English MCQs — Test 199

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Question 1

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?

Question 2

Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?

Question 3

Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?

Question 4

What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

Question 5

Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ?

Question 6

Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?

Question 7

Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?

Question 8

Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?

Question 9

Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?

Question 10

What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?