This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The root word ..... ? ..... means to feel, to perceive. A) PORT. B) SENS, SENT. C) TANG, TACT, TING. D) US, UT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SENS, SENT. 2. Which Nobel Prize-winning author wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" ? A) Ernest Hemingway. B) William Faulkner. C) John Steinbeck. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ernest Hemingway. 3. Time that England experience a revived interest in Greek and Roman literature. A) Elizabethan Playhouse. B) English Renaissance. C) English Reformation. D) An example. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English Renaissance. 4. Too bright or glaring; showy A) Burly. B) Baneful. C) Flighty. D) Maudlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burly. 5. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one A) Anapest. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anapest. 6. Bombast, declamation, oration, and tirade are ..... ? ..... of harangue. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonyms. 7. What are the characteristics of an archetypal hero? A) Cowardice, selfishness, staying at home, no special power/ability, no moral code, no transformation/growth. B) Bravery, selflessness, journey/quest, special power/ability, moral code, transformation/growth. C) Intelligence, greed, staying in one place, no special power/ability, lack of moral code, no transformation/growth. D) Fearlessness, self-centeredness, no journey/quest, no special power/ability, lack of moral code, no transformation/growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bravery, selflessness, journey/quest, special power/ability, moral code, transformation/growth. 8. Which Colombian author wrote the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" ? A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. B) Mario Vargas Llosa. C) Julio Cortazar. D) Pablo Neruda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 9. What describes one thing as if it were something else. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. 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. 11. Are these lines in iambic pentameter? If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 12. Who was brash, outgoing, and always in debt? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Richard Steele. 13. 6 line stanza A) Octave. B) Quatrain. C) Sestet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sestet. 14. Noun:rapidity of motion or action A) Discreet. B) Celerity. C) Fractiousness. D) Eminent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Celerity. 15. In which year, Chaucer was born? A) 1330. B) 1340. C) 1350. D) 1360. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1340. 16. This philosopher separated government into three branches and argued for separation of powers. A) Voltaire. B) Montesquieu. C) Locke. D) Hobbes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montesquieu. 17. Causing death, destruction, or ruin; very harmful A) Baneful. B) Flighty. C) Burly. D) Maudlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baneful. 18. Which Romantic poet wrote the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'? A) William Wordsworth. B) John Keats. C) Percy Bysshe Shelley. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 19. The prefix ..... ? ..... means away from, from. A) Apo-. B) Eu-. C) For-. D) Retro-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apo-. 20. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 6British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9British Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books