English Literature MCQs

Option A: Religion

Option B: Civilization

Option C: Tehology

Option D: Education

Correct Answer: Education ✔

Option A: 1842

Option B: 1837

Option C: 1871

Option D: 1859

Correct Answer: 1837 ✔

Option A: King Henry VIII

Option B: Queen Elizabeth I

Option C: Queen Victoria

Option D: King John

Correct Answer: Queen Victoria ✔

Option A: Cranford

Option B: North and South

Option C: Ruth

Option D: Mary Barton

Correct Answer: Cranford ✔

Option A: Alan Bennett

Option B: Caryl Churchill

Option C: Tom Stoppard

Option D: Harold Pinter

Correct Answer: Tom Stoppard ✔

Option A: crop; scabbard; foot; agree

Option B: throne; scepter; soul; decree

Option C: school; scalpel; pen; set free

Option D: hearth; needle; heart; obey

Correct Answer: hearth; needle; heart; obey ✔

Option A: They all belonged to the Oxford Movement

Option B: They were all painters

Option C: They were all Victorian Novelists

Option D: They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite School

Correct Answer: They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite School ✔

Option A: the India Mutiny in 1857

Option B: the Boer War in the south of Africa

Option C: the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: Paris

Option B: Tokyo

Option C: London

Option D: Amsterdam

Correct Answer: London ✔

Option A: Jane Austin

Option B: Dickens

Option C: Emily Bronte

Option D: Thackery

Correct Answer: Thackery ✔

Option A: W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Option B: George Bernard Shaw

Option C: Robert Corrigan

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.

Option B: Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.

Option C: They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.

Option D: They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.

Correct Answer: They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes. ✔

Option A: D.G Rossetti

Option B: Leigh Hunt

Option C: Tennyson

Option D: Arnold

Correct Answer: Tennyson ✔

Option A: Emma

Option B: Jane Eyre

Option C: Vanity Fair

Option D: Wuthering Heights

Correct Answer: Wuthering Heights ✔

Option A: the rich and the poor

Option B: Anglicans and Methodists

Option C: England and Ireland

Option D: Britain and Germany

Correct Answer: the rich and the poor ✔

Option A: crop; scabbard; foot; agree

Option B: throne; scepter; soul; decree

Option C: school; scalpel; pen; set free

Option D: hearth; needle; heart; obey

Correct Answer: hearth; needle; heart; obey ✔

Option A: the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail

Option B: a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness

Option C: the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society

Option D: A and C

Correct Answer: A and C ✔

Option A: Graham Greene

Option B: Anthony Powell

Option C: Evelyn Waugh

Option D: William Golding

Correct Answer: Graham Greene ✔

Option A: a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

Option B: a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

Option C: the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

Option D: the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

Correct Answer: a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer ✔

Option A: Vanity Fair

Option B: Mill on the Floss

Option C: Northanger Abbey

Option D: Pickwick Papers

Correct Answer: Vanity Fair ✔

Option A: It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.

Option B: It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.

Option C: It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society.

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Option B: Oscar Wilde

Option C: Robert Corrigan

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: the India Mutiny in 1857

Option B: the Boer War in the south of Africa

Option C: the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: geology

Option B: evolution

Option C: discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: The Legend of Good Women

Option B: The House of Fame

Option C: The Book of Duchess

Option D: Troilus and Criseyde

Correct Answer: The Book of Duchess ✔

Option A: a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

Option B: a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia

Option C: the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London

Option D: the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value

Correct Answer: a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer ✔

Option A: Robert Browning

Option B: D.G Rossetti

Option C: Tennyson

Option D: Christina Rossetti

Correct Answer: D.G Rossetti ✔

Option A: Methodist

Option B: Imagism

Option C: Oxford Movement

Option D: Pre-Raphaelite

Correct Answer: Methodist ✔

Option A: Arthur Hallam

Option B: Milton

Option C: Edward King

Option D: Hugh Clough

Correct Answer: Hugh Clough ✔

Option A: King Henry VIII

Option B: Queen Elizabeth I

Option C: Queen Victoria

Option D: King John

Correct Answer: Queen Victoria ✔

Option A: a renewed secularism in the twentieth century

Option B: modern literary criticism

Option C: late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama

Option D: the surrealist movement

Correct Answer: modern literary criticism ✔

Option A: the novel

Option B: nonfiction prose

Option C: the lyric

Option D: comic drama

Correct Answer: nonfiction prose ✔

Option A: William Morris

Option B: John Ruskin

Option C: Edward FitzGerald

Option D: all but c

Correct Answer: all but c ✔

Option A: Anthony Trollope

Option B: Charles Dickens

Option C: John Ruskin

Option D: Friedrich Engels

Correct Answer: Anthony Trollope ✔

Option A: a series of Factory Acts

Option B: the Custody Act

Option C: the Women’s Suffrage Act

Option D: the Married Women’s Property Rights Acts

Correct Answer: the Women’s Suffrage Act ✔

Option A: the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

Option B: sound as a means to express meaning

Option C: perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: geology

Option B: evolution

Option C: discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

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

Option B: Also 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.

Option C: They were part of the High Church or the \Catholic\side of the church.

Option D: They were devout \tractarians,\as described by John Henry Newman.

Correct Answer: Also 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. ✔

Option A: a narrative poem

Option B: a sonnet

Option C: an elegy

Option D: a wedding hymn

Correct Answer: a wedding hymn ✔

Option A: Mary Collins

Option B: Marian Evans

Option C: Lara Evans

Option D: Clare Reeve

Correct Answer: Marian Evans ✔

Option A: a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

Option B: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

Option C: a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

Option D: a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

Correct Answer: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number ✔

Option A: Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

Option B: Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

Option C: Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

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

Correct Answer: In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively. ✔

Option A: Paris

Option B: Tokyo

Option C: London

Option D: Amsterdam

Correct Answer: London ✔

Option A: George IV

Option B: George III

Option C: William IV

Option D: Edward VII

Correct Answer: William IV ✔

Option A: H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

Option B: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

Option C: Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Option D: Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

Correct Answer: B. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn ✔

Option A: the working classes

Option B: women

Option C: the lower middle classes

Option D: slaves

Correct Answer: the lower middle classes ✔

Option A: The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.

Option B: The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.

Option C: The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.

Option D: The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

Correct Answer: The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. ✔

Option A: a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

Option B: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

Option C: a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

Option D: a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

Correct Answer: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number ✔

Option A: studied melancholy and aestheticism

Option B: sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

Option C: raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication

Option D: paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

Correct Answer: studied melancholy and aestheticism ✔

Option A: Religious Movement

Option B: Political Movement

Option C: Social Movement

Option D: Literary Movement

Correct Answer: Religious Movement ✔

Option A: Silas Marner

Option B: Emma

Option C: Hard Times

Option D: Adam Bede

Correct Answer: Silas Marner ✔

Option A: the rich and the poor

Option B: Anglicans and Methodists

Option C: England and Ireland

Option D: Britain and Germany

Correct Answer: the rich and the poor ✔

Option A: Paradise Lost

Option B: Divine Comedy

Option C: Utopia

Option D: Pilgrims Progress

Correct Answer: Pilgrims Progress ✔

Option A: Hugh Clough

Option B: Arthur Hallam

Option C: Lord Byron

Option D: Keats

Correct Answer: Arthur Hallam ✔

Option A: women’s rights and suffrage

Option B: child labor

Option C: chartism

Option D: the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

Correct Answer: child labor ✔

Option A: Gothic novel

Option B: Autobiographical novel

Option C: Historical novel

Option D: Picaresque novel

Correct Answer: Historical novel ✔

Option A: the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

Option B: sound as a means to express meaning

Option C: perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: Thomas Carlyle

Option B: Matthew Arnold

Option C: Charles Dickens

Option D: all of the above.

Correct Answer: all of the above. ✔

Option A: D.G Rossetti

Option B: Swinburne

Option C: Christina Rossetti

Option D: Morris

Correct Answer: D.G Rossetti ✔

Option A: William Morris

Option B: John Ruskin

Option C: Edward FitzGerald

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: Sir Walter Scot

Option B: Christopher Marlow

Option C: Ben Johnson

Option D: George Herbert

Correct Answer: Ben Johnson ✔

Option A: John Milton

Option B: Charles Bacon

Option C: John Donne

Option D: Herbert Spencer

Correct Answer: John Donne ✔

Option A: 1592-1608

Option B: 1603-1625

Option C: 1607-1627

Option D: 1608-1639

Correct Answer: 1603-1625 ✔

Option A: Jordan

Option B: England

Option C: Malaysia

Option D: Tunisia

Correct Answer: England ✔

Option A: Iliad

Option B: Odyssey

Option C: Beowulf

Option D: Canterbury Tales

Correct Answer: Beowulf ✔

Option A: Elizabethan Era

Option B: Caroline era

Option C: Victorian era

Option D: Jacobean Era

Correct Answer: Caroline era ✔

Option A: Cholera

Option B: Tuberculosis

Option C: Bubonic plague

Option D: Plague (disease)

Correct Answer: Bubonic plague ✔

Option A: Elizabethan era

Option B: English Reformation

Option C: England

Option D: Tudor period

Correct Answer: Elizabethan era ✔

Option A: William Shakespeare

Option B: Ben Jonson

Option C: Ben Jonson folios

Option D: English Renaissance theatre

Correct Answer: Ben Jonson ✔

Option A: William Shakespeare

Option B: Ben Jonson

Option C: Masque

Option D: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Correct Answer: Masque ✔

Option A: Samaritan Hebrew language

Option B: Biblical Hebrew

Option C: Mishnaic Hebrew

Option D: Hebrew language

Correct Answer: Hebrew language ✔

Option A: economic independence

Option B: the Rights of Man

Option C: laissez-faire

Option D: enclosure

Correct Answer: laissez-faire ✔

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: Republicans

Option B: Liberals

Option C: Radicals

Option D: both B and C

Correct Answer: both B and C ✔

Option A: Hunnish epic

Option B: Gothic fiction

Option C: epistolary novel

Option D: meta-novel

Correct Answer: Gothic fiction ✔

Option A: The notoriety of the \Lake School\

Option B: Technological developments, such as the steam-driven printing press

Option C: Innovations in retailing, such as the cut-price sale of remaindered books

Option D: Increased literacy, thanks in large part to Sunday schools

Correct Answer: The notoriety of the \Lake School\ ✔

Option A: the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden

Option B: the clumsiness of Shakespeare’s plots

Option C: the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge

Option D: Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday

Correct Answer: Wordsworth’s devotion to the ordinary and everyday ✔

Option A: Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien r´gime, especially satire

Option B: English historians half a century after the period ended

Option C: The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

Option D: Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

Correct Answer: English historians half a century after the period ended ✔

Option A: Byron’s Manfred

Option B: Coleridge’s Remorse

Option C: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound

Option D: Shelley’s The Cenci

Correct Answer: Coleridge’s Remorse ✔

Option A: the fractal

Option B: the figment

Option C: the fragment

Option D: the aubade

Correct Answer: the fragment ✔

Option A: The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.

Option B: All of the actors were male.

Option C: All of the actors were British.

Option D: The play was spoken.

Correct Answer: The play was spoken. ✔

Option A: opium

Option B: dreams

Option C: childhood

Option D: A, B and c

Correct Answer: A, B and c ✔

Option A: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake

Option B: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Option C: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Option D: Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

Correct Answer: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge ✔

Option A: William Blake

Option B: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Option C: Samuel Johnson

Option D: William Wordsworth

Correct Answer: William Wordsworth ✔

Option A: partition

Option B: segregation

Option C: enclosure

Option D: division

Correct Answer: enclosure ✔

Option A: Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.

Option B: Velcro replaced buttons and snaps.

Option C: Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

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: Too many of its readers were women.

Option B: It required less skill than other genres.

Option C: It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: Jane Austen’s Emma

Option B: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Option C: William Godwin’s Caleb Williams

Option D: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley

Correct Answer: William Godwin’s Caleb Williams ✔

Option A: the expurgation of indelicate language

Option B: the modernization of archaic vocabulary

Option C: the insertion of bawdy songs

Option D: the misspelling of simple words like \the\and \and\

Correct Answer: the expurgation of indelicate language ✔

Option A: Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men

Option B: Paine’s Rights of Man

Option C: Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Option D: Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

Correct Answer: Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France ✔

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: troubadour

Option B: skald

Option C: chorister

Option D: bard

Correct Answer: bard ✔

Option A: Prometheus

Option B: Satan

Option C: Cain

Option D: George III

Correct Answer: George III ✔

Option A: Maria Edgeworth

Option B: Sir Walter Scott

Option C: Thomas De Quincey

Option D: Jane Austen

Correct Answer: Jane Austen ✔

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: 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: about half of middle class men

Option B: almost all working class men

Option C: all women

Option D: A, B and C

Correct Answer: A, B and C ✔

Option A: John Clare

Option B: John Keats

Option C: Robert Burns

Option D: A and C only

Correct Answer: A and C only ✔

Option A: Aristotle

Option B: Duns Scotus

Option C: David Hume

Option D: Immanuel Kant

Correct Answer: Immanuel Kant ✔