English Literature MCQs

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Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?


aMary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

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bWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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cSir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

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d Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë

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In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?


aPorphyria’s Lover

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bMy Last Duchess

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cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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dFra Lippo Lippi

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View Answer My Last Duchess

Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?


aThe Bahagavad Gita

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bThe Odyssey

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cThe Illiad

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dThe Aeneid

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View Answer The Illiad

Who began the tradition of revenge play ?


aGoorge peele

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bSamuel daniel

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cPhineas fletcher

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dThomas kyd

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View Answer Thomas kyd

Which of the following is not a common feature of neoclassical poetry ?


aImitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology

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bAn effort to represent human nature

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cUse of the rhymed couplet

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dFantastic comparisons

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Why didn’t Alexander Pope attend an English university ?


aHe lived in Italy until the age of 27

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bAsthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

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cHe was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

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dHe just wasn’t bright enough

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Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?


aAddison

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bBunyan

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cCrabbe

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dDryden

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View Answer Dryden

The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?


athe Republicans and the Royalists

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bthe Royalists and the Whigs

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cthe Tories and the Whigs

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dthe Royalists and the Tories

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Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?


athe lyric poem written in the first person

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bthe sonnet

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cdoggerel rhyme

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dthe political tract

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What is Shakespeare’s longest play ?


aTaming of the Shrew

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bRomeo and Juliet

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cA Midsummer Night’s Dream

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dHamlet

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View Answer Hamlet

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