English Literature MCQs

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John Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.” Who was Achitophel, historically speaking ?


aKing David’s son


bA Judge of Israel


cBathsheba’s first husband


dAbsalom’s advisor


View Answer Absalom’s advisor

What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets ?


acivilization


bwoman


cGod


dnature


View Answer nature

What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?


awit


bsprezzatura


cnaturalism


dgusto


View Answer wit

Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press ?


aCharlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary


bAphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood


cAnne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


dRachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney



A “classic” book is usually one that possesses what quality ?


aIt has universal appeal.


bIt can stand the test of time.


cIt makes connections.


dAll of the above.


View Answer All of the above.

What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to “’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!” ?


athe neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden


bthe clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots


cthe Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge


dWordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday



Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?


aWilliam Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice


bPercy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819


cWilliam Godwin’s Caleb Williams


dall of the above


View Answer all of the above

Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?


aToo many of its readers were women.


bIt required less skill than other genres.


c It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.


dall of the above


View Answer all of the above

The poem ’The Battle of Maldon’ celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who was it between______________?


aDanes and English


bDutch and English


cNormans and English


dFrench and English


View Answer Danes and English

What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?


aGay’s Beggar’s Opera


bButler’s Hudibras


cFielding’s Jonathan Wild


dPope’s Dunciad


View Answer Pope’s Dunciad

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