This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Time that England experience a revived interest in Greek and Roman literature. A) An example. B) English Renaissance. C) English Reformation. D) Elizabethan Playhouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English Renaissance. 2. Too bright or glaring; showy A) Flighty. B) Burly. C) Baneful. D) Maudlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burly. 3. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one A) Iamb. B) Trochee. C) Dactyl. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anapest. 4. Bombast, declamation, oration, and tirade are ..... ? ..... of harangue. A) Antonyms. B) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synonyms. 5. What are the characteristics of an archetypal hero? A) Fearlessness, self-centeredness, no journey/quest, no special power/ability, lack of moral code, no transformation/growth. B) Cowardice, selfishness, staying at home, no special power/ability, no moral code, no transformation/growth. C) Intelligence, greed, staying in one place, no special power/ability, lack of moral code, no transformation/growth. D) Bravery, selflessness, journey/quest, special power/ability, moral code, transformation/growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bravery, selflessness, journey/quest, special power/ability, moral code, transformation/growth. 6. Which Colombian author wrote the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" ? A) Pablo Neruda. B) Julio Cortazar. C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. D) Mario Vargas Llosa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 7. What describes one thing as if it were something else. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 8. Why did the Roman legions come back to Rome in 410? A) They got homesick. B) They ha to defend their homeland. C) They were afraid of the Jutes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They ha to defend their homeland. 9. Are these lines in iambic pentameter? If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 10. Who was brash, outgoing, and always in debt? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Samuel Johnson. D) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Richard Steele. 11. Noun:rapidity of motion or action A) Discreet. B) Fractiousness. C) Celerity. D) Eminent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Celerity. 12. In which year, Chaucer was born? A) 1360. B) 1340. C) 1350. D) 1330. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1340. 13. This philosopher separated government into three branches and argued for separation of powers. A) Voltaire. B) Hobbes. C) Locke. D) Montesquieu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Montesquieu. 14. Causing death, destruction, or ruin; very harmful A) Maudlin. B) Baneful. C) Flighty. D) Burly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baneful. 15. The prefix ..... ? ..... means away from, from. A) Apo-. B) For-. C) Eu-. D) Retro-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apo-. 16. Below were the social background of The Period of Enlightenment and Classicism, except: A) A progressive intellectual movement. B) The clash between the King and Parliament. C) Enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic idea. D) To celebrate reason, equality and science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The clash between the King and Parliament. 17. The root word ..... ? ..... means to use. A) SENS, SENT. B) TANG, TACT, TING. C) US, UT. D) PORT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) US, UT. 18. The root word ..... ? ..... means time. A) PHOTO, PHOS. B) REG, RECT. C) VOL, VOL. D) CHRON. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) CHRON. 19. The Romans ..... A) Built the Globe Theatre. B) Built the first roads in the country. C) Built the Stonehenge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Built the first roads in the country. 20. Antonym:jaundiced A) Challenging. B) Essential. C) Sloppy. D) Trusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trusting. 21. Which of these is not a difficulty when adapting a book to a film? A) Designing the conversations. B) Translating action to convey the plot. C) Showing a character's point of view. D) Showing the passing of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Designing the conversations. 22. "(Having been further asked for a definition of knowledge, the Master said:) KNOW ONE ANOTHER!" 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: 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. 23. A London theater where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed. A) Elizabethan Playhouse. B) English Renaissance. C) English Reformation. D) Exemplum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabethan Playhouse. 24. The Battle of Hastings A) 1065. B) 1066. C) 1067. D) 1485. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1066. 25. How might the tone of irony impact the phrase:'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife' A) Everyone knows that a single, rich man should marry. B) Everyone knows that a single, rich man will be pursued by women who want to be his wife. C) Everyone knows that a single, rich man wants to pursue women. D) Everyone knows that a single, rich man wants a wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everyone knows that a single, rich man will be pursued by women who want to be his wife. 26. ..... a highly musical type of poetry that expresses the author's feelings. A) Narrative. B) Song. C) Lyric. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 27. ..... translated many great works into the Anglo-Saxon language. A) Alfred. B) Vikings. C) Danish. D) Monks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monks. 28. Who is the author of Epithalamion? A) Edmund Spenser. B) John Donne. C) John Keats. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edmund Spenser. 29. What is the rhyme scheme of Spenserian sonnet? A) FATHER CBBC DCCD YES. B) ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. C) BCBC ABAB AA. D) ABAB BCBC AA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. 30. In a Shakespearean sonnet, what is the typical rhyme scheme for the first twelve lines? A) ABCDCDEFEF. B) ABABABABABCD. C) FATHERS OF FATHERS. D) ABABABABABAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABCDCDEFEF. 31. The movie Shrek employs this strategy of satire when the "valiant" knights desperately run away from the forest's ogre Shrek. A) Exaggeration. B) Reversal. C) Parody. D) Incongruity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reversal. 32. What new invention helped people read more? A) The Printing Press. B) The Saw Mill. C) The Telescope. D) The Paper Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Printing Press. 33. ..... tell stories. A) Prose. B) Narrative. C) Epic. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 34. A four-line stanza with each line containing eight syllables A) Short meter. B) Long meter. C) Abnormal meter. D) Common meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long meter. 35. Overused, hackneyed, cliched A) Propriety. B) Lithe. C) Pundit. D) Trite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trite. 36. Quickly changing, volatile A) Tangential. B) Trenchant. C) Mercurial. D) Exculpate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mercurial. 37. The root word ..... ? ..... means light. A) PHOTO, PHOS. B) VOL, VOL. C) CHRON. D) REG, RECT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PHOTO, PHOS. 38. Originally, any brief poem, often used as an inscription for monuments or tombs. In modern times, it is a concise saying, often witty or satiric A) An example. B) Epic. C) Epigram. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epigram. 39. The final outcome of a tragedy play A) Turning point. B) Denouement. C) Rising action. D) Catastrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catastrophe. 40. Extravagant actions A) Boon. B) Antics. C) Dilettante. D) Bureaucracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antics. 41. Literary movement around the turn of the century which restored Nationalism and produced great drama and poetry ..... William B. Yeats, Sean O'Cassey, and Padraic Colum A) Georgians. B) Irish Literary Renaissance. C) English Renaissance. D) Medieval Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irish Literary Renaissance. 42. Siapa penulis buku The Lord of The Rings? A) J. R. R. Tolkien. B) Peter Jackson. C) J. Edward Millen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J. R. R. Tolkien. 43. Did Julius Caesar occupy Britannia? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 44. Dabbler, nonprofessional, novice, sciolist, and tyro are ..... ? ..... of dilettante. A) Antonyms. B) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synonyms. 45. What is a central purpose of Sonnet 31? A) Expressing Stella's heartbreak. B) Expressing Astrophel's heartbreak. C) Expressing Sidney's heartbreak. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expressing Astrophel's heartbreak. 46. Merely touching or slightly connected, digressing from the main point A) Nascent. B) Paladin. C) Tangential. D) Vicissitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tangential. 47. Connoisseur, expert, master, and professional are.....?..... of dilettante. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 48. What did people do after Confucius died A) Nobody. B) They cried for weeks. C) His students gathered a collection of his body. D) His students gathered a collection of his sayings after he died. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His students gathered a collection of his sayings after he died. 49. Rhyme that occurs within the line. A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Masculine Rhyme. D) Approximate Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Rhyme. 50. Henry James introduced a new technique called A) Stream of consciousness. B) Social comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stream of consciousness. 51. What is the concept of the sublime in Romantic literature? A) The concept of the sublime in Romantic literature is the idea of awe-inspiring beauty or grandeur that evokes intense emotions and transcends rationality. B) The concept of the sublime in Romantic literature is the idea of ugliness and repulsion. C) The concept of the sublime in Romantic literature is the idea of simplicity and minimalism. D) The concept of the sublime in Romantic literature refers to the idea of ordinary and mundane beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The concept of the sublime in Romantic literature is the idea of awe-inspiring beauty or grandeur that evokes intense emotions and transcends rationality. 52. A funny story by Oscar Wilde about about an American family who moves to a British castle: A) The Happy Prince. B) The Picture of Dorian Gray. C) The Canterville Ghost. D) The Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Canterville Ghost. 53. ..... invaded Britain and burned cities, towns, and plundered monasteries. A) Raiders. B) Vikings. C) Druids. D) Romans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vikings. 54. What is a big difference between the two chimney sweeper poems? A) They have different authors. B) One is true and one is fiction. C) One is narrated by a child and the other by an adult. D) There is no difference between the two poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One is narrated by a child and the other by an adult. 55. After converting the Norse to Christianity, many Old Norse and ..... words entered the English Language. A) Roman. B) Danish. C) French. D) German. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Danish. 56. Who was the philosopher who said "Man is free the instant he wants to be" ? A) Baron de Montesquieu. B) John Locke. C) Thomas Hobbs. D) Voltaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Voltaire. 57. Robert Burns is known as ..... ? A) The first Scottish poet. B) The first great Scottish poet. C) Scotland's national poet. D) The most famous writer ever. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scotland's national poet. 58. Which social issues are often explored in British literature? A) Romantic relationships, environmentalism, and technological advancements. B) Class divisions, gender roles, colonialism, and social inequality. C) Political corruption, religious conflicts, and economic instability. D) Racial discrimination, mental health, and generational conflicts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Class divisions, gender roles, colonialism, and social inequality. 59. One accented syllable A) Dactyl. B) Monosyllabic. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monosyllabic. 60. What was the earliest literature found in The Anglo-Saxon period? A) Beowulf. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) The Canterbury Tales. D) Utopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books