English Literature MCQs – Solved Questions & Study Feed

Question 1

Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ________ and ________?

Accepted Answer

Religious, Didactic

Question 2

In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 3

Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I?

Accepted Answer

Tudor

Question 4

One of Marlowe’s earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem ’Pharsalia’, written by which Roman poet?

Accepted Answer

Lucan

Question 5

“Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey” explores ________?

Accepted Answer

The way in which one’s psychological state changes over time

Question 6

How does Frankenstein’s monster learn about the Garden of Eden?

Accepted Answer

He reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”

Question 7

“Gradually light returns to the street” means________?

Accepted Answer

life resumes to normal routine

Question 8

Who were the “Two Nations” referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845)?

Accepted Answer

the rich and the poor

Question 9

Earth is described as being connected to heaven by a?

Accepted Answer

Golden chain

Question 10

Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works?

Accepted Answer

The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

Question 11

The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is________?

Accepted Answer

Transcendentalism

Question 12

Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination?

Accepted Answer

Coleridge

Question 13

Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 14

In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

Accepted Answer

Dorothy

Question 15

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the daughter of the King of France?

Accepted Answer

Catherine