English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?


aHis career ended when he was jailed for criminal “gross indecency.”


bHe believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.


cWilde was the author of such poems as “Bénédiction,” “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”


dHe was notorious for his use of paradox.



T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?


a “The Dead”


b“The Surrealist Manifesto”


c“The Heart of Darkness”


d “To the Lighthouse”


View Answer “The Dead”

According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?


aThere is an undeniable “tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.”


bRepetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one’s own mortality.


cMost victims of trauma do not exhibit “the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.”


dTalk therapy will not help cure one’s psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.



Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work ?


aArundhati Roy


bSalman Rushdie


cSeamus Heaney


dVladimir Nabokov


View Answer Vladimir Nabokov

Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?


aSexual mores


bThe importance of the irrational


c Bourgeois sensibility


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

Georges Braque’s “Woman with a Guitar” is an example of which of the following artistic movements ?


aCubism


bVorticism


cFuturism


dA and B only


View Answer Cubism

Why does the “Flâneur” begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?


aBecause of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris


bBecause of the advent of arcade projects


cBecause they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape


dBecause they were threatened by police with jail



Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________’s work?


aMarx


bFreud


cDarwin


dAristotle


View Answer Marx

Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which “Post-Modern” school of criticism ?


aMarxism


bPost-Colonial Theory


cDeconstruction


dFeminism


View Answer Post-Colonial Theory

Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Araby” ?


a It begins with the famous line: “North Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free.”


b It speaks of the author’s illicit relationship with a young girl.


c It is a dramatization of the relationship between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.


dIt is an analysis of “Exodus” from “The Holy Bible.”



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