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Category: English Literature Mcqs
Although at least one critic has likened Thornfield to Bridewell, in what way are the two structures different ?
A. Each owner upends the prevailing law of the land.
B. Both are former palaces.
C. The owners of each had mistresses.
D. On the outside they look like homes, but on the inside they are prisons
Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?
A. James Joyce
B. Voltaire
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Y.B. Yeats
James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
A. Pericles
B. Genghis Khan
C. Richard Lionheart
D. Augustus Caesar
During which war the castle of Edmund Spenser, Kilcolman by name burnt by native Irish forces ?
A. Hundred Years War
B. Nine Years War
C. Ten Years War
D. Seventeen Years War
The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from ?
A. Virgil
B. Fetronius
C. Seneca
D. Homer
That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by ?
A. Blake
B. Eliot
C. Johnson
D. Shelley
What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emily Dickinson ?
A. oversoul
B. Slant Rhyme
C. True Rhyme
D. All of the above
In The Inferno, how is the idea of Fortune represented ?
A. Fortune is a “divine minister” similar to an angel.
B. Fortune is responsible for the distribution of worldly goods.
C. Fortune is beyond human understanding.
D. All of the above
In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
B. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
C. There is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature.
D. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.
Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?
A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
B. the debate on women’s suffrage
C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women’s college in London
D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
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