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Category: English Literature Mcqs
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
A. Vancouver
B. Toronto
C. Ottowa
D. Montreal
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_____________in______________?
A. 18, 1582
B. 17, 1581
C. 16, 1580
D. 15, 1579
“The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written by__________________?
A. Ruskin
B. J.S.Mill
C. C. Lamb
D. Russell
Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work ?
A. Arundhati Roy
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Seamus Heaney
D. Vladimir Nabokov
Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?
A. Arrogance
B. Nihilism
C. Good spirits
D. Dark humor
_____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess
What is New Historicism ?
A. A theory that sees history as a form of writing and discourse
B. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
C. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. William Hazlitt
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All works of the highest art are meant to______________?
A. tingle our senses
B. stir our intellect
C. restore our skills for the art
D. instill in us the sense of the art
Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
A. Space used to mean “outer space”
B. Unaccountable
C. Pandemonium
D. Blatant
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