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1. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have been taken from?

(A). The Waste Land

(B). Tintern Abbey

(C). The Second Coming

(D). Prayer for My Daughter

Correct Answer: C

2. William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after?

(A). Lawrence’s father

(B). Lawrence’s brother

(C). Lawrence himself

(D). None of these

Correct Answer: D

3. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is?

(A). Satire

(B). Sensuality

(C). Sensuousness

(D). Social reform

Correct Answer: C

4. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life is?

(A). agnosticism

(B). optimism

(C). pessimism

(D). skepticism

Correct Answer: B

5. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means?

(A). Religious Scripture

(B). Seaside Resort

(C). Tailor Repatched

(D). None of these

Correct Answer: C

6. “Epipsychidion” is composed by?

(A). Coleridge

(B). Wordsworth

(C). Keats

(D). Shçlley

Correct Answer: D

7. “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s—?

(A). Hamlet

(B). Twelfth Night

(C). The Tempest

(D). Henry IV, Pt I

Correct Answer: D

8. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton?

(A). Paradise Lost

(B). Sonnets

(C). Lycidas

(D). Areopagitica

Correct Answer: A

9. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work?

(A). Charles Dickens

(B). W. M. Thackeray

(C). Graham Greene

(D). D. H. Lawrence

Correct Answer: C

10. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?

(A). ‘Last Impressions’

(B). ‘False Impressions’

(C). ‘First Impressions’

(D). ‘True Impressions’

Correct Answer: C

11. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures

(A). Great Expectations

(B). The Power and the Glory

(C). Lord of the Flies

(D). Pride and Prejudice

Correct Answer: D

12. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
The line given above occurs in

(A). Hamlet

(B). Henry IV, Pt I

(C). The Tempest

(D). Twelfth Night

Correct Answer: A

13. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?

(A). Ben Jonson

(B). John Ruskin

(C). Thomas Carlyle

(D). William Hazlitt

Correct Answer: B

14. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest?

(A). comic figures

(B). historical figures

(C). romantic figures

(D). tragic figures

Correct Answer: A

15. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by?

(A). Blake

(B). Eliot

(C). Johnson

(D). Shelley

Correct Answer: A

16. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’?

(A). Walter Pater

(B). A. C. Swinburne

(C). Matthew Arnold

(D). T. S. Eliot

Correct Answer: C

17. Essays of Ella are?

(A). full of didactic sermonising

(B). practically autobiographical fragments

(C). remarkable for their aphoristic style

(D). satirical and critical

Correct Answer: B

18. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is?

(A). Queen Victoria’s coronation

(B). Industrial Revolution

(C). Women’s Education and Rights

(D). Rise of Democracy

Correct Answer: C

19. Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of?

(A). the Medieval age

(B). the Elizabethan age

(C). the age of Queen Anne

(D). the Victorian age

Correct Answer: A

20. Oedipus Complex is?

(A). a kind of physical ailment

(B). a kind of vitamin

(C). a brother’s attraction towards his sister

(D). a son’s attraction towards his mother

Correct Answer: D

21. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.” Who wrote this?

(A). Graham Greene

(B). D. H. Lawrence

(C). Charles Dickens

(D). Jane Austen

Correct Answer: B

22. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?

(A). Twelfth Night

(B). Hamlet

(C). The Tempest

(D). Henry IV,Pt I

Correct Answer: A

23. “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs in?

(A). Hamlet

(B). Henry IV,Pt I

(C). The Tempest

(D). Twelfth Night

Correct Answer: C

24. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a?

(A). Picaresque novel

(B). Gothic novel

(C). Domestic novel

(D). Historical novel

Correct Answer: C

25. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem?

(A). Immortality Ode

(B). Tintern Abbey

(C). The Second Coming

(D). Leda and the Swan

Correct Answer: A

26. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his
poem—

(A). Immortality Ode

(B). Tintern Abbey

(C). The Prelude

(D). The Solitary Reaper

Correct Answer: B

27. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in
1802, it had only?

(A). Stanzas I to IV

(B). Stanzas I to V

(C). Stanzas I to VI

(D). Stanzas I to VII

Correct Answer: B

28. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?

(A). Direct or epic method

(B). Documentary method

(C). Stream of Consciousness technique

(D). Autobiographical method

Correct Answer: A

29. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?

(A). Wordsworth

(B). Coleridge

(C). Lamb

(D). Shelley

Correct Answer: B

30. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary
descendant of?

(A). Keats

(B). Byron

(C). Shelley

(D). Wordsworth

Correct Answer: A

31. 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

Correct Answer: B

32. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?

(A). The Royal Society of Edinburgh

(B). The Royal Society ofLondon

(C). Royal Society of Arts

(D). Royal Society of Literature

Correct Answer: D

33. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

(A). Sense and Sensibility

(B). Mansfield Park

(C). Sandition

(D). Persuasion

Correct Answer: C

34. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in “Great Expectations”?

(A). She was poor

(B). She was arrogant

(C). Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom

(D). She was unwilling to marry

Correct Answer: B

35. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year?

(A). 1938

(B). 1925

(C). 1932

(D). 1923

Correct Answer: D

36. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced
by the?

(A). French Revolution

(B). Glorious Revolution of1688

(C). Reformation

(D). Oxford Movement

Correct Answer: A

37. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the?

(A). Puritan movement

(B). Romantic revival

(C). Neo-classical age

(D). Metaphysical school

Correct Answer: B

38. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to in these
words in Twelfth Night?

(A). Orsino

(B). Sir Andrew

(C). Sir Toby

(D). Malvolio

Correct Answer: D

39. Hamlet is?

(A). an intellectual

(B). a man of action

(C). a passionate lover

(D). an over ambitious man

Correct Answer: C

40. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?

(A). Ferdinand

(B). Antonio

(C). Miranda

(D). Prospero

Correct Answer: C

41. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?

(A). Paganism

(B). Pre-Christian theology

(C). Christianity and the Renaissance

(D). Greek nihilism

Correct Answer: C

42. The style of Paradise Lost is?

(A). more Latin than most poems

(B). more spontaneous than thought out

(C). more satirical than spontaneous

(D). more dramatic than lyrical

Correct Answer: A

43. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?

(A). Mr. Bennet

(B). Wickham

(C). Bingley

(D). Darcy

Correct Answer: D

44. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?

(A). Gertrude

(B). Polonius

(C). Horatio

(D). Hamlet

Correct Answer: B

45. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his?

(A). senecan attitude

(B). patriotism

(C). love of nature

(D). platonic ideals

Correct Answer: B

46. Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare?

(A). A mid summer night's dream

(B). Much ado about nothing

(C). As you like it

(D). Love's labour's lost

Correct Answer: D

47. "Twelfth night" is a:

(A). Tragedy

(B). Comedy

(C). Problem play

(D). Both a and b

Correct Answer: B

48. Who was villain in Othello?

(A). Claudius

(B). Iago

(C). Egeus

(D). None of above

Correct Answer: B

49. Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare?

(A). Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cressida

(B). Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus

(C). King Lear, Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice

(D). Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and Antony and Cleopatra

Correct Answer: B

50. Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare?

(A). Hamlet

(B). Macbeth

(C). King Lear

(D). King Oedipus

Correct Answer: D

51. Othello was a :

(A). General of England

(B). General of Denmark

(C). Prince of England

(D). Prince of Denmark

Correct Answer: A

52. ------------- was father of Desdemona?

(A). Othello

(B). Brabantio

(C). Iago

(D). Gratiano

Correct Answer: B

53. Othello was sent to fight with:

(A). French army

(B). German army

(C). Ottomans

(D). None of above

Correct Answer: C

54. Desdemona was killed by :

(A). Iago

(B). Casio

(C). Othello

(D). Brabantio

Correct Answer: C

55. Othello gave Desdemona ------------- as a token of love:

(A). Ring

(B). Handkerchief

(C). Pendant

(D). Bengals

Correct Answer: B

56. Desdemona was :

(A). wife of Othello

(B). daughter of Othello

(C). both a and b

(D). none of above

Correct Answer: A

57. " A man can die but once" is one of quote of following plays:

(A). Henry 6 part three

(B). Henry 4 part two

(C). Henry 6 part one

(D). Henry 4 part one

Correct Answer: B

58. "I have no other but a woman's reason
I think him so, because I think him so"
Which of Shakespeare's play contain above lines?

(A). The two gentle men of Verona

(B). Merry wives of Windsor

(C). The noble Kinsman

(D). Measure for measure

Correct Answer: A

59. " What piece of work is a man
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty,
In form and moving how express and admirable
In action! how like an angle
In apprehension! how like a God:
The beauty of the World, the paragon of animals_____
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Above lines are taken from Hamlet's which act?

(A). act 1 scene two

(B). act 2 scene two

(C). act 3 scene two

(D). act 4 scene two

Correct Answer: B

60. Which of the following is Hamlet's mother?

(A). Beatrice

(B). Margaret

(C). Gertrude

(D). Rosalind

Correct Answer: C

61. Following are the characters of:
Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius

(A). Coriolanus

(B). Cymbeline

(C). Timon of Athens

(D). Winter's tale

Correct Answer: C

62. Who is the heroin of The Tempest?

(A). Ophelia

(B). Desdemona

(C). Miranda

(D). Helena

Correct Answer: C

63. Hamlet consist of --------------- acts:

(A). 3

(B). 4

(C). 5

(D). 6

Correct Answer: C

64. Which of Shakespeare's play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television?

(A). Taming of the Shrew

(B). The two Noble Kinsmen

(C). Troilus and Cressida

(D). Cymbeline

Correct Answer: B

65. Which of Shakespeare's play features Sir John Falstaff?

(A). The merry wives of Windsor

(B). Troilus and Cressida

(C). King John

(D). Titus Andronicus

Correct Answer: A

66. What was the nickname of Mary I?

(A). Bloody Mary

(B). Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

(C). Mary, Queen of Scots

(D). None of the Above

Correct Answer: A

67. Who was the sister of Mary I?

(A). Isabella

(B). Victoria

(C). Anne

(D). Elizabeth I

Correct Answer: D

68. Who was the father of the previous two? (Questions 1 and 2?)

(A). Henry VI

(B). William

(C). George III

(D). Henry VIII

Correct Answer: D

69. Who was the first Tudor King?

(A). Henry VIII

(B). Henry VII

(C). George III

(D). James I

Correct Answer: B

70. What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era?

(A). 1558-1603

(B). 1500-1520

(C). 1560-1570

(D). 1575-1600

Correct Answer: A

71. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I?

(A). Catherine of Aragon

(B). Jane Seymour

(C). Catherine Howard

(D). Anne Boleyn

Correct Answer: D

72. In what year did England and Spain fight a famous sea battle?

(A). 1500

(B). 1588

(C). 1600

(D). 1575

Correct Answer: B

73. Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed?

(A). Anne Boleyn

(B). Mary I

(C). Mary, Queen of Scots

(D). Catherine of Aragon

Correct Answer: C

74. What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign?

(A). The Anglican Church

(B). The Roman Catholic Church

(C). Calvinism

(D). The Lutheran Church

Correct Answer: A

75. Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear?

(A). Purple silk dresses

(B). Woolen underwear

(C). Sable-lined cloaks

(D). Velvet coats

Correct Answer: B

76. Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable match?

(A). Property

(B). Wealth

(C). Lineage

(D). Love

Correct Answer: D

77. Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue?

(A). Begging

(B). Money lending

(C). Fortune-telling

(D). Wine bottling

Correct Answer: A

78. Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death?

(A). Skipping church on Sunday

(B). A woman screaming at her husband in public

(C). Stealing a horse

(D). Public drunkenness

Correct Answer: C

79. Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the "supreme governor" of all things spiritual. Who was it?

(A). The Pope in Rome

(B). Each man was his own supreme governor

(C). The Archbishop of Canterbury

(D). Queen Elizabeth I

Correct Answer: D

80. Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the majority of its population living in the verdant countryside. Towns and cities, however, were growing--and the most prominent of all was London. While Londoners were considered wealthy and arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and infested with vermin. Where did people primarily dispose of their trash and wastes?

(A). Dump sites in the nearby country

(B). The streets

(C). The underground drains

(D). Designated "trash" areas

Correct Answer: B

81. Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What "science" did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future?

(A). Alchemy

(B). Metallurgy

(C). Geocentricity

(D). Astrology

Correct Answer: D

82. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject?

(A). Sexuality

(B). Criticism of the queen

(C). Murder

(D). Witchcraft

Correct Answer: B

83. Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one's untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom?

(A). Long processionals

(B). Mourning clothes

(C). Strict simplicity

(D). Tolling of church bells

Correct Answer: C

84. Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age?

(A). As an astronomical observation deck

(B). As a storage place for grain

(C). As a prison

(D). As a school for the royal children

Correct Answer: C

85. Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth?

(A). Pope Pius V

(B). Pope Innocent III

(C). Pope Gregory XIII

(D). Pope Boniface

Correct Answer: A

86. What was Elizabeth's close circle of advisers called?

(A). The Star Chamber

(B). Parliament

(C). The Privy Council

(D). The Cabinet

Correct Answer: C

87. Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned?

(A). Investiture

(B). Invocation

(C). Gala

(D). Coronation

Correct Answer: D

88. Which country believed it had an "Invincible Armada" before 1588?

(A). France

(B). England

(C). Spain

(D). The Netherlands

Correct Answer: C

89. What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer?

(A). Blank verse

(B). The sonnet

(C). Trochaic Heptameter

(D). Free-flow verse

Correct Answer: A

90. Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family?

(A). Windsor

(B). Stuart

(C). Tudor

(D). Plantagenet

Correct Answer: C

91. Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir?

(A). Edward VI

(B). Richard III

(C). George III

(D). Henry VIII

Correct Answer: D

92. What religion was Mary I?

(A). Catholic

(B). Anglican

(C). Episcopalian

(D). Presbyterian

Correct Answer: A

93. What religion was Mary Queen of Scots?

(A). Episcopalian

(B). Catholic

(C). Presbyterian

(D). Lutheran

Correct Answer: B

94. Which work did Edmund Spenser author?

(A). The Castle of Perseverance

(B). The Double

(C). The Metamorphoses

(D). The Faerie Queene

Correct Answer: D

95. Who succeeded Elizabeth I?

(A). Mary Queen of Scots

(B). Charles I

(C). James I

(D). Edward VI

Correct Answer: C

96. Which of the following was Elizabeth known as?

(A). Unintelligent

(B). Rude

(C). Stingy

(D). Fanatic

Correct Answer: C

97. Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret?

(A). French

(B). Gaelic

(C). Esperanto

(D). Welsh

Correct Answer: D

98. Who was Edmund Spenser's patron?

(A). The Earl of Leicester

(B). Elizabeth

(C). Lord Burleigh

(D). Francis Bacon

Correct Answer: A

99. What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth's court?

(A). Swimming

(B). Gambling

(C). Jousting

(D). Backgammon

Correct Answer: C

100. Which of the following disciplines most fascinated Elizabeth?

(A). Philology

(B). Alchemy

(C). Zoology

(D). Astrology

Correct Answer: D

101. Elizabeth's reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned?

(A). 35

(B). 40

(C). 45

(D). 50

Correct Answer: C

102. What was Elizabeth’s nickname for Sir Walter Raleigh?

(A). Waldimor

(B). Water

(C). William

(D). Winter

Correct Answer: B

103. The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as:

(A). The Great Order of Life

(B). The Great Chain of Being

(C). The Great System of Shakespeare

(D). The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker

Correct Answer: B

104. A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as:

(A). A Protestant Poem

(B). A Petrarchan Sonnet

(C). An extended metaphor

(D). A pastoral poem

Correct Answer: D

105. The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as:

(A). The Protestant Revolution

(B). The Protestant Reformation

(C). The Protestant Restoration

(D). The Protestant Resolution

Correct Answer: B

106. What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet

(A). Octave

(B). Volta

(C). Iambic Pentameter

(D). Petrarchan

Correct Answer: B

107. In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ________.

(A). William Shakespeare

(B). Ben Jonson

(C). Ben Jonson folios

(D). English Renaissance theatre

Correct Answer: B

108. What proceeded Jacobean era?

(A). Elizabethan Era

(B). Caroline era

(C). Victorian era

(D). Jacobean Era

Correct Answer: B

109. The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620–1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ________ in London in 1625.

(A). Cholera

(B). Tuberculosis

(C). Bubonic plague

(D). Plague (diseas

(E)

Correct Answer: C

110. The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James.

(A). Samaritan Hebrew language

(B). Biblical Hebrew

(C). Mishnaic Hebrew

(D). Hebrew language

Correct Answer: D

111. The Jacobean era succeeds the ________ and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period.

(A). Elizabethan era

(B). English Reformation

(C). England

(D). Tudor period

Correct Answer: A

112. Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the ________, which went through an intense development in the Jacobean er

(A). William Shakespeare

(B). Ben Jonson

(C). Masque

(D). A Midsummer Night's Dream

Correct Answer: C

113. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem.

(A). Iliad

(B). Odyssey

(C). Beowulf

(D). Canterbury Tales

Correct Answer: C

114. What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?

(A). 1592-1608

(B). 1603-1625

(C). 1607-1627

(D). 1608-1639

Correct Answer: B

115. Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by?

(A). Sir Walter Scot

(B). Christopher Marlow

(C). Ben Johnson

(D). George Herbert

Correct Answer: C

116. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was?

(A). John Milton

(B). Charles Bacon

(C). John Donne

(D). Herbert Spencer

Correct Answer: C

117. "The Jacobean Era" refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries?

(A). Jordan

(B). England

(C). Malaysia

(D). Tunisia

Correct Answer: B

118. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after:

(A). The leading characteristic of the age

(B). Monarchs or political events

(C). The primary author of the age

(D). The language of the age

Correct Answer: B

119. Which period of literature came first?

(A). Regency

(B). Victorian

(C). Romantic

(D). Restoration

Correct Answer: D

120. In what language did Shakespeare write?

(A). Middle English

(B). German

(C). Old English

(D). Modern English

Correct Answer: D

121. Jane Austen wrote during this period.

(A). Restoration

(B). Victorian

(C). Middle English

(D). Regency

Correct Answer: D

122. Which work was published first?

(A). Blake’s "Songs of Innocence"

(B). Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein"

(C). Lord Byron’s "Don Juan"

(D). Sir Walter Scott’s "Ivanhoe"

Correct Answer: A

123. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?

(A). Beowulf

(B). Canterbury Tales

(C). The Domesday Book

(D). Sons and Lovers

Correct Answer: A

124. Who wrote first?

(A). George Eliot

(B). Christopher Marlowe

(C). Howard, Earl of Surrey

(D). William Shakespeare

Correct Answer: C

125. Which work was completed last?

(A). John Milton's "Paradise Lost"

(B). George Herbert's "The Temple"

(C). William Shakespeare's "Tempest"

(D). Ben Jonson's "Volpone"

Correct Answer: A

126. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who?

(A). John Milton

(B). Thomas Otway

(C). Sir Walter Scott

(D). John Dryden

Correct Answer: C

127. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period.

(A). Regency

(B). Restoration

(C). Romantic

(D). Victorian

Correct Answer: D

128. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century?

(A). Christina Rossetti

(B). Gerard Manley Hopkins

(C). Elizabeth Barret Browning

(D). Ted Hughes

Correct Answer: B

129. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.

(A). Henry James's "The Ambassadors"

(B). Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

(C). E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"

(D). Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

Correct Answer: B

130. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

(A). John Skelton

(B). William Shakespeare

(C). Sir Thomas Wyatt

(D). Thomas Carew

Correct Answer: D

131. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period?

(A). Charles II was restored to the throne

(B). The French Revolution

(C). The Great Fire of London

(D). The Exclusion Bill Crisis

Correct Answer: B

132. He was not a Renaissance writer.

(A). William Shakespeare

(B). Sir Philip Sidney

(C). Christopher Marlowe

(D). Sir Thomas Malory

Correct Answer: D

133. Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?

(A). The Restoration

(B). Jacobean Age

(C). The Augustan Age

(D). The Age of Sensibility

Correct Answer: B

134. Which of the following periods of English literature came last?

(A). The Elizabethan Age

(B). The Commonwealth Period

(C). The Jacobean Age

(D). The Middle English Period

Correct Answer: B

135. This work was written before the other three choices.

(A). Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"

(B). Julian of Norwhich's "Book of Showings"

(C). Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

(D). Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"

Correct Answer: A

136. Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire”?

(A). Rudyard Kipling

(B). Edward Fitzgerald

(C). Charlotte Bronte

(D). Any of these

Correct Answer: D

137. World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event?

(A). T.S. Eliot

(B). Siegfried Sassoon

(C). Wilfred Owen

(D). Oscar Wilde

Correct Answer: D

138. The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the:

(A). aristocracy

(B). New Age

(C). Reformation

(D). Enlightenment

Correct Answer: D

139. The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as:

(A). Caleron

(B). Corneille

(C). Couperin

(D). Moliere

Correct Answer: D

140. The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was:

(A). Nell Gwynn

(B). Aphra Behn

(C). Lady Teazle

(D). Ann Hathaway

Correct Answer: B

141. In which city was Milton?

(A). Norwich

(B). York

(C). London

(D). Canterbury

Correct Answer: C

142. When was John Milton born?

(A). 22 April 1600

(B). 19 August 1604

(C). 6 June 1606

(D). 9 December 1608

Correct Answer: D

143. Which school did Milton attend?

(A). St Paul's

(B). Christ's Hospital

(C). Merchant Taylors'

(D). Westminster

Correct Answer: A

144. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend?

(A). Pembroke College

(B). Trinity College

(C). Christ’s College

(D). St. Xavier’s College

Correct Answer: C

145. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton's at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem?

(A). lycidas

(B). Paradise Lost

(C). Il penseroso

(D).

Correct Answer: A

146. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad. In which country did he spend most of the time?

(A). Germany

(B). France

(C). Italy

(D). Spain

Correct Answer: C

147. How many times did Milton marry?

(A). 2

(B). 0

(C). 1

(D). 3

Correct Answer: D

148. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she?

(A). 48

(B). 34

(C). 22

(D). 17

Correct Answer: D

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Correct Answer: ,,

150. Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton?

(A). 'L'Allegro'

(B). 'Lycidas'

(C). 'Il Penseroso'

(D). 'Absolom and Achitophel'

Correct Answer: D