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


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


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


da, b and c



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


aAlbert Einstein’s theory of relativity


bwireless communication across the Atlantic


cthe creation of the internet


dthe invention of the airplane



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


aeugenics


bpsychoanalysis


cphrenology


dall of the above


View Answer psychoanalysis

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


athe southern counties of Ireland


bCanada


cUlster


dIndia



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


breligious symbolism and society comedy


ciambic pentameter and sexual innuendo


dwitty paradoxes and feminist diatribe



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


aits intellectual complexity


bits union of thought and passion


cits uncompromising engagement with politics


dA and B


View Answer A and B

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


aThom Gunn


bDylan Thomas


cPhilip Larkin


dboth A and C


View Answer both A and C

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


a1910s


b1930s


c1950s


d1970s


View Answer 1950s

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


aEminent Victorians


bJungle Books


cThe Way of All Flesh


dboth A and C


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


bJean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea


cJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness


dPaul Scott’s Staying On



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