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Category: English Literature Mcqs
Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?
A. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
B. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
C. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
D. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture
When Michael tells Adam what will become of mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories taken directly from______________?
A. The New Testament
B. Homer’s epic poems
C. The Hebrew Bible
D. The Koran
“How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.” ?
A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system
B. Fear of the AIDs crisis
C. Fear of global nuclear war
D. Fear of the economic Great Depression
Fill in the blank. Th …. was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history.
A. Catholic Restoration
B. Catholic Reformation
C. Protestant Reformation
D. None of
Which provides the best example of a medieval allegory ?
A. The Book of Margery Kempe
B. “The Wooing of Our Lord”
C. “An Orison to Almighty God”
D. The Romance of the Rose
According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________?
A. Round vowels & unrounded vowels
B. Front vowels & back vowels
C. High vowels & low vowels
D. Tense vowels &lax vowels
“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s________________?
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Julius Caeser
According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
A. He killed all of the old people
B. He killed all of the female children
C. He killed all of the male children
D. He killed all of the women
Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ?
A. Elizabeth I
B. James II
C. George II
D. William and Mary
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