English Literature Mcqs — Test 108
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Question 1
Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
Question 2
What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
Question 3
Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet” ?
Question 4
Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
Question 5
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
Question 6
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
Question 7
Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
Question 8
What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?
Question 9
In which work do you read: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ?
Question 10
Who exemplified the role of the \peasant poet\ ?