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Category: English Literature Mcqs
Abraham Lincoln: the war Years________________?
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A. T.S. Elliot
B. Carl Sandburg
C. William Faulkner
D. Wallace Stevene
The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?
A. Trochaic trimeter
B. Terza rima
C. Iambic pentameter
D. Anapestic pentameter
was the companion in publication to John Milton’s “Paradise Regained.” ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “Areopagitica”
C. “On Christian Doctrine”
D. “Samson Agonistes”
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Old English ?
A. Alliteration
B. Personification
C. Caesura
D. Romance
According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house
B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive
C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment
D. All of the above
Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
A. lycidas
B. Paradise Lost
C. II penseroso
D. none of the above
Which of the angels is considered a hero for arguing against Satan ?
A. Abdiel
B. Uriel
C. Michael
D. Raphael
‘Paradise Lost’ was written by__________________?
A. Mathew
B. Robert Browning
C. John Milton
D. W B Yeats
Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ ?
A. Albert Einstein
B. Stephen Hawking
C. Jagadish Chandra Basu
D. Isaac Newton
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