This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > Early British > Early British Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early British Literature Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Milton wrote his political pamphlets during the ..... period A) The Jacobean Age. B) The Puritan Age. C) The Neo-Classical Period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Puritan Age. 2. Identify Ben Jonson's play A) Volpone. B) The Importance of Being Earnest. C) Dr. Faustus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volpone. 3. The poem "Kubla Khan" conveys A) A series of memorable images. B) The tales of a traveler in the Far East. C) Historical facts about the king of China. D) An account of the brave deeds of a ruling family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A series of memorable images. 4. Narrative poems usually have A) Shakespearean vocabulary. B) Plot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Character, plot, rhyme scheme and stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Character, plot, rhyme scheme and stanzas. 5. What Tales are being told in the Canterbury Tales? A) The tales of monks on their way to Becket's tomb. B) Tales of 24 Pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. C) Tales of a group of random people on their way to Canterbury. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tales of 24 Pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. 6. Name this author A) Samuel Johnson. B) Daniel Defoe. C) Thomas Gray. D) Alexander Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Johnson. 7. Which of the following was not one of the 3 themes of the Epic, Beowulf? A) Good vs Evil. B) Christianity vs Paganism. C) God vs Odin. D) Fate vs Faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God vs Odin. 8. In "My Heart Leaps Up, " the speaker believes that A) The old should be allowed to die in peace. B) Nature should be viewed with childlike wonder. C) Nature, symbolized by the rainbow, lasts forever. D) Children should obey their parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature should be viewed with childlike wonder. 9. What is the name of Hrothgar's mead-hall, where Beowulf fights Grendel? A) Hrothgar Hall. B) Heorot. C) Wiglaf. D) Wealthow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heorot. 10. "Beowulf" is about ..... A) A king fighting dragons. B) A warrior fighting monsters. C) A sailor fighting pirates. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A warrior fighting monsters. 11. What was Queen Victoria's favorite poem? A) A Valediction Forbidding Morning. B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. C) The Lady of Shalott. D) The Eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Lady of Shalott. 12. "Paradise lost" by John Milton is ..... A) About angels. B) A biblical story. C) About the devil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A biblical story. 13. This American Harlem Renaissance writer was part of a black expatriate community in England for a few years in the early 1920s. A) W.H. Auden. B) Langston Hughes. C) D.H. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W.H. Auden. 14. What was Geoffrey Chaucer's purpose in writing The Canterbury Tales? A) To entertain during the medieval fairs. B) To inform about pilgrimages to Canterbury. C) To persuade society to change behavior by critiquing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To persuade society to change behavior by critiquing. 15. Which of the following is not one of the archetypal fears that Beowulf faces? A) The fear of being attacked at home. B) The fear of being burned alive. C) The fear of drowning. D) The fear of dying alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The fear of dying alone. 16. Who was the founder of English history? A) Beowulf. B) Venerable Bede. C) King Edwin. D) Caedmon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venerable Bede. 17. The author's word choice is called .....? A) Allegory. B) Hyperbole. C) Diction. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 18. Paradise Lost is considered? A) The most controversial poem in English Language. B) Biographical. C) Heresy. D) The finest epic in English Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The finest epic in English Language. 19. The idea in Medieval literature that the "sea is a kind of placeless place, a vast nowhere that can separate one from home" is a common ..... A) Song title. B) Name for a homely baby. C) Notion. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 20. Withwhich of the following is the shepherd in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" most concerned? A) Pleasure. B) The constancy of love. C) Achieving immortality. D) Security. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pleasure. 21. Why did King Edwin call a council of his chiefs and wise men? A) To plan a venture sailing to the new world. B) To defend themselves against the Vikings. C) To decide if they should embrace Christianity. D) To declare war on Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To decide if they should embrace Christianity. 22. Which year was " A red, red rose" first published? A) 1497. B) 1749. C) 1974. D) 1794. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1794. 23. In "A Poison Tree, " the speaker contrasts astraightforward approach to anger with A) Openly poisoning his enemy. B) Quietly planning revenge. C) Resorting to violence. D) Trying to forget the whole thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quietly planning revenge. 24. What is the period of the rise of William Shakespeare? A) Middle English. B) Renaissance Period. C) Modern Period. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renaissance Period. 25. What was NOT a typical Anglo-Saxon literature? A) A war. B) A song. C) Heroic poem. D) Chronicle novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chronicle novel. 26. In this excerpt from How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the rhyme scheme is:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. A) ABCDDA. B) ABABCCDD. C) ABABAB. D) ABBAABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABBAABBA. 27. Which period has Anonymity theme? A) Medieval Period. B) Enlightenment Period. C) Renaissance Period. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medieval Period. 28. Why does the dragon plague Beowulf's kingdom? A) The two kingdoms had a feud for many years. B) The dragon was extremely evil and vicious for no apparent reason. C) Beowulf had killed his son. D) A slave stole a cup from the dragon's gold-hoard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A slave stole a cup from the dragon's gold-hoard. 29. Why was English literature in Modernism fractured? A) World War II. B) Napoleon War. C) World War I. D) Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World War I. 30. What event signaled the end of the Anglo-Saxon period? A) The industrial revolution. B) The norman invasion. C) War of the roses. D) The roman invasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The norman invasion. 31. When and where is Beowulf set? A) Scotland, 8th century. B) Denmark, 5th / 6th centuries. C) Norway, 8th century. D) England, 6th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark, 5th / 6th centuries. 32. Which city is Wordsworth describing in Composed upon Westminster bridge A) Winchester. B) Bath. C) Bristol. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 33. Which period has the theme hard work and virtue? A) Victorianism. B) The Modernism. C) The Renaissance Period. D) The Medieval Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Victorianism. 34. William Shakespeare belongs to .....? A) Victorianism. B) Renaissance. C) Modernism. D) Medieval Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renaissance. 35. This event in 1381 occurred when farmers and laborers demanded more wealth and rights. A) Woodstock. B) The War of 1812. C) The Peasant's Revolt. D) The Hundred Years' War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Peasant's Revolt. 36. Thebell with which Donne is most concerned in "Meditation 17" is one that signals A) A general alarm. B) The time for early morning prayers. C) The top of each hour. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Death. 37. Which one wasn't a pre-romantic? Shelley, Blake, Burns, or Scott. A) Shelley. B) Blake. C) Scott. D) Burns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley. 38. In A Modest Proposal, Swift is leastconcerned with the problem of A) Foreign misrule. B) Violent crime. C) Religious discrimination. D) Poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Violent crime. 39. Which period literature was written in religious context? A) The Enlightenment Period. B) The Modernism. C) The Renaissance Period. D) The Medieval Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Medieval Period. 40. What did burns take over when his father died? A) A school. B) A Bank. C) The family debt. D) The family farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The family farm. 41. Literature in Old English period is about ..... A) Epic. B) Nature. C) Tragic romance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 42. Thespeaker in "To a Mouse" considers the mouse better off than he is himselfbecause the A) Is just a simple beast. B) Has not broken nature's social union. C) Can, with time and effort, rebuild its burrow. D) Lives only in the present, not in the past or future. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lives only in the present, not in the past or future. 43. What period is after Neoclassical Period? A) The Renaissance period. B) The Romantic period. C) The Victorian period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Romantic period. 44. What should be included in the introductory paragraph of an argumentative essay? A) Background information and supporting evidence. B) Supporting evidence and claim. C) Background information and claim. D) Claim and counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Background information and claim. 45. What Danish king helped Beowulf? A) Wiglaf. B) Grendel. C) Hrothgar. D) Wealthow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hrothgar. 46. According to "Bookworm, " how does the worm destroy the words of great men? A) By devouring the books they write. B) By burning the books they write. C) By crawling over them and tearing them. D) By dashing them into the sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By devouring the books they write. 47. This poet, claimed by both American and British literature enthusiasts, wrote a series of poems that inspired the 1980s musical Cats. A) William Butler Yeats. B) T.S. Eliot. C) William Shakespeare. D) Ezra Pound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 48. Which does Shelley imply as the strongest A) Sculptor. B) The King. C) Nature. D) The art. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 49. One of the well-known authors in the Middle English Period is A) William Shakespeare. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Julius Caesar. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 50. Thetone of A Modest Proposal could bestbe described as A) Mock earnest. B) Detached. C) Playful. D) Accepting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mock earnest. 51. Why was Southey expelled from school? A) Wrote for Atheism in school paper. B) Wrote against Atheism in School paper. C) Wrote against Corporal punishment in school paper. D) Wrote for Corporal punishment in school paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wrote against Corporal punishment in school paper. 52. What does Renaissance mean? A) Newborn. B) Flourish. C) Bloom. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rebirth. 53. In A Journal of thePlague Year, he official requirement that bodies be buried under six feetof earth suggest a desire to A) Keep the death totals secret. B) Follow standard burial practices. C) Prevent the spread of the disease. D) Prevent the recovery of bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prevent the spread of the disease. 54. Coleridge believed in ..... A) Form & content. B) Love & friendship. C) Nature & individual. D) Reason & emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form & content. 55. Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral and pilgrimages were made in his honor? A) Duke William. B) King Harold II. C) Thomas Beckett. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Beckett. 56. Descriptive words and imagery in "The Lamb" suggests thatthe lamb is a symbol of A) Summer. B) Youth. C) Innocence. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Innocence. 57. One famous literary work during Middle English period is ..... A) Beawoulf. B) Hamlet. C) Canterburry Tales. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canterburry Tales. 58. What gift was Caedmon given in a dream? A) Leadership position. B) Gold. C) A farm of his own. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 59. Anglo-Saxon poet who memorized and recited someone else's poetry? A) Scop. B) Kenning. C) Gleeman. D) Bard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gleeman. 60. Who is one of the authors whose fame rose in the Late Modernism? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) Thomas Hardy. C) Virginia Woolf. D) J.K. 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