonation of a poem called as?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Prosody<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Allegory<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Scansion<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Assonance<\/span><\/p>\n

70. Which figure of speech is it when a<\/span><\/p>\n

statement is exaggerated in a poem?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Onomatopeia<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Metonymy<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Alliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Hyperbole<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

71. There was aware of her true love, at<\/span><\/p>\n

length come riding by – This is a couplet<\/span><\/p>\n

from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington.<\/span><\/p>\n

What figure of speech is used by the<\/span><\/p>\n

poet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Synecdoche<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Euphemism<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Irony<\/span><\/p>\n

72. Which culture is known for their<\/span><\/p>\n

long, rhymic poetic verses known as<\/span><\/p>\n

Qasidas?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Hindu<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Celtic<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Arabic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Arameic<\/span><\/p>\n

73. Complete this Shakespearan line –<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me not to the marriage of true<\/span><\/p>\n

minds bring:<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Impediments<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Inconveniences<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Worries<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Troubles<\/span><\/p>\n

74. Which of the following is a Japanese<\/span><\/p>\n

poetic form?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Jintishi<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Villanelle<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Ode<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Tanka<\/span><\/p>\n

75. What is the title of the poem that<\/span><\/p>\n

begins thus – ‘What is this life, if full of<\/span><\/p>\n

care, we have no time to stand and<\/span><\/p>\n

stare’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Comfort<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Leisure<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Relaxation<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Tranquility<\/span><\/p>\n

76. Which of the following is not an<\/span><\/p>\n

English poet (i. e. from England)?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Victor Hugo<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

c. John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

77. Who was often called as the<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantic Poet as most of his poems<\/span><\/p>\n

revolved around nature?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

b. William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

c. William Morris<\/span><\/p>\n

d. William Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

78. What is a funny poem of five lines<\/span><\/p>\n

called?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Quartet<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Limerick<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Sextet<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Palindrome<\/span><\/p>\n

79. How did W. H. Auden describe<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. An awful way to earn a living<\/span><\/p>\n

b. A game of knowledge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. The soul exposed<\/span><\/p>\n

d. An explosion of language<\/span><\/p>\n

80. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what<\/span><\/p>\n

kind of poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Light verse<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Political satire<\/span><\/p>\n

d. War poems<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

81. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of<\/span><\/p>\n

his childhood?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Denver<\/span><\/p>\n

b. St Louis<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Cuba<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Toronto<\/span><\/p>\n

82. Ted Hughes was married to which<\/span><\/p>\n

American poetess?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Carolyn Kizer<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Mary Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Sylvia Plath<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Marianne Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

83. How old was Rupert Brooke at the<\/span><\/p>\n

time of his death?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. 24<\/span><\/p>\n

b. 31<\/span><\/p>\n

c. 21<\/span><\/p>\n

d. 28<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

84. In what form did Dylan Thomas’s<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Under Milk Wood’ first become known?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Book of poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

b. A radio play<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. A stage play<\/span><\/p>\n

d. a short film<\/span><\/p>\n

85. The magazine ‘Contemporary Poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

and Prose’ was inspired by which<\/span><\/p>\n

exhibition?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. The Festival of Britain<\/span><\/p>\n

b. The Surrealist Exhibition<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. People of the 20th Century<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Drawing the 20th CEntury<\/span><\/p>\n

86. Why did ‘Poetry Quarterly’ cease<\/span><\/p>\n

publication in 1953?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Owner convicted of fraud<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Fall in Sales<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Rise in taxation on magazines<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Shortage of paper<\/span><\/p>\n

87. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was<\/span><\/p>\n

better known as what?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Politician<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Dramatist<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Novelist<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Architect<\/span><\/p>\n

88. Of which poet was it said ‘Even if<\/span><\/p>\n

he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a<\/span><\/p>\n

great something’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Elliot<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Kipling<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Cummings<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Brooke<\/span><\/p>\n

1.which of these is magnum opus of<\/span><\/p>\n

chaucer?<\/span><\/p>\n

A. Troilus and criseyde<\/span><\/p>\n

b. House of fame<\/span><\/p>\n

c. The canterbury tales<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. Parliament of fowls.<\/span><\/p>\n

89. Where were the pilgrims going in<\/span><\/p>\n

the canterbury tales?<\/span><\/p>\n

A. To the shrine of st. Peter at<\/span><\/p>\n

canterbury cathedral<\/span><\/p>\n

b. To the shrine of saint thomas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

becket at canterbury cathedral<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

90.in which language the stories of<\/span><\/p>\n

canterbury tale are written?<\/span><\/p>\n

A. French<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Latin<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Middle english<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d. English<\/span><\/p>\n

91.chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which<\/span><\/p>\n

sin?<\/span><\/p>\n

A. Lust<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Corruption<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Theft<\/span><\/p>\n

d. Gluttony<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

92. How many languages did chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

know?<\/span><\/p>\n

A.2<\/span><\/p>\n

b.4<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c.1<\/span><\/p>\n

d.5<\/span><\/p>\n

93.from which language the name<\/span><\/p>\n

”chaucer” has been driven?<\/span><\/p>\n

A.french<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.latin<\/span><\/p>\n

c.italian<\/span><\/p>\n

d.english<\/span><\/p>\n

94. Where did chaucer bury?<\/span><\/p>\n

A.westminster abbey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.kent church<\/span><\/p>\n

c.chapel at windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

95.chaucer was imprisoned during——-<\/span><\/p>\n

—————?<\/span><\/p>\n

A.hundred years’ war<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Black death<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Peasant revolt<\/span><\/p>\n

96 .how many children chaucer had?<\/span><\/p>\n

A.4<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.1<\/span><\/p>\n

c.0<\/span><\/p>\n

d.2<\/span><\/p>\n

MIDDLE AGES<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

97. Which people began their invasion<\/span><\/p>\n

and conquest of southwestern Britain<\/span><\/p>\n

around 450?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the Normans<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Geats<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Celts<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the Anglo-Saxons<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) the Danes<\/span><\/p>\n

98. Words from which language began<\/span><\/p>\n

to enter English vocabulary around the<\/span><\/p>\n

time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) French<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Norwegian<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Spanish<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Hungarian<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Danish<\/span><\/p>\n

99. Which hero made his earliest<\/span><\/p>\n

appearance in Celtic literature before<\/span><\/p>\n

becoming a staple subject in French,<\/span><\/p>\n

English, and German literatures?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Beowulf<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Arthur<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Caedmon<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Augustine of Canterbury<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Alfred<\/span><\/p>\n

100. Toward the close of which century<\/span><\/p>\n

did English replace French as the<\/span><\/p>\n

language of conducting business in<\/span><\/p>\n

Parliament and in court of law?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) tenth<\/span><\/p>\n

b) eleventh<\/span><\/p>\n

c) twelfth<\/span><\/p>\n

d) thirteenth<\/span><\/p>\n

e) fourteenth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

101. Which king began a war to enforce<\/span><\/p>\n

his claims to the throne of France in<\/span><\/p>\n

1336?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Henry II<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Henry III<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Henry V<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Louis XIV<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Edward III<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

102. Who would be called the English<\/span><\/p>\n

Homer and father of English poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Bede<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Sir Thomas Malory<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Caedmon<\/span><\/p>\n

e) John Gower<\/span><\/p>\n

103. What was vellum?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) parchment made of animal skin<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) the service owed to a lord by his<\/span><\/p>\n

peasants (“villeins”)<\/span><\/p>\n

c) unrhymed iambic pentameter<\/span><\/p>\n

d) an unbreakable oath of fealty<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a prized ink used in the illumination<\/span><\/p>\n

of prestigious manuscripts<\/span><\/p>\n

104. Only a small proportion of medieval<\/span><\/p>\n

books survive, large numbers having<\/span><\/p>\n

been destroyed in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning<\/span><\/p>\n

in the 1450s.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Norman Conquest of 1066.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Peasant Uprising of 1381.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the Dissolution of the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Monasteries in the 1530s.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) the wave of contempt for<\/span><\/p>\n

manuscripts that followed the beginning<\/span><\/p>\n

of printing in 1476.<\/span><\/p>\n

105. What is the first extended written<\/span><\/p>\n

specimen of Old English?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Boethius’s Consolidation of<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Malory’s Morte Darthur<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the<\/span><\/p>\n

English People<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a code of laws promulgated by<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

King Ethelbert<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

106. Who was the first English Christian<\/span><\/p>\n

king?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Alfred<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Henry II<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Ethelbert<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

107. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what<\/span><\/p>\n

is the fate of those who fail to observe<\/span><\/p>\n

the sacred duty of blood vengeance?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) banishment to Asia<\/span><\/p>\n

b) everlasting shame<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) conversion to Christianity<\/span><\/p>\n

d) mild melancholia<\/span><\/p>\n

e) being buried alive<\/span><\/p>\n

108. Christian writers like the Beowulf<\/span><\/p>\n

poet looked back on their pagan<\/span><\/p>\n

ancestors with:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) bewilderment and visceral loathing.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) admiration and elegiac<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

sympathy.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) bigotry and shallow triumphalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the deepest reluctance.<\/span><\/p>\n

109. The use of “whale-road”for sea and<\/span><\/p>\n

“life-house”for body are examples of<\/span><\/p>\n

what literary technique, popular in Old<\/span><\/p>\n

English poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) symbolism<\/span><\/p>\n

b) simile<\/span><\/p>\n

c) metonymy<\/span><\/p>\n

d) kenning<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) appositive expression<\/span><\/p>\n

110. Which of the following statements<\/span><\/p>\n

is not an accurate description of Old<\/span><\/p>\n

English poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Romantic love is a guiding<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

principle of moral conduct.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Its formal and dignified use of speech<\/span><\/p>\n

was distant from everyday use of<\/span><\/p>\n

language.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Irony is a mode of perception, as<\/span><\/p>\n

much as it was a figure of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Christian and pagan ideals are<\/span><\/p>\n

sometimes mixed.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Its idiom remained remarkably<\/span><\/p>\n

uniform for nearly three centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

111. Which of the following best<\/span><\/p>\n

describes litote, a favorite rhetorical<\/span><\/p>\n

device in Old English poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) embellishment at the service of<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian doctrine<\/span><\/p>\n

b) repetition of parallel syntactic<\/span><\/p>\n

structures<\/span><\/p>\n

c) ironic understatement<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) stress on every third diphthong<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a compound of two words in place of<\/span><\/p>\n

a single word<\/span><\/p>\n

112. How did Henry II, the first of<\/span><\/p>\n

England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire<\/span><\/p>\n

vast provinces in southern France?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the Battle of Hastings<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Saint Patrick’s mission<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Fourth Lateran Council<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the execution of William Sawtre<\/span><\/p>\n

e) his marriage to Eleanor of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Aquitaine<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

113. Which of the following languages<\/span><\/p>\n

did not coexist in Anglo-Norman<\/span><\/p>\n

England?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Latin<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Dutch<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) French<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Celtic<\/span><\/p>\n

e) English<\/span><\/p>\n

114. Which twelfth-century poet or<\/span><\/p>\n

poets were indebted to Breton<\/span><\/p>\n

storytellers for their narratives?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Marie de France<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a and c only<\/span><\/p>\n

e) b and c only<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

115. To what did the word the roman,<\/span><\/p>\n

from which the genre of<\/span><\/p>\n

“romance”emerged, initially apply?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a work derived from a Latin text of<\/span><\/p>\n

the Roman Empire<\/span><\/p>\n

b) a story about love and adventure<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a Roman official<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a work written in the French<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

vernacular<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) a series of short stories<\/span><\/p>\n

116. Popular English adaptations of<\/span><\/p>\n

romances appealed primarily to<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the royal family and upper orders of<\/span><\/p>\n

the nobility<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the lower orders of the nobility<\/span><\/p>\n

c) agricultural laborers<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the clergy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) the Welsh<\/span><\/p>\n

117. What is the climax of Geoffrey of<\/span><\/p>\n

Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of<\/span><\/p>\n

Britain?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the reign of King Arthur<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) the coronation of Henry II<\/span><\/p>\n

c) King John’s seal of the Magna Carta<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor<\/span><\/p>\n

of Aquitaine<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the defeat of the French by Henry V<\/span><\/p>\n

118. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of<\/span><\/p>\n

instruction for<\/span><\/p>\n

a) courtiers entering the service of<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

b) translators of French romances<\/span><\/p>\n

c) women who have chosen to live<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

as religious recluses<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) knights preparing for their first<\/span><\/p>\n

tournament<\/span><\/p>\n

e) witch-hunters and exorcists<\/span><\/p>\n

119. The styles of The Owl and the<\/span><\/p>\n

Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show<\/span><\/p>\n

what about the poetry and prose written<\/span><\/p>\n

around the year 1200?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) They were written for sophisticated<\/span><\/p>\n

and well-educated readers.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Writing continued to benefit only<\/span><\/p>\n

readers fluent in Latin and French.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Their readers’ primary language was<\/span><\/p>\n

English.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a and c only<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) a and b only<\/span><\/p>\n

120. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

and William Langland, the “flowering”of<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle English literature is evident in the<\/span><\/p>\n

works of which of the following writers?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Geoffrey of Monmouth<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Gawain poet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) the Beowulf poet<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Marie de France<\/span><\/p>\n

121. Why did the rebels of 1381 target<\/span><\/p>\n

the church, beheading the archbishop of<\/span><\/p>\n

Canterbury?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Their leaders were Lollards,<\/span><\/p>\n

advocating radical religious reform.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) The common people were still<\/span><\/p>\n

essentially pagan.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) They believed that writing, a skill<\/span><\/p>\n

largely confined to the clergy, was a<\/span><\/p>\n

form of black magic.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The church was among the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

greatest of oppressive landowners.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) a and c only<\/span><\/p>\n

122. Which influential medieval text<\/span><\/p>\n

purported to reveal the secrets of the<\/span><\/p>\n

afterlife?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Dante’s Divine Comedy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Boccaccio’s Decameron<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The Dream of the Rood<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Gower’s Confessio Amantis<\/span><\/p>\n

123. Who is the author of Piers<\/span><\/p>\n

Plowman?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Sir Thomas Malory<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Margery Kempe<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

d) William Langland<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Geoffrey of Monmouth<\/span><\/p>\n

124. What event resulted from the<\/span><\/p>\n

premature death of Henry V?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the Battle of Agincourt<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Battle of Hastings<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Norman Conquest<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the Black Death<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the War of the Roses<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

125. Which literary form, developed in<\/span><\/p>\n

the fifteenth century, personified vices<\/span><\/p>\n

and virtues?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the short story<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the heroic epic<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the morality play<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the romance<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the limerick<\/span><\/p>\n

126. Which of the following statements<\/span><\/p>\n

about Julian of Norwich is true?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) She sought unsuccessfully to restore<\/span><\/p>\n

classical paganism.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) She was a virgin martyr.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) She is the first known woman<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

writer in the English vernacular.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem,<\/span><\/p>\n

Rome, and Santiago.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) She probably never met Margery<\/span><\/p>\n

Kempe.<\/span><\/p>\n

127. Which of the following authors is<\/span><\/p>\n

considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is<\/span><\/p>\n

personified in Sir Lancelot?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Julian of Norwich<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Margery Kempe<\/span><\/p>\n

c) William Langland<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Sir Thomas Malory<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

128.what was the occupation of<\/span><\/p>\n

Chaucer’s father?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. leather merchant<\/span><\/p>\n

b.civil servant<\/span><\/p>\n

c. a vintner<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

129. Chaucer became a page to which<\/span><\/p>\n

king’s daughter-in-law?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Edward III<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Henry IV<\/span><\/p>\n

130. which of these is not certain about<\/span><\/p>\n

Chaucer?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. his birth date<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. his death year<\/span><\/p>\n

c. his father’s name<\/span><\/p>\n

131. which of these kings was not<\/span><\/p>\n

served by Chaucer?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Edward III<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Henry II<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

132.what was the duration of hundred<\/span><\/p>\n

year’s war?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.1300 to 1350<\/span><\/p>\n

b.1337 to 1453<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. 1302 to 1343<\/span><\/p>\n

133.what did Chaucer’s wife use to do?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

pa of Hainaut<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. nurse of royal court<\/span><\/p>\n

c. governess to Henry IV<\/span><\/p>\n

134.one of Chaucer’s daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

was…………?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. a musician<\/span><\/p>\n

b. an astronomer<\/span><\/p>\n

c. a nun<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

135. in which year chaucer was<\/span><\/p>\n

imprisoned by the French?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. 1360<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. 1357<\/span><\/p>\n

c. 1378<\/span><\/p>\n

136.chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366<\/span><\/p>\n

for…………..?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. beating a friar in a London street<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. for writing poetry against the church<\/span><\/p>\n

c. for crossing the border of Great<\/span><\/p>\n

Britain<\/span><\/p>\n

137. Chaucer was made in-charge of<\/span><\/p>\n

many palaces,which of these was not in<\/span><\/p>\n

his charge?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Westminster Palace<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Tower of London<\/span><\/p>\n

c. St. George’s chapel at Windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

d. <\/span>Buckingham Palace<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

138. Chaucer acted as a controller of<\/span><\/p>\n

custom during………….?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. 1374 to 1385<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. 1350 to 1360<\/span><\/p>\n

c. 1360 to 1400<\/span><\/p>\n

139. Chaucer was released from legal<\/span><\/p>\n

action by …………………… in a deed of<\/span><\/p>\n

May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. Philippa de Roet of Flanders<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Agnes de Copton<\/span><\/p>\n

140. Chaucer became a member of<\/span><\/p>\n

Parliament in………..?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. 1386<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b. 1300<\/span><\/p>\n

c. 1343<\/span><\/p>\n

141. Chaucer buried in a corner of<\/span><\/p>\n

Westminster, which came to know<\/span><\/p>\n

as………?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. Chaucer’s corner<\/span><\/p>\n

b. poet’s corner<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c. legend’s corner<\/span><\/p>\n

142. what was chaucer’s profession?<\/span><\/p>\n

a. a poet<\/span><\/p>\n

b. a merchant<\/span><\/p>\n

c. a civil servant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Life and Works of Christopher<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Marlowe<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

( Elizabethan era)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

143)<\/span><\/b>One of Marlowe’s earliest published<\/span><\/p>\n

works was his translation of the epic<\/span><\/p>\n

poem ‘Pharsalia’, written by which<\/span><\/p>\n

Roman poet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Ovid<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Lucan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Virgil<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Horace<\/span><\/p>\n

144) <\/span><\/b>Marlowe’s poem ‘The Passionate<\/span><\/p>\n

Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the<\/span><\/p>\n

line “Come live with me and be my<\/span><\/p>\n

love”; which other English author wrote<\/span><\/p>\n

a famous poem beginning with this line?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Thomas Kyd<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

d)John Donne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

145)<\/span><\/b>In Marlowe’s play, what was the<\/span><\/p>\n

name of the Jew of Malta?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Lazarus<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Solomon<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Barabas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Shylock<\/span><\/p>\n

146<\/span><\/b>How many years of happiness was<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>16<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>20<\/span><\/p>\n

c)24<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>28<\/span><\/p>\n

147) <\/span><\/b>Which of these Kings was the<\/span><\/p>\n

subject of a play by Marlowe?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Henry V<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Edward II<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>John<\/span><\/p>\n

148)<\/span><\/b>One of Marlowe’s most famous<\/span><\/p>\n

poems was an account of which lovers?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Anthony and Cleopatra<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Hero and Leander<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Troilus and Cressida<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Apollo and Hyacinth<\/span><\/p>\n

149) <\/span><\/b>Marlowe’s play ‘Tamburlaine the<\/span><\/p>\n

Great’ was based loosely on the life of<\/span><\/p>\n

which Asian ruler?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Zhu Yuanzhang<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Genghis Khan<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Timur<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Kublai Khan<\/span><\/p>\n

150)<\/span><\/b>What was the title of the play by<\/span><\/p>\n

Marlowe that portrayed the events<\/span><\/p>\n

surrounding the Saint Bartholomew’s<\/span><\/p>\n

Day Massacre in 1572?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>The Massacre at Berlin<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>The Massacre at Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>The Massacre at Copenhagen<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Massacre at Paris<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

151)<\/span><\/b>In the title of Marlowe’s play, of<\/span><\/p>\n

where was Dido the Queen?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Troy<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Carthage<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Sparta<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Persia<\/span><\/p>\n

152)<\/span><\/b>Christopher Marlowe was England’s<\/span><\/p>\n

first official Poet Laureate.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>True<\/span><\/p>\n

b)False<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(It was John Dryden-appointed in<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

1670)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Dr.Faustus By Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

153)<\/span><\/b>In what country is ‘Dr Faustus’<\/span><\/p>\n

based?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)England<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

c)France<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Germany<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

154)<\/span><\/b>When, is it estimated, was ‘Dr<\/span><\/p>\n

Faustus’ first performed?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1594<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)1604<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1590<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1593<\/span><\/p>\n

155)<\/span><\/b>At what famous university is<\/span><\/p>\n

Faustus a scholar?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Wittenburg<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Sorbonne<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Heidelberg<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Cambridge<\/span><\/p>\n

156)<\/span><\/b>Faustus’ servant shares his name<\/span><\/p>\n

with a famous German composer. Who?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Bach<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Schumann<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Beethoven<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Wagner<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

157)<\/span><\/b>Faustus asks two magicians to aid<\/span><\/p>\n

him in summoning the devil. What are<\/span><\/p>\n

their names?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Valdes and Cornelius<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Troilus and Cressida<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Pyramus and Thisbe<\/span><\/p>\n

158)<\/span><\/b>Through his magic, Faustus is<\/span><\/p>\n

visited first by which of the devil’s<\/span><\/p>\n

angels?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Mephastophilis<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)beelzebub<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Aamon<\/span><\/p>\n

159)<\/span><\/b>What does Faustus promise to the<\/span><\/p>\n

devil in exchange for great knowledge,<\/span><\/p>\n

riches and power for a period of 24<\/span><\/p>\n

years?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)his body<\/span><\/p>\n

b)his house<\/span><\/p>\n

c)his soul<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)his horse<\/span><\/p>\n

160)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following qualities<\/span><\/p>\n

would most accurately describe Faustus’<\/span><\/p>\n

character at the beginning of the play?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)kind<\/span><\/p>\n

b)stupid<\/span><\/p>\n

c)sensitive<\/span><\/p>\n

d)arrogant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

161)<\/span><\/b>Which powerful figure does<\/span><\/p>\n

Faustus ridicule with his new-found<\/span><\/p>\n

powers?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Pope<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)The Holy Roman Emperor<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The King of England<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The King of France<\/span><\/p>\n

162)<\/span><\/b>At the end of the play, Faustus is<\/span><\/p>\n

dragged down to hell, begging to<\/span><\/p>\n

repent.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)True<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)False<\/span><\/p>\n

163) <\/span><\/b>“Renaissance” is a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)French word<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Italian word<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Greek word<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Spanish word<\/span><\/p>\n

164) <\/span><\/b>What is the meaning of<\/span><\/p>\n

“Renaissance”:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Rebirth, revival and re-awaking<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Reveal, revel and reverie<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Raillery, renunciation and recoup<\/span><\/p>\n

165) <\/span><\/b>Renaissance first came to the:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)France<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Italy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)England<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

166) <\/span><\/b>Which of the following are<\/span><\/p>\n

University wits:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Gower and Robert Peele<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Skelton and Thomas lodge<\/span><\/p>\n

c)John Lyly and Robert Greene<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Donne and Thomas Nashe<\/span><\/p>\n

167) <\/span><\/b>University Wits were those who:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Had training at two universities<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)gave curriculum of two universities<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Erected two universities<\/span><\/p>\n

168) <\/span><\/b>Which century is known as Dawn<\/span><\/p>\n

of Renaissance:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)14 th<\/span><\/p>\n

b)15 th<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)16 th<\/span><\/p>\n

d)14 th and 16 th<\/span><\/p>\n

169) <\/span><\/b>Who born in 1422:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Caxton<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Robert Henry<\/span><\/p>\n

c)John Lyly<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Thomas more<\/span><\/p>\n

170) <\/span><\/b>Utopia was first printed in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1615<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1516<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)1517<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1518<\/span><\/p>\n

171) <\/span><\/b>Who translated Utopia in English<\/span><\/p>\n

language:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Thomas More<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Thomas lodge<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Ralph Robinson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)William Tyndale<\/span><\/p>\n

172) <\/span><\/b>The first complete version of Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

in English language was made by:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Wyclif<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Thomas more<\/span><\/p>\n

c)John Lyly<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Robert Greene<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

173) <\/span><\/b>Who took Degree at fifteen from<\/span><\/p>\n

Cambridge in 1518?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Thomas Nash<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Thomas More<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Thomas lodge<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Thomas Wyatt<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

174) <\/span><\/b>Who wrote “Mirror for<\/span><\/p>\n

Magistrates”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Thomas Sacville<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Thomas Wyatt<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Thomas lodge<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Thomas Kyde<\/span><\/p>\n

175) <\/span><\/b>Philip Sidney was born on 30th<\/span><\/p>\n

November:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1553<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1554<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)1555<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1550<\/span><\/p>\n

176) <\/span><\/b>“Astrophel and Stella” is a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Allegory<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Epic<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Sonnet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Ballad<\/span><\/p>\n

177) <\/span><\/b>Greville was biographer of:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Edmund Spencer<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Sir Philip Sidney<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

178) <\/span><\/b>“The Prince Of Poets in his time”,<\/span><\/p>\n

on whom grave the inscription is given?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sir Philip Sidney<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Edmund Spencer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

179) <\/span><\/b>What is Faerie Queene:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)An allegory<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)An epic<\/span><\/p>\n

c)A ballad<\/span><\/p>\n

d)A sonnet<\/span><\/p>\n

180) <\/span><\/b>In whose reign Morality plays<\/span><\/p>\n

began?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Henry five<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Elizabeth one<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Henry six<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Henry eight<\/span><\/p>\n

181) <\/span><\/b>Which book Edmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

dedicated to the Philip Sidney:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Faerie Queene<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The shepheaedes Calendar<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Complaints<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Colin Clouts come home again<\/span><\/p>\n

182) <\/span><\/b>Which poet was first who used<\/span><\/p>\n

metaphysical poetry among his<\/span><\/p>\n

contemporaries:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Edmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

c)John Donne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Sir Philip Sidney<\/span><\/p>\n

183) The first regular English comedy,<\/span><\/p>\n

based on the model of the Latin<\/span><\/p>\n

comedy, is attributed to ?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Nicholas Udall<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Thomas Colwell<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Lord Burghley<\/span><\/p>\n

184)Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved<\/span><\/p>\n

great popularity with which of his first<\/span><\/p>\n

work?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Rare Triumphs of love and<\/span><\/p>\n

fortune<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Spanish Tragedy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Jeronimo<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Cornelia<\/span><\/p>\n

185)Marlowe born in________<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1562<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1563<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1564<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)1565<\/span><\/p>\n

186)In “the tragic history of Doctor<\/span><\/p>\n

Faustus”. Faustus was a :<\/span><\/p>\n

a) German scholar<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)French scholar<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Spanish scholar<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Greek scholar<\/span><\/p>\n

186)Who wrote “The Massacre at<\/span><\/p>\n

Paris”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Edmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

d)john Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

187)After the death of Christopher<\/span><\/p>\n

Marlowe who completed his unfinished<\/span><\/p>\n

poem “Hero and Leander”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Thomas Nash<\/span><\/p>\n

c)George Chapman<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Thomas More<\/span><\/p>\n

188) Who succeeded Lyly?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Robert Greene<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Philip Sidney<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

189) Which of the Marlowe’s plays were<\/span><\/p>\n

written in collaboration with Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

Nash?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Queen of Carthage and The<\/span><\/p>\n

passionate Shepherd.<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The tragedy of Dido and Queen of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Carthage.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The passionate Shepherd and The<\/span><\/p>\n

tragedy of Dido.<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Queen of Carthage and The Massacre<\/span><\/p>\n

of Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

190) Who was the son of a rich London<\/span><\/p>\n

merchant and born in 1557?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Thomas Nah<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Thomas lodge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Thomas Kyd<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Thomas Hardy<\/span><\/p>\n

191) The collection of the papers and<\/span><\/p>\n

correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk<\/span><\/p>\n

family is known as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Letters to the Margret Paston<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Margret Paston to John Paston<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Paston letters<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)To John Paston<\/span><\/p>\n

192) Who wrote “Holy Sonnets”?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Edmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Donne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

d)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

193) Who wrote following lines:<\/span><\/p>\n

“…….. I am involved in mankind: and<\/span><\/p>\n

therefore never send to know for whom<\/span><\/p>\n

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Donne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Earnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

d)D.H. Lawrence<\/span><\/p>\n

194) “On his blindness”, a collection of<\/span><\/p>\n

sonnets is written by:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Edmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Milton<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Sir Philip Sidney<\/span><\/p>\n

195) “Paradise lost” was lost by:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Both a and b<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

196) In “Paradise regained” who<\/span><\/p>\n

regained the paradise?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Jesus<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Adam and Eve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Only Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

197) Which of the following published in<\/span><\/p>\n

1579 and although it placed Spencer<\/span><\/p>\n

immediately in the highest rank of living<\/span><\/p>\n

writers?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Colin clouts come home again<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Faerie queen, first three books<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Shepherd’s calendar<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Faerie queen, second three books<\/span><\/p>\n

198)Spencer married in June 11, 1594<\/span><\/p>\n

to ————————————–?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Elizabeth Wilton D\/O Lord Grey De<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilton<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Elizabeth Raleigh D\/O Walter Raleigh<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Elizabeth Boyle D\/O James Boyle<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Elizabeth Boyle D\/O Richard Boyle<\/span><\/p>\n

199)John Donne’s “The Anniversaries” is<\/span><\/p>\n

a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)An elegy in two parts<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)An epic in three parts<\/span><\/p>\n

c)A ballad in four parts<\/span><\/p>\n

d) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

200) Who of the following is known as<\/span><\/p>\n

Child Of Renaissance?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Spencer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

201)During Spencer’s visit to his Kinsfolk<\/span><\/p>\n

in Lancashire he felt in love a woman<\/span><\/p>\n

and who figures<\/span><\/p>\n

as__________________ much of his<\/span><\/p>\n

work:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Rosalind<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Belinda<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Both a and b<\/span><\/p>\n

d)None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

202) William Shakespeare born in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)26 April 1567<\/span><\/p>\n

b)26 April 1566<\/span><\/p>\n

c)26 April 1565<\/span><\/p>\n

d)26 April 1564<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

203) William Shakespeare was……. child<\/span><\/p>\n

of John and Mary:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)second<\/span><\/p>\n

b)fourth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)third<\/span><\/p>\n

d)fifth<\/span><\/p>\n

204) He married to the Anne Hathaway<\/span><\/p>\n

at the age of_______ in______.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)18, 1582<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)17, 1581<\/span><\/p>\n

c)16, 1580<\/span><\/p>\n

d)15, 1579<\/span><\/p>\n

205) Which of the following statement is<\/span><\/p>\n

correct:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Shakespeare’s first child Susanna was<\/span><\/p>\n

born in 1583.<\/span><\/p>\n

b)In 1585 twins were born and named<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamnet and Judith.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) both a and b.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) None of above.<\/span><\/p>\n

206)Ann Hathaway was _________<\/span><\/p>\n

years older than Shakespeare:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)7<\/span><\/p>\n

b)8<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)9<\/span><\/p>\n

d)10<\/span><\/p>\n

207)After __________ years of his<\/span><\/p>\n

marriage he left his native town and try<\/span><\/p>\n

his fortune in the great city of London.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)two<\/span><\/p>\n

b)three<\/span><\/p>\n

c)four<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)five<\/span><\/p>\n

208)Shakespeare’s only son Hamnet<\/span><\/p>\n

died in————?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1595<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1596<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)1597<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1598<\/span><\/p>\n

209)Shakespeare is buried inside the:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Westminster Abbey<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Trinity Church<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Protestant Cemetery<\/span><\/p>\n

d)None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

210)By ——– Shakespeare had<\/span><\/p>\n

established himself in London as an<\/span><\/p>\n

actor and dramatist:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1590<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1591<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1592<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)1593<\/span><\/p>\n

211)Who declared him as Britain’s<\/span><\/p>\n

greatest dramatist in 1598?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Queen Elizabeth<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Francis Meres, a lawyer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Burbage, an actor<\/span><\/p>\n

d)King James<\/span><\/p>\n

212) Shakespeare made Stratford his<\/span><\/p>\n

regular home in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)About 1611<\/span><\/p>\n

b) About 1610<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)About 1609<\/span><\/p>\n

d) About 1608<\/span><\/p>\n

Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

213)<\/span><\/b>What is Christopher Marlowe’s<\/span><\/p>\n

Nationality?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)British<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)German<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Dutch<\/span><\/p>\n

d)American<\/span><\/p>\n

214)<\/span><\/b>What was the occupation of<\/span><\/p>\n

Christopher Marlowe’s father?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Carpenter<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Civil servant<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Cobbler<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Farmer<\/span><\/p>\n

215)<\/span><\/b>From where Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

received his early Education?<\/span><\/p>\n

Corpus Christi College<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

a)Cambridge<\/span><\/p>\n

b)oxford<\/span><\/p>\n

c)witternburg<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Harvard<\/span><\/p>\n

216)<\/span><\/b>Marlow died of?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Illness<\/span><\/p>\n

b)stabbing<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)poisoned<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Hanged<\/span><\/p>\n

217)<\/span><\/b>Which was Marlowe’s first play?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Dr.Faustus<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Tamburlaine<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Tragedy of Dido<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Jew of Malta,<\/span><\/p>\n

William Shakespeare(1564 – 1616)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(Elizabethan Period)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

218)<\/span><\/b>In which town was Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

born?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)London<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Cambridge<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Stratford<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Oxford<\/span><\/p>\n

219)<\/span><\/b>How many children did<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare have?<\/span><\/p>\n

1)3<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2)5<\/span><\/p>\n

3)8<\/span><\/p>\n

4)12<\/span><\/p>\n

220)<\/span><\/b>How many plays did William<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare write?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)36<\/span><\/p>\n

b)37<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)38<\/span><\/p>\n

d)39<\/span><\/p>\n

221)<\/span><\/b>What was Shakespeare’s first play?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Henry VI<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/p>\n

222)<\/span><\/b>How many sonnets did William<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare write?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)110<\/span><\/p>\n

b)154<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)175<\/span><\/p>\n

d)187<\/span><\/p>\n

223)<\/span><\/b>How many photographs exist of<\/span><\/p>\n

William Shakespeare?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)2<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)4<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1<\/span><\/p>\n

d)0<\/span><\/p>\n

224)<\/span><\/b>Shakespeare died on?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)23rd April 1616<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)25th April 1616,<\/span><\/p>\n

c)28th April 1616<\/span><\/p>\n

d)30th April 1616<\/span><\/p>\n

225)<\/span><\/b>Shakespeare died at the age of<\/span><\/p>\n

a)48<\/span><\/p>\n

b)52<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)60<\/span><\/p>\n

d)63<\/span><\/p>\n

226)<\/span><\/b>How many times suicide occurs in<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s plays?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)7<\/span><\/p>\n

b)9<\/span><\/p>\n

c)11<\/span><\/p>\n

d)13<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

227)<\/span><\/b>The line “To be or not to be”<\/span><\/p>\n

comes from which play?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

c)A Midsummer Night’s dream<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

228) <\/span><\/b>Was the Globe\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

a) A Roman Amphitheater.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) An Elizabethan Theater.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) An Elizabethan sports stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) A famous map of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

229)<\/span><\/b>Is there is a monument of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare in Stratford today?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)True<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)False<\/span><\/p>\n

230)<\/span><\/b>Which of these was not one of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s plays?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Cymbeline<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Shakespeare in love<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

231)<\/span><\/b>Which famous Shakespeare play<\/span><\/p>\n

does the quote,”My salad days, when I<\/span><\/p>\n

was green in judgment.” come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Antony and Cleopatra<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Winters Tale<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

232)<\/span><\/b>Which famous Shakespeare play<\/span><\/p>\n

does the quote,”Neither a borrower nor<\/span><\/p>\n

a lender be” come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Cymbeline<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Pericles, Prince of Tyre<\/span><\/p>\n

233)<\/span><\/b>Which famous Shakespeare play<\/span><\/p>\n

does the quote “How sharper than a<\/span><\/p>\n

serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless<\/span><\/p>\n

child!” come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)King Lear<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)As You Like It<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Famous History of the Life of King<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Life and Death of King John<\/span><\/p>\n

234)<\/span><\/b>In what year was the First Folio<\/span><\/p>\n

published?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1626<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1621<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1623<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)1629<\/span><\/p>\n

235)<\/span><\/b>What nationality was Shakespeare?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Italian<\/span><\/p>\n

b)English<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Scottish<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Greek<\/span><\/p>\n

236)<\/span><\/b>In which century was Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

born?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)16th<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)14th<\/span><\/p>\n

c)15th<\/span><\/p>\n

d)17th<\/span><\/p>\n

237)<\/span><\/b>which famous Shakespeare play<\/span><\/p>\n

does the quote “The first thing we do,<\/span><\/p>\n

let’s kill all the lawyers” come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Othello, the Moor of Venice<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre<\/span><\/p>\n

d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

238)<\/span><\/b>Which river is associated with<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s birth place?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Thames<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Avon<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Tyburn<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Seven<\/span><\/p>\n

239)<\/span><\/b>Which famous play does the<\/span><\/p>\n

quote,”When shall we three meet again<\/span><\/p>\n

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” come<\/span><\/p>\n

from?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) The Taming of the Shrew<\/span><\/p>\n

b) King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Macbeth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

240)<\/span><\/b>How many of Shakespeare’s plays<\/span><\/p>\n

are classified as histories?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 7<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 10<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) 14<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 18<\/span><\/p>\n

241)<\/span><\/b>The group of four plays known as<\/span><\/p>\n

the “major tetralogy” is:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry VI<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI,<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

c) King John, Henry V, Richard II,<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IV, Henry V<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

242)<\/span><\/b>In 1613 the Globe Theater burned<\/span><\/p>\n

down during a production of which play?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) King John<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Henry VIII<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Henry V<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

243)<\/span><\/b>Complete the following famous line<\/span><\/p>\n

from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the<\/span><\/p>\n

state of…<\/span><\/p>\n

a) England<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Venice<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Denmark<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Maine<\/span><\/p>\n

244)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following characters<\/span><\/p>\n

does not appear in Hamlet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Polonius<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Gertrude<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Claudius<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Miranda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

245)<\/span><\/b>Where was Hamlet studying before<\/span><\/p>\n

he returned to Denmark?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Wittenberg<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Oslo<\/span><\/p>\n

c) London<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Dublin<\/span><\/p>\n

246)<\/span><\/b>How are Polonius and Laertes<\/span><\/p>\n

related?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Father\/son<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Uncle\/nephew<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Cousin\/cousin<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Brother\/brother<\/span><\/p>\n

247)<\/span><\/b>What is the name of the playlet<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamlet stages for Claudius?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Slings and Arrows<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Vice of Kings<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The Murder of Gonzago<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) The Slaying of Lucianus<\/span><\/p>\n

248)<\/span><\/b>Who says, “Good night, sweet<\/span><\/p>\n

prince,\/And flights of angels sing thee to<\/span><\/p>\n

thy rest.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Fortinbras<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Marcellus<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Chorus<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Horatio<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

249)<\/span><\/b>How does Queen Gertrude die?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Drowns in the river outside the<\/span><\/p>\n

castle.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Suffers a fatal heart attack while<\/span><\/p>\n

watching Hamlet fight Laertes.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Poisoned by drinking from<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Hamlet’s cup.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

250)<\/span><\/b>Who does Polonius send to spy on<\/span><\/p>\n

Laertes in Paris?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Francisco<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Gorgonzola<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Reynaldo<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Samson<\/span><\/p>\n

251)<\/span><\/b>Who is Voltimand?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Ambassador to the King of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Norway from the King of Denmark<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Hamlet’s cousin<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Ambassador to the King of Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

from the King of Norway<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Assassin in the service of Fortinbras<\/span><\/p>\n

252)<\/span><\/b>What poison does Claudius pour<\/span><\/p>\n

into the ear of Hamlet’s father, causing<\/span><\/p>\n

his death?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Burdock<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Hebenon<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Baneberry<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Hemlock<\/span><\/p>\n

253)<\/span><\/b>How many soliloquies does Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

deliver?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)2<\/span><\/p>\n

b)4<\/span><\/p>\n

c)7<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)9<\/span><\/p>\n

Macbeth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

254)<\/span><\/b>In which country is Macbeth set?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Spain<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Scotland<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Canada<\/span><\/p>\n

255)<\/span><\/b>Who is traveling with Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

when he first encounters the Three<\/span><\/p>\n

Witches?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Macduff<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Mercutio<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Lady Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Banquo<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

256)<\/span><\/b>At the beginning of the play, the<\/span><\/p>\n

Scots are at war with which country?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Norway<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Prussia<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Iceland<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Poland<\/span><\/p>\n

257)<\/span><\/b>Macbeth hires assassins to murder<\/span><\/p>\n

Banquo’s son, named…<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Angus<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Ross<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Fleance<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Lennox<\/span><\/p>\n

258)<\/span><\/b>How does Lady Macbeth explain<\/span><\/p>\n

her husband’s wild behavior at the<\/span><\/p>\n

banquet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) She tells the guests that Banquo’s<\/span><\/p>\n

ghost is haunting Macbeth.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) She tells the guests that Macbeth has<\/span><\/p>\n

had too much to drink.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) She informs the guests that<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Macbeth is ill.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) She reveals that Macbeth is<\/span><\/p>\n

overcome with grief over the death of<\/span><\/p>\n

Duncan.<\/span><\/p>\n

259)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not an<\/span><\/p>\n

apparition shown to Macbeth by the<\/span><\/p>\n

Witches:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) An armed head.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) A bloody dagger floating in midair.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) A bloody child.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) A child crowned, with a tree in his<\/span><\/p>\n

hand<\/span><\/p>\n

260)<\/span><\/b>Who tells Macbeth, “The queen,<\/span><\/p>\n

my lord, is dead.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Seyton<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Siward<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The Doctor<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Caithness<\/span><\/p>\n

261) Shakespeare”s father died in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1600<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1601<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) 1602<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 1603<\/span><\/p>\n

262) Shakespeare joined the Chamber<\/span><\/p>\n

lain’s Men Theatrical Company as a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Actor and playwright<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Playwright and poet<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Playwright and writer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

263) How many from his plays were<\/span><\/p>\n

published in his lifetime:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Only sixteen<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Only seventeen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Only eighteen<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Only nineteen<\/span><\/p>\n

264) In which year Globe theater got<\/span><\/p>\n

fire and destroyed?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1610<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1611<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1612<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1613<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

265)Shakespeare dedicated his long<\/span><\/p>\n

narrative poem Venus and Adonis to—–<\/span><\/p>\n

———-.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Henry Wriothesley, the third earl<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

of Southampton<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of<\/span><\/p>\n

Southampton<\/span><\/p>\n

c)William Fitzwilliam, first earl of<\/span><\/p>\n

Southampton<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of<\/span><\/p>\n

Southampton<\/span><\/p>\n

266) During which period London<\/span><\/p>\n

theaterrs remained closed on account of<\/span><\/p>\n

the plague?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1592<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1593<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) 1594<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 1595<\/span><\/p>\n

267) Which roles have played by<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like<\/span><\/p>\n

it?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Fortinbras, Corin<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Leartus, Silvius<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Osric, Touchstone<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Ghost, Old servant Adam<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

268) In ……. year Shakespeare bought<\/span><\/p>\n

the largest house in Stratford, called<\/span><\/p>\n

New place:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1595<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 1597<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) 15598<\/span><\/p>\n

269) In 1599 which famous actor and<\/span><\/p>\n

his brother Cuthbert set a new<\/span><\/p>\n

playhouse on the Bank side,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

called the Globe?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Augustine Phillipps<\/span><\/p>\n

b) John Heimnge<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Henry Condell<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Richard Burbage<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

270) In Shakespeare’s literary output,<\/span><\/p>\n

the period 1604-1608 is the period of:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Comedy plays<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Historical plays<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Great Tragedies<\/span><\/p>\n

d) None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

271) “Under the green wood tree” is a<\/span><\/p>\n

song in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Love’s labour’s lost<\/span><\/p>\n

b<\/span>) As you like it<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) A mid Summer night’s dream<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Much ado about nothing<\/span><\/p>\n

272) :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast<\/span><\/p>\n

one to show<\/span><\/p>\n

To whom all scenes of Europe homage<\/span><\/p>\n

owe.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was not of an age, but for all time”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) <\/span>Jonson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

d) none of above<\/span><\/p>\n

273) Seven Ages of Man appears in ” As<\/span><\/p>\n

you like it”. Which character’s speech it<\/span><\/p>\n

is?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Amiens<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Orlando<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n

d) <\/span>Jaques<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

274) “To be or not to be that is the<\/span><\/p>\n

question”, is famous line of which of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s plays?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

c<\/span>) Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

275) Following are the lines of:<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m your wife if you marry me<\/span><\/p>\n

If not, I’ll die your maid to be your<\/span><\/p>\n

fellow<\/span><\/p>\n

You may deny me, but I’ll be your<\/span><\/p>\n

servant Whether you deny or not”.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Tempest<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

276) Which of the following are<\/span><\/p>\n

characters of “Much ado about nothing”:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio,<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Leonato<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio,<\/span><\/p>\n

Leanato<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio,<\/span><\/p>\n

Leanato<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio,<\/span><\/p>\n

Horatio<\/span><\/p>\n

277) Which of the following is in correct<\/span><\/p>\n

sequel ?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Comedy of errors, A mid summer<\/span><\/p>\n

night’s dream, Much ado about nothing,<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry 6 part three.<\/span><\/p>\n

b)A mid summer night’s dream,Romeo<\/span><\/p>\n

and Juliet, As you like it, King<\/span><\/p>\n

Lear,Pericles.<\/span><\/p>\n

c)All’s well that ends well, The<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

tempest, As you like it, As you like<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

it,A mid summer night’s<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

dream,Much ado about nothing.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure<\/span><\/p>\n

for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.<\/span><\/p>\n

278)Who was killed by Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

unintentionally?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Leartus<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Polonius<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Forinbras<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Horatio<\/span><\/p>\n

279) Who is second Prince of Arragon in<\/span><\/p>\n

“Much ado about nothing”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Leonato<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Balthasar<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Don John<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Don Pedro<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

280) Which character spoke following<\/span><\/p>\n

lines?<\/span><\/p>\n

“What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor<\/span><\/p>\n

foot,<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor arm nor face, nor any other part<\/span><\/p>\n

Belonging to a man, O be some other<\/span><\/p>\n

name!<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s in a name?<\/span><\/p>\n

That which we call a rose<\/span><\/p>\n

By any other word would smell as<\/span><\/p>\n

sweet,”<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Desdemona<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Juliet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Rosalind<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Hero<\/span><\/p>\n

281) Who is the second attending<\/span><\/p>\n

gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula<\/span><\/p>\n

and_________.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Margaret<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Emilia<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Helena<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Celia<\/span><\/p>\n

282) ” Some born great, some achieve<\/span><\/p>\n

greatness<\/span><\/p>\n

And some have greatness thrust upon<\/span><\/p>\n

them”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Above lines are taken from which of<\/span><\/p>\n

following plays?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Twelfth night<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) As you like it<\/span><\/p>\n

283) Which of the following play was<\/span><\/p>\n

written in 1601?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

284) “Antony and Cleopatra” and<\/span><\/p>\n

“Macbeth” was in:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1606<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)1607<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1608<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1609<\/span><\/p>\n

285) Which of the following was written<\/span><\/p>\n

first:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Henry six<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Henry seven<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Henry five<\/span><\/p>\n

d) None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

286) Which of the following are King<\/span><\/p>\n

Lear’s daughters?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Goneril, Ophelia and Regan<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Goneril, Regan and Cordelia<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice<\/span><\/p>\n

287) Shakespeare wrote _____ plays?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 32<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 34<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 36<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) 38<\/span><\/p>\n

288) With the accession of King James<\/span><\/p>\n

to the English throne, Lord<\/span><\/p>\n

Chamberlain’s Man was renamed:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

a) King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Gentleman<\/span><\/p>\n

c) King’s Man<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

290) Uneasy lies the head that_____(<\/span><\/p>\n

King Henry four, part two):<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Wears a crown<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Wears a hat<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Wears a wig<\/span><\/p>\n

d) none of these<\/span><\/p>\n

291) The epigraph of The Waste Land is<\/span><\/p>\n

borrowed from?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Virgil<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Fetronius<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Homer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

292. Who called \u2018The Waste Land \u2018a<\/span><\/p>\n

music of ideas\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Allen Tate<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) J. C. Ransom<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) I. A. Richards<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) F. R Leavis<\/span><\/p>\n

293. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Unreal City\u2019 in the first and third<\/span><\/p>\n

sections from?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Baudelaire<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Irving Babbit<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Dante<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Laforgue<\/span><\/p>\n

294. Which of the following myths does<\/span><\/p>\n

not figure in The Waste<\/span><\/p>\n

Land?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Oedipus<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Philomela<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Sysyphus<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

295. Joe Gargery is Pip\u2019s?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) brother<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) brother-in-Jaw<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) guardian<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) cousin<\/span><\/p>\n

296. Estella is the daughter of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Joe Gargery<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Abel Magwitch .<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Miss Havisham<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Bentley Drumnile<\/span><\/p>\n

297. Which book of John Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

influenced Mahatma Gandhi?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Sesame and Lilies<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Unto This Last<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Fors Clavigera<\/span><\/p>\n

298. Graham Greene\u2019s novels are<\/span><\/p>\n

marked by?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Catholicism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Protestantism<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Paganism<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Buddhism<\/span><\/p>\n

299. One important feature of Jane<\/span><\/p>\n

Austen\u2019s style is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) boisterous humour<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) humour and pathos<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) subtlety of irony<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) stream of consciousness<\/span><\/p>\n

300. The title of the poem \u2018The Second<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming\u2019 is taken from?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Bible<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) The Irish mythology<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The German mythology<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) The Greek mythology<\/span><\/p>\n

301. The main character in Paradise<\/span><\/p>\n

Lost Book I and Book II is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A God<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Satan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

302. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n

mother\u2019s name is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Susan<\/span><\/p>\n

(B)Jane<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Gertrude<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Emily<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

303. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Ralph and Jack<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Simon and Eric<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Ralph and Eric<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Simon and Jack<\/span><\/p>\n

304.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations,<\/span><\/p>\n

is a<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) lawyer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) postman<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Judge<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) School teacher<\/span><\/p>\n

305. What does \u2018I\u2019 stand for in the<\/span><\/p>\n

following line?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018To Carthage then I came\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Buddha<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Tiresias<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Smyrna Merchant<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

306. The following lines are an<\/span><\/p>\n

example\u2026\u2026\u2026 of image.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The river sweats<\/span><\/p>\n

Oil and tar\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) visual<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) kinetic<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) erotic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) sensual<\/span><\/p>\n

307. Which of the following novels has<\/span><\/p>\n

the sub-title \u2018A Novel Without a Hero\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Vanity Fair<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Middlemarch<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Wuthering Heights<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Oliver Twist<\/span><\/p>\n

308. In \u2018Leda and the Swan\u2019, who wooes<\/span><\/p>\n

Leda in guise of a swan?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Mars<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Hercules<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Zeus<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Bacchus<\/span><\/p>\n

309. Who invented the term \u2018Sprung<\/span><\/p>\n

rhythm\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Hopkins<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B)Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

(D)Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

310.Who wrote the poem \u2018Defence of<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucknow\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Swinburne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Rossetti<\/span><\/p>\n

311.Which of the following plays of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare has an epilogue?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Tempest<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Henry IV, Pt I<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

312. Hamlet\u2019s famous speech \u2018To be,or<\/span><\/p>\n

not to be; that is the question\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

occurs in?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Act II, Scene I<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Act III, Scene III<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Act IV, Scene III<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Act III, Scene I<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

313. Identify the character in The<\/span><\/p>\n

Tempest who is referred to as an honest<\/span><\/p>\n

old counselor<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Alonso<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Ariel<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Gonzalo<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Stephano<\/span><\/p>\n

314. What is the sub-title of the play<\/span><\/p>\n

Twelfth Night?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Or, What is you Will<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Or, What you Will<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Or, What you Like It<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Or, What you Think<\/span><\/p>\n

315. Which of the following plays of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare, according to T. S.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eliot, is \u2018artistic failure\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Henry IV, Pt I<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

316. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pt I?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Earl of Northumberland<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Earl of March<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Earl of Douglas<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Earl of Worcester<\/span><\/p>\n

317. Paradise Lost was originally written<\/span><\/p>\n

in?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) ten books<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) eleven books<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) nine books<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) eight books<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

318. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia<\/span><\/p>\n

elopes with?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Darcy<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Wickham<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) William Collins<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Charles Bingley<\/span><\/p>\n

319. Who coined the phrase \u2018Egotistical<\/span><\/p>\n

Sublime\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) P.B.Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) S. T. Coleridge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) John Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

320. Who is commonly known as \u2018Pip\u2019 in<\/span><\/p>\n

Great Expectations?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Philip Pirrip<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Filip Pirip<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Philip Pip<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Philips Pirip<\/span><\/p>\n

321. The novel The Power and the Glory<\/span><\/p>\n

is set in?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Mexico<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)France<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

323. Which of the following is Golding\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n

first novel?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Inheritors<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Lord of the Flies<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Pincher Martin<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Pyramid<\/span><\/p>\n

324.Identify the character who is a<\/span><\/p>\n

supporter of Women\u2019s Rights in Sons<\/span><\/p>\n

and Lovers?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Mrs. Morel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Annie<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Miriam<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Clara Dawes<\/span><\/p>\n

325. Vanity Fair is a novel by?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Jane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Charles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) W. M. Thackeray<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Thomas Hardy<\/span><\/p>\n

326. Shelley\u2019s Adonais is an elegy on the<\/span><\/p>\n

death of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Keats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

327. Which of the following is the first<\/span><\/p>\n

novel of D. H. Lawrence?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The White Peacock<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) The Trespasser<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Sons and Lovers<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Women in Love<\/span><\/p>\n

328. In the poem \u2018Tintern Abbey\u2019,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018dearest friend\u2019 refers to?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Nature<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Dorothy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Wye<\/span><\/p>\n

329. Who, among the following, is not<\/span><\/p>\n

the second generation of British<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantics?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

330. Which of the following poems of<\/span><\/p>\n

Coleridge is a ballad?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Work Without Hope<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Frost at Midnight<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Rime of the Ancient<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Mariner<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Youth and Age<\/span><\/p>\n

331. Identify the writer who was<\/span><\/p>\n

expelled from Oxford for circulating a<\/span><\/p>\n

pamphlet\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) P. B. Shelley<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Charles Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

332. Keats\u2019s Endymion is dedicated to?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Leigh Hunt<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Thomas Chatterton<\/span><\/p>\n

333. The second series of Essays of Elia<\/span><\/p>\n

by Charles Lamb was published in?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) 1823<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) 1826<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) 1834<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) 1833<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

334. Which of the following poets does<\/span><\/p>\n

not belong to the \u2018Lake School\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Keats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Southey<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

335.Who, among the following writers,<\/span><\/p>\n

was not educated at Christ\u2019s Hospital<\/span><\/p>\n

School,<\/span><\/p>\n

London?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Charles Lamb<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Leigh Hunt<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) S. T. Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

336. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the<\/span><\/p>\n

members of the \u2018Cockney School of<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

(8) Charles Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Lockhart<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) T. S. Eliot<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

337. Tennyson\u2019s poem \u2018In<\/span><\/p>\n

Memoriam\u2019was written in memory of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) A. H. Hallam<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Edward King<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Wellington<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) P. B. Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

338. Who, among the following, is not<\/span><\/p>\n

connected with the Oxford Movement?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Robert Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) John Keble<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) E. B. Pusey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) J. H. Newman<\/span><\/p>\n

339. Identify the work by Swinburne<\/span><\/p>\n

which begins \u201cwhen the hounds of<\/span><\/p>\n

spring are on winter\u2019s traces..\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Chastelard<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) A Song of Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Atalanta in Calydon<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Songs before Sunrise<\/span><\/p>\n

340. Carlyle\u2019s work On Heroes, Hero<\/span><\/p>\n

Worship and the Heroic in History is a<\/span><\/p>\n

course of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) six lectures<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) five lectures<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) four lectures<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) seven lectures<\/span><\/p>\n

341. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

in his lecture on the \u2018Hero as King\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Cromwell<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Luther<\/span><\/p>\n

342. Identify the work by Ruskin which<\/span><\/p>\n

began as a defence of contemporary<\/span><\/p>\n

landscape artist especially Turner?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Stones of Venice<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) The Two Paths<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Modem Painters<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

343. The term \u2018the Palliser Novels\u2019 is<\/span><\/p>\n

used to describe the political novels of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Charles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Anthony Trollope<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) W. H. White<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) B. Disraeli<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

344. Identify the poet, whom Queen<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018love and loss\u2019\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Swinburne<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) D. G. Rossetti<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

345. A verse form using stanza of eight<\/span><\/p>\n

lines, each with eleven syllables, is<\/span><\/p>\n

known as?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Spenserian Stanza<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Ballad<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Ottava Rima<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Rhyme Royal<\/span><\/p>\n

346. Identify the writer who first used<\/span><\/p>\n

blank verse in English poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Earl of Surrey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

347. The Aesthetic Movement which<\/span><\/p>\n

blossomed during the 1880s was not<\/span><\/p>\n

influenced by?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Pre-Raphaelites<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Pater<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Matthew Arnold<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

348. Identify the rhetorical figure used<\/span><\/p>\n

in the following line of Tennyson \u201cFaith<\/span><\/p>\n

un-faithful kept him falsely true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Oxymoron<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Simile<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Synecdoche<\/span><\/p>\n

349. W. B. Yeats used the phrase \u2018the<\/span><\/p>\n

artifice of eternity\u2019 in his poem?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Sailing to Byzantium<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Byzantium<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Second Coming<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Leda and the Swan<\/span><\/p>\n

350. Who is Pip\u2019s friend in London?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Pumblechook<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Herbert Pocket<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Bentley Drummle<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Jaggers<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

351. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power<\/span><\/p>\n

and the Glory?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) A teacher<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) A clerk<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) A thief<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) A dentist<\/span><\/p>\n

352. \u2018Brevity is the soul of wit\u2019 is a<\/span><\/p>\n

quotation from?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) William Shakespeare<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) T. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

353. \u201cDost thou think, because thou art<\/span><\/p>\n

virtuous, there shall be no more cakes<\/span><\/p>\n

and ale.\u201d Who speaks the lines given<\/span><\/p>\n

above in Twelfth Night?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Duke Orsino<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Malvolio<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Sir Toby Belch<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

354. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is<\/span><\/p>\n

the embodiment of Milton\u2019s?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Sense of injured merit<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Hatred of tyranny<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Spirit of revolt<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) All these<\/span><\/p>\n

355. Who calls poetry \u201cthe breadth and<\/span><\/p>\n

finer spirit of all knowledge\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

356. Twelfth Night opens with the<\/span><\/p>\n

speech of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Viola<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Duke<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C)Olivia<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Malvolio<\/span><\/p>\n

357. What was the cause of William\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n

death in Sons and Lovers?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) An accident<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) An overdose of morphia<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Suicide<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Pneumonia<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

358. Which poem of Coleridge is an<\/span><\/p>\n

opium dream?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Kubla Khan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Christabel<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Ancient Mariner<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Ode on the Departing Year<\/span><\/p>\n

359. Which stanza form did Shelley use<\/span><\/p>\n

in his famous poem \u2018Ode to the West<\/span><\/p>\n

Wind\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Rime royal<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Ottava rima<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Terza rima<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Spenserian Stanza<\/span><\/p>\n

360. The phrase \u2018Pathetic fallacy\u2019 is<\/span><\/p>\n

coined by?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) John Ruskin<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

361. Tracts for the Times relates to?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Oxford Movement<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Romantic Movement<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) The Symbolist Movement<\/span><\/p>\n

362. The Chartist Movement sought?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Protection of the political rights<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

of the working class<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Recognition of chartered trading<\/span><\/p>\n

companies<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Political rights for women<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Protection of the political rights of<\/span><\/p>\n

the middle class<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

363. Who wrote \u201cBiographia Literaria\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Coleridge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n

364. Who was \u201cFortinbras\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Claudius\u2019s son<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Son to the king of Norway<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Ophelia\u2019s lover<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Hamlet\u2019s Mend<\/span><\/p>\n

365. How many soliloquies are spoken<\/span><\/p>\n

by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?<\/span><\/p>\n

A) Nine<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Five<\/span><\/p>\n

(c )Seven<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Three<\/span><\/p>\n

366. \u201cThe best lack all conviction, while<\/span><\/p>\n

the worst are full of passionate<\/span><\/p>\n

intensity.\u201d The above lines have been<\/span><\/p>\n

taken from?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Waste Land<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Tintern Abbey<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Second Coming<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Prayer for My Daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

367.William Morel in Sons and Lovers is<\/span><\/p>\n

drawn after?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Lawrence\u2019s father<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Lawrence\u2019s brother<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Lawrence himself<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) None of these<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

368. The most notable characteristic of<\/span><\/p>\n

Keats\u2019 poetry is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Satire<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Sensuality<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Sensuousness<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Social reform<\/span><\/p>\n

369. The key-note of Browning\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n

philosophy of life is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) agnosticism<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) optimism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) pessimism<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) skepticism<\/span><\/p>\n

370. The title of Carlyle\u2019s \u2018Sartor<\/span><\/p>\n

Resartus\u2019 means?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Religious Scripture<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Seaside Resort<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Tailor Repatched<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) None of these<\/span><\/p>\n

371. \u201cEpipsychidion\u201d is composed by?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Sh\u00e7lley<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

372. \u201cThe better part of valour is<\/span><\/p>\n

discretion\u201d occurs in Shakespeare\u2019s\u2014?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Henry IV, Pt I<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

373. Epic similes are found in which<\/span><\/p>\n

work of John Milton?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Paradise Lost<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Sonnets<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Lycidas<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Areopagitica<\/span><\/p>\n

374. Identify the writer who used a<\/span><\/p>\n

pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh,<\/span><\/p>\n

for much of his early work?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Charles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) W. M. Thackeray<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Graham Greene<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) D. H. Lawrence<\/span><\/p>\n

375. Pride and Prejudice was originally a<\/span><\/p>\n

youthful work entitled?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)\u2018Last Impressions\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

(B)\u2018False Impressions\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>C)\u2018First Impressions\u2019<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D)\u2018True Impressions\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

376. Identify the novel in which the<\/span><\/p>\n

character of Charlotte Lucas figures<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Great Expectations<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) The Power and the Glory<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Lord of the Flies<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

377 \u2018There\u2019s a special providence in the<\/span><\/p>\n

fall of a sparrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The line given above occurs in<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Henry IV, Pt I<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

378. Who said that Shakespeare in his<\/span><\/p>\n

comedies has only heroines and no<\/span><\/p>\n

heroes?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Ben Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) John Ruskin<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Thomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) William Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

379. Sir John Falstaff is one of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare\u2019s greatest?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) comic figures<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) historical figures<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) romantic figures<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) tragic figures<\/span><\/p>\n

380. That Milton was of the Devil\u2019s party<\/span><\/p>\n

without knowing it, was said by?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Blake<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

381. Who called Shelley \u2018a beautiful and<\/span><\/p>\n

ineffectual angel beating in the void his<\/span><\/p>\n

luminous wings in vain\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Walter Pater<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) A. C. Swinburne<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Matthew Arnold<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) T. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

382. Essays of Ella are?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) full of didactic sermonising<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) practically autobiographical<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

fragments<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) remarkable for their aphoristic style<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) satirical and critical<\/span><\/p>\n

383. The theme of Tennyson\u2019s Poem<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The Princess\u2019 is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Queen Victoria\u2019s coronation<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Industrial Revolution<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Women\u2019s Education and Rights<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Rise of Democracy<\/span><\/p>\n

384. Thackeray\u2019s \u201cEsmond\u201d is a novel of<\/span><\/p>\n

historical realism capturing the spirit of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) the Medieval age<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) the Elizabethan age<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) the age of Queen Anne<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) the Victorian age<\/span><\/p>\n

385. Oedipus Complex is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) a kind of physical ailment<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) a kind of vitamin<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)a brother\u2019s attraction towards his<\/span><\/p>\n

sister<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) a son\u2019s attraction towards his<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

mother<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

386. \u201cMy own great religion is a belief in<\/span><\/p>\n

the blood, the flesh as being wiser than<\/span><\/p>\n

the intellect.\u201d Who wrote this?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Graham Greene<\/span><\/p>\n

(B)D. H. Lawrence<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C)Charles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Jane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

387 .Shakespeare makes fun of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Puritans in his play?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Twelfth Night<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Henry IV,Pt I<\/span><\/p>\n

388. \u201cThe rarer action is in virtue that in<\/span><\/p>\n

vengeance.\u201d This line occurs in?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Henry IV,Pt I<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Tempest<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

389. Jane Austen\u2019s Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/p>\n

is a?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Picaresque novel<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Gothic novel<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Domestic novel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Historical novel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

390. \u2018Heaven lies about us in our<\/span><\/p>\n

infancy\u2019. This line occurs in the poem?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Immortality Ode<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Tintern Abbey<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The Second Coming<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Leda and the Swan<\/span><\/p>\n

391. Wordsworth calls himself \u2018a<\/span><\/p>\n

Worshipper of Nature\u2019 in his<\/span><\/p>\n

poem\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Immortality Ode<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Tintern Abbey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) The Prelude<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) The Solitary Reaper<\/span><\/p>\n

392. When Wordsworth\u2019s \u2018Immortality<\/span><\/p>\n

Ode\u2019 was first published in<\/span><\/p>\n

1802, it had only?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Stanzas I to IV<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>B) Stanzas I toV<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Stanzas I to VI<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Stanzas I to VII<\/span><\/p>\n

393. Which method of narration has<\/span><\/p>\n

been employed by Dickens in his novel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGreat Expectations\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Direct or epic method<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Documentary method<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Stream of Consciousness technique<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Autobiographical method<\/span><\/p>\n

394. Who said \u2018Keats was a Greek\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>B) Coleridge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

395. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary<\/span><\/p>\n

descendant of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Keats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

396. To which character in Hamlet does<\/span><\/p>\n

the following description apply?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe tedious wiseacre who meddles his<\/span><\/p>\n

way to his doom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Claudius<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>B) Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Polonius<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Rosencrantz<\/span><\/p>\n

46. Browning\u2019s famous poem \u2018Rabbi Ben<\/span><\/p>\n

Ezra\u2019 is included in?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Dramatis Personae<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Dramatic Idyls<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Asolando<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country<\/span><\/p>\n

397. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate<\/span><\/p>\n

of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Royal Society of Edinburgh<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) The Royal Society ofLondon<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Royal Society of Arts<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Royal Society of Literature<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

398. Which of the following is an<\/span><\/p>\n

unfinished novel by Jane Austen?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Sense and Sensibility<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Mansfield Park<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Sandition<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Persuasion<\/span><\/p>\n

399.Why did Miss Havisham remain a<\/span><\/p>\n

spinster throughout her life in \u201cGreat<\/span><\/p>\n

Expectations\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) She was poor<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) She was arrogant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Because she was betrayed by the<\/span><\/p>\n

bridegroom<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) She was unwilling to marry<\/span><\/p>\n

400. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel<\/span><\/p>\n

Prize for literature in the year?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)1938<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) 1925<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1932<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) 1923<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

401. The Romantic Revival in English<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry was influenced<\/span><\/p>\n

by the?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) French Revolution<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Glorious Revolution of1688<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Reformation<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Oxford Movement<\/span><\/p>\n

402. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were<\/span><\/p>\n

mostly indebted to the poets of the?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Puritan movement<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Romantic revival<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Neo-classical age<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Metaphysical school<\/span><\/p>\n

403. \u2018O, you are sick of self-love\u2019 Who is<\/span><\/p>\n

referred to in these<\/span><\/p>\n

words in Twelfth Night?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Orsino<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Sir Andrew<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Sir Toby<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Malvolio<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

404. Hamlet is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) an intellectual<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) a man of action<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) a passionate lover<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) an over ambitious man<\/span><\/p>\n

405. Which of Shakespeare\u2019s characters<\/span><\/p>\n

exclaims; \u2018Brave, new, world!\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Ferdinand<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Antonio<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Miranda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Prospero<\/span><\/p>\n

406. Paradise Lost shows an influence<\/span><\/p>\n

of?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Paganism<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Pre-Christian theology<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Christianity and the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Renaissance<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Greek nihilism<\/span><\/p>\n

407. The style of Paradise Lost is?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) more Latin than most poems<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) more spontaneous than thought out<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) more satirical than spontaneous<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) more dramatic than lyrical<\/span><\/p>\n

408. In Pride and Prejudice we initially<\/span><\/p>\n

dislike but later tend to like?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Mr. Bennet<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Wickham<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)Bingley<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Darcy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

409. Who in Hamlet suggests that one<\/span><\/p>\n

should neither be a lender nor a<\/span><\/p>\n

borrower?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A)Gertrude<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Polonius<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C)Horatio<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

410. Shakespeare\u2019s Henry IV, Pt I<\/span><\/p>\n

contains his?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) senecan attitude<\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/span>B) patriotism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) love of nature<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) platonic ideals<\/span><\/p>\n

Plays by Shakespeare..<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

COMEDIES<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

All’s Well That Ends Well<\/span><\/p>\n

As You Like It<\/span><\/p>\n

Comedy of Errors<\/span><\/p>\n

Love’s Labour’s Lost<\/span><\/p>\n

Measure for Measure<\/span><\/p>\n

Merchant of Venice<\/span><\/p>\n

Merry Wives of Windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/span><\/p>\n

Much Ado about Nothing<\/span><\/p>\n

Taming of the Shrew<\/span><\/p>\n

Tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

Twelfth Night<\/span><\/p>\n

Two Gentlemen of Verona<\/span><\/p>\n

Winter’s Tale<\/span><\/p>\n

HISTORIES<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Cymbeline<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry IV, Part I<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry IV, Part II<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry V<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry VI, Part I<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry VI, Part II<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry VI, Part III<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

King John<\/span><\/p>\n

Pericles<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard II<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

TRAGEDIES<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Antony and Cleopatra<\/span><\/p>\n

Coriolanus<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

Julius Caesar<\/span><\/p>\n

King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/p>\n

Timon of Athens<\/span><\/p>\n

Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/p>\n

Troilus and Cressida<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

411) Which of the following is the<\/span><\/p>\n

earliest comedy of Shakespeare?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) A mid summer night’s dream<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Much ado about nothing<\/span><\/p>\n

c)As you like it<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Love’s labour’s lost<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

412) “Twelfth night” is a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Tragedy<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Comedy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Problem play<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Both a and b<\/span><\/p>\n

413) Who was villain in Othello?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Claudius<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Iago<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Egeus<\/span><\/p>\n

d) None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

414) Which of the following are<\/span><\/p>\n

tragedies of Shakespeare?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and<\/span><\/p>\n

Cressida<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) King Lear, Measure for measure and<\/span><\/p>\n

The merchant of Venice<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Macbeth, Much ado about nothing<\/span><\/p>\n

and Antony and Cleopatra<\/span><\/p>\n

415) Which of the following tragedy is<\/span><\/p>\n

not written by Shakespeare?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Hamlet<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

c) King Lear<\/span><\/p>\n

d) King Oedipus<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

416) Othello was a :<\/span><\/p>\n

a) General of England<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)General of Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Prince of England<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Prince of Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n

417) ————- was father of<\/span><\/p>\n

Desdemona?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Brabantio<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Iago<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Gratiano<\/span><\/p>\n

418) Othello was sent to fight with:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) French army<\/span><\/p>\n

b) German army<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Ottomans<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) None of above<\/span><\/p>\n

419) Desdemona was killed by :<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Iago<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Casio<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Othello<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Brabantio<\/span><\/p>\n

420) Othello gave Desdemona ———–<\/span><\/p>\n

— as a token of love:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Ring<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Handkerchief<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Pendant<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Bengals<\/span><\/p>\n

421) Desdemona was :<\/span><\/p>\n

a) wife of Othello<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) daughter of Othello<\/span><\/p>\n

c) both a and b<\/span><\/p>\n

d) none of above<\/span><\/p>\n

422) ” A man can die but once” is one<\/span><\/p>\n

of quote of following plays:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Henry 6 part three<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Henry 4 part two<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Henry 6 part one<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Henry 4 part one<\/span><\/p>\n

423) “I have no other but a woman’s<\/span><\/p>\n

reason<\/span><\/p>\n

I think him so, because I think him so”<\/span><\/p>\n

Which of Shakespeare’s play contain<\/span><\/p>\n

above lines?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) The two gentle men of Verona<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Merry wives of Windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The noble Kinsman<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Measure for measure<\/span><\/p>\n

424)” What piece of work is a man<\/span><\/p>\n

How noble in reason, how infinite in<\/span><\/p>\n

faculty,<\/span><\/p>\n

In form and moving how express and<\/span><\/p>\n

admirable<\/span><\/p>\n

In action! how like an angle<\/span><\/p>\n

In apprehension! how like a God:<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty of the World, the paragon of<\/span><\/p>\n

animals_____<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, to me, what is this<\/span><\/p>\n

quintessence of dust?<\/span><\/p>\n

Above lines are taken from Hamlet’s<\/span><\/p>\n

which act?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) act 1 scene two<\/span><\/p>\n

b) act 2 scene two<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) act 3 scene two<\/span><\/p>\n

d) act 4 scene two<\/span><\/p>\n

425) Which of the following is Hamlet’s<\/span><\/p>\n

mother?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Beatrice<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Margaret<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Gertrude<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Rosalind<\/span><\/p>\n

426) Following are the characters of:<\/span><\/p>\n

Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sempronius<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Coriolanus<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Cymbeline<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Timon of Athens<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Winter’s tale<\/span><\/p>\n

427) Who is the heroin of The Tempest?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Ophelia<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Desdemona<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Miranda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Helena<\/span><\/p>\n

428) Hamlet consist of —————<\/span><\/p>\n

acts:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 3<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 4<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 5<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) 6<\/span><\/p>\n

429) Which of Shakespeare’s play is his<\/span><\/p>\n

only play that has never been adopted<\/span><\/p>\n

for film or Television?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Taming of the Shrew<\/span><\/p>\n

b) The two Noble Kinsmen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Troilus and Cressida<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Cymbeline<\/span><\/p>\n

430) Which of Shakespeare’s play<\/span><\/p>\n

features Sir John Falstaff?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) The merry wives of Windsor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Troilus and Cressida<\/span><\/p>\n

c) King John<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Titus Andronicus<\/span><\/p>\n

Historical Events & Literary Events<\/span><\/p>\n

1700 Begin Of London Club<\/span><\/p>\n

1702 First daily newspaper<\/span><\/p>\n

1727 Death of Newton<\/span><\/p>\n

1775 War of American independence<\/span><\/p>\n

begins.<\/span><\/p>\n

1776 America declared independent.<\/span><\/p>\n

1789 Outbreak of French Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

1726 Gulliver\u2019s Travells by Jonathan<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift.<\/span><\/p>\n

1749 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding<\/span><\/p>\n

1766 The Vicar of wakefield by<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldsmith<\/span><\/p>\n

1719 Rabinson crusoe by Defoe.<\/span><\/p>\n

1728 Beggar\u2019s opera by Gay.<\/span><\/p>\n

1712 The Rape of The Lock by Pope.<\/span><\/p>\n

1740 Pamela by Richardson.<\/span><\/p>\n

English Rulers<\/span><\/p>\n

1702-1714 Anne<\/span><\/p>\n

1714-27 George<\/span><\/p>\n

I1727-1760 George II<\/span><\/p>\n

Authors<\/span><\/p>\n

1667-1745 Jonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

1668-1744 Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

1689-1761 Samuel Richardson<\/span><\/p>\n

1707-1754 Henry Fielding<\/span><\/p>\n

1728-1774 Oliver Goldsmith<\/span><\/p>\n

1672-1719 Joseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

1716-1771 Thomas Gray<\/span><\/p>\n

1721-59 Collins<\/span><\/p>\n

1700-48 Thomson<\/span><\/p>\n

1731-1800 Cowper<\/span><\/p>\n

1709-84 Dr. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Major Historical and Literary Events<\/span><\/p>\n

1668. Dryden Made poet Laureate<\/span><\/p>\n

1668. Dryden’s “Essay of Dramatic<\/span><\/p>\n

Poesy.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1671 Paradise Regained, Samson<\/span><\/p>\n

Agonistes by Milton.<\/span><\/p>\n

1670. Dryden’s”Conquest ofGranada.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1671. The ” Rehearsal.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1672. Wycherley’s” Love in aWood.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1675. Wycherley’s”Country Wife.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1677. Dryden’s “All for Love.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1677. Wycherley’s “Plain Dealer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1678. The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress by Bunyan.<\/span><\/p>\n

1678. All for Love by Dryden.<\/span><\/p>\n

1678. Third part of ” Hudibras.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1680. Gilbert Burnet’s ” Account ofthe<\/span><\/p>\n

Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1681. Dryden’s “Absalom and<\/span><\/p>\n

Achitophel.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1682. Dryden’s “The Medal,””Mac<\/span><\/p>\n

Flecknoe,” and” Religio Laici.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1686. Dryden joined the Church of<\/span><\/p>\n

Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n

1686. Dryden’s poem “To the Memory of<\/span><\/p>\n

Miss Anne Killegrew.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1687. Dryden’s” Hind and Panther.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1687. Sir Isaac Newton’s ” Principia.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1688. James II flees<\/span><\/p>\n

1688. Glorious Revolution<\/span><\/p>\n

1689. Thomas Shadwell, made poet<\/span><\/p>\n

Laureate.<\/span><\/p>\n

1689. Dryden’s” Don Sebastian.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1689. Burnet appointed Bishop of<\/span><\/p>\n

Salisbury.<\/span><\/p>\n

1691. Tillotson appointed Archbishopof<\/span><\/p>\n

Canterbury.<\/span><\/p>\n

1692. Locke made Secretary<\/span><\/p>\n

ofProsecutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

1693. Congreve’s” Old Bachelor.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1694. Dryden’s” Love Triumphant.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1694. Congreve’s” Double Dealer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1695. Congreve’s” Love for Love.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1697. Dryden’s translation of ” Virgil-“<\/span><\/p>\n

1697. Congreve’s “Mourning Bride.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1698. Jeremy Collier’s ” Short View.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1699. Dryden’s” Fables.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1700. Congreve’s “Way of the World.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1706. Farquhar’s”Recruiting Officer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1707. Farquhar’s “Beaux Stratagem.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1759. Butler’s ” Genuine Prose Remains”<\/span><\/p>\n

published.<\/span><\/p>\n

1775. Sheridan’s ” The Rivals,” ” St.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patrick’s Day,: and” The Duenna.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1777. Sheridan’s ” School for Scandal.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1779. Sheridan’s “The Critic.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1780. Sheridan became a Member of<\/span><\/p>\n

Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n

English Rulers<\/span><\/p>\n

1660-1685 Charles II<\/span><\/p>\n

1685-1688 James II<\/span><\/p>\n

1688-1702 William & Mary<\/span><\/p>\n

Major Authors<\/span><\/p>\n

1631-1700 John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

1628-88 John Bunyan<\/span><\/p>\n

1664-1721 Matthew Prior<\/span><\/p>\n

1633-1703 Samuel Pepys<\/span><\/p>\n

1664-1726 Sir John Vanbragh<\/span><\/p>\n

Age of Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

Major Historical and Literary events<\/span><\/p>\n

1642 Civil war begins<\/span><\/p>\n

1642 Closure of Public Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

1649 Charles I executed.<\/span><\/p>\n

1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Land<\/span><\/p>\n

Protector.<\/span><\/p>\n

1658 Oliver Cromwell dies His son<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard succeeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

1660 The Restoration begins (Charles II<\/span><\/p>\n

Accession)<\/span><\/p>\n

1660 Anne Marshall, first woman on<\/span><\/p>\n

English stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

1660 Theatre reopened.<\/span><\/p>\n

1629 Milton\u2019s Nativity Ode.<\/span><\/p>\n

1631 Herbert\u2019s Temple<\/span><\/p>\n

1633 Milton\u2019s L\u2019Allegro, II Penserose.<\/span><\/p>\n

1637 Milton\u2019s Lycidas<\/span><\/p>\n

1642 Thomas Browne\u2019s Religio Medici<\/span><\/p>\n

1644 Milton’s “Areopagitica.” English<\/span><\/p>\n

poet and writer John Milton publishes<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAreopagita,\u201d an essay espousing<\/span><\/p>\n

freedom of the press. Milton writes the<\/span><\/p>\n

piece in response to the censorship that<\/span><\/p>\n

is rampant in England at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

1659 Dryden\u2019s The Death of Cromwell<\/span><\/p>\n

1660 Samuel Pepys begins his diary.<\/span><\/p>\n

1667 Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” English<\/span><\/p>\n

poet John Milton completes his epic<\/span><\/p>\n

poem Paradise Lost in 1674 after<\/span><\/p>\n

becoming blind. The work, which tells<\/span><\/p>\n

the story of Lucifer\u2019s rebellion in heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

and Adam\u2019s fall, is an extended<\/span><\/p>\n

meditation on humanity\u2019s relationship<\/span><\/p>\n

with God, human nature, and the<\/span><\/p>\n

meaning of life. It is considered one of<\/span><\/p>\n

the masterpieces of world literature.<\/span><\/p>\n

1678. Bunyan’s”Pilgrim’s Progress.”<\/span><\/p>\n

English Puritan John Bunyan writes the<\/span><\/p>\n

religious allegory Pilgrim’s Progress in<\/span><\/p>\n

1678. The work, generally considered a<\/span><\/p>\n

masterpiece in Christian and English<\/span><\/p>\n

literature, describes the journey of the<\/span><\/p>\n

central character, named Christian,<\/span><\/p>\n

through life to eventual salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rulers of English Throne<\/span><\/p>\n

1625-49 Charles I<\/span><\/p>\n

1649-60 Commonwealth the<\/span><\/p>\n

Protectorate<\/span><\/p>\n

Authors of This Era<\/span><\/p>\n

1579-1625 John Fletcher<\/span><\/p>\n

1593-1633 Herbert<\/span><\/p>\n

1605-1682 Sir Thomas Browne<\/span><\/p>\n

1608-1674 John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

1621-1666 Henry Vaughan<\/span><\/p>\n

1633-1703 Samuel Pepys<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethan Period<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

431) <\/span><\/b>What was the nickname of Mary<\/span><\/p>\n

I?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Bloody Mary<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Mary, Mary Quite Contrary<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Mary, Queen of Scots<\/span><\/p>\n

d)None of the Above<\/span><\/p>\n

432)<\/span><\/b>Who was the sister of Mary I?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Isabella<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Victoria<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Anne<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Elizabeth I<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

433)<\/span><\/b>Who was the father of the previous<\/span><\/p>\n

two? (Questions 1 and 2?)<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Henry VI<\/span><\/p>\n

b)William<\/span><\/p>\n

c)George III<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Henry VIII<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

434)<\/span><\/b>Who was the first Tudor King?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Henry VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Henry VII<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)George III<\/span><\/p>\n

d)James I<\/span><\/p>\n

435)<\/span><\/b>What are the beginning and<\/span><\/p>\n

ending dates of the Elizabethan era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1558-1603<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)1500-1520<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1560-1570<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1575-1600<\/span><\/p>\n

436)<\/span><\/b>Who was the mother of Elizabeth<\/span><\/p>\n

I?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Catherine of Aragon<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Jane Seymour<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Catherine Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Anne Boleyn<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

437)<\/span><\/b>In what year did England and<\/span><\/p>\n

Spain fight a famous sea battle?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1500<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1588<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)1600<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1575<\/span><\/p>\n

438)<\/span><\/b>Which relative did Elizabeth I have<\/span><\/p>\n

executed?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Anne Boleyn<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Mary I<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Mary, Queen of Scots<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Catherine of Aragon<\/span><\/p>\n

439)<\/span><\/b>What church did Elizabeth I<\/span><\/p>\n

establish or re-establish by law in<\/span><\/p>\n

England during her reign?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Anglican Church<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)The Roman Catholic Church<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Calvinism<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Lutheran Church<\/span><\/p>\n

440) <\/span><\/b>Everyone in Elizabethan England<\/span><\/p>\n

was born into a social class. Peasants<\/span><\/p>\n

were the unluckiest of the lot: they were<\/span><\/p>\n

denied basic comforts, security, and<\/span><\/p>\n

even the chance to dress well. Yep, the<\/span><\/p>\n

Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes<\/span><\/p>\n

one could legally wear based on rank.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which of the following could the poor<\/span><\/p>\n

wear?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Purple silk dresses<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Woolen underwear<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Sable-lined cloaks<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Velvet coats<\/span><\/p>\n

441)<\/span><\/b>Marriage was a social obligation,<\/span><\/p>\n

and for many families a topic of<\/span><\/p>\n

obsession. Betrothals were often<\/span><\/p>\n

arranged by parents, especially for the<\/span><\/p>\n

high-class. What criterion was<\/span><\/p>\n

considered the least important in<\/span><\/p>\n

deciding upon a suitable match?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Property<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Wealth<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Lineage<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Love<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

442) <\/span><\/b>Elizabethans had many<\/span><\/p>\n

occupational choices. One could become<\/span><\/p>\n

an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even<\/span><\/p>\n

court jester. Though there seemed to be<\/span><\/p>\n

a myriad of careers to choose from,<\/span><\/p>\n

most people still ended up being very<\/span><\/p>\n

poor. In order to survive, what illegal<\/span><\/p>\n

activity did a large number of citizens<\/span><\/p>\n

pursue?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Begging<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Money lending<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Fortune-telling<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Wine bottling<\/span><\/p>\n

443)<\/span><\/b>Crime was ardently followed by<\/span><\/p>\n

punishment. Elizabethans had devised<\/span><\/p>\n

various ways to fine, humiliate, torture,<\/span><\/p>\n

and kill offenders. Which crime was<\/span><\/p>\n

punishable by death?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Skipping church on Sunday<\/span><\/p>\n

b)A woman screaming at her husband in<\/span><\/p>\n

public<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Stealing a horse<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Public drunkenness<\/span><\/p>\n

444)<\/span><\/b>Religion played a pivotal part in<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics,<\/span><\/p>\n

Puritans, and other religious groups<\/span><\/p>\n

jostled for power and survival in<\/span><\/p>\n

uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of<\/span><\/p>\n

Parliament was passed which<\/span><\/p>\n

determined the “supreme governor” of<\/span><\/p>\n

all things spiritual. Who was it?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Pope in Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Each man was his own supreme<\/span><\/p>\n

governor<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Archbishop of Canterbury<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Queen Elizabeth I<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

445)<\/span><\/b>Elizabethan England was largely<\/span><\/p>\n

rural, with the majority of its population<\/span><\/p>\n

living in the verdant countryside. Towns<\/span><\/p>\n

and cities, however, were growing–and<\/span><\/p>\n

the most prominent of all was London.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Londoners were considered<\/span><\/p>\n

wealthy and arrogant, the city was<\/span><\/p>\n

begrimed, filthy, and infested with<\/span><\/p>\n

vermin. Where did people primarily<\/span><\/p>\n

dispose of their trash and wastes?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Dump sites in the nearby country<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The streets<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The underground drains<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Designated “trash” areas<\/span><\/p>\n

446)<\/span><\/b>Elizabethans were notoriously<\/span><\/p>\n

superstitious. They feared witches,<\/span><\/p>\n

believed in magical animals, and sought<\/span><\/p>\n

good luck charms. What “science” did<\/span><\/p>\n

they utilize in trying to predict and<\/span><\/p>\n

control the future?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Alchemy<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Metallurgy<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Geocentricity<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Astrology<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

447)<\/span><\/b>The fine arts flourished in<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethan England. William<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and<\/span><\/p>\n

Edmund Spenser were some of the<\/span><\/p>\n

more famous playwrights and poets of<\/span><\/p>\n

the time. Drama, music, songs, and art<\/span><\/p>\n

were popular with noblemen and<\/span><\/p>\n

commoners alike. Exploring certain<\/span><\/p>\n

topics, however, was considered taboo<\/span><\/p>\n

in any art form. What was a strictly<\/span><\/p>\n

forbidden subject?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sexuality<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Criticism of the queen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Murder<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Witchcraft<\/span><\/p>\n

448)<\/span><\/b>Staying alive was a difficult task for<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethans. Disease, infection,<\/span><\/p>\n

poverty, childbirth, and occupational<\/span><\/p>\n

accidents could all result in one’s<\/span><\/p>\n

untimely demise. Most people never<\/span><\/p>\n

reached the age of fifty. When an<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were<\/span><\/p>\n

followed. What was NOT a funeral<\/span><\/p>\n

custom?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Long processionals<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Mourning clothes<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Strict simplicity<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Tolling of church bells<\/span><\/p>\n

449)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following was the<\/span><\/p>\n

Tower of London used for in the<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethan age?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) As an astronomical observation deck<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) As a storage place for grain<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) As a prison<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) As a school for the royal children<\/span><\/p>\n

450)<\/span><\/b>Who issued an interdict against<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Pope Pius V<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(b) Pope Innocent III<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Pope Gregory XIII<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Pope Boniface<\/span><\/p>\n

451) <\/span><\/b>What was Elizabeth’s close circle<\/span><\/p>\n

of advisers called?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) The Star Chamber<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Parliament<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) The Privy Council<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) The Cabinet<\/span><\/p>\n

452) <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is a<\/span><\/p>\n

ceremony in which a sovereign is<\/span><\/p>\n

officially crowned?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Investiture<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Invocation<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Gala<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Coronation<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

453)<\/span><\/b>Which country believed it had an<\/span><\/p>\n

“Invincible Armada” before 1588?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) France<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) England<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Spain<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) The Netherlands<\/span><\/p>\n

454)<\/span><\/b>What type of non-rhymed poetry<\/span><\/p>\n

did Christopher Marlowe pioneer?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Blank verse<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(b) The sonnet<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Trochaic Heptameter<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Free-flow verse<\/span><\/p>\n

455)<\/span><\/b>Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to<\/span><\/p>\n

what royal family?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Windsor<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Tudor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) Plantagenet<\/span><\/p>\n

456) <\/span><\/b>Which English king had several of<\/span><\/p>\n

his wives killed in his obsessive quest for<\/span><\/p>\n

a male heir?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Edward VI<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) George III<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Henry VIII<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

457)<\/span><\/b>What religion was Mary I?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Catholic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(b) Anglican<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Episcopalian<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Presbyterian<\/span><\/p>\n

458)<\/span><\/b>What religion was Mary Queen of<\/span><\/p>\n

Scots?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Episcopalian<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Catholic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(c) Presbyterian<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Lutheran<\/span><\/p>\n

459)<\/span><\/b>Which work did Edmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

author?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) The Castle of Perseverance<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) The Double<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) The Metamorphoses<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) The Faerie Queene<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

460)<\/span><\/b>Who succeeded Elizabeth I?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Mary Queen of Scots<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Charles I<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(c) James I<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) Edward VI<\/span><\/p>\n

461)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following was<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth known as?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Unintelligent<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Rude<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Stingy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) Fanatic<\/span><\/p>\n

462)<\/span><\/b>Which language did young<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth learn in secret?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) French<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Gaelic<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Esperanto<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Welsh<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

463)<\/span><\/b>Who was Edmund Spenser’s<\/span><\/p>\n

patron?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) The Earl of Leicester<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(b) Elizabeth<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Lord Burleigh<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

464)<\/span><\/b>What was a favorite entertainment<\/span><\/p>\n

in Elizabeth’s court?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Swimming<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Gambling<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Jousting<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(d) Backgammon<\/span><\/p>\n

465)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following disciplines<\/span><\/p>\n

most fascinated Elizabeth?<\/span><\/p>\n

(a) Philology<\/span><\/p>\n

(b) Alchemy<\/span><\/p>\n

(c) Zoology<\/span><\/p>\n

(d) Astrology<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

466)<\/span><\/b>Elizabeth’s reign was longer than<\/span><\/p>\n

that of any other Tudor. When she died<\/span><\/p>\n

at the age of 69 in 1603, how many<\/span><\/p>\n

years had she reigned?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)35<\/span><\/p>\n

b)40<\/span><\/p>\n

c)45<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)50<\/span><\/p>\n

467)<\/span><\/b>What was Elizabeth\u2019s nickname for<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Walter Raleigh?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Waldimor<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Water<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)William<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Winter<\/span><\/p>\n

468)<\/span><\/b>The complex ranking system that<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabethans believed ordered every<\/span><\/p>\n

single thing in the universe was known<\/span><\/p>\n

as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Great Order of Life<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Great Chain of Being<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Great System of Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker<\/span><\/p>\n

469)<\/span><\/b>A poem that deals in an idealized<\/span><\/p>\n

way with Shepherds and rustic life is<\/span><\/p>\n

known as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)A Protestant Poem<\/span><\/p>\n

b)A Petrarchan Sonnet<\/span><\/p>\n

c)An extended metaphor<\/span><\/p>\n

d)A pastoral poem<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

470)<\/span><\/b>The term for the reaction against<\/span><\/p>\n

corruption in the Catholic Church was<\/span><\/p>\n

known as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Protestant Revolution<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Protestant Reformation<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Protestant Restoration<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Protestant Resolution<\/span><\/p>\n

471)<\/span><\/b>What is the name for a shift in<\/span><\/p>\n

tone or meaning of a sonnet<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Octave<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Volta<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Iambic Pentameter<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Petrarchan<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobean Era<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

472)<\/span><\/b>In literature, some of<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakespeare’s most powerful plays were<\/span><\/p>\n

written in that period (for example The<\/span><\/p>\n

Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as<\/span><\/p>\n

well as powerful works by John Webster<\/span><\/p>\n

and ________.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Ben Jonson folios<\/span><\/p>\n

d)English Renaissance theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

473)<\/span><\/b>What proceeded Jacobean era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Elizabethan Era<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Caroline era<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Victorian era<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Jacobean Era<\/span><\/p>\n

474)<\/span><\/b>The Jacobean era ended with a<\/span><\/p>\n

severe economic depression in 1620\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

1626, complicated by a serious outbreak<\/span><\/p>\n

of ________ in London in 1625.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Cholera<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Tuberculosis<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Bubonic plague<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Plague (disease)<\/span><\/p>\n

475)<\/span><\/b>The word “Jacobean” is derived<\/span><\/p>\n

from the ________ name Jacob, which<\/span><\/p>\n

is the original form of the English name<\/span><\/p>\n

James.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Samaritan Hebrew language<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Biblical Hebrew<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Mishnaic Hebrew<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Hebrew language<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

476)<\/span><\/b>The Jacobean era succeeds the<\/span><\/p>\n

________ and precedes the Caroline<\/span><\/p>\n

era, and specifically denotes a style of<\/span><\/p>\n

architecture, visual arts, decorative arts,<\/span><\/p>\n

and literature that is predominant of<\/span><\/p>\n

that period.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Elizabethan era<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)English Reformation<\/span><\/p>\n

c)England<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Tudor period<\/span><\/p>\n

477)<\/span><\/b>Jonson was also an important<\/span><\/p>\n

innovator in the specialized literary subgenre<\/span><\/p>\n

of the ________, which went<\/span><\/p>\n

through an intense development in the<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobean era.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Masque<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/span><\/p>\n

478)<\/span><\/b>the first fire-breathing dragon in<\/span><\/p>\n

English literature occurs in which Old<\/span><\/p>\n

English epic poem.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Iliad<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Odyssey<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Beowulf<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Canterbury Tales<\/span><\/p>\n

479)<\/span><\/b>What are the beginning and<\/span><\/p>\n

ending dates of the reign of James I ?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)1592-1608<\/span><\/p>\n

b)1603-1625<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)1607-1627<\/span><\/p>\n

d)1608-1639<\/span><\/p>\n

480)<\/span><\/b>Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is<\/span><\/p>\n

written by?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sir Walter Scot<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Christopher Marlow<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Ben Johnson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)George Herbert<\/span><\/p>\n

481)<\/span><\/b>The foremost poet of Jacobean era<\/span><\/p>\n

was?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Charles Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

c)John Donne<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Herbert Spencer<\/span><\/p>\n

482)<\/span><\/b>“The Jacobean Era” refers to a<\/span><\/p>\n

period of time in the early 17th century<\/span><\/p>\n

in which of the following countries?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

b) England<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Malaysia<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Tunisia<\/span><\/p>\n

>>><\/span><\/b>The foremost poets of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and John<\/span><\/p>\n

Donne, are regarded as the originators<\/span><\/p>\n

of two diverse poetic traditions\u2014<\/span>the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Cavalier and the metaphysical.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

English Literature(In General)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

483) <\/span><\/b>Literary divisions are not always<\/span><\/p>\n

exact, but we draw them because they<\/span><\/p>\n

are often convenient. The majority of<\/span><\/p>\n

English literary periods are named after:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The leading characteristic of the age<\/span><\/p>\n

b<\/span>)Monarchs or political events<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The primary author of the age<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The language of the age<\/span><\/p>\n

484)<\/span><\/b>Which period of literature came<\/span><\/p>\n

first?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Regency<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Victorian<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Restoration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

485)<\/span><\/b>In what language did Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

write?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Middle English<\/span><\/p>\n

b)German<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Old English<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Modern English<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

486)<\/span><\/b>Jane Austen wrote during this<\/span><\/p>\n

period.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Restoration<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Victorian<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Middle English<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Regency<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

487)<\/span><\/b>Which work was published first?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Blake\u2019s “Songs of Innocence”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Mary Shelley\u2019s “Frankenstein”<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Lord Byron\u2019s “Don Juan”<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Sir Walter Scott\u2019s “Ivanhoe”<\/span><\/p>\n

488)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following works was<\/span><\/p>\n

written before the all-important Battle of<\/span><\/p>\n

Hastings?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Beowulf<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Canterbury Tales<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Domesday Book<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Sons and Lovers<\/span><\/p>\n

489)<\/span><\/b>Who wrote first?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)George Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Howard, Earl of Surrey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

490)<\/span><\/b>Which work was completed last?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)George Herbert’s “The Temple”<\/span><\/p>\n

c)William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Ben Jonson’s “Volpone”<\/span><\/p>\n

491)<\/span><\/b>One of these men did NOT write<\/span><\/p>\n

during the Restoration period. Who?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Thomas Otway<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Sir Walter Scott<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

492)<\/span><\/b>The Bronte sisters wrote during<\/span><\/p>\n

this period.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Regency<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Restoration<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Victorian<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

493)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following poets wrote<\/span><\/p>\n

during the Victorian period but was not<\/span><\/p>\n

published until the 20th century?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Christina Rossetti<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Elizabeth Barret Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Ted Hughes<\/span><\/p>\n

494)<\/span><\/b>This work was NOT originally<\/span><\/p>\n

published in the 20th Century.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

D’Urbervilles”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”<\/span><\/p>\n

495)<\/span><\/b>Which poet did NOT write during<\/span><\/p>\n

the 16th century?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Skelton<\/span><\/p>\n

b)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Sir Thomas Wyatt<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Thomas Carew<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

496)<\/span><\/b>Historical events often influence<\/span><\/p>\n

literature. Which of the following did<\/span><\/p>\n

NOT occur during the Restoration<\/span><\/p>\n

period?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Charles II was restored to the throne<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The French Revolution<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Great Fire of London<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Exclusion Bill Crisis<\/span><\/p>\n

497)<\/span><\/b>He was not a Renaissance writer.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Sir Philip Sidney<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Christopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Sir Thomas Malory<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

498)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following literary subperiods<\/span><\/p>\n

does NOT fall under the<\/span><\/p>\n

Neoclassical Period?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Restoration<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Jacobean Age<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Augustan Age<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Age of Sensibility<\/span><\/p>\n

499)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following periods of<\/span><\/p>\n

English literature came last?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Elizabethan Age<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Commonwealth Period<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Jacobean Age<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Middle English Period<\/span><\/p>\n

500)<\/span><\/b>This work was written before the<\/span><\/p>\n

other three choices.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

of the English People”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of<\/span><\/p>\n

Showings”<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”<\/span><\/p>\n

501)<\/span><\/b>Which of the following writers<\/span><\/p>\n

would be an appropriate subject for a<\/span><\/p>\n

class on \u201cThe Literature of the British<\/span><\/p>\n

Empire\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Rudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Edward Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Charlotte Bronte<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Any of these<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

502)<\/span><\/b>World War I affected the writing of<\/span><\/p>\n

many authors. Which of the following<\/span><\/p>\n

poets would not have been touched by<\/span><\/p>\n

that event?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)T.S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Siegfried Sassoon<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Wilfred Owen<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

503)<\/span><\/b>The period of maturation,<\/span><\/p>\n

intellectual growth and social graces<\/span><\/p>\n

during the Renaissance is called the:<\/span><\/p>\n

A) aristocracy<\/span><\/p>\n

B) New Age<\/span><\/p>\n

C) Reformation<\/span><\/p>\n

D) Enlightenment<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

504)<\/span><\/b>The most popular French<\/span><\/p>\n

playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is<\/span><\/p>\n

known as:<\/span><\/p>\n

A) Caleron<\/span><\/p>\n

B) Corneille<\/span><\/p>\n

C) Couperin<\/span><\/p>\n

D) Moliere<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

505)<\/span><\/b>The first Englishwoman to earn her<\/span><\/p>\n

living as a playwright was:<\/span><\/p>\n

A) Nell Gwynn<\/span><\/p>\n

B) Aphra Behn<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

C) Lady Teazle<\/span><\/p>\n

D) Ann Hathaway<\/span><\/p>\n

The Life Of John Milton(Caroline<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Period-The Renaissance)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(1608-1674)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

506<\/span><\/b>.In which city was Milton?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Norwich<\/span><\/p>\n

b)York<\/span><\/p>\n

c)London<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Canterbury<\/span><\/p>\n

507. <\/span><\/b>When was John Milton born?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 22 April 1600<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 19 August 1604<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 6 June 1606<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 9 December 1608<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

508. <\/span><\/b>Which school did Milton attend?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)St Paul’s<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Christ’s Hospital<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Merchant Taylors’<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Westminster<\/span><\/p>\n

509. <\/span><\/b>Milton continued his studies at<\/span><\/p>\n

Cambridge. Which college of the<\/span><\/p>\n

university did he attend?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Pembroke College<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Trinity College<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Christ\u2019s College<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) St. Xavier\u2019s College<\/span><\/p>\n

510. <\/span><\/b>Edward King, a minor poet and a<\/span><\/p>\n

contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge,<\/span><\/p>\n

was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

wrote an elegy for him. What was the<\/span><\/p>\n

title of this poem?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)lycidas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Paradise Lost<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Il penseroso<\/span><\/p>\n

511. <\/span><\/b>In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled<\/span><\/p>\n

abroad. In which country did he spend<\/span><\/p>\n

most of the time?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

b)France<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Italy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Spain<\/span><\/p>\n

512. How many times did Milton marry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)2<\/span><\/p>\n

b)0<\/span><\/p>\n

c)1<\/span><\/p>\n

d)3<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

513. <\/span><\/b>John Milton was 34 when he<\/span><\/p>\n

married Mary Powell. How old was she?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 48<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 34<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 22<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 17<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

514. <\/span><\/b>Milton was a royalist?<\/span><\/p>\n

True or <\/span>False<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

515. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following works was<\/span><\/p>\n

NOT written by John Milton?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)’L’Allegro’<\/span><\/p>\n

b)’Lycidas’<\/span><\/p>\n

c)’Il Penseroso’<\/span><\/p>\n

d)’Absolom and Achitophel’<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

516. <\/span><\/b>In 1634 Milton wrote a masque.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s the name of that masque?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)’Il Penseroso’<\/span><\/p>\n

b)’Lycidas’<\/span><\/p>\n

c)’Comus’<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)’The Masque of Blackness’<\/span><\/p>\n

517. <\/span><\/b>Which of these words or usages<\/span><\/p>\n

did Milton NOT coin?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Space \u2013 used to mean \u201couter space\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Unaccountable<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Pandemonium<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Blatant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

518. <\/span><\/b>Following parliament\u2019s victory in<\/span><\/p>\n

the civil war, Milton was appointed to a<\/span><\/p>\n

position in Cromwell\u2019s government in<\/span><\/p>\n

1649. What was his title?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Heresy tsar<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Poet laureate<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Secretary to the Admiralty<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Secretary for Foreign Tongues<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

519. <\/span><\/b>As well as poetry, Milton published<\/span><\/p>\n

extensively on politics, philosophy and<\/span><\/p>\n

religion. Which of the following was<\/span><\/p>\n

NOT one of his works?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Of Prelatical Episcopacy<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Likeliest Means to Remove<\/span><\/p>\n

Hirelings from the Church<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Of Practical Exorcisme<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce<\/span><\/p>\n

520. <\/span><\/b>When did John Milton die?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 4 February 1702<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 2 June 1700<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 17 April 1688<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 8 November 1674<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

521. <\/span><\/b>“Milton, thou should’st be living at<\/span><\/p>\n

this hour. England hath need of thee.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed. But who was it, summoning his<\/span><\/p>\n

ghost?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Horatio Herbert Kitchener<\/span><\/p>\n

b)William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

c)William Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

522. <\/span><\/b>The 20th century has been less<\/span><\/p>\n

kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his<\/span><\/p>\n

imagery distracting, and considered his<\/span><\/p>\n

work \u201cnot serious poetry\u201d, but it was<\/span><\/p>\n

another critic who accused him of<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201ccallousness to the intrinsic nature of<\/span><\/p>\n

English\u201d. Who?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)FR Leavis<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Harold Bloom<\/span><\/p>\n

c)William Empson<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Mariella Frostrup<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Paradise Lost By John Milton<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

523. <\/span><\/b>When was Paradise Lost<\/span><\/p>\n

published?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1660<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1667<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) 1658<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 1654<\/span><\/p>\n

524. <\/span><\/b>“Paradise Lost” is considered a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) First Person Narrative<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Short Story<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Epic Poem<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Novel<\/span><\/p>\n

525. <\/span><\/b>Satan’s name before he fell from<\/span><\/p>\n

heaven was:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Beezlebub<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Lucifer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Belial<\/span><\/p>\n

526. <\/span><\/b>‘Book 1’ of ‘Paradise Lost’ presents<\/span><\/p>\n

Satan with his angels fallen into Hell.<\/span><\/p>\n

When recovered, Satan awakens all his<\/span><\/p>\n

legions and speaks to them. The first he<\/span><\/p>\n

addresses is described as ‘one next to<\/span><\/p>\n

himself in power, and next in crime,<\/span><\/p>\n

long after known in Palestine’. What’s<\/span><\/p>\n

the name of this fallen angel?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Mammon<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Moloch<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Beelzebub<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Ashtaroth<\/span><\/p>\n

527. <\/span><\/b>In ‘Paradise Lost’, which angel is<\/span><\/p>\n

ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

out of Paradise? Before he does so, he<\/span><\/p>\n

shows Adam a number of visions about<\/span><\/p>\n

the future of the human race, beginning<\/span><\/p>\n

with Cain murdering Abel and ending<\/span><\/p>\n

with the redemption of mankind through<\/span><\/p>\n

Christ. Who is this angel that has a large<\/span><\/p>\n

role in the finishing chapters of ‘Paradise<\/span><\/p>\n

Lost’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Michael<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Abdiel<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Rafael<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Gabriel<\/span><\/p>\n

528. <\/span><\/b>Milton’s “unholy trinity” of<\/span><\/p>\n

characters includes:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Error, Temptation, and Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Sin, Death and Temptation<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Sin, Temptation, and Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Satan, Sin, and Death<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

529. <\/span><\/b>The battle between God’s army<\/span><\/p>\n

and Satan’s rebels in heaven lasted:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)One day<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Three days<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Seven days<\/span><\/p>\n

d)One hour<\/span><\/p>\n

530. <\/span><\/b>In the phrase, “thy seed shall<\/span><\/p>\n

bruise our foe,” the “seed” refers to:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Tree of Knowledge<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Cane and Abel<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Jesus Christ<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

531. <\/span><\/b>In the phrase, “thy seed shall<\/span><\/p>\n

bruise our foe,” “thy” refers to:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sin<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Eden<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Eve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

532. <\/span><\/b>The two archangels who serve as<\/span><\/p>\n

generals in God’s army are:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Michael and Gabriel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Michael and Raphael<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Raphael and Gabriel<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Michael and Lucifer<\/span><\/p>\n

533. <\/span><\/b>For inspiration in writing the<\/span><\/p>\n

poem, Milton says he depends on:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Wine<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Holy Spirit<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)His favorite pen<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Son<\/span><\/p>\n

534. <\/span><\/b>Earth is described as being<\/span><\/p>\n

connected to heaven by a:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)”stepping stones of clouds<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Golden rope<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Golden chain<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Ladder<\/span><\/p>\n

535. <\/span><\/b>Sin was born out of Satan’s:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Head<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Lust<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Anger<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Rib<\/span><\/p>\n

535. <\/span><\/b>Eve before the Fall might best be<\/span><\/p>\n

described as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)a feminist<\/span><\/p>\n

b)uncomfortable with Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

c)detailed oriented<\/span><\/p>\n

d)a docile, vain creature<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

536. <\/span><\/b>Throughout the poem, Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

transforms himself into many creatures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which creature does Satan not turn<\/span><\/p>\n

into?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)a mouse<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)a cherub<\/span><\/p>\n

c)a toad<\/span><\/p>\n

d)a serpent<\/span><\/p>\n

537. <\/span><\/b>Who might be considered the<\/span><\/p>\n

friendliest and most sociable of all God’s<\/span><\/p>\n

angels?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Raphael<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Lucifer<\/span><\/p>\n

538. <\/span><\/b>Everyday before the Fall Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

and Eve went out to work. What did<\/span><\/p>\n

their work consist of?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Hunting and gathering food<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Tending to the Garden of Eden<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Building shelter to live in<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Naming all God’s creatures and plants<\/span><\/p>\n

539. <\/span><\/b>The reason for Satan’s fall might<\/span><\/p>\n

best be described as:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

a)incest<\/span><\/p>\n

b)lust<\/span><\/p>\n

c)greed<\/span><\/p>\n

d)pride<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

540. <\/span><\/b>The reason for Eve’s fall might<\/span><\/p>\n

best be described as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)vanity<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)lust<\/span><\/p>\n

c)greed<\/span><\/p>\n

d)pride<\/span><\/p>\n

541. <\/span><\/b>On the second day of battle in<\/span><\/p>\n

heaven, what does Satan use that<\/span><\/p>\n

surprises God’s forces?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Catapults<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Artillery<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Illusions<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Holy Sepulcher<\/span><\/p>\n

542. <\/span><\/b>Adam, Satan, and Eve herself are<\/span><\/p>\n

all dazzled by Eve’s:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Wit<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Beauty<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Hard work and spirituality<\/span><\/p>\n

543. <\/span><\/b>The main reason for Adam’s fall<\/span><\/p>\n

might best be described as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)lust<\/span><\/p>\n

b)love for Eve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)pride<\/span><\/p>\n

d)money<\/span><\/p>\n

544. <\/span><\/b>When God sees that Adam and<\/span><\/p>\n

Eve have disobeyed him, who does he<\/span><\/p>\n

send to “judge” them and the snake?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Son<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)The Holy Ghost<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Raphael<\/span><\/p>\n

545. <\/span><\/b>Inspired by Satan’s victory over<\/span><\/p>\n

man, Sin and Death construct:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)a bridge from hell to heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

b)a temple to welcome Satan back<\/span><\/p>\n

c)a bridge from hell to earth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)a funnel from Eden to the gates of<\/span><\/p>\n

hell<\/span><\/p>\n

546. <\/span><\/b>After they have both eaten from<\/span><\/p>\n

the Tree of Knowledge, the first thing<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam and Eve do is:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Ask forgiveness from God<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Put some clothes on<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Satisfy their sexual desire for<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

each other<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Blame each other for their Fall<\/span><\/p>\n

547. <\/span><\/b>The Archangel Michael might best<\/span><\/p>\n

be described as:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Jealous and envious<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Bombastic<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Firm and militant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Kind and caring<\/span><\/p>\n

548. <\/span><\/b>When Michael tells Adam what will<\/span><\/p>\n

become of mankind after the Fall, he is<\/span><\/p>\n

actually narrating stories taken directly<\/span><\/p>\n

from:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The New Testament<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Homer’s epic poems<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)The Koran<\/span><\/p>\n

549. <\/span><\/b>What are the best words to<\/span><\/p>\n

describe the Garden of Eden, the<\/span><\/p>\n

weather, and nature in general, before<\/span><\/p>\n

the Fall of Adam and Eve?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Ordered and rational<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Chaotic<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Wild and unmanageable<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Comfortable<\/span><\/p>\n

550. <\/span><\/b>Which angel does Satan trick by<\/span><\/p>\n

disguising himself as a cherub?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Uriel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Raphael<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Abdiel<\/span><\/p>\n

551. <\/span><\/b>In what book does the fall take<\/span><\/p>\n

place?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Book VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Book X<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Book IX<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Book VII<\/span><\/p>\n

552. <\/span><\/b>In which book of the Bible does<\/span><\/p>\n

the story of Adam and Eve occur?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Leviticus<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Exodus<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Genesis<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Deuteronomy<\/span><\/p>\n

553. <\/span><\/b>Which devil advocates a renewal<\/span><\/p>\n

of all-out war against God?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Belial<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Moloch<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Mammon<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Beelzebub<\/span><\/p>\n

554. <\/span><\/b>What is Milton\u2019s stated purpose in<\/span><\/p>\n

Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) To assert his superiority to other<\/span><\/p>\n

poets<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) To argue against the doctrine of<\/span><\/p>\n

predestination<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) To justify the ways of God to<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

men<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) To make his story hard to<\/span><\/p>\n

understand<\/span><\/p>\n

555. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not a<\/span><\/p>\n

character in Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Night<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Agony<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Discord<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Death<\/span><\/p>\n

556. <\/span><\/b>Which angel wields a large sword<\/span><\/p>\n

in the battle and wounds Satan?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Michael<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Abdiel<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Uriel<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Satan is not injured<\/span><\/p>\n

557. <\/span><\/b>When Satan leaps over the fence<\/span><\/p>\n

into Paradise, what does Milton liken<\/span><\/p>\n

him to?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) A snake slithering up a tree<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) A germ infecting a body<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) A wolf leaping into a sheep\u2019s<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

pen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) A fish leaping out of water<\/span><\/p>\n

558. <\/span><\/b>Which angel tells Adam about the<\/span><\/p>\n

future in Books XI and XII?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Raphael<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Uriel<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Michael<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) None of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

559. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not found<\/span><\/p>\n

in Hell?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Gems<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Gold<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Oil<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Minerals<\/span><\/p>\n

560. <\/span><\/b>Which statement about the Earth<\/span><\/p>\n

is asserted as true in Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) It was created before God the Son<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Earth hangs from Heaven by a<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

chain<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) The Earth is a lotus flower<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) The Earth revolves around the sun<\/span><\/p>\n

561. <\/span><\/b>Which devil is the main architect<\/span><\/p>\n

of Pandemonium?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Mulciber<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Mammon<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Moloch<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Belial<\/span><\/p>\n

562. <\/span><\/b>How many times does Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

invoke a muse?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) One<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Two<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Three<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Four<\/span><\/p>\n

563. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following poets does<\/span><\/p>\n

Milton emulate?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Virgil<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Homer<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Both Virgil and Homer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Neither Virgil or Homer<\/span><\/p>\n

564. <\/span><\/b>What is the stated subject of<\/span><\/p>\n

Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The fight between good and evil<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Heaven\u2019s battle and Satan\u2019s tragic<\/span><\/p>\n

fall<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) The creation of the universe<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Adam and Eve\u2019s disobedience<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

565. <\/span><\/b>Which devil is Satan\u2019s second-incommand?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Mammon<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Sin<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Moloch<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Beezelbub<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

566. <\/span><\/b>Who discusses cosmology and the<\/span><\/p>\n

battle of Heaven with Adam?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) God<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Raphael<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

567. <\/span><\/b>Which scene happens first<\/span><\/p>\n

chronologically?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Satan and the devils rise up from<\/span><\/p>\n

the lake in Hell<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) The Son is chosen as God\u2019s<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

second-in-command<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) God and the Son create the universe<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) The angels battle in Heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

568. <\/span><\/b>Which of the angels is considered<\/span><\/p>\n

a hero for arguing against Satan?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Abdiel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(B) Uriel<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Raphael<\/span><\/p>\n

569. <\/span><\/b>In an attempt to defeat God and<\/span><\/p>\n

his angels, what do the rebel angels<\/span><\/p>\n

make?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) A fortress<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) A catapult<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) A large sword<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) A cannon<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

570. <\/span><\/b>According to Paradise Lost, which<\/span><\/p>\n

of the following does God not create?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) The Son<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Adam and Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Computers<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) He creates everything<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

571. <\/span><\/b>Who does Milton name as his<\/span><\/p>\n

heavenly muse?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Titania<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Urania<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(C) Virgil<\/span><\/p>\n

(D) Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

572. What does Eve do when she first<\/span><\/p>\n

becomes conscious?<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) Go in search of her mate<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) Talk to the animals<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) Look at her reflection in a<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

stream<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(D) Eat of the Tree of Knowledge<\/span><\/p>\n

573.<\/span><\/b>Who is the main protagonist of<\/span><\/p>\n

Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Satan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

d)God<\/span><\/p>\n

574.<\/span><\/b>In how many books is Paradise<\/span><\/p>\n

Lost divided?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Nine<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Twelve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Eighteen<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Fourteen<\/span><\/p>\n

575.<\/span><\/b>Which is the longest book?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Book X<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Book VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Book IX<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Book I<\/span><\/p>\n

576.<\/span><\/b>In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

build the Pandemonium. What is it?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The forbidden fruit<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The capital of Heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

c)A beautiful garden<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The capital of Hell<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

577.<\/span><\/b>The fruit of which tree were Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

and Eve forbidden to eat?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Tree of Life<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Tree of God<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Tree of Sin<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Tree of Knowledge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

578.<\/span><\/b>Which is the shortest book?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Book VII<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Book III<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Book VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Book V<\/span><\/p>\n

579.<\/span><\/b>Who was sent to Earth to warn<\/span><\/p>\n

Man of the dangers he was facing?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Raphael<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Uriel<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Abdiel<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Beelzebub<\/span><\/p>\n

580.<\/span><\/b>Who was the first to eat the<\/span><\/p>\n

forbidden fruit?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Eve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Snake<\/span><\/p>\n

581.<\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not a<\/span><\/p>\n

character in Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

b)God<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Jonah<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

582.<\/span><\/b>What is the name of the sequel to<\/span><\/p>\n

Paradise Lost?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Paradise Found<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Paradise Lost Twice<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Paradise Regained<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Paradise Lost Again<\/span><\/p>\n

583.<\/span><\/b>who was the companion of Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

in paradise?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)satan<\/span><\/p>\n

b)eve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)rapheal<\/span><\/p>\n

d)god<\/span><\/p>\n

584.<\/span><\/b>Who is “till wand’ring o’er the<\/span><\/p>\n

earth”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Satan’s associates<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

585. <\/span><\/b>Who will fall through his own<\/span><\/p>\n

“fault”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

b)God<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Adam<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Noah<\/span><\/p>\n

586.<\/span><\/b>Who “headlong themselves they<\/span><\/p>\n

threw Down from the verge of Heav’n”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Adam and Eve<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Noah and the elephant<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Rebel angels<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Benjamin and Joseph<\/span><\/p>\n

587. <\/span><\/b>Who pondered, “How such united<\/span><\/p>\n

force of gods, how such As stood like<\/span><\/p>\n

these, could ever know repulse?”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Adam<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Moses<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Joseph<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Satan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

588.<\/span><\/b>Who is described? “For dignity<\/span><\/p>\n

composed and high exploit: But all was<\/span><\/p>\n

false and hollow”<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Lot<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Belial<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Moses<\/span><\/p>\n

589. <\/span><\/b>When was Paradise Lost<\/span><\/p>\n

published?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1660<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1667<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) 1658<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 1654<\/span><\/p>\n

590.<\/span><\/b>When was Paradise Regained<\/span><\/p>\n

published?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1671<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) 1656<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 1669<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 1652<\/span><\/p>\n

The Renaissance<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

591.<\/span><\/b>In what country did the<\/span><\/p>\n

Renaissance begin?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Italy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.France<\/span><\/p>\n

c.England<\/span><\/p>\n

d.Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

592.<\/span><\/b>who is considered as the model of<\/span><\/p>\n

the people during the renaissance?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.greek and austrian<\/span><\/p>\n

b.roman and french<\/span><\/p>\n

c.roman and greek<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d.french and greek<\/span><\/p>\n

593.<\/span><\/b>the word renaissance means<\/span><\/p>\n

a.the rebirth of learning or<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

knowledge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.reading of books<\/span><\/p>\n

c.the time of astronauts<\/span><\/p>\n

d.the study of art<\/span><\/p>\n

594.<\/span><\/b>Which of the following techniques<\/span><\/p>\n

was NOT used in the Renaissance art?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.realism<\/span><\/p>\n

b.perspective<\/span><\/p>\n

c.individualism<\/span><\/p>\n

d.abstractioin<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

595.<\/span><\/b>what sparked the Renaissance?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.The Feudal system was collapsing<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b.the “95 theses”<\/span><\/p>\n

c.the Crusades<\/span><\/p>\n

d.the Black Plague<\/span><\/p>\n

596.<\/span><\/b>who lost the most power during<\/span><\/p>\n

the renaissance?<\/span><\/p>\n

a.Italian merchants<\/span><\/p>\n

b.catholic church<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c.black people<\/span><\/p>\n

d.king and queen of Spain<\/span><\/p>\n

597.<\/span><\/b>Utopia was written by:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Cervantes<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Poliziano<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Thomas More<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

598.<\/span><\/b>The Prince was written to gain<\/span><\/p>\n

favor of the:<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Pazzi<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Republic<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Medici<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Inquisition<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

599.<\/span><\/b>Who translated the New Testament<\/span><\/p>\n

into German for the first time?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Poliziano<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Cervantes<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Martin Luther<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Alexander VI<\/span><\/p>\n

600.<\/span><\/b>The “father of humanism” was<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Petrarch<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Dante<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Boccaccio<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Pico della Mirandola<\/span><\/p>\n

601.<\/span><\/b>Renaissance thinkers argued that<\/span><\/p>\n

women should be educated<\/span><\/p>\n

a)just the same as men<\/span><\/p>\n

b)with emphasis on science and<\/span><\/p>\n

mathematics<\/span><\/p>\n

c)not at all<\/span><\/p>\n

d)confined solely to music,<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

dancing, and knitting<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

602.<\/span><\/b>An important feature of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Renaissance was an emphasis on<\/span><\/p>\n

a)alchemy and magic<\/span><\/p>\n

b)the literature of Greece and<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Rome<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)chivalry of the Middle Ages<\/span><\/p>\n

d)the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas<\/span><\/p>\n

603.<\/span><\/b>Which was NOT a characteristic of<\/span><\/p>\n

the Renaissance?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)emphasis on individuality<\/span><\/p>\n

b)confidence in human rationality<\/span><\/p>\n

c)the emergence of merchant<\/span><\/p>\n

oligarchies<\/span><\/p>\n

d)the development of social<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

insurance programs<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

604.<\/span><\/b>The northern Renaissance differed<\/span><\/p>\n

from the Italian Renaissance<\/span><\/p>\n

a)growth of religious activity<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

among common people<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)earlier occurrence<\/span><\/p>\n

c)greater appreciation of pagan writers<\/span><\/p>\n

d)decline in the use of Latin<\/span><\/p>\n

605.<\/span><\/b>For ordinary women, the<\/span><\/p>\n

Renaissance<\/span><\/p>\n

a)had very little impact<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)greatly improved the material<\/span><\/p>\n

conditions of their lives<\/span><\/p>\n

c)worsened their social status<\/span><\/p>\n

d)allowed them access to education for<\/span><\/p>\n

the first time<\/span><\/p>\n

606.<\/span><\/b>Thomas More’s Utopia placed the<\/span><\/p>\n

blame for society’s problems on<\/span><\/p>\n

a)human nature<\/span><\/p>\n

b)God’s will<\/span><\/p>\n

c)society itself<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)the Church<\/span><\/p>\n

Random MCQs<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

607. <\/span><\/b>In which century was Piers<\/span><\/p>\n

Plowman written?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)14th<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)12th<\/span><\/p>\n

c)10th<\/span><\/p>\n

d)11th<\/span><\/p>\n

608. <\/span><\/b>Geoffrey Chaucer served which<\/span><\/p>\n

king?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Richard III<\/span><\/p>\n

b)James 1<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Edward III<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Henry II<\/span><\/p>\n

609. <\/span><\/b>The 18th century work ‘Tom<\/span><\/p>\n

Jones” was written by whom?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Henry Fielding<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)John Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Tobias Smollett<\/span><\/p>\n

610. <\/span><\/b>In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to<\/span><\/p>\n

write for which publication?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Time’s Literary Supplement<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)The Lady’s Home Journal<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Strand Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Reader Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n

611. <\/span><\/b>Joyce’s novel ‘Ulysses’ takes place<\/span><\/p>\n

over what period of time?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)A week<\/span><\/p>\n

b)24 hours<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)A lifetime<\/span><\/p>\n

d)6 months<\/span><\/p>\n

612. <\/span><\/b>What was the nationality of Oscar<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilde?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Irish<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Scottish<\/span><\/p>\n

c)French<\/span><\/p>\n

d)English<\/span><\/p>\n

613. <\/span><\/b>Who wrote the poem “Requiem”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Robert Louis Stevenson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

d)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

614. <\/span><\/b>the prevailing feature of Chaucer’s<\/span><\/p>\n

humour is its<\/span><\/p>\n

a)urbanity<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)crudity<\/span><\/p>\n

c)triviality<\/span><\/p>\n

d)sanctity<\/span><\/p>\n

615. <\/span><\/b>who is the first great English criticpoet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Sir Philip Sidney<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

616. <\/span><\/b>HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem<\/span><\/p>\n

by<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Thomas gray<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Edward gibbon<\/span><\/p>\n

d)William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

617. <\/span><\/b>Who wrote the poem ‘The Seven<\/span><\/p>\n

Ages’?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/p>\n

c)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Edward Gibbon<\/span><\/p>\n

618. <\/span><\/b>who write the story “Story Teller”<\/span><\/p>\n

?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

b)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Thomas Grey<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Saki<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Restoration and The 18TH Century<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

619. What happened in 1707 that would<\/span><\/p>\n

forever alter the relationship between<\/span><\/p>\n

England, Wales, and Scotland?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)the trial and execution of Mary,<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Queen of Scots<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>the Toleration Act<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>the failed invasion of the Spanish<\/span><\/p>\n

Armada<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>the Bishops’ War<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>the Act of Union<\/span><\/p>\n

620. Which of the following was a major<\/span><\/p>\n

factor in the unprecedented economic<\/span><\/p>\n

wealth of Great Britain during the<\/span><\/p>\n

eighteenth century?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>formal diplomatic relations with China<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>the exploitation of colonial resources,<\/span><\/p>\n

labor, and the slave trade<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>the American and French revolutions<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>the creation of the bourgeois novel as<\/span><\/p>\n

a commodity<\/span><\/p>\n

e)the union of England and Wales<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

with Scotland<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

621. What was “restored” in 1660?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>the monarchy, in the person of<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles II<\/span><\/p>\n

b)the dominance of the Tory Party<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>the “Book of Common Prayer”<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>toleration of religious dissidents<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Irish independence.<\/span><\/p>\n

622. What literary work best captures a<\/span><\/p>\n

sense of the political turmoil, particularly<\/span><\/p>\n

regarding the issue of religion, just after<\/span><\/p>\n

the Restoration?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Gay’s <\/span>Beggar’s Opera<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Butler’s <\/span>Hudibras<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Fielding’s <\/span>Jonathan Wild<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Pope’s <\/span><\/b>Dunciad<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Dryden’s <\/span>Absalom and Achitophel<\/span><\/p>\n

623. Who was deposed from the English<\/span><\/p>\n

throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless,<\/span><\/p>\n

Revolution in 1688?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Elizabeth I<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>James II<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>George II<\/span><\/p>\n

d)William and Mary<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Anne<\/span><\/p>\n

624. Who became the first “prime<\/span><\/p>\n

minister” of Great Britain in the reign of<\/span><\/p>\n

George II?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Henry St. John<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Robert Harley<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>John Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Robert Walpole<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Matthew Prior<\/span><\/p>\n

625. In the late seventeenth century, a<\/span><\/p>\n

“battle of the books” erupted between<\/span><\/p>\n

which two groups?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>abolitionists and enthusiasts for<\/span><\/p>\n

slavery<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>round-earthers and flat-earthers<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>the Welsh and the Scots<\/span><\/p>\n

d)champions of ancient and<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

modern learning<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Oxfordians and Baconians<\/span><\/p>\n

626. Which of the following best<\/span><\/p>\n

describes the doctrine of empiricism?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)All knowledge is derived from<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

experience.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Human perceptions are constructed<\/span><\/p>\n

and reflect structures of political power.<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>The search for essential or ultimate<\/span><\/p>\n

principles of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>The sensory world is an illusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>God is the center of an ordered and<\/span><\/p>\n

just universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

627. Against which of the following<\/span><\/p>\n

principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>theoretical science<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>metaphysics<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>abstract logical deductions<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>a and b only<\/span><\/p>\n

e)a, b, and c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

628. Whose great <\/span>Dictionary<\/span>, published<\/span><\/p>\n

in 1755, included more than 114,000<\/span><\/p>\n

quotations?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>William Hogarth<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Jonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Ben Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>James Boswell<\/span><\/p>\n

629. According to Samuel Johnson, “No<\/span><\/p>\n

man but a blockhead ever wrote except<\/span><\/p>\n

for…:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>love.”<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>honor.”<\/span><\/p>\n

c)money.”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>his party.”<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>fun.”<\/span><\/p>\n

630. What name is given to the English<\/span><\/p>\n

literary period that emulated the Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Augustan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Metaphysical<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Neo-Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Caesarian<\/span><\/p>\n

631. Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura<\/span><\/p>\n

poesis” was interpreted to mean:<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>A picture is worth a thousand words.<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Poetry is the supreme artistic form.<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Art should hold a mirror up to nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Poetry ought to be a visual as<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

well as a verbal art.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Paintings of poets should be prized<\/span><\/p>\n

over those of kings.<\/span><\/p>\n

632. What was most frequently<\/span><\/p>\n

considered a source of pleasure and an<\/span><\/p>\n

object of inquiry by Augustan poets?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>civilization<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>woman<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>God<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>alcohol<\/span><\/p>\n

e)nature<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

633. What word did writers in this<\/span><\/p>\n

period use to express quickness of<\/span><\/p>\n

mind, inventiveness, a knack for<\/span><\/p>\n

conceiving images and metaphors and<\/span><\/p>\n

for perceiving resemblances between<\/span><\/p>\n

things apparently unlike?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)wit<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>sprezzatura<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>naturalism<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>gusto<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>metaphysics<\/span><\/p>\n

634. Which of the following was<\/span><\/p>\n

probably not a stock phrase in<\/span><\/p>\n

eighteenth-century poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>verdant mead<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>checkered shade<\/span><\/p>\n

c)simian rivalry<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>shining sword<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>bounding main<\/span><\/p>\n

635. Which metrical form was Pope said<\/span><\/p>\n

to have brought to perfection?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)the heroic couplet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>blank verse<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>free verse<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>the ode<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>the spondee<\/span><\/p>\n

636. Which poet, critic and translator<\/span><\/p>\n

brought England a modern literature<\/span><\/p>\n

between 1660 and 1700?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Bunyan<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Crabbe<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Dryden<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Equiano<\/span><\/p>\n

637. Which of the following is not an<\/span><\/p>\n

example of Restoration comedy?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Etherege’s <\/span>The Man of Mode<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Wycherley’s <\/span>The Country Wife<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Behn’s <\/span>The Rover<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Marlowe’s <\/span><\/b>Doctor Faustus<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Congreve’s <\/span>Love for Love<\/span><\/p>\n

638. Which group of intellectual women<\/span><\/p>\n

established literary clubs of their own<\/span><\/p>\n

around 1750 under the leadership of<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>the Behnites<\/span><\/p>\n

b)the bluestockings<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>the coteries of plenty<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>the Pre-Raphaelites<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>the tattlers and spectators<\/span><\/p>\n

639. Which work exposes the frivolity of<\/span><\/p>\n

fashionable London?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Defoe’s <\/span>Robinson Crusoe<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Swift’s <\/span>Gulliver’s Travels<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Behn’s <\/span>Oroonoko<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Richardson’s <\/span>Clarissa<\/span><\/p>\n

e)Pope’s <\/span><\/b>The Rape of the Lock<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

640. What London locale, where many<\/span><\/p>\n

poor writers lived, became synonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

with hacks and scandal mongers?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Elephant and Castle<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Grub Street<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Covent Garden<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Cheapside<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>Piccadilly Circus<\/span><\/p>\n

641. With its forbidden themes of incest,<\/span><\/p>\n

murder, necrophilia, atheism, and<\/span><\/p>\n

torments of sexual desire, Horace<\/span><\/p>\n

Walpole’s <\/span>Castle of Otranto<\/span>, created<\/span><\/p>\n

which literary genre?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>the revenge tragedy<\/span><\/p>\n

b)the Gothic romance<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>the epistolary novel<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>the comedy of manners<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>the mystery play<\/span><\/p>\n

642. Which of the following is not<\/span><\/p>\n

indebted to the Gothic genre?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>William Beckford’s <\/span>Vathek<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Matthew Lewis’s <\/span>The Monk<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Tobias Smollett’s <\/span><\/b>Roderick<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Randsom<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Ann Radcliffe’s <\/span>The Italian<\/span><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>William Godwin’s <\/span>Caleb Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

643. While compiling what sort of book<\/span><\/p>\n

did Samuel Richardson conceive of the<\/span><\/p>\n

idea for his <\/span>Pamela, or Virtue<\/span><\/p>\n

Rewarded<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>a history of everyday life<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>an instructional manual for manners<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>a book of devotion<\/span><\/p>\n

d)a book of model letters<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e)<\/span><\/b>a chapbook<\/span><\/p>\n

644. Who was the ancient Gaelic<\/span><\/p>\n

warrior-bard considered by Napoleon<\/span><\/p>\n

and Thomas Jefferson to have been<\/span><\/p>\n

greater than Homer?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)<\/span><\/b>Macpherson<\/span><\/p>\n

b)<\/span><\/b>Merlin<\/span><\/p>\n

c)<\/span><\/b>Decameron<\/span><\/p>\n

d)<\/span><\/b>Taliesin<\/span><\/p>\n

e)Ossian<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

645. <\/span><\/b>John Donne is, in some sense, the<\/span><\/p>\n

originator of metaphysical poetry. But<\/span><\/p>\n

who is most closely associated with the<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cfounding\u201d of neoclassical poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)George Herbert<\/span><\/p>\n

646. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not<\/span><\/p>\n

generally considered to be a neoclassical<\/span><\/p>\n

poet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Henry Vaughan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

647. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not a<\/span><\/p>\n

common feature of neoclassical poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Imitation of classical forms and<\/span><\/p>\n

allusion to mythology<\/span><\/p>\n

b)An effort to represent human nature<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Use of the rhymed couplet<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Fantastic comparisons<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

648. <\/span><\/b>Neoclassicists tended to view<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry as the result of genius<\/span><\/p>\n

overflowing from the mind out onto the<\/span><\/p>\n

page. They also considered poetry to be<\/span><\/p>\n

an expression of the individual, inner<\/span><\/p>\n

self.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)True<\/span><\/p>\n

b)False<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

649. <\/span><\/b>Most neoclassical poets viewed the<\/span><\/p>\n

world in terms of a strictly ordered<\/span><\/p>\n

hierarchy. What was this hierarchy<\/span><\/p>\n

called?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Way of the World<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Foundational Ladder<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Order of Angels<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Great Chain of Being<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

650. <\/span><\/b>He wrote both religious and<\/span><\/p>\n

secular poetry. One of his poems urged<\/span><\/p>\n

virgins to make the most of their time.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Robert Herrick<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

651. <\/span><\/b>Why didn\u2019t Alexander Pope attend<\/span><\/p>\n

an English university?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)He lived in Italy until the age of 27<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Asthma, headaches, and spinal<\/span><\/p>\n

deformity made him an invalid<\/span><\/p>\n

c)He was a Catholic, and therefore<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

forbidden from attending<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)He just wasn\u2019t bright enough<\/span><\/p>\n

652. <\/span><\/b>Alexander Pope coined many a<\/span><\/p>\n

modern day clich\u00e9. Which of the<\/span><\/p>\n

following did not originate with him?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)To err is human, to forgive divine<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Let not the sun go down upon<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

your wrath<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)A little learning is a dangerous thing<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Fools rush in where angels fear to<\/span><\/p>\n

tread<\/span><\/p>\n

653. <\/span><\/b>John Dryden wrote \u201cAbsalom and<\/span><\/p>\n

Achitophel.\u201d Who was Achitophel,<\/span><\/p>\n

historically speaking?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)King David\u2019s son<\/span><\/p>\n

b)A Judge of Israel<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Bathsheba\u2019s first husband<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Absalom\u2019s advisor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

654. <\/span><\/b>Who did Dryden use Absalom to<\/span><\/p>\n

represent, allegorically, in his satire<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbsalom and Achitophel\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Duke of Monmouth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Charles II<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Earl of Shaftesbury<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Cromwell<\/span><\/p>\n

655. <\/span><\/b>Complete this famous quote by<\/span><\/p>\n

John Dryden: \u201cWho think too little, and<\/span><\/p>\n

who talk too ____\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

a)often<\/span><\/p>\n

b)long<\/span><\/p>\n

c)much<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)fast<\/span><\/p>\n

656. <\/span><\/b>What Pope poem begins, \u201cIn these<\/span><\/p>\n

deep solitudes and awful cells, \/ Where<\/span><\/p>\n

heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, \/<\/span><\/p>\n

And ever-musing melancholy reigns; \/<\/span><\/p>\n

What means this tumult in a vestal’s<\/span><\/p>\n

veins?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Rape of the Lock<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Solitude: An Ode<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Dunciad<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Eloisa to Abelard<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

657. <\/span><\/b>Pope made money by selling<\/span><\/p>\n

subscriptions to his translation of this<\/span><\/p>\n

classical epic.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Bahagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Odyssey<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Illiad<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)The Aeneid<\/span><\/p>\n

658. <\/span><\/b>This famous neoclassical poet<\/span><\/p>\n

wrote on profound themes such as<\/span><\/p>\n

death, but he also had a lighter side. He<\/span><\/p>\n

once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a<\/span><\/p>\n

tub of gold fishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Alexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

b)William Collins<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Thomas Gray<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

659. <\/span><\/b>His \u201cTo Penthurst\u201d is considered to<\/span><\/p>\n

be one of the primary texts of the<\/span><\/p>\n

neoclassical movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sir John Denham<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Ben Jonson<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Thomas Carew<\/span><\/p>\n

d)John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

660. <\/span><\/b>Sir John Denham commemorated<\/span><\/p>\n

this poet, referring to him as \u201cOld<\/span><\/p>\n

Chaucer\u201d who, \u201clike the morning star\u201d,<\/span><\/p>\n

descends \u201cto the shades,\u201d so that<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDarkness again the Age invades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Abraham Cowley<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)John Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

661. <\/span><\/b>What mock epic begins: \u201cWhat<\/span><\/p>\n

dire offence from am’rous causes<\/span><\/p>\n

springs, \/ What mighty contests rise<\/span><\/p>\n

from trivial things\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Dryden\u2019s \u201cMac Flecknoe\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Pope\u2019s \u201cThe Rape of the Lock\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Pope\u2019s \u201cThe Dunciad\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Dryden\u2019s \u201cAbsalom and Achitophel\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

662.<\/span><\/b>When the Parliament, controlled by<\/span><\/p>\n

the puritans, took power in England,<\/span><\/p>\n

one of the acts that greatly influenced<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature of that time was<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

a)The closing of theatres<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)The return of the King.<\/span><\/p>\n

c)King Arthurs’ dead<\/span><\/p>\n

d)King to exile<\/span><\/p>\n

663:<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “Reader, I married<\/span><\/p>\n

him.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Jane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Charlotte Bronte<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Edith Wharton<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Emily Bronte<\/span><\/p>\n

664.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “Things fall apart; the<\/span><\/p>\n

center cannot hold.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Butler Yeats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)James Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Thomas Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Edgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

665.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Things fall apart; the center cannot<\/span><\/p>\n

hold.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Canturbury Tales<\/span><\/p>\n

b)The Dark Angel<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Wild Swans of Coole<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Second Coming<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

666.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “Beauty is truth, truth<\/span><\/p>\n

beauty.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)John Keats<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Samuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

667.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Adonais<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Bright Star<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Ode on a Grecian Urn<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)La Bell Dame Sans Merci<\/span><\/p>\n

668.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “In Xanadu did Kubla<\/span><\/p>\n

Khan \/ A stately pleasure dome<\/span><\/p>\n

decree…”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Robert Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

c)John Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Walt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

669.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read: “In<\/span><\/p>\n

Xanadu did Kubla Khan \/ A stately<\/span><\/p>\n

pleasure dome decree…”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Kubla Khan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Hellas<\/span><\/p>\n

c)The Phoenix and the Turtle<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Castaway<\/span><\/p>\n

670.<\/span><\/b>A side note: Which drug\/substance<\/span><\/p>\n

was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted<\/span><\/p>\n

to?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Heroine<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Cocaine<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Alcohol<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Opium<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

671.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “I would prefer not<\/span><\/p>\n

to.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Edgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Herman Melville<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Thomas Gray<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Henry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

672.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “There can be no<\/span><\/p>\n

freedom or beauty about a home life<\/span><\/p>\n

that depends on borrowing and debt.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Henry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Benjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Robert Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Henrik Ibsen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

673.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read: “There<\/span><\/p>\n

can be no freedom or beauty about a<\/span><\/p>\n

home life that depends on borrowing<\/span><\/p>\n

and debt.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)A Doll’s House<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Riders to the Sea<\/span><\/p>\n

c)A Handful of Dust<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Fatal Curiosity<\/span><\/p>\n

674.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “My name is<\/span><\/p>\n

Ozymandias, King of Kings \/ Look on my<\/span><\/p>\n

works ye mighty, and despair!”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Lord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)William Woodsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Emily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

675.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read: “My<\/span><\/p>\n

name is Ozymandias, King of Kings \/<\/span><\/p>\n

Look on my works ye mighty, and<\/span><\/p>\n

despair!”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)The Man of Feeling<\/span><\/p>\n

b)In Memoriam<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Song to Aella<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Ozymandias<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

676.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “That’s my last<\/span><\/p>\n

Duchess painted on the wall \/ looking as<\/span><\/p>\n

if she were alive.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Lord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Robert Browning<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

677.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read: “That’s<\/span><\/p>\n

my last Duchess painted on the wall<\/span><\/p>\n

\/looking as if she were alive.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Porphyria’s Lover<\/span><\/p>\n

b)My Last Duchess<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Fra Lippo Lippi<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

678.<\/span><\/b>Who wrote: “I have measured out<\/span><\/p>\n

my life with coffee spoons.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)William Carlos Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

b)T.S. Eliot<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Hart Crane<\/span><\/p>\n

679.<\/span><\/b>In which work do you read: “I have<\/span><\/p>\n

measured out my life with coffee<\/span><\/p>\n

spoons.”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Sonnets from the Portuguese<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Prelude<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Last Decalogue<\/span><\/p>\n

680.<\/span><\/b>A “classic” book is usually one that<\/span><\/p>\n

possesses what quality?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)It has universal appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

b)It can stand the test of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

c)It makes connections.<\/span><\/p>\n

d)All of the above.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

681. <\/span><\/b>A Tale of Two Cities by Charles<\/span><\/p>\n

Dickens involves which two cities?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)London and Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Paris and Rome<\/span><\/p>\n

c)London and Paris<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Berlin and London<\/span><\/p>\n

682.<\/span><\/b>The Catcher in the Rye takes place<\/span><\/p>\n

in what city?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)New York City<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Stanford, Connecticut<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Boston, Massachusetts<\/span><\/p>\n

683.<\/span><\/b>Which book was not written by<\/span><\/p>\n

Jane Austen?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sense and Suspensibility<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Emma<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Mansfield Park<\/span><\/p>\n

684.<\/span><\/b>What is Shakespeare’s longest<\/span><\/p>\n

play?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Taming of the Shrew<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/p>\n

c)A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Hamlet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

685)<\/span><\/b>The poem ‘The Battle of Maldon’<\/span><\/p>\n

celebrates events which took place in<\/span><\/p>\n

the 10th century, but who was it<\/span><\/p>\n

between<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Danes and English<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Dutch and English<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Normans and English<\/span><\/p>\n

d)French and English<\/span><\/p>\n

686)<\/span><\/b>The Faerie Queene was written<\/span><\/p>\n

during the reign of which monarch?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)James I<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Mary Tudor<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Elizabeth Tudor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Henry VII<\/span><\/p>\n

687)<\/span><\/b>Becky sharp was the heroine in<\/span><\/p>\n

which novel?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Vanity Fair<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Sense and Sensibility<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Mansfield Park<\/span><\/p>\n

688) <\/span><\/b>How many children were there in<\/span><\/p>\n

the Bronte family?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)3<\/span><\/p>\n

b)4<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)5<\/span><\/p>\n

d)6<\/span><\/p>\n

689)<\/span><\/b>Who composed The Preludes?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)S T Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

b)William Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)William Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

d)William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

690)<\/span><\/b>Who is termed as “The Morning<\/span><\/p>\n

Star of Renaissance”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

b)John Gower<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Chaucer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)Langland<\/span><\/p>\n

691)<\/span><\/b>Who began the tradition of<\/span><\/p>\n

revenge play ?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Goorge peele<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Samuel daniel<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Phineas fletcher<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Thomas kyd<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

692)<\/span><\/b>How many lines are there in a<\/span><\/p>\n

Sonnet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)10<\/span><\/p>\n

b)16<\/span><\/p>\n

c)14<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d)22<\/span><\/p>\n

693)<\/span><\/b>What are the names of the two<\/span><\/p>\n

feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?<\/span><\/p>\n

a<\/span>)Capulet And Montague<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b)Breslow and Felsher<\/span><\/p>\n

c)Fuech and Goodside<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Dawson and Hurley<\/span><\/p>\n

694)<\/span><\/b>Which bird did the Ancient Mariner<\/span><\/p>\n

kill?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Seagull<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Albatross<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Humming Bird<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Crow<\/span><\/p>\n

695)<\/span><\/b>What was the name of the Bronte<\/span><\/p>\n

sister\u2019s only brother?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Branwell<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Richard<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Pearson<\/span><\/p>\n

696)<\/span><\/b>In which county was Jane Austin<\/span><\/p>\n

born?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Sussex<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Hampshire<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)Yorkshire<\/span><\/p>\n

d)Norfolk<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

697)<\/span><\/b>In which Dickens novel does Pip<\/span><\/p>\n

appear?<\/span><\/p>\n

a)Bleak House<\/span><\/p>\n

b)Great Expectations<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c)A Tale of Two Cities<\/span><\/p>\n

d)The Pickwick Papers<\/span><\/p>\n

698. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following English<\/span><\/p>\n

groups were supportive of the French<\/span><\/p>\n

Revolution during its early years?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Tories<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Republicans<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Liberals<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Radicals<\/span><\/p>\n

e) both c and d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

699. <\/span><\/b>Which statement(s) about<\/span><\/p>\n

inventions during the Industrial<\/span><\/p>\n

Revolution are true?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Hand labor became less common<\/span><\/p>\n

with the invention of power-driven<\/span><\/p>\n

machinery.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Steam, as opposed to wind and<\/span><\/p>\n

water, became a primary source of<\/span><\/p>\n

power.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The invention of textile processing<\/span><\/p>\n

machines marked the end of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Industrial Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) both a and c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

700. <\/span><\/b>What is the name for the process<\/span><\/p>\n

of dividing land into privately owned<\/span><\/p>\n

agricultural holdings?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) partition<\/span><\/p>\n

b) segregation<\/span><\/p>\n

c) enclosure<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) division<\/span><\/p>\n

e) subtraction<\/span><\/p>\n

701. <\/span><\/b>Which social philosophy, dominant<\/span><\/p>\n

during the Industrial Revolution,<\/span><\/p>\n

dictated that only the free operation of<\/span><\/p>\n

economic laws would ensure the general<\/span><\/p>\n

welfare and that the government should<\/span><\/p>\n

not interfere in any person’s pursuit of<\/span><\/p>\n

their personal interests?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) economic independence<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Rights of Man<\/span><\/p>\n

c) laissez-faire<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) enclosure<\/span><\/p>\n

e) lazy government<\/span><\/p>\n

702. <\/span><\/b>What served as the inspiration for<\/span><\/p>\n

P. B. Shelley’s poems to the working<\/span><\/p>\n

classes A Song: “Men of England” and<\/span><\/p>\n

England in 1819?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the organization of a working class<\/span><\/p>\n

men’s choral group in Southern England<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Battle of Waterloo<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Peterloo Massacre<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the storming of the Bastille<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the first Reform Bill, passed in 1832,<\/span><\/p>\n

which aimed to bring greater<\/span><\/p>\n

Parliamentary representation to the<\/span><\/p>\n

working classes<\/span><\/p>\n

703. <\/span><\/b>Who applied the term “Romantic”<\/span><\/p>\n

to the literary period dating from 1785<\/span><\/p>\n

to 1830?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Wordsworth because he wanted to<\/span><\/p>\n

distinguish his poetry and the poetry of<\/span><\/p>\n

his friends from that of the ancien<\/span><\/p>\n

r\u00e9gime, especially satire<\/span><\/p>\n

b) English historians half a century<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

after the period ended<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy<\/span><\/p>\n

Shelley, and their followers<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted<\/span><\/p>\n

Village (1770)<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Harold Bloom<\/span><\/p>\n

704. <\/span><\/b>Which poets collaborated on the<\/span><\/p>\n

Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus<\/span><\/p>\n

demonstrating the “spirit of the age,”<\/span><\/p>\n

which, in an era of revolutionary<\/span><\/p>\n

thinking, depended on a belief in the<\/span><\/p>\n

limitless possibilities of the poetic<\/span><\/p>\n

imagination?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William<\/span><\/p>\n

Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and<\/span><\/p>\n

Percy B. Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

c) William Wordsworth and Samuel<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Taylor <\/span><\/b>Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Dorothy Wordsworth and Sally<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashburner<\/span><\/p>\n

705. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following became the<\/span><\/p>\n

most popular Romantic poetic form,<\/span><\/p>\n

following on Wordsworth’s claim that<\/span><\/p>\n

poetic inspiration is contained within the<\/span><\/p>\n

inner feelings of the individual poet as<\/span><\/p>\n

“the spontaneous overflow of powerful<\/span><\/p>\n

feelings”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the lyric poem written in the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

first person<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) the sonnet<\/span><\/p>\n

c) doggerel rhyme<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the political tract<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the ode<\/span><\/p>\n

706. <\/span><\/b>Romantic poetry about the natural<\/span><\/p>\n

world uses descriptions of nature<\/span><\/p>\n

_________.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) for their own sake; to merely<\/span><\/p>\n

describe natural phenomenon<\/span><\/p>\n

b) to depict a metaphysical concept of<\/span><\/p>\n

nature by endowing it with traits<\/span><\/p>\n

normally associated with humans<\/span><\/p>\n

c) as a means to demonstrate and<\/span><\/p>\n

discuss the processes of human thinking<\/span><\/p>\n

d) symbolically to suggest that natural<\/span><\/p>\n

objects correspond to an inner, spiritual<\/span><\/p>\n

world<\/span><\/p>\n

e) b, c, and d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

707. <\/span><\/b>How would “Natural<\/span><\/p>\n

Supernaturalism” be best characterized<\/span><\/p>\n

as a Romantic notion introduced by<\/span><\/p>\n

Carlyle?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a form of animism in which objects in<\/span><\/p>\n

the natural world are believed to be<\/span><\/p>\n

inhabited by spirits<\/span><\/p>\n

b) a spontaneous belief in the<\/span><\/p>\n

supernatural based upon a surprise<\/span><\/p>\n

encounter with a supernatural being<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a process by which things that<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

are familiar and thought to be<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

ordinary are made to appear<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

miraculous and new to our eyes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the experience of hallucinating<\/span><\/p>\n

contact with the supernatural world<\/span><\/p>\n

when taking opium<\/span><\/p>\n

e) an oxymoron that nobody understood<\/span><\/p>\n

and that cannot be explained in the<\/span><\/p>\n

context of a discussion of Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

literature<\/span><\/p>\n

708. <\/span><\/b>Which setting could you not<\/span><\/p>\n

imagine a work of Romantic literature<\/span><\/p>\n

employing?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a field of daffodils<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the “Orient”<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a graveyard<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a medieval castle<\/span><\/p>\n

e) All of the above would be<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

appropriate settings for Romantic<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

literature.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

709. <\/span><\/b>Which poet asserted in practice<\/span><\/p>\n

and theory the value of representing<\/span><\/p>\n

rustic life and language as well as social<\/span><\/p>\n

outcasts and delinquents not only in<\/span><\/p>\n

pastoral poetry, common before this<\/span><\/p>\n

poet’s time, but also as the major<\/span><\/p>\n

subject and medium for poetry in<\/span><\/p>\n

general?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Alfred Lord Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

d) William Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Mary Wollstonecraft<\/span><\/p>\n

710. <\/span><\/b>What is the term we now use for<\/span><\/p>\n

what the Romantics called<\/span><\/p>\n

“mesmerism,” one of the “occult”<\/span><\/p>\n

practices that allowed people to explore<\/span><\/p>\n

altered states of consciousness?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) smoking opium<\/span><\/p>\n

b) hypnotism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) psychoanalysis<\/span><\/p>\n

d) dream interpretation<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Satanism<\/span><\/p>\n

711. <\/span><\/b>Romantic poets would have<\/span><\/p>\n

enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps<\/span><\/p>\n

written about which of the following<\/span><\/p>\n

figures as depicted?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) <\/span>Goethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful<\/span><\/p>\n

because he attempts to exceed the bounds of<\/span><\/p>\n

human knowledge by making a pact with the<\/span><\/p>\n

devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving<\/span><\/p>\n

to break free of the bounds of mortality<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Icarus, who is killed in attempting to<\/span><\/p>\n

fly because only Gods have the power to<\/span><\/p>\n

fly and mortals must be taught the<\/span><\/p>\n

limitations of human existence<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing<\/span><\/p>\n

fire from the Gods and thereby<\/span><\/p>\n

surpasses the limitations placed on<\/span><\/p>\n

humans by the Gods<\/span><\/p>\n

d) all of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a and c only: Romantics were<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

more interested in representations<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

of humans as they were able to<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

exceed their human limitations.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

712. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following best<\/span><\/p>\n

describes the sort of language and tone<\/span><\/p>\n

most often used when Romantic writers<\/span><\/p>\n

discuss the French Revolution?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) snide indifference<\/span><\/p>\n

b) biblical reverence<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) condemning censure<\/span><\/p>\n

d) satirical derision<\/span><\/p>\n

e) none of the above: Romantic writers<\/span><\/p>\n

had no interest in the French<\/span><\/p>\n

Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

713. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following descriptions<\/span><\/p>\n

would not have applied to any Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

text?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a spiritual autobiography written in<\/span><\/p>\n

an epic style<\/span><\/p>\n

b) a lyric poem written in the first<\/span><\/p>\n

person<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a comedy of manners<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) a political tract demanding labor<\/span><\/p>\n

reform<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a novel written about the intellectual<\/span><\/p>\n

and emotional development of a<\/span><\/p>\n

monster created by a scientist<\/span><\/p>\n

714. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following poems<\/span><\/p>\n

describe or celebrate an apocalyptic<\/span><\/p>\n

regeneration of humanity and the world<\/span><\/p>\n

effected by the creative capacity of the<\/span><\/p>\n

human mind?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Blake’s “Prophetic Books”<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Rights of Woman<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

715. <\/span><\/b>Which sorts of political reform took<\/span><\/p>\n

place during the Romantic period?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Parliamentary reform, increasing<\/span><\/p>\n

representation of the working classes<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Labor reform, improving working<\/span><\/p>\n

conditions for industrial laborers<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Voting reform, extending suffrage to<\/span><\/p>\n

men and women<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Educational reform, producing a<\/span><\/p>\n

dramatic increase in literacy<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a and d only: Significant labor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

and voting reform would have to<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

wait for the Victorian era and later.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

716. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following factors<\/span><\/p>\n

contributed to literature becoming a<\/span><\/p>\n

profitable business?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) <\/span>Commercial and public lending libraries were<\/span><\/p>\n

established in order to provide for an enlarged<\/span><\/p>\n

reading public.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Education reform increased literacy,<\/span><\/p>\n

thus creating a demand for commercial<\/span><\/p>\n

and public lending libraries.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) A new aesthetics of valuing literature<\/span><\/p>\n

for its own sake emphasized reading for<\/span><\/p>\n

pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) People had more leisure time to read<\/span><\/p>\n

and more disposable income to spend<\/span><\/p>\n

on reading materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

717. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following periodical<\/span><\/p>\n

publications (reviews and magazines)<\/span><\/p>\n

appeared in the Romantic era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) London Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n

b) The Spectator<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The Edinburgh Review<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The Tatler<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a and c only<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

718. <\/span><\/b>According to a theater licensing<\/span><\/p>\n

act, repealed in 1843, what was meant<\/span><\/p>\n

by “legitimate” drama?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) The dramaturge and playwright had<\/span><\/p>\n

to be related.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) All of the actors were male.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) All of the actors were British.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The play was spoken.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) The play had to be a full musical or<\/span><\/p>\n

produced in full pantomime.<\/span><\/p>\n

719. <\/span><\/b>The Gothic novel, a popular genre<\/span><\/p>\n

for the Romantics, exemplified in the<\/span><\/p>\n

writing of Horace Walpole and Ann<\/span><\/p>\n

Radcliffe, could contain which of the<\/span><\/p>\n

following elements?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) supernatural phenomenon<\/span><\/p>\n

b) perversion and sadism, often<\/span><\/p>\n

involving a maiden’s persecution<\/span><\/p>\n

c) plots of mystery and terror set in<\/span><\/p>\n

inhospitable, sullen landscapes<\/span><\/p>\n

d) secret passages, decaying mansions,<\/span><\/p>\n

gloomy castles, and dark dungeons<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

720. <\/span><\/b>Given the popularity of the Gothic<\/span><\/p>\n

novel and the novel of purpose, which<\/span><\/p>\n

of the following novelists wrote fiction<\/span><\/p>\n

that is closer in subject matter to the<\/span><\/p>\n

novel of manners than it is to the<\/span><\/p>\n

writing of her own era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Fanny Burney<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Mary Wollstonecraft<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Anna Letitia Barbauld<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Jane Austen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Mary Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

721. <\/span><\/b>Which two writers can be<\/span><\/p>\n

described as writing historical novels?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe<\/span><\/p>\n

Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

b) William Wordsworth and Samuel<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Sir Walter Scott and Maria<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Edgeworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/span><\/p>\n

e) none of the above: Romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

novelists never wrote historical novels.<\/span><\/p>\n

722. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following texts<\/span><\/p>\n

addresses class as a social and<\/span><\/p>\n

economic reality?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning<\/span><\/p>\n

Political Justice<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in<\/span><\/p>\n

1819<\/span><\/p>\n

c) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Sir Walter Scott’s The Heart of<\/span><\/p>\n

Midlothian<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

723. <\/span><\/b>Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in<\/span><\/p>\n

more than one of these popular literary<\/span><\/p>\n

forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

b) William Wordsworth<\/span><\/p>\n

c) George Gordon, Lord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

724. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following would not<\/span><\/p>\n

have been an appropriate protagonist<\/span><\/p>\n

for a Romantic literary text?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a French revolutionary<\/span><\/p>\n

b) a Greek or Roman mythological figure<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a monster fabricated in a laboratory<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a vagrant, gypsy, or any other<\/span><\/p>\n

itinerant social outcast<\/span><\/p>\n

e) All would have been appropriate<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

protagonists for a Romantic literary<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

text<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

725. <\/span><\/b>In which of the following works is<\/span><\/p>\n

the social outcast represented and<\/span><\/p>\n

addressed?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

b) William Worsworth’s Lyrical Ballads<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime<\/span><\/p>\n

of the Ancient Mariner<\/span><\/p>\n

d) John Keats’s “To Autumn”<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

726. <\/span><\/b>Looking to the ancient past, many<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantic poets identified with the figure<\/span><\/p>\n

of the<\/span><\/p>\n

a) troubadour<\/span><\/p>\n

b) skald<\/span><\/p>\n

c) chorister<\/span><\/p>\n

d) minstrel<\/span><\/p>\n

e) bard<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

727. <\/span><\/b>What did Byron deride with his<\/span><\/p>\n

scathing reference to “‘Peddlers,’ and<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Boats,’ and ‘Wagons’!”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the neo-classical influence of Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

and Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Wordsworth’s devotion to the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

ordinary and everyday<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Blake’s apocalyptic visions<\/span><\/p>\n

728. <\/span><\/b>Wordsworth described all good<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry as<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the rhythmic expression of moral<\/span><\/p>\n

intuition<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the spontaneous overflow of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

powerful feelings<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) the polite patter of a corrupted age<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the divine gift of grace<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the foul rag and bone shop of the<\/span><\/p>\n

heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

729. <\/span><\/b>Which poet asserted in practice<\/span><\/p>\n

and theory the value of representing<\/span><\/p>\n

rustic life and language as well as social<\/span><\/p>\n

outcasts and delinquents not only in<\/span><\/p>\n

pastoral poetry, common before this<\/span><\/p>\n

poet’s time, but also as the major<\/span><\/p>\n

subject and medium for poetry in<\/span><\/p>\n

general?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Alfred Lord Tennyson<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

d) William Wordsworth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Mary Wollstonecraft<\/span><\/p>\n

730. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following was a<\/span><\/p>\n

typically Romantic means of achieving<\/span><\/p>\n

visionary states?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) opium<\/span><\/p>\n

b) dreams<\/span><\/p>\n

c) childhood<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a and b<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a, b and c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

731. <\/span><\/b>Which philosopher had a particular<\/span><\/p>\n

influence on Coleridge?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Aristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Duns Scotus<\/span><\/p>\n

c) David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Immanuel Kant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) Bertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

732. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following was not<\/span><\/p>\n

considered a type of the alienated,<\/span><\/p>\n

romantic visionary?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Prometheus<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Satan<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Cain<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Napoleon<\/span><\/p>\n

e) George III<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

733. <\/span><\/b>Who remained without the vote<\/span><\/p>\n

following the Reform Bill of 1832?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) about half of middle class men<\/span><\/p>\n

b) almost all working class men<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) all women<\/span><\/p>\n

d) b and c<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a, b and c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

734. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following charges<\/span><\/p>\n

were commonly leveled at the novel by<\/span><\/p>\n

its detractors at the dawn of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantic era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Too many of its readers were<\/span><\/p>\n

women.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) It required less skill than other<\/span><\/p>\n

genres.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) It lacked the classical pedigree of<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry and drama.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Too many of its authors were<\/span><\/p>\n

women.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

735. <\/span><\/b>Which chilling novel of surveillance<\/span><\/p>\n

and entrapment had the alternative title<\/span><\/p>\n

Things as They Are?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Jane Austen’s Emma<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

c) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto<\/span><\/p>\n

736. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is a<\/span><\/p>\n

typically Romantic poetic form?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the fractal<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the figment<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the fragment<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the aubade<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the comedy of manners<\/span><\/p>\n

737. <\/span><\/b>Who exemplified the role of the<\/span><\/p>\n

“peasant poet”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) John Clare<\/span><\/p>\n

b) John Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Robert Burns<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a and c only<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) b and c only<\/span><\/p>\n

738. <\/span><\/b>Who in the Romantic period<\/span><\/p>\n

developed a new novelistic language for<\/span><\/p>\n

the workings of the mind in flux?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Maria Edgeworth<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Sir Walter Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Thomas De Quincey<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Joanna Baillie<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Jane Austen<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Victorian Age<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

739. <\/span><\/b>Which ruler’s reign marks the<\/span><\/p>\n

approximate beginning and end of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Victorian era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) King Henry VIII<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Queen Elizabeth I<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Queen Victoria<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) King John<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above, in that order, with<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria’s reign marking the most pivotal<\/span><\/p>\n

period for England’s colonial efforts in<\/span><\/p>\n

India, Africa, and the West Indies<\/span><\/p>\n

740. <\/span><\/b>Which city became the perceived<\/span><\/p>\n

center of Western civilization by the<\/span><\/p>\n

middle of the nineteenth century?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Paris<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Tokyo<\/span><\/p>\n

c) London<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) Amsterdam<\/span><\/p>\n

e) New York<\/span><\/p>\n

741. <\/span><\/b>By 1890, what percentage of the<\/span><\/p>\n

earth’s population was subject to Queen<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1%<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 10%<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 15%<\/span><\/p>\n

d) 25%<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) 95%<\/span><\/p>\n

742. <\/span><\/b>What did Thomas Carlyle mean by<\/span><\/p>\n

“Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Britain’s preeminence as a global<\/span><\/p>\n

power will depend on mastery of foreign<\/span><\/p>\n

languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Even a foreign author is better than a<\/span><\/p>\n

homegrown scoundrel.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Abandon the introspection of the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Romantics and turn to the higher<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

moral purpose found in Goethe.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) In a carefully veiled critique of the<\/span><\/p>\n

monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in<\/span><\/p>\n

symbolically for Queen Victoria and<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Darwin respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Leave England and emigrate to<\/span><\/p>\n

Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

743. <\/span><\/b>To whom did the Reform Bill of<\/span><\/p>\n

1832 extend the vote on parliamentary<\/span><\/p>\n

representation?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the working classes<\/span><\/p>\n

b) women<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the lower middle classes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) slaves<\/span><\/p>\n

e) conservative landowners<\/span><\/p>\n

744. <\/span><\/b>Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry<\/span><\/p>\n

of the Children is concerned with which<\/span><\/p>\n

major issue attendant on the Time of<\/span><\/p>\n

Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) women’s rights and suffrage<\/span><\/p>\n

b) child labor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) Chartism<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the prudishness and old-fashioned<\/span><\/p>\n

ideals of her fellow Victorians<\/span><\/p>\n

e) insurrection in the colonies<\/span><\/p>\n

745. <\/span><\/b>Who were the “Two Nations”<\/span><\/p>\n

referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli’s<\/span><\/p>\n

Sybil (1845)?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the rich and the poor<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Anglicans and Methodists<\/span><\/p>\n

c) England and Ireland<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Britain and Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the industrial north and the agrarian<\/span><\/p>\n

south<\/span><\/p>\n

746. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following novelists<\/span><\/p>\n

best represents the mid-Victorian<\/span><\/p>\n

period’s contentment with the<\/span><\/p>\n

burgeoning economic prosperity and<\/span><\/p>\n

decreased restiveness over social and<\/span><\/p>\n

political change?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Anthony Trollope<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Charles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

c) John Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Friedrich Engels<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

747. <\/span><\/b>Which event did not occur as part<\/span><\/p>\n

of the rise of the British Empire under<\/span><\/p>\n

Queen Victoria?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000<\/span><\/p>\n

emigrants left Britain, many bound for<\/span><\/p>\n

the colonies.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named<\/span><\/p>\n

empress of India.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) To save costs and maximize<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

profits, the day-to-day government<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

of India was transferred from<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Parliament to the private East India<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Company.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of<\/span><\/p>\n

investments abroad by British capitalists<\/span><\/p>\n

had risen from \u00a3300 billion to \u00a3800<\/span><\/p>\n

billion.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were<\/span><\/p>\n

unified into the Dominion of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

748. <\/span><\/b>What does the phrase “White<\/span><\/p>\n

Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer<\/span><\/p>\n

to?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize<\/span><\/p>\n

the world<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the moral responsibility to bring<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

civilization and Christianity to the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

peoples of the world<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) the British need to improve<\/span><\/p>\n

technology and transportation in other<\/span><\/p>\n

parts of the world<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the importance of solving economic<\/span><\/p>\n

and social problems in England before<\/span><\/p>\n

tackling the world’s problems<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a Chartist sentiment<\/span><\/p>\n

749. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following best<\/span><\/p>\n

defines Utilitarianism?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a farming technique aimed at<\/span><\/p>\n

maximizing productivity with the fewest<\/span><\/p>\n

tools<\/span><\/p>\n

b) a moral arithmetic, which states<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

that all humans aim to maximize<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

the greatest pleasure to the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

greatest number<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) a critical methodology stating that all<\/span><\/p>\n

words have a single meaningful function<\/span><\/p>\n

within a given piece of literature<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a philosophy dictating that we should<\/span><\/p>\n

only keep what we use on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a form of nonconformism<\/span><\/p>\n

750. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following discoveries,<\/span><\/p>\n

theories, and events contributed to<\/span><\/p>\n

Victorians feeling less like they were a<\/span><\/p>\n

uniquely special, central species in the<\/span><\/p>\n

universe and more isolated?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) geology<\/span><\/p>\n

b) evolution<\/span><\/p>\n

c) discoveries in astronomy about stellar<\/span><\/p>\n

distances<\/span><\/p>\n

d) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) tractarianism<\/span><\/p>\n

751. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following contributed<\/span><\/p>\n

to the growing awareness in the Late<\/span><\/p>\n

Victorian Period of the immense human,<\/span><\/p>\n

economic, and political costs of running<\/span><\/p>\n

an empire?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the India Mutiny in 1857<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Boer War in the south of Africa<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the Irish Question<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

752. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following authors<\/span><\/p>\n

promoted versions of socialism?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) William Morris<\/span><\/p>\n

b) John Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Edward FitzGerald<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Karl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

753. <\/span><\/b>Which best describes the general<\/span><\/p>\n

feeling expressed in literature during the<\/span><\/p>\n

last decade of the Victorian era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) studied melancholy and<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

aestheticism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) sincere earnestness and Protestant<\/span><\/p>\n

zeal<\/span><\/p>\n

c) raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory<\/span><\/p>\n

sophistication<\/span><\/p>\n

d) paranoid introspection and cryptic<\/span><\/p>\n

dissent<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

754. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following acts were<\/span><\/p>\n

not passed during the Victorian era?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a series of Factory Acts<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Custody Act<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Women’s Suffrage Act<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the Married Women’s Property Rights<\/span><\/p>\n

Acts<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes<\/span><\/p>\n

Act<\/span><\/p>\n

755. <\/span><\/b>Which contemporary discussions<\/span><\/p>\n

on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The<\/span><\/p>\n

Princess address?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the grueling working conditions for<\/span><\/p>\n

women in textile factories<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the debate on women’s suffrage<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the need to enlarge and improve<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

educational opportunities for<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

women, resulting in the<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

establishment of the first women’s<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

college in London<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the question of monarchical<\/span><\/p>\n

succession and if a woman should hold<\/span><\/p>\n

royal power<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the establishment of a civil divorce<\/span><\/p>\n

court<\/span><\/p>\n

756. <\/span><\/b>Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s<\/span><\/p>\n

The Princess.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man for the field and woman for the<\/span><\/p>\n

_____:<\/span><\/p>\n

Man for the sword and for the _____<\/span><\/p>\n

she:<\/span><\/p>\n

Man with the head and woman with the<\/span><\/p>\n

_____:<\/span><\/p>\n

Man to command and woman to _____.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree<\/span><\/p>\n

b) throne; scepter; soul; decree<\/span><\/p>\n

c) school; scalpel; pen; set free<\/span><\/p>\n

d) hearth; needle; heart; obey<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) field; sword; head; command<\/span><\/p>\n

757. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following Victorian<\/span><\/p>\n

writers regularly published their work in<\/span><\/p>\n

periodicals?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Thomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Matthew Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Charles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above: (In addition to<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

short fiction, most Victorian novels<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

appeared serialized in periodicals.)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

758. <\/span><\/b>What best describes the subject of<\/span><\/p>\n

most Victorian novels?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the representation of a large and<\/span><\/p>\n

comprehensive social world in realistic<\/span><\/p>\n

detail<\/span><\/p>\n

b) a surrealist exploration of alternate<\/span><\/p>\n

states of consciousness<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a mythic dream world<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the attempt of a protagonist to define<\/span><\/p>\n

his or her place in society<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a and d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

759. <\/span><\/b>Why did the novel seem a genre<\/span><\/p>\n

particularly well-suited to women?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) It did not carry the burden of an<\/span><\/p>\n

august tradition like poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) It was a popular form whose market<\/span><\/p>\n

women could enter easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) It was seen as a frivolous form where<\/span><\/p>\n

one shouldn’t make serious statements<\/span><\/p>\n

about society.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) It often concerned the domestic<\/span><\/p>\n

world with which women were familiar.<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

760. <\/span><\/b>What was the relationship<\/span><\/p>\n

between Victorian poets and the<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantics?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) The Romantics remained largely<\/span><\/p>\n

forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eliot in the 1920s.<\/span><\/p>\n

b) The Victorians were disgusted by the<\/span><\/p>\n

immorality and narcissism of the<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantics.<\/span><\/p>\n

c) The Romantics were seen as gifted<\/span><\/p>\n

but crude artists belonging to a distant,<\/span><\/p>\n

semi-barbarous age.<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The Victorians were strongly<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

influenced by the Romantics and<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

experienced a sense of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

belatedness.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) The Victorians were aware of no<\/span><\/p>\n

distinction between themselves and the<\/span><\/p>\n

Romantics; the distinction was only<\/span><\/p>\n

created by critics in the twentieth<\/span><\/p>\n

century.<\/span><\/p>\n

761. <\/span><\/b>Experimentation in which of the<\/span><\/p>\n

following areas of poetic expression<\/span><\/p>\n

characterize Victorian poetry and allow<\/span><\/p>\n

Victorian poets to represent psychology<\/span><\/p>\n

in a different way?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the use of pictorial description to<\/span><\/p>\n

construct visual images to represent the<\/span><\/p>\n

emotion or situation of the poem<\/span><\/p>\n

b) sound as a means to express<\/span><\/p>\n

meaning<\/span><\/p>\n

c) perspective, as in the dramatic<\/span><\/p>\n

monologue<\/span><\/p>\n

d) all of the above<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) none of the above: Victorians were<\/span><\/p>\n

not experimental in their poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

762. <\/span><\/b>What type of writing did Walter<\/span><\/p>\n

Pater define as “the special and<\/span><\/p>\n

opportune art of the modern world”?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

a) the novel<\/span><\/p>\n

b) nonfiction prose<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) the lyric<\/span><\/p>\n

d) comic drama<\/span><\/p>\n

e) transcripts of Parliamentary debates<\/span><\/p>\n

763. <\/span><\/b>What factors contributed to the<\/span><\/p>\n

increased popularity of nonfiction prose?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a new market position for<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

nonfiction writing and an exalted<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

sense of the didactic function of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

the writer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a<\/span><\/p>\n

thirst for trivia<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume<\/span><\/p>\n

novels and the difficulty of<\/span><\/p>\n

finding poetry in bookshops outside of<\/span><\/p>\n

London<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the deconstruction of the truth-fiction<\/span><\/p>\n

dichotomy and an accompanying<\/span><\/p>\n

relativistic sense that every opinion was<\/span><\/p>\n

of equal value<\/span><\/p>\n

e) c and d<\/span><\/p>\n

764. <\/span><\/b>For what do Matthew Arnold’s<\/span><\/p>\n

moral investment in nonfiction and<\/span><\/p>\n

Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment<\/span><\/p>\n

together pave the way?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a renewed secularism in the<\/span><\/p>\n

twentieth century<\/span><\/p>\n

b) modern literary criticism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) late\u2013nineteenth-century and early\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

twentieth-century satirical drama<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the surrealist movement<\/span><\/p>\n

e) none of the above: Victorian prose<\/span><\/p>\n

was mostly forgotten until recently and<\/span><\/p>\n

had little impact on literature of or after<\/span><\/p>\n

its time.<\/span><\/p>\n

765. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following comic<\/span><\/p>\n

playwrights made fun of Victorian values<\/span><\/p>\n

and pretensions?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

c) George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Robert Corrigan<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

20th Century<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

766. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following phrases<\/span><\/p>\n

best characterizes the late-nineteenth<\/span><\/p>\n

century aesthetic movement which<\/span><\/p>\n

widened the breach between artists and<\/span><\/p>\n

the reading public, sowing the seeds of<\/span><\/p>\n

modernism?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) art for intellect’s sake<\/span><\/p>\n

b) art for God’s sake<\/span><\/p>\n

c) art for the masses<\/span><\/p>\n

d) art for art’s sake<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) art for sale<\/span><\/p>\n

767. <\/span><\/b>What was the impact on literature<\/span><\/p>\n

of the Education Act of 1870, which<\/span><\/p>\n

made elementary schooling compulsory?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the emergence of a mass literate<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

population at whom a new massproduced<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

literature could be<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

directed<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) a new market for basic textbooks<\/span><\/p>\n

which paid better than sophisticated<\/span><\/p>\n

novels or plays<\/span><\/p>\n

c) a popular thirst for the “classics,”<\/span><\/p>\n

driving contemporary writers to the<\/span><\/p>\n

margins<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a, b and c<\/span><\/p>\n

e) none of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

768. <\/span><\/b>Which text exemplifies the anti-<\/span><\/p>\n

Victorianism prevalent in the early<\/span><\/p>\n

twentieth century?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Eminent Victorians<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Jungle Books<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Philistine Victorians<\/span><\/p>\n

d) The Way of All Flesh<\/span><\/p>\n

e) both a and d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

769. <\/span><\/b>With which enormously influential<\/span><\/p>\n

perspective or practice is the earlytwentieth-<\/span><\/p>\n

century thinker Sigmund<\/span><\/p>\n

Freud associated?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) eugenics<\/span><\/p>\n

b) psychoanalysis<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) phrenology<\/span><\/p>\n

d) anarchism<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

770. <\/span><\/b>Which thinker had a major impact<\/span><\/p>\n

on early-twentieth-century writers,<\/span><\/p>\n

leading them to re-imagine human<\/span><\/p>\n

identity in radically new ways?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Sigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Sir James Frazer<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Immanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Friedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

771. <\/span><\/b>Which scientific or technological<\/span><\/p>\n

advance did not take place in the first<\/span><\/p>\n

fifteen years of the twentieth century?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity<\/span><\/p>\n

b) wireless communication across the<\/span><\/p>\n

Atlantic<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the creation of the internet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) the invention of the airplane<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the mass production of cars<\/span><\/p>\n

772. <\/span><\/b>Which best describes the imagist<\/span><\/p>\n

movement, exemplified in the work of T.<\/span><\/p>\n

E. Hulme and Ezra Pound?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned<\/span><\/p>\n

with the way words appear on the page<\/span><\/p>\n

b) an effort to rid poetry of<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

romantic fuzziness and facile<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

emotionalism, replacing it with a<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

precision and clarity of imagery<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) an attention to alternate states of<\/span><\/p>\n

consciousness and uncanny imagery<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the resurrection of Romantic poetic<\/span><\/p>\n

sensibility<\/span><\/p>\n

e) a neo-platonic poetics that stresses<\/span><\/p>\n

the importance of poetry aiming to<\/span><\/p>\n

achieve its ideal “form”<\/span><\/p>\n

773. <\/span><\/b>What characteristics of<\/span><\/p>\n

seventeenth-century Metaphysical<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry sparked the enthusiasm of<\/span><\/p>\n

modernist poets and critics?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) its intellectual complexity<\/span><\/p>\n

b) its union of thought and passion<\/span><\/p>\n

c) its uncompromising engagement with<\/span><\/p>\n

politics<\/span><\/p>\n

d) a and b<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) a,b, and c<\/span><\/p>\n

774. <\/span><\/b>In the 1930s, younger writers such<\/span><\/p>\n

as W. H. Auden were more _______ but<\/span><\/p>\n

less _______ than older modernists<\/span><\/p>\n

such as Eliot and Pound.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) popular; reverenced<\/span><\/p>\n

b) brash; confident<\/span><\/p>\n

c) radical; inventive<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) anxious; haunting<\/span><\/p>\n

e) spiritual; orthodox<\/span><\/p>\n

775. <\/span><\/b>Which poet could be described as<\/span><\/p>\n

part of “The Movement” of the 1950s?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Thom Gunn<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Dylan Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Pablo Picasso<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Philip Larkin<\/span><\/p>\n

e) both a and d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

776. <\/span><\/b>Which British dominion achieved<\/span><\/p>\n

independence in 1921-22, following the<\/span><\/p>\n

Easter Rising of 1916?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the southern counties of Ireland<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Canada<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Ulster<\/span><\/p>\n

d) India<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n

777. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following writers did<\/span><\/p>\n

not come from Ireland?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) W. B. Yeats<\/span><\/p>\n

b) James Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Seamus Heaney<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

e) none of the above; all came from<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Ireland<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

778. <\/span><\/b>Which phrase indicates the interior<\/span><\/p>\n

flow of thought employed in highmodern<\/span><\/p>\n

literature?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) automatic writing<\/span><\/p>\n

b) confused daze<\/span><\/p>\n

c) total recall<\/span><\/p>\n

d) stream of consciousness<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) free association<\/span><\/p>\n

779. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following is not<\/span><\/p>\n

associated with high modernism in the<\/span><\/p>\n

novel?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) stream of consciousness<\/span><\/p>\n

b) free indirect style<\/span><\/p>\n

c) irresolute open endings<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the “mythical method”<\/span><\/p>\n

e) narrative realism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

780. <\/span><\/b>Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise<\/span><\/p>\n

for utilizing a new “mythical method” in<\/span><\/p>\n

place of the old “narrative method” and<\/span><\/p>\n

demonstrates the use of ancient<\/span><\/p>\n

mythology in modernist fiction to think<\/span><\/p>\n

about “making the modern world<\/span><\/p>\n

possible for art”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) Virginia Woolf’s The Waves<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness<\/span><\/p>\n

c) James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake<\/span><\/p>\n

d) E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India<\/span><\/p>\n

e) James Joyce’s Ulysses<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

781. <\/span><\/b>Who wrote the dystopian novel<\/span><\/p>\n

Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which<\/span><\/p>\n

Newspeak demonstrates the heightened<\/span><\/p>\n

linguistic self-consciousness of<\/span><\/p>\n

modernist writers?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) George Orwell<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) Virginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Evelyn Waugh<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Orson Wells<\/span><\/p>\n

e) Aldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

782. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following novels<\/span><\/p>\n

display postwar nostalgia for past<\/span><\/p>\n

imperial glory?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India<\/span><\/p>\n

b) Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea<\/span><\/p>\n

c) Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Paul Scott’s Staying On<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

e) c and d<\/span><\/p>\n

783. <\/span><\/b>When was the ban finally lifted on<\/span><\/p>\n

D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s<\/span><\/p>\n

Lover, written in 1928.<\/span><\/p>\n

a) 1930<\/span><\/p>\n

b) 1945<\/span><\/p>\n

c) 1960<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

d) 2000<\/span><\/p>\n

e) The ban has not yet been formally<\/span><\/p>\n

lifted.<\/span><\/p>\n

784. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following was<\/span><\/p>\n

originally the Irish Literary Theatre?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the Irish National Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the Globe Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the Independent Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the Abbey Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n

e) both a and d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

785. <\/span><\/b>What did T. S. Eliot attempt to<\/span><\/p>\n

combine, though not very successfully,<\/span><\/p>\n

in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cocktail Party?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) regional dialect and political critique<\/span><\/p>\n

b) religious symbolism and society<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

comedy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

c) iambic pentameter and sexual<\/span><\/p>\n

innuendo<\/span><\/p>\n

d) witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all of the above<\/span><\/p>\n

786. <\/span><\/b>How did one critic sum up Samuel<\/span><\/p>\n

Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) “nothing happens-twice”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) “political correctness gone mad”<\/span><\/p>\n

c) “kitchen sink drama”<\/span><\/p>\n

d) “angry young men<\/span><\/p>\n

e) “better than Cats”<\/span><\/p>\n

787. <\/span><\/b>What event allowed mainstream<\/span><\/p>\n

theater companies to commission and<\/span><\/p>\n

perform work that was politically,<\/span><\/p>\n

socially, and sexually controversial<\/span><\/p>\n

without fear of censorship?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the abolition of the Lord<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Chamberlain’s office in 1968<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) the illegal performance of work by<\/span><\/p>\n

Howard Brenton and Edward Bond<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the collapse of liberal humanist<\/span><\/p>\n

consensus in the late 1960s<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the foundation of the Field Day<\/span><\/p>\n

Theater Company in 1980<\/span><\/p>\n

e) the establishment of the Abbey<\/span><\/p>\n

Theater<\/span><\/p>\n

788. <\/span><\/b>Which of the following has been a<\/span><\/p>\n

significant development in British<\/span><\/p>\n

theater since the abolition of censorship<\/span><\/p>\n

in 1968?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) the rise of workshops and the<\/span><\/p>\n

collaborative ethos<\/span><\/p>\n

b) the emergence of a major cohort of<\/span><\/p>\n

women dramatists<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the diversifying impact of playwrights<\/span><\/p>\n

from the former colonies<\/span><\/p>\n

d) the death of the musical<\/span><\/p>\n

e) all but d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

789. <\/span><\/b>What did Henry James describe as<\/span><\/p>\n

“loose baggy monsters”?<\/span><\/p>\n

a) novels<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

b) plays<\/span><\/p>\n

c) the English<\/span><\/p>\n

d) publishers<\/span><\/p>\n

e) his trousers<\/span><\/p>\n

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