Category: English Literature Mcqs
Find the Odd man out ?
A. Ulysses : James Joyce
B. A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats
C. Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot
D. Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode
Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C
Complete the following sentence. The scientific revolution paralleled Enlightenment political thought and political revolutions through its similar______________?
A. devotion to traditional authority in political and theoretical matters.
B. emphasis on the world being governed by laws that could be discerned through rational exploration.
C. reliance on classical scholarship.
D. defense of violent emotions as natural.
Uneasy lies the head that_______________( King Henry four, part two)?
A. Wears a crown
B. Wears a hat
C. Wears a wig
D. none of these
What is the meaning of “Renaissance” ?
A. Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
B. Reveal, revel and reverie
C. Raillery, renunciation and recoup
D. none of the above
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?
A. How readers learn to read
B. How readers imagine visual images in a text
C. How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text
D. How readers regard critics
From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain ?
A. 1843-1850
B. 1840-1855
C. 1842-1851
D. 1833-1848
Which is not a poetry form ?
A. epic
B. tale
C. ballad
D. sonnet
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