This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > British Literature > British Literature – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books British Literature Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The prefix ..... ? ..... means backward, behind. A) Apo-. B) Eu-. C) For-. D) Retro-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Retro-. 2. The French revolutionaries who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man wanted liberty for the people of France. This document embodied the Enlightenment idea that A) The French Revolution was justified. B) Reason should guide human affairs. C) A constitutional monarchy should exist. D) Hereditary and tradition should guide government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reason should guide human affairs. 3. What is the opening line of Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities" ? A) It was a dark and stormy night ". B) "It is a truth universally acknowledged ". C) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ". D) "Call me Ishmael ". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ". 4. ..... the pause between 2 halves of a line. A) Alliteration. B) Caesura. C) Feet. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caesura. 5. Substituting a word or phrase for another term closely related with it. Example:Heaven is often used as a name or metaphor for God. A) Metonymy. B) Paradox. C) Paraphrase. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 6. Who won the Wars of Roses? A) The Normans. B) The House of York. C) The House of Lancaster. D) The French. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The House of Lancaster. 7. Are these lines in iambic pentameter? Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 8. 8 line stanza A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Quatrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave. 9. Oscar Wilde was ..... writer. A) An English. B) An Irish. C) A Scottish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Irish. 10. Throughout the period of the Enlightenment, three different forms of government existed in Europe. Identify these three forms of Government A) Democrat, Republican, and Independent. B) Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, and Republic. C) Republic, Monarchy and Democracy. D) Democracy, Monarchy, and Communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, and Republic. 11. Satire is a term that only applies to literature. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Montesquieu believed that to prevent tyranny in government there should be a separation of powers. Which of the following best illustrates this idea? A) Absolute power in the executive branch. B) Splitting power among three or more countries. C) Total power in the legislative branch. D) Dividing a country's power among three branches of government. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dividing a country's power among three branches of government. 13. Confucius decided to try ..... after he was unable to obtain a government office. A) Teaching. B) Rollerskating. C) Thinking. D) Wandering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Teaching. 14. Mary Shelley's goal in the novel Frankenstein is to expose how horrible humans can be to one another A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Enlightenment thinkers contributed to changes in relationships between citizens and governments through their belief that A) Most changes in government are dangerous and can wait. B) Absolute monarchy is the most effective form of government. C) Governments are instituted to protect citizen's rights. D) Popular liberties should be limited by the need for social order. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Governments are instituted to protect citizen's rights. 16. Novel dealing with the motives of characters as well as the problems they are faced with. A) Psychological Novel. B) Novel of Purpose / Problem Novel. C) Gothic Novel. D) Historical Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychological Novel. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. Too bright or glaring; showy A) Burly. B) Baneful. C) Flighty. D) Maudlin. 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