English Literature MCQs

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What characteristics of seventeenth century 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 thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?


aSigmund Freud


bSir James Frazer


cImmanuel Kant


dall but C


View Answer all but C

In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.


apopular; reverenced


bbrash; confident


cradical; inventive


danxious; haunting


View Answer radical; inventive

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?


aIt brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.


bIt was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.


cIt brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.


dIt delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.



Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?


aGeorge Orwell


bVirginia Woolf


cEvelyn Waugh


dOrson Wells


View Answer George Orwell

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?


aSigmund Freud


bSir James Frazer


cImmanuel Kant


dall but C


View Answer all but C

Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?


aautomatic writing


bconfused daze


c total recall


dstream of consciousness



Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?


ato depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans


bas a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking


csymbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,


dAll the above


View Answer All the above

Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?


aSense and Suspensibility


bEmma


cPride and Prejudice


dMansfield Park



Which of the following best describes the doctrine of empiricism ?


aAll knowledge is derived from experience.


bHuman perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.


cThe search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.


dThe sensory world is an illusion.



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