This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau, challenged the idea of "the divine right of rule" held by monarchs of the time. They wrote about a government's obligation to uphold people's rights and how the government should be based on the consent of the governed. These ideas encouraged people to A) Remain firm in their support of absolute monarchies. B) Look for leaders who would exercise dictatorial powers. C) Engage in revolutions to establish democratic governments. D) Call for church leaders to create theocracies and replace the monarchs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Engage in revolutions to establish democratic governments. 2. Geoffrey Chaucer A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medieval Period. 3. Name one tragic hero from Shakespeare's plays. A) Romeo. B) Hamlet. C) Macbeth. D) Othello. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 4. A classical love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life, often presenting an idealized concept of rural life. A) Pastoral. B) Paraphrase. C) Paradox. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pastoral. 5. Anapest foot A) ( / u u ). B) ( / u ). C) ( u u / ). D) ( u / ). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ( u u / ). 6. Which Romantic writer is known for the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" ? A) William Blake. B) John Keats. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 7. During the time King Henry VIII severed England's ties with the Church of Rome and helped establish Protestantism in England A) Elizabethan Playhouse. B) English Renaissance. C) English Reformation. D) An example. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English Reformation. 8. Who contributed to 'The Tatler'? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joseph Addison. 9. 5 feet A) Hexameter. B) Tetrameter. C) Dimeter. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pentameter. 10. The method of presenting the reader with the material of the story; the perspective from which the story is told. A) Point of View. B) Satire. C) Tone. D) Rerain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of View. 11. A movement within the Anglican Church led by John Henry Newman from 1833 to 1845 which sought to return to the rituals and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. A) Oxford Movement. B) Middle-class Morality. C) Medieval Romance. D) English Reformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxford Movement. 12. A European movement characterized by an interest in and imitation of classical works and styles, emphasizing conformity to fixed literary standards, proper patterns of outward social conduct, formality, restraint, polish, and elegance. A) Neoclassicism. B) Metaphor. C) Pageant. D) Miracle Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neoclassicism. 13. Shakespeare invented a Shakespearean sonnet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. A melancholy poem which reflects on nature and death A) Elegiac poem. B) Elegy. C) Epic. D) Epigram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 15. What do you call the emotional release or purification experienced by the audience when watching a tragic play? A) Climax. B) Euphoria. C) Resolution. D) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catharsis. 16. In a Shakespearean play, what is a dramatic monologue in which a character reveals their inner thoughts and emotions called? A) Dialogue. B) Solitude. C) Monologue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 17. Alliteration and kenning were important in the poetry. A) Anglo Saxon Period. B) Medieval Period. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anglo Saxon Period. 18. The reasons why the work The Lord of the Rings is so popular, except: A) He. B) Writing techniques. C) Sales techniques. D) Extrinsic elements of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extrinsic elements of the story. 19. Beneficial, healthful, profitable, and wholesome are ..... ? ..... of baneful A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 20. The following are the writers of Victorian Period except? A) Daylan Thomas. B) Charles Dickens. C) Thomas Hardy. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daylan Thomas. ← 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