This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Literature also provides personal involvement opportunities, as the student becomes enthusiastic to find out what happens as events unfold via the climax; they feel closer to certain characters and share their emotional responses. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 2. Where is the best place to insert the participial phrase "synchronizing their watches" in the sentence? A) After "water". B) Before "over". C) After "before". D) After "divers". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After "divers". 3. Having nearly destroyed her family's respectability by the episode with her new husband, Lydia's attitude upon her return is best described as ..... A) Respectful or honorable. B) Compliant or obedient. C) Unaffected. D) Cautious or careful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unaffected. 4. Antonym:dogmatic A) Challenging. B) Essential. C) Open-minded. D) Trusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Open-minded. 5. Which sentence makes the best use of descriptive language? A) Malia grabbed her suitcase and purse and headed to the nearby airport. B) The piercing squeal of tires on asphalt startled Katrina from a deep sleep. C) Tara wanted a job so she could save enough money to buy a new bike. D) In the morning, it was windy enough to fly the kite Johnny had purchased. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The piercing squeal of tires on asphalt startled Katrina from a deep sleep. 6. Which of these people groups did NOT contribute to the beginning of the English language? A) Angles. B) Franks. C) Jutes. D) Saxons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franks. 7. Shakespeare worked in a theatre in London as an actor. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Which theme is commonly found in British literature? A) Love and romance. B) Social class and hierarchy. C) Nature and the environment. D) War and conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social class and hierarchy. 9. Which language mixed with English the LEAST? A) Latin. B) French. C) Celtic. D) Old Norse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Celtic. 10. "The green-eyed monster" comes from Othello.We use this phrase today to mean: A) The monster under your bed. B) Emeralds. C) Our hidden secrets. D) Jealousy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jealousy. 11. Who partnered with Addison for the publication of 'The Spectator'? A) Samuel Johnson. B) Joseph Addison. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Sir Richard Steele. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Richard Steele. 12. "(Someone asked Confucius, "Master, what think you concerning the principle that good should be returned for evil?" The Master replied:) what then will you return for good? No, RETURN GOOD FOR GOOD; FOR EVIL, JUSTICE" A) Always be loyal and truthful.Do not be afraid to admit your mistakes, correct them. B) It is better to be truthful and sincere than to exhibit proper behavior but not mean it. C) -when someone does good to you, do good to them-when someone does evil to you, strive to make them a better person. But do not be good to them because they do not deserve it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -when someone does good to you, do good to them-when someone does evil to you, strive to make them a better person. But do not be good to them because they do not deserve it. 13. "The faults of men are characteristics of themselves. By observing a man's faults, you may infer what his virtues are." A) Do not always believe nice things people tell you. B) When you know someone you learn more about them. You learn their good characteristics, and their bad. By finding those characteristics, you can strive to learn from them which contributes to your knowledge. C) You can tell a lot about a person just by looking at their faults. By looking at his faults, you can tell what he values or what he believes is right. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) You can tell a lot about a person just by looking at their faults. By looking at his faults, you can tell what he values or what he believes is right. 14. Milton was born on A) 1793. B) 65357. C) 8763. D) 135. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1793. 15. List the stages of the Hero's Journey. A) 1. The Ordinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting the Mentor, 5. Crossing the Threshold, 6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Inmost Cave, 8. Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. Resurrection, 12. Return without the Elixir. B) 1. The Ordinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting the Mentor, 5. Crossing the Threshold, 6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Inmost Cave, 8. Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. Resurrection, 12. Return with the Treasure. C) 1. The Ordinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting the Mentor, 5. Crossing the Threshold, 6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Inmost Cave, 8. Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. Resurrection, 12. Return with the Knowledge. D) The stages of the Hero's Journey are as follows:1. The Ordinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting the Mentor, 5. Crossing the Threshold, 6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Inmost Cave, 8. Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. Resurrection, 12. Return with the Elixir. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The stages of the Hero's Journey are as follows:1. The Ordinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting the Mentor, 5. Crossing the Threshold, 6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Inmost Cave, 8. Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. Resurrection, 12. Return with the Elixir. 16. To assist or encourage, especially in wrongdoing. A) Abet. B) Enshroud. C) Coerce. D) Occlude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abet. 17. The feudal system A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medieval Period. 18. A phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals, usually at the end of a stanza. A) Quatrain. B) Refrain. C) Meter. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 19. What author wrote 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'? A) Sir Richard Steele. B) James Boswell. C) Samuel Johnson. D) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Boswell. 20. What is the literary term for the genre of drama that often ends with the downfall of the main character, often due to a tragic flaw? A) Romance. B) Horror. C) Tragedy. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 21. Two accented syllables A) Iamb. B) Monosyllabic. C) Spondee. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spondee. 22. The traditional moral values of the middle class based on Christian principles; often used by liberals as a derogatory term. A) Oxford movement. B) Metonymy. C) Deism. D) Middle-class morality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Middle-class morality. 23. In Shakespearean plays, what is a brief remark or comment made by a character to the audience, unheard by other characters on stage? A) Dialogue. B) Aside. C) Soliloquy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aside. 24. Lacking flavor; dull A) Extraneous. B) Insipid. C) Pensive. D) Felonious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insipid. 25. What language did William the Conqueror bring from Normandy? A) Latin. B) French. C) Old English. D) German. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) French. 26. Who was considered as the founder of English poetry in the Medieval Period? A) Shakespeare. B) Chaucer. C) King Arthur. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chaucer. 27. Who created the sonnet? A) Wyatt. B) Petrarch. C) Burbage. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarch. 28. The suffix ..... ? ..... means one who. A) -ive2. B) -ar, -ary1. C) -ive1. D) -ar, ary2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ar, ary2. 29. Daniel Defoe wrote the first adventure book. It was ..... A) Orient Express. B) Robinson Crusoe. C) Hamlet. D) The Lord of Rings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robinson Crusoe. 30. This same philosopher preached the idea of TOLERANCE and the freedoms of religion and speech. Before him, these freedoms did not exist. His philosophy greatly influenced America's ..... A) Civil Rights. B) Natural Rights. C) Bill of Rights. D) Miranda Rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bill of Rights. 31. What language did the clerics, the religious people, speak? A) German. B) Latin. C) French. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Latin. 32. "(A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said:) LOVE ONE ANOTHER!" A) You can take someone away from the place where they belong but you cannot take away what they truly believe or who they truly are. B) Always be loyal and truthful. C) When you love, you give love, and love brings good things. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When you love, you give love, and love brings good things. 33. A work of moderate length in which the writer tries to develop his own thoughts on some subject A) Elegy. B) Essay. C) Dramatic monologue. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Essay. 34. Below were the social background of English Renaiisance, except: A) Hunder Years' War and civil wars. B) Wars; the weakening of nobility and the rising of bourgeoisie. C) The Reformation and the weakening of the power of church. D) The mark of establishment of feudalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mark of establishment of feudalism. 35. A long-lasting feud or conflict A) Harangue. B) Boon. C) Vendetta. D) Dilettante. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vendetta. 36. What's the most famous example of Old English literature? A) Beowulf. B) The Story of Beowulf. C) The Song of Beowulf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Song of Beowulf. 37. Why is Elizabeth killed? A) She is a Frankenstein. B) She was to be Victor's wife. C) She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. D) She found out about Victor's creature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was to be Victor's wife. 38. Poetry was one of the sources of Shakespeare's drama. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 39. Introduces the character and conflict and provides necessary background in a play A) Exposition. B) Turning point. C) Rising action. D) Catastrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 40. What was Selznick's approach based on? A) Give me your book and I will faithfully adapt it. B) Not all books are adaptable to films. C) Give me your book I will completely change it into a film. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Give me your book and I will faithfully adapt it. 41. Thrill, invigoration A) Satiate. B) Goad. C) Exhilaration. D) Poignant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exhilaration. 42. Something essential, a prerequisite A) Sine Qua Non. B) Exculpate. C) Tyro. D) Bourgeois. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sine Qua Non. 43. Who was the first English writer to write a 'Novel'? A) Daniel Defoe. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Joseph Addison. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daniel Defoe. 44. In the book "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" Alice falls A) In love with a prince. B) Down a magic tree. C) Out of the bus. D) Into a rabbit hole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Into a rabbit hole. 45. An all-knowing author is the narrator who comments freely on the actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they thing or feel. A) Objective Point of View. B) Limited Point of View. C) Point of View. D) Omniscient Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omniscient Point of View. 46. What is the proper way to refer to the play Macbeth at a theater? A) The Scottish Play. B) The English Play. C) Shakespeare's Best Tragedy. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Scottish Play. 47. Colorless, monotone, unvariegated, alike, homogeneous, and uniform are ..... ? ..... of motley. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 48. A popular meter consisting of five iambic feet A) Iambic hexameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Iambic five-meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 49. Detrimental, noxious, pernicious, and toxic are ..... ? ..... of baneful A) Antonyms. B) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synonyms. 50. What author wrote articles for 'Gentlemen's Magazine'? A) Sir Richard Steele. B) Samuel Johnson. C) Joseph Addison. D) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samuel Johnson. 51. A truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction. A) Pantheism. B) Paradox. C) Paraphrase. D) Deism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 52. Use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning, usually with a humorous effect A) Epigram. B) Exposition. C) Irony. D) An example. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 53. "The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping" is really about what? A) How hard it is for plus size women to find clothes that fit. B) How embarrassing it is to be fat. C) Skinny girls are more sexually attractive than bigger girls. D) The long history of racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The long history of racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. 54. Which is NOT a feature of literature in the 20th century period? A) Accountancy. B) Aestheticism. C) Bloomsbury Group. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aestheticism. 55. Englishman, John Locke, believed, however, that each man had the rights to life, liberty and A) Fraternity. B) Pursuit of Happiness. C) Loyalty. D) Propery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Propery. 56. A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal. A) Personification. B) Pastoral. C) Paraphrase. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 57. The Analects of Confucius emphasizes the importance of ..... A) Morality. B) Learning. C) Life. D) Rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morality. 58. Which of the following is not one of the three rhetorical devices A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Legos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legos. 59. A professional performer who sang poetry or recited poetry to a musical accompaniment A) Madrigal. B) Foot. C) Gleeman. D) Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gleeman. 60. When Elizabeth and Charlotte are discussing Jane and Bingley's courtship early in the novel, Charlotte makes it clear that "securing" a partner is the most important thing, implying that she herself is uninterested in getting to know the "disposition" of her potential husband until after they are married. Which of the following literary devices best describes this? A) Foreshadowing. B) Juxtaposition. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 6British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books