Exercises on British literature1

a. literary biography b. an essay

c. realistic novel d. sentimental novel 21. 21. Songs of Innocence is a_______.

a. sequence of lyrics b. epic

c. set of allegories d. set of ballads 22. 22. Macbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.

a. tragedy b. comedy

c. tragicomedy d. historical play 23. 23. Robinson Crusoe is a _________.

a. Historical novel b. satirical novel c. realistic novel d. allegorical novel 24. 24. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a _____.

a. travel book b. romance in verse c. romance in prose d. narrative poem

25. 25. Beowulf is the most important and the first epic in the Old English ever written. It

was written in _______.

a. sonnets b. ballads

c. alliteration d. heroic couplet 26. 26. Paradise Lost is a (n)________.

a. lyrical poem b. hymn

c. epic d. narrative poem 27. 27. Pamela is a___________.

a. historical novel b. romance

b. novel of naturalism d. novel of epistles and psychology 28. 28. Gulliver’s Travels is a ________.

a. sentimental novel b. novel of satire and allegory c. Gothic novel d. novel of stream of consciousness 29. 29. I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.

a. lyrical poem b. lyrical prose c. romance in prose d. sonnet 30. 30. The School of Scandal is a ______.

a. tragedy b. comedy of manners c. novel d. romance 31. 31. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a ______.

a. comedy b. tragedy

c. historical play d. morality play 32. 32. A Red, Red Rose is a______.

a. lyric b. satirical poem c. epic d ode 33. 33. Clarrisa is a (n) ____________.

a. historical novel b. epistolary novel c. metrical romance d. satirical novel

34. The title of “Poet?s poet” is given to the writer of the following work __ _____.

a. Death Be Not Proud b. Venus and Adonis c. Romeo and Juliet d. The Faerie Queen

35. 35. The Merchant of Venice belongs to Shakespearian plays of_______.

a. comedy b. sequence of sonnets c. tragedy d. historical play

36. Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in______ after the

Norman conquest.

a. French b. Latin c. English d. Celt

37. “He was not of an age, but for all the time”. “He” here refers to _____. a. Shakespeare b. Chaucer c. John Milton d. Ben Jonson 38. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.

a. Thomas More b. Spenser

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c. John Donne d. Wyatt

The most important prose writer of Elizabethan Age was _______, who was also the founder of the English materialistic philosophy.

a. Thomas More b. Spenser

c. John Donne d. Francis Bacon The culmination of all Renaissance translation is ________. a. King James Bible b. New Instrument

c. Of Study d. The Reason of Church Government

Donne?s poetry is full of metaphors, original images, wit and______, except ingenuity, dexterous use of colloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes and caustic humor.

a. conceits b. Petrarchen images c. rhetorics d. brevity

The Cavaliers mostly dealt in short songs on the flitting joys of the day, but underneath their light-heartedness lies some foreboding of _____ to enjoy the present day. This is typical of pessimism and cynicism.

a. philosophical thought b. impending doom c. intellectual idea d. expecting happiness.

Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were the poems written by _______. a. Milton b. William Shakespeare c. Ben Jonson d. Marlowe

In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the ______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.

a. pessimism, knowledge b. optimism, ideal c. rebellion, will d. cynicism, concept

45. Blank verse was first used by ______ as the principle instrument of English drama.

a. the Earl of Surry b. Christopher Marlowe c. Samuel Johnson d. Shakespeare 46. The Medieval Drama includes all the following except _________.

a. miracle plays b. morality plays c. tragedies d. interludes

47.The theme of the sonnet Death Be Not Proud is that ________.

a. death is predestined b. death is the most dreadful thing

c. death you are nothing to be feared d. death is gentle towards me

48. Sir Gawain and the Green Night is usually considered the summit in__________ in

romance.

a. Matters of Britain b. Matters of France c. Matters of Italy d. Matters of Greece 49. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ?tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of trouble,

And by opposing end them...” are the famous lines in Hamlet which expresses the Hamlet?s ______ character.

a.. resolute b. resolute and hesitant

c. stubbon d. indecisive and hesitant

50. In the 17th century, especially during the period of military dictatorship there appeared

some changes in literature. Some new genres replaced the old ones. Among the old ones, _______ was (were) the most prominent one.

a. essays b. sonnets c. novels d. drama 51. In the poem, “Beowulf” “repairs in haste” means _______.

a. escape b. come c. go d. stay 52. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.

a. Church of England b. Puritanism c. Calvinism d. Catholicism

53. Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.

a. belief b. characters c. idea d. God

54. In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England. a. William the conqueror b. Julius Caesar c. Alfred the Great d. Claudius 55. In the 14th century, the most important writer is ______. a. Langland b.Wyclif c. Gower d. Chaucer

56. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ______.

a. epic b. mystery play c. romance d. sonnet

57. The story of “_______” is written in the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight b. Beowulf

c. Piers the Plowman d. The Canterbury Tales 58.William Langland?s “________” is written in the form of a dream vision. a. Kubla Khan b. Piers the Plowman c. The Dream of John Bull d. Morte d’ Arthur 59. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth. a. James I b. James II c. Charles I d. Charles II

60. The Revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things:_______,_______,________.

a. the supremacy of Parliament b. the beginning of modern England c. the triumph of the principle of political liberty d. the Restoration of monarchy 61. Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets?

a. John Donne b. George Herbert c. John Milton d. Richard Lovelace

62. Milton wrote a number of pamphlets defending the English People. Choose them from the following.

a. Defense of the English People b. Second Defense of the English People c. L? Allegro d. II Penseroso

63. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 marked the beginning of a (n)_________.

a. absolute monarchy b, constitutional monarchy c. military dictatorship d. democratic system 64. 64. Paradise Lost is ________.

a. Marvells masterpiece b. a great epic in 12 books

c. written in blank verse d. about Satan?s revolt against God?s authority 65. 65. Milton is __________.

a. a. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century b. b. an outstanding political pamphleteer c. c. a great stylist

d. d. a great master of blank verse

66. 66. Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and

well known was ______who became the Poet Laureate in 1616. a. John Dryden b. Samuel Johnson c. Ben Jonson d. Robert Southy 67. 67. John Milton was_______.

a. blind in his later life b. a Cavalier poet

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c. the author of Samson Agoniestes d. a metaphysical poet 68. Which were not written by John Milton ?

a. Song to Celia b. II Penseroso c. Lycidas d. As You Like it

69. In his blindness, Milton wrote his most important poetic works , such as ______. a. Paradise Lost b. Samson Agonistes c. The L?Allegro d. Song to Celia

70. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, _______was the greatest.

a. Milton b. Bunyan

c. the Metaphysical poets d. the Cavalier poets 71. Choose the poets who belong to the Cavalier group.

a. Sir John Suckling b. Richard Lovelace c. Thomas Carew d. George Herbert

72. ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.

a. The Renaissance b. The Enlightenment c. The Religious Reformation d. The Chartist Movement

73. Most of the English writers in the 18th century were Enlighteners. They fell into two groups, one is_______, and the other is_________. a. a. the moderate group, the radical group b. b. the lake poets, the younger generation c. c. the Metaphysical poets, the cavalier poets d. d. the lake poets; the sentimentalists

74. The 18th century was an age of prose. A group of excellent prose writers, such as ____, were produced.

a. Addison b. Steele c. Smallet d. Fielding

75. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, and English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as ______. a. Pope b. Swift c. Defoe d. Blake

76. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ______. a. naturalism b. romanticism

c. neo-classicism d. sentimentalism

77. In the 18th century English literature, the representative writers of neo-classicism is _____.

a. Pope b. Swift c. Defoe d. Milton

78. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were________.

a. Alexander Pope b. William Blake c. Robert Burns d. Jonathan Swift

79. In the 18th century English literature, the representative writers of realism were _______.

a. Richardson b. Fielding c. Smollett d. Goldsmith

80. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ________, which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels. a. a. the Wigs and the Tories

b. b. the Senate and the House of Representatives c. c. the Upper House and Lower House

d. d. the House of Lords and the House of Commons

81. ________found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Young and Gray, but it manifested itself in the novels of Sterne and Goldsmith. a. Pre-romanticism b. Romanticism c. Sentimentalism d. Naturalism