English Literature Mcqs
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?

A. Automatic writing
B. Confused daze
C. Total recall
D. Stream of consciousness

What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era ?

A. 1558-1603
B. 1500-1520
C. 1560-1570
D. 1575-1600

One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?

A. Anthony and cleopatra
B. Hero and leander
C. Troilus and cressida
D. Apollo and hyacinth

Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?

A. Christopher marlowe’s doctor faustus
B. William shakespeare’s king lear
C. Thomas more’s the history of king richard iii
D. Thomas more’s utopia

What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?

A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, byron and goethe stand in symbolically for queen victoria and charles darwin respectively.

What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?

A. The battle of agincourt
B. The battle of hastings
C. The norman conquest
D. The war of the roses

What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer ?

A. Blank verse
B. The sonnet
C. Trochaic heptameter
D. Free-flow verse

what was the duration of hundred year’s war ?

A. 1300 to 1350
B. 1337 to 1453
C. 1302 to 1343
D. None of the above