This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He introduced the Elizabethan love comedy A) John Lily. B) Flight johnson. C) William Shakespeare. D) Thomas Kyd. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Lily. 2. Satire is a fairly recent development in society. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Antonym:proclivity A) Prudence. B) Composite. C) Paucity. D) Apathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apathy. 4. Known or understood by only a few, mysterious A) Matriculate. B) Trenchant. C) Tyro. D) Arcane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arcane. 5. Which British author is known for his/her satirical works? A) Jane Austen. B) J.K. Rowling. C) Jonathan Swift. D) George Orwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jonathan Swift. 6. Government through bureaus run by nonelective officials; government officials collectively A) Bureaucracy. B) Vendetta. C) Pedant. D) Antics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bureaucracy. 7. The groups of people in order that inhabited Britain after the Iron Age beginning with the Romans- A) Gaels and Britons. B) Gaels and Vikings. C) Vikings and French. D) Vikings and Britons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gaels and Britons. 8. Tearfully or effusively sentimental A) Maudlin. B) Motley. C) Burly. D) Baneful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maudlin. 9. ..... wrote the first history of England. A) Priest. B) Bede. C) Alfred. D) Edward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bede. 10. Which writer was specially good at adapting scripts? A) Hemingway. B) Steinbeck. C) Faulkner. D) Scott Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faulkner. 11. Curse, disadvantage, hindrance, liability, loss, and misfortune are ..... ? ..... of boon. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 12. What was the name of the first "book adaptation" in films? A) To have or not to have. B) Journey to the Moon. C) The beach. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Journey to the Moon. 13. Effectively keen and forceful in thought or expression A) Trenchant. B) Vicissitude. C) Indefeasible. D) Paladin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trenchant. 14. 17th century (1600-1660) can be also called Late Renaissance period. Choose a person who does NOT represent that period. A) John Donne. B) John Milton. C) Flight johnson. D) John Fletcher. E) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Daniel Defoe. 15. Know-it-all, hairsplitter, pedagogue, pettifogger, quibbler are ..... ? ..... of pedant. A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonyms. 16. Animal Farm is a satire A) Published after World War I. B) Written by Graham Green. C) Published after World War II. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Published after World War II. 17. A long narrative poem recounting the deeds of heroic figures. A) Ballad. B) Didactic poem. C) Elegy. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 18. An eight-line stanza often used to emphasize the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet. A) Octave. B) Lyric. C) Ode. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave. 19. "(A disciple having asked for a rule of life in one word, the Master said:Is not reciprocity that word?) WHAT YOU WOULD NOT DO TO OTHERS DO UNTO YOU, DO NOT DO UNTO THEM" A) If you do not want someone to do bad things to you, do not do bad things to them. B) The wrong things which makes the effort you put into useless. C) You think but you don't learn from your mistakes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If you do not want someone to do bad things to you, do not do bad things to them. 20. Give an example of an archetypal hero in British literature. A) King Arthur. B) Hamlet. C) Robin Hood. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Arthur. Next →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesBritish 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