English MCQs — Test 206
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Question 1
Who wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a novel that abandons clock time for psychological time ?
Question 2
When the Parliament, controlled by the puritans, took power in England, one of the acts that greatly influenced Literature of that time was_____________?
Question 3
Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth’s claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” ?
Question 4
In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?
Question 5
The crisis over the Exclusion Bill effectively divided the country into which two political parties ?
Question 6
Pope made money by selling subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic ?
Question 7
Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?
Question 8
According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for_____________?
Question 9
Romantic poetry about the natural world uses descriptions of nature _______________?
Question 10
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?