This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A long-lasting feud or conflict A) Vendetta. B) Harangue. C) Dilettante. D) Boon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vendetta. 2. What's the most famous example of Old English literature? A) Beowulf. B) The Story of Beowulf. C) The Song of Beowulf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Song of Beowulf. 3. Why is Elizabeth killed? A) She is a Frankenstein. B) She found out about Victor's creature. C) She was to be Victor's wife. D) She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was to be Victor's wife. 4. Poetry was one of the sources of Shakespeare's drama. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Introduces the character and conflict and provides necessary background in a play A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Turning point. D) Catastrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 6. What was Selznick's approach based on? A) Give me your book and I will faithfully adapt it. B) Not all books are adaptable to films. C) Give me your book I will completely change it into a film. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Give me your book and I will faithfully adapt it. 7. Thrill, invigoration A) Goad. B) Poignant. C) Exhilaration. D) Satiate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exhilaration. 8. Something essential, a prerequisite A) Sine Qua Non. B) Exculpate. C) Bourgeois. D) Tyro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sine Qua Non. 9. How did Romanticism respond to the Industrial Revolution? A) Emphasizing emotion, individualism, and nature. B) Rejecting emotion, individualism, and nature. C) Advocating for social inequality. D) Promoting industrialization and urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emphasizing emotion, individualism, and nature. 10. Who was the first English writer to write a 'Novel'? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daniel Defoe. 11. In the book "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" Alice falls A) Into a rabbit hole. B) Down a magic tree. C) In love with a prince. D) Out of the bus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Into a rabbit hole. 12. An all-knowing author is the narrator who comments freely on the actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they thing or feel. A) Omniscient Point of View. B) Objective Point of View. C) Limited Point of View. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omniscient Point of View. 13. What is the proper way to refer to the play Macbeth at a theater? A) The Scottish Play. B) Macbeth. C) The English Play. D) Shakespeare's Best Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Scottish Play. 14. Colorless, monotone, unvariegated, alike, homogeneous, and uniform are ..... ? ..... of motley. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 15. A popular meter consisting of five iambic feet A) Iambic pentameter. B) Iambic hexameter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Iambic five-meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 16. Detrimental, noxious, pernicious, and toxic are ..... ? ..... of baneful A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonyms. 17. What author wrote articles for 'Gentlemen's Magazine'? A) Joseph Addison. B) Sir Richard Steele. C) Daniel Defoe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Johnson. 18. A truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction. A) Paradox. B) Paraphrase. C) Pantheism. D) Deism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 19. Use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning, usually with a humorous effect A) Irony. B) Exposition. C) Epigram. D) An example. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 20. "The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping" is really about what? A) How hard it is for plus size women to find clothes that fit. B) How embarrassing it is to be fat. C) Skinny girls are more sexually attractive than bigger girls. D) The long history of racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The long history of racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesBritish Literature Quiz 1British Literature Quiz 2British Literature Quiz 3British Literature Quiz 4British Literature Quiz 5British Literature Quiz 7British Literature Quiz 8British Literature Quiz 9British Literature Quiz 10British Literature Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books