English Literature Mcqs
Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

A. Skipping church on sunday
B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
C. Stealing a horse
D. Public drunkenness

What religion was Mary Queen of Scots ?

A. Episcopalian
B. Catholic
C. Presbyterian
D. Lutheran

What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet______________?

A. Octave
B. Volta
C. Iambic pentameter
D. Petrarchan

What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?

A. The star chamber
B. Parliament
C. The privy council
D. The cabinet

Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?

A. Anne boleyn
B. Mary i
C. Mary, queen of scots
D. Catherine of aragon

What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

A. The romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by t. s. eliot in the 1920s.
B. The victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the romantics.
C. The romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The victorians were strongly influenced by the romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

The Oxford Movement was started by______________?

A. The people of the oxford area
B. The scholars of the oxford university
C. The clergymen of oxford
D. The university wits

What does the phrase \White Man’s Burden,\ coined by Kipling, refer to ?

A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
B. The moral responsibility to bring civilization and christianity to the peoples of the world
C. The british need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
D. The importance of solving economic and social problems in england before tackling the world’s problems

Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?

A. The wife of bath, the clerk, sir gawain and the franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
B. “the general prologue’ is appended to the canterbury tales.
C. In all, chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
D. The canterbury tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.

The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?

A. Coleridge
B. Eliot
C. Tennyson
D. Keats