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Category: English Literature Mcqs
An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
A. alchemy and magic
B. the literature of Greece and Rome
C. chivalry of the Middle Ages
D. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas
Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C
Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
A. the Christmas carol
B. Great Expectations
C. oliver twist
D. a tale of two cities
In Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale,” why would the miller’s determination to speak following the knight appear unsettling to the 14th century audience ?
A. The knight had not finished his tale.
B. The miller did not ask politely.
C. A member of the clergy should have spoken next.
D. The miller was far beneath the knight in social order, so the miller should have deferred to the person who ranked above him.
Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?
A. a series of Factory Acts
B. the Custody Act
C. the Women’s Suffrage Act
D. the Married Women’s Property Rights Acts
In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ’willing suspension of disbelief’ in 1817 ?
A. Kubla Khan
B. Biographia Literaria
C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D. Christabel
What is the function of the River Lethe ?
A. It separates heaven from hell.
B. It prevents sinners from escaping hell.
C. It washes away the memory of sin.
D. It separates Dante from the other sinners
In “The Castle of Otranto” what “monstrous Other” does Manfred embody ?
A. The undead
B. The outcast
C. The cursed
D. The transgendered
With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Jung
C. William James
D. Theodor W. Adorno
Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to _______________?
A. Leigh Hunt
B. Milton
C. Shakespeare
D. Thomas Chatterton
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