English Literature Quiz 3

English literature quiz

Question 1. In Langland’s Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as _____________.

(A) Charity

(B) Tha Holy Trinity

(C) Jesus

(D) The Good Samaritan

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Question 2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all ____________.

(A)  One story

(B) Two stories

(C) Three stories

(D) Four stories

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(D) Four stories

Question 3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by _____________.

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Marlowe

(C) Drayton

(D) Sydney

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(A) Shakespeare

Question 4. The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is __________.

(A) 123

(B) 142

(C) 104

(D) 154

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(D) 154

Question 5. Which of the following plays has a Machiavellan hero?

(A) Tamburlaine Part I

(B) Dr Faustus

(C) Jew of Malta

(D) Edward II

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(A) Tamburlaine Part I

Question 6. Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler?

(A) Religio Laici

(B) David Simple

(C) Hudibras

(D) Journal of the Plague Year

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(C) Hudibras

Question 7. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets?

(A) Il Penseroso

(B) On His Blindness

(C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

(D) Lycidas

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(A) Il Penseroso

Question 8. Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve? 

(A) The Way of the World

(B) The Old Bachelor

(C) Love for Love

(D) The Relapse

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(D) The Relapse

Question 9.  Dryden’s All For Love is an adaptation of __________.

(A) Philaster

(B) Romeo and Julie

(C) Antony and Cleopatra

(D) Edward II

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(C) Antony and Cleopatra

Question 10. Which of the following books proposes a political theory?

(A) Principia

(B) Leviathan

(C) Anatomy of Melancholy

(D) Liberty of Prophesying

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  (B) Leviathan

Question 11. Which of the following books is written by a woman? 

(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women

(B)  Social Contract

(C) A Treatise of Human Nature

(D)  The Wealth of Nations

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(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Question 12. Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory? 

(A) The Battle of the Books

(B) A Modest Proposal

(C) Gulliver’s Travels

(D) A Tale of a Tub

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(D) A Tale of a Tub

Question 13. Which of the following is a “visionary” work by William Blake?

(A) The Song of Los

(B) Songs of Experience

(C) Poetical Sketches

(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion

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(B) Songs of Experience

Question 14. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of ____________.

(A) Lord Petrie

(B) Theobald

(C) Lord Bolingbroke

(D) Lord Harvey

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C) Lord Bolingbroke

Question 15.  Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal?

(A) London

(B) Vanity of Human Wishes

(C) The Life of Savage

(D) Rasselas

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(B) Vanity of Human Wishes

Question 16. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in ___________.

(A) 1798

(B) 1806

(C) 1850

(D) 1860

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(C) 1850

Question 17. “To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by ___________.

(A)  Shelley

(B) Wordsworth

(C) Keats

(D) Byron

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(A)  Shelley

Question 18. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs in __________.

(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn

(B) Ode to Autumn

(C) Ode to Psyche

(D) Endymion

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(D) Endymion

Question 19. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel?

(A) Pride and Prejudice

(B) Emma

(C) Sense and Sensibility

(D) Northanger Abbey

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(D) Northanger Abbey

Question 20.  Who distinguished between “the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power”?

(A) Coleridge

(B) De Quincey

(C) Hazlitt

(D) Lamb

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  (B) De Quincey

Question 21. Who among the following Victorian poets is the most sensititve to the conflict  between the old and the new? 

(A) Tennyson

(B) Rossetti

(C) Browning

(D) Swinburne

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(A) Tennyson

Question 22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by __________.

(A) Mrs Gaskell

(B) George Eliot

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) Emily Bronte

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(C) Thomas Hardy

Question 23. The novel Mary Barton is written by ____________.

(A) Mrs Gaskell

(B) George Eliot

(C) Emily Bronte

(D) Dickens

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(A) Mrs Gaskell

Question 24. The line “Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in __________.

(A) Culture and Anarchy

(B) Modern Painters

(C) The Study of Poetry

(D) Sartor Resartus

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(C) The Study of Poetry