English Literature MCQs

Page No. 274

Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?


aCommercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public

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bEducation reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.

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cA new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.

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dall of the above

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View Answer all of the above

Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person’s pursuit of their personal interests ?


aeconomic independence

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bthe Rights of Man

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claissez-faire

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denclosure

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View Answer laissez-faire

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?


aLondon and Rome

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bParis and Rome

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cLondon and Paris

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dBerlin and London

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View Answer London and Paris

The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city ?


aNew York City

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bStanford, Connecticut

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cPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

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dBoston, Massachusetts

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View Answer New York City

Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him ?


aTo err is human, to forgive divine

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bLet not the sun go down upon your wrath

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cA little learning is a dangerous thing

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dFools rush in where angels fear to tread

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Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?


athe Behnites

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bthe bluestockings

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cthe coteries of plenty

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dthe Pre-Raphaelites

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View Answer the bluestockings

Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?


aa field of daffodils

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bthe “Orient”

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ca graveyard

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dAll of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

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Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?


aDefoe’s Robinson Crusoe

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bSwift’s Gulliver’s Travels

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cBehn’s Oroonoko

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dPope’s The Rape of the Lock

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According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by “legitimate” drama ?


aThe dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

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bAll of the actors were male.

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cAll of the actors were British.

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dThe play was spoken.

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View Answer The play was spoken.

Who wrote: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ?


aWilliam Carlos Williams

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bT.S. Eliot

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cErnest Hemingway

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dHart Crane

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View Answer T.S. Eliot

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