English Literature Mcqs
Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?

A. Always fighting for good against evil.
B. Fortunate in always coming out victorious.
C. Nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
D. Devoted to religion above all things

Which of the following is a central theme of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market” ?

A. The dangers of sensuality to women
B. The links between sexuality and economics
C. The importance of sisterly bonds
D. All of these answers

Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn’s Oroonoko ?

A. Nonfiction
B. Travel memoir
C. Detective story
D. Biography

In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?

A. The government
B. Marriage
C. Organized religion
D. All of these answers

Which of the following social issues does Dickens confront in Great Expectations ?

A. Penal reform
B. Educational reform
C. The role of the monarchy
D. Both a and b

Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?

A. The ultimate expression of humankind’s ability to control its own destiny.
B. A misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
C. A necessary change that was beginning to go astray.
D. An event that had little consequence to england

Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?

A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
C. The concluding lines of any poem
D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners

Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?

A. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
B. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy
C. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
D. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the enlightenment interest in reason

Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?

A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping england’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.