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Category: English Literature Mcqs
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chr´tien de Troyes
When did William Wordsworth die ?
A. 12 January 1842
B. 7 June 1849
C. 3 November 1852
D. 23 April 1850
Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?
A. William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
D. all of the above
How do historians explain the increase in the number of troubadours in the Middle Ages ?
A. the public disinterest in popular tales about romance
B. the increased interest in stories written in medieval Latin
C. the decreased public interest in religious stories
D. the French lords’ lack of interest in tales of courtly love
Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?
A. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble
B. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
C. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . “
T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?
A. “The Dead”
B. “The Surrealist Manifesto”
C. “The Heart of Darkness”
D. “To the Lighthouse”
What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
A. the Battle of Agincourt
B. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
D. the War of the Roses
Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
Which of the following lines of poetry is written in iambic pentameter ?
A. “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
B. “And the world didn’t even think of stopping for me.”
C. “I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.”
D. “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”
In the play, “Macbeth,” who becomes king immediately after Duncan’s murder ?
A. Macbeth
B. Banquo
C. Macduff
D. Malcolm
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