9053|G1110|HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE solved quiz autumn 2024
Date 28 December 2024
The Conqueror is the title of King
____________. Question 1Answer a. James b. Charles c. William d. Richard
The correct answer is c. William.
Who are the central characters of Jonson's
comedies? Question 2Answer a. motivating persons b. loving and caring persons
c. religious persons d. greedy and crafty persons
The correct
answer is d. greedy and crafty persons.
Sir Edmund Spenser has dedicated his 89
sonnets to his _______ Elizabeth Boyle. Question 3Answer a. Wife b. Friend c.
Sister d. Daughter
The correct answer is a. Wife.
Which one of the following dramas by Heywood
is based on real incident? Question 5Answer a. A Woman killed with Kindness b.
Changeling c. The English Traveller d. The Yorkshire Tragedy
The correct answer is d. The Yorkshire
Tragedy.
The Yorkshire Tragedy by Thomas
Heywood is based on a real incident. The play dramatizes
Who developed the genre of Comedy? Question
6Answer a. Shakespeare b. Marlowe c. Ben Jonson d. None
The correct answer is d. None.
What is the initial challenge that King
Hrothgar faces in the poem Beowulf, leading him to seek Beowulf's help?
Question 7Answer a. A dragon attack b. Viking invasion c. Grendel's attacks on
Heorot d. A feud with neighboring tribes
The correct answer is c. Grendel's attacks
on Heorot.
A line of ten alternate stressed and
unstressed syllables is known as ______________. Question 8Answer a. Sonnet b.
Iambic pentameter c. Blank verse d. Couplet
The correct answer is b. Iambic pentameter.
The ____________ of Europe increased
especially between eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Question 9Answer a.
Population b. Sientific investions c. Economy d. Industry
The correct answer is:
Which is the last tragedy produced by
Shakespeare in 1606? Question 10Answer a. Julius Caesar b. Othello c. Macbeth
d. King Lear
The correct answer is:
c. Macbeth
Who wrote The Religion of a Doctor? Question
11Answer a. Sir Thomas Browne b. Bunyun c. None d. Bacon
The correct answer is:
a. Sir Thomas Browne
Who colonized the newly found land in
Tempest? Question 13Answer a. Antonio b. Prospero c. None d. Caliban
The correct answer is:
b. Prospero
Which poem celebrates the victory of Athelstan
against an allied army and expresses patriotic sentiments? Question 14Answer a.
The Battle of Braunanburh b. The Seafarer c. The Husband's Message d. The Ruin
The correct answer is:
What languages were spoken by the
Celts in the British Isles about two thousand years ago? Question 15Answer a.
Old English and Anglo-Saxon b. Gaelic and Welsh c. Germanic and Latin d. Latin
and English
The correct answer is:
b. Gaelic and Welsh
A Farewell to Arms is a ________ of George
Peele. Question 16Answer a. Novel b. Song c. Drama d. Prose
The correct answer is:
a. Novel
What is the significant characteristic
of Ariel character in Tempest? Question 17Answer a. cunningness b. cowardice c.
None d. a spirit too delicate
The correct answer is:
d. a spirit too delicate
Which century is the century of rise and fall
of English Drama? Question 18Answer a. 15th b. 18th c. 17th d. 16th
The correct answer is:
c. 17th
Which age is called ' The Golden Period' of
English Drama? Question 19Answer a. Victorian b. Elizathan c. Modern d.
Post-Modern
The correct answer is:
b. Elizabethan
What was one of King Alfred's significant
contributions to Old English prose? Question 20Answer a. Composition of battle
poems b. Introduction of religious homilies c. Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle d. Translation of Psalms from Latin
The correct answer is:
c. Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle
In which play did Shakespeare use animal
imagery to create sinister atmosphere? Question 21Answer a. Macbeth b. King
Lear c. Hamlet d. Othello
The correct answer is:
a. Macbeth
What is the significant characteristic of
Ariel character in Tempest? Question 22Answer a. None b. cunningness c.
cowardice d. a spirit too delicate
The correct answer is:
d. a spirit too delicate
What type of character, Brutus, is described
in Julius Caesar? Question 23Answer a. Minor b. Antagonist c. None d.
Protagonist
The correct answer is:
d. Protagonist
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus
is considered the protagonist. He is portrayed as a noble
What type of character, Brutus, is described
in Julius Caesar? Question 23Answer a. Minor b. Antagonist c. None d.
Protagonist
The correct answer is:
d. Protagonist
The ordinary people like____________ or beast
stories, different types of lyrics, songs and ballads. Question 24Answer a. All
of the above b. Ballads c. Fables d. Songs
The correct answer is:
a. All of the above
What common theme is found in the 'love
poetry' discussed in the text? Question 25Answer a. Celebrations of heroic
deeds b. Nostalgia and longing for the past c. Description of city ruins d.
Battles between tribes
The correct answer is:
b. Nostalgia and longing for the past
Edmund Spenser's The Fairie Queene is a
nationalistic ____________. Question 26Answer a. Poem b. Drama c. Prose d.
Novel
The correct answer is:
a. Poem
_________
is the continuing tradition of oral literature. Question 27Answer a. Lai b.
Play c. Prose d. Ballads
The correct answer is:
d. Ballads
When did prose begin to be written in
Old English? Question 28Answer a. Eleventh century b. Seventh century c. Tenth
century d. Ninth century
The correct answer is:
b. Seventh century
The most well-known composer of lais in
_______ English is a French woman called Marie de France. Question 29Answer a.
Middle b. Modern c. Archaic d. Old
The correct answer is:
a. Middle
Who was Cleopatra? Question 30Answer a. Queen
of England b. Queen of Greece c. Queen of France d. Queen of Egypt
The correct answer is:
d. Queen of Egypt
