English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?


aRachel Speght

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bAemilia Lanyer

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cElizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

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dall of the above

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View Answer all of the above

Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?


athe Petrarchan sonnet

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bthe classical satire

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cthe country-house poem

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dthe epigram

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View Answer the Petrarchan sonnet

What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?


aL’Allegro

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bLycidas

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cParadise Lost

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dThe Divine Comedy

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View Answer Paradise Lost

Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?


athe pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers

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bthe elimination of bishops

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cthe right of congregations to choose their own leaders

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dthe wider use of religious images in churches

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Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?


aJames IV of Scotland

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b James VI of Scotland

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cMary, Queen of Scots

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dAnne Boleyn

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Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?


agluttonous feasting

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bhard drinking

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chunting

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dall of the above

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View Answer all of the above

Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?


athe Irish National Theatre

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bthe Globe Theatre

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cthe Abbey Theatre

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dboth A and C

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View Answer both A and C

What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ?


athe abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968

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bthe illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond

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cthe collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s

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dthe foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980

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Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968 ?


athe rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

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bthe diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

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cthe death of the musical

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dall but C

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View Answer all but C

Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new \mythical method\in place of the old \narrative method\and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about \making the modern world possible for art\ ?


aVirginia Woolf’s The Waves

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bJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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cJames Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake

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d James Joyce’s Ulysses

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