A. They all belonged to the Oxford Movement
B. They were all painters
C. They were all Victorian Novelists
D. They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite SchoolB.
English Literature Mcqs
In The Purgatorio, what do the steps to the Gate of Purgatory represent ?
A. The seven deadly sins
B. The seven types of sin that keep people from heaven
C. The three components of the perfect confession
D. The eight beatitudes
Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
A. Lucy Terry
B. William Wells Brown
C. Harriet Wilson
D. Harriet Jacobs
Which of the following cultural changes occurred as a result of the Norman invasion ?
A. The Church moved away from using Latin.
B. The trend of educational reforms was reversed.
C. England returned to its pre-feudal state.
D. The primary language became French
’Book 1’ of ’Paradise Lost’ presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ’one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen angel?
A. Mammon
B. Moloch
C. Beelzebub
D. Ashtaroth
Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ?
A. John Clare
B. John Keats
C. Robert Burns
D. A and C only
How many languages did chaucer know ?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 1
D. 5
Paul O’Brien argues that Shelley did not lose his passion for the French Revolution, but that _____________did?
A. Lord Byron and John Clare
B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats and William Blake
D. Lord Byron and William Blake
One of the central themes of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell” is _________________?
A. How nature can render someone good
B. How nature can corrupt someone
C. Eternal youth
D. A dark voyage into madness
In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story ?
A. Homer’s The Iliad
B. Homer’s The Odyssey
C. Virgil’s The Aeneid
D. Sophocles’s Antigone
