English Literature MCQs

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What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?


athe emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

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ba new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

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ca popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins

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da, b and c

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Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century ?


aAlbert Einstein’s theory of relativity

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bwireless communication across the Atlantic

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cthe creation of the internet

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dthe invention of the airplane

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With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?


aeugenics

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bpsychoanalysis

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cphrenology

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dall of the above

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View Answer psychoanalysis

Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?


athe southern counties of Ireland

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bCanada

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cUlster

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dIndia

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What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?


aregional dialect and political critique

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breligious symbolism and society comedy

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ciambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

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dwitty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

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What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?


aits intellectual complexity

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bits union of thought and passion

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cits uncompromising engagement with politics

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dA and B

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View Answer A and B

Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?


aThom Gunn

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bDylan Thomas

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cPhilip Larkin

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dboth A and C

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View Answer both A and C

In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?


a1910s

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b1930s

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c1950s

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d1970s

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View Answer 1950s

Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?


aEminent Victorians

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bJungle Books

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cThe Way of All Flesh

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dboth A and C

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View Answer both A and C

Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?


aE. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

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bJean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

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cJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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dPaul Scott’s Staying On

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