English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

This character survived a massacre________?

Accepted Answer

Hope

Question 2

How many nasal sounds are there in the English Language?

Accepted Answer

Three

Question 3

Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism?

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 4

What is a “lay” in medieval literature?

Accepted Answer

a story of a saint’s life

Question 5

‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by________?

Accepted Answer

Earnest Jones

Question 6

Who is the central Figure in O Nell’s The Hairy Ape________?

Accepted Answer

Yank

Question 7

The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations?

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 8

Elizabethan England was largely rural, with the majority of its population living in the verdant countryside. Towns and cities, however, were growing–and the most prominent of all was London. While Londoners were considered wealthy and arrogant, the city was begrimed, filthy, and infested with vermin. Where did people primarily dispose of their trash and wastes?

Accepted Answer

The streets

Question 9

Which of the following characteristics is NOT closely associated with a comedy of manners?

Accepted Answer

Witty banter

Question 10

which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come from?

Accepted Answer

King Henry the Sixth, Part II

English Literature MCQs with Explanations