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1991English LiteratureMedium

What is the significance of the “Green Knight”?

AHe alludes to an ancient Anglo-Saxon ruler.

BHe represents the link with Celtic mythology.

CHe suggests the lack of knightly themes in Middle English poetry.

DHe suggests a continued tie with paganism.

Correct answer

B. He represents the link with Celtic mythology.

Explanation

The correct answer is He represents the link with Celtic mythology..

1992English LiteratureMedium

A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters________?

Anarrative

Blyric

Cfree verse

Dnone of the above

Correct answer

A. narrative

Explanation

The correct answer is narrative.

1993English LiteratureMedium

The study of meaning is called________?

ASemantics

BPhonology

CMorphology

DSyntax

Correct answer

A. Semantics

Explanation

The correct answer is Semantics.

1994English LiteratureMedium

In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What’s the name of that masque?

A’Lycidas’

B’Comus’

C’Il Penseroso’

D’The Masque of Blackness’

Correct answer

B. ’Comus’

Explanation

The correct answer is ’Comus’.

1995English LiteratureMedium

How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?

Ahis marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Bthe Battle of Hastings

CSaint Patrick’s mission

Dthe Fourth Lateran Council

Correct answer

A. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Explanation

The correct answer is his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine.

1996English LiteratureMedium

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

ABallad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

BWe Are Seven (Wordsworth)

CNone of these

DPrisoner of Chillon (Byron)

Correct answer

A. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

Explanation

The correct answer is Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde).

1997English LiteratureMedium

Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant”?

AAmy Lowell

BAlice Walker

CGertrude Stein

DVirginia Woolf

Correct answer

D. Virginia Woolf

Explanation

The correct answer is Virginia Woolf.

1998English LiteratureMedium

Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius?

ACymbeline

BTimon of Athens

CCoriolanus

DWinter’s tale

Correct answer

B. Timon of Athens

Explanation

The correct answer is Timon of Athens.

1999English LiteratureMedium

When did John Keats die?

A12 March 1833

B23 February 1821

C19 August 1825

D11 May 1838

Correct answer

B. 23 February 1821

Explanation

The correct answer is 23 February 1821.

2000English LiteratureMedium

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

AWilliam Godwin’s Caleb Williams

BJane Austen’s Emma

CMary Shelley’s Frankenstein

DSir Walter Scott’s Waverley

Correct answer

A. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams

Explanation

The correct answer is William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.

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