English Literature Mcqs
The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?

A. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss
B. As a third-person narrative of the great depression
C. As a domestic stream of consciousness narrative
D. A and b only

Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?

A. Seamus heaney
B. James joyce
C. William butler yeats
D. E.m. forster

Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Depression” ?

A. The great depression lasted for one hundred years.
B. The great depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by western civilization since industrialization.
C. The great depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.
D. B and c only

Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?

A. Argentina
B. Brazil
C. Mexico
D. Britain

What is “Post-Modernism” ?

A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
B. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
C. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
D. All of the above

Wilfred Owen’s war poem “Dulce et Decorum est” ends with which of the following Latin phrases ?

A. “pax romana”
B. “veni, vidi, vici”
C. “dux bellorum”
D. “pro patria mori”

Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?

A. Maurice tabard
B. Ansel adams
C. Hans bellmer
D. MAN ray

Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” further examines the notion of the “culture industry” and suggests which of the following about the “culture industry ?”

A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.
B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.
D. Both a and b

Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “The Wind Among the Reeds ?”

A. W.b. yeats
B. Jorge luis borges
C. Mario vargas llosa
D. Charles baudelaire