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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.
| 351. |
What important event(s) occur(s) in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” immediately after Eve first eats of the Tree of Knowledge ? |
| A. | Nature is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression. |
| B. | Satan is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression. |
| C. | Raphael is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression. |
| D. | Abdiel immediately flees the Council of Rebel Angels. |
| Answer» B. Satan is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression. | |
| 352. |
What event occurs in the final lines of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ? |
| A. | Adam and Eve hold hands and walk across an arid plain. |
| B. | Adam and Eve promise to be fruitful and multiply. |
| C. | Adam and Eve curse their God. |
| D. | Adam and Eve curse Satan. |
| Answer» B. Adam and Eve promise to be fruitful and multiply. | |
| 353. |
What does “transhumanize” mean ? |
| A. | It is the ability to move above the earthly state into heaven. |
| B. | It is the ability to reunite with the body. |
| C. | It is the ability to commit sins while in the human body. |
| D. | It is the ability to separate from the body in order to reach hell. |
| Answer» B. It is the ability to reunite with the body. | |
| 354. |
What does the term “translatio studii” mean ? |
| A. | The ability to move from purgatory into heaven |
| B. | The translation of culture from one civilization to another |
| C. | The movement from one circle of hell to another |
| D. | The idea that the punishment fits the crime |
| Answer» C. The movement from one circle of hell to another | |
| 355. |
What does the term “renaissance” mean ? |
| A. | Death |
| B. | Theater |
| C. | Drama |
| D. | Rebirth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 356. |
What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line? ‘To Carthage then I came’ ? |
| A. | Buddha |
| B. | Tiresias |
| C. | Smyrna Merchant |
| D. | Augustine |
| Answer» B. Tiresias | |
| 357. |
What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years ? |
| A. | his body |
| B. | his house |
| C. | his soul |
| D. | his horse |
| Answer» D. his horse | |
| 358. |
What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious ? |
| A. | Go in search of her mate |
| B. | Talk to the animals |
| C. | Look at her reflection in a stream |
| D. | Eat of the Tree of Knowledge |
| Answer» D. Eat of the Tree of Knowledge | |
| 359. |
What do most critics say that Issy represents to her brothers and father ? |
| A. | she is a source of secret, repressed desire |
| B. | she represents the functional family structure |
| C. | she is an example of piety |
| D. | she dissolves the tension of the Oedipal references |
| Answer» B. she represents the functional family structure | |
| 360. |
What did Dante have in common with Aquinas ? |
| A. | Both believed that reason was unrelated to faith. |
| B. | Both believed in the joint power of the Church and the State. |
| C. | Both believed that only faith was an important part of the Christian worldview. |
| D. | Both believed that reason and faith were part of the quest for truth. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 361. |
What country does the play, “All’s Well that Ends Well,” take place in ? |
| A. | England |
| B. | Denmark |
| C. | Spain |
| D. | France |
| Answer» E. | |
| 362. |
What concept best distinguishes the difference between the time of the Middles Ages and the Renaissance ? |
| A. | Humanism |
| B. | The rise of Queen Elizabeth |
| C. | The popularity of theater |
| D. | The life of Shakespeare |
| Answer» B. The rise of Queen Elizabeth | |
| 363. |
What character leads Adam and Eve from the Gates of Paradise in the final book of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ? |
| A. | Michelangelo |
| B. | Raphael |
| C. | Uriel |
| D. | Michael |
| Answer» E. | |
| 364. |
What century does the play, “Henry V,” take place in ? |
| A. | 15th century |
| B. | 16th century |
| C. | 14th century |
| D. | 17th century |
| Answer» B. 16th century | |
| 365. |
What character in “Paradise Lost” is first tempted to eat of the Tree of Knowledge ? |
| A. | Raphael |
| B. | Eve |
| C. | Adam |
| D. | The Son |
| Answer» C. Adam | |
| 366. |
What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ? |
| A. | William Blake |
| B. | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| C. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| D. | T.S. Eliot |
| Answer» B. Alfred Lord Tennyson | |
| 367. |
What British Romantic artist famously depicted John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” in a series of etchings and prints ? |
| A. | William Wordsworth |
| B. | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| C. | William Blake |
| D. | John Keats |
| Answer» D. John Keats | |
| 368. |
What author wrote “Life of Milton” ? |
| A. | Samuel Johnson |
| B. | Edmund Spencer |
| C. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| D. | T. S. Eliot |
| Answer» B. Edmund Spencer | |
| 369. |
What Biblical story acts as a springboard for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” ? |
| A. | The Baptism of Jesus |
| B. | The story of Luke |
| C. | The Ascension of Jesus |
| D. | The Second Coming of Jesus |
| Answer» B. The story of Luke | |
| 370. |
What are the three parts of Stephen’s espoused aesthetic theory ? |
| A. | perception, clarity, and wholeness |
| B. | kinesis, clarity, and perception |
| C. | clarity, wholeness, and kinesis |
| D. | wholeness, harmony, and clarity |
| Answer» E. | |
| 371. |
What are the best words to describe the Garden of Eden, the weather, and nature in general, before the Fall of Adam and Eve ? |
| A. | Ordered and rational |
| B. | Chaotic |
| C. | Wild and unmanageable |
| D. | Comfortable |
| Answer» B. Chaotic | |
| 372. |
What angel often speaks to Adam in Paradise ? |
| A. | Michelangelo |
| B. | Raphael |
| C. | Pandosto |
| D. | Pandosto |
| Answer» C. Pandosto | |
| 373. |
W.B.Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem ? |
| A. | Sailing to Byzantium |
| B. | Byzantium |
| C. | The Second Coming |
| D. | Leda and the Swan |
| Answer» B. Byzantium | |
| 374. |
W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year ? |
| A. | 1938 |
| B. | 1925 |
| C. | 1932 |
| D. | 1923 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 375. |
Was the Globe ? |
| A. | A Roman Amphitheater. |
| B. | An Elizabethan Theater. |
| C. | An Elizabethan sports stadium. |
| D. | A famous map of the world. |
| Answer» C. An Elizabethan sports stadium. | |
| 376. |
was the companion in publication to John Milton’s “Paradise Regained.” ? |
| A. | “Paradise Lost” |
| B. | “Areopagitica” |
| C. | “On Christian Doctrine” |
| D. | “Samson Agonistes” |
| Answer» E. | |
| 377. |
____________was father of Desdemona ? |
| A. | Othello |
| B. | Brabantio |
| C. | Iago |
| D. | Gratiano |
| Answer» C. Iago | |
| 378. |
Vanity Fair is a novel by ? |
| A. | Jane Austen |
| B. | Charles Dickens |
| C. | W. M. Thackeray |
| D. | Thomas Hardy |
| Answer» D. Thomas Hardy | |
| 379. |
Utopia was first printed in ? |
| A. | 1615 |
| B. | 1516 |
| C. | 1517 |
| D. | 1518 |
| Answer» C. 1517 | |
| 380. |
Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________? |
| A. | alliteration |
| B. | simile |
| C. | onomatopoeia |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 381. |
Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton’s God in “Paradise Lost” is and____________? |
| A. | visible, inaccessible |
| B. | inaccessible, omnipresent |
| C. | nonexistent, invisible |
| D. | invisible, omnipresent |
| Answer» E. | |
| 382. |
University Wits were those who ? |
| A. | Had training at two universities |
| B. | gave curriculum of two universities |
| C. | Erected two universities |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. gave curriculum of two universities | |
| 383. |
Uneasy lies the head that_______________( King Henry four, part two)? |
| A. | Wears a crown |
| B. | Wears a hat |
| C. | Wears a wig |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Wears a hat | |
| 384. |
Under which pseudonym the work The Shepheard’s Calendar was published ? |
| A. | Edward |
| B. | Jonathan |
| C. | Immanuel |
| D. | Immerito |
| Answer» E. | |
| 385. |
“Under the green wood tree” is a song in____________________? |
| A. | Love’s labour’s lost |
| B. | As you like it |
| C. | A mid Summer night’s dream |
| D. | Much ado about nothing |
| Answer» C. A mid Summer night’s dream | |
| 386. |
Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ? |
| A. | Viola |
| B. | Duke |
| C. | Olivia |
| D. | Malvolio |
| Answer» C. Olivia | |
| 387. |
“Twelfth night” is a______________? |
| A. | Tragedy |
| B. | Comedy |
| C. | Problem play |
| D. | Both a and b |
| Answer» C. Problem play | |
| 388. |
Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time”. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ? |
| A. | Jonson |
| B. | Bacon |
| C. | Wordsworth |
| D. | none of above |
| Answer» B. Bacon | |
| 389. |
Tracts for the Times relates to ? |
| A. | The Oxford Movement |
| B. | The Pre-Raphaelite Movement |
| C. | The Romantic Movement |
| D. | The Symbolist Movement |
| Answer» B. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement | |
| 390. |
To whom was Joyce married ? |
| A. | Nora Barnacle |
| B. | Sylvia Beach |
| C. | Molly Bloom |
| D. | Augusta Gregory |
| Answer» B. Sylvia Beach | |
| 391. |
To whom Edmund Spenser dedicated the work The Faerie Queene ? |
| A. | Sidney |
| B. | Elizabeth |
| C. | Mary |
| D. | Chaucer |
| Answer» C. Mary | |
| 392. |
To whom did Edmund Spenser dedicate his work The Shepheardes Calender ? |
| A. | Philip Sidney |
| B. | Boyle |
| C. | Queen Elizabeth |
| D. | Chaucer |
| Answer» B. Boyle | |
| 393. |
To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses his sonnet sequence Amoretti ? |
| A. | Lisa Boyle |
| B. | Mary Jane |
| C. | Queen Elizabeth |
| D. | Elizabeth Boyle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 394. |
To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ? |
| A. | English Puritan theatre |
| B. | English Renaissance theatre |
| C. | Restoration theatre |
| D. | English Neo-Classical theatre |
| Answer» C. Restoration theatre | |
| 395. |
To where Walton’s expedition was headed when he meets the gigantic figure and the emaciated Victor ? |
| A. | North Pole |
| B. | Bermuda |
| C. | Galapagos |
| D. | Africa |
| Answer» B. Bermuda | |
| 396. |
To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? “The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.” ? |
| A. | Claudius |
| B. | Hamlet |
| C. | Polonius |
| D. | Rosencrantz |
| Answer» C. Polonius | |
| 397. |
To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ? |
| A. | Tragedies |
| B. | Historical Plays |
| C. | Narrative Poems |
| D. | Comedies |
| Answer» D. Comedies | |
| 398. |
To what does the title of Joyce’s short story “After the Race” refer ? |
| A. | the race for more modes of transportation |
| B. | the decline of the Irish race |
| C. | the race to establish an empire |
| D. | the race for Ireland’s welfare |
| Answer» D. the race for Ireland’s welfare | |
| 399. |
To justify which purpose that Milton wrote Paradise Lost ? |
| A. | To justify the fall of Lucifer |
| B. | To justify the loss of paradise |
| C. | To justify the fall of man |
| D. | To justify the ways of God to men |
| Answer» E. | |
| 400. |
“To be or not to be that is the question”, is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays ? |
| A. | Othello |
| B. | Macbeth |
| C. | Hamlet |
| D. | King Lear |
| Answer» D. King Lear | |