English Literature MCQs

Option A: Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”

Option B: Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”

Option C: Pope’s “The Dunciad”

Option D: Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”

Correct Answer: Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” ✔

Option A: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Option B: Robert Browning

Option C: John Keats

Option D: Walt Whitman

Correct Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge ✔

Option A: James I

Option B: Mary Tudor

Option C: Elizabeth Tudor

Option D: Henry VII

Correct Answer: Elizabeth Tudor ✔

Option A: the conviction that he was damned forever

Option B: the loss of his fortune in the \South Sea Bubble\

Option C: the vindication of Newtonian physics

Option D: condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier

Correct Answer: the conviction that he was damned forever ✔

Option A: Elephant and Castle

Option B: Grub Street

Option C: Covent Garden

Option D: Cheapside

Correct Answer: Grub Street ✔

Option A: Etherege’s The Man of Mode

Option B: Wycherley’s The Country Wife

Option C: Behn’s The Rover

Option D: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

Correct Answer: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus ✔

Option A: a history of everyday life

Option B: an instructional manual for manners

Option C: a book of devotion

Option D: a book of model letters

Correct Answer: a book of model letters ✔

Option A: Lord Byron

Option B: Oscar Wilde

Option C: Robert Browning

Option D: William Wordsworth

Correct Answer: Robert Browning ✔

Option A: William Beckford’s Vathek

Option B: Matthew Lewis’s The Monk

Option C: Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom

Option D: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian

Correct Answer: Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Randsom ✔

Option A: Capulet And Montague

Option B: Breslow and Felsher

Option C: Fuech and Goodside

Option D: Dawson and Hurley

Correct Answer: Capulet And Montague ✔

Option A: Etherege’s The Man of Mode

Option B: Wycherley’s The Country Wife

Option C: Behn’s The Rover

Option D: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

Correct Answer: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus ✔

Option A: William Hogarth

Option B: Jonathan Swift

Option C: Samuel Johnson

Option D: Ben Jonson

Correct Answer: Samuel Johnson ✔

Option A: Republicans

Option B: Liberals

Option C: Radicals

Option D: both B and C

Correct Answer: both B and C ✔

Option A: Sussex

Option B: Hampshire

Option C: Yorkshire

Option D: Norfolk

Correct Answer: Hampshire ✔

Option A: Parliamentary reform, increasing representation of the working classes

Option B: Labor reform, improving working conditions for industrial laborers

Option C: Educational reform, producing a dramatic increase in literacy

Option D: A and C only

Correct Answer: A and C only ✔

Option A: Maria Edgeworth

Option B: Sir Walter Scott

Option C: Thomas De Quincey

Option D: Jane Austen

Correct Answer: Jane Austen ✔

Option A: John Keats

Option B: William Shakespeare

Option C: Samuel Butler

Option D: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Correct Answer: John Keats ✔

Option A: the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England

Option B: the Battle of Waterloo

Option C: the Peterloo Massacre

Option D: the storming of the Bastille

Correct Answer: the Peterloo Massacre ✔

Option A: London Magazine

Option B: The Spectator

Option C: The Edinburgh Review

Option D: A and C only

Correct Answer: A and C only ✔

Option A: Sir John Denham

Option B: Ben Jonson

Option C: Thomas Carew

Option D: John Dryden

Correct Answer: Ben Jonson ✔

Option A: smoking opium

Option B: hypnotism

Option C: psychoanalysis

Option D: dream interpretation

Correct Answer: hypnotism ✔

Option A: the rhythmic expression of moral intuition

Option B: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

Option C: the polite patter of a corrupted age

Option D: the divine gift of grace

Correct Answer: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ✔

Option A: Prometheus

Option B: Satan

Option C: Cain

Option D: George III

Correct Answer: George III ✔

Option A: a spiritual autobiography written in an epic style

Option B: a lyric poem written in the first person

Option C: a comedy of manners

Option D: a political tract demanding labor reform

Correct Answer: a comedy of manners ✔

Option A: formal diplomatic relations with China

Option B: the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade

Option C: the American and French revolutions

Option D: the creation of the bourgeois novel as a commodity

Correct Answer: the exploitation of colonial resources, labor, and the slave trade ✔

Option A: the monarchy, in the person of Charles II

Option B: the dominance of the Tory Party

Option C: the \Book of Common Prayer\

Option D: toleration of religious dissidents

Correct Answer: the monarchy, in the person of Charles II ✔

Option A: Henry Fielding

Option B: Laurence Sterne

Option C: Samuel Richardson

Option D: Tobias Smollett

Correct Answer: Laurence Sterne ✔

Option A: William Wordsworth

Option B: Alexander Pope

Option C: Ben Jonson

Option D: George Herbert

Correct Answer: Ben Jonson ✔

Option A: the fractal

Option B: the figment

Option C: the fragment

Option D: the aubade

Correct Answer: the fragment ✔

Option A: The Canturbury Tales

Option B: The Dark Angel

Option C: The Wild Swans of Coole

Option D: The Second Coming

Correct Answer: The Second Coming ✔

Option A: The closing of theatres

Option B: The return of the King.

Option C: King Arthurs’ dead

Option D: King to exile

Correct Answer: The closing of theatres ✔

Option A: Taming of the Shrew

Option B: Romeo and Juliet

Option C: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Option D: Hamlet

Correct Answer: Hamlet ✔

Option A: the lyric poem written in the first person

Option B: the sonnet

Option C: doggerel rhyme

Option D: the political tract

Correct Answer: the lyric poem written in the first person ✔

Option A: the Republicans and the Royalists

Option B: the Royalists and the Whigs

Option C: the Tories and the Whigs

Option D: the Royalists and the Tories

Correct Answer: the Tories and the Whigs ✔

Option A: Addison

Option B: Bunyan

Option C: Crabbe

Option D: Dryden

Correct Answer: Dryden ✔

Option A: He lived in Italy until the age of 27

Option B: Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

Option C: He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

Option D: He just wasn’t bright enough

Correct Answer: He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending ✔

Option A: Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology

Option B: An effort to represent human nature

Option C: Use of the rhymed couplet

Option D: Fantastic comparisons

Correct Answer: Use of the rhymed couplet ✔

Option A: Goorge peele

Option B: Samuel daniel

Option C: Phineas fletcher

Option D: Thomas kyd

Correct Answer: Thomas kyd ✔

Option A: The Bahagavad Gita

Option B: The Odyssey

Option C: The Illiad

Option D: The Aeneid

Correct Answer: The Illiad ✔

Option A: Porphyria’s Lover

Option B: My Last Duchess

Option C: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Option D: Fra Lippo Lippi

Correct Answer: My Last Duchess ✔

Option A: Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Option B: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Option C: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

Option D: Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë

Correct Answer: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth ✔

Option A: All knowledge is derived from experience.

Option B: Human perceptions are constructed and reflect structures of political power.

Option C: The search for essential or ultimate principles of reality.

Option D: The sensory world is an illusion.

Correct Answer: All knowledge is derived from experience. ✔

Option A: Sense and Suspensibility

Option B: Emma

Option C: Pride and Prejudice

Option D: Mansfield Park

Correct Answer: Sense and Suspensibility ✔

Option A: to depict a metaphysical concept of nature by endowing it with traits normally associated with humans

Option B: as a means to demonstrate and discuss the processes of human thinking

Option C: symbolically to suggest that natural objects correspond to an inner,

Option D: All the above

Correct Answer: All the above ✔

Option A: love.\

Option B: honor.\

Option C: money.\

Option D: his party.\

Correct Answer: money.\ ✔

Option A: automatic writing

Option B: confused daze

Option C: total recall

Option D: stream of consciousness

Correct Answer: stream of consciousness ✔

Option A: art for intellect’s sake

Option B: art for God’s sake

Option C: art for the masses

Option D: art for art’s sake

Correct Answer: art for art’s sake ✔

Option A: automatic writing

Option B: confused daze

Option C: total recall

Option D: stream of consciousness

Correct Answer: stream of consciousness ✔

Option A: George Orwell

Option B: Virginia Woolf

Option C: Evelyn Waugh

Option D: Orson Wells

Correct Answer: George Orwell ✔

Option A: \nothing happens-twice\

Option B: \political correctness gone mad\

Option C: \kitchen sink drama\

Option D: \angry young men

Correct Answer: \nothing happens-twice\ ✔

Option A: eugenics

Option B: psychoanalysis

Option C: phrenology

Option D: anarchism

Correct Answer: psychoanalysis ✔

Option A: Sigmund Freud

Option B: Sir James Frazer

Option C: Immanuel Kant

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: George Orwell

Option B: Virginia Woolf

Option C: Evelyn Waugh

Option D: Orson Wells

Correct Answer: George Orwell ✔

Option A: Eminent Victorians

Option B: Jungle Books

Option C: The Way of All Flesh

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.

Option B: It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.

Option C: It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.

Option D: It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.

Correct Answer: It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948. ✔

Option A: popular; reverenced

Option B: brash; confident

Option C: radical; inventive

Option D: anxious; haunting

Correct Answer: radical; inventive ✔

Option A: Sigmund Freud

Option B: Sir James Frazer

Option C: Immanuel Kant

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: its intellectual complexity

Option B: its union of thought and passion

Option C: its uncompromising engagement with politics

Option D: A and B

Correct Answer: A and B ✔

Option A: Thom Gunn

Option B: Dylan Thomas

Option C: Philip Larkin

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

Option B: a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

Option C: a popular thirst for the \classics,\

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed ✔

Option A: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Option B: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option C: James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake

Option D: James Joyce’s Ulysses

Correct Answer: James Joyce’s Ulysses ✔

Option A: “nothing happens-twice”

Option B: “political correctness gone mad”

Option C: “kitchen sink drama”

Option D: “angry young men

Correct Answer: “nothing happens-twice” ✔

Option A: the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

Option B: the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

Option C: the death of the musical

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: 1930

Option B: 1945

Option C: 1960

Option D: 2000

Correct Answer: 1960 ✔

Option A: art for intellect’s sake

Option B: art for God’s sake

Option C: art for the masses

Option D: art for art’s sake

Correct Answer: art for art’s sake ✔

Option A: stream of consciousness

Option B: free indirect style

Option C: irresolute open endings

Option D: narrative realism

Correct Answer: narrative realism ✔

Option A: Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.

Option B: The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.

Option C: Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: W. B. Yeats

Option B: James Joyce

Option C: Seamus Heaney

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: none of the above ✔

Option A: the Irish National Theatre

Option B: the Independent Theatre

Option C: the Abbey Theatre

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: the southern counties of Ireland

Option B: Canada

Option C: Ulster

Option D: India

Correct Answer: the southern counties of Ireland ✔

Option A: stream of consciousness

Option B: free indirect style

Option C: irresolute open endings

Option D: narrative realism

Correct Answer: narrative realism ✔

Option A: 1930

Option B: 1945

Option C: 1960

Option D: 2000

Correct Answer: 1960 ✔

Option A: Salman Rushdie

Option B: Joseph Conrad

Option C: Rabindranath Tagore

Option D: John Ruskin

Correct Answer: Salman Rushdie ✔

Option A: novels

Option B: plays

Option C: the English

Option D: publishers

Correct Answer: novels ✔

Option A: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Option B: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Option C: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option D: Paul Scott’s Staying On

Correct Answer: Paul Scott’s Staying On ✔

Option A: a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

Option B: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

Option C: an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

Option D: the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

Correct Answer: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery ✔

Option A: a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

Option B: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

Option C: an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

Option D: the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

Correct Answer: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery ✔

Option A: novels

Option B: plays

Option C: the English

Option D: publishers

Correct Answer: novels ✔

Option A: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Option B: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Option C: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option D: Paul Scott’s Staying On

Correct Answer: Paul Scott’s Staying On ✔

Option A: Eminent Victorians

Option B: Jungle Books

Option C: The Way of All Flesh

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: 1910s

Option B: 1930s

Option C: 1950s

Option D: 1970s

Correct Answer: 1950s ✔

Option A: regional dialect and political critique

Option B: religious symbolism and society comedy

Option C: iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

Option D: witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

Correct Answer: religious symbolism and society comedy ✔

Option A: Thom Gunn

Option B: Dylan Thomas

Option C: Philip Larkin

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: its intellectual complexity

Option B: its union of thought and passion

Option C: its uncompromising engagement with politics

Option D: A and B

Correct Answer: A and B ✔

Option A: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity

Option B: wireless communication across the Atlantic

Option C: the creation of the internet

Option D: the invention of the airplane

Correct Answer: the creation of the internet ✔

Option A: popular; reverenced

Option B: brash; confident

Option C: radical; inventive

Option D: anxious; haunting

Correct Answer: radical; inventive ✔

Option A: regional dialect and political critique

Option B: religious symbolism and society comedy

Option C: iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

Option D: witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

Correct Answer: religious symbolism and society comedy ✔

Option A: the southern counties of Ireland

Option B: Canada

Option C: Ulster

Option D: India

Correct Answer: the southern counties of Ireland ✔

Option A: eugenics

Option B: psychoanalysis

Option C: phrenology

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: psychoanalysis ✔

Option A: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity

Option B: wireless communication across the Atlantic

Option C: the creation of the internet

Option D: the invention of the airplane

Correct Answer: the creation of the internet ✔

Option A: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

Option B: a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

Option C: a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins

Option D: a, b and c

Correct Answer: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed ✔

Option A: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Option B: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option C: James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake

Option D: James Joyce’s Ulysses

Correct Answer: James Joyce’s Ulysses ✔

Option A: the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

Option B: the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

Option C: the death of the musical

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: the Irish National Theatre

Option B: the Globe Theatre

Option C: the Abbey Theatre

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: gluttonous feasting

Option B: hard drinking

Option C: hunting

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: James IV of Scotland

Option B: James VI of Scotland

Option C: Mary, Queen of Scots

Option D: Anne Boleyn

Correct Answer: James VI of Scotland ✔

Option A: the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers

Option B: the elimination of bishops

Option C: the right of congregations to choose their own leaders

Option D: the wider use of religious images in churches

Correct Answer: the wider use of religious images in churches ✔

Option A: L’Allegro

Option B: Lycidas

Option C: Paradise Lost

Option D: The Divine Comedy

Correct Answer: Paradise Lost ✔

Option A: the Petrarchan sonnet

Option B: the classical satire

Option C: the country-house poem

Option D: the epigram

Correct Answer: the Petrarchan sonnet ✔

Option A: Rachel Speght

Option B: Aemilia Lanyer

Option C: Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔