English Literature MCQs

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What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?


anovels


bplays


cthe English


dpublishers


View Answer novels

Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?


aa poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page


ban effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery


can attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery


dthe resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility



Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?


aSalman Rushdie


bJoseph Conrad


cRabindranath Tagore


dJohn Ruskin


View Answer Salman Rushdie

When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928?


a1930


b1945


c1960


d2000


View Answer 1960

Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel ?


astream of consciousness


bfree indirect style


cnarrative realism


dnarrative realism


View Answer narrative realism

Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?


aW. B. Yeats


bJames Joyce


cSeamus Heaney


dnone of the above


View Answer none of the above

Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?


aRadio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.


bThe Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.


cRegional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.


dall of the above


View Answer all of the above

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?


aart for intellect’s sake


bart for God’s sake


cart for the masses


dart for art’s sake


View Answer art for art’s sake

How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?


a“nothing happens-twice”


b“political correctness gone mad”


c“kitchen sink drama”


d“angry young men



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


bJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness


cJames Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake


dJames Joyce’s Ulysses



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