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This section includes 450 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ? |
| A. | a field of daffodils |
| B. | the “Orient” |
| C. | a graveyard |
| D. | All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 52. |
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 ? |
| A. | economic independence |
| B. | the Rights of Man |
| C. | laissez-faire |
| D. | enclosure |
| Answer» D. enclosure | |
| 53. |
Which sorts of political reform took place during the Romantic period ? |
| A. | Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes |
| B. | Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers |
| C. | Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy |
| D. | A and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 54. |
Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true ? |
| A. | Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery. |
| B. | Velcro replaced buttons and snaps. |
| C. | Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power. |
| D. | both A and C |
| Answer» E. | |
| 55. |
Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ? |
| A. | Eminent Victorians |
| B. | Jungle Books |
| C. | The Way of All Flesh |
| D. | both A and C |
| Answer» E. | |
| 56. |
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways? |
| A. | Sigmund Freud |
| B. | Sir James Frazer |
| C. | Immanuel Kant |
| D. | all but C |
| Answer» E. | |
| 57. |
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ? |
| A. | Sigmund Freud |
| B. | Sir James Frazer |
| C. | Immanuel Kant |
| D. | all but C |
| Answer» E. | |
| 58. |
Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ? |
| A. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| B. | Marie de France |
| C. | Chrétien de Troyes |
| D. | b and c only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 59. |
Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ? |
| A. | Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| B. | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| C. | Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth |
| D. | Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë |
| Answer» D. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë | |
| 60. |
Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance ? |
| A. | emphasis on individuality |
| B. | confidence in human rationality |
| C. | the emergence of merchant oligarchies |
| D. | the development of social insurance programs |
| Answer» E. | |
| 61. |
Which was not among the ewgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ? |
| A. | the Petrarchan sonnet |
| B. | the classical satire |
| C. | the country-house poem |
| D. | the epigram |
| Answer» B. the classical satire | |
| 62. |
Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ? |
| A. | They caused excessive noise and traffic. |
| B. | They charged too much. |
| C. | They excited illicit sexual desires. |
| D. | They drew young people away from work. |
| Answer» C. They excited illicit sexual desires. | |
| 63. |
Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ? |
| A. | Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe |
| B. | Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels |
| C. | Behn’s Oroonoko |
| D. | Pope’s The Rape of the Lock |
| Answer» E. | |
| 64. |
Which work did Edmund Spenser author ? |
| A. | The Castle of Perseverance |
| B. | The Double |
| C. | The Metamorphoses |
| D. | The Faerie Queene |
| Answer» E. | |
| 65. |
Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I ? |
| A. | William Shakespeare |
| B. | Ben Jonson |
| C. | John Donne |
| D. | John Milton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 66. |
While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ? |
| A. | a history of everyday life |
| B. | an instructional manual for manners |
| C. | a book of devotion |
| D. | a book of model letters |
| Answer» E. | |
| 67. |
Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ? |
| A. | Graham Greene |
| B. | Anthony Powell |
| C. | Evelyn Waugh |
| D. | William Golding |
| Answer» B. Anthony Powell | |
| 68. |
Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ? |
| A. | Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire |
| B. | English historians half a century after the period ended |
| C. | “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers |
| D. | Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770) |
| Answer» C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers | |
| 69. |
Who applied the term Romantic o the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ? |
| A. | Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien r´gime, especially satire |
| B. | English historians half a century after the period ended |
| C. | The Satanic Schoolof Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers |
| D. | Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770) |
| Answer» C. The Satanic Schoolof Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers | |
| 70. |
Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ? |
| A. | Cavalcanti |
| B. | Castiglione |
| C. | Pirandello |
| D. | Boccaccio |
| Answer» C. Pirandello | |
| 71. |
Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ? |
| A. | Izaak Walton |
| B. | Katherine Philips |
| C. | John Skelton |
| D. | Isabella Whitney |
| Answer» B. Katherine Philips | |
| 72. |
Who became the first “prime minister” of Great Britain in the reign of George II ? |
| A. | Henry St. John |
| B. | Robert Harley |
| C. | John Churchill |
| D. | Robert Walpole |
| Answer» E. | |
| 73. |
Who became the first prime ministerof Great Britain in the reign of George II ? |
| A. | Henry St. John |
| B. | Robert Harley |
| C. | John Churchill |
| D. | Robert Walpole |
| Answer» E. | |
| 74. |
Who began the tradition of revenge play ? |
| A. | Goorge peele |
| B. | Samuel daniel |
| C. | Phineas fletcher |
| D. | Thomas kyd |
| Answer» E. | |
| 75. |
Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation ? |
| A. | Anne Boleyn |
| B. | Martin Luther |
| C. | Pope Leo X |
| D. | Ulrich Zwingli |
| Answer» C. Pope Leo X | |
| 76. |
Who composed The Preludes ? |
| A. | S T Coleridge |
| B. | William Wordsworth |
| C. | William Shakespeare |
| D. | William Blake |
| Answer» C. William Shakespeare | |
| 77. |
Who did Dryden use Absalom to represent, allegorically, in his satire “Absalom and Achitophel” ? |
| A. | The Duke of Monmouth |
| B. | Charles II |
| C. | The Earl of Shaftesbury |
| D. | Cromwell |
| Answer» B. Charles II | |
| 78. |
Who exemplified the role of the peasant poet ? |
| A. | John Clare |
| B. | John Keats |
| C. | Robert Burns |
| D. | A and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 79. |
Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ? |
| A. | John Clare |
| B. | John Keats |
| C. | Robert Burns |
| D. | A and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 80. |
Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ? |
| A. | Maria Edgeworth |
| B. | Sir Walter Scott |
| C. | Thomas De Quincey |
| D. | Jane Austen |
| Answer» E. | |
| 81. |
Who introduced the art of printing into England ? |
| A. | Elizabeth Eisenstein |
| B. | Johannes Gutenberg |
| C. | Henry VIII |
| D. | William Caxton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 82. |
who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ? |
| A. | greek and austrian |
| B. | roman and french |
| C. | roman and greek |
| D. | french and greek |
| Answer» D. french and greek | |
| 83. |
Who is termed as “The Morning Star of Renaissance” ? |
| A. | Spenser |
| B. | John Gower |
| C. | Chaucer |
| D. | Langland |
| Answer» D. Langland | |
| 84. |
Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ? |
| A. | Robert Browning |
| B. | D.G Rossetti |
| C. | Tennyson |
| D. | Christina Rossetti |
| Answer» C. Tennyson | |
| 85. |
Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ? |
| A. | Tennyson |
| B. | Elizabeth Barret Browning |
| C. | D. G. Rossetti |
| D. | Christina Rossetti |
| Answer» C. D. G. Rossetti | |
| 86. |
Who is the author of Piers Plowman ? |
| A. | Sir Thomas Malory |
| B. | Margery Kempe |
| C. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| D. | William Langland |
| Answer» E. | |
| 87. |
Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ? |
| A. | Pope Pius V |
| B. | Pope Innocent III |
| C. | Pope Gregory XIII |
| D. | Pope Boniface |
| Answer» B. Pope Innocent III | |
| 88. |
who lost the most power during the renaissance ? |
| A. | Italian merchants |
| B. | catholic church |
| C. | black people |
| D. | king and queen of Spain |
| Answer» C. black people | |
| 89. |
Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ? |
| A. | the patron of the acting company, eg, the Lord Chamberlain |
| B. | the bishop of London |
| C. | the printer |
| D. | the acting company |
| Answer» E. | |
| 90. |
Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ? |
| A. | about half of middle class men |
| B. | almost all working class men |
| C. | all women |
| D. | A, B and C |
| Answer» E. | |
| 91. |
Who served as Protector under England’s first written constitution ? |
| A. | Gerrard Winstanley |
| B. | Oliver Cromwell |
| C. | Praisegod Barebone |
| D. | George Monk |
| Answer» C. Praisegod Barebone | |
| 92. |
Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ? |
| A. | James IV of Scotland |
| B. | James VI of Scotland |
| C. | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| D. | Anne Boleyn |
| Answer» C. Mary, Queen of Scots | |
| 93. |
Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ? |
| A. | Elizabeth II |
| B. | Henry IX |
| C. | James I |
| D. | Charles I |
| Answer» D. Charles I | |
| 94. |
Who succeeded Elizabeth I ? |
| A. | Mary Queen of Scots |
| B. | Charles I |
| C. | James I |
| D. | Edward VI |
| Answer» D. Edward VI | |
| 95. |
Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time ? |
| A. | Poliziano |
| B. | Cervantes |
| C. | Martin Luther |
| D. | Alexander VI |
| Answer» D. Alexander VI | |
| 96. |
Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ? |
| A. | D.G Rossetti |
| B. | Tennyson |
| C. | Robert Browning |
| D. | George Eliot |
| Answer» C. Robert Browning | |
| 97. |
Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688 ? |
| A. | Elizabeth I |
| B. | James II |
| C. | George II |
| D. | William and Mary |
| Answer» C. George II | |
| 98. |
Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron ? |
| A. | The Earl of Leicester |
| B. | Elizabeth |
| C. | Lord Burleigh |
| D. | Francis Bacon |
| Answer» B. Elizabeth | |
| 99. |
Who was the ancient Gaelic warrior-bard considered by Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson to have been greater than Homer ? |
| A. | Macpherson |
| B. | Merlin |
| C. | Decameron |
| D. | Ossian |
| Answer» E. | |
| 100. |
Who was the father of the Mary I_______________? |
| A. | Henry VI |
| B. | William |
| C. | George III |
| D. | Henry VIII |
| Answer» E. | |