English Literature Mcqs — Test 109

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Question 1

Which of the following was Elizabeth known as ____________?

Question 2

one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________?

Question 3

Who served as Protector under England’s first written constitution ?

Question 4

Which of the following was a major factor in the unprecedented economic wealth of Great Britain during the eighteenth century ?

Question 5

What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \’Peddlers,’ and ’Boats,’ and ’Wagons’!\ ?

Question 6

The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?

Question 7

In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

Question 8

Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?

Question 9

The “father of humanism” was_______________?

Question 10

Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?