What do you mean by Quatrain ?

A. A poem of fourteen lines
B. A stanza of fourteen lines
C. A stanza of six lines
D. A stanza of four lines

“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated by_____________?

A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Jane austine
D. Charles lamb

The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?

A. Caleron
B. Corneille
C. Couperin
D. Moliere

“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear ?

A. We are seven (wordsworth)
B. Ballad of reading goal (oscar wilde)
C. Prisoner of chillon (byron)
D. None of these

This work was written before the other three choices ?

A. Bede’s “an ecclesiastical history of the english people”
B. Julian of norwhich’s “book of showings”
C. Chaucer’s “canterbury tales”
D. Sir thomas more’s “utopia”

World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?

A. T.s. eliot
B. Siegfried sassoon
C. Wilfred owen
D. Oscar wilde

This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?

A. Henry james’s “the ambassadors”
B. Thomas hardy’s “tess of the d’urbervilles”
C. E.m. forster’s “a room with a view”
D. Virginia woolf’s “mrs. dalloway”

Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?

A. Charles ii was restored to the throne
B. The french revolution
C. The great fire of london
D. The exclusion bill crisis

Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?

A. The restoration
B. Jacobean age
C. The augustan age
D. The age of sensibility

Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

A. The leading characteristic of the age
B. Monarchs or political events
C. The primary author of the age
D. The language of the age