English Literature MCQs

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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?


aBritain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.


bEven a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.


cAbandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.


dIn a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.



What is meant by ’Wessex’ ?


aThe region where Bronte sisters lived


bThe region in which Hardy’s novels are set


cThe home town of George Eliot


dA county in Ireland



’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?


aMary Collins


bMarian Evans


cLara Evans


dClare Reeve


View Answer Marian Evans

Spenser’s Epithalamion is____________?


aa narrative poem


ba sonnet


can elegy


da wedding hymn


View Answer a wedding hymn

Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?


aA group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn’t tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.


bAlso called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.


cThey were part of the High Church or the \Catholic\side of the church.


dThey were devout \tractarians,\as described by John Henry Newman.



Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?


ageology


bevolution


cdiscoveries in astronomy about stellar distances


dall of the above


View Answer all of the above

Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?


aa series of Factory Acts


bthe Custody Act


cthe Women’s Suffrage Act


dthe Married Women’s Property Rights Acts



Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?


aAnthony Trollope


bCharles Dickens


cJohn Ruskin


dFriedrich Engels


View Answer Anthony Trollope

What type of writing did Walter Pater define as \the special and opportune art of the modern world ?


athe novel


bnonfiction prose


cthe lyric


dcomic drama


View Answer nonfiction prose

For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?


aa renewed secularism in the twentieth century


bmodern literary criticism


clate “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama


dthe surrealist movement



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