This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 18 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The root word ..... ? ..... means to use. A) PORT. B) SENS, SENT. C) TANG, TACT, TING. D) US, UT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) US, UT. 2. The root word ..... ? ..... means time. A) CHRON. B) PHOTO, PHOS. C) VOL, VOL. D) REG, RECT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CHRON. 3. 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. 4. Antonym:jaundiced A) Challenging. B) Essential. C) Sloppy. D) Trusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trusting. 5. Which of these is not a difficulty when adapting a book to a film? A) Showing the passing of time. B) Showing a character's point of view. C) Designing the conversations. D) Translating action to convey the plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Designing the conversations. 6. Which Romantic poet wrote the poem 'Ode to a Nightingale'? A) John Keats. B) Percy Bysshe Shelley. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Keats. 7. "(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. 8. 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. 9. The Battle of Hastings A) 1067. B) 1066. C) 1065. D) 1485. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1066. 10. 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 wants to pursue women. B) Everyone knows that a single, rich man should marry. C) Everyone knows that a single, rich man will be pursued by women who want to be his wife. D) Everyone knows that a single, rich man wants a wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Everyone knows that a single, rich man will be pursued by women who want to be his wife. 11. ..... a highly musical type of poetry that expresses the author's feelings. A) Narrative. B) Epic. C) Song. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 12. ..... translated many great works into the Anglo-Saxon language. A) Alfred. B) Monks. C) Vikings. D) Danish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monks. 13. Who is the author of Epithalamion? A) Shakespeare. B) Edmund Spenser. C) John Donne. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edmund Spenser. 14. What is the rhyme scheme of Spenserian sonnet? A) ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. B) ABAB BCBC AA. C) BCBC ABAB AA. D) FATHER CBBC DCCD YES. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. 15. In a Shakespearean sonnet, what is the typical rhyme scheme for the first twelve lines? A) ABABABABABAB. B) FATHERS OF FATHERS. C) ABCDCDEFEF. D) ABABABABABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ABCDCDEFEF. 16. The movie Shrek employs this strategy of satire when the "valiant" knights desperately run away from the forest's ogre Shrek. A) Exaggeration. B) Incongruity. C) Reversal. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reversal. 17. What new invention helped people read more? A) The Paper Mill. B) The Saw Mill. C) The Printing Press. D) The Telescope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Printing Press. 18. ..... tell stories. A) Narrative. B) Prose. C) Poetry. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 19. A four-line stanza with each line containing eight syllables A) Common meter. B) Long meter. C) Short meter. D) Abnormal meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long meter. 20. Overused, hackneyed, cliched A) Trite. B) Lithe. C) Pundit. D) Propriety. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trite. ← 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