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This section includes 903 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 501. |
Milton’s “unholy trinity” of characters includes_______________? |
| A. | Error, Temptation, and Satan |
| B. | Sin, Death and Temptation |
| C. | Sin, Temptation, and Satan |
| D. | Satan, Sin, and Death |
| Answer» E. | |
| 502. |
Milton in “Samson Agonistes” uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ? |
| A. | Medieval Mystery Plays |
| B. | Greek Epic |
| C. | Greek Drama |
| D. | French Chanson de Gestes |
| Answer» D. French Chanson de Gestes | |
| 503. |
Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ? |
| A. | Captain Cooper |
| B. | Victor Frankenstein |
| C. | Captain Robert Walton |
| D. | Sergent Thomas Vincent |
| Answer» D. Sergent Thomas Vincent | |
| 504. |
Marlowe born in______________? |
| A. | 1562 |
| B. | 1563 |
| C. | 1564 |
| D. | 1565 |
| Answer» D. 1565 | |
| 505. |
Marlow died of ? |
| A. | Illness |
| B. | stabbing |
| C. | poisoned |
| D. | Hanged |
| Answer» C. poisoned | |
| 506. |
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ? |
| A. | Vancouver |
| B. | Toronto |
| C. | Ottowa |
| D. | Montreal |
| Answer» D. Montreal | |
| 507. |
Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo’s son, named ? |
| A. | Angus |
| B. | Ross |
| C. | Fleance |
| D. | Lennox |
| Answer» D. Lennox | |
| 508. |
Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to _______________? |
| A. | Leigh Hunt |
| B. | Milton |
| C. | Shakespeare |
| D. | Thomas Chatterton |
| Answer» B. Milton | |
| 509. |
John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is best described by which of the following genres ? |
| A. | Pastoral elegy |
| B. | Prose polemic |
| C. | Blank verse tragedy |
| D. | Epic |
| Answer» E. | |
| 510. |
John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” is best described by which of the following genres ? |
| A. | Pastoral elegy |
| B. | Prose polemic |
| C. | Blank verse tragedy |
| D. | Masque |
| Answer» D. Masque | |
| 511. |
John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is written in a(n) style ? |
| A. | plain |
| B. | luminescent |
| C. | Latinate |
| D. | Sophistic |
| Answer» B. luminescent | |
| 512. |
John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is a story largely about what topic ? |
| A. | A quest for knowledge of the self |
| B. | A quest for knowledge of other countries |
| C. | A quest for knowledge of the future |
| D. | A quest for Forbidden Knowledge |
| Answer» B. A quest for knowledge of other countries | |
| 513. |
John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is most similar in linguistic style to what books from “Paradise Lost” ? |
| A. | Three and Four |
| B. | Five and Six |
| C. | Eight and Nine |
| D. | Eleven and Twelve |
| Answer» E. | |
| 514. |
John Milton’s “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” are companion poems and are both written in ? |
| A. | iambic pentameter |
| B. | tetrameter couplets |
| C. | heroic couplets |
| D. | Shakespearean sonnets |
| Answer» C. heroic couplets | |
| 515. |
John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ? |
| A. | Pastoral elegy |
| B. | Prose polemic |
| C. | Blank verse tragedy |
| D. | Masque |
| Answer» B. Prose polemic | |
| 516. |
John Milton’s “Comus” is best described by which of the following genres ? |
| A. | Pastoral elegy |
| B. | Prose polemic |
| C. | Blank verse tragedy |
| D. | Masque |
| Answer» E. | |
| 517. |
John Milton’s “Areopagitica” is best described by which of the following genres ? |
| A. | Pastoral elegy |
| B. | Prose polemic |
| C. | Blank verse tragedy |
| D. | Masque |
| Answer» C. Blank verse tragedy | |
| 518. |
John Milton was born in 1608 in what city ? |
| A. | Bath |
| B. | Paris |
| C. | London |
| D. | Nottingham |
| Answer» D. Nottingham | |
| 519. |
John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ? |
| A. | Homer, Virgil, and Dante |
| B. | Dante, Spenser, and Pope |
| C. | Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow |
| D. | Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen |
| Answer» B. Dante, Spenser, and Pope | |
| 520. |
John Milton was fluent in which of the following languages ? |
| A. | Latin, Greek, and Hebrew |
| B. | Latin, Sanskrit, and Aramaic |
| C. | Latin, Arabic, and Spanish |
| D. | Mandarin, Dutch, and French |
| Answer» B. Latin, Sanskrit, and Aramaic | |
| 521. |
John Milton deliberately distanced himself from the poets, a group of poets known for their light, elegant style and frivolous content ? |
| A. | Romantic |
| B. | Victorian |
| C. | Cavalier |
| D. | Enlightenment |
| Answer» D. Enlightenment | |
| 522. |
John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ? |
| A. | England’s first poet |
| B. | England’s first dramatist |
| C. | England’s poet laureate |
| D. | England’s greatest civil engineer |
| Answer» D. England’s greatest civil engineer | |
| 523. |
John Donne’s “The Anniversaries” is a______________? |
| A. | An elegy in two parts |
| B. | An epic in three parts |
| C. | A ballad in four parts |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. An epic in three parts | |
| 524. |
Joe Gargery is Pip’s ? |
| A. | brother |
| B. | brother-in-law |
| C. | guardian |
| D. | cousin |
| Answer» D. cousin | |
| 525. |
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________? |
| A. | Picaresque novel |
| B. | Gothic novel |
| C. | Domestic novel |
| D. | Historical novel |
| Answer» D. Historical novel | |
| 526. |
____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ? |
| A. | Queen Cristina |
| B. | Top Girls |
| C. | Camille |
| D. | The Homecoimg |
| Answer» D. The Homecoimg | |
| 527. |
Inspired by Satan’s victory over man, Sin and Death construct ? |
| A. | a bridge from hell to heaven |
| B. | a temple to welcome Satan back |
| C. | a bridge from hell to earth |
| D. | a funnel from Eden to the gates of hell |
| Answer» D. a funnel from Eden to the gates of hell | |
| 528. |
In __________ year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place ? |
| A. | 1595 |
| B. | 1996 |
| C. | 1597 |
| D. | 15598 |
| Answer» D. 15598 | |
| 529. |
In whose reign Morality plays began ? |
| A. | Henry five |
| B. | Elizabeth one |
| C. | Henry six |
| D. | Henry eight |
| Answer» D. Henry eight | |
| 530. |
In whose memory did John Milton write Methought I saw my late espousèd saint ? |
| A. | Katherine Woodcock |
| B. | Oliver Cromwell |
| C. | Edward II |
| D. | Mary Powell |
| Answer» B. Oliver Cromwell | |
| 531. |
In which year the play of Christopher Marlow The Jew of Malta first performed ? |
| A. | 1597 |
| B. | 1601 |
| C. | 1587 |
| D. | 1592 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 532. |
In which year Mary Shelley visited the famous Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments ? |
| A. | 1816 |
| B. | 1814 |
| C. | 1808 |
| D. | 1812 |
| Answer» C. 1808 | |
| 533. |
In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ? |
| A. | 1343 |
| B. | 1336 |
| C. | 1432 |
| D. | 1347 |
| Answer» B. 1336 | |
| 534. |
In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed ? |
| A. | 1610 |
| B. | 1611 |
| C. | 1612 |
| D. | 1613 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 535. |
In which year did Chaucer fought in Hundred Years’ War between France and England ? |
| A. | 1374 |
| B. | 1359 |
| C. | 1367 |
| D. | 1382 |
| Answer» C. 1367 | |
| 536. |
In which year did Edmund Spenser publish his poem The Shepheardes Calender ? |
| A. | 1568 |
| B. | 1579 |
| C. | 1597 |
| D. | 1585 |
| Answer» C. 1597 | |
| 537. |
In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ? |
| A. | 1798 |
| B. | 1779 |
| C. | 1795 |
| D. | 1789 |
| Answer» D. 1789 | |
| 538. |
In which work Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle ? |
| A. | Prothalamion |
| B. | Faerie Queen |
| C. | Epithalamion |
| D. | Amoretti |
| Answer» D. Amoretti | |
| 539. |
In which work of Edmund Spenser the Ape and the Fox serve to satirize the customs of the court ? |
| A. | The Teares of the Muses |
| B. | Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale |
| C. | Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie |
| D. | Ruines of Rome: by Bellay |
| Answer» C. Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie | |
| 540. |
In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term ’willing suspension of disbelief’ in 1817 ? |
| A. | Kubla Khan |
| B. | Biographia Literaria |
| C. | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| D. | Christabel |
| Answer» C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | |
| 541. |
In which way(s) is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a Modernist novel ? |
| A. | it does not explore a character’s internal development |
| B. | it uses experimental language |
| C. | it celebrates the simplicity of everyday life |
| D. | it follows a traditional narrative structure |
| Answer» C. it celebrates the simplicity of everyday life | |
| 542. |
In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism ? |
| A. | He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. |
| B. | He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times. |
| C. | He rejected the influence of Scholasticism. |
| D. | He was uninterested in the poetics of the sublime. |
| Answer» B. He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times. | |
| 543. |
In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster ? |
| A. | University of Tübingen |
| B. | University of Greifswald |
| C. | University of Freiburg |
| D. | University of Ingolstadt |
| Answer» E. | |
| 544. |
In which town was Shakespeare born ? |
| A. | London |
| B. | Cambridge |
| C. | Stratford |
| D. | Oxford |
| Answer» D. Oxford | |
| 545. |
In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published ? |
| A. | 1778 |
| B. | 1769 |
| C. | 1798 |
| D. | 1792 |
| Answer» D. 1792 | |
| 546. |
In which text did Dante introduce the “dolce stil novo” technique ? |
| A. | The Convivio |
| B. | Vita Nuova |
| C. | De Vulgari Eloquentia |
| D. | Eclogues |
| Answer» C. De Vulgari Eloquentia | |
| 547. |
In which story from The Dubliners is snow an important occurrence ? |
| A. | “Araby” |
| B. | “The Boarding House” |
| C. | “The Dead” |
| D. | “An Encounter” |
| Answer» D. “An Encounter” | |
| 548. |
In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ? |
| A. | Free verse |
| B. | Vers libre |
| C. | Regular meter |
| D. | blank verse |
| Answer» E. | |
| 549. |
In which section of The Divine Comedy does Saint Bernard appear ? |
| A. | The Inferno |
| B. | The Convivio |
| C. | The Purgatorio |
| D. | The Paradiso |
| Answer» E. | |
| 550. |
In which school did John Keats study ? |
| A. | John Clarke’s school |
| B. | King’s Grammar School |
| C. | Harrow |
| D. | Eton |
| Answer» B. King’s Grammar School | |