This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > Early British > Early British Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early British Literature Quiz 4 (17 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Era can be described as the Novel era? A) Renaissance. B) Victorian. C) Old English era. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victorian. 2. Below is the characteristic of literary work in the Modern period. A) Beautiful love. B) Independence. C) Sentiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independence. 3. What is the lesson or moral to be learned from "Honey-mead" ? A) Learn as much as you can from the books you read. B) Use your resources to the best of your ability. C) Avoid silly people. D) Avoid intoxicating drink. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avoid intoxicating drink. 4. What perspective did the poets write from? A) Children. B) Animals. C) Adults. D) Elderly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Children. 5. What were the pre-romantics? A) Friends of the romantics. B) Parents of the romantics. C) Predecessors to the romantics. D) Relatives of the romantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predecessors to the romantics. 6. The following quote describes Beowulf. Read it then respond to the question below. "noble protector of all seamen" The quote is an example of which literary element? A) Caesura. B) Alliteration. C) Kenning. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epithet. 7. In one of the most famous sections of "Meditation 17, "Donne says that the individual is similar to A) An island. B) A country. C) A continent. D) A piece of a continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A piece of a continent. 8. This Invention changed the way information was distributed A) St. Thomas a Becket. B) The Wheel. C) Gutenberg's Printing Press. D) The Crusades. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gutenberg's Printing Press. 9. During the Middle Ages, William the conqueror implemented the social structure known as feudalism. In this structure who had the most power and who had the least power? A) King; peasants. B) Pope(church);king. C) King; middle class. D) Pope(church);peasants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pope(church);peasants. 10. Which of the following best describes Donne's attitudetoward death in "Meditation 17" ? A) Unconcerned. B) Optimistic. C) Perplexed. D) Worried. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconcerned. 11. Of the following, who supports British policy in Ireland? A) Neither Swift nor the speaker. B) Both Swift and the speaker. C) Only Swift. D) Only the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Only the speaker. 12. Which of the following Anglo-Saxon concepts most resembles today's idea of paying life insurance" A) Weirgild. B) Lineage Invocation. C) Flyting. D) Commitatus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weirgild. 13. The ..... Group consisted of intellectuals, writers, artists, and philosophers, including Virginia Woolf. A) Expat. B) Elysian. C) Virginian. D) Bloomsbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bloomsbury. 14. What happens to the Lady of Shalott? A) She dies. B) She gets married. C) She stays in the castle. D) She moves towns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She dies. 15. Most of The Canterbury Tales is a focus on ..... A) Plot. B) Characters. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characters. 16. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the "Monk's awkwardness at being outside of a religious building as being like a fish out of water." This description is an example of a ..... A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. Shakespearean sonnet has ..... A) Three quatrains and one couplet. B) One octave and one sestet. C) Seven couplet. D) Two tercet and two quatrains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three quatrains and one couplet. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesEarly British Literature Quiz 1Early British Literature Quiz 2Early British Literature Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books