English Literature Mcqs
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?

A. The heroic couplet
B. Blank verse
C. Free verse
D. The ode

Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?

A. Maria edgeworth
B. Sir walter scott
C. Thomas de quincey
D. Jane austen

Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?

A. A series of factory acts
B. The custody act
C. The women’s suffrage act
D. The married women’s property rights acts

Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family ?

A. Windsor
B. Stuart
C. Tudor
D. Plantagenet

who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?

A. Greek and austrian
B. Roman and french
C. Roman and greek
D. French and greek

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

A. The anglo-saxon conquest beginning in the 1450s.
B. The peasant uprising of 1381.
C. The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s.
D. The wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?

A. Jane austen’s emma
B. Mary shelley’s frankenstein
C. William godwin’s caleb williams
D. Sir walter scott’s waverley