English Literature Mcqs
Spenser’s Epithalamion is____________?

A. A narrative poem
B. A sonnet
C. An elegy
D. A wedding hymn

Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?

A. ’l’allegro’
B. ’lycidas’
C. ’il penseroso’
D. ’absolom and achitophel’

What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?

A. The novel
B. The sermon
C. The familiar essay
D. The diary

The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch ?

A. James i
B. Mary tudor
C. Elizabeth tudor
D. Henry vii

Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel ?

A. Vanity fair
B. Sense and sensibility
C. Pride and prejudice
D. Mansfield park

Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage ?

A. Byron’s manfred
B. Coleridge’s remorse
C. Shelley’s prometheus unbound
D. Shelley’s the cenci

The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as_______________?

A. The great order of life
B. The great chain of being
C. The great system of shakespeare
D. The great sonnet symbolism maker

Which of the following disciplines most fascinated Elizabeth ?

A. Philology
B. Alchemy
C. Zoology
D. Astrology