English Literature MCQs

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In which work do you read: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ?


aLovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock


bSonnets from the Portuguese


cPrelude


dThe Last Decalogue



Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?


aWordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire


bEnglish historians half a century after the period ended


c “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers


dOliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)



Who wrote: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?


aLord Byron


bPercy Bysshe Shelley


cWilliam Woodsworth


dEmily Dickinson


View Answer Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?


asupernatural phenomenon


bperversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution


cplots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes


dall of the above


View Answer all of the above

What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings ?


apartition


bsegregation


cenclosure


ddivision


View Answer enclosure

In which work do you read: “There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.” ?


aA Doll’s House


bRiders to the Sea


cA Handful of Dust


dThe Fatal Curiosity


View Answer A Doll’s House

Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?


aGoethe’s Faust in Faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality


bIcarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only Gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence


cPrometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the Gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the Gods


dA and C only


View Answer A and C only

Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge ?


aAristotle


bDuns Scotus


cDavid Hume


dImmanuel Kant


View Answer Immanuel Kant

In which work do you read: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!” ?


aThe Man of Feeling


bIn Memoriam


cSong to Aella


dOzymandias


View Answer Ozymandias

Against which of the following principles did Jonathan Swift inveigh ?


atheoretical science


bmetaphysics


cabstract logical deductions


dA, B, and C


View Answer A, B, and C

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