English MCQs — Test 200
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Question 1
Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person’s pursuit of their personal interests ?
Question 2
Who composed The Preludes ?
Question 3
Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?
Question 4
one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________?
Question 5
Who served as Protector under England’s first written constitution ?
Question 6
Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?
Question 7
What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!\ ?
Question 8
The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?
Question 9
In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
Question 10
Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?